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A key-word search index to the contents of this site, entries that begin with the letter H, section Hierarchic to Hypocrisy. (The other sections under H are Habakkuk to Heavens and Hebraikos to Hidden.)

(Previous section: Hebraikos to Hidden.) (Index overview.)

Hierarchic, hierarchical, hierarchies, hierarchy

• First, a fact: The Bible does not contain such a word as "hierarchy".
  • This writer has not seen any lexicon of old Greek that would have contained the word hier-archia. (If such a word ever existed in classical Greek, then its literal meaning would have been "priest rule".)
    • In connection with the Greek idol religion, there was the word hierarchês which referred to the chief priest of the Greek "sacred rites" (idol rites). The Catholic Church took that Greek idol worship related word, and created out of it a Latin word and concept, hierarchia, which referred to the ruling body of the Catholic Church.
  • Again, the word "hierarchy" is not found in Scripture. What we find in the LXX and NT Greek, is the word archiereus (arch-hiereus) which referred to the Old Covenant's "great" priest. (The LXX mostly used such phrases as hiereus megas or similar. The word archiereus occurs only 3 times in the LXX, but in the NT it is used more frequently.)
  • Then, it is important to realise that the New Covenant has no mortal priests. Jesus was and is the saints' only priest. Churches have priests and priesthoods, but that has nothing to do with the Bible.
    • The essay ee02b.htm shows that the concept of "ordaining" ("ordination") has no support in the Greek text of the New Testament.
    • The essay es07c.htm sorts out the words and concepts "clergy" and "laity".
• Was there "a hierarchy" and "ranks" among the saints? In other words: What was the role of elders, in the saints' fellowships? → ee01c.htm
• In the Greek text of the New Testament, the words episkopos, presbuteros and diakonos were used interchangeably, of elders. → ee02b.htm – ee01c.htm – ea08b.htm – Look also under the heading "Assembly".
• On "ordaining" and "ordination". How did the saints appoint or choose their elders? Were those elders ordained, and did they function as "priests" of some kind? → ee02b.htm
• Is "servant leadership" a biblical concept? Also: Did elders in the saints' fellowships act as "leaders", or as "servant leaders"? What does the biblical record say about these things? → ee03c.htm
• Who really has biblical, spiritual or religious authority? Who can speak for God? → es06d.htm
• Were the saints "ruled" by elders? Regarding Hebrews 13:7 and 17 and a number of other New Testament passages. → ee04c.htm
• Some talk about "hierarchy" among angels, but the Bible gives no support for that. A closer study shows that even the word and concept "archangel" is based on a misunderstanding. → ed07b.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Hierateuma, hiereus

• On the words hierateuma and hiereus in 1 Peter 2:9 and Revelation 5:10. → eo03d.htm
• Look also under the headings "Priest, priests, priesthood" and "High priest, high priests".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

High day, high days (The Old Covenant's holy days, Leviticus 23, and their symbolism.)

• The Old Covenant's Passover, and the New Covenant's bread and wine. → ec04g.htm
• The Days of Unleavened Bread, and the actual symbolism of leaven. → ex01c.htm
• The Day of Pentecost and its symbolism, and some New Covenant parallels. → ex02c.htm
• The weekly, ritual day of rest, the Sabbath: What was its symbolism, what did it really point to? → ex03c.htm
• The Feast of Trumpets and its symbolism. → ex04c.htm
• The Day of Atonement and its symbolism. → ex05b.htm
• On how the Lord's prayer (the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 6), the Sermon on the Mount (chapters 5-7) and the Beatitudes (Matthew 5, verses 3-11) have a connection with the Old Covenant's Day of Atonement. → ec05c.htm
• The Feast of Booths and its symbolism. → ex06c.htm – ex07c.htm
• The "Last Day of the Feast", the "Great Day" (John 7:37), and its symbolism. (A note: The "Last Day of the Feast" was the seventh day of the Feast of Booths; the eighth day was a separate feast.) → ex07c.htm
• The "Assembly on the Eighth Day" (Shemini Atzeret), and its symbolism. → ex08c.htm
• Some remarks on the system which regulated the timing or dates of the Old Covenant's annual high days. → ex09c.htm
• During the Feast of Booths, there was a ritual encircling of the altar, with trumpet sounding. Boughs of willow branches were attached to the altar. Water was poured out, by the altar. On the seventh and last day, the people beat the palm leaves which they held in their hands, into pieces, by the side of the altar. → ex06c.htm – ex07c.htm – (ex08c.htm)
• The Old Covenant's high days (Leviticus 23), including its weekly, ritual rest on the seventh day: Should they be kept, in New Covenant times? → ex10d.htm
• What day of the week should one worship on? → ea04c.htm
• Paul to the saints in Colosse: "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days" (Colossians 2:16). What did he mean? → eo07d.htm
• Look also under the headings "Sabbath", "Sabbatismos", "Days", "Calendar" and "Time, times, timings".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

