{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Dialog","title":"1.30 / How do you live with uncertainty?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1285,"description":"You're breathing right now without thinking about it. Your heart, your lungs, your lymphatic system, a brain that somehow sends the signals behind everything you are. None of it is simple, and you didn't have to understand any of it.\nSo why would we expect the world to be less complex than our own bodies?\nMost people aren't afraid of uncertainty because they doubt truth exists. They're afraid of where a question might lead. My co-host Nick Surface and I pick up where Episode 29 left off: why we crave simple answers, what you can actually be certain about, and why so many of the things we argue over don't change how we live.\nWhat can you be certain about?\nYour search for truth, and the principles you live by. The Bible isn't a science textbook, but it's a map to navigate your life with. Some things are always right, always good and always true.\nDo debates about evolution or the rapture matter?\nAsk how knowing it affects how you live. Nick pushes back: if you really believed Jesus was coming back, it would change how you live. If it does, talk about it. If it doesn't, why fight about it?\nHow can a person be truth?\nAugustine said that if truth is the highest thing, truth is God. Jesus said, \"I am the way, the truth, and the life.\" He represents the truest way to live.\nScriptures\n1 Samuel 3 · Romans 1:20 · 2 Peter 3:8 · John 14:6\nPeople and ideas\nSocrates: people fear questions because they think there are no answers\nAugustine: if truth is the highest thing, truth is God\nErwin McManus: \"I reserve the right to change my mind\"\nChapters\n0:00 Cold open and show intro\n0:53 God speaks to people differently\n1:22 Why you have to embrace uncertainty\n1:59 Your body is more complex than you think\n3:01 When you drift from truth, feelings get louder\n4:05 Nobody wants to be wrong\n5:25 Why people are scared of questions\n6:15 Tell me how to be happy in a 30-second reel\n6:59 The sun, the brain and the air you breathe\n8:40 Demanding simple answers misses the miracle\n9:34 Two...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7YsfA4gq5VzjhvmKvDET1pQqT0OM6yxv1laklKclR7g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZWZh/MTRmZDEzOWRjZGQz/Y2M2NThkNzYwOTJj/ODA4MC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}