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POPSTablet ignites debate on messiah and resurrection "This should shake our basic view of Christianity," he said as he sat in his office of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem where he is a senior fellow in addition to being the Yehezkel Kaufman Professor of Biblical Studies at Hebrew University. "Resurrection after three days becomes a motif developed before Jesus, which runs contrary to nearly all scholarship. What happens in the New Testament was adopted by Jesus and his followers based on an earlier messiah story."
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POPSThe Bible according to Pelosi Some may not care if a leader of our country spouts off made-up biblical utterances but to me this just shows the dire dirth of knowledge present on capital hill. They call them misstatements but in reality they are lies plain and simple. No attempt is made by these 'leaders' to search out truth they just continually spout out falsehoods after falsehoods and the American people seem to just give them a pass. I am not the smartest bird in the nest but this eagle can spot a doo doo bird simply enough. No wonder they became extinct. Perhaps we should send some of these congresspersons the way of the doo doo bird into oblivion.
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POPSEnvironmental Activism From Nancy Pelosi's Scripture Claude Mariottini, a professor of Old Testament at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, told Cybercast News Service the passage not only doesn't exist - it's "fictional." Other scholars agree that nothing remotely resembling it can be found in any version of the Scriptures - Old Testament or New Testament. "Responsible use of the Old Testament cannot divorce the biblical notion of stewardship (that man is obligated to care for God's creation) from the equally important biblical view that the entire natural world was created for man, for him to subdue it and to reign over it," Jenislawski said. "Environmentalists who make man subservient to the natural world actually invert the biblical view of man's relationship to the earth," he said. "People try to use the Bible to give authority to what they are trying to say," he said. "(This) is one of those texts that you fabricate in order to support what you want to say," Mariottini said.
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POPSGod-Drunk vs. Godless From the Atlantic Monthly's article "The American Idea" - Scholars, novelists, politicians, artists, and others look ahead to the future of the American idea. I thought the juxtaposition of these two pieces in particular was interesting. Sam Harris is the author of The End of Faith (2004) and Letter to a Christian Nation (2006). Tim LaHaye is a minister and the author of more than 50 books, including the best-selling Left Behind series. I have clipped both pieces below because Atlantic Monthly won't let you view the entire article.
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POPSBible turned into a club This is so true! It is the 21st Century and Biblical scholars cannot find any direct references to "homosexuality" in the Bible. The term was introduced into the Bible in the 19th Century and is incorrect!
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POPSChurch Divide Over Gays
Anyone on CM who follows me knows I am quite passionate about this particular subject. Making the biblical case against homosexuality is, in my opinion, and many respected biblical scholars, hard to prove. Indeed, for all the huffing and puffin of born-again Christians, it is significant that in all His public denunciations Jesus Christ never ONCE mentioned homosexuality. In fact, He didn't say ONE word about it. In the end, for a person of faith, zeroing in on one or several passages of the Bible for clues on how to deal with homosexuality is the wrong approach. But let's discuss what Jesus did say. He had plenty to say about divorce, and in no uncertain terms. Except for marital unfaithfulness, he said it was a sin to divorce--and remarry. It seems pretty clear to me that anyone who would zero on passages of the Bible which condemn homosexuality and ignore those that condemn divorce are people who find it very convenient to point out those sins they are not guilty of.
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POPSTV airing for Islam's story of Christ I have not problem with this. PBS puts out stuff that bears no resemblance to what I consider orthodox Christianity all the time. It's just another's religious opinion; whether secular or Islamic. But I agree with Mr. Sookdeo...how would the extremist Muslim's respond in kind? Genuine Christians rest in the truth of their Faith. No longer is there the need or an understanding that there's a Biblical mandate to demand that other's believe as we do.
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POPS'Lost' towns shed light on Islamic past "It is a surprising discovery because we generally say that Islam came to Ethiopia late and had a marginal role," said Yonas Beyene, head of paleontology at Ethiopia's culture ministry.
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POPS400-Yard Dash
Feces can’t normally remain intact in the desert for hundreds of years. But the dead eggs of intestinal parasites can—so long as they are buried and thereby protected from sunlight and wind. Joe E. Zias, a paleopathologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, led a team including James Tabor, Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, that sampled the soil in and around Qumran. In only one area did they discover eggs from human intestinal parasites. As predicted, the site was about 400 yards northwest of the village (a nine-minute uphill hike, Zias determined) and hidden from view behind bluffs. Zias believes that the sect members, their mission accomplished, immersed themselves in a bath on their walk back down to the settlement. That sounds like a healthy practice, but the bathwater was anything but fresh: Qumran relied for water on runoff collected during a brief annual rainy season. Skeletal remains indicate a population
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POPSScholar refutes Lost Tomb claim Article by Jodi Magness at the Biblical Archaeology Society. She refutes the documentary's claim discussing burial rites and traditions. Interesting history to be read at source.
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POPSThe Birth of Satan On Point discussion with the scholars who wrote The Birth of Satan: Tracing the Devil's Biblical Roots
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