High priest, high priests

• The Romans who controlled Judea and Jerusalem, sold the high priesthood to whoever gave the largest amount of money for it. → eo12c.htm
• The battle between the Pharisees and the Sadducees regarding priesthood and temple control. → eo13b.htm
• Look also under the heading "Priest, priests, priesthood".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Hilasmos and hilastêrion – Look under the heading "Propitiation".

Hill, hills (biblical) – Look under the heading "Mount".

Hinnom (the valley of Hinnom) – Look under the heading "Hell".

Histêmi → ee02b.htm – (ec02d.htm) – Look also under the heading "Kathistêmi".

Hobab (Chobab, Moses' brother-in-law) → eo08c.htm

Holiness – Look below, under the heading "Holy, holiness".

Holland – Look under the heading "Netherlands".

Holocaust – Why the holocaust? (Why does God allow evil?) → (ew01b.htm) – (ew02c.htm)

Holy, holiness, holy ones, Holy of holies

• On the word "holy":
  • English: The adjective "holy" comes from Old English halig (cf. modern-day German heilig and Swedish helig). It is not possible to determine the pre-Catholic meaning of those words, but they seem to be akin to Old English hal ("whole", cf. modern-day Swedish hel, "whole").
  • Greek: In the NT, the Greek word behind the translation "holy" is often hagios whose literal meaning, depending on the context, was something like "devoted", "dedicated" or "separated". The "saints" (Greek hagioi) had been separated from this world, to God and his son Jesus.
    • The 1769 KJ version translates hagios 161 times as "holy", 61 times as "saint(s)", 4 times as "holy one", plus a few times in miscellaneous ways.
  • The English word "saint" comes via Old English sanct from Latin sanctus, but the Greek word in question was the above-mentioned hagios which referred to "holiness", that is, being separated to God.
• On the word "holiness":
  • First and foremost, see above regarding the word "holy", but look also under the headings "Sacred, sacredness", "Saint, saints, sainthood" and "Righteous, righteousness".
  • The 1769 KJ version renders several different Greek words as "holiness":
    • Hagiasmos, hagiotês and hagiôsunê – from hagios; see above, a few lines upward.
    • Hosiotês (Luke 1:75 and Ephesians 4:24).
    • Eusebeia (cf. sebô and sebomai) (Acts 3:12; elsewhere KJV-1769 renders eusebeia as "godliness").
    • Hieroprepês (Titus 2:3).
• The Holy Spirit. – Look under the heading "Spirit".
• Holy day, holy days. – Look above, under the heading "High days".
• "Holy convocation". – Look above under the heading "High days", and also under the headings "Assembly" and "Worship".
• "Holy orders" (the concepts "ordaining" and "ranks"). – Look under the heading "Ordain, ordained, ordaining".
• Sanctification (being made holy). → eb02c.htm – eg03c.htm
• Who is a saint? What is sainthood? → eg03c.htm
• The Holy of Holies behind the veil (the inner part of the temple which was in Jerusalem). → ex05b.htm
• The King James bible – is it somehow an especially "holy" or "inspired" translation? → es03c.htm
• The apostle Peter wrote to certain saints: "... you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 2:5). What did that mean, on the practical level? → eo03d.htm
• The "holy grail" or sangraal, sang réal. → (ey14b.htm)
• Look also under the heading "Sacred, sacredness", "Saint, saints, sainthood" and "Righteous, righteousness".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Homologia, homologeô and homologos (Hebrews 10:23, et cetera)

