Who decided what’s in the Bible?
How did the Bible come to us? Who wrote it? Whe decided what’s in it and what’s not?
Category: Bible
Reading the Bible in the 21st century
This website is all about understanding and following Jesus in the 21st century. How can we make sense of a religion that started two millennia ago? For many of us, this requires reviewing and maybe reconstructing what we have been taught, to make sense in a world completely different to when Jesus lived. Perhaps the […]
Books: understand the Old Testament
I’ve been a Christian believer for more than 60 years, and through the first 40-50 years, the Old Testament really bothered me. I didn’t know how to understand it. I couldn’t really believe the stories of Adam & Eve and Noah’s Ark were literally factual. I was troubled by a loving God apparently ordering cruel […]
Thinking about the Bible: a conversation between friends
It’s easy to feel puzzled by the Old Testament. Are the stories really true? Did God really command such killing? Join a conversation that explores these questions.
We need less Bible study!
Is Bible study helping us be better disciples of Jesus, or is Bible knowledge actually a substitute for obedience?
Making assumptions about the Bible?
What if many of the assumptions we bring to the Bible are actually questionable?
What do the universe, human race, church and Bible have in common?
Science has given us new understandings of the universe and the evolution of life. Can we learn something of God’s character from all this, and apply this to the Bible?
Callous christians?
The apparent commands of God in the Old Testament to commit genocide have long troubled me, as they should trouble any thoughtful and compassionate person. (I hope I am both!) How could a God of love command such atrocities? I think this problem can be resolved with God’s good name intact, if we understand the […]
Reading the Old Testament
My journey, and maybe your journey too, in understanding the Old Testament and learning to appreciate it and understand the obvious problems.
Making sense of the Exodus
A review of “The Exodus” by Richard Elliott Friedman and “Exodus for Normal People” by Peter Enns. Two books shine light on the truth (and legends) of the exodus of Moses and the Israelites from Egypt. Well worth reading.