Axis Mundi You're going to. Hello, pleasure as always to be with you. My name is Dan Miller, and this is, it's in the Code, a series

is part of the podcast Straight White American Jesus.

Pleased to be with you today. I want to dive into a topic. This sort of continues on the theme from the last episode.

The previous episode was on this notion of bad theology, right?

And as I noted, a lot of people had asked what do I mean by that, when I say that, and I talked about sort of different meanings of that term and so forth.

As I was thinking about that, it also ties in with some additional questions and issues that people have reached out about and again

Specifically dealing with the Bible and conservative Christians and high-control religion and so forth.

I think when it comes to popular high control Christianity in America,

the Bible is just the gift that keeps on giving.

And so I don't mean to about the Bible all the time, but just so many insights and questions and comments from folks that come up with this. And so I wanted to tie this notion of bad theology and revisit some of this notion of the Bible as being inerrant, that is as being without error of having absolute authority and so forth and

and don't worry if you listen to the the series of episodes on an errance you I'm not

going to repeat all of that here right I'm not going to double up on that but

folks have reached out with questions

and something is really insightful comments

and basically saying, well, isn't like the whole idea

of an errancy bad theology in the sense

as you talked about? One is the sense that it's incoherent or self-defeating. I've already talked about that.

I referenced that last episode. I think that that's the case. But there's another one and I said that bad theology can also refer to this idea of imminent

critique right that is where you take the perspective of somebody that you know you're

arguing with or debating or whatever and you try to show that something is problematic

or contradictory or whatever from within their own sort of conceptual framework, even if it's not a framework you share.

And where I think people are reaching toward and what I was thinking about and what I've experienced and it was really actually

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