The Cerebral Faith Podcast

This is the conclusion of a 5 part series on the resurrection of Jesus. In this finale of the series, Evan Minton answers some questions that commonly come up during his discussions with skeptics on the historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus. "Why didn't Jesus appear to Pilate and the Pharisees?", "Why does Mark's gospel end with no post-mortem appearances?", "Why don't more historical...

When skeptics fail at finding a naturalistic theory to account for the minimal facts, they resort to a different tactic. In this episode, Mr. Minton responds to the argument that the resurrection of Jesus is so improbable, that the evidence given in favor of it is just simply not good enough to overcome that probability. This is known as "The Antecedent Probability Objection". Mr. Minton will argu...

This is part 3 of 3 of a series on the historical case for Jesus' resurrection. In part 2, Evan Minton used The Principles/Criteria Of Authenticity that he laid out in part 1 to come to the conclusion that 5 propositions are historically true; (1) Jesus died by crucifixion, (2) Jesus was found empty the following Sunday morning, (3) His disciples sincerely believed that Jesus appeared to them aliv...

In the previous episode, Mr. Minton explained the historical methodology he would be taking in defending certain facts about Jesus as actually being true, historical facts. He explained that he would be employing "The criteria of authenticity" to The New Testament just as non-Christian historians and scholars do in their examination of the historical Jesus. He then went on to argue that the histor...

This podcast episode is the beginning of a series in which Evan Minton makes a case that the Jesus of history and the Jesus of faith are the same Jesus. Minton argues that (1) Jesus claimed to be God,(2) died on the cross and (3) rose from the dead. In the first half of this episode he explains the methodology he'll be employing, as understanding the methodology is crucial to avoid misunderstandin...

Brian Godawa has been a professional writer and filmmaker for over 15 years. He is also an author, and his writings consist of both fiction and non-fiction. In this podcast episode, Mr. Minton interviews Brian Godawa on that novel series "Chronicles Of The Apocalypse"; which takes a preterist approach rather than a futurist one.   To see more of Godawa's work, visit www.godawa.com

Who is the anti-Christ? Who is the beast of Revelation? Many people over the past few decades have been identified as the anti-Christ such as Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Ronald Reagan, The Pope (or some future pope) and even Barack Obama! All of this speculation about who the anti-Christ or the beast is all hinge on the same presupposition: that the beast is yet to come. But what if that presuppo...

Jesus' sermon in Matthew 24, also known as the Olivet Discourse, is one of the many biblical passages that comes up during discussions of the end times. Most Christians however, presuppose that everything Jesus prophesies has not yet been fulfilled, it's still in our future. This makes some excited when blood moons occur, when they watch the news and see all of the turmoil in the world, the "wars...

In this week's episode, Mr. Minton reads aloud his paper "The Soteriological Case For Molinism". Molinism is a theological system that seeks to account for divine sovereignty and human freedom. Molinism is the view that God uses His knowledge of what any free creature would freely choose in any given circumstance to orchestrate every event that occurs without violating human freedom in the process...

Darwinian Evolution and The Bible's teaching of creation: are these two mutually exclusive? Many Christians and atheists think that they are. Michael Jones of Inspiring Philosophy does not. Jones holds to the view most commonly known as Theistic Evolution, and he debated his view with Kent Hovind back in January on Modern Day Debate's YouTube Channel. In this episode, Mr. Minton interviews Jones o...

If God is in control, how can human beings have free will? On the other hand, if human beings don't have free will, how can God hold us morally accountable for the things that we do? The Bible teaches that God is sovereign over all things but also that human being are genuinely free to make decisions. The Bible itself doesn't give us the answer of how these two biblical teachings can both be true....

This week's guest is David Parrish. He tells us of his incredible story of how Christian Apologetics not only saved his faith when he was wrestling with doubts, but how it also helped him get out of alcoholism and consequently saved his marriage! Additionally, Minton and Parrish talk about how local churches are failing to ground their congregations by neglecting the rich intellectual resources of...

Many people seem to be under the impression that to be a good scientist, you must be an atheist. The best scientists are atheists after all, right? When you think of scientists, names like Stephen Hawking, Laurence Krauss, and Neil DeGrasse Tyson come to mind. All these men of science are not also men of God. In this episode, Evan Minton interviews Rhyanna Rogers and Angela Fugate; two microbiolog...

After weeks of surveying Argument's For God's Existence, Evan Minton has come to the end doing a series on of the series. He finishes off by talking about The Ontological Argument For God's Existence which was first formulated by St. Anselm. However, Minton isn't fond of Anselm's version and instead defends a version of the argument formulated and defended by world famous philosopher Alvin Plantin...

Continuing in the series on arguments for God's Existence, Evan Minton addresses The Moral Argument for God's Existence. Mr. Minton argues that if God does not exist, then objective moral values and duties do not exist. However, he also argues that objective moral values and duties do exist. By modus tollens reasoning, it follows that God exists. 

In this episode, Evan Minton will talk about how improbable it is for our planet to be suitable for advanced life. The size of the Earth, the size of the moon, the size of the sun, the rotation speed of Earth, the amount of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere, and many other parameters had to come together to make our planet habitable. What is the best explanation of this? Did these things all come toget...

In this episode, Evan Minton goes over a scientific subject known as The Cosmic Fine-Tuning. The Laws of physics are so delicately balanced that if they were off by even a hair's breadth, no life of any kind could exist anywhere at all in the universe. What best accounts for this extraordinary feature of the universe? Physical necessity, chance, or intelligent design? 

This is part 2 of a 2 part episode on The Kalam Cosmological Argument for God's Existence. In the previous podcast episode, Evan Minton laid out the premises of the argument; (1) Whatever begins to exist has a cause, (2) The universe began to exist, (3) Therefore the universe has a cause, and explained why the type of cause has to be God. In this episode, Evan Minton will be addressing a myriad of...

Many would be surprised to know that there are good reasons to believe that God exists. You don't have to take God's existence on blind faith alone. There's evidence for God. The Kalam Cosmological Argument is one of them. This argument, initially formulated by the 11th century philosopher Al Ghazali and popularized by contemporary philosopher Dr. William Lane Craig, argues to the existence of a C...

This is the first episode of The Cerebral Faith Podcast! In this episode, your host Evan Minton explains what this podcast is about. The podcast is about Christian Apologetics; a defense of the truth of Christianity. Christianity meets the demands of the intellect, not just the demands of the heart. Mr. Minton also goes into who he is and how he got into the Christian Apologtics. Mr. Minton also t...