Yes. What He was thinking, is known only to Him, I would suggest. So I'm not arguing His looking round, but I do think it's not aimless, or mere...
To be fair, a translation is not the text on which to base such decisions. Reasoning? Evidence? that His followers were poor does not preclude...
Quite. I think when 'he looked round about' there was a lot more than sightseeing going on.
Quite! Pilgrims performing Hajj (is that a right way of putting it?) might do a bit of sightseeing, but that's not the primary reason.
Evidence?
OK, but that does not mean there wasn't a popular support for Jesus. People are always ready to cash-in, but it's a bit of a leap to suppose that...
I think you're treating the average as the maximum?
There's some interesting statistics here, including life expectancy in Ancient Rome: "... Those tell us that as many as one-third of infants died...
And here's one I played earlier ... [MEDIA]
OK. Each to his own. Why? Barring accidents, one could expect the three-score-years-and-ten... A point much discussed by scholars. The essence...
I've had a look, but can see no scholarship on the idea that Nicodemus wrote John – intriguing, though. On my course, we spent some time...
Not so much a previous life as their pre-existence, a doctrine ascribed to him by ancient critics (and modern critics of the RC church) – the...
Well, here we disagree. Certainly you describe a trinity, according to your understanding, but it's not the Trinity that I understand.
No, the 2000s. Quick look at their website and they're doing free breakfasts and evening meals 3 days a week as part of their outreach.
I used to go to St Patrick's in Soho Square, central London, for lunchtime mass. The priest would always ask for two or three people to join him...
Me, miss! Me! Me! Me!
It's one of my faves! That and Laphroaig, which I readily admit is the Marmite of whiskies. And ... feeling like crap today: throat/headache/dry...
He was just following Greek philosophy. I'm not so sure about that. There are, of course, interpretations of the text. But generally, Christian...
Paul was a handful, I'll give you that. My mum never got on with him, I'm quite a fan, but then I wouldn't like to be on the receiving end of an...
OK. That's a good starting point. The Trinity is concerned with God in Himself, as it were. It is unconditional. He wouldn't, He has no need to....
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