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Podcast: theeffect Podcasts
Episode: Tables And Trees
Description: Dave Brisbin 3.3.24
Decades ago, I met a Christian who converted to Judaism, eventually becoming a first century Jewish follower of Jesus. He spoke of his personal theology, a stated set of personal beliefs. I’d never considered such a thing. Growing up Catholic, theology belonged to the church, as if God had written it, and the church discovered it, parceling it out each Sunday. Unquestionably true, the idea of a personal theology was blasphemous. We had no permission to think personally.
Yet here’s Jesus overturning tables in the temple and cursing a fig tree for having no fruit. Both stor...