Throughout history, humans have looked for hidden meanings behind dreams. But in this modern, scientific age, surely we don't believe dreams could hold spiritual significance anymore? God wouldn't speak to people through a medium as unreliable as dreams ... right? This season of Undeceptions is sponsored by Zondervan Academic. Get discounts on MasterLectures video courses and exclusive samples of their books at zondervanacademic.com/undeceptions Visit undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Email the show with your comments/feedback: admin@undeceptions.com Undeceptions is the flagship podcast of Undeceptions.com: Letting the truth out. Theme music: JS Bach's Cello Suites, Prelude, performed by the Undeceptions Band. Hosted by John Dickson Produced by Kaley Payne Directed by Mark Hadley Audio Editing by Richard Hamwi Social Media by Sophie Hawkshaw Administration by Lyndie Leviston Writer and researcher: Alasdair Belling Online Librarian: Siobhan McGuinness Copyright Undeceptions Ltd 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is there a place for pessimism in the Christian life? Is Halloween evil? Does God have 'mothering' characteristics, too? Why won't there be marriage in heaven? Yes, it's this season's Q&A episode, and John is having a crack at a heap of listener questions. This season of Undeceptions is sponsored by Zondervan Academic. Get discounts on MasterLectures video courses and exclusive samples of their books at zondervanacademic.com/undeceptions Visit undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Email the show with your comments/feedback: admin@undeceptions.com Undeceptions is the flagship podcast of Undeceptions.com: Letting the truth out. Theme music: JS Bach's Cello Suites, Prelude, performed by the Undeceptions Band. Hosted by John Dickson Produced by Kaley Payne Directed by Mark Hadley Audio Editing by Richard Hamwi Social Media by Sophie Hawkshaw Administration by Lyndie Leviston Writer and researcher: Alasdair Belling Online Librarian: Siobhan McGuinness Copyright Undeceptions Ltd 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If we can make sense of our faith, is it really faith at all, or just a projection of what we want? Soren Kierkegaard, one of the most celebrated philosophers of the 19th century, asked the same question. With the help of two experts, we'll untangle his "answers" and discover how to take a leap of faith. This season of Undeceptions is sponsored by Zondervan Academic. Get discounts on MasterLectures video courses and exclusive samples of their books at zondervanacademic.com/undeceptions Visit undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Email the show with your comments/feedback: admin@undeceptions.com Undeceptions is the flagship podcast of Undeceptions.com: Letting the truth out. Theme music: JS Bach's Cello Suites, Prelude, performed by the Undeceptions Band. Hosted by John Dickson Produced by Kaley Payne Directed by Mark Hadley Audio Editing by Richard Hamwi Social Media by Sophie Hawkshaw Administration by Lyndie Leviston Writer and researcher: Alasdair Belling Online Librarian: Siobhan McGuinness Copyright Undeceptions Ltd 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Bible uses a very "human" way to communicate God's word: letter writing. But how do we know these letters - mostly written by the Apostle Paul - really are God's word? How could it be that the divine would speak through simple mail - and how can we trust it? This season of Undeceptions is sponsored by Zondervan Academic. Get discounts on MasterLectures video courses and exclusive samples of their books at zondervanacademic.com/undeceptions Visit undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Email the show with your comments/feedback: admin@undeceptions.com Undeceptions is the flagship podcast of Undeceptions.com: Letting the truth out. Theme music: JS Bach's Cello Suites, Prelude, performed by the Undeceptions Band. Hosted by John Dickson Produced by Kaley Payne Directed by Mark Hadley Audio Editing by Richard Hamwi Social Media by Sophie Hawkshaw Administration by Lyndie Leviston Writer and researcher: Alasdair Belling Online Librarian: Siobhan McGuinness Copyright Undeceptions Ltd 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In memory of Timothy James Keller (1950-2023). This season of Undeceptions is sponsored by Zondervan Academic. Get discounts on MasterLectures video courses and exclusive samples of their books at zondervanacademic.com/undeceptions Visit undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Email the show with your comments/feedback: admin@undeceptions.com Undeceptions is the flagship podcast of Undeceptions.com: Letting the truth out. Theme music: JS Bach's Cello