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From his Facebook post on 8/5/2026. Jim Palmer One of the most liberating discoveries is that life is rarely as binary as we were taught. You can believe in God without being a theist. You can not believe in God and still live a deeply spiritual life. You can find profound significance in Jesus without […]
Continue Reading8/5/2026 – This post contains three posts by BSA member Michael Waddell followed by the post by Charles Bledsoe that inspired Michael. What is sin? Part 1: the invention of sin. Michael Waddell posted Feb 10, 2025 at BSA. Note: This is the start of a 3-part series inspired by Charles Bledsoe’s post An Unabashedly […]
Continue ReadingJesus was not interested in creating Christians. Read More. Somewhere along the way, people replaced the challenge of embodiment with the safety of devotion. It became easier to worship Jesus than to live as he lived. Easier to admire the Buddha than to undergo the kind of inner confrontation his path required. Religion turned living […]
Continue ReadingThe Response below the bullet list is from Claude.ai on 4/24/2026. The items in the bullet list are extracts from the response and provide talking points I believe are significant. There are also extracts from the Claude.ai summary of the transcript of Dr. Andrew M. Henry in his YouTube channel, Religion for Breakfast, here. The […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai on 2/17/2026. Prompt: What is the Apostolic Creed, and how does it relate to the evolution of the Nicaea Creed? [See also the post in this site titled The Councils and Creeds creating the Trinity] Great question — the relationship between these two creeds is often misunderstood. The Apostles’ Creed The Apostles’ Creed […]
Continue ReadingSix responses from ChatGPT on 12/1/2025 stemming from my transcript of Ross Nichols’s video on YouTube Did Moses Point to Jesus?. See his directory in Dropbox for the transcript. Below is an outline-style summary of Ross Nichols’s paper Did Moses Point to Jesus? focused only on the specific instances where theologians (or the Gospel writers/theologizing […]
Continue ReadingValid Point by Marcus Borg: The documents that now make up the Bible were not sacred when they were written, but over time were declared to be sacred by ancient Israel and early Christianity. The process took about five centuries for the Hebrew Bible and about three centuries for the Christian Testament. From Chat GPT […]
Continue ReadingSee Post by John R. and Responses at BAS here. As of 8/19/2025 at 8:30 AM, the responses end with: Jen Olmos – Admin Ahhh, I’ve been thinking a lot about this question recently. There are, of course, infinite ways to respond, and I suspect any attempt to address them all in one fell swoop […]
Continue ReadingThe prompt below stems from the article at BSA by Robin Faith-Walsh here. From Claude.ai on 5/5/25. Prompt: Provide a list of words in the time of Jesus that had meanings like “pneuma” as “spirit” or “ekklesia” as “voluntary association” or “church” but now theologians use them in very narrow meanings such as “gospel” now […]
Continue ReadingThis page contains links and extracts to the debate at SBL in the 2010 era where a good presentation was made by Kenneth Atkinson, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Northern Iowa in January 2012 discussing the two enterprises. The letter (post) resignation from Ronald Hendel and a response from SBL that led to […]
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