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It is the 24th of July 2026.

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I am Corey J.

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Mahler and this is at any cost.

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This is episode 36, a QA episode.

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And I was going to say, as part of the housekeeping, that

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OBS had an update and let's hope everything works, but that's already

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not the case, so let's hope everything else works.

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But at any rate I was able to fix the audio issue

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quickly, so

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everything should be fine.

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Although the chat is not working again, so I'm going to have

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to pull that up in restream instead of having it up in

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OBS. Of course, it's now not loading in Restream.

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There we go.

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Okay, now I have of course my videos not working in the

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web interface, but that's fine.

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I don't need to see myself, I know what I look like.

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So now I can get into the questions because I can actually

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see the chat now.

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I don't know that I will get to the questions in chat

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because I already have 30 questions in the show notes for tonight,

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and I am unlikely to get through those all.

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Partly because I have bread in the oven and so I can't

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stay over too long or else it will no longer be bread.

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So let's get into the questions.

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Question one.

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What is the ruling on purchasing a former church building for use

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as a private residence.

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Is there any moral or theological distinction between buying such a property

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after it has already been converted and purchasing it with the intention

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of converting it oneself?

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I think the general answer to this is that as long as

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you don't do it with the intent to desecrate the property or

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do something that is wicked, I think it's generally fine.

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It's not ideal, obviously.

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I could start off by saying it's not ideal.

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But

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at that point you're dealing with the downstream consequences of an upstream

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problem. The problem, of course, being the church was empty and already

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abandoned, and there's nothing you can do about that.

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That already happened.

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That's not your doing.

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And that's not a good thing.

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God has already left the the place, right?

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And

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God probably left a long time ago because if the church had

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the building, the congregation died off such that they had to sell

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the building.

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Or, you know, maybe there's a case where something good happened and

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a church A church grew and it outgrew its building and moved,

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but in that case they should have sold it to a smaller

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congregation so they would have a space.

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Generally speaking, when you have a church building that goes up for

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sale, it's because the congregation died.

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So God has already left that place.

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So don't obviously take over this building with the intent to do

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something wicked, right?

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Don't turn it into some sort of depraved club.

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That's been done in some cases, I can think of some of

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those. Don't do that.

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But if you're turning it into a private residence or something like

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that, I don't think it's necessarily inappropriate.

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It wouldn't be my personal preference, of course, I'd rather see it

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be a church again.

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But certainly if it's already been converted, then the building itself is

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not per se sacred, right?

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It's God's presence and the gathering of God's people that makes it

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sacred. And so those things having departed, the building is profane again

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in the sense of being ordinary.

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So not preferable, but not something that's going to be a sin

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if you go ahead and do that.

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You know, at the same time, I would certainly say don't destroy

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an old beautiful church building that's been around for centuries.

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If possible, restore it and rebuild a congregation in it.

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But certainly there's a wide range of buildings we're talking about, particularly

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in the US context.

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So converting some church buildings is not going to be as much

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of an affront to say beauty in this case, as converting some

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three hundred-year old stone masonry beautiful church structure that should remain a

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church, or some other building that is sacred in some way.

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Question two

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Where there we go.

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In one stream you did with someone you briefly expounded upon the

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idea of God being a trinity in that because of the relationship

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of the

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Holy Trinity, this love between the persons naturally begat creation as a

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result of this interpersonal and advanced relationship.

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want to know more about this and if this came from Augustine

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or not.

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So I haven't really written anything

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lengthy about this yet.

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I will at some point.

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I don't know when I'll get that done.

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I have some notes here and there.

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I'm not even sure where they are right now, but I can

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give the brief rundown of the argument, and it's related to an

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argument that I've made for

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not the existence of God, because I think there are better arguments

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for arguing for the existence, for proving the existence of God.

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But I think that this one builds up to making it so

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that you have to conclude that God is triune, which obviously means

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the Christian view is right because Christians have the only triune God.

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Everyone else has a unitary God, or there are a few weird

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edge cases where they have uh God with kind of two persons,

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but usually it's more two aspects of one God, and usually that

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gets into The sort of like not yin and yang quite, but

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like God being good and bad at the same time.

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You see that in a lot of places.

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Basically Gnosticism.

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But the argument here that I would make, and it's not from

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Augustine, I can go ahead and say that just a it this

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is my argument.

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In fact, I don't know that any of the church fathers make

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this argument.

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I can't think of any anyway, but I'm not the best the

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best person when it comes to an encyclopedic knowledge of the church

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fathers, so maybe someone else can say that yes, someone approached this.

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But at any rate, my argument would be that if you had

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a unitary God, right, one person in the Godhead, then he would

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be such that he is so

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And we have to speak in human terms here because there aren't

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really words to describe what I'm saying in

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you know You know, quickly.

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I could do this over many pages, but bear with me that

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I'm going to use, you know, to paraphrase Paul as it were

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to speak in human terms.

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But a unitary God would be so perfect and self-complete, as it

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were, that he that he would subsist totally in himself and nothing

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would ever be externalized because he is unitary, he is all in

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all in such a way that there is nothing else and never

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will be anything else.

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If you expand that out to two persons, and not in the

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Gnostic way of good and evil, but in the not even proper

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way, but in this hypothetical way of two persons still being good,

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still being of one essence, still being God, I believe that it

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naturally would be the case that you would have to conclude the

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two persons would have such relationship it would simply be a back

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and forth, and it would be roughly equivalent to the unitary godhead,

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because you would have nothing externalized, there would be nothing external to

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this relationship between the two persons, a give and take for all

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eternity, past, future, present.

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Whereas a trinity, you have this sort of natural natural momentum to

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the thing.

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Because you have the relationship of certainly, let's say, the father to

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the son, right?

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And the son to the father.

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But you also have the relationship of the Father to the Spirit

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through the Son.

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And you can do this for each of the persons of the

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Trinity, right?

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We're just dealing with some very basic combinatorial math here.

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So

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I believe that that naturally externalizes in a certain way because you

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again have that sort of momentum in the relationship of the persons,

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and God being super abundant in his goodness and his love certainly

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is plays a role in creation, the the fathers certainly speak about

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that at length.

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You have this externalizing of that relationship into what becomes creation.

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And so the superabundant nature of God's love extends then beyond the

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persons of the Trinity into the created things, and you have the

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working out of the Trinity in creation, is the sort of quick

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rundown, as it were, of the argument.

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Like I said, at some point I will expand on that, but

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no, that's not from Augustine or any of the fathers.

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As far as I'm aware, none of them wrote on that specific

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argument. If someone knows of some church father who wrote something like

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that and then or something close to it, feel free to reply

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to the show topic on the forum and let me know, because

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I would be willing to read that and see what he had

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to say.

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Question three, a return to a topic on which we touch many

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times

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unsurprisingly. Question three There are many Americans whose ancestors were here for

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generations before them But either their mother or father married with another

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race to conceive them, how far must the racial divide be in

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order for the child to be considered foreign?

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For example, my family, other than my paternal grandfather, all immigrated to

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the United States from Germany in the early 1800s.

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My grandfather was a white Puerto Rican who immigrated to the US

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in the 1950s in order to join the military.

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I grew up and live on the same street my ancestors immigrated

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to and founded a church in the 1800s and continued to farm

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the land they farmed.

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I feel a deep connection to the soil and would consider myself

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to be an American.

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But I also understand that due to my parents' misegination, that could

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come into question for some.

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What are your thoughts on whether people like me are truly American

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or not?

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So this relates to obviously a a topic that comes up quite

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frequently frequently, which is essentially

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Where do we draw the line, right?

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That's the core of this is where do we draw the line?

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The specifics of this case they matter, obviously, because this is, like

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I've said before, a fact-dependent inquiry.

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There are times where you don't need the facts, you can make

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a general ruling.

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There are times where you need the facts, and you need the

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facts for this sort of thing.

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But there are many who've asked me this question, and eventually I

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probably will draw up a set of guidelines, rules, whatever you want

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to call them, just so people have a something to which they

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can refer and get my answer for any particular case.

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You can just run down the logic instead of my having to

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go through and analyze each particular one, right?

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But I'll give the sort of general sense.

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I won't give all the specifics at I haven't necessarily worked out

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all of those.

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Some of them are extremely obvious, right?

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You have the issue of certainly Africans are so far distinct from

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us that they need to be in their own countries and not

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here, so someone who's half has to go back.

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The same thing for Indians and obviously Jews are not compatible with

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our country.

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So you have the obvious cases where you can make hard line

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calls, but then you have edge cases, right?

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Because I think for instance, maybe Mexico is probably one of the

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best examples, right?

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You have the large bulk of the population is clearly extremely racially

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distinct from Americans, right?

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Because they are intermixed with the Aztec, the Maya, in some cases

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Africans. They're mixed to the point with all these different populations, they

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are extremely racially distinct.

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But you have the upper tiny percentage, it's single digits, but tiny

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percentage, of Mexico that's still Spanish.

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And you have the same thing in certain parts of South America.

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You have an upper class in Brazil that is largely these days

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actually quite a bit of German because of post war considerations.

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Same thing for Argentina, other parts of that world as well.

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Puerto Rico's in the same boat.

