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That's the premise <br />of Faith By Reason — a Christian apologetics and Bible <br />study podcast hosted by Ed, dedicated to systematically <br />examining Christian philosophy, theology, and Scripture.<br />Topics covered include:<br />- Book of Revelation — complete verse-by-verse study<br />- Book of Genesis — in-depth biblical teaching  <br />- Spiritual warfare — biblical strategies for spiritual <br />  battle<br />- Christian apologetics — defending the faith with <br />  logic and reason<br />- The Rapture — what Scripture actually says<br />- Christian worldview &amp; philosophy<br />- Theology and doctrine explained clearly<br />This podcast is for Christians who ask hard questions, <br />believers who want to go deeper than Sunday morning, <br />seekers exploring Christianity intellectually, and anyone <br />tired of shallow faith content who wants their beliefs <br />grounded in both Scripture and sound reasoning.<br />New episodes weekly. Full 60-episode Revelation series, <br />Genesis teaching, and premium Bible study content <br />available at faithbyreason.net<br />Support the ministry and access exclusive content: <br />patreon.com/faithbyreason<br />Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare]]></description><atom:link href="https://www.spreaker.com/show/6451546/episodes/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><language>en</language><category>Christianity</category><copyright>Copyright Faith By Reason</copyright><image><url>https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg</url><title>The Faith By Reason Podcast</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-faith-by-reason-podcast--6451546</link></image><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:57:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Ed Mabrie</itunes:name><itunes:email>faithbyreasonmail@gmail.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:subtitle>If God is real and Christianity is true, then they should conform to objective logic and reason. 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That's the premise <br />of Faith By Reason — a Christian apologetics and Bible <br />study podcast hosted by Ed, dedicated to systematically <br />examining Christian philosophy, theology, and Scripture.<br />Topics covered include:<br />- Book of Revelation — complete verse-by-verse study<br />- Book of Genesis — in-depth biblical teaching  <br />- Spiritual warfare — biblical strategies for spiritual <br />  battle<br />- Christian apologetics — defending the faith with <br />  logic and reason<br />- The Rapture — what Scripture actually says<br />- Christian worldview &amp; philosophy<br />- Theology and doctrine explained clearly<br />This podcast is for Christians who ask hard questions, <br />believers who want to go deeper than Sunday morning, <br />seekers exploring Christianity intellectually, and anyone <br />tired of shallow faith content who wants their beliefs <br />grounded in both Scripture and sound reasoning.<br />New episodes weekly. Full 60-episode Revelation series, <br />Genesis teaching, and premium Bible study content <br />available at faithbyreason.net<br />Support the ministry and access exclusive content: <br />patreon.com/faithbyreason<br />Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare]]></itunes:summary><itunes:category text="Religion &amp; Spirituality"><itunes:category text="Christianity"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Religion &amp; Spirituality"><itunes:category text="Religion"/></itunes:category><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:type>serial</itunes:type><item><title>Sardis Part 2 — How Calvinism Killed the Church | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/sardis-part-2-how-calvinism-killed-the-church-faith-by-reason--72859184</link><description><![CDATA[This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72859184</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2020 01:54:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72859184/sardis_part_2_mixdown.mp3" length="59977576" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ed1bc88f-0e25-4e70-8f83-5edfbe05fb0e/ed1bc88f-0e25-4e70-8f83-5edfbe05fb0e.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ed1bc88f-0e25-4e70-8f83-5edfbe05fb0e/ed1bc88f-0e25-4e70-8f83-5edfbe05fb0e.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ed1bc88f-0e25-4e70-8f83-5edfbe05fb0e/ed1bc88f-0e25-4e70-8f83-5edfbe05fb0e.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:duration>2499</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Calvinism Killed the Church - Sardis Part 2 | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-calvinism-killed-the-church-sardis-part-2-faith-by-reason--72861719</link><description><![CDATA[This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72861719</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2020 03:09:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72861719/sardis_part_2_mixdown.mp3" length="59977576" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/2db11d07-a531-416b-b49e-4cc40577f671/2db11d07-a531-416b-b49e-4cc40577f671.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/2db11d07-a531-416b-b49e-4cc40577f671/2db11d07-a531-416b-b49e-4cc40577f671.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/2db11d07-a531-416b-b49e-4cc40577f671/2db11d07-a531-416b-b49e-4cc40577f671.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:duration>2499</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Church That Gets Raptured — Jesus' Letter to Philadelphia</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-church-that-gets-raptured-jesus-letter-to-philadelphia--72861731</link><description><![CDATA[This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72861731</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2020 03:11:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72861731/philadelphia_mixdown.mp3" length="29649956" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/7c33aa86-8174-4b92-8031-804e928182e8/7c33aa86-8174-4b92-8031-804e928182e8.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/7c33aa86-8174-4b92-8031-804e928182e8/7c33aa86-8174-4b92-8031-804e928182e8.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/7c33aa86-8174-4b92-8031-804e928182e8/7c33aa86-8174-4b92-8031-804e928182e8.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:duration>2475</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Who Is the Synagogue of Satan? 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premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72861929</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2020 03:21:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72861929/end_of_the_church_mixdown.mp3" length="64255462" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ef7a94e7-cf89-488b-adb6-2e5e86a5f953/ef7a94e7-cf89-488b-adb6-2e5e86a5f953.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ef7a94e7-cf89-488b-adb6-2e5e86a5f953/ef7a94e7-cf89-488b-adb6-2e5e86a5f953.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ef7a94e7-cf89-488b-adb6-2e5e86a5f953/ef7a94e7-cf89-488b-adb6-2e5e86a5f953.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:duration>2225</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Rapture Myths Debunked — John Darby Did Not Invent It and the Early Church Proves It | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/rapture-myths-debunked-john-darby-did-not-invent-it-and-the-early-church-proves-it-faith-by-reason--72861723</link><description><![CDATA[This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72861723</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2021 03:13:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72861723/rapture1_mixdown.mp3" length="41644014" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/0140cbfb-fb2b-4c0f-983b-d3a699716f45/0140cbfb-fb2b-4c0f-983b-d3a699716f45.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/0140cbfb-fb2b-4c0f-983b-d3a699716f45/0140cbfb-fb2b-4c0f-983b-d3a699716f45.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/0140cbfb-fb2b-4c0f-983b-d3a699716f45/0140cbfb-fb2b-4c0f-983b-d3a699716f45.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:duration>1497</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>What If There Are Three Raptures? The Biblical Case | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-if-there-are-three-raptures-the-biblical-case-faith-by-reason--72861712</link><description><![CDATA[This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72861712</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2021 03:12:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72861712/rapture2full.mp3" length="78774174" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/0a859a45-a199-4e13-8646-ae2d10dfb245/0a859a45-a199-4e13-8646-ae2d10dfb245.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/0a859a45-a199-4e13-8646-ae2d10dfb245/0a859a45-a199-4e13-8646-ae2d10dfb245.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/0a859a45-a199-4e13-8646-ae2d10dfb245/0a859a45-a199-4e13-8646-ae2d10dfb245.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:duration>2988</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Faith By Reason Has Been Censored!</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/faith-by-reason-has-been-censored--63399184</link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of speech is a cherished American value, but it is apparently NOT valued on Youtube since they have censored and removed one of my Revelation videos!  Why?  For medical misinformation!  (yes, it's as stupid as it sounds).  So it looks like I will soon have to make other arrangements to host my videos.  Please see the short video for more information.  https://youtu.be/wbxfsT0uM9M  Here is the offending topic:  https://faithbyreason.net/demonic-locusts/<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://faithbyreason.net/?p=2355</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2022 00:41:51 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63399184/faith_by_reason_was_censored.mp3" length="10870929" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Freedom of speech is a cherished American value, but it is apparently NOT valued on Youtube since they have censored and removed one of my Revelation videos!  Why?  For medical misinformation!  (yes, it's as stupid as it sounds).  So it looks like I...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Freedom of speech is a cherished American value, but it is apparently NOT valued on Youtube since they have censored and removed one of my Revelation videos!  Why?  For medical misinformation!  (yes, it's as stupid as it sounds).  So it looks like I will soon have to make other arrangements to host my videos.  Please see the short video for more information.  https://youtu.be/wbxfsT0uM9M  Here is the offending topic:  https://faithbyreason.net/demonic-locusts/<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>680</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The "Little Season" of Satan Theory — Hidden History or Heresy? | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-little-season-of-satan-theory-hidden-history-or-heresy-faith-by-reason--63399201</link><description><![CDATA[There is a lot of eschatological "noise" on social media and alternative news about the so-called "Little Season" of Satan, and whether or not we are currently in it. The Little Season theory essentially states that we are in a Post-millennial period between the 1000-year Kingdon of Jesus and the Great White Throne of Judgement. Revelation chapter 20 states that after the Armageddon scenario, Satan is imprisoned for the 1000-year Millenial reign of Jesus. After which, he is released for a "little season" to gather the nations to overthrow Jesus in Jerusalem. According to this theory, we are in that season right now! This means that the rapture, the Tribulation, Armageddon, the Second Coming of Jesus, and the 1000-year Kingdom have ALREADY HAPPENED!! The proof point promoted by people who espouse this theory is the advanced "Tartarian" architecture that we see remnants of around the world. This apparently speaks to an advanced civilization with extraordinary technological know-how that vanished no more than a few hundred years ago. According to them, this abandoned technology proves that Jesus ruled over an advanced society in the recent past (and then He apparently just abandoned it...and us). But does the Little Season and Tartaria fit Biblically, historically, and logically? The answer is a resounding NO! A mere cursory examination of this theory shows that it is utterly ludicrous! So why is it being promoted so vigorously? I was puzzled by this until I noticed that the promoters of this theory, tended to also hold to another long-held and equally poor eschatological theology. And the Little Season is their latest attempt to justify their bankrupt beliefs. I break it all down in this special episode of Faith By Reason Refuting silly escatology https://faithbyreason.net/revelation-unveiled-ep-2-mans-perspective/<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://faithbyreason.net/?p=2518</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2024 02:19:34 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63399201/audio1220873666.mp3" length="58010364" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ccae1030-75f1-4884-b5a9-9e68aa7b2fc5/ccae1030-75f1-4884-b5a9-9e68aa7b2fc5.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ccae1030-75f1-4884-b5a9-9e68aa7b2fc5/ccae1030-75f1-4884-b5a9-9e68aa7b2fc5.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ccae1030-75f1-4884-b5a9-9e68aa7b2fc5/ccae1030-75f1-4884-b5a9-9e68aa7b2fc5.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>There is a lot of eschatological "noise" on social media and alternative news about the so-called "Little Season" of Satan, and whether or not we are currently in it. The Little Season theory essentially states that we are in a Post-millennial period...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[There is a lot of eschatological "noise" on social media and alternative news about the so-called "Little Season" of Satan, and whether or not we are currently in it. The Little Season theory essentially states that we are in a Post-millennial period between the 1000-year Kingdon of Jesus and the Great White Throne of Judgement. Revelation chapter 20 states that after the Armageddon scenario, Satan is imprisoned for the 1000-year Millenial reign of Jesus. After which, he is released for a "little season" to gather the nations to overthrow Jesus in Jerusalem. According to this theory, we are in that season right now! This means that the rapture, the Tribulation, Armageddon, the Second Coming of Jesus, and the 1000-year Kingdom have ALREADY HAPPENED!! The proof point promoted by people who espouse this theory is the advanced "Tartarian" architecture that we see remnants of around the world. This apparently speaks to an advanced civilization with extraordinary technological know-how that vanished no more than a few hundred years ago. According to them, this abandoned technology proves that Jesus ruled over an advanced society in the recent past (and then He apparently just abandoned it...and us). But does the Little Season and Tartaria fit Biblically, historically, and logically? The answer is a resounding NO! A mere cursory examination of this theory shows that it is utterly ludicrous! So why is it being promoted so vigorously? I was puzzled by this until I noticed that the promoters of this theory, tended to also hold to another long-held and equally poor eschatological theology. And the Little Season is their latest attempt to justify their bankrupt beliefs. I break it all down in this special episode of Faith By Reason Refuting silly escatology https://faithbyreason.net/revelation-unveiled-ep-2-mans-perspective/<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3626</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>3</itunes:season><itunes:episode>1</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Genesis: Why This Book Is the Key to Understanding Everything | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/genesis-why-this-book-is-the-key-to-understanding-everything-faith-by-reason--63489207</link><description><![CDATA[Welcome to Genesis: Back to the Beginning! Genesis is the key to understanding who God is, and what He wants (God's Will). The ENTIRE Bible is in Genesis. The rest of the Bible is essentially a commentary on Genesis!<br /><br />In this first episode.<br /><br /><br /><br /><ul><li>I'll explain why I decided to do a verse-by-verse study of this amazing book.</li><li>We'll look at the primary reasons that God dictated Genesis (and the rest of the Torah) to Moses.</li><li>And how I plan to teach this book.<br /><br />It's going to be a wild ride!</li></ul><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63489207</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2024 18:27:10 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63489207/genesis_1_audio.mp3" length="95029440" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/c6eec9c3-7e70-467f-8509-66fef58c2ca7/c6eec9c3-7e70-467f-8509-66fef58c2ca7.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/c6eec9c3-7e70-467f-8509-66fef58c2ca7/c6eec9c3-7e70-467f-8509-66fef58c2ca7.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/c6eec9c3-7e70-467f-8509-66fef58c2ca7/c6eec9c3-7e70-467f-8509-66fef58c2ca7.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Welcome to Genesis: Back to the Beginning! Genesis is the key to understanding who God is, and what He wants (God's Will). The ENTIRE Bible is in Genesis. The rest of the Bible is essentially a commentary on Genesis!

In this first episode.




- I'll...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Welcome to Genesis: Back to the Beginning! Genesis is the key to understanding who God is, and what He wants (God's Will). The ENTIRE Bible is in Genesis. The rest of the Bible is essentially a commentary on Genesis!<br /><br />In this first episode.<br /><br /><br /><br /><ul><li>I'll explain why I decided to do a verse-by-verse study of this amazing book.</li><li>We'll look at the primary reasons that God dictated Genesis (and the rest of the Torah) to Moses.</li><li>And how I plan to teach this book.<br /><br />It's going to be a wild ride!</li></ul><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2376</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>4</itunes:season><itunes:episode>1</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Most Christians Don't Take Genesis Seriously — And Should | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-most-christians-don-t-take-genesis-seriously-and-should-faith-by-reason--63545823</link><description><![CDATA[How does man view the Book of Genesis - and the Bible overall?<br /><br />Many see the Bible as either a textbook of Judeo-Christian terminology and ideas, a source of guidance and comfort, or a book of comprehensive history. The problem is that in totality, the Bible doesn't really fit any of those categories. The Bible is much more personal than that.<br /><br />When it comes to the Book of Genesis, secular man dismisses it as myth, while explaining away the oddities of the ancient world through fraudulent theories such as the Annunaki and ancient astronauts. (and the so-called Emerald Tablets of Toth presented by the fraud Billy Carson)<br /><br />Many Christians don't take Genesis seriously and are in fact embarrassed by it as it seems to conflict with "science". But since man is inherently flawed, so is his perspective of Genesis.<br /><br />We'll examine this topic in part 2 of our Genesis introduction.<br />Links<br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/category/evolution-vs-creation/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Creation vs. Evolution series</a><br />https://faithbyreason.net/category/evolution-vs-creation/<br /><br /><a href="https://www.sitchiniswrong.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Michael Heiser on the Annunaki</a><br />https://www.sitchiniswrong.com/<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63545823</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:09:53 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63545823/genesis_part_2_audio.mp3" length="109453440" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/48a88112-771e-4a35-a38c-adbfe2e8d105/48a88112-771e-4a35-a38c-adbfe2e8d105.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/48a88112-771e-4a35-a38c-adbfe2e8d105/48a88112-771e-4a35-a38c-adbfe2e8d105.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/48a88112-771e-4a35-a38c-adbfe2e8d105/48a88112-771e-4a35-a38c-adbfe2e8d105.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>How does man view the Book of Genesis - and the Bible overall?

Many see the Bible as either a textbook of Judeo-Christian terminology and ideas, a source of guidance and comfort, or a book of comprehensive history. The problem is that in totality,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[How does man view the Book of Genesis - and the Bible overall?<br /><br />Many see the Bible as either a textbook of Judeo-Christian terminology and ideas, a source of guidance and comfort, or a book of comprehensive history. The problem is that in totality, the Bible doesn't really fit any of those categories. The Bible is much more personal than that.<br /><br />When it comes to the Book of Genesis, secular man dismisses it as myth, while explaining away the oddities of the ancient world through fraudulent theories such as the Annunaki and ancient astronauts. (and the so-called Emerald Tablets of Toth presented by the fraud Billy Carson)<br /><br />Many Christians don't take Genesis seriously and are in fact embarrassed by it as it seems to conflict with "science". But since man is inherently flawed, so is his perspective of Genesis.<br /><br />We'll examine this topic in part 2 of our Genesis introduction.<br />Links<br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/category/evolution-vs-creation/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Creation vs. Evolution series</a><br />https://faithbyreason.net/category/evolution-vs-creation/<br /><br /><a href="https://www.sitchiniswrong.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Michael Heiser on the Annunaki</a><br />https://www.sitchiniswrong.com/<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2737</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>angels,annunaki,bibleinterpretation,biblestudy,bibletruth,bookofgenesis,creation,evolution,genesis,god,intellegentdesign</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>4</itunes:season><itunes:episode>2</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Is the Messiah 2030 Theory Biblically Sound? A Critical Review | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/is-the-messiah-2030-theory-biblically-sound-a-critical-review-faith-by-reason--63619049</link><description><![CDATA[Messiah 2030 is a very popular series of videos that feature extensive and exhaustive research to prove that the Second Coming of Jesus will occur in the year 2030.<br /><br />This idea fits with my personal eschatology (much more so than the ridiculous "Little Season" idea that I talked about recently), and quite frankly, I'd love for it to be true!<br /><br />But while these videos are very well done and feature an extraordinary and admirable amount of content and effort, the 2030 theory is not without flaws.  Some of them are relatively minor, however, there are a couple of flaws in this theory that are serious...possibly fatal.<br /><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63619049</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:23:37 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63619049/messiah_2030_audio.mp3" length="158545920" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/c109640e-acd2-4e76-8e84-1fc5bbe20540/c109640e-acd2-4e76-8e84-1fc5bbe20540.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/c109640e-acd2-4e76-8e84-1fc5bbe20540/c109640e-acd2-4e76-8e84-1fc5bbe20540.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/c109640e-acd2-4e76-8e84-1fc5bbe20540/c109640e-acd2-4e76-8e84-1fc5bbe20540.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Messiah 2030 is a very popular series of videos that feature extensive and exhaustive research to prove that the Second Coming of Jesus will occur in the year 2030.

