The book was written because of the love and belief of my wife. We were sitting around one day and I told her about this dream I had and how it continued for several days. I felt that it was some kind of a sign but I didn’t know what. She told me that since I had written several other books that I was in the process of updating and changing because they were out of date from when they were originally written that I needed to write these thoughts down. I thought about it and she was right. ...

PLUCKED OUT OF THE FIRE Zechariah (3:2) and the LORD said unto Satan, the LORD rebukes thee, O Satan: even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebukes thee: Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? GOD has seen me when I was down in my misery! He came and told me how to pray to thee! He said son if you are with me; COME! FOLLOW! ME! I will open your eyes and understanding so that you may see! I was pricked at the heart; and began to follow the LORD; that is when I picked up the Bible a...

Republicanism and imperialism are typically understood to be located at opposite ends of the political spectrum. In Imperial Republics, Edward G. Andrew challenges the supposed incompatibility of these theories with regard to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century revolutions in England, the United States, and France.Many scholars have noted the influence of the Roman state on the ideology of republican revolutionaries, especially in the model it provided for transforming sub...

Conscience and Its Critics is an eloquent and passionate examination of the opposition between Protestant conscience and Enlightenment reason in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Seeking to illuminate what the United Nations Declaration of Rights means in its assertion that reason and conscience are the definitive qualities of human beings, Edward Andrew attempts to give determinate shape to the protean notion of conscience through historical analysis.The argument ...

Edward D. Andrews boldly answers the challenges Bart D. Ehrman alleges against the fully inerrant, Spirit-inspired, authoritative Word of God. By glimpsing into the life of Bart D. Ehrman and following along his course of academic studies, Andrews helps the reader to understand the biases, assumptions, and shortcomings supporting Ehrman's arguments. Using sound reason, scholarly exegesis, and the Historical-Grammatical method of interpretation, as well as New Testament textual criticism, A...

Expanding on R. A. Torrey's original Difficulties in the Bible, Edward Andrews answers today's most challenging questions raised against the Bible. Taking the most difficult passages of the Bible and addressing them with humility and determination, Andrews sheds light on the biggest stumbling blocks of Scripture, from the scientific issues of the creation story to historical and genealogical issues of early mankind. For anyone who wrestles with doubt concerning the accuracy of the Bible in...

Tracing the origin of the Documentary Hypothesis through the centuries, Edward Andrews investigates the assumptions and presuppositions underlying the theory, critically analyzing the original Bible text and addressing popular issues and authorial concerns. By comparing the textual evidence and the commentaries of scholars from the past four centuries, Andrews effectively debunks the Documentary Hypothesis, providing a conservative approach that lifts up the first five books of the Bible a...

Newport Gardner's Anthem explores the remarkable life of Occramer Marycoo, an enslaved African who went on to become one of early America's most important Black leaders. In the mid-eighteenth century, Marycoo was taken from West Africa to Newport, Rhode Island, where he was forced into racial bondage and given a name that symbolized the power that his new city and new enslaver held over him: Newport Gardner. In this powerful book, Edward E. Andrew...

From the time the New Testament was first copied to the twenty-first century, scribes and translators have faced a myriad of concerns in preserving the biblical text. Edward Andrews guides the reader through the challenges of translation, from which original manuscripts to trust to the issues in the language barrier to the theological concerns raised in the translation process. Containing a history of the Bible's translation and appendixes on translation conferences and debates, The Comple...

The term criticism can either be viewed in a negative light as most would expect, but also in a positive light as well. The negative is "a spoken or written opinion or judgment of what is wrong or bad about somebody or something." The positive is simply the assessment of something, be it a car, a house, or more often a written work. In essence, it is a critique, an evaluation, or looking into something to gain more information, with the purpose of having a better understanding. Many view B...

This is a derivative work, which has been transformed and adapted. (i.e. updated and expanded) The purchaser of Torrey alone would have only received 124 pages of somewhat outdated material. A purchaser of Andrews and Torrey combined, will receive 229 pages of current scholarship. The Bible is unlike any other book--it contains loving instruction from God. (1 Thessalonians 2:13) If you apply what the Bible teaches, you will benefit greatly. You will increase your love for Go...

The Apostolic Fathers are a small number of Early Christian authors who lived and wrote in the second half of the 1st century and the first half of the 2nd century. They are acknowledged as leaders in the early church, although their writings were not included in the New Testament. They include Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp of Smyrna, the author of the Didache, and the author of the Shepherd of Hermas. The Apostolic Fathers, the earliest extant Christian writings ...