Master Index of Subjects and Questions

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• 30 pieces of silver...........Did the gospels make an error in their citation of the Judas-30pieces episode?
• 70 weeks......................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
• Abortifacients................Bible abortifacients?
• Abraham.......................Was Terah 70 or 130 when Abraham was born?
• Abraham.......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
• Abraham.......................Did Ephron offer the burial plot to Abraham for free, or was it just an 'expensive' business deal?
• Abraham.......................Why did God order Abraham to do child sacrifice?
• Abraham.......................Was the Bible wrong about Abraham having camels that early?
• Absalom.......................Did God callously give David's wives to Absalom to rape?
• Abstinence....................Is Drinking alcohol a sin?
• Abuse.........................Could divorce ever be the ethical imperative?
• Accomodation..................God's revelation to us: skepticism, hiddeness
• Accountability................If sins are forgiven, how will Christians be judged?
• activation....................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
• Acts 7........................Stephen's mistakes in Acts 7
• Acts..........................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
• Adam..........................Adam, Eve, and Incest?
• Adapa.........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Adonis........................Dying and Rising Gods
• Adoption......................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
• Aesthetics....................Female Beauty in Bible
• Afterlife.....................Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
• Afterlife.....................Talmudic view of the afterlife (brief)
• Afterlife.....................If sins are forgiven, how will Christians be judged?
• Aggadah.......................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
• Aggadah....................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
• AI............................doesn't the archaeological record CONTRADICT the Bible's claims about Joshua's "Conquest"?!
• Akkadian......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
• Akkadian......................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Alcohol.......................Is Drinking alcohol a sin?
• Alexandria....................Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature?
• Aliens........................What about the theory that Jesus was descended from aliens?
• Aliens........................Theological impact of Aliens from space
• Allegro.......................The theories of Eisenman, Allegro, Thiering, and Baigent & Leigh concerning the Dead Sea Scrolls?
• Alphabet......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
• Altered States................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
• Amalek........................Were the Amalekites REALLY nomads?
• Amalek........................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
• Amalek........................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
• Amalekite.....................Were the Amalekites REALLY nomads?
• Amalekite.....................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
• Amalekite.....................shouldn't the butchering of the Amalekite children be considered war crimes?
• Amaneunsis....................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
• Amorite.......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
• Amorites......................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
• Analogy.......................Exploring Analogy
• ANE, literature...............Personal letter
• ANE...........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Angel, of YHWH................Is there no "THE" in "THE Angel of the Lord"?
• Angels........................Did Christ die for Satan?
• Angels........................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
• Angels........................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
• Anger.........................OT passages on what God avenges
• Anger.........................A long conversation with someone experiencing deep grief
• Anger.........................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
• Animal, death.................My kid's pet just died...what should I tell my kid?
• Animals.......................Why aren't dinosaurs mentioned in the bible?
• Animals.......................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
• Animals.......................My kid's pet just died...what should I tell my kid?
• Annihilation..................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
• Annihilation..................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
• Annihilationism...............Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
• Anthropic Principle...........The "Anthropic Principle" (refs)
• Anthropology..................Freedom
• Anthropology..................What are People like? (a portrait)
• Anthropology..................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than man
• Anthropology..................Is there evidence for the existence of the "soul"?
• Anthropology..................Did the early Church believe in Reincarnation?
• Anthropology..................On the Loci of Freedom...
• Anti-Christian lit............ A timeline of early Christian & anti-Christian literature
• Anti-Semitism.................Was John anti-Semitic
• Anti-Semitism.................Was First Thess 2.15ff seriously Anti-Semitic??!!
• Anti-Semitism.................Anti-semitism
• Apocalyptic...................Could Jesus really not have had any 'apocalyptic expectations' because they were allegedly only later?
• Apocrypha, NT.................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
• Apocrypha.....................What about the Gospel of Thomas?
• Apocrypha.....................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
• Apollonius of Tyana...........Divine Heros
• Apollonius....................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
• Apologetic theory.............presuppositionalism
• Apologetic theory.............Apologetics and Persuasion
• Apologetic theory.............Patterns and Argument
• Apologetic theory.............Implications for 'apologetic method'
• Apologetics...................if Christianity is true, why does it need so much defending? And why doesn't God make it clearer?
• Apologetics...................why should we believe Jesus was the Messiah, if He didn’t fulfill all the prophecies when He was here?
• Apologetics...................How I deal with very hostile objections
• Apostles, and women...........Women: Data From the Historical Literature of the Apostolic Circle
• Apostles, authors.............Apostles as gospel authors?
• Apostles, authors.............Evidence of early writing by the apostles (probably even during Jesus' life)
• Apostles, communication.......Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
• Apostles, Control.............The "tradition control" methods as the church expanded
• Apostles, interaction.........Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
• Apostles, memory..............How does the memory research of Elizabeth Loftus on eyewitness testimony affect the credibility of NT?
• Apostles, teaching............Are the Nazarenes and Ebionites the only TRUE "Christians"?
• Apostles......................Was the bible created by authorities to 'control' the common folk?
• Apostles......................Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
• Apostles......................Evaluation of the Theory of Literary Dependence.
• Apostles......................Theory of Gospel construction
• Apostles......................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
• Apostles......................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
• Apostles......................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
• Apostles......................The "tradition control" methods as the church expanded
• Apostles......................On the cooperation of early church leadership
• Apostles......................Local church interpretive autonomy versus a controlled and pre-interpreted transmission
• Apostles......................Really long periods of 'oral only' transmission of the sayings of Jesus, from the times of Jesus?
• Apostles......................Was this alleged oral tradition transmitted without 'controls' andquite loosely?
• Apostles......................What is an alternative understanding of the process of gospel formation?
• Apostles......................What are the names of the 12 disciples? I get 13!
• Apostles......................Paul OBVIOUSLY had a "sit down and shut up" attitude toward women--and we are supposed to trust HIM?!"
• Apostles......................The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
• Apostles......................None of the disciples or apostles were women--a bit unfair, aint it?!"
• Apostolic Fathers.............were the Apostolic Fathers unable to distinguish between authentic and unauthentic books?
• Apostolic Fathers.............Was Clement aware of the NT text?
• Apostolic Fathers.............Clement's alleged use of non-canonical sources
• Arab..........................Is Muslim hostility related to Ishmael being 'against everyone' prophecy
• Aramaic.......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
• Aramean.......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
• Archaeology...................doesn't the archaeological record CONTRADICT the Bible's claims about Joshua's "Conquest"?!
• Archko........................The Archko Volume
• Argument from Evil............Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
• Argument......................Patterns and Argument
• Argument......................The Priority of Patterns over Elements
• Argument......................Implications for 'apologetic method'
• Ark...........................Noah's ark -- the problem of size
• Ark...........................Death of the man who touched the Ark
• Arrogance.....................Can Pride be Good?
• Arrogance.....................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
• Arrogance.....................Questions on my Life-View and dealing with others
• ASC...........................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
• Ascension.....................A contradiction in the ascension accounts?
• Asclepius.....................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
• Asclepius.....................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
• asherah.......................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
• asheroth......................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
• Assyria.......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
• Atheism.......................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
• Atonement.....................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
• Atrahasis.....................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Attis.........................Dying and Rising Gods
• Attis.........................what do we know about Cybele/Attis and the taurobolium?