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Because Puerto Rico until probably like the 19, probably actually the 1950s,

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give or take, had a very significant white population and I actually

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mean like white, not white Hispanic as they use the term sometimes

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for the US Census and things, but white.

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And so if your grandfather in this case was just a white

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man who happened to live in Puerto Rico.

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That's not a problem.

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Is he American?

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No, he's not.

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He was Puerto Rican or whatever he was, if he maybe he

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moved to Puerto Rico or his grandparents, I don't know what the

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family line was there.

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But someone moved to Puerto Rico, he was there for a while,

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his line was there for a while, and then he moved here.

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If he's white, that didn't change him, he's still white.

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There are some distinctions, you're going to have some different conceptions or

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cultural differences, things like that from living in that place.

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But you know, I'm not not German because I live in Tennessee

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and I lived in California before that.

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All my ancestors were German, except for the small part of my

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line that's Scottish, and the Celts are German too.

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There's a question about that later on, I may get to it.

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So if he was just a white man living in Puerto Rico,

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there's no problem there, no one can really object to it.

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The only thing going to object to is Puerto Rican because they

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have this conception of what a portr Puerto Rican is, but it's

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not true for the entire population.

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The same thing as for Mexico for that again in Mexico's a

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tiny percentage of the upper class.

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So it depends on the facts.

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I don't have enough facts here to make that call, but you

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said white Puerto Rican, so if your assessment is correct, I see

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no problem here because that would make him, you know, Spanish or

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whatever he happens to be, because there were a l a handful

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of different European groups that moved to that area, so I I

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don't know what he is.

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He could be German.

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I mean, that happened as well.

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But again, like I said, eventually I'll draw up some actual guidelines

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or rules for this that'll make it a little easier for people

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to refer to that and get a general sense of it.

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I don't know when I'll get that done, but the request keeps

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coming up, so it's definitely moving up my list of things on

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which to spend my time.

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Question four.

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Given that men can maintain only about 150 social relationships, Dunbar's number,

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should we consider the mass urb should we reconsider the mass urbanization

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of humanity?

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This is one of those questions that I could probably talk about

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for hours, but I don't want to do that because I'd like

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to try to get through a number of questions tonight.

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I am not in the camp on the right, that thinks cities

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are inherently bad.

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I don't think they are.

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I don't think cities are per se bad.

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I think that cities present a unique set of challenges for the

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governing authority for people, for the church.

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But I don't think that those make them worse than rural areas,

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and you know, suburban areas don't they're a weird medium and they

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exist for various reasons historically and for various reasons racially in the

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US context, but the real divide right is urban and rural.

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And I don't think urban is per se bad.

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We've always had cities, right?

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Yes, one of the first cities founded was founded by a wicked

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man, but he was doing it in order to, you know, sort

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of

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at God, right?

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He was not being a a nice man at that case, but

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at that time in that case.

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I don't think cities are per se bad.

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We've always had them down through human history, and they do serve

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to concentrate human capital in a certain way where you have interactions

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and you have this density of ability that you don't have in

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the rural context.

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You don't see rural areas

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creating technological advancements.

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You rarely.

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I mean, yes, obviously it has happened in history, but it is

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usually concentrated in urban areas.

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You can't have a university without having some sort of city to

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sustain the thing.

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All of these things are part of how we live as human

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beings. Could we have an entirely rural country?

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Yes, with the caveat that someone else would have to maintain international

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peace. Because I don't think that an entirely rural country is going

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to have the military might to defend its own borders, and certainly

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not the military might, to maintain peace elsewhere in the world, to

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maintain its internal peace, because obviously the rest of the world affects

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us, as we know, much too well these days.

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I think that the issue of you know social relationships in Dunbar's

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number is an argument for bringing back men's clubs and bringing back,

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you know, real men's groups in the churches and all of these

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things where we had little microcosms, we had, you know, your own

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niche in society within the larger tapestry.

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So no, people living in a large city in the Middle Ages,

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and there were some large cities even in the Middle Ages.

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Ages, and even back in Roman times and the Greeks to some

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extent, and obviously other empires before that, the Persians, the Assyrians, all

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sorts of other groups, right?

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Babylonians. I think that what you do is you have this subset

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of people that are your actual social network.

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You have others with whom you interact, but they're not in your

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social circle such that you're maintaining a relationship with them socially, right?

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If you have a men's group at church, you should know what's

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going on in the lives of those men to some degree.

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You know, men are always a little aloof when it comes to

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those things, but you should be available to help the other men

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in your group.

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You should have some awareness of what's going on in their life,

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you know, at least how many children they have, if their wife's

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doing well, things like that.

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Those are the people in your social circ circle.

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You don't necessarily know everything about your baker, or your tailor, or

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your butcher, or whoever it happens to be.

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That man has his own social circle.

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You may be part of it, you may not.

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I don't think that that's bad.

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I think that you can have a society in which you have

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this stratification of the different layers of I know these people well

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and these people less well and these less well.

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That's how it works everywhere.

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Even if it's rural.

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If it's rural, you just have greater distances between those who are

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in your immediate social circle, right?

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And maybe your next door neighbor is two miles down the road,

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depending on where you live.

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You know, my neighbors are a little more distant here, certainly than

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when I lived in California.

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In California, you know, you can almost reach out and touch the

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next house.

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I would just fall out the window here.

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There's no house there.

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So

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I think the baseline is I don't think cities are bad.

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Bad, I think they just have to be managed properly and you

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have to tamp down on some of the problems that can happen

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more easily in cities than in rural areas, but rural areas have

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their own challenges.

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You're dealing with people in both cases.

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So I don't think having cities is bad.

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I think having cities is necessary for certain things.

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But the issues that we have with cities to sort of touch

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on a tangential but important matter before I continue the next question.

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The problem with cities is not cities.

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The problem with cities is demographics, and we all know that.

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The problem is that we have imported millions upon millions of foreigners

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and they've taken over our downtown areas, and so they're no longer

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European cities.

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Look at old footage of European cities and see that they function

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just fine.

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The people are doing quite well.

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They are moral, upstanding, good people.

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The problems came with so called immigration, with demographic changes.

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So cities aren't the problem.

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And the fact that you can only maintain so many social relationships

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just means you only know a subset of the people in your

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given city.

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And you're probably not going to know 150 anyway, right?

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Most men don't.

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It's probably like thirty or forty.

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Question

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five. Trying to take some notes here as I go so that

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I don't miss things for the future.

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Do I have any responsibility to friends who choose to go Elka

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to guide them towards a better church?

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can I rely on felicitous inconsistency knowing that God gives faith even

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when the circumstances are not ideal.

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I do not want to get in the way as these friends

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have not been in church in decades prior, and I am worried

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that trying to explain all of the problems with Elka will overwhelm

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them and push them away.

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So it's better that they're in church

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almost any church than not in church.

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That is with a pretty big caveat.

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Elka is an extremely broad umbrella.

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There are are wild, apostate, wicked, rainbow flag, black lives

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matter, all that crap in large cities.

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And in some small cities, particularly in, say, the northeast.

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However, in some areas, there are also Elka churches that aren't that

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bad. just in Elka because they They were something else that merged

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with Elka forty years ago, and they never left.

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Should they have left?

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Absolutely. Do boomers ever bother to do that kind of thing?

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No, they don't.

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So it depends what kind of Elka Church.

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If they're in the one that has a female pastor so-called and

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flies the rainbow flag and all that stuff, they're probably in more

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danger in that church than not being in that church.

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So in that case, you need to do something.

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If they're in one of the churches that just happens to be

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Elke, but isn't that bad, and the same thing is true, right,

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for Presbyterians and others, there are there's the spectrum, right?

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There are the crazy far-left radical Marxist churches and the really good

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ones. And everything in between.

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So you have to make the assessment what kind of church that

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is. If it's a decent church, then you can slowly nudge them

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toward better things.

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If it's a really bad church, you need to be more aggressive

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in stepping in to fix the problem.

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Because if they continually hear apostate theology, it will be harder in

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the future to undo that harm and bring them to an actual

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belief, to proper belief.

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So make the assessment of how bad the church is.

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I don't know which one it is because again that umbrella is

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too broad.

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So if it's a really bad church, you need to be more

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aggressive in trying to get them to do something else.

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If it's an okay church, then great, at least they're hearing the

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word of God.

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It could be better, but that's true of most churches.

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Just keep talking to them about the faith and get them to

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on their own recognize some of the problems and then when the

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opportunity presents perhaps you can get them into a better church.

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But you have to make that assessment of how bad the church

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is

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Question six.

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Okay, I am going to get the question on the Germans and

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the Celts.

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I forgot how far down the list it was.

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I was curious if you could explain The connection between Celtic and

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Germanic peoples, which you made reference to in a recent tweet.

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So if you actually run the genetic analysis on, say, the Germans

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and the Scots, or the Germans and other Celtic populations.

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The Irish are a little more distant.

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The actual Irish, not the Northern Irish who are Scottish people pretending

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to be Irish, but the actual Irish.

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They're a little more distant.

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But by and large, the genetic distance between Germanic and Celtic populations

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is extremely minimal.

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To the point where we're basically the same people.

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Maybe historically the Celtic people, and this is in like prehistory, right?

