"Perhaps my preaching last Sunday was somewhat unpleasant because I visited many of you harshly with the severity of the teaching autho...

Since Christians so often suggest that something or other is demonic, and much of the time they seem to do it with a lot of carelessness, it...

Baptism is a work, for reasons I've discussed elsewhere, like here . But even if it weren't a work, there would still be many reason...

Critics of how Evangelicals use Galatians could raise objections to the effect that Galatians is just one document, it's such a short le...

I wrote most of the following at the end of last year, Dec 2025. Still, I thought it might be useful to post now in case anyone is looking f...

Just some humor: If English Bible translations were Star Wars characters... 😊 * ESV = Yoda. Knowledgeable and wise, comes from a long and...

I have heard some people deride the NASB 2020, but I think the NASB 2020 is very good: It seems to me the NASB 2020 unfairly received a bad...

Someone said: If you don't know what the original language of a text was written in, then you are 100% dependent on someone telling you...

Many Evangelicals have cited Galatians and other parts of scripture against Roman Catholicism and other groups they think hold a false gospe...

It's often claimed that every Christian before the Reformation believed in baptismal regeneration, that only heretics opposed it, that o...

Proverbs warns about being simple-minded. "How long, O naive ones, will you love being simple-minded?" (1:22) The simple should be...

Mike posted it on his YouTube channel here . The recording is incomplete. It stops partway through the question-and-answer segment. I don...

It's sometimes claimed that Irenaeus thought the fourth gospel was written by some other John, often referred to as John the Elder. I re...

I want to put links to some of the relevant posts in our archives in one place: Is Psalm 22 Messianic? The Jewishness Of The Individual I...

One of the popular objections to Christian arguments for prophecy fulfillment is that the prophetic passages are too vague. Can Psalm 22 be ...

A common objection to Christian arguments for prophecy fulfillment is that the Old Testament passages don't identify themselves as Messi...

One of the aspects of Psalm 22 that doesn't get enough attention is how the psalm ends. The individual in the passage is approaching dea...

Discussions of prophecy fulfillment often get overly focused on a certain aspect of a passage to the neglect of others. A lot of attention w...

Skeptics often object to Christian prophecy fulfillment on the basis that the prophecies supposedly are too vague, that many people could be...

In a post last year, I discussed several implicit lines of evidence for belief in justification apart from baptism among the early extrabibl...