Friday, October 28, 2022

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

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🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

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

Part I (00:13 - 11:29)
Marriage Delayed and Children Foregone: The Age of People in First-Time Marriages Is Rising, and Fertility Rates are Declining — We Better Watch This Closely

First-Time Marriages Are on the Rise for People in Their 40s and 50s by Wall Street Journal (Clare Ansberry)

Part II (11:29 - 16:44)
‘Gathering Together for Dinner Can Feel Like an Impossibility’: Families are Now So Busy That Many Children Never Have a Family Meal — And the Children are Suffering

Family Dinners Are Key to Children’s Health. So Why Don’t We Eat Together More? by Wall Street Journal (Julie Jargon and Andrea Petersen)

Part III (16:44 - 20:45)
When Does Personhood Begin? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Part IV (20:45 - 23:03)
Why Did God Put the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 7-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Part V (23:03 - 25:21)
What is the Distinction Between Justice and Fairness? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Part VI (25:21 - 28:56)
Do Verses 4 and 5 of Proverbs 26 Contradict Each Other? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

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0:00.0	It's Friday, October 28, 2022.
0:07.8	I'm Albert Moller and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from
0:12.0	a Christian worldview.
0:13.7	And just a bit we're going to get to questions from our listeners, but first of all, I want
0:17.2	to look at some issues in our national conversation that have a great deal to do with how human
0:22.8	beings live or are supposed to live.
0:25.5	For huge questions about what has happened to the way the human beings are now living.
0:30.2	Why do we see some of the patterns that we see right now?
0:33.9	A couple of patterns that should have our attention, particularly as Christians, is the
0:38.2	pattern of the delay of marriage and a delayed advent of adulthood for that matter in terms
0:45.0	of the lives of many young people, and a redefinition of marriage, and also, and this is
0:50.1	where Christians understand these two things are tied together, a significant fall in the
0:54.8	total fertility rate or the birth rate.
0:57.4	People are having babies later, if having them at all, they're having fewer children per
1:02.3	couple, if you're talking about a couple at all, all kinds of moral complexities.
1:07.2	Some of them made possible by the technological revolution of advanced reproductive technologies
1:12.3	as they are known.
1:13.8	Some of it made possible by changes in the morality of the nation.
1:18.2	How we define marriage, think of marriage, think of family, all of this has a very, very
1:23.7	important impact, not only in the society writ large.
1:27.7	And frankly, we're looking at declining birth rates, throughout most of the nations of
1:31.4	the earth right now, representing a significant national threat.
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