This idea fits with my personal eschatology (much more so than the ridiculous "Little...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Messiah 2030 is a very popular series of videos that feature extensive and exhaustive research to prove that the Second Coming of Jesus will occur in the year 2030.<br /><br />This idea fits with my personal eschatology (much more so than the ridiculous "Little Season" idea that I talked about recently), and quite frankly, I'd love for it to be true!<br /><br />But while these videos are very well done and feature an extraordinary and admirable amount of content and effort, the 2030 theory is not without flaws.  Some of them are relatively minor, however, there are a couple of flaws in this theory that are serious...possibly fatal.<br /><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3964</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>70weeks,bibleprophesy,jesus,messiah2030,messiah2030review,prophecy,secondcoming</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>3</itunes:season><itunes:episode>2</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Welcome to Faith By Reason — Logic, Reason, and Christian Philosophy | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/welcome-to-faith-by-reason-logic-reason-and-christian-philosophy-faith-by-reason--63693508</link><description><![CDATA[If God is real and Christianity is true, then they should conform to objective logic and reason! Welcome to the first Faith By Reason podcast.  The FBR blog has been around since 2010 and it’s up to nearly 100 posts examining Christian Philosophy with logic, reason, and systematic analysis (and a snarky sense of humor).  This podcast is another way to engage my readers and provide exposition on the subject matter in the blog.  In this first podcast, I’ll cover:<br /><ul><li>An introduction to FBR and the podcast</li><li>The format of this podcast series and the blog</li><li>My rationale behind creating <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">faithbyreason.net</a></li><li>Who should listen to this podacst (and who should NOT)</li><li>A little bit about who I am, why I’m doing this work, and why I’m NOT religious.</li></ul><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/about/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">About Me</a> <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/about-this-blog/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/about-this-blog/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Who should (and should NOT) read Faith By Reason</a> <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/whats-the-point/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/whats-the-point/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">What’s the point of existence and the meaning of life?</a> <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/religion-acts-of-justification/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/religion-acts-of-justification/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">What’s wrong with religion</a><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/jellybeans-of-righteousness/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Contrastive thinking</a> <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/deafening-pride/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/deafening-pride/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Comparative Thinking</a> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+2%3A2-4&amp;version=NKJV" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+2%3A2-4&amp;version=NKJV" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Proof that God has a sense of humor</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63693508</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:44:50 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63693508/fbr_episode_1_introduction.mp3" length="15172111" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/f3a9012a-9948-4593-a9d6-15e4eb91d5e9/f3a9012a-9948-4593-a9d6-15e4eb91d5e9.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/f3a9012a-9948-4593-a9d6-15e4eb91d5e9/f3a9012a-9948-4593-a9d6-15e4eb91d5e9.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/f3a9012a-9948-4593-a9d6-15e4eb91d5e9/f3a9012a-9948-4593-a9d6-15e4eb91d5e9.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>If God is real and Christianity is true, then they should conform to objective logic and reason! Welcome to the first Faith By Reason podcast.  The FBR blog has been around since 2010 and it’s up to nearly 100 posts examining Christian Philosophy with...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[If God is real and Christianity is true, then they should conform to objective logic and reason! Welcome to the first Faith By Reason podcast.  The FBR blog has been around since 2010 and it’s up to nearly 100 posts examining Christian Philosophy with logic, reason, and systematic analysis (and a snarky sense of humor).  This podcast is another way to engage my readers and provide exposition on the subject matter in the blog.  In this first podcast, I’ll cover:<br /><ul><li>An introduction to FBR and the podcast</li><li>The format of this podcast series and the blog</li><li>My rationale behind creating <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">faithbyreason.net</a></li><li>Who should listen to this podacst (and who should NOT)</li><li>A little bit about who I am, why I’m doing this work, and why I’m NOT religious.</li></ul><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/about/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">About Me</a> <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/about-this-blog/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/about-this-blog/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Who should (and should NOT) read Faith By Reason</a> <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/whats-the-point/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/whats-the-point/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">What’s the point of existence and the meaning of life?</a> <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/religion-acts-of-justification/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/religion-acts-of-justification/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">What’s wrong with religion</a><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/jellybeans-of-righteousness/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Contrastive thinking</a> <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/deafening-pride/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/deafening-pride/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Comparative Thinking</a> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+2%3A2-4&amp;version=NKJV" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+2%3A2-4&amp;version=NKJV" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Proof that God has a sense of humor</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1264</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>1</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>What Is the Point of Existence? The Question Everyone Asks | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-is-the-point-of-existence-the-question-everyone-asks-faith-by-reason--63704028</link><description><![CDATA[Whether you are Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, or agnostic, we all face the same fundamental question – we all want to know “What’s the point?”  We want to know why we’re all here.  We want to know why EVERYTHING is here, and what it all means.  The first priority of this podcast is to address these questions.<br /><ul><li>Do we have a higher purpose?</li><li>Why are we perpetually unsatisfied?</li><li>Would having more money, fame, sex, status, and pleasures REALLY fulfill us?</li><li>Why do we feel drawn to seek purpose “outside of ourselves”?</li><li>Does existence really…exist? (or are we living in the Matrix)</li><li>Are there rules that govern existence?</li><li>Why finding the cause of existence is THE key to understanding ”the point”.</li></ul>*BONUS*  How to make money by beating up a moral relativist!<br />Related links: <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/whats-the-point/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/whats-the-point/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">What’s the Point</a> <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/existence-exists-and-other-brilliant-observations/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/existence-exists-and-other-brilliant-observations/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Existence Exists and other Brilliant Observations</a> <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/causality-or-why-ask-why/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/causality-or-why-ask-why/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Causality (or why ask why?)</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63704028</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:35:45 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63704028/fbr_episode_2_what_s_the_point.mp3" length="12476264" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4ce1171e-30b1-4055-874f-9a22f1b174b6/4ce1171e-30b1-4055-874f-9a22f1b174b6.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4ce1171e-30b1-4055-874f-9a22f1b174b6/4ce1171e-30b1-4055-874f-9a22f1b174b6.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4ce1171e-30b1-4055-874f-9a22f1b174b6/4ce1171e-30b1-4055-874f-9a22f1b174b6.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Whether you are Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, or agnostic, we all face the same fundamental question – we all want to know “What’s the point?”  We want to know why we’re all here.  We want to know why EVERYTHING is here, and what it all...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Whether you are Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, or agnostic, we all face the same fundamental question – we all want to know “What’s the point?”  We want to know why we’re all here.  We want to know why EVERYTHING is here, and what it all means.  The first priority of this podcast is to address these questions.<br /><ul><li>Do we have a higher purpose?</li><li>Why are we perpetually unsatisfied?</li><li>Would having more money, fame, sex, status, and pleasures REALLY fulfill us?</li><li>Why do we feel drawn to seek purpose “outside of ourselves”?</li><li>Does existence really…exist? (or are we living in the Matrix)</li><li>Are there rules that govern existence?</li><li>Why finding the cause of existence is THE key to understanding ”the point”.</li></ul>*BONUS*  How to make money by beating up a moral relativist!<br />Related links: <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/whats-the-point/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/whats-the-point/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">What’s the Point</a> <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/existence-exists-and-other-brilliant-observations/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/existence-exists-and-other-brilliant-observations/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Existence Exists and other Brilliant Observations</a> <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/causality-or-why-ask-why/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/causality-or-why-ask-why/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Causality (or why ask why?)</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1040</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>bibleinterpretation,bibletruth,christianity,god,godisreal,meaningoflife</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>2</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Where Does God Come From? What Science and Logic Tell Us | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/where-does-god-come-from-what-science-and-logic-tell-us-faith-by-reason--63716571</link><description><![CDATA[Was the cause of existence natural, or supernatural?  IF the universe had a First Cause, then understanding everything we can about it will get us closer to an answer to <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/whats-the-point-of-existence/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the question we asked last week</a> -  "What's the point of existence?" In this week's podcast, we begin to explore what we can know about the First Cause.<br /><ul><li>Have time, space, matter, and energy always existed, or did they have a beginning?</li><li>Did the universe come into existence in accordance to the natural laws of physics?</li><li>If not, then what can we say about the First Cause of existence?</li><li>What are the laws that govern existence?</li><li>Why a messy room is proof that the universe cannot be infinite</li><li>How the First Cause is OUTSIDE of time and space (and what that means)</li></ul>Related Links:<a href="https://faithbyreason.net/super-natural/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Super.  Natural.</a><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/where-and-when/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/where-and-when/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Where and When</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63716571</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2025 04:47:50 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63716571/fbr_episode_3_where_does_god_come_from.mp3" length="16160075" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/abc00f47-6c24-4809-a7f8-41f284c8cccf/abc00f47-6c24-4809-a7f8-41f284c8cccf.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/abc00f47-6c24-4809-a7f8-41f284c8cccf/abc00f47-6c24-4809-a7f8-41f284c8cccf.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/abc00f47-6c24-4809-a7f8-41f284c8cccf/abc00f47-6c24-4809-a7f8-41f284c8cccf.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Was the cause of existence natural, or supernatural?  IF the universe had a First Cause, then understanding everything we can about it will get us closer to an answer to https://faithbyreason.net/whats-the-point-of-existence/ -  "What's the point of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Was the cause of existence natural, or supernatural?  IF the universe had a First Cause, then understanding everything we can about it will get us closer to an answer to <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/whats-the-point-of-existence/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the question we asked last week</a> -  "What's the point of existence?" In this week's podcast, we begin to explore what we can know about the First Cause.<br /><ul><li>Have time, space, matter, and energy always existed, or did they have a beginning?</li><li>Did the universe come into existence in accordance to the natural laws of physics?</li><li>If not, then what can we say about the First Cause of existence?</li><li>What are the laws that govern existence?</li><li>Why a messy room is proof that the universe cannot be infinite</li><li>How the First Cause is OUTSIDE of time and space (and what that means)</li></ul>Related Links:<a href="https://faithbyreason.net/super-natural/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Super.  Natural.</a><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/where-and-when/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/where-and-when/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Where and When</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1347</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>bibletruth,godexists,gog</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>3</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Does God Experience Time? Bible Prophecy Has the Answer | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-does-god-experience-time-bible-prophecy-has-the-answer-faith-by-reason--63733943</link><description><![CDATA[If God is Transcendent (outside of time), then how does He relate to our physical time domain? Bible prophecy makes it clear that God can predict the future. But is the future “set”?  If so, then is everything already predetermined?  Do we really have free will?  We’ll examine how God might experience time in this podcast, including:<br /><ul><li>Can causality alone explain how God can predict the future?</li><li>Why looking at the past can help us understand how God sees the future.</li><li>Does God see the future happen, or does He make it happen (or both)?</li><li>How do stories give us a glimpse of the eternal perspective?</li><li>Can we get insight into how God experiences time by watching Star Wars movies (even the crappy episodes)?</li></ul>Related links: <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/where-and-when/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/where-and-when/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Where and When? (blog post)</a><br /> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+44%3A+28%2C+45%3A1-3&amp;version=NKJV" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Isaiah’s prophecy about Cyrus the Persian</a> <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/ant-11.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cyrus is shown the prophecy 200 years later</a><br /><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra+1%3A1-4&amp;version=NKJV" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cyrus fulfills the prophecy</a> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation+12&amp;version=NKJV" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation+12&amp;version=NKJV" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">An example of how God sees all of history at once (Revelation 12)</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63733943</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jan 2025 04:52:23 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63733943/fbr_episode_4_how_does_god_see_time.mp3" length="20560902" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/952ffcfd-c092-4e23-896c-afeae91fd06d/952ffcfd-c092-4e23-896c-afeae91fd06d.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/952ffcfd-c092-4e23-896c-afeae91fd06d/952ffcfd-c092-4e23-896c-afeae91fd06d.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/952ffcfd-c092-4e23-896c-afeae91fd06d/952ffcfd-c092-4e23-896c-afeae91fd06d.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>If God is Transcendent (outside of time), then how does He relate to our physical time domain? Bible prophecy makes it clear that God can predict the future. But is the future “set”?  If so, then is everything already predetermined?  Do we really have...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[If God is Transcendent (outside of time), then how does He relate to our physical time domain? Bible prophecy makes it clear that God can predict the future. But is the future “set”?  If so, then is everything already predetermined?  Do we really have free will?  We’ll examine how God might experience time in this podcast, including:<br /><ul><li>Can causality alone explain how God can predict the future?</li><li>Why looking at the past can help us understand how God sees the future.</li><li>Does God see the future happen, or does He make it happen (or both)?</li><li>How do stories give us a glimpse of the eternal perspective?</li><li>Can we get insight into how God experiences time by watching Star Wars movies (even the crappy episodes)?</li></ul>Related links: <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/where-and-when/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/where-and-when/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Where and When? (blog post)</a><br /> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+44%3A+28%2C+45%3A1-3&amp;version=NKJV" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Isaiah’s prophecy about Cyrus the Persian</a> <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/ant-11.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cyrus is shown the prophecy 200 years later</a><br /><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra+1%3A1-4&amp;version=NKJV" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cyrus fulfills the prophecy</a> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation+12&amp;version=NKJV" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation+12&amp;version=NKJV" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">An example of how God sees all of history at once (Revelation 12)</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1714</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,bbleinterpretation,bibleprophecy,biblreprophecy,eternity,prophecy,time,timedialation,wesshuff</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>4</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>You Can Prove God Exists in 10 Seconds — Here's How | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/you-can-prove-god-exists-in-10-seconds-here-s-how-faith-by-reason--63770322</link><description><![CDATA[You can prove that God exists in just 10 seconds!!  Taking the information that we’ve covered in the previous episodes, we can discern the definitive nature of God!  Not only that, but in discerning the truth of God’s nature, we can discover our own nature and that we, like God, are eternal spirits!  We’ll also cover:<br /><ul><li>How to understand who you REALLY are</li><li>What is “spirit”, and what does that mean?</li><li>How could the non-physical (spirit) create the physical universe?</li><li>Why the REAL you is timeless and eternal (whether you like it or not)</li><li>The limit of what we can know about God based SOLELY on human understanding</li><li>*BONUS* How to become wealthy without doing any work</li></ul>Related links: <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/spirit-in-a-box/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Spirit in a Box (blog post)</a> <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/the-principle-answer/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/the-principle-answer/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Principle Answer </a>(blog post) <a href="http://modeletics.blogspot.com/2006/10/who-are-you.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://flowcess.com/intangible-driver/product" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">How to discover who you ARE</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63770322</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 22:35:53 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63770322/fbr_episode_5_proving_god_in_10_sec.mp3" length="16662882" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4a151eed-bbeb-4794-b8f8-d0d606e7a515/4a151eed-bbeb-4794-b8f8-d0d606e7a515.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4a151eed-bbeb-4794-b8f8-d0d606e7a515/4a151eed-bbeb-4794-b8f8-d0d606e7a515.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4a151eed-bbeb-4794-b8f8-d0d606e7a515/4a151eed-bbeb-4794-b8f8-d0d606e7a515.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>You can prove that God exists in just 10 seconds!!  Taking the information that we’ve covered in the previous episodes, we can discern the definitive nature of God!  Not only that, but in discerning the truth of God’s nature, we can discover our own...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[You can prove that God exists in just 10 seconds!!  Taking the information that we’ve covered in the previous episodes, we can discern the definitive nature of God!  Not only that, but in discerning the truth of God’s nature, we can discover our own nature and that we, like God, are eternal spirits!  We’ll also cover:<br /><ul><li>How to understand who you REALLY are</li><li>What is “spirit”, and what does that mean?</li><li>How could the non-physical (spirit) create the physical universe?</li><li>Why the REAL you is timeless and eternal (whether you like it or not)</li><li>The limit of what we can know about God based SOLELY on human understanding</li><li>*BONUS* How to become wealthy without doing any work</li></ul>Related links: <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/spirit-in-a-box/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Spirit in a Box (blog post)</a> <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/the-principle-answer/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://faithbyreason.net/the-principle-answer/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Principle Answer </a>(blog post) <a href="http://modeletics.blogspot.com/2006/10/who-are-you.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://flowcess.com/intangible-driver/product" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">How to discover who you ARE</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1389</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>bibleinterpretation,bibletruth,creation,godexists,provegod,whoisgod</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>5</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Is the Bible the Word of God? The Objective Case | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/is-the-bible-the-word-of-god-the-objective-case-faith-by-reason--63791091</link><description><![CDATA[Is the Bible the Word of God? Can we prove that it came from the First Cause of the universe? We learned in the last podcast that the First Cause has to consist of the causeless principles of righteousness and justice that it must be ALWAYS and COMPLETELY right and just. And that’s ALL  we can definitively know about the First Cause based SOLELY on human understanding. Any other information about it would have to come from the First Cause itself. Is there such an information source?  Obviously, Christians believe that information source is the Bible, but they are not alone.  