I write about what is actually in the Bible, as opposed to what people are told is in it.
For years I argued in comment threads with believers about what the text says. Thousands of exchanges, kept and sorted. That archive is the raw material for everything here.
You should know where I stand before you read anything else. I was a Christian, and I read my way out. I do not believe the Bible was dictated, inspired, or authorized by anything divine. I think it is a collection of ancient documents written by people, and I think it says what it says.
That gives the work two jobs, and they run in sequence. The first is to show that a great deal of what Christians believe the Bible says is not in it. Not disputed, not open to interpretation, simply absent. The second is harder: once you clear away what is not there, you have to deal with what is. And what is there does not survive contact with the historical record either.
Correcting a believer's reading only moves them to a better-defended position. The point is that the better-defended position fails too.
I am the author of the novel The War Against the End of Days, an apocalyptic reimagining of Revelation, and I am writing The Unpreached Bible, a thirteen-volume series taking one contested subject at a time.
Every passage quoted here comes from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition, checked against the published text. Where a translation choice is itself the issue, I say so.