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There's a problem with our Bible translations. It's about Egypt. Egypt figures prominently in the Exodus story, but the word Egypt is a translation and maybe not a very good one. The problem is that saying Egypt conjures images of modern Egypt... ...or the historical Egyptian empire...

In Ephesians, Paul identifies just one baptism: 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. However, it was recently pointed out in...

Genesis 1 enumerates 7 days for the creation. It painstakingly documents the shift from one day to the next with the repetitive phrase, "and there was evening, and there was morning, the Xth Day." I don't think those time frames are literal. Get out your torches and pitchforks. Just to be...

The Israelite King Solomon wrote 2 books of the Bible - Proverbs and Ecclesiastes - and 2 of the Psalms (#72 & #127). But the Bible says that for much of his life, Solomon was apostate. He isn't reckoned among the good king, but the bad ones. Proverbs is written by Solomon during a period...

At the beginning of Genesis 1, God forms the world out of waters that are "without form" and "void." You're probably familiar with this. But are you familiar with the other story of creation in the Bible? Starting in Job 38, we have another accounting of creation in which God tells Job all...

I know there are already a few threads on Saturday/Sabbath stuff, but I had a question that came out of that discussion that seems to deserve separate consideration. Is Sunday-observance the same as Sabbath-rest? There seems to be much ballyhoo about Sunday replacing Saturday, but that...

In Acts 2, Peter gives the sermon of his life to the assembled Jews who are at Jerusalem for the Feast of Pentecost. In verses 29-30, he says something I found peculiar - that David was a prophet. Now, we know David as a king. And David was also a priest - he claims so in Psalm 110. But...

The church views Genesis as a single, literal, historical, chronological, mostly first-hand account stretching from the beginning of the universe to the beginning of the nation of Israel. The academic community disagrees. It sees Genesis as a compilation of works, some of them mythological...