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<v Speaker 1>It is the 26th of June 2026.</v>

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>This is episode 32, a Q<unk>A episode, and I see there are</v>

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<v Speaker 1>a number of questions coming in in the chat already.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to copy those over just so I don't lose those.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But I do not have any housekeeping for today, so I suppose</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I will just get straight into the questions here.</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>Could AI translation agents be configured to sufficiently satisfy the requirements you</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and Wo lay out in translating scripture from Greek, referencing the Stone</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Choir episode, of course.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>not that, could they at least do a satisfactory job at translating</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Luther and other authors who don't have inexpensive English versions available</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The answer that would be no and then yes.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>No with regard to scripture I don't think it's wise to use</v>

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<v Speaker 1>AI to translate scripture.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying you can't use AI to translate a passage here</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and there, ask for definitions of a word, etymology, things like that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Certainly you can do that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You should double check against reliable resources, which certainly exist, particularly if</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you have something like Logos up on your computer, so you can</v>

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<v Speaker 1>look at the ancient writers and others as well, you can look</v>

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<v Speaker 1>at the dictionary and things like that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The Diglot dictionary.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But I don't think it's wise to use AI to translate scripture.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That is something that should be reserved for Christian men.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But for other authors, it's good enough.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>At this point, human translators are still better, but it's going to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>be good enough.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So you can use that sort of thing for even writers that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>are writing about Christian subjects like Luther.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So I think that's fine.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Is it ideal?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>No, I think ideally you use human translators, but it's good enough,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and like you noted, it's a lot cheaper.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And it's a lot quicker.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I won't say that I don't use it for translation work.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I use it to translate languages I don't know.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So if you want to do that, I think it's just fine.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>A tangentially related question.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Question two here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>How do you deal with the tension between etymological bases of words</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and the colloquial understanding of the words without giving a lesson to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>everyone you meet?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And then by way of example, the most obvious example is the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>conflation of country and nation, but I'm sure there are others, there</v>

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<v Speaker 1>are many others.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Usually I just ignore it.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Unless it is vitally important to the conversation in some way, it's</v>

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<v Speaker 1>important to a point that I'm making.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If that's the case, then I'll define these things in order to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>make it clear what exactly it is that I am saying, what</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But otherwise you just human communication is generally relatively imprecise.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>When we want to be precise, we speak in a certain way</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and we write in a certain way.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's one of the reasons that contracts look so different from everyday</v>

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<v Speaker 1>speech. Because in a contract, every word matters and every party has</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to understand the words in the same sense, in theory at least.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's why you have that very sort of stilted, drawn out legalese.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's not the case in everyday speech.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>In everyday speech, things are imprecise.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>People are going to understand to a certain level.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Some men will understand 95% of what you're saying, some will understand</v>

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<v Speaker 1>80%. That's the reality of human communication.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You do the best that you can, and if it is warranted</v>

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<v Speaker 1>under the circumstances, then you go through the effort to define your</v>

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<v Speaker 1>terms. Which, if you're discussing something like theology, then go through the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>effort to define your terms because you may very well not agree</v>

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<v Speaker 1>with other people.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And so it's important to do that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But</v>

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<v Speaker 1>generally speaking, human communication is imprecise and we just have to accept</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that. Question three.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Is organ donation legitimate?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So the reasoning given is red pill me on organ donation I</v>

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<v Speaker 1>think is rather sinister.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I have heard that you have to be alive to be a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>viable donor so you are effectively harvested like an animal.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You have to be I guess for lack of a better term,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>fresh, you have to be recently deceased.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because obviously as your systems start to shut down, or you know,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>whether you want to call them yours at that point, because at</v>

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<v Speaker 1>this point you're in theory dead, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There are different kinds of death.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's kind of an important starting point, I guess I should mention.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And the one that we really term death these days, because we</v>

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<v Speaker 1>have all these medical devices and we can actually test things, is</v>

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<v Speaker 1>brain death.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>When your brain's dead, you're dead.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Your body may still be alive.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because your heart may keep pumping for a while.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Your heart can actually do that, at least for a while without</v>

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<v Speaker 1>your brain.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Other organs will keep functioning, but you're no longer there, and there's</v>

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<v Speaker 1>no way to bring you back from brain death.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Probably also shouldn't do it.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think that would turn out well.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Even if, you know, zombie movies aren't a thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think bringing someone back from brain death is going to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>be a good outcome.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So you have to be in theory dead before they can harvest</v>

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<v Speaker 1>your organs, but it has to be quickly done because otherwise you</v>

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<v Speaker 1>have all these problems build up toxins and muscle damage and cell</v>

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<v Speaker 1>death and all these other things that happen post-mortem.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that's the theory.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>These days I don't know how much I would trust healthcare professionals.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So I think it's probably wisest in most cases not to be</v>

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<v Speaker 1>an organ an organ donor.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Which I find very unfortunate that I have to say that, because</v>

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<v Speaker 1>if we were under different circumstances, if we had a good government,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>a righteous government instead of a wicked one, and we had people</v>

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<v Speaker 1>working in the medical field who were good men who were reliable</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and honest, I would absolutely champion organ donation.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I would say it should be the default and then you have</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to opt out.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We don't live under those circumstances and so I would be very</v>

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<v Speaker 1>careful about signing up to be an organ donor these days because</v>

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<v Speaker 1>there have definitely been cases where medical professionals have made calls that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>were the wrong call because they needed the organs.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is more of a problem in some countries than others.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's a pretty big problem in the UK, for instance.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Definitely don't be an organ donor if you live anywhere near Israel</v>

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<v Speaker 1>real. They're not gonna ask consent anyway, but</v>

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<v Speaker 1>by and large, probably be careful about doing that these days just</v>

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<v Speaker 1>because of the realities of the system right now, not because organ</v>

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<v Speaker 1>donation itself is per se immoral.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's morally fine to do that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There's nothing wrong with that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We're not, you know, Jehovah's Witnesses or anything like that where they</v>

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<v Speaker 1>think that all sorts of medical intervention are bad.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You can get a blood transfusion.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's not consuming human flesh.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's not cannibalism.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's a medical intervention.</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>Advice for a future Lutheran pastor I have been following Uwo and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Stone Choir for a few years now.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I am a zoomer entering a path where I am eventually going</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to an undisclosed Lutheran seminary.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Good choice there.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I have listened to almost the entirety of Stone Choir and I</v>

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<v Speaker 1>believe it wholeheartedly.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I've asked you questions before on various live streams that you've done</v>

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<v Speaker 1>wondering specifically what should be the path for those who are going</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to become Lutheran pastors and already established denominations.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I know eventually a new church body will be formed of the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>faithful, but what approach should those like myself going into seminary and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>eventually becoming ordained in an established Lutheran denomination be?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>How should my ministry approach be?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I have considered using topics covered in episodes of SC for sermons.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I also want to make an effort to talk more directly one</v>

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<v Speaker 1>on one to my congregants.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I recognize that God has bestowed certain abilities and circumstances to allow</v>

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<v Speaker 1>me to further God's kingdom through pastoral ministry, but I am still</v>

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<v Speaker 1>a young man.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I desperately wish not to falter in my ministry, for I know</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that teachers have the stricter judgment.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I seek to be a godly and faithful shepherd in the light</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of the faithless and antichrist clergy of our time.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So becoming a pastor is a perfectly fine career choice.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not one to say that all pastors are evil.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I know I've said some things about pastors and quite frankly they</v>

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<v Speaker 1>deserve probably worse than the things that I've said.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But that's because of the quality of current pastors.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Becoming a pastor is an important thing, it's a good thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We need pastors.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>However, I think it's probably better if you become a pastor later</v>

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<v Speaker 1>in life.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because you should probably it's not in the sense that, you know,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>boomers tell women gain life experience, but it is gain life experience,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>which it's something that men actually do acquire as they get older,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>as they mature, as they've had more experience in life And I</v>

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<v Speaker 1>think it's probably better if men do something else first and then</v>

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<v Speaker 1>go into the pastorate.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So in your case, because you're still quite young, I would say</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the best thing to do is do some other career first and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>spend the excess, the free time that you have studying this stuff.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Make sure that you have an aptitude for it, make sure that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>it continues to interest you really is important, make sure that you're</v>

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<v Speaker 1>apt to teach things like that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You can do all of those things without actually being on the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>proper track to become a pastor.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And then in the future, whether seminary is required or there's some</v>

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<v Speaker 1>alternate route, whether it's you have an apprenticeship under an existing pastor,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>whatever it happens to be, however that shakes out in the future,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>then go into the pastorate when you feel you've had that time</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to mature and gain that life experience so that you'll be the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>right man for the job.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And part of the reason for that is that when you're a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>pastor or a teacher, you are serving in a fatherly role.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You should be of a certain age for that, because even for</v>

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<v Speaker 1>say I'm 40 years old, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If I go into a classroom and I'm teaching and I'm teaching</v>

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<v Speaker 1>a bunch of 65, 70, 80 year olds, and I've done that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>In a sense, I'm in a fatherly role because all authority derives</v>

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<v Speaker 1>from that certain that kind of relationship.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If you are too young, it's going to be awkward.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Right? If you have sixty, seventy-year-old men in your congregation, particularly if</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you're lucky and get men who have studied scripture in a dedicated</v>

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<v Speaker 1>fashion for fifty years, that's an awkward position to be in where</v>

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<v Speaker 1>they are sort of in the child position of the relationship and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you're kind of the father.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's not as much of a problem once you get into your</v>

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<v Speaker 1>mid-30s, your forties, your fifties.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Then the difference between you know 50 and 80 is not as</v>

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<v Speaker 1>big of a deal.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The difference between 20 and 50 is a world of difference.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So I think the best advice I can give you is do</v>

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<v Speaker 1>something else for a while, acquire that life experience, go find a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>wife, get married.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think that that husband of one wife thing is optional.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I think pastors should be married.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Not the time to argue about that necessarily, but I do think</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that you should go and do that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Do the studying.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You don't have to be in seminary to read the books, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I've never attended cerem seminary.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I have all the books they read here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I've read basically all of them.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You can do that on your own.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Unfortunately, the prices are a little high because CPH overcharges, but you</v>

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<v Speaker 1>can find PDS for free.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So if you want to do it that way, by all means</v>

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<v Speaker 1>get an e-reader, do it that way.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's perfectly acceptable.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So I think that's the best route.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And then depending on how things shake out, the path forward will</v>

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<v Speaker 1>be more clear in say 10 years or so, once you've had</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that experience, once you've gone out and done those things and are</v>

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<v Speaker 1>in a firmer position to take on that role of authority.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying that there are no young men who are capable</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of being pastors.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There are men who are in their early twenties who are capable</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of being being pastors.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's still not ideal.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So, can you take on some teaching authority and things like that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>in your church?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Absolutely. Teach a class on the Bible, go through a book of</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>That's a good way to get experience doing the very thing that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you'd like to eventually do.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's the best path forward just because of how these</v>

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<v Speaker 1>things should play out in a properly organized society.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So we're doing the best that we can with what we have.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I do think it's better if men who go into the pastorate</v>

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<v Speaker 1>are, as it were, second career, because then you have some life</v>

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<v Speaker 1>experience that helps you connect with those men in your congregation who've</v>

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<v Speaker 1>only ever had some career that wasn't academic, something like that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So I think that's the the best path forward.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And feel free to ask follow-up questions if you have more concerns</v>

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<v Speaker 1>about that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is not one of the questions for the episode, but I</v>

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<v Speaker 1>saw someone ask you take questions from the chat.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The answer is yes, which is what I am going to do</v>

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<v Speaker 1>in a couple questions here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I have a couple more to get through before I get to</v>

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>A close a close friend thinks gender roles are just social constructs.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This friend says couples should do whatever works, for example, the woman</v>

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<v Speaker 1>has a career, the man at home, and sees his girlfriend as</v>

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<v Speaker 1>his best friend.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I don't really know what to do.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is going to depend in part on your read of this</v>

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<v Speaker 1>friend. Now, this is a male friend, so you have an easier</v>

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<v Speaker 1>time. Because with a female friend, you're going to have more trouble</v>

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<v Speaker 1>appealing to reason and reason and logic because of the way that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>men and women are wired.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I've gone over this in previous episodes.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So</v>

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<v Speaker 1>what you probably want to do in his case is you can</v>

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<v Speaker 1>bring up studies that we've done in psychology.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There's some very good studies in this area Men and women are</v>

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<v Speaker 1>different from the time they exit the womb.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>As soon as girls start playing with toys, they gravitate toward dolls</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and babies and things like that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And even when they use toys that were clearly designed for boys,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>right? You know, trucks, cars, helicopters, army men, whatever it happens to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>be, they treat them in the way that girls treat girl toys.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Which is to say they take the army truck and start putting</v>

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<v Speaker 1>it to bed and having it feed and do things like that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>These differences are fundamental.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>These differences are not something that appears later on, they are not</v>

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<v Speaker 1>something that is taught.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Some things are taught, of course.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So the colors, for instance, that apply to girls versus boys, those</v>

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<v Speaker 1>are cultural and those have changed over time.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>For instance, pink used to be a male color because pink is</v>

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<v Speaker 1>red and red was a male color.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's changed over time.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Pink is now associated with girls.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That sort of thing is socially constructed to some degree.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There are still biological preferences there as well.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But when it comes to things like raising children versus having a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>career and all that kind of stuff, even the secular, in some</v>

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<v Speaker 1>cases, quite leftist psychology, can't avoid the reality of what they keep</v>

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<v Speaker 1>encountering, particularly with regard to very young children.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They'll argue it away with adults, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They'll say that if you have someone who's twenty or thirty or</v>

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<v Speaker 1>whatever it happens, even early teens, they've been acculturated to believe something,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>they've been trained to believe something, and they act in that way</v>

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<v Speaker 1>because of the programming.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They'll try to excuse it.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They're wrong, but at least they have an argument there.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You don't have that argument with a one-year-old.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If a one-year-old just decides, as a female, right, I want the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>doll, versus as a male, I want the truck, that wasn't trained</v>

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<v Speaker 1>in any way, particularly with modern parents who just give them a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>whole bunch of different random toys, not even designed for their gender.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They still pick that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So you can bring up that stuff with your friend and point</v>

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<v Speaker 1>out No, this is very real.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is demonstrable evidentially from what we have learned from psychology and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>some other fields.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If he's a Christian, hopefully he is a Christian, then you can</v>

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<v Speaker 1>point out all the places in Scripture where it says what women</v>

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<v Speaker 1>are supposed to do versus what men are supposed to do.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>What does it say in the New Testament and elsewhere for women?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Marry a husband, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Get married to a husband more properly, raise children, keep a home.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's what women are supposed to do.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's very sim women actually have it a little easier because it's</v>

