WEBVTT 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:13.040 It is the eighteenth of September, 2026. 00:02:13.040 --> 00:02:14.160 I am Cory J. 00:02:14.160 --> 00:02:17.520 Mahler, and this is at any cost. 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:19.200 This is a QA episode. 00:02:19.200 --> 00:02:21.280 It is episode 41. 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:24.240 I have just a little bit of housekeeping before I get into 00:02:24.720 --> 00:02:25.680 the questions. 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:28.320 All the levels look good on my end, but of course if 00:02:28.320 --> 00:02:32.080 there's any audio problem, anything like that, go ahead and let me 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:34.320 know in the chat. 00:02:34.320 --> 00:02:39.280 For the housekeeping, I just wanted to point out, mention that I 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:44.880 have basically finished up the study notes and the very literal translation 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:48.000 of both the Old Testament and the New Testament. 00:02:48.320 --> 00:02:51.360 The Old Testament has a little bit of work left that I 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:54.320 will be finishing as soon as I am done with this stream. 00:02:54.320 --> 00:02:58.400 At any rate, it will be done by this evening. 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:03.600 You can view that work at lxx.confident.faith. 00:03:03.600 --> 00:03:08.080 Of course, that's the abbreviation for the Septuagint in Roman numerals. 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:11.840 So if you want a very literal translation of the books of 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:15.200 the Old Testament or the New Testament, that is now available. 00:03:15.200 --> 00:03:20.080 I'm very slowly working through the Psalter and doing my own translation, 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:23.040 and by slowly I mean I'm done with Psalm 1, so don't 00:03:23.040 --> 00:03:25.600 expect that to be done anytime soon. 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:29.440 That's probably about it for the housekeeping, but before I get into 00:03:29.440 --> 00:03:33.440 the questions, I did want to mention I do have the questions 00:03:33.440 --> 00:03:38.240 about national socialism and versus individualism, basically. 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:42.960 One about Jehovah's Witnesses and Baptism, and another about the good qualities 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:43.920 of a mother. 00:03:43.920 --> 00:03:47.120 I mention them specifically here because I will not get to them 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:50.000 tonight, but I will get to them next week because I want 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:52.320 to spend some more time with some of those. 00:03:52.320 --> 00:03:56.800 Two of them because they're longer and one because it's somewhat involved 00:03:56.880 --> 00:03:59.360 and I want to make sure I give a full answer. 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:02.960 That being said, I will go ahead and get into the questions 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:07.280 now. And I've been copying the comments over from chat as the 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:09.600 music was playing for all of you, so I believe I have 00:04:09.600 --> 00:04:11.920 all of those as well. 00:04:11.920 --> 00:04:15.440 Question one for tonight. 00:04:15.440 --> 00:04:18.320 I attend a Baptist church in my small town. 00:04:18.320 --> 00:04:22.880 The pastor generally preaches well and is and in typical pastor fashion 00:04:22.960 --> 00:04:26.080 has studied a bit of Hebrew and that sort of thing. 00:04:26.080 --> 00:04:28.800 This year he has been pushing to celebrate a few of the 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:34.160 Jewish festivals and holidays, Shavuot, uh Messianic Jewish Passover. 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:37.520 That one's actually more like Pentecost, but I'll get into that. 00:04:37.520 --> 00:04:41.600 Instead of just having an actual Lord's Supper, which you basically never 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:43.200 get with Baptists. 00:04:43.200 --> 00:04:44.800 Okay, so he wants to do both of those. 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:48.480 He wants to do Pentecost and uh Passover. 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:51.600 I'm tempted to approach him about this, but suspect it won't be 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:54.080 taken well, obviously, that is correct. 00:04:54.080 --> 00:04:57.040 There is a local Lutheran church I've been tempted to check out, 00:04:57.040 --> 00:04:58.640 very small congregation. 00:04:58.640 --> 00:05:02.480 Your recent comments on a lot of the confessions specifying the sixty 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:06.960 six books, the Masoritic Text, etc have been very thought provoking here, 00:05:06.960 --> 00:05:09.200 and I'm looking at getting a book of Concord. 00:05:09.200 --> 00:05:14.080 I saw recently on X that that had context and commentary. 00:05:14.080 --> 00:05:17.520 So I'll take that sort of in turn going backwards, I guess. 00:05:17.520 --> 00:05:20.480 Insofar as the book of Concord is concerned, even if you're not 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:23.440 a Lutheran, if you are If you are interested in theology and 00:05:23.440 --> 00:05:26.480 you have the aptitude for it, then it is certainly worth adding 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:27.600 to your shelves. 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:30.720 If you are not interested in theology or do not have the 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:34.400 aptitude for it, it's still worth adding to your shelves because you 00:05:34.400 --> 00:05:38.080 should read the small catechism and the large catechism. 00:05:38.080 --> 00:05:43.360 That is certainly something that every male Christian should read, particularly particularly 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:46.160 if you are a father, because you have a duty to teach. 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:49.680 And the small catechism is aimed at all Christians, in fact, Roman 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:54.800 Catholic missionaries sometimes hand it out as part of their teaching because 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:57.120 it's one of the best statements of the Christian faith in a 00:05:57.120 --> 00:05:58.320 very short format. 00:05:58.320 --> 00:05:59.440 It is tiny. 00:05:59.440 --> 00:06:03.520 You can read it easily in not even in your entire afternoon. 00:06:03.520 --> 00:06:08.240 The large catechism expands on that for those who may have a 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:13.440 position, a minor position with regard to teaching, so husband, father, something 00:06:13.440 --> 00:06:14.400 like that. 00:06:14.400 --> 00:06:16.400 So absolutely have it for those. 00:06:16.400 --> 00:06:18.480 Of course they're also available for free online. 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:22.400 Thebookofconcord.org is the website that I created and manage. 00:06:22.400 --> 00:06:24.320 You can go there and view it there. 00:06:24.320 --> 00:06:28.000 There are several other places, so you can get it very cheaply 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:31.040 as well on places like eBay, or sometimes churches will clear out 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:34.880 old versions, old editions, and you can get that basically for free. 00:06:34.880 --> 00:06:35.200 So 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:38.480 definitely worth having on your shelves. 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:42.480 As far as the local Lutheran church is concerned, all I can 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:46.160 tell you is go to a service, check it out, make an 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:50.800 assessment of the pastor, the congregation, talk to some of the elders. 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:52.560 That's the best you can do these days. 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:57.120 That's true for really any church tradition at this point, because there 00:06:57.120 --> 00:06:59.680 are good parishes and bad parishes. 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:06.400 Insofar as the Jewish holidays are concerned, that is always something that 00:07:06.400 --> 00:07:09.280 should cause alarm bells to ring, and clearly it did in your 00:07:09.280 --> 00:07:15.600 case. Shavuot, which is that's Pentecost, is what that actually is. 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:20.800 We have Pentecost on the Christian calendar, just celebration celebrate Pentecost. 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:25.760 We don't celebrate the Old Testament festivals, not because the Old Testament 00:07:25.760 --> 00:07:27.520 festivals were evil, right? 00:07:27.520 --> 00:07:30.080 These are things that were instituted by God in most of these 00:07:30.080 --> 00:07:32.560 cases, not all of the modern Jewish ones of course. 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:36.000 But the ones that actually are from the Old Testament, they're not 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:39.520 evil, they're not wrong, they were fulfilled in Christ. 00:07:39.520 --> 00:07:44.160 And so by celebrating them, you're implicitly saying that Christ didn't fulfill 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:47.680 something or we should keep following this old system that was that 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:50.560 was for a specific people for a specific time. 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:52.960 If you're not Jewish, it wasn't even for you in the Old 00:07:52.960 --> 00:07:54.240 Testament, right? 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:58.640 Job didn't follow these festivals, the ones that existed in his day. 00:07:58.640 --> 00:08:01.440 He was a Christian, but he was descended from Esau. 00:08:01.440 --> 00:08:05.600 He was an Edomite, so those festivals weren't for him. 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:06.800 He didn't do that. 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:10.160 The same thing with regard to many other men, some mentioned in 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:13.520 the Old Testament, who were Christians, but weren't Jewish. 00:08:13.520 --> 00:08:18.800 The festivals were meant for the ceremonial law, effectively, of Old Testament 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.480 Israel, pointing forward to what Christ would fulfill. 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:26.400 So there's no reason for Christians to participate in any of that. 00:08:26.400 --> 00:08:30.880 The Passover is the particularly egregious one that often pops up these 00:08:30.880 --> 00:08:36.480 days, mostly in Baptist circles, because of dispensationalists and others pushing this. 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:39.600 They're trying to push you ultimately to be aligned with Israel, the 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.600 so called Israel, the modern state, but they're trying to do it 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:45.520 by corrupting your faith. 00:08:45.520 --> 00:08:49.760 The Passover, the Old Testament, the actual one, points forward to the 00:08:49.920 --> 00:08:51.520 perfect sacrifice of Christ. 00:08:51.520 --> 00:08:54.400 That has been completed in Christ's work. 00:08:54.400 --> 00:08:58.400 There is no reason a Christian should ever participate in what the 00:08:58.400 --> 00:09:02.560 Jews are still doing and calling Passover, because what they're doing is 00:09:02.560 --> 00:09:07.520 explicitly saying Christ was not the Christ, or if you want to 00:09:07.520 --> 00:09:11.360 use the Hebrew derived term the Messiah, they're denying that, and so 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:13.600 what they're doing is rejecting Christ. 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:17.600 You do not want to participate in their rejection of Christ. 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:22.080 So no, do not participate in a so called Seder, a Passover 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:24.080 observance, don't do that. 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:24.400 And 00:09:25.280 --> 00:09:28.560 whether or not you confront your pastor on it is going to 00:09:28.560 --> 00:09:30.160 be a wisdom call. 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:33.280 I would, but that's just how I am dispositionally. 00:09:33.280 --> 00:09:36.400 I'm in a different position from most men. 00:09:36.400 --> 00:09:39.920 So you're right to recognize it probably won't go well. 00:09:39.920 --> 00:09:41.680 He'll probably ask you to leave the church. 00:09:41.920 --> 00:09:45.440 So if you find that you are going to attend a different 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:50.640 church and then you feel some pang of conscience, go ahead and 00:09:50.640 --> 00:09:54.240 confront him about that, point out that it's Judaizing, the Jews reject 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:56.240 Christ, and all of those things. 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:59.040 Make sure you're prepared before you go in there. 00:09:59.040 --> 00:10:01.200 But if you feel like you need to do it and you're 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:04.400 already going to switch to a different church, then perhaps you go 00:10:04.400 --> 00:10:05.120 ahead and do it. 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:08.560 But do it knowing as you clearly do, you will be asked 00:10:08.560 --> 00:10:10.640 to leave that church almost certainly. 00:10:10.640 --> 00:10:15.200 But yes, no Christians should absolutely not participate in these things, because 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:18.400 they are designed by those pushing it to be a denial of 00:10:18.400 --> 00:10:21.440 Christ. It doesn't mean it's a denial for every single person who 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:22.400 does it, right? 00:10:22.400 --> 00:10:25.680 You know, you eat the disgusting fish and the bitter herbs. 00:10:25.680 --> 00:10:27.840 It doesn't mean you're going to hell. 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:29.120 You can repent. 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:31.920 It doesn't mean that you were even doing something with the intent 00:10:31.920 --> 00:10:33.200 to reject Christ. 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:37.600 But you shouldn't participate in evil wittingly or unwittingly. 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:41.280 So the bottom line is no Christians should not participate in these 00:10:41.280 --> 00:10:45.440 things. I had one other question from this questioner, but I wanted 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:47.440 to spend a little more time on it because it asked about 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:50.960 a couple of teachers about whom I don't know very much, but 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:53.040 I want to take the time to look into that to answer 00:10:53.040 --> 00:10:56.400 it. So that will be for next week as well. 00:10:56.400 --> 00:10:59.200 I see some more questions coming in in the chat, I'll copy 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:00.160 those over here in a second. 00:11:00.160 --> 00:11:02.560 But question two for tonight. 00:11:02.560 --> 00:11:07.760 Some Lutheran friends of mine have started trying to pray the Rosary, 00:11:07.760 --> 00:11:09.200 a pre-trent version. 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:11.600 I've heard of this in a number of cases, and I want 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:17.120 your opinion on it, whether I should join or avoid it. 00:11:17.280 --> 00:11:20.240 My objection to this, and I'm not saying it's always wrong, but 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:24.400 my initial objection has always been, why are you doing this? 00:11:24.400 --> 00:11:28.000 Right? Toward what end is this aimed? 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:32.880 And it's almost always from those, sometimes in Lutheran circles, sometimes in 00:11:32.880 --> 00:11:38.240 others, who feel like they need some sort of attachment to Roman 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:43.280 Catholicism, like they want to return to something. 