Where do I begin…? Definitely not a summary of the topic–not if I intend this to be just a “quick peak.” I will say I’ve been studying the biblical and extra-biblical “scholarship” ( hope that’s what it is) for years now. Like many, I cut my teeth on the Unseen Realm by Heiser. And from there, over the last few years, I kept expanding the research. What started for me mainly as biblical exegesis, with important biblical theology implications, has now become more cultural and

Romans 6 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life (Romans 6:1-4) I first memorized Romans

Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” (John 20:29) Poor old Thomas. Next to Peter, which disciples has gotten thrown under the bus in sermons more? The self-righteous snobbery of those who do this to those guys has gotten really annoying to me. We love to dump on Peter because of his denials and his impulsiveness. We do that to Thomas and even label him as “Doubting Thomas” as if his word