A Virtual File Cabinet for Our Studies of Christian Origins & Hebraic Faith
This post contains excerpts from Bart’s blog of April 8, 2022, titled Did Early Christians Believe in Reincarnation? I include Bart’s comments below in number paragraphs without changing his text. The reason is to separate the examples into unique pieces that show a belief in an after and before life. Bart says:
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 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 ReadingThis post contains extracts from Bart Ehrman’s post on October 20, 2026 An Even Stranger View of Eternity in the Book of Revelation. All emphasis is mine. All references to “I” is Dr. Ehrman. In my previous post I pointed out that there seems to be an irony in the teachings of Jesus about the […]
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 ReadingSummary by Claude of Bart Ehrman’s post “Peter and Mary Magdalene Going Toe to Toe” Main thesis – Ehrman argues that early Christianity preserved two competing traditions about who first saw the risen Jesus. In one, it is Mary Magdalene (and possibly other women). In the other, it is Peter (and other men). He sees […]
Continue ReadingThis post has a Claude.ai summary of three posts by Bart Ehrman addressing the different levels in heaven one couold reach as described in the Bible and later texts. PDF’s of the three papers are in the Levels of Heaven directory of Barts’s directory in DropBox. In addition to the citations below, Jesus in the […]
Continue ReadingThis post is a followup to the post What Was Jesus’ Bible? What the Gospels Reveal and is Claude.ai’s summary of Ross Nichols follow-up SS lesson titled Mose’s in Red Letters. Ross’ intent was to understand how Jesus used the scrolls they had at that time.
Continue ReadingThis post contains a Claude.ai summary of the transcript of the Ross Nichol’s Sunday School on 10/11/2026 titled What Was Jesus’ Bible? What the Gospels Reveal. In this Sunday School session, Ross K. Nichols explores the Scriptures of the late Second Temple period and then conducts a different kind of Gospel survey. Setting aside the […]
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