Michael Heiser - How I Stay Well-Grounded in the Bible
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- Опубліковано 25 бер 2018
- Dr. Michael Heiser is asked a personal question-how do you stays well-grounded in the Bible as a scholar? Why do you remain strengthened as a Believer?
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After Chuck Missler passed I did not think I would find another teacher to satisfy my need for deep and somewhat weird teaching. Mike has taken it to a new level. He has filled many of the questions I had been left with. I went to every Missler Conference except the one in 2015. Must have been the one I missed Heiser at.
I didn’t like him at first but now I listen to everything he says. He’s not afraid to have a minority opinion but he doesn’t seek it. He seeks the truth.
Funny exactly what happened with me…and yea now I listen to all he gives, remember to pray for him, he is very sick and need all our prayers
Yes because all the prophets in their day were all minority report in their day, until all they said has, come through.
Dr. Heiser has been such a blessing to me. My studies in college and seminary have been enhanced by his teachings.
I have no idea how long I've been listening to Dr. Heiser. Maybe a decade. I've been Christian for 40 years, being drawn out of my atheist upbringing. When I opened my first study Bible to "study ", my prayer was for God to extract all the junk teachings from my head, and fill me with His truth. I was desperate to know Him. In Mike Heiser, that prayer is being brought to completion. Usually I have no problem making a paradigm shift in my thinking, and when I can't do that, I'm also comfortable in disagreeing with Him. That's so rare, I consider him to be -one of- the most qualified general Bible teacher I've ever listened to, so thanks for bringing these videos to my attention, many of which I haven't yet heard.
I LOVE this guy!!!
Betsy, you have discovered the truth to prayer: ask for wisdom.
He is the best in explaining text and background. The rest, I like Derek Prince ( for me the best in his field). One other that really sometimes put his foot down with doctrine would be Michael Rood.
If you like Michael Heiser, I would recommend Chuck Missler as well. He explains the metanarrative from the OT and how Jesus fulfills all the prophetic expectations and types from the text as well. God bless you always Betsy, see you in the Kingdom of the Messiah :D
@@pauljomento8357 I've listened to Missler for around two decades, so long before he died. I mentioned only Heiser because he';s the teacher in this video. I couldn't even list all the important teachers this internet has given us access to. See you at the Wedding Feast, brother!
@@FreeRadical7118 Oh wow, that's awesome :D Chuck has already gone to the presence of the God that he has been sharing with us in his lifetime, now it's our turn to relay the information of the Gospel that he has left behind for us to study in our own generation :D
It's always encouraging to meet another believer in Jesus, God bless you always Betsy :D
You really are the absolute best Bible Teacher, bar none. So grateful. Thank you Dr. Heiser!
Thank You Dr. Heiser! You are always a breath of fresh air. I was raised in an anti Christian family, then as a young adult I got saved by Jesus in spite of Christian’s I observed. I was reading the Bible just to know what it said, I didn’t understand a lot f what it said so I would ask religious people. They we’re not helpful. And it scared me that I was coming to believe In Jesus and thought I was losing my mind since the Christians I knew didn’t even read the Bible let alone could even answer the simplest questions. My salvation was an act of Jesus. Saved over 40years now. I’m humbled by Jesus in spite of the world around me.
It's so amazing how so many of the problem passages for me in scripture were settled through Mike's teaching. God's using him in really great ways. Id say that Mike uses contrastive thinking vs comparative thinking. Comparative thinking seems to be our default. It takes work and intentionality to question and examine other possibilities.
Same.
So much of this is the same thinking process we learn in the Army as Infantry Officers. First question, what is the problem? Is there even a problem, or just a situation? What are the FACTS bearing upon this problem? What assumptions must be made to think through the problem (there are never enough facts)? Reason through at least three plausible options. Plan, using the assumptions (in case they are later proven wrong), for alternate courses of action. I studied contract interpretation. These thinking principles that Dr. Heiser is discussing are so necessary. Bottom line, if someone gives me an "either/or" proposition I automatically reject the premise. Basic logic. Why would our Creator make us with this ability to reason then instruct us to act like dumb animals? How does thinking and asking questions challenge the simple faith in Jesus? It does not.
