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809: Demons, Giants, and Other Gods in the Bible: Dr. Michael Heiser

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🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Michael Heiser is a biblical scholar with a Ph.D. in Semitic Studies, and he's the author of many scholarly books related to the spiritual realm, including the best-selling book The Unseen Realm.

In this challenging conversation, we talk about the divine council that informs God's decisions, the meaning of "Elohim," the origin of demons, the nephilim, the anakim, other giants in the Bible, and lots of other "strange things" in the Bible that are only strange to modern readers.


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0:00.0

All right, friends, you ready for this one. I have on the show, the one and only Dr. Michael Heiser.

0:05.2

He might be one of the more requested guests that I've been told that I need to have on the show.

0:13.3

Michael Heiser is, how do I describe Michael Heiser?

0:17.3

He is a top-notch Old Testament scholar.

0:20.9

He's got a PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison. For those who

0:25.0

don't know that is a one of the highest level universities when it comes to

0:31.0

Semitic Old Testament ancient Neary studies and he wrote a super

0:36.2

provocative book called the unseen realm and his understanding of the Bible his understanding of the Bible,

0:43.0

his understanding of the Old Testament,

0:45.0

in particular, his understanding of God

0:46.7

and the divine counsel that we'll get into

0:50.3

is really kind of mind-blowing.

0:52.3

And as I said in the conversation,

0:55.0

the stuff he talks about isn't super disputed

0:58.0

among scholarly circles.

1:00.0

I remember first reading this book,

1:01.0

and I was like,

1:02.0

yeah, this seems like what I learned when I started studying the Old Testament really on an in-depth level.

1:08.0

But I think some of his claims, some of his, the points that he's going to make is kind of new to people in Christianity

1:17.2

who haven't dug super-deep into the Old Testament.

1:20.5

We're going to talk about demons.

1:21.6

We're going to talk about the Nephilim and giants. We're going to talk about the Nephleim and Giants.

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