Suites, Prelude, performed by the Undeceptions Band. Hosted by John Dickson Produced by Kaley Payne Directed by Mark Hadley Audio Editing by Richard Hamwi Social Media by Sophie Hawkshaw Administration by Lyndie Leviston Writer and researcher: Alasdair Belling Online Librarian: Siobhan McGuiness Copyright Undeceptions Ltd 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is nature inherently valuable if there is no God? According to one scientist, without faith, that's an almost impossible question to answer. But if there is a design to it all? That changes everything - including how we should treat the natural world. This season of Undeceptions is sponsored by Zondervan Academic. Get discounts on MasterLectures video courses and exclusive samples of their books at zondervanacademic.com/undeceptions Visit undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Email the show with your comments/feedback: admin@undeceptions.com Undeceptions is the flagship podcast of Undeceptions.com: Letting the truth out. Theme music: JS Bach's Cello Suites, Prelude, performed by the Undeceptions Band. Hosted by John Dickson Produced by Kaley Payne Directed by Mark Hadley Audio Editing by Richard Hamwi Social Media by Sophie Hawkshaw Administration by Lyndie Leviston Writer and researcher: Alasdair Belling Online Librarian: Siobhan McGuiness Copyright Undeceptions Ltd 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apathy has seeped into every part of society. We've become a "Seinfeldian culture"; alive to the trivial, and numb to the meaningful. How can we find ways to care more, and how might Christianity's history of grappling with apathy help us, whatever we believe? This season of Undeceptions is sponsored by Zondervan Academic. Get discounts on MasterLectures video courses and exclusive samples of their books at zondervanacademic.com/undeceptions Visit undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Email the show with your comments/feedback: admin@undeceptions.com Undeceptions is the flagship podcast of Undeceptions.com: Letting the truth out. Theme music: JS Bach's Cello Suites, Prelude, performed by the Undeceptions Band. Hosted by John Dickson Produced by Kaley Payne Directed by Mark Hadley Audio Editing by Richard Hamwi Social Media by Sophie Hawkshaw Administration by Lyndie Leviston Writer and researcher: Alasdair Belling Online Librarian: Siobhan McGuiness Copyright Undeceptions Ltd 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dorothy L. Sayers was much more than a celebrated detective novelist - she was a Christian playwright and author who brought the message of the Gospels to millions of people in everyday, easy-to-understand language. A true Undeceiver, it's high time we knew more about her. This season of Undeceptions is sponsored by Zondervan Academic. Get discounts on MasterLectures video courses and exclusive samples of their books at zondervanacademic.com/undeceptions Visit undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Email the show with your comments/feedback: admin@undeceptions.com Undeceptions is the flagship podcast of Undeceptions.com: Letting the truth out. Theme music: JS Bach's Cello Suites, Prelude, performed by the Undeceptions Band. Hosted by John Dickson Produced by Kaley Payne Directed by Mark Hadley Audio Editing by Richard Hamwi Social Media by Sophie Hawkshaw Administration by Lyndie Leviston Writer and researcher: Alasdair Belling Online Librarian: Siobhan McGuiness Copyright Undeceptions Ltd 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There aren’t many parts of the Bible that excite the imagination more than its thrilling climax in the book of Revelation. Amidst the imagery, fantasy and controversy, how do we sort truth from fiction? This season of Undeceptions is sponsored by Zondervan Academic. Get discounts on MasterLectures video courses and exclusive samples of their books at zondervanacademic.com/undeceptions Visit undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Email the show with your comments/feedback: admin@undeceptions.com Undeceptions is the flagship podcast of Undeceptions.com: Letting the truth out. Theme music: JS Bach's Cello Suites, Prelude, performed by the Undeceptions Band. Hosted by John Dickson Produced by Kaley Payne Directed by Mark Hadley Audio Editing by Richard Hamwi Social Media by Sophie Hawkshaw Administration by Lyndie Leviston Writer and researcher: Alasdair Belling Online Librarian: Siobhan McGuiness Copyright Undeceptions Ltd 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is there room for the supernatural and the advancing world of medicine? According to some scientists - absolutely! This season of Undeceptions is sponsored by Zondervan Academic. Get discounts on