Complete Post Archive in List Format

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• Volunteer Needed!! Interested in Recording Audio Versions of the Blog Posts? (12/4/2023)
• Was Jesus Considered a Miracle Worker During His *Lifetime*? (12/3/2023)
• Gold Q&A!! Ask Your Questions! (12/2/2023)
• Were Jesus’ Miracles in the Original Texts of the Gospels? (12/2/2023)
• I’m Lecturing on a Cruise this Summer. Interested in coming? (12/1/2023)
• The Miracles of the Emperor Vespasian. A Platinum Post by Ryan Fleming (11/30/2023)
• Is There Any Sarcasm in the New Testament? (11/29/2023)
• Was Joseph the Actual Father of Jesus? Announcing a Special Online Christmas Course (11/27/2023)
• Do You Want to Take the Final Exam for My Course: “Birth of Christianity”? (11/26/2023)
• An Intriguing and Unusual Demonstration of Early Christian Differences… (11/25/2023)
• How Paul’s Own Writings Show the Earliest Church Was Split Over “Orthodoxy” and “Heresy” (11/24/2023)
• How the Canon Itself Tames the Diversity of the New Testament (11/22/2023)
• But Your Own Teacher Bruce Metzger Didn’t Think That! (11/21/2023)
• Wasn’t Early Christianity Basically Unified? Why Fret About Occasional Diversity? (11/19/2023)
• The Revolutionary Understanding of Orthodoxy and Heresy: An Evaluation of Bauer’s Views (11/18/2023)
• Does God Have Chromosomes? Platinum Post by Douglas Wadeson, MD (11/17/2023)
• November Gold Q&A Video (11/16/2023)
• The Most Significant Study of Christian “Heresy” in Modern Times (11/16/2023)
• Vote for Your Favorite Platinum Post (11/15/2023)
• A Fundamental Issue: Heresy and Orthodoxy in Early Christianity (11/15/2023)
• What’s the Best Way to Read a Non-Fiction Book? (11/14/2023)
• How Exactly Could the Virgin-Born Jesus Have a Twin Brother? (11/12/2023)
• Could the Gospel of Thomas Be Q? Could it Be Older Than the NT Gospels? (11/11/2023)
• What Is the Gospel of Thomas All About? And Did the Author Use the New Testament Gospels? (11/10/2023)
• Send in your Questions! November Gold Q&A (11/9/2023)
• The Most Famous Non-Canonical Gospel: The Gospel of Thomas (11/8/2023)
• Thomasine Gnostic Christians, and Sundry Others (11/7/2023)
• October Gold Q&A Video (11/6/2023)
• My New Course: November 11 — The Scribal Corruption of Scripture (11/5/2023)
• A Bizarre Scene in the Gospel of Philip: Jesus Kissing Mary (11/5/2023)
• The Gospel of Philip: An Example of a Valentinian Gnostic Gospel (11/4/2023)
• A Different Kind of Gnostic: The Valentinians (11/2/2023)
• Check Out This Gnostic Myth from the Gospel of Judas! (11/1/2023)
• The Gospel of Judas: Here’s a Taste of It (10/31/2023)
• Want to Sit in on My October Gold Q&A (Monday Oct 30)? (10/29/2023)
• The Gospel of Judas: The Most Recently Discovered Sethian Gnostic Gospel (10/29/2023)
• Gnostic Views in General and the More Specific Views of One Known Group (The Sethians) (10/28/2023)
• Some of the Difficulties in Understanding Gnosticism (10/26/2023)
• Aren’t You Inconsistent in Your View of the Historicity of the Gospels? (10/25/2023)
• October Gold Q&A – Send Questions! (10/24/2023)
• Interesting Questions About the Books From Nag Hammadi (10/24/2023)
• Are There Really Good Reasons to Doubt the Story of the Discovery of the Gnostic Gospels? My Response to Mark Goodacre (10/22/2023)
