Episode Details

00:00 Welcome Back + Today’s Listener Question on Bible Discrepancies

00:31 Textual Criticism 101: What “Variants” Are (and How Many Exist)

01:26 Why We Can Trust the Text: Manuscripts, Dating, and Consistency

02:45 Old Testament Manuscripts & the Dead Sea Scrolls Reliability Boost

04:17 Big-Passage Variants: John 8 and the Ending of Mark

05:20 Helpful Resources + Interpreting Scholarship Carefully

06:20 “No Brute Facts”: Worldviews, Interpretation, and Knowing Reality

10:22 Today’s Reading Begins: Numbers 7 and the Tabernacle Dedication

11:29 Hearing God’s Voice: Awe, Spiritual Warfare, and Counterfeits

13:21 Gifts Distributed by God: Levites, Unequal Portions, and the Church Body

15:56 Mark 4 Parables: Lamps, Seeds, and the Mustard-Seed Kingdom Growth

18:29 Calming the Storm + Final Takeaway and Prayer

20:49 Closing, Subscribe, and Ministry Outro

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