Knowing Faith

Kyle is joined by Dr. Ross Inman to discuss natural moral law and what it has to do with the book of Genesis.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What is natural moral law and what does it have to do with Genesis?
• What is something that is a natural law that is not a natural moral law?

Helpful Definitions:

• Natural Moral Law: Entails at least the following two commitments: 1. God has built into the natural created order a moral dimension. 2. God has so created human beings with unique capacity to both know and live in accordance with this moral grain for the sake of living well.

Guest Bio:

Dr. Ross Inman serves as an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He is also editor of Philosophia Christi, the academic journal of the Evangelical Philosophical Society. He is married to his high school sweetheart, Suzanne (both natives of San Diego), and together they have the joy of raising three young children Hudson, Declan, and Verity.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Proverbs 8:22-36, Genesis 1:27, Genesis 1:28, Genesis 2:24

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Dr. Russell Moore joins Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley to answer some questions within Genesis 1:26-30. They help explore what it means to be created in the image of God and its implications, what the cultural mandate is, and what it means to cultivate and subdue.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What does it mean to be created in the image of God?
• Are you saying if humans had not fallen we would be able to speak to the winds and the waves?
• We are created for longing, what does that mean?
• What are some of the essential implications to this truth?
• What is the cultural mandate?
• Does this counteract or co-opt anything Israel would have seen or heard in Egypt?
• What role does childbearing play in fulfilling the cultural mandate?
• Connection between cultural mandate and the “limits of Eden…”?
• Where can the church live this out?

Guest Bio:

Russell Moore is president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. The ERLC is the moral and public policy entity of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. He has authored several books including The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear Without Losing Your Soul and The Storm-Tossed Family: How the Cross Reshapes the Home. Prior to his election in 2013, Moore served as provost and dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, where he also taught theology and ethics. A native Mississippian, Moore and his wife Maria are the parents of five sons.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Genesis 1:26-30, Romans 8:23, Hebrews 1, Colossians 1, Matthew 8:23–27, Revelation 13, Mark 1
• “The Courage to Stand” by Russell Moore

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Kyle is joined by Dr. Walter Strickland to discuss the doctrine of Imago Dei.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Why is the doctrine of the Imago Dei crucial for our current moment?
• Does image bearing squash all differences and distinctions? How it is the proper frame for our uniqueness as individuals?

Helpful Definitions:

• Imago Dei: The Image of God.

Guest Bio:

Walter R. Strickland II is associate vice president for kingdom diversity initiatives and assistant professor of systematic and contextual theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He is an author, editor, and contributor of several books including Every waking Hour, Baptists and the Christian Tradition, For God so Loved the World, and Plain Theology for Plain People.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Genesis 11:1-9, Genesis 1:26, Genesis 2:15

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley continue their series within Genesis 1-11 focusing specifically on the first days of creation.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Original audience for Genesis?
• What questions do we tend to ask that the text is not trying to answer?
• What is happening with the rhythms in the creation account?
• Is this framework intentional?
• What would you say to someone who says “this is just a plain reading of the text”?
• What are some patterns we see in the creation account?
• On day 4 God creates heavenly bodies, why is this significant?
• Genesis 2:1-3 - What’s different about the 7th day?

Helpful Definitions:

• Pentateuch: The first five books of the Bible; Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
• Cosmology: The science of the origin and development of the universe.
• Polemic: Argument.
• Naturalism: The idea that the world is closed and purley material and has no external spiritual or supernatural forces operating in it or within it or around it. 
• Framework Theory: The theory that God forms and creates kingdoms on days 1, 2, and 3 and then on days 4, 5, and 6 he fills those kingdoms and he does so in a corresponding way. Days 1 and 4 correspond, days 2 and 5 correspond, and days 3 and 6 correspond. 
• Pattern in each specific day of creation: Command, Report, Assessment, Dominion, Timemarker.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Genesis 1-2, Psalm 19, John 1:4, Revelation 21:23, Revelation 22:5

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Dr. Tracy McKenzie joins Kyle to discuss the story of Babel in Genesis 11.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Is there anything interesting happening in the story of Babel in Genesis 11 that we might miss?
• Is the author of scripture intentionally using puns and word play?

Helpful Definitions:

• שָׁם (Hebrew): Shem, name, and there.

Guest Bio:

Dr. Tracy McKenzie the Associate Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Genesis 11, 9, 10, 12:1-3
• “From Proverb to Prophecy: Textual Production and Theology in Proverbs 30:1–6” Article by Dr. Tracy McKenzie

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley are joined by author, teacher, speaker, podcaster: Nancy Guthrie to discuss Genesis 1:2.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What does it mean to start with God created the heavens and the earth? What is the heavens and earth?
• Genesis 1:2, what are we to learn studying this verse?
• What does “formless and void” mean?
• How does this verse set up meta themes that echo throughout scripture? 

