Master Index of Subjects and Questions

[last content update: Oct 6, 2019; Numerous errors corrected Feb 9, 2023]

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30 pieces of silver...........Did the gospels make an error in their citation of the Judas-30pieces episode?
30 pieces of silver...........Source data for messianic titles
70 weeks......................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
Abortifacients................Bible abortifacients?
Abraham.......................Was Terah 70 or 130 when Abraham was born?
Abraham.......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Abraham.......................Did Ephron offer the burial plot to Abraham for free, or was it just an 'expensive' business deal?
Abraham.......................Why did God order Abraham to do child sacrifice?
Abraham.......................Was the Bible wrong about Abraham having camels that early?
Absalom.......................Did God callously give David's wives to Absalom to rape?
Abstinence....................Is Drinking alcohol a sin?
Abuse.........................Could divorce ever be the ethical imperative?
Accomodation..................God's revelation to us: skepticism, hiddeness
Accountability................If sins are forgiven, how will Christians be judged?
Activation....................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
Acts 7........................Stephen's mistakes in Acts 7
Acts..........................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
Adam..........................Adam, Eve, and Incest?
Adapa.........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Adonis........................Dying and Rising Gods
Adoption......................How is the believer's sonship to God different from Christ's Sonship to God?
Adoption......................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
Aesthetics....................Female Beauty in Bible
Afterlife.....................How was Jesus the Firstfruits from the dead, if there were other resurrections before His?
Afterlife.....................Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
Afterlife.....................Talmudic view of the afterlife (brief)
Afterlife.....................If sins are forgiven, how will Christians be judged?
Aggadah.......................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
Aggadah....................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
Agrippa.......................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
AI............................doesn't the archaeological record CONTRADICT the Bible's claims about Joshua's "Conquest"?!
Akkadian......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Akkadian......................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Alcohol.......................Is Drinking alcohol a sin?
Alexandria....................Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature?
Aliens........................What about the theory that Jesus was descended from aliens?
Aliens........................Theological impact of Aliens from space
Allah, attributes.............History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
Allah, unity..................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
Allegro.......................The theories of Eisenman, Allegro, Thiering, and Baigent & Leigh concerning the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Alphabet......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Altered States................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
Amalek........................Were the Amalekites REALLY nomads?
Amalek........................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
Amalek........................Was Israel really open to Amalekite immigration?
Amalek........................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
Amalekite.....................Were the Amalekites REALLY nomads?
Amalekite.....................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
Amalekite.....................shouldn't the butchering of the Amalekite children be considered war crimes?
Amaneunsis....................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
Ambush........................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
Amelekite.....................Was Israel really open to Amalekite immigration?
Amorite.......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Amorites......................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
Analogy.......................Exploring Analogy
ANE, literature...............Personal letter
ANE...........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Angel, of YHWH................Is there no "THE" in "THE Angel of the Lord"?
Angels........................Did Christ die for Satan?
Angels........................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
Angels........................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
Anger.........................OT passages on what God avenges
Anger.........................A long conversation with someone experiencing deep grief
Anger.........................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
Aniconic......................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Animal, death.................My kid's pet just died...what should I tell my kid?
Animals.......................Why aren't dinosaurs mentioned in the bible?
Animals.......................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Animals.......................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
Animals.......................My kid's pet just died...what should I tell my kid?
Annihilation..................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
Annihilation..................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
Annihilationism...............Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
Anthropic Principle...........The "Anthropic Principle" (refs)
Anthropology..................What are People like? (a portrait)
Anthropology..................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than man
Anthropology..................Freedom
Anthropology..................Is there evidence for the existence of the "soul"?
Anthropology..................Did the early Church believe in Reincarnation?
Anthropology..................On the Loci of Freedom...
Anti-Christian lit............ A timeline of early Christian & anti-Christian literature
Antiquities...................Do we only have ONE copy of the controversial passage about Jesus in Josephus?
Anti-Semitism.................Was John anti-Semitic
Anti-Semitism.................Was First Thess 2.15ff seriously Anti-Semitic??!!
Anti-Semitism.................Anti-semitism
Anup..........................Horus, Jesus, and Anup the Baptiser?
Apamea........................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Apocalyptic, Jewish...........Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was ‘concern over delay’ really about ‘failed prophecies’ or about something else?
Apocalyptic, POE..............Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was ‘concern over delay’ really about ‘failed prophecies’ or about something else?
Apocalyptic, precision........Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was ‘concern over delay’ really about ‘failed prophecies’ or about something else?
Apocalyptic, purpose..........Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was ‘concern over delay’ really about ‘failed prophecies’ or about something else?
Apocalyptic, theodicy.........Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was ‘concern over delay’ really about ‘failed prophecies’ or about something else?
Apocalyptic, world-week.......Does a belief in a ‘world-week’ of 6,000 years imply a denial of apocalyptic imminence?
Apocalyptic...................Could Jesus really not have had any 'apocalyptic expectations' because they were allegedly only later?
Apocalytic....................Was Jesus a failed apocalyptic prophet that the embarrassed church had to re-work into something different
Apocrypha, NT.................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
Apocrypha.....................What about the Gospel of Thomas?
Apocrypha.....................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
Apollonius of Tyana...........Divine Heros
Apollonius....................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Apologetic theory.............presuppositionalism
Apologetic theory.............Apologetics and Persuasion
Apologetic theory.............Patterns and Argument
Apologetic theory.............Implications for 'apologetic method'
Apologetics...................if Christianity is true, why does it need so much defending? And why doesn't God make it clearer?
Apologetics...................why should we believe Jesus was the Messiah, if He didn’t fulfill all the prophecies when He was here?
Apologetics...................How I deal with very hostile objections
Apostles, and women...........Women: Data From the Historical Literature of the Apostolic Circle
Apostles, authors.............Apostles as gospel authors?
Apostles, authors.............Evidence of early writing by the apostles (probably even during Jesus' life)
Apostles, communication.......Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
Apostles, Control.............The "tradition control" methods as the church expanded
Apostles, interaction.........Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
Apostles, memory..............How does the memory research of Elizabeth Loftus on eyewitness testimony affect the credibility of NT?
Apostles, teaching............Are the Nazarenes and Ebionites the only TRUE "Christians"?
Apostles, view of cross.......How did Jesus' Companions the Apostles understand what happened at the Cross?
Apostles......................Was the bible created by authorities to 'control' the common folk?
Apostles......................Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
Apostles......................Evaluation of the Theory of Literary Dependence.
Apostles......................Theory of Gospel construction
Apostles......................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
Apostles......................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
Apostles......................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
Apostles......................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
Apostles......................The "tradition control" methods as the church expanded
Apostles......................On the cooperation of early church leadership
Apostles......................Local church interpretive autonomy versus a controlled and pre-interpreted transmission
Apostles......................Really long periods of 'oral only' transmission of the sayings of Jesus, from the times of Jesus?
Apostles......................Was this alleged oral tradition transmitted without 'controls' andquite loosely?
Apostles......................What is an alternative understanding of the process of gospel formation?
Apostles......................What are the names of the 12 disciples? I get 13!
Apostles......................Paul OBVIOUSLY had a "sit down and shut up" attitude toward women--and we are supposed to trust HIM?!"
Apostles......................The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
Apostles......................None of the disciples or apostles were women--a bit unfair, aint it?!"
Apostolic Fathers.............were the Apostolic Fathers unable to distinguish between authentic and unauthentic books?
Apostolic Fathers.............Was Clement aware of the NT text?
Apostolic Fathers.............Clement's alleged use of non-canonical sources
Apuleius......................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Arab..........................Is Muslim hostility related to Ishmael being 'against everyone' prophecy
Aramaic.......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Aramean.......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Archaeology...................doesn't the archaeological record CONTRADICT the Bible's claims about Joshua's "Conquest"?!
Archko........................The Archko Volume
Argument from Evil............Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
Argument......................Patterns and Argument
Argument......................The Priority of Patterns over Elements
Argument......................Implications for 'apologetic method'
Ark...........................Noah's ark -- the problem of size
Ark...........................Death of the man who touched the Ark
Arrogance.....................Can Pride be Good?
Arrogance.....................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
Arrogance.....................Questions on my Life-View and dealing with others
Art...........................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
ASC...........................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
Ascension of Isaiah...........Was the Ascension of Isaiah a Middle-Platonist document?
Ascension.....................A contradiction in the ascension accounts?
Asclepius.....................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Asclepius.....................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
Asherah.......................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
Asherah.......................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
Assyria.......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Atheism.......................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
Atonement, extent.............Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Atonement, limited............Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Atonement, scope..............Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Atonement.....................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
Atrahasis.....................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Attis.........................Dying and Rising Gods
Attis.........................what do we know about Cybele/Attis and the taurobolium?
Augustinian...................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
Authenticity..................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
Author, deception.............Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
Authority.....................Does human culpability for non-interference in crime prove theodicy WRONG?
Authority.....................Do I have to obey my husband when he commands me to sin?
Authority.....................Why would government have any authority in personal areas like marriage?
Authorship....................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
automaticity..................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
Avenging......................OT passages on what God avenges
Avenging......................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
Baal..........................Dying and Rising Gods
Baal..........................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
Babylonia.....................Babylonian omen literature
Babylonia.....................Weren't OT women WORSE off than even their Babylonian counterparts?"
Baigent & Leigh...............The theories of Eisenman, Allegro, Thiering, and Baigent & Leigh concerning the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Ban...........................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Baptism.......................Horus, Jesus, and Anup the Baptiser?
Bargh.........................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
Baur..........................Evidence that heresy was neither EARLY nor Strong (contra the Bauer/Koester position)
Baur..........................On the cooperation of early church leadership
Baur..........................The issue of multiple "types" of Christianity in the early church
Bears.........................wasn't Elisha cruel when he sent those bears against those little kids who were teasing him about being bald?
Beasts........................Did Jesus come during the wrong empire, according to Daniel and the beast vision?
Beauty........................Female Beauty in Bible
Belief, not discipleship......Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
Belief........................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
Belief........................What is "repentance"?
Belief........................Thumb:As long as each person is genuinely sincere, what difference does it make what they believe?
Bethlehem.....................Micah 5.2: the Bethlehem prophecy
Bethlehem.....................Does Micah 5 speak about the birth-place of the Messiah, or only His birth-family?
Betrayal, messiah.............Source data for messianic titles
Bias..........................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
Bible, accuracy of............“Was there a textual corruption cover-up over Daniel 8.14?
Bible, accuracy of............“Is there extra-biblical evidence for Post-flood longevity?
Bible, accuracy of............Thumb: Bible: so many authors/translations, and was written over so many years--there MUST be mistakes!
Bible, and women..............Women in the heart of God (outline)
Bible, and women..............Women: Pushbacks, Objections, Stereotypes
Bible, authorship.............Was the bible created by authorities to 'control' the common folk?
Bible, background.............Ancient Literacy - extent and rationale
Bible, contradiction..........Is the dating of Zedekiah a contradiction with the birth-order in 1 Chronicles?
Bible, corrupt................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
Bible, corruption.............“Was there a textual corruption cover-up over Daniel 8.14?
Bible, difficulties...........Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
Bible, error..................Is the dating of Zedekiah a contradiction with the birth-order in 1 Chronicles?
Bible, errors.................if Christianity is true, why does it need so much defending? And why doesn't God make it clearer?
Bible, errors.................“Was there a textual corruption cover-up over Daniel 8.14?
Bible, errors.................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Bible, errors.................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
Bible, evil...................Bible abortifacients?
Bible, falsification..........Lack of corroborating evidence
Bible, impure.................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
Bible, objections.............God's revelation to us: skepticism, hiddeness
Bible, purpose................Was the bible created by authorities to 'control' the common folk?
Bible, Satanic................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
Bible, skepticism.............God's revelation to us: skepticism, hiddeness
Bible, tampered ..............Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
Bible, verification...........Lack of corroborating evidence
Bible, violence...............is theBible "as violent" as the Quran/Hadith?
Bible.........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Bible......................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
Bible.........................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
Bible.........................Is the bible false, since it is not written in logic or math?
Bible.........................Is 'only reason' reasonable?
Bible.........................is theBible "as violent" as the Quran/Hadith?
Bible.........................Why would God protect one piece of literature?
Biography.....................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
Biography.....................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
Biography.....................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
Biography.....................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
Biology.......................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
Bios..........................ALL four Gospels are written in the Graeco-Roman genre of Bioi
Birth stories.................Contradictions in the Infancy Stories?
Birth.........................Does Mary's Question Contradict other passages in the NT?
Birth-Order...................Is the dating of Zedekiah a contradiction with the birth-order in 1 Chronicles?
Blood Drinking................Was Jesus sacriligious by using images of cannibalism?
Boasting......................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
Book of Job...................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
Books.........................Book on historical method
Born Again....................The meaning of 'born again' in Scripture
Borrowing.....................OT did not borrow beliefs from pagans
Borrowing.....................OT did not borrow beliefs from pagans
Borrowing.....................The Atrahasis theme
Borrowing.....................The issue of 'borrowing' laws--did Moses somehow "copy" Hammurabi?
Borrowing.....................How would Matthew have borrowed from pagan religions?
Borrowing.....................Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
Borrowing.....................OT sacrifice: difference from Israel's neighbors
Borrowing.....................did Jesus cry out to the pagan deity known as 'El' on the Cross?
Borrowing.....................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Borrowing.....................Is the Sermon on the Mount actually an ancient Essene prayer dating to 100's of years before Christ?!
Borrowing.....................Was the Sermon on the Mount a "plagarism" of Moses on the Mountain?
Borrowing.....................Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
Borrowing.....................Mithras and Jesus?
Brain.........................isn't there a “God part of the Brain” that proves all this Jesus stuff is untrue?
Buber.........................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
Buddha........................Major Religious Figures
Buddha........................International interaction in NT times
Buddha........................Types of evidence for revelation
Buddha........................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
Buddhism......................Incompatible background theories of the original of the gospels/Jesus figure (in a Letter)
Burial........................is the tomb story flawed because the term 'rolled' is used?
Burnt-Offering................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
Cain..........................Might Cain still be alive somewhere?
Calvinism.....................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
Camels........................Was the Bible wrong about Abraham having camels that early?
Campbell, Joseph..............Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
Canaan........................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Canaanite.....................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Canaanite.....................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
Canaanites....................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
Canannite woman...............Why was Jesus so mean and insulting to the Canaanite woman?
Cannibalism...................Did God force the people of Jerusalem into cannibalism?
Cannibalism...................Was Jesus sacriligious by using images of cannibalism?
Canon, intro..................Why a Canon?
Canon.........................Canon
Canon.........................God's design objectives
Canon.........................God's self-limitations
Canon.........................Authetication of Revelation - preMosaic
Canon.........................Authetication of Revelation - Mosaic
Canon.........................New Covenant/New Moses
Canon.........................OT in the OT
Canon.........................Wasn't the process of deciding what books were to be included in the bible rather BOGUS?
Canon.........................Who 'decides' on a canon, and how?
Canon.........................were the Apostolic Fathers unable to distinguish between authentic and unauthentic books?
Canon.........................Was Clement aware of the NT text?
Canon.........................Clement's alleged use of non-canonical sources
Canon.........................What about the Gospel of Thomas?
Canon.........................Was there any reason to expect another set of Scriptures?
Canon.........................Why does Jude quote from a non-canonical book, and we moderns not accept that book as scripture?
Canon.........................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
Canon.........................Papias and his preference for oral tradition
Canon.........................The events leading up to Irenaeus' statement about the Fourfold gospel
Canon.........................When was Mark 6.45-8.26 ADDED to Mark?
Canon.........................The question of "where did the gospels become authentic?"
Canon.........................God's revelation to us: means, authentication, canon, transmission
Canon.........................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
Capernaum.....................How would Matthew have borrowed from pagan religions?
Capital punishment............Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
Cappadocia....................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Carnivorous...................Why are we carnivores, eating life?
Category Mistake..............The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
Cause.........................Does complexity REALLY require 'more complexity'?
Celibacy......................Is there proof that Jesus did not have sex with Mary Magdalene?
Celibacy......................Did the bible lie about Jesus not being married?
Celsus........................Are there any indications from the EXTERNAL data , that the miracle stories are historical?
Celsus........................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Celsus........................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Censorship....................Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature?
Censorship....................Why would God protect one piece of literature?
Census, Luke..................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Census........................David's census
Census........................David's Tragic Census-who 'Moved' him to do it?
Census........................An objection about Luke, Quirinius, and Herods
Census........................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Certainty.....................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
Certainty.....................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
Chaos.........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Chariton......................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
Cherubim......................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Childbirth....................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
Childbirth....................Is pain in childbirth the Curse on Eve in Genesis 3?
Children of God...............How is the believer's sonship to God different from Christ's Sonship to God?
Children......................Martyrdom versus “obey and live long” principles
China.........................Relationship between the Flood and Chinese Characters
Choice, free..................Is history all "of one piece"? And Is everyone given a fair chance at heaven?
Choice........................What kind of a choice is THAT--Love Me or Burn?!
Choice........................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
Chosen, yet rejected..........Source data for messianic titles
Chosen........................How did the Gentiles get in the picture if the Jews were the 'chosen ones
Christ Myth...................Can the gospels (or the stories of the historical Jesus) not have been written (or invented) until 100-150 AD?
Christ, 2nd David.............Source data for messianic titles
Christ, 2nd Melchizedek.......Source data for messianic titles
Christ, 2nd Moses.............Source data for messianic titles
Christ, deity.................Does John 12.41 speak of Jesus or of God?
Christ, humanity..............Personal letter
Christ, temptation............Personal letter
Christ, titles................Source data for messianic titles
Christ, unique................How is the believer's sonship to God different from Christ's Sonship to God?
Christ........................Do none of the New Testament letters really mention "Jesus", but only "Christ"?
Christian life................What is a Christian?
Christian relevance...........Hey, who Invited GOD to this century?!
Christian worldview...........Hey, who Invited GOD to this century?!
Christian.....................What is a Christian?
Christianity, and Judaism.....Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Christmas.....................are Christmas trees tainted by paganism…
Christ-Myth...................Was the Ascension of Isaiah a Middle-Platonist document?
Christ-Myth...................Do we only have ONE copy of the controversial passage about Jesus in Josephus?
Christology...................Incarnation
Christology...................Are the Christologies of Mark and John radically different?
Chronicler, error.............Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
Church communication..........Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
Church Fathers................Can the gospels (or the stories of the historical Jesus) not have been written (or invented) until 100-150 AD?
Church Growth.................Urban expansion of the early Church
Church Unity..................Evidence that heresy was neither EARLY nor Strong (contra the Bauer/Koester position)
Church Unity..................On the cooperation of early church leadership
Church Unity..................The issue of multiple "types" of Christianity in the early church
Church, abuse.................Did Christians simply INVENT the "pierced my hands and feet" in Psalm 22?!
Church, abuse.................Did the Roman empire totally distort the New Testament documents?
Church, and women.............Women's Roles in the Early Church
Church, authority.............Was the bible created by authorities to 'control' the common folk?
Church, background............How could the Christians diverge from their Jewish roots?
Church, conspiracy............Was the bible created by authorities to 'control' the common folk?
Church, deception.............Did Christians simply INVENT the "pierced my hands and feet" in Psalm 22?!
Church, deception.............Did the early church really create 'new' sayings of Jesus and 'write these into' the stories of His pre-Easter life?
Church, early.................Was the bible created by authorities to 'control' the common folk?
Church, early.................were the Apostolic Fathers unable to distinguish between authentic and unauthentic books?
Church, early.................Was Clement aware of the NT text?
Church, early.................Clement's alleged use of non-canonical sources
Church, early.................did the Christians just OUTLIVE those who "knew better and were silent"?
Church, early.................Are the Nazarenes and Ebionites the only TRUE "Christians"?
Church, early.................Did the early Church believe in Reincarnation?
Church, early.................Getting back to the 'primitive church'
Church, early.................Evidence that even smaller churches had multiple copies of NT mss. often
Church, early.................The issue of multiple "types" of Christianity in the early church
Church, early.................Did the early church really create 'new' sayings of Jesus and 'write these into' the stories of His pre-Easter life?
Church, early.................The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
Church, errors................Did NT believers mix law and grace?
Church, errors................Are the Nazarenes and Ebionites the only TRUE "Christians"?
Church, ethics................Were the gospels pseudonymous?
Church, evil..................Did Christians simply INVENT the "pierced my hands and feet" in Psalm 22?!
Church, evil..................Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature?
Church, evil..................Did the Roman empire totally distort the New Testament documents?
Church, geography.............Evidence that even smaller churches had multiple copies of NT mss. often
Church, geography.............Evidence that heresy was neither EARLY nor Strong (contra the Bauer/Koester position)
Church, geography.............On the cooperation of early church leadership
Church, opposition............did the Christians just OUTLIVE those who "knew better and were silent"?
Church, unity.................Local church interpretive autonomy versus a controlled and pre-interpreted transmission
Church, unity.................On early church unity vs. factionalism/in-fighting
Church, unity.................On the underlying unity of the early kerygma
Church, unity.................The question of "where did the gospels become authentic?"
Church........................Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature?
Ciete.........................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Cilicia.......................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Circumcision..................Circumcision and False Teaching in the Bible?
Cities, Augustus..............Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Cities, client................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Cities, foreign...............Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Cities, free..................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Cities, Greek.................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Cities, roman policy..........Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Cities, tax...................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
City, defenses................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
City, walls...................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Civitas.......................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Clement.......................were the Apostolic Fathers unable to distinguish between authentic and unauthentic books?
Clement.......................Was Clement aware of the NT text?
Clement.......................Clement's alleged use of non-canonical sources
Clement.......................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Clement.......................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
Client Kingdoms...............Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Coercion......................What kind of a choice is THAT--Love Me or Burn?!
Coherence, historical.........Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
Coinage, syria................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Colonization, not Israel......Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Colt..........................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
Comfort.......................How could God let Christians hurt to the point of suicide?
Commandment, Second...........Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Communication.................How we "process" communication of all kinds
Communication.................The process of God's communication to us
Communication.................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
Communication.................God's revelation to us: context and processing
Communication.................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
Community.....................Is history all "of one piece"? And Is everyone given a fair chance at heaven?
Community.....................The process of God's communication to us
Community.....................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
Companions....................How did Jesus' Companions the Apostles understand what happened at the Cross?
Comparative Mythology.........Was Jesus Christ just a CopyCat Savior Myth?
Comparative Religion..........Was Jesus Christ just a CopyCat Savior Myth?
Comparative Religion..........How I decide between competing claims to revelation
Comparative Religion..........How I decide between competing claims to revelation
Comparative Religion..........What about Those Who have Never Heard the Gospel?
Comparative Religion..........How I would decide between conflicting revelations
Complexity....................Does complexity REALLY require 'more complexity'?
Confabulation.................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
Confession of Christ..........Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
Confidence....................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
Confidence....................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
Confirmation..................Why didn't God confirm the resurrection in a better way?
Confusions over Messiah.......Source data for messianic titles
Conquest......................doesn't the archaeological record CONTRADICT the Bible's claims about Joshua's "Conquest"?!
Conquest......................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
Conscience....................Interacting with the "possibly revelatory" data: Encounter, Response, Results
Consciousness.................Language about God
Consciousness.................Perception of God
Consciousness.................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
Consciousness.................Is there evidence for the existence of the "soul"?
Consciousness.................Mind/brain
Consciousness.................Which animals can feel pain?
consciousness.................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
Consciousness.................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
Consciousness.................On the Loci of Freedom...
Consciousness.................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
Consort.......................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
Conspiracy....................What about the theory that Jesus was descended from aliens?
Conspiracy....................Was the bible created by authorities to 'control' the common folk?
Conspiracy....................Could the resurrection appearances be a case of GROUP Hallucination?
Conspiracy....................Was Jesus really fraudulent, dishonest, sacrilegious, and conspiratorial?
Conspiracy....................Can the gospels (or the stories of the historical Jesus) not have been written (or invented) until 100-150 AD?
Conspiracy....................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
Conspiracy....................did the Christians just OUTLIVE those who "knew better and were silent"?
Conspiracy....................Did the early church really create 'new' sayings of Jesus and 'write these into' the stories of His pre-Easter life?
Contagious....................Was biblical leprosy the same as modern leprosy?
Contradictions................if Christianity is true, why does it need so much defending? And why doesn't God make it clearer?
Contradictions................What about number differences in parallel passages?
Contradictions................Was Terah 70 or 130 when Abraham was born?
Contradictions................Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
Contradictions................Problems in the Genealogies of Jesus
Contradictions................Problems in the Genealogies of Jesus: Jeconiah
Contradictions................why should we believe Jesus was the Messiah, if He didn’t fulfill all the prophecies when He was here?
Contradictions................Contradictions in the Infancy Stories?
Contradictions................Does Mary's Question Contradict other passages in the NT?
Contradictions................Why do the gospels disagree on the last sayings of Jesus on the Cross?
Contradictions................Well, did Jesus tell them to take a staff or not? Another contradiction?!
Contradictions................Do the Resurrection accounts HOPELESSLY contradict one another?
Contradictions................How many people saw the risen Jesus? 150 or 500?
Contradictions................three days and night vs. "on the 3rd day"?
Contradictions................three days and night vs. "on the 3rd day"?
Contradictions................A contradiction in the ascension accounts?
Contradictions................Well, did God LIKE what Jehu did or NOT--"another" contradiction?
Contradictions................Are the Christologies of Mark and John radically different?
