Master Index of Subjects and Questions
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- 1 Clement.................................Evidence for early writing of NT from mainstream sources (Church Fathers/Apologists)
- 2 Clement.................................Evidence for early writing of NT from mainstream sources (Church Fathers/Apologists)
- 30 pieces of silver.......................Did the gospels make an error in their citation of the Judas-30pieces episode?
- 30 pieces of silver.......................Source data for messianic titles
- 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..................................How is the believer's sonship to God different from Christ's Sonship to God?
- Adoption..................................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
- Aesthetics................................Female Beauty in Bible
- Afterlife.................................How was Jesus the Firstfruits from the dead, if there were other resurrections before His?
- 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?
- Agrippa...................................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- 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
- Allah, attributes.........................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
- Allah, unity..............................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
- 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....................................Was Israel really open to Amalekite immigration?
- 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?
- Ambush....................................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
- Amelekite.................................Was Israel really open to Amalekite immigration?
- 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?
- Aniconic..................................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- Animal, death.............................My kid's pet just died...what should I tell my kid?
- Animals...................................Why aren't dinosaurs mentioned in the bible?
- Animals...................................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- 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..............................What are People like? (a portrait)
- Anthropology..............................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than man
- Anthropology..............................Freedom
- 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
- Antiquities...............................Do we only have ONE copy of the controversial passage about Jesus in Josephus?
- Anti-Semitism.............................Was John anti-Semitic
- Anti-Semitism.............................Was First Thess 2.15ff seriously Anti-Semitic??!!
- Anti-Semitism.............................Anti-semitism
- Anup......................................Horus, Jesus, and Anup the Baptiser?
- Apamea....................................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Apoc of Peter, Gnostic version............Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- Apoc of Peter, non-Gnostic version........Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- Apocalyptic, Jewish.......................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
- Apocalyptic, POE..........................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
- Apocalyptic, precision....................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
- Apocalyptic, purpose......................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
- Apocalyptic, theodicy.....................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
- Apocalyptic, world-week...................Does a belief in a ‘world-week’ of 6,000 years imply a denial of apocalyptic imminence?
- Apocalyptic...............................Could Jesus really not have had any 'apocalyptic expectations' because they were allegedly only later?
- Apocalytic................................Was Jesus a failed apocalyptic prophet that the embarrassed church had to re-work into something different
- 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, view of cross...................How did Jesus' Companions the Apostles understand what happened at the Cross?
- 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..................................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
- 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
- Apuleius..................................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- 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'
- Aristides of Athens.......................Evidence for early writing of NT from mainstream sources (Church Fathers/Apologists)
- 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
- Art.......................................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- ASC.......................................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
- Ascension of Isaiah.......................Was the Ascension of Isaiah a Middle-Platonist document?
- Ascension of Isaiah.......................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- 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?
- Asherah...................................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, extent.........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Atonement, limited........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Atonement, scope..........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- 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?
- Attribution...............................Non-attribution and Evidence for early writing of NT Jesus material
- 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
- Baal......................................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
- 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?
- Ban.......................................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Baptism...................................Horus, Jesus, and Anup the Baptiser?
- Bargh.....................................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
- Barnabas, Epistle of......................Evidence for early writing of NT from mainstream sources (Church Fathers/Apologists)
- Basilides.................................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- 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, not discipleship..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
- 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?
- Betrayal, messiah.........................Source data for messianic titles
- 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, contradiction......................Is the dating of Zedekiah a contradiction with the birth-order in 1 Chronicles?
- Bible, corrupt............................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
- 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, error..............................Is the dating of Zedekiah a contradiction with the birth-order in 1 Chronicles?
- 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, errors.............................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Bible, errors.............................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
- Bible, evil...............................Bible abortifacients?
- Bible, falsification......................Lack of corroborating evidence
- Bible, impure.............................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
- Bible, objections.........................God's revelation to us: skepticism, hiddeness
- Bible, purpose............................Was the bible created by authorities to 'control' the common folk?
- Bible, Satanic............................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
- Bible, skepticism.........................God's revelation to us: skepticism, hiddeness
- Bible, tampered ..........................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
- 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?
- Birth-Order...............................Is the dating of Zedekiah a contradiction with the birth-order in 1 Chronicles?
- 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
- Buddhism..................................Incompatible background theories of the original of the gospels/Jesus figure (in a Letter)
- Burial....................................is the tomb story flawed because the term 'rolled' is used?
- Burnt-Offering............................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
- 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)?
- Canaanite.................................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
- 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?
- Cappadocia................................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Carnivorous...............................Why are we carnivores, eating life?
- Carpocrates...............................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- Category Mistake..........................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
- Cause.....................................Does complexity REALLY require 'more complexity'?
- Celibacy..................................Is there proof that Jesus did not have sex with Mary Magdalene?
- 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?
- Celsus....................................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Celsus....................................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- Censorship................................Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature?
- Censorship................................Why would God protect one piece of literature?
- Census, Luke..............................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Census....................................David's census
- Census....................................David's Tragic Census-who 'Moved' him to do it?
- Census....................................An objection about Luke, Quirinius, and Herods
- Census....................................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Cerinthus.................................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- 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?
- Cherubim..................................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- 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 of God...........................How is the believer's sonship to God different from Christ's Sonship to God?
- 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, yet rejected......................Source data for messianic titles
- Chosen....................................How did the Gentiles get in the picture if the Jews were the 'chosen ones
- Christ Myth...............................Non-attribution and Evidence for early writing of NT Jesus material
- Christ, 2nd David.........................Source data for messianic titles
- Christ, 2nd Melchizedek...................Source data for messianic titles
- Christ, 2nd Moses.........................Source data for messianic titles
- Christ, deity.............................Does John 12.41 speak of Jesus or of God?
- Christ, humanity..........................Personal letter
- Christ, temptation........................Personal letter
- Christ, titles............................Source data for messianic titles
- Christ, unique............................How is the believer's sonship to God different from Christ's Sonship to God?
- 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?
- Christianity, and Judaism.................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- Christmas.................................are Christmas trees tainted by paganism…
- Christ-Myth...............................Was the Ascension of Isaiah a Middle-Platonist document?
- Christ-Myth...............................Do we only have ONE copy of the controversial passage about Jesus in Josephus?
- Christology...............................Incarnation
- Christology...............................Are the Christologies of Mark and John radically different?
- Chronicler, error.........................Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
- Church communication......................Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
- Church Fathers............................Non-attribution and Evidence for early writing of NT Jesus material
- Church Fathers............................Evidence for early writing of NT from mainstream sources (Church Fathers/Apologists)
- 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?
- Ciete.....................................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Cilicia...................................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Circumcision..............................Circumcision and False Teaching in the Bible?
- Cities, Augustus..........................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Cities, client............................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Cities, foreign...........................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Cities, free..............................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Cities, Greek.............................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Cities, roman policy......................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Cities, tax...............................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- City, defenses............................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- City, walls...............................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Civitas...................................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- 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...................................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Clement...................................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
- Client Kingdoms...........................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- 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?
- Coinage, syria............................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Colonization, not Israel..................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Colt......................................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
- Comfort...................................How could God let Christians hurt to the point of suicide?
- Commandment, Second.......................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- 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?
- Companions................................How did Jesus' Companions the Apostles understand what happened at the Cross?
- 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?
- Confession of Christ......................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
- Confidence................................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
- Confidence................................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
- Confirmation..............................Why didn't God confirm the resurrection in a better way?
- Confusions over Messiah...................Source data for messianic titles
- 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................................Non-attribution and Evidence for early writing of NT Jesus material
- 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?
- Contagious................................Was biblical leprosy the same as modern leprosy?
- 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............................Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
- 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, Muslim........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
- Conversion................................What is "repentance"?
- Conversion................................Urban expansion of the early Church
- Copycat...................................Horus, Jesus, and Anup the Baptiser?
- 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, effects............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- 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, meaning............................How did Jesus' Companions the Apostles understand what happened at the Cross?
- Cross, purpose............................What was the use of Christ's death?
- Cross, purpose............................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
- Cross, response to........................How Should we respond to the Message of Jesus and His apostles about His death on the Cross?
- Cross, results............................How did Jesus' Companions the Apostles understand what happened at the Cross?
- Cross, results............................How Should we respond to the Message of Jesus and His apostles about His death on the Cross?
- Cross, theology of........................Christ's death on the Cross--serious, real, painful
- Cross.....................................The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
- 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.....................................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
- Cross.....................................Are Muslims forbidden to believe that Jesus was crucified?
- Cross.....................................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
- Cross.....................................What was the use of Christ's death?
- Cross.....................................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
- Cross.....................................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
- Crowing...................................Was the NT wrong about roosters being allowed in Jerusalem?
- Crucifixion...............................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
- Crucifixion...............................Are Muslims forbidden to believe that Jesus was crucified?
- Crucifixion...............................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
- 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...................................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)?
- Cup.......................................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
- 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?
- Daimon....................................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- 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?
- Date of Christ Return.....................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
- Date of Eschaton..........................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
- Date of Parousia..........................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
- David, numbers............................Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
- David, second.............................Source data for messianic titles
- 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 of Jesus, Islam.....................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
- Death of Jesus, Islam.....................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
- Death of Jesus, Islam.....................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- Death of Jesus, Islam.....................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- 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'?
- Decapolis.................................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
- Deceipt...................................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
- Deception.................................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
- 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?
- Delay.....................................Was Jesus a failed apocalyptic prophet that the embarrassed church had to re-work into something different
- Demographics..............................How many people claim to be Christians?
- Demon.....................................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Demoniac, Gadara..........................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
- 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?
- Dexandros.................................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- 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?
- Didache...................................Evidence for early writing of NT from mainstream sources (Church Fathers/Apologists)
- 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?
- Disciple, commitment......................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
- Disciple..................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
- Disciples, view of cross..................How did Jesus' Companions the Apostles understand what happened at the Cross?
- Discipleship..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
- 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?
- Docetism..................................Is Jesus' flesh only LIKE a human's (and not ACTUALLY human itself)?
- 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?
- Doherty...................................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Domestication.............................Was the Bible wrong about Abraham having camels that early?
- Donkey....................................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
- Doublet...................................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
- 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"?
- Dying for Christ..........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
- 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?
- Egypt.....................................Was God cruel when He killed all the firstborn of Egypt?
- 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?
- El........................................Was Yahweh a member of the Phoenician pantheon?
- 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....................................How was Jesus the Firstfruits from the dead, if there were other resurrections before His?
- Elijah....................................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
- Elisha, warfare...........................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- 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?
- End Times, date setting...................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
- End Times, prediction.....................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
- 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, geography.........................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
- Errors, in arguments......................Errors Believers sometimes make in apologetic arguments
- Errors, in arguments......................Errors skeptics sometimes make in anti-Christian arguments
- Errors, Mark..............................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
- 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....................................Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
- 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
- Eschatological roles......................Source data for messianic titles
- Eschatological............................Was Jesus a failed apocalyptic prophet that the embarrassed church had to re-work into something different
- Eschatology, Jewish.......................Talmudic view of the afterlife (brief)
- Eschatology...............................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
- Eschaton, date setting....................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
- Eschaton, expectation.....................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
- Eschaton, imminence.......................Does a belief in a ‘world-week’ of 6,000 years imply a denial of apocalyptic imminence?
- Eschaton, prediction......................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
- Eschaton, time of.........................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
- Eschaton..................................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
- Eschaton..................................Was Jesus a failed apocalyptic prophet that the embarrassed church had to re-work into something different
- 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)?
- Ethics, comparative.......................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
- Ethics, God...............................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
- 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)?
- Ethnic slurs..............................Why was Jesus so mean and insulting to the Canaanite woman?
- Ethnic....................................Was Israel really open to Amalekite immigration?
- 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..................................Why didn't God confirm the resurrection in a better way?
- 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?
- Exaggeration..............................Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
- Ex-Christians.............................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
- Exclusion.................................Was biblical leprosy the same as modern leprosy?
- 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
- Ex-Muslim.................................Someone bothered about a question on the Persian Mithras
- 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
- Extra-biblical............................Non-attribution and Evidence for early writing of NT Jesus material
- Eyewitness................................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
- 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 Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
- 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, not discipleship...................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
- 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.....................................How Should we respond to the Message of Jesus and His apostles about His death on the Cross?
- 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, hostility.........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
- 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, not YHWH..........................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
- 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.................................Was God cruel when He killed all the firstborn of Egypt?
- Firstborn.................................What does 'firstborn' mean when used of Jesus?
- Firstfruits...............................How was Jesus the Firstfruits from the dead, if there were other resurrections before His?
- Flesh.....................................Is Jesus' flesh only LIKE a human's (and not ACTUALLY human itself)?
- 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?
- Foal......................................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
- Folklore..................................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
- Food of God...............................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
- Foreigner.................................Was Israel really open to Amalekite immigration?
- 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, all..........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Forgiveness, sins.........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- 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
- Fruit Trees...............................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- 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??
- Gadara....................................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
- 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?
- Galilee...................................Did the Jewish War eliminate all the possible counter-witnesses to the life of Jesus in the NT?
- 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..................................Was Israel really open to Amalekite immigration?
- 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)
- Geography.................................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
- Gerasa....................................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
- Gergesa...................................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
- Ghost.....................................Is Jesus' flesh only LIKE a human's (and not ACTUALLY human itself)?
- 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 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............................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 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, basis of morality....................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
- God, best.................................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
- God, character............................How can God not lie and still Deceive the Wicked?
- God, character............................Isn't God cruel, schizoid, 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............................The Unexpected God--Beyond our stereotypes of deity (PDF syllabus)
- 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, children of..........................How is the believer's sonship to God different from Christ's Sonship to God?
- God, cold-hearted.........................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
- 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, compassion...........................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
- 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, death................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
- God, death................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
- God, death................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- God, death................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- God, deception............................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
- God, deception............................How can God not lie and still Deceive the Wicked?
- God, deceptive............................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
- God, drinks...............................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
- God, duplicity............................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
- God, dwelling ............................God will dwell on earth
- God, eats.................................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
- God, ethics...............................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
- 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.............................Why didn't God confirm the resurrection in a better way?
- 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 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, food.................................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
- God, gentleness...........................Letter to Readers (misc topics)
- God, good.................................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
- 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, goodness.............................The Unexpected God--Beyond our stereotypes of deity (PDF syllabus)
- God, governance...........................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
- God, grace................................The Unexpected God--Beyond our stereotypes of deity (PDF syllabus)
- God, hardening............................Hardening of Pharaoh
- God, harsh................................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
- God, heart of.............................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
- God, heart of.............................The Unexpected God--Beyond our stereotypes of deity (PDF syllabus)
- 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, hungry...............................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
- 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, judgment.............................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
- 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, killed...............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
- God, killed...............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
- God, killed...............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- God, killed...............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- 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, lenient..............................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
- God, love.................................What kind of a choice is THAT--Love Me or Burn?!
- God, misconceptions.......................The Unexpected God--Beyond our stereotypes of deity (PDF syllabus)
- 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.............................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
- 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, pagan................................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
- 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...............................How is the believer's sonship to God different from Christ's Sonship to God?
- God, Son of...............................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
- God, stereotypes..........................The Unexpected God--Beyond our stereotypes of deity (PDF syllabus)
- God, strict...............................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
- God, suffering............................How could God let Christians hurt to the point of suicide?
- God, surprising...........................The Unexpected God--Beyond our stereotypes of deity (PDF syllabus)
- God, thirsty..............................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
- 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, trinity..............................Are there 3 gods in the Trinity?
- God, trinity..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
- God, trinity..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
- God, trinity..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- God, trinity..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- God, trinity..............................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
- 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, unity................................Are there 3 gods in the Trinity?
- God, unity................................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
- God, untruthful...........................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
- 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 Peter...........................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- Gospel of Philip..........................Is there proof that Jesus did not have sex with Mary Magdalene?
- Gospel of the Ebionites...................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- Gospel of the Hebrews.....................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- Gospel of the Nazoreans...................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- 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, confirmation......................Why didn't God confirm the resurrection in a better way?
- Gospel, errors............................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
- Gospel, history...........................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
- Gospel, Homer.............................Incompatible background theories of the original of the gospels/Jesus figure (in a Letter)
- Gospel, origins...........................Incompatible background theories of the original of the gospels/Jesus figure (in a Letter)
- 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, dating...........................Non-attribution and Evidence for early writing of NT Jesus material
- Gospels, dating...........................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- Gospels, dating...........................Evidence for early writing of NT from mainstream sources (Church Fathers/Apologists)
- 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, errors...........................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
- 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, historical.......................Non-attribution and Evidence for early writing of NT Jesus material
- Gospels, midrash..........................Incompatible background theories of the original of the gospels/Jesus figure (in a Letter)
- Gospels, truth............................Non-attribution and Evidence for early writing of NT Jesus material
- Gospels, use of...........................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- Gospels, use of...........................Evidence for early writing of NT from mainstream sources (Church Fathers/Apologists)
- Gospels, witnesses........................Non-attribution and Evidence for early writing of NT Jesus material
- 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
- Gospels...................................The slow, oral, hodge-podge accumulation of bits and pieces of the NT into a whole?
- Gospels...................................Could Jesus really not have had any 'apocalyptic expectations' because they were allegedly only later?
- Gospels...................................Could Jesus really not have had any 'Son of man' sayings, because they were allegedly only later?
- Gospels...................................Would acceptance of James' understanding of the Two-Source Hypothesis be inimical to 'the faith'?
- Gospels...................................Were the gospels pseudonymous?
- Governance................................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
- Government................................Why would government have any authority in personal areas like marriage?
- Government................................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
- Grace.....................................Second chances with God…
- Grace.....................................Do I have to be holy/righteous before I approach God for salvation?
- Grace.....................................Did NT believers mix law and grace?
- Grace.....................................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
- Grave.....................................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
- Graven Image..............................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- Graveyard.................................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
- Greece....................................Did Jesus come during the wrong empire, according to Daniel and the beast vision?
- Greek.....................................Sacrifice in the NT world (non-Jewish)
- Greek.....................................How did the peasant apostle John write the book of Revelation in Greek?
- Grief.....................................A long conversation with someone experiencing deep grief
- Grief.....................................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
- Grief.....................................A Letter about Pain in Heaven over lost Loved Ones
- Growth, Christian.........................Christian growth--an outline
- Growth....................................A letter to someone fatigued at sin…
- Guilt.....................................Discussion on Deep depression, self-loathing, chronic therapy needs
- Gullibility...............................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
- Hadith....................................Are there 3 gods in the Trinity?
- Hadith....................................is theBible "as violent" as the Quran/Hadith?
- Hadith....................................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
- Haggadah..................................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
- Haggadah.................................. Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
- Hallucination.............................Could the resurrection appearances be a case of GROUP Hallucination?
- Hanina.................................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
- Haran.....................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
- Harden....................................Did God harden Pharaoh's heart FIRST?
- Hardening.................................Hardening of Pharaoh
- Hardening.................................Hardening of Pharaoh
- Hardness..................................Interacting with the "possibly revelatory" data: Encounter, Response, Results
- Harvest...................................How was Jesus the Firstfruits from the dead, if there were other resurrections before His?
- Hasidim...................................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
- Hate......................................Jesus the hate-monger
- Healing...................................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
- Healings..................................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
- Healings..................................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
- Healings..................................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
- Heart.....................................Did God harden Pharaoh's heart FIRST?
- Heaven....................................Letter to Readers (misc topics)
- Heaven....................................A Letter about Pain in Heaven over lost Loved Ones
- Heaven....................................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
- Hebrew punctuation........................A "punctuation" error in Daniel 9?
- Hebrews...................................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
- Hell, Jewish views........................Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
- Hell......................................Is God really the ONLY evil being in the universe?
- Hell......................................Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
- Hell......................................Talmudic view of the afterlife (brief)
- Hell......................................How long was Jesus in hell?
- Hell......................................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
- Hell......................................Isn’t infinite/eternal punishment for a finite/temporal sin a bit disproportionate???
- Hell......................................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
- Herem.....................................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Heresy....................................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
- Hermeneutics..............................Epistemology -starting point
- Hermeneutics..............................Personality as the Basal Interpretive Paradigm
- Hermeneutics..............................The 'codedness' of revelation
- Hermeneutics..............................Postmodernism and Hermeneutics
- Hermeneutics..............................The process of God's communication to us
- Hermeneutics..............................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
- Hermeneutics..............................God's revelation to us: context and processing
- Hermeneutics..............................God's revelation to us: what we did with it
- Hero......................................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
- Herod.....................................Herod's slaughter of the children
- Herod.....................................An objection about Luke, Quirinius, and Herods
- Heroes....................................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
- Heroes....................................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
- Heroes....................................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
- Heroes....................................The VAST MAJORITY of Israelite/Church leadership is by MEN--see, God de-values women again"
- Heroes....................................Why do men get all the glory in the bible? Why are women only minor characters?!"
