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Four men are so determined to get their paralyzed friend in front of Jesus that they climb onto the roof and dig through it — and Jesus responds by forgiving sins, which the scribes are certain only God can do. This passage gets cited constantly as proof that Jesus is God, but read his actual reply and something else is happening: he isn't confirming the scribes, he's correcting them. We dig into how the Hebrew Bible treats forgiveness as a divine prerogative, why sin gets modeled as a debt, and the strange case of the angel in Exodus 23 who holds that same prerogative — because God's name is in him. This episode originally aired on 4/22/2024. _______________________________________________ Get your Data Over Dogma merch at our online store: https://data-over-dogma-shop.fourthwall.com/ _______________________________________________ Support Data Over Dogma and get every episode early and ad-free, plus exclusive bonus content — become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/DataOverDogma _______________________________________________ Listen to the podcast on every app: https://pod.link/1681418502 _______________________________________________ Follow us: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/dataoverdogmapod TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@data.over.dogma.pod Threads — https://www.threads.com/@dataoverdogmapod X — https://x.com/data_over_dogma Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/DataOverDogmaPod _______________________________________________ Get Dan McClellan's New York Times bestselling book, The Bible Says So: https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/bible-says-so-9781250347466/ _______________________________________________ Chapters: 0:00 Welcome to Data Over Dogma 0:32 A Hole in the Ceiling 0:51 Capernaum and Hyraxes 3:32 Jesus Was at Home 4:21 Double-Decker Detour 5:55 Four Friends, One Roof 7:01 "Your Sins Are Forgiven" 7:44 Thinking With Your Heart 9:03 Mark's Omniscient Narrator 9:53 Which Is Easier to Say? 11:51 Does This Prove Jesus Is God? 14:43 Only God Forgives Sins? 16:24 Stingy God, Generous God 19:45 Forgive Us Our Debts 22:04 Lion, Lamb, Mandela Effect 23:28 The Angel With God's Name 26:06 Whose Faith Was It? 27:36 Structural Engineering Concerns 30:01 Closing _______________________________________________ #DataOverDogma #BibleScholarship #GospelOfMark #SonOfMan #Christology