An atheist mentioned Gleason Archer’s Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties and commented, “How could God’s word have ‘difficulties?’ What on earth was difficult about God’s revelation to mankind? I mean ...

Do we know which books are inspired and belong in the Bible simply by reading them? Are all the biblical books self-attesting, so that no church is needed to determine the biblical canon? This is what ...

The local diocesan newspaper here in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, The Catholic Spirit, has a short piece on some comments the Pope sent to the Pontifical Biblical Commission, whose ...

Inspiration and comfort do not offer us the full weight and scope of God’s Word. What do Bible teachers do for fun on a Friday night? They check the Amazon lists to see which Bible translation holds ...

The recent almost world-wide Luther renaissance, which has again made the Reformer’s teachings a matter of popular interest, has also produced a renewed discussion of his doctrine of biblical ...

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