- Heroes....................................Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
- Heroes....................................Women are always pictured as being servile or passive or evil or stupid..."
- Hezekiah..................................Reversal of sun's path for Hezekiah
- Hiddenness of God.........................Personal letter
- Hierocles.................................Are there any indications from the EXTERNAL data , that the miracle stories are historical?
- Hillel....................................Jewish exegesis of OT in 1st century
- Hillel.................................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
- Hillel....................................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
- Hindu.....................................International interaction in NT times
- Hindu.....................................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
- Historical method.........................Book on historical method
- Historical Method.........................Book on historical method
- Historical method.........................Criterion of 'historical probability'
- Historical method.........................No way to triangulate some 'historical core' of the NT from outside data
- Historical method.........................Openness vs. suspicion (a brief remark)
- Historical method.........................Our presumption in "judging the text" too simply
- Historical method.........................Problems of historical method created by presuppositions.
- Historical method.........................The Gospels are under the same Thuycididean standards and conventions of the Hellenistic world
- Historical method.........................They are probably even at a higher level of fidelity to historical reporting
- Historicity...............................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
- History of Doctrine.......................God's revelation to us: what we did with it
- History...................................Is history all "of one piece"? And Is everyone given a fair chance at heaven?
- History...................................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
- History...................................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
- History...................................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
- Hittite...................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
- Hittite...................................Treaty form of the 14th/13th Centuries B.C.
- Holiness..................................Sacrifice in Mosaic Covenant
- Holiness..................................The difference between Righteousness and Holiness
- Holy Spirit, deity of.....................The Trinity: Intro and Method
- Holy Spirit, deity of.....................Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
- Holy Spirit, deity of.....................The NT Witness:The Ancient Church Formulas in the NT
- Holy Spirit, deity of.....................NT Passages mutually involving the Father, Son, and Spirit (Raw Data)
- Holy Spirit, deity of.....................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Synoptics)
- Holy Spirit, deity of.....................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Gospel of John)
- Holy Spirit, deity of.....................The deity of Jesus:NT Responses to Jesus
- Holy Spirit, deity of.....................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus
- Holy Spirit, deity of.....................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus (con't)
- Holy Spirit, deity of.....................The deity of Jesus:Other data relative to the deity of Jesus
- Holy Spirit, deity of.....................The deity of Jesus:Summary: The deity of Jesus Christ
- Holy Spirit, deity of.....................The deity of Jesus:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to Jesus
- Holy Spirit, deity of.....................The NT Witness:The Personality of The Holy Spirit
- Holy Spirit, deity of.....................The NT Witness:The Deity of The Holy Spirit
- Holy Spirit, deity of.....................The NT Witness:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to The Holy Spirit
- Holy Spirit, deity of.....................Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
- Holy Spirit, personality of...............The Trinity: Intro and Method
- Holy Spirit, personality of...............Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
- Holy Spirit, personality of...............The NT Witness:The Ancient Church Formulas in the NT
- Holy Spirit, personality of...............NT Passages mutually involving the Father, Son, and Spirit (Raw Data)
- Holy Spirit, personality of...............The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Synoptics)
- Holy Spirit, personality of...............The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Gospel of John)
- Holy Spirit, personality of...............The deity of Jesus:NT Responses to Jesus
- Holy Spirit, personality of...............The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus
- Holy Spirit, personality of...............The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus (con't)
- Holy Spirit, personality of...............The deity of Jesus:Other data relative to the deity of Jesus
- Holy Spirit, personality of...............The deity of Jesus:Summary: The deity of Jesus Christ
- Holy Spirit, personality of...............The deity of Jesus:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to Jesus
- Holy Spirit, personality of...............The NT Witness:The Personality of The Holy Spirit
- Holy Spirit, personality of...............The NT Witness:The Deity of The Holy Spirit
- Holy Spirit, personality of...............The NT Witness:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to The Holy Spirit
- Holy Spirit, personality of...............Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
- Holy Spirit...............................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
- Holy War..................................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
- Homer.....................................Incompatible background theories of the original of the gospels/Jesus figure (in a Letter)
- Homer.....................................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
- Homer.....................................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
- Homer.....................................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
- Homosexuality.............................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
- Honesty...................................is God supposed to 'prove stuff' to us, or are we supposed to 'seek God'?
- Honesty...................................Can Pride be Good?
- Honesty...................................Various questions on the use of evidence in apologetics
- Honi...................................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
- Honi......................................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
- Horus.....................................Horus, Jesus, and Anup the Baptiser?
- Horus.....................................Major Religious Figures
- Horus.....................................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Hostility.................................How I deal with very hostile objections
- Hostility.................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
- Hostility.................................Questions on my Life-View and dealing with others
- Household rules...........................Did God command wives to OBEY their husbands?
- Human, better than God....................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
- Human, superior...........................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
- Humanity, Jesus...........................Is Jesus' flesh only LIKE a human's (and not ACTUALLY human itself)?
- Humility..................................Can Pride be Good?
- Hunger....................................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
- Hurrian...................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
- Husbands..................................Did God command wives to OBEY their husbands?
- Hyperbole.................................Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
- Hypocrites................................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
- IAO.......................................Was YHWH just a pagan solar deity IAO?
- Ichneumon.................................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
- Icon......................................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- Iconoclast................................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- Idol......................................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
- Idol......................................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- Idolatry..................................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
- Idolatry..................................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- Idols.....................................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
- Ignatius..................................Evidence for early writing of NT from mainstream sources (Church Fathers/Apologists)
- Illegal...................................Could divorce ever be the ethical imperative?
- Image.....................................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- Images, animals...........................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- Imaginary Friend..........................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
- Immanuel..................................Is 7.14--the Virgin Birth prophecy
- Immigration...............................Was Israel really open to Amalekite immigration?
- Imminence.................................Does a belief in a ‘world-week’ of 6,000 years imply a denial of apocalyptic imminence?
- Immortality...............................How was Jesus the Firstfruits from the dead, if there were other resurrections before His?
- Imperial Cult.............................International interaction in NT times
- Imperialism, Israel.......................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Incarnation, purpose......................Incarnation: results
- Incarnation, results......................Incarnation: results
- Incarnation...............................Incarnation, "physics of"
- Incarnation...............................Incarnation: results
- Incarnation...............................Responses to the Incarnation: mixed
- Incarnation...............................Responses to the Incarnation: Obstacles
- Incarnation...............................Responses to the Incarnation
- Incarnation...............................Responses to the Incarnation: all walks of life
- Incarnation...............................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Incarnation...............................God's choice to be incarnated as a man IMPLICITLY de-values women
- Incest....................................Family value: Lot and incest
- Incest....................................Adam, Eve, and Incest?
- Inerrancy.................................Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
- Inerrancy.................................Personal letter
- Inerrancy.................................God's revelation to us: what we did with it
- Infancy Gospels...........................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
- Infancy...................................Contradictions in the Infancy Stories?
- Infanticide...............................Was God cruel when He killed all the firstborn of Egypt?
- Inference.................................Just because I cannot think of a better explanation now, doesn't mean I have to accept your Christian one
- Infinite..................................If God is infinite, how can there still be room for us?
- Inheritance...............................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
- Innocents.................................Was God cruel when He killed all the firstborn of Egypt?
- Inscription...............................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
- Inspiration...............................Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
- Inspiration...............................Why would God protect one piece of literature?
- Inspiration...............................God's revelation to us: what we did with it
- Integrity.................................Various questions on the use of evidence in apologetics
- International interaction.................International interaction
- International interaction.................International interaction in NT times
- International trade.......................International interaction in NT times
- Irenaeus..................................Mistranslation of Irenaeus
- Irenaeus..................................The events leading up to Irenaeus' statement about the Fourfold gospel
- Isaac.....................................Why did God order Abraham to do child sacrifice?
- Isaiah 7.14...............................Isn't the verb tense of Is 7.14 present instead of future?
- Isaiah....................................Is Isaiah 53.10 about Israel, rather than about Jesus?
- Isaiah....................................A question on my work on Isaiah 7.14
- Ishmael...................................Is Muslim hostility related to Ishmael being 'against everyone' prophecy
- Isis......................................Mystery Religions
- Isis......................................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Islam, faith..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- Islam, faith..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Islam, Jesus..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Have you ever seen or talked to Jesus, and how would you recognize Him?
- Islam, Jesus..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
- Islam, Jesus..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
- Islam, Jesus..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- Islam, Jesus..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Islam, Jesus..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
- Islam, salvation..........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- Islam, salvation..........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Islam, universalism.......................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Islam.....................................Does culture determine which religion one believes? (and is this fair of God?)
- Islam.....................................Types of evidence for revelation
- Islam.....................................How can Christians believe that there is only one God, and yet still call Jesus the Son of God?
- Islam.....................................Are there 3 gods in the Trinity?
- Islam.....................................Is Muslim hostility related to Ishmael being 'against everyone' prophecy
- Islam.....................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Have you ever seen or talked to Jesus, and how would you recognize Him?
- Islam.....................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
- Islam.....................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
- Islam.....................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- Islam.....................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Islam.....................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
- Islam.....................................How is the believer's sonship to God different from Christ's Sonship to God?
- Islam.....................................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
- Islam.....................................How did Jesus' Companions the Apostles understand what happened at the Cross?
- Islam.....................................How Should we respond to the Message of Jesus and His apostles about His death on the Cross?
- Islam.....................................Are Muslims forbidden to believe that Jesus was crucified?
- Islam.....................................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
- Islam.....................................Are the Nazarenes and Ebionites the only TRUE "Christians"?
- Islam.....................................is theBible "as violent" as the Quran/Hadith?
- Islam.....................................A Muslim response to my work on the Nazarenes
- Islam.....................................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
- Isolation.................................Was biblical leprosy the same as modern leprosy?
- Israel, character.........................Does God condone slavery in the Bible?
- Israel, colonization......................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Israel, imperialism.......................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Israel, war...............................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
- Israel....................................Is Isaiah 53.10 about Israel, rather than about Jesus?
- James, brother of Jesus...................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- James.....................................Martyrdom versus “obey and live long” principles
- James.....................................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- James.....................................Did NT believers mix law and grace?
- Jealous...................................OT passages on what God avenges
- Jealous...................................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
- Jealousy..................................OT passages on what God avenges
- Jealousy..................................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
- Jeconiah..................................Problems in the Genealogies of Jesus: Jeconiah
- JEDP......................................the Documentary Hypothesis
- JEDP......................................Good questions on JEDP
- JEDP......................................Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
- JEDP......................................The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
- Jehoahaz..................................Is the dating of Zedekiah a contradiction with the birth-order in 1 Chronicles?
- Jehoiakim.................................Is the dating of Zedekiah a contradiction with the birth-order in 1 Chronicles?
- Jehu......................................Well, did God LIKE what Jehu did or NOT--"another" contradiction?
- Jephthah..................................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Jephthah's daughter
- Jeremiah..................................Did the gospels make an error in their citation of the Judas-30pieces episode?
- Jesus Seminar.............................What about the Gospel of Thomas?
- Jesus, acceptance.........................Responses to the Incarnation: all walks of life
- Jesus, acceptance.........................Was Jesus a failure as a Messiah?
- Jesus, acceptance.........................The deity of Jesus:NT Responses to Jesus
- Jesus, acceptance.........................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus
- Jesus, acceptance.........................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus (con't)
- Jesus, and Essenes........................Is the Sermon on the Mount actually an ancient Essene prayer dating to 100's of years before Christ?!
- Jesus, and God............................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
- Jesus, and his family.....................Family value: Jesus' words
- Jesus, and James..........................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Jesus, and Law............................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
- Jesus, and Paul...........................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Jesus, and Paul...........................How "non-Jesus" was Paul, really? (Muslim arg)
- Jesus, and Paul...........................How "non-Jesus" was Paul, really? (Muslim arg)
- Jesus, and Paul...........................Paul had NO interest in the life of Jesus?
- Jesus, and Paul...........................Paul had NO interest in the WORDS or TEACHINGS of Jesus?
- Jesus, and Paul...........................Paul preached a different gospel than Jesus?
- Jesus, and Paul...........................Paul's gospel of a "Crucified Christ" was his invention?
- Jesus, and Paul...........................Paul's gospel was an anti-Law accommodation to the corrupt governments?
- Jesus, and Paul...........................But didn't Jesus strongly affirm the Law in Matthew 5.17-19?
- Jesus, and Paul...........................Did Jesus come to perpetuate the Mosaic Law?
- Jesus, and Paul...........................Did Jesus restrict His gospel message to the Jews?
- Jesus, and Paul...........................Does Paul have a 'low view' of the Law?
- Jesus, and Paul...........................How "non-Jesus" was Paul, really? (Muslim arg)
- Jesus, and Paul...........................Is Paul's view of the Law radically different from that of Peter, James, John, and the Writer to the Hebrews?
- Jesus, and Paul...........................Was the essence of the Law really 'sovereignty'?
- Jesus, and polygamy.......................Does the NT sanction polygamy?
- Jesus, and sin............................Could Jesus as God have sinned?
- Jesus, and women..........................Women: Data From the Life and Ministry of Jesus
- Jesus, and women..........................Why was Jesus so mean and insulting to the Canaanite woman?
- Jesus, and women..........................None of the disciples or apostles were women--a bit unfair, aint it?!"
- Jesus, anti-YHWH..........................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
- Jesus, as friend..........................Jesus as friend and companion
- Jesus, ascension..........................A contradiction in the ascension accounts?
- Jesus, authority..........................Uniqueness of Jesus: More than Human authority
- Jesus, birth of...........................If the Birth Star appeared in the East, why did the Magi travel West?!
- Jesus, birth of...........................Is 7.14--the Virgin Birth prophecy
- Jesus, birth of...........................Micah 5.2: the Bethlehem prophecy
- Jesus, birth of...........................Nazerene, Nazirite, or What?
- Jesus, birth of...........................The Return from Egypt
- Jesus, birth of...........................Weird fulfillments in Matthew
- Jesus, birth of...........................An objection about Luke, Quirinius, and Herods
- Jesus, birth..............................What about the theory that Jesus was descended from aliens?
- Jesus, brothers...........................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Jesus, burial.............................is the tomb story flawed because the term 'rolled' is used?
- Jesus, character..........................Jesus the hate-monger
- Jesus, character..........................Did Jesus teach ritual drinking of blood?
- Jesus, character..........................Was Jesus really fraudulent, dishonest, sacrilegious, and conspiratorial?
- Jesus, character..........................How could Jesus be fully divine and live on earth?
- Jesus, character..........................Why was Jesus so mean and insulting to the Canaanite woman?
- Jesus, character..........................Was the Sermon on the Mount a "plagarism" of Moses on the Mountain?
- Jesus, childhood..........................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
- Jesus, comparison.........................Was Jesus Christ just a CopyCat Savior Myth?
- Jesus, cross.............................."Paid in Full" -- Jesus' words on the Cross?
- Jesus, death of...........................Personal letter
- Jesus, death..............................Christ's death on the Cross--serious, real, painful
- Jesus, death..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
- Jesus, death..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
- Jesus, death..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- Jesus, death..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Jesus, death..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
- Jesus, death..............................How did Jesus' Companions the Apostles understand what happened at the Cross?
- Jesus, death..............................Are Muslims forbidden to believe that Jesus was crucified?
- Jesus, death..............................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
- Jesus, death..............................What was the use of Christ's death?
- Jesus, death..............................is the tomb story flawed because the term 'rolled' is used?
- Jesus, Death..............................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
- Jesus, deception..........................Casting out demons by the power of demons
- Jesus, deception..........................Did Jesus lie about not teaching in secret?
- Jesus, deception..........................Was Jesus really fraudulent, dishonest, sacrilegious, and conspiratorial?
- Jesus, deception..........................Was the Sermon on the Mount a "plagarism" of Moses on the Mountain?
- Jesus, deity of...........................Deity of Christ
- Jesus, deity of...........................The self-awareness of Jesus
- Jesus, deity of...........................Could Jesus as God have sinned?
- Jesus, deity of...........................John 1.1 - "a God"?
- Jesus, deity of...........................What does 'firstborn' mean when used of Jesus?
- Jesus, deity of...........................Was Jesus mistaken about this 2nd Coming?
- Jesus, deity of...........................Was Jesus mistaken about Zechariah?
- Jesus, deity of...........................Are the Nazarenes and Ebionites the only TRUE "Christians"?
- Jesus, deity of...........................The Trinity: Intro and Method
- Jesus, deity of...........................Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
- Jesus, deity of...........................The NT Witness:The Ancient Church Formulas in the NT
- Jesus, deity of...........................NT Passages mutually involving the Father, Son, and Spirit (Raw Data)
- Jesus, deity of...........................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Synoptics)
- Jesus, deity of...........................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Gospel of John)
- Jesus, deity of...........................The deity of Jesus:NT Responses to Jesus
- Jesus, deity of...........................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus
- Jesus, deity of...........................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus (con't)
- Jesus, deity of...........................The deity of Jesus:Other data relative to the deity of Jesus
- Jesus, deity of...........................The deity of Jesus:Summary: The deity of Jesus Christ
- Jesus, deity of...........................The deity of Jesus:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to Jesus
- Jesus, deity of...........................The NT Witness:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to The Holy Spirit
- Jesus, deity of...........................Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
- Jesus, deity..............................How can Christians believe that there is only one God, and yet still call Jesus the Son of God?
- Jesus, deity..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
- Jesus, deity..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
- Jesus, deity..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- Jesus, deity..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Jesus, deity..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
- Jesus, deity..............................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
- Jesus, deity..............................Is it okay to offer prayer and worship to Jesus, and not just to the Father?
- Jesus, disciples..........................What are the names of the 12 disciples? I get 13!
- Jesus, errors.............................Was Jesus mistaken about this 2nd Coming?
- Jesus, errors.............................Was Jesus mistaken about Zechariah?
- Jesus, ethics.............................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
- Jesus, evil...............................Jesus the hate-monger
- Jesus, evil...............................Did Jesus teach ritual drinking of blood?
- Jesus, evil...............................Why was Jesus so mean and insulting to the Canaanite woman?
- Jesus, evil...............................Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
- Jesus, extrabiblical......................Extrabiblical, Non-Christian Witnesses to Jesus before 200 a.d.
- Jesus, extrabiblical......................Extrabiblical Witnesses to Jesus before 200 a.d.:Thallus
- Jesus, extrabiblical......................Was Josephus relying on the Gospel of Matthew?
- Jesus, failure............................Was Jesus a failure as a Messiah?
- Jesus, faith..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- Jesus, faith..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Jesus, Father.............................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
- Jesus, firstfruits........................How was Jesus the Firstfruits from the dead, if there were other resurrections before His?
- Jesus, flesh..............................Is Jesus' flesh only LIKE a human's (and not ACTUALLY human itself)?
- Jesus, glory..............................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- Jesus, harshness..........................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
- Jesus, Historical.........................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Jesus, historical.........................Did the Jewish War eliminate all the possible counter-witnesses to the life of Jesus in the NT?
- Jesus, historical.........................Is Jesus' flesh only LIKE a human's (and not ACTUALLY human itself)?
- Jesus, history............................Do we only have ONE copy of the controversial passage about Jesus in Josephus?
- Jesus, Homer..............................Incompatible background theories of the original of the gospels/Jesus figure (in a Letter)
- Jesus, human..............................Humanity of Christ
- Jesus, human..............................The self-awareness of Jesus
- Jesus, human..............................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than man
- Jesus, human..............................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Jesus, human..............................Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
- Jesus, humanity...........................Personal letter
- Jesus, humanity...........................Is Jesus' flesh only LIKE a human's (and not ACTUALLY human itself)?
- Jesus, idol...............................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- Jesus, image of God.......................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- Jesus, image..............................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- Jesus, invented...........................Is Christian experience make-believe?
- Jesus, invention..........................Non-attribution and Evidence for early writing of NT Jesus material
- Jesus, Islam..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Have you ever seen or talked to Jesus, and how would you recognize Him?
