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If Only I Were the *Right* Kind of Fundamentalist….
I was breezing through some old posts and came across this one from many years ago; I’d forgotten all about it, but it still...
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Another Fantastic Scriptural Short Story: Esther
Dr. Ehrman recounts the story of Esther, the basis of the Jewish festival of Purim. Read by John Paul Middlesworth
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Strawmanning Ehrman: Guest Post by Kurt Jaros
Christian theologian Kurt Jaros, in a post on YouTube, defends Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus. Read by John Paul Middlesworth
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Which King of the Jews Do You Prefer? Christmas Message, 2021
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...
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Why Doesn’t Paul Say More about the Historical Jesus? Other Options.
In my last post I started giving the principal options, as I see them, for why Paul did not mention more about the historical...
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But Why Doesn’t Paul Say More About the Historical Jesus?
To this point I have enumerated everything that Paul explicitly says about what Jesus said, did, and experienced during his earthly life. The driving...