Nehemiah, while a cupbearer in the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes I, heard that the walls around Jerusalem had been broken down. The king of Persia allowed Nehemiah to journey to Jerusalem in 445 B.C., and serve …

The scholarly consensus now – which may not be worth much – is that Mark was the first Gospel written, and that Matthew abridged it but then added his own material to make it longer. The so-called Griesbach …

The problem of how one God can exist who is sovereign, good, and loving has long been recognised as one of the most difficult ones for the Christian faith to explain. The ancient Latin poet Lucretius wrote:

Had …

The epistle of James is not dated. Some date it fairly late, and see it as a
correction of those who misunderstood Paul’s emphasis on free grace to be a
denial of the need for works. But Paul …