WEBVTT 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:04.960 I assume there is audio now, so I will simply re-say what 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:06.240 I have already said. 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:08.880 For those of you who are not lip readers, I assume there's 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:09.520 audio now. 00:00:09.520 --> 00:00:11.840 I know the chat will catch up here in a minute or 00:00:11.840 --> 00:00:14.720 so. Someone said it's better, so I assume that's good. 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:17.920 Okay, anyway, welcome to the at any cost podcast. 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:20.560 It is the 11th of December, 2025. 00:00:20.560 --> 00:00:24.880 This is the seventh episode, also the seventh QA episode. 00:00:24.880 --> 00:00:28.960 And I have quite a few questions tonight, forty something questions. 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:31.280 I know I will not get through all of those this episode, 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:34.080 but it means that I have questions for future episodes. 00:00:34.080 --> 00:00:36.560 And I will of course save those like I've done in the 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:40.560 past for questions to which I did not get in other episodes. 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:44.160 Just a little bit of housekeeping before I start, of course, as 00:00:44.160 --> 00:00:47.200 always. Questions can be submitted on the forum. 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:50.800 The link should be in the description on all platforms. 00:00:50.800 --> 00:00:52.240 Hopefully it's there. 00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:55.600 So everything seems to be working, everything's green on my end, so 00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:57.920 I will get into the questions here. 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:03.120 Let me just pull up that first question. 00:01:03.440 --> 00:01:08.560 It's about good works and unbelievers You have said a few times 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:11.520 before that the Lutheran understanding of good works that they are not 00:01:11.520 --> 00:01:14.960 counted toward unbelievers or that they are actually not good works but 00:01:14.960 --> 00:01:19.120 instead filthy rags which is just a quote of scripture, of course. 00:01:19.360 --> 00:01:22.560 But you've also said the weight of sin against God is infinite, 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:25.200 so no number of good deeds could make up for it. 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:27.920 It seems to me that the view in which one's good works 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:31.840 count towards themselves, yet this is an infinite whole so it's an 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:32.800 impossible task. 00:01:32.960 --> 00:01:36.080 Would be both consistent with Christian redemption also go over better in 00:01:36.080 --> 00:01:39.440 the ears of an unbeliever. 00:01:39.440 --> 00:01:42.320 What problems does this view present? 00:01:42.320 --> 00:01:47.440 Why is the more severe form more accurate and in what ways? 00:01:47.440 --> 00:01:47.760 So 00:01:48.960 --> 00:01:54.080 there are a few questions here, and it's one of those subjects 00:01:54.080 --> 00:01:58.640 that there's a little bit of nuance in what exactly is being 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:03.520 said and what exactly is meant because we have a different pen 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:08.400 here. Are good works good in and of themselves. 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:11.680 The answer to that is both yes and no. 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:17.600 And I'll get into sort of the the meta issue here after 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:21.840 speaking first about good works proper, because the meta issue is really 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:25.200 the question, but there are things that are good in and of 00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:27.680 themselves, because they are good. 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:30.240 Everything created by God is good. 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:35.280 So human beings, in their nature, are good. 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:38.480 Which sounds kind of crazy to Christian years because we're used to 00:02:38.480 --> 00:02:41.520 thinking about human beings as fallen and sinful. 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:44.800 And it's a different sense of nature. 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:49.360 It's in our essence, in the thing that God created, we are 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:55.520 good. Now we are corrupted by the fall and by original sin. 00:02:55.520 --> 00:03:00.160 And so we are not good in in that sense. 00:03:00.160 --> 00:03:03.280 Our nature is corrupted, but it is a good thing that was 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:08.400 corrupted. Similarly I'm going to take my teabag out of my tea 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:10.400 here before it gets bitter. 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:16.480 But similarly, with regard to good works, and this gets into the 00:03:16.480 --> 00:03:22.320 sort of meta issue here, the status of the individual matters. 00:03:22.320 --> 00:03:25.760 This is something that we used to recognize in in our laws 00:03:25.760 --> 00:03:31.680 and elsewhere, I've used the example before of crimes that are enhanced 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:36.160 by the status of the person against whom the crime was committed. 00:03:36.160 --> 00:03:40.160 Which is obviously relevant for sin because sin, all sin, is committed 00:03:40.160 --> 00:03:40.960 against God. 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:45.520 Against you, against you only have I sinned to use the psalm. 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:50.560 And so with regard to certain crimes, the most obvious example, probably 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:53.760 the best example, is treason. 00:03:53.760 --> 00:03:57.280 Because there are different kinds of treason, historically at least, because what 00:03:57.280 --> 00:03:59.280 ultimately is treason? 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:04.160 Treason is betraying someone to whom you owed a duty. 00:04:04.160 --> 00:04:08.000 Now we have high treason, which is treason against your sovereign. 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:10.720 Used to be treason against the king, now it's treason against your 00:04:10.720 --> 00:04:14.000 country, or whatever it happens to be. 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:16.560 Maybe you still have a king, depending where you are. 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:16.960 But But 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:22.640 you have high treason and you have petty treason, which is just 00:04:22.640 --> 00:04:24.080 French for small in this case. 00:04:24.080 --> 00:04:27.760 It's not petty like you know, unimportant. 00:04:27.760 --> 00:04:32.880 So petty treason would be treason against someone who is your head, 00:04:32.880 --> 00:04:38.720 basically. Historically the most common one would have been children murdering their 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:43.600 parents, usually their father, or a wife murdering her husband. 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:47.520 That is not just murder, it's also petty treason. 00:04:47.520 --> 00:04:52.880 Similarly, with regard to sin, because sin is committed against God, the 00:04:52.880 --> 00:04:57.760 transgress of sin is infinite, which again is correctly stated in that 00:04:57.760 --> 00:05:02.000 question, it's why you can never pay back the debt that is 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:07.600 owed. You can never pay back an infinite debt with any amount 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:09.200 of finite payments. 00:05:09.200 --> 00:05:14.480 And so human beings being finite, we can't ever render an infinite 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:16.000 amount to God. 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:19.760 Which is why Christ had to die, because Christ being God, his 00:05:19.760 --> 00:05:21.680 death of infinite value. 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:23.760 So that balances the scales. 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:31.440 So the question then of whether or not 00:05:32.400 --> 00:05:37.440 a person can do a good work, a truly good work, matters 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:41.200 with regard to the status of the individual. 00:05:41.200 --> 00:05:46.000 If the individual is in good standing, as it were, with God, 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:48.320 which is to say in Christ, because that's the only way to 00:05:48.320 --> 00:05:50.400 be in good standing with God. 00:05:50.400 --> 00:05:55.280 So if you're in Christ, you have your slate wiped clean with 00:05:55.280 --> 00:05:56.400 regard to sin. 00:05:56.400 --> 00:06:01.200 Your sin is not counted against you because Christ's righteousness is imputed 00:06:01.200 --> 00:06:03.120 to you, because you are in Christ. 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:05.360 It's an issue of headship. 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:11.840 Those who are still fallen, those who are still not righteous according 00:06:11.840 --> 00:06:17.040 to imputed righteousness are Do not have good works, because everything they 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:20.800 do is sin because they are sinners. 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:25.280 An important point here that I've commented on before, I've raised it 00:06:25.280 --> 00:06:27.520 many places, but it bears repeating. 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:33.920 You do not become a sinner because you sin. 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:37.200 You sin because you are a sinner. 00:06:37.200 --> 00:06:43.360 Now, that's true of everyone except Adam, because Adam became a sinner 00:06:43.520 --> 00:06:44.800 because he sinned. 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:47.200 For the rest of us were born sinners. 00:06:47.200 --> 00:06:50.720 In sin did my mother conceive me, again to quote the Psalms, 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:53.840 and so we sin because we're sinners. 00:06:53.840 --> 00:06:59.280 In order for our good works to actually have merit before God, 00:06:59.280 --> 00:07:02.720 we have to be cleansed of being a sinner, which means we 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:04.880 have to be in Christ. 00:07:04.880 --> 00:07:08.000 Those who are not in Christ, therefore, cannot have works that are 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:08.240 actually 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:14.960 good. It's the distinction between whether something is good per se, so 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:19.200 feeding your children is good, starving your children is bad. 00:07:19.200 --> 00:07:22.480 Doesn't actually matter if you're a Christian or a non Christian. 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:26.240 Those two things remain what they are good to feed your children, 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:28.800 bad to starve your children. 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:29.120 But 00:07:30.080 --> 00:07:35.440 the good act, the good work, does not count for you before 00:07:35.440 --> 00:07:40.640 God unless you are in Christ, because you are a sinner. 00:07:40.640 --> 00:07:40.960 So 00:07:41.840 --> 00:07:44.640 it's sort of two different things there. 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:48.880 And there's a nuance, but it's important to understand the nature of 00:07:48.880 --> 00:07:52.800 it. To some degree, it's not something that has to be raised 00:07:52.880 --> 00:07:54.080 with, say, new believers. 00:07:54.080 --> 00:07:57.440 This is something that's more meat than milk. 00:07:57.440 --> 00:08:02.560 But once you progress in the faith, it's important to understand the 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:06.240 reality of how bad and corrupting sin is. 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:10.800 And anytime you minimize sin, what are you also inevitably doing? 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:15.280 You're minimizing Christ's sacrifice, which you never want to do. 00:08:15.280 --> 00:08:19.920 And so it is necessary to understand the depth of the depravity 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:22.720 of sin and the corruption of it, and what it does to 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:25.680 the individual, and the fact that an individual who is still living 00:08:26.320 --> 00:08:29.440 in that sin not to say that those of us who are 00:08:29.440 --> 00:08:32.320 in Christ are sin less, it's just not counted against us because 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:34.320 of imputed righteousness. 