UI 077: Visions of the Anointed: Dehumanization & Globalization
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We are approaching a tipping point in our world. A very patient and tireless crowd (ie. the "elites") has influenced the masses into being lulled to believe what the media reports is truth, what the experts say is irrefutable, and what celebrities say is significant and important. While our society maybe very literate compared to our recent past, it makes no difference because they lack the ability to gain wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. Many read what they are told to think. How many people are waiting to form an opinion until after someone else does?...
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UI 076: God and His 13 Attributes
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This week is a podcast featuring a class I recently taught on the book of Exodus. In this particular class we focused on Exodus 33:21 -34:7. ...
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UI 075: Get your life straight. Reprioritizing and Refocusing to Reach Your Desired Destination
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Have you ever had to take a step back from your life and look at where you are and where you are going? ...
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UI 074: 3 Lessons For Starting Over
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Sometimes I talk about ultimate issues in the big, global, macro arena and other times it's a small, personal, micro subject. This week's topic, while a big deal, is more of a micro, personal subject. ...
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UI 073: Why Be Happy?
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Since we are celebrating Sukkot, and Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles or Festival of Booths) is supposed to be JOYOUS. I figure I should do a show on happiness. After all, God commands us to be happy for Sukkot so it must be an ultimate issue. But first, some questions. ...
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UI 072: A Real Tragic Combination on Real Time
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In a rare moment on television something actually intellectually interesting happened. It was on the recent Bill Maher show "Real Time" and it involved a debate between Maher, Sam Harris (author), Ben Affleck (actor), Nicholas Kristof (columnist for NY Times), and Micheal Steele (former Republican National Committee Chairman). ...
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UI 071: Forgiveness and Atonement
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Jakub Weinles "On the Eve of Yom Kippur"[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons ...
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UI 070: Brutally Honest Introspections, Criticisms, and Change
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Are you brutally honest with yourself? ...
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UI 069: What is Your Primary Question?
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The questions we ask ourselves determine not only what we think about, but also how we think. And our thoughts impact or decisions. And our decision impact our behavior. Over the course of our lives our behaviors impact our destiny. So way back along our journey we started with questions. ...
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UI 068: Losing America... How Did We Get Here?
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This week we explore an ultimate issue raised during a conversation I was having with a friend who is my elder, and thus has greater wisdom and life experience than I. I am still of the opinion that respect for elders is a good and necessary thing for society... though that is unfortunately not the current trend. ...
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This week is a podcast featuring a class I recently taught on the book of Exodus. In this particular class we focused on Exodus 33:21 -34:7.
Exodus 33 (NIV)
21Then the Lord said, “There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock. 22When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. 23Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen.”
Exodus 34
1The Lord said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. 2Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain. 3No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks and herds may graze in front of the mountain.”
4So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as theLord had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands. 5Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord. 6And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness,7maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”
In these short verses many important issues were raised:
- Anthropomorphism of God
- God's "face/faces"- panim
- God's hand
- Life, Death, and Not living
- Miracles
- Behavior/Actions VS. Feelings/Intent
- Creation of the second set of Tablets
- Is God good?
- How do we know?
- What does it mean?
- How does God describe Himself?
- 13 Attributes
- Compassion VS. Truth
- Must children suffer the sins of their parents?
- Macro
- Micro