Episode 35: The Rabbi On The Mount - Interview With Phil Weingart

You can’t interpret scripture properly without understanding its context. When Jesus spoke, Judaism was the context. In today's episode, Evan Minton interviews Phil Weingart about his book "The Rabbi On The Mount: How Jesus' Judaism Helps To Clarify The Sermon On The Mount". “'The Rabbi on the Mount' presents details from history, scripture, and the writings of the Jewish sages of Jesus’ day that illuminate what Jesus would have meant by many of the things He said in the Sermon and explain how His students would have taken His words. Learning the facts about Jesus’ Jewish culture and religion sheds much-needed light on this crucial teaching by the Master."

Episode 34: The Story Of The Cosmos - Interview With Daniel Ray

Psalm 19:1-4 says "The heavens declare the glory of God and the skies proclaim the works of His hands. Day after day, they pour forth speech and night after night, they reveal knowledge. There are no words. Their voice is not heard. Yet their voice goes throughout the Earth and their words to the ends of the world." The scientist Johannes Kepler considered science to be "thinking God's thoughts after Him". Unfortunately, our secularized culture has caused many to view the universe not as the brilliant handiwork of an Engineer, Mathematician, and Artist, but simply the outworkings of purposeless and blind processes.

In this episode of The Cerebral Faith Podcast, Mr. Minton interviews Daniel Ray. Ray is the general editor and contributor of "The Story Of The Cosmos: How The Heavens Declare God's Glory". He's the co-host of The Good Heavens podcast as well.

"The Story Of The Cosmos: How The Heavens Declare The Glory Of God" can be purchased here -->  https://www.amazon.com/Story-Cosmos-Heavens-Declare-Glory/dp/0736977368

The Good Heavens Podcast -->  https://goodheavens.podbean.com/page/2/  and www.patreon.com/goodheavens

Episode 33: Ancient Near Eastern Thought and The Old Testament - Interview With John Walton

Interpreting Scripture is about three things; context, context, context. There are different kinds of context when it comes to interpreting The Bible. There's  "Immediate Context" which is to interpret a verse in light of the verses that come before and after, there's the context of scripture as a whole, and there's cultural context. When it comes to that last one, much homework needs to be done. Cultural context is reading a biblical passage the way it's original author and audience would have understood it, according to their cultural cognitive environment. Knowing the cultural context can sometimes let you see additional meaning to a passage or even to alert you to how you may have been reading something INTO the text something that was never there. In this episode, Evan Minton interviews Leading Old Testament scholar John Walton on his book "Ancient Near Eastern Thought and The Old Testament" which helps people to do just that. 

"Ancient Near Eastern Thought and The Old Testament: can be purchased here -->  https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Near-Eastern-Thought-Testament/dp/1540960218