Michael S. Heiser

We think "reading the Bible in context" means thinking about the handful of verses before and after the verses we're looking at…

— Michael S. Heiser

If I were one of the gods who just wound up supervising humans, I'd want to influence the decision-makers to live according…

— Michael S. Heiser

What I mean by context is worldview - having the ancient Israelite or first-century Jew in your head as you read. How…

— Michael S. Heiser

Why are you uncomfortable with the supernaturalist worldview of the biblical writers? Evangelicals don't want to just say, "Well, the inspired writers…

— Michael S. Heiser

We like to pretend the core ideas of the faith are more palatable or workable within our modern rationalistic approach to Scripture…

— Michael S. Heiser

Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and…

— Michael S. Heiser

Rebellion against God results in being cast out of his service. God doesn't run the affairs of the spiritual world or our…

— Michael S. Heiser

If you don't have the worldview of the people who produced the Bible - under inspiration no less, - you can't understand…

— Michael S. Heiser

The powers of darkness are still part of the spiritual world - they don't become something else when they rebel against God.…

— Michael S. Heiser

The truth is that we don't know much about the spiritual world except for what Scripture tells us, so it's unwise to…

— Michael S. Heiser

Ruling the way God wants you to rule means fostering the ordered relationships he desires, not because he is a killjoy, but…

— Michael S. Heiser

God doesn't save us to perpetuate a particular Christian sub-culture. He saves us to advance a supernatural kingdom that is not of…

— Michael S. Heiser

“Conversations didn’t always end well. That sort of thing happens when you demand that creeds and traditions get in line behind the…

— Michael S. Heiser

We impose our modern worldview on the Bible to make it conform to our intellectual happy place. But we deceive ourselves into…

— Michael S. Heiser

How much of what the biblical writers believed about the supernatural world do I believe? They weren't us. We are products of…

— Michael S. Heiser

Angels can fail because God allows them to make decisions and they are lesser beings than the perfect God. They can go…

— Michael S. Heiser

“All of what preceded is the unknown (to us) backdrop to some familiar episodes in the Gospels.”

— Michael S. Heiser

Scholarship aimed at truly understanding what the biblical writers meant often does not filter down into the church and through the pulpit…

— Michael S. Heiser

We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.

— Michael S. Heiser

God wants the world to function in an orderly way, not a chaotic way, so teaching humans to do what's right and…

— Michael S. Heiser

When biblical material touches on the natural world, we can legitimately use the tools of science. Sometimes that shows us - no…

— Michael S. Heiser

It's important for people in the Church to realize that the way they talk and think about the Bible isn't the way…

— Michael S. Heiser

“biblical theology by definition comes from the biblical text (or ought to), not from Christian history or the writings of Christians about…

— Michael S. Heiser