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:37.680 But if you are still living in that sin, you cannot truly 00:08:37.680 --> 00:08:42.480 do anything that is good because you are still a sinner. 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:45.600 So for those who are new to the faith, it's not something 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:48.320 on which we should focus, no, we can point out that yes, 00:08:48.320 --> 00:08:52.720 there are things that are good in themselves, because God created them. 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:56.240 All of the things God created are good, the things that God 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:59.680 tells us to do are good, so if we do them, we've 00:08:59.680 --> 00:09:01.040 done something good. 00:09:01.040 --> 00:09:06.960 But it's not counted unless you're in Christ. 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:09.040 Believe that answers that question. 00:09:09.040 --> 00:09:11.680 Let me pull up the second question here 00:09:18.640 --> 00:09:20.480 This is from last week. 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:22.960 I carried over a question. 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:26.560 And I do try to give preference to questions that are on 00:09:26.560 --> 00:09:29.600 the forum simply because that helps me, as I've pointed out before. 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:30.960 But anyway. 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:35.200 Was the Tetragrammaton in the Old Testament Hebrew Er text, or was 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:37.600 it a Masoretic addition? 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:39.600 If the latter, what is the origin? 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:40.480 How did it end up there? 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:43.360 I don't have to deal with the if the latter bit because 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:46.960 yes, as far as we can tell, and we do have fairly 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:52.080 good proof for this, the tetragrammaton was present in the Ur text 00:09:52.560 --> 00:09:54.480 when that existed. 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:54.800 So 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:59.520 for those who aren't aware what Urtext means, it just means the 00:09:59.520 --> 00:10:04.480 actual Old Testament in the Hebrew that God gave to Old Testament 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:07.600 Israel that was lost and destroyed. 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:10.640 Incidentally, the final copies of it destroyed with the destruction of the 00:10:10.640 --> 00:10:12.400 temple in seventy AD. 00:10:12.400 --> 00:10:14.480 Burned on the temple steps no less. 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:17.040 So judgment from God there. 00:10:17.040 --> 00:10:20.080 And the Tetragrammaton, for those who don't know it just means four 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:21.200 letters it's just Greek. 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:24.560 Incidentally it's Greek, not Aramaic or Hebrew or anything. 00:10:24.560 --> 00:10:28.000 So YHWH in English. 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:30.560 Yod He Vav He in Hebrew. 00:10:30.560 --> 00:10:32.960 And I don't care if I pronounce those correctly because it's Hebrew 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:34.240 and I don't care. 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:40.000 But some of the Septuagint papyri do in fact have 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:45.280 in Hebrew letters the tetragrammaton. 00:10:45.280 --> 00:10:48.880 The issue is, as we pointed out in the episodes on the 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:53.760 Septuagint and elsewhere, we don't know the vocalization of it. 00:10:53.760 --> 00:10:57.840 Because the Hebrews decided they were going to be more pious than 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:01.520 God and not use God's name. 00:11:01.520 --> 00:11:05.120 They probably thought that they were getting around the commandment not to 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:07.520 take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, because well 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:09.680 we're not using it at all, so we can't take it in 00:11:09.680 --> 00:11:12.400 vain. Probably their rules lawyering. 00:11:12.400 --> 00:11:14.800 Trying to Jew God. 00:11:14.800 --> 00:11:20.080 But some copies, like I said, of Septuagint papyri do have it. 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:23.200 And so we can rely on that. 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:25.280 But all it gives us is the letters. 00:11:25.280 --> 00:11:27.120 It doesn't give us the vowels, so we don't know what it 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:32.080 is. But we do know is that the inspired Greek text translates 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:33.200 it as Lord. 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:38.400 Kurios. And so we know to call him Lord, God All these 00:11:38.400 --> 00:11:39.920 other names that he has. 00:11:39.920 --> 00:11:42.400 So we shouldn't use that. 00:11:42.400 --> 00:11:45.040 I wouldn't say that it's wrong to use the four letters on 00:11:45.040 --> 00:11:48.320 something. For instance, they're on the cover page of the Book of 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:54.720 Concord, but they're not transliterated, vowels aren't added, it's just the four 00:11:54.720 --> 00:12:02.400 letters. Another interesting point with regard to the translation 00:12:03.040 --> 00:12:07.520 of that and particularly the Greek in this case specifically the Greek. 00:12:07.520 --> 00:12:13.120 There are some texts that have it translated as transliterated into English 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:19.520 IAO, so Iota Alpha Omega, not the other O, but the last 00:12:19.520 --> 00:12:25.040 one. Which is perhaps interesting because that's essentially one of the names 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:27.040 God uses for Himself. 00:12:27.040 --> 00:12:30.800 I am the Alpha and the Omega to quote Revelation, the beginning 00:12:30.800 --> 00:12:31.840 and the end. 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:35.840 So sort of an interesting point that it's translated sometimes as that 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:40.480 as well, which does not sound like, you know, Yahweh or whatever 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:41.360 it happens to be. 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:44.160 Io it's not the same thing. 00:12:44.160 --> 00:12:47.200 I know some people tried to make that argument, but they honestly 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:49.200 don't even sound similar. 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:49.520 So 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:53.600 is it present in the Urtext? 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:58.400 Sure. But still without the vowels because Hebrews and Abjad, they don't 00:12:58.320 --> 00:12:59.360 write down their vowels. 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:00.160 At all at that point. 00:13:00.160 --> 00:13:04.080 They didn't even have diacritics yet. 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:08.080 The next question where should a Christian attend church? 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:12.080 If there are no faithful congregations nearby. 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:14.240 I've answered this one a number of times, but this is one 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:16.560 of those that definitely bears repeating, and I don't know that I've 00:13:16.560 --> 00:13:17.600 answered it in this format yet. 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:21.120 In fact, I believe I have not, except in passing. 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:25.760 If you do not have a faithful congregation nearby, you should start 00:13:25.760 --> 00:13:28.240 a house chur a house church. 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:30.320 Or you should find a house church. 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:31.840 There's nothing wrong with doing that. 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:34.480 House churches are perfectly acceptable. 00:13:34.640 --> 00:13:38.720 If your house church does really well, and grows, and I hope 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:41.520 that it does, or the members of the church just have a 00:13:41.520 --> 00:13:44.960 lot of children, then you can acquire a building. 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:46.480 Nothing wrong with that. 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:48.960 If you happen to have a man who is sufficiently competent among 00:13:49.040 --> 00:13:51.120 you, ordain him. 00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:53.040 There's nothing that stops you from doing that. 00:13:53.040 --> 00:13:56.160 The congregation calls the congregation ordains. 00:13:56.160 --> 00:13:59.920 The bishop is not the one that has the power from God 00:13:59.920 --> 00:14:01.280 to do that. 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:04.880 The bishop, if you have a system that is an episcopal system, 00:14:04.880 --> 00:14:07.840 you have a bishop in your system, then he does that as 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:09.520 a point of Christian order. 00:14:09.520 --> 00:14:11.920 It's a matter of good order in the church. 00:14:11.920 --> 00:14:17.520 But during times like this, that's not necessary, and it could very 00:14:17.520 --> 00:14:20.160 well be harmful probably because most of the bishops are in fact 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:26.400 not faithful, sort of regardless of which church body is in view. 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:30.640 The Roman Catholic bishops are faithless, the Anglican bishops are faithless, the 00:14:30.640 --> 00:14:36.160 LCMS equivalent of bishops are faithless, so that's the reality of the 00:14:36.160 --> 00:14:38.800 situation. Start a home church. 00:14:38.800 --> 00:14:40.800 Perfectly acceptable. 00:14:40.800 --> 00:14:43.600 You're going to avoid a lot of the issues, and eventually, perhaps 00:14:43.680 --> 00:14:46.000 then you'll be able to acquire a church building, maybe from one 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:49.600 of these mainline churches as they go under. 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:52.400 One of the biggest ways in which Elka currently makes money is 00:14:52.400 --> 00:14:54.560 selling old church buildings. 00:14:54.560 --> 00:14:54.880 So 00:14:56.880 --> 00:15:02.240 the next question when did you become a Christian? 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:06.400 I can answer that one in two words in utero. 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:11.600 So for that one, I would definitely say I was a Christian 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:13.120 from the very beginning. 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:16.560 I was born into a Christian family, raised as a Christian, never 00:15:16.560 --> 00:15:17.920 been anything else. 00:15:17.920 --> 00:15:20.480 Now, I was not raised Lutheran. 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:24.800 I did become a Lutheran later in life, but I've been a 00:15:24.800 --> 00:15:26.480 Christian my entire life. 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:26.800 So 00:15:29.280 --> 00:15:34.880 the next question for your confident faith daily devotions, which book could 00:15:34.880 --> 00:15:37.120 I buy to get the same in print form? 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:41.280 What daily prayer routine addition to daily readings and devotion if any? 00:15:41.280 --> 00:15:41.600 So 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:47.760 the answer for that specifically I read the lectionary the daily lectionary 00:15:47.760 --> 00:15:51.760 readings from the Treasury of Daily Prayer, which is very similar to 00:15:51.760 --> 00:15:56.720 many other daily lectionaries across a number of denominations, but it is 00:15:56.720 --> 00:15:58.640 specifically the treasury of daily prayer. 00:15:58.640 --> 00:16:00.480 I'll put a link in the show notes. 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:03.440 And that is from Concordia Publishing House, the publishing arm of the 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:09.120 LCMS. I am currently reading the Old Testament, so the Psalms and 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:12.560 the Old Testament reading from Nets, which is a translation of the 00:16:12.560 --> 00:16:18.000 Septuagint, which is just the new English translation of the Septuagint. 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:21.600 That's available for free online or you can purchase a hard copy, 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:24.000 they're relatively reasonably priced. 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.840 They're not great print quality, but they're good enough. 