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The question is how does Yahweh crucified make any sense? Why, if Jesus = Yahweh, does Jesus appear so passive and meek during his 'visit'? Clearly Irenaeus tries to deny the 'youth' part of the argument by making Jesus almost 50 years old. That's the reason why this is added to John. Now the argume...

Only with the understanding that 'Father' and 'Son' (a term not exactly attested in the Jewish Writings or writers as we know them but acknowledged by Celsus and his Jewish source) come from Judaism does the stupid idea that Christianity was a 'Gentile religion' and the gospel writers 'Gentiles' go ...

Jesus is the second power, his Father the first. Yahweh and Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh. The armed youth (Ex 15.3) and the ancient of days (Dan 7:9). The fire man seen on Sinai and the voice heard above him. Justin knows the truth but he is silenced. So was everyone else. Why? Because of Caesar and monarchian...

The question for me is - don't these guys get to play make believe too? All the history of this part of the world is make believe. I am not saying there wasn't a history. I am not a typical mythicist. I grant there probably was a religion of Jesus in the first century. I grant that there was a Jewis...

But in defense of these guys ALL THE HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTIONS rely too heavily on the certainty of the fragmentary information available to us. What do we have that's reliable? Josephus? Kind of? But there are problems here. The New Testament? No, not reliable as it is. Rabbinic literature? No. It...

You realize Lev that there is nothing in the Pentateuch about a temple or the requirement for a temple. The Pentateuch doesn't even mention Jerusalem let alone its sanctity. The Jews could have continued to fulfill all the requirements of the Law after 70 CE. The authorities chose not to for wholly ...

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Where do you think Exodus 15 has a man from the sea? What is the name of the chapter? שירת הים It's a song right? Philo says "Moses sang, and those who heard him joined in for two choruses." Josephus "Moses composed it himself." "Moses sang it and the people repeated, line ...

presenting their awed, illiterate audiences that what they've written are actually "lost" sacred texts by apostles of the savior from 75-100 years earlier. I am not sure that we need to bring all that into the discussion. Even if the texts were written at 70 + 1 years the fake augury is t...

My full question is; which of the New Testament books were written after AD70? Assuming there are several, why did none of them mention the 'earth-shattering' events of AD70? The destruction of the temple by Rome fulfilled one of Jesus' own prophecies (Matt. 24:1-3) and its theological significance...