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    Bible Curious

    New Listeners, start here: The Birth of Jesus.

    Bible Curious is an exploration into sacred scripture, driven by curiosity. The population of planet Earth is 33% Christian. It's 24% Muslim, and the Qur'an does acknowledge the Bible as Holy Scripture. Between these two faiths, that's over half of Earth's population. If I was an alien coming to this planet for the first time, and I wanted to play a game of "Take Me To Your Leader," it wouldn't take long before I found this book in my hands. If I want to understand this planet, planet Earth, I need to know what's in this text. To ignore it, or to dismiss it casually, is to cast aside the very underpinnings of western civilization, which is the dominant culture of this planet. I mean, aren't you at least curious about what it actually says? I know I am.

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    Episodes (77)

    The Cost of the Tabernacle

    The Cost of the Tabernacle
    DAY 52 (Exodus 36-38): As tabernacle construction gets underway, the builders face a crisis of too much generosity from the children of Israel. They weave curtains for the covering of the tabernacle, construct boards for assembling the walls, then create the veil and screen to be used for partitioning sacred space.
    Bible Curious
    en-usMarch 10, 2024
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    The Lord Renews the Covenant

    The Lord Renews the Covenant
    DAY 51 (Exodus 33-35): At last the children of Israel are ready to construct the tabernacle for their God. Yahweh will remind them to strictly observe the Sabbath while constructing this dwelling. After all, they are no longer slaves of the Egyptians, and should act as a new people.
    Bible Curious
    en-usMarch 03, 2024
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    The Golden Calf

    The Golden Calf
    DAY 50 (Exodus 30-32): As Moses continues to receive divine revelation from God for forty days and forty nights upon Mount Sinai, the people grow restless and rebellious, acting out in flagrant defiance against God's previous commandments.
    Bible Curious
    en-usFebruary 18, 2024
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    God Will Dwell Among the People

    God Will Dwell Among the People
    DAY 49 (Exodus 28-29): Yahweh wished to dwell among His people, but needed to establish a strict protocol for how He would be approached by an inherently sinful human race.Now Yahweh would create a mediated relationship with His people by instituting the office of a High Priest in Moses' brother Aaron, along with a supporting priesthood from Aaron's immediate family.
    Bible Curious
    en-usFebruary 11, 2024
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    The Ark of the Covenant

    The Ark of the Covenant
    DAY 48 (Exodus 25-27): After delivering the Law and ratifying the covenant, Yahweh now instructs Moses to build a tabernacle, a portable tent-sanctuary where God will dwell among His people, the Israelites. Before listening to this chapter, I strongly recommend that you search the Internet for images and videos of God's Tabernacle. Then, listen carefully and see the tabernacle with your mind's eye.
    Bible Curious
    en-usFebruary 04, 2024
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    The Covenant Sealed

    The Covenant Sealed
    DAY 47 (Exodus 22-24): The Book of the Covenant is a continuation of the legal code given to Moses by Yahweh on Mount Sinai. In this chapter, Yahweh provides further regulations that are intended to promote justice, equality, and social order in ancient Israel. These laws cover a wide range of topics, including theft, property damage, social responsibility, and sexual morality.
    Bible Curious
    en-usJanuary 28, 2024
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    The Ten Commandments

    The Ten Commandments
    DAY 46 (Exodus 19-21): The Ten Commandments, though brief in their wording, are considered to be the foundation of the Law of Moses and are still studied and observed by many religious and ethical traditions today. You will notice that these laws begin with Yahweh Himself at the very center, and flow out from this God-centered core to the family unit, then to the rest of society.
    Bible Curious
    en-usJanuary 21, 2024
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    Bread from Heaven

    Bread from Heaven
    DAY 45 (Exodus 16-18): Having crossed the Red Sea and escaped the clutches of Pharaoh's army, the Israelites find themselves wandering in the wilderness of Sin. As their provisions begin to dwindle, they grumble and complain against Moses and Aaron, longing for the comforts of their former lives as slaves in Egypt. In response to their complaints, Yahweh promises to provide them with bread from heaven, which they will gather each day for sustenance. Yahweh also begins to train the Israelites how to be obedient to His law, beginning with the observance of a weekly day of rest.
    Bible Curious
    en-usJanuary 14, 2024
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    Parting the Red Sea

    Parting the Red Sea
    DAY 44 (Exodus 13-15): Now that the Exodus has begun, Yahweh is ready to perform one of the most spectacular miracles of the Old Testament: the parting of the Red Sea. The Angel of Yahweh, who was leading the Israelites out of Egypt, wanted to set up a dramatic confrontation between the fleeing Israelites and the armies of Pharaoh, by taking them directly into a dead-end, where all hope would seem lost.
    Bible Curious
    en-usJanuary 07, 2024
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    Death of the Firstborn

    Death of the Firstborn
    DAY 43 (Exodus 10-12): Now that Yahweh has Egypt's undivided attention, He prepares two more terrible plagues as judgement for their abuse of His people: a deadly swarm of locusts, followed by three days of inky darkness. However, these two plagues are only prologue the a final and most devestating judgment upon Pharaoh and his people: the death of the firstborn.
    Bible Curious
    en-usDecember 31, 2023
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    I Will Stretch Out My Hand