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:30.480 The New Testament readings, I just read the ESV. 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:31.760 ESV's fine. 00:16:31.760 --> 00:16:34.880 I do fix some of the things it does that are, I 00:16:34.880 --> 00:16:36.320 would say, wrong. 00:16:36.560 --> 00:16:40.800 They're kind of quirks, more than being wrong, but definitely some of 00:16:40.800 --> 00:16:42.880 the translators had an agenda. 00:16:42.880 --> 00:16:47.120 And so the biggest one, I never say Gentiles. 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:50.400 Because Gentiles is not an English word. 00:16:50.400 --> 00:16:55.280 So it's completely ridiculous that we have it in our English translations 00:16:55.280 --> 00:16:56.800 of Scripture. 00:16:56.800 --> 00:17:02.640 As I pointed out before, Gentiles is basically of the nations in 00:17:02.640 --> 00:17:09.680 Latin. Well, we have all the words of the nations, or 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:12.640 whatever it happens to be, whichever noun case it is, to the 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:15.440 nations, of the nations, from the nations, whatever it is. 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:18.400 We have all these things in English, it should be translated. 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:18.640 And so 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:24.000 I follow sort of the same thing that Luther did, depending on 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:26.480 the context for the term, and there are a couple different terms 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:32.880 that are actually there's ethnicos and ethnos, but you either have essentially 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:37.360 nations, heathen, or peoples. 00:17:37.360 --> 00:17:40.560 And really you can get away with just heathen and nations is 00:17:40.560 --> 00:17:43.520 sufficient. There are a couple of places where it's kind of awkward 00:17:43.520 --> 00:17:46.560 in English to say either of those and so people sounds better 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:49.840 but or peoples plural. 00:17:49.840 --> 00:17:52.400 So I do change that when I'm reading, but I just do 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:55.040 that on the fly while I'm reading the text because it's not 00:17:55.040 --> 00:17:56.160 accurate to say Gentiles. 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:59.760 It's misleading, it's Judaizing, we should not be doing it. 00:17:59.760 --> 00:18:04.080 But other than that, the only other thing that I mentally change 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:07.600 and then obviously speak the corrected form. 00:18:07.600 --> 00:18:12.000 There are some places where the translators were uncomfortable with the word 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:18.480 slave. Now yes, the Greek doulos can mean servant or slave, but 00:18:19.120 --> 00:18:24.240 it generally has the meaning, at least the nuance of slave more 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:25.200 than servant. 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:31.040 Not always, because certainly when in for instance some of the letters, 00:18:31.040 --> 00:18:35.920 you have Paul speaking about us being servants of Christ. 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:37.520 Perhaps that's a little more servant. 00:18:37.600 --> 00:18:41.120 There are times where Christ is contrasting things, and it seems like 00:18:41.280 --> 00:18:44.960 servant is perhaps meant more so than slave. 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:47.920 But there are also times where very clearly slave is meant, and 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:50.160 so I will change that if it says servant I'll change it 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:50.560 to slave. 00:18:50.560 --> 00:18:54.400 And even the ESV, some versions of it do indeed have slave. 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:57.360 So that's something that they have gone back and forth on that 00:18:57.360 --> 00:19:01.920 one. And then finally, for the readings from the Book of Concord, 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:06.000 which is the final bit of the daily devotions, I use the 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:08.880 Reader's Edition, second edition. 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:11.200 You probably won't be able to find the first edition, so it 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:12.160 hardly matters which one. 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:14.080 Just if you have the reader's edition, it's going to be the 00:19:14.080 --> 00:19:18.960 second. The reason that I like that one primarily for people is 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:22.640 that it's the one I recommend for anyone who is new to 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:26.960 Lutheranism or these theology issues because it has a lot of helpful 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:28.880 material in the book. 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:34.400 There are essays on various topics, there's history, there's context, all these 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:38.800 things that even most Lutherans simply will not know. 00:19:39.280 --> 00:19:40.720 At least not all of it. 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:43.040 And so it's very helpful to have those materials. 00:19:43.040 --> 00:19:46.960 As anyone who knows what a reader's edition is, not the reader's 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:48.880 edition of the Bible, which is just the Bible with all the 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:51.840 formatting removed basically, so it reads like a normal book. 00:19:51.840 --> 00:19:55.600 But But a reader's edition of any other work is typically something 00:19:55.600 --> 00:20:01.760 that is accompanied by explanatory essays, lots of footnotes, helpful materials. 00:20:01.760 --> 00:20:06.160 That's what the RE2 of the Book of Concord is. 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:11.760 Now, that's not the same translation as is available on thebookofconcord.org, which 00:20:11.760 --> 00:20:15.280 is the website that I maintain for the Book of Concord. 00:20:15.280 --> 00:20:20.400 That one is the Triglotta English because it's in the public domain. 00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:23.280 The reader's edition second is not in the public domain. 00:20:23.280 --> 00:20:26.000 I did ask CPH if they would let me add that to 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:28.000 the Book of Concord website. 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:29.200 They said no. 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:32.480 So that's why it's not available on there yet. 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:34.000 Maybe one day they will. 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:36.720 We can hope. 00:20:36.720 --> 00:20:41.600 Next question sort of related Will you be recording a daily Septuagint 00:20:41.600 --> 00:20:44.480 version of the Bible in twenty twenty six that is That is 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:46.240 currently the plan. 00:20:46.240 --> 00:20:49.360 I think I will probably use the Nets. 00:20:49.360 --> 00:20:53.120 There are some quirks in the Lexum edition that I don't really 00:20:53.120 --> 00:20:54.320 like, but 00:20:55.280 --> 00:20:58.160 the problem with all the currently existing editions is 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:05.200 that they're either really old, sort of like the original King James, 00:21:05.200 --> 00:21:08.320 which would be the Brenton edition, and Brenton also does some weird 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:12.000 stuff where sometimes he pulls from the Masoretic for seemingly no reason. 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:13.040 He just felt like it. 00:21:13.040 --> 00:21:15.200 Maybe he was translating and remembered what he'd read. 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:18.000 I don't know what happened there. 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:21.280 There are the ones that are very academic, like Nets and to 00:21:21.360 --> 00:21:25.120 some degree the Lexum, LES 2 at this point, the second edition 00:21:25.120 --> 00:21:26.240 of it. 00:21:26.240 --> 00:21:30.800 And there are none that really flow well as natural English. 00:21:30.800 --> 00:21:33.600 But of course I've critiqued the ESV for the same thing. 00:21:33.600 --> 00:21:36.720 It can be stilted at times times because they tried to make 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:40.480 the English follow the Hebrew, which is what they were using, the 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:45.280 Masoretic, and in the New Testament, the Greek grammar, which doesn't work 00:21:45.280 --> 00:21:48.560 in English because English grammar is different from both Greek and Hebrew 00:21:48.560 --> 00:21:51.360 grammar. So it sounds stilted. 00:21:51.360 --> 00:21:54.320 So there are problems with all the editions currently available. 00:21:54.320 --> 00:21:55.840 I'm not saying they're unfaithful. 00:21:55.840 --> 00:21:58.320 The Nets basically is very faithful. 00:21:58.320 --> 00:22:00.800 I don't think I found anything where I truly objected to their 00:22:00.800 --> 00:22:02.400 translation decisions. 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:07.760 It's just stilted because it's meant to be sort of overly literal 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:10.080 in an academic way. 00:22:10.080 --> 00:22:14.240 And the biggest challenge there for me personally is I'm going to 00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:19.920 be reading it aloud, they translate some of the names extremely literally 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:26.320 from Greek into English, which makes them unpronounceable. 00:22:26.320 --> 00:22:29.040 Or just they sound completely crazy. 00:22:29.040 --> 00:22:33.680 I can't remember exactly what it is now, but Nebuchadnezzar is something 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:36.480 completely insane in the Nets edition. 00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:40.320 And so I'd have to decide if I were going to just 00:22:40.320 --> 00:22:44.560 change those mentally as I'm going through, from what I know from 00:22:44.560 --> 00:22:49.040 reading other editions of scripture in English, in some cases, you know, 00:22:49.120 --> 00:22:51.440 get a list of names and it's difficult to do that because 00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:53.280 maybe you don't remember them all and they're very different in the 00:22:53.280 --> 00:22:54.720 Different in the Greek. 00:22:54.720 --> 00:22:58.320 So there are some challenges there deciding which one, but yes, the 00:22:58.320 --> 00:23:02.160 short answer is I do intend to do the readings from the 00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:07.440 Septuagint for the next series, as it were, of the through the 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:07.920 Bible anymore. 00:23:09.040 --> 00:23:10.640 Probably the Nets. 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:13.600 Possibly the Lexum, but probably the Nets. 00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:20.800 The next question, question seven. 00:23:20.800 --> 00:23:24.400 What is the best way to prevent my daughters from mixing? 00:23:24.400 --> 00:23:27.840 Please, something specific instead of read the Bible or something like that. 00:23:27.840 --> 00:23:30.640 Of course I'm going to give something more specific than that, because 00:23:31.520 --> 00:23:34.160 Just read the Bible is not actually going to solve all your 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:37.360 problems. There are other things you have to do in life. 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:44.320 They are still really young, so this is entirely preventative, not reactionary. 00:23:44.320 --> 00:23:49.120 I'll probably write something more substantial on this in the future. 00:23:49.120 --> 00:23:52.400 In fact make a note of that because I definitely should do 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:54.080 that at some point. 00:23:54.080 --> 00:23:59.040 But there's some things I can say now, some concrete things you 00:23:59.040 --> 00:24:02.400 can do that will be very helpful. 00:24:02.400 --> 00:24:05.200 One of course is going to be to inform them of the 00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:09.680 consequences. Inform them their children will be less fit. 00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:13.600 Inform them their children will be less related to them than any 00:24:13.600 --> 00:24:16.560 random individual they pass on the street who is of their same 00:24:16.560 --> 00:24:17.840 race, of course. 00:24:17.840 --> 00:24:21.520 Inform them of all these various problems they are going to encounter 00:24:21.520 --> 00:24:23.520 if they go down that path. 00:24:23.520 --> 00:24:27.840 Inform them of the reality of domestic violence, other things like that. 00:24:27.840 --> 00:24:31.120 To some degree, you can very well reason with them, even though 00:24:31.120 --> 00:24:32.720 they are teenage girls. 