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What do you mean God speaks?

Paul Seungoh Chung

A series that reconstrues and retells key ideas, insights, and stories in Christianity for the skeptics who want to understand religion, Christians with questions about their own beliefs, and everyone in between. I am Paul Seungoh Chung, the author of "GOD"? What"s That? and God at the Crossroads of Worldviews. I invite you to explore with me the world shared by 2.4 billion people--one that inspired our ideals, imaginations, and intellect, for better or for worse. (Note: I recommend listening to the

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33:47

S4E11: Why there is organized religion, according to...

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2026/02/03

Send us a text “Organized religion” seems to have a bad rep nowadays. It’s associated with authoritarian hierarchies, dogmatic beliefs and rigid rules. Many of us instead want to identify ourselves as simply “spiritual”; we want to be people connected with some greater reality, some deeper truths and higher ideals, to something Divine, but without the confines of organized religion. Fair enough. And interestingly enough, in the Bible, the first heroes of faith—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,...

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S4E10: Why we end up in the desert when God calls

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2025/10/18

Send us a text After the Israelites escape the Egyptian army that pursued them, they find themselves in the desert. In one sense, this was expected since geographically and physically, Egypt was surrounded by the desert. Yet, the narratives in Exodus, just as in Genesis, are archetypal stories—that is, they describe a kind of templates or pattern of what happens whenever a people follow the call of God. Or to put it differently, that's how Reality works. Such people, at one point or another, ...

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S4E9: The Sea that God parts in Exodus is no mere...

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2025/08/09

Send us a text We’ve now returned to start the second half of Season Four. We closed the first half at a key point, exploring the meaning of the blood of the Lamb in the final plague of Exodus, and we'll now begin with the parting of the Sea. Both, it turns out, are closely connected with the ideas weaved through the accounts of Creation and the Flood in Genesis, which in turn points to that of the salvation in Christ. And the key to understanding that is found in what the Sea and its waters ...

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S4Extra3: Book is finished! About its place in this...

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2025/05/25

Send us a text The manuscript of the book is complete and is now in the hands of the editors. It will still be around the end of this year at the earliest for it to be published, but my work--the writing part--is more or less finished! Thank you for your continued support! This series will return to the main episodes in June, covering the second half of Season Four, "God awaits you in the desert." But here, I wanted to first discuss something about the book, now that it's complete...

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S4Extra2: Bathroom thoughts on science, belief,...

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2025/03/01

Send us a text I'll be working on the book until end of April, and so in the meanwhile, more extra episodes! This episode, I discuss material that did not quite make it into a main episode. One is from Season Three on science and belief-corrections in regard to God. One is from Season Four on Galileo's example of science vs religion. And one that actually doesn't fit anywhere yet. I call this the "bathroom thoughts," because of how many of these ideas start from idle thoughts in a...

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S3Extra1: "God is no more believable than UFOs?" -...

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2025/01/27

Send us a textWe’re back! Sort of.First, this bonus episode is to announce an update and news. The first season of this series is being re-adapted(?) / rewritten as a book and will be published next year. If everything goes as scheduled. So, what with the title of this episode? “A World where God seems no more believable than UFOs” is the catch-phrase of the book, or rather its starting point. It asks—as this series as asked—what “God” really means, when for many of us, God seems “no mo...

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S4E8: Why would a Lamb's blood save you? Plague and...

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2024/10/22

Send us a textWhat do we need to make a better world? In a world filled with the news of wars, injustices, human-made catastrophes, what do we need? In a world where our future seem so uncertain and bleak at times, even with all of the marvels we accomplished and progress we’ve made, what will lead us to tomorrow?And the Christian Bible poses an answer in the form of a symbolic act; long ago, God’s judgment came upon a land, upon every family and every living thing there, to strike down its f...

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S4E7: Why God strikes every firstborn of Egypt -...

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2024/09/10

Send us a textWe’re back again for another episode! This is a kind of milestone for the series, as we cover a key narrative in Exodus—that of the final tenth plague, which connects to the Gospel account of Jesus Christ. And the question we must first wrestle with is: why does God strike down every firstborn in Egypt? The plague horrifies with us with the image of dead children, though according to Exodus, it’d have struck down both young and old, and even the animals—but that of course only m...

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S4E6: Divine Intervention or Natural Events? What the...

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2024/07/01

Send us a Text Message.Were the plagues that struck Egypt in Exodus Divine intervention or natural events? This is a question that is raised by those who present natural explanation for these plagues. But, things that follow laws of nature are God speaking, just as things that do not seem to. The real question is: what distinguishes these events in Exodus from just any other things that happen? Because the difference will not be found in whether they are natural or not. And there is a differe...

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S4E5: Why God hardened Pharaoh's heart and then...

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2024/04/24

One of the more perplexing and disturbing part of the Exodus account is when God hardens Pharaoh's heart so that he does not listen to Moses and let the people of Israel go. But then, God punishes him it by unfolding disasters--the plagues--upon Egypt. But, this seems profoundly unjust! What is the idea that the Bible is presenting about God? That nothing we do matters?However, it turns out that the message is in fact the exact opposite. There is something far more that is going on in t...

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S4E4: How Moses learns God is speaking with him...

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2024/03/24

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S4E3: What does the name "YHWH" mean, and why it matters

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2024/02/24

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S4E2: Why Moses heard God from a burning bush

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2024/01/29

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S4E1: Who were they before they were "Israel"?

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2024/01/12

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S4 Prologue: They were born in the desert

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2023/12/25

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S3Post4: What I believe, and the stories we didn't cover

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2023/12/17

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S3Post3: Vote for a person, not a party (some...

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2023/12/07

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S3Post2: Renounce racism, but overcome prejudice

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2023/11/27

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S3Post1: What do I mean, "Thank you for Listening?"...

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2023/11/14

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S3Finale: Frozen between faith and fear - How our...

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2023/09/30

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