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<v Speaker 1>is the 14th of August 2026.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I am Cory J.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Mahler, and this is at any cost.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is episode 38.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And I have just a little bit of housekeeping before I get</v>

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<v Speaker 1>into the questions for this evening.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If the camera is a little bit off, it is because I</v>

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<v Speaker 1>discovered one minute before hitting go live that apparently the company that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>made the mount I use for my iPhone, which is my camera,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>decided it was unnecessary to thread the connecting piece and so it</v>

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<v Speaker 1>literally fell off.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So hopefully it will not do that again during the stream.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I think it's on sturdy enough for tonight.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Insofar as questions are concerned, again, the standard reminder I give at</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the end of streams if you do not see your question in</v>

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<v Speaker 1>my list of pending questions on the forum it means that I</v>

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<v Speaker 1>have not noticed it it got missed somehow so please go ahead</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and submit that again.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted to specifically mention there is a pending question about the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>opium wars and how that has influenced the relationship basically between the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>West and China.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And I intend to answer that next week.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That one is a little more involved than some of the others.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I already did some of the groundwork for that question with an</v>

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<v Speaker 1>earlier question about differences between and among the Asian races and their</v>

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<v Speaker 1>religious differences that there's sort of a feedback loop there.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And that lays some of the foundation, saving face, things like that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So if you didn't listen to that one, go back and listen</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to that one.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I think that is it for</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the housekeeping for tonight, so I will move into the questions now</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and pull up the first question here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The first question is one that I mentioned last week that I</v>

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<v Speaker 1>said I would answer.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This week and it is a question about witchcraft, past practice of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>witchcraft, and so question one.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I was a witch for most of my life, Wicca, delved into</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the keys of Solomon, demon summoning, etc</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It is something I really struggle with.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I was called to Christ five years ago, but if lapsed twice</v>

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<v Speaker 1>back into witchcraft.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>My faith is now stronger than ever, but I am concerned about</v>

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<v Speaker 1>lapsing again.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Even seeing the moon at night is challenging to me, it was</v>

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<v Speaker 1>an object of worship.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Why are some people more drawn to paganism or demonology, and what</v>

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<v Speaker 1>do you think I should do to avoid being drawn back into</v>

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<v Speaker 1>it?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I think that there are a lot of reasons that certain people</v>

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<v Speaker 1>are more attracted to things like demonology, witchcraft, neopaganism, all of these</v>

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<v Speaker 1>things. And I think part of it, and I've said this many</v>

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<v Speaker 1>times, is due to the current weakness of the churches.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is particularly true for men, certainly, because there will you have</v>

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<v Speaker 1>men who see the current state of the churches don't do their</v>

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<v Speaker 1>research to be completely blunt and honest about how that happened.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And I pointed out before that the churches fell last.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Everything else in society had already fallen to the enemy by the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>time the churches fell, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The schools were captured, the media was captured, the government was captured,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the institutions were captured, everything else was captured before the churches gave</v>

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<v Speaker 1>in. So the churches deserve some credit for holding out, they deserve</v>

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<v Speaker 1>condemnation for finally caving.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But take the totality, not just the narrative that certain people want</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you to believe.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But there are men who look at that and think, well, if</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the churches are in the current state in which they are, then</v>

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<v Speaker 1>surely there must be something that's better.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And they're not wrong in part of the reasoning.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because the reasoning that that which is true should also be manly</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and strong is correct.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because the truth is manly and strong, because the truth is God.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>God Himself is truth.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And so you should look to Christ for that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And if you look at actual Christianity, which plenty of examples down</v>

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<v Speaker 1>through history, we had Christendom for over a thousand years, that was</v>

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<v Speaker 1>manly and strong.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That fought the crusades, that kept out all of the various peoples</v>

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<v Speaker 1>conducting slave raids into Europe and the list goes on and on.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's Christianity.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>What we have today in the churches is not.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And so you'll have men who look at that and want to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>find something strong.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And the neopagans are right there willing to tell them, No look</v>

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<v Speaker 1>what we have is strong.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We have the old gods that wanted you know X, Y, and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Z. Whatever it is you want to hear they're going to tell</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you. The demons know this, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The demons are going to offer you something that looks good.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is something that comes up all the time.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Sin is never going to look really bad if you just look</v>

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<v Speaker 1>at the surface level, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There would be no attraction to engaging in sin if sin were</v>

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<v Speaker 1>all bad.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It is all bad finally in the end analysis, but it looks</v>

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<v Speaker 1>good in the interim, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Fornication is fun.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>No one is going to tell you otherwise.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The downstream consequences for you, personally, for your partners and for society</v>

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<v Speaker 1>catastrophic. But it has that appeal initially.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The same thing is true with stuff like paganism and demonology and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Wicca, whatever it happens to be.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because it promises you secret it's ultimately a lot of its Gnosticism,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>right? It promises you secret knowledge, it promises you strength and power,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>all these things, it never delivers.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If it does deliver, it's that little bit in the beginning just</v>

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<v Speaker 1>like fornication delivers the little bit of fun in the beginning at</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the immense cost down the line.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The same thing is true here, as you undoubtedly know.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You start off, and it seems like you've found something that gives</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you meaning and purpose, and then the more deeply you get involved,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the more you realize not only are you in over your head,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>but it's actively destroying you and you participate in your own destruction.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So there's a lot of psychology going on as to why certain</v>

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<v Speaker 1>men and certain women are more attracted to these things than others.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The demons are always going to use the temptation for you that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>they believe is going to work best on you.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And so maybe your temptation is gluttony, maybe it's food, or it's</v>

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<v Speaker 1>sex, it's fornication, or it's something like Wicca or neopaganism.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The demons aren't going to waste time using a temptation that won't</v>

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<v Speaker 1>work on you.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That would be dumb and they're not dumb.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They're evil.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There's a difference between stupid and evil.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They don't always coincide.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes they're very intelligent men or entities in this case who are</v>

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<v Speaker 1>evil. They're going to use the thing that will work on you.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And perhaps in your case it happens to be that you are</v>

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<v Speaker 1>attracted to esoteric knowledge.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That happens a lot with individuals who sort of have the academic</v>

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<v Speaker 1>bent. There are going to be men for whom that works better</v>

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<v Speaker 1>than others.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There's a question coming up later in the stream related to that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I may get to it, I may not.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know how many questions I'll do tonight.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And so your attraction to this is part due to you who</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and what you are.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The demons are going to tempt you with what they believe will</v>

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<v Speaker 1>work for you.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But then the other part of the question, perhaps the the more</v>

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<v Speaker 1>important practical part of the question as it were, is what do</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you do about that?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I think in your case, one of the best things you can</v>

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<v Speaker 1>do is read the creation narrative in Genesis, so Genesis 1 and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>2, perhaps read 3 as well, and then read the narrative of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the Exodus.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And the reason that I want you to read those is, and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I think you'll probably, given your background, perhaps get more out of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>this than others would initially.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You have to recognize those are not just narratives, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Both of those are also polemics.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because</v>

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<v Speaker 1>this is something actually that is missed by many Christians, unfortunately.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's one of the reasons I want to get back to my</v>

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<v Speaker 1>series that I was almost completed on Genesis.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I need to invest that time.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the narrative of creation is itself a polemic against the pagan gods.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because the pagan gods, what are the pagan gods typically?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You have the sun and the moon and the stars and maybe</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the planets, you know, the Romans, Mars, the God of War, etc.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You have celestial bodies, you have the animals, you have the natural</v>

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<v Speaker 1>world, you have the creatures in the sea.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>All of these things are what are deified in various pagan myths.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Different pagan mythologies have different gods, different things are deified.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Some focus more on the animal, some focus more on the natural</v>

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<v Speaker 1>world in the sense of the the physical world, whatever it happens</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to be.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>All of that is condemned in the creation narrative.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because what is the sun in the creation narrative?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Well, it's just the sun.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's the light that governs the day created by God.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It is God's creature created for our good and for the design</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of his universe.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's not the sun uppercase s in the sense of being a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>deity, it's not an angel, it's not an entity to be worshipped.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It is just a physical thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's part of creation.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Of course we also know that from science, so if that helps</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you to think of it that way as well, go ahead, because</v>

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<v Speaker 1>it is literally just a fusion reactor in the sky.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And the same thing for the moon, right, in its own way.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The moon reflects the sun.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The moon is just a celestial body.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's a giant chunk of rock orbiting the Earth.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I'm aware that technically the Earth and the Moon orbit each other</v>

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<v Speaker 1>in a certain way, so please do not get into that in</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the comments.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I'm aware of the distinction there.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It helps to go through that polemical narrative and recognize that the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Lord God is the one who created all these things, and he</v>

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<v Speaker 1>has already gone through the trouble of condemning all of these sorts</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of groups that want to claim that the sun is a god,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that there are other gods, that these things are actually deities, that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>these influence your life in some way, that these control your destiny,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>whatever it happens to be.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>God already wrote a polemic against that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And then he enacted that polemic in the specific case of the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Egyptian mythology, of their gods, because if you look at the plagues,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and there are plenty of places you can see this drawn out</v>

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<v Speaker 1>by various exegetes, there are men who have done very good work</v>

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<v Speaker 1>on this.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I can't think of the names off the top of my head,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>but they're easy to find.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The plagues are condemnations of the Egyptian pantheon.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They are specific condemnations of the various entities that the Egyptians believed</v>

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<v Speaker 1>controlled their lives.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And so you had gods that were associated with the Nile, condemned</v>

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<v Speaker 1>by some of the plagues.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You have gods associated with various animals condemned by some of the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>plagues. All of these things are condemnations of that form of belief</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and a proof of the existence and the power of the Lord</v>

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<v Speaker 1>God, being God over all of these things.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And incidentally, the angel of death is either Christ himself or an</v>

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<v Speaker 1>angel commanded by Christ himself.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because do remember when you have a physical theophany, an appearance of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>God in the Old Testament, it's actually a Christophany.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's Christ appearing in the flesh, which he does for instance in</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the garden to Adam and Eve.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So I would say go and read through those narratives and recognize</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that all of these things that use you used to think were</v>

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<v Speaker 1>deities or in some way controlled your life were created by the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>God you now know to be your Lord and Savior.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>He created those things.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They're part of his creation.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So it's not wrong to look up at the natural night sky</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and have awe and wonder.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You should have that response.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>God created it for both his glory and our edification and just</v>

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<v Speaker 1>because it's beautiful to look at.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So once you have this in the right mindset, there's nothing wrong</v>

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<v Speaker 1>with looking at the moon and feeling a sense of awe.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The moon is not a deity, the moon is not a god</v>

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<v Speaker 1>or a goddess.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The moon is something created by God, and it's created for his</v>

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<v Speaker 1>glory and for our enjoyment.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So look at it in the right mindset, in the right frame,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and you can avoid some of these problems.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But I would definitely highly recommend going through that creation narrative in</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Genesis repeatedly until the point where you've almost memorized it.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And then going through point by point the exodus narrative and looking</v>

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<v Speaker 1>at how God judged and dismissed all of the Egyptian deities, he</v>

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<v Speaker 1>could have done the same thing for any other pantheon, any other</v>

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<v Speaker 1>pagan pantheon.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Question two is about divisions within the churches.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Is it your hope or should it be a goal for denominations</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to agree and reconcile or is it necessary and good for division</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and disagreement in order to enable debate and discussion?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Do you believe Lutheranism is the correct theology or just most concordant</v>

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<v Speaker 1>with scripture and you are German?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>True. Recently I listened to a Catholic admit to his understanding being</v>

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<v Speaker 1>imperfect and that it was okay because we are all limited and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>can make some adjustments after death.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Do you believe we can perfect, trim, and correct our understanding after</v>

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<v Speaker 1>death? So there are several questions in there.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And I think I'll answer the last two as it were first,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>just because they're easy and quick to answer.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>In the resurrection of the just, which is to say, when you</v>

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<v Speaker 1>spend eternity in paradise, you're going to have your misunderstandings all resolved.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>God is not going to leave you in error and imperfect knowledge</v>

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<v Speaker 1>for all of eternity.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you aren't correcting those gods correcting them for you.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So yes.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It is corrected in a sense after death, but not necessarily in</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the sense that he meant.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if he's referencing purgatory, which the Roman Catholics believe</v>

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<v Speaker 1>exists and Lutherans and others deny.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But at any rate, your views of these things will be perfected</v>

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<v Speaker 1>in eternity, so it's not really a concern.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's a concern for here and now, here in time.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And And</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the answer is yes and no.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And the reason the answer is yes and no is because unity</v>

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<v Speaker 1>among brothers is one of the highest goods.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's worth pointing out unity is one of the transcendentals, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We always talk about beauty, goodness, and truth being the core three.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But there's also being in unity.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And unity is good.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We should want to have unity of belief, of purpose, all of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>these things.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That is one of the highest things to which a race, a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>nation of people can aspire.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And certainly we should also desire that for the church, indeed across</v>

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<v Speaker 1>nations as well.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Not in the sense of mixing and destroying the nations, because that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>would be against God's will and God's design, that would be evil,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>but in the sense that we should have the same Christian religion</v>

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<v Speaker 1>here and in England, in Germany, in Russia, all places in the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>world should have unity of doctrine, dogma, etcetera You don't have to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>have unity of practice, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I've gone over that previously.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Will it happen?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The answer is no, it's not going to happen in this lifetime.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We can have greater unity than we have now, and I think</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that should be a goal.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If each nation had a national church and then we had these</v>

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<v Speaker 1>discussions between and among nations as if not peers, then near peers</v>

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<v Speaker 1>in many cases, that would be a good thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>National unity should be our paramount goal because within our own nation</v>

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<v Speaker 1>we should want to have one church, to which every member of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the nation belongs.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We all worship God as one.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That would be a great good thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That is a very difficult thing to achieve, particularly perhaps in a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>nation like America, where we are indeed fractured along a number of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>different lines.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Perhaps easier modulo removing all of the so-called immigrants.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>In certain parts of Europe where you have greater unity already in</v>

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<v Speaker 1>terms of ethnicity, etc.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So So</v>

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<v Speaker 1>yes, of course I'm aware of the scripture verse that says there</v>

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<v Speaker 1>must be differences among you brothers, right, so that the truth can</v>

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<v Speaker 1>come out.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And that's just how it's going to be.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There are always going to be debates, divisions, things like that among</v>

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<v Speaker 1>human beings in any pursuit.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That happens everywhere, not just in the churches.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It happens in the churches because people in the churches are indeed</v>

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<v Speaker 1>still human.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So how do we solve the problem as it were?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The goal should be to have the greatest level of unity that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>we can achieve, but then leave that space to have these debates</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and these arguments, but insofar as we can have them without letting</v>

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<v Speaker 1>them lead to schism or division, that would be best.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Remember, the goal of the Lutheran Reformers during the Reformation was not</v>

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<v Speaker 1>schism. The goal was not the creation of a new church or</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the separating off of parts of the church, however you want to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you know however you want to formulate what exactly happened, because Lutherans</v>

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<v Speaker 1>are of the view that Rome is in schism, that Rome departed</v>

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<v Speaker 1>from the universal church and that Lutherans continued in the faith.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's the Lutheran view.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The Roman view is the inverse.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But what the Reformers wanted was to have a council, to have</v>

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<v Speaker 1>a discussion within Christianity, among Christians, as brothers, to lead back to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>unity. That was always the goal.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That should always be the goal.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We should not look at what happened in the Reformation as an</v>

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<v Speaker 1>unadulterated good.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It was good in so far as it restored the right worship</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of God, right belief about justification, etc, etc.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It was not good in so far as yes, division was necessary.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Division is never good.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Division may be necessary in order that the good may triumph, but</v>

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<v Speaker 1>division itself is not a good.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So we do the best that we can, we try to unify</v>

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<v Speaker 1>as best we can, but you can't unify at the cost of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the truth.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's one of the foundational realities here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You must always go for truth above unity because truth is the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>greater pursuit.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not getting into the difference among the transcendentals, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because then we're talking about the attributes of God and using human</v>

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<v Speaker 1>terms to describe these things.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But with regard to life here and now, we should preference at</v>

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<v Speaker 1>least certain truths above unity.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So the gospel is more important than unity with regard to various</v>

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<v Speaker 1>church bodies.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But the overall answer is that we seek unity where we can</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and we try not to let certainly our divisions and things like</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that rise to the level of say the Thirty Years War.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That should never have happened.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That was unacceptable.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But we should certainly continue to have debates and discussions and things</v>

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<v Speaker 1>like that, not in the sense of online debates, those are almost</v>

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<v Speaker 1>never useful, but in the sense of formal academic debates of these</v>

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<v Speaker 1>things grounded in what we all agree is the truth, which is</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to say scripture.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Let me go ahead and copy a couple things from the chat</v>

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<v Speaker 1>here so that I do not miss them later.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I probably will not get to any more questions that come in</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the chat</v>

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<v Speaker 1>from here forward for this stream because I have a lot of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>questions already, but I will try to get to at least a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>handful</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Obviously I need an office manager or stream manager as it were,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>but this we'll have to do for now.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Question three</v>

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<v Speaker 1>is about well I'll just read it since it's nice and short.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>What did Jesus why did Jesus say what he said in Mark</v>

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<v Speaker 1>10, 17?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So obviously we'll go ahead and pull that up.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I have a feeling he probably means Mark ten seventeen and following,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>not just the verse itself.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Go ahead and pull up Logos.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>floating window.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Okay.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Yes. Okay.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know specifically what this questioner is asking, because I don't</v>

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<v Speaker 1>know if he's asking about Jesus saying no one is good except</v>

