Ronnel D. Chua
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When the New Testament Was Written: A Chronological Background
A chronological guide to when the New Testament was actually written — from Paul’s earliest letters in 49 CE to the late Gospels and disputed epistles — and why the sequence changes how we read the texts. Continue reading
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What the Gospels Know That Paul Does Not Say – Part 3
The Gospels are full of material Paul never mentions — the birth, the baptism, the parables, Gethsemane, Pilate. A systematic comparison of what the earliest Christian writer leaves out. Continue reading
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The Lukan Paul: What Acts Claims That Paul Never Did – Part 2
Acts of the Apostles gives Paul a hometown, a teacher, Roman citizenship, and miracles he never mentions in his own letters. A close reading of what Luke adds and what the texts reveal. Continue reading
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What Paul Actually Said – Part 1
What do Paul’s seven authentic letters actually tell us about Jesus, the church, and early Christian belief — and what is strikingly, structurally absent from all of them? Continue reading
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The Qabala of God
Across Egyptian, Hebrew, Hindu, Buddhist, and Christian traditions, the names of the divine converge on a single number. Whether this is discovery or construction is a question the evidence does not settle. Continue reading
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The Way, the Dao, and the Ancient Paths
How to move through the world in a way that is genuinely aligned with what is real rather than with what merely seems advantageous, is a genuinely human problem, not the property of any single culture or century. Continue reading
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What the Place Is Called Now
When a place is renamed, the new name reaches backward and covers everyone who ever belonged to it. Lapulapu became Filipino the same way Jesus became Palestinian — by the logic of how place-names actually work. Continue reading
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The Way, the Church of God
The word appears exactly three times in the entire New Testament, and not once in circumstances suggesting the people it names chose it for themselves. The first occurrence is in Acts 11:26, at Antioch, where the disciples were first called… Continue reading
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The Self-Help Illusion: Why True Growth Can’t Be Packaged
Walk into any bookstore and you’ll find them—entire walls dedicated to personal development, rows upon rows of books promising to unlock your potential in thirty days or less. It’s a multi-billion-dollar industry, and it keeps growing because the promise never… Continue reading
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The Founder Who Arrived Late: Antioch and the Same Problem Twice
The first two posts[1] in this run stayed in Jerusalem: the apostles untouched while the Stephen circle bled, the church of God in Galatians 1:13 identified with the persecuted rather than the protected, the naming order at the Jerusalem conference… Continue reading