Contradictions................Women, stones, spices, empty tombs
Conversion, Muslim............Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
Conversion....................What is "repentance"?
Conversion....................Urban expansion of the early Church
Copycat.......................Horus, Jesus, and Anup the Baptiser?
Copycat.......................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Cosmogeny.....................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Cosmology.....................What is the Universe like? (a portrait)
Cosmology.....................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Counseling....................Discussion on Deep depression, self-loathing, chronic therapy needs
Covenant......................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
Covenant......................Treaty form of the 14th/13th Centuries B.C.
Covenant......................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
Covenants, relationships......New Covenant/New Moses
Creation......................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Creation......................Was God so needy that He HAD to create the unverse?
Creation......................Does complexity REALLY require 'more complexity'?
Creation......................Theological impact of Aliens from space
Credibility...................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
Credulity.....................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
Creeds........................The NT Witness:The Ancient Church Formulas in the NT
Crime.........................OT passages on what God avenges
Crime.........................shouldn't the butchering of the Amalekite children be considered war crimes?
Crime.........................Isn’t infinite/eternal punishment for a finite/temporal sin a bit disproportionate???
Criteria......................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
Critical Thinking.............Approaching the question of faith
Critical Thinking.............Paul - and critical thinking
Criticism and faith...........Would acceptance of James' understanding of the Two-Source Hypothesis be inimical to 'the faith'?
Cross, Darkness...............Extrabiblical Witnesses to Jesus before 200 A.D.:Thallus
Cross, effects of.............Personal letter
Cross, effects................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Cross, ethics.................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
Cross, legal..................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
Cross, meaning................How did Jesus' Companions the Apostles understand what happened at the Cross?
Cross, purpose................What was the use of Christ's death?
Cross, purpose................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
Cross, response to............How Should we respond to the Message of Jesus and His apostles about His death on the Cross?
Cross, results................How did Jesus' Companions the Apostles understand what happened at the Cross?
Cross, results................How Should we respond to the Message of Jesus and His apostles about His death on the Cross?
Cross, theology of............Christ's death on the Cross--serious, real, painful
Cross.........................The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
Cross.........................if Jesus didn't stay dead, how could His death have been a REAL sacrifice?
Cross.........................Did Christ die for Satan?
Cross.........................Christ's death on the Cross--serious, real, painful
Cross.........................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
Cross........................."Paid in Full" -- Jesus' words on the Cross?
Cross.........................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
Cross.........................Are Muslims forbidden to believe that Jesus was crucified?
Cross.........................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
Cross.........................What was the use of Christ's death?
Cross.........................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
Cross.........................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
Crowing.......................Was the NT wrong about roosters being allowed in Jerusalem?
Crucifixion...................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
Crucifixion...................Are Muslims forbidden to believe that Jesus was crucified?
Crucifixion...................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
Crucifixion...................The Temple doors opening beginning around the time of the Crucifixion
Crucifixion...................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
Cruelty.......................Was God being cruel in the killing of the Firstborn at the Exodus?
Cruelty.......................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
Cult..........................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
Culture.......................Does culture determine which religion one believes? (and is this fair of God?)
Cuneiform.....................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Cup...........................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
Curse tablets.................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
Curse.........................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
Curse.........................Is pain in childbirth the Curse on Eve in Genesis 3?
Cybele........................what do we know about Cybele/Attis and the taurobolium?
Cyrus.........................A "punctuation" error in Daniel 9?
Daimon........................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Daniel 9......................A "punctuation" error in Daniel 9?
Daniel, beasts................Did Jesus come during the wrong empire, according to Daniel and the beast vision?
Daniel, dating................Was Daniel written AFTER the events he foretold?
Daniel, text..................“Was there a textual corruption cover-up over Daniel 8.14?
Daniel, unity.................Was Daniel written AFTER the events he foretold?
Daniel, visions...............Did Jesus come during the wrong empire, according to Daniel and the beast vision?
Daniel........................Did Jesus come during the wrong empire, according to Daniel and the beast vision?
Daniel........................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
Daniel........................Was Daniel written AFTER the events he foretold?
Daniel........................Could Jesus really not have had any 'Son of man' sayings, because they were allegedly only later?
Darwin........................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
Date of Christ Return.........Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was ‘concern over delay’ really about ‘failed prophecies’ or about something else?
Date of Eschaton..............Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was ‘concern over delay’ really about ‘failed prophecies’ or about something else?
Date of Parousia..............Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was ‘concern over delay’ really about ‘failed prophecies’ or about something else?
David, numbers................Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
David, second.................Source data for messianic titles
David.........................Did God callously give David's wives to Absalom to rape?
David.........................Death of the man who touched the Ark
David.........................David's census
David.........................David's Tragic Census-who 'Moved' him to do it?
David.........................David's Tragic Census-who 'Moved' him to do it?
David.........................Does Micah 5 speak about the birth-place of the Messiah, or only His birth-family?
David.........................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
Dawkins.......................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
Day of Atonement..............The torn-veil in the Temple/the scarlet thread
Daydreams.....................Letter to Readers (misc topics)
Dead Sea Scrolls..............The theories of Eisenman, Allegro, Thiering, and Baigent & Leigh concerning the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Dead Sea Scrolls..............Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
Dead Sea Scrolls..............Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
Dead Sea Scrolls..............Is the Sermon on the Mount actually an ancient Essene prayer dating to 100's of years before Christ?!
Dead..........................Question on contacting the dead (the Witch of Endor story)
Death of Jesus, Islam.........Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
Death of Jesus, Islam.........Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
Death of Jesus, Islam.........Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
Death of Jesus, Islam.........Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Death, afterlife..............Do evil spirits come from the ghosts of dead god-haters?
Death, purpose of.............Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
Death, survival...............Various questions on the use of evidence in apologetics
Death.........................A long conversation with someone experiencing deep grief
Death.........................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
Death.........................Did the early Church believe in Reincarnation?
Death.........................If sins are forgiven, how will Christians be judged?
Death.........................Does God's judgment in time unfairly compromise someone's 'free will'?
Decapolis.....................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
Deceipt.......................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
Deception.....................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
Deception.....................How can God not lie and still Deceive the Wicked?
Deception.....................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
Deception.....................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
Decision......................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
Decrees.......................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
Deity, Jesus..................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
Delay.........................Was Jesus a failed apocalyptic prophet that the embarrassed church had to re-work into something different
Demographics..................How many people claim to be Christians?
Demon.........................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Demoniac, Gadara..............Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
Demonic.......................I am afraid my Occult background has led me into the Unpardonable sin
Demons........................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
Demons........................Do evil spirits come from the ghosts of dead god-haters?
Demons........................Casting out demons by the power of demons
Demons........................Who were the "Sons of God" in Genesis 6?
Demons........................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
Demons........................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
Denominations.................A question from a teenager, being hassled for not knowing the 'lingo'…
Depression....................A long conversation with someone experiencing deep grief
Depression....................Discussion on Deep depression, self-loathing, chronic therapy needs
Depression....................How could God let Christians hurt to the point of suicide?
Design........................The "Anthropic Principle" (refs)
Despair.......................Discussion on Deep depression, self-loathing, chronic therapy needs
Deut 22.......................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
Deviance......................Discussion on Deep depression, self-loathing, chronic therapy needs
Devil.........................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
Devils........................Do evil spirits come from the ghosts of dead god-haters?
Dexandros.....................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Diaspora......................Sacrifice in the NT world (Jewish)
Diaspora......................Urban expansion of the early Church
DID...........................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
Dietary Laws..................Why didn't Peter eat on the roof?
Dilmun........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Dinah.........................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: rape of Dinah
Dinosaurs.....................Why aren't dinosaurs mentioned in the bible?
Dionysos......................Mystery Religions
Disbelief.....................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
Disbelief.....................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
Disbelief.....................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
Disciple, commitment..........Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
Disciple......................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
Disciples, view of cross......How did Jesus' Companions the Apostles understand what happened at the Cross?
Discipleship..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
Divination....................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Divine Heroes.................Divine Heros
Divinity, Jesus...............Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
Divorce.......................Could divorce ever be the ethical imperative?
Docetism......................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
Docetism......................Is Jesus' flesh only LIKE a human's (and not ACTUALLY human itself)?
Doctrine......................God's revelation to us: what we did with it
Documentary Hypothesis........the Documentary Hypothesis
Documentary Hypothesis........Good questions on JEDP
Documentary Hypothesis........Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
Documentary Hypothesis........The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
Dogs..........................Why was Jesus so mean and insulting to the Canaanite woman?
Doherty.......................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Domestication.................Was the Bible wrong about Abraham having camels that early?
Donkey........................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
Doublet.......................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
Doubt.........................Why doesn't God give us proof?
Doubt.........................Doubt
Doubt.........................Testing the Lord: yes or no?
Doubt.........................The nature of faith
Doubt.........................Approaching the question of faith
Doubt.........................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
Doubt.........................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
Drinking......................Is Drinking alcohol a sin?
DSS...........................The theories of Eisenman, Allegro, Thiering, and Baigent & Leigh concerning the Dead Sea Scrolls?
DSS...........................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
DSS...........................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
DSS...........................Is the Sermon on the Mount actually an ancient Essene prayer dating to 100's of years before Christ?!
Dualism.......................Is there evidence for the existence of the "soul"?
Dying for Christ..............Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
Early Church..................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
Easter........................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
Eastern Religions.............How I would decide between conflicting revelations
Ebionites.....................Are the Nazarenes and Ebionites the only TRUE "Christians"?
Ebla..........................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Eblaite.......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Ecology.......................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
Eden..........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Education, Jewish.............A small note on Jewish education
Egypt.........................Sacrifice in Early Cultures, Israel's neighbors
Egypt.........................The Return from Egypt
Egypt.........................Contradictions in the Infancy Stories?
Egypt.........................Was God cruel when He killed all the firstborn of Egypt?
Eisenman......................The theories of Eisenman, Allegro, Thiering, and Baigent & Leigh concerning the Dead Sea Scrolls?
El............................did Jesus cry out to the pagan deity known as 'El' on the Cross?
El............................Was Yahweh a member of the Phoenician pantheon?
Election......................How did the Gentiles get in the picture if the Jews were the 'chosen ones
Election......................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
Election......................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
Elijah........................John the Baptist as Forerunner of the Messiah
Elijah........................How was Jesus the Firstfruits from the dead, if there were other resurrections before His?
Elijah........................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
Elisha, warfare...............Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Elisha........................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
Elisha........................wasn't Elisha cruel when he sent those bears against those little kids who were teasing him about being bald?
Embellishment.................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
Embellishment.................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
Empedocles....................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Empty tomb....................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
End Times, date setting.......Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was ‘concern over delay’ really about ‘failed prophecies’ or about something else?
End Times, prediction.........Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was ‘concern over delay’ really about ‘failed prophecies’ or about something else?
Enki..........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Enlil.........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Epistemology..................Epistemology -starting point
Epistemology..................Language about God
Epistemology..................Perception of God
Epistemology..................Theological Basis for Epistemology (outline)
Epistemology..................Does incomplete knowledge mean God is unknowable?
Epistemology..................Is the bible false, since it is not written in logic or math?
Epistemology..................Is 'only reason' reasonable?
Epistemology..................What about knowledge BEYOND us?
Epistemology..................Linguistic wall--index
Epistemology..................Precision and the Epistemic "Bubble"
Epistemology..................Patterns and Argument
Epistemology..................Did I just switch from a correspondence theory of truth to a coherence theory of truth?
Epistemology..................Kinds, Postmodernism, and the Absolutes of Dissonance...
Epistemology..................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
Epistles......................Do none of the New Testament letters really mention "Jesus", but only "Christ"?
Errors in Bible...............Wouldn't a heresy inside the Bible be a fatal flaw in the Christian system?
Errors, geography.............Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
Errors, in arguments..........Errors Believers sometimes make in apologetic arguments
Errors, in arguments..........Errors skeptics sometimes make in anti-Christian arguments
Errors, Mark..................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
Errors, NT....................Was the NT wrong about roosters being allowed in Jerusalem?
Errors........................if Christianity is true, why does it need so much defending? And why doesn't God make it clearer?
Errors........................What about number differences in parallel passages?
Errors........................Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
Errors........................Noah's ark -- the problem of size
Errors........................God's revelation to us: skepticism, hiddeness
Esau..........................Is Muslim hostility related to Ishmael being 'against everyone' prophecy
Eschatological roles..........Source data for messianic titles
Eschatological................Was Jesus a failed apocalyptic prophet that the embarrassed church had to re-work into something different
Eschatology, Jewish...........Talmudic view of the afterlife (brief)
Eschatology...................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was ‘concern over delay’ really about ‘failed prophecies’ or about something else?
Eschaton, date setting........Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was ‘concern over delay’ really about ‘failed prophecies’ or about something else?
Eschaton, expectation.........Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was ‘concern over delay’ really about ‘failed prophecies’ or about something else?
Eschaton, imminence...........Does a belief in a ‘world-week’ of 6,000 years imply a denial of apocalyptic imminence?
Eschaton, prediction..........Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was ‘concern over delay’ really about ‘failed prophecies’ or about something else?
Eschaton, time of.............Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was ‘concern over delay’ really about ‘failed prophecies’ or about something else?
Eschaton......................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was ‘concern over delay’ really about ‘failed prophecies’ or about something else?
Eschaton......................Was Jesus a failed apocalyptic prophet that the embarrassed church had to re-work into something different
Essenes.......................Is the Sermon on the Mount actually an ancient Essene prayer dating to 100's of years before Christ?!
Eternal.......................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
Eternity......................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
Eternity......................Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
Ethics, comparative...........Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
Ethics, God...................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
Ethics........................Was John anti-Semitic
Ethics........................Could divorce ever be the ethical imperative?
Ethics........................Can Pride be Good?
Ethics........................Did the Law only regulate behavior toward OTHER Jews?
Ethics........................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
Ethics........................Does God condone slavery in the Bible (NT)?
Ethnic slurs..................Why was Jesus so mean and insulting to the Canaanite woman?
Ethnic........................Was Israel really open to Amalekite immigration?
Ethnicity.....................Urban expansion of the early Church
Evangelism....................What about Those Who have Never Heard the Gospel?
Evangelism....................How to help a "difficult" family member.
Evangelism....................Urban expansion of the early Church
Eve...........................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Eve
Eve...........................Adam, Eve, and Incest?
Evidence......................is God supposed to 'prove stuff' to us, or are we supposed to 'seek God'?
Evidence......................Interacting with the "possibly revelatory" data: Encounter, Response, Results
Evidence......................Two Pushbacks, on "would more hurt"? and "why seek a hidden God anyway?"
Evidence......................Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
Evidence......................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
Evidence......................How does the memory research of Elizabeth Loftus on eyewitness testimony affect the credibility of NT?
Evidence......................What makes you convinced that God exists?
Evidence......................Why didn't God confirm the resurrection in a better way?
Evidence......................On apologetic value of typological "prophecy"
Evidence......................Typology and prophecy
Evidence......................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
Evidence......................The Fulfillment of Prophecy
Evidence......................How many people saw the risen Jesus? 150 or 500?
Evidence......................Relationship between the Flood and Chinese Characters
Evidence......................did the Christians just OUTLIVE those who "knew better and were silent"?
Evidence......................Any eyewitnesses to refute the NT? (2nd reply)
Evidence......................Was Josephus relying on the Gospel of Matthew?
Evidence......................A question on my work on Isaiah 7.14
Evidence......................Did the Roman empire totally distort the New Testament documents?
Evidence......................Various questions on the use of evidence in apologetics
Evidence......................Is Christian experience make-believe?
Evidence......................A reminder that we have NO HARD DATA for intermediate documents
Evidence......................God's revelation to us: means, authentication, canon, transmission
Evidence......................KNOWN textual errors in the Bible--don't they destroy "inerrancy"?
Evidence......................Thumb: What credentials back up the claims of Christianity? Is there any good evidence to support it?
Evidence......................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
Evidence......................Objections-to disprove is not to prove the opposite
Evidence......................What makes you convinced that God exists?
Evil, Argument from...........Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
Evil, natural.................How can God allow 'natural' evil to occur?
Evil, origin of...............Is God really the ONLY evil being in the universe?
Evil, origin..................Does Isaiah 45:7 teach that God created metaphysical moral evil?
Evil, origin..................What is "evil", and did God make evil?
Evil, origin..................The various 'wills' of God
Evil, problem of..............Does human culpability for non-interference in crime prove theodicy WRONG?
Evil, Problem of..............Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
Evil..........................OT passages on what God avenges
Evil..........................Does evil thwart God's intent to bless His friends?
Evil..........................How can God allow 'natural' evil to occur?
Evil..........................God and evil, theodicy
Evil..........................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
Evil..........................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
Evil..........................What is "evil", and did God make evil?
Evil..........................Thumb: If a loving/powerful God really exists, why doesn't He do something about all of the evil in the world?
Evil..........................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
Evil..........................Implications from Suffering, for the Character of God
Evil..........................Why does judgment lag so far behind?
Evil..........................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
Evolution.....................Would common childbirth pain support evolution?
Exaggeration..................Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
Ex-Christians.................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
Exclusion.....................Was biblical leprosy the same as modern leprosy?
Exclusivism...................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
Exclusivity...................Thumb: Isn't it narrow-minded for Christians to think that they're right and everyone else is wrong?
Exegesis, Jewish..............Jewish exegesis of OT in 1st century
Exegesis, OT..................Jewish exegesis of OT in 1st century
Exegesis, OT..................Jewish messianic exegesis in 1st century
Exegesis, OT..................Jewish messianic exegesis in 1st century
Exegesis......................Jewish exegesis of OT in 1st century
Ex-Muslim.....................Someone bothered about a question on the Persian Mithras
Exodus........................Did God harden Pharaoh's heart FIRST?
Exorcism......................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
Exorcisms.....................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
Exorcisms.....................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Exorcisms.....................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
Experience....................Is Christian experience make-believe?
Experience....................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
Explanation...................Just because I cannot think of a better explanation now, doesn't mean I have to accept your Christian one
Extra-biblical................Can the gospels (or the stories of the historical Jesus) not have been written (or invented) until 100-150 AD?
Eyewitness....................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
Eyewitness....................How does the memory research of Elizabeth Loftus on eyewitness testimony affect the credibility of NT?
Fable.........................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
Fable......................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
Fable.........................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
Fable.........................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
Fables........................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
Fabrication...................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
Fabrication...................Did the gospel writers make up the words of Jesus at will?
Fabrication...................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
Failure.......................Discussion on Deep depression, self-loathing, chronic therapy needs
Faith ........................What makes you convinced that God exists?
Faith, growth.................The nature of faith
Faith, nature of..............Approaching the question of faith
Faith, nature of..............Thumb:As long as each person is genuinely sincere, what difference does it make what they believe?
Faith, not discipleship.......Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
Faith, problems...............The nature of faith
Faith, problems...............Approaching the question of faith
Faith.........................Does culture determine which religion one believes? (and is this fair of God?)
Faith.........................Testing the Lord: yes or no?
Faith.........................Do I have to be holy/righteous before I approach God for salvation?
Faith.........................Understanding "Faith," and "Believing" our Understanding...
Faith.........................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
Faith.........................How Should we respond to the Message of Jesus and His apostles about His death on the Cross?
Faith.........................Can you be certain you have the "right" faith?
Faith.........................My kid's pet just died...what should I tell my kid?
Faith.........................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
Faith.........................What is "repentance"?
Faith.........................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
Faith.........................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
Family, hostility.............Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
Family........................Could divorce ever be the ethical imperative?
Family........................A long conversation with someone experiencing deep grief
Family........................Family value: Jesus' words
Family........................Family value: Lot and incest
Family........................A Letter about Pain in Heaven over lost Loved Ones
Family........................How to help a "difficult" family member.
Fantasy.......................Letter to Readers (misc topics)
Far East......................International interaction in NT times
Fatalism......................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
Father, not YHWH..............Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
Father........................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
Fathers.......................Are the Nazarenes and Ebionites the only TRUE "Christians"?
Fathers.......................Justin Martyr's use of extra-biblical tradition?
Fear..........................What kind of a choice is THAT--Love Me or Burn?!
Feminism......................Did God command wives to OBEY their husbands?
Fiction.......................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
Fiction....................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
Fiction.......................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
Fiction.......................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
Fideism.......................Fideism and starting-points
Firstborn.....................Was God cruel when He killed all the firstborn of Egypt?
Firstborn.....................What does 'firstborn' mean when used of Jesus?
Firstfruits...................How was Jesus the Firstfruits from the dead, if there were other resurrections before His?
Flesh.........................Is Jesus' flesh only LIKE a human's (and not ACTUALLY human itself)?
Flight2Egypt..................Contradictions in the Infancy Stories?
Flood.........................Noah's ark -- the problem of size
Flood.........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Flood.........................“Is there extra-biblical evidence for Post-flood longevity?
Flood.........................Relationship between the Flood and Chinese Characters
Flood.........................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
Flood.........................Who were the "Sons of God" in Genesis 6?
Flood.........................How likely is it that Noah was the only righteous person on the whole earth, at the time of the Flood?
Flood.........................Are there any extra-biblical refs to longevity BEFORE the flood?
Foal..........................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
Folklore......................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
Food of God...................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
Foreigner.....................Was Israel really open to Amalekite immigration?
Foreknowledge.................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
Foreknowledge.................The Fulfillment of Prophecy
Foreknowledge.................On foreknowledge
Forgiveness, all..............Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Forgiveness, sins.............Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Forgiveness...................Second chances with God…
Forgiveness...................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
Forgiveness...................If sins are forgiven, how will Christians be judged?
Forgiveness...................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
Forgiveness...................Fear over "Willful Sins"
Four-fold gospel..............The events leading up to Irenaeus' statement about the Fourfold gospel
Fractals......................Does complexity REALLY require 'more complexity'?
Fraud.........................Was Jesus really fraudulent, dishonest, sacrilegious, and conspiratorial?
Fraud.........................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
Fraud.........................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Fraud.........................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
Fraud.........................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
Fraud.........................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
Fraud.........................Did Christians simply INVENT the "pierced my hands and feet" in Psalm 22?!
Fraud.........................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
Fraud.........................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
Fraud.........................Did John invent the story of the raising of Lazarus?!
Fraud.........................Should the possible addition of John 8.1-11 make us paranoid about other possible inauthentic 'additions'
Fraud......................... It was NOT OK to take poetic license and create/invent falsehoods as historical truth (in the Ancient world!)
Fraud.........................Even the problem with speech-reporting was subject to norms of accuracy
Fraud.........................It was not okay to do it in biography, either.
Fraud.........................Could Jesus really not have had any 'Son of man' sayings, because they were allegedly only later?
Fraud.........................Did the early church really create 'new' sayings of Jesus and 'write these into' the stories of His pre-Easter life?
Fraud.........................Were the gospels pseudonymous?
Fraud.........................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
Free will.....................Is history all "of one piece"? And Is everyone given a fair chance at heaven?
Free will.....................What kind of a choice is THAT--Love Me or Burn?!
Free Will.....................Did God harden Pharaoh's heart FIRST?
Free Will.....................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
Free Will.....................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
Free Will.....................How could God let Christians hurt to the point of suicide?
Freedom.......................Interacting with the "possibly revelatory" data: Encounter, Response, Results
Freedom.......................Two Pushbacks, on "would more hurt"? and "why seek a hidden God anyway?"
Freedom.......................Does human culpability for non-interference in crime prove theodicy WRONG?
Freedom.......................Freedom
Freedom.......................Redemption/Ransom (NT)--pdf only
Freedom.......................Redemption/Ransom (OT)
Freedom.......................What kind of a choice is THAT--Love Me or Burn?!
Freedom.......................Mind/brain
Freedom.......................On the Loci of Freedom...
Freedom.......................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
Fruit Trees...................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Fulfillment...................The Fulfillment of Prophecy
Funeral.......................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
Future, determined............Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
Future, open..................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
Gadara........................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
Galilee, languages............Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
Galilee.......................How would Matthew have borrowed from pagan religions?
Galilee.......................Did the Jewish War eliminate all the possible counter-witnesses to the life of Jesus in the NT?
Gamaliel......................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
Gandhi........................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
Genealogy.....................Problems in the Genealogies of Jesus
Genesis 3.....................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
Genesis 3.....................Is pain in childbirth the Curse on Eve in Genesis 3?
Genesis.......................The Atrahasis theme
Genesis.......................Noah's ark -- the problem of size
Genesis.......................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Genesis.......................Who were the "Sons of God" in Genesis 6?
Genesis.......................Adam, Eve, and Incest?
Genesis.......................Would common childbirth pain support evolution?
Genesis.......................Are there any extra-biblical refs to longevity BEFORE the flood?
Genesis.......................Doesn't the bible teach that God cursed women by making them subject/subordinate to men?"
Genocide......................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
Genocide......................Was Israel really open to Amalekite immigration?
Genocide......................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
Genocide......................shouldn't the butchering of the Amalekite children be considered war crimes?
Genre.........................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
Genre.........................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
Genre.........................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
Gentiles......................How did the Gentiles get in the picture if the Jews were the 'chosen ones
Gentiles......................Why didn't Peter eat on the roof?
Gentleness of God.............Letter to Readers (misc topics)
Geography.....................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
Gerasa........................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
Gergesa.......................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
Ghost.........................Is Jesus' flesh only LIKE a human's (and not ACTUALLY human itself)?
Ghosts........................Do evil spirits come from the ghosts of dead god-haters?
