This week, apologist Wes Huff appeared on the “Flagrant” podcast, hosted by comedians Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh, to discuss the Bible, theology, and how Christianity compares to other faith traditions.
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The conversation, which lasted more than three hours, was the latest in a series of high-profile appearances for Huff, whose popularity has surged after he appeared on “The Joe Rogan Experience” in January.
Huff is the Central Canada director for Apologetics Canada. He is currently working on a Ph.D. in New Testament at the University of Toronto’s Wycliffe College, and he regularly posts YouTube videos discussing theology and apologetics.
While introducing Huff, Schulz described Huff as “the most bodaciously brolic Bible expert you’ve ever seen,” as well as “a true man of God.”
From the beginning of the interview, Schulz peppered Huff with questions about ancient biblical manuscripts, textual criticism, and the history of the Bible.
At one point, Singh asked Huff how Christianity compares to Hinduism, saying, “Obviously, I’m not Christian, so this is a much broader, maybe ignorant, question. Is there like a ‘Matrix’ kind of thing in Christianity? Like in Hinduism, we call that Maya, which is like all the stuff you see is an illusion—the reality is the afterlife. Is that like a thing?”
“No,” Huff replied, and the group of men began laughing. Schulz joked, “Yo, I love confident Christians. Get your goofy-a**, multi-god religion out of here.”
Huff went on to explain, “There’s a differentiation between—eastern mysticism has this idea that this world is an illusion. So you have Samsari…the cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth, and you’re trying to escape this.”
“So that would be ancient Platonic philosophy that gets mixed in with like the Gnosticism that develops in the second century, where the physical is bad and the spiritual is good,” Huff continued. “So when you have the early Christians arguing against the Gnostics, they’re doubling down on—not that Jesus is God—they don’t have a problem with that. It’s that Jesus is a human.”
“Because they believe if you’re human, you can’t be God,” Huff added. “But Jews and Christians have the inherent belief of the resurrection. So we are embodied. You’re not a spirit that has a body. You are spirit and body.”
