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If You Have To Explain It…

It doesn’t say what you think it says.

Jeff from End of a Species

The Bible has been called the most influential book in human history. It’s also one of the most contested, most mistranslated, and most conveniently misread.

If You Have To Explain It… asks one question of more than two dozen passages: what does this actually say? Not what your pastor said it says. Not what the apologist needs it to say. What it says.

No theology background needed.

2parts
6lenses
0consensus
how it works

Two parts. Zero consensus.

part i

The unclear ones

The passages that are genuinely ambiguous, each run through six lenses, from academic scholarship to the person in the pew. Watch them fail to agree.

  1. Academic
  2. Early Church
  3. Rabbinic
  4. Modern Theology
  5. Apologetic
  6. Layperson
part ii

The Clarity Problem

The passages that are perfectly clear. No lenses needed. Then watch them get explained away anyway.

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