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Rethinking the Bible with Jack Pelham Jack Pelham
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Many of us read the Bible, but how many of us do our best thinking when we read it? In this series, author and philosopher Jack Pelham seeks to use the very best thinking methods to interpret the Bible, so as to avoid the cognitive errors shown in the Bible and in cognitive science as well. For example, where Jesus said, "Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment," a cognitive scientist might say the same thing like this: "You need to decouple from your focal bias and look at ALL the evidence, so that you can draw a conclusion that jibes with reality." And so we re-examine the Bible in an attempt to get right what is so frequently gotten wrong.
The episode formats vary between solo-lecturer (Jack Pelham) presentations and family discussions with Jack's wife, Kay, and son, James. The solo episodes have episode-specific show notes on the web page that bears each episode.
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The Golden Rule and Who Is Responsible for Filling Up the Emotional Void You Naturally Have Inside
DESCRIPTION: Jack discusses the common problem of people hoping to fill up their internal emotional voids, and how Jesus’ “Golden Rule” may just provide a lot of the answer to this problem.
A professional therapist told me once that most everybody’s got an emotional void inside, along with some level of drive to fill it. -
Episode 5: What It Means To Be Created–Part A
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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SHOW NOTES
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... -
Episode 6: What It Means To Be Created–Part B
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.
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Episode 7: Why I Wish We’d Drop the Terms “Old Testament” and “New Testament”
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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Episode 8: Family Discussion About What It Means To Be Created
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.
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Episode 9: The American Mask Crisis, and How Romans 13 Does Not Prohibit Civil Disobedience. Part A
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.