Episode 41: William Paul Young - Reimagining the God of the Bible

The Bible For Normal People

The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 19 March 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In this episode, Pete & Jared talk to William Paul Young, author of the NY Times bestselling book and feature film, "The Shack." Young describes his thought process behind his controversial portrayal of God the Father as an African-American woman and reminds us that we all bring some level of interpretation to the Biblical text. 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,
0:02.2	the only God ordained podcast on the internet.
0:05.3	Serious talk about the sacred book.
0:07.4	I'm Pete Ends.
0:08.2	And I'm Jared Byeth.
0:10.6	Welcome everyone to this episode of the Bible for Normal People.
0:14.0	We are talking today about reimagining the God of the Bible
0:17.8	and we are talking with William Paul Young,
0:19.8	the author of The Shack and he has some other works going on,
0:23.7	projects including some films actually.
0:27.3	So reimagining the God of the Bible.
0:30.8	Right. And he's done a fair bit of that himself, right,
0:34.6	with The Shack, where he reimagines the Trinity in ways
0:39.3	that was pretty controversial for a number of people,
0:43.2	but also just a breath of fresh air for others.
0:46.0	And reimagining God, or I mean,
0:48.6	in fact, what doesn't help is another one,
0:50.5	how we think about God.
0:52.0	That really changes for people at different times
0:54.7	in different places, different circumstances.
0:57.5	And even within the Bible, right, Jared?
0:59.2	We talked a little bit about how even the Bible itself
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