• Why We Might Doubt the Story of the Discovery of the Gnostic Gospels: Guest post by Mark Goodacre (10/21/2023)
• Vote for Your Favorite Platinum Post! (10/20/2023)
• What Is Actually In the Nag Hammadi Library? (10/19/2023)
• Reminder: Interesting Lecture on Thursday Oct. 19: Creation Stories not in Genesis! (10/18/2023)
• Our Most Important Discovery of Ancient Christian Writings: The Nag Hammadi Library (10/18/2023)
• Another Mythicist View of Jesus’ Brothers (10/17/2023)
• New Policy on Platinum Guest Posts (10/16/2023)
• What the Jesus “Mythicists” Say About the Brothers of Jesus (10/15/2023)
• Were Jesus’ Brothers His … Brothers? The Proto-Gospel of James (10/14/2023)
• Misquoting Jesus Podcast: Special One-Year Anniversary Edition (10/13/2023)
• When a Gospel Meets the Twilight Zone: As Time Stands Still in the Proto-Gospel of James (10/12/2023)
• The Gospel Before the Gospel: The Proto-Gospel of James (10/11/2023)
• But If It Didn’t Really Happen, Who Cares? (10/10/2023)
• Is Christ *Merely* the “Adopted” Son of God? (10/8/2023)
• If Luke Didn’t Originally Have a Birth Story — Then What? (10/7/2023)
• Did Luke Originally Have the Birth Narrative (chapters 1-2)? (10/5/2023)
• Early Gospels in Circulation: An Even Messier Scenario (10/4/2023)
• Reading the Bible in a Secular Age: Guest Post by Prof. Julius-Kei Kato (10/3/2023)
• The Creation Stories in the Hebrew Bible (outside of Genesis!). A Lecture You May Be Interested In (10/2/2023)
• Proposed Solutions For the Four Metaphysical Puzzles Related to Jesus From an Islamic Perspective From Omar Robb (10/2/2023)
• The Messy World of the Early Christian Gospels. Who Is Copying What? (10/1/2023)
• Why Would Jesus Get Angry at this Poor Leper? (9/30/2023)
• Did Jesus Think He Was Going to Atone for the Sins of the World? A Platinum Post by Manuel Fiadeiro (9/29/2023)
• Why Is Jesus So Angry? (9/28/2023)
• Jesus and Another Leper: Getting Angry at the Poor Fellow? (9/27/2023)
• Was Jesus Conceived out of Wedlock by Mary and a Jewish Relative, Pantera? Part III Guest Post by James Tabor (9/26/2023)
• September 2023 Gold Q&A (video) (9/25/2023)
• (Part 2) A Discussion on the Issue of Suffering and the Moral in Job’s Story. A Platinum Post From Omar Robb (9/25/2023)
• Was the Father of Jesus … Pantera? Part II Guest Post by James Tabor (9/24/2023)
• Who Was Jesus’ Biological Father? Part I. Guest Post by James Tabor (9/23/2023)
• Did Luke Read Galatians? Platinum Post by Guillermo Mondon (9/22/2023)
• The Gospel according to Mel (Gibson) (9/21/2023)
• Is It Better to Follow Christ or to Live a Contented Life? Paul vs. Epicurus (9/20/2023)
• One of our Earliest Gospels from Outside the New Testament: The Egerton Papyrus. (9/19/2023)
• Time to Vote! (9/18/2023)
• (Part I) A Discussion on Spirit, Death, Afterlife, Consciousness, and Free Will. A Platinum Post From Omar Robb (9/18/2023)
• That’s in the New Testament, Right? An Interesting Non-Canonical Story. (9/17/2023)
• About Those Ebionites and Their Peculiar Gospel (9/16/2023)
• Paul, the Apostate: a Platinum Post by Manuel Fiadeiro (9/15/2023)
• Locusts or Pancakes? The Dietary Preferences of John the Baptist. (9/14/2023)
• Contradictions? What Contradictions? Harmonizing the Gospels. (9/13/2023)
• A Conference on the Gospels for Non-Scholars! (9/12/2023)
