Frans & Tory

22/06/2025

We don't have the original, verbatim words of Jesus - What Now ?

Do we have the original Gospel of Mark? Do we have the verbatim words of Jesus? If Not what does that mean and how do we proceed?We look at the data that we ...

16/06/2025

Mark used to be thought of as the ugly duckling of the New Testament Gospels. Now we know why, for scholars it is the Swan amoungst the Ducks.

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I grew up reading John and Matthew. Mark was just above Leviticus on the reading list. I have since discovered, that in the search of the historical figure o...

01/06/2025

The Gospels are not inerrant accounts. Face the Music and learn to dance to it.

Watch a video discussion of the article here:
https://youtube.com/live/tH40gpd3ric?feature=share

Read the article here:
https://fj3deconstruct.substack.com/p/why-the-bible-is-not-inerrant?r=5b1wf5

We make a distinction between inerrancy and reliability and then continue to differentiate between trivial and troubling differences found in the Gospels. Fi...

11/05/2025

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Changing my mind about the Bible has been one of the most difficult journeys of my life. In this series I try to recall my journey, while noting some importa...

16/04/2025

Facing the music that relentless inquiry set in motion.

15/04/2025

Why Genesis chapter 1 is late to the creation story party.

In this final instalment we attempt to show that Genesis 1 is the final Israelite evolution of the ancient Chaoskampf myth. Substack: Why the Bible is not In...

04/04/2025

The fundamentalist lenses forced upon my young, impressionable face.

11/03/2025

Other ancient sea / chaos monster myths in the Ancient Near East.

In this session we move to discuss the other ancient myths in Mesopotamia and the Levant that contain the Sea-Monster motif. We also highlight the reasons w...

24/02/2025

Working through all the major passages in the Bible that mention the sea-monster motif.

We work through the appearances and applications of the 'Sea monster' motif in the Hebrew Bible - Job, Isaiah, Ezekiel and Psalms. We consider the process of...

17/02/2025

Yahweh smashes the heads of Dragons??

We consider some Biblical accounts of Yahweh, smashing the heads of Sea monsters in accounts that are link to creation / the ordering of the Cosmos.Referenc...

10/02/2025

What do you do with difficult passages in the Old Testament?
We cover three common approaches as we introduce our subject matter:
1. The Literal fundamentalist;
2. The Metaphorical complimentarian;
3. The Ancient Contextualiser.

After a short introduction, we consider the three possible approaches we can take to the strange accounts of the 'sea-monster myth' in the Hebrew Scriptures.