Over the years I’ve said a lot about the New Testament, usually showing its manifold and various problems. But at most that’s half the story, and probably a lot less. There is something far more important: once you realize there are problems with a literal or historical reading, there is still the STORY. And the story can be quite powerful. Like all good stories, those of the New Testament can and should make us think and reflect. These are, at any rate, some of the most famous, influential, and life-changing stories in the world, not necessarily because they are historical (some are, some aren’t) but because they have a message to convey. Read by Petra Ortiz
Bart looks at the contortions some go to in order to claim that Jesus was not an apocalypticist. Read by John Paul Middlesworth.
Bart introduces the Gospel of the Ebionites, the text of which we have only through quotations in Epiphanius, a late fourth-century church father. Read...
I have been discussing the wrath of God in the Old Testament and have mentioned a point that here that I want to reemphasize,...