by admin | Jul 31, 2018 | Issues
There is an idea about studying the Bible that is vain and divisive, and yet it is common. It is this: “I see something in this passage which nobody else sees.” Sometimes this thinking is extended to the past: “I see something about this passage which...
by admin | Oct 2, 2017 | Devotional, Issues
A few years ago some atheists printed a book called The X-Rated Bible. It criticized the Bible because of its graphic details of violence and sex. The authors listed Bible passages describing unfair, vicious, and even perverted acts. How could a book containing such...
by admin | Apr 25, 2017 | Issues
Having read the Koran in its entirety (A. J. Arberry’s translation), I have various impressions of it. Some might accuse me of lacking objectivity, to which I would reply that everyone has a worldview which he brings to any subject. It is possible, by the evidence, to...
by admin | Mar 3, 2017 | Issues
Who is an educated person? A man with a doctoral degree? A master’s degree? A bachelor’s? An associate’s? A high school diploma? One who can read? One who does read?A man who knows well the field in which he earns a living? One acquainted with history and who...
by admin | Dec 16, 2016 | Issues
Where would we be without books? When we were small, our mother or father perhaps read books to us. In elementary school, our teachers at times read to us as well. We learned to read early and began the mental trip that books always allowed us to take. What a journey...