20 Burst results for "Stephen Collins"
The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"stephen collins" Discussed on The Passing Shot Tennis Podcast
"At it, I think what's so, I guess, disappointing from a Canadian perspective is how easily they won the how they won the doubles. You know, you felt like that was an advantage for them. Yes, maybe the Switzerland nominations would have been different if the tyre was one a piece, but it sort of created this quite subdued atmosphere, didn't it for the doubles match when we had dabrowski and Fernández come back on court to face Jill titman and Simona Walter, who was on Billie Jean King cup debut, which, yeah, as I say, was a little bit of a subdued atmosphere, but probably from her point of view, quite a nice tie to come in, knowing that you've already kind of secured the victory. Yeah, never really got started. And I think the Canadian girls had a point to prove that if they had made it to that doubles, they could have done something pretty special. They did not want to lose the renewal today. And you've got to really respect Fernández for coming back out there, putting that to feet behind and enjoying a time on the court in the doubles and ending on a bit of a positive note from a personal perspective for her. But dabrowski, again, we saw it last year in Prague and she is a cut involved when it comes to doubles. Some of the shots she was hitting could gasp from the crowd. I think almost like a standing out version from you Joel on one of them because she was making all sorts of shots and match points she almost ran off the court to make the winner. So I think from her, it must be frustrating because she doesn't often get ourselves into these situations where she's able to kind of win that decisive rubber, obviously it was already two now. In favor of Canada the last time she took the doubles court and this time, she'd already lost. So you've got to feel for her because she seems like she's really up for it. She's playing great tennis and if it was a deciding doubles, I wouldn't bet against her. Yeah, it was sort of disappointing from that perspective because dabrowski is such a great competitor. And again, I think a great test of character seeing Fernández come back after shots, short period of time off the court. I wasn't even sure to be honest if they were going to even play the doubles, given Switzerland, had qualified. We used sought where you surprised at all they played the doubles or was I don't know if they needed to play it to decide who was going to end bottom of the group. But you would have thought maybe, you know, some of the players would have wanted to kind of Jill Titan, for example, maybe one would have wanted to save her legs for another semifinal. I think even though she played, I think she did say her legs a little bit with the 6 two 6 one result. I was definitely surprised that they played it because I know they don't play when it comes to semifinals and Italy were already bottom of the group. I guess it's about dotting the eyes and crossing the T so that there's a much more easy to understand table where everyone's played the same number of matches, the same number of rubbers. And I guess the spirit of the competition, it is about making sure that you do kind of play all of those rubbers in the group stages to see where you place and if you set a president of not playing at this stage, then I'd probably think that's a great message, but when it comes to semifinals, I think, obviously, that doesn't make any sense to play them. So we'll see what they do tomorrow, but I was also thought we might maybe get there the U.S. check match started early, but no, no, we had to watch our dead doubles match. Chris, you were actually or you're checking the live schools for you later on to petco in her Billie Jean King cup what qualify match has been qualified as going on this week's not just the finals. Yelena oster penko out facing Austria one on the island of final fight about it. So there's always something going on. I mean, before we get into the USA versus Czech Republic tie, your prediction yesterday was Canada to go through. Are you nervous about your prediction with regards to the United States versus Czech Republic given for me, we've had a little bit of a surprise upset. I know, I know Switzerland got to the semifinals yesterday, but I thought Canada were looking strong. And with the fans behind them as well, I thought, yeah, I thought they were going to at least get to the knockouts. Well, I mean, I saw the nominations and I backed the Czech Republic, I think. I can't remember what I said, but I'm pretty sure that's what I said. And I thought that coco golf, I thought she would be playing, but I did not think she'd be playing senior. So that's the second highest ranked singles player who's also the world doubles number one. And you aren't able to change your singles nominations. So I feel like there's some maths going on there from the check team that let's give I didn't play well yesterday and so you need to play someone who's ranked higher than one druce ever for her to be able to play the second singles because she is a good record against Danielle. So although I'm surprised to see that and the thought of senior by having to double up doesn't make too much sense given the fact that she's just flown in from Fort Worth, I'm slightly concerned, but I'm sure the checks have thought this through and that first match of Andrew Stephen Collins is going to be the one that decides that I think conspiracy theories are well and truly out so we're going to go away and go and watch that match and come back and digest our thoughts so we will be back to talk about United States versus chat republic.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"stephen collins" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Folks, welcome to the Eric metaxas show sponsored by legacy precious metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals, visit legacy p.m. investments dot com that's legacy p.m. investments dot com. Welcome to the Eric metaxas show with your host, Eric the Texas. Hey there folks, as you know, I recently came out with a book called is atheism dead. And one of the principal reasons I wrote the book has to do with my next guest. Often when I'm speaking in various churches, people say, hey, why did you how did you come to write the book? And I said, well, it all began when I met a man in Albuquerque, which I say sounds like a Johnny Cash song. It's true. I met doctor Stephen Collins, biblical archeologist in Albuquerque through pasture skip heitzig, and he related to me his discovery of biblical sodom. It's astonishing. We've discussed it on this program before, obviously I write about it in my book. But the last time I was in Albuquerque, just about a week ago, I had the privilege of sitting down with doctor Collins, and just chit chatting about other stuff. And among the things we discussed was another book he's written, you know, he's just not discovering biblical sodom and sitting on his laurels. Oh no, he's doing all kinds of other things. He wrote a book purporting to identify the pharaoh of the exodus, the title of the book is let my people go using historical sorry, using historical synchronisms to identify the pharaoh of the exodus. We discussed it and as we discussed it, I said, this is so fascinating. I love this so much. Would you please come on my radio program, my TV program? Come on down and let's discuss it for my audience. He said no. And then I said, pretty please, and then he said, okay, and here he is, my friend, doctor Stephen Collins, doctor Collins, welcome. Oh, thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Listen, I read this book that you wrote on the subject. And I just thought, we have to talk about this because it's at least fascinating. It's even if some people I'm sure will quibble with your identification of who the pharaoh was. But I learned so much in the process. I mean, I end up agreeing with what you say, but it's just fascinating to learn about the history of Egypt. So let's start at the beginning. How did you get involved in thinking about the question of who the actual pharaoh is? During the time of the exodus and deal with the question of what people have said about that over the years. Because so many people dismiss the whole liberal scholars say there was no exodus, forget about it. It's all made up. Well, of course, everybody's seen the movie, right? But ten commandments, Yul Brynner, the fairly exodus, who was your representing ramses the great ramesses, the second and the 13th century, the problem with that is that there are a whole lot of evangelical scholars and have been a whole lot of non evangelical scholars, egyptologists through the years who have suggested other pharaohs of the exodus. Ramses, the great wasn't the only game in town. And what I began to look at that, it bothered me a bit that even amongst the conservative Bible believing evangelicals, there was a 200 year swing in the time of the exodus. And when the exodus might have happened, going all the way back to the middle of the 15th century and all the way down into the middle of the 13th century. And.
