What did Paul mean when he used words like "elected" "redeemed" or "justification"? What did these words mean to an early Jew? See how it comes together with our final episode over the Jewish worldview. Next time portion of episodes will look at the Greek and Roman worldview.

This episode is about the importance of zeal for the ancient Jews and how they believed that the glory of the Lord would appear in the temple, the exile would end, and the nations would join in worship of Yaweh when the kingdom came. 

In this episode we talked about the relationship between temple/creation and wisdom/kings. We also talked about how Jesus’s actions in judging the temple and calling himself the temple would have been interpreted in an ancient Jewish context. We looked a little bit at Old Testament prophecies to see how the messiah and God could have been mixed together in ancient Jewish thought. Today we’re going to continue worldview building to get into Paul’s head.

This episode looks at the presence of Yaweh and the role of the divine garden. 

In this episode we delve into what "zeal" meant for a first century Jew, looking at the examples of Phineas, Elijah, and the Maccabees. We discuss how election, monotheism, and eschatology, define them a bit, and look at how it was believed that zeal would exemplify and manifest those three things. 

This one finishes up Philemon by looking at the slavery. Then there is a discussion about the importance of understanding a worldview if you're going to do proper theology. The episode finishes up thinking for a moment about how you would need to understand the American Revolutionary War to understand the current state of America and how that was 200 years ago. One hundred and seventy years before Jesus's time was the time of the Maccabees. We start with that story and talk about the persecution under Antiochus Epiphanes IV and end with Mattathias killing the traitor Jew and escaping into the desert. 

In this episode we will compare a letter from Pliny the Younger to a letter from Paul. What was Paul's place in the Roman world? How did his worldview differ from the worldview around him. Once we learn that we can then go on to reading Paul's letters and figuring out what he's actually trying to say.

This time we will look at the process that makes deuterium, helium 4, resonance, and carbon 12. Hope you enjoy!

What is fine tuning? Are there ways to argue for God using the natural world? Find out this episode. 

I go through parts I've highlighted of Surah 2 as I read.