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Charlie Kirk was Assassinated one week ago today... and now we are seeing the ramifications both evil and good coming from it. Join us as we unpack how to move forward as believers after the fact. There is a lot of noise out there - let's sift through it together. Check out this episode!

By now you've probably heard of the tragedy in Charlotte North Carolina as Decarlos Brown Jr. took the life of Iryna Zrutska (a Ukrainian refugee). But why did this happen? What should Christians think about the tragedy? How does this get fixed? Also, the team will talk about Charlie Kirk and his assassination and what we do next. Dr. Johnathan Pritchett joins Dr. Tim Stratton and Josh Klein to lament and discuss. 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamY

Dr. Tim Stratton and Josh Klein address a recent video by  @MindShift-Brandon  on 11 problems with free will that Christians don't want you to ask. Does he have some points? How WOULD/SHOULD Christians address these issues? Tim and Josh explain. Original Video: https://youtu.be/jsrj055tQ_U?si=qhBRnsZWlyjBM1Mf Dr. Tim Stratton and J.P. Moreland's paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/10/988 You Are Not Your Brain by Jeffery Schwartz and Rebecca Gladding: https://a.co/d/

We're back with another episode on Molinism! In this episode, Tim and I explain why the term "middle knowledge" is named as it is, as well as providing some more clarification on topics discussed in the previous episode. It's another action-packed and interesting episode of the Freethinking Podcast! One of my favorite things when talking about Molinism is to see the other person's face light up once they finally understand this deep and sophisticated doctrine. Unfortunately,

You've heard us talk about it quite a bit in previous episodes, so we thought it might be a good idea to explain just what Molinism actually is. Tim is one of the leading experts on Molinism, so you'll be getting a "Molinism education" from one of the best. But don't worry, if you don't understand it right away, we've got a few more episodes coming out dealing with Molinism. The doctrine of middle knowledge is an incredibly fruitful doctrine that lends itself and can help ex

We're finishing up the objections posed by the Messianic Manic on this week's episode. Safe to say, the Freethinking Argument has survived this manic attack unscathed and stronger for it. This has been a fun series to do. Even though the quality of objection wasn't terribly high, I think it's important to publicly show the objections for what they are. Sometimes, people can get discourage by the mere presence of an objection regardless of how powerful it is. Hopefully this v

We're continuing our series responding to the Messianic Manic's objections to the Freethinking Argument. This episode deals with what is probably the most substantive objection he raises, so we deal with it accordingly. Be prepared, this episode is fairly intense in terms of its philosophical content, but if you've listened to our other episodes on the Freethinking Argument, you'll be just fine. Don't forget to continue to share the show. We want to be able to reach more peo

I know we just talked about the Freethinking Argument a couple of episodes ago, but there's been a video making the rounds claiming to have debunked the argument. If you know Tim, he's not going to let that slide! In this episode, we interact with a YouTube video from a guy named the Messianic Manic. Needless to say, Tim doesn't let him off the hook! Hopefully, by the end of the podcast you'll see that these objections simply don't carry much weight. They're all based on mis

It's the final episode with Dr. Mike Licona where he answers more of your questions on the Gospels. He answers concerns regarding taking the Bible literally, the "I am" statements in the Gospels, as well as his personal outlook on Scripture after his research. These should all be of great interest to Christians, so I'm excited for you all to hear him respond. This has been an incredibly fun series of episodes to do. Tim and I would like to encourage you guys to read Dr. Lico

Mike Licona is back in this episode to answer some specific questions that members of our private Facebook group had in regard to his position on why there are differences in the Gospels. This led to another fantastic conversation that hopefully clarifies Dr. Licona's position even more. In this episode, you'll learn how Mike views the teachings of Jesus, why he believes we should look to Plutarch to understand why the Gospels were written the way they were, and a host of ot

We have another bonus episode for you guys, as we were fortunate enough to get Mike Licona on the show to talk about his work on why there are differences in the Gospels. As some of you might know, his position has received a bit of flak, specifically from a few individuals within the Christian apologetics community. We wanted to give Mike a chance to be heard and defend his position. This was an incredibly fun episode to record. Mike is an incredibly smart and likable perso

We have a special bonus episode for you guys on Sunday, something that's a little more "inside baseball" than usual. Today we have Brian Abasciano, a pastor, adjunct professor of New Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and President of the Society of Evangelical Arminians on the show with us. He responds to James White on his comments regarding whether or not the word "whoever" appears in John 3:16 in the original Greek. Brian has written an article on this ver

Finally, we're finishing up the moral argument for God's existence. In this episode, we talk about the second premise and conclusion, primarily focusing on defending the existence of objective moral values and duties. This premise isn't one that is typically denied, but it's a good idea to know how to respond to some objections. Very few people deny the objectivity of moral values and duties. It would mean things like the horrors committed by Joseph Stalin and the communists

This is turning into quite the series of episodes! We're finishing up this week with our interactions with Erik Wielenberg's proposed model for accommodating objective morality on an atheistic worldview. One of the points Tim mentions is that, on Wielenberg's view, even if successful, morality doesn't seem to matter! Sure, perhaps his model can accommodate objective morality (though we wouldn't even go that far), but there's no "or else" that makes these proposed "ethical fa

We're back with the second episode discussing the moral argument for God's existence. Tim deals with a specific objection posed by Erik Wielenberg to the first premise of this argument. Wielenberg is an atheist philosopher at Depauw University, and he purports to have a model by which the atheist can hold to objective morality. Needless to say, this episode was quite interesting! The objection we talked about in this episode isn't one you're likely to come across in 95% of y

The Moral Argument for God's existence is one of the most powerful that the Christian has. Tim and I begin discussion of the first premise of the argument in this episode. We talk about Sam Harris' attempt to ground objective morality in human flourishing and conclude that this attempt is unsuccessful. The great thing about this type of argument is that it's quite simple to learn how to defend. Most people have some sort of intuition about morality, and thus it's easy to fin

Finally, we've reached the conclusion of the Kalam cosmological argument. This is Tim's favorite part, as there is so much we can learn about God merely from the conclusion that the universe has a cause. Tim walks you through all of the characteristics of the cause of the universe, which is like discovering God! The Kalam is such a simple and powerful argument for God's existence. It may seem rather insignificant at first, but after one understands what exactly the cause of

Listen closely to this one, as it's very easy to get lost while defending the second premise of the Kalam. Fortunately for you, Tim takes you through exactly what you need to know for 95% of all of your interactions using this argument. This premise of the Kalam is a tough one for me to defend, as I am not very good with a lot of the science that is talked about in support of it. But what I love about this argument is that, we, as Christians, are arguing in the same way as t

Yes, it's the Kalam cosmological argument this week! It's one of the simplest and most powerful arguments we as Christians can use. It also happens to be one of Tim's "Mount Rushmore" arguments, so it's definitely an important one to understand and have in your toolbelt. Tim gives a fairly comprehensive defense of the first premise in this episode. He takes you through most of the objections you might hear when running this argument, so you will be well prepared to defend yo

It's the final episode on the FAAN! Don't worry, if you haven't listened to the first two episodes on the argument, we recap a bit of what we talked about. But seriously, you need to listen to those episodes (come on, they're called parts 1 & 2 for a reason!). We've reached the conclusions of the argument that have some very interesting consequences. This argument deductively proves that humans possess libertarian free will. We truly are free to choose ! Not only do most ath