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What the Bible’s Authors Took for Granted – Paradigm E10

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

4.818.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever figured out halfway through a conversation that you and another person were on totally different pages? Reading the Bible can feel like this at times. We’re all products of our cultures, families, and environments, and it affects how we understand others. In this episode, Tim, Jon, and Carissa prepare us for a cross-cultural conversation with the Bible by discussing the cultural values of the biblical authors.

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Music

0:05.0

Communication can be really hard.

0:08.0

I have my own invisible experiences and assumptions about how the world works.

0:13.0

It lives in my own psyche, but when I'm talking to you, I bring that with me to the table,

0:18.0

whether you realize it or not.

0:21.0

The Bible is the same. The biblical authors have assumptions about the world,

0:26.0

and they're often very different than mine.

0:29.0

This episode is our next step in the paradigm series.

0:32.0

What type of literature is the Bible?

0:34.0

Today, we continue our conversation on how the Bible is ancient literature.

0:38.0

Last week, we talked about how the Bible uses words differently than our words.

0:42.0

And today, we're going to go deeper and look at how the words of the Bible are just at the surface

0:46.0

of an often foreign way of viewing the world.

0:49.0

Whole concepts in the Bible are ideas that transcend just words.

0:53.0

The whole is going to be saturated with other cultural assumptions

0:58.0

from the ancient biblical authors that are going to be really different than ours.

1:02.0

So when I think of the cosmos, I think of the ever-increasing universe

1:06.0

that I'm floating around in on spaceship Earth.

1:09.0

When I think of civilization, I think of democracy and freedom.

1:13.0

The biblical authors have a different way of thinking about the world.

1:17.0

The way the biblical authors talk about heaven and earth,

1:21.0

or the way they talk about groups and individuals,

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