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 Mar 20, 2023
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Moses got the Ten Commandments from God, smashed them on the Golden Calf, and then got a replacement set. But that second set doesn’t say what you might think they say.
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Monday Mar 27, 2023
The New Testament has far more manuscripts than any other ancient book, but this provides little to improve the reliability of our best New Testament reconstruction.
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Monday Apr 03, 2023
The Bible has close to a million words, but why so many? Why not, say, a thousand? Think about what a succinct manifesto from a real god would look like: not stories like all the other religions but what the god(s) want, details of the afterlife (if any), and how to behave.
Monday Apr 10, 2023
Monday Apr 10, 2023
Imagine World War III destroyed civilization, and our knowledge of both science and religion were lost. If humans gradually recreated civilization, they’d rediscover the exact same science that we know. Though they might recreate religion as well, there is nothing in our reality that would push them to recreate the same religions we know today.
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Of course Christianity is conservative—it’s a venerable institution that claims to already know the moral answers. But social improvement means change. If Christianity has the correct morality given by God, it should be driving that change. It should be pushing us on a dozen fronts to take the difficult but correct moral stance. It never does.
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Monday Apr 24, 2023
The First Commandment is a clue: “You shall have no other gods before me.” Not that there’s only one god, but that Yahweh must be your primary god. The Bible itself documents the gradual evolution from polytheism to monotheism.
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Monday Jun 05, 2023
The gospels tell of Jesus’s birth as the fulfillment of a virgin birth prophecy in Isaiah. But go back to Isaiah, and you’ll see that this chapter is talking about neither a future Messiah nor a virgin birth.
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Monday Jun 05, 2023
God had no problem making himself known in the Old Testament. He was a pillar of fire and smoke, he appeared to Moses, and Elijah summoned him in his battle against the priests of Baal. The most popular response is that God making himself known would insult our free will, but the apostles all saw Jesus. Did that make their belief counterfeit?
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Adults have a mature common sense that helps them reject nonsensical claims; including supernatural beliefs. Churches bypass this by getting their message into children. If religion were an adults-only activity like voting; driving; or drinking; how long would Christianity last?
Monday Jun 05, 2023
Monday Jun 05, 2023
You know the puzzle—behind one of three doors is a prize; and you pick one. The host opens one of the other doors; then gives you the option to switch. Do you? This popular puzzle has an interesting parallel to religion and the likelihood of picking the right door.