00:24:32.720 --> 00:24:34.480 That's going to be challenging, of course. 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:36.720 There are some difficulties there. 00:24:37.040 --> 00:24:40.560 But you can still reason with them, particularly when it comes to 00:24:40.560 --> 00:24:43.520 talking to them about what will happen to their children. 00:24:43.520 --> 00:24:46.800 They are going to have that natural maternal instinct. 00:24:46.800 --> 00:24:50.480 All women have that until propaganda and the world beats it out 00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:51.040 of them. 00:24:51.040 --> 00:24:53.600 So you can appeal to that, and that's entirely natural. 00:24:53.600 --> 00:24:56.640 It's a thing that you should do. 00:24:56.640 --> 00:24:56.960 You 00:24:58.080 --> 00:25:01.360 particularly in the case of white daughters, you can point out, you 00:25:01.360 --> 00:25:04.560 know, eye color, things like that, things that they simply will not 00:25:04.560 --> 00:25:07.760 be able to pass on to their children if they marry outside 00:25:07.760 --> 00:25:10.880 their race, if they miscegenate. 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:14.880 And obviously, one of the easiest steps you can take, not perhaps 00:25:15.360 --> 00:25:21.600 easiest, but certainly most effective, simplest, if not in the execution, than 00:25:21.600 --> 00:25:24.080 in saying it, stating it. 00:25:24.080 --> 00:25:26.640 Keep them away from non whites. 00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:30.240 If you keep them away from them, they're not going to have 00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:34.640 the opportunity to fall into that particular sin, that particular path. 00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:38.080 And yes, there are times where very frequently it is sin, so 00:25:38.080 --> 00:25:39.280 I'm comfortable saying that. 00:25:39.280 --> 00:25:42.240 Not always I've explained per se and per quote before, so I 00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:45.680 won't go down that rabbit trail here because that would eat up 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:47.600 ten minutes of the time for this episode, and I don't want 00:25:47.600 --> 00:25:49.840 to do that here. 00:25:49.840 --> 00:25:53.360 And then I guess the final recommendation would be marry them off 00:25:53.360 --> 00:25:58.640 early. Do not give them that opportunity, that window of time where 00:25:58.640 --> 00:26:02.800 the world is going to appeal to their irrationality to get them 00:26:02.800 --> 00:26:05.360 to do things that they will regret for the rest of their 00:26:05.360 --> 00:26:09.760 lives and that have consequences they probably cannot undo. 00:26:09.760 --> 00:26:12.160 Definitely cannot undo in many cases. 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:17.040 So I think that's sort of a general recommendation for fathers who 00:26:17.040 --> 00:26:20.160 have daughters because of the state of things in the world. 00:26:20.400 --> 00:26:21.680 Marry them off early. 00:26:21.680 --> 00:26:23.440 You're going to avoid a lot of problems. 00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:26.960 And though I'm not saying, you know, sixteen, but twenty one. 00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:28.240 Marry them off early. 00:26:28.240 --> 00:26:30.320 Solve many of these problems for yourself. 00:26:30.320 --> 00:26:31.520 And for her. 00:26:31.520 --> 00:26:34.240 She will eventually thank you when she realizes what you did for 00:26:34.240 --> 00:26:38.080 her and what she got to avoid. 00:26:38.080 --> 00:26:42.400 But yes, I think I will write something more substantive on that 00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:43.680 at some point in the future. 00:26:43.680 --> 00:26:46.560 I think that's something that needs to be addressed. 00:26:46.560 --> 00:26:50.880 And I know that I also need to write something more substantial 00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:56.480 on interracial marriage and the intersection with theology and morality. 00:26:56.480 --> 00:26:58.480 But for now. 00:26:58.480 --> 00:26:59.440 Next question. 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:05.120 With usury robbing us all, very true, would there be a realistic 00:27:05.120 --> 00:27:09.680 way for Christians to pool money and buy out each other's loans? 00:27:09.680 --> 00:27:19.920 Not necessarily debt forgiveness, but an organization that effectively refinances at 0%. 00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:24.400 I can certainly think of ways that you could play games with 00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:31.280 the financial and legal system and accomplish that goal, but you would 00:27:31.280 --> 00:27:36.240 be shut down by the same financial and legal system pretty quickly. 00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:38.560 So, could you manage to erase 00:27:39.520 --> 00:27:42.960 a substantial chunk of debt for a certain number of people? 00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:45.840 The answer is yes, and you could manage to do that with 00:27:45.840 --> 00:27:52.000 relatively small amounts of money, but it would probably have a negative 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:55.440 impact on the credit scores of the individuals you help, which probably 00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:58.400 won't matter for many because getting rid of the huge debt is 00:27:58.400 --> 00:28:04.080 better than retaining the probably not great credit score, but certainly better 00:28:04.080 --> 00:28:05.360 than what it will be. 00:28:05.360 --> 00:28:09.200 And of course those things rebound as long as you play the 00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:11.360 game, unfortunately, but it is what it is. 00:28:11.360 --> 00:28:15.360 It's the reality of the situation in which we find ourselves. 00:28:15.360 --> 00:28:18.160 But yes, the issue would be is that you would be shut 00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:22.400 down, and so it would have to be quite a few individuals 00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:26.000 pursuing this so that they could each get a certain amount of 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:28.480 work done before getting shut down. 00:28:28.480 --> 00:28:32.160 Because once you get shut down, they're never letting you do it 00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:34.800 again. You'll never get away with that again. 00:28:34.800 --> 00:28:38.960 And it may have financial consequences for the person who is responsible 00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:42.400 for the entity you set up to do this And 00:28:43.920 --> 00:28:47.280 they would potentially go after you for fraud depending on how you 00:28:47.280 --> 00:28:49.200 execute the plan. 00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:52.720 So is it possible to some degree, yes. 00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:54.160 Is it practicable? 00:28:54.160 --> 00:28:57.120 I would have to say probably not. 00:28:57.120 --> 00:29:00.320 We really have to have political power to ban usury. 00:29:00.320 --> 00:29:03.120 And that means the charging of any interest, incidentally, not the charging 00:29:03.120 --> 00:29:07.920 of unreasonable interest that was a redefinition that came from from I 00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:10.160 won't name names here because I'm not looking to get into that 00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:14.560 theological fight right now, but that came from only a handful of 00:29:14.560 --> 00:29:18.480 hundreds of years ago, where it was changed from the charging of 00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:23.120 any interest to the charging of exorbitant or excessive interest. 00:29:23.120 --> 00:29:27.280 The traditional understanding of Christians and the church and the plain meaning 00:29:27.280 --> 00:29:31.840 of scripture is the charging of any interest is prohibited because money 00:29:31.840 --> 00:29:33.200 is not productive. 00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:34.240 Money is not fruitful. 00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:36.240 Money is sterile. 00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:42.000 It should not produce new money. 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:47.600 Next question, sort of shifting gears, but not entirely since it's still 00:29:47.600 --> 00:29:55.600 politics, I'll take a sip of perhaps ironically here I guess tea. 00:29:55.600 --> 00:30:00.000 And you'll see why I said ironically here in a second. 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.960 How big of a threat is China to the West? 00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:04.880 Is there a possibility of war? 00:30:04.880 --> 00:30:08.160 And if so, how can it be prevented? 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:14.800 I think the only reasonable answer to that is that China currently 00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:18.640 and for the foreseeable future is the second greatest threat to the 00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:22.160 West after the Jews. 00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:24.960 Which is, yes, to say they are a larger threat than Islam 00:30:25.040 --> 00:30:29.600 ultimately. Now, of course the Muslims in our lands are a problem, 00:30:29.600 --> 00:30:33.760 but that's a very an eminently solvable problem. 00:30:33.760 --> 00:30:37.600 Even if some people may find it distasteful, it's solvable. 00:30:37.600 --> 00:30:39.120 China's a bigger threat. 00:30:39.120 --> 00:30:40.640 And the reason China's a bigger threat 00:30:41.520 --> 00:30:46.400 is because China has a population of over a billion people who 00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:51.760 recognize themselves as Chinese, who believe themselves correctly to be Chinese, even 00:30:51.760 --> 00:30:55.520 though they have a number of different ethnic groups under that umbrella, 00:30:55.520 --> 00:30:57.200 they're still all Chinese. 00:30:57.200 --> 00:30:59.200 They're just not all Han, basically. 00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:04.080 Although more and more of them are as the party policies progress. 00:31:04.080 --> 00:31:09.840 So lots of people know who they are kind of work together, 00:31:09.840 --> 00:31:12.640 but at least follow orders to some degree. 00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:12.960 So 00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:16.240 are they as innovative? 00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:18.160 No. Are they as creative? 00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:24.080 No. Do they have the history of being a military power in 00:31:24.080 --> 00:31:25.920 the same sense as the West? 00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:29.440 No. I'm not saying they have no military history, of course, because 00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:29.760 they do. 00:31:29.760 --> 00:31:34.880 They certainly have fought wars, they've won some wars, usually against themselves, 00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:35.200 but 00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:38.320 they are certainly a threat today. 00:31:38.320 --> 00:31:42.400 And the biggest reason they are a threat today is because of 00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:48.160 not the technological advantage, but The technological foundation. 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:54.160 It's very important to note that basically the entire world today is 00:31:54.160 --> 00:32:00.000 reliant on chip manufacturers, fabs, located in Taiwan. 00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:02.160 Which isn't China, right? 00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:05.760 Except it is China, let's be honest. 00:32:05.760 --> 00:32:10.720 But the issue is: if China went to take Taiwan, we can't 00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:11.520 stop them. 00:32:11.520 --> 00:32:13.120 Not reasonably. 00:32:13.120 --> 00:32:16.480 Now we could stop them, but it's in a way that we 00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:17.920 don't want to do. 00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:19.440 China knows that. 00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:22.080 But China is a rational actor, another reason that there's sort of 00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:25.680 a threat because they're one of the only handful of rational actors 00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:27.680 on the stage at this point. 