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Pardon me if I’m being ignorant, but I wanted to reinterpret something Mr. Kirby alluded to elsewhere. With the hermeneutic being proposed by Metacrock, how could someone possibly make any concrete theological claims? Wouldn’t you have to accept what other “eyewitnesses” attest to in their scriptur...

This is Lilith according to a MGHOW. http://rexpatriarch.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-first-feminist-was-lilith.html (Why do people discuss Lilith as if she were a real person? Even Jews know she's a part of Midrash, not reality. If she were a real person, they might have considered including her in th...

How can you make such an outrageous statement that Genesis 1 is older than Genesis 2-3 without giving some kind of reference? I'm certain that comparing me to some unknown crazy person is the highest form of intellectual argument you can make, seeing as how you chose this over the much simpler appr...

Earlier in this thread I had some discussion with Duvi over his use of Haggadah versus Aggadah . Technically these are sort of the same thing, but Haggadah is more commonly understood as the book we read at the Passover seder. The reason why you read haggadah at Passover is because Moses didn't giv...

Here's a new book debunking the existence of Moses and the Exodus: Since there is evidence in the archaeological record for some of the events in Exodus, and since the timing of the Exodus is verified by the evidence, and since Queen Hatshepsut herself described "the vagabonds" living in ...

Josephus' description of Herod coming before Augustus is one of a man of extreme confidence. While Herod had backed Antony, Antony was a lavish spender and his exactions were bleeding dry any region in which he stayed. Octavian/Augustus had reversed the policy of exactions and returned to fixed tri...

It is interesting how the story of the institution of the holiday of Chanukah is expressed in the Books of Maccabees, the Talmud and the Scroll of Antiochus. Neither 1 Maccabees or 2 Maccabees make any mention of the menorah lights lasting for eight days on an amount of oil sufficient for one day. ...

And it shall come to pass on that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come upon Jerusalem. And I will pour out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplications. And they shall look to me because of those who have been thrust through...

the creeds were established as means of defining Christian identity. the Creeds set the Trinity in place as a doctrine. So historically being a Trinitarian comes to be synonymous with being a Christian. The reason this explanation is weak is because Jesus, not creeds, established Christian identity...

I would appreciate references to scholarly commentary and/or your thoughts, opinions as to why God would gift man with Free Will, but create man without the knowledge of good & evil. Free Will seems to have little meaning without this knowledge. (For the sake of argument, let's assume Free Will...