Helicopters are not fun! They are noisy, cramped and very uncomfortable. They are even worse when they have engine problems. A loud bang woke us and we all stiffened as the helicopter lost altitude. Looking up I could see smoke filling the cabin ...
Early Jewish Christian
Before the fall of the Second Temple, the Jewish people were trying to decide the nature of God. With the destruction of the Kingdom of Judah, the Romans prevented a reformation of Judaism and have left Jewish religious vision frozen in time like a f ...
The Gospel of John
Many Biblical Scholars believe that the earliest followers of the Historical Jesus (33-55 CE) had written down a collection of his 'Sayings' and used them as the basis of their daily Jewish practice. Apparently, they were not interested in (or knew n ...
Guided Meditation – Does it work?
What do you expect to get out of meditation? A lot of people sit down to try 'meditation' but soon give up because they either fell asleep or 'nothing happened'. Nobody seems to know what 'meditation' is for! 'Guided Meditation' seems to be the only ...
What is Meditation, Really?
"Nothing's happening! I must be doing it wrong?" It's your first day in a meditation class. You carefully open one eye to see if anyone has started levitating without you. Everyone is firmly rooted to the gym floor but there's something 'otherworldl ...
The Sayings of the Jesus of History
This is a re-post from an old website of a blog we produced back in 2015 about the sayings of the Jesus of History. We hope you enjoy. Before I go any further, I just want to make this clear; I am not saying anyone is wrong. Everyone says that the ...
Why are Christians so Nasty?
Christians constantly tell us that they are ‘saved’. They tell us that Yoga is demonic and music is ‘of the devil’. They want to kill gays. They use verses they don’t understand like weapons. They seem to have their own language, which marks them out ...
My God is better than Yours!
Can you explain why you believe the things you do? Many of our beliefs come with our culture or our age group as a job lot. It takes a lot of courage to analyse your own beliefs. It can be frightening. It is much easier to buy our beliefs off the she ...
The Great Hebrew Matthew Deception
One of the strangest things about studying the Jesus of History is the fact that every week, Christians go out of their way to tell me that the Gospels were originally written in Aramaic. As if that 'fact' alone itself validated Christianity. At f ...
Did Jesus Really Exist?
Can you prove to me that your grandfather actually existed? We have been using photography for over a hundred and fifty years but despite this technological advantage many of us would struggle to prove that our grandparents really existed. What pr ...
Jesus of History – Trigger Warning!
If you hear the word ‘Jesus’ and find you have uncomfortable feelings and urges, you may have been traumatised in your past and you may be suffering from mental health issues of which you are not aware. Many people from a religious background have su ...
Did Jesus believe in Sacrifice?
Two weeks ago it was Easter and greeting cards and emails were flying around the world, rejoicing in the death and the story of a resurrection of the Galilean Jew. These stories are based on the ideas of human sacrifice, universal sin, and vicarious ...
Are You Spiritually Colour Blind?
There are over 33,000 denominations of Christian in the world and each one believes and asserts that they alone have the truth. One would assume that 32,999 must be wrong! Muslims are instructed to convert or kill the world and it is a sentiment many ...
What did Jesus say and what did he actually mean?
After the Second World War, the peculiar culture of the East End of London began to spread along the north bank of the Thames like gangrene on a septic wound. It infected that ancient countryside and turned it into an urban wasteland of narcissistic ...
Did Jesus come from Nazareth?
When people called Jesus ‘The Nazarene’ what did that mean? If you are reading something from long ago or words that have been translated, it is always dangerous to assume you understand what the writer meant without asking and checking. No Woman, N ...
What did Jesus teach about Sin?
It’s not often that transcendental truth can be found in the eye of a Twitter storm but Joan Bakewell the famous face of the British progressive left, recently and unwittingly spoke for Jesus when she had the courage (or stupidity) to suggest that an ...
Map or Instruction Manual
Both the advocates for religion, people like the late Ravi Zacharias, and those against it, people like Richard Dawkins, tend to focus exclusively on the scriptures. This has always struck me as somewhat strange, as though the written words themselve ...
Dr Steven DeMattei asks ‘Which God Created the Earth?’
Dr Steven DeMattei is probably the most clear sighted New Testament scholar working in the field of Biblical Studies today. What is even more remarkable is that his field of study is, in fact, the Tanakh ‘The Old Testament’ rather than the ‘New’. ...
Dr Steven DiMattei asks “What is the Bible?”
Dr Steven DiMattei writes: What do we mean when we ask ‘What is the Bible?’ Think about it for a moment. Think about the question, about what the question might already assume or take for granted. Think about the ways in which we might respond to ...
What is Good and What is Evil?
It is Written Every religion since time began has tried to come up with an answer to the question of human suffering. Religions try to deal with our suffering by telling us what is good and what is evil. The implication of all religions is tha ...
What is Spirituality and can it be found in a book?
All religions are based, more or less, on the same premise that only the spirit is real. Since the dawn of time, there has always been a man in a twenty-thousand dollar suit waiting to take advantage of your need to find meaning in your life. H ...
Life without consequences
In May 2020, the famous Christian apologist, Ravi Zacharias, sadly passed away after losing his battle with cancer. Almost immediately, and somewhat inevitably, a host of women came forward to accuse the allegedly energetic septuagenarian Ravi of sex ...
Love Your Enemy
Consider the following sayings attributed to Christ, three of which may well be from the common source. In order to confirm our suspicion let’s examine the text for philosophical coherence. “I am telling you, love your enemies, bless those who curse ...
Evil and How to Avoid It according to the Jesus of History
Everyone wants to know what Evil is and how to avoid it. Nobody wants to suffer or cause suffering but most of us are blind to it. The Jesus of History taught the Narrow Gate as a way to overcome human suffering. Unfortunately, before you can 'ent ...
