We impose our modern worldview on the Bible to make it conform to our intellectual happy place. But we deceive ourselves into thinking this works or is legitimate. We fail to realize that the supernatural things we want to avoid are no more supernatural (or "weird") than the things that define the Christian faith. What's so "normal" about the virgin birth, the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the bodily resurrection of Christ, the hypostatic union of the incarnation (Jesus was 100% God and 100% man)?
Ruling the way God wants you to rule means fostering the ordered relationships he desires, not because he is a killjoy, but because that order maximi… - Michael S. Heiser
Ruling the way God wants you to rule means fostering the ordered relationships he desires, not because he is a killjoy, but because that order maximi…
- Michael S. Heiser
We impose our modern worldview on the Bible to make it conform to our intellectual happy place. But we deceive ourselves into thinking this works or … - Michael S. Heiser
We impose our modern worldview on the Bible to make it conform to our intellectual happy place. But we deceive ourselves into thinking this works or …
Why are you uncomfortable with the supernaturalist worldview of the biblical writers? Evangelicals don't want to just say, "Well, the inspired writer… - Michael S. Heiser
Why are you uncomfortable with the supernaturalist worldview of the biblical writers? Evangelicals don't want to just say, "Well, the inspired writer…
Angels can fail because God allows them to make decisions and they are lesser beings than the perfect God. They can go astray, but the task is legiti… - Michael S. Heiser
Angels can fail because God allows them to make decisions and they are lesser beings than the perfect God. They can go astray, but the task is legiti…
Scholarship aimed at truly understanding what the biblical writers meant often does not filter down into the church and through the pulpit to folks w… - Michael S. Heiser
Scholarship aimed at truly understanding what the biblical writers meant often does not filter down into the church and through the pulpit to folks w…
It's important for people in the Church to realize that the way they talk and think about the Bible isn't the way Bible scholars talk and think about… - Michael S. Heiser
It's important for people in the Church to realize that the way they talk and think about the Bible isn't the way Bible scholars talk and think about…
If you don't have the worldview of the people who produced the Bible - under inspiration no less, - you can't understand what they were trying to com… - Michael S. Heiser
If you don't have the worldview of the people who produced the Bible - under inspiration no less, - you can't understand what they were trying to com…
The truth is that we don't know much about the spiritual world except for what Scripture tells us, so it's unwise to think we can speak with clarity … - Michael S. Heiser
The truth is that we don't know much about the spiritual world except for what Scripture tells us, so it's unwise to think we can speak with clarity …
When biblical material touches on the natural world, we can legitimately use the tools of science. Sometimes that shows us - no shock here - that bib… - Michael S. Heiser
When biblical material touches on the natural world, we can legitimately use the tools of science. Sometimes that shows us - no shock here - that bib…
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