Hey everyone welcome to the Conversations that matter podcast I'm out doing some

errands today and while I was at the gym I decided to check my messages on

social media and email and I often do that to try to

kill two birds with one stone save some time and I had a message that linked to

an article in the Christian Post by Dan Kimball who writes an article called

deconstructing and losing faith by reading the Bible and I thought this is such

an interesting topic I'd love to just do a short podcast on it because it's such a

short article and it's in layman's terms which is great and it describes

something a phenomenon that's happening everywhere. And it's not just a problem for

conservative evangelicals, it's a problem for anyone in Christiandom. You could be, you

know, in a mainline denomination very much on the progressive left engaging in all kinds of false teachings and this is something you're also concerned about.

And the article gives some remedies for this, but I think it misses the heart of, it has some good things.

I should say it's very well-meaning, it has some very good things, but I think it misses something that's very important.

It leaves out the main reason behind why this is

happening and that will affect how we answer it and how we think about it. So the problem is people are

leaving the faith and they're doing so not just by leaving because they're

converting to another religion or something, they're deconstructing their faith, right?

It's a postmodern kind of, there's a postmodern element to it, ex-angelical, craze, that kind of thing, and they'll say as much and one of the main ways that this happens or at least the off-ramp is they end up reading the Bible and they see

hey there's a lot of stuff in there that I didn't know was in there

I didn't realize that the Bible talks about slavery in a positive way ever anywhere I didn't realize the way it talks about women in some

places. I didn't realize that polygamies in there and horrible judgment from

Noah's flood and the list just goes on about things that modern

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