The Bible is a deeply complicated text, to say the least. It's densely packed with historical accounts, exhaustive genealogies, allegories, poetry, and all manner of other things. And, given that many of the books that make up the Bible are thousands of years old, it maybe shouldn't come as too much of a surprise to learn that there are plenty of big questions...
The Biggest Unanswered Questions In The Bible
The Bible is a deeply complicated text, to say the least. It's densely packed with historical accounts, exhaustive genealogies, allegories, poetry, and all manner of other things. And, given that many of the books that make up the Bible are thousands of years old, it maybe shouldn't come as too much of a surprise to learn that there are plenty of big questions contained therein...
Throughout the Bible, women have experienced enormous injustice. A common theme in the Bible is the association of women with weakness, temptation, and sin as opposed to the many virtuous depictions of biblical men as honorable leaders. Biblical women are often depicted as guilty just for being women. However, there are also women in the Bible...
In 2015, the two largest religions in the world, according to Pew Research Center, were Christianity and Islam. Collectively, the two faiths comprised about 4.1 billion people, with the former claiming 2.3 billion adherents, the latter 1.8 billion. Both religions, along with Judaism, are Abrahamic, according to The British Library, which means that all three regard...
The Bible, the collection of Christianity's sacred texts, has been both loved and reviled since its compilation in the first century A.D. The book has subsequently been restricted, redacted, and even banned to prevent people from reading it. It may seem logical to think that the primary cause of such actions is anti-Christian bias. In modern times, this...
Today, many versions of the Bible exist in English. But for centuries, the ability to read the Bible was only in the hands of the educated few who were literate and understood Latin. In Medieval England, the church acted as arbiters of what their members learned about the Bible and offered up its own interpretations of God's teachings. This was not a time of...