Thinking Biblically with Alan Gilman

Bible Teacher discusses a biblically-based understanding of faith. What is it, really? Is it a mental exercise? Is it something we do? Or is it something else completely?

Video version:https://youtu.be/iDkufNSywJw

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In honor of Israel's 75th anniversary, Bible Teacher Alan Gilman explains how it's only when we appreciate the ongoing role of the people of Israel throughout Scripture that we can fully encounter truth.

Video version: https://youtu.be/xMggL_bhhjI

This week's TorahBytes message, "Acknowledging Israel": https://torahbytes.org/83-30/

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Bible Teacher Alan Gilman continues a series based on his booklet: "Undermining Forces: Nine popular approaches attacking the authority of Scripture today." In this series, Alan explains the various "undermining forces" and how to overcome them. In this installment, Alan discusses how our life experience can get in the way of understanding the Bible.

Video version: https://youtu.be/-rI6-TabM6Y

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Messianic Jewish Israeli scholar and writer Avner Boskey explains to Alan the historical, cultural, and religious factors behind the current unrest in Israel and what the Bible has to say about it.

Video version: https://youtu.be/IXmUcBfo8Qk

Contact Avner Boskey:

Web: https://davidstent.org/

Avner's recent articles on the current crisis:

- Historical background: https://davidstent.org/establish-justice-in-the-gate-amos-515/

- More recent developments influencing the current crisis: https://davidstent.org/a-persons-enemies-are-the-people-of-his-own-household/

- The effects of current trends on the situation: https://davidstent.org/in-a-wilderness-of-mirrors/

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Continuing the subject of translation, Bible Scholar O. Palmer Robertson joins Alan Gilman to discuss the importance of taking into account the form, not just the meaning, of the original biblical languages. How what is written is as important as what it means. In fact, to disregard form can obscure the intent of the biblical writer.

Video version: https://youtu.be/i49HlIwyo5g

Referenced in this podcast:

Best Commentaries (Rotten Tomatoes for Biblical Studies): https://www.bestcommentaries.com

Sixty-day free trial to Scribd (the Netflix of eBook and audio books): https://www.scribd.com/g/86flb6

How the Bible Is Written by Gary Rendsburg:

https://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-bookshelf/faculty-books/271-rendsburg-gary/1162-how-the-bible-is-written

Contact O. Palmer Robertson:

Web: https://www.consummationministries.com

Email: [email protected]

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Does your translation truly reflect the Scriptures as God intended? Bible scholar and author, Dr. Iain Provan, returns to Thinking Biblically with Alan Gilman to discuss various crucial issues regarding English Bible translations.

Video version: https://youtu.be/CrNaT3qoRPs

Contact Iain Provan: https://iainprovan.ca/

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In keeping with the celebration of Purim (the Festival of Esther) this week, Bible Teacher Alan Gilman provides an overview of the story, followed by some reflections, including how Esther shows us how to really live.

Video version: https://youtu.be/ZyJGTDqEPhc

Originally presented at Grace Lutheran Church in Camrose, Alberta, March 5, 2023.

Mordecai tell the Purim story (March 2022): https://youtu.be/RjLSoDe0Luk

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For this edition of Thinking Biblically, Alan Gilman shares a short message that was part of the inter-congregational Ash Wednesday service at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Cochrane, Alberta, recorded February 22, 2023.

Video version: https://youtu.be/AVHbUbj21Dc

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In this edition of Thinking Biblically, Alan Gilman shares a most humorous, yet insightful, interaction he had with ChatGPT, the latest craze in artificial intelligence.

Video version: https://youtu.be/Cy6Wmtb1v6g

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Tony Watkins, Fellow for Public Engagement at Tyndale House, Cambridge University in England, joins Bible Teacher Alan Gilman to discuss the prophetic role of media, particularly film, in our society.

Video version: https://youtu.be/2TsP-BOz7Ew

Contact Tony Watkins: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/contact/

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