Every year around Easter I hear people discussing the day that Jesus was crucified. Many Christians simply accept traditional Good Friday without much reflection on questions of chronology. Others protest that Jesus couldn’t possibly have been crucified on a Friday and instead suggest a Wednesday or Thursday crucifixion, depending on their interpretation of the biblical…
The 23rd of September 2025 is the day when the Lord will rapture his church from the world so that the 7 year Tribulation can start! We are living through prophecy in real time!! If you call me tomorrow, and I don't answer—you'll know where I am, and you'll know what is coming. Now that…
If you interact with enough people, especially people who enjoy discussing the Bible online, you will eventually run into someone who claims to be Christian but advocates for polygamy. Most Christians have an intuitive sense that polygamy is wrong but don’t quite know how to articulate why. When they encounter people who actively promote it,…
James opens his epistle with a baffling statement: “My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing” (1:2-4). Of course every Christian yearns to be made perfect and entire—to…
As Christians, we take seriously what the Bible says about how we should live—and this includes how we should dress, adorn, and present ourselves. Three NT passages (1 Corinthians 11, 1 Timothy 2, and 1 Peter 3) specifically mention how Christians should or should not wear their hair. In the King James Version, 1 Timothy…
There are different kinds of worship; not all worship is divine worship—i.e., the type of worship that someone gives to God or a god. This is less apparent to those of us who speak modern English, because in our idiom the word "worship" now refers almost exclusively to the reverence given to a deity; unless…
One of the most glorious truths of scripture is that Jesus of Nazareth—a Jewish man who had a mother, siblings, and friends, who ate, slept, and drank, and who put on his shoes one at a time just like anyone else—is also somehow the Creator who brought everything that exists into existence. Many biblical passages…
Did Jesus have facial hair? Unequivocally yes: Jesus had facial hair because the Bible says that he did. Isaiah 50:6 mentions Jesus’s beard when it describes his suffering thusly: “I offered my back to those who attacked, my jaws to those who tore out my beard; I did not hide my face from insults and…
Lately I have been thinking a lot about 2 Corinthians 3:17, and especially about what this verse teaches us regarding the identity of Jesus. As I see it, the wording of this verse has serious implications relating to the deity of Christ. With that in mind, I would like to ask two Christological questions in…
Those of us who speak English are blessed with hundreds of Bible translations in our language. Most of the time, these various Bible versions say basically the same thing: they differ slightly in wording, but not actually in substance. That said, a while back I noticed a significant difference between the major Bible versions at…
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