The Cerebral Faith Podcast

In today's podcast, Mr. Minton reads another paper in the Primeval History series; this time it's the one on Genesis 4. Learn what the first criminal report of history can teach us about the dangers of sin, God's mercy and justice, free will, and what Cain's Mark was and wasn't.  You can click here to see the paper in text --> https://cerebralfaith.net/genesis-4-what-historys-first-crimina...

In this episode of The Cerebral Faith Podcast, Evan Minton will read his paper "Genesis 2 & 3: Adam and Eve As Archetypes, Priests In The Garden Of Eden, and The Fall". The paper makes an exegetical case for the following propositions  (1) that Genesis 2  is a sequel to Genesis 1. (2) that Genesis 2 does not teach that Adam and Eve were de novo creations, but instead, that the accoun...

In this episode, Evan Minton reads the first paper in his series of papers; The Primeval History Paper series. In this part of the series, Mr. Minton argues that contrary to being an account of natural history (whether taking place over 24 hour days or billions of years), Genesis 1 was never meant to be read as an account of material origins. Instead, Genesis 1 was meant to be read as an account o...

Is the universe a holographic projection? If so, what is it being projected from? Decades ago, this question would have been ridiculed, but it is now taken very seriously by mainstream physicists and cosmologists. In this interview, Michael Jones of Inspiring Philosophy discusses the scientific evidence that the universe is like a hologram from underlying information and that this information is b...

Evan Minton interviews Lisa Brockman, author of "Out Of Zion: Meeting Jesus In The Shadow Of The Mormon Temple", who shares her journey out of Mormonism to biblical Christianity.  You can buy here book here --> https://www.amazon.com/Out-Zion-Meeting-Shadow-Mormon/dp/0736976450  

In this episode, Evan Minton interviews Noah Edmonds who runs The Eccentric Naturalist blog and YouTube channel. They discuss science and faith, Roman Catholicism, and more.  The Eccentric Naturalist Blog --> https://theeccentricnaturalist.blogspot.com/ The Eccentric Naturalist Youtube Channel --> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCempczWwChpWKaNSrFe2g-w "The Scriptural Roots Of Catholic...

What happens if you're using The Kalam Cosmological Argument with an atheist and he throws out a cosmological model that might seem as though the universe always existed, thus premise 2 ("The universe began to exist") is false? What happens if you have never heard of it before? What happens if there either no scientific problems with the model, or at the very least you don't know what those proble...

Evan Minton talks about where he wants to take Cerebral Faith in the future, and how your funds can make a world of difference.  Article mentioned in the episode:  "Choosing A Computer For Video Editing" --> https://www.desktop-documentaries.com/computer-for-video-editing.html?fbclid=IwAR3PUZn2al2NDcA825Hvv-Lh1b33lYdlymOa23-6i5Xuyq7w2HBIQrIf9hg Click here to sign up for the "Christian...

In this episode, Evan Minton recounts an online conversation he had with an atheist on the logical problem of evil, the evidential problem of evil, and the issue of free will, and how it lead to him realizing the apologists he had been reading were correct all along in saying that God needs to maintain a certain level of hiddenness in order to prevent coercing us into Heaven. 

Evan Minton interviews Brian Godawa on his Chronicles Of The Nephilim novel series, and the biblical, theological, and historical evidence undergirding the series. What many evangelicals are not taught from the pulpit is that there's a lot more going on in The Bible regarding the supernatural. There is a war between Eve's offspring and Satan's, between God and gods, and between men and giants. Vis...

In part 2 of this practice presentation Mr. Minton gave in 2015, He shows why only Jesus' resurrection can account for all of the historical facts while non-supernatural theories cannot. Thus, the resurrection is the inference to the best explanation of the data. 

In this episode, Evan Minton digs up an old recording of himself rehearsing The Minimal Facts Case For The Resurrection of Jesus which he recorded in Spring of 2015. Though some of the arguments have been revised as Minton has continued his study, much of the arguments are largely unchanged. None of the revisions has been because the case was weaker than he thought, but because it is much stronger...

