WEBVTT 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:04.080 It is the 23rd of January, 2026. 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:05.200 I am Cory J. 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:09.600 Mahler, and this is at any cost, this is the 13th episode, 00:00:09.600 --> 00:00:13.200 the fourth QA episode of 2026. 00:00:13.200 --> 00:00:16.240 And I will just get right into the questions. 00:00:16.240 --> 00:00:20.800 I have five questions prepared for tonight and if any others pop 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:23.520 up in the chat during the stream then I will try to 00:00:23.520 --> 00:00:26.960 get to those as well. 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:31.120 And so the first question is sort of an extension of a 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:35.920 previous question about investing, but sort of independent as well. 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:43.520 It's about the morality of investing in pro-abortion or pro-homosexuality companies. 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:46.560 And this is again one of those questions where the answer is 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:50.080 going to be that it is partly a matter of wisdom. 00:00:50.080 --> 00:00:52.720 And the And the reason for that is that I'll try not 00:00:52.720 --> 00:00:54.480 to smack my camera here. 00:00:54.480 --> 00:00:59.040 The reason for that is that given the current state of the 00:00:59.040 --> 00:01:03.600 economy under which we live, some of these things are going to 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:05.200 be unavoidable. 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:12.240 For instance, if you draw out the morality to its fullest extent, 00:01:12.240 --> 00:01:16.560 then you can say that paying taxes is funding abortion. 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:17.520 Because it is. 00:01:17.520 --> 00:01:23.520 Because the US government currently funds abortions both at home and abroad. 00:01:23.520 --> 00:01:26.800 And so is paying your taxes moral? 00:01:26.800 --> 00:01:30.640 Well, render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, pay taxes to 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:32.560 whom taxes are owed. 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:37.440 But there is also the aspect that yes, funding abortions is immoral. 00:01:37.440 --> 00:01:40.160 And so the question is: where is that line? 00:01:40.160 --> 00:01:42.000 What are we permitted to do? 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:43.680 What should we do? 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:47.920 I think I think given the sort of just the reality of 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:52.800 the situation, the best answer is that obviously yes, you have to 00:01:52.800 --> 00:01:54.240 pay your taxes. 00:01:54.240 --> 00:01:56.960 That's you don't really have a choice there. 00:01:56.960 --> 00:02:01.200 But we have to act and attempt to change the system such 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:05.600 that we try to stop funding these immoral activities. 00:02:05.600 --> 00:02:11.120 And so it's not authorization or warrant for you to stop paying 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:14.640 your taxes, to tell the IRS I have a religious exemption. 00:02:14.640 --> 00:02:17.200 That won't go well for you, so don't do that. 00:02:17.200 --> 00:02:21.360 You can consider that just regular advice and legal advice. 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:23.280 Don't not pay your taxes. 00:02:23.760 --> 00:02:26.080 The IRS will eventually come after you, and it will be a 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:28.000 very unpleasant experience. 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:30.960 More so depending on the state in which you live, because as 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:34.560 it turns out, some state tax authorities are worse than the IRS. 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:39.680 California, for instance, as I know well, thankfully no longer subject to 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:41.360 that particular body. 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:46.080 But when it comes to investing, let's say for instance you invest 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:48.320 in a mutual fund, right? 00:02:48.320 --> 00:02:49.360 Or something like that. 00:02:49.920 --> 00:02:56.720 Some vehicle, some investment vehicle, where some third party essentially does the 00:02:56.720 --> 00:03:01.040 investing for you into a large portfolio, spreading obviously out the risk, 00:03:01.040 --> 00:03:01.840 return, all that. 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:05.200 I'm not getting into the mechanics of investing here. 00:03:05.200 --> 00:03:09.600 But undoubtedly some of those companies are going to support things. 00:03:09.600 --> 00:03:12.480 They are going to do things that are immoral. 00:03:12.480 --> 00:03:16.640 Do you as a Christian have a duty to go through every 00:03:16.640 --> 00:03:21.360 single company and examine all of them, looking for all of their 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:25.360 activities, and then assessing if those activities are moral? 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:28.400 I think clearly the answer is no. 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:31.680 One, not every man can do that. 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:36.160 Two, it's completely ridiculous to expect even the men who can do 00:03:36.160 --> 00:03:37.760 that to do that. 00:03:37.760 --> 00:03:39.520 Does that mean no one should? 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:40.880 Absolutely not. 00:03:40.880 --> 00:03:45.680 For instance, there are those in a position of oversight or authority 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:47.840 who should be looking into those things. 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:52.240 And so as Christians, again what we need to do is support 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:55.840 those who are trying to change that, who are trying to make 00:03:55.840 --> 00:03:59.920 it so companies are not legally permitted to fund abortions. 00:03:59.920 --> 00:04:02.880 So healthcare companies don't cover that with insurance. 00:04:02.880 --> 00:04:05.360 So realistically the goal with abortion of course is to make it 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:09.760 illegal. I guess good timing here, the march for life just happened. 00:04:09.760 --> 00:04:11.600 Look at that whatever way you please. 00:04:11.600 --> 00:04:14.800 There are pluses and minuses to that kind of activity. 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:19.040 But the Christian goal should be to remove the immoral activities from 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:22.640 society, but the way that we achieve that is not going to 00:04:22.640 --> 00:04:26.080 be completely removing ourselves from society. 00:04:26.080 --> 00:04:29.440 That will simply mean that you have no influence, you have no 00:04:29.440 --> 00:04:33.680 effect, you have no power to change anything in society. 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:37.120 Part of participating in the society is going to be using your 00:04:37.120 --> 00:04:41.760 money wisely, and yes, that is going to involve investing so that 00:04:41.760 --> 00:04:47.200 your money does not basically become worthless, partly due to the nature 00:04:47.200 --> 00:04:51.200 of the fact that well, unfortunately inflation is a very real thing 00:04:51.200 --> 00:04:52.320 these days. 00:04:52.320 --> 00:04:56.160 Part of the nature of the beast with our current economic system, 00:04:56.160 --> 00:05:01.040 but That's sort of the reality with in which we live. 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:03.040 We don't have a way to avoid it. 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:08.800 And so we exercise wisdom in how we use the resources that 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:12.400 God has given us, but not in the sense of becoming I 00:05:12.400 --> 00:05:15.440 don't want to say a legalist because it's not really a legalist. 00:05:15.440 --> 00:05:19.520 It's right to recognize that evil is being done and there is 00:05:19.520 --> 00:05:24.880 a measure, an amount of participation to some minor degree because you 00:05:24.880 --> 00:05:29.520 know if you have ten thousand dollars, which is non-trivial for most 00:05:29.520 --> 00:05:32.800 men, but if you have ten thousand dollars in Apple stock, how 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:37.920 much are you really influencing a multi-billion dollar company, a nearly trillion 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:41.120 dollar company, the answer is effectively zero. 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:41.440 So 00:05:42.400 --> 00:05:46.480 just because your participation is minimal doesn't mean there's no moral concern, 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:47.280 of course. 00:05:47.280 --> 00:05:49.120 We all recognize that. 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:56.320 But there's a fundamental difference between investing in, say, a company that 00:05:56.320 --> 00:06:00.160 pushes these things or its core business is this, so don't invest 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:01.200 in Planned Parenthood. 00:06:01.200 --> 00:06:02.560 You can't do that as a Christian. 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:03.520 That's immoral. 00:06:03.520 --> 00:06:05.200 Don't do that. 00:06:05.200 --> 00:06:10.240 But is investing in a company that then goes on to have 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:15.280 policies of its own that run counter to Christian morality necessarily a 00:06:15.280 --> 00:06:17.440 moral transgression on your part? 00:06:17.440 --> 00:06:21.280 I think the answer is, as I've already said, no. 00:06:21.280 --> 00:06:25.120 The Christian thing to do is to work to change those things, 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:29.520 not simply to withdraw yourself from everything and become neurotic about these 00:06:29.520 --> 00:06:33.440 things. It's right to recognize that evil is being done and that 00:06:33.440 --> 00:06:35.840 something should be done about the evil. 00:06:35.840 --> 00:06:38.160 But I don't think the thing that we need to do as 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:43.680 Christians is to withdraw ourselves from society and make ourselves have less 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:47.360 of an impact and essentially squander our resources. 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:51.680 It's not to say that if you don't see a maximal return 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:55.280 on your money that you're being unwise with the talents that God 00:06:55.280 --> 00:06:56.480 gave you. 00:06:56.480 --> 00:06:59.600 Rather, I think that you have to have a measure of wisdom 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:01.920 in how you use those resources. 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:06.880 And if you look at the policies of any major corporation, you 00:07:06.880 --> 00:07:09.280 are going to find things to which you can object as a 00:07:09.280 --> 00:07:12.640 Christian, which would leave you in a position where you simply could 00:07:12.640 --> 00:07:16.720 not invest your money at all, which I think would be unwise. 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:18.480 And so there's that balancing 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:23.920 of wisdom against the reality of the fact that many of these 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:28.320 companies, probably all of these companies, are immoral in some way. 00:07:28.320 --> 00:07:33.840 So yes, invest your money wisely, do with your talents what God 00:07:33.840 --> 00:07:37.040 wants you to do, which is use them wisely to see a 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:40.320 return on them, and that includes your money as well, obviously. 00:07:40.320 --> 00:07:43.920 It's not just your talents in the sense one of those words 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:47.760 that's convenient in English because talent is a measure of usually gold, 00:07:47.760 --> 00:07:51.520 a fine metal, and also your ability to do something. 00:07:51.520 --> 00:07:54.560 But see a return on both of those, your money and your 00:07:54.560 --> 00:08:03.360 abilities. But don't invest in the companies that are openly wicked. 00:08:03.760 --> 00:08:08.240 The next question is an exegetical question, so I will pull up 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:12.400 logos here so we can all actually look at scripture assuming that 00:08:12.400 --> 00:08:16.240 it will cooperate with me. 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:18.640 There we go. 00:08:20.960 --> 00:08:21.280 And 00:08:22.320 --> 00:08:28.560 the question is The question is about exegesis of Isaiah sixty five 00:08:29.200 --> 00:08:34.080 and of course related parallel similar passages, not just this one. 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:40.000 Primarily about the latter half of this, which I'll pull up right 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:42.960 here, starting with verse seventeen. 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:45.760 For heaven will be new, and the earth will be new, and 00:08:45.760 --> 00:08:49.280 they shall not remember the former things, nor shall they come upon 00:08:49.280 --> 00:08:53.120 their heart, but they shall find joy and gladness in it, because 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:56.960 look I am making Jerusalem as gladness, and my people as a 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:01.360 joy, and I will be over Jerusalem, and rejoice over my people, 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:04.000 and no more shall a voice of weeping be heard in it, 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:07.840 nor a voice of crying, and there shall not be there one 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:11.920 who dies untimely, or an old person who will not fulfil his 00:09:11.920 --> 00:09:15.280 time for the young person will be a hundred years old, but 00:09:15.280 --> 00:09:17.920 the one who dies a sinner will die a hundred years old 00:09:17.920 --> 00:09:22.560 and accursed, and they shall build houses with themselves, and they themselves 00:09:22.560 --> 00:09:26.560 shall inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards and themselves shall eat 00:09:26.560 --> 00:09:30.480 their fruit, and they shall not build another's inhabit, they shall not 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:33.760 plant another's eat, for according to the days of the tree of 00:09:33.760 --> 00:09:36.160 life shall the days of my people be. 00:09:36.160 --> 00:09:39.680 They shall make old the works of their labours, and my chosen 00:09:39.680 --> 00:09:43.680 ones shall not labor in vain, nor bear children for a curse, 00:09:43.680 --> 00:09:46.400 because they are an offspring blessed by God. 00:09:46.400 --> 00:09:49.200 And it shall be that before they have cried out I will 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:50.240 listen to them. 