Ghosts........................Question on contacting the dead (the Witch of Endor story)
Gilgamesh.....................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Gnosticism....................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
Gnosticism....................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
Gnostics......................Can the gospels (or the stories of the historical Jesus) not have been written (or invented) until 100-150 AD?
Goals.........................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
God, and creatures............Was God so needy that He HAD to create the unverse?
God, and eternity.............Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
God, and history..............God's design objectives
God, and history..............God's self-limitations
God, and language.............How can finite language apply to an Infinite God?
God, and language.............Exploring Analogy
God, and language.............Can God make a rock so big He cannot lift it?
God, and sin..................If God cannot look upon sin, how can the Holy Spirit be present inside the believer?
God, and suffering............Implications from Suffering, for the Character of God
God, and the brain............isn't there a “God part of the Brain” that proves all this Jesus stuff is untrue?
God, and time.................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
God, and women................Women in the heart of God (outline)
God, and women................Women: Pushbacks, Objections, Stereotypes
God, and women................Did God callously give David's wives to Absalom to rape?
God, and women................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
God, and women................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
God, and women................A HUGE double standard in biblical sexual ethics?
God, and women................Weren't women always kept separate from the men--They weren't even allowed in the Temples or synagogues.
God, and women................Paul OBVIOUSLY had a "sit down and shut up" attitude toward women--and we are supposed to trust HIM?!"
God, and women................Wasn't Miriam punished for questioning male authority, while Aaron was not?"
God, and women................The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
God, and women................Weren't women considered property in the OT, like cows or something?
God, and women................Doesn't the bible teach that God cursed women by making them subject/subordinate to men?"
God, and women................The VAST MAJORITY of Israelite/Church leadership is by MEN--see, God de-values women again"
God, and women................God's choice to be incarnated as a man IMPLICITLY de-values women
God, and women................The bible teaches that women had NO access to God--except through the male..."
God, and women................None of the disciples or apostles were women--a bit unfair, aint it?!"
God, and women................Why do men get all the glory in the bible? Why are women only minor characters?!"
God, and women................God is ALWAYS portrayed as a male--women had no way of identifying with Him"
God, and women................Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
God, and women................Women were non-persons back then--they had NO legal rights in the system at all!"
God, and women................The patriarchy system (God condoned) subjected women by restricting their access to social/cultural power."
God, and women................But, women were excluded from being priests..."
God, and women................All the books of the bible were written by men--see, God de-values women again"
God, and women................Women are always pictured as being servile or passive or evil or stupid..."
God, and women................Weren't OT women WORSE off than even their Babylonian counterparts?"
God, approaching..............Do I have to be holy/righteous before I approach God for salvation?
God, arguments for............The "Anthropic Principle" (refs)
God, basis of morality........Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
God, best.....................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
God, character................How can God not lie and still Deceive the Wicked?
God, character................Isn't God cruel, schizoid, or psychotic?
God, character................Death of the man who touched the Ark
God, character................David's census
God, character................Hardening of Pharaoh
God, character................Constructing a view of God's heart
God, character................David's Tragic Census-who 'Moved' him to do it?
God, character................Hardening of Pharaoh
God, character................Personal letter
God, character................A problem with relating to God the Father
God, character................How can God allow 'natural' evil to occur?
God, character................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
God, character................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
God, character................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
God, character................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
God, character................Why did God order Abraham to do child sacrifice?
God, character................Does God condone slavery in the Bible?
God, character................My kid's pet just died...what should I tell my kid?
God, character................The various 'wills' of God
God, character................Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
God, character................Why would God protect one piece of literature?
God, character................The Unexpected God--Beyond our stereotypes of deity (PDF syllabus)
God, character................Thumb: If a loving/powerful God really exists, why doesn't He do something about all of the evil in the world?
God, character................Thumb: What about innocent people who suffer, like little children? Why doesn't God help them?
God, character................Implications from Suffering, for the Character of God
God, character................Why does judgment lag so far behind?
God, character................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
God, children of..............How is the believer's sonship to God different from Christ's Sonship to God?
God, cold-hearted.............Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
God, communication............Why would God protect one piece of literature?
God, communication............God's revelation to us: context and processing
God, communication............God's revelation to us: means, authentication, canon, transmission
God, communication............The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
God, compassion...............Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
God, complete.................Was God so needy that He HAD to create the unverse?
God, created..................On humanity 'inventing' God
God, cruel....................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
God, cruelty..................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
God, death....................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
God, death....................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
God, death....................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
God, death....................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
God, deception................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
God, deception................How can God not lie and still Deceive the Wicked?
God, deceptive................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
God, drinks...................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
God, duplicity................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
God, dwelling ................God will dwell on earth
God, eats.....................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
God, ethics...................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
God, ethics...................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
God, everywhere...............If God is infinite, how can there still be room for us?
God, evidence of..............is God supposed to 'prove stuff' to us, or are we supposed to 'seek God'?
God, evidence.................Why didn't God confirm the resurrection in a better way?
God, evidence.................Does complexity REALLY require 'more complexity'?
God, evil.....................Did God force the people of Jerusalem into cannibalism?
God, evil.....................Isn't God cruel, schizoid, or psychotic?
God, evil.....................Death of the man who touched the Ark
God, evil.....................David's census
God, evil.....................David's Tragic Census-who 'Moved' him to do it?
God, evil.....................Hardening of Pharaoh
God, evil.....................Does Isaiah 45:7 teach that God created metaphysical moral evil?
God, evil.....................What kind of a choice is THAT--Love Me or Burn?!
God, evil.....................How can God allow 'natural' evil to occur?
God, evil.....................God and evil, theodicy
God, evil.....................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
God, evil.....................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
God, evil.....................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
God, evil.....................Adam, Eve, and Incest?
God, evil.....................Well, did God LIKE what Jehu did or NOT--"another" contradiction?
God, evil.....................Why did God order Abraham to do child sacrifice?
God, evil.....................What is "evil", and did God make evil?
God, evil.....................Does God condone slavery in the Bible?
God, evil.....................The various 'wills' of God
God, evil.....................Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
God, evil.....................Implications from Suffering, for the Character of God
God, exemplar.................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
God, existence of.............What makes you convinced that God exists?
God, existence of.............Thumb: How do you know God exists?
God, existence of.............What makes you convinced that God exists?
God, existence................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
God, fairness.................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
God, fairness.................Isn’t infinite/eternal punishment for a finite/temporal sin a bit disproportionate???
God, food.....................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
God, gentleness...............Letter to Readers (misc topics)
God, good.....................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
God, good.....................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
God, goodness.................Two Pushbacks, on "would more hurt"? and "why seek a hidden God anyway?"
God, goodness.................Was God so needy that He HAD to create the unverse?
God, goodness.................The Unexpected God--Beyond our stereotypes of deity (PDF syllabus)
God, governance...............Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
God, grace....................The Unexpected God--Beyond our stereotypes of deity (PDF syllabus)
God, hardening................Hardening of Pharaoh
God, harsh....................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
God, heart of.................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
God, heart of.................The Unexpected God--Beyond our stereotypes of deity (PDF syllabus)
God, hidden...................Why isn't the God of the Bible showing Himself to me?
God, hidden...................Is God ever intentionally silent toward His loved ones?
God, hiddenness...............Personal letter
God, hungry...................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
God, images...................God is ALWAYS portrayed as a male--women had no way of identifying with Him"
God, infinite.................If God is infinite, how can there still be room for us?
God, invented.................On humanity 'inventing' God
God, invented.................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
God, judgment.................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
God, just.....................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
God, justice..................Isn’t infinite/eternal punishment for a finite/temporal sin a bit disproportionate???
God, killed...................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
God, killed...................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
God, killed...................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
God, killed...................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
God, knowable.................Does incomplete knowledge mean God is unknowable?
God, knowledge of.............What about knowledge BEYOND us?
God, Language about...........Language about God
God, Language about...........Perception of God
God, lenient..................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
God, love.....................What kind of a choice is THAT--Love Me or Burn?!
God, misconceptions...........The Unexpected God--Beyond our stereotypes of deity (PDF syllabus)
God, models of................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
God, moral....................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
God, moral....................Is Christian experience make-believe?
God, morality.................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
God, morality.................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
God, omnipresent..............If God is infinite, how can there still be room for us?
God, pagan....................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
God, peace-maker..............God the Peace-Maker (PDF outline)
God, perception of............Language about God
God, perception of............Perception of God
God, perception of............A problem with relating to God the Father
God, personal.................How could Jesus be fully divine and live on earth?
God, plan.....................Doesn't Paul's argument in Romans 9 pretty clearly indicate that people's free choices are determined by God?
God, plurality................Jewish problem of plurality in God
God, plurality................Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
God, plurality................The NT Witness:The Ancient Church Formulas in the NT
God, plurality................NT Passages mutually involving the Father, Son, and Spirit (Raw Data)
God, plurality................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Synoptics)
God, plurality................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Gospel of John)
God, plurality................The deity of Jesus:NT Responses to Jesus
God, plurality................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus
God, plurality................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus (con't)
God, plurality................The deity of Jesus:Other data relative to the deity of Jesus
God, plurality................The deity of Jesus:Summary: The deity of Jesus Christ
God, plurality................The deity of Jesus:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to Jesus
God, plurality................The NT Witness:The Personality of The Holy Spirit
God, plurality................The NT Witness:The Deity of The Holy Spirit
God, plurality................The NT Witness:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to The Holy Spirit
God, plurality................Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
God, power....................Can God make a rock so big He cannot lift it?
God, proof....................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
God, protection...............Letter to Readers (misc topics)
God, providence...............Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature?
God, providence...............What good is God? On...the limits of "trials"
God, providence...............Why would God protect one piece of literature?
God, rest-giver...............God the Rest-Giver (PDF outline)
God, silent...................Why isn't the God of the Bible showing Himself to me?
God, silent...................Is God ever intentionally silent toward His loved ones?
God, Son of...................How is the believer's sonship to God different from Christ's Sonship to God?
God, Son of...................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
God, stereotypes..............The Unexpected God--Beyond our stereotypes of deity (PDF syllabus)
God, strict...................Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
God, suffering................How could God let Christians hurt to the point of suicide?
God, surprising...............The Unexpected God--Beyond our stereotypes of deity (PDF syllabus)
God, thirsty..................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
God, trinity .................Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
God, trinity .................The NT Witness:The Ancient Church Formulas in the NT
God, trinity .................NT Passages mutually involving the Father, Son, and Spirit (Raw Data)
God, trinity .................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Synoptics)
God, trinity .................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Gospel of John)
God, trinity .................The deity of Jesus:NT Responses to Jesus
God, trinity .................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus
God, trinity .................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus (con't)
God, trinity .................The deity of Jesus:Other data relative to the deity of Jesus
God, trinity .................The deity of Jesus:Summary: The deity of Jesus Christ
God, trinity .................The deity of Jesus:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to Jesus
God, trinity .................The NT Witness:The Personality of The Holy Spirit
God, trinity .................The NT Witness:The Deity of The Holy Spirit
God, trinity .................The NT Witness:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to The Holy Spirit
God, trinity .................Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
God, trinity..................Are there 3 gods in the Trinity?
God, trinity..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
God, trinity..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
God, trinity..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
God, trinity..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
God, trinity..................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
God, truthfulness.............How can God not lie and still Deceive the Wicked?
God, unity of.................The Trinity: Intro and Method
God, unity of.................Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
God, unity of.................The NT Witness:The Ancient Church Formulas in the NT
God, unity of.................NT Passages mutually involving the Father, Son, and Spirit (Raw Data)
God, unity of.................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Synoptics)
God, unity of.................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Gospel of John)
God, unity of.................The deity of Jesus:NT Responses to Jesus
God, unity of.................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus
God, unity of.................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus (con't)
God, unity of.................The deity of Jesus:Other data relative to the deity of Jesus
God, unity of.................The deity of Jesus:Summary: The deity of Jesus Christ
God, unity of.................The deity of Jesus:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to Jesus
God, unity of.................The NT Witness:The Personality of The Holy Spirit
God, unity of.................The NT Witness:The Deity of The Holy Spirit
God, unity of.................The NT Witness:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to The Holy Spirit
God, unity of.................Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
God, unity....................Are there 3 gods in the Trinity?
God, unity....................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
God, untruthful...............Questions on God, lying, and deception...
God, will.....................The various 'wills' of God
God, will.....................The various 'wills' of God
God...........................Was God so needy that He HAD to create the unverse?
God...........................On foreknowledge
God's character...............Is God really the ONLY evil being in the universe?
Gods, dying and rising........Dying and Rising Gods
Gods, Olympian................International interaction in NT times
Gods..........................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
Gods..........................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
Gods..........................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
Gollwitzer....................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
Gospel of Philip..............Is there proof that Jesus did not have sex with Mary Magdalene?
Gospel of Thomas..............Was the early oral tradition ONLY made up of 'sayings' of Jesus?
Gospel, authors...............Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
Gospel, confirmation..........Why didn't God confirm the resurrection in a better way?
Gospel, errors................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
Gospel, history...............Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
Gospel, Homer.................Incompatible background theories of the original of the gospels/Jesus figure (in a Letter)
Gospel, origins...............Incompatible background theories of the original of the gospels/Jesus figure (in a Letter)
Gospel........................What about Those Who have Never Heard the Gospel?
Gospel........................Letter to Readers (misc topics)
Gospel........................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
Gospel........................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
Gospel........................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
Gospel........................Are the Nazarenes and Ebionites the only TRUE "Christians"?
Gospel........................Local church interpretive autonomy versus a controlled and pre-interpreted transmission
Gospel........................On the underlying unity of the early kerygma
Gospels ......................ALL four Gospels are written in the Graeco-Roman genre of Bioi
Gospels, dating...............Can the gospels (or the stories of the historical Jesus) not have been written (or invented) until 100-150 AD?
Gospels, error................Did the gospels make an error in their citation of the Judas-30pieces episode?
Gospels, error................Does Mary's Question Contradict other passages in the NT?
Gospels, errors...............Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
Gospels, formation............What is an alternative understanding of the process of gospel formation?
Gospels, genre................ALL four Gospels are written in the Graeco-Roman genre of Bioi
Gospels, historical...........Can the gospels (or the stories of the historical Jesus) not have been written (or invented) until 100-150 AD?
Gospels, midrash..............Incompatible background theories of the original of the gospels/Jesus figure (in a Letter)
Gospels, truth................Can the gospels (or the stories of the historical Jesus) not have been written (or invented) until 100-150 AD?
Gospels, witnesses............Can the gospels (or the stories of the historical Jesus) not have been written (or invented) until 100-150 AD?
Gospels.......................Was John anti-Semitic
Gospels.......................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
Gospels.......................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
Gospels.......................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
Gospels.......................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
Gospels.......................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Gospels.......................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
Gospels.......................Are the Christologies of Mark and John radically different?
Gospels.......................Apostles as gospel authors?
Gospels.......................The events leading up to Irenaeus' statement about the Fourfold gospel
Gospels.......................Again: the process wasn't solely oral...
Gospels.......................Local church interpretive autonomy versus a controlled and pre-interpreted transmission
Gospels.......................the identity/background/dating of the Gospel of Mark
Gospels.......................The slow, oral, hodge-podge accumulation of bits and pieces of the NT into a whole?
Gospels.......................Could Jesus really not have had any 'apocalyptic expectations' because they were allegedly only later?
Gospels.......................Could Jesus really not have had any 'Son of man' sayings, because they were allegedly only later?
Gospels.......................Would acceptance of James' understanding of the Two-Source Hypothesis be inimical to 'the faith'?
Gospels.......................Were the gospels pseudonymous?
Governance....................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
Government....................Why would government have any authority in personal areas like marriage?
Government....................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
Grace.........................Second chances with God…
Grace.........................Do I have to be holy/righteous before I approach God for salvation?
Grace.........................Did NT believers mix law and grace?
Grace.........................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
Grave.........................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
Graven Image..................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Graveyard.....................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
Greece........................Did Jesus come during the wrong empire, according to Daniel and the beast vision?
Greek.........................Sacrifice in the NT world (non-Jewish)
Greek.........................How did the peasant apostle John write the book of Revelation in Greek?
Grief.........................A long conversation with someone experiencing deep grief
Grief.........................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
Grief.........................A Letter about Pain in Heaven over lost Loved Ones
Growth, Christian.............Christian growth--an outline
Growth........................A letter to someone fatigued at sin…
Guilt.........................Discussion on Deep depression, self-loathing, chronic therapy needs
Gullibility...................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
Hadith........................Are there 3 gods in the Trinity?
Hadith........................is theBible "as violent" as the Quran/Hadith?
Hadith........................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
Haggadah......................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
Haggadah...................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
Hallucination.................Could the resurrection appearances be a case of GROUP Hallucination?
Hanina........................ Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
Haran.........................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Harden........................Did God harden Pharaoh's heart FIRST?
Hardening.....................Hardening of Pharaoh
Hardening.....................Hardening of Pharaoh
Hardness......................Interacting with the "possibly revelatory" data: Encounter, Response, Results
Harvest.......................How was Jesus the Firstfruits from the dead, if there were other resurrections before His?
Hasidim.......................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
Hate..........................Jesus the hate-monger
Healing.......................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Healings......................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
Healings......................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
Healings......................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
Heart.........................Did God harden Pharaoh's heart FIRST?
Heaven........................Letter to Readers (misc topics)
Heaven........................A Letter about Pain in Heaven over lost Loved Ones
Heaven........................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
Hebrew punctuation............A "punctuation" error in Daniel 9?
Hebrews.......................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
Hell, Jewish views............Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
Hell..........................Is God really the ONLY evil being in the universe?
Hell..........................Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
Hell..........................Talmudic view of the afterlife (brief)
Hell..........................How long was Jesus in hell?
Hell..........................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
Hell..........................Isn’t infinite/eternal punishment for a finite/temporal sin a bit disproportionate???
Hell..........................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
Herem.........................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Heresy........................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
Hermeneutics..................Epistemology -starting point
Hermeneutics..................Personality as the Basal Interpretive Paradigm
Hermeneutics..................The 'codedness' of revelation
Hermeneutics..................Postmodernism and Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics..................The process of God's communication to us
Hermeneutics..................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
Hermeneutics..................God's revelation to us: context and processing
Hermeneutics..................God's revelation to us: what we did with it
Hero..........................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
Herod.........................Herod's slaughter of the children
Herod.........................An objection about Luke, Quirinius, and Herods
Heroes........................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
Heroes........................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
Heroes........................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
Heroes........................The VAST MAJORITY of Israelite/Church leadership is by MEN--see, God de-values women again"
Heroes........................Why do men get all the glory in the bible? Why are women only minor characters?!"
Heroes........................Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
Heroes........................Women are always pictured as being servile or passive or evil or stupid..."
Hezekiah......................Reversal of sun's path for Hezekiah
Hiddenness of God.............Personal letter
Hierocles.....................Are there any indications from the EXTERNAL data , that the miracle stories are historical?
Hillel........................Jewish exegesis of OT in 1st century
Hillel........................ Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
Hillel........................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
Hindu.........................International interaction in NT times
Hindu.........................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
Historical method.............Book on historical method
Historical Method.............Book on historical method
Historical method.............Criterion of 'historical probability'
Historical method.............No way to triangulate some 'historical core' of the NT from outside data
Historical method.............Openness vs. suspicion (a brief remark)
Historical method.............Our presumption in "judging the text" too simply
Historical method.............Problems of historical method created by presuppositions.
Historical method.............The Gospels are under the same Thuycididean standards and conventions of the Hellenistic world
Historical method.............They are probably even at a higher level of fidelity to historical reporting
Historicity...................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
History of Doctrine...........God's revelation to us: what we did with it
History.......................Is history all "of one piece"? And Is everyone given a fair chance at heaven?
History.......................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
History.......................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
History.......................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
Hittite.......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Hittite.......................Treaty form of the 14th/13th Centuries B.C.
Holiness......................Sacrifice in Mosaic Covenant
Holiness......................The difference between Righteousness and Holiness
Holy Spirit, deity of.........The Trinity: Intro and Method
Holy Spirit, deity of.........Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
Holy Spirit, deity of.........The NT Witness:The Ancient Church Formulas in the NT
Holy Spirit, deity of.........NT Passages mutually involving the Father, Son, and Spirit (Raw Data)
Holy Spirit, deity of.........The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Synoptics)
Holy Spirit, deity of.........The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Gospel of John)
Holy Spirit, deity of.........The deity of Jesus:NT Responses to Jesus
Holy Spirit, deity of.........The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus
Holy Spirit, deity of.........The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus (con't)
Holy Spirit, deity of.........The deity of Jesus:Other data relative to the deity of Jesus
Holy Spirit, deity of.........The deity of Jesus:Summary: The deity of Jesus Christ
Holy Spirit, deity of.........The deity of Jesus:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to Jesus
Holy Spirit, deity of.........The NT Witness:The Personality of The Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit, deity of.........The NT Witness:The Deity of The Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit, deity of.........The NT Witness:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to The Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit, deity of.........Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
Holy Spirit, personality of...The Trinity: Intro and Method
Holy Spirit, personality of...Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
Holy Spirit, personality of...The NT Witness:The Ancient Church Formulas in the NT
Holy Spirit, personality of...NT Passages mutually involving the Father, Son, and Spirit (Raw Data)
Holy Spirit, personality of...The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Synoptics)
Holy Spirit, personality of...The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Gospel of John)
Holy Spirit, personality of...The deity of Jesus:NT Responses to Jesus
Holy Spirit, personality of...The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus
Holy Spirit, personality of...The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus (con't)
Holy Spirit, personality of...The deity of Jesus:Other data relative to the deity of Jesus
Holy Spirit, personality of...The deity of Jesus:Summary: The deity of Jesus Christ
Holy Spirit, personality of...The deity of Jesus:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to Jesus
Holy Spirit, personality of...The NT Witness:The Personality of The Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit, personality of...The NT Witness:The Deity of The Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit, personality of...The NT Witness:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to The Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit, personality of...Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
Holy Spirit...................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
Holy War......................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
Homer.........................Incompatible background theories of the original of the gospels/Jesus figure (in a Letter)
Homer.........................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
Homer.........................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
Homer.........................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
Homosexuality.................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
Honesty.......................is God supposed to 'prove stuff' to us, or are we supposed to 'seek God'?
Honesty.......................Can Pride be Good?
Honesty.......................Various questions on the use of evidence in apologetics
Honi.......................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
Honi..........................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
Horus.........................Horus, Jesus, and Anup the Baptiser?
Horus.........................Major Religious Figures
Horus.........................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Hostility.....................How I deal with very hostile objections
Hostility.....................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
Hostility.....................Questions on my Life-View and dealing with others
Household rules...............Did God command wives to OBEY their husbands?
Human, better than God........Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
Human, superior...............Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
Humanity, Jesus...............Is Jesus' flesh only LIKE a human's (and not ACTUALLY human itself)?
Humility......................Can Pride be Good?
Hunger........................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
Hurrian.......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Husbands......................Did God command wives to OBEY their husbands?
Hyperbole.....................Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
Hypocrites....................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
IAO...........................Was YHWH just a pagan solar deity IAO?
Ichneumon.....................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
Icon..........................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Iconoclast....................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Idol..........................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
Idol..........................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Idolatry......................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
Idolatry......................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Idols.........................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
Illegal.......................Could divorce ever be the ethical imperative?
Image.........................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Images, animals...............Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Imaginary Friend..............Evidence of the supernatural in experience
Immanuel......................Is 7.14--the Virgin Birth prophecy
Immigration...................Was Israel really open to Amalekite immigration?
Imminence.....................Does a belief in a ‘world-week’ of 6,000 years imply a denial of apocalyptic imminence?
Immortality...................How was Jesus the Firstfruits from the dead, if there were other resurrections before His?
Imperial Cult.................International interaction in NT times
Imperialism, Israel...........Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Incarnation, purpose..........Incarnation: results
Incarnation, results..........Incarnation: results
Incarnation...................Incarnation, "physics of"
Incarnation...................Incarnation: results
Incarnation...................Responses to the Incarnation: mixed
Incarnation...................Responses to the Incarnation: Obstacles
Incarnation...................Responses to the Incarnation
Incarnation...................Responses to the Incarnation: all walks of life
Incarnation...................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Incarnation...................God's choice to be incarnated as a man IMPLICITLY de-values women
Incest........................Family value: Lot and incest
Incest........................Adam, Eve, and Incest?
Inerrancy.....................Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
Inerrancy.....................Personal letter
Inerrancy.....................God's revelation to us: what we did with it
Infancy Gospels...............If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
Infancy.......................Contradictions in the Infancy Stories?
Infanticide...................Was God cruel when He killed all the firstborn of Egypt?
Inference.....................Just because I cannot think of a better explanation now, doesn't mean I have to accept your Christian one
Infinite......................If God is infinite, how can there still be room for us?
Inheritance...................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
Innocents.....................Was God cruel when He killed all the firstborn of Egypt?
Inscription...................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
Inspiration...................Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
Inspiration...................Why would God protect one piece of literature?
Inspiration...................God's revelation to us: what we did with it
Integrity.....................Various questions on the use of evidence in apologetics
International interaction.....International interaction
International interaction.....International interaction in NT times
International trade...........International interaction in NT times
Irenaeus......................Mistranslation of Irenaeus
Irenaeus......................The events leading up to Irenaeus' statement about the Fourfold gospel
Isaac.........................Why did God order Abraham to do child sacrifice?
Isaiah 7.14...................Isn't the verb tense of Is 7.14 present instead of future?
