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  • ISAIAH, Chapter 49
    “Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD:
    though your sins are like scarlet,
    they shall be as white as snow;
    though they are red like crimson,
    they shall become like wool.
    If you are willing and obedient,
    you shall eat the good of the land;
    but if you refuse and rebel,
    you shall be eaten by the sword;
    for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”
     
    Isaiah 1:18–20 (ESV)
     

    If you want to know that "the LORD He is God! the LORD, He is God!" (1 Kings 18:39) your search for confirmation finds its best resolution in the book of Isaiah. I would argue that Isaiah, more even than Elisha, "wore the prophetic mantle" of Elijah. Only John the Baptist was a greater merely human incarnation of the role of prophet (Matthew 11:11).

    Isaiah 42:9 tells us: "Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

    Below find two articles that discuss fulfilled Old Testament prophecies. By any objective measure, only God could do this.

    As with other books of the Bible, we suggest this brief overview of Isaiah. May your listening to this great OT prophet be as blessed by God as was our reading of it!
     

    https://youtu.be/d0A6Uchb1F8?si=Nhsvg2DCZgWRZq_7

     

    Check out these two articles on calculations of the probability of one first-century man, Jesus, fulfilling so many OT prophecies!

    https://nickcady.org/2020/02/18/the-statistical-probability-of-jesus-fulfilling-the-messianic-prophecies/

    https://firmisrael.org/learn/how-many-messianic-prophecies-did-jesus-fulfill/#:~:text=After%20all%2C%20Jesus%2

    7 min
  • Martin Luther’s 95 Theses (Oct 31, 1517), Part 3

    On October 31st, 1517, thirty-three-year-old priest and professor of theology, Martin Luther, nailed his academic disputes against the papal practice of indulgences onto the door of the Castle Church in Wittenburg. The theses were originally written in Latin, the academic language of the day. Luther was excommunicated by pope Leo X in 1520, and declared an outlaw of the Holy Roman Empire by Charles V in 1521. This event has often been seen as the spark that set the Protestant Reformation ablaze, yet few today are familiar with the content of the 95 Theses. They are presented here in three installments to familiarize a new generation with these world-shaking propositions.

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    For more great content, check out our other podcasts:

    Simple Gifts: where the written word is spoken for you … https://pod.link/1557528158

    The Christian Atheist: where faith and reason fuse in the incarnation …https://pod.link/1553077203

    #martinluther #95theses #castlechurchwittenburg #reformation #protestant #1517 #protestantism #lutheran #popeleox #holyromanempire #charlesv #excommunication #thechristianatheist #drjohndwise #drjohnwise #johnwise #christian #atheist #christianity #atheism #jesus #jesuschrist #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #hegelianism  #hegel #reason #incarnation #history#psychology #theology #literature #humanities #hardquestions #postmodernism #woke #wisdom #ethics #science #poetry #paradox #oxymoron

    10 min
  • Martin Luther’s 95 Theses (Oct 31, 1517), Part 2

    On October 31st, 1517, thirty-three-year-old priest and professor of theology, Martin Luther, nailed his academic disputes against the papal practice of indulgences onto the door of the Castle Church in Wittenburg. The theses were originally written in Latin, the academic language of the day. Luther was excommunicated by pope Leo X in 1520, and declared an outlaw of the Holy Roman Empire by Charles V in 1521. This event has often been seen as the spark that set the Protestant Reformation ablaze, yet few today are familiar with the content of the 95 Theses. They are presented here in three installments to familiarize a new generation with these world-shaking propositions.

    If you enjoy our content, consider donating through PayPal via https://ko-fi.com/thechristianatheist

    https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured

    https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords

    https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com

     

    For more great content, check out our other podcasts:

    Simple Gifts: where the written word is spoken for you … https://pod.link/1557528158

    The Christian Atheist: where faith and reason fuse in the incarnation …https://pod.link/1553077203

    #martinluther #95theses #castlechurchwittenburg #reformation #protestant #1517 #protestantism #lutheran #popeleox #holyromanempire #charlesv #excommunication #thechristianatheist #drjohndwise #drjohnwise #johnwise #christian #atheist #christianity #atheism #jesus #jesuschrist #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #hegelianism  #hegel #reason #incarnation #history#psychology #theology #literature #humanities #hardquestions #postmodernism #woke #wisdom #ethics #science #poetry #paradox #oxymoron

    8 min
  • Martin Luther’s 95 Theses (Oct 31, 1517), Part 1

    On October 31st, 1517, thirty-three-year-old priest and professor of theology, Martin Luther, nailed his academic disputes against the papal practice of indulgences onto the door of the Castle Church in Wittenburg. The theses were originally written in Latin, the academic language of the day. Luther was excommunicated by pope Leo X in 1520, and declared an outlaw of the Holy Roman Empire by Charles V in 1521. This event has often been seen as the spark that set the Protestant Reformation ablaze, yet few today are familiar with the content of the 95 Theses. They are presented here in three installments to familiarize a new generation with these world-shaking propositions.

