The Cerebral Faith Podcast

In this episode, as part of the Christmas Apologetics series, Nick Peters of Deeper Waters responds to Richard Carrier's article "Virgin Birth: It's Pagan, Guys. Get Over It" which can be read in its entirety here --> https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/11161?fbclid=IwAR2pvrO3kacgLOwj6dW1-b8X7Nb98XU5fuq1xRePYn1gal9vCyc4wwsPjkM Nick Peter's website --> https://www.deeperwatersapologetics...

In this second episode of the Christmas Apologetics series, Evan Minton interviews Dr. Lydia McGrew on the historical reliability of the birth narratives in the gospels of Matthew and Luke? How trustworthy are these documents actually?  To see more of Lydia McGrew's material, go to http://www.lydiamcgrew.com/ "Acts Gets Hard Things Right" --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sdLTyM7Sks&amp...

This is the first episode in a series titled "Christmas Apologetics". Throughout this series, a variety of guests from the world of Christian Apologetics will be on to defend the faith from points of attack that come up particularly around the issue of Christ's birth. In this episode, Evan Minton interviews Michael Jones about whether or not it is morally permissable to even celebrate Christmas in...

In this episode, Evan Minton interviews Gregory Koukl of Stand To Reason ministries on his book "Tactics: A Game Plan For Discussing Your Christian Convictions". They go over the various tactics for sharing your faith without getting stonewalled by the skeptic. These tools will be helpful for anyone regardless of their level of knowledge regarding apologetical and philosophical and theological sub...

The book of Job has long puzzled many Bible readers. It looks as though God's only reason for allowing Satan to torment Job is to win a bet against him. But perhaps the reason it appears this way is that we often think of the people in the conversation of Job 1 and 2 as just being God and Satan with Satan saying "I'll bet Job will curse you to your face if you removed the blessings you've given hi...

Although MISTER Tim Stratton has been on The Cerebral Faith Podcast before, this is the first time DOCTOR Tim Stratton has been on. In this episode of The Cerebral Faith Podcast, Evan Minton and Tim Stratton discuss his newest (and his first) book; "Human Freedom, Divine Knowledge, and Mere Molinism: A Biblical, Historical, Theological, and Philosophical Analysis." They discuss where he passed his...

Does Beauty point to God? Today's guest, Kenneth Samples of Reasons To Believe, argues that beauty is objective and that it is best explained on a theistic worldview rather than a naturalistic worldview or even a mystical eastern worldview.  To see more resources from Reasons To Believe, go to www.reasons.org  To see some of the additional resources mentioned near the end of the podcast....

What is the doctrine of The Trinity? Does The Bible teach it? Is it only in The New Testament or are there traces of it in The Old Testament as well? And is The Trinity even logically coherent? Isn't it a hopelessly contradictory concept? These are questions Evan Minton seeks to answer in this podcast episode. 

A recent poll came out saying that 30% of "Evangelicals" do not believe that Jesus is God, but just a good moral teacher. This is disturbing as belief in the deity of Jesus Christ is one of the essential tenets of Christianity. In this episode, Evan Minton will defend from The Bible the claim that Jesus is God, looking at three categories of evidence (1) Places The New Testament Authors Explicitly...

Does the Calvinist soteriology T.U.L.I.P stand up under scrutiny? Does The Bible really teach Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, and Perseverance Of The Saints? In this episode of The Cerebral Faith Podcast, Evan Minton teams up with David Pallmann to subject the T.U.L.I.P under biblical exegetical scrutiny.  Check out David Pallmann's YouTube Chan...

Does God punish thought crimes and other victimless crimes? The Bible says not to lust, covet, or hate people. Are The Holy Trinity thought police? How is that reasonable? In this episode, Mr. Minton will deal with the issue of commands to regulate our thoughts.

In Episode 80 of this podcast, Evan Minton gave a syllogistic argument that God loves all people and that Jesus died for all people called "The Maximally Great Argument Against Calvinism". The argument was philosophical in nature, and yet each of the premises could be backed by scripture as well. However, there are also explicit passages in scripture that state that Jesus died for all. So one can...

