#Hermeneutics

What the Bible Says about the Afterlife

I’ve been a pastor for twenty years. If there’s one thing people have questions about, it’s the afterlife. If there’s one thing people...

The contributions fall into four major sections. Part 1 is on the ancient context of the New Testament and attends to the relationship...

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Context is everything. That’s the first rule for interpreting scripture (or any other text, for that matter). The rule refers first to...

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Everything Jesus says is his answer to the question raised by the disciples in 24:3. And their question is primarily looking for a bit of...

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#BookReviews #Gospels #Hermeneutics #Scripture

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First, the text of Jonah doesn’t actually say that Jonah was swallowed by a sperm whale. It simply says he was swallowed by a big fish...

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The details of the controversy are available in other places; so I’ll simply sum up the core issue. In his massive book, The Resurrection...

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