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This is an interesting take on God's Perfect Will vs. God's Permissive Will. There is no doubt that all creation is made on purpose and for a purpose. In the referenced post's example, it assumes that the reader understands that God uses all things for good even if it doesn't appear immediately obvious.

One thing doesn't prove the other. Saying "I'm alive because god wants me to be alive" doesn't automatically mean that those who died, died because god wanted them to be dead. There is an enemy at work here and many deaths are his responsibility.

It's one of those things. Just like the Johannine Comma.

I was in a fundamental baptist church for over twenty years. I learned more about Christmas from this podcast than I have from all of the Christmas sermons put together. I heard the same thing on repeat for so long, I thought I knew all there was to know about Christmas. You’ve proven that misconception wrong. Thank you for all that you put into your podcast; it is so helpful and important to correcting the misinformation that so many of us have heard. I’m looking forward to next year’s episodes. Merry Christmas!

So, this episode was worth the wait for additional research time. I had no idea that so much went into “creating” the Bible. It makes me want to be more discerning about what I listen to when it comes to Bible teaching, and it makes me wary of those who preach from an absolute point of view without being considerate of other works. The iPhone update analogy was very helpful to me also. Thank you for sharing this information and educating your listeners.

Interesting! I appreciate how you kindly explain this information.

Read and understand the Quran it is more useful

No, they both had ZERo ribs as they are mythical.

Isaiah 11 starts with Christs liniage, then moves into the 7 spirits of Christ represented by the menorah. Isaiah was a prophet of Christ

People wh theorize about Mary Magdalene being Jesus wife like to say she was the disciple Jesus loved. However they are not taking into account the different words from live on the original language.

Can't wait to hear how you try and justify slavery in the Bible, which is clearly codified in Exodus. I really like your attitude.

Jesus’ name? Rev 19: 11-16. ‘Faithful and True’. ‘ No one but he himself knows his name ‘. And his Name is The Word of God‘. ‘ King of kings and Lord of lords ‘.

His physial body was named ioshaua 2000 years ago when he walked the earth. "Jesus" was a roman name translated in terms "he who comes in truth". Those are not his name these days, however.

Such an important message

Well said!

Now that´s how you misunderstood perspectives. I loved every analogy and illustrative example used. Well done, Collins.

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THIS is the Bible nerd shit I'm into. Not a "lemme tell you how right I am" just "here's the history and why it's fun" Thanks!

Great information. Both about the Bible and the mindset of raving preachers.

Your speculations sound reassuring but...What about the parables of the foolish virgins and their lamps or the wedding guest not dressed correctly? Are those meant to suggest it is sort of a "be prepared and get it right or sorry" sort of situation?

According to some readings and some denominations the state after death is sleep until resurrection

The way you describe language in eternity or at Pentecost sounds like the universal translator from Star Trek. I think that may be what you alluding to.

These are great discussions!! Thanks for these series.

I thought the lion and lamb motif was from Revelation but even that is different than I thought

This episode was fascinating! Your thoughts on ghosts were mind blowing. One of the things that I most like about this podcast is how you encourage the listeners to think outside of the box and to be ok with not having a definitive answer to some of our Bible questions. Well done. Thank you for sharing your insights!

God loves righteousness and hates deception. Love the Good and Hate the Evil. Many people say "I believe in Jesus" but truly love only money and what makes their Flesh happy., if that's you you'll hear Christ say "Depart from Me i Never Knew you" because you only truly loved YOURSELF.

On the other hand: God loved the world enough to give His only Son. ...That's A LOT!! So, in this instance, the confusion doesn't result in a dramatic difference of understanding. Not saying these kinds of mistakes can't or don't have disastrous consequences for the content of Sacred Scripture (as they certainly often do)... but maybe there's a better example to illustrate that danger than this one(?)

Your topics are great. I think this series clarifying what is really said in the Bible and what it really means is a great way to address misconceptions.

There are denominations for whom hell is not a key doctrine

Good information

I completely agree. So many today see Christians as judgmental and divisive. I see even long time “ Christians” fall into the examples you presented. If we all just followed the command to love -how wonderfully different and set apart that would look to the world . Also, I really liked the point you made about the love languages and how we each may want to be shown love in a way that speaks to our own hearts . We definitely aren’t all the same when it comes to how we like to be shown love. I will be more aware of that now. Thank you for these short ,yet so timely, biblical truths you present!

