Bibliology (Bible)

Question 1022. formal equivalence and dynamic equivalence describe two competing philosophies of Bible translation, and understanding the difference will genuinely change how you read the footnotes and prefaces of whatever ...

Question 1029. Hebrew poetry does not work the way English poetry does, and readers who go looking for rhyme or a regular metre come away thinking the Psalms and Proverbs ...

Question 1023. The ESV translation philosophy is worth understanding on its own terms rather than assuming it works exactly the same way as every other modern English Bible, because the ...

Question 01006. People use the words prophecy and prediction as though they mean the same thing, but prophecy and prediction are not identical, and the difference matters more than you ...

Question 01003. The amount of biblical prophecy in Scripture is one of its most distinctive features, and people are often surprised when they discover just how much of the Bible ...

Question 1021. How you interpret the book of Revelation shapes an enormous amount of what you go on to believe about the last days, and it is worth being honest ...

Question 1013. The phrase apocalyptic literature turns up constantly in biblical studies, and if you do not understand what it means you will struggle to read whole stretches of the ...

Question 06070 The Old Testament does not use a single word for sin. It uses a rich vocabulary of overlapping terms that together paint a more complete picture of what ...

Question 1035. Scripture and tradition are not enemies, whatever the sharper edges of Reformation rhetoric sometimes suggest. Tradition, rightly understood, is simply the accumulated memory of how the church has ...

Question 01119 The Old Testament prophets occupy a remarkable place in the history of divine communication. They were not merely gifted teachers or insightful moralists; they were men to whom ...

Question 01141 Popular culture has a habit of borrowing from Scripture without particularly caring about accuracy. The result is a collection of widely repeated phrases that bear some resemblance to ...

Question 01173 Few questions in biblical studies generate more heat in certain Christian circles than the debate between the Textus Receptus and the modern critical Greek New Testament. Some regard ...

Question 01176 For anyone who wants to understand how modern Bible translations are produced, or why a translation like the ESV sometimes differs from the King James Bible at particular ...

Question 01183 The name Esdras is the Greek and Latin form of Ezra, and two books bear this title in various versions of the Old Testament: 1 Esdras and 2 ...

Question 60087 The claim that Constantine created the Bible appears regularly in popular sceptical discussions, was given wide circulation by Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code, and resurfaces periodically ...

Question 60094 The account of Noah and the flood in Genesis 6–9 is one of the most contested passages in all of Scripture. At stake is not merely a point ...

Question 60095 The word "firmament" appears in the King James Version of Genesis 1 and has generated considerable discussion ever since, particularly as critics of the biblical account have claimed ...

Question 01197 The letter to the Hebrews is anonymous. That is simply a fact. Unlike Paul's letters, which consistently identify their author in the opening verse, Hebrews begins without naming ...

Question 01200 Scripture is frequently quoted and frequently misunderstood, sometimes because a quotation has been removed from its context, sometimes because a popular rendering has hardened into assumed meaning that ...

Question 01205 Anyone who reads John's Gospel and then turns to Revelation notices something immediately. The Gospel and the epistles flow in relatively polished, elegant Greek. Revelation does not. Sentences ...

Question 01005. If the Bible is clear, why do sincere Christians disagree so often about what it teaches? This is one of the most honest questions believers ask, usually when ...

Question 1008. The question of dreams and visions and prophecy today stirs up real confusion and no small amount of division in the church. Does God still speak through such ...

Question 1079. People ask me what the best Bible translation and the honest answer is that it depends rather a lot on what you are trying to do with it ...

Question 1080. Have we lost books of the Bible? I get asked this more often than you might expect, usually by someone who has just read a footnote mentioning the ...

Question 1077. Manuscript transmission is the unglamorous term for a question that genuinely keeps some people awake at night: how do we know the Bible we hold today says what ...

Question 1076. The Gnostic gospels turn up every few years in a documentary or a bestselling novel, usually with the claim that the church suppressed a truer, more mystical version ...

Question 1070. Biblical inerrancy is the conviction that Scripture, in its original manuscripts, is entirely true and without error in everything it affirms, and I want to give this doctrine ...

Question 01068. Biblical inspiration means something far more precise than the loose, everyday sense in which we might call a piece of music or a great novel inspired. It is ...