ALL belief systems, religious and secular, believe that they have information from the First Cause. But which of them (if any) are right? And can the information be objectively proven to be from the First Cause? On this podcast:<br /><ul><li>The various belief systems that claim to have knowledge about and from the First Cause</li><li>A contrastive comparison of that knowledge and information based on what we already know about the First Cause</li><li>How the Bible is unique from all the other “holy books”</li><li>Some controversies about the Bible</li><li>How my snarky college professor inspired Faith By Reason</li></ul><br />Join the <a href="https://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Faith By Reason Patreon</a> for bonus episodes, and private Bible Study<br />at<a href="https://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br /><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63791091</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:59:37 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63791091/fbr_episode_6_is_the_bible_the_word_of_god.mp3" length="12687536" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/eb7e27d4-c1e0-4925-a8e1-de613dedce9d/eb7e27d4-c1e0-4925-a8e1-de613dedce9d.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/eb7e27d4-c1e0-4925-a8e1-de613dedce9d/eb7e27d4-c1e0-4925-a8e1-de613dedce9d.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/eb7e27d4-c1e0-4925-a8e1-de613dedce9d/eb7e27d4-c1e0-4925-a8e1-de613dedce9d.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Is the Bible the Word of God? Can we prove that it came from the First Cause of the universe? We learned in the last podcast that the First Cause has to consist of the causeless principles of righteousness and justice that it must be ALWAYS and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Is the Bible the Word of God? Can we prove that it came from the First Cause of the universe? We learned in the last podcast that the First Cause has to consist of the causeless principles of righteousness and justice that it must be ALWAYS and COMPLETELY right and just. And that’s ALL  we can definitively know about the First Cause based SOLELY on human understanding. Any other information about it would have to come from the First Cause itself. Is there such an information source?  Obviously, Christians believe that information source is the Bible, but they are not alone.  ALL belief systems, religious and secular, believe that they have information from the First Cause. But which of them (if any) are right? And can the information be objectively proven to be from the First Cause? On this podcast:<br /><ul><li>The various belief systems that claim to have knowledge about and from the First Cause</li><li>A contrastive comparison of that knowledge and information based on what we already know about the First Cause</li><li>How the Bible is unique from all the other “holy books”</li><li>Some controversies about the Bible</li><li>How my snarky college professor inspired Faith By Reason</li></ul><br />Join the <a href="https://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Faith By Reason Patreon</a> for bonus episodes, and private Bible Study<br />at<a href="https://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br /><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1058</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,bibleinterpretation,biblemyths,biblestudy,bibletruth,godisreal,wordofgod</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>6</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Can We Trust the Bible? Answering the Toughest Objections | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/can-you-trust-the-bible-fbr-episode-7/</link><description><![CDATA[Is the Bible full of contradictions and errors of logic and science? Can we trust the Bible as a reliable information source from the First Cause of creation, or is it just a primitive book full of fallacious myths and religious superstitions? We will address those questions and more on this week’s podcast, including:<br /><ul><li>Is the Bible untrustworthy because it was written by men?</li><li>Can we rely on the information in a book that was written thousands of years ago?</li><li>Doesn’t the Bible condone slavery, oppression of women, and other unjust practices?</li><li>Hasn’t the content of the Bible changed and been tampered with over the years?</li><li>Isn’t the Bible full of contradictions?</li><li>There are so many interpretations of the Bible, how can we know which (if any) are correct?</li><li>If the Bible is from an all-knowing God, why doesn’t it answer ALL the mysteries of the universe?</li></ul><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63817345</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 16:39:44 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63817345/fbr_episode_7_can_we_trust_the_bible.mp3" length="24419110" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ca6c1988-3fde-4f91-a762-7b1c38a1298c/ca6c1988-3fde-4f91-a762-7b1c38a1298c.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ca6c1988-3fde-4f91-a762-7b1c38a1298c/ca6c1988-3fde-4f91-a762-7b1c38a1298c.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ca6c1988-3fde-4f91-a762-7b1c38a1298c/ca6c1988-3fde-4f91-a762-7b1c38a1298c.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Is the Bible full of contradictions and errors of logic and science? Can we trust the Bible as a reliable information source from the First Cause of creation, or is it just a primitive book full of fallacious myths and religious superstitions? We will...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Is the Bible full of contradictions and errors of logic and science? Can we trust the Bible as a reliable information source from the First Cause of creation, or is it just a primitive book full of fallacious myths and religious superstitions? We will address those questions and more on this week’s podcast, including:<br /><ul><li>Is the Bible untrustworthy because it was written by men?</li><li>Can we rely on the information in a book that was written thousands of years ago?</li><li>Doesn’t the Bible condone slavery, oppression of women, and other unjust practices?</li><li>Hasn’t the content of the Bible changed and been tampered with over the years?</li><li>Isn’t the Bible full of contradictions?</li><li>There are so many interpretations of the Bible, how can we know which (if any) are correct?</li><li>If the Bible is from an all-knowing God, why doesn’t it answer ALL the mysteries of the universe?</li></ul><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2035</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>7</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why God Is NOT a God of Love — And Why That's Actually Good News | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/love-atheists-fbr-podcast-8/</link><description><![CDATA[Atheists argue that the God of the Bible isn’t a God of love. And technically, they’re right! God is a God of absolute righteousness and justice. The ultimate EFFECT of being right and just is love! So then, what is love? Is it a feeling, or a choice? In this podcast we’ll look at an argument I had with an annoying atheist (is there any other kind?) that led to the true definition of God’s love. We’ll also cover:<br /><ul><li>How you can tell if a person is an atheist (or from New York) in 60 seconds</li><li>How atheists tacitly admit that they are insane</li><li>How most of us (including Christians) have a wrong definition of love</li><li>The true Biblical definition of love</li><li>Why God is NOT a “God of love”.</li><li>The first demonstration of love in the Bible (and how it relates to the ULTIMATE show of love)</li><li>The KJV of 1 Corinthians 13 gives the most accurate definition of love</li></ul><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+cor+13&amp;version=KJV" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63856113</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:44:53 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63856113/fbr_episode_8_love_and_atheists.mp3" length="17936858" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ff0def14-3db5-4041-8097-8de2dd9f07fa/ff0def14-3db5-4041-8097-8de2dd9f07fa.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ff0def14-3db5-4041-8097-8de2dd9f07fa/ff0def14-3db5-4041-8097-8de2dd9f07fa.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ff0def14-3db5-4041-8097-8de2dd9f07fa/ff0def14-3db5-4041-8097-8de2dd9f07fa.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Atheists argue that the God of the Bible isn’t a God of love. And technically, they’re right! God is a God of absolute righteousness and justice. The ultimate EFFECT of being right and just is love! So then, what is love? Is it a feeling, or a choice?...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Atheists argue that the God of the Bible isn’t a God of love. And technically, they’re right! God is a God of absolute righteousness and justice. The ultimate EFFECT of being right and just is love! So then, what is love? Is it a feeling, or a choice? In this podcast we’ll look at an argument I had with an annoying atheist (is there any other kind?) that led to the true definition of God’s love. We’ll also cover:<br /><ul><li>How you can tell if a person is an atheist (or from New York) in 60 seconds</li><li>How atheists tacitly admit that they are insane</li><li>How most of us (including Christians) have a wrong definition of love</li><li>The true Biblical definition of love</li><li>Why God is NOT a “God of love”.</li><li>The first demonstration of love in the Bible (and how it relates to the ULTIMATE show of love)</li><li>The KJV of 1 Corinthians 13 gives the most accurate definition of love</li></ul><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+cor+13&amp;version=KJV" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1495</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>atheism,atheist,athiest,godislove,godslove,love,trinity,whatislove</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>8</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Is God a Trinity? The Biblical and Logical Case Explained | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/three-gods-one/</link><description><![CDATA[Is God three gods or one?   What is the concept of the Trinity and why is it so controversial? Is there Biblical evidence that God is three “persons”? If so, what does that mean, and HOW can God be singular AND multiple? Whether or not God is a Trinity has less to do with theology and more to do with LOVE!  I’ll explain more in this week’s podcast. Plus, just for listening, you’ll receive 3 FREE BONUS GIFTS!!<br /><ul><li>BONUS GIFT 1: How to respond to people who say Christians aren’t being loving when we have the audacity to occasionally be less than nice</li><li>BONUS GIFT 2: How to shut down people who accuse you of being a “judgmental Christian”. Not only are Christians allowed to be “judgmental”, Jesus COMMANDS us to be!</li><li>What is the doctrine of the Trinity?</li><li>Why is the doctrine so controversial?</li><li>BONUS GIFT 3: How to get rid of Jehovah’s Witnesses with 5 Bible verses that will ensure they never come back</li><li>Why God’s nature allows for the possibility of the Trinity</li><li>How LOVE requires at least three persons</li></ul><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63885259</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:01:52 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63885259/fbr_episode_9_is_god_a_trinity.mp3" length="22693129" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/2328c44c-c98d-42a2-9fa1-13f52ffffe90/2328c44c-c98d-42a2-9fa1-13f52ffffe90.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/2328c44c-c98d-42a2-9fa1-13f52ffffe90/2328c44c-c98d-42a2-9fa1-13f52ffffe90.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/2328c44c-c98d-42a2-9fa1-13f52ffffe90/2328c44c-c98d-42a2-9fa1-13f52ffffe90.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Is God three gods or one?   What is the concept of the Trinity and why is it so controversial? Is there Biblical evidence that God is three “persons”? If so, what does that mean, and HOW can God be singular AND multiple? Whether or not God is a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Is God three gods or one?   What is the concept of the Trinity and why is it so controversial? Is there Biblical evidence that God is three “persons”? If so, what does that mean, and HOW can God be singular AND multiple? Whether or not God is a Trinity has less to do with theology and more to do with LOVE!  I’ll explain more in this week’s podcast. Plus, just for listening, you’ll receive 3 FREE BONUS GIFTS!!<br /><ul><li>BONUS GIFT 1: How to respond to people who say Christians aren’t being loving when we have the audacity to occasionally be less than nice</li><li>BONUS GIFT 2: How to shut down people who accuse you of being a “judgmental Christian”. Not only are Christians allowed to be “judgmental”, Jesus COMMANDS us to be!</li><li>What is the doctrine of the Trinity?</li><li>Why is the doctrine so controversial?</li><li>BONUS GIFT 3: How to get rid of Jehovah’s Witnesses with 5 Bible verses that will ensure they never come back</li><li>Why God’s nature allows for the possibility of the Trinity</li><li>How LOVE requires at least three persons</li></ul><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1892</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,fathersonholyspirit,godislove,godistrinity,godslove,loveofjesus,trinity,whatiisthetrinity</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>9</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How God Created the Universe — The Quantum Physics Connection | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/how-did-god-create-the-universe/</link><description><![CDATA[How did God create the universe? The Bible said that He simply spoke it into existence. Is that even scientifically plausible? In this podcast we will look at the physics of creation, and show that it’s not only possible for God to have spoken creation into existence, it’s the ONLY explanation that fits what we know about science on a quantum level! This episode gets pretty technical, but I try to make it easy to understand. We’ll cover:<br /><ul><li>How real is the “real world”?</li><li>What are the basic building blocks of matter?</li><li>Is “solidness” just an illusion?</li><li>How quantum physics connects the physical world to “thought”.</li><li>Do we actually live in “The Matrix”?</li></ul>*PROGRAMMING NOTE* I apologize for the audio quality of this podcast. It sounds like I’m broadcasting from inside a tin can. I obviously had some technical issues and I didn’t have time to re-record the episode.<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63973052</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:52:31 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63973052/fbr_episode_10_something_out_of_nothing.mp3" length="16966678" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/333b44d9-5d19-4e2e-b603-38099220c216/333b44d9-5d19-4e2e-b603-38099220c216.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/333b44d9-5d19-4e2e-b603-38099220c216/333b44d9-5d19-4e2e-b603-38099220c216.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/333b44d9-5d19-4e2e-b603-38099220c216/333b44d9-5d19-4e2e-b603-38099220c216.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>How did God create the universe? The Bible said that He simply spoke it into existence. Is that even scientifically plausible? In this podcast we will look at the physics of creation, and show that it’s not only possible for God to have spoken...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[How did God create the universe? The Bible said that He simply spoke it into existence. Is that even scientifically plausible? In this podcast we will look at the physics of creation, and show that it’s not only possible for God to have spoken creation into existence, it’s the ONLY explanation that fits what we know about science on a quantum level! This episode gets pretty technical, but I try to make it easy to understand. We’ll cover:<br /><ul><li>How real is the “real world”?</li><li>What are the basic building blocks of matter?</li><li>Is “solidness” just an illusion?</li><li>How quantum physics connects the physical world to “thought”.</li><li>Do we actually live in “The Matrix”?</li></ul>*PROGRAMMING NOTE* I apologize for the audio quality of this podcast. It sounds like I’m broadcasting from inside a tin can. I obviously had some technical issues and I didn’t have time to re-record the episode.<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1414</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,creation,creationvsevolution,evolution,godisreal,intellegent,intellegentdesign</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>10</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Old Is the Earth? What Genesis Actually Tells Us | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-old-is-the-earth-what-genesis-actually-tells-us-faith-by-reason--64025943</link><description><![CDATA[Is Earth billions of years old as evolutionists and “Old Earth Creationists” say, or is it only a few thousand years old as “Young Earth Creationists” purport? Does the creation narrative in Genesis 1 help answer these questions? The answer is a blunt NO! If we’re being completely honest, we have to admit that Genesis 1 frankly does a TERRIBLE job of giving a comprehensive and detailed explanation of the enormous complexity of the physics and biology of creation. But what if that’s NOT the intention of the passage? So why was Genesis written the way it was? What IS the age of the universe (and does it even matter)? We’ll examine those questions on this week’s podcast, including:<br /><ul><li>Why the creation narrative is so brief and lacking in detail</li><li>The REAL reason that Genesis 1 is in the Bible</li><li>Did God create the world in a state of order or chaos?</li><li>What is the so-called “gap theory”</li><li>The true message of the Book of Job (I kind of went off on a tangent…)</li><li>When and how did Satan fall?</li><li>Why trying to figure out the age of the earth is meaningless</li></ul>Joing the Faith By Reason Patreon for exclusive content, Q&amp;A's and private Bible Study<br />www.patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64025943</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 03:59:54 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64025943/fbr_episode_11_biblical_creation_and_the_age_of_the_earth.mp3" length="28514603" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/790c82a4-9f0d-4c67-9930-c435640901f4/790c82a4-9f0d-4c67-9930-c435640901f4.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/790c82a4-9f0d-4c67-9930-c435640901f4/790c82a4-9f0d-4c67-9930-c435640901f4.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/790c82a4-9f0d-4c67-9930-c435640901f4/790c82a4-9f0d-4c67-9930-c435640901f4.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Is Earth billions of years old as evolutionists and “Old Earth Creationists” say, or is it only a few thousand years old as “Young Earth Creationists” purport? Does the creation narrative in Genesis 1 help answer these questions? The answer is a blunt...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Is Earth billions of years old as evolutionists and “Old Earth Creationists” say, or is it only a few thousand years old as “Young Earth Creationists” purport? Does the creation narrative in Genesis 1 help answer these questions? The answer is a blunt NO! If we’re being completely honest, we have to admit that Genesis 1 frankly does a TERRIBLE job of giving a comprehensive and detailed explanation of the enormous complexity of the physics and biology of creation. But what if that’s NOT the intention of the passage? So why was Genesis written the way it was? What IS the age of the universe (and does it even matter)? We’ll examine those questions on this week’s podcast, including:<br /><ul><li>Why the creation narrative is so brief and lacking in detail</li><li>The REAL reason that Genesis 1 is in the Bible</li><li>Did God create the world in a state of order or chaos?</li><li>What is the so-called “gap theory”</li><li>The true message of the Book of Job (I kind of went off on a tangent…)</li><li>When and how did Satan fall?</li><li>Why trying to figure out the age of the earth is meaningless</li></ul>Joing the Faith By Reason Patreon for exclusive content, Q&amp;A's and private Bible Study<br />www.patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2377</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>ageoftheearth,apologetics,bibleinterpretation,bibletruth,creation,evolution,flatearth,weshuff</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>11</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Evolution Is Scientifically Impossible — Proven Without the Bible | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/evolution-for-dummies-fbr-podcast-12</link><description><![CDATA[Evolution is NOT science! It’s an utterly asinine and ludicrous fairy tale promoted by brain-damaged people who voluntarily and intentionally choose to believe what they know is impossible rather than accept the obvious truth of a supernatural creator. Evolution is SCIENTIFICALLY impossible. Not unlikely. Not improbable…IMPOSSIBLE! That is not my opinion as a Christian. It is a fact that is EASILY proven through empirical science. I will not use God or the Bible to disprove evolution. It is such ridiculously fallacious tripe, that it quickly falls apart on its own under objective observation! In this podcast I will show:<br /><ul><li>The TRUE definition of science</li><li>How the so-called “war” between faith and science is a fabrication</li><li>How every step along the evolutionary path, from the “Big Bang” to the advent of simple life on earth, is scientifically impossible.</li><li>How NO OTHER planet in the universe could sustain life</li><li>Why the evidence for intricate design is undeniable</li><li>How the probability of the building blocks of life (let alone actual sentient life) occurring by random chance is impossible by exponentially unimaginable magnitudes</li><li>Proof that high-level scientists do NOT believe in evolution</li><li>Why scientists who know better still chose to embrace this moronic affront to science, and intentionally damage their brains to do so.</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon www.patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64051850</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:43:04 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64051850/fbr_episode_12_evolution_for_dummies.mp3" length="33717884" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/abba7c3d-dfc8-42c3-bad0-c68f45e90e67/abba7c3d-dfc8-42c3-bad0-c68f45e90e67.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/abba7c3d-dfc8-42c3-bad0-c68f45e90e67/abba7c3d-dfc8-42c3-bad0-c68f45e90e67.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/abba7c3d-dfc8-42c3-bad0-c68f45e90e67/abba7c3d-dfc8-42c3-bad0-c68f45e90e67.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Evolution is NOT science! It’s an utterly asinine and ludicrous fairy tale promoted by brain-damaged people who voluntarily and intentionally choose to believe what they know is impossible rather than accept the obvious truth of a supernatural...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Evolution is NOT science! It’s an utterly asinine and ludicrous fairy tale promoted by brain-damaged people who voluntarily and intentionally choose to believe what they know is impossible rather than accept the obvious truth of a supernatural creator. Evolution is SCIENTIFICALLY impossible. Not unlikely. Not improbable…IMPOSSIBLE! That is not my opinion as a Christian. It is a fact that is EASILY proven through empirical science. I will not use God or the Bible to disprove evolution. It is such ridiculously fallacious tripe, that it quickly falls apart on its own under objective observation! In this podcast I will show:<br /><ul><li>The TRUE definition of science</li><li>How the so-called “war” between faith and science is a fabrication</li><li>How every step along the evolutionary path, from the “Big Bang” to the advent of simple life on earth, is scientifically impossible.</li><li>How NO OTHER planet in the universe could sustain life</li><li>Why the evidence for intricate design is undeniable</li><li>How the probability of the building blocks of life (let alone actual sentient life) occurring by random chance is impossible by exponentially unimaginable magnitudes</li><li>Proof that high-level scientists do NOT believe in evolution</li><li>Why scientists who know better still chose to embrace this moronic affront to science, and intentionally damage their brains to do so.</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon www.patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2810</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>12</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Darwinism Is the Deadliest Religion in Human History | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/darwinian-philosophy/</link><description><![CDATA[Darwin (and <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/evolution-for-dummies-fbr-podcast-12/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">his ridiculous theory</a> ) are not only an affront to empirical science, but he spawned the most cruel, brutal, inhuman, murderous, oppressive, and morally bankrupt philosophy in history! Darwinian Philosophy condones and promotes genocide, racism, class warfare, eugenics, Nazism, Communism, and the suppression of the poor and infirmed. Yet despite its nightmarish aspect, smirking atheists and secularists blithely embrace it while blaming religion and faith for all the world’s problems!  Worse still, apathetic Christians let them get away with it.  In this week’s podcast<br /><ul><li>Why evolution is a religion</li><li>Reactions to <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/evolution-for-dummies-fbr-podcast-12/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">last week’s podcast on evolution</a></li><li>The origin and limitations of Darwin’s theory</li><li>How Darwinian evolution is not empirically scientific</li><li>Why this philosophy renders your life meaningless</li><li>The lesser-known Darwin book that led to genocide, racism, and war</li><li>Why racism is the dumbest rationalization on earth</li><li>How atheism is responsible for more war and death than all religions combined</li><li>How Margaret Sanger’s Darwinian philosophy led to infanticide</li><li>Why the blame for the proliferation and mainstreaming of this gruesome philosophy lies at the feet of Christians!