EPISODE 19 (Guests: Nate J, Dong Y) - Before diving back into Genesis and the story of Abraham the Patriarch, I want to share a recent conversation I had with a Christian Chinese American named Dong, introduced to me by my good friend Nathan Johnson, whom I have known since my college years at UCLA. Dong grew up with an as an athiest in communist China but found in the Christian lifestyle a practical way to bring harmony to his family, regardless of his personal beliefs. In the following conversation, Dong shares his experience transitioning from atheism to Christianity, a journey also driven by curiosity and a search for truth. The three of us also take some time to reflect upon the first season of Bible Curious, and to take a look at some of its unanswered questions.

EPISODE 18 (Guest: Christine G) - The Tower of Babel is one of those strange legends which sounds utterly preposterous on the face of it, but serves as a neat explanation for a real, observable phenomenon: in this case, the proliferation of languages and cultures found across the Middle-East. This legend also casts God in the role of a spoiler, who just can't seem to leave us humans alone to make our own way on this planet.

EPISODE 17 (Guest: Christine G) - The genealogy chart given in the tenth chapter of Genesis, popularly known as "The Table of Nations," is important because it is the first chapter which firmly places the Bible on a historical footing, since many of the names contained within it can be directly correlated with ancient cities and tribes known to historians today.

EPISODE 16 (Guest: Christine G) - After the Great Flood, the eight surviving descendents of Adam and Eve along with God had the challenge of setting new terms for the human civilizations which would subsequently bloom from this family. These terms would take the form of a covenant, or contract, between God and the survivors of the flood.

EPISODE 15 (Guest: Christine G) - The Great Flood was a catastrophic storm engineered to wipe out all life on earth, and if you take the Bible at its word, was large enough to cover even the highest mountains of the land. This narrative, like the account of the six days of creation, is often used by skeptics as evidence that the Bible could not possibly be historical or factual.

EPISODE 14 (Guest: Christine G) - The famous tale of Noah, who built an ark to save humanity from a world-wide flood, is one of the best-known stories in the Old Testament. While geological and archeological evidence has categorically disproven that the earth was ever completely submerged by a single body of water within the last ten thousand years, it is not unreasonable to believe that a flood may have occurred which was large enough to convince a single family of eight people that everyone in the world had perished.

EPISODE 13 (Guest: Christine G) - Today we will examine a genealogy table known as the Generations of Adam, which the Book of Genesis places immedately after the genealogical history of Cain.

EPISODE 12 (Guest: Christine G) - Now that Mankind has been expelled from Paradise, we witness the original sin of disobedience evolve into a much more serious crime: murder.

EPISODE 11 (Guest: Christine G) - One of the most controversial doctrines coming out of the Biblical tradition is the notion of "original sin." This is the idea that mankind in its natural, unmodified state is somehow deficient, and requires the guidance of a superior intelligence in order to achieve redemption.

EPISODE 10 (Guest: Christine G) - Studying the Holy Bible is not easy. As soon as you turn the first page, you will be slapped in the face with contradictions. When Moses wrote the Book of Genesis in 1,500 BC, he was describing events which took place as many as twenty-five centuries before he was even born. Where did these stories come from? What sources did Moses rely upon when he wrote these stories down? And why is it so confusing and self-contradictory?