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Hi Blood, Thanks for this. Hasn't Dr. Robert Price proved in about ten books that every detail in the gospels can be found in prior literary works? I just read the argument that he's a climate denier and therefore nobody should listen to his biblical theories. Isaac Newton believed in astrology. sho...

Hi maryhelena, This writer believes the original story of Jesus as an angel has disappeared. I am afraid this writer hasn't been reading his Bible. Or maybe he just never reached the last book: 1.This is a revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants the events that must soo...

Hi maryhelena, I like your points about Ehrman. He is seemingly abandoning the standard historical Jesus argument that a low human Jesus slowly became legendary as a high Christology developed. According to this mode, Jesus was considered a man by the people who knew him, but slowly the legends grew...

Hi Stephan, In the story of Ester there's a switch. Haman has a gallows built to hang Mordecai. Thanks to Ester's intervention with the king, Haman himself gets executed on the gallows. Obviously, in a switch story, the enemy of the man to be executed has to end up getting the punishment. Judas woul...

Hi maryhelena, Declaring yourself King of the Jews might be considered seditious, if you were the son of the previous king and had led an army in battle, as Antigonus II did. For the son of an obscure carpenter with 12 fishermen followers to declare himself "king of the Jews" is just an ac...

Hi Robert j., Thanks for pointing out the last line in the argument. 11:33: The Greek is ὥστε ἀδελφοί μου συνερχόμενοι εἰς τὸ φαγεῖν ἀλλήλους ἐκδέχεσθε. Greek did not have punctuation marks. We have to use the context to understand where the punctuation should be. When we notice that Paul is critici...

Hi Robert, I am basing my change on logic. First, this is the only time we get any awareness on the part of Paul that he knows any scene that takes place in the gospels. My small change allows the writer's total ignorance of the gospels to remain intact. This anomaly gets eliminated with my suggeste...

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Hi Andrew Criddle, We are in agreement on "A" (Should Christians of Gentile background follow Torah ?). For Paul the answer is no, but I do not think the members of the Church of God accept this. Certainly the reaction of the Jews to the belief that Paul brought an uncircumcised man into t...

Hi TedM, In the letters, Paul constantly preaches against the Mosaic laws and regards them as a punishment. He is accused by the Jews in Jerusalem of being against the Mosaic Laws. Instead of admitting that this is true and trying to convince the Jews to be against the Mosaic laws, he pretends that ...