I am a new born in Christ mike has been a blessing for truth and clarity and understanding! Thank you Jesus!! ☝🏻✝️
Wow, that was so well said and true! I was raised Mormon, and that false theology never made sense to me, so it wasn’t difficult to get rid of, thankfully. I got saved at age 20 and from then on I have been searching for someone, anyone with whom I could relate. I can relate to you in ways that I have never known. It’s a breath of fresh air and I just walked into my forty-first year walking with God. Hallelujah! He is always faithful and it’s never too late. Thank you! God bless you!
Such a great topic! I know God wants us to mature and show ourselves workers approved, rightly handling the word, moving on from milk to solid foods etc ...but we should also be weary of becoming puffed up on knowledge or sliding into legalism and becoming crusty and religious. We should strive to worship God in spirit and in truth right? Brains and heart? Balanced. That's a fascinating struggle for me daily. To continue to believe as a child but grow and mature in the faith. My approach is to simply strive to ....
1. Read the Bible every day.
2. Pray everyday
3. Fellowship with other believers
Love and peace in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Thank GOD for Michael Heiser! His clarity in understanding complex subjects and his amazing ability to convey his clarity in language for the rest of us is absolutely wonderful! ♥
Really grew and learned a lot from his teaching techniques. Much appreciated teacher.
finally ive found someone who is asking the same questions i am. thank you for your ministry
Thank you Michael, wonderful teacher. Left Jehovah's Witness 29 years ago, but I never knew the bible. I like the Whole creativity aspect and you allow yourself and others to be critical thinkers. There's a lot of sheep without shepherd's. I walked away from religion for many years because you couldn't ask questions and get decent answers. What brought me back to the bible was an unseen realm UA-cam video and then more of your ideas, but you're not afraid of questions. You're Not and I mean Not allowed to question JW'S doctrine for fear of expulsion or excommunication. That's when I was done with them, because your Salvation depends upon you knowing knowledge of the bible. Question were common back in bible times. What are they afraid of? I know now it's fear of learning about there history and past things they don't want you to know. Instead of saying we were wrong they blame the followers, that's not a good shepherd. I found they're false prophets that the bible warns us about. There's a lot you need to question. Especially there involvement in vesting in companies they'd excommunicate you for investing in. These things woke me up. And I'm grateful because now I'm getting real meat and not spoon feed milk. They want you so dependent on them for everything. Very high control group. Which is high indicator of cult. They're history starts with Adventist church. They're great for proselytizing, but that all for the elites benefit not for Jesus Christ. They make huge gains off free labor, unskilled workers so they keep them dumb down and uneducated for a reason. You're not allowed to go to college or University? Why? Because you'll become a critical thinkers and that's dangerous. I went to college and I'm still taking college classes. Don't ever let someone tell you knowledge is dangerous for your faith it's not. You can be educated and still love God.
I have been in Christ since July 30th 1974 and I have never identified myself as Ecumenical, Evangelical nor Reformed, but I am definitely Restored.
Thank you from Sweden🙏😊!
Wow. I love how God always rises somebody to bring clarity to His word and contradict the secular/liberal lies 😂 Dr. Heiser is one of those.
Brilliant and very important. I express his point as "a false dichotomy." It definitely limits and narrows thinking contributing to both an unhealthy religiousity as well as schisms in the body.
I am so thankful for all I am learning. I can thank Steven Bancarz for having posted an interview with Michael Heiser so I could start listening to him. I am so glad he tackles the difficult questions.
Superb commentary!!! And I agree with his tongue in check statement that he was put here to think this was and blaze a new direction.
Thank you for lifting the veil ! Now I know why my teachers and pastors would not welcome my questions .
