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Roderick Edwards book "About Preterism" 👇👇👇 https://www.amazon.com/About-Preteris...
Honest and direct presentation of the theological view and movement called Preterism. Preterism advocates that the end times occurred in the year AD70. Often called by different titles such as Covenant Eschatology, Full Preterism, or Hyper-Preterism; this view is unpacked for the reader not only to see but understand its adoption and effects.
Preterism, a Christian eschatological view, interprets some (partial preterism) or all (full preterism) prophecies of the Bible as events which have already happened. This school of thought interprets the Book of Daniel as referring to events that happened from the 7th century BC until the first century AD, while seeing the prophecies of the Book of Revelation as events that happened in the first century AD. Preterism holds that Ancient Israel finds its continuation or fulfillment in the Christian church at the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.
The term preterism comes from the Latin praeter, which is a prefix denoting that something is "past" or "beyond". Adherents of preterism are known as preterists. Preterism teaches that either all (full preterism) or a majority (partial preterism) of the Olivet discourse had come to pass by AD 70.
Historically, preterists and non-preterists have generally agreed that the Jesuit Luis de Alcasar (1554–1613) wrote the first systematic preterist exposition of prophecy Vestigatio arcani sensus in Apocalypsi (published in 1614) during the Counter-Reformation.
Dating of The Dead Sea Scrolls || Dr. Robert M. Price
The Best Book on the Origins of New Testament Gnosticism According to Dr. Robert M. Price
Norse mythology is the body of myths of the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the Scandinavian folklore of the modern period. The northernmost extension of Germanic mythology, Norse mythology consists of tales of various deities, beings, and heroes derived from numerous sources from both before and after the pagan period, including medieval manuscripts, archaeological representations, and folk tradition.
The source texts mention numerous gods, such as the hammer-wielding, humanity-protecting thunder-god Thor, who relentlessly fights his foes; the one-eyed, raven-flanked god Odin, who craftily pursues knowledge throughout the worlds and bestowed among humanity the runic alphabet; the beautiful, seiðr-working, feathered cloak-clad goddess Freyja who rides to battle to choose among the slain; the vengeful, skiing goddess Skaði, who prefers the wolf howls of the winter mountains to the seashore; the powerful god Njörðr, who may calm both sea and fire and grant wealth and land; the god Freyr, whose weather and farming associations bring peace and pleasure to humanity; the goddess Iðunn, who keeps apples that grant eternal youthfulness; the mysterious god Heimdallr, who is born of nine mothers, can hear grass grow, has gold teeth, and possesses a resounding horn; the jötunn Loki, who brings tragedy to the gods by engineering the death of the goddess Frigg's beautiful son Baldr; and numerous other deities.
Most of the surviving mythology centres on the plights of the gods and their interaction with several other beings, such as humanity and the jötnar, beings who may be friends, lovers, foes or family members of the gods. The cosmos in Norse mythology consists of Nine Worlds that flank a central sacred tree, Yggdrasil. Units of time and elements of the cosmology are personified as deities or beings. Various forms of a creation myth are recounted, where the world is created from the flesh of the primordial being Ymir, and the first two humans are Ask and Embla. These worlds are foretold to be reborn after the events of Ragnarök when an immense battle occurs between the gods and their enemies, and the world is enveloped in flames, only to be reborn anew. There the surviving gods will meet, and the land will be fertile and green, and two humans will repopulate the world.
Norse mythology has been the subject of scholarly discourse since the 17th century, when key texts attracted the attention of the intellectual circles of Europe. By way of comparative mythology and historical linguistics, scholars have identified elements of Germanic mythology reaching as far back as Proto-Indo-European mythology. During the modern period, the Romanticist Viking revival re-awoke an interest in the subject matter, and references to Norse mythology may now be found throughout modern popular culture. The myths have further been revived in a religious context among adherents of Germanic Neopaganism.
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What If The NT began with Caligula rather than Paul? Dr. Robert M. Price
The Hebrew word נָחָשׁ (Nachash) is used to identify the serpent that appears in Genesis 3:1, in the Garden of Eden. In Genesis, the serpent is portrayed as a deceptive creature or trickster, who promotes as good what God had forbidden and shows particular cunning in its deception. (cf. Gen. 3:4–5 and 3:22) The serpent has the ability to speak and to reason: "Now the serpent was more subtle (also translated as "cunning") than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made" (Gen. 3:1). There is no indication in the Book of Genesis that the serpent was a deity in its own right, although it is one of only two cases of animals that talk in the Pentateuch (Balaam's donkey being the other).
Elaine Pagels, is an American religious historian. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Pagels has conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosticism.
Her best-selling book The Gnostic Gospels (1979) examines the divisions in the early Christian church, and the way that women have been viewed throughout Jewish history and Christian history. Modern Library named it as one of the 100 best books of the twentieth century.
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What If The Testimonium Flavianum Wasn't Interpolated? Samuel Zinner (Josephus on Jesus)
James D.G. Dunn wrote against Dr. Robert M. Price
The sacrifice of an immortal being | Dr. Robert M. Price
Jason Foux says, "I have three passions in life; exploring, learning, and creating. This podcast is a sort of exercise in all three.
The study of religion in general, and reading the bible in particular, destroyed not only my Catholic faith but also my belief in any kind of divine creator. But the hole that religion left behind was soon filled with a burning curiosity to discover the origins of Judeo Christian mythology.
“And you’re listening to…” This project began as an attempt to answer one question: Where did these stories come from?
But digging for that answer uncovered many more questions and the more I learned the more questions arose. So one question became many and the answers, or at least the closest thing scholars have to answers, are collated in these episodes."
Here’s all of Jason Faux’s links
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Dr. Carrier GOFUNDME for the Resurrection Debate gf.me/u/yribym
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Egyptian connections to the Bible? Kevin Maxwell asks Dr. Robert M. Price
Keith Hunter is a long time researcher into various esoteric topics, including the placement and function of megalithic monuments, the secret physics underlying nuclear weapons, planetary alignments and earthquakes, and ancient calendar systems used to target the transition points separating world age cycles. A major focus of his work is decoding mythological and allegorical tales from various sacred writings, revealing their underlying historical-scientific-spiritual solutions.
This current presentation will detail the physics underlying sudden global upheaval, which periodically occurs when certain special planetary alignments are achieved.
In this instance, precise solutions are provided as to the date of The Exodus event in the Bible, including also the Amos Earthquake prophecy, The destruction of the army of Sennacherib (Book of Isaiah), and Crucifixion day. All of these events were known to the ancients and forecast with precision in advance using special calendar cycles. As detailed in the following presentation.
Keith Hunter’s website: https://www.occultphysics.com/
occult #planetaryalignments MythVision Discord : https://discord.gg/dRQXdZBq6E
Hebrews 9:15-21 The Physical Seed of Abraham Only! All People or Only Israel? Dr. Robert M. Price
This is a 6 part series where Dr. Lundwall will allow you to gain insights into the ancient peoples world. You will discover an interesting perception from this great series!
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Would Dr Robert M. Price do a show with Rabbi Tovia Singer?
Goy: Israel's Others and the Birth of the Gentile traces the development of the term and category of the goy from the Bible to rabbinic literature. Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi show that the category of the goy was born much later than scholars assume; in fact not before the first century CE. They explain that the abstract concept of the gentile first appeared in Paul's Letters. However, it was only in rabbinic literature that this category became the center of a stable and long standing structure that involved God, the Halakha, history, and salvation. The authors narrate this development through chronological analyses of the various biblical and post biblical texts (including the Dead Sea scrolls, the New Testament and early patristics, the Mishnah, and rabbinic Midrash) and synchronic analyses of several discursive structures. Looking at some of the goy's instantiations in contemporary Jewish culture in Israel and the United States, the study concludes with an examination of the extraordinary resilience of the Jew/goy division and asks how would Judaism look like without the gentile as its binary contrast.
If you're trying to understand the development of Goy/gentiles throughout the historical timeline of biblical literature, you really need to check out this book. It shows you how detailed the ideas are between authors even within the canon of scripture.
For thousands of years, thinkers and scientists have tried to understand what the brain does. Yet, despite the astonishing discoveries of science, we still have only the vaguest idea of how the brain works. In The Idea of the Brain, scientist and historian Matthew Cobb traces how our conception of the brain has evolved over the centuries. Although it might seem to be a story of ever-increasing knowledge of biology, Cobb shows how our ideas about the brain have been shaped by each era's most significant technologies. Today we might think the brain is like a supercomputer. In the past, it has been compared to a telegraph, a telephone exchange, or some kind of hydraulic system. What will we think the brain is like tomorrow, when new technology arises? The result is an essential read for anyone interested in the complex processes that drive science and the forces that have shaped our marvelous brains.
Biblical studies is the academic application of a set of diverse disciplines to the study of the Bible (the Tanakh and the New Testament). For its theory and methods, the field draws on disciplines ranging from archaeology, ancient history, cultural anthropology, textual criticism, literary criticism, historical backgrounds, mythology, and comparative religion.
Many secular as well as religious universities and colleges offer courses in biblical studies, usually in departments of religious studies, theology, Judaic studies, history, or comparative literature. Biblical scholars do not necessarily have a faith commitment to the texts they study, but many do.
The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies defines the field as a set of various, and in some cases independent disciplines for the study of the collection of ancient texts generally known as the Bible. These disciplines include but are not limited to archaeology, hermeneutics, textual criticism, cultural anthropology, history, sociology and theology, patristics and related thomistic philosophy.
Visit MythVision Website: https://mythvisionpodcast.com/ Black Hebrew Israelites (also called Hebrew Israelites, Black Hebrews, Black Israelites, and African Hebrew Israelites) are groups of African Americans who believe that they are the descendants of the ancient Israelites. To varying degrees, Black Hebrew Israelites incorporate certain aspects of the religious beliefs and practices of both Christianity and Judaism, though they have created their own interpretation of the Bible.[1] Many choose to identify as Hebrew Israelites or Black Hebrews rather than Jews in order to indicate their claimed historic connections
Why did Paul persecute if Acts has the Rabbi say not to persecute the Christians Dr. Robert M. Price
The Nazareth Inscription: How Claudius Connects To Christianity - Dr. Luther G. Williams
Dr. Robert M. Price || Does Messianic Thought Support Historicity over Mythicism
Gentiles (Non-Jews) Weren't Part of The Original Christian Movement? Dr. Robert M. Price
Simon Bar Kokhba: Simon ben Kosevah, or Cosibah, known to posterity as Bar Kokhba (Hebrew: שמעון בן כוסבה; died 135 CE), was a Jewish military leader who led the Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman Empire in 132 CE. The revolt established a three-year-long independent Jewish state[dubious – discuss] in which Bar Kokhba ruled as nasi ("prince").[citation needed] Some of the rabbinic scholars in his time imagined him to be the long-expected Messiah. Bar Kokhba fell in the fortified town of Betar. Documented name Documents discovered in the 20th century in the Cave of Letters give his original name, with variations: Simeon bar Kosevah (שמעון בר כוסבה), Bar Koseva (בר כוסבא) or Ben Koseva (בן כוסבא). It is probable that his original name was Bar Koseva. The name may indicate that his father or his place of origin was named Koseva(h), but might as well be a general family name.
Nicknames During the revolt, the Jewish sage Rabbi Akiva regarded Simon as the Jewish messiah, and gave him the surname "Bar Kokhba" meaning "Son of the Star" in Aramaic, from the Star Prophecy verse from Numbers 24:17: "There shall come a star out of Jacob". The name Bar Kokhba does not appear in the Talmud but in ecclesiastical sources. The Jerusalem Talmud (Taanit 4:5) mentions him by the name of Bar Koziva. Rabbinical writers subsequent to Rabbi Akiva did not share Rabbi Akiva's estimation of ben Kosiva. Akiva's disciple, Jose ben Halaphta, in the Seder Olam Rabbah (chapter 30) called him "bar Koziba" (בר כוזיבא), meaning, "son of the lie". The judgment of Bar Koseba that is implied by this change of name was carried on by later rabbinic scholarship at least to the time of the codification of the Talmud, where the name is always rendered "Simon bar Koziba" (בר כוזיבא) or Bar Kozevah.
Adam, Abraham & Jesus put into a deep sleep? Dr. Robert M. Price
Are Dr. Robert M. Prices Historicist Arguments Better Than His Mythicist Ones?
We are all gods! Dr. Robert M. Price
Jason Foux says, "I have three passions in life; exploring, learning, and creating. This podcast is a sort of exercise in all three.
The study of religion in general, and reading the bible in particular, destroyed not only my Catholic faith but also my belief in any kind of divine creator. But the hole that religion left behind was soon filled with a burning curiosity to discover the origins of Judeo Christian mythology.
“And you’re listening to…” This project began as an attempt to answer one question: Where did these stories come from?
But digging for that answer uncovered many more questions and the more I learned the more questions arose. So one question became many and the answers, or at least the closest thing scholars have to answers, are collated in these episodes."
Here’s all of Jason Faux’s links
Facebook: facebook.com/dragonsingenesis Website: dragonsingenesis.com YouTube: youtube.com/dragonsingenesispodcast Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/dragonsingenesis
dragonsingenesis #Mythvision #JasonFoux MythVision Discord : https://discord.gg/dRQXdZBq6E
Dr. Robert M. Price Horrors & Heresies
Paul's Christ & Philo's Logos with Dr. Robert M. Price & Derreck Bennett
Jesus was the creator of the universe and older brother of James? Dr. Robert M. Price
Dying & Rising gods || Historicist claim Ideal Types Fail! Dr. Robert M. Price proves otherwise
I Need Your Help! For Dr. Robert M. Price
With What Body did Jesus rise from the dead? Dr. Robert M. Price & Derreck Bennett
Jason Foux says, "I have three passions in life; exploring, learning, and creating. This podcast is a sort of exercise in all three.
The study of religion in general, and reading the bible in particular, destroyed not only my Catholic faith but also my belief in any kind of divine creator. But the hole that religion left behind was soon filled with a burning curiosity to discover the origins of Judeo Christian mythology.
“And you’re listening to…” This project began as an attempt to answer one question: Where did these stories come from?
But digging for that answer uncovered many more questions and the more I learned the more questions arose. So one question became many and the answers, or at least the closest thing scholars have to answers, are collated in these episodes."
Here’s all of Jason Faux’s links
Facebook: facebook.com/dragonsingenesis Website: dragonsingenesis.com YouTube: youtube.com/dragonsingenesispodcast Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/dragonsingenesis
dragonsingenesis #Mythvision #JasonFoux MythVision Discord : https://discord.gg/dRQXdZBq6E
Russell had held the doctrine of the past second Advent (Preterism) for many years before writing or even speaking on the subject. He used to describe how the matter came to him as a sort of revelation. On discovering the key to the mystery, the whole theme gradually unfolded. It was to him a source of constant delight to see one point after another fall into harmony with what he believed to be the central truth. Accordingly, in 1878, he published anonymously his now celebrated, The Parousia, containing an elaborate exegesis on these lines of New Testament teaching concerning the second coming of Jesus Christ. Another edition followed with the author's name attached.
This work drew much attention to the subject on both sides of the Atlantic. The University of Aberdeen soon signalled its appreciation of the book by conferring on the author a diploma in divinity, which he valued all the more highly because it came from his alma mater.
Criteria of Embarrassment To Support The New Testament? Dr. Robert M. Price
The blood of Abel cries out! Dr. Robert M. Price
The Church of Jesus Christ:
Organizations Ecclesia (ancient Athens) or Ekklēsia, the principal assembly of ancient Athens during its Golden Age The Greek and Latin term for the Christian Church as a whole Ekklesia (think tank), a British think tank examining the role of religion in public life Ecclesia College, a four-year Christian work college in Springdale, Arkansas Ekklesia Project, an ecumenical Christian network to promote a more active and God-centered faith Qahal or Ekklesia, a theocratic organisational structure in ancient Israelite society Religion Ecclesia Dei, a statement or motu proprio issued by Pope John Paul II in 1988 Ecclesiae Regimen, a reformation declaration against the Church in England of the Late Middle Ages Ecclesia and Synagoga, a pair of figures personifying the Roman Catholic Church and the Jewish synagogue found in medieval Christian art Church militant and church triumphant (ecclesia militans, ecclesia triumphans), Christians who are living on earth and those who are in heaven Mater Ecclesiae, a monastery inside Vatican City Mother Church (Latin Mater Ecclesiae), a reference to the Roman Catholic Church, or to other Christian churches or movements Nea Ekklesia, a church built by Byzantine Emperor Basil I the Macedonian in Constantinople between the years 876–80 Christian Church, the whole Christian religious tradition throughout history Congregation is a large gathering of people, often for the purpose of worship. In the sociological classifications of religious movements, a religion less pervasive in a society than a church but more so than a sect Other uses Ekklesia, a 2008 album by For Today Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, a 2008 Nintendo DS video game Mount Ecclesia, nature grounds in Oceanside, California with the international headquarters of The Rosicrucian Fellowship The bi-annual international convention and governing body of the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta The seventh song on Kamelot's album "Haven" is titled "Ecclesia"
Dave Mathisen Website: https://www.starmythworld.com
Dave Mathisen is an author of many books pertaining to star mythology. These ancients stories are all really about the heavens and how that reflects on earth. He discusses the fundamental purpose of why these stories were penned. The purpose of Myth was never to understand it as literal history.
Davemathisen #Starmyths #Mythology MythVision Discord : https://discord.gg/dRQXdZBq6E
Jason Foux says, "I have three passions in life; exploring, learning, and creating. This podcast is a sort of exercise in all three.
The study of religion in general, and reading the bible in particular, destroyed not only my Catholic faith but also my belief in any kind of divine creator. But the hole that religion left behind was soon filled with a burning curiosity to discover the origins of Judeo Christian mythology.
“And you’re listening to…” This project began as an attempt to answer one question: Where did these stories come from?
But digging for that answer uncovered many more questions and the more I learned the more questions arose. So one question became many and the answers, or at least the closest thing scholars have to answers, are collated in these episodes."
Here’s all of Jason Faux’s links
Facebook: facebook.com/dragonsingenesis Website: dragonsingenesis.com YouTube: youtube.com/dragonsingenesispodcast Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/dragonsingenesis
dragonsingenesis #Mythvision #JasonFoux MythVision Discord : https://discord.gg/dRQXdZBq6E
The book of Ecclesiastes Hellenistic & Foreign to Hebrew Scriptures? Dr. Robert M. Price
The Tower of Babel & Nimrod with Dr. Robert M. Price
Heaven & Hell, Where Did The Afterlife Come From?
If you don't believe in the gospels, why waste your time Dr. Robert M. Price?
Jason Foux says, "I have three passions in life; exploring, learning, and creating. This podcast is a sort of exercise in all three.
The study of religion in general, and reading the bible in particular, destroyed not only my Catholic faith but also my belief in any kind of divine creator. But the hole that religion left behind was soon filled with a burning curiosity to discover the origins of Judeo Christian mythology.
“And you’re listening to…” This project began as an attempt to answer one question: Where did these stories come from?
But digging for that answer uncovered many more questions and the more I learned the more questions arose. So one question became many and the answers, or at least the closest thing scholars have to answers, are collated in these episodes."
Here’s all of Jason Faux’s links
Facebook: facebook.com/dragonsingenesis Website: dragonsingenesis.com YouTube: youtube.com/dragonsingenesispodcast Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/dragonsingenesis
dragonsingenesis #Mythvision #JasonFoux MythVision Discord : https://discord.gg/dRQXdZBq6E
Robert M. Price Did Jesus Exist? || Extra Biblical sources prove Jesus existed?
The Source for Mark's Gospel must have been a mystery play? Dr. Robert M. Price
Creating Christ With James Valliant & MythVision | Response To Israel Only Jason Decosta
Skepticism (American and Canadian English) or scepticism (British, Irish, and Australian English) is generally a questioning attitude or doubt towards one or more putative instances of knowledge which are asserted to be mere belief or dogma. Formally, skepticism is a topic of interest in philosophy, particularly epistemology. More informally, skepticism as an expression of questioning or doubt can be applied to any topic, such as politics, religion, or pseudoscience. It is often applied within restricted domains, such as morality (moral skepticism), theism (skepticism about the existence of God), or the supernatural.
Philosophical skepticism comes in various forms. Radical forms of philosophical skepticism deny that knowledge or rational belief is possible and urge us to suspend judgment on many or all controversial matters. More moderate forms of philosophical skepticism claim only that nothing can be known with certainty, or that we can know little or nothing about nonempirical matters, such as whether God exists, whether human beings have free will, or whether there is an afterlife.
Skepticism has also inspired a number of contemporary social movements. Religious skepticism advocates for doubt concerning basic religious principles, such as immortality, providence, and revelation. Scientific skepticism advocates for testing beliefs for reliability, by subjecting them to systematic investigation using the scientific method, to discover empirical evidence for them.
JamesValliant #Skeptic #MythVision
How much can we learn from the earlier church & scripture from Julian The Apostate? Dr. Robert Price
It's The Apocalypse Somewhere: Failed Endings of Daniel's Prophecy - Dr. Joshua Bowen & Jim Majors
The 1844 Election Cycle Begins In Nauvoo the Times and Seasons published an editorial on October 1, 1843, titled “Who Shall Be Our Next President?” It did not suggest any specific names but concluded that the candidate must be “the man who will be the most likely to render us assistance in obtaining redress for our grievances.”7 On November 4, 1843, Joseph Smith wrote letters to John C. Calhoun, Lewis Cass, Richard M. Johnson, Henry Clay, and Martin Van Buren, the five leading candidates for the presidency of the United States. Each letter described the persecutions the Mormons had suffered at the hands of the state of Missouri and then asked the pointed question, “ ‘What will be your rule of action relative to us as a people,’ should fortune favor your ascension to the chief magistracy?”8 Only Calhoun, Cass, and Clay responded to Joseph Smith’s letters, and they expressed little sympathy for the cause of the Saints.
When the Prophet realized that none of the leading candidates for the presidency would pledge to support redress for the Saints, he held a historic meeting in the mayor’s office at Nauvoo on January 29, 1844, with the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and others. It was unanimously decided that Joseph Smith would run for president of the United States on an independent platform.9 Thus began one of the most fascinating third-party presidential campaigns in American history.
Friedrich Nietzsche & Thomas Jefferson on the slave mindset with Dr. Robert M. Price
Peter Singer is sometimes called "the world's most influential living philosopher" although he thinks that if that is true, it doesn't say much for all the other living philosophers around today. He has also been called the father (or grandfather?) of the modern animal rights movement, even though he doesn't base his philosophical views on rights, either for humans or for animals.
In 2005 Time magazine named Singer one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute ranked him 3rd among Global Thought Leaders for 2013. (He has since slipped to 36th in 2018.) He is known especially for his work on the ethics of our treatment of animals, for his controversial critique of the sanctity of life doctrine in bioethics, and for his writings on the obligations of the affluent to aid those living in extreme poverty. Singer first became well-known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation in 1975. In 2011 Time included Animal Liberation on its "All-TIME" list of the 100 best nonfiction books published in English since the magazine began, in 1923. Singer has written, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 50 books, including Practical Ethics; The Expanding Circle; How Are We to Live?, Rethinking Life and Death, The Ethics of What We Eat (with Jim Mason), The Point of View of the Universe (with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek), The Most Good You Can Do, Ethics in the Real World and Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction. His works have appeared in more than 30 languages.
Singer's book The Life You Can Save, first published in 2009, led him to found a non-profit organization of the same name. In 2019, Singer got back the rights to the book and granted them to the organization, enabling it to make the eBook and audiobook versions available free from its website, www.thelifeyoucansave.org.
Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1946, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford. After teaching in England, the United States and Australia, he has, since 1999, been Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Since 2005 he has combined that position with the position of Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies. He is married, with three daughters and four grandchildren. His recreations include hiking and surfing. In 2012 he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, the nation's highest civic honour.
https://petersinger.info/
The Nauvoo Expositor was a newspaper in Nauvoo, Illinois, that published only one issue, on June 7, 1844. Its publication, and the destruction of the printing press ordered by Joseph Smith, set off a chain of events that led to Smith's death.
The Expositor was founded by several seceders from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and some non-Mormons in the Nauvoo area. The single edition of the newspaper was critical of Smith and other church leaders. Specifically, Smith was criticized for teaching doctrines such as plural marriage and exaltation (plurality of gods).
In response to the newspaper's publication, Smith and the Nauvoo City Council declared the paper a public nuisance, and ordered the press destroyed. The town marshal carried out the order during the evening of June 10.
The destruction of the press led to charges of riot against Smith and other members of the Council. After Smith surrendered on the charges, he was also charged with treason against Illinois. Smith was killed by a mob while awaiting a trial in Carthage Jail.
2 bears kill 42 kids in the bible! Dr. Robert M. Price
Simon ben Kosevah, or Cosibah, known to posterity as Bar Kokhba (Hebrew: שמעון בן כוסבה; died 135 CE), was a Jewish military leader who led the Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman Empire in 132 CE. The revolt established a three-year-long independent Jewish state[dubious – discuss] in which Bar Kokhba ruled as nasi ("prince").[citation needed] Some of the rabbinic scholars in his time imagined him to be the long-expected Messiah. Bar Kokhba fell in the fortified town of Betar.
Documented name Documents discovered in the 20th century in the Cave of Letters give his original name, with variations: Simeon bar Kosevah (שמעון בר כוסבה), Bar Koseva (בר כוסבא) or Ben Koseva (בן כוסבא). It is probable that his original name was Bar Koseva. The name may indicate that his father or his place of origin was named Koseva(h), but might as well be a general family name.
Nicknames During the revolt, the Jewish sage Rabbi Akiva regarded Simon as the Jewish messiah, and gave him the surname "Bar Kokhba" meaning "Son of the Star" in Aramaic, from the Star Prophecy verse from Numbers 24:17: "There shall come a star out of Jacob".[7] The name Bar Kokhba does not appear in the Talmud but in ecclesiastical sources. The Jerusalem Talmud (Taanit 4:5) mentions him by the name of Bar Koziva. Rabbinical writers subsequent to Rabbi Akiva did not share Rabbi Akiva's estimation of ben Kosiva. Akiva's disciple, Jose ben Halaphta, in the Seder Olam Rabbah (chapter 30) called him "bar Koziba" (בר כוזיבא), meaning, "son of the lie". The judgment of Bar Koseba that is implied by this change of name was carried on by later rabbinic scholarship at least to the time of the codification of the Talmud, where the name is always rendered "Simon bar Koziba" (בר כוזיבא) or Bar Kozevah.
