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How the Bible Came to Be

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Here’s how the Bible came to be… Emperor Constantine established his capital in Byzantium (later named Constantinople) which lies in modern day Istanbul today, and he followed policies that were favorable to Christianity (although he himself was not baptized until he was on his deathbed). Constantinople was also responsible for sponsoring an important council which would forever alter the face of Christianity – but more about that later. In this post we’ll look at how the New Testament came to [...] Read more »

RevTrev Reviews The Voice New Testament

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I’m always excited to check out new translations of the Bible. The Voice is an interesting one to read. Any time something is translated from one language to another there needs to be a decision how to translate along the continuum. What I mean by that is that you can translate word-for-word, thought-for-thought or concept-for-concept. Really the difference is a matter of degrees. Word-for-word is almost impossible from Koine Greek to English because Greek verbs and nouns don’t need to [...] Read more »

Looking at the Christmas Story Through The Eyes of The Authors

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The Christmas Story comes down to us from antiquity from two main sources. I’m not counting the Armenian Infancy Gospels or the more modern Saint Nicholas folklore. The Story of Jesus coming to earth as a baby are delivered to us by primarily two of the gospel writers – Matthew and Luke. They give the details. They highlight the fulfilled prophecy. They place the event in world and Jewish history. But the other two Gospels tell us a lot more [...] Read more »

When Everything Looks Great…Only To You

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If you’ve gone to revtrev.com this week you would have noticed some more changes. I’ve been working on them for a while and really have been pleased by how they’ve turned out. The slider in the header I’ll change to go to landing pages for main topics I blog about. The tabbed widget on the left gives me a lot more white space even though it doesn’t work so well on any other page but the front one. The main [...] Read more »

What is the Nature of God?

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What is the Nature of God? We have the Bible to tell us about God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Let’s take an overview. Father Son Holy Spirit Called God Philemon 1:2 John1:1,14; Col. 2:9 Acts 5:3,4 Creator Genesis 1:1; Isaiah 64:8 John 1:3; Col, 1:16 Job 33:4; 26:13 Resurrects Genesis 1:1; 1 Thes. 1:10 John 2:19, 10:17 Romans 8:11 Indwells 2 Corinthians 6:16 Col 1:27; Gal 2:20 John 14:17, Rom 8:9-11 Everywhere Jeremiah 23:24 [...] Read more »

Boundaries Can Be For A Prophetic Command

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God often doesn’t let us keep on disobeying. He let’s us reap what we sow. If that doesn’t work to get our attention, He reserves the right to work against us. The people of Israel returned from exile. Nehemiah rebuilt the walls, set up the Levites and singers in the temple and told the people to bring in the tithe so that the Levites and singers could give themselves to the ministry of the temple (Nehemiah 12:44). Nehemiah returned to [...] Read more »

The Key For Getting the Good God Has For us

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When you look at Scripture and see the overlap of what Fearing the Lord is, what Seeking the Lord is and what doing what’s right is, you have a key for all three….Obedience. When you seek God you obey God. When you fear God you obey God. When you do what’s right you obey God. I’m boiling it down to its essentials here and it’s all saying the same thing. God will not honor sin. Because temptation needs to look [...] Read more »

Hope Attacks

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He led David down, and there they were, scattered over the countryside, eating, drinking and reveling because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from Judah. 1 Samuel 30:16 (NIV) David and his men met up with an Egyptian slave who led them to the Almalekites. They saw them partying up because of the plunder they took. David attacked and slaughtered almost all of them. You’re going to need to fight [...] Read more »

21 Books Mentioned in the Bible That Are Likely Lost

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As a writer and student of history I often daydream about what it would be like to discover a book lost to antiquity.  I’m not talking about the “hidden books of the Bible” that periodically get splashed on trash papers in the checkout lines at grocery stores. I have the deuterocanonical books. I have the popular books of the first two century of the church. (The Max Lucado’s of the day.) I even have in translation the gnostic writings found [...] Read more »