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Roland Albertus
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Reasonable Christianity is a weekly podcast where ordinary people have thought-provoking conversations about an extraordinary God. Each week we take a look at the truth claims of Christianity, the teachings of the bible as well as the practices of the saints in order to evaluate and affirm the truthfulness of our faith and ultimately preserve the power of the gospel. Hosted by Roland Albertus

  1. 5D AGO

    Each One Had a Part (Series: Called Out, Gathered In, Episode 2)

    The Spirit Distributed, Not Centralized If ekklesia is more than a word… what does it actually look like when it comes alive? In Episode I, we rediscovered the word Jesus used — a people called out and gathered under His lordship. But a question remained: How did that reality function in everyday life? In this episode, we move from language to lived experience. Walking carefully through key texts like 1 Corinthians 14, Romans 12, and the shared life of Acts 2 and 4, we explore a striking pattern: when believers gathered under Christ’s headship, participation was assumed. Not performance. Not spectatorship. Shared life. We slow down to examine the word diakonos — ministry — and confront a modern reversal where ministry often creates the gathering instead of flowing from it. Scripture paints a different picture: the Spirit did not empower an institution; He indwelt a people. Gifts were distributed. Service was mutual. Leadership existed within the body — not above it. You’ll hear: Why Paul says, “When you come together, each one has…”How ministry is function, not identity or platformWhy the Spirit’s distribution prevents centralizationThe difference between weekly gatherings and daily “one another” lifeAnd why so many faithful believers still feel unseen and undernourishedThis is not a call to dismantle everything. It’s an invitation to notice… and to begin again with small, faithful steps toward shared life. Because Christian community is not sustained by meetings alone — it is sustained by presence, participation, and love embodied in ordinary relationships. And as we close, a deeper question emerges: Why does this way of life feel so deeply human… and its absence so costly? That’s where we’re heading next. 👉 Next Episode: Designed This Way — Why the Ekklesia Fits the Human Soul Because the truth matters… and so do you. Send us a text Support the show

    36 min

  2. FEB 2

    Can You Live With That? (Series: Called Out, Gathered in, Episode 1)

    Relearning the Word Jesus Used What if the tension many Christians quietly feel isn’t a lack of faith—but a mismatch between Scripture and experience? Jesus said, “I will build my ekklesia.” Not a building. Not a service. Not an institution. A people. In this opening episode of Called Out, Gathered In, we slow down and sit with an uncomfortable question: What if the word Jesus used no longer fits the way we live out our faith? Drawing from Scripture, history, and the world Jesus spoke into, this episode explores what ekklesia actually meant before it became translated as “church”—and how a subtle shift in language reshaped our imagination of Christian community. This is not an episode about solutions, structures, or strategies. It’s about recovering a word—and allowing it to look back at us. If all we had were the Bible and its original world, what would we think Jesus meant? And if our experience barely resembles it… Can you live with that? Send us a text Support the show

    36 min

  3. JAN 26

    The God Who Ends Death (Series: Hell, Immortality and the Justice of God, Episode 4)

    This final episode brings the series to its theological center. After examining Scripture’s teaching on immortality, hell, and judgment, we now face the defining question: What kind of God emerges from this vision of justice? This episode argues that conditional immortality does not weaken God’s justice—it completes it. Drawing from Romans, Isaiah, Psalms, 1 Corinthians, and Revelation, Scripture consistently presents judgment as real, proportionate, and final. Evil is not preserved forever. Death itself is destroyed. God’s victory is complete. The cross reveals justice fully borne and finished. The resurrection reveals life restored. And the end of the biblical story is not endless suffering, but the end of death itself. This is not an attempt to make God nicer. It is an attempt to be faithful to what Scripture actually teaches. Christ reigns. Death dies. God is all in all. #ChristianPodcast #BibleStudy #Theology #BiblicalJustice #HellAndJudgment #ConditionalImmortality #ResurrectionHope #EndOfDeath #ChristianApologetics #ReasonableChristianity #JesusChrist #GospelTruth #FaithAndReason Send us a text Support the show

    32 min

  4. JAN 19

    Eternal Destruction, Not Endless Torment: What the Bible Actually Says About Hell (Series: Hell, Immortality, and the Justice of God, Episode 3)

    If God is the source of all life, then hell raises a disturbing question: Who is keeping the damned alive? In this episode, we slow down and ask whether the Bible really teaches eternal conscious torment—or whether we’ve inherited assumptions Scripture itself never makes. Building on the biblical claim that human beings are not immortal by nature, this episode examines a tension few are willing to face: Would an eternal hell require God to actively sustain conscious suffering forever? This is not an emotional argument. It’s a textual one. Through careful, patient engagement with Scripture, we explore what the Bible actually means when it speaks of fire, death, destruction, perishing, judgment, and the “second death.” From Paul and the prophets to Jesus and Revelation, the language of judgment is taken seriously—on its own terms. You’ll hear why: “Eternal” often describes permanent results, not endless processesScripture consistently contrasts life with death, not life with eternal miseryBiblical justice is final and proportionate, not sadistic or self-perpetuatingFire in Scripture destroys evil rather than preserving it foreverWe also confront the gut-level objection head-on: Does final destruction let people off easy? By the end of this episode, the picture that emerges is not a softer God—but a more coherent one. A God who does not eternalize evil, but decisively ends it. A God whose victory is complete, whose justice is real, and whose renewed creation is finally free from death itself. This episode isn’t about making judgment more palatable. It’s about telling the truth. And it sets up the next—and biggest—question of all: Which vision of hell actually fits the cross, the resurrection, and the end of all things? Send us a text Support the show