The Crucifixion of Jesus occurred in 1st-century Judea, most likely between AD 34 and AD 35. Jesus' crucifixion is described in the four canonical gospels, referred to in the New Testament epistles, attested to by other ancient sources, and is established as a historical event confirmed by non-Christian sources, although there is no consensus among historians on the exact details.
According to the canonical gospels, Jesus was arrested and tried by the Sanhedrin, and then sentenced by Pontius Pilate to be scourged, and finally crucified by the Romans. Jesus was stripped of his clothing and offered vinegar mixed with myrrh or gall (likely posca), to drink after saying "I am thirsty". He was then hung between two convicted thieves and, according to the Gospel of Mark, died by the 9th hour of the day (at around 3:00 p.m.). During this time, the soldiers affixed a sign to the top of the cross stating "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews" which, according to the Gospel of John (John 19:20), was written in three languages (Hebrew, Latin, and Greek). They then divided his garments among themselves and cast lots for his seamless robe, according to the Gospel of John. According to the Gospel of John, after Jesus' death, one soldier pierced his side with a spear to be certain that he had died, then blood and water gushed from the wound. The Bible describes seven statements that Jesus made while he was on the cross, as well as several supernatural events that occurred.
Collectively referred to as the Passion, Jesus' suffering and redemptive death by crucifixion are the central aspects of Christian theology concerning the doctrines of salvation and atonement.
Is there anywhere in the bible where Satan is called Lucifer? Dr. Robert M. Price
This is a 6 part series where Dr. Lundwall will allow you to gain insights into the ancient peoples world. You will discover an interesting perception from this great series!
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What happens when we compare Ghosts to gods & compare the various ideas of Ghosts to Theism, Deism, pantheism and Atheism?
Street Epistemology is a reasoned conversation about the basis for belief. More formally described, Street Epistemology is a conversational tool that helps people reflect on the quality of their reasons and the reliability of the methods used to derive one's confidence level in their deeply-held beliefs. An epistemology is a way of knowing. Street Epistemology (SE) applies Socratic methods to explore questions of belief. It explores the basis we have for the beliefs we hold. SE is a practice. It is a collection of skills and techniques that you can apply during sincere conversations to explore important topics and discover new insights. While your objectives may differ, Street Epistemology is generally used to understand a claim (generally a proposition), identify the actual reasons and reliability of the methods used to support the claim, and determine if one's confidence in the claim is justified.
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Jason Foux says, "I have three passions in life; exploring, learning, and creating. This podcast is a sort of exercise in all three.
The study of religion in general, and reading the bible in particular, destroyed not only my Catholic faith but also my belief in any kind of divine creator. But the hole that religion left behind was soon filled with a burning curiosity to discover the origins of Judeo Christian mythology.
“And you’re listening to…” This project began as an attempt to answer one question: Where did these stories come from?
But digging for that answer uncovered many more questions and the more I learned the more questions arose. So one question became many and the answers, or at least the closest thing scholars have to answers, are collated in these episodes."
Here’s all of Jason Faux’s links
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The Miracle Stories show Jesus and other gods compared! Dr. Robert M. Price
John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School and has served as president of both the Society of Biblical Literature and Catholic Biblical Association. His many other books include "Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy; Beyond the Qumran Community; and The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism.
Apocalyptic literature evokes an imaginative world that is set in deliberate counterpoint to the experiential world of the present. Apocalypticism thrives especially in times of crisis, and it functions by offering a resolution of the relevant crisis, not in practical terms but in terms of imagination and faith.
The Apocalyptic Imagination by John Collins is one of the most widely praised studies of Jewish apocalyptic literature ever written. And this second edition of Collins's study represents a complete updating and rewriting of the original work. Especially noteworthy is the chapter on the Dead Sea Scrolls, which now takes into account all of the recently published texts. Other chapters discuss apocalypse as a literary genre, explore the phenomenon and function of apocalypticism in the ancient world, study a wide range of individual apocalyptic texts, and examine the apocalyptic character of early Christianity.
Galatians 4 Are Paul's Gentiles Israelites? Israel Only Dr. Robert M. Price
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Dennis Ronald MacDonald (born 1946) is the John Wesley Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Claremont School of Theology in California. MacDonald proposes a theory wherein the earliest books of the New Testament were responses to the Homeric Epics, including the Gospel of Mark and the Acts of the Apostles. The methodology he pioneered is called Mimesis Criticism. If his theories are correct then "nearly everything written on [the] early Christian narrative is flawed." According to him, modern biblical scholarship has failed to recognize the impact of Homeric Poetry.
The other major branch of MacDonald's scholarly activity is his contribution to the Synoptic Problem. He calls his solution the Q+/Papias Hypothesis.
In his resolving of the synoptic problem Dr. Dennis R. MacDonald agrees with the Farrer hypothesis that Luke knew Matthew, but also believes that Luke & Matthew were drawing from another source other than the gospel of Mark. He also proposes that Luke may have know Papias rather than Papias knowing of Luke. The lost gospel is evident according to Dr. MacDonald by using methods of reversed priority where Luke and Matthew appear to be using material older than Mark for their gospels.
Church Father Irenaeus misrepresented Gnosticism? Dr. Robert M. Price
Orrin Porter Rockwell (June 28, 1813 or June 25, 1815 – June 9, 1878) was a figure of the Wild West period of American history. A lawman in the Utah Territory, he was nicknamed Old Port and The Destroying Angel of Mormondom. He was as famous and controversial during his lifetime as Wyatt Earp and Pat Garrett.
Rockwell served as a bodyguard of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. He was also a personal friend of Smith's.
He was born in Belchertown, Hampshire County, Massachusetts to Orin and Sarah Rockwell, who were neighbors of the Smith family. He was a descendant of Edmund Rice, an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Rockwell was eight years younger than Smith. While Smith was publishing the Book of Mormon, Rockwell picked berries at night and hauled wood into town to help pay for the publishing.
In 1830, at 16-years old, Rockwell was baptized into the Church of Christ (original name of the church founded by Smith) in Fayette, New York. Historically, the date of Rockwell's baptism is April 6, the day the church was organized, but original documents suggest a probable date of June 9. Rockwell was the youngest member of the first group to be baptized into the church.
On February 2, 1832, Rockwell married Luana Beebe in Jackson County, Missouri, and was endowed in the Nauvoo Temple on January 5, 1846.
You have not heard of early Mormonism & it's development like anything you are going to hear in this series! David Fitzgerald & Bryce Blankenagel tell a funny, deep story of the historical development of the Mormon cult in our recent history.
Robert McNair Price (born 7 July 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught theology and religious studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. Price is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.
A former Baptist minister, Price was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush.
Price is a fellow of the suspended Jesus Project, a group of 150 individuals who study the historicity of Jesus and the Gospels, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist. Among other things, Price does not accept the historicity of Jesus and does not believe that Nazareth existed in the time of Jesus.
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Dr. Dennis R. MacDonald earned his undergraduate degree from Bob Jones University, a Master of Divinity from McCormick Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D from Harvard University. He taught Theology and Biblical Studies at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado from 1980 to 1998. He was the John Wesley Professor of New Testament at the Claremont School of Theology and Professor of Religion at the Claremont Graduate University. He also was the director of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity at Claremont.
Dr. Robert M. Price earned a BA at Montclair State University, a Masters of Theological Studies at Gordan-Conwell Theological Seminary and a PhD in Systematic Theology as well as a PhD in New Testament at Drew University. He has programs called, “The Human Bible”, “The Bible Geek” & makes a regular appearance on MythVision Podcast.
Both have authored several books on the Bible.
Visit MythVision Website: https://mythvisionpodcast.com/ Is Christianity a religion that should only be understood through the Jewish Milieu? Do the parallels exist of dying and rising gods to Jesus? Derreck Bennett & Neal Boswell join MythVision to explore these ideas.
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The cleansing of the Temple narrative tells of Jesus expelling the merchants and the money changers from the Temple, and occurs in all four canonical gospels of the New Testament. The scene is a common motif in Christian art.
In this account, Jesus and his disciples travel to Jerusalem for Passover, where Jesus expels the merchants and consumers from the Temple, accusing them of turning the Temple into "a den of thieves" through their commercial activities.
The narrative occurs near the end of the Synoptic Gospels (at Matthew 21:12–17, Mark 11:15–19, and Luke 19:45–48) and near the start in the Gospel of John (at John 2:13–16). Some scholars believe that these refer to two separate incidents, given that the Gospel of John also includes more than one Passover.
Meet Jay, He is a professional Ex- Jehovah's Witness who explains his life in the cult. Many times he would find himself doubting the religion but the cult tries to prevent people from researching their religion critically. He describes what he did to exit this religious cult and is proudly an ex-Jehovah's witness who wants to make people laugh!
David King and Derek discuss why scholars believe the prophecies of the New testament have failed or that they were written after the events happened and were said to have been fulfilled. The full preterist methodology is tested in this show.
David King walks us through a study of the phrase ‘at hand’ in the Old and New Testaments and notes that it should be used as a Time Statement.
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You have not heard of early Mormonism & it's development like anything you are going to hear in this series! David Fitzgerald & Bryce Blankenagel tell a funny, deep story of the historical development of the Mormon cult in our recent history.
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The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual classics of all time. In How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, cognitive psychotherapist Donald Robertson weaves the life and philosophy of Marcus Aurelius together seamlessly to provide a compelling modern-day guide to the Stoic wisdom followed by countless individuals throughout the centuries as a path to achieving greater fulfillment and emotional resilience.
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor takes readers on a transformative journey along with Marcus, following his progress from a young noble at the court of Hadrian—taken under the wing of some of the finest philosophers of his day—through to his reign as emperor of Rome at the height of its power. Robertson shows how Marcus used philosophical doctrines and therapeutic practices to build emotional resilience and endure tremendous adversity, and guides readers through applying the same methods to their own lives.
Combining remarkable stories from Marcus’s life with insights from modern psychology and the enduring wisdom of his philosophy, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor puts a human face on Stoicism and offers a timeless and essential guide to handling the ethical and psychological challenges we face today.
Inspiring Philosophy Wrong! Christians going to heaven with Dr. Robert M. Price & Derreck Bennett
Derek Lambert is always emailing scholars for interviews and sometimes they reject coming onto the program because of past scholars who hold to fringe theories. Maybe this video will express where MythVision is heading and our purpose for the show.
An Asherah pole or Asherah Tree is a sacred tree or pole that stood near Canaanite religious locations to honor the Ugaritic mother goddess Asherah, consort of El. The relation of the literary references to an asherah and archaeological finds of Judaean pillar-figurines has engendered a literature of debate.
The asherim were also cult objects related to the worship of Asherah, the consort of either Ba'al or, as inscriptions from Kuntillet ‘Ajrud and Khirbet el-Qom attest, Yahweh, and thus objects of contention among competing cults. In translations of the Hebrew Bible that render the Hebrew asherim into English as "Asherah poles", the insertion of "pole" begs the question by setting up unwarranted expectations for such a wooden object: "we are never told exactly what it was", observes John Day. The traditional interpretation of the Biblical text is that the Israelites imported pagan elements such as the Asherah poles from the surrounding Canaanites. In light of archeological finds, however, some modern scholars now theorize that the Israelite folk religion was Canaanite in its inception and always polytheistic; this theory holds that the innovators were the prophets and priests who denounced the Asherah poles. Such theories inspire ongoing debate.
Jesus Among Other Gods || The Dying & Rising gods with Dr. Robert M. Price & Derreck Bennett
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Orrin Porter Rockwell (June 28, 1813 or June 25, 1815 – June 9, 1878) was a figure of the Wild West period of American history. A lawman in the Utah Territory, he was nicknamed Old Port and The Destroying Angel of Mormondom. He was as famous and controversial during his lifetime as Wyatt Earp and Pat Garrett.
Rockwell served as a bodyguard of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. He was also a personal friend of Joseph Smith.
He was born in Belchertown, Hampshire County, Massachusetts to Orin and Sarah Rockwell, who were neighbors of the Smith family. He was a descendant of Edmund Rice, an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Rockwell was eight years younger than Smith. While Smith was publishing the Book of Mormon, Rockwell picked berries at night and hauled wood into town to help pay for the publishing.
In 1830, at 16-years old, Rockwell was baptized into the Church of Christ (original name of the church founded by Smith) in Fayette, New York. Historically, the date of Rockwell's baptism is April 6, the day the church was organized, but original documents suggest a probable date of June 9. Rockwell was the youngest member of the first group to be baptized into the church.
On February 2, 1832, Rockwell married Luana Beebe in Jackson County, Missouri, and was endowed in the Nauvoo Temple on January 5, 1846
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The Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 27, mentions that an earthquake coincided with the crucifixion: “And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open.” Is this quake something that happened some years around the time a "Jesus" existed and they mythologized the event into his story or is it complete fiction?
Greek Theatre: The classical Greeks valued the power of spoken word, and it was their main method of communication and storytelling. Bahn and Bahn write, "To Greeks the spoken word was a living thing and infinitely preferable to the dead symbols of a written language." Socrates himself believed that once something has been written down, it lost its ability for change and growth. For these reasons, among many others, oral storytelling flourished in Greece.
Greek tragedy as we know it was created in Athens around the time of 532 BC, when Thespis was the earliest recorded actor. Being a winner of the first theatrical contest held in Athens, he was the exarchon, or leader, of the dithyrambs performed in and around Attica, especially at the rural Dionysia. By Thespis' time, the dithyramb had evolved far away from its cult roots. Under the influence of heroic epic, Doric choral lyric and the innovations of the poet Arion, it had become a narrative, ballad-like genre. Because of these, Thespis is often called the "Father of Tragedy"; however, his importance is disputed, and Thespis is sometimes listed as late as 16th in the chronological order of Greek tragedians; the statesman Solon, for example, is credited with creating poems in which characters speak with their own voice, and spoken performances of Homer's epics by rhapsodes were popular in festivals prior to 534 BC. Thus, Thespis's true contribution to drama is unclear at best, but his name has been given a longer life, in English, as a common term for performer — i.e., a "thespian."
The dramatic performances were important to the Athenians – this is made clear by the creation of a tragedy competition and festival in the City Dionysia. This was organized possibly to foster loyalty among the tribes of Attica (recently created by Cleisthenes). The festival was created roughly around 508 BC. While no drama texts exist from the sixth century BC, we do know the names of three competitors besides Thespis: Choerilus, Pratinas, and Phrynichus. Each is credited with different innovations in the field.
British Israelism (also called Anglo-Israelism) is a pseudoarchaeological belief that the people of the British Isles are "genetically, racially, and linguistically the direct descendants" of the Ten Lost Tribes of ancient Israel.[1] With roots in the 16th century, British Israelism was inspired by several 19th century English writings such as John Wilson's 1840 Our Israelitish Origin. Numerous British Israelite organisations were set up throughout the British Empire as well as in the United States from the 1870s onwards; a number of these organisations are independently active as of the early 21st century. In America, the idea gave rise to the Christian Identity movement.
The central tenets of British Israelism have been refuted by evidence from modern archaeological, ethnological, genetic, and linguistic research
Dr. Robert M. Price Which Came First, Gnosticism or Orthodoxy?
John Cook Bennett (August 3, 1804 – August 5, 1867) was an American physician and briefly a ranking and influential leader of the Latter Day Saint movement, who acted as mayor of Nauvoo, Illinois, and Major-General of the Nauvoo Legion in the early 1840s.
Bennett's involvement in the Latter Day Saint movement came after several encounters with the community that had left him impressed. He therefore wrote several letters to Joseph Smith in Nauvoo, Illinois, in which he declared his desire to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Bennett was essential to the passing of the Nauvoo city charter in the Illinois Legislature, the provisions of which he had helped craft. He even garnered praise for his lobbying efforts on behalf of the Mormons from the young Abraham Lincoln.
His efforts on behalf of the Mormons and the long time he spent living in the Mansion House in Nauvoo secured for Bennett the confidence of Smith. Smith was instrumental in promoting Bennett to ever greater civic and ecclesiastical responsibilities in Nauvoo. Bennett became a Counselor in the First Presidency, the mayor of Nauvoo, General of the Nauvoo Legion, and the chancellor of Nauvoo University.
Dr. Steve Mason will join Derek Lambert "MythVision" to give people a first hand look of how historians look at evidence and determine interpreting the evidence pertaining to the historical method. Dr. Mason is an expert on the ancient historian Flavius Josephus.
Steve N. Mason (born 1957) is a Canadian historian of Judea in the Graeco-Roman period, best known for his studies of Josephus and early Christian writings. He was professor of classics, history and religious studies at York University in Toronto. He has been Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis at Aberdeen University (2011–2015?) and works today at the University of Groningen, Holland.
The Jesus Project, What Really Happened? Christopher Hansen asks Dr. Robert M. Price
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We have recorded a 27 video series on Early Mormon history like no other series out there. Joseph Smith is the bad guy everyone likes. He plays like a version of Tony Soprano in the 1830-40s.
ADDRESS GIVEN BY JOSEPH SMITH: I wish to render you my thanks as soldiers under my command as your General. You have done faithfully your duty in guarding this beautiful city, and in preserving the lives of all the people as well as mine in a special manner. I have seen you on duty without shoes or comfortable clothing and if I had the means to buy, or if I could obtain those necessary things for you I would gladly do it. However, I cannot mortgage any of my property to get even one dollar. But I will say this: You will forever be named the Nauvoo Legion and I have had the honor of being your General. You shall be called the first Elders of the Church and your mission will be to the nations of the earth. You will gather many people into the vastness of the Rocky Mountains, which will be the center for the gathering of our people, and you will be faithful because you have been true. There will be many that come in under your ministry, but because of their much learning they will seek for high positions and seek to raise themselves in eminence above you. But you soldiers of the Nauvoo Legion will walk in low places unnoticed, and you will know all that transpires in their midst. And those that are your friends will be my friend and this I will promise to you my brethren of the Legion, that I will come again to lead you forth. But now I will go to prepare a place for you so that where I am you shall be with me. I thank you for your service and duty done. You are now dismissed to take care of your wives, children, and homes.
Dr John Knight Lundwall mythologizing history & historicizing Mythology || How Ancients thought
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Goy: Israel's Others and the Birth of the Gentile traces the development of the term and category of the goy from the Bible to rabbinic literature. Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi show that the category of the goy was born much later than scholars assume; in fact not before the first century CE. They explain that the abstract concept of the gentile first appeared in Paul's Letters. However, it was only in rabbinic literature that this category became the center of a stable and long standing structure that involved God, the Halakha, history, and salvation. The authors narrate this development through chronological analyses of the various biblical and post biblical texts (including the Dead Sea scrolls, the New Testament and early patristics, the Mishnah, and rabbinic Midrash) and synchronic analyses of several discursive structures. Looking at some of the goy's instantiations in contemporary Jewish culture in Israel and the United States, the study concludes with an examination of the extraordinary resilience of the Jew/goy division and asks how would Judaism look like without the gentile as its binary contrast.
If you're trying to understand the development of Goy/gentiles throughout the historical timeline of biblical literature, you really need to check out this book. It shows you how detailed the ideas are between authors even within the canon of scripture.
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Jason Foux says, "I have three passions in life; exploring, learning, and creating. This podcast is a sort of exercise in all three.
The study of religion in general, and reading the bible in particular, destroyed not only my Catholic faith but also my belief in any kind of divine creator. But the hole that religion left behind was soon filled with a burning curiosity to discover the origins of Judeo Christian mythology.
“And you’re listening to…” This project began as an attempt to answer one question: Where did these stories come from?
But digging for that answer uncovered many more questions and the more I learned the more questions arose. So one question became many and the answers, or at least the closest thing scholars have to answers, are collated in these episodes."
Here’s all of Jason Faux’s links
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MacDonald observes that the Fourth Gospel sounds themes proper to the Greek god Dionysos (the Roman Bacchus), not least as he was depicted in Euripides’s play The Bacchae. A divine figure, offspring of a divine father and human mother, takes on flesh to live among mortals, but is rejected by his own; miraculously provides wine; includes women as his close devotees; dies a violent death—and returns to life. The Johannine Evangelist not only imitated Euripides but expected his readers to recognize Jesus as greater than Dionysos.
Abraham (originally Abram) is the common patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the covenant of the pieces, the special relationship between the Hebrews and God; in Christianity, he is the spiritual progenitor of all believers, Jewish or Gentile; and in Islam he is seen as a link in the chain of prophets that begins with Adam and culminates in Muhammad.
The narrative in the Book of Genesis revolves around the themes of posterity and land. Abraham is called by God to leave the house of his father Terah and settle in the land originally given to Canaan but which God now promises to Abraham and his progeny. Various candidates are put forward who might inherit the land after Abraham; and, while promises are made to Ishmael about founding a great nation, Isaac, Abraham's son by his half-sister Sarah, inherits God's promises to Abraham. Abraham purchases a tomb (the Cave of the Patriarchs) at Hebron to be Sarah's grave, thus establishing his right to the land; and, in the second generation, his heir Isaac is married to a woman from his own kin, thus ruling the Canaanites out of any inheritance. Abraham later marries Keturah and has six more sons; but, on his death, when he is buried beside Sarah, it is Isaac who receives "all Abraham's goods", while the other sons receive only "gifts" (Genesis 25:5–8).
The Abraham story cannot be definitively related to any specific time, and it is widely agreed that the patriarchal age, along with The Exodus and the period of the judges, is a late literary construct that does not relate to any period in actual history. A common hypothesis among scholars is that it was composed in the early Persian period (late 6th century BCE) as a result of tensions between Jewish landowners who had stayed in Judah during the Babylonian captivity and traced their right to the land through their "father Abraham", and the returning exiles who based their counterclaim on Moses and The Exodus tradition.
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Jacob Berman argues chronologically that James the Just & The Egyptian both ran a rebel sect & they were both described as enemies of Paul at the same time historiclly. Professor Eisenman has gone on record supposing Stephens stoning was James the Just. If we look at the Pseudo Clementines Paul is said to have killed James the Just. Due to this evidence presented in this video Jacob believes James is The Egyptian.
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Heaven or the heavens, is a common religious cosmological or transcendent supernatural place where beings such as gods, angels, spirits, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or live. According to the beliefs of some religions, heavenly beings can descend to Earth or incarnate and earthly beings can ascend to Heaven in the afterlife or, in exceptional cases, enter Heaven alive.
Heaven is often described as a "highest place", the holiest place, a Paradise, in contrast to hell or the Underworld or the "low places" and universally or conditionally accessible by earthly beings according to various standards of divinity, goodness, piety, faith, or other virtues or right beliefs or simply divine will. Some believe in the possibility of a heaven on Earth in a world to come.
Another belief is in an axis mundi or world tree which connects the heavens, the terrestrial world, and the underworld. In Indian religions, heaven is considered as Svarga loka, and the soul is again subjected to rebirth in different living forms according to its karma. This cycle can be broken after a soul achieves Moksha or Nirvana. Any place of existence, either of humans, souls or deities, outside the tangible world (Heaven, Hell, or other) is referred to as the otherworld.
In religion and folklore, Hell is an afterlife location in which evil souls are subjected to punitive suffering, often torture, as eternal punishment after death. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as eternal destinations, the biggest examples of which are Christianity and Islam, whereas religions with reincarnation usually depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations, as is the case in the dharmic religions. Religions typically locate hell in another dimension or under Earth's surface. Other afterlife destinations include Heaven, Paradise, Purgatory, Limbo, and the underworld.
Other religions, which do not conceive of the afterlife as a place of punishment or reward, merely describe an abode of the dead, the grave, a neutral place that is located under the surface of Earth (for example, see Kur, Hades, and Sheol). Such places are sometimes equated with the English word hell, though a more correct translation would be "underworld" or "world of the dead". The ancient Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, and Finnic religions include entrances to the underworld from the land of the living.
Hell #Heaven #Universalism
Dr. Robert M. Price Origins of Religion & H.P. Lovecraft
How Jewish was Jesus Dr. Robert M. Price? This question boils down to the reality of what kind of Jew could Jesus have been to touch unclean people "Lepers" or hang out with tax collectors and prostitutes? Would the Jewish Rabbi's of Jesus day have done such things? There is the idea floating around that Jesus was born of a Jewish woman and a gentiles father. Why don't Jews follow him today? Did Jesus really fulfill Jewish Prophecy?
Dr. Robert M. Price how did a Jewish Jesus movement become a gentile mystery cult? Dr. Price delves into the earliest evidence on Jesus & the movement that develops using his name. The Jewish Jesus may have been an apocalyptic preacher or as mythicist claim, the celestial Angel of the Lord in Jewish Lore.
Early Religions That Influenced Judaism & Oldest Religion On Earth? Dr. Robert M. Price
Dr. Robert M. Price James The Brother of The Lord Was A Follower of John The Baptist Not Jesus?
Dr. Robert M. Price || Christ Came For Jews Only or All Mankind?
Robert McNair Price (born 7 July 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught theology and religious studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. Price is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.
A former Baptist minister, Price was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush.
Price is a fellow of the suspended Jesus Project, a group of 150 individuals who study the historicity of Jesus and the Gospels, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist. Among other things, Price does not accept the historicity of Jesus and does not believe that Nazareth existed in the time of Jesus.
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is a biographical gospel about the childhood of Jesus, believed to date at the latest to the second century. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas was thought to be Gnostic in origin because of references (by Hippolytus of Rome and Origen of Alexandria) to a "Gospel of Thomas", but those works are not referencing this Infancy Gospel, as many scholars had thought, but rather to the wholly different Gospel of Thomas.
Proto-orthodox Christians regarded the Infancy Gospel of Thomas as inauthentic and heretical. Eusebius rejected it as a heretical "fiction" in the third book of his fourth-century Church History, and Pope Gelasius I included it in his list of heretical books in the fifth century.