Such a good point

1 Corinthians 13 would help us here, wouldn't it? If I love my neighbour, I should be ready to present Christ to him as Saviour, but I also need to have long patience, and not get discouraged or develop hard feelings towards him if he doesn't immediately listen. Of course, there's so much else in that chapter which would help us to understand what true love is, but that's the first one which springs to mind. I think quite often about those "vertical and horizontal relationships" and I think what's said about that is true - if we aren't loving God, we can't really love our neighbour as we should. As broken people, sinners by nature redeemed through grace, we need to learn what love is through our relationship with a God Who is love, whose Nature is love. That word is thrown about in the world today, and often used very sincerely, but the idea of love is really corrupted - it seems to be a concept that means you never challenge anyone or contradict them and instead affirm them constantly, but it isn't love to affirm a person in whatever they want to do, however self-destructive. Love involves discipline. As the Lord said, "If ye love me, keep my commandments" (John 14 v 15 - discipleship) and as we read in Hebrews, "whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives" (ch. 12 v 6 - discipline). The world knows nothing about _that_ kind of love.

This series of videos is fascinating - in part because I've never heard 90% of these things said! And in most of them, I can quite understand why they were said, even though I agree with you that they probably shouldn't be. In my view, subjection to the Spirit is key. I've heard countless bad takes on scripture (the vast majority of them online), enough to know that simply opening a Bible or listening to a self-proclaimed preacher doesn't mean that God is speaking. I'm reminded of the scripture in 1 Corinthians 14 v 29: "let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge". The scriptural model of gathering and teaching has been largely abandoned in Christendom - there's often one 'pastor' or 'minister' or 'priest', leading a 'church', when such an arrangement is never contemplated in scripture. In other places there are 'elders', but these are appointed by the congregation - again, something never found in scripture, where elders and overseers are only ever appointed directly by apostles directly or by derived apostolic authority. Since we have no apostles, and haven't had any since early in the Christian era, then there is no-one who can appoint elders - and it is abundantly clear that apostolic succession is a nonsense, and a dangerous one at that. Obedience to the word of God as to this (as exemplified in 1 Corinthians 14 v 29) preserves us from getting into all kinds of error. Rather than one 'pastor' standing up behind a pulpit Sunday after Sunday, preaching and teaching (and even if he has the Spirit, he isn't being subject to the word), in the scripture we have two or three prophets, and a diversity of gifts. We know that "God has set certain in the assembly: first, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers; then miraculous powers; then gifts of healings; helps; governments; kinds of tongues," and the apostle goes on to ask, rhetorically, "Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all in possession of miraculous powers? have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?" (1 Corinthians 12 v 28-30) The whole assembly is needed ("The eye cannot say to the hand, I have not need of thee; or again, the head to the feet, I have not need of you" (1 Corinthians 12 v 21)) - it cannot be a case of a single minister, or even a small group of them, acting week-in week-out for the congregation, while the congregation passively receives whatever he or they see fit to minister to them. Our 'churches' try to condense a diversity of gifts into a single person - a person who cannot possibly have all of them, or even most of them, and who may fall into error themselves and lead astray a congregation who have been conditioned to unquestioningly accept their authority. God has seen fit to distribute gift over a wide field, so that no-one is exalted over his fellow believers ("as lording it over your possessions" - 1 Peter 5 v 3) - which is the error of Nicolaitanism, the root of clericalism, Romanism, etc. When I look at myself - weak, failing, often inconsistent, but always growing in my appreciation of the One who never fails me, and never will - then that in turn increases my appreciation for the wisdom of scripture, and all that it teaches regarding order in the assembly. That order keeps me safe - the teaching I get is not centred in a one-man ministry, or a group of clergy, but brought out in the assembly, under the hand of the Spirit, and with others on hand to judge what is taught and correct it if necessary. In turn I'm called upon to preach from time to time, again under the hand of the Spirit, and accordingly to ability and my state. If I'm not right with God, and if the Spirit is grieved - quenched - by me, then it would worse than useless for me to attempt to minister. In fact, it would be positively harmful - an open Bible in my hands would certainly not be God speaking. Only humility and dependence - individual and collective - can preserve us and keep us in a pathway which is pleasing to the Lord.

