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Text below is from an email from Hebrew and Jesus Defender of Israel. He is not a Jew who is… One of the most important texts supporting Christian supersessionism (popularly known as replacement theology) is found in Apostle Paul’s letter to the Romans. Most translations read similar to one of the following two examples: 28 For no […]
Continue ReadingUPDATE: The Reaction to Karen King’s Gospel Discovery When a divinity scholar unveiled a papyrus fragment that she says refers to Jesus’ “wife,” our reporter was there in Rome amidst the firestorm of criticism by Ariel Sabar, Smithsonian Magazine. See the video at the end of the article.
Continue ReadingFor a good discussion of what the Gospel of Thomas is read The Gospel of Thomas: Jesus Said What? The text below was extracted from BAS here. 114 sayings of Jesus as translated by Stephen J. Patterson and James M. Robinson and republished from The Gnostic Society Library. These are the hidden words that the […]
Continue ReadingMoses: The Private Man Behind the Public Leaderby J. Daniel Hays Moses’ Egyptian Nameby Ogden Goelet Moses: From Vigilante to Lawgiverby William H.C. Propp Why Moses Could Not Enter The Promised Landby William H.C. Propp In Death as in Life: What the Biblical Portraits of Moses, Aaron and Miriam Shareby Erica S. Brown
Continue ReadingI find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality (unless I watch myself very carefully) asking Him to do something quite different. I am asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me. But there is all the difference in the world between forgiving and […]
Continue ReadingWe know not what we shall be; but we may be sure we shall be more, not less, than we were on earth. Our natural experiences (sensory, emotional, imaginative) are only like the drawing, like pencilled lines on flat paper. If they vanish in the risen life, they will vanish only as pencil lines vanish […]
Continue ReadingThere is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which everyone in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. I have heard people admit that they are bad-tempered, or that they cannot keep […]
Continue ReadingOn faith It is a profound mistake to imagine that Christianity ever intended to dissipate the bewilderment and even the terror, the sense of our own nothingness, which come upon us when we think about the nature of things. It comes to intensify them. Without such sensations there is no religion. Many a man, brought […]
Continue ReadingIf you asked twenty good men today what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you had asked almost any of the great Christians of old, he would have replied, Love. You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this […]
Continue ReadingAll sorts of people are fond of repeating the Christian statement that ‘God is love’. But they seem not to notice that the words ‘God is love’ have no real meaning unless God contains at least two Persons. Love is something that one person has for another person. If God was a single person, then […]
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