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I'm Pete Ends. And I'm Jared Bias.

Hey folks, welcome to this episode of the Bible for Normal People.

What's our topic for today, Jared? Today we are going to talk about respecting the Bible for what it is,

parentheses, and isn't. And isn't both of those things because what we're all about here is what is the

Bible and what do we do with it? And what do we do with it? Which are these eternal questions?

Yeah, but I think part of the reason this topic has come up for this episode is because I think there's

a reorientation that I've been going through where, you know, I've been having this episode on

the Making of the Modern Mindset. And sometimes I can be critical of your podcast series.

Yeah, the little mini series. And I can be critical of modernity and the limitations of modernity.

And yet I need to have a corrective lens to help me recognize also though that I respect the tools

of modern critical scholarship. In fact, I'm assuming it sometimes in my criticism of modernity.

And so I'm standing on the shoulders of critical scholarship and I just think maybe it would be good

for us to talk about some of that. Yeah, so I guess modernity being critical of itself in a sense,

is that what's it's I think sometimes there's this idea that we can throw the baby out with the

bathwater and instead recognizing like yeah, modernity produce some really good things even when

it comes to reading our Bible that have been really helpful for us in interpretation. And yet it can

still be limited. Right. So one of those things is and we've talked about this a bunch of times before

we're not going to be dead horse here today. But the idea of context of understanding something of

the context of these biblical writers because it can really help us from saying things that

are just pretty wack about the Bible. You know, well, and I think that's the heart of this episode

is let's dig into and talk about this tension between respecting the original context and the

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