{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Dialog","title":"1.23 / Where did your beliefs about money come from?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2269,"description":"\"The Bible says cleanliness is next to godliness.\" A classmate said that in one of my college theology classes. My professor asked her to show us where. She flipped through Proverbs and just about everything else, then said, \"Well, I don't see it in here.\" It's not in there.\nThen he said something I've never forgotten: \"If your beliefs don't line up with the Bible, you throw out your beliefs. You don't throw out the Bible.\"\nMy co-host Nick Surface and I talk about tradition versus truth, and why money is where it shows up most.\nWhat is a tradition?\nA belief that gets handed down to people as a law. Traditions aren't bad. They make us feel safe. But nobody sits down at Thanksgiving and asks, \"Do we like this food?\" Put bluntly, traditions are peer pressure from dead people.\nWhat's the difference between a belief and the truth?\nTruth is true whether you believe it or not. The trouble starts when we raise our beliefs to the level of truth (Mark 7:13).\nWhere did your beliefs about money come from?\nProbably not Scripture. Most of us got them from how we were raised, our culture, our parents and the movies we watched. And \"money is the root of all evil\" isn't what the Bible says (1 Timothy 6:10).\nHow do you test what you believe?\nDoes it produce good outcomes in your life? Is it reflected in what Scripture teaches? Don't just take my word for it. Do the work.\nScriptures\nMark 7:1-23 · 1 Timothy 6:10 · 1 Corinthians 9:16 · Genesis 1:28 · Proverbs 13:22 · Deuteronomy 28:6, 12 · John 10:10\nChapters\n0:00 Cold open and show intro\n1:25 Why prosperity is such a battleground\n4:25 Not the prosperity gospel, not a poverty gospel\n7:04 Everyone learned a model of money growing up\n7:30 \"Money is the root of all evil\" isn't what the Bible says\n12:21 Why does the Bible talk about money so much?\n13:21 The problem is tradition (Mark 7)\n14:59 Thanksgiving food and the power of tradition\n17:32 Traditions are peer pressure from dead people\n19:49 What's the difference between a belief and...","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}