Levite, thank you for your comments, I appreciate them. There seems to be much more going on within these stories than the stories themselves. I view these books as literary works of art and not to be taken too literally if at all.
According to Hitler the Jews killed his God. A great deal of anti Jewish sentiment existed for centuries in Europe, so Hitler was actually appealing to existing deep rooted prejudices of the people of his time. If you go back far enough, the holocaust is gospel based, unfortunately. According to...
Some of those quotes are of a dubious origin.
I call it narrow in definition in that if he was a pantheist it was in terms of being restricted to that one narrow definition as opposed to the wider range of definitions attributed to pantheism.
The following is from a well documented letter...
Of course there are some descendants of a so called lost tribe today, but they live as Hindus, Christians, atheists, Muslims, and so on. People are people regardless, and if you go back far enough, we all came out of Africa.
Levite, it is my understanding that certain numbers in the Jewish tradition are special, they come with meanings of their own. For example, the number twelve was relevant to Jews and taken into consideration when the first gospel writer recorded there being twelve disciples of Christ, this may...
Not convinced?
Luke5 The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. 6 And he said to him, “I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. 7 If you worship me, it will all...
Matthew 4:8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9 “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”
Yup, the world is flat.
Let's see, Paul states that his visits were 14 years apart, that would have him in Jerusalem meeting with Peter, James, and John in 30CE. Again, I'm not an apologist so I don't see that as questionable.
Irenaeus declared that the four [gospels] he espoused were the four "Pillars of the Church": "it is not possible that there can be either more or fewer than four" he stated, presenting as logic the analogy of the four corners of the earth and the four winds (3.11.8). His image, taken from...