Cyril of Jerusalem at Al-Anon
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
"Man of the worldly mind, do you believe in me or not?" That's what Jacob Marley's ghost asks Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. In this episode, Spencer points out that everyone believes in something they can't see--the question is, what? So begins the first episode on faith in our tour through the three theological virtues.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's young heretic starts with a question and it's the question asked by the ghost of Jacob Marley to Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens, a Christmas Carol. |
| 0:12.0 | And now if you're watching the movie version of this... Charles Dickens, a Christmas Carol. |
| 0:12.7 | And now if you're watching the movie version of this, there's really only one that deserves |
| 0:16.8 | the name that deserves the recognition, and that is the Alistair Sim version. |
| 0:20.8 | And in that version, Marley, as the ghost with the chains of damnation upon him or at |
| 0:26.4 | least the chains of purgatory stands up and screeches and says to Scrooge |
| 0:30.5 | man of the worldly mind, do you believe in me or not? |
| 0:37.0 | Okay, do you believe, man of the worldly mind, do you believe that there can be more things in the world than the sorts of things you can discern with your regular senses? Do you think there's more beyond just the material world? |
| 0:55.8 | That's the question that Marley asks and that's going to be the question that we talk about today |
| 0:59.7 | as we embark upon a discussion of the Christian theological virtue of faith. |
| 1:06.8 | Now the Greek word that I'm translating there when I say faith is pistis, the verb is pisteiro, |
| 1:12.4 | it means to trust, to rely, to believe, all of those things kind of wrapped up into one. |
| 1:18.8 | And this is a word that's really important to talk about because sometimes when Christians do evangelism, they try to |
| 1:27.5 | you know persuade people to become Christians or when we go out into the world and we try to explain what Christianity is, |
| 1:34.4 | some Christians will say, well it's all about faith, you've just got to have faith, |
| 1:38.0 | it's like that old song, you know, because you gotta have faith, faith, faith, |
| 1:41.2 | and we talk about this and we use this word over and over and over again and |
| 1:44.7 | sometimes if we're not careful we start to use it like a little bumper sticker and |
| 1:49.4 | we never explain what we really mean by it and people that are listening to |
| 1:53.2 | Christian say this will be like faith in what what kind of faith what sort of |
| 1:56.8 | belief are we talking about here are we talking about the belief that I have in |
| 2:00.8 | mathematical proofs like 2 plus 2 equals 4, or the proof that bodies fall |
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