The Cerebral Faith Podcast

Evan Minton responds to Keaton Halley of www.creation.com, who criticized the book "The Lost World Of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 and The Human Origins Debate"  You can read Keaton Halley's article here --> https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j29_2/j29_2_47-51.pdf   "From The Mailbag: Why Would God Allow Scientific Errors In The Bible" -- https://biologos.org/articles/from-the-mailbag-w...

Darwin VS. Moses, The Origin Of Man VS. The Book of Genesis, Science VS. Faith. Most people seem to think that you've got to have one or the other. If one is right the other is wrong. As we've seen in Evan Minton's series on Genesis, this is not true regarding the first chapter of Genesis, but what about the second chapter? Does Genesis 2 present a view of human origins that is hopelessly at odds...

Evan Minton responds to an article called "The Gnostic World Of John Walton" by Thomas Purifoy Jr. The article critiques the functional origins/temple inauguration interpretation of the Genesis account that Walton defends in his book "The Lost World Of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and The Origins Debate". The article can be read here --> https://isgenesishistory.com/gnostic-world-of-john-walt...

Evan Minton responds to an article Hugh Ross wrote criticizing The Cosmic Temple Inauguration View Of Genesis 1, specifically Ross' critique of John Walton's book "The Lost World Of Genesis 1". The article that Evan Minton is responding to can be read in its entirety here --> https://reasons.org/explore/blogs/todays-new-reason-to-believe/read/tnrtb/2012/06/22/defending-concordism-response-to-th...

Evan Minton continues his response to William Lane Craig's critique of John Walton's "The Lost World Of Genesis One"

In this episode Evan Minton critiques the critique of William Lane Craig to The Cosmic Temple Inaguration View Of Genesis One, defended in last weeks podcast episode and in Minton's blog post "The Cosmic Temple Inaguration Of Genesis One" (see here --> https://cerebralfaith.net/the-cosmic-temple-view-of-genesis-one/ ). 

Genesis 1 is one of the most widely disputed passages of The Old Testament. What is Genesis saying? In this episode, Evan Minton argues that Genesis 1 is not an account of natural history/material origins. Rather, Genesis 1 is about functional origins and about God inaugurating the universe as His temple in a time period of 7-24 hour days. God assigned functions to the things mentioned in Genesis...

How did such a wonderful text as Genesis 1 become such a bloodied battleground? Why is there such emotionally charged rhetoric and disdain from  over a chapter of The Bible? Are these battles over how to correctly read Genesis one we are called to win at all cost, or can one be a faithful Christian and have freedom to explore various options? This episode's guest, Daniel Eaton, argues that th...

In this episode, Evan Minton interviews Dr. Michael S. Heiser about his book "The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible." But beware: your view of the Bible may be rocked as a result of this interview!  Check out Dr. Heiser at www. DRMSH.com and on his Naked Bible podcast. The book can be purchased here -- https://www.amazon.com/Unseen-Realm-Recovering-Supernatural-...

Evan Minton interviews J.B Stump on his text book Science and Christianity which is an accessible, engaging introduction to topics at the intersection of science and Christian theology. You can buy Stump's book in Hardcover, paperback, and Kindle formats on Amazon.com. --> https://www.amazon.com/Science-Christianity-Introduction-J-Stump-ebook/dp/B01LXT5NZ0   Also be sure to check out BioLo...

You can’t interpret scripture properly without understanding its context. When Jesus spoke, Judaism was the context. In today's episode, Evan Minton interviews Phil Weingart about his book "The Rabbi On The Mount: How Jesus' Judaism Helps To Clarify The Sermon On The Mount". “'The Rabbi on the Mount' presents details from history, scripture, and the writings of the Jewish sages of Jesus’ day that...

Psalm 19:1-4 says "The heavens declare the glory of God and the skies proclaim the works of His hands. Day after day, they pour forth speech and night after night, they reveal knowledge. There are no words. Their voice is not heard. Yet their voice goes throughout the Earth and their words to the ends of the world." The scientist Johannes Kepler considered science to be "thinking God's thoughts af...

