The parallels between Mithraism and Christianity are, for the most part, overblown. When you read stuff like this you should always ask, What is...
The Jesus Seminar boasts some of the most brilliant New Testament scholars living today. The Five Gospels gives a good impression of what...
The Standard Model describes the strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions in a single theory. The odd force out is gravity. All of these...
Greetings, Gnostradamus! (Great username, BTW) I agree w/Abrahamic faiths as derived from Mesopotamia - see, for example, F. Cross,Canaanite Myth...
Sounds like you've got a good start... go to!
Yes, there's a lot of disinformation about Mithras, and some of it is on the linked page. ? Since there are no texts of Mithraism extant, how...
Hi, ND and welcome! Your points 1 & 2 sound like what I've heard Unitarians say - have you ever looked into that? You also might check out the...
It's not fantasy, it's a misuse of the extra-canonical writings like the Gospel of Mary from Nag Hammadi, where Peter says to Mary, "Sister, we...
Long enough to reach the ground? Er,... no, that was legs, wasn't it?
I'm no Greek geek but I read somewhere that Philo makes the distinction between "god" and "the god": the latter can only mean the one true god,...
I read the book and saw most of the PBS version. I think Brian Greene has done as good a job as can be done in bringing these complex ideas to the...
It's no longer speculation, it's well-established fact. A particle and its antiparticle (electron and positron, for example) can collide and...
Exactly right, aburaees (and welcome to you and to JustPlay). Jude not only quotes from Enoch, it names it, too. One thing is certain, that...
I think the Apocrypha are fascinating, for a variety of reasons. 1. OT apocrypha help fill in the gaps between the protestant OT and the very...
I highly recommend Jonathan Weiner's The Beak of the Finch:...
Q as defined by scholars is the hypothetical document from which Matthew and Luke drew many of their sayings and stories that did not come from...
Good question. Have you ever asked the same question about Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John? As far as date, there is a wide divergence of...
THis issue was dealt with in The Straight Dope a wile ago: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a990507.html The bottom line is that there's no...
Quahom, I appreciate your detailed response, and I'm sorry I don't have time to respond in as much detail. However, I'd like to make a few points...
This is true of everyone who posts on these boards, including yourself, Faithfulservant. No, it's not my "opinion" that the word "hypostasis"...
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