A couple of days ago I chanced upon a video of a lecture (in Hebrew) by an Israeli historian named Yigal Bin-Nun. The lecture was about the start of Christianity as an organized religion (post-Jesus). I didn't watch everything, but at some point he opined that Paul was not actually born Jewish...
I was talking with someone this morning in a restaurant about the life of the early believers chronicled in the book of Acts. Everyone gave up all their possessions, lived in houses together, and they distributed all their goods to meet the needs of their friends. They were saying this was a...
An interesting conversation came up on another forum, and I thought I would start a new thread here to explore it further.
I am personally fascinated by some of the commonalities between early Christianity, particularly Gnosticism and the Greek/Roman Mystery religions. I've read some...