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Extracted 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 […]
Continue ReadingBelow are extracted paragraphs by Charles Bledsoe in BSA’s form “God, Faith & Theology” here. He expresses his view that Paul and Paul’s followers’ concern is “is a promise of personal liberation from death, and the absence of a robust ethical spirituality, or a spirituality that understands love of God as an end in itself,“ […]
Continue ReadingPost at BSA by Steve Hunsaker on 7/13/2026 in God, Faith & Theology. The Promised Land Is Not a Place What does “holy land” and “promised land” really mean, and what we lose when we make it literal You were handed these words as geography. The holy land: a strip of earth at the far […]
Continue ReadingIn addition to the Response below from Claude.ai see A Reformation Timeline and the post on this site, Comparative Canon Lists: Marcion to Trent. Prompt: Provide information about the Council of Trent in the 1500s, its sessions, their purposes and context with all sources in-line and with a link when available. The Council of Trent […]
Continue ReadingThis post has two responses from Claude.ai beginning with a summary of Andrew Lincoln’s article “How Babies Were Made in Jesus’ Time” (Biblical Archaeology Review 40.6, 2014), drawn from his book Born of a Virgin? Reconceiving Jesus in the Bible, Tradition and Theology. The PDF of the article is in Dropbox/Christianity/Virgin Birth directory. Core argument […]
Continue ReadingSummary by Claude.ai of the BAS article “How the Serpent in the Garden Became Satan” Shawna Dolansky | Biblical Archaeology Society. The PDF file of the article is in Dropbox/Satan. Below the summary is the prompt “How do critical bible scholars view the position of the writer of that article?” and the response. Claude says […]
Continue ReadingThis post was started to prep for CU’s July 4th, 250th Anniversary celebration by showing the movie “A Great Awakening”. The content below is about that movie. From ChatGPT on 6/26/2026 – Prompt: What are the critical bible scholars’ views of the movie called “A Great Awakening” Response: There has been very little published commentary […]
Continue ReadingWilliam Wade Burleson – Posted in his Facebook page. Extracted on 6/26/2026. pondetosSru1a3g7t7309u553m25hm421225cu25l5iham1m7ci67c10t6gf · SLAVERY, SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY, WOMEN, AND THE FOUNDERS OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION … History possesses an extraordinary ability to humble every generation that believes it has finally learned to read the Bible correctly. Few examples illustrate that truth more vividly than the founding […]
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