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Atheist David Johnson from the Skeptics and Seekers Podcast, watched my Gary Habermas Celebration show along with fellow Atheist, Paulogia's response show. David wrote a Blog arguing that Christian apologists are wrong to employ Evidentialism because the Bible endorses a blind faith perspective. I begged to differ. And so we debated the issue- enjoy :)RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/gary-habermas-resurrection-follow-up-the-case-for-biblical-evidentialism-w-atheist-david-johnson/

SURPRISE!!! After the shock fades, tune in to listen to Pro-Shroud expert Giulio Fanti who has written yet another peer-reviewed paper going into technical details responding to and refuting various skeptics, but most importantly, he provides substantive counters to Hugh Farey's Blog post "How Was it Done?" on his Quem Quaeritis image forming hypothesis based on Giulio's original peer-reviewed paper analyzing Hugh's experimental results. This show was unexpected, but Giulio asked me to read his paper for the fans as there are important details revealed in this paper that you need to know. Don't worry, there will be a Part 16E which will be a debate/discussion format with Hugh himself involved, the details are being worked out next week hopefully!RSM Blog (with Giulio's peer-reviewed paper and other free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/04/20/shroud-wars-panel-review-part-16-follow-up-shows-luigi-garlaschellis-powder-rubbing-hugh-fareys-quem-quaeritis-image-forming-theories/

Dan Porter is a well known Shroud skeptic online and is famous for his Shroud Story Blog posts. One of his Blogs entitled, "Shroud of Turin: Radiation as a Denial of God’s Omnipotence" caught my fancy as a philosopher and so I tackle and refute his objections to various Radiation theories pertaining to the Shroud.

RSM Blog (with my slides & sources for free) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/shroud-wars-oh-danny-boy-radiation-as-a-denial-of-gods-omnipotence-refuting-skeptic-dan-porter/

Fan of the show, Harry Stark, recommended that I touch base and invite on Courtney Smith. She has an expertise in arguing for the truth of Jesus as the Jewish Messiah with Jewish counter-missionaries like Rabbi Tovia Singer!

We go over various theological, practical and Messianic prophecy objections from Jews as well as Courtney's own unique take on following the Torah as a Gentile believer in the New Testament today.

RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/05/22/judaism-vs-christianity-w-courtney-smith/

Alright all you Real Seekers, my guest had to cancel out this week due to illness and I couldn't find a replacement in time, so here is your RSM Update show.I cover future plans of the show, discuss whether Hugh Farey (the Ultimate Shroud skeptic) is a liar or not, announce a Shroud Wars full on debate (not Response show) on Hugh's image forming method & respond to an Eastern Orthodox suggestion that I read St. Hilarion.Enjoy :)

I was once accused by Jay Dyer and his Orthodox fans of appealing to the logical fallacy of appeal to majority/consensus based on an argument I gave regarding Protestantism and the Canon of Scripture.

Without realizing it, Orthodox apologist Tyler Fowler now admits I was right the whole time and Jay Dyer was just plain wrong and irrational!!!

RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2023/06/17/faith-unaltered-shows-june-16th-2023-to-end-of-2023/

Atheist David Johnson and Christian The Vulture return to discuss the best and worst arguments for Christianity vs. Atheism.RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/the-best-the-worst-of-atheism-vs-christianity-w-david-johnson-the-vulture/

This is the first of three planned follow up shows responding to ultimate Shroud skeptic, Hugh Farey and his Quem Quaeritis image formation hypothesis. In this show, I read over Giulio Fanti's peer-reviewed journal paper directly evaluating Hugh's own experimental results and finds them wanting!In other words, according to Giulio Fanti, the science demonstrates a total failure of Hugh's method to reproduce the Shroud's images and their various remarkable properties.RSM Blogs (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/04/20/shroud-wars-panel-review-part-16-follow-up-shows-luigi-garlaschellis-powder-rubbing-hugh-fareys-quem-quaeritis-image-forming-theories/

& Alternative Blog with more relevant sources & shows = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2020/03/14/shroud-solo-shows-part-1-my-300-page-shroud-chapter-ss-lectures/

It's April 15th and that means Larry Stalley's new book entitled "Divine Testimony for the Resurrection: Hidden References to the Holy Shroud in the Bible" is out!!! Larry gives us a glimpse of his newest research contained in the book using the "Sign of Jonah" in the Gospel of Matthew as proof for a cryptic mention of the Shroud of Turin.RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/divine-testimony-for-the-resurrection-hidden-references-to-the-holy-shroud-in-the-bible-w-larry-stalley/

Get Larry's New Book (30% Off) = https://www.theincredibleshroud.com/author-s-book

Real Seekers fan Fyre Rayne asked Dale to respond to Douglas Joseph's Jesus-Words Onlyism arguments against Paul.Join Dr. Craig Blomberg, Dale Glover, and me for a discussion on whether the writings of the apostle Paul are inspired scripture.