00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:33.360 So they recognize if they go after Taiwan right now, or if 00:32:33.360 --> 00:32:38.320 they'd gone after Taiwan the past handful of decades, it would possibly 00:32:38.320 --> 00:32:44.080 precipitate a major conflict, a potentially nuclear conflict, because it's worth remembering 00:32:44.320 --> 00:32:47.680 the parties involved in nuclear powers, and more nuclear powers will get 00:32:47.760 --> 00:32:49.280 dragged in. 00:32:49.280 --> 00:32:54.480 And there's always the risk of a chain reaction with Taiwan kicking 00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:57.680 off a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan, which is just two 00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:00.960 groups of Indians nuking each other, but it is what it is. 00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:01.200 And 00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:06.960 China being rational actors, they don't want to do that. 00:33:07.280 --> 00:33:13.200 They would much rather take Taiwan and have Taiwan be intact because 00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:18.400 the biggest point of taking Taiwan from the Chinese mindset, and I 00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:22.720 don't sort of want to go into a full graduate level political 00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:27.040 history and political science course here on China, but the biggest thing 00:33:27.040 --> 00:33:28.960 for the Chinese with regard to Taiwan 00:33:29.840 --> 00:33:36.000 is that the fact that the nationalists took Taiwan, were able to 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:42.400 flee and set up shop on Taiwan, take sovereign Chinese territory is 00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:45.200 a major loss of face. 00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:49.040 And that is still a thing in Chinese society. 00:33:49.040 --> 00:33:51.200 All traditional Asian societies. 00:33:51.200 --> 00:33:52.480 There's some nuance. 00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:54.720 The Chinese and the Japanese aren't exactly the same when it comes 00:33:54.720 --> 00:33:58.080 to losing face, and neither are the Koreans, but losing face is 00:33:58.080 --> 00:34:00.720 a big thing in Eastern politics. 00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:03.520 It's not as much of a thing in Western politics. 00:34:03.520 --> 00:34:07.520 We used to have it to some degree with regard to honor 00:34:07.520 --> 00:34:11.760 and loss of honor and slights to honor, it's different in the 00:34:11.760 --> 00:34:13.120 Asian context. 00:34:13.120 --> 00:34:15.760 Now there's also the mandate of heaven, I could get into that, 00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:19.200 but it's sort of tangentially related here. 00:34:19.200 --> 00:34:23.680 But they lost face because the nationalists were not totally defeated. 00:34:23.680 --> 00:34:30.400 The nationalists took a very important part of China for China's international 00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:35.360 reputation in their eyes and their own view of themselves. 00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:38.480 Now, mind you, the island was not very good when the nationalists 00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:38.880 took it. 00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:41.360 They have built that up into what it is today. 00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:45.920 Hellscaped that the cities are, they've still done something impressive. 00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:51.600 And so China needs to take that according to their own mindset, 00:34:51.600 --> 00:34:57.680 but also according to their calculations for ongoing conflicts with the West 00:34:57.680 --> 00:34:58.800 and others. 00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:05.120 Because they don't simply want the influence of being right next to 00:35:05.120 --> 00:35:09.680 Taiwan with guns that can shoot Taiwan from the mainland and other 00:35:09.680 --> 00:35:10.720 things like that. 00:35:10.720 --> 00:35:15.360 And certainly a massive army that could overwhelm Taiwan. 00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:23.200 They want to have actual control, immediate control, over those resources, particularly 00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:25.840 all of the chip manufacturers. 00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:29.200 Because that controls the modern world. 00:35:29.200 --> 00:35:34.320 The chips in basically everything you're using were probably made in Taiwan. 00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:38.160 Handful of other places in some cases, but probably Taiwan. 00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:43.040 Some of the things I have here are German made, but the 00:35:43.040 --> 00:35:46.640 phone on my desk Taiwan, the chip in it. 00:35:46.640 --> 00:35:47.920 My iPhone? 00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:49.040 Probably Taiwan. 00:35:50.240 --> 00:35:57.040 So the stuff on which we rely relies on hardware made in 00:35:57.040 --> 00:36:04.160 Taiwan. And so China, if they take Taiwan, is in a position 00:36:04.160 --> 00:36:10.320 to have a continuing supply of these chips, whereas we would not. 00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:13.520 And this is not something where we can just spin up a 00:36:13.520 --> 00:36:17.600 new fab and have it ready in five years or ten years, 00:36:17.600 --> 00:36:19.360 maybe ten years. 00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:22.960 But even ten years would be a challenge because the number of 00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:28.640 men on the planet who actually understand what is going on in 00:36:28.640 --> 00:36:31.360 those fabs and how to rebuild them 00:36:32.720 --> 00:36:35.360 would fit on a double decker bus. 00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:37.360 It is a small number of men. 00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:40.880 China, incidentally, also knows that and has contingency plans. 00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:45.200 You can imagine what they are, if they don't manage to take 00:36:45.200 --> 00:36:47.200 Taiwan. So 00:36:48.720 --> 00:36:54.800 Yes, China is our biggest actual threat in terms of, you know, 00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:58.960 near-peer. They're not they're not really a near peer, but it's sort 00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:00.320 of an interesting dynamic. 00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:03.200 They're dang they're powerful enough to be a threat. 00:37:03.200 --> 00:37:06.000 So they are the biggest threat in that sense. 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:08.080 After of course the Jews, the Jews are a threat for a 00:37:08.080 --> 00:37:08.800 different reason. 00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:12.320 Because the Israeli military is not a threat to us. 00:37:12.320 --> 00:37:14.400 We could wipe them out in three hours. 00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:16.640 If we really felt like it. 00:37:16.640 --> 00:37:18.240 They're dangerous for other reasons. 00:37:18.240 --> 00:37:20.960 Yes, they have nuclear weapons, their nukes aren't great. 00:37:20.960 --> 00:37:23.360 But they do have them, and they have enough to cause serious 00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:30.880 damage. China is more of a threat because of the industrial might, 00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:38.240 the population, the ambitions, and a number of dozens of other things. 00:37:38.240 --> 00:37:41.760 The ambitions are sort of a change from the history of how 00:37:41.760 --> 00:37:43.440 the Chinese viewed the world. 00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:45.680 Because for a long time, and I said I wouldn't get into 00:37:45.680 --> 00:37:48.240 the political science stuff, but here I'm going anyway. 00:37:48.240 --> 00:37:50.640 For a long time they sort of viewed themselves as the center 00:37:50.640 --> 00:37:51.440 of the universe. 00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:54.000 That was their mindset, and so why would I go anywhere? 00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:55.360 I am the center of the universe. 00:37:55.360 --> 00:37:56.080 I am China. 00:37:56.080 --> 00:37:58.240 I don't need anyone else or anything. 00:37:58.240 --> 00:38:02.240 And then of course, being conquered by the West a number of 00:38:02.240 --> 00:38:05.760 times, they recognized that oh maybe we're not the center of the 00:38:05.760 --> 00:38:08.560 world and maybe there is a rest of the world out there 00:38:08.640 --> 00:38:11.120 and it's relevant and it matters. 00:38:11.120 --> 00:38:16.080 So they shifted to have international ambitions. 00:38:16.080 --> 00:38:18.160 That's playing out in a number of ways. 00:38:18.160 --> 00:38:21.920 Another way that China is a threat, of course, is that China 00:38:22.240 --> 00:38:27.280 has a lot of stuff in our, for instance, electricity grid, that's 00:38:27.200 --> 00:38:33.600 a huge vulnerability for us, incidentally, where they could sabotage us at 00:38:33.600 --> 00:38:35.760 the alps at the outset of a war. 00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:37.280 They could shut down our grid. 00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:40.480 That would be a major disadvantage for us. 00:38:40.480 --> 00:38:43.920 The problem with that, and China recognizes this as well, because again, 00:38:43.920 --> 00:38:46.240 the rational actors, they've thought this through. 00:38:46.240 --> 00:38:48.720 Well, what's the game theory here? 00:38:48.720 --> 00:38:53.120 What happens if you're the United States and you get dragged into 00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:57.200 war China and China shuts down your electrical grid? 00:38:57.680 --> 00:39:05.200 Well, now you have a huge problem because from the US perspective, 00:39:05.200 --> 00:39:11.680 a long war now gives China an advantage because our infrastructure is 00:39:11.680 --> 00:39:15.760 damaged, and we probably can't bring it back online, incidentally. 00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:19.360 If they manage to blow enough transformers and things, we literally do 00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:23.680 not have the stockpile or the manufacturing capacity to replace them. 00:39:23.680 --> 00:39:26.400 What does that leave us as options? 00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:30.320 Long war gives China the advantage. 00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:33.280 Short war gives us the advantage. 00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:36.240 Well now you have to go a hundred percent because now you 00:39:36.240 --> 00:39:41.120 have to win before those problems with your infrastructure actually become problems 00:39:41.120 --> 00:39:42.320 for your military. 00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:45.840 It It raises the risk of an actual nuclear exchange. 00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:47.520 So the question is will China do that? 00:39:47.520 --> 00:39:49.040 Do they want to do that? 00:39:49.040 --> 00:39:52.560 I don't think they want to, but they might run the calculation 00:39:52.720 --> 00:39:56.240 decide we'll roll the dice. 00:39:56.240 --> 00:39:59.520 Because it may be Maybe looks to them like it would be 00:39:59.520 --> 00:40:04.400 advantageous. So, yes, China is a major problem. 00:40:04.400 --> 00:40:08.720 And trying to address that problem is extremely difficult because we have 00:40:08.720 --> 00:40:11.040 allowed them to become the problem they are. 00:40:11.040 --> 00:40:11.680 Because we have invested 00:40:13.040 --> 00:40:16.880 untold billions of dollars into China. 00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:20.240 We gave them all the technology they have. 00:40:20.240 --> 00:40:22.480 We built their infrastructure. 00:40:22.720 --> 00:40:26.240 We have created this monster, and it is a monster we will 00:40:26.240 --> 00:40:28.320 eventually have to confront. 00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:33.120 So is there a way to avoid the conflict? 00:40:33.120 --> 00:40:36.640 The only way to avoid it is China collapsing. 00:40:36.640 --> 00:40:40.480 Their ambitions do not stop unless they collapse. 00:40:40.480 --> 00:40:43.280 So there are a number of ways to do that. 00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:47.360 That is sort of a high level political issue, and I don't 00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:50.080 know that we have the men currently in positions of power who 00:40:50.080 --> 00:40:51.840 are competent enough to do that. 00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:54.800 But the reality is that yes, China is a major threat. 00:40:54.800 --> 00:40:57.120 And I know some people are probably listening and thinking, well about 00:40:57.120 --> 00:41:00.720 Russia. Russia's not really much of a threat. 00:41:00.720 --> 00:41:04.160 Russia has a lot of nuclear weapons, so Russia could cause an 00:41:04.160 --> 00:41:08.880 immense amount of damage to the world with those nuclear weapons. 00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:12.160 But absent that, they're not much of a threat. 00:41:12.160 --> 00:41:13.920 Their military is not very strong. 00:41:13.920 --> 00:41:15.440 They can't project power very well. 00:41:15.680 --> 00:41:18.480 I mean, look at what's happening in the Ukraine. 00:41:18.480 --> 00:41:21.760 That's not very impressive for the Russian military. 00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:24.240 So the reality is that Russia's just not that much of a 00:41:24.240 --> 00:41:29.040 threat. They fund Psyop campaigns and cause problems and sow division and 00:41:29.040 --> 00:41:30.240 things like that, but 00:41:31.200 --> 00:41:32.960 you know, the Jews are a lot better at it. 00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:34.960 They're a much bigger threat than the Russians. 