BiblicalContext

Understanding Scripture within its historical, cultural, literary, and theological setting. This category explores how ancient Near Eastern history, Jewish customs, Greek and Roman cultures, original languages, and literary genres illuminate biblical meaning. Includes studies on historical backgrounds, cultural practices, authorship, and audience to deepen comprehension of God's Word in its original context.

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Modern-Day Apostle Illusion

In recent decades the question has taken on new urgency because of movements that ordain modern-day "apostles" and "prophets" with governing authority over networks of churches, sometimes claiming fresh revelation on par with, or supplementary to, the Scriptures the first apostles left behind.

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23 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Twisting Scripture To Your Own Destruction - 2 Peter 3:16

This post stands over the whole Biblical Context series of blog posts as its foundation. Every other post takes a single verse that has been pulled loose from its moorings — Jeremiah 29:11 off a coffee mug, Malachi 3:10 turned into a tithing dare, Psalm 105:15 weaponized to

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17 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
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'In Jesus Name' Isn't a Magic Password - John 14:13-14

"Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do... If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it" gets treated, in much popular prayer practice, as a nearly magical chant or spell — the phrase "in Jesus' name" tacked onto the end

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Is Purgatory Biblical?

Purgatory is not, in Catholic teaching, a third eternal destiny. That misunderstanding wrecks most Protestant objections before they start. Rome teaches two final destinies — heaven and hell — and holds purgatory to be a temporary condition of purification through which some of the saved pass on their way to heaven. Everyone

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19 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Money and Stewardship

Stewardship's doctrine in one line each: God owns everything; we manage on trust. Money is a rival god — it cannot be co-served with God, and loving it roots every sort of evil.

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7 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

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