Agnostic Bible Study w/ Joe Teel

<p>The centuries after Acts can feel like walking into a room you never knew existed and realizing everyone has been arguing in there for a long time. We trace that overlooked stretch of early Christian history from the...

<p>One of the quickest ways to cut through resurrection arguments is also the simplest: stop paraphrasing and read the texts. Joe Teal sits down with Brandon Cowan and we go line by line through the resurrection...

<p>“Eyewitness” is one of those words that can end an argument before it even starts. So I slow the whole thing down and ask a basic question: what do we actually mean when we say the Gospels are eyewitness accounts...

<p>Most people can name the four gospels in order. Far fewer can explain why we think those books were written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in the first place. We pick up part three of my conversation with Pastor...

<p>People quote Bible verses like they’re self-contained slogans, then wonder why Christians end up arguing while using the same text. We dig into the single most practical tool for better Bible study and biblical...

<p>The Christmas story gets preached like a single clean timeline, but the sources refuse to stay that simple. We pick up Part 2 of my conversation with Dr. Cole Yeldell and put the birth narrative under pressure: do...

<p>A synagogue service gets hijacked by a scream and the story refuses to slow down. We start in Mark 1:21-28 where Jesus teaches on the Sabbath in Capernaum, the crowd senses real authority, and an “unclean spirit”...

<p>Most Bible fights don’t start with a verse, they start with an assumption you rarely hear named: does the Bible speak with one unified voice, or does it preserve multiple voices that sometimes agree and sometimes...

<p>The fastest way to kill a real conversation about Christianity is to label every hard question as an “attack.” That word can mean a lot of things, and when we refuse to define it, disagreement gets treated like harm...

<p>The calling of Jesus’ first disciples is one of those Bible scenes that feels familiar until you actually read it slowly. A stranger walks up to working fishermen and says two words, “Follow me,” and Mark tells us...

<p>Jesus walks up to working fishermen, says two words, and their entire lives pivot: Follow me. That’s the famous reading of Mark 1:16-20, but when I slow down and really look at the wording, the pacing, and the...

<p>Gerod Ware joins me for a respectful, high stakes talk about whether science, order, and human reasoning point to a creator or can be explained without God. We push on intelligent design, evolution, and Genesis while...

<p>We slow down on Mark 1:14–15 to watch Jesus step into public ministry and to see how one short summary creates big questions about timing, wording, and meaning across the Gospels. We compare Mark with Matthew, Luke...

<p>“All Scripture is inspired by God” gets quoted like it settles everything. But once you ask a simple question, the ground shifts: when 2 Timothy 3:16 was written, what counted as “Scripture” for Timothy in the first...

<p>Mark gives us two verses about Jesus in the wilderness and somehow they’re loaded: the Spirit drives him out, forty days pass, Satan tests him, wild beasts lurk nearby, and angels attend him. Then Mark moves on like...