00:11:43.280 --> 00:11:47.840 And the Lutheran position, and your friends should certainly be aware of 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:52.160 this, is that the schism between Wittenberg and Rome was in fact 00:11:52.160 --> 00:11:53.200 a schism. 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:57.840 It was not us leaving, it was two bodies going separate directions. 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:02.320 The Lutheran position is that we maintained the faith, and Rome is 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:04.640 the one that is actually in schism if you want to use 00:12:04.640 --> 00:12:05.920 it in that sense. 00:12:05.920 --> 00:12:11.920 So So, you shouldn't want to align yourself with Roman practices because 00:12:11.920 --> 00:12:12.480 of that. 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:14.400 We view them as teaching falsely. 00:12:14.400 --> 00:12:16.160 That is the Lutheran position. 00:12:16.160 --> 00:12:19.680 The Pope is called Antichrist in the Book of Concord. 00:12:19.680 --> 00:12:24.080 That is something all Lutherans are bound to believe. 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:29.600 Now does that necessarily mean that the rosary itself is wicked? 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:33.440 No, there are some formulations of it that don't have prayers to 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:36.560 Mary, that don't have prayers to the saints. 00:12:36.560 --> 00:12:40.000 These are things that we do not approve of as Lutherans and 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:43.120 generally Protestants do not. 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:45.760 So why use the rosary? 00:12:45.760 --> 00:12:47.920 There's no compelling reason to do that. 00:12:47.920 --> 00:12:50.480 Just use any of the daily prayer books. 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:52.640 There's the treasury of daily prayer. 00:12:52.640 --> 00:12:56.560 There is I actually grabbed one off my shelf because I knew 00:12:56.560 --> 00:12:58.000 it would answer the question. 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:00.080 There's Stark's prayer book. 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:03.360 This is a very old originally German prayer book, been translated a 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:07.280 number of times, including by of course CPH, which is the edition 00:13:07.280 --> 00:13:08.400 I have here. 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:15.360 This has prayers for basically anything you could possibly want or not 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:18.080 want in many cases, because it certainly has prayers for the sick 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:21.760 and the dying, young children, things like that, right? 00:13:21.760 --> 00:13:25.760 There are I think you can find this online as well. 00:13:25.760 --> 00:13:27.520 I picked up an entire box of them. 00:13:27.520 --> 00:13:29.200 They're very cheap at the time. 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:30.400 Someone was doing a clearance. 00:13:30.400 --> 00:13:33.520 I've just been handing these out for a few years now. 00:13:33.520 --> 00:13:36.000 I'm down to my last six, so I think I need to 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:36.880 buy another box. 00:13:36.880 --> 00:13:39.200 But this is an excellent option. 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:40.560 There are others as well. 00:13:40.560 --> 00:13:42.960 You could also just devise your own daily prayers, right? 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:46.640 As a Lutheran, certainly you would go to the small catechism, right? 00:13:46.640 --> 00:13:50.000 We have the morning and the evening prayer, and you have prayers 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:53.520 you say before and after meals, and you pray the Lord's prayer. 00:13:53.520 --> 00:13:58.080 You already have a structured prayer life set out you set out 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:00.240 for you within the Lutheran tradition. 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:03.360 There's no reason to go looking for something to add to it, 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:05.600 and it feels very much like a LARP. 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:09.520 So I'm not going to condemn your friends because maybe they're doing 00:14:09.520 --> 00:14:10.880 it for the right reason. 00:14:10.880 --> 00:14:12.480 Maybe they have a good intent. 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:15.040 I find that most do not when they pursue this sort of 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:16.400 thing, so 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:19.600 just go with the things that are part of your own tradition. 00:14:19.760 --> 00:14:23.360 If you're Presbyterian, they have prayer books as well, go that route. 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:26.240 If you're Anglican, the Anglicans have some great prayer books. 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:29.600 The Book of Common Prayer is one of the sort of models 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:33.360 that the Lutherans used when producing some of the English materials in 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:36.880 the American context, because they were going from German to English and 00:14:36.880 --> 00:14:39.120 so they looked at existing English materials. 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:42.400 They used some of the Anglican materials for that. 00:14:42.400 --> 00:14:48.400 So there are plenty of great options that you can use without 00:14:48.400 --> 00:14:56.400 having to go into what is a sec effectively a foreign tradition. 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:59.360 Let me look at the chat here before I proceed so I 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:03.360 don't miss some of these questions I see scrolling past, because the 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:05.440 scrolling functionality. 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:06.400 Oh, it's working now. 00:15:06.400 --> 00:15:07.520 It wasn't working before. 00:15:07.520 --> 00:15:10.160 No, good. 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:24.800 Let me copy these over. 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:37.600 Clearly I need what is effectively an office manager to do this 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:39.600 for me, but for now this will have to do. 00:15:57.520 --> 00:15:59.920 Okay, I pulled out some of those questions, so I think I'll 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:01.600 go on to question three now. 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:04.960 So, question three. 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:08.320 I recently saw a woman online who is one of those theology 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:09.760 author influencers. 00:16:09.760 --> 00:16:13.360 Unfortunately, that is the correct parenthetical. 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:16.640 Who posted that she believes her young child has the ability to 00:16:16.640 --> 00:16:18.080 see demons and angels? 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:21.200 Not sure I trust anyone willing to post that openly about their 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:25.440 child online, but despite her in particular, do you think that this 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:27.440 is something that occurs today? 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:30.880 I would think people that practice occultism can get visual access to 00:16:30.880 --> 00:16:34.960 demons in some form, so mainly asking about the angel side of 00:16:34.960 --> 00:16:37.280 it for Christians. 00:16:37.280 --> 00:16:42.000 So So, this isn't really something that we have any indication that 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:45.200 it's an ability you can just acquire. 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:49.120 This is something God can give you if He is so inclined. 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:53.280 And some of the clearest examples, right, would be from the prophets. 00:16:53.280 --> 00:16:56.800 We have cases where the prophets very clearly could see the fact 00:16:56.800 --> 00:17:00.320 that there were angels around them, and you have, for instance, cases 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:03.120 where a prophet would pray that someone else's eyes would be opened 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:06.640 to to see that fact, right? 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:08.800 You can think of any number of the prophets in the Old 00:17:08.800 --> 00:17:10.400 Testament where that's happened. 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:14.080 So yes, God can give you the ability to see angels and 00:17:14.080 --> 00:17:17.680 demons. Don't expect it to be something that happens and there's no 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:20.960 ritual you're going to do or book you're going to read or 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:26.080 whatever. When you start getting into that stuff, that is occultism and 00:17:26.080 --> 00:17:29.120 it is going to lead you to a dangerous place every single 00:17:29.120 --> 00:17:31.760 time You're going to open yourself up to demons. 00:17:31.760 --> 00:17:32.880 You're not going to see angels. 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:35.200 You may see something, but it's not something you're going to want 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:36.240 to see. 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:40.240 So definitely don't dabble in that stuff. 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:45.600 I can't really imagine that this child is seeing angels. 00:17:45.600 --> 00:17:48.960 So if this child is indeed seeing something, and it's not just 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:51.040 basic psychology in play, right? 00:17:51.040 --> 00:17:54.800 The mother is pushing for something and the child is desiring to 00:17:54.800 --> 00:17:57.200 satisfy the mother's desire, right? 00:17:57.200 --> 00:17:59.760 You can think of the case with the horse that could supposedly 00:17:59.760 --> 00:18:04.080 do math, but the horse was actually just responding to the trainer. 00:18:04.080 --> 00:18:05.760 Hopefully that's what's in view here. 00:18:05.760 --> 00:18:08.080 Hopefully this child is not actually seeing demons. 00:18:08.080 --> 00:18:11.280 I don't I don't know anything about this person, so I can't 00:18:11.280 --> 00:18:13.280 make that judgment call. 00:18:13.280 --> 00:18:17.600 But definitely be leery of anyone who says that if you gain 00:18:17.600 --> 00:18:22.080 access to this secret knowledge, then this secret world will open to 00:18:22.080 --> 00:18:26.720 you. Because that's basically always the demonic is going to open to 00:18:26.720 --> 00:18:29.200 you because you're dealing with the demonic. 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:32.240 So Christians should definitely avoid that. 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:35.440 But obviously, God can give you that if he wants to do 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:38.320 that. You probably don't want to be a prophet though. 00:18:38.320 --> 00:18:41.040 Generally being a prophet kinda sucks. 00:18:41.040 --> 00:18:43.920 That's not the best job in the Bible. 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:47.120 So if God gives that to you, then he gives it to 00:18:47.120 --> 00:18:49.920 you, but it's not something that you're just going to gain on 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:56.640 your own. 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:58.480 Question four 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:03.840 What is the propriety or lack thereof regarding women praying in a 00:19:03.840 --> 00:19:06.080 group made up of both men and women? 00:19:06.080 --> 00:19:10.080 I do not mean during church, that's obviously the easy answer no. 00:19:10.080 --> 00:19:13.200 I mean in a small Bible study and fellowship group that includes 00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:18.240 topical discussions, singing hymns, and prayer requests in which various participants will 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:20.640 take turns praying on a single request. 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:23.680 In this setting is it improper for a woman to pray aloud 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:27.040 with men present and Is it improper for men to listen, say 00:19:27.040 --> 00:19:29.120 amen to such a prayer? 00:19:29.120 --> 00:19:33.200 This occasionally takes place in the small home study groups hosted by 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:36.400 members of the non denominational church I currently attend. 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:40.000 As a former Jehovah's Witness, this practice is very foreign and unsettling 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:40.480 to me. 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:44.320 Jehovah's Witnesses strongly abide by a rule that women do not pray 00:19:44.320 --> 00:19:47.680 in the presence of any believing man who is already qualified for 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:51.600 public prayer, that is he is a believer in good standing They 00:19:51.600 --> 00:19:53.760 will only allow woman to pray in front of a man as 00:19:53.760 --> 00:19:57.040 a last resort if he is not a baptized believer or if 00:19:57.040 --> 00:20:00.000 he is under church discipline, and even then she must wear a 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.920 head covering to pray. 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:09.440 This is sort of a matter of you're correct to mention propriety. 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:13.360 I don't think that it's always wrong for women to pray in 00:20:13.360 --> 00:20:14.240 mixed company. 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:18.160 So I'm not going to say it's always wrong, say, if the 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:19.920 wife prays over dinner instead of the husband. 00:20:21.040 --> 00:20:23.840 I think that's probably permissible in the home. 00:20:23.840 --> 00:20:26.080 And so as long as this is taking place in the home, 00:20:26.080 --> 00:20:28.080 obviously yes, it's not just the family. 00:20:28.080 --> 00:20:31.120 But if this is taking place in the home in a small 00:20:31.120 --> 00:20:36.240 group, and you have women praying for concerns that are particular to 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:39.920 them for whatever reason it happens to be, I don't think that's 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:40.480 a bad thing. 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:42.000 That's permissible. 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:42.400 So So 00:20:43.680 --> 00:20:47.280 would it be better if she asked her husband to pray for 00:20:47.280 --> 00:20:50.400 it? Perhaps in some cases, but if this is a small group 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:54.880 that meets together regularly, you're effectively family, right? 00:20:54.880 --> 00:20:58.240 You are certainly part of a Christian family, but you've become effectively 00:20:58.240 --> 00:21:01.520 family by doing this sort of thing together for so long. 00:21:01.520 --> 00:21:04.800 I don't think having a time of prayer where women pray for 00:21:04.800 --> 00:21:07.280 concerns is a bad thing. 00:21:07.280 --> 00:21:10.800 Now if instead you had a time of prayer where there was 00:21:10.800 --> 00:21:14.560 one person who stood up, led the prayer and sort of commanded 00:21:14.560 --> 00:21:17.840 the meeting, that should be a man in all cases. 00:21:17.840 --> 00:21:20.080 But if you have this sort of prayer time where you have 00:21:20.080 --> 00:21:23.200 women praying for those particular concerns, I don't think I don't think 00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:24.320 that's a bad thing. 00:21:24.320 --> 00:21:27.440 And just to be clear, in the case of praying over dinner 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:30.720 for the family, something like that, it should almost always be the 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:32.000 head of the house, the man. 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:35.200 But you know, if the woman wants to pray on her husband's 00:21:35.200 --> 00:21:38.240 birthday and give special thanks for him. 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:39.920 I don't think God objects to that. 