Elysia McColley

Was the Bible Corrupted? Abrogation Part 1

By Elysia McColley One criticism of the Bible is that it is corrupted, meaning that the document we have today is not the same as the document that existed 2000 years ago. There are many different ways to approach the topic of Biblical corruption, and I will address some of them through a series of blog posts. I want to begin by pointing to some truths that we need to be aware of as we approach the question of whether or not the Bible was corrupted. If God is omnipotent, … Read More »

Meet Our Next Contributor Elysia McColley

By Elysia McColley – PhD student in Christian-Muslim Relations at the University of Edinburgh. The gospel is universal, but the ways that we understand it are usually quite particular to our own cultures and the challenges that we face in our own lives. This lesson was one of the first that I learned when I moved to the Middle East and realized that my own worldview, which was heavily shaped by Western culture, was, in many ways, not enough to understand the culture in which I now lived. When I … Read More »