The Sabbatical Series: Rachel Held Evans: Slaying Giants or Taming the Bible?

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Alisa Childers

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

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🗓️ 22 December 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Elisa Childers podcast, where we equip Christians to identify the core beliefs of
0:05.2	historic Christianity, discern its counterfeits, and proclaim the gospel with clarity, kindness,
0:10.4	and truth. And we are going to continue to do that even while I'm on sabbatical and not recording
0:15.6	full-length episodes until after the new year. But as we were going through some old content,
0:21.7	we realized that there were some posts that only went out to a select group of listeners. And many of you, if you've
0:26.3	been following the podcast for the past two or three years, have not heard these posts. And these
0:31.4	are short answers to tough theological and apologetics questions. Here's today's.
0:47.6	Music theological and apologetics questions. Here's today's. Once upon a time, there lived a girl with a magic book.
0:51.6	The opening line of Rachel Held Evans' new book inspired, slaying giants,
0:56.1	walking on water, and loving the Bible again, resonates. Like Evans, I grew up in the evangelical
1:02.1	subculture of the 80s and 90s, replete with sword drills, purity rings, and scare films about
1:07.7	the rapture. We were well aware of the dangers of playing Dungeons and Dragons,
1:12.5	listening to secular music and backward masking.
1:15.6	Like all good Christian kids of this era,
1:17.8	we sang Friends or Friends Forever at the end of summer camp every single year.
1:22.6	Evans describes her childhood affection for the Bible,
1:25.5	which told tales of kings and queens, farmers and warriors,
1:29.6	giants and sea monsters, and dangerous voyages. She forgot unicorns, but we'll let that one slide.
1:35.5	She walks the reader through her stages of disillusionment, as she began to notice things like
1:40.4	Abraham being rewarded for agreeing to commit child sacrifice. She notes the horror of
1:45.9	the Canaanite conquest and the dark side of the Noah's Ark story. She wrote,
1:50.5	If God was supposed to be the hero of the story, then why did God behave like a villain?
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