# SC Episodes **URL:** https://omnifora.com/c/stone-choir/sc-episodes/10.md [Latest](https://omnifora.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://omnifora.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://omnifora.com/tags.md) --- ## [About the SC Episodes category](https://omnifora.com/t/about-the-sc-episodes-category/174)
**Author:** [@mahler](https://omnifora.com/u/mahler)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/about-the-sc-episodes-category/174 "2025-08-29T18:58:06Z")
This category exists to show Stone Choir episodes and related resources — it is not open for comments. Use the following paragraphs for a longer description, or to establish category guidelines or rules: Why should p… --- ## [For All Things, a Time](https://omnifora.com/t/for-all-things-a-time/4672)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/for-all-things-a-time/4672 "2025-11-07T20:43:01Z")
For everything there is a time, and a right time for every matter under heaven: a right time to give birth, and a right time to die; a right time to plant, and a right time to pluck up what is planted; a right t… --- ## [For All Things, a Time](https://omnifora.com/t/for-all-things-a-time/6008)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/for-all-things-a-time/6008 "2025-11-07T20:00:00Z")
For everything there is a time, and a right time for every matter under heaven: a right time to give birth, and a right time to die; a right time to plant, and a right time to pluck up what is planted; a right tim… --- ## [Perspicuous and Vulgar: On the Clarity of Scripture](https://omnifora.com/t/perspicuous-and-vulgar-on-the-clarity-of-scripture/274)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2025, 4:39am UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/perspicuous-and-vulgar-on-the-clarity-of-scripture/274 "2025-10-26T04:39:52Z")
Scripture is the Word of the Lord, and the Word of the Lord is understandable by men of average intelligence. Those who deny the perspicuity of the Scriptures are wolves who accuse God of lying and who seek to lead the s… --- ## [A Name No Man Knows](https://omnifora.com/t/a-name-no-man-knows/275)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2025, 4:32am UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/a-name-no-man-knows/275 "2025-10-26T04:32:14Z")
We are told to be as harmless as doves, but also to be as wise as serpents. There are times to speak and times to hold ones tongue; there are times to speak under one's Christian name and times to speak under a pseudonym… --- ## [Election in View of Headship](https://omnifora.com/t/election-in-view-of-headship/276)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/election-in-view-of-headship/276 "2025-10-26T04:24:20Z")
God acts in time via means. When it comes to faith, He acts through the Means of Grace. When it comes to Election, He acts through headship — fathers, grandfathers, chiefs, kings, tribes, nations. God does not act arbitr… --- ## [Christian Nationalism Is Submission to God](https://omnifora.com/t/christian-nationalism-is-submission-to-god/277)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2025, 4:16am UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/christian-nationalism-is-submission-to-god/277 "2025-10-26T04:16:44Z")
You may have heard of the 'two kingdoms' doctrine and have certainly heard of the 'separation of Church and State', but is either of these a truly Christian position? Is God Lord only of His Church or does He also rule t… --- ## [According to Their Generations](https://omnifora.com/t/according-to-their-generations/278)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 26, 2025, 4:14am UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/according-to-their-generations/278 "2025-10-26T04:14:01Z")
Most modern Christians have bought into the cultural argument that the provenance of ideas does not matter, but this is not the Scriptural view of things. God is deeply interested in genealogy — and that includes the gen… --- ## [Translating Scripture from Greek](https://omnifora.com/t/translating-scripture-from-greek/4492)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/translating-scripture-from-greek/4492 "2025-09-17T19:00:00Z")
In this final episode of the Septuagint (LXX) series, we discuss what needs to be done to produce a proper translation of the LXX in English. This a technical episode, but a vital one. There should exist in every languag… --- ## [Confessional Idolatry](https://omnifora.com/t/confessional-idolatry/183)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/confessional-idolatry/183 "2025-03-12T19:00:00Z")
A true confession is not simply a matter of speaking a truth; rather, it is a matter of speaking the truth that is demanded under the circumstances. In fact, it is entirely possible to lie or to deceive with the truth. T… --- ## [The Septuagint — New Testament, Part 1](https://omnifora.com/t/the-septuagint-new-testament-part-1/290)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 2, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/the-septuagint-new-testament-part-1/290 "2025-09-02T19:00:00Z")
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 cover ci… --- ## [The Septuagint — New Testament, Part 2](https://omnifora.com/t/the-septuagint-new-testament-part-2/4453)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/the-septuagint-new-testament-part-2/4453 "2025-09-10T19:00:00Z")
This episode is our closing argument for the Septuagint (LXX) and its proper place as the Word of God — the Scripture of the Early Church, the Apostles, and Christ Himself. Once you have finished this episode, you will n… --- ## [Translating Scripture from Greek](https://omnifora.com/t/translating-scripture-from-greek/6009)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/translating-scripture-from-greek/6009 "2025-09-17T19:00:00Z")
In this final episode of the Septuagint (LXX) series, we discuss what needs to be done to produce a proper translation of the LXX in English. This a technical episode, but a vital one. There should exist in every lan… --- ## [Excellence](https://omnifora.com/t/excellence/184)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/excellence/184 "2025-02-26T20:00:00Z")
In every endeavor, there is an excellence. A man can be excellent in his field, regardless or what it may be, or excellent at his undertaking, also regardless of what it may be. There are excellent paintings, excellent p… --- ## [The Septuagint — Timelines and Other Alterations](https://omnifora.com/t/the-septuagint-timelines-and-other-alterations/176)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 12, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/the-septuagint-timelines-and-other-alterations/176 "2025-08-12T19:00:00Z")
