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From ChatGPT on 1/12/2025. Prompt: How do Jesus’ Teachings on the End Times differ between Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21? The teachings of Jesus on the End Times in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21 are known as the Olivet Discourse and share significant similarities, but they also have some differences in […]
Continue ReadingFrom OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT [Large language model]. https://chatgpt.com Prompt: Provide a timeline of the messianic figures and rebel leaders who emerged during the chaotic period 100 years before the death of Herod the Great in 4 BCE and up to the Bar Kochba rebellion. Include the events in the life of John the Baptist, Jesus, […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT, 12/18/2024. The concept of virgin birth, or miraculous conception, is a motif found in various religious and mythological traditions. Below is a list of figures said to have been born of a virgin, along with the sources that describe them: Deities Humans Follow-up ChatGPT response. Prompt – Provide context and list the sources […]
Continue ReadingA 58-minute Podcast at SBL’s Bible Odyssey’s website – Season 2: Episode 72, Body and Blood: The Mysterious Origins of the Eucharist, Date Aired: 6/24/2024. The Eucharist is such a common part of Christian worship that it’s easy to overlook how strange it is—drinking wine that represents Jesus’s blood, eating bread that represents His flesh. […]
Continue Reading16,609,571 views Dec 22, 2020. Part one of FRONTLINE’s four-hour series on the rise of Christianity examines how Judaism and the Roman empire shaped Jesus’ life and traces the beginnings of the “Jesus Movement” in those early years before it was called Christianity. First broadcast in 1998, “From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians” is […]
Continue ReadingIn the Patreon Zoom Meeting on 11/30/2024 (see the primary post here) James Tabor pointed out that Matthew edited Luke to delete the references to John the Baptist potentially baptizing Roman soldiers; i.e. Gentiles. Luke 3:12-14 Matthew 3:7-10 7 John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of […]
Continue ReadingThis very long page presents my idea that Paul’s eucharist in 1 Corinthians 11:25 cites the “New Covenant” was the first time Jesus talked about such and those words were put into Jesus’ mouth by Paul. As Jesus is not recorded as using the word then it follows that it was not part of his […]
Continue ReadingSee James Tabor’s site for many posts. Links to related info is below. James Ossuary The James ossuary and inscription are valid. This link is to a scientific report titled The Geochemistry of Intrusive Sediment Sampled from the 1st Century CE Inscribed Ossuaries of James and the Talpiot Tomb, Jerusalem – https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=96876 Extracts from that report: Since […]
Continue ReadingFrom OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT [Large language model]. https://chatgpt.com Prompt – Provide a timeline of the various sects of Jewish Christianity citing the escape to Pella to avoid the Romans. Include the locations where it was practiced and key leaders. The history of Jewish Christianity is complex, involving various sects, leaders, and significant events, including the […]
Continue ReadingClick here for an extensive Timeline of Jewish History. Note the dates and events from ChatGPT below have not been reconciled with those in the link timeline. Differences will surely exist. The text below is largely from ChatGPT using different Prompts some of which are cited below. Citation – ChatGPT on 10/27/2024. OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT […]
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