Recovering Evangelicals #5 Soul and Afterlife: Introduction to the series
In this episode, Luke goes out to do “on-the-street” interviews, asking people three questions about what it means to be human. Since the three main words used by the Bible in this context are heart, mind and soul, he asked students during Frosh Week, people from my church, and professors at the university their ideas on those three words. Not surprisingly, he found a complete mish-mash of ideas.
One might think that a clear answer to “what is the soul and what does it do?” would be found in the Bible. Think again. Boyd and Luke talk briefly about how that’s just not the case … how “sometimes it takes 90 degree turns, and sometimes even 180 degree reversals.” And those changes in direction always seem to occur when the writers of the Bible come into contact with a global superpower. We’ll explore that in a lot more detail in the next few episodes.
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