# Stone Choir **URL:** https://omnifora.com/c/stone-choir/7.md?page=3 [Latest](https://omnifora.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://omnifora.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://omnifora.com/tags.md) **Page:** 4 --- ## [Love: Marriage & Sex](https://omnifora.com/t/love-marriage-sex/206)
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Marriage is fundamental not only to individual men and women, but also to society writ large. Without marriage, there are no families; without families, there are no nations. The first relationship between two human bein… --- ## [Target Selection](https://omnifora.com/t/target-selection/205)
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In any conflict, there are at least two sides. In the life of man upon this earth, there is constant conflict with and against the world, the flesh, and the devil. As Christians, it is incumbent upon us — particularly as… --- ## [Confronting Sin](https://omnifora.com/t/confronting-sin/204)
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When confronting sin, the Christian must distinguish between the private and the public. The private or secret sin should generally not be published (and is subject to Matthew 18), but the public sin is generally already… --- ## [Seeing Satan on the Move, Part I of II](https://omnifora.com/t/seeing-satan-on-the-move-part-i-of-ii/203)
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This week’s episode is a crossover with the Renaissance of Men podcast from Will Spencer. In a wide-ranging discussion (over more than six hours), we covered everything from the reasons we started the Stone Choir podcast… --- ## [On Violence](https://omnifora.com/t/on-violence/202)
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‘The life of man upon the earth is warfare, and he is born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.’ — Job 5,7 We live in a fallen world. We can speak of a perfect world — and that is assuredly our goal and our d… --- ## [Making Peace](https://omnifora.com/t/making-peace/201)
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“For unto us a Child is born and unto us a Son is given; dominion shall rest upon His shoulders, and His name shall be called Angel of Great Counsel, for I will bring peace upon the rulers and well-being to Him. Great is… --- ## [Supernatural Intervention](https://omnifora.com/t/supernatural-intervention/200)
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Deism posits that God created the world, and then walked away — a sort of clockmaker with the Universe being His clock. To the contrary, Christianity advances a view of God as active in His Creation. Certainly, every sin… --- ## [The End Times](https://omnifora.com/t/the-end-times/199)
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Eschatology is the study of the end of all things. Scripture speaks, in many places, about the end times and what will take place leading up to and in those days. However, such matters are not the core of the Christian f… --- ## [Power and Authority](https://omnifora.com/t/power-and-authority/198)
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When things are proceeding as they should, when matters are rightly organized, power and authority are virtually synonymous, and they are at least reposed within the same men. But things in this life do not always procee… --- ## [Honor and Betrayal](https://omnifora.com/t/honor-and-betrayal/197)
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Honor and loyalty serve as the foundation of any civilization worthy of the name and any culture worthy of respect. As these have faded from our culture, we have seen a rise of treacherous — and even treasonous — behavio… --- ## [Land, Place, and Territory](https://omnifora.com/t/land-place-and-territory/196)
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The connection of mankind to the earth, to the soil is not accidental. It was from the dust that God formed the first man, Adam, and it is to dust that we shall all one day return. We must not treat the earth as accident… --- ## [Truth and Lies](https://omnifora.com/t/truth-and-lies/195)
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When Christ says that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, the word used for “truth” is ἀλήθεια, which includes within its lexical scope ‘uncovering’ or ‘revelation’ (it is a negating word, like “innocence” in English… --- ## [Image, Idol, and Symbol](https://omnifora.com/t/image-idol-and-symbol/194)
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Man was made in the image of God. This certainly sounds good — even impressive —, and it is frequently used by modern (supposedly) Christian commentators to justify all sorts of things. But what even is an image? If you … --- ## [Sanctified Image of God](https://omnifora.com/t/sanctified-image-of-god/193)
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All men are made in the image of God. Not all men are in the image of God. These two statements may seem contradictory, but they are not, because they reference different aspects of what it means to be an image of God — … --- ## [Honor and Shame](https://omnifora.com/t/honor-and-shame/192)
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Honor was once something that was taken deadly seriously in the West. It was not a matter about which one joked. A man would go to great lengths to maintain his honor, and a woman would go to great lengths to defend hers… --- ## [Honor and Loyalty](https://omnifora.com/t/honor-and-loyalty/191)