• augustinian...................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
• Authenticity..................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
• Author, deception.............Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
• Authority.....................Does human culpability for non-interference in crime prove theodicy WRONG?
• Authority.....................Do I have to obey my husband when he commands me to sin?
• Authority.....................Why would government have any authority in personal areas like marriage?
• Authorship....................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
• automaticity..................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
• Avenging......................OT passages on what God avenges
• Avenging......................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
• Baal..........................Dying and Rising Gods
• Babylonia.....................Babylonian omen literature
• Babylonia.....................Weren't OT women WORSE off than even their Babylonian counterparts?"
• Baigent & Leigh...............The theories of Eisenman, Allegro, Thiering, and Baigent & Leigh concerning the Dead Sea Scrolls?
• Bargh.........................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
• Baur..........................Evidence that heresy was neither EARLY nor Strong (contra the Bauer/Koester position)
• Baur..........................On the cooperation of early church leadership
• Baur..........................The issue of multiple "types" of Christianity in the early church
• Bears.........................wasn't Elisha cruel when he sent those bears against those little kids who were teasing him about being bald?
• Beasts........................Did Jesus come during the wrong empire, according to Daniel and the beast vision?
• Beauty........................Female Beauty in Bible
• Belief........................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
• Belief........................What is "repentance"?
• Belief........................Thumb:As long as each person is genuinely sincere, what difference does it make what they believe?
• Bethlehem.....................Micah 5.2: the Bethlehem prophecy
• Bethlehem.....................Does Micah 5 speak about the birth-place of the Messiah, or only His birth-family?
• Bias..........................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
• Bible, accuracy of............“Was there a textual corruption cover-up over Daniel 8.14?
• Bible, accuracy of............“Is there extra-biblical evidence for Post-flood longevity?
• Bible, accuracy of............Thumb: Bible: so many authors/translations, and was written over so many years--there MUST be mistakes!
• Bible, and women..............Women in the heart of God (outline)
• Bible, and women..............Women: Pushbacks, Objections, Stereotypes
• Bible, authorship.............Was the bible created by authorities to 'control' the common folk?
• Bible, background.............Ancient Literacy - extent and rationale
• Bible, corruption.............“Was there a textual corruption cover-up over Daniel 8.14?
• Bible, difficulties...........Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
• Bible, errors.................if Christianity is true, why does it need so much defending? And why doesn't God make it clearer?
• Bible, errors.................“Was there a textual corruption cover-up over Daniel 8.14?
• Bible, evil...................Bible abortifacients?
• Bible, falsification..........Lack of corroborating evidence
• Bible, objections.............God's revelation to us: skepticism, hiddeness
• Bible, purpose................Was the bible created by authorities to 'control' the common folk?
• Bible, skepticism.............God's revelation to us: skepticism, hiddeness
• Bible, verification...........Lack of corroborating evidence
• Bible, violence...............is theBible "as violent" as the Quran/Hadith?
• Bible.........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Bible......................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
• Bible.........................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
• Bible.........................Is the bible false, since it is not written in logic or math?
• Bible.........................Is 'only reason' reasonable?
• Bible.........................is theBible "as violent" as the Quran/Hadith?
• Bible.........................Why would God protect one piece of literature?
• Biography.....................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
• Biography.....................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
• Biography.....................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
• Biography.....................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
• Biology.......................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
• Bios..........................ALL four Gospels are written in the Graeco-Roman genre of Bioi
• Birth stories.................Contradictions in the Infancy Stories?
• Birth.........................Does Mary's Question Contradict other passages in the NT?
• Blood Drinking................Was Jesus sacriligious by using images of cannibalism?
• Boasting......................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
• Book of Job...................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
• Books.........................Book on historical method
• Born Again....................The meaning of 'born again' in Scripture
• Borrowing.....................OT did not borrow beliefs from pagans
• Borrowing.....................OT did not borrow beliefs from pagans
• Borrowing.....................The Atrahasis theme
• Borrowing.....................The issue of 'borrowing' laws--did Moses somehow "copy" Hammurabi?
• Borrowing.....................How would Matthew have borrowed from pagan religions?
• Borrowing.....................Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
• Borrowing.....................OT sacrifice: difference from Israel's neighbors
• Borrowing.....................did Jesus cry out to the pagan deity known as 'El' on the Cross?
• Borrowing.....................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Borrowing.....................Is the Sermon on the Mount actually an ancient Essene prayer dating to 100's of years before Christ?!
• Borrowing.....................Was the Sermon on the Mount a "plagarism" of Moses on the Mountain?
• Borrowing.....................Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
• Borrowing.....................Mithras and Jesus?
• Brain.........................Isnt there a “God part of the Brain” that proves all this Jesus stuff is untrue?
• Buber.........................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
• Buddha........................Major Religious Figures
• Buddha........................International interaction in NT times
• Buddha........................Types of evidence for revelation
• Buddha........................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
• Burial........................is the tomb story flawed because the term 'rolled' is used?
• Cain..........................Might Cain still be alive somewhere?
• calvinism.....................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
• Camels........................Was the Bible wrong about Abraham having camels that early?
• Campbell, Joseph..............Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
• Canaan........................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
• Canaanite.....................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
• Canaanites....................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
• Canannite woman...............Why was Jesus so mean and insulting to the Canaanite woman?
• Cannibalism...................Did God force the people of Jerusalem into cannibalism?
• Cannibalism...................Was Jesus sacriligious by using images of cannibalism?
• Canon, intro..................Why a Canon?
• Canon.........................Canon
• Canon.........................God's design objectives
• Canon.........................God's self-limitations
• Canon.........................Authetication of Revelation - preMosaic
• Canon.........................Authetication of Revelation - Mosaic
• Canon.........................New Covenant/New Moses
• Canon.........................OT in the OT
• Canon.........................Wasn't the process of deciding what books were to be included in the bible rather BOGUS?
• Canon.........................Who 'decides' on a canon, and how?
• Canon.........................were the Apostolic Fathers unable to distinguish between authentic and unauthentic books?
• Canon.........................Was Clement aware of the NT text?
• Canon.........................Clement's alleged use of non-canonical sources
• Canon.........................What about the Gospel of Thomas?
• Canon.........................Was there any reason to expect another set of Scriptures?
• Canon.........................Why does Jude quote from a non-canonical book, and we moderns not accept that book as scripture?
• Canon.........................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
• Canon.........................Papias and his preference for oral tradition
• Canon.........................The events leading up to Irenaeus' statement about the Fourfold gospel
• Canon.........................When was Mark 6.45-8.26 ADDED to Mark?
• Canon.........................The question of "where did the gospels become authentic?"
• Canon.........................God's revelation to us: means, authentication, canon, transmission
• Canon.........................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
• Capernaum.....................How would Matthew have borrowed from pagan religions?
• Capital punishment............Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
• Carnivorous...................Why are we carnivores, eating life?
• Category Mistake..............The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
• Cause.........................Does complexity REALLY require 'more complexity'?
• Celibacy......................Did the bible lie about Jesus not being married?
• celsus........................Are there any indications from the EXTERNAL data , that the miracle stories are historical?
• Celsus........................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
• Censorship....................Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature?
• Censorship....................Why would God protect one piece of literature?
• Census........................David's census
• Census........................David's Tragic Census-who 'Moved' him to do it?
