Here are some posts that explain some of the more difficult passages of the Bible.
- “She shall crush thy head” (2/6/2026) - On a controversy that arose when comparing the Clementine Vulgate to the Nova Vulgata (New Vulgate) and other modern translations of the Scriptures. One example in particular, the Protoevangelium (Genesis 3:15), has garnered some attention.
- How was Our Lord “made to be sin”? (1/29/2026) - How could God have made Our Lord “to be sin?” (2 Corinthians 5:21)
- On Eden (1/12/2026) - Overviews of two compelling interpretations of the creation narrative found in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis.
- Who was Cain’s wife? (1/6/2026) - If the human race is descended from one pair of original parents, then who was Cain's wife?
- A Prayer for Onesiphorus (1/1/2026) - Did St. Paul pray for a dead man? Some scholars think so.
- The Evangelical Suffering of St. Paul (12/25/2025) - What could be “lacking” in Christ’s afflictions? Wasn’t His sacrificial death for us sufficient?
- On Ezekiel’s “Laws that were not good” (4/25/2025) - Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments, in which they shall not live. And I polluted them in their own gifts, when they offered all that opened the womb, for their offences: and they shall know that I am the Lord. Ezekiel 20:25-26 How could, or in what manner, did God give Israel such laws? Are not all of His laws good?
- The Johannine Comma (2/27/2025) - Why have modern translations of the Bible removed a verse traditionally held to be part of the inspired Sacred Scriptures?
- Achan’s Plunder – and Blunder (12/8/2024) - Here's a disturbing story from the Book of Joshua story of a Israelite soldier named Achan who made a terrible mistake. What I say may not make the story any less disturbing, but we will hear a great spiritual lesson related to it from St. John of the Cross.
- On Jephthah’s Rash Oath (11/17/2024) - On Jephthah, a tragic hero of the Book of Judges.
