Richard Dawkins believes that children should not have an unthinking faith implanted in them, which “requires no justification and brooks no argument.” On this occasion he actually agrees with the Bible.
Hitler and Mussolini exuded messianic pretensions even before they came to power, and later willingly accepted the divinity their adoring publics granted them.
Most Bible scholars pit the apostles James and Paul against one another. A brief review of the historical record shows the origins of that mistaken idea.
The apostle Paul sets out on a journey to the ancient cities of Asia Minor and Greece. Even today, his experiences offer valuable and instructive lessons.
What Paul and Barnabas taught Jews and gentiles as they traveled through Cyprus and Asia Minor is the subject of considerable debate and misunderstanding.
Described as the “restorer of religion, savior of the Church, anointed sovereign, living saint,” Napoleon was perhaps one of the most arrogant false messiahs.
History records that, by the end of the first century, only four Gospels were established as the inspired accounts of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.