MasterLectures video courses and exclusive samples of their books at zondervanacademic.com/undeceptions Visit undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Email the show with your comments/feedback: admin@undeceptions.com Undeceptions is the flagship podcast of Undeceptions.com: Letting the truth out. Theme music: JS Bach's Cello Suites, Prelude, performed by the Undeceptions Band. Hosted by John Dickson Produced by Kaley Payne Directed by Mark Hadley Audio Editing by Richard Hamwi Social Media by Sophie Hawkshaw Administration by Lyndie Leviston Writer and researcher: Alasdair Belling Online Librarian: Siobhan McGuiness Copyright Undeceptions Ltd 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An hour with acclaimed speaker and church leader Beth Moore. This season of Undeceptions is sponsored by Zondervan Academic. Get discounts on MasterLectures video courses and exclusive samples of their books at zondervanacademic.com/undeceptions Visit the undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Email the show with your comments / feedback: admin@undeceptions.com Undeceptions is the flagship podcast of Undeceptions.com: Letting the truth out. Theme music: JS Bach's Cello Suites, Prelude, performed by the Undeceptions Band. Hosted by John Dickson Produced by Kaley Payne Directed by Mark Hadley Audio Editing by Richard Hamwi Social Media by Sophie Hawkshaw Administration by Lyndie Leviston Writer and researcher: Alasdair Belling Online Librarian: Siobhan McGuiness Copyright Undeceptions Ltd 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Introducing The Venerable Bede: Father of English history and the most brilliant polymath you've never heard of. This season of Undeceptions is sponsored by Zondervan Academic. Get discounts on MasterLectures video courses and exclusive samples of their books at zondervanacademic.com/undeceptions Visit the undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Email the show with your comments / feedback: admin@undeceptions.com Undeceptions is the flagship podcast of Undeceptions.com: Letting the truth out. Theme music: JS Bach's Cello Suites, Prelude, performed by the Undeceptions Band. Hosted by John Dickson Produced by Kaley Payne Directed by Mark Hadley Audio Editing by Richard Hamwi Social Media by Sophie Hawkshaw Administration by Lyndie Leviston Writer and researcher: Alasdair Belling Online Librarian: Siobhan McGuiness Copyright Undeceptions Ltd 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why did Jesus have to die? Why did it have to be such a violent death? And what on earth does the death of Jesus on a cross such a long time ago have to do with us today? This season of Undeceptions is sponsored by Zondervan Academic. Get discounts on MasterLectures video courses and exclusive samples of their books at zondervanacademic.com/undeceptions Visit the undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Email the show with your comments / feedback: admin@undeceptions.com Undeceptions is the flagship podcast of Undeceptions.com: Letting the truth out. Theme music: JS Bach's Cello Suites, Prelude, performed by the Undeceptions Band. Hosted by John Dickson Produced by Kaley Payne Directed by Mark Hadley Audio Editing by Richard Hamwi Social Media by Sophie Hawkshaw Administration by Lyndie Leviston Writer and researcher: Alasdair Belling Online Librarian: Siobhan McGuiness Copyright Undeceptions Ltd 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is there still something to celebrate about the Reformation, or is it, as many claim, the root of Christian division and conflict? This season of Undeceptions is sponsored by Zondervan Academic. Get discounts on MasterLectures video courses and exclusive samples of their books at zondervanacademic.com/undeceptions Visit the undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Email the show with your comments / feedback: admin@undeceptions.com Undeceptions is the flagship podcast of Undeceptions.com: Letting the truth out. Theme music: JS Bach's Cello Suites, Prelude, performed by the Undeceptions Band. Hosted by John Dickson Produced by Kaley Payne Directed by Mark Hadley Audio Editing by Richard Hamwi Social Media by Sophie Hawkshaw Administration by Lyndie Leviston Writer and researcher: Alasdair Belling Online Librarian: Siobhan McGuiness Copyright Undeceptions Ltd 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Reformation: one of the greatest ruptures in European history, a rupture that permanently split the church, triggered wars, created new city-states, and even led, in the opinion of many experts, to the Enlightenment, Science, and the secularization of the West. It's such a big deal we’re going to take two whole episodes to examine it—and still