• Census........................An objection about Luke, Quirinius, and Herods
• Certainty.....................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
• Certainty.....................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
• Chaos.........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Chariton......................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
• Childbirth....................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
• Childbirth....................Is pain in childbirth the Curse on Eve in Genesis 3?
• Children......................Martyrdom versus “obey and live long” principles
• China.........................Relationship between the Flood and Chinese Characters
• Choice, free..................Is history all "of one piece"? And Is everyone given a fair chance at heaven?
• Choice........................What kind of a choice is THAT--Love Me or Burn?!
• Choice........................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
• Chosen........................How did the Gentiles get in the picture if the Jews were the 'chosen ones
• Christ, deity.................Does John 12.41 speak of Jesus or of God?
• Christ, humanity..............Personal letter
• Christ, temptation............Personal letter
• Christ........................Do none of the New Testament letters really mention "Jesus", but only "Christ"?
• Christian life................What is a Christian?
• Christian relevance...........Hey, who Invited GOD to this century?!
• Christian worldview...........Hey, who Invited GOD to this century?!
• Christian.....................What is a Christian?
• Christmas.....................are Christmas trees tainted by paganism…
• Christology...................Incarnation
• Christology...................Are the Christologies of Mark and John radically different?
• Church communication..........Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
• Church Growth.................Urban expansion of the early Church
• Church Unity..................Evidence that heresy was neither EARLY nor Strong (contra the Bauer/Koester position)
• Church Unity..................On the cooperation of early church leadership
• Church Unity..................The issue of multiple "types" of Christianity in the early church
• Church, abuse.................Did Christians simply INVENT the "pierced my hands and feet" in Psalm 22?!
• Church, abuse.................Did the Roman empire totally distort the New Testament documents?
• Church, and women.............Women's Roles in the Early Church
• Church, authority.............Was the bible created by authorities to 'control' the common folk?
• Church, background............How could the Christians diverge from their Jewish roots?
• Church, conspiracy............Was the bible created by authorities to 'control' the common folk?
• Church, deception.............Did Christians simply INVENT the "pierced my hands and feet" in Psalm 22?!
• Church, deception.............Did the early church really create 'new' sayings of Jesus and 'write these into' the stories of His pre-Easter life?
• Church, early.................Was the bible created by authorities to 'control' the common folk?
• Church, early.................were the Apostolic Fathers unable to distinguish between authentic and unauthentic books?
• Church, early.................Was Clement aware of the NT text?
• Church, early.................Clement's alleged use of non-canonical sources
• Church, early.................did the Christians just OUTLIVE those who "knew better and were silent"?
• Church, early.................Are the Nazarenes and Ebionites the only TRUE "Christians"?
• Church, early.................Did the early Church believe in Reincarnation?
• Church, early.................Getting back to the 'primitive church'
• Church, early.................Evidence that even smaller churches had multiple copies of NT mss. often
• Church, early.................The issue of multiple "types" of Christianity in the early church
• Church, early.................Did the early church really create 'new' sayings of Jesus and 'write these into' the stories of His pre-Easter life?
• Church, early.................The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
• Church, errors................Did NT believers mix law and grace?
• Church, errors................Are the Nazarenes and Ebionites the only TRUE "Christians"?
• Church, ethics................Were the gospels pseudonymous?
• Church, evil..................Did Christians simply INVENT the "pierced my hands and feet" in Psalm 22?!
• Church, evil..................Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature?
• Church, evil..................Did the Roman empire totally distort the New Testament documents?
• Church, geography.............Evidence that even smaller churches had multiple copies of NT mss. often
• Church, geography.............Evidence that heresy was neither EARLY nor Strong (contra the Bauer/Koester position)
• Church, geography.............On the cooperation of early church leadership
• Church, opposition............did the Christians just OUTLIVE those who "knew better and were silent"?
• Church, unity.................Local church interpretive autonomy versus a controlled and pre-interpreted transmission
• Church, unity.................On early church unity vs. factionalism/in-fighting
• Church, unity.................On the underlying unity of the early kerygma
• Church, unity.................The question of "where did the gospels become authentic?"
• Church........................Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature?
• Circumcision..................Circumcision and False Teaching in the Bible?
• Clement.......................were the Apostolic Fathers unable to distinguish between authentic and unauthentic books?
• Clement.......................Was Clement aware of the NT text?
• Clement.......................Clement's alleged use of non-canonical sources
• Clement.......................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
• Coercion......................What kind of a choice is THAT--Love Me or Burn?!
• Coherence, historical.........Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
• Comfort.......................How could God let Christians hurt to the point of suicide?
• Communication.................How we "process" communication of all kinds
• Communication.................The process of God's communication to us
• Communication.................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
• Communication.................God's revelation to us: context and processing
• Communication.................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
• Community.....................Is history all "of one piece"? And Is everyone given a fair chance at heaven?
• Community.....................The process of God's communication to us
• Community.....................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
• Comparative Mythology.........Was Jesus Christ just a CopyCat Savior Myth?
• Comparative Religion..........Was Jesus Christ just a CopyCat Savior Myth?
• Comparative Religion..........How I decide between competing claims to revelation
• Comparative Religion..........How I decide between competing claims to revelation
• Comparative Religion..........What about Those Who have Never Heard the Gospel?
• Comparative Religion..........How I would decide between conflicting revelations
• Complexity....................Does complexity REALLY require 'more complexity'?
• Confabulation.................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
• Confidence....................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
• Confidence....................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
• Conquest......................doesn't the archaeological record CONTRADICT the Bible's claims about Joshua's "Conquest"?!
• Conquest......................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
• Conscience....................Interacting with the "possibly revelatory" data: Encounter, Response, Results
• Consciousness.................Language about God
• Consciousness.................Perception of God
• Consciousness.................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
• Consciousness.................Is there evidence for the existence of the "soul"?
• Consciousness.................Mind/brain
• Consciousness.................Which animals can feel pain?
• consciousness.................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
• Consciousness.................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
• Consciousness.................On the Loci of Freedom...
• Consciousness.................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
• consort.......................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
• Conspiracy....................What about the theory that Jesus was descended from aliens?
• Conspiracy....................Was the bible created by authorities to 'control' the common folk?
• Conspiracy....................Could the resurrection appearances be a case of GROUP Hallucination?
• Conspiracy....................Was Jesus really fraudulent, dishonest, sacrilegious, and conspiratorial?
• Conspiracy....................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
• Conspiracy....................did the Christians just OUTLIVE those who "knew better and were silent"?
• Conspiracy....................Did the early church really create 'new' sayings of Jesus and 'write these into' the stories of His pre-Easter life?
• Contradictions................if Christianity is true, why does it need so much defending? And why doesn't God make it clearer?
• Contradictions................What about number differences in parallel passages?
• Contradictions................Was Terah 70 or 130 when Abraham was born?
• Contradictions................Problems in the Genealogies of Jesus
• Contradictions................Problems in the Genealogies of Jesus: Jeconiah
• Contradictions................why should we believe Jesus was the Messiah, if He didn’t fulfill all the prophecies when He was here?
• Contradictions................Contradictions in the Infancy Stories?
• Contradictions................Does Mary's Question Contradict other passages in the NT?
• Contradictions................Why do the gospels disagree on the last sayings of Jesus on the Cross?
