Articles examining the relationship between Greek philosophy, religious doctrine, biblical interpretation, and the historical development of theology.
How an investigation into spirits and Greek philosophy opens an unexpected perspective on Creation, Israel, and the history of Truth I Set Out in Search …
How the Law of Moses Became a Weapon Against Revelation Four hundred prophets promised King Ahab victory. The king went to war, and the prediction …
Who created Death? God? The Devil? Adam? Or the philosophers? The question seems absurd only until we open Paul’s epistles. There we encounter a Death …
There is a question hidden beneath almost every major religion: What is wrong with the human being? Christianity answers with the Fall. Humanity disobeyed, crossed a divine …
How Plato’s Epithymia Entered the Bible There is one command in the received Decalogue that does not belong to the same moral world as the others. “Do …
Daniel 8, Alexandria, and the Theology That Was Put Into God’s Mouth The greatest deception in religion is not always to remove God. Sometimes it …
When God Began to Need Executioners There is a moment in the biblical story when the character of God seems to change so abruptly that …
Were There Really Ten Commandments? The expression “The Ten Commandments” is so deeply embedded in religious memory that almost no one stops to ask the …
If you want to form a people, you do not need to control every person individually. Give them a common story.Once the story becomes theirs, …
Two Beginnings, Two Futures We debate whether God exists, whether miracles occur, whether sacred texts are inspired. But behind all those arguments lies a more …
All inherited religious systems, regardless of name, tradition, or historical scale, share a similar underlying structure. They evaluate the human being through law, obedience, purity, …
Up to this point, we have seen what Paul and the Lukan system propose within OT 2.0, and what Jesus of Nazareth and the prophetic …