Christianity Under Fire - The Berean Search App Fires Back

Christianity Under Fire - The Berean Search App Fires Back

Today we go for the Christian jugular. We asked the Berean search app some of the toughest questions about Christianity. Today’s podcast is Straight Up Challenges and Straight Up Answers to Christianity. The challenges. * The New Testament is loaded with contradictions. [https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/suxhajj7cbhzhep3/Apparent_Contradictions_in_the_New_Testament9v4c0.pdf] * Challenging the necessity of Baptism [https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7mte2uydtjamuuc3/The_Need_to_Be_Baptized7grpt.pdf] * And the validity of infant Baptism [https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/xzcw7acqt2kgfgk6/Baptism.pdf] * Challenging Christian Exclusivity [https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/gc969ck72twmaq3r/Christian_Exclusivity708ef.pdf] * Science Disproves the Bible [https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7ed2fp7jf33gce48/Science_disproves_the_Bible6j1hp.pdf] * Challenge to the Deity of Christ [https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/38arrf6tk4mvn4p5/The_Deity_of_Christauobu.pdf] * Why is there Evil and suffering in the world [https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/c9r9ybumwkqa3gvn/The_Existence_of_Suffering_and_Evil6j7gu.pdf] * Challenging the resurrection of Christ [https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/azdtd4amwfbb3enb/The_Resurrection_of_Christ72h2k.pdf] * Challenging the Trinity. [https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/fj3b8kwe3ejiei5v/The_Trinity9il8y.pdf] Each challenge above is linked to the PDF produced by the Berean Search App.  The Berean Search app was remarkably direct and concise on all of these points. We also found that by clicking “Show Supporting Passages” and printing to PDF, the app created a wonderful bible study page that could be used in your small Christian groups. Accessing the app has been made easier. You can now navigate using these shortcuts to get to the search: BereanSearch.app (https://bereansearch.app [https://bereansearch.app]) or BereanSearchApp.com (https://bereansearchapp.com [https://bereansearchapp.com]) (both will get you to the same page)   Our challenge to you is to try the Berean Search app for yourself. See if you can trip it up! And if you can, let us know! We'll jump into the text with you and figure out what is misfiring!  Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/christianity-under-fire-the-berean-search-app-fires-back/ [https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/christianity-under-fire-the-berean-search-app-fires-back/]

Julian - The Hollow Summit of Artificial Love

I created this short story to make a point. >> Julian  [https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/n28u287a5jmkb4ps/Julian.pdf] I would recommend you read the story first before listening to this podcast. Some who follow this podcast will get it; most people won't get it without the context. Hand the story to someone else but not the commentary (which I'll also post here). This podcast delves into the creative process behind developing the story, and the commentary is a word-for-word discussion with AI to write the story.  The story itself, is developed through an interactive process with AI. It is NOT prompt engineering, as so many want to think of AI creation.  This is kind of like “the making of” documentaries you see about a movie. I wanted readers to see the process, to understand where the ideas come from and how, even though the story is written by AI, the writing is a vehicle driven by a very real human. This is why Greg Newell (me) claims authorship in his article, or, at the very least, tags them with “Created, Directed, Produced, Edited by Greg Newell”. Read the story first. (Or hand it to someone else.) The common response I get with only having read the story is: "I don't get it". The discussion is the meat...what it’s about, the nature of the characters. Walk through the story and then move into the discussion of how the story was created using A.I. discussion. The point is that writing like this is a reflection of the author’s thoughts… exactly the thing A.I. is good at. This is, I believe, the right way to engage with A.I. Too many advertisements for book writing are pushing for “Submit an idea - Let AI produce a book” all in like five minutes and without any interaction whatsoever, a book is produced and sometimes published before it is ever read or edited by a single human. People are blogging the same way. Blogs are being posted as if they were written by a human but they’ve never seen human eyes before they were posted. A simple Google search reveals that AI and bot-generated content now make up over 50% of published articles and account for the majority of all internet traffic. Let’s face it, AI is here to stay. This story was written as a warning. It will not land that way for many, if read by itself. However if that story accompanies the “the making of”, the story now brings a new revelation that should stop a person in his tracks and want to pick up the phone and call a real person. At least I hope that’s what it does. The Story: JULIAN [https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/n28u287a5jmkb4ps/Julian.pdf] The Raw Creative Process and Commentary: The Making of the Story - Julian [https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/s8p8v2nza6983y3a/The_Making_of_Julian7yq96.pdf] Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/julian-the-hollow-summit-of-artificial-love/ [https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/julian-the-hollow-summit-of-artificial-love/]

NOT SO FAST! - The correct posture for biblical fasting.

I saw this video, “The Real Reason Fasting Attracts God,” and fed the transcript into the Berean filter to isolate the claims that overstepped the concept of fasting. I’ve always had this question about fasting, so today I used my quiet time to look at the texts called out in the video, to ignore conclusions that sometimes seemed overreaching, and ultimately to establish my own framework for fasting. Notes for Not So Fast [https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/myjf6b2f3ysq5d4a/Man_Doth_Not_Live_by_Bread_Onlybcv7v.pdf] Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/not-so-fast-the-correct-posture-for-biblical-fasting/

The Deception Spectrum - The Hidden Battle for Moral Jurisdiction

A great sermon always leads to a good conversation after church. Then pizza : ). Then home to feed and let the dogs out. But the subject never left my brain. I took a motorcycle ride on which the sermon kept playing back in my head. So back home in quiet time I found myself pondering how the serpent deceived Eve so easily. There was something there nagging at me. That led to the article you have in the source material: “The Deception Spectrum”. Note to the Deception Spectrum [https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ey5tgbtpps5rb8i3/The_Deception_Spectrumbct32.pdf] Episode Link:

Whether Those Things Were So

If you have followed this podcast for some time, you might detect some discrepancies. And you would be right. I’m not what many would call a seasoned Christian. My journey as a Christian has been but a few short years. Perhaps my life was preparing me for the journey, only God can say, because when I finally embarked on this journey, it was what many would describe as fervent, zealous - even fanatical if you ask some. I have a “four to eight” program (Go to bed at 4 PM, get up at 4 AM, study until 8 AM, and then start the workday) that allowed me to study deeply without encroaching on my already hectic business life. Though some days, I’d break those rules and consume the whole day studying biblical concepts and passages. I couldn’t put it down, and I still can’t. I’ve read more in the past 4 years than I did in the prior 40. And what I love the most is that I’ve barely scratched the surface. And what I regret the most is that I did not discover this sooner! That said, today I landed on a video from Jack Hibbs. Jack is one of the online pastors that I like a lot but on the subject of Rapture, I’ve come to disagree with. Truth be told, if I ignored every online resource that believed in something I didn’t believe in, then the landscape of online resources would diminish quickly. The point is not to argue with Jack about this particular topic, though I certainly do that in the source material I’ve included. The point is that there are some things in the church that it’s OK to disagree on. There are some things that you absolutely must agree on, and the correct posture is to know the difference. Notes for Whether Those Things Were So [https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/zrtbbuy75ju53vwx/whether-those-things-were-so.pdf] Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/whether-those-things-were-so/ [https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/whether-those-things-were-so/]