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- Date: 2026-07(Jul)-24(Fri)
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Topics Covered
- What is the ruling on purchasing a former church building for use as a private residence? Is there any moral or theological distinction between buying such a property after it has already been converted and purchasing it with the intention of converting it oneself?
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- Could you elaborate upon the requirement of the Trinity for creation?
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- Miscegenation and being American
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- Size of polities
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- Guiding Friends to Church
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- Germans and Celts
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- Annhiliationism
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- Anti Muslim attack in Utah
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- Which punishments, other than the death penalty for murder, are we obligated to copy from the civil law? Why?
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- Any thoughts on the PCA condemning kinism? Tried to ask on telegram - had to send request to join your group (sorry I’m new to telegram).
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- Do you believe the authenticity of the released Charlie Kirk texts showing he did not in fact have a positive view on jews or isreal?
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- Can you explain what it means to sear one’s conscience?
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- You’ve mentioned on X that including other races alongside Whites is stretching the definition of “man.” Could you elaborate on this?
P.S. any chance Woe comes back? We miss him.::–::
- What historical works that cover the Reformation would you recommend? I have James Wylie’s History of Protestantism on my shelf but have yet to delve into it. Are there any works by Lutheran authors which you would prefer?
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- Did Adam’s children and Noah’s grandchildren have to engage in sibling incest (respectively) to populate the earth?
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- In the New Earth, will humans get to play with animals? Will the animals be forbidden from harming people?
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- What are your thoughts on the old KKK and the new KKK?
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- Could you expand more on circumcision being a sin?
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- Could you expand on your view that the GC has been fulfilled? When I google about it, the results just call it full preterism.
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- I am a wasp Canadian, my wife is American. can we move to the usa my wife is a wasp and 7th generation usa citizen.
- If Christ came to save the lost sheep of israel. Does that refer to Us today , or a specific group in nthe past. How would i know i am descended from them?
Transcript
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It is the 24th of July, 2026.
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I am Corey J.
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Mahler, and this is At Any Cost.
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This is episode 36, a Q&A episode.
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And I was going to say, as part of the housekeeping, that OBS had an update, and let’s hope everything works, but that’s already not the case.
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So let’s hope everything else works.
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But at any rate, I was able to fix the audio issue quickly, so everything should be fine.
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Although the chat is not working again, I’m going to have to pull that up in Restream, instead of having it up in OBS.
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Of course, it’s now not loading in Restream.
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There we go.
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Okay.
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Now I have, of course, my video is not working in the web interface, but that’s fine.
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I don’t need to see myself.
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I know what I look like.
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So now I can get into the questions because I can actually see the chat now.
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I don’t know that I will get to the questions in chat because I already have 30 questions in the show notes for tonight, and I am unlikely to get through those all.
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Partly because I have bread in the oven, and so I can’t stay over too long or else it will no longer be bread.
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So let’s get into the questions.
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Question one.
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What is the ruling on purchasing a former church building for use as a private residence?
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Is there any moral or theological distinction between buying such a property after it has already been converted and purchasing it with the intention of converting it oneself?
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I think the general answer to this is that as long as you don’t do it with the intent to desecrate the property or do something that is wicked, I think it’s generally fine.
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It’s not ideal, obviously.
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I could start off by saying it’s not ideal.
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But at that point, you’re dealing with the downstream consequences of an upstream problem.
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The problem, of course, being the church was empty and already abandoned, and there’s nothing you can do about that.
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That already happened.
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That’s not your doing, and that’s not a good thing.
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God has already left the place, right?
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And God probably left a long time ago, because if the church had the building, the congregation died off such that they had to sell the building, or, you know, maybe there’s a case where something good happened and a church grew and outgrew its building and moved, but in that case, they should have sold it to a smaller congregation so they would have a space.
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Generally speaking, when you have a church building that goes up for sale, it’s because the congregation died.
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So God has already left that place.
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So don’t obviously take over this building with the intent to do something wicked, right?
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Don’t turn it into some sort of depraved club.
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That’s been done in some cases.
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I can think of some of those.
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Don’t do that.
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But if you’re turning it into a private residence or something like that, I don’t think it’s necessarily inappropriate.
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It wouldn’t be my personal preference, of course.
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I’d rather see it be a church again.
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But certainly if it’s already been converted, then the building itself is not per se sacred, right?
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It’s God’s presence and the gathering of God’s people that makes it sacred.
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And so those things having departed, the building is profane again in the sense of being ordinary.
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So not preferable, but not something that’s going to be a sin if you go ahead and do that.
