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Podcast: What Do You Mean When You Say Jesus Entered Into Solidarity with Our Sin?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Atonement, Sin
Greg talks about God’s passion for, unity with, and pursuit of his beloved bride. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0330.mp3
Podcast: Why Was Jesus So Secretive About his Miracles?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg talks about the messianic secret and why Jesus was so hush-hush. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0329.mp3
The Vicious Cycle of False Life
Category: General
Tags: Lies, Lies Truth, Life in Christ, Life to the Full
The serpent convinced Eve that she and Adam had been duped by God, and that God is actually unloving, untrustworthy, and threatened by what he forbids. The fullness of life they enjoyed through union with…
Podcast: Impromptu Interview with Paul Eddy
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Paul Eddy
Dan interviews Paul Eddy, the man who may have converted Greg Boyd from Calvinism. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0328.mp3
What’s the Purpose of Old Testament Law?
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ
Understanding the law in the Old Testament can prove difficult. For instance, Paul believed that the law is good and holy (Rom 7:12). However, he also said that it only serves to expose and even…
Podcast: Is it a Sin to Download Someone’s Consciousness?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Future, Technology
Greg and Dan make a last ditch effort to save humanity from the rise of the robots. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0327.mp3
Podcast: If You Could’ve Killed Hitler, Wouldn’t You?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Hitler, Non-Violence, Violence
Greg challenges the intuitively appealing notion of killing Hitler and thereby preventing the massacre of millions of people. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0326.mp3 —Edvard Munch, “The Murderer,” 1910
Right and Wrong in the New Testament
Category: General
Tags: Ethics, Holiness
The New Testament teaches us that behaving ethically—that is, following certain commands and injunctions—flows out of the new life and identity we have in Christ. When we fail to see this the commands of the…
Podcast: Does a Jesus-Centric Theology Reduce God?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Attributes of God, Character of God, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, God's Character
Greg challenges the traditional starting point of many theologies and defends starting our theology about God’s nature and character with what has been revealed about Jesus. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0325.mp3
The Trap of Religious Idolatry
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ, Idolatry, Life in Christ
We live in a world that seems to be full of religious idols. These are beliefs, rituals, and behaviors from which religious people draw life. Religious idolaters of course don’t recognize their idols as such….
Podcast: What is the Unforgivable Sin?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg looks at the ONE thing that can get you kicked out of God’s presence. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0323.mp3
Podcast: Overflow Episode 2 — Mice, Hot Sauce, Fallen Angels, and Broken Hearts
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Dan and Brianna tackle some tough questions: —How do you forgive someone who has broken your heart? —What should we do about house mice? —Why Doesn’t God destroy fallen angels? http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0324_overflow_2.mp3
Podcast: What if Jesus was NOT Crucified and Died of Old Age?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg looks at what is important about the crucifixion and what isn’t. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0322.mp3
Enduring an Evil-Infested World (6 Principles) —part two
Category: General
Tags: Evil, Problem of Evil, Satan and the Problem of Evil
In the previous post, I introduced the first three principles that will help you find peace and even a sense of victory in the midst of the evil we face in this world. Here are…
Podcast: Is it Possible for Unbelievers to Please God?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg considers whether God could ever be pleased with something an unbeliever does even though they are not believers. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0321.mp3
Enduring an Evil-Infested World (6 Principles) —part one
Category: General
Tags: Evil, Natural Evil, Problem of Evil, Satan and the Problem of Evil
We live in the midst of a spiritual battlefield where we face evil daily. Yet we are also in the midst of an ambiguity that hinders us from knowing why any given evil occurs as…
Podcast: Did You Believe in Evolution When You Wrote Letters from a Skeptic?
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Creation, Evolution, Letters from a Skeptic
Greg considers how to think about God’s relationship to time given that there are apparent paradoxes no matter how one things about it. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0319.mp3
Podcast: Overflow Episode 1 — Dust, Flashlights, and Heathens
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Death
Dan and Brianna tackle some tough questions: —Is it okay for Christians to be cremated? —How can we preach from the OT with authority? —What should a Christian academic know in a secular school? http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0320_overflow_1.mp3
Podcast: Is It Actually Possible for God to Experience Time Sequentially?
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Tags: time, Transcendence
Greg considers how to think about God’s relationship to time given that there are apparent paradoxes no matter how one things about it. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0317.mp3
5 Observations about God Changing His Mind
Category: General
Tags: An Open Orthodoxy, Omniscience, Open Theism
One of the most significant passages that supports the open view of the future is found in Jeremiah 18. This is one of the numerous times where we find God changing his mind in response…