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    Historical Context - Episode 11
    Jon Topping
    • Jun 13, 2020
    • 11 min

    Historical Context - Episode 11

    Ever wonder why Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey and not a horse? Or why slavery in the Bible is different than we think of it?
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    How to Read Your Bible - Episode 10
    Jon Topping
    • May 27, 2020
    • 1 min

    How to Read Your Bible - Episode 10

    The Bible is an OLD book. How am I supposed to understand it? Where do I start? This week Jon begins a mini-series on Bible reading tips.
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    The Human Element of Scripture - Episode 9
    Jon Topping
    • May 8, 2020
    • 11 min

    The Human Element of Scripture - Episode 9

    What if what the skeptics said actually confirmed what we knew about the Bible?
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    Helpful Details in the New Testament - Episode 8
    Jon Topping
    • Apr 24, 2020
    • 14 min

    Helpful Details in the New Testament - Episode 8

    Details in the New Testament support that it was written by people during that time, in those places, & who actually observed those events!
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    New Testament Authorship: An Early Understanding - Episode 7
    Jon Topping
    • Apr 10, 2020
    • 13 min

    New Testament Authorship: An Early Understanding - Episode 7

    Are the gospels pseudepigraphical (texts whose claimed author is not the true author)?
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    Eyewitness Testimonies - Episode 6
    Jon Topping
    • Mar 27, 2020
    • 9 min

    Eyewitness Testimonies - Episode 6

    Are eyewitness testimonies even a good thing to have?
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    Historiography 3: Motivation, Explaining the Confusing, and Double Dissimilarity - Episode 5
    Jon Topping
    • Mar 13, 2020
    • 15 min

    Historiography 3: Motivation, Explaining the Confusing, and Double Dissimilarity - Episode 5

    Use the tools uses Author Motivation, Coherency through Other Events, and Double Similarity to prove the reliability of the New Testament.
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    Historiography 2: Enemy Attestation, Aramaic Substrata, and Independent Sources - Episode 4
    Jon Topping
    • Mar 2, 2020
    • 13 min

    Historiography 2: Enemy Attestation, Aramaic Substrata, and Independent Sources - Episode 4

    Tools to test the reliability of the New Testament: enemy attestation, Aramaic substrata, and independent sources.
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    Historiography 1: Early Reports, Embarrassment, and Coherence - Episode 3
    Jon Topping
    • Feb 14, 2020
    • 12 min

    Historiography 1: Early Reports, Embarrassment, and Coherence - Episode 3

    Timing, coherency, and embarrassment are three historiographical methods of determining the reliability of a document’s content.
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    Jon Topping
    • Feb 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    Spiritual Warfare-The Forgotten Battle

    The concept of spiritual warfare is foreign to most people. We live in a culture that largely ignores the spiritual world, and yet, it's sti
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    Jon Topping
    • Feb 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    Should We Submit to Our Government?

    It's obviously quite commonplace to have problems with the governments we live under. Should we rebel, or submit? Where does trying to bring
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    Jon Topping
    • Feb 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    God's Sovereignty

    One of two talks addressing the issue of God's sovereignty. While quite similar, this talk was given as a sermon on a Sunday morning....
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    Jon Topping
    • Feb 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    Developing Virtue

    The concept of virtue is not really heard of anymore, but it's a critical aspect of what it means to be human.
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    Jon Topping
    • Feb 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    What Is The Christian God Like?

    Jon Topping spoke at an interfaith dialogue, representing Christianity. The other two speakers were from the atheist/agnostic/humanist...
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    Jon Topping
    • Feb 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    Evidence That Christianity Is True

    Looking at the historical data, a good argument can be made that Jesus actually did historically rise from the dead.
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    The Reliability of the New Testament - Episode 2
    Jon Topping
    • Jan 30, 2020
    • 8 min

    The Reliability of the New Testament - Episode 2

    Correcting the misinformation and assumptions that inform the views many people have towards the trustworthiness of the bible.
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    Why Do I Believe? - Episode 1
    Jon Topping
    • Jan 24, 2020
    • 10 min

    Why Do I Believe? - Episode 1

    Apologist Jon Topping introduces the topic of the podcast - the believability and basics of the Christian faith. He explores how he personal
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    Jon Topping
    • Jun 27, 2019
    • 1 min

    Interfaith Dialogue: What’s different about Christianity?

    A while ago I had the privilege of being a part of an interfaith dialogue. I knew the audience would be almost entirely Muslims, so I...
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    Jon Topping
    • Jun 27, 2019
    • 1 min

    Why does God allow evil?

    One of the most common questions people ask about Christianity is why God allows so much suffering and evil in the world. In this talk I...
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    Jon Topping
    • Feb 27, 2019
    • 1 min

    Does God predestine people to hell?

    There’s a controversial topic within Christianity, which gets some Christians intellectually stimulated, others confused and doubtful,...
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