365 Honest Questions

A listener question unravels into a strange analogy involving Jurassic World and the power and place of names.

In this special crossover episode with the podcast "1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries", Dante examines the Biblical aspects of the vanishing of the Ark of the Covenant. Meanwhile, on the 1001 podcast, Dante looks at the disappearance from a strictly historical lens.

A strange passage in 1 Kings tells the story of God commanding a spirit to go spread a lie. Yet, God consistently says he cannot tell a lie. Did he send that spirit to go do his dirtywork, or is there more to the story than meets the eye?

Numbers 31 tells the story of God calling Moses and the Israelites to annihilate the Midianites. Is the God of all love calling for a wholesale genocide of an entire nation? How do we feel about that?

Using Abraham and Isaac as a litmus test, Dante wonders whether one's love of God and obedience to him is unconditional, or are there some strings attached?

The first words of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount start with a blessing on the 'poor in spirit'. Dante wonders how he can perpetually live in a state of spiritual poverty.

So God performs a miracle... but how? Really. How do miracles work? Dante wonders about the physics and mechanics of miraculously calming the storm.

Dante points everyone over to his website where a new "playlist" is listed, as well as talks about some other great podcasts worthy of a listen.

In Dante's apparent attempt to make every episode more controversial than the last, he pokes his stick at the foundations (and separation) of Judaism and Islam. Fun is had by all!!

During Pontius Pilate's interrogation of Jesus, Pilate seemingly off-handedly asks, "What is truth?" Why did he ask that? Dante digs into it.

Is it possible that the fabled Atlantis is real? Is it possible the Bible attests to its existence? You'll have to listen to all 32 minutes of this episode to judge for yourself.

Why don't we sinners cut off all of our unholy, sinful parts? Dante visits Jesus' sermon on the mount wherein Jesus references self-amputation as a means of avoiding hellfire. Dante wonders how literal Jesus wanted to be taken.

Lock away your children, in this gross out episode, Dante examines the historical relevance of male castration and seeks to find an answer to Jesus' words on the matter.

A passage in Revelation speaks of the Seven Spirits of God. Could God be more than a trinity? Could He be a septinity? Is that even a word?

Moses' staff turned into a snake, then the Egyptians' staff did the same thing. Moses turns water into blood, and so do the Egyptians. If God is for us, who's against us? Could the answer be different than we think?

Dante ponders on God's use of metaphor in the book of Exodus. If God uses a metaphor, does that make it the best metaphor in the world? Should every metaphor be about eagles?

Everything's thrown at the wall, from Dante's disappointment with Abraham Lincoln to his uneasiness with some of God's laws for the Israelites. It's all emotion and no logic this week, folks.

Three little verses in Exodus chapter four give us a weird story wherein it appears God tried to kill Moses. What on Earth was going on?

Is there a distinction between the literal place we call hell, and the Greek word 'Hades'? Greek myth and Bible narrative are about to collide.

Dante realizes that he's been assuming he's known what John 1:1's "Word" has meant his whole life. Now he grapples with the oddity of the word, word, and ponders why John uses these strange accumulation of letters to open his Gospel.