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Peter was called by Jesus to give up everything and follow him, which he did. He witnessed all of Jesus' public ministry, the transfiguration, miraculous feedings and healings, Jesus' arrest & resurrection... Peter was the rock on which Jesus built his church. So say the gospels. It seems a bit...

On what basis are the "genuine" Pauline epistles dated to 50-60 CE? Is it essentially achieved via a correlation of the internal evidence with Luke-Acts? As far as I can tell, the conventional dating is inferred from two assumptions: (1) The Acts of the Apostles includes an approximately ...

So why do they call themselves "unfundamentalists" when they're really close to them? Are "liberal fundies" like this group common in the USA? I knew some Christians like that back in the days when most people had never heard of the Internet. It's a matter of connotation. They g...

bskeptic wrote:Best arguments against the pre-trib rapture?

Exactly the same as all the arguments against a post-trib or mid-trib rapture.

Richard Carrier has been especially poisonous towards Acharya and astrotheology for 10 years now without ever having actually read a single book of Acharya's or studying astrotheology. So, Carrier is simply not a reliable or trusted source of information regarding Acharya or astrotheology. I'll let...

Anyone know late-date advocates for the gospels? There are a few. None with credibility though. You start opening up a can of worms when dating late, to many credible scholarships are just thrown out the window What, in your judgment, makes all those many scholarships so credible? for these very sm...