A Virtual File Cabinet for Our Studies of Christian Origins & Hebraic Faith
From Claude.ai in response to the prompt: Provide the different positions of critical Bible scholars on Where did the God of Israel Come From? This is a rich and important topic in critical biblical studies. Here is a comprehensive overview of the major scholarly positions on the origins of the God of Israel. Where Did […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 12/19/2025, as a follow-up to here; that was a follow-up to here; that was a follow-up to here that was a follow-up to the initial prompt here. How do critical bible scholars view the idea of YHWH coming from the south and Moses being told at the burning bush YHWH’s name? Overview […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChaptGPT that is a followup prompts from here, and where this thread began here. Overview What follows is a step-by-step trace, as reconstructed by critical biblical scholarship, of how southern YHWH theology is thought to have entered early Israel via Midian, using only textual, comparative, and historical arguments. This is not presented as a […]
Continue ReadingBelow is Claude.ai’s summary of the paper “Transcendent Temporality: A Transdimensional Model of God’s Free Relationship to Spacetime” by D. T. EVERHART, Logos Institute, University of St Andrews. The PDF is in the Dropbox directory “God”. The Prompt was: Summarize the attached file into commonly used English while accurately conveying the author’s views and rationale. […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT Here are several philosophical / theological frameworks (and a few historical thinkers) that articulate the idea that YHWH / God exists in dimensions beyond the familiar three spatial dimensions (plus time), along with resources/links so you can read more about each. I’ve included both older and more recent scholarly work. Key Concepts & […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 12/4/2025. How did Marcus Borg use the flatlander analogy to talk about God? Short Answer – He did not. I found no direct evidence that Marcus J. Borg ever explicitly invoked the classic “Flatland/Flatlander” analogy (2‑D beings perceiving a 3‑D reality) in his published works or known lectures. What I can show […]
Continue ReadingNOTE – For a non-theological explanation and analogies of the Flatlander concept, go to https://davisinterests.com/ and click on pages under the top-line menu item “Flatlanders”. From ChatGPT on 12/4/2025. Here’s a one-sentence summary of this post: Critical scholars use the Flatlander analogy to show that biblical texts reveal only partial “slices” of God’s higher-dimensional reality—like […]
Continue ReadingAbout God – What happened to YHWH? The God of Jesus, YHWH, is not the God the Christian church worships. The Christian Church did not follow Jesus as they do not call the divinity YHWH, and added Jesus and the Holy Spirit, creating the Trinity. The author of the Gospel of John surely is frustrated […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT, 11/19/2025. The line you’re looking for is a genuine Latin statement from Augustine, and the most accurate form is: “Si comprehendis, non est Deus.”Translation: “If you understand it, it is not God.” Where Augustine says it:He expresses this idea in several places, most directly in Sermon 117.5, where he insists that any concept […]
Continue ReadingBelow are Charles Bledsoe’s original post and significant responses at BSA to his post titled The Historical and Theological Problem of a Killer God, Oct 20, 2025. As touched on by Dr. Baden in a recent lecture, the simple historical solution to the problem of the biblical God commanding mass slaughter is that the herems, […]
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