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Real Seeker Ministries

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I'm a person sincerely interested in seeking religious truth, for years I studied and did my best to seek out the truth about God's existence, the existence and nature of the afterlife and which religion might be true and/or endorsed by God. At the end of my searching, I came to the conclusion that Christianity is the religion that God wants me to follow and believe. I hope to help other "real seekers" in their journey to finding the same truth that I did. I can be reached via email at reals ...
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Over a year ago, I was invited to come on Nathan Ormond's (Digital Gnosis) channel to speak on the Shroud of Turin and at some point Bob Rucker and Tom McAvoy's research came up and I felt I didn't do the best job defending their great work.Hence, I figured, why not schedule a Round 2 and have Bob and Tom engage directly with Nathan and James thems…
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Happy New Year Real Seekers! We have a jam packed January full of shows and special guests, but I just wanted to start the year off with a short video giving a Biblical response to the Rabyd Atheist who has taken it upon himself to rechristen me as "Rancor Seeker" in order to include me in his childish Star Wars inspired Atheistic fantasy world. Wh…
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Juan from the Modern Atheism channel and Phil Bair (Christian) return to Michael Lofton's channel to debate the question of "Did Jesus Rise from the dead?".Enjoy :)RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/reason-theology-debate-did-jesus-rise-from-the-dead-w-juan-from-modern-atheism-vs-phil-bair/…
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Fan of the Podcast, Mark B. from the UK, requested I bring on Pro-Shroud journalist, William West, who has written three books on the Shroud and has argued that the Shroud presents us with evidence that fit together like pieces of a puzzle; culminating in proving the miraculous Resurrection of Jesus!RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress…
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Pro-Shroud historian, Jack Markwardt, returns to the Shroud Wars to provide a meta-analysis of some of the troubling recent developments happening in Shroud scholarship. He has found that several people are claiming to be Shroud experts on YouTube and in popular level presentations of the Shroud of Turin, but they consistently misstate the facts, l…
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The Atheist YouTubers, Paulogia and the Rabyd Atheist, have recently been on an unrelenting persecution campaign against Dr. Gary Habermas; desperate to undermine his scholarly research supporting the Resurrection in any way they possibly can! However, with Paulogia's most recent propaganda video, it has come to my attention that it is not only the…
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Phil Bair invited me on his show to discuss several topics in his new book, Deconstructing Junk Theology. We go over, Faith vs. doubts, YEC vs. OEC, Genesis 1-11 as the Mytho-history genre, and the role of women. Phil and I have some disagreements, so look out for an interesting discussion.RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/…
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National Christian Fitness expert Theresa Rowe, founder of Shaped by Faith—the faith-based fitness ministry dedicated to strengthening spirit, mind, and body for God’s purposes joins me to discuss her upcoming book "Shaped by Faith 40-Day Devotional" and her fitness-based ministry.RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/the…
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An introduction to the techniques used to study the history and ages of geological speciments. We begin with an overview of chronostratigraphy, covering principles of relative dating, way up indicators, and biostratigraphy. We then discuss geochronology, including a review of early attempts to determine the age of the Earth, the principles and assu…
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First I start off with an advertisement for Eemma Summer's Cozy Christian Mandala Coloring Book for Christians with a more artistic creativity and like to serve God in that way (see first 10 mins).Amazon.com Link = https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2RJ8DN8Then, we jump straight into the main event, a debate on the Reason and Theology podcast between Chr…
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The infamous Atheist YouTuber, Paulogia, once claimed to have ended Dr. Gary Habermas' career through his "Minimal Witnesses Hypothesis" (which supposedly accounted for Gary's 6 "Minimal Facts"). Previously on Real Seekers, the former Atheistic, now leaning Christian, Professor Tavo San Abri came on my show to give the lie to Paulogia's over-exagge…
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The Jewish independent researcher, Michael J. Alter, has been a vocal critic of Gary Habermas' scholarly consensus criterion for his "Minimal Facts Approach". Additionally, he has written a chapter on the Shroud of Turin in his book, The Resurrection and Its Apologetics Jesus’ Death and Burial, Volume One, whereby he evaluates the Shroud evidence o…
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The Jewish independent researcher, Michael J. Alter, has been a vocal critic of Gary Habermas' scholarly consensus criterion for his "Minimal Facts Approach". Additionally, he has written a chapter on the Shroud of Turin in his book, The Resurrection and Its Apologetics Jesus’ Death and Burial, Volume One, whereby he evaluates the Shroud evidence o…
