Real Seekers

This is our very first episode of the new TheoGeeks Podcast, with both myself and PORA host David Russell as the hosts.  In this first episode we cover Jesus' relationship to the OT law, first we establish what Dr. Dale Allison calls the "conservative Jesus", next we establish the "progressive Jesus" and finally we put it all together to discover the true Jesus, Jesus the Messiah of the OT!

In this show, I engage with Vaal the Atheist to evaluate his views on Compatibilism vs. Libertarian Freewill based on the 5 conditions for freedom; the ability condition, control condition, rationality condition, the nature of causation condition, and the Person as Agent condition. 

This episode was mostly recorded 2 years ago- in this show I provide the warrant for the 2nd Premise of my argument, namely that the Principle of Sufficient Reason as defined as every "thing" that exists has a sufficient reason/explanation of its existence, either in the necessity of its own internal nature or in an external cause. Note, due to time constraints, I haven't done much editing on this...

In this episode, I continue to assess the warrant for the first of the three premises of our Cosmological argument.  Here I finish off my case providing a third Abductive argument (i.e. inference to the best explanation) for proving that our Universe probably began to exist (as a matter of fact).   I do so by wrapping up the warrant for Aspect 2 on proving the Universe beginning to exist...

I went on the S&S show to debate my Argument from Beauty with the Atheist David J.- it was good cordial and substantive conversation. Enjoy :)

This is an argument for God's existence that is often overlooked by Atheists and Christians alike, it's often said that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and thus there is no objectivity to it in the same way one can argue for the objectivity of moral values and duties being grounded in God.  Having taken a philosophy of Aesthetics class for my Masters program, I have decided to give the...

World renowned scholar in the philosophy of religion, Dr. Klaas Kraay joins David J., Andrew Knight and myself on RSM to discuss three topics; i) Religious Disagreement, ii) The Hiddenness of God, and iii) Is there a Best Possible World (along with how that relates to the truth or falsity of Theism).  Enjoy :)

I was invited onto a PORA roundtable with several Christians to say farewell to David Pallmann as co-host and speak on the issue of apologetics in culture (including within anti-apologetic church culture).

In this episode of S&S, I am struggling with how best to interact with the various skeptics of the S&S Boards as they were very hard of heart against the truth.  I've evolved since these days and better worked out what strategies are appropriate Biblically for different types of skeptics as I think Jesus' example provides Christians with great flexibility within reasonable limits in h...

This is a bonus show based on my final Philosophy of Religion class essay on J.L. Schellenberg's argument from the "Loving Mother" analogy.  This is a relatively straight-forward and simple Atheistic argument and I provide three reasons as to why I think it is based on disanalogies and is thus a false analogy.

I was asked to be a guest on an all Christian conservative show on S&S after the election.  As most of the regular listeners know, I'm not a huge fan of all the politically focused shows that S&S has done lately (hence why I've waited to post this up so long after the fact), but I show up after the first 30 mins or so to discuss some of these important issues out of respect for the ho...

In this short bonus episode I make some announcements as to my Podcast plans in the summer (doesn't include some of the scholars I'm planning to contact in June).    Additionally, I include a discussion of my final exegetical essay for my Ancient Philosophy class based on Plato's dialogues in the Parmenides- specifically I look at what Plato might have had in mind in the Appendix to...

This was an S&S show as part of series on the differences between Christians and Atheists on issues pertaining to killing and death.  This episode was about the death penalty.     I wasn't a main guest in this show, but I had a bit part in asking David J. about the expressivist theory of punishment (around the 55 min- 1 hour mark) and then toward the end I discuss my take o...

This is my second live show on the Proselytize or Apostatize podcast, we were doing a Q&A session with the new host Caleb Jackson and we covered various topics including Pacifism, the argument from God from Beauty, miracle healings, eschatology and the Shroud of Turin.

This is the final part of the S&S Season 1 Finale show.

This is Part 1 of the Season 1 Finale episode of S&S.  In this show David and I reflect on the first season of S&S and some of the lessons learned or address some of the recurrent themes during the season.  On my end, I address many of the misunderstandings and false notions of the skeptics that were repeatedly brought up as arguments against me, these include; i) The Different S...

This is the second and final part of the S&S series on the Coherence of Christian Theism, we discuss all of God's other divine attributes beyond his personhood and incorporeality. 

This was to be the first episode in a series on the Coherence of Christian Theism, however the Skeptic felt ill-equipped to handle my arguments and thus we cut it short to a two-part series; in this first episode I go over God as a incorporeal personal Being and in Part 2 we cover all the rest of God's attributes at once in a much more generalized and brief nature due to the Skeptic's request and...

This is a bonus episode of a Round Table I did on all things Easter with David J. and the two skeptics from Ask an Atheist Anything; Andrew Knight and Matthew Taylor.  We go over everything from the meaning of Easter to it's pagan roots and even explore a little into the Ascension of Jesus in Acts 1 and how that relates to the Resurrection.

In this old Easter episode of S&S, the Skeptic leads the conversation on what he feels is important about the evidence for and against Jesus' Resurrection. 

Dr. Liz Jackson joins David J. and I to discuss various issues pertaining to religious epistemology & Pascal's Wager.  Everything from peer disagreement and probability theory to the "Homer Simpson" objection to the Wager are brought up in this show. Enjoy :)

My former philosophy of emotions professor, Dr. Michael Milona, joins me to discuss what our emotions are, how they relate to other mental states and what role emotions might play in our coming to gain moral knowledge.  We end by discussing issues pertaining to emotional suffering and hope (the latter being Milona's most recent research focus).

I was invited onto the Proselytize or Apostatize show to represent the Amillennialism perspective alongside a Premillennialist and Partial Preterist Postmillennialist.  This show was pretty quick as I lay out my own case about Jesus' return and his 1000 year reign.

Dr. Lydia McGrew joins me alongside co-hosts David Johnson (skeptic) and Marvin Wallace (Christian) to discuss her new book on the Gospel of John and the Maximal Facts Approach to Jesus' Resurrection. 

This is the Part3 follow up show on Epistemology and religion.  I am on a panel with fellow Christians David Pallman, Kevin Smith & Mac Attack).   RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2021/02/07/religious-epistemology-panel-discussion-of-3-christians-vs-3-atheists-parts-1-2/