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It is the 17th of April 2026.

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I am Cory J.

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Mahler, and this is at any cost.

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This is episode 25.

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I am seeing some artifacting in my video.

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So if someone in the chat could let me know if the

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video or audio has any problems, that would be great.

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OBS is using 20 gigs of memory, which is

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suboptimal. So hopefully it's not having an issue on your end, although

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I somewhat doubt that.

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Can anyone in the chat confirm whether or not the video and

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audio are fine?

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Looks fine on great.

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Okay, so apparently it's just OBS being weird on my end, which

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We'll see how it goes.

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It's using 20 gigs of memory, which is fine on my system

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as long as it does not continue to leak, which is what

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I assume it is doing.

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Anyway, this is episode 25.

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It is a QA episode, and I do not really have any

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housekeeping, so I will jump right into the questions.

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And I guess I guess pray that OBS does not crash on

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us, because it is still increasing in memory consumption, although somewhat slowly.

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So hopefully we're good.

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Question one

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Is

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right here.

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Question one is about the use to the use of first Samuel.

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When I advocate for monarchy as the most coherent and God-honoring form

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of government, I frequently encounter resistance from Christi from Christians on the

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American right who cite 1 Samuel 8 as a definitive refutation.

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They tend to view the establishment of the monarchy as an inherent

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rejection of divine authority, rather than a development within the historic order.

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What is the most effective way to engage these individuals and challenge

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this interpretation of the text.

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So this is one of those that comes up all the time

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from people who are not particularly familiar with scripture.

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And assuming OBS will actually let me switch windows here.

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Okay, here we go.

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We will pull up first Samuel 8, take a look at it.

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This is of course where Israel chooses to have a king, or

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rather demands to have a king.

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And the men of Israel gathered together and came to Harmathim to

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Samuel and said to him, You are old and your sons do

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not go in your way, and now appoint over us a king

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to judge us like the rest of the nations.

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And the message was evil in the eyes of Samuel, when they

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said, Give us a king to judge us.

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And Samuel prayed to the Lord, and the Lord said to Samuel,

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listen to the voice of the people in whatever they say to

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you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me

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from being king over them.

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According to all the deeds that they did to me from the

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day I brought them up out of Egypt to this day, and

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they forsook me and were subject to other gods, so also they

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are doing to you.

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So the first thing to notice here, of course, is that God

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clearly says that they forsook him not just by demanding a king

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here, but this was their course of action from Egypt going forward.

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This is something they did All along the way.

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And

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demanding a king is not per se forsaking God.

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That is not what's being said here.

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What is being said is that the Jews are persisting in their

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rejection of God.

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This is simply another step down that path.

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And one of the ways that we can know this, of course,

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is that if you're familiar with the Old Testament, another section that

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will come to mind is of course Deuteronomy seventeen.

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Now if you come into the land that the Lord your God

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is giving you and take possession of it and live in it

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and you say I will set a ruler over me, like the

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rest of the nations that are around me.

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By appointing you shall appoint over you a ruler, him whom the

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Lord your God may choose.

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One of your own brothers you shall appoint as ruler over you.

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You shall not have power to appoint a strange person over you,

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which is to say a foreigner, because he is not your brother,

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for he shall not multiply cavalry for himself, or return the people

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to Egypt in order to multiply cavalry for himself, but the Lord

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has said to you, shall never add to return that way, and

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he shall not multiply wives for himself, neither shall he turn his

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heart away.

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Also silver and gold he shall not multiply exceedingly for himself, and

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it shall be, when he is sat upon the seat of his

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rule, that he shall write for himself this second law in a

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book from the priests the Levites.

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And so on and so forth.

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If God is giving requirements for a king and saying when you

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desire you appoint a ruler over yourselves, it's pretty clear that God

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is saying that's permissible.

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It is in fact, as we've argued elsewhere in Stone Choir and

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as I've argued a number of times, the most natural system to

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have a monarchy.

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And so these are the requirements that God sets out.

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God setting out requirements means that it's permissible.

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God doesn't set out requirements for something that is sinful.

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And so those who try to appeal to the section in 1

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Samuel or 1 Kingdoms as it's called in the Septuagint names of

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the books.

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Doesn't matter what you call the book.

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That much for most of the books.

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The people who appeal to that are just cherry-picking verses going through

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the Old Testament and hoping that there's a condemnation of a king

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somewhere. Realistically, they probably heard it from someone else.

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They did not come up with this themselves.

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If they did, they happened to be reading through 1 Samuel for

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some reason, latched onto this, and then decided to run with it.

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If they were actually familiar with scripture and knew what scripture says

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on monarchy and kings across all of Scripture, they'd recognize that what's

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being condemned in first Samuel is not having a king.

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It is It is rejecting God and desiring to be like every

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other nation.

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Because God had set them apart to achieve a certain task, and

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they were rejecting him.

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And that's why God says they rejected him all the way from

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Egypt up to now, and of course they continue to do so

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as well.

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So again, the condemnation is not of monarchy, it's rather of the

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wicked Jews.

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So that's the response to that one.

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Just bring up the verse, the passage that directly refutes what the

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person is trying to argue.

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Question two is about

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when one ceases to be a new convert, okay.

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Given that new converts are explicitly warned not to teach.

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When does one know that he is no longer new?

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And then the second part to the question Considering the fact that

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rebuking the sins of others is a core part of the Christian

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life, which, correct me if I am wrong, is a form of

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teaching. No, it's correct, it is teaching to some degree.

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What should a new convert do when confronted with the sins of

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others? Especially in view of the dire times in which we currently

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live. So when you are no longer a new convert is going

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to depend on a number of factors.

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And it's not just a matter of how long, in terms of

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you know, days, years, whatever, you've been a convert.

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It's a matter of maturity.

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It's a matter of maturing in the faith, of being confident in

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your faith, knowledgeable in your faith, and having what you need in

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order to in this case teach the faith, but in order to

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defend the faith and do those things.

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There are some men who will never really do those things because

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they do not have the things that God has given

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as talents to other men that are necessary to do these things,

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to teach the faith, to defend the faith.

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And as I've mentioned many times, and as the men who do

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it also themselves recognize being an apologist is not the same as

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being a theologian and things like that.

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There are different talents God gives out to different men.

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Now, for being a new convert, I would say at the very

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least you're looking at you should be a convert for some number

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of years before you even consider taking up the mantle of an

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actual teacher.

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Because certainly if you've only been a Christian for two years, you're

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a new convert.

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Even if you are someone who is knowledgeable, you had a background

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in this stuff, etc., etc.

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You should not be standing up to teach because you have not

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matured enough in the faith in that little time.

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Are there exceptions?

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Maybe, but I think that they are such outliers they aren't even

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really worth considering, and those men are certainly going to know.

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Now Now, the second part of the question, which is perhaps the

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more interesting because it's more applicable to us today, what do you

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do with regard to rebuking those who are in sin.

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Right? Because we have a duty to rebuke our brother, right?

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If you see your brother falling into sin, you have a duty

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to tell him what you're doing is sinful, you need to stop,

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this is going to this is bad for you, this is bad

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for your soul.

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This endangers you in some way, whatever it happens to be, however

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grievous the sin is.

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And so part of the answer here is going to be how

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obvious is the sin, right?

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If your brother is doing something that is open and obvious sin,

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all Christians recognize its sin, it's plain in scripture, then certainly rebuke

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him. Even if you're a new convert.

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Because that is something that is so obvious there's no real wisdom

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call there.

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There's not any demand for the sorts of abilities that a teacher

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has in order to assess the scenario.

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So you can think of the obvious examples, right?

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A man who's actively committing adultery.

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You're probably pretty safe telling him he needs to stop doing that.

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Now a Christian prince should certainly punish him, but you as a

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Christian should rebuke him for that, particularly if he is holding himself

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out as a Christian while engaging in this particular evil.

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So it really is going to come down to how obvious is

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the sin, how clear is the matter.

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If it is clear, absolutely it is your duty to rebuke your

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brother because you are trying to get him not to engage in

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that sinful behavior in order to save him, in order to do

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good to him and for him.

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And that is your duty as a Christian.

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And that is certainly going to be something that is a live

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issue today with a number of men who are coming back to

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the Christian faith or turning to the Christian faith for the first

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time. And so we have a lot of new converts around.

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We have men who are figuring out for the first time really

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what it means to live a Christian life.

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And you need to have your brothers along with you to do

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that. Because if you don't, you're going to find it much more

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difficult. So don't stand yourself up as a teacher if you're a

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new convert.

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But that doesn't mean that you can't rebuke others or tell them

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this is sinful, you need to stop doing this.

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That's perfectly reasonable.

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So there's a sort of a mixed answer there because is it

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teaching to some degree to say this is a sin?

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Sure, but it's not really the kind of teaching that's in view

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when you're looking at the passages that are saying the stricter judgment,

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not many of you should be teachers, and so on and so

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forth. There are levels to this, right?

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If you are a man who stands up as a bishop and

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is teaching tens of thousands or millions, you're inviting a different sort

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of judgment from someone who privately tells his brother, Hey, you shouldn't

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be doing this, this is sinful, particularly when it is something that

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is an open and shut case, again like adultery or you know,

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drug use, something like that.

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And obviously I'm not saying, you know, all drug use, but I'm

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saying bad kind.

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You know, if your brother is doing meth, you need to tell

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him to stop.

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Question three and yes, I know that I've swapped two and three

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around in the show notes, but I will fix that after the

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show The show

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What is a Christian man to do in the meantime if his

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past sins would have merited death under a righteous government?

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And then as an example, what is the repentant abortionist supposed to

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do? Just by way of example.

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This is one of those questions that is again going to depend

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on the particular sin.

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And so the example given is sort of the extreme example, right?

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I could give one that is I gave one already that is

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close to that but not quite that level a Adultery is a

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capital crime in scripture, and so under a Christian government, it should

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be a capital crime.

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It should be something that is death penalty eligible at least, not

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necessarily automatic, but eligible.

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Because a lot of times these punishments in scripture are sort of

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a maximum or a recommendation depending on what it is.

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It's not this is required.

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With regard to murder, the death penalty is required because Genesis 9

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6 is very clear.

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So for instance, we'll just take the abortion one.

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If a Christian government were to come to power, it would be

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morally obligated to find and execute abortionists.

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That would be a moral requirement.

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Because that is a violation of the moral law, and it is

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a violation of Genesis nine six, and Genesis nine six is abundantly

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clear he who sheds the blood of man by man shall his

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blood be shed, for man was made in the image of God.

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Doesn't allow exceptions.

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Abortion is murder.

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Murder requires, according to God's law, the death penalty.

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And so for abortionists, they have to be punished by a Christian

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government. The Christian government does not get to say that's in the

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past. The moral law doesn't change, ex post facto doesn't apply, not

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a concern here.

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With regard to other things, right, there are a number of things

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that should be punished and are currently not.

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Fornication should be punished in some way.

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Now, generally speaking, the solution

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is a shotgun marriage, right?

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That's usually how you fix that problem.

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You sternly reprimand them, keep them apart till they're married, and tell

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them you're getting married now.

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That solves the problem.

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But with regard to say a serial fornicator who has now caused

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problems across a number of individuals in society, that person should be

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punished. Is there any practical way for a Christian government to come

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to power and then punish all of those men and women?

