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How can a document that is thousands of years old, has been through countless translations, and carries some 400,000 variations, truly be trusted, let alone claimed to be the sacred, holy, infallible Word of God? 

In this episode Pete and the Curious team take a deep dive into the validity of the Bible. What does the history say? How did we get our Old and New Testaments? How can we trust their authenticity? And how exactly did God inspire humans to record the text?


Recommended Reading: 

Are Biblical Manuscripts Reliable? - CSLewisInstitute.or
Is the Bible Trustworthy? - Crosswalk.com

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What lies at the heart of the Christmas story? Who was Jesus? Was he the product of Joseph and Mary coming together or was he something far more profound? What do we really mean by incarnation? And how are we to understand Jesus as both God and man? 

In this festive episode, Pete and the Curious team ponder the message, the theology and the deeper, richer meaning of Christ being born in Bethlehem. How could Jesus be fully man yet fully God in one and the same person? And how are we to better appreciate his assuming a human existence?


Recommended Reading:

10 things you should know about the incarnation - Thegospelcoalition.org

What is the incarnation? - DesiringGod.org

Incarnation - Ligonier.org

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What is the church? Why is it important? Can you be a Christian and not go to church? What are the real benefits of being part of a church? Has Christianity always been intrinsically linked to church attendance?

These are just some of the many questions that are asked whenever we think about the church. They are questions that come from either side of the fence. For those who profess not to be Christians, they wonder what is the point, or even the relevance of the church? And for those who are Christians, they wonder whether attending church is that essential. Increasingly more people are of an opinion that you do not necessarily need to be regularly attending a church in order to be a Christian. How do we understand these various elements? 

This week, Pete and the curious team will be asking the question — “Is Attending Church Important?”— They will look at what the church is, why it is so important to Faith? And what are the benefits and drawbacks of embracing or ignoring Church?

Recommended Reading:
10 Reasons to go to Church - Crosswalk.com
Why is it important to go to Church? - Christianity.com
Why Attending Church is Important - ThinkE.com

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How do we understand the term Christian? Does it relate to something that you believe strongly, or simply in living a good life? Is there an element of exclusivity about it? Or is it more true that everyone in one Way Or Another, is Christian? How does the church define what a Christian is? How does the secular culture define what a Christian is? Is there a true abd definitive answer to the question? Are there common denominators that are true of every authentic Christian?

This week the curious team will be looking into the question of what is a Christian? Is it possible to define such a thing or is it purely a subjective opinion? What does the Bible itself say about those who believe it? What did Jesus himself require? These and many more questions will be the subject of this episode

Recommended Reading:
What is a Christian? - BillyGraham.org
What is a Christian? - Crosswalk.com
What is a Christian? - DesiringGod.org

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Exclusivity! Arrogance! Superiority! Is just some of the accusations that believers of other religions have leveled against Christians. Somewhere near 90% of the world population fall into either Christian, Islam, Hindu or Buddhist. How is it that Christians claim that Jesus can be the only true way?

In this week's episode Pete and the Curious team will be taking a look at some of the statements of Jesus and asking the question is he the only authentic way to God? Why is it that Jesus, above any other religious or historical figure, provides us with the most accurate understanding of God, and the only means through which we can know him?

Recommended Reading:
Inclusivism vs Exclusivism, Is Jesus the only way? - The Gospel Coalition.org
Why Jesus is the Only Way - str.org
Is Jesus the Only Way to be Saved? - Desiring God.org

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What is omniscience? How do we understand God’s all-knowingness? Does God know everything there is to know irrespective of it being present or thousands of years into the future? Does He know what we think and what we’ll do before we even think our do it? And if that is so, how does He know it? Is it because he simply foresees what we will do years, decades from now, or is it because he orders and governs all things and thereby creates what we’ll do? 

This week the Curious team will attempt to throw around some pretty difficult aspects of this complex attribute. They’ll be discussing the likes of God’s sovereignty, molinism, and limited foreknowledge…

Recommended Reading:
Is Middle Knowledge Biblical? - Reformation21.org
What is Omniscience and What Does It Mean for Me? - Crosswalk.com

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How do we define sovereignty? What kind of power does God hold, and is He really in control? What is the difference between God’s absolute and His ordinate power? When we look at all the evil and sin in the world, and the constant presence of wars; how can we really have confidence in divine sovereignty? Does God’s sovereignty stretch to the choices and actions of men, how much control does God really have over the chosen actions of individuals? Is there things God cannot do?

These and many more complexities about God’s sovereignty will be the topic of this weeks episode as the Curious team seek to debate and reflect the deep difficulties of a God who is understood to be in absolute control. 

Recommended Reading:
The Sovereignty of God - DesiringGod.org
The Sovereignty of God by Arthur Pink - (Pink’s book written during the chaos of the First World War, has remained a perennial classic on the subject of God’s sovereignty. For those wanting a solid initial grasp of this subject…look no further)

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Is God truly present everywhere at all times? And is his whole presence fully present in every moment and place of time? What do we mean by when we speak of God being immense and incorporeal? What do we make of classic statements of misdirection when it comes to God’s Omnipresence? Such as ‘diffusion’, ‘location’, ‘division’ and ‘mixed’? 

This week Pete and the Curious team will be opening up the complex and wonderful biblical truth of God’s omnipresence. Discussing what it means for God to be spaceless and immense. To be fully and essentially present at every moment in every space, not simply to observe and monitor, but to engage and direct. 

Recommended Reading:
Divine Omnipresence - Ligonier.org
The Omnipresent God - ReformedForum.org

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Isaiah announced God as the ‘everlasting God’ (40:28). Paul likewise described God as ‘immortal’ (Rom.1:23) and ‘eternal’ (Rom.16:26). Theologian Paul Helm described God as existing as a “timelessly eternal being”. The sixth century Roman philosopher Boethius, classically defined God’s timeless eternity as, “the complete possession all at once of illimitable life”. 

That God has no beginning and no end, but simply is; has sparked debate amongst thinkers, theologians and philosophers the world over. In this weeks episode the Curious team will be looking at the thoughts of some of these thinkers (Aquinas, Anselm, Bavinck, etc), asking the question, how are we able to understand a timeless, eternal God? 

Recommended reading:
‘None Greater’ by Matthew Barrett
‘Eternal God’ by Paul Helm

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What are we talking about when we talk about impassibility and passibility? What is meant be saying God feels things; be it love, pain, anger, compassion? Does God suffer like we suffer? How are we to understand God’s internal emotions? Did God really suffer on the cross? Can an immutable, perfect God be said to suffer and experience emotions like humans do?

This week the Curious team will unravel the deeply intricate issue of God’s impassibility/passibility. To what extent does God feel and how and in what way? And how do we deal with text that speak plainly of God’s emotions? And in what way are we to understand the sufferings of Jesus in the context of God’s essence? All this and more will be the focus of this week’s episode! 

Recommended Reading:
‘None Greater’ by Matthew Barrett
‘Does God Suffer’ by Thomas G Weinandy
‘The Crucified God’ by Jürgen Moltmann

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