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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

The Bible Doesn’t Have a Second-Level Spiritual Meaning

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg responds to the idea that the Bible has a second-level spiritual meaning you have to find, then he answers questions about “once saved, always saved,” apologetics in the evangelical church, and what it means to number our days if we’re already either elect or non-elect.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're going to see. Oh, oh, oh,ockel here, show a standard reason, and we defend classical Christianity

0:36.9

and classical Christian values.

0:38.6

We also hope that we are teaching you to do the same insofar as you're a follower of Christ.

0:44.0

If you're not, I hope that we are disabusing you of false ideas about reality and

0:50.6

helping you to learn what the truth actually is. We don't just tell you to believe because we say so we give reasons and a rationale and that's what we do.

1:02.0

33 years now, behind this microphone,

1:07.0

and amazing when I think about,

1:10.0

that's a long time, That's almost half my life.

1:14.0

That would be 66. I'm actually 74, but you know.

1:18.0

Anyway, it's a long time.

1:21.0

Last hour I talked about some foolishness and the foolishness was when

1:29.2

Christians look at the events of last weekend regarding Donald Trump and then they draw spiritual conclusions that they are not justified in drawing and then they sound kind of like idiots.

1:47.0

We have the best truth.

1:49.0

Oh, wait a minute, that's not the right way you put it,

1:52.0

because I guess all truth is like it doesn't come in grades like this like best and this isn't such a good truth, but this is still true. Truth is true, right? It's not a, it's not a, what's the word degraded property or whatever they call that.

2:09.2

Anyway, we have the best things to talk about.

2:15.0

When you look at Coppleston's history of philosophy,

2:20.0

like 10 volumes worth, right?

2:22.0

And it turns out that after the ancients, the time, soon after the time of Jesus,

2:29.0

virtually every single individual in the history of Western philosophy was a Bible believing Christian.

2:36.8

Brilliant people, better thinkers than most nowadays. So why is it that we are just given to foolishness oftentimes and

2:47.8

read things into events that we have no right doing and are really nothing more than superstition.

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