I found this episode fascinating and completely contrary to what I learned in the IFB church! Unfortunately, the preaching that I heard was more like your opening clips. The fact that we can bring heaven or hell into our present reality is life changing. “Any person who is a good person just because of fear of hell, is not a good person.” Wow! Your explanation of the Bible makes so much sense to me. It aligns more with the character of God. Thank you for giving me so much to consider. I can’t wait for next week’s teaching on heaven. Excellent episode!

Interesting - I've never heard that said about Jesus' beard being pulled out, although I was familiar with the scripture in Isaiah 50. Given the amount of detail we have the gospels, one would have thought that it would be mentioned. I do have a few thoughts about Isaiah 50 - specifically verses 4 - 9. I am in no doubt that these verses speak of the Lord Jesus particularly, and that we should understand them as such. Doubtless they meant something to those who read them before the incarnation and revelation of Christ, and perhaps they were taken to refer to the prophet himself or to Israel personified. I think we have to be clear in our minds, however, that the Old Testament scriptures are God-breathed, that there are things in them which were - if you'll pardon the pun - a closed book even to the most scholarly Jew. So much of the Old Testament scripture is fulfilled in Jesus, and although it was no doubt meaningful to the Jew, it can only be truly understood by the Spirit's leading. If we were in any doubt about whether or not we can use Old Testament scripture in this way, we only need to look to the New Testament writers, and Paul in particular, who give various OT scriptures a new application - one which I doubt the Jewish scholars of antiquity would have ever imagined. Regarding verse 6 in particular, I would take the reference to plucking the hair to indicate humiliation - it may not have literally happened, but it speaks of the general humiliation of the Lord, and His submission to that treatment.

I've often thought of those "two slopes", those two extremes in Ecclesiastes 7 as "licentiousness and legality" - both will take us away from Christ, and put us back into the slavery that He has delivered us from, and therefore both are equally to be avoided. The Galatians were going down that right-hand slope, for sure, and by putting themselves under law, they were returning themselves to their former condition as Gentile unbelievers, in the world. Perhaps we could contrast them with those at Corinth, some of whom were going in the opposite direction.

Is it any surprise that my time in an IFB church was so traumatic when the “Ten Commandments” were incorrectly etched into my mind and preached from the pulpit?! What an interesting episode. I did not know what the Ten Sayings truly meant. Thank you for presenting this information in a non offensive and kind manner. I’ve learned so much from it. I often say I wish I would have known this information years ago, but I am grateful to know it now because of your podcast.

Fascinating information. I know this is going to be surprising, but I never heard this from the pulpit. My immediate response to this episode was to defend what I’ve been taught in church (IFB brainwashing dies hard). One of the things I appreciate about your podcast is how you encourage your listeners to think for themselves to determine what they believe-which may not be what they were TOLD to believe. You have given me much to think about. Thank you for presenting it in a thoughtful and considerate way.

Jesus picked common people" sinners" not religious because Genesis God said to be fruitful and multiply , that's why we have Christianity today, God is Father of the fatherless remember God have Joseph a dream giving Jesus a father..

You are so smart for your young age. I commend you for this video, and believe that this has been long coming for the fake and flaky Christian society that promotes it!

Thanks for this. I have known people who try to search for verses based on slightl clues or even at random. But a wise person once told me that to do this this was almost like using the scriptures like an Ouija board and thus divination and thus unscriptural to begin with do you agree?

This was probably one of my favorite episodes. (I think I’ve said that before!) The way you explained the history of the views on alcohol took this topic to another level. I remember hearing the verses that you’ve mentioned preached as if God prohibited the consumption of alcohol. You were right, preachers would be uncomfortable with trying to explain the verses where God clearly allows for its use. Thank you for presenting this information so thoroughly and for reminding Christians that it’s ok to disagree respectfully. Excellent content!

This is so important. Thank you for these messages

It’s Trump. Sorry kids. As John of Patmos knew, Trump is both the beast and the man of perdition. And guess what? He can’t wait to betray the Christians.

anti, can also denote a fraudulent replacement. What most refer to when citing antichrist, is The Son of Perdition. The reformers identified this character, as the Roman Papacy. I agree

Unfortunately it would be a lot information to show how the anti-christ in Daniel, the new testament and the book of revelations are the same person.

you are a false prophet and need Christ.

Point well made, how yanking verses out of context and making a literal interpretation in today's English leads to such flat and absurd conclusions!

The late 1900s!!