Recent content by Pavel Mosko

Yeah, I'm Gen X and know that stuff isn't true if you're willing to go back to the days of my youth in the 80s to 1994. You got almost as much reason to have them as we do with the Outback. I guess most of your predators are not as bad as ours, but still plenty of Mad Max mayhem potential in...

Other points I’ve been wrestling with this passage from various angles lately, and I want to add two observations from the broader biblical witness. 2) Bearing a sword is not inherently evil. Throughout the Old Testament, God Himself commands His people to bear arms in certain situations...

Wow I have dealing with this from various angels recently. 1) Stever Carcuco's Aramaic angle. The Context of Matthew 26:52 In the scene, Peter draws a sword to defend Jesus during his arrest. Jesus rebukes him: Greek Majority Text (e.g., Textus Receptus / Byzantine): This is a...

(I ask if this came up in the Coptic Lectionary readings, because I remembered it coming up in church at least once a year. Hagiographies are read to compliment material from the book of Acts because the actual founding of the Church is a serious matter of Faith in Christian Orthodoxy). Yes...

I was very happy with the Grok write up and told Grok except for finding fault with one detail. " "Great write up the only thing to quibble with is the mention of the governor and the Christian God if this is taking place during Jesus being an infant, decades before Christianity" To Which...

Going to ask Grok. The story of the idols toppling comes from the apocryphal Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew (also called the Infancy Gospel of Matthew), chapters 22–24 (numbering can vary slightly by edition). This 7th–9th century Latin text expands on the canonical Flight into Egypt (Matthew...

You're reading too much into it. I'm just saying it comes via a Charism. Gnosis is too general a word — it can mean factual knowledge, revelation knowledge, carnal knowledge, etc. I also add that when it comes to Divine Revelation, I don’t think in terms of strict logic. That seems more like a...

I did plug my inputs into Grok and see what it would say and it gave me this. " From the canonical Gospels (the Bible), we know very little about Jesus' childhood. The New Testament gives us only a handful of details: Birth and early infancy: Born in Bethlehem (Matthew 2, Luke 2), visited...

You are free to believe that if you wish, as far as Freedom of Religion goes, but it is against official Christian dogma. Jesus was without sin, he would not be able to be the savior of mankind if that was otherwise. Basically his true human nature was without sin, this is the reason why...

I do take some of legends around Jesus' youth seriously after being a member of the Coptic Orthodox Church congregation for over eight years. And I will stand by the Coptic witness of Faith, that is ancient and withstood the worst persecution from Rome, the Byzantines and Islam and Nasir. I...

Evidentialism Post 2 I once thought Evidentialism was a dirty word — or at least I treated it that way. It was mostly used by the New Atheists, who seemed to hold obvious contempt for Christianity and theistic belief in general. Ironically, I felt similar disdain for the opposite extreme...

Post 1 Why I first got involved in this topic is because there often is a “Faith vs. Knowledge” dichotomy that is setup in Christianity. This especially seems to take place after Christianity spends a few centuries dealing with the Gnostic heresies. After this time, Gnosis especially of the...

Yes I think what the Mormons is doing is very unusual. I don't think anybody is doing this sort of thing. Tovia Singer was the Founder of "Jews for Judaism", and a few other more recent organizations that are aimed at trying to make traditional Jews resistant to Christian missionary efforts...

I was thinking of doing some more writing on antichristian rabbi Tovia Singer and was curious of the number of "synagogues" in my area and found 1/3 of them were Mormon churches! The Mormons apparently using key words related to every major religious tradition and denomination in the US...

Funny this kind of complaint came up recently in a pod cast I was listening to Ash Maiz having guest podcater "Defending a Lion" on his show. Chat comment (read aloud): “Well, we got a real live one in the chat... Hebrew roots and Messianic teaching will remain flawed as long as they don't...