Doesn't Jesus' behaviour with the whip in the temple seem a bit out of character? Why would someone so caring, known for healing and forgiving, suddenly go kind of psycho? Well, sometimes a little more information changes everything.
Here is some background information to do just...
Sometimes when you are talking about Jesus, people raise an objection to God's perceived fairness.
'What about all those people in the Congo jungle who never heard the gospel? Surely God isn't going to send them to Hell for not believing when they never had the...
Abraham is both remarkable and ordinary.
The Ordinary Abraham
Abraham was just one man, with a barren wife, who lived in ancient times surrounded by idol worshippers in Mesopotamia. He lived in tents, had sheep and goats, had some servants, and otherwise lived an unremarkable existence. He...
"And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night." (Genesis 1:16 ESV)
In the Genesis account of creation, we find the Lord working day by day to create all that exists. He didn't...
The book of Genesis is sometimes despised by people because of its origin stories. It has also been picked apart with suggestions that its not internally coherent, and wasn’t written by one person but by four.
However the book of Genesis is a brilliant book, internally...