Fundies YEARN for the year 100 AD
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss what the early church actually was, and how Christianity was formed as much by Paul as it was by Jesus.
Citations for claims about the authorship of the bible:
- Tabor, J. D. (2013). Paul and Jesus: how the Apostle transformed Christianity. Simon & Schuster.
- Tabor, J. (2025, June 10). The quest for the historical paul. Biblical Archaeology Society. https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/the-quest-for-the-historical-paul/
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| 0:00.0 | Roll, rolling river of time, you've healed me in too many days. |
| 0:13.0 | No regrets, no confusion, there'll be no pollution |
| 0:21.5 | I'm so thankful |
| 0:23.6 | I've decided |
| 0:25.4 | to change my ways |
| 0:29.1 | Welcome in to the Leaving Eden podcast |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome in Welcome in we're here to talk about cults we're |
| 0:41.0 | talking about fundamentalism we're talking about religion uh and everything related to those topics |
| 0:46.7 | sadie carpenter she is here she's your host she's a cult expert she's a cult survivor uh she is |
| 0:52.5 | was raised in the fundamentalist church. |
| 0:56.3 | My name's Gavi Hikoen. |
| 0:58.1 | Once again, this show is available wherever you get your podcast and also on YouTube. |
| 1:02.1 | Be sure to subscribe over there because once we get to 10,000 subscribers, we're going to do a big |
| 1:06.7 | deep dive on the cult that Sadie was raised in a full-length docu-series. |
| 1:11.3 | And if you want to see that, make sure you share this show, family, friends, |
| 1:15.7 | coworkers, anyone who you think would like it. |
| 1:18.4 | Sadie, what is it that we are talking about today? |
| 1:22.2 | So I want to talk about the early church and everything that we do and mostly don't know about it. Fundamentalism, |
| 1:30.3 | like we talked about last week, the idea behind it is that we need to get back to the way things |
| 1:35.7 | were in the first century. Right. So like, okay, what is that way that you're talking about? |
| 1:41.4 | What were things like in the first century? And the answer is we don't know. |
| 1:45.8 | If you're a Christian, you would point to like the book of acts, right? |
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