• In old Greek, the primary meaning of the word homologia was "agreement", "compact", "contract" (see the Greek-English Lexicon by Liddell and Scott). Some details:
  • The noun homologia came from the verb homologeô which literally meant "to speak together" but was idiomatically used in such meanings as "to agree", "to promise to do a thing", and so on. The related adjective homologos meant "agreeing", "of one mind", et cetera.
  • The LXX (Septuagint) used the word homologia in the meaning "vow" (Leviticus 22:18, et cetera).
  • Matthew 14:7 – the Greek text contains the verb homologêo (hômologêsen) is used in the meaning "promise" ("he promised with an oath").
  • Hebrews 10:23 – the Greek text contains the noun homologia, referring to an agreement in the meaning "betrothal" (the saints' betrothal to Jesus). The essays eb10b.htm and ea04c.htm have more on this. Related words in old Greek:
    • Kathomologia, "engagement", "agreement".
    • Kathomologeô, "to confess or allow", but also "to pledge", "to promise", "to vow", "to betroth".
    • Proomologêo, "to grant or concede beforehand", but also "to be betrothed beforehand".
  • Elsewhere in the NT, the words homologia, homologeô and homologos are used in various ways, in different idiomatic meanings.
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Honest, honesty

• The English word "honest" comes from the Latin adjective honestus, "respected", from honos which among other things was used in the meaning "reputation", "distinction".
  • In English, the word "honest" had originally more to do with honour than with being honest. But, the use of the word "honest" changed. Anyway, an honourable (respectable) person is by necessity also honest – trustworthy and dependable. (Look also below, under the heading "Honour, honourable".)
• In the 1769 KJ version, the words "honest", "honesty" and "honestly" appear only in the New Testament; in some other versions they are found only in the Old Testament; while in some they appear in both.
• Here are notes on the 11 relevant passages in KJV-1769:
  • In Luke 8:15, Romans 12:17, 2 Corinthians 8:21 and 13:7 and 1 Peter 2:12, the Greek word is kalos, "beautiful", "good"; Hebrews 13:18 has the adverbial form kalôs. In Acts 6:3, the word "honesty" is an addition; there is no corresponding word in the Greek text. In Romans 13:13 and 1 Thessalonians 4:12, Paul used the adverb euschemonôs, "decently", "properly". Philippians 4:8 has the adjective semnos, something like "solemn", "dignified"; in 1 Timothy 2:2 we find the noun semnotês, "solemnity", "dignity".
• Honesty is the quality of being honest – being dependable and not lying, cheating or defrauding.
  • Being righteous also means being honest. → eg08b.htm
  • Should believers lie? → eo05c.htm
• Honest occupations
  • Titus 3:8, "On this I want you to firmly insist; that those who have faith in God must be careful to maintain honest occupations" (MontNT). → ea10c.htm – ee04c.htm
  • Titus 3:14, "And let our people too learn to set a good example in following honest occupations for the supply of their necessities, so that they may not live useless lives" (WEY). → em07b.htm – em08c.htm
  • 1 Timothy 5:17, "Elderly people who have worked in honest occupations, especially those who are now getting tired, deserve double honour". (Author's tr.) → em07b.htm – ee04c.htm
• Look also under the headings "Righteous, righteousness", "Deceit, deceivers, deception" and "Liar, liars, lie, lies, lying".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Honour, honourable, honoured, honouring

• What it really means to "honour" one's parents. → em07b.htm
• The "double honour" of 1 Timothy 5 – whom did it really refer to, and what did it really mean? → em07b.htm
• Romans 13:7, "honour to whom honour". → ew02c.htm
• Revelation 21:24 and the translation "the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it". → (ew02c.htm)
• 1 Timothy 5:16-17, "If any man or woman of the faith has widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be charged, so that it can relieve those who are true widows. Elderly people who have worked in honest occupations, especially those who are now getting tired, deserve double honour." → em07b.htm
• An honourable (respectable) person is by necessity also honest – trustworthy and dependable. Being honourable means that that one does not cheat, defraud, deceive or lie. → eo05c.htm
• Look also under the headings "Righteous, righteousness", "Honest, honesty", "Titles" and "Worship".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Horeb (Hebrew, Choreb)

