How (Not) to Read the Bible with Dan Kimball

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Alli Worthington

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🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

I started this podcast to create a safe space for exploring our faith, our beliefs and new ideas. Well, friends, this conversation with Dan Kimball delivers and I can’t wait for you to hear it! Dan is an author who focuses on encouraging us to think creatively about breaking the negative stereotypes both the church and Christians face. And our conversation today is inspired by his new book, How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture. During our time together, we talk about the dangers of using Scripture out of context and what we can do when someone uses the Bible against us to discredit our beliefs. Dan also gives us a helpful lens to use when reconciling challenging parts of the Bible, especially violence and slavery, with our faith. And don’t worry, we wrap up the episode with some fun talking about why Scripture is anti-shrimp, how to get a donkey into a bathtub, and if there are really unicorns hiding out in the Bible. In this episode, Dan and I talk about: The truth of God’s character and how we can learn from everything in the Bible, including themes of violence How information is our strongest defense when it comes to safeguarding our faith, especially for younger generations Seeing the Bible as a library instead of a science manual and how we can use it to inform our modern-day questions, but not necessarily answer them. Favorite quotes: 1. Most Christians are not prepared to address the not-so-nice sounding bible verses. We just have to be prepared. 2. We have to know how to read our bible, the good verses and the crazy sounding verses. 3. Never read a bible verse by itself. 4. The bible was written to other people. But it was written for us so we can understand who God is. 5. We have turned the bible into a science manual trying to get our modern day questions and that wasn’t its intent. Links to great things we discussed: 1. Dan Kimball 2. How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture3. The Fat Man4. The Chosen 5. Greenland 6. Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy With God7. Skull Socks 8. Max Richter Sleep Album 9. Standing Strong Hope you loved this episode! Be sure to subscribe in iTunes and slap some stars on a review! :) xo, Alli

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, this is Allie and welcome to the Allie Worthington show.
0:06.7	It's where we gather, learn, share our stories and have a great time.
0:10.8	Every week I'll be chatting with a friend who I know, who I like and I respect, and I want to learn something from.
0:17.3	And after we have that discussion, we are going to have coaching time.
0:20.0	So I'm going to be
0:20.8	answering your questions about life, about faith, and about business. Welcome to the show today.
0:26.5	I'm with the brilliant Dan Kimball. He wrote a book that we love so much in our house called How
0:32.6	Not to Read the Bible. This is a fun show. Dan and I have a lot of fun, but it's a really important show.
0:39.2	We dive into so much that we need to know. This is one of those arm yourself with wisdom
0:46.0	kind of episodes. I love doing shows like this. This type of episode is why I have the podcast,
0:51.7	because what you're getting today is going to help you. Whether
0:55.8	you're a parent or a grandparent or a teacher, you influence young people's lives in some way.
1:01.5	You need to hear this episode. We dive into why verses taken out of context can actually end up
1:07.2	harming people's faith. That's a crazy thought, right? We talk about why the Bible can sometimes
1:12.8	be seen as pro-violence and pro-slavery and anti-women. I mean, we really dive in. And then we have
1:20.6	fun with some things like, why is the Bible anti-shrimp and what's up with unicorns? All sorts of
1:26.4	things are in this episode. I'm sure you can tell
1:28.9	how excited I am. That's just how good this one is. That's how much you're going to love this show.
1:33.9	But most importantly, it's a must listen episode that's going to help so many people.
1:38.9	Now, because Dan and I really dive into these topics, there's no coaching today, but before I get into the show,
1:45.8	I want to know for sure if you have taken my quiz on my website. The quiz is how to find your
1:52.6	secret superpower. It only takes two minutes and it tells you what your secret strength is and what
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