For many Christians, the effort to love the way the Bible commands is tiresome—like driving a car with square wheels. How do we keep from holding grudges? How do we love our enemy? How do we rejoice when our co-worker gets the promotion we deserve? I don’t think we’ll know how to really love until …
In its December 2011 issue, National Geographic celebrated the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, noting the massive impact it has had on the English language (among other things). Consider the following: Most of us might think we have forgotten its words, but the King James Bible has sewn itself into the fabric of …
Sometimes Christians hear a skeptic point to the fact that there are four different accounts of the life of Jesus as some sort of embarrassing evidence that the early Christians couldn’t get their story straight, or worse, that these are the stuff of legend. I’ve known some believers to get very flustered when the issue …
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Welcome to the Q&A section of the BibleMesh blog. During all of my years as a professor and dean, the most interesting questions inevitably come down to the following: “What does the Bible say about ___________?” I think one of the reasons why this line of inquiry never ceases to fascinate me is that Christian …
Welcome to the Q&A section of the BibleMesh blog. During all of my years as a professor and dean, the most interesting questions inevitably come down to the following: “What does the Bible say about ___________?” I think one of the reasons why this line of inquiry never ceases to fascinate me is that Christian …
Western civilization is indebted to the Judeo-Christian tradition for the ideas of human dignity and human rights, innovation in science and medicine, habits of humanitarian charity and universal education, and its rich contribution to the arts. As the prodigious Jewish scholar Jacob Neusner has written: “Religion has written much of the history of the West.” …