Dr Hamer's knowledge and erudition is invaluable for anyone seeking understanding of the biblical texts.

Ruth is one of those books that just gets better as you age. No miracles or prophecies, just a good woman taking care of her mother-in-law. There's a real charm to it.

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Thank you John. Blessings to all

Always appreciate you're analysis and views. You're research and knowledge on the subjects you discuss are second to none. Thank you John, blessings to you and all. ❤❤❤❤❤

I love these lectures John, thank you so much for recording them for us all! I especially like the ones about obscure Bible topics and books that didn't make it into the Bible.

John just gets right into it. No fluff, no soft intro easing people and their sensitivity into the topic. These lectures are excellent.

There are contradictions because the Bible is a collection of books written during a period of a millenium by different authors in different circumstances not to mention the doctrinal development or evolution of beliefs in the biblical world.

Great channel and brilliant lectures! May I suggest moving the audio from these sessions onto podcast apps (eg Apple Podcast). It would certainly be something that would help me listen to your brilliant content, and I hope expand your reach :)

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Roughly speaking, from my experience as a Baha’i fan, I agree with all your points…there must be some disagreements, and those points are in the book, Some Answered Questions, which I’ve read long ago.

John makes me wish I was religious I’d love to be a preacher telling the gospel with context Alas, I think Jesus was a good dude, but I will always have doubts about his parentage

Already over 1600 views. Awesome! What a rockin' team!

It’s very good that you’re repeating what you’ve said in previous videos because I don’t go back and Re listen

Thank you John. Really enjoy lectures. Fron an Irish Catholic. God bless you. John

I always enjoy listening to your lectures. Any chance you could give us a lecture on how the destruction of the Tempe in 70ad influenced the gospel writers?

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Can you break up the 'Lectures' playlist (or more realistically, create new playlists) on your KZfaq channel? There are so many in there, it's impossible to find specific ones I need to watch 😊

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As soon as doordash delivers my oreo shake, I'm settling down in my big chair with the latest Centre Point lecture 🍿

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The Bible is not univocal! This series is right down @maklelan 's alley.

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It's interesting that for Christianity (and especially it's critics), contradiction is often taken negatively, while in religions like Buddhism, contradiction and paradox are embraced as the deepest form of spiritual truth. Most Buddhist koans are a contradiction or paradox. And that is the whole point. It's also interesting that often the exact same people who attack Christianity for having "contradictions" will express deep appreciation for the wisdom of Buddhism.

Serious question: Did those (eg Athanasius) who decided which books are inspired claim they themselves were inspired?

Matthew and Luke contradict, but the reason why is they are using Mark's sources differently to expand on Mark. The victorious king riding on a donkey (mule) is reminiscent of Absalom. Absalom two chief helpers in the rebellion died differently. Ahithophel hung himself. Amasa is gutted, his bowels fall out, and he is set in a field. Absalom himself was hung on a tree and pierced through the side. He was mourned heavily by David. All of this is hinted at in Zechariah 9-14, which Mark uses.

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Are these lectures your actual Sunday church services or are they separate from your church functions?

Donatism Lecture - is the Christian community in the area of Carthage based on originating Canaanite merchant families who survived the destruction two centuries earlier (being courted by both the “nationalist” rabbinical Jewish and “internationalist” Christian movements)?

great interview but im amazed they didnt talk about new standard tunning at all

Was it at the time of Ezra that the Temple ceased to be "a house of prayer for all the nations"?

It’s so interesting to think back to the 1950s when I was an enthusiastic Presbyterian. The contradictions were all presented as being “true”. But this “truth”. Isnt questioned in public.

With a whole world and hundreds f thousands of years God chose this little area and time to take up all his time.

There’s a lot of dispute on KZfaq about the Bronze Age Collapse

Its rare these two are argued..

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I did extensive looking into Shezbazaar years back. I think that ws the court name of Zerubbabel, lineage of Davis. "Shehz" in near east language may also mean Prince. In Turkish - Persion, "Sheh" 'means "prince." Book of Zechariah says Zerubabel laid the cornerstone of temple, and will cap it off to shouts of "grace . grace to it," I dont think Jewish leaders nor people would ever allow a non-Jew to do so. example Daniel has a court name, as do his 3 companions.

Oh, I thought this was about Star Wars Ezra. My bad. Carry on.

Ruth is the one book of the Hebrew Bible for which female authorship has been argued even by rabbis. Generally the same argument has not been made for either Megilat Esther or Judith, but for Ruth this has been considered a distinct possibility for centuries.

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Apart from a lot of other very debatable views about the Bible that are presented in the video and if you are a believer or not: It doesn't change at all that at least the big claimed 'contradiction' is based on insufficient understanding of the Scriptures. Ruth (Moabite), Rahab (Canaanite), Caleb (Kenizzite) etc. were all grafted in by faith into YHWH's people. Thus became citizens of 'the house of Israel' and no longer remained foreigners. Even Paul quotes Jacob's blessings (Gen 48) in Romans 11 that through Ephraim - who also was a born Egyptian, but even became a whole tribe of Israel - 'the fullness of the nations' (Gen 48) will come into the house of Israel by promise - not by bloodline. Wild branches grafted into the olive tree. It never was by flesh, but by faith to enter the covenants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Same plan of redemption from Genesis to Revelation. Even in front of Mt Sinai already was a mixed multitude including Egyptians who joined YHWH's people and were part of His chosen people. One people. The Torah forbids intermarrying with outsider pagans, who don't accept YHWH as the one and only elohim, as they would cause the people to worship other false gods. What at least from the perspective of the bible text happened many many times. No contradiction here whatsoever. Quite the opposite, as it intentionally points out that everyone can join and always could. By the way, even Abraham was a former Chaldean.

