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“Jesus actually begins his public ministry with the famous story of the healing of the paralytic in which he tells this man, who’s paralyzed, ‘My son, your sins are forgiven.’ “And when he says that the scribes and the Pharisees react by saying, ‘Who can forgive sins but God alone?’ Right? “Now, although Jesus doesn’t say, ‘I am God,’ he’s making an implicit claim to divinity by doing something in a Jewish context only God can do, namely, forgive sins, and his Jewish contempo

“Myths take centuries to develop.” Brad Pitre makes a definitional error when accusing Alex O’Connor of making a category error. Myth is not synonymous with fantasy, fiction, nor legend. Myth or mythos simply means “story” or “narrative,” and myth doesn’t take centuries to develop. The best example of how a myth with embellishments beyond a factual record can develop quite rapidly is Area 51 with the stories about aliens and crashed spaceships in Roswell, New Mexico. The fant

Modern Christians elevate their own manmade words and human traditions into the place of God in order to enforce their prohibitions against drugs, drunkenness, and other general states of inebriation.

"Works" cannot merit a person salvation according to Paul, but certain "works" can remove that salvation even after "being saved".

You can't condemn someone to death based on the testimony of witnesses that don't agree.

Many of the sins of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit are things that many devoted Christians find themselves doing without even realizing.

In the Synoptics, we do not see Jesus and the God as having a oneness or unity consistent with being the same being or of the same substance

Goodness is measured only by doing, by actions, by behavior, by merit, by achievement, but never by faith, belief, or allegiance to Jesus.

The Gospel of John fabricates a detail about history to say the Jewish authorities couldn't administer the death penalty in Judea

The argument that "God can do anything, he's God, gosh-darn-it" may have come from you or your pastor, but it didn't come from the Bible.

"The True Trinity of Religious Discourse" is what people mean when they say "God" as if it's one thing when it's actually more like three.

The crucifixion accounts can establish some level of testimony unlike the birth stories of Jesus, but they're not without their errors. Howe

The Gospel of Luke adds details, which contradict details known from history.

Story is itself a way of conveying information, but it shouldn't simply be information.

With the Immaculate Conception and the Virgin Birth, there aren't two witnesses, there isn't testimony.

Instead of a rude Simon Cowell, we get a polite but decisive Alex O'Conner.

Wes Huff has the potential to help elevate Christians, but only if they resist the urge to make him their Goliath who will “win” their fight

Why would a disciple of Jesus pray to Jesus when Jesus taught his disciples to pray to the Father?

Candace Owens is making her rhetoric into a Christians VS Jews issue while pretending to be the victim of "anti-Christian" persecution

Identifying as a tree with good fruit through faith while crying out, “Lord, Lord", will literally never be the fruit of a good tree