THROUGHOUT HUMAN HISTORY, WE’VE PLACED OURSELVES AT THE CENTER OF “EVERYTHING”… And; we have typically been incorrect in that placement. TO THINK OF THIS BIOLOGICAL UNIVERSE AS ONE OF MANY “BIG BANGS” IS MOST LIKELY CLOSER TO REALITY. Deduction following the scientific method is no more perfect than any other world-view, but we do haveContinue reading “DEDUCTIONS FROM OBSERVATIONS”

Most every factual story has some type of archaeological foundation. The thing we seem to get hung up on is the celebrity mythology attached to each story. “Myth is the smoke of history. It may take a good bit of work to fan it into flame, but it is best when you see smoke… toContinue reading “ARCHAEOLOGY”

  TRUTH IS SEGMENTED BY METHOD OF OBSERVATION AND/OR DEDUCTION USED TO GATHER THE INFORMATION.   We are in the beginning of the 6th mass extinction of species that this planet has experienced. It may be wise to try and figure out what happened the last five times… maybe?!? The blue graph shows the apparent percentage (notContinue reading “SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATION OVERVIEW”

The initial discovery of the first of these “Dead Sea Scrolls” was being examined by a Jewish scholar while the United Nations was voting for the Jewish people to live in Abraham’s promised land (under their own rule)… for the first time since the destruction of the Jerusalem’s Temple – in 70 AD! The Dead SeaContinue reading “DEAD SEA SCROLLS – 2000 YEAR OLD TEXT MATCHING THE BIBLE”

Having just completed a project requiring over a decade of research on the four Gospels of Jesus, there is one point in Matthew and Mark which has been festering in my mind for years. At the same point in these two of the gospel stories that both writers specifically direct, “let the reader understand.” And…Continue reading “Daniel Part 1 – Let the reader understand”

I remember feeling the sticky on the bottom of my feet with each step as I left our city’s stadium with my parents explaining (again) that every culture across time has included people shouting that God’s judgment is coming, just like the man yelling at us. The people they claim to be doomed are notContinue reading “Jesus fan fiction 20 – John the Baptist story from Luke 3, spoken from the perspective of a patriotic Roman”

Many Americans are new to dealing with the scare tactics which religious, fear-based leaders use to solidify their position of power by using “the world is ending… are you ready?”  Remember, these people use this tactic to make money and feel powerful… nothing else.   Anyone who claims they have an inside track on whenContinue reading “They say God’s coming?”

Qur’an (given to Mohammad via. the angel Gabriel)   Muhammad[n 1] (Arabic: ???????, pronounced [mu?ammad];[n 2] c. 570 CE – 8 June 632 CE)[1] was an Arab religious, social and political leader and the founder of Islam.[2] According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet, sent to present and confirm the monotheistic teachings preached previously by Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets.[2][3][4][5] QUR’AN: Qur’an (or Koran) is the central religious text of Islam. MuslimsContinue reading “MUSLIM SCRIPTURE”

“The Bible” (“tà biblía“) is Koine Greek for, “the books” (?? ??????)[1][a], and it is a collection of sacred texts or “scriptures”.   MOSES’ FIVE (5) BOOKS: Christian scholars usually refer to the first five books of the “Old Testament” (a.k.a. the Hebrew Bible) as the ‘Pentateuch’ (Greek: ???????????, pentáteuchos, translates to English as ‘five scrolls’). This is aContinue reading “CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES”

The biblical apocrypha (from the Greek ?????????, apókruphos, meaning “hidden”) references the collection of ancient christian books.     APOCRYPHA BOOKS: Although the term apocrypha had been in use since the 5th century, it was in Luther’s Bible of 1534 that the Apocrypha was first published as a separate intertestamental section. Books like the MacccabeesContinue reading “HIDDEN BOOKS – APOCRYPHA”