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.

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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.

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Bible Bard podcast episode BB-115 Psalms 19, The Two Witnesses is about two things the Bible says speak to all humans about who is God and who are human beings: nature and the scripture.

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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 ʿAlla in the Jordan Valley (east of the Jordan River). Today, we look at his story in the Bible.

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 attended a Christian Sunday School may ask, why name the Accords after this ancient Bible character Abraham? This episode looks at what makes the character Abraham the perfect name to create a sense of unity between fractious ethnicities, it is a good idea to recall their common heritage, father Abraham.

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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.

Matthew 13 John the Baptist PDF

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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