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Tis what is called a believer...

I have been accused and just might be wimpy spiritually....definitely religiously wimpy. I dont follow anyone's rules, dogma or tradition. I follow whatever portions resonate of everyone's tradition but dance to no particular drummer or beat. I light or blow out a candle based on needs or...

Hold it, you mean G!d cant over come physics or natural laws? (Not speaking of the physical moving of the planets, but the results of it.)

Well that is all well and good. But now that that review has an end...where does Thomas end? Toward Bart (the facts of the misleading symoptics with a bent toward the movement is greater than truth disappointment or leaning toward Spong (the rest of the stories are worthy despite innacuracies)?

There is one reason for me to avoid the other is you...you and this fantastic thread. Your education and abilities of rehashing and Synopsis in such a way to allow folks like me to absorb are far more worthy than anything I could share. Idk how much of this is virtually verbatim cut and paste...

What a cliff hanger...or is it just a teaser title. Either way...never perused substack...should I? Do i have to?

I like the Metaphysical first cause, second cause third cause.

I am a non theist follower of Jesus. I grok what he is purported to have said, but dont buy the supernatural god being.

Welcome aboard. To me community is what keeps groups together... the breaking bread, the familiar faces, the shared experiences. Atheists and agnostics struggle to replicate that. We grow up with our parents faith an indoctrination that some today feel is more child abuse....that a child is...

The old but what if it is true stance is back.

You are speaking mostly Greek to me...but i like the yogurt, and the site, and interfaith concepts... I look forward to the change.

Me thinks archeologists will tell you there is more evidence of women reading and writing 2000 years ago than there is anyone bringing wax tablets and metal styluses (taking notes) with them to Jesus's speeches or crucifixion.

I pretty much believe there were as many notes taken at the events as there were pictures taken. While someone may have gone home and got out their quill and papyrus to write down what they remember was said or done... I dont believe there were live note takers at the event. Judas may have...

What have we got with your note takers? We got a pretty infamous stories about frankincense and myrh....of course those stories are about following a star...and while the implication to most they showed up at birth in a manger...and scholars say not really. We got a few other stories between...

When it comes to conjecture, i reply sure...."could have been made" but if there had wouldn't someone also write that down "recorded by Isaac at the time Yeshua spoke" A quick ask of Ai... Two thousand years ago, people primarily used wax tablets and papyrus scrolls to record information. Wax...

The following is a talk at a Unity Church...I am calling it a talk, in a place where sone churches would call a sermon. Some unity churches have preachers who give sermons, I prefer the more educational talks like this. I especially like mine (of course) as he often adds . "Ask the minister "...

So you think a few dozen written copies by eyewitnesses formed the q source and were kept, handed down family member by family member and then found their way into 3 books named after 3 different disciples for some reason which made it into the canon? So this fifty year old copy made it into 3...

I think that would have been reported. That decades worth of notes shared with thousands of followers would have been stated by other than you. What I have heard in my lifetime is that historically there has been an oral tradition of story telling. Those stories get embellished over 50 60...

Yes after 50 years of retelling stories when they finally wrote them down they did elevate him to really mythical!