The Problem of Moral Grounding and the Nature of Forgiveness
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 7 February 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, J. Warner discusses the nature of objective, transcendent moral truth claims and the insufficiency of moral grounding from an atheistic, naturalistic perspective. Jim also discusses the nature of forgiveness and the relationship between our ability to forgive and our view of our own need for forgiveness.
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| 0:00.0 | Jay Warner Wallace is a cold case homicide detective who's been investigating cold case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade. |
| 0:09.2 | His work has been featured on Fox News, Dateline, and Core TV. |
| 0:12.9 | Now we join him as he applies his investigative skills |
| 0:15.6 | to making a case for Christianity. |
| 0:19.3 | Welcome back to the Cole Case Christianity podcast. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm Jay Warner Wallace. Okay. One of the first arguments that I |
| 0:26.1 | often, I say arguments, one of the first talking points that I will bring up as a guy who |
| 0:31.4 | worked cold cases or worked any series of crimes is the kind of how |
| 0:38.0 | do we ground our moral inclinations or moral intuitions about what's right and wrong, especially when you're living in California right now where so much is upside down, |
| 0:47.0 | where we're trying to figure out like what, well, how bad is that crime really? |
| 0:51.0 | So much of what we see here in our state has been either the |
| 0:55.7 | crimes, punishments have been reduced greatly or sometimes things have been completely decriminalized. |
| 1:01.1 | Well it's because we're trying to figure out like how to what this state is |
| 1:04.5 | struggling with what is the level of bad, what is the level of immoral behavior we're |
| 1:10.9 | willing to to tolerate in our culture in order to reform the |
| 1:15.5 | system or to achieve some better end. I mean I think sometimes these these |
| 1:20.6 | ambitions are probably heartfelt but they may be misguided. |
| 1:25.8 | But first of all, how would you ground what's right or wrong to begin with? |
| 1:30.3 | Especially in a culture that here especially is moving away from objective |
| 1:34.7 | transcendent grounding that Christianity provides us. So is it even possible to |
| 1:39.8 | do so? That's what this podcast is all about. As you know we're going back to our lost |
| 1:44.2 | podcast and our RSS feed and we found them all. We are now making them available |
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