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The Jewish independent researcher, Michael J. Alter, has been a vocal critic of Gary Habermas' scholarly consensus criterion for his "Minimal Facts Approach". Additionally, he has written a chapter on the Shroud of Turin in his book, The Resurrection and Its Apologetics Jesus’ Death and Burial, Volume One, whereby he evaluates the Shroud evidence o…
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Daniel, the Quran-only Muslim, recently had a debate with the famous Christian apologist and Islamic debater Sam Shamoun. Popular opinion has it that Sam mopped the floor with Daniel and hence, Daniel wished to invite me on to provide an objective discussion and assessment of the debate.The debate itself got a little heated and personal at times an…
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I debate Daniel the Quran-only Muslim on the Biblical necessity of blood in the atonement of our sins. Michael Lofton from the Reason & Theology podcast was kind enough to be the moderator again.RSM Blog (with my slides) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/debate-is-blood-biblically-necessary-for-atonement-w-dale-glover-vs-danie…
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Daniel (the Muslim) felt unsatisfied with our debate on Daniel 2 & 7 and asked if I could come on his show to do a follow up discussion on several issues that weren't fully covered during the debate proper itself.RSM Blog (with free sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/jesus-or-muhammed-debating-the-fulfillment-of-the-pr…
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We're back! Dale vs. Daniel the Quran-only Muslim and this time we are debating the prophecies in Daniel 2 and 7 of the Bible; are these predicting the spiritual kingdom of Jesus Christ (as per Christianity) or Muhammed and Islamic Empire?May God's truth prevail :)RSM Blog = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/jesus-or-muhammed-de…
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The Atheist YouTubers Paulogia and the Rabyd Atheist are in cahoots and at it again folks! In this charged climate of skeptical quote twisting and devilish distortions of the truth to suit Atheistic agendas, I'm joined by an unbiased Atheist with Christian leanings, Prof. Tavo San Abri, to assess Paulogia's "Minimal Witnesses Hypothesis"- a theory …
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Alright, as promised, I wanted to post up my follow up review of my debate with Jake the Muslim Metaphysician on the logical and metaphysical coherence of the Trinity Monotheism model as first discovered by Dr. William Lane Craig. The debate went great and I really appreciated the 4 arguments presented by Jake and thus I wanted to do my best to giv…
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I was a guest on the Reason and Theology Podcast to debate Jake Brancatella (aka. The Muslim Metaphysician) on the topic of whether Dr. Craig's "Trinity Monotheism" philosophical model is a logically and metaphysically coherent concept.I argue the affirmative case and Jake provides 4 arguments against the Trinity's coherence on this front.** Note: …
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An introduction to the process of development, beginning with fertilisation and covering the stages of blastocyst formation, implantation into the uterus, gastrulation and its constituent cell movements, neurulation and the role of the notochord, and the beginnings of organogenesis. We also discuss the differences in gastrulation between protostome…
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Christian neuroscientist, Dr. Trevor Lohman, rejoins me to discuss the topic of consciousness through the lens of the data from neuroscience with Atheist and skeptical physicalist Darren Lute (from the Skeptics and Seekers podcast).This promises to be a respectful yet very insightful convo- make sure to tune in :) RSM Blog = https://realseekerminis…
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Attention Atheists and Shroud skeptics! The evidence is in, it is now time that every rational unbeliever become Shroud Pilled. That is the name of a new book giving a neutral and fully objective survey of the Shroud evidence for and against its authenticity by Dr. Trevor Lohman, a self described Shroud Agnostic who leans toward the Pro-Shroud side…
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I'm joined by returning guest, historian Dr. Cheryl White, to talk philosophy and the Shroud in her new upcoming book (to be released by the end of November from Westbow Press). The Shroud represents an enigma or mystery which warrants the conclusion it serves as a sign to us. In this episode we go over the logic of such a conclusion vs. a mere fal…
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Allan Ruhl returns to the show to follow up on a comment from a skeptic on his first show's claim that Christians were persecuted by Jews mostly during the first 1000 years of its history and that the typical Jewish claim that Christians have persecuted and oppressed the Jews for 2000 years is made up nonsense based on nothing but anti-Christian bi…
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In the previous debate on God's existence between Phil Bair and Juan from Modern Atheism, the side topic of animal pain and suffering came up. I removed that section of the debate (10 mins or less total) at the request of both of the debaters to focus in on the main topic of debate. However, Omar was passionate about the subject and wanted to discu…
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My friend and Resurrection scholar, Dr. Gary Habermas, returns to the show to various objections and criticisms regarding his recently published Vol. 3 on the Resurrection as raised by skeptical scholars and popularizers alike.Gary provides clear and sound answers to these skeptics in full accordance with 1 Peter 3:15 and I believe tackles them in …