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The answer is simply no.

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Some of this is going to come down to practicality.

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Can it be done?

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Right? Abortionists can certainly be punished by a future government because they're

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all MDs.

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We know all their names.

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They're all in a database.

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So the government can just go did you perform abortion procedures or

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look at the history and say you charged insurance for X number

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of abortion procedures you know get in the cage.

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That's something that can be done.

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There are things that cannot be punished practically because you cannot identify

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them. And also as a purely practical matter, you would not even

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really purely practical, there's a moral aspect as well.

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You would you would cause greater chaos and destruction in society trying

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to seek out and punish each of these crimes, instead of granting

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a sort of amnesty and saying, Going forward, things are going to

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change. Wicked men used to rule.

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They were in charge.

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They did not do things in line with God's law and God's

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desires. We are going to change that.

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We are going to fix these problems going forward.

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I think that has to be what we would do simply because

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of the fact that you can't just have complete chaos and destruction

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of society, even if you think what you're trying to do is

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strictly follow the moral law.

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There are things where you cannot grant leeway, right?

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Murder must be punished with the death penalty.

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But there are things where you can grant some sort of clemency,

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and I think that will have to be done.

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So if the question is what should the abortionist do, he should

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demand that the government punish him.

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Because that's the Christian response.

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Repentance is not simply I'm sorry for what I did.

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Right? It's also a recognition that you have certain obligations, so for

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instance, an obligation to try to amend harms you've caused and you

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know don't don't want to sound too much like AA, but they

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get some things right.

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For the abortionist, there is no sort of amnesty or mercy or

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wiping away of that, because it is a moral requirement from God

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without exception that the murderer must be punished with death.

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So a Christian convert who was an abortionist should tell the government

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you have to execute me.

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That's required by God.

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He can't say, Oh I repented, I'm no longer that man, I'm

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no, that's not how it works.

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Your sins are forgiven.

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You will be with God in paradise, but you still have to

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be punished by earthly authorities.

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You know, the best example would really be the thief on the

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cross, which I know people love that one for other reasons, but

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Christ did not take him off the cross when he repented.

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He didn't say, Oh, you repented, that's great, you're no longer being

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punishment. You're no longer being punished.

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Rather he said, Today you will be with me in paradise, which

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means you're still going to die.

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That's how it works.

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People mix this up all the time, and part of it's mercenary,

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but just because you convert to Christianity, just because you become a

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Christian, even if you actually amend your life and do so in

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an earnest way, it doesn't mean that all those temporal consequences are

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erased. And sometimes the temporal consequences are severe, in the case of

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murder, certainly.

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Question four is about the numbering of the commandments.

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And I've had this one on my list of topics to address

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for some time, not on the public facing list as it were,

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but on my own personal one.

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This is not an issue that is unique to the Septuagint or

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unique to the Masoretic text or anything like that.

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This is a general issue with which Christians have had to grapple

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for as long as there have been Christians, as long as we've

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had the scriptures, but I'll read the question first.

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Second at this point, I guess.

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As Lutherans, how do we deal with the difference between the Septuagint

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and the small catechism with regard to the ninth and tenth commandments.

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So that's sort of a microcosm of the overall issue.

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And I'm not going to get into this too deeply because I

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want to address it more fully in the future, so I'm going

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to note that for myself here.

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And then I'll go back and add it to the show notes

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when I get around to doing that.

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There are some differences in the numbering.

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First of all, the Ten Commandments are listed twice in the Old

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Testament, right?

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And there are some minor differences with regard to the order in

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which they appear.

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It's not really accurate to say numbering because they're not numbered, right?

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They are just a list of prohibitions.

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Do not do X, do not do Y, do not do Z.

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And then of course you also have the times where Christ or

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one of the authors of the New Testament lists them and says

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you have heard it was said thou shalt not kill, thou shalt

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not commit adultery, or thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not

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kill. That order gets switched, including in the listing in the Septuagint

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in the Old Testament and in Luke.

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So

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I don't think that it's necessarily like a huge problem for Christians,

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right? This is a list of things God has told us not

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to do.

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Are they roughly in order of importance?

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I think that is true.

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I've said it in the past.

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I still firmly believe that.

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And you can see that clearly with regard to the fact that

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the first few commandments are about our duties to God, and then

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you get our duty to our parents, and then you get our

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duties to our fellow man, right?

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And so basic hierarchy there.

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That basic hierarchy does not change regardless of the order of the

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fifth and sixth commandment, which is to say murder and adultery in

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the Lutheran numbering.

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If you're reformed, you can go ahead and just, you know, add

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plus one there.

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So I don't think that it changes anything sort of fundamental for

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Christians. I do think that it's important, and I think that it

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is a matter that will certainly be relevant for those who are

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creating the new translation of the Septuagint when that happens.

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Like I said, I will get into that more deeply at some

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point in the future, and partly it's going to be left to

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those men who do that translation work, but I don't think that

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it causes any real problem for us because this was already something

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that we recognize because there are some minor differences between the two

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lists in the way things are ordered.

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Not that there are different commandments, but the way that they are

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ordered is slightly different.

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So So we already had to choose an order, right?

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You had to choose what's the ninth, what what is the tenth.

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So I think that

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organizing them in the way the small catechism does is perfectly fine.

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It makes perfect sense.

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You have the content of the commandments there, which is the important

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part, and again, they aren't actually numbered in scripture.

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It's just a list of things that you shall not do, and

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then it said it's the ten words of the ten commandments, so

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you already have to do a little bit of work to figure

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out what the numbering is there.

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I have no problem using the numbering in the small catechism.

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I think it is perhaps an open question as to whether murder

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or adultery is listed first.

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It seems that there's a compelling argument for adultery being first.

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You could also make the argument perhaps that they are just equally

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important, right?

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Because adultery really is a form of murder and like I said

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previously in the answer to a previous question tonight, it used to

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be punished with the death penalty.

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That's what God says in scripture.

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But like I said, I will get into this question more detail

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deeply in the future, I think I want to actually write something

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on it.

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Question five.

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Whereas the church is the bride of Christ, and the Holy Spirit

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through Paul to Timothy demands women's silence in the Church and matters

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of theology, does it therefore follow that the Church cannot speak or

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teach except as taught to us by Christ our head.

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This seems like it undercuts the premise of papal infallibility and teaching

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from tradition, but I would appreciate your opinion on it.

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I think that that is

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essentially a correct argument.

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I would formulate that a little bit differently.

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I guess I can close out of this logos window here, assuming

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that OBS will cooperate.

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I do not believe that the Church, so called in Roman theology,

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can promulgate new doctrine.

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I do not believe that the church has that authority.

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But at the same time, I don't want that to be taken

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to the extent of saying that everything is contained in Scripture.

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Right, as I've argued many times, God has two books.

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This is something that has been argued down through the centuries by

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many Christians.

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Creation has truth in it.

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Scripture has truth in it.

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You can derive truth from both.

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And so

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at the same time, that is still consonant with this in so

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far as you recognize God is the author of both of those

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books. To call creation a book along with scripture, right?

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So there is no truth outside of God, because God is truth

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itself. God's books are his revealed truth to us.

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There's truth revealed in creation, there's truth revealed in scripture.

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And so outside of those, uh no, we can't speak on anything

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because nothing else is knowable to us.

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So yes, I think the argument is Argument is sound.

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I would reformulate it a little bit, but I do obviously object

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to the claims of Rome that the Pope can promulgate new doctrine,

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new dogma.

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I don't believe that that is something that is permissible, because God

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has not given that authority to any man.

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Except of course, Christ, if you are focusing on the man part

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there, but he's not promulgating new doctrine and new dogma either, because

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truth is eternal.

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Truth is for all time.

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So, for instance, when Rome decided to promulgate the dogma of the

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assumption of Mary, I don't think that they have the authority to

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do that.

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I do not believe that is permissible.

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Most of the Marian dogmas have been created by Rome.

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They have been promulgated according to so called papal authority, instead of

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scripture, because it's nowhere in Scripture.

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Unless you start looking at Gnostic texts which are not scripture.

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So, yes, I think that the argument fundamentally is sound.

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I would reformulate it a little bit, but no, the church does

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not have the authority to make new doctrine, to make new dogma.

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That is something that is God alone has that authority.

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And to be clear, that doesn't mean that we can't have traditions

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that were created by men.

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We just can't say that they are salvific, right?

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So having a Christmas tree created by men completely fine, exchanging gifts

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on certain holidays, completely fine, doesn't forgive your sins, doesn't get you

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into heaven, doesn't get you, you know, good points for good works

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or whatever.

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It could be a good work just incidentally, because serving your neighbor

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is a good work, and it may happen to overlap there, but

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it does not get to be a good work because it's a

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tradition made by men.

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Let's see the next one.

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Question six

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has three premises and then a conclusion, so I will just read

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through those in order.

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Premise one.

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Nations have a trajectory of sin that can reach a fulfillment

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Genesis fifteen sixteen.

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The speaking of course of the Amorites, the iniquity of the Amorites

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being complete and coming back in the fourth generation.

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Premise two, there is a hierarchy of sin, John nineteen eleven.

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Of course, Jesus speaking to Pilate, he who handed me over to

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you as the greater sin.

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And Premise three.

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Woe's exegesis on the condition of Christ's birth to be born a

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Judean is to be born of the lowest race.

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Jesus was born a Hebrew, for the same reason he was born

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in a feed trough.

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Okay, and given those three premises, the conclusion or the question, is

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it fair to say that God permits the Jews to live albeit

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to albeit as a landless nation, because they will have because they

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have not yet completed their national sin.

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Does this suggest they have an even worse sin than killing Christ

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in their future?

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Well they're currently committing quite a few interesting sins, not the least

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of all being impermissible genocide and persecuting the church and all of

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the various things they pushed through through the entire world that are

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deeply and incredibly wicked.

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But to answer the core question here, I don't necessarily think that

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God has a formulaic way of dealing with nations insofar as

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You have some sort of

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sin or cap on the amount of sin you get to commit,

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and then God smites you.

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I don't think that that's how God operates.

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And I think that that pans out in history too, if you

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look at history, because God lets some nations commit a great deal

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of evil before he destroys them, and some he destroys before they've

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committed that much evil.

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You could argue it's a mercy to be destroyed sooner because then

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you don't have that many sins on your ledger.

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So I think that it is just a matter of God's will

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and God's plan.

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I don't think again, I don't think it's a mathematical formula where

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if you commit X number of sins given the different weight of

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the different sins, then God will automatically smite you, right?

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I don't think that God is an algorithm essentially.

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So this is up to God's wisdom, God's timing, and God's plan.

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He works all things together for the good, and

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part of that is using wicked men to achieve good, even if

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we don't necessarily understand

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how that is working out in time because we don't have the

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perspective God does.

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We are trapped in time.

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God is outside of time.

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He can see the beginning and the end simultaneously.

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He knows exactly what is going to happen.

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He knows the fullness of the consequences of any given action at

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any given time.

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We don't do that, we can't do that.

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We're limited.

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These things are infinite, only the infinite can understand them.

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With regard to the Jews, I think God is just permitting them

00:31:45.760 --> 00:31:47.600
to fill their cup of wrath.

