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The Bible For Normal People

[Faith] Episode 35: Pete Enns & Jared Byas - Navigating Through Black-and-White Thinking

The Bible For Normal People

The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Faith for Normal People, Pete and Jared tackle your questions about faith, identifying a common theme of the tendency toward dualism and binary thinking and exploring how to think more critically when faced with either/or theological questions. Show Notes → ********** This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/bnp and get on your way to being your best self. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Faith for Normal People, the only other God-ordained podcast on the internet.

0:04.7

I'm Pete Ens, and I'm Jared Bias.

0:06.5

Today on Faith for Normal People, it's just us.

0:16.0

And we asked our Society of Normal People community members

0:19.0

about their most pressing theological questions

0:21.2

and the theme that emerged was about navigating through black and white thinking.

0:26.2

We had about 13 questions that ended up coming in that we kind of whittled down to and five of them out of the 13 were very similar about this

0:36.2

theme of navigating through black and white thinking. Yeah a very common theme that

0:40.4

I think a lot of us experience and this was really fun for us to do because it's a live podcast recording,

0:46.0

meaning that our community members are actually getting access to this whole conversation

0:50.0

as we record it, which isn't always good, Jared, I think.

0:54.0

There were some twice and turns.

0:56.0

I hope they cut out those embarrassing things that you did and said.

0:59.0

Emotional roller coaster we were on.

1:01.0

Yes, I hope so, because if not, I don't know, we're just, we were in

1:03.3

in deep trouble here anyway about a month before it even airs you know people

1:07.2

are seeing this live and our son pea community yeah so this is the quick shameless

1:11.7

plug if you want to participate in our Q&As and these live podcast recordings in the future

1:15.8

You can become a member of Sampe at the Bible for an oil people.com front slash join.

1:19.7

All right, let's get into the episode.

1:23.6

It's realizing you're underwater and the waters all around you, there's a thickness.

1:30.2

That is the reality that we're living into, in that sense transcendence.

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