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Co-author and fellow Christian Olivier Bonnassies joins me to talk about his European best selling book coming out on Oct 14th in North America providing the latest scientific evidence for the existence of God from a total of 12 different scientific disciplines. This one is a must watch as Olivier and his co-author interviewed over 100 Nobel Prize …
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Mike visits Real Seekers to continue our conversation from our last debate on the Shroud of Turin. In this show, we discuss Mike's underlying problematic assumption that miracles are absurd or impossible to occur and I think we manage to make some headway in getting Mike to be more open minded to miracles a bit! RSM Blog = https://realseekerministr…
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OK this is another debate between myself on the Christian side and a Muslim named Daniel. We had a very cordial, respectful and substantive debate on the topic of "Is Muhammed a True Prophet or Not?". I took up the negative side answering No, Muhammed is NOT a true prophet and Daniel took up the affirmative. Interestingly, Daniel is a Quran-only Mu…
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This was not an episode I had planned on doing and indeed it was not one I had any desire to do, but I have to expose the newly discovered truth about Hugh Farey as a purposeful liar! I recently did a great show with Modern Atheism in which we discussed the Shroud, many skeptics on there seemed to be in good faith and I appreciated their inputs ver…
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An overview of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), beginning from the basic physics of nuclear magnetic resonance, and covering the use of radiowaves to excite nuclear spin states, and the T1 and T2 modes of relaxation. We then explore how these phenomena are used to produce 3d images, including magnetic field gradients, frequency encoding, phase enc…
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This was the 2nd of 5 debates I got lined up in the past two weeks. In this episode I go up against Juan from the Modern Atheism channel and had a great talk discussing the historical evidence for the Resurrection and addressing his issues with miracles, contradictions in the Gospels and of course we get to the Shroud of Turin in the end.A very civ…
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Alright Real Seekers fans, this is the ultimate showdown, Muslim vs. Christian on the topic of "Is Muhammed Mentioned in the Bible". In this debate, it is only the Muslim who makes the claim and thus bears the burden of proof to affirm the proposition. I merely provide various undercutting and rebutting defeaters to the Muslims claim which he must,…
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Attention all Shroud fans, we have some breaking news!!! According to Shroud skeptics a new document written between 1370-1382 A.D. by the medieval skeptic and scholar Bishop Nicole Oresme has allegedly confirmed the claims of the D'Arcis Memorandum about the Shroud being a hoax!Is this true? Has this newest text just recently discovered changed th…
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Allan Ruhl joins me, as per a recommendation of Harry Stark, to speak on a couple of the biggest Jewish myths about Christians and Christianity; i) the historical myth that Christians have persecuted Jews for 2000 years and ii) the theological objection that Christians are idolators via the doctrine of the Trinity.Allan Ruhl's YouTube Channel = / @…
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Larry Stalley provides his third and final 2025 Conference presentation on the divine testimony of the Shroud from the New Testament. In this lecture he discusses the various typological references to the Shroud images in Hebrews 9.RSM Blog (with slides and free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpres...Larry's Book "Divine Testi…
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Phil Bair has recently created a brand new prayer ap called Supplica to help Christians organize and manage their prayers to God. In this show, we discuss the importance of prayer and how Supplica can help to vastly improve your prayer life for just $10/month.Supplica Prayer Ap link = https://philbair.org/supplica/login.phpRSM Blog = https://realse…
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Alright Real Seekers fans, this show is for you as I return to answering 4 fan requests from fans. The first has to do with the battle of Gog and Magog in Ezekiel 38-39 vs. Rev 20. The second deals with the Great Isaiah Scroll and it's textual preservation. The third is a brief response to Cicero Moraes recent Shroud skeptical paper on the "3D" and…
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Pro-Shroud historian Jack Markwardt returns to provide an extensive presentation on the historical evidence for the Shroud from 1001-1207 A.D. Jack provides a critical comparison between Ian Wilson's Image of Edessa hypothesis vs. his own Image of God Incarnate theory during this period and the evidence for and against each. RSM Blog = https://real…
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I was invited to be a guest on Tony Costa's Toronto Apologetics channel to present my argument for God from Beauty via making the case for Theistic Dispositional Realism.RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/god-beauty-the-case-for-theistic-dispositional-realism-w-dr-tony-costa/…
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Fresh from the 2025 Shroud Conference, Biblical scholar Larry Stalley returns to the show to present his case for the Shroud images being cryptically mentioned in 1 John 5:4-13.RSM Blog (with free scholarly sources) = https://realseekerministries.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/divine-testimony-for-the-resurrection-hidden-references-to-the-holy-shroud-in-…
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