00:41:34.960 --> 00:41:38.960 Maybe Russia deserves to be in the top five, but they are 00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:43.440 nowhere near China. 00:41:43.760 --> 00:41:46.080 Guess the next question is also sort of related. 00:41:46.080 --> 00:41:48.960 Do you think there is a genuine chance of victory? 00:41:48.960 --> 00:41:51.760 Which is to say actual states. 00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:55.680 He says ethno states here, but obviously it's almost a little redundant. 00:41:55.680 --> 00:41:59.760 In the case of states, it's not truly ethno-nationalism is, but anyway, 00:41:59.760 --> 00:42:04.640 ethnostates arise and triumph globally, the reduction of the Negro invasion, the 00:42:04.640 --> 00:42:11.440 radical left finally no longer a threat, no more trans agenda, etc. 00:42:11.440 --> 00:42:15.680 Yes, I do think we have very good odds of victory. 00:42:15.680 --> 00:42:21.120 I don't know about global victory for other peoples as well, but 00:42:21.120 --> 00:42:23.120 I'm not as concerned about them honestly. 00:42:23.120 --> 00:42:24.320 I'm concerned about my people. 00:42:24.320 --> 00:42:26.800 I'm concerned about us here in the United States, I'm concerned about 00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:30.080 Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Europe. 00:42:30.080 --> 00:42:31.280 That's basically it. 00:42:31.280 --> 00:42:34.000 I'm concerned about the European parts of the world. 00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:35.040 Because they're my people. 00:42:35.040 --> 00:42:37.440 They're the ones for whom I should have concern. 00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:41.440 Again, concentric circles of care for people. 00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:44.080 They're my cousins, I care about them, I want what's best what 00:42:44.080 --> 00:42:46.000 is best for them. 00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:49.920 So do I think that we have chance of a genuine victory? 00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:51.760 Yes. Absolutely. 00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:54.080 And I think that God is on our side. 00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:56.400 Because even if 00:42:57.440 --> 00:43:00.160 it were not true that we were the only actual Christian part 00:43:00.160 --> 00:43:02.560 of the world, which we still are today. 00:43:02.560 --> 00:43:07.760 It would still be true that God made promises to Japheth and 00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:13.120 to his children, and God's word never fails, his promises never fail. 00:43:13.120 --> 00:43:16.720 He cannot do otherwise than preserve us. 00:43:16.720 --> 00:43:21.120 That doesn't mean he preserves us as masters of the entire world, 00:43:21.120 --> 00:43:23.280 which is where I want us to be again. 00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:27.600 That is our rightful position, but it is only our rightful position 00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:32.160 if we are Christian again, if we obey God, if we deserve 00:43:32.160 --> 00:43:36.800 that position because we are faithful to God's commands. 00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:41.440 God's promise does not entail that we will be masters of the 00:43:41.440 --> 00:43:43.040 entire world. 00:43:43.040 --> 00:43:47.040 It entails that we will be Christendom, and so we have to 00:43:47.040 --> 00:43:51.200 have control of some sort of territory to actually be Christendom. 00:43:51.200 --> 00:43:57.520 But But I want a grander victory than mere survival. 00:43:57.520 --> 00:44:02.560 I want a restoration of everything that we once had, and perhaps 00:44:02.560 --> 00:44:06.160 more. That is the position in which our people should be. 00:44:06.160 --> 00:44:07.360 And so that is what I want. 00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:10.720 But yes, the short answer to the question is: I do believe 00:44:10.720 --> 00:44:13.120 that there is a chance, and I do believe that we will 00:44:13.120 --> 00:44:19.120 win. The next question I'm actually gonna take a sip of tea. 00:44:19.120 --> 00:44:21.680 I'll mute my mic so you don't have to listen to me 00:44:21.680 --> 00:44:22.720 sip tea. 00:44:33.760 --> 00:44:35.120 Guess there's another irony here. 00:44:35.120 --> 00:44:38.400 I'm sipping tea and now I'm gonna talk about the Constitution. 00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:43.520 A little more tangential that time, more abstracted, but how should Christian 00:44:43.520 --> 00:44:46.240 nationalists view the Constitution? 00:44:46.240 --> 00:44:49.520 How should we go about convincing people to stop idolizing it? 00:44:49.520 --> 00:44:52.000 I think that second part sorta answers the first part a little 00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:53.360 bit. But But 00:44:55.520 --> 00:44:58.800 my problem with the Constitution is exactly what is asked in the 00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:00.160 second question there. 00:45:00.160 --> 00:45:01.760 People idolise it. 00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:04.160 They have made it into an idol. 00:45:04.160 --> 00:45:09.440 And it's almost an idol in the sort of traditional you could 00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:14.960 call it, but the sort of ancient sense of people are praying 00:45:14.960 --> 00:45:19.360 to worshiping this thing with no real thought behind it, they're just 00:45:19.360 --> 00:45:25.040 doing the thing, they're going through the motions because in this Constitution 00:45:25.040 --> 00:45:29.120 case, how many men who say they love the Constitution have ever 00:45:29.120 --> 00:45:30.480 read the thing? 00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:34.880 I'm not even saying understand it or have studied it. 00:45:34.880 --> 00:45:39.920 I'm saying simply sat down and read it once. 00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:43.200 Ask the next one who tells you he really loves the Constitution. 00:45:43.200 --> 00:45:45.280 Ask him the last time he read it 00:45:46.560 --> 00:45:49.680 Watch him stumble around and fumble to try and find an answer 00:45:49.680 --> 00:45:52.000 that isn't an outright lie. 00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:54.240 Because he probably hasn't read it. 00:45:54.240 --> 00:45:57.920 I'm not saying that you can't say that something is good or 00:45:57.920 --> 00:45:59.280 you believe it's good. 00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:02.480 You can't say I know it's good because you haven't read it, 00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:05.200 but if you haven't read something, you can still believe that it's 00:46:05.200 --> 00:46:05.920 good. Right? 00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:09.920 There are classic novels men haven't read they believe are good. 00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:13.760 So can you believe the Constitution is good without reading it? 00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:18.000 Yes, but if you are going to be one of those men 00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:22.320 who is so dedicated to the idea, the Constitution, you should probably 00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:24.800 read the document and at least know what it says. 00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:27.920 Or at least try to understand it, because some of the language 00:46:27.920 --> 00:46:28.560 is old. 00:46:28.640 --> 00:46:30.560 Men are going to have trouble understanding it. 00:46:30.560 --> 00:46:32.320 Some of the language is legal and technical. 00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:34.640 Men will have trouble understanding that. 00:46:34.640 --> 00:46:38.480 So how do we deal with the issue is sort of a 00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:39.680 more difficult question there. 00:46:40.240 --> 00:46:43.200 Obviously I sort of answered the question with how I view it. 00:46:43.200 --> 00:46:44.880 I think that it is an idol, I think that it is 00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:46.960 a problem, I don't think that it survives. 00:46:46.960 --> 00:46:47.920 It's not good. 00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:51.440 For us, for our future, it's inadequate. 00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:52.800 Is it per se bad? 00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:54.880 I would even go so far as to say yes, because some 00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:58.800 of the things that it enshrines do run contrary to Christianity. 00:46:58.800 --> 00:47:02.320 At least in terms of their interpretation. 00:47:02.320 --> 00:47:04.960 I think also in terms of their essence for some of them, 00:47:04.960 --> 00:47:09.200 because they are an outgrowth of the Enlightenment. 00:47:09.200 --> 00:47:13.920 And the Enlightenment was very much anti-Christian. 00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:16.720 I know Woe has called it the Enluciferment, which is kind of 00:47:17.120 --> 00:47:19.600 more difficult to say which is why I have mixed feeling but 00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:22.320 when you write it it looks very nice in writing, it's just 00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:24.080 a little difficult to say. 00:47:24.080 --> 00:47:28.320 But really it's the same name, because what is Lucifer? 00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:31.280 The morning star, the light bringer, right? 00:47:31.280 --> 00:47:34.400 So he masquerades as an angel of light. 00:47:34.400 --> 00:47:37.520 Well the enlightenment meant I don't even need to tell you what 00:47:37.520 --> 00:47:40.240 that means because it's the same words in English. 00:47:40.240 --> 00:47:40.320 So 00:47:42.080 --> 00:47:44.480 that's sort of the problem with the Constitution, is that it's an 00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:48.560 outgrowth of those views which were almost explicitly, and in some cases, 00:47:48.560 --> 00:47:52.320 particularly in the French cases, explicitly anti-Christian. 00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:55.680 And so I don't think that Christians can preserve it in good 00:47:55.680 --> 00:47:59.440 conscience once they recognize the reality of it. 00:47:59.440 --> 00:48:04.160 And so how do we go about disabusing people of these beliefs? 00:48:04.160 --> 00:48:09.520 How do we go about getting people to stop idolizing the Constitution. 00:48:09.520 --> 00:48:13.120 I think part of it is a generational thing. 00:48:13.120 --> 00:48:15.280 Boomers genera you know, boomers. 00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:19.360 Again, it's it comes back to that so often, but boomers love 00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:20.880 the Constitution, they think. 00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:23.120 It's the same problem as I said before where they haven't read 00:48:23.120 --> 00:48:23.920 the thing. 00:48:23.920 --> 00:48:26.800 But Boomers love the Constitution. 00:48:26.800 --> 00:48:29.120 Right wing boomers, of course I'm not talking about the left. 00:48:29.120 --> 00:48:31.360 The left pretend to love it when they can use it as 00:48:31.360 --> 00:48:32.480 a cudgel against the right. 00:48:32.480 --> 00:48:33.440 That's it. 00:48:33.440 --> 00:48:37.120 But they're always mercenary with their beliefs because they have no beliefs. 00:48:37.120 --> 00:48:41.680 However, younger generations don't care as much. 00:48:41.680 --> 00:48:43.920 I know that I always say Gen X doesn't exist, which I 00:48:43.920 --> 00:48:47.120 still say Gen X does not exist. 00:48:47.120 --> 00:48:47.760 Gen X 00:48:49.040 --> 00:48:50.080 is split. 00:48:50.080 --> 00:48:53.120 You have the older Gen X, they're young boomers. 00:48:53.120 --> 00:48:56.000 And you have the young Gen X, they're old Millennials. 00:48:56.000 --> 00:49:00.400 Basically. There's nothing that really defines Gen X in such a way 00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:03.680 that I think they should be divided into an explicit generation. 00:49:03.680 --> 00:49:08.320 Also incidentally, I think chopping people up into generations is an artifact 00:49:08.320 --> 00:49:10.960 of modernity and I don't think it's good. 00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:12.640 It is the reality, though. 00:49:12.640 --> 00:49:16.800 Because the Boomers were a distinct generation, developed in a distinct time 00:49:16.880 --> 00:49:20.720 with distinct beliefs, and all these things that set them apart from 00:49:20.720 --> 00:49:21.760 everyone else. 00:49:21.760 --> 00:49:25.200 In fact, from everyone else, because they're set apart from their entire 00:49:25.200 --> 00:49:30.160 history Because they reject it and denigrate it. 00:49:30.160 --> 00:49:32.640 So the boomers are the ones who love it. 00:49:32.640 --> 00:49:35.040 Millennials and younger don't care as much. 00:49:35.040 --> 00:49:37.280 I say as a millennial. 00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:40.000 So, do we have a real problem 00:49:41.360 --> 00:49:45.440 with getting rid of the idolization of the Constitution? 