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I BELIEVE

Brian Doak & Leah Payne

Lectures, panel discussions, and supplementary thoughts from the teaching faculty of the I BELIEVE course.

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I NEED TO KNOW MORE: EMPIRE

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2021/01/30

It was one thing to be faithful under persecution - what happens when Christians gain legal rights, social power, and wealth? Dr. Doak & Dr. Payne explore the challenges facing Christians when their religion becomes the religion of empire in the 4th century.

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THEO POP-CULTURE SMACKDOWN: NEW TESTAMENT CHURCHES??

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2021/01/23

This week, Dr. Doak & Dr. Payne explore how early Christians wrestled with who they were when they were expelled from Jerusalem, and they tackle the question: should churches be just like they were in the New Testament? Or, should they adapt to the times? Listen in and then share your thoughts with your discussion group!

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I NEED TO KNOW MORE: SCATTERED

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2021/01/23

What happens when the early church is forced out of Jerusalem and scattered across the world? How do they survive? And how do they remain faithful when put to the test of persecution? Dr. Doak and Dr. Payne talk about what life was like for the earliest Christians.

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THEO POP-CULTURE SMACKDOWN: EVANGELISM - BUT HOW?

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2021/01/16

Just google “Christian sandwich board” and you’ll see a lot of pictures of Christians standing with giant signs proclaiming a version of the Christian message. But should they? Most Christians agree that getting the good news out to the world is important. How should evangelism be done? Public preaching like in the book of Acts? Or should we let our actions speak first? Dr. Doak and Dr. Payne take up the question of getting the news about Jesus out in the world - one way or another!

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I NEED TO KNOW MORE: PENTECOST

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2021/01/16

This week, we talk about why learning about the Bible is just the starting point for understanding the depth and breadth of Christianity. WHY we should study the history of Christianity and why we should think about big theological ideas? And what sorts of things were some of the earliest Christians in Syria thinking about in the first century? Listen here to find out!

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00:47:08

THEO POP-CULTURE SMACKDOWN: IS THE RAPTURE A THING

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2020/11/21

Have you heard of “the rapture”? Maybe, maybe not! But we’re going to tell you all about it, and then debate it. A fitting end to our journey through the Bible, arriving, finally, at the APOCALYPSE. Our artifact: A poster Dr. Doak saw at Fred Meyer, for a rapture-themed paintball contest

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00:38:53

I NEED TO KNOW MORE: APOCALYPSE

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2020/11/21

Jesus returns to defeat evil: it’s the book of Revelation, our stunning last stop on this tour through the Christian Bible. Whose name is written on your head?

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00:32:15

I NEED TO KNOW MORE: PRACTICE

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2020/11/14

We invite Dr. Joseph Clair into the podcasting bunker because we need to know more about his lecture on the topic of Christian PRACTICE as it appears in the New Testament. We think together about the concept of Christian ethics and moral behavior. Dr. Payne asks an uncomfortable question which Dr. Clair and Dr. Doak struggle to answer.

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00:36:57

THEO POP-CULTURE SMACKDOWN: FAREWELL ROB BELL

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2020/11/14

We take up a topic Christians have debated for centuries: hell. Should we think of hell as “eternal conscious torment,” that is, unbelievers tossed head over heels into the fire to suffer forever, or is hell…something else? Is hell temporary? How might we think about the ethics of hell in light of a loving God? Artifact for the week: “Farewell Rob Bell” (a tweet by Pastor John Piper, condemning Rob Bell and his book Love Wins)

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00:43:29

THEO POP-CULTURE SMACKDOWN: JESUS SAVES

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2020/11/07

Here is an important affirmation for Christians: Jesus Saves. But an important question arises: How? This week, we go into the THEO archives for a live debate in Bauman Auditorium in front of hundreds of students on the question: Is the “penal substitution” theory of the atonement the best way to answer this question of how Jesus saves? GFU professors Dr. Javier Garcia and Dr. Nijay Gupta take the stage in a spirited exchange. IF YOU WANT MORE BACKGROUND ON PENAL SUBSTITUTION, here you go. (Dr

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00:29:47

I NEED TO KNOW MORE: LETTERS

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2020/11/07

Dr. Sarita Edwards is back into the studio to talk about the LETTERS of Paul in the New Testament. We talk about some of the locations where people lived who first received these letters, and we engage in a reading and discussion of an intriguing passage for Christian decision making in the first century AD—and today. Also: Was the Apostle Paul cranky?