• Mount Horeb is the same as Mount Sinai. – Look under the heading "Sinai".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Horn, horns

• On different kinds of prophetic trumpets or horns that are mentioned in the Bible – trumps of God, and those of the seven angels. → et06d.htm
• Many talk about Satan the Devil as a figure that has hoofs and horns. Does the Bible say he has such? → ed04c.htm
• Regarding the snake (drakôn) with ten horns, in Revelation 12:3. → ed03b.htm
• On the scarlet-coloured beast with seven heads and ten horns (Revelation 17). → (ew03b.htm)
• Regarding the keraia or "little horn" or "tittle" which is mentioned in the Greek text of Matthew 5:18 and Luke 16:17 – Look under the heading "Jot".
• The English word "jubilee" comes from the Hebrew yowbel which is thought to have meant "a ram's horn" (used as a horn to blow in, like a trumpet of a kind). → ex05b.htm – ec05c.htm
• Look also under the headings "Trumpets" and "Ram, ram's horn".

• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Hosana, hosanna, hoshana

• On the feast day that was called Hoshana rabbah. → ex07c.htm – (ex06c.htm) – (ex08c.htm)
• Hosanna in John 12:13. → (ey10b.htm)
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Hosea

• The prophet Hosea's name in Hebrew was Howshea.
  • (Even Joshua the son of Nun was at first called Howshea. Also a number of other persons in the OT bore that name.)
• The Jews sort the book of Hosea under the section Neviim, "the Prophets", and further under the sub-sections "the Latter prophets" and "the Minor prophets". → (ec01c.htm)
• Passages in the book of Hosea, mentioned at this site:
  • Hosea 1
    • 1-9 → ey10b.htm – eb06b.htm – (ey01b.htm) – (ey02c.htm) – (ey12b.htm)
    • 6-9 → ey06b.htm
    • 7 → (ey16b.htm)
  • Hosea 2
    • 14-23 → ey06b.htm
  • Hosea 3
    • 4 → ey14b.htm – (ey01b.htm)
    • 4-5 → ey12b.htm
  • Hosea 6
    • 6 → (ed06c.htm)
  • Hosea 12
    • 3 → (ey04c.htm)
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Hoshea

• Regarding the name "Hoshea" in Deuteronomy 32:44 in the 1769 KJ version. – Look under the heading "Joshua".
• Regarding the prophet Hosea and his book, look above, under the heading "Hosea".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Host, hosts ("the Lord of Hosts") – Look under the heading "Omnipotent".

Hot

• Revelation 3:15, "I know your works; you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were either cold or hot". → ea03d.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Hour ("last hour", 1 John 2:8) → eo02d.htm – eg04b.htm – Look also under the heading "Last, last hour, last day".

For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

House, houses

• House of God
  • Where and what is the New Covenant's "House of God" ("temple")? → ea04c.htm – (ea05c.htm)
  • The apostle Peter wrote to certain saints: "...you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 2:5). What did that mean, on the practical level? → eo03d.htm
  • Look also under the headings "Tent" and "Temple".
• House of Israel
  • When Jesus sent the 12 and the 70 to "the lost sheep of the house of Israel", where did they go? → ey10b.htm – em05e.htm
  • When Jesus said, "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel" – what did he mean? → ey10b.htm
  • What the expression "house of Israel" really means, in the book of Ezekiel. → ey09c.htm
  • Look also under the headings "Israel" and "Tribes of Israel".
• House of David
  • The house of David (king David's lineage, David's throne). → ey12b.htm
  • Look also under the headings "Israel" and "Tribes of Israel".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

How to

• How to study the Bible. → es01d.htm – es02c.htm – eg02c.htm
• How to avoid certain common but fundamental errors and mistakes in bible study. → eg02c.htm
• How to serve God – how to worship. → ea04c.htm
• How to pray. → eb11c.htm
• For more, look under the other parts of this index, or use the search function.

