Christian Gadfly: Recent Episodes
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What is our purpose? Why are we here? How can you know if something is true? Why does truth have value? What problems face us? What is the solution? In this day and age these questions have never been more ignored and yet more needing to be answered.
A lot of Christian apologists feel the need to spend all their time addressing the issues brought up by atheists. As someone who used to be an atheist, that is all well and good and I'm glad they're doing what they're doing, but not for me. This video explains why I have no passion for that course in my videos.
King Kong and Christian Gadfly play a game trying to apply 1984 quotes to current events. Can we do it? Can we succeed?
I had the pleasure of having a conversation with a Texas cattle rancher and an Irishman. We talk about everything going on in the world today.
In this episode we start to navigate the relationship between faith and reason. We start looking at the tensions, address why it needs to be addressed, and then start looking at definitions.
Is the human mind a computer? I argue no from the philosophical argument of "understanding" and from the scientific work of Wilder Penfield.
In this section we start looking at C.S. Lewis's argument from reason and his views on how to property use the ideas of Christian thinkers from history. Does ground and consequent logic create a problem for naturalism? Find out in this episode.
St. Anselm once said, "I believe in order that I might understand". Is this quote naive nonsense or is there something more to it? We spend the next few episodes digging in.
In this episode we look at the ways that Greeks viewed the world. We look at the three big questions of Greek philosophy and the four major schools of Greek philosophy.
What did Paul mean when he used words like "elected" "redeemed" or "justification"? What did these words mean to an early Jew? See how it comes together with our final episode over the Jewish worldview. Next time portion of episodes will look at the Greek and Roman worldview.
This episode is about the importance of zeal for the ancient Jews and how they believed that the glory of the Lord would appear in the temple, the exile would end, and the nations would join in worship of Yaweh when the kingdom came.
In this episode we talked about the relationship between temple/creation and wisdom/kings. We also talked about how Jesus’s actions in judging the temple and calling himself the temple would have been interpreted in an ancient Jewish context. We looked a little bit at Old Testament prophecies to see how the messiah and God could have been mixed together in ancient Jewish thought. Today we’re going to continue worldview building to get into Paul’s head.
In this episode we delve into what "zeal" meant for a first century Jew, looking at the examples of Phineas, Elijah, and the Maccabees. We discuss how election, monotheism, and eschatology, define them a bit, and look at how it was believed that zeal would exemplify and manifest those three things.
This one finishes up Philemon by looking at the slavery. Then there is a discussion about the importance of understanding a worldview if you're going to do proper theology. The episode finishes up thinking for a moment about how you would need to understand the American Revolutionary War to understand the current state of America and how that was 200 years ago. One hundred and seventy years before Jesus's time was the time of the Maccabees. We start with that story and talk about the persecution under Antiochus Epiphanes IV and end with Mattathias killing the traitor Jew and escaping into the desert.
In this episode we will compare a letter from Pliny the Younger to a letter from Paul. What was Paul's place in the Roman world? How did his worldview differ from the worldview around him. Once we learn that we can then go on to reading Paul's letters and figuring out what he's actually trying to say.
This time we will look at the process that makes deuterium, helium 4, resonance, and carbon 12. Hope you enjoy!
What is fine tuning? Are there ways to argue for God using the natural world? Find out this episode.
In 2017, Brenton Tarrant went into a mosque in New Zealand and opened fire killing many and injuring many more. Why did he do it? What were his beliefs? What did he believe about European Culture? What did he believe about Islam? Why was his action morally wrong? Find out this episode.
Is there a connection between a country being Muslim majority and there being human rights violations? Are there more restrictions on free speech? Homosexuality? Out of marriage sex? Is Islam more inherently violent than Christianity? Is there Islamic violence still ongoing today? In this episode we explore these questions and listen to testimonies from 10 Muslim majority countries.
99.9% of Muslims maintain that the Quran has been perfectly preserved to the letter since the time of Muhammed and that this is how we can know that their religion is true and others are false. This is contrary to all sorts of evidence. A few very intelligent Muslims scholars are willing to admit the issues. How do they deal with these facts and does this view still allow them to maintain the miracle that is central to their faith?
Is there a pattern of censorship amongst Islamic apologists dating back to the time of Uthman? Listen and find out this episode.
The standard worldwide Quran today is the Hafs Cairo 1924 edition. But was this always the case? What is the history of this manuscript? How reliable is it? Does it cohere with what we know from the hadith? What did Hafs contemporaries say about him? Find out this episode.