RSM Blog (with free sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/was-paul-inspired-refuting-red-letter-only-christianity-w-dr-craig-blomberg-phil-bair/

Join Dale Glover and me for a look at Nicaea through the eyes of the Protestant Reformation.

RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/04/05/a-historical-logical-biblical-evaluation-of-the-ecumenical-councils-w-phil-bair/

Phil Bair joins me to discuss the issue of what the church/ecclesia is in the New Testament. We discover that the Eastern Orthodox notion of "The Church" is Biblically false and Satanically authoritarian in nature compared to the true Biblical model consistent with Protestantism.

Massimo finishes his presentation on this Marian apparition going over the theological symbolism on the tilma.RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/conversations-with-kevin-nontradicath-shroud-miracles-more/

This is the third and final part of my show with Biblical Unitarian Andrew Griffin; this time we look at 3 Bible verses proving Jesus was divine.RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/trinity-vs-unitarian-shows-march-december-2025/

Now it's my turn to take the reigns and probe Biblical Unitarian Carlos Xavier on his own Unitarian views and the reasons he has for it.RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/02/12/grill-a-trinitarian-guest-starring-on-unitarian-carlos-xaviers-podcast/

In Part 2, I discuss the Biblical evidence for the divinity of the Holy Spirit as the new Shekinah and thus, He is a essential and personal part of Yahweh.RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/trinity-vs-unitarian-shows-march-december-2025/

This is Part 1 on the philosophy related to the Trinity Monotheism model. I guest star on Unitarian Andrew Griffin's Podcast.RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/trinity-vs-unitarian-shows-march-december-2025/

Dale Tuggy and myself were invited onto Luis Dizon and Michael Lofton's "1P3" Podcast to discuss the philosophical/logical coherence of the Trinity.

RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/03/01/trinity-vs-unitarian-shows-march-december-2025/

In the grand finale, I show the first segments of a Resurrection debate between Dr. William Lane Craig (Christian) and Gerd Ludemann (Atheist) and the class gives their assessment of their cases based on what I taught in the previous 6 weeks of our Bible Study.RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/oakwood-wesleyan-church-bible-studies-2025/

Immunologist and blood experts Dr. Kelly Kearse joins me and former Catholic, now skeptic, Kevin Nontradicath (aka Kevin O'Connor) to discuss what the scientific truth is regarding the evidence for Eucharistic Miracles.RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/the-scientific-truth-about-eucharistic-miracles-w-dr-kelly-kearse-kevin-nontradicath/

David Spear (aka. The Vulture) returns to debate Atheist David Johnson on the issue of skepticism and what it entails.RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/02/22/skepticism-epistemic-necessity-or-epistemic-nihilism-the-vulture-vs-ss-atheist-david-johnson/

Hugh Farey joins me to discuss the remaining image formation mechanisms we have yet to cover in the Panel Review series; i) the Artistic Boiling hypothesis, ii) the Bacteria/Fungal hypothesis, iii) Volkringer Patterns and Singlet-Oxygen/Russell Effect theories and finally, iv) Thomas Devins' Rainbow Bodies hypothesis.Plus some interesting ground-breaking research going on behind the scenes is hinted at for an upcoming Shroud Wars show :)RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/shroud-wars-panel-review-part-17-miscellaneous-image-forming-theories-boiling-bacteria-fungal-volkringer-patterns-singlet-oxygen-russell-effect-rainbow-bodies/

In the final lecture in my Bible Study series on the historical evidence for Jesus' Resurrection, we look at 4 objections skeptics present as Negative evidence supposedly falsifying the Resurrection hypothesis;i) Preservation Problems with errors in the Manuscript Copiesii) Eyewitness Testimony/Memory is Unreliableiii) Gospel Contradictions on Jesus' death and Resurrectioniv) Miracles are Improbable/Impossible via David HumeRSM Blog (with my Slides) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/oakwood-wesleyan-church-bible-studies-2025/

