A Discussion of Chronological Method in Evangelical Scholarship Evangelical biblical scholarship has long affirmed the authority and inerrancy of Scripture while simultaneously employing methodological devices—such as undocumented co-regencies and conjectural scribal error—to resolve chronological tensions in the regnal data of Israel and Judah. This paper examines the methodological implications of…
The word “time” (Hebrew עִדָּן ʿiddān) plays a pivotal role in the Book of Daniel. It is not used as a vague or symbolic expression, but as a chrono-specific unit embedded within a sequence of prophecies whose fulfillment must correspond exactly with verifiable history. Understanding its meaning requires tracing how…
For more than half a century, Edwin Thiele’s The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings has been treated as the standard solution to the chronological problems posed by the regnal data in the biblical text. His work is widely respected, frequently cited, and often assumed to have “solved” the difficulties…
Some have questioned my insistence on exact fulfillment of the Bible’s predictive prophecies, as though such precision were a personal quirk or an unnecessary rigidity. It is not. That insistence does not originate with me; it originates with the Bible itself. Throughout Scripture, God presents fulfilled predictive prophecy as a…
Taken as a whole, the Bible consistently presents the human person as both temporal (physical) and spiritual during earthly life—not sequentially, but simultaneously. This dual aspect is foundational to biblical anthropology. Below is a structured explanation, grounded directly in Scripture. 1. Human Beings Are Created as a Unified Physical–Spiritual Whole…
Divine Revelation and the Limits of Human Reason One of the most persistent assumptions in modern thought is that belief in God is primarily a matter of evidence, intelligence, or moral willingness. From this perspective, disbelief is often framed as the result of insufficient proof or critical thinking. The Bible,…
Mark 4:11–12 offers a remarkable insight into the nature of Jesus’ ministry: “Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they…
The book Daniel Unsealed by Dan Bruce … available as a PDF download in the FREE BOOKS section of this website … explains that all predictive prophecies in the Book of Daniel have now been fulfilled in history, the final one being fulfilled in 1967 with the liberation of the…
The Bible reveals a God who acts with precision, not approximation. His words are not vague forecasts open to conjecture, but declarations anchored in truth and time. When Scripture speaks of prophetic timelines—particularly in the Book of Daniel—it demonstrates that God’s omniscient plan unfolds through exact events in measurable history.…
For nearly two centuries, belief in seven years of unimaginable end-time tribulation has stood as a cornerstone of conservative Christian eschatology—and has even found vivid expression in Hollywood’s apocalyptic films. Repeated for so long by so many, the idea has taken on an almost sacrosanct authority, and questioning it is…