Robert M. Price Did Jesus Exist? || He was born of a woman
John Gleason, youtube creator Godless Engineer joins MythVision to discuss some of the issues he has ran across while discussing Mythicism with those who firmly accept Jesus as a historical figure. MythVision Discord : https://discord.gg/dRQXdZBq6E
David Oliver Smith offers insight into the age old question of what other gospel was Paul disputing in Galatians and 1st Corinthians. He uncovers the Chiastic structure in the Pauline corpus and shows that the other "so-called" Apostles had believed in a different Jesus. One who had not been crucified.
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Jesus #Crucified #Circumcision MythVision Discord : https://discord.gg/dRQXdZBq6E
The Sons of God Human or Divine? Dr. Robert M. Price
Is Dr. Robert M. Price An Enemy of the Bible?
Jason Foux says, "I have three passions in life; exploring, learning, and creating. This podcast is a sort of exercise in all three.
The study of religion in general, and reading the bible in particular, destroyed not only my Catholic faith but also my belief in any kind of divine creator. But the hole that religion left behind was soon filled with a burning curiosity to discover the origins of Judeo Christian mythology.
“And you’re listening to…” This project began as an attempt to answer one question: Where did these stories come from?
But digging for that answer uncovered many more questions and the more I learned the more questions arose. So one question became many and the answers, or at least the closest thing scholars have to answers, are collated in these episodes."
Here’s all of Jason Faux’s links
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Blessed Are The Cheese Makers -Dr. Robert M. Price
Dr. Skrbina’s work and publications can be reviewed at his personal website, www.davidskrbina.com. And his latest book, The Jesus Hoax, is available at www.jesushoax.com.
This is a debate over the motivations of the writers of the New Testament. Were the writers creating a Fraud to trick gentiles into teaming up against Rome for an upcoming war with Rome, or were the writers of the New Testament sincerely trying to unite Romans and Israelites by writing their texts?
Does the gospel of Mark get John the Baptist from Josephus & Does this change its dating?
Phil Robinson uses Aleister Crowley's teachings to show that the Biblical authors mythology is paralleled to other gods and cultures. This is biblical mythology on steriods.
IDEALISM This is the view that the only reality is the ideal world. This would be the world of ideas. It is the view that there is no external reality composed of matter and energy. There are only ideas existing within minds.
Idealism is the metaphysical view that associates reality to ideas in the mind rather than to material objects. It lays emphasis on the mental or spiritual components of experience, and renounces the notion of material existence. Idealists regard the mind and spirit as the most essential, permanent aspects of one’s being. The philosophical views of Berkeley, Christian Science, and Hinduism embrace idealist thought as they relate it to the existence of a supreme, divine reality that transcends basic human understanding and inherent sensory awareness.
Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured on 'Scientific American,' the 'Institute of Art and Ideas,' the 'Blog of the American Philosophical Association' and 'Big Think,' among others.
Atheism is in the broadest sense an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists.
The etymological root for the word atheism originated before the 5th century BCE from the ancient Greek ἄθεος (atheos), meaning "without god(s)". In antiquity, it had multiple uses as a pejorative term applied to those thought to reject the gods worshiped by the larger society, those who were forsaken by the gods, or those who had no commitment to belief in the gods. The term denoted a social category created by orthodox religionists into which those who did not share their religious beliefs were placed. The actual term atheism emerged first in the 16th century. With the spread of freethought, skeptical inquiry, and subsequent increase in criticism of religion, application of the term narrowed in scope. The first individuals to identify themselves using the word atheist lived in the 18th century during the Age of Enlightenment. The French Revolution, noted for its "unprecedented atheism", witnessed the first major political movement in history to advocate for the supremacy of human reason.
Arguments for atheism range from philosophical to social and historical approaches. Rationales for not believing in deities include arguments that there is a lack of empirical evidence the problem of evil, the argument from inconsistent revelations, the rejection of concepts that cannot be falsified, and the argument from nonbelief. Nonbelievers contend that atheism is a more parsimonious position than theism and that everyone is born without beliefs in deities; therefore, they argue that the burden of proof lies not on the atheist to disprove the existence of gods but on the theist to provide a rationale for theism. Although some atheists have adopted secular philosophies (e.g. secular humanism), there is no ideology or code of conduct to which all atheists adhere.
Since conceptions of atheism vary, accurate estimations of current numbers of atheists are difficult. According to global Win-Gallup International studies, 13% of respondents were "convinced atheists" in 2012.
Atheism #Theism #MythVision
What did the apostles Peter & James believe? Dr. Robert M. Price
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In this “compulsively readable exploration of the tangled world of Christian origins” (Publishers Weekly), religious historian James Tabor illuminates the earliest years of Jesus’ teachings before Paul shaped them into the religion we know today.
This fascinating examination of the earliest years of Christianity reveals how the man we call St. Paul shaped Christianity as we know it today.
Historians know almost nothing about the two decades following the crucifixion of Jesus, when his followers regrouped and began to spread his message. During this time Paul joined the movement and began to preach to the gentiles. Using the oldest Christian documents that we have—the letters of Paul—as well as other early Christian sources, historian and scholar James Tabor reconstructs the origins of Christianity. Tabor shows how Paul separated himself from Peter and James to introduce his own version of Christianity, which would continue to develop independently of the message that Jesus, James, and Peter preached.
Paul and Jesus illuminates the fascinating period of history when Christianity was born out of Judaism.
The Old Testament Writers & Mythology || Dr. Robert M. Price
The Blasphemy Sweepstakes - Dr. Robert M. Price
Satan has a Father?! Dr. Robert M. Price
Samson vs Hercules | Did He Exist In History with Dr. Robert M. Price
Joseph Smith (1805–1844), the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, secretly taught and practiced polygamy during his ministry, and married multiple women during his lifetime. Smith and some of the leading quorums of his church publicly denied he taught or practiced it.
In 1852, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) acknowledged that Smith had practiced plural marriage and produced a written revelation of Smith's that authorizes its practice. Smith's son Joseph Smith III, his lawful widow Emma Smith, and most members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church) attempted for years to refute the evidence of plural marriages. They pointed to the historical record that Joseph Smith publicly opposed the practice of polygamy; the suggestion of the RLDS Church was that the practice of Mormon polygamy began in Utah under the leadership of Brigham Young.
The first publication of a list of women alleged to be Smith's plural wives was in 1887, by Andrew Jenson, an assistant church historian of the LDS Church. It included 27 women besides Emma Smith. Currently, there are 49 women on this list. However, historians disagree as to the number and identity of the plural wives which Smith had. Various scholars and historians, including Fawn M. Brodie, George D. Smith, and Todd Compton, have attempted to identify the women who married Smith. The discrepancy is created by the lack of documents to support some of the alleged marriages. As Compton has stated, for many of these marriages, "absolutely nothing is known of [the] marriage after the ceremony."
Apart from his marriage to Emma, Smith's marriages were not solemnized under any civil authority and were therefore solely religious unions.
How Do Mythicist Understand Crucifixion? Dr. Robert M. Price
Heresy Hour With Dr. Robert M. Price
Dr. Robert M. Price What Did Paul Write & What Came Later? How Do We Know?
Halloween Heresies! Dr. Robert M. Price
Dr. Robert M. Price is a big fan of Professor Robert Eisenman. Dr. Price says, "IN his recent publications The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered (with Michael Wise) and The Dead Sea Scrolls and the First Christians Robert Eisenman has been threatening/promising to redraw the map of Christian origins and now, by God, he has done it. The breadth and detail of Eisenman's investigation are breathtaking, as are its implications. In James the Brother of Jesus he tells the long-lost tale of formative "prehistoric" Christianity as it emerged from the crucible of revolutionary Palestine and from the internecine hostilities between Pauline and Ebionite Christianities. I call it "prehistoric" because Eisenman reconstructs the events lying before and beneath our canonical histories of early Christianity. His enterprise is in this sense akin to that of Burton Mack, that other great delver into the subterrene depths of religious pre-history. Like Mack, Eisenman discovers a "Christianity" (or perhaps a proto-Christianity, or even a pre-Christianity) for which Jesus had not yet attained centrality. Only whereas Mack sees the initial germ of the new religion as a variant of Cynicism, Eisenman rejuvenates, even vindicates, Renan's old claim that Christianity began as "an Essenism."
Dr. Price did the Apostle Paul really Kill the brother of the Jesus James? Was the tension between these two different sect leaders that bad? Paul writes fire breathing words in some of his letters. Was the curious death of Stephen really a fictional rewrite of Paul killing James the brother of Jesus?
Did Jesus Exist? | The Christ Myth Theory with Joel Pearson
Did Abraham Actually Sacrifice Isaac? The Creation Account || Dr. Robert M. Price
The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. The Library was part of a larger research institution called the Mouseion, which was dedicated to the Muses, the nine goddesses of the arts.[10] The idea of a universal library in Alexandria may have been proposed by Demetrius of Phalerum, an exiled Athenian statesman living in Alexandria, to Ptolemy I Soter, who may have established plans for the Library, but the Library itself was probably not built until the reign of his son Ptolemy II Philadelphus. The Library quickly acquired many papyrus scrolls, due largely to the Ptolemaic kings' aggressive and well-funded policies for procuring texts. It is unknown precisely how many such scrolls were housed at any given time, but estimates range from 40,000 to 400,000 at its height.
Better Call Paul “Saul”: Literary Models and a Lukan Innovation - michael kochenash
This show argues that Luke’s characterization of Saul as a god-fighter can be read as modeled on the biblical King Saul and on Pentheus from Euripides’s Bacchae, and that the characterization of Paul in Acts 13:4–17:15 can be read as modeled on the Bacchae’s Dionysus. My approach, appealing to the Bacchae as a literary model, avoids a weakness of similar interpretations of the name Saul, which date to the early church, that it is a reference to King Saul. Saul remains “Saul” after the Damascus Road experience in order to demonstrate the appropriate response of one found to be a god-fighter, emulating Pentheus’s model.
Thank you to my good friend Stephen Nelson for providing the slides during this presentation!
How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean, a world almost unimaginably different from our own, to recover the stories and voices of those who first refused the divinities.
Homer’s epic poems of human striving, journeying, and passion were ancient Greece’s only “sacred texts,” but no ancient Greek thought twice about questioning or mocking his stories of the gods. Priests were functionaries rather than sources of moral or cosmological wisdom. The absence of centralized religious authority made for an extraordinary variety of perspectives on sacred matters, from the devotional to the atheos, or “godless.” Whitmarsh explores this kaleidoscopic range of ideas about the gods, focusing on the colorful individuals who challenged their existence. Among these were some of the greatest ancient poets and philosophers and writers, as well as the less well known: Diagoras of Melos, perhaps the first self-professed atheist; Democritus, the first materialist; Socrates, executed for rejecting the gods of the Athenian state; Epicurus and his followers, who thought gods could not intervene in human affairs; the brilliantly mischievous satirist Lucian of Samosata.
Before the revolutions of late antiquity, which saw the scriptural religions of Christianity and Islam enforced by imperial might, there were few constraints on belief. Everything changed, however, in the millennium between the appearance of the Homeric poems and Christianity’s establishment as Rome’s state religion in the fourth century AD. As successive Greco-Roman empires grew in size and complexity, and power was increasingly concentrated in central capitals, states sought to impose collective religious adherence, first to cults devoted to individual rulers, and ultimately to monotheism. In this new world, there was no room for outright disbelief: the label “atheist” was used now to demonize anyone who merely disagreed with the orthodoxy—and so it would remain for centuries.
As the twenty-first century shapes up into a time of mass information, but also, paradoxically, of collective amnesia concerning the tangled histories of religions, Whitmarsh provides a bracing antidote to our assumptions about the roots of freethinking. By shining a light on atheism’s first thousand years, Battling the Gods offers a timely reminder that nonbelief has a wealth of tradition of its own, and, indeed, its own heroes.
Are there any books you are shocked made it into the canon? Dr. Robert M. Price
Dr. Mark Goodacre is the Francis Hill Fox Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University. He proposes that the gospel of Mark was the first written gospel and that Matthew uses Mark to create his gospel. Jonathan Sheffield believes he has better evidence that Matthew was the first gospel by looking at various sources.
This debate will be very interesting.
Bible prophecy or biblical prophecy comprises the passages of the Bible that are claimed to reflect communications from God to humans through prophets. Jews and Christians usually consider the biblical prophets to have received revelations from God.
Prophetic passages—inspirations, interpretations, admonitions or predictions—appear widely distributed throughout Biblical narratives. Some future-looking prophecies in the Bible are conditional, with the conditions either implicitly assumed or explicitly stated.
In general, believers in biblical prophecy engage in exegesis and hermeneutics of scriptures which they believe contain descriptions of global politics, natural disasters, the future of the nation of Israel, the coming of a Messiah and of a Messianic Kingdom—as well as the ultimate destiny of humankind.
Prophets in the Hebrew Bible often warn the Israelites to repent of their sins and idolatries, with the threat of punishment or reward. They attribute both blessings and catastrophes to the deity. According to believers in Bible prophecy, later biblical passages - especially those contained in the New Testament - contain accounts of the fulfillment of many of these prophecies.
Judaism and Christianity have taken a number of biblical passages as prophecies or foreshadowings of a coming Messiah. Christians believe that Christ Jesus fulfills these messianic prophecies, while followers of Rabbinic Judaism still await the arrival of the Jewish Messiah and other signs of Jewish eschatology. Most Christians believe that the Second Coming of Christ will fulfill many messianic prophecies, though some Christians (Full Preterists) believe that all Messianic prophecies have already been fulfilled. Rabbinic Judaism does not separate the original coming of the Messiah and the advent of a Messianic Age. (For details of differences, see Christianity and Judaism.)
A much-discussed issue within Christianity concerns the "end times", or "last days", particularly as depicted in the Book of Revelation.
What does the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good & evil represent? || Dr. Robert M. Price
Was Paul working with the Romans or against them? Some say Paul was not really pro- roman however James Stevens Valliant believes the evidence is obvious that Paul was pro Roman.
Were the gospels written in the second century CE?
Bernie Taylor is an independent naturalist, thought leader and author whose research explores the mythological connections and biological knowledge among prehistoric, indigenous and ancient peoples. His works in these areas include Biological Time (2004) and Before Orion: Finding the Face of the Hero (2017). Before Orion is premised on Joseph’s Campbell’s hero's journey monomyth that is at the core of stories worldwide among indigenous peoples, the ancients, and our modern society. Before Orion explores a deeper root for this monomyth by looking at how hunter-gatherers viewed themselves within the natural and spiritual worlds through Paleolithic cave art from 40,000 ago. Taylor proposes that select cave paintings are fundamental pieces in the human journey to self-realization, the foundation of written language, and a record of biological knowledge that irrevocably impacted some of the artistic styles, religious practices, and stories that are still with us. Taylor addresses a profound archaeological elephant in the room by opening up an uncharted place in our history, which points to the cultural ancestors of mankind in western North Africa.
Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. The main characters in myths are usually gods, demigods, or supernatural humans. Stories of everyday human beings, although often of leaders of some type, are usually contained in legends, as opposed to myths.
Myths are often endorsed by rulers and priests or priestesses and are closely linked to religion or spirituality. Many societies group their myths, legends, and history together, considering myths and legends to be true accounts of their remote past. In particular, creation myths take place in a primordial age when the world had not achieved its later form. Other myths explain how a society's customs, institutions, and taboos were established and sanctified. There is a complex relationship between recital of myths and the enactment of rituals.
The term mythology may either refer to the study of myths in general, or a body of myths regarding a particular subject. The study of myth began in ancient history. Rival classes of the Greek myths by Euhemerus, Plato, and Sallustius were developed by the Neoplatonists and later revived by Renaissance mythographers. Today, the study of myth continues in a wide variety of academic fields, including folklore studies, philology, psychology, and anthropology. Moreover, the academic comparisons of bodies of myth are known as comparative mythology.
Since the term myth is widely used to imply that a story is not objectively true, the identification of a narrative as a myth can be highly political: many adherents of religions view their religion's stories as true and therefore object to the stories being characterised as myths. Nevertheless, scholars now routinely speak of Jewish mythology, Christian mythology, Islamic mythology, Hindu mythology, and so forth. Traditionally, Western scholarship, with its Judeo-Christian heritage, has viewed narratives in the Abrahamic religions as being the province of theology rather than mythology. Meanwhile, identifying religious stories of colonised cultures, such as stories in Hinduism, as myths enabled Western scholars to imply that they were of lower truth-value than the stories of Christianity. Labelling all religious narratives as myths can be thought of as treating different traditions with parity.
Indo European migration and religion is discussed in this video as well as the Oldest Myth & Proto Indo European civilizations. Their Mythologies are discussed.
0:00 Introduction 0:38 Who is Jon White and Crecganford 1:55 When did the Proto-Indo Europeans start? 4:10 The first known religions from 40,000 years ago 9:00 The creation myths and their similarity 14:00 The oldest story in the world 19:10 The effect of writing, and the use of poems 23:37 The effects of Christianity on me 23:47 Comparative Mythology of the Abrahamic Myths 29:01 The end of the world 38:48 What do I think of the Marvel Movies and Thunder Gods 40:10 Any other hypothesis regarding the Proto Indo Europeans 43:10 Euhemerization and was Odin real? 47:40 The importance of breath 49:55 Werewolves or vampires 52:00 Current research, American gods, Storytelling, and Greek 54:20 Atheist churches and the evolution of skin color 1:00:05 Is Santa Claus related to Odin? 1:03:00 Wrapping up
The brothers were in the Carthage Jail awaiting trial when an armed mob of about 200 men stormed the building, their faces painted black with wet gunpowder. Hyrum was killed almost immediately when he was shot in the face, shouting as he fell, "I'm a dead man, Joseph!" After emptying the pistol with which he tried to defend himself, Joseph was then shot several times while trying to escape from a second-story window, and fell from the window as he died.
Five men were indicted for the killings but were acquitted at a jury trial. At the time of his death, Smith was also running for president of the United States, making him the first U.S. presidential candidate to be assassinated. His death marked a turning point for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and since then, members of the Latter Day Saint movement have generally viewed him and his brother as religious martyrs who were "murdered in cold blood".
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You have not heard of early Mormonism & it's development like anything you are going to hear in this series! David Fitzgerald & Bryce Blankenagel tell a funny, deep story of the historical development of the Mormon cult in our recent history.
These heresies never get old! We hope you enjoy exploring a possible chronological explanation for the NT story crucifixion. This enigma gets played with by Jacob Berman. We Sped up this video.
Jay Caballero & Dr. Josh team up to set the record straight on the laws of the bible as well as Ancient Near East laws. Was slavery worse than fundamentalist Christian will grant? If so, how bad was it?
Dr. Joshua Bowen has written the book, " An Atheist’s Handbook to the Old Testament" which is going through its editorial process. This masterpiece should be a ton of fun for every skeptic interested in viewing the Old Testament through a skeptical mind.
Nothing Jewish about the foundation of Christianity? Dr. Robert M. Price
Misrepresenting Jesus - Debunking Bart D. Erhman's "Misquoting Jesus" (Robert M. Price)
In this groundbreaking book, Dennis R. MacDonald offers an entirely new view of the New Testament gospel of Mark. The author of the earliest gospel was not writing history, nor was he merely recording tradition, MacDonald argues. Close reading and careful analysis show that Mark borrowed extensively from the Odyssey and the Iliad and that he wanted his readers to recognize the Homeric antecedents in Mark’s story of Jesus. Mark was composing a prose anti-epic, MacDonald says, presenting Jesus as a suffering hero modeled after but far superior to traditional Greek heroes.
Much like Odysseus, Mark’s Jesus sails the seas with uncomprehending companions, encounters preternatural opponents, and suffers many things before confronting rivals who have made his house a den of thieves. In his death and burial, Jesus emulates Hector, although unlike Hector Jesus leaves his tomb empty. Mark’s minor characters, too, recall Homeric predecessors: Bartimaeus emulates Tiresias; Joseph of Arimathea, Priam; and the women at the tomb, Helen, Hecuba, and Andromache. And, entire episodes in Mark mirror Homeric episodes, including stilling the sea, walking on water, feeding the multitudes, the Triumphal Entry, and Gethsemane. The book concludes with a discussion of the profound significance of this new reading of Mark for understanding the gospels and early Christianity.
The Book of Abraham is a work produced between 1835 and 1842 by Joseph Smith based, he said, on Egyptian papyri purchased from a traveling mummy exhibition. According to Smith, the book was "a translation of some ancient records purporting to be the writings of Abraham, while he was in Egypt, called the Book of Abraham, written by his own hand, upon papyrus". Smith said the papyri described Abraham's early life, his travels to Canaan and Egypt, and his vision of the cosmos and its creation.
The work was canonized in 1880, by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) as part of its Pearl of Great Price. It thus forms a doctrinal foundation for the LDS Church and Mormon fundamentalist denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement. It is not considered a sacred text by the Community of Christ. Other groups in the Latter Day Saint movement have differing opinions regarding the Book of Abraham, some rejecting and some accepting the text as divinely inspired scripture. The book contains several doctrines that are unique to Mormonism such as the idea that God organized eternal elements to create the universe (instead of creating it ex nihilo), the potential exaltation of humanity, a pre-mortal existence, the first and second estates, and the plurality of gods.
The Book of Abraham papyri were thought to have been lost in the 1871 Great Chicago Fire. However, in 1966 several fragments of the papyri were found in the archives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and in the LDS Church archives. They are now referred to as the Joseph Smith Papyri. Upon examination by professional Mormon and non-Mormon Egyptologists, these fragments were identified as Egyptian funerary texts, including the "Breathing Permit of Hôr"[nb 1] and the "Book of the Dead", among others. As a result, the Book of Abraham has been the source of significant controversy. Although some Mormon apologists defend its authenticity, no other scholars regard it as an ancient text.
The Kinderhook plates were a set of six small, bell-shaped pieces of brass with strange engravings created as a hoax in 1843, surreptitiously buried and then dug up at an Indian mound near Kinderhook, Illinois.
The plates were forged by three men from Kinderhook as a prank on the local Latter Day Saint community. According to Latter Day Saint belief, the Book of Mormon is a record of the ancient Judeo-Semitic inhabitants of the Americas, originally translated by the founder of the movement, Joseph Smith, from golden plates engraved in the language of reformed Egyptian. Latter Day Saint residents of Kinderhook sent the plates to Smith in Nauvoo for translation, where Smith said they were of ancient origin and translated a portion of them.
In 1980, scientific testing confirmed the hoax, and that the plates were a modern creation. Within the Latter Day Saint movement, Smith's translation was never accepted in the canon of scripture, but was generally considered authentic. Latter Day Saints currently consider Smith's translation be speculative, and not inspired.
You have not heard of early Mormonism & it's development like anything you are going to hear in this series! David Fitzgerald & Bryce Blankenagel tell a funny, deep story of the historical development of the Mormon cult in our recent history.
You have not heard of early Mormonism & it's development like anything you are going to hear in this series! David Fitzgerald & Bryce Blankenagel tell a funny, deep story of the historical development of the Mormon cult in our recent history.
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Jacob Berman argues chronologically that James the Just & The Egyptian both ran a rebel sect & they were both described as enemies of Paul at the same time historiclly. Professor Eisenman has gone on record supposing Stephens stoning was James the Just. If we look at the Pseudo Clementines Paul is said to have killed James the Just. Due to this evidence presented in this video Jacob believes James is The Egyptian.
How does the doctrine change from the fictional gospels to Paul's letters?
Visit MythVision Website: https://mythvisionpodcast.com/ Jason Foux says, "I have three passions in life; exploring, learning, and creating. This podcast is a sort of exercise in all three.
The study of religion in general, and reading the bible in particular, destroyed not only my Catholic faith but also my belief in any kind of divine creator. But the hole that religion left behind was soon filled with a burning curiosity to discover the origins of Judeo Christian mythology.
“And you’re listening to…” This project began as an attempt to answer one question: Where did these stories come from?
But digging for that answer uncovered many more questions and the more I learned the more questions arose. So one question became many and the answers, or at least the closest thing scholars have to answers, are collated in these episodes."
Here’s all of Jason Faux’s links
Facebook facebook.com/dragonsingenesis
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Dr. Robert M. Price was Paul using the Vision of Isaiah for his Christ?
Robert McNair Price (born 7 July 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught theology and religious studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. Price is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.
A former Baptist minister, Price was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush.
Price is a fellow of the suspended Jesus Project, a group of 150 individuals who study the historicity of Jesus and the Gospels, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist. Among other things, Price does not accept the historicity of Jesus and does not believe that Nazareth existed in the time of Jesus.
Joseph Atwill takes TheWaterBoyZ through some evidence as to the invention of Jesus Christ by the Roman authorities in the first century.
Dr. William Lane Craig, Dr. Gary Habermas, Dr. Mike Licona, Dr. Sean McDowell, and best-selling author Lee Strobel all make an attempt to answer my "What If" challenge for Christians.
If Peter and Paul were the only actual witnesses of resurrected Jesus, that would make the other appearances in the gospels and creeds legendary developments. Are there any other lines of evidence that would contradict such a scenario? Did the resurrection of Jesus happen?
Ananus ben Ananus (Hebrew: חנן בן חנן Hanan ben Hanan Greek: Ἀνάνου Ἄνανος "Ananos son of Ananos" var: Ananias, Latin: Anani Ananus or Ananus filius Anani), d. 68 CE, was a Herodian-era High Priest of Israel in Jerusalem, Iudaea Province. He was the High Priest who ordered the execution by stoning of James the brother of Jesus (James the Just), according to the surviving manuscripts of The Antiquities of the Jews. However, popular opinion against Hanan due to this act led the recently appointed Roman governor Lucceius Albinus to depose the high priest, after only three months. Ananus was succeeded by Jesus ben Damneus, who was himself deposed before the end of the year.