- Jesus, Islam..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
- Jesus, Islam..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
- Jesus, Islam..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- Jesus, Islam..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Jesus, Islam..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
- Jesus, Jewish.............................Could Jesus really not have had any 'apocalyptic expectations' because they were allegedly only later?
- Jesus, kingship...........................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a Davidic king
- Jesus, kingship...........................Was Jesus a failure as a Messiah?
- Jesus, Lamb...............................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
- Jesus, language...........................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
- Jesus, languages..........................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
- Jesus, life...............................Did the bible lie about Jesus not being married?
- Jesus, Lord...............................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Jesus, married............................Did the bible lie about Jesus not being married?
- Jesus, Messiah............................The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
- Jesus, messiah............................Is Isaiah 53.10 about Israel, rather than about Jesus?
- Jesus, Messiah............................why should we believe Jesus was the Messiah, if He didn’t fulfill all the prophecies when He was here?
- Jesus, miracles...........................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
- Jesus, miracles...........................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
- Jesus, myth...............................Is Christian experience make-believe?
- Jesus, new Moses..........................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a New Moses
- Jesus, parables...........................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
- Jesus, prayer to..........................Is it okay to offer prayer and worship to Jesus, and not just to the Father?
- Jesus, priest.............................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than Levitical priest
- Jesus, prophet in Islam...................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
- Jesus, prophet in Islam...................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Jesus, prophet............................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a prophet
- Jesus, prophet............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
- Jesus, prophet............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Jesus, prophet............................Was Jesus mistaken about this 2nd Coming?
- Jesus, rebukes on leaders.................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
- Jesus, rejection..........................Was Jesus a failure as a Messiah?
- Jesus, relevance..........................Hey, who Invited GOD to this century?!
- Jesus, return.............................Was Jesus mistaken about this 2nd Coming?
- Jesus, return.............................Could Jesus really not have had any 'apocalyptic expectations' because they were allegedly only later?
- Jesus, rides donkey.......................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
- Jesus, risen..............................How was Jesus the Firstfruits from the dead, if there were other resurrections before His?
- Jesus, risen..............................How many people saw the risen Jesus? 150 or 500?
- Jesus, risen..............................What does 'firstborn' mean when used of Jesus?
- Jesus, ruler..............................Was Jesus a failure as a Messiah?
- Jesus, sacrifice..........................The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
- Jesus, sacrifice..........................Jesus sacrifice: the purpose
- Jesus, sacrifice..........................Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
- Jesus, sacriligious.......................Was Jesus sacriligious by using images of cannibalism?
- Jesus, sage...............................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a Sage
- Jesus, Satan..............................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
- Jesus, savior.............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- Jesus, savior.............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Jesus, Savior.............................How Should we respond to the Message of Jesus and His apostles about His death on the Cross?
- Jesus, self-awareness.....................The self-awareness of Jesus
- Jesus, son of God.........................How can Christians believe that there is only one God, and yet still call Jesus the Son of God?
- Jesus, Son of Man.........................Could Jesus really not have had any 'Son of man' sayings, because they were allegedly only later?
- Jesus, substitute.........................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
- Jesus, suffering..........................if Jesus didn't stay dead, how could His death have been a REAL sacrifice?
- Jesus, suffering..........................Christ's death on the Cross--serious, real, painful
- Jesus, teaching...........................Did Jesus lie about not teaching in secret?
- Jesus, teaching...........................Did Jesus teach ritual drinking of blood?
- Jesus, temple.............................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- Jesus, temptation.........................Personal letter
- Jesus, theories...........................Incompatible background theories of the original of the gospels/Jesus figure (in a Letter)
- Jesus, trial..............................The accuracy of the account of the trial of Jesus before Pilate
- Jesus, uniqueness.........................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a Davidic king
- Jesus, uniqueness.........................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a New Moses
- Jesus, uniqueness.........................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a prophet
- Jesus, uniqueness.........................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a Sage
- Jesus, uniqueness.........................Uniqueness of Jesus: More than Human authority
- Jesus, uniqueness.........................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than Levitical priest
- Jesus, uniqueness.........................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than man
- Jesus, uniqueness.........................Uniqueness of Jesus
- Jesus, uniqueness.........................What about Those Who have Never Heard the Gospel?
- Jesus, uniqueness.........................Mithras and Jesus?
- Jesus, un-Jewish..........................Did Jesus teach ritual drinking of blood?
- Jesus, word...............................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- Jesus, work of............................The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
- Jesus, worship............................Is it okay to offer prayer and worship to Jesus, and not just to the Father?
- Jesus.....................................Deity of Christ
- Jesus.....................................The self-awareness of Jesus
- Jesus.....................................Incarnation: results
- Jesus.....................................Jesus ascribed Pentateuch to Moses
- Jesus.....................................Horus, Jesus, and Anup the Baptiser?
- Jesus.....................................Was the Ascension of Isaiah a Middle-Platonist document?
- Jesus.....................................Sacrifice in the NT
- Jesus.....................................Jesus fulfillment of OT sacrifice
- Jesus.....................................Jesus sacrifice: the purpose
- Jesus.....................................Did Jesus come during the wrong empire, according to Daniel and the beast vision?
- Jesus.....................................Did Christ die for Satan?
- Jesus.....................................did Jesus cry out to the pagan deity known as 'El' on the Cross?
- Jesus.....................................Response to: The Fabulous Prophecies of the Messiah(outline)
- Jesus.....................................Is 7.14--the Virgin Birth prophecy
- Jesus.....................................Micah 5.2: the Bethlehem prophecy
- Jesus.....................................Was Jesus actually a 'ruler' in Israel?
- Jesus.....................................Problems in the Genealogies of Jesus
- Jesus.....................................Nazerene, Nazirite, or What?
- Jesus.....................................The Return from Egypt
- Jesus.....................................Weird fulfillments in Matthew
- Jesus.....................................Family value: Jesus' words
- Jesus.....................................Christ's death on the Cross--serious, real, painful
- Jesus.....................................Did Jesus lie about not teaching in secret?
- Jesus.....................................Was Jesus really fraudulent, dishonest, sacrilegious, and conspiratorial?
- Jesus.....................................Does Micah 5 speak about the birth-place of the Messiah, or only His birth-family?
- Jesus.....................................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
- Jesus..................................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
- Jesus.....................................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
- Jesus.....................................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
- Jesus.....................................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
- Jesus.....................................How "non-Jesus" was Paul, really? (Muslim arg)
- Jesus.....................................Do none of the New Testament letters really mention "Jesus", but only "Christ"?
- Jesus.....................................Well, did Jesus tell them to take a staff or not? Another contradiction?!
- Jesus.....................................Was Jesus mistaken about this 2nd Coming?
- Jesus.....................................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
- Jesus.....................................The meaning of 'born again' in Scripture
- Jesus.....................................Why was Jesus so mean and insulting to the Canaanite woman?
- Jesus.....................................Was Jesus a failure as a Messiah?
- Jesus.....................................How long was Jesus in hell?
- Jesus.....................................Was the Sermon on the Mount a "plagarism" of Moses on the Mountain?
- Jesus.....................................Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
- Jesus.....................................Is there proof that Jesus did not have sex with Mary Magdalene?
- Jesus.....................................Mithras and Jesus?
- Jew.......................................Did the Law only regulate behavior toward OTHER Jews?
- Jewish War................................Did the Jewish War eliminate all the possible counter-witnesses to the life of Jesus in the NT?
- Jewish....................................The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
- Jewish....................................Types of evidence for revelation
- Jewish....................................The torn-veil in the Temple/the scarlet thread
- Jewish....................................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
- Jewish....................................did the Christians just OUTLIVE those who "knew better and were silent"?
- Jewish....................................Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
- Jewish....................................Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
- Jews......................................How did the Gentiles get in the picture if the Jews were the 'chosen ones
- Jews......................................Was First Thess 2.15ff seriously Anti-Semitic??!!
- Jews......................................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
- Jezreel...................................Well, did God LIKE what Jehu did or NOT--"another" contradiction?
- Job.......................................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
- Johanan...................................Is the dating of Zedekiah a contradiction with the birth-order in 1 Chronicles?
- John 1.1..................................John 1.1 - "a God"?
- John Baptist..............................Was Jesus a failed apocalyptic prophet that the embarrassed church had to re-work into something different
- John the Baptist..........................John the Baptist as Forerunner of the Messiah
- John, author..............................How did the peasant apostle John write the book of Revelation in Greek?
- John, author..............................Did John invent the story of the raising of Lazarus?!
- John, gospel of...........................Should the possible addition of John 8.1-11 make us paranoid about other possible inauthentic 'additions'
- John, gospel..............................Was John anti-Semitic
- John......................................How did the peasant apostle John write the book of Revelation in Greek?
- John......................................Are the Christologies of Mark and John radically different?
- John......................................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Gospel of John)
- Joseph....................................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
- Josephus..................................Extrabiblical, Non-Christian Witnesses to Jesus before 200 a.d.
- Josephus..................................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
- Josephus..................................Are there any indications from the EXTERNAL data , that the miracle stories are historical?
- Josephus..................................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
- Josephus..................................Do we only have ONE copy of the controversial passage about Jesus in Josephus?
- Josephus..................................Was Josephus relying on the Gospel of Matthew?
- Josephus..................................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
- Joshua....................................Joshua's long day
- Joshua....................................Joshua's long day
- Joshua....................................doesn't the archaeological record CONTRADICT the Bible's claims about Joshua's "Conquest"?!
- Joshua....................................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
- Judaism, marriage.........................Did the bible lie about Jesus not being married?
- Judaism...................................why should we believe Jesus was the Messiah, if He didn’t fulfill all the prophecies when He was here?
- Judas.....................................Did the gospels make an error in their citation of the Judas-30pieces episode?
- Judas.....................................Was Judas actually "obeying God" when he fulfilled the Scripture?
- Judas.....................................How did Judas die: by Hanging or by 'explosion'?
- Jude......................................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
- Judgement, absolute.......................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
- Judgment, cause of........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Judgment, Christian.......................If sins are forgiven, how will Christians be judged?
- Judgment, final...........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Judgment, hyperbole.......................Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
- Judgment, moral...........................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
- Judgment, moral...........................Is Christian experience make-believe?
- Judgment..................................OT passages on what God avenges
- Judgment..................................Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
- Judgment..................................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
- Judgment..................................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
- Judgment..................................Does God's judgment in time unfairly compromise someone's 'free will'?
- Judgment..................................Why does judgment lag so far behind?
- Judgment..................................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
- Julian....................................Are there any indications from the EXTERNAL data , that the miracle stories are historical?
- Julius Africanus..........................Extrabiblical Witnesses to Jesus before 200 a.d.:Thallus
- Jung......................................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
- Justice, Social...........................OT passages on what God avenges
- Justice...................................OT passages on what God avenges
- Justice...................................Is God really the ONLY evil being in the universe?
- Justice...................................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
- Justice...................................Why does judgment lag so far behind?
- Justice...................................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
- Justin Martyr.............................Are there any indications from the EXTERNAL data , that the miracle stories are historical?
- Justin Martyr.............................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Justin Martyr.............................Evidence for early writing of NT from mainstream sources (Church Fathers/Apologists)
- Justin Martyr.............................Justin Martyr's use of extra-biblical tradition?
- Kenosis...................................Is Jesus' flesh only LIKE a human's (and not ACTUALLY human itself)?
- Kids......................................Martyrdom versus “obey and live long” principles
- Kindness, to foreigners...................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Kinds.....................................Kinds, Postmodernism, and the Absolutes of Dissonance...
- Kingdom...................................Was Jesus a failed apocalyptic prophet that the embarrassed church had to re-work into something different
- Kings, Assyrian...........................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Kingship..................................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a Davidic king
- Kingship..................................Was Jesus actually a 'ruler' in Israel?
- Knowledge.................................Does incomplete knowledge mean God is unknowable?
- Knowledge.................................What about knowledge BEYOND us?
- Krishna...................................Major Religious Figures
- Kuntillet Ajrud...........................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
- Labor, forced.............................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Labor.....................................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
- Language, analogical......................Exploring Analogy
- Language, nature of.......................How we "process" communication of all kinds
- Language, personal base...................How we "process" communication of all kinds
- Language..................................How can finite language apply to an Infinite God?
- Language..................................Exploring Analogy
- Language..................................How we "process" communication of all kinds
- Language..................................Linguistic wall--index
- Language..................................Physical and Metaphysical "Primitives"
- Language..................................Precision and the Epistemic "Bubble"
- Language..................................Patterns and Argument
- Language..................................The Priority of Patterns over Elements
- Language..................................Personality as the Basal Interpretive Paradigm
- Language..................................The 'codedness' of revelation
- Language.................................."Peripheral Linguistic Absolutes"
- Language..................................Postmodernism and Hermeneutics
- Language..................................The process of God's communication to us
- Language..................................Self-Stultifying Arguments
- Language..................................God's revelation to us: context and processing
- Language..................................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
- Language..................................Kinds, Postmodernism, and the Absolutes of Dissonance...
- Language..................................On the Loci of Freedom...
- Language..................................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
- Law, Change...............................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
- Law.......................................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
- Law.......................................Did the Law only regulate behavior toward OTHER Jews?
- Law.......................................Did NT believers mix law and grace?
- Law.......................................Does God condone slavery in the Bible?
- Law.......................................Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
- Law.......................................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
- Laws, warfare.............................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Lawsuits..................................Does Paul specifically command that lawsuits is to be avoided for Christians in 1 Cor 6
- Lazarus...................................Did John invent the story of the raising of Lazarus?!
- Leaders, judgment on......................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
- Learning..................................Interacting with the "possibly revelatory" data: Encounter, Response, Results
- Legal issues..............................Does Paul specifically command that lawsuits is to be avoided for Christians in 1 Cor 6
- Legal.....................................Sacrifice in Mosaic Covenant
- Legalism..................................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
- Legalism..................................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
- Legend....................................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
- Legend.................................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
- Legend....................................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
- Legends...................................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
- Legends...................................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
- Legends...................................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
- Legends...................................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
- Legends...................................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
- Leprosy...................................Was biblical leprosy the same as modern leprosy?
- Leviathan.................................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
- Levite's concubine........................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Levite and his concubine
- Libraries.................................Personal letter
- Libraries.................................Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature?
- Lies, love for............................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
- Lies, white...............................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
- Life......................................Theological impact of Aliens from space
- Life......................................Why are we carnivores, eating life?
- Lifespan..................................“Is there extra-biblical evidence for Post-flood longevity?
- Lifespan..................................Does God's judgment in time unfairly compromise someone's 'free will'?
- Listening.................................Why isnt the God of the Bible showing Himself to me?
- Literacy, Jewish..........................A small note on Jewish education
- Literacy..................................Ancient Literacy - extent and rationale
- Literacy..................................Babylonian omen literature
- Literacy..................................Ancient Israelite Literacy - extent
- Literacy..................................Personal letter
- Literacy..................................Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature?
- Literacy..................................Evidence of early writing by the apostles (probably even during Jesus' life)
- Literacy..................................All the books of the bible were written by men--see, God de-values women again"
- Literary Dependence.......................OT did not borrow beliefs from pagans
- Literary Dependence.......................OT did not borrow beliefs from pagans
- Literary Dependence.......................Evaluation of the Theory of Literary Dependence.
- Literary Dependence.......................Theory of Gospel construction
- Literary Dependence.......................The literary witness to use of sources by the evangelists
- Literary Dependence.......................How 'assured' is James' solution to the Synoptic Problem?
- Literary Dependence.......................How compelling is the case for Literary Dependence among the synoptic gospels?
- Literature................................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
- Literature................................Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature?
- Loculus...................................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
- Loftus....................................How does the memory research of Elizabeth Loftus on eyewitness testimony affect the credibility of NT?
- Logic.....................................Is the bible false, since it is not written in logic or math?
- Logic.....................................Is 'only reason' reasonable?
- Longevity.................................Martyrdom versus “obey and live long” principles
- Longevity.................................“Is there extra-biblical evidence for Post-flood longevity?
- Longevity.................................Are there any extra-biblical refs to longevity BEFORE the flood?
- Lord, Jesus...............................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Lordship Salvation........................Do I have to be holy/righteous before I approach God for salvation?
- Loss......................................A long conversation with someone experiencing deep grief
- Lost......................................A Letter about Pain in Heaven over lost Loved Ones
- Lot.......................................Family value: Lot and incest
- Lot's daughters...........................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Lot's Daughters
- Love......................................Urban expansion of the early Church
- Loyalty...................................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
- Lucian the satirist.......................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- Lucian....................................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
- Luke, census..............................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Luke......................................An objection about Luke, Quirinius, and Herods
- LXX, history..............................Was the LXX "scripture" for 1st century Jews?
- LXX.......................................Septuagint in the NT
- LXX.......................................Are all English Bibles based on the LXX?
- LXX.......................................Was the LXX "scripture" for 1st century Jews?
- LXX.......................................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
- LXX.......................................Were the Amalekites REALLY nomads?
- Lying.....................................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
- Magi......................................If the Birth Star appeared in the East, why did the Magi travel West?!
- Magi......................................Contradictions in the Infancy Stories?
- Magic..................................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
- Magic.....................................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
- Magic.....................................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
- Magic.....................................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
- Maimonides................................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
- Marcion...................................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- Marcion...................................(Just a historical error about Marcion)
- Marduk....................................Dying and Rising Gods
- Mari......................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
- Mark, author..............................When was Mark 6.45-8.26 ADDED to Mark?
- Mark, ending..............................On the 'original Mark' versus canonical Mark
- Mark, ending..............................the identity/background/dating of the Gospel of Mark
- Mark, ending..............................The spurious endings of Mark's gospel
- Mark, geography...........................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
- Mark, ignorance...........................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
- Mark, Secret..............................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
- Mark......................................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
- Mark......................................Are the Christologies of Mark and John radically different?
- Mark......................................the identity/background/dating of the Gospel of Mark
- Marriage..................................Could divorce ever be the ethical imperative?
- Marriage..................................Why would government have any authority in personal areas like marriage?
- Marriage..................................Did the bible lie about Jesus not being married?
- Martyrdom.................................Martyrdom versus “obey and live long” principles
- Martyrdom.................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
- Mary......................................Does Mary's Question Contradict other passages in the NT?
- Mary......................................Is there proof that Jesus did not have sex with Mary Magdalene?
- Massacre..................................shouldn't the butchering of the Amalekite children be considered war crimes?
- Matthew, doublet..........................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
- Matthew...................................How would Matthew have borrowed from pagan religions?
- Matthew...................................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
- Matthew...................................Nazerene, Nazirite, or What?
- Matthew...................................The Return from Egypt
- Matthew...................................Weird fulfillments in Matthew
- Matthew...................................What about all those resurrected people walking around in Jerusalem after Jesus' death?
- Matthew...................................Was Josephus relying on the Gospel of Matthew?
- Meat......................................Why are we carnivores, eating life?
- Medicine..................................Urban expansion of the early Church
- Meier.....................................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
- Melchizedek, second.......................Source data for messianic titles
- Melquart..................................Dying and Rising Gods
- Memory problem............................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
- Memory, errors............................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
- Memory....................................How does the memory research of Elizabeth Loftus on eyewitness testimony affect the credibility of NT?
- Memory....................................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
- Menopause.................................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
- Menstruation..............................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
- Mesha, rebellion..........................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Mesopotamia...............................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
- Mesopotamia...............................Sacrifice in Early Cultures, Israel's neighbors
- Mesopotamian..............................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
- Messengers, ANE...........................wasn't Elisha cruel when he sent those bears against those little kids who were teasing him about being bald?
- Messiah, 30 pieces........................Source data for messianic titles
- Messiah, betrayed.........................Source data for messianic titles
- Messiah, birthplace.......................Does Micah 5 speak about the birth-place of the Messiah, or only His birth-family?
- Messiah, confusion over...................Source data for messianic titles
- Messiah, deity............................Incarnation, expectation
- Messiah, deity............................Non-Christian Jewry had their OWN "problem" of 'plurality in the Godhead' and/or with a supra-human messiah?
- Messiah, despised.........................Source data for messianic titles
- Messiah, rejected.........................why should we believe Jesus was the Messiah, if He didn’t fulfill all the prophecies when He was here?
- Messiah, rejected.........................Source data for messianic titles
- Messiah, rejected.........................Was Jesus a failure as a Messiah?
- Messiah, superhuman.......................Incarnation, expectation
- Messiah, superhuman.......................Non-Christian Jewry had their OWN "problem" of 'plurality in the Godhead' and/or with a supra-human messiah?
