Biblical Heritage Center Blog

  In my last email I introduced the Law of Language and Linguistic Profiles ( click here to read ). Today I am going to introduce you to the Linguistic Profile of “ the Jesus of history ” -- the person who lived in Nazareth and traveled through Galilee and Judea preaching his gospel . We call him “ the Jesus of history ” because as we explore biblical heritages and travel from the 1 st century to the 21 st century , we will make new Linguistic Profiles from documents written between those dates. Those Linguistic Profiles will be about Jesus the Christ, Jesus The Christ of Paul, Jesus the Christ of Athanasius, Jesus the Christ of Arius, Jesus the Christ of Constantine the Great, Jesus the Christ of Augustine, Jesus the Christ of the Trinity, Jesus the Christ of Martin Luther, etc .   The information we acquire from creating or just reading Linguistic Profiles is very useful, but when we compare Linguistic Profiles of Jesus from documents written over a 1,500 year span ,...

You have probably heard this before, but the journey that led to the creation of the Biblical Heritage Center began when I prayed the prayer below in August 1980. I was preparing to begin classes at a Bible College and become an ordained minister.   Dear God, please show me what you want me study in my Bible.   Immediately, these words popped into my mind:   Unless you know how words work you can’t understand the words of the Bible.   If that was the answer, it made absolutely no sense to me -- so I forgot about it! After that I graduated from the Bible College, became an ordained minister and founded a church.   Four years later an advertisement for a new book came in the mail -- “ Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus .” I ordered it and as soon as I finished reading it I remembered the answer to that prayer. That was the moment I decided to find out “ how words work .” I spent an entire month in a university library doing research which led to the crea...