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00:29:55

I NEED TO KNOW MORE: SPIRIT

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2020/10/31

The book of Acts and the story of Philip is our focus in this week’s podcast. We invite Dr. Sarita Edwards into the studio to follow up on her lecture, SPIRIT, and we discuss what inspires us, the meaning of eunuchs, missionary activity, and more. Also: Can people be teleported?

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00:35:09

THEO POP-CULTURE SMACKDOWN: MIRACLES TODAY

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2020/10/31

All Christians believe that God is present and active in the world today. But how active, and in what ways? Should we be praying for miracles constantly? Just sometimes? What would be the Christian case for not seeking miracles or seeing God as normally intervening in our world? We debate in front of a live audience, from the Spring 2020 THEO class in Bauman auditorium! Moderated by Dr. Sarita Edwards. THE ARTIFACT: from Buzzfeed news, “The Evangelical Parents of a Young Girl Who Died are Using

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00:34:30

THEO POP-CULTURE SMACKDOWN: ACCEPTING JESUS IN YOUR...

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2020/10/24

With every head bowed, and every eye closed…just raise your hand… In this episode of the Smackdown, we’re discussing the idea of a “sinner’s prayer.” Is this the way into faith? For our artifact: We started the podcast with numerous artifacts actually unrelated to this week’s debate, such as the Phil Collins album that is considered one of the worst of all time (“Testify”), the Phil Collins song “Hero,” and Christian appropriations of pop songs (such as this Christian version of Adele’s “Rolling in

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00:43:49

I NEED TO KNOW MORE: SAVIOR

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2020/10/24

“Jesus saves”—OK, but what does that mean? And what is the role of doubt? We go deeper, building on Dr. Doak’s lecture, SAVIOR. We read a famous and often misunderstood text. Join us.

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I NEED TO KNOW MORE: CHRIST

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2020/10/17

We’re all about the gospel of Mark this week. In this episode, we unpack Dr. Payne’s lecture, CHRIST, in which she takes us on a tour through Mark. We talk about the surprising political background behind terms such as “savior” and “good news” (gospel) in Jesus’ time, and we engage in a reading of a series of stories in Mark that display one of Mark’s most frequent literary devices (“intercalation”).

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00:29:54

THEO POP-CULTURE SMACKDOWN: JESUS FOR PRESIDENT

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2020/10/17

Should Christians be getting hard-core into politics? How or why would we do that? It’s a constant hot topic. Perhaps people are even debating this now. Our pop culture artifact: Christian worship music empire and popular Australian church group “Hillsong” tweets out some politically charged comments about U.S. politics and then deletes the tweet and apologizes.

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THEO POP-CULTURE SMACKDOWN: ACTS AND CONSEQUENCES

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2020/10/10

Why do people suffer? The painful problem of the exile raises this question in numerous ways. See the video lecture on EXILE for this week. Do people suffer because of their own actions, or are there other mysterious forces at work? Is the “act-consequence nexus” the best way to think about morality? Dr. Doak and Dr. Payne debate, and we provide a bonus discussion at the beginning about the issue of how and why Christians can debate with each other. Our artifact for the week: “Five natural disasters

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I NEED TO KNOW MORE: EXILE

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2020/10/10

Dr. Doak and Dr. Payne sit down to talk about how they felt when they first left home for college, and imagine, inspired by our material from the Bible this week, what it might be like to experience EXILE (be sure to watch the main lecture video on EXILE before listening to this podcast!). We discuss numerous texts and issues, haggle about the politics of people left in the land vs. people taken away from the land, converse about the tears that flow when the new Temple construction begins, and read

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00:25:53

THEO POP-CULTURE SMACKDOWN: RATED R OR RATED A(LLEGORY)

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2020/10/03

Is the Song of Songs supposed to be Rated R…or Rated A(llegory)? We argue about it. The artifact in question? A book by a Christian megachurch pastor called Sexperiment: 7 Days to Lasting Intimacy. Listen at your own risk, away from the kids.

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