Ephesians, Temple, Changing, Overcoming, and Christ with Philip Abbot (week of Oct. 2, 2nd episode)

The Scriptures Are Real

Kerry Muhlestein

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Courses

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🗓️ 1 October 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Using Philip's published translation of Ephesians, Kerry and Philip Abbot discuss the language and beauty of the Epistle to the Ephesians. They also explore how the teachings in this letter are related to the temple. They also talk about its teachings about the Second Coming and Christ's conquering of the world for us. They also probe Paul's teachings about how we become alive in Christ and thus overcome what we were when we were part of the world. They discuss how this is happening for us now and we receive an earnest, or down payment, change, and how it will continue to happen for us. They also explore how Christ can bring us together to each other and to God. They touch on Paul's teachings about marriage and how we learn from Christ about how to be a good spouse. They lead us through a discussion about our spiritual battle with the world. The explore language about sitting and walking and standing that help us understand the temple. We are grateful for our sponsor, Lisa Spice, and for our editor, BJ Muhlestein, and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Scriptures or Real podcast.
0:09.0	This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have helped them become more real to us because we think that helps us draw more power out of them and we need all the help we can get.
0:17.0	I'm your host, Kerry Mealstein, and I'm so happy to have with me a new colleague and a friend,
0:23.3	Dr. Phil Abbott, who is a visiting professor at BYU in the same department I'm in.
0:30.2	Phil has just finished his PhD from Stanford in New Testament Studies, I believe. Did I get that right?
0:36.3	It was early Christianity.
0:44.3	Early Christianity. That's right. Okay. Before that at Yale and before that at Pepperdine and working on master's degrees. And I believe before that in Provo at BYU. So did I get it all right? Yeah. Yep. That's great.
0:52.1	And I know he also has a musical interest, and so does his wife.
0:56.0	We'll let him tell you about that. And so just welcome, Phil. Thanks for being with us.
1:00.0	Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm glad to be here. So tell us a little bit more about yourself.
1:06.0	So yeah, I just graduated from Stanford in early Christianity.
1:11.7	I did my dissertation on the soundscape or the kind of acoustic landscape of early Christianity.
1:18.9	Before Stanford, I was at Yale where I studied New Testament studies with a minor in Old Testament studies.
1:25.8	Before that, I was at Pepperdine, where I did another master's in New Testament.
1:31.9	And then before that, I earned a Bachelor's of Music at BYU in cello performance.
1:37.8	And that's where I met my wife.
1:39.5	She did a bachelor's in violin performance.
1:42.6	She went on to continue doing the music route and I switched
1:48.1	and went more into ancient studies. So she continues to string things out, but you...
1:55.4	Yeah, she does, yes, yeah, exactly. Although I guess you strung your education out, so it's all fair.
2:01.1	Yeah, I definitely did not go the quick route on that one.
2:05.5	And she still plays professionally, right?
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