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:41.600 I think that's just fine. 00:21:41.600 --> 00:21:45.040 So obviously you got the hierarchy correct there. 00:21:45.040 --> 00:21:46.640 Women should not pray in public. 00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:49.280 Women should not be the ones praying publicly in the church. 00:21:49.280 --> 00:21:51.200 Women should be silent in the church, right? 00:21:51.280 --> 00:21:56.880 Scripture's abundantly clear on that, but small home group, totally different setting, 00:21:56.880 --> 00:21:58.160 different rules. 00:21:58.160 --> 00:22:00.160 She's not exercising headship, right? 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:02.640 She should not be the one teaching, she should not be the 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:06.720 one leading the meeting, but praying for these particular concerns, I think 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:10.960 that's completely fine. 00:22:16.320 --> 00:22:20.400 Copy a few more questions here from the chat so they do 00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:27.280 not escape. 00:22:52.800 --> 00:22:56.240 As I continue to c copy and paste these questions, I realize 00:22:56.640 --> 00:22:59.920 that I am probably not getting to all of them tonight, but 00:22:59.920 --> 00:23:02.560 that perhaps is no surprise at this point. 00:23:13.760 --> 00:23:16.720 Okay, I there are more to copy, but I will answer the 00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:18.720 next question before copying some more of those. 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:18.960 So 00:23:19.840 --> 00:23:25.840 Question five. 00:23:25.840 --> 00:23:30.080 A class that is hosted by our church is using Ken Magnuson's 00:23:30.080 --> 00:23:30.800 book on ethics. 00:23:30.800 --> 00:23:35.440 Ethics, I'm not familiar with it, but after flipping through the book, 00:23:35.440 --> 00:23:37.760 I was deeply disturbed about the section on race. 00:23:37.760 --> 00:23:40.800 He writes We should make racism within the church a matter of 00:23:40.800 --> 00:23:42.080 church discipline. 00:23:42.080 --> 00:23:45.120 And he drones on about how the church ought to pursue diversity 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:49.440 and appoint minorities into positions of leadership and influence. 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:52.560 Etc. One of our leaders is leading this class, so I assume 00:23:52.560 --> 00:23:55.200 they're okay with this new world religion filth. 00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:58.080 Could you please elaborate on racism in the Old Testament? 00:23:58.080 --> 00:24:01.680 How to dismantle racism is a sin. 00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:04.160 So obviously this person is 00:24:05.120 --> 00:24:08.160 almost certainly not a Christian, this author, right, if that's what he's 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:09.840 writing in his book. 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:12.080 Because that's not Christianity. 00:24:12.080 --> 00:24:16.640 That's the new world religion, that the new global religion, right? 00:24:16.640 --> 00:24:18.960 The post-war religion. 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:20.480 It's a totally different thing, right? 00:24:20.480 --> 00:24:24.640 This is not something that would be recognized by any of our 00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:28.320 forefathers in the faith, this would be totally alien to those who 00:24:28.320 --> 00:24:32.960 are Christian in the Old Testament, including men who were called great 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:38.000 men, men after God's own heart, or even so far as faultless 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:40.880 or perfect in their generation, right? 00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:44.000 Job was not going around inviting all of the foreigners into his 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:46.560 lands and giving them positions of power. 00:24:46.560 --> 00:24:49.120 He would not have been called righteous if he had done that. 00:24:49.120 --> 00:24:51.280 So David didn't do that either. 00:24:51.280 --> 00:24:53.600 Of course, those were two of the men I was alluding to 00:24:53.600 --> 00:24:55.520 there. So 00:24:56.480 --> 00:24:59.520 the reality of this right, because we can talk about it in 00:24:59.520 --> 00:25:02.720 a number of different ways, but practically speaking, you will probably not 00:25:02.720 --> 00:25:04.160 get anywhere talking to this man. 00:25:04.160 --> 00:25:06.000 He's most likely a baby boomer. 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:08.320 If he's going to use this sort of book to teach this 00:25:08.320 --> 00:25:12.640 kind of class in church, his religion is a different thing from 00:25:12.640 --> 00:25:16.960 yours. If you're a Christian, he has a different religion. 00:25:16.960 --> 00:25:21.360 Is this someone you could potentially rebuke and convince him that you 00:25:21.360 --> 00:25:22.080 are correct? 00:25:22.080 --> 00:25:25.200 Probably not, just being frank with you. 00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:27.760 If you have that sort of relationship with him where he will 00:25:27.760 --> 00:25:30.400 listen to you, then maybe you have some hope. 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:33.680 But again, if he's a baby boomer, the reality is that he 00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:35.200 will not listen to you. 00:25:35.200 --> 00:25:37.520 That is just how that generation is. 00:25:37.520 --> 00:25:42.640 There are precious few exceptions to that, I highly doubt you found 00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:47.600 one. So what is the best path forward for you? 00:25:47.600 --> 00:25:50.640 Well if this is something that your church is going to begin 00:25:50.640 --> 00:25:54.240 pushing, and you obviously disagree with it, then there Then they're probably 00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:57.280 going to continue to make you more and more uncomfortable and eventually 00:25:57.280 --> 00:25:58.880 drive you out of this church. 00:25:58.880 --> 00:26:02.160 So you may want to start looking for a new church. 00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:04.800 There are a lot of churches right now that are doubling down 00:26:04.800 --> 00:26:09.360 on this because the memo went out, and this is being pushed 00:26:09.360 --> 00:26:10.480 all over the place. 00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:14.320 All of the media outlets to which the baby boomers watch, listen, 00:26:14.320 --> 00:26:16.800 etc., are pushing this narrative. 00:26:16.800 --> 00:26:20.080 And so insofar as they are still in positions of leadership in 00:26:20.080 --> 00:26:23.440 these churches, they are going to be pushing this harder and harder. 00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:24.960 They are going to run inquisitions. 00:26:24.960 --> 00:26:26.480 They are going to persecute people. 00:26:26.480 --> 00:26:28.240 They're going to kick you out of the church and try to 00:26:28.240 --> 00:26:31.040 ruin your life if they can. 00:26:31.040 --> 00:26:35.520 So as always with these sorts of questions, act with wisdom. 00:26:35.840 --> 00:26:38.880 Part of this is just biding our time, right? 00:26:38.880 --> 00:26:42.320 In many cases, the boomers are getting too old to do this 00:26:42.320 --> 00:26:43.280 sort of stuff. 00:26:43.280 --> 00:26:45.360 They're not going to do the classes, they're not going to be 00:26:45.360 --> 00:26:48.240 the head pastor, they're not going to be in charge of the 00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:52.160 boards. And by the way, those of us who are millennials and 00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:55.040 younger should be stepping into these positions of power. 00:26:55.040 --> 00:26:57.760 And yes, Gen X, you know what I think about you guys. 00:26:58.000 --> 00:26:59.840 You're split, and you guys know it. 00:26:59.840 --> 00:27:03.680 Younger ones are old millennials, older ones are young boomers. 00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:06.800 So pick your battle line on that one. 00:27:07.120 --> 00:27:09.920 Get into the positions of power in these churches so you can 00:27:09.920 --> 00:27:13.600 actually influence things and push them in the correct direction. 00:27:13.600 --> 00:27:18.160 But specifically here, the best advice that I can give you for 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:21.200 how to prepare yourself to deal with this is exactly what we 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:22.320 did in Stone Choir. 00:27:22.320 --> 00:27:25.440 We did an entire series of episodes on race. 00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:27.920 We went over the basics of race, we went over race and 00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:30.160 scripture, and we went over racism. 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:32.480 So go listen to those episodes. 00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:36.640 If you still have questions after reviewing those episodes, by all means, 00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:40.320 just reply again to this thread on the forum and ask me 00:27:40.320 --> 00:27:43.120 some specifics, I'll follow up gladly. 00:27:43.120 --> 00:27:46.880 But we went over pretty much everything that you will need in 00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:48.640 those episodes. 00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:51.040 But the reality again is that this is a man who will 00:27:51.520 --> 00:27:53.360 probably not listen to you. 00:27:53.360 --> 00:27:57.760 Because he's probably very set in his ways, and his religion is 00:27:57.760 --> 00:28:00.000 that post-war order. 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:03.680 It is not what Scripture says because Scripture is abundantly clear on 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:04.640 these issues, right? 00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:08.160 Scripture says that those who preference the alien above those in their 00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:10.960 own household are worse than unbelievers. 00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:12.720 What is he doing? 00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:14.320 He's doing that. 00:28:14.320 --> 00:28:14.640 So 00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:19.280 non-zero chance his conscience is seared and he's not going to listen 00:28:19.280 --> 00:28:21.600 to you. 00:28:21.600 --> 00:28:24.000 This is a fact specific analysis, right? 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:27.040 It depends on your congregation, how things are set up, how things 00:28:27.040 --> 00:28:28.080 are trending. 00:28:28.080 --> 00:28:32.160 If you have the possibility of taking over this congregation and pushing 00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:35.600 it in the correct direction, by all means save those who are 00:28:35.600 --> 00:28:37.200 perishing, right? 00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:39.840 But if not, find a better church. 00:28:39.840 --> 00:28:42.240 If you can't do that, start a home church. 00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:47.120 It is better to be around faithful Christians than to just constantly 00:28:47.120 --> 00:28:50.960 fight this kind of losing battle against those who don't care what 00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:54.960 scripture says, who don't care what Christians have always believed, who don't 00:28:54.880 --> 00:28:56.320 care about any of these things. 00:28:56.320 --> 00:29:00.000 They only care about what they've heard on talk radio and on 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:02.080 various TV news programs. 00:29:02.080 --> 00:29:05.920 And it shows in everything they do. 00:29:05.920 --> 00:29:09.760 So the best advice I can give you is act with wisdom 00:29:10.080 --> 00:29:13.760 in accord with what it is actually happening in this specific situation. 00:29:13.760 --> 00:29:15.680 Obviously, I don't know all the facts. 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:18.560 I just know the general outline of it and I know how 00:29:18.560 --> 00:29:19.840 these people act. 00:29:19.840 --> 00:29:23.360 So, like I said, he probably won't listen. 00:29:23.360 --> 00:29:26.000 If you're lucky, he won't try to destroy you. 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:28.320 So is it worth it? 00:29:28.320 --> 00:29:31.920 Maybe. But again, it's a wisdom call. 00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:36.640 But yes, definitely revisit those episodes on race and I will actually 00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:39.680 add those into the show notes. 00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:42.080 And when I say I will add those into the show notes, 00:29:42.080 --> 00:29:44.160 just so you know, if you are listening and you are a 00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:47.120 trusted user on the forum, you are also able to do that. 00:29:47.120 --> 00:29:50.000 So if I miss something in the show notes, please feel free 00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:51.600 to go ahead and add that. 00:29:51.600 --> 00:29:55.120 If you have the ability to do so. 00:29:55.120 --> 00:29:58.400 But again, like I said, follow-up questions welcome after you've listened to 00:29:58.400 --> 00:29:59.760 that series again. 00:29:59.760 --> 00:30:03.440 So if there's anything that we didn't cover or anything we didn't 00:30:03.360 --> 00:30:05.920 cover in a sufficient way for you or you just have more 00:30:05.920 --> 00:30:10.880 questions, by all means, please ask those. 00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:14.000 Question six. 00:30:14.080 --> 00:30:19.280 Can you give a proper explanation of 1 Samuel 16:7? 00:30:19.280 --> 00:30:22.880 People often use it to justify things like not judging a book 00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:26.560 by its cover or not judging what your eyes can clearly see. 00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:34.800 Go ahead and open up Logos so that we can read the 00:30:34.800 --> 00:30:39.120 verse. This is obviously about 00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:44.400 God choosing the king for Israel, right? 00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:48.240 But it's helpful to pick it up here. 00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:48.560 Okay 00:30:57.600 --> 00:31:00.720 I think we probably want that in English, not Greek. 00:31:03.040 --> 00:31:06.080 Yes. And the Lord said to Samuel, do not look on his 00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:09.760 appearance or on the posture of his size, because I have rejected 00:31:09.760 --> 00:31:13.200 him, for God will not look as a mortal will see, for 00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:16.320 a mortal will see into a face, but God will see into 00:31:16.320 --> 00:31:17.680 a heart. 00:31:19.040 --> 00:31:22.560 So, on its face, right, what does this say? 00:31:22.560 --> 00:31:26.320 It says that God sees into the heart. 00:31:26.320 --> 00:31:28.720 Okay, that's true, we all know that. 00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:33.440 Does it ultimately actually say anything about humans and how we are 00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:35.280 to conduct our affairs? 00:31:35.280 --> 00:31:36.960 Maybe to some degree, right? 00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:39.920 If we can see into a man's heart, we should judge more 00:31:39.920 --> 00:31:42.640 by his heart than just his appearance. 00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:45.840 We as human beings can't always do that. 00:31:45.840 --> 00:31:49.760 So we have to judge on the basis of the things to 00:31:49.760 --> 00:31:51.440 which we have access, right? 00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:52.960 The things that we can see. 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:55.920 I can't see into another man like I can't see perfectly in 00:31:55.920 --> 00:31:56.720 another man's heart. 00:31:56.720 --> 00:31:57.360 I can discern a lot 00:31:58.320 --> 00:32:01.280 from the man, what I know about him, how he acts, all 00:32:01.280 --> 00:32:02.560 these things. 00:32:02.560 --> 00:32:06.720 And I think an important part of the response to people who 00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:08.720 are like you can't judge the book by its cover, right? 00:32:08.800 --> 00:32:10.000 Things like that. 00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:13.200 Well, God's also the one who gave us our senses. 