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It is the fourth of September 2026.

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I am Cory J.

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Mahler and this is at any cost.

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This is episode 40, and I guess it's sort of a weekly

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roundup as well as the QA because I have a little bit

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of housekeeping before we begin, just to mention a few things.

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Yes, for some reason the boom mic is always the more reliable

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option. I don't know what it is about OBS and not liking

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my Lavalier.

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At any rate.

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I have been working on some translations and things.

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I'm sure that those of you who follow me on X or

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my Telegram channel know that I have completed at least the initial

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version, the version 1.0 point oh as it were I will actually

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go ahead and pull up the

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website here.

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May as well do that while we're talking about it.

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I have

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completed a translation of the Psalter.

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I am going to start using it for the daily recordings.

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I actually have already done that.

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And I see that OBS is going to be uncooperative with that

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as well.

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There we go.

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So the psalms are currently complete.

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If you would like a study version really is what it is

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at this point.

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The readings are readable in modern English.

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I am going to go through them personally by hand very slowly

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over the course of the next handful of months, and make tweaks

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here and there, some formatting things, make it more readable.

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A few little diction changes, things like that.

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But by and large they are readable, they are usable.

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The nice part about it is that I have supplied also the

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Greek for those of you who know Greek, if you don't know

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Greek, then there's a literal translation, it is a very literal translation,

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woodenly literal, but each psalm also has study notes, and so that

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has a literal translation, a literary translation, and then notes on why

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things were translated as they were, and then a little bit of

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interpretive remarks at the bottom.

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So that is complete for the Psalter.

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I would say don't expect that to happen for any of the

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other books anytime soon.

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I am going to work on Genesis a little bit.

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There's some caveats there for some reasons I won't go into right

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now, but I want to work on my own Genesis notes.

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That's the reason that I'm doing the Genesis translation next, so that

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I have it as a working copy for myself.

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But as I make it available to myself, I will also put

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it on the website.

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So that's just where I'll be storing my notes as I work.

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Not the actual notes for the study, those will be somewhere else,

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but the actual notes for Genesis will be there.

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And I suppose that is essentially all of the housekeeping, unless you

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are interested in hearing a discussion about Christianity and philosophy.

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I had that with the gentleman who goes by the name Arvol

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on X.

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I'm sure you all many of you anyway know him from Return

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to the Land, so you can find that on his X account.

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I also reposted it on mine.

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There's also high quality audio available at least from my end.

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I may be able to extract his audio and then merge those

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together to have a higher quality one because X was being very

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weird with the audio.

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The quality wasn't great.

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So at the very least you have a high quality version of

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my answers available, my my comments that is linked in my telegram

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and also on the forum.

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So that being said, I think we will go ahead and get

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into the questions.

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That is all of the housekeeping for right now anyway.

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So question one I would like you to give some practical advice

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on dating to follow up on what you said in a young

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man's life.

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Once you get a barista or cashier's number, how do you proceed

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not knowing the girl's spiritual and moral state?

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Growing up I was taught that you should never even consider going

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on a date with a girl unless you knew she was a

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Christian. I've come to see that this approach will not work for

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many men in my generation, he is a zoomer, but my family's

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expectations have not changed, particularly my mother's.

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I live in the same town as my parents and see them

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regularly. How do I honor them in this situation?

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So when it comes to the Christian requirement with regard to relationships

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and the faith of your spouse, it's for your spouse.

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It's do not be unequally yoked.

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You are not yoked to the girl you're dating, at least if

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you're doing things as you should be.

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You're not yoked to her in any way.

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So she does not have to be a Christian.

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It's better if she is, certainly, if there's some sort of substrate

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there, some sort of foundation But at the same time, if she

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is open to Christianity and to you practicing headship with regard to

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religion, that may be better in some cases than if she were,

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say, really entrenched in some kind of fringe Christianity that has a

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lot of false beliefs.

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It's a lot easier to build something where nothing exists than to

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have to basically tear something down and rebuild it, which is the

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case, say if she is one of the crazier Pentecostals or something

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like that.

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There's no problem with dating someone who is not Christian.

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You have problems if you go to marry her and she has

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still refused to convert.

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Now you have a real problem.

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Now you should not be unequally yoked.

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But there's nothing wrong with converting her as part of dating her.

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In fact, that's a good thing.

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You've brought someone else into the kingdom and gained a wife in

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the process.

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So will you know her spiritual or moral state when you first

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meet her?

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Probably not.

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Can you tell some things about her about her?

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Absolutely. If she is covered in tattoos and piercings and her hair

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is bright blue.

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You need better judgment because you're not going to fix that particular

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woman almost certainly.

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Now, is it the case that there are no women like that

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who are just broken in some way and yet haven't gone all

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in on the stuff that has real long-term consequences?

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Sure, there are probably a few of those here and there.

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But by and large, the woman who is covered in tattoos, and

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I'm not saying, you know, a little butterfly in her ankle or

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something dumb that she did in undergrad.

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You're going to have to overlook some of that stuff these days.

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But if she's got full sleeves and facial piercing piercings and her

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hair is a really weird color.

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You know she's almost certainly done other things that are going to

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have long term consequences that are going to have damaged her in

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ways that you can't undo.

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That doesn't mean that you know she's unsalvageable necessarily in this life,

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but it means that any man who marries her is buying himself

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a lifelong project.

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So bear that in mind.

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But as long as you're going for particularly if she's on the

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younger side and so she hasn't made all those really bad mistakes

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in, say, her late twenties and her thirties, which is sort of

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how it goes sometimes, then yes, you're probably going to avoid most

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of those problems and part of the dating as it goes.

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I mean, this is not ideal, right?

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We wouldn't want dating.

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We would want some form of courting back.

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You want the parents to be involved.

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You want the whole structure to be organized around getting people into

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relationships that are going to work and be solid, last the test

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of time, that quickly go from courting to marriage.

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That's how it should be.

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But we don't live in that world.

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We live in a world where you're going to be dating her.

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And part of dating her is going to be asking her a

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lot of questions.

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The good part for you as a man is that women kind

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of like answering questions being asked about themselves, though that's actually going

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to get you points in her book.

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So that's part of dating, but it's not a bad part of

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dating. Don't be weird.

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Don't ask really blunt questions right up front.

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I've seen some Zoomer guys who are asking, like, how many men

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have you slept with as the first question?

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Don't do that.

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And the reason you don't do that, yes, it is an immediate

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filter, right?

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If she says forty, okay, you move on to the next one.

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But the problem is the woman who is a virgin still or

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maybe has slipped up a few times, but not, you know, forty

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times. There's a difference there.

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You're going to scare her away as well.

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That's a terrible way to open.

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This is a topic that is quite expansive and I've been meaning

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to write more on it.

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I'm going to, particularly with regard to marriage and some related matters.

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Partly because the Zoomers just had no male influence in their life

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teaching them these things.

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Millennials didn't have much either, so we're kind of in the same

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boat as you.

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The only difference is we are older, of course, an older generation.

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We've already learned it all the hard way, in many cases.

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I don't want all the zoomers to learn all of this stuff

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the hard way, and certainly Gen Alpha's coming up, they're starting to,

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you know, get into the high school years and things like that,

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so they're going to have similar problems.

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So I will be writing more about this.

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I'm going to make myself a note to move that up my

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to-do list, as it were.

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But the bottom line here is that you don't have to date

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a Christian.

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You want to marry a Christian, but that gives you time to

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make her a Christian between when you meet her and when you

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propose to her, right?

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And

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Honoring your parents' expectations, your parents' desires here, I'm fairly certain your

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parents probably would rather see you married, happy, and on your way

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to having children than avoiding every woman who isn't perfect out of

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the gate.

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You're not going to find one who's perfect out of the gate.

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Part of being married as a man is conforming your wife to

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you. That is part of what marriage is.

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So you're not going to find the woman who is perfect for

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you. You're going to find a woman who is good for you

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who then becomes perfect for you over time.

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That's part of marriage.

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Women change.

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Men don't change that much.

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That's how it's supposed to be.

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That's how God designed it.

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That was God's intent for the institution.

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So move my mic boom down here a little bit.

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So So don't be afraid to date a woman who's not Christian,

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but make sure that she's the kind of woman who is not

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categorically opposed to religion or something like that.

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That's going to be quite the uphill battle.

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Maybe you're the sort of man who is up for that kind

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of fight.

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If you are, I wish you the best of luck.

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Most women are not going to be that way.

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And just because she says she is, doesn't mean she is.

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You're going to have to gauge that for yourself, not based on

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based on the exact words of her answer, but the cumulative nature

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of the answers she gives you to related subjects.

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You have to do some interpretation when it comes to women's answers.

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That's the reality of it.

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It will be that way for the entirety of your life Men

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and women are different.

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So there's no way to get around that fact.

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You're going to have to accept she's going to give you answers

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that you have to interpret as part of your duty as a

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man. It is what it is.

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Don't look at it as some horrible burden.

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Think of it as sort of a little game you get a

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play. So go ahead, date the woman who's not Christian, but convert

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her into a Christian before you marry her.

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And as part of dating, ask her questions, and she will eventually

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reveal whether or not she is suitable to be a wife.

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Maybe she is, maybe she isn't.

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That's a roll of the dice, right?

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This is in part a numbers game these days.

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You're not going to necessarily find the perfect woman, like I said,

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you're not gonna find the perfect woman, period.

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But you're not necessarily going to find a woman who is good

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enough to be your wife the first time.

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It may take ten, twenty.

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Go out there and ask.

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That's the only way to do it.

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And don't be afraid of approaching women and maybe even embarrassing yourself

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a little bit.

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You get better every time you do it.

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And eventually you'll find one, right?

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And that's just how it goes it goes.

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You don't take the risk, you're not going to get the reward.

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So you have to take the risk.

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Just checking the chat quickly before I continue to make sure I

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don't miss some questions.

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Question two.

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I recently purchased a starter home which has prompted me to stop

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my 401k contributions so that I might build an emergency fund.

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I base this decision on the trajectory of our nation.

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It likely not being what it is now in thirty years, I

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agree. My pastor, some family, and most friends think this is unwise.

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Is this poor stewardship and does it jeopardize the future needs of

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my family?

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I would rather have the cash in my hand now and live

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within our means than trust in an uncertain event i.

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e. drawing retirement, that may not be in God's will for me

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or our generation.

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So obviously I'll preface this by saying none of this is legal

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advice or investment advice, but that being said, my standard recommendation has

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long been to invest in things that are concrete.

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Yes, if you have the spare capital to do so, you can

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invest in some other things like this, 401k, whatever it happens to

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be. But going for the best hedge, as far as I'm concerned,

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is things like land, the machinery you need to work the land,

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chickens, the things that have concrete benefits for your family.

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They're good to have, period.

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If everything goes great, you won't regret having had chickens and fresh

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eggs. If everything goes poorly, you'll be very happy you have chickens

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and fresh eggs, right?

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So that sort of thing is good regardless of the outcome.

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You know, as a millennial, my generation generally has never had any

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sort of expectation, except for maybe very early on in high school,

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that the social programs and retirement and those things would be around

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by the time we're in our sixties 60s.

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We just had the general sense that it would not be, and

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I still hold that position.

