Archives: 'Hermeneutics'

Reviews are coming out now on the two big recent 2005 books in the evangelical feminism and biblical manhood and womanhood shootout. Evangelical Quarterly [78.1 (2006), 65-84] has an article, “Biblical truth and biblical equality: a review article on two recent books from IVP on evangelical feminism and biblical manhood and womanhood,” reviewed by […]

Does God have a dark side? Would he punish or even damn souls who don’t surrender to Him in this life? Even those who never heard? No second chances? Even in the afterlife? What looks like injustice to us is also injustice to God. There is no “higher” God […]

“Sometimes it is virtually impossible to translate a Greek word into a precise English equivalent or to show the force of the verb tenses,” says historian Ruth Tucker. Since the word “learn” in I Timothy 2:11 is in the imperative tense, the NIV translation of “should learn,” while good, may not be strong enough. […]

Quite a large percentage of Christian churches are not very open to winning the lost to Christ. They set up all sorts of barriers that put seekers off, including weird sub-cultural behaviors and even stranger theological interpretations based on non-understanding of ancient cultures, or worse, on just their own sub-cultures and ways of understanding […]

Over the past two decades, an extremely aggressive and clamorous battle of Biblical scholars has occurred over the meaning of one word in I Timothy 2:12: the Greek word authentein, which is translated as “usurp authority” in the KJV, as “have authority” in the NIV, as “assume authority” in the TNIV, and as “domineer […]

The ways people interpret the Bible cause unneeded suffering and avoidable stupidities. I’ve often said that if I believed everything I’ve heard from preachers, I’d be a raving lunatic. Just read the Bible for its plain sense, some people say. Yet a 21st-century view of a passage can be very different from […]