Bible Bard podcast episode BB-140_Faith and Reason in Abraham. In Genesis Chapter 15 Abraham is a wealthy Bedouin roaming Canaan about 4,100 years ago in the Near Eastern Middle Bronze Age. God makes a two-part promise to him. Abram asks, "How can I know..." such a thing will happen? Today we look at Faith and Knowledge according to the Bible - with a brief stop off at critics who say there is no knowledge and faith is meaningless.

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Bible Bard podcast episode BB-139_Metaphor of Light in the Bible. As listeners to this podcast know, we are interested in reading the Bible as literature because that method delivers us from ideology. When reading we find that the text is full of figurative language, so the Bible Bard often investigates things like metaphor. This episode discusses the progression morally of using light as a metaphor in the text.

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Bible Bard podcast episode BB-138_Jephthah and the Unbreakable Vow. There are several horrifying stories in the Bible where people chosen by God commit immoral acts, make terrible decisions, and fail in their basic commission from the God of the Bible. From the point of view of Bible teaching, this is a conflict between a principle and its application. The first principle is clear, if you make a vow to God, be sure to do it. The second principle is a statement by God regarding his revulsion of human sacrifice.

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Bible Bard podcast episode BB-137 God’s Three Orders to Christians. According to the text in the book of 2 Timothy, there are three negative orders God has given to Christians – things not to do! In this episode we discuss what the literature of the Bible says in this passage. For a transcript for to www.BibleBard.org and click the PDF link.

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Bible Bard podcast episode BB-136 Biblical Eras Past, Present, and Future. This episode discusses how the Bible measures time. The text makes distinctions that create God-defined eras during which occur changes in human history and in the relationships defined between God and humanity. For a transcript go to https://www.BibleBard.org and click the PDF link.

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Bible Bard podcast episode BB-135 Witness Stones in the Bible. One of the strangest idioms in the text of the Bible is references to witness stones. These are inanimate objects named in Bible stories that are called upon to witness events or statements that occur during the narrative. This episode discusses how the text of the Bible uses this idiom. For a transcript go to https://www.BibleBard.org and click the PDF link.

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Bible Bard podcast episode BB-134_What the Lord's Prayer Is and Is Not. There are two different prayers in the New Testament that have been referred to as the Lord’s Prayer. Some Christian denominations call the first on the Our Father. It’s found in Matthew 6:9-13. The second is found in John Chapter 17. In today's episode we look at the second prayer, which is the true "Lord's Prayer". The full text of the chapter is here: https://shorturl.at/YssB6.

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Bible Bard podcast episode BB-133_Biblical Eras Past Present and Future. In today's episode we look at the measure of time in Bible literature. The text makes distinctions that create God-defined eras during which occur changes in human history and in the relationships defined between God and humanity. How this works and what it means is today's topic.

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