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'Let My People Go!' Author Steven Collins on the Queen of Egypt
"Author of let my people go, doctor Stephen Collins. Doctor Collins, okay, things got so bad after the 18th dynasty's collapsing. That the widow of king Tut reaches out to their enemies. Kind of amazing to the hittite king. How do you pronounce it? That's a great dog name. I think it's a great dog name. Oh my God. Anyway. Yeah. But anyway, so here's the queen of Egypt. Whose husband has just died king Tut. And they're young, and so she writes this letter to super lily, you may the enemy hittite king, and she says this. Let me quote it for you. The letter says, my husband has died. And of course, it probably said dear soupy or something like that on the front of it. But my husband has died. We have no sons. I hear you have many sons. If you will send one of your prince sons to me to marry me, he will sit on the throne of Egypt. Can you imagine that? The queen of Egypt just offered the enemy hittite king. An opportunity to make Egypt a vassal state by having one of his own sons sitting on the throne of Egypt. That is the probably the most bizarre scenario you can imagine in the ancient near east. Well, he flies off the handle, he doesn't know why he's staying because Egypt does not is not honest about how bad things are because those dynasties those empires were never honest. They only told you the good news. Obviously the hittite king doesn't even believe that this really is the queen of Egypt. Why would you be a basing yourself? He didn't believe it, frankly. And so they do a little corresponding back and forth and he sends envoys down to talk to her in person and she flies off the handle. What he doesn't believe me, you think I would you think I would degrade myself in front of any other king, you know? So anyway, they finally come back to super lilium, and they say, you know, hey, king, it's a real deal. She's offering you by one of your sons of Egypt. Oh, he says, okay, so he lines up his sons. He picks the sun, Zidane, and he sends the envoys emissaries back with his son's Zidane's to Egypt and as he crosses into Egypt he's assassinated. That's a
The Eric Metaxas Show
"stephen collins" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Folks, welcome to the Eric metaxas show sponsored by legacy precious metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals, visit legacy p.m. investments dot com that's legacy p.m. investments dot com. Welcome to the Eric metaxas show with your host, Eric the Texas. Hey there folks, as you know, I recently came out with a book called is atheism dead. And one of the principal reasons I wrote the book has to do with my next guest. Often when I'm speaking in various churches, people say, hey, why did you how did you come to write the book? And I said, well, it all began when I met a man in Albuquerque, which I say sounds like a Johnny Cash song. It's true. I met doctor Stephen Collins, biblical archeologist in Albuquerque through pasture skip heitzig, and he related to me his discovery of biblical sodom. It's astonishing. We've discussed it on this program before, obviously I write about it in my book. But the last time I was in Albuquerque, just about a week ago, I had the privilege of sitting down with doctor Collins, and just chit chatting about other stuff. And among the things we discussed was another book he's written, you know, he's just not discovering biblical sodom and sitting on his laurels. Oh no, he's doing all kinds of other things. He wrote a book purporting to identify the pharaoh of the exodus, the title of the book is let my people go using historical sorry, using historical synchronisms to identify the pharaoh of the exodus. We discussed it and as we discussed it, I said, this is so fascinating. I love this so much. Would you please come on my radio program, my TV program? Come on down and let's discuss it for my audience. He said no. And then I said, pretty please, and then he said, okay, and here he is, my friend, doctor Stephen Collins, doctor Collins, welcome. Oh, thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Listen, I read this book that you wrote on the subject. And I just thought, we have to talk about this because it's at least fascinating. It's even if some people I'm sure will quibble with your identification of who the pharaoh was. But I learned so much in the process. I mean, I end up agreeing with what you say, but it's just fascinating to learn about the history of Egypt. So let's start at the beginning. How did you get involved in thinking about the question of who the actual pharaoh is? During the time of the exodus and deal with the question of what people have said about that over the years. Because so many people dismiss the whole liberal scholars say there was no exodus, forget about it. It's all made up. Well, of course, everybody's seen the movie, right? The ten commandments, Yul Brynner, the fairly exodus, who was your representing ramses the great ramesses, the second and the 13th century, the problem with that is that there are a whole lot of evangelical scholars and have been a whole lot of non evangelical scholars, egyptologists through the years who have suggested other pharaohs of the exodus. Ramses, the great wasn't the only game in town. And what I began to look at that, it bothered me a bit that even amongst the conservative Bible believing evangelicals, there was a 200 year swing in the time of the exodus. And when the exodus might have happened, going all the way back to the middle of the 15th century and all the way down into the middle of the 13th century..
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"stephen collins" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"And here he is, my friend, doctor Stephen Collins, doctor Collins, welcome. Oh, thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Listen, I read this book that you wrote on the subject. And I just thought, we have to talk about this because it's at least fascinating. It's even if some people I'm sure will quibble with your identification of who the pharaoh was. But I learned so much in the process. I mean, I end up agreeing with what you say, but it's just fascinating to learn about the history of Egypt. So let's start at the beginning. How did you get involved in thinking about the question of who the actual pharaoh is? During the time of the exodus and deal with the question of what people have said about that over the years. Because so many people dismiss the whole liberal scholars say there was no exodus, forget about it. It's all made up. Well, of course, everybody's seen the movie, right? The ten commandments, Yul Brynner, the fairly exodus, who was your representing ramses the great ramesses, the second and the 13th century, the problem with that is that there are a whole lot of evangelical scholars and have been a whole lot of non evangelical scholars, egyptologists through the years who have suggested other pharaohs of the exodus. Ramses, the great wasn't the only game in town. And what I began to look at that, it bothered me a bit that even amongst the conservative Bible believing evangelicals, there was a 200 year swing in the time of the exodus. And when the exodus might have happened, going all the way back to the middle of the 15th century and all the way down into the middle of the 13th century.
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Why Did Archaeologist Steven Collins Want to Research the Pharaoh?
"And here he is, my friend, doctor Stephen Collins, doctor Collins, welcome. Oh, thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Listen, I read this book that you wrote on the subject. And I just thought, we have to talk about this because it's at least fascinating. It's even if some people I'm sure will quibble with your identification of who the pharaoh was. But I learned so much in the process. I mean, I end up agreeing with what you say, but it's just fascinating to learn about the history of Egypt. So let's start at the beginning. How did you get involved in thinking about the question of who the actual pharaoh is? During the time of the exodus and deal with the question of what people have said about that over the years. Because so many people dismiss the whole liberal scholars say there was no exodus, forget about it. It's all made up. Well, of course, everybody's seen the movie, right? The ten commandments, Yul Brynner, the fairly exodus, who was your representing ramses the great ramesses, the second and the 13th century, the problem with that is that there are a whole lot of evangelical scholars and have been a whole lot of non evangelical scholars, egyptologists through the years who have suggested other pharaohs of the exodus. Ramses, the great wasn't the only game in town. And what I began to look at that, it bothered me a bit that even amongst the conservative Bible believing evangelicals, there was a 200 year swing in the time of the exodus. And when the exodus might have happened, going all the way back to the middle of the 15th century and all the way down into the middle of the 13th century.
Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu
"stephen collins" Discussed on Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu
"More room there is at the top. All you know is in comparison, Daniel pulled you out of your depths. So you're capable of much more, but if you got no way of knowing that. You don't know that the really the next level up is the state of flow is human beings highest performance level. Stephen Collins got a lot of research on it. People are doing stuff that they should not be able to do. Just because they've gotten into flow. That's highly positive. That ain't very annoying flow. Flow is highly positive. It's borderline euphoria. You know, evil knievel crashed his motorcycle trying to jump to the founded Caesar's palace in 1970 something. Mike can't think of Mike's last name before they tore the fountain down and X Games athlete does a backflip on his motorcycle over Caesar's palace fountain. Flow. What are you capable of in flow? The first kid and I, again, it's in kotler's book the rise of Superman. Who jumped the Great Wall of China on a skateboard anyway. Did it with a broken ankle? Crazy. 'cause he was in flow. Not only did he do it with broke, he did it several times that day. He was in flow. Nobody had ever done that before and he did it with injuries that should have put in anybody else. You know, in a hospital bed, but he's in flow. It's highly positive. So we don't know that if the anger is lifted us out of our depths, you can lift yourself out of the depths with anger. You probably can't lift yourself out of the depths as quickly with a positive emotion. So that, you know, there's a sequencing. There's a staging there. But you can not get to your peak performance in a negative state of mind. And anger is a negative state of mind. So as somebody who knows the power of emotional control, how do you get to your ideal state of mind? I've read waiting, not waiting for Superman. The rise of superheroes. Thank you. Stephen cutler's book, I've read that very familiar with the ideas that he puts out around flow. But let's say that we're in a negotiating situation, our anxiety spikes, massively, or we're in a big confrontation in a parking lot, anxieties up. How do you bring that down, recenter and get to your best self? You know, some of the mantras that you were talking about, you know, who am I? Remember who you are. That's a great mantra. You have to have, there has to be some preparation in advance. And then you have to have found some success with it. You know, you're not going to try anything if you haven't applied it successfully. You're not going to try it when it's really important if you haven't applied it when the stakes are low. So what are you doing first thing in the morning? You know, am I lucky to be up? Oh God, is it another day? Is it that gift? What's the difference between adventure and ordeal? Only the way that you perceive it. I threw that out on my Instagram a couple of months back. You know, what's the difference between adventure and or dealer? Stress and stimulation. You know, and I got a bunch of neural stresses, cortisol, you know, people want to communicate. I know the neuroscience. The answer is how you filter it. Completely. You know, how do you look at it? Is it happening for you or to you? Are you lucky to be here or you're unlucky? I'm going to negotiation a couple of years ago with somebody whose values I detested in thinking about this person made me angry every time. Because hostage or business. Business negotiation. Personal person was a liar. Lied, had no problem lying. And you know, I get an ex-girlfriend and once said to me, you'd sooner get your arm torn off than tell me a lie. And I remember thinking at the time, well, the words I find highly complimentary, but the way that you said it makes it sound like an insult. Like that, you know, yeah, but wait a minute, you said that like it's a bad thing. So integrity is really important to me. So when I deal with somebody who lacks it, they're going to trigger me. And if they're triggering me negatively, I'm having trouble prepping for the conversation. Because I'm dumber when I'm angry. And then I remember the only person this person is persistent in these negotiations. Is because my company is a success. An important fact I'm lucky to be in this conversation. And as soon as I did that, I reframed that I was like, I instantly, I found myself in a different frame of mind. So, you know, you got to find a phrase, Tony Robbins says, I think he's the guy that said, you know, does life happen for you or to you? Life is happening for you. For you. Like, wow. I don't have to do this. I get to do this. You know, how do you reframe that, which takes some practice, pick out your phrase. Practice it up a little bit. Because your negative circuitry is going to kick in. The default circuitry for.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"stephen collins" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"I don't, no, not us. Hey, listen, I like this. This is taking us back to the middle part of the book. What do the numbers 9 and 1235 mean to you? What do the numbers 9 and 1235 mean to me? Actually, I don't remember that one. Yeah, I'll give you a hint. The Bible. The Bible. I still don't remember. Okay, up the page 9. A lot of people use the argument. Oh, I said yes, yes. Well, part of what I say when I'm talking about Stephen Collins, the Albuquerque archeologist is an amazing he's just an amazing man and he discovered biblical sodom. And I thought to myself, people tend to discount the early parts of the Bible more than any, they say it's mythical. It's that whatever. But they also tend to focus on that. In other words, you've got a huge book filled with stuff, but they almost want to find the most primitive stuff and act as though all the Bible ever talks about is a talking serpent and you know, I mean, not that I disagree with any of it, but the point is they use it as a way of mocking rather than dealing with the entire book, which is obviously just I mean it's a million different genres much less different eras and different centuries and stuff. So I'm assuming you're referring to that. Yeah, yeah. The stories from the first 9 pages of the Bible about a Bible that's over 1200 pages long in the standard edition, right? That's from that section there from the earliest, if you want days of the Bible in recorded history, they'll say, oh, that can't happen, a talking serpent can happen on a flood can't happen. But you think that that's all that's all the Bible talks about. That's what I find so funny. It's kind of like there's Noah's ark. There's the Tower of Babel. There's Eden. And this is the first couple of pages. Yeah. Of a vast book. And so I consider it taking cheap shots and in other words, it's almost I see what they're doing. But you've got to look at the whole thing. And going even before the existence of Bible, that's what the first part of your book is about about the science of how the world came into existence. Can you explain? Here's a specific. Can you explain what a protoplanet is and specifically and why we should care about? Do you remember that? Yeah. Yeah. And by the way, just to clarify, I'm not saying that I don't take the first pages of the book seriously. I'm just saying that they're probably harder to defend and would have been people always home in on that to mock the whole Bible, which I consider a cheap tactic. If you're serious, you can't.
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"stephen collins" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"There folks, have you ever wanted to talk to an actual archeologist? Because I don't. But actually, that's not true. Listen, I know if you know me, you know, I love archeology. I love biblical archeology in my new book as atheism dead. A third of the book is devoted to biblical archeology. It's really exciting when you know the details when you know the stories. It's just undeniably exciting. So you can imagine, I was pretty excited when I learned that doctor Steve not lay could come into the studio why you're saying why Eric because he's an archeologist. He's a distinguished Professor of New Testament and Christian origins at niac college and he is at the center of a very, very, very exciting New Testament dig, doctor Steve, Natalie welcome. Thank you for having me here. You can tell I'm bursting with country fresh flavor over this issue. I just can't. Where do we start? Just tell my audience, the nutshell version of what you are privileged to be working on right now. I like to describe the site as the last lost city of the gospels. Most people don't realize they go to Israel, they visit there. They get off the bus. There's a sign, telling them their accessory, or mojito. They don't realize that almost all of these biblical sites got lost. They were destroyed, abandoned, forgotten. And we've been in a process for the last 150 years of rediscovery. Okay, so when you say got lost, you're saying over 2000 years, we lost track. So in the last 200 years, roughly, we have been finding the places we've read about. We've been showing that they exist that they're true. But you're telling me that the one that you're working on now is the last one. This is the one that we did not know where it was until recently. Exactly. There was an alternate site suggested about a mile and a half from where we are. They've been digging there since 1987. But it had problems. And there were a lot of hesitations people weren't willing to sign off on it being Bette, which is an important site. Apart from capernaum and the Galilee, it's the second most mentioned site in the gospels. Okay, so when you say Beth's bits say debt, for people just tuning in, why is that important? What happened there, according to the gospels that we would know about. It's the home of Peter Andrew and Phillip. So Jesus is apostles are coming from there. It's also in the region of beta where the feeding of the 5000 takes place. You also have various healings taking place there, Jesus ministry of healing. Whenever he gets into the boat to go to the other side, that is Beth Satan. That is translated. You're telling me until 5 minutes ago, we did not know where it was. Not until we started excavating. And now we know. Yes. And we're excited. It should be. You should be. This is a big deal. It is a huge deal. I thought Peter was from capernaum. No. But didn't they have a home? What's in capernaum? He anyway, we'll talk about that another time. But so you're telling me that until this dig, which leading, we didn't know. When did you know and how did you, as I have looked into this world of biblical archeology, I've found it interesting that people sometimes settle on identifying something. They're not sure, but they kind of settle on it because it's the best bet. And years pass, and then later they realized, no, no, no, it's over here. That's basically what happened with Beth site. Exactly. Again, there's often times there's various disciplines that are used to try to identify a site. Archeology is usually the last word. Let's say it comes in and confirms whether there are material remains that match the historical descriptions. And sometimes we find that places that were previously thought to be a particular location are not. And that's what happened in this occasion. And it's there were questions being raised. There were various suggestions already in the 19th century as to where it might be. One of the sites, as I mentioned, an Israeli archeologist was excavating there. But it's about a mile and a half from the Lake shore. And one of the things we know about beza is that it is a fishing village. And you don't build a fishing village, a mile and a half from the Lake. So what happened? They began digging there and they dug for 30 years. And again, there were questions raised about it. Various people raised questions. I published in 2007 in a peer reviewed journal. Challenging that site started a huge conversation and basically we were challenged if we thought it was someplace else we should excavate it. See, I love, I love the way this works. And again, it's only because I wrote my recent book that I've started to understand how this works because a big part of my book I talk about the discovery of biblical sodom, doctor Stephen Collins, Albuquerque. And it's the same thing where eminent biblical archeologists had sort of settled on a couple of other sites. And when you looked into it, you said, well, they've got some those sites have some real problems. So if you were an archeologist, you'd say, gosh, I wonder if we could ever find the real thing. And that's kind of what happened with you, right? I mean, you said that this place, yeah, it could be it, but if it's a fishing village, I mean, anybody who's walked a mile and a half recently understands, you don't build a fishing village. And now a 30 minutes away by foot on foot. As I grew up in Oklahoma, and we would say that's a long way to pull your boat..
