The Supreme Court Hearings, Does Jesus Satisfy God's Judgement, and Balance?
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 30 March 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
John and Shane explain what happened at the Supreme Court nomination hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Many are talking about the fact that she failed to define a woman when asked. John explains that what we saw in the hearing explains a lot about where political parties are.
Shane goes on to ask John about a listener's question related to J.I. Packer's book Knowing God. Shane explores the question, asking John to unpack how Jesus death and resurrection fulfilled the justice of God.
To close, John is asked why he opposes the use of the word "balance." A listener asks how they should approach balance, when it has been a good tactic to build relationships with friends to explain the wholeness of the Christian worldview. John clarifies a definition of balance, and explains how true balance seeking is problematic and can cause troubled compromises.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast and our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Shane Morris, host of the Upstream podcast, and one of the writers for Breakpoint. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm joined today by John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center and the host of Breakpoint. |
| 0:14.0 | And we're answering your questions. |
| 0:16.0 | This week we're talking about the Supreme Court confirmation hearings, how Jesus' death could satisfy God's justice |
| 0:21.8 | when it was an unjust execution, and whether John is wrong for hating the word balance. |
| 0:27.7 | These questions were sparked by breakpoint commentaries, short courses, and the Colson Fellows program. |
| 0:32.9 | If you'd like to send us a question of your own, all you need to do is email us. |
| 0:36.4 | The address is ask the |
| 0:37.7 | Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. Well, John, the first question today, a little |
| 0:43.5 | surprise to me is about the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Katanji Brown Jackson. |
| 0:49.3 | And the question that she was asked by Senator Blackburn, I believe, about the definition of woman. |
| 0:56.8 | This listener wants to know, how do you read the non-response from the Supreme Court nominee when asked about the definition of woman? |
| 1:05.7 | Well, we talked a little bit about this on breakpoint this week, but the Supreme Court nominations tell you more about where the |
| 1:11.9 | parties are than usually where the nominees are. It tells you more about what is considered |
| 1:18.3 | kind of center positions for those parties, what's considered beyond the pale. You know, as most |
| 1:24.2 | people complain about, it's an awful lot of theater. I mean, in this case, |
| 1:27.9 | there's, I think there's probably little chance that this nominee won't get confirmed. It's not a |
| 1:34.4 | real consequential one at the moment, you know, given the where the court is, this doesn't shift the |
| 1:40.1 | balance. It's the replacement of a liberal judge with a liberal judge. So there's not, you know, |
| 1:45.6 | kind of real indication that, you know, this is going to be kind of a historic confirmation, |
| 1:49.8 | although I guess, you know, it could be, you know, kind of in the case of a of a Scalia that, you know, |
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