{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Dialog","title":"1.33 / What is your fatal flaw? The Greek word behind sin","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3038,"description":"My kids tell me they're hungry all the time. A lot of the time they're not hungry. They're thirsty, and their body is confusing the signals. Most of us live the same way. We're led around by our appetites, and we keep feeding the wrong one.\nMy co-host Nick Surface and I start with the DM that kicked off my book story, then follow one Greek word back to Aristotle: ἁμαρτία (hamartia), the fatal flaw. It's the same word the New Testament uses for sin.\nWhat is ἁμαρτία (hamartia)?\nIn Aristotle's Poetics, it's a protagonist who makes a mistake that creates a chain of events that leads to disaster. That's how sin works. You think you're making a good decision, and you can't see how it's going to work out.\nWhat are the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life?\nThree appetites we'll always have (1 John 2:16). The lotus eaters forgot home for comfort. Pandora's curiosity opened the jar. Icarus flew into the sun.\nIs the answer to just stop sinning?\nNo. Order your appetites. The antidote is worship, and worship is a life of spiritual submission (John 4).\nCan you blame the devil?\nWe'll admit our capacity for evil. What's hard to admit is that I don't just have a capacity for evil. I have a desire for evil (Jeremiah 17:9).\nScriptures\nLuke 4 · 1 John 2:16 · John 4 · Romans 3:23 · Jeremiah 17:9 · Romans 7 · Matthew 23:25-26 · Psalm 51:10 · Isaiah 6 · Ecclesiastes 1:2 · Psalm 139:14\nThinkers and books\nAristotle, Poetics · Homer, The Odyssey · John Bevere, Under Cover · Watchman Nee, Spiritual Authority\nChapters\n0:00 Cold open and show intro\n0:52 The DM from a literary agent\n2:44 Why my first answer was no\n4:11 Your 1%\n5:00 Jesus didn't come to do His own thing\n7:40 The three temptations (Luke 4)\n8:22 Built different? The pride of life\n9:29 Aristotle and hamartia\n11:04 Does sin mean \"missing the mark\"?\n12:10 The lotus eaters\n14:33 \"Sin will take you further than you want to go\"\n14:52 Pandora's jar\n17:51 Icarus\n18:43 Body, soul and spirit\n20:20 Order your...","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}