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I don't think those systems are solvent.

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I don't think they're stable enough that they'll still be around.

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So you want to hedge against that.

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Part of this is very much a matter of normalcy bias, right?

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And so go ahead and see the Stone Choir episode on that.

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Make a note for myself.

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Many of these men to whom you're speaking commenting on

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your plan for you know retirement or not retirement and how you

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invest, are operating under the belief that the system is going to

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continue the way that it has because that's just their assumption.

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They don't examine it, but they have this bias they believe everything

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will continue in their perception of normal, and that's not even true

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within the span of their own lifetime.

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So much has changed from the time undoubtedly some of these are

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baby boomers, from the time they were young men to today.

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They have just acclimated to it over that time.

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It's you know the proverbial frog in the boiling water sort of

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thing. So no, I don't think that you're being unwise.

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I think that investing in concrete things is a wise move these

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days. We don't know exactly how things are going to go.

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Ultimately that's in God's hands and there are a lot of moving

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parts, it's pr it's quite difficult to predict where things are going

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to go, but like I said, there are concrete investments you can

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make that are beneficial regardless of what happens.

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So, no, I don't think that you are exercising poor stewardship or

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a lack of wisdom.

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I think it is wise to make those concrete moves instead of

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gambling on a future that may very well not be there.

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And there is a part of scripture that you can actually turn

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to if you want to do so with regard to these men.

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Let me pull up Logos here.

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It's in

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Luke twelve and it starts at verse

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right. It's the parable of the rich fool, right?

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I'll just go ahead and read the full bare the full parable

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because it's good to hear it repeatedly, right?

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Someone in the crowd said to him, Teacher, tell my brother to

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divide the inheritance with me.

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But he said to him, Man who made me a judge or

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arbitrator over you, and he said to them, Take care and be

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on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist

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in the abundance of his possessions.

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And he told them a parable saying, The land of a rich

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man produce plentifully, and he thought to himself, What shall I do?

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For I have nowhere to store my crops?

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And he said, I will do this, I will tear down my

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barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my

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grain and my goods, and I will say to my soul, you

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have ample goods laid up for many years.

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Relax, eat, drink, be merry.

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But God said to him, Fool, this night your soul is required

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of you, and the things you have prepared whose will they be?

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So is the one who lays up treasure for himself, and is

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not rich toward God.

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So yes, the initial the surface level, as it were, the main

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takeaway from the parable is obviously about not neglecting the things of

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God and focusing on the material things of this life.

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But there's another level to it as well, where the future is

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to some degree always going to be uncertain.

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And so

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it's not always the wise move to gamble on, say, I'm going

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to be here when I'm eighty-eight.

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I may very well not be.

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I probably won't be, given my family history.

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I'll probably be here to about eighty-five or eighty-six.

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But

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There is a degree of wisdom.

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There's a wisdom call when it comes to how you invest and

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how you project into the future what needs to be done, right?

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You want to have that inheritance that you can pass to your

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children, but you don't want to accidentally gamble that away by betting

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on a market that may not be there in 20 years.

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So again, the bottom line, I think what you're doing is not

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unwise. I think it's perfectly reasonable, and you can go ahead and

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cite that parable.

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They'll probably object, but at least you've told them that, you know,

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there's some scripture on my side here.

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There are a few questions coming in from the chat.

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I do not know that I will get to all of them

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this time, but I now have a system in place where I

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can drop the chat transcript into it and have the questions pulled

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out to make it m less likely that I will miss any

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questions from the chat going forward.

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Question three is about the

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dark arts as it were.

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Would you support the US government fighting Santaria warlocks in Colombia?

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And the reasoning he gives, of course, is the suffer not a

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witch to live.

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Which, yes, scripture is very clear about not permitting those who practice

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black magic to exist in your society.

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It is a curse that you bring on yourself if you tolerate

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them. So would I support us going in and dealing with them

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in another country?

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The answer is no and yes.

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No, I wouldn't say that we should go in and just deal

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with it.

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Yes, I would support a Christian government in Colombia.

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If they were trying to do it, I would be perfectly fine

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giving them material support or intelligence or something, helping them do that.

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We should be willing to help our Christian neighbors.

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That is, of course, presupposing a Christian government in Colombia and a

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Christian government in the US, and we're not really currently in a

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position to do that, because our government is wicked and not Christian,

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and their government is extremely corrupt

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I have a friend who works for the Colombian government.

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I will not name my friend, but there is a lot of

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trouble down there.

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There are a lot of problems down there.

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As I'm sure anyone familiar with that part of the world and

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particularly Colombia is well aware.

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Question four, switching gears a little bit.

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Would it be perhaps would it be possible for you to combine

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all the recordings of the readings you've made of the Bible in

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a year into one file?

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I believe such recording would be helpful to me and perhaps others.

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There are a number of considerations here.

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On the one hand, there is the IP consideration with regard to

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obviously copyright and fair use and things like that.

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Which are certainly more forgiving when you are using excerpts as opposed

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to the entirety of the text.

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So

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good chance I would run afoul of some restrictions or terms somewhere

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if I simply combined all of that into one file and made

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it available.

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Now there are versions of scripture where I could do that, but

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I'm sort of taking an eclectic approach, I guess, to the readings

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because currently from yesterday or yesterday actually, well today it the I

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recorded it yesterday, but today, the Psalter readings are my own translation.

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The

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Old Testament is Nets with some edits here and there that I

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make for consistency with English grammar and clarity.

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I usually just make those on the fly as I'm reading.

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And then I use the ESV for the New Testament.

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So the big concern there would be the ESV.

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I don't remember the exact restrictions, the allowances with regard to the

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nets, I would have to look.

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It's more of an academic text.

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It's probably more liberal with regard to that.

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And I would think they would be less likely to try any

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sort of legal action of enforcement.

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I don't trust Crossway, the producers, the publishers of the ESV.

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So the short answer is I could do that, but it would

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have to be a different version from the one I've been using.

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So So perhaps something for the future once I have everything translated

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or hopefully someone else has made a full translation of the Septuagint

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and with appropriate copyright freedom on that, then I would be willing

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to do that, but as things currently stand, I don't really have

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the option within the bounds of IP law.

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Question five

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How do we get Christians to stop calling the demonic and those

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who engage with the demonic crazy or stupid and instead get them

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to recognize the evil of the demonic.

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Is it an overreaction to constantly be correcting people on this?

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Example, someone getting a tattoo of a symbol like a pentagram and

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not necessarily knowing the meaning of said symbol

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Initially, I would like to say that I would hope people are

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not getting tattoos of symbols they don't understand, but I think we

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all know from tattoos in foreign languages, particularly say Chinese and Japanese,

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that people are indeed getting tattoos of things they do not understand.

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So perhaps the first recommendation would be don't get a tattoo of

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something you don't understand.

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Generally probably just don't get a tattoo, it's generally more wise not

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to get a tattoo.

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I don't object to them in a blanket sense.

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Not fond of them on women.

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When it comes to men, you know, if you're a sailor and

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you get a tattoo of your, you know, your ship or your

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unit if you're a soldier or whatever.

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I don't think that's that big of a deal.

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Don't get full sleeves, chest, don't do face or neck, obviously, but

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just Generally speaking, to go to the actual question here about the

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demonic, this is a matter of teaching and a matter of really

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a lack of teaching.

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There are very few pastors who teach about this and there are

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very few pastors who are fit to teach about this.

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They don't understand it, they don't know how to approach it from

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a useful and a Christian perspective, and they wind up teaching nonsense,

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and you get people who read all the various weird books on

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the subject.

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I think Left Behind delves into this.

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I haven't read the series, so I don't know for certain, but

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I believe from talking to other people who have that it delves

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into this.

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There's what was that big series that was popular among American evangelicals?

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Was Frank Perry, I think was the name of the author.

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This is the sort of stuff that winds up seeping into the

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culture and becoming the general background understanding of it, and it's not

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a Christian understanding of it.

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It's at the absolute best fiction.

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It is something we should take seriously.

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Scripture takes it seriously.

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Satan is listed as one of our constant enemies, right?

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This is something that perhaps there is an advantage to being in

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a liturgical church, because if you are in a church that still

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uses a proper hymnal, there are hymns about this, right?

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We walk in danger all the way, right?

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I walk in danger all the way.

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There are many hymns about the demonic and the danger that it

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poses to us and the necessity of relying on Christ to keep

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us safe from that.

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I think that that probably keeps those in the high church, at

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least those still using hymnals and things like that, a little safer

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than those who are in say low church Protestantism where this stuff

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is totally neglected or left up to fiction.

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So it's a matter of teaching.

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And there's no easy fix, there's no quick solution.

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We just need to actually educate Christians about these things.

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There are some good books on the subject.

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I'm not going to say that everyone should read them because I

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don't think everyone should read them.

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Perhaps men who are in teaching positions should certainly read about this

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stuff, know about it more so they can teach usefully on the

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subject. But a big part of it is just changing our culture

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because our culture is currently suffused with demonic symbols all over the

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place. We have demonic statues, we have demonic symbology in music videos

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and things like that.

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Our celebrities are quite frankly, openly satanic in many cases.

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This is a very real problem and it needs to be addressed,

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but it needs to be addressed in a comprehensive sort of way.

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One of the places where we could start doing that basically today

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is teaching correctly on it with regard to one Christian to another,

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particularly for those who are Christian teachers, need to understand it and

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teach correctly on it.

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This is something that is going to interest people, for better or

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worse, you shouldn't have too much interest in the demonic.

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God doesn't tell us that much about it.

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For a reason.

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You shouldn't want to know a lot about it.

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But you need to know enough about it to safeguard yourself against

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it.

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And that involves some knowledge, say, of like you mentioned, the symbols,

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some knowledge of how the propaganda techniques are used in Hollywood and

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other places like that to push these things, sometimes at an almost

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subconscious level.

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So

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this I guess is really a condemnation of the lack of ability

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and the lack of knowledge on the part of many modern teachers.

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They really need to invest the time and the effort to understand

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these things better, or at least know where to find the answers,

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so they can direct those who ask them to more competent men.

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But I can certainly make some book recommendations.

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Maybe I will look at that after the stream and add that

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to the show notes.

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Make a note for myself.

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Question six

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is also about the scripture but sort of tangential.

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Can you talk about the oral tradition that was needed to inform

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the ancient Hebrew with its lack of vowels and the oral tradition

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of the Talmud that Jewish rabbis say supersedes precedes the Pentateuch.

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So the distinction here, and

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at this point, the Jews would say that their Talmud is no

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longer an oral tradition because now it has been reduced to writing,

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and so now it is actually their scripture, they won't admit that,

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but that's the reality of it.

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When it comes to the ancient Hebrew, which to remind those or

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to say to those who've not seen the Stone Choir series on

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what is actually scripture, which is to say the Greek is scripture,

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not Hebrew.

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The reason the Hebrew is not is the Hebrew is lost.

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We don't have the ancient Hebrew.

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We have a modern reconstruction that lacks the vowels, because Hebrew is

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what's called an abjad and how it's written.

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The consonants are written but not the vowels.

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And that's a problem, right?

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The difference between bat and bot.

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Pretty big difference, one vowel.

