Greg Boyd: Apologies & Explanations
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If God Has 'Infinite Intelligence,' Wouldn't He Also Necessarily Have Exhaustive Foreknowledge
Greg discusses the relationship between God's intelligence and his foreknowledge. Check out the CrossVision Conference: Register HERE! Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
How Can We Say God Accommodates Biblical Writers When They Were 'Carried Along by the Spirit'?
Greg discusses 2 Peter 1:20-21. Check out the CrossVision Conference: Register HERE! Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
On Going Home
Greg talks about a trip he took to one of the towns he lived in as a kid and shares some great memories and reflections. Check out the CrossVision Conference: Register HERE! Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Will We Be Naked in Heaven?
Special Post-Resurrection Fashion Episode! Greg talks about all the popular afterlife fashions. Check out the CrossVision Conference: Register HERE! Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Can a Verse Ever Mean What the Original Author Never Intended It to Mean?
Greg talks about the theological interpretation of scripture in this rapid-paced, controversial episde. Check out the CrossVision Conference: Register HERE! Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
What is the Role of the Sermon in the Church?
Greg talks about what he thinks the role (and the goal) of a sermon should be in a church. Check out the CrossVision Conference: Register HERE! Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Is It God Withdrawing OR Is It a Scheme of Satan?
Sometimes evil is attributed to God withdrawing. Sometimes it is attributed to a scheme of Satan. We are called to respond to each differently. So, must we be able to discern which is the case in any given situation? Check out the CrossVision Conference: Register HERE! Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
What Is a Christian and How Does a Person Become One?
In the complexity of Christian theology, what is a Christian and how does a person become one? Greg attempts to clear away some of the complexity and diversity. Check out the CrossVision Conference: Register HERE! Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
What About Bob Dylan?
Dan tries to expose Greg to some quality music. Check out the CrossVision Conference: Register HERE! Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Isn't God Withdrawing the SAME as Him Personally Punishing and Causing Violence?
Greg discusses whether the passivity of withdrawal is distinguishable from active punishment. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Did God Harden Pharaoh's Heart?
Greg discusses the hardening of Pharaoh's heart. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
How Do Recommend Sharing the Gospel with Muslims?
Greg discusses some helpful insights for interacting with Muslims. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Is Yoga an Acceptable Christian Practice?
Greg discusses the risks and benefits of many popular practices such as yoga and mindfulness. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
If Paul Couldn't Get HIS Thorn Removed, Why Should We Think OUR Prayers for Healing Will Be Answered?
Greg considers why Paul was unable to get his thorn removed, and argues that we should not universalize Paul's situation to all of ours. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
If Jesus Fully Reveals God, Do We Need the Old Testament?
Greg looks at the value and the role of the Old Testament in light of Jesus' full revelation of God on the cross. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
What is ReKnew's CrossVision Conference?
Greg offers a peek at what is coming up in the CrossVision conference in September. What is it? Who will be there? Is this the start of something big? (YES!) Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Did Jesus Experience Genuine God-Forsakenness? (2 of 2)
Greg discusses Jesus' experience of God-Forsakenness, and looks at the role of Jesus' humanity in that foresakenness. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Did Jesus Experience Genuine God-Forsakenness? (1 of 2)
Greg discusses Jesus' experience of God-Forsakenness, and looks at possible implications for the perfection of the trinity. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Was God the Father Lonely Before Having a Son?
Greg discusses the role of God's son and what the trinity was like before the incarnation. That is, was God the father lonely before the arrival of his son? If Jesus is literally the son of God, wasn't there a time when there was only the Father? In which case, wouldn't that mean the the trinity isn't eternal? Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Are Jews Unconditionally Preserved in God's Covenant?
Greg considers Romans 9-13 and discusses what it means to be a Jew and what it means to be a part of the body of Christ. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Did God (an Angel of the Lord) Strike Herod Down?
Greg considers the capabilities and liberties of angels and demons. Laziness and failure at all levels of the cosmos! Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
What is Violence?
Greg takes a closer look at what violence is. Then he bullies Dan. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
What Does it Mean to Be IN Christ?
Greg considers what it means to be "in" Christ, and shows the power of embracing this truth in our day-to-day faith journey. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Is there life on other planets, and if so, do they need Jesus?
Greg considers the salvific status of alien life. Should your church support interplanetary ministries? Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
How Do I Feel God's Presence More?
Greg examines the narratives in our heads, and the neurology in our brains, to help Dan and Julie feel God's presence more. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
If Nobody Can Come to Jesus Unless God Draws Them, Isn't Salvation Predestined?