Romans 9 is a favorite proof text of Calvinists to support their idea of unconditional election. But is that what the text is really saying? Is Paul teaching that God only wants some saved and others damned, and chastises anyone who dare say that such a thing is unjust? In this episode, Mr. Minton shows how, when Romans 9 is taken in context with the rest of Paul's letter, a very different interpr...

In this episode, Evan Minton interviews T.J Steadman about his new book "Answers To Giant Questions: How Understanding The Biblical Nephilim Will Enlarge Your Faith".  You can buy the book here --> https://www.amazon.com/Answers-Giant-Questions-Understanding-Biblical/dp/1710795549/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3M6FITXZ564A2&dchild=1&keywords=answers+to+giant+questions+tj+steadman&qid=1598279...

In this episode, a group of Theistic Evolutionists (Evan Minton, Noah Edmonds, and Eric Vierthaler) debunk arguments criticizing Theistic Evolution that was put out by the Crossway YouTube channel.  To see the video that this audio was extracted from, go here --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xyy6U8DFHI&fbclid=IwAR0e_pvFfsa5WgG2m_yjzDvtn7Dc132eHUJKZ-OKXYQatCMwwIzLp2wYwoQ   Visi...

I wrote a blog post a couple of years ago titled “ The Maximally Great Argument For Arminianism” which attempted to show that God’s universal salvific will logically flows out of Perfect Being Theology. The argument was formulated on my part out of frustration to convince Calvinists that God loves all people, wants all people to be saved, and desires salvation for all people. It doesn’t matter how...

In this episode, Evan Minton and David Pallman discuss two Bible verses that seem to teach that God wants all people to be saved; 2 Peter 3:9 and 1 Timothy 2:4. Do these verses REALLY mean that God loves and desires every human individual to be saved? Christians known as Calvinists do not think so. They have their own interpretations of these verses, and Mr. Minton and Mr. Pallmann show why they d...

In this episode, Mr. Minton shows how three animes give good illustrations one can use to respond to The Problem Of Evil.  Blog post mentioned in episode --> https://cerebralfaith.net/anime-theodicies/

We're gonna get geeky in this episode as we talk about super hero movies and how they can give us good illustrations to draw on when talking to people about the problem of evil.  Note: Apologies for the audio quality. I had no idea that my external, noise canceling microphone was not plugged in. I thought it was.  Blog Posts mentioned:  "Super Hero Theodicies" by Evan Minton -->...

Why did Naaman want to take dirt back to him to Syria after being healed of his leprosy in The Jordan River? Why did Satan think he owned the kingdoms of the world and could give them to Jesus in exchange for a little worship? Is the book of Acts just about The Holy Spirit enabling people to speak other languages while doing an end-run around Rosetta Stone? All three of these incidents tie into wh...

You may think you know the story of The Tower Of Babel, but you might be surprised at what your Sunday school teacher didn't tell you. There's a lot more going on in this narrative than mere prideful humans trying to build a tower to Heaven and a confusion of languages by God. In this podcast episode, Evan Minton finishes off his series on the Primeval History period of The Bible by reading his pa...

Genesis 9 records an odd event of Noah getting drunk, passing out in his tent uncovered, Ham coming in, seeing it, telling his brothers, Noah waking up and realized that fact, and cursed Canaan, Ham's son. What in the world is going on here? In this episode, Evan Minton reads his paper "Noah's Nakedness, The Sin Of Ham, and The Curse Of Canaan" which gives the answer. Paper can be found in text fo...

Is the Genesis flood global or local? Did it even happen at all? Isn't it just a copy of pagan mythical tales? In today's podcast episode, Mr. Minton will address all of these questions. This is an audio reading of his paper "Genesis 6-9: The Extent and Historicity Of The Flood".  Click here to see the paper in text --> https://cerebralfaith.net/genesis-6-9-the-extent-and-historicity-of-th...

“When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, ‘My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.’ The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to...

900 year old men? Absurd right? Well, what if The Bible's long ages in Genesis 5 aren't so absurd if we realize that ancient authors put special significance in numbers. Perhaps the long ages weren't meant to be taken literally. In this episode, Minton reads another paper installment of his Primeval History Paper series. Today's paper exegetes Genesis 5 and discusses the long ages recorded therein...