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Persia & Judaism

The Persian Substrate Holds

A Rigorous Defense of the Inheritance Thesis at Full Strength The Persian inheritance argument is most often attacked on its weakest framings — single-source…
May 15, 2026 · 16 min read
Persia & Judaism

The Persian Inheritance Still Stands

Why Serious Refutations Do Not Break the eFireTemple Thesis Companion essay to The Persian Substrate Holds: A Rigorous Defense of the Inheritance Thesis at…
May 15, 2026 · 10 min read
Jesus & the Father

The Apostle Who Was Not There

The Other Gospel: The Lost Jerusalem Files — Part II Paul changed Christianity more than any other figure after Jesus. That fact alone should…
May 13, 2026 · 15 min read
Comparative Traditions

James the Just: The Christianity Before Paul

The Other Gospel: The Lost Jerusalem Files — Part I Before Christianity became a religion of Paul, it was a movement in Jerusalem. Before…
May 13, 2026 · 14 min read
Ahura Mazda & Asha

James the Witness: The Ashavan at the Gate

From the Other Gospels series — eFireTemple There is a prayer in the Zoroastrian liturgy, old enough that scholars date portions of it to…
May 13, 2026 · 14 min read
Jesus & the Father

I Said, You Are Gods: How Jesus Refused the Divinity Charge When It Was Made to His Face

Part 11 of THE OTHER GOSPEL Series — by eFireTemple The Moment That Should Have Settled the Question There is one passage in the…
May 13, 2026 · 27 min read
Jesus & the Father

Depart from Me, Workers of Lawlessness: The Sermon on the Mount Already Refuted Pauline Salvation

Part 10 of THE OTHER GOSPEL Series — by eFireTemple The Passage That Should Have Ended the Argument There is a passage at the…
May 13, 2026 · 25 min read
Jesus & the Father

What Paul Doesn’t Quote: The Silence That Tells You Where His Authority Came From

From the Other Gospels series — eFireTemple There is a line in Yasna 31.3 that Zarathushtra writes about fire. The Avestan phrase is mainyu…
May 13, 2026 · 16 min read
Textual Development

Two Letters, Two Worlds: What James and Paul Were Actually Writing About

From the Other Gospels series — eFireTemple The Zoroastrian tradition has a precise name for what happens when an institution gradually replaces the original…
May 13, 2026 · 20 min read
Jesus & the Father

Before Abraham Was, I Am: The Bloodline Verse the Tradition Reads as a Divinity Claim

Part 9 of THE OTHER GOSPEL Series — by eFireTemple The Verse and What It Has Been Made to Mean There is a verse…
May 13, 2026 · 22 min read
Persia & Judaism

Cyrus’s Edict and the Return: The Two Hundred Years That Reshaped Judaism

The Historical Channel Through Which Zoroastrian Theology Entered Hebrew Religion — Article One of the Persian Period Judaism Series eFireTemple "This is what Cyrus…
May 13, 2026 · 30 min read
Jesus & the Father

The Red Letter Problem: How a Nineteenth-Century Editorial Decision Obscures the Foundation of Pauline Authority in Acts

Published by eFireTemple Abstract Red-letter editions of the Bible, first introduced by Louis Klopsch in 1899, print words attributed to Jesus in red ink…
May 13, 2026 · 14 min read
Textual Development

Fabricated Authority: How Paul’s Apostleship Was Built on Unverifiable Claims

Part 2 of the FABRICATED AUTHORITY Series — eFireTemple A Note on the Title The word "fabricated" requires precision. This article does not claim…
May 13, 2026 · 12 min read
Textual Development

The Law That Would Never Pass Away — Until Paul Said It Did

Part 3 of THE OTHER GOSPEL Series by eFireTemple The Two Statements There are two statements in the New Testament about the law of…
May 13, 2026 · 11 min read
Jesus & the Father

Faith Alone: The Doctrine Jesus Never Taught

Part 4 of THE OTHER GOSPEL Series by eFireTemple The Most Important Question in Christianity How is a person saved? This is not a…
May 13, 2026 · 12 min read
Textual Development

The Law That Would Never Pass Away — Until Paul Said It Did

Part 3 of THE OTHER GOSPEL Series by eFireTemple The Two Statements There are two statements in the New Testament about the law of…
May 13, 2026 · 11 min read
Comparative Traditions

Two Different Gods: The Father of the Prodigal Son vs. The Judge of Romans

Part 5 of THE OTHER GOSPEL Series by eFireTemple The Question Beneath Every Other Question Every argument in this series has circled a deeper…
May 13, 2026 · 12 min read
Textual Development

The Brother They Tried to Erase: James, the Witness Nobody Mentions

Part 6 of THE OTHER GOSPEL Series by eFireTemple The Man Who Was There There is a witness to Jesus that Christianity has systematically…
May 13, 2026 · 12 min read
Jesus & the Father

The Other Gospel: Two Christianities, One Bible, and What Was Lost

Part 7 of THE OTHER GOSPEL Series — The Capstone by eFireTemple What This Series Has Done Seven articles. Seven lines of evidence. Each…
May 13, 2026 · 14 min read
Comparative Traditions

The Most Misleading Red Letter in the Bible: How One Verse Inside Another Man’s Vision Became the Foundation of Pauline Christianity

A Focused Examination — eFireTemple The Claim There are thousands of red-lettered words across the New Testament. Most of them are presented as direct…
May 13, 2026 · 13 min read
Ahura Mazda & Asha

The Hadōkht Nask: The Avestan Text Where You Meet Yourself at the Threshold of Eternity

A Reading of the Avestan Ritual-Narrative That Established, Three Thousand Years Ago, the Most Psychologically Honest Account of Post-Mortem Judgment in the History of…
May 11, 2026 · 35 min read
Comparative Traditions

The Curriculum

Nobody Suppressed This. The Architecture of Religious Education Did It Automatically — and Here Is Exactly How to Verify That for Yourself We have…
May 11, 2026 · 7 min read
Persia & Judaism

The Three Objections

Why the Standard Academic Resistance to Zoroastrian Influence Fails Under Examination — and What That Failure Reveals There are three objections that appear whenever…
May 11, 2026 · 8 min read
Fire, Ritual & Practice

Yasna 12: The Confession That Made Religious Identity a Choice

A Reading of the Mazdayasnō Ahmi — the Zoroastrian Confession of Faith — as the Source-Text from Which the Christian Baptismal Renunciation and the…
May 11, 2026 · 29 min read