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:53.200 While they are yet speaking I will say, What is it? 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:56.960 Then wolves and lambs shall feed together, and a lion shall eat 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:00.800 straw like an ox, but his snake shall eat earth as bread. 00:10:00.800 --> 00:10:04.720 They shall not do wrong or destroy on my holy mountain, says 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:06.640 the Lord. 00:10:06.640 --> 00:10:09.200 And so the first thing that should be noted, of course, is 00:10:09.280 --> 00:10:11.360 this passage is eschatological. 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:14.880 This is about the new heavens and the new earth. 00:10:14.880 --> 00:10:20.400 This is not about anything done here in time in this creation 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:24.080 if we want to speak of a creation and new creation versus 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:28.000 recreation. Not getting into that right now, but obviously it says for 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:30.000 heaven will be new and the earth will be new. 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:31.760 And we can see the parallel passages. 00:10:31.760 --> 00:10:33.760 I could pull them up, but I think we all know them 00:10:33.760 --> 00:10:37.200 in Revelation, in Peter and other places, right? 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:39.680 We have a new heavens and a new earth. 00:10:39.680 --> 00:10:42.480 This is the new creation. 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:46.160 This is not about obviously some people will latch on oh it's 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:48.480 Jerusalem. This is not earthly Jerusalem. 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:50.640 I went over this in a previous episode. 00:10:50.640 --> 00:10:56.640 This is heavenly Jerusalem, this is eschatological Jerusalem, this is a stand 00:10:56.640 --> 00:10:58.720 and a symbol for the new earth. 00:10:58.880 --> 00:11:02.640 And so one of the questions that comes up for people, and 00:11:02.640 --> 00:11:06.160 part of this is going to be of course, that you have 00:11:06.160 --> 00:11:10.400 a difference in, say, the ESV, in things that are based on 00:11:10.400 --> 00:11:11.520 the Masoretic. 00:11:11.520 --> 00:11:13.440 Let me zoom in on the text a little bit here. 00:11:13.680 --> 00:11:17.280 And one of the ways that it differs, and the difference here 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:19.360 is what is going to trip some people up. 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:22.480 So part of the solution is just use the actual scripture. 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:25.360 But it says, for the young man shall die a hundred years 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:28.480 old. And so obviously if you're dealing with the Masoretic, now you 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:31.200 have to explain how we're dealing with death in the new heavens 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:32.480 and the new earth. 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:37.280 It's not a problem if you're over in the Septuagint, right? 00:11:37.280 --> 00:11:40.720 But it still is something that needs to be exegeted because it's 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:44.960 speaking about men filling out their days. 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:48.800 This is speaking in symbolic terms about the new heavens and the 00:11:48.800 --> 00:11:49.600 new earth. 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:52.240 There's no death in the new heavens, there's no death in the 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:53.360 new earth. 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:55.760 So filling out your days is eternity. 00:11:55.760 --> 00:11:56.880 You live forever. 00:11:56.880 --> 00:12:00.080 And you don't have suffering, you don't have pain, and of course 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:02.960 it says, nor bear children for a curse. 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:05.120 This is one that 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:09.040 there are actually two things, two points I want to make here. 00:12:09.040 --> 00:12:14.400 One is I have no position on whether or not childbearing is 00:12:14.400 --> 00:12:18.560 something simply for this creation, and then And then the new creation 00:12:18.560 --> 00:12:20.080 does not have that. 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:24.240 I don't think that there is a sufficient answer from what we 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:29.280 have in scripture that I can conclusively say A or B. 00:12:29.280 --> 00:12:31.200 And I quite frankly don't care. 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:33.680 Because that's God's problem. 00:12:33.680 --> 00:12:35.440 And it will be perfect. 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:37.600 We're dealing with the new heavens, the new earth. 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:40.960 We're not dealing with fallen man, that's no longer an issue. 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:43.120 I'm not going to take a position on it. 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:46.640 And the second point I want to make there, never listen to 00:12:46.640 --> 00:12:48.880 a man who's not willing to say what I just said. 00:12:48.880 --> 00:12:50.000 Because what did I just say? 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:52.640 I just said I don't know. 00:12:52.640 --> 00:12:57.040 Never listen to a man who always says I know the answer. 00:12:57.040 --> 00:13:00.240 Because they're really only two ways that can go. 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:02.880 You have one the sort of man who wants you to believe 00:13:02.880 --> 00:13:06.640 he has an answer to everything and you should follow him around. 00:13:06.640 --> 00:13:09.040 And then two, you have the sort of man who wants you 00:13:09.040 --> 00:13:11.280 to believe that every time you ask him a question, he has 00:13:11.680 --> 00:13:13.120 an answer ready to go. 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:14.880 That's a sycophant. 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:18.880 Neither of those men is going to improve your life. 00:13:18.880 --> 00:13:22.720 And so be very careful about any man who does not say 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:25.360 the words or similar words, I'm not saying you have to quote 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:29.200 this, but who does not say I do not know. 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:30.880 Because no man knows everything. 00:13:30.880 --> 00:13:33.440 And so this is a case where I don't know, but I 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:38.320 don't think it matters incidentally here, so I'm not concerned about it. 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:42.000 A related matter that I've touched on many times before elsewhere, but 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:45.520 I'll repeat it here Marriage, right? 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:47.200 This question comes up all the time. 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:50.160 This is not a question I have in my notes for tonight, 00:13:50.160 --> 00:13:53.520 but I'll just answer this one because it is tangentially related and 00:13:53.520 --> 00:13:56.080 it's sort of a core matter here. 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:59.600 Does marriage exist in the new earth? 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:02.080 And I can stop saying new heavens and new earth because obviously 00:14:02.160 --> 00:14:04.880 the new earth is what applies to us because resurrection of the 00:14:04.880 --> 00:14:08.480 flesh. And it should be flesh, you can say body, but understand 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:10.880 it is the physical body, the flesh. 00:14:10.880 --> 00:14:12.160 The answer is yes. 00:14:12.160 --> 00:14:13.760 Marriage still exists. 00:14:13.760 --> 00:14:17.600 And I know there are those who are going to say, Well, 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:21.840 Jesus says when he's talking to the Sadducees that they neither marry 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:23.280 nor are given in marriage. 00:14:23.280 --> 00:14:26.960 And my response to that is true. 00:14:26.640 --> 00:14:28.720 but pay attention to the verbs. 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:30.160 What does he actually say? 00:14:30.160 --> 00:14:34.640 He says they neither marry, which is to say take a wife, 00:14:34.640 --> 00:14:37.680 nor are given in marriage, which is to say be taken as 00:14:37.680 --> 00:14:38.720 a wife. 00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:39.600 What does it not say? 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:42.240 What does he not say to the Sadducees? 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:45.280 And that's leaving aside the fact that this is partly polemical because 00:14:45.280 --> 00:14:47.360 he's mocking the Sadducees. 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:50.480 Christ mocks people in Scripture, so anyone who tells you you can't 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:52.080 mock people is just wrong. 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:55.520 God does it, it's morally permissible. 00:14:55.520 --> 00:14:59.200 He doesn't say they aren't married. 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:00.880 That's a different thing. 00:15:00.880 --> 00:15:04.480 If you say that no one is married, that is not the 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:08.480 same as saying no one no one gets married or is given 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:09.040 in marriage. 00:15:09.040 --> 00:15:14.480 Well what wouldn't happen in the perfect creation, in the new heaven, 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:15.440 in the new earth? 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:18.240 Well in the new earth, there will be no divorce. 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:20.000 There will be no separation. 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:21.040 None of that. 00:15:21.040 --> 00:15:24.720 And so just because he says they are not given in marriage, 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:28.240 they do not take a wife, does not mean there's no marriage. 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:31.200 And on top of that, I do not think that we can 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:36.000 say that marriage will pass away because of how highly marriage is 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:39.360 praised in the pages of scripture, all the places that deal explicitly 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:43.680 with marriage, and probably the first place I would go for that 00:15:43.680 --> 00:15:46.000 was That would be the fact that I brought this up before, 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:49.440 but it's worth repeating because it's such an important passage of scripture 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:53.200 that we just sort of read and keep going as if nothing 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:57.760 happened. Adam walked with God in the garden, and God said it 00:15:57.760 --> 00:16:00.640 is not good for man to be alone. 00:16:00.640 --> 00:16:05.120 That is how important God believes marriage to be. 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:08.880 That is how vitally important to the nature of man marriage is. 00:16:08.880 --> 00:16:10.960 And so I do not think it will pass away. 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:14.400 The destruction of that which is good is evil. 00:16:14.400 --> 00:16:17.440 And so marriage being a good creation of God, I do not 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:19.040 believe it will pass away. 00:16:19.040 --> 00:16:22.000 I'm not saying you're compelled to believe that, you can believe either 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:26.400 way. I don't think that by looking at scripture you necessarily have 00:16:26.400 --> 00:16:27.280 to agree with me. 00:16:27.280 --> 00:16:29.520 I think that my logic is entirely sound. 00:16:29.520 --> 00:16:30.560 I think that it follows. 00:16:30.560 --> 00:16:32.480 I think it necessarily follows. 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:34.640 But I don't think you're in sin if you disagree. 00:16:34.640 --> 00:16:39.440 I'm just saying my position is that looking at scripture, the totality 00:16:39.440 --> 00:16:43.280 of Scripture, the totality of the teaching and comments on marriage in 00:16:43.280 --> 00:16:47.520 Scripture, and yes, the philosophy, the theology, I think it is very 00:16:47.520 --> 00:16:51.280 clear that marriage still exists in Paradise. 00:16:51.280 --> 00:16:54.240 But But I don't think the issue of whether or not there 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:59.520 are children born after the resurrection is addressed to a point where 00:16:59.520 --> 00:17:01.360 I can clearly say one or the other. 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:05.040 So I take neither position on that one. 00:17:05.040 --> 00:17:11.280 But But that tangent aside, this passage and the similar passages, parallel 00:17:11.280 --> 00:17:15.360 ones elsewhere in scripture, I mentioned a couple of them, dealing with 00:17:15.360 --> 00:17:19.040 the Eschaton, dealing with the new creation. 00:17:19.040 --> 00:17:24.160 And so realize the language, because you're dealing in prophetic language, is 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:27.520 going to have more symbol, it's going to be heavier in terms 00:17:27.520 --> 00:17:32.160 of allusions to things, more figures of speech than when you're dealing 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:36.480 in something that is purely historical like many passages in Genesis. 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:39.760 So you have to take that into account when you exegete the 00:17:39.760 --> 00:17:43.280 passage. This is the new heavens and the new earth. 00:17:43.280 --> 00:17:45.360 There's no death, there's no suffering. 00:17:45.360 --> 00:17:46.960 Those things had passed away. 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:48.720 This is a contrast here. 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:51.840 Many of these things that are said here are a contrast with 00:17:51.840 --> 00:17:55.440 the world in which we live now, which has children who are 00:17:55.440 --> 00:18:00.320 born and then suffer or die immediately, sometimes along with the mother. 00:18:00.320 --> 00:18:05.200 All of these things that happen in this fallen world, they're gone. 00:18:05.200 --> 00:18:07.280 They no longer exist. 