Halting Toward Zion

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Today we wrap up our discussion of the Trinity with thoughts on the love among the members of the Godhead. We can’t fully comprehend the self-existent life of God, but we can understand from the Bible that the Father and the Son share vibrant fellowship with and through the Holy Spirit--and when the Spirit unites His people to God, He brings us into this deep and lively communion. In fact, all three members of the Trinity acted in accord to accomplish the plan of our redemption, with an agreement sometimes called the Covenant of Redemption.

This Episode Features: Emily Asking Totally Invalid Questions; Prooftext Prooftext Prooftext; Orthodox Bureaucracy All Over Again; the Holy Spirit Doesn’t Clock Out; Louis Berkhof Is Le Tired; Sequentially, As It Were; Greek Synonyms that Don’t Mean the Same Thing At All; Greg Thinks of Things; the Heirs Don’t Write the Will; Conspiracy; Why Do the Anglicans Have All the Good Playwrights?; and the Spirit of 76.

Links

The Doctrine of God - Herman Bavinck: https://amzn.to/2uQPG6H

On the Trinity - Augustine: https://amzn.to/2TpldGQ

Foundations of Social Order - Rousas John Rushdoony: https://amzn.to/35TKMmj

Not Duty Bound: Geerhardus Vos on the Covenant of Redemption - Daniel Ragusa, Reformed Forum: https://reformedforum.org/geerhardus-vos-covenant-of-redemption/

Revelation 5: https://www.esv.org/Revelation+5/

The Westminster Confession: https://www.opc.org/wcf.html

John 4: https://www.esv.org/John+4/

Bleak House - Charles Dickens: https://amzn.to/384qHem

A Whole New World: the Gospel According to Revelation - Greg Uttinger: https://amzn.to/2QRN2Gc

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The core of most Trinitarian heresies is subordinationism: in some way they deny that the Son and the Holy Spirit are “of one substance, equal in power and glory” with the Father. In this episode, we explore the effects subordinational thinking has on our knowledge of God, as well as on the shape of a civilization. We also discuss the origins of the doctrine of the Trinity in the Bible.

This Episode Features: The Return of Mr. Potato Head; Court Martials, the Nuremberg Trials, and Watergate; the Heresy Two-Step, and Ancient Pagan Parenting.

Links

All That Is in God - James E. Dolezal: https://amzn.to/2QwAqCZ

Armageddon in Prime Time - George Bailey: https://amzn.to/35br0ly

For a’ That and a’ That - Robert Burns: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43805/for-a-that-and-a-that

Walden - Henry David Thoreau: https://amzn.to/2u5NOqi

Table Talk Radio: https://www.tabletalkradio.org/

Peanuts: November 12, 1959 - Charles Schultz: https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1959/11/12

The Lanyard - Billy Collins: https://youtu.be/0EjB7rB3sWc

Covenantal Apologetics - K. Scott Oliphint: https://amzn.to/2u5Uxk0

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The God of the Bible is unique, not only as Creator, but as Trinity: we worship One God who exists eternally in three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Choosing words to describe this reality is difficult; after all, there’s nothing else just like God. So, we rely on the words of Scripture summarized very carefully in the historical creeds, which were developed in extensive, Scriptural study and debate. But the question is anything but coldly academic: in this episode we discuss how our salvation depends on the personal and interpersonal nature of the triune God.

This episode features: No More Mormon Jokes, the Great Puritan Theologian John Milton, the Dark Side of the Force, Be Good and Don’t Run with Scissors and Other Lessons from the Historical Jesus, Emily’s Appalling Lack of Cultural Literacy, and the SHOCKING TRUTH: What Really Happened at the Council of Nicea?