00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:16.800 God's also the one who gave us the part of our psychology 00:32:16.800 --> 00:32:21.120 that is able to assess another man based on appearance. 00:32:21.120 --> 00:32:25.520 In fact, God put a part of your brain, designed built part 00:32:25.520 --> 00:32:30.400 of a brain, that responds to other people, how they are thinking. 00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:34.720 Humans have sort of a very minor form of like telepathy or, 00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:37.840 you know, a sixth sense, extremely minor. 00:32:37.840 --> 00:32:39.120 I'm not saying you can read minds. 00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:40.800 They're called mirror neurons. 00:32:40.800 --> 00:32:44.400 And essentially how they work is they kind of fire in a 00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:48.640 mirror, hence the name, of the way the other person is thinking. 00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:51.680 We don't know exactly how this works, we don't know exactly how 00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:53.120 the modeling functions. 00:32:53.120 --> 00:32:56.720 It may just be you're picking up on very minor cues, right? 00:32:56.720 --> 00:32:58.560 Microexpressions, things like that. 00:32:58.560 --> 00:33:00.640 You're modeling the other person. 00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:04.080 And so that's judging based on appearance in some ways. 00:33:04.080 --> 00:33:06.080 That's not always bad. 00:33:06.080 --> 00:33:09.040 You may not want to get that deeply into that with everyone, 00:33:09.040 --> 00:33:09.360 but 00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:15.760 there's nothing wrong with judging based on appearance in addition to other 00:33:15.760 --> 00:33:19.360 things. If you go ahead and judge someone solely on appearance and 00:33:19.360 --> 00:33:23.360 completely ignore what he does, what he thinks, who he is, right, 00:33:23.360 --> 00:33:26.160 the state of his heart, things like that, assuming you have access 00:33:26.160 --> 00:33:28.480 to them, you're being You're being foolish, right? 00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:30.960 You shouldn't do that, you're being foolish. 00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:35.920 But you also take appearance into account, because that's also from God, 00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:39.440 right? The way that a person looks, God's the one who designed 00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:43.120 that. And it's also a consequence of generational sin in some cases, 00:33:43.120 --> 00:33:47.040 and things like that, as went over at some length in this 00:33:47.040 --> 00:33:50.720 show, Stone Choir elsewhere. 00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:55.600 This verse does not tell you that you can't ever look at 00:33:55.600 --> 00:33:58.320 someone and know something about him, right? 00:33:58.320 --> 00:34:01.120 Even God says that there's an appearance, right? 00:34:01.120 --> 00:34:04.880 If his appearance is mentioned, then appearance is a real thing. 00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:08.640 The question here and what God is saying is not whether or 00:34:08.640 --> 00:34:12.400 not appearance means anything, it's whether or not there is something that 00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:15.440 can be more important than appearance, and that's the heart. 00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:18.320 But you can't look into another man's heart. 00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:22.960 You can only access that to which your senses have access and 00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:25.360 the amount of intelligence and things that God has given you to 00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:27.120 interpret that data. 00:34:27.120 --> 00:34:27.440 So 00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:31.920 the people who say that are just looking for any sort of 00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:36.480 excuse, usually it c comes down to something about race, right? 00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:40.000 They're trying to say something about race, something about the post post-war 00:34:40.160 --> 00:34:44.080 consensus. It's usually that kind of person who's pushing this. 00:34:44.080 --> 00:34:49.200 And as a general rule, abstracted out from this, anyone who's trying 00:34:49.200 --> 00:34:52.080 to point to a single verse and trying to hammer you over 00:34:52.080 --> 00:34:56.880 the head with a single verse, probably doing something nefarious. 00:34:56.880 --> 00:35:02.720 Because if there is a particular doctrine, dogma that is extremely important, 00:35:02.720 --> 00:35:05.120 it probably won't be in one place in scripture. 00:35:05.120 --> 00:35:07.680 It's probably taught throughout scripture. 00:35:07.680 --> 00:35:08.000 And 00:35:09.200 --> 00:35:14.000 this one-off verse here in 1 Samuel, obviously it's God's word, right? 00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:14.960 It's true. 00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:16.800 It says something that is true. 00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:19.520 But what it is saying is that God can do things you 00:35:19.520 --> 00:35:20.480 cannot do. 00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:23.360 God can look into this man's future and see what's going to 00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:26.400 happen. You can't do that, right? 00:35:26.400 --> 00:35:30.000 So just because God can do it doesn't mean you can, doesn't 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:30.880 mean you should try. 00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:33.920 Like I said, one of the best examples is God can look 00:35:33.920 --> 00:35:36.400 into the future and see exactly what a man is going to 00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:39.600 do. Does that mean that we should try to judge men by 00:35:39.600 --> 00:35:41.680 what they're going to do in forty years? 00:35:41.680 --> 00:35:43.360 We can't do that. 00:35:43.360 --> 00:35:47.120 So the bottom line is: this is not saying you can't use 00:35:47.120 --> 00:35:50.320 appearance. This is saying that God can do more than you can 00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:53.280 do, and appearance should not be the only thing you use to 00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:54.720 judge someone, right? 00:35:54.720 --> 00:35:56.480 Physiogamy is real. 00:35:56.480 --> 00:35:57.840 But it's not everything. 00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:00.080 There are ugly people with good hearts, right? 00:36:00.080 --> 00:36:02.000 We all know that. 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:05.360 And there are tall, attractive people with black hearts. 00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:07.040 That happens as well. 00:36:07.040 --> 00:36:11.120 There is a correlation there, but it is not one hundred percent. 00:36:11.120 --> 00:36:14.400 It is not always the case. 00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:17.440 Going to copy a few more questions here from the chat before 00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:18.720 I lose them. 00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:52.560 I think I'll go ahead and answer this one I just copied 00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:54.960 out of order as it were. 00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:57.680 Assuming it does not mess up all of my numbering of the 00:36:57.680 --> 00:37:00.960 questions in the chat here, which it might. 00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:04.640 Discourse actually fixed it for me. 00:37:04.640 --> 00:37:08.160 Great. So question seven. 00:37:08.160 --> 00:37:10.080 I just happened to notice this one and I can answer it 00:37:10.080 --> 00:37:11.760 quickly, so I'll go ahead and do that. 00:37:11.760 --> 00:37:14.880 Is it permissible for a Christian to engage in karate or similar 00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:15.520 martial arts? 00:37:15.520 --> 00:37:18.800 It appears the local dojo focuses only on physical elements. 00:37:18.800 --> 00:37:21.600 Asking as a father of a four year old daughter, the answer 00:37:21.600 --> 00:37:22.480 is yes. 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:26.720 This is not like yoga, right, where yoga basically always has that 00:37:26.720 --> 00:37:28.640 spiritual element attached to it. 00:37:28.640 --> 00:37:30.560 And why do yoga Pilates exist? 00:37:30.560 --> 00:37:34.240 Pilates is just a German guy's last name and it works. 00:37:34.240 --> 00:37:35.520 There's proof of it working. 00:37:35.520 --> 00:37:38.560 We actually have done studies on it, that it is effective. 00:37:38.560 --> 00:37:39.600 It's a good system. 00:37:39.600 --> 00:37:41.920 So by all means go do Pilates. 00:37:41.920 --> 00:37:44.720 And also perhaps good advice for the young guys out there who 00:37:44.720 --> 00:37:48.080 are looking for a wife, because plenty of women doing Pilates, so 00:37:48.240 --> 00:37:50.240 maybe you'll find a wife there. 00:37:50.240 --> 00:37:52.960 Don't be creepy, but maybe you'll find one. 00:37:53.200 --> 00:37:56.720 Karate basically has no spiritual elements. 00:37:56.720 --> 00:38:02.720 There are certain practices of it that historically had spiritual elements attached, 00:38:02.720 --> 00:38:06.640 religious elements, those have basically entirely fallen away. 00:38:06.640 --> 00:38:08.880 I, you know, full disclosure, I did martial arts. 00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:11.040 I taught martial arts for a number of years. 00:38:11.040 --> 00:38:13.520 It's been quite a few years now, but I did. 00:38:14.160 --> 00:38:17.200 There was nothing religious about it. 00:38:17.200 --> 00:38:18.320 Just not at all. 00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:21.520 I even have the little book by the founder of the particular 00:38:21.520 --> 00:38:23.280 martial art that I did. 00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:25.920 And even in that, there's really not much in the way. 00:38:25.920 --> 00:38:28.000 It's basically just physical education. 00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:29.360 It is a fighting style. 00:38:29.360 --> 00:38:32.080 It's a different thing. 00:38:32.080 --> 00:38:34.160 Some funny anecdotes in that book though. 00:38:34.160 --> 00:38:36.240 At any rate, karate's fine. 00:38:36.240 --> 00:38:37.280 Go ahead. 00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:40.400 Maybe Maybe pick one that's actually useful. 00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:45.360 Taekwondo in the US is more show than actual martial arts and 00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:49.120 learning. So probably go with one that's a little more serious. 00:38:49.120 --> 00:38:51.120 Just general advice there. 00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:10.720 See question eight 00:39:12.640 --> 00:39:16.560 on the subject of God's will and free will is God's will 00:39:16.720 --> 00:39:19.680 done through the things we do and the choices we make with 00:39:19.680 --> 00:39:23.760 our free will, or do we align our will to God, but 00:39:23.760 --> 00:39:30.160 that would mean we have no free will. 00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:32.960 Just going to ask the hard questions tonight, are we? 00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:36.320 So humans have free will, right? 00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:40.080 If we didn't have free will, God would be the author of 00:39:40.080 --> 00:39:43.920 sin. God cannot commit evil. 00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:49.440 God is not the author of sin, so sin must originate elsewhere. 00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:52.240 So sin originates in the will of the devil and the will 00:39:52.240 --> 00:39:53.120 of men. 00:39:53.120 --> 00:39:54.480 So do we have free will? 00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:56.960 Yes, we do have free will. 00:39:56.960 --> 00:40:00.320 When is our will considered good? 00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:04.000 Well our will is considered good when it is ordered toward the 00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:06.240 good, when the taleology of it, right? 00:40:06.240 --> 00:40:09.600 The talos, the end in the proper sense of end, not in 00:40:09.600 --> 00:40:12.480 the sense of it stopped, but in the sense of it is 00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:14.640 the thing toward which it's a goal, basically. 00:40:14.640 --> 00:40:16.800 We'll use the word goal, it's easier. 00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:21.520 When the goal of your will, when your will, your decisions are 00:40:21.520 --> 00:40:24.800 aligned toward a goal that is good, or in this case the 00:40:25.040 --> 00:40:27.440 good, then what you are doing is good. 00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:29.680 Right? Well God is the good. 00:40:29.680 --> 00:40:32.640 So the only way that your will can be aligned toward the 00:40:32.640 --> 00:40:36.240 good is to be aligned toward God, is to be aligned with 00:40:36.240 --> 00:40:37.680 God's will. 00:40:37.680 --> 00:40:44.080 So God is served when the things you do are good. 00:40:44.080 --> 00:40:46.880 But things that are good are going to be aligned toward God. 00:40:46.880 --> 00:40:50.560 So it's not a matter of this division here, because there is 00:40:50.560 --> 00:40:51.520 no division, right? 00:40:51.520 --> 00:40:53.120 God is his attributes. 00:40:53.120 --> 00:40:58.560 And so the will, the goodness, beauty, truth, unity, being, those are 00:40:58.560 --> 00:41:02.800 divided up in terms of God's attributes because that's how humans have 00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:06.160 to speak about them because we can't understand the totality of an 00:41:06.160 --> 00:41:08.240 infinite as one thing. 00:41:08.240 --> 00:41:11.600 We have to speak about parts and partialit we have to speak 00:41:11.600 --> 00:41:14.800 about it in a way that is comprehensible for human beings. 00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:19.680 We can't speak about it in a way that is 100% encompassing 00:41:19.680 --> 00:41:21.680 in what God actually is. 00:41:21.680 --> 00:41:25.520 So to align your will with God is to align your will 00:41:25.520 --> 00:41:28.480 toward the good, which is Which is to align your will toward 00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:30.400 God, because God is the good. 00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:32.720 So yes, we have free will. 00:41:32.720 --> 00:41:37.120 The will of created beings, when it goes astray from God, that 00:41:37.120 --> 00:41:39.600 is the source of evil, not God. 00:41:39.600 --> 00:41:43.840 So it is turning away from God that is evil. 00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:48.880 It is turning toward God that is good. 00:41:48.880 --> 00:41:51.360 Question nine. 00:41:51.360 --> 00:41:55.280 Another question I have is if you could go into slight detail 00:41:55.280 --> 00:41:57.360 on why you don't like Nietzsche. 00:41:57.360 --> 00:42:00.880 Twitter posts tell me you're not a fan of him. 00:42:01.200 --> 00:42:03.200 I don't necessarily hate Nietzsche. 00:42:03.200 --> 00:42:06.560 I read most of his works in undergrad. 00:42:06.560 --> 00:42:08.320 I had a very good professor. 00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:11.040 I actually did a course on Nietzsche in philosophy. 00:42:11.040 --> 00:42:15.600 That was my cognate in undergrad was philosophy. 00:42:15.600 --> 00:42:18.480 So I don't necessarily hate Nietzsche, right? 00:42:18.480 --> 00:42:22.640 I'm just not a particular fan of Nietzsche, and I think that 00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:27.760 the modern right has sort of latched onto Nietzsche and his philosophy 00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:31.680 in a way that is perhaps a little obsessive and not necessarily 00:42:31.680 --> 00:42:36.240 helpful. I think that Nietzsche has some good insights here and there, 00:42:36.240 --> 00:42:39.280 but I think that he takes his warrant too far and that 00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:42.640 his conclusions are not always sufficiently warranted. 00:42:42.640 --> 00:42:45.920 And I d obviously don't agree with his view of Christianity. 