You're listening to the ancient tradition.

A Wonk Media production.

Music provided by Joseph McDade.

Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.

Welcome to the ancient tradition. I'm your host, Jack Logan.

As always, it's great to have you listening in. If you're a first-time listener,

welcome to the program. If you're wondering what we do on this podcast, we spend each episode combing through the world's oldest texts.

And we're doing this with the sole objective of letting the peoples of antiquity teach us

who God is and why we are here on this planet. And so far, this approach has been

quite fruitful. If you're a long time listener to the program, you've likely noticed that

several of the things that the ancients taught about God completely contradict what is

taught about God today. And that makes this program both interesting,

but also really challenging because each one of us must decide for ourselves who we believe.

The ancients or the imams, pastors, rabbis, priests, and ministers who teach different things about who God is today.

And where each of us come down on this is, of course, a matter of faith. Nothing on this

podcast will change the importance of faith. I do think, though, that knowledge matters,

and that knowledge matters quite a bit. In the ancient Judeo-Christian

tradition, the Apostle Peter in 2 Peter chapter 1 verse 4, encourage the early Christians to

diligently seek to be, quote, partakers of the divine nature, which is something that we're going to talk about

more today and in part two of this episode. After this in verse five, Peter shared with

the early Christians just how this divine nature is acquired. And this is what he said, quote,

and beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue,

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