only scratch the surface. How did one man go from a pious local friar in an obscure backwater town to the leader of a global movement that ripped Christianity in two (and then three, then four, and ultimately thousands of Protestant denominations!). And what is the real legacy of this thing we call The Reformation? This season of Undeceptions is sponsored by Zondervan Academic. Get discounts on MasterLectures video courses and exclusive samples of their books at zondervanacademic.com/undeceptions Visit the undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Email the show with your comments / feedback: admin@undeceptions.com Undeceptions is the flagship podcast of Undeceptions.com: Letting the truth out. Theme music: JS Bach's Cello Suites, Prelude, performed by the Undeceptions Band. Hosted by John Dickson Produced by Kaley Payne Directed by Mark Hadley Audio Editing by Richard Hamwi Social Media by Sophie Hawkshaw Administration by Lyndie Leviston Writer and researcher: Alasdair Belling Online Librarian: Siobhan McGuiness Copyright Undeceptions Ltd 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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This episode of Undeceptions is sponsored by Zondervan Academic's Masterlectures. Get 50% off your first three month subscription with the code 'Undeceptions50'. Visit the undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Email the show with your comments / feedback: admin@undeceptions.com Undeceptions is the flagship podcast of Undeceptions.com: Letting the truth out. Theme music: JS Bach's Cello Suites, Prelude, performed by the Undeceptions Band. Hosted by John Dickson Produced by Kaley Payne Directed by Mark Hadley Audio Editing by Richard Hamwi Social Media by Sophie Hawkshaw Administration by Lyndie Leviston Writer and researcher: Alasdair Belling Online Librarian: Siobhan McGuiness Copyright Undeceptions Ltd 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode of Undeceptions is sponsored by Zondervan Academic's Masterlectures. Get 50% off your first three month subscription with the code 'Undeceptions50'. QUESTIONS Why did Jesus come during the Ancient period? I get why Jesus came (to fulfill God’s promises and save the world etc.) but why the specific time period and place? Why didn’t Jesus come in say, the medieval era? Or the 1900s? Why was it ancient Rome? In ‘The Flood’ episode, you talk of the story of the flood as a piece of ‘high art’ that should be understood as a retelling of stories that existed in the cultural climate. But would the ancient audience have thought like this or take it at face value as though they were real events that really happened? Do you believe that Adam and Eve are historical figures? In the episode called ‘Global Christianity’, you mention the missionary impulse in Judaism: in the NT book of Acts we meet people who are described as ‘God fearers’. How many ‘God fearers’ who weren’t Jewish were around in the first century? And what motivated them to worship the God of Israel? Regarding the ‘Pro Life’ episode, suppose a pregnant mother in labor has a series of complications. If she births the baby, she’ll die. But if she doesn’t birth it soon, the baby will die. Would it be a sin, if you chose the mother to live, and the baby to die? I teach school students who are blind or have low vision and some have a hard time understanding what their blindness means in regard to their relationship with God. I’m keen to know if you have a way to account for the descriptions of blindness in such a way that my students can hear the different passages and still see themselves as loved and valued by a good God, even if/when they are not healed, and despite the fact that some passages use blindness as a criticism. Can you help? Why is the Catholic and Protestant bible different? What are those differences? Should Protestants read the books that are in the Catholic Bible too? What can Protestants learn from those books? How have those differences changed how Protestants and Catholics view the world? I want to learn more about the Catholic faith and what happened before it became so ritualised. What was it like before the Catholic faith became the Catholic faith? What’s the deal with burial vs Cremation – specifically around our renewed bodies that God will transform us into? Does cremation hinder this? The typical Christian answer to the question “Where does evil come from?” is free will. I.e. God made Adam and Eve perfect, but gave them free will. They decided to turn away from God, and now there’s evil, sin and suffering in the world. But that argument doesn’t really make sense, because free will doesn’t necessarily entail evil. For example, God has free will, and he’s completely good. God could