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Furthermore, it is dedicated to New Testament scholar Bruce Metzger, who was Ehrman's most influential teacher.

as diligently transcribed by his faithful amanuensis Bigus Dickus . . .

Lame? I think it's funny as hell, given some of the X-rated material in the Testimony. That's what those eggheads on TextKit were arguing about, wasn't it?

So Ehrman's a hoaxer? What's the other forum?

Although this isn't a religious text per se, I nonetheless thought this the best place to discuss it. The Testimony of Nathan Son of Isaac Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, translated from the Greek by Ben Armhardt, has been dated to the eleventh century on the basis of paleography but appears to be...

You might want to check out Worthy Is the Lamb by Ray Summers, an old classic if you can find it. Although he was a professor of religion and Greek, and also a Southern Baptist, he took Revelation as largely symbolic, descriptive of things that were going on in the first century. Rank-and-file...

This guy talks about the interrelationship of metaphysics and epistemology from a Christian perspective, but I can't make heads or tails of what he's getting at. Am I missing something? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e80tKaOPdWU&t=73s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2ZXco32IRU

The name Jesus or Iesous in Greek was often abbreviated with the Greek letters iota-eta-sigma. The iota sometimes got transliterated as J, the eta looked like an H, and the sigma sometimes appeared as a variant that looked like a C rather than the typical sigma. Hence JHC, which some took to...

http://dspace.aiias.edu/handle/3442/283

Holy Spirit Filled Lady Preaching in a Bus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdHJ9B6KckU

Only One Thin Dime ! ! ! Ladies and gentlemen, hurry, hurry, hurry! Step right up and see the amazing Hermeneutical Houdini attempt to escape from the dreaded semantic straightjacket right before your very eyes!

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." (1 Corinthians 13:11)

But that's not the point. You seemed to insinuate that the "modern" usage of "prove" wasn't available to someone translating Redi in 1909, but I proved (i.e., established as fact) that it was available by finding a dictionary definition of such dating from 1895. Back in the day, armorers would...

It should not come as a surprise that a deluded apocalypticist who believed that a new world order was just around the corner would say some strange and seemingly contradictory things.