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Trouble In Paradise

By: Matthew Lyon and Adam Johnston
  • Summary

  • Trouble In Paradise is about evaluating and contrasting Protestant and Catholic ideas about Original Sin, with a focus on elaborating how this doctrine has affected us culturally, spiritually, and personally, with another salvation theology that is historical, Biblical, free of contradictions, called Ancestral Sin in the Eastern Orthodox Church. We aim to show conclusively that removing the doctrine of Original Sin and replacing it with a serious view of death, Satan, and sin makes the Bible make sense like never before and sets us on a trajectory back to Eden and New Creation.

    Matthew Lyon 2024
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Episodes
  • Episode 3 - Cowardice as Trouble for the Conscience
    Mar 12 2024

    What makes sin, sin? We're starting off that discussion by showing what faith looks like. Unbelief is sin, but what does that mean? We know what faith looks like because of the examples in Scripture where faith is modeled as courageous heroism. Wouldn't the opposite be true? We get started making this case in John and then Hebrews and will continue next time with seeing the OT Law as training to be faithful, and therefore heroic.

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    52 mins
  • Episode 2 - The Trouble with Forcing Foreign Ideas into Scripture
    Mar 12 2024

    Jumping back into contingency and how union with God, with others, depends on contingency and on God's real freedom to have created the world from nothing. Things that confuse contingency will collapse everything into one thing. God's will and Who He is become the same. Our will and who we are become identical. The past, the future, the present fold in on themselves. Or do we come into union because God is truly different from the Creation, and has made us different so that union, family, cooperation, synergy is possible and actually ideal? Original Sin by INXS https://music.amazon.com/albums/B00124FUGC?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_TeCH0JaB3x2GW0HWVGEvtVNPx&trackAsin=B00124D0S2 Rodrigo Duterte Calls God Stupid https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44610872

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Episode 1 - I Knew You Were Trouble
    Feb 29 2024

    Episodes 1 & 2 will be re-recorded shortly! Matthew and Adam share their experiences growing up Evangelical, converting to Calvinism in their twenties, and how Biblical scholarship, not disgust with Calvinism or Augustine or Protestant theology, led them to what they believe is the most defensible Biblical and traditional understanding of the Fall and its effects, at least they get started on it anyway.

    The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion

    https://a.co/d/2hQsJEA

    Unseen Realm

    https://a.co/d/3RYElkH

    The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination

    https://a.co/d/gPb8B9f

    https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/battle-grace-alone/

    Bad Medicine by Bon Jovi

    https://music.amazon.com/albums/B00L4RQZFC?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_AsNdnzXKSER46Fe3I3Awp42Lu&trackAsin=B00L4RR9F2

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    38 mins

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