- Messiah...................................The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
- Messiah...................................Is Isaiah 53.10 about Israel, rather than about Jesus?
- Messiah...................................Did Jesus come during the wrong empire, according to Daniel and the beast vision?
- Messiah...................................Messianic Psalms: The Righteous Sufferer
- Messiah...................................John the Baptist as Forerunner of the Messiah
- Messiah...................................Response to: The Fabulous Prophecies of the Messiah(outline)
- Messiah...................................Is 7.14--the Virgin Birth prophecy
- Messiah...................................Micah 5.2: the Bethlehem prophecy
- Messiah...................................Was Jesus actually a 'ruler' in Israel?
- Messiah...................................Nazerene, Nazirite, or What?
- Messiah...................................The Return from Egypt
- Messiah...................................Weird fulfillments in Matthew
- Messiah...................................why should we believe Jesus was the Messiah, if He didn’t fulfill all the prophecies when He was here?
- Messiah...................................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
- Messiah...................................Was there any reason to expect another set of Scriptures?
- Messiah...................................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
- Messiah...................................Does Micah 5 speak about the birth-place of the Messiah, or only His birth-family?
- Messiah...................................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
- Messiah...................................A "punctuation" error in Daniel 9?
- Messiah...................................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
- Messiah...................................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
- Messiah...................................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
- Messiah...................................Was Jesus a failure as a Messiah?
- Messiah...................................Was Josephus relying on the Gospel of Matthew?
- Messiah...................................A question on my work on Isaiah 7.14
- Messiah...................................Could Jesus really not have had any 'apocalyptic expectations' because they were allegedly only later?
- Messiah...................................Could Jesus really not have had any 'Son of man' sayings, because they were allegedly only later?
- Messiah...................................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
- Messiah...................................Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
- Messiah...................................Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
- Messiah...................................Typology--a legitimate approach to OT passages?
- Messianic identity........................Source data for messianic titles
- Messianic roles...........................Source data for messianic titles
- Messianic titles, sources.................Source data for messianic titles
- Messianic titles..........................Source data for messianic titles
- Messianic.................................Jewish messianic exegesis in 1st century
- Messianic.................................Does Micah 5 speak about the birth-place of the Messiah, or only His birth-family?
- Messianic.................................Did Christians simply INVENT the "pierced my hands and feet" in Psalm 22?!
- Metaphor..................................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
- Metaphysics...............................Freedom
- Method, theology..........................Personal letter
- Micah.....................................Does Micah 5 speak about the birth-place of the Messiah, or only His birth-family?
- Middle East...............................Is Muslim hostility related to Ishmael being 'against everyone' prophecy
- Midian....................................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
- Mid-Platonism.............................Was the Ascension of Isaiah a Middle-Platonist document?
- Midrash...................................Jewish exegesis of OT in 1st century
- Midrash...................................Incompatible background theories of the original of the gospels/Jesus figure (in a Letter)
- Midrash...................................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
- Midrash................................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
- Midrash...................................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
- Mind......................................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
- Mind......................................Is there evidence for the existence of the "soul"?
- Mind......................................Mind/brain
- Ministry..................................Martyrdom versus “obey and live long” principles
- Miracle...................................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
- Miracle...................................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
- Miracle...................................Are there any indications from the EXTERNAL data , that the miracle stories are historical?
- Miracle...................................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
- Miracle................................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
- Miracle...................................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
- Miracle...................................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
- Miracle...................................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
- Miracles..................................Joshua's long day
- Miracles..................................Parting of the Sea by Moses
- Miracles..................................Reversal of sun's path for Hezekiah
- Miracles..................................What about the theory that Jesus was descended from aliens?
- Miracles..................................If the Birth Star appeared in the East, why did the Magi travel West?!
- Miracles..................................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
- Miracles..................................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
- Miracles..................................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
- Miracles..................................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
- Miracles..................................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
- Miracles..................................What about all those resurrected people walking around in Jerusalem after Jesus' death?
- Miracles..................................The Fulfillment of Prophecy
- Miracles..................................Did John invent the story of the raising of Lazarus?!
- Miracles..................................Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
- Miriam....................................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Miriam's rebellion
- Miriam....................................Wasn't Miriam punished for questioning male authority, while Aaron was not?"
- Mishna.................................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
- Mishnah...................................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
- Misogyny..................................Did God callously give David's wives to Absalom to rape?
- Misogyny..................................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
- Missions..................................Urban expansion of the early Church
- Mithras...................................Mystery Religions
- Mithras...................................what do we know about Cybele/Attis and the taurobolium?
- Mithras...................................Someone bothered about a question on the Persian Mithras
- Mithras...................................Mithras and Jesus?
- Moab, revolt..............................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Molinism..................................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
- Monotheism................................How can Christians believe that there is only one God, and yet still call Jesus the Son of God?
- Montanus..................................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- Morality..................................Various questions on the use of evidence in apologetics
- Morality..................................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
- Morality..................................Is Christian experience make-believe?
- Morality..................................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
- Mormon....................................Types of evidence for revelation
- Mormon....................................Types of evidence for revelation
- Moses, 2nd................................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a New Moses
- Moses, 2nd................................New Covenant/New Moses
- Moses, author.............................The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
- Moses, education..........................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
- Moses, language...........................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
- Moses, second.............................Source data for messianic titles
- Moses.....................................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a New Moses
- Moses.....................................Parting of the Sea by Moses
- Moses.....................................Jesus ascribed Pentateuch to Moses
- Moses.....................................Moses access to ancient data
- Moses.....................................The Atrahasis theme
- Moses.....................................The issue of 'borrowing' laws--did Moses somehow "copy" Hammurabi?
- Moses.....................................Authetication of Revelation - Mosaic
- Moses.....................................Sacrifice in Mosaic Covenant
- Moses.....................................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
- Moses.....................................How was Jesus the Firstfruits from the dead, if there were other resurrections before His?
- Moses.....................................Did God harden Pharaoh's heart FIRST?
- Moses.....................................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
- Moses.....................................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
- Moses.....................................Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
- Moses.....................................The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
- Moses.....................................Was the Sermon on the Mount a "plagarism" of Moses on the Mountain?
- Moses.....................................Wasn't Miriam punished for questioning male authority, while Aaron was not?"
- Motivation................................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
- Motive....................................What kind of a choice is THAT--Love Me or Burn?!
- MPD.......................................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
- Muhammad..................................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
- Multiple Attestation......................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
- Muslim....................................How can Christians believe that there is only one God, and yet still call Jesus the Son of God?
- Muslim....................................Are there 3 gods in the Trinity?
- Muslim....................................Is Muslim hostility related to Ishmael being 'against everyone' prophecy
- Muslim....................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Have you ever seen or talked to Jesus, and how would you recognize Him?
- Muslim....................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
- Muslim....................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
- Muslim....................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- Muslim....................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Muslim....................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
- Muslim....................................Are Muslims forbidden to believe that Jesus was crucified?
- Muslim....................................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
- Muslim....................................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
- Mystery Religions.........................Mystery Religions
- Mystery Religions.........................International interaction in NT times
- Myth......................................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
- Myth......................................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
- Myth......................................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
- Myth......................................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
- Myth...................................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
- Myth......................................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
- Myth......................................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
- Myth......................................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
- Myth......................................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
- Myth......................................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
- Myth......................................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
- Mythicist.................................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Myths.....................................Was Jesus Christ just a CopyCat Savior Myth?
- Myths.....................................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
- Myths.....................................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
- Nachmanides...............................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
- Naive.....................................Letter to Readers (misc topics)
- Nasi......................................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
- Nativity..................................Contradictions in the Infancy Stories?
- Nativity..................................Does Mary's Question Contradict other passages in the NT?
- Nature....................................Why aren't dinosaurs mentioned in the bible?
- Nazarenes.................................A Muslim response to my work on the Nazarenes
- Nazareth..................................Contradictions in the Infancy Stories?
- Nazarites.................................Are the Nazarenes and Ebionites the only TRUE "Christians"?
- Nazerene..................................Nazerene, Nazirite, or What?
- NDE.......................................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
- Necromancy................................Question on contacting the dead (the Witch of Endor story)
- Neurotheology.............................Isnt there a “God part of the Brain” that proves all this Jesus stuff is untrue?
- New Age...................................Question on contacting the dead (the Witch of Endor story)
- New Birth.................................How is the believer's sonship to God different from Christ's Sonship to God?
- New Birth.................................The meaning of 'born again' in Scripture
- New Covenant..............................New Covenant/New Moses
- New Covenant..............................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
- New Covenant..............................Was there any reason to expect another set of Scriptures?
- New Torah.................................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
- Nicodemus.................................The meaning of 'born again' in Scripture
- Nicodemus.................................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
- Nineveh...................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
- Ninhursag.................................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
- Noah......................................Noah's ark -- the problem of size
- Noah......................................How likely is it that Noah was the only righteous person on the whole earth, at the time of the Flood?
- Nomads....................................Were the Amalekites REALLY nomads?
- Non-canonical, dating..................... A timeline of early Christian & anti-Christian literature
- Non-canonical.............................Clement's alleged use of non-canonical sources
- Non-canonical.............................What about the Gospel of Thomas?
- Non-canonical.............................Justin Martyr's use of extra-biblical tradition?
- Nonconscious..............................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
- Non-intervention..........................Does human culpability for non-interference in crime prove theodicy WRONG?
- Non-linear................................Does complexity REALLY require 'more complexity'?
- Note-taking...............................Evidence of early writing by the apostles (probably even during Jesus' life)
- Note-taking...............................Again: the process wasn't solely oral...
- Novel.....................................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
- Novel.....................................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
- NT criticism..............................The methodological problem of separating the 'layers' in the NT
- NT, accuracy..............................The "tradition control" methods as the church expanded
- NT, accuracy..............................The issue of oral tradition, control, and fixity
- NT, accuracy..............................The Gospels are under the same Thuycididean standards and conventions of the Hellenistic world
- NT, accuracy..............................They are probably even at a higher level of fidelity to historical reporting
- NT, accuracy..............................Could Jesus really not have had any 'apocalyptic expectations' because they were allegedly only later?
- NT, accuracy..............................What are the scholarly trends in that area today?
- NT, anti-YHWH.............................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
- NT, Apocrypha.............................What about the Gospel of Thomas?
- NT, Apocrypha.............................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
- NT, authorship............................Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
- NT, authorship............................Evaluation of the Theory of Literary Dependence.
- NT, authorship............................Theory of Gospel construction
- NT, authorship............................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
- NT, authorship............................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
- NT, authorship............................Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
- NT, authorship............................The accuracy of the account of the trial of Jesus before Pilate
- NT, authorship............................Apostles as gospel authors?
- NT, authorship............................The literary witness to use of sources by the evangelists
- NT, authorship............................The widespread availability of NT mss. during the birth of the church
- NT, authorship............................ALL four Gospels are written in the Graeco-Roman genre of Bioi
- NT, authorship............................On the underlying unity of the early kerygma
- NT, authorship............................The Gospels are under the same Thuycididean standards and conventions of the Hellenistic world
- NT, authorship............................They are probably even at a higher level of fidelity to historical reporting
- NT, authorship............................Really long periods of 'oral only' transmission of the sayings of Jesus, from the times of Jesus?
- NT, authorship............................Was this alleged oral tradition transmitted without 'controls' andquite loosely?
- NT, authorship............................What are the scholarly trends in that area today?
- NT, authorship............................What is an alternative understanding of the process of gospel formation?
- NT, authorship............................Were the gospels pseudonymous?
- NT, authorship............................All the books of the bible were written by men--see, God de-values women again"
- NT, authorship............................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
- NT, background............................Responses to the Incarnation: Obstacles
- NT, bias..................................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
- NT, birth stories.........................Is 7.14--the Virgin Birth prophecy
- NT, birth stories.........................Micah 5.2: the Bethlehem prophecy
- NT, birth stories.........................Herod's slaughter of the children
- NT, birth stories.........................Nazerene, Nazirite, or What?
- NT, birth stories.........................The Return from Egypt
- NT, birth stories.........................Weird fulfillments in Matthew
- NT, birth stories.........................An objection about Luke, Quirinius, and Herods
- NT, borrowing.............................Is the Sermon on the Mount actually an ancient Essene prayer dating to 100's of years before Christ?!
- NT, circulation...........................Personal letter
- NT, circulation...........................Any eyewitnesses to refute the NT?
- NT, circulation...........................Any eyewitnesses to refute the NT? (2nd reply)
- NT, circulation...........................Evidence that even smaller churches had multiple copies of NT mss. often
- NT, circulation...........................Manuscript data showing a very early NT production
- NT, circulation...........................The widespread availability of NT mss. during the birth of the church
- NT, circulation...........................What is an alternative understanding of the process of gospel formation?
- NT, conspiracy............................Could the resurrection appearances be a case of GROUP Hallucination?
- NT, conspiracy............................Was Jesus really fraudulent, dishonest, sacrilegious, and conspiratorial?
- NT, contradiction.........................Does Mary's Question Contradict other passages in the NT?
- NT, contradictions........................What about number differences in parallel passages?
- NT, contradictions........................Well, did Jesus tell them to take a staff or not? Another contradiction?!
- NT, contradictions........................Do the Resurrection accounts HOPELESSLY contradict one another?
- NT, contradictions........................How many people saw the risen Jesus? 150 or 500?
- NT, contradictions........................three days and night vs. "on the 3rd day"?
- NT, contradictions........................three days and night vs. "on the 3rd day"?
- NT, contradictions........................A contradiction in the ascension accounts?
- NT, contradictions........................Women, stones, spices, empty tombs
- NT, corruption............................Did the Roman empire totally distort the New Testament documents?
- NT, corruption............................Should the possible addition of John 8.1-11 make us paranoid about other possible inauthentic 'additions'
- NT, dating................................Non-attribution and Evidence for early writing of NT Jesus material
- NT, dating................................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- NT, dating................................Evidence for early writing of NT from mainstream sources (Church Fathers/Apologists)
- NT, dating................................Any eyewitnesses to refute the NT?
- NT, dating................................Any eyewitnesses to refute the NT? (2nd reply)
- NT, dating................................An objection about Luke, Quirinius, and Herods
- NT, dating................................The methodological problem of separating the 'layers' in the NT
- NT, dating................................Evidence that even smaller churches had multiple copies of NT mss. often
- NT, dating................................Manuscript data showing a very early NT production
- NT, dating................................The impetus to write it down, due to being outside 'mainstream' Judaism (e.g. Qumran)
- NT, dating................................The widespread availability of NT mss. during the birth of the church
- NT, dating................................ A timeline of early Christian & anti-Christian literature
- NT, dating................................Papias and his preference for oral tradition
- NT, dating................................the identity/background/dating of the Gospel of Mark
- NT, dating................................Could Jesus really not have had any 'Son of man' sayings, because they were allegedly only later?
- NT, embellishment.........................Should the possible addition of John 8.1-11 make us paranoid about other possible inauthentic 'additions'
- NT, error.................................Did the gospels make an error in their citation of the Judas-30pieces episode?
- NT, error.................................Did the bible lie about Jesus not being married?
- NT, errors................................What about number differences in parallel passages?
- NT, errors................................did the Messianic Jewish Believers use the OT deceitfully or ignorantly in the New Testament?
- NT, errors................................Stephen's mistakes in Acts 7
- NT, errors................................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
- NT, errors................................If the Birth Star appeared in the East, why did the Magi travel West?!
- NT, errors................................Problems in the Genealogies of Jesus: Jeconiah
- NT, errors................................Herod's slaughter of the children
- NT, errors................................How does the memory research of Elizabeth Loftus on eyewitness testimony affect the credibility of NT?
- NT, errors................................Was the NT wrong about roosters being allowed in Jerusalem?
- NT, errors................................Was the town of Nazareth made-up by Christians?
- NT, errors................................Was the town of Nazareth made-up by Christians?
- NT, errors................................Was the town of Nazareth made-up by Christians?
- NT, errors................................Non-attribution and Evidence for early writing of NT Jesus material
- NT, errors................................Well, did Jesus tell them to take a staff or not? Another contradiction?!
- NT, errors................................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
- NT, errors................................What about all those resurrected people walking around in Jerusalem after Jesus' death?
- NT, errors................................Do the Resurrection accounts HOPELESSLY contradict one another?
- NT, errors................................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
- NT, errors................................How many people saw the risen Jesus? 150 or 500?
- NT, errors................................three days and night vs. "on the 3rd day"?
- NT, errors................................three days and night vs. "on the 3rd day"?
- NT, errors................................Was Jesus mistaken about Zechariah?
- NT, errors................................An objection about Luke, Quirinius, and Herods
- NT, errors................................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
- NT, errors................................is the tomb story flawed because the term 'rolled' is used?
- NT, errors................................Did the Roman empire totally distort the New Testament documents?
- NT, errors................................Women, stones, spices, empty tombs
- NT, errors................................The accuracy of the account of the trial of Jesus before Pilate
- NT, errors................................Could Jesus really not have had any 'Son of man' sayings, because they were allegedly only later?
- NT, errors................................What are the scholarly trends in that area today?
- NT, errors................................KNOWN textual errors in the Bible--don't they destroy "inerrancy"?
- NT, ethics................................Was John anti-Semitic
- NT, ethics................................did the Messianic Jewish Believers use the OT deceitfully or ignorantly in the New Testament?
- NT, ethics................................Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
- NT, evil..................................Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
- NT, exaggeration..........................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
- NT, eyewitness............................How does the memory research of Elizabeth Loftus on eyewitness testimony affect the credibility of NT?
- NT, falsify...............................Did the Jewish War eliminate all the possible counter-witnesses to the life of Jesus in the NT?
- NT, falsify...............................Non-attribution and Evidence for early writing of NT Jesus material
- NT, fraud.................................Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
- NT, fraud.................................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
- NT, fraud.................................Did John invent the story of the raising of Lazarus?!
- NT, fraud.................................Did the Roman empire totally distort the New Testament documents?
- NT, fraud.................................Did the bible lie about Jesus not being married?
- NT, fraud.................................Should the possible addition of John 8.1-11 make us paranoid about other possible inauthentic 'additions'
- NT, genre.................................ALL four Gospels are written in the Graeco-Roman genre of Bioi
- NT, Greek.................................How did the peasant apostle John write the book of Revelation in Greek?
- NT, Greek.................................Why was the NT written in Greek?
- NT, group.................................Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
- NT, history...............................How could the Christians diverge from their Jewish roots?
- NT, history...............................Non-attribution and Evidence for early writing of NT Jesus material
- NT, in the Fathers........................were the Apostolic Fathers unable to distinguish between authentic and unauthentic books?
- NT, in the Fathers........................Was Clement aware of the NT text?
- NT, in the Fathers........................Clement's alleged use of non-canonical sources
- NT, in the Fathers........................Justin Martyr's use of extra-biblical tradition?
- NT, in the OT.............................Was there any reason to expect another set of Scriptures?
- NT, integrity.............................Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
- NT, integrity.............................The Gospels are under the same Thuycididean standards and conventions of the Hellenistic world
- NT, integrity.............................They are probably even at a higher level of fidelity to historical reporting
- NT, language..............................How did the peasant apostle John write the book of Revelation in Greek?
- NT, language..............................Why was the NT written in Greek?
- NT, law...................................Did NT believers mix law and grace?
- NT, lawsuits..............................Does Paul specifically command that lawsuits is to be avoided for Christians in 1 Cor 6
- NT, layers................................The methodological problem of separating the 'layers' in the NT
- NT, manuscripts...........................Manuscript data showing a very early NT production
- NT, manuscripts...........................The difference between "original" writings and the ones we have today?
- NT, manuscripts...........................The relative "purity" of the early mss.
- NT, manuscripts...........................KNOWN textual errors in the Bible--don't they destroy "inerrancy"?
- NT, myth..................................Did John invent the story of the raising of Lazarus?!
- NT, offerings.............................Did NT believers mix law and grace?
- NT, opposition............................did the Christians just OUTLIVE those who "knew better and were silent"?
- NT, opposition............................Any eyewitnesses to refute the NT?
- NT, opposition............................Any eyewitnesses to refute the NT? (2nd reply)
- NT, originals.............................The difference between "original" writings and the ones we have today?
- NT, origins...............................Evaluation of the Theory of Literary Dependence.
