This high-impact series of short Bible studies focuses on frequently misunderstood canonical texts and a range of Biblical conundrums. The answers are brilliantly simple, says the author, if we stick to the clarity of broad contexts and inviolable Scriptural principles when tackling the puzzles in any specific text. The Holy Spirit, for example, was obviously alive and well and working in believers' salvation long before Pentecost. So individual verses that seem to suggest something different must be reinterpreted against that clear backdrop. This approach is what the author calls "spiritual common sense." It may mean thinking our way out of centuries of muddled hermeneutics. Cutting across translators' interpretations may often be the important first step. This is a book for the Bible student who is not afraid to talk about the elephant in the room - or the emperor's not-so-new clothes Be prepared for some eye-openers.