Question 01069. Verbal plenary inspiration is the technical name for the historic evangelical doctrine of Scripture, and I hold it with real conviction, because I think it is the only ...

Question 01066. Whether the Bible is really God's Word is, I think, the single most foundational question anyone can ask about the Christian faith, because everything else depends on the ...

Question 01067. Knowing the Bible is true, rather than just claiming it, requires a rather different kind of evidence to the question of whether it is God's Word, and I ...

Question 1071. Biblical infallibility is a close cousin of biblical inerrancy, but the two words are not simply interchangeable, and getting the distinction right matters if we want to speak ...

Question 1072. Bible contradictions are one of the first objections any believer meets once they start talking about their faith with a sceptical friend, and I think we do ourselves ...

Question 1073. The canon of Scripture, the settled collection of sixty-six books that make up our Bible, did not come together the way many people imagine, as though a committee ...

Question 1074. Why these sixty-six books, and not more, and not fewer? It is a fair question, and one I would rather answer directly than wave away with an appeal ...

Question 1075. The Old Testament Apocrypha sits quietly on the shelf of most study Bibles that include it, and I get asked about it more often than you might expect, ...

Question 1091. Claiming verses is something I have watched sincere believers do in genuine faith, and something I have also watched leave people confused and hurt when the outcome they ...

Question 1081. Prophecy fulfilment is, in my judgement, one of the strongest evidences we have for the divine origin of Scripture, and I do not say that lightly after years ...

Question 1082. Biblical archaeology has quietly become one of the most persuasive answers I can give a sceptical friend, because it deals in something they cannot simply wave away: dirt, ...

Question 1083. Scientific errors are what critics claim to find scattered through the Bible, arguing that Scripture reflects the primitive cosmology of ancient peoples and cannot be trusted as God's ...

Question 1084. Biblical genealogies can seem tedious to modern readers, long lists of unpronounceable names we are tempted to skip on our way to the next narrative section. Yet these ...

Question 1085. Biblical numbers appear throughout Scripture: forty days of flood, seven churches, twelve tribes, 144,000 sealed servants, 666 as the number of the beast. Are these figures meant literally, ...

Question 1086. Numerical patterns in Scripture fascinate people, and I understand why they do. Some claim to have discovered elaborate numerical patterns hidden in the biblical text, patterns they say ...

Question 1087. Scripture in worship is not decoration set around the edges of a service. It is the very substance of what we say, sing and pray when a church ...

Question 1089. Scripture in counselling is where I keep returning whenever I sit with someone in pain, because the Bible speaks to the whole person, not only to their beliefs ...

Question 1090. Scripture and prayer belong together so closely that I have never known a season of neglecting one that did not, sooner or later, weaken the other. I say ...

Question 1092. Meditating on Scripture is one of the oldest disciplines in the Christian life, and one of the most misunderstood, because the word "meditation" now carries associations that have ...

Question 1093. AI Bible study is something I get asked about often now, usually by people who are not sure whether using a tool like this on their Bible reading ...

Question 1094 Walk into any church today and you'll see a mixture: some people holding leather-bound Bibles, others scrolling on their phones. This has sparked considerable debate among Christians. Is ...

Question 1096 From Cecil B. DeMille's epic "The Ten Commandments" to the recent "The Chosen" series, dramatisations of Scripture have captured popular imagination. Churches use movie clips in sermons, families ...

Question 1095 The rise of audiobooks has reached the Bible, with professionally produced audio Bibles now readily available through apps, websites, and streaming services. Many Christians have embraced them enthusiastically, ...

Question 1102 If Scripture is the Word of God, how can it also be the work of human authors? Does the human element compromise its divine authority? Or does the ...

Question 1103 When we say every word of Scripture is inspired, does that include the chapter and verse numbers? Were they part of the original text, or were they added ...

Question 1104 When New Testament writers quote the Old Testament, the wording sometimes differs from what we find in our Old Testament. Does this mean there are errors in Scripture? ...

Question 1106 If God inspired the Scriptures, did He also promise to preserve them perfectly? Can we be confident that what we have today accurately represents what the original authors ...

Question 1037. Literal interpretation is the single most misunderstood term in the whole discussion of how we read the Bible, mostly because critics and defenders alike often use it to ...

