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Why did God choose Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? Ed explains the patriarchs, God's promise, and the birth of Israel after Babel. The Patriarchs – Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, received the blessing and mandate from God that would frame the 4th Dispensation. With the world now divided into nations after Babel, God created His own nation (Israel) through which the world would interact with Him and His plan. If the nations blessed Israel, they would be blessed. This would hopefully lead them to chose t...

Why did God harden Pharaoh's heart? Did He take away Pharaoh's free will? Ed explains the 10 Plagues and the true gods of Egypt. Pharoah’s heart was hardened by God so the He could perform the signs and wonders of the 10 Plagues on the Egyptians. On the surface, this seems unfair. Did God take away Pharaoh’s free will so that he would be defiant, allowing God to visit more suffering on the Egyptians? This can’t be true, because we know that God is always and completely right and just. So what’s...

Is Satan real, or just a symbol of evil? Ed lays out the Biblical case for a personal Devil. Is Satan Real? This is actually a pertinent question in Christian philosophy because it remains somewhat controversial. The secular world believes the...

Who was Lucifer before he became Satan? Ed explains why God did not create an enemy, and what the light bearer was like before his fall. What was Satan like before he fell from grace? Of course, we currently know him as the Enemy and the adversary of God’s plan, but was he created that way? It would be illogical and contradictory for God to create someone to thwart him, and the Bible makes it clear that Satan was originally a good Angel who bore the title of “Lucifer” – the light bearer. But wh...

Why is Satan called the god of death? Ed explains the Genesis 3 curse that "dust" would be his food, and Satan's love/hate relationship with humanity. Satan is the god of Death. Part of the curse God pronounced on Satan in Genesis 3 was that “dust would be his food”. We know from earlier in that passage, that “dust” denoted the physical death of men. Thus Satan was cursed to desire and “hunger” for man’s death, while ALSO desiring man’s worship! This contradiction in desire resulted in Satan’s ...

Are demons and fallen angels the same thing? Ed explains from the Bible why they differ in power, position, and origin. What are Demons and Fallen Angels? Are they two terms for the same spiritual entities, or are they distinct creatures, differing greatly in power, position, and origin? The Bible makes it clear that demons and fallen angels are NOT the same. But what are they, and how do they interact with Satan? I discuss this in this week’s podcast: Faith By Reason exists to help you grow i...

How do fallen angels influence our world? Ed explains the unseen war between evil and holy angels, and how our prayers and obedience play a part. Evil Angels (or Fallen Angels) influence our lives and the world around us. They wage an unseen war with the Holy Angels of God in the unseen realm. The evil angels oppose the will and plan of God, while the Holy Angles fight to carry out His will and minister to us. But we are not just bystanders in this conflict. Our prayers and obedience empower th...

Can you really sell your soul to the Devil? Ed explains how people make agreements with evil spiritual entities for fame and fortune. Selling your soul to the Devil. It sounds like something out of Faustian legends or a horror movie. But the truth is that people willingly enter into agreements with evil spiritual entities in order to reap material rewards (fame and fortune) in exchange for furthering their evil agenda. Unfortunately, people can also enter into these agreements indirectly by exp...

Do angels have wings? Do we have guardian angels? Ed separates Biblical truth from popular myths about angels. Myths about angels abound in religious and secular society. We’ll wrap up our series on Satan, fallen angels, and demons by looking at Holy Angels, and the myths about angels. Do angels have wings? Do they wear robes? Do they do anything other than sing worship songs? Do we have guardian angels? One of the reasons we have so many questions about angels is because the Bible says relativ...

Why did God give Israel the Levitical Law? Ed explains it was given to define sin, set Israel apart, and prepare for the Redeemer. The purpose of Levitical law was not to introduce arbitrary and oppressive religious rules onto the people of Israel, nor was the purpose of Levitical law to stroke God’s ego with intensive worship requirements. No, the purpose of Levitical Law was to give mankind a definitive definition for sin, sanctify the nation of Israel, and usher in the advent of the Redeemer...

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This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, Christian apologetics, and systematic theology. 🔗 Full series & premium content: faithbyreason.net 📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare 🎙️ Exclusive content & Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If this episode helped you, please: - Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts - Leave a review on Apple Pod...

This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, Christian apologetics, and systematic theology. 🔗 Full series & premium content: faithbyreason.net 📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare 🎙️ Exclusive content & Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If this episode helped you, please: - Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts - Leave a review on Apple Pod...

This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, Christian apologetics, and systematic theology. 🔗 Full series & premium content: faithbyreason.net 📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare 🎙️ Exclusive content & Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If this episode helped you, please: - Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts - Leave a review on Apple Pod...

This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, Christian apologetics, and systematic theology. 🔗 Full series & premium content: faithbyreason.net 📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare 🎙️ Exclusive content & Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If this episode helped you, please: - Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts - Leave a review on Apple Pod...

This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, Christian apologetics, and systematic theology. 🔗 Full series & premium content: faithbyreason.net 📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare 🎙️ Exclusive content & Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If this episode helped you, please: - Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts - Leave a review on Apple Pod...

This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, Christian apologetics, and systematic theology. 🔗 Full series & premium content: faithbyreason.net 📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare 🎙️ Exclusive content & Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If this episode helped you, please: - Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts - Leave a review on Apple Pod...

This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, Christian apologetics, and systematic theology. 🔗 Full series & premium content: faithbyreason.net 📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare 🎙️ Exclusive content & Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If this episode helped you, please: - Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts - Leave a review on Apple Pod...

This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, Christian apologetics, and systematic theology. 🔗 Full series & premium content: faithbyreason.net 📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare 🎙️ Exclusive content & Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If this episode helped you, please: - Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts - Leave a review on Apple Pod...

What does the Bible really say about sex? Ed explains why God is not a prude, why sex in marriage is worship, and the purpose of the Levitical rules. Sex in the Bible is a controversial subject. Religious people lead us to think that God is a prude who frowns on sexual enjoyment. But the truth is that Sex is worship! Every time you have sex (with your spouse) you are worshipping God! Another reason that sex in the Bible is a difficult subject, is because of all the rules and guidelines God give...

Why did God demand sacrifice and give Israel so many laws? Ed explains how the Levitical laws were meant to prepare Israel for the Messiah. Is God a petty dictator who likes the smell of burnt animals? No. In this Bible study, Ed explains how the Levitical Laws were given to prepare Israel for the Messiah. Faith By Reason exists to help you grow in your walk with God through logic, reason, and Scripture. ▶ New episodes come to Patreon FIRST, plus bonus teaching, Q&As, and Bible study: https:/...

Do Christians have to tithe and keep the Sabbath? Ed asks whether the Levitical Law still applies to the church today. Is the Church under the Law? Is the Levitical Law applicable to us in this era? Do we have to tithe? Ed says the answer should actually be pretty simple. Faith By Reason exists to help you grow in your walk with God through logic, reason, and Scripture. ▶ New episodes come to Patreon FIRST, plus bonus teaching, Q&As, and Bible study: https://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason 📖 Ne...

Is Jesus really the Messiah? Many people have claimed to be the Christ. Ed asks whether there is a way to prove that Jesus was. Many people throughout history have claimed that they were the Christ. In this episode, Ed asks whether there is a way to prove that Jesus was the Christ. Faith By Reason exists to help you grow in your walk with God through logic, reason, and Scripture. ▶ New episodes come to Patreon FIRST, plus bonus teaching, Q&As, and Bible study: https://www.patreon.com/faithbyr...