#173 Why Isn't God More Obvious? with Dr. Travis Dickinson
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
4.9 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In this special LIVE episode of The Alisa Childers Podcast, Dr. Travis Dickinson, Professor of Philosophy at Dallas Baptist University, joined us for another installment of our ask the Professor series. We covered questions such as: Why isn’t God more Obvious? Why did God kill David’s son when the Old Testament says children aren’t to be punished for the sins of their fathers? What does it mean to say Jesus is the word? How can I overcome the existential fear of living forever? What are some good resources to study the cultural background of the Bible? If Jesus is God, why does the Bible say he didn’t know the date of his return?
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody. Welcome to the Alisa Childers podcast where we equip Christians |
| 0:24.5 | to identify the core beliefs of historic Christianity, discern its counterfeits, and proclaim |
| 0:29.6 | the gospel with clarity, kindness, and truth today. We have a very special live episode. So, |
| 0:36.0 | if you're listening on audio platforms, it means this episode has already occurred. But we're |
| 0:40.8 | going to start doing these every once in a while. So keep on the lookout on your YouTube subscriptions |
| 0:45.5 | to see when these live episodes are going to be airing because we'll take your questions live today. |
| 0:50.4 | Any skeptical claim you have against Christianity, any tough question you have about God or the truthfulness |
| 0:57.7 | of the Bible or the Christian worldview. We have a very special guest with us today to help |
| 1:02.4 | answer some of these questions. This is part of our series. We've done a couple of times. Now, |
| 1:07.0 | I think this is our third installment of Ask the Professor. This is a seminary professor answers |
| 1:13.0 | your toughest questions about God. So if you have questions, put those in the chat box with the |
| 1:19.2 | word questions in all caps or a capital Q, that will help us just kind of wade through all the |
| 1:25.0 | comments to find the questions. You can go ahead and start putting those questions in even right |
| 1:29.8 | now. If you have questions for me personally or if you have questions for our professor today, |
| 1:35.8 | we would be happy to do our best to engage with those guys. We are just two days away from |
| 1:42.0 | the release of Live Your Truth and Other Lies. Thank you all so much, by the way, for enduring all |
| 1:47.6 | of the emails and the Facebook posts and the mentions on the podcast. It's always when you come up |
| 1:53.4 | to the launch of a book, you really start to mention it so many times. So thank you so much |
| 1:58.3 | for allowing us to kind of come into your social media news feeds, just talking about this book all |
| 2:03.0 | the time. We're very excited about it. I'm very excited about it. And one of the reasons I'm very |
| 2:08.0 | excited about it is because I think our culture is really buying into a lot of slogans and a lot |
| 2:14.3 | of things that sound good. There are things, it's the thing you'd want to say to somebody if they're |
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