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Seven Reasons to Love Textual Criticism #2: Because of all the people who have died for the Bible

Here are all 7 reasons to love textual criticism: Because the Enemies of the Gospel Know Textual Criticism Because of All the People Who Have Died for the Bible YOU’RE...

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Seven Reasons to Love Textual Criticism: #3 – Correcting Misconceptions About the History of the Bible

Have you ever heard someone say that the scribes who copied the Bible never made any mistakes? That they counted the words of each line, wrote in a certain color ink, and...

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Seven Reasons to Love Textual Criticism: #4 P52

Reason Number 4: P52 Never heard of P52 (also known as Rylands Library Papyrus)? Don’t worry . . . Most Christians have not. P52 is the earliest known manuscript of the New...

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Thoughts on Bart Ehrman’s Article in the Huffington Post

Someone turned my attention to an article by Bart Ehrman, published in the Huffington Post, titled “Who Wrote the Bible and Why it Matters.” The article is...

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Seven Reasons to Love Textual Criticism: #5 Daniel B. Wallace is a Modern Indiana Jones

Here we are, just five days left to go to join our movement and strengthen minds through understanding. Reason #5: Daniel B. Wallace is a Modern Indiana Jones Normally, we...

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Seven Reasons to Love Textual Criticism: #6 This is a FULL Course on Textual Criticism!

The countdown continues. You now only have six days left to join with us in putting together the first ever Credo Course and get a great deal on education that will last you...

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Seven Reasons to Love Textual Criticism: #7 It’s the first step in all of Bible Study

There are only seven days left for you to join with Credo House in the production of its first Credo Course, New Testament Textual Criticism. This means that there are only...

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Theology Unplugged: Roman Catholicism – Part 12 – Mariology (Part 2)

[display_podcast] Join Michael Patton, Tim Kimberley, JJ Seid and Sam Storms as they continue their series on Roman Catholicism by continuing the topic of Mariology. Theology...

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Has Secularization Made Us Smarter?

Here is a common myth:  Intelligence has evolved over the centuries of recorded history, so we’re smarter than people were a thousand years ago. Just look at the remarkable...

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The New Prophets: Authority, Experience, and the Collapse of Trust
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The New Prophets: Authority, Experience, and the Collapse of Trust

Podcast culture is telling us something—and it’s not just about who people are listening to, but why they trust them.

As voices like Joe Rogan and Shawn Ryan rise, trust in institutions continues to collapse. Government, media, and even scientific authorities are no longer seen as stable sources of truth. But this does not mean truth itself is disappearing. It means confidence in those who interpret and deliver truth is fading.

In this episode, I make a critical distinction: science isn’t collapsing—trust in interpreters of science is. Science is a method. But people don’t live by methods—they live by meaning. And when the messengers lose credibility, people begin looking elsewhere for something to anchor their understanding of reality.

The deeper issue is that we are no longer building complete worldviews. Instead, we are assembling beliefs like a playlist—pulling ideas from wherever they resonate without asking whether they actually fit together. But a real worldview must answer real questions: What is ultimate reality? How do we know anything? Are there real morals? What is our purpose? What happens after death?

When those questions go unanswered, a vacuum is created. And that vacuum never stays empty.

This is where the “new prophets” begin to emerge—not from institutions, but from experience. And in a world that no longer trusts shared authority, experience itself begins to take the throne.

This episode sets the stage for understanding how we got here—and why what replaces truth may be far more dangerous than what we lost.

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    The New Prophets: Authority, Experience, and the Collapse of Trust Podcast culture is telling us something—and it’s not just about who people are listening to, but why they trust them. As voices like Joe Rogan and Shawn Ryan rise, trust in institutions continues to collapse. Government, media, and even scientific authorities are no longer seen […]
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    Israel, the Camaro, and the Faithfulness of God Can a promise from God mean more than the original hearer understood without meaning less than what God actually said? In this episode of Theology Unplugged, we look at one of the most important questions in biblical interpretation: how should Christians understand Old Testament promises in light […]

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