Episodes
Aug. 4, 2023
Who Doesn't Love a Good Science Book? (Views of Creation, Part 3) - Episode 034
Science and the Bible: how do they intersect? Can we read the Bible and come away with a solid view of creation? Should we fight it out as believers? Reading the "literal" or "plain" six-day creation in the text seems a g…
July 28, 2023
Cain: Allegory and Mercy - Reading Genesis 4 with Cindy Beaver - Episode 033
Special guest Cindy Beaver joins me for a public reading of Scripture where we begin reading Genesis 4 from two translations: The English Standard Version (ESV) and the Lexham English Septuagint (LES). We talk about the an…
July 21, 2023
Chaos and Glory: The Story of Salvation - Episode 032
Did God create chaos? What is it? What purpose does it serve in the biblical narrative? In this episode, we reexaminie the traditional idea that "the fall" is best seen as an introduction of sin which caused all of creati…
July 14, 2023
Nachash, Why'd It Hafta Be Nachash? - Episode 031
I'm joined by Michael Norton for a reading of Genesis 3 and talk about the serpent figure in the garden, the nachash. We read from two translations: the New English Translation (NET) and the New King James Version. Michael…
July 7, 2023
Reading Genesis 2 with Geoff Johnson - Episode 030
Geoff Johnson joins me again for reading and discussing Genesis 2 from two translations: the New King James Version and the Lexham English Bible. Public readings of Scripture ought to be common practice, and reading from mul…
June 30, 2023
Theodicy (Curses, Part 3) - Episode 029
Theodicy: if there is a good God, then why is there evil and suffering? I explore this question beginning from the ancient Near Eastern perspective and continue to what it means for us and creation.
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June 23, 2023
Reading Genesis 1 with Geoff Johnson - Episode 028
Special guest Geoff Johnson joins me for reading and discussing Genesis 1 from two translations: the New King James Version and the Lexham English Bible. Public readings of Scripture ought to be common practice, and reading …
June 16, 2023
Jordan Peterson, Archetypes, and Rule 8 - Episode 027
I went to see Jordan Peterson live, and so here are some thoughts on that and his life and work, including a response to that nosy question: what is Jordan Peterson’s relationship with God?
I get into archetypes and rule num…
June 9, 2023
Q&A #2 - Dinosaurs, Procreation, and Original Sin - Episode 026
Welcome to the podcast’s second Q&A! Some fun and interesting topics…but warning: possibly NSFW or listening with kids around (not explicit, but I do talk about reproduction; yes, even dinos reproduced!).
Timestamps:
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June 2, 2023
White Fang: the gods and Believing Loyalty - Episode 025
Using the story of White Fang to illustrate some points of biblical theology. What does the Hebrew term “elohim” mean? How does that map onto the English word “god,” and how do we understand what a god is? If other “gods” ar…
May 26, 2023
Image and Idol - “Show Me the Money!” with Joshua Sherman (Image Series, Part 5) - Episode 024
Continuing the image of God series with Joshua Sherman, we delve into Scripture to see that this concept is deeply embedded everywhere, and in places that you might not expect!
Being God’s Image by Carmen Imes: https://www.…
May 19, 2023
Gen X isn’t Cursed, I Hope (Curses, Part 2) - Episode 023
Digging into the concept of generational cursing—is it a biblical concept? What do we do about generational curses? Also, responding to the book, Free at Last: Breaking Generational Curses by Larry Huch and Benny Hinn.
Why …
May 12, 2023
Wave It at Anything that Slithers - Episode 022
Was light created? A study in biblical theology on the theme of light and what it means.
Bonus material: https://genesis-marks-the-spot.castos.com/
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May 5, 2023
Image Embodied: Verb or Noun? with Joshua Sherman (Image Series, Part 4) - Episode 021
Continuing the discussion about the embodied image of God, Joshua Sherman and I talk about the ancient Near East context of the image and also ethical and philosophical implications of it. Is the image ontological or is it …
April 28, 2023
Curses, Foiled Again (Curses, Part 1) - Episode 020
Discussing the concept of curses in the ancient world, exploring some of the ways we see them in the Bible, looking at their impact through the NT, and seeding a few questions along the way for further exploration.
Bonus ma…
April 21, 2023
Documentary Hypothesis and JEDP: May the Priest be With You - Episode 019
What is the “documentary hypothesis”? Also known as the four-source hypothesis, or JEDP, is there any good basis for this theory of higher criticism? These are questions we look at, ending up focusing on some of the “priestl…
April 14, 2023
Too Much LDS: My Journey into Biblical Theology - Episode 018
How did I go from strong LDS belief to believing in Christianity as formulated in biblical theology? This is my story and a little bit of exposition as to what I think it all means. Do you know what faith is? What is “believ…
April 7, 2023
The Embodied Image with Joshua Sherman (Image Series, Part 3) - Episode 017
Continuing with the series on the image of God, in this episode I talk to Joshua Sherman about the important aspect of the image being embodied in both Christ as well as in us as individual humans and the church as the body …
March 31, 2023
A Postoperative Examination of the Cosmic Temple - Episode 016
The theme of the cosmic temple is a popular one in the halls of biblical theology—how solid of an idea is it, though? Here we are going to talk about temples, including touching on the purposes of the temple in LDS theology …
March 24, 2023
Literature and How to Love and Date Genesis - (Views of Creation, Part 2) - Episode 015
Exploring two views of creation: the analogical view (the days of creation are analogically similar to the workweek of the Israelite, but the days are not necessarily 24-hour days) and the literary view (Genesis 1 is literar…
March 17, 2023
Being Treeish with Jon Dillon - Episode 014
Discussion with Jon Dillon (of the Two Trees Podcast) centered on the theme of trees, fruitfulness, and multiplication. What does it mean to be fruitful? Why trees? Is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil a “bad” tree?…
March 10, 2023
Q&A #1 - Deconstruction, Polytheism, Resources, Eschatology - Episode 013
Our first Q&A! Timestamps: (1:11) - What do we do when we grew up Christian, or have been in a particular Christian tradition or church for a while, and…we start thinking in terms of biblical theology, of studying the Bible …
March 3, 2023
The Image of Christ through Biblical Theology, with Joshua Sherman (Image Series, Part 2) - Episode 012
Joshua Sherman joins the podcast to talk about the image of Christ. We discuss how we can trace the image of God through the Bible forward into its ultimate picture in the incarnation of Jesus and how we ought to think of b…
Feb. 24, 2023
What is the Image of God? (Image Series, Part 1) - Episode 011
This episode takes a bit of a diversion from biblical theology into the question of “What is the image of God?” Does God have a physical aspect that we copy (could the LDS church be right about us becoming gods)? Is the imag…