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This post contains an original short post at BSA and very substantive responses by Schaun Wheeler, Schaun’s responses are the reason for this posts. All emphasis and subheadings are mine. The next post is Part 2 and contains two responses by Claude.ai with the first summarizing Wheeler’s thesis below and the next comparing it to […]
Continue ReadingFrom his Facebook post on 11/3/2026. Jim Palmer I have a public confession to make. I am an unbeliever. Let me explain. I am an unbeliever in a “God” who is a supernatural supreme being, separate and outside the universe and humankind. I am an unbeliever in a “God” shrouded in maleness, establishing the foundation […]
Continue ReadingExtracted from his email and post here. Leaving Christianity brought an unexpected freedom in my relationship with Jesus. I no longer had to defend every claim made about him, harmonize every account, or treat every question as a threat to my salvation. I was free to encounter what remained compelling without promising allegiance to the […]
Continue ReadingBy Jim Palmer – From his Facebook post on 11/1/2026. “If the hope of humankind depends on Jesus returning from the sky to straighten everything out, we have made a religion of postponing our responsibility. The hungry need food now. The persecuted need protection now. The earth needs our care now. None of them should […]
Continue Reading10/29/2026 – The italicized text below was extracted from Jim Palmer’s Substack post of Sept. 04, 2026 here. The post in PDF format is also in his directory in DropBox. All emphasis is mine. Communities preserve important figures by interpreting them. Memories become stories, stories become traditions, traditions become doctrines, and doctrines eventually become institutions. […]
Continue ReadingMore on Jesus My relationship with Jesus has changed considerably since my years as a pastor. These essays explore what remains—and what becomes possible—when we reconsider the relationship between the person, the stories, and the religion built around him. The above was reformatted into bullets by me and extracted from his post Fully Human. Terms […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains Claude’s summary of Bart Ehrman’s post The Irony of Jesus as the King of the Coming Kingdom on October 18, 2026. Summary of “The Irony of Jesus as the King of the Coming Kingdom” (Bart Ehrman, October 18, 2026) Central question. Following his earlier post on levels of reward in God’s coming […]
Continue ReadingJim Palmer, “AI content” posted to Facebook from his book at https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Anarchy-Dethroning-Jesus-Ourselves/dp/1503174484/ “Christianity royally messed up by putting Jesus on a pedestal and creating a religion in his name. By doing so, the Christian religion practically made Jesus into a freak – virgin birth, sinless humanity, God in the flesh, blood sacrifice for humankind’s sins, […]
Continue ReadingThe Jesus Beneath Christianity What happens when we separate a first-century Jewish teacher from two thousand years of theology? By Jim Palmer from his email of September 4, 2026. All emphasis below is mine. Preface Last night, twenty-one people enrolled in the Existential Health Practitioner Training and Certification Course gathered together for the first time. […]
Continue ReadingAll below is by Jim Palmer The Jesus Beneath Christianity What happens when we separate a first-century Jewish teacher from two thousand years of theology Jim Palmer, Sep 04, 2026 Preface Last night, twenty-one people enrolled in the Existential Health Practitioner Training and Certification Course gathered together for the first time. They come from remarkably […]
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