I read Lydia McGrew's emails verifying that what I called my "Bayes-ish" approach is mathematically correct even though the way I describe what I'm calculating is inaccurate. She also responds to the foolish notion that the prior prob for any miracle like the Resurrection is 1/infinity because God can do a miracle in an infinite amount of different ways (as per Digital Gnosis and James Fodor).RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/shroud-wars-battling-10-hours-of-shroud-skepticism-parts-1-2-with-otangelo-grasso-james-fodor-digital-gnosis/

Lydia McGrew returns to tackle David Kemball-Cooks objections to her 2009 Blackwell Companion paper on Jesus Resurrection and Bayes Theorem.

This is the final round between the two and it went extra long, so enjoy :)RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2024/03/31/the-resurrection-of-christ-debating-skeptic-dr-david-kemball-cook/

& ALSO,

https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/debating-jesus-resurrection-with-lydia-mcgrew-vs-david-kemball-cook/

I was invited to guest star on Biblical Unitarian Carlos Xavier's YouTube channel (thehumanjesus.org) to be grilled on my own Trinitarian understanding.

Originally, I wanted to do a debate where I had time to prepare properly, but circumstances didn't allow for the debate and thus we did a Grill-a-Christian type format instead which isn't ideal for me to present the best case since I'm not the best at "off-the-cuff defenses", but it was still edifying and fun in its own right.RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7-qTaEAV7M

In the 5th Lecture we finish our assessment of 4 more Skeptical hypotheses ranging from the Illusion/substitution theory, hallucination hypothesis, objective visions/ghosts and finally, the infamous Buddhist notion of Jesus and the Rainbow bodies! All of them fail meaning the Christian Resurrection hypothesis is clearly the best explanation for the 9 proven historical facts we learned about in Part 3.RSM Blog (with my slides for free) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/oakwood-wesleyan-church-bible-studies-2025/

In Lecture #4, we turn to evaluating 4 skeptical hypotheses from the Resurrection skeptics to try and explain the 9 historical facts (Lecture #3 last week). We cover the following; i) The Original Conspiracy Hypothesis ii) The Stolen Body and/or Wrong Tomb Hypotheses iii) The Swoon Hypothesis iv) The Legend (Jesus Mythicist) Hypothesis RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/oakwood-wesleyan-church-bible-studies-2025/

Dr. Craig Keener, the "scholar's scholar" is back! Today, we are discussing his take on the Biblical evidence for and against Jesus Resurrection + we have a surprise at the end! RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/dr-craig-keener-jesus-resurrection-the-biblical-evidence/

In the final part of this interview with Craig Keener, I ask him about natural theories to try and explain the Resurrection data, miracles theory in General (including modern day resuscitation miracles) and I also get Craig's official take on the Shroud of Turin!!! P.S. Next week, I will post this interview in full which shall include some bonus content at the end (not played in the smaller segment videos) :) RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/dr-craig-keener-jesus-resurrection-the-biblical-evidence/

In Part 3 of 4, we address some skeptical objections and apparent Resurrection contradictions in the Gospels. RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/dr-craig-keener-jesus-resurrection-the-biblical-evidence/

In Part 2 of 4, Craig Keener and I discuss the positive evidence from Biblical sources for Jesus' Resurrection. RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/dr-craig-keener-jesus-resurrection-the-biblical-evidence/

In this 3rd Lecture in my Bible Study on the historical evidence for Jesus' Resurrection, I establish the historical facts from the historical sources we learned about last time using the historical criteria of authenticity. RSM Blog (with my Slides) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/oakwood-wesleyan-church-bible-studies-2025/

In this video, I answer a fan request on the Shroud images relationship to Aliens and UFO phenomenon as well as explain why I assign a 50% prior prob to miracles using the Jefferey Conditionalization Formula. RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/shroud-wars-battling-10-hours-of-shroud-skepticism-parts-1-2-with-otangelo-grasso-james-fodor-digital-gnosis/

Welcome to Round 2 of this special Shroud Wars episode. In Round 1, Otangelo Grasso and I discussed the 10 hour Shroud Skeptics video done on the Shroud by Digital Gnosis (Nathan Ormond) and James Fodor from a Pro-Shroud perspective. In this follow up episode, I discuss with the two Shroud skeptics themselves in a friendly dialogue. There may possibly be a Round 3 as a debate to come! RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/shroud-wars-battling-10-hours-of-shroud-skepticism-parts-1-2-with-otangelo-grasso-james-fodor-digital-gnosis/

Dr. Craig Keener joins me for the first part of an episode on Jesus' Resurrection. In this episode, we cover what the Resurrection entails and whether it is based in a Jewish or pagan background.