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<v Speaker 1>already laid out exactly what they're supposed to do.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Men have to find their way, particularly these days, more so than</v>

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<v Speaker 1>women. You have to figure out, you know, at what am I</v>

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<v Speaker 1>actually good?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Where can I actually get employed?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>All these things like that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There are a bunch of considerations for men that aren't there for</v>

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<v Speaker 1>women. Women have to find a husband, have babies, keep a home.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Pretty straightforward.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And scripture is abundantly clear on that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So if he's a Christian, you can appeal to Scripture, but in</v>

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<v Speaker 1>either case, Christian or not Christian, you can certainly appeal to the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>wealth of evidence that we have demonstrating the fundamental difference between boys</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and girls.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And it is purely biology.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Let's see, the next question here.</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>How should Christian theology respond to virtual reality as it becomes more</v>

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<v Speaker 1>immersive and addictive, especially with pornography becoming part of that space?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is actually something that I have somewhere in this room, a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>mostly finished essay written on, but I'll go ahead and just answer</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the question instead of sort of punting it for later.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Virtual reality can become a problem when it starts to supplant reality.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not going to say virtual reality is always wrongful, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If we had immersive virtual reality, it was actually good.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think the current stuff's that good.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But if we had a virtual reality it was actually good and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you know, you wanna play a game for an hour a day</v>

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<v Speaker 1>or thirty minutes, whatever it happens to be, don't go overboard, around</v>

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<v Speaker 1>six hours a day.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But if you wanna do that, fine.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There's nothing wrong with that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think that raises any real problems unless it becomes an</v>

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<v Speaker 1>addiction that starts to supplant other things in your life you should</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>That's the problem.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Kind of like drinking alcohol's not bad until you become a drunk.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Once it becomes an addiction, now it's a problem when it's controlling</v>

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<v Speaker 1>your behavior.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Pornography obviously always impermissible, morally wrongful.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>A huge issue.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is sort of part of the essay that I have written</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>And what I want to do is warn particularly young men, but</v>

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<v Speaker 1>certainly more and more, unfortunately, young women these days as well.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If you are dabbling in that stuff, we'll be kind with our</v>

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<v Speaker 1>terms. You need to stop.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Put in whatever effort it takes to stop.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's going to get so much worse as technology advances.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They are dialing in how addictive this stuff is, and they will</v>

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<v Speaker 1>eventually get you hooked in a way where it will be nearly</v>

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<v Speaker 1>impossible for you to stop.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So stop now before it gets worse.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It will never get better, it will always get worse for you.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the easiest time you are going to have trying to stop is</v>

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<v Speaker 1>now. It will only get harder with each additional day, each additional</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>And</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the Christian response to it is that we should have legislation banning</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>It should not exist in our countries.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Anything short of that is a substandard response from Christians.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>What we can do as individuals, because obviously we don't currently have</v>

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<v Speaker 1>control of the government.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>As individuals we just avoid it.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's the same problem that pornography has been for years and years</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and years.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Granted it gets worse as technology gets better, but the same sort</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of things that you can do to avoid it now can be</v>

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<v Speaker 1>done with virtual reality, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Virtual reality is not yet anyway, in theory, the technology good enough</v>

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<v Speaker 1>where we'd have additional problems, but it's the same problem as a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>computer, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>A computer in your private room, if that's a temptation for you,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>put it in a public part of your house.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Put it somewhere that you use only between certain hours when there</v>

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<v Speaker 1>are others around.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Things like that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Take the same sort of measures you would for other temptations because</v>

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<v Speaker 1>it is the same, it's not the same exact kind of temptation,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>but the physical nature there is similar.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You can use structure to avoid the sin, which is the best</v>

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<v Speaker 1>way to do it, and obviously just if you avoid it, then</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that part of your brain slowly rewires and the addiction fades.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Which is part of why you should stop immediately, because the sooner</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you stop, the sooner your brain can start repairing that damage.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But the basic answer is that VR itself is not necessarily a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>threat or even a problem, it's not morally impermissible.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But obviously the pornography aspect is going to be a huge problem</v>

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<v Speaker 1>going forward.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>As that gets more and more addictive.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Now let me pull out some questions from the chat</v>

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<v Speaker 1>A question about</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Methodism. So I'll answer that one first.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is question eight.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I've noticed a couple this question seven rather, questions seven.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I've noticed a couple times you have negatively referenced Methodists.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Good faith question: what is your reasoning for your negative stance on</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the Methodist Church?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So the Methodist Church, technically speaking, is what Lutherans would call enthusiasts.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And enthusiasts are</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the term has a number of different meanings, but generally speaking, it</v>

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<v Speaker 1>means those who believe that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the Holy Spirit comes to you and gives you faith not via</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the means of grace, which is to say, not via the sacraments</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and the gospel, that He just gives you faith, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>He just zaps you and gives you faith.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is nowhere in scripture, so that's sort of a fundamental difference</v>

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<v Speaker 1>we have.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And</v>

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<v Speaker 1>there's some F it depends on the Methodist Church, obviously, because there</v>

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<v Speaker 1>are some that are Not as hardcore on that aspect.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is the same problem with so many groups.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The umbrella is broad, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You'll have some that are conservative with regard to their own tradition</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and liberal with regard to their own tradition, and they're not all</v>

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<v Speaker 1>identical. So they will say that the sacraments are means of grace,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>but they still don't mean it in the sense that Lutherans mean</v>

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<v Speaker 1>it when they say that, so they are still enthusiasts in the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>sense where they do believe that the Holy Spirit will just, you</v>

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<v Speaker 1>know, zap some people and they magically have faith, which is nowhere</v>

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<v Speaker 1>in Scripture.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>God always acts through means.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But the two perhaps bigger objections, and these are probably easier for</v>

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<v Speaker 1>people to grasp than the theology of the means of grace and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>things like that, would be their view of the role of the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>person, right, in his own salvation, they focus a little more on</v>

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<v Speaker 1>really a lot more, but works, righteousness, and things like that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And the biggest part of it is they think that you can</v>

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<v Speaker 1>become via sanctification entirely sanctified or perfectly sanctified in this life and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>no longer sin.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Rome kind of teaches that a little bit too sometimes, but the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Meth the Methodists are really big on that one.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's not in scripture.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>As long as you're in this life, you will be a sinner,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you will continue to sin.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Will you sin as much?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>No. In theory, and this is how it should be: as you</v>

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<v Speaker 1>are sanctified, as sanctification progresses, you should sin less.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But that comes with a really big caveat.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And that big caveat is: the Holy Spirit will address the big</v>

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<v Speaker 1>sins in your life first, the obvious ones.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So, you know, previous question, that kind of stuff.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>As those problems start to get tamped down via sanctification, and yes,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you have to work on it as well.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You'll notice more problems.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You'll notice, oh, that that other thing that I've been doing for</v>

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<v Speaker 1>decades that I didn't really think much about, oh, that's sin as</v>

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<v Speaker 1>well. So you'll notice things that you didn't notice were were sin</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and realize their sin, but yes, you will sin less via sanctification</v>

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<v Speaker 1>over time.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That is just the way that it goes.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So I think those are probably the two big ones.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The their view of the human element, they're Arminian.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They're they believe in prevenient grace that anyone can basically work their</v>

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<v Speaker 1>way toward God and believe in God of their own free will.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Lutherans obviously don't believe that, the Reformed don't believe that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The Roman Catholics kind of agree with the Methodists on this one,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>but that's a big point of difference, a point of contention between</v>

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<v Speaker 1>particularly Lutherans and the Methodists, and then their view of what they</v>

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<v Speaker 1>would call entire sanctification.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because that's not taught anywhere in Scripture.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Nowhere in Scripture does it say that you will become perfect and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>no longer sin.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because you won't.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You are tainted by original sin, you're living in a sinful world,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>surrounded by sinful people, in sinful flesh, tempted by the devil and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>your flesh and society.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You're never going to not sin.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>All you can do is sin less via sanctification.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So those are the two big points that would be real disagreements</v>

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<v Speaker 1>between particularly Lutherans, but also the Reformed and the Methodists.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And then obviously the other theological point, but that's a little more</v>

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<v Speaker 1>not nitpicky but technical.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Let me grab another question here from the chat.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And I am trying to copy and paste them into the the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>show notes as I go so I do not lose them.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Before I started today there was a question from someone in reply</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to my tweet saying the Q<unk>A would be tomorrow, obviously I said</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that yesterday.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That reply disappeared.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So if that was your question, please ask it again, because I</v>

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<v Speaker 1>refreshed and the comment just disappeared.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And it no longer shows account and it also doesn't show anything</v>

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<v Speaker 1>deleted. So the website ate your your question.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's why I'm copying things to try and not lose them.</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>I learned today that the Bible does not prohibit first cousin marriage,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that is technically correct.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That Pope Gregory prohibited for more practical reasons which Luther condemned.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This was troubling as the Christian as Christianity's eugenic nature was one</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of the main reasons I found it convincing compared to other faiths,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>would appreciate your thoughts.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So</v>

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<v Speaker 1>just because Scripture does not explicitly state that you cannot do something</v>

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't mean that society cannot legislate against it.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is one of those places where people get mixed up with</v>

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<v Speaker 1>regard to categories.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There are things that scripture</v>

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<v Speaker 1>categorically prohibits.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There are things that Scripture says are unwise, and there are things</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that Scripture permits, and there are things that Scripture says you must</v>

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<v Speaker 1>do. When it comes to Comes to marrying</v>

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<v Speaker 1>your first cousin, Scripture does not explicitly prohibit that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Scripture gives a pretty long list of exclusive of prohibitions with regard</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to marriage, because apparently the Jews needed a lot of rules, but</v>

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<v Speaker 1>just because Scripture doesn't explicitly prohibit it doesn't mean we have to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>permit it.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That is still something we are allowed to ban.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Luther's objection, I didn't have time obviously reading this just now, and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>then I didn't go and look up what Luther said, but undoubtedly</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I have zero doubt that Luther's objection to be the Pope probably</v>

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<v Speaker 1>probably promulgated that and said this is required according to Christianity.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That would be impermissible.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because if you're saying that scripture requires this but it's nowhere in</v>

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<v Speaker 1>scripture you're lying about the Word of God.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>What you can say is that wisdom, which God commands us to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>be wise, prohibits first cousin marriage.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We all know that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We can look at the world and see what's going on and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>pretty much the rest of the world.</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>In fact that is something Christians should do, because we're commanded to</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>There's no explicit prohibition against it in Scripture.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that's the point Luther was making, undoubtedly, and that's true.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But again, that's not the end of the story.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because just because it is not explicitly prohibited doesn't mean it is</v>

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<v Speaker 1>not implicitly prohibited by something else, which in this case is to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>say wisdom.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So if the Pope had written it in that way, I don't</v>

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<v Speaker 1>know that he did.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I highly doubt Luther got this one wrong when reading what the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Pope wrote, though.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If he had written it that wisdom, which is commanded us by</v>

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<v Speaker 1>God, says that you should not marry your first cousin, and so</v>

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<v Speaker 1>we should ban this according to our positive law, not the moral</v>

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<v Speaker 1>law, but according to our positive laws, that's perfectly permissible and something</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Christians should in fact do.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So Christianity is still definitely eugenic</v>

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<v Speaker 1>because obviously all of the outright incestuous relationships are banned.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You're not allowed to marry your your daughter, your mother, your whatever.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's all banned.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You can go read that in Leviticus has all of those rules</v>

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<v Speaker 1>enumerated. It just doesn't go all the way to prohibiting first cousin,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>second cousin, whatever.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We should have those as part of our positive law rules, and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>we should interpret that as being something God requires of us, because</v>

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<v Speaker 1>we are stewards of creation, and it is according to wisdom.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And we have greater wisdom about these issues than they did five</v>

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<v Speaker 1>hundred years ago, undoubtedly.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They knew that marrying your own siblings was deeply unwise and caused</v>

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<v Speaker 1>problems over time.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This didn't stop certain royal families, but they were aware of those</v>

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<v Speaker 1>problems. They did not know as much as we know about first</v>

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<v Speaker 1>cousin marriages.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And even then, first cousin marriages, unless you're doing that for many</v>

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<v Speaker 1>generations, don't actually typically cause that many problems unless you already have</v>

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<v Speaker 1>genetic problems when you're starting.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We see the problem with it in places like India, but they've</v>

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<v Speaker 1>been at it for 4,000 years, or perhaps longer.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So the problems have arisen and they're just compounding them.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But yes, I've spoken about this before, we should ban first cousin</v>

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<v Speaker 1>marriage, and the ideal is third or fourth cousin because that's the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>peak of fertility, which is another part of this, of course.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>God designed that peak fertility in, and we should use our wisdom</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to look at that and say, well, this is God's design.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is the mark of the Creator.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We should obey what He has commanded us, in effect, implicitly to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>do. So Luther was undoubtedly just making a technical point about scripture,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and also he kind of liked to poke the Pope in the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>eye.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Have a question here</v>

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<v Speaker 1>about</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the book of Job.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Let me pull that up.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Two related questions here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I will split them because they are separate questions.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The first is about a passage in Job of which we are</v>

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<v Speaker 1>all undoubtedly aware and with which we should all be familiar.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I will pull it up in Logos here in a second so</v>

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<v Speaker 1>we can actually look at it.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And I can answer it before actually reading it.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It is less perhaps explicitly Christological, but it's still there.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And also bear in mind when you are reading the Septuagint these</v>

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<v Speaker 1>days in English, the translations we have are not great yet.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They are</v>

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<v Speaker 1>stilted, very academic, particularly the nets is academic, which is what I've</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>We open up the Lexam as well.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So we j I</v>

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<v Speaker 1>don't think we need the the Greek here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I'll get rid of that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There we go.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So Job nineteen twenty-five.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The question is is this Christological in the same sense as basically</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the Masoretic text, because just to pull up the Masoretic text here</v>

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<v Speaker 1>real quick.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We all know this one, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>For I know that my Redeemer lives and at the last he</v>

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<v Speaker 1>will stand upon the earth, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Very clearly Christological.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>No one has any question about that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you know some little word choice things here in the footnotes, but</v>

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<v Speaker 1>other than that, very straightforward.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>In Job in the Greek it says, For I know that an</v>

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<v Speaker 1>eternal one exists, one who is about to free me upon the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>earth, and so</v>

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<v Speaker 1>is it different?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Yes. Is it still Christological?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Yes. The eternal one is still Christ, and it says to raise</v>

