Public Secrets

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

And He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand all the parables? Mark 4:13 NASB How will you understand – What motivates people to become enthralled with mystical approaches to the Bible? What causes them to start reading the text as if it is code for some hidden secret?…

Knowing the Truth

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

And He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable?  And how will you understand all the parables?”  Mark 4:13 Understand – Without seeing the Greek text, you have no idea what Jesus is saying here.  That’s because there are two different Greek verbs used in these two instances of the word “understand.”  Translating…