Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 33:55 — 23.6MB)Subscribe to get new episodes every week! Apple Podcasts | Email | TuneIn | RSS | MoreIs the Bible full of contradictions and errors of logic and science? Can we trust the Bible as a reliable information source from the First Cause of creation, or…
We’ve been looking at some of the myths about the Law and the 5th Dispensation. In this final post on the subject we’ll discuss a set of myths that are both pervasive and controversial – the idea that God’s Law is meant to make us feel bad about stuff that makes us feel good. The…
In the 5th Dispensation, God gave His nation, Israel a volume of commands and instructions collectively called the Law. The particulars of the Law are very detailed and specific, and Israel’s compliance with them was non-negotiable (they were commands after all). The Israelites were promised great blessings and prosperity if they obeyed the Law, and…
Among other things, the Third Dispensation saw the introduction of organized religion (formalized, systematic alternatives to God’s plan). In the last post, we saw that the details of God’s plan were well known long before the Bible was written, so any such alternatives were intentional corruptions of the original. How and why did these corruptions…
The dispensations are God’s process of contrastively showing that His plan for humanity is right. The first dispensation asked the question, – if man was completely innocent; with no knowledge of the long-term consequences of his actions (good and evil), would he choose to continue to rely on God for moment by moment direction, or…