Christian Think Tank Index A

 

Master Index of Subjects and Questions

[last content update: Jun 11, 2024]

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• 1 Clement.................................Evidence for early writing of NT from mainstream sources (Church Fathers/Apologists)
• 2 Clement.................................Evidence for early writing of NT from mainstream sources (Church Fathers/Apologists)
• 30 pieces of silver.......................Did the gospels make an error in their citation of the Judas-30pieces episode?
• 30 pieces of silver.......................Source data for messianic titles
• 70 weeks..................................Did the Jews understand the 'weeks' of Daniel to refer to 'years'?
• Abortifacients............................Bible abortifacients?
• Abraham...................................Was Terah 70 or 130 when Abraham was born?
• Abraham...................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
• Abraham...................................Did Ephron offer the burial plot to Abraham for free, or was it just an 'expensive' business deal?
• Abraham...................................Why did God order Abraham to do child sacrifice?
• Abraham...................................Was the Bible wrong about Abraham having camels that early?
• Absalom...................................Did God callously give David's wives to Absalom to rape?
• Abstinence................................Is Drinking alcohol a sin?
• Abuse.....................................Could divorce ever be the ethical imperative?
• Accomodation..............................God's revelation to us: skepticism, hiddeness
• Accountability............................If sins are forgiven, how will Christians be judged?
• Activation................................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
• Acts 7....................................Stephen's mistakes in Acts 7
• Acts......................................On two historical issues in Acts: Theudas and the Sanhedrin
• Adam......................................Adam, Eve, and Incest?
• Adapa.....................................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Adonis....................................Dying and Rising Gods
• Adoption..................................How is the believer's sonship to God different from Christ's Sonship to God?
• Adoption..................................Are the OT verses about rape and virginity indicative of an unfair, ignorant, or unrealistic god?
• Aesthetics................................Female Beauty in Bible
• Afterlife.................................How was Jesus the Firstfruits from the dead, if there were other resurrections before His?
• Afterlife.................................Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
• Afterlife.................................Talmudic view of the afterlife (brief)
• Afterlife.................................If sins are forgiven, how will Christians be judged?
• Aggadah...................................Did the Gospel writers create miracle stories about Jesus, like the later rabbi's did in the Midrash?
• Aggadah................................... Did the evangelists create miracle stories about Jesus, as the later rabbis seemed to do about each other?
• Agrippa...................................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
• AI........................................doesn't the archaeological record CONTRADICT the Bible's claims about Joshua's "Conquest"?!
• Akkadian..................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
• Akkadian..................................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Alcohol...................................Is Drinking alcohol a sin?
• Alexandria................................Did the Christians burn/destroy all the classical literature?
• Aliens....................................What about the theory that Jesus was descended from aliens?
• Aliens....................................Theological impact of Aliens from space
• Allah, attributes.........................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
• Allah, unity..............................History of Muslim explorations of God’s nature & Christian intersections
• Allegro...................................The theories of Eisenman, Allegro, Thiering, and Baigent & Leigh concerning the Dead Sea Scrolls?
• Alphabet..................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
• Altered States............................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
• Amalek....................................Were the Amalekites REALLY nomads?
• Amalek....................................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
• Amalek....................................Was Israel really open to Amalekite immigration?
• Amalek....................................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
• Amalekite.................................Were the Amalekites REALLY nomads?
• Amalekite.................................Why couldn't Israel take in the Amalekites like the women/children of war in Deut 20?
• Amalekite.................................shouldn't the butchering of the Amalekite children be considered war crimes?
• Amaneunsis................................Are First and Second Peter NOT by Peter, but by someone using his name?
• Ambush....................................Questions on God, lying, and deception...
• Amelekite.................................Was Israel really open to Amalekite immigration?
• Amorite...................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
• Amorites..................................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
• Analogy...................................Exploring Analogy
• ANE, literature...........................Personal letter
• ANE.......................................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Angel, of YHWH............................Is there no "THE" in "THE Angel of the Lord"?
• Angels....................................Did Christ die for Satan?
• Angels....................................Is there any reason to believe in the existence of spirits?
• Angels....................................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
• Anger.....................................OT passages on what God avenges
• Anger.....................................A long conversation with someone experiencing deep grief
• Anger.....................................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?
• Aniconic..................................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
• Animal, death.............................My kid's pet just died...what should I tell my kid?
