I do this too👍🙏

Beautiful, just as the sun made on the fourth day, and Jesus came on the fourth day,/4th milennium. In the midst of the week.

Awesome 👏

Very interesting take, I like it 👍🏽

Egyptology timeline was cemented during C19th. Too much scholarship is already peer reviewed for them to make amendments using facts and evidence. I like Heiser, but he has an extremely high view of academia, to the point where -if it is wrong- the Bible is what suffers. Jesus believed the Torah was written by Moses. If that's not a fit with liberal scholarship...sorry libs :-)

Christ came to destroy the law of sin and death in our lives (Romans 8:2; Hebrews 2:14-15). The gift of God is the life we can now have because of His death, resurrection, and heavenly ministry (1 Corinthians 15:1-4, Romans 1:16-17; John 1:12; Romans 6:22-23). But John makes it clear why this is a gift (something we don't deserve, that is freely given, and could not generate ourselves): he says that our born-again experience is not gained by heritage, or by earthly accomplishments, or by self-will, "but of God" (echoed in Ephesians 2:8-10, Philippians 2:12-13, Galatians 3:22-23, 2 Peter 1:3-4). Only God can give it, and He has given it freely, for He desires that all should come to repentance, regardless of creed or culture (2 Peter 3:9, Romans 10:11-13). The continual believing comes in because "whatsoever is not of faith is sin," and "without faith it is impossible to please God" (Romans 14:23; Hebrews 11:6). Doubt, faithlessness, are the very things that Christ died to free us from! If we do not believe (1) who God is, (2) that His gift is free, (3) that it covers me personally, (4) that I can experience true freedom, (5) that God's ways are right and good even when I don't understand, etc., how can I be in true and open relationship with Him? If I don't trust Him, why would I listen to anything He has to say? Trust, confidence, faith, are the foundations of a loving relationship; and a loving relationship with God is the key to an abundant and eternal life (for He is life). Continual believing simply means I trust who He says He is and I will follow wherever He leads - every day, every moment. Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ has made you free. :-)

Do you continue (or continuously...) believe in gravity? If so you will not deny that it is in effect, and decide to walk off a cliff. If you believe in gravity, the free gift is knowing not to do that if you don't want to fall. Similarly, once you know that God is real, and that His Son Jesus Christ died and was resurrected to pay for your sins, and you KNOW it, continuing to believe is no different than knowing that gravity is in effect, and always will be. 🙏✝️🙏

Amazing idea!

Yes! I want Rahab to be highlighted. That's the part of the story that speaks to me most.

That's an awesome idea!!

How about Mel Gibson? Him & Randall Wallace! Yes..😅

Not looking for an argument, but looked at from within the context Heiser proposes, I think these attempts at moralizing Old Testament acts of war by an invasive force of Bronze Age conquerors by post-'Enlightenment' moderns is stopped in it's tracks. 1) The Nations in the Biblical perspective are given over to supernatural entities rebellious to the ultimate authority of God, following the Tower of Babel incident. They could be understood to be complicit on the perpetuation of the worship of false divinities despite all having come from an original host who knew of God and turned from Him. 2) You hardly hear these concerns of moralizing other documents from the same or later time periods, a la the Iliad, Aeneid, or other such descriptions of Acts of war from Bronze Age forces upon peoples occupying lands of wealth, whether spiritual or monetary. It's done with the Bible almost solely because people care, for spite or vindictiveness. 3) One could frame it simply as something necessary in the thread of Providence due to what is known of the proceeding history and religious development of later Judaism or Christianity. I just think that it's insincere and overtly polemical to bring modern moral concerns into a story set in the Bronze Age. It does nothing to further either party's case, and only to draw lines in the sand between those who believe and do not in the God of the Bible and his goodness or lack thereof.

Rusty Shackleford - I didn’t read your reply and was going to type out a much less eloquent response, but I’m glad I stopped to actually read your response. You surpassed anything I could’ve typed up.