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These authors often advocate unorthodox interpretations: Jesus never died on the cross; he was connected with the Qumran community; someone else changed his message to fit their own desires; he traveled to various parts of the word during the so called "silent years" or even after the crucifixi...
We have no proof of his connection to or sympathy toward the Catholic Church, and in fact, since he was previously associated with the Know-Nothing Party, we have clear proof that he probably had a low opinion of Catholics. But Dr. Samuel Mudd, it seems, was Catholic, as were the Surr...
completely failed to identify the dangers he was consciously leading Israel into when establishing a government of annexation and dispossession, when appointing Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir to key positions, while embracing a foreign policy that openly ignored the existence and rights of Palest...
Jesus' self-understanding reflects his identity, his triune salvific role; this is for Lewis, the transposed reality of divine Sonship. Reason and logic are paramount here, reflected in the structure of Lewis's argument. Lewis's trilemma is not so much a proof of God's existence, but a ...
I will take the burden of proof to show that the particular church at Rome was organized as a presbytery until the middle to later part of the second century—refuting the claim that Jesus founded the RCC. By “presbyterian,” I am not thinking particularly of a current denomination or ...
This is by contrast to what the Church has known over the centuries Paul (and Jesus!) to have believed and taught. My friend's wife for her part at one point thought Dawkins and Hitchens were a kind of supreme word on God, and Bishop John Spong the same on Christianity. This seemed ...
This work includes a textual history, the manuscript draft of 1844–45 and a comparison of the final revised manuscript, completed in 1845, with the 1853 printing. Manuscripts in Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah (cited hereafter as LDS...
But he nevertheless introduced it and it has become one of the classical apologetic arguments for God’s existence. The second major teaching that Anselm gave us was the teaching on the Atonement; Anselm taught that Jesus died to ransom man back to God, the penalty of death was a penalty ...
The historical objects on display are proof of the European cultural and trade exchange that continued here for hundreds of years. The tourist route under the Main Market Square leads between the stone and brick walls of the cellars and stalls of former trading sites, the Great Scales, and ...