2-Minute Christianity

2-Minute Christianity is aimed at open-minded Christians who think that if Christianity is true, it can stand a little critique. Take off the training wheels with this approachable introduction to the debate about the truth of Christianity. Fifty short episodes introduce arguments for and against Christianity, the surprising things the Bible actually says, the plot holes in familiar stories, and the evolution of belief documented in the Bible itself. Find out what they didn’t teach you in Sunday school. With this video series you will become more knowledgeable about Christianity than most of the world’s Christians. You may find these ideas provocative or startling, but you won’t find them boring. If God wanted mindless faith, he wouldn’t have given you a mind. These are fifty big ideas every Christian should understand. Take the journey and see where it leads you.

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Episodes

Monday Oct 31, 2022

The medieval mappa mundi (“world map”) was a popular type of map that mixed history and science with mythology and Christianity. That this, and not an accurate map or encyclopedia, captured the imagination shows how Christianity, even when it had power, had no motivation to improve the lives of its followers.

Monday Nov 07, 2022

Christian apologists say that this passage looks like a creed developed just a few years after Jesus’s death.
Possible, but by the same logic, it could’ve been added to copies of Paul’s letter decades later. And if this is a creed, it’s just a faith statement and not an argument. Even if this suggests belief in the resurrection was early, it doesn’t argue that it was a historical event.

Monday Nov 14, 2022

Christianity claims to answer the Big Questions: Why are we here? or What is the purpose of life? or What happens after we die?
Yes, Christianity has answers, but where’s the evidence backing them up? Contrast with Science—it can’t answer everything, but when it does have answers, they’re worth listening to.

Monday Nov 21, 2022

The Design Argument sees a designer behind the complexity in DNA, but mere complexity doesn’t demand design. Designers follow a small number of guidelines—a design might need to optimize strength, minimize weight, be fast, and so on. One trait you’ll never see in a design is deliberate junk, but you find plenty of that in DNA. The Design Argument fails.

Monday Nov 28, 2022

During the American Civil War, the Southern pastors had the stronger slavery argument. American slavery had indentured servitude (temporary slavery) and slavery for life, and so did slavery in the Bible. God even set the rules.

Monday Dec 05, 2022

This seems like a trivial omission from the Bible, but it illustrates how the Bible provided no new science or technology. Soap is easy to make and, combined with basic principles of hygiene, it would have improved the lives of ancient Israelites. This illustrates how improving lives apparently wasn’t God’s goal.

Monday Dec 12, 2022

Many Christian apologists make historical arguments for Christianity: we have thousands of New Testament manuscripts, there was a small time gap from Jesus’s death to the original gospels, there was a small gap from original to our oldest copies, and so on. But if you find those truly compelling arguments, you should become a Mormon, since Mormonism handily beats Christianity’s record on every point.

Monday Dec 19, 2022

Is something good because God says so, or does God say so because it’s good? One way, morality is arbitrary and God could’ve made it something else. The other way, God isn’t the source of morality but is simply reporting to us. Neither makes God look good.

Monday Dec 26, 2022

Where can objective morality come from without God? The first problem is proving that objective morality exists since nothing needs objective morality to explain it. Answering questions of morality, purpose, and meaning then becomes like Dorothy’s ruby slippers—we’ve had the ability to find our versions of these all along.

Monday Jan 02, 2023

This argument states: Whatever begins to exist has a cause; the universe began to exist; therefore, the universe has a cause (God). But this argument doesn’t withstand a serious critique.

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