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If you google "Hebrew gospels" you learn some interesting things. Some early Christian writers mention a "gospel of the Hebrews", and even quote a few passages from it. Although purportedly used by early Jewish Christians, this gospel text was not in Hebrew, but Greek. There may have been as many as...

If Christian apologists jump too quickly from an ultimate being to their specific deity, then I think this criticism can be applied to a lot of assertive atheists, too. They make the same jump, just in the opposite direction.

Royal Skousen is a linguist. From a web page somewhere I once learned that he spent a sabbatical at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, in Nijmegen, shortly after my wife finished her post-doc there. That made me think that my second-hand impressions from chatting with my wife's colleagu...

Presumably the limited geography school of Book of Mormon interpretation would be happy to assume that the Nephite civilization stayed small and isolated, and then collapsed back into the Stone Age before merging into the older Native American populations. They would just say that the breeding and u...

In the early days of tabletop RPGs everybody seemed to be making up their own house rules all the time. To sell more rulebooks, perhaps to a younger audience with less previous experience in gaming, the publishers of D&D started ranting about how important it was to follow the letter of the—that is,...

Paul goes on immediately to say what he means by calling Peter "condemned": Peter was (in Paul's view) being blatantly hypocritical. For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because h...

Perhaps you could refer to the nonconformity among the original apostles.

In Galatians 2:11, Paul wrote:But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.

Equally faithful Christians have apparently always been able to disagree strongly.

1. As to the question of whether the surrender video recording was staged, I would vote “no”. The Ukrainian troops started shouting orders to halt as soon as the BMP-2 passed the first or second dismounted soldier who was hidden from view. However, the BMP-2 didn't stop for more than 100 meters or ...

The video of the BMP surrender does look pretty good. The Ukrainians could in fact be a lot more spread out, but infantry tend to clump together too closely all the time, and at some point it's a trade-off between offering a concentrated target and being out of hearing distance from each other. Thes...

Leaving the production time issue aside, the text of the Book of Mormon definitely does exist, so if it were somehow completely incredible as the product of a poorly educated young man, working over whatever time frame, then that might be weightier evidence that Smith did not just make up the text. ...