Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

In this episode we're going to tackle part two of a four-part series on heaven and hell.

So if you haven't listened to the previous episode, I recommend you doing so.

Or else this is going to feel like a bolt out of the blue.

So this was a four-part lecture series that I did a number of years ago bringing together

lots of years of reading and reflecting on what the Bible is trying to tell us about these ideas

of heaven and hell and eternal life and eternal death.

Most of these ideas aren't even mine.

I just collected what I thought were a bunch of the best scholarship and thinking and observations

mixed with my own observations and synthesized it into these lectures.

In this part two, after exploring and really pondering Genesis 1 through 3 in its concepts

of human life and human death, what we're going to do in this lecture is first of all tackle

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