Question 1036. Creeds and confessions are summaries, not sources. That single sentence answers most of the confusion I encounter around this question. A creed does not add to what Scripture ...

Question 1038. Allegorical interpretation treats a biblical text as a coded surface concealing a deeper, often quite different, spiritual meaning beneath it, and it has a long and influential history ...

Question 1039. Biblical typology is the study of persons, events, and institutions in the Old Testament that God designed in advance to prefigure greater realities fulfilled in Christ and the ...

Question 1040. Biblical genre is the single most overlooked factor in careless Bible reading, and identifying it correctly is not an optional refinement of interpretation but a basic requirement of ...

Question 1031. biblical sufficiency is the settled conviction that Scripture provides everything a believer genuinely needs for faith and godly living, and I want to be precise about exactly what ...

Question 1032. When I say Scripture is my final authority, people sometimes hear something I have not actually said. They hear a claim that Scripture is the only source of ...

Question 1033. Scripture interprets Scripture is one of those phrases preachers use so often that it risks sounding like a slogan rather than a method. In practice it names something ...

Question 1034. Special revelation is not God's only way of making Himself known, but it is His only sufficient way of making Himself known for salvation, and that distinction answers ...

Question 1041. Christocentric interpretation reads the whole of Scripture, Old Testament and New, as a unified story that finds its centre and its goal in Jesus Christ. This is not ...

Question 1043. Eisegesis and exegesis sound like a pair of obscure Greek terms you could safely ignore, but the difference between them decides whether a sermon, a Bible study, or ...

Question 1044. Cultural and historical context is not an optional extra for serious Bible readers, it is the very air the text was written to breathe. When Paul wrote to ...

Question 1045. Biblical archaeology occupies an unusual place in my ministry, because it sits right at the boundary between faith and physical evidence, and I find that boundary endlessly interesting ...

Question 1051.The Samaritan Pentateuch sounds like the kind of obscure manuscript detail that only specialists need worry about, but it raises a question worth answering plainly: if the Samaritans have ...

Question 1052.A good commentary is not always easy to spot on a crowded shelf, and that is the honest problem behind this question. Walk into any Christian bookshop, or browse ...

Question 1054.Bible study tools multiply faster than most of us can keep track of, with software, websites and apps proliferating alongside the traditional printed options, and the choice can feel ...

Question 1055. marking your Bible is not only permitted, I would go further and say it is one of the more underused tools available to an ordinary Christian who wants ...

Question 1046. When I open my Old Testament, I am reading a translation of ancient Hebrew manuscripts, and the Masoretic Text is the specific textual tradition standing behind almost every ...

Question 1047. Septuagint quotations appear throughout the New Testament far more often than most readers realise, and noticing this raises a fair question. If Jesus and the apostles regarded the ...

Question 1049. Few passages in the Gospels are as beloved as the story of the woman caught adultery, found in John 7:53 through 8:11. Jesus' words, "let him who is ...

Question 1050.The Johannine Comma is the name given to a few extra words that appear in 1 John 5:7-8 in the King James Version and nowhere in modern translations, and ...

Question 1048. If you open your Bible to the end of Mark's Gospel, you will likely find a note indicating that Mark's longer ending does not appear in the earliest ...

Question 1056. memorising Scripture is one of the most quietly transformative habits available to any Christian, and I say that as someone who finds it genuinely hard work rather than ...

Question 1059. children's Bibles are not simply acceptable for young children, they are, in my experience raising and teaching children over many years, one of the most effective tools available ...

Question 1060. Form criticism is not a phrase you will hear from the pulpit very often, yet its fingerprints are all over the seminary training that shaped a great many ...

Question 1061. Source criticism asks a question that is, on the surface, entirely reasonable: did the authors of biblical books draw on earlier written documents, and if so, can we ...

Question 1062. Redaction criticism studies carefully how each Gospel writer selected, arranged, and shaped his received material to bring out a particular theological emphasis, and and of all the various ...

Question 1063. The JEDP theory, also called the documentary hypothesis, is the most influential and, in my judgement, the most damaging conclusion that source criticism has ever produced. It proposes ...

Question 1064. The Q source theory proposes that Matthew and Luke, in addition to using Mark's Gospel as a source, also drew on a second, now-lost document consisting mainly of ...

