The Cerebral Faith Podcast

This is the final episode of The Cerebral Faith Podcast. Mr. Minton explains his reasons for ending the podcast, as well as listing 30 episodes of the podcast that he recommends newcomers listen to the most. He then gives a few testimonials. He ends with a heartfelt thank you to all those who tuned in over the years as well as the guests who came on to converse on a variety of different topics.

In this episode, Evan Minton will go on to talk about his view on inerrancy and how that relates to the theory of divine accommodation which encompasses such topics as Ancient Near Eastern Cosmology, the head covering issue of 1 Corinthians 11, God's Gender, and Jesus' Sonship. He will also talk about the differences between Bible reading and Bible Study, as well as resources he recommends...

This is a 2 part episode in Evan Minton thinks about The Bible. In this part, Evan Minton talks about biblical inspiration and what it means to say that The Bible is divinely inspired, as well as theories of divine inspiration (I.e how God and man worked together to bring about The Bible). He goes on to talk about different reasons to believe that The Bible is, in fact, from God.

In todays episode, Evan Minton talks about the case for the historical reliability of the book of Acts with Christian Apologist and YouTuber Erik Manning. Who wrote the book of Acts? When was Acts written? What extra biblical writings and archeological evidence can verify what Acts says? Are there any clues within the book of Acts itself that suggest that the author knew what he was talking about?...

In this episode, Mr. Minton has Dr. Kirk MacGregor on the podcast to talk about a view known as Open Theism, and what the biblical and philosophical issues with such a view are. Primarily they will be responding to arguments for Open Theism such as the argument that if humans have libertarian free will, God cannot foreknow our libertarianly free choices, as well as certain biblical proof texts Ope...

In this episode, it is also an episode of What Your Pastor Didn’t Tell You in which Zach Miller had Evan Minton on as a guest. Miller and Minton respond to David Tsumura’s criticism of The Functional Origins/Temple Inaguration view of Genesis 1 as defended in books such as John Walton’s “The Lost World Of Genesis One” and “Genesis 1 As Ancient Cosmology”.  If you’d like to see the video of this ep...

Back in 2022, Evan Minton was on Zach Miller's podcast "What Your Pastor Didn't Tell You". In this episode, they responded to criticisms of the interpretation of Genesis 1 defended by John Walton in books like "The Lost World Of Genesis One" and "Genesis 1 As Ancient Cosmology". To see more of Zach Miller's podcast, visit the following URLs for the podcast...

Many people wonder about what's going to happen to them after they die. The Bible teaches that Christians will go to a place God has prepared for us called Heaven, whereas those who don't believe in Jesus go to a place called Hell. Yet as many tough questions as the latter place generates, there are also many questions about the former as well, even from people who have gone to church for...

New Testament scholars treat John's gospel as largely a-historical when it comes to things Jesus said and did. This is even true of some evangelical scholars. For example, Craig Evans has publicly said that Jesus just sounds too different from how he talks in the synoptics, so John more or less paints an interpretive portrait of Jesus, making up things that Jesus never literally said in the na...

In today's episode, Mr. Minton interviews John Wise; a philosophy professor who went from Christian to atheist to back to being a Christian again, a remarkable journey that spanned 25 years and culminated in 2019. Dr. Wise tells of his journey of faith and skepticism, and how he now views faith matters having been on both sides of "the looking glass". Dr. John Wise goes into more det...

In today's episode, I have Nick Peters of Deeper Waters ministries on the podcast. Nick Peters is a Christian Apologist and theologian who has recently devoted his research to, believe it or not, video games! Specifically, video games and the psychology surrounding it as well as the theological aspects of it. In fact, he gave an entire talk at the Defend conference last year on this very subje...

In this podcast episode, we wrap up our series on the historical case for the reliability of the gospels. I will tell the non-Christian who has been convinced by the evidence and arguments surveyed in the series what he should do next. I also have a message for non-Christians who may be resisting the evidence for non-intellectual reasons. And finally, I have a message for Christians who may want t...

