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I'm feeling very adolescent today: OMG! You are welcome. Serv

I understand, Amergin, and so do I. As far as I am concerned, your iconoclasm places you in excellent historical company, I might add. With that said, I also don't (invariably) mind the overlay -call it mythic, poetic, parabolic, etc.,- which is placed upon Jesus' exemplary life to make a...

Jesus himself is said to have told his disciples to "call no man on Earth father." As I read it, and an individual opinion it is, this is in reference to the fact that they had been "reborn," of the Spirit, and from above. For those who opt to be in, Jesus' father is "Our Father," according to...

Hence, the tendency of Muslims to hold the Bible at a distance and to claim, in my opinion plausibly so, that it is redacted to the point of corruption. Apart from redaction, moreover, they generally hold that the injil (Evangel, or "good news") which was both brought and taught by Jesus...

Please read my statement again and note the adverb. I suggested that you consider the New Testament momentarily irrelevant so that you could then explain how it is that a demon, according to the Jewish Encyclopedia, got a Jewish name if Jews do not believe in demons. Cheer up, Ben. Think of...

It seems to me that there is a certain, though imprecise, parallelism at play here and that it is as likely that Christians will see Muhammad prophesied in the New Testament as that Jews (of Judaism) will see Christ foretold in the Old Testament, or Tanakh. A certain percentage will, but a...

Welcome, Aupmanyav. I am looking forward to interacting with you on the board (if ever I can extricate myself from the umpteen "St. Paul" threads into which I have either sewn myself or allowed myself to be sewn). Standby, here's a little smiley face -:) Best regards, Serv

Although it might not have been at this particular address, this, as I recall, was the original booklet, written by Ahmad Deedat, which Abu Fauzi posted. Muhammad in the Bible Serv

On the other hand, I recall having read some especially Russian Orthodox writings which were published immediately prior to and soon after the Bolshevik Revolution. That corpus of literature drew heavily upon the Revelation of St. John as predictive of the rise of Antichrist (read as Communism)...

Not that Isaiah has anything to do with this, despite his popping into my mind, for some reason, but, as the recorded voice in the London tube station always reminds the passengers to "mind the gap," so, too, might I suggest that you, dear Ben, stop stumbling over the stone, the rock of offense...

By the way, Ben, I should have mentioned ... I am sorry to hear that. Serv

I have no sarcasm in this case to save because I was not being sarcastic. I responded to what you said, not to what you meant to say. And between those two, what you said and what you meant to say, lies a considerable difference. Thank you, at any rate, for clarifying. Serv

Hi Hermes, Washington, while often hostile to the subjects of his book, Blavatsky included, could probably have matched wits with her had he lived during her era and visited her London salon. I thoroughly enjoyed the book -especially the Blavatsky portion- and laughed uproariously, at...

Ben, excuse my ad hominem in this case, but, after this long, multi-threaded, ongoing match at Wimbledon, I still think you are fantastic (and amusing). By the way, did you notice that the demon Simon ben Yoḥai is said to have driven out of the daughter of the Roman emperor was named Ben...

We have a few issues going here, Thomas, and I want to address these as well. I have tested your position and am pleased to report that you are for the most part in. But as for me, I mean, I am way out of communion. I must have fallen out long ago, back when the Eucharist, on its initial...

I have considered this statement, Thomas, and, to me, the "Hellenization of an essentially Hebraic mode of realization" seems a concise and accurate description not only of Arianism but also of Christianity in general. St. Paul told Titus to pay no heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men...

I do realize, by now, that you tend to read only those articles from the Jewish Encyclopedia which you, yourself, have authored, but here, please insist that your ignorant little cardboard character "Thomas," the one who insists that Jews don't believe in demons, read this (also from the Jewish...

In the great marketplace of ideas, your scales, weights and measures often seem out of balance. To your exegesis, I prefer, if only because the results were more amusing, Yael Dayan's upsetting of the Knesset back in 1993: Really? That must mean that I don't love my mum or my sisters or my...

That is true and is something I forgot. Thank you for reminding me. As I recall, that appears in the Gospel of Mark and there was, too, a (suppressed) "secret" Gospel of Mark which makes of this young man Jesus' catamite instead of disciple. But I leave that to the author of the secret gospel...

Does love to you necessarily imply sex? In that case, perhaps you'd best expunge the section of the Old -and therefore obsolete, or should I say blessedly overridden, rather, gloriously abrogated (:))- Testament wherein David is said to have a unique fondness for another beloved John, Jonathan...