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My Questions: Jumps to Topics Below Christianized Readings in the Protestant OT vs. the Tanakh*** <- Click link for full post. Atonement or Forgiveness? Bart’s comment about Luke-Acts and Amy-Jill Levine’s Essay Bart – The doctrine of atonement does not hinge on what the author of Luke Acts thought. If you are a Christian and […]
Continue ReadingAs a supplement to the below, see the post at this site titled: Is Jeremiah a compilation of multiple speeches? Extracts from Some More of the OT Apocrypha: the Letter of Jeremiah, Additions to Daniel, and 1 Maccabees – Bart Ehrman The Letter of Jeremiah This is one of the shortest books of Apocrypha—it is only […]
Continue ReadingIn the video below, Dr. Tabor presents several examples of words used in the KJV that had a different meaning that the same word today. He shows how today’s understanding is wrong and does not reflect the “original” Greek text or meaning. Italised text below is from the transcript. KJV uses of “hell” and “prevent”. […]
Continue ReadingThis is the cover page for pages containing info about specific translations provided by scholars.
Continue ReadingSome significant gospel discrepancies are listed below. Re: The Baptism Mark Matthew Luke John Voice upon coming up And a voice came from heaven, “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.” Mark 1:11 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased.” Matthew […]
Continue ReadingFrom the above video Bart said that the Nicene Council used a circular logic with the three following criteria. So, From Wikipedia’s Athanasius of Alexandria —Some argue that, in his Easter letter of 367, Athanasius was the first person to list the 27 books of the New Testament canon that are in use today.[9] Others argue that Origen of Alexandria was the […]
Continue ReadingThis page cites texts scholars believe predate the earliest NT writings; i.e. Paul. The texts are from the NT and for reasons cited below and in the links are believed to have been inserted by the NT authors. They provide insight into what the earliest Christians believed. Philippians Hymn aka The Philippian Creed – Marg […]
Continue ReadingEphesians in Tabor’s article The Quest for the Historical Paul: Sources, Presuppositions, and Method Are Everything. Extracts are below. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Epistle to the Ephesians – The first verse in the letter identifies Paul as its author. While early lists of New Testament books, including the Muratorian fragment and possibly Marcion’s canon (if it is […]
Continue ReadingMelania the Elder’s Powerful Influence on Early Christianity – She is one of the women who left us a legacy of powerful, wealthy, educated women who influenced and shaped early Christianity. She was born in Spain in the 3rd century. https://www.themarcellaproject.com Who Was Phoebe? – This first-century C.E. leader of the early Christian community makes […]
Continue ReadingBy Bart Ehrman If Textual Variants Don’t Change Any Key Doctrines — Then Who Cares? Part 1 Extract — But here is the main point of this post: to question whether variants would alter any fundamental doctrine is, in my view, is a rather odd way of deciding whether the variants matter or not. Let […]
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