Question 01065. The Jesus Seminar is the name given to a group of scholars who, through the 1980s and 1990s, made headlines by literally voting on which sayings attributed to ...

Question 1110 When we pick up our English Bibles, we trust that the words we read faithfully represent what the apostles and prophets originally wrote. But behind every translation lies ...

Question 1111 When people learn that we possess over 5,800 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, they often wonder why so many of these early witnesses survive only as fragments ...

Question 1114 Anyone who has read the Bible seriously has encountered passages that puzzle, trouble, or even disturb. Genealogies that seem pointless, prophecies that remain obscure, apparent contradictions between accounts, ...

Question 1115 Every honest reader of Scripture encounters passages that make us uncomfortable. Commands that seem severe, judgements that appear disproportionate, language that strikes modern ears as offensive. Whether it ...

Question 1112 If you could visit a first-century synagogue or a wealthy Roman's library, you would see something quite different from our modern books. Scrolls dominated the ancient world, rolled ...

Question 1113 The eternal Word of God came to us through very earthly materials. When prophets recorded divine revelation and apostles penned their letters, they used whatever writing surfaces were ...

Question 1134 We live in a religiously diverse world. Many religions claim to possess sacred scriptures: Islam has the Quran, Hinduism has the Vedas and Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism has the ...

Question 1136 Critics of Scripture have long claimed it contains contradictions, errors, and inconsistencies. Lists circulate online cataloguing hundreds of alleged problems. How should believers respond? Are these objections fatal ...

Question 1131 We live in strange times. "Post-truth" was named the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year back in 2016, and things have not improved since then. It describes ...

Question 1132 Critics of Bible-believing Christianity sometimes accuse us of "wooden literalism," suggesting we interpret every passage without any recognition of figures of speech, literary genre, or context. This is ...

Question 1130 A common misconception about dispensationalism is that it supposedly uses different interpretive rules depending on which biblical era is being studied. Critics sometimes claim that dispensationalists read Old ...

Question 1129 This question gets at something important: when we say we take the Bible literally, does that commit us to a particular view of science? And when scientists speak ...

Question 1125 Let's be honest: when you hit one of those long lists of names in the Bible, "And so-and-so begat so-and-so, who begat so-and-so," your eyes may start to ...

Question 1120 This is a question that comes up regularly, and it's worth thinking through carefully. If we say we believe in a literal interpretation of Scripture, does that commit ...

Question 1124 You're reading your Bible and you hit a passage that makes no sense. You read it twice, maybe three times, and you're still confused. What do you do? ...

Question 10020 Understanding the difference between conditional and unconditional covenants is essential for grasping God's purposes throughout Scripture. This distinction affects how we read the Old Testament promises, how we ...

Question 01001.KJV Onlyism is the conviction, held in various strengths by various people, that the King James Version of 1611 is the only Bible English-speaking Christians ought to use, and ...

Question 01002.Textual variations exist in the Bible because for some fifteen centuries the Scriptures were copied out entirely by hand, and hand copying, however careful and prayerful, inevitably leaves its ...

Question 01007. Do you need scholars to understand Scripture, or can an ordinary believer read the Bible and grasp it for themselves? Christians tend to fall off this horse on ...

Question 1151 The accusation lands regularly in apologetic discussions: "You can't use the Bible to prove the Bible—that's circular reasoning!" On the surface, this seems like a devastating objection to ...

Question 1053.Study Bibles are everywhere you look. Walk into any Christian bookshop and you will find shelves of them, leather-bound, colour-coded, themed for men, women, teenagers and almost every niche ...

Question 1014. The truth we call progressive revelation answers a question that shapes the way you read the whole Bible, namely whether God handed down everything He wanted us to ...

Question 1016. Biblical coherence across roughly fifteen centuries of writing, in three different languages, by more than forty human authors in wildly different circumstances, kings, shepherds, fishermen, priests, prisoners and ...

Question 1015. Biblical contradictions get raised in nearly every conversation I have with sceptical friends, and honestly, they deserve a serious answer rather than a defensive one. The Old Testament ...

Question 1019. Higher criticism has generated strong reactions in the church for more than two centuries, and having watched its effects on ordinary congregations over the years, I think those ...

Question 1017. Spiritual understanding of the Bible is not the same thing as being able to read it, and the difference has real implications for how we do evangelism, how ...

