The Reason
We Live

The greatest moral advance Christianity introduced is this: that every human being has equal, inviolable moral worth grounded in what they are, not in what they do, contribute, or survive.

Genesis 5 is often dismissed as a list of names and lifespans—or claimed to hide a secret gospel code. This article corrects popular misunderstandings while showing why the genealogy truly matters. Drawing on Hebrew, Jewish tradition, and respected biblical scholarship, it argues that Genesis 5 does not encode the gospel in letters, but prepares it through a powerful narrative of death, divine patience, judgment, and hope—ultimately fulfilled in Christ.

Part 2 asks whether Ivan Panin’s numerical theory could be rescued by more “charitable” ways of counting the Greek text. Proposals such as treating “Jesus Christ” as a single name, grouping repeated words, ignoring small grammatical particles, or counting sounds instead of letters. By examining these options directly in the Greek text, the article explains why these adjustments introduce too much flexibility to function as evidence, and why scholars are unconvinced by Panin’s

This post examines Ivan Panin’s claim that Matthew 1 contains a hidden mathematical structure built around the number seven, an idea widely shared through Chuck Missler’s teaching. Appreciating Missler's teaching, the article carefully reconstructs Panin’s argument and then tests it against the Greek text of Matthew as preserved in modern critical editions. By recounting the actual word, letter, and grammatical counts, it shows why the numerical patterns do not hold under con

From 70 to 2 million in 300 years? A 2% growth per generation through outsiders makes the Bible’s numbers surprisingly realistic.

The following recommendations are provided by Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart, in their book: How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth . 4th ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2014. OLD TESTAMENT COMMENTARIES There are several complete and up-to-date Old Testament commentary series that meet the criteria we have described and are evangelical in theological outlook: The Expositor’s Bible Commentary (7 vols., Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan); the Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (28 v