It’s possible, but unfortunately not provable with the limited information available. Paul’s dominance over early Christianity has always befuddled me…
Do you think that Jesus went back to Nazareth after being baptized or do you think he stayed with John…
Doug,this is brilliant. Good for Xianity that meds were unavailable. I've argued that the religion would have died without Paul.…
The reason might not be that from the start Muslims believed in the divine origin of these texts, while for…
...continued fron the previous post This genealogical table could perhaps be interpreted as a list of those who held the…
Douglas, very interesting article! I printed it out and tucked it into my copy of the short book "The God…
" John the Baptist has a legalistic opposition to Herod Antipas marrying Herodias." thanks for bringing this up! this was…
I'm going to suggest something along these lines. A hypothesis I find plausible. The idea is that parts of the…
Doug, A fascinating post! While I am a bit dubious of most attempts to perform an accurate psychological diagnosis on…
Matthew does have an infancy story albeit one that is very different from Luke's and has a few points of…