Friday, August 11, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 08:12)
Facebook Bowed to White House Pressure on Covid-19? Reports Show the Biden Administration Pressured Social Media Messaging During the Pandemic, Big Time
- Facebook Bowed to White House Pressure, Removed Covid Posts by Wall Street Journal (Ryan Tracy)
Part II (08:12 - 12:44)
Can We Know If King Solomon Was Truly Saved? Can We Expect to See Angels, Even If We Don’t Recognize Them As Such? How Can I Know God Is Real If I Cannot See Him? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from an 8-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing
Part III (12:44 - 15:45)
What About Going Into Politics? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part IV (15:45 - 20:15)
Would You Explain the Trinity? Can We Understand It Like We Understand Water, Which Is Able to Present In Three Different Forms That Have the Same Essence? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part V (20:15 - 24:08)
Should the Southern Baptist Convention’s Constitution More Clearly Specify That the Role of Pastor is Limited to Biological Males in Light of the Transgender Revolution? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, August 11, 2023. I'm Albert Molar, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis |
| 0:10.7 | of news and events from a Christian worldview. We know how much social media has changed, the |
| 0:16.2 | technological revolution has changed life, presenting challenges just about every dimension |
| 0:20.9 | of our society, and certainly to Christians who intend to be faithful in this life, who |
| 0:26.6 | want to prove faithful in terms of the use and stewardship of these technologies. But we |
| 0:32.1 | also need to understand that there is a frame of reality that is being presented to us in |
| 0:37.4 | virtually all of these platforms, and whether or not it corresponds to reality. Well, that's |
| 0:42.6 | an open question. We need to recognize, and we need to recognize constantly, that people |
| 0:47.6 | are trying to reach us with their messaging, to reach us in terms of changing the way we |
| 0:52.9 | think, changing the way we buy, changing the way we vote, changing the way we believe, changing |
| 0:58.9 | the way we understand reality itself. Now, keep that in mind with the major news story that |
| 1:03.5 | appeared just in recent days. It's by Ryan Tracy of the Wall Street Journal. The headline is this, |
| 1:08.2 | Facebook bowed to US pressure on COVID posts. Now, you talk about something that's loaded with |
| 1:13.6 | controversy. You put COVID in the midst of this. You put the American administration of Joe Biden |
| 1:18.7 | in this. You put the health authorities. You put the media. You put Facebook in this. Guess |
| 1:23.6 | what? You've got a combustible situation here. And yet, this is a big story. I think it should have |
| 1:29.0 | been getting a lot more attention. Ryan Tracy for the Wall Street Journal begins with these words, |
| 1:33.6 | quote, Facebook removed content related to COVID-19 in response to pressure from the Biden |
| 1:38.7 | administration, including post claiming the virus was man-made, according to internal company |
| 1:43.6 | communications viewed by the Wall Street Journal. End quote, let me just interject here and say, |
| 1:48.0 | when it comes to a human lab origin for the virus, in the eyes of many, including many health |
| 1:54.5 | experts, that's the most likely explanation. The main alternative theory, and this is held by many, |
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