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<v Speaker 1>God alone or if he's talking about the difficulty of the rich</v>

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<v Speaker 1>man entering into paradise, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So I'll just go ahead and read the the first paragraph of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>this, so we all have the the text in the context.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And as he was setting out on his journey a man ran</v>

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<v Speaker 1>up and knelt before him and asked him, Good teacher, what must</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I do to inherit eternal life?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And Jesus said to him, Why do you call me good?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>No one is good except God alone.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You know the commandments.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not</v>

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<v Speaker 1>bear false witness, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And he said to him, Teacher, all these I have kept from</v>

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<v Speaker 1>my youth.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said to him, You</v>

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<v Speaker 1>lack one thing, go sell all that you have, and give to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven, and come follow</v>

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<v Speaker 1>me. Disheartened by this saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had</v>

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<v Speaker 1>great possessions.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And then of course there's Jesus' comment right after how difficult it</v>

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<v Speaker 1>will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>God, which may be the the question here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I'll just go ahead and answer I guess both sub-questions as it</v>

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<v Speaker 1>were. When Jesus says no one is good except God alone, he's</v>

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<v Speaker 1>testing the men.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>He does this all throughout the New Testament.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>He tests individuals by saying certain things and giving them the opportunity</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to respond correctly or incorrectly.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And so saying no one is good except God alone is an</v>

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<v Speaker 1>invitation to say, but you are God.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You are the Son of God, you are the Lamb, you are</v>

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<v Speaker 1>God. It's an invitation to make that confession.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And there are a number of times where that comes up in</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the New Testament.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But the question about how difficult it will be for the rich</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to enter the kingdom of God is because mammon is a very</v>

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<v Speaker 1>strong draw for human beings, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Luther has some particularly choice words on this in the large catechism</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and elsewhere, but</v>

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<v Speaker 1>wealth and money and material possessions, things like that, exert a very</v>

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<v Speaker 1>strong influence on most men.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And they tend to start to put their trust in those things</v>

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<v Speaker 1>when they have them.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And so men who have tens of millions of dollars or billions</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of dollars or these days hundreds of billions of dollars tend to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>tend to start putting their trust in their wealth and their own</v>

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<v Speaker 1>abilities and what that wealth can buy them.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And it's going to be very difficult for many of those men</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to look at all of that wealth and power they've accumulated and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>realize it all means nothing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And that they are actually still mortal, they're still human beings, they're</v>

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<v Speaker 1>still going to die, and they get to take absolutely none of</v>

00:23:43.840 --> 00:23:44.800
<v Speaker 1>it with them.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's a hard thing for many of the wealthy to do, and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that's what Christ is pointing out here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But of course, later on he also says, right, with man it</v>

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<v Speaker 1>is impossible, but not with God.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's impossible for any man to be saved.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>He's highlighting one of the particular besetting sins that is common to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>certain men and that makes it difficult for them to trust in</v>

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<v Speaker 1>God and recognize the only way they can be saved, which is</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Christ. Not their own works, nothing like that.</v>

00:24:11.040 --> 00:24:12.880
<v Speaker 1>He's giving an example.</v>

00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:15.760
<v Speaker 1>He could have given out other ones as well, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There are men in p positions of power who trust in their</v>

00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:22.640
<v Speaker 1>power. It happens to be that the wealthy, typically here you're going</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to have wealth and power being almost one-to-one.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There's a bit of a merchant class, but it's not the same</v>

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<v Speaker 1>as we have today where there can be a division between political</v>

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<v Speaker 1>power and actual wealth.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You can parlay one into the other sometimes, but there's a distinction</v>

00:24:36.240 --> 00:24:38.800
<v Speaker 1>we have today that's not as much back then.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If you were the ruler of a territory you probably also had</v>

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<v Speaker 1>money. So he's pointing out that it is impossible for men to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>be saved without God, because it's possible only with God.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>He's just using an example that would have been well known to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>everyone to whom he was speaking.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And there's also the additional layer of many of the Jews believed</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that you could be saved by works, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They thought that if you had this extreme wealth, you could pay</v>

00:25:06.160 --> 00:25:10.400
<v Speaker 1>for things like the construction of a synagogue, or donations to the</v>

00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:15.120
<v Speaker 1>temple, or renovation of this or that, sacrifices, all these things you</v>

00:25:15.120 --> 00:25:18.800
<v Speaker 1>could do with wealth that got you brownie points with God, right,</v>

00:25:18.800 --> 00:25:21.520
<v Speaker 1>that got you in good standing with God, they believed.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Christ is pointing out, you aren't saved by those things.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You can't be saved by those things.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It is impossible with man.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You can only be saved by God, you can only be saved</v>

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<v Speaker 1>by belief in Christ.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So he's just teaching here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And many times, yes, you do have to think about the things</v>

00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:40.080
<v Speaker 1>that he's teaching, it's not always just surface level.</v>

00:25:40.080 --> 00:25:41.120
<v Speaker 1>He is God after all.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>He's saying things that have multiple levels to them.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So depending on which one your question is, hopefully I answered the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>question since I don't believe it was probably just Mark seventeen.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Just the one verse.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Question four.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Okay. Is plastic surgery permissible for a Christian wife after childbirth to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>please her husband?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Diet and exercise already controlled and consistent.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Of course ask the Californian about</v>

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<v Speaker 1>plastic surgery, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But</v>

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<v Speaker 1>as a general rule, I don't think that all plastic surgery is</v>

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<v Speaker 1>morally impermissible.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think it's all wrong.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think it is something Christians cannot do in good conscience.</v>

00:26:37.840 --> 00:26:41.440
<v Speaker 1>With that said, I think there's a very large caveat.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I think it should be used as a corrective, not in the</v>

00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:50.880
<v Speaker 1>sense of trying to achieve some sort of unobtainable, it's worth noting,</v>

00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:53.200
<v Speaker 1>state of perfection in this life, right?</v>

00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:57.040
<v Speaker 1>We are all more or less slowly falling apart.</v>

00:26:57.040 --> 00:26:57.840
<v Speaker 1>That's what aging is.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Aging is your body falling apart, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You start to get bags under your eyes, your skin starts to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>not look the same as it did when you were much younger,</v>

00:27:05.360 --> 00:27:06.320
<v Speaker 1>etc. etc.</v>

00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:09.440
<v Speaker 1>You your joints make weird noises when you stand up.</v>

00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:12.720
<v Speaker 1>You are going to fall apart as you age.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>More or less.</v>

00:27:13.520 --> 00:27:16.640
<v Speaker 1>It depends on your genetics and your fitness level and your activity</v>

00:27:16.720 --> 00:27:17.760
<v Speaker 1>and all these things.</v>

00:27:17.760 --> 00:27:20.720
<v Speaker 1>But plastic surgery is not a cure all.</v>

00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:22.400
<v Speaker 1>Are there things that it does very well?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Sh certainly.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Reconstructive surgery, if you suffer some particular injury, it can help you</v>

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<v Speaker 1>ri get restored to a certain degree from that.</v>

00:27:31.520 --> 00:27:35.520
<v Speaker 1>If you have, say, burns, it can sometimes fix that with skin</v>

00:27:35.520 --> 00:27:37.200
<v Speaker 1>grafts and things like that.</v>

00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:40.080
<v Speaker 1>If you have cancer that is removed, say you have a chunk</v>

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<v Speaker 1>for your face removed, plastic surgery can repair that to a certain</v>

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<v Speaker 1>degree. I don't think those are bad things.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's using the intelligence, the abilities, the skills that God</v>

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<v Speaker 1>has given us to attempt to ameliorate some of the problems caused</v>

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<v Speaker 1>by the fall.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think that's bad.</v>

00:27:57.280 --> 00:28:01.840
<v Speaker 1>It's sort of the physical equivalent of gardening, right?</v>

00:28:01.840 --> 00:28:02.640
<v Speaker 1>What is gardening?</v>

00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:04.880
<v Speaker 1>Gardening is reversing some of the effects of the fall.</v>

00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:07.360
<v Speaker 1>It's bringing order to disorder.</v>

00:28:07.360 --> 00:28:09.680
<v Speaker 1>You're doing the same thing with plastic surgery.</v>

00:28:09.680 --> 00:28:12.400
<v Speaker 1>As long as you don't go overboard, right?</v>

00:28:12.800 --> 00:28:17.120
<v Speaker 1>Don't make it your personality, don't make it a hobby, don't start</v>

00:28:17.120 --> 00:28:18.400
<v Speaker 1>to look like some people.</v>

00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:21.120
<v Speaker 1>We can all think of examples, start to look.</v>

00:28:21.120 --> 00:28:24.720
<v Speaker 1>And incidentally, California's known for plastic surgery, but the plastic surgery out</v>

00:28:24.720 --> 00:28:28.960
<v Speaker 1>there is generally better than what you see on TV.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But I think that it's not impermissible.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Should it be</v>

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<v Speaker 1>like a big thing, a super important part of your marriage, like</v>

00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:40.000
<v Speaker 1>you're demanding your wife go and get this or that fixed in</v>

00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:42.800
<v Speaker 1>order to Don't start down that road.</v>

00:28:42.800 --> 00:28:45.040
<v Speaker 1>I think it leads to a bad place.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But if she wants to get a little lift or a tuck</v>

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<v Speaker 1>here or there, I don't think it's a bad thing.</v>

00:28:50.880 --> 00:28:55.040
<v Speaker 1>And it is also very helpful for women with regard to their</v>

00:28:55.040 --> 00:28:57.200
<v Speaker 1>ego and the And their self-image, right?</v>

00:28:57.200 --> 00:28:58.640
<v Speaker 1>Some women more than others.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You just, as a husband, be careful there.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because that can become an obsession and a worse problem for her</v>

00:29:05.600 --> 00:29:08.960
<v Speaker 1>than if she had just not had anything done, right?</v>

00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:11.360
<v Speaker 1>So is it morally impermissible?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>No. Is it a matter of wisdom?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Absolutely yes.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So generally speaking, corrective procedures are going to be fine.</v>

00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:23.200
<v Speaker 1>Do your homework, make sure that someone who knows what he's doing,</v>

00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:25.600
<v Speaker 1>and don't go overboard, right?</v>

00:29:26.560 --> 00:29:36.080
<v Speaker 1>But yes, plastic surgery is not morally impermissible per se.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Guess a tangentially related question, but</v>

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<v Speaker 1>make a note for myself here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Question five</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You have talked at length on Stone Choir and X about the</v>

00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:55.280
<v Speaker 1>big lie of the Holocaust.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Can you please address Josef Mengela and the experiments he performed on</v>

00:30:00.080 --> 00:30:05.040
<v Speaker 1>people? The answer to this is both yes and no, and the</v>

00:30:05.040 --> 00:30:09.200
<v Speaker 1>reason that it's yes and no is because the records from the</v>

00:30:09.200 --> 00:30:14.240
<v Speaker 1>so-called doctors trials from Nuremberg are in fact still sealed.</v>

00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:16.560
<v Speaker 1>They will be sealed for I'm not even certain how long it</v>

00:30:16.560 --> 00:30:19.360
<v Speaker 1>is, but it's still quite some time.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>However, that being said, what we do have of his records and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>what he maintained until the day he died And it is worth</v>

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<v Speaker 1>noting that he never renounced his Christian faith.</v>

00:30:31.280 --> 00:30:34.400
<v Speaker 1>As far as we know, Joseph Mengela was a Christian his whole</v>

00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:38.880
<v Speaker 1>life. may not have attended services as often as we would necessarily</v>

00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:41.920
<v Speaker 1>prefer for a Christian, But he was also in hiding most of</v>

00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.280
<v Speaker 1>his life trying not to get kidnapped and murdered by Israel, so</v>

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<v Speaker 1>called. So with a grain of salt, as it were.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>What we know from the information that we still have available that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>isn't, you know, classified, hidden away, whatever it happens to be.</v>

00:30:58.080 --> 00:31:03.280
<v Speaker 1>And these days, if something's unclassified, how trustworthy is it post AI?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's a problem too.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But what we have showed that he was very much interested in</v>

00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:12.000
<v Speaker 1>anthropology. He was interested in twins for psychology and anthropology and other</v>

00:31:12.080 --> 00:31:13.680
<v Speaker 1>reasons related to that.</v>

00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:19.680
<v Speaker 1>We don't actually have proof that he conducted invasive surgical procedures.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That is on the same level as the death roller coaster, the</v>

00:31:24.720 --> 00:31:29.760
<v Speaker 1>electrified floor, the bear and eagle cage, and all that stuff.</v>

00:31:29.760 --> 00:31:34.880
<v Speaker 1>So we have wild accusations that are totally unbelievable and we have</v>

00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:40.160
<v Speaker 1>actual evidence showing that basically he was interested in anthropology.</v>

00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:43.040
<v Speaker 1>And again, he denied until the day he died that he did</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the things he's accused of doing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So I don't think we have warrant to believe that the accusations</v>

00:31:49.520 --> 00:31:50.560
<v Speaker 1>are legitimate.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You can also go to Carl Rodel on X and search for</v>

00:31:54.560 --> 00:31:56.960
<v Speaker 1>Mangla and many resources will come up.</v>

00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:00.000
<v Speaker 1>There's a lot of documentation there if you're interested in reading about</v>

00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:05.120
<v Speaker 1>this specific topic, but I think generally speaking, we shouldn't believe it,</v>

00:32:05.120 --> 00:32:07.600
<v Speaker 1>because it comes from the same people again who were saying there</v>

00:32:07.600 --> 00:32:11.280
<v Speaker 1>was a death roller coaster and that the Germans built a fake</v>

00:32:11.280 --> 00:32:14.640
<v Speaker 1>village and then used a nuclear weapon to kill people in the</v>

00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:16.320
<v Speaker 1>fake village they built.</v>

00:32:16.560 --> 00:32:19.200
<v Speaker 1>Just wild, unbelievable nonsense.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I am sensing a theme in some of these questions.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Question six is about the Hitler youth.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Let me pull up the actual question.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Questions here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I read online, first red flag, that's fair, that the Hitler youth</v>

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<v Speaker 1>met on Sunday to decouple children from the church.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Can you please address what actually happened or if there is a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>kernel of truth to this?</v>

00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:51.440
<v Speaker 1>So this is one of those examples where we actually have solid</v>

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<v Speaker 1>evidence of exactly what their practices were, because the documents still exist.</v>

00:32:56.640 --> 00:32:59.920
<v Speaker 1>And their meetings were on Wednesday and Saturday.</v>

00:32:59.920 --> 00:33:00.240
<v Speaker 1>So</v>

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<v Speaker 1>this is just false.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They had what they call I can't remember the term they use</v>

00:33:05.600 --> 00:33:09.440
<v Speaker 1>now, but they had idl ideological training on Wednesday where they studied</v>

00:33:09.600 --> 00:33:13.680
<v Speaker 1>national socialism and you know all the various stuff from the party</v>

00:33:13.840 --> 00:33:16.640
<v Speaker 1>about being a good member of the nation, things like that.</v>

00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:20.000
<v Speaker 1>And then on Saturday they had all the stuff of which you've</v>

00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:21.280
<v Speaker 1>seen all the videos, right?</v>

00:33:21.280 --> 00:33:24.880
<v Speaker 1>The various sports training and all of that stuff was conducted on</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Saturdays. In fact, they specifically avoided having stuff on Sundays in order</v>

00:33:30.320 --> 00:33:33.840
<v Speaker 1>not to conflict with the church, and not to cause that conflict</v>

00:33:33.840 --> 00:33:39.280
<v Speaker 1>with people who attended church services, given that overwhelmingly, massively overwhelmingly, Germans</v>

00:33:39.280 --> 00:33:40.400
<v Speaker 1>were Christian.</v>

00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:45.200
<v Speaker 1>They did occasionally have large events and things like that on Sundays,</v>

00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:49.680
<v Speaker 1>like hikes or rallies or that, but those would have been after</v>

00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:51.920
<v Speaker 1>the church services, which were in the morning.</v>

00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:53.040
<v Speaker 1>So it didn't conflict.</v>

00:33:53.040 --> 00:33:55.600
<v Speaker 1>Like these days, right, you can go for a hike after your</v>

00:33:55.600 --> 00:33:56.240
<v Speaker 1>church service.</v>

00:33:56.240 --> 00:33:58.880
<v Speaker 1>That doesn't stop you from going to church, it just means you</v>

00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:01.200
<v Speaker 1>go later in the day, you go in the afternoon.</v>

00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:05.120
<v Speaker 1>So no, the accusation is just completely groundless because it was Wednesday</v>

00:34:05.120 --> 00:34:10.400
<v Speaker 1>and Saturday with occasional special events on Sunday, which is perfectly permissible.</v>

00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:11.920
<v Speaker 1>Still, we do that today.</v>

00:34:11.920 --> 00:34:15.840
<v Speaker 1>I don't think it's necessarily wrong to have, say, a rally on</v>

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<v Speaker 1>a Sunday after the church services have concluded.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Question</v>

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<v Speaker 1>seven. This is the one I mentioned earlier that I thought I</v>

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<v Speaker 1>would probably get to, and indeed we will.</v>

00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:43.200
<v Speaker 1>When does man's curiosity, Proverbs 25, 2, go beyond its limits and</v>

00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:46.400
<v Speaker 1>become the practice of satanic arts?</v>

00:34:46.720 --> 00:34:50.720
<v Speaker 1>Throughout history, men of great intellect have often flirted with esoteric topics.</v>

00:34:50.720 --> 00:34:53.920
<v Speaker 1>Martin Chemnitz and astrology comes to mind.</v>

