Troublesome Topic: WHAT SHOULD WE CALL HEISERS WORLDVIEW?

For considerable time I puzzled over what to call this worldview. It is obviously not a Biblical worldview, so what should we call it? Then I thought of the name Amalgamated Paganism. It has been put together from Ugaritic, Canaanite, Greek, Babylonian, Roman and other ancient religions and their mythology. However, Heiser mixes some Jesus in there too and tries to make it sound Biblical, so I should revise the name I give it to include the insertion of Jesus into the mixing pot. Finally I settled on simply The Amalgamation Station.

Why is such amalgamation and mixing a bad idea? God and His word are constantly separating themselves from the belief in other gods and from the ways that other nations did things. If we introduce just a few elements from other religions, we have corrupted the Word of the one true God. But if we bring in many beliefs from other religions, as Michael Heier does, we have created something different, it can no longer be called Biblical.

The subtitle of Heiser’s book, Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible, is false and misleading. While it is supernatural, it is not Biblical. I encourage you to think of that book as simply The Amalgamation Station.

The next lesson is called HOW FAR ON THE SLIDING SCALE SHOULD WE GO?