Thank you for everything
I, too, was initially concerned about your challenges to what is popular, pervasive and "orthodox," having been a preacher, myself, for years (two seminaries, Bible institutes and Reformed in my position). Also, I have shelves of "sound" books and many magazines. Dr.Heiser, you have,[additionally] prompted me to apply the questions that are birth from "observation" of a text. To conclude, many of ours Christian teachers, professors and pastors are afraid that deviation from what's generally acceptable, even in orthodox institutions, will cause them to lose their jobs! II Tim.2.15 is not most important. I am, also, mindful that I am speaking before an audience of two: people and God, when I teach (II Cor.4.2).
Even before I found Heiser, it was clear there where translation errors, and some things I could not understand because I did not knew enough about the time and what those people did/knew and how they seen it. I am into History all my life so I never had that problem not seeing the Bible in the content of that time it was written. You can not be into History, if you can not think yourself into the way how those people, at the time, where living, the knowledge and world view they had. How and what they lived by. I always bumbed heads with others, because I seen it the way it was written. And I refused to twist and turn it, so it fits our Lifestyle today. There is no need for it anyways.
I love the way he thinks. I listen and its like a breath of fresh air blowing away cobwebs of guilt in my mind; I'm not some kind of heretic for my thoughts and questions.
Thanks for being rooted in the Scriptures.
When faced with a seeming hard-core either/or, the questions we should ask are: Does it matter? Does it really make any real difference?
7:00 This is critical to understanding 21st century Anglosphere thought as a whole. Everything is about being in one tribe or the other.
Love it
Take a course in logic 😃
The world over today needs logic common sense imagination just be real to ones heart to ones conscious and to the Holy Spirit
Well Michael doesn’t seem as bogged down in tradition, probably cuz he wasn’t raised in a Christian household. What may have been a negative back then has shown to be a huge asset now. Also... and some may be offended BUT...I guess across all of society too...there are so many emotionally wounded & needy individuals in Church many of whom were raised In The Church. Don’t ask us to think, we just want to know what to believe & hopefully have a Church “dad” ( pastor) that can calm our deep seeded fears & a place that makes us feel welcome & maybe even loved.
It’s a shame cuz those are the people so easily picked off cuz they can’t defend their faith, even to themselves, when challenged.
Hey Mike!
Great answer
THANK YOU
I hope he's doing better with his health. Heiser is my religious studies super hero =)
In order to partner with the First Cause expansion on my personal level is imperative. Ancient of Days is not contained. He is uncontainable. I am made to be an image bearer. My being in total cannot be contained.🌏💯🤔🤗
These days I enjoy the Scholarship way more than the Religious experience, the whole Evangelical Prophets thing just moved into crazytown with all the Trump nonsense & I moved out. I'm still a believer but wild horse's couldn't drag me back.
Many has been done to the Divine WORD and those who has knows exactly what they did! That is why a lot can be said and undermining The WORD of God and it is not like He did not know what was going to take place! As He had said I have set life and death before you, then He said choose life! But why attack those He had appointed to give us His commandments? Do we think that we know better?! Only God knows our motives and by definition we are judged by our own words! That is why I choose to follow what has been given and not to think higher than what is or has been given or revealed.
Does Not God say "Come Let us reason together."? Would that not include the what and how of the Bible?
Dr. Heiser, how do you see the biblical interpretations of Emmanuel Swedenborg?
His statement about how people see things ? at (2:00m in would be the, Holy Spirit in us.
So much good here; but there has to be one source for Christian hermenuetics which should be: Jesus and the writers of his words and life (the Bible). This is the Greek Orthodox Church and the other related traditions (Slavic, Ethiopian, Egyptian, et al) They all agree in theology and practice- for the last 2000 years. It is a worthwhile quest to research this for Western Christians.
Vary good, unless you can take into account God's perspective, being outside the arrow of time, you can easily mistaken scriptural meaning in some of Pauline writing. Hence we have the doctrine of cheap grace going around, which is not new at all, it's been around from the beginning.
Being a literal thinker, hearing someone (like Trey) say "the Word (the Bible-a printed-in-ink paper BOOK) is 'alive"', sounds crazy to me! 😜
There aren’t “problem passages” in the word of the Most High
Dr. Heiser is an INTP!
