Scholarship aimed at truly understanding what the biblical writers meant often does not filter down into the church and through the pulpit to folks who show up on Sunday. I think that's just wrong, but scholars rarely make any effort… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
It's important for people in the Church to realize that the way they talk and think about the Bible isn't the way Bible scholars talk and think about it - and I'm including "Bible-believing" scholars there. There is a wide… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
We think "reading the Bible in context" means thinking about the handful of verses before and after the verses we're looking at on the… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
If I were one of the gods who just wound up supervising humans, I'd want to influence the decision-makers to live according to the… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
What I mean by context is worldview - having the ancient Israelite or first-century Jew in your head as you read. How would an… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
Why are you uncomfortable with the supernaturalist worldview of the biblical writers? Evangelicals don't want to just say, "Well, the inspired writers were wrong… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
We like to pretend the core ideas of the faith are more palatable or workable within our modern rationalistic approach to Scripture than the… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and the audience… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
Rebellion against God results in being cast out of his service. God doesn't run the affairs of the spiritual world or our world with… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
If you don't have the worldview of the people who produced the Bible - under inspiration no less, - you can't understand what they… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
The powers of darkness are still part of the spiritual world - they don't become something else when they rebel against God. Disembodied believers… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
The truth is that we don't know much about the spiritual world except for what Scripture tells us, so it's unwise to think we… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
Ruling the way God wants you to rule means fostering the ordered relationships he desires, not because he is a killjoy, but because that… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
God doesn't save us to perpetuate a particular Christian sub-culture. He saves us to advance a supernatural kingdom that is not of this world. — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
“Conversations didn’t always end well. That sort of thing happens when you demand that creeds and traditions get in line behind the biblical text.” — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
We impose our modern worldview on the Bible to make it conform to our intellectual happy place. But we deceive ourselves into thinking this… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
How much of what the biblical writers believed about the supernatural world do I believe? They weren't us. We are products of the Enlightenment;… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
