The Torah …The Great Isaiah Scroll of the Dead Sea Scrolls is the oldest known complete…copy of the Book of Isaiah. "For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem." (Isaiah 2:3) The Torah is the WORD OF GOD that was given to Israel and the world through […]
613 commandments The tradition that 613 commandments (Hebrew: ├Ä┬¼├Ä┬┐├Ä├û”├Ä├å ├Ä├ù├Ä┬¬├Ä├▓├Ä├▓├Ä┬¼├ö├ç├ä: taryagmitzvot, “613 Mitzvot“) is the number of mitzvot in the Torah, first occurred in the 3rd century CE, when Rabbi Simlai mentioned it in a sermon that is recorded in Talmud Makkot 23b.[1] These principles of Biblical law are sometimes called connections or commandments (mitzvot) […]
How Can We Refine Our Understanding of Biblical Theology? Theology is not limited to the work of professors and clergy. Any serious Christian who has invested time in reading and studying Scripture is doing the work of theology, because theology (from the Greek words theos, meaning "God," and logia, meaning "utterance, speech, reasoning") is simply […]
What Help Can We Get So We Understand the BibleBetter? Do you understand what you are reading?" That was the question Philip the apostle asked a man from Ethiopia who was riding in a chariot on a desert road leading from Jerusalem toward the Mediterranean Sea (Acts 8). The man was the finance minister of […]
This new series by Bible Gateway and Mel Lawrenz is called "How to Understand the Bible." Over 30 weeks we will cover questions about the content of the Bible and interpreting and applying the Bible. We'll look at the way we should read everything from historical stories to Psalms to prophecy to Gospels to Revelation. […]
How to understand the Bible better If you wish you understood the Bible better, you're in good company. It is not just newcomers reading the Bible for the first time who think the Bible can be challenging to understand. Mature believers think that. Bible scholars think that. Even biblical writers thought that. Second Peter 3:16 […]
What Is the Big Picture of the Bible? …If you walked into someone's home, picked a big book off a shelf, and read a single line on a random page, one thing is certain: you would not understand it. That is because we receive meaning through words by seeing them in their context. One of […]