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Literal Lenses Book 1 was updated in June 2022. (Literal Lenses Books 3 and 4 are planned.)

Book 1 uses key Bible verses with other passages for insights into Jonah (Jonah 4:2), Job (Job 3:25,26), God’s guidance (Ephesians 1:11), and more.

Book 1: Chapter 12: Immutability of Created Kinds vs Biological Evolution and two Appendices do not invoke a deity or design to show that the Literal Bible speaks truth - eight times in Genesis 1, even when speaking contrary to accepted science.
It is safe, and it is best to believe and trust the Bible.

In the Bible, plant and animal kinds have reproductive boundaries. Book 1 expands upon this to show that bounded changes (adaptations) are scientific, while unbounded changes are not scientific; they have no evidence.

Charles Darwin wrongly assumed an unlimited range of adaptations … today’s evolution should know better, but it continues that error. We now know that Genetics limits adaptations to the DNA in the gene pool of reproductively compatible animals. Darwin’s assumption has always been wrong … evolution has always been impossible.

Any unbounded evolution idea is anti-scientific.

TRUE: The bounded changes described by science, the Bible, and the evidence.
NOT TRUE: The unbounded changes described in evolution.

The most significant subject in Book 1 is the Gospel of Christ crucified: God solved two distinct sin problems with two distinct solutions. (This is summarized under the Vocabulary Menu.)

Book 2: God and Evil and Responsibility (Updated July 2025)

The Good God created all things very good …
God created humanity with the free ability to choose from options, but Adam had no bad options until the Good God declared a bad option and its consequence: “eat from that tree and you will die”.

It is a big deal. Evil existed in the perfect garden and did not corrupt it,
yet all have defined evil only as it has been seen since Adam’s sin.
Therefore, definitions of evil have been limited, and evil’s origin has been unknown.
The result is that we have many unanswerable questions about evil?

Book 2: Part 1 describes God’s revelation of the why and the what of evil.
Believing this, understanding evil is not hard.

This short PDF document has some details about this.

Knowing the responsibility for evil/tragedy in our world, requires knowing:
#1: the Pre-Fall definition of evil, and
#2: the earthly authority structure God established, again Pre-Fall. This structure is described in the eight chapters of Book 2: Part 2
It requires seeing God’s Providential activity in the light of His Day 6 words to humanity, instead of seeing God’s Day 6 words in the light of our understanding of Providence.

God never changed His Day 6 words; He confirmed and even expanded them in passages like Psalm 8 and Hebrews 2.

All who “lean to their own understanding,” stay in error, and do not “trust God”. Proverbs 3:5


Book 2: Part 3 suggests how we can (and should) deal with evil; we take responsibility, and reduce both the amount and the influence of evil in our world.

“Keep”: It Always means Keep

From the Back Page:
It is surprisingly necessary for us, as Bible-believers, to realize that Keep Always Means Keep. We have understood “keep” to mean “obey” in over 250 Bible verses.

“I don’t know how we have missed this … ”, said a retired missionary to Central America. He also told me, “The message of this book is a paradigm shift that is needed. Its many chapters demonstrate keep to be essential throughout the entire Bible.”

Yet realizing this obvious fact is surprisingly difficult. What does the subtitle mean: “Keep God’s commandments, like a bank keeps your money”? We know that a bank does not “obey” our money, but we might still think that keeping God’s commandments means obeying them.

This book promotes the fact that “keep always means keep”. Seeing this requires a shift in perspective, but it can be a thrilling realization to see “keep” as an important and valuable Bible word.

A retired missionary to Africa, exclaimed: “I got it!” He had paused his reading of this book to examine Psalm 119 carefully, looking up its verbs. “I got it when I re-read verses 2 and 3 of Psalm 119.” Most of us will need to “get it” in our own unique, God-directed way.

The obvious fact in the title hides the difficulty in seeing that Keep makes sense as Keep every time it is used in the Bible. While doing God’s commandments remains important, we have not been aware that keeping them is a different Biblical task.

This book considers passages from Genesis to Revelation to show that Keep means Keep - always. To think that it ever means “obey” is a wrong thought, and a wrong read of this crucial word. Seeing that Keep means Keep, opens up fresh Biblical understandings to ponder as God’s Holy Spirit teaches and guides.

King David: You Are The Man!

This book, first published in 2011, narrates the Bible’s story of King David.

The early parts of the life of King David are narrated from events recorded in I and II Samuel.

I Chronicles is the source for most of this book because many events and details about King David are found only I Chronicles. The last five chapters of this book on the later events of David’s life are almost exclusively from I Chronicles.

This book also refers to many passages throughout the Bible which are identified in a large reference table.
Other sections in the back are an Epilogue, Scriptural Background, About writing and righting the book, and a detailed Index.