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This is we don't necessarily have the records to make this analysis.

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We don't have enough DNA samples from skeletons and things like that.

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But perhaps in prehistory the Celts descended from one of the sons

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of Gomer.

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And not Ashkenaz, Ashkenaz being the father of the Germans, maybe he

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was one of the other sons of Gomer.

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But over time, the tribes have moved around and mixed to the

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point where we're effectively one people.

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Yes, we have national distinctions now and we have cultural differences certainly.

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The Germans and the Scottish are not identical cul culturally, but

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we're not really different people, fundamentally speaking.

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You could take a German and he'd live in Scotland just fine,

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or a Scotsman, he'd live in Germany just fine.

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You might get a little mad about how or organized things are

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sometimes, but we're the same people.

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We are such close cousins that there's no real reason to call

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us distinct unless it is in terms of preserving, say, Scottish culture

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and German culture, which I would love to do.

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I would like our victory to be such that we preserve these

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distinctions culturally, despite the fact that we are

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quite nearly brothers, not even really cousins, but quite nearly brothers genetically.

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So we should be friendly nations on the best of terms.

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Yes, we have those cultural differences, yes, it's good to preserve those.

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But we're not alien people to one another.

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So we should view them as brothers, both groups.

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As Americans we should view the Scottish, the British, and the Germanic

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nations those are Germanic nations.

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So all the Germanic nations we should view as brothers.

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And yes, that includes the Dutch before anyone comments about the Dutch

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The Dutch are just swamp Germans that speak weird German.

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But they're still brothers.

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Question seven.

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On the topic uh Topic of annihilationism and eternal conscious torment Could

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you address the verses of Matthew ten twenty-eight, where it talks about

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God being able to destroy body and soul in hell, and Romans

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six twenty-three, where it talks about the wages of sin being death.

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So I will pull up logos after I make a note for

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myself.

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Okay, let's pull up logos.

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And I don't think we need the introduction, the preface to the

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Book of Concord talking to Emperor Charles.

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But we'll pull up

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Matthew ten twenty eight.

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He pretty much gave the full verse, but I will read the

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verse. And do not fear those who kill the body, but cannot

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kill the soul.

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Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

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Right? So

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And the verb there is just destroy, right?

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We're not dealing with any weird sort of Greek here.

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You can't see what I'm highlighting because Logos.

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But at any rate, it is destroyed.

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So let's look at the next Romans 6.23 before I comment on

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them.

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For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of

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God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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And so I'm not going to do, you know, a broad study

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of Scripture right now.

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I'm partly because I'm just not prepared for it and you don't

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need to watch me looking verses up.

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But partly because I don't want to dedicate the next hour to

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this so I can get through more questions.

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But the general sense here, the general understanding that you need to

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have, is that there is a contrast in scripture with regard to

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really two pairs.

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You have life and death, and you have eternal life and eternal

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death. Hell is eternal death.

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Death is separation from God.

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That's sort of fundamentally what it is.

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Now, is God present everywhere?

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Yes, you know, in the words of the scripture you can't hide

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from God whether you are in the deepest Hades or the furthest

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ends of the earth to paraphrase the Psalm.

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But

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you have that separation from God because you are a sinner.

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And so unless you are in Christ, that separation is in life,

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you're basically a living death, and then in death, it's eternal death

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in hell.

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And so that's what that destruction is.

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The destruction is not annihilation.

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Greek has a verb for annihilation.

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That's not the one there.

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It's destroy.

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So this is not adnihilo, right?

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This is not annihilation, it's not reduction or

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the erasure of something.

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It's not reduction to zero, to nothing.

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This is eternal destruction.

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That's what hell is.

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Hell is eternal separation from God, eternal torment.

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It does not end, you are not annihilated, you do not disappear,

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the torment does not stop because the wages of sin is death,

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and in this case it's eternal death, and the payment is infinite,

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because the transgress of sin is infinite.

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And so you being a finite, the only way you can pay

00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:16.080
an infinite is with an infinite amount of time.

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That's why you need God in the scales.

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That's why you need Jesus Christ.

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Because Jesus Christ being God could pay an infinite sum because he

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is the infinite.

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And so if you are in Christ, you get eternal life.

00:30:28.480 --> 00:30:31.360
If you are not in Christ, you get eternal death.

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It's not annihilation, it's destruction, in the sense of being in fire

00:30:37.120 --> 00:30:38.880
that does not consume.

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It is just that eternal separation from God.

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So it's not annihilationism.

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There are many other places that speak of this, and I could

00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:49.040
draw out the doctrine from many other verses, and a full study

00:30:49.040 --> 00:30:50.800
would obviously do that.

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But annihilationism is simply not taught in scripture.

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There is no actual support for it.

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It is an attempt, philosophically, to soften hell.

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That's all it is.

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And it's only an attempt to soften hell for those who don't

00:31:09.520 --> 00:31:14.080
understand the the destruction of that which is good is evil.

00:31:14.080 --> 00:31:20.160
And so God can't destroy his creation because God cannot do evil,

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and so anything God has made is good, God will not annihilate

00:31:24.160 --> 00:31:25.600
anything He has made.

00:31:25.600 --> 00:31:29.440
Now the infinite separation from God that is due to the willful

00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:31.920
choices of the person in hell.

00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:35.200
God does not desire that any would be lost, but that all

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would come to faith and be saved.

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Scripture is abundantly clear about that as well.

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But yes, hell is eternal and it is eternal separation from God

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and you are conscious for the entire time.

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So

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don't make that choice.

00:31:52.320 --> 00:31:54.560
Because it is a choice to go to hell.

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the free gift of God is available to all, because God so

00:31:59.520 --> 00:32:02.880
loved the world, Tan Kosman, all things, the universe.

00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:07.360
We could translate that more accurately than just world.

00:32:07.360 --> 00:32:08.880
Question eight

00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:20.480
What is your opinion of the Muslim attack in Utah by Peter

00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:22.960
Larson? I actually had to look this one up because I have

00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:26.720
not been really following that sort of news.

00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:27.040
So

00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:32.320
the general rule for this, my general comment, I've commented on it

00:32:32.320 --> 00:32:35.760
before, so I I don't mind necessarily commenting on this sort of

00:32:35.760 --> 00:32:38.640
thing again, but don't do dumb stuff.

00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:41.520
And don't say dumb stuff on the internet.

00:32:41.520 --> 00:32:42.000
Because

00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:45.440
this stuff isn't a game, right?

00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:50.480
And you can make your life very unpleasant, and you can cause

00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:53.280
problems for a lot of other people as well.

00:32:53.280 --> 00:32:53.600
So

00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:59.040
there's also the fact that just white men don't behave like that.

00:32:59.040 --> 00:33:04.320
White men organize and achieve things as a coherent group politically in

00:33:04.320 --> 00:33:06.880
the broadest sense of political.

00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:08.880
That's how white men do things.

00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:13.120
Don't do the lone wolf nonsense, particularly, you know, you didn't even

00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:16.640
achieve anything, like it's completely ineffective.

00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:18.800
You haven't done anything.

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So am I always going to condemn sort of uh as a

00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:25.600
moral matter, what we would call vigilanteism, right?

00:33:25.600 --> 00:33:29.120
In this case, sure, but you can you can think of the

00:33:29.120 --> 00:33:32.880
famous case of I've the man's name has slipped my mind, I'm

00:33:32.880 --> 00:33:34.560
sort sure someone in the chat will know it.

00:33:34.560 --> 00:33:39.360
But you can think of the pedophile and the victim's father solved

00:33:39.360 --> 00:33:41.600
that problem in an airport.

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So I'm not going to say I always condemn vigilanteism, because it's

00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:46.800
not always wrong.

00:33:46.800 --> 00:33:50.640
Where the state fails, the duty devolves to others.

00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:54.560
Eventually it's going to devolve to individual Christian men.

00:33:54.560 --> 00:33:59.520
But the general rule is don't do dumb stuff, don't say dumb

00:33:59.520 --> 00:34:02.080
things, particularly on the internet, and

00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:06.240
white men don't do the lone wolf thing, white men act as

00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:10.240
a coherent group in a way that is effective in an ultimate

00:34:10.240 --> 00:34:14.640
sense politically and meaningfully.

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Question nine: Which punishments other than the death penalty for murder are

00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:30.960
we obligated to copy from the civil law and why?

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So

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We are not actually obligated to copy any punishments from the civil

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law. The punishment, the death penalty for murder, is not from the

00:34:45.120 --> 00:34:45.760
civil law.

00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:46.960
It's in the civil law.

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But it's not the civil law.

00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:50.480
It is the moral law.

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He who sheds the blood of man by man shall his blood

00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:57.600
be shed, for in God's image God made man.

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That's Genesis nine six.

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Genesis nine six is moral law.

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So the moral law is binding on all men for all time

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because the moral law flows from God's nature.

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And the civil law was for Old Testament Israel, for the polity

00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:20.320
of Old Testament Israel, it is not for us.

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It is persuasive because God gave it to a nation, and so

00:35:25.600 --> 00:35:29.280
obviously this was something God was said, at least it was good

00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:33.040
for them, and it is not wicked, because God cannot enact something

00:35:33.040 --> 00:35:34.080
that is evil.

