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Tired, Too
We have a trio of items for this week’s Bible lesson. First, review Genesis 3:21 where God clothed Adam and Eve with skins. These days, everyone assumes this is an obscure reference to shedding blood as forerunner to the sacrificial … Continue reading
Heiser and Leviticus 15
Re: Naked Bible 75: Leviticus 12-15 Last year I was wading through Heiser’s series on Leviticus. I didn’t cover much of it here, but picked out items of special interest. However, since that time, something he said in this particular … Continue reading
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Tagged fleshly nature, Law of Moses, Leviticus, Michael S. Heiser, mortality, otherworldly, ritual observances
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Salvation and Election
(This continues the previous post.) Creation is obliged to glorify the Lord. It does that automatically. What differentiates humans from the rest of the natural world is the moral responsibility of doing it by choice. ontology — The branch of … Continue reading
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Tagged covenant, divine election, Garden of Eden, human capabilities, mortality, ontology, parable of simulation, Unseen Realm
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Cain’s Wife and Election
People keep asking: Where did Cain’s wife come from? The answer is not direct. We have to go back to were Cain stood, in the sense of what Scripture tells us. We must restore to our minds the biblical outlook … Continue reading
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Tagged Biblical Studies, Dale Moreau, divine election, eternal nature, Garden of Eden, Hebrew epistemology, Hebrew Mysticism, human awareness, Michael S. Heiser, mortality
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The Ascent of Abraham
Re: Naked Bible 164: Paul’s Ascent and Angelic Torment with David Burnett In 2 Corinthians 11-12, Paul mocks the boasting of those who call themselves “apostles”. Among other things, he said that he was a Hebrew (ethnic identity), an Israelite … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham, Apostle Paul, Heaven, mortality, prophecy, Second Temple, the Cross
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It Just Is
My understanding of the Hebrew language is not that of a translator. It wasn’t my calling from God to take that path. Instead, I was led to understand Hebrew as the expression of how Hebrew minds operated. I studied the … Continue reading
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Tagged experience of death, Hebrew epistemology, Hebrew language, Matthieu Pageau, mortality
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Hidden Church History
Here’s a little church history you won’t learn from any books or courses. John was the last of the original Twelve Apostles. We believe he wrote his Revelation while in his 90s, right at the end of the First Century … Continue reading
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Tagged Covenant of Christ, Divine Council Worldview, fleshly nature, Garden of Eden, Judaizers, Kingdom of Darkness, kingdom of heaven, mortality, Nephilim, Satan, the Devil, the Fall, Tower of Babel, Unseen Realm, Watchers
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We Reject Calvinism
But we are predestinarians. I need to go back to fundamentals to explain the difference, because I’ve been asked about this again. If we don’t embrace the Hebrew assumptions about reality, we cannot understand the Bible. Most theologians and preachers … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient hebrew culture, Calvinism, Covenant of Christ, covenants, epistemology, false guilt, fleshly nature, Gentiles, Hellenism, mortality, predestination, religion, sin, the Covenant of Moses, the Cross, TULIP
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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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Tagged covenant identity, Covenant of Christ, divine election, ethnic identity, Hellenism, mortality, old testament, spiritual redemption, the Cross, theology
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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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Tagged elohim, eternal nature, idolatry, Michael S. Heiser, mortality, NT, OT, resurrection, symbolic references, Unseen Realm
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