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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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Recovering the Resurrection Hope of Early Christianity If you ask the average modern Christian: “What is the ultimate hope of the believer?” most will answer: “Going to heaven when you die.” But there is a serious historical and biblical problem with that answer: That was not the primary message preached by Jesus or the apostles.…
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Recovering the First-Century Meaning of Pistis One of the most important shifts in modern Christianity happened so gradually that most believers never noticed it. Today, many Christians hear the word “faith” and think: In other words:faith has largely become mental. But in the world of the Bible — especially within Second Temple Judaism and the…
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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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If we are going to read Scripture as it was written, we have to start with a simple question: What did the original audience assume was true about the world? Not what they were taught later. Not what theology systems eventually said. But what was simply… obvious to them. Because every text is written into…
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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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For the past couple of months, things have been quiet here—and that was intentional. There are seasons where pushing content forward is the right move. And there are seasons where stepping back is the only honest option. I hit one of those points where continuing to write would have meant repeating myself, forcing conclusions, or…
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The claim that Luke—whether the infancy narratives in chapters 1–2 or the Gospel as a whole—is ahistorical is not new. Nor is it fringe. But it does sit at the far edge of an already skeptical interpretive spectrum, and that placement matters. Much of the confusion surrounding Luke is not primarily evidential but definitional. Before surveying…
Restoring Apostolic Faith 