The Gary DeMar Podcast
Religion & Spirituality Podcas
Author, Theologian, Exegete, and Comic Book collector, Gary DeMar does what he does best: Talk about everything and anything, relating it to how the world actually works. Welcome to the Gary DeMar Podcast!
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United States
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Author, Theologian, Exegete, and Comic Book collector, Gary DeMar does what he does best: Talk about everything and anything, relating it to how the world actually works. Welcome to the Gary DeMar Podcast!
Language:
English
Episodes
A Theological Hot Potato
5/8/2024
Gary concludes his response to a recent Wallbuilders show with Mark David Hall on the influence of R.J. Rushdoony. As a historian, Mark David Hall doesn't appear to have done much research at all on Rushdoony. However, there is a simpler answer: many others have also professed ignorance of his writings (on nearly everything) in order to distance themselves from his theonomic and theocratic views.
Duration:00:25:29
Linking Rushdoony and David Barton
5/6/2024
Gary continues his response to a recent episode from David Barton featuring historian Mark David Hall.
David Barton's article about the 10 Commandments and American law: http://www.moseshand.com/studies/db400yrs.html
Duration:00:23:58
Rushdoony and Church and State
5/3/2024
Gary begins a series of three podcasts that respond to a recent show from David Barton's Wallbuilders organization. Barton's topic was Christian Nationalism and his guest was Mark David Hall, who makes the erroneous claim that Rousas J. Rushdoony was a small and insignificant voice on American history and church and state. Gary takes issue with this and discusses why.
Duration:00:20:12
Disparities in Economics and Abilities
5/1/2024
Gary discusses the economic and the biological differences between men's and women's sports. People must (and do) ignore both the market and the obvious differences between men and women in order to bring in the equality and parity argument in sports. A short lesson in both economics and sports is Gary's response.
Duration:00:25:45
Putting Iran in Biblical Context
4/29/2024
Now that the eclipse has come and gone, prophecy speculators have refocused their attention on the Middle East. Iran's attack on Israel got the typewriters of prophecy writers revved up, some comparing it to the Persian Empire. It is time to put all of this back into a proper biblical and ancient context.
NOTE: The recording device changes at 13:30, but the podcast is complete.
Duration:00:30:17
Getting Healthy with Gary
4/26/2024
In this episode, Gary discusses recent health issues, as well as giving a few hints and tips about getting and staying in shape. As we age, it is very important to keep active and fit, despite most activities for older people being mostly sedentary. A biblical worldview is not only for the mind; it should also affect how we live, exercise, and eat.
Duration:00:21:35
You, Your Doctor, and God
4/24/2024
Gary discusses recent logic being dropped regarding abortion on the daytime TV show, The View, by resident theologian Whoppi Goldberg. She claims that the decision is personal and should be between the woman, her doctor, and God. While she is quite complimentary and approving of the 10 Commandments, she is less informed about what immediately follows in the very next chapter in the Bible.
Duration:00:27:03
Gumming Up the System
4/22/2024
Gary discusses tactics of Christian resistance that can be learned from Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. Scotland has recently made reporting "hate speech" easier and they are being inundated with cases. Author J. K. Rowling has even gotten involved. It all reminded Gary of an article written by Dr. Gary North years ago.
Get the Christianity and Civilization four-volume PDF set here: https://store.americanvision.org/products/the-complete-christianity-and-civilization
Duration:00:28:45
The Failure of Christian Socialism
4/19/2024
The passing of Ronald Sider in 2022 presented an opportunity for Gary to tell the sad history of Christian socialism in America. Acts 4-5 is often appealed to as an example of this, but as Gary points out, it was 1) voluntary, and 2) tied to the coming destruction of Jerusalem. Christians must not be manipulated into unproductive mindsets by academic and economic guilt peddlers.
Get David Chilton's masterful response to Christian Socialism: https://store.americanvision.org/products/productive-christians-in-an-age-of-guilt-manipulators
Duration:00:32:06
The Dividing Wall Has Been Broken Down
4/17/2024
Gary responds to a recent article by Dr. Michael Brown on "replacement theology." Dr. Brown (and most evangelicals with him) are under the impression that God still has promises to fulfill to Israel. Despite the New Testament's clear teaching that far from "replacing" Israel, the New Covenant Church includes both Jews and Gentiles, or "one new man" as Paul says in Ephesians 2.
Duration:00:36:24
No Flesh Shall be Saved
4/15/2024
Gary responds to a recent article that discusses Matthew 24:22. "Unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened." The article claims this is referring to all people on earth, but Gary points out the context and meaning that the verse is actually talking about. It's about the end of the age, not the end of the world.
Duration:00:20:08
How to Teach History (Part 2)
4/12/2024
Gary continues his talk about teaching history and how to make it relevant and interesting. Too often, children (and adults) don't like history because of how it is taught as a series of unrelated facts and events. Movies can be a great way to engage with history and further the conversation and research.
Duration:00:23:18
How to Teach History (Part 1)
4/10/2024
In a talk from a few years back, Gary discusses how to teach history so that it's relevant, memorable, and applicable. Too often history is taught as names and dates to be memorized with little to no connection to the present. History is the continuing record of man's response to God, and we must all learn and heed the lessons from the past.
Duration:00:24:36
Alephs in the Sky
4/8/2024
Gary discusses a recent article that makes the claim that the end times are finally upon us because eclipses are writing Hebrew letters in the sky. While most of the prophetic signs that modern writers claims as "proof" of what the Bible says will happen are usually arbitrary, this one stretches credulity beyond the limits of reason and biblical revelation.
Duration:00:17:30
A Biblical Theology of Cosmic Signs
4/5/2024
In his final response to "eclipse fever," Gary discusses the importance of using the Bible to interpret itself, rather than eclipse patterns and town names and a few scattered verses that seem to affirm the modern interpretation. Christians must not be "tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes" (Ephesians 4:14).
Duration:00:25:34
False Assumptions Lead to False Conclusions
4/3/2024
Gary continues his response to a video promoting "eclipse mania" about the April 8 event. All of the speculators have this in common: they take current events and try to manufacture biblical significance around them.
The Pastor Staley video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_mcNX99VaU
Duration:00:25:59
Eclipses and Pre-Trib Anxiety
4/1/2024
With the April 8 eclipse looming, Bible prophecy and end-times speculators are feeding the newest end-of-the-world frenzy. Gary discusses the history of speculation and the baseless theories of those saying they interpret the Bible "literally."
Duration:00:21:31
The Wolves of Democracy
3/29/2024
Gary discusses why the United States is NOT a democracy, despite how many politicians and reporters say it is. We are a constitutional republic, not a democracy. While there are elements of democratic freedom in the system, it contains checks and balances and a healthy distrust of centralized power.
Duration:00:16:50
Texas Rep: The 10 Commandments are Unchristian
3/27/2024
Texas state representative James Talarico claims to be a Christian and recently said a number of things publicly that actually pit the Bible against itself. Gary quotes some of them and comments, as well as discussing the current situation in Haiti.
Duration:00:26:43
This Earth IS Our Home
3/25/2024
Gary concludes his talk about Christian involvement in culture and politics by summarizing several popular objections. In his book, Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths, Gary answers 15 common objections that Christians give to not get involved, but he points out that God leaves His people here for that very reason. Heaven may be our ultimate home, but Earth is our home now and needs the spiritual discernment and physical work of Christians.
Duration:00:24:50