...Maybe It Means...

Alternate Explanations for Some Scriptural Texts

What do you mean, "Maybe it Means"?

This site offers a new look at a variety of Biblical passages and principles which don’t translate so readily into our current American lives.

By connecting various passages that are not usually connected, we get a better understanding of what we read.

"Charlie-isms"

Many of these were developed over years of teaching Bible, and cooked down into tag phrases that made remembering the point easier. They became to be known as “Charlie-isms.”

I recommend beginning with You Get To…

…You Get To …

The fact is you don’t have to read your Bible, but you get to. You don’t have to apply it to your lives, but you get to.

It’s How Much? The Parable of the Talents

Matthew 25:14-30 recounts Jesus teaching about the kingdom of heaven through a parable known as the parable of the Talents. We tend not to grasp the amount mentioned

David and the Five Stones

We all know the story of David and Goliath, and the way David prepared to meet the giant. We know that he chose stones from a creek, but do we know why he chose five?

SICK vs. WEAK In James 5:13-16

The words translated “sick” in this passage are just as easily translated “weak.” In 1 Corinthians 8:9 it is translated “weak” and to translate it “sick” in that passage wreaks havoc to the argument.

Hedging Bets: Causing a Brother to Stumble By Having More Than One God

So we have a context for understanding that when Paul writes “...Some people are still so accustomed to idols that when they eat such food they think of it as having been sacrificed to an idol, and since their conscience is weak, it is defiled”