We run our website the way we wished the whole internet worked: we provide high quality original content with no ads. We are funded solely by your direct support. Please consider supporting this project.
Greg’s Interview on The Christian Transhumanist Podcast
Here is an interview I did for The Christian Transhumanist Podcast that I wanted to share with all of you. Micah Redding and I discuss everything from Relativity Theory to Politics. I think you’ll find it interesting, but I want to offer a word of clarification before you listen.
At one point in this interview I share my personal conviction against voting. I believe followers of Jesus are called to place all their hope in Christ and his kingdom, and I personally found over the years that I could not participate in the voting process without placing some amount of hope in the political candidate/party I was voting for. I therefore made a commitment many years ago to abstain. Yet, I must confess that I voted in this last election. Before you shout “Hypocrite!” let me explain.
After wrestling with my conscience for some time, I came to see (a while after this interview) that my motive for feeling the need to vote in this particular election had nothing to do with placing hope in a political candidate or party. Rather, as hopeless as both candidates seemed to me, one candidate frankly struck me as dangerous to certain vulnerable groups of people and, quite frankly, to the world. (That, of course, is just my personal opinion, and I sincerely hope that I’m wrong.) I happen to live in a country that asks my opinion every four years about which candidate I think should head up this country, and it seemed to me that responding to this invitation to prevent a perceived danger is quite different than responding to express a hope. And so I voted.
Having hopefully cleared that matter up, I hope you enjoy the interview!
Greg Boyd
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Chaos Theory, Cosmic Dance, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Doubt, Interview, Open Theism, Politics, Science
Related Reading
How do you respond to 1 Peter 1:1–2?
As I read it, I Pet 1:2 is the thematic statement for the whole chapter. As I will show in a moment, the rest of the chapter unpacks this statement, so the rest of the chapter should be used to interpret this statement. In the rest of the chapter we find that believers… * have…
Do you believe God is pure actuality?
The basis of the classical view of God as pure actuality (actus purus) is the Aristotelian notion that potentiality is always potential for change and that something changes only because is lacks something else. So, a perfect being who lacks nothing must be devoid of potentiality, which means it must be pure actuality. I think…
Reflecting on Open2013
T. C. Moore has posted some of his reflections from the Open Theism conference. T. C. was one of several people who pulled this conference together and he did a great job. He’s also incredibly smart and very active in the open view community. Also, he’s a young church planter in Boston and I’m sure he’s…
Greg Boyd’s New Book Now Available
You will never see another book quite like this one. Filled with pictures and creative dialogue, this title wrestles with questions about how science and theology relate to each other so that we might better understand God and our world. This is the kind of book you will want to show your friends, even if…
Making God in Our Own Image
In this video, Greg introduces the idea of how we make God into our own image instead of allowing God to define himself through the revelation of Jesus. In an interview performed by Travis Reed from theworkofthepeople.com, we have a basic, quick introduction to a core element of Greg’s theology. This is a great piece to…
Love and Free Will
God could have easily created a world in which nothing evil could ever happen. But this world would not have been capable of love. God could have preprogrammed agents to say loving things and to act in loving ways. He could even have preprogrammed these automatons to believe they were choosing to love. But these…