Dr. Heiser, prayers and all of God's Blessings for your Father, and especially your Mother. I will be keeping you in my prayers as well. God Bless

This was so good. I'm glad I stumbled upon it. Nope, it does not shake my faith. It makes it stronger and put things into deeper context. Great work guys.

I'm so glad you are doing these podcasts :-) Thank you Michael Heiser !

Dr Mike reigns

It's amazing to me that doctor Heiser claims it's possible no Israelite knew the Genesis 3 story, yet somehow all the Israelites that recorded scripture somehow knew the baal story....? This is absolute foolishness to claim that every time the Old Testament uses language or vocabulary words that happens to match other texts, it means that it's responding to it or copying from it

I see a lot of negative comments, and I haven't watch the video yet, so I don't know if they are warranted or not but.... I have seen a LOT of Dr Heiser's videos and I agree with (as a rough estimate) 90% of what he says... this video may be in that 10% column but that doesn't invalidate the other 90%. Dr. Heiser is not God, and he knows it. What he is doing is giving his learned opinion. No ones is perfect, no one knows the mind of God, or for that matter any other person BUT Dr. Heiser has studied ancient languages and ancient people for a LONG time and if anyone is qualified to speak on the mind of a particular group of ancient people it would be him. Again, I DO NOT agree with Him 100% of the time and have not watched the video yet. In fact, I am going to mark it and watch at a latter date to hear it with a fresh mind, May God bless us all and grant us wisdom

LSo grateful so grateful to have listened to all your teachings multitude times actually thank you

Correlation does not imply causation; simply because two events happen close together in space and time, does not mean that one causes the other. Just because David wrote a song about a thunderstorm, in no way necessarily implies that he borrowed, depended upon or even had in mind the Baal cycle. Every ancient poet, witnessing a thunderstorm, is going to ascribe it to their respective deity, and are going to use similar imagery. This is the problem with literary criticism as a tool for interpretation; it is dependent upon the Critic to be a mind reader, peering into a mind, separated by three thousand years of history, culture and language. How convenient that the actual author is no longer around to dispute the interpretation... ;-)

You're saying the writters of the Bible copied other materials? I must have understood you wrong.

None Good but God lol

Yes we know who that was Mr or Dr James White > who thinks he knows everything > he just likes arguing all the time

Be ye perfect for your Father in heaven is perfect...guess Paul & Michael know better than the Messiah Himself 🤔🤔🤔