"either/or fallacious thinking". I've seen for years that people are extremists. They almost always assume that a position has to be one extreme or the other, when actually it's often neither or both.
Example: the old fallacious question, "Is the glass half empty or half full?"
It's an idiotic question. The answer obviously has to be "both". How can you have a glass that's half empty WITHOUT it being half full?
Answer: you can't.
And yes, I know this is a metaphor for the outlook people have on life. But that's the point: life is made up of BOTH GOOD AND BAD. Yet somehow if you even acknowledge the presence of the bad in life in Christian circles you're hit over the head by people who can't wait to tell you that you need to repent and get your Joel Osteen on (not throwing any hate at Osteen here either, just don't think most will have heard of Norman Vincent Peale).
I've been a believer for over 40 years and I've yet to find much in life God addresses for you if you don't acknowledge it first. My God is big enough to handle bad things, so I don't have to be afraid to even acknowledge the existence of bad things. In fact, one of the greatest blessings in my life is seeing what He does with a bad thing once I give it to Him!
I call him today's CS Lewis except he's not a lay teacher.
Jn 5:~
The best way to keep up with the Lord Jesus'
Teachings is to look to Almighty God Creator and take every man at what he says and Check his beliefs with the Word of God,*Jesus*
*Psalms12:6-8*
*The LORD'S WORD ARE PURE WORDS*
*Believe Ye This?*
Have you noticed you were simulated and are set free . Have been replaced as well
Why is it so difficult for you to notice the female
This printed out twice !? Im being attacked by the scum of the cosmos beneath vigoTTR VIRGO COUNTY E W LAWSON .
I agree!!! I want the truth.
I also don't have a Shepard, but I do have a preacher in my church. A good example of this is that everything involving inspiration has by God to a person, which underneath they don't even believe it only has to be God talking to the person and don't realize it. One example of this was the discussion in class about Matthew 16:17, where Jesus said that the Father revealed unto Peter that He was the Christ. I told them that this probably came about from Peter seeing the things around him that both the Father and Jesus did, which brought him to the conclusion that Jesus was the Christ. They even went to the point that Peter was inspired by God through prophecy, and why only Peter and not the rest of the apostles were not inspired by the Father as Peter was. I think I have the answer, and I think the answer is normally simpler and more often interesting than the traditional way of thinking.
I want to know God, and it fascinates me as to how well I understand the God over people who spend a lot more time than I do READING the Bible.
Tons of pride in your thinking, friend
If moses don't write it then who did? If somebody else did I'd it inspired? Did masons write it? Did fallen angels write it. These are not polar reactions
Okay believer this may be a break away New Heaven AND Earth . This creation belongs to CREATOR NOW MATT 5:41 2nd mile first year 2019 began n 1968 . 1611KJV - N + J(except jones) lol. Second corr 10:6 your welcome and expected to join me in this obedience as a cosmic obedience is at hand . Beware Rev 21:8
This video is about how you stay well grounded who told you you were well grounded LOL
The presumption then is one is not ?? The laughter is at you
@@bobgriffith1810 yeah whatever
Traditions of men has destroyed the church just like Yeshua and Paul said to beware of. The HS is our filter and we are each responsible for our salvation. We are to share our thoughts and be Bareans of the word. That was lost long long ago.
It’s not just the HS you have to have information. God is not going to beam info into your brain.
LOL you are talking about calvinism right ? LOL those are the most annoying believers . They r right and everyone else is wrong . its like theres a calvinist tulip enlightening and they r stuck in it .oh and they color everything the whole bible in that lens
He was pointing out the extremes. He was quite clear as to what he meant by "fundamentalist" - that both extremes are essentially fundamentalist. Not all people who consider themselves Calvinists are extreme fundamentalist. He's taking about people being stuck in a framework of thinking, and being unwilling to use multiple frameworks.
If that's all you've taken away from what he's said then you've missed the point. And potentially you're missing out on what Calvinists can offer that is useful.
i'd rather he were a godless higher critic than peddle this minced nonsense.