A New Voice of Freedom

Season 4 Podcast 150, A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 5, “Heaven.” If Intelligence self-exists, we must answer the question, Why is God, God? To do that we must know the nature of God. There are certain absolutes we must recognize, or things will not make sense. To understand the conclusions presented in this podcast, I asked you to accept the following four assu...

Season 4 Podcast 149 Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen, Book I, Canto 8 Pt II Episode 21 “King Arthur Slays the Giant Orgoglio.”  In last week’s episode, King Arthur, his squire, and Una are led to the giant’s castle by the dwarf. The squire blows his magic horn and all the gates of the castle fly open.  Duessa riding a many headed beast and the giant Orgoglio attack King Arthur and his squire whi...

Season 4 Podcast 148 The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew Ch 18:1-14, Pt I, “That Which is Lost.” The disciples, who from the beginning have been taught about the Kingdom of Heaven, ask Christ a very human question.  1 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? Perhaps the Savior wondered if they had even listened to the Sermon on the...

Season 4 Podcast 147, A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 4, “God and the Existence of Absolute Law.” As recorded in the last podcast, in “The God Delusion,” Mr. Richard Dawkins makes the following statement. “However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the U...

Season 4 Podcast 146 Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen, Book I, Canto 8 Pt I Episode 20 “King Arthur and the Giant.”  In last week’s episode, King Arthur, perceiving Una’s grief, persuades her to tell her entire story. Una is so distraught that she at first refuses to confide in King Arthur. The wise King Arthur persists so Una relates the story of how her parents are held captive by the dragon an...

Season 4 Podcast 145 The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew Ch 17:14-27, Pt 1I, “The Law of Miracles.” Let’s examine verses 14-21. First we have a statement of the problem, verses 14-15 14 And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying, 15 Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatic, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the...

Season 4 Podcast 144, A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 3, is entitled, “Mount Improbability.”  In a previous podcast I analyzed Richard Dawkins—The God Delusion—for his use of the anthropic principle as an alternative to Intelligent design (Listen to Season 4 Podcast 141, “The Fallacy of the Anthropic Principle.”). In this podcast I shall simply point out the inco...

Season 4 Podcast 143 Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen, Book I, Canto 7 Pt III Episode 19 “King Arthur Counsels Una. In last week’s episode, Una by chance meets King Arthur, the greatest of all knights.  She tells him her sad tale, almost fainting with grief. She recounts the story of her own parents who are held captive by a great dragon. She relates how many knights have failed in trying to free...

Season 4 Podcast 142 The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew Ch 17:1-13, Pt 1, “The Mount of Transfiguration.” Matthew 17 contains one of the most unique events in scripture, The Mount of Transfiguration.  “And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them.”  The Oxford English Dictionary defines...

Season 4 Podcast 141, A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 2, “The Fallacy of the Anthropic Principle.”  In his Preface to “The God Delusion,” Richard Dawkins stated,  “If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down.”  First let me point out the obvious. There are two assumptions we must accept. 1.     Science and...

Season 4 Podcast 140 Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen, Book I, Canto 7 Pt II Episode 18 “King Arthur   In last week’s episode, The Redcross Knight is seduced by Duessa and captured by the giant Orgoglio and put into a dungeon.  In this podcast we continue with the adventures of the Redcross Knight who is languishing in the dungeon of the giant Orgoglio. The dwarf witnessed the Red Cross Knight’s...

Season 4 Podcast 139 The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew Ch 16:13-28, Pt 3, “The Chief Cornerstone.” We know that the sermon on the mount established the doctrines of Christ. There was never a sermon before nor after that has its equal.  But it would be difficult to find a chapter more pivotal than Matthew Chapter 16. Everything is about to change dramatically. People are still uncertain of...

Perhaps the greatest physical evidence of intelligent design is the equal and opposite struggle between creation and destruction.  It prevents both the future and the past from overlapping and locks us into an eternal present. The future exists and the past exists, but not in the world of entropy balanced by the forces of opposition.  We are frozen in the great here and now between the past and th...

