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Scripture is the starting point
We begin with the biblical passage itself. Commentaries, traditions, language resources, and other references may help with investigation, but the biblical text remains the starting point of the study.
Editorial Policy
How Bible Answers Daily Explains Difficult Teachings of Jesus
Bible Answers Daily examines difficult sayings, commands, parables, actions, and Gospel passages involving Jesus through Scripture, context, literary form, parallel accounts, and careful interpretation.
Difficult teachings of Jesus deserve more than a quick explanation. They deserve careful reading. Bible Answers Daily exists to help readers examine challenging Gospel passages in their biblical context, understand the reasoning behind an interpretation, and recognize where important questions or disagreements remain.
Our central editorial principle:
an explanation should lead readers back to Scripture rather than
asking them to trust the website simply because the explanation
sounds confident.
Our purpose
A focused approach to difficult teachings of Jesus
Bible Answers Daily is intentionally focused on a specific area of Bible study rather than attempting to cover every Christian subject.
Our central area of study is the difficult and sometimes misunderstood teaching of Jesus recorded in the Gospels. This includes hard sayings, difficult parables, challenging commands, unusual actions and miracles, and Gospel passages that raise serious questions for careful readers.
The central question behind this work is: What did Jesus mean?
An article should therefore do more than provide a conclusion. It should identify the relevant biblical evidence and explain the reasoning used to understand the passage.
When a passage allows more than one serious interpretation, that disagreement should be acknowledged rather than hidden. Readers should be able to distinguish the biblical text from conclusions drawn from the text.
Editorial foundation
What guides every explanation
These principles provide the foundation for studies published by Bible Answers Daily.
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Context affects meaning
A statement should not normally be separated from the verses, conversation, narrative, audience, and circumstances surrounding it.
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Interpretation should be identifiable
Readers should be able to distinguish what the passage explicitly states from an interpretation of what those statements mean.
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Uncertainty should not be hidden
Some questions involve translation, historical context, literary interpretation, or theological disagreement. Where uncertainty matters, it should be acknowledged.
Study method
How we examine a difficult teaching
The exact process depends on the passage, but these questions provide a consistent framework for investigation.
Start with the biblical text
We identify the relevant Gospel passage and examine the actual biblical wording rather than relying only on a quotation, headline, popular explanation, or social-media summary.
Read the surrounding context
We examine what comes before and after the difficult statement. The surrounding passage may reveal its subject, purpose, contrast, warning, question, or response.
Identify the audience and setting
We ask who Jesus was addressing or interacting with and what circumstances are visible in the passage.
Consider literary form
Parables, commands, warnings, questions, metaphors, hyperbole, narratives, and prophetic statements should be considered according to how they function in the passage.
Compare the Gospel accounts
Where parallel accounts exist, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John may be compared where relevant. Differences in wording or detail can contribute to a fuller study.
Examine important wording
When a particular word or phrase is central to the question, relevant language and translation issues may be considered. A dictionary definition by itself is not treated as proof of meaning.
Separate text from interpretation
We distinguish what the passage explicitly states from conclusions drawn from it, especially where responsible interpreters reach different conclusions.
State the conclusion carefully
We explain the conclusion supported by the evidence discussed while making clear when meaningful alternative interpretations remain possible.
Editorial principles
What readers should expect
These standards guide the way difficult teachings of Jesus are presented on Bible Answers Daily.
Scripture First
The biblical text is the starting point and primary subject of every study.
Context Matters
We avoid building conclusions from isolated verses when surrounding context is relevant.
Honest Interpretation
We aim to distinguish observation, interpretation, and application rather than blending them together.
Fair Representation
Significant alternative interpretations should not be ignored simply because they make an explanation more complicated.
No Manufactured Certainty
Confident writing should not be used to disguise uncertainty in the evidence.
Readers Should Check Scripture
Readers are encouraged to open the cited passages and examine the evidence for themselves.
Clarity
Text, interpretation, and application are different
Keeping these categories separate helps readers understand exactly what an article is claiming.
The text
What does the passage say?
This concerns the words, statements, actions, and details contained in the biblical passage itself.
Interpretation
What does the passage mean?
This concerns the reasoning used to understand the meaning of the passage in its literary, historical, and biblical context.
Application
How may the teaching be applied?
