Testifying and Enduring to the End, Jason Combs on Paul and the end of Acts (week of July 31, only episode)

The Scriptures Are Real

Kerry Muhlestein

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Courses

4.8 • 540 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Kerry and Jason discuss the power of Paul's testimony. They explore why many Jews sought to kill him, the parts of his testimony that they were able to receive and what they could not, and what that has to do with us and how we can apply it in our lives. They explore how his accounts of seeing Christ differ and what we can learn from that and how it parallels Joseph Smith's accounts of seeing Christ. They also discuss the effect this testimony has on Agrippa and Festus. They then explore what happens to Paul in his journey to Rome and what he does in Rome. They draw powerful lessons from the way Paul testifies and endures there, and how that should affect us. They also probe into the way Luke ends the book of Acts and why he may have done so and what that should mean to us.We are grateful for our sponsor, Lisa Spice, and for BJ Muhlestein, who edited this episode, and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the scriptures or real podcast.
0:07.9	This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have helped them become more real to us because we believe that it helps us draw more power out of them and we need all the help we can get.
0:16.9	I'm your host, Kerry Mulestein, and I'm so happy to have with me my colleague and good friend, Jason Combs.
0:22.0	Welcome, Jason. Thank you. Glad to be here.
0:25.0	Glad to have you here. So Jason teaches in the same department that I do.
0:30.6	And his wife actually is an employee at BYU in the IT department. Is that right?
0:35.5	That's right. Yeah. And lives very close to where
0:39.5	I used to live in Pleasant Grove. Just a great guy did his PhD at University of North Carolina at
0:46.4	Chapel Hill, studying with some of the greats there. We've had a number of great scholars come from
0:51.5	that place and has been with us for a number of years now
0:55.5	teaching New Testament and it's just a fantastic teacher and a great friend. So just happy to
1:01.3	have you here. What else should we know about you, Jason? Well, I guess we could add that you and I
1:06.6	go way back. Right after I completed my bachelor's degree at BYU, I did a classics post-bacloreate
1:13.6	program at UCLA and was there just as you were finishing off your PhD at UCLA.
1:19.9	Yeah, I'd forgotten that. We met way back when you were teaching an institute class back then.
1:25.9	Yeah, I think Mark Wright came that same year, I think, did he? Yes, yeah, Mark Wright was there at the same time. Yeah, that's right. The two of you, I do remember that now. UCLA connection there as well. And you did some studies elsewhere as well, right? Right, yeah, yeah. So I did a master's degree at Yale Divinity School and in biblical studies and a master's in classics at Columbia University before going to UNC Chapel Hill.
1:50.9	And those are both great, great places.
1:52.8	Yeah. And your undergrad was at BYU? Is that right?
1:56.3	My undergrad was at BYU, yeah. Started off a psychology major and then, oh, that's the same as me.
2:01.5	Got hooked on Hebrew and switched to Near Eastern Studies.
2:05.3	Yeah, we're exactly the same, except for that I was so far along that I just got the minor
2:09.8	in Hebrew and got the degree in psychology, but I didn't realize that.
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