That, of course, is true. Paul quite ingeniously came up with a new version in which death was not a sign of the failure of Jesus to fulfill the proph...
Is it possible that one is wrong? That one's own mode of interpretation in this case misses or misunderstands something? If so then rejecting what is ...
Saying that conclusions cannot be drawn is not the same things as what you do when you draw conclusions about Metaphysics Book Lamba. You draw a concl...
Saying it is beyond dispute does not make it so. The fact of the matter is, we do not have any reliable, direct evidence of his teachings. We can, how...
The problem is that you wildly overestimate your reading skills. Although there may be cases where an inconsistency is real, you are all too quick to ...
Although Paul used the term 'kurios', that is, Lord, he did not claim that Jesus was God. What comes from God comes through Jesus. Some interpret John...
Paul had to tie in the fact that Jesus was crucified. Jesus' crucifixion was central to Paul's story of the Messiah. The claim that it was necessary f...
When that possibility is not taken seriously the whole of the text or texts may be distorted in order to accomodate an interpretation. That is just ba...
Yes, you did. But he didn't. He was sentenced by Pilate and the sentence was carried out by Roman soldiers in Roman fashion, crucifixion. Not by the h...
See below: Let's look more closely. You said: In Matthew "King Herod" attempts to have Jesus killed when he was born. He asks: (2.1) This was not fund...
Thanks. I may not bother responding much longer. It's been fun but it gets tedious. I haven't decided whether he can't see when he is wrong or just wo...
There were no laws forbidding capital punishment and plenty of cases where it was given as the proper response to infractions. You ignore historical s...
We might regard each individual life as having equal value but in this case we are not dealing with an individual. It is not 1=1. It is 1=5. On a soci...
I have been reading and studying Plato for close to fifty years. I have started several threads here on Plato. Why people give up on trying to underst...
Hence the trap. Why did Blackburn ask her to define the word woman? She brought up Lia Thomas, a transgender athelete. All USA Today did is make a clu...
This is all hopeless twisted. On a number of different topics several of us having tried to help you untangle your confused thinking. I am done trying...
An internet search followed by cut and paste is not textual criticism, archaeology, history, epigraphy, or anything else for that matter other than cu...
What is the "period under discussion'? From its beginning around 1250 BCE to the temples you point to build between 1,500 and 1,700 years ago? Have yo...
Not Franz Kafka. Martin Kavka. Author of Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy. No wiki entry but this will give you an idea of his work: ht...
I prefer the redemptive or ethical theology of Jewish thinkers such as Levinas and Kavka. The focus is on man rather than speculation about a divine b...
My claim is that thinking or believing something is good is not the same as knowing that it is good. Thinking or believing something is good does not ...
And yet you go on to give support for my point. She was not about to let the hearings turn into a dispute about transgender people. It's not that simp...
Not all people but some, but hasn't it always been that way? I think the notions of democracy and egalitarianism can be harmful with regard to this. T...
I think that teaching students how to actively read and interpret starting from the time they learn to read can help. There will always be those searc...
I agree with much of this. It is the liberal tradition that has led to the hatred of tradition - "dead white guys". Individualism, autonomy, and equal...
Most Americans, North and South, were Christian. Most slave-owners were Christian. Both those who supported slavery and those opposed used the Bible t...
I am in favor of a great books (lower case) approach, but this must be tempered by an acknowledgement of the fact that the majority of students at bot...
She is well aware of the trap that was laid. It has to do with the Republicans obsession with transgender people. The biology of gender is not a simpl...
Thinking something is good is not the same as grasping the good. Believing something is good is not the same as knowing it is good. Let's see what Pla...
It is a simple statement that can be represented in a Venn diagram. That is not the assertion. The assertion is the one you quote from Plato. The poin...
More backpedaling. When you say: that is quite different than saying that at one time Judaism had such beliefs. So, the article you present as authori...
Does this mean anything more than that there needs to be things for there to be things? Right, that is why your assertion that it: makes no sense. It ...
Maybe, but not in the traditional sense. His notebooks were what he described as "thinking with a pen". Rather than a supreme Being most of this thoug...
You said: And: And: And: You are trying to backpedal on your claim that they worshipped the literal sun. It should be noted that the temples in questi...
I am not sure where you are going with this. Are you making a distinction between a son of god and a son of man? And/or between a son of man and one l...
Anyone who reads through this knows what's what. Do you think that by repeating this yet again it becomes true? You attempt to give a literal reading ...
So, being is contingent on being? Again, question begging. There are no claims in the absence of thought. And no logical or empirical support in the a...
A Venn diagram with one circle being the things you eat and the other circle being the things you see shows that there is an area of overlap but also ...
Once again, you beg the question. Proof and verifiability are not necessary conditions for being. Being, however, is a necessary condition for proof a...
Eating can be discussed without reference to anything that is eaten, but there is no eating without something eaten. The object is thought itself. Thi...
According to Stavrakopoulou it was not at that time widespread. Of course much of the evidence for such beliefs comes from written works, that is from...
Really? Can there be thinking without something that is thought? Even if thinking about something there is still an object of thought, that which is t...
Just yesterday my wife told me that our neighbor has the same table we bought. I said that is impossible, it's right here and has not been out of the ...
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