</li></ul>Related links: <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/creation-something-out-of-nothing/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Creation: Something out of Nothing</a> (blog post) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Descent_of_Man,_and_Selection_in_Relation_to_Sex" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Descent of Man</a> (Darwin’s second book) <a href="http://prolife365.com/margaret-sanger-quotes/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Margaret Sanger eugenics</a><br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon www.patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64104474</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:07:56 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64104474/fbr_episode_13_darwinian_phliosophy.mp3" length="28011796" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/dca2c8aa-5d34-4377-82e2-b0bf571f6074/dca2c8aa-5d34-4377-82e2-b0bf571f6074.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/dca2c8aa-5d34-4377-82e2-b0bf571f6074/dca2c8aa-5d34-4377-82e2-b0bf571f6074.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/dca2c8aa-5d34-4377-82e2-b0bf571f6074/dca2c8aa-5d34-4377-82e2-b0bf571f6074.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Darwin (and https://faithbyreason.net/evolution-for-dummies-fbr-podcast-12/ ) are not only an affront to empirical science, but he spawned the most cruel, brutal, inhuman, murderous, oppressive, and morally bankrupt philosophy in history! Darwinian...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Darwin (and <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/evolution-for-dummies-fbr-podcast-12/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">his ridiculous theory</a> ) are not only an affront to empirical science, but he spawned the most cruel, brutal, inhuman, murderous, oppressive, and morally bankrupt philosophy in history! Darwinian Philosophy condones and promotes genocide, racism, class warfare, eugenics, Nazism, Communism, and the suppression of the poor and infirmed. Yet despite its nightmarish aspect, smirking atheists and secularists blithely embrace it while blaming religion and faith for all the world’s problems!  Worse still, apathetic Christians let them get away with it.  In this week’s podcast<br /><ul><li>Why evolution is a religion</li><li>Reactions to <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/evolution-for-dummies-fbr-podcast-12/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">last week’s podcast on evolution</a></li><li>The origin and limitations of Darwin’s theory</li><li>How Darwinian evolution is not empirically scientific</li><li>Why this philosophy renders your life meaningless</li><li>The lesser-known Darwin book that led to genocide, racism, and war</li><li>Why racism is the dumbest rationalization on earth</li><li>How atheism is responsible for more war and death than all religions combined</li><li>How Margaret Sanger’s Darwinian philosophy led to infanticide</li><li>Why the blame for the proliferation and mainstreaming of this gruesome philosophy lies at the feet of Christians!</li></ul>Related links: <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/creation-something-out-of-nothing/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Creation: Something out of Nothing</a> (blog post) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Descent_of_Man,_and_Selection_in_Relation_to_Sex" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Descent of Man</a> (Darwin’s second book) <a href="http://prolife365.com/margaret-sanger-quotes/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Margaret Sanger eugenics</a><br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon www.patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2335</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,atheist,creation,creationvsevolution,eolution,evolution,intellegentdesign</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>13</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>If God Is Good, Why Does Evil Exist? The Logical Answer | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/good-god-allows-evil-nature-man/</link><description><![CDATA[If God is good and all-powerful, then why is there evil in the world? Wouldn’t a good, loving, and benevolent Supreme Being stop evil before it happens, and/or immediately punish evil-doers?  Whenever I’ve spoken with unbelievers about their hesitance in accepting the existence of God, it usually comes down to these questions.<br /><br />And they are actually very logical questions to ask. But the fact is that it would be unrighteous and unjust for God to stop evil before it happens! And as much as we may think we want God to intervene in this manner, the truth is that if He did, we’d HATE it, and we’d hate Him! It all comes down to the nature of man, why God made man the way He did, and His plan for us.<br /><br />In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>The nature of man and why man is unique and special</li><li>Free will vs. volitional will</li><li>Why God (and Satan) do NOT have free will (PLEASE listen to my explanation in the podcast BEFORE you condemn that statement).</li><li>What does God desire and how does man fit into the fulfillment of that desire?</li><li>Why God CAN’T (for the most part) stop evil before it happens</li><li>Why it would be unjust for God to always judge evil immediately</li><li>If God DID stop evil and punish evil the way we think we want Him to, WE WOULD HATE IT!</li><li>How God’s delayed punishment (mercy), is just and is the only way we can be forgiven and justified</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon www.patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64179224</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 01:14:34 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64179224/fbr_episode_14_good_god_bad_man.mp3" length="20046247" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ff33e59e-96fa-4eff-b6fb-452eb29d9ada/ff33e59e-96fa-4eff-b6fb-452eb29d9ada.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ff33e59e-96fa-4eff-b6fb-452eb29d9ada/ff33e59e-96fa-4eff-b6fb-452eb29d9ada.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ff33e59e-96fa-4eff-b6fb-452eb29d9ada/ff33e59e-96fa-4eff-b6fb-452eb29d9ada.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>If God is good and all-powerful, then why is there evil in the world? Wouldn’t a good, loving, and benevolent Supreme Being stop evil before it happens, and/or immediately punish evil-doers?  Whenever I’ve spoken with unbelievers about their hesitance...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[If God is good and all-powerful, then why is there evil in the world? Wouldn’t a good, loving, and benevolent Supreme Being stop evil before it happens, and/or immediately punish evil-doers?  Whenever I’ve spoken with unbelievers about their hesitance in accepting the existence of God, it usually comes down to these questions.<br /><br />And they are actually very logical questions to ask. But the fact is that it would be unrighteous and unjust for God to stop evil before it happens! And as much as we may think we want God to intervene in this manner, the truth is that if He did, we’d HATE it, and we’d hate Him! It all comes down to the nature of man, why God made man the way He did, and His plan for us.<br /><br />In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>The nature of man and why man is unique and special</li><li>Free will vs. volitional will</li><li>Why God (and Satan) do NOT have free will (PLEASE listen to my explanation in the podcast BEFORE you condemn that statement).</li><li>What does God desire and how does man fit into the fulfillment of that desire?</li><li>Why God CAN’T (for the most part) stop evil before it happens</li><li>Why it would be unjust for God to always judge evil immediately</li><li>If God DID stop evil and punish evil the way we think we want Him to, WE WOULD HATE IT!</li><li>How God’s delayed punishment (mercy), is just and is the only way we can be forgiven and justified</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon www.patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1671</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,bibletruth,cslewis,godisgood,manisevil,natureofman,weshuff</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>14</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Heaven Is the Meaning of Life — Here's Why | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/heaven-meaning-life-fbr-podcast-15/</link><description><![CDATA[Heaven is the Meaning of Life!  The reason we are so perpetually unsatisfied, the reason we can never be truly happy on earth in spite of our best efforts is because we were created for something, for SOMEPLACE exponentially greater! <br /><br />To paraphrase C.S. Lewis, “If you have a longing for which nothing in this world can satisfy, then the only logical conclusion is that you were made for a different world”.  But if Heaven is the answer to <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/whats-the-point-of-existence/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“What’s the Point?”</a>, then how do we get there?  And more importantly, why does God WANT us there? <br /><br /> In this podcast:<br /><ul><li>The true meaning of life</li><li>God’s greatest desire (and how a perfect and complete God can even HAVE a desire).</li><li>How man was made to dwell in Heaven</li><li>How Marriage is the KEY to the Meaning of Life</li><li>Why ALL creation is “hardwired” to worship, but man’s free will makes it VERY dangerous</li><li>How to be like God</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon www.patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64193508</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 21:02:15 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64193508/fbr_episode_15_the_meaning_of_life.mp3" length="24027592" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/6cf1512c-ac53-4d49-824e-e4cea02e377f/6cf1512c-ac53-4d49-824e-e4cea02e377f.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/6cf1512c-ac53-4d49-824e-e4cea02e377f/6cf1512c-ac53-4d49-824e-e4cea02e377f.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/6cf1512c-ac53-4d49-824e-e4cea02e377f/6cf1512c-ac53-4d49-824e-e4cea02e377f.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Heaven is the Meaning of Life!  The reason we are so perpetually unsatisfied, the reason we can never be truly happy on earth in spite of our best efforts is because we were created for something, for SOMEPLACE exponentially greater! 

To paraphrase...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Heaven is the Meaning of Life!  The reason we are so perpetually unsatisfied, the reason we can never be truly happy on earth in spite of our best efforts is because we were created for something, for SOMEPLACE exponentially greater! <br /><br />To paraphrase C.S. Lewis, “If you have a longing for which nothing in this world can satisfy, then the only logical conclusion is that you were made for a different world”.  But if Heaven is the answer to <a href="https://faithbyreason.net/whats-the-point-of-existence/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“What’s the Point?”</a>, then how do we get there?  And more importantly, why does God WANT us there? <br /><br /> In this podcast:<br /><ul><li>The true meaning of life</li><li>God’s greatest desire (and how a perfect and complete God can even HAVE a desire).</li><li>How man was made to dwell in Heaven</li><li>How Marriage is the KEY to the Meaning of Life</li><li>Why ALL creation is “hardwired” to worship, but man’s free will makes it VERY dangerous</li><li>How to be like God</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon www.patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2003</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,eternity,heaven,meaningoflife,salvation</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>15</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Think Like God and Always Be Right | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/how-to-think-like-god/</link><description><![CDATA[To think like God, you must have a thought process that is always and completely righteous. Believe it or not, we actually have this ability!  We use it every day.  In fact, we LOVE using it on other people  – but rarely use it on ourselves, because doing so would require something most of us struggle with: HUMILITY.  However, when properly mastered, this thought process will not only ensure that you will always be right (righteous), it will allow you to end any disagreement in seconds.  In fact, if world leaders used this thought process, we’d have world peace in a matter of hours!  In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>How can we always be right when much of what we think is ALREADY wrong?</li><li>The reason that red and blue Jellybeans are the official FBR logo</li><li>The definition of humility and why God gives such high regard to the humble</li><li>The definition of Pride, why it’s so easy, and why God hates it so much</li><li>Why pride is the source of ALL disagreements (and will GUARANTEE that you’ll go to Hell)</li><li>Why religion is the WORST form of pride</li><li>How to end ANY argument in less than 2 minutes</li><li>How relying on God is the ONLY way we can be righteous and humble</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64211185</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:56:18 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64211185/fbr_episode_16_how_to_be_right.mp3" length="19752472" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/d39892a8-98c2-47e6-a999-d928856b14de/d39892a8-98c2-47e6-a999-d928856b14de.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/d39892a8-98c2-47e6-a999-d928856b14de/d39892a8-98c2-47e6-a999-d928856b14de.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/d39892a8-98c2-47e6-a999-d928856b14de/d39892a8-98c2-47e6-a999-d928856b14de.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>To think like God, you must have a thought process that is always and completely righteous. Believe it or not, we actually have this ability!  We use it every day.  In fact, we LOVE using it on other people  – but rarely use it on ourselves, because...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[To think like God, you must have a thought process that is always and completely righteous. Believe it or not, we actually have this ability!  We use it every day.  In fact, we LOVE using it on other people  – but rarely use it on ourselves, because doing so would require something most of us struggle with: HUMILITY.  However, when properly mastered, this thought process will not only ensure that you will always be right (righteous), it will allow you to end any disagreement in seconds.  In fact, if world leaders used this thought process, we’d have world peace in a matter of hours!  In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>How can we always be right when much of what we think is ALREADY wrong?</li><li>The reason that red and blue Jellybeans are the official FBR logo</li><li>The definition of humility and why God gives such high regard to the humble</li><li>The definition of Pride, why it’s so easy, and why God hates it so much</li><li>Why pride is the source of ALL disagreements (and will GUARANTEE that you’ll go to Hell)</li><li>Why religion is the WORST form of pride</li><li>How to end ANY argument in less than 2 minutes</li><li>How relying on God is the ONLY way we can be righteous and humble</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1646</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,arguing,mindofchrist,mindofgod,righteousness,winanyargument,worldpeace</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>16</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Is God Humble? Why the Answer Explains All of Human History | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/god-humble-answer-story-human-history-fbr-podcast-17/</link><description><![CDATA[Humble is not an attribute we generally associate with God. Holy? Yes. Almighty? Sure. Loving, righteous, and all-knowing? Of course. But when was the last time you heard God called “humble”? Have you ever?  But if God is righteous, and being righteous means being contrastive, and being contrastive requires humility, then doesn’t God HAVE to be humble? The answer is yes! Not only is God humble, the way He demonstrates His Humility is the story of our entire history on Earth! In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>Can we get to Heaven by always being right like God?</li><li>How and why God is humble</li><li>How God demonstrates His humility through His interactions with man</li><li>Why it would be UNJUST for God to unilaterally implement His plan for us</li><li>What are the “Dispensations”? Am I a dispensationalist? (short answer – no)</li><li>Why the term “7-year Tribulation” is inaccurate and cannot be used to justify a Post-Trib Rapture (ok, I got a bit off-topic here…)</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64236322</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 22:22:11 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64236322/fbr_episode_17_the_humble_god.mp3" length="13171829" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/8cfbb7c3-02c2-45fa-ab57-374cba1c4fb2/8cfbb7c3-02c2-45fa-ab57-374cba1c4fb2.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/8cfbb7c3-02c2-45fa-ab57-374cba1c4fb2/8cfbb7c3-02c2-45fa-ab57-374cba1c4fb2.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/8cfbb7c3-02c2-45fa-ab57-374cba1c4fb2/8cfbb7c3-02c2-45fa-ab57-374cba1c4fb2.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Humble is not an attribute we generally associate with God. Holy? Yes. Almighty? Sure. Loving, righteous, and all-knowing? Of course. But when was the last time you heard God called “humble”? Have you ever?  But if God is righteous, and being...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Humble is not an attribute we generally associate with God. Holy? Yes. Almighty? Sure. Loving, righteous, and all-knowing? Of course. But when was the last time you heard God called “humble”? Have you ever?  But if God is righteous, and being righteous means being contrastive, and being contrastive requires humility, then doesn’t God HAVE to be humble? The answer is yes! Not only is God humble, the way He demonstrates His Humility is the story of our entire history on Earth! In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>Can we get to Heaven by always being right like God?</li><li>How and why God is humble</li><li>How God demonstrates His humility through His interactions with man</li><li>Why it would be UNJUST for God to unilaterally implement His plan for us</li><li>What are the “Dispensations”? Am I a dispensationalist? (short answer – no)</li><li>Why the term “7-year Tribulation” is inaccurate and cannot be used to justify a Post-Trib Rapture (ok, I got a bit off-topic here…)</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1098</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,godinhistory,humble,humility,storyofhistory</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>17</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>What Was the Garden of Eden Really Like? | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/eden-paradise-lost-fbr-podcast-18/</link><description><![CDATA[Eden was the paradise we lost due to Original Sin. Would you be surprised to know that Eden was not only a garden but also a great mountain where God held court with his mightiest Angels? Is it possible that the location of Eden affects modern global politics? The story of Adam and Eve is so familiar that we take it for granted, and in doing so, miss out on important insights. In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>Why did God “rest” on the 7th day of Creation?</li><li>What does it mean to be “made in the image of God”?</li><li>What was the purpose of the trees in the Garden of Eden?</li><li>How was Eden paradise, and why is it fallen man’s ambition to get back to Eden without God?</li><li>If the garden was in the EAST of Eden, what was the rest of Eden like?</li><li>Who are God’s “Divine Council”?</li><li>Where MIGHT Eden have been located and how does this location impact the modern world?</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64258202</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 22:21:48 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64258202/fbr_episode_18_paradise_lost.mp3" length="26624671" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/b1944aaa-dcb8-4fbf-a17d-d2a626ea60ef/b1944aaa-dcb8-4fbf-a17d-d2a626ea60ef.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/b1944aaa-dcb8-4fbf-a17d-d2a626ea60ef/b1944aaa-dcb8-4fbf-a17d-d2a626ea60ef.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/b1944aaa-dcb8-4fbf-a17d-d2a626ea60ef/b1944aaa-dcb8-4fbf-a17d-d2a626ea60ef.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Eden was the paradise we lost due to Original Sin. Would you be surprised to know that Eden was not only a garden but also a great mountain where God held court with his mightiest Angels? Is it possible that the location of Eden affects modern global...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Eden was the paradise we lost due to Original Sin. Would you be surprised to know that Eden was not only a garden but also a great mountain where God held court with his mightiest Angels? Is it possible that the location of Eden affects modern global politics? The story of Adam and Eve is so familiar that we take it for granted, and in doing so, miss out on important insights. In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>Why did God “rest” on the 7th day of Creation?</li><li>What does it mean to be “made in the image of God”?</li><li>What was the purpose of the trees in the Garden of Eden?</li><li>How was Eden paradise, and why is it fallen man’s ambition to get back to Eden without God?</li><li>If the garden was in the EAST of Eden, what was the rest of Eden like?</li><li>Who are God’s “Divine Council”?</li><li>Where MIGHT Eden have been located and how does this location impact the modern world?</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2219</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>adamandeve,apologetics,eden,evolution,gardenofeden,genesis,paradiselost</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>18</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Eden Serpent Was Not a Snake — The Biblical Evidence | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/serpent-end-innocence/</link><description><![CDATA[The Serpent is the most infamous character in the Eden narrative. But was Eve really deceived by a “talking snake”? Biblical, etymological, and logical evidence shows that the Serpent (“Nachash” in Hebrew) was NOT a snake. So what was he? How did he deceive Eve? Why did he desire the fall of man? In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>A review of Eden and Man’s pre-fall status</li><li>Why vegans are so annoying (I go a bit off topic here)</li><li>The temptation of Eve</li><li>Reasons why the Nachash was NOT a snake</li><li>Evidence that the “Serpent” was Lucifer/Satan</li><li>How did Nachash come to mean serpent/snake?</li><li>What was Original Sin?</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64307813</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:21:26 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64307813/fbr_episode_19_serpent_in_the_garden.mp3" length="23873019" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/e98cd39c-56d3-43ee-affe-2b1699a325b7/e98cd39c-56d3-43ee-affe-2b1699a325b7.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/e98cd39c-56d3-43ee-affe-2b1699a325b7/e98cd39c-56d3-43ee-affe-2b1699a325b7.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/e98cd39c-56d3-43ee-affe-2b1699a325b7/e98cd39c-56d3-43ee-affe-2b1699a325b7.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The Serpent is the most infamous character in the Eden narrative. But was Eve really deceived by a “talking snake”? Biblical, etymological, and logical evidence shows that the Serpent (“Nachash” in Hebrew) was NOT a snake. So what was he? How did he...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Serpent is the most infamous character in the Eden narrative. But was Eve really deceived by a “talking snake”? Biblical, etymological, and logical evidence shows that the Serpent (“Nachash” in Hebrew) was NOT a snake. So what was he? How did he deceive Eve? Why did he desire the fall of man? In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>A review of Eden and Man’s pre-fall status</li><li>Why vegans are so annoying (I go a bit off topic here)</li><li>The temptation of Eve</li><li>Reasons why the Nachash was NOT a snake</li><li>Evidence that the “Serpent” was Lucifer/Satan</li><li>How did Nachash come to mean serpent/snake?</li><li>What was Original Sin?</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1990</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>adamandeve,apologetics,originalsin,sataneden,serpent,serpenteden,statneden</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>19</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Original Sin — What Really Happened After Adam and Eve Ate the Fruit | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/original-sin-fbr-podcast-20/</link><description><![CDATA[Original Sin is usually defined as the eating of the Forbidden Fruit by Adam and Eve. But I would contend that what happened immediately AFTER they ate the fruit is much more important. Why? God did not immediately judge Adam and Eve after they ate the fruit. Instead, He asked them questions! Their responses to God’s questions were the determining factor in the success or Failure of this Dispensation and Original Sin. In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>Why were Adam and Eve ashamed to be naked? (wouldn’t your spouse be the person you’re most comfortable being naked with? There’s obviously something more going on here)</li><li>What does the Bible mean by the terms “naked” and “uncovered”?</li><li>What REALLY happened to Noah when he was “uncovered” in his tent?</li><li>Why did God ask Adam and Eve questions before He rendered judgment for their disobedience?</li><li>How could Adam have answered God differently and changed history?</li><li>The first example of Justification</li><li>Why did God have 2 Cherubim guard the way to the Tree of Life?