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Now imagine that expanded all the way to an entire book, or

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in the case of Scripture, a library of books.

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The oral tradition for the rabbis, for the teachers in ancient Israel,

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mind you, I'm not talking about modern, but ancient Israel was literally

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the vowels.

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That was the ancient tradition.

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The oral tradition was passing down what the text actually said, so

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that you could actually read the thing.

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Thankfully, as we went over at length in the Septuagint series for

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the Stone Choir podcast, God gave us an inspired translation in the

00:32:21.120 --> 00:32:23.680
Septuagint in Greek.

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Greek has vowels.

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Greek is a proper written language.

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You can read Greek and understand what's being said.

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You can stare at ancient Hebrew scribbling and hallucinate, but you're not

00:32:35.120 --> 00:32:39.360
going to get the word of God, because God gave his final

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stamp of disapproval on those people at the very latest seventy AD

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when he burned all their records in the temple, all their incidentally

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all their genealogical records, which means they can't ever bring back a

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third temple because

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you have to know who the priests are.

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The records are gone.

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Tangential point but worth mentioning.

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God destroyed not only the Hebrew text, but also the Hebrew language.

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Modern Hebrew is not ancient Hebrew revived, it is a totally synthetic,

00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:12.160
constructed language.

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There's a reason when you talk to them, they all sound like

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they're speaking a weird conversation of Russian French and German.

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Because the men who designed who created modern Hebrew were indeed Russian

00:33:24.960 --> 00:33:28.720
speaking, French speaking, and German speaking.

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So the oral tradition was the vowels at that point, essentially, and

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so they could read it back then.

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And also keep in mind, they also had God literally there in

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the temple, and they had a way to talk to him with

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the Urim and Thumim, right?

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So if they lost something, which maybe they did at some point,

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they could literally ask God.

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God gave to us an actual reliable scripture in the Greek, so

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we can just preserve that and we have.

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We have access to that.

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So

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that's essentially the difference.

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The oral tradition is not a thing anymore.

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So anyone who tries to build up something on the basis of

00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:12.480
the oral tradition particularly contrary to scripture is indeed trying to mislead

00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:13.120
you.

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Shifting gears here, we're going to

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return to the topic of IQ.

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Two related questions on IQ.

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Question from Revelation and then I will try to get to some

00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:38.400
questions in the chat, I believe.

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The first question on IQ.

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Question seven.

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I want you to speak to or emphasize the importance of using

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your inherited IQ.

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Also speak to not marrying a stupid girl because she will not

00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:53.760
buck or be a feminist.

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That's not always true.

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As she will pass her genes and be the one teaching your

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children, speak to the education or formation of young women, to prepare

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for homeschooling, etc.

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So I'll address there are a number of things in this that

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I will address.

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IQ, of course, is very highly heritable.

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It's one of the most strongly proven things in genetics, and it's

00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:26.240
one of the most strongly tested and proven things and reproduced things

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in psychology.

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And

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the point about not marrying a stupid woman, right?

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Okay, sure.

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Don't Don't marry a woman who is actually clinically retarded.

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That's a bad idea.

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Do you have to find a woman who is a the exact

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same intelligence as you?

00:35:45.120 --> 00:35:47.520
No. Does she have to be more intelligent than you?

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No. Do remember that the curves are very close for men and

00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:53.680
women. The one for men just has a higher standard deviation, so

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there are more very stupid men and more very intelligent men.

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But there's also something called regression to the mean.

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And so for instance, if you are an extreme outlier, and even

00:36:03.520 --> 00:36:05.680
if you marry a woman who's an extreme outlier,

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your children will not be at your level.

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They will almost certainly be above average, but they will be less

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intelligent than you are because of regression to the mean.

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There is a tendency in each subsequent generation

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to go back to the mean.

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So if you're 150, maybe your children are 130 or 140, because

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they're going back toward the mean.

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Now there's a difference, of course, between populations large and subpopulations.

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You can have a subpopulation with a slightly higher mean, and so

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that's part of the equation.

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But there's still a tendency to regress toward the mean.

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So if you're an outlier, don't expect your children to be the

00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:45.200
same level of outlier as you are.

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So bear that in mind if you happen to be in that

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position. That being said, the majority of your intelligence is indeed inherited

00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:58.320
from the mother's side.

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That's the reality.

00:37:00.080 --> 00:37:02.160
That's not always the case, right?

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Because this is sort of a statistical matter.

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Statistically speaking, you are most likely to inherit your intelligence primarily from

00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:12.880
your mother's side side.

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Incidentally, statistically speaking, and just to give a counterexample, right, statistically speaking,

00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:23.040
you inherit more of the genetics controlling for whether or not you

00:37:23.040 --> 00:37:24.080
will go bald as a man

00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:29.840
from your mother and your matrilineal grandfather.

00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:33.360
My matrilineal grandfather still has a full head of hair.

00:37:33.360 --> 00:37:37.920
Again Again, doesn't always play out, but these are the odds of

00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:38.800
the thing happening.

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You're sort of playing the odds.

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That's many things in life.

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You're playing the odds.

00:37:43.200 --> 00:37:45.840
Because you can't know the outcome for a certainty.

00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:48.160
You can only predict the outcome

00:37:49.120 --> 00:37:54.240
statistically. So, yes, whether or not a woman is intelligent to a

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certain level, whatever that happens to be appropriate for you, your station

00:37:57.920 --> 00:38:01.680
in life, all these things, that is very important.

00:38:01.680 --> 00:38:05.920
That should factor in to the equation when you are picking a

00:38:05.920 --> 00:38:10.320
wife. Does it mean that you have to set a hard IQ,

00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:12.560
my wife absolutely must be?

00:38:12.560 --> 00:38:17.760
No. Do remember that again, this is statistics.

00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:22.400
The men who are outliers had parents who were probably not outliers,

00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:25.120
or if they were outliers, not as extreme, right?

00:38:25.120 --> 00:38:27.440
The man with say an IQ of a hundred and ninety

00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:35.520
probably has parents who were above average, maybe, maybe touching genius

00:38:35.520 --> 00:38:37.840
level, but not where he is.

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That's not how it works.

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So yes, be wise about it.

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Factor this into the equation when you're deciding if a woman would

00:38:45.200 --> 00:38:46.640
make a good wife.

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But don't make this your only factor.

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And don't think that you are going to solve all your problems

00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:55.680
in life by finding a woman who is a genius.

00:38:55.680 --> 00:38:59.680
You're going to buy yourself some new problems, some novel ones, particularly

00:38:59.680 --> 00:39:02.720
if you're not at her level, so bear that in mind.

00:39:02.720 --> 00:39:05.440
It is going to be difficult for you if you find a

00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:09.600
woman who is significantly more intelligent than you are.

00:39:09.600 --> 00:39:13.680
And women actually like when their husbands are more intelligent than they

00:39:13.680 --> 00:39:16.000
are. That is the right and proper dynamic.

00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:18.320
So there are There are a lot of things involved here.

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It is a matter of wisdom.

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You can't just say this is best or this is best, right?

00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:27.120
And part of it is going to be the woman you happen

00:39:27.120 --> 00:39:27.680
to find.

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As long as she's within that range of reasonableness, don't disqualify her

00:39:32.320 --> 00:39:36.480
just because she's not exactly at the end you would prefer.

00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:39.920
So it's a question of w of wisdom.

00:39:39.920 --> 00:39:45.440
Your point about women being ready for home schooling, education, things like

00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:50.480
that. I'm not necessarily the biggest proponent of homeschooling.

00:39:50.480 --> 00:39:54.960
These days I am because of how bad the schools are, but

00:39:54.960 --> 00:39:59.520
in a Christian society that is functioning well, I think having schools

00:39:59.520 --> 00:40:00.400
is fine.

00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:04.560
They shouldn't be for eight hours a day, they shouldn't be what

00:40:04.560 --> 00:40:08.640
they are now, but if you send children off to have rigorous

00:40:08.720 --> 00:40:12.880
formal schooling for say four hours a day, I think that's probably

00:40:12.880 --> 00:40:17.280
best. Particularly because you're going to have people who are trained in

00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:20.960
subjects that you can't reasonably know at the same level.

00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:23.120
This is just standard specialization, right?

00:40:23.120 --> 00:40:26.480
It's the same thing I've discussed many, many times.

00:40:26.480 --> 00:40:26.800
I

00:40:27.680 --> 00:40:30.880
didn't make the Stone Choir Challenge coins.

00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:32.880
Could I have done that?

00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:36.240
Sure, if I had invested the time and the money and the

00:40:36.240 --> 00:40:40.640
effort and probably a lot of wasted resources practicing, sure.

00:40:40.640 --> 00:40:44.240
It made more sense to contract someone who was an expert.

00:40:44.240 --> 00:40:48.800
The same thing is true with regard to, say, geometry or trigonometry

00:40:48.880 --> 00:40:50.240
or whatever it happens to be.

00:40:50.240 --> 00:40:54.320
It makes sense to have someone else teaching that because that's his

00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:59.760
expertise. There's nothing wrong with having his expertise in society and school

00:40:59.760 --> 00:41:00.720
is part of that.

00:41:00.720 --> 00:41:05.360
So I actually do think that we should have national standards and

00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:07.200
schools that adhere to those.

00:41:07.200 --> 00:41:11.600
We aren't there today, so the work around, as it were, the

00:41:11.600 --> 00:41:15.600
temporary measure, the stopgap, is home schooling.

00:41:15.680 --> 00:41:20.240
If you have a wife who is reasonably intelligent, she can train

00:41:20.240 --> 00:41:24.080
herself well enough or follow the teacher's book to treat to teach

00:41:24.080 --> 00:41:24.720
the children.

00:41:24.720 --> 00:41:28.800
There are great resources that are available for homeschooling, many of them

00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:30.880
free or relatively free.

00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:35.280
So I don't think that's necessarily that big of an issue.

00:41:35.280 --> 00:41:39.280
But yes, certainly women should want to train their children at home.

00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:41.920
And even if you have that formalized schooling, right?

00:41:41.920 --> 00:41:45.040
For four hours a day, whatever it happens to be.

00:41:45.040 --> 00:41:46.560
That's a lot of time.

00:41:46.560 --> 00:41:49.360
Your children are still going to be at home with your wife.

00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:52.160
She's still going to be teaching them during that time, right?

00:41:52.160 --> 00:41:55.200
That's when she teaches her daughters how to cook, how to do

00:41:55.200 --> 00:41:56.160
things around the home.

00:41:56.160 --> 00:41:59.280
That's when you go out and walk around in God's creation and

00:41:59.280 --> 00:42:01.040
teach your children about nature.

00:42:01.040 --> 00:42:04.560
You still have to do those things, and so tons of resources

00:42:04.560 --> 00:42:05.200
for that though.

00:42:05.200 --> 00:42:08.400
This is not an era in which it's hard to find the

00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:10.000
resources to teach children.

00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:12.480
All you have to do is actually invest the time to do

00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:19.440
it. A second question, as I mentioned on IQ.

00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:27.840
This is question eight.

00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:31.440
You speak of IQ as though it is inherited only and persists

00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:35.040
for life, discuss the ramifications of high IQ individuals that squander it

00:42:35.040 --> 00:42:37.520
by not training and nurturing it.