00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:49.520 I think that he was rebelling against his father, and I wish 00:42:49.520 --> 00:42:53.920 that he had had better Christian friends who could have defended Christianity 00:42:53.920 --> 00:42:58.400 in a competent way instead of what I see in his writing 00:42:58.400 --> 00:43:03.440 is a response to not quite a straw man, but a mischaracterization 00:43:03.440 --> 00:43:07.840 of Christianity, and I think if he had had better Christians in 00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:10.880 his life, or at least friends to whom he was willing to 00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:14.400 listen, he could have turned out much better and been a better 00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:17.840 philosopher. But no, I do agree with some of the things that 00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:20.720 he says, and some of his insights are useful. 00:43:20.720 --> 00:43:22.640 Does that mean everyone should read him? 00:43:22.640 --> 00:43:23.680 No, of course not. 00:43:23.680 --> 00:43:28.320 But if you are interested in moral philosophy, ethics and things like 00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:31.120 that, then certainly at some point you're probably going to read some 00:43:31.120 --> 00:43:35.200 of his works or wind up engaging with those ideas, right? 00:43:35.200 --> 00:43:38.240 He's not the originator of all those ideas, they echo down through 00:43:38.240 --> 00:43:42.080 other authors in both directions, incidentally. 00:43:42.080 --> 00:43:42.400 But 00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:48.000 I don't necessarily dislike him, he's just not in my top ten 00:43:48.080 --> 00:43:49.760 for say philosophers. 00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:12.080 Question ten. 00:44:12.080 --> 00:44:14.880 What is your take on Hawaii? 00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:18.000 On Hawaiian locals, I assume that's a typo there, and their status 00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:18.800 as Americans. 00:44:18.800 --> 00:44:22.240 Can they be pulled out of their blind hatred and find a 00:44:22.240 --> 00:44:26.160 role as Americans and Christians in the fight against our enemies? 00:44:27.520 --> 00:44:30.160 I don't have extensive experience with them. 00:44:30.160 --> 00:44:33.680 I have been to Hawaii, but I don't have extensive experience with 00:44:33.680 --> 00:44:35.120 the native Hawaiians. 00:44:35.120 --> 00:44:40.560 However, they are extremely anti-white, a lot of them. 00:44:40.560 --> 00:44:42.240 They hate the howlies, right? 00:44:42.240 --> 00:44:44.880 They do not like whites. 00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:49.040 And that does spill over into violence against whites in a number 00:44:49.040 --> 00:44:50.240 of cases. 00:44:50.240 --> 00:44:50.400 So 00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:55.440 I don't know that we can necessarily get them to stop hating 00:44:55.440 --> 00:44:57.200 whites. Maybe we can, maybe we can't. 00:44:57.200 --> 00:44:59.200 I don't know that's worth the effort. 00:44:59.200 --> 00:45:02.400 If they want to hate us and be enemies, that's fine, they 00:45:02.400 --> 00:45:03.840 can go ahead and be enemies. 00:45:03.840 --> 00:45:07.520 The Hawaiian Islands belong to us, and if we have to move 00:45:07.520 --> 00:45:09.840 them somewhere else in the world, then so be it. 00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:12.080 That is sort of up to them if they want to behave 00:45:12.080 --> 00:45:13.520 themselves or not. 00:45:13.520 --> 00:45:16.640 I would prefer that they be Christians and not behave in the 00:45:16.640 --> 00:45:19.680 way that they do, but they've been doing that for a long 00:45:19.680 --> 00:45:22.080 time and they've been getting worse, not better. 00:45:22.080 --> 00:45:24.960 So I don't see that trending in a good direction in the 00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:25.920 near future. 00:45:25.920 --> 00:45:28.320 I think we should probably just move them somewhere else in the 00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:31.120 world and be done with the problem. 00:45:31.120 --> 00:45:33.920 And I guess that's going to be related to a question that's 00:45:33.920 --> 00:45:34.800 coming up here in a second. 00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:40.080 I'm going to take a sip of my coffee though. 00:45:40.080 --> 00:45:42.480 And I'm sure someone in the chat will complain that my coffee 00:45:42.480 --> 00:45:43.440 is not black, but. 00:45:46.080 --> 00:45:47.040 That's just fine. 00:45:47.040 --> 00:45:49.360 You can go ahead and put milk or cream in your coffee. 00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:52.160 Question eleven. 00:45:52.160 --> 00:45:56.880 Is it possible to see God in modern day insane leftists as 00:45:56.880 --> 00:45:59.760 it seems to me that all the things they aspire to are 00:45:59.760 --> 00:46:05.520 some twisted way of what a Christian monarchy would be. 00:46:05.520 --> 00:46:09.280 Some examples being basic income, the king's duty to feed his people, 00:46:09.280 --> 00:46:13.760 animal rights, large fasting periods and farm animal treatment, instead of factory 00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:16.960 farming and so on, they seem to have a tainted heart in 00:46:16.960 --> 00:46:19.520 some way. 00:46:19.520 --> 00:46:24.320 This is actually an even more complicated question than I think you 00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:28.080 necessarily grasp there when you were asking it because there are a 00:46:28.080 --> 00:46:31.040 number of different layers to this. 00:46:31.040 --> 00:46:37.120 On the one hand, yes, you do have certain positions, certain views 00:46:37.120 --> 00:46:41.840 among the left that are in fact good, that have at least 00:46:41.840 --> 00:46:45.760 become associated with the left, which is part of the problem here. 00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:51.040 So treating your workers well, treating your animals well, not abusing the 00:46:51.040 --> 00:46:56.160 natural world, trying to keep the environment clean, right? 00:46:56.160 --> 00:46:58.640 Not over harvesting the forests. 00:46:58.640 --> 00:47:01.760 You can go on and list tons of issues like that where 00:47:01.760 --> 00:47:08.000 they have become associated with the left In the US, and so 00:47:08.080 --> 00:47:12.640 they're seen as left-wing issues, but they're not, which is sort of 00:47:12.640 --> 00:47:15.280 the important point I want to make here. 00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:15.680 So 00:47:16.720 --> 00:47:18.720 before I get to that part of it, which is sort of 00:47:18.720 --> 00:47:22.080 the politics, I'll finish up sort of the theology part of it 00:47:22.080 --> 00:47:24.640 here. Excuse me. 00:47:24.640 --> 00:47:27.680 So do the things they desire to do with regard to, say, 00:47:27.680 --> 00:47:30.800 workers, animal rights, things like that, align with Christianity? 00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:32.080 The answer is yes. 00:47:32.080 --> 00:47:36.880 Christians should support those things, not necessarily in the form the left 00:47:36.880 --> 00:47:37.840 wants to do, right? 00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:40.880 Because many times the way they want to do it is destructive. 00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:43.520 You get the crazy ones who say you can't eat meat, right? 00:47:43.520 --> 00:47:46.320 You have to be a vegan, and so that's how we protect 00:47:46.320 --> 00:47:48.400 animals. That's not the Christian position. 00:47:48.400 --> 00:47:51.280 They want us to live in mud huts instead of harming the 00:47:51.280 --> 00:47:54.000 environment. That's not the Christian position. 00:47:54.000 --> 00:47:55.120 And so on and so forth. 00:47:55.120 --> 00:47:57.120 There are many things like that. 00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:03.440 But yes, there is sort of a perverse connection to proper morality 00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:06.560 in the things that they are seeking to do. 00:48:06.560 --> 00:48:11.040 And part of it is because they are just opposed to the 00:48:11.040 --> 00:48:15.360 right. And so anything the right champions, they oppose it. 00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:17.840 They don't even think about it, they just oppose it. 00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:22.640 That is sort of their operating principle is is to be defiant, 00:48:22.640 --> 00:48:27.200 is to be rebellious, is to fight against and reject something. 00:48:27.200 --> 00:48:30.240 The great irony, of course, is that they have been the cultural 00:48:30.240 --> 00:48:33.520 and political majority for a very long time, and they still are, 00:48:33.520 --> 00:48:37.120 regardless of who happens to control the federal government right now. 00:48:37.120 --> 00:48:43.360 And so they're really rebelling against nothing, but that doesn't ever stop 00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:45.920 that kind of person. 00:48:45.920 --> 00:48:51.600 Perhaps the more Not important, but the more significant in terms of 00:48:51.600 --> 00:48:55.040 why this is the case, part of the answer, is the political 00:48:55.040 --> 00:48:58.800 portion. The reason this exists in the US, and it doesn't exist 00:48:58.800 --> 00:49:03.120 as strongly in Europe and other places, although some of the poison 00:49:03.120 --> 00:49:07.440 from US politics is starting to infect certain parts of Europe, particularly, 00:49:07.440 --> 00:49:12.160 say the British, unsurprisingly, in the case with that we speak we 00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:13.600 we speak the same language, right? 00:49:13.600 --> 00:49:15.440 So it's not just something about the British. 00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:18.320 I'm not saying, oh the British are evil, but we both speak 00:49:18.320 --> 00:49:22.880 English. It's easier for them to imbibe the poison in this case. 00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:26.560 So the political part of it is that the issues that are 00:49:26.560 --> 00:49:30.640 important have been artificially divvied up between the two major parties, the 00:49:30.640 --> 00:49:35.440 factions in the US, in order to make it more difficult to 00:49:36.080 --> 00:49:40.640 work in the US in any meaningful way outside of those party 00:49:40.640 --> 00:49:45.120 structures and then also impossible, nearly impossible, in the US 00:49:46.080 --> 00:49:48.880 to actually have a coherent platform, right? 00:49:48.880 --> 00:49:52.560 To actually have particularly a coherently Christian platform. 00:49:52.560 --> 00:49:57.280 Because if you say the natural world is God's great gift to 00:49:57.280 --> 00:50:02.080 mankind, it is a show of his power and glory, and we 00:50:02.080 --> 00:50:05.600 should preserve and protect it, you'll be labeled an environmentalist by the 00:50:05.600 --> 00:50:08.800 right and condemned That's not a left issue. 00:50:08.800 --> 00:50:10.400 The left don't own that. 00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:14.320 If instead you say, I believe we should treat our workers properly, 00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:16.960 we should pay people a reasonable wage, right? 00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:19.200 Almost sounds like a Bible verse, right? 00:50:19.200 --> 00:50:21.360 The laborer's worth his wage? 00:50:21.680 --> 00:50:24.080 that's just from scripture. 00:50:24.080 --> 00:50:28.240 You'll get condemned as being a socialist or a leftist, right? 00:50:28.240 --> 00:50:32.240 And then on the other hand, if you say that we should 00:50:32.240 --> 00:50:36.000 have an economy that is strong and so it can provide for 00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:40.400 people. The left will accuse you of any number of different things, 00:50:40.400 --> 00:50:44.400 right? It doesn't matter which issue you pick, they've been divvied up 00:50:44.400 --> 00:50:47.280 in such a way that you can almost not be coherent, and 00:50:47.280 --> 00:50:49.360 that is the design of the system. 00:50:49.360 --> 00:50:52.320 It is to keep the two parties sort of at each other's 00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:55.360 throats, but in a way that doesn't actually change how anything is 00:50:55.360 --> 00:50:56.480 actually done. 00:50:56.480 --> 00:51:00.320 And if you stand up and have a coherent platform and set 00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:04.240 of beliefs, you'll be condemned from both sides because they have been 00:51:04.400 --> 00:51:08.800 so indoctrinated and so propagandized that all they can do is view 00:51:08.800 --> 00:51:13.680 things through this artificial lens of, well, I'm right wing, and so 00:51:13.680 --> 00:51:16.400 I think that animals should be beaten with a stick and used 00:51:16.400 --> 00:51:17.600 only for stake. 00:51:17.600 --> 00:51:21.120 Or I'm left wing and so I think that the environment should 00:51:21.120 --> 00:51:22.240 be protected at the cost of 00:51:23.120 --> 00:51:25.920 all of the humans on Earth and we should go extinct. 00:51:25.920 --> 00:51:29.360 Neither position is coherent or sane. 00:51:29.360 --> 00:51:31.120 But it is malicious action. 00:51:31.120 --> 00:51:35.120 It has been done intentionally in order to cause all these problems. 00:51:35.120 --> 00:51:37.840 That's why you have this in the U.S, and it's why some 00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:42.640 things from the left sound a little bit like Christianity, filtered and 00:51:42.640 --> 00:51:46.000 poisoned, but to sound a little bit like Christianity, and some things 00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:48.720 from the right certainly do not sound like Christianity. 00:51:48.720 --> 00:51:52.960 Because neither party is following a coherent platform that is aligned with 00:51:52.960 --> 00:51:55.440 Christianity or even just reason. 00:51:55.440 --> 00:51:56.800 And that is enemy action. 00:51:56.800 --> 00:52:01.200 That's the reason it's like that. 00:52:01.200 --> 00:52:04.720 Question 12 is an easy question and it's related to the Hawaiian 00:52:04.880 --> 00:52:06.480 one as I mentioned earlier. 00:52:06.480 --> 00:52:10.720 How would you solve the gyps the gypsy question in Christendom? 00:52:10.720 --> 00:52:11.760 Very easy. 00:52:11.760 --> 00:52:14.240 They are genetically related to Indians. 00:52:14.240 --> 00:52:16.160 Just send them to India. 00:52:16.160 --> 00:52:17.600 That is where they belong. 00:52:17.840 --> 00:52:18.160 So 00:52:19.200 --> 00:52:23.920 Yes, they have some intermixture over the centuries, but they are descended 00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:25.600 from Indian populations. 00:52:25.600 --> 00:52:27.280 They should just be returned to their homelands. 00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:28.880 They don't belong in the West. 00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:30.880 Question 13. 00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:34.560 My wife and I did IVF to conceive. 00:52:34.560 --> 00:52:38.000 We have two frozen embryos left, but can't afford more kids. 00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:42.080 What should we do? 00:52:42.480 --> 00:52:46.080 This is one of those questions that has an uncomfortable answer, but 00:52:46.080 --> 00:52:48.480 it is the reality, so I will go ahead and say it. 00:52:48.480 --> 00:52:51.040 IVF is something that Christians should not pursue. 00:52:51.040 --> 00:52:55.600 It is something that should be banned by society, and the doctors 00:52:55.600 --> 00:52:58.880 who perform it should probably be prosecuted. 00:52:58.880 --> 00:53:02.880 In your specific case, though, the answer is that you should go 00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:06.320 ahead and try to have those children. 00:53:06.320 --> 00:53:09.600 God will provide, and you will have done the right thing instead 00:53:09.600 --> 00:53:10.960 of the wrong thing. 00:53:10.960 --> 00:53:16.160 Practically speaking, the odds that two frozen embryos are going to be 00:53:16.160 --> 00:53:18.320 successful, very low. 00:53:18.320 --> 00:53:21.440 So the chances are that you will probably not have any additional 00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:22.960 children this way. 00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:26.240 That doesn't mean that you say the odds are bad and so 00:53:26.240 --> 00:53:30.560 I won't pursue it because those are children at this point. 00:53:30.560 --> 00:53:33.760 The only right thing to do is try to give them the 00:53:33.760 --> 00:53:37.440 best life that you can, which certainly includes giving them life in 00:53:37.440 --> 00:53:38.880 the first place. 00:53:38.880 --> 00:53:39.200 So 00:53:40.240 --> 00:53:43.360 go ahead and pray that God actually blesses you with two more 00:53:43.360 --> 00:53:46.800 children and then we'll provide the resources you need to raise those 00:53:46.800 --> 00:53:51.440 children. But like I said, Christians should not do IVF and we 00:53:51.440 --> 00:53:52.320 should not support it. 00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:55.360 It should not be permissible in our society. 