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Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on IHeart Radio.

My guest today is Mark Gerson.

Mark is an investor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, and has a fantastic new bookout called God Was Right.

Hi, Mark, so nice to have you on.

Carol, great to be here. Thank you.

So what was God right about? Tell us. Well, God was right about everything. And how do we know that?

Well, we know that now for the first time in the 21st century because the Torah, the five books of

Moses from Genesis to Deuteronomy was written several thousand years ago. And what kind of book is the

Torah? It's not a history book or a science book or a cookbook. It's a guide book. And it offers thousands

of psychological insights, guidance that means the Bible should not be in the religion section of

bookstore. It should be in the self-help section of bookstore. So the Bible offers us practical

guidance,

interesting guidance on just about every question we have today. And what I seek to do when God was right was I line up the biblical claims on several different subjects, several dozen different

subjects, ranging from diversity to anti-fragility to routine, to future orientation. And then I say, here's what the Bible

says. Here's what modern social science says. And then what is fascinating is every single claim

that the Bible has made, or the Bible made 3,000 years ago, is now in the 21st century validated

by modern social science. So the Bible is right about everything,

which makes it the best book ever written and a book worthy of our study and devotion.

It's funny because I definitely see it a little bit as a history book, and I never thought of

it as a self-help book, for example. What are some lessons that people should pick up from it?

Oh, yeah, very interesting. No, the Bible, I mean,

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