Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is …

I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. (Isaiah 41:17) Imagine a people so small you could fit all of them into one mid-sized city and still have room. They hold no empire and no natural resources worth invading for. For most of recorded history they have been the …

In a democracy, capitalism has a built-in brake. As long as most people feel the system works for them too, that they can work, get ahead, and provide for a family with dignity, they’ll support it. But when capitalism turns predatory, when all the gains flow upward to a few …

Few sentences in Scripture have carried more weight than the last five words of Romans 5:12, and few have been more badly misread. Paul writes that sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and that death then spread to every human being, eph’ hō pantes hēmarton, …

If anyone tells you that to know God you must first learn Hebrew, that’s complete nonsense. You can be blind, deaf, and illiterate and still know Him intimately. God has never been locked behind a language. The simplest believer who cannot read a word can walk closer to God than …

Aïdios is often translated as “eternal” (or “everlasting”) in English Bibles, but the word itself does not inherently mean endless duration. Its core idea is that of something unbroken, enduring, or unrelenting. Remarkably, aidios appears only twice in the New Testament. Epistle to the Romans uses it once to describe …

Because languages do not perfectly mirror one another, every Bible translation inevitably involves interpretation, as translators must constantly choose how to convey meaning, nuance, culture, idioms, and theology from one language into another. Thus, every Bible translation is an interpretation. This may sound unsettling at first, especially to Christians who …

When modern readers hear the word hell, they usually imagine a place of endless torture for human souls. But that picture does not come from the earliest Jewish texts. One of the most important sources shaping early Jewish and early Christian thought on judgment is the Book of 1 Enoch. …

Scripture, Not Sensation: Why Theology Cannot Be Built on Visions Healthy theology cannot be built on private visions. It must be grounded in the text—its language, its context, and its coherent witness. My conclusions do not arise from what someone claims to have seen in a vision, during a coma, …

In another article, I already addressed the meaning of the Hebrew word olam, so often translated as “everlasting” in English, and demonstrated that it does not mean endless time. That mistranslation imports later theological assumptions into the text and obscures the original biblical sense, where olam speaks of an age, …