Common Paine

Chiasmus is a literary technique in which either words, ideas, or grammatical structures are repeated in an inverted way. In 1787, Anglican ...

In his book, Antiquities of the Jews, Flavius Josephus relates the history of the Jewish people from the creation of the world up to the tim...

When the scriptures say the body is a temple, what do they mean by that? Jesus refers to his body as a temple, but it's not entirely cle...

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. (Mark 10:25, Matthew 19:24...

Militant Muslim: Someone like Osama bin Laden who was responsible for the deaths of 2,974 people on September 11, 2001. Militant Jew: Some...

Scholars in search of a historical Jesus usually stick with the canonical writings, although there's really no reason to consider the ca...

Introduction When were the Gospels written? A simple question with a complicated answer. Perhaps the best place to start is with the physi...