Do you want to read and understand the Bible but don't know where to start? DR. JOHN BERGSMA joins VOLTAIRE DELOS REYES and Jay to talk about the basics. It's all about the covenants.

Dr. Bergsma has been a Protestant pastor for four years before entering the Catholic Church in 2001. He got his Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame. He specialize in the Old Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls graduating with high honors in 2004. Author of many books including Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Stunned by Scripture How the Bible Made Me Catholic, and Bible Basics for Catholics: A New Picture of Salvation History. He is now a professor of Theology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville.

Voltaire joins us for the 2nd time as co-host. He is one of the co-panels in our weekly Unboxing the Bible series in Unboxing Catholicism Live, every Sundays at 8PM. He also has his Youtube channel called The Noisy Sheep.

In this episode, we talked a bit about Dr. Bergsma's conversion to the Catholic faith, the meaning of the word covenant, some interesting bits in the Adamic, Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic covenants, and ultimately, how all the Old Testament covenants were fulfilled in the everlasting covenant of Christ.

Follow Dr. Bergsma's works in www.catholicbibleteacher.com and www.stpaulcenter.com

Bible Basics for Catholics: A New Picture of Salvation History is available in Kindle by clicking this link -- https://amzn.to/40OovUP

Follow Voltaire Delos Reyes's daily reflection on Mass readings at The Noisy Sheep in Youtube.

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