I BELIEVE

Should readers of the Bible expect to find Noah’s ark, in reality, on top of a mountain in the Middle East? What might be the advantages and disadvantages of such a quest? Dr. Payne and Dr. Doak debate. Our artifact for the week is the “Ark Encounter” exhibit in Kentucky:
https://arkencounter.com/
And also related phenomena, like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kAgfh_-oSY

For this first in the series of “I Need to Know More” weekly podcasts, your four teaching professors all get together to kick things off! We discuss this week’s main video lecture by Dr. Brian Doak on the BIBLE. What is the text, physically? How does it get presented to us? How do Christians uphold their view that the text is sacred and holy? Dr. Doak gives another shot at going deeper on some concepts around canon and translation. These “I Need to Know More” podcasts are predicated on listeners have already watched the corresponding main lecture video for the week! Here is the YouTube playlist with all of those videos:
https://bit.ly/2CpgYEI.

Welcome to our end-of-week teaching and podcast element! We’re calling it the “THEO POP-CULTURE SMACKDOWN.” Each week, we’ll debate a different topic at the intersection of (a) our week’s topic, (b) pop culture, and (c) the Bible and faith. This week: it’s Dr. Payne vs. Dr. Doak on the question: Are “specialty Bibles” good or bad for faith?
Here are some examples of the “speciality Bibles” we’re talking about:
New Everyday Life Bible
The Athlete’s Bible
Tim Lahaye’s Prophecy Study Bible
Faith Girlz

The crew gets back together one more time for a final Amen.

Dr. Nijay Gupta brings it in for a landing: more content on "the life everlasting" and the final Amen!

Are Christians supposed to see the material world as lower than or subordinate to the spiritual realm? Two scholars debate. Over Zoom. Dr. Joseph Clair, Dean of the College of Christian Studies, versus Dr. Abigail Favale, Director of the William Penn Honors Program, George Fox University.

We continue with themes of the body and resurrection with our next-to-last Creedal phrase: “the life everlasting”!

Is “the Rapture” a thing? We debate!

What do Christians believe about the resurrection? What does this doctrine matter? Are we really going to keep our bodies?

We bring back Pastor Dom and let him have it with some of the most difficult questions we can think of regarding the issue of forgiveness!