Last time we learned about software engineer Alex Ticer’s terrifying health crisis and the healing he received. This set him on a quest to dedicate his life to serving God, but how? He had no idea what he was supposed to do. So, he quit his job and intensified his study of the Bible and praying. After discovering Jesus’s identity as the human Messiah (not a Godman), he embarked on a journey to find others with like precious faith. His odyssey took him to three states, seeking fellowship. Finally, at the Converge Festival of 2025, he and his wife Becky came to perceive God’s direction for them to start a church right where they lived in Round Rock, Texas. This is the story of how One God Church came about.
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Sean, thank you for all your hard work on this show, I have really appreciated it a lot over the years. Generally you are pretty even-handed, but I think you treated the JWs a bit unfairly at the end of this episode in talking about Michael the Archangel.
I didn’t think JWs were unthinking enough to pin a huge theology on a single verse like you made it sound, so I took a few seconds with an AI chatbot and discovered that they don’t. There are other scriptures they point at. I was not surprised to see a reference to the description in Daniel that calls Michael (‘who is like El’) the prince over Israel.
I am not a JW, nor have I ever been one, nor do I recall ever having discussed theology with one, but I myself have wondered about Michael being the prince over Israel, and the first time I heard that JWs teach Jesus is Michael I thought to myself, “I bet they tie that in to Daniel 10.”
If you are going to answer a question and start out by saying “I really don’t know much about this,” that’s a good sign that you pause and do a little more research before you straw-man your opponent. If we’re going to respectfully dialogue with others, it’s starts with the assumption that controversial beliefs don’t go completely untested, and usually that means arguments get developed beyond prima facie, even if those arguments turn out in the end to be weak or full of logical fallacies.