If a human husband said that to his wife, we would classify it as domestic violence. And rightly so. It reflects a view of the wife as property, and the husband as her lord and owner with sovereign rights to inflict punishment on one who has “stolen” from him his exclusive right to “sow his seed” in a “field” that is his property....Presumably an image of God who would himself commit assault and battery against his wife is one that it is crucial to examine critically and rethink. Link.
Additionally, from ancient critics such as Origin as well as from Acts, we discover that prophets, healers, and miracle workers in Roman Palestine were a dime a dozen.The writings of Josephus...
A very well done overview of the major problems with the quest of the "historical" Jesus. I particularly appreciated the observation that Christian apologists are playing word games. The...
I've never quite understood the need to claim a historical jesus existed. It isn't the one that the christians worship, so it is a moot point in my opinion. I also question that we can...
Ah yes, my fellow countryman, C.S. Lewis, the beloved heretic. C.S. Lewis. That name rolls off the tongue with buttery smoothness and emanates a vivaciously ethereal theological preponderance....
Nope. Not according to Jesus at all. Trinitarianism is a made up later fudge. The doctrine of the Trinity was first formulated among the early Christians (mid-2nd century and later) and fathers...
Ezekiel 36:25-27 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new...
Hi ya...long time no see. The script they have, is pish easy to poke holes through. Especially by those of us who have been there, read the script, bought the t-shirt, seen the movie, and ate the...
What's interesting is that evolution apparently calibrated us to care more about the here-and-now, and gave us nearly zero reason to care about modern notions of "long-term".
Actually, European cultures back in Torquemada's time were unstable. European history is the history of one war after another-the continuous clash of oppressive...
Ah, the straw man fallacy. Try reading for comprehension soft boy. The word "Spanish" is nowhere to be found in Daniel comment, ya dope. Now go away go and learn something. The Galileo...
"Also, conversations like the one we are having, aside from being pleasurable, are good arenas to test the truth value of our ideas." Methinks this "Charlie" just might be...
