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  • FBR Episode 24 - Is "Jesus" a Religious Idol?

    FBR Episode 24 - Is "Jesus" a Religious Idol?
    Feb 21 2025
    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:
    • The root of religious hypocrisy.
    • How religion robbed us of God’s true Name.
    • Why the “Jesus” promoted by religious people bears no resemblance to the Jesus in the Bible.
    • What was Jesus REALLY like?
    • How religious Christians damage themselves and others by trying to be “nice”.
    • Why do God’s laws and commandments sound religious?

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    35 min
  • FBR Episode 23 - Religious Brain Damage: Secular and Spiritual

    FBR Episode 23 - Religious Brain Damage: Secular and Spiritual
    Feb 19 2025
    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:
    • What the Bible means when it references “religion”
    • Why James 1:27 actually validates the true definition of religion
    • How unbelievers prove they believe in God when they pursue social causes
    • A brief tangent on the history of global warming/climate change
    • Examples of secular “religions”
    • How the religious thought process causes cascading brain damage
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    28 min
  • FRB Episode 22 Religious Pride

    FRB Episode 22 Religious Pride
    Feb 17 2025
    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:
    • The definition of religion
    • The “benevolent” reason why we get religious
    • Why you can’t get to heaven by “being good”
    • How religion is self-delusion
    • When you are religious, you are trying to be superior to God
    • Why do many Christians practice religion?
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    23 min
  • FBR Episode 21 - Guilt, Justification, and God’s Mercy

    FBR Episode 21 - Guilt, Justification, and God’s Mercy
    Feb 14 2025
    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:
    • What is Justification and why do we need it?
    • Why do we feel guilt?
    • How our subconscious mind is like a computer
    • Do you justify God, or yourself?
    • Why the guilt/justify cycle is proof of God’s mercy
    • The WORST form of justification
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    29 min
  • FBR Episode 20 - Original Sin: Naked and Ashamed

    FBR Episode 20 - Original Sin: Naked and Ashamed
    Feb 12 2025
    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:
    • 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)
    • What does the Bible mean by the terms “naked” and “uncovered”?
    • What REALLY happened to Noah when he was “uncovered” in his tent?
    • Why did God ask Adam and Eve questions before He rendered judgment for their disobedience?
    • How could Adam have answered God differently and changed history?
    • The first example of Justification
    • Why did God have 2 Cherubim guard the way to the Tree of Life?
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    35 min
  • FBR Episode 19 - Was the Eden Serpent a talking snake?

    FBR Episode 19 - Was the Eden Serpent a talking snake?
    Feb 11 2025
    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:
    • A review of Eden and Man’s pre-fall status
    • Why vegans are so annoying (I go a bit off topic here)
    • The temptation of Eve
    • Reasons why the Nachash was NOT a snake
    • Evidence that the “Serpent” was Lucifer/Satan
    • How did Nachash come to mean serpent/snake?
    • What was Original Sin?
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    33 min
  • FBR Episode 18 - Eden: Paradise Lost

    FBR Episode 18 - Eden: Paradise Lost
    Feb 7 2025
    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:
    • Why did God “rest” on the 7th day of Creation?
    • What does it mean to be “made in the image of God”?
    • What was the purpose of the trees in the Garden of Eden?
    • How was Eden paradise, and why is it fallen man’s ambition to get back to Eden without God?
    • If the garden was in the EAST of Eden, what was the rest of Eden like?
    • Who are God’s “Divine Council”?
    • Where MIGHT Eden have been located and how does this location impact the modern world?
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    37 min
  • FBR Episode 17 - Is God humble? The Story of Human History

    FBR Episode 17 - Is God humble? The Story of Human History
    Feb 6 2025
    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:
    • Can we get to Heaven by always being right like God?
    • How and why God is humble
    • How God demonstrates His humility through His interactions with man
    • Why it would be UNJUST for God to unilaterally implement His plan for us
    • What are the “Dispensations”? Am I a dispensationalist? (short answer – no)
    • 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…)
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    18 min