00:53:58.800 --> 00:54:12.160 Question fourteen Any thoughts on the AFD's presence in German politics? 00:54:12.160 --> 00:54:14.240 Yes, but we'll see what I can say about it publicly. 00:54:14.720 --> 00:54:15.040 The 00:54:16.880 --> 00:54:20.320 Of Day has potential. 00:54:20.320 --> 00:54:22.480 Now I know that there are those who are immediately going to 00:54:22.480 --> 00:54:25.360 point to the current leadership, the face of the party, and say, 00:54:25.360 --> 00:54:28.560 Oh, look at this, it's a a lesbian and blah blah blah. 00:54:28.720 --> 00:54:29.600 You're right, you're right. 00:54:29.600 --> 00:54:30.800 You're absolutely right. 00:54:30.800 --> 00:54:33.760 The leadership is an enormous mess. 00:54:33.760 --> 00:54:35.840 But there are 00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:39.600 factions we will call them. 00:54:39.600 --> 00:54:45.120 The entire party is not ideologically monolithic, and it's going to depend 00:54:45.120 --> 00:54:48.880 which group comes out on top as to whether or not the 00:54:48.880 --> 00:54:54.480 party itself becomes useful in German and Greater European politics. 00:54:54.480 --> 00:54:59.280 That is still up in the air, as undoubtedly almost none of 00:54:59.280 --> 00:55:03.360 you noticed, because American press did not cover it, a number of 00:55:03.360 --> 00:55:09.360 off day politicians were assassinated prior to the recent election cycle. 00:55:09.360 --> 00:55:12.720 It's been a little while now, but the recent election cycle. 00:55:12.720 --> 00:55:17.760 So obviously the regime feels threatened by the party and is willing 00:55:17.760 --> 00:55:20.640 to resort to assassination to deal with those men. 00:55:20.640 --> 00:55:24.080 That is the reality, of course, for anyone who stands up and 00:55:24.400 --> 00:55:28.240 becomes a face politically on the right wing. 00:55:28.240 --> 00:55:31.920 There's always a non-zero chance that someone is going to shoot you. 00:55:31.920 --> 00:55:34.400 So same thing here. 00:55:34.400 --> 00:55:37.040 There's a risk for anyone who does that. 00:55:37.040 --> 00:55:39.360 And that is part of the package deal. 00:55:39.360 --> 00:55:41.680 You have to recognize that, which is perhaps why it's better to 00:55:41.680 --> 00:55:44.800 be a Christian if you're going to go into politics on the 00:55:44.800 --> 00:55:47.680 right, because then you can feel secure, right? 00:55:47.680 --> 00:55:51.280 Think of the words of Jackson about that, right? 00:55:51.920 --> 00:55:54.720 That is just the reality of the matter. 00:55:54.720 --> 00:55:57.120 So will they be useful? 00:55:56.960 --> 00:55:58.400 that is still up in the air. 00:55:58.400 --> 00:55:59.680 That has not been decided. 00:55:59.680 --> 00:56:03.360 There's an internal fight going on within that party as to who 00:56:03.360 --> 00:56:06.960 will ultimately lead it going into the future. 00:56:06.960 --> 00:56:10.560 So don't pay so much attention to who is currently the supposed 00:56:10.560 --> 00:56:11.760 head of the party. 00:56:11.760 --> 00:56:15.200 If you are interested in the actual German politics, then pay more 00:56:15.200 --> 00:56:20.240 attention to the factions, particularly at the state the equivalent of a 00:56:20.240 --> 00:56:25.520 j an American state, the state level and what's going on there. 00:56:25.520 --> 00:56:28.480 Question fifteen. 00:56:28.480 --> 00:56:31.840 I have seen that California is roughly thirty five to forty percent 00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:34.880 white, but I have also seen that there is a huge Hispanic 00:56:35.600 --> 00:56:37.520 white population. 00:56:37.520 --> 00:56:41.920 As a former Californian yourself, is it really just Mexico 2.0? 00:56:41.920 --> 00:56:42.240 So 00:56:43.440 --> 00:56:45.040 California is 00:56:46.160 --> 00:56:50.000 politically and democratically complicated, which is something that most of the rest 00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:53.120 of the country misses, because the rest of the country only sees 00:56:53.120 --> 00:56:57.680 California when something crazy makes the news, or it goes blue during 00:56:57.680 --> 00:56:59.520 the national election, right? 00:56:59.520 --> 00:57:01.520 We have a winner take all system. 00:57:01.520 --> 00:57:05.680 If you are fifty one forty nine, the fifty one percent wins. 00:57:05.680 --> 00:57:09.280 So and that's about how close it used to be in California. 00:57:09.280 --> 00:57:13.920 Now that thirty-five forty percent figure is definitely closer, that's more accurate. 00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:17.360 Less Less certainly in some big cities like LA, which is where 00:57:17.360 --> 00:57:20.960 I used to live, which is part of why I moved. 00:57:20.960 --> 00:57:25.360 So California for a very long time sort of had like a 00:57:25.360 --> 00:57:33.760 forty-five, fifty-five split between relatively conservative Republicans and Democrats 00:57:33.760 --> 00:57:38.320 that kind of vacillated between completely insane and sorta normal. 00:57:38.320 --> 00:57:41.280 Just kinda depended on who was in charge of the faction given 00:57:41.280 --> 00:57:48.880 time. People also forget that until quite recently, the conservative, 00:57:48.880 --> 00:57:53.600 and I do mean conservative, the conservative faction in California was in 00:57:53.600 --> 00:57:56.160 fact more conservative than a lot of parts of the country and 00:57:56.160 --> 00:57:58.080 more active. 00:57:58.080 --> 00:58:01.600 You know, homosexual marriage, so-called, was pushed. 00:58:01.600 --> 00:58:03.600 Californians overturned it. 00:58:03.600 --> 00:58:06.880 The California Supreme Court struck down the death penalty. 00:58:06.880 --> 00:58:12.000 Californians reinstated it and removed that justice from the court. 00:58:12.000 --> 00:58:14.320 That's how it used to be in California. 00:58:14.320 --> 00:58:15.200 Not that long ago. 00:58:15.200 --> 00:58:18.320 That's within my lifetime in some cases for this stuff. 00:58:19.280 --> 00:58:22.960 California is essentially the lab of what 00:58:24.880 --> 00:58:27.600 those who are our enemies are seeking to do to the rest 00:58:27.600 --> 00:58:28.480 of the country. 00:58:28.480 --> 00:58:30.080 They did it in California first. 00:58:30.080 --> 00:58:32.320 They're trying to do it to the rest of the country now. 00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:35.760 And so don't look at California, you know, thumb your nose and 00:58:35.760 --> 00:58:39.600 laugh because what they accomplished in California is what they want to 00:58:39.600 --> 00:58:42.400 do to you, regardless of where you happen to live. 00:58:42.400 --> 00:58:44.720 That's the case for the rest of the world as well. 00:58:44.720 --> 00:58:48.000 Any white population, that's what they want to do to your homeland. 00:58:48.000 --> 00:58:51.280 What they already managed to do to California. 00:58:51.280 --> 00:58:53.520 Is it turning into Mexico 2.0? 00:58:53.520 --> 00:58:56.720 It's had a lot of Mexicans for a very long time. 00:58:56.960 --> 00:58:59.600 Uh now it's a lot of other groups too that have been 00:58:59.600 --> 00:59:00.320 moved in. 00:59:00.320 --> 00:59:03.360 You have Indians and Chinese and a bunch of others who've moved 00:59:03.520 --> 00:59:04.160 been moved in. 00:59:04.160 --> 00:59:05.760 That's a lot of the country. 00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:08.240 Mostly for you know, the Asians have been moved in. 00:59:08.240 --> 00:59:11.200 It's more the coastal areas, but in the middle of the country, 00:59:11.200 --> 00:59:14.240 right, you've got Somalis and all sorts of other things, Haitians being 00:59:14.240 --> 00:59:15.120 moved in. 00:59:15.120 --> 00:59:15.440 So 00:59:16.560 --> 00:59:19.760 California isn't necessarily worse off than a lot of the country, but 00:59:19.760 --> 00:59:21.120 it's not better off either. 00:59:21.120 --> 00:59:25.760 So it is a worldwide conflict in which we're engaged. 00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:29.200 There are still beautiful parts of California, there are still very white 00:59:29.200 --> 00:59:33.440 parts of California, but the demographics are not good, certainly. 00:59:33.440 --> 00:59:35.600 It's the reason that California goes blue. 00:59:35.600 --> 00:59:38.480 Every single national election. 00:59:38.480 --> 00:59:41.760 That's what happens when you have democracy so called and winner take 00:59:41.760 --> 00:59:46.160 all. And an open border. 00:59:46.160 --> 00:59:47.840 And Reagan's an amnesty. 00:59:47.840 --> 00:59:51.600 Don't forget that one, if you ever want to make your boomer 00:59:51.600 --> 00:59:54.160 friends in your life very mad, start pointing out the things Reagan 00:59:54.160 --> 00:59:57.760 actually did, like destroy California with that amnesty. 00:59:57.760 --> 01:00:02.560 Question sixteen Can you address John 8, 1 through 11, where Jesus 01:00:02.560 --> 01:00:05.200 tells people they should not stone the woman? 01:00:05.200 --> 01:00:08.560 This story was added to the Bible hundreds of years later. 01:00:08.640 --> 01:00:10.720 That's that one is debated. 01:00:10.720 --> 01:00:13.040 Lutherans usually hold that the 01:00:14.080 --> 01:00:16.480 That is in fact part of the Bible, right? 01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:18.400 So I'm I'm not going to say it's not part of the 01:00:18.400 --> 01:00:19.680 Bible or was added later. 01:00:19.680 --> 01:00:22.160 I'm going to say that that is certainly part of scripture. 01:00:22.160 --> 01:00:24.080 But we'll go ahead and pull it up so we can actually 01:00:24.080 --> 01:00:25.920 look at it here. 01:00:25.920 --> 01:00:29.120 If I can find logos, there we go. 01:00:38.240 --> 01:00:41.360 Okay. We'll just start with but Jesus went to the Mount of 01:00:41.360 --> 01:00:44.240 Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. 01:00:44.240 --> 01:00:47.200 All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught 01:00:47.200 --> 01:00:49.920 them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been 01:00:49.920 --> 01:00:52.480 caught in adultery and placed her in the midst. 01:00:52.480 --> 01:00:56.160 They said to him, Teacher, this woman has been caught in the 01:00:56.160 --> 01:00:57.280 act of adultery. 01:00:57.280 --> 01:01:00.800 Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women, so 01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:02.400 what do you say? 01:01:02.400 --> 01:01:05.840 This they said to test him, that they might have some charge 01:01:05.840 --> 01:01:06.960 to bring against him. 01:01:06.960 --> 01:01:10.560 Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground, and 01:01:10.560 --> 01:01:13.440 as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to 01:01:13.440 --> 01:01:16.800 them, Let him who is without sin among you be the first 01:01:16.800 --> 01:01:18.560 to throw a stone at her. 01:01:18.560 --> 01:01:21.200 And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. 01:01:21.200 --> 01:01:24.720 But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning 01:01:24.720 --> 01:01:28.000 with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman 01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:29.360 standing before him. 01:01:29.920 --> 01:01:32.960 stood up and said to her, Woman, where are they? 01:01:32.960 --> 01:01:34.720 Has no one condemned you? 01:01:34.720 --> 01:01:38.880 She said, No one, Lord, and Jesus said, Neither do I condemn 01:01:38.880 --> 01:01:43.760 you. Go and from now on sin no more. 01:01:43.760 --> 01:01:47.040 There are obviously a lot of things you can pull out of 01:01:47.040 --> 01:01:49.840 this text, and I don't know that I'll get into all of 01:01:49.840 --> 01:01:52.960 them now, because this is the sort of thing that really should 01:01:52.960 --> 01:01:56.960 be probably at least a full Bible study session, right? 01:01:56.960 --> 01:01:59.280 Like this is an hour or more. 01:01:59.280 --> 01:02:04.400 However, that being said, let's pull out a few key things here. 01:02:04.400 --> 01:02:08.800 One that is easy to overlook if you're not reading carefully is 01:02:08.800 --> 01:02:13.840 that scripture specifically notes the order in which the accusers leave. 01:02:13.840 --> 01:02:15.280 Who leaves first? 01:02:15.280 --> 01:02:16.640 The older ones. 01:02:16.640 --> 01:02:18.640 The older men leave first. 01:02:18.640 --> 01:02:22.240 The men who are in theory supposed to be wiser, who are 01:02:22.240 --> 01:02:25.520 supposed to have more life experience, who are supposed to be a 01:02:25.520 --> 01:02:29.120 little more aware of themselves and those around them. 01:02:29.120 --> 01:02:31.280 And they demonstrate that here. 01:02:31.280 --> 01:02:32.960 Why do they leave first? 01:02:32.960 --> 01:02:34.560 Well because what does he say? 01:02:34.560 --> 01:02:37.280 Let him who is without sin among you be the first to 01:02:37.280 --> 01:02:38.800 throw a stone at her. 01:02:38.800 --> 01:02:43.040 The men who are older are going to generally have a better 01:02:43.040 --> 01:02:49.520 sense of their own sinfulness, of their own lack of righteousness and 01:02:49.520 --> 01:02:53.520 the danger of self-righteousness of believing you are holier than everyone else 01:02:53.600 --> 01:02:57.920 and so you can do whatever you please and that's another key 01:02:57.920 --> 01:02:58.240 here 01:02:59.280 --> 01:03:05.360 which individual is not here who is not standing there being accused? 01:03:05.360 --> 01:03:09.600 Well, this woman was caught in the act of adultery, in flagrante 01:03:09.600 --> 01:03:13.200 delicto. Well, she needed a partner for that. 01:03:13.200 --> 01:03:14.080 Where's the man? 01:03:14.080 --> 01:03:15.280 Where's the guilty man? 01:03:15.280 --> 01:03:17.040 Because what does the law actually say? 01:03:18.000 --> 01:03:21.520 The adulterer and the adulteress are to be stoned. 01:03:21.520 --> 01:03:23.520 But where's the adulterer? 01:03:23.520 --> 01:03:24.720 He's not here. 01:03:24.720 --> 01:03:26.080 So what are they trying to do? 01:03:26.080 --> 01:03:27.440 It's exactly what scripture said. 01:03:27.440 --> 01:03:30.080 They were trying to trying to entrap him. 01:03:30.080 --> 01:03:33.280 They weren't trying to do what was just, they weren't trying to 01:03:33.280 --> 01:03:35.920 obey the law, they weren't trying to serve God. 01:03:35.920 --> 01:03:39.920 They weren't trying to, you know, exact justice or anything like that. 01:03:39.920 --> 01:03:44.480 They were trying to use this woman to entrap Christ. 01:03:44.480 --> 01:03:47.440 Christ saw right through what they were trying to do and called 01:03:47.440 --> 01:03:49.040 their bluff. 01:03:49.040 --> 01:03:53.600 And they didn't follow through because they knew that they were guilty. 01:03:53.600 --> 01:03:55.760 One of the few times where they actually show they have something 01:03:55.760 --> 01:03:58.000 akin to a conscience, right? 01:03:58.000 --> 01:04:00.400 Does that mean you can't punish adultery? 01:04:00.400 --> 01:04:02.160 That's not the point of the story. 01:04:02.160 --> 01:04:05.920 There are many times in scripture where you have to understand what 01:04:05.920 --> 01:04:09.120 is being done, particularly when you're dealing with how Christ is interacting 01:04:09.120 --> 01:04:12.000 with people, and he's not condemning the law here, right? 01:04:12.000 --> 01:04:13.040 He's very clear. 01:04:13.040 --> 01:04:15.200 Nothing will pass away from the law. 01:04:15.200 --> 01:04:20.000 Adultery is still something that should be punished as a capital crime. 01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:23.840 In Christian society, it should be a capital offense. 01:04:23.840 --> 01:04:28.320 Now, the reason it's not done here is because again, they're trying 01:04:28.320 --> 01:04:31.200 to entrap him and he just sees right through their trap and 01:04:31.200 --> 01:04:32.480 gets out of it. 01:04:32.480 --> 01:04:36.560 He does not condemn the woman because of this hypocrisy. 01:04:36.560 --> 01:04:38.480 And he d you know what does he tell her though? 01:04:38.480 --> 01:04:40.400 Go and sin no more. 01:04:40.400 --> 01:04:44.000 So does that mean that we never punish people for a crime 01:04:44.160 --> 01:04:45.520 because God has forgiven it? 01:04:45.520 --> 01:04:47.200 The answer, of course, is no. 01:04:47.200 --> 01:04:49.360 We should still punish adultery. 01:04:49.360 --> 01:04:50.880 That's not the point of the story. 01:04:50.880 --> 01:04:54.480 That's not the point of why this is recorded in scripture. 01:04:54.800 --> 01:04:57.440 I'll probably go into this one at greater depth at some point 01:04:57.440 --> 01:05:00.000 in the future because this one comes up a lot for obvious 01:05:00.160 --> 01:05:05.680 reasons. But the woman caught on adultery is not saying you don't 01:05:05.680 --> 01:05:08.480 punish the adulterer, you don't punish the adulteress. 