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So it is persuasive for us, but it's not binding on us

00:35:37.200 --> 00:35:40.880
because it's not eternal, it's for a certain time and people and

00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:43.600
place. It's for Old Testament Israel.

00:35:43.600 --> 00:35:48.880
The moral law again flows from God's nature, binding for all time.

00:35:48.880 --> 00:35:50.880
Genesis 9:6 is moral law.

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This comes way before Old Testament Israel, way before the civil law.

00:35:56.080 --> 00:35:58.400
This is moral law handed down by God.

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So moral law always binding, civil law persuasive, ceremonial law, completely gone

00:36:03.920 --> 00:36:05.440
because it was fulfilled in Christ.

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And its only purpose ever was to point forward to Christ.

00:36:08.960 --> 00:36:16.240
That's the tripartite division of the law in the Old Testament.

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Question ten.

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Any thoughts on the PCA condemning kinism?

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Tried to ask on telegram.

00:36:24.560 --> 00:36:26.400
Okay, that's just about telegram, so

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I have not read their condemnation condemnation

00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:34.960
of kinism, so called, so I don't know exact I mean, obviously

00:36:35.040 --> 00:36:38.560
a condemnation of kinism, given the formulations of kinism that I've seen

00:36:38.560 --> 00:36:41.840
from every group that's formulated it thus far is wicked.

00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:42.480
They sinned.

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They sinned by doing that.

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They're in high handed sin.

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They're basically apostate because they still hold to it.

00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:50.640
And unless they repent they're probably damned.

00:36:50.640 --> 00:36:55.040
So that is the general assessment, the general rule here.

00:36:55.040 --> 00:36:59.200
You know, there's always felicitous inconsistency to consider, but these are men

00:36:59.200 --> 00:37:02.960
who are in a position of teachers, stricter judgment.

00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:06.960
I would not want to be in their shoes on judgment day.

00:37:07.040 --> 00:37:10.400
The The problem that I have with kinism is that it's a

00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:12.800
nonsense category, ultimately.

00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:17.040
It has the same problem as ethno-nationalism.

00:37:17.040 --> 00:37:18.800
There's no such thing.

00:37:18.800 --> 00:37:21.120
Nationalism is nationalism.

00:37:21.120 --> 00:37:26.240
Nationalism is necessarily tied to an ethnos being a race or a

00:37:26.240 --> 00:37:30.320
nation nation, so you're calling it nation nationalism.

00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:33.120
We do that sometimes in English though, but it it's harmless when

00:37:33.120 --> 00:37:35.040
we do it with something like non bread, right?

00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:39.200
bread. Or any of a number of other times we do that.

00:37:39.200 --> 00:37:44.720
But when we do it with something like this, it's subversive.

00:37:44.720 --> 00:37:50.640
It's wicked because it is misleading in a way that is impermissible.

00:37:50.640 --> 00:37:55.360
Nationalism is necessarily tied to a race because nation and race mean

00:37:55.360 --> 00:37:58.880
the same thing, and ethnos also means race.

00:37:59.040 --> 00:38:03.760
So at that point you may as well say ethno-national racialism national

00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:06.720
just it's gobbledygook.

00:38:06.720 --> 00:38:08.400
Just call it nationalism.

00:38:09.440 --> 00:38:13.280
If you're doing it in order to distinguish what you are advocating

00:38:13.600 --> 00:38:18.320
from, say, civic nationalism, that's a limited use case, that's probably fine,

00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:22.400
because you are defining yourself contrary to this group through the use

00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:25.040
of a term, so it's a shortcut instead of having to do

00:38:25.040 --> 00:38:28.720
the whole The whole explanation every time you encounter someone.

00:38:28.720 --> 00:38:35.040
But recognize that the term has been made necessary due to subversion.

00:38:35.040 --> 00:38:36.800
It's not a term that we should even be using.

00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:41.280
And kinism is in the same class because it's insane to accuse

00:38:41.280 --> 00:38:45.520
someone of sin for favoring his kin.

00:38:45.520 --> 00:38:48.080
God requires that.

00:38:48.080 --> 00:38:51.680
Those who do not provide for their own and particularly for members

00:38:51.680 --> 00:38:54.960
of their own household are worse than unbelievers.

00:38:54.960 --> 00:38:57.920
And there are plenty of other places in Scripture where God teaches

00:38:57.920 --> 00:39:01.120
that, and it is known by the light of reason because God

00:39:01.120 --> 00:39:03.680
built it into humanity and creation itself.

00:39:03.680 --> 00:39:09.200
So So they are attempting to define something that is part of

00:39:09.200 --> 00:39:13.280
human nature, instilled by God, and is good in and of itself

00:39:13.520 --> 00:39:14.640
as a sin.

00:39:14.640 --> 00:39:19.680
And so the fact that the term exists is itself wicked.

00:39:19.680 --> 00:39:23.360
The fact that they then condemned this thing is even more wicked.

00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:26.480
So again, these are men in high handed sin and you know

00:39:26.560 --> 00:39:29.040
don't stand near them in a lightning storm

00:39:31.520 --> 00:39:34.800
Question eleven.

00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:38.560
Do you believe the authenticity of the released Charlie Kirk text showing

00:39:38.560 --> 00:39:41.600
he did not in fact have a positive view on Jews or

00:39:41.600 --> 00:39:44.160
Israel? I do think that at least At least the ones that

00:39:44.160 --> 00:39:48.080
have come out thus far, you know, as time progresses, the likelihood

00:39:48.080 --> 00:39:54.160
of any additional leaks being valid decreases, or at least your skepticism

00:39:54.160 --> 00:39:55.680
should increase.

00:39:55.680 --> 00:40:00.400
But I do think that he had a very skeptical view of

00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:04.080
the Jews and of Israel so called because he dealt with them

00:40:04.080 --> 00:40:04.480
a lot.

00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:07.600
You can't avoid it if you deal with them because they always

00:40:07.600 --> 00:40:09.120
let the mask slip.

00:40:09.120 --> 00:40:12.080
So and I think that's one of the reasons that they killed

00:40:12.080 --> 00:40:17.520
him. Because he was starting to, to their mind, turn on them,

00:40:17.520 --> 00:40:22.400
or at least had outlived his usefulness.

00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:23.440
Question twelve.

00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:26.320
I guess this is related to question ten actually.

00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:32.560
Can you explain what it means to sear one's conscience?

00:40:32.560 --> 00:40:38.080
This is related to hardening one's heart.

00:40:38.080 --> 00:40:42.880
But it's important to recognize that there are two senses of hardening

00:40:42.880 --> 00:40:44.240
your heart.

00:40:44.240 --> 00:40:48.240
And one is permissible and it's sort of a colloquial use and

00:40:48.240 --> 00:40:51.440
one is impermissible and it's a theological use.

00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:55.920
So colloquially hardening your heart is when you need to do something

00:40:55.920 --> 00:41:00.240
difficult and you know your heart is going to try and drag

00:41:00.240 --> 00:41:02.960
you back or make it you it's a harden your heart to

00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:04.720
do the thing that needs to be done.

00:41:04.720 --> 00:41:08.480
This is something that soldiers need to recognize in times of war,

00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:13.120
and that ordinary men need to recognize in extraordinary times politically.

00:41:13.120 --> 00:41:16.560
You may have to harden your heart to do certain things that

00:41:16.560 --> 00:41:18.400
are themselves necessary.

00:41:18.400 --> 00:41:19.920
They're not bad.

00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:23.760
They just in a perfect world you wouldn't have to do them.

00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:25.120
But we don't live in a perfect world.

00:41:25.120 --> 00:41:27.120
So you have to harden your heart to do the thing you

00:41:27.120 --> 00:41:28.800
have to do that's difficult.

00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:33.040
The other kind of hardening your heart is hardening your heart when

00:41:33.040 --> 00:41:36.000
God is telling you you need to repent, you need to change,

00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:37.920
you need to stop doing this thing.

00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:40.320
When instead of doing what God is telling you to do, you

00:41:40.320 --> 00:41:42.560
say, No, I'm gonna do my own thing.

00:41:42.560 --> 00:41:43.600
I like this sin.

00:41:43.600 --> 00:41:45.440
I'm gonna keep doing this sin.

00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:48.560
I'm going to do this thing that the Holy Spirit is telling

00:41:48.560 --> 00:41:50.320
me not to do.

00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:52.640
That's hardening your heart against God.

00:41:52.640 --> 00:41:56.800
That was Pharaoh refusing to let God's people go free, despite the

00:41:56.800 --> 00:42:00.960
fact that God had very clearly demonstrated he wanted Pharaoh to actually

00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:02.240
do that.

00:42:02.240 --> 00:42:04.880
And do note that Pharaoh hardened his heart and then God confirmed

00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:09.600
him and further hardened his heart, Pharaoh did the initial sin.

00:42:09.600 --> 00:42:11.280
Go read the text very carefully.

00:42:11.280 --> 00:42:13.120
It's there.

00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:19.040
So hardening your heart basically eventually leads to searing your conscience.

00:42:19.040 --> 00:42:25.840
If you continue to participate in particularly egregious sins, usually not, you

00:42:25.840 --> 00:42:27.360
know, little minor sins, right?