• Contradictions................Well, did Jesus tell them to take a staff or not? Another contradiction?!
• Contradictions................Do the Resurrection accounts HOPELESSLY contradict one another?
• Contradictions................How many people saw the risen Jesus? 150 or 500?
• Contradictions................three days and night vs. "on the 3rd day"?
• Contradictions................three days and night vs. "on the 3rd day"?
• Contradictions................A contradiction in the ascension accounts?
• Contradictions................Well, did God LIKE what Jehu did or NOT--"another" contradiction?
• Contradictions................Are the Christologies of Mark and John radically different?
• Contradictions................Women, stones, spices, empty tombs
• Conversion....................What is "repentance"?
• Conversion....................Urban expansion of the early Church
• Copycat.......................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Cosmogeny.....................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Cosmology.....................What is the Universe like? (a portrait)
• Cosmology.....................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Counseling....................Discussion on Deep depression, self-loathing, chronic therapy needs
• Covenant......................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
• Covenant......................Treaty form of the 14th/13th Centuries B.C.
• Covenant......................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
• Covenants, relationships......New Covenant/New Moses
• Creation......................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Creation......................Was God so needy that He HAD to create the unverse?
• Creation......................Does complexity REALLY require 'more complexity'?
• Creation......................Theological impact of Aliens from space
• Credibility...................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
• Credulity.....................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
• Creeds........................The NT Witness:The Ancient Church Formulas in the NT
• Crime.........................OT passages on what God avenges
• Crime.........................shouldn't the butchering of the Amalekite children be considered war crimes?
• Crime.........................Isn’t infinite/eternal punishment for a finite/temporal sin a bit disproportionate???
• Criteria......................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
• Critical Thinking.............Approaching the question of faith
• Critical Thinking.............Paul - and critical thinking
• Criticism and faith...........Would acceptance of James' understanding of the Two-Source Hypothesis be inimical to 'the faith'?
• Cross, Darkness...............Extrabiblical Witnesses to Jesus before 200 a.d.:Thallus
• Cross, effects of.............Personal letter
• Cross, ethics.................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
• Cross, legal..................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
• Cross, purpose................What was the use of Christ's death?
• Cross, purpose................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
• Cross, theology of............Christ's death on the Cross--serious, real, painful
• Cross.........................if Jesus didn't stay dead, how could His death have been a REAL sacrifice?
• Cross.........................Did Christ die for Satan?
• Cross.........................Christ's death on the Cross--serious, real, painful
• Cross.........................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
• Cross........................."Paid in Full" -- Jesus' words on the Cross?
• Cross.........................What was the use of Christ's death?
• Cross.........................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
• Cross.........................The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
• Cross.........................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
• Crowing.......................Was the NT wrong about roosters being allowed in Jerusalem?
• Crucifixion...................The Temple doors opening beginning around the time of the Crucifixion
• Crucifixion...................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
• Cruelty.......................Was God being cruel in the killing of the Firstborn at the Exodus?
• Cruelty.......................Was God being cruel in the killing of the Firstborn at the Exodus?
• Cruelty.......................Was God being cruel in the killing of the Firstborn at the Exodus?
• Cruelty.......................Was God being cruel in the killing of the Firstborn at the Exodus?
• Cruelty.......................Was God being cruel in the killing of the Firstborn at the Exodus?
• Cruelty.......................Was God being cruel in the killing of the Firstborn at the Exodus?
• Cruelty.......................Was God being cruel in the killing of the Firstborn at the Exodus?
• Cruelty.......................Was God being cruel in the killing of the Firstborn at the Exodus?
• Cruelty.......................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
• cult..........................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
• Culture.......................Does culture determine which religion one believes? (and is this fair of God?)
• Cuneiform.....................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
• Curse tablets.................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
• Curse.........................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
• Curse.........................Is pain in childbirth the Curse on Eve in Genesis 3?
• Cybele........................what do we know about Cybele/Attis and the taurobolium?
• Cyrus.........................A "punctuation" error in Daniel 9?
• Daniel 9......................A "punctuation" error in Daniel 9?
• Daniel, beasts................Did Jesus come during the wrong empire, according to Daniel and the beast vision?
• Daniel, dating................Was Daniel written AFTER the events he foretold?
• Daniel, text..................“Was there a textual corruption cover-up over Daniel 8.14?
• Daniel, unity.................Was Daniel written AFTER the events he foretold?
• Daniel, visions...............Did Jesus come during the wrong empire, according to Daniel and the beast vision?
• Daniel........................Did Jesus come during the wrong empire, according to Daniel and the beast vision?
• Daniel........................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
• Daniel........................Was Daniel written AFTER the events he foretold?
• Daniel........................Could Jesus really not have had any 'Son of man' sayings, because they were allegedly only later?
• Darwin........................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
• David.........................Did God callously give David's wives to Absalom to rape?
• David.........................Death of the man who touched the Ark
• David.........................David's census
• David.........................David's Tragic Census-who 'Moved' him to do it?
• David.........................David's Tragic Census-who 'Moved' him to do it?
• David.........................Does Micah 5 speak about the birth-place of the Messiah, or only His birth-family?
• David.........................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
• Dawkins.......................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
• Day of Atonement..............The torn-veil in the Temple/the scarlet thread
• Daydreams.....................Letter to Readers (misc topics)
• Dead Sea Scrolls..............The theories of Eisenman, Allegro, Thiering, and Baigent & Leigh concerning the Dead Sea Scrolls?
• Dead Sea Scrolls..............Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
• Dead Sea Scrolls..............Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
• Dead Sea Scrolls..............Is the Sermon on the Mount actually an ancient Essene prayer dating to 100's of years before Christ?!
• Dead..........................Question on contacting the dead (the Witch of Endor story)
• Death, afterlife..............Do evil spirits come from the ghosts of dead god-haters?
• Death, purpose of.............Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
• Death, survival...............Various questions on the use of evidence in apologetics
• Death.........................A long conversation with someone experiencing deep grief
• Death.........................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
• Death.........................Did the early Church believe in Reincarnation?
• Death.........................If sins are forgiven, how will Christians be judged?
• Death.........................Does God's judgment in time unfairly compromise someone's 'free will'?
• Deception.....................How can God not lie and still Deceive the Wicked?
• Deception.....................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
• Deception.....................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
• Decision......................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
• Decrees.......................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
• Deity, Jesus..................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
• Demographics..................How many people claim to be Christians?
• Demonic.......................I am afraid my Occult background has led me into the Unpardonable sin
• Demons........................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
• Demons........................Do evil spirits come from the ghosts of dead god-haters?
• Demons........................Casting out demons by the power of demons
• Demons........................Who were the "Sons of God" in Genesis 6?
• Demons........................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
• Demons........................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
• Denominations.................A question from a teenager, being hassled for not knowing the 'lingo'…
• Depression....................A long conversation with someone experiencing deep grief
• Depression....................Discussion on Deep depression, self-loathing, chronic therapy needs
• Depression....................How could God let Christians hurt to the point of suicide?
• Design........................The "Anthropic Principle" (refs)
• Despair.......................Discussion on Deep depression, self-loathing, chronic therapy needs
• Deut 22.......................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
• Deviance......................Discussion on Deep depression, self-loathing, chronic therapy needs
• Devil.........................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
• Devils........................Do evil spirits come from the ghosts of dead god-haters?
