Welcome to this bonus episode of Season 4 of Learning How to See.

We're responding to amazing questions that have come in over this season.

And Mike, I wonder if you would share this next question with us.

Yeah, of course.

Hi, Brian.

I'm enjoying your latest podcast. You and your guests put into words what I'm believing and exploring. I've come so far from my beliefs as a Baptist,

and it's so freeing. I'm getting comfortable not knowing the answers. But I'm struggling a bit with

Jesus. I've been questioning the virgin birth and resurrection.

As of now, I believe that Jesus was an amazing prophet who was so in touch with God's

spirit that he could do miracles and his teachings were life-changing. Would you let me know

how you feel about my thoughts? Blessings to you. I just think that's such an honest and good question. And I wonder if

you could give us one more question that I think is similar. Sure. Thanks for taking questions.

I've got several rolling around in my heart and mind, but this is the only one I can put in words in this

instant. Were you saying the church didn't believe Christ had to die on the cross to redeem

our sins for the first thousand years? Or were you saying the idea that the father had to punish

Jesus in our place wasn't around for the first thousand years of the church. Thank you. Okay. So, and we had a

couple of other questions that overlapped with these, but I think for those of us who call

ourselves Christians, we face this struggle. We can be super, super interested in Jesus. We can be

super drawn to Jesus. We can even say that we would like to follow Jesus and we love Jesus and we trust Jesus.

But then when we show up sometimes at various outposts of the Christian religion, they say, well, that's not enough.

You need to believe this and this and this and this as well.

And very often our love for Jesus just makes us say, well, I'll say whatever you want me to

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