00:34:53.920 --> 00:34:56.960
<v Speaker 1>We live in a world in which a significant amount of modern</v>

00:34:56.960 --> 00:34:59.760
<v Speaker 1>technology came about with the help of men who engaged in open</v>

00:34:59.760 --> 00:35:04.240
<v Speaker 1>witchcraft, or other forms of degeneracy, that is very true, for example,</v>

00:35:04.240 --> 00:35:08.000
<v Speaker 1>L. Ron Hubbard and Alan Turing, let alone the number of Jews</v>

00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:12.640
<v Speaker 1>involved in the si at least these sciences, is it wrongful to</v>

00:35:12.640 --> 00:35:15.360
<v Speaker 1>keep some knowledge away from the majority of men?</v>

00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:20.880
<v Speaker 1>And so the ultimate question there, as it were, is very easy</v>

00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:23.280
<v Speaker 1>to answer, and the answer is no.</v>

00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:27.440
<v Speaker 1>Information should be tailored to the men who can handle it.</v>

00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:30.080
<v Speaker 1>Because some men don't need to know certain things, right?</v>

00:35:30.640 --> 00:35:33.440
<v Speaker 1>That's just the the reality of it.</v>

00:35:33.440 --> 00:35:36.240
<v Speaker 1>As I mentioned earlier, there are going to be men who are</v>

00:35:36.240 --> 00:35:41.600
<v Speaker 1>tempted by very various things in various ways and to various degrees.</v>

00:35:41.600 --> 00:35:45.280
<v Speaker 1>There are men who can look at some of this esoteric stuff</v>

00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:47.120
<v Speaker 1>and never be tempted by it.</v>

00:35:47.120 --> 00:35:50.000
<v Speaker 1>And there are men who, if they engage in it at all,</v>

00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:52.320
<v Speaker 1>will be completely destroyed by it.</v>

00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:52.960
<v Speaker 1>So So</v>

00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:57.920
<v Speaker 1>there's nothing wrong with gatekeeping, as it were, for this kind of</v>

00:35:57.920 --> 00:36:02.880
<v Speaker 1>knowledge. Now, should anyone delve too deeply into something like demonology or</v>

00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:03.440
<v Speaker 1>something like that?</v>

00:36:03.440 --> 00:36:07.760
<v Speaker 1>And the answer is no for that, because one, it's not good</v>

00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:12.400
<v Speaker 1>knowledge to possess, and two, it's not knowledge that's actually accessible to</v>

00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:16.000
<v Speaker 1>human beings, because something like that would have to be revealed.</v>

00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:19.040
<v Speaker 1>God has not revealed it, and so the men who start delving</v>

00:36:19.040 --> 00:36:22.000
<v Speaker 1>into that stuff start trying to ask demons questions and</v>

00:36:23.280 --> 00:36:27.760
<v Speaker 1>you probably shouldn't trust the answers given by a literal demon, right?</v>

00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:32.240
<v Speaker 1>This is a problem that runs pops up all the time online</v>

00:36:32.720 --> 00:36:37.520
<v Speaker 1>and other places, where you have supposed exorcists who have commanded demons</v>

00:36:37.520 --> 00:36:40.560
<v Speaker 1>to give answers and then relied on the accuracy of the answer</v>

00:36:40.560 --> 00:36:42.640
<v Speaker 1>from a demonic entity.</v>

00:36:42.640 --> 00:36:45.120
<v Speaker 1>Probably not a good plan.</v>

00:36:45.120 --> 00:36:47.120
<v Speaker 1>What is Satan called in scripture?</v>

00:36:47.120 --> 00:36:48.480
<v Speaker 1>He's the father of lies.</v>

00:36:48.480 --> 00:36:51.520
<v Speaker 1>I have a feeling his children are going to lie as well.</v>

00:36:51.520 --> 00:36:54.080
<v Speaker 1>So don't delve into that stuff.</v>

00:36:54.080 --> 00:36:56.320
<v Speaker 1>No one should delve into that stuff ever.</v>

00:36:56.320 --> 00:37:00.320
<v Speaker 1>As far as astrology and things like that are concerned, I think</v>

00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:04.800
<v Speaker 1>a lot of the engagement is ultimately harmless stupid and harmless.</v>

00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:08.000
<v Speaker 1>If it becomes an obsession and you start organizing your life around</v>

00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:11.040
<v Speaker 1>it, okay, back off a little bit, stop doing that.</v>

00:37:11.040 --> 00:37:14.720
<v Speaker 1>But this is particularly a vice of women more so than men,</v>

00:37:14.720 --> 00:37:17.360
<v Speaker 1>although historically there were men who were, like you mentioned, Martin Chemnons</v>

00:37:17.520 --> 00:37:18.720
<v Speaker 1>who were interested in it.</v>

00:37:18.720 --> 00:37:20.240
<v Speaker 1>It's not wrong.</v>

00:37:20.240 --> 00:37:22.240
<v Speaker 1>There's not no truth there, right?</v>

00:37:22.240 --> 00:37:26.160
<v Speaker 1>To use a double negative, but necessary in this case Case.</v>

00:37:26.160 --> 00:37:30.400
<v Speaker 1>How did the wise men know where and when the Christ was</v>

00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:32.720
<v Speaker 1>born? That was astrology.</v>

00:37:32.720 --> 00:37:39.200
<v Speaker 1>So God says explicitly in Scripture, the stars, the heavenly bodies were</v>

00:37:39.200 --> 00:37:41.600
<v Speaker 1>made for signs.</v>

00:37:41.600 --> 00:37:44.560
<v Speaker 1>And we've lost that, right?</v>

00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:48.160
<v Speaker 1>Our ancestors knew something we don't know.</v>

00:37:48.160 --> 00:37:50.160
<v Speaker 1>Can we regain that knowledge?</v>

00:37:50.160 --> 00:37:50.880
<v Speaker 1>I don't know.</v>

00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:53.280
<v Speaker 1>I don't think we can- I think we probably cannot.</v>

00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:56.320
<v Speaker 1>I think most likely it's gone for good.</v>

00:37:56.320 --> 00:38:01.120
<v Speaker 1>So there was something there, created by God, knowable by man, known</v>

00:38:01.120 --> 00:38:04.000
<v Speaker 1>to the ancients, lost to us.</v>

00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:06.480
<v Speaker 1>So you get men who try to investigate these things to try</v>

00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:10.240
<v Speaker 1>to bring it back, to try to reclaim that knowledge, rediscover it.</v>

00:38:10.240 --> 00:38:14.080
<v Speaker 1>Like you said, many intelligent men have tried, they've all utterly failed.</v>

00:38:14.080 --> 00:38:16.160
<v Speaker 1>So I think probably just stop.</v>

00:38:16.160 --> 00:38:20.240
<v Speaker 1>I don't think we're going to gain anything from that particular field.</v>

00:38:20.240 --> 00:38:20.560
<v Speaker 1>But</v>

00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:25.040
<v Speaker 1>generally speaking, esoteric is going to depend on what is meant by</v>

00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:28.400
<v Speaker 1>it. If it's just esoteric in the sense of known by few</v>

00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:32.720
<v Speaker 1>men or knowable to few men, if you're given the gifts necessary</v>

00:38:32.720 --> 00:38:35.840
<v Speaker 1>to pursue it, I don't think necessarily it's going to harm you.</v>

00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:38.400
<v Speaker 1>Although, make that call for yourself, right?</v>

00:38:38.400 --> 00:38:41.040
<v Speaker 1>This partly depends on your spiritual disposition.</v>

00:38:41.040 --> 00:38:44.000
<v Speaker 1>Do you have a strong enough faith that you're not going to</v>

00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:45.200
<v Speaker 1>be endangered by this?</v>

00:38:45.200 --> 00:38:47.840
<v Speaker 1>Because some men will be, some men won't be.</v>

00:38:47.840 --> 00:38:51.280
<v Speaker 1>If you mean esoteric in the sense of the occult, stay away</v>

00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:52.240
<v Speaker 1>from it.</v>

00:38:52.240 --> 00:38:53.840
<v Speaker 1>It's only going to harm you.</v>

00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:57.440
<v Speaker 1>You don't gain anything by, you know, trying to talk to the</v>

00:38:57.440 --> 00:38:58.480
<v Speaker 1>machine elves.</v>

00:38:58.480 --> 00:38:59.840
<v Speaker 1>Whatever it happens to be.</v>

00:38:59.840 --> 00:39:00.960
<v Speaker 1>Don't do that.</v>

00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:02.720
<v Speaker 1>It will always harm you.</v>

00:39:02.720 --> 00:39:05.760
<v Speaker 1>Do not play with the demonic, do not play with the occult.</v>

00:39:06.240 --> 00:39:11.120
<v Speaker 1>So it depends on what's meant by esoteric, but yes, the ultimate</v>

00:39:11.120 --> 00:39:14.240
<v Speaker 1>answer is that some knowledge should be kept away from some men,</v>

00:39:14.240 --> 00:39:16.320
<v Speaker 1>and they shouldn't want to pursue it.</v>

00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:21.920
<v Speaker 1>You know, if you have some occupation in life that doesn't call</v>

00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:25.040
<v Speaker 1>for ever knowing any of this stuff, consider yourself blessed that you</v>

00:39:25.040 --> 00:39:26.320
<v Speaker 1>don't have to deal with it.</v>

00:39:26.320 --> 00:39:30.240
<v Speaker 1>There's I've mentioned this many times before, there is some knowledge you</v>

00:39:30.240 --> 00:39:31.680
<v Speaker 1>don't want to have.</v>

00:39:31.680 --> 00:39:35.200
<v Speaker 1>And if you gain it, you are never going to get rid</v>

00:39:35.200 --> 00:39:37.760
<v Speaker 1>of it until you die.</v>

00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:39.440
<v Speaker 1>Until the resurrection of the just.</v>

00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:42.640
<v Speaker 1>That's when Because this kind of stuff passes away with this creation,</v>

00:39:42.640 --> 00:39:45.840
<v Speaker 1>with this earth You are not going to have to know anything</v>

00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:47.600
<v Speaker 1>about demonology in paradise.</v>

00:39:47.600 --> 00:39:50.960
<v Speaker 1>And so is there something useful in some of these fields for</v>

00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:52.080
<v Speaker 1>men to know here and now?</v>

00:39:52.080 --> 00:39:56.880
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely. I've mentioned one of the most obvious examples many times before.</v>

00:39:56.880 --> 00:40:00.960
<v Speaker 1>There are men who deal with particularly heinous crimes.</v>

00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:05.120
<v Speaker 1>They have to know things about those fields, and about those crimes</v>

00:40:05.360 --> 00:40:07.040
<v Speaker 1>no man should want to know.</v>

00:40:07.040 --> 00:40:08.800
<v Speaker 1>And those men don't want to know.</v>

00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:10.880
<v Speaker 1>But they do it because someone has to do it.</v>

00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:13.520
<v Speaker 1>It's the same case with some of these fields.</v>

00:40:13.520 --> 00:40:16.640
<v Speaker 1>If you're not one of those men, why would you want that</v>

00:40:16.640 --> 00:40:20.960
<v Speaker 1>knowledge? Why would you willingly take on that burden if it's not</v>

00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:22.560
<v Speaker 1>going to benefit you or anyone else?</v>

00:40:22.560 --> 00:40:23.600
<v Speaker 1>It's only going to harm you</v>

00:40:24.560 --> 00:40:27.200
<v Speaker 1>Same thing about people who get obsessed with serial killers.</v>

00:40:27.200 --> 00:40:29.440
<v Speaker 1>Probably find a better hobby.</v>

00:40:29.520 --> 00:40:34.480
<v Speaker 1>Take a knitting, crocheting, anything else.</v>

00:40:34.720 --> 00:40:40.240
<v Speaker 1>See question eight.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>As a political starting point to begin restoring Christendom, I believe we</v>

00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:48.480
<v Speaker 1>should focus on the full reimplementation and liberal application of the death</v>

00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:53.280
<v Speaker 1>penalty. in accordance with God's orders in Genesis nine, five through six.</v>

00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:57.200
<v Speaker 1>In theory it should assist against the demographic replacement of Europeans and</v>

00:40:57.200 --> 00:40:59.040
<v Speaker 1>dissuade criminality.</v>

00:40:59.040 --> 00:41:02.480
<v Speaker 1>Do you also see this as most important, or would you start</v>

00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:03.200
<v Speaker 1>somewhere else?</v>

00:41:03.200 --> 00:41:07.840
<v Speaker 1>So I don't know that I'd classify it as most important, but</v>

00:41:08.080 --> 00:41:11.120
<v Speaker 1>as I've said many times before, it is necessary because it is</v>

00:41:11.120 --> 00:41:13.600
<v Speaker 1>something that God commands us, and it is something that is part</v>

00:41:13.600 --> 00:41:15.680
<v Speaker 1>of the moral law, and given that it's part of the moral</v>

00:41:16.160 --> 00:41:17.840
<v Speaker 1>law, it's unchanging.</v>

00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:23.280
<v Speaker 1>And so we do not have the option to ignore what God</v>

00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:26.400
<v Speaker 1>has commanded that we absolutely must do.</v>

00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:30.000
<v Speaker 1>And one of those things is very clearly that he who sheds</v>

00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:32.720
<v Speaker 1>the blood of man by man shall his blood be shed, for</v>

00:41:32.720 --> 00:41:35.360
<v Speaker 1>God created man in his image.</v>

00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:36.800
<v Speaker 1>Genesis nine six.</v>

00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:39.920
<v Speaker 1>It is required of us to apply the death penalty at least</v>

00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:42.560
<v Speaker 1>in cases of murder.</v>

00:41:42.560 --> 00:41:44.560
<v Speaker 1>Abortion is murder, incidentally.</v>

00:41:44.560 --> 00:41:45.920
<v Speaker 1>I wrote an article about that.</v>

00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:48.560
<v Speaker 1>It's on my site for those who have not read that one.</v>

00:41:48.560 --> 00:41:53.920
<v Speaker 1>So is it the most important thing No, with regard to trying</v>

00:41:53.920 --> 00:41:55.440
<v Speaker 1>to restore Christendom, right?</v>

00:41:55.440 --> 00:41:57.520
<v Speaker 1>Is it an important part of the puzzle?</v>

00:41:57.520 --> 00:42:00.640
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely. It's one of the reasons that we had such a low</v>

00:42:00.640 --> 00:42:05.040
<v Speaker 1>crime rate historically and why white populations in the West still do.</v>

00:42:05.040 --> 00:42:08.800
<v Speaker 1>We executed one to two percent of every generation for hundreds of</v>

00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:12.720
<v Speaker 1>years. We got rid of all the criminals and the genes that</v>

00:42:12.720 --> 00:42:13.840
<v Speaker 1>impact criminality.</v>

00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:17.360
<v Speaker 1>I'm not going to say genes control criminality, but they do impact</v>

00:42:17.360 --> 00:42:19.200
<v Speaker 1>it. And we know this from many studies, right?</v>

00:42:19.200 --> 00:42:22.640
<v Speaker 1>The so called warrior gene which should probably be called the thief</v>

00:42:22.640 --> 00:42:25.200
<v Speaker 1>gene instead or the robber gene or something, but</v>

00:42:26.480 --> 00:42:28.320
<v Speaker 1>we know there's a feedback there, right?</v>

00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:29.360
<v Speaker 1>There's a relationship.</v>

00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:30.400
<v Speaker 1>Because we're not Gnostics.</v>

00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:31.840
<v Speaker 1>We don't deny the reality of the flesh.</v>

00:42:31.840 --> 00:42:32.320
<v Speaker 1>We don't deny</v>

00:42:33.200 --> 00:42:37.760
<v Speaker 1>that we are human beings in physical bodies and that genetics is</v>

00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:39.920
<v Speaker 1>what produces that physical body.</v>

00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:44.400
<v Speaker 1>So yes, it's an important part of the puzzle, but not necessarily</v>

00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:46.160
<v Speaker 1>the most important part.</v>

00:42:46.160 --> 00:42:53.120
<v Speaker 1>But again, required by God, so not optional.</v>

00:42:53.120 --> 00:42:57.920
<v Speaker 1>Guess we're going for related questions here.</v>

00:42:57.920 --> 00:42:59.760
<v Speaker 1>Question nine</v>

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<v Speaker 1>How do you refute the CI heresy that blacks are not people?</v>

00:43:08.720 --> 00:43:12.320
<v Speaker 1>So for those who don't know, CI is Christian identity and really</v>

00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:15.360
<v Speaker 1>both of those should be in quotes because it's neither Christian, because</v>

00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:20.640
<v Speaker 1>it denies core beliefs, and nor is it identitarian because it denies</v>

00:43:20.640 --> 00:43:23.120
<v Speaker 1>that we are in fact sons of Japheth.</v>

00:43:23.120 --> 00:43:29.760
<v Speaker 1>So So, aside from the contradiction in terms, this is an issue</v>

00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:30.400
<v Speaker 1>that I</v>

00:43:31.360 --> 00:43:35.040
<v Speaker 1>have been meaning to write an article about for a while, and</v>

00:43:35.040 --> 00:43:38.320
<v Speaker 1>I really should invest the time and get that done.</v>

00:43:38.560 --> 00:43:41.200
<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying that I will necessarily in the near future, but</v>

00:43:41.200 --> 00:43:43.040
<v Speaker 1>I will try.</v>

00:43:43.040 --> 00:43:48.480
<v Speaker 1>The issue is that you can come at the explanation for the</v>

00:43:48.480 --> 00:43:54.400
<v Speaker 1>state of the various races of men in two ways, right?</v>