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Ruth (and Rahab) are both mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus of Nazareth's stepfather Joseph. Ezra not only makes a statement against intermarriage, but against one of the Old Testament Jesuses. He starts the divorces with Jesus's sons. Nehemiah goes further, chasing Jesus's descendants out of positions of power in Jerusalem. (Jesus so of Jehozadak).

Almost like proto-fascism. Us vs them.

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‘No Moabite nor any Ammonite may ever enter into the congregation (‘assembly’ ‘convocation’) of YHWH - nor any of their descendants even beyond the 10th generation, forever.’ -Deuteronomy 23:3 This very troublesome verse has more to do with ‘biqahal YHWH (‘to the congregation of Yahweh’) than anything else - The main question is : does ‘qahal’ refer to ‘qol Yisro’el’ (= all Israel) or perhaps merely to the Zadokite etal. priesthoods actively serving in the temple ? Or as with Judges 20:2 does ‘qahal YHWH’ = assembly of YHWH’ mean ‘national tribal-legislative body’ (i.e. ‘the government’ ) as in (‘No Ammonite or Moabite shall ever be allowed to become part of the government-nor any of their descendants-not even after 10-generations have passed, forever.’) ? Either way it puts David & Solomon and their descendants on the Judean throne into a very tight corner in terms of their ethnic legitimacy- but the apartheid laws & genocidal racist Zionist content found in the modern book of Deuteronomy was probably not even known until the time of Josiah king of Judah c. 621 BCE when ‘a copy of the Torah of Moses was discovered whilst making repairs on the temple’ [2 Kings 22:8 etc] - so David and his descendants before Josiah wouldn’t have even had such a law on their books- Otherwise (presumably) David & Solomon & Reheboam etal. would all have been disqualified to be king (or ‘clan-chief’, ‘chief war-lord’) of Yisro’el-Judah from the get-go - all thanks to Ruth and her pesky Moabite genome ! (and probably a very cool collection of the Moabite national clan-god Chemosh idols !!)

50:00 this section seems to be as relevant today in the land of Israel (in 2024) as they ever were, unfortunately.

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When Bible doesn't reconcile its own apparent contradiction then it's better to leave it as apparent contradiction without attempting to reconciling it. While it might be pious to reconcile it that typically rooted in insecurity and vulnerability of faith instead of maturity. Imagine need to defend God each time. Just as God can defend and clear His name let Scripture speaks for itself without attempt to harmonize it. By letting Scripture speaks for itself we can learn more than our own attempts of reconciling it. Take one example from Leviticus calling bat as bird. Had we tried to reconcile it we would end up missing the point that for ancient people bat does look like bird it has wing. Similar to why whale looks like fish even though it's actually mammals. Just as bully intimidating others to hide insecurity and vulnerability similarly trying to harmonize Scripture only indicates one has crisis of faith. Scripture is not written on eternal tablet but rather written by mankind who received inspiration. People with maturity of faith don't need to harmonize anything but rather accept it as it is. It tells more about the person who needs everything reconciled than about the faith or Scripture. Even St Justin Martyr accused the Jews to alter the Isaiah and Jeremiah texts that we no longer had. St Papias detailed the adultery pericope recorded in Gospel of St Matthew not in Gospel of St John. When we were infants we want everything explained to us. As we grow mature in faith we no longer need anything explained instead we are mature enough to accept reality as it is true. I am a subdeacon in Byzantine Catholic Church. In the Catholic Church infallibility and inerrancy don't apply to factual error. In this context Ezra was mistaken because Samaritans DNA are more closer to true Israelites than diaspora Jews who intermarried in Spain, Germany, and Poland. Ezra as with other priest wasn't protected from making error of judgement probably due to racial bias against Samaritans. To this day scientific evidence has settled that Samaritans share common DNA ancestry with Jews because both are Israelites.

Thank you so much for not bowing down to the Christian status quo.❤

The contradictions only arise when you look at these books from your Scaligerian timeline, they make total sense in the New Chronology

when ruth accepted naomi's GOD as her GOD she was no longer a "strange" woman and thru GOD'S grace and forgiveness she was accepted into the congregation

As a Bible student, I admittedly don’t have a rebuttal for everything that is mentioned here, although I am sure they exist. However, regarding Judas’ death, I would like to share a reasonable explanation that I’ve heard. It has been said that he did hang himself AND that the rope apparently broke, which caused him to plunge and rupture. Obviously, the biblical text does not say anything about the rope breaking. But the Bible frequently leaves out many details in many accounts. As a man of faith, I find the above explanation to be quite possible, and, is faith strengthening in regard to the Bible, even when there is no immediate way to harmonize apparent scriptural contradictions. I understand that this is insufficient for those who are critical thinkers who are not faith based. I don’t have a problem with critical thinking. But it must be said that some critical thinkers just want to criticize and find fault, no matter what.

in acts 1:18 judas purchased the field with the deed of his iniquity and not the pieces of silver. after hanging autolysis sets in and then the body swells like a balloon. whatever judas used to hang himself most likely broke and the body fell bursting like a water-filled balloon. there is no contradiction here. i believe hamer is using scripture to fit his criteria not of יהוה such as satan tried with CHRIST and did with eve

Your lectures are as if you have to reason why you can't believe Jn 17:17 Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

Jesus told Judas the truth

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