Extra materials at BeliefMap
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About sections
Here you will find a diversity of resources that either do not belong in under one of our primary debate topics or else are too large to be nested below them.
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About science
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About God
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About the apostle Paul
- Paul was a devoutly Torah-centered Jew
- Paul violently persecuted Christians
- Paul got info on Jesus from Peter (during his Gal 1:18 visit)
- Paul reports/alludes to Jesus's ethical conduct
- Paul's teachings match Jesus's apostles
- Paul worked to know Jesus biography
- Paul's letters refer to Jesus's biographical details
- Paul knew the details of Jesus's crucifixon
- Paul knew much of Jesus's biography
- Paul visited Jerusalem church/Peter to learn about Jesus
- Paul was endorsed by Papias, Polycarp, Ignatius etc.
- Paul and Barnabas were same-team allies
- Paul received the “1 Corinthians 15 creed” within 3 years of converting
- Paul called Jesus “Lord” in the Jewish YHWH-sense as a substitute for God’s name
- Paul swaps “Lord [i.e. YHWH]” in OT quotes with “Lord i.e. Jesus”
- In Gal 1:12, Paul says Jesus “appeared” to him extra-mentally
- In 2 Cor 4 (“Jesus has shown in our hearts”) Paul is referrring to Jesus's appearance
- In 1 Cor 9:1 (“I’ve seen”), Paul says he saw Jesus appear in the regular way
- In Gal 1:12-16 (“revelation… reveal his Son in me”) Paul is simply focusing on the internal aspect of Jesus’ visit
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About the 12 apostles
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About what the Bible says
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About Jews (in AD 30)
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About Greco-Romans (in AD 30)
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Greco-Roman histories were witness-based
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About Mormonism (its not Christian)
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The Gospels are quite reliable
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The Gospels are Greco-Roman biographies
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About Jesus