00:42:37.520 --> 00:42:40.880
Many people are capable and use IQ to be successful in age

00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:43.840
twenty five and do not take care of it, do not feed

00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:45.440
their mind.

00:42:46.160 --> 00:42:51.280
Particularly boomers with seemingly high IQ have so little executive functioning left

00:42:51.520 --> 00:42:55.200
they do not participate and do not serve any more.

00:42:55.200 --> 00:42:57.360
I guess what I want for you to discuss is that it's

00:42:57.280 --> 00:43:00.320
not enough you have to maintain and contribute.

00:43:00.320 --> 00:43:01.280
That's true.

00:43:01.280 --> 00:43:04.240
It's like everything else in life, you have to maintain it, right?

00:43:04.240 --> 00:43:07.840
If you were in excellent physical shape when you were twenty five,

00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:11.600
that doesn't mean that you are when you're forty That's something you

00:43:11.600 --> 00:43:12.480
have to maintain.

00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:17.440
And your mind, your IQ, the machinery, is not any different from

00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:20.880
that. I've recommended many times before, and I will continue to staunchly

00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:23.040
recommend, learn a second language.

00:43:23.040 --> 00:43:26.320
It's one of the best things you can do to help keep

00:43:26.320 --> 00:43:28.640
your mind in good order as you age.

00:43:28.640 --> 00:43:30.960
And if you know two languages, learn a third.

00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:33.200
Or at least, you know, attempt to learn a third.

00:43:33.200 --> 00:43:35.760
Maybe you learn a little bit of French with your wife, or

00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:37.120
whatever it happens to be.

00:43:37.120 --> 00:43:40.880
Pick Japanese or something, pick something crazy to learn here in the

00:43:40.880 --> 00:43:42.560
West if you're so inclined.

00:43:42.560 --> 00:43:47.040
It's something that will keep you mentally agile and active, and it

00:43:47.040 --> 00:43:50.000
has proven benefits for you as you age.

00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:53.600
Play memorization games, things like that.

00:43:53.600 --> 00:43:57.040
And actually video games to some degree are beneficial for your mind

00:43:57.040 --> 00:43:58.000
as you age.

00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:01.360
Not all of them, obviously, but some of them, and don't play

00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:05.280
fifteen hours a day, but there are many things you can do

00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:08.640
to keep your brain, to keep your mind active, but to keep

00:44:08.640 --> 00:44:10.880
your brain in good shape as you age.

00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:12.960
And absolutely you have to do those.

00:44:12.960 --> 00:44:17.120
If you don't use it, you will indeed lose at least some

00:44:17.120 --> 00:44:17.760
of it.

00:44:17.760 --> 00:44:21.280
It's the same thing as if you do like lifting or something,

00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:25.840
right? If you don't lift for many years, when you get back

00:44:25.840 --> 00:44:30.160
under the bar, you won't lift the same as your previous record.

00:44:30.160 --> 00:44:32.080
Just not the way it's going to work.

00:44:32.080 --> 00:44:38.480
The mind is the same.

00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:43.280
Question nine is about scripture, so I'll go ahead and pull that

00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:46.480
up. We're back to this time Revelation.

00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:47.680
So question nine.

00:44:47.680 --> 00:44:51.120
How does Revelation 320 agree with the doctrine of monergism?

00:44:51.120 --> 00:44:53.360
For those who don't know, the doctrine of monergism is that God

00:44:53.920 --> 00:44:58.560
is the sole actor in justification specifically.

00:44:58.560 --> 00:45:02.240
Christ says that if anyone hears his voice and opens the door,

00:45:02.240 --> 00:45:03.920
he will come in and eat with him.

00:45:03.920 --> 00:45:06.960
How can someone not yet regenerated by the Holy Spirit open the

00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:10.000
door? Wouldn't that be our work since we are dead in our

00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:12.320
sins in before regeneration?

00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:16.080
We cannot open any spiritual doors.

00:45:16.080 --> 00:45:18.960
So the first point I'll just pull it up first.

00:45:19.120 --> 00:45:22.080
Makes more sense to read it first.

00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:24.320
Behold, I stand at the door and knock.

00:45:24.320 --> 00:45:27.520
If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come

00:45:27.520 --> 00:45:30.160
into him and eat with him, and he with me.

00:45:30.160 --> 00:45:33.200
The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me

00:45:33.200 --> 00:45:37.040
on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my

00:45:37.040 --> 00:45:40.480
Father on his throne, he who has an ear, let him hear

00:45:40.480 --> 00:45:43.760
what the Spirit says to the churches.

00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:46.320
This is of course one of the letters to the churches in

00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:49.440
Revelation, this one specifically Laodicea.

00:45:49.440 --> 00:45:49.760
But

00:45:51.040 --> 00:45:54.080
I think one of the helpful ways that you can look at

00:45:54.080 --> 00:45:58.800
this particular saying is to look back to the parable right right

00:45:58.960 --> 00:46:01.920
of those waiting for the master to return to the house.

00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:05.280
Blessed is the one who is awake and opens the door, right?

00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:08.080
that's the sort of thing you want to have in mind when

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you're reading this.

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And what is not being said here is that you have to

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go out and find Christ, that you have to be the first

00:46:16.000 --> 00:46:19.040
mover. You're not the first mover, right?

00:46:19.040 --> 00:46:22.480
So take the knock on the door as the free offer of

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faith, and then you can either reject it, leave the door closed,

00:46:26.160 --> 00:46:26.400
or

00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:29.440
you can accept it, right?

00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:33.040
And I'm speaking in human terms to borrow from Paul, right?

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Because obviously if you're dead in your sins and your trespasses, you

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aren't accepting anything.

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But God is the one waking you up here with the knock

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on the door.

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So that's the free offer of faith.

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This is not somewhere you can try to say that synergism is

00:46:48.800 --> 00:46:54.480
true in justification, and also, you don't pull out this is a

00:46:54.480 --> 00:46:58.560
standard doctrine of exegesis of basically any work, but certainly scripture.

00:46:58.560 --> 00:47:01.360
You don't pull out a doctrine from somewhere that doesn't address it

00:47:01.360 --> 00:47:05.520
explicitly unless it's not addressed somewhere better, right?

00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:09.520
You take a doctrine from the places that address it explicitly.

00:47:09.520 --> 00:47:13.040
So if you're going to take, say, the doctrine of justification, you're

00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:16.560
going to turn to somewhere like Romans, and you're going to deal

00:47:16.560 --> 00:47:20.800
with the areas that deal with it extensively and explicitly.

00:47:20.800 --> 00:47:25.440
You then use other parts of scripture that address it, say, obliquely

00:47:25.440 --> 00:47:29.600
or impliedly, you use those to bolster the argument, you use those

00:47:29.600 --> 00:47:33.600
to expand it to demonstrate that it's elsewhere in scripture, but you

00:47:33.600 --> 00:47:36.880
don't find a one off verse somewhere and pull out a major

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doctrine from it when the verse does not address it directly.

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That's just standard exegesis, basic exegesis of scripture.

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So this is not where in scripture you're going to turn to

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look for monergism versus synergism.

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And also bear in mind when Christ is speaking or when Scripture

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anywhere speaks in a parable or in symbols or allusions, anything like

00:48:02.800 --> 00:48:06.560
that, you don't take that exactly woodenly literally.

00:48:06.560 --> 00:48:09.920
It's going to have a sort of level of demand, a layer

00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:14.160
of interpretation necessary to understand it, because it's not literal.

00:48:14.160 --> 00:48:18.080
The same thing as the various poetic books in scripture, right?

00:48:18.080 --> 00:48:19.600
They're not exactly literal.

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Are you going to read the Song of Songs as perfectly literal?

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Some degree yes, but also no.

00:48:27.360 --> 00:48:29.920
You have to be able to interpret it according to genre and

00:48:29.920 --> 00:48:36.240
do remember that Revelation is apocalyptic prophecy, it's not history.

00:48:36.240 --> 00:48:39.520
So does that mean that there aren't historical bits in it?

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No, of course not, but it requires a greater degree of interpretation.

00:48:44.160 --> 00:48:52.000
It requires more of the reader than say Genesis.

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And I will now try to pull out some questions from the

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chat.

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Assuming that OBS and Firefox will both cooperate with me as I

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attempt to do so.

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I will just answer this one first because it happens to be

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the first one I saw when I scrolled.

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Which of Walter, Walter, however you want to pronounce his names, books

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or articles would you recommend?

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This is going to depend on whether you are just a Christian

00:49:38.080 --> 00:49:42.400
interested in this, and most of my audience is male, not all.

00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:45.120
It's there's a pretty good chunk of women, but I assume the

00:49:45.120 --> 00:49:48.720
questioner here is male he has a lion in his profile picture,

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so pretty good indication here.

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If you are interested in reading Valtter, then maybe you have teaching

00:49:54.880 --> 00:49:58.320
duties as a husband or with your church.

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Everything from Valter is good.

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Excellent practical writer.

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You are going to find things that you can apply on practically

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every page of the things he's written.

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And you'll probably enjoy it as well.

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Uh, he is one of the authors that I actually do enjoy

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reading, but his work, Law and Gospel, is always one of the

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top recommendations that Lutherans are certainly going to give you.

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It is an excellent treatment of the subject.

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It is absolutely worth reading.

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He has theses on election.

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Those are worth reading if you're interested in election, predestination, whichever term

00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:37.520
you want to use, he treats that excellently.

00:50:37.520 --> 00:50:40.880
But really, I can just give a blanket recommendation.

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I'm looking at what works I have of his on my shelves

00:50:43.200 --> 00:50:45.520
in here, but I can really just give a blanket recommendation.

00:50:45.520 --> 00:50:48.720
Go ahead and read anything from him where the title interests you,

00:50:48.720 --> 00:50:51.520
or even if it doesn't, you will get something out of it.

00:50:51.520 --> 00:50:52.640
He is an excellent writer.

00:50:52.640 --> 00:50:54.160
The same is basically true of Luther.

00:50:54.160 --> 00:50:57.040
You can read almost anything from Luther, and you will get something

00:50:57.040 --> 00:50:58.640
out of reading that.

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But law and gospel is probably a good place to start.

00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:06.640
And then maybe the book on predestination, election, whatever the version you

00:51:06.640 --> 00:51:07.200
have translates

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that as is another good option.

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Particularly, say if you are reformed and just interested in Lutheranism, or

00:51:14.560 --> 00:51:17.920
if you're dealing with the Reformed, because one of the big differences

00:51:17.920 --> 00:51:22.160
between the Reformed and Lutherans, of course, is how we understand election,

00:51:22.160 --> 00:51:24.000
right? They have double predestination.

00:51:24.320 --> 00:51:26.800
We believe that scripture does not teach that.

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Uh question about genetics as some of the letters have been swapped

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I assume to miss.

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I don't actually have chat moderation enabled, so your comment would probably

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get through I don't know if YouTube does some sort of basic

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chat moderation.

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They may very well do so.

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But it's a question about basically genetic differences between Chinese, Jews, and

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Indians and how those came about.

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The

00:52:06.080 --> 00:52:10.560
the Chinese, right, are largely Shemitic.