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At the same time, I would certainly say, don’t destroy an old, beautiful church building that’s been around for centuries.
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If possible, restore it and rebuild a congregation in it.
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But certainly, there’s a wide range of buildings we’re talking about, particularly in the US context.
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So converting some church buildings is not going to be as much of an affront to, say, beauty in this case, as converting some 300-year-old stone, masonry, beautiful church structure that should remain a church or some other building that is sacred in some way.
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Question two.
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There we go.
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In one stream you did with someone, you briefly expounded upon the idea of God being a Trinity in that because of the relationship of the persons of the Holy Trinity, this love between the persons naturally begat creation as a result of this interpersonal and advanced relationship.
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I want to know more about this and if this came from Augustine or not.
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So I haven’t really written anything lengthy about this yet.
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I will at some point.
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I don’t know when I’ll get that done.
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I have some notes here and there.
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I’m not even sure where they are right now, but I can give the brief rundown of the argument, but it’s related to an argument that I’ve made for…
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not the existence of God, because I think there are better arguments for arguing for the existence, for proving the existence of God.
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But I think that this one builds up to making it so that you have to conclude that God is triune, which obviously means the Christian view is right, because Christians have the only triune God.
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Everyone else has a unitary God, or there are a few weird edge cases where they have God with kind of two persons, but usually it’s more two aspects of one God, and usually that gets into the sort of, like not yin and yang quite, but like God being good and bad at the same time.
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You see that in a lot of places.
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It’s basically Gnosticism.
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But the argument here that I would make, and it’s not from Augustine, I can go ahead and say that, just this is my argument.
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In fact, I don’t know that any of the church fathers make this argument.
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I can’t think of any anyway, but I’m not the best person when it comes to encyclopedic knowledge of the church fathers, so maybe someone else can say that, yes, someone approached this.
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But at any rate, my argument would be that if you had a unitary god, right, one person in the godhead, then he would be such that he is so…
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And we have to speak in human terms here, because there aren’t really words to describe what I’m saying in, you know, quickly.
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I could do this over many pages, but bear with me that I’m going to use, you know, to paraphrase Paul as it were, to speak in human terms.
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But a unitary god would be so perfect and self-complete, as it were, that he would subsist totally in himself, and nothing would ever be externalized, because he is unitary, he is all in all, in such a way that there is nothing else, and never will be anything else.
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If you expand that out to two persons, and not in the Gnostic way of good and evil, but in the…
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not even proper way, but in this hypothetical way of two persons still being good, still being of one essence, still being God, I believe that it naturally would be the case that you have to conclude the two persons would have such relationship, it would simply be a back and forth.
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And it would be roughly equivalent to the unitary godhead, because you would have nothing externalized, there would be nothing external to this relationship between the two persons, a give and take for all eternity past, future, present.
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Whereas at Trinity, you have this sort of natural momentum to the thing, because you have the relationship of certainly, let’s say, the father to the son, right?
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And the son to the father.
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But you also have the relationship of the father to the spirit through the son.
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And you can do this for each of the persons of the Trinity, right?
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We’re just dealing with some very basic combinatorial math here.
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So, I believe that that naturally externalizes in a certain way, because you, again, have that sort of momentum in the relationship of the persons.
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And God being super abundant in his goodness and his love certainly plays a role in creation.
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The fathers certainly speak about that at length.
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You have this externalizing of that relationship into what becomes creation.
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And so, the super abundant nature of God’s love extends, then, beyond the persons of the Trinity into the created things, and you have the working out of the Trinity in creation, is the sort of quick rundown, as it were, of the argument.
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Like I said, at some point, I will expand on that.
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But, no, that’s not from Augustine or any of the fathers.
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As far as I’m aware, none of them wrote on that specific argument.
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If someone knows of some church father who wrote something like that, and then, or something close to it, feel free to reply to the show topic on the form and let me know, because I would be willing to read that and see what he had to say.
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Question three, a return to a topic on which we touch many times, unsurprisingly.
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Question three, there are many Americans whose ancestors were here for generations before them, but either their mother or father married with another race to conceive them, how far must the racial divide be in order for the child to be considered foreign?
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For example, my family, other than my paternal grandfather, all immigrated to the United States from Germany in the early 1800s.
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My grandfather was a white Puerto Rican who immigrated to the US in the 1950s in order to join the military.
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I grew up and live on the same street my ancestors immigrated to and founded a church in the 1900s and continue to farm the land they farmed.
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I feel a deep connection to the soil and would consider myself to be an American.
