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This post contains multiple prompts from ChatGPT on 9/1/2025. Along with the misappropriations, the responses at the end shows how he combined Hebrew Bible verses to create a different meaning. The responses drill further into Paul’s use and abuse of the Hebrew Bible. NOTE: The link to the source below cited as Scribd goes to […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai – Present how critical bible scholars support the belief that the main task of the Messiah is to regather the tribes of Israel, to gather the nations and pull them back to the one God, and turn them to the way of the ancient Torah. Isaiah 2 and 11, Jeremiah 16, Jeremiah 3, […]
Continue Reading3/22/2025 – In the 28-minute video embedded below, Dr. James Tabor shared yesterday, he explains why he believes Paul’s version of the Last Supper changed the meal from Jesus showing his disciples they again share a meal when the Kingdom comes. Paul changed it to be a ritual for the Corinthians who had turned the […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai – Prompt: Were the Corinthians to whom Paul wrote part of a pagan society who believed that to bond with the Gods and be one with them a person had to eat the Gods’ body and/or drink their blood? Religious Context of Corinth and the Eucharist Yes, the Corinthians Paul addressed in his […]
Continue ReadingParagraphs below were extracted from https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/didache.html. There are many extracts from other scholars at the page. Burton Mack notes two interesting features of the text of the Didache. One concerns alms, and the other concerns the Eucharist. Of the first, Mack writes (Who Wrote the New Testament?, p. 240): “There are several interesting features of […]
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 ReadingFrom Bart Ehrman Luke 22:19-20 contains the Last Supper speech. Scribes inserted atonement after Luke removed it. Bart discusses the issues in the podcast as well as his post Why Would a Scribe Change Luke’s Account of the Last Supper? September 30, 2015. and the followup articles here and here. The passage has to do […]
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