Bringing you discussions, interactions, reviews and content related to the best academic literature on Biblical, theological and philosophical issues today from a former Reformed Protestant turned Classical Theistic Humanist.
Episodes
Sunday Feb 23, 2020
Wednesday Feb 05, 2020
Wednesday Feb 05, 2020
Matthew 24:34 reads, "Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place." (NASB)
For many skeptics this shows that Jesus is a false prophet. Why? Well because they think that Jesus is predicting his second coming at the end of time within the 40 years of those listening to his sermon. But is that the only, or even best understanding of the passage? Or should we understand Jesus' sermon differently?
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Wednesday Jan 29, 2020
Wednesday Jan 29, 2020
In this episode I continue my previous episode with some musings on various issues related to Reformed Soteriology. In this episode I discuss a Warranted Case from the Bible for someone to affirm Reformed / Calvinistic Compatibilism (that we are both determined and free) as well as addressing the objection that Calvinism in someway makes God the "author if sin."
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Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
In this episode I go on a little bit of a rant about when well meaning Christians say things like, "When the Bible and reason/science disagree... who wins!?" and intend you to feel bad if you side with science. This is a bad kind of argument for Christians to make and I hope my comments help show why.
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Monday Jan 20, 2020
Monday Jan 20, 2020
"Baptizo just means to fully immerse!" If you are a Presbyterian, you've heard this line 1,000 times. But is it true that the Bible always just means to fully immerse something when it uses the term baptizo?
Let's find out!
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Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
In this Freedway Thinker edition of the podcast, I discuss 3 different concepts that we need to be able to conceptually disambiguate if we are to have fruitful Biblical understanding of them. These concepts are:
1. Clean and Unclean (Pure/Impure)
2. Righteous and Unrighteous
3. Moral and Immoral
Hope this show helps clarify these concepts for some of you.
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Thursday Jan 02, 2020
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Monday Dec 30, 2019
The validity of appeals to mystery can be, well, mystifying. Are they are reasonable? When are they not rationally acceptable, and is there ever a time that one can be warranted in an appeal to mystery?
I discuss that in this short Freedway Thinker episode.
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Sunday Dec 29, 2019
Sunday Dec 29, 2019
In this episode, I start a series reviewing John Loftus' new edited anthology, The Case Against Miracles.
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Wednesday Dec 18, 2019
Wednesday Dec 18, 2019
Many struggle with understanding exactly what Paul means when he talks about our being slaves and freedmen. This is often because they assume a singular and consistent usage of the motif in Paul's writing, and indeed in the New Testament as a whole. However, is this the case? In this episode we explore the multivocal use of the motif in the Pauline corpus.
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