Recent content by James Brown

So we've gone from "Mathew is believed by Christians to be written first" to "Mathew is believed by one scholar to be written first." And how do we conclude which Gospel was written first? If Matthew and Luke were indeed written first, and then Mark read them and decided to write his own...

It seems that in the Old Testament, whenever Jehovah wants to reward someone for faithfulness, he makes them rich. Abraham, Joseph, Job, Solomon...

The Gospel of Mathew Emphasis mine.

You know how when some Hollywood liberal says, "If so-and-so gets elected I'm leaving the country!" and after the election they don't leave the country, and then conservatives point at the Hollywood liberal and laugh? I keep thinking about that for some reason.

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30 Things Joe Biden Did as President You Might Have Missed Revitalize infrastructure (of which Republicans voted against and take credit for), combatting climate change, boosting renewable energy, reducing junk fees, strengthening unions, etc. Not bad for a doddering senile old fart.

I've no doubt that Christians in general have come up with all sorts of various explanations for how Jesus was born without a sinful nature. Those answers are likely to be as varied and as helpful for explaining how Anakin Skywalker was conceived. But this thread is about how Lee Strobel would...

Then Jesus wasn't a descendant of Mary or Joseph, and thus cannot be considered the Messiah.

Both parents contribute DNA to the fetus.

Yes. Use science to disprove a religious claim, and all we hear is how God cannot be constrained by time and space, that we cannot test God, that we live by faith, etc. But when someone thinks they have proved a religous claim using science, then it is shouted from the rooftops by the...

Ah, then we can stick with Protestantism and ask, "Why didn't Jesus inherit Mary's sinful nature like the rest of humanity?"

Well heck, what's he waiting for?

If God can perform Immaculate Conception on Mary--letting her be born without a sinful nature so that she didn't pass it on to baby Jesus--then why can't God do that for everybody?

Read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, a journal by a man who was in politics, but wanted to also improve his character so that politics didn't corrupt him.

Craig really impressed me when he said that when God commanded Israeli soldiers to kill Canaanite civiians, the real victims are the soldiers. Imagine all the emotional trauma they must have after killing babies! But they had to be killed, so someone had to do it, right? If only there was some...