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In this episode I talked with my friend Jackson Ferrell about how the events of Pentecost in Acts chapter 2 point back to the story of the tower of Babel to show that God has undone the distinctions of race and nationality through Christ’s defeat of the demonic powers behind the nations. I hope your ears have seatbelts on them, because we’re about to take them for the ride of their lives…

Jackson can be found writing dope posts about the Bible every weekday at www.chocolatebook.net

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In this episode, I spoke to Dr. David Baggett about the 1993 Richard Attenborough film Shadowlands. Shadowlands is a film about the Christian thinker C.S. Lewis’ relationship with Joy Davidman and his emotional and spiritual struggle of loss after she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Dr. Baggett is a professor of philosophy in the Rawlings School of Divinity at Liberty University. Author or editor of over a dozen books, he’s the executive editor of MoralApologetics.com. He works in the areas of philosophy and popular culture, philosophical theology, philosophy of religion, ethics, and moral apologetics. His most recent book, co-written with his wife Marybeth Baggett, is entitled The Morals of the Story: Good News about a Good God. He’s also contributed to or edited the books Hitchcock and Philosophy, Harry Potter and Philosophy, and Philosophy and Joss Whedon–which is part of why I thought he’d be a great guest for this podcast.

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In this episode I respond to claims from the podcast Heretic Happy Hour that the existence of a biblical canon silences God, reflects patriarchal desires to control people, and was the result of a fourth century council to do just these things. I also spend a little time with the issue of books allegedly falsely attributed to Paul in the New Testament. Tune in for an Overjoyed Orthodoxy ‘Our!

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I’m doing a series right now on early 2nd century church father Ignatius of Antioch’s letters on my Patreon podcast (https://www.patreon.com/cantusfirmus) and thought it might be useful to pull together some of the data about how this early church father looked at Jesus and thought about His divinity. There’s this notion that the earliest Christians didn’t see Jesus as divine and that the idea of His divinity crept in slowly over a long period of time. Some have even argued that it came about through the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D., almost 300 years after Jesus died! Well, Ignatius of Antioch was a major figure in the early church and wrote a series of letters in the first decade of the 2nd century (or early 100s A.D.) to churches as he was on his way to be martyred in Rome. He tries to persuade them of a number of ideas (for instance, that they should not follow Jewish practices, that they should obey their bishop, even that they shouldn’t interfere with his martyrdom), but whenever he speaks about Jesus’ divinity, it’s always something he mentions matter-of-factly as if they all just believed it. The video includes five important citations about the divinity of Jesus from Ignatius of Antioch.

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