• Diaspora......................Sacrifice in the NT world (Jewish)
• Diaspora......................Urban expansion of the early Church
• DID...........................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
• Dietary Laws..................Why didn't Peter eat on the roof?
• Dilmun........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Dinah.........................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: rape of Dinah
• Dinosaurs.....................Why aren't dinosaurs mentioned in the bible?
• Dionysos......................Mystery Religions
• Disbelief.....................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
• Disbelief.....................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
• Disbelief.....................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
• Divination....................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
• Divine Heroes.................Divine Heros
• Divinity, Jesus...............Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
• Divorce.......................Could divorce ever be the ethical imperative?
• Docetism......................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
• Doctrine......................God's revelation to us: what we did with it
• Documentary Hypothesis........the Documentary Hypothesis
• Documentary Hypothesis........Good questions on JEDP
• Documentary Hypothesis........Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
• Documentary Hypothesis........The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
• Dogs..........................Why was Jesus so mean and insulting to the Canaanite woman?
• Domestication.................Was the Bible wrong about Abraham having camels that early?
• Doubt.........................Why doesn't God give us proof?
• Doubt.........................Doubt
• Doubt.........................Testing the Lord: yes or no?
• Doubt.........................The nature of faith
• Doubt.........................Approaching the question of faith
• Doubt.........................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
• Doubt.........................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
• Drinking......................Is Drinking alcohol a sin?
• DSS...........................The theories of Eisenman, Allegro, Thiering, and Baigent & Leigh concerning the Dead Sea Scrolls?
• DSS...........................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
• DSS...........................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
• DSS...........................Is the Sermon on the Mount actually an ancient Essene prayer dating to 100's of years before Christ?!
• Dualism.......................Is there evidence for the existence of the "soul"?
• Early Church..................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
• Easter........................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
• Eastern Religions.............How I would decide between conflicting revelations
• Ebionites.....................Are the Nazarenes and Ebionites the only TRUE "Christians"?
• Ebla..........................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
• Eblaite.......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
• Ecology.......................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
• Eden..........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Education, Jewish.............A small note on Jewish education
• Egypt.........................Sacrifice in Early Cultures, Israel's neighbors
• Egypt.........................The Return from Egypt
• Egypt.........................Contradictions in the Infancy Stories?
• Eisenman......................The theories of Eisenman, Allegro, Thiering, and Baigent & Leigh concerning the Dead Sea Scrolls?
• El............................did Jesus cry out to the pagan deity known as 'El' on the Cross?
• Election......................How did the Gentiles get in the picture if the Jews were the 'chosen ones
• election......................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
• Election......................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
• Elijah........................John the Baptist as Forerunner of the Messiah
• Elijah........................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
• Elisha........................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
• Elisha........................wasn't Elisha cruel when he sent those bears against those little kids who were teasing him about being bald?
• Embellishment.................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
• Embellishment.................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
• Empedocles....................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
• Empty tomb....................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
• Enki..........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Enlil.........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Epistemology..................Epistemology -starting point
• Epistemology..................Language about God
• Epistemology..................Perception of God
• Epistemology..................Theological Basis for Epistemology (outline)
• Epistemology..................Does incomplete knowledge mean God is unknowable?
• Epistemology..................Is the bible false, since it is not written in logic or math?
• Epistemology..................Is 'only reason' reasonable?
• Epistemology..................What about knowledge BEYOND us?
• Epistemology..................Linguistic wall--index
• Epistemology..................Precision and the Epistemic "Bubble"
• Epistemology..................Patterns and Argument
• Epistemology..................Did I just switch from a correspondence theory of truth to a coherence theory of truth?
• Epistemology..................Kinds, Postmodernism, and the Absolutes of Dissonance...
• Epistemology..................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
• Epistles......................Do none of the New Testament letters really mention "Jesus", but only "Christ"?
• Errors in Bible...............Wouldn't a heresy inside the Bible be a fatal flaw in the Christian system?
• Errors, in arguments..........Errors Believers sometimes make in apologetic arguments
• Errors, in arguments..........Errors skeptics sometimes make in anti-Christian arguments
• Errors, NT....................Was the NT wrong about roosters being allowed in Jerusalem?
• Errors........................if Christianity is true, why does it need so much defending? And why doesn't God make it clearer?
• Errors........................What about number differences in parallel passages?
• Errors........................Noah's ark -- the problem of size
• Errors........................God's revelation to us: skepticism, hiddeness
• Esau..........................Is Muslim hostility related to Ishmael being 'against everyone' prophecy
• Eschatology, Jewish...........Talmudic view of the afterlife (brief)
• Essenes.......................Is the Sermon on the Mount actually an ancient Essene prayer dating to 100's of years before Christ?!
• Eternal.......................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
• Eternity......................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
• Eternity......................Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
• Ethic slurs...................Why was Jesus so mean and insulting to the Canaanite woman?
• Ethics........................Was John anti-Semitic
• Ethics........................Could divorce ever be the ethical imperative?
• Ethics........................Can Pride be Good?
• Ethics........................Did the Law only regulate behavior toward OTHER Jews?
• ethics........................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
• Ethics........................Does God condone slavery in the Bible (NT)?
• Ethnicity.....................Urban expansion of the early Church
• Evangelism....................What about Those Who have Never Heard the Gospel?
• Evangelism....................How to help a "difficult" family member.
• Evangelism....................Urban expansion of the early Church
• Eve...........................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Eve
• Eve...........................Adam, Eve, and Incest?
• Evidence......................is God supposed to 'prove stuff' to us, or are we supposed to 'seek God'?
• Evidence......................Interacting with the "possibly revelatory" data: Encounter, Response, Results
• Evidence......................Two Pushbacks, on "would more hurt"? and "why seek a hidden God anyway?"
• Evidence......................Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
• Evidence......................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
• Evidence......................How does the memory research of Elizabeth Loftus on eyewitness testimony affect the credibility of NT?
• Evidence......................What makes you convinced that God exists?
• Evidence......................On apologetic value of typological "prophecy"
• Evidence......................Typology and prophecy
• Evidence......................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
• Evidence......................The Fulfillment of Prophecy
• Evidence......................How many people saw the risen Jesus? 150 or 500?
• Evidence......................Relationship between the Flood and Chinese Characters
• Evidence......................did the Christians just OUTLIVE those who "knew better and were silent"?
• Evidence......................Any eyewitnesses to refute the NT? (2nd reply)
• Evidence......................Was Josephus relying on the Gospel of Matthew?
• Evidence......................A question on my work on Isaiah 7.14
• Evidence......................Did the Roman empire totally distort the New Testament documents?
• Evidence......................Various questions on the use of evidence in apologetics
• Evidence......................Is Christian experience make-believe?
• Evidence......................A reminder that we have NO HARD DATA for intermediate documents
• Evidence......................God's revelation to us: means, authentication, canon, transmission
• Evidence......................KNOWN textual errors in the Bible--don't they destroy "inerrancy"?
• Evidence......................Thumb: What credentials back up the claims of Christianity? Is there any good evidence to support it?
• Evidence......................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
• Evidence......................Objections-to disprove is not to prove the opposite
• Evidence......................What makes you convinced that God exists?
• Evil, Argument from...........Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
• Evil, natural.................How can God allow 'natural' evil to occur?
