Hello everyone, welcome to another mini-sode. Thank you for tuning in. What did you think of the episode with David Libby talking about apologetics? Was that a subject that you love geeking out on, or is it something that you just feel like? Well, I don't want to go to school for this, so I don't really care.

Speaker 0: 0:19

Well, regardless of what camp you might be in, there are videos on YouTube in exciting ways where you can learn about this stuff. You don't have to go to school to learn about this. I know maybe you grew up that way, being told that you need to go to seminary for this, and it's not true. You don't have to go to seminary anymore. That is the blessing that is the internet. I know a lot of people think that the internet is bad, that there's so many rabbit trails you can go down bad things that can happen, and that's all true, but you can also find some good resources on there. It's a great way to learn new things and apologetics can be that new thing that you learn, because it is important that we understand why we believe what we believe.

Speaker 0: 1:07

We can't just say we believe it because we grew up being told it or just because we didn't bother to look into it deeply. We just blindly follow whatever we're told from pastors. What if it's not a pastor who is teaching from the Bible? You won't know unless you know. You have to get in the word. You have to understand what terms mean that they may be using. You got to figure out if they're bending themselves into a pretzel trying to get you to believe something that isn't in the Bible, but it might have slight truth. Let's not forget what happened to Adam and Eve in the garden with the serpent he twisted the word. He twisted things. That's what Satan does is he twists things, so he can use anyone or anything to twist something. And you have to be ready to defend the faith, not because the faith needs defending. I actually read this on a sub stack recently. It doesn't need to be defended. It's not some weak thing. It can defend itself. But we need to be aware of what we believe, because the Bible warns us that there are wolves in sheep's clothing and we need to make sure that we aren't sharing stuff that is not biblical and leading people astray unknowingly. So, yeah, there's going to be times where maybe people come at you with something. And what if you don't know? That is a scary feeling.

Speaker 0: 2:29

I have been there and it's one of the reasons why I've been afraid to go up to people and talk to them about the faith is because I don't know a lot of things. But I am going on YouTube. I am listening to people like Alan Parr or Mike Winger. Justin Peters they teach the Bible. Kosti Hinn they teach the Bible. They know how to teach the Bible and teach apologetics in ways that we can understand.

Speaker 0: 2:55

I mean, even John Cooper from Skillet will talk about apologetics on his podcast. If that's your thing, then go listen to that. He will sometimes go in depth on things and he will tell you things. He's written a book. David Libby has written two books that talk about apologetics. This one goes deep into apologetics. That also had some deep theological meaning in it as well. So there are various ways that we can learn why we believe what we believe, and there are simple ways and there's more in-depth ways. If you want to go to seminary, do it. If you can afford to do that, then do it. If you can't, then go on YouTube. Check out some of those people I just mentioned. Mike Winger is very good at that and I don't know if it's a weekly thing he does, but he does a live and he has people send in questions and he takes the first 10 questions he sees and he discusses them in a really long discussion. It's a great opportunity, even if you can't make the live, it still comes up later and you can listen to it later.

Speaker 0: 4:06

There's really no excuse for you not to understand at some level what some of the terms we talked about, david and I talked about in this episode, what those mean. There's no reason you can't understand these things. You don't have to fully understand. I will be honest, I don't fully understand everything that I have read in David's book. Will be honest, I don't fully understand everything that I have read in David's book. I meant it when I said in the episode that I would have to read it more than once, because it is a deep, theological book. But it is worth the read, especially if this is something that matters to you, and this should matter to everybody, because we all need to know why we believe what we believe.

Speaker 0: 4:45

So here's your question for this week what are you going to search up? Think of a word. Maybe it was something that was discussed in the episode, maybe it's something you've heard before. Maybe it's the idea of the end times, or it's something that you've been struggling with on your own. Find a good, godly, biblically-based resource that will help you with it. I guarantee whatever you are searching for, you can probably find it through Alan Parr on YouTube. He's got a channel called the Beat, and then Mike Winger, his channel on YouTube is also really good. I guarantee you'll probably find what you're looking for there, but make sure whoever you are looking for is biblically based. That is the key. So that's this week's mini-sode. I hope you have a wonderful day, god bless.