Nature and Norms: Disentangling Created Essence from Social Stereotypes

White Horse Inn

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🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Individualization seems to be ingrained into Western culture. Personal experience, self-proclaimed identity, toleration, and relative truth are the reigning figures of society. While God gives wisdom through his Scriptures, the norms and nature he has set for us are at constant odds with these prevailing cultural narratives. So how do we not fall prey to social stereotypes? In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland discuss the challenges of today’s culture of relativity and gender stereotypes and how we can stay truthful to what God’s word says about our nature.

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0:00.0	We just have the constant temptation to recognize how useful it is to have our view as the correct
0:10.2	view.
0:11.2	Because then we can get people to do what we want if we can use the Bible and use God for
0:16.6	our own ends.
0:17.6	So the job of the church, the consistent job of the church is to make sure we are faithfully
0:25.7	going back to the Scriptures to listen and not to use.
0:30.7	So often you need to learn a lot more about the commentator than you do about the Bible
0:36.8	from their commentary and you've just got to be honest about that and put our presuppositions
0:42.3	on the table and say, here's where I'm coming from, here's what I want to find.
0:45.3	And you know what, I may have been wrong or I am convinced by the Scriptures that I am
0:51.0	right.
1:03.2	Applying the riches of the Reformation to the modern church, this is White Horse's
1:08.0	A weekly round table discussion about theology and culture.
1:22.4	There's a collision of visions for the good life.
1:25.6	This is especially relevant as we discuss what it means to be human.
1:30.5	Scripture contains a vision of divine wisdom and our culture provides a contrasting social
1:35.1	vision.
1:36.1	Proverbs chapter 3 verses 1920 help us situate these contrasting visions for the good life.
1:41.8	These verses read, the Lord founded the earth by wisdom and established the heavens with
1:46.7	understanding.
1:48.2	By His knowledge, the watery depths broke open and the clouds dripped with dew.
1:54.2	Verse 19 highlights how God's wisdom is built into the fabric of creation and the wise
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