The Bible Unfiltered

Author : Michael S. Heiser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781683590408
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bible Unfiltered written by Michael S. Heiser and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Bible Unfiltered, Michael Heiser, an expert in the ancient Near East and author of best-seller The Unseen Realm, explores unusual and misunderstood parts of the Bible and offers insights that will inform and surprise you on every page.

Author : Heiser, Michael S.
Publisher : Lexham Press
ISBN 13 : 1577995597
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supernatural written by Heiser, Michael S. and published by Lexham Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Michael S. Heiser presents fifteen years of research on what the Bible really says about the unseen world of the supernatural, unfiltered by tradition or by theological presuppositions. Who were the sons of God? Who were the Nephilim? Where do angels fit into the supernatural hierarchy? What relation does Jesus bear to the rest of the supernatural world? Heiser tackles these questions and many more as he shines a light on the ancient context of Scripture. After reading this book, you may never read your Bible the same way again. In Supernatural, Heiser takes the core message from his recent best-seller, The Unseen Realm, and presents it for the person in the pew. He offers the same approach to reading and understanding Scripture, but without all the extra footnotes and supporting information needed for the scholarly treatment. “We can’t believe what we don’t understand. In Supernatural, Michael Heiser helps us to do both. It may open your eyes to the scripture in a new way.” —John Ortberg, author of If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat

Author : Lewis Brogdon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666749907
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bible in the Ashes of Social Chaos written by Lewis Brogdon and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daily we witness the spectacle of a country in chaos. Mass shootings, partisan gridlock, the growing wealth divide, gross economic inequities, crumbling institutions, and widespread sexism, racism, and xenophobia reflect a country in serious peril. Cynicism, narcissism, fear, and nihilism hide behind the veneer of success, happiness, and materialism that deludes us about our dire condition. Both America and its dominant religion are in decline and more people are raising serious questions about God, the church, and its sacred text for the role they play in past and present realities unfolding around us. This is especially true in the African American community where there are grassroots movements and emerging leaders questioning traditional beliefs of the Black church. Today, millennials and Gen Z youth question problematic things said in the Bible and why a book with moral contradictions continues to be authoritative. There is a real need to grapple with the Bible's relevance in the ashes of social chaos. More importantly, there is a need to expand our moral imagination in new ways that can revitalize faith. In The Bible in the Ashes of Social Chaos, Brogdon invites readers to wade into these biblical, theological, and philosophical issues in a way that holds the sacred nature of the biblical text and questioning rooted in faith in a healthy tension. This book will resonate with people in various places in their intellectual and faith journey.

Author : Daniel L. Dreisbach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199987939
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers written by Daniel L. Dreisbach and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreisbach shows that the Bible was the most frequently referenced book in the political discourse of the American founders. Drawing on some of the most familiar rhetoric of the founding era, Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers examines the founders' diverse uses of the Bible and how scripture informed their political culture. -- Provided by publisher.

