War in the Bible: an Examination of Biblical Conflict and Violence
The Bible doesn’t flinch at portraying the world’s violence, especially during wartime. And while there is no such thing as a kind and gentle war, you might be surprised to learn t...
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Who are the Nephilim in Genesis 6?
Genesis 6:4 reads: “The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and...
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What Is the New Covenant?
“You must read the book with X-ray eyes, for it is an essential part of your apprehension of any book to grasp its structure."
Mortimer Adle...
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Elect Exiles or Elect According to God’s Foreknowledge? (1 Pet 1:1) - Mondays with Mounce 317
One of the challenges in translation has to do with the nature of phrases. In English, we need to keep phrases closer to the words they modi...
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12 Ways Evangelism Is Changing
You've heard it said the twenty-first century is markedly different from the twentieth. It's not only because we have terrorism scares, self...
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The History of the Bible
How did we get the Bible? When was the Bible written? How can we trust the Bible?
We sat down with Ryan Reeves, Professor of Historical The...
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Where Did the Bible Come From?
The Bible is a collection of 66 books believed to have been written by more than 40 divinely-inspired authors. It’s thousands of years old, ...
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What Is Our Assurance That We Are God’s Children? (1 John 3:19-20) - Mondays with Mounce 316
1 John gives us three ways that we can know we are God’s children.
The first is the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. “And the one who keep...
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10 Reasons Why People Reject the Gospel
If the gospel is the “good news about Jesus,” then why do so many people reject it? If Christians bear this “good news,” how can they ...
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What the resurrection means
Of all religions, Christianity is the one that has the most historical evidence, and therefore the least to hide, in what it purports. We sh...
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Is Everyone in your Church Going to Heaven? - Mondays with Mounce 315
One of the challenges of the letter to Ephesians is to understand how Paul could write a letter to a church where he had ministered for thre...
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What does it mean that the Word became flesh?
John 1:14 is one of the most important verses in the Bible. It reads: “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen hi...
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Who Wrote the Gospel of John?
The Gospel of John provides no explicit internal evidence concerning its author. John, the disciple, is nowhere identified by name.
But the...
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What Is Evangelism?
Most Christians know that they should be engaging in the work of evangelism, but few know what evangelism is.
For example, is the stay-...
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Who Was John the Baptist?
The New Testament places a very high estimate on John the Baptist and his ministry.
John was the greatest figure yet produced under the old...
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Do We Rejoice in the Midst of Pain, or Run from It? (Phil 2:18) - Mondays with Mounce 314
Having established that God is at work in his children, giving them godly desires and the ability to accomplish those desires (Philippians 2...
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Craig Keener on reading, writing, and biblical scholarship
Craig S. Keener is the F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. He is the author of more than tw...
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