@TigerBotEdge@BradyJBush I was thinking of this exact book. He uses the c-word. Came as quite a shock coming from an otherwise really great series of exegetical commentaries. The Ecclesiastes commentary was really good, but I’m sure he could’ve found a different wording.
@NathanBozeman2 Sola’s problem is equating Gnosticism with learning about the cultures and worldviews of people from the ancient world. Gnosticism taught a new gospel through secret knowledge, its goal wasn’t to teach orthodox people how to read their bibles in context.
@5solas 1) Authors don’t always pick the names of the books, especially if it’s a series. They need catchy titles to sell.
2) Gnosticism wasn’t just about learning new things or considering new perspectives. It was secret or hidden knowledge that lead to a new/different salvation.
@5solas Are claiming any one or more of these:
1) Heiser claims the “gods” are self-determinate
2) Heiser claims the “gods” are emanations of a principal deity
3) Heiser claims the “gods” are offspring of a principal deity
All Heiser argues for is a more complicated view of “angels”.
@RevivedThoughts You should read it, and pick and choose what to agree with and what not to agree with. And if you don’t want to read, watch his lectures on YouTube, he into much more depth than the book.
@lsanger 2. I don’t agree with everything Heiser says, but I think he’s clear in his books and lectures that the “gods” are creations of the one and only true God. This is not henotheism- he just isn’t using the word “angel” or “demon” for every type or individual spiritual being.
This what happens to women “liberated” from Christianity. They lose leadership in the cosmos, leadership in society, and leadership in the home. They’re left with toxic femininity- trying to be a mother to everything around them, trying to be a leader themselves- and failing.
And Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape." And they seized them. And Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slaughtered them there.
- 1 Kings 18:40
@Ashtronautgirl Was the flood global?
Did the author of Genesis have all the peoples of the globe in mind when he said “all flesh” or only the table of nations?
Can “when the Sons of God came into the daughters of men” mean “whenever…”?