A TV preacher said John 3:16 is the most memorized verse of Scripture.  He quoted it as this: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (NIV).  After that, he focused on the English translation word “all,” surmising, “God sent Jesus to die for the sins of everyone.  Not just Christians, but the whole world.” Certainly, that is the way this verse is preached.  It is true that Yahweh (the

Welcome back to the blog Bible Studies class. I hope you spent the past week thinking about the concept of 'Adam and Eve' being the prototype of Jesus Christ and his living body Church. I hope you also read ahead and went into Genesis 3. You can go ahead and bring up the reference materials on your computers, to Genesis 3 NIV and Bible Hub Interlinear, but let me say some more about the aspect of a "living Church."  I want you to see what I am talking about; and, as we are ab

Let me first make an update on the Bible Studies 3, as a 'current events' kind of thing.  Here is a picture I found shared on Facebook. ...

Well how was your week? I hope it was filled with lots of reading in Genesis 1 and plenty of prayer and reflection as to the points I...

The topic for today is the first chapter of Genesis. With that known, go grab your Bibles or do an Internet search of “Genesis 1” and...

Verse 39 begins with a capitalized Eraunate , which in the second-person becomes an important instruction for “you” to “Investigate” or...

Veres 31 begins with a capitalized Ean , which makes an important statement about that Before,” or announces an “Except”-ion to that...

This series of verses begins with verse 24 stating (once again as capitalized importance), “Truly.”  This says that which follows (as...

In response to the known plots of the “Jews” or Pharisees that could not see the evil they worshiped as motivating their actions, verse...

This section of John’s fifth chapter appears to be Jesus being confronted by the Pharisees (the Judaism police), where he explained the...

In John 5:1-9 we are told of a lame man at the pool of Bethesda.  We translate that the man was going there for “thirty-eight years,” as...

In the Year C of the Episcopal Lectionary, the first nine verses of John’s fifth chapter are read.  After that, nothing is read of this...

The New International Version (NIV) that is read in Episcopal churches says, “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and...

I read a meme that was shared by the Episcopal Church, which took John 21 (verses 15 through 19), and changed Peter to modern American...

A pastor on television Sunday mornings locally presented his views on “predestination.” He stated out front and said very clearly that...

In my local community is a Baptist affiliated mega-church, which I drive by regularly in my local trips to here and there.  The pastor...

Human life begins with a soul placed into flesh; and, life ends when that soul leaves that flesh.

25 “Then the kingdom of heaven will be comparable to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the groom. 2 Five of them...

Stealing a line from Forrest Gump, while bending it to suit my needs: "I'm not a smart man, but I know what a misspelled word is." --...

Sunday's TV sermon was centered on the last portion of Matthew 5, which the NRSV places a header that says, “Concerning Retaliation.”...