Podcast – Genesis 12

This podcast (22 min) covers the topics blogged on Genesis 12:

Included posts:

You can download the notes on Genesis 11–12, or the full notes for the series (75-page PDF).

This is the final podcast from the series Formed in God’s Story: Genesis 1–12.

Previous podcasts:

Abram and this world’s rulers (Genesis 12:10-20)

What happens to God’s plans to save the world if we’re unfaithful? Abram’s encounter with Pharaoh has the answers.

God partners with Abraham to save the world. The flaw in God’s plan is God’s determination to partner with us. Haven’t we already seen that the world is unsustainable when humans are unfaithful to God? (Genesis 6:5-13)

What if Abraham is unfaithful? Won’t our unfaithfulness destroy what God is building through us? Won’t our unfaithfulness nullify God’s faithfulness? (Romans 3:3)

God’s whole kingdom project seems unstable:

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How do you determine religious truth?

How do you decide what you believe? Is it a gut feeling, what sits right with you or a witness of the Spirit? Do you trust your friends, believing as they do? Do you follow a tradition developed over 2000 years? Or do you need to prove it from the Bible as the only inspired revelation?

The way you determine truth reveals a great deal about you and the kind of church you’re likely to belong to. Christians divide over the basis of truth when we consider our way the only way.

Truth is more than I perceive, stretching beyond the horizon I see.

So here’s how I answered this question in another forum this week.

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