Wednesday, May 18, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 18 May 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 14:11)
‘There are Prior Worldviews at Work’: The Inevitable Function of Theology in the Abortion DebateToo Much Church in the State by New York Times (Maurine Dowd)Why is the Supreme Court Using Religious Belief to Alter Secular Law? by Salon (Thom Hartman)The Supreme Court’s Religion-Driven Mission Sets off a Firestorm by Washington Post (Jennifer Rubin)Part II (14:11 - 20:54)
Gallup Poll Reveals Person’s Religious Beliefs Most Influence Their Views on Abortion — What Else is New?Personal Religiosity and Attitudes Toward Abortion by Gallup (Frank Newport)Religion, Politics Inform Americans' Views on Abortion by Gallup (Frank Newport and Lydia Saad)Part III (20:54 - 23:39)
Thinking about Christian Thinking: Starting Right and Ending Right
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, May 18, 2022. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | One of the issues we try to stress on the briefing is that there is no such thing as a non-theological |
| 0:20.3 | idea. |
| 0:21.3 | It simply doesn't exist, and it is because theology is such a fundamental issue |
| 0:24.4 | that even the atheist predicament comes down to this. If you are an atheist you say |
| 0:29.8 | that you deny God, but by even mentioning God in order to say you deny God, |
| 0:34.6 | you bring God into the equation. |
| 0:36.8 | Now, we believe that's not just an artifact of language, |
| 0:39.2 | that is not just some kind of vestige of logic, |
| 0:42.3 | it is actually representative of the fact that God made |
| 0:45.6 | creation. He made the entire Cosmos and he filled it with his glory and you can't |
| 0:50.0 | avoid God. That means you can't avoid theology. And that means that every single |
| 0:54.2 | worldview is actually theological in some sense. It might be more consistently |
| 0:58.3 | less consistently theological. It might be a more rightful and truthful theology. It might be a less truthful |
| 1:05.0 | theology, that is to say it might correspond with scripture to a greater or |
| 1:09.3 | lesser extent. But the point is there is no non-theological ground. |
| 1:13.8 | There isn't a non-theological square inch |
| 1:16.6 | in the entire Cosmos. |
| 1:17.8 | And even those who declare themselves to be secular |
| 1:20.6 | have to define what it means to be secular over against belief in God. |
| 1:24.8 | So why am I talking about this today? |
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