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446 - To Be Human - Part One: In The Beginning

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Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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New series alert! To Be Human... Today, we begin a new conversation around what it means to be human. In this episode, Mike and Tim dive into the meaning of the first sentence of Genesis and the significance of the words 'bereshit' and 'reshit.' What is the purpose of Genesis and the creation story? Why is it important to understand the literary devices used in the text?

Further, we explore the conflict between science and faith in interpreting Genesis. We emphasize that Genesis is not meant to answer scientific questions about ‘how' and ‘when' things happened, but rather the ‘what' and ‘why.’ The importance of curiosity and humility in biblical interpretation is highlighted, as well as the use of symbolism and metaphor in Genesis. We also discuss the flexibility of interpretation and the role of liturgy and tradition in faith. It concludes by emphasizing the role of Jesus and the gospel in understanding Genesis.

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0:00.0

Oh, What's up everybody? Michael Caroleery, Timothy John Stafford, your humble hosts of the Voxology Podcast.

0:25.0

Welcome.

0:26.8

We hear a lot from those of you who are newer to the podcast,

0:30.3

and so we just want to say a couple of things first of all prepare to be

0:33.8

disappointed and and secondly in Spider-Man like if you just set yourself up for

0:40.3

if you expect disappointment you're never yeah you're never disappointed. Yeah, if you lower your expectations, key to life,

0:47.0

lower it lowered expectations, marriage parenting, the whole thing.

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That's our mission bio.

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With dramatically lowering the expectations of people about podcasts,

0:59.0

Voxology.

1:00.0

Anyway, hello, I'm coming fresh off a stint in the news segment of the Holy Post

1:08.0

podcast. This is true. I listened. This is true. I know you're so nice, you're so nice and you always are like hey I really enjoyed whatever and thank you

1:16.8

Timothy love what love what they're up to there's some great man. There's some great podcast out there the the Bima one with Marty Solomon I'm not I'm not current on that

1:27.6

Obviously we love the gombus

1:29.8

We love the holy post Caitlin I think is doing her own excuse me so we're stoked about that Seth theory needs one

1:38.6

I've thought about the Seth cast we've talked about it before but I want to say a couple of things first of all thank you

1:44.2

for all of you who have been emailing in and and this part the parenting thing has

1:51.0

struck a chord. Oh my word. And so thank you for all of you emailing in. I don't

2:00.0

know, I've been thinking about, you know, do we want to explore that a little more do we do

2:03.9

like a different stream of the podcast not sure.

2:08.8

Well one of the things I talked about and I maybe listeners can email in about this is that for me in reading those

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emails it seems like there's something about the practicality of living out like the parenting thing was a good vehicle to look at the

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