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still going Naz? apparently.

One good book might be Paul, Apostle of the Heart Set Free by F. F. Bruce. This is probably the best work that focuses on Paul. There are plenty of NT Archaeology books. There's a whole book called Archaeology and the New Testament by John McRay (I can't vouch for him; I've never read his...

Let's not bring Chuck Missler into this, please. That man should not be allowed near scripture.

Actually, Peter's ossuary has never been found. I promise. The "first century" franciscan find you're referencing might be the graffiti from the first or very early second century which mention's peter's mother in law. Since it's in Galilee (and now you can see a franciscan church -- I call it a...

The so called "Josephus" mentions of Jesus are actually Christian additions put in later; when Josephus does talk about JBap, he is not very supportive. But in one section, the Christians added to a section which mentioned many claiming to be Messiahs, "one came from Galilee named Yeshua. He was...

it took me a long long time realise that our job as Christians was not to conquer sin -- that has already been done -- but rather to serve God. If you choose not to serve God any longer (ie Hebrews 6) of course you lose out on what you have been offered. That is the full testimony of scripture...

Some people make way way too big a difference about articles in Greek and other languages. Suffice it to say, if you ever make a doctrinal decision based on an article, you are making a decision in a very poor way.

what'd you do, discover your concordance or something? Anyone can walk through the bible and collect verses -- I would be far more englightened if you gave some meaning to your work.

Oh jeez. Anyway, the image of the vineyard comes from the song of the vineyard in Isaiah. It is basically an allegory of the prophets coming and being destroyed and finally Christ being sent. It would make the Jews very very angry.

It's one thing to explain a contradiction where there is a reasonable explanation -- it's quite another to make stuff up and then rationalize away reasonable doubt by saying "the scriptures must be true!" First, it doesn't mean your solution is correct (and here the solutions so far offered are...

An argument from silence is not good enough.

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There are lots of other ways the basalt could have made it up -- and the article claimed the piece of basalt might be a piece of wood from the boat. Big diff. Anyway, when the bible says the water came up from the earth, it's talking about a primordial sea that Canaanites and Israelites...

It's not the different translation that matters. It's the different manuscript traditions: Masoretic Text: sons of Israel Dead Sea Scrolls 1: Sons of El Dead Sea Scrolls 2: Sons of the gods LXX version 1: angels of God

I think that's a good idea.

One passage that should have been mentioned in connection with all of this is Deuteronomy 32:8f. I urge someone to take a look and tell me what they think (hint: you may have to use the footnotes in your bible; 2nd hint: you need a bible written after the 60s).

1. Don't ever define a Hebrew word based on a concordance. A concordance is not meant for doing lexical work. 2. sons of God does mean angels in early Judaism, but the equivocation at this point in history is debatable.

[/FONT] ...in a contradictory manner. Personally, I think people who harmonize this passage as you have are not paying quite enough attention to what Paul actually wrote and what was written by Luke (and how it was intended there).

The answer lies in how women were thought of in the ancient world. Part of the issue is that there are many "statuses" of women in Hebrew custom -- but almost all of them were of property for a male. I won't get into a dissertation on this, but this much is clear: there existed a woman who was...

We do in fact know what color Jews were because we have pictures of them drawn my romans and Greeks; we have descriptions by ancient historians of the Greek period; we have the testimony of scripture which calls a man אדם, "mud," and we have common sense.