Defeater Ethics: Parents
Every Square Inch Podcast
Christ for Kentucky
4.9 • 557 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Parents are the most influential relationships in a person’s life, and none of them model Christ perfectly. In this week’s episode, Robert asks everyone (and especially those who left the faith due to their parents’ failings) to take a fresh look at the God of the Bible, whose call to “honor your father and mother” may not mean what you think.
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| 1:03.4 | Thank you for your patience as I took a couple weeks off for my PhD work. |
| 1:09.9 | My original plan was to complete this defeat her ethics |
| 1:13.7 | series before that study break, but the timing did not go quite as planned, so I have a couple |
| 1:20.6 | more episodes to record before we move on. So we are nearing the end of an apologetics series defending the Christian faith, |
| 1:29.8 | but the defense is focused less on the truth of Christianity and more on the beauty and goodness |
| 1:37.0 | of Christianity. Defeater beliefs is the term popularized by the late Tim Keller, who argued that there are certain intellectual |
| 1:47.6 | objections to religion in general and Christianity in particular that must be addressed |
| 1:54.4 | before our skeptical friends are able to even give the Christian faith a consideration. |
| 2:05.1 | Thus, they are defeater beliefs. But my argument is that our neighbors are now wrestling more with ethical objections, supposed moral failures of |
| 2:12.4 | Christians and Christianity, and these defeater ethics are what we need to be engaging. We've addressed many of |
| 2:20.8 | these moral concerns, but the one I want to discuss in this episode may be the most significant, |
| 2:28.0 | and the reason it is so significant is actually grounded in a biblical principle, as I will explain in a moment. |
| 2:36.7 | The Bible teaches and social research confirms that the most significant and formative |
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