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PUNISHMENT? – DAY 19 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

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PUNISHMENT? – DAY 19
🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞
VIDEO EPISODES

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Today we will discuss Genesis 19:17

PUNISHMENT?

Why did Lot’s wife look back to Sodom? Was her death a punishment given by God?

This episode was recorded in Sodom, in the middle of the desert day, in similar weather and temperatures experienced by Lot and his family. This helps me understand how stressful they must have been when they escaped. It was beyond any difficulty that most have experienced. Can we feel compassion for them?

Lot's wife transformed into a pillar of salt in front of Sodom on fire. Why did she look back? Was her death a punishment given by God?
By The original uploader was Lysis at German Wikipedia. – Dom von Monreale, Sizilien, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10614351

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FAIR TRIAL – DAY 18 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

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FAIR TRIAL – DAY 18
🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞
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Today we will discuss Genesis 18:20+21

FAIR TRIAL

Why does God, himself, need to go down to Sodom, before He destroys the city? What does the Bible teach us about the way judgement should be done?

Why does God, himself, need to go down to Sodom, before He destroys the city? What does the Bible teach us about the way judgement, a fair trial should be done?
By Humbert de Superville, David (1770-1849) – http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1549038, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=99695453

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DAY 13 – TOWARDS LEADERSHIP 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

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DAY 13 – TOWARDS LEADERSHIP
🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞
VIDEO EPISODES

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Today we will discuss Genesis 13:8, 9, 15, 17

TOWARDS LEADERSHIP

Who can be a leader? Was Abraham a born leader? What did he have to do to become a leader, a father of a nation and of three religions?

Who can be a leader? Was Abraham a born leader? What did he have to do towards leadership, to be able to become a father of a nation and of three religions?
By Ephraim Moses Lilien – The Books of the Bible, German edition, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19811893

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PARADOXES IN THE BIBLE – MULTIPLY AND FILL THE EARTH

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Paradoxes in the Bible – Multiply and Fill the Earth

Bible Paradoxes 1. Multiply and fill the earth: The first commandment and a paradox at the same time. Why? 2. Jesus on the Cross: How can habits stop our spiritual growth? The image shows three women who felt compassion towards Jesus suffering on the cross. What do we think when we see this sign?
By Cobbin, Ingram, 1777-1851;March, Daniel, 1816-1909;Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893;Stretton, Hesba, 1832-1911

Multiply and Fill the Earth

This video is about Bible paradoxes and making babies. We will look at the very first commandment in Genesis “Make children and fill the earth” and discuss what it can mean, and why it is a paradox.

It is also about how habits can stop your spiritual growth. For example, whenever you see Jesus on the cross, do you mindlessly repeat some ceremony like a prayer or making the cross sign, or do you stop to think what Jesus did for us? Do you feel compassion for him, for what he had to suffer in his last days on earth?

Too often we forget that the Bible tells us stories about real people, people who had emotions, fears, people who suffered great pains. Can we learn to practice compassion when we read these stories?

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The Story of Sodom: The Humane Side of the Bible

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DAY 12 – COVID, VACCINE AND THE BIBLE 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

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DAY 12 – COVID, VACCINE AND THE BIBLE
🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞
VIDEO EPISODES

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Today we will discuss Genesis 12:1+2

COVID, VACCINE AND THE BIBLE

Can we expect God to help and protect us in every situation just because we have full faith in Him? Do we believe that He will protects you from COVID? That you do not need a vaccine? This is not how faith works, so let’s see what does the Bible has to say about it. In this episode we will explore how Abraham behaved in a similar situation, after he had reached the promised land, the land of Canaan.

Can we expect God to help and protect us in every situation just because we have full faith in Him? Do we believe that He will protects you from COVID? That you do not need a vaccine? This is not how faith works, so let's see what does the Bible has to say about it.
By Attributed to Francesco Bassano the Younger – http://www.rijksmuseum.nl : Home : Info, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34312593

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DAY 11 – WHY IS GOD STOPPING US – THE TOWER OF BABYLON 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

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DAY 11 – WHY IS GOD STOPPING US?
THE TOWER OF BABYLON
🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞
VIDEO EPISODES

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Today we will discuss Genesis 11:4,6,8

WHY IS GOD STOPPING US? THE TOWER OF BABYLON

Why did God stop the people of Babylon from building their tower? Why didn’t he want people to be able to do everything they wanted? Can we understand God’s plans?

Why did God stop the people of Babylon from building their tower? Why didn’t he want people to be able to do everything they wanted? Can we understand God’s plans?
Image by Gerard de Jode – https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/342322, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63879290

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DAY 10 – LANGUAGES 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

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DAY 10 – LANGUAGES
🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞
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Today we will discuss Genesis 10:5+31

LANGUAGES

We know that God confused the languages while the people of Babylon were building their tower. But today we will discover the paradox that different languages were already mentioned in previous chapters of the Genesis.

Day 10 - Languages: We know that God confused the languages while the people of Babylon were building their tower. But today we will discover the paradox that different languages were already mentioned in previous verses of the Bible.
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Science Battling Genesis: How Old is the Universe?

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I have been teaching recently the first chapters of Genesis. As expected, these chapters raise huge controversy, more than any other chapter in the Bible. It is easy to understand. After all, while most of the Bible deals with society, morals, or spirituality, the first few chapters of Genesis deal with the creation of the physical world, presenting a very different view than modern science. This is particularly true when questions about the age of the universe are concerned.

Naïve reading of the Bible will tell us that the world is about 6,000 years old. Science, on the other hand, has a different view. By combining data from different disciplines, scientists believe that the age of the universe is about 13.7 billion years, and the age of earth is about 4.5 billion years.  

This is huge, hardly imaginable, difference. The age of the universe according to science is about a million times larger than the age according to the Bible.  To make these huge numbers easier to comprehend, let’s scale them down. If, for instance, the world according to the Bible was scaled down from 6,000 years to 6 hours (in other words, if the Biblical world was created 6 hours ago) then the world according to science was formed nearly 700 years ago. That was during the Spanish inquisition, before Columbus discovered America.

Of course, there are many religious scientists who are familiar with the two versions of creation and find no contradiction between them. How can they do it?

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DAY 9 – RAINBOW 🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞 VIDEO EPISODES

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DAY 9 – RAINBOW
🌞 50 DAYS OF GENESIS 🌞
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Today we will discuss Genesis 9:12+13

RAINBOW

Did the rainbow exist before the flood? In other words, did light, and the rules of physics behave differently before the flood? Watch this video to see how science and the Bible do not have to contradict.

Prism illustration with rainbow colours, no contradict between science and Bible
By Dispersive_Prism_Illustration_by_Spigget.jpg: Spiggetderivative work: Cepheiden (talk) – Dispersive_Prism_Illustration_by_Spigget.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12098156

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ZEN MIND, BIBLE MIND

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ZEN MIND, BIBLE MIND

Trying to add wisdom to a full mind is like pouring tea into a full cup. One precept of Zen-Buddhism is to keep a Beginner Mind. In what way does Zen relate to the Bible?
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What is Zen and Zen mind? In what way does Zen relate to the Bible?

Can a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim benefit spiritually by learning and internalizing the practice of Zen-Buddhism without denying their religion?

In this video we will cover the basic of Zen and give a partial answer to the question why we called our blog “The Zen of the Hebrew Bible”

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