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But I also understand that due to my parents’ miscegenation, that could come into question for some.
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What are your thoughts and whether people like me are truly American or not?
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So, this relates to, obviously, a topic that comes up quite frequently, which is essentially, where do we draw the line, right?
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That’s the core of this is where do we draw the line.
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The specifics of this case, they matter, obviously, because this is, like I’ve said before, a fact-dependent inquiry.
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There are times where you don’t need the facts, you can make a general ruling, there are times you need the facts, and you need the facts for this sort of thing.
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But there are many who have asked me this question, and eventually, I probably will draw up a set of guidelines, rules, whatever you want to call them, just so people have something to which they can refer and get my answer for any particular case.
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You can just run down the logic instead of my having to go through and analyze each particular one, right?
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But I’ll give the sort of general sense.
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I won’t give all the specifics.
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I haven’t necessarily worked out all of those.
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Some of them are extremely obvious, right?
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You have the issue of, certainly, Africans are so far distinct from us that they need to be in their own countries and not here, so someone who’s half has to go back.
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The same thing for Indians and obviously, Jews are not compatible with our country.
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So you have the obvious cases where you can make hardline calls, but then you have edge cases, right?
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Because I think, for instance, maybe Mexico is probably one of the best examples, right?
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You have the large bulk of the population is clearly extremely racially distinct from Americans, right?
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Because they are intermixed with the Aztec, the Maya, in some cases, Africans, they’re mixed to the point with all these different populations.
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They are extremely racially distinct, but you have the upper tiny percentage, it’s single digits, but tiny percentage of Mexico that’s still Spanish.
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And you have the same thing in certain parts of South America.
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You have an upper class in Brazil that is largely, these days actually quite a bit of German because of post-war considerations.
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Same thing for Argentina, other parts of that world as well.
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Puerto Rico is in the same boat, because Puerto Rico until probably like the 19…
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probably actually the 1950s, give or take, had a very significant white population.
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And I actually mean like white, not white Hispanic as they use the term sometimes for the US census and things, but white.
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And so if your grandfather in this case was just a white man who happened to live in Puerto Rico, that’s not a problem.
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Is he American?
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No, he’s not.
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He was Puerto Rican or whatever he was.
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If maybe he moved to Puerto Rico or his grandparents, I don’t know what the family line was there, but someone moved to Puerto Rico.
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He was there for a while.
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His line was there for a while, and then he moved here.
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If he’s white, that didn’t change him.
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He’s still white.
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There are some distinctions.
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You’re going to have some different conceptions or cultural differences, things like that, from living in that place.
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But, you know, I’m not German because I live in Tennessee, and I lived in California before that.
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All my ancestors were German, except for the small part of my line that’s Scottish.
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The Celts are German, too.
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There’s a question about that later on.
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I may get to it.
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So if he was just a white man living in Puerto Rico, there’s no problem there.
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No one can really object to that.
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The only thing they’re going to object to is Puerto Rican, because they have this conception of what a Puerto Rican is.
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But it’s not true for the entire population.
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The same thing as for Mexico, for that, again, in Mexico’s age, a tiny percentage of the upper class.
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So it depends on the facts.
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I don’t have enough facts here to make that call, but you said white Puerto Rican, so if your assessment is correct, I see no problem here, because that would make him, you know, Spanish or whatever he happens to be, because there were a handful of different European groups that moved to that area, so I don’t know what he is.
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He could be German.
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I mean, that happened as well.
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But again, like I said, eventually I’ll draw up some actual guidelines or rules for this, that will make it a little easier for people to refer to that and get a general sense of it.
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I don’t know when I’ll get that done, but the request keeps coming up, so it’s definitely moving up my list of things on which to spend my time.
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Question four.
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Given that men can maintain only about 150 social relationships, Dunbar’s number, should we reconsider the mass urbanization of humanity?
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This is one of those questions that I could probably talk about for hours, but I don’t want to do that because I’d like to try to get through a number of questions tonight.
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I am not in the camp on the right that thinks cities are inherently bad.
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I don’t think they are.
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I don’t think cities are per se bad.
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I think that cities present a unique set of challenges for the governing authority, for people, for the church.
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But I don’t think that those make them worse than rural areas, you know, suburban areas don’t.
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They’re a weird medium and they exist for various reasons historically and for various reasons racially in the US context.
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But the real divide right is urban and rural.
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And I don’t think urban is per se bad.
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We’ve always had cities, right?
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Yes, one of the first cities founded was founded by a wicked man, but he was doing it in order to, you know, sort of at God, right?
