Jesus gives us a crucial challenge: 'Who do you say that I am?' We discuss our answers to that question. Meanwhile, Joe launches MFC verify to examine some claims about Christmas and Nick talks about Bible translation and why there are unicorns in the King James Version.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• The VelociPastor - Wikipedia
• Wintering | Katherine May
• How to Winter | Kari Leibowitz
• Hygge
• Experiencing Scripture as a Disciple of Jesus | Dave Ripper
• Beyond Justification: Liberating Paul’s gospel | Douglas A Campbell and John DuPue

This week, we spend a lot of time discussing the spiritual lessons to be learned from Traitors. Also, we talk about heavily paraphrased Bible verses and Joe has had a near-death experience in the toilet.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Daniel Swift | The Dream Factory
• Patrick Grant | Less
• “Are We the Baddies?” — That Mitchell and Webb Look
• BBC One - Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles
• BBC One - The Celebrity Traitors

Joe is not very well this week. So here's just a little something to keep you going: an edited excerpt from an episode done many years ago on Nick's book The Badly Behaved Bible. As Nick says, it's not so much a 'greatest hit' as one of our least worst efforts. We talk about the inspiration of scripture and how many of our problems with the Bible are not with the book itself, so much as the things people say about it.

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• The Badly Behaved Bible | Nick Page
• If you want to listen again to the series, it continues with Episode 79: Exile Stories