Other Gene Edwards Web Sites
Geen Edwards publishing listing
How Paul Trained Men - by Gene Edwards
Gene Edwards On the Word of God
The New Testament is the pillar of our faith and the stabilizing force in all we do and practice – it is therefore indispensable that we learn what is telling us in a forward-flowing saga, rather than a patch quilt of randomly sewn together verses and phrases.
-Gene Edwards
Gene Edwards began studying Latin at 16, Greek at age 19, and the Hebrew language at the age of 20. He was studying archaeology in Rome at age 19, and studied in the Holy Lands at the same age. He is a member of two of the world’s most prestigious archaeological societies.
At the age of 28, he served as the board of translators of the New American Standard Bible.
In Gene Edward’s home, there contains a scriptorium, (a room set aside for nothing but the exegetical study of the Bible Scriptures) He has exegeted numerous New Testament passages in a half dozen versions. He is one of the few students who pay close attention to word cases in the Greek language (Generative, and Dative, and Accusative cases).
Gene Edwards has in his collection of Bible manuscripts and facsimiles the Sinai Manuscript codex, (circa 350 A.D.), the Vatican codex, (circa 350 A.D.), and the Alexandrian codex, (circa 480 A.D.). Additionally, he possesses facsimile text of the Wycliffe Bible, Gutenberg, Tyndale (1535), Coverdale, Thomas Matthew, The Great Bible, Geneva Bishops, King James First Edition 1611, along with every known historical manuscript of the Bible translated into the English language.
(His favorite two translations are in fact very dissimilar translations. The NASB and the New Living Translation are his two preferred translations. He also favors several selections of hand written Hebrew translations dating to over 400 years old.
However, what makes Gene Edwards’ relationship to Scripture unique is this: He has been reading the New Testament chronologically and historically for over 50 years(since he was 20 years old). Few have ever read the New Testament chronologically. No one has ever become a scholar in chronology – possessing a mastery of New Testament and historical chronology of Century One.
He has made his conviction clear “We will never understand the New Testament – not remotely – until we know it in chronological order, in its total context, its historical setting, knowledge of the surrounding events of every letter, and the events which proceeded it.
Our current Christendom has been invented out of verses for 1800 years, not context, nor chronology. When one places the New Testament in its forward flowing context you discover the err practice of today’s Christianity, built on and justified by verses. This is at odds with the historical practice of our faith discovered through chronological and contextual exegesis of the Scriptures. Studying the Scriptures in this manner will yield two different views on the practices of our faith.
Gene Edwards’ weekend conferences on Revolutionary Bible Study, and his two related books, Unleashing the Word of God and Revolutionary Bible Study has opened up a new world of clarity in understanding of the New Testament.
The New Testament is the pillar of our faith and the stabilizing force in all we do and practice – it is therefore indispensable that we learn what it is telling us in a forward-flowing saga, rather than a patch quilt of randomly sewn together verses and phrases.
Do we really want to know what the New Testament is saying? If so, learn its story and legacy, unbroken from the year 27 A.D. on through the end of Century One. On the day that a million Christians read the New Testament chronologically and within its historical setting, is the day the practice of our faith will undergo its greatest revolution in 1900 years of church history.
To conclude, may every student in every bible school and seminary, and every Bible teacher, rise to meet the calling. The result will be the greatest revival the Christian Faith has ever known.
