I’ve been getting this question a lot lately, so let me offer a short, honest answer. First, the real thing. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church preserves one of the largest biblical canons in Christianity, usually counted as 81 books, although you will sometimes see the number 88 advertised. The difference …

The link between the city of Sodom and homosexual acts, from which the word “sodomize” comes, is largely a later cultural reading rather than a careful one. In Genesis 19, the sin of Sodom is indeed an attempted act of collective sexual violence, but it was directed at visitors who …

I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. (Matthew 5:44) In my country, the word enemy is not a metaphor. It is not a difficult coworker or a cousin who says cruel things at weddings. It is a siren at three in the morning and …

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 …

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 …

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, …