Welcome to the Inverted Orthodoxy Podcast! We're Blake, Kyle, and Doug the pastors from Living Springs, here to take you on a weekly adventure through the twists and turns of faith.

Got questions? We've got answers, and sometimes more questions! Join us as we explore, celebrate, and embrace the beautiful complexities of belief. This weeks questions are:

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Aer - As I was listening to the last question from last week’s episode about Jesus in heaven, it made me wonder if it’s a bit like the characters in the movie free guy, have you seen that? They don’t know they are in a computer game until guy puts on the glasses and starts to see things differently, is this like when we first begin to follow Jesus, we don’t see clearly? But when Jesus returns it’s like at the end where he runs past the edge and finds the island on the other side, like the veil being lifted and we will see heaven clearly?

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In Proverbs 1-4, 8-9 wisdom is personified the entire time. From Proverbs 8:22-29 of Wisdom's Call in particular it is explained that God created wisdom before anything else, and then 8:30 states "Then I was the craftsman at his side" from the personified view of wisdom (at least in the NIV). Could wisdom be reference to the Holy Spirit, or is it the personification just the way of delivering the significance of the message in that style of writing? If wisdom is a reference to the Holy Spirit, what does that make Folly? In the NIV this personification is feminine, is this the same in other versions and translations?

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If Jesus was born from a virgin mother that means there was no one to give him a Y chromosome meaning that he only ha X chromosomes. Does that make him female at birth or was he only human because he had dna but all of his dna was godly making Mary a surrogate mother?

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When listening to some of the questions you guys answer on scripture, you state that we don’t understand the context in which it was written. Such as a question a number of weeks ago, you stated that the letter of Corinthians was written to a church in Corinth. Would you then say we should read about the book and the context of the letter or book before we even read the Bible?

Resources:

Bad News about Heaven- YouTube

Bible Project- Any book of the Bible on YouTube

BEMA Podcast

Bible Gateway

Naked Bible

Long Form Teaching on Hell

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