Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

What if before the Greeks, and continuing afterwards, people did not often make hard and fast distinctions between the gods and the world? Maybe "supernatural" is an eleventh century ce category? Genesis - God walked in the garden. Gods becoming historical and kings becoming gods are then ...

23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side [e] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life. Genesis 3 https://w...

The both and proposal is definitely worth exploring and should be testable.

A heavenly Jesus conjoined with a real one (but what Jesus? Rabbi? upperclass, wandering nutter?)

Is a heavenly Jesus a reasonable conclusion of itself, without extrapolating it?

I formally propose the gospels `are anarchist formist romances!

Bernard, something you posted about lists about this and that makes me wonder what you think of Dake? And on a general point, I thought there is a good argument that Jesus would have been from a wealthy well educated family, having relations like Joseph of Arimathea who could afford to take him to B...

Take the plank out of your own eye before worrying about the speck in someone elses? Is there such a thing as being agenda free?

Why are there so many variants like docetism and gnosticism? Why the theological effort to impose a solution?

Maybe there was a problem to solve to begin with?

The ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus' paradox, is a thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object which has had all its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. The paradox is most notably recorded by Plutarch in Life of Theseus from the late 1st century. ...

Why does it seem so difficult to take off the preconceived notions and assumptions about what something says and actually read what is there? And then ask what are all these similar statements and theological assertions about? Born of a woman, virgin birth, baptism, death and resurrection, ascension...