What we believe about God has an impact on how we live. It will shape how we raise our children, treat our spouses, deal with strangers, engage with coworkers, and carry out our ministry to the Lord and others. Therefore, this study is extremely significant. We believe that after completing this study, you will love God and your Bible even more, and that while you will continue to fear (reverence/worship) God, you will no longer be afraid of Him because you will realize that He is a loving God who is exactly like Jesus. And you will yearn to be just like Him

Originally an appendix in his Analytical Concordance, Dr. Young's "Hints and Helps" was in great demand because of his insights into what has been called the Hebrew “permissive sense” of Scripture. We now provide it as a standalone book. We also include additional explanations of Dr. Young’s and his contemporaries’ views on the “permissive sense” that were not contained in his “Hints and Helps” appendix.

Using the Bible itself, as well as insights from scholars from various theological backgrounds, this book will show how one can interpret texts that depict God as a destroyer and demonstrate that God does not literally engage in destructive action. Our life will be impacted by what we believe about God. This work is therefore of utmost significance. After finishing this study, we think you’ll love God and your Bible even more.

Some argue that the Bible teaches that God is hateful, jealous, anrgy, vindictive, easily provoked, a tempter, and a punisher of descendants for the sinful behavior of their ancestors. Sadly, some have reached these incorrect conclusions because they were unable to appreciate the figurative and idiomatic language of Scripture. This book, “Understanding Hebrew Idiomatic & Figurative Language,” teaches us how portrayals of God, when examined from the perspective of the Ancient Near Eastern culture from which Scripture was written, give us a truly stunning image of the God who is exactly like Jesus.

One does not have to read too far into the Bible to find that it says that God hardens hearts, puts lying spirits in the mouth of false prophets, blinds, people to the truth, inflicts sickness, creates evil, and more perplexing things. Failure to understand these statements have led to doctrines that paint God in less than a favorable light. However, when we understand the permissive sense, these difficulties will disappear. This book will help you understand this important principle and will remove all doubt about God’s love, goodness, and holiness.

Many approach the book of Job with a number of presuppositions such as God desiring to test Job's faithfulness, controlling the actions of the devil, and that God just might make you the next Job. These presuppositions demonstrate a failure to study the book of Job in the light of the full revelation of Father God found in Jesus Christ. Hence, Job is misused to present God as a capricious deity. In this book we will learn how a proper study of Job shows us that Satan's plan was to discredit both God and Job. We will learn that God did not instigate Job's trials, but showed the patriarch compassion by delivering him from the designs of Satan against him.

God has been taking the blame for sickness and disease for centuries. This book will look at some difficult Bible passages in light of the permissive idiom of the ancient Hebrew language, in which God is often said to do the things that He merely allowed or permitted to happen. Those passages in both the Old and New Testaments that make God appear to be a cold and cruel dispenser of sickness and disease will be seen in a new light.

God has been misrepresented by both His "followers" and His enemies. Most of the misrepresentation centers around the Biblical phrase, "the wrath of God". This misrepresentation is due to the failure of both "defenders" and "detractors" of God to thoroughly study Scripture’s teaching on this subject. In this book we show the reader that as we allow Scripture to interpret itself we will find that God’s wrath does not equate to the angry destructive being that He is often portrayed to be nor does His wrath eliminate His love. The reader will learn that Scripture presents a consistent picture of a loving God trying to save mankind from the destructive power of our own sins.

God needed a nation on the earth that He could work through in order to bring about man’s redemption. However, His chosen people, Israel, were strongly influenced by pagan thinking. Therefore, God had to accommodate their pagan thinking and regulate it to minimize its harmful effects. The principle of accommodation is a Bible interpretation principle that helps us to understand why certain things in Scripture were commanded or permitted, things that God did not endorse but only tolerated for a period of time.

God knows all things and there is nothing that is hidden from Him. Therefore, if the future is already in existence and is a settled reality then there is no doubt that God knows it exhaustively. Yet, what if the future does not exist as the past did and the present currently does? Is it necessary for an omniscient God to have exhaustive knowledge of a non-existent entity?
In his book, "Is the Future Set in Stone," Pastor Troy J. Edwards presents a thorough examination of the Scriptures, revealing the fact that the future is NOT in existence until it happens. This truth is important to understanding why God is by no means responsible for the fall of devils, men and the the horrendous evil on the earth. You will also see how God works with His free-will creatures to shape the future and bring it about.

Some question God's goodness and benevolence due to the flood that came during Noah's time. In these lessons, we will learn the following: * God did everything to save mankind during the flood but they rejected Him.
* God actually protected men from the flooding waters until man asked God to depart from them.
* The flood did not come as a result of God's omnipotent power. It was His omnipotent power that kept the flood from coming.
* The flood was the result of sin and men actually brought destruction upon themselves.
* In Scripture, God is often said to do the thing He only permitted. We will learn how this truth applies to the flood.

Many of our theologians have told us that God is the responsible agent for all of the natural evil that we suffer. These theologians and philosophers are not without their “Biblical” proof-texts. This book will show us that by understanding how the “permissive idiom” of the Ancient Eastern and Hebrew cultures was used to describe God’s actions, we can get a fresh perspective of God’s place in many of the natural disasters in Scripture that were attributed to Him. We will then see a loving God who is not destructive but actually does all that He can to save men from destruction without violating their freedom.

There are numerous places in Scripture where God says that He will “send” or is said to have “sent” a disaster, a plague, pestilence, delusion, an evil spirit, a cruel and ruthless enemy army, ferocious man-eating wild animals, and other harsh judgments. However, an often neglected principle of Bible interpretation is found in the statement that "God is said to 'send' or to 'have sent' that which He merely did not prevent or hinder." When we understand this truth then we get a better picture of the God who is exactly like Jesus Christ.

A common phrase used by many Christians, particularly when there is some tragic event, is that “God is in control”. This teaching, in its "Calvinistic" form, casts aspersions on God’s character. Throughout these pages we will look at a number of arguments and Scriptures used by proponents of this teaching and show the reader that it does not line up with the Bible’s teaching about God. The reader will also learn that this teaching is a tool of Satan to keep Christians passive so that they will not stand against him in the authority of Christ’s victory over him.

Satan is a slanderer who has deceived men into falsely blaming God for his own works. Sadly, the majority of Christians have bought into his deceptions and denigrate God’s character in their sermons and Bible studies. In this study we will examine several areas in which God is always getting the blame, even from His own children, and show the reader that Scripture actually points to Satan as the culprit. Once we have learned this truth then we will learn how to walk in victory over all satanic circumstances.

In this book, How? We will look at a number of God’s acts recorded in the Bible, those acts that upon a superficial reading of Scripture, paint Him as malicious, harsh, hypocritical and in some cases, worse than the humans whose sin He punishes. Hopefully when you see the explanations that the Word of God itself offers you will see the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ in a new light.

In this book we want to prove to the reader that the Bible offers a satisfactory answer to the “why” questions many have in relation to an omnipotent but good God in contrast to the rampant heart-breaking evil we see in our world. We believe that the answers we provide in this book are enough to vindicate God’s goodness and justice in the light of evil. We also believe that this book will help you to see a picture of a loving God who never planned any of this evil and pain.

There are sincere worshippers of Christ who love Him dearly but are quite ignorant of how to deal with difficult passages in the Bible that might be used by God’s enemies to paint a false picture of Him. Many remain confused as to how to deal with passages that seem to go against what they know by their experience is a loving God. I believe that these daily devotions can assist believers in this endeavor.