Friday, December 2, 2022

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

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🗓️ 2 December 2022

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 06:45)
Merriam-Webster Releases Its Word of the Year — What Does the ‘Word of the Year’ Tell Us About History and Culture?

Part II (06:45 - 17:52)
The 2022 Merriam-Webster Word of the Year: ‘Gaslighting’ — The Nefarious Nature of the Word Reminds Us of the Importance of Truth

Gaslighting: Merriam-Webster Picks Its Word of the Year by BBC News (Sam Cabral)

Part III (17:52 - 19:44)
How Does the ‘Respect for Marriage’ Act Make a Church and Pastor Vulnerable If They Will Not Perform Same-Sex Marriage Ceremonies? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

A Friend’s Response to David French on the Respect for Marriage Act by WORLD Opinions (Kristen Waggoner)

Part IV (19:44 - 23:14)
Did God Try to Kill Moses? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Did God Try to Kill Moses? by AlbertMohler.com (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.)

Part V (23:14 - 25:53)
Is It Possible for a Person to Take His Own Life and Still Be a Christian? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

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0:00.0	It's Friday, December 2, 2022.
0:07.8	I'm Albert Molar, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from
0:12.3	a Christian worldview.
0:14.2	To be human is to be embedded in language, and that language is made up of words, and
0:18.8	thus words really matter.
0:20.9	Miriam Webster for the last several years has had the habit at the end of the year of
0:24.8	announcing the annual Word of the Year, and this year that word is gaslighting.
0:30.7	Words are important, and Christians understand the importance of words.
0:34.6	Words do not always mean the same thing, and different contexts, words can be malleable,
0:39.5	words can change over time.
0:41.6	They can change over time, by the way, just in spelling.
0:44.4	You look at an original printing of the King James Bible from 1611.
0:49.0	You're going to have some very interesting spellings, very divergent from what you would
0:53.4	find in standard English today, and sometimes divergent from what you would find on another
0:58.3	page of the King James Bible.
1:00.7	But as those Bible translators that produce what is known and written as the authorized
1:04.9	version, and in the United States as the King James version, as they indicated and underlined
1:10.3	with words, the words are absolutely important.
1:14.5	And when it comes to, for example, Holy Scripture, we're talking about the claim that is very
1:19.7	clear in essential to biblical authority and to understanding what the Bible is, that
1:24.6	every word of the Bible is inspired, and every word is fully inspired.
1:29.0	Thus, Christians understand that words are of crucial importance.
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