Season 4 Podcast 137 Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen, Book I, Canto 7 Pt I Episode 17 “The Giant Orgoglio  In last week’s episode, Una was led out of the forest by Satyrane. When confronted by Sansloy who sought the destruction of Una, Satyrane attacks him. As the battle rages, Una flees only to fall into the grasp of a greater enemy, Archimago, who lies to Una and says her Redcross Knight is de...

Season 4 Podcast 136 The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew Ch 16:5-12, Pt 2, “The Language of the Heart.” We know that Christ often spoke in parables, using extended analogy, requiring us to look at one thing and see another. In Matthew 16: 5-12, Christ teaches his disciples and us how to read and interpret scriptures through simile and metaphor.  Simile says one thing is like another Metaphor...

Season 4 Podcast 135, In Defense of Christianity, “The Sabbath Day, Part VIII, Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy 4, The Sacrament or The Lord’s Supper.”  One symbol that should be of primary importance in Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy is the Holy Sacrament or The Lord’s Supper. The sacrament is among the holiest ordinances of the church. During Passover, the night before he was betrayed, Christ institut...

Season 4 Podcast 134 Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen, Book I, Canto 6 Pt II Episode 16 “The Perils of Una In last week’s episode, Una was saved from the evil Sansloy by the Woodgods which consisted of Fauns and Satyrs. They think she is a God. She orders them not to worship her and tries to teach them truth and light. They become her great friends. In this podcast we continue with Una’s trials....

Season 4 Podcast 133 The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew Ch 16:1-4, Pt 1, “The Sign of Jonah.” The first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. I think one could spend a lifetime and never come to the bottom of faith. Perhaps most of us are familiar with the following scriptures and have even been envious of the faith of others, ·      Not found so great faith … in Israel...

Season 4 Podcast 132, In Defense of Christianity, “The Sabbath Day, Part VII, Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy 3.”  The final proposition is like the previous one presented in Podcast 129, Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy 2. Proposition 13: The Lord hallowed the sabbath day.  The words blessed and hallowed clearly overlap, but there are distinctions.  Synonyms for blessed are— 1.     consecrated,  2.     ...

Season 4 Podcast 131 Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen, Book I, Canto 6 Pt I Episode 15 “The Perils of Una."  In last week’s episode, Sansjoy is healed by Aesculapius, but he must remain in hell. When Duessa returns to the House of Pride, she discovers that the Redcross Knight has fled.  She pursues him. Canto 6, however, picks up the story of Una from Canto III who has been kidnapped by the...

Season 4 Podcast 130 The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew Ch 15, 21-39, Pt 2, “Miracles.” In Matthew Chapter 15 Part 1, verses 1-20, we examined False Traditions. In this the second half of Matthew 15 we shall address miracles. Matthew 15: 21-26 21 Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. 22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried u...

Season 4 Podcast 129, In Defense of Christianity, “The Sabbath Day, Part VI, Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy 2.”  129, The Sabbath Day, Pt VI, is entitled “Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy 2.” In Podcast 126 Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy 1 we covered the first four propositions: 1.     Remember the sabbath day, 2.     Keep it holy. 3.     Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work.  4.     The sevent...

Season 4 Podcast 128 Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen, Book I, Canto 5, Pt III Episode 14 “Escape from the House of Pride" In last week’s episode, Duessa and Erebus or Night take the comatose body of Sansjoy who is near death from the sword of the Redcross Knight deep into the recesses of Hell to be healed. Erebus, Queen of Darkness, vows vengeance against the Redcross Knight for killing her...

Season 4 Podcast 127 The Stories of the New Testament, Matthew Ch 15, Pt 1, “False Traditions.” Four hundred years separated Malachi, the last prophet of the Old Testament, from John the Baptist, the first prophet of the New Testament. John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ, is the transition between the Old and New Testaments.  During the apostasy, new traditions crept in obscuring the true t...

Season 4 Podcast 126, In Defense of Christianity, “The Sabbath Day, Part V, Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy 1.”  As mentioned in previous podcasts, after the earth was created, God rested from his labors. Genesis 2: 1-3 “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his wor...