Rebellion against God results in being cast out of his service. God doesn't run the affairs of the spiritual world or our world with rebels on his payroll. They are cast to the Underworld (in the case of the Eden rebel), or a special place in the Underworld (e.g., the offenders of Genesis 6:1-4, who are, to quote Peter and Jude, "kept in chains of gloomy darkness" or "sent to Tartarus"). There are more divine rebels than that in the Bible, but hopefully that scratches the surface enough.
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
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
We think "reading the Bible in context" means thinking about the handful of verses before and after the verses we're looking at on the page. That isn… - Michael S. Heiser
We think "reading the Bible in context" means thinking about the handful of verses before and after the verses we're looking at on the page. That isn…
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