Videos – Bronze Age Canaan
Watched 8/31/2026 – Very Good To Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldCWtO8uNjs
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My Thoughts & Others about God & the Bible ***
About God – What happened to YHWH? The God of Jesus, YHWH, is not the God the Christian church worships. The Christian Church did not follow Jesus as they do not call the divinity YHWH, and added Jesus and the Holy Spirit, creating the Trinity. The author of the Gospel of John surely is frustrated […]
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Extracts from the “Did Jesus see himself as the Messiah?” roundtable post by Michael Waddell at BSA. From a post here containing ChatGPT’s summary of the transcript of Paula Fredriksen’s Lecture: “Turning the Tables on the ‘Purification’ of the Temple” in NINT 2025. Jesus did not heal the man with a “skin disease” NRSVue [“leper” […]
Continue ReadingNot Red Sea (Yam Suf) in 1 Kings 9:26
Claude.ai provided the response below. The LXX translators in Exodus translated Yam Suf as Red Sea but in 1 Kings they translated the Hebrew as roughly “on the shore of the farthest sea,” not “Red Sea.” probably reflecting a geographical sense of the Gulf of Aqaba where Ezion-geber and Eloth were.
Continue ReadingReincarnation: Evidence in the Bible
This post contains excerpts from Bart’s blog of April 8, 2022, titled Did Early Christians Believe in Reincarnation? I include Bart’s comments below in number paragraphs without changing his text. The reason is to separate the examples into unique pieces that show a belief in an after and before life. Bart says:
Continue ReadingThe Four Gospels are all Different: Part 2
This post is a follow-up to Part 1 as two responses from Claude.ai summarizing Wheeler’s thesis (Part 1) and the next comparing it to the positions of Ehrman, Tabor, and Goodacre. Below that is a extract from Bart’s blog where scriptures are cited to show a belief at that time in existence before life and […]
Continue ReadingThe Four Gospels are all Different: Part 1
This post contains an original short post at BSA and very substantive responses by Schaun Wheeler, Schaun’s responses are the reason for this posts. All emphasis and subheadings are mine. The next post is Part 2 and contains two responses by Claude.ai with the first summarizing Wheeler’s thesis below and the next comparing it to […]
Continue ReadingAn Egyptian Temple in Jerusalem?
Summary by Claude.ai: Gabriel Barkay, “What’s an Egyptian Temple Doing in Jerusalem?” (Biblical Archaeology Review 26.3, 2000). A PDF of the article with all the photos is in the BAS directory in DropBox. Thesis Barkay argues that it is “chancy” to build historical arguments on the absence of archaeological data. He sidesteps the debate over […]
Continue ReadingScriptures that refer to YHWH as El
In Mark 15:34, Jesus says, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”). Did Jesus call God “Eloi”? A: BDEhrman November 6, 2026 – The “i” means “my” and El is the name of God; In Hebrew “my God my God” would be Eli Eli (as in matthew) […]
Continue ReadingAron’s Golden Calf is Yahweh
From the Joel Baden’s Youtube interview. Extract from the video. Emphasis is mine. Episode Description: The Golden Calf incident in Exodus 32 is perhaps the most famous story of rebellion in the Hebrew Bible. It’s presented as the ultimate sin, a moment of profound betrayal just after the Israelites received the law at Mount Sinai. […]
Continue ReadingWhen Jehovah Repenteth
Exodus 32:14 YLT 11 And Moses appeaseth the face of Jehovah his God, and saith, `Why, O Jehovah, doth Thine anger burn against Thy people, whom Thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand? 12 why do the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil He brought them out […]
Continue ReadingI am an unbeliever. Let me explain – Jim Palmer
From his Facebook post on 11/3/2026. Jim Palmer I have a public confession to make. I am an unbeliever. Let me explain. I am an unbeliever in a “God” who is a supernatural supreme being, separate and outside the universe and humankind. I am an unbeliever in a “God” shrouded in maleness, establishing the foundation […]
Continue ReadingThe Jesus Christianity Does Not Own – Jim Palmer
Extracted from his email and post here. Leaving Christianity brought an unexpected freedom in my relationship with Jesus. I no longer had to defend every claim made about him, harmonize every account, or treat every question as a threat to my salvation. I was free to encounter what remained compelling without promising allegiance to the […]
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