Posts Tagged ‘bible’

September 10, 2009 4

The Bible as Myth

By Nick in religious

So this video may not come as a mind blowing video to you, my reader, but think about this video in a Sunday School setting or used in a sermon. Then I think it becomes a powerful tool. I have been bumping into RYF website a little bit lately, here is an example of some [...]

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July 5, 2009 3

Reading the Bible with Ehrman

By Nick in religious

Imagine playing telephone not among a group of kids of the same socioeconomic class from the same neighborhood and same school and of the same age speaking the same language, but imagine playing it for forty or more years, in different countries, in different contexts, in different languages. Jesus Interrupted page 147, on the gospels [...]

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June 29, 2009 6

Rapture Warnings

By Nick in uncategorized

When I was in school studying literature, ‘rapture’ had something to do with an extreme emotional involvement in an experience that could transcend the physical, and lots of times it had to do with a sexual context hidden ever so slightly. In the world of literalist biblical interpretation and biblical studies, rapture means something else. [...]

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June 25, 2009 9

Reading the Bible with Ehrman

By Nick in podcast, religious

“. . . each author of the Bible needs to be allowed to have his own say, since in many instances what one author has to say on a subject is not what another says. Sometimes the differences are a matter of stress and emphasis; sometimes they are discrepancies in different narratives or between different [...]

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