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<v Speaker 1>up my skin which endures these things.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's the resurrection of the dead.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That is still there, the resurrection of the just.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So it is still Christological.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It probably could be better translated from the Greek.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I'd have to look at the underlying Greek in order to make</v>

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<v Speaker 1>an assessment.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Usually the Nets is pretty good when it comes to that stuff.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But again, you know, stilted.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes it's nice to swap back and forth between the two and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>compare them.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But yes, it's still crystallogical.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's just not the neat tidy one we're accustomed to in English</v>

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<v Speaker 1>because we don't have a nice English translation of the Septuagint yet,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that's still pending.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There are some ones that are slated to be published in the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>not too distant future.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Hopefully, at least one of them will be good.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The second part of this question, or really the second question, question</v>

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<v Speaker 1>ten, is Genesis three fifteen Christological in the Septuagint?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Yes. That one is as well, and this one</v>

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<v Speaker 1>this one comes up because it doesn't have the same wording, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your</v>

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<v Speaker 1>offspring and her offspring.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel, the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>one we're all accustomed to in the Masoretic text.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Is different in in the Septuagint.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between</v>

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<v Speaker 1>your offspring and her offspring.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Greek uses between in both places, whereas we just put between and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>then both of the objects.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So I just skip that when I'm reading because it sounds weird</v>

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<v Speaker 1>in English.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>He will watch your head and you will watch his heel.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This has</v>

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<v Speaker 1>some necessary exegesis in the Septuagint that you don't really necessarily have</v>

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<v Speaker 1>there in the Masoretic, because in the Masoretic we all it it</v>

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<v Speaker 1>still needs the exegesis, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because bruise your head bruise his heel.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Okay. What exactly does that mean, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You still need some and these verbs are not exactly identical either,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>but you still need some exegesis there to understand what's being said.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We all know what the exegesis is, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is a Christological prophecy about Satan having his little victory with</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the cross and then his ultimate defeat also with the cross.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is the same thing we have here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There are a number of other places that this particular sense of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>watch in Greek pops up in the scriptures.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And I would have to do some searching to find those.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I don't remember them off the top of my head.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I know there's one in one of the Psalms, but I can't</v>

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<v Speaker 1>remember which number Psalm it is.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So I don't want to take the time right now to try</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>But in this sense, I'm very tempted to go find it, but</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I will I will resist the temptation right now.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is a sort of enemy watching, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is an enemy watching for an opportunity to strike, in the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>sense of Satan watching, in this case, the Christ, the offspring, the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>seed of the woman.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And in the case of Christ, it is watching for the opportune</v>

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<v Speaker 1>time to crush Satan.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It is still a Christological prophecy.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It still refers to the same thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's just again Greek idiom and the way that it's used in</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the Koina Greek of the Septuagint, and like I said, it's in</v>

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<v Speaker 1>other places as well.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I'll look those up and put those in the show notes.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It doesn't come across the same to an English reader unless you</v>

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<v Speaker 1>have the explanation of what a Greek reader would have heard, particularly</v>

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<v Speaker 1>a Greek reader actually versed in scripture Sure..</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Let's see.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Make a note for myself to add that to the show notes.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm having to search through the chat instead of usually I</v>

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<v Speaker 1>would watch the chat so I could just sort of catalog them</v>

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<v Speaker 1>as went through because restream plugin in OBS has decided not to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>work. Like I've said, it basically, if I ever open up OBS</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and everything works with no issues whatsoever, I will be worried my</v>

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<v Speaker 1>computer is going to explode or something.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because there's just every because every week there's something that doesn't want</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>Question eleven is also a scripture question, so I'll leave Logos up.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>What does Acts seven thirty-five refer why does Acts seven hundred thirty-five</v>

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<v Speaker 1>refer to an angel appeared in the burning bush if it was</v>

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<v Speaker 1>in fact Christ?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This one comes up a number of times more in the Old</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Testament actually than in the New Testament.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is also one of those where if I had prepared beforehand,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I would have some examples from the Old Testament.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I can think of some of them off the top of my</v>

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<v Speaker 1>head that are useful.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Probably the biggest one is with Samson.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But</v>

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<v Speaker 1>there are times in the Old Testament where the angel of the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Lord is in fact Christ.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So this Moses, whom they rejected, saying, Who made you a ruler</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and a judge?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This man God sent is both ruler and redeemer by the hand</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>What is the Greek word for angel there, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Angelos is the word you have there.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And I I click so that it'll show up the interstitial, but</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of course it doesn't show it to you guys.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I figure eventually they'll fix that in the software, but at any</v>

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<v Speaker 1>rate it is Angelos in the Greek there, it's not showing for</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you. But Angolos is messenger.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Christ serves as the messenger of God at many times in many</v>

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<v Speaker 1>places in the Old Testament, like I said with Samson.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And one of the ways that you can recognize this is that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>what do angels, in the sense we use angel, because in the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Greek it means both messenger and angel.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But in the sense we use angel, what do angels not permit</v>

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<v Speaker 1>mortals to do?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Worship them.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's the biggest one.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's the biggest tell.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And so you have John falls down before the angel in Revelation.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>He says, You must not do that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a man.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You know, he says, You must not do that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And then you have the disciples do the same thing, the apostles</v>

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<v Speaker 1>do the same thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You must not do that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a man just like you.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Those who are just messengers of God, whether they are mortal or</v>

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<v Speaker 1>immortal, will not permit other mortals to worship them.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You can think of some other problems that are there for perhaps</v>

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<v Speaker 1>some church traditions, but</v>

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<v Speaker 1>there are times in the Old Testament where the angel of the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Lord receives the worship of mortals and doesn't rebuke them.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>He doesn't say that's wrongful.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And sometimes he will speak referencing himself and identifying himself with God,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>because he will say things of himself that can only be posited</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of God.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Like I said with Samson, that's probably one of the clearest examples</v>

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<v Speaker 1>because his parents worship the angel that appeared to them, sacrificed to</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>They bring out a sacrifice for him, and he doesn't rebuke them.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>He blesses them.</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>That's the You can say the pre incarnate Christ, but time doesn't</v>

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<v Speaker 1>really apply to God, so it's Christ.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Just like it's Christ in the garden walking with Adam, because the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Father is spirit only and doesn't walk in the garden.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Christ walks in the garden.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So the angel of the Lord in many cases in the Old</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Testament is Christ.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So saying angel is just the natural way to say it in</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Greek because he was acting as a messenger.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, the next one is also a scripture question, so I will</v>

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<v Speaker 1>leave logos up, copy that question over so I don't lose it</v>

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<v Speaker 1>here.</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>What is your exegesis of Mark ten eighteen?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It once caused me doubt, seeming like a denial of Christ's divinity,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>but when I read the whole passage with the Spirit I read</v>

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<v Speaker 1>it as Christ hinting at his divinity to a man who does</v>

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<v Speaker 1>not understand the gospel.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So let's pull up Mark ten eighteen.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's what I figured it was.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I could have just said it I guess.</v>

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>He's testing him.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Christ does this all over the place, loves to do this.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's one of the tools, one of the sort of rhetorical tools</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that he likes to employ So it's a test essentially saying, why</v>

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<v Speaker 1>do you call me good?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Only God is good.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Well what's he inviting him to do?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You are God, you are the Christ.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So that's the correct response to this.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>He's not saying that he's not</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>He's not saying he's not God.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>He is, like you said, hinting at it fairly heavily, but in</v>

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<v Speaker 1>a way that would have been easily missed perhaps by most of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the Jewish audience at the time.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>When we read this we clearly can see that what he's doing</v>

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<v Speaker 1>is saying, I'm God, I'm good because I'm God, but why are</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you calling me good if you are not willing to go the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>next step, the required step, and believe that I'm God.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's what's going on here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So it's not a denial of his divinity, it's Christ hinting at</v>

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<v Speaker 1>it and using a particular rhetorical device to teach.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Christ is very fond of using that sort of rhetorical device.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I have a question here where I think I am missing part</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of the question.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>To the person in chat who said, What is the exegesis of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>10 5?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You did not give me a book.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So if you could reply with what book you mean, that would</v>

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<v Speaker 1>be very helpful.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Okay. Next question.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Let me copy it before I</v>

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<v Speaker 1>we have a fight with Firefox.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There we go.</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>Genesis twenty five twenty five says Esau had red hair.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I am a redhead, and this has always interested me.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>What is the significance of his hair color?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Th the significance there essentially is that his name means red.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Esau, Edom both mean red.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>He's named after his hair color.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So other than that, I don't think you necessarily take any necessarily</v>

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<v Speaker 1>take anything away from just his hair color alone.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Other than of course the fact that you can draw things out</v>

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<v Speaker 1>genetically speaking, because we know that peoples in the Mediterranean and that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>part of the Levant</v>

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<v Speaker 1>were in fact fair skinned in antiquity.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It is only after the Arabic conquests of the area that because</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of that admixture they were darker complexioned, darker hair.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You still have very fair skinned populations in places like Syria, parts</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of those, Libya.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Not the entire population anymore, but it's because of that admixture over</v>

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<v Speaker 1>time. So David is well, described as ruddy.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>These are indications of not that they are, you know, European or</v>

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<v Speaker 1>were descended from them, as some would like to argue, but that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you had light skinned people in other parts of the world as</v>

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<v Speaker 1>well. Which should come as no surprise because the Japanese and the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Koreans still exist, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Plenty of them are fair skinned.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They're definitely not European.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But his name just means red.</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>that's the connection there.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>A lot of times they like to name people in a way</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that was connected to the individual or auspicious in some way.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We do a little bit of that historically in European culture as</v>

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<v Speaker 1>well. Some of our names have things that are obviously auspicious in</v>

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<v Speaker 1>some cases or just geographic in some cases like my name.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that was very popular in that part of the world the world.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Someone asked a question about non-Christian exorcisms, and I admittedly do not</v>

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<v Speaker 1>do not know enough about the actual evidence for that to say</v>

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<v Speaker 1>anything firm, so I will copy that for the future</v>

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<v Speaker 1>because I'm not going to just make up an answer here if</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So let me just go ahead and copy that so I will</v>

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<v Speaker 1>have it for later.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>My inclination would be that a non Christian exorcism would not work</v>

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<v Speaker 1>unless the demon decided to be cooperative for some reason.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And I think that would probably be pretty obvious in how things</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>But like I said, I have not really researched the subject at</v>

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<v Speaker 1>all, so I'm not familiar.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Question 14.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>What would you advise Roman Catholics like myself who are looking into</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Lutheranism?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The initial advice would just be to read the small catechism.</v>

00:47:48.720 --> 00:47:50.080
<v Speaker 1>That's the first thing you should certainly do.</v>

00:47:50.080 --> 00:47:53.680
<v Speaker 1>And if you're looking into Lutheranism, you've probably already done that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But commit the small catechism to memory.</v>

00:47:56.160 --> 00:47:59.360
<v Speaker 1>That's something that I advise all Christians to do.</v>

00:47:59.360 --> 00:48:00.560
<v Speaker 1>If you are</v>

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<v Speaker 1>a non-sacramental Christian, which almost is a contradiction in terms, we'll leave</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that aside for now.</v>

00:48:07.120 --> 00:48:11.520
<v Speaker 1>Even if you are that, memorize the parts of the small catechism</v>

00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:15.360
<v Speaker 1>up to the parts in the sacrament, because they go in order.</v>

00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:17.920
<v Speaker 1>You can't disagree with the first parts because you know it's the</v>

00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:21.360
<v Speaker 1>Lord's Prayer and the Ten Commandments and things that every Christian must</v>

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<v Speaker 1>believe. So at least remember those, at least memorize those.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And I pointed out before that even Roman Catholic missionaries have historically</v>

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<v Speaker 1>printed and used the small catechism to evangelize other parts of the</v>

00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:38.240
<v Speaker 1>world because they've realized this is one of the best things ever</v>

00:48:38.240 --> 00:48:42.640
<v Speaker 1>written by a Christian as a quick summary of the faith.</v>

00:48:42.640 --> 00:48:46.400
<v Speaker 1>So despite how many Roman Catholics, particularly priests and others, feel about</v>

00:48:46.400 --> 00:48:50.720
<v Speaker 1>Luther, they use the small catechism that he wrote.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But other than that, read the large catechism as well.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Certainly if you are a father, a head of a household, someone</v>

00:48:58.160 --> 00:49:01.840
<v Speaker 1>in a position of authority with unders other others under you.</v>

00:49:01.840 --> 00:49:04.880
<v Speaker 1>So So basically just grab a copy of the Book of Concord,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>all that stuff's in there.</v>

00:49:06.080 --> 00:49:08.320
<v Speaker 1>It has the creeds as well, which are important.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The Augsburg Confession is really the statement of what exactly it is</v>

00:49:13.120 --> 00:49:14.800
<v Speaker 1>Lutherans believe.</v>

00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:16.240
<v Speaker 1>And in some ways</v>

00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:22.400
<v Speaker 1>contrary to Rome, what Rome asserted versus what we asserted.</v>

00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:27.520
<v Speaker 1>And on thebookofconcord.org, that is the online version of the Book of</v>

00:49:27.520 --> 00:49:30.000
<v Speaker 1>Concord, I'm the one who maintains that website.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If you look at the Augsburg Confession, you can actually go to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>individual articles, and I set this up to make it as easy</v>

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<v Speaker 1>as possible.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You can look at the confession, the apology of the confession, which</v>

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<v Speaker 1>is the defense, right, the Latin term apologia, not apology in the</v>

00:49:45.520 --> 00:49:46.640
<v Speaker 1>modern sense.</v>

00:49:46.640 --> 00:49:50.720
<v Speaker 1>So that's a longer version of the article saying why we believe</v>

00:49:50.720 --> 00:49:53.520
<v Speaker 1>this, how it's founded in scripture, all those things.</v>

00:49:53.840 --> 00:49:58.640
<v Speaker 1>Many times responding to comments that the Roman Catholics made about the</v>

00:49:58.640 --> 00:50:02.720
<v Speaker 1>article. And then there's also linked to the Confutation, which is the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Roman Catholic document, because there was the Augsburg Confession, the Roman Catholic</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Confutation and then the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, basically replying to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>each other.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Rome didn't reply to the Apology.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They just kind of let it drift off to you know, the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>void there.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They were extremely embarrassed about the quality of the confutation and more</v>

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<v Speaker 1>or less hid it for years.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They wouldn't even give the Lutherans a copy of it, which was</v>

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<v Speaker 1>actually contrary to imperial law.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The only reason the Lutherans had a copy of it in order</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to draft the apology is that the Germans had shorthand scribes who</v>