00:43:54.720 --> 00:44:00.240
<v Speaker 1>One way is the Christian way, one way is the Darwinian way,</v>

00:44:00.240 --> 00:44:01.600
<v Speaker 1>and we'll call it Darwinian.</v>

00:44:01.600 --> 00:44:04.560
<v Speaker 1>I recognize that yes, the modern stuff is different.</v>

00:44:04.560 --> 00:44:07.440
<v Speaker 1>I've gone over that before, particularly in the Stone Choir episode.</v>

00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:10.320
<v Speaker 1>Neither here nor there for the answer.</v>

00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:13.440
<v Speaker 1>The two di differences would basically be whether you're coming at it</v>

00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:15.200
<v Speaker 1>from above or below, right?</v>

00:44:15.680 --> 00:44:17.200
<v Speaker 1>We'll start with Darwin.</v>

00:44:17.200 --> 00:44:23.040
<v Speaker 1>The Darwinian says that we have come from Pondskum, from sludge, up.</v>

00:44:23.040 --> 00:44:28.640
<v Speaker 1>And so their argument is that whites, that Western Europeans in particular,</v>

00:44:28.640 --> 00:44:35.760
<v Speaker 1>have achieved such a level of ability genetically, civilizationally, all of these</v>

00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:42.160
<v Speaker 1>things, by the slow increase, incrementally, ratcheting over time over many many</v>

00:44:42.240 --> 00:44:46.560
<v Speaker 1>many many many generations right ignoring the problems of the math and</v>

00:44:46.560 --> 00:44:47.600
<v Speaker 1>all that for now.</v>

00:44:47.600 --> 00:44:49.600
<v Speaker 1>Their argument is bottom-up.</v>

00:44:49.600 --> 00:44:53.760
<v Speaker 1>The actual belief, the truth, is the Christian answer, which is which</v>

00:44:54.080 --> 00:44:56.400
<v Speaker 1>is not as optimistic.</v>

00:44:56.400 --> 00:45:00.640
<v Speaker 1>And this is a major problem for the non Christians on the</v>

00:45:00.640 --> 00:45:04.240
<v Speaker 1>right, because what they're arguing ultimately undermines what has to be done</v>

00:45:04.320 --> 00:45:05.600
<v Speaker 1>and where we need to go.</v>

00:45:05.600 --> 00:45:09.200
<v Speaker 1>But the Christian argument is that it's top down, in the sense</v>

00:45:09.200 --> 00:45:11.040
<v Speaker 1>of there was a pinnacle.</v>

00:45:11.040 --> 00:45:12.240
<v Speaker 1>That was Adam.</v>

00:45:12.240 --> 00:45:15.280
<v Speaker 1>Adam was the height of what humanity could be.</v>

00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:17.520
<v Speaker 1>He is the father of all of us, he had the greatest</v>

00:45:17.520 --> 00:45:20.560
<v Speaker 1>potential. We are his degenerate children.</v>

00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:23.280
<v Speaker 1>We are less capable than our ancestors.</v>

00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:25.040
<v Speaker 1>We have fallen further.</v>

00:45:25.040 --> 00:45:26.960
<v Speaker 1>We have more defects.</v>

00:45:26.960 --> 00:45:28.880
<v Speaker 1>We have less capability.</v>

00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:32.160
<v Speaker 1>We are lesser than those who came before us.</v>

00:45:32.160 --> 00:45:33.120
<v Speaker 1>We're not better than those.</v>

00:45:33.760 --> 00:45:38.880
<v Speaker 1>We're not going to exceed them over time by you know careful</v>

00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:41.040
<v Speaker 1>eugenics or whatever it happens to be.</v>

00:45:41.040 --> 00:45:42.720
<v Speaker 1>Should we practice that sort of stuff?</v>

00:45:42.720 --> 00:45:46.240
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely. But for the sake of preserving what we still have, I</v>

00:45:46.240 --> 00:45:49.920
<v Speaker 1>don't think that we're going to get back to what our ancestors</v>

00:45:49.920 --> 00:45:53.840
<v Speaker 1>were. And I'm talking about, you know, the the far back patriarchs,</v>

00:45:53.840 --> 00:45:56.240
<v Speaker 1>not European ancestors from eight hundred years ago.</v>

00:45:56.240 --> 00:45:58.640
<v Speaker 1>I think we're basically equivalent to them.</v>

00:45:58.640 --> 00:46:01.360
<v Speaker 1>I think probably go back four thousand years, we're probably pretty close</v>

00:46:01.360 --> 00:46:05.120
<v Speaker 1>still. You can see the problem here, right?</v>

00:46:05.120 --> 00:46:09.600
<v Speaker 1>Because if the issue is that you lose things over time through</v>

00:46:09.600 --> 00:46:15.200
<v Speaker 1>bad policy, which basically usually just means bad marriages and then dysgenic</v>

00:46:15.200 --> 00:46:16.800
<v Speaker 1>polich policies that</v>

00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:20.320
<v Speaker 1>I'm not going to get into that too deeply right now.</v>

00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:23.840
<v Speaker 1>But those policies lead to the decrease in the fitness of the</v>

00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:24.960
<v Speaker 1>population over time, right?</v>

00:46:24.960 --> 00:46:27.440
<v Speaker 1>That's why you see all the problems in places like India and</v>

00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:32.160
<v Speaker 1>Africa, because they have degenerated from what their ancestors were.</v>

00:46:32.160 --> 00:46:35.120
<v Speaker 1>We have degenerated less as Europeans.</v>

00:46:35.120 --> 00:46:39.440
<v Speaker 1>And so we want to preserve that because once you lose it,</v>

00:46:39.440 --> 00:46:42.080
<v Speaker 1>you cannot get it back.</v>

00:46:42.080 --> 00:46:45.520
<v Speaker 1>The only potential that people have these days of hoping you can</v>

00:46:45.520 --> 00:46:49.120
<v Speaker 1>get that kind of stuff back is with gene editing, right?</v>

00:46:49.120 --> 00:46:54.480
<v Speaker 1>With just completely rewriting the human genome But that's a clean break,</v>

00:46:54.480 --> 00:46:55.120
<v Speaker 1>as it were.</v>

00:46:55.120 --> 00:46:59.440
<v Speaker 1>You're not if you completely rewrite the genome of your child, it's</v>

00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:01.120
<v Speaker 1>no longer your child.</v>

00:47:01.120 --> 00:47:05.760
<v Speaker 1>It's an organism that you created in a sense by manipulation.</v>

00:47:05.760 --> 00:47:07.600
<v Speaker 1>It's a fundamentally different thing.</v>

00:47:07.600 --> 00:47:11.280
<v Speaker 1>You've broken the chain finally and fully.</v>

00:47:11.280 --> 00:47:14.720
<v Speaker 1>And so if you were to take random</v>

00:47:15.600 --> 00:47:17.280
<v Speaker 1>individuals from Africa or India</v>

00:47:18.240 --> 00:47:22.240
<v Speaker 1>and then take a zygote right and fully edit the genome, remove</v>

00:47:22.240 --> 00:47:23.680
<v Speaker 1>all this is in theory, right?</v>

00:47:23.680 --> 00:47:25.920
<v Speaker 1>Say you have the knowledge to do this.</v>

00:47:25.920 --> 00:47:30.000
<v Speaker 1>Remove all of the genetic problems, all of the issues, give them</v>

00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:32.640
<v Speaker 1>an IQ of two hundred and fifty, whatever it happens to be,</v>

00:47:32.640 --> 00:47:34.240
<v Speaker 1>make the perfect human being.</v>

00:47:34.240 --> 00:47:36.160
<v Speaker 1>Is that a child of the parents?</v>

00:47:36.160 --> 00:47:37.680
<v Speaker 1>The answer is no.</v>

00:47:37.680 --> 00:47:43.040
<v Speaker 1>You have not restored anything, you've created something new to a certain</v>

00:47:43.040 --> 00:47:46.640
<v Speaker 1>degree. There's an evil there in which we should not into which</v>

00:47:46.640 --> 00:47:51.520
<v Speaker 1>we should not delve, but a topic for another time.</v>

00:47:51.520 --> 00:47:55.600
<v Speaker 1>The fundamental issue with CI arguing that blacks are not people, they</v>

00:47:55.680 --> 00:47:57.200
<v Speaker 1>call them the beasts of the field, right?</v>

00:47:57.200 --> 00:47:59.680
<v Speaker 1>This is essentially what they try to argue.</v>

00:47:59.680 --> 00:48:03.360
<v Speaker 1>Is that they are removing one of the most powerful arguments we</v>

00:48:03.360 --> 00:48:06.960
<v Speaker 1>have for why we want to do what we need to do.</v>

00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:11.840
<v Speaker 1>Because our goal is the preservation, not just of civilization and of</v>

00:48:11.840 --> 00:48:15.200
<v Speaker 1>the ability to produce civilization and all the things that go along</v>

00:48:15.200 --> 00:48:19.120
<v Speaker 1>with it, beauty and truth and all these things, but the Christian</v>

00:48:19.120 --> 00:48:23.760
<v Speaker 1>faith itself, because the Christian faith itself cannot be transmitted and defended</v>

00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:24.720
<v Speaker 1>by those who have degenerated</v>

00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:31.760
<v Speaker 1>so far they no longer recognize hypotheticals or truth or the existence</v>

00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:33.840
<v Speaker 1>of tomorrow.</v>

00:48:33.840 --> 00:48:36.320
<v Speaker 1>That is what we risk losing.</v>

00:48:36.320 --> 00:48:41.280
<v Speaker 1>And so our argument is that it is necessary to preserve European</v>

00:48:41.280 --> 00:48:44.240
<v Speaker 1>populations in order to preserve the Christian faith.</v>

00:48:44.240 --> 00:48:47.360
<v Speaker 1>If you take the Darwinian position, you can just say, well, eventually</v>

00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:50.480
<v Speaker 1>these other populations can be brought up to our level in the</v>

00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:55.040
<v Speaker 1>same way that we came to this level through very careful or</v>

00:48:55.040 --> 00:48:58.880
<v Speaker 1>just chance, whatever it happens to be, breeding over millions of years,</v>

00:48:58.880 --> 00:49:02.400
<v Speaker 1>or thousands of years, or tenth, whatever their timeline happens to be,</v>

00:49:02.400 --> 00:49:06.320
<v Speaker 1>they all use a different one.</v>

00:49:06.320 --> 00:49:11.520
<v Speaker 1>In their conception, in their frame, there's nothing wrong with treating the</v>

00:49:11.520 --> 00:49:14.560
<v Speaker 1>various third world populations the same as you treat us.</v>

00:49:14.560 --> 00:49:16.880
<v Speaker 1>Because they can be brought up to our level.</v>

00:49:16.880 --> 00:49:20.640
<v Speaker 1>If you take the real position and follow the real logic, they</v>

00:49:20.640 --> 00:49:23.280
<v Speaker 1>can't be brought up to our level because what they have lost</v>

00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:25.040
<v Speaker 1>was a one-way street.</v>

00:49:25.040 --> 00:49:30.000
<v Speaker 1>And so the CI argument fundamentally undermines the very thing they claim</v>

00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:33.840
<v Speaker 1>they want to achieve, which is the preservation of Europeans and the</v>

00:49:33.840 --> 00:49:36.400
<v Speaker 1>European races.</v>

00:49:36.400 --> 00:49:38.240
<v Speaker 1>It's complete nonsense.</v>

00:49:38.240 --> 00:49:40.000
<v Speaker 1>It's not defensible in scripture.</v>

00:49:40.160 --> 00:49:45.120
<v Speaker 1>It's not even defensible in the purely material realm because it also</v>

00:49:45.120 --> 00:49:49.840
<v Speaker 1>runs counter to at least neo-Darwinian evolution and things like that.</v>

00:49:49.840 --> 00:49:52.080
<v Speaker 1>It is fundamentally incoherent.</v>

00:49:52.080 --> 00:49:56.240
<v Speaker 1>It is something no one should believe, and it's just basically Talmudism</v>

00:49:56.320 --> 00:49:59.360
<v Speaker 1>applied to Europeans instead of to Jews, right?</v>

00:49:59.360 --> 00:50:04.000
<v Speaker 1>It's saying we are this special chosen, we're the only people, everyone</v>

00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:08.480
<v Speaker 1>else is a monkey, everyone else is subhuman, and so X, Y,</v>

00:50:08.480 --> 00:50:09.200
<v Speaker 1>and Z.</v>

00:50:09.200 --> 00:50:12.400
<v Speaker 1>It doesn't even fit the classical definition of species, which is can</v>

00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:14.000
<v Speaker 1>produce fertile offspring, right?</v>

00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:17.200
<v Speaker 1>Because Africans and Europeans can produce fertile offspring.</v>

00:50:17.200 --> 00:50:18.560
<v Speaker 1>We all know that's true.</v>

00:50:18.560 --> 00:50:19.920
<v Speaker 1>For better or worse.</v>

00:50:20.240 --> 00:50:24.320
<v Speaker 1>So it's just not a defensible position in any real way.</v>

00:50:24.320 --> 00:50:26.960
<v Speaker 1>It's again, it's complete nonsense.</v>

00:50:26.960 --> 00:50:30.960
<v Speaker 1>And they're only arguing it because they want to, just like the</v>

00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:35.520
<v Speaker 1>Jews, say, we're special and everyone else is not.</v>

00:50:35.520 --> 00:50:37.520
<v Speaker 1>Why? Why make that argument?</v>

00:50:37.520 --> 00:50:41.360
<v Speaker 1>You have the foundation in scripture to say that there are special</v>

00:50:41.360 --> 00:50:43.520
<v Speaker 1>promises to the sons of Japheth.</v>

00:50:43.520 --> 00:50:46.320
<v Speaker 1>You can look at all of history and say we are the</v>

00:50:46.320 --> 00:50:50.240
<v Speaker 1>ones who most carefully preserved what God gave us.</v>

00:50:50.240 --> 00:50:52.800
<v Speaker 1>Everyone else squandered their gifts.</v>

00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:56.720
<v Speaker 1>Look at the reality instead of building up some false mythology.</v>

00:50:56.720 --> 00:50:58.800
<v Speaker 1>It just doesn't make any sense.</v>

00:50:58.800 --> 00:51:02.720
<v Speaker 1>Regardless of the angle you choose to attack it, it doesn't hold</v>

00:51:02.720 --> 00:51:11.520
<v Speaker 1>up to scrutiny.</v>

00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:18.960
<v Speaker 1>I will just quickly insert another question here because it's easy for</v>

00:51:18.960 --> 00:51:22.480
<v Speaker 1>me to answer it quickly, although it messes up my numbering, so</v>

00:51:23.200 --> 00:51:24.960
<v Speaker 1>I'll fix that later.</v>

00:51:25.360 --> 00:51:26.800
<v Speaker 1>Question 10.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Which software am I using for showing scripture?</v>

00:51:30.720 --> 00:51:33.040
<v Speaker 1>Which I guess I should show the software if I'm gonna do</v>

00:51:33.040 --> 00:51:35.760
<v Speaker 1>that. It's logos is what it's called.</v>

00:51:35.760 --> 00:51:37.200
<v Speaker 1>L-O-G-O-S.</v>

00:51:38.240 --> 00:51:43.200
<v Speaker 1>And it is probably the best software right now for Bible study</v>

00:51:43.200 --> 00:51:44.880
<v Speaker 1>and things like that.</v>

00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:49.440
<v Speaker 1>I very strongly disagree with their practices regarding how much they charge</v>

00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:52.720
<v Speaker 1>for resources and things like that, because you can certainly spend an</v>

00:51:52.720 --> 00:51:54.960
<v Speaker 1>awful lot of money on it.</v>

00:51:54.960 --> 00:51:59.600
<v Speaker 1>But there are some free resources and there's I believe a free</v>

00:51:59.600 --> 00:52:03.600
<v Speaker 1>tier as well, so You know, at the very least you can</v>

00:52:03.600 --> 00:52:06.800
<v Speaker 1>use it to study certain things without having to spend money, but</v>

00:52:06.800 --> 00:52:09.600
<v Speaker 1>if you want all of the features, you're going to spend a</v>

00:52:09.600 --> 00:52:10.800
<v Speaker 1>lot of money on it.</v>

00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:11.120
<v Speaker 1>So</v>

00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:15.360
<v Speaker 1>And like I've said many times and as we mentioned in Stone</v>

00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:19.280
<v Speaker 1>Choir and elsewhere, this should not be a for profit industry.</v>

00:52:19.280 --> 00:52:22.400
<v Speaker 1>These men should not be making you know however much money it</v>

00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:24.320
<v Speaker 1>is they're making off of this kind of stuff.</v>

00:52:24.320 --> 00:52:28.720
<v Speaker 1>These are God's things and they should be available for free Free.</v>

00:52:28.640 --> 00:52:32.800
<v Speaker 1>Which is why I never charge for any of the essays or</v>

00:52:32.800 --> 00:52:34.640
<v Speaker 1>things that I write and never will.</v>

00:52:34.640 --> 00:52:38.080
<v Speaker 1>Because if I'm writing about the things of God, those things belong</v>

00:52:38.080 --> 00:52:38.720
<v Speaker 1>to God</v>

00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:54.560
<v Speaker 1>So someone mentioned that he was having trouble with YouTube YouTube comments.</v>

00:52:54.560 --> 00:52:58.320
<v Speaker 1>I I see them in my interface, so I assume they're working</v>

00:52:58.320 --> 00:53:02.480
<v Speaker 1>now. It must have just been a transitory issue.</v>