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Honor and loyalty are closely related concepts — even nearly, but not quite, identical. In this third (and final) part of our series on honor, we address the matter of loyalty — what it is, what it is not, when it is due… --- ## [Persecution and Perseverance](https://omnifora.com/t/persecution-and-perseverance/190)
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We often think of persecution as a matter external to the church, as something inflicted on the church; however, persecution is often — and these days most often — a matter within the church — the persecutors, the goats … --- ## [Justice and Retribution](https://omnifora.com/t/justice-and-retribution/189)
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Retribution is the debt that man owes to justice. Modern society would attempt to mislead you into thinking that rehabilitation or distribution or restoration or mercy are part of justice, but they are not. God is clear … --- ## [Conflicted Interest](https://omnifora.com/t/conflicted-interest/188)
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Every man has a collection of interests. A man has an interest in his family; a man has an interest in his job; a man has an interest in his financial positions; a man has an interest in his city; a man has an interest i… --- ## [Friend and Enemy](https://omnifora.com/t/friend-and-enemy/187)
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Men do not need to be told that they have friends and they have enemies, and yet many modern Christians have been so propagandized by eisegesis and so misled by false teachers that they no longer believe that a Christian… --- ## [The Magdeburg Confession](https://omnifora.com/t/the-magdeburg-confession/186)
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There is no blanket Christian duty to submit to wrongful authority; in fact, under certain circumstances, the Christian may even have an affirmative duty to resist the tyrant — even the tyrant who may claim to be a Chris… --- ## [Addicted to Psychologizing](https://omnifora.com/t/addicted-to-psychologizing/182)
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Man is an animal, created on the sixth day with all the other land creatures. And yet man is more than an animal, for man has not only body, but also mind and soul. To ignore the soul is to fall into Materialism; to igno… --- ## [The Context Window](https://omnifora.com/t/the-context-window/181)
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All men have limitations — be they physical, intellectual, or something else. One such limitation is a thing we call, in the technology fields, a “context window”. In essence, a context window is the amount of relevant i… --- ## [The Septuagint — Near Eastern History](https://omnifora.com/t/the-septuagint-near-eastern-history/180)
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The Word of God has been preserved — miraculously — down through the ages, faithfully transmitted forward from past generations to us. This is according to God’s promises, and yet God nowhere (in the Old Testament) says … --- ## [The Septuagint — European History](https://omnifora.com/t/the-septuagint-european-history/179)
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The story of how Hebrew was smuggled into the Western Church is long and complicated; it spans centuries and involves hundreds of men. In this episode, we have narrowed down the story to a handful of key figures who play… --- ## [The Septuagint — Christology](https://omnifora.com/t/the-septuagint-christology/178)
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As between the Septuagint (LXX) and the rabbinic text (MT), there are significant differences in many verses that deal with Christology. The MT is not always ‘less Christological’, for that would have been a poor-quality… --- ## [Talking Heads: On Headship, Teaching, and Women in the Church](https://omnifora.com/t/talking-heads-on-headship-teaching-and-women-in-the-church/279)
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Some issues arise in time, some issues fade with time, and some issues are perennial. That which is founded in the nature of Creation, which flows from the nature of God, never ceases to be relevant to His Church, to His… --- ## [The Septuagint — New Testament, Part 1](https://omnifora.com/t/the-septuagint-new-testament-part-1/6011)
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In this episode and the next, we cover the places where the New Testament cites the Old Testament and there is a difference between the Septuagint (LXX) and the rabbinic text. In this first (of two) episodes, we cove… --- ## [Discussion: Talking Heads: On Headship, Teaching, and Women in the Church](https://omnifora.com/t/discussion-talking-heads-on-headship-teaching-and-women-in-the-church/285)
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This is the discussion thread for the following episode: Episode Information Name (and link): “Talking Heads: On Headship, Teaching, and Women in the Church” Number: 0001 Season: 01 (2022–2024) Canonical URL: https://… --- ## [The Septuagint — Timelines and Other Alterations](https://omnifora.com/t/the-septuagint-timelines-and-other-alterations/6012)
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The rabbis made a number of different kinds of edits to their version of what some call ‘Scripture’ (i.e., the Rabbinic or Masoretic Text). In some places, they fiddled with numbers, in some they changed names, and i… [Previous page](https://omnifora.com/c/stone-choir/7.md?page=2) [Next page](https://omnifora.com/c/stone-choir/7.md?page=4)