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:14.800 That's the point of this passage in parallel ones as well. 00:18:15.280 --> 00:18:19.040 The next question, let me pull up the actual wording here. 00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:32.240 I have a close friend who is pagan, neopagan, and race first, 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:35.120 and his main objection to Christianity is that he sees it as 00:18:35.120 --> 00:18:39.760 inherently Jewish because of Jesus' historical and ethnic origin. 00:18:39.760 --> 00:18:43.360 From your perspective, how would you address the claim that Christianity is 00:18:43.360 --> 00:18:47.360 fundamentally a Jewish religion rather than rather than a universal or European 00:18:47.360 --> 00:18:51.600 one? Are there specific works, thinkers, or historical arguments you recommend that 00:18:51.600 --> 00:18:57.040 help disentangle Christianity from modern ethnic or rabbinic Judaism, without falling into 00:18:57.040 --> 00:18:59.760 theological compromise? 00:19:01.280 --> 00:19:05.680 There are a number of questions here, but I think my core 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:08.960 answer initially is just going to be go listen to the relevant 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:10.320 episodes of Stone Choir. 00:19:10.320 --> 00:19:12.000 We addressed much of this. 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:16.880 In particular, the episode as a foundational matter that would be very 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:20.560 useful would be the one dealing with the difference between Jews, Hebrews, 00:19:20.560 --> 00:19:23.200 Israelites. Like these are different terms. 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:25.280 They do not mean the same thing. 00:19:25.280 --> 00:19:26.560 And part of the problem 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:31.120 is that I I recognize I've answered this before elsewhere, but it's 00:19:31.040 --> 00:19:32.160 worthwhile to answer it again. 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:34.320 It's going to just keep coming up for years. 00:19:34.320 --> 00:19:37.760 This is the reality of our situation. 00:19:37.760 --> 00:19:41.840 If you don't get the terms right, as many modern men do 00:19:41.840 --> 00:19:45.040 not, you're actually not going to have any idea about what you're 00:19:45.040 --> 00:19:49.360 talking. And so you'll say Jew and he'll say Jew, and maybe 00:19:49.360 --> 00:19:51.600 you mean totally different things. 00:19:51.600 --> 00:19:53.840 Maybe you don't, but maybe you do. 00:19:53.840 --> 00:19:56.160 You need to define your terms. 00:19:56.160 --> 00:20:00.480 And people can get weird about defining terms, but you can't have 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:04.320 a useful discussion if you don't have a shared language. 00:20:04.320 --> 00:20:06.880 And part of that is defining your terms. 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:13.520 For instance, by way of example, if you say Jew, and by 00:20:13.520 --> 00:20:18.640 Jew, you mean the very limited hypertechnical sense of the verse that 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:22.560 says he is not a true Jew who is one according to 00:20:22.560 --> 00:20:25.360 the flesh, right, but one who is a Jew according to faith, 00:20:25.360 --> 00:20:27.520 which would mean Christians are the true Jews. 00:20:27.520 --> 00:20:32.080 Well if you say Jews and you mean Christians, and then you're 00:20:32.080 --> 00:20:37.520 talking to a man who says Jews and he means ethnic Jews, 00:20:37.520 --> 00:20:42.320 Jews by blood, literal lineal descendants of Abraham, you're not going to 00:20:42.320 --> 00:20:43.920 have a very productive conversation 00:20:44.800 --> 00:20:47.440 because you're talking about different things. 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:50.720 It is the equivalent of and it's hard for some men to 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:54.320 understand this intuitively, but if you think about it in this way 00:20:54.400 --> 00:20:58.560 it might help, it is the equivalent of say, if I speak 00:20:58.560 --> 00:21:02.960 German to you and you speak French to me, I don't know 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:05.680 French, and and for the sake of the hypothetical, you don't know 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:09.440 German, how far are we really going to get in our discussion? 00:21:09.440 --> 00:21:12.960 It's not actually better to use the same language if you aren't 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:16.080 using the same definitions of the terms. 00:21:16.080 --> 00:21:20.000 Particularly with something as fraught as Jew. 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:22.320 And so, first off, you have to know what you mean by 00:21:22.320 --> 00:21:26.080 Jew. So So, is Christ a Jew? 00:21:26.080 --> 00:21:29.360 My answer has always been all along no. 00:21:29.360 --> 00:21:32.000 And the reason for that, I've explained it in the Stone Choir 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:33.360 episode and elsewhere. 00:21:33.360 --> 00:21:37.120 But the reason for that is that to the modern mind, particularly 00:21:37.120 --> 00:21:42.400 the modern English year, the word Jew imports a lot of things 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:43.520 along with it. 00:21:43.520 --> 00:21:47.440 It means ethnically, you're Jewish, right? 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:50.960 You are at least part Jewish because obviously there's admixture there. 00:21:50.960 --> 00:21:53.520 That's part of their curse, miscegenation. 00:21:53.520 --> 00:21:56.560 But you are at least partially Jewish by blood. 00:21:56.560 --> 00:21:58.640 You are Jewish religiously. 00:21:58.640 --> 00:22:01.920 Even if you're an atheist, you can be a religious Jew because 00:22:01.920 --> 00:22:05.520 their religion doesn't actually require you to believe in God, because as 00:22:05.520 --> 00:22:08.240 I pointed out before, their actual God is them. 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:10.160 They are their own God. 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:14.160 But it's all of these different aspects that the modern mind hears 00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:17.920 when you say Jew, even if you don't think it explicitly, you 00:22:17.920 --> 00:22:21.200 are importing it implicitly, it's in your subconscious. 00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:23.120 And someone said Talmudist in chat. 00:22:23.120 --> 00:22:24.320 That's also right, it's correct. 00:22:24.320 --> 00:22:25.440 That is their religion. 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:30.480 But the Talmud is basically their experience expression of their belief that 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:34.000 the Jewish people are themselves their own God and the only people 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:35.200 who exist. 00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:41.200 That's sort of the the bookmark version of Judaism. 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:45.520 But in that sense, Christ is not a Jew. 00:22:45.520 --> 00:22:51.280 Because obviously, being God, he doesn't think the Jews are God. 00:22:51.280 --> 00:22:53.760 Pretty clear on that one. 00:22:53.760 --> 00:22:56.720 The problem is, then you have to say, okay, what do we 00:22:56.720 --> 00:22:57.760 call him? 00:22:57.760 --> 00:23:02.320 What do we call those who are ethnically descended from the twelve 00:23:02.480 --> 00:23:06.080 tribes, or realistically in this case, from one of two tribes, because 00:23:06.080 --> 00:23:09.600 those are the ones that remain, the ones that survived, two and 00:23:09.600 --> 00:23:10.560 a half. 00:23:10.560 --> 00:23:15.920 Which is to say Judah, Benjamin, tiny tribe, and Levi, right? 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:20.480 But how do we term those who are descended from the surviving 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:22.400 tribes, but not a Jew. 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:23.920 I would just say Hebrew. 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:28.560 He's not an Israelite, because an Israelite is really a term for 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:31.280 a member of ancient Israel, right? 00:23:31.280 --> 00:23:33.280 And well, ancient Israel no longer exists. 00:23:33.280 --> 00:23:36.480 So Israelites no longer exist. 00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:38.720 Hebrews still exist. 00:23:38.720 --> 00:23:44.160 And so Hebrew would be the equivalent of any other ethnic term: 00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:48.000 German, French, English, Chinese, whatever it happens to be. 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:53.200 In that sense, absolutely, he is a descendant of Judah. 00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:55.840 He is the lion of the tribe of Judah. 00:23:55.840 --> 00:23:59.920 He has some admixture in his line from those who are not 00:23:59.920 --> 00:24:01.680 descended from Abraham. 00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:06.560 There's some points there for another time, but is he a Hebrew? 00:24:06.560 --> 00:24:11.280 Yes. But it's important to make that foundational point that he is 00:24:11.280 --> 00:24:12.640 not a Jew. 00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:16.000 The modern Jews are a different thing, and you pointed out correctly 00:24:16.400 --> 00:24:19.840 rabbinic Judaism, because of course when you had the destruction of the 00:24:19.840 --> 00:24:24.720 temple, it transitioned to basically worship worship in the synagogue, it is 00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:28.240 worship just of a different god, lowercase g. 00:24:28.240 --> 00:24:33.040 You have the rabbinic formulation that is Talmudic Judaism focused on the 00:24:33.040 --> 00:24:36.560 synagogue and the rabbis instead of the temple, because the temple worship 00:24:36.560 --> 00:24:38.800 was destroyed by God. 00:24:38.800 --> 00:24:40.080 Very clearly. 00:24:40.080 --> 00:24:44.880 The curtain was rent when Christ was crucified, and then God brought 00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:48.400 the Romans in to burn everything and knock literally every stone off 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:50.240 every other stone. 00:24:50.240 --> 00:24:51.920 Incidentally is a tangent. 00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:55.680 The Wailing Wall so called is part of a Roman complex. 00:24:55.680 --> 00:24:57.120 It's not part of the temple. 00:24:57.120 --> 00:24:59.440 If you believe it's part of the temple, you're calling Christ a 00:24:59.440 --> 00:25:02.320 liar, because he said not one stone will be left standing upon 00:25:02.320 --> 00:25:06.080 another. So if you're a Christian, you have to believe that's not 00:25:06.080 --> 00:25:07.280 part of the temple. 00:25:07.280 --> 00:25:09.760 But at any rate, the temple is gone, they can't worship at 00:25:09.760 --> 00:25:13.200 the temple, they can't follow the ceremony of the Old Testament, which 00:25:13.280 --> 00:25:18.320 of course Christ did away with that, but they can't follow it. 00:25:18.320 --> 00:25:19.680 So what do they do? 00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:22.640 They make a new religion, rabbinic Judaism. 00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:25.520 It is an outgrowth of all of their demon worship down through 00:25:25.520 --> 00:25:31.840 the centuries, including in Egypt, during the particularly the Babylonian captivity, in 00:25:31.840 --> 00:25:37.520 this case Babylonian exile, all of these things they have distilled into 00:25:37.520 --> 00:25:39.280 their modern wicked religion. 00:25:39.280 --> 00:25:42.480 And so Christ wasn't part of that, it didn't exist in his 00:25:42.560 --> 00:25:46.640 day. There was a proto version of it, but just a proto 00:25:46.960 --> 00:25:48.080 version of it. 00:25:48.080 --> 00:25:51.920 Incidentally, when you see Galatians three twenty eight, I've pointed this out 00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:55.760 before, including into the ep the Stonequire episode on that, is a 00:25:55.760 --> 00:26:00.720 polemic against one of the prayers from Talmudic Judaism. 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:01.040 So 00:26:02.080 --> 00:26:06.560 the people who try to say that Christianity is Jewish don't know 00:26:06.560 --> 00:26:11.040 anything about Judaism or Christianity? 00:26:11.040 --> 00:26:16.080 Because there is nothing the Jews hate more than Christianity. 00:26:16.080 --> 00:26:21.440 Why do you think they've tried for centuries to destroy Christianity? 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:23.360 They don't care about Islam. 00:26:23.360 --> 00:26:24.960 They don't care about Buddhism. 00:26:24.960 --> 00:26:26.720 They don't care about atheism. 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:29.840 They don't care about anything except Christianity. 00:26:29.840 --> 00:26:34.000 When is the last time you saw the Jews or any of 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:40.400 their puppets, their marionettes, go after paganism, neo paganism. 00:26:40.400 --> 00:26:42.560 Never. They don't care. 00:26:42.560 --> 00:26:46.720 They go after Christianity because Christianity is the only legitimate threat to 00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:50.000 them because it's the true religion. 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:53.040 They hate Christianity, they hate Christians. 00:26:53.040 --> 00:26:55.120 Look at the pages of the New Testament. 00:26:55.120 --> 00:26:59.920 One of the things for which Paul and others explicitly condemn the 00:26:59.920 --> 00:27:05.280 Jews is trying to keep people from converting to Christianity because they 00:27:05.280 --> 00:27:08.480 hate Christianity that much because they hate God. 00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:14.640 Because their whole religion, their whole self-identity, their national identity, was built 00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:18.080 around believing that they were chosen in some way and that only 00:27:18.080 --> 00:27:21.520 they were part of God's little club, and you got into heaven 00:27:21.520 --> 00:27:23.520 by being a Jew. 00:27:23.600 --> 00:27:26.800 And then God came down in the flesh and told them, No, 00:27:26.800 --> 00:27:27.680 you're wrong. 00:27:27.680 --> 00:27:29.280 It's never been that way. 00:27:29.280 --> 00:27:30.880 That has nothing to do with it. 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:33.360 And he started it with John the Baptist, of course. 00:27:33.360 --> 00:27:37.040 God could raise up from these stones sons for Abraham. 00:27:37.040 --> 00:27:39.920 It does not help you to be a Jew by blood. 00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:44.000 Christianity is abundantly clear on that in many, many passages. 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:50.400 And so when someone tries to object that Christianity is Jewish. 