tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51708954623634117512011-08-15T11:07:48.049+01:00Towards a new Christian paradigm.Dylan Stephenshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10171752305793064089noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5170895462363411751.post-5000888029121970042011-08-15T10:33:00.005+01:002011-08-15T11:07:48.531+01:00

Fragment of the 1QpHab In the prophetic texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls, there is still quite a bit of contention about who is the “Teacher of Righteousness” and who the “Man of the Lie”. There is still an effort to place these texts back in the time of the Maccabees in an effort to disprove the obvious similarity of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the New Testament. Such an effort has been slowly

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It is interesting to see how consensus opinions are now being created on the Internet. One person puts out a theory and everyone copies it. Goggle indexes them and suddenly it becomes the truth. All that remains is for someone to publish a book so that the Wikipedia vigilantes can be tamed with a seemingly authoritative footnote from a book! God help those who try to enter a well-thought-out

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There are many Bible translations, supporters of each insisting that theirs is the correct one, in fact as Paul said in 1 Corinthians, we are merely “seeing through glass darkly.” We will not address the “word of God” issue for as we have said before, God needed to translate the Greek to English on a stone like the Ten Commandments, but similar to the Rosetta Stone.Firstly, problems occur when

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It is unfortunate that we human beings believe things to be true just because we heard it from a “reliable” source. How we arrive at what source is reliable is more in the realms of magic and illusion. So lets suppose you believe something because it was in a textbook in school. The textbook no doubt reflects majority opinion. But let us suppose that the teacher punishes you unfairly. At that

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Since February, I have been working to complete the Revelations section of Dr. Barbara Thiering at http://www.pesherofchrist.infinitesoulutions.com/ which has been updated now to http://www.peshertechnique.infinitesoulutions.com/ to avoid confusion. This is my nonprofit site, which my corporation pays for and, since May 2005, I have donated my time and effort in building and supporting this site

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Looking at the lists of the twelve apostles from the New Testament (shown under "Sources" at the bottom of this blog from Luke, Mark, Matthew, John, and Acts), we can see that most of the apostles correspond. There are just a few loose connections: * Simon's stature is greater than he appears (discussed in the previous blog)* Thaddaeus appears to be the same as Thaddaeus and Lebbaeus whose

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Here is the image Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper that the art historians have declared to be Simon, the Zealot/Canaanite (on the right). What do the religious scholars and ecclesiastics know about him? Almost nothing, even though the Church canonized him as a saint! The Church would be surprised to learn that he was the thirteenth of the group of twelve that included Jesus and as their leader

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During the Renaissance the Church had to deal with many difficulties. It became harder and harder to enforce a view that the Church or the world were at the center of the universe. By fighting back, the Church made the situation worse and the Reformation resulted in the splitting of Christianity in different unnecessary parts. Had the Church embraced the new views, it might have survived intact.

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Remember how some high-powered expensive consultants would hold seminars for whole companies. Their favorite buzzword of the day was 'paradigm shift'. "Invent a new paradigm", they said. Think out of the box. Then they would proceed to make fools out of each tabled group by conducting group therapy sessions. However, the issue is not whether it is possible to create a new paradigm, but rather is

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