00:42:27.360 --> 00:42:32.720
We're not talking about well, occasionally overeating, I would say, but if

00:42:32.720 --> 00:42:36.560
you overeat and it becomes your personality, then yeah, you've kind of

00:42:36.560 --> 00:42:39.760
seared your conscience with regard to obesity.

00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:42.960
I don't know that that will necessarily damn you, but it is

00:42:42.960 --> 00:42:45.760
certainly a sin on to which you are holding of which you

00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:47.040
have not repented.

00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:50.160
It's a very real problem these days.

00:42:50.160 --> 00:42:53.840
But you know, think of the more extreme examples, right?

00:42:53.840 --> 00:42:56.640
Think of the impenitent sodomite, right?

00:42:56.640 --> 00:43:00.800
He engages in that behavior over a long period of time, and

00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:04.800
to such a degree that he has completely seared his conscience and

00:43:04.800 --> 00:43:07.200
he no longer hears the Holy Spirit.

00:43:07.200 --> 00:43:11.040
The Holy Spirit has departed, and so he no longer feels that

00:43:11.440 --> 00:43:14.560
prick of conscience telling him this thing you are doing is wicked

00:43:14.560 --> 00:43:17.680
and wrong and you must stop because he has done it so

00:43:17.680 --> 00:43:21.840
many times he's just scarred over that faculty.

00:43:21.840 --> 00:43:25.840
It is possible to destroy what is essentially a spiritual faculty.

00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:28.080
That's what searing your conscience is.

00:43:28.080 --> 00:43:32.640
And so if you continue to engage in, again, particularly egregious sins

00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:37.200
for a long enough period of time with that impenetence, that hardening

00:43:37.200 --> 00:43:41.760
of your heart against God's call to repentance, you will eventually find

00:43:41.760 --> 00:43:45.680
your conscience no longer tells you to stop because you've effectively killed

00:43:45.680 --> 00:43:46.480
your conscience.

00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:49.520
That's what searing your conscience is.

00:43:50.720 --> 00:43:55.520
And as a general rule, you'd know if you'd done it because

00:43:55.520 --> 00:43:58.320
you wouldn't be asking about it if you had.

00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:01.120
It's kind of like the unforgivable sin.

00:44:01.120 --> 00:44:03.440
If you can ask the question, have I committed?

00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:06.000
You have not, because you can worry about it.

00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:11.120
If you had committed it, you wouldn't be worried.

00:44:11.120 --> 00:44:16.560
Question thirteen.

00:44:16.560 --> 00:44:20.640
You have mentioned on X that including other races alongside whites is

00:44:20.640 --> 00:44:22.480
stretching the definition of man.

00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:24.400
Could you elaborate on this?

00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:27.680
And a little postscript that's a separate question, but I'll just include

00:44:27.680 --> 00:44:29.840
it as I guess thirteen B as it were.

00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:32.000
Any chance Woe comes back we miss him.

00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:33.200
I'll answer that one first.

00:44:33.200 --> 00:44:37.520
Woe is still posting on X, he's posting on his tech account,

00:44:37.520 --> 00:44:39.120
which you can certainly find.

00:44:39.120 --> 00:44:40.640
It's not hard to find.

00:44:40.640 --> 00:44:43.440
But But he's posting mostly about tech issues right now.

00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:46.080
It's just what he's doing on X and that sort of stuff.

00:44:46.080 --> 00:44:46.720
He's not gone.

00:44:46.720 --> 00:44:47.360
He's still around.

00:44:47.360 --> 00:44:49.120
I still talk to him, of course.

00:44:49.120 --> 00:44:52.960
He's just not posting on the other account right now.

00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:58.720
But to answer the core question here, this is related to

00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:05.520
I had an exchange with one of the enemy pastors on X

00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:09.360
about the Imago Dei that came up.

00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:12.000
And I went to

00:45:13.360 --> 00:45:17.680
went at some length to explain the nature of the Imago Dei,

00:45:17.680 --> 00:45:22.160
the image of God in man, and how that plays out and

00:45:22.160 --> 00:45:24.960
what the fathers also believed about it, because I'm not saying anything

00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:25.520
new on this.

00:45:25.520 --> 00:45:29.360
This is something that has been believed down through the centuries.

00:45:29.360 --> 00:45:32.640
So and it infuriates people because they don't want to hear it

00:45:32.720 --> 00:45:37.680
because it runs counter to the modern orthodoxy with regard to the

00:45:37.680 --> 00:45:39.600
new global religion.

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In this case, mostly egalitarianism, particularly racial egalitarianism.

00:45:44.320 --> 00:45:46.880
And I of course I'll set aside the issues I have with

00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:50.480
just the term Imago Dei, because usually when it's brought up, it's

00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:52.320
brought up by enemies to do something destructive.

00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:54.880
I don't have a problem with the term per se, but it's

00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:57.920
a term that is almost exclusively used by the enemy.

00:45:57.920 --> 00:46:01.120
It can be used productively, and you find it used productively in

00:46:01.120 --> 00:46:04.960
centuries past, but these days, usually wicked men.

00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:10.320
But to answer the question, there and you can find my thread

00:46:10.320 --> 00:46:13.600
on that and my more expansive answers on X.

00:46:13.600 --> 00:46:16.480
If you just search for my posts in Imago Dei, I think

00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:19.200
it'll pop up as one of the top three or four results.

00:46:19.200 --> 00:46:20.560
I'll put a link in the show notes.

00:46:20.560 --> 00:46:23.200
I'll actually make a note of that for myself.

00:46:23.200 --> 00:46:27.120
But there are two senses of the Imago Dei.

00:46:27.120 --> 00:46:30.480
There's a binary sense and sort of a spectral sense.

00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:34.000
The binary sense is are you human?

00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:39.840
Anyone who is a Homo sapien is human, is in the image

00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:42.240
of God in the binary sense.

00:46:42.240 --> 00:46:47.120
And that includes the most degenerate pygmy you can find somewhere in

00:46:47.120 --> 00:46:53.360
a dark jungle somewhere, and the pinnacle of humanity, the most intelligent,

00:46:53.360 --> 00:46:58.320
attractive, most morally upstanding person who ever lived, whatever man that happened

00:46:58.320 --> 00:47:02.240
to be, second obvious to Christ, right?

00:47:02.240 --> 00:47:02.560
So

00:47:03.920 --> 00:47:08.080
The other sense is the spectral sense, and many of the church

00:47:08.080 --> 00:47:12.720
fathers wrote on this and they emphasized this one because this is

00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:14.720
sort of the more interesting case, right?

00:47:14.720 --> 00:47:16.640
The binary case is simple.

00:47:16.640 --> 00:47:18.160
Is this a human being?

00:47:18.160 --> 00:47:19.920
It's in the image of God.

00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:24.560
The other is the attributes of man that correspond to the gifts

00:47:24.560 --> 00:47:29.280
God has given us, particularly those above and beyond the animals.

00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:36.400
So man's intellect, man's creativity, man's physical beauty, that's part of it,

00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:40.960
because obviously goodness, beauty, truth, right, we're dealing with transcendentals, man's moral

00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:44.880
goodness, his righteousness, these are These are all aspects and there are

00:47:44.960 --> 00:47:47.680
other ones as well, but these are all aspects or attributes of

00:47:47.680 --> 00:47:52.160
man God gave to man and there's a spectrum, right?

00:47:52.160 --> 00:47:55.040
You go from the dumbest person ever to live to the smartest

00:47:55.040 --> 00:47:56.240
person ever to live.

00:47:56.240 --> 00:47:58.320
Beauty's a spectrum as well.

00:47:58.320 --> 00:48:00.240
Moral uprightness is a spectrum.

00:48:00.240 --> 00:48:03.280
How righteous a person is before God is a spectrum.

00:48:03.280 --> 00:48:07.200
How good the person is, all of these things, and so the

00:48:07.200 --> 00:48:11.200
person who is closer to that which God intended is more in

00:48:11.200 --> 00:48:14.640
the image of God, more conform to the image of God, or

00:48:14.640 --> 00:48:17.680
the image of Christ, if you prefer to be specific, right?

00:48:17.680 --> 00:48:20.880
Because men are being conformed to the image of Christ.

00:48:21.040 --> 00:48:24.720
That person is more in that image than someone who is not

00:48:24.720 --> 00:48:25.440
as close.

00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:29.680
Someone who is closer to the other end of the spectrum.

00:48:29.680 --> 00:48:36.960
And so, racially speaking, you have entire races that are further down

00:48:36.960 --> 00:48:40.080
the spectrum from whites.

00:48:40.080 --> 00:48:42.800
That is the case with regard to physical beauty, that is the

00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:45.520
case with regard to intelligence, it is the case with regard to

00:48:45.520 --> 00:48:49.040
creativity, it is the case with regard to righteousness because there are

00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:54.320
besetting sins that apply to certain nations, some are

00:48:55.520 --> 00:48:58.640
collecting them as it were, and some have very few.

