A Virtual File Cabinet for Our Studies of Christian Origins & Hebraic Faith
See Did God Write the Torah — and Does it Matter? For many Jews, the Torah’s authority does not derive from being a divine document. by Marc Zvi Brettler at MyJewishLearning.com. The article is in a Word doc in DropBox’s folder “Jewish Topics”. Claude.ai was asked to summarize the article and that summary is pasted […]
Continue ReadingFrom Chat GPT’s summary of my transcript of Marcus Borg’s lecture “Jesus Today: The Legacy of Albert Schweitzer” By Chat GPT – Here’s a two-page practical outline of Marcus Borg’s “Jesus Today: The Legacy of Albert Schweitzer”—kept tight for teaching or discussion, and includes all scriptural references Borg used or explained. Outline – Marcus Borg […]
Continue ReadingThe first 25 minutes is Tabor providing background to his book “The Lost Mary”. After that, Crossan tells how his growing up in Ireland in the violence of the 1940s-50s made him realize what Mary and Jesus faced with the memories of Herod and the current violence of the Romans. Tabor shares his alternative view […]
Continue ReadingFrom his book The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authentic Contemporary Faith. Below those extracts is one of his videos and the transcription. The transcendence of God refers to God’s “going beyond” the universe, God’s otherness, God as more than the universe. God’s immanence, on the other hand, means God’s […]
Continue ReadingDoes the Cruelty and Evil in the World Really Refute the Idea that God Is Perfect Love? Original post by Charles Bledsoe on October 11, 2025. Another member recently expressed her difficulty with believing that God is love in view of all of the “calamity” in the world. That provoked the following reflections and response […]
Continue ReadingThe Evolution of the Idea of God in the Bible—The Evolution of a Relationship With an Imaginary Friend, or an Actually-Existing God? by Charles Bledsoe. Posted at BSA on Oct 17, 2025. [Below is his post for which he is the author and it is posted here for my personal reference only.] From my theological […]
Continue ReadingBelow is a response to the “conversation” or thread at BSA titled Atonement or Forgiveness, How About Neither? that began on October 9, 2025. The post begins with an interesting position by Charles Bledsoe, and comments by Michael Waddel and others are interesting. One of Schaun Wheeler’s responses is below. I like this, but I […]
Continue Reading10/30/2025 – This page contains ChatGPT’s summary of my transcript (in DropBox) of Megan’s interview of Bart Ehrman. Summary of the file in Dropbox named “Bart – Matthew’s Forgotten Resurrection” Megan Lewis’ Initial Reading (Matthew 27:51–53)Megan Lewis begins by quoting the passage from Matthew that describes events at Jesus’ death: “The curtain of the temple […]
Continue ReadingThis page contains the significant statements by members of SBA to the post Eternal life – why? The conversation has many good insights about an “afterlife”. Sandra Snook – Opening Post I’ve pondered a lot about what seems to be a very human goal, and often the primary goal of being a Christian, attaining eternal […]
Continue ReadingA: During the Hasmonean/Maccabean period, when they needed laws, and took up the laws written by the past scribes who wanted the average folks to obey, but few had done so. [my understanding] “When did Judaism begin?” is not a naive question. Every answer to this question would require presenting an acceptable definition of Judaism. […]
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