Real Seekers

Juan from the Modern Atheism channel and Phil Bair (Christian) return to Michael Lofton's channel to debate the question of "Did Jesus Rise from the dead?".Enjoy :)RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/reason-theology-debate-did-jesus-rise-from-the-dead-w-juan-from-modern-atheism-vs-phil-bair/

Fan of the Podcast, Mark B. from the UK, requested I bring on Pro-Shroud journalist, William West, who has written three books on the Shroud and has argued that the Shroud presents us with evidence that fit together like pieces of a puzzle; culminating in proving the miraculous Resurrection of Jesus!RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/the-shroud-puzzle-solved-w-william-west/

Over a year ago, I was invited to come on Nathan Ormond's (Digital Gnosis) channel to speak on the Shroud of Turin and at some point Bob Rucker and Tom McAvoy's research came up and I felt I didn't do the best job defending their great work.Hence, I figured, why not schedule a Round 2 and have Bob and Tom engage directly with Nathan and James themselves to defend their own work.Enjoy and Merry Christmas to all :)

Pro-Shroud historian, Jack Markwardt, returns to the Shroud Wars to provide a meta-analysis of some of the troubling recent developments happening in Shroud scholarship. He has found that several people are claiming to be Shroud experts on YouTube and in popular level presentations of the Shroud of Turin, but they consistently misstate the facts, lack depth of knowledge and/or fail to support primary research on the Shroud and thus unintentionally damage the reputation of proper Shroud studies as it has been known for the past 40-50 years.RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/troubling-trends-of-shroud-scholarship-w-jack-markwardt/

The Atheist YouTubers, Paulogia and the Rabyd Atheist, have recently been on an unrelenting persecution campaign against Dr. Gary Habermas; desperate to undermine his scholarly research supporting the Resurrection in any way they possibly can! However, with Paulogia's most recent propaganda video, it has come to my attention that it is not only the Atheists and skeptics who find fault with Gary, it seems that even some fellow Christian apologists and researchers have likewise taken issue with Gary's most recent Volume 3 of his Magnum Opus.Given, that I have a great deal of respect for many of these Christians and, in some cases, I am proud to say that I'm friends with them personally, I felt I owed it to Gary and to them, to switch the focus of my "Round 4" response (as Paulogia calls it) from exposing the hypocrisy of the Atheists and skeptics on this front, to instead sincerely try my best to resolve the objections raised by these fellow Christian brothers and sisters. When faced with a trilemma of explanations whereby either Gary is a liar, lunatic or leader, I think I demonstrate rather conclusively that Gary is neither a liar nor a lunatic and thus he is a true leader in the Christian church! I think such a demonstration is clear to all once one applies the principle of charity to all sides involved. Thus, I truly believe we can all remain united as the one true body of Christ in our efforts to withstand the attacks of the devil through our commitment to truth, unity and charity to one another.RSM Blog (w/ my Slides) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/12/07/defending-gary-habermas-answering-christian-objections/

Phil Bair invited me on his show to discuss several topics in his new book, Deconstructing Junk Theology. We go over, Faith vs. doubts, YEC vs. OEC, Genesis 1-11 as the Mytho-history genre, and the role of women. Phil and I have some disagreements, so look out for an interesting discussion.RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/phil-bair-his-new-book-deconstructing-junk-theology/

National Christian Fitness expert Theresa Rowe, founder of Shaped by Faith—the faith-based fitness ministry dedicated to strengthening spirit, mind, and body for God’s purposes joins me to discuss her upcoming book "Shaped by Faith 40-Day Devotional" and her fitness-based ministry.RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/theresa-rowe-on-faith-fitness-holiday-wellness/

First I start off with an advertisement for Eemma Summer's Cozy Christian Mandala Coloring Book for Christians with a more artistic creativity and like to serve God in that way (see first 10 mins).Amazon.com Link = https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2RJ8DN8Then, we jump straight into the main event, a debate on the Reason and Theology podcast between Christian Phil Bair (from the Cross to Bair Podcast) and the Agnostic Juan (from the Modern Atheism Podcast) on the question of whether the universe began to exist at some finite point in the past or existed eternally in the past.RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/11/29/debate-did-the-universe-begin-to-exist-christian-phil-bair-vs-modern-atheism-colouring-book/

The infamous Atheist YouTuber, Paulogia, once claimed to have ended Dr. Gary Habermas' career through his "Minimal Witnesses Hypothesis" (which supposedly accounted for Gary's 6 "Minimal Facts"). Previously on Real Seekers, the former Atheistic, now leaning Christian, Professor Tavo San Abri came on my show to give the lie to Paulogia's over-exaggerated claims; he clearly demonstrated several deficiencies in the "12 Mundane Events" that Paulogia lays out. It would seem that the only career ended that day, was that of Paulogia's own- heck, even Alex O'Conner just recently turned his back on the whole Minimal Witnesses schtick!Having demonstrated Paulogia's utter failure in this regard, Prof. Tavo now returns and wishes to present his own list of 10 Minimal Facts accounting for Christianity, proving the incredibly unique and amazing nature of Jesus Christ and the origins of the Christian faith which he founded compared to all the other world religions and their rather unremarkable founders.Tavo and I are joined by two incredibly smart and charitable Agnostic Resurrection skeptics, Juan from Modern Atheism and Kevin Nontradicath, to probe and challenge Tavo's arguments.RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/evaluating-paulogias-minimal-witnesses-hypothesis-again-w-prof-tavo-san-abri/

The Jewish independent researcher, Michael J. Alter, has been a vocal critic of Gary Habermas' scholarly consensus criterion for his "Minimal Facts Approach". Additionally, he has written a chapter on the Shroud of Turin in his book, The Resurrection and Its Apologetics Jesus’ Death and Burial, Volume One, whereby he evaluates the Shroud evidence on 13 topics.In Part 3, we finish Alter's take on the final 4 Shroud related topics but first we cover Alter's main research on Gary's Minimal Facts Approach and assess his work looking at the data from all the English books on Jesus' Resurrection.RSM Blog (with my slides) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/shroud-wars-evaluating-skeptic-michael-j-alter-his-shroud-chapter/