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I just finished this book moments prior to writing this review. I really don't want to take the time to let it digest before writing, because I want to give my first impression review on this one.  Let me start by saying, had I read this book 5 years ago it would have completely wrecked my theology. At that time my understanding of the Bible was very "cursory" to put it mildly. I understood the Bible in terms of absolutes (and it is), but the words on the page are only lid to a very deep rabbit hole of truths. This book requires you to place what you know on the shelf temporarily. My pastor likes to tell us that right before he disturbs our peace LOL. Don't worry, this book is not disturbing, but it may be very revealing to you in many ways. Because of this book I can now answer, and I think you will be able to also, the following questions: Is Genesis chapter 1 history? Is Genesis chapter 1 science? Is Genesis chapter 1 a metaphor? Is Genesis chapter 1 literal? ...

If you read my review of Audible  then you know I'm kind of on a journey of rediscovering Audible  and all that it has to offer these days. One thing it now offers is a category of books called "Audible Originals". These are books written by world-famous storytellers and produced in Audible's studios. Many of these Audible Originals are included in your monthly subscription plan, and some will cost you 1 credit.  I decided yesterday to listen to one of these Audible Originals yesterday while taking a trip about 90 minutes away from our home. I picked a book that would fit into the drive time there and back. They have a vast selection of these shorter books and this particular one was just a tad over 2 hours...Perfect! So to start this review let me first tell you that I am NOT a "storybook" type of reader. I almost feel after reading a story that I have wasted a few hours of my life that could have been better spent on self-improvement (which I desperat...

The Audio Bible page can be found by tapping or clicking the above image! I just want to take a minute and share with you a project with you that I have been working on in my spare time. It is a page I have set up here on Blogger.com where I present a chapter for chapter reading of scripture. I hope to present more versions, but currently I am working on the ISR Scriptures 2009 version. This version is very unique in it's use of Hebrew characters, attempts at properly translating words and ideas that do not actually translate into English nor our culture, a stylized approach to Greek and Aramaic processing, and many other features that make it apparent that great research went into the making of this version. I personally believe this version's best attribute is how it preserves the historical context of the Bible, practically transporting you back to the ancient near east.  Not only will each book be divided up into individual chapters, but at the end of each list of chapters ...

I WANT TO GIVE YOU A FREE GIFT JUST FOR READING  Photo by  Andrea Piacquadio  from  Pexels Over the years I have subscribed to Audible off and on. I would unsubscribe for various reasons. Either I was between jobs and didn't want the added expense, I would get bored with reading and would find another activity to occupy my troubled mind, or any number of other reasons I would cancel my membership only to renew it at a later date.  Well my friends, I don't ever intend to let my Audible subscription go. Not anymore!  I recently turned my subscription back on after a couple of years of being off of it, and when I returned and then logged on with my computer and web browser I was floored at everything they had available!  Audible is not just audiobooks anymore. They are so much more! Yes they still have over 200,000 audiobooks to choose from, and more books are being added almost daily. These books are from every genre you can imagine.  But everyone...

I want to start this review with a word of warning! Peter Enns is not a pastor, preacher, evangelist, TBN superstar, or Sunday school theologian. He is a University Professor, bible scholar/theologian. This book may make you stretch. I think "may" is an understatement though. Whether you are mainstream Christian, Messianic Jew, Hebrew Rooter, or fall anywhere else on the "I love the Creator of the universe" spectrum, this book is going to challenge your belief system, and you will laugh about it through your troubled tears. Why? Because that is exactly what Peter Enns does! He will make you experience many different emotions while reading. Peter Enns attempts to help you define how you may currently view the Bible and then show you what it appears to be from a scholarly perspective. He does this in a way that only Peter Enns can do. Is it a book of rules to get you to the next life, a story of the Jews, an actual history book? Is it factually true or is it just...

This morning's hourly Bitcoin chart looks GREAT! 3commas DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging) Bots are automated trading bots that you can build in order to help you remove emotion from your cryptocurrency trading. You actually tell the bot how you want to trade as well as which currencies you want to trade, press the start button and watch her go! These bot will do exactly what you tell them to do. They will buy as the price drops at whatever interval you predetermine, and they will take profits for you at your predetermined amount.  If you are just learning about DCA Bots let me briefly explain how they work so that you can understand how you can get overextended.  Lets say that in your brokerage account you have $100 that you want to allow 3commas to trade with. You would set up your bot to have an initial "buy order" of lets say $10 for Bitcoin. After that if the price of Bitcoin drops your bot will buy at your predetermine places in the drop. Lets just say that you set up th...

**Contains affiliate links This is bitcoin at the time of this post (10:24am 9/2/2021 The short answer is, as little or as much as you would like to start with. I personally started with $5, because like most people I was VERY skeptical. There was no way I was going to dump a whole bunch of money into some online account only to have it stolen. But, I did want to do more with my money than just trading stocks and forex, so I opened a Coinbase account and got started. Coinbase  is a publicly traded company that is owned and operated right here in the United States. For these two reasons I trust them enough to use them as my crypto holdings account. You can open an account for zero money. If you join by using my referral link, and link your debit card or bank account, they will give you $5 worth of Bitcoin.  Not only that, but right away you will have the opportunity to earn several dollars worth of different cryptocurrencies by watching short little videos (2 minutes or less) ...