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I’m sure the archaeologists were like kids on Christmas morning! 😊 They were found in clay pots with pretty good lids in a cave high on a cliffside, right? Wasn’t it something like this?

https://www.ccel.org/ccel/tischendorf “ . . Codex Sinaiticus at St. Catherine's Monastery (located near Mount Sinai). The manuscript, dated around AD. 360 to 375, is one of the two oldest vellum (treated animal hide) manuscripts of the Greek New Testament. The first time he visited the...

Trustworthy Loyal Helpful Friendly Courteous Kind Obedient Cheerful Thrifty … … … ———————— This is the “Scout Law” from Boy Scouts, and I think it’s a perfectly fine list of virtues. In fact, I’d say it’s relatively easy to get started with a set of ethical beliefs as long as you’re not too...

and really, philosophy can be so abstract that any halfway good book on coaching just leaves it in the dirt! and sports has a certain purity, and clarity of feedback, and feedback on a human time scale, that it’s often performed at a very high level. * Many of the most successful things in...

This book is now old school, But it’s the best book on ethics in the English language [that I know about], especially the last three chapters on capital punishment, war, and what Jonathan calls “Moral Distance.” And this last one explains a lot of the features of our modern world.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/ “Consequentialism, as its name suggests, is simply the view that normative properties depend only on consequences.” —————— Yes, the ends justify the means. In fact, the ends are the only thing which can justify the means. However, with...

Ouch. I think Matthew is just a “traditional” name later put on this Gospel. And same for Mark and John. And I think most scholars today agree with the idea that all 4 Gospels were anonymous at the beginning. Except the scholars who start off with really strong conclusions due to religious...

https://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/ This is the home page. Maybe next time you’re in a restaurant with free Wi-Fi ? ? PS I hope it’s hosted in the UK! :)

I still think it’s a lot of traveling for a brand-new religion, but in fairness, once you travel north from Israel to the “elbow” [ Tarsus], you kind of have to continue east if you’re going to stay in the Roman Empire.

https://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/manuscript.aspx?__VIEWSTATEGENERATOR=01FB804F&book=34&chapter=16&lid=en&side=r&verse=4&zoomSlider=0 This appears to be a mainstream source of a combined project of the British Library, the National Library of Russia, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus “ . . is a fourth-century Christian manuscript of a Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Greek Old Testament, including the deuterocanonical books, and the Greek New Testament, with both the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas...

And really, if I don’t believe Jesus walked on water or healed a blind man with mud and spit, of course I’m going to be open to the question, How did the Christian religion get started? or, how might it have started?

https://www.conformingtojesus.com/charts-maps/en/roman_empire_in_jesus_time_map.htm The Roman Empire at the time of Jesus is shown by the BIG DOTTED LINE, and then, the Empire continued to expand to the east over the years. At least till 116 AD. I’ve read that Rome was a pretty legit...

I believe that from the death of Jesus around 33 CE to the start of Paul’s travels around 50 CE, Wow, that’s a pretty short period of time. Most likely, Christianity was already rolling along in some fashion. Especially since Paul was motivated to bring his new message all the way to Greece...

https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/23857 ————— Richard Carrier is long-winded. Plus, he includes long quotes from others. It’s the academic disease! But, I think he believes that the earliest Christians believed the death, atonement, and resurrection of Jesus took place in the heavens!

First Journey So, Paul’s 1st journey was overwhelmingly in what we’d call present-day Turkey, quite a ways from Jerusalem. I conclude that the beliefs, practices, how we define various emotions, etc, etc, of what was to become mainstream Christianity— all this was already pretty far along! :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism “Mithraism, also known as the Mithraic mysteries or the Cult of Mithras, was a Roman mystery religion focused on the god Mithras. Although inspired by Iranian worship of the Zoroastrian divinity (yazata) Mithra, the Roman Mithras was linked to a new and...

Please look at the most westward city of Zephyrion. Then, move northeast and find Tarsus. That’s where the Apostle Paul is from. It looks like a port city. ——————-///——— Theory — As a teenager or young man, Paul was exposed to different religions. Questions nagged at him, such as “Is it...

I meant to say, “when Paul was a prisoner.” I’ve made that correction.

My next project is to try to find a map of the Roman Empire circa 50 AD. Now, you’re kind of asking me to go big. For example, if I were a documentary filmmaker, I’d try to find 3 intriguing people to interview and weave their views in a telling of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd journeys. Plus, the...