Just in time for the holidays, the Holy Post crew is answering another round of voicemails from our Patreon supporters. On this episode, Phil, Skye, and Kaitlyn respond to listener questions about how much confidence to put in archeological evidence for the Bible, how did Christians interpret Revelation before the recent invention of "Left Behind" theology, when does satire and social media become sinful, what abortion policies could most Americans agree on, and how do you practice the Sabbath with a demanding job and young kids? Plus, they offer practical advice for avoiding arguments with your family about politics and religion during holiday gatherings.
Just in time for the holidays, the Holy Post crew is answering another round of voicemails from our Patreon supporters. On this episode, Phil, Skye, and Kaitlyn respond to listener questions about how much confidence to put in archeological evidence for the Bible, how did Christians interpret Revelation before the recent invention of "Left Behind" theology, when does satire and social media become sinful, what abortion policies could most Americans agree on, and how do you practice the Sabbath with a demanding job and young kids? Plus, they offer practical advice for avoiding arguments with your family about politics and religion during holiday gatherings.
Patreon Bonus: Getting Schooled by Kaitlyn Schiess: Creeds 101 - https://www.patreon.com/posts/74991905/ New Holy Post merch - https://www.holypost.com/shop 00:00 - Sponsor: InterVarsity Press Get 30% off “The Thrill of Orthodoxy” by Trevin Wax with code: THRILL30 at: https://ivpress.com/the-thrill-of-orthodoxy 00:44 - Intro 6:08 - Ben: Holiday family conversations 11:55 - Brad and Carrie: Dispensationalism 22:58 - Millie: Mocking
25:51 - Sponsor: Faithful Counseling Get 10% off your first month at faithfulcounseling.com/holypost
27:05 - Cody: Healthy social media use 32:02 - Mark: Sabbath 36:08 - Ali: Archeology and the Bible 46:08 - Peter: How nations treat foreigners 52:03 - Trudie: Political thinking around helping the poor 1:02:31 - Yong: Policies around abortion 1:09:57 - Credits
Past episodes and other resources mentioned: Holy Post Episode 244: Cultural Lies, Human Longings & the Gospel with Trevin Wax - https://www.holypost.com/holy-post-podcast/episode/1c5a47cf/episode-244-cultural-lies-human-longings-and-the-gospel-withtrevin-wax
Holy Post Episode 410: White Privilege, Cancel Culture, & Reading Revelation with Juan Hernandez - https://www.holypost.com/post/episode-410-white-privilege-cancel-culture-reading-revelation-with-juan-hernandez
Holy Post Episode 506: The Pro-Life Case for Paid Family Leave with Rachel Anderson - https://www.holypost.com/post/episode-506-the-pro-life-case-for-paid-family-leave-with-rachel-anderson
“The Millennial Maze” by Stanley J. Grenz - https://amzn.to/3tTUljk
“The Liturgy of Politics” by Kaitlyn Schiess - https://amzn.to/3GzrGI1
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Two suggestions here: (1) A series of bonus episodes in which someone interviews non-futurists on Revelation. So have an interview with a historicist, and idealist, and a preterist to highlight alternate orthodox interpretations of Revelation. (2) A series of YouTube shorts every times Phil says something that elicits one of Kaitlyn's facial expressions. This week's highlight at 32:45 while talking about psychedelic toads is the perfect launching point for this.
Doing good to the poor becomes "socialism" or "communism" (in the US):
As Heather Cox Richardson (with and without Joanne Freeman on "Now & Then") has talked about repeatedly, any time progressive taxation is thought of to harness the funds of all (but more of the rich [white] than of the poor [black]), it's interpreted as an illegitimate taking by part of the political spectrum. And "communism" became a bogeyman word just after the civil war, in the extreme referring to the "Paris Commune". It got re-adopted in the Cold War but it's older than as given in Kaitlyn's otherwise pretty good summary.
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I think the authority comes from God. Neither the text, the event, OR the bible teacher, actually has it. And in a way, the teacher saying that the text has the authority, is just slight-of-hand which the teacher assumes the authority anyway. Humility is required to approach the texts we read that we are not God and should never approach scripture with any absolute that text in-of-itself a symbol or logos could ever actually have authority by itself to do anything, to do so is to invite idolatry or an image of God or the mediums which allude to him as a replacement for God.
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