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"stephen collins" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Tour rice university Houston, Texas. Jim, you haven't written a popular level book, which is why I said I have to put your story and the information that we were sharing in my book is atheism dead because I feel like the world needs to know this. You've shared it on YouTube. I will always associate this book with you because you and doctor Stephen Collins were really the impetus. What's the plural of impetus? In getting me to write this, I thought that information and that information is just crazy, important needs to be pushed out there into the culture. Anybody with an open mind, have you tracked at all biblical archeology, we've talked about science, but I am astonished at how the record archeological record has over and over again, corroborated what the scriptures say. It does make any sense except that it's true. Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, right down to the specific rock types and the geography is so precise in the Bible. And you can go and see it. My daughter lives in Israel. She made aliyah many years ago and so I go to Israel quite often and you just look at it and you look at the Bible and you look at the things that are there, I remember the first time I was on mount Carmel and I was looking down. This is where Elijah called down the fire and to consume the offering and where the priests were killed right there. And he said, go down to the river and get the water and I remember saying to this Jewish colleague, where's this kishon river? Where's the river? I don't see the river. This is way down. It's a little string. You know, by American or Canadian standards is to puddle. But that's the river down there. Now there would be seasons because it's surrounded by mountains where that's going to be a gushing river. But you see, just the detail that you can say, okay, in the Bible, it says this is here. And where's mount gilboa? You should be able to see mountain. That's mount billboard. Everything is exactly where it should be. That's why no serious skeptic, no serious skeptic can dismiss this. It's overwhelming. The geography, and it's not just the mountains. It's right down to the precise plant type that is there. The things that grow in those places. It's utterly amazing. I was amazed when I was talking to doctor Stephen Collins, the archeologist who discovers biblical sodom because I thought to myself, they wrote an article, you probably realized came out two weeks ago in nature. I mean, one of the premier scientific journals in the world, 21 scientists have analyzed this information going back years now. I mean, they poured over every detail. I mean, there's so many different kinds of science involved. And they come up with the conclusion that absolutely this was a cosmic air burst event, a meteorite asteroid, whatever like tunguska Siberia comes in, explodes, just incinerates devastates the largest area. There's no other explanation. It all happened. Exactly in accordance with what the scripture says. And so of course, people can say, well, I mean, it's this mythical thing that happened. And some people recorded in the Bible. But what I find interesting is if you're logical, you'd say yes, but how did Stephen Collins come to this place to excavate to find all this stuff so that the scientists could go over in detail? He came to that very spot by reading genesis and saying what does the word of God which he believes is really the word of God? What does it say about the location of sodom? And it's only from using that as a template that he was led to this spot and then he thought, okay, well, that's what the Bible says. So let's dig and sure enough they find all this stuff. So everywhere you look, it's evidence kind of cross references and cross references and it becomes this web of evidence that you really do have to be a little bit willful to bat it away. I think that that's absolutely right. And you know, for us, for me and you, we love the word of God. We love the Bible. And we take this it's just implicitly true. But then it doesn't stop there. It substantiates itself over and over again. It's substantiates itself in that archeology. It's substantiates itself when it's proclaims that there is a beginning to the universe. I mean, this was utterly unheard of. That there's a beginning to the universe. In fact, most scientists in the 1950s just felt it always was. And this nonsensical claim that had been put forth in the 1920s that there was this Big Bang this start to the universe. That was a bunch of nonsense. It wasn't until 1964. In my lifetime, in 1964, cosmic background microwave radiation nailed it that there was a beginning to the universe and scientists said, well, I guess that's true. So there are these pieces that it says over and over again, screaming out. I am real man. Believe me, this is here. We've got this. It's fun. It's over and over again. And so it's there. The story of the Big Bang. I mean, that's the first chapter of my book as you know. I find a lot of this stuff so delightful that I find it funny that Einstein in 1911 before he's Einstein before people know who he is. I mean, he's still, you know, laboring along. He comes up with equations that seem clearly to show that space is expanding. Or maybe contracting probably expanding, but he immediately is insecure and says, oh, what are my colleagues going to think? I can't, I can't say that. I'm a nobody, and I want to be a success. So I'm going to shut up. In fact, I'll create this cosmological fudge factor. I'll bake it in so that it shows that there is no expansion. And of course, later on, he calls it the greatest blunder of his life. We're going to pick up right there talking about the Big Bang and other fun things with doctor James tour..
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"My listeners to pre order my book is atheism dead for many reasons. One of which is that in there, I have a chapter. And I literally wrote the book in large part because of discovering doctor Stephen Collins and the news that he has in his book and that we've talked about that he's discovered biblical sodom, as far as I'm concerned the whole world should know. The more facts you know, the more you say it's a slam dunk when you find out that the journal nature, which is one of the premier scientific journals in the world, they corroborate all this information. This is astonishing. Everybody should know about it. As I say, I only devote a chapter to it. But we're talking doctor Collins about things that now science has proved. When you first dug this stuff up, you weren't sure. I mean, I think you knew, but you're always skeptical of what are the scientists going to say. I want to go back to the moment you discover this layer of soot. It's 1700 BC you're digging down and you go, here it is. Here it is, just as predicted this level of destruction go back to the moment that you and your assistant there found a bit of pottery that you knew because your ceramic typologies, you know this stuff cold. You said, that piece of pottery is from 1700 BC. You knew it. What kind of a what kind of a fragment was it? It was actually sort of right here. The shoulder neck of a storage jar. And that was pretty easy to identify. We knew we were in the middle of Bronze Age layer because we had already been finding some pottery from that period in the potteries, how we date the layers in archeology. So you get this piece and you look at it and it doesn't something is wrong. Tell us what do you see on this piece of pottery from 1700 BC? Well, you know, glazing on pottery wasn't invented until about 600 AD. Okay, 24th century. 2300 years after 1700 BC was when glazing was invented. So here you find a piece you know that it's from 1700 BC and you see glazing. What goes through your head? So I'm standing ten feet down in the square. And I'm looking at this piece of pottery and the surface of it is melted into glass. And I'm wondering, what is this? Why is a piece of Islamic what's a piece of Islamic pottery doing down here? And when you say you're joking, you're saying that it looks like it's from 700 AD because it's glazed. What's it doing down here at 1700 BC? Does it make sense? Exactly. And so I flip it over and look at it, oh, it's Bronze Age pottery, but how is it melted? This is really strange stuff. So I took it and I tossed it up to some of our team. And one of the guys that caught it was actually an old scientist who had worked on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos here in New Mexico and had was at the Trinity site when they blew up the first atomic bomb in 1945. Does anybody understand how crazy that is what you just said? That is one of the crazy things. First of all, the fact that you're from New Mexico of all places, you are now in northern Iraq. I'm sorry. You're now in Jordan. A zillion miles away from New Mexico, but the guy standing right above you when you find this piece, you throw it up to him, he was there when the a bombs were exploded in Los Alamos in New Mexico. I mean, he must be pretty old. Yeah, he was an old guy, I think he was in his 80s at the time. Anyway, I toss this thing up to him. And the first thing he says, what, oh, this looks like Trinity. I'd never heard that word before. And I said, what is that? He said, well, you know, it's the melted sand underneath the explosion of the first atomic bomb at the Trinity side. They call it Trinity. It's this greenish glass stuff. This looks just like it. I said, well, that's interesting. We need to get that thing analyzed. And that was the first piece of that destruction layer that we found that was a non plus. It was so different than anything else we had ever seen. Okay, so you take this piece back to New Mexico. You go to a lab. What kind of a lab did you go to? Geological New Mexico tech, New Mexico tech, one of the premier doctoral universities in the country, as far as science is concerned. And doctor David Burley, who's a material a PhD in material science down there, took it and had it analyzed at the USG laboratories there on the campus at New Mexico tech. And put it through the scanning electron microscope, the Kiko 100 micro analyzer and did every little detail analysis on it. And we discovered that everything about this was identical to what you see in the trinitite that was created by the first atomic bomb explosion. In fact, when I handed the piece of pottery when I actually handed it to the scientists who was going to run the test, she said to me, oh, nice piece of Trinity. And she's an expert in it..
