I am a self-taught philosopher and theologian and I believe that I have reached a novel conclusion about our society and discovered important secrets in the Bible. When I talk to people about my philosophical conclusions, no one asks me whether I have studied philosophy. It doesn’t matter whether I have or not: the study…
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Genesis is the most complex and important book of the Bible: Judaism, Christianity and Islam base their comprehension of the origins of the universe and of mankind on this book. By telling us that at a certain moment our ancestors lived in harmony (paradise) it offers mankind an ideal to strive for. The main message…
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People believe that Jesus was born of a virgin because they assume that the Bible says that he was born of a virgin. However, in none of the New Testament books did Jesus claim he was born of a virgin. The main reason for assuming that Jesus was born of a virgin is that, in…
THE BIBLE DOESN’T SAY THAT JESUS WAS BORN OF A VIRGIN, BUT INDICATES WHO HIS FATHER WAS? Those who believe that Jesus was born of a virgin assume that the Bible says that he was born of a virgin. However, in the NT Jesus never claimed that he was born of a virgin. The only…
The idea that science contradicts the Bible divides our society into believers and non believers: the former accept the authority of the Bible, the latter accept the authority of science. If science only contradicts a particular interpretation of the Bible, it is not the Bible, but those who interpret it that divide our society. The…
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The following was going to be my speech at my book presentation at the Magdalena chapel last Saturday, but later I decided to improvise… Good Morning, Thank you all for coming. I will speak to you in Spanish. I haven’t yet learned Galician, not out of disinterest, but because I have dedicated myself to other…
The only reason for assuming that the Bible says that Jesus was born of a virgin is that Saint Matthew refers to a prophecy about a virgin who will give birth to a son, and that, according to him, came true in Jesus. However, Saint Matthew refers to a text in Isaiah and the original…
If you cannot refute the following hypothesis, please share this article with your friends. Maybe they manage to do so. Thank you. Since I discovered something relevant about our society’s nature, I have asked myself a million times whether I am crazy or all the others are crazy. It comforts me to know that many…
Neither the believers nor the non-believers object the idea that everything in the universe follows the principle of cause and effect and is somehow related to everything else. Since for me that idea refers to God, I consider that it is because of how the religious authorities interpret God and the Holy Scriptures that there…
Historians have studied the origin of the different books of the Bible, but seem not to have investigated the origin of the idea that these are sacred nor what this term originally meant. However, when want a good understanding of these books, we must know what their authors thought about them. While today we assume…
