Ep. 105 - Dr. Thomas Jay Oord ”Q&A for God Can’t”

The Deconstructionists

John Williamson

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Guest Bio: Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian, philosopher, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. He is an award-winning author, and he has written or edited more than twenty books. Oord has won the Outstanding Faculty Award twelve times as professor of Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho. Oord is known for his contributions to research on love, relational theology, science and religion, and Wesleyan/Holiness/Church of the Nazarene thought. (Select) Guest Publications: The Nature of Love: A Theology; The Uncontrolling Love of God: An Open and Relational Account of Providence; God Can't: How to Believe in God and Love After Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils; and God Can't Q&A. Guest Links: www.thomasjayoord.com Twitter: @thomasjayoord Special Guest Music: George Ogilvie www.george-ogilvie.com Twitter: @george_ogilvie Facebook: @george_ogilvie Enjoy the songs? Songs heard throughout the episode were: "Surveillance" from the EP, Nowhere; "Grave" from the album, White Out; the single, "Foreign Hands"; and the single, "In Only a Day (Alternate)" Go support George by grabbing his tunes on iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, or anywhere good music is sold! Stay on top of all the latest at www.thedeconstructionists.com Go there to read our blog, grab a tee shirt, snag a pint glass or mug, follow us on social media, or join our Patreon family. The Deconstructionists Podcast is edited by John Williamson. This episode was mixed and produced by Nicholas Rowe at National Audio Preservation Society: A full service recording studio and creative habitat. located in Heath, Ohio. Find them on facebook and Twitter or go to their website for more information. www.nationalaudiopreservationsociety.weebly.com www.facebook.com/nationalaudiopreservationsociety Twitter: @napsrecording Website by Ryan Battles All Photos by Jared Hevron Logos designed by Joseph Ernst & Stephen Pfluig T-Shirt designs by Joseph Ernst, Chad Flannigan, Colin Rigsby, and Jason Turner Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-deconstructionists/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	And some Christian theologians have said God can't contradict God's own nature.
0:05.8	And what I'm making the claim here is that God's nature is love.
0:09.8	And this love is self-giving and others empowering.
0:14.7	And because it's God's very nature to act this way and God can't deny himself,
0:20.3	God can't contradict God's own nature.
0:23.7	God simply can't control anyone or anything.
0:32.4	No one will be talking in time once the day
0:39.6	Welcome to the Deconstructionist podcast.
0:41.6	I'm your host John Williamson, and we have a returning guest this week.
0:45.8	We welcome back Dr. Thomas J. Ord.
0:49.1	And he was on probably about a year or two ago.
0:52.3	Now looking back, I'll have to put the prior episode in the show
0:57.1	notes, but he came on in promotion of a book that he had that came out called God Can't. And it was a
1:03.2	bit of a conversation starter, shall we say, on the podcast. So we had a lot of good conversations
1:08.6	that came out of it. But what the book attempts to do
1:11.9	is kind of answer the age old question, you know, if God is all good and God created everything,
1:17.9	you know, God created the universe and everything in it, then where did evil come from and why does
1:21.9	bad stuff happen? And I think that's a really relatable question that we find ourselves asking more and more these days with the pandemic going on and with all the things that we see happening around the world.
1:34.8	So I thought it was a pretty good time to have him back on to talk about his follow book that he just wrote based on God Can't.
1:43.2	And it's based on prevalent questions that he
1:47.0	got in regards to the book, God Can't. So it's designed, it's broken out into eight chapters,
1:54.4	and he basically lays out seven questions that he got based off the first book through lectures
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