Available on Amazon.com The movement to defend the inerrancy of the Bible has roots that trace back to the early centuries of Christianity. It gained significant momentum in the 19th and 20th centuries in response to challenges posed by modern biblical criticism and the increasing infiltration of liberal theology into…
The Tanakh says that God chose Abram to leave Ur of the Chaldees and go to live in the land of Caanan. There God promised Abram that the families of the world would one day be blessed though his seed, and whereupon God changed Abram’s name to Abraham to reflect…
The prophet Jeremiah revealed that God would one day restore the Children of Israel from Exile in Babylon to Eretz Yisrael and would eventually establish a New Covenant to replace the covenant mediated by Moses at Mount Sinai. Jeremiah wrote, “Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will…
Many skeptics dismiss the Bible as a book of fables written by men. In doing so, they show their lack of understanding of the nature of both man and God and how revelation from God comes forth to us through the human mind. For discussion’s sake, let us use the…
During WWII, the Nazis required all Jews to wear a Yellow Star of David on their chest. It was intended as a badge of shame. Today, the shame is with the people who are criticizing Israel’s defense of its people from further harm by Hamas. Astoundingly, many Americans and even…
Several people have asked if the Gaza War currently underway was predicted in the Bible. Other than the generalized statement spoken by Jesus saying that there would be wars and rumors of wars (Matthew 24:6-13), no it wasn’t. The Bible’s time-specific prophecy doesn’t work that way. Its purpose is to…
A reader who previewed my Bible chronology book emailed me about my views on the Young Earth vs. Old Earth controversy. In his words, he wanted to know if I believe, as he framed the question, “the Bible’s version of creation or science’s version of creation.” On this topic, I…
Replacement Theology (aka Supersessionism) is a Christian theology that is defined by the conviction that the Christian church (i.e., the congregation of believers, both Jews and non-Jews past and present, that place their faith in the blood of Jesus as the only blood atonement acceptable to God) has superseded the…
1. ‘Who would have believed our report? And to whom hath the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2. For he shot up right forth as a sapling, And as a root out of a dry ground; He had no form nor comeliness, that we should look upon him, Nor…
adapted from the Book of Romans, chapter 4 (Hebrew Names Version) What then will we say that Avraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh? For if Avraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God. For what does the Scripture say? “Avraham…