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"Talking to doctor Stephen Collins, the man who discovered biblical sodom. We're not making this up. We've got the facts. Nature, just published an astonishingly long detailed scientific analysis that basically corroborates everything that you, doctor colins have been saying now, when you go down to 1700 BC, you find what you call the destruction matrix. It's soot, isn't it? I mean, it's basically soot. When you found that, you must have said, hey, this is a coincidence. This is kind of nice that right where we would expect to find something we found it. I mean, do you remember that day? Yeah, it's three to 6 feet thick. Can you imagine? Most destruction layers that archeological sites are, you know, maybe a few centimeters thick, maybe a half a meter thick. This is this is a meter and a half thick. We're talking about 5 feet now what's in that matrix? What's in the destruction? And by the way, the matrix is what after the event, all of this churned up disintegrated debris that was created by this massive explosion settled out between the remaining wall stubs. Remember, we're talking about walls that are actually we have to go back because you just said something earlier and you just said it again. I don't want to forget. So the conclusion of all of these scientists and you already knew it a while ago when I first met you, they look at all of the information and they say there's only one thing that could have done this. This is what the scientists say folks. These are secular scientists. They say that an air burst event, a cosmic air burst event. That's fancy science talk for and asteroid traveling at something like 35,000 mph. Maybe a 180 feet in diameter comes through the atmosphere, burns up and explodes a few miles over this site. Now the reason they can be so specific is because in 1908, the exact same thing happened in Siberia. Talk about that, doctor Colin, so that people understand this did happen once before within modern memory. The task Siberia 1908 event flattened about 2500 km² of Siberian forest. In an instant the sides of the trees just one side of the trees were blackened and burned while the and laid out radially from the point of impact. And the other sides of the trees were pretty much untouched. So the heat is really intense. We're talking about tens of thousands of degrees. But just for a fraction of a second. But powerful enough to lay this entire area of Siberia flat. 80 million trees. That's the figure. So think about this. Within a couple of seconds, 80 million trees in a remote forest in Siberia are flattened outward because of this explosion. 80 million trees. And according to the folks who wrote all these scientists, they said, what happened at TEL haman was that big or bigger? Was that big or bigger? Probably bigger. What kind of temperatures are we getting at tall ham? Well, you know, we have melted surfaces of pottery, some of them are actually boiled up with bubbles. We have melted mud bricks. We have all of these things. But now that's not enough. You have to analyze into the melt glass. You have to analyze what the temperatures were. Let me give you just one example. And they found dozens of these. Zircons melt at about 24 2500° centigrade. They boil as you approach 3000° centigrade. In the end the melted surfaces of the pottery were finding and other objects as well. They found boiled zircons. A zircon is a little is a little mineral like a crystal like a quartz crystal, something like that. It's a little bit different chemical signature. But a zircon is a really hard mineral and it's melting point is higher than what you can. What you can generate with technology or even natural forces like volcanism. Magma is way cooler, much, much less hot. It would take to boil zircon to boil this mineral. Almost 3000° centigrade. We're talking about four to 5000°F. Now you can see those temperatures can not be generated terrestrially on the earth, not the only thing. And that's why we say there are at least 26 proxies that have been discovered so far at tall hamam. That indicate temperatures well beyond double triple. What any temperature on the earth can be from natural processes terrestrially. So the only thing you have to ask the question, what kind of event can destroy a city can create a destruction matrix? And we call it the quiz and artifact. We call it that because it looks like somebody took the remains of the city. Whatever was above the level of the buildings that were literally sheared off at about chest height. And put all that into a blender and hit the button. Well, the reason you say that, yeah, you've got all this stuff and you know, and anybody who looked at you looked through the soot and you're finding charred bits, tiny bits of human bone melted brick and all this stuff. But it's churned up in a way that when you look at it, you know, there's nothing that we know of. Apart from what you just described, this meteor. There's nothing that could do this. An earthquake a volcano fire, whatever it is, nothing could produce what you saw. That's why you call it the cuisinart effect. It just was jumbled together in a way that literally no one had seen. Folks, so we're gonna go to a break. Remember doctor Stephen Collins has a book, it is called it is called discovering the city of.