00:52:10.560 --> 00:52:14.800
The Japanese also it looks like there's some admixture year from J

00:52:14.960 --> 00:52:20.240
Fith among the populations in Hokkaido up there, there are the Jomon,

00:52:20.240 --> 00:52:24.640
right? They're a different, they're genetically distinct from the majority of the

00:52:24.640 --> 00:52:25.840
Japanese island.

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But

00:52:27.120 --> 00:52:32.800
the difference among peoples isn't necessarily just the influx of genetics from

00:52:32.800 --> 00:52:37.440
any particular one line of the sons of Noah, right?

00:52:37.680 --> 00:52:43.280
Because it depends when that happened, and it depends which subgroup, because

00:52:43.280 --> 00:52:48.320
there is a degeneration process over a period of centuries that is

00:52:48.320 --> 00:52:52.560
essentially a matter of worshiping demons and inbreeding.

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Demon worship often includes murdering the firstborn, lowers IQ, and inbreeding, lowers

00:52:58.480 --> 00:53:01.680
IQ. For some reason, Satan wants to make everyone really stupid.

00:53:02.320 --> 00:53:05.120
surprise. Ugly also in the process.

00:53:05.120 --> 00:53:06.480
But that's basically all it is.

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It's the more degenerate the population has become, then admixture from that

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population is going to be detrimental.

00:53:13.680 --> 00:53:16.400
Very simple math, very simple to understand.

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So the difference among populations is really just a matter of how

00:53:19.520 --> 00:53:23.840
degenerate they have become because of those practices of their ancestors and

00:53:23.840 --> 00:53:25.280
then the various mixture.

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So obviously for the Indian subcontinent you have various waves of immigrants,

00:53:29.600 --> 00:53:33.680
different ones in the south versus the north, different levels of admixture,

00:53:33.680 --> 00:53:38.000
different restrictions due to caste and things like that, different levels of

00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:41.840
inbreeding due to different religious practices in different parts of the country.

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It's complicated, but the basic outline is demon worship and child sacrifice

00:53:47.680 --> 00:53:48.960
and inbreeding.

00:53:50.080 --> 00:53:52.960
Don't forget that you are indeed a biological creature.

00:53:52.960 --> 00:53:55.040
There are very real consequences physically.

00:54:05.360 --> 00:54:10.480
Question twelve his Roman Catholicism aside, what is your take on Francisco

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Franco's government in Spain Spain.

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I don't know as much as I would want to know about

00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:20.400
his government specifically to make any real sort of extensive comments, but

00:54:20.400 --> 00:54:24.320
obviously he opposed the communists and he did it effectively, and I

00:54:24.320 --> 00:54:25.280
agree with that.

00:54:25.280 --> 00:54:30.160
He was certainly a little less friendly toward Protestants than I think

00:54:30.160 --> 00:54:31.200
was appropriate.

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You know, we're not going around saying that we're going to exterminate

00:54:34.960 --> 00:54:37.440
all of the Roman Catholics, right?

00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:37.760
So

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But other than that, I he was very good about opposing the

00:54:43.680 --> 00:54:48.560
communists in Spain and sort of balancing what he was doing domestically

00:54:48.560 --> 00:54:53.200
against the concerns internationally that could have spilled over into Spain and

00:54:53.680 --> 00:54:55.600
caused greater problems.

00:54:55.600 --> 00:54:58.480
So overall I think he was a fairly good leader, but like

00:54:58.480 --> 00:55:02.320
I said, I don't know enough specifically about his government and things

00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:04.960
like that to give any sort of extensive answer

00:55:20.160 --> 00:55:23.520
Sort of a question about our legal system here.

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Question 13.

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Take a sip of my coffee here before I keep going.

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Coffee at eight o'clock at night is obviously the optimal choice of

00:55:39.840 --> 00:55:41.440
beverage. Question 13.

00:55:41.440 --> 00:55:44.400
Could you please give a quick explanation of exoneration?

00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:47.040
A lot of blacks have been using it as an argument against

00:55:47.040 --> 00:55:48.240
their criminality.

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A rebuttal to this would be greatly appreciated.

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Exoneration is a complicated topic, a very simple concept, but a complicated

00:55:59.520 --> 00:56:02.960
topic. It's a simple concept because you are exonerated if it is

00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:08.480
later found that the evidence was insufficient to sustain a finding of

00:56:08.480 --> 00:56:13.040
guilty or the process was deficient or something like that.

00:56:13.040 --> 00:56:16.560
It's going to depend on jurisdiction for the specific laws, but that's

00:56:16.560 --> 00:56:18.800
the basic contours of the matter.

00:56:18.800 --> 00:56:22.560
It is declaring someone after the fact to be not innocent, because

00:56:22.560 --> 00:56:26.160
we never do that, but not But not guilty.

00:56:26.160 --> 00:56:28.480
Which incidentally is all that innocent means, right?

00:56:28.480 --> 00:56:30.880
Innocent is in no series, it's not guilty.

00:56:30.880 --> 00:56:31.200
But

00:56:32.560 --> 00:56:37.760
exoneration has a severe problem in the US context, particularly these days,

00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:41.680
because there are a lot of Jewish groups that go around picking

00:56:41.680 --> 00:56:46.320
at cases and getting new appeals or bringing them before a higher

00:56:46.320 --> 00:56:50.640
court to do everything they can with every possible loophole they can

00:56:50.640 --> 00:56:54.000
find to exonerate people who are guilty.

00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:55.120
This happens all the time.

00:56:55.120 --> 00:56:59.120
The Innocence Project so called is probably the biggest offender in this

00:56:59.120 --> 00:57:02.000
area, but there are dozens of these groups.

00:57:02.000 --> 00:57:06.720
And they are all largely Jewish run, Jewish funded groups.

00:57:06.720 --> 00:57:09.600
They're basically all, I think literally all Jewish funded groups.

00:57:09.600 --> 00:57:11.360
I can't think of a single one that's not.

00:57:11.360 --> 00:57:15.680
But they go around trying to get exonerations on technicalities, and then

00:57:15.680 --> 00:57:19.120
you have leftists and others who will crow about this saying, Oh

00:57:19.200 --> 00:57:23.520
look, this person was innocent and the justice system is racially biased

00:57:23.600 --> 00:57:24.960
and blah blah blah, right?

00:57:24.960 --> 00:57:25.600
They do that.

00:57:25.600 --> 00:57:28.480
The problem is that's not what the court has proven.

00:57:28.480 --> 00:57:32.320
Usually they get off on sub technicality because there was some minor

00:57:32.320 --> 00:57:38.000
defect in the process or there was some hypertechnical point of law

00:57:38.000 --> 00:57:43.520
that for some reason, right, well some reason, the judge hearing the

00:57:43.520 --> 00:57:46.640
appeal decided oh that was sufficient to overturn it.

00:57:46.640 --> 00:57:51.200
They're not being declared innocent, and in the overwhelming majority of cases,

00:57:51.200 --> 00:57:54.000
they are in fact unbelievably guilty.

00:57:54.000 --> 00:57:58.720
They've just been exonerated because of what amounts to corruption and politics.

00:57:58.720 --> 00:58:02.080
So you're never going to explain that to the people who are

00:58:02.080 --> 00:58:05.840
arguing that exoneration proves that we're convicting people on the basis of

00:58:06.320 --> 00:58:09.760
race instead of the basis of being violent criminals.

00:58:09.760 --> 00:58:13.520
So probably don't bother trying, but that is the reality of it.

00:58:13.520 --> 00:58:16.880
So if you encounter someone who is putting forward these talking points

00:58:16.880 --> 00:58:20.240
and still has a functioning mind, then you can maybe make the

00:58:20.240 --> 00:58:20.800
argument.

00:58:37.440 --> 00:58:42.240
Question 14 Stone choir finally put into words the things that I

00:58:42.240 --> 00:58:44.720
haven't felt right, the things that haven't felt right to me about

00:58:44.720 --> 00:58:46.800
my non denominational church.

00:58:46.800 --> 00:58:49.680
I love the people here, but no communion.

00:58:49.680 --> 00:58:53.920
How do I bring that up without sounding too smart?

00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:54.240
So

00:58:55.680 --> 00:58:57.440
I would first have to ask

00:58:58.320 --> 00:59:02.320
by no communion, do you mean uppercase C communion?

00:59:02.320 --> 00:59:04.480
Because I there's no uppercase C here, but I don't know if

00:59:04.480 --> 00:59:06.560
that was incidental or to typo.

00:59:06.560 --> 00:59:09.760
Or do you mean no communion in the sense of fellowship?

00:59:09.760 --> 00:59:11.440
Because I can certainly read that either way.

00:59:11.440 --> 00:59:12.880
I'll just answer both.

00:59:12.880 --> 00:59:16.720
With regard to fellowship, the way to push for that partly is

00:59:16.720 --> 00:59:19.200
going to depend on the size of the church, right?

00:59:19.200 --> 00:59:24.240
But push for things like having a men's night, and there aren't

00:59:24.240 --> 00:59:29.040
very many baby boomers who listen to my Q<unk>A's, but please stop

00:59:29.040 --> 00:59:34.480
making the men's Bible study, the men's groups, at six in the

00:59:34.480 --> 00:59:39.120
morning. You want to get the younger men involved in the church,

00:59:39.120 --> 00:59:41.440
and the younger men are not going to want to be up

00:59:41.440 --> 00:59:43.200
at six in the morning.

00:59:43.200 --> 00:59:44.480
That's the reality of it.

00:59:44.480 --> 00:59:46.160
It's great that you want to be up at six in the

00:59:46.160 --> 00:59:47.920
morning if you're an early bird and you want to be up

00:59:47.920 --> 00:59:50.000
then be up then and get coffee and a donut and do

00:59:50.000 --> 00:59:51.120
all those things.

00:59:51.120 --> 00:59:53.040
But that's not the point.

00:59:53.040 --> 00:59:56.160
Then it's just a coffee club for the old men, which is

00:59:56.160 --> 00:59:57.840
fine. That's a great thing to have.

00:59:57.840 --> 01:00:00.080
Don't call it the men's Bible study.

01:00:00.080 --> 01:00:02.400
That needs to be at a reasonable time for men in their

01:00:02.400 --> 01:00:06.480
twenties, men in their thirties, men who have wives and children, men

01:00:06.480 --> 01:00:10.560
who have demands on their time, and can't be doing something between

01:00:10.560 --> 01:00:12.960
seven and nine in the morning on a Tuesday.

01:00:12.960 --> 01:00:15.840
So sort of a tangent, but a very important one here.

01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:18.160
But you want to push for things when it with regard to

01:00:18.160 --> 01:00:22.000
fellowship. You want to push for things that get those in the

01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:25.200
church to view themselves essentially as an extended family.

01:00:25.200 --> 01:00:28.480
So have the wives meet together and do th bring bring all

01:00:28.480 --> 01:00:29.840
their children together and play somewhere.

01:00:29.840 --> 01:00:32.560
Hopefully someone has a large enough property where you can do that.

01:00:32.560 --> 01:00:35.760
Maybe of you know goats they can pet or something.

