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In my previous post I summarized the major themes and emphases of the five-chapter letter of James, one of the Catholic Epistles.  I now want to get into the questions of Who Wrote It, When, and Why.  This will take a couple of posts, and I've decided to give a fuller scoop in this case [...]

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In my previous post I summarized the major themes and emphases of the five-chapter letter of James, one of the Catholic Epistles.  I now want to get into the questions of Who Wrote It, When, and Why.  This will take a couple of posts, and I've decided to give a fuller scoop in this case [...]

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In this “New Testament in a Nutshell” thread I come now to the intriguing book of James, long one of my favorites among the Catholic epistles.  At one point in my earlier existence, I liked the book so well that I memorized it.  Don’t ask me to recite it now; that was 50 years ago. [...]

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In earlier posts I provided discussions of both 1 and 2 Corinthians: their major emphases and themes, what we know about their context, when they were written, and why.   Check them out here: 1 Corinthians in a Nutshell 1 Corinthians: Who, When, and Why? 2 Corinthians in a Nutshell 2 Corinthians: Who Wrote It, When, [...]

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I continue to get excellent questions from readers of the blog.  I can't devote a post to all of them (I do answer all the ones I get in the comments section), but I do like to address a few of them publicly for everyone to see, every week or so.  Here's a current outstanding [...]

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There has been an extraordinary range of views in Christianity about who will be “saved,” whether people have any say in the matter, what it requires, whether salvation can be lost, and … most everything else connected with this central teaching of the religion.  It may seem odd that disagreements among Christian thinkers would involve [...]

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There has been an extraordinary range of views in Christianity about who will be “saved,” whether people have any say in the matter, what it requires, whether salvation can be lost, and … most everything else connected with this central teaching of the religion.  It may seem odd that disagreements among Christian thinkers would involve [...]

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There has been an extraordinary range of views in Christianity about who will be “saved,” whether people have any say in the matter, what it requires, whether salvation can be lost, and … most everything else connected with this central teaching of the religion.  It may seem odd that disagreements among Christian thinkers would involve [...]

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Does the New Testament teach that a person can lose their salvation?  It depends whom you ask.  And possibly which New Testament books you read. I have been discussing the letter to the Hebrews, an a couple of passages there are some of the key texts for discussing the issue.  First, some background: Since the [...]

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In an earlier post I indicated that I have difficulty responding to writings of mythicists, largely because they often say things that I think are dead wrong, but it would take so much time and effort to explain why.  This morning I did think I should at least give one example of the sort of [...]

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