Anglican Archdeacon Spent 33 Years Inside the Church. Here's What Finally Broke Paul Wallis

Paul Wallis spent 33 years as a Senior Churchman in the Anglican Church in Australia, serving as a Church Doctor, Theological Educator, and Archdeacon. He designed pastor training programs delivered across the UK, Korea, West Africa, and Australia. He published books on Christian mysticism and spirituality. He planted six churches. By every measure, he was the Church. Then he started applying the principles of hermeneutics, the rigorous methodology of textual interpretation he had taught for over a decade, to the text he thought he already knew. What he found in Genesis, and across ancient Sumerian, Mesopotamian, and Near Eastern literature, changed everything. In this conversation, Derek Lambert sits down with Paul Wallis, host of The 5th Kind (over one million subscribers) and bestselling author of the Eden Series, to trace the specific intellectual and spiritual journey that took a 33-year Archdeacon out of institutional Christianity. We dig into what hermeneutics actually reveals when you stop reading the Bible devotionally, how the Sumerian sources underlying Genesis reframe the identity of the divine beings in the text, what the Church historically suppressed from the Hebrew scriptures in the 6th century BC and from Christian writing in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, and what it costs personally to walk away from a worldview you built your entire career on. This is a conversation about how a trained theological insider, armed with the actual tools of the discipline, arrived at conclusions the institution could not contain. Whether you are in the middle of your own deconversion, studying the ancient Near Eastern backgrounds of Genesis, or simply trying to understand how serious scholars engage these texts, this conversation is essential viewing. Paul Wallis | The 5th Kind | MythVision Podcast with Derek Lambert Subscribe to Paul Wallis ‪@The5thKind‬ Grab Paul's books here - https://amzn.to/4ssmvP3 ============================ FIND ALL LINKS HERE 👉 https://linktr.ee/mythvision ============================ RECOMMENDED ONLINE COURSES HERE 👉👉 Checkout MVP Courses to find new and upcoming online courses: https://mvp-courses.com/ Sign up for Dr. James Tabor’s Course, “The Quest for the Historical Paul: Apostle or Apostate?” - - https://mythvisionpodcast.com/histori... Sign up for Dr. Kara Cooney’s Course, “Ancient Egyptian Cosmogony and Cosmology” - - https://mythvisionpodcast.com/egyptia... Sign up for Dr. Robyn Faith Walsh’s Course, “The Gospel Masterclass” - - https://mythvisionpodcast.com/gospels Sign up for Dr. James Tabor’s Course, “Jesus and The Dead Sea Scrolls” - - https://mythvisionpodcast.com/dss Sign up for Dr. Robyn Faith Walsh’s Course, “Unforgettable Footprints of the Pauline Legacy” - - https://mythvisionpodcast.com/paulsle... Sign up for Dr. Dennis MacDonald’s Course, “Reading the Gospels with One Eye on Greek Poetry” - - https://mythvisionpodcast.com/homeric... Sign up for Dr. James Tabor’s Course, "Creating Jesus: Why Mark’s Gospel Was Forgotten?" - - https://www.mythvisionpodcast.com/fir... Sign up for Dr. Dale C. Allison Jr's Course, “The Quest for The Historical Jesus” - - https://www.mythvisionpodcast.com/jes... ============================ GET RECOMMENDED BOOKS HERE: 👉 https://amzn.to/35FqNYf ============================ Please consider supporting MythVision's work by joining our Patreon or contributing a one-time donation: Patreon: 👉 Patreon: mythvision Paypal: 👉 https://www.paypal.me/dereklambert7 - - @dereklambert7 Cashapp: 👉 $rewiredaddiction Venmo: 👉 www.venmo.com/Derek-Lambert-9 - - @Derek-Lambert-9 Facebook Stars: fb.com/stars ============================ CONTACT ME Website: 👉 https://mythvisionpodcast.com/ Email MythVision: 👉 [email protected] Facebook Page: 👉 Facebook: MythVision Facebook Group: 👉 Facebook: TheWaterBoyZRadio Twitter X: 👉 https://x.com/DerekPodcast - - @DerekPodcast TikTok: 👉 TikTok: mythvision Instagram: 👉 Instagram: dereklambert_7 Discord: 👉 Discord: discord =========================== LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE: 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gf3XMe... 🎧 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 🎧 Castbox: https://castbox.fm/vh/6551369 🎧 Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/61670kid 🎧 iHeartRadio: https://iheart.com/podcast/271777389/ =========================== 👉👉 Checkout Our Other YouTube Channel: @mythvisiontv =========================== Affiliate Disclaimer: Some links may be affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. All opinions expressed are my own, and I only recommend products or services I believe will add value to my audience. Thank you for supporting the channel!