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Rabbit Holes & Meditations - Christian Bible Study
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Tired of preachy, judgmental sermons? Rabbit Holes & Meditations is a Bible study podcast that trades performance for honest Christian conversation. We walk through Jesus’ words chronologically (this season), chase down the “rabbit holes” most people avoid, and let Scripture interpret Scripture.
This show is for intentionally curious Christians who want depth without the drama. Sometimes we’ll spend 30 minutes on two verses—because careful reading matters. You’ll get biblical references, cross-references, deep dives, and real-life application around faith, fear, forgiveness, judgment, prayer, and hope—without being told what to think.
We follow a strict “Bible interprets the Bible” approach we call the Berean Bible Study Filter, designed to keep teaching grounded and unencumbered by third-party commentary. Bring your questions—nothing is off the table. Come curious, leave grounded.
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Testing the Knock - The Berean Meets the Jehovah Witness
2d ago00:52:38Tap to summarizeSome of the most challenging tests for the Berean Filter app come from religions that don’t negate Jesus but redefine Him. We saw this when we researched the Muslim challenges to Christianity. Today, we looked at the top 5 challenges a Jehovah's Witness would present and fed them into the Berean Search app to test the response. Armed with the response from the Berean Search app, we then turned it around and started asking questions that would make the average Jehovah’s Witness uncomfortable. Unlike a Berean, the Jehovah’s Witness has two issues. The first is that it is very difficult to support their answers the way a Berean would. The text just doesn’t support the claim. Second, new interpretations (NWT - New World Translation) nuance the text to fit the interpretation - clearly a violation. I think a Berean would have a real problem with that. These challenges we are presenting to the Berean app are specifically designed to test the application's robustness. We were not intending to confront the Jehovah’s Witnesses. But ultimately, it turns out to be a very useful tool for laying the groundwork for a discussion. This is not “bashing” a religion. It is the rightful and appropriate response to a religion that, by its own claims, uses the Christian Bible and reinterprets it. The Christian has every right to push back. That is exactly how a Berean would respond. So armed with the Berean responses or, more importantly, armed with scripture itself, we did go deep into the discussion beyond the answers to the 5 major traps we presented to the Berean app. The article “Testing the Knock” was developed to cover both the response to the traps and the deeper discussion. Notes for Testing the Knock Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/testing-the-knock-the-berean-meets-the-jehovah-witness/
Transcribe →The Muslim Challenges The Berean (Testing the Berean Search App).
4d ago00:44:14Tap to summarizeWe scoured the web for some of the top objections a Muslim person would raise against Christianity. Then we fed those questions into the Berean Teacher Search App to get a direct scriptural response. This was part of our plan to test the abilities of the Berean Teacher to respond to some of the toughest objections a Christian might face. When the question of lineage comes up, there is something the Berean app initially failed to bring up that completely reframes why Mary's genealogy is so important. In fact, none of the respondents in our research brought it up either. In our bible study, the point was raised. Jesus was born of a virgin. So, it makes sense that the genealogical structure can be confusing. It is unlike any other person and suggests the nuance that the reader of scripture must contend with. In all our research, no one seemed to raise this point, and it is the one thing that softens and clarifies the rest of the response to genealogy. A Jew would not consider the lineage traced through the woman but in Jesus’ case, that must be considered. That is his human origin. The Davidic covenant promises an eternal ruler. God steps in place of Joseph. Jesus is legally the descendent of David, but he could not be biologically the son of David and be divine. This argument throws even the Muslim off since the Muslims do not deny the virgin birth. The top 5 questions along with the Berean response are included in the article: The Muslim Challenges the Berean. Bottom line… I think the Berean wins! See for yourself. The actual responses from the Berean Search are included here for your reference. The nuance regarding genealogy was updated to give what we believe to be a better response. We urge you to test the Berean Search app on your own and never take our word for it, or even the Berean Search results as definitive until you sit with the text, sit with others in your bible groups and wrestle with the text. The app facilitates that by giving you supporting scripture. It is a wonderful and expedient way to come up with a Bible study topic for discussion and further reading. After seeing some of the omissions, we updated the app. Notes from the Berean Search app - The Muslim Challenges and Responses Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/the-muslim-challenges-the-berean/ The Berean Search App https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/the-berean/
Transcribe →The Berean Teacher - LAUNCHED!