• The Pauline Style and a Discussion About Paul’s Motivation. A Platinum Post From Omar Robb (9/11/2023)
• The Apocryphal Gospels By and For Jewish Christians (9/10/2023)
• Want to Study the Early Christian Apocrypha? (9/9/2023)
• Jesus, Sun Myung Moon, and Me: a Platinum Post from William Poe (9/8/2023)
• A Hugely Memorable Moment: When I Saw Codex Sinaiticus (9/7/2023)
• September Gold Q&A–Get Those Questions in! (9/6/2023)
• My Trip to Saint Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai: Discovery Site of Codex Sinaiticus (9/6/2023)
• The Discovery of Codex Sinaiticus: One of the Most Important Manuscripts of the New Testament (9/5/2023)
• Mark 13:30–a New Argument for an Old Hypothesis. A Platinum Post From Omar Robb (9/4/2023)
• Does Archaeological Evidence Show that Jesus Was Buried on the Day He Died? (9/3/2023)
• Josephus’ One Statement About the Burial of Crucified Victims in Judea (9/2/2023)
• Thoughts on Cosmology, a Platinum Post From Charles Hawkins (9/1/2023)
• Bogus Arguments for Disbelief (8/31/2023)
• How Relevant is Josephus for Knowing What Happened to the Body of Jesus? (8/30/2023)
• Did Jews Always Bury Their Dead on the Day of their Death? Was Jesus Buried Then? (8/29/2023)
• August 2023 Gold Q&A (video) (8/28/2023)
• Premarital Sex in The Song of Songs: A Platinum Post by Dan Kohanski (8/28/2023)
• The Evidence of Josephus for the Burial of Jesus (8/27/2023)
• Why Do Some (Many?) Scholars Not Treat the Bible Like Other Ancient Sources? (8/26/2023)
• How To Be a Consistently Critical Historian, In the Good Sense (8/24/2023)
• Did Jesus Believe the End Would Come Within his Lifetime? Maybe Not! Platinum Post by Rizwan Ahmed (8/22/2023)
• Corpses Left on Roman Crosses? Penalties for Removing them Early? A Humorous Story (?!) from Antiquity (8/20/2023)
• Does Jesus Call Himself God in His Trial Before the Sanhedrin and the High Priest Caiaphas? (8/19/2023)
• Was “King of the Jews” Really the Charge Against Jesus, Leading to his Crucifixion? (8/17/2023)
• Pontius Pilate, Intransigent Governor, Crucifier of Jesus (8/16/2023)
• Did Pilate Allow Jesus to be Buried Because He Had “Learned his Lesson”? (8/15/2023)
• Gold Q&A for August! (8/14/2023)
• How Accurate Are Orally-Transmitted Reports? A Platinum Post From Imran M. Usmani (8/14/2023)
• Was Pilate Sensitive to Jews and their Customs (such that he would allow decent burials for crucified victims)? (8/13/2023)
• Why Critical Scholarship on the Gospels Helps *Believers* in the Bible! (8/12/2023)
• We Have Crucifixion Nails! Isn’t that Evidence for Jesus’ Burial? (8/12/2023)
• Serious Discount on my Book! (8/11/2023)
• A Proposition That Ramesses-the-Sixth (Ramesses VI) Was the Pharaoh of the Exodus by Omar Robb (8/11/2023)
• Is Critical Biblical Scholarship Valid? What the New Testament Itself Indicates! (8/10/2023)
• Hey, Stop Trashing the Gospels! (8/9/2023)
• Creating the Qu’ran: Where Did the Scripture of Islam Really Come From? Guest post by Stephen Shoemaker (8/8/2023)
• Were Roman Leaders Told to Provide Decent Burials for Crucified Victims? (Really?) (8/6/2023)
• Did Romans Show Clemency to Crucified Criminals? (8/5/2023)
• Want to Watch Our Tár Movie Review With Maestra Gisele Ben-Dor? (8/3/2023)
• Time to Vote for Your Favorite Platinum Post (8/2/2023)