</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64326042</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 20:00:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64326042/fbr_episode_20_original_sin.mp3" length="24883670" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/271f7261-995d-49b5-af15-02e88100eb55/271f7261-995d-49b5-af15-02e88100eb55.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/271f7261-995d-49b5-af15-02e88100eb55/271f7261-995d-49b5-af15-02e88100eb55.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/271f7261-995d-49b5-af15-02e88100eb55/271f7261-995d-49b5-af15-02e88100eb55.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Original Sin is usually defined as the eating of the Forbidden Fruit by Adam and Eve. But I would contend that what happened immediately AFTER they ate the fruit is much more important. Why? God did not immediately judge Adam and Eve after they ate...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Original Sin is usually defined as the eating of the Forbidden Fruit by Adam and Eve. But I would contend that what happened immediately AFTER they ate the fruit is much more important. Why? God did not immediately judge Adam and Eve after they ate the fruit. Instead, He asked them questions! Their responses to God’s questions were the determining factor in the success or Failure of this Dispensation and Original Sin. In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>Why were Adam and Eve ashamed to be naked? (wouldn’t your spouse be the person you’re most comfortable being naked with? There’s obviously something more going on here)</li><li>What does the Bible mean by the terms “naked” and “uncovered”?</li><li>What REALLY happened to Noah when he was “uncovered” in his tent?</li><li>Why did God ask Adam and Eve questions before He rendered judgment for their disobedience?</li><li>How could Adam have answered God differently and changed history?</li><li>The first example of Justification</li><li>Why did God have 2 Cherubim guard the way to the Tree of Life?</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2074</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>adamandeve,eden,fallofman,gardenofeden,originalsin,paradiselost,sin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>20</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why the Guilt and Justification Cycle Is Proof of God's Mercy | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/guilt-justification-gods-mercy/</link><description><![CDATA[Our unconscious mind makes us feel guilt when we do an injustice. We don’t like feeling guilt, so we seek some kind of justification in order to settle the guilt-debt. But did you know that this thought process demonstrates God’s mercy for our sins? In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>What is Justification and why do we need it?</li><li>Why do we feel guilt?</li><li>How our subconscious mind is like a computer</li><li>Do you justify God, or yourself?</li><li>Why the guilt/justify cycle is proof of God’s mercy</li><li>The WORST form of justification</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64363327</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 20:35:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64363327/fbr_episode_21_justified_guilt.mp3" length="20840837" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/0dd7c233-8503-42f2-9de2-7324f085c60f/0dd7c233-8503-42f2-9de2-7324f085c60f.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/0dd7c233-8503-42f2-9de2-7324f085c60f/0dd7c233-8503-42f2-9de2-7324f085c60f.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/0dd7c233-8503-42f2-9de2-7324f085c60f/0dd7c233-8503-42f2-9de2-7324f085c60f.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Our unconscious mind makes us feel guilt when we do an injustice. We don’t like feeling guilt, so we seek some kind of justification in order to settle the guilt-debt. But did you know that this thought process demonstrates God’s mercy for our sins?...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Our unconscious mind makes us feel guilt when we do an injustice. We don’t like feeling guilt, so we seek some kind of justification in order to settle the guilt-debt. But did you know that this thought process demonstrates God’s mercy for our sins? In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>What is Justification and why do we need it?</li><li>Why do we feel guilt?</li><li>How our subconscious mind is like a computer</li><li>Do you justify God, or yourself?</li><li>Why the guilt/justify cycle is proof of God’s mercy</li><li>The WORST form of justification</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1737</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>godsmercy,guilt,mercy,sin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>21</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why God Hates Religion — The Biblical Case Against Religious Pride | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/religious-pride-fbr-podcast-22/</link><description><![CDATA[Religious acts you perform are not about God.  They are actually all about YOU!  God hates religion because religion is based on pride.  When Jesus was on earth, the only people He had a problem with were the religious peddlers (Pharisees).  So what is religion?  Why do we perform it?  And why do we think it’s from God?  In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>The definition of religion</li><li>The “benevolent” reason why we get religious</li><li>Why you can’t get to heaven by “being good”</li><li>How religion is self-delusion</li><li>When you are religious, you are trying to be superior to God</li><li>Why do many Christians practice religion?</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64409926</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:25:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64409926/frb_episode_22_religious_pride.mp3" length="16494584" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/05375100-7b6f-455b-9978-072be58696aa/05375100-7b6f-455b-9978-072be58696aa.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/05375100-7b6f-455b-9978-072be58696aa/05375100-7b6f-455b-9978-072be58696aa.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/05375100-7b6f-455b-9978-072be58696aa/05375100-7b6f-455b-9978-072be58696aa.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Religious acts you perform are not about God.  They are actually all about YOU!  God hates religion because religion is based on pride.  When Jesus was on earth, the only people He had a problem with were the religious peddlers (Pharisees).  So what...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Religious acts you perform are not about God.  They are actually all about YOU!  God hates religion because religion is based on pride.  When Jesus was on earth, the only people He had a problem with were the religious peddlers (Pharisees).  So what is religion?  Why do we perform it?  And why do we think it’s from God?  In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>The definition of religion</li><li>The “benevolent” reason why we get religious</li><li>Why you can’t get to heaven by “being good”</li><li>How religion is self-delusion</li><li>When you are religious, you are trying to be superior to God</li><li>Why do many Christians practice religion?</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1375</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,fakereligion,religion,religiouspride</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>22</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Religious Thinking Causes Literal Brain Damage | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/religious-brain-damage-podcast/</link><description><![CDATA[Brain damage is the hallmark of a highly religious thought process – and I’m not just speaking figuratively. Religion can cause actual physical damage to the chemical receptors in your mind! And don’t think you’re immune to this malady if you’re secular. ALL people practice religion to varying degrees because we ALL promote the ideas of absolute righteousness and justice (GOD) in our pursuits (and of course trying to be right and just WITHOUT God is the definition of religion). In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>What the Bible means when it references “religion”</li><li>Why James 1:27 actually validates the true definition of religion</li><li>How unbelievers prove they believe in God when they pursue social causes</li><li>A brief tangent on the history of global warming/climate change</li><li>Examples of secular “religions”</li><li>How the religious thought process causes cascading brain damage</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64423355</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:35:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64423355/fbr_episode_23_religious_brain_damage.mp3" length="20348384" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/3c4f6024-cbd8-4403-926d-7215d8a78d4f/3c4f6024-cbd8-4403-926d-7215d8a78d4f.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/3c4f6024-cbd8-4403-926d-7215d8a78d4f/3c4f6024-cbd8-4403-926d-7215d8a78d4f.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/3c4f6024-cbd8-4403-926d-7215d8a78d4f/3c4f6024-cbd8-4403-926d-7215d8a78d4f.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Brain damage is the hallmark of a highly religious thought process – and I’m not just speaking figuratively. Religion can cause actual physical damage to the chemical receptors in your mind! And don’t think you’re immune to this malady if you’re...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Brain damage is the hallmark of a highly religious thought process – and I’m not just speaking figuratively. Religion can cause actual physical damage to the chemical receptors in your mind! And don’t think you’re immune to this malady if you’re secular. ALL people practice religion to varying degrees because we ALL promote the ideas of absolute righteousness and justice (GOD) in our pursuits (and of course trying to be right and just WITHOUT God is the definition of religion). In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>What the Bible means when it references “religion”</li><li>Why James 1:27 actually validates the true definition of religion</li><li>How unbelievers prove they believe in God when they pursue social causes</li><li>A brief tangent on the history of global warming/climate change</li><li>Examples of secular “religions”</li><li>How the religious thought process causes cascading brain damage</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1696</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>atheism,atheist,braindamage,climate,climatechange,false,falsereligion,religilous,religion</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>23</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Is the "Jesus" Taught by Religion Actually a False Idol? | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/religious-hypocrisy-podcast24/</link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy from religious Christians is one of the main reasons that unbelievers are reluctant to embrace the Faith. Tragically, that hypocrisy comes from religious people trying (and failing) to be “nicer” than Jesus!!  These attempts not only warp the image of Christians, they corrupt the message of the Gospels, AND they result in Idolatry! In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>The root of religious hypocrisy.</li><li>How religion robbed us of God’s true Name.</li><li>Why the “Jesus” promoted by religious people bears no resemblance to the Jesus in the Bible.</li><li>What was Jesus REALLY like?</li><li>How religious Christians damage themselves and others by trying to be “nice”.</li><li>Why do God’s laws and commandments sound religious?</li></ul><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64484749</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:20:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64484749/fbr_episode_24_religious_hypocrisy.mp3" length="25442279" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/d5f82d9a-d779-4d9c-a6af-fb2a278a26e2/d5f82d9a-d779-4d9c-a6af-fb2a278a26e2.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/d5f82d9a-d779-4d9c-a6af-fb2a278a26e2/d5f82d9a-d779-4d9c-a6af-fb2a278a26e2.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/d5f82d9a-d779-4d9c-a6af-fb2a278a26e2/d5f82d9a-d779-4d9c-a6af-fb2a278a26e2.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Hypocrisy from religious Christians is one of the main reasons that unbelievers are reluctant to embrace the Faith. Tragically, that hypocrisy comes from religious people trying (and failing) to be “nicer” than Jesus!!  These attempts not only warp...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Hypocrisy from religious Christians is one of the main reasons that unbelievers are reluctant to embrace the Faith. Tragically, that hypocrisy comes from religious people trying (and failing) to be “nicer” than Jesus!!  These attempts not only warp the image of Christians, they corrupt the message of the Gospels, AND they result in Idolatry! In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>The root of religious hypocrisy.</li><li>How religion robbed us of God’s true Name.</li><li>Why the “Jesus” promoted by religious people bears no resemblance to the Jesus in the Bible.</li><li>What was Jesus REALLY like?</li><li>How religious Christians damage themselves and others by trying to be “nice”.</li><li>Why do God’s laws and commandments sound religious?</li></ul><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2121</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>fakejesus,falsereligion,jesus,realjesus</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/318257a490982b76b3f05c946ddeee50.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>24</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Biblical Definitions of Life and Death Are Not What You Think | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/alive-well-dead-dying-fbr-podcast-25/</link><description><![CDATA[Being alive has to be more than just “not being dead”. Jesus said that He would make you “more alive” and give you abundant life. Those ideas would be impossible if life and death were just binary states of being. So what are the Biblical definitions of life and death? If eating the forbidden fruit meant death, then why didn’t Adam and Eve drop dead right after they ate it? In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>The definition of death</li><li>Why death doesn’t actually exist on its own</li><li>The definition of life</li><li>How life is qualitative, NOT quantitative</li><li>How we were designed NOT to die</li><li>Why the REAL cause of death is separation from God</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64535576</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:20:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64535576/fbr_episode_25_life_and_death.mp3" length="24108462" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/97f0f7d6-e0b4-4e66-8175-fce77974dec8/97f0f7d6-e0b4-4e66-8175-fce77974dec8.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/97f0f7d6-e0b4-4e66-8175-fce77974dec8/97f0f7d6-e0b4-4e66-8175-fce77974dec8.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/97f0f7d6-e0b4-4e66-8175-fce77974dec8/97f0f7d6-e0b4-4e66-8175-fce77974dec8.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Being alive has to be more than just “not being dead”. Jesus said that He would make you “more alive” and give you abundant life. Those ideas would be impossible if life and death were just binary states of being. So what are the Biblical definitions...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Being alive has to be more than just “not being dead”. Jesus said that He would make you “more alive” and give you abundant life. Those ideas would be impossible if life and death were just binary states of being. So what are the Biblical definitions of life and death? If eating the forbidden fruit meant death, then why didn’t Adam and Eve drop dead right after they ate it? In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>The definition of death</li><li>Why death doesn’t actually exist on its own</li><li>The definition of life</li><li>How life is qualitative, NOT quantitative</li><li>How we were designed NOT to die</li><li>Why the REAL cause of death is separation from God</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2009</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>25</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Blood and Words Are the Biblical Cure for Death | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/blood-words-cure-death-fbr-podcast-26</link><description><![CDATA[Blood is the conduit of physical life according to the Bible. Jesus also stated that words (thoughts) are the source of spiritual life. We are born dead spiritually and we are dying physically because the blood and thoughts that are meant to nourish and repair us are corrupted due to our imperfect fellowship with God. But if we had access to perfect blood and perfect thoughts, we could “cure death” and have eternal life! In this week’s podcast:<br /><br />How is blood essential to life?<br />Why it’s so important to God (and our spiritual enemies)<br />How WORDS are essential to spiritual life and repair<br />The true source of eternal life<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64612206</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:52:09 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64612206/fbr_episode_26_cure_for_death.mp3" length="15367661" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/0681bc90-422a-4fd6-aa23-b136676bc07e/0681bc90-422a-4fd6-aa23-b136676bc07e.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/0681bc90-422a-4fd6-aa23-b136676bc07e/0681bc90-422a-4fd6-aa23-b136676bc07e.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/0681bc90-422a-4fd6-aa23-b136676bc07e/0681bc90-422a-4fd6-aa23-b136676bc07e.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Blood is the conduit of physical life according to the Bible. Jesus also stated that words (thoughts) are the source of spiritual life. We are born dead spiritually and we are dying physically because the blood and thoughts that are meant to nourish...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Blood is the conduit of physical life according to the Bible. Jesus also stated that words (thoughts) are the source of spiritual life. We are born dead spiritually and we are dying physically because the blood and thoughts that are meant to nourish and repair us are corrupted due to our imperfect fellowship with God. But if we had access to perfect blood and perfect thoughts, we could “cure death” and have eternal life! In this week’s podcast:<br /><br />How is blood essential to life?<br />Why it’s so important to God (and our spiritual enemies)<br />How WORDS are essential to spiritual life and repair<br />The true source of eternal life<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1281</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/459dd6164caf3dbe59d56942fcc201a9.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>26</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>What the Bible Actually Means by Good and Evil | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-the-bible-actually-means-by-good-and-evil-faith-by-reason--64612319</link><description><![CDATA[To create is good, to destroy is evil. When Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, they obviously gained knowledge of good and evil. But what does that mean? Our definitions of good and evil are often subjective and contradictory. The Bible links “good” to creation, and “evil” to destruction. But the Bible also says that God can do evil (destruction). How can that be if God is good. As with most topics, we’ll need to look a little deeper to get the full definition. In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>How our subjective definitions of good and evil can actually make Hitler “good”</li><li>How the Bible defines “good”</li><li>The true definition of Evil</li><li>Why Evil can’t exist on it’s own</li><li>What does the Bible mean when it says God does “evil”?</li><li>How God’s “evil” actually leads to long term Good</li><li>How Satan’s “good” leads to long term Evil</li><li>What is dualism and why to evil forces embrace it?</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64612319</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 19:10:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64612319/fbr_episode_27_create_good_destroy_evil.mp3" length="21477837" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/69bb341a-e786-4647-9f86-9c5edf5b698a/69bb341a-e786-4647-9f86-9c5edf5b698a.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/69bb341a-e786-4647-9f86-9c5edf5b698a/69bb341a-e786-4647-9f86-9c5edf5b698a.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/69bb341a-e786-4647-9f86-9c5edf5b698a/69bb341a-e786-4647-9f86-9c5edf5b698a.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>To create is good, to destroy is evil. When Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, they obviously gained knowledge of good and evil. But what does that mean? Our definitions of good and evil are often subjective and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[To create is good, to destroy is evil. When Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, they obviously gained knowledge of good and evil. But what does that mean? Our definitions of good and evil are often subjective and contradictory. The Bible links “good” to creation, and “evil” to destruction. But the Bible also says that God can do evil (destruction). How can that be if God is good. As with most topics, we’ll need to look a little deeper to get the full definition. In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>How our subjective definitions of good and evil can actually make Hitler “good”</li><li>How the Bible defines “good”</li><li>The true definition of Evil</li><li>Why Evil can’t exist on it’s own</li><li>What does the Bible mean when it says God does “evil”?</li><li>How God’s “evil” actually leads to long term Good</li><li>How Satan’s “good” leads to long term Evil</li><li>What is dualism and why to evil forces embrace it?</li></ul>For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1790</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/32ca3d5a50601135ecb957f419765305.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>27</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Does God Need Evil to Exist? The Surprising Biblical Answer | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/god-need-evil-hoe-fight-evil-fbr-podcast-28/</link><description><![CDATA[Does God NEED evil? That question may sound sacrilegious, but when you think about it, the entire Biblical plan of redemption was predicated on the fall of man and the subsequent plan for salvation (through which God showed us His love in the form of the sacrifice of His Son). If there were no evil, there’d be no sin and no need for salvation. So is “evil” a necessary part of God’s plan? The obvious answer is no. In this podcast, I tell you why evil isn’t necessary, as well as the most effective way to fight evil (it’s probably not what you think…)<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64652345</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 21:25:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64652345/fbr_episode_28_does_god_need_evil.mp3" length="21064678" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/e837afc2-0857-4819-b84e-a7f3d32dee8e/e837afc2-0857-4819-b84e-a7f3d32dee8e.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/e837afc2-0857-4819-b84e-a7f3d32dee8e/e837afc2-0857-4819-b84e-a7f3d32dee8e.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/e837afc2-0857-4819-b84e-a7f3d32dee8e/e837afc2-0857-4819-b84e-a7f3d32dee8e.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Does God NEED evil? That question may sound sacrilegious, but when you think about it, the entire Biblical plan of redemption was predicated on the fall of man and the subsequent plan for salvation (through which God showed us His love in the form of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Does God NEED evil? That question may sound sacrilegious, but when you think about it, the entire Biblical plan of redemption was predicated on the fall of man and the subsequent plan for salvation (through which God showed us His love in the form of the sacrifice of His Son). If there were no evil, there’d be no sin and no need for salvation. So is “evil” a necessary part of God’s plan? The obvious answer is no. In this podcast, I tell you why evil isn’t necessary, as well as the most effective way to fight evil (it’s probably not what you think…)<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1756</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,definition,definitionofevil,godisgood,goodvsevil,of</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>28</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>What Was the Forbidden Fruit and What Did It Actually Do? | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/forbidden-fruit-2/</link><description><![CDATA[The Forbidden fruit was the catalyst for Original sin, death, and the curses God placed on Adam, Eve, and the Nachash (serpent). But what was the forbidden fruit? Was it an apple or a fig (short answer: neither). And why did eating it give Adam and Eve knowledge of good and evil? Also, why did God render the specific judgments of Genesis 3, and what are the deeper meanings? We’ll address those topics on this week’s podcast…<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64781139</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:27:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64781139/fbr_episode_29_forbidden_fruit.mp3" length="29863761" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/488f2673-7c2e-435f-acef-6931b41c00bc/488f2673-7c2e-435f-acef-6931b41c00bc.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/488f2673-7c2e-435f-acef-6931b41c00bc/488f2673-7c2e-435f-acef-6931b41c00bc.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/488f2673-7c2e-435f-acef-6931b41c00bc/488f2673-7c2e-435f-acef-6931b41c00bc.