How can we confidently determine what is and what is not reliable doctrine so we can

decide what to believe? This is what Casey and I discussed in our last episode,

where we introduced what we called the three doctrinal lenses or criteria

by which we can assess the doctrinal reliability of a truth claim.

In today's episode of Church History Matters, we're going to practice putting these three

lenses to work by actually using them to measure and evaluate various theological truth claims

to determine the level of confidence we have in them.

So welcome to Scott and Casey's doctrinal workshop.

I'm Scott Woodward and my co-host is Casey Griffiths and today we dive into

our third episode of this series dealing with truth-seeking and good thinking. Now let's

get into it.

Hello again, Scott. Hey Casey, how are we doing?

Good, I'm doing good. And I'm looking forward to a little intellectual is it best to say combat or are we going on a safari or what's the best metaphor to use

What we're gonna do over the next few minutes?

Pickleball. We're playing pickleball. Yeah. Yeah, this is just a little back and forth.

Dr. No, pickleball. A little doctoral pickleball.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right, all right. So, Dr. Nol pickleball.

Yeah. We're just gonna play a little bit here. just going to play a little fun game called how confident are you in that

doctrine I think is the name of our game today. Got it got it. But before we do that you

should review what we talked about in our last episode.

Yeah, so our last episode was about doctrinal confidence and I'm going to

summarize really quickly because I want to get to the doctrinal pickleball here but

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