• Evil, origin of...............Is God really the ONLY evil being in the universe?
• Evil, origin..................Does Isaiah 45:7 teach that God created metaphysical moral evil?
• Evil, origin..................What is "evil", and did God make evil?
• Evil, origin..................The various 'wills' of God
• Evil, problem of..............Does human culpability for non-interference in crime prove theodicy WRONG?
• Evil, Problem of..............Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
• Evil..........................OT passages on what God avenges
• Evil..........................Does evil thwart God's intent to bless His friends?
• Evil..........................How can God allow 'natural' evil to occur?
• Evil..........................God and evil, theodicy
• Evil..........................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
• Evil..........................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
• Evil..........................What is "evil", and did God make evil?
• Evil..........................Thumb: If a loving/powerful God really exists, why doesn't He do something about all of the evil in the world?
• Evil..........................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
• Evil..........................Implications from Suffering, for the Character of God
• Evil..........................Why does judgment lag so far behind?
• Evil..........................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
• Evolution.....................Would common childbirth pain support evolution?
• Ex-Christians.................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
• Ex-Muslim.....................Someone bothered about a question on the Persian Mithras
• Exclusivism...................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
• Exclusivity...................Thumb: Isn't it narrow-minded for Christians to think that they're right and everyone else is wrong?
• Exegesis, Jewish..............Jewish exegesis of OT in 1st century
• Exegesis, OT..................Jewish exegesis of OT in 1st century
• Exegesis, OT..................Jewish messianic exegesis in 1st century
• Exegesis, OT..................Jewish messianic exegesis in 1st century
• Exegesis......................Jewish exegesis of OT in 1st century
• Exodus........................Did God harden Pharaoh's heart FIRST?
• Exorcism......................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
• Exorcisms.....................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
• Exorcisms.....................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
• Exorcisms.....................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
• Experience....................Is Christian experience make-believe?
• Experience....................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
• Explanation...................Just because I cannot think of a better explanation now, doesn't mean I have to accept your Christian one
• Eyewitness....................How does the memory research of Elizabeth Loftus on eyewitness testimony affect the credibility of NT?
• Fable.........................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
• Fable......................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
• Fable.........................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
• Fable.........................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
• Fables........................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
• Fabrication...................Did the gospel writers make up the words of Jesus at will?
• Fabrication...................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
• Failure.......................Discussion on Deep depression, self-loathing, chronic therapy needs
• Faith ........................What makes you convinced that God exists?
• Faith, growth.................The nature of faith
• Faith, nature of..............Approaching the question of faith
• Faith, nature of..............Thumb:As long as each person is genuinely sincere, what difference does it make what they believe?
• Faith, problems...............The nature of faith
• Faith, problems...............Approaching the question of faith
• Faith.........................Does culture determine which religion one believes? (and is this fair of God?)
• Faith.........................Testing the Lord: yes or no?
• Faith.........................Do I have to be holy/righteous before I approach God for salvation?
• Faith.........................Understanding "Faith," and "Believing" our Understanding...
• Faith.........................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
• Faith.........................Can you be certain you have the "right" faith?
• Faith.........................My kid's pet just died...what should I tell my kid?
• Faith.........................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
• Faith.........................What is "repentance"?
• Faith.........................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
• Faith.........................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
• Family........................Could divorce ever be the ethical imperative?
• Family........................A long conversation with someone experiencing deep grief
• Family........................Family value: Jesus' words
• Family........................Family value: Lot and incest
• Family........................A Letter about Pain in Heaven over lost Loved Ones
• Family........................How to help a "difficult" family member.
• Fantasy.......................Letter to Readers (misc topics)
• Far East......................International interaction in NT times
• fatalism......................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
• Father........................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
• Fathers.......................Are the Nazarenes and Ebionites the only TRUE "Christians"?
• Fathers.......................Justin Martyr's use of extra-biblical tradition?
• Fear..........................What kind of a choice is THAT--Love Me or Burn?!
• Feminism......................Did God command wives to OBEY their husbands?
• fiction.......................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
• fiction....................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
• fiction.......................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
• Fiction.......................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
• Fideism.......................Fideism and starting-points
• Firstborn.....................What does 'firstborn' mean when used of Jesus?
• Flight2Egypt..................Contradictions in the Infancy Stories?
• Flood.........................Noah's ark -- the problem of size
• Flood.........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Flood.........................“Is there extra-biblical evidence for Post-flood longevity?
• Flood.........................Relationship between the Flood and Chinese Characters
• Flood.........................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
• Flood.........................Who were the "Sons of God" in Genesis 6?
• Flood.........................How likely is it that Noah was the only righteous person on the whole earth, at the time of the Flood?
• Flood.........................Are there any extra-biblical refs to longevity BEFORE the flood?
• Folklore......................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
• Foreknowledge.................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
• Foreknowledge.................The Fulfillment of Prophecy
• Foreknowledge.................On foreknowledge
• Forgiveness...................Second chances with God…
• Forgiveness...................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
• Forgiveness...................If sins are forgiven, how will Christians be judged?
• Forgiveness...................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
• Forgiveness...................Fear over "Willful Sins"
• Four-fold gospel..............The events leading up to Irenaeus' statement about the Fourfold gospel
• Fractals......................Does complexity REALLY require 'more complexity'?
• Fraud.........................Was Jesus really fraudulent, dishonest, sacrilegious, and conspiratorial?
• Fraud.........................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
• Fraud.........................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
• Fraud.........................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
• Fraud.........................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
• Fraud.........................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
• Fraud.........................Did Christians simply INVENT the "pierced my hands and feet" in Psalm 22?!
• Fraud.........................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
• Fraud.........................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
• Fraud.........................Did John invent the story of the raising of Lazarus?!
• Fraud.........................Should the possible addition of John 8.1-11 make us paranoid about other possible inauthentic 'additions'
• Fraud......................... It was NOT OK to take poetic license and create/invent falsehoods as historical truth (in the Ancient world!)
• Fraud.........................Even the problem with speech-reporting was subject to norms of accuracy
• Fraud.........................It was not okay to do it in biography, either.
• Fraud.........................Could Jesus really not have had any 'Son of man' sayings, because they were allegedly only later?
• Fraud.........................Did the early church really create 'new' sayings of Jesus and 'write these into' the stories of His pre-Easter life?
• Fraud.........................Were the gospels pseudonymous?
• Fraud.........................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
• Free will.....................Is history all "of one piece"? And Is everyone given a fair chance at heaven?
• Free will.....................What kind of a choice is THAT--Love Me or Burn?!
• Free Will.....................Did God harden Pharaoh's heart FIRST?
• free will.....................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
• free will.....................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
• Free Will.....................How could God let Christians hurt to the point of suicide?
• Freedom.......................Interacting with the "possibly revelatory" data: Encounter, Response, Results
• Freedom.......................Two Pushbacks, on "would more hurt"? and "why seek a hidden God anyway?"
• Freedom.......................Does human culpability for non-interference in crime prove theodicy WRONG?
• Freedom.......................Freedom
• Freedom.......................Redemption/Ransom (NT)--pdf only
• Freedom.......................Redemption/Ransom (OT)
• Freedom.......................What kind of a choice is THAT--Love Me or Burn?!
• Freedom.......................Mind/brain
• Freedom.......................On the Loci of Freedom...