Ananus was one of the main leaders of the Great Revolt of Judea, which erupted in 66 CE. He was appointed as one of the heads of the Judean provisional government together with Joseph ben Gurion in late 66. In 68, Ananus was killed during the inter-rebel civil war in Jerusalem. Josephus in The Jewish War considered Ananus "unique in his love for liberty and an enthusiast for democracy" and as an "effective speaker, whose words carried weight with the people". Could Paul/Saul The Apostle be Ananus?
Twisting More Than The Text! Dr. Robert M. Price
Was there originally a Jesus that was a messianic Jew who was mythologized into a divine character? The Jesus who preached the apocalypse may have been mythologized suggest Tim O'Neill. It is very likely the synoptic gospels are portraying the destruction of the temple in 70ad to be the apocalypse. The synoptic apocalypse would have been written ex-eventu. There also seems to be a development in the gospels from an apocalyptic prophet teaching the apocalypse is near, but gradually turns into God in the later books.
Norse mythology is the body of myths of the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the Scandinavian folklore of the modern period. The northernmost extension of Germanic mythology, Norse mythology consists of tales of various deities, beings, and heroes derived from numerous sources from both before and after the pagan period, including medieval manuscripts, archaeological representations, and folk tradition.
The source texts mention numerous gods, such as the hammer-wielding, humanity-protecting thunder-god Thor, who relentlessly fights his foes; the one-eyed, raven-flanked god Odin, who craftily pursues knowledge throughout the worlds and bestowed among humanity the runic alphabet; the beautiful, seiðr-working, feathered cloak-clad goddess Freyja who rides to battle to choose among the slain; the vengeful, skiing goddess Skaði, who prefers the wolf howls of the winter mountains to the seashore; the powerful god Njörðr, who may calm both sea and fire and grant wealth and land; the god Freyr, whose weather and farming associations bring peace and pleasure to humanity; the goddess Iðunn, who keeps apples that grant eternal youthfulness; the mysterious god Heimdallr, who is born of nine mothers, can hear grass grow, has gold teeth, and possesses a resounding horn; the jötunn Loki, who brings tragedy to the gods by engineering the death of the goddess Frigg's beautiful son Baldr; and numerous other deities.
Most of the surviving mythology centres on the plights of the gods and their interaction with several other beings, such as humanity and the jötnar, beings who may be friends, lovers, foes or family members of the gods. The cosmos in Norse mythology consists of Nine Worlds that flank a central sacred tree, Yggdrasil. Units of time and elements of the cosmology are personified as deities or beings. Various forms of a creation myth are recounted, where the world is created from the flesh of the primordial being Ymir, and the first two humans are Ask and Embla. These worlds are foretold to be reborn after the events of Ragnarök when an immense battle occurs between the gods and their enemies, and the world is enveloped in flames, only to be reborn anew. There the surviving gods will meet, and the land will be fertile and green, and two humans will repopulate the world.
Norse mythology has been the subject of scholarly discourse since the 17th century, when key texts attracted the attention of the intellectual circles of Europe. By way of comparative mythology and historical linguistics, scholars have identified elements of Germanic mythology reaching as far back as Proto-Indo-European mythology. During the modern period, the Romanticist Viking revival re-awoke an interest in the subject matter, and references to Norse mythology may now be found throughout modern popular culture. The myths have further been revived in a religious context among adherents of Germanic Neopaganism.
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From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan’s story into an audacious exploration of Christianity’s shadow side, in which the gospel of love gives way to irrational hatreds that continue to haunt Christians and non-Christians alike.
https://www.elaine-pagels.com/
The Christ Myth Theory & It's Problems || James The Brother of The Lord || Dr. Robert M. Price
Robert M. Price Did Jesus Exist? || Does Tacitus prove Jesus existed?
Abdullah Sameer was a truly devoted Sunni Muslim who loved Islam. He discusses why he left and what started to make him wake up. Many of his friends and family are still practicing the religion of Islam. Will others realize there is a wonderful life outside of this cult like religion?
You have not heard of early Mormonism & it's development like anything you are going to hear in this series! David Fitzgerald & Bryce Blankenagel tell a funny, deep story of the historical development of the Mormon cult in our recent history.
The bible openly speaks about Giants living during the times of the Patriarchs. Some people want to rationalize these giants to being smaller in order to characterize them as actual humans. The Biblical Myth has these Giants being the seed of gods marrying human woman and producing giant people. Check out how Dr. Ronald Hendel takes us into the ANE context as it would have been understood in ancient times.
Dr. Robert M. Price How did salvation differ for John The Baptist Sect & Simon/Paul?
Dr. Robert M. Price How Did Philo Influence Paul & The Gospels?
Dr. Robert M. Price Did Paul See YHWH As The High God or a Lesser God?
John Gleason AKA Godless Engineer is convinced that the probability of Jesus historically existing is less probable (Mythicism) whereas Kamil Gregor AKA Kam sides with the probability of Jesus existing (Historicity). MythVision Podcast finds this question endlessly interesting though the outcome of Jesus existing or not doesn't change the fact that neither gentleman believes in the Jesus Myth.
The opening statements will last 12 minutes. After that it will be an open discussion and open for Questions from the viewers. (Super-chats are greatly appreciated)
Contrary To Contradition? Biblical Harmonization & Full Preterism "Prophesy" | Dr. Robert M. Price
Robert McNair Price (born 7 July 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught theology and religious studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. Price is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.
A former Baptist minister, Price was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush.
Price is a fellow of the suspended Jesus Project, a group of 150 individuals who study the historicity of Jesus and the Gospels, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist. Among other things, Price does not accept the historicity of Jesus and does not believe that Nazareth existed in the time of Jesus.
From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan’s story into an audacious exploration of Christianity’s shadow side, in which the gospel of love gives way to irrational hatreds that continue to haunt Christians and non-Christians alike.
https://www.elaine-pagels.com/
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Blood of Christ in Christian theology refers to (a) the physical blood actually shed by Jesus Christ primarily on the Cross, and the salvation which Christianity teaches was accomplished thereby; or (b) the sacramental blood present in the Eucharist or Lord's Supper, which some Christian denominations believe to be the same blood of Christ shed on the Cross.
The Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox churches, the Oriental Orthodox churches, the Assyrian Church of the East, and Lutherans, together with some Anglicans, know as the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The Roman Catholic Church uses the term "transubstantiation" to describe the change of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ. The Orthodox Church used the same term to describe the change, as in the decrees of the 1672 Synod of Jerusalem, and the Catechism of St. Philaret (Drozdov) of Moscow.
The Lutheran churches follow the teaching of Martin Luther in defining the presence of Christ in the eucharistic elements as sacramental union (often misconstrued as consubstantiation), meaning that the fundamental "substance" of the body and blood of Christ are literally present alongside the substance of the bread and wine, which remain present. Lutherans too believe in and teach the Real Presence. Other Protestant churches reject the idea of the Real Presence; they observe eucharistic rites as simply memorials.
What did the Samaritans Believe? Dr. Robert M. Price
What Are The Chances That A Relative Nobody "Jesus" Would Be Deified? Dr. Robert M. Price & Derreck
Marcion of Sinope (/ˈmɑːrʃən, -ʃiən, -siən/; Greek: Μαρκίων Σινώπης; c. 85 – c. 160) was an important figure in early Christianity. Marcion preached that the god who sent Jesus into the world was a different, higher deity than the creator god of Judaism. He considered himself a follower of Paul the Apostle, who he believed to have been the only true apostle of Jesus Christ. He published the earliest extant fixed collection of New Testament books, making him a vital figure in the development of Christian history.[citation needed]
Church Fathers such as Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, and Tertullian denounced Marcion as a heretic, and he was excommunicated by the church of Rome around 144. He published the first known canon of Christian scriptures, which contained ten Pauline epistles (the Pastoral epistles weren't included) and a shorter version of the Gospel of Luke (the Gospel of Marcion). This made him a catalyst in the process of the development of the New Testament canon by forcing the proto-orthodox Church to respond to his canon
The Roman Politics of The New Testament | Creating Christ Documentary James Stevens Valliant
Where does Consciousness come from?
Does it arise in the brain or beyond the physical properties of ones brain?
Some suppose Consciousness arise from the frontal lobe of the cerebral cortex or the nervous system.
What if the brain stem is the source of Consciousness?
How on earth does the experience of Consciousness arise from physical properties?
A revelatory new theory of consciousness that returns emotions to the center of mental life.
Mark Solms is one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience, discovering how consciousness comes about has been a lifetime’s quest.
Scientists consider it the "hard problem" because it seems an impossible task to understand why we feel a subjective sense of self and how it arises in the brain.
Venturing into the elementary physics of life, Solms has now arrived at an astonishing answer.
In The Hidden Spring, he brings forward his discovery in accessible language and graspable analogies.
Solms is a frank and fearless guide on an extraordinary voyage from the dawn of neuropsychology and psychoanalysis to the cutting edge of contemporary neuroscience, adhering to the medically provable.
But he goes beyond other neuroscientists by paying close attention to the subjective experiences of hundreds of neurological patients, many of whom he treated, whose uncanny conversations expose much about the brain’s obscure reaches.
Most importantly, you will be able to recognize the workings of your own mind for what they really are, including every stray thought, pulse of emotion, and shift of attention.
The Hidden Spring will profoundly alter your understanding of your own subjective experience.
Dr. Joshua Bowen & Derek Lambert are hoping to get some new faces to join the discussion
Robert McNair Price (born 7 July 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught theology and religious studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. Price is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.
A former Baptist minister, Price was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush.
Price is a fellow of the suspended Jesus Project, a group of 150 individuals who study the historicity of Jesus and the Gospels, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist. Among other things, Price does not accept the historicity of Jesus and does not believe that Nazareth existed in the time of Jesus.
Robert McNair Price (born 7 July 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught theology and religious studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. Price is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.
A former Baptist minister, Price was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush.
Price is a fellow of the suspended Jesus Project, a group of 150 individuals who study the historicity of Jesus and the Gospels, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist. Among other things, Price does not accept the historicity of Jesus and does not believe that Nazareth existed in the time of Jesus.
Manetho & Exodus, Berossus & Genesis: Hellenistic History of The Hebrew Bible - Russell Gmirkin
Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he was 24, Smith published the Book of Mormon. By the time of his death, 14 years later, he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and founded a religion that continues to the present with millions of global adherents.
Smith was born in Sharon, Vermont. By 1817, he had moved with his family to western New York, the site of intense religious revivalism during the Second Great Awakening. Smith said he experienced a series of visions, including one in 1820 during which he saw "two personages" (whom he eventually described as God the Father and Jesus Christ), and another in 1823 in which an angel directed him to a buried book of golden plates inscribed with a Judeo-Christian history of an ancient American civilization. In 1830, Smith published what he said was an English translation of these plates called the Book of Mormon. The same year he organized the Church of Christ, calling it a restoration of the early Christian church. Members of the church were later called "Latter Day Saints" or "Mormons", and Smith announced a revelation in 1838 which renamed the church as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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You have not heard of early Mormonism & it's development like anything you are going to hear in this series! David Fitzgerald & Bryce Blankenagel tell a funny, deep story of the historical development of the Mormon cult in our recent history.
Is The Bible All Astrotheology? Dr. Robert M. Price
Stephen Sorensen discusses history & Fomenko's theory of chronology. Is our historical chronology wrong? Could we be mistaken on accurately dating the times in which we base our time?
How much have Paul's epistles been altered from their original form? Dr. Robert M. Price
Jacob takes you on an intense journey in a discovery to find out where the God of the 3 Abrahamic faiths developed out from.
Robert McNair Price (born 7 July 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught theology and religious studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. Price is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.
A former Baptist minister, Price was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush.
Price is a fellow of the suspended Jesus Project, a group of 150 individuals who study the historicity of Jesus and the Gospels, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity,[8] and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist. Among other things, Price does not accept the historicity of Jesus and does not believe that Nazareth existed in the time of Jesus.
Dr. Robert M. Price How Confident Are You That Paul Is Simon Magus?
Dr. Robert M. Price Did Paul Think He Was The Christ Incarnate, A Prophet or Something Else?
Christmas & Christianity | The Myth of Santa & Jesus Christ with Dr. Robert M. Price & MythVision
A subjective experience into Christianity & my journey out of the faith
Jewish Christians (Hebrew: יהודים נוצרים) were the followers of a Jewish religious sect that emerged in Judea during the late Second Temple period (first-century). The sect integrated the belief of Jesus as the prophesied Messiah and his teachings into the Jewish faith, including the observance of the Jewish law. Jewish Christianity is the foundation of Early Christianity, which later developed into Christianity. Christianity started with Jewish eschatological expectations, and it developed into the worship of a deified Jesus after his earthly ministry, his crucifixion, and the post-crucifixion experiences of his followers. Modern scholarship is engaged in an ongoing debate as to the proper designation for Jesus' first followers. Many see the term Jewish Christians as anachronistic given that there is no consensus on the date of the birth of Christianity. Some modern scholars have suggested the designations "Jewish believers in Jesus" or "Jewish followers of Jesus" as better reflecting the original context.
The inclusion of gentiles led to a growing split between Jewish Christians (i.e. the Jewish followers of Jesus) and gentile Christianity. From the latter, Nicene Christianity eventually arose, while mainstream Judaism developed into Rabbinic Judaism. Jewish Christians drifted apart from mainstream Judaism, eventually becoming a minority strand which had mostly disappeared by the fifth century. Jewish–Christian gospels have been lost except for fragments, so there is considerable uncertainty as to the scriptures used by this group.
The split of Christianity and Judaism took place during the first centuries CE.[1][2] While the First Jewish–Roman War and the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE were main events, the separation was a long-term process, in which the boundaries were not clear-cut
What Do You Think About David Oliver Smith's Theory "Another Jesus" || Dr. Robert M. Price
What did Christianity look like prior to Paul? Did the Didache play a part? Dr. Robert M. Price
The Trinity & Neo-Platonism | Did The Church get it from Philo with Dr. Robert M. Price.
The New Testament Contradicts the Old Testament | Creating Christ James Stevens Valliant
Robert M. Price Did Jesus Exist? || James The Brother of The Lord/Jesus?
John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School and has served as president of both the Society of Biblical Literature and Catholic Biblical Association. His many other books include "Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy; Beyond the Qumran Community; and The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism.
Apocalyptic literature evokes an imaginative world that is set in deliberate counterpoint to the experiential world of the present. Apocalypticism thrives especially in times of crisis, and it functions by offering a resolution of the relevant crisis, not in practical terms but in terms of imagination and faith.
The Apocalyptic Imagination by John Collins is one of the most widely praised studies of Jewish apocalyptic literature ever written. And this second edition of Collins's study represents a complete updating and rewriting of the original work. Especially noteworthy is the chapter on the Dead Sea Scrolls, which now takes into account all of the recently published texts. Other chapters discuss apocalypse as a literary genre, explore the phenomenon and function of apocalypticism in the ancient world, study a wide range of individual apocalyptic texts, and examine the apocalyptic character of early Christianity.
Advanced by Dr. Dennis R. MacDonald, the Q+/Papias hypothesis (Q+/PapH) offers an alternative solution to the synoptic problem. MacDonald prefers to call this expanded version of Q Logoi of Jesus, which is supposed to have been its original title.
The Q+/PapH has similarities to previous solutions to the synoptic problem. Like the two-document hypothesis, the Q+/PapH affirms that both Matthew and Luke have used a Q document. Like the Farrer hypothesis, it affirms that Matthew used Mark and that Luke used both Mark and Matthew. Like the Modified Two-Document Hypothesis, it affirms that Mark also used the Q document.
Did Q exist? Dr. Dennis R. MacDonald believes Papias plays a major role in discovering the lost gospel Q source.
I was a Calvinist for many years before I was ex-communicated from the PCA Presbyterian Reformed Church.
Jesus Is Compared to Dionysus with Dr. Robert M. Price
Josephus The Liar | Trusting The Historians Who Were On The Payroll? Joseph Atwill & Jacob Berman
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTITION |The Personal Relationship With Jesus/Imaginary Friend Dr. Robert M. Price
The prophet Jeremiah has a problem! It seems like other prophets are trying to take over his turf in Jerusalem. He calls them lying prophets or false prophets, but we only see one side of the story, Jeremiah's. Is it possible that these were just competing prophets? We see something very similar with the Apostle Paul and the other apostles in the New Testament.
SUBSCRIBE "This book should be mandatory reading for all scholars concerned with Christian origins ... nothing of comparable importance has been written for at least a decade." - Freethinker For more than a century scholars have been examining the Gospels and other traditions about the life of Jesus to determine their historical accuracy. Although the results of these scholarly efforts are sometimes controversial, the consensus among researchers today is that the four Evangelists' accounts cannot be taken at face value. In fact, a team of more than 100 scholars called the Jesus Seminar has come to the conclusion that on average only about 18 percent of the four Gospels is historically accurate.An active member of the Jesus Seminar, Dr. Robert M. Price presents the fruits of this important historical research in this fascinating discussion of early Christianity. As the title suggests, Price is none too optimistic about the reliability of the Gospel tradition as a source of accurate historical information about the life of Jesus. Indeed, he feels that his colleagues in the Jesus Seminar are much too optimistic in their estimate of authentic material in the Gospels. After an introduction to the historical-critical method for nonspecialists and a critique of the methods used by the Jesus Seminar, Price systematically discusses the narrative and teaching materials in the Gospel, clearly presenting what is known and not known about all of the major episodes of Jesus' life. He also examines the parables for authenticity as well as Jesus' teachings about the Kingdom of God, repentance, prayer, possessions and poverty, the Atonement, and many other features of the Gospels.Written for the general reading public in a lively and accessible style, Dr. Price's highly informative discussion will be of interest to anyone who has wondered about the origins of Christianity.
Failed Prophecy? Ezek 26:1–21 and 29:17–21 present a formidable challenge to the deuteronomic criterion for a true prophet. In the former passage Ezekiel predicted that Nebuchadnezzar's army would conquer Tyre and plunder its wealth. In the latter passage, written 16 years later, Ezekiel admitted that Nebuchadnezzar's army obtained no plunder from its campaign against Tyre. He issued a corrective prophecy that promised Egyptian booty as a consolation. For the most part scholarship has considered the historical problem the key to the first prophecy. Whereas some interpreters appeal to multiple historical fulfillments, others allow the evidence to impugn Ezekiel's integrity. By appealing to the function of mythological imagery in Ezekiel's oracles against the nations, this article proposes an alternate approach to the impasse.
Failed Prophecy in Ezekial?
Riley (Jexit) Newly woke, POMO (better, not bitter), anti-cult activist, trying to get a firm hold on the REAL 'real life.' | #ExJW
Riley believed the Jehovah's Witnesses were the only people on planet earth who knew the truth and had the truth. His experience with this church is what led him to doubt that these people were actually led by the Spirit of God. He became curious and started studying The Truth about the Truth pertaining to the Jehovah's Witnesses. He is an Ex-Jehovah's with a big heart!
Historical Jesus is the reconstruction of the life and teachings of Jesus by critical historical methods, in contrast to Christological definitions (the Christ of Christianity) and other Christian accounts of Jesus (the Christ of faith).It also considers the historical and cultural contexts in which Jesus lived.
Virtually all reputable scholars of antiquity agree that a human Jesus existed.
Reconstructions of the historical Jesus are based on the Pauline epistles and the gospels, while several non-Biblical sources also bear witness to the historical existence of Jesus. Since the 18th century, three separate scholarly quests for the historical Jesus have taken place, each with distinct characteristics and developing new and different research criteria.
Scholars differ about the beliefs and teachings of Jesus as well as the accuracy of the biblical accounts, with two events being supported by nearly universal scholarly consensus, Jesus was baptized, and Jesus was crucified.
Historical Jesus scholars typically contend that he was a Galilean Jew and living in a time of messianic and apocalyptic expectations. Some scholars credit the apocalyptic declarations of the gospels to him, while others portray his "Kingdom of God" as a moral one, and not apocalyptic in nature.
Dr. Robert M. Price Did Paul Find Christ Jesus In The Old Testament / Hebrew Bible?
Dr. Robert M. Price Ascension of Isaiah
Dr Robert M Price | Reviewing Creating Christ by Authors James S. Valliant & Warren Fahy
40 years of studying the bible... what do I know? Dr. Robert M. Price
Kamil Gregor is a skeptic who has been studying Christianity for years. He proposes we play in the Christian sandbox pertaining to the resurrection of Jesus. When we do this, one can still explain the origins of this cult with natural explanations granting many of the Christian assumptions.
The Resurrection of Jesus is at the heart of the Christian religion. If false, the entire religion is built on sand.
Rabbi Tovia Singer (born September 20, 1960) is an Orthodox rabbi, the founder and director of Outreach Judaism. Now living in Jerusalem, Singer previously resided in Indonesia for 5 years until 9th of May 2019, where Outreach Judaism's program is managed under a local Jewish foundation, Eits Chaim Indonesia Foundation which describes itself as an advocate for the Jewish faith, the Jewish people and the State of Israel for Indonesia.
Singer is the founder and director of Outreach Judaism, a Jewish counter-missionary organization. It describes itself as "an international organization that responds directly to the issues raised by missionaries and cults, by exploring Judaism in contradistinction to fundamentalist Christianity." Singer cautions regarding congregations that "are designed to appear Jewish, but are actually fundamentalist Christian churches, which use traditional Jewish symbols to lure the most vulnerable of our Jewish people into their ranks." Outreach Judaism was described by J. Gordon Melton in 2002 as an example of "the current state of Jewish counter-cult activity."
Robert McNair Price (born 7 July 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught theology and religious studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. Price is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.
A former Baptist minister, Price was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush.
Price is a fellow of the suspended Jesus Project, a group of 150 individuals who study the historicity of Jesus and the Gospels, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist. Among other things, Price does not accept the historicity of Jesus and does not believe that Nazareth existed in the time of Jesus.
Robert W. Sullivan IV delves into the astrological understandings of the Bible and other Myths.
How did Mythicism begin? Christopher Hansen takes a deep dive into the history of Christ Mythicism. One might not realize this but Mythicism was a mainstream position among scholars in the 18th & 19th centuries. The debate over whether Jesus existed still happens today even if the consensus is on the side that Jesus existed in real history.
Jason Staples proposes a new paradigm regarding the biblical concept of Israel and how it was shaped by Jewish apocalyptic hopes for restoration after the Babylonian Exile. Challenging conventional assumptions about Israelite identity in antiquity, his argument is based on a close analysis of a vast corpus of biblical and other early Jewish literature and material evidence. Staples demonstrates that continued hopes for Israel's restoration in the context of diaspora and imperial domination remained central to Jewish conceptions of Israelite identity throughout the final centuries before Christianity and even into the early part of the Common Era. He also shows that Israelite identity was more diverse in antiquity than is typically appreciated in modern scholarship. His book lays the groundwork for a better understanding of the so-called 'parting of the ways' between Judaism and Christianity and how earliest Christianity itself grew out of hopes for Israel's restoration.
This video depicts factual information on the bait and switch in the Scientology Cult.The creed of the cult says"And we of the Church believe that man is basically good"HOWEVER80% of actions in the cult are to flush out your EVIL.Endless interrogatories on police polygraph meters to question your activities and your INTENTIONS to do harmThen after all your journey in Scientology, after slaving for them 20 yrs, 30 yrs, 40 years if you speak out, you are declared an Antisocial personality (a Suppressive person) which is essentially an evil human being.See other bait and switch on the video
Karen de la Carriere, a former Scientology Class XII C/S who served aboard the Apollo with L. Ron Hubbard. They live in Los Feliz, California.
Aron Ra & MythVision Podcast talk about the bible & science. Are our morals based off God?
Robert M. Price Did Jesus Exist? || Does Josephus Prove Jesus Existed?
Robert McNair Price (born 7 July 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught theology and religious studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. Price is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.
A former Baptist minister, Price was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush.
Price is a fellow of the suspended Jesus Project, a group of 150 individuals who study the historicity of Jesus and the Gospels, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist. Among other things, Price does not accept the historicity of Jesus and does not believe that Nazareth existed in the time of Jesus.
The Mormon church has said for the first time that its founder Joseph Smith had up to 40 wives. In an essay published on its website quoting "careful estimates", the church said the wives included a 14-year-old and others who were already married. The Mormon church banned polygamy in 1890 and now excommunicates anyone who practises it.
The church has previously sought to portray Smith as loyal to his first wife Emma.However, this is not the first time that the church has admitted his polygamy, as previously reported here.The essay, entitled Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo, said: "Joseph married many additional wives and authorised other Latter-day Saints to practice plural marriage."
David Fitzgerald & Bryce Blankenagle discuss the development of polygamy and it's connection to Mormon theology. Was Joseph Smith doing this for religious purposes or was there something more sinister for marrying so many women? Mormon Polygamy is still alive and well in the FLDS church till this day.
It said "plural marriage was difficult for all involved"; for Emma it was an "excruciating ordeal"
You have not heard of early Mormonism & it's development like anything you are going to hear in this series! David Fitzgerald & Bryce Blankenagel tell a funny, deep story of the historical development of the Mormon cult in our recent history.
Joseph Smith: Liar, Lunatic or Lord - Dr. Robert M. Price
You have not heard of early Mormonism & it's development like anything you are going to hear in this series! David Fitzgerald & Bryce Blankenagel tell a funny, deep story of the historical development of the Mormon cult in our recent history.
Jesus Was Caesar | Francesco Carotta Jesus Was Based on The Life of Caesar | James S. Valliant
Dr. Steve Mason will join Derek Lambert "MythVision" to give people a first hand look of how historians look at evidence and determine interpreting the evidence pertaining to the historical method. Dr. Mason is an expert on the ancient historian Flavius Josephus.
Steve N. Mason (born 1957) is a Canadian historian of Judea in the Graeco-Roman period, best known for his studies of Josephus and early Christian writings. He was professor of classics, history and religious studies at York University in Toronto. He has been Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis at Aberdeen University (2011–2015?) and works today at the University of Groningen, Holland.
