polonius wrote: tam wrote: I really don’t have anything to add to what I shared earlier in the thread. So this is just a reminder. If Lazarus wrote the gospel (and he did), then he is also an apostle. QUESTION How do you conclude that if Lazarus wrote a gospel he is an apostle? Do …
tam wrote: Christ ate the last meal with the twelve apostles, and the disciple Christ loved (Lazarus) was one of them. It’s not clear the disciple Christ loved ate during the last supper. He only enters the scene after the supper is completed. Jhn 13:1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew …
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[Replying to post 59 by polonius] I would tend to believe the The Secret Gospel of Mark is authentic. Some of the details of it ties up the narrative. I’ve been wondering why wasn’t Lazarus an apostle if Jesus really loved him. We have no problem accepting John as being “the disciple whom Jesus loved” …
Regarding being a disciple and not being an apostle, in the first chapter of Acts, it is recorded there were 120 disciples gathered. Act 1:15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,) So, it can be …
There are three events where only three of the disciples (Peter, James, and John) was with Jesus – raising of Jairus’s daughter from the dead, Jesus’s transfiguration, and the prayer at Gethsemane. Mar 5:35-37 While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue’s [house certain] which said, Thy daughter is dead: why …
One common argument for John not specifying himself as the author of the fourth gospel was he was “humble” and did not want to call himself out. But, in the book of Revelation, John mentions himself 5 times: Rev 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants …
Sorry I’m late to the party, but I ran across this website that goes in depth in arguing that Lazarus was the one who wrote the fourth gospel: http://www.thedisciplewhomjesusloved.com/ I feel it convincingly argues Lazarus was the one who wrote the gospel and also he was not an apostle. https://debatingchristianity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=957872#p957872
Athetotheist wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 7:49 pmFor Christians, the basis of objective morality is the Christian conception of Jehovah, which returns us to the question of how someone would judge any other deity who behaved in the same way. Nobody is claiming to be judging any other deity in the current topic (or even …
The Euthyphro dilemma is often brought up when discussing morality and ethics. The Euthyphro dilemma is found in Plato’s dialogue Euthyphro, in which Socrates asks Euthyphro, “Is the pious (τὸ ὅσιον) loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?” (10a) Although it was originally …
Gary Whittenberger on Meta Ethics: Toward a Universal Ethics — How Science & Reason Can Give Us Objective Moral Truths Without God: He starts by defining a moral rule: A moral rule is any proposition, claim, or assertion which guides or governs the interactions of persons with respect to some end or objective. Moral rules …