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The first Christian author we have is the Apostle Paul

As a historian I am no longer obsessed with the theological question of how God became a man, but with the historical question of how a man became God.

Scholars sometimes use technical terms (i.e., Hypostases) for no good reason, other than the fact that they are the technical terms scholars use.

This is the only verse in the entire Old Testament that uses the term "everlasting life.

Almost certainly the divine self-claims in John are not historical.

So too the famous preacher and bishop of Constantinople, John, who was so eloquent in the pulpit that he earned the sobriquet Chrysostom, which means "golden-mouthed.

The word synoptic means "seen together":

Skepticism is demanding evidence before believing; cynicism is not believing even with evidence

This view lost out in the ensuing debates

apostles" (i.e., those sent on a mission)

Philo of Alexandria

Gospels, Acts, letters, and apocalypses (these are the four literary genres of the New Testament

And that's one reason why you will not find fundamentalists at the forefront of critical scholarship.

the manuscripts back immediately and return the worthless checks.

the Sadducees, even though in Jesus's day they were the real power players in Judea.

the worship that is due only to the gods.

In no first-century Greek or Roman (pagan) source is Jesus mentioned. Scholars

It proves little, except that perhaps in America even a pig can aspire to immortality.

Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words, can close those lovebites. It's the other way around, that's the joke.

The day will never come in when I lose enough respect for my own hide to shit on a Texan's mother, Stuart.

Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.

Why would she do that? Because she's a Yankee - a Maine Yankee, the worst kind. On a given day, they can make the Irish look logical.

She remembered Scott saying that people shouldn't be allowed houses with more than two toilets to shit in, it gives them delusions of grandeur.

She takes my hand like a woman in a dream. She is in a dream, and so am I. Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief . . . but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?