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Getting Words Right

Re: Naked Bible 131: Conference Interviews Part 4 Let’s talk about terminology. This is no different than anything we’ve said before; it’s just another person expressing the same thing when Heiser interviewed NT Wright. The Kingdom of God is what … Continue reading

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Symbols and Icons

Re: Naked Bible 130: Conference Interviews Part 3 Heiser interviews David Burnett regarding his paper, “Death, Resurrection, and Transformation in Scripture in 1 Corinthians 15”. This has to do mostly with how the Septuagint and New Testament documents interplay via … Continue reading

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The One Thing They Don’t Have

It has been tough for me; I have no doubt it’s tough for a lot of others. Perhaps the hardest thing for a believer from a western background is to embrace the primacy of peace with God over everything else … Continue reading

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Creatures of Eternity

Our God has revealed Himself in the context of this fallen world. He has gone out of His way at great personal expense to reach out to us and not only show the truth, but to empower that truth to … Continue reading

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Western Punitive Vindictiveness

Every day I talk to people who struggle with false guilt. This is the weapon Satan uses to keep us from seizing our divine heritage. Let me remind you that a part of our western heritage is the odd mixture … Continue reading

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The Mythology of Evil

One of the biggest problems we face in promoting an ancient Hebrew outlook is the cluttered field of lies contained in western mythology. All the way back to Beowulf we have a string of powerful evil men who, using some … Continue reading

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It’s Not Ours

Consider the logic: Human nature is loaded with desires on multiple levels. Even in the fabric of petty individual desires there are threads of something much bigger, of a discernible human imperative. The instinct for self-preservation is just the face … Continue reading

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Great Privilege and Expectation

The Word of God is Jesus Christ. In-depth studies of Hebrew lore that stood prior to His birth shows that the Hebrew scholars believed that God’s Word in the Unseen Realm was always a manifestation of His will, an entity … Continue reading

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So Far…

It’s time for a pragmatic reassessment of this ministry. Not so much what we have done, but what can we expect realistically for the future? My convictions tell me that we are in the early stages of global chaos. It’s … Continue reading

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NT Doctrine — 2 Corinthians 6

In the church at Corinth, those who complained Paul didn’t come to visit when promised likely included some who didn’t really want to see him. They just wanted to complain about him. That the church had finally done the right … Continue reading

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