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"Sound excited, it's because I'm very excited. I get to talk to somebody named doctor Steven Collins. Now if you listen to this program, the name will ring a bell. Because I've talked many times about an astonishing biblical discovery. Astonishing. And doctor Stephen Collins is the one who made it. I write about it in my book is atheism dead because when I heard about this, I said, this is so crazy. Everybody needs to know about this. I'm gonna devote a chapter in my book to this so that if you only read my book, you'll get this. People need to know. This is real. And I thought, what if I could get doctor Collins on again and here he is, doctor Steven Collins welcome. Thank you for having me here. Great to see you. Listen, we're living in exciting times, but even more exciting. I mean, everywhere I go when I talk about my book as atheism dead, I talk about you and this discovery. Because one of the reasons I wrote the book was because of you. I'm not kidding. I remember meeting you through doctor through skip heights, egg, who's a friend, obviously, Albuquerque. And I thought, this is crazy. I've never heard this before. This is one of the greatest finds in archeological history. You wrote a wonderful book about it. One of that book come out came out in 2013. Okay, so it's been out and people still don't seem. I don't know what people are focused on, but this is gigantic, and then the other day, nature, which is one of the premier scientific journals on the planet published in extremely lengthy, extremely detailed, extremely academic analysis, paper put together by 21 scientists looking at this from every conceivable angle in the scientific world. How can you analyze this? I was talking to my wife about this yesterday dot com. I said, you know, it's a funny thing because you're just the archeologist. You find this stuff, and then you have to turn over your findings to every kind of scientist many hostile to the fundamental idea, evidently they seem to think what you and I seem to think, which is maybe the biggest headline of all. Yeah, early in the dig when we started discovering all this kind of anomalous melted material, stuff that looks like it had been exposed to rather high heat index. What do I do with that? I'm an archeologist. I know how to dig dirt. I know how to recognize Strata. I'm an expert on ancient pottery. All of that stuff that goes with archeology. But I'm not a physicist. I'm not an astrophysicist. I'm not a chemist or a geologist. So all of that stuff had to be turned over to scientists who know what they're doing with that sort of thing. And it actually wound up in the hands of a team of scientists called the comet research group, CRG, who has their well published in all kinds of scientific journals, including the proceedings of the national Academy of Sciences and now of course nature, scientific reports on this particular paper that they wrote. But they've been involved 6 or 7 years in this analytical phase of the destruction layer for the middle Bronze Age at tall hamam, which associates with the time of Abraham. And this particular layer had all kinds of indicators they call them proxies of what's called a meteoritic or a cosmic bolide air burst event that exploded over not just the side of tall hammam, but exploded over the entire plane of the Jordan, where the cities of the plane, the cities of the kikar in genesis are located, and it absolutely took civilization offline in that area for about 7 centuries. They've investigated it and now they've published it. Let me say what I say when I speak about this. You know, I have to just give the super quick version so people are kind of tracking. And so what we're talking about is you in 1996 for the first time said, wait a minute. According to what the scripture says because you believe that the scripture is an accurate guide, you say, according to what it says, if this place is discoverable today, it is up in this area north of the Dead Sea on what you call a kit car plane. Nobody's looking there. You decide to look there. You discover a gigantic tall. It's called, right? What is it tall? How do you describe that to a lay audience? Yeah, a tell or a tall. Yeah, is a, it's a ruined mound. And it builds up like a layer cake as one civilization comes along one city is built. It's destroyed. And then another one comes along and building over and over and over and these things rise up to quite a height and near eastern cities are like this. There are multiple civilization layers that create these gigantic ruined mounds in a tall hamam is a huge one of these. Yeah. And what's the kind of creepiest thing to me is because we certainly don't have this in America, but we don't have this in most of the world. When you can say there was a huge city there for thousands of years before Abraham in 1700 BC. We can't conceive of a city, you know, 3000 BC, a flourishing city. So by the time Abraham gets there, it's basically been there for thousands of years. I mean, that's very tough for us to conceive of a city that far back. Yeah. And of course, the Bible indicates that as well, because if you go back from Abraham's time back to genesis chapter ten, what you get is a very good description of the great the building of the great fortified cities of the ancient near east and amongst them are the cities of the plane. Sought of gomorrah admon. And they're all there in genesis ten. So and genesis ten is really reflective of what we call an archeology. The early Bronze Age back in the fourth millennium BC. The fourth millennium BC, I just love this. Okay, so what the Bible seems to say is that about 1700 BC Abraham's passing through there, we most of us know the story. The place was destroyed. It was a cataclysmic destruction. We're not talking about, oh, a big earthquake. We're talking about something unprecedented. We can't conceive of what happened, which is one of the reasons why many people relegated to myth. They say, you know what? This stuff just doesn't ever happen. We know it doesn't happen. Come on, it's hyperbole. Let's face it. So you're telling me, or at least you say in the book and I reiterated wherever I go, that you find this place, you think this is it, you start excavating when you get down to the level of 1700 BC you find what we find is a massive destruction layer, a city, by the way, this city, we now know is the largest bronze continuously occupied Bronze Age city in the whole southern Levant. That would be like Israel Jordan. And it's what's a massive city. It has temples that have palaces. It has administrative and domestic areas. It has a gigantic city wall that's about 5 yards thick. It's a huge city. Now, what happened in this event was, is that the mud brick superstructure standing on the stone foundations were literally in the lower city, literally blown off their foundations. Literally. Now how do you blow a wall off of its foundation that is made of mud brick, that is 15 feet thick? How do you do that? 15 feet. Now I read about this. And I thought to myself, I did some research, obviously, in writing what I wrote. And I thought the most powerful hurricanes in the world have winds approaching 200 miles an hour. It seems that, according to the article in nature that was published very recently, they said there were wins like 7 hundred miles per hour. I just said what you can't even imagine such a thing basically. But you're talking something so powerful is the equivalent of over a thousand Hiroshima bombs. 1000. You think of what Hiroshima did? That's what science reveals, according to you and according to the article in nature. This is we're talking about science, even if you don't believe in the Bible, this is what scientists have recently discovered..
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"Help and matt sharp. Thank you so much for the work you do and for being on the program. Thanks for having me art. Long Can you believe that james tour they folks today in our one We had james tour might feature him prominently in my new book. Is atheism dead. There is nobody like him. In fact he sort of responsible for my writing the book. I'm not kidding. He and stephen collins the archaeologist the two of them were. What made me think you know what i need to write this book. i I hope you've pre-ordered several copies if you wanna do your christmas shopping. Now who's gonna stop you if you go to Eric metaxas dot com the baker book link. There may be others. But that one i know is fourteen ninety seven. That's forty five percent offer. The book folks. Nobody is coming near that. So if you want to buy multiple copies you wanna preorder multiple copies. How long that price will last. You understand that's ridiculous. beg my friends. I'm going to buy it get it now. Do the christmas shopping now because grouchy foul. She might cancel christmas again this year. So get it now early. That's right that's right. It's part of the lusa ferrying agenda. We can't talk about that. Let's case so. Here's the here's the point i wanna make. We are doing a fundraiser. With the alliance defending freedom We need to hit it hard for some reason. I know people are probably fatigued. But i want to say that if you give money lines defending freedom. You're basically helping yourself in your country. Because they are fighting for religious liberty. I can never stress it enough and it always sounds like maybe. I'm exaggerating. folks. This is the central issue of our time. Liberty in general but religious liberty is under attack without religious liberty such as we have had for these two hundred and fifty years. Almost we cease to be america. Now if you've read my book if you can keep it you'll understand that a little bit. That is who we are. We have effectively ignored these these ideas. Because we've said oh we're so blessed and we're so free well in the midst of taking her eyes off the ball. Some dark forces have come in who see things differently. And your average americans. Having to fight like crazy simply to preserve his or her freedoms religious liberty is is at the top of the list. I mean people are being threatened by attorney. General merrick garland if they did. I mean you know all the stuff you hear in the news every day. If you want to do something about it please folks. I don't care. I said the other day. If it's the widow's mite or the widows twenty thousand. We hope you understand how serious this is. And when people say what can i do. I don't think it gets clearer than this right here. If you give money lines defending freedom. They're defending our religious liberty. And it's not like there's a raft of these folks out there okay. This is a tiny handful of organizations. That do this pro bono. They take on these cases My employees katie madonna They have gone to eighty f- because of a horrible thing that they are going through right now with an employer trying to force them to take an experimental jabs. So like if you get a blood clot or you die. What can we tell you jam. You want to keep your job. We don't care. I'm just telling you whatever you think of it the vaccine. This is not america when people are forcing you to do stuff like this and if you don't understand that you're not doing your homework. That's a fact what i just said i can give you chapter and verse but not now we need.
