No agenda, no outline — just the conversation Bill and Jared were already having before they hit record. This wildcard episode picks up mid-argument on the doctrine of inerrancy: Bill explains why he moved away from a belief he once signed his name to, and Jared pushes back that the doctrine functions less as a truth claim than as a boundary marker for who's in and who's out.

Along the way: what "inerrant in the original autographs" actually means when no original autographs survive, the woman caught in adultery and the ending of Mark, whether the canon was decided by a council or settled organically by 125 AD, and how much Paul's Pharisaic training shaped what he wrote — influenced, biased, or tainted?

Then Bill takes a hard turn. Acts 10: Peter's vision of the sheet, the clean/unclean food laws overturned, and Peter's own leap from food to Gentiles. If Peter could extend that vision beyond what he was literally shown, could the church extend it further today — to LGBTQ believers?

Jared calls it a stretch. He also asks for a week to think about it.

Part 1 of 2. We pick it right back up next episode.

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