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Literal Lenses Book 1 was updated in March 2026. (Literal Lenses Books 3 and 4 are planned.)

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

Chapter 12 compares Immutability of Created Kinds vs Biological Evolution and two Appendices.
Through Literal Lenses, Genesis 1 speaks contrary to accepted science eight times without invoking a deity or design. Plant and animal kinds have reproductive boundaries, for instance.
Bounded changes (bounded adaptations) are scientific, but
Unbounded changes are not scientific; they have no evidence.

Charles Darwin wrongly assumed an unlimited range of adaptations …
Any unbounded change idea is anti-scientific.

TRUE: The bounded changes described by science, the Literal Bible, and the evidence.
NOT TRUE: The unbounded changes believed by most.

The Bible’s Gospel, linked above, is the most significant subject in Literal Lenses Book 1.

Literal Lenses Book 2: God and Evil and Responsibility (Updated January 2026)

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”.

That Evil existed in the perfect garden and did not corrupt it. We have had unanswerable questions about evil because we have not known either the origin of evil or its definition.

Literal Lenses Book 2: Part 1 describes God’s revelation of the why and the what of evil.

To answer: "Who is responsible to stop evil from hitting the earth?"
see Literal Lenses Book 2: Part 2

In Literal Lenses Book 2: Part 3 we learn how to deal with and reduce the amount and influence of evil in our world, and we learn of a place safe from evil.

If we “lean to their own understanding,” we will be lost quickly because God's revelation is beyond our understanding.
We need Literal Lenses.

“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.