Episode 29 - Evil in the Bible: The Christian Apocrypha

In this episode of Cogito Ergo Pod, your host Daniel explores the shadows of the early Christian and Jewish imagination. While the canonical Bible provides the foundation for Western views on morality, many of our most vivid images of the Devil, the architecture of Hell, and the nature of betrayal actually stem from the "Expanded Universe"—texts written between the 1st and 4th centuries CE that didn't make the final cut of the New Testament.

We often think of the Bible as a complete manual, but for early believers, there were massive narrative gaps. How did Satan fall? What exactly happens to sinners in the afterlife? What was Jesus like as a child? In this deep dive, we dissect the non-canonical answers to these questions.