00:53:02.480 --> 00:53:05.600
<v Speaker 1>But last week I know that the comments were not working.</v>

00:53:05.600 --> 00:53:08.480
<v Speaker 1>This is not really an answer or anything, but last week they</v>

00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:12.400
<v Speaker 1>were not working because YouTube decided to toggle my stream in the</v>

00:53:12.400 --> 00:53:14.880
<v Speaker 1>background and I did not notice it and say that it was</v>

00:53:14.880 --> 00:53:18.240
<v Speaker 1>designed for children, which disables your comments.</v>

00:53:18.240 --> 00:53:23.120
<v Speaker 1>So I added that to my checklist in order to make sure</v>

00:53:23.120 --> 00:53:27.360
<v Speaker 1>that things are working before I hit go live as it were.</v>

00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:32.080
<v Speaker 1>Just one more thing in the checklist, the sanity check for the</v>

00:53:32.080 --> 00:53:35.680
<v Speaker 1>IT gremlins.</v>

00:53:35.680 --> 00:53:39.440
<v Speaker 1>Let me add that to my list so that I don't forget</v>

00:53:39.440 --> 00:53:46.800
<v Speaker 1>and ruin my numbering.</v>

00:53:48.960 --> 00:53:57.040
<v Speaker 1>Okay. Question eleven.</v>

00:53:57.040 --> 00:53:58.400
<v Speaker 1>I am a programmer.</v>

00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:00.880
<v Speaker 1>Thankfully, I am in a situation where I feel secure in my</v>

00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:04.800
<v Speaker 1>current job, but I have recently started wondering what to expect in</v>

00:54:04.800 --> 00:54:05.680
<v Speaker 1>the future.</v>

00:54:05.680 --> 00:54:09.760
<v Speaker 1>I worry that depending on how things progress politically, my skills may</v>

00:54:09.760 --> 00:54:11.520
<v Speaker 1>not end up particularly useful.</v>

00:54:11.520 --> 00:54:13.600
<v Speaker 1>I have I have not been working long enough to really build</v>

00:54:13.600 --> 00:54:15.120
<v Speaker 1>up anything tangible.</v>

00:54:15.120 --> 00:54:17.840
<v Speaker 1>Do you have any advice for men like me who wonder about</v>

00:54:17.840 --> 00:54:22.880
<v Speaker 1>career longevity and are considering alternate or supplemental routes of building wealth</v>

00:54:22.880 --> 00:54:25.440
<v Speaker 1>for the future and for my future descendants?</v>

00:54:25.440 --> 00:54:28.560
<v Speaker 1>For example, I've considered building my own apps, but I'd hate to</v>

00:54:28.560 --> 00:54:32.000
<v Speaker 1>produce more slot for the world.</v>

00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:34.480
<v Speaker 1>I think the general rule here is going to be, and I</v>

00:54:34.480 --> 00:54:37.280
<v Speaker 1>can perhaps not have logos on the screen right now, I think</v>

00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:41.440
<v Speaker 1>that the general rule is going to be do the things for</v>

00:54:41.440 --> 00:54:43.360
<v Speaker 1>which you are most suited, right?</v>

00:54:43.600 --> 00:54:46.480
<v Speaker 1>It's sort of an opportunity cost calculation.</v>

00:54:46.480 --> 00:54:51.200
<v Speaker 1>If you have the ability to do some particular thing that requires</v>

00:54:51.280 --> 00:54:55.360
<v Speaker 1>education education or resources or abilities, whatever it happens to be, things</v>

00:54:55.360 --> 00:54:58.720
<v Speaker 1>you have that most men don't, your time is probably better spent</v>

00:54:58.720 --> 00:55:00.160
<v Speaker 1>doing those things.</v>

00:55:00.160 --> 00:55:03.120
<v Speaker 1>But at the same time, and on the other hand, I have</v>

00:55:03.120 --> 00:55:08.720
<v Speaker 1>always strongly recommended, and I still do, something tangible as well, right?</v>

00:55:08.720 --> 00:55:09.040
<v Speaker 1>So</v>

00:55:10.720 --> 00:55:13.600
<v Speaker 1>farm, you know, I'm not saying you have to like take up</v>

00:55:13.600 --> 00:55:15.680
<v Speaker 1>a thousand head of cattle or something like that.</v>

00:55:15.680 --> 00:55:19.680
<v Speaker 1>Grow your own tomatoes, grow your own basil, grow your own cucumbers.</v>

00:55:19.680 --> 00:55:23.200
<v Speaker 1>Do the things that everyone used to do and everyone sh should</v>

00:55:23.200 --> 00:55:24.320
<v Speaker 1>still be doing.</v>

00:55:24.320 --> 00:55:26.800
<v Speaker 1>Because some of these things are very easy to do, right?</v>

00:55:26.800 --> 00:55:31.120
<v Speaker 1>I had two cucumber plants and I had I don't know, a</v>

00:55:31.120 --> 00:55:34.000
<v Speaker 1>hundred and fifty, two hundred cucumbers off two plants.</v>

00:55:34.000 --> 00:55:37.760
<v Speaker 1>So I mean I live in the south, the growing season's long,</v>

00:55:37.760 --> 00:55:41.520
<v Speaker 1>etc. But you can certainly do those things that are tangible.</v>

00:55:41.520 --> 00:55:44.720
<v Speaker 1>I think it's important to do those things as well and not</v>

00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:45.600
<v Speaker 1>just</v>

00:55:46.560 --> 00:55:49.760
<v Speaker 1>do, you know, the things in the virtual world as it were.</v>

00:55:49.760 --> 00:55:55.280
<v Speaker 1>Take up woodworking or whatever happens to be have some skill that</v>

00:55:55.280 --> 00:55:59.440
<v Speaker 1>will always have value regardless of how things go in the future,</v>

00:55:59.440 --> 00:56:04.080
<v Speaker 1>not just skills that are useful only if things go well.</v>

00:56:04.080 --> 00:56:07.920
<v Speaker 1>Or if the infrastructure stays as it currently is.</v>

00:56:08.240 --> 00:56:10.720
<v Speaker 1>You know, the lights stay on.</v>

00:56:10.720 --> 00:56:13.600
<v Speaker 1>But generally speaking, you can pursue both, right?</v>

00:56:13.600 --> 00:56:17.200
<v Speaker 1>Use the skills that are peculiar to you relative to other men,</v>

00:56:17.200 --> 00:56:20.640
<v Speaker 1>and then also take up something that is concrete.</v>

00:56:20.640 --> 00:56:25.120
<v Speaker 1>And And you know, you can have a supplemental income off of</v>

00:56:25.120 --> 00:56:27.520
<v Speaker 1>your hobby, woodworking or whatever it happens to be.</v>

00:56:27.520 --> 00:56:28.880
<v Speaker 1>It doesn't have to be woodworking, right?</v>

00:56:28.880 --> 00:56:31.120
<v Speaker 1>Maybe you want to keep all your fingers.</v>

00:56:31.200 --> 00:56:33.360
<v Speaker 1>Could be gardening, could be any number of things.</v>

00:56:33.360 --> 00:56:36.480
<v Speaker 1>There are plenty of things out there that you can use and</v>

00:56:36.480 --> 00:56:39.120
<v Speaker 1>you can even get, you know, your wife and children involved, certainly</v>

00:56:39.200 --> 00:56:42.400
<v Speaker 1>when you're running sort of a a small business for your home.</v>

00:56:45.600 --> 00:56:47.600
<v Speaker 1>Question twelve.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Make a note for myself here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Why didn't the predators on the ark kill the prey?</v>

00:56:56.240 --> 00:56:59.600
<v Speaker 1>Was that just God's will, or is there more to it?</v>

00:57:00.080 --> 00:57:04.080
<v Speaker 1>This one comes up all the time and usually it is atheists</v>

00:57:04.080 --> 00:57:06.400
<v Speaker 1>trying to use the arc as a gotcha.</v>

00:57:06.400 --> 00:57:09.120
<v Speaker 1>And I always find that funny because</v>

00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:12.480
<v Speaker 1>they use the arc or something similar to the arc as a</v>

00:57:12.480 --> 00:57:17.120
<v Speaker 1>gotcha. And completely ignore the fact that it's a miracle, right?</v>

00:57:17.440 --> 00:57:22.720
<v Speaker 1>No Christian is saying that like Noah, just a man, built a</v>

00:57:22.720 --> 00:57:26.080
<v Speaker 1>giant boat, shoved a bunch of animals in it, and saved the</v>

00:57:26.080 --> 00:57:28.400
<v Speaker 1>world. Christians don't believe that.</v>

00:57:28.480 --> 00:57:34.800
<v Speaker 1>Christians believe that God used the ark to perform a miracle.</v>

00:57:34.800 --> 00:57:36.720
<v Speaker 1>The whole thing's a miracle, right?</v>

00:57:36.720 --> 00:57:38.400
<v Speaker 1>The flood is a miracle.</v>

00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:41.120
<v Speaker 1>That the Ark worked is a miracle, that the animals came to</v>

00:57:41.120 --> 00:57:44.720
<v Speaker 1>Noah is a miracle, that the animals survived is a miracle, that</v>

00:57:44.720 --> 00:57:46.800
<v Speaker 1>Noah survived is a miracle.</v>

00:57:46.800 --> 00:57:48.960
<v Speaker 1>The whole thing is a miracle.</v>

00:57:48.960 --> 00:57:53.280
<v Speaker 1>So getting hung up on any part like the predators, right?</v>

00:57:53.280 --> 00:57:55.920
<v Speaker 1>Things like that, doesn't make any sense.</v>

00:57:55.920 --> 00:57:58.960
<v Speaker 1>I personally believe that God put most of the animals into a</v>

00:57:58.960 --> 00:58:02.320
<v Speaker 1>state of torpor, which is just, you know, diminish not quite a</v>

00:58:02.320 --> 00:58:06.000
<v Speaker 1>coma but close for the duration, because I don't think Noah was</v>

00:58:06.000 --> 00:58:08.880
<v Speaker 1>having to, you know, shovel feces the whole time he was on</v>

00:58:08.880 --> 00:58:11.120
<v Speaker 1>the ark, that's what he would have been doing if they were</v>

00:58:11.120 --> 00:58:14.160
<v Speaker 1>not. So I think that they were probably just in a torpor,</v>

00:58:14.160 --> 00:58:19.040
<v Speaker 1>and God performed a miracle keeping both the predator and prey alive.</v>

00:58:19.040 --> 00:58:23.280
<v Speaker 1>And bear in mind that he had to also have enough food</v>

00:58:23.280 --> 00:58:26.720
<v Speaker 1>for all the animals on the Ark, and the Ark's probably not</v>

00:58:26.720 --> 00:58:30.320
<v Speaker 1>large enough to have that much food, so God put God put</v>

00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:33.840
<v Speaker 1>them in a state of lower metabolism torpor.</v>

00:58:33.840 --> 00:58:37.920
<v Speaker 1>But again, the baseline reality is that it's a miracle, right?</v>

00:58:37.920 --> 00:58:41.920
<v Speaker 1>It's like trying to find a rational explanation for how Christ rose</v>

00:58:41.920 --> 00:58:42.480
<v Speaker 1>from the dead.</v>

00:58:42.480 --> 00:58:43.120
<v Speaker 1>It's a miracle.</v>

00:58:43.120 --> 00:58:46.720
<v Speaker 1>It's not we're not saying that this has a naturalistic explanation.</v>

00:58:46.720 --> 00:58:50.320
<v Speaker 1>That's in fact the opposite of the whole point of the story.</v>

00:58:50.320 --> 00:58:53.360
<v Speaker 1>The point of the arc is that it is a symbol.</v>

00:58:53.360 --> 00:58:55.840
<v Speaker 1>The point of the arc is the typology.</v>

00:58:55.840 --> 00:59:01.440
<v Speaker 1>Because the arc is the type, the church is the anti-type.</v>

00:59:01.440 --> 00:59:04.080
<v Speaker 1>That's the whole point of Noah's Ark.</v>

00:59:04.080 --> 00:59:06.640
<v Speaker 1>Yes, it's also the destruction of the wicked and the rescue of</v>

00:59:06.640 --> 00:59:09.920
<v Speaker 1>the righteous and things like that, but the typology is really what</v>

00:59:10.320 --> 00:59:13.600
<v Speaker 1>we should take out of that as Christians, and then yes, obviously</v>

00:59:13.680 --> 00:59:16.240
<v Speaker 1>it's a miracle, so we don't have to try to give a</v>

00:59:16.240 --> 00:59:20.640
<v Speaker 1>naturalistic explanation, because the whole point of a miracle is that it</v>

00:59:20.640 --> 00:59:22.960
<v Speaker 1>breaks the naturalistic laws.</v>

00:59:22.960 --> 00:59:26.480
<v Speaker 1>It's It's God directly intervening and making an exception.</v>

00:59:32.080 --> 00:59:34.800
<v Speaker 1>Question thirteen</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Why should one be honest or good with dishonest or immoral people?</v>

00:59:44.400 --> 00:59:48.000
<v Speaker 1>Why should one bother to maintain morals when it will get you</v>

00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:50.240
<v Speaker 1>screwed over?</v>

00:59:50.240 --> 00:59:54.880
<v Speaker 1>So So the answer to this is going to sort of be</v>

00:59:54.880 --> 01:00:00.000
<v Speaker 1>twofold. One, you do have a general duty to be honest and</v>

01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.160
<v Speaker 1>forthright and good, right?</v>

01:00:02.160 --> 01:00:04.000
<v Speaker 1>God hates.</v>

01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:09.120
<v Speaker 1>It is an abomination to God to use unequal scales, for instance.</v>

01:00:09.120 --> 01:00:12.080
<v Speaker 1>So you are required to be honest in your dealings with other</v>

01:00:12.080 --> 01:00:14.640
<v Speaker 1>people, even people who are dishonest.</v>

01:00:14.640 --> 01:00:17.680
<v Speaker 1>So your your price doesn't change and you don't give someone a</v>

01:00:18.000 --> 01:00:22.400
<v Speaker 1>half measure because that person is obnoxious or dishonest or whatever it</v>

01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:24.400
<v Speaker 1>happens to be.</v>

01:00:24.400 --> 01:00:26.960
<v Speaker 1>But at the same time, as a Christian, you're commanded to be</v>

01:00:26.960 --> 01:00:29.360
<v Speaker 1>wise. You don't let these people take advantage of you.</v>

01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:33.200
<v Speaker 1>You don't let them exploit you because you're being honest and they're</v>

01:00:33.120 --> 01:00:34.240
<v Speaker 1>being dishonest.</v>

01:00:34.240 --> 01:00:37.920
<v Speaker 1>You just don't exploit them because they're bad people.</v>

01:00:37.920 --> 01:00:40.720
<v Speaker 1>It's up to God to punish them and up to the magistrate,</v>

01:00:40.720 --> 01:00:42.480
<v Speaker 1>hopefully he's doing his job.</v>

01:00:42.480 --> 01:00:45.520
<v Speaker 1>It's not up to you to do that by being dishonest and</v>

01:00:45.520 --> 01:00:47.440
<v Speaker 1>using false scales.</v>

01:00:47.440 --> 01:00:47.760
<v Speaker 1>So</v>

01:00:48.640 --> 01:00:52.640
<v Speaker 1>be honest, but don't let someone just take advantage of you Be</v>

01:00:52.720 --> 01:01:00.240
<v Speaker 1>c don't be a fool, basically is what I'm saying.</v>

01:01:00.240 --> 01:01:01.120
<v Speaker 1>Let's see.</v>

01:01:01.120 --> 01:01:05.040
<v Speaker 1>Question 14.</v>

01:01:05.040 --> 01:01:08.160
<v Speaker 1>Lately I have been feeling like my IQ has gone down and</v>

01:01:08.160 --> 01:01:09.840
<v Speaker 1>I am suffering from brain fog.</v>

01:01:09.840 --> 01:01:11.840
<v Speaker 1>I will also forget the simplest things.</v>

01:01:11.840 --> 01:01:14.240
<v Speaker 1>It is hard to read a paragraph in a book without losing</v>

01:01:14.240 --> 01:01:16.640
<v Speaker 1>my place or even comprehending what I am reading.</v>

01:01:16.640 --> 01:01:18.560
<v Speaker 1>Do you have any remedies for this?</v>

01:01:18.560 --> 01:01:23.120
<v Speaker 1>So So this is an extremely common problem these days.</v>

01:01:23.120 --> 01:01:26.320
<v Speaker 1>And there are a number of things that contribute to it.</v>

01:01:26.320 --> 01:01:29.200
<v Speaker 1>You know, it's nutrition, it's exercise level.</v>

01:01:29.200 --> 01:01:34.400
<v Speaker 1>It's most certainly our media, particularly social media and things like that.</v>

01:01:34.400 --> 01:01:38.560
<v Speaker 1>So you kind of have take an holistic approach to how you</v>

01:01:38.800 --> 01:01:40.960
<v Speaker 1>solve, how you address this issue.</v>

01:01:40.960 --> 01:01:45.280
<v Speaker 1>One thing is going to be, as best you can, do not</v>

01:01:45.520 --> 01:01:50.240
<v Speaker 1>consume short form content, whether it's YouTube shorts or what is it</v>

01:01:50.240 --> 01:01:54.720
<v Speaker 1>called, reels, or any of these various things, these snippets of content</v>

01:01:54.720 --> 01:01:59.360
<v Speaker 1>that are deliberately designed to break your ability to concentrate on anything</v>

