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    Thread: They could use some Talmud scholars in Texas
Post: RE: They could use some Talmud scholars in Texas

(March 23, 2014 at 3:57 pm)xpastor Wrote: (March 23, 2014 at 3:39 pm)Chad32 Wrote: It's funny that these conditions were put in place by people with better moral standards than the writers of the ...
rightcoaster Politics 8 2583 April 1, 2014 at 4:08 pm
    Thread: lying for Jesus
Post: RE: lying for Jesus

(March 30, 2014 at 5:47 pm)xpastor Wrote: I am not anti-Semitic. I was trying to explain to you, along with Minimalist, that the gospels are indeed anti-Semitic and show very little knowledge of the...
rightcoaster Christianity 58 13312 March 30, 2014 at 8:44 pm
    Thread: lying for Jesus
Post: RE: lying for Jesus

(March 29, 2014 at 3:42 pm)xpastor Wrote: ... So, as I was saying, a sincere hillbilly preacher could be outraged at those moneychangers skimming 5% on each transaction or whatever they took. "Hillb...
rightcoaster Christianity 58 13312 March 30, 2014 at 4:17 pm
    Thread: lying for Jesus
Post: RE: lying for Jesus

(March 29, 2014 at 7:25 am)xpastor Wrote: (March 28, 2014 at 11:29 pm)rightcoaster Wrote: Do you think the "cleansing of the Temple" story was a fabrication? If so, what purpose might it have ser...
rightcoaster Christianity 58 13312 March 30, 2014 at 1:19 pm
    Thread: lying for Jesus
Post: RE: lying for Jesus

(March 29, 2014 at 12:56 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://plim.org/1Moneychangers%20in%20the%20Temple.htm Quote:What did the moneychangers do? The moneychangers served an important function within the ...
rightcoaster Christianity 58 13312 March 29, 2014 at 1:24 pm
    Thread: lying for Jesus
Post: RE: lying for Jesus

(March 28, 2014 at 4:06 pm)xpastor Wrote: I have finally ploughed my way through Ehrman's longer book, Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics, admittedly ...
rightcoaster Christianity 58 13312 March 28, 2014 at 11:29 pm
    Thread: The first Christians weren't Bible Christians
Post: RE: The first Christians weren't Bible Christians

(March 26, 2014 at 3:30 am)Aractus Wrote: (March 25, 2014 at 11:07 pm)rightcoaster Wrote: RC: ... if Paul was really a Pharisee trained by Gamaliel he'd not have used the LXX. In some of the lette...
rightcoaster Christianity 60 15813 March 26, 2014 at 10:26 am
    Thread: The first Christians weren't Bible Christians
Post: RE: The first Christians weren't Bible Christians

(March 24, 2014 at 5:43 am)Aractus Wrote: ... Paul seems to quote from the proto LXX ... I believe that Paul ... made use of a proto-LXX Someone here pointed me to a book by Hyam Maccoby on Paul a...
rightcoaster Christianity 60 15813 March 25, 2014 at 11:07 pm
    Thread: Deuteronomy 23:2
Post: RE: Deuteronomy 23:2

(March 21, 2014 at 1:18 am)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:These lines reflect the evolving schism between the followers of Jesus, all of whom were Torah-observant, Pharisaic Jews, including Jesus; and Paul...
rightcoaster Christianity 54 11039 March 21, 2014 at 9:42 am
    Thread: Deuteronomy 23:2
Post: RE: Deuteronomy 23:2

(March 20, 2014 at 9:26 am)Chad32 Wrote: (March 20, 2014 at 9:19 am)rightcoaster Wrote: Chad -- this is exactly where the Christians run off the rails. It is the difference between OT literalists,...
rightcoaster Christianity 54 11039 March 20, 2014 at 8:53 pm
    Thread: Deuteronomy 23:2
Post: RE: Deuteronomy 23:2

(March 19, 2014 at 9:03 am)Chad32 Wrote: (March 19, 2014 at 8:15 am)Drich Wrote: Are you an OT Jew? Then what the problem is? Are you trying to say that the first two thirds of your book, and the...
rightcoaster Christianity 54 11039 March 20, 2014 at 9:19 am
    Thread: Deuteronomy 23:2
Post: RE: Deuteronomy 23:2

(March 19, 2014 at 12:46 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:Then what the problem is? The problem is your godboy who was given lines like these to mouth by his creators! Quote:17"Do not think that I came ...
rightcoaster Christianity 54 11039 March 20, 2014 at 9:04 am
    Thread: lying for Jesus
Post: RE: lying for Jesus

(March 10, 2014 at 1:55 pm)xpastor Wrote: For the sake of completeness I will mention two relevant books, both by Bart D. Ehrman, which deal extensively with this subject, although I did not in fact...
rightcoaster Christianity 58 13312 March 19, 2014 at 9:27 pm
    Thread: Deuteronomy 23:2
Post: RE: Deuteronomy 23:2

(January 31, 2014 at 12:44 am)Drich Wrote: (January 31, 2014 at 12:32 am)Tripwire Wrote: Well God wasn't married to Mary so if this is fact, Jesus would be in hell. Or God. Lol... The assembly has...
rightcoaster Christianity 54 11039 March 18, 2014 at 3:07 pm
    Thread: Resurrecting the thread "The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity"
Post: RE: Resurrecting the thread "The Mythmaker: Paul a...

(March 17, 2014 at 4:43 pm)xpastor Wrote: (March 17, 2014 at 3:05 pm)rightcoaster Wrote: Maccoby also points out that Pharisee Gamaliel defended the apostles in their trial, impossible if the Jesu...
rightcoaster Christianity 5 2678 March 18, 2014 at 10:09 am
    Thread: Resurrecting the thread "The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity"
Post: RE: Resurrecting the thread "The Mythmaker: Paul a...

(March 17, 2014 at 1:46 pm)xpastor Wrote: I haven't read the book and probably never will. I'd have to see individual arguments to know if he has any case against the received view of the majority...
rightcoaster Christianity 5 2678 March 17, 2014 at 3:05 pm
    Thread: Resurrecting the thread "The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity"
Post: Resurrecting the thread "The Mythmaker: Paul and t...

First posted 19th January 2014, 12:25 By Brakeman in thread : The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity "I've been reading a good book that I wanted to recommend to all of you. It's by...
rightcoaster Christianity 5 2678 March 17, 2014 at 12:43 pm
    Thread: How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection originate?
Post: RE: How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection origin...

Quote: RC:... That he went to Jerusalem for a Passover, got into a fight in the Temple over something trivial, thereby both insulting the Temple cult and damaging the lawful and proper businesses of a...
rightcoaster Christianity 217 58399 January 11, 2014 at 12:01 am
    Thread: How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection originate?
Post: RE: How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection origin...

(January 10, 2014 at 8:25 am)xpastor Wrote: (January 9, 2014 at 11:47 pm)rightcoaster Wrote: "Son of man" ... what meaneth it????In your quotes you missed the relevant one, Daniel 7:13-14 Quote:In...
rightcoaster Christianity 217 58399 January 10, 2014 at 9:56 am
    Thread: How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection originate?
Post: RE: How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection origin...

(January 9, 2014 at 10:02 pm)xpastor Wrote: (January 8, 2014 at 9:54 am)rightcoaster Wrote: ... Do you say that the original group, the very first followers, the mostly Galilean Jews, those who i...
rightcoaster Christianity 217 58399 January 9, 2014 at 11:47 pm