Oct 26, 2014
In the last episode I suggested what was the real message and spirituality of the book of Revelation. It is NOT telling us to be passive, waiting for God to intervene in history as all kinds of horrible things happen to the earth. The author of Revelation copied heavily from the Book of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible...
Oct 4, 2014
Finally, we are at the point of finding the answers to our question 'what is the spirituality of the Book of Revelation?' As I have commented in previous episodes, what the Book of Revelation is about is answering questions about the problem of evil. If God is all powerful, how can God let the community of faithful...
Sep 9, 2014
Last time we looked at the story of the prophet Jeremiah and king Zedekiah. In this episode we will look at that story more closely and answer the following questions: 1) Does a prophet make prophecies about the distant future or mostly to the people and times in which they live? 2) Do we have free will in what a...
Aug 15, 2014
What is the role of a prophet? Are the predictions of prophets totally accurate? Can predicitons be changed or are they fixed and there is nothing we can do? Do we have free will? These were the questions we left off with last time. In this episode, we look at a story of the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah. The story...
Jul 22, 2014
What do we make of all the scary and gory events portrayed in the Book of Revelation? For example, in chapters 8 & 9, it talks about the seven angels and the events the set in motion such as a third of humanity is killed, a third of the oceans are destroyed, a third of the vegetation is wiped out. Are these...