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Authors Barrie Wilson, Steve Campbell, Robert Price, Robert Eisenman, Ralph Ellis, Bart Ehrman, and Joseph Atwill: On the Historical Saul/Paul
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Stephen
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August 15, 2025 - 12:46 pm

My post was moved. I guess this explains that sudden attack of vertigo.

This raises all kinds of interesting philosophical questions. What does “moved’ mean in this case? Can something be said to “move” in a non-physical way in terms of space-time? As absurd as it may sound to minds as untwisted as mine this reminds me of the reclassification of Pluto from a planet to a Kuiper Belt Object. Such furor! And yet absolutely nothing whatsoever actually happened to the physical corpus of Pluto.

So here, absolutely nothing has changed about my post except it has been “reclassified”, like Pluto.

Am I the only one who thinks about stuff like this?

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August 15, 2025 - 12:47 pm
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Stephen
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August 15, 2025 - 12:50 pm

Somebody’s “b” key is sticking.

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Stephen
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August 15, 2025 - 2:25 pm

I think the operative approach is summed up by Milton’s Satan in Paradise Lost.

Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

Which would you rather be? An also-ran planet? Or, King of the Kuiper Belt?

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August 16, 2025 - 6:12 pm

Post401:This raises all kinds of interesting philosophical questions. What does “moved’ mean in this case? Can something be said to “move” in a non-physical way in terms of space-time?

Post407:Yes, Genesis 1:2
Both the Hebrew מְרַחֶ֖פֶת and Greek ἐπεφέρετο mean “to move in a non-physical way in terms of space-time.”

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