Episode 482: Truth, Lies, and Spiritual Imagination with John Mark Comer
The Holy Post
Phil Vischer
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2021
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Why do we expect the Christian life to be easy when the Bible clearly says it will be a struggle? Starting with the wrong expectation, says John Mark Comer, makes us spiritually neurotic and causes more suffering than necessary. He talks with Skye about his new book, “Live No Lies,” why spiritual warfare isn’t what you’ve been taught, why information alone doesn’t change us, and what it means to really be people committed to the truth.
Also this week, artificial intelligence is now offering very questionable ethical advice. Phil wonders what it means for self-driving cars. Two seminaries are suing the government over the Covid vaccine mandate, but is it really a question of religious liberty? New data says white evangelicals are those most likely to use violence to defend America, and those most likely to reject America’s founding ideal of pluralism. Does anyone else see a contradiction? Plus, skull-crushing wombat bums.
News Segment:
Deadly wombat butts [5:14]
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/04/wombats-deadly-bums-how-they-use-their-skull-crushing-rumps-to-fight-play-and-flirt
Ethical AI trained on Reddit [13:57]
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dg8m/ethical-ai-trained-on-reddit-posts-said-genocide-is-okay-if-it-makes-people-happy
“Drive Recklessly” short film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S75Rfva9O8
Two evangelical seminaries sue to block vaccine mandates [27:32]
Study: Most white evangelicals don’t want to live in a religiously diverse country [38:06]https://religionnews.com/2021/11/01/study-most-white-evangelicals-dont-want-to-live-in-a-religiously-diverse-country/
Holy Post Updates [48:40]
Interview with John Mark Comer:“Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace”- https://amzn.to/3oh724y
PATREON BONUS: https://www.patreon.com/posts/58518164/
Interview Start [51:05]
Spiritual warfare and the spirituality of struggle [53:14]
Truth and lies; desert fathers and mothers [1:00:09]
Information alone vs. embodied spiritual formation [1:05:41]
Mental maps and spiritual imagination [1:13:36]
Conservative and progressive fundamentalism [1:24:14]
Other books mentioned:
“Water from a Deep Well” by Gerald L. Sittser - https://amzn.to/3kpBMPJ
“The Road Less Traveled” by M. Scott Peck - https://amzn.to/3D5t4h4
“Where the Light Fell” by Philip Yancey - https://amzn.to/3mZAzjS
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 482. This week, artificial intelligence is now offering very questionable ethical advice. |
| 0:07.3 | Phil wonders what it means for self-driving cars. Then two seminaries are suing the government |
| 0:12.0 | over the COVID vaccine mandate. But is it really an issue of religious liberty? |
| 0:16.5 | Then new data says that white evangelicals are the most likely to use violence to defend America, |
| 0:22.0 | and at the same time, those most likely to reject America's founding ideal of pluralism. |
| 0:26.8 | Does anyone else see the contradiction here? Then I talk to John Mark Comer about his new book |
| 0:31.7 | Live No Lies, Recognize and Resist the three enemies that sabotage your peace. |
| 0:37.2 | He talks about the reality of spiritual warfare, although it's not what we've been told. |
| 0:41.6 | The reason why information alone doesn't ultimately transform our lives, |
| 0:45.2 | and then what is the role of our imaginations as we seek to follow Christ? |
| 0:49.2 | All of that plus more fascinating things about Wombats. Here's episode 482. |
| 0:55.3 | Hey there, welcome back to the Holypost podcast. This is Phil Vischer. I am here with three delightful people |
| 1:01.5 | in three delightful locations, Skyjitani. Hi Sky. |
| 1:05.6 | Foning in from South Wheaton, Illinois. |
| 1:09.9 | Christian Taylor. Hi, Christian. |
| 1:11.8 | Hi. |
| 1:13.6 | I didn't hear you. Oh, there you are. Okay. |
| 1:16.2 | That's quite a delay. |
| 1:17.3 | That was quite a delay. Oh great. Foning in from somewhere in Kansas, |
| 1:22.3 | where apparently the internet is draining like the aqua fire. |
| 1:28.4 | That's a Kansas joke that they will get. |
| 1:31.2 | Jason Rugg who's phoning in from the Aurora Sweet Potato. |
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