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<v Speaker 1>were present and had taken down the entire thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And so they could compare the shorthand scribes and so they had</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the whole document.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But the Roman Catholics would not give them a copy because they</v>

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<v Speaker 1>were embarrassed about the quality of the thing.</v>

00:50:49.520 --> 00:50:51.680
<v Speaker 1>And they were just, you know, being churlish.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But as insofar as looking into Lutheranism, I think that's really the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>kind of how you started.</v>

00:50:56.880 --> 00:51:02.160
<v Speaker 1>You read the those core documents that detail the differences between the</v>

00:51:02.160 --> 00:51:06.160
<v Speaker 1>Lutheran understanding of Scripture and the Roman Catholic understanding, and then</v>

00:51:07.040 --> 00:51:10.240
<v Speaker 1>there's an article in there as well about the Pope specifically, the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>power of the Pope, what he can do, what he can't do,</v>

00:51:13.040 --> 00:51:15.040
<v Speaker 1>what he shouldn't have done, things like that.</v>

00:51:15.040 --> 00:51:15.840
<v Speaker 1>That's in there.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's certainly worth reading when you're coming from that background.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If you have specific questions about specific doctrines, then there's certainly many</v>

00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:25.680
<v Speaker 1>books I can recommend that are more</v>

00:51:26.560 --> 00:51:30.400
<v Speaker 1>voluminous that just depends on sort of what level you're at with</v>

00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:32.240
<v Speaker 1>regarding to reading theology.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So I could calibrate my recommendation there.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So if you have a follow-up question, by all means, let me</v>

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<v Speaker 1>know. There's you know, Peeper's Christian Dogmatics, there's the Critique of the</v>

00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:46.720
<v Speaker 1>Council of Trent by Chemnitz, where he goes through exhaustively and picks</v>

00:51:46.720 --> 00:51:50.800
<v Speaker 1>the Council of Trent apart, that's sort of the full rebuttal of</v>

00:51:50.800 --> 00:51:54.800
<v Speaker 1>Rome's stance on these issues from the Lutheran perspective.</v>

00:51:54.800 --> 00:51:58.480
<v Speaker 1>There's great material from Walther, and</v>

00:51:59.360 --> 00:52:02.080
<v Speaker 1>that's probably a great one for an American reader.</v>

00:52:02.080 --> 00:52:06.480
<v Speaker 1>He's writing in a German-speaking context in America at the time.</v>

00:52:06.480 --> 00:52:08.160
<v Speaker 1>All of it's translated in English now.</v>

00:52:08.160 --> 00:52:08.960
<v Speaker 1>You can access it.</v>

00:52:08.960 --> 00:52:12.240
<v Speaker 1>He even has an essay critiquing communism, one of the first ones</v>

00:52:12.240 --> 00:52:15.760
<v Speaker 1>written in the US to do that.</v>

00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:17.920
<v Speaker 1>But he has some excellent work.</v>

00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:19.360
<v Speaker 1>It's a little higher level.</v>

00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:22.240
<v Speaker 1>It's aimed at teachers and pastors, but maybe that will interest you.</v>

00:52:22.240 --> 00:52:26.080
<v Speaker 1>His distinction on law and gospel is very good.</v>

00:52:26.640 --> 00:52:31.920
<v Speaker 1>But there are many, many materials that you could certainly read, but</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I think the real core of the difference is that clear distinction,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>like I just brought up with Valther, the law and gospel distinction.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The Romans tend to muddy the waters a little bit when it</v>

00:52:46.560 --> 00:52:49.040
<v Speaker 1>comes to these things, particularly when it comes to works.</v>

00:52:49.040 --> 00:52:53.360
<v Speaker 1>They tend to bring works into the article of justification, and it</v>

00:52:53.360 --> 00:52:59.280
<v Speaker 1>makes Christ's sacrifice less than it was and destroys confidence for the</v>

00:52:59.280 --> 00:53:05.440
<v Speaker 1>Christian. Because the core of the Christian faith is Christ crucified for</v>

00:53:05.440 --> 00:53:10.880
<v Speaker 1>sinners, and his sacrifice was of infinite value and it atoned for</v>

00:53:10.880 --> 00:53:13.360
<v Speaker 1>all of your sins that you ever committed, that you ever will</v>

00:53:13.360 --> 00:53:17.600
<v Speaker 1>commit. And there is absolutely nothing you can do to contribute to</v>

00:53:17.600 --> 00:53:18.720
<v Speaker 1>your salvation.</v>

00:53:18.720 --> 00:53:22.720
<v Speaker 1>That's excellent news because it was all done by Christ.</v>

00:53:22.720 --> 00:53:26.640
<v Speaker 1>But you must do good works because a living faith will produce</v>

00:53:26.640 --> 00:53:27.120
<v Speaker 1>good works.</v>

00:53:27.120 --> 00:53:31.440
<v Speaker 1>But it's important to understand there is a clear divide there.</v>

00:53:31.440 --> 00:53:33.920
<v Speaker 1>These things are objectively different.</v>

00:53:33.920 --> 00:53:37.600
<v Speaker 1>There's justification, which is entirely God's work.</v>

00:53:37.600 --> 00:53:39.120
<v Speaker 1>You can contribute nothing to it.</v>

00:53:39.120 --> 00:53:42.560
<v Speaker 1>In fact, the only thing you contribute to it is your sin.</v>

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

00:53:43.760 --> 00:53:44.400
<v Speaker 1>And so</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Christ, his sacrifice, infinite value, took away all your sin, done.</v>

00:53:51.760 --> 00:53:53.520
<v Speaker 1>You're justified, it's done.</v>

00:53:53.520 --> 00:53:55.200
<v Speaker 1>It's a one and done.</v>

00:53:55.200 --> 00:53:58.000
<v Speaker 1>Sanctification is the ongoing process.</v>

00:53:58.000 --> 00:53:59.360
<v Speaker 1>You're sanctified.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The spirit works with you.</v>

00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:03.200
<v Speaker 1>You actually do work with the Spirit.</v>

00:54:03.200 --> 00:54:04.800
<v Speaker 1>This is synergistic.</v>

00:54:04.800 --> 00:54:09.040
<v Speaker 1>Monergistic justification, synergistic sanctification.</v>

00:54:09.040 --> 00:54:11.520
<v Speaker 1>And you get better over time and you produce good works because</v>

00:54:11.520 --> 00:54:12.880
<v Speaker 1>you have a living faith.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That is a difference between Rome and the Lutheran Church, and it</v>

00:54:17.840 --> 00:54:20.560
<v Speaker 1>is a very important difference because it is the difference of how</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you conceptualize the gospel and from the Lutheran perspective, Rome weakens the</v>

00:54:26.640 --> 00:54:27.680
<v Speaker 1>gospel.</v>

00:54:46.400 --> 00:54:52.000
<v Speaker 1>Someone asked a question about whether I believe Solzinitsun's account of the</v>

00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:56.000
<v Speaker 1>Gulag Archipelago and the various things like that, yes, those things are</v>

00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:57.680
<v Speaker 1>very well documented.</v>

00:54:57.680 --> 00:55:01.920
<v Speaker 1>And yes, there are certainly some Russian apologists online who try to</v>

00:55:01.920 --> 00:55:04.560
<v Speaker 1>minimize these things because they feel it is a matter of Russian</v>

00:55:04.560 --> 00:55:04.800
<v Speaker 1>pride</v>

00:55:05.920 --> 00:55:10.240
<v Speaker 1>to sort of rehabilitate the USSR.</v>

00:55:10.240 --> 00:55:14.080
<v Speaker 1>That's not something that it's it's Dug it's Dugin, Dugan, however you</v>

00:55:14.080 --> 00:55:15.040
<v Speaker 1>want to pronounce his last name.</v>

00:55:15.040 --> 00:55:16.880
<v Speaker 1>I don't even know how it's supposed to be pronounced, I don't</v>

00:55:16.800 --> 00:55:18.560
<v Speaker 1>care. He's an evil man.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's his thing.</v>

00:55:20.160 --> 00:55:23.680
<v Speaker 1>And there are many people in that circle at this point</v>

00:55:24.560 --> 00:55:26.640
<v Speaker 1>and don't get pulled into it.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because it is trying to rehabilitate something that cannot be rehabilitated because</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of the d just the deepness, the depth of that evil.</v>

00:55:34.720 --> 00:55:38.880
<v Speaker 1>And the evil of the communists is well documented across many countries.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It was not limited to Russia.</v>

00:55:40.240 --> 00:55:43.920
<v Speaker 1>It happened in Hungary under their communist dictatorship.</v>

00:55:43.920 --> 00:55:45.520
<v Speaker 1>It happened in Romania.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It happened every single place the communists took power.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And it was largely but not exclusively run by Jews.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They had non Jewish collaborators in every single one of those countries.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So the depth of the depravity and the evil is not exclusive</v>

00:56:00.720 --> 00:56:01.520
<v Speaker 1>to Jews.</v>

00:56:01.520 --> 00:56:05.120
<v Speaker 1>They are just overrepresented to an alarming degree, we'll say</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Have a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>guess I'll make that question fifteen there.</v>

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

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<v Speaker 1>A follow-up to the previous question, so I'll just address it quickly</v>

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<v Speaker 1>so we get that all in one place nice and neatly.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>How can you then argue that false gods and demon worship leads</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to dysgenics?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because the demon worship in which</v>

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<v Speaker 1>most of these people have engaged is outright incestuous when it comes</v>

00:56:39.280 --> 00:56:40.560
<v Speaker 1>to these things.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And the reason that you have part of the reason that you</v>

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<v Speaker 1>have the exhaustive listing in Leviticus of prohibited relationships, those are all</v>

00:56:50.240 --> 00:56:54.000
<v Speaker 1>of the relationships that were part of Canaanite worship.</v>

00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:56.640
<v Speaker 1>Incest was a part of Canaanite worship.</v>

00:56:56.640 --> 00:56:59.680
<v Speaker 1>It has been a part of worship in places like India and</v>

00:57:00.240 --> 00:57:01.680
<v Speaker 1>in Africa it's different.</v>

00:57:01.680 --> 00:57:03.040
<v Speaker 1>It's not a part of the worship.</v>

00:57:03.040 --> 00:57:07.040
<v Speaker 1>It's just that not to, you know, sound like I'm making a</v>

00:57:07.040 --> 00:57:09.440
<v Speaker 1>joke, but they literally don't know their fathers.</v>

00:57:09.440 --> 00:57:16.560
<v Speaker 1>Because promiscuity is so rampant there that they wind up committing incest</v>

00:57:16.560 --> 00:57:22.000
<v Speaker 1>accidentally because they don't know this person is a sibling.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But obviously, you're going to have greater problems with regard to dysgenics</v>

00:57:27.920 --> 00:57:33.280
<v Speaker 1>more quickly if you are marrying your sibling versus your first cousin.</v>

00:57:33.280 --> 00:57:36.240
<v Speaker 1>Marrying your first cousin for thousands of years is going to cause</v>

00:57:36.240 --> 00:57:39.920
<v Speaker 1>problems. Marrying your sibling is going to cause problems in generations.</v>

00:57:39.920 --> 00:57:42.800
<v Speaker 1>These things are measured in different spans of time.</v>

00:57:42.800 --> 00:57:46.400
<v Speaker 1>So that's how the demon worship will cause greater problems more quickly</v>

00:57:46.560 --> 00:57:50.160
<v Speaker 1>because it is just more of a problem because they're marrying their</v>

00:57:50.480 --> 00:57:56.080
<v Speaker 1>not really marrying, but they're producing children with their siblings.</v>

00:57:56.080 --> 00:57:59.600
<v Speaker 1>Look up what the Canaanites did in their worship, and you'll see</v>

00:57:59.600 --> 00:58:04.000
<v Speaker 1>why God condemned it and why he condemned it so extensively in</v>

00:58:04.000 --> 00:58:05.120
<v Speaker 1>the Old Testament</v>

00:58:15.200 --> 00:58:17.920
<v Speaker 1>And you know, there are other aspects as well, obviously.</v>

00:58:17.920 --> 00:58:20.880
<v Speaker 1>You have lots of child sacrifice and things like that and cult</v>

00:58:20.880 --> 00:58:25.360
<v Speaker 1>prostitution and it's a whole constellation of things that cause those problems.</v>

00:58:25.360 --> 00:58:29.440
<v Speaker 1>But yes, there is a huge issue with consanguineous marriage.</v>

00:58:29.680 --> 00:58:33.600
<v Speaker 1>will be polite in pagan worship in certain parts of the world.</v>

00:58:42.320 --> 00:58:46.400
<v Speaker 1>A question from Twitter or X, whichever one you want to call</v>

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<v Speaker 1>it these days.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Question 17.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Is participating in the stock market long-term or short term slash day</v>

00:58:54.320 --> 00:58:58.560
<v Speaker 1>trading morally permissible It's not as abusive as usury, but still seems</v>

00:58:58.560 --> 00:59:01.680
<v Speaker 1>to be uh misusing the purpose of money.</v>

00:59:01.680 --> 00:59:04.960
<v Speaker 1>Under a Christian government, it would be banned.</v>

00:59:04.960 --> 00:59:09.520
<v Speaker 1>But given the reality of where we are today, I don't think</v>

00:59:09.520 --> 00:59:14.000
<v Speaker 1>that I can say that it is categorically banned, which is not</v>

00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:16.320
<v Speaker 1>to say that morality is relative</v>

00:59:17.280 --> 00:59:20.640
<v Speaker 1>to you know the sort of government under which you live and</v>

00:59:20.640 --> 00:59:21.680
<v Speaker 1>the conditions.</v>

00:59:21.680 --> 00:59:25.760
<v Speaker 1>Rather, it's to say that we are still ordered by God, commanded</v>

00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:27.760
<v Speaker 1>by God to act with wisdom.</v>

00:59:27.760 --> 00:59:30.960
<v Speaker 1>And so if you were to take all your money, right, and</v>

00:59:30.960 --> 00:59:33.760
<v Speaker 1>hide it in a shoebox, you wouldn't be</v>

00:59:34.640 --> 00:59:39.040
<v Speaker 1>directly, perhaps still indirectly, but you wouldn't be directly involved</v>

00:59:40.000 --> 00:59:44.480
<v Speaker 1>in usury, charging of interest, anything like that.</v>

00:59:44.480 --> 00:59:47.920
<v Speaker 1>But you would also be acting in a way that is unwise,</v>

00:59:47.920 --> 00:59:51.680
<v Speaker 1>because you wouldn't be protecting what has been entrusted to your care</v>

00:59:51.680 --> 00:59:55.200
<v Speaker 1>by God because you wouldn't be hedging against inflation.</v>

