The Sean McDowell Show

The "Lost" Gospels Are Back. What Do They Really Say About Jesus?

Bart Ehrman posed it as a hypothetical question: What if the canon had ended up containing the Gospels of Peter, Thomas, and Mary instead of Matthew, Mark, and Luke? I pu

Daniel 1:1-8: The Principles You Decide Before the Pressure Comes

Here's a question worth sitting with: what are the principles you actually live by? In this message I look at Daniel. They changed where he lived, what he studied, the la

The Lost Site of the Tabernacle...Have We Found It? | Big Update

Scott Stripling's team put out a press release about their latest season at Shiloh. Roughly 400 news stories followed. What his team actually found is more interesting. S

What 50 Years Studying the Resurrection Taught Me - Gary Habermas

Gary Habermas has likely studied the historical evidence for the resurrection more than anyone who has ever lived. He's just finished a four-volume work on it and he told

Book of Mormon vs the Gospels: Comparing the Witness Testimony

How reliable are the eleven witnesses who attest to the Book of Mormon? Dr. Rob Bowman, author of Jesus' Resurrection and Joseph's Visions, joins me to do a deep dive com

The New Mormonism: How LDS Beliefs Are Changing

Mormonism is changing and the version of it a Latter-day Saint holds today may look almost nothing like the version their parents held. I sat down with Aaron Shafovaloff

Asking a Mormon Leader My Hardest Questions

I got a tour inside the San Diego Latter-day Saint temple and now I'm following up with an interview with Neal Walton who is a stake president in the Church of Jesus Chri

Scott Rae Debunks 10 Common Moral Slogans

Can you legislate morality? Is secular ethics neutral? Did Jesus really say "never judge"? Dr. Scott Rae, one of the world's leading Christian ethicists and Sean's Think

J.P. Moreland on Suffering, Doubt, and Facing Death Without Fear

J.P. Moreland is one of the most influential Christian philosophers alive and he's spent the last twelve years enduring what most of us never will: a rare genetic conditi

The Most Uncomfortable Chapter in Acts? Peter, James, and the Problem of Evil

God sent an angel to break Peter out of prison. But one chapter earlier, He let James be executed. Same God, same church, same prayers. Why rescue one apostle and not the

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Does Evil Actually Prove God Exists? | Christian vs. Atheist Dialogue

"If God is good, why is there pain and suffering?". Today, we have a video of atheist professor Paul Rinzler and I to discuss evil. This is our return to the Cal Poly Ver

The Most Compelling Heaven Testimonies Ever Collected? | Skeptic Investigates 140 NDEs

Randy Kay was a biotech CEO and a self-described skeptic who didn't believe in near-death experiences until he flatlined for 30 minutes in 2005 and, in his telling, found

Is Michael Heiser's Unseen Realm the Best Way to Read the Bible?

Giants. A divine council. Demons and the Nephilim. Michael Heiser made the Bible's strangest passages impossible to ignore and sold hundreds of thousands of books doing i

The Rapture: What Is It and When Will It Happen?

Talbot New Testament scholar Dr. Alan Hultberg joins Sean McDowell to sort out what Scripture says, walk through the three major views, and ask the question everyone want

The Signs Are Clear: Why Jesus is Coming Soon!

Can we actually know Jesus is coming back or is this just a matter of blind faith? In this conversation, bestselling author and pastor John Bevere joins me to talk about

What We Can Learn About the Afterlife from Children’s Near Death Experiences

Children who have near-death experiences make for unusually strong evidence and almost nobody has studied them. In this conversation, near-death experience researcher Dr.

Top 12 Biblical Objections to Near-Death Experiences ANSWERED (Steve Miller)

Many Christians dismiss the evidence from near-death experiences on biblical or theological grounds by quoting Hebrews 9:27, citing soul sleep, worrying about new age ass

10 Prophecies That Convinced a Jewish Man Jesus Is the Messiah

What are the strongest Old Testament prophecies that point to Jesus as the Messiah? My guest is Jeff Morgan, a former secular Jew who does street evangelism with Jewish p

The Most Dangerous Idea Destroying Humanity Right Now

In this conversation, Carl Trueman joins me and Scott Rae for one of the most wide-ranging episodes we've recorded. We get into CS Lewis, Nietzsche's madman, the anthropo