Episode 135: Gary Anderson - How the Bible Talks About Sin

The Bible For Normal People

The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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What is sin? It’s something we talk about often but rarely take the time to define. Gary Anderson has written a book on the subject so we brought him on the show to explain it to all us normal people. He sheds light on some common misconceptions and explains the history behind our modern understandings of sin. Show Notes → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Bible for normal people, the only God ordained podcast on the internet.
0:04.8	I'm Pete Ends.
0:05.8	And I'm Jared Bias.
0:08.4	Welcome everyone to this episode of the podcast.
0:10.2	Today we're talking about how the Bible talks about sin and we have Gary Anderson with us.
0:17.0	Tell us a little bit about Gary.
0:18.0	Yeah, Gary is a great guy.
0:20.2	He's a professor at Notre Dame, which is pretty cool.
0:23.4	And he's a professor of Old Testament like he revival,
0:26.6	but he really focuses a lot on like Judaism and the rise of Christianity,
0:32.4	which is a topic after my own heart.
0:34.1	And the topic today is sin.
0:36.1	And you know, we thought, Jared, we thought we'd do something on this topic
0:40.9	because it's one of those things that if you stop and think about it,
0:44.4	like frankly, most things in the Bible, like it's words we use all the time and take for granted.
0:49.8	But what does it mean?
0:51.3	Yeah, it's foundational to how we think about the world, frankly, for a lot of us.
0:57.2	But maybe something we haven't really taken the time to stop and think about what we're saying and where did it come from?
1:03.8	Yeah, what do we mean by sin?
1:05.0	What do we mean by God?
1:06.6	Right.
1:06.8	We mean by Messiah.
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