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Peter vs. Paul?: Baur’s Tübingen Thesis Debunked
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I challenged "annoyed pinoy" at his blog as follows: 1 comment: barry November 7, 2019 at 4:01 PM I'd like to d...
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Update July 14, 2017 : In 2008, I posted to another discussion forum several quotes from Holding, showing how highly he lauded the Contex...
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Since Windows 10 came out, many have bemoaned the fact that Chessmaster 9000 will not install on it. I was one such person, and I personall...
apologists spin this text and say "but but but...jesus did work on sabbath, changed the laws pertaining to divorce..."
ReplyDeletesure, but all that matters is whether the legalistic interpretation of Mathew 23:3 is reasonable. There is no intellectual compulsion on a skeptic to 'reconcile' any statement of Jesus with every other statement in the bible.
DeleteThere is no rule of historiography, hermeneutics or common sense that requires that we first make all attempts to harmonize everything anybody ever said and avoid charging them with contradiction until after all harmonization attempts prove to have failed. And Jesus seems to have created an alternative form of Judaism, the kind that pretends to uphold all the laws while not really upholding all the laws.