Supernatural Christianity

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Todd and Carl explore Christianity as a supernatural religion, diving deep into the Gospel of John and its portrayal of miracles as signs of Jesus' divine authority. Together they discuss the historical and philosophical shifts in belief systems from the Enlightenment to modern-day skepticism, and reflect on the modern quest for meaning and morality. "We are creatures who crave meaning, and any intelligent atheist is going to acknowledge that." – Carl Trueman Discover the opportunities present in today's cultural landscape for engaging with the supernatural claims of Christianity and the hope it offers in a world seeking meaning. What an opportunity then for the public witness of the church – a message of hope that’s anchored in something that’s real and eternal. – Todd Pruitt

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt, a podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:29.2	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:31.6	Thank you. You are listening to Mortification of Spin.
0:53.8	My name is Todd Pruitt.
0:55.0	I'm the pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and I'm joined, as always, by my friend and co-host Carl Truman, who is a professor at Grove City College in Western Pennsylvania.
1:07.9	Great to be with you, Carl.
1:09.3	Thanks for joining me today.
1:11.2	That's good to be with you, Todd, as always. Yeah, yeah. Well, Carl, I thought that a good topic for us to tackle in our time today would be the supernatural, particularly Christianity as a supernatural religion.
1:31.6	I've been preaching through the gospel of John.
1:34.3	And, you know, as you know, in John, he's got a fairly easy to discern structure of his gospel.
1:42.4	The first half of his gospel is oftentimes called the
1:45.3	book of signs. And there he has these, you know, he records specifically seven miracles of Jesus.
1:51.0	The word he uses for them is signs because they, you know, Jesus isn't performing miracles
1:56.6	just to wow the crowds, but very specifically, he's pointing to his everlasting deity, the signs
2:03.8	point in one way or another to his role as the Christ, the Messiah, the atonement for sins.
2:11.4	And so John's very deliberate in the miracles that he selects to record as means to teach this, to reveal
2:22.4	Christ as the Lord, the Son of God. And when he gets to the end of chapter 20, which is the end
2:31.2	of the main body of the letter, he kind of sums things up by saying,
2:34.8	now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this
2:39.1	book. And so John is saying, look, I've only recorded a handful of the miracles that Jesus did.
2:43.7	He did a lot more that would require even more space for me to write. Now, Carl, the disciples were not, obviously, they had a category for
2:56.5	the supernatural because they believed in God. But these men were not so given over to magical
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