Biblical Scholar Dan McClellan Talks To God and Jesus!

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Dear Humans,

Today, Jesus and I sit down with social media star, author and Bible scholar Dan McClellan, whose new book The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture's Most Controversial Issues drops April 29.

Dan breaks down what the Bible really says about hot-button issues like abortion, slavery, lying, and homosexuality…and how scripture often contradicts itself. He also shares how he went from being raised agnostic to becoming a Mormon, and what most people get wrong about Mormonism.

If you're skeptical about a Mormon writing a book like this, just wait until you hear what Dan has to say. There are smart, left-leaning folks in every faith tradition, even the ones you wouldn’t expect.

Don’t miss The Bible Says So when it hits shelves April 29.

Love,

God

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0:00.0	This week on the God Pod.
0:03.0	You were raised Christian and you converted to Mormonism?
0:05.0	I was kind of raised agnostic.
0:07.0	Wow.
0:08.0	We didn't really do religion in my house when I was growing up.
0:11.0	Make that be a lesson to you, atheists.
0:13.0	If you want your kid to be an atheist, make them go to church and read the Bible.
0:18.0	And so when it comes to things like God being a bigot, you can find passages where that's
0:26.3	the most likely interpretation of what's going on.
0:28.7	And then you can find other passages that that flatly disagree with or that directly contradict
0:33.5	those other passages.
0:34.5	And then you can find God on his substack saying, that's a
0:39.2	fucking lie. Never said that. Why is everybody laughing at that?
0:49.1	Welcome back to the God Pod humans. Today, Jesus and I are joined by a special guest, author Dan McClellan,
0:56.8	whose book, The Bible Says So. What we get right and wrong about Scripture's most controversial issues
1:03.7	will be released on April 29. Welcome, Dan. Tell us more about yourself.
1:10.2	Well, first off, thank you for your time. I appreciate the audience with y'all.
1:17.2	I, like I, this must be a big moment for you.
1:22.1	Yeah, yeah, big time. And I just got done with, I had a neuropsych evaluation because I was concerned about that I might have ADHD.
1:33.6	And it turns out I don't, which is good.
1:38.1	And now I get to come talk to you all to just kind of vent and make myself feel better. But yeah, like I said, I got kicked out
1:48.4	of college the first time around. I was going to, I wanted to be a comic book artist. So I went
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