Good morning friends! Well I guess by the time you read this it may or may not be morning, but its morning for me so I’ll say it again, Good morning! ☺ The days and nights are getting cooler here in Botswana, and I love it!! I can bask in the knowledge of not having [...]

Which translation is ‘best’?  It depends.  First of all it needs to be in a language you can understand.  A German translation is useless to you if you read only English, and I assume anyone reading this at least is capable of reading English, so we will focus on English language translations. “Isn’t a literal [...]

I hear a lot of questions about Bible translations.  “Which translation is the ‘best’?” being the most frequent.  I suppose the “best” translation would be the original writings, or autographs as well call them; but that’s simply not going to happen.  Why do we not have access to the originals?  Well there is the simple [...]

One critique of Calvinism is that it leads to apathy.  Of course some, quite wrongly, only emphasize Calvin’s view of preordination, presenting man as a robotic puppet with no personal responsibility.  I began reading Calvin’s commentary on Joshua this morning and discovered that he was writing this work while very sick on his deathbed.   [...]

I am spending time studying Cain and Abel this morning.  I had always just sort of assumed that Cain’s killing of Abel was out of jealousy, for Abel’s sacrifice was accepted while Cain’s was rejected.  I wonder though, if Cain was perhaps also trying to rub God’s own requirements back in God’s face. This idea [...]