Much information was taken from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHkiuzrwvnU
More information on qiraat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tTk7F1gXkU
The most famous Muslim apologist in the world is Zakir Naik. His youtube has over 2 million subscribers. He also claims that the Quran was perfectly preserved from the time of Muhammed until today. Does his story live up to the hadith? Does it live up to the early Quranic manuscripts? Find out this episode.
Daniel Brubaker Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu_DIPQni9M
Zakir Naik's channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/Drzakirchannel
Answering Islam
https://answering-islam.org/Green/uthman.htm
Seeking Allah Finding Jesus
https://www.amazon.com/Seeking-Allah-Finding-Jesus-Christianity/dp/0310092647/ref=sxts_sxwds-bia-wc-drs-ajax1_0?cv_ct_cx=seeking+allah+finding+jesus&dchild=1&keywords=seeking+allah+finding+jesus&pd_rd_i=0310092647&pd_rd_r=b5a44e4b-3043-442c-b992-178e466214a0&pd_rd_w=l0vmy&pd_rd_wg=XQlvN&pf_rd_p=037ca9fd-790e-4a16-836b-14da89aed20e&pf_rd_r=GHTZN2VH3SGB9CG0P78A&psc=1&qid=1601607802&sr=1-1-25b07e09-600a-4f0d-816e-b06387f8bcf1
Is there a supernatural connection between the Quran and the number 19? Find out in today's episode.
Hatun Tash Website
https://www.dcciministries.com/author/hatun/
Hatun's video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h4iQsPfaYQ
Daniel Brubaker's Channel on Quran Manuscript Variants
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP-g6LEOwXpMwu5PhMCIxhw
Ilhan Omar is big news if the United States today. Today we look at one of her questions, one of her speeches, and then listen to the Islamic preacher Daniel Haqiqatjou
In this episode, after learning all we have, we rewind back to September 11, 2001. It's ironic that we can all say 911 and remember the destruction that happened, but when we start asking why it happened there is complete and total confusion. We are told "extremists" and "terrorists", but extreme is just a degree of something, and terrorism is just a tactic not an ideology. Why is our vocabulary so lacking here? What is actually going on? Let's begin unpacking who is saying what and why this episode.
Are we at war with Islam? Different people are saying different things. Who is telling the truth?
We look further at the phase of Muhammad's life after the Median phase. What about the Crusades? The Christians did that so everybody is the same, right?
What is the Sunnah? ABC says that he was a good man, is this true? Does this match the historical record?
Yassir Qadhi is a brilliant mind and a Muslim Sunni Sheikh with multiple degrees. He is receiving death threats after an online interview with Muhammad Hijab. The English speaking Muslim world is in a panic. And there are leaked correspondence discussing him in wikileaks with the secret service discussing conversations they had with him. Who is this guy and what is going on? Find out this episode.
Was the Quran perfectly preserved? Who is Mary in the Quran? Was the Al Aqsa mosque already built in Muhammad's lifetime?
Another video to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfgV9cNf1vc
Why is burning a Quran so inflammatory? Is the Quran inerrant? Does it have any contradictions?
Another video for you to see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfgV9cNf1vc
How do we know if a historical claim is reliable? What is the different between Eastern and Western Epistemology? Once we've established a test, how does the Koran hold up to historical inquiry in regards to Jesus's death by crucifixion?
More to see on the Quran at this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfgV9cNf1vc
The next in this series goes into the following questions. What are the basic beliefs of Islam? What are some similarities between Islam and Christianity? What are some differences? Is the Quran inerrant, according to the Quran? How is it different than the Bible in this regard? What does it claim about Jesus death and divinity?
I continue on in my analysis of Buddhism. Have you ever posted a Buddhist quote on Instragram? Do you actually know anything about Buddhism?
What is Buddhism? What does it mean to be Buddhist? What needs to be true in order for Buddhism to be true? Can it be falsified? Should it be falsified?
I start going through Genesis 18 here. We look at how hospitable Abraham was. He runs to serve. He says he'll give a little and gives a lot. We get to hear from Rashi and talk about Sarah's womb (might as well after discussing Abraham's penis).
I found a bookmark in a book I got from my grandfather and it got me thinking. This podcast will discuss aliens and ghosts.
We continue in Mark noting how Jesus interacts with the sabbath, chooses his disciples, and talk a little bit about how names were related to black magic in the 1st century.
We continue Mark going into the baptism, the monarchical significance of it, ties to creation, Adam, Abraham, Solomon, and how all of this sets up the rest of the gospel and the temple discourse.
