Hey Lindsay fans: I've discovered how I can get New Discourses podcasts (from YouTube) turned into insta-transcripts. You can do this with Assembly.ai. Just click on their "Playground" and add a YouTube link. (James, you can do this too. It would boost your SEO to publish a transcript along with a video.) Check out the transcript of The Gnostic Temptation here: https://www.assemblyai.com/playground/transcript/6il5p9sezi-f08b-40e4-862c-9c7bb996d8be
Update: To get a transcription via Assembly.ai, click on "Playground" then scroll to the very bottom. You'll see in tiny font: "Use your own video." Click that link + you'll be taken to a page where you can copy/paste in a YouTube link.
Fascinating and eye-opening explanation of the far reach of gnosticism. As I listened, I began to see that the fast growing New Apostolic Reformation movement in the Christian Church is just another manifestation of the age old Gnosticism of the early church. I would love to hear your thoughts on this dangerous movement.
Agreed it would be interesting to hear James's take. NAR seems to be yet another version of charismatic 'spirituality.' It's very subjective. The word (bible) isn't enough: they seek experiences. These outbreaks of enthusiasm over "taking dominion" and grand visions of empowerment come and go over the decades.
When I was in college in Miami there was a local movement like this. They'd often talk of healing the sick and they'd make grandiose promises that never came true, like "Soon, we're going to heal everyone at Baptist Hospital, and they'll have to shut the hospital down because no one will be sick!" Well, guess what. Many years later Baptist Hospital's still there but the movement evaporated. https://baptisthealth.net/locations/hospitals/baptist-hospital-of-miami
I met some of those people involved in the movement. I was a devout Christian going to a solid church at the time. These charismatics had their own cult-church. One of their members, who was studying nuclear physics(!), told me I had "the demon of rationality" because I didn't agree with them.
The people in the movement are impervious, even to the Bible. Best way to challenge the phenomenon is to call them to do -- right now -- one of those enormous miracles (like healing everyone in a hospital) that they like to brag about.
Insightful as always James. I heard the term "targeted universalism" at work the other day as a way to justify/explain racial preferences in providing services. The idea being that by preferentially favoring 'historically marginalized' groups (targeted) we're actually making things better for everyone (universalism). I nearly laughed out loud at the audacity. I thought of it again during your talk where American principles ended up being only #5 on the dignity scale - "your understanding of universalism isn't bad...just lower level and incomplete. Let me tell you about 'targeted universalism'...".
Hey Lindsay fans: I've discovered how I can get New Discourses podcasts (from YouTube) turned into insta-transcripts. You can do this with Assembly.ai. Just click on their "Playground" and add a YouTube link. (James, you can do this too. It would boost your SEO to publish a transcript along with a video.) Check out the transcript of The Gnostic Temptation here: https://www.assemblyai.com/playground/transcript/6il5p9sezi-f08b-40e4-862c-9c7bb996d8be
Update: To get a transcription via Assembly.ai, click on "Playground" then scroll to the very bottom. You'll see in tiny font: "Use your own video." Click that link + you'll be taken to a page where you can copy/paste in a YouTube link.
Fascinating and eye-opening explanation of the far reach of gnosticism. As I listened, I began to see that the fast growing New Apostolic Reformation movement in the Christian Church is just another manifestation of the age old Gnosticism of the early church. I would love to hear your thoughts on this dangerous movement.
Agreed it would be interesting to hear James's take. NAR seems to be yet another version of charismatic 'spirituality.' It's very subjective. The word (bible) isn't enough: they seek experiences. These outbreaks of enthusiasm over "taking dominion" and grand visions of empowerment come and go over the decades.
When I was in college in Miami there was a local movement like this. They'd often talk of healing the sick and they'd make grandiose promises that never came true, like "Soon, we're going to heal everyone at Baptist Hospital, and they'll have to shut the hospital down because no one will be sick!" Well, guess what. Many years later Baptist Hospital's still there but the movement evaporated. https://baptisthealth.net/locations/hospitals/baptist-hospital-of-miami
I met some of those people involved in the movement. I was a devout Christian going to a solid church at the time. These charismatics had their own cult-church. One of their members, who was studying nuclear physics(!), told me I had "the demon of rationality" because I didn't agree with them.
The people in the movement are impervious, even to the Bible. Best way to challenge the phenomenon is to call them to do -- right now -- one of those enormous miracles (like healing everyone in a hospital) that they like to brag about.
Insightful as always James. I heard the term "targeted universalism" at work the other day as a way to justify/explain racial preferences in providing services. The idea being that by preferentially favoring 'historically marginalized' groups (targeted) we're actually making things better for everyone (universalism). I nearly laughed out loud at the audacity. I thought of it again during your talk where American principles ended up being only #5 on the dignity scale - "your understanding of universalism isn't bad...just lower level and incomplete. Let me tell you about 'targeted universalism'...".