If The New Testament Authors Had Time to Perfect the Story, Why Didn't They? Dr. Robert M. Price
If Adam is the first man of humanity, why was Cain running from others? Dr. Robert M. Price
Hebrews in Egypt 3,400 years ago | Prophecy to Astro Myth | Paul's man of sin | Dr. Robert M. Price
Atheism: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to belief in the non-existence of deities. Atheism has long fascinated people but debate around this controversial position may seem daunting. In this lively and lucid book, Graham Oppy addresses the following important questions: • What does it mean to be an atheist? • What is the difference between atheism, agnosticism, theism and innocence? • How has atheism been distributed over time and place? • What does science tell us about atheism? • Are there good reasons to be an atheist? • Are there good reasons not to be an atheist? • What do we mean by ‘new atheism'?
With a glossary of key terms and suggestions for further reading throughout, the book considers key philosophical arguments around atheism, making this an ideal starting point for anyone seeking a full introduction to the arguments between those who hold atheistic beliefs and those who do not.
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Dr. Robert M. Price || Crucifixion Proves Historicity? What Did Paul Mean By Christ Crucified?
Robert McNair Price (born 7 July 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught theology and religious studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. Price is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.
A former Baptist minister, Price was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush.
Price is a fellow of the suspended Jesus Project, a group of 150 individuals who study the historicity of Jesus and the Gospels, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist. Among other things, Price does not accept the historicity of Jesus and does not believe that Nazareth existed in the time of Jesus.
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She was born into the Jehovah's Witnesses (Watch Tower Society). She is POMO (Physically out & Mentally out). Alicia takes you into the thinking of a girl living in Canada with dreams and goals that the Jehovah's Witness Church wouldn't allow her to live out. As an Ex-Jw she seeks to build relationships with humans regardless of their beliefs. She was an Auxiliary Pioneer in the church.
She is technically an apostate at this point. She has seen the mythology of Genesis as one of the breaking points for her belief in Jehovah.
Christians believe the second coming of Jesus & the rapture are still in our future to happen any day now. Some groups of Christians known as partial preterist and full preterist solve the problem of future fullfillment by saying the prophecies were fulfilled in the past. Is every Christian wrong about the study of eschatology? Jim Majors & Derek Lambert go over what Christians do to save face on failed bible prophecy. Their tactics to save the savior are clever and satisfies the mind of many people who think Jesus is Lord.
Authors James Steven Valliant and Jacob Berman Venture through the first century historical landscape and look fo pieces to the puzzle pertaining to the NT characters Jesus and Judas. They look at Roman Provenance and the Roman connection to Jesus Christ
In this, his magnum opus, the world’s best known skeptic and critical thinker, Dr. Michael Shermer—founding publisher of Skeptic magazine and perennial monthly columnist (“Skeptic”) for Scientific American—presents his comprehensive theory on how beliefs are born, formed, nourished, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished. This book synthesizes Dr. Shermer’s 30 years of research to answer the question of how and why we believe what we do in all aspects of our lives, from our suspicions and superstitions to our politics, economics, and social beliefs.
In this book Dr. Shermer is interested in more than just why people believe weird things, or why people believe this or that claim, but in why people believe anything at all. His thesis is straightforward: We form our beliefs for a variety of subjective, personal, emotional, and psychological reasons in the context of environments created by family, friends, colleagues, culture, and society at large; after forming our beliefs, we then defend, justify, and rationalize them with a host of intellectual reasons, cogent arguments, and rational explanations. Beliefs come first, explanations for beliefs follow.
Dr. Shermer also explains the neuroscience behind our beliefs. The brain is a belief engine. From sensory data flowing in through the senses, the brain naturally begins to look for and find patterns, and then infuses those patterns with meaning. These meaningful patterns become beliefs. Once beliefs are formed, the brain begins to look for and find confirmatory evidence in support of those beliefs, which adds an emotional boost of further confidence in the beliefs and thereby accelerates the process of reinforcing them—and round and round the process goes in a positive feedback loop of belief confirmation. Dr. Shermer outlines the numerous cognitive tools our brains engage to reinforce our beliefs as truths and to insure that we are always right.
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Jay Caballero has been an attorney at law for 22 years and is finishing his dissertation on 6 crimes in the Ancient East. He is a 6 year PhD student in Texas. Jay is an Evangelical Christian who is convinced that Slavery takes on 3 major forms in the ancient world. Most Christian apologist tip toe or completely try to white-wash the Biblical laws on horrible subjects like Slavery.
Christopher Lawson delivers a power packed interview on how Jesus and his family are part of the rebel resistance against Rome. The Dead Sea Scrolls reveal the type of person Jesus really was and how the Romans reversed the movement in the gospels. Secrets in the bible.
My public announcement of being an atheist. Saying out loud with my lips that I no longer believe in a God seems surreal. I'm thankful to have come to these conclusions as I think they will serve better functions for my life and how I view the world around me.
Luke - Acts is the composite work of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament. Both of these books of the Bible are credited to Luke. They also describe the narrative of those who continued to spread Christianity, ministry of Jesus and the subsequent ministry of the apostles and the Apostolic Age
Both the books of Luke and Acts are narratives written to a man named Theophilus. The book of Acts starts out with: "The former treatise have I made", probably referring to the Gospel of Luke. Scholars believe that they were written by the same person. Luke–Acts has sometimes been presented as a single book in published Bibles or New Testaments, for example, in The Original New Testament (1985) and The Books of the Bible (2007).
Luke is the longest of the four gospels and the longest book in the New Testament; together with Acts of the Apostles it makes up a two-volume work from the same author, called Luke–Acts. The cornerstone of Luke–Acts' theology is "salvation history", the author's understanding that God's purpose is seen in the way he has acted, and will continue to act, in history.
Christopher Lawson takes us into a first century historical magnifying glass into the DSS and this character Jesus from the NT.
Is The Shroud of Turin Real? Dr. Robert M. Price
How old is the Hebrew Bible? Russell Gmirkin is an independent researcher specializing in the composition of the Torah (or Pentateuch, the first five books of the bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls. He is most well known for his defense of the view that the Pentateuch was written in its entirety by a team of Jewish scholars working in the Library of Alexandria in 273-272 BCE, who also published the Septuagint Greek translation of the Torah around the same time. This is a much later date of composition than has been traditionally accepted, although a significant minority of scholars now support his Hellenistic dating of the Pentateuch.
In religion and folklore, Hell is an afterlife location in which evil souls are subjected to punitive suffering, often torture, as eternal punishment after death. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as eternal destinations, the biggest examples of which are Christianity and Islam, whereas religions with reincarnation usually depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations, as is the case in the dharmic religions. Religions typically locate hell in another dimension or under Earth's surface. Other afterlife destinations include Heaven, Paradise, Purgatory, Limbo, and the underworld.
Other religions, which do not conceive of the afterlife as a place of punishment or reward, merely describe an abode of the dead, the grave, a neutral place that is located under the surface of Earth (for example, see Kur, Hades, and Sheol). Such places are sometimes equated with the English word hell, though a more correct translation would be "underworld" or "world of the dead". The ancient Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, and Finnic religions include entrances to the underworld from the land of the living.
Dr. Price discusses where the teaching of Hell, Hades, Lake of fire & Gehenna comes from. The origins of Hell is a fascinating topic. Did people create Hell to justify why many wicked people have good lives and good people have bad ones? Eternal Punishment in the afterlife seems to be a motivating factor for Christians to remain faithful to their faith.
Thanks to my good friend Stephen Nelson for the slides in this video!
Shannon Q is another YouTuber who discusses various topics concerning epistemology, Brain science, naturalism, Atheism, the soul etc. This past year she has been part of the Atheist Experience with Matt Dillahunty taking calls in from Christians. She was once a Christian but her research on the soul caused her to really challenge what she once believed.
Does the brain produce consciousness? Can we compare Ghost to gods as an example for theist to try and examine why they believe what they believe?
The God of the Old Testament commanded and endorsed many practices that we find morally reprehensible today. High on the list was the institution of slavery, which features prominently in several sections of the Hebrew Bible. Fathers could sell their daughters into slavery, masters could beat their slaves, creditors could carry off children for failure to repay a debt, and foreigners could be kept for life, passed down as inherited property. How are we to make sense of all of this from our modern point of view?
Atheists and skeptics will often say that the God of the Old Testament was a moral monster for endorsing such atrocities. Christians will often respond that the slavery in the Hebrew Bible wasn’t as bad as we think, and was more like having a job or owning a credit card. While both sides of this debate are sincere in their positions, neither are ultimately correct. Our conclusions must derive from a thorough understanding of both the Old Testament and ancient Near Eastern contexts.
This book will:
Provide a detailed overview of slavery laws and practices in the Old Testament and the ancient Near East.
Examine the significant – and highly controversial – passages in the Hebrew Bible that deal with slavery, including laws about beating your slave, taking foreign chattel slaves, and what to do if a slave runs away from their master.
Answer the most challenging questions about slavery in the Old Testament, including, “Could you beat your slave within an inch of their life and get away with it?” “Were slaves just property that had no human rights?” and “Did the Old Testament really endorse slavery?”
Did Christianity kick off at AD70 due to the Roman/Jewish War? || Dr. Robert M. Price
In a video testimony about Wood's conversion to Christianity he has stated that he was an atheist[2] in his youth, and that he had run-ins with the law by breaking into homes and later went as far as smashing his father's head in at the age of 18 in an attempt on his life, claiming a belief that morality was merely societal rules that were beneath him.[7][8][9] He also said that after the assault on his father, Wood was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder (sociopathy) and was sentenced to ten years in prison for malicious wounding. While in prison, he said, he was confronted with a fellow prisoner named Randy[9] who was a devout Christian. Wood said he often challenged Randy's Christian beliefs, initially claiming that Randy was only a Christian because he was born into a primarily Christian society, specifically the United States.[8] Wood stated that, while in prison, he and Randy frequently fasted, with Wood attempting to "beat" Randy at fasting, which eventually resulted in Wood being placed into solitary confinement under observation due to concerns over Wood potentially attempting to commit suicide by starvation. During this time, he began to read the Bible and participate in various Bible study programs in order to respond to Randy's rebuttals (thus "beating" him) but it eventually led Wood to convert to Christianity in 1996.
In this video Dr. Robert M. Price responds to David Wood's video on Mythicist. Is David Wood correct on this?
Dr. John J. Collins takes MythVision through the apocalyptic book of Daniel by shining the light of critical scholarship onto the book in ways you have never heard before.
You have not heard of early Mormonism & it's development like anything you are going to hear in this series! David Fitzgerald & Bryce Blankenagel tell a funny, deep story of the historical development of the Mormon cult in our recent history.
Christianity 300 Years Before Jesus | Serapian Christ & Chrestus | Are They Interpolations?
Dr. Joshua Bowen has written the book, " An Atheist’s Handbook to the Old Testament" which is going through its editorial process. This masterpiece should be a ton of fun for every skeptic interested in viewing the Old Testament through a skeptical mind.
Dr. Joshua Bowen graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 2016, with a Ph.D. in Assyriology. He wrote his dissertation on the lamentational liturgies of the city of Kiš, and specializes in the Sumerian language. Joshua was awarded the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (D.A.A.D.) and Fulbright scholarship during the 2014-2015 academic year, allowing him to spend the year in Tubingen, Germany, working with Dr. Konrad Volk on his dissertation project.
As well as his Ph.D., Josh holds a B.S. in Religion from Liberty University, a Th.M. in the Old Testament from Capital Bible Seminary, and a M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from the Johns Hopkins University. Prior to entering academia, Joshua was a chaplain in the U.S. Airforce where he also gained an A.A. in Avionics.
Dr. Dennis MacDonald observes that the Fourth Gospel sounds themes proper to the Greek god Dionysos (the Roman Bacchus), not least as he was depicted in Euripides’s play The Bacchae. A divine figure, offspring of a divine father and human mother, takes on flesh to live among mortals, but is rejected by his own; miraculously provides wine; includes women as his close devotees; dies a violent death—and returns to life. The Johannine Evangelist not only imitated Euripides but expected his readers to recognize Jesus as greater than Dionysos.
The Book: Why we believe in Gods In this groundbreaking volume, J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., MD, with Clare Aukofer, offers a succinct yet comprehensive study of how and why the human mind generates religious belief. Dr. Thomson, a highly respected practicing psychiatrist with credentials in forensic psychiatry and evolutionary psychology, methodically investigates the components and causes of religious belief in the same way any scientist would investigate the movement of astronomical bodies or the evolution of life over time—that is, as a purely natural phenomenon. Providing compelling evidence from psychology, the cognitive neurosciences, and related fields, he, with Ms. Aukofer, presents an easily accessible and exceptionally convincing case that god(s) were created by man—not vice versa. With this slim volume, Dr. Thomson establishes himself as a must-read thinker and leading voice on the primacy of reason and science over superstition and religion.
Show starts at 00:17 Seconds Street Epistemology is a reasoned conversation about the basis for belief. More formally described, Street Epistemology is a conversational tool that helps people reflect on the quality of their reasons and the reliability of the methods used to derive one's confidence level in their deeply-held beliefs. An epistemology is a way of knowing. Street Epistemology (SE) applies Socratic methods to explore questions of belief. It explores the basis we have for the beliefs we hold. SE is a practice. It is a collection of skills and techniques that you can apply during sincere conversations to explore important topics and discover new insights. While your objectives may differ, Street Epistemology is generally used to understand a claim (generally a proposition), identify the actual reasons and reliability of the methods used to support the claim, and determine if one's confidence in the claim is justified.
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The earliest traditions around the narrative of Jesus' resurrection are considered in this landmark work by Dale C. Allison, Jr, drawing together the fruits of his decades of research into this issue at the very core of Christian identity.
Allison returns to the ancient sources and earliest traditions, charting them alongside the development of faith in the resurrection in the early church and throughout Christian history. Beginning with historical-critical methodology that examines the empty tomb narratives and early confessions, Allison moves on to consider the resurrection in parallel with other traditions and stories, including Tibetan accounts of saintly figures being assumed into the light, in the chapter “Rainbow Body”.
Finally, Allison considers what might be said by way of results or conclusions on the topic of resurrection, offering perspectives from both apologetic and skeptical viewpoints. In his final section of “modest results” he considers scholarly approaches to the resurrection in light of human experience, adding fresh nuance to a debate that has often been characterized in overly simplistic terms of “it happened” or “it didn't”.
See Tim O'Neill's Blog - JESUS MYTHICISM 7: JOSEPHUS, JESUS AND THE ‘TESTIMONIUM FLAVIANUM: Mythicists like to claim that the issue of the authenticity of Josephus’ account of Jesus – the so-called “Testimonium Flavianum” – is settled. They insist that the passage is a wholesale forgery, inserted by Christians. But while a scholarly case can be made for this position, one can also be made for the partial authenticity of the passage. Unless new evidence appears, the question remains moot.
Yeshua Of all the source material pertinent to the question of the historicity of Jesus, none is more controversial or widely discussed than the “Testimonium Flavianum” (TF): the 88 word account of Jesus found in Book XVIII of Flavius Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews.
He talk about Jesus Mythicism in various blogs.
Mark 16 is the final chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It begins with the discovery of the empty tomb by Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome. There they encounter a young man dressed in white who announces the resurrection of Jesus (16:1-6). The two oldest manuscripts of Mark 16 (from the 300s) then conclude with verse 8, which ends with the women fleeing from the empty tomb, and saying "nothing to anyone, because they were too frightened".
Textual critics have identified two distinct alternative endings: the "Longer Ending" (vv. 9-20) and the unversed "Shorter Ending" or "lost ending", which appear together in six Greek manuscripts, and in dozens of Ethiopic copies. Modern versions of the New Testament generally include the Longer Ending, but place it in brackets or otherwise format it to show that it is not considered part of the original text.
The Old Testament is a fierce battleground for atheists and Christian apologists, with each side accusing the other of taking challenging and troubling passages out of context. In this handbook, Joshua Bowen not only provides the background to the Old Testament and the ancient Near East, but engages with hotly contested topics like slavery, failed prophecy, and the authorship of debated Old Testament books.
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Dr. Joshua Bowen @Digital Hammurabi graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 2016, with a Ph.D. in Assyriology. He wrote his dissertation on the lamentational liturgies of the city of Kiš, and specializes in the Sumerian language. Joshua was awarded the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (D.A.A.D.) and Fulbright scholarship during the 2014-2015 academic year, allowing him to spend the year in Tubingen, Germany, working with Dr. Konrad Volk on his dissertation project.
As well as his Ph.D., Josh holds a B.S. in Religion from Liberty University, a Th.M. in the Old Testament from Capital Bible Seminary, and a M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from the Johns Hopkins University. Prior to entering academia, Joshua was a chaplain in the U.S. Airforce where he also gained an A.A. in Avionics.
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Dr. Dennis R. MacDonald earned his undergraduate degree from Bob Jones University, a Master of Divinity from McCormick Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D from Harvard University. He taught Theology and Biblical Studies at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado from 1980 to 1998. He was the John Wesley Professor of New Testament at the Claremont School of Theology and Professor of Religion at the Claremont Graduate University. He also was the director of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity at Claremont.
Dr. Robert M. Price earned a BA at Montclair State University, a Masters of Theological Studies at Gordan-Conwell Theological Seminary and a PhD in Systematic Theology as well as a PhD in New Testament at Drew University. He has programs called, “The Human Bible”, “The Bible Geek” & makes a regular appearance on MythVision Podcast.
Both have authored several books on the Bible.
Dr. Luther G Williams has found one of the greatest discoveries in the bible of all time during his research over the past 25 years. He has discovered an esoteric teaching through numerical principles and this dicovery make be one of the greatest discoveries in revealing why these text are not literal history.
The Gospels & The Q Source Dr. Robert M. Price
Citing Joseph Smith's experiences with folk magic, treasure seeking and seer stones, it is claimed that Joseph Smith's spiritual experiences were originally products of magic and the occult. Some charge that only much later did Joseph retrofit his experiences in Christian, religious terms: speaking of God, angels, and prophethood rather than in terms of magic, treasure guardians and scrying. It is also claimed that a "vagabond fortune-teller" named Walters became popular in the Palmyra area, and that when Walters left the area, "his mantle fell upon" Joseph Smith.
Was Joseph Smith involved with witchcraft, magic & the occult? The Mormons follow a prophet like figure named Joseph Smith who claims to have had a vision of Jesus & God the father. They told him all other churches are corrupt and that he needs to start his church which later became the Latter Day Saints.
Was Jesus the invention of a Roman emperor? The author of this ground-breaking book believes he was. "Caesar’s Messiah" reveals the key to a new and revolutionary understanding of Christian origins. The clues leading to its startling conclusions are found in the writings of the first-century historian Flavius Josephus, whose "Wars of the Jews" is one of the only historical chronicles of this period. Closely comparing the work of Josephus with the New Testament Gospels, "Caesar’s Messiah" demonstrates that the Romans directed the writing of both. Their purpose: to offer a vision of a “peaceful Messiah” who would serve as an alternative to the revolutionary leaders who were rocking first-century Israel and threatening Rome. Similarly, "Caesar’s Messiah" will rock our understanding of Christian history as it reveals that Jesus was a fictional character portrayed in four Gospels written not by Christians but Romans. This Flavian Signature edition adds Atwill’s latest discoveries of numerous parallel events in sequence which ultimately reveal the identity of the true authors of the Gospels.
Jesus, Joseph & Osiris | Pondering Parallels & Mythicism
Professor Robert H. Eisenman & Author Reverand C. H. Lawson Join MythVision to discuss the 1st century context of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Please forgive the audio issues. We tried to repair it the best we can but it was on their end.
The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark: In this groundbreaking book, Dennis R. MacDonald offers an entirely new view of the New Testament gospel of Mark. The author of the earliest gospel was not writing history, nor was he merely recording tradition, MacDonald argues. Close reading and careful analysis show that Mark borrowed extensively from the Odyssey and the Iliad and that he wanted his readers to recognize the Homeric antecedents in Mark’s story of Jesus. Mark was composing a prose anti-epic, MacDonald says, presenting Jesus as a suffering hero modeled after but far superior to traditional Greek heroes.
Dr. Macdonald has written extensively on this subject matter and is a pioneer in the field. His method is called mimesis Criticism. He has found a strong genetic connection between Greek epics and the gospels of the New Testament. Why have scholars ignored these connections? How will this change New Testament scholarship if what Dr. MacDonald says is true? Imitations of Homer in the gospel of Mark and Luke. Dr. Dennis R. Macdonald books - https://www.amazon.com/Dennis-Ronald-...
"This book should be mandatory reading for all scholars concerned with Christian origins ... nothing of comparable importance has been written for at least a decade." - Freethinker For more than a century scholars have been examining the Gospels and other traditions about the life of Jesus to determine their historical accuracy. Although the results of these scholarly efforts are sometimes controversial, the consensus among researchers today is that the four Evangelists' accounts cannot be taken at face value. In fact, a team of more than 100 scholars called the Jesus Seminar has come to the conclusion that on average only about 18 percent of the four Gospels is historically accurate.An active member of the Jesus Seminar, Dr. Robert M. Price presents the fruits of this important historical research in this fascinating discussion of early Christianity. As the title suggests, Price is none too optimistic about the reliability of the Gospel tradition as a source of accurate historical information about the life of Jesus. Indeed, he feels that his colleagues in the Jesus Seminar are much too optimistic in their estimate of authentic material in the Gospels. After an introduction to the historical-critical method for nonspecialists and a critique of the methods used by the Jesus Seminar, Price systematically discusses the narrative and teaching materials in the Gospel, clearly presenting what is known and not known about all of the major episodes of Jesus' life. He also examines the parables for authenticity as well as Jesus' teachings about the Kingdom of God, repentance, prayer, possessions and poverty, the Atonement, and many other features of the Gospels.Written for the general reading public in a lively and accessible style, Dr. Price's highly informative discussion will be of interest to anyone who has wondered about the origins of Christianity.
Dr. Robert M. Price What Do Non Canonical Writings Teach Us About The New Testament Canon?
Dr. Robert M. Price || Were Jews Worshipping The Wrong God? Tribal Deity vs. High God (Temple 70AD)
Dr Robert M. Price & Joseph Atwill | PART 2 The Empire Strikes Yet Again! 2019 DON'T MISS THIS!
Dr. Robert Price take an hour to discuss contradictions in the Hebrew Bible. Derek has been reading Professor Joel Baden's work on the Pentateuch & the Documentary Hypothesis.
Robert McNair Price (born 7 July 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught theology and religious studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. Price is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.
A former Baptist minister, Price was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft.He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush.
Price is a fellow of the suspended Jesus Project, a group of 150 individuals who study the historicity of Jesus and the Gospels, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist. Among other things, Price does not accept the historicity of Jesus and does not believe that Nazareth existed in the time of Jesus.
Meet Cheyanne Summers,
She was born into the Jehovah's Witnesses (Watch Tower Society). She is POMO (Physically out & Mentally out). Cheyanne Summers takes you into the thinking of a girl with dreams and goals that the Jehovah's Witness Church wouldn't allow her to live out. As an Ex-Jw she seeks to build relationships with humans regardless of their beliefs. She was an Auxiliary Pioneer in the church.
The cult is so strong in its grip that her family doesn't talk to her anymore and sees her as apostate Ex Jehovah's Witness.
Dr. Robert M. Price takes on the question of whether there is any new evidence that supports the idea that Jesus may have existed in real history. Dr. Price is a mythicist but says all too often if he finds new evidence that supports the existence of Jesus in the first century, he will accept historicism.
Dr. Robert Price argues that if critical methodology is applied with ruthless consistency, one is left in complete agnosticism regarding Jesus's historicity. Price is quoted saying, "There might have been a historical Jesus, but unless someone discovers his diary or his skeleton, we'll never know." He also similarly declared in a 1997 public debate:
If there was a historical Jesus lying back of the gospel Christ, he can never be recovered. If there ever was a historical Jesus, there isn't one any more.
Dr. Price notes that historians of classical antiquity approached mythical figures such as Heracles by rejecting supernatural tales while doggedly assuming that "a genuine historical figure" could be identified at the root of the legend. He describes this general approach as Euhemerism, and argues that most historical Jesus research today is also Euhemerist. Price argues that Jesus is like other ancient mythic figures, in that no mundane, secular information seems to have survived. Accordingly, Jesus also should be regarded as a mythic figure, but Price admits to some uncertainty in this regard. He writes at the conclusion of his 2000 book Deconstructing Jesus: "There may have been a real figure there, but there is simply no longer any way of being sure.
Robert McNair Price (born 7 July 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught theology and religious studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. Price is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.
A former Baptist minister, Price was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush.
Price is a fellow of the suspended Jesus Project, a group of 150 individuals who study the historicity of Jesus and the Gospels, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist. Among other things, Price does not accept the historicity of Jesus and does not believe that Nazareth existed in the time of Jesus.
From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan’s story into an audacious exploration of Christianity’s shadow side, in which the gospel of love gives way to irrational hatreds that continue to haunt Christians and non-Christians alike.
https://www.elaine-pagels.com/
This debate centers around the chronology of Jesus & the origins of Christianity. Ralph Ellis takes the chronological Chasm suggesting the New Testament authors placed Jesus into the 30's yet he historically lived into the 60'sAD whereas James Valliant and Jacob Berman take the consensus dating that Jesus was killed by Pontius Pilot in the 30's AD. They will debate various ideas during this debate.
"The legendary story of the ten lost tribes of Israel has resonated among both Jews and Christians down through the centuries: the compelling idea that some core group of humanity was ''lost'' and exiled to a secret place, perhaps someday to return triumphant. In The Ten Lost Tribes, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite shows for the first time the extent to which the search for the lost tribes of Israel became, over two millennia, an engine for global exploration and a key mechanism for understanding the world.
As the book reveals, the quest for the missing tribes and the fervent belief that their restitution marked a necessary step toward global redemption have been threaded through countless historical moments--from the formation of the first ''world'' empires to the age of discovery, and from the spread of European imperialism to the rise of modern-day evangelical apocalypticism. More than a historical survey of an enduring myth, The Ten Lost Tribes offers a unique prism through which to view the many facets of encounters between cultures, the processes of colonization, and the growth of geographical knowledge." - Zvi Benite
Big thanks to Stephen Nelson for designing the visual graphics for this video. your continuous labors always add extreme value to MythVision Podcast productions.
