(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) In this post, I’ll answer the question from the end of our last post: What did ancient Israelites think about death? Before getting started, I should repeat a qualification I made a few posts back. I’m generally referring to “what ancient Israelites believed” on these subjects, but please keep in mind […]
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Cognitive Kidneys (Israelite Anthropology)
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) Have you ever had a hard time wrapping your brain around a new idea? You just keep racking your brain, but get nowhere! Then someone comes along with a completely different background and a different education, and to them, it’s a no-brainer. You can see that they understand it so much […]
Israel’s Despiritualizing Philosophy
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) In the previous post, we went through a number of ancient Israelite texts that present a materialistic view of human nature. Unlike the popular idea that humans have a dual nature (physical and non-physical), these texts portray humans as made of only one substance – dirt. Humans, like the other animals, […]
Dirt You Are (Israelite Anthropology)
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) It’s time to disclose that popular theology goes hand in sand with Israelite anthropology; it throws the ole soul into sheol. The new one they say is ethereal. Can’t hear it; it’s an immaterial spirit. Everywhere is nowhere near it. But Hebrews saw a body of dirt Though once inert, a […]
The Denial of Time
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) This post continues where we left off in the last post with material from Are You Minding What Matters? Lesson Three: Our Moral Possibility (though there’s a section at the end not found in Are You Minding What Matters?). The question at hand is whether it is possible to become more […]
The Possibility of Moral Change
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) Is it possible to change our behavior to be more moral? This is the question addressed in Lesson Three of Are You Minding What Matters? We’ve covered Lessons One and Lesson Two in earlier posts (here, here, and here) and so far, the podcast episodes corresponding to those posts are our […]
Why Early SDAs Rejected Trinitarianism
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) In the last two posts (What is Trinitarianism Anyway? and Non-Trinitarians Who Say The Holy Spirit Is A Person), we covered some important historical facts about what trinitarianism actually is and about how the personhood of the Holy Spirit isn’t inherently connected to trinitarianism. Modalism, Christian Tritheism, Arianism, and Holy-Spirit-Is-An-Angelism are […]
Non-Trinitarians Who Say the Holy Spirit Is A Person
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) We’re continuing our series that explores the differences between the early-SDA and modern-SDA discussions regarding whether or not the Holy Spirit is a person (see part 1 and part 2). As a reminder, the first difference is that modern SDAs tend to think the personhood of the Holy Spirit is intrinsically […]
What is Trinitarianism Anyway? – SDA Holy Spirit Debate Now vs Then 2
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) This is the second post of our series explaining the differences between the early-SDA and modern-SDA discussions over whether the Holy Spirit is a person (read the first post here). As a reminder, the first difference is that, in the modern-SDA discussion, both trinitarians and non-trinitarians commonly conflate the question of […]
2022 Unleavened Bread Projects
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) We recently finished celebrating the Feast of Unleavened Bread and, as part of keeping the feast, we published some new studies. In this post, I’ll be telling you a bit about each study and then I recommend following the links to read or watch them in full. Project 1: The Two […]