Tag: Prosperity Gospel

  • Read Whole Books of the Bible

    I have recently been reading through Mortimer Adler’s How to Read a Book, and I came across a passage that stood out to me for its applicability to Bible reading.…

  • Protestants and the Apocrypha

    From a purely historical perspective, the Apocrypha has been part of the Bible in the church longer than it has not been a part of it. Please note that I…

  • Textual Variation: Do We Still Have the Word of God?

    If you have studied the transmission of the Bible to any extent, you will have become familiar with the idea of textual variation. That is, amongst the manuscripts of the…

  • The History of the King James Version of the Bible

    Of all Bible translations, none other has been so influential and so widely used as the King James Version (KJV), also known in England as the Authorized Version (AV). For…

  • Why We Need God’s Revelation

    How do we come to know who God is? For that matter, how do we come to know who anybody is? Now stop for a moment; have you ever thought…

  • A Famous (Spurious) Quote from John Wycliffe

    While going through the editing and revising process of writing my book, I made what was—at least to me—a very exciting discovery. I found the original source of a famous…

  • The Prodigal Son and Language Change

    What does the word “prodigal” mean? Go ahead and define the word for yourself before you look up its definition. How did you define “prodigal” for yourself? If I were…

  • Is “Agape” the Highest Form of Love?

    It has become a well-known claim that “agape love” is a special kind of divine love. It is commonly spoken of as an unconditional love, as something that is the…

  • Who Spoke the Words of John 3:16?

    When it comes to Bible translation, we must remember the maxim that all translation is interpretation. Before someone can translate a text, they must interpret it. If I say in…

  • Sin Is Not an Archery Term That Means “To Miss the Mark”

    It has become almost a cliche to give the etymology and “literal” meaning of the word “sin” as an archery term, meaning “to miss the mark.” You can hear it…