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December 2019

December 04, 2019
Manger scene messiness—learn to know from which Gospel the different elements come. As we have...
December 03, 2019
Magisterial documents help deepen our appreciation and understanding of the birth accounts in “Matthew” and...
December 02, 2019
Historical or truthful?—there are reasons for thinking that the biblical stories of Jesus’ birth are...

November 2019

November 30, 2019
Knowing the historical Jesus may be harder than it seems, but there are some things...
November 26, 2019
Fake Jesuses may be popular among U.S. Christians, but we distort and misrepresent the real...
November 23, 2019
Omniscience—God knows everything, but our free future actions lack existence. Omniscience is the knowledge attributed...
November 18, 2019
Answers to ancient Mediterranean problems come varied and contradictory in the library called "Bible." Answers....
November 16, 2019
Revelation is a confusing book made even more so by Western cultural baggage and expectations....
November 14, 2019
Heaven belongs in our catechisms, prayers, and creeds—but not in English Scripture translations. Heaven help...
November 08, 2019
Forgeries like Second Thessalonians are inspired even though Paul didn’t write them. Forgeries being read...
November 07, 2019
Apocalyptic and Eschatology are incorrect and misleading anachronisms that should never be applied to Mark...
November 05, 2019
Hell—whether the popular Christian idea or official Church doctrine—took almost two thousand years to develop....
November 01, 2019
"Blessed are..." go the Beatitudes of Jesus, but maybe wrongly in our English translations! Blessed...

October 2019

October 30, 2019
Satan, and our understanding of him, shows that doctrine develops and theology evolves. Satan just...
October 28, 2019
Witches accused and condemned to burn are probably the worst most shameful crime ever committed...
October 24, 2019
Earth ought to be translated as "Earth Oven" in today’s Gospel. Earth. What does it...
October 23, 2019
Halloween, Harry Potter, and Amazon Statues are Pagan and evil says Catholic fundamentalists, conveying a...
October 20, 2019
Persistence has nothing to do with the parable inappropriately titled, “The Persistent Widow,” a story...
October 18, 2019
Daddy was not what Jesus meant, no matter how much Western people want. DADDY! That...
October 16, 2019
Superhero Jesus is a common way for American Christians to see Jesus; but is it...
October 14, 2019
Unhealthy Christology!—Our imagined Jesus and Mary are a far cry from the historical truth of...
October 12, 2019
Thanks??!!—Because Western Bible readers use the expression “thank you” differently than does traditional Middle Eastern...
October 10, 2019
Prayer for Galilean peasants like Jesus and his followers involved a lived experience of Mediterranean...
October 09, 2019
"Image"by frecklebaum is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Reading about Jesus, Mary, and Martha in...
October 07, 2019
Suspicious of dishonest questions, Jesus proves himself to be a master of the insult by...
October 05, 2019
Anachronism is a widespread plague preventing millions of Western Christians from understanding the Bible or...
October 03, 2019
Sadly, the gospel of cruel, coercive force continues to be far more successful and widespread...

September 2019

September 27, 2019
Although elusive and inscrutable to great ones and elites right down to the present, the...
September 23, 2019
Confusion abounds throughout history for the notoriously difficult Parable of the Dishonest Manager, inscrutable even...
September 18, 2019
Fellowship with sinners is justified by the Lukan Jesus. Yesterday we began exploring Jesus' explanation...
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