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The Bible For Normal People

Episode 10: Pete Enns - The Israelites Believed in Many Gods.

The Bible For Normal People

The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.73.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Pete Enns explores "monolatry," the ancient Israelite belief that many gods existed but only one God, Yahweh, was worthy of worship. The ancient Israelites were not monotheists, and thinking they were obscures the theology of many passages by imposing an idea the Israelites would not have understood. Show Notes → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Bible for normal people, the only God ordained podcast on the internet.

0:06.0

Serious talk about the sacred book. I'm Pete Ends.

0:08.8

And I'm Jared Bias.

0:12.8

Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast.

0:15.0

And just a couple of scheduling notes here before we get started.

0:19.2

First of all, during the summer months of June, July and August, Jared and I are probably going to be moving to two every other week.

0:29.2

So I guess a couple of times a month, rather than every week.

0:32.5

And the reason we're doing that is because we have a life, at least I know I do.

0:36.2

I don't know if Jared does, but actually I'm willing to go to once a week if you all come over to my house and we do the plumbing,

0:43.6

paint the trim, split the wood in about 50 other things that I need to do this summer.

0:48.5

So I hope you'll understand.

0:50.9

Guys, one point, another point in terms of scheduling is that, you know,

0:54.2

noticed obviously we've had guests on and that's been great.

0:57.5

And other times Jared and I are just talking about topics that mean a lot to us and we're sort of rifting back and forth.

1:04.8

There's another type of podcast, two that we're planning on doing.

1:07.9

And today is the first one.

1:09.3

It's just one of us talking.

1:11.2

And today you get me.

1:12.4

So you've downloaded this already. It's too late.

1:15.6

You can't erase these things.

1:16.8

I hope I don't know how it works.

1:18.0

But anyway, welcome to the first Pete pontificating podcast.

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