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Bible & Theology

The Bible and Theology are the things I'm most passionate about and write about the most often.

Q&R: Is there more to Christianity than striving for perfection and trying to avoid sin? If so, what?

Response: Yes, there's more! In fact, striving for perfection is not even a component of Christianity. If you are trying to be perfect, please stop. You're making yourself miserable, and there's a decent chance you're making those around you miserable as well.

Jesus' "End Times" Prophecies

Imagine living in the year 4000 CE, and you come across the 2,000-year-old speeches and quotes of climate activist Greta Thunberg. And let's say you also happen to know that by 2050 CE, the earth's coastal cities were destroyed by flooding caused by climate change.

Misused Scripture 5: Genesis 3:16, Men Ruling Over Women

Genesis 3 goes by lots of names: The Fall, The Curse, the starting place of Original Sin, the Loss of Innocence. It's a story you may know about a talking snake, a forbidden fruit, and a woman who eats that fruit. God finds out, takes the legs off

Revelation from God may make you angry...and that’s a good thing.

Thoughts on Ezekiel 2 and 3 In Ezekiel 2—3, while Ezekiel is entranced in a vision of God’s glory, he is commissioned to go to his people and speak the words of God. He is to literally ingest God’s words (he eats a scroll!), have them become

Eternal Hell Question 2: Don't other passages refer to hell being infinite in duration?

Question: Your answer presupposes that hell is theologically claimed to last forever only because of one mistranslated word, but that is not the case. Hell is also described by Jesus as other words that point us towards forever, such as “unquenchable” (Mark 9:33-34) or “without ceasing” (see Rev 14:

Eternal Hell Question 1: Is heaven not forever, either?

Question (edited for space, clarity): If the word commonly translated “eternal/forever” for hell only means a limited age or long-lasting, but Jesus uses the same word (aionios) to describe not only Hell but Heaven’s eternal life (John 3:16), is the life Jesus promises only temporary? The same

Question: New Testament Antisemitism

The Gospel of John contains passages like 8:44, where Jesus, addressing the Jewish, tells them that "You are of your father, the devil." This has been used throughout history to justify antisemitism and antisemitic acts. I'm curious about your perspective on this. Is there a

English Bible Translations Have Gotten Eternal Almost Entirely Wrong

There's No Such Thing As Eternal Hell Folks who support the idea that hell will be "eternal conscious torment" will use passages like Matthew 25:46 (NIV)— "[The unrighteous] will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life." You can go

Why Do I Refer to the Author of Hebrews As "She"?

We don't know who wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews. It slid into the New Testament canon because it got categorized as a letter of Paul (though there were plenty of doubters of that as well). But the use of Greek, style, and literary composition is quite different.

God's glory is best seen among the oppressed

Thoughts on Ezekiel 1 The prophet and would-be-priest Ezekiel is sitting with his fellow exiles in Babylon. He's thirty years old, the age when priests take up their duties. He was 14 years old when King Josiah was killed in battle, and the temple revival ended. Now he