Continuing on with the audio blog series on the historical reliability of the gospels, I now turn to the issue of the historicity of Jesus' resurrection. Having previously established that the gospels are eyewitness accounts that are early (not to mention verified to be telling the truth on a variety of different occasions), we must answer the question as to why they claimed to have seen Jesus...

Continuing on with The Gospel Reliability Audio-Blog series, I examine the case against miracles. Are miracles really impossible? Or if they're possible, can they never be evidentially established? This is what the 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume argued. In this episode of The Cerebral Faith Podcast, I will be giving my refutations of Hume, showing that miracles are both possible...

In this episode, we continue our "psudeo-audiobook" of the Cerebral Faith blog post series; The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels. In this episode, I tackle the issues of alleged contradictions between the four gospel narratives. Do the gospels really contradict each other, and if so, what would that mean for their historical reliability? Listen to find out. To see the blog post, c...

Continuing on with my gospel reliability audio blog series, I examine several pieces of internal evidence for the historical verisimilitude of the gospels; Undesigned Coincidences, Unnecessary Details, and Unexplained Allusions. To see the blog post, click here --> https://cerebralfaith.net/the-case-for-the-reliability-of-the-gospels-part-6-even-more-internal-evidence/

In this podcast episode, I continue my series on the case for the historical trustworthiness of the gospels. I make a cumulative case for the gospel's trustworthiness from internal evidence. How can the criteria of authenticity help to build a cumulative case for the trustworthiness of the gospels? Listen to this episode to find out. Click here to see the blog post. --> https://cerebralfait...

In this podcast episode, we continue our series on the case for the historical reliability of the gospels. In this episode, I talk about the various extra-biblical evidence that confirms the existence of persons and historicity of events that the gospels record. What corroboration can secular authors of that time period and archeological evidence give? Listen to this episode to find out. To see th...

In this episode, I continue reading the essays I wrote as part of the Gospel Reliability series for the Cerebral Faith blog. First, I had an introduction episode, then we had an episode looking at the textual transmission of the New Testament documents. We saw in that episode that The New Testament documents were reliably preserved to 99.99% accuracy. Yes, the New Testament we have today is a near...

In this episode, I continue reading aloud my Gospel Reliability blog post series. In this installment, I look at the external and internal evidences for the traditional authorship of the gospels. I argue that the evidence from the early church fathers as well as evidences from within the biblical text itself strongly supports the view that the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were written...

In this episode, I read part one of my gospel, reliability blog post series. In the previous podcast episode, I read the introduction to the series. In this episode, I get into the first installment, which really gets up to the meat and potatoes. I look at the evidence of the manuscript transmission tradition of the New Testament documents, and I ascertain that we can be confident that the New Tes...

In this episode, I go back to an audio only format and I explain a little bit of why before jumping into the main topic of the episode. But after the housecleaning, I read aloud my blog article "The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels - Introduction". This is the beginning of an 11 part series in which I read all 11 installments of my Gospel Reliability blog post series. This series will add u...

Today on The Cerebral Faith Podcast, I have astrophysicist Hugh Ross on the program to talk about his new book "Designed To The Core", which talks about both cosmic and local Fine-Tuning, and what the latest science has to say regarding the evidence for a Cosmic Creator of our world.   Hugh Ross is the founder of Reasons To Believe (RTB), an organization dedicated to showing the compatibility...

Do the gifts of The Holy Spirit continue to be distributed today? Many Christians think so. However, some Christians think the gifts of the Spirit have ceased since the first century. Moreover, whichever view you take on this, what about the gift of tongues? Continuing today or not, are the tongues some heavenly angelic language no one on this planet can speak or are the tongues human languages of...

We come to the end of our exposition of Jesus' Sermon On The Mount covered in Matthew 5-7. In this episode, we'll streamline the exegesis and cover the entire chapter beginning with Jesus' command "Do not judge" and ending with the crowd's reaction to everything Jesus said.    To support this ministry financially, go to www.patreon.com/cerebralfaith