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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Cognitive linguist Dan McClellan yet again puts to rest allegations his theological background compromises his scholarship. This is unfortunately a crude form of ad hominem to which some Christadelphians have stooped.

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Responding to continued accusations of Mormon dogma #maklelan2867

YouTube video by Dan McClellan

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Definitely a book anyone interested in the religious history of Judeans will want to get.

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I have avoided addressing the evolution - creation debate for the same reason I avoid the flat earth debate; it is incredible anyone today denies evolution, much less an old earth. Occasional posts highlighting creationists idiocy are useful though.

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Book Review: The Endogenous Retrovirus Handbook by Donny B. (SFT)

YouTube video by Creation Myths

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Randal Rauser on the poisonous evangelical justification for genocide in the conquest narratives. Add MAGA / Christian nationalism to the mix and you have the possibility of Evangelical defence of contemporary atrocities.

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The Dangerous Arguments of the Christian Apologists

YouTube video by Randal Rauser - The Tentative Apologist

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Missed this when it was announced a month earlier. Anything associatred with Dr Baden is an automatic buy.

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

More on the divine council and the Bible. Monotheism as we know it today differs from what is in the Hebrew Bible.

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

A concise overview of how the motivated layperson can properly research subjects related to the Bible.

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How do you “Google competently”?

YouTube video by Dan McClellan

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

One of the rhetorical tricks of the worst kind of Christian apologist is to argue that because something is not impossible, it could have happened and therefore no contradiction exists. The example of Luke’s reference to the census of Quirinius is an excellent example of this.

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Is this a real Bible contradiction?

YouTube video by Dan McClellan

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I’ve been emphatic on the need for our community to place a chasm between ourselves and conservative American evangelicals given their regressive social views. This is one of the more egregious examples of what I mean.

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

This looks very promising: “And now the fourth study Bible to be published by OUP: The Ancient Christian Study Bible: The Bible of the First Millennium AD.”

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Holy Cross Dean Fr. Eugen J. Pentiuc Co-Editing "The Ancient Christian Study Bible" - Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America - Orthodox Church

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

There’s an apologetics video circulating looking at the question of how much of the NT exists in the earliest manuscripts. As NT scholar C. J. Cornthwaite shows, this video is problematic.

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No, that doesn't fix the manuscript gap - #apologetics

YouTube video by C. J. Cornthwaite

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

We are traditionally a community that remains apolitical, a position that I support. Being apolitical does not mean we cannot condemn injustice. Remaining silent is exactly the same as endorsement. Some things are just wrong and should be condemned.

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Brent Molnar: Voice of Reason

🕊️✝️ When ICE Raids Churches, It’s Not Just Immigration Policy—It’s Persecution Policy… They said they’d never come for the Christians. That ICE would never touch the churches. That asylum meant...

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Future generations will rightly denounce the vandalism of higher education and its conversion into technical education to serve the “needs of the economy.”

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Healing the Great Schism would be an event far more ground shaking than the Protestant Reformation.

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

NT citation of the LXX is uncontroversial outside of fundamentalist communities. What many many who accept this overlook is that some theological points are contingent on these LXX translations. The implications for dictation inspiration are considerable.

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

“Nevertheless, a careful look at some midrashim shows that the rabbis were, in some cases, still cognizant of variant readings and sometimes even made use of them. Even in the rabbinic period, where only the MT was considered authoritative, the influence of LXX variants still made themselves felt.”

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Septuagint Variants in Midrash and the Haggadah - TheTorah.com

Why does Rabbi Ḥiyya bar Abba question whether the word “good” appears in the first version of the Decalogue—when the Masoretic Text (MT) clearly omits it? Why do some midrashim speak of God dividing ...

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

How disreputable are your bottom-tier apologists? Bad enough to create an AI version of Dan McClellan, which the real Dan McClellan promptly corrects here. This is a classic example of why I find Christian apologists infuriating and embarrassing.

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

“Our paper sheds new light on the question of authorship of biblical texts by offering interpretable, statistically significant evidence of the existence of linguistic characteristics in the writing of biblical authors/redactors, that can be identified automatically.”

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Critical biblical studies via word frequency analysis: Unveiling text authorship

The Bible is the product of a complex process of oral and written transmissions that stretched across centuries and traditions. This implies ongoing revision of the “original” or oldest textual layers...

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann has died. To celebrate his life, here’s / recent article he wrote on LGBTIQ+ outreach and how to read the Bible on that question.

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Walter Brueggemann: How to read the Bible on homosexuality - Outreach

The full acceptance and embrace of LGBTQ persons follows as a clear mandate of the Gospel in our time.

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

"This eye-opening collection of essays is essential reading for anyone concerned about the ways that Christian scripture has been used—both in the past and the present—in service of anti-Semitism."

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Judeophobia and the New Testament

An essential resource for understanding the troubling role of the Christian scriptures in anti-Semitism This eye-opening collection of essays is essential...

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Christianity exists on a spectrum from the sort that lays down its life for its friends to authoritarian fascists that scream for mass deportations. The latter is the one Christadelphians must shun at all costs.

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The spectrum of Christianity

YouTube video by Dan McClellan

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Your first choice as Dan says is a good study Bible. My favourite is the New Oxford Annotated Bible, though the SBL study Bible is also good.

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Nijay K Gupta @nijaykgupta.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

This was 1985. Now, 40 years later...we (the Church) still need this reminder—desperately. #ThisIsTheWay

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Your regular reminder that Charlie Kirk is a grossly ignorant and offensive Christian Nationalist.

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

The idea that the biblical texts were written as discrete units and then transmitted after hat does not reflect reality.

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Here’s a good reason why Christians should use BCE/CE, according to archaeologist / Biblical scholar Robert Cargill.

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Why Christians Should Adopt the BCE/CE Dating System | Bible Interp

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

C. J. Cornthwaite rebuts the common fundamentalist slur that biblical scholar “just make things up”. Actually, that’s what apologists do.

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Do Bible Scholars Just Make Stuff Up? #earlychristianity

YouTube video by C. J. Cornthwaite

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Christadelphian Answers @christadelphian.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

As the concept of a spherical earth was unknown prior to the 5th century BCE, it is hardly surprising that the ancient Israelites believed the earth was flat. They also believed it was covered by a solid firmament.

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Old Testament Cosmology: How Ancient Israelites Viewed the World

YouTube video by The Inquisitive Bible Reader

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