Hong’s Cave

The contents of the book did not surprised me that much since I’ve been reading books on the history of the Bible. It also summarizes what I have wondered before in not-too-academic ways and backs it up with supporting evidences and theories although mostly by examples.
I’ve heard that Mr. Ehrman is closer to a [...]

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Very, very long and detailed. Too scholastic for me. I think the book is very comprehensive in its scope and details on how the canon of the Bible came to be.
I managed to get through till the end (well, the last few chapters I gleaned over), but I felt like I haven’t even [...]

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I was expecting a bit more scholastic reading. However, this turned about to be an essay trying to explain that the Roman Catholic Church is the only authority on the Bible.
His logic seems to be that even before the words were written down the teachings were done by the church, starting with the first [...]

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I bought this over 2 years ago out of curiosity. I’ve heard about “other” gospels. I knew that the current 66 books in the Bible was collected by the Roman Church. There must have been other books and I am sure they acted as editors to deliver coherent messages.
Anyway, this short book [...]

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Soon it may not be, according to a USA Today article (via Yahoo! News).
The National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago’s 2002 survey noted Americans who say that they belong to one of Protestant denominations are only 52%, down from 62% around 1993. A controversial thing is that this number included Church [...]

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Got into a small argument about religion recently. It’s been a while because I try to avoid it as much as possible, but it seemed like she would never stop talking about it.
After that incident, while thinking about it, I came up with another term “Personalized Religion”. I never liked organized religions. And frankly, I [...]

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From a recent conversation, I realized that quite a few smart people seems to take an either-or approach to the idealism-vs-realism issue. That is, there are a group of people who believe that an ideal human state (e.g., no war, no conflict and happiness for everyone) can be achieved while there are another group of [...]

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