Friday, December 13, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 08:24)
Theology is Always in the Headlines: An Ordered Massacre by a Gang Leader in Haiti Over Voodoo Confounds a Secular Age
- Massacre in Haiti’s Capital Leaves Nearly 200 Dead, U.N. Says by The New York Times (Frances Robles)
Part II (08:24 - 13:32)
Why Do You Talk About the Bad Things in the World, Rather Than Good Things, So Often on The Briefing? Is the Bible the Only Proof for God? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 13-Year-Old Listener to The Briefing
Part III (13:32 - 17:14)
When Jesus Says the Son Does Not Know ‘the Day or the Hour,’ Did He Lie to the Disciples or Is He Not Omniscient? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 13-Year-Old Listener to The Briefing
Part IV (17:14 - 22:10)
How Should I Think Through, Theologically, What I Want to Do With My Life? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 14-Year-Old Listener to The Briefing
Part V (22:10 - 27:35)
How Can I, As a Young Pastor and Father, Be Faithful in All That the Lord Has Called Me to Do, While Not Sacrificing Time with My Family and Still Resting in Christ? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, December 13, 2024. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.3 | Well, do we live in an increasingly secularized society or not? Is the world moving in a more secular direction or not? Well, I asked the question |
| 0:24.1 | because even as the answer appears to be obvious, yes, we're living in a more secularized age. |
| 0:28.8 | The world appears to be moving in a more secular direction. The reality is we have to talk about |
| 0:34.2 | it as Christians with a bit more insight than that. First of all, when you look |
| 0:38.9 | at the world's population, most of the population of the world is resolutely not secular, absolutely |
| 0:44.7 | not secularized, when it comes to, say, abandoning their religious beliefs and their religious |
| 0:51.5 | habits and traditions. You go to much of the world, |
| 0:55.0 | much of the world outside the Christian world is an Islamic world, and that Islamic world is |
| 1:00.1 | inherently not a secular world. That's not to say they aren't secularized people in it. People |
| 1:04.0 | have a more secular worldview. It is to say that the overarching culture is overwhelmingly |
| 1:09.9 | marked by Islam, not only as a theistic religion, |
| 1:13.8 | but also as a way of life, a Quranic rule, it is very much an Islamic civilization, or a |
| 1:20.4 | collection of Islamic civilizations. Then you have other parts of the world where there are |
| 1:26.0 | different religious systems that also are, to a greater and lesser extent, |
| 1:31.3 | combating or confronting secularism. |
| 1:33.8 | There are other worldviews that are more compatible with secularism, especially non-theistic forms of religion. |
| 1:38.5 | So as you look at Confucianism, you look at certainly variants of Hinduism and Buddhism, more compatible in one sense with secularism and with a society that can be at the one time Buddhist or Hindu to some degree and secular to another degree, especially when it comes to Confucianism and Buddhism. |
| 1:58.6 | It is also true that when you look at, say, Hinduism and Islam, |
| 2:03.0 | the headlines there would have to be, well, say, look at much of the world, and certainly |
| 2:07.2 | in the Indian subcontinent and the surrounding area, where the main conflict is not just, say, |
| 2:12.7 | India versus Pakistan or India versus Bangladesh, it is instead Hinduism versus Islam and Islam versus |
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