Editor’s note: Columns in the Faith section reflect opinions and perspectives of the writer and are not necessarily those of The Republic. A friend recently asked me why God in the Old Testament (the ...

I’ve heard there’s a movement – even some popular preachers – to diminish, if not flat-out discard, the Old Testament from common Bible teaching. “Let’s forget about God’s dealings with the Jews and ...

Q: I’m working through the passage in Malachi that talks about God hating Esau and loving Jacob. Of course, in Christian texts, you have Jesus using similar language (if you don’t hate your father and ...

Any idea how much Christianity, Judaism and Islam owe to the huge social and religious changes that happened during two revolutionary centuries between 250 and 50 B.C.? Yeah, me neither. But I just ...

First of all, we need to establish that God is a God that does not change. Malachi 3:6 reads, “For I am the Lord, I change not.” ...

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How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence Fortress "All my life I’ve tried to believe God was as beautiful ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

BYU professor Thomas Wayment shows his new translation of the New Testament, published in November 2018. Wayment's New Testament translation is a compilation of over 10 years of research. (Lexie ...

In both Calvinist and Catholic theology, God’s “elect” are often understood to be the people that God has chosen to be saved on the last day. Recently, we looked at individual places and people God ...

For the last 80 years the study of the Old Testament has been characterized by certain well-recognized methods which have become known collectively as the “critical approach.” An analysis of this ...