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Tag: God
Signs of The End: Fact or Fiction
Matthew 24; Mark 13; Luke 21
A. Matthew 24. 1-14
We need to clarify the context and text of our Lord’s dramatic prophecy in Mt. 24.2…
Dying & Rising What Again?
It is that time of year again when assorted clowns —some claiming to be scholars—trot out the repeatedly debunked ‘dying and rising Gods/Saviours’ thesis. In 2003 I gave a public lecture in Kingston, Jamaica, which provided, inter alia, a rebuttal of this thesis (see my book Revelations on Ras Tafari, 2008, 81-87). Significantly, I invited…
Quibbling With Tafari
My friend Dr. Ikeal Tafari has written two pieces in your newspaper raising questions on the historical roots of Israel. Unfortunately the main source he seems to be drawing on is Gary Greenberg’s book The Bible Myth: African Origins of the Jewish People. I say unfortunately because Greenberg (whose work I have scrutinised carefully) makes…
The Resurrection
Any analysis of the Easter story from a New Testament perspective must grapple with 1 Corinthians 15. 1 Corinthians is almost universally accepted as written by Paul about AD 55/56 and therefore earlier than Acts and some, if not all, of the Gospels. From the details of Acts 18:12, which mentions Paul in Corinth…