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"Of you already know mark driscoll. If he don't let me see what it says. oh yes. He's the founding senior pastor of the trinity church in scottsdale arizona but he has debated deepak chopra on abc's nightline. He's discussed marriage with barbara. Walters on the view all kinds of ugly stuff. Like that mark driscoll. Welcome to the program. Good to have anybody good to see. Thanks for having me on. It's good to see you. It's good to see you always but honestly you've written a book. The reason you're here today is to talk about. I'm holding in my hand. It's called christian. Theology versus critical theory. A lot of people are at least confused about this new thing. You keep hearing about critical race there. You might theory my thesis. I should say is that anytime. Somebody comes up with a new thing like that. I'm deeply suspicious because they act as though everything you've heard up until now is wrong. Here take this and i think why. What are you saying to me so we were hoping we could get somebody on the program to discuss it. And we found you so mark driscoll thank you. Thanks for writing this. Is this brand new. Yeah and so. It's krista theology versus critical theory. It's free it real faith dot com. I've got a mountain a bible teaching there. I tend to teach through books of the bible. I've been a pastor for twenty five years. I didn't go through a publisher. 'cause i know it would get attacked and cancelled. I didn't put endorsements on it because then all they do is just shoot. Ariza your friends. So i'm just giving away. I think that the greatest threat to christian theology right now is critical theory. I believe it's the counterfeit i believe. It seeks to undo anything that looks like traditional western values. Marriage family sexuality critical race theory is a part of that but it's much much much bigger issue. Critical theory includes gender. Studies ribbon seeing it now with mask. No mask vaccine. No vaccine almost every single cultural collision that we're having is up against critical
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"My book. We didn't get to it earlier now but here. It is yeah. I got copies in the mail yesterday. You know what this is gonna make a great president for my twin brother and his wife who are celebrating their anniversary today october for now because he's your twin guys. Share in anniversary to each of your. Yv now we tried to do something separate. And that's one of the things interesting but you still have the same birthday. What about like halloween thanksgiving. You celebrate on the same day brother try. We do. but he's a different world a now folks yes. Here's the book. That's it now. When i'm here to tell you is now that i have it. My my hands. I'm even more excited about it. Because i can see the photos. Oh my gosh. Some of these photos are hilarious. Some captions are unintentionally hilarious. But i'm not going to tell you what they are. I want to say that this would make a great birthday present Speaking of which yesterday was oz. Guinness's birthday i owe so much to my friend oz guinness. I've mentioned my book if he can keep it. I never would have written that book if not for happy. Birthday ause guinness. God bless you and tomorrow. Oh no today. Today is katie. Madonna's birthday katy. Used to work here until i fired her five minutes ago. But then i retired. 'cause you can't find somebody. I'm their birthday birthday. So katie. happy birthday birthday to you. And with the name like katie. Katie madonna dot about dot com about it. That that that that that that Anyway happy birthday cake katie. We we left embarrass the people that we that we love. And so in any event obviously Katie and her husband brian. They get a copy of this book whether it's her birthday anyway. But i wanna say that if you wanna preorder this book you can pre-order this book by going to my website. Which is eric metaxas. Dot com air protects dot com dot com. We we need to get the preorder up. I wanna. I'm just gonna lay it on the line folks this book okay. It's about getting the truth out. It's it's not about selling books okay. I write books all the time. It's what i do. But what's in this book. There is information from science. That is staggering. Now i didn't. I'm not a scientist. But i read all these books over the years and i said i have to write about that so i put it in this book so the stuff in here about the limits of science about the what what the big bang teaches us about the limits of it's crazy. You're gonna you're gonna laugh. It's a lot of this stuff is actually very funny stories. Einstein embarrassed himself horribly because he didn't like the idea of a universe. The beginning i write about that. It's it's it's funny. I read about the fine tuned. Universe if you're at my book miracles i talk about the fine tuned universe. This goes woj a beyond that there is stuff in here. Water is something that when you study. Water this guy. Michael denton wrote a book about it. Nobody would believe that water again. A chapter in here about water. And you say what could it look. How boring it's going to blow your mind when you realize. How outrageously designed water is you know. God had to design it. It's insane and actually a lot of people water. H two o right. i would like to rename it h. Two whoa whoa h. To wo- because it's that crazy h. Two now you know. Yeah yeah nobody. There's things there are things in here that are going to take your breath away and again it's not because of my writing is because the facts the more. Here's here's the thesis of the first part of this book is that the more science learns the more it makes it impossible not to believe god designed the universe and it's getting freaky the thing about water and the thing about sunlight when you read that if you really understand what i'm saying in the book and it's gonna freak you out you're gonna say there is no question. God designed the universe. That's just one part of it. Then go into the james tour stuff. We're going to have him on this program. Then i go into biblical archaeology. The evidence from biblical archaeology is freaky. Right and stephen collins was on stephen collins. There's a chapter about the stephen collins stuff in here. oh and newsweek is publishing. I wrote a piece about the stephen collins the discovery of biblical sodom. And all that stuff. It's gonna be newsweek. Al put it on my get my this section. Why haven't we heard this before. And that's what the book is all about. The book is saying like this is a stuff you never heard before. Now you're hearing. Well i mean i'm not kidding you when i say that i believe god had to lead me to this stuff because i didn't spend years researching. This is just. I bumped into stephen collins because of my friends skipped heights. It is freaky thing that no one has heard of the discovery biblical sodom. And then when you get the details you think this is probably the most astonishing evidence for the for the for the truth of the bible. It's crazy nobody knows it. I mean christians. Don't know non-christians don't know it. How's it possible that people this wasn't on the cover of the new york times well anyway elite there so but the third part of the book. The weirdest thing to me is that nobody knows that. Two of the greatest atheists actually three of the twentieth century all came to believe in god. It's it's you can't make this up category stuff. We're talking jean-paul sartre albert camus. Anthony flu and i have a chapter devoted to the three of them..