00:48:58.640 --> 00:49:01.280
The ones that have few of them and do not engage in

00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:05.680
them as consistently and as deeply and in such a depraved nature,

00:49:05.680 --> 00:49:09.680
down over a course of centuries, are closer to God, are more

00:49:09.680 --> 00:49:12.160
in the image of God than those who are at the other

00:49:12.160 --> 00:49:13.440
end of the spectrum.

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And that makes the modern egalitarian uncomfortable, because for the modern egalitarian

00:49:18.320 --> 00:49:22.960
that runs entirely contrary to his system, but it is manifestly true

00:49:23.120 --> 00:49:25.840
if you just look at creation.

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So that's sort of the quick rundown, the overview of that particular

00:49:32.080 --> 00:49:38.480
issue. Question 14.

00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:45.520
Let me check something real quick here.

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Think I'll go maybe ten more minutes because then I need to

00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:53.280
check on the bread in the oven before it does bad things

00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:56.720
and becomes an extremely large crouton.

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Question fourteen.

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I am definitely not getting through all thirty tonight.

00:50:00.560 --> 00:50:03.840
What historical works that cover the Reformation would you recommend?

00:50:03.840 --> 00:50:07.840
I have James Wiley's History of Protestantism on my shelf, but have

00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:09.040
yet to delve into it.

00:50:09.040 --> 00:50:12.400
Are there any works by Lutheran authors which you would prefer?

00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:16.480
Great, this is an easy one to answer, and that is the

00:50:16.720 --> 00:50:21.360
Conservative Reformation and its theology by Charles Kraut.

00:50:21.840 --> 00:50:24.400
And as you might guess, with the last name like Kraut, he

00:50:24.400 --> 00:50:25.680
is indeed a German.

00:50:25.680 --> 00:50:27.680
There's an H on the end though.

00:50:27.680 --> 00:50:30.240
I will put a link to that in the show notes.

00:50:30.240 --> 00:50:35.120
But I think that's probably the number one recommendation for this particular

00:50:35.120 --> 00:50:38.560
topic. I could probably make additional ones, but I would have to

00:50:38.560 --> 00:50:41.360
think about those or at least look at my library.

00:50:41.360 --> 00:50:45.520
I don't think I have any of them on these bookshelves.

00:50:45.520 --> 00:50:47.760
I think they're in the other room.

00:50:47.760 --> 00:50:50.000
There are some very good books on the subject, but that is

00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:52.880
sort of the the number one recommendation I think I would start

00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:58.400
there. Question fifteen.

00:50:59.360 --> 00:51:04.480
Did Adam's children and Noah's grandchildren have to engage in sibling incest,

00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:07.040
respectively, to populate the earth?

00:51:07.040 --> 00:51:09.440
The answer is yes.

00:51:09.760 --> 00:51:11.920
And also the answer is no.

00:51:11.920 --> 00:51:16.080
And the reason the answer is yes and a no is that

00:51:17.600 --> 00:51:18.560
until God

00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:24.480
said that was something you cannot do, and until it was, you

00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:26.960
know, outlawed by God as a word, it would not have been

00:51:26.960 --> 00:51:30.000
incessed in the sense we mean because w when we say that

00:51:30.160 --> 00:51:31.680
we mean the crime.

00:51:31.680 --> 00:51:33.920
We mean the moral transgression.

00:51:33.920 --> 00:51:36.720
And for those people, it was not.

00:51:36.720 --> 00:51:37.840
And the reason it was not

00:51:39.040 --> 00:51:42.800
is that they were better than us.

00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:46.000
And they were better than us because they were not as separated

00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:51.200
from God, not as genetically particularly degenerate as we are today.

00:51:51.600 --> 00:51:54.000
We have more problems today.

00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:59.120
We have problems that will easily concentrate over a course of not

00:51:59.120 --> 00:52:00.960
so many generations.

00:52:00.960 --> 00:52:04.880
However, that comes with the caveat, people who are not as genetically

00:52:04.880 --> 00:52:08.560
degenerate could in fact engage in that beh you should not engage

00:52:08.560 --> 00:52:11.200
in that behavior, do not marry your sister.

00:52:11.200 --> 00:52:14.880
But people who are not as genetically degenerate degenerate could engage in

00:52:14.880 --> 00:52:20.240
that behavior for more generations with fewer problems than those who are

00:52:20.240 --> 00:52:25.520
starting out in a more morally and genetically degenerate position.

00:52:25.520 --> 00:52:28.000
Because that concentrates problems.

00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:32.080
For those who don't know how genetics works, we'll just take the

00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:34.720
sort of 30,000-foot view, right?

00:52:34.720 --> 00:52:41.600
Problems that are acquired over generations due to usually mutation concentrate if

00:52:41.600 --> 00:52:46.560
you continue to intermarry in the population that has that problem.

00:52:46.560 --> 00:52:50.720
So for instance, if you have a recessive gene and I hope

00:52:50.720 --> 00:52:54.400
you know what dominant recessive genes are, but if you have a

00:52:54.400 --> 00:52:59.840
recessive gene that would cause some sort of deformity if expressed, but

00:52:59.840 --> 00:53:03.920
you have one copy recessive, one copy dominant, the dominant one expressed

00:53:03.920 --> 00:53:05.520
is not the recessive.

00:53:05.520 --> 00:53:08.800
However, if you then marry someone

00:53:09.840 --> 00:53:13.920
who has one dominant and one recessive gene the same as you,

00:53:13.920 --> 00:53:18.080
you have a one-quarter chance of roughly one quarter chance of producing

00:53:18.080 --> 00:53:23.200
a child that expresses the recessive gene and has the problem, whatever

00:53:23.200 --> 00:53:25.200
the deformity is.

00:53:25.200 --> 00:53:26.800
That's the issue.

00:53:26.800 --> 00:53:30.800
They didn't have that because they did not have the accumulative baggage

00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:35.600
that we have today due to millennia of separation from God and

00:53:35.600 --> 00:53:39.920
living in a fallen world, the compounding consequences of the fall.

00:53:39.920 --> 00:53:44.480
That's part of the reason that God instituted those laws at the

00:53:44.480 --> 00:53:45.760
time that He did.

00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:49.680
Prior to that, it was not a transgression because there was no

00:53:49.680 --> 00:53:51.120
law against it.

00:53:51.120 --> 00:53:53.920
So that's something that is

00:53:54.960 --> 00:53:57.520
it's really only an issue for this life, but you know it's

00:53:57.520 --> 00:53:59.840
not an issue for the next life anyway, because you're not going

00:53:59.840 --> 00:54:02.080
to be marrying your sibling in the next life either.

00:54:02.080 --> 00:54:02.400
So

00:54:03.360 --> 00:54:08.320
it sounds like something that would be horrible to our modern ears,

00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:12.720
but to them at the time, under those circumstances, it did not

00:54:12.720 --> 00:54:17.120
produce the same problems and so it didn't have a prohibition.

00:54:17.120 --> 00:54:22.400
So yes, they were marrying siblings or, you know, first cousins for

00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:24.720
a while, because there weren't very many of them.

00:54:30.880 --> 00:54:33.600
Which incidentally, if you start playing out the logic and the math

00:54:33.680 --> 00:54:36.240
there, it's a very real problem for evolution for those who contend

00:54:36.240 --> 00:54:40.000
that we're on an upward upward trajectory instead of downward because you

00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:44.320
you have this founder issue with populations that just occurs again and

00:54:44.320 --> 00:54:49.200
again and again and again particularly for talking supposedly millions of years.

00:54:49.200 --> 00:54:52.240
It's a insurmountable problem for the evolution crowd.

00:54:52.240 --> 00:54:54.160
Makes them very mad when you bring it up, but

00:54:56.160 --> 00:54:58.960
most of them don't actually know anything about what they believe, it's

00:54:58.960 --> 00:55:03.040
just they hate God, and so they they love Charles Darwin.

00:55:03.040 --> 00:55:05.200
They've never read what he wrote, but they love him and hate

00:55:05.200 --> 00:55:07.200
God. Question sixteen.

00:55:07.280 --> 00:55:10.000
In the new earth will humans get to play with animals?

00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:12.800
Just a little more friendly question, the last one, I guess.

00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:14.880
Will the animals be forbidden from harming people?

00:55:14.880 --> 00:55:16.080
The answer is yes.

00:55:16.800 --> 00:55:21.520
And I will actually read a passage from Scripture about this one

00:55:21.840 --> 00:55:25.040
because it's a great passage of Scripture, and it's one that we

00:55:25.040 --> 00:55:30.080
should really, if not necessarily commit to memory word for word, then

00:55:30.080 --> 00:55:31.840
at least remember very clearly.

00:55:31.840 --> 00:55:35.600
And I guess we're going to test myself right now, remember which

00:55:35.600 --> 00:55:37.920
chapter it's in.

00:55:37.920 --> 00:55:41.040
Let me pull up logos.

00:55:41.040 --> 00:55:47.520
I think it's Isaiah eleven.

00:55:47.520 --> 00:55:50.240
See I'd say don't quote me on that, but I can't edit

00:55:50.240 --> 00:55:53.200
the the video because we're doing this live.

