Acts of the Apostles
by King James
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…Aurelius _The Prince_ by Niccolo Machiavelli _The Bill of Rights_ by James Madison _The Gospel According to John_ by John, from The Bible _The Gospel According to Luke_ by Luke, from The Bible _The Acts of the Apostles_ by Luke, from The Bible _The Song of Solomon_ by Solomon, from The Bible _Heimskringla_ transcribed by Snorri Sturluson These books have combined to make me the free-thinking, reactionary stoic that…
on “Ask HN: What books have helped make who you are today?” ↗…collection. Fun fact: AA was originally going to call themselves the St James club due to this book's very practical presentation of spiritual ideas. Other epistles: no impression. The four gospels and Acts of the Apostles. I can't add to the centuries of back and forth. But they are worth a thorough reading if you are curious. I don't regret the effort I put in. Macaques. Fascinating to a student of history as it contains…
on “Ask HN: Have you read the Bible in its entirety, and what was your impression?” ↗The Gospel According to St. Luke and the Acts of the Apostles (also by St. Luke).
on “Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect?” ↗That's frankly rubbish. Chapter 2 of the Acts of the Apostles tells how the Apostles speak in tongues and Acts 2,9-10 lists the nations that were in Jerusalem for Shavuot: Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus…
on “Did the Greeks see themselves as white, black, or something else?” ↗…tyranny and misery because man cannot be perfected. If your worldview cannot survive the fact that a lot of people are assholes, it will always fail when you try to put it in practice. If you look at the Acts of the Apostles, how they are describing the early Christian community sounds an awful lot like what communists are trying to achieve. And it worked, for a time, but this was a small group of zealous believers banding…
…largely irrelevant historical and spiritual marginalia, which were collected into a specific text known as 'The Bible' for fairly arbitrary reasons. If the OP had said to read 'Genesis, Psalms and the Acts of the Apostles' it would have made some kind of sense to me. But dsr3's use of the fact that the Stanford course includes Genesis and the NT as support of the recommendation to read 'The Bible' is just sophistry. Saying…
on “Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were worth investing time in?” ↗…is a continuation of the previous straw man argument, in fact, the closest contemporaneous sources, in chronological order, are the letters of Paul, the Gospel of Mark, the Gospels of Luke and Matthew, Acts of the Apostles, and the Gospel of John. > Maybe the scholars you refer to are extrapolating from the title "Anointed", or from the fact that, gosh, if you're saying this Jesus is sinless, and baptism is for the remission…
on “Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar” ↗…source existed. The earliest recorded words attributed to Jesus are found in Matthew 5-7, portions of the Sermon on the Mount[7] ("Blessed are the cheesemakers...")[8] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_the_Apostles#Title,_un... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Mark#Authorship,_dat... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Galatians#Date [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_Philemon#Compositio...…
on “Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar” ↗…that hadn't met Jesus (outside of visions) and Paul letters also don't give us much that matters in terms the historical accuracy of what went on in the region as he wasn't there. And don't believe the 'Acts of the Apostles' in the bible those are even less historical then the gospels.
on “Five Mildly Anti-Buddhist Essays” ↗The gospels and the Acts of the Apostles certainly have a strong narrative element; the letters rather less so. It doesn't surprise me that they could all be memorized in a decade, but not a year. I just think the techniques in this article…
on “How actors remember their lines” ↗…after 70AD because of their metaphysical assumption that predicting the future is impossible. But late dating creates a host of disparate problems that must be explained. One problem coming to mind: Acts of the Apostles clearly ends with Paul still being alive. If you simply don't share the assumption that prophecy is fundamentally impossible, then early dating for Mt, Mc and Lc becomes easy to accept on the basis of…
on “Is the Q source the origin of the Gospels?” ↗According to the 'Acts of the Apostles', Paul (then still called Saul) was actively prosecuting the followers of Jesus, which by many were considered to be a Jewish sect, like there were more of such sects. It was on one of this prosecution…
The Stoics are explicitly mentioned in Acts of the Apostles, but I think a better way to think about it is that the framework of "Virtue" as "Conforming to your Nature" is a very useful one for understanding the gospels, as was developed extensively starting in…
on “What Is Stoicism?” ↗…you are right to question the meaning of the scripture. But, I urge you to continue. Don't stop after you've just begun. Investigate it. This is your kneejerk interpretation. Read the Gospels, read the Acts of the Apostles, see if your interpretation fits. Reading a helper function for an api call on a web server doesn't tell you what the web server is used for.
on “Bible as RAG Database” ↗