Wednesday, January 10, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 12:36)
The Ripple Effects of Moral Change from the Vatican: Evaluating the Global Response to the Pope’s Blessing of Same-Sex Couples
- Vatican Defends Gay Blessings, but Offers Critics Some Leeway by New York Times (Jason Horowitz)
Part II (12:36 - 14:40)
The Pope Falls Short on Surrogacy Denouncement: Arguments Against Surrogacy Should Be Based in Scripture and Creation Order, Not Just a Critique of Capitalism
Part III (14:40 - 17:51)
This Close to the Papacy: Vatican Doctrine Watchdog Revealed to Have Written Novels Blending Theology and Pornography
Part IV (17:51 - 25:40)
Crisis in the Chain of Command: Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Causes Security Crisis After Hiding Serious Medical Procedures from the White House
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, January 10, 2024. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian |
| 0:12.4 | worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | We spend a lot of time thinking about what goes on in places that evangelicals really didn't have |
| 0:19.5 | to cover before, and that includes most importantly the Vatican. A major shift in the |
| 0:24.4 | experience of most Protestants in the United States is that we find ourselves |
| 0:28.4 | talking about developments in the Roman Catholic Church and it's not because |
| 0:31.9 | historic Confessional |
| 0:33.7 | doctrinal Protestants are closer to say traditional Orthodox Roman Catholics. |
| 0:38.8 | It's because of two things. Number one is because of the global |
| 0:42.3 | influence of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| 0:45.0 | And the Roman Catholic Church for the last several centuries has made, well in effect, what are headlines. |
| 0:50.0 | But the second thing has to do with the fact that in a secularizing world, Protestants, |
| 0:55.0 | confessional Protestants, Protestant Protestants find ourselves on the same side of the great secular divide, |
| 1:02.0 | that is the divide that separates Christianity |
| 1:05.0 | from secularism at least institutional Christianity, doctrinal |
| 1:09.4 | Christianity. Well you can just say that Roman Catholics on moral issues and many theological issues, including such things as, say, the Doctor of the Trinity. |
| 1:18.0 | We find ourselves on one side of a great divide, and thus it matters more. Now that means that things have gotten |
| 1:26.0 | particularly dicey over the course of the last several years with the pontificate of |
| 1:31.1 | Pope Francis. |
| 1:33.0 | Now Francis will go down in history |
| 1:34.6 | is the very first Jesuit to become Pope, |
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