- NT, origins...............................Theory of Gospel construction
- NT, OT in.................................Did Jesus/NT authors misquote the Shema when they said 'with all your mind'?
- NT, philosophy............................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- NT, purity................................The relative "purity" of the early mss.
- NT, refutation............................Any eyewitnesses to refute the NT?
- NT, refutation............................Any eyewitnesses to refute the NT? (2nd reply)
- NT, reliability...........................Did the Jewish War eliminate all the possible counter-witnesses to the life of Jesus in the NT?
- NT, Sacrifice.............................Sacrifice in the NT
- NT, Sacrifice.............................Jesus fulfillment of OT sacrifice
- NT, Sacrifice.............................Sacrifice in the NT world (Jewish)
- NT, Sacrifice.............................Sacrifice in the NT world (non-Jewish)
- NT, skeptic...............................Did the Jewish War eliminate all the possible counter-witnesses to the life of Jesus in the NT?
- NT, sources...............................How would Matthew have borrowed from pagan religions?
- NT, sources...............................Evaluation of the Theory of Literary Dependence.
- NT, sources...............................Theory of Gospel construction
- NT, sources...............................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
- NT, sources...............................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
- NT, sources...............................Did John invent the story of the raising of Lazarus?!
- NT, sources...............................Was the Sermon on the Mount a "plagarism" of Moses on the Mountain?
- NT, sources...............................Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
- NT, sources...............................Did the Roman empire totally distort the New Testament documents?
- NT, sources...............................The issue of oral tradition, control, and fixity
- NT, sources...............................The literary witness to use of sources by the evangelists
- NT, sources...............................Again: the process wasn't solely oral...
- NT, sources...............................The Gospels are under the same Thuycididean standards and conventions of the Hellenistic world
- NT, sources...............................The slow, oral, hodge-podge accumulation of bits and pieces of the NT into a whole?
- NT, sources...............................They are probably even at a higher level of fidelity to historical reporting
- NT, sources...............................How 'assured' is James' solution to the Synoptic Problem?
- NT, sources...............................What is an alternative understanding of the process of gospel formation?
- NT, text criticism........................KNOWN textual errors in the Bible--don't they destroy "inerrancy"?
- NT, text..................................were the Apostolic Fathers unable to distinguish between authentic and unauthentic books?
- NT, text..................................Was Clement aware of the NT text?
- NT, text..................................Clement's alleged use of non-canonical sources
- NT, text..................................The spurious endings of Mark's gospel
- NT, tradition.............................The methodological problem of separating the 'layers' in the NT
- NT, tradition.............................The impetus to write it down, due to being outside 'mainstream' Judaism (e.g. Qumran)
- NT, tradition.............................The issue of oral tradition, control, and fixity
- NT, transmission..........................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
- NT, transmission..........................Did the Roman empire totally distort the New Testament documents?
- NT, transmission..........................The "tradition control" methods as the church expanded
- NT, transmission..........................The difference between "original" writings and the ones we have today?
- NT, transmission..........................The issue of oral tradition, control, and fixity
- NT, transmission..........................The spurious endings of Mark's gospel
- NT, transmission..........................Really long periods of 'oral only' transmission of the sayings of Jesus, from the times of Jesus?
- NT, transmission..........................Was this alleged oral tradition transmitted without 'controls' andquite loosely?
- NT, transmission..........................KNOWN textual errors in the Bible--don't they destroy "inerrancy"?
- NT, trinity...............................The NT Witness:The Ancient Church Formulas in the NT
- NT, trinity...............................NT Passages mutually involving the Father, Son, and Spirit (Raw Data)
- NT, trinity...............................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Synoptics)
- NT, trinity...............................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Gospel of John)
- NT, trinity...............................The deity of Jesus:NT Responses to Jesus
- NT, trinity...............................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus
- NT, trinity...............................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus (con't)
- NT, trinity...............................The deity of Jesus:Other data relative to the deity of Jesus
- NT, trinity...............................The deity of Jesus:Summary: The deity of Jesus Christ
- NT, trinity...............................The deity of Jesus:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to Jesus
- NT, trinity...............................The NT Witness:The Personality of The Holy Spirit
- NT, trinity...............................The NT Witness:The Deity of The Holy Spirit
- NT, trinity...............................The NT Witness:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to The Holy Spirit
- NT, untrustworthy.........................Should the possible addition of John 8.1-11 make us paranoid about other possible inauthentic 'additions'
- NT, use of................................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- NT, use of................................Evidence for early writing of NT from mainstream sources (Church Fathers/Apologists)
- NT, verification..........................Extrabiblical, Non-Christian Witnesses to Jesus before 200 a.d.
- NT, verification..........................Extrabiblical Witnesses to Jesus before 200 a.d.:Thallus
- NT, verification..........................How does the memory research of Elizabeth Loftus on eyewitness testimony affect the credibility of NT?
- NT, view of cross.........................How did Jesus' Companions the Apostles understand what happened at the Cross?
- NT, witnesses.............................Did the Jewish War eliminate all the possible counter-witnesses to the life of Jesus in the NT?
- NT, women.................................Women: Data From the Life and Ministry of Jesus
- NT, women.................................Women: Data From the Historical Literature of the Apostolic Circle
- NT, women.................................Women's Roles in the Early Church
- NT, women.................................Paul and Women
- NT, writing...............................The impetus to write it down, due to being outside 'mainstream' Judaism (e.g. Qumran)
- NT........................................Septuagint in the NT
- NT........................................What about the Gospel of Thomas?
- NT........................................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
- NT........................................ Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
- NT........................................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
- NT........................................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
- NT........................................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
- NT........................................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
- NT........................................The meaning of 'born again' in Scripture
- Number of Chariots........................Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
- Number problems...........................Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
- Numbers 31................................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
- Numbers 5.................................Women: trial of the bitter waters (Sotah)
- Obedience.................................Martyrdom versus “obey and live long” principles
- Obedience.................................Did God command wives to OBEY their husbands?
- Objectivism...............................Various questions on the use of evidence in apologetics
- Occult....................................I am afraid my Occult background has led me into the Unpardonable sin
- Odes of Solomon...........................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- Offering..................................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
- Olam......................................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
- Olivet Discourse..........................Was Jesus mistaken about this 2nd Coming?
- Omnipresence..............................If God is infinite, how can there still be room for us?
- Ontology..................................Letter (started Feb 24/2013)
- Openness..................................is God supposed to 'prove stuff' to us, or are we supposed to 'seek God'?
- Openness..................................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
- Openness..................................Why isnt the God of the Bible showing Himself to me?
- Openness..................................Was Israel really open to Amalekite immigration?
- Opposition................................did the Christians just OUTLIVE those who "knew better and were silent"?
- Oral Tradition............................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
- Oral Tradition............................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
- Oral Tradition............................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
- Oral tradition............................The issue of oral tradition, control, and fixity
- Oral tradition............................Papias and his preference for oral tradition
- Oral tradition............................Again: the process wasn't solely oral...
- Oral tradition............................The slow, oral, hodge-podge accumulation of bits and pieces of the NT into a whole?
- Oral tradition............................Really long periods of 'oral only' transmission of the sayings of Jesus, from the times of Jesus?
- Oral tradition............................Was the early oral tradition ONLY made up of 'sayings' of Jesus?
- Oral Transmission.........................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
- Orchards..................................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Order.....................................Does complexity REALLY require 'more complexity'?
- Origen....................................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Orthodoxy................................. A timeline of early Christian & anti-Christian literature
- Orthodoxy.................................Evidence that heresy was neither EARLY nor Strong (contra the Bauer/Koester position)
- Orthodoxy.................................Major heretics as "Church Fathers"?
- Orthodoxy.................................The issue of multiple "types" of Christianity in the early church
- Orthodoxy.................................Their claims to 'legitimacy'
- Orthodoxy.................................On early church unity vs. factionalism/in-fighting
- Osiris....................................Dying and Rising Gods
- Osiris....................................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Ossilegium................................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
- OT (Greek)................................Septuagint in the NT
- OT Apocrypha..............................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
- OT, accuracy..............................Are there any extra-biblical refs to longevity BEFORE the flood?
- OT, accuracy..............................God's revelation to us: means, authentication, canon, transmission
- OT, authorship............................Jesus ascribed Pentateuch to Moses
- OT, authorship............................The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
- OT, authorship............................All the books of the bible were written by men--see, God de-values women again"
- OT, background............................Babylonian omen literature
- OT, background............................Timekeeping in the Ancient world
- OT, background............................International interaction
- OT, background............................Ancient Israelite Literacy - extent
- OT, background............................Where was historical data archived, in the OT
- OT, contradictions........................Was Terah 70 or 130 when Abraham was born?
- OT, contradictions........................Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
- OT, contradictions........................Well, did God LIKE what Jehu did or NOT--"another" contradiction?
- OT, corruption............................“Was there a textual corruption cover-up over Daniel 8.14?
- OT, cruelty...............................wasn't Elisha cruel when he sent those bears against those little kids who were teasing him about being bald?
- OT, dating................................Moses access to ancient data
- OT, dating................................OT did not borrow beliefs from pagans
- OT, dating................................Hittite Treaty forms
- OT, dating................................Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
- OT, dating................................The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
- OT, dating................................Was the Bible wrong about Abraham having camels that early?
- OT, dating................................Was Daniel written AFTER the events he foretold?
- OT, errors................................Was Terah 70 or 130 when Abraham was born?
- OT, errors................................Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
- OT, errors................................Noah's ark -- the problem of size
- OT, errors................................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
- OT, errors................................doesn't the archaeological record CONTRADICT the Bible's claims about Joshua's "Conquest"?!
- OT, errors................................Why did God order Abraham to do child sacrifice?
- OT, errors................................Was the Bible wrong about Abraham having camels that early?
- OT, errors................................When was the name "Yahweh" revealed?
- OT, errors................................Are there any extra-biblical refs to longevity BEFORE the flood?
- OT, errors................................God's revelation to us: means, authentication, canon, transmission
- OT, ethics................................Did God force the people of Jerusalem into cannibalism?
- OT, ethics................................Did the Law only regulate behavior toward OTHER Jews?
- OT, ethics................................Does God condone slavery in the Bible?
- OT, ethics................................A HUGE double standard in biblical sexual ethics?
- OT, ethics................................The VAST MAJORITY of Israelite/Church leadership is by MEN--see, God de-values women again"
- OT, ethics................................Why do men get all the glory in the bible? Why are women only minor characters?!"
- OT, ethics................................Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
- OT, exegesis..............................How could the Christians diverge from their Jewish roots?
- OT, exegesis..............................Jewish exegesis of OT in 1st century
- OT, exegesis..............................Typology--a legitimate approach to OT passages?
- OT, external data.........................Parting of the Sea by Moses
- OT, foreshadow............................Was there any reason to expect another set of Scriptures?
- OT, forms.................................OT forms highly memorable
- OT, fulfilled.............................Jesus fulfillment of OT sacrifice
- OT, in NT.................................Jesus ascribed Pentateuch to Moses
- OT, in NT.................................did the Messianic Jewish Believers use the OT deceitfully or ignorantly in the New Testament?
- OT, in NT.................................Stephen's mistakes in Acts 7
- OT, in NT.................................Jewish use of Non-Masoretic Text in 1st century
- OT, in NT.................................Jesus fulfillment of OT sacrifice
- OT, in NT.................................Weird fulfillments in Matthew
- OT, in NT.................................Was Jesus mistaken about Zechariah?
- OT, in NT.................................Was the Sermon on the Mount a "plagarism" of Moses on the Mountain?
- OT, in NT.................................Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
- OT, in NT.................................Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
- OT, in OT.................................OT in the OT
- OT, in the NT.............................Did the gospels make an error in their citation of the Judas-30pieces episode?
- OT, in the NT.............................Did Jesus/NT authors misquote the Shema when they said 'with all your mind'?
- OT, Jesus.................................Jesus fulfillment of OT sacrifice
- OT, languages.............................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
- OT, law...................................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
- OT, messianic.............................The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
- OT, messianic.............................Jewish messianic exegesis in 1st century
- OT, messianic.............................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
- OT, messianic.............................Did Christians simply INVENT the "pierced my hands and feet" in Psalm 22?!
- OT, messianic.............................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
- OT, messianic.............................Typology--a legitimate approach to OT passages?
- OT, miracles..............................Joshua's long day
- OT, miracles..............................Parting of the Sea by Moses
- OT, miracles..............................Reversal of sun's path for Hezekiah
- OT, mistakes..............................Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
- OT, plurality of God......................Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
- OT, plurality of God......................Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
- OT, prophecy..............................The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
- OT, prophecy..............................Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
- OT, prophecy..............................Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
- OT, Pseudepigrapha........................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
- OT, quarantine............................Was biblical leprosy the same as modern leprosy?
- OT, reliability...........................How likely is it that Noah was the only righteous person on the whole earth, at the time of the Flood?
- OT, Sacrifice.............................Sacrifice in the OT
- OT, Sacrifice.............................OT sacrifice: difference from Israel's neighbors
- OT, Sacrifice.............................Logic of OT sacrifice (summary)
- OT, slander...............................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
- OT, slavery...............................Does God condone slavery in the Bible?
- OT, sources...............................OT Jews had access to prior data
- OT, sources...............................Moses access to ancient data
- OT, sources...............................OT forms highly memorable
- OT, sources...............................OT did not borrow beliefs from pagans
- OT, sources...............................Where was historical data archived, in the OT
- OT, sources...............................pre-mosaic keepers of historical data
- OT, sources...............................OT priests as keepers of historical data
- OT, sources...............................OT prophets as keepers of historical data
- OT, sources...............................the Documentary Hypothesis
- OT, sources...............................Good questions on JEDP
- OT, sources...............................Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
- OT, sources...............................The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
- OT, sources...............................Was Daniel written AFTER the events he foretold?
- OT, text criticism........................KNOWN textual errors in the Bible--don't they destroy "inerrancy"?
- OT, text..................................Was the LXX "scripture" for 1st century Jews?
- OT, text..................................Jewish use of Non-Masoretic Text in 1st century
- OT, text..................................Did Christians simply INVENT the "pierced my hands and feet" in Psalm 22?!
- OT, text..................................Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
- OT, text..................................The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
- OT, textual changes.......................Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
- OT, theology..............................OT did not borrow beliefs from pagans
- OT, theology..............................OT sacrifice: difference from Israel's neighbors
- OT, transmission..........................OT Jews had access to prior data
- OT, transmission..........................Where was historical data archived, in the OT
- OT, transmission..........................pre-mosaic keepers of historical data
- OT, transmission..........................OT priests as keepers of historical data
- OT, transmission..........................OT prophets as keepers of historical data
- OT, transmission..........................Transmission of Revelation - Mosaic
- OT, transmission..........................Transmission of Revelation - failure
- OT, transmission..........................New Covenant/New Moses
- OT, transmission..........................Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
- OT, transmission..........................The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
- OT, transmission..........................God's revelation to us: means, authentication, canon, transmission
- OT, transmission..........................KNOWN textual errors in the Bible--don't they destroy "inerrancy"?
- OT, trinity...............................Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
- OT, trinity...............................Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
- OT, uncleanness...........................Was biblical leprosy the same as modern leprosy?
- OT, verification..........................Hittite Treaty forms
- OT, verification..........................How did Moses get Balaam's prophecies for inclusion in Numbers?!
- OT, verification..........................Israel's knowledge of Canaanite practices BEFORE the exodus
- OT, verification..........................The "Travelogues" of the Book of Numbers
- OT, verification..........................doesn't the archaeological record CONTRADICT the Bible's claims about Joshua's "Conquest"?!
- OT, verification..........................Are there any extra-biblical refs to longevity BEFORE the flood?
- OT, violence..............................shouldn't the butchering of the Amalekite children be considered war crimes?
- OT, women.................................Women: Historical Data From the Pre-Monarchy Literature
- OT, women.................................Women Legal Data From the Pre-Monarchy Literature
- OT, women.................................Women: literary data From the Pre-Monarchy Literature
- OT, women.................................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Eve
- OT, women.................................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Jephthah's daughter
- OT, women.................................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Levite and his concubine
- OT, women.................................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Lot's Daughters
- OT, women.................................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Miriam's rebellion
- OT, women.................................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Potiphar's wife
- OT, women.................................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Rachel's theft
- OT, women.................................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: rape of Dinah
- OT, women.................................Women: historical Data From the Monarchy Literature
- OT, women.................................Women: literary Data From the Monarchy Literature
- OT, women.................................Women: 'portrayal' Data (Wisdom lit) From the Monarchy Literature
- OT, women.................................Women: historical Data From the Divided Monarchy Literature
- OT, women.................................Women: prophetic Data From the Divided Monarchy Literature
- OT, women.................................Women: Data From the Exilic and Post-Exilic Community
- OT, women.................................Female Beauty in Bible
- OT, women.................................Women: trial of the bitter waters (Sotah)
- OT, writing...............................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
- OT........................................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
- OT........................................doesn't the archaeological record CONTRADICT the Bible's claims about Joshua's "Conquest"?!
- OT........................................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
- OT........................................Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
- Outgroup..................................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
- Pagan.....................................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
- Pagan.....................................Was YHWH just a pagan solar deity IAO?
- Pagan.....................................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
- Paganism..................................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
- Pain......................................if Jesus didn't stay dead, how could His death have been a REAL sacrifice?
- Pain......................................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
- Pain......................................Is pain in childbirth the Curse on Eve in Genesis 3?
- Pain......................................A Letter about Pain in Heaven over lost Loved Ones
- Pain......................................How could God let Christians hurt to the point of suicide?
- Palestine.................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
- Palestine.................................Sacrifice in Early Cultures, Israel's neighbors
- Palestine.................................Sacrifice in the NT world (Jewish)
- Palestine.................................doesn't the archaeological record CONTRADICT the Bible's claims about Joshua's "Conquest"?!
- Pantheon..................................Was YHWH just a pagan solar deity IAO?
- Pantheon..................................Was Yahweh a member of the Phoenician pantheon?
- Papias....................................Papias and his preference for oral tradition
- Paradigm..................................Personality as the Basal Interpretive Paradigm
- Parallel passages.........................Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
- Parallels.................................Was the Sermon on the Mount a "plagarism" of Moses on the Mountain?
- Parallels.................................Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
- Paranormal................................Question on contacting the dead (the Witch of Endor story)
- Parasitoids...............................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
- Parents...................................Martyrdom versus “obey and live long” principles
- Parousia..................................Was Jesus a failed apocalyptic prophet that the embarrassed church had to re-work into something different
- Particularity, scandal....................Letter (started Feb 24/2013)
- Particularity.............................Letter (started Feb 24/2013)
- Passion week..............................What about all those resurrected people walking around in Jerusalem after Jesus' death?
- Passion week..............................Do the Resurrection accounts HOPELESSLY contradict one another?
- Passover..................................Sacrifice in Mosaic Covenant
- Passover..................................Was God cruel when He killed all the firstborn of Egypt?
- Pastorals.................................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
- Patience..................................Why does judgment lag so far behind?
- Patriarchy................................A HUGE double standard in biblical sexual ethics?
- Patriarchy................................Wasn't Miriam punished for questioning male authority, while Aaron was not?"
- Patriarchy................................Doesn't the bible teach that God cursed women by making them subject/subordinate to men?"
- Patriarchy................................The VAST MAJORITY of Israelite/Church leadership is by MEN--see, God de-values women again"
- Patriarchy................................Why do men get all the glory in the bible? Why are women only minor characters?!"
- Patriarchy................................Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
- Patriarchy................................The patriarchy system (God condoned) subjected women by restricting their access to social/cultural power."
- Patterns..................................Patterns and Argument
- Patterns..................................The Priority of Patterns over Elements
- Paul .....................................How "non-Jesus" was Paul, really? (Muslim arg)
- Paul, and Jesus...........................How "non-Jesus" was Paul, really? (Muslim arg)
- Paul, and Jesus...........................How "non-Jesus" was Paul, really? (Muslim arg)
- Paul, and Jesus...........................Paul had NO interest in the life of Jesus?
- Paul, and Jesus...........................Paul had NO interest in the WORDS or TEACHINGS of Jesus?
- Paul, and Jesus...........................Paul preached a different gospel than Jesus?
- Paul, and Jesus...........................Paul's gospel of a "Crucified Christ" was his invention?
- Paul, and Jesus...........................Paul's gospel was an anti-Law accommodation to the corrupt governments?
- Paul, and Jesus...........................But didn't Jesus strongly affirm the Law in Matthew 5.17-19?