00:31:47.600 --> 00:31:49.200
That is not good news for them.

00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:51.920
It would be much better news for them if God would just

00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:54.480
snap his fingers and they were all gone, because then they couldn't

00:31:54.400 --> 00:31:56.240
continue collecting sins.

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The worst thing you can do is spend a long life collecting

00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:05.920
sins and then die impenitent.

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And I know some people have sort of a visceral r reaction

00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:12.240
to that, they want to reject it.

00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:15.200
Christ says of Judas it would have been better for that one

00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:16.320
had he not been born.

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There's no way around the conclusion if you are going to die

00:32:21.040 --> 00:32:24.880
impenitent, the best thing you can do is die younger, so that

00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:27.840
you do not collect all those sins in the interim.

00:32:27.840 --> 00:32:32.160
Incidentally a pretty strong argument against the deathbed confession.

00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:34.720
You may not make it to your deathbed.

00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:36.880
You may die on the bus, right?

00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:38.960
Don't wait to the end to repent.

00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:43.680
Don't say, I'm gonna do as much evil wickedness, all this stuff

00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:45.760
as I can, and then repent at the very end.

00:32:45.760 --> 00:32:47.120
That's a terrible plan.

00:32:47.120 --> 00:32:48.720
It will probably backfire.

00:32:48.720 --> 00:32:51.040
Don't do it.

00:32:51.040 --> 00:32:51.360
So

00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:56.560
confess, repent, and then live a Christian life and collect good works,

00:32:56.560 --> 00:32:58.880
much better thing to collect than sins.

00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:02.480
But I think God is again just letting the Jews fill full

00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:06.000
their cup of wrath, which is bad news for them.

00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:08.320
Bad news for the rest of us as well in some way,

00:33:08.320 --> 00:33:12.880
but worse news for them.

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Question seven.

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How do we deal with family members who have sinned publicly?

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I have a cousin who was at one time living in sin

00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:24.320
with his girlfriend prior to marriage.

00:33:24.320 --> 00:33:26.880
I confronted about it several years ago and in response to me

00:33:27.280 --> 00:33:31.040
confronting him he basically laughed at me for foolishly being religious.

00:33:31.040 --> 00:33:33.680
At least to my knowledge he is yet to repent of this

00:33:33.680 --> 00:33:37.200
sin. Do you have any advice for dealing with such family members?

00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:40.240
Up until now I have simply ignored him, but he recently invited

00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:42.960
me to his daughter's birthday party I will not be able to

00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:46.080
attend the party, but I am obligated to at least respond gratitude

00:33:46.080 --> 00:33:47.760
as invitation.

00:33:47.760 --> 00:33:49.920
How do I not fall off the horse when it comes to

00:33:49.920 --> 00:33:54.160
associating with the ungodly versus a lack of forgiveness for I was

00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:57.040
treated? Is this a scenario where I need to shake the dust

00:33:57.040 --> 00:33:58.160
from my feet?

00:33:58.160 --> 00:33:58.480
So

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the first part of this is going to be: you have different

00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:05.680
duties to different people.

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Right? That's going to

00:34:08.560 --> 00:34:13.840
be a very different approach with a stranger versus a family member.

00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:17.280
Family members, for better or worse, get more leeway.

00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:20.320
They get more grace, they get more forgiveness.

00:34:20.320 --> 00:34:25.360
You give them not necessarily more rope, but you give them more

00:34:25.680 --> 00:34:27.200
time, you let them

00:34:28.160 --> 00:34:30.240
act a little worse than you would others.

00:34:30.240 --> 00:34:33.920
We all recognize this, just dealing with family members day-to-day, right?

00:34:34.160 --> 00:34:39.280
So with regard to a family member, you just continue being a

00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:41.040
good person in his life.

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You do what you can to demonstrate being a Christian, and you

00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:50.960
hope that eventually you get an opportunity where he's willing to listen,

00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:54.960
where he's receptive to listen to answers to

00:34:55.920 --> 00:35:00.560
important questions about life and meaning and religion and things like that.

00:35:00.560 --> 00:35:04.000
So So no, you don't shake the dust off your feet in

00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:04.560
this case.

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If this were just some random stranger at work, then sure maybe

00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:10.640
you don't bring the issue up with him again.

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But

00:35:12.080 --> 00:35:15.520
you don't really get to do that with a close family member,

00:35:15.520 --> 00:35:20.320
a sibling, a cousin, an aunt, an uncle, something like that.

00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:22.000
So sure.

00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:25.520
Was it sinful for him to say you were being foolishly religious

00:35:25.520 --> 00:35:29.040
by telling him not to live in sin with his girlfriend?

00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:32.160
Absolutely, that was a sin on his part.

00:35:32.160 --> 00:35:36.320
But at the same time, at least he did the right thing

00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:42.000
and married her, which is kind of all you can do in

00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:43.600
that situation.

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And

00:35:46.160 --> 00:35:50.240
for that at least, he should be not necessarily Congratulated, but he

00:35:50.240 --> 00:35:52.880
should be told that he did the right thing because he did.

00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:55.760
That is what any man who is currently living in sin with

00:35:55.760 --> 00:35:56.720
his girlfriend should do.

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You should marry her, make her an honest woman, as we used

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to say, do the right thing.

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And

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I think it's also worth highlighting here.

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I have a a post uh something I've said a number of

00:36:09.680 --> 00:36:13.600
times. I won't bother with the Latin because I doubt anyone cares.

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If you want to go look up the Latin, feel free, but

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a sin that is against nature is a greater evil than a

00:36:19.680 --> 00:36:24.240
sin that is according to nature, and you could also say contrary

00:36:24.240 --> 00:36:28.640
to nature versus in agreement with nature, right?

00:36:28.640 --> 00:36:32.960
And And the best example of that is basically this.

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Fornicating with your girlfriend is a sin that is in agreement with

00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:41.360
nature. It is natural.

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If you instead were male and had a boyfriend, that would be

00:36:45.040 --> 00:36:46.240
against nature.

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That is a worse sin.

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And there's no way to fix that one.

00:36:50.080 --> 00:36:52.480
You can't marry that person and fix it.

00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:55.840
You have to stop that sin and then technically the state should

00:36:55.840 --> 00:36:57.120
also punish you.

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But it is not as bad of a sin to fornicate with

00:37:01.040 --> 00:37:02.560
your girlfriend.

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Because that is according to nature.

00:37:05.520 --> 00:37:08.000
It is not something that you should be doing.

00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:08.880
It is still sin.

00:37:08.880 --> 00:37:10.720
I want to be very clear about that.

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But there are significantly worse sins, and at least in this case

00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:18.480
and in any similar case, if you marry the girl, that's certainly

00:37:18.480 --> 00:37:21.520
better. You still did it wrong, you should have done it in

00:37:21.520 --> 00:37:26.240
the other order, but it's better than many alternatives, so

00:37:27.200 --> 00:37:28.720
there's a hierarchy of sins.

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Some sins are worse than others.

00:37:30.240 --> 00:37:33.680
That one is it's not a good one because it has so

00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:37.120
many consequences that come along with it, but it is a natural

00:37:37.120 --> 00:37:41.200
one, and so it's not something that is against nature and therefore

00:37:41.200 --> 00:37:42.560
a worse sin, right?

00:37:42.560 --> 00:37:45.600
And it's again going to be one that pretty much everyone's going

00:37:45.600 --> 00:37:49.600
to struggle with that, particularly men.

00:37:49.600 --> 00:37:53.840
But yes, forgive your family member and hope that God presents an

00:37:53.840 --> 00:37:57.760
opportunity where you can share the Christian faith with him and he'll

00:37:57.760 --> 00:37:59.200
actually listen to you.

00:37:59.200 --> 00:37:59.760
So So

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I think I have an eyelash in my eye.

00:38:07.600 --> 00:38:10.240
Question eight.

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Can you please give some historical book recommendations, particularly non-Jewified books on

00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:22.640
World War II and Hitler, but also history broadly?

00:38:22.640 --> 00:38:25.360
I think I am going to add some to to

00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:29.600
the show notes for this and this is one of those where

00:38:29.600 --> 00:38:34.560
it really depends on what part of history you want, right?

00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:40.000
Because for instance, there's a very good just as an example series

00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:40.880
on the Crusades.

00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:42.320
I think it's a dozen volumes now.

00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:42.720
I don't know.

00:38:42.720 --> 00:38:45.520
It takes up an entire shelf on one of my bookshelves.

00:38:45.520 --> 00:38:47.440
It's quite a few books.

00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:51.600
It's but it's an excellent series, but it's specifically on the crusade.

00:38:51.600 --> 00:38:54.880
So if that interests you, that's a good example.

00:38:54.880 --> 00:39:00.400
With regard to World War II, you have a great wealth of

00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:03.200
books, particularly recently, many have been published.

00:39:03.520 --> 00:39:05.920
I will link to some of those in the show notes.

00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:08.400
It's just easier to find those as opposed to my saying it

00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:10.480
and then people having to go find it.

00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:15.360
But if you want to know anything about World War II and

00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:19.520
have a reading recommendation about something specific, right?

00:39:19.520 --> 00:39:24.400
I would say ask Carl Rodel on X because he has an

00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:28.000
encyclopedic knowledge of the books that have been written on the topic.

00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:30.240
He is going to be the best one to give that recommendation.

00:39:30.240 --> 00:39:33.920
Again, I'll put some in the show notes to get people started.

00:39:33.920 --> 00:39:36.880
Antelope Hill is a publishing house that has a number of good

00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:39.840
ones, including some packages where you can get, you know, the World

00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:45.840
War II package, something similar like that But yeah, Carl Rodel is

00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:48.160
going to be the one where you want to ask him if

00:39:48.160 --> 00:39:51.920
you have a specific interest with regard to that era.

00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:56.400
That is Carl with a K Rodl R-A-D-L.

00:39:56.400 --> 00:40:04.960
I'll link to him as well on in the show notes.

00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:10.640
Just make a note for myself to remember to do that.

00:40:10.640 --> 00:40:14.960
And then a sort of related question from the same person.

00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:16.080
Question nine.

00:40:16.080 --> 00:40:18.000
Do you have a favorite fiction book?

00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:18.880
Another difficult one.

00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:22.400
I get asked for reading recommendations and favorite books and things like

00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:23.360
that a lot.

00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:29.040
And I don't necessarily have a favorite book in any given category.

00:40:29.040 --> 00:40:31.920
Other than obviously I have to answer the Bible, right?

00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:35.360
But that's a sort of specific one and it almost doesn't even

00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:37.840
count as a favorite in that sense.

00:40:38.560 --> 00:40:42.640
Dune is definitely high up the list for me with regard to

00:40:42.640 --> 00:40:44.480
fiction books, but

00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:50.320
it's hard not to list things like say Gatha's Faust.

00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:54.320
That's obviously one of the best German language novels ever written.

00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:56.720
It has very good translations as well, so certainly you can read

00:40:56.720 --> 00:40:57.920
that in English.

00:40:57.920 --> 00:41:00.960
I read a decent amount of poetry.

00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:04.080
I've read a lot in the past, so that would certainly count

00:41:04.080 --> 00:41:04.480
as fiction.

00:41:04.640 --> 00:41:07.520
The Lays of Ancient Rome, an excellent collection.

