Bennis The Menace Pod

If you don't think God has a sense of humor, check out this hilarious story! Trying to pick up girls in Romania will never be the same! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/bennis-the-menace-pod--6838881/support .

This was an interesting episode of the Lex Fridman podcast where Donald Hoffman helped me realize even from a naturalistic or evolutionary perspective you can not deny that there is more to this reality than we are able to perceive or experience with the senses we have developed.   Here is a link to the episode I'm referring to.   https://youtu.be/reYdQYZ9Rj4 It's interesting though because as a C...

Scientists have recently made the claim, based on extensive evidence, that our universe is not locally real. Confused? Here's an article to help:  https://medium.com/predict/nobel-prize-winning-scientists-findings-show-the-universe-isn-t-real-51cde7685600 What's that you say? You don't buy it? What about some of the other leading theories out there aimed at explaining away our reality? The Multive...

Don't contact my pastor to excommunicate me or set me aside for church discipline for this one :) I'm just looking at a strange passage in Ezekiel 28, and others, and trying to make sense of the language while performing some creative mental gymnastics :) I'm not promoting this view as true by any means lol. Just thinking out loud. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podca...

We are starting The Bennis The Menace Book Club today!   Tag along as we read through and discuss some pretty amazing books.  Our first read will be The Unseen Realm by Dr. Michael Heiser.   If there's a book you need to read this coming year, it's got to be The Unseen Realm. This book has completely changed my life and my perspective on the Bible, God, and the grand scheme of things. I think it w...

There are always technical difficulties, but I mean come on Eli! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/bennis-the-menace-pod--6838881/support .

Here we go again!   With his amillennial eschatology, Eli believes we are already in the millennial reign of Christ. What else would that mean though? Well for starters, it would mean he believes everything in revelation before the 1000 year millennial kingdom has already happened. He actually believes the antichrist already came, there was already "the mark of the beast", the war of Armageddon ha...

If you do any research into the book of Revelation, you'll quickly see that the primarily quarrel to this day is whether it was written before the destruction of Jerusalem, 70AD, or after. If it was written before Jerusalem's distraction, it's easy to make the argument that John was simply informing his immediate readers of the coming troubles ahead in 70AD. If the book of Revelation was written a...

Christians believe the book of Revelation is an account of the vision John the apostle had sometime between 60-90AD. Was Revelation talking about the destruction of the Jewish temple in 70AD? Or was it talking about a future global event known as Armageddon and the end of this era?  If you believe John was seen a vision of a later future global even, one has to interpret certain passages in Revela...

Ben and Eli bump heads a bit on the possibility that the prophet Isaiah predicted a second virgin birth. Is that possible? Is that a common miracle in the Bible? Or would you say a virgin birth is unique to Christ?   In this passage in Isaiah we clearly see that he predicts a child will be born and that the parents would name it Emanuel. Isaiah uses the same work for the young girl as is used of M...

Alright, here we go! Round two!  Lets see how far into revelation we get this time!   This is the second time we are attempting to get into the book of revelation. Claudiu is on vacation in Cancun so he doesn't have to put up with us this week, but the rest of the boys stand firm.  Dennis is a bit tiered in this one because he's in Florida and we were at this for hours lol. Honestly I think Eli is...

Did God know sin would enter into the world before he ever created humanity? Biblically the answer is yes. But we also know God already had a plan of action in mind. Jesus was the solution. Jesus had to enter into reality and live the perfect life we couldn't live and be the perfect sacrifice no animal could be, in order that he might atone for all sin and save those he calls and put their faith i...

The tree of life has been called many things throughout different cultures and eras. It's possible that the Hebrew concept of the  tree of life is the first of all such concepts.  In the Bible the tree of life is mentioned multiple times. Interestingly enough, the tree is present at the beginning in the garden of Eden found in the book of Genesis, and it's also present at the end, in the book of R...

Amillennial, premillenial, postmillenial, pretribulation rapture, mid tribulation rapture, post tribulation rapture, these are just a few of the major players when studying eschatology (last things). What's always fascinated me is that all of these people all reading the exact same passages and words, but they all come to drastically, even completely apposing views based on the same passages. How...

Have you noticed that we're currently experiencing a revelation in psychedelics? Drugs like DMT, Psilocybin, Peyote, Iowaska and other hallucinogenic / psychedelic drugs are all the rage in culture today. Sure you can argue that this happened before in the 60's with the hippies, but now it's these drugs are widely accepted and promoted, and even legalized in many states and being researched for ma...

This is one of the very first discussion the boys had regarding the big question, why are we doing this?   It's definitely going to get weird up in here. We want to speak to culturally relevant topic such as aliens, ufo's, DMT, marijuana, the book of revelations and end times, Jesus and his second coming, Nephilim and the times of Noah, ancient civilizations etc. etc. Although it might be weird fo...

We all do it. Well at least I do... As a Christian, what does the Bible say when those naughty words slip out? Is it ok for us to cuss and swear?   We got into this discussion as a result of cussing on the podcast. Some of us thought it was ok, other members didn't appreciate it. This talk was a well needed reminder of what the Bible tells us on the topic of swearing. Become a supporter of this po...

Predestination is one of the most debated concepts in Christianity. Some say it's the way God showed his love for us, others say it makes God a monster.   What do you think? Let's get into it! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/bennis-the-menace-pod--6838881/support .

As Christians, we've always been told there aren't any other gods, and when the Bible talked about "other gods" it was simply talking about wood and stone objects silly people in the past used to worship. But is that really what the Bible says?   I dare you to read Psalm 82 in the ESV or NET translation (the 2 most accurate translations to date based on the Dead Sea Scrolls) and tell me if you sti...

Christians Don't Go To Heaven! We Go To The Gold Cube In The Sky! It's called the New Jerusalem. Don't believe me? Read Rev. 21-21.  Most Christians mistakenly believe we will spend eternity in heaven with God. Unfortunately, that concept isn't found anywhere in the Bible. What we do find in Revelation 21 and 22 is that after the Millennial Reign God destroys this reality and create a New Heaven a...

Some people believe believe the book of Revelation is literal and everything in it will happen to a tee. Some people believe it's all metaphorical and eventing in the letter needs to be interpreted.  Where do you stand? Do you think there will be literal dragons and trumpets and a mark of the beast and so on? Or do you think these things are all expressing spiritual truths but won't literally mani...

It's 2v2 on this podcast! Eli and Claudiu vs. Ben and Dennis. Here's an overview of Ben and Dennis's views.  God, Adam, demon / aliens invaded, God wiped out humanity and the nephilim, Noah was real and repopulated the earth, and now it's all happening again!   Jo Rogan and all the other popular figures today won't stop talking about all the weird lights appearing in the skies. What are they and w...

It's 2v2 on this podcast! Eli and Claudiu vs. Ben and Dennis. Here's an overview of Eli and Claudiu's views. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/bennis-the-menace-pod--6838881/support .

Have you ever heard of the Deuteronomy 32 Worldview?  Read along with us in Deut. 32:7-10 as we explore this concept.  Have you ever heard that Yahweh gave the nations over to the lesser gods at the Tower of Babel, but Yahweh took for himself the nation of Israel as his own possession? This will have drastic implications on how you understand the entire Bible!   LET'S GET INTO IT! Become a support...

Let's talk about the practical implications of how the book of Revelation impacts your day to day life.  LET'S GET INTO IT! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/bennis-the-menace-pod--6838881/support .