Back in July, blogger @ReginaldODonog1 wrote a short piece on the biblical king Solomon and his relationship to the fowl of the air entitled “Solomon, Master of the Birds.” In it, he discusses the possible sources of the Quranic passage wherein Solomon is said to have mastery over “hosts of jinn and men and birds” (Surah 2:17).[1] In... Continue Reading →
To say that I'm not a fan of J. Warner Wallace would be an understatement. As far as I'm concerned, he and I are equally qualified to talk about the Bible and history. That is to say, not at all. (So, why are you still reading?!?) So any time I see someone competently dunk on... Continue Reading →
Martinus C. de Boer, Paul, Theologian of God’s Apocalypse: Essays on Paul and Apocalyptic (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2020), 22. The story of [the] angelic fall is found or alluded to in much of the literature (1 En. 6-19; 64:1-2; 69:4-5; 86:1-6; 106:13-17; Jub. 4:15, 22; 5:1-8; 10:4-5; T. Reub. 5:6-7; T. Naph. 3:5; CD 2:17-3:1; 2... Continue Reading →
Part 1: Series Introduction and Contradiction #1 - "How Many Women?"Part 2: Contradiction #2 - "Was the Stone Already Removed?" Part 3: Contradiction #3 - "Angel or Angels?" Part 4: Contradiction #4 - "The Ending of Mark" and Series Conclusion 1 THE ENDING OF MARK To say that the ending of the Gospel of Mark... Continue Reading →
Part 1: Series Introduction and Contradiction #1 - "How Many Women?"Part 2: Contradiction #2 - "Was the Stone Already Removed?" Part 3: Contradiction #3 - "Angel or Angels?" Part 4: Contradiction #4 - "The Ending of Mark" and Series Conclusion 1 ANGEL OR ANGELS? In the Gospel of Mark, when the women arrive at the... Continue Reading →
Part 1: Series Introduction and Contradiction #1 - "How Many Women?"Part 2: Contradiction #2 - "Was the Stone Already Removed?" Part 3: Contradiction #3 - "Angel or Angels?"Part 4: Contradiction #4 - "The Ending of Mark" and Series Conclusion 1 WAS THE STONE ALREADY REMOVED? In the Gospel of Mark, as Mary Magdalene, Mary the... Continue Reading →
"That evening, at sunset, they brought to him all who were sick or possessed with demons."Mark 1:32 Sickness. Disease. Death. In the ancient world, particularly in Palestine of the first century CE, all of this could be associated directly or indirectly to the activity of demons, evil spirits that could afflict human beings by external... Continue Reading →
Part 1: Series Introduction and Contradiction #1 - "How Many Women?"Part 2: Contradiction #2 - "Was the Stone Already Removed?" Part 3: Contradiction #3 - "Angel or Angels?" Part 4: Contradiction #4 - "The Ending of Mark" and Series Conclusion SERIES INTRODUCTION It is no understatement to declare that historic Christianity lives and dies by... Continue Reading →
If you’ve spent any amount of time online perusing Christian apologetics websites, you’ve no doubt come across the Nazareth Inscription, an edict from Caesar found on a slab of marble that prohibits grave robbing under penalty of death.[1] It is called the “Nazareth Inscription” because it was sent to antiquities collector Wilhelm Froehner from Nazareth in 1878.... Continue Reading →
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