God, TikTok, and the Age of Religious Misinformation with Dr. Kevin Carnahan (Part 2)

In Part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Kevin Carnahan, we go from TikTok theology to the deep end of the biblical pool.Chalin and Kevin dig into some of the big, nerdy questions that fuel both faith and conspiracy theories:Is “Elohim” really a plural word—“gods” or “the powerful ones”—and what does that mean for how we read the Old Testament?Was YHWH originally one god among many in a divine council, like we see hinted at in Psalm 82?How do stories like Noah’s Flood echo older Mesopotamian myths—and does that undermine scripture, or give us a richer sense of how these texts came to be?Along the way, they talk about what makes a claim fringe vs. faithful, how scholarship actually works, and whether admitting that the Bible sits inside a larger ancient Near Eastern story makes belief weaker or more honest.If Part 1 was about recognizing bad religious information, Part 2 is about what to do when the good information is more complicated than the Sunday School version.(This is Part 2 of a two-part series with Dr. Kevin Carnahan. If you haven’t heard Part 1 yet—start there.)