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• Reading the Bible Like Conservatives Read the Qur’an

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on March 3, 2015 • ( 40 )

  

  Here is an interesting bit of sensible Christian commentary on the Bible vs Quran debate raging on social media at the moment.  The author might also have mentioned the advice St Paul gave to young Timothy about how to treat… Read More ›

• Jesus’s argument in John 10

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 23, 2015 • ( 127 )

  

  reblogged from TRINITIES You think that Jesus was good. But do you also think that Jesus was smart? So smart, that you have to carefully weigh his statements and carefully parse his arguments? I do. In this post, I submit… Read More ›

• selective desensitisation

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 17, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

• The face of American terror

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 17, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

     

• Papias on Matthew and Mark

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 16, 2015 • ( 1 )

  reblogged from Barts Blog In my previous two posts I showed why Papias is not a reliable source when it comes to the authorship of Matthew and Mark.   If you haven’t read those posts and are personally inclined to think… Read More ›

• Believing Papias When It’s Convenient

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 16, 2015 • ( 1 )

  reblogged from Barts Blog In my previous post I stressed that, contrary to what you sometimes may have heard or possibly will hear, Papias is not a *direct* witness to what the apostles of Jesus were saying.  That is an… Read More ›

• Papias as an Earwitness?

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 16, 2015 • ( 0 )

   reblogged from Barts Blog I have discussed Papias a number of times on the blog in the past, but have not given any substantial time to him in a about a year and a half.   He is an important figure… Read More ›

• Slumming it on vacation..

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 15, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  I have never stayed in a palace before – just arrived at The Ducal Palace in Northern Spain, built in the 17th century now a luxury hotel. I’m on my way to Madrid, then Alhambra inshallah..

• If Jesus was god, then in what sense was he god?

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 14, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  A question discussed in The Divine Pyramid by Bart Ehrman In my previous posts I have been insisting that if one wants to say that “Jesus is God” according to an early Christian text, one has to ask “in what… Read More ›

• Why was the Gospel of John attributed to John?

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 14, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  reblogged from Bart’s blog Some of the same objections to Matthew having written the First Gospel apply to John the son of Zebedee having written the Fourth.   Unlike Matthew, John did not copy any of our other Gospel sources, and… Read More ›

• The Parable of the Rich Man

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 14, 2015 • ( 33 )

  

   Rembrandt van Rijn, 1627 Jesus said, “There was a certain rich man who was splendidly clothed in purple and fine linen and who lived each day in luxury.  At his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus who was covered… Read More ›

• 1887-2015 not much has changed..

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 14, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Ludgate, Evening, 1887, John O’Connor

• Three Murders in Chapel Hill

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 13, 2015 • ( 1 )

  A moving article from Bart Ehrman who teaches in the area. From his blog. As probably all of you know, we have experienced a heart-wrenching tragedy here in Chapel Hill, as three young, happy, and good Muslim students were murdered… Read More ›

• Islamic values

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• Today: commemorations held over the 25,000 people deliberately incinerated

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Today commemorations are taking place in Germany to mark the 70th anniversary of the ‘bombing’ of Dresden. Over 25,000 people died in the British and American slaughter, which created a firestorm that left 33 sq km (12 sq miles) of the… Read More ›

• Avocado angst

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  a decidedly middle class anxiety 

• Invisible

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• Jesus and Paul Compared and Contrasted

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 13, 2015 • ( 13 )

  reblogged from Dr Ehrman’s Blog  I have been talking about the relationship of Jesus’ proclamation of the coming Kingdom of God to Paul’s preaching about the importance of the death and resurrection of Jesus.  In the previous post I argued… Read More ›

• Erdogan raps Obama over slain Muslims

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• Food for thought..

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 12, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

• Islam

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 12, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Islam is the meeting between God as such and man as such. God as such: that is to say God envisaged, not as He manifested Himself in a particular way at a particular time, but independently of history and inasmuch… Read More ›

• Silly

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 12, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• Me at home

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 12, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• A brief overview of New Testament studies on the gospels

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 12, 2015 • ( 14 )

  

  Who did other people think Jesus was? What did Jesus think of himself? Biblical scholars have been writing about these very questions for generations now. If you want a sure guide through the complexities of this subject (known as ‘Christology’)… Read More ›

• Divine Love

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 11, 2015 • ( 24 )

  

  (from Chapter 4: ‘God and Love’ in Love in the Holy Qur’an by Prince Ghazi of Jordan) God speaks of the great reality of love many times in the Holy Qur’an. He mentions those whom He loves, such as, for… Read More ›

• Son of Adam

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 11, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Muhammad the last messenger of God said: God says, ‘Son of Adam, so long as you keep calling upon Me and hoping for good from Me, I shall forgive you whatever you have done. Son of Adam, were your sins… Read More ›

• Rumi

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 11, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

• Abraham’s Tent

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 11, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

• The Annunciation

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 11, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  The Annunciation by Henry Ossawa Tanner at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Tanner painted The Annunciation soon after returning to Paris from a trip to Egypt and Palestine in 1897.  Tanner entered this painting in the 1898 Paris Salon exhibition,… Read More ›

• What everyone needs to know about the ‘anti extremist’ Quilliam foundation

  By paulwilliamsbloggingtheologycom on February 10, 2015 • ( 15 )

  Hot off the press from star writer Adil who has an unnerving ability to get to the heart of the matter:  For those unfamiliar, the Quilliam foundation is: The world’s first counter-extremism think tank set up to address the unique… Read More ›