Welcome to a Different Take on Faith

Deconstructing Faith and Scripture is the Substack of Durand D Boshoff – a space dedicated to critically examining religion, unpacking the origins of scripture, and challenging long-held Christian assumptions.

Each fortnight, I explore the uncomfortable questions believers often sidestep – exposing contradictions, questioning tradition, and inviting deeper thought.

If you're rethinking your faith, exploring alternatives, or simply tired of the same old answers, you'll find honest, thought-provoking content here.

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The Burden of Proof: Who Really Owes the Explanation?

There’s a quiet but persistent confusion that shows up in conversations about religion. It doesn’t always announce itself directly, but once you notice it, you start to see it everywhere — in debates, in sermons, in casual conversations, and especially in online discussions. It’s the idea that skeptics are somehow responsible for disproving God. At first glance, that might seem...

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When Patterns Replace Proof: The Bible’s Cross-Reference Illusion

The graphic itself was created by pastor Chris Harrison and data analyst Christoph Römhild as a visualisation of biblical cross-references. At first glance, the claim appears compelling. That is precisely why it spreads so easily. Unlike the more familiar appeals to faith or personal testimony, this argument seems objective. It arrives dressed in numbers and data, accompanied by a visual...

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Where Did Christianity Really Begin?

Short answer? We don’t know. Not with the neat certainty repeated in sermons and apologetics. Christianity did not burst into history as a unified movement with a clear identity, a single founder, and a well-defined theology. It emerged slowly, almost accidentally, from the confusion and contradictions of late Second Temple Judaism, shaped by people who never agreed on what Jesus...

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The Silence of God: Why Doesn’t He Speak Up?

The cries go out — prayers whispered in hospital corridors, muttered from foxholes, or silently wept in the night. And what greets them? Silence. For all the talk of a loving, all-powerful God who desires relationship with humanity, his absence in moments of suffering is deafening. This isn’t just poetic lament — it’s a long-standing and unresolved issue in theology...

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Structure in Chaos

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams: "This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in—an interesting hole I find myself in—fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact, it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!'...

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