• Freedom.......................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
• Fulfillment...................The Fulfillment of Prophecy
• funeral.......................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
• Future, determined............Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
• Future, open..................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
• Galilee, languages............Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
• Galilee.......................How would Matthew have borrowed from pagan religions?
• Gamaliel......................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
• Gandhi........................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
• Genealogy.....................Problems in the Genealogies of Jesus
• Genesis 3.....................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
• Genesis 3.....................Is pain in childbirth the Curse on Eve in Genesis 3?
• Genesis.......................The Atrahasis theme
• Genesis.......................Noah's ark -- the problem of size
• Genesis.......................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Genesis.......................Who were the "Sons of God" in Genesis 6?
• Genesis.......................Adam, Eve, and Incest?
• Genesis.......................Would common childbirth pain support evolution?
• Genesis.......................Are there any extra-biblical refs to longevity BEFORE the flood?
• Genesis.......................Doesn't the bible teach that God cursed women by making them subject/subordinate to men?"
• Genocide......................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
• Genocide......................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
• Genocide......................shouldn't the butchering of the Amalekite children be considered war crimes?
• Genre.........................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
• Genre.........................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
• Genre.........................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
• Gentiles......................How did the Gentiles get in the picture if the Jews were the 'chosen ones
• Gentiles......................Why didn't Peter eat on the roof?
• Gentleness of God.............Letter to Readers (misc topics)
• Ghosts........................Do evil spirits come from the ghosts of dead god-haters?
• Ghosts........................Question on contacting the dead (the Witch of Endor story)
• Gilgamesh.....................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Gnosticism....................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
• Gnosticism....................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
• goals.........................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
• God and women.................Did God callously give David's wives to Absalom to rape?
• God and women.................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
• God and women.................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
• God, and creatures............Was God so needy that He HAD to create the unverse?
• God, and eternity.............Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
• God, and history..............God's design objectives
• God, and history..............God's self-limitations
• God, and language.............How can finite language apply to an Infinite God?
• God, and language.............Exploring Analogy
• God, and language.............Can God make a rock so big He cannot lift it?
• God, and sin..................If God cannot look upon sin, how can the Holy Spirit be present inside the believer?
• God, and suffering............Implications from Suffering, for the Character of God
• God, and the brain............Isnt there a “God part of the Brain” that proves all this Jesus stuff is untrue?
• God, and time.................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
• God, and women................Women in the heart of God (outline)
• God, and women................Women: Pushbacks, Objections, Stereotypes
• God, and women................A HUGE double standard in biblical sexual ethics?
• God, and women................Weren't women always kept separate from the men--They weren't even allowed in the Temples or synagogues.
• God, and women................Paul OBVIOUSLY had a "sit down and shut up" attitude toward women--and we are supposed to trust HIM?!"
• God, and women................Wasn't Miriam punished for questioning male authority, while Aaron was not?"
• God, and women................The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
• God, and women................Weren't women considered property in the OT, like cows or something?
• God, and women................Doesn't the bible teach that God cursed women by making them subject/subordinate to men?"
• God, and women................The VAST MAJORITY of Israelite/Church leadership is by MEN--see, God de-values women again"
• God, and women................God's choice to be incarnated as a man IMPLICITLY de-values women
• God, and women................The bible teaches that women had NO access to God--except through the male..."
• God, and women................None of the disciples or apostles were women--a bit unfair, aint it?!"
• God, and women................Why do men get all the glory in the bible? Why are women only minor characters?!"
• God, and women................God is ALWAYS portrayed as a male--women had no way of identifying with Him"
• God, and women................Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
• God, and women................Women were non-persons back then--they had NO legal rights in the system at all!"
• God, and women................The patriarchy system (God condoned) subjected women by restricting their access to social/cultural power."
• God, and women................But, women were excluded from being priests..."
• God, and women................All the books of the bible were written by men--see, God de-values women again"
• God, and women................Women are always pictured as being servile or passive or evil or stupid..."
• God, and women................Weren't OT women WORSE off than even their Babylonian counterparts?"
• God, approaching..............Do I have to be holy/righteous before I approach God for salvation?
• God, arguments for............The "Anthropic Principle" (refs)
• God, character................How can God not lie and still Deceive the Wicked?
• God, character................Isn't God cruel, schizoid, or or psychotic?
• God, character................Death of the man who touched the Ark
• God, character................David's census
• God, character................Hardening of Pharaoh
• God, character................Constructing a view of God's heart
• God, character................David's Tragic Census-who 'Moved' him to do it?
• God, character................Hardening of Pharaoh
• God, character................Personal letter
• God, character................A problem with relating to God the Father
• God, character................How can God allow 'natural' evil to occur?
• God, character................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
• God, character................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
• God, character................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
• God, character................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
• God, character................Why did God order Abraham to do child sacrifice?
• God, character................Does God condone slavery in the Bible?
• God, character................My kid's pet just died...what should I tell my kid?
• God, character................The various 'wills' of God
• God, character................Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
• God, character................Why would God protect one piece of literature?
• God, character................Thumb: If a loving/powerful God really exists, why doesn't He do something about all of the evil in the world?
• God, character................Thumb: What about innocent people who suffer, like little children? Why doesn't God help them?
• God, character................Implications from Suffering, for the Character of God
• God, character................Why does judgment lag so far behind?
• God, character................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
• God, communication............Why would God protect one piece of literature?
• God, communication............God's revelation to us: context and processing
• God, communication............God's revelation to us: means, authentication, canon, transmission
• God, communication............The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
• God, complete.................Was God so needy that He HAD to create the unverse?
• God, created..................On humanity 'inventing' God
• God, cruel....................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
• God, cruelty..................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
• God, deception................How can God not lie and still Deceive the Wicked?
• God, duplicity................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
• God, dwelling ................God will dwell on earth
• God, ethics...................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
• God, everywhere...............If God is infinite, how can there still be room for us?
• God, evidence of..............is God supposed to 'prove stuff' to us, or are we supposed to 'seek God'?
• God, evidence.................Does complexity REALLY require 'more complexity'?
• God, evil.....................Did God force the people of Jerusalem into cannibalism?
• God, evil.....................Isn't God cruel, schizoid, or or psychotic?
• God, evil.....................Death of the man who touched the Ark
• God, evil.....................David's census
• God, evil.....................David's Tragic Census-who 'Moved' him to do it?
• God, evil.....................Hardening of Pharaoh
• God, evil.....................Does Isaiah 45:7 teach that God created metaphysical moral evil?
• God, evil.....................What kind of a choice is THAT--Love Me or Burn?!
• God, evil.....................How can God allow 'natural' evil to occur?
• God, evil.....................God and evil, theodicy
• God, evil.....................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
• God, evil.....................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
• God, evil.....................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
• God, evil.....................Adam, Eve, and Incest?
• God, evil.....................Well, did God LIKE what Jehu did or NOT--"another" contradiction?
• God, evil.....................Why did God order Abraham to do child sacrifice?
• God, evil.....................What is "evil", and did God make evil?
• God, evil.....................Does God condone slavery in the Bible?
• God, evil.....................The various 'wills' of God
• God, evil.....................Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
• God, evil.....................Implications from Suffering, for the Character of God
• God, exemplar.................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
• God, existence of.............What makes you convinced that God exists?