00:41:07.520 --> 00:41:12.000
I've cited that a few times, I've quoted from that one.

00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:16.640
many recommendations I could give for fiction, but I don't know that

00:41:16.640 --> 00:41:21.280
I have necessarily a particular fiction book that'd say yes, this one

00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:22.720
is my favorite one.

00:41:22.720 --> 00:41:25.360
I think that I have read so many and liked a lot

00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:32.320
of them that I don't necessarily have just one I would choose.

00:41:32.640 --> 00:41:36.720
Very tempted to answer a insert a question from the I will

00:41:36.720 --> 00:41:39.040
actually just go ahead and insert a question from the chat here

00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:42.160
which makes me have to renumber some things but that's fine.

00:41:42.160 --> 00:41:43.600
Someone asked for an easy one.

00:41:43.600 --> 00:41:45.680
What is my favorite pie?

00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:49.200
I don't know if that's easy either, but pumpkin pie is probably

00:41:49.200 --> 00:41:50.320
pretty high up the list.

00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:52.480
It's hard not to like pumpkin pie.

00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:55.360
But I do also like cheesecake, so.

00:41:55.360 --> 00:41:58.880
But my mother makes a very good cheesecake, so I'm somewhat biased

00:41:58.880 --> 00:41:59.600
for that one.

00:41:59.600 --> 00:42:04.240
And every Thanksgiving there's a pumpkin pie slash cheesecake sort of combo

00:42:04.240 --> 00:42:07.440
thing, which I like quite a lot.

00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:09.200
So I guess that's the answer there.

00:42:09.200 --> 00:42:13.600
But I I definitely got the German sweet tooth, but I usually

00:42:13.600 --> 00:42:15.520
just eat chocolate, but

00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:19.360
I have chocolate sitting on my desk here, to the surprise of

00:42:19.360 --> 00:42:22.080
probably no one.

00:42:22.080 --> 00:42:24.240
Question eleven.

00:42:24.240 --> 00:42:27.760
Someone asked in the the chat earlier, I am a bit bothered

00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:30.880
by two things that seem to be at best insufficiently reprimanded and

00:42:32.160 --> 00:42:38.000
A Lot's daughters doing the unspeakable with their father, and B Jacob

00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:42.320
stealing Esau's blessing.

00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:43.200
There are

00:42:44.160 --> 00:42:49.360
really two points to be made with regard to this question.

00:42:49.360 --> 00:42:53.360
And similar questions, because there are many similar questions to this one.

00:42:53.360 --> 00:42:57.520
The first is that not everything in scripture is a recommendation.

00:42:57.520 --> 00:43:01.760
There are a lot of things in scripture that are simply recounting

00:43:01.760 --> 00:43:05.680
history, and that is particularly true in the historical books, to probably

00:43:05.680 --> 00:43:08.000
no one's surprise.

00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:10.880
There is, for instance, if you want to go for the atrocious

00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:13.680
ones, it's not even necessarily Lot and his daughters.

00:43:13.680 --> 00:43:18.400
That's not a great one, certainly, and certainly the story that immediately

00:43:18.400 --> 00:43:21.840
preceded that, Sodom and Gomorrah is also not a great one, but

00:43:21.840 --> 00:43:26.560
you have the instance of the Levite with his concubine, where something

00:43:26.560 --> 00:43:28.240
similar happens.

00:43:28.240 --> 00:43:32.880
She is killed, and then he chops her up and ships her

00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:38.240
body all around Israel in order to call out men to deal

00:43:38.240 --> 00:43:41.200
with this atrocity.

00:43:41.200 --> 00:43:44.720
That's not really a particularly great story.

00:43:44.720 --> 00:43:49.360
Granted, he at least avenges her, he's the one who, you know,

00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:53.920
fed her to the lions, but not everything in Scripture is God

00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:55.680
saying you should do this.

00:43:55.680 --> 00:44:00.480
Many things in Scripture are God saying you should not do this.

00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:05.200
That does not mean that every time these things come up, God

00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:08.880
explicitly says this is bad, right?

00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:13.040
But God says that incest is morally impermissible.

00:44:13.040 --> 00:44:16.800
So what Lot's daughters did is condemned in Scripture.

00:44:16.800 --> 00:44:20.080
You just have to know all of Scripture, not all of Scripture,

00:44:20.080 --> 00:44:21.920
but you have to know the portion of Scripture that has the

00:44:21.920 --> 00:44:24.640
rules that condemn those sexual sins, right?

00:44:24.640 --> 00:44:28.480
And it's a pretty long list because apparently the Jews needed a

00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:31.760
lot of repetition to get the point.

00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:33.760
So that is condemned in scripture.

00:44:33.760 --> 00:44:38.240
It's just not condemned in that particular narrative because that's just history.

00:44:38.240 --> 00:44:41.520
It's not saying this is bad

00:44:42.480 --> 00:44:44.320
because that's said elsewhere.

00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:48.080
So that's the first part of this.

00:44:48.080 --> 00:44:52.080
The second part of this is that a lot of the people

00:44:52.080 --> 00:44:55.600
in scripture are not good people.

00:44:55.920 --> 00:44:59.520
A lot of the people in scripture are bad men and bad

00:44:59.520 --> 00:45:05.840
women, and the point isn't that they are individuals after whom you

00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:06.800
should model your life.

00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:08.480
That's not what scripture is.

00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:11.840
There's one man in scripture after whom you should model your life,

00:45:11.840 --> 00:45:14.320
right? There are some good options as well.

00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:16.240
Noah's a pretty good option.

00:45:16.240 --> 00:45:20.560
You know, don't get drunk around your questionable son, but

00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:26.480
there are individuals in Scripture who serve as role models, and there

00:45:26.480 --> 00:45:30.880
are some men in Scripture who are just historical figures, who are

00:45:31.040 --> 00:45:34.640
part of the line of the Messiah, so they are part of

00:45:34.640 --> 00:45:36.160
God's plan in that way.

00:45:36.160 --> 00:45:41.760
But really, God is preserving the line of the Messiah miraculously, despite

00:45:41.760 --> 00:45:45.280
how wicked and detestable many of these men in that line are,

00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:48.160
right? Jacob is not a great man.

00:45:48.160 --> 00:45:53.920
Jacob is scheming, thieving, obnoxious, weasley.

00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:57.120
He's not a man anyone would really like or you'd want to

00:45:57.120 --> 00:45:58.160
spend time around him.

00:45:58.160 --> 00:45:59.600
He turns into a better man.

00:45:59.600 --> 00:46:04.880
He does mature so there's character development as it were, but he's

00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:07.840
not a good man, certainly not starting off.

00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:11.600
The point is not that God is picking the best men in

00:46:11.600 --> 00:46:13.360
the world to achieve something.

00:46:13.360 --> 00:46:16.480
In fact, God is often picking the worst men around to prove

00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:17.360
a point.

00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:21.760
God can do great things even with terrible human beings.

00:46:21.760 --> 00:46:25.040
For instance, a point that I've made before and others have made

00:46:25.040 --> 00:46:26.160
it as well.

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How impressive would it have been if God had simply picked the

00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:35.440
mightiest nation on earth and used them to conquer another country?

00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:37.760
Okay, sure.

00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:42.720
There's still something impressive about the martial conquest, right?

00:46:42.720 --> 00:46:47.360
But it's not as impressive as God using the Israelites to wipe

00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:49.040
out the Canaanites.

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Because that could only be divine intervention.

00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:58.160
The Israelites weren't particularly good at war, were whinging awful people, ran

00:46:58.160 --> 00:47:02.640
away, were cowards, and yet God used them to conquer all of

00:47:02.640 --> 00:47:04.640
these wicked people in Canaan.

00:47:04.640 --> 00:47:06.160
That's a miracle.

00:47:06.160 --> 00:47:10.640
So the two parts again are basically there are things in Scripture

00:47:10.640 --> 00:47:14.160
that are just history, and just because someone is in Scripture does

00:47:14.160 --> 00:47:15.840
not mean he's someone you should emulate.

00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:18.480
There are plenty of terrible human beings in Scripture.

00:47:18.480 --> 00:47:21.520
There are plenty of terrible human beings today.

00:47:21.520 --> 00:47:23.440
That's part of it.

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Scripture is recording real history and it's recording real people, and a

00:47:27.600 --> 00:47:32.320
lot of real people are not particularly good people.

00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:35.040
But yes, those things are both condemned, right?

00:47:35.040 --> 00:47:39.760
God look at Proverbs and Ecclesiastes and other places, God clearly condemns

00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:41.360
being a little thieving weasel.

00:47:41.360 --> 00:47:46.960
So Jacob is condemned, and obviously what Lot's daughters did is condemned

00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:49.520
a number of times.

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Question 11.

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Do you hold to historicist eschatology, why or why not?

00:47:55.520 --> 00:47:58.400
Did Didn't Luther hold to something similar or at least that the

00:47:58.400 --> 00:47:59.440
Pope is the Antichrist?

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I'll think I'll answer this in reverse order.

00:48:03.120 --> 00:48:08.240
Luther held at least that the office of the papacy was essentially

00:48:08.240 --> 00:48:12.160
the office of Antichrist, or the or that the office was the

00:48:12.160 --> 00:48:16.560
Antichrist, which is to say, that the man holding that office is

00:48:16.560 --> 00:48:19.760
Antichrist because the office is.

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And do remember that look at what the word Antichrist is.

00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:24.320
It's Antichrist.

00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:28.800
So there are many antichrists, as scripture very clearly says.

00:48:28.800 --> 00:48:32.960
Anyone who is a false teacher is an antichrist in a minor

00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:34.240
way. Right?

00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:42.320
The Pope, according to the understanding of basically all Protestants, certainly Lutherans,

00:48:42.320 --> 00:48:44.160
is anti-Christ.

00:48:44.160 --> 00:48:47.600
Because he teaches things that are contrary to Christ.

00:48:47.600 --> 00:48:51.520
Right? We could talk about the Marian dogmas, we could talk about

00:48:52.160 --> 00:48:55.840
indulgences, we could talk about any number of things taught by the

00:48:55.840 --> 00:49:02.640
Roman pontiffs that are contrary to Scripture, particularly the core doctrine of

00:49:02.640 --> 00:49:09.440
Scripture, as Protestants rightly understand it, which is faith alone, Grace alone,

00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:10.960
right? The Word alone.

00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:11.920
Sola Scripture.

00:49:11.920 --> 00:49:14.560
I could give the Latin, but again, there's no real point

00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:19.360
And so the Pope in that sense is indeed antichrist, and that

00:49:19.360 --> 00:49:22.000
is what Luther held, and I agree with Luther on that.

00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:28.720
Luther was more of an historicist with regard to certainly Daniel initially

00:49:29.040 --> 00:49:32.880
and then later in life more fully with Revelation.

00:49:32.880 --> 00:49:34.320
I am not as much

00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:42.720
I'm not as inclined toward historicism as Luther was, but that doesn't

00:49:42.640 --> 00:49:48.000
mean that I think that Luther was necessarily wrong with regard to

00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:48.880
these things.

00:49:48.880 --> 00:49:54.000
And to be clear here, with historicism, we're not talking about

00:49:55.280 --> 00:49:58.240
everything having been fulfilled in the past, right?

