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Why Was Jesus Baptized? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Baptism, Jesus' Humanity
Greg talks about the baptism of Jesus and speculates why Jesus submitted to it. Episode 480 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0480.mp3 Photo by Ryan Loughlin on Unsplash
Did Jesus Believe in Satan?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Demons, Jesus, Satan, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
Jesus’ teaching, his exorcisms, his healings and other miracles, as well as his work on the cross, all remain somewhat incoherent and unrelated to one another until we interpret them as acts of war. As…
What is God’s Sexual Ideal for Us? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Homosexuality, LGBTQ, Sexual Impurity, Sexuality
Greg sexuality and Genesis, and thinks out loud about the destructive power of policy. Episode 479 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0479.mp3
Can God Warn Us About Disasters? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
How does a divine warning relate to an open future? Greg considers God’s intervention in an open creation. Episode 478 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0478.mp3
Did the Crucifixion Allow God to Atone for His OWN Sins? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Atonement, OT Violence, Sin, Violence
Greg considers God’s nature and if he could sin. Dan confesses an old gambling habit. Episode 477 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0477.mp3
Process Theology & Open Theism: What’s the Difference?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Open Theism, Process Theology, Q&A
Topics: Open Theism What it is and is not
Question: When ReKnew talks about Open Theism is it a mistake for people to equate it with Process theology, and if so what are the defining differences? I guess I am starting to lean toward…
Why is the Lord’s Prayer So Formulaic? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Prayer
Greg considers if Jesus was acting out of character when he taught the Lord’s prayer. Episode 476 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0476.mp3
Is There a Biblical Basis for Guardian Angels? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Angels
Greg talks about angels and divine intervention. Episode 475 The Interview: http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0475.mp3
Do People Exist in Parallel Universes, and Do They Need Jesus? (Podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Evangelism, Salvation, Science
Greg talks the sin economy and if sin actually threatens God. Episode 474 The Interview: http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0474.mp3
6 Things the Church Fathers Can Teach Us about Spiritual Warfare
Category: General
Tags: Evil, Natural Evil, Problem of Evil, Satan, Sin, Spiritual Warfare, Theodicy
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
Image by Christina Saint Marche via Flickr Unlike our thinking today about the source of good and evil in the world, the early church fathers, including Irenaus, Athenagorus, Origen, and others before Augustine, possessed a warfare…
What Changed on the Cross? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Atonement, Christ, Christianity, Crucifixion
Greg talks the sin economy and if sin actually threatens God. Episode 473 The Interview: http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_CH_0473.mp3
When Did You Let Go of Your Calvinist Beliefs? (Podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Calvinism, Open Theism
Greg talks about his unusual transformation out of Calvinism. Episode 471 The Interview: http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0471.mp3 Photo by Paola Franco on Unsplash.com
Podcast: Confident Humility
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Dan Kent, Discipleship, Humility
The tables are turned. Greg interviews Dan Kent on his new book: “Confident Humility: Becoming Your Full Self Without Becoming Full of Yourself.” Available for pre-order now. Episode 472 The Interview: http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_CH_0472.mp3 ————— A Rebuttal…
Podcast: Doesn’t Claiming that the Old Testament Writers were Sometimes Wrong Inevitably Lead to a Slippery Slope?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Hermeneutics, Old Testament, OT Violence
Greg talks about cataphatic prayer and the role of the imagination. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0470.mp3
Podcast: Is Using the Imagination Spiritually Dangerous?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cataphatic Prayer, Imagination, Imaginative Prayer
Greg talks about cataphatic prayer and the role of the imagination. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0469.mp3
What Does It Mean that God Hardens Hearts?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Choice, Determinism, Free Will, Is God to Blame?, Open Theism, Predestination
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
Some argue that passages which speak of God hardening human hearts (Jos 11:19-20; Ex 7:3; 10:1; Rom 9:18) demonstrate that God controls everything, including people resistant to this declared intentions. He hardens whomever he wills,…
Podcast: The Making of God of the Possible
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: God of the Possible, Open Future, Open Theism
Greg talks about making his book “God of the Possible,” then offers his initial thoughts on Thomas Oord’s book “God Can’t.” http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0468.mp3
Podcast: How Do We Talk About Politically Charged Topics?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Political Idolatry, Politics
Greg gets charged-up talking about ‘talking about politically charged topics.’ http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0463.mp3
Podcast: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Book Reviews, Books
Greg talks about a book he enjoyed: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0467.mp3
Podcast: Isn’t Annihilationism Violent?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Annihilationism, Death, Hell
Greg considers the fate of the unsaved. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0466.mp3