Ancient Roads: Real Israel Talk Radio
ABOUT ME and THIS PODCAST: I am Avinoam ("Avi") ben Mordechai. I am an old veteran of the radio broadcast industry. For me, radio programming was very different when I started in the early 1970s as a California "rock jock" radio personality and later in the 1980s as a Colorado radio programmer and secular and religious content talk show host. I selectively do live on-air radio programming where I find opportunity, but ultimately, whatever I pursue with my years of radio broadcast training is not formal. I seek to serve Yehovah with the gifts and talents that He has given to me.
Today, I am passionate about teaching the Bible in an understandable way to modern readers of ancient Scripture. The biblical studies I engage in through my teaching monologues and, in some cases, interviews with knowledgable academic researchers, are, at the very core, Hebraic studies, as I seek to connect the dots, so to speak, between the biblical Hebrew Bible and the Brit Hadasha (the New Covenant or "New Testament").
I aim to help Yehovah's students better understand His Word. I try hard to provide the Almighty Eternal One's students with the tools necessary to become thinking and reasoning followers in the Messianic claims and teachings of Yeshua from the Second Temple period of Israel's Judaism. I strive to provide a safe, nurturing, non-judgmental, and advanced learning environment where students of biblical Scripture can learn, grow, and develop in their knowledge of the Word of Yeshua HaMashiach (the promised Messiah for Jews and non-Jews alike) through a personal relationship with Yehovah, the Almighty Eternal One of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Each posted podcast has a running time of 50 minutes divided into two 25-minute program segments. You may freely listen to and download them at your convenience. My strict policy is never to monetize them, meaning to turn them into opportunities for moneymaking or to accept advertisers. I do not ask any of my listeners to donate money to this program. If you are moved to give to this outreach ministry, this is between you and your great Father in Heaven.
Go in spiritual and emotional health.
Avinoam ben Mordechai
Ancient Roads: Real Israel Talk Radio
Gaining Merit for the Good Life in the Afterlife PROGRAM PART 1
When we talk about faith, religion, goodness, and an afterlife to various people in the world, it is wise to first try and understand a person's worldview; how one sees truth. How one defines good and even to ask the person that you are speaking with if, in fact, they believe in an afterlife or that this life is all that there is! This leads me to a number of questions.
- Is all of man or mankind in this world naturally or intrinsically good? No, I think not.
- Does man naturally possess a kind of goodness of soul even if it is not being currently accessed? I think yes, but from what kingdom "out there" does this good derive?
- Before our yet-future judgment day, is it possible to actually "top-up" our personal merit account to potentially gain a bit more meritorious credit that can be used to buy our way out of a divine judgment and buy our way into an afterlife in the World to Come?
- As for the Garden of Eden and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, did God plant that tree there? We will take a look at what the Hebrew text of Genesis 2:9 says. It just might surprise you!
Join us here on Ancient Roads: Real Israel Talk Radio for 50-minutes of thoughts on all these questions and so much more. This is program AR201024, Episode number 42, with Avi ben Mordechai.