01:00:35.760 --> 01:00:38.480
Have the husbands get together and go on a hike or a

01:00:38.480 --> 01:00:40.560
hunting trip or whatever it happens to be.

01:00:40.560 --> 01:00:44.560
It's going to be tailored to your congregation in your part of

01:00:44.560 --> 01:00:45.680
the country, right?

01:00:45.920 --> 01:00:49.440
If you have a congregation that's in Los Angeles, you're probably not

01:00:49.440 --> 01:00:51.920
organizing the 30-year-old men to go on a hunting trip.

01:00:51.920 --> 01:00:52.560
Maybe you are.

01:00:52.560 --> 01:00:55.040
Some of the churches I attended in LA, you could do that,

01:00:55.040 --> 01:00:56.240
but not all of them.

01:00:56.240 --> 01:00:59.280
Now if you're in Arkansas, probably going to do a hunting trip,

01:00:59.280 --> 01:01:03.280
right? Tailor what you want to do as if you would have

01:01:03.280 --> 01:01:04.560
an extended family.

01:01:04.560 --> 01:01:08.480
The same thing is true with your literal extended family, right?

01:01:08.480 --> 01:01:10.080
Every family is going to be different.

01:01:10.080 --> 01:01:13.440
They're going to have different things they enjoy doing together.

01:01:13.440 --> 01:01:16.640
Some families love hiking, some families hate hiking.

01:01:16.640 --> 01:01:21.040
So when it comes to fellowship, do that sort of thing.

01:01:21.040 --> 01:01:24.320
Treat it as an extended family and build those bonds the same

01:01:24.320 --> 01:01:26.880
way you build bonds with anyone else.

01:01:26.880 --> 01:01:31.680
When it comes to uppercase communion, that is a more difficult question

01:01:31.760 --> 01:01:36.480
because that is going to get immediately into theology, and a non-denominational

01:01:36.480 --> 01:01:37.840
church is

01:01:39.520 --> 01:01:44.400
as a Lutheran, I can't really say just push for it right,

01:01:44.400 --> 01:01:46.640
and whatever they do is going to be fine because there are

01:01:46.640 --> 01:01:51.200
some things I would view as being, if not necessarily outright blasphemous,

01:01:51.200 --> 01:01:53.920
then at least very wrong.

01:01:53.920 --> 01:01:57.120
Like if you're going to use grape juice instead of wine, it's

01:01:57.120 --> 01:01:59.440
better to just not have it then.

01:01:59.440 --> 01:02:02.800
So that is a very fact specific inquiry.

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It's going to depend on your church, the theology it currently holds.

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As a non denominational on a non-denominational church in the US, I

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can pretty much just assume it's Baptist.

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And so they're probably going to object to using wine, and they're

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probably not going to believe in the real presence.

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So

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That's an uphill battle, and partly it depends on what you believe,

01:02:27.680 --> 01:02:30.400
right? If you have come to have a belief in the real

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presence, maybe you just read John 6 enough times that God smacked

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you in the face until you believed it.

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If that's the case, then if Then if you can nudge them

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in the right direction, great, by all means do that.

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Foregoing communion for a period of time for a good reason is

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not a sin.

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That is something you're permitted to do, right?

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Sometimes that happens

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and it's out of your control.

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If that's the case, then by all means, I'm not going to

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tell you just abandon this church family and find a new one.

01:03:00.560 --> 01:03:04.880
But if it turns out that they are absolutely going to refuse

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to hear any entreaties about this, to hear anything from scripture, then

01:03:09.440 --> 01:03:12.720
eventually they'll probably force you to leave if you force the issue,

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and that is a matter of conscience for you.

01:03:14.800 --> 01:03:18.800
Maybe you attend a Lutheran church and commune at the Lutheran church

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and continue attending this church as well, and eventually you'll probably have

01:03:23.040 --> 01:03:24.320
to decide.

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But like I said, that is fact-specific.

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I don't know your circumstances.

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I don't have enough information from the question, so that's up to

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you. It's a matter of wisdom and conscience.

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A quick question here that I can answer.

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Anyone know what version of the Septuagint I recommend?

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I do in fact know what version I recommend.

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The Nets is probably the N-E-T-S, is probably one of the best

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ones for study and general use.

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It's a little It's a little stilted because it is very woodenly

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literal. It's faithful to the Greek.

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So if you're using it for study, great.

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The Lexum, the LES2, the second edition is also a good one.

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In the same way, it has some other quirks.

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I use I use it less than the Nets.

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If you want one that is readable and sort of akin to

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say the KJV, but not quite KJV English, but very close, that

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would be the Brenton.

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And beyond that, there are some other ones in the pipeline.

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They're not available yet, so that's kind of the recommendation.

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If you want to read the Psalter, I translated the Psalter, so

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you can go ahead and just use that on my website if

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you're so inclined.

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I don't have a print one, and that's probably never going to

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happen, or at least not into the very far future.

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So if you want to print one, those are pretty much your

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recommendations and your options, the Nets, the LES2, and the Brenton.

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Question sixteen, I guess little topil here.

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Thoughts on the idea that Lindsey Clancy may have been possessed.

01:05:18.560 --> 01:05:20.320
I don't know enough about the case.

01:05:20.320 --> 01:05:23.440
I have not been following it, I've only been seeing it scroll

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past on X.

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So So I know the basic fact pattern, but I don't know

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enough. I've not listened to any of it.

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I've not heard her speak.

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I don't have any real evidence one way or the other.

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Could she have been possessed?

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Certainly. Could she just be evil and not possessed?

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Also certainly.

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I don't know which

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I see we're going to go for the questions that

01:05:57.600 --> 01:06:01.040
run real close to the terms of service and things tonight in

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a couple places.

01:06:03.040 --> 01:06:05.760
Of course it's asked on X, and on X it's fine, but

01:06:05.760 --> 01:06:09.760
I'm also streaming on other platforms, so I will go ahead and

01:06:10.400 --> 01:06:12.800
maybe modify the question a little bit, but I will add it

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into the show notes in its existing form.

01:06:15.360 --> 01:06:19.600
At what point does something count as sexual assault inside a marriage

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and is it different to outside a marriage?

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The answer is yes.

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However, that being said, this comes with an enormous number of caveats

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that I will probably not get into all of them right now,

01:06:32.240 --> 01:06:32.560
but

01:06:33.520 --> 01:06:39.440
when you marry, you are relinquishing control over your body.

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You no longer have full control of your body.

01:06:43.040 --> 01:06:44.080
This is very clear, right?

01:06:44.080 --> 01:06:44.880
It's from scripture.

01:06:44.880 --> 01:06:47.360
The wife does not have control over her body, rather her husband

01:06:47.360 --> 01:06:50.160
does. And then it also says the husband does not have control

01:06:50.160 --> 01:06:52.400
over his body, rather the wife does.

01:06:52.400 --> 01:06:56.640
You are not permitted to withhold sex from your spouse.

01:06:56.640 --> 01:07:00.240
Now, does that mean you have to say yes every single time

01:07:00.240 --> 01:07:01.600
your spouse wants to have sex?

01:07:01.600 --> 01:07:06.480
The answer is no, because you may very well feel terrible, right?

01:07:06.480 --> 01:07:08.240
You're still going to get the flu.

01:07:08.240 --> 01:07:09.120
Hopefully, you don't.

01:07:09.120 --> 01:07:11.280
May God bless you and you never get the flu again.

01:07:11.280 --> 01:07:15.280
But if you get the flu, you'd probably rather sleep or spend

01:07:15.280 --> 01:07:17.360
time in the bathroom, right?

01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:19.360
Or any of a number of things, right?

01:07:19.360 --> 01:07:21.760
Maybe you are extremely sore.

01:07:21.760 --> 01:07:24.480
You went way too hard at the gym or something.

01:07:24.480 --> 01:07:29.360
There are times where biological reality is going to mean that it

01:07:29.360 --> 01:07:32.640
is perfectly reasonable to say no and your spouse should accept that.

01:07:32.640 --> 01:07:36.640
Whether it's the husband saying no or the wife saying no, there

01:07:36.640 --> 01:07:38.160
are times.

01:07:38.160 --> 01:07:39.840
That's not withholding.

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Withholding is when it happens over a relatively long period of time.

01:07:44.160 --> 01:07:47.200
And it doesn't have to be, you know, months or years.

01:07:47.360 --> 01:07:51.520
This is we're talking weeks, not months or years here, because it

01:07:51.680 --> 01:07:56.240
you know Paul says maybe you abstain for a period of time,

01:07:56.240 --> 01:07:59.920
but then come together again so that you don't have the temptation.

01:07:59.920 --> 01:08:03.040
That is one of the purposes of marriage is to deal with

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the temptation to sexual immorality.

01:08:05.200 --> 01:08:08.240
Well, if you're not making the natural use of the marriage, you're

01:08:08.240 --> 01:08:11.360
not doing the very thing God said you're supposed to do.

01:08:11.360 --> 01:08:17.520
So but on the topic of sexual assault, no you are not

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allowed to just force your wife to do whatever you want.

01:08:20.240 --> 01:08:25.120
She is not just your plaything or your inanimate possession.

01:08:25.120 --> 01:08:26.960
She is her own person.

01:08:26.960 --> 01:08:30.000
Yes Yes, she is part of you.

01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:31.680
Yes, you are her head.

01:08:31.680 --> 01:08:34.720
But the way that you should view that is the same way

01:08:34.720 --> 01:08:37.360
you view other parts of your body, right?

01:08:37.360 --> 01:08:40.880
Like you don't chop off your hand because you just feel like

01:08:40.880 --> 01:08:42.320
it one day.

01:08:42.320 --> 01:08:44.000
That would be an evil thing to do.

01:08:44.000 --> 01:08:45.360
We all recognize that.

01:08:45.360 --> 01:08:49.040
You don't abuse your body because that's an evil thing to do.

01:08:49.040 --> 01:08:51.200
The same is true of your wife.

01:08:51.200 --> 01:08:53.680
You should view her as your most precious possession.

01:08:53.680 --> 01:08:55.440
Yes, she's your possession.

01:08:55.440 --> 01:08:58.240
But you're going to answer to God for how you treated her.

01:08:58.240 --> 01:08:59.680
You should treat her well.

01:08:59.680 --> 01:09:05.600
And that includes not abusing her, not harming her, not misusing her.

01:09:05.600 --> 01:09:10.880
But But, yes, she still has to grant you the natural use

01:09:10.880 --> 01:09:12.320
of the marriage.

01:09:12.320 --> 01:09:16.960
This is not exactly an easy issue, but it's part of living

01:09:16.960 --> 01:09:19.440
together with someone of the opposite sex.

01:09:19.440 --> 01:09:22.800
You have to to do the things that make her, of course,

01:09:22.800 --> 01:09:25.360
feel comfortable in that marriage, make her feel desired.

01:09:25.360 --> 01:09:27.600
This is one of your duties as a man.

01:09:27.600 --> 01:09:30.240
You don't just get to come home and demand sex and never

01:09:30.240 --> 01:09:32.000
do anything else with your wife.

01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:33.120
That's not how it works.

01:09:33.120 --> 01:09:36.320
That is abusing her, that's mistreating her, that's not living up to

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what God demands of you.

