Douglas Jacoby Podcast

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For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. THE QUESTION: Why did the man Jesus come to earth? Why not a woman: the daughter of God—a female Messiah? JESUS CAME AS A SON NOT BECAUSE: Male is better -- Galatians 3:28 contradicts this. God is only analogically masculine, not sexually masculine. When we pray Our Father, it’s not because God is male – since he isn’t a sexual being....

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Historicity Three possibilities Mythological Existed, but the Bible has reinvented him Existed, portrayed accurately in the Bible Jesus (2 BC-33 AD) v. Tiberius (emperor 14-37 AD), within 150 years of their lives. Jesus: 42 sources – 9 secular + 33 Christian Tiberius: 10 sources, including Gospel of Luke. (To be fair, there are also do...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Cool quotes on doubt : The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth. -- Pierre Abelard There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking . -- Alfred Korzybski "... both the believe...

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For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. In this podcast I am reading the original (pre-edit) draft of chapter 5 of A Quick Overview of the Bible: How All the Pieces Fit Together. The book was released in February 2012. Harvest House allows me to read aloud one chapter of any book I have written. Since what I read is not the final version, there may be some small differences...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 12 questions are covered in this podcast. (The chapter has 27 questions and answers in all.) When was the earth created? Does the Bible tell us how old the world is? Is the Big Bang Theory compatible with the Bible? Was the world made in seven literal days? Are evolution and the Bible compatible? Did Adam have a belly button? Was Eve m...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Life of Nietzsche Born, 1844 in Röcken, Prussia. Father and both grandfathers clergymen. Father dies, after suffering mental illness, 1848. Leaves theology school, 1865. Physical and mental collapse, 1879. Writes  The Antichrist (vitriolic anti-Christian polemic), 1888. Enters state of vegetative insanity, 1889. Dies, probably of syphi...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. If you liked chapter 2, consider reading the previous chapter. The publisher has made chapter 1, "Clearing Away the Debris: Arguments Against the Reality of God," available to read at no charge: CHAPTER 1 . To order the whole book, click ENTIRE BOOK . This includes 13 chapters, 3 appendixes, and further resources. (Since Compelling Evi...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. PERSECUTION Passages: 2 Tim 3:12; John 15:18-21; Matt 5:10-12; 1 Pet 4:3-4; Luke 6:22-23, 26; Heb 10:32-39 Examples: Verbal opposition (slander, mockery, abuse, misrepresentation, false accusation), confiscation, social exclusion, exile, being sent to the mines, torture, execution. MARTYRDOM   Scripture: Rev 12:11 Martyr < martus , wit...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Most of us have heard of the Inquisition, but may be sketchy on the details. Yet this is important stuff - an aspect of history that we definitely don't want repeating itself. Definition According to the Oxford English Dictionary , the Inquisition is "An ecclesiastical tribunal established by Pope Gregory IX c.1232 for the suppression...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Definition : Simplified historical overview: 300s-600s -- Most of the Holy Land is part of the Eastern (Byzantine) Roman Empire. 600s -- this territory becomes part of the Caliphate (Islamic). 1000s-1100s -- Christian warriors and peasants (all strata of society participated) strive to take back the land, establishing Crusader States,...

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For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Here are the links for the major classes given in the 2015 Biblical Study Tour. The theme was "Finding God When the Church is Adrift," and the teaching took place in the very cities where the early history of the Protestant Reformation played out. Our route took us from Wittenberg to Zurich to Geneva -- that is, from Luther to Zwingli...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Here are the links for the major classes given in the 2015 Biblical Study Tour. The theme was "Finding God When the Church is Adrift," and the teaching took place in the very cities where the early history of the Protestant Reformation played out. Our route took us from Wittenberg to Zurich to Geneva -- that is, from Luther to Zwingli...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Here are the links for the major classes given in the 2015 Biblical Study Tour. The theme was "Finding God When the Church is Adrift," and the teaching took place in the very cities where the early history of the Protestant Reformation played out. Our route took us from Wittenberg to Zurich to Geneva -- that is, from Luther to Zwingli...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Here are the links for the major classes given in the 2015 Biblical Study Tour. The theme was "Finding God When the Church is Adrift," and the teaching took place in the very cities where the early history of the Protestant Reformation played out. Our route took us from Wittenberg to Zurich to Geneva -- that is, from Luther to Zwingli...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Here are the links for the major classes given in the 2015 Biblical Study Tour. The theme was "Finding God When the Church is Adrift," and the teaching took place in the very cities where the early history of the Protestant Reformation played out. Our route took us from Wittenberg to Zurich to Geneva -- that is, from Luther to Zwingli...