1w ago00:15:06Tap to summarizeThis 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/
Transcribe →The Spiritual House of Mirrors
1w ago00:19:31Tap to summarizeWe’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/
Transcribe →Before the Beginning - Humanity as the Instrument of Spiritual Warfare
2w ago00:54:08Tap to summarizeI 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/
Transcribe →Brands and Logos - The Envy of Identity
2w ago00:14:38Tap to summarizeWell, I started right where I should have in our journey tracing events in the bible where God has lived among men. The Israelites are about to construct the first human-built dwelling for God to live among them. I started today with Exodus 25 and didn’t get very far. I got to thinking about the last commandment (thou shalt not covet), about everything God is doing in this moment. I chased those thoughts. So today’s podcast isn’t not about the place where God lives … but then, as I think about it, that is exactly what today’s podcast is about. Offerings for the Tabernacle Exodus 25:1-8 The LORD said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from everyone whose heart prompts them to give. These are the offerings you are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze; blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair; ram skins dyed red and another type of durable leather; acacia wood; olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense; and onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece. “Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them. 9 Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you. Notes for the Envy of Identity Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/brands-and-logos-the-envy-of-identity/
Transcribe →The First Supper
2w ago00:34:50Tap to summarizeTypically when you embark on a journey to study end times in the bible you’re are bounced between Revelation, Daniel, Ezekiel, Zechariah with a little Matthew 24 and 24. Here, though, in season 5, As we walk through the Bible landing where God interacted with His creation, we are way back at the beginning and whatever the temple of the day was, we’re still seeing the connections leap off the page straight through the cross into Revelation. Honestly, we were hoping this would happen. We wanted to take this approach because if you understand the beginning, you can almost predict the end, without ever having read it. What we did not expect to see was how soon the clues start dropping into plain sight. Notes for The First Supper Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/the-first-supper/
Transcribe →The Mountain and the Veil
2w ago00:36:49Tap to summarizeToday we're continuing our journey through one of the most important themes in all of Scripture: the temple. When most Christians hear the word temple, they think of a building in Jerusalem. Some think of Solomon's Temple. Others think of a future temple still waiting to be built. But what if the story begins much earlier than that? What if the temple was never primarily about a building at all? In this series, we're tracing the temple from its very beginning, following the thread from Eden through Sinai, the tabernacle, the temple, Christ, and ultimately the dwelling place of God among His people. Today we arrive at Mount Sinai. Here, before a single board of the tabernacle is cut and before a priest ever puts on sacred garments, God reveals a pattern. Boundaries. Consecration. Mediation. Access to His presence. Everything that will later become the temple system already exists on the mountain. But Sinai is not the destination. It is a waypoint. The mountain, the veil, the priesthood, and the sacrifices all point beyond themselves to something greater. And if we follow that trajectory carefully, we may discover that many of our assumptions about the temple—and perhaps even some of our assumptions about prophecy—need a second look. Notes for The Mountain and the Veil Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/the-mountain-and-the-veil/
Transcribe →The Highest Form of Deception - The Chris Bledsoe UFO - Alien Experience
2w ago00:45:08Tap to summarizeI just watched a lengthy interview on Danny Jones podcast of Chris and Emily Bledsoe. the Title is NASA’s Forbidden Alien Study Finds Proof of Spiritual Beings | Chris & Emily Bledsoe. These are two of the most credible people discussing alien encounters I’ve ever seen. The point here is not to debunk their experience. Quite the opposite, I think we should take it very seriously. Included in the source material is our original document “Signs, Spirits and Synthetic Minds and then a follow up article that specifically addresses this video called The Highest Form of Deception. Bledsoe YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/XmVQFX2Pp60?si=DLr2w_FS8_z1Mixd Notes for the Highest Form of Deception Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/the-highest-form-of-deception-the-chris-bledsoe-ufo-alien-experience/
Transcribe →The Invitation to Approach Holy Ground
2w ago00:42:33Tap to summarizeWe are early in our journey tracing the trajectory of God’s direct interaction with his creation. What we’re already discovering is a very tender, very soft entry. God does not land abruptly, he lands softly and leads. Unfortunately, men don’t always listen. Still, as we track through this history, you’ll see the patience, the persistence and the love of a Father for his children. Today, we look at the first encounter between God and Moses. With a careful reading, you’ll find this encounter more tender and softer than you might feel when you envision the burning bush. Notes for The Invitation to Approach Holy Ground Episode Link: https://www.rabbitholesandmeditations.com/the-invitation-to-approach-holy-ground/
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