00:49:58.240 --> 00:50:01.120
That's preterism, or full preterism, really.

00:50:01.120 --> 00:50:02.400
That's a different thing.

00:50:03.360 --> 00:50:09.760
is talking more about histor Historical connections and historical figures being symbolically

00:50:09.760 --> 00:50:15.920
connected to things in Daniel and Revelation mostly, the prophetic books.

00:50:15.920 --> 00:50:20.320
It does also overlap a little bit with preterism in saying that

00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:22.320
some of these things have happened in the past, and I think

00:50:22.320 --> 00:50:23.440
it's fine.

00:50:23.440 --> 00:50:27.600
I've talked about cyclical fulfillment and typology before, and there was a

00:50:27.600 --> 00:50:31.360
question about typology, and I'll get to that, I believe, tonight, so

00:50:31.360 --> 00:50:34.000
that'll tie back in.

00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:38.400
But I do not believe that, for instance, everything's been fulfilled.

00:50:38.400 --> 00:50:40.720
I went into that in a previous episode, so I won't necessarily

00:50:40.720 --> 00:50:43.040
retread that ground here.

00:50:43.040 --> 00:50:43.360
But

00:50:44.560 --> 00:50:50.000
I don't think that all of the prophetic parts of the book

00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:54.320
are about past historical figures or tied to these historical figures.

00:50:54.320 --> 00:50:56.400
I do think that some of it is still to come, and

00:50:56.400 --> 00:50:59.680
I think that some of it is symbolic or typological in that

00:50:59.680 --> 00:51:01.840
it has many fulfillments.

00:51:01.840 --> 00:51:05.840
So I agree with Luther largely but not entirely.

00:51:05.840 --> 00:51:10.480
I think that he was perhaps a little too staunch in trying

00:51:10.480 --> 00:51:13.520
to tie that to specifically the Pope.

00:51:13.520 --> 00:51:15.040
I understand why he did it.

00:51:15.040 --> 00:51:17.040
It made perfect sense at the time.

00:51:17.040 --> 00:51:20.240
But at the same time, perhaps it will turn out that Luther

00:51:20.240 --> 00:51:21.760
was absolutely correct.

00:51:21.760 --> 00:51:24.240
Look at what the Pope is doing today.

00:51:24.240 --> 00:51:29.520
He is getting very friendly with Muslims, he's buddying up with them,

00:51:29.520 --> 00:51:34.480
he's doubling down on what the Roman Church has long said that

00:51:34.640 --> 00:51:39.280
the plan of salvation includes the Muslims and the Jews.

00:51:39.280 --> 00:51:40.400
Who knows?

00:51:40.400 --> 00:51:46.640
Maybe there will be a final antichrist, uppercase A, I guess, and

00:51:46.640 --> 00:51:48.560
perhaps it will indeed be the Pope.

00:51:48.560 --> 00:51:49.600
That could happen.

00:51:49.840 --> 00:51:51.520
I'm not saying I believe that.

00:51:51.520 --> 00:51:53.360
I'm not saying I believe either way on that.

00:51:53.360 --> 00:51:55.280
I don't really have an opinion on it.

00:51:55.280 --> 00:51:57.120
We'll see what happens.

00:51:57.120 --> 00:52:00.400
This is one of those where I've mentioned many times before, Christians

00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:03.120
can get very deeply invested in this and get off the rails

00:52:03.200 --> 00:52:03.360
and

00:52:04.720 --> 00:52:08.480
focus on the things that truly matter about the Christian life instead

00:52:08.480 --> 00:52:11.040
of trying to speculate and figure out when God is going to

00:52:11.040 --> 00:52:11.760
return. Right?

00:52:11.760 --> 00:52:14.240
He said no man knows the hour or the day.

00:52:14.240 --> 00:52:18.880
That includes all of us.

00:52:18.880 --> 00:52:24.880
Question twelve I am new to proper Christianity, I am struggling to

00:52:24.880 --> 00:52:27.840
understand the concept of typology.

00:52:27.840 --> 00:52:33.440
How can real-life events be treated and be symbolic with regard to

00:52:33.440 --> 00:52:35.200
being literature basically?

00:52:35.200 --> 00:52:35.520
So

00:52:37.280 --> 00:52:38.400
typology

00:52:39.360 --> 00:52:39.680
is

00:52:40.960 --> 00:52:42.400
relatively simple to understand.

00:52:43.520 --> 00:52:47.680
I will go ahead and use the example that makes Baptist mad,

00:52:47.680 --> 00:52:50.640
but it is what it is.

00:52:50.640 --> 00:52:56.000
When you have Peter speaking about baptism, right?

00:52:56.000 --> 00:53:01.920
He speaks about baptism and the flood as being typologically linked.

00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:05.680
You have the words for typology there, antitupos and tupos in the

00:53:05.680 --> 00:53:12.160
Greek And so the antitype is just the fullness of the type

00:53:12.160 --> 00:53:14.240
or types that precede it.

00:53:14.240 --> 00:53:18.640
So you can have many types that are prefiguring or pointing to

00:53:18.640 --> 00:53:20.800
an antitype, or you could just have one.

00:53:20.880 --> 00:53:22.400
Usually it's multiple.

00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:23.680
God likes typology.

00:53:23.680 --> 00:53:25.440
This is one of the ways that he likes to organize his

00:53:25.520 --> 00:53:27.760
word. It's one of the ways that he likes to point toward

00:53:27.760 --> 00:53:29.120
things in the future.

00:53:29.120 --> 00:53:33.920
And so you have a number of instances that are typological of

00:53:33.920 --> 00:53:38.480
baptism. One of those, of course, is the crossing through the Red

00:53:38.480 --> 00:53:39.120
Sea, right?

00:53:39.120 --> 00:53:45.040
And it explicitly speaks about that in language related to baptism.

00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:51.280
And so when you think of the type, think of a minor

00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:56.000
version, a lesser version, or an incomplete version of the antitype, which

00:53:56.000 --> 00:53:57.440
is the fullness.

00:53:57.440 --> 00:54:00.720
So again, to use the baptism example.

00:54:00.720 --> 00:54:07.920
Christian baptism is the anti type because Christian baptism bestows faith, works

00:54:07.920 --> 00:54:11.840
forgiveness of sins, brings you into the Christian church.

00:54:11.840 --> 00:54:14.960
That's the ordinary course of things if you're baptized as a child.

00:54:14.960 --> 00:54:19.280
You can of course come to faith through the word, read, heard,

00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:22.320
whatever it happens to be, and then get baptized later, in which

00:54:22.320 --> 00:54:26.000
case it is going to strengthen your faith instead of the stowing

00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:28.880
faith because you already have it according to one of the other

00:54:28.880 --> 00:54:31.840
means of grace, because there's not one, there are multiple means of

00:54:31.840 --> 00:54:37.040
grace. But the types of baptism, and the one that Peter of

00:54:37.040 --> 00:54:38.720
course uses, is the flood.

00:54:38.720 --> 00:54:45.120
Well, from what was Noah saved by explicitly the Ark, but figuratively

00:54:45.120 --> 00:54:46.080
the flood?

00:54:46.080 --> 00:54:52.400
He was saved from temporal death and the wicked earthly realm, from

00:54:52.400 --> 00:54:56.000
the wicked men, the antideluvians.

00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:58.560
From what does baptism save you then?

00:54:58.560 --> 00:55:01.920
Well it can't just save you from those things, because it has

00:55:01.920 --> 00:55:04.080
to be greater being the antitype.

00:55:04.080 --> 00:55:08.800
Baptism saves you from eternal death by giving you the free gift

00:55:08.800 --> 00:55:12.960
of faith, and washing away your sins.

00:55:12.960 --> 00:55:15.040
That's how typology works.

00:55:15.040 --> 00:55:21.440
So So very simple, the type is the imperfect, incomplete, or minor

00:55:21.440 --> 00:55:27.840
version or thing pointing to the anti-type, which is the completeness, the

00:55:27.840 --> 00:55:31.440
fullness, the real thing, the full thing.

00:55:31.440 --> 00:55:35.440
So, just to give one more sort of set of examples to

00:55:35.440 --> 00:55:38.400
drive home the point, as it were.

00:55:38.400 --> 00:55:40.320
Christ is the Messiah.

00:55:40.320 --> 00:55:41.920
He's the anti-type.

00:55:41.920 --> 00:55:46.240
But there are many types of Christ in the Old Testament.

00:55:46.240 --> 00:55:51.440
So you have Joshua, whose actual name is Jesus.

00:55:51.440 --> 00:55:53.920
Probably helps with the typology, doesn't it?

00:55:54.240 --> 00:55:58.000
He is a type of Christ because he brings the people into

00:55:58.000 --> 00:56:00.800
the promised land, he delivers them from their enemies.

00:56:00.800 --> 00:56:02.240
Type of Christ.

00:56:02.240 --> 00:56:04.080
Noah's a type of Christ.

00:56:04.080 --> 00:56:10.000
He brings his family through the evil destructive world, the destruction of

00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:16.080
that world, and he is, of course, prophet, priest, and king.

00:56:16.080 --> 00:56:17.520
Type of Christ.

00:56:17.520 --> 00:56:19.520
Solomon is a type of Christ.

00:56:19.520 --> 00:56:21.120
Moses is a type of Christ.

00:56:21.120 --> 00:56:27.280
These are figures pointing to Christ and who have aspects of Christ

00:56:27.600 --> 00:56:31.120
but in a minor way, Christ being the fullness of it.

00:56:31.120 --> 00:56:33.840
So that's basically how typology works.

00:56:33.840 --> 00:56:39.120
It's not necessarily that the real life figure is a symbol and

00:56:39.120 --> 00:56:42.880
not a real person, but rather he's sort of both, right?

00:56:43.200 --> 00:56:47.520
A person can simultaneously be a real person and a symbol of

00:56:47.520 --> 00:56:50.560
something. And so you could think of a king being a symbol

00:56:50.560 --> 00:56:52.320
of authority, right?

00:56:52.560 --> 00:56:56.160
Simultaneously, he is the king, but he's also a symbol.

00:56:56.160 --> 00:56:58.320
He's a national symbol as well.

00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:00.480
So that's essentially how typology works.

00:57:00.480 --> 00:57:01.680
It's fairly straightforward.

00:57:01.680 --> 00:57:04.480
It can get complicated when you're trying to draw out nuance and

00:57:04.480 --> 00:57:08.880
things like that, but the concept itself is fairly simple.

00:57:11.440 --> 00:57:18.240
Question 13, shifting gears here as it were to more politics.

00:57:18.240 --> 00:57:23.200
History. Is the famous photograph of the Congolese father with the amputated

00:57:23.200 --> 00:57:24.880
daughter's limbs real?

00:57:24.880 --> 00:57:28.800
If so, where should we stand on the Congo colony?

00:57:29.360 --> 00:57:32.960
This is another example of atrocity propaganda and

00:57:34.240 --> 00:57:39.200
the supposed atrocities committed by Europeans in the Congo were not committed

00:57:39.200 --> 00:57:40.480
by Europeans.

00:57:40.480 --> 00:57:46.560
They were committed by other Africans who were punishing those who did

00:57:46.560 --> 00:57:48.400
not meet their quotas.