00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:48.480 I don't think that we have as much of a problem as 00:49:48.480 --> 00:49:49.840 some might think. 00:49:49.840 --> 00:49:55.040 Because millennials and younger, the men who are going to be open 00:49:55.040 --> 00:49:58.000 to our ideas at all, who are going to come over to 00:49:58.000 --> 00:50:02.000 our side, they want to win. 00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:07.440 They want a good future for their children and for their grandchildren. 00:50:07.440 --> 00:50:13.040 They don't care about preserving this particular document or that particular document. 00:50:13.040 --> 00:50:15.920 If it's standing in the way of what needs to be done 00:50:16.160 --> 00:50:19.280 and what we need to accomplish for our people, I don't think 00:50:19.280 --> 00:50:21.680 millennials will have any problem burning the thing. 00:50:21.680 --> 00:50:23.040 I wouldn't. 00:50:23.040 --> 00:50:26.560 In fact, I've said publicly that's what I do. 00:50:26.560 --> 00:50:29.680 Because burning idols is what God commands. 00:50:29.680 --> 00:50:33.200 So I don't think it's going to be a real problem. 00:50:33.200 --> 00:50:37.120 There are those where you kind of have to slow walk them 00:50:37.120 --> 00:50:41.040 through well, look at this part and then look at what scripture 00:50:41.040 --> 00:50:43.360 says and then look at this part and look at what scripture 00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:46.240 says. And you can kind of get them to recognize, yeah, maybe 00:50:46.240 --> 00:50:49.120 there are some problems here because it's saying the exact opposite. 00:50:49.120 --> 00:50:49.760 That's it. 00:50:49.760 --> 00:50:52.080 That's troubling in some ways. 00:50:52.080 --> 00:50:52.400 So 00:50:53.360 --> 00:50:57.600 you can get some people to understand the reality of this thing 00:50:57.600 --> 00:51:02.000 in which they have invested Invested a mistaken belief. 00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:03.920 But in many cases it doesn't matter. 00:51:03.920 --> 00:51:08.400 Because it's that generational divide, the boomers will die off, to be 00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:12.800 blunt. Or at the very least, retire and live a life in 00:51:12.800 --> 00:51:15.200 retirement, not involved in this stuff. 00:51:15.200 --> 00:51:19.120 So yes, the Constitution has become an idol, but it's not going 00:51:19.120 --> 00:51:22.720 to last, so it doesn't matter that much. 00:51:23.600 --> 00:51:26.480 Take another sip of tea before I get to the next question 00:51:26.640 --> 00:51:36.560 here. 00:51:36.560 --> 00:51:38.800 So the next question 00:51:39.760 --> 00:51:40.720 is about 00:51:43.680 --> 00:51:45.120 me see this here 00:51:49.760 --> 00:51:51.040 Next question. 00:51:51.040 --> 00:51:56.880 Similar to Gettel's ontological proof, is there an absolute proof for Christianity 00:51:57.120 --> 00:52:00.080 specifically? So So 00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:05.760 I'm not going to go into Gettel's ontological proof, modal ontological proof, 00:52:05.760 --> 00:52:07.920 because well, there are a number of reasons. 00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:09.200 I just won't go into that here. 00:52:09.200 --> 00:52:13.360 But is there in essence that proves the existence of God? 00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:16.080 Okay. So that's absolutely it does. 00:52:16.080 --> 00:52:18.080 It proves the existence of God, it's entirely sound. 00:52:18.080 --> 00:52:20.160 We can prove God exists. 00:52:20.160 --> 00:52:22.000 And so there are a number of arguments for that. 00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:23.760 There are probably six or seven that I like. 00:52:23.760 --> 00:52:25.600 That's one of the ones I like the most. 00:52:25.600 --> 00:52:25.920 But 00:52:26.960 --> 00:52:28.000 is there a proof 00:52:28.880 --> 00:52:32.640 for the Christian God specifically? 00:52:32.640 --> 00:52:40.320 Because there is a difference between proving God exists and proving Jesus 00:52:40.320 --> 00:52:41.520 Christ is God, right? 00:52:41.760 --> 00:52:44.560 We all recognize those are two different claims. 00:52:44.640 --> 00:52:44.960 So 00:52:47.280 --> 00:52:49.120 I would say yes. 00:52:49.120 --> 00:52:49.440 And 00:52:50.400 --> 00:52:52.960 the issue is I don't know if I want to get into 00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:56.480 the argument right now because it takes a while to present, but 00:52:56.480 --> 00:52:58.800 I can give the basic outline. 00:52:58.800 --> 00:52:59.120 The 00:53:00.160 --> 00:53:02.080 there are really two arguments I would make. 00:53:02.080 --> 00:53:05.040 The first argument is the scriptural argument, which is just pointing out 00:53:05.040 --> 00:53:07.680 all of the things that people who are interested in this sort 00:53:07.680 --> 00:53:11.920 of apologetics will already know, scripture is very clearly not written by 00:53:11.920 --> 00:53:13.200 men alone. 00:53:13.200 --> 00:53:20.400 There is an organizing intelligence behind it that exceeds human capacity. 00:53:20.400 --> 00:53:21.040 And so 00:53:22.240 --> 00:53:27.840 you have to recognize that scripture was written by a being that 00:53:27.840 --> 00:53:29.520 is greater than man. 00:53:29.520 --> 00:53:34.880 That doesn't prove the Christian God, because it just proves God 00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:39.680 of some kind wrote Scripture, because you could have a God who 00:53:39.680 --> 00:53:42.320 wrote Scripture is not the Christian God, right? 00:53:42.320 --> 00:53:45.040 That's sort of getting into the weeds a little bit, but you 00:53:45.040 --> 00:53:49.280 can at least prove that scripture is is supernatural, and in proving 00:53:49.280 --> 00:53:54.160 that Scripture is supernatural you certainly lean toward the Christian God very 00:53:54.160 --> 00:53:58.240 heavily. This is something, for instance, that you cannot do with the 00:53:58.240 --> 00:54:04.080 Book of Mormon or with the Quran, or with the Talmud. 00:54:04.080 --> 00:54:07.680 So that would be my first proof, and I know that many 00:54:07.680 --> 00:54:11.280 atheists and agnostics and others are they don't like that argument, but 00:54:11.280 --> 00:54:14.640 quite frankly, if they're an atheist, they can't understand Gdel anyway, so 00:54:14.640 --> 00:54:17.280 at this point, you've already lost them. 00:54:17.280 --> 00:54:20.960 You're going to need to convince them with some other proof. 00:54:20.960 --> 00:54:25.200 The proof that I personally like the most, and this is actually 00:54:25.200 --> 00:54:27.760 one that I've sort of developed, but 00:54:29.040 --> 00:54:31.840 the proof that I like the most for the Christian God is 00:54:31.840 --> 00:54:36.800 that you can actually build up from first principles to the necessity 00:54:36.800 --> 00:54:39.200 of the Trinity. 00:54:39.200 --> 00:54:44.960 And I do believe that in doing that, coupled with traditional philosophical 00:54:44.960 --> 00:54:49.200 arguments, so for instance, regard to God being the good, God being 00:54:49.200 --> 00:54:53.840 the true, coupled with that, you can prove the existence of the 00:54:53.840 --> 00:54:56.320 Christian God, the Triune God. 00:54:56.320 --> 00:55:00.640 The basis of the argument would be just sort of an outline 00:55:00.960 --> 00:55:05.040 form. You go starting from probably the infinite regress, I think that's 00:55:04.960 --> 00:55:08.240 probably the best one just to get quickly to the proof of 00:55:08.240 --> 00:55:12.560 there being an ultimate being an absolute infinite, which is the best 00:55:12.560 --> 00:55:15.760 way I think to describe God in that philosophical sense. 00:55:15.760 --> 00:55:19.680 So once you get to that, then you start asking the question, 00:55:19.680 --> 00:55:26.960 okay, if this God is unitary, would he ever do anything outside 00:55:26.960 --> 00:55:33.040 himself? And I think the answer necessarily is no, because I think 00:55:33.040 --> 00:55:39.440 a unitary God would be perfect and contained within himself in such 00:55:39.440 --> 00:55:42.960 a way that nothing would ever be externalized, he would simply exist 00:55:43.440 --> 00:55:46.720 and be all of existence for all time. 00:55:46.720 --> 00:55:51.040 Time also not existing, but speaking in human terms. 00:55:51.040 --> 00:55:55.120 So then the natural extension from that would be to ask And 00:55:55.120 --> 00:55:58.880 I'm giving obviously the rough sense of this, not the full philosophy, 00:55:58.880 --> 00:56:03.600 but the next question obviously would be, okay, we don't have a 00:56:03.600 --> 00:56:07.120 unitary God, do we have a dual god? 00:56:07.120 --> 00:56:09.360 Do we have a God in two persons? 00:56:09.440 --> 00:56:13.200 And I think again the answer is necessarily no. 00:56:13.200 --> 00:56:17.520 Because I think that you have the same problem, but abstracted one 00:56:17.520 --> 00:56:20.000 level when it is only two persons. 00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:23.760 Because with two persons, you have the inner relationship of the persons 00:56:24.640 --> 00:56:30.880 in perfection, self-contained, wholly within itself, never externalizing anything. 00:56:30.880 --> 00:56:33.680 It's simply a back and forth between the two persons. 00:56:33.680 --> 00:56:36.560 So I don't think that solves the problem either. 00:56:36.560 --> 00:56:41.520 But I think once you get to three persons, you inherently, in 00:56:41.520 --> 00:56:45.200 the nature of that jump from two to three, solve the problem 00:56:45.200 --> 00:56:48.880 of the fact that external things exist, which is really the problem 00:56:48.880 --> 00:56:53.040 I'm getting to, and anyone who's versed with philosophy is going to 00:56:53.040 --> 00:56:55.120 recognize the problem here. 00:56:55.120 --> 00:56:58.400 But and by problem I mean the problem to which I'm offering 00:56:58.400 --> 00:57:01.440 the solution, not the problem with the argument, which I don't believe 00:57:01.440 --> 00:57:02.720 exists. 00:57:03.760 --> 00:57:07.280 With regard to that jump from two to three persons, you have 00:57:07.280 --> 00:57:11.520 an externalizing of the relationship because basically you have an imparting of 00:57:11.520 --> 00:57:15.280 what is in essence movement, sort of a metaphysical movement in this 00:57:15.280 --> 00:57:21.280 case, but You have a movement inherent in the relationship between and 00:57:21.280 --> 00:57:24.160 among three persons that is not there in the simple back and 00:57:24.160 --> 00:57:25.680 forth between two. 00:57:25.680 --> 00:57:30.560 And so the three persons of the Trinity explains why we have 00:57:30.560 --> 00:57:33.120 anything external to God. 00:57:33.120 --> 00:57:39.680 And so if you have the necessity of a triune God for 00:57:39.680 --> 00:57:43.760 the existence in order to explain the existence of a universe, because 00:57:43.760 --> 00:57:47.600 the universe being external to God in a certain sense, we know 00:57:47.600 --> 00:57:48.720 the universe exists. 00:57:48.720 --> 00:57:50.080 How do we explain that? 00:57:50.080 --> 00:57:53.840 If you can build up that philosophical argument to saying that a 00:57:53.840 --> 00:57:58.560 triune God provides an explanation for that, and then you sort of 00:57:58.560 --> 00:58:03.600 come alongside that with the argument that God is good, God being 00:58:03.600 --> 00:58:10.560 the absolute, infinite, good having existence in itself, having proper existence, not 00:58:10.560 --> 00:58:13.920 being sort of parasitic like bad or evil is on other things 00:58:14.000 --> 00:58:17.040 and getting off of the philosophical weeds, but it's the nature of 00:58:17.040 --> 00:58:19.040 the subject. 00:58:19.040 --> 00:58:22.400 If you can come alongside it with that argument, that it is 00:58:22.400 --> 00:58:25.840 only the good that has that substantial existence, and then you have 00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:32.080 the triune God, necessarily a god who is good, god being goodness, 00:58:32.080 --> 00:58:34.880 we've already established that at this point in the argument you're dealing 00:58:34.880 --> 00:58:41.040 with this hypothetical person, then necessarily he is going to leave proof 00:58:41.040 --> 00:58:46.000 of his existence in creation, you are going to be able to 00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:51.280 find him because you know the Deus Absconditus or the hidden god, 00:58:51.280 --> 00:58:55.120 whatever argument you want to use, that's not a good god. 00:58:55.120 --> 00:58:58.640 A god who hides himself from his creation, who does not make 00:58:58.640 --> 00:59:02.960 himself known in some way to the things that he has created, 00:59:02.960 --> 00:59:04.240 is not a good God. 00:59:04.240 --> 00:59:06.000 That's the demiurge. 00:59:06.000 --> 00:59:09.520 I don't believe that exists, and I don't think it's philosophically coherent 00:59:09.520 --> 00:59:13.120 either, because you're saying that evil has a substantial existence, which evil 00:59:13.120 --> 00:59:17.200 is a deprivation of the good, not an essence in itself. 00:59:17.200 --> 00:59:22.080 And so once you've established that, well then you start looking. 