01:05:08.480 --> 01:05:12.960 It's saying don't be a hypocrite and probably don't try to entrap 01:05:12.960 --> 01:05:18.560 God. He'll probably get out of your trap trap. 01:05:18.800 --> 01:05:24.320 Pull up the next question here. 01:05:24.960 --> 01:05:26.480 Question 17. 01:05:26.480 --> 01:05:28.320 One other question I have is veiling. 01:05:28.320 --> 01:05:31.840 Do you think Christian women should practice this ancient tradition? 01:05:31.840 --> 01:05:32.640 The answer is yes. 01:05:32.640 --> 01:05:34.560 I do think it is a good practice. 01:05:34.560 --> 01:05:37.520 At the very least, it should be practiced in church, and I 01:05:37.520 --> 01:05:42.000 think probably also practiced generally in society in It gives the right 01:05:42.000 --> 01:05:47.440 impression, it instills the right belief in women and men as well. 01:05:47.440 --> 01:05:50.320 I think it's an important part of culture that we've sort of 01:05:50.320 --> 01:05:51.840 let fall away as we've 01:05:52.720 --> 01:05:55.920 basically started dressed like slobs in almost all ways. 01:05:55.920 --> 01:06:02.560 And do remember that veiling was something that was done until, you 01:06:02.560 --> 01:06:06.320 know, the 50s and the 60s, and it was a Jewish feminist 01:06:06.320 --> 01:06:09.440 who pushed for it and got rid of it, basically convinced women 01:06:09.440 --> 01:06:11.520 to burn their veils and things like that. 01:06:11.520 --> 01:06:15.360 So when Satan has his foot soldiers pushing it, you can probably 01:06:15.360 --> 01:06:17.280 tell it's evil. 01:06:17.280 --> 01:06:20.160 But I think that's something that is we should bring that back 01:06:20.160 --> 01:06:21.200 as part of our culture. 01:06:21.200 --> 01:06:24.960 I think it's a good thing for Christians, and I think that 01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:27.440 there are other traditional parts of our culture be good to bring 01:06:27.440 --> 01:06:31.920 back as well, including certain ways we dress or do not dress. 01:06:33.840 --> 01:06:43.200 But certainly at the absolute minimum it should be done in church. 01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:46.960 I don't know that I'll get to This question about the Constitution 01:06:46.960 --> 01:06:53.280 and Republicanism and Freemasonic influence this time, because the the Freemasonry part 01:06:53.280 --> 01:06:56.320 of that question adds quite a bit to the answer, so I 01:06:56.320 --> 01:06:58.400 think I will save that for next time. 01:06:58.400 --> 01:07:02.640 But I'll try to pull out some more questions from the chat 01:07:02.960 --> 01:07:05.440 before I lose them. 01:07:05.520 --> 01:07:08.160 Go ahead and move this one over so I have it for 01:07:08.160 --> 01:07:09.360 next time. 01:07:26.160 --> 01:07:29.280 Can answer this one quickly, I think. 01:07:29.280 --> 01:07:30.960 Question eighteen. 01:07:30.960 --> 01:07:35.840 Should a new convert to Lutheranism, non denominational baptist background, join the 01:07:35.840 --> 01:07:39.520 LCMS, pastor is good on Jews, but is egalitarian. 01:07:39.520 --> 01:07:44.320 How does one navigate confirmation while keeping distance from the LCMS? 01:07:44.320 --> 01:07:49.840 So the good news is that the LCMS is still congregationalist technically. 01:07:49.840 --> 01:07:51.440 So So St. 01:07:51.440 --> 01:07:57.280 Louis and the vice presidents, so-called really their bishops, don't have that 01:07:57.280 --> 01:07:57.920 much power. 01:07:57.920 --> 01:07:58.720 They have some. 01:07:58.720 --> 01:08:02.480 They can bring the hammer down on a pastor and push. 01:08:02.480 --> 01:08:05.440 And if the congregation doesn't support the pastor, they can kind of 01:08:05.440 --> 01:08:06.720 force things through. 01:08:06.720 --> 01:08:09.600 But you're not joining the LCMS. 01:08:09.600 --> 01:08:11.680 You're joining the congregation. 01:08:11.680 --> 01:08:16.960 So when you join, what you will usually sign is the documents 01:08:17.200 --> 01:08:22.000 that control the congregation and in theory I'll also be saying I 01:08:22.000 --> 01:08:27.280 affirm at least the Augsburg Confession, the small catechism, the large catechism, 01:08:27.280 --> 01:08:30.240 and maybe the full book of Concord, although they don't necessarily 01:08:31.120 --> 01:08:35.280 always have you do that, because technically speaking, the rest of the 01:08:35.280 --> 01:08:40.320 Book of Concord is considered a commentary on the Augsburg Confession That's 01:08:40.240 --> 01:08:41.280 kind of how they do that. 01:08:41.280 --> 01:08:44.160 But you're joining the local congregation, not the LCMS. 01:08:44.160 --> 01:08:47.120 So if it's a good congregation, go ahead and join. 01:08:47.120 --> 01:08:48.880 There is nothing wrong with doing that. 01:08:48.880 --> 01:08:52.240 Like I've said many times, there are good congregations and there are 01:08:52.240 --> 01:08:53.520 bad congregations. 01:08:53.840 --> 01:08:57.520 and all congregations are trending in one way or the other, right? 01:08:57.520 --> 01:08:58.720 Better or worse. 01:08:58.720 --> 01:09:01.600 So if you can join it and steer it in the better 01:09:01.600 --> 01:09:03.040 direction, great. 01:09:03.040 --> 01:09:05.840 If you can get on the board of elders and then bring 01:09:05.840 --> 01:09:08.880 other sound men along with you on the board of elders, even 01:09:08.880 --> 01:09:12.800 better. Because then you can keep that congregation as a solid one 01:09:12.960 --> 01:09:16.320 and if necessary pull it out of the LCMS in the future, 01:09:16.320 --> 01:09:19.440 if the leadership of the LCMS continues to trend in the way 01:09:19.440 --> 01:09:20.160 that it is. 01:09:20.160 --> 01:09:21.120 That's up to God. 01:09:21.120 --> 01:09:21.920 Maybe it won't. 01:09:21.920 --> 01:09:25.040 Maybe we'll get a very good man in that office who will 01:09:25.040 --> 01:09:26.240 turn things around. 01:09:26.240 --> 01:09:27.360 That's happened in history. 01:09:27.360 --> 01:09:45.440 Maybe it'll happen again. 01:09:45.440 --> 01:09:47.680 Question nineteen 01:09:51.120 --> 01:09:54.240 If a pastor asked me if I listen to stone choir, is 01:09:54.240 --> 01:09:56.880 that a wise as serpents innocent as doves? 01:09:56.880 --> 01:10:01.920 Matthew ten sixteen scenario or ought I answer honestly, plainly, prepared for 01:10:01.920 --> 01:10:04.080 the consequences? 01:10:04.080 --> 01:10:08.320 As a general rule, if the pastor is to the point of 01:10:08.320 --> 01:10:11.360 asking you if you listen to Stone Choir, he probably has a 01:10:11.360 --> 01:10:13.600 pretty good idea whether or not you do. 01:10:14.560 --> 01:10:14.880 So 01:10:16.400 --> 01:10:18.080 take that into account, right? 01:10:18.080 --> 01:10:22.080 He's asking you whether or not you listen, but probably already knows 01:10:22.080 --> 01:10:25.040 what your answer should be or what the answer is. 01:10:25.040 --> 01:10:27.760 So perhaps he's testing you in that way. 01:10:28.480 --> 01:10:33.840 Now, if you are concerned about this particular pastor, right, you think 01:10:33.840 --> 01:10:36.720 he is going to pursue you, he's going to try to harm 01:10:36.720 --> 01:10:39.600 you, kick you out of the church, whatever it happens to be, 01:10:39.600 --> 01:10:43.120 because you listen to Stone Choir, you could always go ahead and 01:10:43.120 --> 01:10:44.720 hedge your bets, right? 01:10:44.720 --> 01:10:46.880 I don't think that's wrong to do that in this case. 01:10:46.880 --> 01:10:50.240 You could say, I have listened to a few episodes. 01:10:50.240 --> 01:10:54.160 And then if he asks why, or what, or anything like that, 01:10:54.320 --> 01:10:57.280 go ahead and give him the episodes to which no Christian can 01:10:57.280 --> 01:10:58.400 actually object. 01:10:58.400 --> 01:11:00.240 Particularly if this is a Lutheran, right? 01:11:00.240 --> 01:11:02.960 If he's Lutheran, hand him the episodes in the sacraments. 01:11:02.960 --> 01:11:06.960 Nothing we said in there is objectionable for a Lutheran. 01:11:06.960 --> 01:11:09.760 Right? Hand in the episode on the gospel. 01:11:09.760 --> 01:11:12.480 A Protestant, at the very least, is not going to object to 01:11:12.480 --> 01:11:14.160 the content of that one. 01:11:14.160 --> 01:11:17.280 There are episodes you can go ahead and hand any Christian, and 01:11:17.280 --> 01:11:18.640 he should not object. 01:11:18.640 --> 01:11:22.960 So So if he gets angry at you for that or whatever, 01:11:22.960 --> 01:11:24.720 then you take it from there. 01:11:24.720 --> 01:11:27.760 But I think the best course is probably to say that you 01:11:27.760 --> 01:11:30.960 have listened to Stone Choir, and then go ahead and hand him 01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:33.280 the unobjectionable episodes. 01:11:34.320 --> 01:11:36.560 Then it's sort of ball in his court, right? 01:11:36.560 --> 01:11:39.440 It depends on how he responds to that as to what you 01:11:39.440 --> 01:11:44.080 do. But yes, obviously prepare for the consequences of that, as many 01:11:44.080 --> 01:11:46.000 other men have already. 01:11:46.000 --> 01:11:49.520 I have not been the only one driven out of a church 01:11:49.840 --> 01:11:53.680 for teaching and believing the things that Christians have always taught and 01:11:53.680 --> 01:11:55.120 believed. 01:12:08.640 --> 01:12:12.320 I don't know how many other questions I will get to tonight, 01:12:12.320 --> 01:12:14.320 but I will at least try to get through a few more 01:12:14.320 --> 01:12:17.760 and then copy the rest from the chat so that I have 01:12:17.760 --> 01:12:20.160 them for the future. 01:12:20.160 --> 01:12:24.880 Question 20: How do I, as someone raised atheist from birth, unlock 01:12:24.880 --> 01:12:27.520 the ability to believe in the metaphysical? 01:12:27.520 --> 01:12:32.720 Or should I just stick with a more symbolic figurative interpretation? 01:12:34.240 --> 01:12:38.640 So you want to get to the actual belief, obviously, not just 01:12:38.640 --> 01:12:42.960 symbolic. And the fact of the matter is, you're probably already there, 01:12:42.960 --> 01:12:47.200 because you already do believe in the metaphysical. 01:12:47.440 --> 01:12:51.120 I guess the question would be, I don't know where you draw 01:12:51.120 --> 01:12:52.400 that line, right? 01:12:52.400 --> 01:12:55.920 So maybe the difficulty for you is believing in a god. 01:12:55.920 --> 01:12:58.880 There are plenty of arguments that build up to that. 01:12:58.880 --> 01:13:02.720 Never look for the singular argument that makes you believe in, you 01:13:02.720 --> 01:13:08.960 know, creation, the Christian God, Jesus Christ, the gospel, infallibility of scripture. 01:13:08.960 --> 01:13:11.600 Like you're not looking for one argument that does all of that. 01:13:11.600 --> 01:13:15.440 That's a crazy approach, and it's very popular in the atheist camp 01:13:15.440 --> 01:13:17.680 to try to get Christians to give that. 01:13:17.680 --> 01:13:19.120 That's insane, right? 01:13:19.360 --> 01:13:22.160 An argument usually is trying to prove one point. 01:13:22.160 --> 01:13:25.120 And then over the course of maybe a couple dozen arguments, you 01:13:25.120 --> 01:13:29.440 build up the totality, and then you can use those to synthesize 01:13:29.440 --> 01:13:31.440 your ultimate argument. 01:13:31.440 --> 01:13:35.600 But with regard to the metaphysical, I would say go look into 01:13:35.600 --> 01:13:37.040 the issue of qualia. 01:13:37.040 --> 01:13:41.040 That's usually one of the best places to start philosophically, because 01:13:42.240 --> 01:13:45.840 if you can come to the conviction that qualia exist, and they 01:13:45.840 --> 01:13:50.080 certainly do, it's a very sound argument, then you've proven that something 01:13:50.080 --> 01:13:53.280 beyond the physical, beyond the material exists, which is what we call 01:13:53.280 --> 01:13:54.480 the metaphysical. 01:13:54.480 --> 01:13:58.720 And so that being the case, the question then is where are 01:13:58.720 --> 01:14:01.760 you going to draw the line about how much you believe about 01:14:01.760 --> 01:14:02.720 the metaphysical? 01:14:02.720 --> 01:14:06.960 But once you've crossed that line into believing something beyond the material 01:14:06.960 --> 01:14:10.560 exists, you'll have a much easier time with the rest of it. 01:14:10.560 --> 01:14:14.160 So I would say probably start there. 01:14:14.160 --> 01:14:20.080 And insofar as other aspects of religion and things like that are 01:14:20.080 --> 01:14:24.000 concerned, you probably also believe there's a difference between good and bad, 01:14:24.000 --> 01:14:25.280 or good and evil, right? 01:14:25.280 --> 01:14:26.560 Well that's metaphysical. 01:14:26.560 --> 01:14:29.200 That's not biological or material. 01:14:29.200 --> 01:14:32.480 So I think you already have more of a belief in the 01:14:32.480 --> 01:14:34.560 metaphysical than you may think. 01:14:34.560 --> 01:14:38.880 Because a lot of times over in the atheist camp, the moral 01:14:38.880 --> 01:14:42.000 law is smuggled into the belief system. 01:14:42.000 --> 01:14:44.240 It's just denied that it's there. 01:14:44.240 --> 01:14:46.720 There's a denial that's been done. 01:14:46.720 --> 01:14:49.440 Because you know the moral law is written on the hearts of 01:14:49.440 --> 01:14:52.080 men. We all recognize good and evil, right? 01:14:52.080 --> 01:14:54.720 We know that murder is evil. 01:14:54.720 --> 01:14:57.120 Well, that's not a material claim. 01:14:57.120 --> 01:14:58.480 That's a metaphysical claim. 01:14:58.480 --> 01:14:59.920 That's a moral claim. 01:14:59.920 --> 01:15:04.960 If you believe murder is wrongful, you already believe in the metaphysical. 01:15:04.960 --> 01:15:08.240 So it depends on where exactly you are, but I think looking 01:15:08.240 --> 01:15:11.040 into qualia may be a good place for you to start. 01:15:11.040 --> 01:15:14.720 By all means ask follow-up questions if you have those, and I'll 01:15:14.720 --> 01:15:17.840 answer those as well, assuming that I actually see them in chat, 01:15:17.840 --> 01:15:19.360 which I try to do. 01:15:26.880 --> 01:15:35.200 Another question about IQ, I will save that for next week. 01:15:36.560 --> 01:15:40.400 Although someone in the the chat did have a good response that 01:15:40.400 --> 01:15:43.520 one of the ways you can deal with being more intelligent, the 01:15:43.520 --> 01:15:46.400 people around you is to view yourself as a worm with regard 01:15:46.400 --> 01:15:49.840 to God, right, in the light of that, which is absolutely true. 01:15:49.840 --> 01:15:55.440 No matter how intelligent, capable you are, you compared to the infinite, 01:15:55.440 --> 01:15:57.120 you are still nothing. 01:15:57.120 --> 01:16:00.560 Which should be seen as comforting, not as depressing. 01:16:05.440 --> 01:16:07.120 I think maybe two more questions. 01:16:07.200 --> 01:16:10.400 I'll try to copy these questions over so I don't lose them 01:16:10.400 --> 01:16:12.080 for the future. 01:16:23.920 --> 01:16:28.000 I have an involved question about historical religious wars. 01:16:28.000 --> 01:16:30.240 I will have to save that one because I don't have a 01:16:30.240 --> 01:16:35.440 firm opinion on that really. 01:16:35.440 --> 01:16:39.280 This one is not going to be a numbered question, just asking 01:16:39.280 --> 01:16:42.320 if I would speak with Frojax again, because they've been doing good 01:16:42.320 --> 01:16:44.400 work. Of course I'd be willing to speak with them. 01:16:44.400 --> 01:16:48.640 I'm willing to speak with almost anyone who's on the right side 01:16:48.640 --> 01:16:51.920 of things trying to push in our direction. 01:16:59.120 --> 01:17:02.160 I guess I'll go ahead and a answer another question about California. 01:17:02.320 --> 01:17:04.480 It's appropriate. 01:17:04.480 --> 01:17:08.720 Speaking of California, what advice, this is question 21, what advice do 01:17:08.720 --> 01:17:12.720 you have for right wingers in LA? 01:17:12.720 --> 01:17:13.040 So 01:17:14.160 --> 01:17:16.000 that's a difficult one, right? 01:17:16.000 --> 01:17:18.880 I've met some other guys who are still in LA doing some 01:17:18.880 --> 01:17:20.320 good work, and 01:17:22.160 --> 01:17:25.280 California is admittedly a mess, right? 01:17:25.280 --> 01:17:26.720 Excuse me. 01:17:26.720 --> 01:17:30.160 So there are going to be very real challenges for those who 01:17:30.160 --> 01:17:30.640 are still in 01:17:31.520 --> 01:17:36.720 California, is there productive work to be done in California? 01:17:36.720 --> 01:17:39.040 The answer is absolutely yes. 01:17:39.040 --> 01:17:43.360 And on top of it, no matter what people think about Los 01:17:43.360 --> 01:17:49.040 Angeles and San Francisco, there is an incredible density of talent and 01:17:49.040 --> 01:17:54.240 resources in those two places that can certainly benefit not just California, 01:17:54.240 --> 01:17:56.480 but the rest of the country. 01:17:56.480 --> 01:18:00.720 And California is going to have a role to play in whatever 01:18:00.720 --> 01:18:04.960 happens in the coming years, just because California is such an important 01:18:04.960 --> 01:18:09.200 state and an important geographical part of the world. 