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Did Paul Write Philemon?

Richard Carrier — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:42:58 +0000

The mainstream consensus is that only seven letters of the thirteen attributed to Paul in the New Testament are authentic: 1 and 2 Corinthians, 1 Thessalonians, Romans, Philippians, Galatians…and Philemon; while the rest are either forgeries (Ephesians, Colossians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, and 2 Thessalonians) or misattributions (Hebrews is often listed as a fourteenth […]

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New Video Course on New Testament Studies for Everyone!

Richard Carrier — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 17:44:42 +0000

I am gradually transitioning my online courses to a high-quality video-and-syllabus format through MythVision. The first to launch is my course on New Testament Studies for Everyone. You can check out a five-minute video describing that course and how it works. And visit the new registration page for current cost and all the details (my […]

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Dear Christian: You Might Be Worshiping the Antichrist

Richard Carrier — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 19:11:48 +0000

In recent years I came to a revelation: Christians are actually worshipping the Antichrist. Not all Christians, of course. Consider, for example, the Christian youth who come out to me after a presentation to a church group to explain their disappointment with their leaders and how they despise everything their churches preach, obsessing over abortion […]

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Empirical Logic and Romans 1:3

Richard Carrier — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 17:51:33 +0000

Paul’s statement in Romans 1:3 that Jesus had “come of the seed of David according to flesh” is one of the most commonly cited pieces of evidence for Paul believing Jesus had been an actual man walking around Palestine (see Argument from the Epistles in “Historicity Big and Small: How Historians Try to Rescue Jesus”). But under […]

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Why You Should Not Believe the Apostle John Wrote the Last Gospel

Richard Carrier — Fri, 28 May 2021 19:57:52 +0000

This month I have been showcasing how apologetics is fundamentally bankrupt methodologically. It depends on fallacious reasoning, held up as sound and professional, yet which adheres to the methods of no actual legitimate academic field—except those very fields dominated by apologetics, whose practitioners, even once leaving the faith, often remain convinced the apologetic methods they […]

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Should We Assume Jesus Was Historical? The Mythvision Carrier-MacDonald Debate

Richard Carrier — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 04:52:17 +0000

Dennis MacDonald and I have discussed the question of Jesus’s historicity many times over the years. These are among the most important kinds of discussions to have, as MacDonald isn’t a Christian apologist and actually agrees the Gospels are almost entirely mythographical and not works of history. So we can cut past most of the […]

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Crucifixion Quake! An Unusual Movie about an Unusual Passion

Richard Carrier — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 19:27:03 +0000

Years ago I sat for a day of interviews for a film by Marco Bazzi about a geologist obsessed with the alleged earthquake at the time of Christ’s death. The resulting movie is now available (you can find it in most of the usual places, including Amazon Prime or with commercials on Tubi or as […]

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There Is No Logically Sound Case Against Interpolation in 1 Thessalonians 2

Richard Carrier — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 23:30:49 +0000

In the extant text of 1 Thessalonians 2, Paul is made to say: For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: you suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews, who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also […]

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The Bible Actually Permits Abortion and Condemns Homosexuality

Richard Carrier — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 04:30:35 +0000

There are two common modern myths about the Bible, one conservative, the other liberal. The liberal myth is that the Bible never condemns homosexuality. In fact it clearly does, both in the Old Testament and the New. The conservative myth is that the Bible condemns abortion as murder. In fact it clearly does not—it classifies […]

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New Testament Studies for Everyone: Join This Quick & Valuable Course Online!

Richard Carrier — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 16:09:20 +0000

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