Human, humans, man, men

• The destiny of humans: Is it already fixed and decided, as some claim? Are all people, or some individuals, "predestined"? → eb03d.htm
• Humans are mortal. They do not have everlasting life in themselves; that is something they must be given by God. In other words: Humans do not have an "immortal soul". → eb09c.htm
• Titles of men, in the religious context. → ea08b.htm – Look also under the heading "Assembly".
• No human can decide for others what "truth" is. That is God's prerogative, and he has already done that. Anyone trying to do that today, is putting himself in God's place. → es08c.htm – ea06c.htm
• Is God's Spirit being given to humans, at this present time? → eb01c.htm
• Where do humans go after they die? Or, what happens after death, and when? → eb09c.htm
• Do human beings go to Heaven? → eb04c.htm – eb05b.htm
• Jeremiah 17:5, "Thus says the Lord: Cursed is the man who trusts in man". → ee03c.htm
• Believers must care for their fellow human beings. – Look under the heading "Good works".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Hundred and forty-four thousand – Look under the heading "144,000".

Hupeikô – On the word hupeikô in the Greek text of Hebrews 13:17. → ee04c.htm

Hupokritês and hupokrisis – Look below, under the heading "Hypocrite".

Husband, husbands

• Mark 7:22-23, "The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts: All these evil things come from inside, and make the man unclean." → (ef01b.htm)
• Romans 7:2, "For the woman who is subject to a husband is obligated to the law so long as the husband lives; but if the husband dies, she is free from the law of the husband". → ec07d.htm – ec11c.htm – ec13c.htm – eo11b.htm – ec02d.htm
• 1 Corinthians 7:39, "The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives". → (eb09c.htm)
• Paul to the saints in Corinth: "For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a chaste virgin, to the Anointed" (2 Corinthians 11:2). → eb01c.htm – eb02c.htm
• 1 Peter 3:7, "Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honour to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered". → eb11c.htm
• Ephesians 5:24, "even as the assembly is subject to the Anointed, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything". → (ea14c.htm)
• 1 Timothy 3:1-2, "If someone aspires to be an elder, it is a noble task that he is desirous of. Consequently, an elder must be above reproach, the husband of one wife [...]". → ee01c.htm – (em08c.htm)
• 1 Timothy 3:12, "Those who serve must be husbands of only one wife, men who take well care of their children and of their own households". → ee01c.htm
• Paul instructed Titus that an elder was to be "the husband of one wife" (Titus 1:6). → ee01c.htm
• Titus 2:4-5. → (eo16b.htm)
• 1 Peter 3:5-7. → (eo16b.htm)
• Revelation 21:2, "And I saw the holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down, from God, out of the sky, having been prepared as a bride adorned for her husband". → eb04c.htm
• Where many bible-translations make it seem that Paul supported slavery, the Greek text indicates that he was talking about the marriage-bond – the marriage-covenant between wives and husbands. → eo16b.htm
• Look also under the headings "Wife, wives", "Children", "Parent, parents", "Father", "Mother", "Daughters", "Son, sons", "Seed, seeds", "Widows" and "Elderly".
• Regarding the word "husbandman": Look below, under the heading "Husbandman".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Husbandman, husbandmen

• The archaic word "husbandman" means such things as farmer, farm-worker, gardener.
• When the 1769 KJ version has in the NT "husbandman" or "husbandmen", the Greek word in question is always geôrgos which referred to a person involved in agriculture. (Geôrgos was combined of gê, "soil" or "land", and ergon, "to work". The noun geôrgia meant "agriculture", "farming". The verb geôrgeô referred to farming, cultivation and similar things.)
• The husbandman or vineyard keeper of John 15. → ea11c.htm
• The husbandman or farmer of 2 Timothy 2:6. → ea15c.htm – em08c.htm
• The husbandman or farmer of James 5:7. → eg04b.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Hypocrite, hypocrites, hypocritical, hypocrisy

