Bart Ehrman’s second chapter in his book, How Jesus Became God, is entitled, “Divine Humans in Ancient Israel.” Having spent his first chapter taking about paga...
Over the past decade or so, Bart Ehrman has made quite a name for himself, having written numerous books about Jesus and early Christianity that, to say the ver...
Upon coming to Jerusalem, John of Gischala attempted to rally the populace to engage the Roman army in battle. He had seen the difficulty the Roman soldiers had...
“And then they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four ...
A week before he was arrested by the Sanhedrin and then crucified under Pontius Pilate, Jesus of Nazareth rode into the Jerusalem on a donkey, being hailed by m...
“Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, wher...
It’s Christmas, and if you have grown up in church (and probably even if you haven’t), no doubt you are familiar with Isaiah 7:14: “Therefore the Lord himself w...
I have not been posting too much this month because I have been busy with other things. Nevertheless, in light of a recent extensive Facebook discussion (and si...
Richard Dawkins on…Judaism? “Originally a tribal cult of a single fiercely unpleasant God, morbidly obsessed with sexual restrictions, with the smell of charred...
I recently watched a PBS presentation entitled, God On Trial. The setting was a barracks in Auschwitz, in which the Jewish men there decided to “hold court” and...