In Part 2 of my Bible Study series on the historical evidence for Jesus' atoning death and Resurrection from the dead, I evaluate and assess 6 categories of relevant historical sources that we will be using in our study. These include; i) The 4 Canonical Gospels & Acts, The 7 'Authentic" Letters of Paul, the Pre-NT Oral traditions (such as the 1st Corinthians 15 creed), Clement of Rome, Josephus and 2-3 Archeological discoveries. RSM Blog (with my Slides & sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/oakwood-wesleyan-church-bible-studies-2025/

Lydia McGrew and skeptic David Kemball Cook come back for a Round 2 discussion addressing the evidence for Jesus' Resurrection. In the first half of the show, David KC takes over and probes Lydia on 7 contradictions he sees in the Gospels. The Lydia takes charge and challenges David KC on some of his skepticism pertaining to the eyewitness testimony we have in the Gospels and NT literature. RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2024/03/31/the-resurrection-of-christ-debating-skeptic-dr-david-kemball-cook/

My friend and Christian mentor Dr. Tony Costa was kind enough to invite me as a guest onto his channel to be interviewed about the incredible historical and scientific evidence in favour of the Shroud's authenticity as proof for Jesus' Resurrection. RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/18/is-the-shroud-of-turin-the-burial-cloth-of-jesus-of-nazareth-with-dr-tony-costa-and-dale-glover/

In this Solo video, I respond to and refute the Bible-based objections of Christian Shroud Skeptic "Wi Po". RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2023/04/22/shroud-wars-panel-review-part-5-the-bible-the-shroud-larry-stalley-ben-witherington/

In this first class of our Bible Study on the Historical evidence for Jesus' Resurrection at Oakwood Wesleyan Church, I cover the nature of the Resurrection body- is it physical or spiritual/immaterial? RSM Blog (with my Slide Presentation & Sources for free) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/oakwood-wesleyan-church-bible-studies-2025/

The Vulture joins me to speak on his take on Biblical typologies. RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/11/the-vulture-shows-2025/

Shroud skeptics, James Fodor and Nathan/Digital Gnosis, have done a 9.5 hour podcast covering their own take on the Shroud of Turin. Otangelo and I give our assessment of it. RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/shroud-wars-battling-10-hours-of-shroud-skepticism-parts-1-2-with-otangelo-grasso-james-fodor-digital-gnosis/

Dr. Lydia McGrew will be facing off, in person, against Resurrection skeptic David Kemball Cook in an upcoming Real Seekers show on Jan 18th. In the meantime, Harry Stark alerted me to Lydia's dealing with another skeptic Dick Harrison. The Swedish historian Dick Harrison is wrong about the Census of Quirinius in the Gospel of Luke, according to Lydia McGrew. Watch the famous philosopher respond to Harrison´s poorly thought out argument. Lydia McGrew has written the books "Eye of the Beholder", "The Mirror of the Mask", "Hidden in Plain View" and "Testimonies to the Truth". In Swedish: Dick Harrison har FEL om Lukasevangeliet. Känd filosof bemöter Harrisons argument. Den svenska historikern Dick Harrison har fel om folkräkningen i Lukasevangeliet, enligt Lydia McGrew. Den kända filosofen Lydia McGrew bemöter Harrisons argument. Lydia McGrew har skrivit böckerna "Eye of the Beholder", "The Mirror of the Mask", "Hidden in Plain View" and "Testimonies to the Truth". RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/harry-stark-shows-2025/

Jaime comes on to make an impassioned plea to the Real Seekers audience to help promote and support my new Shroud Explorations Bible studies. Beyond the sales pitch, Jaime and I take turns interviewing each other on the significance the Shroud evidence has had on our own faith and in evangelizing others. RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/01/04/jaime-castro-shows-2025/