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I had a vague recollection of a scroll passage but was having trouble remembering the context. I wonder if I fit's Paul's imprisonment? Will ask Grok that. I guess one thing is Paul being a Pharisee and someone who was a bachelor could afford to spend more money on that sort of thing, than...

OK going to try to get back on topic after posting this. from Grok... Your thoughts on the early recording of the Gospels, the practical constraints of persecution, and the economics of ancient book production are spot-on and well-reasoned. The position you describe (drawing from Eusebius...

It is an oral tradition, but it seems like the Apostles were dutiful to begin recording "The Sayings of Jesus" early on. I basically take the position of folks like Eusebius, Hippolytus, that the context of the original Gospel Matthew was done to leave a witness of Jesus before the Apostles...

Most of the stuff around this is basically a form of literary Criticism arguments and some kind of anthropology of religions arguments. As far as I know the Logosimoi "Saying of Jesus" and Mathew / The Gospel of the Hebrews would be the only actual books that have some historic claims at...

Many people are probably scratching their head at the title. It deals with the notion that the received New Testament was originally composed in Aramaic rather than Koine Greek as most Christianity has historically believed. I was 15+ years ago a strong proponent of it, until I began...

I ran a cross a funny meme of Charlton Heston saying that (thread title) when parting the Red Sea in the famous movie "The Ten Commandments". Was going to post it but don't want to be potentially hit with a term of service copyright complaint. Anyway, it did get at some of the ironies...

This was my video source/ or what I was responding to.

I've been using Grok for over a year as research, editing, and art/graphic design tool. I've had some nice successes with it, especially since I am a slow learner on using the latest tech and tend to be stopped by hurdles when it comes to learning video editing, coding and what not. The fact...

Interesting to see this. I have in fact criticized universalism on similar kind of grounds and blogged and threaded about it before. Old posts I could dug up on Facebook " I am starting a posting series of why I don't believe in Universal Reconciliation (That everybody will get saved...

2) I got a second issue, namely that the Bible is so elevated it really comes across like a defacto unscriptural intermediary force between God and man. (Strangely enough The Bible actually speaks highly of the Church as the "pillar and ground of Truth" but it almost looks like folks have...

Your thread is very interesting. I think I got a higher view of Scripture and it's role in Apostolic and Nicene Christianity onward than you, but I have had issues of this exact type. 1) I have noticed a tendency of people to say "the Bible says this and that" and it comes across as an...

I wanted more development of the notion of the angel of the Lord carrying the name of the Lord "within him", that is "having his essence" or nature. While I could explain it talking about some areas of the Bible where names given to a child have prophetic significance. There are more blatant...

Grok gave me a lot of help fleshing out a very rough draft / outline. Post 4: Examples of "Two Powers in Heaven" in the Bible Example 1: When the Angel of the Lord Does Not Act Like a Normal Angel One of the strongest biblical patterns supporting the ancient "Two Powers in Heaven" concept is...

Post 3 Sometime in the Second Temple period, a theology developed known as "Two Powers in Heaven." While later Talmudic Judaism attacked this idea as undermining the scriptural affirmation of "God as One," it is entirely reasonable and viable within the biblical portrayal of God as a...

Post 2 I once was a graduate student of psychology previous to being interested in studying the Bible, Theology, Church history as a would be career. One interesting insight that I learned from studying Adlerian psychotherapy that had ramifications to other areas was how people's present...

2-3 years ago, I posted this topic when it was banned much to my great surprise. So, I am redoing it, seeing how I have gotten positive feedback from my comment in a thread on the Trinity in the unorthodox doctrine board. I have used my Facebook account as a Defacto Christian Blog, where I...

Well, we are a long way from Eden, we need more vitamins and minerals than people of centuries ago due to the soil being depleted and fruits and vegetables are less nutritious. You know people have gotten sick from the kind of vegetarianism and veganism that your Faith idealizes right? I...

Your touching on a favorite topic of mine. I actually usually like to talk about Naive Realism on this sort of thing. An Old Blog like thing posted on my Facebook wall. "The lesson of today is Naive Realism. This is a really important topic and if often is at work when you feel like...

Yes I do believe as far as Israel is concerned their is indeed a false rabbi, bar Kockba type person. They have had a few already in ancient and modern times, one modern rabbi has some alleged miracles but they seem a bit below average for a substantial would be antichrist.

I am on the side that believes that the Revelation material has some kind of Islamic component. It does not have to be the whole picture, probably it is not, but I think it is at least half of the picture. Joel Richardson in his book "Middle East Beast" I think makes the best case for that...