How Do You Read the Bible? – Paradigm E1

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever read the Bible and felt like you’re not “getting it” or that you’re not connecting with God? In this episode, Tim and Jon take a look at the (often unhelpful) paradigms through which we interact with Scripture. They explore how seeing the Bible as a unified story that leads to Jesus not only gives the Bible space to do what it was created to do, but frees us up to be transformed by the story it’s telling.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is John at Bible Project.
0:07.8	If you've been listening to this podcast much, you know that our mission is to explore
0:11.5	the Bible as a unified story that leads to Jesus.
0:14.7	That's a punchy little phrase we use as a shorthand.
0:17.6	For our conviction about how the Bible should be read, a unified story that leads to Jesus.
0:23.0	But what does that actually mean?
0:25.2	And what way is it unified?
0:27.4	Is it really just a story?
0:29.4	And how is the whole thing about Jesus?
0:31.3	And what about the Bible teaching us how to live good lives?
0:34.7	And how about the Bible being God's word?
0:37.2	We're beginning a brand new series unpacking our conviction about what the Bible is.
0:42.1	We're calling it the paradigm series.
0:44.4	What is our paradigm for how to read the Bible?
0:47.5	So a paradigm, it's not something so much that you think about.
0:51.4	It's a framework for understanding reality that you take for granted and then you think
0:56.3	within that.
0:57.3	And so it's actually very difficult to step back from your own paradigm and tinker with
1:02.6	it.
1:03.6	And you have to be exposed to other views of reality and understand them and then understand
1:08.2	how you're on differs.
1:09.4	And then you begin to like see the fish bowl that you've been swimming in but have never
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