• Preparing for that “Final Trip” (outta here). What Do You Think? (8/2/2023)
• My Interview With Glenn Siepert (8/1/2023)
• Jesus the Half-Nabataean Prince, a Platinum Post by Serene (7/31/2023)
• Alleged “Proof” That Crucified Jews Were Allowed Decent Burials (7/30/2023)
• New Insights into the New Testament: An Event You DON’T Want to Miss! (7/29/2023)
• A Proposition That the First Greek Converts to Jesus Were a Few Ascetic Pythagorean Philosophers. A Platinum Post From Omar Robb (7/28/2023)
• Does It Even Matter If Jesus Was Given a Proper Burial? (7/27/2023)
• More Reasons for Thinking Jesus was Not Given a Decent Burial (7/26/2023)
• Did Romans Allow Decent Burials for Crucified Criminals? (7/25/2023)
• Literary Problems with the Gospel Accounts of Jesus’ Burial (7/23/2023)
• Reminder: Why I’m Not a Christian — tomorrow! (7/22/2023)
• Back to Whether Jesus Was Really Given a Decent Burial (7/22/2023)
• Is the USA the Antichrist of the Book of Revelation? Slavic Views of the Apocalypse. Guest Post by Mikhail Abakumov (7/20/2023)
• Male Superiority in Antiquity (7/19/2023)
• More on Love: Why Were Greek Men Especially Attracted to Prepubescent Boys? (7/18/2023)
• An Important Difference in John–a Platinum Post by Ryan Fleming (7/17/2023)
• The Narrow Road to … Hell? Guest Post by Glenn Siepert (7/16/2023)
• Radiocarbon Dating of the Qur’an. Has It Solved the Problem? Guest Post by Stephen Shoemaker (7/15/2023)
• Questions about Dating the Gospels (7/13/2023)
• Why Discrepancies and Contradictions *Enrich* Our Understanding of the Gospels (7/13/2023)
• Our Inner Herod. Guest Post by Glenn Siepert (7/12/2023)
• The Life of Brian and Jesus: Was Jesus Really Buried on the Day of the Crucifixion? (7/11/2023)
• Announcing a NEW (Free!) Course: Why I Am Not A Christian (7/10/2023)
• Vespasian Miracles. A Platinum Post by Ryan Fleming (7/10/2023)
• More on the Life of Brian and the Historical Jesus (7/9/2023)
• Blog Dinner in London, Tuesday July 25. Interested? (7/8/2023)
• The Life of Brian and the Historical Jesus (7/8/2023)
• What Is (Sexually) “Unnatural”? (7/6/2023)
• How the Bible Can Help Those in Pain — Even Non-Believers. Guest Post by Glenn Siepert (7/4/2023)
• June 2023 Gold Q&A (video) (7/2/2023)
• The (Lost) Greater Questions of Mary (Rated R) (X?) (7/2/2023)
• The Lost Gospel of Basilides (7/1/2023)
• The Road from the “Duo of Philo” to the “Trinity of Nicaea”–Guest Post by Omar Robb (6/30/2023)
• Did Paul Get Along with the Other Apostles? (6/29/2023)
• After Paul Converted… Does the Book of Acts Contradict Paul Himself? (6/28/2023)
• Was Paul Authorized to Persecute Christians? (6/27/2023)
• Was Abraham “Just Plain Nuts?” A Platinum Post by Douglas Wadeson MD (6/26/2023)
• Can the Qur’an and Early Islam Be Studied Critically (Like the NT and Early Christianity?) Guest Post by Stephen Shoemaker (6/25/2023)
• Did the Curtain in the Temple Really Rip in Half at Jesus’ Crucifixion? (6/24/2023)
• Was Jesus an Ascetic Street Preacher or a Man With a Plan? A Platinum Post From Omar Robb (6/23/2023)
• Did The Twelve Become Only Three? Platinum post by Douglas Wadeson MD (6/22/2023)
• 📢 Help Wanted: Join Bart Ehrman Professional Services as a Writer/Editor! (6/21/2023)
• Did Pilate Really Release A Dangerous Criminal, Barabbas, at Jesus’ Trial? (6/21/2023)
