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You and Lawrence Gardner must be on the same wave-length. One night, I overspent my welcome at Barnes & Noble booksellers and read a chapter very much like this, in fact with the same, exact idea =====>here. Though there is plenty of speculation, naturally, there is also much of value to be...

Also, BrotherMichaelSky, From my comparatively short time on this board, I would think it's a bit of both. People (except Salishan, who likes also to envision facial expressions and other gestures of communication) generally do like to argue, in the best sense of the word, but do also have a...

Ok, then I will. In that case, pity Paul. But seriously, as I see it, Paul stands in need of no defense. Oddly (or perhaps paradoxically) enough, I sometimes consider the contradictions within Christianity as contributing to its structural strength. In a certain light, Christianity looms...

Hi Michael, (With apologies to Salishan if this is too off topic.) I should think that they preferred the Septuagint because they were, in the main, native speakers of Greek. Furthermore, the quotations from the (so called) Old Testament which appear in the New are from the Septuagint...

This is an interesting thread (Dream). I do hereby bump it up to the top of the queue. Serv

Hi Michael, Could you please be more specific concerning this incident? It sounds to me as though you might be referring to circumstances which prevailed during the preparation of the Septuagint. If so, and as I understand, that predated Christianity by two or three centuries. At any rate...

First, I don’t have my own gospels. The gospels belong to everybody and I had nothing to do with their production. Secondly, the gospels are not official Pharisaical sources. The Talmud is. Jesus is called a bastard in the Talmud. Although I wouldn’t go so far as to call him a Talmudist...

Peace, Bhaktajan.

No. I don't think they liked it. That is probably one reason why it is said that they colluded with the Roman authorities to have Jesus offed. I’ve never known a hypocrite to like his or her game called. At any rate, quite apart from (and before) Christianity, there was a clearly...

It was, as I recall, during April, when its “showers sweet” had “bathed every vine in sweet liquor,” that Chaucer sent his pilgrims, filled with longing, from every shire's end in England to Canterbury in search of the blissful and blessed martyr. Furthermore, two skys, Stravinsky and Nijinsky...

Inexplicably enough, it also rings true for me (provided that there are plenty of Nova Scotia lox involved). It might also be worth noting that some of the earliest writings of the (Catholic) Church Fathers, such as, for instance, Origen (contra Celsus) and Justin (dialogue with Trypho), are...

"It's just a flesh wound!" :) Serv

No, I don’t. If anything, and as I said, I find it a bit schizoid to posit a conflict, or struggle, between the spirit and flesh, but I don’t think that Saul (*** Paul) is the only Jew given to discussing, in however oblique terms, the relationship between the nephesh, ruach and neshama. A...

I ill-advisedly used my brain as bait and, though I caught the dragon, was never really able to recover my brain. Cheers, Andrew. I am still, at times, researching Steiner's links to the OTO (via Theodor Reuss) but did understand, too, that, with respect to Theosophy vs. Anthroposophy and as...

That is quite a slippery slope. I have heard the same type of logic expressed by gay people against Judaism. For instance, one of my friends, who consciously renounced his (Orthodox) Jewish for a gay identity, argued that, if it hadn’t been for the Jews and their Law of Moses (which not only...

I am no spokesman for St. Paul and scriptural exegesis is not my strong point (where is Thomas when he's needed?), but it seems to me that, in this passage, Paul is referring to his struggle with what Muslims call the nafs (more specifically, an-nafs al-ḥaywāniyah) and the Hebrews, relatedly...

So do I, but especially when I remember to turn the things off before nodding off, soporific, into my Lazy-Boy-Chair. I'm thoroughly enjoying it. In fact, I'm munching on some caramel corn myself. In the American style, I super-sized it and got a big bag to last me through the intermission...

Hi Abu Fauzi, It was too long for my short attention span, but I will say that I once watched (on video) Ahmad Deedat trounce a clearly unprepared Jimmy Swaggart in a religious cat-fight which was billed, or announced, as a debate. Lately, and though I am not a Muslim, I have been rather more...

Not meaning to take Andrew's interesting thread too off track, but I might add the word "thankfully." We here in the colonies tend to be the home of the conspiracy [theory] because we get such sterling pronouncements from the Ministry of Truth as the Warren Commission Report and, of course, the...

The statement here is ambiguous. I should have more accurately said that I quoted Ludendorff because his opinion is illustrative of that of a late-model disciple of the anti-Christian Nietzsche. As Germany, in the words of Ludendorff's interviewer, Pierre van Paassen, became systematically...