Ever hear people when referring to Jesus, call him Jesus Christ? Not as an epithet, but as if Christ were his last name? I do, and I hear it often. I’ve even seen it written that way. Wasn’t Jesus a Jew? During those times, did people where he lived even have surnames? I was told that, during his time, if he were referred to formally, it would have been as Jesus, son of Joseph, or Jesus bar Joseph. In fact, it’s used in that way in John 6:42.
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I don’t hear or see very much from atheist organizations anymore. There was a time, a few years ago (actually around a decade or so) that there would be some controversy or announcement to “rally the troops” so to speak. Today, they’ve all gone silent or, and this is possible, the networks just aren’t covering them like they did in the Four Horsemen heyday. Maybe I’m just not paying attention as much as I used to in the heyday a few years (Okay, a decade or more) ago.
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As everyone(most?) know, Paul is the most prolific author of the New Testament. Thirteen books(letters, actually) attributed to him, seven of which are deemed by scholars as pseudepigrapha (not written by Paul, but by someone claiming to be him). Nonetheless, they are all looked upon as sacred scripture by around two billion people that identify as Christian. We first learn abut Paul in Acts 7:558 as “Saul”. Most of Acts, after that, is about Saul, his conversion and renaming to Paul and his missionary work. The meeting with the disciples is mentioned in Acts 9:26-28 but more is given to us by Paul himself in Galatians 1:18-19, some three years after his conversion. The question often arises, among believers and non-believers, as to what Paul knew about the Jesus that Peter and the other disciples knew. But more, why Paul never mentions Jesus’ earthly existence. Ever.
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I’ll admit that on occasion I use AI to do some research for me for a post because, at the time, I’m too lazy to perform the search myself. I usually know what I’m looking for, the AI bot is just faster at finding the resources, mostly. With that I mean not always as I have asked questions which I already know the correct answer, and the bot will give me something completely different.
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I noticed earlier that, as usual, people come to this site and look at my past posts. From years ago. Sometimes, from back in my early days of blogging. Today, I noticed someone had pulled up my post about Atheist TV back in 2014. Honestly, I don’t think I gave Atheist T.V. much thought since I published that piece because, as I wrote then, it was only available to be streamed on Roku, and I didn’t own one and still don’t).
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