Hearing the word “demons” makes the skin crawl. It conjures up images from movie trailers and frightening stories of demon possession.
Should Christians even think about demons? Bible scholar Dr. Michael Heiser is the perfect person to answer those questions. He’s spent a lot of time exploring these issues biblically, which has resulted in works including The Unseen Realm book (sold over 100,000 copies) and The Unseen Realm documentary. (more…)
The Unseen Realm documentary takes viewers on a fascinating journey casting light on the supernatural within Scripture’s pages. It’s based on Dr. Michael Heiser’s book of the same name, one that’s sold over 100,000 copies. [Read more…]
By Jesse Meyers
Earlier this month, I had a chance to cross the velvet rope and walk the red carpet.
The Oscars? Nope, not this year. (Snubbed again!) [Read more…]
Most often, time spent watching TV doesn’t reap dividends. It’s entertaining, and we get a “brain break.” But that’s it.
These two Christian documentaries are not just entertaining—they’re so much more. [Read more…]
With more than 100,000 copies sold, The Unseen Realm by Michael S. Heiser has helped readers find biblical answers to tough questions, like: [Read more…]
One of the hardest things for me to wrap my brain around as a Christian is how a God who defines himself as love (1 John 4:8) and defines the greatest form of love as laying down your life for someone else (John 15:13) could lead Israel on a bloodbath in the Old Testament.
Does God’s seemingly violent nature in the Old Testament change how Christians should see violence today? Does God’s violence justify ours?
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The church in Corinth had a problem. One of their own was actively engaging in sexual sin that went beyond the immorality of non-Christian Corinthians (1 Corinthians 5:1). This person was choosing to live in sin, despite being part of the body of Christ. Paul goes on to say that the best thing for both the church and the individual was for the church to remove the man from their fellowship. Then in 1 Corinthians 5:5, Paul puts it another way: “deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh . . .”
To us modern day Christians, Paul’s instruction sounds like a cliche misrepresentation of Christianity you’d see in a horror movie. But that’s not how Christians in Corinth understood it.
Dr. Michael Heiser believes that as modern Christians we are “selectively supernatural.” Our modern worldview makes it difficult to recognize the full extent of the supernatural fingerprints on our Bible. While Bible scholars widely acknowledge the presence of “the divine council,” nephilim, and numerous other intersections between our world and the unseen realm in Scripture, passages like 1 Peter 3:19–20 rarely make it into sermons because to the vast majority of Christians, they are simply too foreign.
