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Dec 4, 2024 • 12min
BONUS Q&A (Patreon Special): Does The Bible Command Child Sacrifice?
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Nov 20, 2024 • 2h 17min
Why Hasn't God Annihilated Satan Yet?
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James Agnew joins me to discuss his new book on explaining the nature of atonement in Christ's death and resurrection. We all discuss his thesis in relation to a video the youtuber Mindshift published and respond to the main arguments of the video.
Mindshift's video: • Why Hasn't God Destroyed Satan Yet? |...
James' book: https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Disbarm...
James' channel: / @inphilosophersgarb8099
James' Response to Mindshift, Did God Lose?: • Did God Lose? Responding to MindShift.
The Philosophy of Tolkien: • The Philosophy of Tolkien

Nov 13, 2024 • 2h 8min
Is There Enough Evidence For The Resurrection?
The scholar James Tabor was recently interviewed and suggested the earliest Christians didn't think Jesus physically resurrected. The grave of Jesus could still have contained the body of Jesus. But Stephen Boyce joins me and will offer a response to Tabor; and argue that Paul and the earliest Christians did believe in resurrection and that the tomb was found empty.
Stephen's channel: / @earlychurchfacts
Original video: • Early Christianity Was NOTHING Like Y...

Nov 6, 2024 • 1h 50min
Progressive Christianity vs. Traditional Christianity
Mason Mennenga joins me for a friendly conversation on process theology and its implications for the world. We plan to discuss where we agree and disagree. This is not a formal debate, just a discussion on different perspectives and which is more likely to be true.
/ @masonmennenga
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Oct 30, 2024 • 17min
BONUS Q&A (Patreon Special): Free Will & Addiction
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Oct 24, 2024 • 9min
Why Halloween is NOT Pagan
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Every year around Halloween we start hearing about how it comes from paganism. Well, this video takes a look at the history behind Halloween.
Sources:
Ronald Hutton - Stations of the Sun
Kristin Norget - Days of Death, Days of Life
Lisa Morton - Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween
Lesley Bannatyne - Halloween: An American Holiday

Oct 16, 2024 • 3h 18min
SATAN'S GUIDE TO THE BIBLE: RESPONSE
A popular video is going around attacking the Bible, so we respond and point out the errors. Original video:
• SATAN'S GUIDE TO THE BIBLE
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The Canadian's channel: / @exploringreality
Erik's channel: / @testifyapologetics
Rob's channel: / @sentinelapologetics
Videos we referenced:
Exodus Documentary - • Exodus Rediscovered
Are Christian Scholars Biased? - • Are Christian Scholars Biased?
On the Pastoral Epistles Reliable: • No, the Pastoral Epistles Aren't Forg...
On 2nd Thessalonians: • The Weird Reason Ehrman Thinks 2 Thes...
On Pauline Authorship: • Who Wrote the Bible: Cultural Context...
The Hidden Gospel: • The Hidden Gospel
Was Jesus A Failed Apocalyptic Prophet? - • Was Jesus A Failed Apocalyptic Prophet? https://www.youtube.com/live/uM9Ml9NS...
Gospel authorship - https://www.youtube.com/live/G7ZnIeat...
Empty tomb- https://www.youtube.com/live/TLS6ijur...

Oct 9, 2024 • 24min
Did People Live to Be 900 Years Old in The Bible?
Thanks to scholars Ben Stanhope and Chris Hansen for reviewing this video.
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Sources:
Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat - Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
Jöran Friberg - Numbers and Measures in the Earliest Written Records
J. Klein - The ‘Bane’ of Humanity: A Lifespan of One Hundred and Twenty Years
Kenneth Kitchen - On the Reliability of the Old Testament
Meir Bar-Ilan - When Being Numerate Used to Mean Something Else
Nahum M. Sarna - Understanding Genesis
Duane L. Christensen - The Mysterious Numbers of the Ages of the Patriarchs
Craig Olson - How Old Was Father Abraham?
Kenneth A. Matthew - The New American Commentary: Genesis 1:1 - Genesis 11:26
R.R. Wilson - Genealogy and History in the Biblical World
W. E. Aufrecht in "Ascribe to the Lord"
Kenton Spark in "Genesis: History, Fiction, or Neither?"
Lloyd R. Bailey - Biblical Math as Heilsgeschichte?
Carol Hill - Making Sense of the Numbers of Genesis
Richard Hess - The Genealogies of Genesis 1-11 and Comparative Literature
Mark Chavalas and K. Lawson Younger - Mesopotamia and the Bible
Ben-Zion Wacholder - How Long did Abram Stay in Egypt? A Study in Hellenistic, Quran, and Rabbinic Chronology
Jeremy Hughes - Secrets of the Time

Oct 2, 2024 • 1h 21min
Bart Ehrman Responds to Inspiring Philosophy!
Recently, Bart Ehrman was on Paulogia's channel to respond to some of my videos on the gospel of Matthew. I review and respond in this stream.
Paul's video: • 4 TIMES Matthew FLUBBED the Old Testa...
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Sep 25, 2024 • 1h 22min
Live Q&A w/ Than Christopoulos
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