Helpful Definitions:

• Tohu VaVohu: Hebrew term found in Genesis 1:2 for formless and void.
• Aseity: God is a se, or has aseity: He is self-existent and self-sufficient.

Guest Bio:

Nancy Guthrie is the host of “Help me Teach the Bible” podcast, a regular contributor at the Gospel Coalition, and is the author of many books including: The Seeing Jesus in the OT Series, Even Better than Eden, Saints and Scoundrels in the Story of Jesus, and the brand new: God does his best work with Empty.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Genesis 1:2, Colossians 1:15-16, Habakkuk 2:14, Genesis 1:27-30, Ezekiel 34-36, John 1, Ephesians 2
• Seeing Jesus in the Old Testament Series by Nancy Guthrie
• Help me Teach the Bible Podcast
• “The Beatitudes” by Arthur W. Pink

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Karen Swallow Prior and Kyle Worley answer how genre shapes the meaning of a text.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• Why is genre crucial to understanding the meaning of a given text?
• What are some distinctions between prose and poetry?
• Is Genesis historical prose?
• Is Genesis a unique origin story or does it have similarities with other origin stories?

Helpful Definitions:

• Genre: A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
• Genesis: Origin.
• Prose: Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.
• Poetry: Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.

Guest Bio:

Karen Swallow Prior, Ph. D., is Research Professor of English and Christianity and Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. She is the author of Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist, and On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books. She is co-editor of Cultural Engagement: A Crash Course in Contemporary Issues and has contributed to numerous other books. Her writing has appeared at Christianity Today, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, First Things, Vox, Relevant, Think Christian, The Gospel Coalition, Religion News Service, Books and Culture and other places.

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss JT's new book "Deep Discipleship" and why he wrote it. They also discuss what distinguishes deep discipleship from shallow discipleship, who the book is for, how it will help people, and why we need discipleship now.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• JT, what is this book and why did you write it?
• Who is the audience for this book?
• How is Training the Church connected to this?
• Why do we need deep discipleship now?

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• “Deep Discipleship” by JT English
• Training the Church

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Dr. Ken Keathley and Kyle Worley answer the question "What's a forgotten, but essential aspect of the doctrine of creation?"

“The triune God without opposition or equal, and without the use of preexisting materials, created the world by his will and for his good pleasure.” Dr. Ken Keathley

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What's a forgotten, but essential aspect of the doctrine of creation?
• If we lose God’s freedom in creating, what do we lose about God?

Helpful Definitions:

• Creation Ex Nihilo: Creation out of nothing.

Guest Bio:

Ken Keathley is Senior Professor of Theology and the Jesse Hendley Chair of Theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina where he has been teaching since 2006. He also directs the L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture, a center that seeks to engage culture, present and defend the Christian Faith, and explore its implications for all areas of life. He is the author of Salvation and Sovereignty: A Molinist Approach, co-author of 40 Questions About Creation and Evolution and co-editor of Old Earth or Evolutionary Creation?: Discussing Origins with Reasons to Believe and BioLogos.  Ken and his wife Penny have been married since 1980, live in Wake Forest, NC and are members of North Wake Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina.  They have a son and daughter, both married, and four grandchildren.

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Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley continue the discussion on Genesis 1-11 by discussing what happened before the beginning, who/what existed before the beginning, the work of God prior to creation,  when did God create angelic forces, and did Satan fall before the beginning.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What was happening before the beginning?
• Who or what existed before the beginning?
• Trinitarian relations before the beginning?
• What are the practical implications of God being uncreated?
• The work of God prior to creation?

Helpful Definitions:

• Trinitarianism: God eternally exists as one essence in three distinct persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, each of whom is fully God, yet there is One God.
• Asiety: God is a se, or has aseity: He is self-existent and self-sufficient.
• Immanent Trinity: The view that centers on the Trinity in and of Himself, or the internal relations between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as present (immanent) only to Himself (c.f. Jn 1:1-2,18); this perspective is distinguished from that of the economic Trinity.
• Economic Trinity: A view of the Trinity focused on God in the history of redemption, or the functional acts (economies) of the Godhead in the creation and salvation of the world; this perspective is distinguished from that of the immanent Trinity.
• Eternally Unbegotten: The Father’s unique attribute in relation to the Son and the Spirit: The Father is the first origin of all things and without origin himself. All things are from the Father, through the Son and by the Spirit.
• Eternally Begotten: The Son’s unique attribute in relation to the Father and the Spirit: the Son is sourced in the Father, but there was never a time when the Son began. All things are from the Father, through the Son and by the Spirit.
• Eternal Procession: The Holy Spirit’s unique attribute in relation to the Father and Son: He has always come from the Father and the Son and will continue to do so forever. All things are from the Father, through the Son and by the Spirit.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Genesis 1, Colossians 1, John 5, John 15-16, Ephesians 1:3-11
• “Delighting in the Trinity” by Michael Reeves

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