• Animals...................................Why aren't dinosaurs mentioned in the bible?
• Animals...................................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
• Animals...................................Does the savagery of predation in nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't good-hearted?
• Animals...................................My kid's pet just died...what should I tell my kid?
• Annihilation..............................What about God's cruelty to the Midianites in Numbers 31?!
• Annihilation..............................How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?
• Annihilationism...........................Is there more "good" in the world than "evil" (including hell)?
• Anthropic Principle.......................The "Anthropic Principle" (refs)
• Anthropology..............................What are People like? (a portrait)
• Anthropology..............................Uniqueness of Jesus: more than man
• Anthropology..............................Freedom
• Anthropology..............................Is there evidence for the existence of the "soul"?
• Anthropology..............................Did the early Church believe in Reincarnation?
• Anthropology..............................On the Loci of Freedom...
• Anti-Christian lit........................ A timeline of early Christian & anti-Christian literature
• Antiquities...............................Do we only have ONE copy of the controversial passage about Jesus in Josephus?
• Anti-Semitism.............................Was John anti-Semitic
• Anti-Semitism.............................Was First Thess 2.15ff seriously Anti-Semitic??!!
• Anti-Semitism.............................Anti-semitism
• Anup......................................Horus, Jesus, and Anup the Baptiser?
• Apamea....................................Does the data about Apamea and the Ciete support the view that Rome carried out registrations in client kingdoms?
• Apoc of Peter, Gnostic version............Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
• Apoc of Peter, non-Gnostic version........Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
• Apocalyptic, Jewish.......................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
• Apocalyptic, POE..........................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
• Apocalyptic, precision....................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
• Apocalyptic, purpose......................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
• Apocalyptic, theodicy.....................Did ancient apocalyptic figures even SET precise time points, and was there ‘concern over delay’?
• Apocalyptic, world-week...................Does a belief in a ‘world-week’ of 6,000 years imply a denial of apocalyptic imminence?
• Apocalyptic...............................Could Jesus really not have had any 'apocalyptic expectations' because they were allegedly only later?
• Apocalytic................................Was Jesus a failed apocalyptic prophet that the embarrassed church had to re-work into something different
• Apocrypha, NT.............................Does Secret Mark prove the church suppressed the truth at will?
• Apocrypha.................................What about the Gospel of Thomas?
• Apocrypha.................................If later Christians made up miracles of Jesus in the NT Apocrypha, would not the Gospel writers done the same?
• Apollonius of Tyana.......................Divine Heros
• Apollonius................................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
• Apologetic theory.........................presuppositionalism
• Apologetic theory.........................Apologetics and Persuasion
• Apologetic theory.........................Patterns and Argument
• Apologetic theory.........................Implications for 'apologetic method'
• Apologetics...............................if Christianity is true, why does it need so much defending? And why doesn't God make it clearer?
• Apologetics...............................why should we believe Jesus was the Messiah, if He didn’t fulfill all the prophecies when He was here?
• Apologetics...............................How I deal with very hostile objections
• Apostles, and women.......................Women: Data From the Historical Literature of the Apostolic Circle
• Apostles, authors.........................Apostles as gospel authors?
• Apostles, authors.........................Evidence of early writing by the apostles (probably even during Jesus' life)
• Apostles, communication...................Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
• Apostles, Control.........................The "tradition control" methods as the church expanded
• Apostles, interaction.....................Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
• Apostles, memory..........................How does the memory research of Elizabeth Loftus on eyewitness testimony affect the credibility of NT?
• Apostles, teaching........................Are the Nazarenes and Ebionites the only TRUE "Christians"?
• Apostles, view of cross...................How did Jesus' Companions the Apostles understand what happened at the Cross?
• Apostles..................................Was the bible created by authorities to 'control' the common folk?
• Apostles..................................Obstacles to NT borrowing of foreign religions
• Apostles..................................Evaluation of the Theory of Literary Dependence.
• Apostles..................................Theory of Gospel construction
• Apostles..................................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
• Apostles..................................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
• Apostles..................................Are some/many of the NT letters examples of pseudonymity?
• Apostles..................................How Did Messiah Jesus explain His death to His disciples?
• Apostles..................................The "tradition control" methods as the church expanded
• Apostles..................................On the cooperation of early church leadership
• Apostles..................................Local church interpretive autonomy versus a controlled and pre-interpreted transmission
• Apostles..................................Really long periods of 'oral only' transmission of the sayings of Jesus, from the times of Jesus?