00:59:55.200 --> 00:59:57.120
<v Speaker 1>So at the very least, you should have it in, you know,</v>

00:59:57.120 --> 01:00:00.080
<v Speaker 1>a savings account or a money market or something like that.</v>

01:00:00.080 --> 01:00:03.600
<v Speaker 1>Ideally, we wouldn't have any of these things because under a Christian</v>

01:00:03.600 --> 01:00:07.840
<v Speaker 1>government the market would be regulated in a very different way.</v>

01:00:07.840 --> 01:00:09.760
<v Speaker 1>It's not what we have today.</v>

01:00:09.760 --> 01:00:13.920
<v Speaker 1>So you have to act within reason and not act against your</v>

01:00:13.920 --> 01:00:16.480
<v Speaker 1>conscience. It's a balancing act.</v>

01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:19.200
<v Speaker 1>Which, like I said, is unfortunate that we have to do that,</v>

01:00:19.200 --> 01:00:22.400
<v Speaker 1>but it is the reality of where we are today.</v>

01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:22.720
<v Speaker 1>So</v>

01:00:24.880 --> 01:00:27.760
<v Speaker 1>No, you don't have to avoid the stock market, but you know,</v>

01:00:27.760 --> 01:00:32.080
<v Speaker 1>don't be the the predatory individual who is deliberately destroying companies to</v>

01:00:32.080 --> 01:00:35.360
<v Speaker 1>make uh you know a large sum of money usually, it's not</v>

01:00:35.360 --> 01:00:37.680
<v Speaker 1>a small sum, but to make money.</v>

01:00:37.680 --> 01:00:39.600
<v Speaker 1>Don't do that.</v>

01:00:40.160 --> 01:00:42.480
<v Speaker 1>And your conscience is valuable.</v>

01:00:42.480 --> 01:00:53.680
<v Speaker 1>Your conscience will warn you when you are approaching that edge.</v>

01:01:01.040 --> 01:01:04.000
<v Speaker 1>Grab another question from the chat.</v>

01:01:08.080 --> 01:01:13.920
<v Speaker 1>Let's see.</v>

01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:15.360
<v Speaker 1>Question eighteen.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>What is the exegesis of Mark ten verse five?</v>

01:01:19.120 --> 01:01:22.400
<v Speaker 1>Can it be applied to Deuteronomy 22, 28?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Pull that up just a second here.</v>

01:01:24.480 --> 01:01:27.520
<v Speaker 1>Trying to grab another question from the chat before I lose it</v>

01:01:27.680 --> 01:01:31.840
<v Speaker 1>and it disappears.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Go through a couple more questions here, I think.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe more than a couple, maybe a few.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Get over to logos here.</v>

01:01:39.360 --> 01:01:41.440
<v Speaker 1>I moved all my stuff around in OBS to try and make</v>

01:01:41.440 --> 01:01:42.480
<v Speaker 1>it easier to find and</v>

01:01:43.440 --> 01:01:44.960
<v Speaker 1>that hasn't panned out yet.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Okay. So we want</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Mark ten five and</v>

01:01:54.960 --> 01:01:57.520
<v Speaker 1>was it Deuteronomy twenty two twenty-eight</v>

01:02:05.440 --> 01:02:08.080
<v Speaker 1>And Jesus said to them, Because of your hardness of heart he</v>

01:02:08.080 --> 01:02:10.880
<v Speaker 1>wrote you this commandment, but from the beginning of creation God made</v>

01:02:10.880 --> 01:02:14.000
<v Speaker 1>the male and female, therefore a male shall leave his father and</v>

01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:16.240
<v Speaker 1>mother and hold fast to his wife, the two shall become one</v>

01:02:16.240 --> 01:02:19.280
<v Speaker 1>flesh, so they are no longer two but one flesh, what therefore</v>

01:02:19.280 --> 01:02:21.760
<v Speaker 1>God is joined together, let not man separate.</v>

01:02:21.760 --> 01:02:23.760
<v Speaker 1>This is one that comes up all the time because of course</v>

01:02:23.760 --> 01:02:27.520
<v Speaker 1>it's the decree of divorce from Moses, right?</v>

01:02:27.520 --> 01:02:31.520
<v Speaker 1>The certificate of divorce that was permissible in Old Testament Israel, which</v>

01:02:31.520 --> 01:02:34.240
<v Speaker 1>is Deuteronomy 24, 1 through 4.</v>

01:02:34.240 --> 01:02:35.520
<v Speaker 1>Let me pull that up.</v>

01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:42.480
<v Speaker 1>Now anyone takes a wife and lives with her, and it shall</v>

01:02:42.480 --> 01:02:45.280
<v Speaker 1>be if she does not find favour before him because he found</v>

01:02:45.280 --> 01:02:48.960
<v Speaker 1>a shameful thing in her write her a bill of divorce, and</v>

01:02:48.960 --> 01:02:51.760
<v Speaker 1>he shall give it into her hands, and shall send her out</v>

01:02:51.760 --> 01:02:52.640
<v Speaker 1>of his house.</v>

01:02:52.640 --> 01:02:55.200
<v Speaker 1>And if having gone out she becomes another man's and the last</v>

01:02:55.200 --> 01:02:57.760
<v Speaker 1>man hates her, then he will write her a bill of divorce,</v>

01:02:57.760 --> 01:03:00.000
<v Speaker 1>and give it into her hands, and send her out of his</v>

01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:02.800
<v Speaker 1>house. Or if the last man who took her for himself his</v>

01:03:02.800 --> 01:03:06.080
<v Speaker 1>wife dies, the former man who sent her away shall not be</v>

01:03:06.080 --> 01:03:10.160
<v Speaker 1>able, having returned, to take her for himself, as his wife, after</v>

01:03:10.160 --> 01:03:12.720
<v Speaker 1>she has been defiled, so on and so forth.</v>

01:03:12.720 --> 01:03:15.360
<v Speaker 1>You can't meet you can't remarry a woman after you divorce her,</v>

01:03:15.360 --> 01:03:17.440
<v Speaker 1>that's certainly banned.</v>

01:03:17.440 --> 01:03:20.800
<v Speaker 1>The general rule, and it's always worth stating the general rule with</v>

01:03:20.800 --> 01:03:26.240
<v Speaker 1>regard to divorce, is that divorce is basically never permissible.</v>

01:03:26.240 --> 01:03:30.880
<v Speaker 1>The sole exception being sexual immorality or something that is tantamount to</v>

01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:35.680
<v Speaker 1>it. So abandonment, tantamount to sexual immorality.</v>

01:03:35.680 --> 01:03:38.800
<v Speaker 1>That's really one of the only cases, right?</v>

01:03:39.920 --> 01:03:40.240
<v Speaker 1>So</v>

01:03:42.160 --> 01:03:45.360
<v Speaker 1>for here we have But if someone finds the girl, the virgin</v>

01:03:45.440 --> 01:03:47.840
<v Speaker 1>who is not engaged, and after he for Sir lies with her,</v>

01:03:47.840 --> 01:03:49.760
<v Speaker 1>and he has discovered the man who lay with her shall give</v>

01:03:49.760 --> 01:03:53.200
<v Speaker 1>fifty silver to Drachmas to the young woman's father, and she shall</v>

01:03:53.200 --> 01:03:56.000
<v Speaker 1>become his wife, because he humbled her, he shall not be able</v>

01:03:56.000 --> 01:03:59.760
<v Speaker 1>to send her away for all time.</v>

01:03:59.760 --> 01:04:00.080
<v Speaker 1>So</v>

01:04:02.560 --> 01:04:04.960
<v Speaker 1>this is a limitation, of course.</v>

01:04:04.960 --> 01:04:09.680
<v Speaker 1>It comes before the part in 24, but this is a limitation.</v>

01:04:10.000 --> 01:04:15.200
<v Speaker 1>You're not allowed to send away a virgin when you basically took</v>

01:04:15.200 --> 01:04:15.920
<v Speaker 1>advantage of her.</v>

01:04:15.920 --> 01:04:18.640
<v Speaker 1>This is not like I've said before, we went over this in</v>

01:04:18.640 --> 01:04:21.360
<v Speaker 1>a previous episode, I don't remember which one or I'd reference it,</v>

01:04:21.360 --> 01:04:23.360
<v Speaker 1>but I went over this in a previous episode.</v>

01:04:23.360 --> 01:04:27.120
<v Speaker 1>This is not what we would call, say, violent stranger rape, which</v>

01:04:27.120 --> 01:04:30.160
<v Speaker 1>is usually the more or less technical term we use for what</v>

01:04:30.160 --> 01:04:33.120
<v Speaker 1>is in our law rape.</v>

01:04:33.120 --> 01:04:37.360
<v Speaker 1>We have some more modern laws that deal with some other specific</v>

01:04:37.360 --> 01:04:40.080
<v Speaker 1>circumstances, but that is the general one.</v>

01:04:40.080 --> 01:04:41.280
<v Speaker 1>This is not that.</v>

01:04:41.280 --> 01:04:44.640
<v Speaker 1>That's a different thing because that is treated elsewhere in the Old</v>

01:04:44.640 --> 01:04:47.760
<v Speaker 1>Testament, and for that you get stoned.</v>

01:04:47.760 --> 01:04:49.920
<v Speaker 1>There's a difference for that.</v>

01:04:49.920 --> 01:04:53.120
<v Speaker 1>For this, you have to marry her.</v>

01:04:53.120 --> 01:04:56.400
<v Speaker 1>Unless the father objects, because the father is allowed to object.</v>

01:04:56.400 --> 01:04:59.520
<v Speaker 1>The father gets a veto with regard to marriage.</v>

01:04:59.520 --> 01:05:00.000
<v Speaker 1>So So</v>

01:05:00.960 --> 01:05:05.120
<v Speaker 1>for this, what Christ is saying is what was always the intention</v>

01:05:05.120 --> 01:05:07.440
<v Speaker 1>from the very beginning, which he makes very clear here, right?</v>

01:05:07.440 --> 01:05:11.120
<v Speaker 1>From the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.</v>

01:05:11.120 --> 01:05:11.440
<v Speaker 1>And</v>

01:05:12.480 --> 01:05:15.680
<v Speaker 1>once you are joined together with a woman in marriage, you are</v>

01:05:15.680 --> 01:05:17.680
<v Speaker 1>never supposed to divorce her.</v>

01:05:17.680 --> 01:05:22.480
<v Speaker 1>The only exception is when you're already divorced, which is what adultery</v>

01:05:22.480 --> 01:05:26.640
<v Speaker 1>is. If your wife cheats on you, you are already effectively divorced.</v>

01:05:26.640 --> 01:05:29.440
<v Speaker 1>She divorced you by the act.</v>

01:05:29.440 --> 01:05:33.280
<v Speaker 1>You can forgive her and take her back, but you are not</v>

01:05:33.280 --> 01:05:35.680
<v Speaker 1>required to do so.</v>

01:05:35.680 --> 01:05:39.840
<v Speaker 1>The question then arises, what is to be done with those who</v>

01:05:39.840 --> 01:05:41.600
<v Speaker 1>are divorced, right?</v>

01:05:42.080 --> 01:05:46.320
<v Speaker 1>Well this comes down to what the state does to punish adultery.</v>

01:05:46.320 --> 01:05:51.440
<v Speaker 1>If the state punishes adultery as a capital crime, problem solved, you</v>

01:05:51.440 --> 01:05:54.640
<v Speaker 1>don't have a bunch of people hanging around who committed adultery and</v>

01:05:54.640 --> 01:05:58.400
<v Speaker 1>are now divorced because they were executed.</v>

01:05:58.400 --> 01:06:00.960
<v Speaker 1>Which you can argue that's what the state should be doing.</v>

01:06:00.960 --> 01:06:04.080
<v Speaker 1>It would solve a lot of problems, Luther would agree.</v>

01:06:04.080 --> 01:06:07.120
<v Speaker 1>And I happen to think that that probably is the best way</v>

01:06:07.120 --> 01:06:07.920
<v Speaker 1>to go about it.</v>

01:06:07.920 --> 01:06:09.280
<v Speaker 1>It solves a lot of the problems.</v>

01:06:09.280 --> 01:06:14.320
<v Speaker 1>If a woman commits adultery, make it a capital crime for her</v>

01:06:14.320 --> 01:06:17.200
<v Speaker 1>and for the other man, at least if he knew she was</v>

01:06:17.200 --> 01:06:20.480
<v Speaker 1>married. Now you can avoid these problems in your life by simply</v>

01:06:20.480 --> 01:06:24.080
<v Speaker 1>not fornicating, but the reality is that people are going to continue</v>

01:06:24.080 --> 01:06:26.400
<v Speaker 1>to do stupid stuff, and</v>

01:06:27.360 --> 01:06:31.040
<v Speaker 1>the solution for fornication is to make them get married.</v>

01:06:31.040 --> 01:06:33.680
<v Speaker 1>That's what the Puritans of all people used to do.</v>

01:06:33.680 --> 01:06:37.760
<v Speaker 1>They recognize that human nature, things happen sometimes.</v>

01:06:37.760 --> 01:06:41.040
<v Speaker 1>Do the best that you can with the situation that's been created,</v>

01:06:41.040 --> 01:06:44.240
<v Speaker 1>marry them off and let them live an honest life together.</v>

01:06:44.240 --> 01:06:47.120
<v Speaker 1>But if you deal with</v>

01:06:50.160 --> 01:06:52.080
<v Speaker 1>just notice something in the chat, I'll get to it in a</v>

01:06:52.080 --> 01:06:52.880
<v Speaker 1>second here.</v>

01:06:52.880 --> 01:06:55.280
<v Speaker 1>But if you deal with adultery as a capital crime, then you</v>

01:06:55.280 --> 01:06:57.120
<v Speaker 1>avoid a lot of these problems.</v>

01:06:57.120 --> 01:07:00.880
<v Speaker 1>If not, then you have the issue arising of like who can</v>

01:07:00.880 --> 01:07:03.920
<v Speaker 1>you marry again and can you remarry your previous husband?</v>

01:07:03.920 --> 01:07:06.720
<v Speaker 1>The answer is no, despite the fact that we allow that in</v>

01:07:06.720 --> 01:07:09.200
<v Speaker 1>our society today.</v>

01:07:09.200 --> 01:07:13.120
<v Speaker 1>But this is one of those cases where if you just avoid</v>

01:07:13.120 --> 01:07:17.440
<v Speaker 1>the initial sin, so many other problems never arise.</v>

01:07:17.440 --> 01:07:20.880
<v Speaker 1>Because there are so many times where you'll get questions, particularly people</v>

