All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; 2 Timothy 3:16 NASB By God – Text and transmission. It seems as if the crucial issue about the authority of the Bible comes down to these two words. Who wrote it and how did it come to us? …
Then God spoke all these words, saying, Exodus 20:1 NASB All these words – Modern Jewish biblical scholars draw our attention to some difficult paradoxes. Nachmanides is an example: Our teacher Moses wrote this book of Genesis together with the entire Torah as dictated by the holy One, blessed is He. . . . It…
Then [a]he said to the people, “Go forward and march around the city, and the armed men shall go on ahead of the ark of the Lord.” Joshua 6:7 NASB He said – During the summer we encountered two American girls at a gelateria in Reggio Emilia. Meeting English speaking Americans is still unusual enough to generate…
Then [a]he said to the people, “Go forward and march around the city, and the armed men shall go on ahead of the ark of the Lord.” Joshua 6:7 NASB He (they) said – Did you notice the little footnote in this text. It reads: “Joshua 6:7 Another reading is they.” It’s pretty hard to confuse “he” and “they.” …
Let a righteous man strike me—that is a kindness; let him rebuke me—that is oil on my head. Psalm 141:5 NIV That is a kindness – The basis for most English translations is the Masoretic text (MT). However, occasionally the MT just doesn’t make any sense. It might have been slavishly copied from older documents,…
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a memorial stone, where you made a vow to Me; now arise, leave this land, and return to the land of your birth.’” Genesis 31:13 NASB Return – The story is familiar. Jacob is attempting to convince his wives to leave with him and return to Canaan. The wives hesitate. What…
All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; 2 Timothy 3:16 NASB Inspired – Please don’t get me wrong. I’m not trying to poke holes in your favorite English Bible translation. But I do want to point out that there might be a great many…
It was also about these people that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord has come with [n]many thousands of His holy ones, 15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.” …
Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep, like a warrior overcome by wine. He drove His adversaries backward; He put on them an everlasting disgrace. He also rejected the tent of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim, but chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved. Psalm 78:65-68 NASB Rejected – Now the politics comes…
In May of 2020 I wrote the following brief study. You can review it here before we continue: Now this is the law which Moses set before the sons of Israel; Deuteronomy 4:44 NASB Who Wrote It? Set before – You want your life to conform to God’s standard, right? You want to know what…
