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This post contains short extracts that I felt were insightful. Borg, Marcus J.. The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith (p. 106). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition. Borg, Marcus J.. The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith (p. 106). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
Continue ReadingThis post contains a list of the ten oldest bible manuscripts as cited by Matt Baker in his video. This list was prepared by ChatGPT from the transcript of the video in his directory in Dropbox. Below is a concise summary of the transcript, followed by a numbered list of the ten manuscripts Matt Baker […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai Metaphysical ontology is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature of being, existence, and reality at the most fundamental level. It asks questions like “What exists?” “What does it mean for something to exist?” and “What are the basic categories of things that make up reality?” Key areas that metaphysical ontology explores […]
Continue Reading12/15/2025 – This post contains multiple responses from ChatGPT regarding the usage and evolution of the Greek words for person, entity, mask, face, essence, and others as they were used in the development and expression of the Trinity. Phonetic Spelling: prah-suhpahnPhonetic Spelling: heye-p-oh-s-taysisPhonetic Spelling: ow-zhuhontology – The philosophical study of being. The subdiscipline of metaphysics focused on the most general features […]
Continue ReadingBorg, Marcus J.. The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authentic Contemporary Faith (p. 105). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition. Luke 24:45-53 — 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, 46 and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 12/13/2025. Below is a James vs. Paul timeline with a third column for Peter as a mediating figure, extracted from the historical framework and chronology used by Dr. James Tabor in “The Jewish World of John, Jesus, and James the Just” . The focus is where James and Paul overlap in time […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT based on Tabor’s paper he shared in Dec. 2025 that is in Dropbox…\James Tabor\Courses\Christianity Before Paul\Introduction – The Jewish World of John, Jesus, and James.pdf” Below is a side-by-side chronological timeline that places John the Baptist, Jesus of Nazareth, and James the Just within the historical events framework used by Dr. James Tabor. […]
Continue ReadingBethlehem of Galilee By Aviram Oshri at BAR. Opening Paragraph: Bethlehem of Galilee is located on the western fringes of the Jezreel Valley, on the southern border of the low chalk hills of Alonim-Shefar‘am, which rise about 120 m above sea level. An Arab village (Beit Laḥm) was situated on a low mound on the site, alongside […]
Continue ReadingBelow is Claude.ai’s summary of the paper “Transcendent Temporality: A Transdimensional Model of God’s Free Relationship to Spacetime” by D. T. EVERHART, Logos Institute, University of St Andrews. The PDF is in the Dropbox directory “God”. The Prompt was: Summarize the attached file into commonly used English while accurately conveying the author’s views and rationale. […]
Continue ReadingBart Ehrman takes the different resurrection accounts in the Gospels and compares them: What about the Birth Stories? My work, not Bart’s.
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