01:07:20.880 --> 01:07:22.960
<v Speaker 1>who want to ask, not I'm not saying this one, but you'll</v>

01:07:22.960 --> 01:07:26.000
<v Speaker 1>get people who want to ask super technical questions, you know, it's</v>

01:07:26.000 --> 01:07:29.840
<v Speaker 1>the Sadducees coming to Christ and saying, Well, if the brothers all</v>

01:07:29.840 --> 01:07:32.400
<v Speaker 1>die and they've all married this woman, then whose wife will she</v>

01:07:32.400 --> 01:07:34.080
<v Speaker 1>be in the resurrection?</v>

01:07:34.320 --> 01:07:37.600
<v Speaker 1>That's Jewish squabbling over the law.</v>

01:07:38.320 --> 01:07:41.760
<v Speaker 1>And if you just don't have, in that case it wasn't sin,</v>

01:07:41.760 --> 01:07:44.400
<v Speaker 1>but in many cases it's where there's a sin, if you don't</v>

01:07:44.320 --> 01:07:48.080
<v Speaker 1>have the sin, then you never have the additional complications.</v>

01:07:48.080 --> 01:07:51.280
<v Speaker 1>All the complications were created by the sin.</v>

01:07:51.280 --> 01:07:54.480
<v Speaker 1>This arises when you have single mothers and you have a mother</v>

01:07:54.480 --> 01:07:57.200
<v Speaker 1>who has children by a bunch of different men.</v>

01:07:57.200 --> 01:07:58.720
<v Speaker 1>You make a giant mess.</v>

01:07:58.720 --> 01:08:00.400
<v Speaker 1>Sin makes everything messy.</v>

01:08:00.480 --> 01:08:02.160
<v Speaker 1>Messy, it makes a disaster.</v>

01:08:02.160 --> 01:08:05.200
<v Speaker 1>So just avoid the sin in the first place, flee from it,</v>

01:08:05.200 --> 01:08:08.160
<v Speaker 1>as the scriptures say with regard to sexual sins.</v>

01:08:12.240 --> 01:08:15.200
<v Speaker 1>Someone asked if his question got deleted.</v>

01:08:15.680 --> 01:08:21.600
<v Speaker 1>I certainly didn't delete anything because I am using restream, so I</v>

01:08:21.600 --> 01:08:25.120
<v Speaker 1>just have all of the comments from everywhere aggregated on my screen.</v>

01:08:25.120 --> 01:08:28.480
<v Speaker 1>I'm not actually looking at the excuse me, I'm not looking at</v>

01:08:28.480 --> 01:08:30.720
<v Speaker 1>the moderation for any particular platform.</v>

01:08:30.720 --> 01:08:35.120
<v Speaker 1>So if your question disappeared, please go ahead and ask it again.</v>

01:08:35.120 --> 01:08:39.120
<v Speaker 1>I don't know why it would disappear.</v>

01:08:39.120 --> 01:08:41.840
<v Speaker 1>I certainly didn't do it.</v>

01:08:41.840 --> 01:08:44.320
<v Speaker 1>I don't think I even can delete things from here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I cannot.</v>

01:08:56.720 --> 01:08:58.080
<v Speaker 1>Question 19.</v>

01:08:58.080 --> 01:09:01.200
<v Speaker 1>How can a single person or an entire people do penance for</v>

01:09:01.200 --> 01:09:02.080
<v Speaker 1>their sins?</v>

01:09:02.080 --> 01:09:04.880
<v Speaker 1>How can a collective call for forgiveness to God?</v>

01:09:06.720 --> 01:09:09.280
<v Speaker 1>The way that we see in scripture.</v>

01:09:09.280 --> 01:09:13.760
<v Speaker 1>And unfortunately, the real way for it to be done is for</v>

01:09:13.760 --> 01:09:18.080
<v Speaker 1>the leader to call a convocation of some kind, and then for</v>

01:09:18.080 --> 01:09:23.280
<v Speaker 1>the leader and the leaders of the people to repent, whether it's</v>

01:09:23.200 --> 01:09:27.680
<v Speaker 1>in sackcloth and ashes, whatever the cultural way of repenting is in</v>

01:09:27.680 --> 01:09:31.680
<v Speaker 1>that society, which it probably involves some form of abasement like that,</v>

01:09:32.080 --> 01:09:34.720
<v Speaker 1>That's how that's done.</v>

01:09:34.720 --> 01:09:37.040
<v Speaker 1>And we do not have faithful leaders.</v>

01:09:37.040 --> 01:09:41.680
<v Speaker 1>So the best that we can do is repent as individuals, as</v>

01:09:41.680 --> 01:09:46.720
<v Speaker 1>congregations, and then we can also work together as Christians, this is</v>

01:09:46.720 --> 01:09:52.000
<v Speaker 1>more difficult obviously with such a large and disparate nation like the</v>

01:09:52.000 --> 01:09:57.200
<v Speaker 1>United States, like America, but we can set, say, a national day</v>

01:09:57.200 --> 01:09:59.360
<v Speaker 1>of prayer and repentance.</v>

01:09:59.360 --> 01:10:04.160
<v Speaker 1>That's something we can do and then hopefully many individuals will participate.</v>

01:10:04.160 --> 01:10:06.880
<v Speaker 1>We can't compel it in the same way that say a king</v>

01:10:06.880 --> 01:10:09.840
<v Speaker 1>could because a king could say, today we're all going to pray</v>

01:10:09.840 --> 01:10:12.800
<v Speaker 1>and repent or else and that's perfectly permissible.</v>

01:10:12.800 --> 01:10:14.560
<v Speaker 1>The king's allowed to do that.</v>

01:10:14.560 --> 01:10:16.240
<v Speaker 1>We don't have that option.</v>

01:10:16.240 --> 01:10:21.280
<v Speaker 1>If God gave us a Christian, a faithful Christian ruler, we would</v>

01:10:21.280 --> 01:10:23.120
<v Speaker 1>have much better options.</v>

01:10:23.120 --> 01:10:26.800
<v Speaker 1>But But unfortunately, we don't currently have that.</v>

01:10:26.800 --> 01:10:31.360
<v Speaker 1>So the best that we can do is individual repentance, corporate in</v>

01:10:31.360 --> 01:10:38.240
<v Speaker 1>the sense of our individual perishes, and then you know, optional, unfortunately,</v>

01:10:38.240 --> 01:10:41.680
<v Speaker 1>as it were, days of repentance and prayer.</v>

01:10:41.680 --> 01:10:42.560
<v Speaker 1>And we have those.</v>

01:10:42.560 --> 01:10:44.800
<v Speaker 1>There are days of fasting and things like that on the church</v>

01:10:44.960 --> 01:10:47.680
<v Speaker 1>year calendar, following those is good practice.</v>

01:10:50.480 --> 01:10:55.680
<v Speaker 1>I see someone is still having a fight with the chat about</v>

01:10:55.680 --> 01:10:57.440
<v Speaker 1>sending a question.</v>

01:10:57.440 --> 01:10:57.760
<v Speaker 1>I</v>

01:10:59.920 --> 01:11:04.480
<v Speaker 1>suppose that maybe you used a word that triggered some sort of</v>

01:11:04.480 --> 01:11:08.640
<v Speaker 1>moderation. Misspell it and then maybe it will show up.</v>

01:11:08.640 --> 01:11:09.760
<v Speaker 1>Question 20.</v>

01:11:09.760 --> 01:11:11.840
<v Speaker 1>What are your thoughts on Hungarians?</v>

01:11:11.840 --> 01:11:14.160
<v Speaker 1>When I look at DNA charts, their genetic distance is very close</v>

01:11:14.160 --> 01:11:16.400
<v Speaker 1>to Germans, but they seem to be very different in a lot</v>

01:11:16.400 --> 01:11:17.040
<v Speaker 1>of ways.</v>

01:11:17.040 --> 01:11:18.720
<v Speaker 1>They're definitely very different.</v>

01:11:18.720 --> 01:11:19.680
<v Speaker 1>I like them.</v>

01:11:19.680 --> 01:11:21.360
<v Speaker 1>I've known a number of them.</v>

01:11:21.360 --> 01:11:22.640
<v Speaker 1>I got along with them just fine.</v>

01:11:22.640 --> 01:11:26.480
<v Speaker 1>Their language is incomprehensible and I hope never to have to learn</v>

01:11:26.480 --> 01:11:29.920
<v Speaker 1>it. But I don't know if that's their fault or not, I</v>

01:11:29.920 --> 01:11:31.520
<v Speaker 1>guess it probably kind of is.</v>

01:11:31.520 --> 01:11:34.800
<v Speaker 1>But no, they're European brothers and they're good people.</v>

01:11:34.800 --> 01:11:37.760
<v Speaker 1>But they're definitely they're unique, which is a good thing.</v>

01:11:37.760 --> 01:11:42.240
<v Speaker 1>I want individual European nations to remain individual European nations to remain</v>

01:11:42.240 --> 01:11:44.880
<v Speaker 1>unique, not to lose not to lose their distinct cultures.</v>

01:11:44.880 --> 01:11:49.120
<v Speaker 1>I don't want to have a pan Europeanism that just blurs everyone</v>

01:11:49.440 --> 01:11:52.240
<v Speaker 1>into vaguely European.</v>

01:11:52.240 --> 01:11:54.080
<v Speaker 1>That would be a loss.</v>

01:11:54.080 --> 01:11:57.840
<v Speaker 1>It's better than going extinct, but it's not a victory.</v>

01:11:57.840 --> 01:12:00.960
<v Speaker 1>So yes, I hope the Hungarians survive into the future.</v>

01:12:11.840 --> 01:12:16.320
<v Speaker 1>Thought okay, the question that was being eaten by some sort of</v>

01:12:16.320 --> 01:12:19.440
<v Speaker 1>invisible moderation function.</v>

01:12:19.440 --> 01:12:22.400
<v Speaker 1>Thoughts on the save Europe Act.</v>

01:12:22.400 --> 01:12:27.680
<v Speaker 1>It requires full name and email, but it's promoted by seemingly normal</v>

01:12:27.680 --> 01:12:31.040
<v Speaker 1>people. I actually don't know what that is.</v>

01:12:34.720 --> 01:12:38.800
<v Speaker 1>I have not looked into it at all, so I do not</v>

01:12:38.800 --> 01:12:46.640
<v Speaker 1>have an opinion on it.</v>

01:12:46.640 --> 01:12:52.880
<v Speaker 1>In some sense, I'll just answer sort of a a practical question,</v>

01:12:52.880 --> 01:12:57.600
<v Speaker 1>practical matter related to it, because I don't know that much about</v>

01:12:57.600 --> 01:13:00.160
<v Speaker 1>it. I've seen it Seen it pass by in my feed, but</v>

01:13:00.160 --> 01:13:02.160
<v Speaker 1>I have not read it or gone through it or anything like</v>

01:13:02.160 --> 01:13:06.560
<v Speaker 1>that. I don't know which individuals are supporting it, promoting it.</v>

01:13:06.560 --> 01:13:13.040
<v Speaker 1>But as a general rule, anonymity these days is not as powerful</v>

01:13:14.240 --> 01:13:17.120
<v Speaker 1>as most men still think.</v>

01:13:17.120 --> 01:13:21.760
<v Speaker 1>Anonymity works against individual actors.</v>

01:13:21.760 --> 01:13:27.200
<v Speaker 1>Anonymity works against Some corporate actors, and that's only if you're doing</v>

01:13:27.200 --> 01:13:28.080
<v Speaker 1>a good job.</v>

01:13:28.080 --> 01:13:31.040
<v Speaker 1>So if you're good at what you're doing, you know, you have</v>

01:13:31.280 --> 01:13:34.000
<v Speaker 1>your browser set up in such a way that it's blocking as</v>

01:13:34.000 --> 01:13:37.200
<v Speaker 1>much as possible, but not too much, because if you block everything,</v>

01:13:37.200 --> 01:13:39.760
<v Speaker 1>it actually makes you more identifiable.</v>

01:13:39.760 --> 01:13:43.040
<v Speaker 1>Which is a problem with using certain browsers because that's actually a</v>

01:13:43.040 --> 01:13:45.840
<v Speaker 1>pretty strong signal because no one else is.</v>

01:13:45.840 --> 01:13:48.000
<v Speaker 1>You know, double-edged sword kind of thing.</v>

01:13:48.000 --> 01:13:51.040
<v Speaker 1>You add in a VPN and you add in all these measures</v>

01:13:51.200 --> 01:13:53.760
<v Speaker 1>and the standard steps we all know.</v>

01:13:53.760 --> 01:13:57.040
<v Speaker 1>You can add these things up and you get pretty good privacy,</v>

01:13:57.040 --> 01:14:00.080
<v Speaker 1>but you have to also have very good opsec then.</v>

01:14:00.080 --> 01:14:03.120
<v Speaker 1>You have to make sure that you don't recycle email addresses.</v>

01:14:03.120 --> 01:14:04.800
<v Speaker 1>You have to make sure you don't access them on your personal</v>

01:14:05.280 --> 01:14:08.400
<v Speaker 1>computers. They are always accessed via the VPN.</v>

01:14:08.400 --> 01:14:10.320
<v Speaker 1>Make sure you've got location servers.</v>

01:14:10.320 --> 01:14:13.840
<v Speaker 1>Like there's a whole litany of things you can do to try</v>

01:14:13.840 --> 01:14:18.160
<v Speaker 1>to stay anonymous, to try to stay well it's really pseudonymous usually,</v>

01:14:18.160 --> 01:14:21.600
<v Speaker 1>but to try to stay out of the spotlight and not get</v>

01:14:21.600 --> 01:14:23.840
<v Speaker 1>tagged for certain stuff.</v>

01:14:23.840 --> 01:14:29.520
<v Speaker 1>And it works again against individual actors, against some corporate actors.</v>

01:14:29.520 --> 01:14:32.720
<v Speaker 1>It's not worth anything against a government actor.</v>

01:14:32.720 --> 01:14:38.160
<v Speaker 1>A government actor can absolutely disambiguate you, and it's not even a</v>

01:14:38.160 --> 01:14:43.760
<v Speaker 1>challenge. Just speaking as someone who's worked at law firms, I could</v>

01:14:43.760 --> 01:14:47.120
<v Speaker 1>have found you with those tools.</v>

01:14:47.120 --> 01:14:49.280
<v Speaker 1>I had to pay for well the firm had to pay for</v>

01:14:49.280 --> 01:14:52.640
<v Speaker 1>'em, but a government has even better tools.</v>

01:14:52.640 --> 01:14:54.160
<v Speaker 1>Far better tools.</v>

01:14:54.160 --> 01:14:57.760
<v Speaker 1>It will not take them any real effort to disambiguate you.</v>