I take a break from Genesis to talk about what the Jewish expectation was when they used the words "good news". I also tie together concepts from creation, Abraham, and the prophets to set the foundation for how to read the gospels as they were originally intended when describing Jesus's life.
This is where I go into God's promise to bring kings from Abraham. I also talk more about Abraham's penis then you've probably ever wanted to talk about penises.
This episode takes a break from the Genesis narrative's progressive to focus in on Hagar's feelings and connect them to depression in general and other stories in the Bible that have characters in an analogous situation. This episode primarily focuses on Elijah's similar journey in the desert and invites us all to acknowledge our shared depression and, perhaps if now what to do with it, to at least know that we aren't alone.
Now we are traveling out of Egypt and into the Promised land. The Jewish people, trees, gardens, new creation. What do they have in common? How are they connected? How is this story related to those ideas?
Abraham lies about Sarai being his wife. Pharoah has erectile dysfunction? Plagues? Sounds like another episode of Game of Thrones here on the Fuente podcast. Tune in to hear these stories with some cultural context and recreate what the original author was trying to communicate.
This time we will be going into more evidence for evolution. This time we are going straight to DNA and genes to make arguments. I'll be talking about atavism, junk DNA, and all sorts of other indicators about what is actually going on in the natural world.
Here is a link to the article about Dinosaur soft tissue
https://www.livescience.com/41537-t-rex-soft-tissue.html
Here is the article about the dinosaur mutant chickens.
https://www.livescience.com/50802-chicken-embryos-with-dinosaur-snouts-created.html
How old is the Universe? How old is the Earth? How do we know these things? What is the data? What is the evidence? How does this mesh with a Christian worldview?
In this episode we start examining scripture. It's really a mix between exegesis and an argument against a non literal interpretation and I do it together because I believe they go hand in hand.
In introducing this hot topic, this podcast goes into my own story. Where am I coming from? Why am I bringing this up?
What is a ziggurat? What was it's purpose? Are there any weird patterns in the geneologies? Also I have some comments on the anxiety of going a new path.
Nimrod, Nephilim, Tower of Babel. 1 Peter. Hear it all. Baby crying, all I can describe rn.
Did Jesus Exist? What do the scholars say? What do the mythicists say? What does history say?
You often hear "all religions are valid today" or "I left Christianity because I thought all religions were equally valid". What does that mean? Is it true?
What does it mean for Yaweh to disinherit the nations? What about dividing them up according to the "sons of God"? What is going on in Deuteronomy 32 and what does this have to do with the Tower of Babel? How does all this weird stuff relate to the new testament? Find out in this episode.
Here is the mentioned link
http://www.thedivinecouncil.com/DT32BibSac.pdf
This episode covers nakedness, sex, incest, you name it, we got it. Turn off game of thrones and tune into the Fuente Podcast.
Here is Mike Heiser's podcast on Noah's nakedness.
https://nakedbiblepodcast.com/?s=159
A look at Genesis 8. Comparing the birds in Gilgamesh to the birds in the Bible. Also a short look at the connection between creation, the exodus, Genesis, the letter mem and the number 40.
For real this time. We're finally getting through Genesis 7. I misnamed the last several podcasts because my friend Chris was mad that I kept doing things besides Genesis. But here we are again, going forward with Genesis.
How does Noah's Tishri 1 birthday tie in with Jesus? Note, for Josephus claiming that Herod the Great died in 4BC, see Heiser's podcast attached to "Genesis Historical and Astronomical Background 1".
coming judgment? Where do you get your authority? The parable of the tenants? Here we go!
False Messaihs, what does it mean to repent? Mark 13, this generation? What is going on?
Finishing up with the Apkallu and the Nephillim. Also comparing the flood of the Bible to the floods of the Mesopotamian counterparts.
Who are the sons of God in Genesis 6? Who are the nephilim? What do they have to do with ancient Greek Titans and ancient Mesopotamian apkallu? Find out in this episode.
Could God Exist? Big question. I got the answer. That sounds conceited. I may have the answer (but you know what I really mean).
I'm taking a break to talk about Humanism and other topics while I wait for Unseen Realm to get here in the mail.
Meat and potatoes of Divine Council. The Serpent in the garden. Curses, riches, you won't want to miss this one!
Who came first, man or vegetables? Is Eden a literal place? What is the theological significance of having rivers and a garden? Find out in this episode.
What does it mean to rest? What does it mean to be an image of God? What would an ancient reader get out of this story?