When the Story Became Bigger Than I Expected

Episode 1 — When the Story Became Bigger Than I Expected

What if the version of Christianity you inherited is built on an assumption no one ever asked you to question?

What if the way most Western Christians understand sin, salvation, and even the Gospel itself comes from a diagnosis of the human problem that might not be as universal—or as ancient—as we assume?

In this opening episode, I share the crisis that forced me to confront those questions. What began as late-night research into biblical authority and denominational division turned into a complete unraveling of how I understood Christianity. Reformed theology once gave me certainty, clarity, and a system that seemed logically unbreakable—until I began discovering how much of it depended on one foundational idea: Original Sin.

And when that foundation started to shift, everything connected to it started to shift too.

This episode explores how doctrines like election, atonement, assurance, saints, and even how Christians understand children and human nature may all trace back to one assumption about the Fall—and why encountering Eastern Christianity challenged that assumption in ways I never expected.

This is the podcast I wish existed when my faith felt like it was coming apart.