00:57:48.400 --> 00:57:53.360
And in fact, when the Belgians learned of this, they were horrified

00:57:53.360 --> 00:57:56.000
by it and put a stop to the practice.

00:57:56.000 --> 00:57:58.160
Because it was not ordered by Europeans.

00:57:58.160 --> 00:57:59.920
It's completely ridiculous.

00:57:59.920 --> 00:58:03.840
Why on earth would anyone think that removing the hands from a

00:58:03.840 --> 00:58:06.800
slave would increase his productivity.

00:58:06.800 --> 00:58:07.920
It's stupid.

00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:11.360
It's obviously something that did not occur to a European mind.

00:58:11.360 --> 00:58:13.280
So just that makes it pretty obvious.

00:58:13.280 --> 00:58:19.760
But no, it's atrocity propaganda against colonization because Satan hates colonization, because

00:58:19.760 --> 00:58:23.680
colonization spread Christianity to the rest of the world.

00:58:23.680 --> 00:58:25.680
Very simple.

00:58:25.680 --> 00:58:29.840
And question fourteen from the same person, a follow-up question as it

00:58:29.840 --> 00:58:31.200
were, or related question.

00:58:31.680 --> 00:58:35.360
What is the truth about Nanking and Unit 731?

00:58:35.360 --> 00:58:39.600
Are we to condemn the Japanese on those or are they fabricated?

00:58:39.600 --> 00:58:43.200
I think that they are the same sort of largely fabricated atrocity

00:58:43.200 --> 00:58:45.360
propaganda. I don't know that we have

00:58:46.800 --> 00:58:52.640
really sufficient records with regard to that to make this sort of

00:58:52.640 --> 00:58:55.520
analysis and the sort of draw the sort of conclusion we would

00:58:55.520 --> 00:59:00.400
with regard to the European theater because the Germans kept meticulous records.

00:59:00.400 --> 00:59:03.280
And if you actually look at those records, many intercepted by the

00:59:03.280 --> 00:59:07.360
British, because of course they cracked the Enigma machine, you can see

00:59:07.360 --> 00:59:09.760
that the Germans document what they were doing, and you can figure

00:59:09.760 --> 00:59:13.520
out that the narrative, the standard narrative just doesn't work.

00:59:13.520 --> 00:59:16.960
You don't have records that are quite as good with regard to

00:59:16.960 --> 00:59:18.800
the Asian theater.

00:59:18.800 --> 00:59:19.120
So

00:59:20.240 --> 00:59:23.280
I think it's pretty clear though.

00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:26.800
Atrocity propaganda follows sort of a formula.

00:59:26.800 --> 00:59:30.720
There are a few different formulas it follows, but many of these

00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:34.320
fit the formula of atrocity propaganda, and so I'm simply not going

00:59:34.320 --> 00:59:38.400
to believe them without very compelling evidence.

00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:44.160
So unless someone is able to present hard compelling evidence of it,

00:59:44.160 --> 00:59:48.320
I am just going to consider it war propaganda and ignore it.

00:59:48.320 --> 00:59:52.800
And I'm not going to condemn the Japanese for it because again,

00:59:52.800 --> 00:59:55.760
show me compelling evidence.

00:59:55.760 --> 00:59:58.400
Question 15.

00:59:58.400 --> 01:00:01.840
As a European, I am not familiar with this, but out of

01:00:01.840 --> 01:00:05.520
interest, is it true that American blacks were doing much better in

01:00:05.520 --> 01:00:07.200
the mid-1900s?

01:00:07.200 --> 01:00:09.760
If yes, what changed?

01:00:10.240 --> 01:00:13.280
So the answer to that is yes.

01:00:13.280 --> 01:00:16.560
They were doing better in many ways.

01:00:16.560 --> 01:00:20.880
Granted, the violent crime problem still existed, it was still the same

01:00:20.880 --> 01:00:26.560
sort of disparity, but in some ways that problem was regulated, tamped

01:00:26.720 --> 01:00:30.960
down, kept under control by segregation and Jim Crow laws and things

01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:31.840
like that.

01:00:31.840 --> 01:00:38.560
And how you wind up getting that torn down is a combination

01:00:38.880 --> 01:00:45.840
of communist agitation through MLK and others, and the so called civil

01:00:45.920 --> 01:00:46.640
rights movement.

01:00:46.640 --> 01:00:51.040
Then you get the Civil Rights Acts and the Supreme Court involvement,

01:00:51.040 --> 01:00:53.360
primarily with regard to Brown v.

01:00:53.360 --> 01:00:57.360
Board of Education And the Atlanta Motel case.

01:00:57.360 --> 01:00:59.280
I can't remember the full name of that now.

01:00:59.280 --> 01:01:01.680
It's something Atlanta Motel.

01:01:01.680 --> 01:01:04.720
At any rate, that's what happened.

01:01:04.720 --> 01:01:10.480
And integration, so-called, and the destruction of all of these legal systems

01:01:10.480 --> 01:01:13.760
we'd built up to deal with the reality of race and the

01:01:13.760 --> 01:01:20.800
problems caused by multiculturalism, as it were, by having a multi-ethnic society.

01:01:20.800 --> 01:01:22.160
That whole structure was torn down.

01:01:23.120 --> 01:01:25.840
And that is what led to the sort of chaos that we

01:01:25.840 --> 01:01:27.120
see today in many of those problems.

01:01:27.120 --> 01:01:30.880
And of course, the demographic demographics have changed as well due to

01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:34.400
the importation of many millions of hostile foreigners.

01:01:34.400 --> 01:01:40.560
But yes, by and large, both the white American population and the

01:01:40.560 --> 01:01:45.600
black population living in the United States were both doing better because

01:01:46.480 --> 01:01:51.520
the blacks had a structured society that suppressed some of the worst

01:01:51.520 --> 01:01:58.560
elements of their demographic group and kept things structured and orderly

01:01:58.560 --> 01:02:00.080
for them so they were doing better.

01:02:00.080 --> 01:02:06.480
You had much higher rates of marriage and staying married, lower divorce

01:02:06.480 --> 01:02:12.240
rates, lower rates of fatherlessness, and all these other problems, they were

01:02:12.240 --> 01:02:14.080
much better off as well.

01:02:14.080 --> 01:02:17.760
So you can make the argument, you know, should they be permitted

01:02:17.760 --> 01:02:18.240
to stay?

01:02:18.240 --> 01:02:21.280
I would obviously say no because they are not part of the

01:02:21.280 --> 01:02:23.600
nation and so they should be sent home.

01:02:23.600 --> 01:02:28.240
But they were certainly doing better when those legal protections and those

01:02:28.240 --> 01:02:32.960
systems were in place, and those were systematically torn down largely at

01:02:32.960 --> 01:02:36.320
the behest of Jewish communists.

01:02:36.320 --> 01:02:42.400
Because the civil rights action the civil rights movement, as it were,

01:02:42.400 --> 01:02:46.880
was almost entirely funded by Jewish communists, many of them with connections

01:02:46.880 --> 01:02:49.440
to the Soviet Union.

01:02:49.440 --> 01:02:53.120
It was partly an act of war.

01:02:53.120 --> 01:02:54.720
Question 16.

01:02:54.720 --> 01:02:59.680
What assurance can we have that baby boomer parents who proclaim faith

01:02:59.680 --> 01:03:01.440
are actually saved?

01:03:01.440 --> 01:03:05.440
Very immature faith with wayward children, how can one be saved with

01:03:05.440 --> 01:03:09.600
fifty plus years with next to no sanctification?

01:03:10.720 --> 01:03:15.280
That is a legitimate question, and that is fair, because someone who

01:03:15.280 --> 01:03:19.360
has been a Christian for some length of time, you should see

01:03:19.520 --> 01:03:22.320
sanctification. You should see some change in that person's life.

01:03:22.320 --> 01:03:25.120
You should see something concrete.

01:03:25.120 --> 01:03:29.920
And with many from that generation you do not see that.

01:03:29.920 --> 01:03:35.520
That is deeply unfortunate, but it is the reality.

01:03:35.520 --> 01:03:41.120
Does that mean that we despair with regard to their eternal destination

01:03:41.440 --> 01:03:43.040
I don't think so.

01:03:43.040 --> 01:03:45.360
There are different levels of reward.

01:03:45.360 --> 01:03:47.600
There are different crowns, right?

01:03:47.600 --> 01:03:53.040
So someone who is Christian with almost no works, still saved, does

01:03:53.040 --> 01:03:56.160
not have the same rewards as someone who is Christian with a

01:03:56.160 --> 01:03:58.000
lifetime of works, right?

01:03:58.000 --> 01:04:00.720
There is a judgment according to works.

01:04:00.720 --> 01:04:03.760
The judgment according to works does not determine if you are saved

01:04:03.760 --> 01:04:04.160
or not.

01:04:04.160 --> 01:04:07.200
That is grace and faith alone, right?

01:04:07.520 --> 01:04:11.840
That is a free gift of God that is entirely without merit

01:04:11.840 --> 01:04:12.640
on your part.

01:04:12.640 --> 01:04:16.160
It is one hundred percent due to Christ's finished work.

01:04:16.160 --> 01:04:20.480
But there is a judgment according to your works, and God will

01:04:20.480 --> 01:04:23.120
reward you according to those works.

01:04:23.120 --> 01:04:26.000
If you don't really have any good works, then you don't get

01:04:26.000 --> 01:04:27.600
the reward.

01:04:27.600 --> 01:04:32.560
So some of them, hopefully many of them, are very well saved,

01:04:32.560 --> 01:04:32.880
right

01:04:33.760 --> 01:04:37.760
That doesn't mean that they have done what they should have done

01:04:37.760 --> 01:04:38.960
as a Christian.

01:04:38.960 --> 01:04:40.320
They should have done better.

01:04:40.320 --> 01:04:42.480
They should have tried harder.

01:04:42.480 --> 01:04:44.000
But they didn't.

01:04:44.000 --> 01:04:47.680
And you can also think here, obviously, the Lutheran response is going

01:04:47.680 --> 01:04:50.160
to be felicitous inconsistency, right?

01:04:50.160 --> 01:04:56.560
We hope that they are Christianed despite the nonsense they have held

01:04:56.560 --> 01:04:57.600
and said in their life.

01:04:57.600 --> 01:05:03.920
We hope that ultimately They rely on Christ alone and entrust everything

01:05:03.920 --> 01:05:08.880
to his finished work, God's grace, and the free gift of faith.

01:05:08.880 --> 01:05:09.200
So

01:05:12.000 --> 01:05:15.280
we hope that they are ultimately Christian.

01:05:15.280 --> 01:05:16.960
We hope they are ultimately saved.

01:05:16.960 --> 01:05:18.640
Pray for them certainly.

01:05:18.640 --> 01:05:22.480
If there's an opportunity to discuss things with them, do so within

01:05:22.480 --> 01:05:23.520
the bounds of wisdom.

01:05:23.520 --> 01:05:26.800
I know I've said and I still agree, I reiterate it here

01:05:26.880 --> 01:05:30.000
in fact, there's only so much you can do with baby boomer

01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:31.120
parents, right?

01:05:31.120 --> 01:05:32.880
Every millennial knows that at this point.

01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:34.560
You probably learned it the hard way.

