Episode 111: Tom Oord - Uncontrolling Love of God
The Bible For Normal People
The Bible for Normal People
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🗓️ 9 December 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Bible for Normal People, the only God ordained podcast on the internet. |
| 0:05.1 | Serious talk about the sacred book. I'm Pete Ends. |
| 0:08.3 | And I'm Jared Byas. |
| 0:09.3 | Hey, welcome normal people to this episode of the Bible for Normal People. |
| 0:15.3 | And our topic today is, are there things God can't do? |
| 0:20.3 | And our guest is Jared. |
| 0:22.8 | Tom Word, otherwise known as Thomas J. Word. |
| 0:26.2 | And that's J.A.Y. Word. |
| 0:27.5 | Yes, who was a professor of theology and philosophy at Northwest Nazarene University. |
| 0:33.0 | And said some things that we'll talk about that are maybe a little bit different from what |
| 0:38.1 | you would typically hear. |
| 0:39.6 | And he wrote some of this, we asked the question, are there things God can't do? |
| 0:43.0 | Well, Tom Word wrote a book called God Can't. |
| 0:45.6 | So spoiler alert. |
| 0:46.6 | There's your answer. |
| 0:48.6 | And another one that's maybe a little more descriptive, at least the title, the uncontrolling |
| 0:52.2 | love of God. |
| 0:53.2 | So we talk a little bit about how our views of God impact, how we read the Bible, especially |
| 0:59.0 | in the ways that Tom has developed his view of God. |
| 1:03.0 | And of course, relying on years and years of Christian tradition and history is not making |
| 1:07.2 | the stuff I had nowhere. |
| 1:08.2 | Right. |
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