Regarding the motives of Jesus and Paul, I also refute the claim that Jesus and Paul were apocalypticists: I think…
Yeah, monitoring would involve periodically rounding up people and interrogating them as to what their organizations are up to. Sometimes…
John's gospel says Jesus and his disciples baptized people and, since the Jesus movement copied John's, it makes sense that…
This, for me, is your most important book because if there are significant differences in the Gospel accounts of the…
Interesting. Were apostles mostly men because men were more educated? Did power in the church shift further towards those who…
Professor Haines-Eitzen's thesis seems reasonable, not unlike many modern churches today. Pastors are held in high regard because of their…
In Gnostic teachings, unlike the heavenly spheres, human existence is corrupted by sin and in a state of damnation, therefore…
Why equate Jesus with Christ/anointed? You don’t have to! It’s not allowed! Paul never expected that when he wrote Christ/anointed,…
What a great idea. It's just a pity that living in the UK it will be 1am - 2am and…
Do we know anything of How the few people that were educated in the first century became such? Specifically in…