01:05:34.560 --> 01:05:36.960
You're just not going to get anywhere.

01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:40.560
If you argue with them, you are probably just going to sour

01:05:40.560 --> 01:05:41.760
your relationship with that person.

01:05:41.760 --> 01:05:45.520
And if that doesn't achieve anything, it's not worth doing.

01:05:45.520 --> 01:05:50.880
If you have that strife, but the person amends his life, amends

01:05:50.880 --> 01:05:55.280
her life, turns back to the church, then it's worth it.

01:05:55.280 --> 01:05:58.320
And hopefully the person will also recognize then that you were doing

01:05:58.320 --> 01:06:03.120
something good and amend fix that relationship as well, right?

01:06:03.120 --> 01:06:03.840
But But

01:06:05.120 --> 01:06:09.280
yes, the baby boomer generation has a very shallow and very corrupted

01:06:09.280 --> 01:06:15.520
Christianity, but ultimately you can still be saved because it is Christ's

01:06:15.520 --> 01:06:22.400
work and not our correct doctrine our correct dogma anything like that.

01:06:22.400 --> 01:06:26.800
And the greater condemnation will fall on the many false teachers who

01:06:26.800 --> 01:06:30.880
created the boomer Christianity that has been such a blight.

01:06:31.760 --> 01:06:36.400
The average believer suffers for it as well, but the teacher gets

01:06:36.400 --> 01:06:39.440
the stricter judgment, so I would not want to be a baby

01:06:39.440 --> 01:06:41.440
boomer pastor.

01:06:41.440 --> 01:06:44.480
I shudder to think what they are going to hear on Judgment

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Day. Question seventeen.

01:06:48.240 --> 01:06:51.280
With the way things are going for them, do you think the

01:06:51.280 --> 01:06:56.480
Jews have unintentionally delayed their plans for the coming Messiah Or is

01:06:56.480 --> 01:06:58.800
this all just a carefully planned Sia?

01:06:58.880 --> 01:07:03.760
Well, the Jewish Messiah would be the Antichrist if they actually achieve

01:07:03.760 --> 01:07:07.120
that, and if God permits a final antichrist, and that's part of

01:07:07.120 --> 01:07:07.920
his plan.

01:07:07.920 --> 01:07:13.200
You can read Revelation as that being sort of symbolic of the

01:07:13.200 --> 01:07:16.640
opposition to Christ and a number of other things, or you can

01:07:16.640 --> 01:07:20.240
read it as being an actual final person.

01:07:20.240 --> 01:07:24.400
I don't really tie myself to either interpretation of that.

01:07:24.400 --> 01:07:27.440
Again, I don't think that it's the core of the Christian faith,

01:07:27.440 --> 01:07:29.680
so I don't focus on it.

01:07:29.760 --> 01:07:30.080
But

01:07:31.840 --> 01:07:33.200
I think that the

01:07:34.160 --> 01:07:39.600
Jews have a very real disadvantage with regard to how they pursue

01:07:39.600 --> 01:07:44.880
these things, and that would be that their psychology almost doesn't permit

01:07:44.880 --> 01:07:48.720
them to be rational with regard to a lot of this stuff.

01:07:49.520 --> 01:07:54.400
So if they were just patient and kept pursuing a plan of

01:07:54.400 --> 01:07:58.480
incrementalism for say another hundred years, they could probably get a lot

01:07:58.480 --> 01:08:00.400
done with very little pushback.

01:08:00.560 --> 01:08:03.920
but they are wildly impatient.

01:08:03.920 --> 01:08:06.960
And so that handicaps them.

01:08:07.600 --> 01:08:11.760
And also, taking a step back, this is something that is a

01:08:11.760 --> 01:08:14.000
problem with regard to the right wing, and it has been for

01:08:14.000 --> 01:08:15.040
a long time.

01:08:15.040 --> 01:08:18.720
Don't look at the Jews as some sort of you know arch

01:08:18.880 --> 01:08:22.480
nemesis evil genius kind of group.

01:08:22.480 --> 01:08:25.680
By and large, they're not that bright.

01:08:25.680 --> 01:08:28.320
They are simply viciously

01:08:29.440 --> 01:08:35.280
preferenced toward their in-group, biased against out groups, and they are mercenary

01:08:35.280 --> 01:08:38.080
in their approach to basically everything.

01:08:38.080 --> 01:08:40.080
That gives them certain advantages.

01:08:40.880 --> 01:08:45.200
But what really puts them in the position that they have today

01:08:45.200 --> 01:08:47.040
isn't their own efforts.

01:08:47.040 --> 01:08:51.760
Because by their own efforts, usually they get expelled from countries and

01:08:51.760 --> 01:08:54.080
lands and other places.

01:08:54.080 --> 01:08:55.760
It's their father below

01:08:56.960 --> 01:08:59.680
because they are of their father the devil and he has been

01:08:59.680 --> 01:09:02.320
a murderer and a liar from the beginning and they wish to

01:09:02.320 --> 01:09:04.720
do his will.

01:09:04.720 --> 01:09:07.600
He doesn't sleep.

01:09:07.600 --> 01:09:09.040
He doesn't die.

01:09:09.200 --> 01:09:13.120
He's been around working on this stuff for thousands of years.

01:09:13.120 --> 01:09:17.200
That is why that side looks like it is organized and achieving

01:09:17.200 --> 01:09:21.440
things because it has an animating intelligence behind it.

01:09:21.440 --> 01:09:25.280
It is not the Jews ultimately doing it.

01:09:25.280 --> 01:09:28.080
They are not the ones running the show.

01:09:28.080 --> 01:09:31.120
They would not do a good job if they were.

01:09:31.120 --> 01:09:35.920
So don't think of them as evil geniuses because they're not.

01:09:35.920 --> 01:09:41.200
They have an animating spirit and an animating intelligence behind them, and

01:09:41.200 --> 01:09:44.000
he is the one calling the shots ultimately.

01:09:44.000 --> 01:09:44.320
So

01:09:45.440 --> 01:09:52.640
that is the ultimate struggle for Christianity, for Christendom, for Western Christians.

01:09:52.640 --> 01:09:54.560
It's against Satan and his kingdom.

01:09:54.560 --> 01:09:57.200
The Jews just happen to be his high priests.

01:09:59.040 --> 01:10:03.120
But I don't think that they have really changed their plans for

01:10:03.120 --> 01:10:06.080
their Messiah all because it's entirely out of their control.

01:10:06.080 --> 01:10:06.400
So

01:10:08.880 --> 01:10:14.160
I think that they do constantly hobble themselves by making crazy mistakes,

01:10:14.160 --> 01:10:18.080
but again, animating intelligence behind them, keeping them sort of on track

01:10:18.080 --> 01:10:19.200
to some degree.

01:10:23.520 --> 01:10:27.840
There's someone asking about women-led Bible studies.

01:10:27.840 --> 01:10:30.960
I think I will save that for next week.

01:10:41.200 --> 01:10:45.040
Just going through the chat to try and find any questions I

01:10:45.040 --> 01:10:46.000
missed.

01:10:49.920 --> 01:10:54.000
I see a question that has a one out of two, and

01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:58.800
then I do not see the second one.

01:10:58.800 --> 01:11:02.160
So I will just answer the first part.

01:11:04.400 --> 01:11:07.040
And I'm not sure which number I'm on now, but I will

01:11:07.040 --> 01:11:08.480
number them in the transcript.

01:11:08.480 --> 01:11:11.760
Could the declining birth rate in the West be some sort of

01:11:11.760 --> 01:11:16.160
a blessing in disguise as most people that don't have children are

01:11:16.480 --> 01:11:20.160
lefty loons.

01:11:20.160 --> 01:11:24.240
To some degree, yes, but at the same time I think we

01:11:24.240 --> 01:11:29.280
would all rather that those individuals were simply reformed and no longer

01:11:29.280 --> 01:11:34.080
held those insane positions, because many of them have just been indoctrinated.

01:11:34.080 --> 01:11:38.720
They just believe what they have been indoctrinated to believe.

01:11:38.720 --> 01:11:43.360
And I've mentioned this many times and it bears repeating.

01:11:43.360 --> 01:11:47.840
Many men are only going to be as good as the society

01:11:47.840 --> 01:11:49.680
of which they are part.

01:11:49.680 --> 01:11:52.320
And you can think of that in a number of different ways.

01:11:52.320 --> 01:11:55.440
Men are as good as the leaders they follow, they're as good

01:11:55.440 --> 01:11:59.040
as the organizations in which they are members, so on and so

01:11:59.040 --> 01:12:04.640
forth. Many of those on the left would have been perfectly functional

01:12:04.640 --> 01:12:07.200
members of a proper society.

01:12:07.680 --> 01:12:12.720
If they had been born into Christendom in medieval Europe, they would

01:12:12.720 --> 01:12:17.760
have been perfectly fine, functional peasants, and they would not have been

01:12:17.760 --> 01:12:21.120
engaged in the evil and the insanity in which they are engaged

01:12:21.120 --> 01:12:24.560
today. They do that because they live in an evil time under

01:12:24.560 --> 01:12:28.320
an evil government and they are reflec and they are a reflection

01:12:28.320 --> 01:12:29.840
of that evil.

01:12:29.840 --> 01:12:32.800
So what I would want for them is

01:12:33.680 --> 01:12:34.160
to have

01:12:35.040 --> 01:12:40.640
better shepherds, but that doesn't excuse them from their evil.

01:12:40.640 --> 01:12:42.080
It does not give them a free pass.

01:12:42.080 --> 01:12:43.600
They still have to be punished for being evil.

01:12:43.600 --> 01:12:46.320
They still have to be opposed as enemies.

01:12:46.320 --> 01:12:49.360
And I do know that there was a question about leftists and

01:12:49.360 --> 01:12:50.480
some comments I made about them.

01:12:50.480 --> 01:12:53.680
I'm going to punt that one until next time.

01:12:53.680 --> 01:12:57.920
But with regard to the left, yes, to some degree it's a

01:12:57.920 --> 01:13:01.520
blessing that they are the ones having the fewest children children because

01:13:02.800 --> 01:13:05.600
in large part the future belongs to the men who show up.

01:13:05.600 --> 01:13:08.000
And the men who show up are the men who have children,

01:13:08.000 --> 01:13:14.000
right? So if nation A stops having children and nation B has

01:13:14.000 --> 01:13:19.280
six children per woman, the future belongs to Nation B because Nation

01:13:19.280 --> 01:13:21.040
A stopped having children.

01:13:21.040 --> 01:13:22.880
That's just the reality of it.

01:13:22.880 --> 01:13:25.920
But again, I would very much prefer that they

01:13:27.200 --> 01:13:30.160
lived under a better society and were better people instead of being

01:13:30.160 --> 01:13:31.920
evil and being destroyed.

01:13:31.920 --> 01:13:35.040
The same thing is I would prefer that everyone convert to Christianity

01:13:35.040 --> 01:13:36.720
instead of being destroyed.

01:13:36.720 --> 01:13:42.240
It is in some ways a tragedy that anyone refuses to convert.

01:13:42.240 --> 01:13:43.840
It would be better if they converted.

01:13:43.840 --> 01:13:45.360
And that includes the Jews.

01:13:45.360 --> 01:13:48.160
Everyone. It would be better if they converted.

