Biblical Interpretation
Reading Scripture in its literary, historical, and linguistic contexts.
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“Everyone who goes to medical school is smart, but everybody doesn’t make it through. And some that make it through don’t make good doctors.” — Nick Saban I have always appreciated that observation. It applies to far more than medicine. Saban applied it to athletes of-course, but I believe the same is true of theology.…
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Every few months the same claim resurfaces across social media: “The Gospels were anonymous.” “We don’t actually know who wrote them.” “The names Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John weren’t attached until much later.” The implication is always the same: If we cannot prove the traditional authors personally penned every word, then the Gospels must be…
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The Difference Between Knowing and Understanding. “The less a person knows about a subject, the easier it appears. The more a person learns, the more complexity they discover.” One of the strangest realities of human nature is that confidence and knowledge often move in opposite directions. Psychologists call this the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Those with limited…
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One of the most dangerous phrases in modern Christianity may be: “The Bible clearly says…” Sometimes it does. Many times, however, what follows is not Scripture itself, but someone’s interpretation of Scripture. There is a difference. Scripture is inspired. Our interpretations are not. That distinction matters. For nearly two thousand years, faithful Christians have debated…
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Why the Answer Depends on What You Mean by “Evil” Few theological questions generate more confusion than this one: Did God create evil? Many Christians will answer “absolutely not.” Others immediately quote Isaiah 45:7: “I form light and create darkness,I make well-being and create calamity…”(NASB95) Some translations even render the final word as “evil.” Case…
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How Modern Formatting Accidentally Changed the Way Christians Read Scripture For most Christians today, the Bible feels like a collection of individual statements. We quote verses.Memorize verses.Debate verses.Post verses online.Build doctrines from verses. But there is one enormous problem with this approach: The Bible was never written in verses. Moses did not write in verses.Isaiah…
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One of the more common “Bible contradiction” claims comes from Acts 9:7 and 22:9. In one passage, Paul’s companions seem to hear Jesus.In the other, they apparently do not. So which is it? Let’s look carefully. The Two Passages In Acts 9:7, Luke describes Paul’s Damascus encounter this way: “The men who traveled with him…
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There’s a scene in The Matrix where Morpheus offers Neo a choice:Take the blue pill and remain in the world as he understands it…Or take the red pill and see reality as it actually is. The unsettling part isn’t that Neo was living in a lie.It’s that everything around him felt coherent, functional—even convincing. That’s…
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It has been a couple of months since I last wrote. Not because there was nothing to say—but because there was too much. At a certain point, continuing to produce content without stepping back becomes noise. And if this project is going to be anything, it cannot be noise. So I stopped. Not to drift—but…
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Few Second Temple writings generate more discomfort for modern Christians than the Book of Enoch. Some dismiss it outright as pseudepigrapha. Others try to smuggle it in as a lost piece of antediluvian revelation. Both approaches miss the point—and both misunderstand how Scripture functioned in the world of Jesus and the apostles. Enoch is not…
Restoring Apostolic Faith 