Question 1018. Textual criticism can sound alarming when you first hear the phrase, as though scholars are sitting in judgement on the Bible and finding it wanting. The reality is ...

Question 01204 There is a phrase tucked into the brief letter of Jude that has echoed through two thousand years of church history with remarkable power. In just a few ...

Question 01203 These two terms describe two distinct works of the Holy Spirit in relation to Scripture, and confusing them leads to serious theological error. Getting this right matters because ...

Question 1020. The Bible's main message gets lost surprisingly easily under the sheer size and apparent diversity of Scripture, sixty-six books, more than forty authors, several languages, a story stretching ...

Question 1024. What happened to the original manuscripts of Scripture is a question that catches many believers off guard the first time it occurs to them, since no autograph, no ...

Question 60088 The assumption that science and the Bible are locked in fundamental conflict is one of the most widely held in contemporary culture. It surfaces in popular journalism, in ...

Question 1030. The word of God makes some remarkable claims about itself, and I think the place to start is simply to listen to them before we start assessing them ...

Question 1027. The unity of Scripture across sixty-six books, more than forty authors and roughly fifteen hundred years of composition is, on reflection, a genuinely remarkable fact, and it is ...

Question 1028. The Holy Spirit's role in understanding Scripture is something I have watched play out in my own reading more times than I can count. I will sit with ...

Question 1025. Biblical perspicuity, the historic term for Scripture's own clarity, asks a genuinely practical question every ordinary reader eventually faces: is the Bible clear enough for me to understand ...

Question 1026. The continuity of Scripture across the Old and New Testaments is one of those questions that sounds academic until you actually try to read the Bible straight through ...

Question 01142 God has not left Himself without witness. From the intricacy of a living cell to the voice of conscience that will not be entirely silenced, something of God ...

Question 60089 The claim that all truth is relative has moved from university philosophy departments into everyday conversation, social media, and church life. "That may be true for you but ...

Question 60090 The assumption that faith and reason are opposed to each other is deeply embedded in popular culture, and it has done significant damage to Christian witness. The image ...

Question 01148 One of the most practically significant questions in contemporary Christianity concerns the difference between the Holy Spirit opening a person's mind to understand what Scripture already says, and ...

Question 01149 There is a beautiful coherence to the doctrine of Scripture that is sometimes missed in debates about inspiration and interpretation. The same Holy Spirit who oversaw the production ...

Question 01150 The claim that personal experience overrides biblical teaching is one of the most pastoral challenges the church faces today, precisely because it is often made by sincere believers ...

Question 01146 The claim that the Bible has been corrupted through centuries of copying and translation is perhaps one of the most commonly heard objections to biblical authority. It sounds ...

Question 01147 The doctrine of Scripture's sufficiency touches something that matters deeply in practice. It is the difference between the church that looks to the Bible as its final word ...

Question 01154 The wisdom books of the Old Testament — Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes — sit at an oblique angle to the great redemptive events of Scripture. There is no ...

Question 01153 The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran, beginning in 1947, was one of the most significant archaeological finds of the twentieth century for anyone who cares ...

Question 01159 Progressive revelation and dispensationalism are not merely compatible positions that can be held alongside each other without difficulty. Progressive revelation is the exegetical foundation on which the dispensational ...

Question 01156 The imprecatory psalms are those passages in the Psalter that call down divine destruction on enemies — "Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow" (Psalm ...

Question 01157 The relationship between scholarly consensus and the plain reading of a biblical text is not a straightforward hierarchy in either direction. Neither blanket deference to scholarship nor reflexive ...

Question 01163 The Documentary Hypothesis, also known as the JEDP theory, was the dominant critical framework for understanding the origin of the Pentateuch throughout the nineteenth and much of the ...

Question 01165 KJV-Onlyism is the conviction that the King James Version of the Bible, published in 1611, is the uniquely preserved and authoritative Word of God in English, and that ...

Question 01167 One of the most instructive parallels in the history of biblical translation is the parallel between the authority claimed for the Latin Vulgate by the mediaeval and Counter-Reformation ...

Question 01168 The Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Vaticanus are two of the oldest and most important manuscripts of the Christian Bible in existence. Both date from the fourth century ...

