Lone Candle
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The oldest surviving structure built by a Muslim ruler is the Dome of the Rock, built on the location of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. It was a real imperial dominating occupier move.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30ad0bVSVl4
Islam is the fastest growing religion, but mainly by Muslims having higher birth rates.
Who Was Abraham?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACnwwfyqr7c
A more accurate translation of the Old Testament is not that ‘in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth’, but that ‘when he began to create the heavens and the earth’…meaning, this is just when he began to create them, and…it is not the beginning of time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pbZaVV2hdw
It’s possible that early Christianity did not have the story of Judas the betrayer and that Paul wasn’t aware of this story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy6GctdghpQ
Throughout time and space, different peoples have had different ideas of which acts are moral and which are not. People take the moral instinct, and come to different conclusions.
Romans tended to think that those with power had the right to use it and to not care about the downtrodden. Charity was done to make you look good, not because helping people in and of itself is a good thing. Charity was focused on helping your kin and allies, not human beings because all humans have value.
Jews thought you should help your neighbor, but not all humans on Earth.
Jesus taught that everyone matters.
Jesus appeared to really think that a rich person could not get into Heaven. Modern Christians find excuses to ignore that. Bible scholar Bart Ehrman said that when Jesus said, with God, all things are possible, he meant God could change rich people’s hearts, convincing them to give away their wealth.
Jesus taught that you don’t need atonement to be forgiven. But his followers thought his death was an act of atonement. So, Jesus was crucified partially for teaching that you don’t need atonement, then his followers codified Jesus’s death as an atonement!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymsdXLIplIM
Jesus Didn’t Come for Everyone | The Problem Christianity Created
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztURqMyapho
Pharaoh Akhenaten demoted all the gods of Egypt and commanded that only one god is worthy of worship–the disc of the sun. And, only Akhenaten could speak for that one worthy god. This could be seen as a precursor of monotheism. It wasn’t yet monotheism though, because Akhenaten didn’t deny the existence of other gods, just their worthiness of worship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbjaTxF8FoI
The writer of the Book of Revelations was advocating for things that went starkly against what Jesus himself is purported to have said.
One of the reasons Revelations was included in the Bible was because it could be used to argue for the Trinity.
Revelations was written to specific Christians who felt that they were being persecuted by the Roman Empire, and it was promising that the good Christians would triumph and God would punish the persecutors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80QVZsWjtis
5 Evangelical Truisms that Aren’t True
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ-fgjgKfRY