Hello and welcome. With the Mind, we pursue wisdom of the past between
primary secondary worlds. I'm your host, Andrew Snyder, and I am always
grateful for your company. This is gonna be one of our shorter episodes,
and if that's a surprise to you, then be sure to go back and
listen to episode thirty nine. And before we get going, I want to
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become part of the community. All right, so I have a recommendation for
you today. I'd like to plug Michael Heiser's book The Unseen Realm, which
I've been reading, or rather listening to lately. Apparently he is a fairly
big name, but I only recently discovered him. So many avenues of thought
are are segmented off from the standard pathways, and so I constantly find myself
exploring new exciting territories. In this case, doctor Heiser provides some absolutely fascinating
exploration into the supernatural worldview of the Bible. He gets into many topics that
I'm really not qualifying to deal with as a first hand expert, but it
is evident that he has done his homework and his perspectives make more fluid sense
out of so many of the bibles seemingly strange passages that passers and modern exegetes
tend to shoehorn into domesticated shapes instead of embracing what's actually being said. For
example, in Genesis one, Why does God speak in the plural? Let
us make man in our image fearful of falling into polytheism, which of course
is not what Scripture is saying. Moderns tend to say that God is using
the royal we or maybe this is a hint at Trinitarian doctrine, despite the
fact that there's no other place in scripture when God speaks in this way.
These explanations don't seem to hold up, and doctor Heiser does a great job
providing an explanation that does make sense in light of the Biblical way of thinking.
And so this is just one example. He also talks about angels and
other spiritual beings, nephilim, and so much more that again just makes sense
with what Scripture actually says. And so again I would highly recommend that you
check out Michael Heiser's book The Unseen Realm. I've been listening to it on
audible and if you like audiobooks, it has a pretty good recording, and
to be sure to check it out. All right, So that's it for
now. Be sure to lend your support over at patreon dot com slash Mythic
Mind and join me next time when we discuss either Verandom or Smith of Routen
Major, depending on how my interview schedule shakes out. Also, be sure
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I wish you many meaningful roads ahead.