00:27:50.400 --> 00:27:51.360 Really what they're doing 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:54.400 I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt here. 00:27:54.400 --> 00:27:57.920 I'm going to say this is someone who is objecting in so 00:27:57.920 --> 00:28:01.280 far as it is possible to do so in earnest. 00:28:01.520 --> 00:28:05.280 Those men are doing it because of the state of the churches 00:28:05.280 --> 00:28:11.440 today. They're not doing it because of anything inherent in Christianity. 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:14.560 They're not doing it because of the reality of the religion, what 00:28:14.560 --> 00:28:19.120 is actually taught, the historical truth, the historical praxis, any of those 00:28:19.120 --> 00:28:22.480 things. They're doing it because of weak churches led by men who 00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:24.560 aren't even Christian. 00:28:24.560 --> 00:28:26.880 That's another fundamental point. 00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:30.320 When you see the church with the rainbow flag, those aren't Christians 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:31.840 in there. 00:28:31.840 --> 00:28:34.560 What does Scripture say about sodomy? 00:28:34.880 --> 00:28:36.400 Capital punishment. 00:28:36.400 --> 00:28:39.520 Do you think anyone in the rainbow flag church agrees with that? 00:28:39.520 --> 00:28:40.880 Well they aren't Christian. 00:28:40.880 --> 00:28:43.600 And I know someone will argue and I discussed this with someone 00:28:43.600 --> 00:28:48.160 earlier, discussed as charitable here, but you know, no no true Scotsman, 00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:51.040 right? They claim to be Christian, so they're Christian even though they 00:28:51.040 --> 00:28:55.360 d no true Scotsman is something that is inherent. 00:28:55.360 --> 00:28:56.000 And so 00:28:56.880 --> 00:29:01.040 you can't say no true German and then find a German who 00:29:01.040 --> 00:29:01.760 does it. 00:29:01.760 --> 00:29:03.280 Because he's German by blood. 00:29:03.280 --> 00:29:05.600 He's German by essence. 00:29:05.600 --> 00:29:08.000 Ideology is a set of tenets. 00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:10.960 If you do not adhere to those, you are not a member 00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:15.280 of the ideology, because ideology is something that is not inherent. 00:29:15.280 --> 00:29:19.840 It is something that is elected, or propagandized depending, but it is 00:29:19.840 --> 00:29:20.160 something 00:29:21.120 --> 00:29:23.600 you can be a member or not a member. 00:29:23.600 --> 00:29:26.480 And it's not a matter of your blood, it's not a matter 00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:29.120 of, you know, where you were born, anything like that. 00:29:29.120 --> 00:29:31.920 It is a matter of whether or not you believe the things 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:35.600 the ideology exp espouses, right? 00:29:35.600 --> 00:29:39.200 And so Christianity has a set of beliefs. 00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:42.000 If you don't believe those things, you aren't a Christian. 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:47.920 And so those weak, self-proclaimed Christians that your friend rightly despises 00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:53.600 that's another worthwhile point, he rightly despises those weak, disgusting men to 00:29:53.600 --> 00:29:55.200 abuse the term men. 00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:58.400 They are not Christian, because they do not hold to the things 00:29:58.400 --> 00:29:59.920 that are taught by Christianity. 00:29:59.920 --> 00:30:02.640 In many cases they don't even hold to the core tenets. 00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:05.200 Many of them deny the divinity of Christ. 00:30:05.200 --> 00:30:06.960 They're not Christians. 00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:10.880 And so using those men to try to say that Christianity is 00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:13.120 a problem is absurd. 00:30:13.120 --> 00:30:14.800 That would be like finding someone who 00:30:15.840 --> 00:30:19.600 is a man but says he's a woman and then condemning women 00:30:19.760 --> 00:30:21.840 because he looks weird. 00:30:21.840 --> 00:30:24.320 We all recognize that's insane. 00:30:24.320 --> 00:30:29.360 It is identically insane to say that Christianity is bad because you 00:30:29.360 --> 00:30:32.640 have weak men who aren't Christian claiming to be Christian. 00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:36.000 In some cases deliberately to make Christianity look bad. 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:38.880 Those men are evil they are not Christian 00:30:41.120 --> 00:30:44.320 But to address the part of your question that asks for specific 00:30:44.320 --> 00:30:48.560 sources, I've sort of gone over the basis of the response to 00:30:48.560 --> 00:30:51.280 your friend, and then from there you can build on that. 00:30:51.280 --> 00:30:52.480 Depends on his questions. 00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:56.320 By all means, ask a follow-up question if you're so inclined. 00:30:56.320 --> 00:30:59.840 Some of the resources you can use, and there are actually quite 00:30:59.840 --> 00:31:02.240 a few, I probably should have left Logos up because I can 00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:03.920 pull up one of them. 00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:04.240 But 00:31:05.120 --> 00:31:08.080 one of the most obvious ones is going to be Luther on 00:31:08.080 --> 00:31:10.080 the Jews and their lies. 00:31:10.080 --> 00:31:12.880 That's probably a good starting place for him. 00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:16.400 Let him know what historical Christians have taught about the Jews and 00:31:16.400 --> 00:31:17.520 thought about the Jews. 00:31:17.520 --> 00:31:20.640 And there are those who will say, well, Christ you know, Luther 00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:22.080 is in the fifteen hundreds, right? 00:31:22.080 --> 00:31:23.680 Luther is far okay, fine. 00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:28.400 Look at Tertulian at Versus Udios against the Jews. 00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:31.600 Or you can look at another great example would be the eight 00:31:31.600 --> 00:31:36.880 homilies by John Chrysostom, again at Versos Iudius, I guess Greek, so 00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:41.440 Kata Yudion in his case, but against the Jews in English. 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:41.760 So 00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:47.600 Incidentally, those are not included in the Nicene and post Nicene Fathers 00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:49.920 because well of course they're not. 00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:52.960 But anyway, they are freely available, translated in English. 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:57.440 A great resource, read through those, to see what Christians have thought 00:31:57.440 --> 00:31:59.600 about the Jews all along. 00:31:59.600 --> 00:32:05.040 Chrysostom says that the synagogue is worse than a brothel. 00:32:05.040 --> 00:32:07.440 That's the Christian stance on it. 00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:11.280 So Christians are not pro Jew. 00:32:11.280 --> 00:32:14.080 Christians are not pro Judaism, certainly. 00:32:14.080 --> 00:32:16.880 We're not pro Israel, so called. 00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:21.520 All of that all of those are modern aberrations and should be 00:32:21.520 --> 00:32:24.240 condemned by all Christian men So 00:32:25.120 --> 00:32:26.560 those are some good resources. 00:32:26.560 --> 00:32:29.120 I'll link to those in the show notes. 00:32:29.120 --> 00:32:32.880 Make a note of that for myself. 00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:36.720 But all of those are good resources for your friend. 00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:40.640 Read through those things, get an actual grounding in what Christians teach, 00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:45.600 what Christians believe, not what the modern world tells you Christians believe, 00:32:45.600 --> 00:32:47.280 because that's absurd. 00:32:47.280 --> 00:32:50.080 Why would you listen to the modern world on Christianity when the 00:32:50.080 --> 00:32:52.640 modern world tells you that men can be women, women can be 00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:56.320 men, race doesn't matter, and all of these other things that we 00:32:56.320 --> 00:33:02.640 all know are deeply evil, not just insane and nonsensical, but evil. 00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:05.840 So don't listen to the modern world about Christianity either. 00:33:05.840 --> 00:33:09.040 Listen to the historical Christians, listen to what they said. 00:33:09.040 --> 00:33:12.720 They've all been very clear all along about the nature of the 00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:18.400 Jews, the nature of Judaism, and the relationship between Christianity and Judaism, 00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:21.200 which is one of enmity. 00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:26.160 They are a perverted version, at best, of Christianity. 00:33:26.160 --> 00:33:30.800 More realistically, they are a demonic, separate religion that has roots all 00:33:30.800 --> 00:33:33.040 the way back in Egypt and Babylon. 00:33:33.040 --> 00:33:35.920 It is demon worship of the highest order, and it has nothing 00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:38.000 to do with Christianity. 00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:43.680 They're not chosen, they're never chosen They are a totally separate thing, 00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:46.560 and Christians should have nothing to do with them. 00:33:46.560 --> 00:33:49.360 But definitely have your friend read through those resources. 00:33:49.360 --> 00:33:52.480 They're pretty quick reads, so you'll probably enjoy it as well. 00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:58.080 Luther's always entertaining, and Chrysostome's actually also quite entertaining, so think that 00:33:58.080 --> 00:34:01.280 pretty much covers it for this one. 00:34:01.280 --> 00:34:04.480 And if you want to just read about historical thinkers who've commented 00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:07.600 on the Jews, there are tons of those, obviously. 00:34:07.600 --> 00:34:11.600 You know, Henry Ford, many, many others, I could make a long 00:34:11.600 --> 00:34:13.760 list of people here, Cicero, you can go all the way back 00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:16.160 to the Roman Republic. 00:34:16.160 --> 00:34:19.360 But that's probably a good place to start for your friend. 00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:25.520 If he has additional questions again, follow-up questions by all means. 00:34:25.520 --> 00:34:28.960 And I think I will look at the chat quickly before I 00:34:28.960 --> 00:34:31.520 get to these next two questions. 00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:35.440 I think one of them is going to be a short answer 00:34:35.520 --> 00:34:44.000 and the other one maybe a little longer. 00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:46.160 I will take a sip of tea before I answer actually. 00:34:46.160 --> 00:34:46.800 Actually 00:34:54.880 --> 00:35:00.400 Question from the chat is recognizing Christianity's social utility a valid basis 00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:04.720 for faith, choosing to believe versus believing outright? 00:35:04.720 --> 00:35:08.080 If faith is a gift, how can one seek it earnestly without 00:35:08.080 --> 00:35:10.320 merely shopping for a useful religion? 00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:15.760 I don't think there's anything wrong with believing that Christianity has social 00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:21.920 utility. And I don't even necessarily think that it's wrong for, say, 00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:24.320 the government to push it for that reason. 00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:27.520 I don't think you can push it solely for that reason, because 00:35:27.520 --> 00:35:31.200 obviously that is it's not amoral. 00:35:31.200 --> 00:35:36.000 It would be wrong to call it amoral because order and hierarchy 00:35:36.160 --> 00:35:41.120 and in this case, incidentally truth, all have moral value, even if 00:35:41.120 --> 00:35:46.240 you are not necessarily pushing them for, say, an entirely or optimally 00:35:46.240 --> 00:35:47.120 moral reason. 00:35:47.120 --> 00:35:50.240 You're still pushing that which is morally true and True and morally 00:35:50.240 --> 00:35:53.680 right. And so it's still a good thing. 00:35:53.680 --> 00:35:55.920 Could you do something better? 00:35:55.920 --> 00:35:56.960 Of course. 00:35:56.960 --> 00:35:59.440 But just because you can do something better doesn't mean what you're 00:35:59.360 --> 00:36:00.960 doing is bad. 00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:03.200 So Christianity has 00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:08.320 obviously more social utility than edi any other belief system. 00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:13.040 There's a reason that Europeans built Christendom under the cross, and not 00:36:13.040 --> 00:36:16.320 under some other symbol, whatever you want it to be You know, 00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:18.800 insert your symbol of choice here. 00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:21.280 And so is there social utility to Christianity? 00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:28.560 Absolutely. In the personal case, is it wrong to participate in 00:36:28.560 --> 00:36:32.720 Christian ritual, even if you do not personally have faith? 00:36:32.720 --> 00:36:35.200 I think the answer again is no. 00:36:35.200 --> 00:36:38.480 And part of the reason I think the answer is no, is 00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:41.600 that I think if you earnestly do that, God will give you 00:36:41.600 --> 00:36:45.840 faith. That's one of the ways you're going to receive the faith 00:36:46.080 --> 00:36:48.480 because what are the means of grace? 00:36:48.480 --> 00:36:50.480 How do you receive the free gift of faith? 00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:52.480 Well, one is the word. 00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:56.400 And if you are participating in Christian ritual, well you're going to 00:36:56.400 --> 00:36:57.440 hear the word. 00:36:57.440 --> 00:37:01.120 You're going to read the word, assuming you're also doing that part. 00:37:01.120 --> 00:37:03.840 God promises to be present in his word. 00:37:03.840 --> 00:37:07.040 God is never going to be found to have lied or not 00:37:07.040 --> 00:37:09.920 fulfilled his promises. 00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:14.720 And And so if you participate in Christianity, even if when you 00:37:14.720 --> 00:37:18.320 start out you do not have the faith, I firmly believe God 00:37:18.320 --> 00:37:21.760 will come alongside you and will give you the gift of faith. 