Tag: bible
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Ep 106: What Have We Dug Up?
Chris and Pete get out the archaeology tools and look at what it says about the very old and strange book, the bible. Is archaeology a support of faith or of religion, and should we trust archaeology more than faith, bible or logic? Can we see through one to find truth in the other? Faith…
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Ep 104: What Are Saatchi’s Commandments?
Advertising and Art guru Charles Saatchi has a go at the ten commandments… Chris and Pete wonder if he might be onto something. Is the ten commandments an outdated thing? How do we live now that makes them ignorable? Are we better now and no longer need these ‘rules’? And what has advertising done to…
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Ep 103: Who Took The Ice Cream?
It sure looks like God just set up people to fail! We can’t be good enough, so we’ll always fail. But Chris and Pete ask why it looks like that. Why does the bible seem full of us failing? Is it really like that? What does that tree in the garden ACTUALLY mean? And how…
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Ep 102: Who’s Your Enemy?
So God’s gonna smite our enemies… but we’re also told to love our enemies, but Chris and Pete wonder, who IS our enemy? What does an enemy actually look like? Are we the enemies? Can we understand enemies as we are a dominant culture, totally opposite to the bible slaves? Have our enemies become smaller…
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Ep 94: Who’s Bashing The Bible?
Chris and Pete ask what is this ‘bible’ thing? Not an operator’s manual? Is it a user’s manual? Why can’t we get order by following the bible? And what is its ‘authority’? Why is it so often used for ‘bashing’ people and how did science make the bible central? Will the bible actually put itself…
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Ep 90: Is The Bible Classic?
What makes a classic? The Beatles, the Eagles, ELO and… the next testament. Are they classic and if so, why? Was the apostle Paul just ‘the fifth Beatle’? Was he writing the bible or just dropping a few notes? Where did the Creedence of these letters come from and what made it ‘Authoritative’? Why do…
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Ep 77: How Good Are We?
Chris and Pete try to get a handle on humility. Do Christians think they’re pretty good; Made in the image of God, His children? But also getting down on ourselves? So are other people better than us, like the bible tells us? How can we be good for others and not just good for ourselves?…
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Ep 63: Rewriting The Bible
Chris and Pete talk about their fave version of the bible and ask what happens when we re-iterate and re-frame the bible and why is there so much complexity there? Can we remove it? Do we need to hear from more than just the bible?
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Ep 43: Christmas, What’s the Big Deal?
Chris and Pete get into the Christmas spirit by asking if it is even a thing! If God didn’t make a big deal of it, why do we? What do we miss under all the flash and glitter? Chris presents his theory of the Christmas seed.
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Ep 42: Let’s Ignore the Law
Chris is itchy about Leviticus, so he and Pete ask; are the bible’s books of law relevant today? Are they even law books? Is there anything wrong with being unclean and, how should we read these crusty old books and apply them to our shiny new 21st century? And yes, we ask the ‘gay’ question.