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The Forbidden fruit was the catalyst for Original sin, death, and the curses God placed on Adam, Eve, and the Nachash (serpent). But what was the forbidden fruit? Was it an apple or a fig (short answer: neither). And why did eating it give Adam and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Forbidden fruit was the catalyst for Original sin, death, and the curses God placed on Adam, Eve, and the Nachash (serpent). But what was the forbidden fruit? Was it an apple or a fig (short answer: neither). And why did eating it give Adam and Eve knowledge of good and evil? Also, why did God render the specific judgments of Genesis 3, and what are the deeper meanings? We’ll address those topics on this week’s podcast…<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2489</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>eden,gardenofeden,goodandevil,orginalsin,sin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7577dea550ccd4a9565ca363b19c082f.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>29</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Every Human Desire Points Back to the Garden of Eden | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/longing-eden-key-desires/</link><description><![CDATA[Longing for Eden is at the core of all of our desires. In Eden, mankind had perfect government, perfect fellowship, and perfect provision. Humanity was made for the perfection of Eden and nothing short of that perfection will ever satisfy us. But since we are subject to the pride of our fallen state, all of us, religious AND atheist, seek to recreate that perfection WITHOUT God. Our efforts and failure to do so is the story of our tragic human history. Only by turning to God can we truly reclaim our deepest longing. In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>What we lost when we fell from Eden</li><li>How we try to replace paradise</li><li>Why we desire to regain Eden without God</li><li>How the judgment and curses of Original Sin are loving and merciful</li><li>Why natural disasters CANNOT be blamed on God</li></ul>  For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/64868170</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:40:18 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/64868170/fbr_episode_30_longing_for_eden.mp3" length="25274884" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/f8044bbd-25af-4cbd-aecd-c9fbac6770a0/f8044bbd-25af-4cbd-aecd-c9fbac6770a0.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/f8044bbd-25af-4cbd-aecd-c9fbac6770a0/f8044bbd-25af-4cbd-aecd-c9fbac6770a0.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/f8044bbd-25af-4cbd-aecd-c9fbac6770a0/f8044bbd-25af-4cbd-aecd-c9fbac6770a0.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Longing for Eden is at the core of all of our desires. In Eden, mankind had perfect government, perfect fellowship, and perfect provision. Humanity was made for the perfection of Eden and nothing short of that perfection will ever satisfy us. But...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Longing for Eden is at the core of all of our desires. In Eden, mankind had perfect government, perfect fellowship, and perfect provision. Humanity was made for the perfection of Eden and nothing short of that perfection will ever satisfy us. But since we are subject to the pride of our fallen state, all of us, religious AND atheist, seek to recreate that perfection WITHOUT God. Our efforts and failure to do so is the story of our tragic human history. Only by turning to God can we truly reclaim our deepest longing. In this week’s podcast:<br /><ul><li>What we lost when we fell from Eden</li><li>How we try to replace paradise</li><li>Why we desire to regain Eden without God</li><li>How the judgment and curses of Original Sin are loving and merciful</li><li>Why natural disasters CANNOT be blamed on God</li></ul>  For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2107</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>desire,eden,originalsin,worldpeace</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>30</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Noah's Flood — Why Did God Do It and What Does It Mean? | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/noah-flood-fbr-podcast-31/</link><description><![CDATA[Noah and the Great Flood. Why did God flood the earth? Where did Cain get his wife? Is the “Mark of Cain” racial? Why did pre-Flood people live so long? Is the Gospel Message hidden in Genesis chapter 5? Why did Noah and his family escape judgment? What kept pre-Flood people from having faith? All these questions are answered in this week’s podcast!<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/65142154</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:12:46 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/65142154/fbr_episode_31_noah_flood.mp3" length="21800391" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/19d77d91-c6a1-4a51-96e2-29ab72f56f02/19d77d91-c6a1-4a51-96e2-29ab72f56f02.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/19d77d91-c6a1-4a51-96e2-29ab72f56f02/19d77d91-c6a1-4a51-96e2-29ab72f56f02.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/19d77d91-c6a1-4a51-96e2-29ab72f56f02/19d77d91-c6a1-4a51-96e2-29ab72f56f02.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Noah and the Great Flood. Why did God flood the earth? Where did Cain get his wife? Is the “Mark of Cain” racial? Why did pre-Flood people live so long? Is the Gospel Message hidden in Genesis chapter 5? Why did Noah and his family escape judgment?...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Noah and the Great Flood. Why did God flood the earth? Where did Cain get his wife? Is the “Mark of Cain” racial? Why did pre-Flood people live so long? Is the Gospel Message hidden in Genesis chapter 5? Why did Noah and his family escape judgment? What kept pre-Flood people from having faith? All these questions are answered in this week’s podcast!<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1817</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>edmabrie,genesis6giants,genesissixgiants,nds,nephilim,nephilimdeathsquad,noahflood,sonsofseth</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/5fc998abdf4ed6b5855521b508b1e590.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>31</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>What Was the World Like Before Noah's Flood? | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/pre-flood-world-fbr-podcast-32/</link><description><![CDATA[Did the Great Flood of Genesis 6 really happen?  If so, was it world-wide or regional?  And do we have any evidence? Also, what might the earth have been like before such a cataclysmic event?  I discuss these questions on this week’s podcast<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a>  <br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/65355544</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:57:28 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/65355544/fbr_episode_32_the_pre_flood_world.mp3" length="31674360" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4421fb1b-a05c-4b81-a869-0dcc01852f9f/4421fb1b-a05c-4b81-a869-0dcc01852f9f.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4421fb1b-a05c-4b81-a869-0dcc01852f9f/4421fb1b-a05c-4b81-a869-0dcc01852f9f.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4421fb1b-a05c-4b81-a869-0dcc01852f9f/4421fb1b-a05c-4b81-a869-0dcc01852f9f.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Did the Great Flood of Genesis 6 really happen?  If so, was it world-wide or regional?  And do we have any evidence? Also, what might the earth have been like before such a cataclysmic event?  I discuss these questions on this week’s podcast

For...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Did the Great Flood of Genesis 6 really happen?  If so, was it world-wide or regional?  And do we have any evidence? Also, what might the earth have been like before such a cataclysmic event?  I discuss these questions on this week’s podcast<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a>  <br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2640</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>antediluvian,apologetics,biblestudy,biblicalflood,edmabrie,faithbyreason,genesis,jesus,nephalim</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>32</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Is Faith in God Rational or Irrational? The Answer Will Surprise You | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/is-faith-in-god-rational-or-irrational-the-answer-will-surprise-you-faith-by-reason--65355567</link><description><![CDATA[Faith in God –  Is it an irrational belief it something you can’t see?  Or are there instances where faith is logical and reasonable?  Which kind of Faith does God expect from us? The truth is that we ALL live by faith whether you are Christian, religious, or atheist.  No one has knowledge of EVERYTHING, therefore some measure of faith is required no matter what your worldview.  Logical faith is based on knowledge and experience, while illogical faith is believing something in the ABSENCE of evidence (like believing in evolution…).  In this week’s podcast we will begin a series on faith.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/65355567</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 15:10:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/65355567/fbr_episode_33_reasonable_faith.mp3" length="23377767" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/8db18944-d4ed-4250-be9e-87f33360764d/8db18944-d4ed-4250-be9e-87f33360764d.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/8db18944-d4ed-4250-be9e-87f33360764d/8db18944-d4ed-4250-be9e-87f33360764d.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/8db18944-d4ed-4250-be9e-87f33360764d/8db18944-d4ed-4250-be9e-87f33360764d.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Faith in God –  Is it an irrational belief it something you can’t see?  Or are there instances where faith is logical and reasonable?  Which kind of Faith does God expect from us? The truth is that we ALL live by faith whether you are Christian,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Faith in God –  Is it an irrational belief it something you can’t see?  Or are there instances where faith is logical and reasonable?  Which kind of Faith does God expect from us? The truth is that we ALL live by faith whether you are Christian, religious, or atheist.  No one has knowledge of EVERYTHING, therefore some measure of faith is required no matter what your worldview.  Logical faith is based on knowledge and experience, while illogical faith is believing something in the ABSENCE of evidence (like believing in evolution…).  In this week’s podcast we will begin a series on faith.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1949</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,biblestudy,blindfaith,edmabrie,faith,faithbyreason,faithingod,fiath,jesus,rationalfaith</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>33</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Can You Be Saved Without Ever Hearing About Jesus? | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/faith-important-god-fbr-podcast-34/</link><description><![CDATA[Why is faith important to God?  The Bible says that without faith it is impossible to please God.  Which means that WITH faith, it IS possible to please Him.  But why does God desire our faith?  Why does faith please Him?  Also, if faith is a requirement of salvation, what about people in parts of the world that have never had a chance to hear about Jesus?  Is it fair for God to condemn people to Hell if they never had a chance to hear the orthodox Gospel message?  We’ll address those topics on this week’s podcast<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/65355605</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 15:50:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/65355605/fbr_episode_34_faith_in_the_jungle.mp3" length="20238040" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/2ac263ce-f2e4-4436-82af-1ee8e8e30ed5/2ac263ce-f2e4-4436-82af-1ee8e8e30ed5.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/2ac263ce-f2e4-4436-82af-1ee8e8e30ed5/2ac263ce-f2e4-4436-82af-1ee8e8e30ed5.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/2ac263ce-f2e4-4436-82af-1ee8e8e30ed5/2ac263ce-f2e4-4436-82af-1ee8e8e30ed5.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Why is faith important to God?  The Bible says that without faith it is impossible to please God.  Which means that WITH faith, it IS possible to please Him.  But why does God desire our faith?  Why does faith please Him?  Also, if faith is a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Why is faith important to God?  The Bible says that without faith it is impossible to please God.  Which means that WITH faith, it IS possible to please Him.  But why does God desire our faith?  Why does faith please Him?  Also, if faith is a requirement of salvation, what about people in parts of the world that have never had a chance to hear about Jesus?  Is it fair for God to condemn people to Hell if they never had a chance to hear the orthodox Gospel message?  We’ll address those topics on this week’s podcast<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1687</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,biblestudy,blindfaith,edmabrie,faith,faithbyreason,faithingod,jesus,rationalfaith</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>34</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Televangelists Are Actually the Most Committed Atheists | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/fear-faith-preachers-fbr-podcast-35/</link><description><![CDATA[Fear and Faith are opposites, in that one hopes for good, while the other expects evil. In this podcast, we will explore the dark side of faith, include so-called “Word faith” preachers who corrupt biblical faith to enrich themselves and mislead God’s people (and why I think they are the most committed atheists on earth).  God commands us not to fear anything except Him.  Fear, like faith, can be rational or irrational.  Rational fear is healthy, but irrational fear leads to destruction.  The Bible tells us that the remedy for fear is love!<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/65365705</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:15:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/65365705/fbr_episode_35_fear_and_faith_preachers.mp3" length="34373027" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/e054d64d-bce4-4818-9731-6b63f5604761/e054d64d-bce4-4818-9731-6b63f5604761.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/e054d64d-bce4-4818-9731-6b63f5604761/e054d64d-bce4-4818-9731-6b63f5604761.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/e054d64d-bce4-4818-9731-6b63f5604761/e054d64d-bce4-4818-9731-6b63f5604761.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Fear and Faith are opposites, in that one hopes for good, while the other expects evil. In this podcast, we will explore the dark side of faith, include so-called “Word faith” preachers who corrupt biblical faith to enrich themselves and mislead God’s...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Fear and Faith are opposites, in that one hopes for good, while the other expects evil. In this podcast, we will explore the dark side of faith, include so-called “Word faith” preachers who corrupt biblical faith to enrich themselves and mislead God’s people (and why I think they are the most committed atheists on earth).  God commands us not to fear anything except Him.  Fear, like faith, can be rational or irrational.  Rational fear is healthy, but irrational fear leads to destruction.  The Bible tells us that the remedy for fear is love!<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2865</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,atheists,biblestudy,blindfaith,edmabrie,faith,faithbyreason,faithingod,jesus,rationalfaith,televangelists</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>35</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Sons of God in Genesis 6 Were Not Human — Here's the Proof | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sons-of-god-in-genesis-6-were-not-human-here-s-the-proof-faith-by-reason--65817661</link><description><![CDATA[The Sons of God in Genesis 6 were NOT the “sons of Seth”. They weren’t even human! They were fallen angels who had intercourse with women to produce strange hybrids called Nephilim Giants. This view is HIGHLY controversial, but it is Biblically and logically accurate. And while the “sons of Seth” theory is accepted Christian orthodoxy, it is illogical, unbiblical, and downright silly. It also turns God into an unjust genocidal maniac for killing 99.9999% of humanity with the Great Flood because they were “behaving badly”. But if you understand the supernatural worldview, the events of Genesis 6 and the Flood actually make MUCH more sense. In this week’s podcast, we will explore the events of Genesis 6 from that supernatural (and accurate) viewpoint and show why the proliferation of the “Sethite” theory was the result of cowardice and intentional ignorance by the early church.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />#genesis #revelation #biblestudy #faithbyreason #edmabrie #bibleprophecy #creation #antichrist #fallenangels #nephilim #nds #nephilimdeathsquad #rationalfaith #faithingod<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/65817661</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:57:55 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/65817661/fbr_episode_36_sons_of_god.mp3" length="34176135" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/60be1d47-5554-45ee-8ea9-62f60b598286/60be1d47-5554-45ee-8ea9-62f60b598286.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/60be1d47-5554-45ee-8ea9-62f60b598286/60be1d47-5554-45ee-8ea9-62f60b598286.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/60be1d47-5554-45ee-8ea9-62f60b598286/60be1d47-5554-45ee-8ea9-62f60b598286.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The Sons of God in Genesis 6 were NOT the “sons of Seth”. They weren’t even human! They were fallen angels who had intercourse with women to produce strange hybrids called Nephilim Giants. This view is HIGHLY controversial, but it is Biblically and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Sons of God in Genesis 6 were NOT the “sons of Seth”. They weren’t even human! They were fallen angels who had intercourse with women to produce strange hybrids called Nephilim Giants. This view is HIGHLY controversial, but it is Biblically and logically accurate. And while the “sons of Seth” theory is accepted Christian orthodoxy, it is illogical, unbiblical, and downright silly. It also turns God into an unjust genocidal maniac for killing 99.9999% of humanity with the Great Flood because they were “behaving badly”. But if you understand the supernatural worldview, the events of Genesis 6 and the Flood actually make MUCH more sense. In this week’s podcast, we will explore the events of Genesis 6 from that supernatural (and accurate) viewpoint and show why the proliferation of the “Sethite” theory was the result of cowardice and intentional ignorance by the early church.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />#genesis #revelation #biblestudy #faithbyreason #edmabrie #bibleprophecy #creation #antichrist #fallenangels #nephilim #nds #nephilimdeathsquad #rationalfaith #faithingod<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2848</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>https://faithbyreason.net/sons</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>36</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Supernatural Worldview — The Key to Understanding the Bible | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/the-supernatural-worldview-fbr-podcast-37/</link><description><![CDATA[Having a Supernatural Worldview is vital to understanding many of the more challenging and difficult passages in the Bible.  If you do not embrace a supernatural worldview, you will miss out on much of the richness of the scriptures and you will never fully understand the Bible.  The supernatural worldview is:<br />1.  The understanding that there exists an unseen spiritual world alongside our own, inhabited by intelligent and powerful entities (God and Angels) who interact with our physical world.<br />2.   AND the acknowledgment that this spiritual world should be taken into account in EVERY part of the Biblical narrative, as well as our daily lives.<br />Most Christians do ok with the first part, but completely reject, ignore, or disregard the second part.  In this podcast, I give 8 examples of Biblical narratives that can be seen in a completely different ways based on whether or not you have the supernatural worldview.  I also address some of the more extreme reactions to my last podcast, and why Faith By Reason may not be the right ministry for you if you are religious…<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />#genesis #revelation #biblestudy #faithbyreason #edmabrie #bibleprophecy #creation #antichrist #fallenangels #nephilim #nds #nephilimdeathsquad #rationalfaith #faithingod<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/65817662</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 16:00:12 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/65817662/fbr_episode_37_supernatural_worldview.mp3" length="27889204" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ecda060f-5e4c-4759-8203-b13b91c30012/ecda060f-5e4c-4759-8203-b13b91c30012.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ecda060f-5e4c-4759-8203-b13b91c30012/ecda060f-5e4c-4759-8203-b13b91c30012.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ecda060f-5e4c-4759-8203-b13b91c30012/ecda060f-5e4c-4759-8203-b13b91c30012.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Having a Supernatural Worldview is vital to understanding many of the more challenging and difficult passages in the Bible.  If you do not embrace a supernatural worldview, you will miss out on much of the richness of the scriptures and you will never...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Having a Supernatural Worldview is vital to understanding many of the more challenging and difficult passages in the Bible.  If you do not embrace a supernatural worldview, you will miss out on much of the richness of the scriptures and you will never fully understand the Bible.  The supernatural worldview is:<br />1.  The understanding that there exists an unseen spiritual world alongside our own, inhabited by intelligent and powerful entities (God and Angels) who interact with our physical world.<br />2.   AND the acknowledgment that this spiritual world should be taken into account in EVERY part of the Biblical narrative, as well as our daily lives.<br />Most Christians do ok with the first part, but completely reject, ignore, or disregard the second part.  In this podcast, I give 8 examples of Biblical narratives that can be seen in a completely different ways based on whether or not you have the supernatural worldview.  I also address some of the more extreme reactions to my last podcast, and why Faith By Reason may not be the right ministry for you if you are religious…<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />#genesis #revelation #biblestudy #faithbyreason #edmabrie #bibleprophecy #creation #antichrist #fallenangels #nephilim #nds #nephilimdeathsquad #rationalfaith #faithingod<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2325</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>37</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Tower of Babel Was Not What You Think — The Real Story | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-tower-of-babel-was-not-what-you-think-the-real-story-faith-by-reason--65817666</link><description><![CDATA[The Tower of Babel was not built because the post-Flood generation thought that God “lived in the sky” and if they make a structure tall enough, they could reach Him.  Granted, that idea is the orthodox viewpoint, but if you have the supernatural worldview that we talked about during the last podcast, you understand that there is much more going on here. Bab-El literally means “gateway to God”.  And that is exactly what the people of this dispensation were actually trying to do – build a doorway to the spiritual world where God dwells.  But the most remarkable part is that if He hadn’t intervened, God said that they would have been successful!!<br />What was the Tower of Babel?  Who is the remarkable character named Nimrod who commissioned its building?  And where did the various races and nationalities come from?  We will examine those questions in this week’s podcast.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br /><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/65817666</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 16:05:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/65817666/fbr_episode_38_babel.mp3" length="28136827" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/5668e18f-e662-467f-b86f-758e326240d0/5668e18f-e662-467f-b86f-758e326240d0.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/5668e18f-e662-467f-b86f-758e326240d0/5668e18f-e662-467f-b86f-758e326240d0.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/5668e18f-e662-467f-b86f-758e326240d0/5668e18f-e662-467f-b86f-758e326240d0.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The Tower of Babel was not built because the post-Flood generation thought that God “lived in the sky” and if they make a structure tall enough, they could reach Him.  Granted, that idea is the orthodox viewpoint, but if you have the supernatural...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Tower of Babel was not built because the post-Flood generation thought that God “lived in the sky” and if they make a structure tall enough, they could reach Him.  Granted, that idea is the orthodox viewpoint, but if you have the supernatural worldview that we talked about during the last podcast, you understand that there is much more going on here. Bab-El literally means “gateway to God”.  And that is exactly what the people of this dispensation were actually trying to do – build a doorway to the spiritual world where God dwells.  But the most remarkable part is that if He hadn’t intervened, God said that they would have been successful!!<br />What was the Tower of Babel?  Who is the remarkable character named Nimrod who commissioned its building?  And where did the various races and nationalities come from?  We will examine those questions in this week’s podcast.