Biblical Exegesis Comparative mythology - using evidence against the Biblical flood FOR the biblical flood. So, check this interesting visual out from a Creationist website:
Biblical Exegesis Mary at the census? Er, no. Here is my latest video offering to the world of You Tube. Let me know what you think. http://youtu.be/wQdu9dvg16Y
Biblical Exegesis Conflicting Genealogies of Jesus and JohnM's Thesis of a Matrilineal Bloodline Refuted In one of my recent posts about the Nativity, JohnM has been defending a particular harmonisation of a biblical difference. I would like to set it out here in order to show that his epistemological approach is somewhat dodgy and that the issues remain. In fact, it annoyed me so
Biblical Exegesis The hoops the Christian has to jump through to believe the Nativity I thought I'd re-post this thread from when I was regularly contributing to John's original Debunking Christianity blog. See what you think: I was recently talking, an a thread or two, about the historical implausibility of pretty much all of the claims in both Luke and Matthew with regards to
Biblical Exegesis Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence I thought I'd resurrect this old chestnut. This was reported by the Secular Outpost some time ago: "As reported by Christianity Today (see here), New Testament scholar Michael Licona has apparently lost both his job as research professor of New Testament at Southern Evangelical Seminary and been
Biblical Exegesis Jesus' Wife and Fakery! So the whole Jesus' wife thing has been doing the rounds, and it seems that it is a fake. This article, from The Guardian, confirms through textual analysis that it is indeed so. It appears to rely on a modern typo:
Biblical Exegesis Yahweh's Amazing Test - Another Nonstampcollector classic The genius who is Nonstampcollector hits home with another piece of insightful mastery.
Biblical Exegesis Everything you wanted to know about Judas but were afraid to ask I have recently been reading Richard Carrier’s excellent book “Proving History” which essentially sets out a case for the use of Bayes’s Theorem in historical contexts in order to work out the most probable explanation for a given event, or the relative probabilities for alternative explanations. In his
