What reconstructions have scholars proposed for how Christianity arrived in the city of Rome and grew a community there relatively quickly?
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Which of these three views of divine hiddenness do you think is the most logically sound?
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What we (don't) know about the apostle Thomas
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Who was the earliest church father to explicitly articulate the idea that the Son was not just preexisting, but uncreated? Did any church fathers explicitly state the opposite position?
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One person in 100 AD, one person in 500 AD, which of them could have been saved?
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What does deism fail to explain about the world we observe around us today that Christianity succeeds in explaining?
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Do you believe all of the Book of Isaiah was written by the prophet Isaiah in the 8th century BC?
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Who do you think was the first mortal human to know that the messiah’s given name would be Yeshua/Jesus?
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In Isaiah 53:9a, what’s the distinction between “grave” and “death/tomb”? And what leads to “rich” versus “evildoers” in translation?
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Do scholars think Q 17:73 is a reference to the satanic verses or any other incident in particular?
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Do you agree with Mark Driscoll on “apostates”?
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Would an especially grievous sinner, converting to Christianity, be correct in taking away that they are *absolutely* worse but *relatively* not as bad as they thought?
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If you care, what are your thoughts on William Lane Craig’s “Neo-Apollinarian” Christology?
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What did people in your era and region of expertise understand and not understand about infectious disease?
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Every time an Umayyad Caliph had the entirely original idea to attempt to install his own son as successor instead of the previously agreed-upon successor
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In terms of the origin of the Qur’an, should I imagine Muhammad saying the text exactly as it is, even when Muhammad is being told to say things?
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Would you say that you personally are interested in religious history independent of using it for counterapologetics?
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Which text is more impressive, the Qur’an or the Book of Mormon?
What broad critiques, if any, exist of “analogy of being”?
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Philosophy of Religion: What broad critiques, if any, exist of “analogy of being”?
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Does God exert effort?
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