This is exciting for us! Today, we launched The Berean Teacher so our listeners can access the same tool we use daily to understand the Bible and find answers to scripture that are supported by scripture. We will be refining this tool to adhere strictly to Berean standards, supporting scripture with scripture, avoiding interpretive traps and doctrine. The tool is not meant to flatter or affirm the user’s ideas; it is meant to correct and teach appropriate scripture based strictly on what the Bible says.

The Berean Teacher can be accessed at https://www.RabbitHolesAndMeditations.com by clicking “Berean Search” in the top right. We hope our listeners get as much out of using this tool as we have. There is a comment section below the tool for your feedback. We’ll be using that to help us refine the tool. We want you to challenge the tool. Come with your deepest questions and determine if the response you’re getting is appropriate to what scripture has to say on the subject.

Download The Berean Teacher Guide

Episode Link:

https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/the-berean-teacher-launched/

We’ve talked a lot on this podcast about how the internet and AI can lead you astray with one simple strategy: affirmation. Your social media account, all the places you’ve visited online, all the videos you watch, all of it is a reflection of you. Jump into an AI chat, tell it what you're thinking, even if it’s completely wrong, and you’re likely to get the most amazing support to the point where you’re convinced that you could never be wrong on this. It’s worse when there are multiple, but unprovable, opinions on the same topic. Put those people in the same room and tell them the subject is something each has divergent opinions on; give them access to AI and the internet and a debate stage, and they can all stand up at the podium and defend their position with vigor, and some even with animosity. We all want to be right.

But that is not solely the purview of AI, the internet and social media. Today, we look at the church. What we discover is not a new phenomenon, but something that has been happening to mankind forever. AI and the internet are just new ways to develop tribal support for a particular ideology or opinion. But we don’t need electronic media to see inside the house of mirrors.

Episode Link:

https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/the-spiritual-house-of-mirrors/

I know the questions. I was a staunch atheist before I ever took the bible seriously. These will throw any Christian off his game:

Where did the dinosaurs come from?

Why aren’t pyramids ever mentioned in the bible?

Our science dates the earth millions of years before Genesis… how does the Bible explain that?

There are monolithic structures that not only pre-date the bible, they pre-date humanity if you consider the biblical timeline of 6000 years plus or minus. How was that possible?

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. You don’t approach this by debunking science. You’ll dig a very deep hole if you do that. Instead, I think the correct approach is to let science have it’s points and see if we can harmonize the bible with science. I didn’t expect this temple study to resolve these questions. Honestly, the study didn’t answer the questions, the answers to the questions instead defined the first chapter of this study: Before The Beginning.

Notes for Before the Beginning

Episode Link:

https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/before-the-beginning-humanity-as-the-instrument-of-spiritual-warfare/