Isaiah........................Is Isaiah 53.10 about Israel, rather than about Jesus?
Isaiah........................A question on my work on Isaiah 7.14
Ishmael.......................Is Muslim hostility related to Ishmael being 'against everyone' prophecy
Isis..........................Mystery Religions
Isis..........................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Islam, faith..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
Islam, faith..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Islam, Jesus..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Have you ever seen or talked to Jesus, and how would you recognize Him?
Islam, Jesus..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
Islam, Jesus..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
Islam, Jesus..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
Islam, Jesus..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Islam, Jesus..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
Islam, salvation..............Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
Islam, salvation..............Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Islam, universalism...........Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Islam.........................Does culture determine which religion one believes? (and is this fair of God?)
Islam.........................Types of evidence for revelation
Islam.........................How can Christians believe that there is only one God, and yet still call Jesus the Son of God?
Islam.........................Are there 3 gods in the Trinity?
Islam.........................Is Muslim hostility related to Ishmael being 'against everyone' prophecy
Islam.........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Have you ever seen or talked to Jesus, and how would you recognize Him?
Islam.........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
Islam.........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
Islam.........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
Islam.........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Islam.........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
Islam.........................How is the believer's sonship to God different from Christ's Sonship to God?
Islam.........................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
Islam.........................How did Jesus' Companions the Apostles understand what happened at the Cross?
Islam.........................How Should we respond to the Message of Jesus and His apostles about His death on the Cross?
Islam.........................Are Muslims forbidden to believe that Jesus was crucified?
Islam.........................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
Islam.........................Are the Nazarenes and Ebionites the only TRUE "Christians"?
Islam.........................is theBible "as violent" as the Quran/Hadith?
Islam.........................A Muslim response to my work on the Nazarenes
Islam.........................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
Isolation.....................Was biblical leprosy the same as modern leprosy?
Israel, character.............Does God condone slavery in the Bible?
Israel, colonization..........Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Israel, imperialism...........Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Israel, war...................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
Israel........................Is Isaiah 53.10 about Israel, rather than about Jesus?
James, brother of Jesus.......Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
James.........................Martyrdom versus “obey and live long” principles
James.........................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
James.........................Did NT believers mix law and grace?
Jealous.......................OT passages on what God avenges
Jealous.......................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
Jealousy......................OT passages on what God avenges
Jealousy......................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
Jeconiah......................Problems in the Genealogies of Jesus: Jeconiah
JEDP..........................the Documentary Hypothesis
JEDP..........................Good questions on JEDP
JEDP..........................Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
JEDP..........................The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
Jehoahaz......................Is the dating of Zedekiah a contradiction with the birth-order in 1 Chronicles?
Jehoiakim.....................Is the dating of Zedekiah a contradiction with the birth-order in 1 Chronicles?
Jehu..........................Well, did God LIKE what Jehu did or NOT--"another" contradiction?
Jephthah......................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Jephthah's daughter
Jeremiah......................Did the gospels make an error in their citation of the Judas-30pieces episode?
Jesus Seminar.................What about the Gospel of Thomas?
Jesus, acceptance.............Responses to the Incarnation: all walks of life
Jesus, acceptance.............Was Jesus a failure as a Messiah?
Jesus, acceptance.............The deity of Jesus:NT Responses to Jesus
Jesus, acceptance.............The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus
Jesus, acceptance.............The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus (con't)
Jesus, and Essenes............Is the Sermon on the Mount actually an ancient Essene prayer dating to 100's of years before Christ?!
Jesus, and God................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
Jesus, and hell...............When and how long was Jesus in hell?
Jesus, and his family.........Family value: Jesus' words
Jesus, and James..............Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Jesus, and Law................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
Jesus, and Paul...............Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Jesus, and Paul...............How "non-Jesus" was Paul, really? (Muslim arg)
Jesus, and Paul...............How "non-Jesus" was Paul, really? (Muslim arg)
Jesus, and Paul...............Paul had NO interest in the life of Jesus?
Jesus, and Paul...............Paul had NO interest in the WORDS or TEACHINGS of Jesus?
Jesus, and Paul...............Paul preached a different gospel than Jesus?
Jesus, and Paul...............Paul's gospel of a "Crucified Christ" was his invention?
Jesus, and Paul...............Paul's gospel was an anti-Law accommodation to the corrupt governments?
Jesus, and Paul...............But didn't Jesus strongly affirm the Law in Matthew 5.17-19?
Jesus, and Paul...............Did Jesus come to perpetuate the Mosaic Law?
Jesus, and Paul...............Did Jesus restrict His gospel message to the Jews?
Jesus, and Paul...............Does Paul have a 'low view' of the Law?
Jesus, and Paul...............How "non-Jesus" was Paul, really? (Muslim arg)
Jesus, and Paul...............Is Paul's view of the Law radically different from that of Peter, James, John, and the Writer to the Hebrews?
Jesus, and Paul...............Was the essence of the Law really 'sovereignty'?
Jesus, and polygamy...........Does the NT sanction polygamy?
Jesus, and sin................Could Jesus as God have sinned?
Jesus, and women..............Women: Data From the Life and Ministry of Jesus
Jesus, and women..............Why was Jesus so mean and insulting to the Canaanite woman?
Jesus, and women..............None of the disciples or apostles were women--a bit unfair, aint it?!"
Jesus, anti-YHWH..............Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
Jesus, as friend..............Jesus as friend and companion
Jesus, ascension..............A contradiction in the ascension accounts?
Jesus, authority..............Uniqueness of Jesus: More than Human authority
Jesus, birth of...............If the Birth Star appeared in the East, why did the Magi travel West?!
Jesus, birth of...............Is 7.14--the Virgin Birth prophecy
Jesus, birth of...............Micah 5.2: the Bethlehem prophecy
Jesus, birth of...............Nazerene, Nazirite, or What?
Jesus, birth of...............The Return from Egypt
Jesus, birth of...............Weird fulfillments in Matthew
Jesus, birth of...............An objection about Luke, Quirinius, and Herods
Jesus, birth..................What about the theory that Jesus was descended from aliens?
Jesus, brothers...............Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Jesus, burial.................is the tomb story flawed because the term 'rolled' is used?
Jesus, character..............Jesus the hate-monger
Jesus, character..............Did Jesus teach ritual drinking of blood?
Jesus, character..............Was Jesus really fraudulent, dishonest, sacrilegious, and conspiratorial?
Jesus, character..............How could Jesus be fully divine and live on earth?
Jesus, character..............Why was Jesus so mean and insulting to the Canaanite woman?
Jesus, character..............Was the Sermon on the Mount a "plagarism" of Moses on the Mountain?
Jesus, childhood..............If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
Jesus, comparison.............Was Jesus Christ just a CopyCat Savior Myth?
Jesus, cross.................."Paid in Full" -- Jesus' words on the Cross?
Jesus, death of...............Personal letter
Jesus, death..................Christ's death on the Cross--serious, real, painful
Jesus, death..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
Jesus, death..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
Jesus, death..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
Jesus, death..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Jesus, death..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
Jesus, death..................How did Jesus' Companions the Apostles understand what happened at the Cross?
Jesus, death..................Are Muslims forbidden to believe that Jesus was crucified?
Jesus, death..................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
Jesus, death..................When and how long was Jesus in hell?
Jesus, death..................What was the use of Christ's death?
Jesus, death..................is the tomb story flawed because the term 'rolled' is used?
Jesus, Death..................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
Jesus, deception..............Casting out demons by the power of demons
Jesus, deception..............Did Jesus lie about not teaching in secret?
Jesus, deception..............Was Jesus really fraudulent, dishonest, sacrilegious, and conspiratorial?
Jesus, deception..............Was the Sermon on the Mount a "plagarism" of Moses on the Mountain?
Jesus, deity of...............Deity of Christ
Jesus, deity of...............The self-awareness of Jesus
Jesus, deity of...............Could Jesus as God have sinned?
Jesus, deity of...............John 1.1 - "a God"?
Jesus, deity of...............What does 'firstborn' mean when used of Jesus?
Jesus, deity of...............Was Jesus mistaken about this 2nd Coming?
Jesus, deity of...............Was Jesus mistaken about Zechariah?
Jesus, deity of...............Are the Nazarenes and Ebionites the only TRUE "Christians"?
Jesus, deity of...............The Trinity: Intro and Method
Jesus, deity of...............Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
Jesus, deity of...............The NT Witness:The Ancient Church Formulas in the NT
Jesus, deity of...............NT Passages mutually involving the Father, Son, and Spirit (Raw Data)
Jesus, deity of...............The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Synoptics)
Jesus, deity of...............The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Gospel of John)
Jesus, deity of...............The deity of Jesus:NT Responses to Jesus
Jesus, deity of...............The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus
Jesus, deity of...............The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus (con't)
Jesus, deity of...............The deity of Jesus:Other data relative to the deity of Jesus
Jesus, deity of...............The deity of Jesus:Summary: The deity of Jesus Christ
Jesus, deity of...............The deity of Jesus:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to Jesus
Jesus, deity of...............The NT Witness:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to The Holy Spirit
Jesus, deity of...............Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
Jesus, deity..................How can Christians believe that there is only one God, and yet still call Jesus the Son of God?
Jesus, deity..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
Jesus, deity..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
Jesus, deity..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
Jesus, deity..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Jesus, deity..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
Jesus, deity..................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
Jesus, deity..................Is it okay to offer prayer and worship to Jesus, and not just to the Father?
Jesus, disciples..............What are the names of the 12 disciples? I get 13!
Jesus, errors.................Was Jesus mistaken about this 2nd Coming?
Jesus, errors.................Was Jesus mistaken about Zechariah?
Jesus, ethics.................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
Jesus, evil...................Jesus the hate-monger
Jesus, evil...................Did Jesus teach ritual drinking of blood?
Jesus, evil...................Why was Jesus so mean and insulting to the Canaanite woman?
Jesus, evil...................Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
Jesus, extrabiblical..........Extrabiblical, Non-Christian Witnesses to Jesus before 200 A.D.
Jesus, extrabiblical..........Extrabiblical Witnesses to Jesus before 200 A.D.:Thallus
Jesus, extrabiblical..........Was Josephus relying on the Gospel of Matthew?
Jesus, failure................Was Jesus a failure as a Messiah?
Jesus, faith..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
Jesus, faith..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Jesus, Father.................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
Jesus, firstfruits............How was Jesus the Firstfruits from the dead, if there were other resurrections before His?
Jesus, flesh..................Is Jesus' flesh only LIKE a human's (and not ACTUALLY human itself)?
Jesus, glory..................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Jesus, harshness..............Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
Jesus, Historical.............Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Jesus, historical.............Did the Jewish War eliminate all the possible counter-witnesses to the life of Jesus in the NT?
Jesus, historical.............Is Jesus' flesh only LIKE a human's (and not ACTUALLY human itself)?
Jesus, history................Do we only have ONE copy of the controversial passage about Jesus in Josephus?
Jesus, Homer..................Incompatible background theories of the original of the gospels/Jesus figure (in a Letter)
Jesus, human..................Humanity of Christ
Jesus, human..................The self-awareness of Jesus
Jesus, human..................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than man
Jesus, human..................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Jesus, human..................Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
Jesus, humanity...............Personal letter
Jesus, humanity...............Is Jesus' flesh only LIKE a human's (and not ACTUALLY human itself)?
Jesus, idol...................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Jesus, image of God...........Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Jesus, image..................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Jesus, invented...............Is Christian experience make-believe?
Jesus, invention..............Can the gospels (or the stories of the historical Jesus) not have been written (or invented) until 100-150 AD?
Jesus, Islam..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Have you ever seen or talked to Jesus, and how would you recognize Him?
Jesus, Islam..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
Jesus, Islam..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
Jesus, Islam..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
Jesus, Islam..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Jesus, Islam..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
Jesus, Jewish.................Could Jesus really not have had any 'apocalyptic expectations' because they were allegedly only later?
Jesus, kingship...............Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a Davidic king
Jesus, kingship...............Was Jesus a failure as a Messiah?
Jesus, Lamb...................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
Jesus, language...............Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
Jesus, languages..............Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
Jesus, life...................Did the bible lie about Jesus not being married?
Jesus, Lord...................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Jesus, married................Did the bible lie about Jesus not being married?
Jesus, Messiah................The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
Jesus, messiah................Is Isaiah 53.10 about Israel, rather than about Jesus?
Jesus, Messiah................why should we believe Jesus was the Messiah, if He didn’t fulfill all the prophecies when He was here?
Jesus, miracles...............If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
Jesus, miracles...............Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
Jesus, myth...................Is Christian experience make-believe?
Jesus, new Moses..............Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a New Moses
Jesus, parables...............Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
Jesus, prayer to..............Is it okay to offer prayer and worship to Jesus, and not just to the Father?
Jesus, priest.................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than Levitical priest
Jesus, prophet in Islam.......Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
Jesus, prophet in Islam.......Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Jesus, prophet................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a prophet
Jesus, prophet................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
Jesus, prophet................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Jesus, prophet................Was Jesus mistaken about this 2nd Coming?
Jesus, rebukes on leaders.....Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
Jesus, rejection..............Was Jesus a failure as a Messiah?
Jesus, relevance..............Hey, who Invited GOD to this century?!
Jesus, return.................Was Jesus mistaken about this 2nd Coming?
Jesus, return.................Could Jesus really not have had any 'apocalyptic expectations' because they were allegedly only later?
Jesus, rides donkey...........Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
Jesus, risen..................How was Jesus the Firstfruits from the dead, if there were other resurrections before His?
Jesus, risen..................How many people saw the risen Jesus? 150 or 500?
Jesus, risen..................What does 'firstborn' mean when used of Jesus?
Jesus, risen..................When and how long was Jesus in hell?
Jesus, ruler..................Was Jesus a failure as a Messiah?
Jesus, sacrifice..............The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
Jesus, sacrifice..............Jesus sacrifice: the purpose
Jesus, sacrifice..............Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
Jesus, sacriligious...........Was Jesus sacriligious by using images of cannibalism?
Jesus, sage...................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a Sage
Jesus, Satan..................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
Jesus, savior.................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
Jesus, savior.................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Jesus, Savior.................How Should we respond to the Message of Jesus and His apostles about His death on the Cross?
Jesus, self-awareness.........The self-awareness of Jesus
Jesus, son of God.............How can Christians believe that there is only one God, and yet still call Jesus the Son of God?
Jesus, Son of Man.............Could Jesus really not have had any 'Son of man' sayings, because they were allegedly only later?
Jesus, substitute.............But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
Jesus, suffering..............if Jesus didn't stay dead, how could His death have been a REAL sacrifice?
Jesus, suffering..............Christ's death on the Cross--serious, real, painful
Jesus, teaching...............Did Jesus lie about not teaching in secret?
Jesus, teaching...............Did Jesus teach ritual drinking of blood?
Jesus, temple.................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Jesus, temptation.............Personal letter
Jesus, theories...............Incompatible background theories of the original of the gospels/Jesus figure (in a Letter)
Jesus, trial..................The accuracy of the account of the trial of Jesus before Pilate
Jesus, uniqueness.............Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a Davidic king
Jesus, uniqueness.............Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a New Moses
Jesus, uniqueness.............Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a prophet
Jesus, uniqueness.............Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a Sage
Jesus, uniqueness.............Uniqueness of Jesus: More than Human authority
Jesus, uniqueness.............Uniqueness of Jesus: more than Levitical priest
Jesus, uniqueness.............Uniqueness of Jesus: more than man
Jesus, uniqueness.............Uniqueness of Jesus
Jesus, uniqueness.............What about Those Who have Never Heard the Gospel?
Jesus, uniqueness.............Mithras and Jesus?
Jesus, un-Jewish..............Did Jesus teach ritual drinking of blood?
Jesus, word...................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Jesus, work of................The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
Jesus, worship................Is it okay to offer prayer and worship to Jesus, and not just to the Father?
Jesus.........................Deity of Christ
Jesus.........................The self-awareness of Jesus
Jesus.........................Incarnation: results
Jesus.........................Jesus ascribed Pentateuch to Moses
Jesus.........................Horus, Jesus, and Anup the Baptiser?
Jesus.........................Was the Ascension of Isaiah a Middle-Platonist document?
Jesus.........................Sacrifice in the NT
Jesus.........................Jesus fulfillment of OT sacrifice
Jesus.........................Jesus sacrifice: the purpose
Jesus.........................Did Jesus come during the wrong empire, according to Daniel and the beast vision?
Jesus.........................Did Christ die for Satan?
Jesus.........................did Jesus cry out to the pagan deity known as 'El' on the Cross?
Jesus.........................Response to: The Fabulous Prophecies of the Messiah(outline)
Jesus.........................Is 7.14--the Virgin Birth prophecy
Jesus.........................Micah 5.2: the Bethlehem prophecy
Jesus.........................Was Jesus actually a 'ruler' in Israel?
Jesus.........................Problems in the Genealogies of Jesus
Jesus.........................Nazerene, Nazirite, or What?
Jesus.........................The Return from Egypt
Jesus.........................Weird fulfillments in Matthew
Jesus.........................Family value: Jesus' words
Jesus.........................Christ's death on the Cross--serious, real, painful
Jesus.........................Did Jesus lie about not teaching in secret?
Jesus.........................Was Jesus really fraudulent, dishonest, sacrilegious, and conspiratorial?
Jesus.........................Does Micah 5 speak about the birth-place of the Messiah, or only His birth-family?
Jesus.........................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
Jesus......................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
Jesus.........................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
Jesus.........................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Jesus.........................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
Jesus.........................How "non-Jesus" was Paul, really? (Muslim arg)
Jesus.........................Do none of the New Testament letters really mention "Jesus", but only "Christ"?
Jesus.........................Well, did Jesus tell them to take a staff or not? Another contradiction?!
Jesus.........................Was Jesus mistaken about this 2nd Coming?
Jesus.........................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
Jesus.........................The meaning of 'born again' in Scripture
Jesus.........................Why was Jesus so mean and insulting to the Canaanite woman?
Jesus.........................When and how long was Jesus in hell?
Jesus.........................Was Jesus a failure as a Messiah?
Jesus.........................How long was Jesus in hell?
Jesus.........................Was the Sermon on the Mount a "plagarism" of Moses on the Mountain?
Jesus.........................Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
Jesus.........................Is there proof that Jesus did not have sex with Mary Magdalene?
Jesus.........................Mithras and Jesus?
Jew...........................Did the Law only regulate behavior toward OTHER Jews?
Jewish War....................Did the Jewish War eliminate all the possible counter-witnesses to the life of Jesus in the NT?
Jewish........................The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
Jewish........................Types of evidence for revelation
Jewish........................The torn-veil in the Temple/the scarlet thread
Jewish........................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
Jewish........................did the Christians just OUTLIVE those who "knew better and were silent"?
Jewish........................Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
Jewish........................Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
Jews..........................How did the Gentiles get in the picture if the Jews were the 'chosen ones
Jews..........................Was First Thess 2.15ff seriously Anti-Semitic??!!
Jews..........................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
Jezreel.......................Well, did God LIKE what Jehu did or NOT--"another" contradiction?
Job...........................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
Johanan.......................Is the dating of Zedekiah a contradiction with the birth-order in 1 Chronicles?
John 1.1......................John 1.1 - "a God"?
John Baptist..................Was Jesus a failed apocalyptic prophet that the embarrassed church had to re-work into something different
John the Baptist..............John the Baptist as Forerunner of the Messiah
John, author..................How did the peasant apostle John write the book of Revelation in Greek?
John, author..................Did John invent the story of the raising of Lazarus?!
John, gospel of...............Should the possible addition of John 8.1-11 make us paranoid about other possible inauthentic 'additions'
John, gospel..................Was John anti-Semitic
John..........................How did the peasant apostle John write the book of Revelation in Greek?
John..........................Are the Christologies of Mark and John radically different?
John..........................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Gospel of John)
Joseph........................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
Josephus......................Extrabiblical, Non-Christian Witnesses to Jesus before 200 A.D.
Josephus......................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
Josephus......................Are there any indications from the EXTERNAL data , that the miracle stories are historical?
Josephus......................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Josephus......................Do we only have ONE copy of the controversial passage about Jesus in Josephus?
Josephus......................Was Josephus relying on the Gospel of Matthew?
Josephus......................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
Joshua........................Joshua's long day
Joshua........................Joshua's long day
Joshua........................doesn't the archaeological record CONTRADICT the Bible's claims about Joshua's "Conquest"?!
Joshua........................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
Judaism, marriage.............Did the bible lie about Jesus not being married?
Judaism.......................why should we believe Jesus was the Messiah, if He didn’t fulfill all the prophecies when He was here?
Judas.........................Did the gospels make an error in their citation of the Judas-30pieces episode?
Judas.........................Was Judas actually "obeying God" when he fulfilled the Scripture?
Judas.........................How did Judas die: by Hanging or by 'explosion'?
Jude..........................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
Judgement, absolute...........Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
Judgment, cause of............Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Judgment, Christian...........If sins are forgiven, how will Christians be judged?
Judgment, final...............Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Judgment, hyperbole...........Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
Judgment, moral...............Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
Judgment, moral...............Is Christian experience make-believe?
Judgment......................OT passages on what God avenges
Judgment......................Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
Judgment......................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
Judgment......................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
Judgment......................Does God's judgment in time unfairly compromise someone's 'free will'?
Judgment......................Why does judgment lag so far behind?
Judgment......................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
Julian........................Are there any indications from the EXTERNAL data , that the miracle stories are historical?
Julius Africanus..............Extrabiblical Witnesses to Jesus before 200 A.D.:Thallus
Jung..........................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
Justice, Social...............OT passages on what God avenges
Justice.......................OT passages on what God avenges
Justice.......................Is God really the ONLY evil being in the universe?
Justice.......................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
Justice.......................Why does judgment lag so far behind?
Justice.......................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
Justin Martyr.................Are there any indications from the EXTERNAL data , that the miracle stories are historical?
Justin Martyr.................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Justin Martyr.................Justin Martyr's use of extra-biblical tradition?
Kenosis.......................Is Jesus' flesh only LIKE a human's (and not ACTUALLY human itself)?
Kids..........................Martyrdom versus “obey and live long” principles
Kindness, to foreigners.......Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Kinds.........................Kinds, Postmodernism, and the Absolutes of Dissonance...
Kingdom.......................Was Jesus a failed apocalyptic prophet that the embarrassed church had to re-work into something different
Kings, Assyrian...............Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Kingship......................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a Davidic king
Kingship......................Was Jesus actually a 'ruler' in Israel?
Knowledge.....................Does incomplete knowledge mean God is unknowable?
Knowledge.....................What about knowledge BEYOND us?
Krishna.......................Major Religious Figures
Kuntillet Ajrud...............What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
Labor, forced.................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Labor.........................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
Language, analogical..........Exploring Analogy
Language, nature of...........How we "process" communication of all kinds
Language, personal base.......How we "process" communication of all kinds
Language......................How can finite language apply to an Infinite God?
Language......................Exploring Analogy
Language......................How we "process" communication of all kinds
Language......................Linguistic wall--index
Language......................Physical and Metaphysical "Primitives"
Language......................Precision and the Epistemic "Bubble"
Language......................Patterns and Argument
Language......................The Priority of Patterns over Elements
Language......................Personality as the Basal Interpretive Paradigm
Language......................The 'codedness' of revelation
Language......................"Peripheral Linguistic Absolutes"
Language......................Postmodernism and Hermeneutics
Language......................The process of God's communication to us
Language......................Self-Stultifying Arguments
Language......................God's revelation to us: context and processing
Language......................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
Language......................Kinds, Postmodernism, and the Absolutes of Dissonance...
Language......................On the Loci of Freedom...
Language......................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
Law, Change...................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
Law...........................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
Law...........................Did the Law only regulate behavior toward OTHER Jews?
Law...........................Did NT believers mix law and grace?
Law...........................Does God condone slavery in the Bible?
Law...........................Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
Law...........................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
Laws, warfare.................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Lawsuits......................Does Paul specifically command that lawsuits is to be avoided for Christians in 1 Cor 6
Lazarus.......................Did John invent the story of the raising of Lazarus?!
Leaders, judgment on..........Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
Learning......................Interacting with the "possibly revelatory" data: Encounter, Response, Results
Legal issues..................Does Paul specifically command that lawsuits is to be avoided for Christians in 1 Cor 6
Legal.........................Sacrifice in Mosaic Covenant
Legalism......................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
Legalism......................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
Legend........................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
Legend........................ Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
Legend........................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
Legends.......................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
Legends.......................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
Legends.......................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
Legends.......................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
Legends.......................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
Leprosy.......................Was biblical leprosy the same as modern leprosy?
Leviathan.....................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Levite's concubine............Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Levite and his concubine
Libraries.....................Personal letter
Libraries.....................Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature?
Lies, love for................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
Lies, white...................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
Life..........................Theological impact of Aliens from space
Life..........................Why are we carnivores, eating life?
Lifespan......................“Is there extra-biblical evidence for Post-flood longevity?
Lifespan......................Does God's judgment in time unfairly compromise someone's 'free will'?
Listening.....................Why isn't the God of the Bible showing Himself to me?
Literacy, Jewish..............A small note on Jewish education
Literacy......................Ancient Literacy - extent and rationale
Literacy......................Babylonian omen literature
Literacy......................Ancient Israelite Literacy - extent
Literacy......................Personal letter
Literacy......................Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature?
