Dear Gillan Julius Caesar had tried to invade Britain around 55 BCE and was beaten-back by the Celtic tribes – (and it would take yet another one-hundred-years
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Email: If Jesus was a Trot… (22.9.2020)
Dear Gillian The Destruction of Pagan Temples Thank you for this interesting article (linked above). I was reading Karl Kautsky’s (1908) ‘Foundations of Christianity’ as
Email: Jesus in (and Out) of the Babylonian Talmud! (3.9.2020)
Jesus Christ is interpreted as being a direct descendent of King David in an unbroken line – who has inherited by his divine status, everything that belongs to the Kingly status of his position in history. Yahweh blesses him with both spiritual and temporal power – with the name ‘Nazorean’ meaning ‘healer’ and not pertaining to any geographical location. (You are probably aware that modern archaeology has revealed that ‘Nazareth’ was a burial area for the Jews for thousands of years, and that it was taboo for anyone to have lived there). According to the Nazoreans, Jesus was born in Judea during the reign of king Alexander Jannaeus r. 103-76 BCE (perhaps a hundred years earlier than commonly thought today).
Email: The Philological definition of The term ‘Catholic’ (25.8.2020)
Dear Gillian I am reading Bart D Ehrman’s monumental book entitled ‘Lost Christianites’. Obviously, this is a critical study premised upon the objective discipline of philology, but
Email: The Empty Throne of the Buddha (18.8.2020)
Worship in all its grades and kinds, is the response of the creature to the Eternal: nor need we limit this definition to the human
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‘Paul was a native of Tarsus in Asia Minor, which by his time had surpassed even Athens and Alexandria to become the major centre of
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