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Lost Christian Writings I'd Love to Get My Hands On!
Dr. Ehrman describes which letters in the Bible are authentically by Paul and wishes we had more of them. Read by John Paul Middlesworth
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A Phantom Jesus: The Teachings of the Second-Century Marcion
In the past couple of posts I have talked about early Christian “docetists,” those who were so convinced that Jesus was completely God that...
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The Value of Amulets for Reconstructing the New Testament Text: Guest Post by Brice Jones
Now here is a topic I bet you've never heard of before. The value of what? Amulets? For what? Really? Yup, really. Sometimes the...
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Christ as Non-Human (but fully God) in the Early Second Century
In this slow path we are taking to see where the doctrine of the Trinity came from (it may seem slow, but of course...
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Was Christ So Divine That He Was Not Human? The "Antichrists" of 1 John
Just as there were “adoptionist” Christians in the second century, who maintained that Christ was not really a divine being, but a human being...
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How to Make Sense of (or at least Peace with) What's Strange in the Bible: Guest Post by Kristin Swenson
Three weeks ago we had a guest post by Kristin Swenson about her new book A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the...