Category: Early Christian Groups
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The Gospel Of Thomas…. Doubt-Free
In 1945 one of the greatest historical finds ever emerged in Nag Hammadi, Egypt. Dozens of early Christian texts suddenly came to the awareness of the western world. Called the Nag Hammadi Library, it was a collection of a 52 mainly gnostic texts along with Plato’s Republic and The Corpus Hermeticum. One theory is that…
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Understanding Jesus: Separating Faith from Early Christian Influence
If you grew up in (or are currently a member of) a protestant church, you have probably been allowed to believe that your faith has been relatively unchanged throughout the millennia. Catholicism (your church’s grand-pappy) has had a colorful history filled with all manner of exciting events among them the councils. The catholic councils would…
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John the Baptizer, Messiah or Nah?
In the New Testament, John the Baptist was portrayed as the only person holy enough to be able to baptize Jesus of Nazareth at the inauguration of his ministry. The story (present in all four gospels) has Jesus requesting the ceremony at one of John’s baptism services. John seems to be reticent about performing the…
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The Lost Gospel: Q
First of all, No. This has nothing to do with the conspiracy theory bearing the same letter as a name. During studies of Christian origins, one is very quickly guaranteed to run into the term Q-source quite often when discussing the synoptic gospels. Q stands for “Quelle”, the German word for “source.” It is a…
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The Evolution of Modern Christian Eschatology (The ever changing end of the world.)
With all the terrible events transpiring in Europe and Israel, Christians (mainly evangelicals) are in full-blown rapture mode. Dozens of YouTube channels about end-times prophecy pop up every day with all of their episodes carrying a call to salvation. These are certainly scary times; no doubt about it. We teeter closer than we ever have…
The Incredible Jesus 