Lost

That is exactly where you are without God — lost. You are wandering without hope, utterly empty and completely useless – like a boat without either rudder or compass or a horse without a rider. Whether you know it or not, it will become clearer to you as you come near death – that without God, you will leave this life in fear, not knowing what lies ahead. “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”

On Sunday, March 23 the television show 60 Minutes a segment was aired concerning the “James the brother of Jesus” ossuary. Most scholars and experts have come to believe that the phrase “brother of Jesus” was forged on to the ossuary in an attempt to make this ossuary an important historical artifact. But the disturbing […]

Mark Zaveson sent me an e-mail this week that centered on a discussion concerning the Bible and the accuracy of the scriptures. The author’s intent was to review and promote a book whose author attacked the common historical revisionism that is around concerning Jesus specifically and the Bible in general.

By John Steele Gordon

Christmas famously “comes but once a year.” In fact, however, it comes twice. The Christmas of the Nativity, the manger and Christ child, the wise men and the star of Bethlehem, “Silent Night” and “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” is one holiday. The Christmas of parties, Santa Claus, evergreens, presents, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Jingle Bells” is quite another.

I know you have seen the Nutritional Information labels the government requires on all processed or packaged food products, but have you ever looked at that portion of the label on a bottle of water?

I found this in J. W. McGarvey’s compiled writings volume titled Biblical Criticism. As McGarvey was a considered scholar in both the Hebrew and Greek, I thought it might be useful to note his remarks concerning the use of plural pronouns in the Hebrew language. The response was posted to a radical question concerning disputing the authorship of Moses for the Penteteuch; however, the answer is interesting on other levels as well.

In the Republican presidential debate on Wedneday, November 28, a person asked the candidates if they believe in every word of the Bible. Guiliani responded, “The reality is: I believe it, but I don’t believe it necessarily literally true in every single respect. I think there are parts of the Bible that are interpretive. I […]

A part of American history had its start with the effects of the Protestant Revolution and also the emergence of the Puritans in 16th-century Britain. As with most denominations, the Bible was the backbone of Puritanism. Mr. Gelernter continued, “It was also central to the emergence of modern Britain in the 16th and 17th centuries–and modern Britain was central in turn to the establishment of the United States of America and in an only slightly lesser sense to the continued development of the whole world.”

I am amused by some of my Christian acquaintances and friends. They spend time postulating and posing ideas in their minds as to what exactly is meant by some of the weightier things in God’s word. The church and the form it takes is one current fashion. I read recently that the church is “invisible.” I have heard that it is not an organization, a corporation, an entity, or an institution.

A report released in 2005 by an organization called the Bible Literacy Project suggested that young Americans know very little about the Bible.

That probably did not come as much of a shock. And while the report has importance, but then first things first, another fair number of Americans do not see why teenagers need to know anything at all about the Bible. And some of these same people may profess to be Christians.