Was The Ancient Tradition Man-Made or God-Revealed?

The Ancient Tradition

Jack Logan

God, Religion, Comparative Religion, Ancient Religion, True Religion, Religion & Spirituality, History

2.4 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In this episode, the ancients go toe-to-toe with Nietzsche, Marx, Durkheim, and Freud, all atheists who aimed to convince humanity that religion was a social construct. A dive into the ancient record, however, tells a radically different story, a story that is compelling, not only for the intriguing features it reveals about The Ancient Tradition, but for the striking unanimity we find in the accounts given by the ancient Egyptians, Mesopotamians and many others. For pictures, l...

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0:00.0	You're listening to the ancient tradition.
0:11.8	A Wonk Media production.
0:15.4	Music provided by Joseph McDade.
0:18.2	Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.
0:31.6	Welcome to the ancient tradition podcast. I'm your host, Jack Logan. It's great to have you back and welcome to all of our new listeners. Before I jump into today's episode, I want to let our
0:36.9	listeners know about our website.
0:39.5	This podcast is a companion website, the ancient tradition.com, where you can learn more about
0:44.0	the evidence that I'll present in today's episode.
0:46.7	If you go to the ancient tradition.com and click on evidence in the pull down menu,
0:51.2	you'll see a page dedicated to today's episode, and you can find pictures
0:55.6	and links, the ancient accounts, and full citations for everything discussed in this episode.
1:02.1	In our last episode, we established that the ancient record attested in stark contradistinction
1:08.6	to 17th and 18th century philosophers, that the spiritual realm
1:13.2	was knowable, that human beings could obtain direct knowledge of a supreme being.
1:20.1	And as you continue to listen to this podcast, you're going to be exposed to an astounding number
1:25.9	of correspondences or parallels between religious traditions
1:31.1	that span the centuries and cover the entire globe. The question is, how do we explain this?
1:39.0	And we'll get to that, but before I do, let's start with an even broader question, a fundamentally important question
1:46.2	that must be addressed before we start. If there was a singular ancient religious tradition,
1:53.0	where did it come from? And the answer to this question, I think, can be narrowed down to really
1:59.6	one of two options. Either the ancient tradition was
2:03.9	man-made or socially constructed or it was revealed by God or God revealed. And there really aren't
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