The introductory section of this footnote on Jesus sets the context for the points I want to make via a brief sketch of the arguments of Yoder and Boyarin. A footnote on Jesus The editors in several places quote the words of Jesus as taken from the translation of Stephen Mitchell, who ...
On p. 119 of the book Thomas Jefferson (1918), written by David Saville Muzzey, Ph.D., who was then a professor of history at Colombia University, I have found the very enlightening quote that follows below: An American brig, the Betsy, was seized and taken to Morocco in the spring ...
It’s nothing short of poetic irony that the now-well-known quote above was first spoken by none other than Sir Isaac Newton; it’s ironic, because, well, if there’s an identifiable giant that influenced the greatest discoveries & inventions of the 20th century, it’s incontrovertibly Si...
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I had, for eighteen years, never been looked upon with such direct eye contact; my strangely distorted body would not allow such. The deformity, bending me from the waist downward, happened gradually but over a short span of time. The simple act of walking would become both laborious physica...
s terrifying. So as a Christian, I’d attempt to put on my “spiritual armour” as we read in Ephesians 6 and even quote scripture such as Romans 8:38-39. We read in the book of Matthew that the Word of God was Jesus’s defense against the lies of Satan in the desert so that ...
s terrifying. So as a Christian, I’d attempt to put on my “spiritual armour” as we read in Ephesians 6 and even quote scripture such as Romans 8:38-39. We read in the book of Matthew that the Word of God was Jesus’s defense against the lies of Satan in the desert so that ...
During this period, Satan appeared before him and tried three times to tempt Jesus into demonstrating his supernatural powers as proof of his divine status; each temptation was refused by Jesus, with a scriptural quote from the Book of Deuteronomy. Jesus then began to preach. John describes ...
Tertullian’s rejection of the idea that Mary was a virgin post partem involves the rejection of the idea of perpetual virginity, not apparently yet an ecclesiastical tradition with which Tertullian is familiar. Helvidius later is to quote Tertullian in favor of his belief that Mary had ...
” So the next time you’re behind a car with a Darwin bumper sticker, take solace in knowing they believe in a guy that believed in God- although I doubt they know that. By the way, even Darwin did not fully endorse his own theory. A favorite Darwin quote: “But it deserves ...