Contradictions in the Bible
Identified verse-by-verse & explained using the most up-to-date scholarly information about the Bible, its texts, and the men who wrote them.
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In Defense of Jesus:
A Challenge To Those Claiming To “Follow Jesus” (part I) -
Genesis 1 and the Creationism Debate:
Being Honest to the Text, Its Author, and His Beliefs - Did Moses Lie to Us? A Textual Journey (Part III)
- Did Moses Lie to Us? A Textual Journey (Part II)
- Did Moses Lie to Us? A Textual Journey (Part 1)
- Genesis 1:1-2:3 on Its Own Terms and in Its Own Historical and Literary Context
- Genesis 1:1-2 — not a Creation ex nihilo
- Genesis 1:3-5 — Day is Light
- Genesis 1:6-8 — Life Inside a Water Bubble
- Genesis 1:9-10 — The Creation of the Material Substance Earth, Not the Planet!
- Genesis 1:14-19 — The Creation of the Luminaries to Keep Yahweh’s Festivals
- Genesis 1:24-28 — Mankind, More than just an Animal
- Genesis 2:2-3 — Sacred Time Embedded into the Creation
- Genesis 2:4b-25 on Its Own Terms and in Its Own Historical and Literary Context
- Genesis 2:4b — Observing Thematic and Stylistic Differences
- Genesis 2:5 — Man and Rain: Prerequisites to the Creation of Plants
- Genesis 2:6-7 — Yahweh Molds an Earthling!
- Genesis 2:18-20 — Man and the Animals from the Ground, Woman from Man
- Matthew’s Jesus and the Criterion of Righteousness
- Introduction to Forthcoming Contradictions in the Bible
- Style, Vocabulary, and Message
- The Book of Deuteronomy: A Brief Introduction
- Using Moses to Rewrite History
- The Bible’s Contradictory Stories and “Histories”
- How do we know that the biblical writers were not writing history?
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In Defense of Jesus:
A Challenge To Those Claiming To “Follow Jesus” (part I)
Like many, I have grown tired of hearing overzealous Christian apologists and fundamentalists claim that they “follow Jesus” or are “followers of Jesus.” Why?
- Because (1) as a biblical scholar (PhD in New Testament & Early Christianity), I actually know what such claims meant to Jesus and his real 1st-2nd century followers, based on both textual and cultural evidence.
- And (2) as an ancient historian, I am also aware of the radical and glaring differences between our 21st century socioeconomic worldview, values, feigned religious beliefs, ethics, judicial ideas, and views of the Self and the world, and those of Jesus’ own time period, which, in point of fact, he and his followers sought to overturn (see forthcoming)—differences, in other words, that make it impossible to follow Jesus in the 21st century, and would have made it extremely difficult to have done so in the 1