The Faith By Reason Podcast
If God is real and Christianity is true, then they should conform to objective logic and reason. That is the premise of the Faith By Reason podcast – systematically examining Christian Philosophy faithbyreason.net
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July 14, 2025 • 35 mins
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 wi...
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July 11, 2025 • 42 mins
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 reas...
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July 9, 2025 • 45 mins
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 f...
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June 23, 2025 • 47 mins
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 b...
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June 20, 2025 • 33 mins
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:
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June 18, 2025 • 36 mins
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 becaus...
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June 16, 2025 • 35 mins
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...
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June 13, 2025 • 33 mins
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 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 descri...
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 descri...
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June 11, 2025 • 31 mins
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?
The truth is that God did not initiate Pharaoh’s...
The truth is that God did not initiate Pharaoh’s...
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May 19, 2025 • 37 mins
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.
This would hopefully lead them to chose to accept the plan of the God who blessed them. But if they cu...
This would hopefully lead them to chose to accept the plan of the God who blessed them. But if they cu...
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May 16, 2025 • 51 mins
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 ev...
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May 14, 2025 • 33 mins
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 alwa...
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May 12, 2025 • 56 mins
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.
But they are also found in “Christian” ch...
But they are also found in “Christian” ch...
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May 9, 2025 • 28 mins
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.
Through her deceit, manipulation, deception, and lust for power, she created the first organized spiritual opposition to God’s plan (religi...
Through her deceit, manipulation, deception, and lust for power, she created the first organized spiritual opposition to God’s plan (religi...
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May 7, 2025 • 38 mins
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...
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May 5, 2025 • 39 mins
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 ...
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May 2, 2025 • 38 mins
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:
1. The understanding that there exists an unseen spiritual world alongside our own, inhabited by intelligent and powerful e...
1. The understanding that there exists an unseen spiritual world alongside our own, inhabited by intelligent and powerful e...
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April 30, 2025 • 47 mins
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 mani...
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April 11, 2025 • 47 mins
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 f...
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April 9, 2025 • 28 mins
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 ...
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