- Paul, and Jesus...........................Did Jesus come to perpetuate the Mosaic Law?
- Paul, and Jesus...........................Did Jesus restrict His gospel message to the Jews?
- Paul, and Jesus...........................Does Paul have a 'low view' of the Law?
- Paul, and Jesus...........................How "non-Jesus" was Paul, really? (Muslim arg)
- Paul, and Jesus...........................Is Paul's view of the Law radically different from that of Peter, James, John, and the Writer to the Hebrews?
- Paul, and Jesus...........................Was the essence of the Law really 'sovereignty'?
- Paul, and lawsuits........................Does Paul specifically command that lawsuits is to be avoided for Christians in 1 Cor 6
- Paul, and polygamy........................Does the NT sanction polygamy?
- Paul, and Slavery.........................Does God condone slavery in the Bible (NT)?
- Paul, and the Law.........................How "non-Jesus" was Paul, really? (Muslim arg)
- Paul, and women...........................Paul and Women: Controversial passages: 1 Cor 11
- Paul, and women...........................Paul and Women: Controversial passages: 1 Cor 14
- Paul, and women...........................Paul and Women: Controversial passages: 1 Tim 2
- Paul, and women...........................Paul and Women
- Paul, and women...........................Paul OBVIOUSLY had a "sit down and shut up" attitude toward women--and we are supposed to trust HIM?!"
- Paul, and women...........................The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
- Paul, anti-semitic........................Was First Thess 2.15ff seriously Anti-Semitic??!!
- Paul, extremist...........................How non-Jesus was Paul, really? (continuation)
- Paul, facts on Jesus......................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Paul, versus Everybody....................How non-Jesus was Paul, really? (continuation)
- Paul, versus James........................How non-Jesus was Paul, really? (continuation)
- Paul, versus Jerusalem....................How non-Jesus was Paul, really? (continuation)
- Paul......................................Paul and Women
- Paul......................................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
- Paul......................................Paul - and critical thinking
- Paul......................................Roman's and Paul's Theological Method
- Peace, nature of..........................God the Peace-Maker (PDF outline)
- PeaceMaker................................God the Peace-Maker (PDF outline)
- Penal.....................................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
- Pentateuch................................Jesus ascribed Pentateuch to Moses
- Pentateuch................................OT did not borrow beliefs from pagans
- Pentateuch................................The issue of 'borrowing' laws--did Moses somehow "copy" Hammurabi?
- Pentateuch................................Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
- Pentateuch................................The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
- Peregrinus................................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
- Persecution, Fleeing......................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
- Persecution, Muslim.......................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
- Persecution...............................Martyrdom versus “obey and live long” principles
- Persecution...............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
- Persian...................................Someone bothered about a question on the Persian Mithras
- Personality...............................Personality as the Basal Interpretive Paradigm
- Personality...............................On the Loci of Freedom...
- Personality...............................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
- Perspicuity...............................God's revelation to us: skepticism, hiddeness
- Pervo.....................................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
- Pesher....................................Jewish exegesis of OT in 1st century
- Peter, and Paul...........................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
- Peter, Epistles...........................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
- Peter, languages..........................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
- Peter.....................................Why didn't Peter eat on the roof?
- Pets......................................My kid's pet just died...what should I tell my kid?
- Phantasm..................................Is Jesus' flesh only LIKE a human's (and not ACTUALLY human itself)?
- Pharaoh...................................Hardening of Pharaoh
- Pharaoh...................................Hardening of Pharaoh
- Pharaoh...................................Was God cruel when He killed all the firstborn of Egypt?
- Pharaoh...................................Did God harden Pharaoh's heart FIRST?
- Pharisee..................................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
- Pharisees.................................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
- Pharisees.................................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
- Pharisees.................................Jesus and the Pharisees
- Philo.....................................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
- Philo.....................................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
- Philo.....................................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Philosophy................................Epistemology -starting point
- Philosophy................................Freedom
- Philosophy................................Theological Basis for Epistemology (outline)
- Philosophy................................Can God make a rock so big He cannot lift it?
- Philosophy................................On humanity 'inventing' God
- Philosophy................................Does complexity REALLY require 'more complexity'?
- Philosophy................................Linguistic wall--index
- Philosophy................................Physical and Metaphysical "Primitives"
- Philosophy................................Precision and the Epistemic "Bubble"
- Philosophy................................Patterns and Argument
- Philosophy................................The Priority of Patterns over Elements
- Philosophy................................Personality as the Basal Interpretive Paradigm
- Philosophy................................Implications for 'apologetic method'
- Philosophy................................Did I just switch from a correspondence theory of truth to a coherence theory of truth?
- Philosophy................................The 'codedness' of revelation
- Philosophy................................God and evil, theodicy
- Philosophy................................Postmodernism and Hermeneutics
- Philosophy................................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
- Philosophy................................On foreknowledge
- Philosophy................................Self-Stultifying Arguments
- Philosophy................................Towards an Evangelical Theological Method (outline)
- Philosophy................................Roman's and Paul's Theological Method
- Philosophy................................Kinds, Postmodernism, and the Absolutes of Dissonance...
- Philosophy................................On the Loci of Freedom...
- Philostratus..............................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
- Phoenician................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
- Phoenician................................Was Yahweh a member of the Phoenician pantheon?
- Pigs, stampede............................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
- Pilate....................................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
- Plagarism.................................Was the Sermon on the Mount a "plagarism" of Moses on the Mountain?
- Plagarism.................................Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
- Plagues...................................Did God harden Pharaoh's heart FIRST?
- Platonism, Middle.........................Was the Ascension of Isaiah a Middle-Platonist document?
- Platonism, Middle.........................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Platonism.................................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Plutarch..................................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- POE.......................................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
- Polis.....................................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Political power...........................Did the Roman empire totally distort the New Testament documents?
- Poltergeist...............................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
- Polycarp..................................Evidence for early writing of NT from mainstream sources (Church Fathers/Apologists)
- Polygamy..................................Does the NT sanction polygamy?
- Polygamy..................................One wife or First wife?
- Polygamy..................................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
- Polytheism................................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
- Polytheism................................Are there 3 gods in the Trinity?
- Polytheism................................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
- Polytheism................................John 1.1 - "a God"?
- Polytheism................................Does the Joel quote in Acts 2 indicate astral worship by Israel?
- Polytheism................................Was Yahweh a member of the Phoenician pantheon?
- Polytheism................................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
- Poor......................................OT passages on what God avenges
- Porphyry..................................Are there any indications from the EXTERNAL data , that the miracle stories are historical?
- Poseidonius...............................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Possession................................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
- Possession................................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
- Postmodernism.............................Postmodernism and Hermeneutics
- Postmodernism.............................Kinds, Postmodernism, and the Absolutes of Dissonance...
- Post-Mosaic...............................Transmission of Revelation - failure
- Post-Mosaic...............................New Covenant/New Moses
- Post-Temple...............................Sacrifice in the NT world (Jewish, post-temple)
- Potiphar's wife...........................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Potiphar's wife
- Potter....................................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
- Powers....................................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
- Practice..................................Interacting with God - doubts
- Practice..................................Interacting with God - problems with Bible
- Practice..................................Interacting with God - problems
- Practice..................................Interacting with God
- Practice..................................dealing with intellectual pride
- Practice..................................Are Christian academic institutions optional or necessary?
- Practice..................................Christian growth--an outline
- Practice..................................A problem with relating to God the Father
- Practice..................................My kid's pet just died...what should I tell my kid?
- Practice..................................How to help a "difficult" family member.
- Practice..................................If sins are forgiven, how will Christians be judged?
- Praxis....................................How I deal with very hostile objections
- Praxis....................................Questions on my Life-View and dealing with others
- Prayer....................................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
- Precision.................................Precision and the Epistemic "Bubble"
- Precision.................................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
- Predation.................................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
- Predation.................................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
- Predestination............................How did the Gentiles get in the picture if the Jews were the 'chosen ones
- Predestination............................Does culture determine which religion one believes? (and is this fair of God?)
- Predestination............................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
- Predestination............................Is history all "of one piece"? And Is everyone given a fair chance at heaven?
- Predestination............................Was Judas actually "obeying God" when he fulfilled the Scripture?
- Predestination............................Did God harden Pharaoh's heart FIRST?
- predestination............................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
- Predestination............................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
- Predestination............................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
- Predestination............................Doesn't Paul's argument in Romans 9 pretty clearly indicate that people's free choices are determined by God?
- Prediction, specific......................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
- Prediction................................The Fulfillment of Prophecy
- Prediction................................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
- Prediction................................Various questions on the use of evidence in apologetics
- Prejudice.................................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
- Pre-mosaic................................pre-mosaic keepers of historical data
- Pre-mosaic................................Authetication of Revelation - preMosaic
- Presumption...............................Fear over "Willful Sins"
- Presuppositionalism.......................presuppositionalism
- Presuppositionalism.......................More on presuppositionalism
- Pride.....................................Can Pride be Good?
- Pride.....................................Dealing with pride
- Pride.....................................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
- Pride.....................................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
- Priest....................................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than Levitical priest
- Priest....................................OT priests as keepers of historical data
- Priest....................................But, women were excluded from being priests..."
- Priesthood, Melchizedek...................Source data for messianic titles
- Priesthood................................if Jesus didn't stay dead, how could His death have been a REAL sacrifice?
- Priming...................................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
- Principalities............................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
- Probability...............................On apologetic value of typological "prophecy"
- Probability...............................Theological impact of Aliens from space
- Problem of Evil...........................Is God really the ONLY evil being in the universe?
- Problem of Evil...........................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
- Problems..................................if Christianity is true, why does it need so much defending? And why doesn't God make it clearer?
- Procrustes................................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
- Promises..................................Martyrdom versus “obey and live long” principles
- Proof.....................................is God supposed to 'prove stuff' to us, or are we supposed to 'seek God'?
- Proof.....................................Interacting with the "possibly revelatory" data: Encounter, Response, Results
- Proof.....................................Two Pushbacks, on "would more hurt"? and "why seek a hidden God anyway?"
- Proof.....................................Certainty vs. Proof
- Proof.....................................Types of Evidence
- Proof.....................................Why doesn't God give us proof?
- Proof.....................................Doubt
- Proof.....................................Why doesn't God manifest Himself physically?
- Proof.....................................Authetication of Revelation - preMosaic
- Proof.....................................Authetication of Revelation - Mosaic
- Proof.....................................How I decide between competing claims to revelation
- Proof.....................................How I decide between competing claims to revelation
- Proof.....................................Types of evidence for revelation
- Proof.....................................Types of evidence for revelation
- Proof.....................................Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
- Proof.....................................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
- Proof.....................................why should we believe Jesus was the Messiah, if He didn’t fulfill all the prophecies when He was here?
- Proof.....................................Could the resurrection appearances be a case of GROUP Hallucination?
- Proof.....................................How does the memory research of Elizabeth Loftus on eyewitness testimony affect the credibility of NT?
- Proof.....................................What makes you convinced that God exists?
- Proof.....................................Why didn't God confirm the resurrection in a better way?
- Proof.....................................On apologetic value of typological "prophecy"
- Proof.....................................Typology and prophecy
- Proof.....................................Is the bible false, since it is not written in logic or math?
- Proof.....................................Is 'only reason' reasonable?
- Proof.....................................The Fulfillment of Prophecy
- Proof.....................................Is Christian experience make-believe?
- Proof.....................................God's revelation to us: means, authentication, canon, transmission
- Proof.....................................Thumb: How do you know God exists?
- Proof.....................................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
- Proof.....................................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
- Proof.....................................Objections-to disprove is not to prove the opposite
- Proof.....................................What makes you convinced that God exists?
- Property..................................Weren't OT women WORSE off than even their Babylonian counterparts?"
- Prophecy, evaluation of...................On apologetic value of typological "prophecy"
- Prophecy, messianic.......................Source data for messianic titles
- Prophecy, messianic.......................Where in the Hebrew Bible does it predict a resurrection after 3 days?
- Prophecy, prediction......................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
- Prophecy..................................The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
- Prophecy..................................Did Jesus come during the wrong empire, according to Daniel and the beast vision?
- Prophecy..................................Is 7.14--the Virgin Birth prophecy
- Prophecy..................................Micah 5.2: the Bethlehem prophecy
- Prophecy..................................Was Jesus actually a 'ruler' in Israel?
- Prophecy..................................Weird fulfillments in Matthew
- Prophecy..................................why should we believe Jesus was the Messiah, if He didn’t fulfill all the prophecies when He was here?
- Prophecy..................................Was there any reason to expect another set of Scriptures?
- Prophecy..................................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
- Prophecy..................................Does Micah 5 speak about the birth-place of the Messiah, or only His birth-family?
- Prophecy..................................On apologetic value of typological "prophecy"
- Prophecy..................................Typology and prophecy
- Prophecy..................................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
- Prophecy..................................The Fulfillment of Prophecy
- Prophecy..................................Did Christians simply INVENT the "pierced my hands and feet" in Psalm 22?!
- Prophecy..................................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
- Prophecy..................................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
- Prophecy..................................Well, did God LIKE what Jehu did or NOT--"another" contradiction?
- Prophecy..................................Was Daniel written AFTER the events he foretold?
- Prophecy..................................A question on my work on Isaiah 7.14
- Prophecy..................................Various questions on the use of evidence in apologetics
- Prophecy..................................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
- Prophecy..................................Was Jesus a failed apocalyptic prophet that the embarrassed church had to re-work into something different
- Prophecy..................................Typology--a legitimate approach to OT passages?
- Prophecy..................................Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
- Prophet...................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
- Prophetic Figures.........................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
- Prophets, ANE.............................wasn't Elisha cruel when he sent those bears against those little kids who were teasing him about being bald?
- Prophets, bad.............................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
- Prophets, ignorant........................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
- Prophets, status..........................wasn't Elisha cruel when he sent those bears against those little kids who were teasing him about being bald?
- Prophets, women...........................Did women prophets have to be virgins?
- Prophets..................................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a prophet
- Prophets..................................OT prophets as keepers of historical data
- Prophets..................................Sacrifice in Later books of OT: Prophets
- Prophets..................................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
- Propitiation..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Protection by God.........................Letter to Readers (misc topics)
- Providence................................Was Judas actually "obeying God" when he fulfilled the Scripture?
- Providence................................What good is God? On...the limits of "trials"
- Psalm 22..................................Did Christians simply INVENT the "pierced my hands and feet" in Psalm 22?!
- Psalms....................................Sacrifice in Later books of OT: Psalms
- Psalms....................................Messianic Psalms: The Righteous Sufferer
- Pseudepigrapha............................Jewish use of Non-Masoretic Text in 1st century
- Pseudepigrapha............................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
- Pseudepigrapha............................Was Daniel written AFTER the events he foretold?
- Pseudonymity..............................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
- Pseudonymity..............................Was Daniel written AFTER the events he foretold?
- Pseudonymity..............................Were the gospels pseudonymous?
- Pseudonymity..............................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
- Psychoactive drugs........................A problem with guilt over using "secular" counselors and neuroactive medication
- Punishment, Eternal.......................Isn’t infinite/eternal punishment for a finite/temporal sin a bit disproportionate???
- Punishment................................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
- Punishment................................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
- Pythagoras................................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
- Q.........................................Was the early oral tradition ONLY made up of 'sayings' of Jesus?
- Q.........................................How 'assured' is James' solution to the Synoptic Problem?
- Q.........................................How compelling is the case for Literary Dependence among the synoptic gospels?
- Quarantine................................Was biblical leprosy the same as modern leprosy?
- Quirinius.................................An objection about Luke, Quirinius, and Herods
- Qumran....................................Jewish use of Non-Masoretic Text in 1st century
- Qumran....................................John the Baptist as Forerunner of the Messiah
- Qumran....................................The theories of Eisenman, Allegro, Thiering, and Baigent & Leigh concerning the Dead Sea Scrolls?
- Qumran....................................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
- Qumran....................................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
- Qumran....................................Is the Sermon on the Mount actually an ancient Essene prayer dating to 100's of years before Christ?!
- Quotation.................................Non-attribution and Evidence for early writing of NT Jesus material
- Quran.....................................How can Christians believe that there is only one God, and yet still call Jesus the Son of God?
- Quran.....................................Are there 3 gods in the Trinity?
- Quran.....................................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
- Quran.....................................Are Muslims forbidden to believe that Jesus was crucified?
- Quran.....................................is theBible "as violent" as the Quran/Hadith?
- Quran.....................................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
- Rabbi.....................................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
- Rabbinic..................................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
- rabbinic..................................Are there any indications from the EXTERNAL data , that the miracle stories are historical?
- Rabbinic..................................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
- Rabbinic.................................. Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
- Rabbinic..................................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
- Rabbinical................................Jewish use of Non-Masoretic Text in 1st century
- Rabbinical................................Was the LXX "scripture" for 1st century Jews?
- Rabbinical................................John the Baptist as Forerunner of the Messiah
- Rabbinical................................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
- Rabbinical................................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
- Rabbinical................................did the Christians just OUTLIVE those who "knew better and were silent"?
- Rabbinical................................Evidence of early writing by the apostles (probably even during Jesus' life)
- Rabbinics.................................why should we believe Jesus was the Messiah, if He didn’t fulfill all the prophecies when He was here?
- Rabbinics.................................Did the bible lie about Jesus not being married?
- Rabbis....................................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
- Rachel....................................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Rachel's theft
- Racial....................................Was Israel really open to Amalekite immigration?
- Racism....................................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
- Raiders...................................Were the Amalekites REALLY nomads?
- Rambam....................................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
- Ramban....................................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
- Ransom....................................Redemption/Ransom (NT)--pdf only
- Ransom....................................Redemption/Ransom (OT)
- Ransom....................................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
- Ransom...................................."Paid in Full" -- Jesus' words on the Cross?
- Ransom....................................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
- Rape......................................Did God callously give David's wives to Absalom to rape?
- Rape......................................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
- Rape......................................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
- Rashi.....................................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
- Reason....................................Is the bible false, since it is not written in logic or math?
- Reason....................................Is 'only reason' reasonable?
- Reburial..................................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
- Recompense................................What "value" is there in exceptional suffering?
- Reconciliation............................Reconciliation (class syllabus)
- Redaction.................................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
- Redemption................................Redemption/Ransom (NT)--pdf only
- Redemption................................Redemption/Ransom (OT)
- Redemption................................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
- Redemption................................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
- Reductionism..............................Is there evidence for the existence of the "soul"?
- Reductionism..............................Mind/brain
- Reductionism..............................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
- Reference Points..........................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
- Reformed..................................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
- Reincarnation.............................Did the early Church believe in Reincarnation?
- Rejection, messiah........................Source data for messianic titles
- Rejection.................................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
- Relevance.................................Hey, who Invited GOD to this century?!
- Religion, delusion........................Isnt there a “God part of the Brain” that proves all this Jesus stuff is untrue?
- Repentance................................What is "repentance"?
- Response..................................Interacting with the "possibly revelatory" data: Encounter, Response, Results
- Response..................................Two Pushbacks, on "would more hurt"? and "why seek a hidden God anyway?"
- Responsibility, Human.....................Does human culpability for non-interference in crime prove theodicy WRONG?
- Responsibility............................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
- Rest, nature of...........................God the Rest-Giver (PDF outline)
- Resurrection, confirmation................Why didn't God confirm the resurrection in a better way?
- Resurrection, proof.......................Why didn't God confirm the resurrection in a better way?
- Resurrection..............................How was Jesus the Firstfruits from the dead, if there were other resurrections before His?
- Resurrection..............................Could the resurrection appearances be a case of GROUP Hallucination?
- Resurrection..............................Letter to Readers (misc topics)
- Resurrection..............................Why didn't God confirm the resurrection in a better way?
- Resurrection..............................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Resurrection..............................What about all those resurrected people walking around in Jerusalem after Jesus' death?
- Resurrection..............................Do the Resurrection accounts HOPELESSLY contradict one another?
- Resurrection..............................What does 'firstborn' mean when used of Jesus?
- Resurrection..............................Did John invent the story of the raising of Lazarus?!
- Resurrection..............................Women, stones, spices, empty tombs
- Retribution...............................Isn’t infinite/eternal punishment for a finite/temporal sin a bit disproportionate???
