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MILLENNIAL HUMOR Jesus and Satan argue about who is the better programmer. This goes on for a few hours until they agree to hold a contest, with God as the judge. They set themselves before their computers and begin. They type furiously, lines of code streaming up the screen, for several hours straight. Seconds before […]
Continue ReadingAll sorts of people are fond of repeating the Christian statement that ‘God is love’. But they seem not to notice that the words ‘God is love’ have no real meaning unless God contains at least two Persons. Love is something that one person has for another person. If God was a single person, then […]
Continue ReadingBased on the scholarly sources I’ve found, I [Claude.ai] can provide you with a comprehensive answer about how C.S. Lewis scholars identify the characters and their roles in The Great Divorce. Major Character Identifications by Scholars The Narrator (Unnamed) — The narrator is identified by scholars as Lewis’s authorial stand-in or everyman figure. Literary analysis […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains most of an interesting thread, started on 2/8/2026, by non-scholars at BSA titled Equality In The Kingdom. All emphasis is mine. John R.‘s Original Post — In his letter to the Galatians, Paul writes, “There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 2/9/2026. Critical Bible scholars generally explain Deuteronomy 23:3–6 not as a timeless ethnic condemnation, but as a historically conditioned law reflecting Israel’s political, social, and religious relations with neighboring peoples. Their explanations usually fall into three main, overlapping lines of interpretation. Deuteronomy 23:3–73 So the Lord our God also gave into our hands Og […]
Continue ReadingBelow is ChatGPT’s summary of the article Biblical Views: Safeguarding Abraham by Dan Rickett at BAS. Dan Rickett’s article examines how ancient interpreters dealt with a troubling detail in the Abraham and Lot narrative of Genesis 13. In Genesis 12, God promises the land of Canaan to Abraham’s descendants. Yet in Genesis 13, Abraham offers to divide […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT Distance from Megiddo to Nazareth (1st century context) Modern geographic measurements give a good approximation of the ancient distance, since the two sites have not moved and the basic terrain is the same. Estimated walking time in the 1st century Ancient travel on foot typically averaged: Using the 14–16 mile distance: Practical estimate […]
Continue ReadingBelow is a ChatGPT summary of Robert Cargill’s Lecture Segment on Megiddo, “Lecture 4: Babylon and Megiddo” from his lecture series “Cities of the Bible” from BSA. See the transcript, from which this summary was made, in his Dropbox directory. Robert Cargill presents Megiddo as one of the most strategically important sites in the ancient […]
Continue ReadingBelow is ChatGPT’s summary of Robert Cargill’s “Lecture 4: Babylon and Megiddo” from his lecture series “Cities of the Bible” from BSA. See the transcript, from which this summary was made, in his directory in Dropbox. The summary does not include his talk about Megiddo, but that is in a separate post. Robert Cargill’s lecture […]
Continue ReadingMary Joan Winn Leith has a very interesting discussion of this question in her article “Biblical Views: Who Did Cain Marry?” in the Biblical Archaeology Review 39.6 (2013): 22, 82–84. Her article was summarized by ChatGPT and the summary is below. Summary of Mary Joan Winn Leith, “Biblical Views: Who Did Cain Marry?” Mary Joan Winn Leith […]
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