Wes Huff vs Billy Carson on youtube

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Can some of you watch these and critique? I'm almost done with the first one and will watch the second one after.

40 minutes in, it seems that Huff is just the typical biblical scholar. I'm used to his type and know his arguments. I even set up some of the arguments of peeps like him in From Paul to Mark just so I could point out the weaknesses.

But, MOST of his arguments here against Carson, are valid since Carson went off on the whole Zecariah Sitchen nonsense. Most of the alternative 'historians' who write popular interpretations of ancient mysteries get things horribly wrong and confused and conflate stuff.

Carson's argument about the Enuma Elish was very weak. Better to read Victor Clube's "The Cosmic Serpent" and "The Cosmic Winter" along with Mike Baillie's "From Exodus to Arthur" since they offer some real insight.

Carson's arguments are a pretty low bar and he didn't have a chance against Huff, as far as I can see.

What I would like to have are the transcripts of the two interviews if anybody knows how to download them.
 
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After watching the first interview, I couldn't help thinking of Gurdjieff's 3 types of men. Billy Carson seems like an intrepid traveler that's been around the world several times piecing information together from all these different sources and compiling it all together in his general worldview, the interviewer speaking very much from the heart and his own personal experience in terms of his beliefs about God and Jesus, and Huff is an intellectual that's very knowledgeable in some areas, namely biblical text and history, but not really being able to see the bigger picture, so to speak.

I don't know enough about the materials discussed to critique them, as I've never heard of the Enuma Elish or read Sitchen's work, other than Carson had issues answering Huff's counter questions to his theories. Carson sees the problems with the bible and why it's being used as propaganda as a book written by men, but when he gets into the different tribes and piecing together their history, planetary destruction, etc. he seemed to be alluding to what's been talked about here, but am likely filling in the blanks as to what he actually meant.
 
Carson's problem is that he's not critical enough about all the crazy theories he reads and presents himself as an expert when he's not. Huff's problem is that he compartmentalizes his critical skills regarding the first 1.5 centuries of Christianity - as do 99.99999% of Christian academics. They both share a similar problem: assuming or concluding that the stories they read are historically accurate.
 
Carson's problem is that he's not critical enough about all the crazy theories he reads and presents himself as an expert when he's not. Huff's problem is that he compartmentalizes his critical skills regarding the first 1.5 centuries of Christianity - as do 99.99999% of Christian academics. They both share a similar problem: assuming or concluding that the stories they read are historically accurate.

Exactly. What turned me off to Huff was his arrogant glee displayed in the subsequent Rogan interview.

Carson made himself an easy target by his lack of DEEP research.
 
When’s Joe Rogan gonna have Laura on already? Seriously… I’m concerned that the west is not taking away the right lessons from the hardcore dip into materialistic nihilism, and instead is just going to revert back to the symmetrically inane Scoffield Bibical shtick. I think they were always around but haven’t taken ownership at all over how their attitudes and politics have destroyed the Middle East, and by extension Europe, for the sake of the eschaton. (Sorry, I’m blowing off steam here).
 
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