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The Bible’s “Son of Man” Story
The earliest prophecy of Jesus is found, believe it or not, in Genesis 3:15. After Adam and Eve had sinned against God by choosing to follow Satan (the rebellious serpent-like-cherubim of the Garden of Eden), God declared a prophetic declaration over the serpent: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your…
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The Biblical Conception of the Cosmos
Yes, the Bible writers thought the world was flat, but that’s hardly the weirdest thing they believed about the universe. Let’s dive into their conception of the cosmos, chat about science and the Bible, and see what takeaways we can find in our continued series on “Weird Stuff.” Make sure to further join our online…
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What About Those Who Never Heard the Gospel?
It’s a classic question: What happens on the Day of the Lord to those who have never heard the gospel? While we could answer this question and many others like it with pages worth of retorts, passages, and more questions, I instead am going to default to a moral answer for now in hopes that…
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True Love Finds Itself on the Toilet
There are some studies in Biblical academia that have a way of putting a completely different tone on the Bible stories we all know—for example, the story of Isaac and Rebekah. We address that on today’s episode in our “Weird Stuff” series. *Please note that this conversation has some adult themes and is better suited…
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God’s Grand Framework on Udemy
My posts as of late come from my book “God’s Grand Framework.” Udemy has my teaching course on the book on sale for $9.99 for the next few days if you’d like to dive deeper into all of the topics in the trailer above. Check it out on Udemy here or grab a copy of…
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Paul’s Weird Understanding of Hair and Nature
There’s a strange passage in 1 Corinthians 11 where Paul expects women to cover their long hair and men to keep theirs short because of nature and the angels. What on earth is he talking about? On this episode of the JXN Cloud, we offer some quick insight as to what might be going on…
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What is the Day of the Lord?
At the end of this phase of existence will come what the prophets called, “The Day of the Lord.” This is the day God will use His omnipotence to snuff out evil once and for all. He has heard our questions about how long bad things must continue to happen before He does something (Rev…
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What’s Up with Noah and Ham?
Perhaps you’ve read the story: Ham sees his dad Noah passed out drunk and naked in his tent and then Noah wakes up and curses his grandson for all eternity. Things certainly seems to escalate quickly in this story and it catches us off guard. Is that really all that’s going on here? The JXN…
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The Bible’s Spiritual Realm is in Disarray
Since heavenly beings are also created in God’s image, they too have been granted their own kind of power and authority and have been given their own free will as to how to use it. While we typically think of heavenly beings as being obedient servants of God, that’s just not the picture the Bible…
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What is the Mission of Christians?
Why did God make us? Why are we here? What are we supposed to do? Everyone asks this question at some point in their life, and the Bible answers it right in its opening pages and reconfirms it all throughout its pages, all the way to the end. Let’s dig deeper into what it has…
Jamin Bradley 