    35 min

  5. JAN 12

    The Wages of Sin Is Death: The Fall, the Soul, and the Lie We Inherited (Series: Hell, Immortality and the Justice of God, Episode 2)

    What if one of the most influential voices shaping how Christians think about the soul wasn’t Paul — but Plato? In this episode, we slow down and ask a question most believers have never been invited to examine: Did Scripture ever teach that the soul is indestructible — or did that idea come from somewhere else? Without attacking the church or dismissing tradition, this conversation carefully re-opens the biblical text itself. From Genesis to Jesus to Paul, we trace how Scripture speaks about life, death, soul, and immortality — and whether “death” in the Bible really means separation, or something far more final. We explore: Death as consequence, not merely punishmentWhat nephesh and ruach actually mean in ScriptureWhy resurrection, not soul survival, stands at the center of Christian hopeHow Greek philosophy quietly reshaped later Christian assumptionsWhy immortality is presented as a gift, not a default human possessionThis is not fast theology. It’s careful, text-driven listening. If death truly is the wages of sin — not transition, not relocation — then the warnings of Scripture become sharper, not softer. And the hope of the gospel becomes not survival, but resurrection. This episode sets the foundation for a deeper conversation about judgment, hell, and justice — which we’ll turn to next. The truth matters. And so do you. Send us a text Support the show

    33 min

  6. JAN 5

    Who Alone Has Immortality? (Series: Hell, Immortality and the Justice of God, Episode 1)

    The debate about hell didn’t start with a celebrity, a controversy, or the Middle Ages. It started in Genesis. In this opening episode, we slow the conversation down and ask a more fundamental question—one most Christians have never been taught to examine: Are human beings immortal by nature… or only by grace? Before we talk about judgment, hell, or final punishment, we have to get our anthropology right. This episode lays the ontological foundation for the entire series by exploring what Scripture actually says about life, death, and dependence on God. Drawing from Genesis, Paul’s writings, and the biblical theology of the Tree of Life, we challenge one of Christianity’s most assumed ideas: that the human soul is naturally indestructible. Instead, we discover a far more biblical—and far more sobering—vision of life as a gift, not a possession. Along the way, we engage: Our modern obsession with defeating deathThe difference between self-existence and given lifeWhy dependence is not a weakness but the essence of creaturehoodHow Scripture consistently frames immortality as God’s possession aloneThis episode is not yet about hell. It’s about the kind of beings we are—and what it means to exist by grace. Teaser: If life is conditional, then death isn’t arbitrary—it’s logical. And that changes everything about how we understand hell. The truth matters — and so do you.Send us a text Support the show

    35 min

  7. 12/29/2025

    Two Genealogies, One Messiah: Matthew, Luke & the Royal Line (The Christmas Series, Episode 4)

    Why do the Gospels begin with long lists of names—and why do Matthew and Luke tell the story so differently? In this episode, we slow down and take the genealogies seriously, not as biblical filler, but as theological proof. What modern readers tend to skip, the ancient world treated as decisive evidence. If Jesus’ lineage fails, His messianic claim collapses. If it holds, everything else follows. We explore why Matthew opens his Gospel with a royal genealogy rooted in Abraham and David, establishing Jesus’ legal right to Israel’s throne—and why Luke traces a very different line, moving backward through history all the way to Adam, grounding Jesus in real humanity and shared flesh. Along the way, we address: Why Matthew traces the royal line through Solomon while Luke follows NathanHow adoption and legal fatherhood function in Jewish lawWhy the genealogies are not contradictory, but complementaryThe problem of Jeconiah’s curse—and why the virgin birth isn’t a complication, but the solutionHow Jesus can inherit the throne without inheriting the curseTogether, Matthew and Luke answer two essential questions: Does Jesus have the right to rule? And does He truly belong to us? The result is a portrait of a Messiah who is both rightful King and true Brother—legally qualified to reign and biologically qualified to redeem. We close by reflecting on what these messy family trees mean for us: how God works through broken lines, redeems flawed histories, and weaves grace through generations of failure and faith alike. Two genealogies. Two witnesses. One Messiah. Because in Scripture, names matter—and so does your story. Send us a text Support the show

    31 min

  8. 12/22/2025

    The Birthday of the King: Why Jesus was likely born on September 10-11, 3 B.C. (The Christmas Series, Episode 3)

    The Bible doesn’t tell us the date of Jesus’ birth—so why even ask the question? In this episode, we explore why timing in Scripture is never accidental, and why Jesus’ arrival may have been far more deliberately orchestrated than we’ve assumed. Without dogmatism or sensationalism, we examine a compelling convergence of biblical chronology, Jewish feast patterns, priestly service cycles, and ancient astronomy that points toward a narrow window: the Feast of Trumpets, September 10–11, 3 B.C. Along the way, we look carefully at Revelation 12’s “sign in the heavens,” the Star of Bethlehem through Jupiter and Regulus, Zechariah’s priestly service, shepherds in the fields, and the theological meaning of God aligning history, heaven, and prophecy around the birth of His Son. This is not an attempt to replace Scripture with science, nor to debunk Christmas traditions—but to marvel at the possibility that the King of Kings entered the world on the very day Israel celebrated the coronation of kings. Whether you find the argument convincing or simply thought-provoking, one thing becomes clear: Jesus’ birth was not random—and neither is your story. Send us a text Support the show

    35 min
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Reasonable Christianity is a weekly podcast where ordinary people have thought-provoking conversations about an extraordinary God. Each week we take a look at the truth claims of Christianity, the teachings of the bible as well as the practices of the saints in order to evaluate and affirm the truthfulness of our faith and ultimately preserve the power of the gospel. Hosted by Roland Albertus

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  • Creator
    Roland Albertus
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    75
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