01:01:59.360 --> 01:02:01.920
<v Speaker 1>over a long period of time.</v>

01:02:01.920 --> 01:02:05.920
<v Speaker 1>And in place of that, you need to rebuild your ability to</v>

01:02:05.920 --> 01:02:08.240
<v Speaker 1>focus on things for a long period of time.</v>

01:02:08.240 --> 01:02:10.880
<v Speaker 1>Sit quietly in a room and read for an hour.</v>

01:02:11.040 --> 01:02:12.640
<v Speaker 1>Force yourself to do it.</v>

01:02:12.640 --> 01:02:15.920
<v Speaker 1>You should be able to do that without it being excruciating.</v>

01:02:15.920 --> 01:02:21.120
<v Speaker 1>The modern world has deliberately programmed you to lose the ability to</v>

01:02:21.120 --> 01:02:22.080
<v Speaker 1>do that.</v>

01:02:22.080 --> 01:02:27.040
<v Speaker 1>Above and beyond that, make sure you get exercise, drink water, creatine</v>

01:02:27.040 --> 01:02:28.400
<v Speaker 1>is a great supplement.</v>

01:02:28.400 --> 01:02:31.840
<v Speaker 1>There, you know, people will fight about supplements all day and all</v>

01:02:31.840 --> 01:02:34.480
<v Speaker 1>night, and I don't want to get into that.</v>

01:02:34.480 --> 01:02:37.600
<v Speaker 1>Creatine is one that I can just say is good.</v>

01:02:37.600 --> 01:02:40.160
<v Speaker 1>All of our research shows that it's beneficial.</v>

01:02:40.160 --> 01:02:42.560
<v Speaker 1>It doesn't have downsides except you're going to have to drink some</v>

01:02:42.560 --> 01:02:43.760
<v Speaker 1>more water.</v>

01:02:43.760 --> 01:02:46.320
<v Speaker 1>And do drink more water because your body needs more water to</v>

01:02:46.320 --> 01:02:47.040
<v Speaker 1>process it.</v>

01:02:47.040 --> 01:02:52.560
<v Speaker 1>But otherwise, it's relatively cheap, easily available, works really well.</v>

01:02:52.560 --> 01:02:54.240
<v Speaker 1>So you should be taking creatine.</v>

01:02:54.240 --> 01:02:57.200
<v Speaker 1>You should also be taking vitamin D because your body stops producing</v>

01:02:57.200 --> 01:03:01.280
<v Speaker 1>enough after age like 30.</v>

01:03:01.360 --> 01:03:02.080
<v Speaker 1>It's unfortunate.</v>

01:03:02.080 --> 01:03:03.760
<v Speaker 1>It's like 30 thirty.</v>

01:03:03.760 --> 01:03:06.880
<v Speaker 1>You could spend all day outside naked and you will not produce</v>

01:03:06.880 --> 01:03:07.760
<v Speaker 1>enough vitamin D.</v>

01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:10.160
<v Speaker 1>So you should be supplementing that as well because your body also</v>

01:03:10.160 --> 01:03:12.400
<v Speaker 1>needs that for brain and other functions.</v>

01:03:12.400 --> 01:03:15.440
<v Speaker 1>So those are two of the easy supplements that I'd say take,</v>

01:03:15.440 --> 01:03:18.800
<v Speaker 1>but walking is great exercise and it's great for your brain.</v>

01:03:18.800 --> 01:03:21.360
<v Speaker 1>All of the studies show walking is one of the best things</v>

01:03:21.360 --> 01:03:25.280
<v Speaker 1>you can do for brain fog, for clarity, just for thinking, your</v>

01:03:25.360 --> 01:03:27.040
<v Speaker 1>brain processes thing better.</v>

01:03:27.760 --> 01:03:32.000
<v Speaker 1>You should do some kind of cardio before you do any intense</v>

01:03:32.240 --> 01:03:34.880
<v Speaker 1>mental task that prepares your body.</v>

01:03:34.880 --> 01:03:36.960
<v Speaker 1>So walking's a great option.</v>

01:03:40.960 --> 01:03:43.920
<v Speaker 1>And you know, caffeine's not necessarily bad.</v>

01:03:43.920 --> 01:03:46.240
<v Speaker 1>Maybe don't drink caffeine at this time of night.</v>

01:03:46.240 --> 01:03:49.200
<v Speaker 1>That's probably not the best h best of my hobbies, but</v>

01:03:50.640 --> 01:03:56.240
<v Speaker 1>I don't think caffeine in the morning's bad for you.</v>

01:03:56.240 --> 01:04:01.760
<v Speaker 1>I'm just going to try and copy some questions from the chat.</v>

01:04:01.760 --> 01:04:03.520
<v Speaker 1>I don't know that I'll get to them, but I don't want</v>

01:04:03.520 --> 01:04:06.480
<v Speaker 1>to lose them.</v>

01:04:26.800 --> 01:04:29.440
<v Speaker 1>I am definitely not getting to them because I am now in</v>

01:04:29.440 --> 01:04:32.480
<v Speaker 1>the the twenties for the questions tonight when we just did question</v>

01:04:32.560 --> 01:04:34.640
<v Speaker 1>what was that 13, 14?</v>

01:04:34.800 --> 01:04:35.920
<v Speaker 1>13.</v>

01:04:45.520 --> 01:04:49.040
<v Speaker 1>Okay, question and we load.</v>

01:04:49.040 --> 01:04:52.720
<v Speaker 1>That was question fourteen, right, because I inserted that question in the</v>

01:04:52.720 --> 01:04:54.000
<v Speaker 1>middle there.</v>

01:04:59.040 --> 01:05:01.440
<v Speaker 1>Okay, question fifteen.</v>

01:05:01.440 --> 01:05:04.480
<v Speaker 1>In a recent episode you said the government already has the tools</v>

01:05:04.480 --> 01:05:07.200
<v Speaker 1>they need to dox anyone they want with no problem.</v>

01:05:07.200 --> 01:05:08.400
<v Speaker 1>That is correct.</v>

01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:11.680
<v Speaker 1>If this is the case, why the recent government push for ID</v>

01:05:11.680 --> 01:05:14.560
<v Speaker 1>verification to use smartphones, etc.</v>

01:05:14.880 --> 01:05:19.360
<v Speaker 1>So there's a bit of this going on pretty much everywhere in</v>

01:05:19.360 --> 01:05:22.080
<v Speaker 1>the world right now, anywhere worth mentioning at least.</v>

01:05:22.080 --> 01:05:24.800
<v Speaker 1>You have this rolling out in the EU, you have it certainly</v>

01:05:24.800 --> 01:05:28.160
<v Speaker 1>in the UK, which is already one of the most surveilled states</v>

01:05:28.160 --> 01:05:31.440
<v Speaker 1>on the face of the planet, perhaps even more so than China</v>

01:05:31.520 --> 01:05:32.720
<v Speaker 1>at this point.</v>

01:05:32.720 --> 01:05:34.480
<v Speaker 1>You certainly have it in China.</v>

01:05:34.480 --> 01:05:37.920
<v Speaker 1>And it's certainly a growing thing in the US with, you know,</v>

01:05:37.920 --> 01:05:38.880
<v Speaker 1>Flock and other things.</v>

01:05:38.960 --> 01:05:40.720
<v Speaker 1>Flock isn't even the worst defender.</v>

01:05:40.720 --> 01:05:43.680
<v Speaker 1>Everyone This is probably worth mentioning here.</v>

01:05:43.680 --> 01:05:45.600
<v Speaker 1>Everyone picks out Flock, right?</v>

01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:48.640
<v Speaker 1>There's always going to be sort of the poster child, the whipping</v>

01:05:48.640 --> 01:05:49.840
<v Speaker 1>boy, as it were.</v>

01:05:49.840 --> 01:05:55.120
<v Speaker 1>Flock is not the worst defender because Flock actually is exclusively used</v>

01:05:55.280 --> 01:05:58.800
<v Speaker 1>currently, that could change in the future, of course, but Flock is</v>

01:05:58.800 --> 01:06:05.360
<v Speaker 1>exclusively used by law enforcement and government agencies that do in theory</v>

01:06:05.440 --> 01:06:08.960
<v Speaker 1>at least have some sort of legal oversight.</v>

01:06:08.960 --> 01:06:11.280
<v Speaker 1>And they can be sued, right?</v>

01:06:11.280 --> 01:06:16.640
<v Speaker 1>You have other entities doing similar sorts of surveillance, perhaps using credit</v>

01:06:16.640 --> 01:06:21.280
<v Speaker 1>cards and things like that, and they actually sell that information to</v>

01:06:21.280 --> 01:06:23.440
<v Speaker 1>anyone who wants to pay a fee.</v>

01:06:23.760 --> 01:06:25.200
<v Speaker 1>That's worse.</v>

01:06:25.200 --> 01:06:29.520
<v Speaker 1>So Flock's not good, but Flock's not the worst as well.</v>

01:06:29.520 --> 01:06:30.880
<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying I approve of it.</v>

01:06:30.880 --> 01:06:32.720
<v Speaker 1>Again, I don't think Flock is good, and I think that that</v>

01:06:32.720 --> 01:06:34.240
<v Speaker 1>stuff should be</v>

01:06:35.200 --> 01:06:37.520
<v Speaker 1>removed, we'll say.</v>

01:06:37.520 --> 01:06:40.160
<v Speaker 1>I think it should be struck down legally and it should not</v>

01:06:40.160 --> 01:06:42.160
<v Speaker 1>be something that's permissible.</v>

01:06:42.160 --> 01:06:47.760
<v Speaker 1>But the reason the government is still pushing for these programs is</v>

01:06:47.760 --> 01:06:52.240
<v Speaker 1>that on the one hand, you have times where basically it's just</v>

01:06:52.240 --> 01:06:56.320
<v Speaker 1>pork barrel stuff, they're just giving money to their contractors, their vendors,</v>

01:06:56.320 --> 01:06:57.920
<v Speaker 1>their friends, right?</v>

01:06:57.920 --> 01:06:59.680
<v Speaker 1>And also it's easier.</v>

01:06:59.680 --> 01:07:02.720
<v Speaker 1>Some of these systems are rolled out because it's easier to track</v>

01:07:02.720 --> 01:07:05.280
<v Speaker 1>you if they have X, Y, or Z.</v>

01:07:05.280 --> 01:07:10.000
<v Speaker 1>Just because you can do something other under existing conditions doesn't mean</v>

01:07:10.000 --> 01:07:12.880
<v Speaker 1>you don't want to change those conditions so that it's easier to</v>

01:07:12.880 --> 01:07:14.560
<v Speaker 1>do that same thing, right?</v>

01:07:14.800 --> 01:07:17.840
<v Speaker 1>If they could implant you a little chip that just tracked you</v>

01:07:17.840 --> 01:07:20.880
<v Speaker 1>via satellite, then they wouldn't need all this expensive hardware everywhere because</v>

01:07:20.880 --> 01:07:22.160
<v Speaker 1>they just know where you are.</v>

01:07:22.160 --> 01:07:23.600
<v Speaker 1>That would be easier.</v>

01:07:23.600 --> 01:07:26.640
<v Speaker 1>If they could get away with rolling out that system, they would</v>

01:07:26.640 --> 01:07:27.440
<v Speaker 1>do so.</v>

01:07:27.440 --> 01:07:29.440
<v Speaker 1>Same thing's happening here.</v>

01:07:29.440 --> 01:07:33.280
<v Speaker 1>And it's just obviously part of it is the oppression of the</v>

01:07:33.280 --> 01:07:36.160
<v Speaker 1>system is part of the goal itself, is just to make you</v>

01:07:36.160 --> 01:07:38.880
<v Speaker 1>feel like you are always under surveillance, which you kind of are</v>

01:07:38.880 --> 01:07:41.600
<v Speaker 1>these days, and to make you feel like you can't do anything</v>

01:07:41.600 --> 01:07:42.240
<v Speaker 1>about it.</v>

01:07:42.240 --> 01:07:44.480
<v Speaker 1>That's part of the purpose, and that's why they roll out some</v>

01:07:44.480 --> 01:07:44.960
<v Speaker 1>of these things.</v>

01:07:44.960 --> 01:07:47.120
<v Speaker 1>It's why flock cameras are so visible.</v>

01:07:47.120 --> 01:07:49.040
<v Speaker 1>They don't need to be that visible.</v>

01:07:49.040 --> 01:07:49.840
<v Speaker 1>They could be hidden.</v>

01:07:50.720 --> 01:07:55.040
<v Speaker 1>Part of what they're doing is the omnipresent feel of being surveilled</v>

01:07:55.200 --> 01:07:58.240
<v Speaker 1>is going to modify your behavior.</v>

01:08:01.920 --> 01:08:08.480
<v Speaker 1>Question sixteen, going back to theology here.</v>

01:08:08.480 --> 01:08:11.120
<v Speaker 1>Can I in any way be sure that I am being sanctified</v>

01:08:11.280 --> 01:08:14.800
<v Speaker 1>and that there are real works flowing from my faith faith, thus</v>

01:08:14.800 --> 01:08:17.760
<v Speaker 1>proving that my faith is not dead.</v>

01:08:17.760 --> 01:08:21.760
<v Speaker 1>This is sort of a not equivalent to but related to</v>

01:08:22.960 --> 01:08:26.960
<v Speaker 1>questions that ask fairly often about the unforgivable sin, right?</v>

01:08:26.960 --> 01:08:29.680
<v Speaker 1>If you can worry about it, you haven't committed.</v>

01:08:29.680 --> 01:08:34.080
<v Speaker 1>In this case, if you can worry about it, you're being sanctified.</v>

01:08:34.320 --> 01:08:36.080
<v Speaker 1>So you can take comfort in that.</v>

01:08:36.080 --> 01:08:40.400
<v Speaker 1>But then on top of that, you should also just recognize that</v>

01:08:40.400 --> 01:08:44.320
<v Speaker 1>all of the good works you do in service of neighbor are</v>

01:08:44.320 --> 01:08:47.040
<v Speaker 1>good because God designed them for you.</v>

01:08:47.040 --> 01:08:48.960
<v Speaker 1>He prepared them for you to do.</v>

01:08:48.960 --> 01:08:52.480
<v Speaker 1>And so when you help your neighbor take in the groceries, that's</v>

01:08:52.480 --> 01:08:53.200
<v Speaker 1>a good work.</v>

01:08:53.200 --> 01:08:56.720
<v Speaker 1>When you help your neighbor repair some broken thing of his property,</v>

01:08:56.720 --> 01:08:57.840
<v Speaker 1>that's a good work.</v>

01:08:57.840 --> 01:09:00.400
<v Speaker 1>All of the things you do that are helpful for your neighbor,</v>

01:09:00.400 --> 01:09:03.840
<v Speaker 1>for those God has placed into your life are good works, they're</v>

01:09:03.840 --> 01:09:05.840
<v Speaker 1>proof of faith.</v>

01:09:05.840 --> 01:09:07.840
<v Speaker 1>You're justified.</v>

01:09:07.840 --> 01:09:10.160
<v Speaker 1>If you're asking this question, I'm going to just go ahead and</v>

01:09:10.160 --> 01:09:11.600
<v Speaker 1>assume you're justified, right?</v>

01:09:11.600 --> 01:09:14.800
<v Speaker 1>You have been baptized, you have faith.</v>

01:09:14.800 --> 01:09:19.200
<v Speaker 1>All of the good works then, because you're justified, are counted toward</v>

01:09:19.440 --> 01:09:22.880
<v Speaker 1>you, you get credit because you're in Christ.</v>

01:09:22.880 --> 01:09:23.200
<v Speaker 1>So</v>

01:09:24.080 --> 01:09:26.240
<v Speaker 1>just continue doing good works.</v>

01:09:26.240 --> 01:09:28.160
<v Speaker 1>You're being sanctified.</v>

01:09:28.160 --> 01:09:32.000
<v Speaker 1>Continue to engage in the scripture, continue to go to church, continue</v>

01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:34.640
<v Speaker 1>to do all the things that you should do as a Christian,</v>

01:09:34.640 --> 01:09:38.480
<v Speaker 1>but recognize that you've already been justified, you're already a child of</v>

01:09:38.480 --> 01:09:42.560
<v Speaker 1>God, all of your good works that God prepared for you are</v>

01:09:42.560 --> 01:09:46.640
<v Speaker 1>counted to you, you are given credit because you're in Christ.</v>

01:09:46.880 --> 01:09:48.160
<v Speaker 1>And it's the everyday, right?</v>

01:09:48.160 --> 01:09:51.040
<v Speaker 1>It's not don't go looking for exceptional works.</v>

01:09:51.040 --> 01:09:54.320
<v Speaker 1>This is one of the problems that happened at certain points in</v>

01:09:54.640 --> 01:09:57.840
<v Speaker 1>past centuries and still happens to some degree today.</v>

01:09:57.840 --> 01:10:02.880
<v Speaker 1>The good works that God finds truly great and glorious are not,</v>

01:10:02.880 --> 01:10:05.280
<v Speaker 1>you know, putting on a full suit of armor and walking a</v>

01:10:05.280 --> 01:10:08.480
<v Speaker 1>hundred miles on a pilgrimage to pay homage to a saint.</v>

01:10:08.480 --> 01:10:10.880
<v Speaker 1>Stuff that actually happened in history.</v>

01:10:11.200 --> 01:10:13.760
<v Speaker 1>The good works are those that God gave you in the Ten</v>

01:10:13.760 --> 01:10:18.160
<v Speaker 1>Commandments. You know, honor thy father and thy mother, right?</v>

