Savannah, GA – September 1, 2026 – William Tyndale wanted every person in England to be able to read the Bible for themselves. It cost him his life.
The Roman Catholic Pope issued an order that anyone caught with an English version of scripture would be burned at the stake alongside it. Tyndale was eventually captured, strangled, and his body set on fire. His crime was translation. His conviction was that ordinary people deserved direct access to the Word of God without a priest standing between them and the page.
That history is not a footnote. It is the foundation of everything most modern Christians take for granted every time they open a Bible. And it raises a question most of them have never been asked. If the road to get scripture into their hands was that violent, that political, and that shaped by the agendas of emperors and institutions, what exactly survived the journey? And what got lost along the way?
That is where Rev. Dennis Chip McCullough begins.
Take the word inspiration in 2 Timothy 3:16. In modern English it carries a soft, almost casual meaning. Something that moves you. Something that influences. But the original Greek word is Theopneustos. It means God-breathed. Not nudged. Not guided. Breathed. The way God breathed life into Adam in Genesis 2:7. That is not a poetic distinction. It is the entire argument about what scripture is, where its authority comes from, and why it holds up under scrutiny when so much of what was built around it does not.
Or consider context. The word hell appears throughout the English Bible with a consistency that makes it feel like a single, settled concept. But behind that one English word sit several completely different original terms. The Hebrew sheol. The Greek hades. Neither describes a place of eternal fire. Both simply mean the place of the dead. The burning hell most Christians grew up fearing did not come from scripture. It came from Dante. From medieval theology. From centuries of imagery so vivid and so repeated that it eventually stopped needing a biblical reference to survive.
McCullough follows these threads one by one, always back to the original language, always back to the cultural world the writers inhabited, always back to what the text actually says when you read it without the centuries of interpretation stacked on top of it. The Lucifer of Isaiah 14, never an angel’s name but a Latin word aimed at the king of Babylon. The pre-tribulation rapture, invented in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby. The Magi, never at the manger.
These are not small claims. McCullough knows it. He has watched family walk away mid-conversation and sat in seminary classrooms where professors could not produce a Bible reference for what they were teaching. He has followed the evidence into uncomfortable places and stayed there long enough to be sure.
But there is no bitterness in this book. What drives it is something harder to dismiss. A genuine love for scripture and a conviction that the people who have given their lives to it deserve to read it on its own terms.
About the Author
Rev. Dennis Chip McCullough was born on April 14, 1945, in Greenville, South Carolina, into a working-class family in the cotton-mill villages of the upstate. His father fixed looms at Poe Mill. His mother worked the weave room before training as a licensed practical nurse. Church was woven into everything, not so much a choice as something you inherited along with the red clay and the Sunday clothes.
McCullough’s road to ministry was anything but straight. He served as a military instructor, raised a family, and carried questions about scripture that most people around him would not sit with. That restlessness led him through seminary, Bible colleges, and years of independent study in biblical Hebrew, Greek, and the customs of the ancient world. He pursued a Doctor of Ministry degree not for the title but because he needed to know, on his own terms, whether the Bible was true and whether he had ever understood it.
He has preached in churches across the South and Midwest, from small congregations near Metter, Georgia, to a pulpit in Joplin, Missouri. He belongs to no single denomination and makes no claim to the final word. What he does claim is a willingness to follow the text wherever it leads, even when it leads away from everything he was raised to believe.
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In Search of Biblical Truth is his first book.
For anyone who has ever loved the Bible enough to ask it hard questions, this book is the conversation you have been waiting to have.. In Search of Biblical Truth is available now in e-book, paperback, and hardcover.
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