Christian Study

I receive email questions from a couple of religious websites. It occurred to me that I have not seen any questions regarding the order of worship in quite a while. I used to receive questions having to do with whether is was alright to have two songs before the prayer or a song during the [...]

Over the years I have heard many different stories about how some people believe the creation of man occurred and how we came to have all of the races and even how Noah’s flood occurred. My current understanding of all of these things comes mostly from scripture taking into account the Hebrew text. This post [...]

To begin I should state that I believe that the scripture teaches a final punishment that has an everlasting, or better said, a never ending result. I recently read a book loaned to me by a friend. It was titled Counterfeit Christianity, by E. Raymond Capt. I had the opportunity to meet Mr Capt many [...]

Early on I mentioned that if something is a sin today then it had to be a sin for The Adam and if something was a sin for The Adam then it must be a sin today. God does not change and God’s morals can not change. So who did Seth marry? The scripture does [...]

My last post has forced me to get a little more serious about looking for good Bible software. Bible software is the one major item that is missing for Linux. When one responds with the answer, “Why not use GnomeSword?”, I answer that they are not ready for serious study. They also have errors in [...]

Several have been studying the importance of the moon as far as determining times and seasons lately. A key verse in the study is Genesis 1:16. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. The phrase “he [...]

In the times of ancient Israel scripture tells us of their disobedience. As we read the text we sit back and wonder why could they not see how unrighteous they were behaving? They did not see it. They did not comprehend it. When a prophet would point and tell them they were unrighteous they were [...]

I thought it was time for a little history. I was brought up Catholic. I would come home from grade school and tell my mother about the stories the nuns had told us at school that day. Most were totally fabricated stories that somehow related to God or religion. The stories were told as fact. [...]

It is really important to know the who when reading scripture. Thre are many times when reading the scripture that people misunderstand who the text is about. If one knows the law of the kinsman redeemer you know that you can only redeem a close relative. In scriptural times you might have a servant because [...]

That is the big word these days. Everyone is taught to be tolerant. It is a much more limited tolerance than was taught in the 60′s and 70′s. In the old testament God commanded Israel to be intolerant of other people and their gods. Deuteronomy 7:1 When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the [...]