01:18:09.200 --> 01:18:09.520 So 01:18:10.480 --> 01:18:13.680 you're going to want to keep your head down a little bit. 01:18:13.680 --> 01:18:18.320 You don't necessarily want to be too loud about exactly what your 01:18:18.320 --> 01:18:22.480 politics are, because if you do that, you will very much be 01:18:22.480 --> 01:18:26.560 a target, and that is more of a concern in some parts 01:18:26.560 --> 01:18:28.480 of the country than others, right? 01:18:28.480 --> 01:18:31.680 You know, I certainly had number of death threats and things like 01:18:31.680 --> 01:18:34.400 that living in California, which is one of the advantages of no 01:18:34.400 --> 01:18:35.760 longer living in California. 01:18:35.760 --> 01:18:38.960 But But my name and face are known. 01:18:38.960 --> 01:18:41.840 So that changes the calculus. 01:18:41.840 --> 01:18:44.880 It's going to depend on what sort of talents and abilities you 01:18:44.880 --> 01:18:47.440 have. If you can work behind the scenes and get a lot 01:18:47.440 --> 01:18:50.480 of stuff done without necessarily putting your face out there and making 01:18:50.880 --> 01:18:51.920 yourself a target. 01:18:51.920 --> 01:18:54.640 By all means we need a lot of guys like that. 01:18:54.640 --> 01:18:57.360 But maybe you are the kind of guy who stands up and 01:18:57.360 --> 01:19:03.120 says things publicly without a mask and with your name attached. 01:19:03.200 --> 01:19:07.120 If that's the case, then by all means do that. 01:19:07.120 --> 01:19:10.080 And there's always the possibility that you do the same thing I 01:19:10.080 --> 01:19:12.080 did and move to another state. 01:19:12.080 --> 01:19:14.960 Now in my case, like I've said many times before, I moved 01:19:14.960 --> 01:19:16.240 to a state where I've had family here 01:19:17.520 --> 01:19:19.920 since the 1700s. 01:19:19.920 --> 01:19:23.200 Right? My family's been in this state a very long time. 01:19:23.200 --> 01:19:27.120 And my family wasn't in California for that long. 01:19:27.120 --> 01:19:28.160 I like California. 01:19:28.160 --> 01:19:30.320 I still kind of consider myself a Californian. 01:19:30.320 --> 01:19:31.280 I always will be. 01:19:31.280 --> 01:19:34.640 I lived there for the first thirty something years of my life. 01:19:34.640 --> 01:19:36.320 I sound like a Californian. 01:19:36.320 --> 01:19:39.200 I have certain ideas that are particular to California. 01:19:39.200 --> 01:19:42.000 Right, you can make the joke, I like avocado, whatever it happens 01:19:42.000 --> 01:19:42.320 to be. 01:19:42.480 --> 01:19:45.280 Been drinking coffee since high school, things like that. 01:19:45.440 --> 01:19:45.760 But 01:19:48.320 --> 01:19:51.440 if you need to move out of the state for what is 01:19:51.440 --> 01:19:54.800 best for your family, then by all means do that. 01:19:54.800 --> 01:19:59.200 We're not operating under normal conditions where everyone should stay where his 01:19:59.200 --> 01:20:01.760 family has been for X number of years. 01:20:01.760 --> 01:20:04.640 We're operating under wartime conditions. 01:20:04.640 --> 01:20:08.720 Sometimes that means you have to seed a little bit of territory 01:20:08.720 --> 01:20:12.560 in order to strengthen yourself elsewhere and then take it back. 01:20:12.560 --> 01:20:16.880 That's going to be the case in parts of California, certainly. 01:20:16.880 --> 01:20:20.960 So maybe you stay there and keep fighting, maybe you move. 01:20:20.960 --> 01:20:24.160 Both paths are viable and I know that there are certainly men 01:20:24.160 --> 01:20:26.960 who are still fighting the good fight in California. 01:20:26.960 --> 01:20:29.520 I've spoken with a number of them, they're doing great work, so 01:20:29.680 --> 01:20:32.000 it's a wisdom call like so many things 01:20:53.600 --> 01:20:56.880 Okay, I'll answer two more questions because I see one here that 01:20:56.880 --> 01:21:00.000 I do want to get to for this stream. 01:21:00.960 --> 01:21:01.680 And I'll 01:21:02.640 --> 01:21:05.360 So question twenty-two. 01:21:05.360 --> 01:21:09.440 Do you give the left credit for being consistent in being anti-white 01:21:09.520 --> 01:21:12.160 nationalism and anti-Zionist? 01:21:12.160 --> 01:21:14.640 Since you wrote an article saying if you are a Zionist, you 01:21:14.640 --> 01:21:15.760 have to be white nationalist. 01:21:15.760 --> 01:21:19.280 So that was mostly an article aimed at sort of the 01:21:20.240 --> 01:21:23.920 GOP crowd to try and point out some hypocrisy. 01:21:23.920 --> 01:21:27.520 The crowd I was targeting with that article would actually take it 01:21:27.520 --> 01:21:29.120 seriously. It's not for everyone. 01:21:29.120 --> 01:21:32.320 It is on my site, of course, people can read it. 01:21:32.320 --> 01:21:37.280 But it was an argument with regard to hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance 01:21:37.280 --> 01:21:40.080 aimed at specifically the GOPC. 01:21:40.080 --> 01:21:45.360 That aside, I don't necessarily give the left credit for being consistent, 01:21:45.360 --> 01:21:46.880 because they're not consistent. 01:21:46.880 --> 01:21:52.720 Is there a sort of mercenary consistency with regard to being anti-white 01:21:52.720 --> 01:21:56.400 nationalism and anti-Zionism. 01:21:56.400 --> 01:21:58.400 I don't think there really is. 01:21:58.400 --> 01:22:01.120 I don't think that they're really anti-Zionist. 01:22:01.120 --> 01:22:04.240 I think that that's just what they have worked themselves up into 01:22:04.240 --> 01:22:08.000 a frenzy over, and so it's become popular on the left to 01:22:08.000 --> 01:22:08.960 have that view. 01:22:08.960 --> 01:22:11.440 I don't think there's anything behind it. 01:22:11.440 --> 01:22:14.400 I think it's devoid of intellection. 01:22:14.400 --> 01:22:17.840 I think it's devoid of anything other other than say emotionality and 01:22:17.840 --> 01:22:19.360 herd instinct. 01:22:19.360 --> 01:22:25.520 Their hatred for whites, however, is ingrained due to decades in some 01:22:25.520 --> 01:22:30.400 cases, propaganda and schooling, which is also propaganda. 01:22:30.400 --> 01:22:34.080 They have been trained to hate whites because whites are the only 01:22:34.080 --> 01:22:38.640 threat to the system that designed the propaganda with which those men 01:22:38.640 --> 01:22:39.920 were trained, right? 01:22:40.240 --> 01:22:43.600 So they have been taught to hate white people because that is 01:22:43.600 --> 01:22:44.800 the animating principle. 01:22:44.800 --> 01:22:49.920 That is basically the only core belief of the new global religion, 01:22:49.920 --> 01:22:54.000 the post-war consensus, that is ultimately what they are. 01:22:54.160 --> 01:23:00.640 The organizing principle of every group that opposes Christianity and opposes whites 01:23:00.800 --> 01:23:04.640 and particularly white nations is hatred of whites. 01:23:04.640 --> 01:23:07.280 Because Satan hates us. 01:23:07.680 --> 01:23:10.800 we are his enemy number one. 01:23:10.800 --> 01:23:13.840 And that is the reason that all of the forces of hell 01:23:13.840 --> 01:23:17.280 and all of their children are amassed against us, and their animating 01:23:17.280 --> 01:23:19.440 principle is hatred of us. 01:23:19.440 --> 01:23:21.760 So I've gone over that at length in a number of other 01:23:21.840 --> 01:23:25.440 places and written some essays on it, but that is essentially what's 01:23:25.440 --> 01:23:26.000 going on there. 01:23:26.000 --> 01:23:30.000 So I don't give them points for consistency because the consistency is 01:23:30.160 --> 01:23:31.680 incidental at best. 01:23:31.680 --> 01:23:33.360 Almost accidental. 01:23:33.600 --> 01:23:37.920 And then the final question I will go for this stream. 01:23:37.920 --> 01:23:42.320 I have saved the other questions into the future questions, but question 01:23:42.480 --> 01:23:45.440 23. Let me scroll down to it. 01:23:45.440 --> 01:23:48.480 Why is Jesus on the cross behind me? 01:23:48.480 --> 01:23:50.640 Right? So why a crucifix? 01:23:50.640 --> 01:23:55.360 So undoubtedly the person asking this is Baptist, because of the way 01:23:55.360 --> 01:23:56.400 it's worded. 01:23:56.400 --> 01:23:58.560 The Reformed would ask it in a different way, right? 01:23:58.560 --> 01:24:04.000 Because the Reformed don't like symbols in this physical sense of symbols. 01:24:04.000 --> 01:24:06.480 So why is Jesus on the cross, right? 01:24:06.720 --> 01:24:09.280 I know that makes Baptists uncomfortable. 01:24:09.280 --> 01:24:10.080 They don't like it. 01:24:10.080 --> 01:24:12.880 And you know, Jesus isn't on the cross in everything I wear, 01:24:12.880 --> 01:24:16.640 right? I've got a A cross around my try not to rub 01:24:16.640 --> 01:24:18.560 the mic too much here and make a bunch of noise, but 01:24:18.560 --> 01:24:20.880 I have a cross around my neck as well, which is not 01:24:20.880 --> 01:24:23.040 a crucifix, it's just a cross. 01:24:23.040 --> 01:24:24.400 Of course that's gonna 01:24:25.600 --> 01:24:27.280 not hit the mic, so we're good. 01:24:27.280 --> 01:24:30.000 So the crush the question then is, you know, why do I 01:24:30.000 --> 01:24:32.080 have a crucifix on my wall? 01:24:32.080 --> 01:24:34.960 And the reason for that is very simple. 01:24:34.960 --> 01:24:36.160 What is your faith? 01:24:36.160 --> 01:24:37.600 What is the Christian faith? 01:24:37.600 --> 01:24:42.640 What is it you actually believe? 01:24:42.800 --> 01:24:44.800 Christ crucified for sinners. 01:24:44.800 --> 01:24:47.040 That's the core of your belief. 01:24:47.040 --> 01:24:50.560 And yes, there are many other things to the Christian faith. 01:24:50.560 --> 01:24:53.440 There are many other parts that are important important but you have 01:24:53.440 --> 01:24:57.920 to recognize that you are a sinner and that Christ was crucified 01:24:57.920 --> 01:24:58.800 for you. 01:24:58.800 --> 01:25:03.600 And so to have that reminder is a good thing. 01:25:03.600 --> 01:25:09.600 To have Christ crucified as a reminder of the cost that He 01:25:09.600 --> 01:25:13.120 paid to wash away your sins is a good thing. 01:25:13.120 --> 01:25:14.800 Is he still on the cross in reality? 01:25:14.800 --> 01:25:15.840 Of course not. 01:25:15.840 --> 01:25:18.560 That's not what the crucifix is saying. 01:25:18.560 --> 01:25:22.800 The crucifix is a reminder of what it cost God to save 01:25:22.800 --> 01:25:26.960 you, and of the core of the Christian faith, which is indeed 01:25:27.200 --> 01:25:30.160 Christ crucified for sinners. 01:25:30.320 --> 01:25:33.280 The cross alone is a good symbol, like I said. 01:25:33.280 --> 01:25:36.480 I wear this every single day, and I usually have it under 01:25:36.480 --> 01:25:38.800 my shirt, except on Sundays, but 01:25:39.680 --> 01:25:44.080 the cross alone is not the Christian faith, because it is Christ 01:25:44.080 --> 01:25:45.920 crucified for sinners. 01:25:45.920 --> 01:25:48.400 And so to have that crucifix on the wall is an important 01:25:48.400 --> 01:25:52.080 reminder, and it's a reminder for everyone who watches the stream as 01:25:52.080 --> 01:25:54.880 well. And I have a number of them in my house, and 01:25:54.880 --> 01:25:57.200 it's a good thing for Christians to have, right? 01:25:57.360 --> 01:25:59.120 And on top of it, Satan hates it. 01:25:59.120 --> 01:26:02.080 So what Satan hates is usually good. 01:26:02.080 --> 01:26:06.880 That's why Lutherans do not object to the crucifix, and it's why 01:26:06.880 --> 01:26:08.000 Roman Catholics don't. 01:26:08.000 --> 01:26:09.760 And we agree with the Roman Catholics on this. 01:26:09.920 --> 01:26:14.240 They are correct that the crucifix is an important Christian symbol, and 01:26:14.240 --> 01:26:16.480 it always has been, and it always will be. 01:26:16.480 --> 01:26:19.840 So the argument, you know, Jesus isn't still on the cross doesn't 01:26:19.760 --> 01:26:21.040 resonate with me at all. 01:26:21.040 --> 01:26:22.640 Because that's not the point of the symbol. 01:26:22.640 --> 01:26:26.400 That's not what is being represented, it is instead that reminder of 01:26:26.400 --> 01:26:29.600 what it cost Christ to save you. 01:26:32.720 --> 01:26:35.840 I think that will be it for this episode. 01:26:35.840 --> 01:26:40.240 I guess I have one more piece of housekeeping as it were, 01:26:40.240 --> 01:26:43.840 just before we close out this stream, because I've had a number 01:26:43.840 --> 01:26:48.480 of people ask me, including one did ask on the forum, that 01:26:48.480 --> 01:26:53.840 I add some intro and outro music to the at least the 01:26:53.840 --> 01:26:55.280 RSS feed. 01:26:55.280 --> 01:26:57.920 And yes, I have gone ahead and done that. 01:26:57.920 --> 01:26:59.440 I understand why you'd want that. 01:26:59.440 --> 01:27:02.400 It's easier to tell if you have your podcasts on shuffle or 01:27:02.400 --> 01:27:05.040 something I don't listen to mine that way, so it just didn't 01:27:04.960 --> 01:27:05.840 cross my mind. 01:27:05.840 --> 01:27:11.120 But there is now intro and outro music for the recordings that 01:27:11.120 --> 01:27:13.040 are made available after the stream. 01:27:13.040 --> 01:27:16.160 So if you want higher quality audio or you want to listen 01:27:16.160 --> 01:27:19.040 to audio only, you don't need the video. 01:27:19.040 --> 01:27:22.400 Obviously you're going to miss out on say the really mostly just 01:27:22.400 --> 01:27:24.800 Bible verses at this point, but if I have anything on video 01:27:24.880 --> 01:27:25.760 you won't get that. 01:27:25.760 --> 01:27:28.080 But if you want to listen to that, you can of course 01:27:28.080 --> 01:27:29.680 find that on my website. 01:27:29.680 --> 01:27:33.040 That one's actually podcasts.coreyjmoller.com. 01:27:33.040 --> 01:27:36.880 You can also find it in any of the various podcast directories, 01:27:36.880 --> 01:27:39.760 just search for at any cost or my name. 01:27:39.760 --> 01:27:42.720 It should sh should pop up pretty quickly there. 01:27:42.720 --> 01:27:45.040 But that will be it for this week. 01:27:45.040 --> 01:27:47.920 Thank you for those of you who contributed questions and for those 01:27:47.920 --> 01:27:49.520 who participated in the stream. 01:27:49.520 --> 01:27:52.640 It's always nice to be able to get the opportunity to do 01:27:52.640 --> 01:27:55.120 this. I know I missed last week. 01:27:55.120 --> 01:27:58.000 I was very busy last week and actually this week as well. 01:27:58.000 --> 01:28:00.560 But thankfully I did get to the stream this week. 01:28:00.560 --> 01:28:03.200 I try to do this on Thursdays. 01:28:03.200 --> 01:28:05.280 Usually winds up being pushed to Fridays. 01:28:05.280 --> 01:28:08.240 That's why I do Thursdays though, because then I have that sort 01:28:08.240 --> 01:28:11.680 of buffer room there to hopefully at least get the stream done 01:28:11.680 --> 01:28:13.360 during the week. 01:28:13.360 --> 01:28:17.520 At any rate, the questions can be submitted on the forum, is 01:28:17.520 --> 01:28:20.320 the best way because then I have them organized and sorted. 01:28:20.320 --> 01:28:23.920 It's easier for me and it's easier for other people to find 01:28:23.920 --> 01:28:25.360 them in the future. 01:28:25.360 --> 01:28:30.080 So that should be in the notes on whichever platform you're currently 01:28:30.080 --> 01:28:32.880 using. It's also in the show notes for the For the episodes. 01:28:32.880 --> 01:28:35.120 So if you register on the forum, you can go ahead and 01:28:35.120 --> 01:28:38.160 submit your questions in the requests category. 01:28:38.160 --> 01:28:40.720 I will find those and then answer them there. 01:28:40.720 --> 01:28:45.120 Otherwise, you can submit these obviously during the stream in the chat. 01:28:45.120 --> 01:28:47.440 I try to monitor the chat the chat during the stream. 01:28:47.440 --> 01:28:51.360 You can submit them to me on X or via my Telegram 01:28:51.360 --> 01:28:53.680 channel. Any other way you can get a hold of me is 01:28:53.680 --> 01:28:56.720 fine. I try to keep those organized. 01:28:56.720 --> 01:29:01.680 However, they do not always come through because sometimes the platforms do 01:29:01.680 --> 01:29:04.160 not show me your questions or they get lost. 01:29:04.160 --> 01:29:08.960 So I have an ongoing list of future topics or questions. 01:29:08.960 --> 01:29:11.920 If you do not see your question in there, it means I 01:29:11.920 --> 01:29:15.280 did not see it, please resubmit it. 01:29:15.280 --> 01:29:17.920 I think that's all for this week, and it is of course 01:29:17.920 --> 01:29:18.880 Friday evening. 01:29:18.880 --> 01:29:22.480 If you're on the West Coast, it's still relatively early, but for 01:29:22.480 --> 01:29:24.960 the rest of you, I hope you have a good weekend. 01:29:24.960 --> 01:29:27.760 Go out and maybe enjoy God's creation tomorrow. 01:29:27.760 --> 01:29:28.640 Always good to do that. 01:29:28.640 --> 01:29:32.000 It's finally starting to cool off and go into fall. 01:29:32.000 --> 01:29:36.640 So until next week, God bless all of you, and I hope 01:29:36.640 --> 01:29:38.480 you see. 01:29:38.480 --> 01:29:40.800 Well, I hope you have a great weekend, and I hope that 01:29:40.800 --> 01:29:43.520 you go to church on Sunday, and I will see all of 01:29:43.520 --> 01:29:44.560 you next week. 01:29:44.560 --> 01:29:46.080 God bless. 01:34:49.040 --> 01:34:49.920 Well, 01:34:50.960 --> 01:34:51.040 we