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10/30/2025 – This page contains ChatGPT’s summary of my transcript (in DropBox) of Megan’s interview of Bart Ehrman. Summary of the file in Dropbox named “Bart – Matthew’s Forgotten Resurrection” Megan Lewis’ Initial Reading (Matthew 27:51–53)Megan Lewis begins by quoting the passage from Matthew that describes events at Jesus’ death: “The curtain of the temple […]
Continue ReadingThree Prompts/Responses from ChatGPT on 7/17/2025. First Prompt – How do critical bible scholars understand tax collecting was done by the romans and their staff in Jesus time? Cite all sources. Critical Bible scholars and historians generally understand that Roman tax collection in Jesus’ time—especially in Judea and Galilee—was a system that combined Roman imperial […]
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 6/9/2025. Here is a comparative chart showing how Luke differs from Paul, Matthew, Mark, and John, based on the analysis of Bart D. Ehrman and other critical scholars: COMPARISON CHART: Luke vs. Paul and the Other Gospels Topic Luke Paul Mark Matthew John Christology Exaltation at resurrection (Acts 2:36); avoids pre-existence Jesus […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai 4/28/2025, based on the prompt: How do critical bible scholars explain the different understandings between Paul, Matthew’s Jesus, and the historical Jesus of what’s involved in being in right relationship with God. Cite all sources. Understanding Different Views on Right Relationship with God: Paul, Matthew’s Jesus, and the Historical Jesus This is a […]
Continue ReadingFrom OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT [Large language model]. https://chatgpt.com Prompt – Provide based on the work of critical Bible Scholars, a table listing the differences between the Christmas stories of Matthew and Luke. Provide in the table scriptural references to support each site. List all sources at the end of the response. Below is an expanded […]
Continue ReadingExtracts below are from Bart Ehrman’s post: Mark: The First Gospel in 19th Century Research dated February 8, 2019. Over the years, three arguments have proved widely convincing for establishing Mark’s priority to Matthew and Luke: Patterns of Agreement – The reason then that Matthew and Luke rarely agree against Mark in the wording of […]
Continue ReadingIn the Patreon Zoom Meeting on 11/30/2024, James Tabor pointed out numerous synoptic scriptures where Matthew’s rendition of Mark is summarized, expanded, or simplified when compared to Luke and Luke is often verbatim of Mark. That is, Luke uses Mark with minimal edits but Matthew rewrites his sources. Two examples are in the following two […]
Continue ReadingFrom OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT [Large language model]. https://chatgpt.com on 11/16/2024. Prompt: List the scriptures in Matthew where the writer refers to an event fulfilling the scriptures. Cite the scriptures from the NRSV and the context of each scripture in the Hebrew Bible that scholars believe is being referred to. At the end of the response […]
Continue ReadingFrom a Post at BSA’s Bible Nerds Group by James DeFrancisco In view of the Q hypothesis as well as Mark not having birth stories for Jesus it is suspected that the birth stories may have been added to Matthew and Luke after the original (whatever that means) gospels were written. This is supported by […]
Continue ReadingThis long post has a lot of views and insights. In addition see: John 20:30-31; Life in his name through believing 30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. 31 But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the […]
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