The Q source (also called Q document, Q Gospel, or Q from German: Quelle, meaning "source") is a hypothetical written collection of primarily Jesus' sayings (logia). Q is part of the common material found in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke but not in the Gospel of Mark. According to this hypothesis, this material was drawn from the early Church's oral tradition.
Along with Marcan priority, Q was hypothesized by 1900, and is one of the foundations of most modern gospel scholarship. B. H. Streeter formulated a widely accepted view of Q: that it was written in Koine Greek; that most of its contents appear in Matthew, in Luke, or in both; and that Luke more often preserves the text's original order than Matthew. In the two-source hypothesis, the three-source hypothesis and the Q+/Papias hypothesis, Matthew and Luke both used Mark and Q as sources. Some scholars have postulated that Q is actually a plurality of sources, some written and some oral. Others have attempted to determine the stages in which Q was composed.
Q's existence has been questioned. Omitting what should have been a highly treasured dominical document from all early Church catalogs, its lack of mention by Jerome is a conundrum of modern Biblical scholarship. But copying Q might have been seen as unnecessary as it was preserved in the canonical gospels. Hence, it was preferable to copy the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, "where the sayings of Jesus from Q were rephrased to avoid misunderstandings, and to fit their own situations and their understanding of what Jesus had really meant". Despite challenges, the two-source hypothesis retains wide support.
Mark S. Goodacre (born 1967 in Leicestershire, England) is a New Testament scholar and Professor at Duke University's Department of Religion. He has written extensively on the Synoptic Problem; that is, the origins of the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. He has defended the Farrer hypothesis, and thus accepts Markan priority but rejects Q.
Goodacre earned his M.A., M.Phil. and D.Phil. at the University of Oxford and was Senior Lecturer at the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham until 2005.
He has also been a consultant for numerous television and radio shows related to the New Testament, such as the 2001 BBC series Son of God and the 2013 mini-series The Bible.
Dennis Ronald MacDonald (born 1946) was the John Wesley Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Claremont School of Theology in California. Dr. Macdonald has an A.B., Bob Jones University; M.Div., McCormick Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Harvard University MacDonald proposes a theory wherein the earliest books of the New Testament were responses to the Homeric Epics, including the Gospel of Mark and the Acts of the Apostles. The methodology he pioneered is called Mimesis Criticism. If his theories are correct then "nearly everything written on [the] early Christian narrative is flawed."According to him, modern biblical scholarship has failed to recognize the impact of Homeric Poetry.
The other major branch of MacDonald's scholarly activity is his contribution to the Synoptic Problem. He calls his solution the Q+/Papias Hypothesis.
The lost Gospel, Q Source, Synoptic problem
The Jesus Question | Did Jesus Really Exist? Mythicism vs Historicism James Stevens Valliant
The Christ Myth Theory & It's Problems| Jesus Never Existed? Worse Than Atheism? Dr. Robert M. Price
Sncretism, Christification & The Consciousness | Santos Bonacci
Robert M. Price: Jesus Is Dead Those who read this book almost certainly will agree that it is explosive in its argument that (1) not only is there no good reason to think that Jesus ever rose from the dead, (2) there is no good reason to suppose he ever lived or died at all. Readers will have material for hundreds of stimulating conversations and discussions. Better yet, they will have "ammunition" with which to counter the arguments of muscular apologists such as Gary Habermas, N.T. Wright, and William Lane Craig. Best of all, readers will be entertained by Professor Price's deconstruction of the Da Vinci Code-type books that have flooded the religious book market in recent years -- and provided the raw material for many a mirthful moment.
Robert M. Price was for a time an apologist of the sort he refutes in Beyond Born Again, Deconstructing Jesus, The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man, and Night of the Living Savior. He is also the author of The Widow Traditions in Luke-Acts, The Da Vinci Fraud, The Reason-Driven Life, and the monumental The Pre-Nicene New Testament. He holds a PhD in Systematic Theology from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a second PhD in New Testament from Drew University. He has served as Professor of Religion at Mount Olive College in North Carolina and was a member of the Jesus Seminar.
New Testament Contradictions With Dr. Robert M. Price | Biblical Inerrancy Destroyed
Mythologizing Jesus from Jewish Teacher to Epic Hero - Dr. Dennis R. MacDonald
Our culture is well-populated with superheroes: Superman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, and more. Superheroes are not a modern invention; in fact, they are prehistoric. The gods and goddesses of the Greeks, for example, walked on water, flew, visited the land of the dead, and lived forever. Ancient Christians told similar stories about Jesus, their primary superhero—he possessed incredible powers of healing, walked on water, rose from the dead, and more. Dennis R. MacDonald shows how the stories told in the Gospels parallel many in Greek and Roman epics with the aim of compelling their readers into life-changing decisions to follow Jesus. MacDonald doesn’t call into question the existence of Jesus but rather asks readers to examine the biblical stories about him through a new, mythological lens.
John 1:1 The Word Was "A God" or "Was God" - Dr. Robert M. Price
Robert McNair Price (born 7 July 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught theology and religious studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. Price is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.
A former Baptist minister, Price was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush.
Price is a fellow of the suspended Jesus Project, a group of 150 individuals who study the historicity of Jesus and the Gospels, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist. Among other things, Price does not accept the historicity of Jesus and does not believe that Nazareth existed in the time of Jesus.
“Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than nothing?”
One of the few prominent scientists today to have crossed the chasm between science and popular culture, Krauss describes the staggeringly beautiful experimental observations and mind-bending new theories that demonstrate not only can something arise from nothing, something will always arise from nothing. With a new preface about the significance of the discovery of the Higgs particle, A Universe from Nothing uses Krauss’s characteristic wry humor and wonderfully clear explanations to take us back to the beginning of the beginning, presenting the most recent evidence for how our universe evolved—and the implications for how it’s going to end.
https://www.lawrencemkrauss.com/
Since Dr. Robert M. Price is considered a Mythicist we asked him, " If there was a historical Jesus, which one fits the evidence best"?
Dr. Robert M. Price Did Jesus Exist? || Did Paul Quote Jesus? Celestial Crucifixion?
Did Paul Write the "authentic" (lucky 7) Epistles? Dr. Robert M. Price
Did Jesus Really Exist? | Dr Robert M. Price & Dr. Bart Erhman Debate| Things Erhman Never Addressed
Creating Christ exhaustively annotated and illustrated, this explosive work of history unearths clues that finally demonstrate the truth about one of the world’s great religions: that it was born out of the conflict between the Romans and messianic Jews who fought a bitter war with each other during the 1st Century. The Romans employed a tactic they routinely used to conquer and absorb other nations: they grafted their imperial rule onto the religion of the conquered. After 30 years of research, authors James S. Valliant and C.W. Fahy present irrefutable archaeological and textual evidence that proves Christianity was created by Roman Caesars in this book that breaks new ground in Christian scholarship and is destined to change the way the world looks at ancient religions forever.
Inherited from a long-past era of tyranny, war and deliberate religious fraud, could Christianity have been created for an entirely different purpose than we have been lead to believe? Praised by scholars like Dead Sea Scrolls translator Robert Eisenman (James the Brother of Jesus), this exhaustive synthesis of historical detective work integrates all of the ancient sources about the earliest Christians and reveals new archaeological evidence for the first time. And, despite the fable presented in current bestsellers like Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Jesus, the evidence presented in Creating Christ is irrefutable: Christianity was invented by Roman Emperors.
Robert M. Price critically examines the Roman Provenance Theory with James Stevens Valliant.
Richard Smoley has written 10 books and has a very interesting theory that Jesus is an Arch Angel according to ancient Old Testament sources. Joining Derek was Journalist Jasper Sky, this video goes deep and gets pretty emotional at times. Enjoy!
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This live is to touch base with everyone on MythVision to let them know some upcoming shows we are going to have and update everyone.
Jeffrey Augustine was once a Scientologist and is married to Karen de la Carriere who was one of the top members of the organization. She worked directly with L Ron Hubbard and her and Jeff work daily exposing this cult for all it's harm and legal issues.
The author of this blog is Jeffrey Augustine, a long time critic of the Church of Scientology who often writes under the pen name of J. Swift. Please direct all correspondence to him at jeffreyaugustine@gmail.com
Dr. Kipp Davis says this, “• Bad apologetics · long noticed—Evangelical apologists make bad arguments about the specialness of the Bible. · I taught at a Christian university. In the last couple years of my PhD I worked for an apologist who taught classes in “worldview,” and even in his senior seminar he was prepping students with bad arguments about God, the Bible, the historicity of the resurrection that I was regularly challenging. · unless Evangelicals discover new ways to interpret and express their faith that aligns with historically responsible and intellectually honest approaches to the text, the movement will crash in the next generation. * Inspiring Philosophy’s disingenuous portrayal of the DH · covered in video 3.1, but it is typical. It is something inherited, and easily overlooked for anyone who is not a close reader (most Christians—most people—are not close readers). I grew up with an expectation of the reliability of scripture that also clearly conveyed an internally consistent message of Jesus—when introduced to the DH, my first reaction was incredulity—it’s conditioned. · IP presents the most feeble possible understanding of the DH; usually constructed on the basis of the names assigned to the hypothetical sources, two of which are derived from the different names for God used by J/E. English translations render YHWH into “the Lord” which obfuscates."
Flavius Josephus: Life of Josephus Flavius Josephus is without a doubt the most important witness to ancient Judaism from the close of the biblical period to the aftermath of the destruction of the temple in A.D. 70. His four surviving works - Judean War, Judean Antiquities, Life, and Against Apion - provide the narrative structure for interpreting the other, more fragmentary written sources and physical remains from this period.
Book - Josephus, Judea and Christian OriginsThis is a collection of essays focusing on the threads in Josephus (a first century Jewish historian and apologist whose works provide valuable insight into the background of first century Judaism and early Christianity) that are of particular interest to people studying the background and development of Christianity."Some of our most basic analytical categories, such as 'religion,' 'Judaism,' and even 'gospel,' do not map onto ancient conceptions or language." This insight, gained from long study in the biblical world, governs Josephus, Judea, and Christian Origins. Steve Mason combines recently published essays with new studies to produce a coherent, sequential exploration of "methods and categories" important for the study of Roman Judea and Christian beginnings. This book takes up basic but often overlooked questions of historical method in studying firstcentury Judea and the origins of Christianity. Many of these questions concern the use of Josephus (the firstcentury Jewish historian whose work is of crucial importance for this period) for reconstructing this history. Chapters deal with Josephus' authority, his method of publication and audiences, "Judaism," Pharisees, Essenes, "gospel," and much else.
Dr. Mark Goodacre is the Frances Hill Fox Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University, North Carolina, USA. He earned his MA, M.Phil and DPhil at the University of Oxford. His research interests include the Gospels, the Apocryphal New Testament, and the Historical Jesus. Goodacre is the author of four books including The Case Against Q: Studies in Markan Priority and the Synoptic Problem (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2002) and Thomas and the Gospels: The Case for Thomas's Familiarity with the Synoptics (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012). He is well known for creating web resources on New Testament and Christian origins, including his podcast, the NT Pod. Goodacre has acted as consultant for several TV and radio programs including The Passion (BBC / HBO, 2008) and Finding Jesus (CNN, 2015-17). Goodacre is currently working on a book on John's knowledge of the Synoptic Gospels.
Dr. Goodacre believes he has solved the synoptic problem. The Farrer Hypothesis (FH) proposes that Luke reworked Matthews Gospel. Did the Q source exist? Dr. Mark Goodacre doesn't believe in the Q source.
http://markgoodacre.org/
Dr. Robert M. Price and Authors of the book Creating Christ, James S. Valliant discuss the Roman provenance theory espoused by their book. This is an excellent show.
Did the Christian Church rewrite history?
In the midst of her research on the historical Jesus, scholar Lena Einhorn stumbled upon a surprising find. While reading through narratives of the Jewish revolt by first-century historian Flavius Josephus, Einhorn encountered a number of similarities to the Bible. These parallels—all limited to a short period of time—include an unnamed and mysterious messianic leader strikingly similar to the Jesus described in the Gospels—only he’s not the peaceful miracle worker we know so well.
Significantly, Einhorn found that historical records consistently place these events (which allude to the conspicuous figure in Josephus’s writings) twenty years later than in the New Testament. Twenty years, with precision, every time.
A Shift in Time explores the possibility that there may have been a conscious effort by those writing and compiling the New Testament to place Jesus’s ministry in an earlier, less violent time period than when it actually happened. In this groundbreaking book, Einhorn argues that when the bible and the accounts of first-century historians are compared side by side, it is clear that the events that shaped the Christian world were not exactly as they seem.
Elements of this emerging hypothesis were included in Einhorn’s previous book,The Jesus Mystery, originally published in Swedish in 2006 and later published in the United States. Much has happened since then and Einhorn has presented her findings in various academic forums. The publication of A Shift in Time marks the first complete presentation of the full details of the hypothesis and a discussion of its conclusions and inevitable implications.
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Author Daniel T. Unterbrink parallels Jesus to a known, famous historical rebel who revolted against Romes taxation in the early first century. He ties Judas into the narrative very well. We hope you enjoy!
Are we living in the end times? Are the signs of Jesus coming evident in todays world events? Derek Lambert will go live to discuss some of the problems of these studies and why it is important to study eschatology.
I have seen few non-Christians fall for the prophetic Donald Trump claims as well as other strange predictions about events in our current state of affairs. Do famines, earthquakes, wars & rumors of wars, messianic claimants etc prove the end is near?
In religion, a false prophet is a person who falsely claims the gift of prophecy or divine inspiration, or to speak for God, or who makes such claims for evil ends. Often, someone who is considered a "true prophet" by some people is simultaneously considered a "false prophet" by others, even within the same religion as the "prophet" in question. In a wider sense, it is anyone who, without having it, claims a special connection to the Deity and sets him or herself up as a source of spirituality, as an authority, preacher, or teacher. Analogously, the term is sometimes applied outside religion to describe someone who fervently promotes a theory that the speaker thinks is false.
Euripides The Bacchae & Luke often have parallels known to many scholars Peter Kirby, Dennis R. MacDonald, Robert M. Price etc. Dr. Robert M. Price has found connections between Second Maccabees & Acts of the Apostles/ The book of Acts. Were these authors mimicking the Greek epics as well as second temple literature to create their historical fiction or should I call Greco-Roman/Jewish Epics?
Meet Dean,
I must say up front that Dean has a completely different worldview than Derek and you can easily detect this during the interview. Dean believes in the spiritual and once stayed with AJ for 5 days in Texas. He liked AJ's teachings but was eventually shunned like a Jehovah's witness from the community. Is Aj lying about being Jesus or is he delusional and actually believes this?
Every chance he has to prove he is Jesus he has an excuse.
All he would need to do is perform a miracle or do something extraordinary, but he claims to not have reached the 8th level in the spirit world to connect him with his father in order to perform miracles.
Jesus (AJ) & his wife (Mary Magdalene "Luck") will no longer come onto MythVision Podcast (Their choice) and now want to have their cult members go into the comment section of these videos to defend their delusional teacher.
AJ has had more than one woman he has called Mary Magdalene.
At first I thought this guy was harmless and I did very little research on him prior to bringing him onto MythVision initially, but with his passive aggressive attitude and Psychoanalyzing of peoples intentions through emails, I have decided to investigate into this cults past.
It appears he isn't as innocent as we all thought. His cult followers know only what they see in front of them now. They don't see the manipulation and relationships that he has helped break up. They have no clue about the girls he was seeing prior to Mary Luck and was calling them Mary Magdalen too!
Critical thinking goes out the window for them just as Mormons with Joseph Smith, Jehovahs Witnesses with the Watchtower, Scientologist with L Ron Hubbard and every cult that can be imagined.
This interview allows for one of AJ's earliest members (listeners of his teachings) who was there towards the start. Divine Truth is just another New Age emotional, inner child, law of attraction cult with the added "I'm Jesus Stick". You will find the followers of his cult most likely in the comment section playing the game of "your intentions are not good" by trying to psychoanalyze my intentions.
What if my intentions are to trying to expose him at this point because of how he revealed himself through emails which red-flagged his passive aggressive control of people. He is a great manipulator and maybe it is my duty to point out those issues.
If someone runs around claiming to be Jesus but backs it up with nothing its absolutely fair to assume they are lying or delusional.
Dr. Joshua Bowen famously states, "All my Ex(odus)es live in...Pi-Ramesses"
Shoutout to Stephen Nelson for the Graphic charts.
With the recent video published by Michael Jones (Inspiring Philosophy) & take down of this video due to professor David Falk's review of IP's current hypothesis, we have decided to cover the Exodus topic having an Egyptologist Dr. Maggie Bryson & Assyriologist/Hebrew Bible scholar Dr. Joshua Bowen to clarify what the evidence can and cannot tell us.
The Exodus (Hebrew: יציאת מצרים, Yeẓi’at Miẓrayim: lit. 'Departure from Egypt') is the founding myth of the Israelites. It tells a story of Israelite enslavement and departure from Egypt, revelations at biblical Mount Sinai, wanderings in the wilderness up to the borders of Canaan, and conquest of the Canaanites. Its message is that the Israelites were delivered from slavery by Yahweh their god, and therefore belong to him by covenant.
The consensus of modern scholars is that the Bible does not give an accurate account of the origins of the Israelites, who appear instead to have formed as an entity in the central highlands of Canaan in the late second millennium BCE from the indigenous Canaanite culture. Most modern scholars believe that the story of the Exodus has some historical basis, but that few elements have been, or can be, proven historical.
The story of the Exodus is spread over four of the biblical books of the Torah or Pentateuch, namely Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. There is a widespread agreement that the composition of the Torah took place in the Middle Persian Period (5th century BCE), although some traditions behind it are older since allusions to the story are made by 8th-century BCE prophets such as Amos and Hosea.
The biblical Exodus is central in Judaism, with it being recounted daily in Jewish prayers and celebrated in festivals such as Passover. Early Christians saw the Exodus as a typological prefiguration of resurrection and salvation by Jesus. The story has also resonated with non-Jewish groups, such as the early American settlers fleeing persecution in Europe, and African Americans striving for freedom and civil rights.
In this extensive sequel to Science Education in the Early Roman Empire, Dr. Richard Carrier explores the social history of scientists in the Roman era. Was science in decline or experiencing a revival under the Romans? What was an ancient scientist thought to be and do? Who were they, and who funded their research? And how did pagans differ from their Christian peers in their views toward science and scientists? Some have claimed Christianity valued them more than their pagan forebears. In fact the reverse is the case. And this difference in values had a catastrophic effect on the future of humanity. The Romans may have been just a century or two away from experiencing a scientific revolution. But once in power, Christianity kept that progress on hold for a thousand years—while forgetting most of what the pagans had achieved and discovered, from an empirical anatomy, physiology, and brain science to an experimental physics of water, gravity, and air. Thoroughly referenced and painstakingly researched, this volume is a must for anyone who wants to learn how far we once got, and why we took so long to get to where we are today.
Christopher Hansen & Dr. Robert M. Price have a great discussion on whether Jesus was a historical man who was mythologized (Historicism) or if he was a total myth (Mythicism). Did Jesus actually exist?
James was a vegetarian, wore only linen clothing, bathed daily at dawn in cold water, and was a life-long Nazirite. In this profound and provocative work of scholarly detection, eminent biblical scholar Robert Eisenman introduces a startling theory about the identity of James—the brother of Jesus, who was almost entirely marginalized in the New Testament.
Drawing on long-overlooked early Church texts and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Eisenman reveals in this groundbreaking exploration that James, not Peter, was the real successor to the movement we now call “Christianity.” In an argument with enormous implications, Eisenman identifies Paul as deeply compromised by Roman contacts. James is presented as not simply the leader of Christianity of his day, but the popular Jewish leader of his time, whose death triggered the Uprising against Rome—a fact that creative rewriting of early Church documents has obscured.
Eisenman reveals that characters such as “Judas Iscariot” and “the Apostle James” did not exist as such. In delineating the deliberate falsifications in New Testament dcouments, Eisenman shows how—as James was written out—anti-Semitism was written in. By rescuing James from the oblivion into which he was cast, the final conclusion of James the Brother of Jesus is, in the words of The Jerusalem Post, “apocalyptic” —who and whatever James was, so was Jesus.
James the brother of Jesus - Robert Eisenman
Joel Pearson & Derek Lambert discuss Mythicism. Did Jesus exist and why we should remain skeptical.
Thomas Westbrook @Holy Koolaid says,
"I'm enthusiastic about science and creating a technologically advanced world worth living in. I was raised a missionary kid but no longer believe in the supernatural. I grew up in a former Soviet, Muslim country right after the fall of the Berlin Wall. My love of science made me question everything, and I'm a skeptic of all things paranormal now. I'm a people-loving humanist with a child-like awe of the cosmos."
In this video Thomas & Derek (MythVision) discuss issues with the Bible and its apologist who claim it is absolutely historically reliable. We also talking about the critical methodology used to try and understand the historical reality.
The age of the Hebrew Bible is a topic that has sparked controversy and debate in recent years. The scarcity of clear evidence allows for the possibility of many views, though these are often clouded by theological and political biases. This impressive, broad‑ranging book synthesizes recent linguistic, textual, and historical research to clarify the history of biblical literature, from its oldest texts and literary layers to its youngest. In clear, concise language, the authors provide a comprehensive overview that cuts across scholarly specialties to create a new standard for the historical study of the Bible. This much‑needed work paves the path forward to dating the Hebrew Bible and understanding crucial aspects of its historical and contemporary significance.
How old is the Hebrew Bible? Russell Gmirkin is an independent researcher specializing in the composition of the Torah (or Pentateuch, the first five books of the bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls. He is most well known for his defense of the view that the Pentateuch was written in its entirety by a team of Jewish scholars working in the Library of Alexandria in 273-272 BCE, who also published the Septuagint Greek translation of the Torah around the same time. This is a much later date of composition than has been traditionally accepted, although a significant minority of scholars now support his Hellenistic dating of the Pentateuch.
We are currently doing a video series about his book Berossus and Genesis Manetho and Exodus where he is concerned with the dating of the Pentateuch. Russell is an Old Testament minimalist. In this video we center our attention to the Creation and flood myths taken from the Mesopotamian & Greek myths.
Dr. Robert M. Price What have you learned from Acharya S. The Christ Conspiracy New Edition?
Broken Promises: Jesus & The Second Coming Jesus & Company of the First Century clearly and repeatedly expected, promised, and prophesied that the Second Coming would occur within the lifetime of the folks they spoke and wrote to. But the Second Coming never came, history marched on, thus proving Jesus to have been a false prophet.
Mark covers Futurist eschatology like flies on a corpse and spearheads Preterism as well. The idea that one can redefine everything to suite their bias position in the figure of Jesus becomes apparent when anyone takes a study in the various forms of Full Preterism.
Broadcast Shocker! Rabbi Tovia Singer and NT Professor Robert Price Unmask Paul and Church Doctrine
When Jesus mentions his flesh, the tension in the crowd increases. The people are not just grumbling (v. 41); they are arguing sharply with one another (v. 52). Once again we see people who come to Jesus as a rabbi, who even wanted to make him king, but who are far from treating him as either a king or a rabbi. They are not receiving his teaching, as cryptic and offensive as it is. Like Nicodemus, they can only ask how such a thing can be (v. 52; cf. 3:9). "When questioning concerning the `how' comes in, there comes in with it unbelief" (Chrysostom In John 46.2). And Jesus does not make it easy for them. He now makes sure they get the point that real eating and drinking are involved. As he deepens the offense in these verses, he also explains in a very profound way the eternal life he is offering. The Communion of Jesus is considered a sacrament in Christianity.
Jesus begins by revealing more sharply our need of the life he offers: I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you (v. 53). He claims that the life he is talking about is not merely some optional gift that we can afford to ignore. Apart from the life he offers, we are dead. Here is a claim as demanding as are his earlier claims about his own identity and what he offers to those who believe in him (vv. 30-51). Our utter neediness is seen clearly when set against the greatness of his offer: Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day (v. 54). Jesus is promising a new quality of life now and resurrection in the future.
There was a false accusation made on Paul from the YouTube channel called Paulogia where Cameron from Capturing Christianity and a Christian apologist scholar were accusing Paulogia of purposefully lying when he produced a video using other Christian clips to argue his point against Dr. Loke. Since the production of this clip Cameron has apologized publicly for making such claims.
Robert McNair Price (born 7 July 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught theology and religious studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. Price is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.
A former Baptist minister, Price was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush.
Price is a fellow of the suspended Jesus Project, a group of 150 individuals who study the historicity of Jesus and the Gospels, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist. Among other things, Price does not accept the historicity of Jesus and does not believe that Nazareth existed in the time of Jesus.
Dr. Joshua Bowen has written the book, " An Atheist’s Handbook to the Old Testament" which is going through its editorial process. This masterpiece should be a ton of fun for every skeptic interested in viewing the Old Testament through a skeptical mind.
Dr. Joshua Bowen graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 2016, with a Ph.D. in Assyriology. He wrote his dissertation on the lamentational liturgies of the city of Kiš, and specializes in the Sumerian language. Joshua was awarded the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (D.A.A.D.) and Fulbright scholarship during the 2014-2015 academic year, allowing him to spend the year in Tubingen, Germany, working with Dr. Konrad Volk on his dissertation project.
As well as his Ph.D., Josh holds a B.S. in Religion from Liberty University, a Th.M. in the Old Testament from Capital Bible Seminary, and a M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from the Johns Hopkins University. Prior to entering academia, Joshua was a chaplain in the U.S. Airforce where he also gained an A.A. in Avionics.