01:14:57.760 --> 01:15:03.760
<v Speaker 1>And so, to some degree, yes, act with wisdom, but recognize that</v>

01:15:03.760 --> 01:15:06.800
<v Speaker 1>you're already compromised to a certain degree.</v>

01:15:06.800 --> 01:15:10.160
<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying you should necessarily go all in on this sort</v>

01:15:10.160 --> 01:15:14.480
<v Speaker 1>of thing, but I'm just highlighting the fact that the government already</v>

01:15:14.480 --> 01:15:16.480
<v Speaker 1>knows who you are.</v>

01:15:16.480 --> 01:15:20.800
<v Speaker 1>And maybe they don't have the easy way to get you if</v>

01:15:20.800 --> 01:15:22.240
<v Speaker 1>they felt like it yet.</v>

01:15:22.240 --> 01:15:25.440
<v Speaker 1>But if they really wanted to get you, they'd just manufacture it.</v>

01:15:25.440 --> 01:15:28.560
<v Speaker 1>That's the harsh reality of the system under which we live.</v>

01:15:28.560 --> 01:15:30.800
<v Speaker 1>If they really wanted to take you down, they'll just plant something</v>

01:15:30.800 --> 01:15:33.040
<v Speaker 1>on your hard drive and then no knock raid you at three</v>

01:15:33.040 --> 01:15:33.680
<v Speaker 1>in the morning.</v>

01:15:33.840 --> 01:15:37.040
<v Speaker 1>Hopefully not shoot your dog.</v>

01:15:37.040 --> 01:15:37.840
<v Speaker 1>So So</v>

01:15:39.200 --> 01:15:42.240
<v Speaker 1>the reality is that you can only protect yourself to a certain</v>

01:15:42.240 --> 01:15:46.320
<v Speaker 1>degree and that in the coming years we're all going to take</v>

01:15:46.320 --> 01:15:48.560
<v Speaker 1>some risks because it's going to be the nature of the beasts.</v>

01:15:48.560 --> 01:15:50.560
<v Speaker 1>And you're taking them regardless, right?</v>

01:15:50.560 --> 01:15:54.800
<v Speaker 1>If you do absolutely nothing, then things continue to get worse.</v>

01:15:54.800 --> 01:15:59.200
<v Speaker 1>If you do something, then there's some risk you sustain in doing</v>

01:15:59.200 --> 01:16:02.080
<v Speaker 1>that. So this is one of those times where it is a</v>

01:16:02.080 --> 01:16:05.440
<v Speaker 1>matter of using the gifts that God has given you, employing your</v>

01:16:05.440 --> 01:16:09.680
<v Speaker 1>wisdom, and acting according to both conscience and wisdom.</v>

01:16:09.680 --> 01:16:13.200
<v Speaker 1>I can't give a blanket recommendation with regard to do this, don't</v>

01:16:13.200 --> 01:16:16.800
<v Speaker 1>do that, or because every single man's</v>

01:16:17.760 --> 01:16:22.720
<v Speaker 1>tolerance for threat, for danger, for risk is going to be different.</v>

01:16:22.720 --> 01:16:24.160
<v Speaker 1>We're not all the same.</v>

01:16:24.160 --> 01:16:28.000
<v Speaker 1>Obviously. I'm doing this with my full face and name and you</v>

01:16:28.000 --> 01:16:30.480
<v Speaker 1>know my own study wall behind me.</v>

01:16:30.480 --> 01:16:33.920
<v Speaker 1>Not the prettiest wall in the world, but it's there, right?</v>

01:16:34.080 --> 01:16:34.400
<v Speaker 1>So</v>

01:16:35.840 --> 01:16:40.000
<v Speaker 1>the reality is that you just have to apply Conscience and wisdom</v>

01:16:40.080 --> 01:16:43.520
<v Speaker 1>and then make the d make the decision.</v>

01:16:43.520 --> 01:16:45.840
<v Speaker 1>So is it a honeypot?</v>

01:16:45.840 --> 01:16:47.360
<v Speaker 1>It might be.</v>

01:16:47.360 --> 01:16:50.480
<v Speaker 1>But what would a honeypot really gain them?</v>

01:16:50.880 --> 01:16:54.320
<v Speaker 1>The only people who would gain from a honeypot would be someone</v>

01:16:54.320 --> 01:16:58.640
<v Speaker 1>who did not have the means to disambiguate you anyway, and any</v>

01:16:58.640 --> 01:17:01.120
<v Speaker 1>of the big actors can already do it.</v>

01:17:01.120 --> 01:17:05.200
<v Speaker 1>And just so you know, for those sort of a tangential point.</v>

01:17:05.200 --> 01:17:08.160
<v Speaker 1>For those who think that a VPN is going to protect you</v>

01:17:08.160 --> 01:17:11.200
<v Speaker 1>from government actors, I have some news.</v>

01:17:11.200 --> 01:17:12.480
<v Speaker 1>It will not.</v>

01:17:12.480 --> 01:17:17.440
<v Speaker 1>ATT, for instance, can see right through your VPN with trivial ease.</v>

01:17:17.440 --> 01:17:21.040
<v Speaker 1>And And I don't want to get into something too technical here.</v>

01:17:21.040 --> 01:17:24.720
<v Speaker 1>This is actually what I wrote in part my master's thesis on.</v>

01:17:24.720 --> 01:17:28.320
<v Speaker 1>It was actually on net neutrality, but this was a related issue.</v>

01:17:28.320 --> 01:17:31.600
<v Speaker 1>If you control both ends of the network, you can see the</v>

01:17:31.600 --> 01:17:34.240
<v Speaker 1>traffic enter and exit.</v>

01:17:34.240 --> 01:17:36.560
<v Speaker 1>You can identify the traffic.</v>

01:17:36.560 --> 01:17:38.320
<v Speaker 1>It's that simple, really.</v>

01:17:38.320 --> 01:17:41.120
<v Speaker 1>It's more complicated than that with regard to how exactly it's done</v>

01:17:41.200 --> 01:17:45.280
<v Speaker 1>technically, and there's a whole bunch of that stuff, but big players</v>

01:17:45.280 --> 01:17:51.040
<v Speaker 1>like ATT or you know, level three or any big backbone provider,</v>

01:17:51.040 --> 01:17:54.000
<v Speaker 1>they can disambiguate you eventually.</v>

01:17:54.000 --> 01:17:57.280
<v Speaker 1>Probably almost immediately in the case of someone like ATT if you're</v>

01:17:57.280 --> 01:17:58.720
<v Speaker 1>living in the US.</v>

01:17:58.720 --> 01:18:02.160
<v Speaker 1>So So that's the reality of what we live in right now,</v>

01:18:02.160 --> 01:18:03.920
<v Speaker 1>so calibrate accordingly.</v>

01:18:03.920 --> 01:18:07.600
<v Speaker 1>I'm not crazy and paranoid uh obviously I'm not, but I don't</v>

01:18:07.520 --> 01:18:11.040
<v Speaker 1>turn off all location services and lock everything down and always use</v>

01:18:11.040 --> 01:18:13.120
<v Speaker 1>a VPN and never go here or there.</v>

01:18:13.120 --> 01:18:16.480
<v Speaker 1>And I just don't do that stuff because at some point you</v>

01:18:16.480 --> 01:18:20.800
<v Speaker 1>wind up dedicating so much time and effort to that that it's</v>

01:18:20.800 --> 01:18:24.320
<v Speaker 1>almost become like your religion at that point, and you've just wasted</v>

01:18:24.320 --> 01:18:26.160
<v Speaker 1>so much time and effort.</v>

01:18:26.160 --> 01:18:26.480
<v Speaker 1>And</v>

01:18:27.760 --> 01:18:30.640
<v Speaker 1>life is a matter of balancing risk, right?</v>

01:18:30.880 --> 01:18:34.160
<v Speaker 1>When you go hiking, there's a risk you get hit by a</v>

01:18:34.160 --> 01:18:36.880
<v Speaker 1>tree. There's a risk of that just being in my yard here,</v>

01:18:36.880 --> 01:18:38.320
<v Speaker 1>but there's a higher risk when I go hiking.</v>

01:18:38.320 --> 01:18:40.160
<v Speaker 1>Like you know, a tree could drop a branch on me, or</v>

01:18:40.160 --> 01:18:43.120
<v Speaker 1>I could encounter a bear, or a moose, or something.</v>

01:18:43.120 --> 01:18:46.240
<v Speaker 1>Not moose around here, but I've been other places hiking.</v>

01:18:46.240 --> 01:18:49.440
<v Speaker 1>But it's worth the risk for what I gain.</v>

01:18:49.680 --> 01:18:53.920
<v Speaker 1>The same thing is true with regard to our various technological devices</v>

01:18:53.920 --> 01:18:55.680
<v Speaker 1>and services and things like that.</v>

01:18:55.680 --> 01:18:58.880
<v Speaker 1>Sometimes the risk is worth the gain, sometimes it's not.</v>

01:18:58.880 --> 01:19:02.320
<v Speaker 1>So employ your wisdom as best you can.</v>

01:19:02.320 --> 01:19:06.640
<v Speaker 1>But yet don't go typing your information into random places on the</v>

01:19:06.640 --> 01:19:07.600
<v Speaker 1>internet, you know.</v>

01:19:07.600 --> 01:19:10.320
<v Speaker 1>If someone asks for your home address, maybe don't do that.</v>

01:19:10.320 --> 01:19:14.960
<v Speaker 1>But name, email address, you know, give 'em a proton mail one.</v>

01:19:14.960 --> 01:19:20.560
<v Speaker 1>I don't think that's a big deal deal.</v>

01:19:20.800 --> 01:19:26.240
<v Speaker 1>Think that I got all of the questions from the chat</v>

01:19:37.360 --> 01:19:41.600
<v Speaker 1>Follow up question on the the divorce topic here.</v>

01:19:42.160 --> 01:19:45.600
<v Speaker 1>I'll just drop in real quick here and then I think that'll</v>

01:19:45.600 --> 01:19:47.840
<v Speaker 1>be the last question for this week.</v>

01:19:47.840 --> 01:19:50.800
<v Speaker 1>The question is whether that ruling in Deuteronomy is an example of</v>

01:19:50.800 --> 01:19:53.600
<v Speaker 1>a law being for the hardness of their hearts, not asking about</v>

01:19:53.600 --> 01:19:57.680
<v Speaker 1>the divorce aspect specifically So the question is, is the</v>

01:19:58.640 --> 01:20:02.960
<v Speaker 1>marriage for a man who overpowers a virgin?</v>

01:20:02.960 --> 01:20:06.800
<v Speaker 1>And to be clear, I'm using that term not, you know, to</v>

01:20:06.800 --> 01:20:09.920
<v Speaker 1>make it nicer sounding because obviously I have no problem saying the</v>

01:20:09.920 --> 01:20:14.240
<v Speaker 1>other word, I'm saying it because it's not the same thing there.</v>

01:20:14.240 --> 01:20:18.240
<v Speaker 1>Is that given to them because of the hardness of their heart?</v>

01:20:18.560 --> 01:20:21.920
<v Speaker 1>I think in some sense, but it's not the core sense of</v>

01:20:21.920 --> 01:20:24.880
<v Speaker 1>hardness of heart that's meant there with regard to divorce.</v>

01:20:24.880 --> 01:20:28.080
<v Speaker 1>It's given to them specifically because of the deficits of the people</v>

01:20:28.080 --> 01:20:30.240
<v Speaker 1>who live in that part of the world and their culture and</v>

01:20:30.240 --> 01:20:31.600
<v Speaker 1>their morality.</v>

01:20:31.600 --> 01:20:35.280
<v Speaker 1>It's not really a problem that we have in the Western world.</v>

01:20:35.280 --> 01:20:38.000
<v Speaker 1>We don't really have laws saying, you know, you overpower a virgin</v>

01:20:38.000 --> 01:20:39.360
<v Speaker 1>in the forest, you have to marry her.</v>

01:20:39.360 --> 01:20:41.840
<v Speaker 1>That's it's not a rule we needed.</v>

01:20:41.840 --> 01:20:43.440
<v Speaker 1>It is a rule that they needed.</v>

01:20:43.440 --> 01:20:45.760
<v Speaker 1>So it is something that is tailored to them.</v>

01:20:45.920 --> 01:20:47.600
<v Speaker 1>And I've gone over this before.</v>

01:20:47.600 --> 01:20:48.800
<v Speaker 1>It's not for us.</v>

01:20:48.800 --> 01:20:50.000
<v Speaker 1>It's for them.</v>

01:20:50.000 --> 01:20:51.760
<v Speaker 1>It's civil law, not moral law.</v>

01:20:51.760 --> 01:20:53.120
<v Speaker 1>It's for Old Testament Israel.</v>

01:20:53.120 --> 01:20:53.840
<v Speaker 1>It's not for us.</v>

01:20:53.840 --> 01:20:57.520
<v Speaker 1>Moral law, unchanging, flows from God's nature, applies to all men, all</v>

01:20:57.520 --> 01:20:59.120
<v Speaker 1>places, all times.</v>

01:20:59.120 --> 01:21:02.960
<v Speaker 1>Thou shalt not murder, applies to all men, all places, all times.</v>

01:21:02.960 --> 01:21:05.680
<v Speaker 1>Overpower a virgin in the middle of the desert, yet to marry</v>

01:21:05.680 --> 01:21:08.880
<v Speaker 1>her applies to people who live in the V Le Vaunt and</v>

01:21:08.880 --> 01:21:11.200
<v Speaker 1>can't keep their hands to themselves.</v>

01:21:13.600 --> 01:21:16.400
<v Speaker 1>Because you know, civil law versus moral law is really the core</v>

01:21:16.400 --> 01:21:18.320
<v Speaker 1>concept there.</v>

01:21:29.360 --> 01:21:33.120
<v Speaker 1>Maybe I'll do one more question here.</v>

01:21:33.120 --> 01:21:35.840
<v Speaker 1>I see a question about Matthew 25.</v>

01:21:36.080 --> 01:21:49.200
<v Speaker 1>Well we'll make this one the last one for this week.</v>

01:21:49.520 --> 01:21:55.760
<v Speaker 1>How do you respond to Matthew 25, 41 through 46 being used</v>

01:21:55.760 --> 01:21:58.320
<v Speaker 1>to defend immigration?</v>

01:21:58.320 --> 01:22:01.840
<v Speaker 1>So I'm going to add that to the show notes here.</v>

01:22:02.080 --> 01:22:03.360
<v Speaker 1>I don't forget later</v>

01:22:04.640 --> 01:22:08.720
<v Speaker 1>and then we'll pull that up so we can actually look at</v>

