May 27, 2024
The twenty-fifth passage of the Sefer Yeshua is based on Mt 13:33, Lk 13:21, and Thomas 96:1-2a. It doesn’t appear in Mark, so it is probably from the Q-Gospel. The initial question in the passage is based on Lk 17:20a (“How will the Kingdom come?”). 25. 1Yeshuas...
May 16, 2024
The twenty-fourth passage of the Sefer Yeshua is based Mk 4:30-32, Mt 13:31-32, Lk 13.18-19, and Thomas 20:2-4. The words of the sectary (a reconstruction, giving Yeshua’s saying some cultural context), is from Ezek 17:22-23; see also Ps 104:12, Ezek 31:6, and Dan...
May 15, 2024
Atheism is on the rise in the West – statistics in successive censuses prove it, especially in Europe and places like New Zealand, Japan and South Korea. There are certain religious people who unfairly blame this phenomenon on the personalities of the atheists...
May 15, 2024
I recently had to respond to a friend who asked for my response to a number of points, the nature of which suggested he had been regularly listening to the now ubiquitous, left-wing, pro-Hamas and pro-Palestinian propaganda. The email he sent me was a response to...
May 9, 2024
The twenty-third passage of the Sefer Yeshua is based on Mt 13:45-46. Thomas 76.1-2 is very similar. 23. 1Yeshua said, ‘The kingdom of God is like a pearl of great value, which a merchant found while examining a consignment of pearls. 2So he went and sold everything...
May 9, 2024
The twenty-second passage of the Sefer Yeshua is based on Mt 13:44, and less so, on Thomas 109:1, 3. It is possible that the original source may have been the Q-Gospel, since it is missing from Mark, and perhaps Luke chose not to use it. However, it has to be noted...