Mike's riff on medical knowledge versus a natural death
Mike muses aloud that sometimes knowledge feels like the enemy — people get saved at 75 only to be saved from cancer next, when they might have just clocked out and met Jesus. He invokes his wife's grandfather, who never saw a doctor, learned at 80 he had cancer everywhere, and was gone a week later. If he could choose, he says, apart from a heroic death, he would just clock out quietly — and notes he has an event on his calendar for his 75th birthday that says 'start smoking.'
More on Heaven
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Will there be bison in heaven?
- Will there be bison (animals) in heaven?
A listener question: after arguing with a Tijuana missionary who insisted bison have no souls and won't be in heaven, Mike makes his case - God called creation good and redeems it; if only humanity is restored, then "Satan wins" on the rest.
From No. 534 · The Antagonistic Bison
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The seventeen list, statements one through nine
The hosts burn through the first nine claims: you do not deserve God's love; you were born a sinner (original sin and the baby-baptism tangent); Jesus rescued you from God (from…
From No. 562 · Enter the McCormick II
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Debate: do our justifications for pets in heaven hold up
The hosts push back on the letter's logic: Mike argues the writer conflates an animal's simple affection with deep human love and overprescribes the pet's role in creation.
From No. 543 · Britches in Heaven
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Restored creation: animals, dominion, and the new Eden
The hosts work through whether animals belong in eternity: Ben argues Scripture pictures a creation God declares good and restores rather than destroys, with the lion lying down…
From No. 543 · Britches in Heaven