Literacy......................Evidence of early writing by the apostles (probably even during Jesus' life)
Literacy......................All the books of the bible were written by men--see, God de-values women again"
Literary Dependence...........OT did not borrow beliefs from pagans
Literary Dependence...........OT did not borrow beliefs from pagans
Literary Dependence...........Evaluation of the Theory of Literary Dependence.
Literary Dependence...........Theory of Gospel construction
Literary Dependence...........The literary witness to use of sources by the evangelists
Literary Dependence...........How 'assured' is James' solution to the Synoptic Problem?
Literary Dependence...........How compelling is the case for Literary Dependence among the synoptic gospels?
Literature....................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Literature....................Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature?
Loculus.......................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
Loftus........................How does the memory research of Elizabeth Loftus on eyewitness testimony affect the credibility of NT?
Logic.........................Is the bible false, since it is not written in logic or math?
Logic.........................Is 'only reason' reasonable?
Longevity.....................Martyrdom versus “obey and live long” principles
Longevity.....................“Is there extra-biblical evidence for Post-flood longevity?
Longevity.....................Are there any extra-biblical refs to longevity BEFORE the flood?
Lord, Jesus...................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Lordship Salvation............Do I have to be holy/righteous before I approach God for salvation?
Loss..........................A long conversation with someone experiencing deep grief
Lost..........................A Letter about Pain in Heaven over lost Loved Ones
Lot...........................Family value: Lot and incest
Lot's daughters...............Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Lot's Daughters
Love..........................Urban expansion of the early Church
Loyalty.......................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
Lucian........................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
Luke, census..................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Luke..........................An objection about Luke, Quirinius, and Herods
LXX, history..................Was the LXX "scripture" for 1st century Jews?
LXX...........................Septuagint in the NT
LXX...........................Are all English Bibles based on the LXX?
LXX...........................Was the LXX "scripture" for 1st century Jews?
LXX...........................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
LXX...........................Were the Amalekites REALLY nomads?
Lying.........................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
Magi..........................If the Birth Star appeared in the East, why did the Magi travel West?!
Magi..........................Contradictions in the Infancy Stories?
Magic......................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
Magic.........................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Magic.........................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
Magic.........................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
Maimonides....................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
Marcion.......................(Just a historical error about Marcion)
Marduk........................Dying and Rising Gods
Mari..........................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Mark, author..................When was Mark 6.45-8.26 ADDED to Mark?
Mark, ending..................On the 'original Mark' versus canonical Mark
Mark, ending..................the identity/background/dating of the Gospel of Mark
Mark, ending..................The spurious endings of Mark's gospel
Mark, geography...............Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
Mark, ignorance...............Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
Mark, Secret..................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
Mark..........................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
Mark..........................Are the Christologies of Mark and John radically different?
Mark..........................the identity/background/dating of the Gospel of Mark
Marriage......................Could divorce ever be the ethical imperative?
Marriage......................Why would government have any authority in personal areas like marriage?
Marriage......................Did the bible lie about Jesus not being married?
Martyrdom.....................Martyrdom versus “obey and live long” principles
Martyrdom.....................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
Mary..........................Does Mary's Question Contradict other passages in the NT?
Mary..........................Is there proof that Jesus did not have sex with Mary Magdalene?
Massacre......................shouldn't the butchering of the Amalekite children be considered war crimes?
Matthew, doublet..............Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
Matthew.......................How would Matthew have borrowed from pagan religions?
Matthew.......................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
Matthew.......................Nazerene, Nazirite, or What?
Matthew.......................The Return from Egypt
Matthew.......................Weird fulfillments in Matthew
Matthew.......................What about all those resurrected people walking around in Jerusalem after Jesus' death?
Matthew.......................Was Josephus relying on the Gospel of Matthew?
Meat..........................Why are we carnivores, eating life?
Medicine......................Urban expansion of the early Church
Meier.........................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
Melchizedek, second...........Source data for messianic titles
Melquart......................Dying and Rising Gods
Memory problem................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
Memory, errors................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
Memory........................How does the memory research of Elizabeth Loftus on eyewitness testimony affect the credibility of NT?
Memory........................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
Menopause.....................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
Menstruation..................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
Mesha, rebellion..............Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Mesopotamia...................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Mesopotamia...................Sacrifice in Early Cultures, Israel's neighbors
Mesopotamian..................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
Messiah, 30 pieces............Source data for messianic titles
Messiah, betrayed.............Source data for messianic titles
Messiah, birthplace...........Does Micah 5 speak about the birth-place of the Messiah, or only His birth-family?
Messiah, confusion over.......Source data for messianic titles
Messiah, deity................Incarnation, expectation
Messiah, deity................Non-Christian Jewry had their OWN "problem" of 'plurality in the Godhead' and/or with a supra-human messiah?
Messiah, despised.............Source data for messianic titles
Messiah, rejected.............why should we believe Jesus was the Messiah, if He didn’t fulfill all the prophecies when He was here?
Messiah, rejected.............Source data for messianic titles
Messiah, rejected.............Was Jesus a failure as a Messiah?
Messiah, superhuman...........Incarnation, expectation
Messiah, superhuman...........Non-Christian Jewry had their OWN "problem" of 'plurality in the Godhead' and/or with a supra-human messiah?
Messiah.......................The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
Messiah.......................Is Isaiah 53.10 about Israel, rather than about Jesus?
Messiah.......................Did Jesus come during the wrong empire, according to Daniel and the beast vision?
Messiah.......................Messianic Psalms: The Righteous Sufferer
Messiah.......................John the Baptist as Forerunner of the Messiah
Messiah.......................Response to: The Fabulous Prophecies of the Messiah(outline)
Messiah.......................Is 7.14--the Virgin Birth prophecy
Messiah.......................Micah 5.2: the Bethlehem prophecy
Messiah.......................Was Jesus actually a 'ruler' in Israel?
Messiah.......................Nazerene, Nazirite, or What?
Messiah.......................The Return from Egypt
Messiah.......................Weird fulfillments in Matthew
Messiah.......................why should we believe Jesus was the Messiah, if He didn’t fulfill all the prophecies when He was here?
Messiah.......................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
Messiah.......................Was there any reason to expect another set of Scriptures?
Messiah.......................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
Messiah.......................Does Micah 5 speak about the birth-place of the Messiah, or only His birth-family?
Messiah.......................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
Messiah.......................A "punctuation" error in Daniel 9?
Messiah.......................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
Messiah.......................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
Messiah.......................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
Messiah.......................Was Jesus a failure as a Messiah?
Messiah.......................Was Josephus relying on the Gospel of Matthew?
Messiah.......................A question on my work on Isaiah 7.14
Messiah.......................Could Jesus really not have had any 'apocalyptic expectations' because they were allegedly only later?
Messiah.......................Could Jesus really not have had any 'Son of man' sayings, because they were allegedly only later?
Messiah.......................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
Messiah.......................Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
Messiah.......................Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
Messiah.......................Typology--a legitimate approach to OT passages?
Messianic identity............Source data for messianic titles
Messianic roles...............Source data for messianic titles
Messianic titles, sources.....Source data for messianic titles
Messianic titles..............Source data for messianic titles
Messianic.....................Jewish messianic exegesis in 1st century
Messianic.....................Does Micah 5 speak about the birth-place of the Messiah, or only His birth-family?
Messianic.....................Did Christians simply INVENT the "pierced my hands and feet" in Psalm 22?!
Metaphor......................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
Metaphysics...................Freedom
Method, theology..............Personal letter
Micah.........................Does Micah 5 speak about the birth-place of the Messiah, or only His birth-family?
Middle East...................Is Muslim hostility related to Ishmael being 'against everyone' prophecy
Midian........................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
Mid-Platonism.................Was the Ascension of Isaiah a Middle-Platonist document?
Midrash.......................Jewish exegesis of OT in 1st century
Midrash.......................Incompatible background theories of the original of the gospels/Jesus figure (in a Letter)
Midrash.......................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
Midrash....................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
Midrash.......................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
Mind..........................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
Mind..........................Is there evidence for the existence of the "soul"?
Mind..........................Mind/brain
Ministry......................Martyrdom versus “obey and live long” principles
Miracle.......................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
Miracle.......................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
Miracle.......................Are there any indications from the EXTERNAL data , that the miracle stories are historical?
Miracle.......................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
Miracle....................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
Miracle.......................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
Miracle.......................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Miracle.......................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
Miracles......................Joshua's long day
Miracles......................Parting of the Sea by Moses
Miracles......................Reversal of sun's path for Hezekiah
Miracles......................What about the theory that Jesus was descended from aliens?
Miracles......................If the Birth Star appeared in the East, why did the Magi travel West?!
Miracles......................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
Miracles......................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
Miracles......................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
Miracles......................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
Miracles......................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
Miracles......................What about all those resurrected people walking around in Jerusalem after Jesus' death?
Miracles......................The Fulfillment of Prophecy
Miracles......................Did John invent the story of the raising of Lazarus?!
Miracles......................Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
Miriam........................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Miriam's rebellion
Miriam........................Wasn't Miriam punished for questioning male authority, while Aaron was not?"
Mishna........................ Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
Mishnah.......................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
Misogyny......................Did God callously give David's wives to Absalom to rape?
Misogyny......................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
Missions......................Urban expansion of the early Church
Mithras.......................Mystery Religions
Mithras.......................what do we know about Cybele/Attis and the taurobolium?
Mithras.......................Someone bothered about a question on the Persian Mithras
Mithras.......................Mithras and Jesus?
Moab, revolt..................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Molinism......................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
Monotheism....................How can Christians believe that there is only one God, and yet still call Jesus the Son of God?
Morality......................Various questions on the use of evidence in apologetics
Morality......................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
Morality......................Is Christian experience make-believe?
Morality......................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
Mormon........................Types of evidence for revelation
Mormon........................Types of evidence for revelation
Moses, 2nd....................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a New Moses
Moses, 2nd....................New Covenant/New Moses
Moses, author.................The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
Moses, education..............Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Moses, language...............Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Moses, second.................Source data for messianic titles
Moses.........................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a New Moses
Moses.........................Parting of the Sea by Moses
Moses.........................Jesus ascribed Pentateuch to Moses
Moses.........................Moses access to ancient data
Moses.........................The Atrahasis theme
Moses.........................The issue of 'borrowing' laws--did Moses somehow "copy" Hammurabi?
Moses.........................Authetication of Revelation - Mosaic
Moses.........................Sacrifice in Mosaic Covenant
Moses.........................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
Moses.........................How was Jesus the Firstfruits from the dead, if there were other resurrections before His?
Moses.........................Did God harden Pharaoh's heart FIRST?
Moses.........................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Moses.........................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
Moses.........................Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
Moses.........................The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
Moses.........................Was the Sermon on the Mount a "plagarism" of Moses on the Mountain?
Moses.........................Wasn't Miriam punished for questioning male authority, while Aaron was not?"
Motivation....................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
Motive........................What kind of a choice is THAT--Love Me or Burn?!
MPD...........................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
Muhammad......................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
Multiple Attestation..........Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
Muslim........................How can Christians believe that there is only one God, and yet still call Jesus the Son of God?
Muslim........................Are there 3 gods in the Trinity?
Muslim........................Is Muslim hostility related to Ishmael being 'against everyone' prophecy
Muslim........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Have you ever seen or talked to Jesus, and how would you recognize Him?
Muslim........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
Muslim........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
Muslim........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
Muslim........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Muslim........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
Muslim........................Are Muslims forbidden to believe that Jesus was crucified?
Muslim........................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
Muslim........................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
Mystery Religions.............Mystery Religions
Mystery Religions.............International interaction in NT times
Myth..........................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
Myth..........................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
Myth..........................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
Myth..........................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
Myth.......................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
Myth..........................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
Myth..........................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Myth..........................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
Myth..........................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
Myth..........................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
Myth..........................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
Mythicist.....................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Myths.........................Was Jesus Christ just a CopyCat Savior Myth?
Myths.........................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
Myths.........................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
Nachmanides...................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
Naive.........................Letter to Readers (misc topics)
Nasi..........................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
Nativity......................Contradictions in the Infancy Stories?
Nativity......................Does Mary's Question Contradict other passages in the NT?
Nature........................Why aren't dinosaurs mentioned in the bible?
Nazarenes.....................A Muslim response to my work on the Nazarenes
Nazareth......................Contradictions in the Infancy Stories?
Nazarites.....................Are the Nazarenes and Ebionites the only TRUE "Christians"?
Nazerene......................Nazerene, Nazirite, or What?
NDE...........................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
Necromancy....................Question on contacting the dead (the Witch of Endor story)
Neurotheology.................isn't there a “God part of the Brain” that proves all this Jesus stuff is untrue?
New Age.......................Question on contacting the dead (the Witch of Endor story)
New Birth.....................How is the believer's sonship to God different from Christ's Sonship to God?
New Birth.....................The meaning of 'born again' in Scripture
New Covenant..................New Covenant/New Moses
New Covenant..................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
New Covenant..................Was there any reason to expect another set of Scriptures?
New Torah.....................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
Nicodemus.....................The meaning of 'born again' in Scripture
Nicodemus.....................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
Nineveh.......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Ninhursag.....................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Noah..........................Noah's ark -- the problem of size
Noah..........................How likely is it that Noah was the only righteous person on the whole earth, at the time of the Flood?
Nomads........................Were the Amalekites REALLY nomads?
Non-canonical, dating......... A timeline of early Christian & anti-Christian literature
Non-canonical.................Clement's alleged use of non-canonical sources
Non-canonical.................What about the Gospel of Thomas?
Non-canonical.................Justin Martyr's use of extra-biblical tradition?
Nonconscious..................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
Non-intervention..............Does human culpability for non-interference in crime prove theodicy WRONG?
Non-linear....................Does complexity REALLY require 'more complexity'?
Note-taking...................Evidence of early writing by the apostles (probably even during Jesus' life)
Note-taking...................Again: the process wasn't solely oral...
Novel.........................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
Novel.........................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
NT criticism..................The methodological problem of separating the 'layers' in the NT
NT, accuracy..................The "tradition control" methods as the church expanded
NT, accuracy..................The issue of oral tradition, control, and fixity
NT, accuracy..................The Gospels are under the same Thuycididean standards and conventions of the Hellenistic world
NT, accuracy..................They are probably even at a higher level of fidelity to historical reporting
NT, accuracy..................Could Jesus really not have had any 'apocalyptic expectations' because they were allegedly only later?
NT, accuracy..................What are the scholarly trends in that area today?
NT, anti-YHWH.................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
NT, Apocrypha.................What about the Gospel of Thomas?
NT, Apocrypha.................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
NT, authorship................Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
NT, authorship................Evaluation of the Theory of Literary Dependence.
NT, authorship................Theory of Gospel construction
NT, authorship................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
NT, authorship................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
NT, authorship................Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
NT, authorship................The accuracy of the account of the trial of Jesus before Pilate
NT, authorship................Apostles as gospel authors?
NT, authorship................The literary witness to use of sources by the evangelists
NT, authorship................The widespread availability of NT mss. during the birth of the church
NT, authorship................ALL four Gospels are written in the Graeco-Roman genre of Bioi
NT, authorship................On the underlying unity of the early kerygma
NT, authorship................The Gospels are under the same Thuycididean standards and conventions of the Hellenistic world
NT, authorship................They are probably even at a higher level of fidelity to historical reporting
NT, authorship................Really long periods of 'oral only' transmission of the sayings of Jesus, from the times of Jesus?
NT, authorship................Was this alleged oral tradition transmitted without 'controls' andquite loosely?
NT, authorship................What are the scholarly trends in that area today?
NT, authorship................What is an alternative understanding of the process of gospel formation?
NT, authorship................Were the gospels pseudonymous?
NT, authorship................All the books of the bible were written by men--see, God de-values women again"
NT, authorship................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
NT, background................Responses to the Incarnation: Obstacles
NT, bias......................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
NT, birth stories.............Is 7.14--the Virgin Birth prophecy
NT, birth stories.............Micah 5.2: the Bethlehem prophecy
NT, birth stories.............Herod's slaughter of the children
NT, birth stories.............Nazerene, Nazirite, or What?
NT, birth stories.............The Return from Egypt
NT, birth stories.............Weird fulfillments in Matthew
NT, birth stories.............An objection about Luke, Quirinius, and Herods
NT, borrowing.................Is the Sermon on the Mount actually an ancient Essene prayer dating to 100's of years before Christ?!
NT, circulation...............Personal letter
NT, circulation...............Any eyewitnesses to refute the NT?
NT, circulation...............Any eyewitnesses to refute the NT? (2nd reply)
NT, circulation...............Evidence that even smaller churches had multiple copies of NT mss. often
NT, circulation...............Manuscript data showing a very early NT production
NT, circulation...............The widespread availability of NT mss. during the birth of the church
NT, circulation...............What is an alternative understanding of the process of gospel formation?
NT, conspiracy................Could the resurrection appearances be a case of GROUP Hallucination?
NT, conspiracy................Was Jesus really fraudulent, dishonest, sacrilegious, and conspiratorial?
NT, conspiracy................Can the gospels (or the stories of the historical Jesus) not have been written (or invented) until 100-150 AD?
NT, contradiction.............Does Mary's Question Contradict other passages in the NT?
NT, contradictions............What about number differences in parallel passages?
NT, contradictions............Well, did Jesus tell them to take a staff or not? Another contradiction?!
NT, contradictions............Do the Resurrection accounts HOPELESSLY contradict one another?
NT, contradictions............How many people saw the risen Jesus? 150 or 500?
NT, contradictions............three days and night vs. "on the 3rd day"?
NT, contradictions............three days and night vs. "on the 3rd day"?
NT, contradictions............A contradiction in the ascension accounts?
NT, contradictions............Women, stones, spices, empty tombs
NT, corruption................Did the Roman empire totally distort the New Testament documents?
NT, corruption................Should the possible addition of John 8.1-11 make us paranoid about other possible inauthentic 'additions'
NT, dating....................Can the gospels (or the stories of the historical Jesus) not have been written (or invented) until 100-150 AD?
NT, dating....................Any eyewitnesses to refute the NT?
NT, dating....................Any eyewitnesses to refute the NT? (2nd reply)
NT, dating....................An objection about Luke, Quirinius, and Herods
NT, dating....................The methodological problem of separating the 'layers' in the NT
NT, dating....................Evidence that even smaller churches had multiple copies of NT mss. often
NT, dating....................Manuscript data showing a very early NT production
NT, dating....................The impetus to write it down, due to being outside 'mainstream' Judaism (e.g. Qumran)
NT, dating....................The widespread availability of NT mss. during the birth of the church
NT, dating.................... A timeline of early Christian & anti-Christian literature
NT, dating....................Papias and his preference for oral tradition
NT, dating....................the identity/background/dating of the Gospel of Mark
NT, dating....................Could Jesus really not have had any 'Son of man' sayings, because they were allegedly only later?
NT, embellishment.............Should the possible addition of John 8.1-11 make us paranoid about other possible inauthentic 'additions'
NT, error.....................Did the gospels make an error in their citation of the Judas-30pieces episode?
NT, error.....................Did the bible lie about Jesus not being married?
NT, errors....................What about number differences in parallel passages?
NT, errors....................did the Messianic Jewish Believers use the OT deceitfully or ignorantly in the New Testament?
NT, errors....................Stephen's mistakes in Acts 7
NT, errors....................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
NT, errors....................If the Birth Star appeared in the East, why did the Magi travel West?!
NT, errors....................Problems in the Genealogies of Jesus: Jeconiah
NT, errors....................Herod's slaughter of the children
NT, errors....................How does the memory research of Elizabeth Loftus on eyewitness testimony affect the credibility of NT?
NT, errors....................Was the town of Nazareth made-up by Christians?
NT, errors....................Was the town of Nazareth made-up by Christians?
NT, errors....................Was the town of Nazareth made-up by Christians?
NT, errors....................Was the NT wrong about roosters being allowed in Jerusalem?
NT, errors....................Can the gospels (or the stories of the historical Jesus) not have been written (or invented) until 100-150 AD?
NT, errors....................Well, did Jesus tell them to take a staff or not? Another contradiction?!
NT, errors....................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
NT, errors....................What about all those resurrected people walking around in Jerusalem after Jesus' death?
NT, errors....................Do the Resurrection accounts HOPELESSLY contradict one another?
NT, errors....................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
NT, errors....................How many people saw the risen Jesus? 150 or 500?
NT, errors....................three days and night vs. "on the 3rd day"?
NT, errors....................three days and night vs. "on the 3rd day"?
NT, errors....................Was Jesus mistaken about Zechariah?
NT, errors....................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
NT, errors....................An objection about Luke, Quirinius, and Herods
NT, errors....................is the tomb story flawed because the term 'rolled' is used?
NT, errors....................Did the Roman empire totally distort the New Testament documents?
NT, errors....................Women, stones, spices, empty tombs
NT, errors....................The accuracy of the account of the trial of Jesus before Pilate
NT, errors....................Could Jesus really not have had any 'Son of man' sayings, because they were allegedly only later?
NT, errors....................What are the scholarly trends in that area today?
NT, errors....................KNOWN textual errors in the Bible--don't they destroy "inerrancy"?
NT, ethics....................Was John anti-Semitic
NT, ethics....................did the Messianic Jewish Believers use the OT deceitfully or ignorantly in the New Testament?
NT, ethics....................Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
NT, evil......................Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
NT, exaggeration..............Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
NT, eyewitness................How does the memory research of Elizabeth Loftus on eyewitness testimony affect the credibility of NT?
NT, falsify...................Did the Jewish War eliminate all the possible counter-witnesses to the life of Jesus in the NT?
NT, falsify...................Can the gospels (or the stories of the historical Jesus) not have been written (or invented) until 100-150 AD?
NT, fraud.....................Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
NT, fraud.....................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
NT, fraud.....................Did John invent the story of the raising of Lazarus?!
NT, fraud.....................Did the Roman empire totally distort the New Testament documents?
NT, fraud.....................Did the bible lie about Jesus not being married?
NT, fraud.....................Should the possible addition of John 8.1-11 make us paranoid about other possible inauthentic 'additions'
NT, genre.....................ALL four Gospels are written in the Graeco-Roman genre of Bioi
NT, Greek.....................How did the peasant apostle John write the book of Revelation in Greek?
NT, Greek.....................Why was the NT written in Greek?
NT, group.....................Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
NT, history...................How could the Christians diverge from their Jewish roots?
NT, history...................Can the gospels (or the stories of the historical Jesus) not have been written (or invented) until 100-150 AD?
NT, in the Fathers............were the Apostolic Fathers unable to distinguish between authentic and unauthentic books?
NT, in the Fathers............Was Clement aware of the NT text?
NT, in the Fathers............Clement's alleged use of non-canonical sources
NT, in the Fathers............Justin Martyr's use of extra-biblical tradition?
NT, in the OT.................Was there any reason to expect another set of Scriptures?
NT, integrity.................Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
NT, integrity.................The Gospels are under the same Thuycididean standards and conventions of the Hellenistic world
NT, integrity.................They are probably even at a higher level of fidelity to historical reporting
NT, language..................How did the peasant apostle John write the book of Revelation in Greek?
NT, language..................Why was the NT written in Greek?
NT, law.......................Did NT believers mix law and grace?
NT, lawsuits..................Does Paul specifically command that lawsuits is to be avoided for Christians in 1 Cor 6
NT, layers....................The methodological problem of separating the 'layers' in the NT
NT, manuscripts...............Manuscript data showing a very early NT production
NT, manuscripts...............The difference between "original" writings and the ones we have today?
NT, manuscripts...............The relative "purity" of the early mss.
NT, manuscripts...............KNOWN textual errors in the Bible--don't they destroy "inerrancy"?
NT, myth......................Did John invent the story of the raising of Lazarus?!
NT, offerings.................Did NT believers mix law and grace?
NT, opposition................did the Christians just OUTLIVE those who "knew better and were silent"?
NT, opposition................Any eyewitnesses to refute the NT?
NT, opposition................Any eyewitnesses to refute the NT? (2nd reply)
NT, originals.................The difference between "original" writings and the ones we have today?
NT, origins...................Evaluation of the Theory of Literary Dependence.
NT, origins...................Theory of Gospel construction
NT, OT in.....................Did Jesus/NT authors misquote the Shema when they said 'with all your mind'?
NT, philosophy................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
NT, purity....................The relative "purity" of the early mss.
NT, refutation................Any eyewitnesses to refute the NT?
NT, refutation................Any eyewitnesses to refute the NT? (2nd reply)
NT, reliability...............Did the Jewish War eliminate all the possible counter-witnesses to the life of Jesus in the NT?
NT, Sacrifice.................Sacrifice in the NT
NT, Sacrifice.................Jesus fulfillment of OT sacrifice
NT, Sacrifice.................Sacrifice in the NT world (Jewish)
NT, Sacrifice.................Sacrifice in the NT world (non-Jewish)
NT, skeptic...................Did the Jewish War eliminate all the possible counter-witnesses to the life of Jesus in the NT?
NT, sources...................How would Matthew have borrowed from pagan religions?
NT, sources...................Evaluation of the Theory of Literary Dependence.
NT, sources...................Theory of Gospel construction
NT, sources...................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
NT, sources...................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
NT, sources...................Did John invent the story of the raising of Lazarus?!
NT, sources...................Was the Sermon on the Mount a "plagarism" of Moses on the Mountain?
NT, sources...................Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
NT, sources...................Did the Roman empire totally distort the New Testament documents?
NT, sources...................The issue of oral tradition, control, and fixity
NT, sources...................The literary witness to use of sources by the evangelists
NT, sources...................Again: the process wasn't solely oral...