• God, existence of.............Thumb: How do you know God exists?
• God, existence of.............What makes you convinced that God exists?
• God, existence................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
• God, fairness.................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
• God, fairness.................Isn’t infinite/eternal punishment for a finite/temporal sin a bit disproportionate???
• God, gentleness...............Letter to Readers (misc topics)
• God, good.....................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
• God, goodness.................Two Pushbacks, on "would more hurt"? and "why seek a hidden God anyway?"
• God, goodness.................Was God so needy that He HAD to create the unverse?
• God, governance...............Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
• God, hardening................Hardening of Pharaoh
• God, heart of.................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
• God, hidden...................Why isnt the God of the Bible showing Himself to me?
• God, hidden...................Is God ever intentionally silent toward His loved ones?
• God, hiddenness...............Personal letter
• God, images...................God is ALWAYS portrayed as a male--women had no way of identifying with Him"
• God, infinite.................If God is infinite, how can there still be room for us?
• God, invented.................On humanity 'inventing' God
• God, invented.................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
• God, just.....................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
• God, justice..................Isn’t infinite/eternal punishment for a finite/temporal sin a bit disproportionate???
• God, knowable.................Does incomplete knowledge mean God is unknowable?
• God, knowledge of.............What about knowledge BEYOND us?
• God, Language about...........Language about God
• God, Language about...........Perception of God
• God, love.....................What kind of a choice is THAT--Love Me or Burn?!
• God, models of................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
• God, moral....................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
• God, moral....................Is Christian experience make-believe?
• God, morality.................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
• God, omnipresent..............If God is infinite, how can there still be room for us?
• God, peace-maker..............God the Peace-Maker (PDF outline)
• God, perception of............Language about God
• God, perception of............Perception of God
• God, perception of............A problem with relating to God the Father
• God, personal.................How could Jesus be fully divine and live on earth?
• God, plan.....................Doesn't Paul's argument in Romans 9 pretty clearly indicate that people's free choices are determined by God?
• God, plurality................Jewish problem of plurality in God
• God, plurality................Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
• God, plurality................The NT Witness:The Ancient Church Formulas in the NT
• God, plurality................NT Passages mutually involving the Father, Son, and Spirit (Raw Data)
• God, plurality................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Synoptics)
• God, plurality................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Gospel of John)
• God, plurality................The deity of Jesus:NT Responses to Jesus
• God, plurality................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus
• God, plurality................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus (con't)
• God, plurality................The deity of Jesus:Other data relative to the deity of Jesus
• God, plurality................The deity of Jesus:Summary: The deity of Jesus Christ
• God, plurality................The deity of Jesus:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to Jesus
• God, plurality................The NT Witness:The Personality of The Holy Spirit
• God, plurality................The NT Witness:The Deity of The Holy Spirit
• God, plurality................The NT Witness:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to The Holy Spirit
• God, plurality................Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
• God, power....................Can God make a rock so big He cannot lift it?
• God, proof....................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
• God, protection...............Letter to Readers (misc topics)
• God, providence...............Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature?
• God, providence...............What good is God? On...the limits of "trials"
• God, providence...............Why would God protect one piece of literature?
• God, rest-giver...............God the Rest-Giver (PDF outline)
• God, silent...................Why isnt the God of the Bible showing Himself to me?
• God, silent...................Is God ever intentionally silent toward His loved ones?
• God, Son of...................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
• God, suffering................How could God let Christians hurt to the point of suicide?
• God, trinity .................Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
• God, trinity .................The NT Witness:The Ancient Church Formulas in the NT
• God, trinity .................NT Passages mutually involving the Father, Son, and Spirit (Raw Data)
• God, trinity .................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Synoptics)
• God, trinity .................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Gospel of John)
• God, trinity .................The deity of Jesus:NT Responses to Jesus
• God, trinity .................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus
• God, trinity .................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus (con't)
• God, trinity .................The deity of Jesus:Other data relative to the deity of Jesus
• God, trinity .................The deity of Jesus:Summary: The deity of Jesus Christ
• God, trinity .................The deity of Jesus:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to Jesus
• God, trinity .................The NT Witness:The Personality of The Holy Spirit
• God, trinity .................The NT Witness:The Deity of The Holy Spirit
• God, trinity .................The NT Witness:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to The Holy Spirit
• God, trinity .................Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
• God, truthfulness.............How can God not lie and still Deceive the Wicked?
• God, unity of.................The Trinity: Intro and Method
• God, unity of.................Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
• God, unity of.................The NT Witness:The Ancient Church Formulas in the NT
• God, unity of.................NT Passages mutually involving the Father, Son, and Spirit (Raw Data)
• God, unity of.................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Synoptics)
• God, unity of.................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Gospel of John)
• God, unity of.................The deity of Jesus:NT Responses to Jesus
• God, unity of.................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus
• God, unity of.................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus (con't)
• God, unity of.................The deity of Jesus:Other data relative to the deity of Jesus
• God, unity of.................The deity of Jesus:Summary: The deity of Jesus Christ
• God, unity of.................The deity of Jesus:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to Jesus
• God, unity of.................The NT Witness:The Personality of The Holy Spirit
• God, unity of.................The NT Witness:The Deity of The Holy Spirit
• God, unity of.................The NT Witness:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to The Holy Spirit
• God, unity of.................Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
• God, will.....................The various 'wills' of God
• God, will.....................The various 'wills' of God
• God...........................Was God so needy that He HAD to create the unverse?
• God...........................On foreknowledge
• God's character...............Is God really the ONLY evil being in the universe?
• Gods, dying and rising........Dying and Rising Gods
• Gods, Olympian................International interaction in NT times
• Gods..........................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
• Gods..........................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
• Gods..........................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
• Gollwitzer....................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
• Gospel of Thomas..............Was the early oral tradition ONLY made up of 'sayings' of Jesus?
• Gospel, authors...............Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
• Gospel........................What about Those Who have Never Heard the Gospel?
• Gospel........................Letter to Readers (misc topics)
• Gospel........................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
• Gospel........................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
• Gospel........................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
• Gospel........................Are the Nazarenes and Ebionites the only TRUE "Christians"?
• Gospel........................Local church interpretive autonomy versus a controlled and pre-interpreted transmission
• Gospel........................On the underlying unity of the early kerygma
• Gospels ......................ALL four Gospels are written in the Graeco-Roman genre of Bioi
• Gospels, error................Did the gospels make an error in their citation of the Judas-30pieces episode?
• Gospels, error................Does Mary's Question Contradict other passages in the NT?
• Gospels, formation............What is an alternative understanding of the process of gospel formation?
• Gospels, genre................ALL four Gospels are written in the Graeco-Roman genre of Bioi
• Gospels.......................Was John anti-Semitic
• Gospels.......................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
• Gospels.......................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
• Gospels.......................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
• Gospels.......................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
• Gospels.......................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
• Gospels.......................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
• Gospels.......................Are the Christologies of Mark and John radically different?
• Gospels.......................Apostles as gospel authors?
• Gospels.......................The events leading up to Irenaeus' statement about the Fourfold gospel
• Gospels.......................Again: the process wasn't solely oral...
• Gospels.......................Local church interpretive autonomy versus a controlled and pre-interpreted transmission
• Gospels.......................the identity/background/dating of the Gospel of Mark
• Gospel