Wednesday, October 11, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 14:35)
‘This Is an Act of Sheer Evil’: Evaluating the Moral Language of President Biden’s Statement on the Hamas Attacks on Israel
- Remarks by President Biden on the Terrorist Attacks in Israel by The White House
Part II (14:35 - 19:17)
The Reality of Evil in an Age of Confusion: Moral Clarity in the Wake of Barbarity
Part III (19:17 - 23:23)
‘Don’t’ Warns the President: The U.S. Warning Must Be Backed By Overwhelming Force If It Is Not Heeded
Part IV (23:23 - 27:08)
We Do Know Evil When We See It: We Are Created as Moral Beings, and It Shows
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, October 11, 2023. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from |
| 0:12.0 | a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.1 | The news coming from Israel yesterday was even worse than the news that had come already |
| 0:19.7 | after the Saturday morning attack by Hamas had begun. |
| 0:23.3 | That is because yesterday, the depth, at least at this point, of the atrocities committed |
| 0:28.3 | against Israel and against human dignity and human life, they're only now becoming well |
| 0:33.1 | documented. |
| 0:35.0 | And in moral terms, it is becoming impossible not to know what took place. |
| 0:39.4 | For example, in one village, approximately 40 babies found dead. |
| 0:45.2 | Some of them decapitated. |
| 0:47.0 | It's almost impossible to say this without deep emotional involvement. |
| 0:51.1 | You asked the question, how could this happen? |
| 0:52.9 | How could any human being do this? |
| 0:55.1 | This is an atrocity, which is on the level of the kind of behavior we've seen recently |
| 0:59.2 | from groups like the Islamic State. |
| 1:01.6 | It appears to be bloodthirsty, simply for the sake of being bloodthirsty. |
| 1:05.8 | But then again, we remember that this is not without precedent, because we have also |
| 1:09.4 | read the Old Testament. |
| 1:11.2 | And we understand the murderousness, even the genocidal nature of hatred in the human heart. |
| 1:17.3 | But then we turn to the statement made by the president of the United States yesterday. |
| 1:22.0 | In this case, I'm drawing attention to the statement made by President Biden, not because |
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