The Jesus Family Tomb
For some of you, this might come as a bit of a shock but the actual physical tomb of the Jesus of History was found in 1980. If that’s news to you, I can tell you why! Nearly everyone involved in Biblical archaeology has a ‘dog in the fight’ and none ...
The Jesus of History had a Wife
Professor Karen Leigh King presented a papyrus, in 2012, to the International Congress of Coptic Studies called ‘The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife’. Prior to publication she had obtained confirmation of its authenticity. Nevertheless, a small group of pseudo ...
The Jesus of History
If we exhume the Jesus of History from the grave of the Christ myth, the evidence for an historical person on whom Christianity was based is overwhelming. Josephus The famous Jewish/Roman historian, Josephus, (writing around 90 CE) mentions ‘the de ...
Automatic Reactions
Most people go through their lives like robots. Something happens, which they perceive to be good for them, in the short-term, and they have pleasant feelings. Is that happiness? Conversely, something happens to them that they perceive to be bad, ...
The Myth of Spiritual Enlightenment
In India it is quite normal to see people defecate in the street. In fact, fifty percent of the people in India defecate in the open. Despite having a space program, in India you can wait for a train and watch people pooping on the tracks (http://www ...
Holy Frauds
Written Word Christianity has been a major part of Western culture for the last two thousand years and as a textual based religion it has programmed people to think of the written word as their spiritual datum. For two thousand years, people have be ...
The ‘Self of Now’
What is the Self? If I asked you to point to the part of your body where your ‘self ’ lives, which part would you point to? So is your ‘self ’ in your brain? It has been shown that a human being can lose 95% of his brain and still have an IQ of 1 ...
Do Atheists Really Exist?
The question is, 'Do Atheists Really Exist?' It's true that many people say that they don’t believe in God but that's not the same thing. Over 20% of the population call themselves atheists, but are they? There are a lot of people in the world ...
Does Satan Exist?
Christianity would be nothing without the idea of Satan or Lucifer as a rival to God. I’m sure you will have noticed by now the amazing similarity between the dualistic philosophy of the Gnostics and Christian dogma. Satan versus Jesus — the ide ...
Animal Sacrifice is Evil
After the 7/7 London bombings in 2005, a recording of the Islamic Terrorist, Mohammad Sidique Khan, was played on the world’s media in which Mr Khan explains why he felt compelled to murder fifty-six innocent people. He very eloquently and thoroug ...
The Jesus Family Tomb Reopened – Part 1
On 27 March 1980 the underground tomb of the Jesus family was found. In 2007, James Cameron, the writer and director of films like Avatar and Titanic made a documentary with Simcha Jacobovici on the Lost Tomb of Jesus - most people have never he ...
The Evolution of God in the Hebrew Bible
The God in the Bible is a monster is such a common criticism, it's almost a cliche? The Bible consists of sixty-six books written between the 5th century BCE and 2nd century CE. All of the books were written by different authors for different audienc ...
Why does everyone hate the Jesus of History
Does everyone hate the Jesus of History? The Christian Church is entirely responsible for the fact that everyone, in the modern world, hates the Jesus of History. Popular ‘artists’ exhibit statues of him crucified in urine! Other ‘artists’ portray ...
Islam and the Jesus of History: five similarities
Muslims are often more interested in the Jesus of History than Christians. If the Jesus of History returned tomorrow, if he was forced to make a choice, he would probably be a Muslim and why shouldn't he be? Christianity tends to assume that Christia ...
Was the Jesus of History a God?
Was Jesus a God? In fact, more importantly, did the Jesus of History believe he was God? If you don't understand Greek and Hebrew culture and history it is very hard to make sense of the Gospels. Terms like 'The Son of Man' and 'Son of God' are t ...
The Cult of ‘Experts’: failed
If COVID-19 has taught us anything in 2020 it is that there really is no such thing as an expert. The government controlled media have rolled out 'Expert' after 'Expert' and all of them have been consistently wrong. Mathematicians have shown themsel ...
The Cult of Self: Failed
How many times have you found yourself, in an airport, scanning rows of brightly coloured ‘self-help’ books, all of which promise to give you the life of the man with a twenty-thousand dollar suit and a smile like a white picket fence? You know the b ...
Morality is relative until it’s not!
Forbury Gardens in Reading, England, is a park known as a place for 'gay' men to meet. Last Saturday several gay men were enjoying the evening sunshine drinking beer and chatting. Khairi Saadallah, a Libyan immigrant to Britain, entered the park but ...
Police Brutality is American Culture
Police Brutality is rarely a symptom of racism. Not anymore - It hasn't been for a long time. Neither do the American police have a monopoly on 'Brutality'. The truth is there is a problem with the police all over the Western, First World, nations! ...
BLM and the Chocalate Jesus
Theological and moral confusion is nothing new to the Archbishops of the English Church. The latest lamb of god, Justin Welby, confessed to the Guardian Newspaper in 2014 that he doubts that god exists. Now that the barbarians of BLM are at the gate ...
Does Reality Matter: Cognitive Dissonance in the Religious Mind
A forensic textual analysis of Luke 17:20 For the last two thousand years and until very recently, Western civilisation found its version of reality within the Bible. Unfortunately for history, nobody has been able to agree on what that re ...
Trump’s Spiritual Advisor Versus the Jesus of History
It would be easy to laugh at President Trump's Spiritual Advisor, Paula White, but it would be a mistake to dismiss her as insane. The truth is that Paula White represents two thousand years of Christian scriptural tradition. It is that tradition tha ...