11: Zack Hunt: Deconstructing the Bible

May 28, 2023

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Today, I talk with author, writer, and doodle lover, Zack Hunt about his new book, Godbreathed. He shares his experience of the Nazarene Church, watching TV preacher Jack Van Impe, going to Bible college and getting hit with an academic approach to the Bible which gave him more questions than he was comfortable with. This deconstruction led him to write his first book Unraptured and as he further processed his faith he wrote Godbreathed to help people process what the Bible is and what it is not. He is a wonderful human being and I had a lot of fun chatting with him.

You can find Zack’s book: https://rb.gy/5skge and https://rb.gy/n0lck
You can find Zack at www.Zackhunt.net and https://substack.com/@zackhunt

Below are the topics and time stamps of the issues we cover which includes,

1:47 Introduction
5:08 Puppies and dog lovers
6:20 His anti-fundie billboards around Nashville
8:30 Deconstructing Jack Van Impe, Unraptured
11:49 Voices of Guidance, Rachel Held Evans
15:11 Why he wrote Godbreathed, permission to question
19:48 Loving Scripture vs Worshiping scripture, subjectivity vs objectivity, humanity and divinity, control vs faith
26:38 the Bible as the story of God’s people told by God’s people vs History of God’s people written by God.
29:40 Finding the meaning of the Bible worthy of the God it describes, Origen and allegory.
33:20 Paul was wrong about slavery
36:05 Infallibility vs Heliocentrism, homosexuality,
37:53 History of the Fundie takeover: Pulpits, Publishers, and the Presidency
42:51 Decline of fundamentalist institutions, pastor shortage, young people exodus, same sex marriage
47:40 Inerrancy as White Supremacy and Patriarchy.
51:36 Bible as Myth, making space at the table for different views
58:39 Sola scriptura and drunk, constipated Luther
1:02:06 conformity, younger generations, MLK, justice, silent white moderate
1:06:43 Quiet quitting pastors, Trumpism, Black Lives Matter
1:10:37 The American Church is dead, now what?
1:15:05 Liminal Living when you’re excommunicated
1:18:56 Conclusion

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