Author : Jeffrey J. Hamilton
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
ISBN 13 : 1662940637
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bible, Its Author, and the People Within written by Jeffrey J. Hamilton and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2023-10-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible, Its Author, and the People Within will not only challenge you to take a good hard look at the things you've learned throughout your Christian walk, but will also teach you how to read the Bible. It will then introduce you to the God of creation as well as many of the traditions, customs, and practices of the people dwelling within the ancient world. The subject matter covered within these pages includes Israel's religious festivals; the betrothal and wedding ceremony; the bearing, rearing, and education of children; the various occupations of the day; the mourning, preparation, and burial of the dead, as well as the hereafter. Now you may be thinking: Is this book something I should take the time to read? Well, that depends. If you're someone who's willing to have your presuppositions and dearly held traditions challenged by God's Word, you should read it. If you're someone who's willing to deviate from the beaten path and follow the text of Scripture wherever it leads, you should read it. If you're someone who's willing to consider a perspective other than your own, then yes, you should read it. If not, then quite frankly, you shouldn't. Whether you're a thirty-year-veteran of the faith or a believer of only a few hours, this book can greatly benefit you if you're willing to first read it and then further investigate its claims. Generally speaking, the way you interact with life depends on your perception of the world around you. And as they say, perception is reality. But the problem with that is that a westerner's reality is not the reality of the easterner. As a student of God's Word, the only way you can benefit from what you read is to consider the culture, the rituals, the customs, the traditions, and the practices of those living within the biblical world. Unfortunately, more often than not, this is the exception to the rule. As westerners, our tendency is to impose our worldview on to the text of Scripture. This book will afford you the opportunity to get into the minds of the biblical writers. While this book deals with some of the most common religious and social practices of the Israelites, Building a Framework, the second book, focuses on the establishment of a divine council, the history of creation, the sin of the Watchers, the birth of the giants, Noah's flood, the disinheriting of the inhabitants of the earth, the calling of Abram, the planting of Israel's heavens and earth along with their history, the ministry of Christ, the reclaiming of the nations, and the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in A.D. 70. The third book in this series, Digging Deeper, utilizes a handful of principles needed to accurately interpret the Scriptures. This series of books is very easy to read. These books are written in such a way that you should have no difficulty understanding the message conveyed. Although there are several theological terms sprinkled throughout these works, they are thoroughly explained for a better understanding of the Bible's meaning. Additionally, the majority of the biblical passages utilized within these books are written out for your convenience. The reason for this is simple. First of all, it minimizes the need for having to stop and look up each citation. But more importantly, it presents a biblical case for the assertions and conclusions drawn within each book. I have, to the best of my ability, searched God's Word for the truth. If you find what I have found, then build on it and share it with others. Assume nothing. You have the responsibility to study the Scriptures for yourself and draw your own conclusions. Book Review 1: "For many years after being saved by our Lord Jesus Christ, my wife and I read through the Bible every day and missed a lot of crucial things that we were trained not to think about. We were trained not to see the big picture by the traditional churches and the bible studies we attended. Many issues like timing, audience relevance, misunderstanding of how to make correct interpretations, to name a few, were placed in the back of our minds as if they were forbidden things to study. It's Okay to be a Christian and Think finally liberated our minds because it taught us about critical thinking, interpreting the Bible with the Bible, and how without the correct time frame and audience relevance perspective, everything we knew would easily crumble to the ground. I dare you to seek the Scriptures without the presuppositions perpetuated for generations in the church. John 5:39-44 NKJV says, "You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. I do not receive honor from men. But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you." So, search the Scriptures, but do not be afraid to think." -- Miguel & Elena Alonso Book Review 2: "I am so thrilled and grateful that Jeff Hamilton has tirelessly put this book together because I'm anxious to share it with my friends and family near and far. For the past twenty-some-odd years I've had the privilege of Jeff sharing his wisdom and the principles of interpretation that are key to understanding God's redemptive message. I spent years trying to read the Bible, only to lay it down each time frustrated with unanswered questions or confused that it appeared some things conflicted with other things. Jeff has an effective systematic approach to teaching these principles that simplifies, without dumbing down, the rich context of the Bible. With his help and His help, I don't see any Scripture conflicting with any other now. Granted, I wanted to flee from some of his studies because he was introducing something I couldn't believe was in the Bible. But, he had never failed to prove these claims in the past, so I knew I was about to be even more amazed at God's Word. If you take the time to read Jeff's books, be prepared to approach you studies with new fervor." -- Cindy and Joe Bailey

Author : Gregory L. PhD Jantz
Publisher : Revell
ISBN 13 : 1493407279
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing the Scars of Childhood Abuse written by Gregory L. PhD Jantz and published by Revell. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deep pain of childhood abuse--whether physical or emotional, whether a child was neglected or wished nothing more than to be left alone--doesn't just go away. There's simply no just getting over it. Even if no physical scars remain as evidence of the victim's suffering, the deep wounds on their minds, hearts, and souls are still there. But it is possible to become whole and happy. Author of the successful Healing the Scars of Emotional Abuse, Dr. Gregory Jantz now helps readers understand the effects of childhood abuse on their emotional, intellectual, physical, relational, and spiritual health. He then outlines the steps to lasting healing, including grieving what was lost, learning to balance emotions with intentionality, regaining a positive relationship with one's own body and mind, and coming to an understanding of God not as a frightening authority figure like the abuser or an accusing judge, but as a loving creator, redeemer, and friend.

Author : Jeff Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501398962
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perpetual Scriptures in Nineteenth-Century America written by Jeff Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tumultuous decades of rapid expansion and change between the American Founding and the Civil War, Americans confronted a cluster of overlapping crises whose common theme was the difficulty of finding authority in written texts. The issue arose from several disruptive developments: rising challenges to the traditional authority of the Bible in a society that was intensely Protestant; persistent worries over America's lack of a “national literature” and an independent cultural identity; and the slavery crisis, which provoked tremendous struggles over clashing interpretations of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, even as these “parascriptures” were rising to the status of a kind of quasi-sacred secular canon. At the same time but from the opposite direction, new mass media were creating a new, industrial-scale print culture that put a premium on very non-sacred, disposable text: mass-produced “news,” dispensed immediately and in huge quantities but meant only for the day or hour. Perpetual Scriptures in Nineteenth-Century America identifies key features of the writings, careers and cultural politics of several prominent Americans as responses to this cluster of challenges. In their varied attempts to vindicate the sacred and to merge the timeless with the urgent present, Joseph Smith, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Theodore Parker, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany, Abraham Lincoln, and other religious and political leaders and men and women of letters helped define American literary culture as an ongoing quest for new “bibles,” or what Emerson called a “perpetual scripture.”

