Teachings
Bring the doctrine. Open the Bible. Test it.
A Scripture-centered study library
Guided studies for familiar doctrines, disputed questions, controversial passages, and the things “everybody knows” the Bible says. Read the context. Examine the words. Follow the cross-references. Consider the competing interpretations. Then let Scripture have the last word.
A Scripture-centered study library
Some of the beliefs we hold most confidently are the ones we were handed so early—or heard repeated so often—that we never actually went back and examined the entire biblical case for ourselves.
Open Your Bible starts there.
Bring the doctrine. Bring the verse somebody quoted. Bring the sermon you have heard twenty times. Bring the question your church settled years ago. Then open the Bible and see whether the claim survives its context.
These studies are not designed merely to hand you my conclusion. We will read the passages people use on every side, compare translations when it matters, examine Hebrew and Greek when it genuinely helps, follow cross-references, trace themes through Scripture, consider the strongest reasonable competing interpretation, and distinguish between what the evidence proves and what we may simply have assumed.
Study tools are tools—not authorities. Strong’s numbers are indexes, not magic decoder rings. Lexicons provide possible ranges of meaning; context determines which meaning is operating. Cross-references can reveal patterns, but they cannot erase the paragraph in front of us.
This library is not about winning theological arguments.
It is about testing them.
Don’t start with what you were taught.
Start with the text.
Start here
Take the questions Christians argue about, preach about, divide over, and sometimes assume are already settled—and put them back beside an open Bible.
These guided studies gather the relevant passages, examine the arguments commonly made from them, and invite the reader to work through the evidence rather than merely inherit a conclusion.
A Guided Hebrew Word Study
From “law” to instruction, teaching, and the loving direction of Yehovah. Work through the word Torah using context, translation comparison, Strong’s numbers, lexicons, related Hebrew roots, cross-references, and Scripture itself.
Prophets, Judges, Teachers, Disciples—and the Passages Used to Silence Them
Before we build a theology around what women may never do, read what women actually did. Trace Miriam, Deborah, Huldah, Abigail, Esther, Anna, Mary Magdalene, Priscilla, Phoebe, Junia, women who prophesied, and the difficult passages in Corinthians and Timothy used to define their limits.
Clean & Unclean, Mark 7, Acts 10, Romans 14, Colossians 2, and 1 Timothy 4
Were the biblical food distinctions abolished—or have several familiar passages been asked to answer questions they were not discussing? Begin before Sinai, follow the Torah, then work carefully through Yeshua, Peter, Paul, and the texts most often cited to say everything is food now.
Did Grace Free Us From Obedience—or From Condemnation?
Christians often speak as though grace and obedience live on opposite sides of the gospel. Trace grace before Sinai, Israel's redemption, covenant obedience, Yeshua, Paul, James, John, and Revelation and ask whether Scripture ever required us to choose between them.
Assurance, Apostasy, Endurance, and the Warning Passages We Cannot Ignore
What should we do with passages promising security—and passages warning believers to remain, endure, hold fast, avoid falling away, and overcome? Put John 10 and Romans 8 beside John 15, Hebrews, 1 Corinthians 10, 2 Peter, Revelation, and Yeshua's warnings without stacking the deck.
Jeremiah 31, Hebrews 8–10, and Torah Written on the Heart
Before defining the New Covenant from Christian tradition, begin where Scripture announces it. Who is the covenant made with? What problem is being corrected? What is written on the heart? And what exactly does Hebrews say became obsolete?
Romans, Galatians, Acts, Circumcision, and the Man Everyone Quotes
Paul is often treated as the apostle who explained why Torah no longer matters. Read his letters beside his life in Acts. Examine justification, works of law, circumcision, Jewish and Gentile believers, Acts 21, Acts 24, and the questions Paul was actually answering.
Creation, Sinai, Yeshua, the Apostles, and the Seventh Day
Follow the seventh day from creation through manna, Sinai, the prophets, Yeshua's Sabbath disputes, the apostolic writings, and Hebrews. Then ask a simple question: where does Scripture actually say the Sabbath changed?
Matthew 5:17–20, Plēroō, and the Difference Between Fulfilling and Abolishing
Yeshua said He did not come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets but to fulfill them. Slow down over the paragraph, examine the Greek word, compare Matthew's use of “fulfill” elsewhere, and follow Yeshua's own statements about commandments, heaven, earth, and righteousness.
Anomia, Matthew 7, 1 John, and the Warnings Believers Often Skip
Yeshua warned about workers of lawlessness. The apostles warned about lawlessness. John connected sin and lawlessness. Examine the Greek word anomia, trace the passages, and ask what obedience under Messiah actually means.
More ways to study
Topical questions are only the beginning. As the Bible Studies library grows, we will also slow down over individual words, work carefully through whole passages, and trace major biblical themes from one end of Scripture to the other.
Hebrew and Greek in Context
Identify the original word, examine its lexical range, trace its biblical usage, return to the passage, and let context determine meaning.
Read the Paragraph. Then Keep Reading.
Work slowly through disputed and important passages by following the author's argument, surrounding chapters, historical setting, repeated words, and literary context.
Follow the Thread Through Scripture
Trace themes such as covenant, holiness, faithfulness, kingdom, repentance, priesthood, sacrifice, and restoration across Scripture without flattening every author, covenant, or context into the same thing.