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 in st… --- ## [The Septuagint — New Testament, Part 2](https://omnifora.com/t/the-septuagint-new-testament-part-2/6010)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/the-septuagint-new-testament-part-2/6010 "2025-09-10T19:00:00Z")
This episode is our closing argument for the Septuagint (LXX) and its proper place as the Word of God — the Scripture of the Early Church, the Apostles, and Christ Himself. Once you have finished this episode, you wi… --- ## [Purpose and Motivation](https://omnifora.com/t/purpose-and-motivation/185)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 19, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/purpose-and-motivation/185 "2025-02-19T20:00:00Z")
For the moral man, duty forms the core of life, but duty must be translated into purpose before a man can act upon it. And purpose, standing alone, benefits man not at all, for one must also have the motivation to pursue… --- ## [The Septuagint — Wisdom Literature](https://omnifora.com/t/the-septuagint-wisdom-literature/177)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 2, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/the-septuagint-wisdom-literature/177 "2025-07-02T19:00:00Z")
As between the Septuagint (LXX) and the rabbinic text (MT), there are significant differences in the books that comprise the wisdom literature (i.e., Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon). These differenc… --- ## [Through the Window: On Frame](https://omnifora.com/t/through-the-window-on-frame/273)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 14, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/through-the-window-on-frame/273 "2022-12-14T20:00:00Z")
What is the difference between an immigrant and an invader? Well, it depends. The difference may be one of legality (i.e., the positive law) or it may be one of frame. If one man tells you that he is “for immigration” an… --- ## [Neglected Matters: Shaking off the Dust, Usury, Woman and Work, Head Coverings](https://omnifora.com/t/neglected-matters-shaking-off-the-dust-usury-woman-and-work-head-coverings/272)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 21, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/neglected-matters-shaking-off-the-dust-usury-woman-and-work-head-coverings/272 "2022-12-21T20:00:00Z")
In a sense, there are no minor doctrines in Scripture. It is only in relation to major, central doctrines (e.g., Atonement, Justification), that any Scriptural doctrine can be termed 'minor'. However, the Word of God is … --- ## [Paywalling God](https://omnifora.com/t/paywalling-god/271)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 28, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/paywalling-god/271 "2022-12-28T20:00:00Z")
Who owns the words of Scripture? Does rearranging them change the answer? We Christians living in the West have inherited a copyright — really, an entire 'intellectual property' — regime that rests upon a number of prem… --- ## [Speaking the Truth Plainly](https://omnifora.com/t/speaking-the-truth-plainly/270)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/speaking-the-truth-plainly/270 "2023-01-04T20:00:00Z")
Some subjects are more important than others. No amount of discussing the best color to paint a room is likely to endanger the souls of anyone participating in the discussion or just listening to it, but the same cannot … --- ## [Amongst the Ashes](https://omnifora.com/t/amongst-the-ashes/269)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/amongst-the-ashes/269 "2023-01-11T20:00:00Z")
Despair is never the correct response. We live in the ashes of Christendom, and the fires are still burning. Our forefathers were faithless and we now suffer the — accelerating — consequences. However, God has clearly pr… --- ## [Perfect Hatred](https://omnifora.com/t/perfect-hatred/268)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/perfect-hatred/268 "2023-01-18T20:00:00Z")
As Christians, we are required to affirm the whole counsel of God — and that particularly includes those parts that the modern world would prefer to ignore, or even to condemn. We are told that love is a matter of permis… --- ## [Here We Stand](https://omnifora.com/t/here-we-stand/267)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 25, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/here-we-stand/267 "2023-01-25T20:00:00Z")
We are Lutherans — this is not something we hide. Neither do we hide the problems in our church body (in fact, we highlight them on this very podcast). However, that we recognize there are problems does not mean that we … --- ## [The Enemy’s Playbook](https://omnifora.com/t/the-enemy-s-playbook/266)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/the-enemy-s-playbook/266 "2023-02-01T20:00:00Z")
The enemy has a playbook. If you learn his playbook, then you can identify enemy action. In today’s episode, we review the enemy playbook, and show how it has been used to destroy the West and is currently being used to … --- ## [On Human Race: Foundational Matters](https://omnifora.com/t/on-human-race-foundational-matters/265)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/on-human-race-foundational-matters/265 "2023-02-08T20:00:00Z")
We are all sons of Adam — no Christian can deny this. However, we are not all sons of Japheth, nor are we all sons of Ham, and nor are we all sons of Shem. The descent of the nations (i.e., races) of man are given in the… --- ## [On Human Race: Behavior and Society](https://omnifora.com/t/on-human-race-behavior-and-society/264)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 15, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/on-human-race-behavior-and-society/264 "2023-02-15T20:00:00Z")
What maintains societies? What destroys them? There are many factors that contribute to whether a society flourishes or fails — natural resources, weather conditions, IQ \[two weeks\], et cetera —, but a fundamental, unavo… --- ## [On Human Race: Scripture and Soteriology](https://omnifora.com/t/on-human-race-scripture-and-soteriology/263)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 22, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/on-human-race-scripture-and-soteriology/263 "2023-02-22T20:00:00Z")
Race is a biological and a theological reality. The God Who created the Universe also created the races of men. The differences between and among the races of men have very real consequences for society, for neither the … --- ## [On Human Race: IQ](https://omnifora.com/t/on-human-race-iq/262)
**Author:** [@stonechoir](https://omnifora.com/u/stonechoir)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/on-human-race-iq/262 "2023-03-01T20:00:00Z")
God has given to men many attributes, and these attributes are not evenly or equally distributed. Some men are taller than others; some men are faster than others; and some men are more intelligent than others. The subje… [Next page](https://omnifora.com/c/stone-choir/sc-episodes/10.md?page=1)