Author : Carlos R. Bovell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630877298
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Authority of Scripture written by Carlos R. Bovell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservative Protestant views of Scripture have not moved much beyond the fundamentalist-modernist controversies of the early twentieth century. Today, discussions must evolve and become transparently conversant with recent scholarly developments. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Authority of Scripture provides contemporary reflections on the most pressing challenges facing inerrancy today. Whatever your current position, this volume will deepen your understanding of the authority of Scripture. TABLE OF CONTENTS and CONTRIBUTORS: Foreword by William Abraham / ix Editor's Preface by Carlos R. Bovell / xvii Historical Perspectives 1 No Creed but the Bible, No Authority Without the Church: American Evangelicals and the Errors of Inerrancy --D. G. Hart / 3 2 The Subordination of Scripture to Human Reason at Old Princeton--Paul Seely / 28 3 The Modernist-Fundamentalist Controversy, the Inerrancy of Scripture, and the Development of American Dispensationalism --Todd Mangum / 46 4 The Cost of Prestige: E. J. Carnell's Quest for Intellectual Orthodoxy--Seth Dowland / 71 5 "Inerrancy, a Paradigm in Crisis"--Carlos R. Bovell / 91 Biblical Perspectives 6 Inerrancy and Evangelical Old Testament Scholarship: Challenges and the Way Forward--J. Daniel Hays / 109 7 Theological Diversity in the Old Testament as Burden or Divine Gift? Problems and Perspectives in the Current Debate--Richard Schultz / 133 8 "But Jesus Believed That David Wrote the Psalms . . ." --Stephen Dawes / 164 9 Some Thoughts on Theological Exegesis of the Old Testament: Toward a Viable Model of Biblical Coherence and Relevance--Peter Enns / 183 10 Inerrantist Scholarship on Daniel: A Valid Historical Enterprise? --Stephen Young / 204 11 The Implications of New Testament Pseudonymy for a Doctrine of Scripture--Stanley E. Porter / 236 Theoretical Perspectives 12 Issues in Forming a Doctrine of Inspiration--Craig Allert / 259 13 How Evangelicals Became Overcommitted to the Bible and Wha Can Be Done about It--J. P. Moreland / 289 14 Biblical Authority: A Social Scientist's Perspective --Brian Malley / 303 15 Authority Redux: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, and Theology--Christian Early / 323 16 Scripture and Prayer: Participating in God --Harriet A. Harris / 344 17 "A Certain Similarity to the Devil": Historical Criticism and Christian Faith--Gregory Dawes / 354 18 Critical Dislocation and Missional Relocation: Scripture's Evangelical Homecoming--Telford Work / 371 List of Contributors / 397

Author : Roderick Edwards
Publisher : Roderick Edwards
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against Preterism written by Roderick Edwards and published by Roderick Edwards. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AGAINST PRETERISM is book 3 in a 3-book series that is a must-have for any Christian interested in eschatology. Preterism is the end times perspective that is taking Christianity by storm; negative or positive. What better way to understand this view than by Roderick Edwards, an adherent and advocate of the view for 15 years before recanting it. The series includes ABOUT PRETERISM to explain its origins and original leaders.. AFTER PRETERISM to explain what happens after a person accepts the view, and AGAINST PRETERISM to explain why preterism is not good for the Christian or non-Christian. This series is not merely a personal memoir nor a claim to refute preterism. The series is a complete guide to preterism.

Author : Matthew D. Kim
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830870210
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Little Book for New Preachers written by Matthew D. Kim and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the central tasks of pastoral ministry is preaching the Word of God. Yet those who are called to ministry may feel unprepared, unable, or unwilling to step into this role. Moreover, the discipline of homiletics sometimes gets lost amid the exegetical questions, theological debates, and denominational disputes that overwhelm our attention. In this brief introduction to preaching, Matthew Kim helps to prepare those called to preach the Word. A seasoned preacher himself, Kim provides proven insight and guidance about the importance and history of preaching, the characteristics of faithful preaching, and the personal habits of a faithful preacher. With his help, both those training for ministry and those new to the pastoral task will be encouraged as they undertake their calling.