The Tenpenny Files with Dr. Titus Kennedy

The claim that the Bible is mythology is no longer a fringe opinion, it is being taught as fact and absorbed into how people understand history and decide what can be trusted. That shift carries consequences most people have not stopped to examine, especially as it quietly reframes the foundation of truth itself.

Archaeologist Dr. Titus Kennedy steps directly into that pressure point with evidence drawn from excavation sites, inscriptions, and historical records that can be tested against established history.

What begins to take shape in this conversation is not a debate over belief, but an examination of whether the people described in the Bible can be placed inside the same historical framework used for every other ancient text.

At the center of this discussion is how researchers determine whether individuals recorded thousands of years ago actually existed, relying on the alignment between written accounts and the physical record, where names connect to known history, timelines hold under scrutiny, and locations fit within the geography tied to those accounts. When that level of consistency is present, the figure being described is no longer theoretical, it becomes part of documented history.

Dr Tenpenny pushes into the questions that usually remain unspoken, including why belief in the Bible has declined so sharply over the last sixty years and what standards are actually being used to decide whether a figure from antiquity is real. The conversation moves through the shift that took place when King David was widely dismissed as fictional and the discovery that forced that position to change, along with the growing body of evidence tied to more than one hundred individuals named in the biblical record.

The discussion does not stop in the Old Testament. It extends into the New Testament and addresses the question that continues to surface across culture, which is whether Jesus can be understood as a historical figure based on evidence that exists outside of scripture. What surfaces from that portion of the conversation introduces sources and artifacts that most people have never examined closely.

This episode does not attempt to settle the issue for you. It brings forward the evidence and the process used to evaluate it, leaving the weight of the implications where it belongs. The interview establishes the framework and the reasoning behind the conclusions, while the book holds the full body of research, the documented artifacts, and the references that cannot be explored in this format. Without it, the picture remains incomplete.

If the people described in the Bible were real, the conversation does not end there, it opens a line of questioning most people have never been asked to follow through to its conclusion.

Meet the Guest

Dr. Titus Kennedy is a field archaeologist who has worked across 18 sites in 6 countries, with research spanning from the Bronze Age through the Byzantine period. His work includes directing excavations, analyzing artifacts across global museum collections, and contributing to academic research focused on biblical archaeology and history. He serves as a research fellow at the Discovery Institute and works as a professor, consultant, and contributor to historical documentaries and curricula.

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