Episode 0 - Introducing the Bible Heresies and Orthodoxies Podcast

In this episode I introduce the Bible Heresies and Orthodoxies podcast. We discuss the Full Testament Concept of reading the Bible and begin laying the foundation of the questions we will examine. What is the nature of Christ? Not all the Church Fathers agreed on whether he was human, divine, both or something else entirely. What exactly is the Devil. Did you know, that despite what Hollywood says, the Bible says that he is not an Archangel? What does the Bible say about the Flood of Noah and its extent over the earth? What can science tell us about the nature of God's creation, and how can it illuminate the scriptures? How did the Bible take on the form it is in now? The Bible was not a monolith of sacred scriptures handed down unchanged. It changed over the centuries and there were at least 4 different versions and canons of the Old Testament at the time of Christ. Did you know that the apostles and Christ reference books as authoritative scriptures that were later rejected by the Church? All of these questions and many more will be examined as we go through the history of the Holy Bible and look at what the early church taught and compare it to what is taught in modern days. And we will look at what science, the scriptures and history can tell us about many of the dogmas and traditions the various churches proclaimed to be sacred, often in direct conflict to what the scriptures themselves said. This will be an in depth dive into the scriptures not just of the Second Testament (New Testament) but of the Septuagint, Dead Sea Scrolls, Masoretic Texts and even the Ethiopian Texts as we scour the First Testament for the connections and revelations to understanding the Second Testament. And most importantly, we will examine the scriptures themselves and hear what God has to say about how there is no Old and New, but one unified testament in two parts, and we will see what God says about the things that have caused controversy in Christianity since the first centruy, even if it shatters thousands of years of church tradition. I hope you will join me on this journey into the Word of God that will be unflinching and unapologetic, a journey into the Bible like none other.