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How to Read the Bible

A collection of 6 issues

Why didn't the Bible—and Paul specifically—make their calls for justice more obvious?

Why didn't the Bible—and Paul specifically—make their calls for justice more obvious? Why doesn't Paul more obviously call for the eradication of slavery? Why do modern readers have to do exegetical dances to get Scripture to mean what we want it to mean? Let&

Importance of Genre

Let's pretend that I have a bookshelf with 100 books on it. The only pretending here is that it's only one bookshelf, and only 100 books... Towards the top of the bookshelf I have a delightful book called A Man Called Ove. It's a

Christians act like interpreting Scripture isn't hard

Christians oftentimes act like interpreting Scripture isn't hard (which isn't true). I think this is because admitting that's it's hard to interpret would be somehow denying its inspired status. Or, in the instances where they do admit that it is hard, they

Elijah and the 450 Prophets

Someone recently asked me: I’m confused by Elijah killing 450 prophets...that just seems so cruel and excessive. Like, if someone told me that worshipping/following God meant killing hundreds of people - or anyone - I’d be like “uhm I’m not sure about this God.” I

Good Online Resources for Studying Scripture

Biblegateway.com Bible Gateway is usually the first place I go on the internet to start researching a piece of Scripture. They have some of the best and easiest-to-use tools on the internet. You should know that the lion's share of those tools are behind a $40/year

Don't Read the Bible Alone

Don't read the Bible alone