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"stephen collins" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Just a privilege to be with you thank you. Thank you very appreciative. Your shit and you ought to be safe. Oh boy okay. That was stephen collins a modern day. What's his face. Exactly what do you call. Just right thought that i thought that i think you mean indiana jones. That's it. he's a fictional character. So modern apply. I think you'd mean real life indiana jones. I think that's what you're looking for. Let's do this segment over. Forget we're human humans we're on the edge human beings we make we make mistakes. Yeah okay so alvin. Speaking of collins well actually mentioned in a couple of seconds. We're doing our weekly ask. Metaxas segment got some good questions. Yes some some some masterful can handle it. I don't know we'll see stay tuned. Okay but before that. Let me let me tell people. Because i didn't want to say it when i was talking to stephen collins but the the discovery of biblical sodom is just one of the things in my book that when i realized that they've discovered this is legit. This is not like they think you know we always hear. Like andy think they've discovered noah's ark or they think that this is as legit as it gets. I talked all about that. But when i realized that i thought i've got to put this in my book because the world needs to know. Yeah when the world knows that something that happened in seventeen hundred. Abc in the bible. This mythical thing oh no it's history and science proves it. It changes your attitude about faith but there are other things in my book. That i didn't mention when i was talking to stephen collins a few minutes ago for example i talked to dr james tour in the book as the book is launched. I will have dr tour on this program. So we'll talk to him the way we did to dr steven collins but he basically says that as of today 2021 it's been almost seventy years since the famous experiment that universe's chicago where they claim they figured out how life came into being four billion years ago randomly randomly there's a bunch of non-life and suddenly whoop it suddenly becomes a magical living cell. Yeah well we now have the science to say sorry charlie. It doesn't work folks when you read about it when you hear him talk. It's insane. it's in the book another reason. I will beg you to preorder the book but the third thing because the three sections in the book. The first one is science. Second one is biblical archaeology. But the third part of the book. I deal with atheists and that whole thing of what is atheism. Okay i discovered something. I know. i've mentioned this before. But this is so staggering staggering news. And then it becomes infinitely more staggering. That nobody knows this. And then i wonder how by the grace of god do i get to tell the world this. Two of the most famous atheists in the twentieth century. Okay jean-paul sartre albert camus. These are french existentialist philosophers who were struggling publicly with the idea that we are in a world without god. How do we exist. How do we move forward alone in the universe. They struggled more honestly with atheism than almost anybody. The phonies in the in the new atheist movement. Who kind of click their heels like. Isn't it great. there's no god. I hate god. They are very intellectually. Shallow as i say in the book but these two giants struggled with it. They were horrified by it but they said this is the way it is. We've got to go on both of them obviously apart from each other one thousand nine hundred sixty the other around nineteen eighty just before their death came to faith. Nobody knows this. This is blockbuster news. It's like madeline. Marie o'hare came to faith. I mean actually. In her case it's it would just be weird because she was very vicious and grumpy but these were really thoughtful philosophers Anyway i talk about it in the book. I want to get the word out about this. I want the world to know that the people who look most seriously at atheism realized it doesn't work and they come out the other side faith now the fact this wasn't reported on his a little freaky so it's another reason. I hope by publishing the book to get the word out. This is devastating stuff. Please go to eric. Metaxas dot com. The book is very cheap there for preorder it and stay tuned for ask metaxas..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"stephen collins" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Have to get serious because what's going on in the middle east so many people and i'm included are dramatically puzzled like we've never been quite this puzzled at what just happened. I mean i've been on the record. That i don't believe biden was elected and i think this stuff is gonna come out but that's a side issue. Let's say he was elected. Let's say he is the president. Why would a. Us president do what he did in afghanistan. It is utterly unfathomable to me in other words as upset as i am about it. I'm even more mystified. Because i feel like we all must be missing something. Nobody could be this incompetent. There's gotta be more to the story. At least that's my theory will. Unfortunately my book enemies and allies didn't come out in time. And i say that because as you read this book you'll see is i described the transition from president trump to president biden or. I'll just say president biden. There there he is. He's making these days vice president biden. That's probably more accurate. If you don't mind. So so. But i i actually profile him towards the end of the book because i knew everybody would be asking. What should we expect. It's going to be a sharp contrast from trump to biden's but what do we know about by right. Well there are some good things. He's the most pro israel person in the entire democratic party and using eight which is saying almost nothing. No no look. Let's be fair israel. Bipartisan point of unity. For seventy five years it's becoming divided now because you've got the squad Now trying to strip a billion dollars worth of missile defense funding For israel From the latest budget but dome the iron dome system which is which is crazy because it protects palestinians israeli arab muslim and israeli jews and christians but the point is there are many pro israel people in the democrat party and biden is among them but even by some of the closest friends say that his judgment on on middle east issues is is horrific and that he's been wrong on almost every foreign policy issue in the middle east off the last forty
Marketing Secrets
"stephen collins" Discussed on Marketing Secrets
"I just dude. I say i if i hire a coat i just do what they say like. I literally just in fact i'm working on my fourth book right now and i have a quote. What am i friends. This in a blog post he was talking about this morning routine. Why does this really weird thing. And and And he says that he says in the the thing he says he's people ask them. Why do this he said because twenty robbins told me so and i obey all giants with With who fly helicopters have states presence. And so for me. It's always been this joke now. Like when a higher coach like like whenever they say so. I obey all giants who fly helicopters have stage presence right like if i hire someone i just believe them inherently because i i did the work ahead of time to see if i'm going to believe that if i believe them i give them money i do whatever they say and i don't deviate from that right so people might say i do. Russell says he's like hashtag. Do stephen collins says let's guy who are hired right now who's mentor me. Like whatever he says. I just do it. I don't fight. I don't question like he's been there a million times. And so i just i do it all john. Bale giants with helicopters and stage presence. Obey whoever i pay to teach me something because they they know when i don't know and so for me that's kind of the the process find the hurdle finds already done it get that person and then obey them and just follow what they say to t- so hope else make perfect sense society. You basically you trust yourself and then you do it. Your coaches hundred percent yet. I do the work ahead of time. Like like i to make sure. I believe this coaches right but if i believe the right then yes i just do whatever they say and so the i see people blindly like signing for coaching. The higher mentor. Whatever and then they just kind of blindly follow the person. The person may not be right for him. But i do the homework ahead of time. And then when i know okay i'm committed. This is the person that go all in. And i just put on blinders and fallen. Gotcha appreciate that. What was that book again at. The write that down atlas shrugged so the way remember is alice's the god that's holding the way to the world on his shoulders and the book is the premise of the book is like the producers. The is people like us who are trying to like. We're literally holding the way to the world on our shoulders. Right we're trained companies hire paying jobs. Joy seeings what would happen if atlas shrugged and walked away from his responsibility. So the books about like what happens when the producers get so much So much pressure from government and society where it's no longer worth shrug and they walk away from their responsibilities and that's the premise of the book. Which is so fascinating. I'm actually listening to it again right now. Which is fun. But it's like a fifteen hundred page book it's intense. He was the audiobook. It's eight audiobooks. It's how big it is but man is worth. I'm going to grab both of them right now. I got all your books. I've been following you for a while..
Paul W. Smith
Girl killed while looking for help after surviving dad's drunk crash
"About the information that. Was taken from the Democrats in two thousand sixteen he says the information was true was it some reading of facts wasn't some forgery effects that's the important thing that I'm. Trying to point that I'm trying to make was this any false information planted No it wasn't Putin denied in his summit meeting aftermath with. President Trump that Russia had done, any interference or hacking in connection with the twentieth sixteen presidential election President, Trump plans to meet with some lawmakers today who have gone after him for. Those remarks following, the summit meeting with Putin WJR news time six thirty one on accused swindler who was accused of stealing money from churches has been arrested in Florida for stealing more than one hundred twenty thousand dollars from a church in Florida, this man's from Detroit, Robert Mosely was. Investigated several years ago for taking. Money from some Detroit, churches who he duped into rejoining his, money were for a children's lunch program was swindle he was never charged in Detroit but Moseley is. Charged in, Florida for grand theft. And money laundering a delta flight from Detroit to Kansas. City made an emergency landing because of engineers use the delta flight had a fuel leak the plane landed safely A big symbolic step to be taken. Today, in the construction of the new bridge. Over the Detroit river the officials from Canada Michigan will be in the del Rey section of southwest Detroit and they'll, turn the first ceremonial shovels of dirt for the Gordy Howe international bridge project charges are pending against the drunk driver who seven year old daughter, was hit by a car and killed while trying to get help for her dad is in a hospital with a head injury the girl seven-year-old to Sandra Thomas was texting Romulus police. Asking for help for, her father she thought the father was dead after that drunken father crashed his car on I ninety four. Later they found to Sandra's body in the median she. Was hit and killed by a, woman driver who didn't see her in the darkness that woman was. Released a Warren man schedule to be sentenced today for the murder of his aunt and uncle who raised him Joseph borough yard. Was convicted of life Of first degree murder and he'll get a mandatory life prison term for. The murders of sixty, seven year old Stephen Collins and his Sixty-six-year-old wife Cynthia WJR, news time six thirty three here's Shawn baligian sports well good morning good. Morning everybody very memorable homerun derby last night Bryce Harper he makes the hometown happy he knocks off Kyle Schwab are in the final by a score of nineteen eighteen to win the homerun derby all star game. Tonight ex sure remember him he gets the start for the National League Chris sale will. Be making his third straight start. For the American League the lions and defensive end Ziggy Ansah were, unable to come to terms on a long. Term deal by the four o'clock deadline yesterday thus the former pro bowler will play for the franchise tag in. Twenty eighteen and become an unrestricted free agent after the season hey speaking.