Ep 115 – Rant Chat

So the bonus episode today has already gotten a bit of a mixed response, which is fine. I record all my episodes more for myself than the audience, and this more than most episodes was like that. But, for those who sat through a full hour of my groundless, poorly formed opinions, with opinions of your own, this is a good place to chat about it. Critical thoughts are invited, though of course you are also free to tell me how I am perfectly correct in all my opinions if you genuinely think that lol.

It has actually been a few months since I put that episode together, and even with fresh eyes looking back on my notes, there are already a few things that I would perhaps adjust, mostly in terms of focus more than anything else. Shortly after I recorded that, a Youtube pastor I listen to just coincidentally was pushing against people who put anything at all above or equal to scripture, either personal “holy ghost” experience or the “book of nature”, or of course those who think that the various human hands involved in the bible can be pitted against each other. The question of how to resolve disputes between A) our natural observations, B) Books of scripture, C) potentially contradictory scripture passages and D) my own personal religious experience is one that has been bothering me for a bit, and I am already unsure that my conclusions in this episode, which was mostly put together looking specifically at history and scripture rather than larger theological issues, are quite correct. Some would say that at least some of those 4 elements are incapable of disagreement, some would even say that the first three are always in harmony and the fourth counts for objectively nothing, but I am not sure that is quite correct either.

Anyway, free-for-all here in the comments, all things will be approved even if they are really mean, but maybe don’t be mean to any other commenters, just me, and be civil to each other otherwise.