There is no other prophet that portrays the compassion, yet suffering heart of God in all the Old Testament like the prophet Hosea. By use of marriage metaphors, laments and love notes, and ultimately idolatry and intimacy, this prophet uncovers...

Colossians 1:15-20 is a passage to place Jesus in His rightful place as center and on the throne of all humanity. The ultimate conclusion of Paul’s writing is to exalt and to extol the supremacy of Jesus, the Son of God. If one studies the...

The Psalms are generally misunderstood and underutilized. Because numerous believers have marginalized the Psalms to just prayers and language of praise, some of the greatest realities about God are left uncovered. It is common knowledge that the...

In the Song of Songs, the narrators are a man and a woman who appear to be lovers. Throughout the poem, they make references to nature and natural landscape which reflect the concept of traditional gender roles. A clear distinction between the...

The book of Luke is one of the several gospels of the Bible that delineate the life of Jesus. Providing one account of Jesus’ teachings, this gospel contains numerous parables that he uses to convey the Christian life to both his disciples and the...

Encountering the Old Testament: A Christian Survey, authored by Bill T. Arnold and Bryan E. Beyer, set out a comprehensive analysis of theological theories, while exploring the themes of the Pentateuch, the Historical books, the Poetics and the...

When discussing the relationship between humanity and the wider natural world, the biblical work of the book of Genesis and Robert Burns’ adjoining poems To a Mouse and To a Louse arguably offer a possibly insight into the development of mankind -...

Theology of Adoption in the Pauline Epistles The concept of being a son is an essential element of many Biblical texts. For example, the parable of the prodigal son told by Jesus in the book of Luke illustrates the value of belonging to a family...

God’s lesson for Abraham through his destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is simple; a nation without God that falls entirely into sin will be punished, but one that is good and loyal to Him will be saved. In other words God will be harsh, but...

The Hebrew Bible contains many stories, poems, and scripture that pave the way for humanity’s personal development and aids as a stepping stone for achieving spiritual maturity. Given the fact that humanity can adopt many interpretations of the...

Defining boundaries of morality is no easy task, but it is one humanity must perform every day. The characters of The Iliad, The Odyssey, and the book of Genesis are no exception to this. Throughout all three literary works, the characters are...

Wisdom as defined in Ecclesiastes is somewhat of a paradox: the pursuit of Wisdom is a vain “pursuit of wind” (Ecclesiastes 2.11). The repeated mantra that Ecclesiastes offers is “All is futile!” (Ecclesiastes 1.2) and thus “there is nothing...

Within the Hebrew Bible covenant is vital in order to portray the communication and connection God has with his people. Thus, the Sinai Covenant, rise of kingship within Israel, and Royal Covenant all exude incredible importance within the...

It becomes clear in 1 Corinthians 15 that Paul’s notion of death is not fixed to the permanent retirement of a being’s cell activity. The stopping of the breath, the failure of the pulse, the ceasing of the heartbeat is never the greatest...

Though the New Testament is meant to lead people onto the path of following God’s will, it details many events in which God’s most loyal followers such as the apostles, and even his son Jesus, hint at doubting God’s will and even betray their...

In Jeremiah 31, The Lord declares that “The days are coming,... when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to...

hroughout the ancient world, there are distinctions drawn between different groups and hierarchies of people due to this. The Jews were the chosen group of God and because of that, the gentiles were separate from them and since unable to follow...

Animal rights have recently become a topic of interest in contemporary society, primarily due to the endangerment of many species, and the use of animals for types of lab testing. Human understanding of animals in the western world is shaped by...

In the book of Acts, Luke recounts numerous speeches, many of which come from Peter and Paul while giving defenses of themselves and of the new Christian faith. He composes Acts in such a way that the attentive reader may draw significant...

John the evangelist writes in such a way that certain words and phrases recur frequently and clearly stand for themes he wishes to develop over the course of his text. But in order to appreciate the significance of these themes – their meaning...

Traditionally, the Scriptural collection of non-apocryphal wisdom literature has comprised the four books of Proverbs, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and Job, due to their obvious similarities in style, purpose, and execution. Some, however, have argued...

The Qur’anic presentation of Jesus is oddly similar to the New Testament presentation of Jesus; this may come unexpected to any individual not well-versed in both the Qur’an and the New Testament. At its core, the Qur’an narrative corroborates...

“The Bible has noble poetry in it… and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies” (Mark Twain).

Christianity has been historically influencing politics around the world, however as Twain addresses, the Bible has...

The New Testament canon is the collection of different books by different authors that were compiled together to create a larger, singular text. Today, the New Testament serves as a justification to the existence of Christianity and a reference on...