Rethinking the Bible with Jack Pelham

DESCRIPTION: This is the third of a 3-part series on this topic. Also, this entire podcast is designed for you to start at Episode 1 and work your way forward. If you don’t, you’re going to be at a real disadvantage when starting here.In this episode, Jack finishes the discussion of Romans 13:1-7, and shows how one governor is himself not “obeying the government”.

DESCRIPTION: This is the second of a 3-part series on this topic. Also, this entire podcast is designed for you to start at Episode 1 and work your way forward. If you don’t, you’re going to be at a real disadvantage when starting here.In this episode, Jack shows how the “higher powers” language of Romans 13 is consistent with other Bible language about angels, and suggests that some particular subset of angels was in view.

DESCRIPTION: If you haven’t listened to Episodes 1-8 yet, you’re going to be at a real disadvantage when starting here at Episode 9. We strongly urge you to start at the beginning.In this episode, Jack jumps ahead of the plan for this podcast series, in order to face a serious crisis that many American Christians are struggling with. Many know that the facemask and lockdown orders are themselves unlawful decrees, yet they are afraid to disobey because they think that Romans 13 is telling them that this would be a sin.

DESCRIPTION: In this episode, Kay and James join me for our second family discussion, generally reflecting on the recent episodes about What It Means to Be Created.  We also get into some meaty discussion of what it means to have a spiritual heritage, starting with having been created by God—and in a world where so many seem to be longing for a more meaningful life.

DESCRIPTION: Jack explains something he promised to explain about a comment made in passing in an earlier episode, and it leads into a fuller discussion of the importance of context in Bible study—and not just the immediate context of a passage, but a context that goes as wide as to studying even the extrabiblical writings from the Ancient Near Eastern cultures, including the Hebrew culture that produced all of the Bible documents.

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DESCRIPTION: Jack explains more about what it means to be created “in the image and likeness” of God, and how it does not mean that we are his “representatives” on the Earth. He also introduces “Hermeneutics” and begins what will be an ongoing discussion on that topic.

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SCRIPTURES USED IN THIS EPISODEFor your convenience, I have listed all the scriptures used in this episode below. You may find it helpful to have this page open while you listen. Where there are hyperlinks, they lead to the same passage at BibleGateway.com, where you can study the passage in its context, or switch translations, etc..

2 Peter 3:11b… what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives…

Micah 6:8  He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

Ecclesiastes 7:29 See, this alone I found,

DESCRIPTION: We’re back after recovering from a malware attack and switching web hosts! In this episode, Jack explores what it means for us that we are created beings, and what our attitudes about that should be, according to the Bible.

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SCRIPTURES USED IN THIS EPISODEFor your convenience, I have listed all the scriptures used in this episode below. You may find it helpful to have this page open while you listen. Where there are hyperlinks, they lead to the same passage at BibleGateway.com, where you can study the passage in its context, or switch translations, etc..

Genesis 1:26-31 26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures t...

DESCRIPTION: This episode looks at some of the grunt work of good Bible study as Jack demonstrates a ballpark idea of just how much the Bible talks about thinking. And from there, we get into the topic of grace, and what our response to it should be.

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The Road of AttritionThis episode mentions what I called the Road of Attrition, which I have more formally called elsewhere, the Road of Investigational Attrition. It’s the idea that people often drop out of an investigation before reaching a full understanding of its end. Here’s a graphic representing this concept.

Shows how people can drop out of an investigation before reaching its fullest and most accurate conclusion.

SCRIPTURES USED IN THIS EPISODEFor your convenience, I have listed all the scriptures used in this episode below. You may find it helpful to have this page open while you listen. Where there are hyperlinks, they lead to the same passage at BibleGateway.com, where you can study the passage in its context, or switch translations, etc.

Ephesians 2: 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works,

DESCRIPTION: Kay and James join me to discuss the first episode.

Sorry, there is no transcript of this episode. Transcripts are only provided for the regular study episodes, such as Episdode 1.

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DESCRIPTION: This short episode gives some background on the host, so that the listeners can better understand his perspective.

Sorry, there is no transcript of this episode. Transcripts are only provided for the regular study episodes, such as Episode 1.

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