Gary Shogren's Blog
I have a new AUTHOR WEBSITE! All of my books - English and Spanish - described and with links to purchase them. Share with your friends! Commentary on 1 CorinthiansCommentary on 1-2 ThessaloniansMyths that We Christians Accept and Pass along to OthersIceberg Ahead! When God's Servants Crash into Cold, Hard RealityTools on New Testament GreekAnd... Continue Reading →
Reading is a great tool for fending off mental sluggishness and for lifelong learning! I gave a talk on it here: “Christian Leaders and LifelongLearning.” Or to put it another way: “The man who does not read,” said Mark Twain, “has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” In 2025 I read (or listened... Continue Reading →
Ebook from KindlePaperback from Amazon Spanish ebook from KindleSpanish paperback from Amazon or from CLIE The 21st century, that digital arena where information and misinformation battle for our attention! To be sure, the internet can render up solid facts, for instance: “Who won Super Bowl XLVII in 2013?” But the very same medium also lures... Continue Reading →
Every year we have a reading group for some ancient language. We return to a classic, which we last did in 2014. In the new year we will begin with the simplest Greek (John's Gospel) and hopefully finish the most difficult (Hebrews) for Christmas! Welcome aboard, bring your friends! Spanish-speakers are welcome, but most of... Continue Reading →
A while back I wrote a brief commentary on 1-2 Timothy for Bible translators. In I had to deal with the most important textual variant (place where the manuscripts differ one from another). It appears in 1 Tim 3:16: “Beyond question, great is the mystery of godliness, ___ was manifest in the flesh” (NASB version). In... Continue Reading →
I received this heartbreaking note: "I came across your website this morning while conducting research into Bible versions. This issue has become very distressing to me as a simple disciple of Jesus Christ as I don't know the original languages and I am being influenced by the King James Only position. I have read... Continue Reading →
David Daniels is the spokesman for King-James-Only and Ruckmanism, in its purist form, as promulgated by Chick Publications.Fortunately, renowned textual scholar Elijah Hixson has written a detailed critical review of Daniels's strange conspiracy theory. I defer to his analysis. People who love God's inspired Word - and who elevate it above faulty human theorizing -... Continue Reading →
I grew up with the King James Version, regularly use it and the New King James among others, and often teach and preach from the Reina Valera Revisada, all of which are based on the so-called Textus receptus. And I love and use them all; see my, “Me, a Hater of the Kdeiting James Version?... Continue Reading →
(Some of this material will appear in my forthcoming book, Los mitos que los cristianos creen. Y comparten [Myths that Christians Believe. And Pass Along.]) This is a conspiracy theory that certain old manuscripts of the New Testament (principally the codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus) contain a rewritten gospel. And that therefore, non-KJV Bibles are perversions,... Continue Reading →
This week, our special guest is cross-cultural worker Fernando Retana. He is also a student of mine. Thank you, Fernando! If the article seems technical, it is because this is the level of graduate study at Seminario ESEPA: we do our own research on the Greek text and the manuscripts that underlie it. Fernando addresses... Continue Reading →
Open Our Eyes, Lord! 