This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 29, number 6 (2006). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in [...]

This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 4 (2004). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org “‘The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel’ — which means, [...]

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 1 (2005). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS The usual attempts to defend the historical reliability of the New Testament are often fairly general in nature. These arguments are typically based on the quantity, [...]

This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume29, number4 (2006). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org This question is a classic straw man that has most Christians looking like the proverbial deer in the headlights. At best, it challenges God’s [...]

This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume30, number5 (2007). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will [...]

This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number4 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org [Jesus] said, ‘What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it? It is like [...]

This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number4 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org “The first to present his case seems right, till another comes forward and questions him” (Prov.18:17). One of the reasons cited by famed New [...]

This article first appeared in the Practical Hermeneutics column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 5 (2004). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org My initiation into the misinterpretation of hyperbole occurred half-a-century ago when I sat listening as an adolescent to a Christian radio program [...]

This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 6 (2004). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org A popular sentiment today is that the Bible is increasingly irrelevant in a modern age of scientific enlightenment. Thus, when the Scripture’s [...]

This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number3 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Based on texts taken out of context and used as pretexts it has become increasingly common for Christians to suppose that they are victims [...]