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Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
The Chosen: I Have Called You By Name (The Chosen, #1)
Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament
Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies
Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter
Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling
Why the Gospel?: Living the Good News of King Jesus with Purpose
Becoming God's Family: Why the Church Still Matters
Revealing Revelation: How God's Plans for the Future Can Change Your Life Now
Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables
Women and the Gender of God
Finding Phoebe: What New Testament Women Were Really Like
The Herods: Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession
An Introduction to the New Testament
The New Testament and the People of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #1)
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?
The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration
Jesus and the Victory of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #2)
The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #3)
Paul: A Biography
Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: A Comprehensive Bible Commentary on Old Testament Quotations, Allusions & Echoes That Appear from Matthew through Revelation
The Gospel According to John
The Moral Vision of the New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics
Paul and the Faithfulness of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #4)
The Theology of the Book of Revelation (New Testament Theology)
Paul: In Fresh Perspective
The New Testament in Its World: An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians

Scholars had generally concluded that in all but the Supper scene, Paul was not quoting sayings of Jesus from his ministry. Rather, he was engaged in a practice common throughout early Christian preaching. Paul and his fellow charismatic missionaries of the Christ were relaying directives and revelations which they believed they had received directly from heaven, through inspiration, through visions and interpreting glossalalia (speaking in tongues), or simply through a study of scripture. [...] ...more
Earl Doherty, The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus

Criss Jami
God knew man would evolve. People think some of the Old Testament laws are absurd now because we live in a very different culture, a different time period. They had their problems and we have ours. God is constant but man is not, and he foreknew the ever-changing world his people would have to deal with; therefore, and if there is indeed an omniscient God, a Christ-like figure would be our only rational, possible connection to a constant, holy God throughout the evolution of culture and social l ...more
Criss Jami, Killosophy

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