• Were Jesus Followers Really Armed and Dangerous in the Garden of Gethsemane? (6/20/2023)
• The Slippery Slope of Extreme DIAKRISIS (Discernment). A Platinum Post by Barry Haney (6/19/2023)
• Did Jesus Really Cleanse the Temple? (6/18/2023)
• Away from life for a while (6/17/2023)
• Did the Triumphal Entry Really Happen? (6/17/2023)
• June Gold Q&A (6/16/2023)
• The Bart Ehrman Movie Club Presents: Life of Brian (6/15/2023)
• Jesus’ Trial Before Pilate: Some of the Distorted Memories of the Gospels (6/15/2023)
• Jesus’ Trial Before Pilate: What Can We Actually Know? (6/14/2023)
• The Radical Teachings of Jesus–And Why No One Follows Them (6/13/2023)
• The Events Leading up to the Death of Jesus: What Can We Know and Not Know? (6/11/2023)
• If We Can Know the “Gist” of What Jesus Said and Did … What’s the Gist? (6/10/2023)
• Were Jesus’ Most Amazing Deeds the Ones Most Likely to be Remembered? (6/8/2023)
• Vote for Your Favorite Platinum Post (6/7/2023)
• Eyewitness Testimony: The Importance of Actual Expertise (6/7/2023)
• Eyewitnesses and Guaranteed Accuracy (6/6/2023)
• “You Have Heard His Blasphemy!” But Did They? A Platinum post by Daniel Kohanski (6/5/2023)
• Being Realistic about How Stories about Jesus Spread before the Gospels (6/4/2023)
• Who Was Spreading the Stories about Jesus Before the Gospels? (6/3/2023)
• The 3rd Rail – A Critique of Jesus. Platinum Post by Steve Clark (6/2/2023)
• Jesus, Eyewitnesses, and Stories Floating Around…. (6/1/2023)
• May Gold Q&A Video (5/31/2023)
• More on Secret Mark as a Forgery (by Morton Smith?) (5/31/2023)
• Did Morton Smith Forge the Secret Gospel of Mark? (5/30/2023)
• Blog Dinner in London on Monday June 12. Interested? (5/29/2023)
• Was Jesus a Simplistic Person or an Extraordinary One? A Platinum Post by Omar Abur-Robb (5/29/2023)
• Are *Groups* of Story Tellers (Think: Ancient Followers of Jesus) More Likely to Preserve Traditions Accurately than Individuals? (5/28/2023)
• Back in the Saddle Again… (5/27/2023)
• Do Modern Mideastern Story Tellers Show How the Ancient Traditions of Jesus Were Circulated? (5/27/2023)
• Did Jesus Believe The End Would Come Within His Lifetime? Platinum Post by Rizwan Ahmed (5/26/2023)
• Do Modern Mideastern Customs of Story Telling Show that the Gospels Are Accurate? (5/25/2023)
• More Problems with Thinking Jesus’ Followers Memorized the Stories about Him (5/24/2023)
• My New Online Course on Paul and Jesus! (5/23/2023)
• Didn’t the Disciples Memorize Jesus’ Teachings and Accounts of His Life? (5/23/2023)
• Was Jesus Literate or Illiterate? A Platinum Post by Omar Abur-Robb (5/22/2023)
• Stories of Jesus Passed on By Word of Mouth. When Scholars First Took Oral Traditions Seriously. (5/21/2023)
• Does Mark Present the Bare-Bones Facts about Jesus’ Life? (5/20/2023)
• Was Levi of Alphaeus the “the Beloved Disciple”? Platinum Post by Gregory Hartzler-Miller, MATS (5/19/2023)
• How Can We Get Behind “False Memories” of Jesus to the Historical Facts? (5/18/2023)
• Did Early Christians “Invent” Memories of Jesus? (5/17/2023)
• Jesus’ Resurrection: A Challenging Hypothetical. Guest Post by Ryan Fleming (5/16/2023)
• The Father and the Son. A Platinum Post by Omar Abur-Robb (5/15/2023)
• How Can We “Remember” Someone (say, Jesus) We Never Knew? (5/14/2023)