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Conflicting Biblical Contradictions By Dr. Robert M. Price | Bible Innerrancy Destroyed
Dr. Mark Goodacre is the Frances Hill Fox Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University, North Carolina, USA. He earned his MA, M.Phil and DPhil at the University of Oxford. His research interests include the Gospels, the Apocryphal New Testament, and the Historical Jesus. Goodacre is the author of four books including The Case Against Q: Studies in Markan Priority and the Synoptic Problem (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2002) and Thomas and the Gospels: The Case for Thomas's Familiarity with the Synoptics (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012). He is well known for creating web resources on New Testament and Christian origins, including his podcast, the NT Pod. Goodacre has acted as consultant for several TV and radio programs including The Passion (BBC / HBO, 2008) and Finding Jesus (CNN, 2015-17). Goodacre is currently working on a book on John's knowledge of the Synoptic Gospels.
Dr. Goodacre believes he has solved the synoptic problem. The Farrer Hypothesis (FH) proposes that Luke reworked Matthews Gospel. Did the Q source exist? Dr. Mark Goodacre doesn't believe in the Q source.
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Dr Robert M. Price & Joseph Atwill | The Empire Strikes Again! 2019 DON'T MISS THIS!
Dr. Robert M. Price talks about the God of the Hebrew scriptures YHWH/El. Who was Paul's God & who sent Paul's Christ? Paul may have been a mystic & held that YHWH & Elohim were one in the same. The Jews had combined these two Gods into one. Paul may have understood this God as an angelic figure who appeared in many places throughout the sacred scriptures. The Angel of the Lord was sometimes called the lesser YHWH.
Price uses critical-historical methods, but also uses "history-of-religions parallel[s]," or the "Principle of Analogy," to show similarities between Gospel narratives and non-Christian Middle Eastern myths. Price criticises some of the criteria of critical Bible research, such as the criterion of dissimilarity and the criterion of embarrassment. Price further notes that "consensus is no criterion" for the historicity of Jesus. According to Price, if critical methodology is applied with ruthless consistency, one is left in complete agnosticism regarding Jesus's historicity. In Jesus at the Vanishing Point, Price acknowledges that he stands against the majority view of scholars, but cautions against attempting to settle the issue by appeal to the majority.
Who or what was the Christ. Was it a Jewish Messiah as some scholars say or was the Christ a celestial figure that was a lesser YHWH?
Creating Christ "Exhaustively annotated and illustrated, this explosive work of history unearths clues that finally demonstrate the truth about one of the world’s great religions: that it was born out of the conflict between the Romans and messianic Jews who fought a bitter war with each other during the 1st Century. The Romans employed a tactic they routinely used to conquer and absorb other nations: they grafted their imperial rule onto the religion of the conquered. After 30 years of research, authors James S. Valliant and C.W. Fahy present irrefutable archaeological and textual evidence that proves Christianity was created by Roman Caesars in this book that breaks new ground in Christian scholarship and is destined to change the way the world looks at ancient religions forever.
Inherited from a long-past era of tyranny, war and deliberate religious fraud, could Christianity have been created for an entirely different purpose than we have been lead to believe? Praised by scholars like Dead Sea Scrolls translator Robert Eisenman (James the Brother of Jesus), this exhaustive synthesis of historical detective work integrates all of the ancient sources about the earliest Christians and reveals new archaeological evidence for the first time. And, despite the fable presented in current bestsellers like Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Jesus, the evidence presented in Creating Christ is irrefutable: Christianity was invented by Roman Emperors."
Does James have physical evidence Rome Created Christianity?
Lena Einhorn, The Jesus Mystery: Astonishing Clues to the True Identities of Jesus and Paul (Jesus the Egyptian/ Jesus the Zealot)
Author, film maker and documentarian Lena Einhorn aims this treatise at the intelligent general reader, much the same audience she addresses in her television projects. For that reason, the specialist will be able to skim a good bit of her book. Quite a lot of it is a running start. No criticism meant. But let’s cut to the chase. The secret if the true identities of Jesus and Paul are that they are identical to one another. Paul as Tyler Durden. I am Jack’s resurrected persona.
Jesus is the Talmudic character Ben Stada, just as most Talmudic authorities surmise. Both are said to have emerged from Egypt carrying magic sigils inscribed in their flesh. Jesus is also said in the Toledoth Jeschu to have hidden a paper note containing the magically potent Tetragammaton beneath a flap of his flesh. Others have theorized that Ben Stada is the Egyptian messiah mentioned by both Josephus (Jewish War 2:13.5; Jewish Antiquities 20:8:6) and Acts. According to Einhorn, both guesses are correct. Paul is rightly taken for him in Acts 21:38, because Paul was Jesus was the Egyptian was Ben Stada. Along the same lines, John the Baptist was in realty the same man as Theudas the Magician. Both as linked to the Jordan, and both were beheaded by the authorities. In the gospels and Acts, the historical events have been retrojected to an earlier decade.
Einhorn opts for the Swoon Theory, noting that it is by no means ridiculous despite the uneasy assurances of apologists. She regards Jesus as a Zealot crucified alongside fellow Zealots (“thieves,” lestoi). After his escape from the cross, he went elsewhere preaching a new gospel concerning the true meaning of the resurrection he had just undergone. So the Proclaimer became the Proclaimed—as well as the Proclaimer of the Proclaimed!
Einhorn thus makes sense of the extensive parallels between the Passion journeys of both Jesus and Paul in Luke-Acts, not that it all happened twice, but that the second telling of the story in Paul’s case is a hint that Paul is the same character who underwent the process in Luke. Einhorn notes other, smaller parallels including the Galilean birthplace of Paul according to Jerome and the similarity of Paul’s being trained as a youth by Gamaliel and Jesus engaged in dialectic with the elders and scribes in the Temple at age 12. She suggests that Pilate’s uncharacteristic urgency to have Jesus acquitted might be explained as another version of Acts 22:25-29, in which the Roman official, about to flog Paul, stands down when he discovers the object of his wrath is a Roman citizen. The Talmud says, cryptically, that Jesus, too, had some connection with the government.
It is a fascinating, albeit speculative thesis. The sheer novelty of it ought not to count against it, though most will laugh it off for no better reason. It is good that Lena Einhorn has contributed her theory to the debate.
How much do you really know about how Christianity got started? Whether you are a Christian, atheist, or member of another faith, it's impossible to ignore the impact that Christianity has had on Western civilization. But most people, including many Christians, don't have a solid grasp of the history of early Christianity - even though it's hinted at in the New Testament. Many people still think the gospels were written by the people whose names adorn the books. Many people still think those people were eyewitnesses of Jesus. Many people don't realize how much Paul of Tarsus reinvented early Christianity to suit his own vision, and how much tension he created with the original disciples. Over the last century, New Testament scholars have examined the text word by word to tease apart the true history from accepted tradition. In this light-heated but factual film, we tell the "true" story of early Christianity with the help of twelve biblical scholars, Renaissance masterpieces and humorous animation. It's neither a film about faith nor a film attacking or making fun of Christianity. It's an honest attempt to piece together a very complex and fascinating story that everyone will enjoy. - Marketing The Messiah -
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Dr. Jason Reza Jorjani has written a number of books where he covers a vast number of topics. Today he takes us into Mithraism and its influence on Christianity. MythVision Discord : https://discord.gg/dRQXdZBq6E
Reason To Believe The Apostle Paul Was Simon Magus! | Dr Robert M. Price
Bible contradictions: It is a central dogma of all fundamental Christians that the Bible is without error. They teach this conclusion by “reasoning” that god cannot be the author of false meaning and he cannot lie. Is this true? If written by a perfect being, then it must not contradict itself, as a collection of books written by different men at different times over many centuries would be expected to contradict each other.
Dr. Robert M. Price is a critical scholar with 2 PhD's, 3 Masters & 1 Bachelors degree who has spent over 40 years in the bible. He has found that the bible is more human than believers would ever realize. It is full of contradictions. Check out this episode to see for yourself. Bible errors
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In this “compulsively readable exploration of the tangled world of Christian origins” (Publishers Weekly), religious historian James Tabor illuminates the earliest years of Jesus’ teachings before Paul shaped them into the religion we know today.
This fascinating examination of the earliest years of Christianity reveals how the man we call St. Paul shaped Christianity as we know it today.
Historians know almost nothing about the two decades following the crucifixion of Jesus, when his followers regrouped and began to spread his message. During this time Paul joined the movement and began to preach to the gentiles. Using the oldest Christian documents that we have—the letters of Paul—as well as other early Christian sources, historian and scholar James Tabor reconstructs the origins of Christianity. Tabor shows how Paul separated himself from Peter and James to introduce his own version of Christianity, which would continue to develop independently of the message that Jesus, James, and Peter preached.
Paul and Jesus illuminates the fascinating period of history when Christianity was born out of Judaism.
The ‘Israel Only’ hypothesis is a framework for interpreting the New Testament exclusively through the lens of the Hebrew Bible on which it’s based. According to this unconventional theory, the New Testament consists of an eschatological narrative depicting the in-gathering of the Lost Tribes of Israel, who were dispersed among the nations. It proposes a major paradigm shift from the traditional view that Paul was on a mission to convert so-called ‘Gentiles’ who had no ancestral connection to the twelve tribes of Israel. But will this hermeneutic stand up to scrutiny by qualified scholars?
Mythvision Podcast is a freethought platform that approaches all religious texts and belief systems with an open mind. No theory is off limits, including ‘Israel Only’, which is a particularly interesting subject for much of MythVision’s audience. And we’ve finally managed to commission a bona fide scholar to properly investigate the hypothesis in detail - Dr. Richard Carrier.
Dr. Carrier holds a Ph.D. in Ancient History from Columbia University. He’s a prolific author known for his publications on early Christianity and the historicity of Jesus. Shortly after earning his Ph.D., Dr. Carrier was conscripted to investigate the work of Earl Doherty, who posited that Jesus of Nazareth may not have existed as a historical figure. Initially, Carrier was skeptical of Doherty’s thesis, believing the consensus view (that a historical Jesus most likely existed). But, after conducting a thorough investigation, he reversed his opinion and became a staunch advocate of ‘Jesus Mythicism’.
In a similar fashion, Mythvision has hired Dr. Carrier to conduct thorough research into the ‘Israel Only’ hypothesis, with an open mind and with the goal of arriving wherever the evidence leads him. As an atheist, he brings no religious baggage to the table. But, a thorough analysis is inevitably going to require a significant amount of time for research. ‘Israel Only’ is a theory that deserves a great deal attention to detail. And Dr. Carrier is committed to leaving no stone unturned in his investigation.
MythVision is providing Dr. Carrier with a lengthy document that took months to curate - full of links, posts and quotations from outspoken members of the ‘Israel Only’ community. Dr. Carrier has committed to reviewing all of this in detail, along with the primary sources and secondary literature. When he finishes the research phase, he will post his conclusions to his blog (www.richardcarrier.info); and will be open to direct engagement with proponents of ‘Israel Only’.
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Dr. Robert M. Price Was The Apostle Paul truly a fraud? The Apostle Paul wrote much of the New Testament and charted a course that Christians have been following (and fighting about) ever since. For many Christians—especially for conservative evangelicals—Paul’s writings form the core teachings of their churches, from settling church squabbles to the centrality of the death and resurrection of Christ.
So here’s the irony: Paul’s letters have long formed the core of Christian theology, but Paul’s handling of his Bible makes him look like the crazy uncle you make excuses for or avoid entirely. Paul is known for taking Hebrew Scriptures out of context to suite his needs on the ground in the first century. He could be compared to Simon Magus trying to purchase the Holy Spirit (ghost) from the pillars of the church. He was tasked to bring money to the Jerusalem church, but did he pocket any? Dr. Robert M. Price in his book, The Amazing Colossal Apostle: The Search for the Historical Paul, he surveys through all of Paul's epistles & Pseudo-Pauline epistles like Ephesians etc to show more about Paul than most have every wanted to know. The apostle Paul is suspect in the New Testament.
Thanks to my good friend Stephen Nelson for creating the slides and coming up with the Ghost contrast concept.
Matt Dillahunty joins MythVision Podcast for a riveting conversation about Atheism, Theism, Deism and comparing these ideas with Poltergeist, Crytophasm (Ghost) and those who don't believe in Ghost. What would it take for Matt Dillahunty to believe in a God?
Matthew Wade Dillahunty (born March 31, 1969) is an American atheist activist who is the current president of the Atheist Community of Austin, a position he had previously held from 2006 to 2013. Since 2005 Dillahunty has been host of the televised webcast The Atheist Experience. He formerly hosted the live Internet radio show Non-Prophets Radio and founded the counter-apologetics project Iron Chariots.
Dillahunty is a regularly invited speaker, or debate participant, for local secular organizations and university groups as part of the Secular Student Alliance Speakers Bureau. In the summer of 2017, Dillahunty joined a speaking tour sponsored by the Pangburn Philosophy foundation where he shared the stage with fellow atheists Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Lawrence Krauss.
Professor Joel Baden dives deep into the Documentary Hypothesis on trying to make sense of the contradictions in the Hebrew Bible without trying to propose ad-hoc harmonization methods like many Rabbinic & Christian theologians throughout history.
The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library) First Edition
For well over two centuries the question of the composition of the Pentateuch has been among the most central and hotly debated issues in the field of biblical studies. In this book, Joel Baden presents a fresh and comprehensive argument for the Documentary Hypothesis. Critically engaging both older and more recent scholarship, he fundamentally revises and reorients the classical model of the formation of the Pentateuch. Interweaving historical and methodological chapters with detailed textual case studies, Baden provides a critical introduction to the history of Pentateuchal scholarship, discussions on the most pressing issues in the current debate, and a practical model for the study of the biblical text.
Dr. Mark Goodacre is the Frances Hill Fox Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University, North Carolina, USA. He earned his MA, M.Phil and DPhil at the University of Oxford. His research interests include the Gospels, the Apocryphal New Testament, and the Historical Jesus. Goodacre is the author of four books including The Case Against Q: Studies in Markan Priority and the Synoptic Problem (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2002) and Thomas and the Gospels: The Case for Thomas's Familiarity with the Synoptics (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012). He is well known for creating web resources on New Testament and Christian origins, including his podcast, the NT Pod. Goodacre has acted as consultant for several TV and radio programs including The Passion (BBC / HBO, 2008) and Finding Jesus (CNN, 2015-17). Goodacre is currently working on a book on John's knowledge of the Synoptic Gospels.
Dr. Goodacre believes he has solved the synoptic problem. The Farrer Hypothesis (FH) proposes that Luke reworked Matthews Gospel. Did the Q source exist? Dr. Mark Goodacre doesn't believe in the Q source.
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Get Dr Goodacres books here: http://markgoodacre.org/books.htm
Meet Ashli Campbell.
She was born and raised as a Jehovahs Witnesses and is now an Ex Jehovah's Witnesses.
Being born into this cult is not easy as a child. You don’t think the religion or anything about it is strange at all. You think everyone else who isn’t a Jehovah’s Witness is strange. You’re told what “the world” is like (it’s all bad) and how dangerous it is.
You grow up never acknowledging your own birthday, treating it as a normal day and not celebrating it. You also don't celebrate Christmas, Easter, New Year’s, Valentine’s Day or national days like Independence Day. But you don't miss it, because you’ve never had them anyway. You’ll also find that you feel at least a little bit proud about it though because you’re taking your religion seriously and those “silly people” are celebrating “pagan” festivals.
Your weekends are never your own. In fact, you won’t ever get a lie in. Saturday morning is spent knocking on doors and Sunday mornings are spent in the Kingdom Hall for a 2 hour meeting followed by more knocking on doors. On Sunday you likely won’t get home until about 3:30 pm.
If you’re in school you’re expected to try and convert your classmates and you’re not allowed to have non-JW friends outside of school. So if they knock for you after school to play outside or come over to their house you have to think up an excuse and say no. You won’t learn about any other religion, unless it’s from Watchtower literature, and you’re taught that everything that the Watchtower magazines say is true.
You’re taught that Armageddon is coming any day now - it’s “just around the corner” (a real term they use) and the only way to stop Jehovah from killing you is to become a Jehovah’s Witness before Armageddon.
You know full well from an early age that you’ll never go to university. The Watchtower Society teaches that university is dangerous and causes people to think critically - something the religion doesn't want its members to do.
You’re taught that all non Jehovah’s Witnesses are bad, evil and not to be trusted. That only Jehovah’s Witnesses are capable of real love and that if you ever leave the religion all Jehovah’s Witnesses will shun you. You’re taught that Jehovah’s Witnesses are your real family and you must be loyal to the organization because it’s impossible to worship god without it.
You’re commanded not to watch or read any negative news report about Jehovah’s Witnesses or to read anything that says the Jehovah’s Witnesses are wrong. You should preach to others but if they try to tell you about their religion you’re to leave immediately.
It’s like living in a bubble. You don’t actually know the real world or understand it.
But Ashli did leave the bubble at a relatively young age.
Watch this fascinating interview as Ashli tells her story on MythVision.
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Bible Prophecy Failure with Dr. Robert M. Price Fundamentalists say the fulfillment of prophecy proves the divine inspiration of the Bible. Supposedly, the prophets predicted Jesus Christ's birth, ministry, death, and resurrection centuries before he existed. They also supposedly predicted the rise and fall of nations such as Tyre, Egypt, Edom, and Babylon. And they claim to have described the threat of Russia, the founding of Israel in 1948, and the political unification of Europe.
Upon closer examination, the claims do not hold up. The so-called messianic prophecies are taken out of context and have nothing to do with Jesus. This book proves:
• Nebuchadnezzar never made a wasteland out of Egypt for forty years as Ezekiel predicted. • The world did not end immediately after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD as Jesus had purportedly predicted in Matthew 24. • The biblical prophets predicted nothing about Christ or Antichrist in the distant future but plenty about apocalyptic doom and messianic glory in their own near future. • And much more! Find out why biblical explanations of the world today do not add up and why this matters in The Failure of Bible Prophecy.
Dr. Price talks about failed prophecy with Derek Lambert
Prof. Joel Baden works widely in the field of Hebrew Bible, with special attention to the literary history of the Pentateuch. He is the author, most recently, of The Book of Exodus: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2019). His other books include J, E, and the Redaction of the Pentateuch (Mohr Siebeck, 2009); The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis (Yale University Press, 2012); The Promise to the Patriarchs (Oxford University Press, 2013); The Historical David: The Real Life of an Invented Hero (HarperOne, 2013); Reconceiving Infertility: Biblical Perspectives on Procreation and Childlessness (with Candida Moss; Princeton University Press, 2015); and Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby(with Candida Moss; Princeton University Press, 2017). He is the co-editor of the volumes The Strata of the Priestly Writings: Contemporary Debate and Future Directions (TVZ, 2009) and Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls (Brill, 2017).
Canon Fodder | WHO PICKED THE NEW TESTAMENT BOOKS? | What Belongs, Forgeries Dr. Robert M. Price
Dr. Robert M. Price Did Jesus Really Exist? Dealing with Dr. Bart Ehrmans Historical Jesus.
Meet Germ (Jeremy).
Germ is Mentally Diseased.
That is, according to Watchtower Doctrine.
Crazy right?
Unfortunately not.
In the study edition of the July 15, 2011 Jehovahs Witness Watchtower Magazine, this is EXACTLY what they call “Apostates” (REF = https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2...)
Germ was raised as a Jehovahs Witnesses and is now an Ex Jehovah’s Witness and a vocal critical giving a voice to Ex Gay & LGBT former members.
As a faith with a centralised leadership, many forms of discipline are used to counter criticism of doctrine, with punishments ranging from restriction of official duties to excommunication (disfellowshipping).
Those who have been thrown out of the church often find themselves ostracised by fellow believers.
A growing number of former and current Jehovahs Witnesses have begun to argue that the religions use of the word "mentally diseased" to describe defectors could be in breach of religious hatred laws.
Watch this fascinating interview as Germ tells his story on MythVision.
Pentecostalism or Classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Christian movement[1][2] that emphasises direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit. The term Pentecostal is derived from Pentecost, an event that commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the followers of Jesus Christ, and the speaking in "foreign" tongues as described in the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. In Greek, it is the name for the Jewish Feast of Weeks.
Like other forms of evangelical Protestantism, Pentecostalism adheres to the inerrancy of the Bible and the necessity of the New Birth: an individual repenting of their sin and 'accepting Jesus Christ as personal Lord and Savior'. It is distinguished by belief in the "baptism in the Holy Spirit" that enables a Christian to "live a Spirit-filled and empowered life". This empowerment includes the use of spiritual gifts such as speaking in tongues and divine healing—two other defining characteristics of Pentecostalism. Because of their commitment to biblical authority, spiritual gifts, and the miraculous, Pentecostals tend to see their movement as reflecting the same kind of spiritual power and teachings that were found in the Apostolic Age of the early church. For this reason, some Pentecostals also use the term "Apostolic" or "Full Gospel" to describe their movement.
How old is the Hebrew Bible? Russell Gmirkin is an independent researcher specializing in the composition of the Torah (or Pentateuch, the first five books of the bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls. He is most well known for his defense of the view that the Pentateuch was written in its entirety by a team of Jewish scholars working in the Library of Alexandria in 273-272 BCE, who also published the Septuagint Greek translation of the Torah around the same time. This is a much later date of composition than has been traditionally accepted, although a significant minority of scholars now support his Hellenistic dating of the Pentateuch.
Creating Christ "Exhaustively annotated and illustrated, this explosive work of history unearths clues that finally demonstrate the truth about one of the world’s great religions: that it was born out of the conflict between the Romans and messianic Jews who fought a bitter war with each other during the 1st Century. The Romans employed a tactic they routinely used to conquer and absorb other nations: they grafted their imperial rule onto the religion of the conquered. After 30 years of research, authors James S. Valliant and C.W. Fahy present irrefutable archaeological and textual evidence that proves Christianity was created by Roman Caesars in this book that breaks new ground in Christian scholarship and is destined to change the way the world looks at ancient religions forever.
Inherited from a long-past era of tyranny, war and deliberate religious fraud, could Christianity have been created for an entirely different purpose than we have been lead to believe? Praised by scholars like Dead Sea Scrolls translator Robert Eisenman (James the Brother of Jesus), this exhaustive synthesis of historical detective work integrates all of the ancient sources about the earliest Christians and reveals new archaeological evidence for the first time. And, despite the fable presented in current bestsellers like Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Jesus, the evidence presented in Creating Christ is irrefutable: Christianity was invented by Roman Emperors."
Does James have physical evidence Rome Created Christianity?
With over 8 million followers worldwide, Jehovah's Witnesses are a unique yet misunderstood religious group. Jehovah’s Witnesses are bible literalists who believe in Adam and Eve, Noah’s Ark, and maintain that we are in the "last of the last days" and that Armageddon will occur at anytime.Watch this fascinating interview with Lloyd Evans.
Lloyd was a very active Jehovah's Witness his entire life. He is now an Ex Jehovah's Witness. Baptized at the young age into the religion, Lloyd was a former pioneer and Elder. He has left the Jehovahs Witness faith & is an outspoken activist on the cult to help others escape.
In this first of a comprehensive two-volume study of the Old and New Testaments, Dr. Robert M. Price builds a spacious and sturdy ark to carry Bible readers over the floods of mystery that have long perplexed them. Why are there multiple creation stories? Who are the “sons of god” in Genesis? What’s really going on with those Isaiah passages that preachers love to read at Christmas?
Putting a lifetime of biblical scholarship hard at work on perhaps his most momentous project yet, Dr. Price explains the mysteries without scorning them. The beloved old Bible is revealed to be indeed a Fable, but still a Holy one in its sprawling and fascinating way.
Dr. Robert M. Price discusses the Old Testament contradictions with Derek Lambert
Singer is the founder and director of Outreach Judaism, a Jewish counter-missionary organization. It describes itself as "an international organization that responds directly to the issues raised by missionaries and cults, by exploring Judaism in contradistinction to fundamentalist Christianity." Singer cautions regarding congregations that "are designed to appear Jewish, but are actually fundamentalist Christian churches, which use traditional Jewish symbols to lure the most vulnerable of our Jewish people into their ranks." Outreach Judaism was described by J. Gordon Melton in 2002 as an example of "the current state of Jewish counter-cult activity."
Rabbi Tovia Singer wanted to understand why Jews have been persecuted throughout history so he read the New Testament and found out why they have been targeted. It appears Rabbi Tovia Singer has devoted his life to showing how the authors of the New Testament corrupted the Hebrew scriptures in the Septuagint. He shows how Paul manipulated the text just as bad as modern tv preachers to suite his gentile audience.
Rabbi Tovia Singer is the founder and director of Outreach Judaism, a Jewish counter-missionary organization. It describes itself as "an international organization that responds directly to the issues raised by missionaries and cults, by exploring Judaism in contradistinction to fundamentalist Christianity." Singer cautions regarding congregations that "are designed to appear Jewish, but are actually fundamentalist Christian churches, which use traditional Jewish symbols to lure the most vulnerable of our Jewish people into their ranks." Outreach Judaism was described by J. Gordon Melton in 2002 as an example of "the current state of Jewish counter-cult activity."
Did the Church corrupt scripture?
Rabbi Tovia Singer is the founder and director of Outreach Judaism, a Jewish counter-missionary organization. It describes itself as "an international organization that responds directly to the issues raised by missionaries and cults, by exploring Judaism in contradistinction to fundamentalist Christianity." Singer cautions regarding congregations that "are designed to appear Jewish, but are actually fundamentalist Christian churches, which use traditional Jewish symbols to lure the most vulnerable of our Jewish people into their ranks." Outreach Judaism was described by J. Gordon Melton in 2002 as an example of "the current state of Jewish counter-cult activity."
Did the Church corrupt scripture?
Heres what they don't want you to know about Noahs flood/ark with Dr. Robert M. Price
Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me is a book by Ron Miscavige and Dan Koon, published in 2016 by St. Martin's Press in the United States and Silvertail Books in the United Kingdom. Written by the father of Scientology leader David Miscavige, it presents a personal account of life in the Church of Scientology, the rise of David Miscavige to the church's leadership, and the aftermath of Ron Miscavige's decision to leave the church.
The only book to examine the origins of Scientology's current leader, RUTHLESS tells the revealing story of David Miscavige's childhood and his path to the head seat of the Church of Scientology told through the eyes of his father. Ron Miscavige's personal, heartfelt story is a riveting insider's look at life within the world of Scientology. This cult has damaged many families just as all the other cults have.
