I’ve been hearing lately some biblical scholars mention that The Gospel of Thomas may be one of the most authentic “gospels” that exist. Why is anyone saying this?
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Why All the Bible Posts All of a Sudden?
A quick note about all these Bible posts lately. This isn’t a sudden conversion or a new obsession — it’s a subject I’ve been interested in for a long time, and I’ve decided to treat it as an ongoing series here on the blog.
Some of the questions are genuinely fascinating: Did Paul teach something different from Jesus? Should the Gospel of Thomas be taken seriously? Where the Bible disagrees with itself, or the scholars who study it disagree with each other, that’s where I want to dig in. So expect posts like these on and off from now on, in between everything else.
Does the Bible Forbid Horror Movies?
Every so often on X — it used to be Twitter — a Christian will announce, with great confidence, that no Christian should watch horror movies. The reasoning is quick: horror deals in evil, demons, and sometimes the occult; the Bible prohibits evil and the occult; therefore watching those movies is prohibited. Case closed.
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TMI Overload
Why do people, a lot of people, live their lives online. This Something I noticed when I joined The Platform Formerly Known as Twitter,more than a decade ago. People posted all sorts of what I called, and still call, personal information to total strangers. And now, with other platforms like Instagram and Tik-Tok, airing you(sometimes dirty) laundry in public, to the entire world, has become ubiquitous. What’s more is how little people think about what they post beforehand.
How’s that job search going?