Fellow Jessup faculty member Brad Swope joins Mark and Rex to discuss the nature of truth. Is there such a thing as absolute truth? Do we have access to it? Can we be certain of anything? The trio discusses these questions and more.

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Welcome to Jessup think I'm your host Mark Moore

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and your co host, Rex Gurney. And Mark, we actually have a fascinating conversation, I think that we are inviting our listening audience into and that's a conversation about, about truth. Yeah. And about the, the absolute indispensability of maintaining the concept of absolute truth, even in a society that's very suspicious of it.

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Yeah. And, and you, you used your words wisely, and we're gonna unpack those words. And we have to, yeah, we have the Reverend Dr. Brad Swope, who, as a local pastor also teaches here at Jessup, and he's been on the show before and just love his mind love his his ability, his desire to get into these conversations and to unpack things and use uncomfortable illustrations Even so, so we hope you stay with this conversation and really just immerse into this conversation and be asking yourself Yeah, what is truth? What is my access to truth? And and what does that mean about then how I live right? So I hope you enjoy the show.

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It's it's good to have you back on the show. Reverend Dr. Brad's Whoa. Oh, we got the title. Right. We say that I think are we are we a pair a trio of Reverend doctors ello. Whatever endo doctor. His sounded better is does Yeah. That you have to be you have to live in Colombia for a while to get that title. Well, I was neither one of those things for a long time ago. But you earned it by living in Colombia positively changed my life. That's true. Yeah, very true. Well, of course, as

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you know, everything changes once you become a doctor. People will respect you more your words mean more, have more authority instantly.

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I'm just waiting for to be on an airplane. And so is there a doctor? You waited your whole life? Is that airplane or flat? plane? Yeah, yeah. airplane, we can just you know, we'll see. See what happens. But no, it's great to have you back on the show. You're You're officially I think even before this, we would have called you a friend of the show. But you're you're officially a friend of the show. Now I know, t shirts. You know, that's we're working. You know, we're working on our funding. Right? We're working on our funding and I don't even believe t shirts. I've been promised the T shirt. Or you might be bringing in the listeners in on this. fundraiser. Patreon. You never know Be on the lookout out there because then we could have actual t shirt crowdfunder t shirts, give it our give to our guests. What end of the show t shirt.

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I do have on my Jessup when I when I spoke at Chapel, I get one of those mugs. Yeah. And on the other side of it. I do have your your sticker. Oh, nice. There we go with your shout out. Amen. Amen. Amen. I do believe though I paid for that somehow. I don't think it was free. Did

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you get free? I can't remember. But you paid for it. It went to a good cause I paid for my swag. It went to a good cause. I feel like I gave it to you for free. But I don't know if you paid for it. It went to a Spain missions trip that never happened. That's right. But it was for was for a good cause. Okay, for a good cause. Yeah, but glad to have you on the show. And today really wanted to kind of bring, you know, it's great having you and Rex on the show today as you guys kind of teach our Christian perspective class. And that's really a class on critical thinking and how to think christianly about topics, but want to want to kind of hit kind of the broad idea. And this is, you know, the classic, the famous question from Pilate for Jesus, right? What is truth? Right, what is truth? And one of the reasons this topic kind of popped up for me was I was recently watching the social dilem