• Apostles..................................Was this alleged oral tradition transmitted without 'controls' andquite loosely?
• Apostles..................................What is an alternative understanding of the process of gospel formation?
• Apostles..................................What are the names of the 12 disciples? I get 13!
• Apostles..................................Paul OBVIOUSLY had a "sit down and shut up" attitude toward women--and we are supposed to trust HIM?!"
• Apostles..................................The early church was 'by, for, about MEN--women weren't significant players (and ESPECIALLY not leaders)."
• Apostles..................................None of the disciples or apostles were women--a bit unfair, aint it?!"
• Apostolic Fathers.........................were the Apostolic Fathers unable to distinguish between authentic and unauthentic books?
• Apostolic Fathers.........................Was Clement aware of the NT text?
• Apostolic Fathers.........................Clement's alleged use of non-canonical sources
• Apuleius..................................Questions on Paul, Jesus, and Middle Platonism
• Arab......................................Is Muslim hostility related to Ishmael being 'against everyone' prophecy
• Aramaic...................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
• Aramean...................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
• Archaeology...............................doesn't the archaeological record CONTRADICT the Bible's claims about Joshua's "Conquest"?!
• Archko....................................The Archko Volume
• Argument from Evil........................Why didn't God stop the process before it started, if He knew of the massive suffering that would befall His creatures??
• Argument..................................Patterns and Argument
• Argument..................................The Priority of Patterns over Elements
• Argument..................................Implications for 'apologetic method'
• Aristides of Athens.......................Evidence for early writing of NT from mainstream sources (Church Fathers/Apologists)
• Ark.......................................Noah's ark -- the problem of size
• Ark.......................................Death of the man who touched the Ark
• Arrogance.................................Can Pride be Good?
• Arrogance.................................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
• Arrogance.................................Questions on my Life-View and dealing with others
• Art.......................................Are Christians committing Idolatry and Violating the 2nd Commandant in the use of images of Jesus?
• ASC.......................................Christus Victor: Triumph over the Powers
• Ascension of Isaiah.......................Was the Ascension of Isaiah a Middle-Platonist document?
• Ascension of Isaiah.......................Evidence for early writing of NT from non-mainstream sources
• Ascension.................................A contradiction in the ascension accounts?
• Asclepius.................................Did the evangelists invent miracles stories about Jesus, like a Hellenistic divine wonder-worker, to 'sell Him' better?
• Asclepius.................................Does the gullibility of the ancient world reduce the credibility of the miracle stories of Jesus?
• Asherah...................................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
• Asherah...................................What would an inscription about a consort of Yahweh really prove?
• Assyria...................................Was there not enough time for Hebrew to have developed (as the Bible seems to claim)?
• Atheism...................................One suggested approach for an atheist/skeptic
• Atonement, extent.........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
• Atonement, limited........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
• Atonement, scope..........................Questions from a Muslim Friend: If Jesus gave his life for the whole mankind, is all mankind saved? If yes how? Are their sins forgiven? And if the sins are forgiven, will all go to the heaven?
• Atonement.................................But isn’t “Penal Substitution” actually illegal (if not immoral)??
• Atrahasis.................................Is Genesis 1-2 merely a rip-off of ANE literature (series)?
• Attis.....................................Dying and Rising Gods
• Attis.....................................what do we know about Cybele/Attis and the taurobolium?
• Attribution...............................Non-attribution and Evidence for early writing of NT Jesus material
• Augustinian...............................Did God arbitrarily decide who to save and who to condemn?
• Authenticity..............................Are there any indications from the internal data of the gospels, that the miracle stories are historical?
• Author, deception.........................Did the gospel authors simply rip-off stories from the OT and ascribe them to Jesus?
• Authority.................................Does human culpability for non-interference in crime prove theodicy WRONG?
• Authority.................................Do I have to obey my husband when he commands me to sin?
• Authority.................................Why would government have any authority in personal areas like marriage?
• Authorship................................Christian 'bias' in the NT Writers--Does it render the NT unreliable or inadmissible as evidence?
• automaticity..............................does the reality of unconscious processes undermine Christianity?
• Avenging..................................OT passages on what God avenges
• Avenging..................................God is wrathful, vengeful, and jealous?