#10 - Untangling Elohim
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Thanks again everyone for your prayers and for your patience. December and January have been quite the blur! But here we are, with tornados and covid behind us. What’s ahead of us? Well, following our conversations about world-views and about creation we now turn our attention specifically to the two realms and the kingdoms. Where to start? I think a great place to start is to piggy-back off our last podcast concerning the spiritual realm and the creation of spiritual beings. <br/><br/>You’ve probably noticed that I reference these spiritual beings as “elohim” - a word that most Christians consider simply a name for God. This is for good reason, but as you’ll see in today’s episode, this understanding risks being woefully inadequate and downplays the existence of other spiritual beings. This conversation about “elohim” will help begin to inform our understanding of their roles, and their activities in the two kingdoms (the Kingdom of Light, and the Kingdom of Darkness). <br/><br/>But, I confess, this podcast is an introduction to these topics, so I would highly encourage looking at these additional resources for further study:<br/><br/><a href="https://bibleproject.com/podcast/theme-god-e1-god-or-gods/">BibleProject Podcast - “God”</a> - first few episodes in particular<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBxOZqtGTXE&list=PLH0Szn1yYNeef2AIszbltRK15dgoxA_57">BibleProject Video Series: Spiritual Beings</a> <br/><br/><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Unseen-Realm-Recovering-Supernatural-Worldview/dp/1577995562">“Unseen Realm” written by Dr. Michael Heiser</a> - written by an evangelical OT theologian; it can be a bit academic, but there’s another book called “Supernatural” that’s for laymen <br/><br/><a href="https://drmsh.com/">Dr. Michael Heiser’s website </a>- links to academic papers, his podcast, blog posts, etc. To get a taste of his work, you can read this post by him over on the LOGOS website
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