01:13:48.160 --> 01:13:51.120
It doesn't mean I believe everyone will, and we have to deal

01:13:51.120 --> 01:13:54.880
with the world as it is, not as we wish it were.

01:13:54.880 --> 01:13:55.200
So

01:13:57.920 --> 01:13:59.680
we just have to deal with reality

01:14:06.640 --> 01:14:11.920
Let's see.

01:14:12.320 --> 01:14:15.920
Someone asked about how questions are submitted and it's

01:14:17.280 --> 01:14:19.840
I comment on this at the end of every episode, but it's

01:14:19.760 --> 01:14:20.320
always the same.

01:14:20.320 --> 01:14:23.200
I try to take questions from the chat, I collect them from

01:14:23.200 --> 01:14:25.920
other places as well, Telegram, X, etc.

01:14:26.160 --> 01:14:28.960
And the forum is the preferred way to submit them because it's

01:14:28.880 --> 01:14:31.360
just easiest for me to organize things.

01:14:31.360 --> 01:14:33.600
But I do indeed take questions from the chat.

01:14:33.600 --> 01:14:35.520
That's why I'm scrolling through the chat right now to try to

01:14:35.520 --> 01:14:39.360
find them.

01:14:39.360 --> 01:14:40.800
Someone asked about AI.

01:14:40.800 --> 01:14:43.760
I'm going to add that to my list for next week because

01:14:44.080 --> 01:14:47.760
that one is a little bit longer and more involved.

01:14:47.760 --> 01:14:52.560
But yes, I do largely see AI as a negative thing, not

01:14:52.560 --> 01:14:53.840
exclusively negative.

01:14:53.840 --> 01:14:57.440
Obviously most things few things are exclusively negative, right?

01:14:57.440 --> 01:14:59.200
It's the same as sin.

01:14:59.200 --> 01:15:02.640
If sin were only negative, no one would do it.

01:15:02.640 --> 01:15:06.240
Right? And you could think back to the example given with regard

01:15:06.240 --> 01:15:07.440
to an earlier question, right?

01:15:07.440 --> 01:15:11.680
Fornication. If it were only negative, no one would do it.

01:15:11.680 --> 01:15:13.040
It has to have an appeal.

01:15:13.040 --> 01:15:14.800
Sin has to have some sort of appeal.

01:15:14.800 --> 01:15:18.480
The same thing with regard to things that have negative external externalities

01:15:18.480 --> 01:15:21.120
or negative consequences like AI, right?

01:15:21.360 --> 01:15:34.400
If there were no benefit, no one would pursue it.

01:15:34.400 --> 01:15:41.120
I think I pulled out most of the questions from the chat.

01:15:41.120 --> 01:15:46.640
If I missed a question, certainly please let me know.

01:15:46.640 --> 01:15:50.320
Let's see.

01:15:50.320 --> 01:15:54.160
Do you think this may be the last question, do you think

01:15:54.160 --> 01:15:59.680
there are any antideluvians in heaven that aren't in Noah's line but

01:15:59.680 --> 01:16:04.480
still from his time.

01:16:04.480 --> 01:16:07.360
That is an interesting question.

01:16:07.360 --> 01:16:10.000
I am not sure that I know.

01:16:10.000 --> 01:16:12.720
I mean obviously I don't know, scripture doesn't tell us.

01:16:12.720 --> 01:16:17.840
No Noah is said to be the only righteous man, but

01:16:19.280 --> 01:16:22.960
that depends on what is meant by righteous man, right?

01:16:22.960 --> 01:16:27.280
Because every Christian is righteous, for instance, in a certain sense.

01:16:27.200 --> 01:16:31.520
You're righteous because you're a Christian, because you're covered by Christ's righteousness.

01:16:31.520 --> 01:16:37.520
So those in the Old Testament, prior to Christ's earthly ministry, who

01:16:37.520 --> 01:16:41.200
believed in Christ, were covered by their faith in the Christ who

01:16:41.200 --> 01:16:42.080
was to come.

01:16:42.080 --> 01:16:46.080
We are covered by our faith in the Christ who has come.

01:16:46.080 --> 01:16:50.080
So if that is the sense in which Scripture is saying that

01:16:50.080 --> 01:16:53.920
Noah is a righteous man, which I think it's fair to interpret

01:16:53.920 --> 01:16:58.640
that way, then if he is the only one, then there were

01:16:58.640 --> 01:17:02.960
no other antideluvians living at that time who were saved, because of

01:17:02.960 --> 01:17:08.240
course there are antideluvians far back who would have been saved, but

01:17:08.240 --> 01:17:12.960
those living at the time, under that interpretation, none of them would

01:17:12.960 --> 01:17:13.920
be saved.

01:17:13.920 --> 01:17:17.360
But if what is meant by Noah being a righteous man is

01:17:17.360 --> 01:17:20.080
that Noah is a righteous man, as we would think of it

01:17:20.080 --> 01:17:22.720
in sort of the lay sense of the term, he was a

01:17:22.720 --> 01:17:26.560
very good man who was also a Christian.

01:17:26.560 --> 01:17:32.720
Then that is perhaps different, because perhaps there is someone who believed,

01:17:32.720 --> 01:17:38.480
but was sort of in the felicitous inconsistency sense, where ultimately, yes,

01:17:38.480 --> 01:17:42.320
he believed, but he really wasn't a particularly great person.

01:17:42.320 --> 01:17:47.520
He was sort of bad and not a good Christian, had all

01:17:47.520 --> 01:17:53.120
these false beliefs, did wicked things, but in the end squeaked across

01:17:53.200 --> 01:17:54.640
the line, right?

01:17:54.640 --> 01:17:59.120
I think it's probably more reasonable to take the former interpretation that

01:17:59.520 --> 01:18:03.520
Noah was the only believer in his era, which tells you how

01:18:03.520 --> 01:18:06.000
bad things can get, right?

01:18:06.000 --> 01:18:07.360
Things can get very bad.

01:18:07.360 --> 01:18:10.320
We know things that will get bad near the end, because we

01:18:10.320 --> 01:18:14.240
are told explicitly by Christ that those times will be cut short

01:18:14.240 --> 01:18:16.960
for the sake of the elect because of how bad it's going

01:18:16.960 --> 01:18:17.680
to get.

01:18:17.680 --> 01:18:22.800
So I think I would certainly lean toward saying that Noah was

01:18:23.280 --> 01:18:26.640
the only righteous man in the sense of being the only believer,

01:18:26.640 --> 01:18:29.040
and then at least two of his sons.

01:18:29.040 --> 01:18:31.360
There's some open questions about Ham.

01:18:41.280 --> 01:18:48.080
Let's see.

01:18:48.080 --> 01:18:52.000
Okay Okay, let's see I have I'll answer one more question because

01:18:52.000 --> 01:18:56.960
I happen to notice it here scrolling.

01:18:56.960 --> 01:19:01.360
Is the world including the third world speaking English as a major

01:19:01.360 --> 01:19:03.120
language and that positive

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and means something of the white man is preserved.

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China would be jealous the world doesn't does not speak Chinese.

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I picked one that has some complicated answers to it as my

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final question for this week, but

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there are benefits to English being the lingua franca, which is always

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ironic that we have lingua franca, in Latin, talking about French, talking

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about English, but that's just a little mini history lesson all in

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one term.

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The reason that

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there's some benefit, obviously, is because you have sort of cultural dominance

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to some degree.

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There is some aspect of your culture that is spread over the

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whole world by virtue of the world using your language.

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It's not very much of it, but it's some of it.

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There's more of our culture that has been spread by the adoption

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of Western dress and you know contract law, things like that.

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But there's also the negative negative that

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by having those parts of the world, particularly the ones with say

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lower IQs and other problems like that, use your language, is that

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it serves as as a negative force pulling the level of your

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language down over time.

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So you get sort of pidgin forms of English that tend to

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feed back into English.

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And this works for any language that has had this happen.

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Greek experience the same thing.

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You have these pigeon forms that feed back into the language and

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denigrate the language, lower the level of the language.

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So it is a negative thing in that sense that English has

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been lowered as a language because of the fact that it is

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the universal language almost.

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The Roman Empire almost had a good solution for this.

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Greek was the common language, but Latin was the language of the

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Empire. And so Latin was insulated from this downward pressure, from this

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sort of anchor effect of various groups speaking pigeon forms of the

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language, because they weren't doing it to the language of empire which

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was Latin.

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Because those in the hinterlands were not learning Latin.

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They were learning Greek.

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And so all of the negative went toward Greek, into Koina, instead

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of into Latin.

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And I think that's probably a better approach.

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That's certainly how I would do it.

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I would have at least two languages if I were setting up

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an empire.

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You have one that is reserved to the empire for imperial use

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and maintains a strict standard, has very clear rules.

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That's also a thing English doesn't have, right?

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There's no body that dictates rules for English.

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It's just sort of free for all.

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You don't have The French have their academy.

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German has something similar.

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English doesn't have that.

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Right? You can say there's the Oxford English Dictionary which kinda does

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a little bit of it, but we don't really have a body

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dictating what English is, particularly American English.

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But if I were setting up the way that an empire functioned

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with regard to language, I would certainly have the official language and

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then maybe one or two more.

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Because if you have this diverse set of peoples over which you're

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ruling, you need a simple language they can all use, but you

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don't want them to use a simplified version of your language because

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it does bad things to your language over time.

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So no, I don't necessarily think that something of Europe is preserved

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by virtue of the fact that they're speaking our languages, I would

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much prefer that our people are preserved instead of just our language.

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Although yes, certainly if you lose the language you lose something with

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it as well.

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I do see the question about

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tech firms and and

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hiring practices and such, I will save that one for next time

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because I'm just not going to get to it tonight.

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So I think that's going to be the last question for tonight.

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Like I've said before, I do try to keep these to an

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hour. I almost always run over by a little bit.

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That's completely fine.

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I don't have a a hard end time for these.

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But I think that will be all for tonight.

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If I did not get to your question, then hopefully I noticed

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it in the chat, copied it.

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I have a future topic slash question list on the forum.

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You can find that.

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And if your question is not there, then please submit it on

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the forum or get it to me some other way because I

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do want to answer the question.

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I just missed it because sometimes it gets lost in the chat.

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And like I said, OBS has been somewhat uncooperative tonight.

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It's currently using 80 gigabytes of memory, so yeah, it's probably a

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good thing that I am calling it quits right now because I

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think OBS is probably in the process of crashing, and I am

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quite frankly surprised that it is still working for all of you

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because on my end, I am watching a slideshow.

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But at any rate, I try to do this on Thursdays, usually

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it winds up being Fridays, just sort of depends how my week

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goes. Again, you can submit the questions, telegram X the forum is

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preferred simply because it is easier for me to organize that way.

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But if you submit it somewhere else, I try to collate all

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of those and answer them in the future.

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Thank you to those who submitted questions and for those who participated

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in the chat.

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And I look forward to answering more of your questions next week.

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I hope all of you have a great weekend.

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It's of course Friday night, so go out and have a beer

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or something, have a great weekend, and go to church on Sunday.

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Until next week, God bless you all, and hopefully the next time

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OBS will be slightly more cooperative.

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Anyway, have a great evening and a great weekend.

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See you all next week.