Today, we're joined by Dr. Vern Poethris, who lives and works at Westminster Theological

Seminary, just north of Philly, and it's a huge honor to have you on the podcast Dr. Poethris.

Thanks for being here.

Well, thank you for inviting me.

I consider it a privilege to be here.

Of course.

Well, some of our listeners will not know you well.

So here's your CV in brief.

You have degrees from Cambridge and Harvard and Caltech.

And of course, the Westminster Theological Seminary, where you now work and live.

You've been editing the Westminster Theological Journal since 2005, and you serve as professor

of New Testament interpretation at the school.

That's amazing in and of itself, but you've written several books on a range of topics

that include the Mosaic Law, the Book of Revelation, you have a book on Inherency, and

one on Bible interpretation, and one on Logic, and a book on World View, one on Science,

one on Sociology, one on Linguistics, and a book on Chance and Probability.

And that book is titled Chance in the Sovereignty of God, a God-centered approach to Probability

and Random Events, published in 2014.

That book, I mean, Chance in the Sovereignty of God when I read it, I was just blown away.

It's an excellent book, and I wanted to have you on for a long time to talk about coin tossing

and casinos.

So let's start with casting lots today, and then we'll talk about casinos tomorrow.

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