How do you know which Bible to buy?

Has your church joined the Bible blitz? Are you involved in a Bible reading program? While this craze is to be applauded, such programs immediately encounter an embarrassment of riches: Never before have there been so many different translations from which to choose. But which one is...

What is the Gospel of Thomas about? The Gospel of Thomas isn’t really “about” anything. Well, it isn’t and it is. That’s because the Gospel of Thomas doesn’t tell a story. It’s a collection -- a list -- of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus, many just a sentence or two in length. The sayings usually don’t...

Well, it depends on whose Bible you are talking about.

If you are a mainline Protestant, that is, not Roman Catholic, your Bible is made up of two parts, the Old Testament and the New Testament.

The Old Testament is organized into four parts: the Pentateuch, the Historical Books, the Writings, and the Prophets.

The Pentateuch ...

4 First, a Little Exercise

5 Think of a favorite Bible verse (for example, my theme verse is Psalm 94:8: Understand, O dullest of the people). 6 Add the numbers together (example: 94+8=102). 7 Multiply them by two, for the two testaments in the Bible (102x2 =204). 8 Substract 66 for the number of books in the Bible (204-66=138). 9 Take the square root, just because it...

Multiple Choices

I’ll give you four choices:

The Bible is…

A. A supernatural book that fell from heaven and is different from every other book.

B. A seriously weird rule book for the stark and somber among us.

C. A divine reference book with the answers to all of life’s problems.

D. A little too much like your grandmother’s...

Are there questions about the Bible that you’re afraid to ask? Well, maybe you aren’t afraid, but you have a friend, or a friend of a friend, who has some questions he’d rather not share publicly just yet.

This is the place for you, because here we’re interested in questions about the Bible. We’re especially interested in questions that...