01:09:37.920 --> 01:09:42.640
But if she is simply refusing you for no reason, or just

01:09:42.960 --> 01:09:46.560
pure whim, whatever it happens to be, she is violating her marriage

01:09:46.560 --> 01:09:50.880
vow. That is a reason to bring her before the elders of

01:09:50.880 --> 01:09:53.440
your church, or even to divorce her.

01:09:53.600 --> 01:09:56.880
Because if you are withholding for a long enough period, that is

01:09:56.880 --> 01:10:00.320
the same thing it is tantamount to adultery.

01:10:00.320 --> 01:10:02.720
And so that is grounds for divorce.

01:10:02.720 --> 01:10:06.480
Anything that is adultery or tantamount to adultery is grounds for a

01:10:06.480 --> 01:10:08.560
divorce. Incidentally, so is abandonment.

01:10:08.560 --> 01:10:11.280
So if your spouse just disappears, yes.

01:10:11.280 --> 01:10:15.680
Years later, never reappears, grounds for divorce.

01:10:15.680 --> 01:10:16.000
So

01:10:16.960 --> 01:10:20.400
the answer is that there are differences because of course there are

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things you're not permitted to do with regard to someone to whom

01:10:23.840 --> 01:10:26.800
you are not married, you shouldn't be doing it anyway.

01:10:26.800 --> 01:10:29.760
I don't want to get into the legal issues of, you know,

01:10:29.760 --> 01:10:33.280
proof and he said versus she said because that's sort of a

01:10:33.280 --> 01:10:36.960
morass and it's not really the the central thrust of the question

01:10:36.960 --> 01:10:40.560
here, right, is not the positive law, it's the moral law.

01:10:40.560 --> 01:10:43.600
So morally, don't abuse your wife.

01:10:43.600 --> 01:10:48.000
Treat her as you would, your most valued possession, the most precious

01:10:48.000 --> 01:10:51.280
part of your body, and you should think of her as your

01:10:51.280 --> 01:10:52.640
own body.

01:10:52.640 --> 01:10:55.920
Treat her well, and she will reciprocate.

01:10:55.920 --> 01:10:59.680
If you're in one of the rare circumstances where she does not,

01:10:59.680 --> 01:11:05.280
then you may have to involve the church elders, church discipline, and

01:11:05.280 --> 01:11:09.280
even up to divorce if it comes to it.

01:11:09.280 --> 01:11:15.840
But yes, you obviously are not permitted to do anything sexual with

01:11:15.840 --> 01:11:17.280
someone to whom you are not married.

01:11:17.280 --> 01:11:18.080
You're not supposed to, right?

01:11:18.400 --> 01:11:20.560
That is a violation of God's law.

01:11:20.560 --> 01:11:23.920
That is a violation at least of the sixth commandment and of

01:11:23.920 --> 01:11:25.280
other things as well.

01:11:25.280 --> 01:11:28.160
So there is a difference between whether you're married to the person

01:11:28.160 --> 01:11:28.480
or not

01:11:30.880 --> 01:11:34.000
Your girlfriend is supposed to say no, your wife is supposed to

01:11:34.000 --> 01:11:34.640
say yes.

01:11:34.640 --> 01:11:37.360
That's kind of the foundational difference there.

01:11:54.640 --> 01:12:00.000
On a totally unrelated note, I really wish that the comments, or

01:12:00.000 --> 01:12:06.160
at least the aggregate comments, would not only show the timestamp, the

01:12:06.160 --> 01:12:11.520
comment was received, but also the timestamp in the video the person

01:12:11.520 --> 01:12:13.520
was watching when it was sent.

01:12:13.520 --> 01:12:16.080
That would be helpful.

01:12:16.080 --> 01:12:19.200
Because I have people saying that I'm muted, and that was from

01:12:19.200 --> 01:12:22.960
the beginning when OBS was fighting me, not now when I am

01:12:22.960 --> 01:12:24.800
not muted, I can see my levels.

01:12:24.800 --> 01:12:27.280
So, you know.

01:12:27.280 --> 01:12:30.080
Just the fun of technology as it goes.

01:12:33.840 --> 01:12:36.880
I think I'll answer maybe a a couple more questions here and

01:12:36.880 --> 01:12:38.400
then call it a night.

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We're approaching that one hour mark.

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I think we're a little over one hour actually recorded.

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Question eighteen.

01:12:46.400 --> 01:12:48.960
How do we acquire power in a godly way?

01:12:48.960 --> 01:12:51.920
This I of course pick a question that is going to take

01:12:51.920 --> 01:12:53.920
a little bit of time to answer, but

01:12:54.880 --> 01:12:57.680
make a couple notes for myself.

01:12:57.680 --> 01:13:01.840
When it comes to acquiring power in a godly way, it is

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worth at the outset highlighting that there is a difference between the

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kingdom of the left hand of Christ and the kingdom of the

01:13:09.600 --> 01:13:11.280
right hand of Christ, right?

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The right hand is the church.

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And how you conduct things, how you behave in the church, very

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different. The church is a family.

01:13:18.720 --> 01:13:21.280
You should behave as a family.

01:13:21.280 --> 01:13:25.520
You should treat people differently from how you just treat a random

01:13:25.520 --> 01:13:29.840
stranger. When it comes to power, you're dealing in the kingdom of

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the left hand.

01:13:31.680 --> 01:13:34.560
And the kingdom of the left hand of Christ is dealt with

01:13:34.560 --> 01:13:37.520
in a different way because you are dealing in matters that are

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more practical.

01:13:39.040 --> 01:13:44.880
Perhaps the best way to illustrate the difference is what is the

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only weapon that God gives to the church?

01:13:49.680 --> 01:13:50.640
His word.

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That's it.

01:13:51.360 --> 01:13:52.640
That's the only weapon you have.

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You can resort to the text.

01:13:54.880 --> 01:13:56.800
You can make arguments from the text.

01:13:56.800 --> 01:14:00.160
Yes, you can make arguments from reason and creation, you know, his

01:14:00.160 --> 01:14:03.600
two books, creation being one book, scripture being the second book.

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The church doesn't have the sword.

01:14:06.320 --> 01:14:08.640
The church doesn't have any other power.

01:14:08.640 --> 01:14:12.480
The only power the state has ultimately is the sword.

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You're talking about two very different, two fundamentally different things.

01:14:16.640 --> 01:14:22.640
And so when it comes to acquiring power, you're dealing with matters

01:14:22.640 --> 01:14:23.760
of the sword.

01:14:23.760 --> 01:14:28.560
You're not dealing with matters necessarily of just scripture and arguments about

01:14:28.560 --> 01:14:33.760
scripture. Now, are there restrictions on what you are permitted and not

01:14:33.760 --> 01:14:35.120
permitted to do?

01:14:35.120 --> 01:14:37.120
Certainly yes.

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But they're not as stringent, perhaps, as many pastors would argue, and

01:14:42.640 --> 01:14:46.400
as I've as I've seen many pastors argue, it's a fundamentally different

01:14:46.400 --> 01:14:48.400
beast. You're dealing in politics.

01:14:48.400 --> 01:14:51.600
And so when it comes to politics, we'll just quote Bismarck, it's

01:14:51.520 --> 01:14:53.200
the art of the possible, right?

01:14:53.200 --> 01:14:56.480
You are doing what needs to be done to do what you

01:14:56.480 --> 01:14:57.840
are supposed to do.

01:14:58.080 --> 01:15:01.920
So there is some consideration of the ends when it comes to

01:15:01.920 --> 01:15:06.960
the means you are employing to achieve those ends in a much

01:15:07.120 --> 01:15:11.440
stronger way with regard to the kingdom of the left hand, which

01:15:11.440 --> 01:15:14.560
is we could just use this the shorthand of the state versus

01:15:14.560 --> 01:15:17.760
the church.

01:15:17.760 --> 01:15:22.880
The practical considerations, of course, I think are more interesting than necessarily

01:15:22.880 --> 01:15:26.000
the moral arguments, because I think the moral arguments largely sort of

01:15:26.000 --> 01:15:28.640
resolve themselves in praxis.

01:15:28.640 --> 01:15:33.680
But the practical arguments are how do you organize, how do you

01:15:33.680 --> 01:15:35.360
get things done?

01:15:35.360 --> 01:15:38.720
How do you do it in a way that is effective?

01:15:38.720 --> 01:15:41.680
And that is one of the problems the right has right now.

01:15:41.680 --> 01:15:44.960
I've talked about this a lot, particularly on X.

01:15:44.960 --> 01:15:47.360
A big part of it is that we have that very strong

01:15:47.360 --> 01:15:53.360
libertarian and individualist strain that has just been part of America since

01:15:53.360 --> 01:15:54.320
kind of the beginning.

01:15:54.320 --> 01:15:58.800
It's sort of really heavily entrenched in say

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Probably like the 60s and the 70s and the 80s, it really

01:16:03.120 --> 01:16:06.960
heavily entrenched, and then there's sort of another wave of it recently

01:16:07.040 --> 01:16:10.800
with sort of my generation, maybe a little older, maybe Gen X.

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The problem is you can't view yourself first and foremost as an

01:16:13.520 --> 01:16:16.560
individual. God doesn't view you that way, you shouldn't view yourself that

01:16:16.560 --> 01:16:22.880
way. God speaks of entire nations with the first person masculine singular

01:16:22.880 --> 01:16:24.640
pronoun in scripture.

01:16:24.640 --> 01:16:28.880
He addresses the nation of Israel in some places as he.

01:16:28.880 --> 01:16:29.200
So

01:16:30.080 --> 01:16:32.480
God thinks of us in a very different way.

01:16:32.480 --> 01:16:36.880
You have to think of yourself as part of that greater collective,

01:16:36.880 --> 01:16:40.240
as part of your family, as part of your tribe, as part

01:16:40.240 --> 01:16:41.520
of your nation.

01:16:41.520 --> 01:16:45.840
Part of what we have to do is fundamentally changing that way

01:16:45.840 --> 01:16:47.840
that we view ourselves and others.

01:16:47.840 --> 01:16:50.640
You have to view your fellow citizen as a brother or as

01:16:50.640 --> 01:16:54.640
a sister Not as a competitor, there's a lot of work to

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be done there.

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I will continue to say that a huge part of it is

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a lack of

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not just leadership, but leadership, and the willingness of other men to

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fall in line in the hierarchy that nature has instilled.

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There are natural leaders, there are natural followers.

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There are men who are higher in the hierarchy, there are men

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who are lower in the hierarchy.

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Every man needs to know his place and except his place, or

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else the machine doesn't run.

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Right? Paul speaks of this with regard to the body, right?

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If the hand doesn't want to work because it's not an eye,

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your body's not going to work very well.

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The same thing is true of political machinery.

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If you have someone who is suited to go knock on doors

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and he doesn't want to knock on doors because he wants to

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be the leader, you're going to have very real problems.

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But I think that's probably enough for that question for now because

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I don't want to get into you know the full treatment, be

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here for hours.

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Trying to see if I missed any questions in the chat here.

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Hopefully I did not.

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Okay. I think I will make this question nineteen the last question

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for this stream.

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If you sent another question by all means I will try to

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also copy that for future streams.

