{"id":1719,"date":"2010-01-19T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/01\/two-naked-powers-in-the-bible\/"},"modified":"2010-01-19T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T14:37:00","slug":"two-naked-powers-in-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/01\/two-naked-powers-in-the-bible.html","title":{"rendered":"Two Naked Powers in the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The title of this post is a misleading mash-up \u2013 what I want to draw attention to is <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelsheiser.com\/TheNakedBible\/2010\/01\/the-jewish-theology-of-two-powers-in-heaven-as-the-backdrop-for-the-christology-of-the-new-testament\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a video posted at The Naked Bible<\/a> which suggests that the idea of \u201ctwo powers\u201d or \u201ctwo Yahwehs\u201d can be traced back to within Scripture itself. Not everyone will relate to the speaker\u2019s starting point (which relates this material to apologetics and evangelism), but all are likely to find the talk interesting, as it surveys an impressively wide range of material from early Judaism.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8792424&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/8792424\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Class 4 \u2013 Jesus &amp; the Old Testament \u2013 Michael Heiser \u2013 January 3, 2010<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/gcb\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Grace Church Bellingham<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As of my posting this I\u2019ve watched about half of the lecture, and there has already been enough in it to persuade me that it is worth sharing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6203832237014823378?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this post is a misleading mash-up \u2013 what I want to draw attention to is a video posted at The Naked Bible which suggests that the idea of \u201ctwo powers\u201d or \u201ctwo Yahwehs\u201d can be traced back to within Scripture itself. 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