00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:26.160 It's not because you merited it because of your works, but rather 00:37:26.160 --> 00:37:29.440 you are doing the very thing God has promised will receive a 00:37:29.440 --> 00:37:34.080 reward. And so by all means participate in Christianity even if you 00:37:34.080 --> 00:37:37.680 don't personally yet believe, because I believe the end result of that 00:37:37.680 --> 00:37:39.200 will be that you will believe. 00:37:39.200 --> 00:37:41.680 And so one day I'll get to meet you in paradise, which 00:37:41.680 --> 00:37:45.440 is a bonus there. 00:37:49.440 --> 00:37:51.600 Are there any good attorneys out there? 00:37:51.600 --> 00:37:53.280 This is the next question, obviously. 00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:57.440 Are there any good attorneys out there combining resources to combat liberal 00:37:57.440 --> 00:38:00.480 policies that threaten white Americans? 00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:04.640 I don't know of any groups that are pooling resources for that. 00:38:04.640 --> 00:38:07.200 There are small groups here and there, but this is asking probably 00:38:07.200 --> 00:38:09.520 about something larger. 00:38:09.520 --> 00:38:12.080 I am not aware of any large groups doing it. 00:38:12.080 --> 00:38:15.760 It is certainly something that would have utility for our side, would 00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:17.360 be useful, but 00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:22.480 there is also the fact that if you set up that sort 00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:26.400 of organization, you are immediately going to be a target and you 00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:29.280 are going to be a priority target. 00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:32.400 And this is not to discourage anyone or you know, black pill 00:38:32.480 --> 00:38:35.600 or anything like that, but it's just to point out the reality 00:38:35.600 --> 00:38:36.960 of the situation. 00:38:36.960 --> 00:38:39.920 You have to be prepared for what is going to come your 00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:43.760 way. If you if you set up that sort of organization. 00:38:43.760 --> 00:38:47.200 Because they're going to use lawfare against you. 00:38:47.200 --> 00:38:49.120 That's just the reality of it. 00:38:49.120 --> 00:38:52.240 And they're going to do that to pretty much any group on 00:38:52.240 --> 00:38:53.920 the right, if they can. 00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:58.640 You know, Patriot Front gets attacked legally from time to time. 00:38:58.640 --> 00:39:00.320 They happen to have an attorney. 00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:02.800 Now that's not a group, so it's not an answer to your 00:39:02.800 --> 00:39:05.600 question, but I've I've met the man and talked to him. 00:39:05.600 --> 00:39:05.920 So 00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:09.360 you have to you have to plan for those things because of 00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:12.800 the structure of the system under which we are living. 00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:16.400 Does that mean that you can't go out and participate in any 00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:20.240 activism whatsoever because you don't have a giant legal war chest? 00:39:20.240 --> 00:39:22.160 I think the answer is no. 00:39:22.160 --> 00:39:25.600 There's going to be a degree of risk involved in some of 00:39:25.600 --> 00:39:29.360 these things, and that is unavoidable. 00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:33.520 And I guess that's sort of a separate question, so I don't 00:39:33.520 --> 00:39:36.400 think I'll go into that now about you know activism and different 00:39:36.400 --> 00:39:37.840 groups and things like that. 00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:44.400 But insofar as groups for pooling resources for the lawfare aspect of 00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:49.760 this struggle, I am not aware of any actual group, just a 00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:53.760 handful of individual attorneys and sometimes two or three attorneys working together, 00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:57.360 which is not really an answer to your question on that sense, 00:39:57.360 --> 00:40:00.320 but the core answer is no, I'm not aware of any group. 00:40:01.360 --> 00:40:03.440 It would be great if we had one. 00:40:03.440 --> 00:40:07.520 And I would be willing to work with people on that front. 00:40:07.520 --> 00:40:11.840 I don't know how much utility I would have personally in my 00:40:12.160 --> 00:40:16.480 capacity as an attorney, because I have a California bar card and 00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:20.880 California's probably not where we want to be focusing our activism and 00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:24.000 probably also not where we want to be dragged into court. 00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:27.760 But, you know, if that happened to be the case, I can 00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:29.040 certainly help to some degree. 00:40:29.040 --> 00:40:31.520 Obviously I'm living in Tennessee now, so it's quite a bit to 00:40:31.520 --> 00:40:35.040 commute for hearings and things like that, but By all means, I 00:40:35.040 --> 00:40:39.360 have no problem lending expertise and looking things over, giving my advice. 00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:51.760 Have another question from the chat here. 00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:55.600 My church, Methodist, due to lack of Lutheran around, had an organization 00:40:55.600 --> 00:40:57.840 called Chosen People Ministries. 00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:00.640 Always one of those names that you know you should probably run. 00:41:00.640 --> 00:41:04.960 An entirely Jewish organization come speak about the importance of Hanukkah last 00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:08.480 year. I'm not much for confronting a man of the church, but 00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:10.800 I feel it is necessary in some sense to show him how 00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:12.560 bad of an idea that is. 00:41:12.560 --> 00:41:15.200 Do you have any advice on how to bring this up to 00:41:15.200 --> 00:41:19.600 him? This is a similar question to others that have come up 00:41:19.600 --> 00:41:24.080 before. And the first thing I would do is give you the 00:41:24.080 --> 00:41:27.200 warning that they will probably kick you out of the church. 00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:28.960 if you pursue that. 00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:31.200 In fact, if you just bring it up, they will probably try 00:41:31.200 --> 00:41:33.200 to kick you out of the church. 00:41:33.200 --> 00:41:35.280 Does that mean you shouldn't do it? 00:41:35.280 --> 00:41:40.320 No. Because sometimes you are called on to pursue the truth, even 00:41:40.320 --> 00:41:42.560 if it comes at a cost. 00:41:42.560 --> 00:41:45.920 That is part of the reality of being not just a Christian, 00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:48.000 but part of the reality of being a man. 00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:50.640 There are going to be times where you are going to speak 00:41:50.640 --> 00:41:51.440 the truth. 00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:54.080 It is going to come at a personal cost. 00:41:54.080 --> 00:41:56.000 It is a question of wisdom. 00:41:56.000 --> 00:42:00.560 It is a matter of weighing the costs and really duty here, 00:42:00.560 --> 00:42:02.480 not so much benefits. 00:42:02.480 --> 00:42:03.680 If you are 00:42:04.640 --> 00:42:08.400 single, it's going to be a different analysis from if you have, 00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:12.720 say, seven children and they've all been baptized in this church, right? 00:42:12.720 --> 00:42:16.080 That's you're going to run a different analysis there. 00:42:16.080 --> 00:42:18.240 The calculation is not identical. 00:42:18.240 --> 00:42:21.440 It's one of the reasons to I guess make it personal, but 00:42:21.440 --> 00:42:23.840 it's one of the reasons that Woe and I could do some 00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:27.120 of the things we have done and it's why we could do 00:42:27.120 --> 00:42:32.480 Stone Choir without having to run the same sort of calculation, at 00:42:32.480 --> 00:42:35.840 least with the same weights as other men would, because I'm not 00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:39.680 married, he's not married, neither one of us has children. 00:42:39.680 --> 00:42:43.760 And so we don't have those who depend on us who would 00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:44.480 be harmed 00:42:45.520 --> 00:42:51.600 by us you know becoming unemployable or at least employable in a 00:42:51.600 --> 00:42:54.560 different capacity from the one in which we were before. 00:42:54.560 --> 00:42:56.880 Right? So it's a different calculation. 00:42:56.880 --> 00:43:00.720 I'm not saying that you get an easy out or you know 00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:03.280 get out of jail free card, whatever you want to call it, 00:43:03.280 --> 00:43:06.480 simply because you have other duties. 00:43:06.480 --> 00:43:09.920 Rather, it is that you have to weigh those things in your 00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:13.680 calculation because it is a matter of wisdom. 00:43:13.680 --> 00:43:19.360 So when it comes to your church bringing in a Jewish group 00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:23.360 to talk about Hanukkah, at least it's Hanukkah, so it could be 00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:28.000 worse. It's not good, it's bad, but it it could be worse. 00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:28.320 But 00:43:30.240 --> 00:43:34.000 how do you confront your pastor on that? 00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:37.280 I think what you could do is go and talk to him 00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:40.640 and just ask him a few questions to feel out his stance 00:43:40.640 --> 00:43:41.360 on it. 00:43:41.360 --> 00:43:45.120 You know why did you invite this group? 00:43:45.120 --> 00:43:47.440 Maybe don't ask it that bluntly, but you can get around to 00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:49.920 it in a conversation over coffee or whatever. 00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:53.120 You can You can kind of feel out where he is on 00:43:53.120 --> 00:43:57.680 this, and partly what you're trying to do is determine if he 00:43:57.680 --> 00:44:03.520 is just a rank and particularly staunch Judaizer, or if he just 00:44:03.520 --> 00:44:07.440 had no thought process whatsoever, and someone said, Hey, wouldn't it be 00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:10.480 cool if we had someone come talk about Hanukkah and he just 00:44:10.480 --> 00:44:11.760 said yes? 00:44:11.760 --> 00:44:13.680 Two totally different men. 00:44:13.680 --> 00:44:16.320 You have to deal with them in a different way. 00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:20.320 And so if he's the staunch Judaizer, you should probably find a 00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:21.440 new church. 00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:25.120 Because he's just going to kick you out. 00:44:25.120 --> 00:44:29.520 He's going to most likely have elders or however your church happens 00:44:29.520 --> 00:44:30.320 to be run. 00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:34.080 Those men are going to be handpicked or they are going to 00:44:34.080 --> 00:44:37.920 have handpicked him, depending on the church, it could go either way. 00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:42.240 And they're just going to run you out on a rail. 00:44:42.240 --> 00:44:44.800 That is simply how it is going to go. 00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:45.360 And so 00:44:46.640 --> 00:44:49.600 if you feel that it is your duty to do that, and 00:44:49.600 --> 00:44:52.240 you think that it would be wise for you to do that, 00:44:52.240 --> 00:44:55.040 because not in all cases is it good for you to say 00:44:55.200 --> 00:44:57.360 wind up on the news for being the guy who doesn't like 00:44:57.360 --> 00:44:59.120 Jews and gets kicked out of his church, right? 00:44:59.120 --> 00:45:01.280 That may not be beneficial. 00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:05.200 But if you run the analysis and think that that is something 00:45:05.200 --> 00:45:08.080 you need to do, I'm not going to say you shouldn't, but 00:45:08.080 --> 00:45:10.400 I'm not going to say that you have to do it. 00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:14.800 That is partly a matter of conscience and again partly a matter 00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:16.480 of wisdom. 00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:18.960 But you should probably leave a church in which you have a 00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:23.760 staunch Judaizer as a pastor because unless you can get the elder 00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:27.200 board to remove him and replace him with someone faithful, you're just 00:45:27.200 --> 00:45:29.360 not going to get anywhere that sort of man. 00:45:29.360 --> 00:45:33.200 But if he's the other kind of man, if he just doesn't 00:45:33.120 --> 00:45:36.720 think about these things, he's never paid any attention to it. 00:45:36.720 --> 00:45:40.000 Maybe he doesn't know anything about what Jews believe. 00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:43.680 Right? He could potentially be that kind of man. 00:45:43.680 --> 00:45:46.400 There are, for better or worse, a lot of A lot of 00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:50.800 Christians like that who know absolutely nothing about what the Jews actually 00:45:50.800 --> 00:45:54.400 believe. They all just think that oh they believe the Old Testament, 00:45:54.400 --> 00:45:56.080 they just don't like Jesus yet. 00:45:56.080 --> 00:45:59.440 That's what most Christians think about the Jews. 00:45:59.440 --> 00:46:00.560 If he's that kind of man, 00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:03.120 maybe you can teach him. 00:46:03.120 --> 00:46:05.840 Maybe you can inform him of some of these things. 00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:10.080 And, you know, don't do it personally, because 00:46:11.040 --> 00:46:13.760 that's going to have his guard up. 00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:16.480 And what I mean by don't do it personally is I mean 00:46:16.640 --> 00:46:19.520 don't go and be the one who lays out the totality of 00:46:19.520 --> 00:46:20.800 the case. 00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:24.960 Talk to him, feel out where he is on these issues, and 00:46:24.960 --> 00:46:27.360 then provide him with a resource. 00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:31.360 You know, buy him a copy of Schaefer's Jesus in the Talmud. 