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The parables only have one meaning. Jesus explained what that one meaning was. Anything else is eisegesis. So you're saying now that the stars also represent Christ the unchangeable in the heavens and the mutable on earth? Is there anything the stars don't represent? Do you really believe that Mark ...

On the ancient knowledge of the precession of the equinoxes: Roger Beck, The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire , 2006: This hypothesis about the design and composition implies that the designers knew the then very recherche ́ fact that the equinoxes do indeed slowly shift position, th...

22 March 2014 Mark 6:39 He commanded them that everyone should sit down in groups on the green grass. The green grass is an evocative image. Somehow I have always imagined this miracle story as occurring on a rocky dusty lake shore, but here we find this image of green fertility, pleasance, abundan...

it fails to account for the many odd and unnatural details of the event, why these details are changed for its second telling, and what was its point in relation to the similar miracle by Elisha. A reason that can account for all of these has to win over one that is as generalized as saying it's a ...

I remember reading something years ago about it being allegory about charity: getting a wider community to find resources - food - for those in need. Of course, this, or similar attempts at explanation, is/are speculative. There's no reason for preachers not to draw this lesson from the miracle, bu...

Robert, this is interesting and I appreciate your taking the time to present it. Can you assure, however, that this is only the start and that you do intend to post again with an explanation of the remainder of the explanation. Meanwhile, I have some initial questions -- I'll hold off the main ones ...

Professor Larry Hurtado has an excellent article explaining that early Christian interest in Jesus was fuelled by visions of Jesus in Heaven, creative interpretation of scripture and prophetic oracles. http://larryhurtado.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/messiah-and-worship/ This seems almost as though myt...

Why are we all discussing this book? Bart Ehrman claimed on the 12th of March 2014 that the book is not out yet and thinks it amazing that anybody can have written a review of it before it is out. And we all know the quality of Bart's research.... The real concern here is not so much Bart's "q...

If Acharya S isn't some sort of personality cult, I haven't seen evidence of it. I don't dislike her work, but nothing's a bigger turn-off than "our leader must not be criticized" rhetoric. Are her followers called S-enes? It's these types of smears that ruin any reasonable discussion. It...

Robert Tulip wrote:That is how the hypothetico-deductive method works, beginning with ideas and then testing those ideas against evidence.

I'm still waiting for responses to my several posts pointing out step by step how you/Murdock do not follow the hypothetico-deductive method at all.