    If you enjoy our content, consider donating through PayPal via https://ko-fi.com/thechristianatheist

    https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured

    https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords

    https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com

     

    For more great content, check out our other podcasts:

    Simple Gifts: where the written word is spoken for you … https://pod.link/1557528158

    The Christian Atheist: where faith and reason fuse in the incarnation …https://pod.link/1553077203

    #martinluther #95theses #castlechurchwittenburg #reformation #protestant #1517 #protestantism #lutheran #popeleox #holyromanempire #charlesv #excommunication #thechristianatheist #drjohndwise #drjohnwise #johnwise #christian #atheist #christianity #atheism #jesus #jesuschrist #god #bible #oldtestament #newtestament #nocompromise #rationality #faith #philosophy #philosopher #culture #society #hegelianism  #hegel #reason #incarnation #history#psychology #theology #literature #humanities #hardquestions #postmodernism #woke #wisdom #ethics #science #poetry #paradox #oxymoron

    10 min
  • ISAIAH, Chapter 48
    “Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD:
    though your sins are like scarlet,
    they shall be as white as snow;
    though they are red like crimson,
    they shall become like wool.
    If you are willing and obedient,
    you shall eat the good of the land;
    but if you refuse and rebel,
    you shall be eaten by the sword;
    for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”
     
    Isaiah 1:18–20 (ESV)
     

    If you want to know that "the LORD He is God! the LORD, He is God!" (1 Kings 18:39) your search for confirmation finds its best resolution in the book of Isaiah. I would argue that Isaiah, more even than Elisha, "wore the prophetic mantle" of Elijah. Only John the Baptist was a greater merely human incarnation of the role of prophet (Matthew 11:11).

    Isaiah 42:9 tells us: "Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

    Below find two articles that discuss fulfilled Old Testament prophecies. By any objective measure, only God could do this.

    As with other books of the Bible, we suggest this brief overview of Isaiah. May your listening to this great OT prophet be as blessed by God as was our reading of it!
     

    https://youtu.be/d0A6Uchb1F8?si=Nhsvg2DCZgWRZq_7

     

    Check out these two articles on calculations of the probability of one first-century man, Jesus, fulfilling so many OT prophecies!

    https://nickcady.org/2020/02/18/the-statistical-probability-of-jesus-fulfilling-the-messianic-prophecies/

    https://firmisrael.org/learn/how-many-messianic-prophecies-did-jesus-fulfill/#:~:text=After%20all%2C%20Jesus%2

    6 min
  • ISAIAH, Chapter 47
    “Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD:
    though your sins are like scarlet,
    they shall be as white as snow;
    though they are red like crimson,
    they shall become like wool.
    If you are willing and obedient,
    you shall eat the good of the land;
    but if you refuse and rebel,
    you shall be eaten by the sword;
    for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”
     
    Isaiah 1:18–20 (ESV)
     

    If you want to know that "the LORD He is God! the LORD, He is God!" (1 Kings 18:39) your search for confirmation finds its best resolution in the book of Isaiah. I would argue that Isaiah, more even than Elisha, "wore the prophetic mantle" of Elijah. Only John the Baptist was a greater merely human incarnation of the role of prophet (Matthew 11:11).

    Isaiah 42:9 tells us: "Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

    Below find two articles that discuss fulfilled Old Testament prophecies. By any objective measure, only God could do this.

    As with other books of the Bible, we suggest this brief overview of Isaiah. May your listening to this great OT prophet be as blessed by God as was our reading of it!
     

    https://youtu.be/d0A6Uchb1F8?si=Nhsvg2DCZgWRZq_7

     

    Check out these two articles on calculations of the probability of one first-century man, Jesus, fulfilling so many OT prophecies!

    https://nickcady.org/2020/02/18/the-statistical-probability-of-jesus-fulfilling-the-messianic-prophecies/

    https://firmisrael.org/learn/how-many-messianic-prophecies-did-jesus-fulfill/#:~:text=After%20all%2C%20Jesus%2

    4 min
  • ISAIAH, Chapter 46
    “Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD:
    though your sins are like scarlet,
    they shall be as white as snow;
    though they are red like crimson,
    they shall become like wool.
    If you are willing and obedient,
    you shall eat the good of the land;
    but if you refuse and rebel,
    you shall be eaten by the sword;
    for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”
     
    Isaiah 1:18–20 (ESV)
     

    If you want to know that "the LORD He is God! the LORD, He is God!" (1 Kings 18:39) your search for confirmation finds its best resolution in the book of Isaiah. I would argue that Isaiah, more even than Elisha, "wore the prophetic mantle" of Elijah. Only John the Baptist was a greater merely human incarnation of the role of prophet (Matthew 11:11).

    Isaiah 42:9 tells us: "Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

    Below find two articles that discuss fulfilled Old Testament prophecies. By any objective measure, only God could do this.

