542 results for 'bible commentary'

The Day That Mom Took Home The Free Bible...(Post)

Dawn Eden Goldstein grew up Jewish, but her mother dabbled in a wide variety of spiritual practices. The day Dawn's mother took advantage of a free Bible offered by a stranger was a turning point in b

The Unbiblical Idea of Sola Scriptura (Post)

Stay in the Catholic Church? After I became a Christian I struggled with whether I should keep attending a Catholic Church. As I sat in church and watched incense rise up from the altar, I felt an u

Does The Bible Condemn Repetitious Prayer?(Post)

The rosary is a popular Catholic devotion that the Catechism endorses as a “form of piety” that expresses the “religious sense of the Christian people” (1674). But for many Protestants, the rosary, w

The Mysterious Book of Enoch(Post)

The book of Jude contains some of the most mysterious and intriguing passages in the New Testament.One occurs when Jude warns against a group of Christians who have given themselves over to immorality

How Did the Early Church Know Which Books Belonged in the Bible?(Post)

As the number of Christian books grew, so did the need for the Catholic Church to discern which were truly authoritative, which were merely helpful, and which were positively harmful. This resulted in

"Don't Add to God's Word"(Post)

Every Catholic has heard the challenge: “How can you believe that? Don’t you know the Bible says…” It’s a challenge we have to meet. If we can’t reconcile apparent contradiction

In The Beginning Was The Word(Post)

How the world began is a question people everywhere ask. It’s a human universal.Pagan cultures thought the world was made by their gods and goddesses. Some myths claimed that the gods reproduced sexua

She Walked in Uncertain and Afraid, She Walked Out a Disciple(Post)

  The Importance of Reading the Bible Throughout my priestly ministry, I have always encouraged people to read the Bible. At a time when God, his revelation, and sacred teachings are distorted and re

How did Protestants and Catholics end up with two different Old Testaments?(Post)

One evening I had the sad duty of attending my neighbor’s funeral. My neighbors were not religious, but apparently a local “mega-church” offered to conduct the eulogy for them. The assistant pas

Scripture-Twisting in the Last Days(Post)

Almost 2,000 years ago, the apostle Paul wrote to his young apprentice Timothy about the terrible times to come:“People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, abusive, diso

Are Gospel Accounts Of The Nativity At Odds With Each Other?(Post)

In this excerpt from his book, Hard Sayings: A Catholic Approach to Answering Bible Difficulties, Trent Horn looks at how we can make sense of what seem to be inconsistencies with the Gospel narrat

What Books of the Bible Did Early Christians Use for Liturgy?(Post)

How Early Christians Used Apostolic Letters in Liturgy So how do we know which books the early Christians used in the liturgy? As Valeriy Alikin of St. Petersburg Christian University explains,“Ch