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The “Invention” of Original Sin from a Mistranslation
For most of the time people have been reading the Eden story, nobody found inherited guilt in it. Then a Latin rendering of two Greek words changed…
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Why Pastors Feel Their Congregations Aren't Ready for the Truth About the Bible
Your minister spent three years in seminary learning that Moses didn’t write the Torah and Paul didn’t write half his letters, then took a pulpit and…
Oct 9
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The Jesus Stories the Church Threw Out and the Quran Kept
Clay birds, a palm tree that drops dates on command, and a crucifixion that only looked like one. The bishops called these stories fakes. Centuries…
Oct 8
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The Gospel of Mary, the Lost Gospel the Church Desperately Tried to Erase
Jesus leaves, the apostles panic, and the one who steadies them is Mary Magdalene. Peter’s reaction shows what the early church was fighting about.
Oct 7
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The Apocalypse of Peter, the Lost Book That Built Christian Hell
A second-century book gave Christianity its torture chambers, came close to making the New Testament, and quietly let the damned out
Oct 6
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The Infancy Gospel of Thomas: Introducing Little Jesus, the Notorious Killer
In the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a volatile toddler God uses divine power to punish bullies—and answers a terrifying question canonical scripture left…
Oct 5
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Most of Humanity Got By Without the Bible, So Why Did God Think We Couldn't?
Holy books cover a thin slice of human history. Most people who ever lived prayed to rivers, ancestors, and animals, and their stories turn up on every…
Oct 2
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Jesus Didn't Know He Was God. The Church Had to Fix That
Matthew and Luke copied Mark’s words, but they couldn't stand his portrayal of Jesus.
Oct 1
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September 2026
How a Syrian Farmer's Plow Rewrote the Bible
In 1928, a buried library of clay tablets revealed that the Bible’s greatest monsters, hymns, and storm gods were stolen from Israel's worst enemies.
Sep 30
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When Yahweh Divided the World Among Other Gods
Deuteronomy 32 once split the world among the sons of God, and a scroll from a Dead Sea cave kept the older wording for two thousand years
Sep 29
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Prophecies That Weren’t Prophecies Up Until Jesus Died
Matthew went hunting through the Hebrew Bible for Jesus, and he found him in places the original writers never put him
Sep 28
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The Gospel of Judas, the Lost Gospel That Turned Christianity on Its Head
A codex that rotted in a Long Island bank vault, a 2006 media rollout, and the translation fight over whether Judas was the only disciple who understood…
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