Christian Apologists love the Dead Sea Scrolls simply by virtue of how old they are, how many there are & how many of them are very close or match exactly with the traditional Hebrew text. Unfortunately many apologists are only telling half-truths for part of the story about the DSS. Join Dr. Kipp and me as we explore the invention of Monotheism and the failure of Prophecy in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Steve N. Mason is a Canadian historian of Judea in the Graeco-Roman period, best known for his studies of Josephus and early Christian writings. He was professor of classics, history and religious studies at York University in Toronto. He has been Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis at Aberdeen University (2011–2015) and works today at the University of Groningen, Holland.
He discusses the earliest recorded history of the second generation of Christians live on MythVision Podcast.
The eschatology of Jehovah's Witnesses is central to their religious beliefs. They believe that Jesus Christ has been ruling in heaven as king since 1914 (a date they believe was prophesied in Scripture), and that after that time a period of cleansing occurred, resulting in God's selection of the Bible Students associated with Charles Taze Russell to be his people in 1919. They also believe the destruction of those who reject their message and thus willfully refuse to obey God will shortly take place at Armageddon, ensuring that the beginning of the new earthly society will be composed of willing subjects of that kingdom.
The group's doctrines surrounding 1914 are the legacy of a series of emphatic claims regarding the years 1799, 1874, 1878, 1914, 1918 and 1925 made in the Watch Tower Society's publications between 1879 and 1924. Claims about the significance of those years, including the presence of Jesus Christ, the beginning of the "last days", the destruction of worldly governments and the earthly resurrection of Jewish patriarchs, were successively abandoned. In 1922 the society's principal journal, Watch Tower, described its chronology as "no stronger than its weakest link", but also claimed the chronological relationships to be "of divine origin and divinely corroborated...in a class by itself, absolutely and unqualifiedly correct" and "indisputable facts", while repudiation of Russell's teachings was described as "equivalent to a repudiation of the Lord".
The Watch Tower Society has stated that its early leaders promoted "incomplete, even inaccurate concepts". The Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses says that, unlike Old Testament prophets, its interpretations of the Bible are not inspired or infallible. Witness publications say that Bible prophecies can be fully understood only after their fulfillment, citing examples of biblical figures who did not understand the meaning of prophecies they received. Watch Tower publications often cite Proverbs 4:18, "The path of the righteous ones is like the bright light that is getting lighter and lighter until the day is firmly established" (NWT) to support their view that there would be an increase in knowledge during "the time of the end", as mentioned in Daniel 12:4. Jehovah's Witnesses state that this increase in knowledge needs adjustments. Watch Tower publications also say that unfulfilled expectations are partly due to eagerness for God's Kingdom and that they do not call their core beliefs into question.
Rabbi Tovia Singer is the founder and director of Outreach Judaism, a Jewish counter-missionary organization. It describes itself as "an international organization that responds directly to the issues raised by missionaries and cults, by exploring Judaism in contradistinction to fundamentalist Christianity." Singer cautions regarding congregations that "are designed to appear Jewish, but are actually fundamentalist Christian churches, which use traditional Jewish symbols to lure the most vulnerable of our Jewish people into their ranks." Outreach Judaism was described by J. Gordon Melton in 2002 as an example of "the current state of Jewish counter-cult activity."
Rabbi Tovia Singer explains why Jews reject Jesus of the New Testament as the messiah.
The virgin birth of Jesus is the Christian doctrine that Jesus was conceived and born by his mother Mary through the power of the Holy Spirit and without sexual intercourse. It is mentioned only in Matthew 1:18-25 and Luke 1:26-38, and the modern scholarly consensus is that the narrative rests on very slender historical foundations.
The ancient world had no understanding that male semen and female ovum were both needed to form a fetus; this cultural milieu was conducive to miraculous birth stories, and tales of virgin birth and the impregnation of mortal women by deities were well known in the 1st-century Greco-Roman world and Second Temple Jewish works. Matthew and Luke use the virgin birth (or more accurately the divine conception that precedes it) to mark the moment when Jesus becomes the Son of God, in distinction to Mark, for whom the Sonship dates from Jesus's baptism,[Mark 1:9-13] and Paul and the pre-Pauline Christians for whom Jesus becomes the Son only at the Resurrection or even the Second Coming.
The Eastern Orthodox Churches accept the doctrine as authoritative by reason of its inclusion in the Nicene Creed, and the Catholic Church likewise holds it authoritative for faith through the Apostles' Creed as well as the Nicene. Christians, including Protestants, traditionally regard it as an explanation of the mixture of the human and divine natures of Jesus. Nevertheless, there are many contemporary churches in which it is considered orthodox to accept the virgin birth but not heretical to deny it.
Five Views on the Exodus looks at competing views on the historicity, chronology, and theological implications of the exodus. The biblical account of the Israelite exodus from Egypt is one of the most enduring narratives ever told and is a foundational event for several world religions. It resonates across cultures with its timeless themes of redemption and deliverance. It is also the only explanation the Bible gives for Israel's origin.
Despite its unique legacy, many scholars regard the exodus as fictitious or a cultural memory that may not be a historical event. Even among those who believe the exodus happened, there is no consensus regarding its date. Five Views on the Exodus brings together experts in the fields of biblical studies, Egyptology, and archaeology to discuss and debate the most vexing questions about the exodus. Each offers their own view and offer constructive responses to other leading views on the exodus.
The five views presented here include:
Early Date: The Exodus Took Place in the Fifteenth Century BC (Scott Stripling) Late Date: A Historical Exodus in the Thirteenth Century BC (James K. Hoffmeier) A Hyksos Levite Led Exodus in the Time of Ramesses II (Peter Feinman) Alternative Late Date: The Exodus Took Place in the Twelfth Century BC (Gary A. Rendsburg) The Exodus as Cultural Memory: A Transformation of Historical Events (Ronald Hendel)
Dr. Richard Carrier doesn't believe there was a real Jesus in history. The probability is that he was a complete myth who was later historicized.
Robert McNair Price (born 7 July 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught theology and religious studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. Price is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.
A former Baptist minister, Price was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush.
Price is a fellow of the suspended Jesus Project, a group of 150 individuals who study the historicity of Jesus and the Gospels, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist. Among other things, Price does not accept the historicity of Jesus and does not believe that Nazareth existed in the time of Jesus.
Robert McNair Price (born 7 July 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught theology and religious studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. Price is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on biblical studies and the historicity of Jesus.
A former Baptist minister, Price was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush.
Price is a fellow of the suspended Jesus Project, a group of 150 individuals who study the historicity of Jesus and the Gospels, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist. Among other things, Price does not accept the historicity of Jesus and does not believe that Nazareth existed in the time of Jesus.
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"I'm Harrison Cother, a former Jehovah's Witness who disassociated in 2020. This decision was not taken lightly, and came with great personal pain and heartache. However, I couldn't ignore the overwhelming feeling of moral obligation that I'd developed to help others develop critical thinking skills and skepticism. The objective of this channel is to encourage ones to build a belief system based on evidence rather than emotion; to analyze different perspectives while attempting to be as unbiased and intellectually honest as possible. If just one of my videos contributes to helping someone awake from severe mental indoctrination, all of this will have been worthwhile."
Harrison Cother was a staunch Jehovah's Witness who began to study all sides of the issues pertaining to the bible. He was raised to believe the Bible is Inerrant, Infallible and without error. It was true and Science must line up with the Bible. God cannot lie and he set out to perform apologetics to prove this is true however despite his best efforts was opening his eyes to the truth of the matter, hence his YouTube channel being called, "The Truth Hurts". Harrison will take us through 3 things that debunk Christianity.
Why would anyone think Jesus never existed? Isn’t it perfectly reasonable to accept that he was a real first century figure? As it turns out, no. NAILED sheds light on ten beloved Christian myths, and with evidence gathered from historians all across the theological spectrum, shows how they point to a Jesus Christ created solely through allegorical alchemy of hope and imagination; a messiah transformed from a purely literary, theological construct into the familiar figure of Jesus – in short, a purely mythic Christ.
Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed At All
“Fitzgerald’s is possibly the best ‘capsule summary’ of the mythicist case I’ve ever encountered …with an interesting and accessible approach.” —Earl Doherty, author of The Jesus Puzzle
“Fitzgerald summarizes a great number of key arguments concisely and with new power and original spin. I really learned something from him. Recalls classical skeptics and biblical critics. A surprising amount of new material.” —Robert M. Price, author of Deconstructing Jesus and The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man
“David Fitzgerald reveals himself to be the brightest new star in the firmament of scholars who deny historical reality to “Jesus of Nazareth.” His brilliance would have been sufficiently established had he done nothing more than illustrate and explain traditional arguments with a clarity and transparency never achieved…But he has done more. He has developed new arguments and insights as well...” —Frank R. Zindler, editor of American Atheist Press and author of The Jesus the Jews Never Knew
“Fitzgerald has hit the nail on the head…A nice, readable introduction to the top ten problems typically swept under the rug by anyone insisting it's crazy even to suspect Jesus might not have existed.” —Richard C. Carrier, Ph.D., author of Not the Impossible Faith: Why Christianity Didn’t Need a Miracle to Succeed and the forthcoming book On the Historicity of Jesus Christ
David Fitzgerald is a writer and historical researcher who has been actively investigating the Historical Jesus question for over ten years. He has a degree in History and was an associate member of CSER, the former Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion. He lectures around the country at universities and national secular events and is best known for his popular multimedia presentation "The Ten Thousand Christs and the Evaporating Jesus."
Debate starts at 8:06 Did Jesus Exist? Debate: Dr. Richard Carrier vs. Dr. Dennis R. MacDonald - Mythicist vs Historicist The origins and rapid rise of Christianity, as well as the historical Jesus and the historicity of Jesus, are a matter of longstanding debate in theological and historical research. While Christianity may have started with an early nucleus of followers of Jesus, within a few years after the presumed death of Jesus in c. AD 33, at the time Paul started preaching, a number of "Jesus-movements" seem to have been in existence, which propagated divergent interpretations of Jesus' teachings. A central question is how these communities developed and what their original convictions were, as a wide range of beliefs and ideas can be found in early Christianity, including adoptionism and docetism, and also Gnostic traditions which used Christian imagery, which were all deemed heretical by proto-orthodox Christianity.
Richard Carrier is an American author and activist, whose work focuses on empiricism, atheism, and the historicity of Jesus. A long-time contributor to self-published philosophical web sites, including The Secular Web and Freethought Blogs, Carrier has published a number of books and articles on philosophy and religion in classical antiquity, discussing the development of early Christianity from a skeptical viewpoint, and concerning religion and morality in the modern world. He has publicly debated a number of scholars on the historical basis of the Bible and Christianity. He is a prominent advocate of the theory that Jesus did not exist, which he has argued in a number of his works.
Dennis R. MacDonald is the John Wesley Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Claremont School of Theology in California. MacDonald proposes a theory wherein the earliest books of the New Testament were responses to the Homeric Epics, including the Gospel of Mark and the Acts of the Apostles. The methodology he pioneered is called Mimesis Criticism. If his theories are correct then "nearly everything written on [the] early Christian narrative is flawed." According to him, modern biblical scholarship has failed to recognize the impact of Homeric Poetry.
The other major branch of MacDonald's scholarly activity is his contribution to the Synoptic Problem. He calls his solution the Q+/Papias Hypothesis.
With over 8 million followers worldwide, Jehovah's Witnesses are a unique yet misunderstood religious group. Jehovah’s Witnesses are bible literalists who believe in Adam and Eve, Noah’s Ark, and maintain that we are in the "last of the last days" and that Armageddon will occur at anytime.Watch this fascinating interview with Cliff Henderson also known as ExJW Fifth.
Cliff was a very active Jehovah's Witness his entire life. He is now an Ex Jehovah's Witness. Baptized at the young age of 9 into the religion, Cliff was a former pioneer, ministerial servant, bethelite, and also served in two foreign language congregations.
In 2016, Cliff discovered the truth about Watchtower, otherwise known as Jehovah's Witnesses. Because Cliff refused to believe in Watchtower doctrine any longer, he sadly is now being shunned essentially by everyone he has ever known.
Ladies and Gentlemen. MythVision Podcast just dropped an interview with Dr. Bart D. Ehrman that is going to go viral. Christian apologist, Jonathan McClatchie, has been taking pot-shots at Dr. Ehrman with a series of hit pieces aimed at discrediting him as a professional scholar. Well, I got Dr. Ehrman’s detailed response in the can. We roasted all of the Christian apologists doing gymnastics routines to harmonize the New Testament. You don’t want to miss this!
Dr. Ehrman compares Apollonius of Tyanna to Jesus. Did Jesus condone slavery? What was the growth rate of Christianity in its earliest decades? How many Christians defected the movement when the promised predictions failed? Is Bart Ehrman secretly a Mythicist?
Thanks to Stephen Nelson for all of his hard work putting together the slides, delving into the Greek and discovering Jonathan McLatchie's mistake. If only he had more time to fact check all of McLatchie's points! Who knows how many other mistakes he has made when taking pot-shots on Dr. Ehrman.
Jen Fishburne was born into a Christian family. She always had a passion for the study of scripture. The various denominations of Christian churches caused her to desire what the Bible actually teaches. Over the years she began to apply critical thinking skills to her study of the bible. After applying a critical method she found herself further from the context of the narrative in the Bible.
Contact Jen Fishburne https://www.facebook.com/Jensgems https://www.youtube.com/c/JenFishburn... jenfishburne@Gmail.com
Robert M. Price - The Amazing Colossal Apostle: The Search for the Historical Paul. The story of Paul is one of irony, the New Testament depicting him at the martyrdom of Stephen holding the assassins' cloaks. Then this same Paul is transformed into the biblical archetype for someone suffering for their faith. He becomes so entrenched, it would appear that he had walked with the Christians all his life, that he was the one who defined the faith, eventually being called the “second founder of Christianity.” But much of what we think we "know" about Paul comes from Sunday school stories we heard as children. The stories were didactic tales meant to keep us reverent and obedient.
As adults reading the New Testament, we catch glimpses of a very different kind of disciple—a wild ascetic whom Tertullian dubbed “the second apostle of Marcion and the apostle of the heretics.” What does scholarship tell us about the enigmatic thirteenth apostle who looms larger than life in the New Testament? The epistles give evidence of having been written at the end of the first century or early in the second—too late to have been Paul’s actual writings. So who wrote (and rewrote) them? F. C. Baur, a nineteenth-century theologian, pointed persuasively to Simon Magus as the secret identity of “Paul.” Robert M. Price, in this exciting journey of discovery, gives readers the background for a story we thought we knew.
The Pauline Epistles / Pauls letters get a up close examination in this interview with Dr. Robert M. Price.
Meet JT & Lady Cee from EX JW Critical Thinkers.
Both are Ex Jehovahs Witness activists and are prominent members in the Ex Jehovah's Witnesses community. Their mission is to assist individuals in exercising "Critical Thinking" when examining the teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses. They are dedicated to assisting those who have been influenced by this group by helping them to apply “critical thinking” to make better decisions. JT & Lady Cee strongly believe that if you don't know what you're getting into, you will regret it later and that it is essential to get a confirmation that the Jehovah's Witnesses are not a select group of people chosen by God.
According to JW.ORG, Jehovah's Witnesses spend over 1.6 billion hours last year in more than 200 countries knocking on doors, preaching & proselytizing asking the fundamental question, "are you open-minded enough to examine, question, and challenge the teachings of your faith"? Thus, entrusting individuals willing to do so.
JT & Lady Cee use the same approach when helping Jehovah's Witnesses by asking them, "are you open-minded enough to examine, challenge, and question the teachings of the Watchtower"?
As released by JW.org itself on their official website, last service year Watchtower reported a decline in members for the first time in 42 years.
In this interview, we ask the couple to weigh in with their opinion as to why the Jehovah’s Witness religion (Watchtower) is in decline.
The Book of Daniel is a 2nd-century BCE biblical apocalypse with an ostensible 6th century BCE setting. Ostensibly "an account of the activities and visions of Daniel, a noble Jew exiled at Babylon", it combines a prophecy of history with an eschatology (a portrayal of end times) both cosmic in scope and political in focus, and its message is that just as the God of Israel saves Daniel from his enemies, so he would save all Israel in their present oppression.
The Hebrew Bible includes Daniel in the Ketuvim (writings), while Christian Bibles group the work with the Major Prophets. It divides into two parts, a set of six court tales in chapters 1–6, written mostly in Aramaic, and four apocalyptic visions in chapters 7–12, written mostly in Hebrew; the deuterocanon contains three additional sections, the Song of the Three Holy Children, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon.
The book's influence has resonated through later ages, from the community of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the authors of the gospels and of Revelation, to various movements from the 2nd century to the Protestant Reformation and modern millennialist movements—on which it continues to have a profound influence.
Dr. Carrier's blog on Daniel being a forgery https://www.richardcarrier.info/archi...
Dr. Richard Carrier- On The Historicity of Jesus... "The assumption that Jesus existed as a historical person has occasionally been questioned in the course of the last hundred years or so, but any doubts that have been raised have usually been put to rest in favor of imagining a blend of the historical, the mythical and the theological in the surviving records of Jesus."
Dr. Robert M. Price has also written extensively on Jesus Mythicism or Christ Mythicism. The Celestial Christ was most likely Paul's Christ instead of a historical figure says Dr. Robert M. Price.
Dr. Robert M. Price talks about the Adam and Eve story in Genesis Creation like no one I have ever heard. Was this story taken from other Mesopotamian sources? Is there a connection between these other genesis myths and the Bible's?
Dr. Price begins his response by drawing attention to the fact that “Adam was not the only first man myth held in ancient Israel”. He brings up Enosh (not Enoch), name meaning “Man/Human Being”, and that Adam means “Red Earth”. He talks about the consonant only writing and how letters can get mixed up and turned into other words.
Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition? - Robert M. Price
"This book should be mandatory reading for all scholars concerned with Christian origins ... nothing of comparable importance has been written for at least a decade." - Freethinker For more than a century scholars have been examining the Gospels and other traditions about the life of Jesus to determine their historical accuracy. Although the results of these scholarly efforts are sometimes controversial, the consensus among researchers today is that the four Evangelists' accounts cannot be taken at face value. In fact, a team of more than 100 scholars called the Jesus Seminar has come to the conclusion that on average only about 18 percent of the four Gospels is historically accurate.An active member of the Jesus Seminar, Dr. Robert M. Price presents the fruits of this important historical research in this fascinating discussion of early Christianity. As the title suggests, Price is none too optimistic about the reliability of the Gospel tradition as a source of accurate historical information about the life of Jesus. Indeed, he feels that his colleagues in the Jesus Seminar are much too optimistic in their estimate of authentic material in the Gospels. After an introduction to the historical-critical method for nonspecialists and a critique of the methods used by the Jesus Seminar, Price systematically discusses the narrative and teaching materials in the Gospel, clearly presenting what is known and not known about all of the major episodes of Jesus' life. He also examines the parables for authenticity as well as Jesus' teachings about the Kingdom of God, repentance, prayer, possessions and poverty, the Atonement, and many other features of the Gospels.Written for the general reading public in a lively and accessible style, Dr. Price's highly informative discussion will be of interest to anyone who has wondered about the origins of Christianity.
Robert M. Price and Derek Lambert discuss Christian Apologetics and the pagan parallels to Jesus in the New Testament. Are there really parallels to dying and rising gods and Jesus?
Mike Rinder is a former senior executive of the Church of Scientology International (CSI) and the Sea Organization based in the United States.
From 1982 to 2007 Mike served on the board of directors of CSI and also held the post of executive director of its Office of Special Affairs, overseeing the corporate, legal and public relations matters of Scientology at the international level.
Mike was raised a Scientologist, knew L. Ron Hubbard personally, and became David Miscavige's "right hand man" as he led Scientology's "Office of Special Affairs" (OSA).
The OSA handled media and public relations, legal and government relations, and dealing with the "enemies of Scientology."
Mike Rinder left Scientology in 2007.
Mike appeared in the Scientology documentary "Going Clear," as well as in the documentary TV Series "Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath." (Currently on Netflix)
He currently co-hosts a podcast with Leah Remini called "Scientology: Fair Game."
Bart Denton Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. He has written and edited 30 books, including three college textbooks. He has also authored six New York Times bestsellers. He is currently the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Preterism, a Christian eschatological view, interprets some (partial preterism) or all (full preterism) prophecies of the Bible as events which have already happened. This school of thought interprets the Book of Daniel as referring to events that happened from the 7th century BC until the first century AD, while seeing the prophecies of the Book of Revelation as events that happened in the first century AD. Preterism holds that Ancient Israel finds its continuation or fulfillment in the Christian church at the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.
The term preterism comes from the Latin praeter, which is a prefix denoting that something is "past" or "beyond". Adherents of preterism are known as preterists. Preterism teaches that either all (full preterism) or a majority (partial preterism) of the Olivet discourse had come to pass by AD 70.
Kenneth Humphreys - Jesus Never Existed "Christianity was the ultimate product of religious syncretism in the ancient world. Its emergence owed nothing to a holy carpenter. There were many Jesuses but the fable was a cultural construct.
The nativity yarn is a concatenation of nonsense. The genealogies of Jesus, both Matthew's version and Luke's, are pious fiction. Nazareth did not exist in the 1st century AD – the area was a burial ground of rock-cut tombs.
With multiple authors behind the original gospel story it is no surprise that the figure of "Jesus" is a mess of contradictions. Yet the story is so thinly drawn that being a "good Christian" might mean almost anything.
The 12 disciples are as fictitious as their master, invented to legitimise the claims of the early churches. The original Mary was not a virgin, that idea was borrowed from pagan goddesses. The pagan world knew all about virgins getting pregnant by randy gods: The Mythical "Virgin Mother".
Scholars have known all this for more than 200 years but priestcraft is a highly profitable business and finances an industry of deceit to keep the show on the road.
"Jesus better documented than any other ancient figure"? Don't believe a word of it. Unlike the mythical Jesus, a real historical figure like Julius Caesar has a mass of mutually supporting evidence." Kenneth Humphreys and The Apostle Paul
Bart Denton Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. He has written and edited 30 books, including three college textbooks. He has also authored six New York Times bestsellers. He is currently the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Preterism, a Christian eschatological view, interprets some (partial preterism) or all (full preterism) prophecies of the Bible as events which have already happened. This school of thought interprets the Book of Daniel as referring to events that happened from the 7th century BC until the first century AD, while seeing the prophecies of the Book of Revelation as events that happened in the first century AD. Preterism holds that Ancient Israel finds its continuation or fulfillment in the Christian church at the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.
The term preterism comes from the Latin praeter, which is a prefix denoting that something is "past" or "beyond". Adherents of preterism are known as preterists. Preterism teaches that either all (full preterism) or a majority (partial preterism) of the Olivet discourse had come to pass by AD 70.
Check out Dr. Ehrman's website and join his blog here https://www.bartdehrman.com/
Steve N. Mason is a Canadian historian of Judea in the Graeco-Roman period, best known for his studies of Josephus and early Christian writings. He was professor of classics, history and religious studies at York University in Toronto. He has been Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis at Aberdeen University (2011–2015) and works today at the University of Groningen, Holland.
He discusses the earliest recorded history of the first Christians live on MythVision Podcast.
Dr. David Skrbina discusses his research on Jesus being a Hoax. Is Jesus a hoax or Lie? Did the authors purposefully write lies down with the intention of tricking people? Watch this episode to hear this theory.
David Skrbina websites: Jesus hoax.com Davidskrbina.com
From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan’s story into an audacious exploration of Christianity’s shadow side, in which the gospel of love gives way to irrational hatreds that continue to haunt Christians and non-Christians alike.
Ralph Ellis believes he has discovered who the historical Adam & Eve are by looking at The Egyptian Pharaoh & his wife Nefertiti. He uses a model that tries to fill the gap using a variety of details that give him the idea these Israelites were in fact the Hyksos Egyptians.
Ralph Ellis takes us into a journey of who these two men were who turned the world upside down! If you enjoy these discussions let us know.
Aron Ra, "I saw an article in Inquisitor today,wherein someone read through 126 historic documents from 1st century Israel, written by people who should have known about Jesus, yet had never heard of him. This includes Josephus, whose only mention of Jesus is now known to have been a forgery or redaction inserted later by someone else.
Josephus also wrote extensively about Herod the Great, but never mentioned the Slaughter of the Innocents, the story of Jesus’ childhood which mirrors the tale of Moses’ childhood. This is because they’re both just stories following popular themes. This is only part of the evidence that Jesus never existed, or at least among the reasons to suspect that Jesus never existed, which explains why I am now a mythicist.
It’s not just that I don’t believe that Jesus is a god, nor the son of God, nor a prophet of God. There is no such thing as gods, just like there’s no such thing as ghosts, and magic doesn’t really work either. Russell Brand criticized “atheistic tyranny” for denying the supernatural, but there is no supernatural to deny. The whole concept of the supernatural is evidently a product of human imagination, deceptive pattern recognition, confirmation bias, and a host of other perceptual, logical, and intellectual failures to discern fact from phantasm."
Who was Jesus?
Meet Alan John Miller (AJ) aka ‘Aussie Jesus’ from Divine Truth.
Divine Truth is a new spiritual movement based in Queensland, Australia.
It was started in 2007 by spiritual teacher Alan John Miller, also known as A.J., who claims to be the returned Jesus of Nazareth.
Miller claims that Divine Truth is God's truth and is the "absolute truth of the universe".
The teachings of the Divine Truth movement focus primarily on how a person can evolve their soul in love and develop a personal relationship with God, like Jesus did in the first century.
This process includes prayer (longing for God’s Divine Love), following one’s loving desires and passions, taking personal responsibility for one’s own emotions, as well as ”Emotional Clearing" or "Emotional Processing” to clear the soul of emotional errors.
A.J has produced many videos freely available on YouTube (see link below), in which he teaches the "Divine truth."
Additionally, he has written many letters detailing his thoughts and beliefs, most of which he has signed as ‘Jesus’.
Watch this fascinating interview as A.J aka ‘Aussie Jesus’ tells his story on MythVision.