10 - Myth of Neutrality

Today we’re talking about the nature of knowledge: what do we know, and how can we know that we know it? When people talk about this question, it’s impossible to leave our religious--or anti-religious--convictions at the door. Because God personally defines reality, our attitude toward Him colors our relationship to absolutely everything else, including evidence and rationality. But trusting God makes a lot of the world make a lot more sense, and we don’t have to know everything in order to understand what God says to us, and to communicate with one another.

This Episode Features: Emily’s Favorite Nobel-Prize-Winning Poet; My New Friend Satan; Everything is Dangerous; Corporate Needs You to Find the Difference between Paganism and Phariseeism; Matrix! Rainbows! Dreams!; Little Wooden Shoes; So What You’re Saying Is…; Hindus Don’t Count (ba-dm-tsh); Pour-Over Coffee; and Everyone Grew Up On British Sitcoms.

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRbOTuj3rPhyp2ORWzcs7VrDewnkPQSq2iGQrhLBaR9ghiUoNJyUVmk-UqirgM8XDXJktJPCA2D9fEP/pub

Links
Genesis 3: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+3/
Slow Train Coming - Bob Dylan: https://amzn.to/2HxmLHL
The Matrix (1999): https://amzn.to/2vCXr0u
The God Who Is There - Francis Schaeffer: https://amzn.to/320RPcg
Christian Apologetics - Cornelius Van Til: https://amzn.to/321eaXr
The Defense of the Faith - Cornelius Van Til: https://amzn.to/38znF2k
Why I Believe In God - Cornelius Van Til: https://amzn.to/2Ht910R
God in the Dock - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2UZ1dM1

Reco's
The Arcadian Wild: https://amzn.to/3bNJ1ee
Before Philosophy - Henri Frankfort, et al.: https://amzn.to/322MpgT
Cooper and Cary Have Words: https://www.cooperandcary.com/
A Whole New World: The Gospel According to Revelation - Greg Uttinger: https://amzn.to/38BtzQF
The Problem with Christian Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE4_dHW0nWk
Why Christian Movies are Bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50_3J6Go5Ng
Halting Toward Zion on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/haltingtowardzion
Emily Maxson on GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/emilymaxson