John 6:64-65 sounds very predestination-y. Is it? Greg considers the nature of God's 'drawing' of us to Christ. Are those who are not drawn excluded due to some in God? Or something in those individuals? Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Is Accepting Evolution with All It's Violence Compatible with Believing in a Loving Creator?
Greg considers the violence inherent in evolution (and in nature itself) in light of our belief in an all-loving creator. Greg's Essay in "Creation Made Free" Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
What's the Deal with the Nephilim?
Greg looks the strange story of the Nephilim. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
If We Have Opportunities After Death, Why Try So Hard in Life? Why Work So Hard to Share the Gospel?
Why even try? Greg considers how the reality of an intermediary state (after death) affects our motivations. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
If Violence is Wrong, Why Passively Allow Others to Use It?
Greg discusses dealing with the violence of loved ones. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
What Do You Think About Medical Marijuana?
Does Greg pass on grass? Find out in this controversial episode. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
How Involved in Church Should Kids Be?
Greg discusses the idea of a Kids book based on a Cruciform Hermeneutic, then considers how much kids should be involved in reading and learning about the bible. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Doesn't Jesus Violate the Free Will of Demons When He Casts Them Out?
Greg discusses the free will of demons and speculates on whether God is ever violent towards spiritual entities. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Are You Simply Picking and Choosing What You Believe in the Bible?
Greg discusses how me must ALL decide what we are going to take at face value in the bible and what we are not. Greg then discusses 2 ways of approaching scripture (bringing a picture of God to the text, or allowing the text to provide your picture of God). Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
What's the Difference Between MERCY and GRACE?
Is Mercy simply another word for Grace? Find out in this short taught thriller of an episode! Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
How Do You Make Sense of the Wrath of God in John 3:36?
Learn and Turn. Greg discusses why the wrath of God is probably not an emotion of God but a way of describing the consequences built in to sin. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
What Does it Mean for Jesus to Mediate for God if Jesus IS God?
Greg discusses what it means for each member of the Trinity to have different roles. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Update on Myth of the Blueprint
Greg discusses a book he has been developing for 20 years and ponders what the future of the book might be. Check out the CrossVision Conference: http://reknew.org/upcoming-events/reknew-conference/ Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Reflections on the Fantastic Missio Alliance Awakenings Conference
Greg discusses the Missio Alliance Awakenings Conference 2017, and shares his experience with NT Wright. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
What Are the Early Reactions to Crucifixion of the Warrior God?
Greg discusses the early reaction to his new 2 volume book "Crucifixion of the Warrior God." Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Does the Resurrection Diminish the Sacrifice of Jesus?
Greg discusses God's sacrifice, the nature of separation from God, and shares a powerful story from his time in Cambodia, and offers this as an analogy for Christ's inner sacrifice. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Do You Read Fiction?
Greg discusses his reading habits, and admits to only reading philosophically dense fiction. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Does God Speak to People in Dreams?
Greg discusses whether God peeks his head into your dreams. There are Many Ways to Say Goodnight. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Can We Use the Scholarly Work of Someone We Know is a Sexual Predator?
Greg discusses the troubling case of professor John Howard Yoder and considers whether we should use such a person's writing in our own thinking. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Is Demon Possession Simply Psychological Catharsis?
Greg discusses demon possession and the believability of it. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Is Open Theism Growing in the World?
Greg discusses the place of Open Theism in contemporary Christianity. Here is a picture of me (Dan) and Jessica: Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Part 17 of 17—Crucifixion of the Warrior God: What About Heroes of the Faith Who Slaughtered People?
Paul Walker continues his interview with Greg about Crucifixion of the Warrior God. Paul Walker can be found at MennoNerds. Follow MennoNerds on Twitter. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Part 16 of 17—Crucifixion of the Warrior God: What About Those Who Do Not Believe in Devils and Demons?
Paul Walker continues his interview with Greg about Crucifixion of the Warrior God. Paul Walker can be found at MennoNerds. Follow MennoNerds on Twitter. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Part 15 of 17—Crucifixion of the Warrior God: Principle of Cosmic Conflict
Paul Walker continues his interview with Greg about Crucifixion of the Warrior God. Paul Walker can be found at MennoNerds. Follow MennoNerds on Twitter. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Part 14 of 17—Crucifixion of the Warrior God: How Was the Canon Written?
Paul Walker continues his interview with Greg about Crucifixion of the Warrior God. Paul Walker can be found at MennoNerds. Follow MennoNerds on Twitter. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org