By Edward O. Bragwell, Sr. Context is from the Latin, contextus, meaning that which is woven together. Good Bible students know the value of context in biblical interpretation. Passages must be woven together with other pertinent information to get a clear picture. Somewhere I heard, “A text out of context often becomes a pretext.” “Handling aright …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
Who’s Afraid Of The Big Black Book?
By Dick Blackford There are a number of people who are as fearful of the Bible as Little Red Riding Hood should have been of the Big Bad Wolf. Who are these people and what are they afraid of? The Supreme Court They recently ruled against a teen-age girl who had an assignment to write a …
Reading, Writing, and Reflecting
By Steve Willis Blue Moon “Scientists got a surprise when they compared a new ultra-violet image of the Moon with the one taken in visible light: the lunar surface looks pretty much the same in both images. Compared to visible images, lunar UV images are more sensitive to rock freshness and should highlight the regions that …
God’s People Are Different
By Lewis Willis One of the first lessons we learn from the Scriptures about the people of God is that they are to be different from the people who are in the world. The evidence is abundant that this is true. This distinctiveness is the demonstration that a change has been wrought in a person’s life. …