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br /><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2345</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>antichrist,babel,bibleprophecy,biblestudy,creation,edmabrie,faithbyreason,faithingod,fallenangels,genesis,nds,nephilim,nephilimdeathsquad,nimrod,rationalfaith,revelation</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>38</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Are All Religions the Same? The Biblical Answer May Surprise You | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/are-all-religions-the-same-the-biblical-answer-may-surprise-you-faith-by-reason--65817671</link><description><![CDATA[Are all religions the same?  Many people think so.  And it’s almost understandable when you look at the fact that most religions share the same themes of “god(s)”, creation narratives, the fall and redemption of man, supernatural intervention, and apocalyptic judgment.  Some of them even feature a “virgin birth”, and the death of a “god” in order to save mankind.  Furthermore, many of these various religious texts predate the Bible by hundreds of years.  So is the Bible just a collection of older religious beliefs complied by the ancient Jews as many secularists believe?<br />Absolutely not!  The Bible is unique in many ways that we’ve discussed previously.  Furthermore, God’s plan was known by men LONG before any other religion was established.  In fact, I would argue that all other religions are corruptions of God’s plan.<br />Where and how did God first reveal his plan to mankind?  We’ll explore that question on this week’s podcast.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/65817671</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 16:10:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/65817671/fbr_episode_39_organized_religion_1.mp3" length="27459122" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/e186881d-7624-4a20-b02d-9329b102ea8a/e186881d-7624-4a20-b02d-9329b102ea8a.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/e186881d-7624-4a20-b02d-9329b102ea8a/e186881d-7624-4a20-b02d-9329b102ea8a.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/e186881d-7624-4a20-b02d-9329b102ea8a/e186881d-7624-4a20-b02d-9329b102ea8a.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Are all religions the same?  Many people think so.  And it’s almost understandable when you look at the fact that most religions share the same themes of “god(s)”, creation narratives, the fall and redemption of man, supernatural intervention, and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Are all religions the same?  Many people think so.  And it’s almost understandable when you look at the fact that most religions share the same themes of “god(s)”, creation narratives, the fall and redemption of man, supernatural intervention, and apocalyptic judgment.  Some of them even feature a “virgin birth”, and the death of a “god” in order to save mankind.  Furthermore, many of these various religious texts predate the Bible by hundreds of years.  So is the Bible just a collection of older religious beliefs complied by the ancient Jews as many secularists believe?<br />Absolutely not!  The Bible is unique in many ways that we’ve discussed previously.  Furthermore, God’s plan was known by men LONG before any other religion was established.  In fact, I would argue that all other religions are corruptions of God’s plan.<br />Where and how did God first reveal his plan to mankind?  We’ll explore that question on this week’s podcast.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2289</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>antichrist,bibleprophecy,biblestudy,creation,edmabrie,faithbyreason,faithingod,fallenangels,genesis,nds,nephilim,nephilimdeathsquad,rationalfaith,revelation</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>39</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Semiramis, Babylon, and the Origin of All False Religion | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/the-mother-of-harlots-fbr-podcast-40/</link><description><![CDATA[The Mother of Harlots is the title given to the original false religion which started at Babel (Babylon), and gave birth to all the false religions around the world.  But in a denotative sense, the physical Mother of Harlots was the Queen of Babel – the mother/wife of Nimrod, known as Semiramis.<br /><br />Through her deceit, manipulation, deception, and lust for power, she created the first organized spiritual opposition to God’s plan (religion), but corrupting the Gospel narrative, and inserting herself and her family in the place of the Holy Trinity!  When God judged Babel and scattered the population, each group took a version of that first organized religion and adapted it to their, resulting in the various ancient religions.<br /><br />Who was Semiramis, and how did she create organized religion?  We’ll talk about it on this week’s podcast.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/65950248</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 15:15:08 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/65950248/fbr_episode_40_mother_of_harlots.mp3" length="20519533" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/b49cf5cd-5fe1-48c0-9bec-93d19cb5c825/b49cf5cd-5fe1-48c0-9bec-93d19cb5c825.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/b49cf5cd-5fe1-48c0-9bec-93d19cb5c825/b49cf5cd-5fe1-48c0-9bec-93d19cb5c825.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/b49cf5cd-5fe1-48c0-9bec-93d19cb5c825/b49cf5cd-5fe1-48c0-9bec-93d19cb5c825.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The Mother of Harlots is the title given to the original false religion which started at Babel (Babylon), and gave birth to all the false religions around the world.  But in a denotative sense, the physical Mother of Harlots was the Queen of Babel –...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Mother of Harlots is the title given to the original false religion which started at Babel (Babylon), and gave birth to all the false religions around the world.  But in a denotative sense, the physical Mother of Harlots was the Queen of Babel – the mother/wife of Nimrod, known as Semiramis.<br /><br />Through her deceit, manipulation, deception, and lust for power, she created the first organized spiritual opposition to God’s plan (religion), but corrupting the Gospel narrative, and inserting herself and her family in the place of the Holy Trinity!  When God judged Babel and scattered the population, each group took a version of that first organized religion and adapted it to their, resulting in the various ancient religions.<br /><br />Who was Semiramis, and how did she create organized religion?  We’ll talk about it on this week’s podcast.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1710</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,biblestudy,blindfaith,edmabrie,faith,faithbyreason,faithingod,jesus,nimrod,organizedreligion,rationalfaith,religion,semiramis</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>40</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Hidden Power Behind Organized Religion — Who Are the Mystics? | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/leaders-of-organized-religion-tfbr-podcast-41/</link><description><![CDATA[The leaders of organized religions are people I call “Mystics”.  They stared at Babel, and have spread to every corner of the world, amassing power and influence by guarding access to their secrets.  In the secular world, they exist in secret societies that influence governments.  Or as members or hereditary priesthood and “royal bloodlines” that consolidate and hoard power from the people. <br /><br />But they are also found in “Christian” churches! So how do “Christian” mystics amass power and influence when we all have access to the Word of God?  They claim that the information God has revealed to man is incomplete!  There is a secret treasure trove of juicy knowledge that God has only given to his super special elite followers.  And of course, God made them the holy, anointed guardians of this knowledge.  So if you want to know the real, honest-to-goodness, full and complete truth of God, you must submit to their authority and only believe what they say about God! <br /><br />We will discuss the origin of the Mystics in this week’s podcast.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/65950383</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 15:20:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/65950383/fbr_episode_41_mystics.mp3" length="40672157" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/3b115a48-2c3e-42ab-9a25-984751cddb5a/3b115a48-2c3e-42ab-9a25-984751cddb5a.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/3b115a48-2c3e-42ab-9a25-984751cddb5a/3b115a48-2c3e-42ab-9a25-984751cddb5a.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/3b115a48-2c3e-42ab-9a25-984751cddb5a/3b115a48-2c3e-42ab-9a25-984751cddb5a.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The leaders of organized religions are people I call “Mystics”.  They stared at Babel, and have spread to every corner of the world, amassing power and influence by guarding access to their secrets.  In the secular world, they exist in secret...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The leaders of organized religions are people I call “Mystics”.  They stared at Babel, and have spread to every corner of the world, amassing power and influence by guarding access to their secrets.  In the secular world, they exist in secret societies that influence governments.  Or as members or hereditary priesthood and “royal bloodlines” that consolidate and hoard power from the people. <br /><br />But they are also found in “Christian” churches! So how do “Christian” mystics amass power and influence when we all have access to the Word of God?  They claim that the information God has revealed to man is incomplete!  There is a secret treasure trove of juicy knowledge that God has only given to his super special elite followers.  And of course, God made them the holy, anointed guardians of this knowledge.  So if you want to know the real, honest-to-goodness, full and complete truth of God, you must submit to their authority and only believe what they say about God! <br /><br />We will discuss the origin of the Mystics in this week’s podcast.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3390</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,biblestudy,blindfaith,edmabrie,faith,faithbyreason,faithingod,jesus,nimrod,organizedreligion,rationalfaith,religion,semiramis</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>41</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Every Human Government Is Doomed to Fail | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-every-human-government-is-doomed-to-fail-faith-by-reason--66074414</link><description><![CDATA[Governments fail, and will ALWAYS fail, because they all rely on the existence of the impossible in order to function optimally.  That impossibility is perfectly moral human beings!  Human government is man’s attempt to recreate the perfection of Eden without God. But every government and societal theory, institution, entity, or structure; whether secular or religious, can ONLY reach this Edenic facsimile if all of humanity is always and completely righteous and just (which, ironically means that all man’s utopian governmental ideas can only work if all men receive Biblical Salvation!).<br /><br />Of course, this is not man’s nature (far from it) so governments institute laws and punishments to force subjective morality onto man. And If man fails to live up to this impossible standard of perfect morality (whether by choice or force), the governments fail…only to be replaced by yet another futile government system.  Man will remain caught in this cycle of futility until God sets up His perfect government.  In this week’s podcast, we will examine the origin, nature, and futility of Human Government.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66074414</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 15:55:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/66074414/fbr_episode_42_human_government.mp3" length="23776475" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/6b2ad43a-527c-4737-b76a-ff018908fbd2/6b2ad43a-527c-4737-b76a-ff018908fbd2.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/6b2ad43a-527c-4737-b76a-ff018908fbd2/6b2ad43a-527c-4737-b76a-ff018908fbd2.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/6b2ad43a-527c-4737-b76a-ff018908fbd2/6b2ad43a-527c-4737-b76a-ff018908fbd2.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Governments fail, and will ALWAYS fail, because they all rely on the existence of the impossible in order to function optimally.  That impossibility is perfectly moral human beings!  Human government is man’s attempt to recreate the perfection of Eden...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Governments fail, and will ALWAYS fail, because they all rely on the existence of the impossible in order to function optimally.  That impossibility is perfectly moral human beings!  Human government is man’s attempt to recreate the perfection of Eden without God. But every government and societal theory, institution, entity, or structure; whether secular or religious, can ONLY reach this Edenic facsimile if all of humanity is always and completely righteous and just (which, ironically means that all man’s utopian governmental ideas can only work if all men receive Biblical Salvation!).<br /><br />Of course, this is not man’s nature (far from it) so governments institute laws and punishments to force subjective morality onto man. And If man fails to live up to this impossible standard of perfect morality (whether by choice or force), the governments fail…only to be replaced by yet another futile government system.  Man will remain caught in this cycle of futility until God sets up His perfect government.  In this week’s podcast, we will examine the origin, nature, and futility of Human Government.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1982</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,biblestudy,blindfaith,edmabrie,faith,faithbyreason,faithingod,government,humangovernment,jesus,nimrod,rationalfaith</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>42</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Human Governments Are Threatened by Your Greatness | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/your-greatness-and-government-suppression-fbr-podcast-43/</link><description><![CDATA[Your greatness is a HUGE threat to human governments!  So much so that governments are designed to suppress it.  Greatness comes from uniqueness, and when you operate in your uniqueness, you have the capacity to be great!  And since we are ALL unique, we can all be great!  The problem is that by its nature, the human government can only function if greatness (including your greatness) is limited to the rulers.  So the Mystics do everything in their power to homogenize us (make us all think and act the same), in order to curtail our individual uniqueness.  <br /><br />The Mystics of Force (rulers) do it through laws.  The Mystics of Spirit (social engineers) do it by using our tendency for comparative thinking (pride) to get is to homogenize ourselves!  They convince us that uniqueness is unfair!  And since we tend to fear that another’s greatness might be more valuable than our own, we do their job for them by peer pressuring others to behave and think in an “acceptable” way!  <br /><br />The mystics use (or misuse) reactionary terms like Equality, Social Justice, Patriotism, Race, Gender Equality, and even Religion to get us to police each other. The result is monotonous conformity.  But the God of the Bible embraces our uniqueness!  In fact, the ONLY way for God’s Plan to work is if we are ALL great!  God needs your greatness in order for Heaven to be what He wants.  We’ll discuss it in this week’s podcast.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66074737</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 15:45:06 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/66074737/fbr_podcast_43_your_greatness.mp3" length="36730913" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/cf564b5b-8982-4e49-b885-f61bf6ded049/cf564b5b-8982-4e49-b885-f61bf6ded049.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/cf564b5b-8982-4e49-b885-f61bf6ded049/cf564b5b-8982-4e49-b885-f61bf6ded049.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/cf564b5b-8982-4e49-b885-f61bf6ded049/cf564b5b-8982-4e49-b885-f61bf6ded049.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Your greatness is a HUGE threat to human governments!  So much so that governments are designed to suppress it.  Greatness comes from uniqueness, and when you operate in your uniqueness, you have the capacity to be great!  And since we are ALL unique,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Your greatness is a HUGE threat to human governments!  So much so that governments are designed to suppress it.  Greatness comes from uniqueness, and when you operate in your uniqueness, you have the capacity to be great!  And since we are ALL unique, we can all be great!  The problem is that by its nature, the human government can only function if greatness (including your greatness) is limited to the rulers.  So the Mystics do everything in their power to homogenize us (make us all think and act the same), in order to curtail our individual uniqueness.  <br /><br />The Mystics of Force (rulers) do it through laws.  The Mystics of Spirit (social engineers) do it by using our tendency for comparative thinking (pride) to get is to homogenize ourselves!  They convince us that uniqueness is unfair!  And since we tend to fear that another’s greatness might be more valuable than our own, we do their job for them by peer pressuring others to behave and think in an “acceptable” way!  <br /><br />The mystics use (or misuse) reactionary terms like Equality, Social Justice, Patriotism, Race, Gender Equality, and even Religion to get us to police each other. The result is monotonous conformity.  But the God of the Bible embraces our uniqueness!  In fact, the ONLY way for God’s Plan to work is if we are ALL great!  God needs your greatness in order for Heaven to be what He wants.  We’ll discuss it in this week’s podcast.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3061</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,babel,biblestudy,blindfaith,edmabrie,faith,faithbyreason,faithingod,government,jesus,nimrod,rationalfaith,semaramis</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>43</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Abraham, Isaac, Jacob — God's Promise and the Birth of Israel | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/the-patriarchs-the-promise-and-gods-nation/</link><description><![CDATA[The Patriarchs – Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, received the blessing and mandate from God that would frame the 4th Dispensation.  With the world now divided into nations after Babel, God created His own nation (Israel) through which the world would interact with Him and His plan.  If the nations blessed Israel, they would be blessed.<br /><br />This would hopefully lead them to chose to accept the plan of the God who blessed them.  But if they cursed Israel, they nations would be cursed and the Dispensation would fail.  In this week’s podcast, we will examine the Promise/Covenant God gave the forefathers of Israel and also look at the history of the Patriarchs from Abraham to Joseph (which reads like a soap opera…or reality TV), concluding with the Exodus from Egypt.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66076566</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 15:05:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/66076566/fbr_episode_44_exodus.mp3" length="26974812" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/984ef86b-3321-4687-bee3-0df53a045f09/984ef86b-3321-4687-bee3-0df53a045f09.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/984ef86b-3321-4687-bee3-0df53a045f09/984ef86b-3321-4687-bee3-0df53a045f09.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/984ef86b-3321-4687-bee3-0df53a045f09/984ef86b-3321-4687-bee3-0df53a045f09.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The Patriarchs – Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, received the blessing and mandate from God that would frame the 4th Dispensation.  With the world now divided into nations after Babel, God created His own nation (Israel) through which the world would...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The Patriarchs – Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, received the blessing and mandate from God that would frame the 4th Dispensation.  With the world now divided into nations after Babel, God created His own nation (Israel) through which the world would interact with Him and His plan.  If the nations blessed Israel, they would be blessed.<br /><br />This would hopefully lead them to chose to accept the plan of the God who blessed them.  But if they cursed Israel, they nations would be cursed and the Dispensation would fail.  In this week’s podcast, we will examine the Promise/Covenant God gave the forefathers of Israel and also look at the history of the Patriarchs from Abraham to Joseph (which reads like a soap opera…or reality TV), concluding with the Exodus from Egypt.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2248</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,biblestudy,blindfaith,edmabrie,exodus,faith,faithbyreason,faithingod,jesus,rationalfaith</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>44</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why God Hardened Pharaoh's Heart — and the True Gods of Egypt | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/pharoahs-hardened-heart-and-the-gods-of-egypt-fbr-podcast-45/</link><description><![CDATA[Pharoah’s heart was hardened by God so the He could perform the signs and wonders of the 10 Plagues on the Egyptians.  On the surface, this seems unfair.  Did God take away Pharaoh’s free will so that he would be defiant, allowing God to visit more suffering on the Egyptians?  This can’t be true, because we know that God is always and completely right and just.  So what’s the answer?<br /><br /> The truth is that God did not initiate Pharaoh’s hardened heart. It was a justified REACTION to what Pharoah did to the Israelites!<br /><br />Also, why did God choose those specific 10 plagues?  Were they just random ordeals to torment the Egyptians, or were they intentional?  The answer comes from understanding and accepting the supernatural worldview.  We explore these ideas in this week’s podcast.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66498350</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:25:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/66498350/hard_heart_and_egyption_gods.mp3" length="22740468" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/fb3d8e58-9e57-42e1-9dd4-de7fe17c7aac/fb3d8e58-9e57-42e1-9dd4-de7fe17c7aac.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/fb3d8e58-9e57-42e1-9dd4-de7fe17c7aac/fb3d8e58-9e57-42e1-9dd4-de7fe17c7aac.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/fb3d8e58-9e57-42e1-9dd4-de7fe17c7aac/fb3d8e58-9e57-42e1-9dd4-de7fe17c7aac.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Pharoah’s heart was hardened by God so the He could perform the signs and wonders of the 10 Plagues on the Egyptians.  On the surface, this seems unfair.  Did God take away Pharaoh’s free will so that he would be defiant, allowing God to visit more...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Pharoah’s heart was hardened by God so the He could perform the signs and wonders of the 10 Plagues on the Egyptians.  On the surface, this seems unfair.  Did God take away Pharaoh’s free will so that he would be defiant, allowing God to visit more suffering on the Egyptians?  This can’t be true, because we know that God is always and completely right and just.  So what’s the answer?<br /><br /> The truth is that God did not initiate Pharaoh’s hardened heart. It was a justified REACTION to what Pharoah did to the Israelites!<br /><br />Also, why did God choose those specific 10 plagues?  Were they just random ordeals to torment the Egyptians, or were they intentional?  The answer comes from understanding and accepting the supernatural worldview.  We explore these ideas in this week’s podcast.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1895</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>10plagues,10plauges,exodus,exodux,israel,pharoah,tenplagues</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>45</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Is Satan Real? The Biblical Case for a Personal Devil | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/is-satan-real-fbr-podcast-46/</link><description><![CDATA[Is Satan Real?  <br /><br />This is actually a pertinent question in Christian philosophy because it remains somewhat controversial.  The secular world believes the idea of “Satan” constitutes a fake “boogeyman” that Christians made up to excuse their bad behavior and account for the existence of pain and conflict in their theology. Even some Christian theologians dismiss the idea of a personal “Devil”, seeing Satan as more of a general description of evil.  But the Bible makes it clear that there is a sentient, intelligent, and malevolent being in the world, who, along with similar sinister entities, desire our destruction.  In order to overcome them, we need to know who they are and how they operate.<br /><br />This podcast begins our series on spiritual warfare, which has proven to be the most popular subject matter on the Faith By Reason website.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66498278</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:15:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/66498278/fbr_podcsat_46_is_satan_real.mp3" length="24205933" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/9a87c18d-4c48-411c-a81d-b41723527de5/9a87c18d-4c48-411c-a81d-b41723527de5.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/9a87c18d-4c48-411c-a81d-b41723527de5/9a87c18d-4c48-411c-a81d-b41723527de5.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/9a87c18d-4c48-411c-a81d-b41723527de5/9a87c18d-4c48-411c-a81d-b41723527de5.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Is Satan Real?  

