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118. Myth-Busting Hell // with Keith Giles

The New Evangelicals Podcast

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The Importance of Hyperbole in the Bible

Timothy Stanley: I think that this language of hyperbole is so important to understand because, you know, in our culture, we do this all the time. If I'm if I'm carrying groceries and I tell my wife, these bags weigh a ton, no one thinks I literally mean it weighs a ton. And in 2000 years now, they read, wow, Tim must have been Superman being able to carry a tonBecause look, we can't do that now, right? Or I think about, maybe 2000 years from now, someone's reading a sports write up of LeBron James who was on fire at the last Lakers game,. No one's going to think, Oh, LeBron

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