NT, sources...................The Gospels are under the same Thuycididean standards and conventions of the Hellenistic world
NT, sources...................The slow, oral, hodge-podge accumulation of bits and pieces of the NT into a whole?
NT, sources...................They are probably even at a higher level of fidelity to historical reporting
NT, sources...................How 'assured' is James' solution to the Synoptic Problem?
NT, sources...................What is an alternative understanding of the process of gospel formation?
NT, text criticism............KNOWN textual errors in the Bible--don't they destroy "inerrancy"?
NT, text......................were the Apostolic Fathers unable to distinguish between authentic and unauthentic books?
NT, text......................Was Clement aware of the NT text?
NT, text......................Clement's alleged use of non-canonical sources
NT, text......................The spurious endings of Mark's gospel
NT, tradition.................The methodological problem of separating the 'layers' in the NT
NT, tradition.................The impetus to write it down, due to being outside 'mainstream' Judaism (e.g. Qumran)
NT, tradition.................The issue of oral tradition, control, and fixity
NT, transmission..............Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
NT, transmission..............Did the Roman empire totally distort the New Testament documents?
NT, transmission..............The "tradition control" methods as the church expanded
NT, transmission..............The difference between "original" writings and the ones we have today?
NT, transmission..............The issue of oral tradition, control, and fixity
NT, transmission..............The spurious endings of Mark's gospel
NT, transmission..............Really long periods of 'oral only' transmission of the sayings of Jesus, from the times of Jesus?
NT, transmission..............Was this alleged oral tradition transmitted without 'controls' andquite loosely?
NT, transmission..............KNOWN textual errors in the Bible--don't they destroy "inerrancy"?
NT, trinity...................The NT Witness:The Ancient Church Formulas in the NT
NT, trinity...................NT Passages mutually involving the Father, Son, and Spirit (Raw Data)
NT, trinity...................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Synoptics)
NT, trinity...................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Gospel of John)
NT, trinity...................The deity of Jesus:NT Responses to Jesus
NT, trinity...................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus
NT, trinity...................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus (con't)
NT, trinity...................The deity of Jesus:Other data relative to the deity of Jesus
NT, trinity...................The deity of Jesus:Summary: The deity of Jesus Christ
NT, trinity...................The deity of Jesus:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to Jesus
NT, trinity...................The NT Witness:The Personality of The Holy Spirit
NT, trinity...................The NT Witness:The Deity of The Holy Spirit
NT, trinity...................The NT Witness:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to The Holy Spirit
NT, untrustworthy.............Should the possible addition of John 8.1-11 make us paranoid about other possible inauthentic 'additions'
NT, verification..............Extrabiblical, Non-Christian Witnesses to Jesus before 200 A.D.
NT, verification..............Extrabiblical Witnesses to Jesus before 200 A.D.:Thallus
NT, verification..............How does the memory research of Elizabeth Loftus on eyewitness testimony affect the credibility of NT?
NT, view of cross.............How did Jesus' Companions the Apostles understand what happened at the Cross?
NT, witnesses.................Did the Jewish War eliminate all the possible counter-witnesses to the life of Jesus in the NT?
NT, women.....................Women: Data From the Life and Ministry of Jesus
NT, women.....................Women: Data From the Historical Literature of the Apostolic Circle
NT, women.....................Women's Roles in the Early Church
NT, women.....................Paul and Women
NT, writing...................The impetus to write it down, due to being outside 'mainstream' Judaism (e.g. Qumran)
NT............................Septuagint in the NT
NT............................What about the Gospel of Thomas?
NT............................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
NT............................ Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
NT............................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
NT............................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
NT............................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
NT............................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
NT............................The meaning of 'born again' in Scripture
Number of Chariots............Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
Number problems...............Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
Numbers 31....................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
Numbers 5.....................Women: trial of the bitter waters (Sotah)
Obedience.....................Martyrdom versus “obey and live long” principles
Obedience.....................Did God command wives to OBEY their husbands?
Objectivism...................Various questions on the use of evidence in apologetics
Occult........................I am afraid my Occult background has led me into the Unpardonable sin
Offering......................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
Olam..........................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
Olivet Discourse..............Was Jesus mistaken about this 2nd Coming?
Omnipresence..................If God is infinite, how can there still be room for us?
Ontology......................Letter (started Feb 24/2013)
Openness......................is God supposed to 'prove stuff' to us, or are we supposed to 'seek God'?
Openness......................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
Openness......................Why isn't the God of the Bible showing Himself to me?
Openness......................Was Israel really open to Amalekite immigration?
Opposition....................did the Christians just OUTLIVE those who "knew better and were silent"?
Oral Tradition................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
Oral Tradition................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
Oral Tradition................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
Oral tradition................The issue of oral tradition, control, and fixity
Oral tradition................Papias and his preference for oral tradition
Oral tradition................Again: the process wasn't solely oral...
Oral tradition................The slow, oral, hodge-podge accumulation of bits and pieces of the NT into a whole?
Oral tradition................Really long periods of 'oral only' transmission of the sayings of Jesus, from the times of Jesus?
Oral tradition................Was the early oral tradition ONLY made up of 'sayings' of Jesus?
Oral Transmission.............Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
Orchards......................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Order.........................Does complexity REALLY require 'more complexity'?
Origen........................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Orthodoxy..................... A timeline of early Christian & anti-Christian literature
Orthodoxy.....................Evidence that heresy was neither EARLY nor Strong (contra the Bauer/Koester position)
Orthodoxy.....................Major heretics as "Church Fathers"?
Orthodoxy.....................The issue of multiple "types" of Christianity in the early church
Orthodoxy.....................Their claims to 'legitimacy'
Orthodoxy.....................On early church unity vs. factionalism/in-fighting
Osiris........................Dying and Rising Gods
Osiris........................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Ossilegium....................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
OT (Greek)....................Septuagint in the NT
OT Apocrypha..................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
OT, accuracy..................Are there any extra-biblical refs to longevity BEFORE the flood?
OT, accuracy..................God's revelation to us: means, authentication, canon, transmission
OT, authorship................Jesus ascribed Pentateuch to Moses
OT, authorship................The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
OT, authorship................All the books of the bible were written by men--see, God de-values women again"
OT, background................Babylonian omen literature
OT, background................Timekeeping in the Ancient world
OT, background................International interaction
OT, background................Ancient Israelite Literacy - extent
OT, background................Where was historical data archived, in the OT
OT, contradictions............Was Terah 70 or 130 when Abraham was born?
OT, contradictions............Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
OT, contradictions............Well, did God LIKE what Jehu did or NOT--"another" contradiction?
OT, corruption................“Was there a textual corruption cover-up over Daniel 8.14?
OT, cruelty...................wasn't Elisha cruel when he sent those bears against those little kids who were teasing him about being bald?
OT, dating....................Moses access to ancient data
OT, dating....................OT did not borrow beliefs from pagans
OT, dating....................Hittite Treaty forms
OT, dating....................Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
OT, dating....................The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
OT, dating....................Was the Bible wrong about Abraham having camels that early?
OT, dating....................Was Daniel written AFTER the events he foretold?
OT, errors....................Was Terah 70 or 130 when Abraham was born?
OT, errors....................Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
OT, errors....................Noah's ark -- the problem of size
OT, errors....................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
OT, errors....................doesn't the archaeological record CONTRADICT the Bible's claims about Joshua's "Conquest"?!
OT, errors....................Why did God order Abraham to do child sacrifice?
OT, errors....................Was the Bible wrong about Abraham having camels that early?
OT, errors....................When was the name "Yahweh" revealed?
OT, errors....................Are there any extra-biblical refs to longevity BEFORE the flood?
OT, errors....................God's revelation to us: means, authentication, canon, transmission
OT, ethics....................Did God force the people of Jerusalem into cannibalism?
OT, ethics....................Did the Law only regulate behavior toward OTHER Jews?
OT, ethics....................Does God condone slavery in the Bible?
OT, ethics....................A HUGE double standard in biblical sexual ethics?
OT, ethics....................The VAST MAJORITY of Israelite/Church leadership is by MEN--see, God de-values women again"
OT, ethics....................Why do men get all the glory in the bible? Why are women only minor characters?!"
OT, ethics....................Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
OT, exegesis..................How could the Christians diverge from their Jewish roots?
OT, exegesis..................Jewish exegesis of OT in 1st century
OT, exegesis..................Typology--a legitimate approach to OT passages?
OT, external data.............Parting of the Sea by Moses
OT, foreshadow................Was there any reason to expect another set of Scriptures?
OT, forms.....................OT forms highly memorable
OT, fulfilled.................Jesus fulfillment of OT sacrifice
OT, in NT.....................Jesus ascribed Pentateuch to Moses
OT, in NT.....................did the Messianic Jewish Believers use the OT deceitfully or ignorantly in the New Testament?
OT, in NT.....................Stephen's mistakes in Acts 7
OT, in NT.....................Jewish use of Non-Masoretic Text in 1st century
OT, in NT.....................Jesus fulfillment of OT sacrifice
OT, in NT.....................Weird fulfillments in Matthew
OT, in NT.....................Was Jesus mistaken about Zechariah?
OT, in NT.....................Was the Sermon on the Mount a "plagarism" of Moses on the Mountain?
OT, in NT.....................Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
OT, in NT.....................Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
OT, in OT.....................OT in the OT
OT, in the NT.................Did the gospels make an error in their citation of the Judas-30pieces episode?
OT, in the NT.................Did Jesus/NT authors misquote the Shema when they said 'with all your mind'?
OT, Jesus.....................Jesus fulfillment of OT sacrifice
OT, languages.................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
OT, law.......................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
OT, messianic.................The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
OT, messianic.................Jewish messianic exegesis in 1st century
OT, messianic.................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
OT, messianic.................Did Christians simply INVENT the "pierced my hands and feet" in Psalm 22?!
OT, messianic.................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
OT, messianic.................Typology--a legitimate approach to OT passages?
OT, miracles..................Joshua's long day
OT, miracles..................Parting of the Sea by Moses
OT, miracles..................Reversal of sun's path for Hezekiah
OT, mistakes..................Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
OT, plurality of God..........Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
OT, plurality of God..........Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
OT, prophecy..................The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
OT, prophecy..................Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
OT, prophecy..................Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
OT, Pseudepigrapha............Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
OT, quarantine................Was biblical leprosy the same as modern leprosy?
OT, reliability...............How likely is it that Noah was the only righteous person on the whole earth, at the time of the Flood?
OT, Sacrifice.................Sacrifice in the OT
OT, Sacrifice.................OT sacrifice: difference from Israel's neighbors
OT, Sacrifice.................Logic of OT sacrifice (summary)
OT, slander...................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
OT, slavery...................Does God condone slavery in the Bible?
OT, sources...................OT Jews had access to prior data
OT, sources...................Moses access to ancient data
OT, sources...................OT forms highly memorable
OT, sources...................OT did not borrow beliefs from pagans
OT, sources...................Where was historical data archived, in the OT
OT, sources...................pre-mosaic keepers of historical data
OT, sources...................OT priests as keepers of historical data
OT, sources...................OT prophets as keepers of historical data
OT, sources...................the Documentary Hypothesis
OT, sources...................Good questions on JEDP
OT, sources...................Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
OT, sources...................The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
OT, sources...................Was Daniel written AFTER the events he foretold?
OT, text criticism............KNOWN textual errors in the Bible--don't they destroy "inerrancy"?
OT, text......................Was the LXX "scripture" for 1st century Jews?
OT, text......................Jewish use of Non-Masoretic Text in 1st century
OT, text......................Did Christians simply INVENT the "pierced my hands and feet" in Psalm 22?!
OT, text......................Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
OT, text......................The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
OT, textual changes...........Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
OT, theology..................OT did not borrow beliefs from pagans
OT, theology..................OT sacrifice: difference from Israel's neighbors
OT, transmission..............OT Jews had access to prior data
OT, transmission..............Where was historical data archived, in the OT
OT, transmission..............pre-mosaic keepers of historical data
OT, transmission..............OT priests as keepers of historical data
OT, transmission..............OT prophets as keepers of historical data
OT, transmission..............Transmission of Revelation - Mosaic
OT, transmission..............Transmission of Revelation - failure
OT, transmission..............New Covenant/New Moses
OT, transmission..............Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
OT, transmission..............The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
OT, transmission..............God's revelation to us: means, authentication, canon, transmission
OT, transmission..............KNOWN textual errors in the Bible--don't they destroy "inerrancy"?
OT, trinity...................Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
OT, trinity...................Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
OT, uncleanness...............Was biblical leprosy the same as modern leprosy?
OT, verification..............Hittite Treaty forms
OT, verification..............How did Moses get Balaam's prophecies for inclusion in Numbers?!
OT, verification..............Israel's knowledge of Canaanite practices BEFORE the exodus
OT, verification..............The "Travelogues" of the Book of Numbers
OT, verification..............doesn't the archaeological record CONTRADICT the Bible's claims about Joshua's "Conquest"?!
OT, verification..............Are there any extra-biblical refs to longevity BEFORE the flood?
OT, violence..................shouldn't the butchering of the Amalekite children be considered war crimes?
OT, women.....................Women: Historical Data From the Pre-Monarchy Literature
OT, women.....................Women Legal Data From the Pre-Monarchy Literature
OT, women.....................Women: literary data From the Pre-Monarchy Literature
OT, women.....................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Eve
OT, women.....................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Jephthah's daughter
OT, women.....................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Levite and his concubine
OT, women.....................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Lot's Daughters
OT, women.....................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Miriam's rebellion
OT, women.....................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Potiphar's wife
OT, women.....................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Rachel's theft
OT, women.....................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: rape of Dinah
OT, women.....................Women: historical Data From the Monarchy Literature
OT, women.....................Women: literary Data From the Monarchy Literature
OT, women.....................Women: 'portrayal' Data (Wisdom lit) From the Monarchy Literature
OT, women.....................Women: historical Data From the Divided Monarchy Literature
OT, women.....................Women: prophetic Data From the Divided Monarchy Literature
OT, women.....................Women: Data From the Exilic and Post-Exilic Community
OT, women.....................Female Beauty in Bible
OT, women.....................Women: trial of the bitter waters (Sotah)
OT, writing...................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
OT............................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
OT............................doesn't the archaeological record CONTRADICT the Bible's claims about Joshua's "Conquest"?!
OT............................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
OT............................Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
Outgroup......................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
Pagan.........................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
Pagan.........................Was YHWH just a pagan solar deity IAO?
Pagan.........................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
Paganism......................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
Pain..........................if Jesus didn't stay dead, how could His death have been a REAL sacrifice?
Pain..........................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
Pain..........................Is pain in childbirth the Curse on Eve in Genesis 3?
Pain..........................A Letter about Pain in Heaven over lost Loved Ones
Pain..........................How could God let Christians hurt to the point of suicide?
Palestine.....................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Palestine.....................Sacrifice in Early Cultures, Israel's neighbors
Palestine.....................Sacrifice in the NT world (Jewish)
Palestine.....................doesn't the archaeological record CONTRADICT the Bible's claims about Joshua's "Conquest"?!
Pantheon......................Was YHWH just a pagan solar deity IAO?
Pantheon......................Was Yahweh a member of the Phoenician pantheon?
Papias........................Papias and his preference for oral tradition
Paradigm......................Personality as the Basal Interpretive Paradigm
Parallel passages.............Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
Parallels.....................Was the Sermon on the Mount a "plagarism" of Moses on the Mountain?
Parallels.....................Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
Paranormal....................Question on contacting the dead (the Witch of Endor story)
Parasitoids...................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
Parents.......................Martyrdom versus “obey and live long” principles
Parousia......................Was Jesus a failed apocalyptic prophet that the embarrassed church had to re-work into something different
Particularity, scandal........Letter (started Feb 24/2013)
Particularity.................Letter (started Feb 24/2013)
Passion week..................What about all those resurrected people walking around in Jerusalem after Jesus' death?
Passion week..................Do the Resurrection accounts HOPELESSLY contradict one another?
Passover......................Sacrifice in Mosaic Covenant
Passover......................Was God cruel when He killed all the firstborn of Egypt?
Pastorals.....................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
Patience......................Why does judgment lag so far behind?
Patriarchy....................A HUGE double standard in biblical sexual ethics?
Patriarchy....................Wasn't Miriam punished for questioning male authority, while Aaron was not?"
Patriarchy....................Doesn't the bible teach that God cursed women by making them subject/subordinate to men?"
Patriarchy....................The VAST MAJORITY of Israelite/Church leadership is by MEN--see, God de-values women again"
Patriarchy....................Why do men get all the glory in the bible? Why are women only minor characters?!"
Patriarchy....................Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
Patriarchy....................The patriarchy system (God condoned) subjected women by restricting their access to social/cultural power."
Patterns......................Patterns and Argument
Patterns......................The Priority of Patterns over Elements
Paul .........................How "non-Jesus" was Paul, really? (Muslim arg)
Paul, and Jesus...............How "non-Jesus" was Paul, really? (Muslim arg)
Paul, and Jesus...............How "non-Jesus" was Paul, really? (Muslim arg)
Paul, and Jesus...............Paul had NO interest in the life of Jesus?
Paul, and Jesus...............Paul had NO interest in the WORDS or TEACHINGS of Jesus?
Paul, and Jesus...............Paul preached a different gospel than Jesus?
Paul, and Jesus...............Paul's gospel of a "Crucified Christ" was his invention?
Paul, and Jesus...............Paul's gospel was an anti-Law accommodation to the corrupt governments?
Paul, and Jesus...............But didn't Jesus strongly affirm the Law in Matthew 5.17-19?
Paul, and Jesus...............Did Jesus come to perpetuate the Mosaic Law?
Paul, and Jesus...............Did Jesus restrict His gospel message to the Jews?
Paul, and Jesus...............Does Paul have a 'low view' of the Law?
Paul, and Jesus...............How "non-Jesus" was Paul, really? (Muslim arg)
Paul, and Jesus...............Is Paul's view of the Law radically different from that of Peter, James, John, and the Writer to the Hebrews?
Paul, and Jesus...............Was the essence of the Law really 'sovereignty'?
Paul, and lawsuits............Does Paul specifically command that lawsuits is to be avoided for Christians in 1 Cor 6
Paul, and polygamy............Does the NT sanction polygamy?
Paul, and Slavery.............Does God condone slavery in the Bible (NT)?
Paul, and the Law.............How "non-Jesus" was Paul, really? (Muslim arg)
Paul, and women...............Paul and Women: Controversial passages: 1 Cor 11
Paul, and women...............Paul and Women: Controversial passages: 1 Cor 14
Paul, and women...............Paul and Women: Controversial passages: 1 Tim 2
Paul, and women...............Paul and Women
Paul, and women...............Paul OBVIOUSLY had a "sit down and shut up" attitude toward women--and we are supposed to trust HIM?!"
Paul, and women...............The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
Paul, anti-semitic............Was First Thess 2.15ff seriously Anti-Semitic??!!
Paul, extremist...............How non-Jesus was Paul, really? (continuation)
Paul, facts on Jesus..........Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Paul, versus Everybody........How non-Jesus was Paul, really? (continuation)
Paul, versus James............How non-Jesus was Paul, really? (continuation)
Paul, versus Jerusalem........How non-Jesus was Paul, really? (continuation)
Paul..........................Paul and Women
Paul..........................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
Paul..........................Paul - and critical thinking
Paul..........................Roman's and Paul's Theological Method
Peace, nature of..............God the Peace-Maker (PDF outline)
PeaceMaker....................God the Peace-Maker (PDF outline)
Penal.........................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
Pentateuch....................Jesus ascribed Pentateuch to Moses
Pentateuch....................OT did not borrow beliefs from pagans
Pentateuch....................The issue of 'borrowing' laws--did Moses somehow "copy" Hammurabi?
Pentateuch....................Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
Pentateuch....................The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
Peregrinus....................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
Persecution, Fleeing..........Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
Persecution, Muslim...........Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
Persecution...................Martyrdom versus “obey and live long” principles
Persecution...................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is it important to convert to the Christian religion, to accept Jesus? If so, how would I survive? My family will kill me, and how will I become a Christian just to die?
Persian.......................Someone bothered about a question on the Persian Mithras
Personality...................Personality as the Basal Interpretive Paradigm
Personality...................On the Loci of Freedom...
Personality...................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
Perspicuity...................God's revelation to us: skepticism, hiddeness
Pervo.........................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
Pesher........................Jewish exegesis of OT in 1st century
Peter, and Paul...............Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
Peter, Epistles...............Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
Peter, languages..............Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
Peter.........................Why didn't Peter eat on the roof?
Pets..........................My kid's pet just died...what should I tell my kid?
Phantasm......................Is Jesus' flesh only LIKE a human's (and not ACTUALLY human itself)?
Pharaoh.......................Hardening of Pharaoh
Pharaoh.......................Hardening of Pharaoh
Pharaoh.......................Was God cruel when He killed all the firstborn of Egypt?
Pharaoh.......................Did God harden Pharaoh's heart FIRST?
Pharisee......................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
Pharisees.....................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
Pharisees.....................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
Pharisees.....................Jesus and the Pharisees
Philo.........................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
Philo.........................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Philo.........................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Philosophy....................Epistemology -starting point
Philosophy....................Freedom
Philosophy....................Theological Basis for Epistemology (outline)
Philosophy....................Can God make a rock so big He cannot lift it?
Philosophy....................On humanity 'inventing' God
Philosophy....................Does complexity REALLY require 'more complexity'?
Philosophy....................Linguistic wall--index
Philosophy....................Physical and Metaphysical "Primitives"
Philosophy....................Precision and the Epistemic "Bubble"
Philosophy....................Patterns and Argument
Philosophy....................The Priority of Patterns over Elements
Philosophy....................Personality as the Basal Interpretive Paradigm
Philosophy....................Implications for 'apologetic method'
Philosophy....................Did I just switch from a correspondence theory of truth to a coherence theory of truth?
Philosophy....................The 'codedness' of revelation
Philosophy....................God and evil, theodicy
Philosophy....................Postmodernism and Hermeneutics
Philosophy....................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
Philosophy....................On foreknowledge
Philosophy....................Self-Stultifying Arguments
Philosophy....................Towards an Evangelical Theological Method (outline)
Philosophy....................Roman's and Paul's Theological Method
Philosophy....................Kinds, Postmodernism, and the Absolutes of Dissonance...
Philosophy....................On the Loci of Freedom...
Philostratus..................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Phoenician....................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Phoenician....................Was Yahweh a member of the Phoenician pantheon?
Pigs, stampede................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
Pilate........................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
Plagarism.....................Was the Sermon on the Mount a "plagarism" of Moses on the Mountain?
Plagarism.....................Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
Plagues.......................Did God harden Pharaoh's heart FIRST?
Platonism, Middle.............Was the Ascension of Isaiah a Middle-Platonist document?
Platonism, Middle.............Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Platonism.....................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Plutarch......................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
POE...........................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
Polis.........................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Political power...............Did the Roman empire totally distort the New Testament documents?
Poltergeist...................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
Polygamy......................Does the NT sanction polygamy?
Polygamy......................One wife or First wife?
Polygamy......................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
Polytheism....................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
Polytheism....................Are there 3 gods in the Trinity?
Polytheism....................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
Polytheism....................John 1.1 - "a God"?
Polytheism....................Does the Joel quote in Acts 2 indicate astral worship by Israel?
Polytheism....................Was Yahweh a member of the Phoenician pantheon?
Polytheism....................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
Poor..........................OT passages on what God avenges
Porphyry......................Are there any indications from the EXTERNAL data , that the miracle stories are historical?
Poseidonius...................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Possession....................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
Possession....................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
Postmodernism.................Postmodernism and Hermeneutics
Postmodernism.................Kinds, Postmodernism, and the Absolutes of Dissonance...
Post-Mosaic...................Transmission of Revelation - failure
Post-Mosaic...................New Covenant/New Moses
Post-Temple...................Sacrifice in the NT world (Jewish, post-temple)
Potiphar's wife...............Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Potiphar's wife
Potter........................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
Powers........................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
Practice......................Interacting with God - doubts
Practice......................Interacting with God - problems with Bible
Practice......................Interacting with God - problems
Practice......................Interacting with God
Practice......................dealing with intellectual pride
Practice......................Are Christian academic institutions optional or necessary?
Practice......................Christian growth--an outline
Practice......................A problem with relating to God the Father
Practice......................My kid's pet just died...what should I tell my kid?
Practice......................How to help a "difficult" family member.
Practice......................If sins are forgiven, how will Christians be judged?
Praxis........................How I deal with very hostile objections
Praxis........................Questions on my Life-View and dealing with others
Prayer........................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
Precision.....................Precision and the Epistemic "Bubble"
Precision.....................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
Predation.....................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
Predation.....................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
Predestination................How did the Gentiles get in the picture if the Jews were the 'chosen ones
Predestination................Does culture determine which religion one believes? (and is this fair of God?)
Predestination................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
Predestination................Is history all "of one piece"? And Is everyone given a fair chance at heaven?
Predestination................Was Judas actually "obeying God" when he fulfilled the Scripture?
Predestination................Did God harden Pharaoh's heart FIRST?
predestination................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
Predestination................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
Predestination................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
Predestination................Doesn't Paul's argument in Romans 9 pretty clearly indicate that people's free choices are determined by God?
Prediction, specific..........Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was ‘concern over delay’ really about ‘failed prophecies’ or about something else?
