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I am not one who thinks that all of the promises God made to the Jewish people are null and void. However, it brought me up short when I heard a radio preacher say that "... they forgot that Jesus is Jewish." Forget the part about someone forgetting Jesus' earth-side ethnicity. This is als...

At least one point, there was 11 days removed from the calendar. Not sure what that did to the days of the week. What I've heard is that during the devastation of the Black Plague and other events that resulted in great population loss or times of extreme struggle for survival, life simply became a...

If Russia is seen to have become weakened enough, it is possible that some of the people groups that are oppressed by them will try to gain their own freedom, and control of their own traditional lands. It could also be that Muslim extremest groups will gain more following there, which could create ...

I messed that up. I intended to say "more dark than LIGHT".

Christ said: If Christ died and was buried on Friday evening, and then rose on Sunday morning, how is that 3 days and 3 nights? John It is an old argument, one with all sorts of explanations on both sides. A fellow translator of ours believed that the Passover meal with his disciples was on Wednesd...

Christ said: Matthew 12:(40) For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. If Christ died and was buried on Friday evening, and then rose on Sunday morning, how is that 3 days and 3 nights? John I...

Oops - I meant a page of translator's notes. I think it is an important piece of history that should stay with the KJV. It tells us exactly what the attitude and mindset of the translators was. Why remove it? True. Good point. It is not good to try to sanitize true history. I suppose I am a bit tou...

I'm not sure I understand what you mean about a "day of translator's notes", but if I do understand your meaning, I do not have any issue with the historical note itself - it's the fawning over Prince James, king of England that bothers me. Maybe I am the only one who is uncomfortable wit...

Neto, I hear your point. I don't critique President Trump for selling gold shoes, NFTs, commemorative coins, university degrees, steak, business attire, bed linens, vitamins, water, or branded apartments, but I do raise an eyebrow at literally combining the founding documents into the Bible and sel...

Neto, I hear your point. I don't critique President Trump for selling gold shoes, NFTs, commemorative coins, university degrees, steak, business attire, bed linens, vitamins, water, or branded apartments, but I do raise an eyebrow at literally combining the founding documents into the Bible and sel...