Ask Norm! SVM Summer 2013

Ask Norm! By Norman S. Edwards Ask Norm! SVM – Summer 2013 Dear Norm, Hi how are you? I had a question about the biblical calendar which I am hoping you can help me out with. My question is as follows: Let’s say I have a start date in the Gregorian calendar. I...

Ask Norm Winter 2012-3

Ask Norm! By Norman S. Edwards From SVM – Winter 2012 Ananias and Sapphira Struck Dead for Lying: Is the Story Fake? My senses tell me that the real inventors of the Bible, sought to instill FEAR of religious and secular rulers in the minds of human beings. For...

Ask Norm Winter 2012-2

Ask Norm! By Norman S. Edwards From SVM – Winter 2012 Is God “Barbaric” in the Old Testament? I am a believer in Jesus Christ and based upon the four Gospels, His primary teaching is about LOVE, COMPASSION, MERCY, EMPATHY and HUMILITY. That makes sense to my...

Ask Norm – SVM Winter 2012-1

Ask Norm! By Norman S. Edwards From SVM – Winter 2012 Can We Trust the Bible When It Claims to Speak for God? Even what is called “the Bible” is INK on PAPER, and because writers of past ages made such claims as “thus saith the Lord” or “all scripture is given...

Ask Norm – SVM Spring 2012

Ask Norm! By Norman S. Edwards From SVM – Spring 2012 Dear Norm, (February 11, 2012) [Please send me Shepherd’s Voice Magazine.] I was born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland. Joined the British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps, and took a nursing degree. I stayed in...

Ask Norm – SVM Fall 2011

Ask Norm! By Norman S. Edwards From SVM – Fall 2011 Dear Norm, I have a couple of questions for your consideration that were never properly addressed by [my church] that I know of. How is it that the world will have gone through uprisings (Matt 24:7), martyrdoms...