61 episodes
What do you mean God speaks? Paul Seungoh Chung
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- Religion & Spirituality
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5.0 • 15 Ratings
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A series that reconstrues and retells key ideas, insights, and stories in Christianity for the skeptics who want to understand religion, Christians with questions about their own beliefs, and everyone in between. I am Paul Seungoh Chung, the author of God at the Crossroads of Worldviews, a university lecturer, and a pastor. I invite you to explore with me the world shared by 2.4 billion people--one that inspired our ideals, imaginations, and intellect, for better or for worse. (Note: later episodes draw upon what was covered in earlier episodes.)
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S3 Trailer: "Those who wrestle with God" - A Monologue
Trailer for the upcoming Season 3 of "What do you mean God speaks?"
Those who wrestle with God.
The trailer : "Monologue of the children of Abraham"
Music : "True Genesis" by Tenacious Orchestra - Licensed from PremiumBeat.com
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S3E1: (re) What do you mean, "There's no God"?
What does it mean to say, “There’s no God?”
What it means for us today, to say, “there’s no God,” is quite different from what it meant for people living just several centuries ago, to say, “there’s no God.”
That's because people back then did not merely believe that God exists. They perceived God in their world. Then, some time ago, God disappeared from our perception. We forgot what it meant to hear God speak, or see God in our lives, and so, one day, ‘God’ was no longer "there.”
* Revised on April 3 for greater clarity and flow in the 2nd half.
3:00 How the ancients perceived their gods
10:10 What it means to perceive God
20:58 A metaphor made God disappear from the cosmos
27:53 A metaphor made God disappear from our lives
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S3 Prologue: What is faith?
A short prologue to the 3rd Season of What do you mean God speaks? - "Those who wrestle with God.
1st main episode of Season 3 is scheduled to go live next week.
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S3E2: Is Abraham a "historical" figure? No... and Yes.
Abraham, Sarah, and their family--are they "historical" figures?
The simple answer? No... and Yes. (Ok, so it's not a simple answer)
Another answer is the actual title of this episode:
"Historical in/significance of Abraham's story"
This odd title can refer to four things.
1) The "insignificance" of Abraham as a "historical figure" for historians
2) The significance of Abraham's story in history
3) The historical dimension "in the significance" of Abraham's story
4) The significance of Abraham in how history has unfolded ever since.
And all of that leads us back to God's original promise to Abraham in Genesis, to bless him, to make him great, and to make his name significant, so that he will be a blessing to all people.
1:33 Primeval History in Genesis versus…
8:29 … the Ancestral History in Genesis
13:02 Who wrote Genesis and why?
21:12 The question of Abraham as a "historical" figure
27:35 Historical in/significance of Abraham
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S3E3: Why Genesis won't say -how- Abram heard God
The Genesis account of Abraham, Sarah, and their children, invites its readers to follow in their path, and continue their journey toward God. There's one, big problem: it doesn't tell us how to start. Their journey begins with God speaking to Abraham (Abram), but Genesis does not describe how God first spoke to Abram, and how Abram heard God for the first time. So, can we get an answer?
This episode will explore and consider what it means to say Abraham, Sarah, and their family were real people, and what it was for them to begin their journey with God.
2:04 What can we say about Abraham as a real person?
6:54 What Christians are concerned about regarding the Bible
13:17 The silence on Genesis about how God spoke to Abram
19:10 How God speaks to all people according to Genesis
22:01 The voice that spoke to Abram
27:58 Did Abram know it was God speaking?
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S3E4: How Abram learned Who was speaking to him
To hear God speak to you, is to be presented with truth; they are the same thing. And God speaking to you often begins with uncertainty, because we don't know whether what is being presented to us really is true.
Abram and Sarai hears God speak to them in how they are moved, or inspired, to follow an inner call. "Something" guides them, and that "something" unfolds events in their lives that enable them to follow the call. Because of this, they learn that what this Voice speaks, is really true.
But, something more happens, and they gradually learn Who is speaking to them. Let's follow their journey (or for this episode, Abram's portion) to explore what happened.
2:02 Why there is uncertainty in hearing God speak
8:25 What Abram learned in Egypt
14:28 Abram's developing inner strength shown in Canaan
23:25 Abram's fateful meeting with Melchizedek
29:14 Abram learns that "God Most High" was speaking to him
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Customer Reviews
Excellent!
This is a great philosophy of religion course, lots of fun, and accessible: any complicated terms are made simple, and there is a very helpful exploration of what some “simple” terms really mean now and meant through history.
Timely Discussion for Today
Every Generation needs the deep truths of Christianity reexplained so as to make its truths known, relevant, and powerful. Sadly there is so much misunderstanding out there with dangerous false caricatures. Thanks Paul Chung, these talks really make me think about God and Christianity in a fresh way, devoid of meaningless and unnecessary Christian/theological jargon; but instead spoken in a manner that today's (post-)modern, scientific, rationality-desiring groups of people can clearly understand.