00:46:31.360 --> 00:46:32.880 Maybe he'll read that. 00:46:32.880 --> 00:46:36.720 It's by a Jewish professor, by a Jewish academic. 00:46:36.720 --> 00:46:42.320 It's simply running an academic, somewhat dry analysis of the instances of 00:46:42.320 --> 00:46:45.600 mentions of Jesus Christ in the Talmud. 00:46:45.600 --> 00:46:49.120 And no Christian can read that and come away with a positive 00:46:49.120 --> 00:46:50.720 view of the Jews. 00:46:50.720 --> 00:46:53.120 And how he responds to reading something like that is going to 00:46:53.520 --> 00:46:56.080 tell you pretty much all you need to know on what you 00:46:56.080 --> 00:46:57.680 need to do from there. 00:46:57.680 --> 00:46:58.000 So 00:46:59.680 --> 00:47:02.880 that's the basis of my advice, and that applies to anyone who's 00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:05.200 in a similar situation, and many men will find themselves in a 00:47:05.200 --> 00:47:06.880 similar situation. 00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:08.560 It's a matter of wisdom. 00:47:08.560 --> 00:47:11.280 Feel out what kind of Judaizer he is. 00:47:11.280 --> 00:47:15.200 Is he a staunch one or just an ignorant one, basically? 00:47:15.200 --> 00:47:19.840 That's sort of the spectrum there and then proceed from there. 00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:24.320 Try to make him better, try to correct him gently as a 00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:29.520 brother, if he is the ignorant man instead of the evil man. 00:47:29.520 --> 00:47:32.000 Because the evil man will seek to destroy you. 00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:36.320 And you're probably not going to benefit anyone by going after it 00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:38.080 in that case. 00:47:38.080 --> 00:47:41.680 Because he will poison everyone against you and kick you out of 00:47:41.680 --> 00:47:42.480 the church. 00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:01.440 Someone asked about the Textus Receptus and 00:48:04.080 --> 00:48:10.160 So basically I assume this is asking just about the New Testament, 00:48:10.160 --> 00:48:12.000 given it's the Textus receptus. 00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:13.200 Anyway, the 00:48:14.640 --> 00:48:20.480 argument is verse the eclectic text, so called, or the received text, 00:48:20.480 --> 00:48:23.360 which is all textus receptus means. 00:48:23.360 --> 00:48:23.680 And 00:48:24.640 --> 00:48:29.280 you have the text that has been used for a long time, 00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:34.960 the Greek of the New Testament, versus the eclectic text, which is 00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:38.800 the Textus Receptus, it's worth pointing out that it uses that as 00:48:38.800 --> 00:48:42.960 well, plus all of the other resources that we have acquired over 00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:48.640 a cent many centuries, and so it finds the best version we 00:48:48.640 --> 00:48:54.480 have preserved of each book and then creates the fullness of the 00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:57.040 text of the New Testament. 00:48:57.040 --> 00:48:59.520 It's the difference between 00:49:01.200 --> 00:49:02.960 basically source criticism 00:49:03.840 --> 00:49:08.240 versus higher criticism or historical or text textual criticism, whatever term you 00:49:08.240 --> 00:49:09.680 want to use for the other one. 00:49:09.680 --> 00:49:14.640 Higher criticism is the critique of the content of scripture. 00:49:14.640 --> 00:49:17.200 Those are the people who try to say, well, Jesus wasn't really 00:49:17.200 --> 00:49:21.760 born of a virgin and he didn't really die, and that's heresy. 00:49:21.760 --> 00:49:23.280 Those men are evil. 00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:25.120 Ignore that. 00:49:25.120 --> 00:49:29.360 Textual criticism is a perfectly legitimate pursuit. 00:49:29.360 --> 00:49:33.120 That is how we figure out the best version preserved of a 00:49:33.120 --> 00:49:35.040 text. And we do this this with everything. 00:49:35.040 --> 00:49:37.520 We don't just do it with scripture, we do it with other 00:49:37.520 --> 00:49:38.960 texts as well. 00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:42.240 I don't think it's inappropriate to apply this to scripture. 00:49:42.240 --> 00:49:46.320 It is something that we have done down through the centuries. 00:49:46.320 --> 00:49:50.400 We simply have a lot more in terms of the available resources 00:49:50.400 --> 00:49:54.880 today that men from previous centuries didn't have, and that's fine. 00:49:54.880 --> 00:49:57.440 I don't think we're going to really find much more at this 00:49:57.440 --> 00:50:01.600 point. I think we've pretty much exhausted archaeology in terms of finding 00:50:01.600 --> 00:50:03.440 the resources that are available. 00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:06.000 So I think we're pretty stable now in terms of say the 00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:07.920 Nestle Alan twenty eight. 00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:11.120 The twenty nine is coming out soon, I believe. 00:50:11.120 --> 00:50:12.880 I don't remember exactly when. 00:50:12.880 --> 00:50:14.960 So I think that's pretty stable at this point, but I would 00:50:14.960 --> 00:50:18.720 go with the elec the eclectic text, instead of the textus receptus. 00:50:18.720 --> 00:50:23.360 I think that we have a better version of the text, a 00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:28.240 more complete version, a more reliable version, than men of previous centuries. 00:50:28.240 --> 00:50:30.960 And I think those men would have agreed because they did the 00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:31.680 same sort of thing 00:50:32.560 --> 00:50:36.640 with fewer resources that we're doing with more resources. 00:50:36.640 --> 00:50:41.120 And so the very men who made the textus receptus and passed 00:50:41.120 --> 00:50:44.000 it down to us, all of those men in the chain, were 00:50:44.160 --> 00:50:46.400 simply doing the same thing they did. 00:50:46.400 --> 00:50:48.960 They would have done what we are doing, they would have used 00:50:48.960 --> 00:50:50.080 the eclectic text. 00:50:50.080 --> 00:50:52.400 They would not have used the TR. 00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:54.640 So there's a sort of irony there for the men who argue 00:50:54.640 --> 00:50:55.760 for the T R. 00:50:55.760 --> 00:50:59.200 The very men who created and passed the thing to us wouldn't 00:50:59.120 --> 00:51:00.640 be using it today. 00:51:00.640 --> 00:51:05.520 They would they would be overjoyed to have something like Logos, where 00:51:05.520 --> 00:51:08.640 you can simply view all the papyri and other things, where you 00:51:08.640 --> 00:51:12.560 can look at all these resources showing us exactly what we have 00:51:12.560 --> 00:51:16.400 in terms of Scripture and how we know that the words of 00:51:16.400 --> 00:51:19.520 Scripture are what they are, because we have more than those men 00:51:19.520 --> 00:51:20.800 had in their day. 00:51:20.800 --> 00:51:22.960 They would they would find it unbelievable 00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:27.280 the wealth of resources that we have available, and they would find 00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:31.040 it ridiculous that any man wouldn't want to use them. 00:51:31.040 --> 00:51:35.200 I'm not saying everyone has to learn Greek, of course, but academics 00:51:35.200 --> 00:51:36.080 should be using these. 00:51:36.080 --> 00:51:41.920 The men who are actually involved in that part of the faith. 00:51:41.920 --> 00:51:43.040 I think I will 00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:47.760 go to my fourth question out of the initial five I prepared. 00:51:47.760 --> 00:51:51.600 Obviously, not the fourth question for the episode, so for someone who 00:51:51.600 --> 00:51:56.240 is going to go through in the future and make points about 00:51:56.480 --> 00:52:00.560 timestamps, I do have someone helping with that, thankfully. 00:52:00.560 --> 00:52:03.360 Not the fourth question of the episode, but 00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:07.360 are all children a blessing from the Lord? 00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:11.200 This was a question from chat in a previous episode I said 00:52:11.200 --> 00:52:12.240 I would get to this. 00:52:12.240 --> 00:52:15.200 I answered it briefly, but I want to touch on it a 00:52:15.200 --> 00:52:17.040 little more deeply. 00:52:17.040 --> 00:52:21.600 Not necessarily thoroughly or exhaustively, but a little more deeply than I 00:52:21.600 --> 00:52:22.720 did before. 00:52:22.720 --> 00:52:26.640 First off, the answer the easy answer is yes. 00:52:26.640 --> 00:52:28.960 All children are a blessing from the Lord. 00:52:29.920 --> 00:52:30.560 Then 00:52:31.440 --> 00:52:34.880 the other aspect of it, because I think the questioner was asking 00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:36.080 something deeper. 00:52:36.080 --> 00:52:40.000 Now, I could be uncharitable, I didn't look into anything behind it, 00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:43.920 and I don't know if the person was asking it in relationship 00:52:43.920 --> 00:52:47.360 to my comments on race and miscegenation and you know trying to 00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:48.880 trap me or something like that. 00:52:48.880 --> 00:52:54.400 But I'll answer it as if the questioner was earnest. 00:52:54.400 --> 00:52:57.360 And so I think one of the ways that you can look 00:52:57.360 --> 00:53:00.640 at this in terms of are all children a blessing from the 00:53:00.640 --> 00:53:06.880 Lord, is that not all children have faith, ultimately. 00:53:06.880 --> 00:53:09.920 Some, if you raise them up in the way they should go, 00:53:09.920 --> 00:53:12.320 they will continue in the faith. 00:53:12.320 --> 00:53:15.920 Does it mean that absolutely all children, even those raised in the 00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:17.920 faith, will persevere to the end? 00:53:17.920 --> 00:53:19.680 I think the answer is no. 00:53:19.680 --> 00:53:23.280 There are those who opt to be wicked, who choose to walk 00:53:23.280 --> 00:53:25.280 away, who apostatize. 00:53:25.280 --> 00:53:26.960 And yes, apostasy is possible. 00:53:26.960 --> 00:53:30.400 I don't want to get into the once saved, always saved debate 00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:32.640 here, it's not the point. 00:53:32.640 --> 00:53:32.960 But 00:53:33.920 --> 00:53:39.200 scripture is actually very clear on this point for some men, and 00:53:39.200 --> 00:53:42.720 we can actually say for all men who end up in hell, 00:53:42.720 --> 00:53:45.840 it would be better had they never been born. 00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:48.240 For them, it would be better. 00:53:48.240 --> 00:53:53.600 And we know this, of course, because I just quoted Christ. 00:53:53.600 --> 00:53:57.200 He says it of Judas, but it's obviously true of all men 00:53:57.200 --> 00:53:59.920 who will spend eternity in hell. 00:53:59.920 --> 00:54:00.480 And so 00:54:01.520 --> 00:54:05.760 there's not necessarily a logic, but there's an impulse there for many 00:54:05.760 --> 00:54:10.960 men to try to say, well, if my child is going to 00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:16.160 spend eternity in hell, that child's not a blessing from the Lord. 00:54:16.160 --> 00:54:19.200 It's really something that you almost have to hold it in tension, 00:54:19.200 --> 00:54:23.520 these two separate things, because all children are a blessing from the 00:54:23.520 --> 00:54:28.720 Lord, and yet for that man himself, it would be better for 00:54:28.720 --> 00:54:32.640 him had he never been born if he does not have faith 00:54:32.640 --> 00:54:36.000 at the end, if he is damned for eternity. 00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:40.320 I don't think you can necessarily fully resolve those two things. 00:54:40.320 --> 00:54:45.760 You can simply answer both of them in their own sphere with 00:54:45.760 --> 00:54:49.280 regard to the person on the one hand and with regard to 00:54:49.280 --> 00:54:52.480 the child being a blessing to you on the other hand And 00:54:52.960 --> 00:54:55.280 I think the best way to look at it is to take 00:54:55.280 --> 00:54:58.480 it as a warning, as an admonition, to make sure that you 00:54:58.480 --> 00:55:00.720 are raising your children in the faith, to make sure that you 00:55:00.720 --> 00:55:04.480 are actually catechizing them, to make sure that you are giving them 00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:08.720 a real A real deep faith that will keep them through the 00:55:08.720 --> 00:55:12.320 entirety of their life, despite what the world and the devil throw 00:55:12.320 --> 00:55:13.280 at them. 00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:13.360 So 00:55:15.120 --> 00:55:17.440 read it in that way. 00:55:17.440 --> 00:55:20.880 Make sure that your children are raised in the faith with a 00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:25.440 depth of faith that will actually see them through, not the weak, 00:55:25.440 --> 00:55:28.080 shallow faith that is so common these days where it's like, I 00:55:28.160 --> 00:55:33.280 sent him to Sunday school for twenty minutes on every Sunday? 00:55:33.280 --> 00:55:36.560 Obviously no, that's not sufficient. 00:55:36.560 --> 00:55:39.760 How many hours does he spend in school? 00:55:39.760 --> 00:55:42.720 And then you sent him away to college for four years, where 00:55:42.720 --> 00:55:45.760 he was indoctrinated day in and day out. 00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:48.880 Did you give him a faith that was sufficient to stand up 00:55:48.880 --> 00:55:52.640 under that sort of testing? 00:55:52.640 --> 00:55:55.280 You need to make sure that you do. 00:55:55.280 --> 00:55:58.160 And also probably don't send your child right into the mouth the 00:55:58.160 --> 00:56:00.880 lion's den. 00:56:00.880 --> 00:56:04.400 I don't know that I want to get into the nature of 00:56:04.400 --> 00:56:08.640 hell here and why hell is eternal and things like that. 00:56:08.640 --> 00:56:12.400 I think it's sort of it's obviously related, but it's tangential, so 00:56:12.400 --> 00:56:15.200 I don't know that I want to get into that here because 00:56:16.000 --> 00:56:20.480 it would be a little off topic and it would probably take 00:56:20.480 --> 00:56:21.440 a while. 00:56:21.760 --> 00:56:25.520 I do read the chat for the person who asked on X. 00:56:25.520 --> 00:56:29.920 That is an assumption on my part to some degree, because I 00:56:29.920 --> 00:56:35.120 have the chat, the concatenated chat, right, the blended chat, open in 00:56:35.120 --> 00:56:40.000 OBS, so as long as all of the platforms are syncing correctly, 00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:42.880 and as long as I manage to read the chat as it 00:56:42.880 --> 00:56:45.120 is going, it's not too active right now, so I can read 00:56:45.120 --> 00:56:45.920 all the comments. 00:56:45.920 --> 00:56:49.760 I I will see your comment, regardless of the platform on which 00:56:49.760 --> 00:56:50.960 you post it. 00:56:50.960 --> 00:56:53.200 There are a lot of assumptions in that, but as long as 00:56:53.200 --> 00:56:56.480 the assumptions are true and they probably are, then yes, I will 00:56:56.480 --> 00:57:00.560 see your comment. 