Prediction....................The Fulfillment of Prophecy
Prediction....................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
Prediction....................Various questions on the use of evidence in apologetics
Prejudice.....................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
Pre-mosaic....................pre-mosaic keepers of historical data
Pre-mosaic....................Authetication of Revelation - preMosaic
Presumption...................Fear over "Willful Sins"
Presuppositionalism...........presuppositionalism
Presuppositionalism...........More on presuppositionalism
Pride.........................Can Pride be Good?
Pride.........................Dealing with pride
Pride.........................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
Pride.........................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
Priest........................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than Levitical priest
Priest........................OT priests as keepers of historical data
Priest........................But, women were excluded from being priests..."
Priesthood, Melchizedek.......Source data for messianic titles
Priesthood....................if Jesus didn't stay dead, how could His death have been a REAL sacrifice?
Priming.......................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
Principalities................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
Probability...................On apologetic value of typological "prophecy"
Probability...................Theological impact of Aliens from space
Problem of Evil...............Is God really the ONLY evil being in the universe?
Problem of Evil...............Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
Problems......................if Christianity is true, why does it need so much defending? And why doesn't God make it clearer?
Procrustes....................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
Promises......................Martyrdom versus “obey and live long” principles
Proof.........................is God supposed to 'prove stuff' to us, or are we supposed to 'seek God'?
Proof.........................Interacting with the "possibly revelatory" data: Encounter, Response, Results
Proof.........................Two Pushbacks, on "would more hurt"? and "why seek a hidden God anyway?"
Proof.........................Certainty vs. Proof
Proof.........................Types of Evidence
Proof.........................Why doesn't God give us proof?
Proof.........................Doubt
Proof.........................Why doesn't God manifest Himself physically?
Proof.........................Authetication of Revelation - preMosaic
Proof.........................Authetication of Revelation - Mosaic
Proof.........................How I decide between competing claims to revelation
Proof.........................How I decide between competing claims to revelation
Proof.........................Types of evidence for revelation
Proof.........................Types of evidence for revelation
Proof.........................Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
Proof.........................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
Proof.........................why should we believe Jesus was the Messiah, if He didn’t fulfill all the prophecies when He was here?
Proof.........................Could the resurrection appearances be a case of GROUP Hallucination?
Proof.........................How does the memory research of Elizabeth Loftus on eyewitness testimony affect the credibility of NT?
Proof.........................What makes you convinced that God exists?
Proof.........................Why didn't God confirm the resurrection in a better way?
Proof.........................On apologetic value of typological "prophecy"
Proof.........................Typology and prophecy
Proof.........................Is the bible false, since it is not written in logic or math?
Proof.........................Is 'only reason' reasonable?
Proof.........................The Fulfillment of Prophecy
Proof.........................Is Christian experience make-believe?
Proof.........................God's revelation to us: means, authentication, canon, transmission
Proof.........................Thumb: How do you know God exists?
Proof.........................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
Proof.........................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
Proof.........................Objections-to disprove is not to prove the opposite
Proof.........................What makes you convinced that God exists?
Property......................Weren't OT women WORSE off than even their Babylonian counterparts?"
Prophecy, evaluation of.......On apologetic value of typological "prophecy"
Prophecy, messianic...........Source data for messianic titles
Prophecy, messianic...........Where in the Hebrew Bible does it predict a resurrection after 3 days?
Prophecy, prediction..........Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was ‘concern over delay’ really about ‘failed prophecies’ or about something else?
Prophecy......................The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
Prophecy......................Did Jesus come during the wrong empire, according to Daniel and the beast vision?
Prophecy......................Is 7.14--the Virgin Birth prophecy
Prophecy......................Micah 5.2: the Bethlehem prophecy
Prophecy......................Was Jesus actually a 'ruler' in Israel?
Prophecy......................Weird fulfillments in Matthew
Prophecy......................why should we believe Jesus was the Messiah, if He didn’t fulfill all the prophecies when He was here?
Prophecy......................Was there any reason to expect another set of Scriptures?
Prophecy......................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
Prophecy......................Does Micah 5 speak about the birth-place of the Messiah, or only His birth-family?
Prophecy......................On apologetic value of typological "prophecy"
Prophecy......................Typology and prophecy
Prophecy......................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was ‘concern over delay’ really about ‘failed prophecies’ or about something else?
Prophecy......................The Fulfillment of Prophecy
Prophecy......................Did Christians simply INVENT the "pierced my hands and feet" in Psalm 22?!
Prophecy......................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
Prophecy......................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
Prophecy......................Well, did God LIKE what Jehu did or NOT--"another" contradiction?
Prophecy......................Was Daniel written AFTER the events he foretold?
Prophecy......................A question on my work on Isaiah 7.14
Prophecy......................Various questions on the use of evidence in apologetics
Prophecy......................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
Prophecy......................Was Jesus a failed apocalyptic prophet that the embarrassed church had to re-work into something different
Prophecy......................Typology--a legitimate approach to OT passages?
Prophecy......................Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
Prophet.......................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
Prophetic Figures.............Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
Prophets, bad.................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
Prophets, ignorant............Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
Prophets, women...............Did women prophets have to be virgins?
Prophets......................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a prophet
Prophets......................OT prophets as keepers of historical data
Prophets......................Sacrifice in Later books of OT: Prophets
Prophets......................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
Propitiation..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Protection by God.............Letter to Readers (misc topics)
Providence....................Was Judas actually "obeying God" when he fulfilled the Scripture?
Providence....................What good is God? On...the limits of "trials"
Psalm 22......................Did Christians simply INVENT the "pierced my hands and feet" in Psalm 22?!
Psalms........................Sacrifice in Later books of OT: Psalms
Psalms........................Messianic Psalms: The Righteous Sufferer
Pseudepigrapha................Jewish use of Non-Masoretic Text in 1st century
Pseudepigrapha................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
Pseudepigrapha................Was Daniel written AFTER the events he foretold?
Pseudonymity..................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
Pseudonymity..................Was Daniel written AFTER the events he foretold?
Pseudonymity..................Were the gospels pseudonymous?
Pseudonymity..................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
Psychoactive drugs............A problem with guilt over using "secular" counselors and neuroactive medication
Punishment, Eternal...........Isn’t infinite/eternal punishment for a finite/temporal sin a bit disproportionate???
Punishment....................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
Punishment....................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
Pythagoras....................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Q.............................Was the early oral tradition ONLY made up of 'sayings' of Jesus?
Q.............................How 'assured' is James' solution to the Synoptic Problem?
Q.............................How compelling is the case for Literary Dependence among the synoptic gospels?
Quarantine....................Was biblical leprosy the same as modern leprosy?
Quirinius.....................An objection about Luke, Quirinius, and Herods
Qumran........................Jewish use of Non-Masoretic Text in 1st century
Qumran........................John the Baptist as Forerunner of the Messiah
Qumran........................The theories of Eisenman, Allegro, Thiering, and Baigent & Leigh concerning the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Qumran........................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
Qumran........................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
Qumran........................Is the Sermon on the Mount actually an ancient Essene prayer dating to 100's of years before Christ?!
Quran.........................How can Christians believe that there is only one God, and yet still call Jesus the Son of God?
Quran.........................Are there 3 gods in the Trinity?
Quran.........................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
Quran.........................Are Muslims forbidden to believe that Jesus was crucified?
Quran.........................is theBible "as violent" as the Quran/Hadith?
Quran.........................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
Rabbi.........................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
Rabbinic......................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
rabbinic......................Are there any indications from the EXTERNAL data , that the miracle stories are historical?
Rabbinic......................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
Rabbinic...................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
Rabbinic......................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
Rabbinical....................Jewish use of Non-Masoretic Text in 1st century
Rabbinical....................Was the LXX "scripture" for 1st century Jews?
Rabbinical....................John the Baptist as Forerunner of the Messiah
Rabbinical....................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
Rabbinical....................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
Rabbinical....................did the Christians just OUTLIVE those who "knew better and were silent"?
Rabbinical....................Evidence of early writing by the apostles (probably even during Jesus' life)
Rabbinics.....................why should we believe Jesus was the Messiah, if He didn’t fulfill all the prophecies when He was here?
Rabbinics.....................Did the bible lie about Jesus not being married?
Rabbis........................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
Rachel........................Women: unfavorable passages in early OT lit: Rachel's theft
Racial........................Was Israel really open to Amalekite immigration?
Racism........................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
Raiders.......................Were the Amalekites REALLY nomads?
Rambam........................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
Ramban........................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
Ransom........................Redemption/Ransom (NT)--pdf only
Ransom........................Redemption/Ransom (OT)
Ransom........................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
Ransom........................"Paid in Full" -- Jesus' words on the Cross?
Ransom........................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
Rape..........................Did God callously give David's wives to Absalom to rape?
Rape..........................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
Rape..........................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
Rashi.........................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
Reason........................Is the bible false, since it is not written in logic or math?
Reason........................Is 'only reason' reasonable?
Reburial......................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
Recompense....................What "value" is there in exceptional suffering?
Reconciliation................Reconciliation (class syllabus)
Redaction.....................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
Redemption....................Redemption/Ransom (NT)--pdf only
Redemption....................Redemption/Ransom (OT)
Redemption....................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
Redemption....................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
Reductionism..................Is there evidence for the existence of the "soul"?
Reductionism..................Mind/brain
Reductionism..................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
Reference Points..............The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
Reformed......................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
Reincarnation.................Did the early Church believe in Reincarnation?
Rejection, messiah............Source data for messianic titles
Rejection.....................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
Relevance.....................Hey, who Invited GOD to this century?!
Religion, delusion............isn't there a “God part of the Brain” that proves all this Jesus stuff is untrue?
Repentance....................What is "repentance"?
Response......................Interacting with the "possibly revelatory" data: Encounter, Response, Results
Response......................Two Pushbacks, on "would more hurt"? and "why seek a hidden God anyway?"
Responsibility, Human.........Does human culpability for non-interference in crime prove theodicy WRONG?
Responsibility................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
Rest, nature of...............God the Rest-Giver (PDF outline)
Resurrection, confirmation....Why didn't God confirm the resurrection in a better way?
Resurrection, proof...........Why didn't God confirm the resurrection in a better way?
Resurrection..................How was Jesus the Firstfruits from the dead, if there were other resurrections before His?
Resurrection..................Could the resurrection appearances be a case of GROUP Hallucination?
Resurrection..................Letter to Readers (misc topics)
Resurrection..................Why didn't God confirm the resurrection in a better way?
Resurrection..................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Resurrection..................What about all those resurrected people walking around in Jerusalem after Jesus' death?
Resurrection..................Do the Resurrection accounts HOPELESSLY contradict one another?
Resurrection..................What does 'firstborn' mean when used of Jesus?
Resurrection..................Did John invent the story of the raising of Lazarus?!
Resurrection..................Women, stones, spices, empty tombs
Retribution...................Isn’t infinite/eternal punishment for a finite/temporal sin a bit disproportionate???
Retribution...................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
Return of Christ..............Was Jesus a failed apocalyptic prophet that the embarrassed church had to re-work into something different
Revelation, authentication....God's revelation to us: means, authentication, canon, transmission
Revelation, hiddeness.........God's revelation to us: skepticism, hiddeness
Revelation, Perspicuity.......God's revelation to us: skepticism, hiddeness
Revelation, proof.............Authetication of Revelation - preMosaic
Revelation, proof.............Authetication of Revelation - Mosaic
Revelation....................Interacting with the "possibly revelatory" data: Encounter, Response, Results
Revelation....................Why doesn't God manifest Himself physically?
Revelation....................How I decide between competing claims to revelation
Revelation....................How I decide between competing claims to revelation
Revelation....................Types of evidence for revelation
Revelation....................Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
Revelation....................What about Those Who have Never Heard the Gospel?
Revelation....................Why isn't the God of the Bible showing Himself to me?
Revelation....................The 'codedness' of revelation
Revelation....................The process of God's communication to us
Revelation....................Is God ever intentionally silent toward His loved ones?
Revelation....................God's revelation to us: context and processing
Revelation....................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
Revelation....................How I would decide between conflicting revelations
Revenge.......................OT passages on what God avenges
Revenge.......................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
Righteousness.................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
Righteousness.................The difference between Righteousness and Holiness
Ritual........................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
Roman census..................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Roman housing.................Urban expansion of the early Church
Roman life....................Urban expansion of the early Church
Roman.........................Sacrifice in the NT world (non-Jewish)
Romance.......................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
Romance.......................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
Romans 9......................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
Romans 9......................Doesn't Paul's argument in Romans 9 pretty clearly indicate that people's free choices are determined by God?
Romans........................Roman's and Paul's Theological Method
Rome..........................Did Jesus come during the wrong empire, according to Daniel and the beast vision?
Rooster.......................Was the NT wrong about roosters being allowed in Jerusalem?
Ruler.........................Was Jesus actually a 'ruler' in Israel?
Sabbath.......................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
Sabbath.......................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
Sacrifice ....................Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
Sacrifice, child..............Why did God order Abraham to do child sacrifice?
Sacrifice, child..............Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
Sacrifice, human..............Was Jesus' death a violation of the commandment against human sacrifice?
Sacrifice, Jesus..............Jesus sacrifice: the purpose
Sacrifice, purpose............OT sacrifice: Purpose
Sacrifice, purpose............Jesus sacrifice: the purpose
Sacrifice.....................The Work of Christ on the Cross (intro/background)
Sacrifice.....................if Jesus didn't stay dead, how could His death have been a REAL sacrifice?
Sacrifice.....................Sacrifice in Early Cultures, Israel's neighbors
Sacrifice.....................Sacrifice in Early Cultures, Remote from Israel
Sacrifice.....................Sacrifice in Early Cultures
Sacrifice.....................Sacrifice in the OT
Sacrifice.....................Sacrifice outside the Mosaic Covenant
Sacrifice.....................OT sacrifice: difference from Israel's neighbors
Sacrifice.....................Sacrifice in Later books of OT: Prophets
Sacrifice.....................Sacrifice in Later books of OT: Psalms
Sacrifice.....................Sacrifice in Later books of OT
Sacrifice.....................Sacrifice in Mosaic Covenant
Sacrifice.....................OT sacrifice: Purpose
Sacrifice.....................Logic of OT sacrifice (summary)
Sacrifice.....................Sacrifice in the NT
Sacrifice.....................Sacrifice in the NT world (Jewish)
Sacrifice.....................Sacrifice in the NT world (non-Jewish)
Sacrifice.....................The torn-veil in the Temple/the scarlet thread
Sacrifice.....................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
Sacrifice.....................Christ's death on the Cross--serious, real, painful
Sacrifice.....................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
Sacrifice.....................Why did God order Abraham to do child sacrifice?
Sacrifice.....................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
Sadducees.....................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
Sage..........................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than a Sage
Sage..........................Women as Sages
Sage.......................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
Sage..........................God is ALWAYS portrayed as a male--women had no way of identifying with Him"
Sage..........................Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
Sage..........................But, women were excluded from being priests..."
Sage..........................Women are always pictured as being servile or passive or evil or stupid..."
Sages.........................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
Salvation, eternal............Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
Salvation, faith..............Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
Salvation, faith..............Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Salvation, impossible.........Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
Salvation, impossible.........Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Salvation, Islam..............Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
Salvation, Islam..............Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Salvation, lost...............Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
Salvation, nature of..........Personal letter
Salvation, permanent..........Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
Salvation, works..............Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
Salvation, works..............Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Salvation.....................if Jesus didn't stay dead, how could His death have been a REAL sacrifice?
Salvation.....................Two Pushbacks, on "would more hurt"? and "why seek a hidden God anyway?"
Salvation.....................Sacrifice in the NT
Salvation.....................Do I have to be holy/righteous before I approach God for salvation?
Salvation.....................What about Those Who have Never Heard the Gospel?
Salvation....................."Paid in Full" -- Jesus' words on the Cross?
Salvation.....................The meaning of 'born again' in Scripture
Salvation.....................Can you be certain you have the "right" faith?
Salvation.....................Did NT believers mix law and grace?
Salvation.....................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
Salvation.....................What was the use of Christ's death?
Salvation.....................What is "repentance"?
Sanctification................Do I have to be holy/righteous before I approach God for salvation?
Sanctification................A letter to someone fatigued at sin…
Sanhedrin.....................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
Sanhedrin.....................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
Santa Claus...................Just because I cannot think of a better explanation now, doesn't mean I have to accept your Christian one
Satan, angel of light.........Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
Satan, author.................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
Satan, god....................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
Satan.........................Did Christ die for Satan?
Satan.........................Is God really the ONLY evil being in the universe?
Satan.........................David's census
Satan.........................David's Tragic Census-who 'Moved' him to do it?
Satan.........................Casting out demons by the power of demons
Satan.........................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
Satan.........................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
Satire........................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
Saul..........................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
Savior........................Was Jesus Christ just a CopyCat Savior Myth?
Savior........................Sacrifice in the NT
Savior........................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
Sayings source................Was the early oral tradition ONLY made up of 'sayings' of Jesus?
Scandal of Particularity......Letter (started Feb 24/2013)
Scandal of Particularity......How I would decide between conflicting revelations
Scandal of Particularlity.....What about Those Who have Never Heard the Gospel?
Scorched Earth................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Scribe........................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
Scripts.......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Scripture, difficulties.......Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
Scripture, language...........Why was the NT written in Greek?
Scripture.....................Theological Method (from scripture)
Scripture.....................The 'codedness' of revelation
Scripture.....................Postmodernism and Hermeneutics
Séance........................Question on contacting the dead (the Witch of Endor story)
Second chances................Second chances with God…
Secretary.....................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
Secundus......................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Security, eternal.............Could God be less compassionate and harsher in His judgments than us?
Seeking.......................is God supposed to 'prove stuff' to us, or are we supposed to 'seek God'?
Seeking.......................Two Pushbacks, on "would more hurt"? and "why seek a hidden God anyway?"
Seeking.......................Why isn't the God of the Bible showing Himself to me?
Self-contradicting............Self-Stultifying Arguments
Self-deception................Is Christian experience make-believe?
Self-loathing.................Discussion on Deep depression, self-loathing, chronic therapy needs
Self-referential..............Self-Stultifying Arguments
Self-refutational.............Self-Stultifying Arguments
Self-righteousness............Letter to Readers (misc topics)
Self-stultifying..............Self-Stultifying Arguments
Semahot.......................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
Semantic model................The Vortex- basic worldview structures/beliefs of the Tank
Septuagint....................Septuagint in the NT
Septuagint....................Was the LXX "scripture" for 1st century Jews?
Septuagint....................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
Sermon on the Mount...........Is the Sermon on the Mount actually an ancient Essene prayer dating to 100's of years before Christ?!
Sermon on the Mount...........Was the Sermon on the Mount a "plagarism" of Moses on the Mountain?
Servant, messianic............Source data for messianic titles
Servant, suffering............Source data for messianic titles
Servant.......................Is Isaiah 53.10 about Israel, rather than about Jesus?
Servants......................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
Seventy weeks.................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
Sex...........................Is there proof that Jesus did not have sex with Mary Magdalene?
Sexual ethics.................Circumcision and False Teaching in the Bible?
Sexual ethics.................A HUGE double standard in biblical sexual ethics?
Shallum.......................Is the dating of Zedekiah a contradiction with the birth-order in 1 Chronicles?
Shalom........................God the Peace-Maker (PDF outline)
Shame.........................Discussion on Deep depression, self-loathing, chronic therapy needs
Shammai....................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
Shekinah......................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Shekinah......................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
Shema ........................Did Jesus/NT authors misquote the Shema when they said 'with all your mind'?
Shemahot......................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
Sickness......................Was biblical leprosy the same as modern leprosy?
Sidon.........................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
Siege.........................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Sign..........................Circumcision and False Teaching in the Bible?
Silver, 30 pieces.............Source data for messianic titles
Sin, depth....................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
Sin, depth....................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Sin, effects..................What was the use of Christ's death?
Sin, will.....................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
Sin, will.....................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Sin...........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
Sin...........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Sin...........................What is "repentance"?
Sin...........................How likely is it that Noah was the only righteous person on the whole earth, at the time of the Flood?
Sin...........................A letter to someone fatigued at sin…
Sin...........................Isn’t infinite/eternal punishment for a finite/temporal sin a bit disproportionate???
Sincerity.....................Thumb:As long as each person is genuinely sincere, what difference does it make what they believe?
Sins,forgiven.................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Skepticism....................Why didn't God confirm the resurrection in a better way?
Skepticism....................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
Skepticism....................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
Skepticism....................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
Skepticism....................Does incomplete knowledge mean God is unknowable?
Slander.......................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
Slaughter.....................Was God cruel when He killed all the firstborn of Egypt?
Slave Trade...................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
Slave.........................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
Slavery (NT)..................Does God condone slavery in the Bible?
Slavery.......................Redemption/Ransom (NT)--pdf only
Slavery.......................Redemption/Ransom (OT)
Slavery.......................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
Slavery.......................Does God condone slavery in the Bible?
Smith, Morton.................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
Social Relief.................Urban expansion of the early Church
Social........................Discussion on Deep depression, self-loathing, chronic therapy needs
Social........................Why can't God just forgive sin, instead of demanding justice?
Society.......................Why would government have any authority in personal areas like marriage?
Sojourner.....................Was Israel really open to Amalekite immigration?
Solar.........................Was YHWH just a pagan solar deity IAO?
Son of David..................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
Son of God....................How is the believer's sonship to God different from Christ's Sonship to God?
Son of God....................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
Son of Man....................Could Jesus really not have had any 'Son of man' sayings, because they were allegedly only later?
Sons of God...................Who were the "Sons of God" in Genesis 6?
Sons of God...................Who were the "Sons of God" in Genesis 6 (and elsewhere)?
Sons of God...................Who were the "Sons of God" in Genesis 6 (and elsewhere)?
Sonship.......................How is the believer's sonship to God different from Christ's Sonship to God?
Sorcery.......................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Sorrow........................What is "repentance"?
Sotah.........................Women: trial of the bitter waters (Sotah)
Soul..........................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
Soul..........................Is there evidence for the existence of the "soul"?
Soul..........................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
Sources, messianic............Source data for messianic titles
Sovereignty...................Does human culpability for non-interference in crime prove theodicy WRONG?
Sovereignty...................Did God harden Pharaoh's heart FIRST?
Sovereignty...................Is the God of the Bible morally repugnant?
Sovereignty...................Doesn't Paul's argument in Romans 9 pretty clearly indicate that people's free choices are determined by God?
Spells........................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
Spirits, evil.................Do evil spirits come from the ghosts of dead god-haters?
Spirits.......................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
Spirits.......................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
Spirits.......................Question on contacting the dead (the Witch of Endor story)
Spirits.......................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
Spiritual Oppression..........A question about 'after-effects' after being rescued by God from demonic-oriented cults
Spirituality..................dealing with intellectual pride
Stampede, Pigs................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
Starting point................Fideism and starting-points
Starting Point................Personality as the Basal Interpretive Paradigm
Statues.......................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
Stealth.......................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
Stephen.......................Stephen's mistakes in Acts 7
Stereotype....................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
Stereotypes...................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
Stewardship...................Could divorce ever be the ethical imperative?
Stone, burial.................is the tomb story flawed because the term 'rolled' is used?
Subconscious..................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
Subconscious..................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
Subjectivity..................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
Submission....................Did God command wives to OBEY their husbands?
Submission....................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
Subordinationism..............Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
Substitute....................Redemption/Ransom (NT)--pdf only
Substitute....................Redemption/Ransom (OT)
Substitute....................Christ's death on the Cross--serious, real, painful
Substitute....................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
Substitute...................."Paid in Full" -- Jesus' words on the Cross?
Substitute....................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
Substitute....................Are Muslims forbidden to believe that Jesus was crucified?
Substitution..................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
Succession....................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
Suffering Messiah.............Messianic Psalms: The Righteous Sufferer
Suffering Messiah.............Source data for messianic titles
Suffering Servant.............Source data for messianic titles
Suffering, Eternal............Isn’t infinite/eternal punishment for a finite/temporal sin a bit disproportionate???
Suffering.....................Does human culpability for non-interference in crime prove theodicy WRONG?
Suffering.....................Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
Suffering.....................What "value" is there in exceptional suffering?
Suffering.....................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
Suffering.....................Is pain in childbirth the Curse on Eve in Genesis 3?
Suffering.....................How can God allow 'natural' evil to occur?
Suffering.....................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
Suffering.....................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
Suffering.....................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
Suffering.....................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
Suffering.....................Thumb: What about innocent people who suffer, like little children? Why doesn't God help them?
Suffering.....................Implications from Suffering, for the Character of God
Suffering.....................Why does judgment lag so far behind?
Suggestibility................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
Suicide.......................How could God let Christians hurt to the point of suicide?
Sumer.........................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Sumer.........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Sumerian......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Sumerian......................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Sunni.........................How can Christians believe that there is only one God, and yet still call Jesus the Son of God?
Supernatural..................Is Christian experience make-believe?
Supernatural..................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
Suspension of Belief..........Just because I cannot think of a better explanation now, doesn't mean I have to accept your Christian one
Synagogue, art................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Synagogue.....................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Syncretism....................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
Synoptic Problem..............Evaluation of the Theory of Literary Dependence.
Synoptic Problem..............Theory of Gospel construction
Synoptic Problem..............The methodological problem of separating the 'layers' in the NT
Synoptic Problem..............How 'assured' is James' solution to the Synoptic Problem?
Synoptic Problem..............How compelling is the case for Literary Dependence among the synoptic gospels?
