UPDATE: The series referenced in this post is now over. You can watch recordings of all the meetings in the playlist embedded below. **** We have a series of Zoom Meetings that’ll start in just a couple of days on an incredibly important topic: The Personality of God. This was a major doctrine in early […]
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God: A Purely Material Person
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) So, it’s the Day of Atonement, and we’ve covered a lot in seven blog posts/podcasts over the past 10 days starting with Dirt You Are (Israelite Anthropology). Fittingly, today we’ll be talking about the subject that is holiest of all, the person of God Himself. In our last post, we covered […]
Jesus: A Purely Material Person
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) In our last post, we saw that Jesus and his early followers had a materialistic understanding of human nature. They believed and taught that bodily resurrection is the only hope for a future life (a doctrine that is fundamentally inconsistent with the idea that we have immaterial souls). In this post, we […]
Resurrection: The Only Hope of Future Life
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) In the past few posts, we’ve seen that ancient Israelite ideas of death were rooted in their ideas of human nature. Death, to them, consisted neither of “soul wakefulness” nor of “soul sleep” (that is, if by “soul” you mean what most people mean – a non-physical “self”). Rather, they saw […]
To Dirt You Will Return (Israelite Anthropology)
(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 […]
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 […]
What Does it Mean for the Righteous Man to Fall Seven Times?
Question: If it is true that being righteous means to no longer sin, what does Proverbs 24:16 mean by saying, “The righteous man falls seven times, but rises up again?” Answer: (by Trent Wilde) Of primary importance in this question is the issue of whether or not the life of a righteous person is without […]
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 […]