Jonah (יוֹנָה) means ‘dove’, a word we first encounter in Genesis where it says (Gn 8:8), “Also he sent forth a dove (וַיְשַׁלַּח אֶת־הַיּוֹנָה) …”
 

Also he sent forth a dove from him, to se...

You wonder about my audacity in doubting the Virgin Birth?  Well, of course, you are absolutely right to wonder: All ancient New Testament texts support it!  For this reason I have no basis ...

The New Testament makes its Messiah a son of David (Mt 1:1): “The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David ....”  It does not overtly mention the Messiah son of Joseph (מָשִׁיחַ ב...

Knowledgeable Protestants generally know the meaning of the word “justification” – it has to do with the clearing of guilt.  Yet Protestants misunderstand the New Testament teaching on the s...

In the book of Ruth Boaz and the other kinsman faced a dilemma.  There was the law prohibiting entry into the congregation by a Moabite (Dt 23:3; Neh 13:1-3) and there was the law of th...

How is it that we are “saved”?  By his passion, by his suffering, by his death?  Before we answer let us consider the Messiah’s teaching (Mt 19:16-21):

And, behold, one came and said unto h...

Let’s not surrender the old teaching so easily.  We have just proved that the Father was “the God of the Old Testament”.  We should now look at the contrary evidence.  For didn’t the old model have some basis in Scripture?  How about those verses in John that say that no man has seen God?

The Covenant is likened to a marriage between God and Israel (Ex 19:8; Ex 24:7), but Christendom sees this marriage as terminated at the death of Christ (Rm 7:1-6) – and thus the doctrine that spiritual Israel – the Church – has replaced physical

There is a lot of significance built into the heart of the Bible in regard to naming.  In Genesis God names five things on the first three days – five things that he and he alone will bear rule o...

The historic Worldwide Church of God rejected the Trinity because it understood that the Father and the Son were two separate individuals, beings, personalities – that their “oneness” was in unity of purpose (Jn 17:11; Jn 17:21-22), not in Aristotelian “substance” – and because the Church knew that the Holy Spirit is not a person.  So far so good.  But our Church taught that “the God of the Old Testament” had become