I look forward to your podcast episodes every week and wish I could be a part if your readingroup to learn and listen. Thank you for you work. Take care
"For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." - 2 Timothy 4:3-4. it's ironic that the prophecy from sacred text of the bible is being fulfilled by those who do not believe in such a thing a sacred. Its not sacred just because man thinks it's sacred. It is sacred because it is God breathed. Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the light. Spend some time reading the book of John and Matthew and you will see for your self. Seek and you shall find.
My friend, I don't think you understand the entire reason of this podcast's existence. The hosts themselves admit that the premise is silly: reading a children's series as some religious document. But in many ways it's not about the text itself. In my opinion it's more about the techniques of divinity school being applied to just about any text, and gleaning knowledge from it. It's about suspending irony and snark, and being sincere about something you love. At the end of the day, the hosts and I would guess the vast majority of the listeners know that Harry Potter is not at the same level as The Bible. And by the way, I find it extremely laughable that you assume that these people from Harvard Divinity School don't know the meaning of "sacred."
I look forward to your podcast episodes every week and wish I could be a part if your readingroup to learn and listen. Thank you for you work. Take care
Could you put out a guide or talking points for doing this?? I would love to try it out with friends. :)
Love this!!
"For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." - 2 Timothy 4:3-4. it's ironic that the prophecy from sacred text of the bible is being fulfilled by those who do not believe in such a thing a sacred. Its not sacred just because man thinks it's sacred. It is sacred because it is God breathed. Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the light. Spend some time reading the book of John and Matthew and you will see for your self. Seek and you shall find.
My friend, I don't think you understand the entire reason of this podcast's existence. The hosts themselves admit that the premise is silly: reading a children's series as some religious document. But in many ways it's not about the text itself. In my opinion it's more about the techniques of divinity school being applied to just about any text, and gleaning knowledge from it. It's about suspending irony and snark, and being sincere about something you love.
At the end of the day, the hosts and I would guess the vast majority of the listeners know that Harry Potter is not at the same level as The Bible.
And by the way, I find it extremely laughable that you assume that these people from Harvard Divinity School don't know the meaning of "sacred."