In this Evan Minton talks about the Coronavirus. Specifically, Mr. Minton addresses the following topics 1: WHY DOES GOD ALLOW THE CORONAVIRUS? - If God is all loving and all powerful, why doesn't He stop the Coronavirus? 2: : SHOULD CHURCHES CLOSE? - Mr. Minton talks about how some have some stinkin' thinkin' when it comes to the fact that many churches have closed during The Coronavirus pandemic...

In this episode, Evan Minton interview Gregg Davidson about his book "Friend Of Science, Friend Of Faith: Listening To God In His Works and Word".  You can buy this book on Amazon.com here --> https://www.amazon.com/Friend-Science-Faith-Listening-Works/dp/0825445418 

Many atheists view Christians (or Xians as they like to say) as stupid know-nothing irrational brainwashed idiots. After all, we believe in talking snakes, talking donkeys, a woman turned into salt, that all the animals in the world got on one boat, etc. In this episode, Evan Minton explains why Twitter and Reddit atheists need to stop making fun of Christians for affirming these things that are t...

In this episode, Evan Minton will talk about an often neglected but very significant part of The Old Testament worldview; The Divine Council. The supernatural world is far more robust than just one omnipotent God who does stuff every now and then, According to The Bible, it is vastly populated....with gods. Some gods serve God, other gods war against Him. 

Picking up from last week's episode, "Episode 53: Why I Became An Annihilationist (Part 1)", Evan Minton addresses the biblical texts that people who believe Hell consists of eternal conscious torment use in support of that view. He shows how, not only do they NOT prove Hell is eternal torment, but they actually support annihilationism. 

Annihilationism is the view that the damned in Hell are, well, annihilated. In episode 28 of this podcast, Evan Minton defended the character of God from several objections from skeptics based on the doctrine of Hell. He defended the eternal torment view of Hell and argued that this is not incompatible with God's nature. Minton no longer holds the view that the wicked in Hell are conscious for ete...

Did humans and dinosaurs live around the same time? Many in the Young Earth camp would argue that they did, and they went extinct either in the Genesis 6-9 flood, or they got on Noah's Ark and died out sometime after that. Those who accept Old Earth models of origins argue that dinosaurs died out millions of years before man came on the scene. What does the scientific evidence say? What does The B...

Why does anything at all exist? Why does the universe exist? Why isn't there just nothing?  Originally formulated by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and developed and defended by modern-day apologist Dr. William Lane Craig, The Argument from Contingency argues that the explanation for why there is something rather than nothing is to be found in the creative will of God. It is this theistic argumen...

In this interview, which marks the finale of the first season of The Cerebral Faith Podcast, Evan Minton interviews New Testament scholar Darrel Bock about a new book he co-edited with Ed Komozewski on Historical Jesus studies. The book is called "Jesus, Skepticism, and the Problem of History: Criteria and Context in the Study of Christian Origins." What can the criteria of authenticity tell us ab...

Science has shown that Adam and Eve, if they were real people couldn't have been de novo creations. Science has shown that there was never a population size smaller than 10,000 individuals. We couldn't have all descended from an original couple. Right? Well, contrary to popular belief, you can affirm the de novo Adam and Eve, that all people descended from Adam and Eve, and moreover, that Darwin's...

In this podcast episode, Evan Minton interviews Michael Jones of Inspiring Philosophy. They respond to a two-part podcast episode in which William Lane Craig responds to Minton's rebuttals of his criticisms of The Cosmic Temple View Of Genesis 1. The article Craig responded to can be read here --> https://cerebralfaith.net/william-lane-craigs-criticisms-of/ Part 1 of Craig's response to that ar...

In this podcast episode, Evan Minton responds to a two part podcast episode in which William Lane Craig responds to Minton's rebuttals of his criticisms of The Cosmic Temple View Of Genesis 1.  The article Craig responded to can be read here --> https://cerebralfaith.net/william-lane-craigs-criticisms-of/   Part 1 of Craig's response to that article can be listened to here --> http...

The resurrection of Jesus is the most important event in human history. While many books have been written on the subject, Eric Chabot, in his book "The Resurrection Of The Jewish Messiah" looks at the context with a, particularly Jewish outlook. What is the historical evidence for Jesus' resurrection? And how does the resurrection relate to Jesus being the Jewish Messiah? Is resurrection really a...