    I Will Stretch Out My Hand
    DAY 42 (Exodus 7-9): Exodus 7 marks the beginning of the ten plagues that God inflicts on Egypt as part of His plan to free the Israelites from their enslavement. In this chapter, God calls Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh and commands them to perform miraculous signs to convince Pharaoh to let the Israelites go. Despite these signs, Pharaoh remains stubborn and refuses to release the Israelites, which sets the stage for the plagues that will follow.
    Bible Curious
    en-usDecember 24, 2023
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    The Israelites' Cry

    The Israelites' Cry
    DAY 41 (Exodus 4-6): Moses, exiled to the deserts of Midian on the Arabian Peninsula, encounters the great Yahweh Himself, who wants Moses to return to Egypt and demand that Pharaoh let his people, the children of Israel, leave Egypt to worship their God. However, Moses is not confident that he can answer Yahweh's call.
    Bible Curious
    en-usDecember 17, 2023
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    Moses at the Burning Bush

    Moses at the Burning Bush
    DAY 40 (Exodus 1-3): When we concluded Genesis, Abraham's grandson Jacob, whom God renamed Israel, had fled from famine in Canaan to settle with his twelve sons and their families in the fertile lands of Egypt. There they lived under the protection of Pharoah and Jacob's second youngest son Joseph, who, after he had been sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, had ascended to become governor over all of Egypt.
    Bible Curious
    en-usDecember 10, 2023
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    He Who Argues with God

    He Who Argues with God
    DAY 39 (Job 40-42): Job stands humbled before the majesty of God, understanding the futility of questioning His rulership over earth. God then takes this moment to give Job and his companions a taste of what it would mean to be ruler over earth, to have authority to bring down the wicked and the proud, to have even the power to create new forms of life.
    Bible Curious
    en-usOctober 15, 2023
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    Out of the Whirlwind

    Out of the Whirlwind
    DAY 38 (Job 38-39): At long last, Almighty God Himself appears before Job and his companions, but surprisingly, Yahweh offers His audience more questions instead of answers, and in so doing, takes us on a grand tour of creation. As you listen, notice that this account of creation is quite a bit different from the six-day sequence described in Genesis chapter 1, also different from the Garden of Eden narrative described in Genesis chapter 2. It seems Yahweh had been up to quite a lot even before He famously declared 'Let there be light.'
    Bible Curious
    en-usOctober 08, 2023
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    Where is God My Maker?

    Where is God My Maker?
    DAY 37 (Job 35-37): The young Elihu is offended that Job accuses God of wrongdoing. He's also offended that Job would question the need to obey God, asking what's in it for me? After all, what's in it for God? Is God harmed by Job's disobedience, or helped by Job's righteousness? How does Job have any right to demand a personal appearance from God?
    Bible Curious
    en-usOctober 01, 2023
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    I am Young and You are Very Old

    I am Young and You are Very Old
    DAY 36 (Job 32-34): Job and his three companions had reached an impasse. Job insisted that he had done nothing so wrong that it deserved the punishment he got, and none of his friends could pry out of him a confession of wrongdoing. Now a fifth person, named Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, enters the debate, impressed by no one, and takes the argument in a new direction.
    Bible Curious
    en-usSeptember 24, 2023
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    My Steps were Washed with Butter

    My Steps were Washed with Butter
    DAY 35 (Job 29-31): When people experience deep tragedy, does it draw them closer to God, or does it widen their separation? With Job, his immediate reaction was to bless Yahweh, but as the reality of his situation sunk in, he found himself drifting away from his faith, and we can see that Job's spiritual darkness is even more tragic than his material losses. And yet, Job took care never to curse God directly, even while knowing God was responsible for his suffering. Now, we will see Job expressing hope for the future by looking backward towards past glory.
    Bible Curious
    en-usSeptember 10, 2023
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    Man Who Is a Worm

    Man Who Is a Worm
    DAY 34 (Job 24-28): Job, having put God on trial for His many injustices, now makes his closing argument before his three companions, describing a fallen world with no divine intervention, where the mighty are wicked, the poor are wretched, many turn to criminality, and all are equally cut down by death in the end.
    Bible Curious
    en-usSeptember 03, 2023
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    Why Do the Wicked Live?

    Why Do the Wicked Live?
    DAY 33 (Job 21-23): In the aftermath of Job's astonishing tragedy, a raging debate has broken out between him and his wise friends. Because God is always just, rewarding the righteous and punishing the wicked, it follows that Job's anguish must be proof that he has committed a grave offense against God. When Job protests his innocence, his friends take bitter offense, assuming Job is both lying and insulting God by insisting that God is punishing an innocent man. But Job isn't finished. He will take his argument a step further, pointing out not only does God allow the righteous to suffer, He also fails to punish the wicked.
    Bible Curious
    en-usAugust 27, 2023
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