The Whole Truth | The Writings | Psalm 78

Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible Study

Ten Minute Bible Talks

Mental Health, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Christianity

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Do you have selective memory? Do you prefer to remember the good times but forget the ways you failed? How would that affect your relationship with God? In today's episode, Tanya shares how Psalm 78 reminds us to remember the whole truth, including our failures, because it reminds us of our need for Jesus. Read the Bible with us in 2024! This year, we’re tackling a group of Old Testament books traditionally known as “The Writings”— Psalms, Chronicles, Proverbs, Daniel, Ruth and more! Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Psalm 78

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:05.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Tanya Wilmoth.
0:16.0	Episode 973. So question for you today, is the whole truth attainable?
0:19.0	Or in other words, can you know the whole truth all the time,
0:22.0	tell the whole truth all the time, tell the whole truth all the time, remember the whole truth all the time.
0:27.0	This is a hard question. For example, there's much debate about whether it's actually possible for a journalist to attain the whole truth.
0:33.7	Journalists can't read the minds of their sources and people are good at saying
0:37.9	what they want to say and withholding what they want. So is it still a journalist responsibility to tell the whole truth? People are
0:45.8	actually so good at filtering the truth that it can affect memory. We're more likely
0:50.3	to remember events the way we tell them
0:52.8	than the way they actually happened.
0:54.9	A Greek tradition had a solution for what we call selective memory.
0:58.9	It was an oral tradition.
1:00.4	The pre-Socratic Greeks believed truth was encompassing all that we remember, Alethea, and they believed
1:06.8	humans could actually single out memories to keep them from flowing into the River of Forgetfulness.
1:13.0	So it would be like you having something special that happened to you today, riding it down in your
1:18.7	journal and then saying it out loud every day so it never falls into the river of forgetfulness.
1:25.6	This oral tradition required that the memories be memorized, repeated, they were
1:29.9	often set to songs so they would not be forgotten. And I see traces of this in
1:34.8	Psalm 78. This is a historic Psalm. It's about telling the things that God has done for
1:41.2	the people, writing them down and then putting them to songs so they will never
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ten Minute Bible Talks, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ten Minute Bible Talks and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.