• Where the KJV-1769 Old Testament has put in the word "hypocrite" or "hypocrisy" (14 passages), the Hebrew word in question is either the adjective chaneph or the noun choneph; both refer to what could be translated as "corrupted", "godless", or similar. (The related verb chaneph which meant "to defile", "to corrupt", appears in 9 OT passages.)
• Where the KJV-1769 New Testament has the words "hypocrite" or "hypocrisy", the Greek word in question is either hupokritês or hupokrisis.
  • The noun hupokritês, plural hupokritai, meant "an actor" (and also, "interpreter" or "expounder"). In New Testament times, the theatre in Judea was of the Greek kind. The actors, called hupokritai, wore masks which covered their real faces. Those actors often represented different Greek "gods", playing god-roles. In other words: They acted and spoke, taking on themselves a god-role of some kind. → eo12c.htm
  • Why did Jesus call the Scribes and the Pharisees "pretenders" or "actors" (in the Greek text hupokritai)? → eo12c.htm
  • The noun hupokrisis meant the actor's art – the playing of a part or role on the stage. (Attic Greek. In Ionic Greek, hupokrisis had even the meaning "an answer", "a reply".) → eo12c.htm
  • The Greek text of Luke 20:20 contains the verb-form hupokrinomai (hupokrinomenous) which meant "to play a part", "to feign". → eo12c.htm
  • In James 5:12, some Greek texts have ina mê eis hupokrisin pesête, interpreted as "so that you will not fall into hypocrisy", but some have ina mê hupo krisin pesête, which can be interpreted as "so that you will not fall under judgment". → (eo05c.htm)
  • The related word anupokritos, meaning "un-theatral" and "unfeigned" ("genuine"), appears in 6 passages in the Greek text of the NT – Romans 12:9, 2 Corinthians 6:6, 1 Timothy 1:5, 2 Timothy 1:5, James 3:17 and 1 Peter 1:22.
• Hypocrisy (pretence) is a form of lying. What does the Bible say about lies, lying and liars? → eo05c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

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The essays at this site are not in "bible lesson" or "bible study course" format, nor are they meant as on-line "bible study classes" of some kind. Even though this site gives ready answers to biblical questions of many kinds, its main goal is providing food for thought on a variety of biblical subjects, and challenging and encouraging people to get started with deep personal bible study and then continue with that. (Many religious organisations and denominations have their bible lessons and correspondence courses; they are ready-made "studies" which are shrewdly constructed and written in such a manner that they lead the reader to conclusions that fit the dogmas of the group in question.) A careful, closer study of the books of the Bible with proper tools will help a believer to gain better and deeper biblical understanding. In that way, one will find out more about what the Bible really says, means and teaches. One can then, with wisdom, use that knowledge as a guide for one's life, instead of accepting as "biblical truths" whatever commercial religion – churches and their ministers (preachers) – have taught and want people to believe.

A more thorough, bible-based study with care and with thought will, not only help one to learn more, but also show one how many a popular belief has no scriptural basis or support but is altogether false and not biblical at all. This applies, not only to prophecy and "end time" related things, but also to many other subjects where prevailing dogmas are often taken "for granted". For this reason, it is extremely important for believers to personally study the Writings, and to thoroughly analyse them down to the smaller details, in order to find out the real facts. For doing that, it is not necessary to know the Hebrew, Greek or Latin languages (even though learning their letters and alphabet can be a good idea); there are modern, advanced tools which can help one to study in an effective way – see the pages es01d.htm and es02c.htm for more on this. The essay eg02c.htm supplies a number of easy, elementary keys to acquiring a better and deeper understanding of the Bible, simply by consciously and methodically avoiding certain usual errors and pitfalls.

This site is non-denominational and non-sectarian. It is not connected to any church, sect or religious organisation or movement. This site looks at things from a biblical perspective, and not from a dogmatic one. It does not claim to be without error or to "know it all" or to have a perfect or complete explanation to all things – it consists of an ongoing bible study that has been made public, and as the study goes on, the contents of these pages are revised and also expanded, with new topics and themes being addressed. Readers are invited and welcome to write to the author with thoughts and comments, or to ask questions or to point out a mistake if they feel that they have found one. For more on this, see the page purpose.htm.

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Some part of this multi-page key-word index was changed or modified 2010-03-12.