53 min
The reason you're struggling with sin and how to stop. Joey Dodson and the Romans 7 controversy #222 Things You Don't Hear in Church
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- Spirituality
Joey Dodson is a Christian author of a number of books, peer reviewed articles, and essays. He's a professor at Denver Seminary where he is also the Dr. Craig L. Blomberg Endowed Chair of New Testament which basically means he's super smart.
Today Joey comes on to talk to us about his book "Conquerers, Not Captives" regarding Romans 7 and who the "wretch" is. Romans 7 is the famous passage where Paul says that the good he wants to do he doesn't do and the bad he doesn't want to do, he does. Many Christians including us at some point have looked to this verse to explain our struggle with sin. The problem though, as Joey and others have put forth, is that Romans 7 isn't a universal prescription of the Christian experience. It might not even be about Paul, or ANY Christian whatsoever actually.
Joey believes Paul is talking about himself BEFORE he was a Christian because the surrounding passages say the EXACT opposite of "We are slave to sins." With this profound rereading of the text we realize that freedom is truly possible and that we can resist the enemy and we aren't doomed to repeat the same sins over and over and over!
Enjoy!
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Joey Dodson is a Christian author of a number of books, peer reviewed articles, and essays. He's a professor at Denver Seminary where he is also the Dr. Craig L. Blomberg Endowed Chair of New Testament which basically means he's super smart.
Today Joey comes on to talk to us about his book "Conquerers, Not Captives" regarding Romans 7 and who the "wretch" is. Romans 7 is the famous passage where Paul says that the good he wants to do he doesn't do and the bad he doesn't want to do, he does. Many Christians including us at some point have looked to this verse to explain our struggle with sin. The problem though, as Joey and others have put forth, is that Romans 7 isn't a universal prescription of the Christian experience. It might not even be about Paul, or ANY Christian whatsoever actually.
Joey believes Paul is talking about himself BEFORE he was a Christian because the surrounding passages say the EXACT opposite of "We are slave to sins." With this profound rereading of the text we realize that freedom is truly possible and that we can resist the enemy and we aren't doomed to repeat the same sins over and over and over!
Enjoy!
Got any questions or topics you’d like to hear about? You can email us at thingsyoudonthearinchurchpod@gmail.com
Like our content? Consider helping us grow through Patreon, a follow, or subscribe!
Leave a rating on whatever platform you listen on and write some nice comments
YOUTUBE here
PATREON here
INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/thingsyoudonthearinchurchpod
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thingsyoudonthearinchurch/support
53 min