01:22:08.720 --> 01:22:09.040
<v Speaker 1>it</v>

01:22:25.040 --> 01:22:27.360
<v Speaker 1>Then he will say to those on his left, depart from me,</v>

01:22:27.360 --> 01:22:28.880
<v Speaker 1>you curse it into the eternal fire.</v>

01:22:29.040 --> 01:22:31.520
<v Speaker 1>Fire prepared for the devil and his angels, for I was hungry</v>

01:22:31.600 --> 01:22:34.560
<v Speaker 1>and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave</v>

01:22:34.560 --> 01:22:37.040
<v Speaker 1>me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome</v>

01:22:37.040 --> 01:22:40.160
<v Speaker 1>me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison</v>

01:22:40.240 --> 01:22:41.920
<v Speaker 1>and you did not visit me.</v>

01:22:41.920 --> 01:22:45.120
<v Speaker 1>Then they also will answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you</v>

01:22:45.120 --> 01:22:48.000
<v Speaker 1>hungry or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in</v>

01:22:48.000 --> 01:22:50.560
<v Speaker 1>prison, and did not minister to you?</v>

01:22:50.560 --> 01:22:54.240
<v Speaker 1>Then he will answer them, saying, Truly I say to you, as</v>

01:22:54.240 --> 01:22:57.120
<v Speaker 1>you did not do to one of the least of these, you</v>

01:22:57.120 --> 01:22:58.720
<v Speaker 1>did not do it for me.</v>

01:22:58.720 --> 01:23:02.160
<v Speaker 1>And these will go away into eternal punishment for the right but</v>

01:23:02.160 --> 01:23:04.640
<v Speaker 1>the righteous into eternal life.</v>

01:23:05.120 --> 01:23:10.080
<v Speaker 1>The reason this doesn't apply to what is called immigration, it's not</v>

01:23:10.080 --> 01:23:12.400
<v Speaker 1>immigration, it's an invasion, which is part of the answer here, of</v>

01:23:12.400 --> 01:23:15.440
<v Speaker 1>course, right?</v>

01:23:15.760 --> 01:23:21.760
<v Speaker 1>This doesn't apply because if this applied to the invasion that's ongoing</v>

01:23:21.760 --> 01:23:25.040
<v Speaker 1>in the West, then it would apply to the Canaanites.</v>

01:23:25.040 --> 01:23:27.680
<v Speaker 1>Then it would apply to the Egyptians.</v>

01:23:27.680 --> 01:23:32.480
<v Speaker 1>It would apply to the Assyrians and the Syrians and every other</v>

01:23:32.480 --> 01:23:36.320
<v Speaker 1>people who invaded Old Testament Israel.</v>

01:23:36.320 --> 01:23:39.360
<v Speaker 1>They would have had to say, Oh, well, come on in and</v>

01:23:39.360 --> 01:23:41.120
<v Speaker 1>we'll give you food and drink and clothing.</v>

01:23:41.120 --> 01:23:42.800
<v Speaker 1>And God didn't command that.</v>

01:23:42.800 --> 01:23:45.840
<v Speaker 1>God commanded them to destroy them.</v>

01:23:45.840 --> 01:23:49.600
<v Speaker 1>Because God has entrusted certain things to your care, He has given</v>

01:23:49.600 --> 01:23:53.040
<v Speaker 1>you land, He has given you borders, He has given you a</v>

01:23:53.040 --> 01:23:58.000
<v Speaker 1>family, an extended family, a nation, being a further extended family.</v>

01:23:58.000 --> 01:24:01.440
<v Speaker 1>You owe duties to these things, you are to protect and defend</v>

01:24:01.440 --> 01:24:04.640
<v Speaker 1>them, and that includes defending them against those who would come and</v>

01:24:04.640 --> 01:24:05.680
<v Speaker 1>steal from you.</v>

01:24:05.680 --> 01:24:07.760
<v Speaker 1>That's not what this is.</v>

01:24:07.760 --> 01:24:12.080
<v Speaker 1>This here is when you see the person of your own people</v>

01:24:12.080 --> 01:24:15.440
<v Speaker 1>who needs help, and you don't help him.</v>

01:24:15.440 --> 01:24:18.160
<v Speaker 1>For that would be a sin.</v>

01:24:18.160 --> 01:24:21.280
<v Speaker 1>For that you're cursed, for that you should do something.</v>

01:24:21.280 --> 01:24:24.480
<v Speaker 1>This is not when you see people invading your country.</v>

01:24:24.480 --> 01:24:35.600
<v Speaker 1>You don't go out and give enemies</v>

01:24:35.600 --> 01:24:40.080
<v Speaker 1>This is for those who believe that the Christian faith is just</v>

01:24:40.880 --> 01:24:44.800
<v Speaker 1>you know words and not deeds, these are the people who never</v>

01:24:44.800 --> 01:24:48.960
<v Speaker 1>go out and help their neighbor, never give to the poor, never</v>

01:24:48.960 --> 01:24:50.960
<v Speaker 1>donate time, effort, anything.</v>

01:24:50.960 --> 01:24:54.080
<v Speaker 1>It's a condemnation of those who do not have a living and</v>

01:24:54.080 --> 01:24:57.520
<v Speaker 1>active faith, who have a dead faith that doesn't produce good works.</v>

01:24:57.520 --> 01:25:00.800
<v Speaker 1>Because if you have a living faith, it will produce good works.</v>

01:25:00.800 --> 01:25:06.640
<v Speaker 1>And the primary group to whom your good works should be dedicated,</v>

01:25:06.640 --> 01:25:10.480
<v Speaker 1>and to whom they should be directed, after of course your family,</v>

01:25:10.480 --> 01:25:11.760
<v Speaker 1>is your neighbor.</v>

01:25:11.760 --> 01:25:13.280
<v Speaker 1>Your neighbors.</v>

01:25:13.280 --> 01:25:16.480
<v Speaker 1>Because God has put you in a certain place at a certain</v>

01:25:16.480 --> 01:25:20.240
<v Speaker 1>time, those people are in your life, assuming that you aren't surrounded</v>

01:25:20.240 --> 01:25:22.800
<v Speaker 1>by, you know, invading military of some kind.</v>

01:25:22.800 --> 01:25:25.760
<v Speaker 1>But if things are going as they should be, you're supposed to</v>

01:25:25.760 --> 01:25:27.280
<v Speaker 1>help your neighbor.</v>

01:25:27.280 --> 01:25:30.560
<v Speaker 1>You're not supposed to go two thousand miles away and help some</v>

01:25:30.560 --> 01:25:32.960
<v Speaker 1>hostile alien.</v>

01:25:32.960 --> 01:25:36.800
<v Speaker 1>This is just one of those verses, and there are many verses,</v>

01:25:36.800 --> 01:25:45.040
<v Speaker 1>that are going to be polluted, perverted, and abused by the enemies.</v>

01:25:45.040 --> 01:25:49.920
<v Speaker 1>And you have to remember, when Satan was attempting to tempt Christ,</v>

01:25:49.920 --> 01:25:52.960
<v Speaker 1>he used scripture.</v>

01:25:52.960 --> 01:25:59.200
<v Speaker 1>If Satan is willing to use scripture to God, to his face,</v>

01:25:59.200 --> 01:26:03.120
<v Speaker 1>to try to tempt him, then certainly the enemies of God, the</v>

01:26:03.120 --> 01:26:06.880
<v Speaker 1>minions of Satan, are going to try to pervert Scripture to confuse</v>

01:26:06.880 --> 01:26:09.840
<v Speaker 1>and tempt you, to lead you astray.</v>

01:26:09.840 --> 01:26:13.440
<v Speaker 1>So just because someone quotes scripture and then s shows you a</v>

01:26:13.440 --> 01:26:17.280
<v Speaker 1>picture of a sad child doesn't mean that he has an argument.</v>

01:26:17.280 --> 01:26:20.640
<v Speaker 1>In fact, he's probably trying to mislead you.</v>

01:26:20.640 --> 01:26:24.720
<v Speaker 1>Certainly be wary of anyone who is trying to lead you by</v>

01:26:24.720 --> 01:26:27.440
<v Speaker 1>the nose with regard to emotion.</v>

01:26:27.440 --> 01:26:31.440
<v Speaker 1>Men by and large, and I'm not saying exclusively, because sometimes emotion</v>

01:26:31.520 --> 01:26:32.400
<v Speaker 1>it has a place, right?</v>

01:26:32.400 --> 01:26:34.560
<v Speaker 1>If you have a giant political rally, part of that will be</v>

01:26:34.560 --> 01:26:36.560
<v Speaker 1>emotional. There's nothing wrong with that.</v>

01:26:36.560 --> 01:26:41.680
<v Speaker 1>But by and large, particularly a one-on-one discussion, a man should not</v>

01:26:41.680 --> 01:26:45.760
<v Speaker 1>be trying to get another man to agree with something or change</v>

01:26:45.760 --> 01:26:47.360
<v Speaker 1>his position on the basis of emotion.</v>

01:26:47.360 --> 01:26:48.480
<v Speaker 1>That's not how men engage.</v>

01:26:48.480 --> 01:26:53.120
<v Speaker 1>Men engage with reason and logic and the people who are pointing</v>

01:26:53.120 --> 01:26:55.920
<v Speaker 1>to this and then showing a picture of a sad child or</v>

01:26:55.920 --> 01:26:58.400
<v Speaker 1>you know a dead child in the surf trying to cross the</v>

01:26:58.400 --> 01:27:02.080
<v Speaker 1>Mediterranean, whatever it happens to be, that person is trying to beat</v>

01:27:02.080 --> 01:27:06.080
<v Speaker 1>you over the head with eisegesis and then get you to emotionally</v>

01:27:06.080 --> 01:27:08.480
<v Speaker 1>capitulate. That person is not a Christian.</v>

01:27:08.480 --> 01:27:12.160
<v Speaker 1>That person is trying to mislead you.</v>

01:27:12.160 --> 01:27:16.800
<v Speaker 1>But no, that passage does not apply to what they're calling immigration,</v>

01:27:16.800 --> 01:27:20.480
<v Speaker 1>and part of the key there is recognizing it's not immigration at</v>

01:27:20.480 --> 01:27:24.960
<v Speaker 1>all. It's an alien invasion, and it is incumbent on Christian men</v>

01:27:24.960 --> 01:27:26.480
<v Speaker 1>to repulse it by arms.</v>

01:27:26.480 --> 01:27:29.040
<v Speaker 1>And our leaders stand condemned for failing to do so.</v>

01:27:29.040 --> 01:27:34.000
<v Speaker 1>And they'll answer to God for that.</v>

01:27:34.000 --> 01:27:39.360
<v Speaker 1>But I think that is it for this week.</v>

01:27:39.360 --> 01:27:44.000
<v Speaker 1>So thank you to those who submitted questions and participated in the</v>

01:27:44.000 --> 01:27:46.080
<v Speaker 1>chat. Always glad to do this.</v>

01:27:46.080 --> 01:27:50.720
<v Speaker 1>As always, if you submit the questions on omniphora.com, there should be</v>

01:27:50.720 --> 01:27:54.400
<v Speaker 1>a link in whatever platform you're using in the show description, video</v>

01:27:54.400 --> 01:27:57.760
<v Speaker 1>description, whatever it is, if you submit the questions there, it is</v>

01:27:57.760 --> 01:28:01.680
<v Speaker 1>easiest for me and easiest for those in the future to then</v>

01:28:01.680 --> 01:28:04.480
<v Speaker 1>click through and read those because then it's on the forum.</v>

01:28:04.480 --> 01:28:06.960
<v Speaker 1>And that is my site, so you're not signing up for some</v>

01:28:06.960 --> 01:28:07.760
<v Speaker 1>random website.</v>

01:28:07.760 --> 01:28:08.320
<v Speaker 1>It's my site.</v>

01:28:08.320 --> 01:28:10.640
<v Speaker 1>I'm the only one who has access to it.</v>

01:28:10.640 --> 01:28:12.720
<v Speaker 1>That's just the easiest way.</v>

01:28:12.720 --> 01:28:16.160
<v Speaker 1>But if you want to, you can submit as always in the</v>

01:28:16.160 --> 01:28:19.200
<v Speaker 1>chat, via Telegram, via X, other places.</v>

01:28:19.520 --> 01:28:23.760
<v Speaker 1>If I don't notice your question, then please feel free to submit</v>

01:28:23.760 --> 01:28:24.320
<v Speaker 1>it again.</v>

01:28:24.320 --> 01:28:25.600
<v Speaker 1>Sometimes things disappear.</v>

01:28:25.600 --> 01:28:28.160
<v Speaker 1>Like I said at the beginning of the chat, there was a</v>

01:28:28.160 --> 01:28:33.200
<v Speaker 1>question in reply to my tweet announcing the Q<unk>A and it disappeared</v>

01:28:33.360 --> 01:28:36.080
<v Speaker 1>and doesn't even show as deleted or hidden or anything.</v>

01:28:36.080 --> 01:28:38.880
<v Speaker 1>So sometimes platforms eat things.</v>

01:28:38.880 --> 01:28:41.520
<v Speaker 1>If I do not notice your question, then it will not be</v>

01:28:41.520 --> 01:28:45.360
<v Speaker 1>in the future topic slash question list, which is again on the</v>

01:28:45.360 --> 01:28:48.800
<v Speaker 1>forum. If it's there, I noticed it because I copied it.</v>

01:28:48.800 --> 01:28:50.800
<v Speaker 1>If it's not there, I probably missed it.</v>

01:28:50.800 --> 01:28:52.720
<v Speaker 1>Please ask it again.</v>

01:28:52.720 --> 01:28:55.040
<v Speaker 1>As always, I enjoy doing this.</v>

01:28:55.040 --> 01:28:56.880
<v Speaker 1>Hopefully, mostly every week.</v>

01:28:56.880 --> 01:28:58.480
<v Speaker 1>Every now and then I have to skip a week, sort of</v>

01:28:58.480 --> 01:29:00.400
<v Speaker 1>depends how my week goes.</v>

01:29:00.400 --> 01:29:04.160
<v Speaker 1>Thursdays or Fridays, again, depending on my week goes.</v>

01:29:04.160 --> 01:29:05.920
<v Speaker 1>And basically one hour a week.</v>

01:29:05.920 --> 01:29:10.000
<v Speaker 1>So I will see all of you next Thursday or Friday.</v>

01:29:10.000 --> 01:29:13.680
<v Speaker 1>Have a great weekend, and of course go to church on Sunday.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Until then, God bless you.</v>