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Hebrews 2:14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— 15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. 16 For surely it is not ange...

Laughable. It takes leaps of imagination to pervert text so poorly. Is it? Or do we have such huge assumptions here we miss the point, like thinking it is the text that is being misinterpreted when maybe it is our assumptions that are the problem? Like "Abrahamic religions" Are people mis...

How could Jesus, of the line of David and the tribe of Judah, be a High Priest?

As I noted the Herodian map was not the same as above - Asia was only Western Turkey, with separate subdivisions including Bythnia, and Galatia. Hispania had Lusitania. Germania was two. I think this is important because translators need to attempt to specify where someone a writer or editor was tal...

London Museum has a map of the Roman Empire under Hadrian, that includes a province "Asia". This is Western Turkey. Damascus is nowhere near Asia.

What does this do to Biblical references and assumptions about where certain people went?

So Jesus being a priest is very iffy - why is it claimed then?

Isn't xianity best understood as the religion of Platonism with Jewish and Persian clothes?

The use of the terms perfect and real are also problematic! The perfect platonic universe is the real one! This one is a projection, a shadow, a reflection - ie unreal, imperfect!

"Invisible Platonic realm This is also problematic. I thought the Platonic realm was the real one - we see as in a glass darkly! I think various comments in this discussion is missing this and reversing this. The heavenly one is not the reflection - the earth one is! Part of the problem is we ...