00:55:54.560 --> 00:55:57.680
And it is indeed starting with

00:55:58.640 --> 00:56:02.560
verse six And the wolf shall graze with the lamb, and the

00:56:02.560 --> 00:56:05.520
leopard shall rest with the kid, and the calf and the bull

00:56:05.600 --> 00:56:09.440
and the lion shall graze together, and a little child shall lead

00:56:09.440 --> 00:56:12.640
them, and the ox and the bear shall graze together, and their

00:56:12.640 --> 00:56:16.240
young shall be together, and together shall the lion and the ox

00:56:16.240 --> 00:56:19.760
eat husks, and the young child shall put its hand over the

00:56:19.760 --> 00:56:23.840
hole of asps, and on the layer of the offspring of asps,

00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:26.880
and they will not hurt or be able to destroy anyone on

00:56:26.880 --> 00:56:30.720
my holy mountain, because the whole earth has been filled to know

00:56:30.720 --> 00:56:34.240
the Lord, like much water to cover seas.

00:56:34.640 --> 00:56:37.440
That's a picture of the new creation.

00:56:37.440 --> 00:56:41.920
And in the new creation, you will not have predators.

00:56:41.920 --> 00:56:45.440
You will not have animals that destroy and kill and eat their

00:56:45.440 --> 00:56:46.880
kill. We don't know how

00:56:48.240 --> 00:56:50.160
diet is going to work, right?

00:56:50.160 --> 00:56:53.040
I'm not even going to speculate on that, but we know that

00:56:53.040 --> 00:56:56.240
here it's saying that these animals, at least, are going to eat

00:56:56.240 --> 00:56:58.720
grass, are going to eat plants again.

00:56:58.720 --> 00:57:00.800
That was God's original intention.

00:57:00.800 --> 00:57:06.080
God's original intention was not for predation because predation supposes death, and

00:57:06.080 --> 00:57:07.280
death is a wicked thing.

00:57:07.280 --> 00:57:08.400
Death is an evil thing.

00:57:08.400 --> 00:57:12.480
It only entered creation due to Adam's sin, because Adam being the

00:57:12.480 --> 00:57:17.280
head of all creation, condemned all creation in his sin, because the

00:57:17.280 --> 00:57:19.040
body follows the head.

00:57:19.040 --> 00:57:22.720
So in the new creation, yes, you will be able to have

00:57:22.720 --> 00:57:25.760
a pet lion, or at least go and play with the lions,

00:57:25.760 --> 00:57:30.960
if not necessarily have your own personal pet lion.

00:57:30.960 --> 00:57:35.840
I don't know that I want a pet lion.

00:57:35.840 --> 00:57:38.560
I guess it would be kinda nice to have a a large

00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:42.400
A lar I'm just not super fond of cats usually, so I

00:57:42.400 --> 00:57:46.080
guess a a bear would be more in line.

00:57:46.080 --> 00:57:48.240
Maybe a moose.

00:57:48.320 --> 00:57:51.120
Be different from meeting a moose in the forest these days.

00:57:51.120 --> 00:57:53.440
It's sort of one of the only things I don't want to

00:57:53.440 --> 00:57:55.200
meet, don't like to meet when I hike.

00:57:55.200 --> 00:57:57.360
I'd rather meet a bear.

00:57:57.360 --> 00:58:01.360
Question 17: what are your thoughts on the old KKK and the

00:58:01.360 --> 00:58:03.360
new KKK?

00:58:03.920 --> 00:58:08.160
So I'll answer those in reverse order because the new KKK is

00:58:08.160 --> 00:58:10.320
a great way to meet FBI agents.

00:58:10.320 --> 00:58:14.080
So if you want to meet FBI agents, have fun.

00:58:14.080 --> 00:58:18.560
Because at this point, the organization is so infiltrated at this point

00:58:18.560 --> 00:58:21.920
that it is basically just a honey pot.

00:58:21.920 --> 00:58:24.000
And they don't even do anything anymore.

00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:25.600
So what is the point?

00:58:25.600 --> 00:58:29.360
Don't join the KKK, join some productive group, right?

00:58:29.360 --> 00:58:30.880
Not that one.

00:58:30.880 --> 00:58:36.240
The old KKK was started for good reasons because they had a

00:58:36.240 --> 00:58:40.640
lack of law enforcement and a lack of order in the South

00:58:40.640 --> 00:58:45.440
after the Civil War and particularly the Jim Crow era, and then

00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:50.560
leading up to and in and through the civil rights so-called era.

00:58:50.560 --> 00:58:56.480
They were filling a necessary niche enforcing the law and enforcing like

00:58:56.480 --> 00:58:58.640
the actual law, I mean the moral law in this case, not

00:58:58.640 --> 00:59:02.160
just the positive law, that was not being enforced by many of

00:59:02.160 --> 00:59:03.360
the authorities.

00:59:03.360 --> 00:59:07.680
And so the stories you hear about them doing, you know, some

00:59:07.680 --> 00:59:10.960
evil nonsense or whatever are mostly propaganda.

00:59:10.960 --> 00:59:14.160
You can look up many of them were Christians.

00:59:14.160 --> 00:59:16.400
They had celebrations of Christmas.

00:59:16.400 --> 00:59:20.880
They had uh times where they would attend church services together.

00:59:20.880 --> 00:59:23.360
It was a largely Christian group.

00:59:23.360 --> 00:59:26.560
And the things that they were doing were not the supposed stuff

00:59:26.560 --> 00:59:28.480
the media likes to paint them with.

00:59:28.480 --> 00:59:30.800
They were doing good things for the community.

00:59:30.800 --> 00:59:34.160
They had some weird views on certain things, like they were

00:59:35.040 --> 00:59:35.920
really really

00:59:36.800 --> 00:59:40.880
weirdly anti-foreign, but not in the sense where we would think it's

00:59:40.880 --> 00:59:42.640
like a good anti-foreign.

00:59:42.640 --> 00:59:47.280
They were anti-foreign and like they didn't like Europeans sometimes for some

00:59:47.280 --> 00:59:50.400
of the group, which is taking a little too far, right?

00:59:50.400 --> 00:59:52.960
But other than that, that was this sort of quibbling with the

00:59:52.960 --> 00:59:55.520
group, they were focused on domestic issues, but

00:59:56.800 --> 00:59:58.480
No group is perfect.

00:59:58.480 --> 01:00:01.120
Never going to say any group is perfect, but they were doing

01:00:01.120 --> 01:00:03.360
good things certainly early on, and then they got Then they got

01:00:03.360 --> 01:00:06.800
infiltrated and now they're pointless and like I said, great way to

01:00:06.800 --> 01:00:08.400
meet an FBI agent.

01:00:08.400 --> 01:00:13.360
So don't.

01:00:13.360 --> 01:00:15.200
Question 18

01:00:18.720 --> 01:00:24.560
Could you expand more on circumcision being a sin?

01:00:24.560 --> 01:00:29.120
There are three ways I would go about this.

01:00:29.120 --> 01:00:32.400
Number one would be the most obvious, right?

01:00:32.400 --> 01:00:36.720
If you undertake it as believing this is something that is required

01:00:36.720 --> 01:00:40.320
by the law, something Christians should do, then you're trying to be

01:00:40.320 --> 01:00:44.240
justified by works, and you are severed from Christ, you who would

01:00:44.240 --> 01:00:46.160
be justified by works of the law.

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Right? Just to quote Scripture there.

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That's the easiest case.

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The second argument against it would be

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that

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the modern practice is not the ancient practice.

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And we see this.

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I've gone over this many times.

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You can go and look at Stone Choir and some other places

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where I talk about circumcision, where I've gone into the instances in

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scripture that prove this is the case, and we can also look

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at what we know from archaeology.

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But the ancient practice was a cut in the foreskin or just

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cutting the tip of the foreskin off, which yes as a man

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sounds horrible, but at the same time, it's not the modern practice

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of removing the whole of it.

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Totally different practice.

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The modern practice is male genital mutilation, and so it is sinful

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to mutilate your children.

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Pretty straightforward.

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The third argument I would make is that ultimately all forms of

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it these days are Judaizing.

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You cannot find someone who engages in and defends circumcision, who is

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not ultimately a rank Judaizer.

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They will try to make the argument, oh, it's aesthetic, which is

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a very odd argument to be making, but, you know, they try

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to make that argument.

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Or they'll say it's more hygienic because apparently these are people who

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are too stupid to wash themselves in the shower.

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But ultimately what they're doing is they're engaging in Judaizing.

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They think that they think that this is some special thing that

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was a sign that was great for the Old Testament Jews and

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so we should do this too because it's good and so no.

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You should not engage in it.

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It's sinful.

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Ultimately someone who defends it advocates for it, whatever, will fall into

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at least one of those categories, right?

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They're deliberately mutilate mutilating children for that second category, or they're Judaizing

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for the third category, right?

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Or you know.

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That's basically just use those three categories to sort of assess the

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person, and you'll find the person is in fact committing some kind

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of sin.

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And so it's one of those tells.

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Someone advocating for circumcision is always going to be doing something evil

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on top of the thing that he's doing that is openly evil,

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which is the advocating for circumcision.

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And it's just something Christians should not be doing.

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We've never done it down through history.

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It is not a practice of our people.

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It is something that was imported from the Jews.

