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I Dare You Not to Bore Me with The Bible.
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TextPublisher: Ashland : Lexham Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (223 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781577995678
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One: Old Testament -- The Ancient's Guide to the Galaxy -- Old Testament Cosmology -- The Heavens -- The Earth -- The Underworld -- Walk like an Israelite -- A Bible Study Epiphany -- Spiritual Lessons and Implications -- Even the Bible Needed Upgrading -- Spellchecking the Bible -- Why Circumcision? -- The Abandoned Child and the Basket Case -- A Tale of Courage We Never Teach -- Doing the Wrong Thing: Moses' Negligence -- Doing the Right Thing: Zipporah's Courage -- Will It Preach? -- Counting the Ten Commandments -- Is There Really a Sin Offering? -- The Goal of the Sin Offering -- What about Forgiveness? -- There's a Devil in the Details -- Love Potion: Numbers 5 -- Is My Bible Right? -- Is It Accurate? -- Why Is There a Difference? -- The Most Horrific Bible Story -- Righting a Wrong -- The Story -- The Story behind the Story -- The Story Repurposed -- When Giants Walked the Earth -- Wait a Minute-Giant Clans? -- The Divine Arrow -- Yes-Men and Yahweh's Man -- The Prophecy -- Promise Undelivered? -- Yahweh Takes Sides -- No Faith, No Gain -- Sanctified Dirt -- 1003 BC Census: Who Authorized It-God or Satan? -- Cookin' the Books -- Slaying the Sea Monster -- Warring the Sea Monster -- What's the Point? -- Does God Need a Co-Signer? The Witness in The Clouds -- Who Wrote the Book of Proverbs? -- Solomon Had a Pen Name? -- In the Tradition of Solomon -- In the Tradition of Egypt -- Immanuel's Mother: Virgin or Not? -- Standing in the Council -- Jeremiah: Double Vision? -- The "Jeremiah Problem" -- A Practical Response -- Why the Ark of the Covenant Will Never Be Found -- He, Him, Me, Myself, and I -- Bizarre Visions for the Worst of Times -- The Babylonian Context -- The Vision in Context -- The Meaning of the Vision.
Do the Dead Sea Scrolls Answer the Canon Question? -- Part Two: New Testament -- Burying Hell -- The Gates of Hell in Cosmic Geography -- The Gates of Hell in Terrestrial Geography -- Jesus Declares War -- My Guardian Angel -- The New Testament Misquotes the Old Testament? -- "I Saw Satan Fall like Lightning": When? -- The Healing Serpent -- Not out of Eden -- Maybe Magic -- Also Symbolism -- Who Took Verse 4 out of My Bible? -- What Walking on Water Really Means -- An Old Testament Symbol -- Final Victory -- Jesus Christ, Lord over the Sea -- Born Again … and Again and Again? -- Dumbledore Meets Philip & Peter -- Paul's Lost Letters -- 1 Corinthians 5:9 -- Colossians 4:16 -- Cause for Concern? -- Destiny & Destination -- Day of Salvation -- The Sign Paul Saw -- The Ends of the Earth -- A Female Apostle -- Signed, Sealed, and Delivered-To Satan? -- Treason & Translation -- Charlton Heston Had Company -- When Abraham Met Jesus -- How Many Times Is Jesus Coming Back? -- The "Rapture" -- Harmonizing -- What's Jesus Waiting For? -- God's Right-Hand Woman? Wisdom in Hebrews 1 -- Baptism as Spiritual Warfare -- Jesus Is God: Jude and Peter Tell Me So -- When Angels Do Time -- Tough Love -- Jesus, God, A.K.A., the Name -- The Name in the Old Testament -- Jesus Has and Is the Name -- 666: What Theories Add Up? -- Calculating Symbolism -- Calculating 666 -- Ancient Sudoku -- Perspective Changes Everything -- Constantine, Conspiracy, and the Canon -- About the Author.