Question 60081 A Christian student entering a university biblical studies department for the first time can find the experience genuinely disorienting. Lecturers who have devoted their academic careers to the ...

Question 01169 The New Testament has been transmitted in over 5,800 Greek manuscripts, along with thousands more in Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, Gothic, and other ancient languages. This remarkable abundance ...

Question 0046. The phrase itching ears comes from one of the most honest descriptions of human nature in all of Scripture, and Paul saw it coming with painful accuracy. People ...

Question 0037. It is a fair question, and the answer turns on the apostolic teaching that filled the gap before the New Testament was gathered into one book. The earliest ...

Question 0040. It sounds wonderfully humble to say that you just want to read the Bible without theology, taking the plain words at face value and leaving all the systems ...

Question 20. How is studying doctrine an act of love? Many people assume the opposite, that studying doctrine is a cold and bookish thing, the hobby of people who would ...

Question 0025. Acts gives us a photograph of the very first Christian community in Jerusalem, taken just after the Day of Pentecost, and the early church devoted itself first of ...

Question 0041. When a church begins to prize experience over doctrine, the change is rarely announced and rarely sudden. No one stands up and says they have decided to value ...

Question 23. Why did Paul always start his letters with doctrine before application rather than practical instruction? Once you notice this pattern of doctrine before application, you cannot unsee it, ...

Question 0039. Some Christians treat the Spirit and study as competitors, as though leaning on the Holy Spirit means I can set aside the effort of learning sound doctrine. The ...

Question 01000.To say that Scripture is infallible means that it cannot fail, cannot deceive, and cannot lead astray in anything it sets out to teach us. The word itself reaches ...

Question 01004. The question of scriptural reliability becomes very pointed when we ask whether the apostles' fallen nature corrupted the doctrines they taught. It is a fair thing to wonder ...

Question 1139 Paul's second letter to Timothy stands as one of the most personal and urgent letters in the New Testament. Written from a Roman prison cell, likely during Nero's ...

Question 1137 See my sermon on the Introduction to Bibliology here: The Word of God: Our Growing Guide. Whenever Christians study the doctrines of the faith systematically, they use certain ...

Question 1138 This phrase comes from 2 Timothy 2:15, one of the most important verses for understanding how to handle Scripture properly. Paul writes: "Do your best to present yourself ...

Question 1097 The term "woke" has become widespread in cultural discourse, describing a progressive worldview that emphasises systemic oppression, identity politics, and social justice as understood through contemporary leftist frameworks ...

Question 1107 What if archaeologists discover an ancient manuscript that contradicts what we believe? Could a new find overturn Christian doctrine? Should we be nervous about what might turn up ...

Question 1101 When we say the Bible is the Word of God, does that mean God dictated every word like a boss to a secretary? Did Moses, Paul, and the ...

Question 1140 For as long as I can remember, Isaiah 64:6 has been the go-to text in evangelistic preaching for showing that even our best efforts before salvation are worthless ...

Question 1108 The Hebrew text of the Old Testament has dots and dashes beneath and above the consonants, vowel points that tell us how to pronounce the words. When were ...

Question 1105 Scholars sometimes point to grammatical irregularities in the Greek New Testament. Does this mean the Bible contains errors? If Scripture is God's Word, should not the grammar be ...

Question 1109 You sometimes hear people talk about the "Textus Receptus" as the authentic Greek New Testament. What is it, where did it come from, and should we consider it ...

Question 0024. The noble Bereans have become a byword in Christian circles for careful discernment, and rightly so. Whenever someone urges us to check a teaching against the Bible rather ...

Question 7. Learning to tell primary truths from secondary doctrines is one of the most useful skills a Christian can develop, and the lack of it has wrecked more friendships ...

Question 6. Can I love Jesus without caring about theology is one of the most sincere questions I am asked, and I never want to crush the heart behind it ...

Question 4. Why does Paul call right teaching sound doctrine, and what does the word sound actually mean? When he tells Titus to 'teach what accords with sound doctrine' (Titus ...

Question 3. What does it mean that Scripture is breathed out by God? Few verses carry more weight for understanding the Bible than 2 Timothy 3:16, where Paul writes, 'All ...

Question 0. Why do I keep going to the Bible for answers when the world is full of other voices? It is a fair question, and it sits right at ...