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It's evil, and that's even without commenting on the tissue selling and

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all that stuff that happens behind the scenes, which there's plenty of

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that, making a great deal of money.

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So it's just it's an evil practice, and it's performed by evil

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men and defended by evil men.

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Question

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Let's see.

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Question 19 might be the last question for this week.

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I know I did not get to the chat.

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I have the chat window open.

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I will copy the questions from the chat.

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Unfortunately, like I said, OBS is not working right now, the chat

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functionality, because that would be too easy.

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So So And I've refreshed it three times and it still doesn't

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work. So but I have the chat open.

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I will go through and copy the questions from the chat and

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I will try to get to those next week.

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Maybe I'll do a couple questions quickly here.

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I I see a couple people donated.

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I'd like to try to get to those, so maybe I'll take

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the time.

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Hopefully th hopefully my bread will not burn.

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Maybe I can get someone to take that out of the oven

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for me.

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Let's see.

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Question

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14. Question 19.

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What am I talking about?

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Question 19.

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I was looking at the wrong number over here.

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Could you expand on your view that the Great Commission has been

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fulfilled? When I Google about it, the results just call it full

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preterism. So there are

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essentially two streams of thought on this one, two ways you can

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look at the Great Commission having been fulfilled.

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I don't want to get into this into too great a depth

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right now because I'm somewhat limited for time, but the first is

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that it was fulfilled during the time of the apostles, right?

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You had the apostles who spread out over almost all of the

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world and took it to all of the great races of men,

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at least, which is to say the major racial divisions that flow

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from Noah's sons.

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The Japhethites heard the gospel.

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You had, in fact, one of the apostles is buried in Europe.

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He's not even buried in the Middle East or below the Alps.

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He's buried in Europe.

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And I mean, there are a number buried in Europe, obviously.

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I'm talking about the part of Europe that's above the Alps, not

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Italy. Because obviously, you know, you have Peter and Paul both died

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in Italy.

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You have the Shemites obviously were very much evangelized by a number

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of the apostles and certainly the disciples and certainly those who followed

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the apostles, and you had the sons of Ham as well, because

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one of the earliest individuals who heard the gospel after the resurrection

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was an Ethiopian who took it back to his people.

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And so you had the gospel taken to all of the three

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great races of men.

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There are many to day who will try to say that it's

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every little tiny sub race and every little group and every part

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of the world has to hear it before It's nonsense.

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And usually those are the kind of people who think that we

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have to create heaven on earth before God comes back, right?

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That's nowhere in scripture.

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Scripture says things are gonna get really bad near the end.

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It doesn't mean things can't go up and down, right?

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They can get better now and then get worse and better and

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worse. They do get worse near the end though.

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We don't construct heaven on earth and then God comes back to

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an already great world.

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There's no millennial reign.

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None of that stuff.

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That's Judaizing.

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The other sense of it would be, and I think this may

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be the stronger argument because I think there were groups of which

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individuals writing at that time weren't aware, particularly the Amerindians, that have

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been evangelized now, right?

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I think during the period of colonialism it was fulfilled.

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That's my personal stance.

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I think that the Great Commission was fulfilled during the colonial period.

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Because during colonialism, you had

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the gospel taken to basically every corner of the world.

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So the requirement was never that every single person hear the gospel.

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The requirement is that every nation hear the gospel.

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Every race has to be evangelized.

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And so if you take race to be The sons of Noah,

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or the grandsons of Noah, then it was probably fulfilled during the

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time of the apostles.

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If you take it to be the races that have arisen from

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those races down through the millennia since then, I think that's probably

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the better interpretation than it was fulfilled during colonialism.

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And this is something that has been a strain in Christianity from

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very early on.

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The Lutheran fathers also wrote about during the Reformation.

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I would have to look back through my own notes to see

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what reading recommendation recommendations I would make.

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But this is not something that it's not preterism.

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This is not this is a different thing.

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This is specifically the Great Commission and its fulfillment, not the fulfillment

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of end time signs and things like that.

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That is again preterism or full preterism, which is false in the

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full sense and not something I've ever advocated.

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But I do think that the Great Commission was fulfilled by the

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European colonial powers expanding and taking Christianity to the conquered peoples.

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And that was also a fulfillment of Noah's prophecy about his sons.

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Question twenty.

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I'll just take a few quick questions from the chat, and then

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I think that is it for this week.

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But Question 20: I am a WASP Canadian, my wife is American.

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Can we move to the USA?

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My wife is WAF seventh generation USA.

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As far as I'm concerned, Canada should never have been separate from

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the US.

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And we should conquer Canada and make it part of the US.

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Part of America to be specific, because the US is not going

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to survive that much longer.

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But No, the Canadians are extremely close they're not even cousins, you're

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brothers. You guys are brothers and sisters.

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You are not a foreign people.

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I have no problem with Canadians being here or Americans being in

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Canada. And I would like us to fix our problems here as

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quickly as possible so that we can rescue Canada from their own

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problems which are getting to be insurmountable in some parts of Canada,

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they're going to need help.

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So no, by all means, if you're Canadian, feel free to move

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here. You are your brothers and sisters, and there's nothing wrong with

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having Canadians as neighbors.

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Question twenty one if Christ came to save the lost sheep of

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Israel, does that refer to us today or a specific group in

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the past, how would I know I am descended from them?

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Christ is actually this is one of those questions where I can

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talk about it for a long time, but Christ is actually testing

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the apostles here.

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He does this a number of times.

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He actually does this with the Syrophoenician woman as well, because

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when he deals with her, she demonstrates a faith in the Christ

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that the apostles lack at the time, and he's actually chiding them

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and praising her, and they don't quite get it.

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I'm sure at some point they understood, but they didn't get it

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then. The lost sheep of Israel are believers, are the elect.

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The lost sheep of Israel

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are not Jews.

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Jews are not the lost sheep of Israel.

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Think of what Paul says, right?

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You have the children of the promise and the children of the

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slave woman.

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So you have earthly Jerusalem, that is the slave woman, those are

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the Jews, and you have heavenly Jerusalem, that is the free woman,

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well those are the elect, those are the true believers.

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There has only ever been one Israel of God.

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The Israel of God is the church and the church includes all

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believers starting from Adam down through whatever man is the last believer

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to stand on this earth before everything is destroyed.

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So you don't have to be descended from any particular person to

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be a Christian, because the promise was made first to Adam.

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And we are all descended from Adam.

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So I guess in a sense, you have to be descended from

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Adam. But if you're not descended from Adam, I have some further

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questions for you.

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It's not a matter of descent, right?

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The Jews thought that, right?

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What did John the Baptist tell them?

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What are they told every single time in Scripture they bring up

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oh we're children of Abraham?

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What could God do?

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He could raise up children for Abraham from these stones.

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Right? That's the condemnation of the Jews.

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The Jews are not chosen in any sense whatsoever.

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The only thing that was ever chosen about the line of Jacob,

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renamed Israel, was that from his line would come the Messiah.

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That was it.

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So you don't have to be descended from anyone except Adam in

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order to be saved.

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And again, we're all descended from Adam.

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Let's see, that's not a question.

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So I will

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try to get all of the questions out of this chat so

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I do not miss them, but I think I am going to

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call it on It's a good note on which to call it

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for this week.

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I'm going to go check my bread before it burns.

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So thank you for everyone who submitted questions.

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Always good to do this.

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I try to do it every week.

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Don't always make it every week.

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Depends how my week goes.

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It's either Thursday or Friday.

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As always, you can submit the questions primarily through the forum.

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That's the best way.

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It just helps me to organize it.

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I can link it in the show notes more easily.

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It just makes my life easier and also makes it easier for

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people to find in the future.

01:13:26.720 --> 01:13:31.360
And the show notes are actually a wiki, so anyone who is

01:13:31.360 --> 01:13:33.360
a member of the forum and you've been a member for a

01:13:33.360 --> 01:13:36.320
while and replied a little bit, you're able to edit that.

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So please feel free to do that.

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If I missed something, you can add that.

01:13:39.440 --> 01:13:44.800
Anyway, the questions can also be submitted on X or via Telegram.

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Those are probably the best ways to get them to me, other

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than the forum.

01:13:48.080 --> 01:13:50.000
If you submit them in the chat, I do try to copy

01:13:50.000 --> 01:13:51.120
them copy those.

01:13:51.120 --> 01:13:55.600
I have an ongoing list of pending questions on the forum.

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The link to the forum of course is in the show notes

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and in the stream information wherever you happen to be watching this.

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If you do not see your question in that list within a

01:14:06.800 --> 01:14:11.840
day or two after a particular stream, please go ahead and ask

01:14:11.840 --> 01:14:12.240
it again.

01:14:12.240 --> 01:14:13.360
I may have missed it.

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Sometimes things disappear.

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I've had things disappear on X while I was looking at them

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at them.

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At any rate, that is it for this week.

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Again, thank you for submitting questions.

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Thank you for participating in the chat.

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If you have follow-up questions, of course, feel free to ask those.

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I'm trying to whittle down that list of questions.

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We're sorta getting there over time.

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At any rate, it is of course Friday, so I hope you

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have a great weekend and go to church on Sunday.

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I will see you all next Thursday or Friday, and until then,

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God bless you.