Many different Bibles have been developed over the years. CARM's standard Bible is the NASB95: New American Standard Bible 1995, due to its literalness to the original languages. In writing articles, sometimes the authors will use different versions to emphasize a...
One of the verses in the Bible that have generated a lot of speculation is John 21:11. The context is after the resurrection of Christ. But the disciples did not know that Jesus had risen from the dead. So, they went back to their old livelihood of fishing. They had...
The Bible is full of interesting patterns. Whether or not they are proof of inspiration is subjective. Proof for one person might be different than proof or another person. After all, proof is different than persuasion. Nevertheless, the following is an interesting...
There are many interesting things about the Bible, one of them is Genesis 1:1. The following analysis does not prove that the Bible is inspired. But, the very first verse of the Bible is interesting. Here is the analysis for you to check out. What do you think? Is it...
In English, we have alpha and numeric characters: a,b,c,d,e, etc., & 0,1,2,3,4, etc. Both Greek and Hebrew have only one set of characters used for both words and numbers. When a word in Greek is written out, it has a mathematical value. This value is called...
This article contains an analysis of Greek text concerning the birth of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew 1:18-25. Unlike English where we have a set of characters for letters and another set of characters for numbers, Greek uses the same characters for both. Therefore,...
There are different arguments for the inspiration of Scripture, but the following is rather different. It takes information from passages in the Greek New Testament and analyzes them to see the number of verbs, nouns, words that begin with a vowel, words that begin...
Mathematics and our world have an interesting relationship, and because of it, it makes bible prophecy astounding. Nevertheless, for some reason, we can use math to do all sorts of things. We design a roller coaster on paper, give the plans to engineers who then build...
The year 2020 is here. There's 2020 vision. There is a news show called 2020. So, I wondered what verses in the Bible had the address of 20:20. In other words, how many verses in the NASB95 Bible have a chapter 20 and a verse 20? After a quick search, I discovered...
No, the mere fact that copies of the book of Enoch were found among the "Dead Sea Scrolls" is not a reason to consider the book to be Scripture. The Dead Sea Scrolls contain all kinds of documents, not just Scripture. We don't have to consider every calendar,...