Friday, April 12, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 10:16)
Do Animals Play? The Christian Worldview Presents a Much More Satisfying Answer Than the Evolutionary Worldview — And It’s True
- Do Animals Have Fun? by The Atlantic (Sallie Tisdale)
Part II (10:16 - 12:59)
Is Judas in Heaven? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from a Listener of a 6-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing
Part III (12:59 - 14:44)
Given That There is No Identifiable Ethnic Group Who Could Correctly Be Called "Palestinian," Why Do You Use that Term on The Briefing? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part IV (14:44 - 18:10)
Should I Be Consumed With Fear of Sin and Sinful Thoughts? Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of Listeners of The Briefing
Part V (18:10 - 20:16)
If God Knows Everything, Does He Know His Future Thoughts in the Present? Does He Ever Have New Thoughts? Can He Change His Mind? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from Young Listeners of The Briefing
Part VI (20:16 - 24:21)
How Can We Know God’s Will For Our Family? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part VII (24:21 - 26:31)
What Will Heaven Be Like? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 16-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, April 12, 2024. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian |
| 0:12.4 | worldview. Do animals play? |
| 0:15.0 | No, the better question is, why do animals play? And beyond that, what does the fact that animals play say to us as we think about how the Christian should view the world. |
| 0:25.5 | An evolutionary biologist by the name of David Toomey has written a book entitled Kingdom of Play and the issues getting a lot of play. You have major magazines like the |
| 0:35.4 | Atlantic looking at the book and looking at the argument. You have major newspapers |
| 0:40.8 | like the Wall Street Journal giving it attention and it turns out |
| 0:44.7 | that that's just indicative of how human beings want to give playing animals |
| 0:49.1 | attention anyway. The biggest evidence of this the numbers on YouTube videos. |
| 0:55.0 | What are people watching? |
| 0:57.0 | Well, in this case, they're watching something that I find absolutely fantastic and wonderful. |
| 1:01.0 | Animals at play. |
| 1:03.0 | Here's the thing. |
| 1:04.0 | That is clearly what they're doing. |
| 1:06.0 | You can try to tell yourself animals don't play |
| 1:08.0 | but then you watch them at play and they are playing. |
| 1:11.0 | And I don't just mean puppies with a ball. |
| 1:14.1 | I am talking about animals that are clearly just playing. |
| 1:18.8 | Elephants out in the middle of a grassland. |
| 1:22.4 | Tigers and lions with little cubs clearly playing |
| 1:25.3 | with each other and also daring even to play with dear old dad who sometimes |
| 1:31.2 | responds even with all of his might and ferocity, not with anger but with play. |
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