    As with other books of the Bible, we suggest this brief overview of Isaiah. May your listening to this great OT prophet be as blessed by God as was our reading of it!
     

    https://youtu.be/d0A6Uchb1F8?si=Nhsvg2DCZgWRZq_7

     

    Check out these two articles on calculations of the probability of one first-century man, Jesus, fulfilling so many OT prophecies!

    https://nickcady.org/2020/02/18/the-statistical-probability-of-jesus-fulfilling-the-messianic-prophecies/

    https://firmisrael.org/learn/how-many-messianic-prophecies-did-jesus-fulfill/#:~:text=After%20all%2C%20Jesus%2

    3 min
  • ISAIAH, Chapter 45
    “Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD:
    though your sins are like scarlet,
    they shall be as white as snow;
    though they are red like crimson,
    they shall become like wool.
    If you are willing and obedient,
    you shall eat the good of the land;
    but if you refuse and rebel,
    you shall be eaten by the sword;
    for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”
     
    Isaiah 1:18–20 (ESV)
     

    If you want to know that "the LORD He is God! the LORD, He is God!" (1 Kings 18:39) your search for confirmation finds its best resolution in the book of Isaiah. I would argue that Isaiah, more even than Elisha, "wore the prophetic mantle" of Elijah. Only John the Baptist was a greater merely human incarnation of the role of prophet (Matthew 11:11).

    Isaiah 42:9 tells us: "Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

    Below find two articles that discuss fulfilled Old Testament prophecies. By any objective measure, only God could do this.

    As with other books of the Bible, we suggest this brief overview of Isaiah. May your listening to this great OT prophet be as blessed by God as was our reading of it!
     

    https://youtu.be/d0A6Uchb1F8?si=Nhsvg2DCZgWRZq_7

     

    Check out these two articles on calculations of the probability of one first-century man, Jesus, fulfilling so many OT prophecies!

    https://nickcady.org/2020/02/18/the-statistical-probability-of-jesus-fulfilling-the-messianic-prophecies/

    https://firmisrael.org/learn/how-many-messianic-prophecies-did-jesus-fulfill/#:~:text=After%20all%2C%20Jesus%2

    7 min
  • ISAIAH, Chapter 44
    “Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD:
    though your sins are like scarlet,
    they shall be as white as snow;
    though they are red like crimson,
    they shall become like wool.
    If you are willing and obedient,
    you shall eat the good of the land;
    but if you refuse and rebel,
    you shall be eaten by the sword;
    for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”
     
    Isaiah 1:18–20 (ESV)
     

    If you want to know that "the LORD He is God! the LORD, He is God!" (1 Kings 18:39) your search for confirmation finds its best resolution in the book of Isaiah. I would argue that Isaiah, more even than Elisha, "wore the prophetic mantle" of Elijah. Only John the Baptist was a greater merely human incarnation of the role of prophet (Matthew 11:11).

    Isaiah 42:9 tells us: "Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

    Below find two articles that discuss fulfilled Old Testament prophecies. By any objective measure, only God could do this.

    As with other books of the Bible, we suggest this brief overview of Isaiah. May your listening to this great OT prophet be as blessed by God as was our reading of it!
     

    https://youtu.be/d0A6Uchb1F8?si=Nhsvg2DCZgWRZq_7

     

    Check out these two articles on calculations of the probability of one first-century man, Jesus, fulfilling so many OT prophecies!

    https://nickcady.org/2020/02/18/the-statistical-probability-of-jesus-fulfilling-the-messianic-prophecies/

    https://firmisrael.org/learn/how-many-messianic-prophecies-did-jesus-fulfill/#:~:text=After%20all%2C%20Jesus%2

    7 min
  • ISAIAH, Chapter 43
    “Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD:
    though your sins are like scarlet,
    they shall be as white as snow;
    though they are red like crimson,
    they shall become like wool.
    If you are willing and obedient,
    you shall eat the good of the land;
    but if you refuse and rebel,
    you shall be eaten by the sword;
    for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”
     
    Isaiah 1:18–20 (ESV)
     

    If you want to know that "the LORD He is God! the LORD, He is God!" (1 Kings 18:39) your search for confirmation finds its best resolution in the book of Isaiah. I would argue that Isaiah, more even than Elisha, "wore the prophetic mantle" of Elijah. Only John the Baptist was a greater merely human incarnation of the role of prophet (Matthew 11:11).

    Isaiah 42:9 tells us: "Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

    Below find two articles that discuss fulfilled Old Testament prophecies. By any objective measure, only God could do this.

    As with other books of the Bible, we suggest this brief overview of Isaiah. May your listening to this great OT prophet be as blessed by God as was our reading of it!
     

    https://youtu.be/d0A6Uchb1F8?si=Nhsvg2DCZgWRZq_7

     

    Check out these two articles on calculations of the probability of one first-century man, Jesus, fulfilling so many OT prophecies!

    https://nickcady.org/2020/02/18/the-statistical-probability-of-jesus-fulfilling-the-messianic-prophecies/

    https://firmisrael.org/learn/how-many-messianic-prophecies-did-jesus-fulfill/#:~:text=After%20all%2C%20Jesus%2

    6 min

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Simple Gifts is the gift of time and freedom. It is the simple presentation of the written word spoken without commentary. Join us in ruminating on great stories, poems, history, philosophy, theology, art and science. Amidst chaos, find the “valley of love and delight,” a true simplicity, where “to bow and to bend we will not be ashamed,” where we can ponder the greatest words ever written, turning them over and over, “till by turning, turning, we come round right.”