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But question nineteen sort of hearing back to the beginning here, where

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can a Christian man age thirty six go to find a wife

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besides a dating app or a bar?

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Without the internet nobody connects anymore in real life, I don't know

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where to go.

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The bar's not a terrible place, let's be honest.

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And not the bar bar.

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Don't go to the dive bar.

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You're gonna find something you probably don't want there.

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The brewery isn't necessarily a terrible place.

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Maybe you have one in your area that has live music one

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night out of the week.

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Maybe you can find someone there.

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You'll find someone who maybe has a common hobby with you to

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start out.

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That might be good.

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You can always go to

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the coffee shop.

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I like to recommend because that's a good place.

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I've said that sometimes you can pick up the cashier at the

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grocery store.

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You can meet people almost anywhere.

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The point is you have to involve yourself in something in a

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way that isn't just mercenary.

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Women can kind of sense when you're just there in a mercenary

01:19:44.080 --> 01:19:46.400
sense as opposed to being there to be there.

01:19:46.400 --> 01:19:47.920
Totally different thing.

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Women pick up on that and they have to because

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that kind of is a safety mechanism for them.

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So

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you can find plenty of places where there are women once you

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get up into say your late 30s, your early 40s, older than

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that. Are you going to have to make some compromises?

01:20:09.280 --> 01:20:14.240
Certainly. And this is something I will get into when I start

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writing a little bit more about marriage and things like that.

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But we are sort of an interim generation.

01:20:19.600 --> 01:20:22.800
We are all going to have to make some compromises because we

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have inherited a dumpster fire.

01:20:25.280 --> 01:20:28.720
Our duty and our goal is to get out of the dumpster

01:20:28.720 --> 01:20:32.240
fire and make conditions good enough that our children and grandchildren

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have better futures.

01:20:35.120 --> 01:20:37.760
That is going to mean that we will personally have to make

01:20:37.760 --> 01:20:40.960
some compromises here and there, we'll have to do things that we

01:20:40.960 --> 01:20:46.720
don't find necessarily preferable or according to our own tastes, but

01:20:47.920 --> 01:20:52.320
the ultimate point of this life, right, is to live a life

01:20:52.320 --> 01:20:56.320
of duty in accordance with God's law and make it to the

01:20:56.320 --> 01:20:58.880
next one and bring your people along with you.

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That's sort of the encapsulated version of the purpose of this life.

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And enjoy the things of God along the way, right?

01:21:04.400 --> 01:21:06.640
So maybe that brewery is not a bad choice.

01:21:06.640 --> 01:21:08.800
You can enjoy the things of God.

01:21:08.800 --> 01:21:11.920
God made wine to gladden the heart of men, right?

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Beer counts as well.

01:21:14.480 --> 01:21:14.640
So

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find a woman who is going to be someone you can live

01:21:20.400 --> 01:21:22.480
with for, you know, you're thirty six.

01:21:22.480 --> 01:21:24.480
Maybe it's going to be fifty years.

01:21:24.480 --> 01:21:27.360
She doesn't have to be perfect because she won't be perfect, and

01:21:27.360 --> 01:21:28.800
you aren't perfect either.

01:21:28.800 --> 01:21:31.280
She will have to bear with you, you will have to bear

01:21:31.280 --> 01:21:32.000
with her.

01:21:32.000 --> 01:21:38.000
So make sure that your standards are calibrated reasonably for what is

01:21:38.480 --> 01:21:43.280
possible according both to what you bring to the table and the

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reality of the world in which we live.

01:21:45.680 --> 01:21:46.000
So

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you could just look at it also practically, what is going to

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be better for you long term mentally psychologically, all those things.

01:21:54.000 --> 01:21:57.120
A wife who doesn't live up to some sort of mental image

01:21:57.120 --> 01:22:00.400
that you've constructed that probably no woman does.

01:22:00.400 --> 01:22:03.280
And that's always going to be a risk if you've made it

01:22:03.280 --> 01:22:04.480
that many decades, right?

01:22:04.480 --> 01:22:07.760
You've probably built up some idea of like my ideal woman is

01:22:08.640 --> 01:22:10.480
what's worse?

01:22:10.480 --> 01:22:15.280
Being alone forever, because you rejected every woman you did love, didn't

01:22:15.280 --> 01:22:18.800
live up to an ideal to which no woman could possibly live

01:22:18.800 --> 01:22:22.320
up, or having a happy life with a woman who didn't meet

01:22:22.320 --> 01:22:26.080
that ideal, but maybe it turns out that's exactly what you needed,

01:22:26.080 --> 01:22:29.280
right? Marriage is not a matter of perfection.

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It's a matter of two imperfect people living together and making the

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best of this life while they live it.

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So

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I know practically speaking, the best advice that I can give is

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just wherever you happen to be, go somewhere where you are going

01:22:45.280 --> 01:22:49.280
to feel natural in that environment, and there will be merit there

01:22:49.280 --> 01:22:52.000
will be women of marriageable age there.

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For you it may be the brewery.

01:22:53.920 --> 01:22:55.520
It may be the

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coffee shop.

01:22:57.840 --> 01:23:01.040
It may be the local non-denominational church.

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Maybe that's the case, if you can deal with whatever kind of

01:23:04.080 --> 01:23:05.360
women are at that one.

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It depends on the church.

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Maybe it's the dog park.

01:23:08.800 --> 01:23:12.320
There are all sorts of places where you can still find and

01:23:12.320 --> 01:23:13.520
interact with people.

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Is it more difficult these days?

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Absolutely. But that just means that you have to keep trying.

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This is a numbers game.

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Don't let the first rejection or the second or the twentieth discourage

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you, because you don't know which one is going to be the

01:23:28.240 --> 01:23:28.640
right one.

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You don't know when you're going to find one where you will

01:23:31.360 --> 01:23:33.760
be happy living with her for the rest of your life.

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So So

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the reality of it is that we live in hard times and

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there are going to be things we have to do to deal

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with that, things we have to accept, compromises we have to make,

01:23:45.360 --> 01:23:48.240
challenges we are going to have to endure that our forefathers did

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not because our forefathers passed us again a dumpster fire.

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So

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part of it again just depends on where you are, what is

01:23:57.120 --> 01:24:01.040
available to you, and the kind of man you are, because Where

01:24:01.040 --> 01:24:04.880
one man is going to be very comfortable, you know, I'm comfortable

01:24:04.880 --> 01:24:07.760
going to the coffee shop and sitting there for six hours to

01:24:07.760 --> 01:24:10.560
write. Some men aren't.

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So if that's not you, don't force yourself to do that.

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Find the niche that works well for you.

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Be comfortable in your own skin.

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Work on yourself.

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This is always the recommendation for men, right?

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And as the opportunities present themselves, and as you are able to

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find them, seize the opportunity.

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Go up to a woman and talk to her.

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Give it a try, see where it goes.

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Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't.

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That is all you can do in this life until we have

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those systems back in place, which won't be for us.

01:24:43.440 --> 01:24:49.760
It'll be for our grandsons, basically, where they can enjoy a better

01:24:49.760 --> 01:24:54.400
system than what we have, because we've rebuilt those safeguards and the

01:24:54.400 --> 01:24:58.800
places where men and women mingle with, you know, marriage in mind

01:24:58.800 --> 01:25:00.400
at some point in the future.

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We don't have that.

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So we make the best of what we have and aim to

01:25:06.320 --> 01:25:08.560
give something better to future generations.

01:25:08.560 --> 01:25:10.960
So I wish you the the best of luck in that.

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And the same with all the men who ask about that question

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all the time.

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And like I said, I do intend to write more about the

01:25:17.440 --> 01:25:20.560
the nature of marriage and some of the practical considerations and things

01:25:20.560 --> 01:25:21.760
going forward.

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Because it's a very important issue.

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More of the millennial generation and the zoomer generation need to be

01:25:29.840 --> 01:25:31.440
getting married and having children.

01:25:31.440 --> 01:25:34.560
It's a you know if you don't show up for the future,

01:25:34.560 --> 01:25:38.320
then the other side wins, sort of thing, right?

01:25:38.320 --> 01:25:42.480
But I think that's probably it for this week.

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Like I said, if I missed your question in the chat, by

01:25:46.240 --> 01:25:50.640
all means, please go ahead and submit that on the forum.

01:25:50.640 --> 01:25:53.680
That is always the best way to submit questions.

01:25:53.680 --> 01:25:56.720
The link should be in the description of the stream.

01:25:56.720 --> 01:26:00.160
Regardless of which platform you happen to be using.

01:26:00.160 --> 01:26:06.320
I did go through and clean up the pending questions topic, so

01:26:06.320 --> 01:26:09.680
you can look at that and now it is should be much

01:26:09.680 --> 01:26:11.920
easier to read that and look at that.

01:26:11.920 --> 01:26:16.880
I've also gone through and cleaned up all of the previous episodes.

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They should all have their question lists now, the questions that were

01:26:19.520 --> 01:26:21.120
answered in the episode.

01:26:21.120 --> 01:26:25.120
I didn't do time stamps yet, I'll get to work on that.

01:26:25.120 --> 01:26:27.920
I also have all of the transcripts up, so now all of

01:26:27.920 --> 01:26:30.560
the answers and things are searchable on the forum.

01:26:30.560 --> 01:26:32.240
That's the best way to do it.

01:26:32.240 --> 01:26:35.120
I have full control over that so I can make sure that

01:26:35.120 --> 01:26:37.360
everything is up to date and functioning.

01:26:37.360 --> 01:26:41.360
At any rate, thank you to those who submitted questions and for

01:26:41.360 --> 01:26:43.360
those of you who participated in the chat.

01:26:43.360 --> 01:26:46.640
You can also of course submit questions in the chat, Telegram, X,

01:26:46.640 --> 01:26:50.480
other places like I said, I try to collect those and compile

01:26:50.480 --> 01:26:54.160
them. If I miss it, go ahead and flag me again, tag

01:26:54.160 --> 01:26:56.880
me on X or whatever it happens to be.

01:26:56.880 --> 01:27:00.000
But thank you for all of you for participating as always.

01:27:00.000 --> 01:27:02.000
It's always good to be able to answer these.

01:27:02.320 --> 01:27:07.440
these questions and since it is Friday night, those of you who

01:27:07.440 --> 01:27:10.000
are looking for a wife, at least if it's a reasonable time

01:27:10.000 --> 01:27:12.400
for you, it's you know nine o'clock here, but it's a little

01:27:12.400 --> 01:27:15.440
earlier for those of you still on the west coast, go out

01:27:15.440 --> 01:27:16.960
and have a nice weekend.

01:27:16.960 --> 01:27:18.560
Go out and do something tomorrow.

01:27:18.560 --> 01:27:19.760
Enjoy God's creation.

01:27:19.760 --> 01:27:22.400
Always good to get out in the sun a little bit.

01:27:22.400 --> 01:27:24.240
Maybe not in the middle of the day here in the south.

01:27:24.240 --> 01:27:26.000
It's been like a hundred degrees.

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Anyway, have a good weekend, a good rest of your night, and

01:27:29.280 --> 01:27:32.800
go to church on Sunday, and I will see you all next

01:27:32.800 --> 01:27:35.120
week. Until then, God bless