Post-Christian Bible nerd endlessly fascinated with the historical Jesus and the origins of Christianity (he/him)
Portland, OR
Joined February 2020
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Why am I still so interested in Christian origins? The way I figure it, either the birth of Christianity tells us something incalculably valuable about the nature of the universe, or it tells us something incalculably valuable about ourselves. There’s gold there either way.
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This happens right before Jesus gets the infinity stones, end of Luke I think
Mark must have been pretty innovative, unprecedented, and unparalleled to have had such an outsized influence on both Matt and Luke.
Case in point: When they don’t have Mark to rely on at the beginning and end of their stories, Matt and Luke go completely off the rails.
Any reconstruction of the historical Jesus that does not include the many, many instances from our earliest sources in which Jesus tells stories that end with the messianic figure slaughtering multitudes does not deserve to be called a historical reconstruction.
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It’s happening again!
(2 Peter is a forgery.)
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🤣😂🤣🤣🫵🏼 👉🏼 2 Peter 3:3–4 said the last-days scoffers would show up saying exactly this: “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”
Paul didn’t miss the date. Peter already answered the mockery you’re repeating.
A day with the Lord is as a thousand years (2 Pet 3:8). The delay is patience, not a failed prediction, “not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance” (3:9).
The same chapter says the day still comes like a thief.
“Closer than we’ve ever been” is just arithmetic. Every day after the cross is closer than the day before. The fathers already fell asleep. You’re in the verse. 🤣😂🫵🏼
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So I recently chose to accept an invitation to appear on Joe Rogan’s podcast. The interview is live now.
youtu.be/GMwihA5jnhY
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"Scripture interprets scripture" just means "My favorite scriptures, or my favored theological system, overule disruptive scriptures."
Early Christianity was, from its inception, theologically diverse.
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Conservative Christians inoculate themselves against the profound problems found in early Christian teaching by reading only those texts deemed "orthodox," and then by reading these approved texts in light of some theological construct that harmonizes and smooths out rough edges.
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The plausibility of theism takes a dramatic dive without an afterlife. But if you admit this, you are implicitly conceding that the actual evidence of our world is very unexpected on theism. You’re admitting that the world as we know it doesn’t fit. We need to imagine an additional world radically different from our own in order to make theism make sense.
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Now apply that to Eternal Conscious Torment.
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Are you being lied to about Palestine?
#maklelan3466
youtu.be/3Lcj6Imzx3M
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Guy who thinks it's perfectly good and loving to maximally torture most humans for literally all eternity calls someone else anti human for for thinking that 100 rats might be worth the life of one human all else equal.
