Truth & Circumstances

Episode Highlights It’s important to understand the nature of the issue first. Is this a biblical, wisdom, conscience, or preference issue? We should strive for patience and interrogate our own motives. Eph 4:1-3; Phil 2:3-5 We should ask good questions and listen well. Prov 18:13; Jas 1:19-20 We should lovingly bring attention back to the […]

Episode Highlights: The Bible doesn’t directly address the issue, but that doesn’t rule out the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe. Given the Bible’s portrayal of man of the pinnacle of God’s creation, created as a spiritual being in God’s image, it is unlikely that if there are beings elsewhere they have souls. If […]

Episode Highlights: The NT doesn’t directly address this issue, likely because it assumes we will not leave churches except under truly exceptional circumstances. Many of the typical reasons we leave churches are treated by the NT as normal parts of church life, and it gives us instruction for how to handle them. Good reasons to […]

Episode Highlighs Pursue loving hearts and interactions. John 13:35; Gal 5:14 Strive to give no offense and take no offense. Be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger. James 1:19 Be sensitive regarding the time and place of our conversations. Eph 4:29; Prov 15:23 Turn the conversation toward the sufficiency of the […]

Episode Highlights When sin or guilt affects a subsequent generation in the Bible it is by blood, not race. Exo 20:5 Examples of corporate guilt and repentance in the Bible involve current, ongoing sin. Ezra 9:7; Neh 1:6; Dan 9:20 The Bible explicitly teaches that children are not to be held accountable for the sins […]

Episode Highlights Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals with what we can know and how we know it. Standpoint epistemology holds that a person’s knowledge is determined by their standpoint, or experience. Knowledge is therefore subjective. Oppressed classes have inherent, infallible knowledge about oppression that is not accessible to the oppressor class. Standpoint […]

Episode Highlights Intersectionality holds that a persons identity is a result of the intersection of their experiences of oppression. Intersectionality suggests that one form of oppression cannot be addressed without addressing all others. I.e. racial injustice cannot be sufficiently addressed without also addressing gender inequality, age discrimination, etc. Intersectionality unbiblical defines a person’s identity according […]

Episode highlights: Biblical justice entails rewarding those who do good and punishing those who do evil, as measured by God’s standard of righteousness (Psa 9:7-8; 18:20; 2 Cor 5:10). Biblical injustice is to deny one what they are due, often through partial application of the law. (Exo 23:2-3; Deut 1:17; Prov 18:5). Justice according to […]

Episode Highlights Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a branch of Critical Theory, which divides all society into oppressor and oppressed classes. According to CRT, the system—laws, social norms, etc—have been set up in such a way as to benefit whites (white privilege) while holding down non-whites in terms of power and resources. According to CRT, […]