How Not to Read the Bible (with Dan Kimball)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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What do we say to some of the hard questions skeptics raise about the Bible? Some of the Bible is hard to understand and gives us pretty tough questions to answer. Dan Kimball, author of How Not to Read the Bible, goes through some of these hard questions and gives answers that make sense. Join Scott and Sean for this insightful interview about his new book. Dan Kimball is Pastor for Mission and Theology at Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, California and professor at George Fox Unive...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Think Bivocally, Conversations on Faith and Culture, a podcast from Talbot School of Theology,
0:07.2	Biola University. I'm your host, Sean McDowell, Professor of Apologetics.
0:11.2	I'm your co-host, Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Apologetics. I'm your co-host, Scott Ray,
0:13.3	Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics.
0:16.1	Today we have that with us a first-time guest
0:19.2	by the name of Dan Kimball.
0:20.4	He's an author.
0:21.7	He is on staff at Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz
0:24.7	California he's also on faculty at Western Seminary and he's written a great
0:29.5	new book that is so in line with what we do on the Think Bibically Podcast
0:34.0	because the title is how not to read the Bible.
0:38.3	Catchy, important title, and let me just read the subtitle, it says,
0:41.4	making sense of the anti women anti science pro violence
0:46.4	pro slavery and other crazy sounding parts of scripture Dan we're glad you're on the show. Why would you write a book dealing
0:56.1	with so many controversial topics like this? Yep, well you mentioned that I am on church staff and I have been in Santa Cruz, California, which is a pretty progressive town, a beach town up north where you are.
1:12.0	And I almost can't help but write this book because being in
1:16.1	31 years of ministry, youth leader, then young adult leader, then we planted, vintage
1:21.0	faith church right near the university. These are the very questions that keep coming up over and over and over and over again from both Christians and non-Christians. And they're just, it's like flooding conversations and the
1:36.7	saddest part it's not just Bible trivia it is because it is causing people to
1:41.7	doubt faith leave leave faith, and not be interested in faith because
1:46.5	of these very topics that are coming out of the Bible.
1:49.4	So that was my main motivation, was like I almost couldn't help write it because so many people
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