01:10:18.160 --> 01:10:19.760
<v Speaker 1>That's a good work.</v>

01:10:19.760 --> 01:10:23.280
<v Speaker 1>As a child, honoring your father, honoring your mother, honoring your parents</v>

01:10:23.680 --> 01:10:25.040
<v Speaker 1>is a good work.</v>

01:10:25.040 --> 01:10:27.120
<v Speaker 1>You know, it says thou shalt not murder.</v>

01:10:27.120 --> 01:10:30.320
<v Speaker 1>Well, helping your neighbor with regard to the things of life is</v>

01:10:30.320 --> 01:10:30.880
<v Speaker 1>what you do.</v>

01:10:30.880 --> 01:10:33.680
<v Speaker 1>Because remember, there's the negative, there's also the positive, right?</v>

01:10:33.680 --> 01:10:36.560
<v Speaker 1>You don't do the negative, you do do the positive.</v>

01:10:36.560 --> 01:10:38.960
<v Speaker 1>God has given you the list of good works.</v>

01:10:38.960 --> 01:10:41.680
<v Speaker 1>So you don't even need to go looking for works because God</v>

01:10:41.680 --> 01:10:44.560
<v Speaker 1>has told you exactly what he desires you to do.</v>

01:10:44.560 --> 01:10:47.840
<v Speaker 1>So don't worry about this sort of thing.</v>

01:10:47.840 --> 01:10:50.640
<v Speaker 1>It's not necessarily a bad thing that you're a little concerned because</v>

01:10:50.640 --> 01:10:51.040
<v Speaker 1>you should be.</v>

01:10:51.280 --> 01:10:53.520
<v Speaker 1>The fact that you can be concerned about it is a good</v>

01:10:53.520 --> 01:10:58.480
<v Speaker 1>sign. But don't let the worry or anxiety overtake you because the</v>

01:10:58.480 --> 01:11:02.640
<v Speaker 1>everyday stuff you do, those little good works, those are the things</v>

01:11:02.640 --> 01:11:03.680
<v Speaker 1>God wants you doing.</v>

01:11:03.680 --> 01:11:15.040
<v Speaker 1>Because that's what it means to live a Christian life.</v>

01:11:34.560 --> 01:11:37.440
<v Speaker 1>See some questions in the chat that are going to be longer</v>

01:11:37.440 --> 01:11:43.600
<v Speaker 1>ones to answer, so I will just save those for next week.</v>

01:11:43.600 --> 01:11:46.880
<v Speaker 1>Particularly I see someone asked difference between the the German and the</v>

01:11:46.880 --> 01:11:53.520
<v Speaker 1>Scandinavian churches and there are practical differences doctrinally, historically less so, but</v>

01:11:53.520 --> 01:11:56.000
<v Speaker 1>I will get into that I think next week because that's uh</v>

01:11:56.000 --> 01:12:01.520
<v Speaker 1>a longer to give the full answer there.</v>

01:12:01.520 --> 01:12:03.280
<v Speaker 1>Question seventeen.</v>

01:12:03.280 --> 01:12:11.760
<v Speaker 1>Can someone possibly fully believe in God yet not have faith?</v>

01:12:11.760 --> 01:12:15.360
<v Speaker 1>I think the answer here has to be no.</v>

01:12:15.360 --> 01:12:19.120
<v Speaker 1>And the reason that it has to be no is that if</v>

01:12:19.360 --> 01:12:23.840
<v Speaker 1>you fully believe in God, that would mean to believe in the</v>

01:12:23.840 --> 01:12:25.520
<v Speaker 1>God who exists, right?</v>

01:12:25.520 --> 01:12:29.040
<v Speaker 1>Not a misconception of God in your own mind.</v>

01:12:29.040 --> 01:12:32.800
<v Speaker 1>So if you believe in what you believe, right, in your head</v>

01:12:41.440 --> 01:12:46.000
<v Speaker 1>So if you believe in the Lord God, you will then have</v>

01:12:46.000 --> 01:12:49.760
<v Speaker 1>faith. Because Because you would have to believe in the God of</v>

01:12:49.760 --> 01:12:53.520
<v Speaker 1>Scripture, the God of creation, the God who sent his son to</v>

01:12:53.520 --> 01:12:55.040
<v Speaker 1>die for you and did all these things.</v>

01:12:55.040 --> 01:12:58.240
<v Speaker 1>Because if you don't believe in that God, you don't actually believe</v>

01:12:58.240 --> 01:12:59.360
<v Speaker 1>in God.</v>

01:12:59.360 --> 01:13:03.680
<v Speaker 1>So perhaps a a technical answer, but I think just logically philosophically,</v>

01:13:03.680 --> 01:13:06.320
<v Speaker 1>if you fully believe in God, you will have faith.</v>

01:13:06.320 --> 01:13:10.240
<v Speaker 1>You must have faith to fully believe in the Lord God, not</v>

01:13:10.240 --> 01:13:13.120
<v Speaker 1>in a misconception of God.</v>

01:13:13.120 --> 01:13:18.560
<v Speaker 1>This is related to why we baptize Mormons, right?</v>

01:13:18.560 --> 01:13:22.240
<v Speaker 1>We baptize Mormons because they say they believe in God, but they</v>

01:13:22.240 --> 01:13:25.920
<v Speaker 1>don't believe in the Lord God, because they deny him with their</v>

01:13:25.920 --> 01:13:30.800
<v Speaker 1>doctrine. So we baptize Mormons because their baptisms, that what they call</v>

01:13:30.800 --> 01:13:35.840
<v Speaker 1>baptism, are invalid because they do not believe in God, no matter</v>

01:13:35.840 --> 01:13:36.960
<v Speaker 1>what they claim.</v>

01:13:40.000 --> 01:13:41.840
<v Speaker 1>Question 18.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Is someone who maintains things like a literal third temple with the</v>

01:13:45.440 --> 01:13:46.960
<v Speaker 1>animal sacrificial system</v>

01:13:48.400 --> 01:13:52.000
<v Speaker 1>for the sake of argument as immemorial only, so a sort of</v>

01:13:52.320 --> 01:13:56.880
<v Speaker 1>lesser version of it not for and it was incidentally all along.</v>

01:13:56.880 --> 01:14:00.400
<v Speaker 1>You were not atoned for the animal did not take away your</v>

01:14:00.400 --> 01:14:00.960
<v Speaker 1>sin, right?</v>

01:14:00.960 --> 01:14:04.480
<v Speaker 1>The blood of sheep and goats cannot wash away sin.</v>

01:14:04.800 --> 01:14:06.720
<v Speaker 1>Is that person a Judaizer?</v>

01:14:06.720 --> 01:14:09.920
<v Speaker 1>Would Luther view this as a Jewish opinion?</v>

01:14:11.040 --> 01:14:14.720
<v Speaker 1>Luther would have had some very strong words for someone who believed</v>

01:14:14.720 --> 01:14:16.560
<v Speaker 1>or advocated for that sort of thing.</v>

01:14:16.560 --> 01:14:18.800
<v Speaker 1>It is ranked Judaizing.</v>

01:14:18.800 --> 01:14:19.520
<v Speaker 1>There is no</v>

01:14:20.720 --> 01:14:23.040
<v Speaker 1>Christian third temple.</v>

01:14:23.040 --> 01:14:26.240
<v Speaker 1>If the Jews manage to build a temple and start sacrificing sheep</v>

01:14:26.240 --> 01:14:28.960
<v Speaker 1>and goats, they are sacrificing those to Satan.</v>

01:14:28.960 --> 01:14:31.520
<v Speaker 1>And if you join them in that, then you are also worshiping</v>

01:14:31.520 --> 01:14:35.520
<v Speaker 1>Satan. And you will get to participate in their eternal reward, which</v>

01:14:35.520 --> 01:14:38.400
<v Speaker 1>is going to be quite fiery, and so I don't recommend doing</v>

01:14:38.400 --> 01:14:42.240
<v Speaker 1>that. But yes, this is just ranked Judaizing, it's something you see</v>

01:14:42.240 --> 01:14:47.680
<v Speaker 1>in certain subsets of the dispensationalist circles, they don't all necessarily believe</v>

01:14:47.680 --> 01:14:50.960
<v Speaker 1>in this, but they all believe in something that leads to this.</v>

01:14:50.960 --> 01:14:57.440
<v Speaker 1>So yes, it is Judaizing and you should absolutely avoid it.</v>

01:14:59.840 --> 01:15:02.080
<v Speaker 1>And part of the Christian answer, of course, is that the true</v>

01:15:02.080 --> 01:15:04.160
<v Speaker 1>temple is Jesus Christ.</v>

01:15:04.160 --> 01:15:08.160
<v Speaker 1>So we no longer need types and shadows, we have the real</v>

01:15:08.160 --> 01:15:12.800
<v Speaker 1>thing. And in a sense, you are also the the true temple,</v>

01:15:12.800 --> 01:15:15.920
<v Speaker 1>because the deity dwells in you, right?</v>

01:15:16.240 --> 01:15:19.120
<v Speaker 1>God dwells in you via faith.</v>

01:15:19.120 --> 01:15:22.160
<v Speaker 1>So that's part of what it means to be a Christian is</v>

01:15:22.160 --> 01:15:22.960
<v Speaker 1>to have the Holy Spirit.</v>

01:15:22.960 --> 01:15:25.440
<v Speaker 1>And of course, having the Holy Spirit, you have God, God is</v>

01:15:25.440 --> 01:15:26.320
<v Speaker 1>a Trinity.</v>

01:15:26.320 --> 01:15:28.400
<v Speaker 1>All three persons are present.</v>

01:15:28.400 --> 01:15:31.920
<v Speaker 1>So in a sense, you are also the true temple of God.</v>

01:15:38.080 --> 01:15:39.520
<v Speaker 1>Question nineteen.</v>

01:15:39.520 --> 01:15:43.440
<v Speaker 1>Is there sheet music available anywhere for the intro and outro songs</v>

01:15:43.440 --> 01:15:47.520
<v Speaker 1>for the podcast on Stone Choir?</v>

01:15:47.520 --> 01:15:49.040
<v Speaker 1>The answer to that is</v>

01:15:50.080 --> 01:15:54.400
<v Speaker 1>yes, and for at least some of them it is just a</v>

01:15:54.400 --> 01:15:55.520
<v Speaker 1>mighty fortress.</v>

01:15:55.520 --> 01:15:59.760
<v Speaker 1>And so you can certainly find the There are two versions, incidentally.</v>

01:15:59.760 --> 01:16:02.160
<v Speaker 1>You want the rhythmic version, that's the real Lutheran one.</v>

01:16:02.080 --> 01:16:05.200
<v Speaker 1>The other one's fine, I'm not condemning Bach, right?</v>

01:16:05.200 --> 01:16:07.680
<v Speaker 1>Certainly a a wonderful piece of music as well, but a a</v>

01:16:07.680 --> 01:16:10.160
<v Speaker 1>different one from the the hymn.</v>

01:16:10.160 --> 01:16:13.280
<v Speaker 1>And the the original Lutheran one is better as a hymn him,</v>

01:16:13.280 --> 01:16:19.520
<v Speaker 1>the one from Bach is quite enjoyable as something that's performed professionally.</v>

01:16:19.520 --> 01:16:22.800
<v Speaker 1>So you can find the sheet music for that very easily.</v>

01:16:22.800 --> 01:16:23.760
<v Speaker 1>And I</v>

01:16:24.720 --> 01:16:29.040
<v Speaker 1>don't remember if the outro is also a mighty fortress.</v>

01:16:29.040 --> 01:16:33.200
<v Speaker 1>I believe that it's just a different section of a mighty fortress.</v>

01:16:33.200 --> 01:16:38.960
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure someone in the chat or elsewhere can comment on that.</v>

01:16:38.960 --> 01:16:42.800
<v Speaker 1>But at any rate, yes, I I don't remember if I put</v>

01:16:42.800 --> 01:16:44.000
<v Speaker 1>that on the website.</v>

01:16:44.000 --> 01:16:46.240
<v Speaker 1>You can always go to hymnery.org.</v>

01:16:46.240 --> 01:16:49.280
<v Speaker 1>That is probably one of the the better sites for looking up</v>

01:16:49.280 --> 01:16:50.880
<v Speaker 1>sheet music and things like that.</v>

01:16:50.880 --> 01:16:54.240
<v Speaker 1>You can usually find them very easily on there.</v>

01:16:54.240 --> 01:16:57.440
<v Speaker 1>I've had this asked number of times about Stone Choir and there's</v>

01:16:57.360 --> 01:17:00.160
<v Speaker 1>a an information page for Stone Choir for the intro and the</v>

01:17:00.160 --> 01:17:07.600
<v Speaker 1>outro. Again, it is two Lutheran hymns, but different ones.</v>

01:17:07.600 --> 01:17:10.160
<v Speaker 1>But yes, the answer, of course is that sheet music is very</v>

01:17:10.160 --> 01:17:15.120
<v Speaker 1>much available for that.</v>

01:17:15.120 --> 01:17:16.640
<v Speaker 1>Question twenty.</v>

01:17:16.640 --> 01:17:18.000
<v Speaker 1>I think I will get to uh</v>

01:17:19.200 --> 01:17:20.720
<v Speaker 1>couple more questions here.</v>

01:17:20.720 --> 01:17:22.960
<v Speaker 1>I have not eaten dinner yet, so I intend to go do</v>

01:17:22.960 --> 01:17:24.560
<v Speaker 1>that after I answer a couple more questions.</v>

01:17:24.560 --> 01:17:28.240
<v Speaker 1>But question 20: I have a friend whom I will not see</v>

01:17:28.240 --> 01:17:31.920
<v Speaker 1>in person for several months who grew up Lutheran, is considering Eastern</v>

01:17:32.320 --> 01:17:35.040
<v Speaker 1>Orthodoxy and has been going to one of their churches, how can</v>

01:17:35.040 --> 01:17:36.640
<v Speaker 1>I best help him?</v>

01:17:36.640 --> 01:17:41.840
<v Speaker 1>So my recommendation here would of course be to listen to the</v>

01:17:41.840 --> 01:17:48.160
<v Speaker 1>episode on Eastern Orthodoxy and read the article on my site that</v>

01:17:48.160 --> 01:17:50.800
<v Speaker 1>covers Eastern Orthodoxy as well.</v>

01:17:50.800 --> 01:17:55.520
<v Speaker 1>I don't think the debates are ultimately helpful because</v>

01:17:56.960 --> 01:18:02.800
<v Speaker 1>online debates about Christianity and things like that are always just entertainment</v>

01:18:02.800 --> 01:18:03.520
<v Speaker 1>for the audience.</v>

01:18:03.520 --> 01:18:06.240
<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying they're useless because you know they're entertainment.</v>

01:18:06.240 --> 01:18:10.720
<v Speaker 1>But I think that with regard to topics that are this important,</v>

01:18:10.720 --> 01:18:12.560
<v Speaker 1>it should not be a circus.</v>

01:18:12.560 --> 01:18:14.800
<v Speaker 1>These are serious matters, there are souls at stake.</v>

01:18:14.800 --> 01:18:18.240
<v Speaker 1>We shouldn't necessarily take this as being.</v>

01:18:18.240 --> 01:18:22.160
<v Speaker 1>You know how we spend our Friday evening being entertained by men</v>

01:18:22.400 --> 01:18:27.040
<v Speaker 1>making largely unsound arguments one way or the other.</v>

01:18:27.040 --> 01:18:27.360
<v Speaker 1>So</v>

01:18:28.240 --> 01:18:35.120
<v Speaker 1>listen to the Stone Choir episode, read the article on my site,</v>

01:18:35.120 --> 01:18:38.960
<v Speaker 1>and then part of it is just going to be seeing what</v>

01:18:38.960 --> 01:18:41.280
<v Speaker 1>he says.</v>

01:18:41.280 --> 01:18:46.160
<v Speaker 1>He you know, what is his issue, what are his issues, what</v>

01:18:46.160 --> 01:18:49.280
<v Speaker 1>are his arguments, and then responding to those.</v>

01:18:49.280 --> 01:18:54.960
<v Speaker 1>One of the biggest issues is going to be that they deny</v>

01:18:54.960 --> 01:18:56.160
<v Speaker 1>the gospel.</v>

01:18:56.160 --> 01:19:03.520
<v Speaker 1>The Eastern Orthodox simply reject the gospel because they deny penal substitutionary</v>

01:19:03.520 --> 01:19:09.120
<v Speaker 1>atonement. There is juridical, there is legal language all throughout scripture.</v>

01:19:09.120 --> 01:19:11.600
<v Speaker 1>It is a legal matter.</v>

01:19:11.600 --> 01:19:14.000
<v Speaker 1>You are guilty under the law.</v>

01:19:14.000 --> 01:19:16.720
<v Speaker 1>You think that it being law would cue would cue them in,</v>

01:19:16.720 --> 01:19:18.000
<v Speaker 1>right? You think they'd figure that out?</v>

01:19:18.000 --> 01:19:19.120
<v Speaker 1>Clue them in.</v>

01:19:19.120 --> 01:19:20.400
<v Speaker 1>It doesn't.</v>

01:19:20.400 --> 01:19:21.920
<v Speaker 1>Unfortunately. But</v>

01:19:23.040 --> 01:19:25.360
<v Speaker 1>you are guilty under the law.</v>

01:19:25.360 --> 01:19:29.520
<v Speaker 1>Christ takes your place, fulfills the demands of the law in your</v>

01:19:29.520 --> 01:19:33.600
<v Speaker 1>place, and so you are declared righteous by virtue of his work.</v>

01:19:33.600 --> 01:19:38.720
<v Speaker 1>You are made righteous, via sanctification, and then finally in the resurrection</v>

