[Continuing Chapter 8: Jesus from Charles Freeman’s The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason; this book is downloadable from amazon.com on the kindle app. Reformatting and highlights ours.–—Admin 1] ————————- Jesus came to prominence only in the last years of his life, and the story essentially begins […]
[Continuing Chapter 8: Jesus from Charles Freeman’s The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason; this book is downloadable from amazon.com on the kindle app. Reformatting and highlights ours.–—Admin 1] ————————- Jesus came to prominence only in the last years of his life, and the story essentially begins […]
Read more[First posted 2013. This has been sent in by a former Christian Pastor who has contributed previous articles, please refer to: Christian Discovers YHWH, Shares “Evidence” Christian Discovers YHWH, Shares “Evidence” – 2 Christian discovers YHWH, Shares “Evidence’ – 3 – A Look Into The New Testament JOURNEY: “Truth set me free!” […]
Read more[First posted 2012. —Admin1.] ———————— Perhaps the title should be the other way around: Christianity’s “Good News” is “Bad News” to Sinaites. Either way, it applies, here’s why. When we were Catholics, some of us were good Catholics, others so-so. I belonged to the so-so: Sunday church was an obligation; sometimes communion […]
Read more[Frst posted 2014, reposted 2015; updated for ‘Holy’ Week every year. The betrayal of the Christian Savior by one of his 12 is part of the Passion Week narrative. The name “Judas” has become synonymous with words like traitor, back-stabber, snake in the grass, etc. What parents would name their child ‘Judas’, anathema, second […]
Read more[Buried in our posts dating back to 2012 when we launched this website, is this series intended to analyze the claims of Christian apologists. We got no farther than 3 articles though we hope to pick up where we left off and continue examining the claims of the most famous published defenders of Christ-centered faith. […]
Read more[First posted 2012. Our former long-time bible teacher “RW” might say that reading the history of Christianity is the Sinaite’s “Pandora’s Box” . . . . For those unfamiliar with this Greek myth, here’s WIKIPEDIA’s short summary: “Pandora’s box is an artifact in Greek mythology, taken from the myth of Pandora‘s creation […]
Read more[Originally posted June 10,2012 as part of our series on where in the Bible is the ‘word of God’. When you read even just the Torah or Five Books of Moses, much of what you read is narrative and history with laws and instructions and some ‘stuff’ which makes you wonder, ‘why in the […]
Read more[This was first posted in 2012; reposted every easter thereafter. The occasion for this early repost is — on Shabbat morning during the Chinese Lunar new year 7-day celebration—the author of this post, Sinaite BAN, watched the televised worship of a long-time Christian friend and colleague, we will identify only as the “PT” of the […]
Read more[First posted in 2012. Halloween is a good time to learn everything there is to learn about the Prince of Darkness, the devil, yeah?After all, to him is attributed the creatures that resurrect if only in costume choices of fright-night enthusiasts. So to save you the trouble of looking for the related […]
Read more[First posted in 2012; examines a gospel text that Sinaites never questioned when we were Christians because well, what ‘believer’ dares question “Gospel Truth”? However, as we started reading the Hebrew Scriptures, some passages in the Newer Testament stood out as ‘questionable’. For another such passage, check this link: Revisit: What?! There were resurrected saints […]
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