Synoptic Problem..............Would acceptance of James' understanding of the Two-Source Hypothesis be inimical to 'the faith'?
Synoptics.....................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Synoptics)
Tabernacle....................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Tacitus.......................Extrabiblical, Non-Christian Witnesses to Jesus before 200 A.D.
Talmud........................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
Talmud........................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
Talmud........................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
Talmud........................ Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
Talmud........................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
Talmud........................The Temple doors opening beginning around the time of the Crucifixion
Tamar.........................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
Tammuz........................Dying and Rising Gods
Tannaim.......................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
Targum........................Messianic Expectations in 1st Century Judaism, non-Christian sources
Taurobolium...................what do we know about Cybele/Attis and the taurobolium?
Taxation......................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Tax-Collectors................How would Matthew have borrowed from pagan religions?
Taxes, Roman..................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Teachers, False...............Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
Temple........................The torn-veil in the Temple/the scarlet thread
Temple........................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
Temple........................The Temple doors opening beginning around the time of the Crucifixion
Temples.......................Does the Old Testament Slander Pagan Idol Worshippers?
Temporary burial..............Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
Temporary tomb................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
Terah.........................Was Terah 70 or 130 when Abraham was born?
Terah.........................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Terrorism.....................Is Muslim hostility related to Ishmael being 'against everyone' prophecy
Testimony.....................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
Testimony.....................Evidence of the supernatural in experience
Testing.......................Testing the Lord: yes or no?
Testing.......................Is God ever intentionally silent toward His loved ones?
Textual Criticism.............“Was there a textual corruption cover-up over Daniel 8.14?
Textual Criticism.............Can the gospels (or the stories of the historical Jesus) not have been written (or invented) until 100-150 AD?
Textual Criticism.............Should the possible addition of John 8.1-11 make us paranoid about other possible inauthentic 'additions'
Thallus.......................Extrabiblical, Non-Christian Witnesses to Jesus before 200 A.D.
Thallus.......................Extrabiblical Witnesses to Jesus before 200 A.D.:Thallus
Theodicy......................Does human culpability for non-interference in crime prove theodicy WRONG?
Theodicy......................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
Theodicy......................How can God allow 'natural' evil to occur?
Theodicy......................God and evil, theodicy
Theodicy......................Where exactly in the act of predation is the theological/moral problem?
Theodicy......................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
Theodicy......................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
Theodicy......................How could God let Christians hurt to the point of suicide?
Theodicy......................Thumb: What about innocent people who suffer, like little children? Why doesn't God help them?
Theodicy......................Implications from Suffering, for the Character of God
Theodicy......................Why does judgment lag so far behind?
Theois........................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Theological method............Theological method, starting point
Theological method............Method in approaching theological questions
Theological method............Theological Method (from scripture)
Theological method............Theological Method (from scripture)
Theological method............On humanity 'inventing' God
Theological method............On humanity 'inventing' God
Theological method............What about knowledge BEYOND us?
Theological method............The 'codedness' of revelation
Theological method............Towards an Evangelical Theological Method (outline)
Theological method............Towards an Evangelical Theological Method (outline)
Theological method............Roman's and Paul's Theological Method
Theological method............Roman's and Paul's Theological Method
Theology .....................Can God make a rock so big He cannot lift it?
Theology, method..............Personal letter
Theology, natural.............Does complexity REALLY require 'more complexity'?
Theology, perfect being.......Personal letter
Theology......................What is God like? (a portrait)
Theology......................What is the Universe like? (a portrait)
Theology......................What are People like? (a portrait)
Theology......................What is a Christian?
Theology......................Did Christ die for Satan?
Theology......................What about Those Who have Never Heard the Gospel?
Theology......................Does incomplete knowledge mean God is unknowable?
Theology......................"Paid in Full" -- Jesus' words on the Cross?
Theology......................The 'codedness' of revelation
Theology......................God and evil, theodicy
Theology......................On foreknowledge
Theology......................Can you be certain you have the "right" faith?
Theology......................Did the early Church believe in Reincarnation?
Theology......................The difference between Righteousness and Holiness
Theology......................What good is God? On...the limits of "trials"
Theology......................Towards an Evangelical Theological Method (outline)
Theology......................Roman's and Paul's Theological Method
Theology......................Implications from Suffering, for the Character of God
Theology......................On the Loci of Freedom...
Therapy.......................Discussion on Deep depression, self-loathing, chronic therapy needs
Thessalonians.................Was First Thess 2.15ff seriously Anti-Semitic??!!
Theuda........................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
Theudas.......................Did the NT authors make up miracle stories about Jesus to make him look like Jewish hasidim, prophets, or messiahs?
Thiering......................The theories of Eisenman, Allegro, Thiering, and Baigent & Leigh concerning the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Thinking......................Verses urging critical thinking
Third day.....................three days and night vs. "on the 3rd day"?
Third day.....................three days and night vs. "on the 3rd day"?
Thomas, gospel of.............What about the Gospel of Thomas?
Threat........................What kind of a choice is THAT--Love Me or Burn?!
Three days....................three days and night vs. "on the 3rd day"?
Three days....................three days and night vs. "on the 3rd day"?
Tigay.........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
Time, and God.................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
Time..........................On foreknowledge
Timekeeping, Ancient..........Timekeeping in the Ancient world
Tobit.........................Did the evangelists mean their writings to be taken as historical fiction or as a historical novel?
Tomb..........................is the tomb story flawed because the term 'rolled' is used?
Tomb..........................Was the burial of Jesus a temporary one, because of time constraints?
Torah.........................Does the NT contradict the Hebrew Bible about the Law being 'annulled'?
Tradition.....................Evidence of early writing by the apostles (probably even during Jesus' life)
Tradition.....................The "tradition control" methods as the church expanded
Tradition.....................The impetus to write it down, due to being outside 'mainstream' Judaism (e.g. Qumran)
Tradition.....................The issue of oral tradition, control, and fixity
Tradition.....................Papias and his preference for oral tradition
Tradition.....................Again: the process wasn't solely oral...
Tradition.....................The slow, oral, hodge-podge accumulation of bits and pieces of the NT into a whole?
Tradition.....................Really long periods of 'oral only' transmission of the sayings of Jesus, from the times of Jesus?
Tradition.....................Was the early oral tradition ONLY made up of 'sayings' of Jesus?
Tradition.....................Was this alleged oral tradition transmitted without 'controls' andquite loosely?
Trajectory....................On how misleading 'trajectory' can be
Transfiguration...............Was Jesus mistaken about this 2nd Coming?
Translation...................Bible Translation
Trauma........................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
Treachery.....................How can I hold up under deep treachery in my work and social situation?
Treaty........................Treaty form of the 14th/13th Centuries B.C.
Trial of bitter waters........Women: trial of the bitter waters (Sotah)
Trials........................What good is God? On...the limits of "trials"
Tribute.......................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
Trickery......................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
Trinity, God..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Is Jesus God? If so, how can man kill God?
Trinity, God..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: Was Jesus a good prophet? If he was a prophet why do you call him God?
Trinity, God..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
Trinity, God..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Trinity, objections...........The deity of Jesus:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to Jesus
Trinity, objections...........The NT Witness:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to The Holy Spirit
Trinity.......................Jewish problem of plurality in God
Trinity.......................Non-Christian Jewry had their OWN "problem" of 'plurality in the Godhead' and/or with a supra-human messiah?
Trinity.......................Method in approaching theological questions
Trinity.......................How can Christians believe that there is only one God, and yet still call Jesus the Son of God?
Trinity.......................Are there 3 gods in the Trinity?
Trinity.......................Was God so needy that He HAD to create the unverse?
Trinity.......................Illustrations of the Trinity?
Trinity.......................Does the submission of Jesus to the Father contradict the Trinity?
Trinity.......................The Trinity: Intro and Method
Trinity.......................Old Testament passages relevant to the Trinity
Trinity.......................The NT Witness:The Ancient Church Formulas in the NT
Trinity.......................NT Passages mutually involving the Father, Son, and Spirit (Raw Data)
Trinity.......................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Synoptics)
Trinity.......................The deity of Jesus:The Self-Understanding of Jesus (Gospel of John)
Trinity.......................The deity of Jesus:NT Responses to Jesus
Trinity.......................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus
Trinity.......................The deity of Jesus:Literary Responses to Jesus (con't)
Trinity.......................The deity of Jesus:Other data relative to the deity of Jesus
Trinity.......................The deity of Jesus:Summary: The deity of Jesus Christ
Trinity.......................The deity of Jesus:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to Jesus
Trinity.......................The NT Witness:The Personality of The Holy Spirit
Trinity.......................The NT Witness:The Deity of The Holy Spirit
Trinity.......................The NT Witness:Pushbacks: Problems in the NT Witness to The Holy Spirit
Trinity.......................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
Trinity.......................Thumb: OT data on Trinity/Plurality (overview)
Trinity.......................Is it okay to offer prayer and worship to Jesus, and not just to the Father?
Triumphal Entry...............Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
Trust, in persons.............Faith--the interpersonal dimension
Trust, personal elements......Can you be certain you have the "right" faith?
Trust.........................How Should we respond to the Message of Jesus and His apostles about His death on the Cross?
Trust.........................Can you be certain you have the "right" faith?
Trust.........................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
Truth, hating.................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
Truth, rejection..............Questions on God, lying, and deception...
Truth.........................Interacting with the "possibly revelatory" data: Encounter, Response, Results
Truth.........................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
Truth.........................Verses urging critical thinking
Truth.........................Did the gospel authors write the gospels AS myth?
Truth.........................Would the evangelists write the gospels as NEW myth, since no one took myth seriously anyway back then?
Truth.........................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
Truth.........................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
Truth.........................Did the gospel authors invent the miracle stories about Jesus?
Truth.........................Did I just switch from a correspondence theory of truth to a coherence theory of truth?
Truth.........................Is Christian experience make-believe?
Truth.........................Thumb:As long as each person is genuinely sincere, what difference does it make what they believe?
TULIP.........................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
Two...........................Did Matthew simply Double the people in his miracle stories?
Two-source hypothesis.........Evaluation of the Theory of Literary Dependence.
Two-source hypothesis.........Theory of Gospel construction
Two-source hypothesis.........How compelling is the case for Literary Dependence among the synoptic gospels?
Two-source hypothesis.........Would acceptance of James' understanding of the Two-Source Hypothesis be inimical to 'the faith'?
Typhon........................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
Typology......................On apologetic value of typological "prophecy"
Typology......................Typology and prophecy
Typology......................Typology--a legitimate approach to OT passages?
Tyre..........................Mark's Geographical Ignorance—Gadara versus Gerasa, and the problem of the Long Trip Home from Sidon
Tyre..........................Various questions on the use of evidence in apologetics
UFO...........................Theological impact of Aliens from space
Ugarit........................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Ugarit........................Sacrifice in Early Cultures, Israel's neighbors
Ugarit........................Does God really get hungry and have to eat food?
Unclean.......................Why didn't Peter eat on the roof?
Unconditional.................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
Unconscious...................Did unconscious influences make the gospel writers insert the miraculous elements into the Gospels?
Unconscious...................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
Union.........................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
Unity.........................Urban expansion of the early Church
Universalism..................Reconciliation (class syllabus)
Universalism..................Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
Universalism..................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Unpardonable Sin..............Isn't Jesus admitting that the Unpardonable sin could be committed today
Unpardonable Sin..............I am afraid my Occult background has led me into the Unpardonable sin
Unpardonable Sin.............."I am terrified that I have committed the unpardonable sin..."
Unpardonable Sin..............Fear over "Willful Sins"
Ur............................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Urban.........................Urban expansion of the early Church
Uzzah.........................Death of the man who touched the Ark
Values, re-scaling............Letter (started Feb 24/2013)
Vegetarian....................Why are we carnivores, eating life?
Veil..........................The torn-veil in the Temple/the scarlet thread
Vengeance.....................OT passages on what God avenges
Vengeance.....................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
Vengeful......................OT passages on what God avenges
Vengeful......................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
Verification..................Verses urging critical thinking
Verification..................Relationship between the Flood and Chinese Characters
Verification..................Did the Roman empire totally distort the New Testament documents?
Verification..................The accuracy of the account of the trial of Jesus before Pilate
Verification..................The widespread availability of NT mss. during the birth of the church
Verification..................The Gospels are under the same Thuycididean standards and conventions of the Hellenistic world
Verification..................They are probably even at a higher level of fidelity to historical reporting
Verification..................KNOWN textual errors in the Bible--don't they destroy "inerrancy"?
Vindictive....................OT passages on what God avenges
Vindictive....................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
Violence......................Does human culpability for non-interference in crime prove theodicy WRONG?
Violence......................Could divorce ever be the ethical imperative?
Violence......................is theBible "as violent" as the Quran/Hadith?
Violence......................shouldn't the butchering of the Amalekite children be considered war crimes?
Virgin birth..................Did they copy the Virgin Birth from pagan stories?
Virgin birth..................Does Mary's Question Contradict other passages in the NT?
Virgin birth..................A question on my work on Isaiah 7.14
Virginity.....................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
Visions.......................Why isn't the God of the Bible showing Himself to me?
Volume of Temple Sea..........Two contradictions in OT numbers: volume of Sea and number of chariots
Voluntary.....................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
War Crimes....................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
War crimes....................shouldn't the butchering of the Amalekite children be considered war crimes?
War, ambush...................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
War, stealth..................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
War...........................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
War...........................is the Bible "as violent" as the Quran/Hadith?
Warfare, foreign..............Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Warfare, Israel...............Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Warfare, laws.................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Warfare.......................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
Warfare.......................Why was Israel instructed about fighting OUTSIDE the land? That looks more offensive than defensive!
Weeks.........................A "punctuation" error in Daniel 9?
Welfare.......................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
Welfare.......................Urban expansion of the early Church
Wellhausen....................the Documentary Hypothesis
Wellhausen....................Good questions on JEDP
Wellhausen....................Was the Pentateuch "adulterated" by later additions?
Wellhausen....................The Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch?
Wife..........................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
Will, free....................Is history all "of one piece"? And Is everyone given a fair chance at heaven?
Will, free....................Does God's judgment in time unfairly compromise someone's 'free will'?
Will, free....................Doesn't Paul's argument in Romans 9 pretty clearly indicate that people's free choices are determined by God?
Will, sin.....................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus was a God why was this import for him to give his life? Because he could show the right path to the mankind without giving his life.
Will, sin.....................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
Willful Sin...................Fear over "Willful Sins"
Wine..........................Is Drinking alcohol a sin?
Wisdom lit....................OT did not borrow beliefs from pagans
Witch.........................Question on contacting the dead (the Witch of Endor story)
Wives.........................Did God command wives to OBEY their husbands?
Women, access to God..........Weren't women always kept separate from the men--They weren't even allowed in the Temples or synagogues.
Women, access to God..........Paul OBVIOUSLY had a "sit down and shut up" attitude toward women--and we are supposed to trust HIM?!"
Women, access to God..........The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
Women, access to God..........The bible teaches that women had NO access to God--except through the male..."
Women, access to God..........None of the disciples or apostles were women--a bit unfair, aint it?!"
Women, access to God..........God is ALWAYS portrayed as a male--women had no way of identifying with Him"
Women, access to God..........But, women were excluded from being priests..."
Women, access to God..........Women are always pictured as being servile or passive or evil or stupid..."
Women, access to power........The patriarchy system (God condoned) subjected women by restricting their access to social/cultural power."
Women, access to power........All the books of the bible were written by men--see, God de-values women again"
Women, and government.........Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
Women, and headship...........Paul and Women: Controversial passages: 1 Cor 11
Women, and Jesus..............Why was Jesus so mean and insulting to the Canaanite woman?
Women, and patriarchy.........A HUGE double standard in biblical sexual ethics?
Women, and patriarchy.........Wasn't Miriam punished for questioning male authority, while Aaron was not?"
Women, and patriarchy.........Doesn't the bible teach that God cursed women by making them subject/subordinate to men?"
Women, and patriarchy.........The VAST MAJORITY of Israelite/Church leadership is by MEN--see, God de-values women again"
Women, and patriarchy.........Why do men get all the glory in the bible? Why are women only minor characters?!"
Women, and patriarchy.........Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
Women, and patriarchy.........The patriarchy system (God condoned) subjected women by restricting their access to social/cultural power."
Women, and Paul...............Paul and Women: Controversial passages: 1 Tim 2
Women, and Paul...............Paul and Women: Controversial passages
Women, and silence............Paul and Women: Controversial passages: 1 Cor 14
Women, and teaching...........Paul and Women: Controversial passages: 1 Tim 2
Women, and the Curse..........Doesn't the bible teach that God cursed women by making them subject/subordinate to men?"
Women, church govt............Women's Roles in the Early Church
Women, church govt............Paul and Women
Women, deacons................Is it mistaken to understand Pliny's reference to the Christian women as meaning 'deaconesses'?
Women, leaders................The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
Women, leaders................The VAST MAJORITY of Israelite/Church leadership is by MEN--see, God de-values women again"
Women, leaders................Why do men get all the glory in the bible? Why are women only minor characters?!"
Women, leaders................God is ALWAYS portrayed as a male--women had no way of identifying with Him"
Women, leaders................Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
Women, leaders................But, women were excluded from being priests..."
Women, leaders................Women are always pictured as being servile or passive or evil or stupid..."
Women, legal status...........Women were non-persons back then--they had NO legal rights in the system at all!"
Women, legal status...........Weren't OT women WORSE off than even their Babylonian counterparts?"
Women, non-persons............Women were non-persons back then--they had NO legal rights in the system at all!"
Women, non-persons............Weren't OT women WORSE off than even their Babylonian counterparts?"
Women, objections.............Did God choosing to be incarnated as a male implicitly communicate a devaluation of females?
Women, objections.............A HUGE double standard in biblical sexual ethics?
Women, objections.............Weren't women always kept separate from the men--They weren't even allowed in the Temples or synagogues.
Women, objections.............Paul OBVIOUSLY had a "sit down and shut up" attitude toward women--and we are supposed to trust HIM?!"
Women, objections.............Wasn't Miriam punished for questioning male authority, while Aaron was not?"
Women, objections.............The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
Women, objections.............Weren't women considered property in the OT, like cows or something?
Women, objections.............Doesn't the bible teach that God cursed women by making them subject/subordinate to men?"
Women, objections.............The VAST MAJORITY of Israelite/Church leadership is by MEN--see, God de-values women again"
Women, objections.............God's choice to be incarnated as a man IMPLICITLY de-values women
Women, objections.............The bible teaches that women had NO access to God--except through the male..."
Women, objections.............None of the disciples or apostles were women--a bit unfair, aint it?!"
Women, objections.............Why do men get all the glory in the bible? Why are women only minor characters?!"
Women, objections.............God is ALWAYS portrayed as a male--women had no way of identifying with Him"
Women, objections.............Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
Women, objections.............Women were non-persons back then--they had NO legal rights in the system at all!"
Women, objections.............The patriarchy system (God condoned) subjected women by restricting their access to social/cultural power."
Women, objections.............But, women were excluded from being priests..."
Women, objections.............All the books of the bible were written by men--see, God de-values women again"
Women, objections.............Women are always pictured as being servile or passive or evil or stupid..."
Women, objections.............Weren't OT women WORSE off than even their Babylonian counterparts?"
Women, polygamy...............Does the NT sanction polygamy?
Women, polygamy...............One wife or First wife?
Women, property...............Weren't women considered property in the OT, like cows or something?
Women, religious status.......Weren't women always kept separate from the men--They weren't even allowed in the Temples or synagogues.
Women, religious status.......Paul OBVIOUSLY had a "sit down and shut up" attitude toward women--and we are supposed to trust HIM?!"
Women, religious status.......The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
Women, religious status.......The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
Women, religious status.......The bible teaches that women had NO access to God--except through the male..."
Women, religious status.......None of the disciples or apostles were women--a bit unfair, aint it?!"
Women, religious status.......God is ALWAYS portrayed as a male--women had no way of identifying with Him"
Women, religious status.......But, women were excluded from being priests..."
Women, religious status.......Women are always pictured as being servile or passive or evil or stupid..."
Women, subjection.............Wasn't Miriam punished for questioning male authority, while Aaron was not?"
Women, subjection.............Doesn't the bible teach that God cursed women by making them subject/subordinate to men?"
Women.........................Women: Historical Data From the Pre-Monarchy Literature
Women.........................Women Literary Data From the Pre-Monarchy Literature
Women.........................Women: literary data From the Pre-Monarchy Literature
Women.........................Women: historical Data From the Monarchy Literature
Women.........................Women: literary Data From the Monarchy Literature
Women.........................Women: 'portrayal' Data (Wisdom lit) From the Monarchy Literature
Women.........................Women: historical Data From the Divided Monarchy Literature
Women.........................Women: prophetic Data From the Divided Monarchy Literature
Women.........................Women: Data From the Exilic and Post-Exilic Community
Women.........................Women: Data From the Life and Ministry of Jesus
Women.........................Women: Data From the Historical Literature of the Apostolic Circle
Women.........................Women's Roles in the Early Church
Women.........................Paul and Women: Controversial passages: 1 Cor 11
Women.........................Paul and Women: Controversial passages: 1 Cor 14
Women.........................Paul and Women: Controversial passages: 1 Tim 2
Women.........................Paul and Women: Controversial passages
Women.........................Paul and Women
Women.........................Women in the heart of God (outline)
Women.........................Women: Pushbacks, Objections, Stereotypes
Women.........................Did God callously give David's wives to Absalom to rape?
Women.........................Women: trial of the bitter waters (Sotah)
Women.........................Did God make women's bodies SPECIFICALLY to give them pain?
Women.........................Is pain in childbirth the Curse on Eve in Genesis 3?
Women.........................Did God choosing to be incarnated as a male implicitly communicate a devaluation of females?
Women.........................Did God command wives to OBEY their husbands?
Women.........................Does the NT sanction polygamy?
Women.........................One wife or First wife?
Women.........................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
Women.........................A HUGE double standard in biblical sexual ethics?
Women.........................Weren't women always kept separate from the men--They weren't even allowed in the Temples or synagogues.
Women.........................Paul OBVIOUSLY had a "sit down and shut up" attitude toward women--and we are supposed to trust HIM?!"
Women.........................Wasn't Miriam punished for questioning male authority, while Aaron was not?"
Women.........................The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
Women.........................Weren't women considered property in the OT, like cows or something?
Women.........................Doesn't the bible teach that God cursed women by making them subject/subordinate to men?"
Women.........................The VAST MAJORITY of Israelite/Church leadership is by MEN--see, God de-values women again"
Women.........................God's choice to be incarnated as a man IMPLICITLY de-values women
Women.........................The bible teaches that women had NO access to God--except through the male..."
Women.........................None of the disciples or apostles were women--a bit unfair, aint it?!"
Women.........................Why do men get all the glory in the bible? Why are women only minor characters?!"
Women.........................God is ALWAYS portrayed as a male--women had no way of identifying with Him"
Women.........................Sure, women could be prophets, but they couldn't participate in government."
Women.........................Women were non-persons back then--they had NO legal rights in the system at all!"
Women.........................The patriarchy system (God condoned) subjected women by restricting their access to social/cultural power."
Women.........................But, women were excluded from being priests..."
Women.........................All the books of the bible were written by men--see, God de-values women again"
Women.........................Women are always pictured as being servile or passive or evil or stupid..."
Women.........................Weren't OT women WORSE off than even their Babylonian counterparts?"
Works.........................Are all the past great non-Christian religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell right now?
World Religions...............What about Those Who have Never Heard the Gospel?
World Religions...............How many people claim to be Christians?
World Religions...............How I would decide between conflicting revelations
World-week, apocalyptic.......Does a belief in a ‘world-week’ of 6,000 years imply a denial of apocalyptic imminence?
World-Week, imminence.........Does a belief in a ‘world-week’ of 6,000 years imply a denial of apocalyptic imminence?
World-Week....................Does a belief in a ‘world-week’ of 6,000 years imply a denial of apocalyptic imminence?
Wrath.........................OT passages on what God avenges
Wrath.........................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
Wrath.........................Why did Jesus allow Himself to be shamefully mistreated and executed—since He did not have to?
Writing.......................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
Writing.......................Personal letter
Xtians........................Is God harsh, unlovable, unloving, duplicious?--a discussion with Ralph
Yahweh........................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
Yahweh........................When was the name "Yahweh" revealed?
Yamm..........................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
YHWH, Angel of................Is there no "THE" in "THE Angel of the Lord"?
YHWH, bible...................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
YHWH, evil....................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
YHWH, not Father..............Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
YHWH..........................Was YHWH just a pagan solar deity IAO?
YHWH..........................Was Yahweh a member of the Phoenician pantheon?
YHWH..........................When was the name "Yahweh" revealed?
YHWH..........................Does the bible -- Jesus himself -- really teach/reveal that YHWH was actually SATAN??
Zechariah.....................Did the gospels make an error in their citation of the Judas-30pieces episode?
Zechariah.....................Was Jesus mistaken about Zechariah?
Zedekiah, birth error.........Is the dating of Zedekiah a contradiction with the birth-order in 1 Chronicles?
Zedekiah, error...............Is the dating of Zedekiah a contradiction with the birth-order in 1 Chronicles?
Zedekiah......................Is the dating of Zedekiah a contradiction with the birth-order in 1 Chronicles?
Zionist.......................Is Muslim hostility related to Ishmael being 'against everyone' prophecy

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