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Caution! You are about to enter the theology no-spin zone for basic Bible study. These words, paraphrased, introduce the famous Bill O’Reilly on Fox News. They […]

By Anthony Buzzard Please consider these language facts about things which are held in reserve by God, stored up “with Him.” “The Hebrew Bible speaks of […]

Part 1 of a series. The title takes after those popular crime shows on television which are involved in Crime Scene Investigations. The Bible is riddled […]

Jesus’ favorite self-designation is the Messianic title the son of man (“82 times in the Gospels; see also Acts 7.56; Rev 1.13; 14.14”, Zondervan Illustrated Bible […]

By Shaun Rufener Perhaps the strongest argument to which some appeal is that Jesus here is called “the true God,” and that the previous phrase – […]

“Let us follow after the great Prophet Moses, who leads us well, for he was sent to us by our Lord. Where is there a prophet […]

By Miranda Sharp At some point God had a plan to provide a Redeemer for sinful mankind. The first we are aware of this is at […]

Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges that stretcheth … alone] Cf. ch. Isaiah 40:22; Isaiah 42:5; Job 9:8. by myself] The A.V. here follows the reading […]

According to the ordinary rules of language whenever monos (“alone”, “only”) is used with theos (“God”) or kurios (“LORD”, YHWH), it cannot mean more than 1 […]

“There is also the unexpected alternative reading of John 1.13, which changes the plural into singular: ‘…who believe on the name of him who was born, […]

In Rev 3.14 Jesus is said to be “the beginning (or first, Gk. arche) of the creation of God.” Many interpret this as meaning that the […]

By Greg Deuble (greg.thebiblejesus@gmail.com.au) “In the year of King Uzziah’s death, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up …” (Isaiah 6:1). […]