Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This episode it's Twisted Scripture: Proverbs 3:5–6 — "trust in the Lord and lean not on your own understanding" — and the way it gets wielded to shut a conversation down. We dig into the claim that you can only "really" understand the Bible if you read it with the Holy Spirit, why that's textbook special pleading, and how John Lennox's red Ferrari ends up parked in the same garage as Carl Sagan's invisible dragon. Along the way: intuition versus reflective cognition, why every tradition reports the same spiritual "confirmation," and the difference between private faith and public claims.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:15 Twisted Scripture Begins
1:50 Proverbs 3:5–6
3:05 "I Read With the Spirit"
4:18 Special Pleading
6:18 Slavery as the Test Case
7:23 What the Commentary Says
8:19 Hidden From the Wise
9:19 Whose Spirit Is Right?
10:03 Intuition vs. Reflection
11:46 The Unreliable Brain
14:24 The Problem of Qualia
16:22 Lennox's Red Ferrari
17:24 Sagan's Garage Dragon
19:41 Feelings vs. Evidence
20:28 Every Tradition Feels It
23:47 The Thought-Stopping Cliché
25:01 Private Faith, Public Claims
27:10 "The Spirit Told Me"
28:41 More Trump-Card Verses
29:51 Data Over Dogma
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#DataOverDogma #BibleScholarship #Apologetics #Proverbs #HolySpirit
This episode it's Twisted Scripture: Proverbs 3:5–6 — "trust in the Lord and lean not on your own understanding" — and the way it gets wielded to shut a conversation down. We dig into the claim that you can only "really" understand the Bible if you read it with the Holy Spirit, why that's textbook special pleading, and how John Lennox's red Ferrari ends up parked in the same garage as Carl Sagan's invisible dragon. Along the way: intuition versus reflective cognition, why every tradition reports the same spiritual "confirmation," and the difference between private faith and public claims.
_______________________________________________
Get your Data Over Dogma merch at our online store:
data-over-dogma-shop.fourthwall.com
Shop our classic collection before our old store closes:
datadoverdogma.printful.me
_______________________________________________
Support Data Over Dogma and get every episode early and ad-free, plus exclusive bonus content — become a patron:
patreon.com/DataOverDogma
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Listen to the podcast on every app:
pod.link/1681418502
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Follow us:
Instagram — instagram.com/dataoverdogmapod
TikTok — tiktok.com/@data.over.dogma.pod
Threads — threads.com/@dataoverdogmapod
X — https://x.com/data_over_dogma
Facebook — facebook.com/DataOverDogmaPod
_______________________________________________
Get Dan McClellan's New York Times bestselling book, The Bible Says So:
static.macmillan.com/static/smp/bible-says-so-9781250347466
_______________________________________________
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:15 Twisted Scripture Begins
1:50 Proverbs 3:5–6
3:05 "I Read With the Spirit"
4:18 Special Pleading
6:18 Slavery as the Test Case
7:23 What the Commentary Says
8:19 Hidden From the Wise
9:19 Whose Spirit Is Right?
10:03 Intuition vs. Reflection
11:46 The Unreliable Brain
14:24 The Problem of Qualia
16:22 Lennox's Red Ferrari
17:24 Sagan's Garage Dragon
19:41 Feelings vs. Evidence
20:28 Every Tradition Feels It
23:47 The Thought-Stopping Cliché
25:01 Private Faith, Public Claims
27:10 "The Spirit Told Me"
28:41 More Trump-Card Verses
29:51 Data Over Dogma
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#DataOverDogma #BibleScholarship #Apologetics #Proverbs #HolySpirit