This is actually a pertinent question in Christian philosophy because it remains somewhat controversial.  The secular world believes the idea of “Satan” constitutes a fake “boogeyman” that Christians made up to excuse their bad...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Is Satan Real?  <br /><br />This is actually a pertinent question in Christian philosophy because it remains somewhat controversial.  The secular world believes the idea of “Satan” constitutes a fake “boogeyman” that Christians made up to excuse their bad behavior and account for the existence of pain and conflict in their theology. Even some Christian theologians dismiss the idea of a personal “Devil”, seeing Satan as more of a general description of evil.  But the Bible makes it clear that there is a sentient, intelligent, and malevolent being in the world, who, along with similar sinister entities, desire our destruction.  In order to overcome them, we need to know who they are and how they operate.<br /><br />This podcast begins our series on spiritual warfare, which has proven to be the most popular subject matter on the Faith By Reason website.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2018</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>demons,faithbyreason,fallenangels,nephalim,satan,spirirualwarefare,spiritualwarfare</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>46</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>What Was Lucifer Like Before He Became Satan? | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/what-was-satan-like-before-fbr-podcast-47/</link><description><![CDATA[What was Satan like before he fell from grace? Of course, we currently know him as the Enemy and the adversary of God’s plan, but was he created that way? It would be illogical and contradictory for God to create someone to thwart him, and the Bible makes it clear that Satan was originally a good Angel who bore the title of “Lucifer” – the light bearer. But what was Lucifer like? And why did he abandon his angelic station to become the evil entity we call Satan? We’ll examine these questions in this week’s podcast.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66498307</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:30:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/66498307/fbr_podcast_47_fall_of_satan.mp3" length="25616227" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/65fa171b-3b48-40e5-8658-acf62daad812/65fa171b-3b48-40e5-8658-acf62daad812.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/65fa171b-3b48-40e5-8658-acf62daad812/65fa171b-3b48-40e5-8658-acf62daad812.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/65fa171b-3b48-40e5-8658-acf62daad812/65fa171b-3b48-40e5-8658-acf62daad812.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>What was Satan like before he fell from grace? Of course, we currently know him as the Enemy and the adversary of God’s plan, but was he created that way? It would be illogical and contradictory for God to create someone to thwart him, and the Bible...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[What was Satan like before he fell from grace? Of course, we currently know him as the Enemy and the adversary of God’s plan, but was he created that way? It would be illogical and contradictory for God to create someone to thwart him, and the Bible makes it clear that Satan was originally a good Angel who bore the title of “Lucifer” – the light bearer. But what was Lucifer like? And why did he abandon his angelic station to become the evil entity we call Satan? We’ll examine these questions in this week’s podcast.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2135</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>devil,falloflucifer,fallofsatan,lucifer,satan,satansfall</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Satan Is Called the god of Death | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/satan-god-of-death-fbr-podcast-48/</link><description><![CDATA[Satan is the god of Death. Part of the curse God pronounced on Satan in Genesis 3 was that “dust would be his food”.  We know from earlier in that passage, that “dust” denoted the physical death of men.  Thus Satan was cursed to desire and “hunger” for man’s death, while ALSO desiring man’s worship!  This contradiction in desire resulted in Satan’s insanely twisted love/hate relationship with humanity. He is the god of Death because he wants to destroy us, but since he wants to be like God, he covets our worship and devotion. It also helps explain his post-fall personality and characteristics.  We will explore what all that means in this week’s podcast.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66605599</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:17:50 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/66605599/fbr_episode_48_god_of_death.mp3" length="26509301" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/831dd594-179f-462e-b9e0-8c2bd64b2888/831dd594-179f-462e-b9e0-8c2bd64b2888.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/831dd594-179f-462e-b9e0-8c2bd64b2888/831dd594-179f-462e-b9e0-8c2bd64b2888.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/831dd594-179f-462e-b9e0-8c2bd64b2888/831dd594-179f-462e-b9e0-8c2bd64b2888.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Satan is the god of Death. Part of the curse God pronounced on Satan in Genesis 3 was that “dust would be his food”.  We know from earlier in that passage, that “dust” denoted the physical death of men.  Thus Satan was cursed to desire and “hunger”...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Satan is the god of Death. Part of the curse God pronounced on Satan in Genesis 3 was that “dust would be his food”.  We know from earlier in that passage, that “dust” denoted the physical death of men.  Thus Satan was cursed to desire and “hunger” for man’s death, while ALSO desiring man’s worship!  This contradiction in desire resulted in Satan’s insanely twisted love/hate relationship with humanity. He is the god of Death because he wants to destroy us, but since he wants to be like God, he covets our worship and devotion. It also helps explain his post-fall personality and characteristics.  We will explore what all that means in this week’s podcast.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2210</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,biblestudy,edmabrie,faith,faithbyreason,faithingod,jesus,rationalfaith,satan,spiritualwarfare</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/93b40573448433a5a3a5c21d749c8281.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>48</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Fallen Angels vs. Demons — They Are NOT the Same | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/what-are-demons-and-fallen-angels-fbr-podcast-49/</link><description><![CDATA[What are Demons and Fallen Angels?  Are they two terms for the same spiritual entities, or are they distinct creatures, differing greatly in power, position, and origin?  The Bible makes it clear that demons and fallen angels are NOT the same.  But what are they, and how do they interact with Satan?  I discuss this in this week’s podcast:<br /><br /><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66605612</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:40:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/66605612/fbr_podcast_49_fallen_angels_and_demons.mp3" length="24103435" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/dc4cf53f-61bf-4422-b8f8-1334f70ad11b/dc4cf53f-61bf-4422-b8f8-1334f70ad11b.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/dc4cf53f-61bf-4422-b8f8-1334f70ad11b/dc4cf53f-61bf-4422-b8f8-1334f70ad11b.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/dc4cf53f-61bf-4422-b8f8-1334f70ad11b/dc4cf53f-61bf-4422-b8f8-1334f70ad11b.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>What are Demons and Fallen Angels?  Are they two terms for the same spiritual entities, or are they distinct creatures, differing greatly in power, position, and origin?  The Bible makes it clear that demons and fallen angels are NOT the same.  But...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[What are Demons and Fallen Angels?  Are they two terms for the same spiritual entities, or are they distinct creatures, differing greatly in power, position, and origin?  The Bible makes it clear that demons and fallen angels are NOT the same.  But what are they, and how do they interact with Satan?  I discuss this in this week’s podcast:<br /><br /><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2009</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>angels,biblestudy,demon,edmabrie,faithbyreason,satan,spiritual,spiritualwarefare,tinfoilhat</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/af314028f830d787c00f033060b79bbc.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>49</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Evil Angels, Fallen Powers, and the True Identity of False Gods | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/evil-angels-rulers-powers-and-false-gods-fbr-podcast-50/</link><description><![CDATA[Evil Angels (or Fallen Angels) influence our lives and the world around us. They wage an unseen war with the Holy Angels of God in the unseen realm.  The evil angels oppose the will and plan of God, while the Holy Angles fight to carry out His will and minister to us.  But we are not just bystanders in this conflict.  Our prayers and obedience empower the Holy Angels, while our pride, false worship, and indifference can shift the battle in the favor of the evil angels.  We’ll discuss these topics (along with discovering the TRUE identity of the entity worshiped by Islamics as “Allah”) in this week’s podcast.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66605617</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:55:08 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/66605617/fbr_episode_50_evil_angelic_rulers.mp3" length="34304352" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/61f473c8-aa85-4258-b9f4-f37c0961f210/61f473c8-aa85-4258-b9f4-f37c0961f210.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/61f473c8-aa85-4258-b9f4-f37c0961f210/61f473c8-aa85-4258-b9f4-f37c0961f210.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/61f473c8-aa85-4258-b9f4-f37c0961f210/61f473c8-aa85-4258-b9f4-f37c0961f210.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Evil Angels (or Fallen Angels) influence our lives and the world around us. They wage an unseen war with the Holy Angels of God in the unseen realm.  The evil angels oppose the will and plan of God, while the Holy Angles fight to carry out His will...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Evil Angels (or Fallen Angels) influence our lives and the world around us. They wage an unseen war with the Holy Angels of God in the unseen realm.  The evil angels oppose the will and plan of God, while the Holy Angles fight to carry out His will and minister to us.  But we are not just bystanders in this conflict.  Our prayers and obedience empower the Holy Angels, while our pride, false worship, and indifference can shift the battle in the favor of the evil angels.  We’ll discuss these topics (along with discovering the TRUE identity of the entity worshiped by Islamics as “Allah”) in this week’s podcast.<br /><br />For exclusive content, Q&amp;A Videos, and private Bible study, become a Faith By Reason Patreon <a href="http://www.patreon.com/faithbyreason" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.patreon.com/faithbyreason</a><br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2859</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,biblestudy,edmabrie,faith,faithbyreason,faithingod,fallenangels,jesus,satan</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>50</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Can You Really Sell Your Soul to the Devil? | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://faithbyreason.net/selling-your-soul-to-the-devil-is-it-real/</link><description><![CDATA[Selling your soul to the Devil.  It sounds like something out of Faustian legends or a horror movie.  But the truth is that people willingly enter into agreements with evil spiritual entities in order to reap material rewards (fame and fortune) in exchange for furthering their evil agenda.  Unfortunately, people can also enter into these agreements indirectly by exposing themselves to occult influence and opening themselves up to false spirituality.  If you were to tell these people – you are selling your soul to the Devil, they would dismiss you.  But they are slowly corrupted by the demonic forces until they end up doing their will anyway.  Unlike fallen angels, demons cannot physically manifest.  They can only possess and corrupt.  And selling your soul to the Devil is one of their favorite ways to achieve their goals.  In this week’s podcast, we will discuss the reality of selling your soul to the Devil and how it works.<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66921772</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 02:36:36 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/66921772/fbr_podcast_51_deal_with_the_devil.mp3" length="33045145" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/33ab95ac-83a5-4d13-bbe8-384f43a45ac8/33ab95ac-83a5-4d13-bbe8-384f43a45ac8.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/33ab95ac-83a5-4d13-bbe8-384f43a45ac8/33ab95ac-83a5-4d13-bbe8-384f43a45ac8.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/33ab95ac-83a5-4d13-bbe8-384f43a45ac8/33ab95ac-83a5-4d13-bbe8-384f43a45ac8.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Selling your soul to the Devil.  It sounds like something out of Faustian legends or a horror movie.  But the truth is that people willingly enter into agreements with evil spiritual entities in order to reap material rewards (fame and fortune) in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Selling your soul to the Devil.  It sounds like something out of Faustian legends or a horror movie.  But the truth is that people willingly enter into agreements with evil spiritual entities in order to reap material rewards (fame and fortune) in exchange for furthering their evil agenda.  Unfortunately, people can also enter into these agreements indirectly by exposing themselves to occult influence and opening themselves up to false spirituality.  If you were to tell these people – you are selling your soul to the Devil, they would dismiss you.  But they are slowly corrupted by the demonic forces until they end up doing their will anyway.  Unlike fallen angels, demons cannot physically manifest.  They can only possess and corrupt.  And selling your soul to the Devil is one of their favorite ways to achieve their goals.  In this week’s podcast, we will discuss the reality of selling your soul to the Devil and how it works.<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2754</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,biblestudy,blindfaith,edmabrie,faith,faithbyreason,faithingod,jesus,nephilim,rationalfaith,satan,spiritualwarfare</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>51</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Truth About Angels — Debunking Popular Myths | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-truth-about-angels-debunking-popular-myths-faith-by-reason--66921775</link><description><![CDATA[Myths about angels abound in religious and secular society.  We’ll wrap up our series on Satan, fallen angels, and demons by looking at Holy Angels, and the myths about angels.  Do angels have wings?  Do they wear robes?  Do they do anything other than sing worship songs?  Do we have guardian angels?  One of the reasons we have so many questions about angels is because the Bible says relatively little about them – and for good reason!  We’ll discuss that reason in the podcast.  But we’ll start by asking an interesting question – If God is all-powerful, why does He allow Satan to exist?  Why doesn’t He wipe out the villains of the Bible?  ARE they the villains of the Bible (the answer will surprise you!).  So get ready to explore myths about angels on this week’s episode.<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66921775</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:40:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/66921775/fbr_podcast_52_holy_angels.mp3" length="30398208" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4ae6cc62-81eb-4409-a210-1881d2dbbf26/4ae6cc62-81eb-4409-a210-1881d2dbbf26.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4ae6cc62-81eb-4409-a210-1881d2dbbf26/4ae6cc62-81eb-4409-a210-1881d2dbbf26.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4ae6cc62-81eb-4409-a210-1881d2dbbf26/4ae6cc62-81eb-4409-a210-1881d2dbbf26.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Myths about angels abound in religious and secular society.  We’ll wrap up our series on Satan, fallen angels, and demons by looking at Holy Angels, and the myths about angels.  Do angels have wings?  Do they wear robes?  Do they do anything other...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Myths about angels abound in religious and secular society.  We’ll wrap up our series on Satan, fallen angels, and demons by looking at Holy Angels, and the myths about angels.  Do angels have wings?  Do they wear robes?  Do they do anything other than sing worship songs?  Do we have guardian angels?  One of the reasons we have so many questions about angels is because the Bible says relatively little about them – and for good reason!  We’ll discuss that reason in the podcast.  But we’ll start by asking an interesting question – If God is all-powerful, why does He allow Satan to exist?  Why doesn’t He wipe out the villains of the Bible?  ARE they the villains of the Bible (the answer will surprise you!).  So get ready to explore myths about angels on this week’s episode.<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2534</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,biblestudy,blindfaith,edmabrie,faith,faithbyreason,faithingod,jesus,nephilim,rationalfaith,satan,spiritualwarfare</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>52</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why God Gave Israel the Levitical Law | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-god-gave-israel-the-levitical-law-faith-by-reason--66921782</link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of Levitical law was not to introduce arbitrary and oppressive religious rules onto the people of Israel, nor was the purpose of Levitical law to stroke God’s ego with intensive worship requirements.  No, the purpose of Levitical Law was to give mankind a definitive definition for sin, sanctify the nation of Israel, and usher in the advent of the Redeemer – the One who would provide the means for man to fulfill God’s will.  In this week’s podcast, we will do an overview of the 5th Dispensation – the Dispensation of the Law.<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66921782</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:45:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/66921782/fbr_episode_53_purpose_of_the_law.mp3" length="25277989" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4a2f083f-552a-4bac-8b2d-a8c54c8e7f54/4a2f083f-552a-4bac-8b2d-a8c54c8e7f54.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4a2f083f-552a-4bac-8b2d-a8c54c8e7f54/4a2f083f-552a-4bac-8b2d-a8c54c8e7f54.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4a2f083f-552a-4bac-8b2d-a8c54c8e7f54/4a2f083f-552a-4bac-8b2d-a8c54c8e7f54.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The purpose of Levitical law was not to introduce arbitrary and oppressive religious rules onto the people of Israel, nor was the purpose of Levitical law to stroke God’s ego with intensive worship requirements.  No, the purpose of Levitical Law was...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The purpose of Levitical law was not to introduce arbitrary and oppressive religious rules onto the people of Israel, nor was the purpose of Levitical law to stroke God’s ego with intensive worship requirements.  No, the purpose of Levitical Law was to give mankind a definitive definition for sin, sanctify the nation of Israel, and usher in the advent of the Redeemer – the One who would provide the means for man to fulfill God’s will.  In this week’s podcast, we will do an overview of the 5th Dispensation – the Dispensation of the Law.<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2107</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>apologetics,biblestudy,blindfaith,edmabrie,faith,faithbyreason,faithingod,jesus,nephilim,rationalfaith,satan,spiritualwarfare</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>53</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How the Church Age Will End — The Biblical Signs of the Final Generation | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-the-church-age-will-end-the-biblical-signs-of-the-final-generation-faith-by-reason--72862544</link><description><![CDATA[This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72862544</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:37:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72862544/end_of_the_church_mixdown.mp3" length="64255462" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/f4cb8576-7aff-4a40-86c2-842863b4befc/f4cb8576-7aff-4a40-86c2-842863b4befc.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/f4cb8576-7aff-4a40-86c2-842863b4befc/f4cb8576-7aff-4a40-86c2-842863b4befc.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/f4cb8576-7aff-4a40-86c2-842863b4befc/f4cb8576-7aff-4a40-86c2-842863b4befc.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:duration>2225</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Calvinism Killed the Church - Sardis Part 2 | Faith By Reason</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-calvinism-killed-the-church-sardis-part-2-faith-by-reason--72862554</link><description><![CDATA[This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; 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Religious people lead us to think that God is a prude who frowns on sexual enjoyment.  But the truth is that Sex is worship!  Every time you have sex (with your spouse) you are worshipping God!  Another reason that sex in the Bible is a difficult subject, is because of all the rules and guidelines God gives in the Levitical Law.  But those rules are not meant to limit our pleasure, but rather to enhance it!  God was intentional when he made sex feel good!  Marital sex in the Bible is a reflection of God’s plan and a glimpse of the pleasure we will experience for ETERNITY!  But like any good thing, sex can be corrupted.  And this corruption can lead to physical, emotional, and spiritual harm.  In this week’s podcast, we will look at sex in the Bible, provide clear definitions for sex, marriage, adultery, and fornication and address the controversial topics such as “sex before marriage” (did you know that there is NO SUCH THING as “sex before marriage” according to scripture?), and the most controversial of all…homosexuality<br /><br />faithbyreason.net<br /><br />patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72930298</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:39:31 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72930298/6c9e5e5d_1c7f_48ad_8cb5_07069f15b3df.mp3" length="34014076" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ec8109ab-d895-4426-8fe9-6ac7d42f3f77/ec8109ab-d895-4426-8fe9-6ac7d42f3f77.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ec8109ab-d895-4426-8fe9-6ac7d42f3f77/ec8109ab-d895-4426-8fe9-6ac7d42f3f77.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ec8109ab-d895-4426-8fe9-6ac7d42f3f77/ec8109ab-d895-4426-8fe9-6ac7d42f3f77.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>Ed Mabrie</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Sex in the Bible is a controversial subject. Religious people lead us to think that God is a prude who frowns on sexual enjoyment.  But the truth is that Sex is worship!  Every time you have sex (with your spouse) you are worshipping God!  Another...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Sex in the Bible is a controversial subject. Religious people lead us to think that God is a prude who frowns on sexual enjoyment.  But the truth is that Sex is worship!  Every time you have sex (with your spouse) you are worshipping God!  Another reason that sex in the Bible is a difficult subject, is because of all the rules and guidelines God gives in the Levitical Law.  But those rules are not meant to limit our pleasure, but rather to enhance it!  God was intentional when he made sex feel good!  Marital sex in the Bible is a reflection of God’s plan and a glimpse of the pleasure we will experience for ETERNITY!  But like any good thing, sex can be corrupted.  And this corruption can lead to physical, emotional, and spiritual harm.  In this week’s podcast, we will look at sex in the Bible, provide clear definitions for sex, marriage, adultery, and fornication and address the controversial topics such as “sex before marriage” (did you know that there is NO SUCH THING as “sex before marriage” according to scripture?), and the most controversial of all…homosexuality<br /><br />faithbyreason.net<br /><br />patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br />This episode is part of the Faith By Reason teaching <br />library — over 100 episodes of in-depth Bible study, <br />Christian apologetics, and systematic theology.<br />🔗 Full series &amp; premium content: faithbyreason.net<br />📚 Spiritual Warfare Course: faithbyreason.net/warfare<br />🎙️ Exclusive content &amp; Bible Study: patreon.com/faithbyreason<br /><br /><br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />⭐ ENJOY THE SHOW?<br />━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<br />If this episode helped you, please:<br />- Follow the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts<br />- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts<br />- Share this episode with someone who needs it<br />Reviews and follows help more people discover <br />Faith By Reason — thank you!]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2835</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cc26c37f68912e23521da09c6c6416f3.jpg"/><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>54</itunes:episode><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Did God Require So Many Jewish Laws?  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