How can you possibly believe that?" And at the time, all the end times, Tim LaHaye stuff was very in focus culturally. I thought they all were okay.Īnd that got me on a quest, searching out the origins of scripture and then my friends who weren't Christians, this is actually a very important part of my story was that my friends who weren't Christians and the girl that I was dating at the time, they were concerned for me when I started reading the Bible, because they're wondering, "Are you going to be getting into a cult? What is this Christian thing? Just a dead man came back to life. And I can just remember that as a college student, "Do Christians really believe that?" And I had no… It had to be God, because in my mind, I was like, "God, are you there? Is this true?" Because I never assumed that there was just one religion. But that little tract was saying there is only one way to God, and that was through Jesus. And you never know where these things lead. And then I went to Colorado State University and it was there during your college years where I read a little tiny tract that a campus club was handing out. I probably would have said, oh, there's some God just culturally. And I wasn't actually an atheist, or I wouldn't say I was even agnostic. Yeah, I was raised in Paramus, New Jersey, which is a suburb of New York City. So before we get into our topic, why don't you tell us a little bit about your spiritual journey. Now Dan, you help people better understand the Christian faith and that there are good reasons to believe Christian truth claims, but it was not always so.
And it is sunny outside, I'm looking out the window right now. Welcome, Dan.Īnd welcome from Santa Cruz to you. And our topic on The Table podcast today is "Making sense of strange Bible passages." My guest coming to us today from sunshiny California is Dan Kimball, lead teacher at Vintage Faith Church and an Associate Professor of Leadership and Theology at Western Seminary. I'm Mikel Del Rosario, Cultural Engagement Manager here at The Hendricks Center at Dallas Theological Seminary. Welcome to The Table where we discuss issues of God and culture.