• In What Sense is a Made-Up Story about Jesus a False *Memory*?? (5/13/2023)
• Dr. Bart D. Ehrman, Apostle to the Atheists. A Platinum Post by Robert Droney (5/12/2023)
• Blog Announcement: Comments! (5/11/2023)
• Creation Stories of the Ancient World (Part 2): An Ancient Egyptian Account (5/11/2023)
• May Gold Q&A: Submit your questions! (5/10/2023)
• Does Understanding “Memory” Have Any Bearing on the Study of the Historical Jesus? (5/10/2023)
• Was Matthew Attacking Paul? (5/9/2023)
• The Road From the “Duo of Philo” to the “Trinity of Nicaea” A Platinum Post by Omar Abur-Robb (5/8/2023)
• Remembering Columbus, Remembering Christ (5/7/2023)
• How Do We “Remember” Lincoln? (5/6/2023)
• When I Got Seriously Interested in Memory (at least insofar as I remember) (5/4/2023)
• Did The Twelve Become Only Three? Platinum post by Douglas Wadeson MD (5/3/2023)
• My Forgotten Book on Memory (5/3/2023)
• And Here’s My Final Exam on The Birth of Christianity (5/2/2023)
• Was Jesus a False Prophet? (5/1/2023)
• Wanna Take My Final Exam In New Testament? (4/30/2023)
• Good Friday or Easter? CNN OpEd (4/29/2023)
• Is 2 Thessalonians a Forgery? From 132 CE? Platinum Guest Post by Omar Robb (4/28/2023)
• “Death is nothing to us.” What Do YOU Think? (4/27/2023)
• My Best Best-Selling Fluke (4/26/2023)
• Vote for your favorite Platinum Guest Post! (4/25/2023)
• A Scandalous Discovery of a Scandalous Gospel? (4/25/2023)
• Could the Mysterious “Secret Gospel of Mark” Be Authentic? (4/23/2023)
• How Do You Prove an Ancient Manuscript is Ancient? The Secret Gospel of Mark (4/22/2023)
• The Naked Man of Mark 14:51-52, the Secret Gospel, and a Pressing Question: Did Jesus Engage in Homoerotic Behavior? (4/20/2023)
• March 2023 Gold Q&A (video) (4/19/2023)
• Interview with Michael Shermer (4/19/2023)
• James Tabor on the 1993 Waco Disaster, Part III (4/18/2023)
• James Tabor on the 1993 Waco Disaster, Part II (4/16/2023)
• James Tabor on the 1993 Waco Disaster, Part I (4/15/2023)
• Baptism and the Macbeth Effect. Platinum post by Douglas Wadeson MD (4/14/2023)
• The Discovery of a Lifetime: A Secret Gospel of Mark? (4/13/2023)
• Do Scholars Ever Forge Gospels? (4/12/2023)
• Why Purgatory Makes Sense (4/11/2023)
• Gold Q&A LIVE! (And Recorded) Tuesday April 11 (4/10/2023)
• Don’t Wanna Be Left Behind? An Upcoming Lecture on the Rapture! (4/10/2023)
• How Does An Author Write a Bestseller? (4/10/2023)
• The Quest for the Legendary Jesus. Platinum Guest Post by Robert Droney (4/10/2023)
• The First Actual Account of the Resurrection (Hint: It’s Not in the New Testament) (4/9/2023)
• What If I Commit the Unforgivable Sin? Can It Be Purged in Purgatory? (4/8/2023)
•  Yahweh and Moses. Platinum Guest Post by Omar Abur-Robb (4/7/2023)
• Blog Volunteer Needed!! (4/6/2023)
• Did Jesus Believe in Purgatory? (4/6/2023)
• Purgatory Before There Was a Purgatory (4/5/2023)
• The Origins of Purgatory (4/4/2023)
• April Gold Q&A: Submit your questions! (4/3/2023)
• Dreaming of Purgatory (4/2/2023)
• The Martyrdom of Perpetua and the Rise of Purgatory (4/1/2023)
• What Does God Think of Surrogacy? Platinum Guestpost by Imran M. Usmani (3/31/2023)
• Biblical Prophecy and the Coming Destruction of the Dome of the Rock (3/30/2023)
• The Coming Apocalypse and U.S. Foreign Policy on Israel (3/29/2023)
