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This post is a follow-up to Part 1 as two responses from Claude.ai summarizing Wheeler’s thesis (Part 1) and the next comparing it to the positions of Ehrman, Tabor, and Goodacre. Below that is a extract from Bart’s blog where scriptures are cited to show a belief at that time in existence before life and […]
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 […]
Continue ReadingPost to the TRC by James Tabor on 10/12/2026. He is responding to a lot of posts and misinformation in threads at the TRC about the Cochin Matthew from India. He does not see any way it was written before the gMatthew or neither could have been written by an eyewitness. He provides a lot […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 10/6/2026. Prompt: Prepare a table listing the Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension events in each of the four gospels and Acts. Response: I’ve placed Paul’s letters first because they are the earliest writings, roughly 50-60 CE, before any Gospel. The seven letters are Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1 Thessalonians, and […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 3/25/2026 in response to the Prompt: Provide the citations in the Gospel of Mark where critical bible scholars say the writer does not know the geography. Cite the context of each citation and all sources. Critical scholars argue that the author of Mark made mistakes about Palestinian geography that no native of […]
Continue ReadingTalking Points from the text below: Related posts at this site are: From Claude.ai on 3/25/2026 in response to the Prompt: Provide the scriptures where critical bible scholars cite in the Gospel of Mark scenes Peter couldn’t have witnessed as evidence that John Mark did not write that Gospel. Cite all sources. This is a […]
Continue ReadingWhat’s Missing from Codex Sinaiticus, the Oldest New Testament?Compare differences between the King James Version and Codex Sinaiticus by BAS Staff, February 19, 2026. Below is the BAS staff’s comparison of the narratives in the KJV and the Codex Sinaiticus. The paragraphs before the table are very interesting but not included here. One other omission in […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 2/18/2026. In addition, after that response is a Q&A with Bart Ehrman’s answer concerning a scripture from Acts that some say shows Luke did believe in Atonement. Talking Points from the text below: First Prompt: What do critical bible scholars cite as passages in the Gospel of Luke that are taken from […]
Continue ReadingShort ending of Mark Several witnesses, including four uncial Greek manuscripts of the seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries (L Ψ 099 0112), as well as Old Latin k, the margin of the Harclean Syriac, several Sahidic and Bohairic manuscripts, and not a few Ethiopic manuscripts, continue after verse eight with small variations. Starting in the […]
Continue ReadingExtracts from The best explanation for the Messianic Secret I’ve ever heard by Michael Waddell at BSA. Part 1: The problem The Gospel of Mark is full of places where Jesus does not want people to know who he is. At the very beginning, in Mark 1:23-25, a demon recognizes Jesus as “the Holy One […]
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