Bottom line on Michael Heiser

I'm officially out-of-patience with Michael Heiser. You can't write multiple books and do 10,000 interviews and still come across as hazy as to what you believe or what you're trying to say unless you are engaged in dishonesty with a motive to want to shift a theological Overton Window. I.e. unless your desire is to lead people into heresy, either because of hate, or because of academic vanity and stupidity.

Heiser is not a Trinitarian. He also doesn't believe in original sin. He adopts an anti-Trinitarianism so as to free himself up to believe his heterodox soteriology.

I.e., he's a very typical liberal academic theologian.

No where I've seen will he describe God in the Creator/creation divide context. He will say (using a thousand different words and angles of approach) that there are many gods, but one god is the top god - by degree.

In effect he denies there is a creator God. Maybe he thinks the universe created all the gods, including the god who is the top god by degree.

He uses his insights on the spiritual war between Jesus and the fallen angels (which are valuable) to cloak his heterodoxy on the Trinity and sin. Insights, though, which he got from other writers and theologians in the early 2000s. Meredith Kline (God, Heaven and Har Magedon) and a more general readership writer Gerald McDermott and his book God's Rivals being two of them.

Heiser's manner is another giveaway. He gets angry when confronted. He belittles people whose views counter his. He speaks as if what he is saying is a slam dunk and people just refuse to see it because they're afraid, etc. This is all evidence of bad faith argument, and a troubled conscience as well. As in his conscience gives him trouble because he's being dishonest.