• The Apocalypse and the Situation in Ukraine: Interview with a Ukrainian Christian Scholar (3/28/2023)
• REVELATION, A Novel. Excerpts from Blog Guest Poster Gary McCarragher (3/26/2023)
• Of COURSE the Rapture is in the New Testament — There for all to see! Right? (3/25/2023)
• Is The Rapture in the New Testament? (3/23/2023)
• Was the Roman Soldier Pantera Jesus’ Father? His Cousin? Platinum Guest Post by Omar Abur-Robb (3/22/2023)
• Armageddon Has Arrived! (3/21/2023)
• Why Would an Atheist Be Obsessed with Jesus? (3/19/2023)
• You Have No Right To Question Why You Suffer. What??? (3/18/2023)
• First-Quarter 2023 Platinum Webinar (3/16/2023)
• Creation Stories of the Ancient World (Part 1): On Enuma Elish and Genesis 1 Guest Post by Joseph Lam (3/16/2023)
• Does God Punish Those Who Do *Right*? (3/15/2023)
• March Gold Q&A (3/14/2023)
• Pre-Pub Offer on My Book: ARMAGEDDON! (3/14/2023)
• Job and His “Friends.” With Friends Like These… (3/14/2023)
• Live Gold Q&A! Monday March 13. (3/12/2023)
• What Do the Apostles’ Deaths Prove? Guest Post by Kyle Smith. (3/12/2023)
• February Gold Q&A (video) (3/11/2023)
• Is the God of Job Worthy of Worship? (3/11/2023)
• The Story of the Righteous Job and His Righteous God (3/9/2023)
• Suffering in the Two Books of Job. Two Books? (3/8/2023)
• Platinum Webinar! Forgiveness vs. Atonement (3/7/2023)
• Revelation — A Novel. Guest Post Announcing Publication, by Gary McCarragher (3/7/2023)
• March Gold Q&A: Submit your questions! (3/6/2023)
• The Voice at Jesus’ Baptism–An Intriguing Version in the Gospel of the Ebionites (3/5/2023)
• Is the Gospel of Mark in Papias Our Gospel of Mark? (3/4/2023)
• Who Wrote the Gospels? Our Earliest (Apparent) Reference (3/2/2023)
• Did Mark Write Mark? What the Apostolic Fathers Say (3/1/2023)
• Vote for your favorite Platinum Post (2/28/2023)
• The End of the World Means the End of Sex. Guest Post by Daniel Kohanski (2/28/2023)
• Do We Suffer Because We Have “Free Will”? (2/26/2023)
• Why Would Evolving Beliefs about Sin Lead to the Idea of an Afterlife? Guest Post by Daniel Kohanski (2/25/2023)
• Exciting Lecture: Archaeological Finds (Artwork!) in an Ancient Galilean Synagogue (2/24/2023)
• Seeing the Problem of Suffering as a PROBLEM (2/23/2023)
• Is Suffering a “Problem” for Believers? (2/22/2023)
• Wait, Was Jesus Married? Guest Post by Kyle Smith (2/21/2023)
• How Does Something “Mean” (2/19/2023)
• Is It A Sin To Be Transgender? Platinum guest post by Douglas Wadeson MD (2/18/2023)
• Analyzing the Prophecies in Daniel 7, 2 and 9. Platinum Guest Post by Omar Abur-Robb (2/17/2023)
• Is Christianity a Cult of the Dead? Guest Post by Kyle Smith, PhD (2/16/2023)
• What Did Judas Betray, and Why Did He Do It? (2/15/2023)
• Want To Listen to the Live Gold Q&A (and maybe ask a question)? (2/14/2023)
• Judas Iscariot: What We Can Say With Relative Certainty. (I think…) (2/14/2023)
• We Need A Volunteer to Record Audio Versions of the Blog Posts. Interested? (2/13/2023)
• Jesus’ Resurrection: A Challenging Hypothetical. Guest Post by Ryan Fleming (2/13/2023)
• Can We Know Anything About Judas Iscariot? (2/12/2023)
• How Theologians and Historians Approach the Same Bible Differently. Guest Post by Daniel Kohanski (2/11/2023)
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