00:57:01.120 --> 00:57:04.240 And someone said I should do more collaborations and debates. 00:57:04.240 --> 00:57:08.720 By all means, I am still definitely open to collaborations with our 00:57:08.720 --> 00:57:12.160 guys. I'll probably still do hostile interviews from time to time. 00:57:12.160 --> 00:57:16.560 I made a blanket sort of open invitation last year and said 00:57:16.720 --> 00:57:19.520 until the end of the year I would take any invitation to 00:57:19.520 --> 00:57:22.080 have a debate or an interview. 00:57:22.080 --> 00:57:24.240 Maybe I'll be a little more selective this year. 00:57:24.240 --> 00:57:26.720 I don't know, but I'll probably still take hostile interviews. 00:57:26.720 --> 00:57:30.400 Undoubtedly there'll be more of those in the future. 00:57:30.400 --> 00:57:34.880 But yes, I have no problem with debates to some degree. 00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:40.160 Mixed bag on debates because the utility of debates could be debated, 00:57:40.160 --> 00:57:43.680 which I think is there's sort of irony there, but some of 00:57:43.680 --> 00:57:44.560 it's entertainment. 00:57:44.560 --> 00:57:46.640 But entertainment for our guys, I have no problem with that. 00:57:46.640 --> 00:57:47.760 I think that's a good thing. 00:57:47.760 --> 00:57:50.880 And I don't mind sort of filling that niche. 00:57:51.120 --> 00:57:54.640 But how much do they actually move men's minds? 00:57:54.640 --> 00:57:57.040 I think probably usually not a lot. 00:57:57.040 --> 00:58:01.680 There's that occasional man who is in the right position, the right 00:58:01.680 --> 00:58:04.640 mindset, and you make the right argument at the right time, and 00:58:04.640 --> 00:58:06.960 so There's that one guy you nudge. 00:58:06.960 --> 00:58:08.160 Maybe that's worth it. 00:58:08.160 --> 00:58:09.760 Maybe that's valuable. 00:58:09.760 --> 00:58:13.760 But I don't think that you really sway large groups of men, 00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:15.680 regardless of the debate. 00:58:15.680 --> 00:58:20.000 Because most men come in believing something and having already decided they 00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:22.240 support the man who is going to say the things, or at 00:58:22.240 --> 00:58:24.880 least they think is going to say the things they believe. 00:58:24.880 --> 00:58:30.240 But again, there's the entertainment aspect, and I don't object to that. 00:58:32.720 --> 00:58:36.160 Another question here before I get to the the fifth one. 00:58:36.160 --> 00:58:38.320 I can answer a another quick one here. 00:58:38.320 --> 00:58:40.240 On which platforms am I streaming? 00:58:40.320 --> 00:58:43.680 It's not a an in-depth question here, it's very easily answered. 00:58:43.760 --> 00:58:49.200 This is on X, YouTube, Twitch, Kick, and Rumble. 00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:51.280 Took a short memory test there. 00:58:51.280 --> 00:58:54.560 But those are the platforms on which it's streaming, and according to 00:58:54.560 --> 00:58:56.400 OBS, they are all active. 00:58:56.400 --> 00:58:58.160 So all those platforms. 00:58:58.320 --> 00:59:03.680 Obviously, not all of them keep the show in perpetuity afterward, so 00:59:03.840 --> 00:59:07.040 the the restream as it were can be found on I think 00:59:07.040 --> 00:59:10.480 it's at least YouTube and X and I believe Rumble. 00:59:10.480 --> 00:59:12.880 I don't know for certain if the other ones say them. 00:59:12.880 --> 00:59:15.440 I think they purge things after a certain number of days. 00:59:15.440 --> 00:59:17.520 But at any rate, there are platforms where you can find it 00:59:17.520 --> 00:59:21.600 afterward. I will try to keep the links updated on the website, 00:59:21.600 --> 00:59:26.560 on the forum, and in the RSS stream, so that you can 00:59:26.560 --> 00:59:28.320 find those in the future. 00:59:28.320 --> 00:59:30.880 But I'm not going to promise those will be 100% updated. 00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:34.640 If anyone wants to help updating those, by all means, if you 00:59:34.880 --> 00:59:37.600 are a trusted member of the forum, which basically just means that 00:59:37.600 --> 00:59:39.840 you've been a member for a while and posted, you will have 00:59:39.840 --> 00:59:42.400 the ability to edit the wiki for each episode, so you can 00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:45.920 add those links, if you're so inclined. 00:59:45.920 --> 00:59:48.960 But the question I wanted to get to before the fifth one 00:59:48.960 --> 00:59:50.640 that I prepared as it were 00:59:52.320 --> 00:59:55.760 I was raised atheist, but of late I'm thinking God does exist, 00:59:55.760 --> 01:00:00.080 even in a materialist framing, albeit as a concept within our biological 01:00:00.080 --> 01:00:03.600 minds, even then Even then as this concept prevails over time, then 01:00:03.600 --> 01:00:07.040 it would be true by a Nietzschean view of truth that which 01:00:07.040 --> 01:00:09.280 benefits life. 01:00:09.280 --> 01:00:13.520 Curious what your thoughts would be. 01:00:13.520 --> 01:00:15.360 So the question there would be 01:00:16.240 --> 01:00:16.560 on 01:00:17.760 --> 01:00:20.880 It's not really necessarily the nature of God, it's more 01:00:22.080 --> 01:00:26.080 an expansion of the earlier question about the benefit of Christianity, and 01:00:26.080 --> 01:00:29.680 particularly of course Christian morality, hierarchy, order, all of those things that 01:00:29.680 --> 01:00:32.320 are indeed necessary for society. 01:00:32.320 --> 01:00:36.960 So even if God didn't exist, you know, almost a horrible thing 01:00:36.960 --> 01:00:40.720 to say, but for the sake of the hypothetical, arguendo, if God 01:00:40.720 --> 01:00:45.440 didn't exist, would we still need a system roughly equivalent to Christianity 01:00:45.600 --> 01:00:50.480 in order to organize society around that system, around that principle, in 01:00:50.480 --> 01:00:51.760 order to avoid chaos? 01:00:51.760 --> 01:00:54.240 I think the answer is yes. 01:00:54.240 --> 01:00:58.640 But the other half of the answer, perhaps the greater half in 01:00:58.640 --> 01:01:02.160 this case, why? 01:01:02.160 --> 01:01:06.880 I think ultimately the problem with materialism, why it falls down, for 01:01:06.880 --> 01:01:10.560 many reasons, and I will expand on this in the future, I've 01:01:10.560 --> 01:01:13.600 been thinking about doing so, but I'll give a a brief answer 01:01:13.600 --> 01:01:16.560 in the same vein here. 01:01:16.560 --> 01:01:18.800 Ignoring even things like 01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:21.520 Gettel's proof of the existence of 01:01:22.560 --> 01:01:27.200 God or the in the problem of the infinite regress, the first 01:01:27.200 --> 01:01:30.560 mover, all of those things, which I think prove the existence of 01:01:30.560 --> 01:01:33.680 God, not saying the Christian God, but the existence of a God, 01:01:33.680 --> 01:01:36.960 and then from there you build up to the Christian God. 01:01:36.960 --> 01:01:40.880 But even ignoring all of those, I think there is a fundamental 01:01:40.880 --> 01:01:44.160 argument with regard to meaning. 01:01:44.160 --> 01:01:46.240 Life has meaning. 01:01:46.240 --> 01:01:48.240 We all know this, and I know there are those who will 01:01:48.240 --> 01:01:51.440 try to say, well, that's just psychology and it's built into humanity 01:01:51.680 --> 01:01:55.920 and it's a convenient delusion that gets How does that make any 01:01:55.920 --> 01:01:59.040 sense in a materialist framework? 01:01:59.040 --> 01:02:03.920 Meaning is absurd in a purely material universe. 01:02:03.920 --> 01:02:06.320 And that's to say nothing of the fact that the mind exists 01:02:06.320 --> 01:02:11.120 and qualia exists and all these things that are clearly immaterial. 01:02:11.120 --> 01:02:15.760 The fact that we all recognize meaning is a thing, and that 01:02:15.760 --> 01:02:18.640 not only is meaning a thing, it is a vitally important thing 01:02:18.720 --> 01:02:21.440 because if you lose your sense of meaning in life, you probably 01:02:21.440 --> 01:02:23.360 die pretty shortly afterward. 01:02:23.360 --> 01:02:26.480 In fact, that happens incidentally with a lot of men when the 01:02:26.480 --> 01:02:29.440 if their wife happens to die first, many men just give up 01:02:29.680 --> 01:02:31.360 and die. 01:02:31.360 --> 01:02:35.040 That doesn't make much sense in a purely material framework. 01:02:35.040 --> 01:02:37.440 Get another wife, right? 01:02:37.520 --> 01:02:37.840 But 01:02:38.800 --> 01:02:42.560 this sense of meaning that we all have, I think is very 01:02:42.560 --> 01:02:45.920 clear proof that there is something beyond the material. 01:02:45.920 --> 01:02:52.400 And so could God simply be a construct of a biological mind. 01:02:52.400 --> 01:02:55.600 Well you have the problem of getting to a biological mind. 01:02:55.600 --> 01:02:58.240 And then you have the problem of getting to a biological mind 01:02:58.400 --> 01:03:01.600 that can sustain the concept of God. 01:03:01.600 --> 01:03:05.200 And then you also have the problem of how do you wind 01:03:05.200 --> 01:03:07.840 up with a concept like God? 01:03:07.840 --> 01:03:12.800 And there's just all of these insurmountable problems along the way. 01:03:12.800 --> 01:03:13.120 So 01:03:14.080 --> 01:03:18.960 even if we could make the argument that it has utility at 01:03:18.960 --> 01:03:23.920 the end of this chain of impossibilities, you never get there. 01:03:23.920 --> 01:03:26.560 Because you can't surmount all of the problems. 01:03:26.560 --> 01:03:30.800 It's the same sort of objection with some additional steps that I 01:03:30.800 --> 01:03:33.200 have to Darwinian evolution. 01:03:33.200 --> 01:03:36.000 Now of course it's these days it's NDE and other things like 01:03:36.000 --> 01:03:40.960 that, but the problem that I have with it is fundamentally there 01:03:40.960 --> 01:03:47.280 are points you cannot pass, you cannot explain them in a material 01:03:47.280 --> 01:03:52.160 framework. You have to resort to the immaterial, which means you've just 01:03:52.160 --> 01:03:54.320 defeated the Darwinian system. 01:03:54.320 --> 01:03:57.280 And of course there's also the problem of the the math just 01:03:57.280 --> 01:03:58.560 doesn't work. 01:03:58.560 --> 01:03:58.880 But 01:04:00.000 --> 01:04:03.200 there's n you can't go from non-life to life. 01:04:03.200 --> 01:04:04.800 That's the first one. 01:04:04.800 --> 01:04:07.280 And then you can't go from life to 01:04:08.160 --> 01:04:09.520 intelligent life. 01:04:09.520 --> 01:04:14.400 And then you can't go from intelligent life to sentient, self-aware life, 01:04:14.400 --> 01:04:15.600 human beings. 01:04:15.600 --> 01:04:20.720 And then this additional system here, you've got the additional steps of 01:04:20.960 --> 01:04:26.560 a biological mind sufficiently complex to host, not only host, but generate 01:04:26.640 --> 01:04:31.600 and then host the concept of God and then sustain it down 01:04:31.680 --> 01:04:33.680 through many generations. 01:04:33.680 --> 01:04:37.360 It just I don't see how you can possibly surmount those. 01:04:37.360 --> 01:04:39.760 And of course, as a theist, I don't have a problem here 01:04:39.840 --> 01:04:43.520 because I recognize, well, God is the one who set the conditions, 01:04:43.520 --> 01:04:48.640 he created life, he created intelligent life, he created human life, and 01:04:48.640 --> 01:04:54.000 so of course the mind created after his image recognizes the reality 01:04:54.000 --> 01:04:55.360 of God. 01:04:55.360 --> 01:05:00.320 So from a non materialist framework, I have answers to all of 01:05:00.320 --> 01:05:03.600 these questions and I don't see a way to answer them within 01:05:03.600 --> 01:05:05.360 a materialist framework. 01:05:05.360 --> 01:05:08.080 So I don't think that the conclusion is wrong. 01:05:08.080 --> 01:05:11.600 I just don't think that you ever get there if you start 01:05:11.600 --> 01:05:20.720 with the assumption that the material is all that exists. 01:05:20.720 --> 01:05:27.760 I don't think I missed any chats, any questions in the chat? 01:05:27.760 --> 01:05:32.000 So I will go to what is probably the last question for 01:05:32.640 --> 01:05:34.720 this episode. 01:05:34.720 --> 01:05:38.400 I am not getting hit by the storm yet here, so and 01:05:38.720 --> 01:05:41.760 by by the way, everyone should say a prayer for those who 01:05:41.760 --> 01:05:46.000 are in the path of the actual nasty part of the storm. 01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:49.440 There are some who are probably inadequately prepared, so say a prayer 01:05:49.440 --> 01:05:53.120 for them that God would preserve them through the worst of the 01:05:53.120 --> 01:05:56.080 storm assum assuming that it is actually a bad storm, which it 01:05:56.080 --> 01:05:59.040 looks like it will be for certain parts of the country. 01:05:59.040 --> 01:06:04.560 For European or other listeners, we have a particularly nasty winter storm 01:06:04.560 --> 01:06:10.320 coming through part of the US right now Starting pretty soon. 01:06:10.320 --> 01:06:13.760 The final question is actually a pretty easy question, but I think 01:06:13.760 --> 01:06:17.040 I will expand on it a little bit because there are some 01:06:17.040 --> 01:06:18.880 related questions that are 01:06:19.840 --> 01:06:23.360 important because they come up frequently in our circles. 01:06:23.360 --> 01:06:25.760 This is also from a previous chat. 01:06:25.760 --> 01:06:29.280 Were Adam and Eve the only humans? 01:06:29.280 --> 01:06:32.640 And so in order to answer this one, first I want to 01:06:32.640 --> 01:06:36.080 go to scripture because that's sort of where you should go when 01:06:36.080 --> 01:06:38.400 you want to answer this sort of question. 01:06:38.400 --> 01:06:44.240 And I want to go to, of course, Genesis. 01:06:44.240 --> 01:06:46.160 Genesis three. 01:06:46.160 --> 01:06:48.960 Is in Genesis three, and there are a couple of things to 01:06:48.960 --> 01:06:54.160 pull out of this particular passage, but in Genesis three, Adam names 01:06:54.400 --> 01:06:57.360 Eve. The name that we use in English is Eve, of course, 01:06:57.360 --> 01:06:59.440 and I'll comment on that as well. 01:06:59.440 --> 01:07:03.440 And Adam called the name of his wife Life, because she is 01:07:03.440 --> 01:07:06.880 the mother of all the living. 01:07:06.880 --> 01:07:10.000 Very short passage there, just the one verse. 01:07:10.000 --> 01:07:14.560 And I would actually like to pull that up in the lekim 01:07:14.560 --> 01:07:17.360 now because the lexem will actually give us the Greek. 01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:22.480 Unfortunately the Nets does not give you the Greek in logos, they 01:07:22.480 --> 01:07:24.960 haven't done that yet, but at any rate we want to have 01:07:24.960 --> 01:07:26.480 the Greek here because 01:07:27.360 --> 01:07:30.080 the interstitial does not show in OBS. 01:07:30.080 --> 01:07:31.920 At any rate, I will just tell you what the Greek is 01:07:32.080 --> 01:07:35.440 then. The word there, and you can see obviously that it's a 01:07:35.440 --> 01:07:35.760 different term. 01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:40.160 She's not called life in the Lexum translation, they just call her 01:07:40.400 --> 01:07:43.040 say it however you want, Zoe Zoe. 01:07:43.040 --> 01:07:45.360 It's Zoe. 01:07:45.360 --> 01:07:49.920 And so Zoe, of course, is life. 01:07:49.920 --> 01:07:53.520 Literally Eve is named life. 01:07:53.520 --> 01:07:56.320 And the reason she's named life is because as it says here 01:07:56.320 --> 01:08:00.160 in the verse, she is the mother of all the living, Za'ul, 01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:05.440 of all those living, which is very clearly to say that Eve 01:08:05.440 --> 01:08:07.280 is indeed the mother of us all. 01:08:07.280 --> 01:08:11.760 Adam is the first man, formed from the dust, he is the 01:08:11.760 --> 01:08:17.120 father of All humanity, of all human beings. 