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I tend to suspect that Jesus did not think of himself as the Son of Man... But it's certainly a tough one. I don't hold that with any conviction. I've often flirted with the idea of going the full mile - that Jesus thought and taught himself to be the Son of Man and that he went to Jerusalem with th...

I can only comment on the local street preachers that I regularly engage with in my hometown - a group of Ray Comfort adoring Calvinists, a group of Pentecostals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, and the occasional Harri-Krishna and Muslim. It was about 6 years ago when I started regularly engaging and...

I doubt it. I suspect their small similarities are just coincidence. Though it is a fascinating idea, and I wouldn't rule it out.

Catherine A. Cory suggests Elijah and Moses: Although they are unnamed in the book of Revelation, these two witnesses appear to have connections to Elijah and Moses because of the things they are able to do to those who harm them (11:5-6). In the Old Testament stories Moses is identified with the pl...

I have a better theory on the Trinity... It's a superstition born out a religiously desperate need to reconcile inconsistent and incoherent descriptions of God found in "scriptures" unjustifiably assumed to be inerrant and more than the product of fallible men. Problem solved :-) Many Chri...

^It depends what you mean by "orthodox" belief. What I'm saying about hallucinations and white lies is certainly not "orthodox" in the way the term is usually used. Paul tells us that people who knew Jesus claimed to have seen Jesus. In the same chapter, Paul tells us of the beli...

There are also some textual variants in which the professing demons do call him the Christ. Though admittedly, this likely secondary scribal expansion and conformity. Still, it is at least plausible that these variants preserve the original reading, with their omission being the result of careless c...

^Yes, the high potential for interpolation into 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 is a factor that dents my confidence. Hence why I've always acknowledged this as a *suspicion* and *best bet*. I certainly don't hold this view with confidence. As to Paul's understanding of Jesus's resurrected body, I think it's ...

1:1 The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ... 8:29 Jesus said to [his disciples], "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Christ." Jesus charged them that they should tell no one about him. Note in this verse that Jesus does not deny it. Peter is soon re...

I am partial to the "hallucination" hypothesis. I think some of the inner group "saw" Jesus in a hallucination . the authors were all far removed from these people. Galileans would have viewed this crap as blasphemy and he never was god to them. The authors of the canonical gosp...