Interpreting Scripture is about three things; context, context, context. There are different kinds of context when it comes to interpreting The Bible. There's  "Immediate Context" which is to interpret a verse in light of the verses that come before and after, there's the context of scripture as a whole, and there's cultural context. When it comes to that last one, much homework needs to be d...

Mama bears are known to be very protective of their cubs. Get between a mama bear and her cubs, and you're going to have a bad time! In this episode, Evan interviews Hillary Morgan Ferrer, who along with others, teamed up to write a book called "Mama Bear Apologetics: Empowering Your Kids To Challenge Cultural Lies". This book shows how you can protect your cubs from the various lies permeating th...

What does The Bible teach about Heaven? Do we go there immediately when we die? Will we be able to sin in Heaven? Will we be able to recognize our loved ones in Heaven? Will we remember our earthly lives in Heaven? Will we be able to eat in our resurrected bodies? These and others are question that Evan Minton answers in this podcast episode. 

What does Molinism have to do with The Kalam Cosmological Argument for God's existence, The Fine-Tuning Argument for God's existence, or the problem of evil? More than you might think. In this episode, Mr. Minton interviews Tim Stratton of FreeThinking Ministries ( www.freethinkingministries.com ) about a paper he presented at the most recent Evangelical Philosophical Society conference. In this p...

This is the first Q&A episode of The Cerebral Faith Podcast. In this episode, Evan Minton answers questions received from Facebook.  Reasonable Faith Podcast episode mentioned in the episode -->   https://www.reasonablefaith.org/media/reasonable-faith-podcast/is-the-penal-substitution-of-christ-unjust/   Book on the atonement mentioned in the show -->   https://www.am...

The doctrine of Hell is a stumbling block for many people. To many, it just doesn't seem possible for God to be perfectly good yet sentence people to an eternity of torment. In this episode, Evan Minton talks about the doctrine of Hell and addresses a variety of objections to it such as "How could God punish people infinitely long for sins of finite significance?", "How could God send infants to H...

If God is all powerful and all good, why doesn't He stop evil and suffering? The answer that atheists think most plausibly answers this question is that either God is not all powerful, not all good, or doesn't even exist! This is one of the sharpest arrows in the atheists' quiver. Nevertheless, while it has prima facie persuasive power, it withers under scrutiny, and Evan Minton will show that in...

The Shroud Of Turin is widely believed to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, but is this actually the case? Many would say no, but others would say yes. In this episode, Evan Minton interviews Dave Glander of Truth Ministries who believes that The Shroud Of Turin really is the burial cloth of Jesus. And he doesn't just take this stance on blind faith, he takes it on the basis of powerful scienti...

In this episode, Evan Minton tackles 5 objections to William Lane Craig's version of The Moral Argument for God's Existence, which is the version he uses as well, put forth by popular atheist YouTuber Stephen Woodford (a.k.a Rationality Rules). The video in which these objection were put forth is "The Argument from Morality - Debunked (William Lane Craig’s Moral Argument Refuted)" 

In this episode, Evan Minton responds to 6 objections that a popular atheist YouTuber raised in a YouTube video called "The Kalam Cosmological Argument - Debunked (The First Cause Argument - Refuted)"  

Atheists pride themselves on being "Free Thinkers", but if atheism, and particularly the naturalistic version of it is true, can they or anyone else really be free thinkers? The guest in this episode is Tim Stratton of FreeThinking Ministries ( www.freethinkingministries.com ) says that if naturalism is true, no one, be they atheist or theist, can be free thinkers. He defends an argument called Th...

Continuing from last week, Evan Minton will be talking about various logical fallacies that come up during discussions he's had when defending Christianity. Logical Fallacies are mistakes in thinking and reasoning, which renders an argument for a certain conclusion unreasonable. In this episode, Evan Minton talk about The Red Herring Fallacy, The Genetic Fallacy, Appeal To Emotion, Shifting The Bu...

Logical fallacies are mistakes in thinking and argumentation. When a fallacy occurs, one's argument is a failure, and one is unjustified in believing said argument's conclusion on the basis of said argument. To learn how to avoid falling for someone's fallacious argument and to avoid coming up with fallacious arguments on your own, you need to know what the list of fallacies are to better help spo...