We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion..

God doesn't save us to perpetuate a particular Christian sub-culture. He saves us to advance a supernatural kingdom that is not of this world..

If I were one of the gods who just wound up supervising humans, I'd want to influence the decision-makers to live according to the morals that Israel….

How much of what the biblical writers believed about the supernatural world do I believe? They weren't us. We are products of the Enlightenment; they….

We like to pretend the core ideas of the faith are more palatable or workable within our modern rationalistic approach to Scripture than the stuff we….

The truth is that we don't know much about the spiritual world except for what Scripture tells us, so it's unwise to think we can speak with clarity ….

Angels can fail because God allows them to make decisions and they are lesser beings than the perfect God. They can go astray, but the task is legiti….

Why are you uncomfortable with the supernaturalist worldview of the biblical writers? Evangelicals don't want to just say, "Well, the inspired writer….

Rebellion against God results in being cast out of his service. God doesn't run the affairs of the spiritual world or our world with rebels on his pa….

We think "reading the Bible in context" means thinking about the handful of verses before and after the verses we're looking at on the page. That isn….

God wants the world to function in an orderly way, not a chaotic way, so teaching humans to do what's right and what will make for the happiest life ….

If you don't have the worldview of the people who produced the Bible - under inspiration no less, - you can't understand what they were trying to com….

Ruling the way God wants you to rule means fostering the ordered relationships he desires, not because he is a killjoy, but because that order maximi….

When biblical material touches on the natural world, we can legitimately use the tools of science. Sometimes that shows us - no shock here - that bib….

Scholarship aimed at truly understanding what the biblical writers meant often does not filter down into the church and through the pulpit to folks w….

We impose our modern worldview on the Bible to make it conform to our intellectual happy place. But we deceive ourselves into thinking this works or ….

It's important for people in the Church to realize that the way they talk and think about the Bible isn't the way Bible scholars talk and think about….

Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and the audience t….

What I mean by context is worldview - having the ancient Israelite or first-century Jew in your head as you read. How would an ancient Israelite or f….

The powers of darkness are still part of the spiritual world - they don't become something else when they rebel against God. Disembodied believers ar….