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Bible-Related Nonsense

August 24, 2012 By James F. McGrath 20 Comments

I focus on information literacy skills in my course on the Bible – i.e. the ability to identify and utilize reliable sources of information amid the wide array of sources of varying degrees of reliability – and ridiculousness – that abound on the internet. And so I asked them at the end of class last [...]

Filed Under: Bible, education Tagged With: Bible, Biblical, cafeteria, education, fear, information literacy, Louisiana, lunch, lunches, nonsense, palm, revelation, scanner, school, vein 20 Comments

Mythicism and Paul’s Claims to Supernatural Revelation

October 18, 2011 By James F. McGrath 180 Comments

Mythicists regularly claim (as one commenter on this blog recently did) regarding Paul that “Our earliest Christian source claimed to have learned nothing from the Christians who came before him. He claimed to know what he knew by divine revelation.” Since the subject has come up once again, in the same form in which it [...]

Filed Under: 1 Corinthians, Galatians, mythicism, Paul and his letters Tagged With: bunk, historical Jesus, mythicism, mythicists, nonsense, Paul, revelation, supernatural 180 Comments

Blogging about Jesus Mythicism: The story so far

May 23, 2011 By James F. McGrath 19 Comments

Regular readers of Exploring Our Matrix know that one of the topics I have been blogging about for some time is mythicism – the viewpoint that Jesus is more likely to be a purely fictional figure invented more-or-less from scratch based on earlier mythical figures and texts, than to be a historical figure around whom [...]