Does the sacrifice that Jesus underwent have any meaning outside of Christianity? Can someone who isn’t religious still find value in the ordeal that Jesus went through? I think the answer to that is a resounding yes. The death, and life, of Jesus doesn’t have to be regulated to Christianity, instead, there is a lot…
For the vast majority of human existence, science and religion peacefully existed. Yet today, the two appear, for many to be diametrically opposed. This “conflict myth,” the erroneous view that science and religion are engaged in a perennial battle, was largely created by two men, John Draper, and Andrew Dickson White. Their best two known…
I grew up in an Evangelical Christian household. If you had asked me how that was 15 years ago, I would have had a lot of criticism for the faith. I would have had a lot of anger for the faith. It had been a faith I had thoroughly rejected. Not just Evangelical Christianity, but…
TLDR: Short answer, Christianity was in decline prior to WWII. Some point to the industrial revolution as to when this change began happening, and by the 1880s, one can see a transformation in religion, as scholarship becomes more critical, and theology has secularism interjected into it. In the US, you also have the rise of…
To begin, I just want to mention that I’m more familiar with Koine Greek than classical Greek. While I minored in Greek in college, my focus has been New Testament studies, so koine Greek reigns there. It won’t make much of a difference, but I wanted to be upfront with that. The word we are…
This is a bit complicated. The main theory on the creation of the Torah or Pentateuch is the Documentary Hypothesis. Basically, it is thought that these first five books are a combination of 4 sources and possibly a 5th editor. The sources are J, E, P, and D, with some adding an R source. J…
The Septuagint is the Greek translation of the Old Testament, or the Tanach. It contains a few books now regarded as Apocryphal, which are often included in various Bible translations today. It’s important because it gives us one more early manuscript tradition to go off of. It is in Greek, so it is a bit…
First, who is Pharaoh Akhenaten? He was an Egyptian ruler in the 18th Dynasty. One thing he is most known for was that he abandoned the traditional polytheistic religion of Egypt, and instead introduced Atenism, which center around the god Aten. This move wasn’t widely accepted, and after Akhenaten died, there was a major move…
Throughout history, we have seen many great individuals sacrifice themselves to promote an idea or message they believed would be for the betterment of humankind. Many of these individuals had a great impact on the world, with long-lasting ramifications. Others simply have been lost to the sands of history. One such sacrifice was Jesus’. Yet…