The House of Suren (Omegaman Podcast)
Missed the live interview? Listen to Episode 10683 of the Omegaman Podcast featuring an interview with God Save the King creator Tim Keyes discussing the House of Suren here.
Category: Evidence
Were Jesus, Mary, and Joseph Undocumented Immigrants?
Every year at Christmas time there are attempts to equate Joseph, Mary, and Jesus’ flight from Bethlehem to Egypt to the plight of illegal immigrants—claiming that they too would have been “undocumented” and therefore turned away at the border. While Read More …
Parthian Graffiti
Dura Europos was a Greek, then Parthian, then Roman city on the western bank of the Euphrates River approximately 310 miles northwest of the Parthian capital of Ctesiphon on the Tigris. It was founded around 300 BCE by Seleucus I Read More …
The House of Suren
Surena, also known as Rustaham Suren, was a Parthian general during the first century BCE. He is best known for defeating the Romans, under the command of triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BCE. According Read More …
Clement of Alexandria–Stromata
I recently read an article that pushed back at the idea that Jesus was not born on December 25th. The article claimed to “prove” that Jesus was in fact born of December 25th. Sadly, the article contained a lot of Read More …
What You Didn’t Know About the “Census” of Luke 2
(1) And it came to pass in those days {that} a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. (2) This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. (3) So, all went to Read More …
Wise Men & Wonder Bread
The story of Gideon is something of a riddle. In it we are continually presented with ideas that don’t really seem to make sense. Gideon professes that he is the least in his family, and from one of the weakest Read More …
Better to be Herod’s Pig
Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, usually known simply as Macrobius, was a commander of the Praetorian guard of Italy circa 430 CE. He was also a grammarian and Neoplatonic philosopher. His most important work was Saturnalia (Saturnalia Libri Septem, “Seven Books of Read More …
How Do We Know? (That Jesus Wasn’t Born on December 25th?)
The odds of Jesus of Nazareth being born on December 25th are exactly 1/365—precisely the same as any other day of the year selected at random. Tim Keyes The Question- “How do we know Jesus wasn’t born on December 25th?” Read More …
How Can Millions of People Be Wrong?
“How could millions of people be wrong?” Just look around. Even a casual survey of top world religions by population reveals four religions with over a billion followers, four more with over 100 million followers, and a dozen with over Read More …