01:08:17.120 --> 01:08:20.720 He is the Father of every human being who will ever live. 01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:23.360 Except for Christ, of course. 01:08:23.360 --> 01:08:25.680 Obviously the exception there, right? 01:08:25.680 --> 01:08:28.720 Because Christ has God the Father is his Father. 01:08:28.720 --> 01:08:32.160 Ultimately, of course, we also have God the Father as our Father, 01:08:32.160 --> 01:08:36.240 just more direct in Christ's case, because Adam is indeed in the 01:08:36.240 --> 01:08:40.240 genealogies called the Son of God, because that is what he is. 01:08:40.240 --> 01:08:46.560 And so Adam is the first man, and Eve or Zoe, whichever 01:08:46.560 --> 01:08:48.240 name you want to use for it, I don't think it's wrong 01:08:48.240 --> 01:08:49.520 to use the name Eve. 01:08:49.600 --> 01:08:53.840 So we've just sort of called her for many, many years in 01:08:53.840 --> 01:08:54.320 English 01:08:55.680 --> 01:09:02.640 but perhaps in the ultimate translation, the canonical translation of the Septuagint 01:09:02.800 --> 01:09:06.000 that we have in English we'll just call her life, or we'll 01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:09.040 call her Zoe, the Greek word for life, or Zoe, however you 01:09:09.040 --> 01:09:10.240 want to pronounce that. 01:09:10.240 --> 01:09:13.120 But she is the mother of all the living. 01:09:13.120 --> 01:09:19.520 There were no hominids pre existing humanity and God uplifted one. 01:09:19.760 --> 01:09:23.040 I say that because that is an argument that has been used 01:09:23.040 --> 01:09:27.920 by some to try and explain away the creation narrative, which is 01:09:27.920 --> 01:09:33.440 ultimately anything that denies Adam and Eve being the first two humans, 01:09:33.440 --> 01:09:36.480 no others existing, God didn't make others, He didn't make a whole 01:09:36.480 --> 01:09:39.440 bunch and then just named these two. 01:09:39.440 --> 01:09:42.880 They're trying to explain away the creation. 01:09:42.880 --> 01:09:47.680 They're trying to make it consonant with all of the secular theories 01:09:47.680 --> 01:09:50.160 of how man came about. 01:09:50.160 --> 01:09:52.800 And Christians don't do that. 01:09:52.800 --> 01:09:56.160 Christians read the text and accept what God said. 01:09:56.160 --> 01:10:00.720 And God said he created Adam and Eve, and Eve is the 01:10:00.720 --> 01:10:02.240 mother of all living. 01:10:02.240 --> 01:10:04.320 And so no, there were no other human beings. 01:10:04.320 --> 01:10:09.040 There were no uplifted primates or whatever theory has been expounded by 01:10:09.040 --> 01:10:10.320 other men. 01:10:10.320 --> 01:10:14.000 And the other part of this, sort of an expansion that I 01:10:14.000 --> 01:10:19.120 want to touch on here, is related to those who will look 01:10:19.440 --> 01:10:22.880 at some of the other races of men on the planet and 01:10:22.880 --> 01:10:26.960 then derive almost precisely the wrong lesson. 01:10:26.960 --> 01:10:30.320 There are some in our circles, and typically it's those who are 01:10:30.560 --> 01:10:31.520 either 01:10:32.480 --> 01:10:36.400 very shallow Christians, I will say, or not Christians at all, and 01:10:36.400 --> 01:10:42.800 what they'll say is that Europeans are more evolved. 01:10:42.800 --> 01:10:47.200 That is exactly the wrong conclusion to draw. 01:10:47.200 --> 01:10:53.040 It is that other peoples who are very clearly degenerated, which is 01:10:53.040 --> 01:10:59.120 the ultimate point here, communed with demons, and were so far separate 01:10:59.120 --> 01:11:03.920 from God, and so deeply involved in wickedness, that they have devolved 01:11:05.200 --> 01:11:09.360 because of the loss of information over time from their genome, the 01:11:09.360 --> 01:11:13.040 corruption of that information, due to many factors, not least of all 01:11:13.120 --> 01:11:19.360 inbreeding. And so the actual lesson to take away from the differences 01:11:19.520 --> 01:11:23.120 between and among the races of men is that if you commune 01:11:23.120 --> 01:11:27.920 with demons for too long, you become something less than what man 01:11:27.920 --> 01:11:32.400 was supposed to be, what European man largely still is. 01:11:32.400 --> 01:11:39.440 And so the takeaway is that devolution, degeneration, those are possible. 01:11:39.440 --> 01:11:41.360 You don't become better over time. 01:11:41.360 --> 01:11:43.760 We are not better than our ancestors. 01:11:43.760 --> 01:11:47.280 Look at the things, the great works produced by our ancestors, look 01:11:47.280 --> 01:11:51.040 at their literary works and their philosophical works and other things like 01:11:51.040 --> 01:11:54.080 that. Do you really honestly think that we are better than they 01:11:54.080 --> 01:11:59.520 are? Do you think that we excel the ancient Greeks, the ancient 01:11:59.520 --> 01:12:04.400 Romans, any of the ancient thinkers in all of these things? 01:12:04.400 --> 01:12:06.560 We excel them in trinkets. 01:12:06.560 --> 01:12:12.720 We excel them in material science because of the accretion, the accumulation 01:12:12.720 --> 01:12:16.320 of knowledge over many years. 01:12:16.320 --> 01:12:22.320 But the reality is the fact that we can produce a USB 01:12:22.320 --> 01:12:26.640 cable, even if it's a really neat little USB cable that has 01:12:27.120 --> 01:12:33.840 a whole bunch of different little adapters, doesn't make us more evolved, 01:12:33.840 --> 01:12:38.560 doesn't make us more intelligent or more capable in an ultimate sense 01:12:38.560 --> 01:12:40.400 than our ancestors. 01:12:40.400 --> 01:12:45.200 So the takeaway, when you look at the differences across human groups, 01:12:45.200 --> 01:12:48.960 is is not that we are more evolved, but rather that there 01:12:48.960 --> 01:12:54.320 are consequences to communing with Satan, to rejecting God, and to acting 01:12:54.320 --> 01:12:58.880 wickedly, and those compound over generations. 01:12:58.880 --> 01:13:01.200 And so it is a warning. 01:13:01.200 --> 01:13:04.640 If you go down that path, if your people, if your race 01:13:04.640 --> 01:13:08.960 goes down that path, that's the ultimate result. 01:13:08.960 --> 01:13:11.120 And there is no returning from it. 01:13:11.120 --> 01:13:16.000 It's not to say they can't be Christians, because certainly they can. 01:13:16.000 --> 01:13:21.120 But there are very real challenges for them that we, as men 01:13:21.280 --> 01:13:25.280 who have not gone down that path, whose ancestors did not devolve 01:13:25.280 --> 01:13:30.080 and degenerate in that way, we do not have those challenges. 01:13:30.080 --> 01:13:33.280 For instance, one that comes up all the time, and I'm I 01:13:33.280 --> 01:13:38.080 am personally tired of the topic, but it is simply unavoidable. 01:13:38.080 --> 01:13:43.120 IQ. If you are dealing with a population that has an average 01:13:43.120 --> 01:13:48.000 of 100, you are able to teach them things that you cannot 01:13:48.000 --> 01:13:51.680 teach to a population with an average of 70. 01:13:51.680 --> 01:13:55.280 There are very real challenges to trying to teach the Christian faith 01:13:55.280 --> 01:13:58.000 to populations with an average IQ of 70. 01:13:58.000 --> 01:14:00.800 They don't understand a hypothetical. 01:14:00.800 --> 01:14:03.680 How do you teach the core of the faith to those men? 01:14:03.680 --> 01:14:06.240 This is a challenge for Christians to try to spread the faith 01:14:06.720 --> 01:14:07.440 to them. 01:14:07.440 --> 01:14:10.160 And in some cases you knock the dust off your sandals because 01:14:10.160 --> 01:14:12.320 they've rejected it and you no longer can. 01:14:12.320 --> 01:14:15.200 But in the case where you still have a duty, so a 01:14:15.200 --> 01:14:18.240 hypothetical case here, where you have a duty to spread the faith 01:14:18.880 --> 01:14:23.360 to those who are incapable because of the wickedness of their ancestors 01:14:23.520 --> 01:14:28.720 and biological degeneration, how do you teach them about a hypothetical when 01:14:28.720 --> 01:14:31.280 they can't understand a hypothetical? 01:14:31.280 --> 01:14:34.960 How do you teach them if you believe in Christ, then you 01:14:34.960 --> 01:14:37.200 will be s that's a hypothetical. 01:14:37.200 --> 01:14:40.240 If you don't believe in Christ, then you go to hell. 01:14:40.240 --> 01:14:43.600 It is more difficult to teach them, and the faith will always 01:14:43.600 --> 01:14:47.680 be shallower in those populations, they will never produce theologians, they will 01:14:47.680 --> 01:14:51.040 never produce great teachers, they will only be Christians so long as 01:14:51.040 --> 01:14:53.520 they are managed by better men. 01:14:53.520 --> 01:14:58.800 There are very real consequences to demon worship and communion with demons, 01:14:58.800 --> 01:15:03.440 particularly when you engage in all of the wicked behaviors that demons 01:15:03.760 --> 01:15:07.520 promote, not least of all again, inbreeding. 01:15:07.520 --> 01:15:08.560 Look at the practice of the 01:15:09.520 --> 01:15:13.520 ancient practices of the pagan Canaanites and others like that. 01:15:13.520 --> 01:15:16.880 All of the things God condemned in Scripture, all of those sexual 01:15:16.880 --> 01:15:20.160 sins, there's a reason that demons push those. 01:15:20.160 --> 01:15:24.800 Because they cause real and lasting consequences that make it much more 01:15:24.800 --> 01:15:29.920 difficult to preserve and in order to spread the faith than it 01:15:29.920 --> 01:15:32.640 would be otherwise. 01:15:32.640 --> 01:15:36.720 A population with an average IQ of 70 that has that sort 01:15:36.720 --> 01:15:41.040 of burden from generational demon worship will never be able to preserve 01:15:41.040 --> 01:15:42.960 the faith on its own. 01:15:42.960 --> 01:15:44.960 That's a victory for Satan. 01:15:44.960 --> 01:15:47.680 And that's the lesson that we should take away from the From 01:15:47.680 --> 01:15:51.760 the racial differences between and among men, not that we are better 01:15:51.760 --> 01:15:54.960 in the sense of being more evolved, but that we have not 01:15:54.960 --> 01:15:58.240 degenerated in the way that they have, and that is a dire 01:15:58.400 --> 01:16:00.240 warning to us. 01:16:00.240 --> 01:16:03.600 Because it is possible in our case as well. 01:16:03.600 --> 01:16:08.720 The state of the worst countries, the worst racial groups in the 01:16:08.720 --> 01:16:14.240 world is exactly where our progeny, exactly where our descendants could be 01:16:14.400 --> 01:16:17.920 in six thousand years, assuming God lets the world go that long, 01:16:17.920 --> 01:16:21.280 in six thousand years if we did the same wicked things that 01:16:21.280 --> 01:16:24.320 those groups did in the past. 01:16:24.320 --> 01:16:25.920 That should terrify us. 01:16:25.920 --> 01:16:29.920 That should be something that drives us to ensure that we adhere 01:16:29.920 --> 01:16:32.560 to the things God has told us to do and avoid the 01:16:32.560 --> 01:16:34.640 things God has told us not to do. 01:16:34.640 --> 01:16:39.040 Because there are very real consequences, and not just for us. 01:16:39.120 --> 01:16:43.600 But there are dire consequences for our children and grandchildren and great 01:16:43.680 --> 01:16:48.960 grandchildren down through the generations after us. 01:16:48.960 --> 01:16:51.920 Excuse me. 01:16:51.920 --> 01:16:54.880 So the short answer to the question is that yes, Adam and 01:16:54.880 --> 01:16:55.840 Eve are the first humans. 01:16:55.840 --> 01:16:58.000 Eve is the mother of all living, but 01:16:58.960 --> 01:17:01.840 that means that we should look at the reality of the world 01:17:01.840 --> 01:17:06.480 as we find it and the differences between people groups and act 01:17:06.480 --> 01:17:13.760 accordingly. Because if we don't, there are very real costs. 01:17:14.000 --> 01:17:17.760 I think that I will end this episode here. 01:17:17.840 --> 01:17:20.960 The storm's not supposed to hit here for about fourteen hours, so 01:17:20.960 --> 01:17:24.960 it's that's not a concern, but again, I would recommend that everyone 01:17:24.960 --> 01:17:27.760 say a prayer for those who are in the path of the 01:17:27.760 --> 01:17:31.200 storm. There's no need to worry about me if you are so 01:17:31.200 --> 01:17:35.360 inclined. I'm here sort of in the foothills in Appalachia, and some 01:17:35.360 --> 01:17:38.400 of the worst of the storms tend to pass by just because 01:17:38.400 --> 01:17:40.960 of the geography, so I'm sure I'll be fine. 01:17:40.960 --> 01:17:43.920 But pray for those who are actually in the path of the 01:17:43.920 --> 01:17:47.200 particularly nasty parts of the storm and those who are currently getting 01:17:47.440 --> 01:17:52.880 negative sixty wind chill in some places, which is certainly threatening both 01:17:52.880 --> 01:17:54.640 to man and beast. 01:17:54.640 --> 01:17:54.960 So 01:17:55.920 --> 01:17:59.920 just include those people in your prayers tonight. 01:17:59.920 --> 01:18:03.360 Thank you to everyone who submitted a question, and for those who 01:18:03.360 --> 01:18:07.040 have submitted questions on the forum, if I have not answered your 01:18:07.040 --> 01:18:08.240 question yet, I know it's there. 01:18:08.240 --> 01:18:10.560 A couple of you gave me reading homework, so I have to 01:18:10.640 --> 01:18:11.200 do that. 01:18:11.200 --> 01:18:13.760 I've just been very busy the last couple weeks. 01:18:13.760 --> 01:18:16.000 So I have to do that before I get to your question 01:18:16.000 --> 01:18:17.520 and answer it. 01:18:17.520 --> 01:18:20.480 But if you would like to submit a question, by all means 01:18:20.560 --> 01:18:22.000 you can do so on the forum. 01:18:22.000 --> 01:18:26.000 That is the preferred way, simply because again, I don't want to 01:18:26.000 --> 01:18:28.960 repeat myself on every episode, but it is the preferred way for 01:18:28.960 --> 01:18:30.000 a number of different reasons. 01:18:30.000 --> 01:18:31.760 I've gone into it before. 01:18:31.760 --> 01:18:36.160 So if you are capable of doing it that way, please do. 01:18:36.160 --> 01:18:40.000 If not, by all means, submit it in the chat or on 01:18:40.000 --> 01:18:43.920 X or wherever else in the Telegram chat. 01:18:43.920 --> 01:18:47.040 I will try to find those and collate them and make my 01:18:47.040 --> 01:18:49.200 own list so that I can answer them in the future. 01:18:49.440 --> 01:18:52.560 But again, thank you for those who submitted the questions and for 01:18:52.560 --> 01:18:56.960 those who participated in the chat and for spending your time here. 01:18:56.960 --> 01:19:00.880 I look forward to the next episode and I hope you all 01:19:00.880 --> 01:19:02.400 have a great weekend. 01:19:02.400 --> 01:19:04.800 Stay safe from the storm if you are in the path of 01:19:04.800 --> 01:19:08.000 it, and may God keep you and bless you. 01:19:08.000 --> 01:19:15.680 See you all next week.