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Christian Origins July 31, 2020

Have I Not Seen Jesus our Lord? What Did Paul Claim to Have Seen?

Most people who read the New Testament read it “backwards.” By that I mean they begin with the four  Gospels–Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John–move through Acts, and finally get to the letters of Paul and the rest. What many fail to realize is that the seven letters of Paul (1…

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Biblical Expositions July 21, 2020

It’s Greek to Me–Paul’s Idea of “Many Sons of God”

Last week I posted an article I published some years ago dealing with Paul’s idea of “Apotheosis,” or “Divinization,” i.e. “becoming Divine.” Several readers wrote me that the extensive use of Greek in that published article, made it difficult for them to follow. I apologize for not noticing that. It…

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Paul July 13, 2020

One God, One Lord, and Many Sons of God to Follow–Paul’s Idea of Mass Apotheosis

Those who have read my book, Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity might recall that in the Introduction I survey what I consider to be Paul’s “Six Major Ideas,” several of which are underemphasized, or even overlooked, in many standard treatments of Paul. One of those, which I explore in…

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Christian Origins July 5, 2020

Washed in the Blood vs. Keeping the Commandments

Bart Ehrman has a very interesting post up on his blog (July 3) titled “Do Matthew and Paul Agree on the Matter Most Important to them Both?” I highly recommend both the post and the blog. ((The blog requires a membership fee, which is rare among us Bible Bloggers, but…

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2nd Temple Judaism January 12, 2020

Why a “Spiritual” Resurrection is the Only Sensible Option

Jews, Christians, and Muslims all affirm the doctrine of “resurrection of the dead” as a central tenet of eschatology–that is, the understanding of the “last things” or how human history is to end. One common misunderstanding, especially among Christians, is that resurrection of the dead is equivalent to the idea…

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2nd Temple Judaism March 17, 2019

How, Why, and When Was the Human Figure of Jesus Was Transformed into the Heavenly Christ

How did it happen that the way Jesus came into the world, and how he left—Christmas and Easter—came to define Christianity itself? I have spent my forty-year career as a scholar of Christian Origins investigating the silence between two back-to-back statements of the Apostles’ Creed, namely that Jesus was: “Conceived…

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Apocalypticism February 11, 2019

Paul’s Six Greatest Ideas: Part Two

This post is continued from the previous one here. Here are the last three in this two-part posting. You will find a full exposition of these ideas, chapter by chapter, in my book Paul and Jesus. At the Recently Discovered “Tomb of Paul” in Rome 4) Already but Not Yet.…

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2nd Temple Judaism February 3, 2019

Did Paul Found a New Religion Called “Christianity”?

One thing historians of religions often emphasize is that no religious tradition is a static monolithic entity. Whether we are talking about Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, or Islam, the varieties and diversity within each tradition as it develops at the beginning, and over time, are rich and complex. Judaism is no…

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Christian Origins August 9, 2018

Rethinking Flesh and Spirit

I want to recommend to my readers this wonderful and important article by David Bentley Hart. I thank my colleague Dr. James Philip Arnold of Reunion Institute in Houston, TX for pointing it out to me. Philip earned his Ph.D. from Rice University and wrote his dissertation on Paul–so he…

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Christian Origins February 10, 2018

The Quest for the Historical Paul: Sources, Presuppositions, and Method Are Everything

What can we reliably know about Paul and how can we know it?  As is the case with Jesus this is not an easy question. Historians have been involved in what has been called the “Quest for the Historical Jesus” for the past one hundred and seventy-five years, evaluating and…

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