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From the Tabor Circle by Keith P. Myers posted 9/3/2026. Keith said “Not AI. These are excerpts from the book itself that I have edited and arranged so that it makes a nice concise summary of the major topics.” This is rather long because it is my [Keith’s] summary of an entire book. I found […]
Continue ReadingThis is a very long post beginning with a BSA post titled Gnosticism 101 by Keith P. Myers then followed by multiple Claude.ai’s comments about Keith’s explanation and then filling into how christianity, plantonism, and other beliefs evolved.
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 8/24/2026. All emphasis is mine. Christianized Readings in the Protestant Old Testament vs. the Jewish Tanakh This is a well-established area of text-critical and translation scholarship. Critical scholars distinguish between the Hebrew Masoretic Text (which underlies the Jewish Tanakh) and Christian Old Testaments, which historically drew heavily on the Greek Septuagint (LXX), […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains responses by BSA members to the question in the title and responses to comments amde in the thread. I did not include the OP as his skeptism and debating tendacies are not helpful. His post is here. The responses below are very interesting. Tre Murillo – exegetical exvangelical Hi Nathaniel, you’ve asked a […]
Continue ReadingFrom his Facebook post on 8/5/2026. Jim Palmer One of the most liberating discoveries is that life is rarely as binary as we were taught. You can believe in God without being a theist. You can not believe in God and still live a deeply spiritual life. You can find profound significance in Jesus without […]
Continue Reading8/5/2026 – This post contains three posts by BSA member Michael Waddell followed by the post by Charles Bledsoe that inspired Michael. What is sin? Part 1: the invention of sin. Michael Waddell posted Feb 10, 2025 at BSA. Note: This is the start of a 3-part series inspired by Charles Bledsoe’s post An Unabashedly […]
Continue ReadingFrom Jim Palmer’s Facebook channel on 7/31/2026. Jim Palmer I find it curious that nearly every creed of the Church, whether the early ecumenical creeds, the Roman Catholic catechisms, or the countless Protestant statements of faith, is primarily concerned with defining theological propositions about Jesus. They tell us what to believe concerning his nature, his […]
Continue ReadingExtracted from Jim Palmer‘s Facebook post on 7/28/2026. This is a very good list of issues with his short, concise statement of context. All emphasis is mine. 10 Religious Ideas You Don’t Need a Degree in Theology to Know Are False For much of history, ordinary people were told they lacked the education, training, or […]
Continue Reading7/18/2026 – From Dr. Bart Ehrman’s blog post here. The five posts linked below by Bart’s good friends are very interesting, as the two scholars articulate how they balance faith, the church, and the academy. As Dr. Jeff Siker said he lives with “one foot in the church and one in the academy”. They are […]
Continue ReadingBy Jim Palmer from his Facebook post. Emphasis is mine. Christianity did not simply misunderstand Jesus. It reversed his message. Instead of preserving Jesus as an example of what it means to become fully human, Christianity steadily elevated him beyond humanity itself. It transformed him into a cosmic exception: born of a virgin, the only […]
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