- Retribution...............................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
- Return of Christ..........................Was Jesus a failed apocalyptic prophet that the embarrassed church had to re-work into something different
- Revelation, authentication................God's revelation to us: means, authentication, canon, transmission
- Revelation, hiddeness.....................God's revelation to us: skepticism, hiddeness
- Revelation, Perspicuity...................God's revelation to us: skepticism, hiddeness
- Revelation, proof.........................Authetication of Revelation - preMosaic
- Revelation, proof.........................Authetication of Revelation - Mosaic
- Revelation................................Interacting with the "possibly revelatory" data: Encounter, Response, Results
- Revelation................................Why doesn't God manifest Himself physically?
- Revelation................................How I decide between competing claims to revelation
- Revelation................................How I decide between competing claims to revelation
- Revelation................................Types of evidence for revelation
- Revelation................................Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
- Revelation................................What about Those Who have Never Heard the Gospel?
- Revelation................................Why isnt the God of the Bible showing Himself to me?
- Revelation................................The 'codedness' of revelation
- Revelation................................The process of God's communication to us
- Revelation................................Is God ever intentionally silent toward His loved ones?
- Revelation................................God's revelation to us: context and processing
- Revelation................................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
- Revelation................................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
- Revenge...................................OT passages on what God avenges
- Revenge...................................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
- Righteousness.............................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
- Righteousness.............................The difference between Righteousness and Holiness
- Ritual....................................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
- Roman census..............................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Roman housing.............................Urban expansion of the early Church
- Roman life................................Urban expansion of the early Church
- Roman literature, influence of gospels on.Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- Roman.....................................Sacrifice in the NT world (non-Jewish)
- Romance...................................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
- Romance...................................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
- Romans 9..................................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
- Romans 9..................................Doesn't Paul's argument in Romans 9 pretty clearly indicate that people's free choices are determined by God?
- Romans....................................Roman's and Paul's Theological Method
- Rome......................................Did Jesus come during the wrong empire, according to Daniel and the beast vision?
- Rooster...................................Was the NT wrong about roosters being allowed in Jerusalem?
- Ruler.....................................Was Jesus actually a 'ruler' in Israel?
- Sabbath...................................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
- Sabbath...................................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
- Sacrifice ................................Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
- Sacrifice, child..........................Why did God order Abraham to do child sacrifice?
- Sacrifice, child..........................Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
- Sacrifice, human..........................Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
- Sacrifice, Jesus..........................Jesus sacrifice: the purpose
- Sacrifice, purpose........................OT sacrifice: Purpose
- Sacrifice, purpose........................Jesus sacrifice: the purpose
- Sacrifice.................................The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
- Sacrifice.................................if Jesus didn't stay dead, how could His death have been a REAL sacrifice?
- Sacrifice.................................Sacrifice in Early Cultures, Israel's neighbors
- Sacrifice.................................Sacrifice in Early Cultures, Remote from Israel
- Sacrifice.................................Sacrifice in Early Cultures
- Sacrifice.................................Sacrifice in the OT
- Sacrifice.................................Sacrifice outside the Mosaic Covenant
- Sacrifice.................................OT sacrifice: difference from Israel's neighbors
- Sacrifice.................................Sacrifice in Later books of OT: Prophets
- Sacrifice.................................Sacrifice in Later books of OT: Psalms
- Sacrifice.................................Sacrifice in Later books of OT
- Sacrifice.................................Sacrifice in Mosaic Covenant
- Sacrifice.................................OT sacrifice: Purpose
- Sacrifice.................................Logic of OT sacrifice (summary)
- Sacrifice.................................Sacrifice in the NT
- Sacrifice.................................Sacrifice in the NT world (Jewish)
- Sacrifice.................................Sacrifice in the NT world (non-Jewish)
- Sacrifice.................................The torn-veil in the Temple/the scarlet thread
- Sacrifice.................................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
- Sacrifice.................................Christ's death on the Cross--serious, real, painful
- Sacrifice.................................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
- Sacrifice.................................Why did God order Abraham to do child sacrifice?
- Sacrifice.................................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
- Sadducees.................................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
- Sage......................................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a Sage
- Sage......................................Women as Sages
- Sage...................................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
- Sage......................................God is ALWAYS portrayed as a male--women had no way of identifying with Him"
- Sage......................................Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
- Sage......................................But, women were excluded from being priests..."
- Sage......................................Women are always pictured as being servile or passive or evil or stupid..."
- Sages.....................................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
- Salvation, eternal........................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
- Salvation, faith..........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- Salvation, faith..........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Salvation, impossible.....................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- Salvation, impossible.....................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Salvation, Islam..........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- Salvation, Islam..........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Salvation, lost...........................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
- Salvation, nature of......................Personal letter
- Salvation, permanent......................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
- Salvation, works..........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- Salvation, works..........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Salvation.................................if Jesus didn't stay dead, how could His death have been a REAL sacrifice?
- Salvation.................................Two Pushbacks, on "would more hurt"? and "why seek a hidden God anyway?"
- Salvation.................................Sacrifice in the NT
- Salvation.................................Do I have to be holy/righteous before I approach God for salvation?
- Salvation.................................What about Those Who have Never Heard the Gospel?
- Salvation................................."Paid in Full" -- Jesus' words on the Cross?
- Salvation.................................The meaning of 'born again' in Scripture
- Salvation.................................Can you be certain you have the "right" faith?
- Salvation.................................Did NT believers mix law and grace?
- Salvation.................................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
- Salvation.................................What was the use of Christ's death?
- Salvation.................................What is "repentance"?
- Sanctification............................Do I have to be holy/righteous before I approach God for salvation?
- Sanctification............................A letter to someone fatigued at sin…
- Sanhedrin.................................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
- Sanhedrin.................................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
- Santa Claus...............................Just because I cannot think of a better explanation now, doesn't mean I have to accept your Christian one
- Satan, angel of light.....................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
- Satan, author.............................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
- Satan, god................................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
- Satan.....................................Did Christ die for Satan?
- Satan.....................................Is God really the ONLY evil being in the universe?
- Satan.....................................David's census
- Satan.....................................David's Tragic Census-who 'Moved' him to do it?
- Satan.....................................Casting out demons by the power of demons
- Satan.....................................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
- Satan.....................................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
- Satire....................................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
- Saul......................................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
- Savior....................................Was Jesus Christ just a CopyCat Savior Myth?
- Savior....................................Sacrifice in the NT
- Savior....................................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
- Sayings source............................Was the early oral tradition ONLY made up of 'sayings' of Jesus?
- Scandal of Particularity..................Letter (started Feb 24/2013)
- Scandal of Particularity..................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
- Scandal of Particularlity.................What about Those Who have Never Heard the Gospel?
- Scorched Earth............................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Scribe....................................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
- Scripts...................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
- Scripture, difficulties...................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
- Scripture, language.......................Why was the NT written in Greek?
- Scripture.................................Theological Method (from scripture)
- Scripture.................................The 'codedness' of revelation
- Scripture.................................Postmodernism and Hermeneutics
- Séance....................................Question on contacting the dead (the Witch of Endor story)
- Second chances............................Second chances with God…
- Secretary.................................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
- Secundus..................................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Security, eternal.........................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
- Seeking...................................is God supposed to 'prove stuff' to us, or are we supposed to 'seek God'?
- Seeking...................................Two Pushbacks, on "would more hurt"? and "why seek a hidden God anyway?"
- Seeking...................................Why isnt the God of the Bible showing Himself to me?
- Self-contradicting........................Self-Stultifying Arguments
- Self-deception............................Is Christian experience make-believe?
- Self-loathing.............................Discussion on Deep depression, self-loathing, chronic therapy needs
- Self-referential..........................Self-Stultifying Arguments
- Self-refutational.........................Self-Stultifying Arguments
- Self-righteousness........................Letter to Readers (misc topics)
- Self-stultifying..........................Self-Stultifying Arguments
- Semahot...................................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
- Semantic model............................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
- Septuagint................................Septuagint in the NT
- Septuagint................................Was the LXX "scripture" for 1st century Jews?
- Septuagint................................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
- Sermon on the Mount.......................Is the Sermon on the Mount actually an ancient Essene prayer dating to 100's of years before Christ?!
- Sermon on the Mount.......................Was the Sermon on the Mount a "plagarism" of Moses on the Mountain?
- Servant, messianic........................Source data for messianic titles
- Servant, suffering........................Source data for messianic titles
- Servant...................................Is Isaiah 53.10 about Israel, rather than about Jesus?
- Servants..................................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
- Seventy weeks.............................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
- Sex.......................................Is there proof that Jesus did not have sex with Mary Magdalene?
- Sexual ethics.............................Circumcision and False Teaching in the Bible?
- Sexual ethics.............................A HUGE double standard in biblical sexual ethics?
- Shallum...................................Is the dating of Zedekiah a contradiction with the birth-order in 1 Chronicles?
- Shalom....................................God the Peace-Maker (PDF outline)
- Shame.....................................Discussion on Deep depression, self-loathing, chronic therapy needs
- Shammai................................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
- Shekinah..................................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- Shekinah..................................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
- Shema ....................................Did Jesus/NT authors misquote the Shema when they said 'with all your mind'?
- Shemahot..................................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
- Shepherd of Hermas........................Evidence for early writing of NT from mainstream sources (Church Fathers/Apologists)
- Sibylline Oracles.........................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- Sickness..................................Was biblical leprosy the same as modern leprosy?
- Sidon.....................................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
- Siege.....................................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Sign......................................Circumcision and False Teaching in the Bible?
- Silver, 30 pieces.........................Source data for messianic titles
- Simon the Magician........................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- Sin, depth................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- Sin, depth................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Sin, effects..............................What was the use of Christ's death?
- Sin, will.................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- Sin, will.................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Sin.......................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- Sin.......................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Sin.......................................What is "repentance"?
- Sin.......................................How likely is it that Noah was the only righteous person on the whole earth, at the time of the Flood?
- Sin.......................................A letter to someone fatigued at sin…
- Sin.......................................Isn’t infinite/eternal punishment for a finite/temporal sin a bit disproportionate???
- Sincerity.................................Thumb:As long as each person is genuinely sincere, what difference does it make what they believe?
- Sins,forgiven.............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Skepticism................................Why didn't God confirm the resurrection in a better way?
- Skepticism................................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
- Skepticism................................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
- Skepticism................................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
- Skepticism................................Does incomplete knowledge mean God is unknowable?
- Slander...................................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
- Slaughter.................................Was God cruel when He killed all the firstborn of Egypt?
- Slave Trade...............................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
- Slave.....................................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
- Slavery (NT)..............................Does God condone slavery in the Bible?
- Slavery...................................Redemption/Ransom (NT)--pdf only
- Slavery...................................Redemption/Ransom (OT)
- Slavery...................................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
- Slavery...................................Does God condone slavery in the Bible?
- Smith, Morton.............................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
- Social Relief.............................Urban expansion of the early Church
- Social....................................Discussion on Deep depression, self-loathing, chronic therapy needs
- Social....................................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
- Society...................................Why would government have any authority in personal areas like marriage?
- Sojourner.................................Was Israel really open to Amalekite immigration?
- Solar.....................................Was YHWH just a pagan solar deity IAO?
- Son of David..............................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
- Son of God................................How is the believer's sonship to God different from Christ's Sonship to God?
- Son of God................................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
- Son of Man................................Could Jesus really not have had any 'Son of man' sayings, because they were allegedly only later?
- Sons of God...............................Who were the "Sons of God" in Genesis 6?
- Sons of God...............................Who were the "Sons of God" in Genesis 6 (and elsewhere)?
- Sons of God...............................Who were the "Sons of God" in Genesis 6 (and elsewhere)?
- Sonship...................................How is the believer's sonship to God different from Christ's Sonship to God?
- Sorcery...................................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
- Sorrow....................................What is "repentance"?
- Sotah.....................................Women: trial of the bitter waters (Sotah)
- Soul......................................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
- Soul......................................Is there evidence for the existence of the "soul"?
- Soul......................................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
- Sources, messianic........................Source data for messianic titles
- Sovereignty...............................Does human culpability for non-interference in crime prove theodicy WRONG?
- Sovereignty...............................Did God harden Pharaoh's heart FIRST?
- Sovereignty...............................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
- Sovereignty...............................Doesn't Paul's argument in Romans 9 pretty clearly indicate that people's free choices are determined by God?
- Spells....................................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
- Spirits, evil.............................Do evil spirits come from the ghosts of dead god-haters?
- Spirits...................................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
- Spirits...................................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
- Spirits...................................Question on contacting the dead (the Witch of Endor story)
- Spirits...................................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
- Spiritual Oppression......................A question about 'after-effects' after being rescued by God from demonic-oriented cults
- Spirituality..............................dealing with intellectual pride
- Stampede, Pigs............................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
- Starting point............................Fideism and starting-points
- Starting Point............................Personality as the Basal Interpretive Paradigm
- Statues...................................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
- Stealth...................................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
- Stephen...................................Stephen's mistakes in Acts 7
- Stereotype................................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
- Stereotypes...............................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
- Stewardship...............................Could divorce ever be the ethical imperative?
- Stone, burial.............................is the tomb story flawed because the term 'rolled' is used?
- Subconscious..............................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
- Subconscious..............................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
- Subjectivity..............................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
- Submission................................Did God command wives to OBEY their husbands?
- Submission................................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
- Subordinationism..........................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
- Substitute................................Redemption/Ransom (NT)--pdf only
- Substitute................................Redemption/Ransom (OT)
- Substitute................................Christ's death on the Cross--serious, real, painful
- Substitute................................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
- Substitute................................"Paid in Full" -- Jesus' words on the Cross?
- Substitute................................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
- Substitute................................Are Muslims forbidden to believe that Jesus was crucified?
- Substitution..............................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
- Succession................................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
- Suffering Messiah.........................Messianic Psalms: The Righteous Sufferer
- Suffering Messiah.........................Source data for messianic titles
- Suffering Servant.........................Source data for messianic titles
- Suffering, Eternal........................Isn’t infinite/eternal punishment for a finite/temporal sin a bit disproportionate???
- Suffering.................................Does human culpability for non-interference in crime prove theodicy WRONG?
- Suffering.................................Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
- Suffering.................................What "value" is there in exceptional suffering?
- Suffering.................................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
- Suffering.................................Is pain in childbirth the Curse on Eve in Genesis 3?
- Suffering.................................How can God allow 'natural' evil to occur?
- Suffering.................................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
- Suffering.................................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
- Suffering.................................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
- Suffering.................................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
- Suffering.................................Thumb: What about innocent people who suffer, like little children? Why doesn't God help them?
- Suffering.................................Implications from Suffering, for the Character of God
- Suffering.................................Why does judgment lag so far behind?
- Suggestibility............................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
- Suicide...................................How could God let Christians hurt to the point of suicide?
- Sumer.....................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
- Sumer.....................................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
- Sumerian..................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
- Sumerian..................................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
- Sunni.....................................How can Christians believe that there is only one God, and yet still call Jesus the Son of God?
- Supernatural..............................Is Christian experience make-believe?
- Supernatural..............................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
- Suspension of Belief......................Just because I cannot think of a better explanation now, doesn't mean I have to accept your Christian one
- Synagogue, art............................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- Synagogue.................................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- Syncretism................................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
- Synoptic Problem..........................Evaluation of the Theory of Literary Dependence.
- Synoptic Problem..........................Theory of Gospel construction
- Synoptic Problem..........................The methodological problem of separating the 'layers' in the NT
- Synoptic Problem..........................How 'assured' is James' solution to the Synoptic Problem?
- Synoptic Problem..........................How compelling is the case for Literary Dependence among the synoptic gospels?
- Synoptic Problem..........................Would acceptance of James' understanding of the Two-Source Hypothesis be inimical to 'the faith'?
- Synoptics, dating.........................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- Synoptics, dating.........................Evidence for early writing of NT from mainstream sources (Church Fathers/Apologists)
- Synoptics, use of.........................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- Synoptics, use of.........................Evidence for early writing of NT from mainstream sources (Church Fathers/Apologists)
- Synoptics.................................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Synoptics)
- Tabernacle................................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- Tacitus...................................Extrabiblical, Non-Christian Witnesses to Jesus before 200 a.d.
- Talmud....................................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
- Talmud....................................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
- Talmud....................................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
- Talmud.................................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
- Talmud....................................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
- Talmud....................................The Temple doors opening beginning around the time of the Crucifixion
- Tamar.....................................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
- Tammuz....................................Dying and Rising Gods
- Tannaim...................................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
- Targum....................................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
- Taurobolium...............................what do we know about Cybele/Attis and the taurobolium?
- Taxation..................................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Tax-Collectors............................How would Matthew have borrowed from pagan religions?
- Taxes, Roman..............................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Teachers, False...........................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
- Temple....................................The torn-veil in the Temple/the scarlet thread
- Temple....................................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
- Temple....................................The Temple doors opening beginning around the time of the Crucifixion
- Temples...................................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
- Temporary burial..........................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
- Temporary tomb............................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
- Terah.....................................Was Terah 70 or 130 when Abraham was born?
- Terah.....................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
- Terrorism.................................Is Muslim hostility related to Ishmael being 'against everyone' prophecy
- Testimony.................................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
- Testimony.................................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
- Testing...................................Testing the Lord: yes or no?
- Testing...................................Is God ever intentionally silent toward His loved ones?
- Textual Criticism.........................“Was there a textual corruption cover-up over Daniel 8.14?
- Textual Criticism.........................Non-attribution and Evidence for early writing of NT Jesus material
- Textual Criticism.........................Should the possible addition of John 8.1-11 make us paranoid about other possible inauthentic 'additions'
- Thallus...................................Extrabiblical, Non-Christian Witnesses to Jesus before 200 a.d.
- Thallus...................................Extrabiblical Witnesses to Jesus before 200 a.d.:Thallus
- Theodicy..................................Does human culpability for non-interference in crime prove theodicy WRONG?
- Theodicy..................................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
- Theodicy..................................How can God allow 'natural' evil to occur?
- Theodicy..................................God and evil, theodicy
- Theodicy..................................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
- Theodicy..................................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
- Theodicy..................................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
- Theodicy..................................How could God let Christians hurt to the point of suicide?
- Theodicy..................................Thumb: What about innocent people who suffer, like little children? Why doesn't God help them?
- Theodicy..................................Implications from Suffering, for the Character of God
- Theodicy..................................Why does judgment lag so far behind?
- Theois....................................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
- Theological method........................Theological method, starting point
- Theological method........................Method in approaching theological questions
- Theological method........................Theological Method (from scripture)
- Theological method........................Theological Method (from scripture)
- Theological method........................On humanity 'inventing' God
- Theological method........................On humanity 'inventing' God
- Theological method........................What about knowledge BEYOND us?
- Theological method........................The 'codedness' of revelation
- Theological method........................Towards an Evangelical Theological Method (outline)
- Theological method........................Towards an Evangelical Theological Method (outline)
- Theological method........................Roman's and Paul's Theological Method
- Theological method........................Roman's and Paul's Theological Method
- Theology .................................Can God make a rock so big He cannot lift it?
- Theology, method..........................Personal letter
- Theology, natural.........................Does complexity REALLY require 'more complexity'?
- Theology, perfect being...................Personal letter
- Theology..................................What is God like? (a portrait)
- Theology..................................What is the Universe like? (a portrait)
- Theology..................................What are People like? (a portrait)
- Theology..................................What is a Christian?
- Theology..................................Did Christ die for Satan?
- Theology..................................What about Those Who have Never Heard the Gospel?
- Theology..................................Does incomplete knowledge mean God is unknowable?
- Theology.................................."Paid in Full" -- Jesus' words on the Cross?
- Theology..................................The 'codedness' of revelation
- Theology..................................God and evil, theodicy
- Theology..................................On foreknowledge
- Theology..................................Can you be certain you have the "right" faith?
- Theology..................................Did the early Church believe in Reincarnation?
- Theology..................................The difference between Righteousness and Holiness
- Theology..................................What good is God? On...the limits of "trials"
- Theology..................................Towards an Evangelical Theological Method (outline)
- Theology..................................Roman's and Paul's Theological Method
- Theology..................................Implications from Suffering, for the Character of God
- Theology..................................On the Loci of Freedom...
- Therapy...................................Discussion on Deep depression, self-loathing, chronic therapy needs
- Thessalonians.............................Was First Thess 2.15ff seriously Anti-Semitic??!!
- Theuda....................................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
- Theudas...................................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
- Thiering..................................The theories of Eisenman, Allegro, Thiering, and Baigent & Leigh concerning the Dead Sea Scrolls?
- Thinking..................................Verses urging critical thinking
- Third day.................................three days and night vs. "on the 3rd day"?
