Lydia McGrew Podcast

The Lydia McGrew Podcast

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The goal: To take common sense about the Bible and make it rigorous. I'm an analytic philosopher, specializing in theory of knowledge. I've published widely in both classical and formal epistemology. On this channel I'm applying my work in the theory of knowledge to the books of the Bible, especially the Gospels, and to apologetics, the defense of Christianity. My aim is to bring a combination of scholarly rigor and common sense to these topics, providing the skeptic with well-considered reasons to accept Christianity and the believer with well-argued ways to defend it.

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Three Meanings of Meaning 25.11.2024 29:05

In this video I respond carefully to the unfortunate and incorrect comparison that Dr. Licona has recently made between Mark's hyperbolic language in Mark 1:5 (that all Jerusalem and Judea was coming out to be baptized by John) and the fact-changing literary devices that I have argued the Gospel authors did not use. Licona has literally said that Mark is "changing the facts" in that verse, which i...