Books by Robert Simms

The New Testament says the Apostle Paul wrote a letter to the Church at Laodicea. Apart from some fakes produced later in history, we have no idea what happened to to this letter. What if it simply never got to the church, because somebody didn't want it to be read? From a messenger leaving Rome, to a devious church leader, to musty libraries in cities from Asia to Europe, to the hands of frightened churchmen in England and the States, follow the passage of the letter from obscurity to publication 2,000 years later. Is it the real deal?

Modern English language has been shaped by English Bibles more than most people realize. Many people not reared in a religious setting are not aware of how many of the expressions they probably use regularly came from the first English Bibles, notably the King James Version, which continues to influence the language powerfully, through both the concepts of Judaism and Christianity and the phrases the English translators of the ancient texts used to render the Hebrew and Greek. "It Comes from the Bible" lists many of these expressions and shows how modern English speakers, whether they know it or not, are repeating the words of the inspired authors of the Bible.