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Bible Bard podcast episode BB-115_Psalms 19_The Two Witnesses provides a literary analysis of Psalms 19 concerning the two witnesses the writer discusses that answer the questions who is God and who are human beings. For a transcript, go to www. BibleBard.org, click the PDF link. Select the Donations tab to support the Bible Bard podcast.

In the Bible Bard episode BB_Lesson_54 Are You a Deist we discussed the idea most religions teach that God is not personally involved with humans, He is far away doing God things. In today's episode BB-116 God's Personal Presence we look at what the Bible says about whether we, the average people, not the saints of the church or heroes of the Bible can experience the personal presence of God. For...

Bible Bard podcast episode BB-112 About the Original Abraham Accords looks at the character Abraham (Abram) as described in the Bible. The September 2020 Abraham Accords (AA) established diplomatic relations between the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Sudan, Morocco and Israel. In the future, Trump II wants to extend the AA to include Syria, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia. Many who haven't attende...

There is a famous prophet named Balaam in the Bible (PDF: NumbersChapters 22-24 ) who is also known from an archaeological discovery (1967) at Tell Deir ʿ Alla in the Jordan Valley (east of the Jordan River). Today, we look at his story in the Bible.

Bible Bard podcast episode BB-111 About Discouragement contrasts and compares what the literature of the Bible says about dealing with human discouragement compared to other personal and self-transformative religions teach. Get a transcript at www. BibleBard.org by clicking the PDF link. Support the Bible Bard podcast on Patreon . As little as $1/week or $5/month helps to cover the costs of the po...

This episode of the Bible Bard podcast, BB-113 Rationality and the Bible, looks at how the story of John the Baptist is told from Matthew Ch 13. What kind of argument convinces you? The literature of the Bible uses visual imagery, metaphorical, and symbolic content, with the factual essence of the story to present an argument about who Jesus is. Click the link to follow along. Follow along reading...

In this episode of the Bible Bard podcast, we look at a mystery: an eternal plan of God that He has not revealed to us. We are told in the Bible that such an eternal plan exists, but we are not given many details. In this podcast I want to discuss something about this mystery plan. For a transcript, go to www. BibleBard.org.

In this episode we look at several people who appear in the stories of the Bible that seem to be doomed. Three of them are: Pharoah, king of Egypt, Judas, and the Son of Perdition. Using literary methods of compare and contrast we see what the Bible is teaching through these stories. For a transcript, go to www. BibleBard.org.

In this episode of the Bible Bard podcast, we look at the most ancient list of morals and ethics that human beings tried to follow. For a transcript, go to www. BibleBard.org.

In this episode of the Bible Bard podcast, we again look at the use of figurative language in the Bible, including its most repetitive metaphors. Figurative language is important in a literary study because it takes one thing that is known and applies it to another thing that is unknown. When the Bible answers the question, “Who is God?’ metaphors are required because an immortal, invisible, spiri...

For the last 10,000+ years or more, human beings who become aware of their own often poor decisions have turned to priests, magicians, and holy men for guidance. This episode of the Bible Bard podcast looks at what the Bible says directly about using occult actors to affect the supernatural world. The Bible Bard provides a literary analysis of key ideas from the Bible that describe who God is and...

This episode of the Bible Bard podcast continues the discussion from BB-99 of what the Bible teaches when it asserts that God has no favorites. The Bible Bard provides a literary analysis of key ideas from the Bible that describe who God is and who are human beings. The texts chosen are self-explanatory but offered because their clarity describing who God is and who are humans. For those who know...

This episode of the Bible Bard podcast discusses the popular topic Bible Prophecy and End Times. While the Bible Bard does not take a position on ideas or concepts from the Bible that are disputable - this episode provides listeners with the background of what others Bible promoters and End Times prognosticators are talking about. The Bible Bard provides a literary analysis of key ideas from the B...

This episode of the Bible Bard podcast deals with what the Bible teaches about the source of human knowledge: 1) The creation we observe around us by using our senses and our powers or reasoning; 2) Revelation from God either through written text or directly to the mind and heart of a human being. The Bible Bard provides a literary analysis of key ideas from the Bible that describe who God is and...

This episode of the Bible Bard podcast looks at what the Bible says about hidden or secret believers in the God of the Bible or in Jesus Christ. The Bible Bard provides a literary analysis of key ideas from the Bible that describe who God is and who are human beings. The texts chosen are self-explanatory, but offered because their clarity describing who God is and who are humans. For those who kno...

This is the Bible Bard’s 101st English podcast episode where we examine from a literary point-of-view what the Bible says about who is God and who are human beings. The podcast is published in eight (8) languages including English , Bengali , Chichewa , Hindi , Spanish , Swahili , and Urdu , with additional languages in process. If you or someone you know is interested in becoming a translator, co...

Watch the full Bible Bard promo video here: BB-01 What is the Bible Bard? The Bible Bard is a weekly podcast that presents what the literature of the Bible clearly states about God and human beings. The Bible Bard presents what the Bible itself directly and clearly states about a subject. The Bible Bard podcast isn’t here to push the ideas of any religious sect on you. The Bible Bard is a public s...

In today's episode we're looking at the thought that God is not human. This is such an important idea. To understand the Bible teaching, we listen to what the Bible says about this concept. We find in three sample statements, two negative and one positive, what God isn’t and what he is. If God is not human, what is he? The answer the Bible gives, he is a spirit. At this moment, that’s all we know....

In today's episode we are looking at the thought that the Bible considers its God the only God. Per our methodology, we listen to what the Bible says about ideas in sample texts. These texts are very clear. There is no ambiguity. The biblical thought is the same in the original languages and in any translation - it says the same thing. But some Bible declarations are hard, dogmatic things to say,...

In this episode, the Bible teaches that God is omniscient, he knows everything. As we always do, the Bible Bard looks inductively at sample Bible texts that declare who God is and what God is like. And remember, we are looking for what the Bible says. It doesn't matter if you or I agree with a statement. What we need to have clear is what the text actually says. Our sample texts clearly state that...

In our last podcast we heard that God knows everything. In this week’s reading we hear about where God lives, and his attribute called omnipresence . The Bible texts we examine are clear; its God is present everywhere at the same time all the time. Omnipresence means God is here in this room with me, he is present wherever you are, and he is present in the solar system of the farthest star, all at...

In our last podcast, we heard that God lives everywhere at the same time. In this week’s reading we hear that God has unlimited power, He is omnipotent. Up to this point, the Bible Bard has enumerated three great, unique, abilities or qualities of God, as stated in the Bible: He knows everything, He is present everywhere, and in today's lesson He has unlimited power. The Bible Bard presents what t...

In this episode, first of a two-part podcast, we are discussing God’s positive and negative emotions. In past podcasts we have looked at attributes of God that describe God as a very strange, abstract character. If all we knew about the Bible's God were these six things, he would be too difficult for us to relate to. Throughout its contents, the Bible describes how God’s feelings, his positive and...

This is the second of a two-part podcast about God’s emotions. Previously, we looked at six (6) core qualities that separate God from humanity making him too difficult to relate to. For example, the idea that of God's omnipresence , that He is everywhere at the same time, is difficult for us as human beings to understand or relate to. But God’s core attributes are not all the Bible teaches about G...

In the previous couple of podcasts, we’ve looked at God’s ‘negative’ and ‘positive’ emotions. In this lesson we are quoting several passages in the Bible that speak of God's justice and his righteousness. As a human being, how I feel about an event that happens to me, or I witness, depends on the morality I’ve been taught or not taught. In this episode we look at some sample texts that describe Go...