God and the gods
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Jimmy Akin
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Throughout human history, people in all cultures have sensed the divine and developed a bewildering arrays of beliefs and ideas. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the conflict between belief in one God vs. many, the journey that God had led his people on through time, and how we should understand these concepts today.
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| 0:53.8 | away at rosaryarmie.com. You're listening to episode 112 of Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World, |
| 1:10.9 | where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason. In this episode, we're talking |
| 1:17.6 | about God and the gods. I'm Dom Betanelli, and joining me today is Jimmy Akin. Hi, Jimmy. |
| 1:24.0 | How do you, Dom? For all of human history, people have since the divine. Believe in God or the gods |
| 1:31.2 | is a human universal, appearing in all cultures. But the different beliefs and ideas they have about |
| 1:36.4 | them can be bewildering. Even in Israel, there was conflict between those who proclaimed the one |
| 1:42.1 | true God and those who wanted to worship other deities. Through the centuries, God led his people |
| 1:47.6 | through a series of stages on their journey with him. So how did ordinary Hebrews understand |
| 1:53.1 | these matters while they were on that journey? What did the Biblical authors think? And how should we |
| 1:59.0 | understand these concepts today? And that's what we'll be talking about on this episode of Jimmy Akin's |
| 2:04.4 | Mysterious World. So Jimmy, what do we need to begin by saying? Most of the mysteries we cover on |
| 2:10.4 | the show, we give like a historical background on the mystery, and then we look at it from the faith |
| 2:16.5 | and reason perspectives. And this time, our detective story is going to take a bit of a different path. |
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