01:19:38.720 --> 01:19:39.680
<v Speaker 1>of the just.</v>

01:19:39.680 --> 01:19:45.040
<v Speaker 1>But But it is necessary to understand the gospel in order to</v>

01:19:45.040 --> 01:19:45.920
<v Speaker 1>be saved.</v>

01:19:45.920 --> 01:19:49.440
<v Speaker 1>You must understand that it is penal substitutionary atonement.</v>

01:19:49.440 --> 01:19:54.560
<v Speaker 1>If you reject that, you have rejected Christ, you've rejected his work,</v>

01:19:54.560 --> 01:19:57.200
<v Speaker 1>you have a different God, you are not saved.</v>

01:19:57.200 --> 01:20:01.600
<v Speaker 1>So in particular, if you go from Western Christianity to Eastern Orthodoxy,</v>

01:20:01.600 --> 01:20:03.440
<v Speaker 1>that's one of the worst things you can do.</v>

01:20:03.440 --> 01:20:07.120
<v Speaker 1>There are those who grow up in that tradition And don't believe</v>

01:20:07.120 --> 01:20:11.200
<v Speaker 1>the esoteric nonsense from Palamus and others because by and large, most</v>

01:20:11.200 --> 01:20:15.120
<v Speaker 1>of those in most traditions don't know everything their tradition teaches, right?</v>

01:20:15.360 --> 01:20:19.280
<v Speaker 1>Roman Catholics don't know everything Rome teaches, Eastern Orthodox don't know everything</v>

01:20:19.280 --> 01:20:23.040
<v Speaker 1>their cheap their churches supposedly believe, most Lutherans don't know the full</v>

01:20:23.040 --> 01:20:24.240
<v Speaker 1>Book of Concord.</v>

01:20:24.240 --> 01:20:26.080
<v Speaker 1>That's just the reality of it.</v>

01:20:26.080 --> 01:20:29.200
<v Speaker 1>It's not always bad, it's definitely not always good.</v>

01:20:29.200 --> 01:20:31.840
<v Speaker 1>But those who grow up in it many times will have a</v>

01:20:31.840 --> 01:20:34.800
<v Speaker 1>true faith because ultimately they just believe in Christ.</v>

01:20:34.800 --> 01:20:37.040
<v Speaker 1>And the rest of the stuff is out there, but they don't</v>

01:20:36.960 --> 01:20:37.600
<v Speaker 1>care about it.</v>

01:20:37.600 --> 01:20:38.320
<v Speaker 1>They ignore it.</v>

01:20:38.320 --> 01:20:40.160
<v Speaker 1>It's just, you know, I'm Greek.</v>

01:20:40.160 --> 01:20:41.040
<v Speaker 1>My parents are Greek.</v>

01:20:41.040 --> 01:20:41.840
<v Speaker 1>My grandparents are Greek.</v>

01:20:41.840 --> 01:20:44.320
<v Speaker 1>We've always gone to Greek Orthodox, so I go to this.</v>

01:20:44.320 --> 01:20:46.560
<v Speaker 1>There are many good Christians in those churches.</v>

01:20:46.560 --> 01:20:51.280
<v Speaker 1>In the West, when they do that, the convertidox, they are rejecting</v>

01:20:51.280 --> 01:20:55.680
<v Speaker 1>Christianity explicitly in doing so, because they had the truth, they had</v>

01:20:55.680 --> 01:20:57.040
<v Speaker 1>the fullness of it.</v>

01:20:57.040 --> 01:20:59.040
<v Speaker 1>In theory they understood it because they've made</v>

01:21:00.000 --> 01:21:03.840
<v Speaker 1>some sort of decision to reject it, and they have rejected Christ</v>

01:21:03.840 --> 01:21:05.920
<v Speaker 1>and his truth, they've rejected the gospel.</v>

01:21:05.920 --> 01:21:08.800
<v Speaker 1>So make that very clear to him, that that is what he's</v>

01:21:08.720 --> 01:21:13.600
<v Speaker 1>doing. And as a Lutheran, also remind him he gave an oath</v>

01:21:13.600 --> 01:21:17.520
<v Speaker 1>to die before he would reject the truth that is taught by</v>

01:21:17.520 --> 01:21:22.320
<v Speaker 1>the Lutheran confessions when he was confirmed.</v>

01:21:22.320 --> 01:21:26.160
<v Speaker 1>So if his word means anything to him, that should have some</v>

01:21:26.160 --> 01:21:30.400
<v Speaker 1>purchase. Because that is the confirmation oath in the Lutheran Church that</v>

01:21:30.400 --> 01:21:37.760
<v Speaker 1>you would sooner suffer and die than reject the gospel.</v>

01:21:41.040 --> 01:21:45.120
<v Speaker 1>Question twenty-one, I guess it's tangentially related.</v>

01:21:45.120 --> 01:21:49.600
<v Speaker 1>Is there any value in reading the so-called Gnostic Gospels or should</v>

01:21:49.600 --> 01:21:51.440
<v Speaker 1>they be ignored outright.</v>

01:21:51.440 --> 01:21:54.720
<v Speaker 1>In this case, just ignore them, because they are</v>

01:21:55.600 --> 01:21:58.240
<v Speaker 1>the equivalent of bad fanfiction.</v>

01:21:58.240 --> 01:22:03.440
<v Speaker 1>So with regard to the Apocrypha, right, which is related, but in</v>

01:22:03.440 --> 01:22:06.560
<v Speaker 1>in a certain sort of way, before anyone gets too angry at</v>

01:22:06.560 --> 01:22:11.760
<v Speaker 1>me. The Apocryphal books can be read profitably, because even if they</v>

01:22:11.760 --> 01:22:17.760
<v Speaker 1>are not Scripture, which they are not Scripture, like Maccabees, not Scripture.</v>

01:22:17.760 --> 01:22:21.360
<v Speaker 1>They can be read as history and can be of some value</v>

01:22:21.360 --> 01:22:26.080
<v Speaker 1>with regard to understanding particularly the inner testamental period.</v>

01:22:26.080 --> 01:22:29.680
<v Speaker 1>So these things can be read profitably, just like the fathers of</v>

01:22:29.680 --> 01:22:33.120
<v Speaker 1>the Church can be read, some of them profitably.</v>

01:22:33.120 --> 01:22:36.000
<v Speaker 1>They're not scripture, they can still be read.</v>

01:22:36.000 --> 01:22:37.520
<v Speaker 1>The Didicky, right?</v>

01:22:37.520 --> 01:22:40.080
<v Speaker 1>Can be read profitably, not scripture.</v>

01:22:40.080 --> 01:22:43.600
<v Speaker 1>The book of Concord, which I believe to be true, is my</v>

01:22:44.240 --> 01:22:49.440
<v Speaker 1>confession, can be read profitably, is not scripture.</v>

01:22:49.440 --> 01:22:55.680
<v Speaker 1>With regard to the Gnostic Gospels, so called though, they reject core</v>

01:22:55.680 --> 01:23:00.000
<v Speaker 1>parts of Christian teaching and teach things that are antithetical to Christianity,</v>

01:23:00.000 --> 01:23:02.400
<v Speaker 1>and so there is no profit in reading them.</v>

01:23:02.400 --> 01:23:05.440
<v Speaker 1>They are just wild nonsense.</v>

01:23:05.440 --> 01:23:07.680
<v Speaker 1>They are the equivalent of some of the</v>

01:23:08.720 --> 01:23:12.400
<v Speaker 1>crazier stuff that people sometimes try to argue as part of the</v>

01:23:12.400 --> 01:23:15.280
<v Speaker 1>Old Testament canon and very clearly is not.</v>

01:23:15.280 --> 01:23:18.480
<v Speaker 1>So there's just no benefit in reading them.</v>

01:23:18.480 --> 01:23:22.880
<v Speaker 1>They're the equivalent of basically a fiction work, but the problem is</v>

01:23:22.880 --> 01:23:25.760
<v Speaker 1>they're a fiction work claiming to be part of scripture and that's</v>

01:23:25.760 --> 01:23:26.640
<v Speaker 1>the danger.</v>

01:23:26.640 --> 01:23:29.040
<v Speaker 1>Right? There's no danger in reading Dune.</v>

01:23:29.120 --> 01:23:31.520
<v Speaker 1>Because no one reads Dune and says, well, this should go between</v>

01:23:31.520 --> 01:23:33.040
<v Speaker 1>Genesis and Exodus.</v>

01:23:33.440 --> 01:23:36.320
<v Speaker 1>I don't think anyone has ever said those words in that order</v>

01:23:36.320 --> 01:23:37.840
<v Speaker 1>before now.</v>

01:23:37.840 --> 01:23:41.760
<v Speaker 1>There are people who try to argue the Gnostic Gospels so-called are</v>

01:23:41.760 --> 01:23:44.000
<v Speaker 1>actual scripture, and so they're dangerous.</v>

01:23:44.000 --> 01:23:47.040
<v Speaker 1>So there's just no benefit in reading them for a Christian.</v>

01:23:57.680 --> 01:24:00.720
<v Speaker 1>I am going to leave the question about the two kingdoms doctrine</v>

01:24:00.720 --> 01:24:05.280
<v Speaker 1>until next time because that is a longer answer.</v>

01:24:05.360 --> 01:24:08.240
<v Speaker 1>See if there's a short one here I can answer before I</v>

01:24:08.240 --> 01:24:09.760
<v Speaker 1>call it for tonight.</v>

01:24:11.040 --> 01:24:14.080
<v Speaker 1>Someone asked by own white shirts.</v>

01:24:14.080 --> 01:24:17.840
<v Speaker 1>I do, but that's not going to be a question and answer</v>

01:24:17.840 --> 01:24:18.880
<v Speaker 1>for tonight, but</v>

01:24:19.920 --> 01:24:23.600
<v Speaker 1>I I do legitimately think I probably only own one though.</v>

01:24:23.600 --> 01:24:24.880
<v Speaker 1>Button down white shirt.</v>

01:24:24.880 --> 01:24:26.640
<v Speaker 1>I just usually don't wear white shirts</v>

01:24:29.280 --> 01:24:33.920
<v Speaker 1>And I see someone has been discussing what creatine does for the</v>

01:24:33.920 --> 01:24:37.120
<v Speaker 1>body, so I can go ahead and just leave that to chat.</v>

01:24:42.720 --> 01:24:46.640
<v Speaker 1>What is your opinion on female cantors?</v>

01:24:46.640 --> 01:24:50.400
<v Speaker 1>So I think I will call that the final question for tonight.</v>

01:24:50.400 --> 01:24:52.320
<v Speaker 1>That is question twenty two</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I think that women should not be standing up in front of</v>

01:24:56.240 --> 01:25:00.720
<v Speaker 1>the congregation and doing anything that be considered leading or teaching.</v>

01:25:00.720 --> 01:25:03.680
<v Speaker 1>And I would go so far as to include saying women should</v>

01:25:03.680 --> 01:25:07.040
<v Speaker 1>not be making the announcements even even though that's not technically part</v>

01:25:07.040 --> 01:25:08.320
<v Speaker 1>of the service.</v>

01:25:08.320 --> 01:25:11.840
<v Speaker 1>All of those things should be reserved to men because anything that</v>

01:25:11.840 --> 01:25:18.160
<v Speaker 1>gives the impression of being wielding of authority or any position of</v>

01:25:18.160 --> 01:25:23.360
<v Speaker 1>authority or influence in the church should be and is rightfully exclusively</v>

01:25:23.360 --> 01:25:25.040
<v Speaker 1>reserved to men.</v>

01:25:25.040 --> 01:25:27.360
<v Speaker 1>So women should not be doing those things.</v>

01:25:27.360 --> 01:25:28.800
<v Speaker 1>Can you have women in your choir?</v>

01:25:28.800 --> 01:25:32.800
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely, because the choir is not leading in any sense in any</v>

01:25:32.800 --> 01:25:34.000
<v Speaker 1>sort of sense of that word, right?</v>

01:25:34.000 --> 01:25:36.640
<v Speaker 1>The choir director should be a man.</v>

01:25:36.640 --> 01:25:38.960
<v Speaker 1>You should have women in your choir.</v>

01:25:38.960 --> 01:25:41.760
<v Speaker 1>Particularly because we have four part harmony in many of our older</v>

01:25:41.760 --> 01:25:46.000
<v Speaker 1>hymns, particularly Lutherans, beautiful hymns, we should return to using those things.</v>

01:25:46.000 --> 01:25:50.240
<v Speaker 1>But no, women should never be in a position that could be</v>

01:25:50.240 --> 01:25:51.920
<v Speaker 1>construed as leadership.</v>

01:25:51.920 --> 01:25:55.280
<v Speaker 1>And particularly one of the problems is going to be that you</v>

01:25:55.280 --> 01:25:59.680
<v Speaker 1>can mislead children and others who are new in the faith if</v>

01:25:59.680 --> 01:26:02.480
<v Speaker 1>they see women doing something like that and think, oh, this is</v>

01:26:02.640 --> 01:26:05.440
<v Speaker 1>women are allowed to lead and they can No.</v>

01:26:05.440 --> 01:26:06.800
<v Speaker 1>It gives the wrong impression.</v>

01:26:06.800 --> 01:26:09.280
<v Speaker 1>It gives the impression of impropriety and I think it is actually</v>

01:26:09.120 --> 01:26:12.640
<v Speaker 1>is actually also improper in and of itself.</v>

01:26:12.640 --> 01:26:15.120
<v Speaker 1>So no, we should not have women cantors.</v>

01:26:15.120 --> 01:26:17.920
<v Speaker 1>For those who don't know, the the cantor is the one leading</v>

01:26:17.920 --> 01:26:21.360
<v Speaker 1>sort of the the sung part of worship.</v>

01:26:21.360 --> 01:26:25.680
<v Speaker 1>For those of you who don't have that in your tradition.</v>

01:26:25.680 --> 01:26:30.800
<v Speaker 1>That was something that Bach actually did for part of his career.</v>

01:26:30.800 --> 01:26:33.440
<v Speaker 1>But I think that will be it for tonight.</v>

01:26:33.440 --> 01:26:36.080
<v Speaker 1>I am going to go have dinner before it gets too late,</v>

01:26:36.080 --> 01:26:39.040
<v Speaker 1>despite the fact that I'm drinking coffee at almost nine o'clock my</v>

01:26:39.040 --> 01:26:43.680
<v Speaker 1>time. Thank you for those who submitted questions and thank you for</v>

01:26:43.680 --> 01:26:44.960
<v Speaker 1>participating in the chat.</v>

01:26:44.960 --> 01:26:49.040
<v Speaker 1>If you have questions, you can always submit those via the forum,</v>

01:26:48.880 --> 01:26:53.120
<v Speaker 1>via the chat, on X, via Telegram.</v>

01:26:53.120 --> 01:26:56.160
<v Speaker 1>The forum is preferred because it's just easiest for me to get</v>

01:26:56.160 --> 01:26:59.200
<v Speaker 1>to them, notice them, and not lose them in the shuffle, as</v>

01:26:59.200 --> 01:27:00.000
<v Speaker 1>it were.</v>

01:27:00.000 --> 01:27:05.200
<v Speaker 1>And sometimes X in other places just deletes things in my threads.</v>

01:27:05.200 --> 01:27:08.960
<v Speaker 1>I've literally seen it happen where I've had a question gone to</v>

01:27:09.280 --> 01:27:12.320
<v Speaker 1>copy it over and it refreshed and was gone.</v>

01:27:12.320 --> 01:27:15.200
<v Speaker 1>Didn't even say deleted, just disappeared.</v>

01:27:15.200 --> 01:27:18.560
<v Speaker 1>So we all know that the platforms play games.</v>

01:27:18.560 --> 01:27:21.600
<v Speaker 1>At any rate I try to do this on Thursday.</v>

01:27:21.600 --> 01:27:24.640
<v Speaker 1>Usually winds up being Friday each week, just sort of depends how</v>

01:27:24.640 --> 01:27:25.840
<v Speaker 1>my week goes.</v>

01:27:25.840 --> 01:27:28.080
<v Speaker 1>Usually go for an hour, hour and a half.</v>

01:27:28.080 --> 01:27:30.160
<v Speaker 1>Just sort of depends on the week.</v>

01:27:30.160 --> 01:27:33.360
<v Speaker 1>But always good to be able to answer your questions, given that</v>

01:27:33.360 --> 01:27:33.920
<v Speaker 1>it's Friday.</v>

01:27:33.920 --> 01:27:35.760
<v Speaker 1>I hope you all have a good weekend.</v>

01:27:35.760 --> 01:27:39.520
<v Speaker 1>As discussed earlier in the stream, definitely go get some walking in.</v>

01:27:39.520 --> 01:27:40.880
<v Speaker 1>Cardio's good for you.</v>

01:27:40.880 --> 01:27:42.720
<v Speaker 1>Even if like me, you live in the south and it's very</v>

01:27:42.720 --> 01:27:43.760
<v Speaker 1>warm during the day.</v>

01:27:44.160 --> 01:27:47.600
<v Speaker 1>Go a little later in the evening or very early in morning.</v>

01:27:47.600 --> 01:27:50.000
<v Speaker 1>Particularly if you have dogs, it's pretty hot out there.</v>

01:27:50.000 --> 01:27:52.640
<v Speaker 1>At any rate, I hope you have a good weekend.</v>

01:27:52.640 --> 01:27:56.720
<v Speaker 1>I will see you all next week and of course go to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>church on Sunday and until I see you next Thursday or Friday,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>God bless.</v>