Ecclesiastes
Is Ecclesiastes 2 saying that scientific wisdom is meaningless since it’s talking “wisdom that is done under the heavens? The conclusion of Solomon’s search for wisdom provides the answer to the question. Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty […]
Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Jeremiah 1:5 Many misread and misinterpret this verse immediately assuming it is speaking of before conception. That is not what it says. “Before I […]
Colossians 2:8 – Philosophy
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Colossians 2:8 In terms of biblical studies, philosophizing is the opposite of diligent study. It is to reason out (dream up) a solution or interpretation of a passage or […]
Author of Job?
Questions arise as to the authorship of one book or another. Here the authorship of the book of Job is examined. Job 32:2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God. If […]
Dual Nature of Salvation
How could the Lord have died for all and all not be saved? This is the question that Augustinian/Calvinistic/Reformed and Arminianism’s, as well as Universalism, could not figure out, ‘How could Christ Jesus have died for the sins of the whole world and the whole world not be saved?’ To understand how Christ died for […]
Theology vs Philosophy
How do you define the line that separates philosophy from Theology? Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Colossians 2:8 In terms of biblical studies, philosophizing is the opposite of diligent study. It is to dream […]