Ep 5 "Deconstructing The Bible" part 1

The Deconstructionists

John Williamson

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:religion, Judaism, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Islam, Religion, Hinduism, Buddhism

4.5 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2016

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

John and Adam kick off part 1 of a 3 part series on deconstructing how we view THE BIBLE. This book (which isn't really a book) is divisive and problematic. It was written thousands of years ago and has been interpreted over and over. Can we trust it? Should we just throw it out? Do we have to take it seriously? What does that mean? Adam and John try to take us to a place where we can ask: "Is it possible to bring this all down a few notches and chill a little?" Say tuned for the next 3 weeks as some HUGE expert-guests weigh in on what the hell we should do with this "book" Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-deconstructionists/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Deconstructionist Podcast. We are your hosts. I'm Adam Narlock. And I'm John Williamson.
0:14.7	The Deconstructionist podcast is a place for people to find safety with their doubts and their
0:20.7	questions.
0:21.6	It's a place where we examine our lives and our worldviews and our faith and our beliefs
0:26.6	and things we see and taste and touch throughout the world and we evaluate them,
0:31.6	question them, and wrestle with them, and encounter them.
0:34.6	And we call ourselves the deconstructionists because we think one of the ways to be a person of authenticity
0:40.3	is to look at things with honesty and integrity and take things apart and not just let somebody believe for you.
0:48.3	Not just take something you've inherited and just swallowed wholesale,
0:52.3	but wrestle with it, struggle with it, sometimes walk
0:55.1	away from it completely, if only to come back to it again in a new and fresh way.
1:00.4	And one of the important things that we want to point out, though, is that we are not just
1:05.0	about blowing up our entire belief systems, but rather we're also into reconstruction.
1:11.0	Absolutely.
1:12.0	And so to be clear, you know, we are not out there saying that you just need to tear down
1:17.1	all the walls.
1:18.5	We're also saying there are some things that you're going to want to hold on to, some
1:21.4	things you want to keep along the way.
1:23.9	And, you know, it's really cool in this day and age, I think, to be a seeker, you know,
1:28.8	and be like, I don't really believe in anything, man, you know. Yeah. And that's, I mean,
1:33.0	you know, for some people. I'm a gypsy of belief. Just from one thing to another. Yeah. And I think
1:39.0	the big thing, though, is it's okay to find things and to hold on to them. I love that you said that.
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