- Third day.................................three days and night vs. "on the 3rd day"?
- Thomas, gospel of.........................What about the Gospel of Thomas?
- Threat....................................What kind of a choice is THAT--Love Me or Burn?!
- Three days................................three days and night vs. "on the 3rd day"?
- Three days................................three days and night vs. "on the 3rd day"?
- Tigay.....................................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
- Time, and God.............................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
- Time......................................On foreknowledge
- Timekeeping, Ancient......................Timekeeping in the Ancient world
- Tobit.....................................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
- Tomb......................................is the tomb story flawed because the term 'rolled' is used?
- Tomb......................................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
- Torah.....................................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
- Tradition.................................Evidence of early writing by the apostles (probably even during Jesus' life)
- Tradition.................................The "tradition control" methods as the church expanded
- Tradition.................................The impetus to write it down, due to being outside 'mainstream' Judaism (e.g. Qumran)
- Tradition.................................The issue of oral tradition, control, and fixity
- Tradition.................................Papias and his preference for oral tradition
- Tradition.................................Again: the process wasn't solely oral...
- Tradition.................................The slow, oral, hodge-podge accumulation of bits and pieces of the NT into a whole?
- Tradition.................................Really long periods of 'oral only' transmission of the sayings of Jesus, from the times of Jesus?
- Tradition.................................Was the early oral tradition ONLY made up of 'sayings' of Jesus?
- Tradition.................................Was this alleged oral tradition transmitted without 'controls' andquite loosely?
- Trajectory................................On how misleading 'trajectory' can be
- Transfiguration...........................Was Jesus mistaken about this 2nd Coming?
- Translation...............................Bible Translation
- Trauma....................................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
- Treachery.................................How can I hold up under deep treachery in my work and social situation?
- Treaty....................................Treaty form of the 14th/13th Centuries B.C.
- Trial of bitter waters....................Women: trial of the bitter waters (Sotah)
- Trials....................................What good is God? On...the limits of "trials"
- Tribute...................................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
- Trickery..................................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
- Trinity, God..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
- Trinity, God..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
- Trinity, God..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- Trinity, God..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Trinity, objections.......................The deity of Jesus:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to Jesus
- Trinity, objections.......................The NT Witness:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to The Holy Spirit
- Trinity...................................Jewish problem of plurality in God
- Trinity...................................Non-Christian Jewry had their OWN "problem" of 'plurality in the Godhead' and/or with a supra-human messiah?
- Trinity...................................Method in approaching theological questions
- Trinity...................................How can Christians believe that there is only one God, and yet still call Jesus the Son of God?
- Trinity...................................Are there 3 gods in the Trinity?
- Trinity...................................Was God so needy that He HAD to create the unverse?
- Trinity...................................Illustrations of the Trinity?
- Trinity...................................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
- Trinity...................................The Trinity: Intro and Method
- Trinity...................................Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
- Trinity...................................The NT Witness:The Ancient Church Formulas in the NT
- Trinity...................................NT Passages mutually involving the Father, Son, and Spirit (Raw Data)
- Trinity...................................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Synoptics)
- Trinity...................................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Gospel of John)
- Trinity...................................The deity of Jesus:NT Responses to Jesus
- Trinity...................................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus
- Trinity...................................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus (con't)
- Trinity...................................The deity of Jesus:Other data relative to the deity of Jesus
- Trinity...................................The deity of Jesus:Summary: The deity of Jesus Christ
- Trinity...................................The deity of Jesus:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to Jesus
- Trinity...................................The NT Witness:The Personality of The Holy Spirit
- Trinity...................................The NT Witness:The Deity of The Holy Spirit
- Trinity...................................The NT Witness:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to The Holy Spirit
- Trinity...................................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
- Trinity...................................Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
- Trinity...................................Is it okay to offer prayer and worship to Jesus, and not just to the Father?
- Triumphal Entry...........................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
- Trust, in persons.........................Faith--the interpersonal dimension
- Trust, personal elements..................Can you be certain you have the "right" faith?
- Trust.....................................How Should we respond to the Message of Jesus and His apostles about His death on the Cross?
- Trust.....................................Can you be certain you have the "right" faith?
- Trust.....................................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
- Truth, hating.............................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
- Truth, rejection..........................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
- Truth.....................................Interacting with the "possibly revelatory" data: Encounter, Response, Results
- Truth.....................................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
- Truth.....................................Verses urging critical thinking
- Truth.....................................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
- Truth.....................................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
- Truth.....................................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
- Truth.....................................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
- Truth.....................................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
- Truth.....................................Did I just switch from a correspondence theory of truth to a coherence theory of truth?
- Truth.....................................Is Christian experience make-believe?
- Truth.....................................Thumb:As long as each person is genuinely sincere, what difference does it make what they believe?
- TULIP.....................................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
- Two.......................................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
- Two-source hypothesis.....................Evaluation of the Theory of Literary Dependence.
- Two-source hypothesis.....................Theory of Gospel construction
- Two-source hypothesis.....................How compelling is the case for Literary Dependence among the synoptic gospels?
- Two-source hypothesis.....................Would acceptance of James' understanding of the Two-Source Hypothesis be inimical to 'the faith'?
- Typhon....................................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
- Typology..................................On apologetic value of typological "prophecy"
- Typology..................................Typology and prophecy
- Typology..................................Typology--a legitimate approach to OT passages?
- Tyre......................................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
- Tyre......................................Various questions on the use of evidence in apologetics
- UFO.......................................Theological impact of Aliens from space
- Ugarit....................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
- Ugarit....................................Sacrifice in Early Cultures, Israel's neighbors
- Ugarit....................................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
- Unclean...................................Why didn't Peter eat on the roof?
- Unconditional.............................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
- Unconscious...............................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
- Unconscious...............................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
- Union.....................................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
- Unity.....................................Urban expansion of the early Church
- Universalism..............................Reconciliation (class syllabus)
- Universalism..............................Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
- Universalism..............................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Unpardonable Sin..........................Isn't Jesus admitting that the Unpardonable sin could be committed today
- Unpardonable Sin..........................I am afraid my Occult background has led me into the Unpardonable sin
- Unpardonable Sin.........................."I am terrified that I have committed the unpardonable sin..."
- Unpardonable Sin..........................Fear over "Willful Sins"
- Ur........................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
- Urban.....................................Urban expansion of the early Church
- Uzzah.....................................Death of the man who touched the Ark
- Valentinus, disciples.....................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- Valentinus................................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
- Values, re-scaling........................Letter (started Feb 24/2013)
- Vegetarian................................Why are we carnivores, eating life?
- Veil......................................The torn-veil in the Temple/the scarlet thread
- Vengeance.................................OT passages on what God avenges
- Vengeance.................................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
- Vengeful..................................OT passages on what God avenges
- Vengeful..................................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
- Verification..............................Verses urging critical thinking
- Verification..............................Relationship between the Flood and Chinese Characters
- Verification..............................Did the Roman empire totally distort the New Testament documents?
- Verification..............................The accuracy of the account of the trial of Jesus before Pilate
- Verification..............................The widespread availability of NT mss. during the birth of the church
- Verification..............................The Gospels are under the same Thuycididean standards and conventions of the Hellenistic world
- Verification..............................They are probably even at a higher level of fidelity to historical reporting
- Verification..............................KNOWN textual errors in the Bible--don't they destroy "inerrancy"?
- Vindictive................................OT passages on what God avenges
- Vindictive................................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
- Violence..................................Does human culpability for non-interference in crime prove theodicy WRONG?
- Violence..................................Could divorce ever be the ethical imperative?
- Violence..................................is theBible "as violent" as the Quran/Hadith?
- Violence..................................shouldn't the butchering of the Amalekite children be considered war crimes?
- Virgin birth..............................Did they copy the Virgin Birth from pagan stories?
- Virgin birth..............................Does Mary's Question Contradict other passages in the NT?
- Virgin birth..............................A question on my work on Isaiah 7.14
- Virginity.................................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
- Visions...................................Why isnt the God of the Bible showing Himself to me?
- Volume of Temple Sea......................Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
- Voluntary.................................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
- War Crimes................................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
- War crimes................................shouldn't the butchering of the Amalekite children be considered war crimes?
- War, ambush...............................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
- War, stealth..............................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
- War.......................................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
- War.......................................is the Bible "as violent" as the Quran/Hadith?
- Warfare, foreign..........................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Warfare, Israel...........................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Warfare, laws.............................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Warfare...................................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
- Warfare...................................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
- Weeks.....................................A "punctuation" error in Daniel 9?
- Welfare...................................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
- Welfare...................................Urban expansion of the early Church
- Wellhausen................................the Documentary Hypothesis
- Wellhausen................................Good questions on JEDP
- Wellhausen................................Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
- Wellhausen................................The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
- Wife......................................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
- Will, free................................Is history all "of one piece"? And Is everyone given a fair chance at heaven?
- Will, free................................Does God's judgment in time unfairly compromise someone's 'free will'?
- Will, free................................Doesn't Paul's argument in Romans 9 pretty clearly indicate that people's free choices are determined by God?
- Will, sin.................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
- Will, sin.................................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
- Willful Sin...............................Fear over "Willful Sins"
- Wine......................................Is Drinking alcohol a sin?
- Wisdom lit................................OT did not borrow beliefs from pagans
- Witch.....................................Question on contacting the dead (the Witch of Endor story)
- Wives.....................................Did God command wives to OBEY their husbands?
- Women, access to God......................Weren't women always kept separate from the men--They weren't even allowed in the Temples or synagogues.
- Women, access to God......................Paul OBVIOUSLY had a "sit down and shut up" attitude toward women--and we are supposed to trust HIM?!"
- Women, access to God......................The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
- Women, access to God......................The bible teaches that women had NO access to God--except through the male..."
- Women, access to God......................None of the disciples or apostles were women--a bit unfair, aint it?!"
- Women, access to God......................God is ALWAYS portrayed as a male--women had no way of identifying with Him"
- Women, access to God......................But, women were excluded from being priests..."
- Women, access to God......................Women are always pictured as being servile or passive or evil or stupid..."
- Women, access to power....................The patriarchy system (God condoned) subjected women by restricting their access to social/cultural power."
- Women, access to power....................All the books of the bible were written by men--see, God de-values women again"
- Women, and government.....................Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
- Women, and headship.......................Paul and Women: Controversial passages: 1 Cor 11
- Women, and Jesus..........................Why was Jesus so mean and insulting to the Canaanite woman?
- Women, and patriarchy.....................A HUGE double standard in biblical sexual ethics?
- Women, and patriarchy.....................Wasn't Miriam punished for questioning male authority, while Aaron was not?"
- Women, and patriarchy.....................Doesn't the bible teach that God cursed women by making them subject/subordinate to men?"
- Women, and patriarchy.....................The VAST MAJORITY of Israelite/Church leadership is by MEN--see, God de-values women again"
- Women, and patriarchy.....................Why do men get all the glory in the bible? Why are women only minor characters?!"
- Women, and patriarchy.....................Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
- Women, and patriarchy.....................The patriarchy system (God condoned) subjected women by restricting their access to social/cultural power."
- Women, and Paul...........................Paul and Women: Controversial passages: 1 Tim 2
- Women, and Paul...........................Paul and Women: Controversial passages
- Women, and silence........................Paul and Women: Controversial passages: 1 Cor 14
- Women, and teaching.......................Paul and Women: Controversial passages: 1 Tim 2
- Women, and the Curse......................Doesn't the bible teach that God cursed women by making them subject/subordinate to men?"
- Women, church govt........................Women's Roles in the Early Church
- Women, church govt........................Paul and Women
- Women, deacons............................Is it mistaken to understand Pliny's reference to the Christian women as meaning 'deaconesses'?
- Women, leaders............................The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
- Women, leaders............................The VAST MAJORITY of Israelite/Church leadership is by MEN--see, God de-values women again"
- Women, leaders............................Why do men get all the glory in the bible? Why are women only minor characters?!"
- Women, leaders............................God is ALWAYS portrayed as a male--women had no way of identifying with Him"
- Women, leaders............................Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
- Women, leaders............................But, women were excluded from being priests..."
- Women, leaders............................Women are always pictured as being servile or passive or evil or stupid..."
- Women, legal status.......................Women were non-persons back then--they had NO legal rights in the system at all!"
- Women, legal status.......................Weren't OT women WORSE off than even their Babylonian counterparts?"
- Women, non-persons........................Women were non-persons back then--they had NO legal rights in the system at all!"
- Women, non-persons........................Weren't OT women WORSE off than even their Babylonian counterparts?"
- Women, objections.........................Did God choosing to be incarnated as a male implicitly communicate a devaluation of females?
- Women, objections.........................A HUGE double standard in biblical sexual ethics?
- Women, objections.........................Weren't women always kept separate from the men--They weren't even allowed in the Temples or synagogues.
- Women, objections.........................Paul OBVIOUSLY had a "sit down and shut up" attitude toward women--and we are supposed to trust HIM?!"
- Women, objections.........................Wasn't Miriam punished for questioning male authority, while Aaron was not?"
- Women, objections.........................The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
- Women, objections.........................Weren't women considered property in the OT, like cows or something?
- Women, objections.........................Doesn't the bible teach that God cursed women by making them subject/subordinate to men?"
- Women, objections.........................The VAST MAJORITY of Israelite/Church leadership is by MEN--see, God de-values women again"
- Women, objections.........................God's choice to be incarnated as a man IMPLICITLY de-values women
- Women, objections.........................The bible teaches that women had NO access to God--except through the male..."
- Women, objections.........................None of the disciples or apostles were women--a bit unfair, aint it?!"
- Women, objections.........................Why do men get all the glory in the bible? Why are women only minor characters?!"
- Women, objections.........................God is ALWAYS portrayed as a male--women had no way of identifying with Him"
- Women, objections.........................Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
- Women, objections.........................Women were non-persons back then--they had NO legal rights in the system at all!"
- Women, objections.........................The patriarchy system (God condoned) subjected women by restricting their access to social/cultural power."
- Women, objections.........................But, women were excluded from being priests..."
- Women, objections.........................All the books of the bible were written by men--see, God de-values women again"
- Women, objections.........................Women are always pictured as being servile or passive or evil or stupid..."
- Women, objections.........................Weren't OT women WORSE off than even their Babylonian counterparts?"
- Women, polygamy...........................Does the NT sanction polygamy?
- Women, polygamy...........................One wife or First wife?
- Women, property...........................Weren't women considered property in the OT, like cows or something?
- Women, religious status...................Weren't women always kept separate from the men--They weren't even allowed in the Temples or synagogues.
- Women, religious status...................Paul OBVIOUSLY had a "sit down and shut up" attitude toward women--and we are supposed to trust HIM?!"
- Women, religious status...................The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
- Women, religious status...................The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
- Women, religious status...................The bible teaches that women had NO access to God--except through the male..."
- Women, religious status...................None of the disciples or apostles were women--a bit unfair, aint it?!"
- Women, religious status...................God is ALWAYS portrayed as a male--women had no way of identifying with Him"
- Women, religious status...................But, women were excluded from being priests..."
- Women, religious status...................Women are always pictured as being servile or passive or evil or stupid..."
- Women, subjection.........................Wasn't Miriam punished for questioning male authority, while Aaron was not?"
- Women, subjection.........................Doesn't the bible teach that God cursed women by making them subject/subordinate to men?"
- Women.....................................Women: Historical Data From the Pre-Monarchy Literature
- Women.....................................Women Literary Data From the Pre-Monarchy Literature
- Women.....................................Women: literary data From the Pre-Monarchy Literature
- Women.....................................Women: historical Data From the Monarchy Literature
- Women.....................................Women: literary Data From the Monarchy Literature
- Women.....................................Women: 'portrayal' Data (Wisdom lit) From the Monarchy Literature
- Women.....................................Women: historical Data From the Divided Monarchy Literature
- Women.....................................Women: prophetic Data From the Divided Monarchy Literature
- Women.....................................Women: Data From the Exilic and Post-Exilic Community
- Women.....................................Women: Data From the Life and Ministry of Jesus
- Women.....................................Women: Data From the Historical Literature of the Apostolic Circle
- Women.....................................Women's Roles in the Early Church
- Women.....................................Paul and Women: Controversial passages: 1 Cor 11
- Women.....................................Paul and Women: Controversial passages: 1 Cor 14
- Women.....................................Paul and Women: Controversial passages: 1 Tim 2
- Women.....................................Paul and Women: Controversial passages
- Women.....................................Paul and Women
- Women.....................................Women in the heart of God (outline)
- Women.....................................Women: Pushbacks, Objections, Stereotypes
- Women.....................................Did God callously give David's wives to Absalom to rape?
- Women.....................................Women: trial of the bitter waters (Sotah)
- Women.....................................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
- Women.....................................Is pain in childbirth the Curse on Eve in Genesis 3?
- Women.....................................Did God choosing to be incarnated as a male implicitly communicate a devaluation of females?
- Women.....................................Did God command wives to OBEY their husbands?
- Women.....................................Does the NT sanction polygamy?
- Women.....................................One wife or First wife?
- Women.....................................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
- Women.....................................A HUGE double standard in biblical sexual ethics?
- Women.....................................Weren't women always kept separate from the men--They weren't even allowed in the Temples or synagogues.
- Women.....................................Paul OBVIOUSLY had a "sit down and shut up" attitude toward women--and we are supposed to trust HIM?!"
- Women.....................................Wasn't Miriam punished for questioning male authority, while Aaron was not?"
- Women.....................................The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
- Women.....................................Weren't women considered property in the OT, like cows or something?
- Women.....................................Doesn't the bible teach that God cursed women by making them subject/subordinate to men?"
- Women.....................................The VAST MAJORITY of Israelite/Church leadership is by MEN--see, God de-values women again"
- Women.....................................God's choice to be incarnated as a man IMPLICITLY de-values women
- Women.....................................The bible teaches that women had NO access to God--except through the male..."
- Women.....................................None of the disciples or apostles were women--a bit unfair, aint it?!"
- Women.....................................Why do men get all the glory in the bible? Why are women only minor characters?!"
- Women.....................................God is ALWAYS portrayed as a male--women had no way of identifying with Him"
- Women.....................................Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
- Women.....................................Women were non-persons back then--they had NO legal rights in the system at all!"
- Women.....................................The patriarchy system (God condoned) subjected women by restricting their access to social/cultural power."
- Women.....................................But, women were excluded from being priests..."
- Women.....................................All the books of the bible were written by men--see, God de-values women again"
- Women.....................................Women are always pictured as being servile or passive or evil or stupid..."
- Women.....................................Weren't OT women WORSE off than even their Babylonian counterparts?"
- Works.....................................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
- World Religions...........................What about Those Who have Never Heard the Gospel?
- World Religions...........................How many people claim to be Christians?
- World Religions...........................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
- World-week, apocalyptic...................Does a belief in a ‘world-week’ of 6,000 years imply a denial of apocalyptic imminence?
- World-Week, imminence.....................Does a belief in a ‘world-week’ of 6,000 years imply a denial of apocalyptic imminence?
- World-Week................................Does a belief in a ‘world-week’ of 6,000 years imply a denial of apocalyptic imminence?
- Wrath.....................................OT passages on what God avenges
- Wrath.....................................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
- Wrath.....................................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
- Writing...................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
- Writing...................................Personal letter
- Xtians....................................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
- Yahweh....................................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
- Yahweh....................................When was the name "Yahweh" revealed?
- Yamm......................................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
- YHWH, Angel of............................Is there no "THE" in "THE Angel of the Lord"?
- YHWH, bible...............................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
- YHWH, evil................................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
- YHWH, not Father..........................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
- YHWH......................................Was YHWH just a pagan solar deity IAO?
- YHWH......................................Was Yahweh a member of the Phoenician pantheon?
- YHWH......................................When was the name "Yahweh" revealed?
- YHWH......................................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
- Zechariah.................................Did the gospels make an error in their citation of the Judas-30pieces episode?
- Zechariah.................................Was Jesus mistaken about Zechariah?
- Zedekiah, birth error.....................Is the dating of Zedekiah a contradiction with the birth-order in 1 Chronicles?
- Zedekiah, error...........................Is the dating of Zedekiah a contradiction with the birth-order in 1 Chronicles?
- Zedekiah..................................Is the dating of Zedekiah a contradiction with the birth-order in 1 Chronicles?
- Zionist...................................Is Muslim hostility related to Ishmael being 'against everyone' prophecy
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