00:59:22.080 --> 00:59:24.480 Are there other triune gods? 00:59:24.480 --> 00:59:27.760 Have there ever been any other triune gods? 00:59:27.760 --> 00:59:29.760 The answer is no. 00:59:29.760 --> 00:59:33.600 The god of Scripture is the only triune god, and so if 00:59:33.600 --> 00:59:37.600 you can establish philosophically the necessity of the Trinity, and you can 00:59:37.600 --> 00:59:43.360 establish philosophically this one's the easier part that the absolute infinite is 00:59:43.360 --> 00:59:49.280 necessarily good, then you look for the consequences of that in creation, 00:59:49.280 --> 00:59:52.400 in the world as we find it, and you find only one 00:59:52.400 --> 00:59:55.360 triune God. 00:59:55.360 --> 01:00:00.400 And I think that that necessarily leads to the conclusion that the 01:00:00.400 --> 01:00:04.000 Christian God is the only God, is the true God. 01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:09.920 I think it's absolutely unassailable philosophically, logically, and so anyone who understands 01:00:10.160 --> 01:00:13.840 Gettel's proof for the existence of God is going to be able 01:00:13.840 --> 01:00:15.040 to follow that as well, I believe. 01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:18.880 I firmly believe that, since it takes a certain sort of man 01:00:18.880 --> 01:00:21.920 and a certain sort of mind to understand Gettle in this case. 01:00:21.920 --> 01:00:25.120 So someone who can do that can certainly follow that proof. 01:00:25.120 --> 01:00:29.840 At some point I'll outline it more formally, but that's the brief 01:00:29.840 --> 01:00:34.720 version of it. 01:00:34.720 --> 01:00:38.960 So the next question I think we've been going about an hour, 01:00:38.960 --> 01:00:39.760 so I don't know if I'll do 01:00:40.880 --> 01:00:46.000 one more question or maybe maybe two or three, I don't. 01:00:46.000 --> 01:00:47.040 Apparently 01:00:47.920 --> 01:00:51.920 OBS does not actually have a running timer. 01:00:51.920 --> 01:00:54.640 That's a neat feature. 01:00:54.640 --> 01:00:54.960 So 01:00:56.240 --> 01:00:59.520 at any rate, I will move on to the next question, at 01:00:59.520 --> 01:01:00.640 least do one more 01:01:09.280 --> 01:01:14.640 Do you consider Mark sixteen nine through twenty to be inspired text? 01:01:14.640 --> 01:01:19.920 If Mark sixteen sixteen is regarded as not inspired, does this weaken 01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:23.040 the Lutheran doctrine of baptism? 01:01:23.040 --> 01:01:28.000 Well, I do think that they're inspired, so I'm not sure that 01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:33.200 it would be relevant with regard to weakening the case for baptism. 01:01:33.200 --> 01:01:36.400 I can answer it in the hypothetical, I guess. 01:01:36.400 --> 01:01:40.160 If that part of Mark, and I'll read the the verse so 01:01:40.160 --> 01:01:43.440 people who are unfamiliar with it know what I'm talking about here. 01:01:43.440 --> 01:01:45.280 Many of you will already know it, of course. 01:01:45.280 --> 01:01:48.320 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not 01:01:48.320 --> 01:01:50.000 believe will be condemned. 01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:54.800 Of course, we use that in our apologetics for the sacramental understanding 01:01:54.800 --> 01:01:59.520 of baptism, because it says whoever believes and is baptized will be 01:01:59.520 --> 01:02:04.240 saved. Which of course leads into the Lutheran position of is baptism 01:02:04.240 --> 01:02:08.720 necessary? Yes, but not absolutely so, but yes. 01:02:08.720 --> 01:02:12.240 I've explained that before, so I won't go into that now. 01:02:12.240 --> 01:02:15.840 If as some argue, some try to say that the longer ending 01:02:15.840 --> 01:02:20.960 of Mark is not actually inspired, Lutherans don't believe that. 01:02:20.960 --> 01:02:22.480 Roman Catholics don't believe that. 01:02:22.480 --> 01:02:23.680 I don't think Anglicans believe that 01:02:24.880 --> 01:02:27.440 I don't know how many have it in their confessions that the 01:02:27.440 --> 01:02:30.480 longer ending is part of Mark or things like that. 01:02:30.480 --> 01:02:32.800 We don't have a c we don't have a canon in our 01:02:32.800 --> 01:02:36.960 confessions as Lutherans, so which sounds weird to some people, but it's 01:02:36.880 --> 01:02:39.040 just how we've always done things. 01:02:39.040 --> 01:02:42.800 If you assume, for the sake of the hypothetical, that this is 01:02:43.120 --> 01:02:46.240 not in scripture, this is something that was added by someone else 01:02:46.240 --> 01:02:49.520 at some point, and it's not inspired, it shouldn't be there, right? 01:02:50.000 --> 01:02:52.400 I don't think it weakens our case for baptism at all. 01:02:52.400 --> 01:02:56.240 I don't think that this verse is necessary to the Lutheran case 01:02:56.240 --> 01:03:02.880 for baptism, because there are many other texts that deal with baptism 01:03:02.880 --> 01:03:07.760 specifically in a more expansive fashion than this one because this sort 01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:10.400 of mentions it almost in passing, right? 01:03:10.400 --> 01:03:14.080 It's important because it's straight from the mouth of Christ, and of 01:03:14.080 --> 01:03:16.720 course all scripture is breathed out by God, right? 01:03:16.720 --> 01:03:22.400 But some portions are more valuable to us in certain circumstances than 01:03:22.400 --> 01:03:24.800 others. Some are more important than others. 01:03:24.800 --> 01:03:26.480 I'm perfectly comfortable saying that. 01:03:26.480 --> 01:03:30.800 Some books of scripture are worth more than others. 01:03:30.800 --> 01:03:35.120 But in this case, there are plenty of other places that address 01:03:35.120 --> 01:03:39.920 the doctrine of baptism, the nature of baptism as a sacrament. 01:03:39.920 --> 01:03:43.280 I don't think you need this one to build the argument. 01:03:43.280 --> 01:03:48.240 Because yes, there's something to the power of cumulativeness, right? 01:03:48.480 --> 01:03:51.120 That's what I was doing with James White in that debate and 01:03:51.120 --> 01:03:54.000 why he got so uncomfortable when I kept asking those questions about 01:03:54.000 --> 01:03:58.720 things God cannot do because it's hammering home the point. 01:03:58.720 --> 01:04:02.560 And so that's part of the tactic when dealing with baptism, of 01:04:02.560 --> 01:04:07.040 course, because you can just keep listing these verses about baptism that 01:04:07.040 --> 01:04:09.040 very clearly teach it is not just water. 01:04:09.840 --> 01:04:12.720 It is not something that man does, it is something that God 01:04:12.720 --> 01:04:19.120 does. This one is important, but it is not necessary. 01:04:19.120 --> 01:04:22.160 There are other verses that do more for our argument, so I 01:04:22.160 --> 01:04:24.880 don't think it weakens the argument as the short answer. 01:04:24.880 --> 01:04:28.560 If this were hypothetically not part of Scripture, we could lose this 01:04:28.640 --> 01:04:31.680 and still have our doctrine be the exact same thing that it 01:04:31.680 --> 01:04:36.000 currently is with regard to baptism. 01:04:36.160 --> 01:04:38.240 See what the next question is. 01:04:38.240 --> 01:04:40.960 Next question's a short one, I'll answer this as well. 01:04:40.960 --> 01:04:43.520 Were the Khazars ethnically Jewish in any way? 01:04:43.520 --> 01:04:47.680 I did touch on this in a previous episode, we'll answer it 01:04:47.680 --> 01:04:52.560 again, and then just link to that as well. 01:04:52.560 --> 01:04:55.440 The short answer is no. 01:04:55.440 --> 01:04:56.640 They were not. 01:04:56.640 --> 01:05:00.400 Now did some Jews integrate into the population? 01:05:00.400 --> 01:05:02.320 It seems like yes. 01:05:02.320 --> 01:05:08.160 And did some of the upper class convert to Judaism? 01:05:08.160 --> 01:05:13.200 Yes. Do we have any evidence for a wholesale conversion of the 01:05:13.200 --> 01:05:14.400 people to Judaism? 01:05:14.800 --> 01:05:19.600 No. Do we have any evidence for a wholesale migration of that 01:05:19.600 --> 01:05:21.760 group? No. 01:05:21.760 --> 01:05:22.080 And 01:05:23.040 --> 01:05:25.920 are the Jews Kazarian? 01:05:25.920 --> 01:05:29.280 No. You can look at their genetics, you can look particularly at 01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:32.960 Y DNA, you can look at all of this evidence, and incidentally, 01:05:32.960 --> 01:05:34.560 mitochondrial as well in many cases. 01:05:34.560 --> 01:05:36.960 So it's not just the male line, it's also the female line 01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:37.840 in some cases. 01:05:37.840 --> 01:05:44.640 Although with admixture, largely actually from Southern Europe, Italy, in many cases, 01:05:44.640 --> 01:05:47.680 not from Eastern Europe, not from Cazaria. 01:05:47.680 --> 01:05:50.080 But you can look at the DNA, you can look at the 01:05:50.080 --> 01:05:52.800 heart evidence, and they actually come from 01:05:54.080 --> 01:05:56.880 the Middle East, the Near East. 01:05:56.880 --> 01:05:58.000 That's where they're from. 01:05:58.000 --> 01:06:01.360 So they are related to the ancient Israelites. 01:06:01.360 --> 01:06:03.120 And you can see that also in their behavior. 01:06:03.120 --> 01:06:04.000 They behave the same. 01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:04.800 It's the same people. 01:06:04.800 --> 01:06:06.320 They're doing the same things. 01:06:06.320 --> 01:06:10.160 They're still giving God the middle finger and trying to ruin everything 01:06:10.160 --> 01:06:10.960 around them. 01:06:10.960 --> 01:06:12.880 That's who they've always been. 01:06:12.880 --> 01:06:16.400 And it is who they will always be. 01:06:20.000 --> 01:06:28.240 Let's see what else we have here. 01:06:28.240 --> 01:06:32.320 I think that may be it for this episode. 01:06:32.320 --> 01:06:36.560 There are more of the the questions here that I have, of 01:06:36.560 --> 01:06:40.480 course, but I will not get to all of them tonight since 01:06:40.480 --> 01:06:45.360 we got through handfuls Handful here, not quite half of the forty 01:06:45.520 --> 01:06:49.840 some odd questions that I have going, but I think I will 01:06:49.840 --> 01:06:51.040 call it here for tonight. 01:06:51.040 --> 01:06:53.040 It's been over an hour so far. 01:06:53.040 --> 01:06:55.520 And I try to keep these to, you know, an hour, hour 01:06:55.520 --> 01:06:56.400 and a half, maybe. 01:06:56.400 --> 01:06:59.360 Just depends on the questions and how long I go. 01:06:59.360 --> 01:07:02.320 If it's a more complicated answer, then I like to answer a 01:07:02.320 --> 01:07:06.080 few more questions so that it's not just one really long answer. 01:07:06.080 --> 01:07:10.240 But I will prepare answers to some of these because some of 01:07:10.240 --> 01:07:12.800 these are going to take a little bit longer and some of 01:07:12.800 --> 01:07:14.960 them I think I have to look at some things. 01:07:14.960 --> 01:07:18.000 I have some questions about things where I haven't like translations of 01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:21.120 scripture I've never looked at, so those I'll have to prepare the 01:07:21.120 --> 01:07:22.560 answers for next time. 01:07:22.560 --> 01:07:24.720 But I think I will call it here. 01:07:24.720 --> 01:07:27.440 Don't want to keep any of you too long as well, so 01:07:28.000 --> 01:07:29.760 thank you for your time. 01:07:29.760 --> 01:07:32.000 And thank you for those who submitted questions. 01:07:32.000 --> 01:07:35.680 Again, questions can be submitted on the forum That is the preferred 01:07:35.680 --> 01:07:39.360 method. The link should be in the description for the video, regardless 01:07:39.360 --> 01:07:41.280 of which platform you're using. 01:07:41.280 --> 01:07:44.960 And it's also linked in my telegram chat and elsewhere. 01:07:45.040 --> 01:07:48.480 So I think that is it for this week. 01:07:48.480 --> 01:07:48.720 I will 01:07:49.840 --> 01:07:53.760 be back next week, probably right about the same time to answer 01:07:53.760 --> 01:07:54.400 more questions. 01:07:54.400 --> 01:07:56.080 That'll be episode eight. 01:07:56.080 --> 01:07:57.520 So again, thank you for your time. 01:07:57.520 --> 01:07:58.480 Thank you for the questions. 01:07:58.480 --> 01:08:02.240 Thank you for those who submit questions for the next episode. 01:08:02.240 --> 01:08:05.120 I don't know if I will get to them necessarily if they're 01:08:05.120 --> 01:08:08.480 additional questions because I still have so many to answer, but I 01:08:08.480 --> 01:08:11.040 will just keep adding them to the list. 01:08:11.040 --> 01:08:13.360 And if you submit them on the forum, then other people can 01:08:13.360 --> 01:08:14.160 vote on them. 01:08:14.160 --> 01:08:16.160 And so they can sort of rise to the top. 01:08:16.160 --> 01:08:20.160 I'll try to prioritize those ones unless they're again something insane. 01:08:20.160 --> 01:08:22.320 But it's mostly been avoided thus far. 01:08:22.320 --> 01:08:24.000 The questions have been very reasonable. 01:08:24.000 --> 01:08:27.360 They've been good questions that I think it's important to answer them 01:08:27.360 --> 01:08:30.240 and have the answer available for people. 01:08:30.240 --> 01:08:36.800 As always, the audio will be available probably tomorrow, maybe Saturday, just 01:08:36.800 --> 01:08:38.640 depends on when I get that done. 01:08:38.640 --> 01:08:41.680 The audio is a little bit higher quality than the stream, simply 01:08:41.680 --> 01:08:44.800 due to bitrate restrictions and things like that, but 01:08:46.080 --> 01:08:46.400 the 01:08:47.360 --> 01:08:52.560 audio only version can be found at podcast dot core jmoller dot 01:08:52.560 --> 01:08:56.320 com that is also my website, incidentally, without the podcasts in the 01:08:56.320 --> 01:08:59.840 front. And I think that pretty much covers it for this week. 01:08:59.840 --> 01:09:03.120 Again, thank you to all of you and have a great evening. 01:09:03.120 --> 01:09:04.640 I will see you next week. 01:09:04.640 --> 01:09:06.240 God bless.