586: What We Get Wrong About Heaven (Hint: Almost Everything) with Skye Jethani
The Holy Post
Phil Vischer
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Skye's new book "What If Jesus Was Serious About Heaven?" Is here! Kaitlyn interviews him about the book, why popular Christian beliefs about heaven are so often unbiblical, and how heaven can become an idol that replaces Jesus as the center of our faith. Also this week: Reactions to the war that's erupted in Israel. How will the End Times industry spin this unprecedented attack? Phil returns from Nashville with insights about why evangelicals are bad at comedy but good at anger. Kaitlyn learns what a "hutchmoot" is. And the Holy Post (producer) has a baby!
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0:00 - Intro
0.51 - Show starts
1:57 - Theme Song
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3:33 - Israel at War with Hammas
14:42 - Why aren't Christians funny?
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44:05 - Interview Intro
45:58 - Why Heaven and what we get wrong about it
55:47 - The Kingdom of Heaven
1:02:57 - Dangers of escapist mentality
1:21:33 - End Credits
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Holy Post Time. This week we talk about my new book, What If Jesus Was |
| 0:05.2 | Serious About Heaven? Caitlin interviews me about the book, Why Popular Christian Beliefs About |
| 0:09.9 | Heaven Are So Often Completely Unbiblical? And how heaven can actually become an idol that replaces |
| 0:16.0 | Jesus at the center of our faith? Also this week, we react to the war that's erupted in Israel. |
| 0:21.8 | Plus, Phil is back from Nashville with some interesting insights about why evangelicals are so |
| 0:26.4 | bad at comedy, but often so good at anger. Caitlin learns what a hutch moot is and the Holy |
| 0:32.4 | Post had a baby. Well, technically our producer Mike and his wife did, but we're all super excited |
| 0:38.0 | about it. And stay tuned for later in the show when we have a really great announcement about a special |
| 0:42.5 | promotion for all of our Holy Post listeners that you're not going to want to miss. Okay, here's |
| 0:47.2 | episode 586. Hey there, welcome back to the podcast. This is Phil Vichers, this is the Holy Post |
| 0:54.1 | podcast. I am here with Skygettani. Hi Sky. Hi Phil. And Caitlin Shes. Hi Caitlin. Hi Phil. |
| 1:03.3 | And if you don't have the video, picture the cutest librarian you've ever seen in your whole |
| 1:10.1 | life, because that's what Caitlin looks like today. The cutest librarian you've ever seen in your |
| 1:14.4 | whole life. That's so nice. I thought you were going to flip it at the end there and say, |
| 1:18.4 | Sky also has books behind. Sky, I look like the sponsor at the library. Sky looks like the grumpiest |
| 1:26.0 | baseball manager you've ever seen. I don't know. That's a pretty hard part. An all black team. |
| 1:35.6 | Yeah, I'm wearing a black shirt. I have a black hat. Yep. And you're in a black room. |
| 1:39.9 | You have a black hat, black shirt, black room. And you know, I guess now you're smiling, |
| 1:45.5 | because I pointed out that you are. Now we're going to work hard. I was smiling the moment we |
| 1:50.2 | started working. I do not believe that to be the case. And now it's time for the theme song. |
| 1:58.8 | What's the news that you like the most? Who's your favorite podcast host? If it's breakfast, |
| 2:06.4 | get your toast. It's Sky and Phil and the Holy Post. Sky and Phil and the Holy Post. |
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