Episode 0 - Beta

What BQP is all about: Each episode we'll take one Bible question, and offer a response. Some episodes will be short and sweet, some will go in more depth. Questions are 100 percent guaranteed to be great. Answers are caveat emptor. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND SEND IN QUESTIONS!

If YOU have a question, then please submit it at Speakpipe.com/BQP or just go to our website, Biblequestionspodcast.com

10 Things you need to know about this podcast.

1. Me personally. In my 40s, married to Janet for a little over 23 years. 5 kids, oldest 18, youngest 7. Born in raised in Sweet Home Alabama now living just outside of Silicon Valley in Salinas, California.

2. Qualifications. 2 master's degrees, Beeson, NOBTS and Liberty Seminary 25 years of pastoral ministry multiple roles, multiple positions. I've got 8,389 books in LAH-GAHS. Don't you judge me!

3. My podcasting history. Began podcasting in January or February of 2005. Maybe the first podcast in 'Bama. Tech Talk with Chase and Sam. A few other shows, The Night Life, Faith Today, Gospel Friends, Uncanny Gospel friends, some church podcasts. I love podcasting and podcast consuming, and am subscribed to literally 100 podcasts. Malcolm Gladwell would say that makes me an outlier. Started for me with TWIT, Buzz Out Loud and SYSK.

4. Answers to these questions will be based on a high view of the Bible (I affirm the Chicago Statement on inerrancy, for instance)

5. I do NOT have all of the answers, but sometimes I sound confident. Be noble Bereans, and compare what I say with Scripture first.

6. Church history is important, so are experiences, testimonies, confessions and creeds. Those all have some varying levels of validity. Feelings might have a small amount of validity as well. However, I seek to answer questions first and foremost from the Bible, with a larger focus on the New Testament than the Old Testament. Both Testaments are the Word of God,

7. This is not a podcast aimed at the finer points of theology: infralapsarianism vs Supralapsarianism or Progressive Dispensationalism vs Supersessionism, 1689 Federalism, or Landmarkism, Eutychianism, or Billy Bob Jethro's Tertiary Pillars of TheoStrukanism presented at the 1974 Winfield, Alabama Council of Three Possums and a Pope.

8. We will focus on foundational Bible questions, but also interesting, strange and eclectic Bible questions. How can we know the Bible is reliable? Is Jesus the only way to Heaven? Are people saved by grace or works or both? Baptized for the dead. What does the Bible say about ghosts or aliens?

9. I will probably at least try to be funny. Spurgeon's friends and even casual acquaintances remarked on his hearty laughter. William williams, pastor friend of Spurgeon: What a bubbling fountain of humour Mr. Spurgeon had! I laughed more, I verily believe, when in his company than during all the rest of my life besides. He had the most fascinating gift of laughter … and he had also the greatest ability for making all who heard him laugh with him. When someone blamed him for saying humourous things in his sermons, he said, "He would not blame me if he only knew how many of them I keep back."

10. My biggest influences and heroes of the faith: Charles Spurgeon, John Piper, C.S. Lewis, George Mueller, Hudson Taylor, John Newton, Tim Keller, Wayne Grudem, David Platt, and probably quite a few others.