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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Monday Jan 09, 2023
Monday Jan 09, 2023
Collect the biographical details about Jesus from Paul’s writings, and you’d have no more than a paragraph. Paul tells of no healing miracles or indeed any miracles at all. He reports no parables or indeed any teaching at all. No virgin birth, no Sermon on the Mount, no public ministry, no baptism, and so on. This “Gospel of Paul” bears scant resemblance to the actual gospels.
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Monday Jan 16, 2023
The Abraham and Isaac story reveals fragments of a darker version—a version in which Abraham came down alone. Several other stories in the Old Testament also show God demanding human sacrifice.
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Historians do impressive detective work piecing together the fragments of the New Testament, but a simple thought experiment highlights the limitations of their wizardry and our confidence in the Bible.
Monday Jan 30, 2023
Monday Jan 30, 2023
This chapter is famously cited as an Old Testament prophecy of Jesus. But explore the chapter in detail, and you’ll find other verses mixed in that don’t fit with the Jesus story. The suffering servant mentioned is actually Israel, not Jesus.
Monday Feb 06, 2023
Monday Feb 06, 2023
A parable of a mathematician and a theologian show that the atheist worldview stands on its own without anything from the Christian worldview.
Monday Feb 13, 2023
Monday Feb 13, 2023
No evidence supports the idea that logic comes from God. Could God have made 2 + 2 = 9? If so, we need evidence, and if not, God is bound by an external logic, just like the rest of us.
Monday Feb 20, 2023
Monday Feb 20, 2023
Apologists like to point to women finding the empty tomb. “Unreliable” women wouldn’t have had this crucial role in the story unless it were true; they say. But consider women’s role in this society, and it couldn’t have been anyone but women.
Monday Feb 27, 2023
Monday Feb 27, 2023
We find God lying to Adam and Eve and (indirectly) to King Ahab. Several times he hardened hearts to prevent people from avoiding suffering. If he’s done this before; does this make God unreliable today?
Monday Mar 06, 2023
Monday Mar 06, 2023
Christian universities and hospitals were pioneers in Europe, but their guiding light was Christianity rather than reason. These early universities were religious institutions, and, without modern medicine, the hospitals could offer little more than comfort.
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Imagine a family tree of languages. Finding a spot for English would be easy, but for Klingon it would be hard. Now imagine a family tree of religions. Does early Yahweh worship fit in easily (like English), or is it otherworldly (like Klingon)?