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Below is Claude.ai’s summary of Dr. Ehrman’s talk. Not Claude did not include the inserted editorial videos. Bart Ehrman’s Argument: From Mark’s Jesus to the Nicene Creed Framing the question Starting point: the Council of Nicaea (325 CE) Working backward to the earliest Gospel: Mark Ehrman’s thesis: how you get from Mark to Nicaea Note: […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 7/26/2026. Also see Bart’s post here. Background: Indulgences and Church Corruption By the early sixteenth century, the sale of indulgences—documents claiming to reduce or eliminate the temporal punishment for sin—had become a significant source of controversy in the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church’s practice of granting indulgences to provide absolution to sinners […]
Continue ReadingThe source of the above table is unknown. Below is Claude.ai’s timeline. Event Hebrew Bible New Testament Spaces Between Words c. 200 BCE–100 CE c. 200 BCE–100 CE Book Order Standardization HB by c. 2nd century CE by 4th century CE OT – Christian Bible 4th–5th century CE by 4th century CE NT – Christian […]
Continue ReadingIn John Kloppenborg’s directory in Dropbox is the paper titled LUKE ON JESUS, PAUL AND CHRISTIANITY: WHAT DID HE REALLY KNOW? Edited by Joseph VerHeyden and John S. Kloppenborg. Below is Claude.ai’s summary of the paper. The paper and this summary list many examples of Luke’s lack of geographical knowledge of the interior of the […]
Continue Reading7/18/2026 – This important lecture is in Hebrew, see below for activating English subs and/or a transcript in English. Below the embedded video is Dr. Tabor’s English transcript. All Text below is from his YouTube post. The ratio of Lead isotopes in the bones of those in the Talpiot Jesus Family tomb match the ancient […]
Continue Reading7/18/2026 – From Dr. Bart Ehrman’s blog post here. The five posts linked below by Bart’s good friends are very interesting, as the two scholars articulate how they balance faith, the church, and the academy. As Dr. Jeff Siker said he lives with “one foot in the church and one in the academy”. They are […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains the Claude.ai summary of the transcript of an interview on Dec 12, 2025 of Steve Mason by C.J. Cornwaithe on YouTube here. The transcript is in Steve Mason’s directory in Dropbox. Mason cites five cases where Luke/Acts apparently used Josephus, as that is the simplest reason for the parallels.
Continue ReadingBy Jim Palmer from his Facebook post. Emphasis is mine. Christianity did not simply misunderstand Jesus. It reversed his message. Instead of preserving Jesus as an example of what it means to become fully human, Christianity steadily elevated him beyond humanity itself. It transformed him into a cosmic exception: born of a virgin, the only […]
Continue ReadingBelow are extracted paragraphs by Charles Bledsoe in BSA’s form “God, Faith & Theology” here. He expresses his view that Paul and Paul’s followers’ concern is “is a promise of personal liberation from death, and the absence of a robust ethical spirituality, or a spirituality that understands love of God as an end in itself,“ […]
Continue Reading7/15/2026 – This post is a summary, then a 2nd response by Claude.ai. Summary of the Transcript of Ross Nichols’ YouTube Video, “The Truth About David They Tried to Hide” (Horeb Institute / Sunday School) in his directory in Dropbox. Overview: Nichols compares the parallel accounts of David’s Ammonite campaign in 2 Samuel 11–12 and […]
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