Athanasian Creed (excerpt on the Trinity)

21.  The Father is made of none, neither created nor begotten.

22.  The Son is of the Father alone; not made nor created, but begotten.

23.  The Holy Spirit is of the Father and of the Son; neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.

24.  So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Spirit, not three Holy Spirits.

25. And in this Trinity none is afore or after another; none is greater or less than another.

26.  But the whole three persons are coeternal, and coequal.

27.  So that in all things, as aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped.

28.  He therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity.

Links

St. Patrick’s Bad Analogies (yet again): https://lutheransatire.org/media/st-patricks-bad-analogies/

Paradise Lost - John Milton: https://amzn.to/2YPWL21

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett:

- Book: https://amzn.to/2PO6cee

- Show: https://amzn.to/2Q9YeMH

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers - Carl L. Becker: https://amzn.to/2RRfAk4

The Athanasian Creed:

- Text: https://www.ccel.org/creeds/athanasian.creed.html

- Greg’s Commentary: https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/the-theology-of-the-ancient-creeds-part-4-the-athanasian-creed

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Emily and Greg dive into the pagan and Christian philosophies of time, chaos, and order. When we look at archetypes in the world--chaos, order, goodness, beauty--we assume we can tell these things apart, and distinguish between the important and the transient. As Christians, we believe we can understand because our Heavenly Father governs all things for His glory and our good, and He made the world to be understood--and as creatures who experience time and change, we can look forward to an eternity full of activity and exploration and live with thankfulness for the beauty God places in our world.

This episode features: Fix-It Felix, Jordan B. Peterson, Cloud-gazing with Linus and Lucy, the Cosmic Cow, Greg’s Favorite Christmas Hymn, Emily’s Least Favorite Christmas Hymns, the Moon Landing, Convenient Eastern Orthodox Time Warps.

Links

Greg’s Norse Mythology Videos: https://youtu.be/fZeE1XkvTNA, and https://youtu.be/DMIUVEIMZ2E

Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman: https://amzn.to/2PLZ7ej

12 Rules for Life - Jordan B. Peterson: https://amzn.to/2LSPN7g

The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot: https://amzn.to/2POZftu

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin: https://amzn.to/2LWl2hX

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In this episode, we explore the claims of the Bible’s first verses and how they differ from every other explanation of the origins of the universe. From Genesis 1:1, we understand that God created the world out of nothing. In pagan origin myths, the world has always existed: the various gods rearranged the things that make up the world, but there was already something that existed, for them to rearrange. This difference helps us clarify what’s really going on when we speak with our unbelieving friends.

This episode features: Swimming Pools Full of Cream of Wheat, Magic and Esoteric Knowledge, the Cosmic Con-job of Eternity, Disney’s Aladdin, Columbo, the Revered Theologian Winston Churchill, Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Apologetics Cards.

Links

The Defense of the Faith - Cornelius Van Til: https://amzn.to/2spkn1u

Christian Apologetics - Cornelius Van Til: https://amzn.to/35oibWD

Van Til’s Apologetic - Greg Bahnsen: https://amzn.to/36w3p00

Always Ready - Greg Bahnsen: https://amzn.to/2RP2iVj

For Such a Time as This - Jim S. Halsey: https://amzn.to/2rL3X3z

Every Thought Captive - Richard L. Pratt, Jr.: https://amzn.to/35p6Eqe

Ezekiel and the Valley of Dry Bones: https://www.esv.org/Ezekiel+37/

Lutheran Satire - Saint Patrick's Bad Analogies: https://lutheransatire.org/media/st-patricks-bad-analogies/

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In our pilot episode, Emily and Greg introduce themselves and kick off a discussion of the Unity of God and some of its implications. Theology Proper--the study of God as He is in Himself--speaks of the Singularity and the Simplicity of God: that is, there is only one God (who created everything that exists), and God isn’t made up of pieces or parts. He expresses Himself fully in each of His infinite attributes, and reveals those attributes in the Bible.

This episode features: The French Fries of God, How To Be a Perfect Student in a Christian School, Emily’s Preaching Pet Peeve, the Sh’ma, the Unsettling Origins of the Pledge of Allegiance, Francis Schaeffer Demands Tea, and God’s Will for Your Life.

Links

Lutheran Satire - Saint Patrick's Bad Analogies: https://lutheransatire.org/media/st-patricks-bad-analogies/