have made us with a good nature, and still given us free will (like what we’ll have in heaven). Based on this, it seems like God must have made evil. Or to phrase it another way, God seems to have made Adam and Eve with a propensity for evil, or made them too weak to cope with the moral choices he was giving them. If an inventor designs something and it malfunctions, it isn’t really fair for him to blame the thing he’s made for going wrong. We’d say that it’s his fault for not designing it properly. So how is God not responsible for our sin? A friend follows Baháʼí religion and says there is essential worth of all religions is the unity of all people. They regard the major world religions as fundamentally unified in purpose. At the heart of their teaching is the goal of a unified world order that ensures the prosperity of all nations, creeds and classes. It all sounds nice, but how does it play out in reality, and how does it differ from Christianity? I have been reading your book, Bullies and Saints and was struck by your Chapter on the Inquisition. I get it, that the French Revolution in comparison had more deaths and other sorts of sufferings. However when a Catholic friend said to a Jewish friend (in my presence) that the Spanish Inquisition wasn’t so bad, I wondered what the Jews thought of the whole issue? My Jewish friend just looked at him. Also what would be a helpful way to handle this issue when talking to people of other faiths, like Jewish and Muslim, who as you stated in your book were booted out of Spain? I was reading a book by author and pastor Mark Clark who said Jesus would have dropped his ‘h’s, that he had a really distinctive accent, and that other people from Galilee dropped their ‘h’s and that the people from Jerusalem would have thought they were really uneducated because of that. Any other interesting things from Jesus that we might not know from the Bible that would help us connect with him as a man who walked the earth as well as our Lord and Jesus Christ our Saviour. Visit the undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Email the show with your comments / feedback: admin@undeceptions.com Undeceptions is the flagship podcast of Undeceptions.com: Letting the truth out. Theme music: JS Bach's Cello Suites, Prelude, performed by the Undeceptions Band. Hosted by John Dickson Produced by Kaley Payne Directed by Mark Hadley Audio Editing by Richard Hamwi Social Media by Sophie Hawkshaw Administration by Lyndie Leviston Writer and researcher: Alasdair Belling Online Librarian: Siobhan McGuiness Copyright Undeceptions Ltd 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The more we learn about the world, the more we see how it operates under elegant laws. There is an order to the universe that betrays the randomness you so often hear about. This episode of Undeceptions is sponsored by Zondervan Academic's Masterlectures. Get 50% off your first three month subscription with the code 'Undeceptions50'. Visit the undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Email the show with your comments / feedback: admin@undeceptions.com Undeceptions is the flagship podcast of Undeceptions.com: Letting the truth out. Theme music: JS Bach's Cello Suites, Prelude, performed by the Undeceptions Band. Hosted by John Dickson Produced by Kaley Payne Directed by Mark Hadley Audio Editing by Richard Hamwi Social Media by Sophie Hawkshaw Administration by Lyndie Leviston Writer and researcher: Alasdair Belling Online Librarian: Siobhan McGuiness Copyright Undeceptions Ltd 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There’s no such thing as a “New Testament Christian”. While the popular scepticism about parts of the Old Testament is understandable, we're convinced by the arguments of our guest today: Christ isn’t just the hero of the New Testament … He is everywhere in the Old Testament. This episode of Undeceptions is sponsored by Zondervan Academic's Masterlectures. Get 50% off your first three month subscription with the code 'Undeceptions50'. Visit the undeceptions.com for more content, including the full show notes for this episode. Follow the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Email the show with your comments / feedback: admin@undeceptions.com Undeceptions is the flagship podcast of Undeceptions.com: Letting the truth out. Theme music: JS Bach's Cello Suites, Prelude, performed by the Undeceptions Band. Hosted by John Dickson Produced by Kaley Payne Directed by Mark Hadley Audio Editing by Richard Hamwi Social Media by Sophie Hawkshaw Administration by Lyndie Leviston Writer and researcher: Alasdair Belling Online Librarian: Siobhan McGuiness Copyright Undeceptions Ltd 2022 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.