A Pilgrim's Search
A Fresh Look at the Bible and Its History
Simple List of Latest Posts
- How Judaism Was Subverted
- The Strange Case of the Mishna
- When Was The Book of Deuteronomy Written?
- The Bible’s Crucial Lesson
- Why Was Jesus Murdered?
- Jesus’s Nature
- Always Learning, Never Knowing
- Moses in Egypt?
- Israel in Egypt?
- The Development of Israel’s Idea of Righteousness
- Was Luke’s Gospel First?
- Correction!
- The Singular God and the Divine Christ: A Case for Modalism
- Jesus in Light of Paul in Light of Jesus
- Refuting Paul’s Attackers
- Life in a Moral Cesspool
- Forgiven, or Transformed to Righteousness?
- The Fraudulence of “Biblical Historians”
- Learning the Real Paul (and Unlearning What You’ve Been Taught)
- Unpacking the New Covenant Gospel
- What Does “He Emptied Himself” Mean?
- The Letters of James and Paul — Different?
- Thinking About Jesus and the Crucifixion
- Paul’s Real Gospel
- Whatever Happened to Yom Kippur?
- Jesus’ Fulfillments
- Why Priests and Sacrifices?
- How Old is the Hebrew Bible?
- The Priestly Slander of Moses
- Searching for the Bible’s Sources
- The Origins of Judaism
- New Heavens and New Earth
- Why Jesus?
- Does Paul’s Potter/Clay Metaphor Say What Christians Think It Says?
- Did Jesus Say He Was YHWH?
- What Did the “Law of Moses” Mean To…?
- Searching For (and Finding) the “Needle in the Biblical Haystack”: Following the Bible’s “Blue Thread”
- Jesus and the Moses Scroll
- Moses’ Real Words?
- Ruminate on God’s Word
- How Jesus Taught
- God’s Issues With the Temple Cult
- Which Way to Horeb?
- What, Or Who, Are the Bible’s Heavenly Beings?
- Fishers of Men
- What Is God Waiting For?
- Groaning With the Spirit
- The New America
- Israel’s Claim to the Land
- The Kingdom of God
- New Testament Uses of Old Testament Texts
- The “Fulfillment” of Scripture
- Listen, Learn, Keep, Do
- Understanding the Language of “Day of the Lord”
- Jesus and Paul
- Uncleanness, Sin, and Holiness in the Hebrew Bible
- Where Did YHWH “Come From”?
- Some Narrative Patterns in the Hebrew Bible
- The Lesson of Ecclesiastes
- Make Man In Our Image
- Who Wrote the Hebrew Bible?
- A Reassessment of the Source(s) and Authenticity of the Hebrew Bible
- Developing Spiritual Fitness
- Interpreting the New Covenant
- Wrestling With the Origins of the Pentateuch
- Did God Want a Temple, Sacrifices, or a Monarchy?
- In the “Bronze Age”, Where Did the Bronze Come From?
- John’s Identification of Jesus
- Implementing God’s Kingdom on Earth
- Freedom, in Paul
- The Parable of the Shrewd Manager
- The Bible Explained
- A Critical Analysis of Eastern Orthodox Beliefs
- The Problem With Murder
- What is the Christian’s Calling?
- Searching for a Consistent Biblical God
- Biblical Narrative As a Mosaic
- Christ’s Cultural Revolution
- The “X-Files” of the Tanakh
- New Life in the Kingdom of God
- Paul’s Apocalypse of Christ
- Abandoning the Love of Jesus
- Creating a New Nation
- “Angels” of the LORD
- A Call to a Radical Christian Revolution
- Death by Selfie: Egotism as the Root of Our Troubles
- Why Was Jesus A Human
- What Paul Meant by “all Israel”
- The Inversion of Virtue
- Did God Deceive Israel?
- Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
- Isaiah’s Servant and “Israel”
- Make Straight the Way of the LORD
- America is Not Greek
- A Defense of God’s Character From Calvinists
- Life Elevated
- Needfulness
- The New Covenant…of Moses?
- Rejecting God
- Don’t Waste God’s Time
Latest Articles
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How Judaism Was Subverted
Modern Judaism dates to the middle-ages. Before that came the Rabbinic Period, beginning in the first century. Before that was the period described as the “Late Second Temple” Period which included the Persian, Seleucid, Hasmonean and Roman occupation periods. Before that were the Babylonian exile and post-exilic periods, and before that the Assyrian obliteration of…
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The Strange Case of the Mishna
The Jewish Mishna is an enigma. Not its texts, per se. They are quite “practical” and plain as instructions on how to live the Jewish life. What is profoundly mysterious is the mentality of its authors in developing it between the 2nd half of the first century and the end of the second. You will…
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When Was The Book of Deuteronomy Written?
An old Jewish joke says that for every two Jews, you have three opinions, but that could also apply to biblical scholars. Because no two biblical scholars can agree on anything, and they oftentimes disagree with themselves, eagerly hedging their own theories, proposing counter-options. It is true that academics quarrel over theories for a living,…
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The Bible’s Crucial Lesson
Our purpose here is to expose what the Bible teaches is God’s desire and intentions of, and for us, and as a result, how the rest of one’s traditional religious beliefs and practices are supplanted. Having understood God’s heart for us, we will see which aspects of the Bible reveal it, and which don’t. Those…
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Why Was Jesus Murdered?
Theories about how Jesus’ death dealt with our separation from God have come and gone throughout church history. The favored, traditional Christian doctrine is that Jesus was sacrificed on the cross to “forgive our sins”. This is believed to be crucial since those sins were holding us apart from God’s “justification” and, it is believed,…
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Jesus’s Nature
Christian tradition has long affirmed that Jesus is divine—one “person” of a triune Godhead. This framework interprets His authority, miracles, and exaltation as evidence of inherent deity. Yet the New Testament also presents Jesus as a fully human figure who lived, acted, and suffered within the constraints of human biology. A second model has garnered…