This concerns how a biblical teaching may be applied today. Application should not automatically be presented as the original meaning of the passage.
Editorial standards
What we do — and what we avoid
Responsible Bible study includes knowing what should and should not be claimed.
We aim to
- Read difficult Gospel passages in their surrounding context.
- Use relevant cross-references and Gospel parallels.
- Explain important interpretive possibilities clearly.
- Distinguish biblical observation from interpretation.
- Identify meaningful areas of disagreement.
- Use clear language that readers can understand.
- Correct significant errors when they are identified.
- Encourage readers to examine Scripture themselves.
We avoid
- Sensational claims designed mainly to attract clicks.
- Presenting speculation as established biblical fact.
- Manufacturing certainty where the evidence is unclear.
- Calling every difficult Gospel passage a contradiction.
- Using popularity or personality as a substitute for evidence.
- Inventing quotations, sources, statistics, or historical claims.
- Hiding significant interpretive disagreement from readers.
- Claiming authority over Scripture.
Sources and references
Where our explanations come from
Biblical claims should be traceable to Scripture and, where necessary, supported by appropriate reference material.
Bible Answers Daily primarily works from the biblical text and relevant cross-references. Depending on the question, an article may also consult Bible translations, language resources, historical background material, commentaries, academic works, and other reputable reference sources.
Additional sources may help explain historical setting, cultural background, language, literary context, textual questions, or particular interpretations. Their use does not mean that every conclusion drawn from them is beyond debate.
Authorship
Who is responsible for Bible Answers Daily?
Clear authorship helps readers understand who is responsible for the material they are reading.
Pastor Johnson A. Baso
Pastor Johnson A. Baso is the founder and primary human author behind Bible Answers Daily. He serves in pastoral ministry within The Apostolic Church Nigeria, LAWNA Territory, and has academic backgrounds in theology, computer science, and electrical and electronics engineering.
His editorial responsibility includes developing the site's Bible-study direction, reviewing published explanations, and maintaining its focus on careful study of difficult teachings of Jesus.
Read the full author and ministry background →Technology and review
Use of AI and digital tools
Technology may assist the editorial process, but it does not replace human responsibility for published content.
Human review remains essential
Digital and AI-assisted tools may be used for tasks such as brainstorming, organizing research, improving wording, identifying related passages, or assisting with drafts.
AI-generated information is not treated as an independent authority. AI systems can produce inaccurate references, unsupported claims, misleading explanations, or other errors. Important biblical references, quotations, factual claims, interpretations, and contextual statements should therefore be reviewed before publication.
Final responsibility for material published by Bible Answers Daily rests with its human author and editorial process.
Corrections and updates
Published content may be corrected
Accuracy is an ongoing responsibility.
If an article contains a factual error, incorrect biblical reference, misleading statement, broken citation, or other significant problem, Bible Answers Daily may correct or update the material.
Updates may also be made when additional context, better reference material, clearer explanation, or important information materially improves an article.
Where an update substantially changes the substance of an article, the page may display an updated date so readers can recognize that the material has been reviewed.
Readers who identify a specific factual, citation, or interpretive concern are encouraged to contact Bible Answers Daily and identify the relevant passage or claim.
Reader responsibility
What this policy means for readers
A Bible-study resource should explain both its approach and its limitations.
Bible Answers Daily does not claim that every difficult biblical question has one explanation accepted by all Christians.
Some questions are relatively clear from the text. Others involve interpretation, historical background, translation questions, literary considerations, theological traditions, or passages where responsible readers reach different conclusions.
Our responsibility is to present the relevant biblical evidence carefully, explain the reasoning behind an interpretation, identify meaningful alternatives where they exist, and avoid pretending that uncertainty has disappeared.
- Read the cited biblical passages for yourself.
- Consider the surrounding context rather than an isolated verse.
- Distinguish the biblical text from an author's interpretation.
- Consider significant alternative interpretations where relevant.
- Use the material as a Bible-study resource rather than as a replacement for personal study, prayer, or a local church relationship.
The purpose of Bible Answers Daily is to help readers study difficult teachings of Jesus more carefully, not to make readers dependent upon the website.
Our standard
Examine the Scriptures
Bible Answers Daily encourages readers to test explanations against the biblical text.
“These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they
received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the
scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”
Acts 17:11, KJV
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