One Christian Thought

I've mentioned multiple times in this blog that I know no Jew was expecting the Messiah to be crucified, and He would never have been invented this way, because famous agnostic New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman reported as much. Yet I thought of a couple arguments against this. One is perhaps Ehrman was overstating the facts in Did Jesus Exist? , because he was responding to mythicists whom he disagrees with. The first answer is he had written about that long before his 2012 book on the subject(1), and the others go along with the next argument. Then is the challenge that Ehrman is one of Christianity's biggest critics, who claims the Old Testament doesn't prophecy Jesus. Yet if they were expecting a crucified Savior, why would that be? His chapter "Two Key Data for the Historicity of Jesus" isn't solely Ehrman's conclusion on this subject, though. (By the way, the other powerful proof is Paul knowing James His brother and Peter his close friend. Hard to i...

Arguing yes to the blog project title question "Are the Acts of the Apostles Accurate?" came in part 1 with two sources that give historical evidence outside of the Bible and part 2 with unlikely inventions and other significant material referenced in this post.  Inventions? Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene had some striking skeptical arguments. The next post will go into claims of contradictions between Luke and Paul (questioning Biblical inspiration), but right now I have a springboard to cement my previously written case more. In part 2 of the original argument, I argued for miraculous intervention in Acts from an unembellished account of someone being raised from the dead (Acts 20:7-12). "Yet how different is it from the account of the raising of Patroclus, a servant of the emperor Nero, who also is said to have been listening to Paul late at night, this time in a barn? He too drifts asleep, falls from the window, and dies. Word is sent off to Nero, who very much li...

I really don't like updating posts. Unless I just wrote it, my preference is to leave that piece of hard work alone and do stuff later. I wish to keep their original state and not add more, because not only did they take lots of effort, it would disguise what I did later and keep me telling what part of the post comes from effort put in on a different day.  My purposes for this segment of adding more to previously written content in One Christian Thought vary by each subject. One is to cross-examine arguments. That way, I can feel more confident that my conclusions are true. Also, I sometimes come across more material on the subject, which could be more evidence or something else, or forgot to put something down in a post, or need to clear up any mistakes if I find them (I've only reviewed a little bit so far).  Now, I must say there are times where I sit down and question what I remember from this blog, and the objections I come up with end up turning on their sides and risin...