God as storyteller

concept · 4 episodes

229For the Love of Storytelling - Featuring Nate Morgan Locke, the Reformed Mythologist 10 Nov 2025 17:23¶ 58 “What’s the connection here? The connection is God the Creator, the Storyteller made man in his image, and God writing a book. You obviously…” 20:54¶ 70 “Then I thought my expertise is not really in kind of the apologetics in that sense or in philosophy, but I wonder whether we…” 21:52¶ 72 “Let me recast that for you presuppositionally, if you will. Christianity says that there is a sovereign God who orchestrates all things for his…”

92An Unlikely Hero - Fantasy 15 Nov 2021 23:49¶ 78 “The Persons of the trinity told each other in infinite detail what exactly they were going to do with this creation project. That is,…” 23:07¶ 76 “But going back to the beginning, God created, but as God creates we hear him talking amongst himself. Insert doctrine of trinity here. The…” 24:28¶ 79 “Then he wrapped that up not only in history, but he summarized it into this book called the Bible, which itself contains summaries of…”

70Science and Wonder 23 May 2021 1:00:34¶ 192 “The creativity here ends up being a rather significant element, because God introduces himself as a storyteller. “In the beginning, God created the heavens…” 1:00:59¶ 193 “The universe is his story that he’s telling. We exist within his imagination. He’s real, we’re fictitious. However, so great is his imagination that…” 1:03:40¶ 202 “Yeah, I’m sorry, it’s for his amusement, not ours. So when it comes to these miracles being done, they’re being done because the storyteller…”

28Prince of Egypt (part 2): Of Miracles and Magic 12 Jul 2020 26:54¶ 79 “There’s another thing that came to mind earlier when we were talking about that God could have just turned the page and Egypt goes…” 27:54¶ 84 “Exactly. So if every story was written that way, where yes, in one sense the stories in the Bible are focused on God and…” 28:42¶ 86 “Instead, he systematically dismantles the very idea of what it means to be Egyptian and contrasts it with what an identity as God’s people…”