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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

When Should You Interpret a Passage of Scripture Symbolically?

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg answers questions about interpreting Scripture symbolically, distinguishing between the Lord’s discipline and suffering, how to get over a fear of talking about your faith, and whether Jesus was separated from the other persons of the Trinity on the cross.

Transcript

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You're going to be. Oh, oh, ohkel here, your host and thank you for being part of what we do here on Tuesdays from 4 until 6, and that's the time to call in if you'd like to talk with me live.

0:41.0

Tuesdays 4 to 6, Pacific Pacific time I'm in Los Angeles and the number is 855

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249975 that's 855-439975.

0:54.4

If you're outside of the US, you can just dial our local area code here, 562,

0:59.4

and that number is 424 8229. You dial our international code which I think is 1 and then 562 424 8

1:10.5

229. Incidentally that first number is the number you can call if you're live streaming and you want to chat with me.

1:16.0

Live, you can do that 855243975.

1:21.0

Let's just jump right into callers here and I've got Vic in Colorado on board.

1:26.3

Vic, welcome to the show.

1:30.1

Vic.

1:30.1

Vic.

1:30.6

I did. Oh, didn't I? Oh, wait, I'm sorry. I did. I hit that. You got to do it because I hit it twice. It didn't work.

1:40.0

Sorry.

1:41.0

Okay, Vic, you're on board. Sorry about that.

1:44.0

No problem, Mr. Kockel.

1:45.0

I was going to say my bad, but it's really my T-Lox is bad. It's not working.

1:50.0

So Amy, you know, she did a, called an audible there did a manual on me.

1:55.2

Thank you. Nice to talk to you there.

1:57.8

Thank you for taking my call. Sure. You can call me Greg. How old are you?

2:07.4

I'm 37, but I first met you when I was a kid, so that's got six. Oh my goodness gracious. How old were you when we first met?

2:18.0

Sometime in the 90s at the South Valley Community Church in Gilbray. Oh, no kidding.

2:19.0

Well, that's when I started going there in August in doing the apologetics thing and I've only missed a year and all these is like 25 years

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