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032 Modern Discipleship with Stone Age Minds (with Justin Barrett)

Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation

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Is There a Core Purpose of Humanity?

"I want to suggest that it's very surprising, for instance, if really God created a third of adolescent males to be professional athletes," he says. "And so that's probably not our core purpose, just from an evolutionary perspective, let alone from a theological one." The book gives us some hints like this bothered some people who read the book, he knows.

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