S2: Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, Rick Warren, Female Leaders in the Early Church, and much more: Q & A with Preston Sprinkle

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🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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00:00 Introduction
0:48 What’s the best definition you have for blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?
4:26 What was the Most compelling part of your interview with Rick Warren?
11:14 Are we certain as Rick Warren claimed that women Christians did teach or preach at Pentecost?
11:53 What are your thoughts about MLK jrs history with adulteries and why it isn't talked about more given todays metoo movement especially in the church.
16:52 Were there examples of female leadership in churches in the second and third century?
22:44 Church services often feel like a weekly event or performance and like the main way of being part of a church. How do we practically move away from this?
33:38 Might all be vegetarian in the New Heaven and New earth because creation will be restored and death will be defeated?
37:10 I just found out my wife is pregnant. Any advice for a new dad?
41:13 It's clear that sex within marriage should stay within that marriage, but where in the Bible does it say that sex before marriage is wrong?
44:52 What are your thoughts on Christians watching movies with some nudity (e.g. Oppenheimer)? Is just looking away enough or do you think they should be avoided?
48:09 I’ve heard people use the phrase “spiritual covering” in reference to pastors/churches and husbands/families. Not sure what that means or the Biblical basis.
49:13 I'm leading a small discipleship group of students at a Christian HS. Where do I start with conversations around sexuality and gender?
53:16 How strongly have you and your family considered joining a house/micro church network, and why have you not so far?
57:10 What are your thoughts on “aliens” with recent disclosures in the media and from “Babylon”? How should the Church and Christian’s be thinking about these beings
1:00:28 How do I know what is a spiritual gift versus more traits and skills related to personality type, education, or job/volunteer experience?
1:01:56 Why did the Church decide that only believers are welcome at God’s table? The feeding of the 5,000 uses similar Greek to the LS passages. Isaiah 55 - everyone?
1:04:57 Rapid fire responses…

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw. This is a Q&A podcast where I'm going to address many questions such as
0:07.1	What's the best definition for the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?
0:11.2	What was the most compelling part of my interview with Rick Warren? What are my thoughts about MLK juniors history with adulteries and why this isn't talked about more?
0:19.8	Were there examples of female leadership and churches in the second and third century?
0:24.1	Church services often feel like a weekly performance and event and how do we get away from this?
0:30.6	It's clear that sex within marriage should stay within marriage, but what does the Bible say about sex before marriage and on and on?
0:37.2	It goes, my Patreon supporters have sent in over 60 questions. I will get to almost all of them.
0:42.5	Won't get to every single one, but I will get to the ones that they voted on most.
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1:04.6	Okay, so Tom asks, what's the best definition that I have for the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?
1:20.8	So the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit occurs in a few accounts.
1:26.2	Let's see Matthew 12, Mark 3, that's Matthew 12, 22 to 32-ish, Mark 3, 22 to 30, and then in Luke 12, 10.
1:40.2	I've always understood this as a crediting, something like this. I mean, just off the top of my head, something like a crediting the work of the Spirit at work in Jesus to the work of Satan.
1:52.9	I mean, that's kind of exactly what is going on in the text.
1:57.2	Now, I think a lot of people that ask this question, there's kind of an underlying fear, like they think they might have committed the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, or maybe they did it on accident, even they did something, and they blasphemed the Holy Spirit, curse you or whatever, they bumped their toe, and all of a sudden, like, oh shoot, I can never go back, I can never be forgiven for that.
2:17.7	So I think it's quite a bit more profound than that. I don't think you can kind of commit it on accident. In fact, I don't think it's kind of like a one-time thing, like, a really, really, really bad sin that you commit, you know, and then you can kind of never go back on it.
2:33.8	I think it's much more profound than that. We do have other scriptures like in Mark 3, 28, where Jesus says, truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of mankind and whatever blasphemies they utter.
2:46.4	You have a whole huge profound theme of grace and forgiveness, and lots of really, really bad people who did really, really, really, really bad things being forgiven by God throughout scripture.
2:57.2	So we do need to situate whatever this blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is within the larger paradigm of grace.
3:04.4	I did a little research to see what other people were saying about this, and I actually found a really good article free online by Sam Storms.
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