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He was not being a nice man at that case, but at that time in that case.
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I don’t think cities are per se bad.
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We’ve always had them down through human history, and they do serve to concentrate human capital in a certain way, where you have interactions and you have this density of ability that you don’t have in the rural context.
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You don’t see rural areas creating technological advancements.
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Rarely, I mean, yes, obviously, it has happened in history, but it is usually concentrated in urban areas.
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You can’t have a university without having some sort of city to sustain the thing.
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All of these things are part of how we live as human beings.
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Could we have an entirely rural country?
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Yes, with the caveat that someone else would have to maintain international peace, because I don’t think that an entirely rural country is going to have the military might to defend its own borders, and certainly not the military might to maintain peace elsewhere in the world, to maintain its internal peace, because obviously the rest of the world affects us, as we know much too well these days.
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I think that the issue of social relationships and Dunbar’s number is an argument for bringing back men’s clubs and bringing back real men’s groups in the churches, and all of these things where we had little microcosms, we had your own niche in society within the larger tapestry.
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So, no, people living in a large city in the Middle Ages, and there were some large cities even in the Middle Ages and even back in Roman times, and the Greeks to some extent, and obviously other empires, before that the Persians, the Assyrians, all sorts of other groups, right, Babylonians.
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I think that what you do is you have this subset of people that are your actual social network.
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You have others with whom you interact, but they’re not in your social circle such that you’re maintaining a relationship with them socially, right?
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If you have a men’s group at church, you should know what’s going on in the lives of those men to some degree.
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Men are always a little aloof when it comes to those things, but you should be available to help the other men in your group.
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You should have some awareness of what’s going on in their life.
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At least how many children they have, if their wife’s doing well, things like that.
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Those are the people in your social circle.
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You don’t necessarily know everything about your baker, or your tailor, or your butcher, whoever it happens to be.
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That man has his own social circle.
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You may be part of it.
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You may not.
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I don’t think that that’s bad.
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I think that you can have a society in which you have this stratification of the different layers of, I know these people well, and these people less well, and these less well.
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That’s how it works everywhere, even if it’s rural.
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If it’s rural, you just have greater distances between those who are in your immediate social circle, right?
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And maybe your next door neighbor is two miles down the road, depending on where you live.
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You know, my neighbors are a little more distant here, certainly than when I lived in California.
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In California, you can almost reach out and touch the next house.
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I would just fall out the window here.
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There’s no house there.
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So, I think the baseline is, I don’t think cities are bad.
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I think they just have to be managed properly, and you have to tamp down on some of the problems that can happen more easily in cities than in rural areas.
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But rural areas have their own challenges.
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You’re dealing with people in both cases.
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So, I don’t think having cities is bad.
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I think having cities is necessary for certain things.
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But the issues that we have with cities, to sort of touch on a tangential, but important matter before I continue the next question.
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The problem with cities is not cities.
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The problem with cities is demographics, and we all know that.
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The problem is that we have imported millions upon millions of foreigners, and they’ve taken over our downtown areas.
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And so, they’re no longer European cities.
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Look at old footage of European cities, and see that they function just fine.
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The people are doing quite well.
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They are moral, upstanding, good people.
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The problems came with so-called immigration, with demographic changes.
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So, cities aren’t the problem.
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And the fact that you can only maintain so many social relationships just means you only know a subset of the people in your given city.
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And you’re probably not going to 150 anyway, right?
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Most men don’t.
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It’s probably going to be like 30 or 40.
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Question five.
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Trying to take some notes here as I go so that I don’t miss things for the future.
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Do I have any responsibility to friends who choose to go to Elca to guide them towards a better church, or can I rely on felicitous inconsistency knowing that God gives faith even when the circumstances are not ideal?
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I do not want to get in the way as these friends have not been in church in decades prior, and I’m worried that trying to explain all of the problems with Elca will overwhelm them and push them away.
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So it’s better that they’re in church, almost any church, than not in church.
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That is, with a pretty big caveat, Elca is an extremely broad umbrella.
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There are wild, apostate, wicked, rainbow flag, Black Lives Matter, all that crap in large cities, and in some small cities, particularly in, say, the Northeast.
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However, in some areas, there are also Elca churches that aren’t that bad.
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They’re just in Elca because they were in something else that merged with Elca 40 years ago, and they never left.
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Should they have left?
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Absolutely.
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Do boomers ever bother to do that kind of thing?
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No, they don’t.
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So it depends what kind of Elca church.
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If they’re in the one that has a female pastor, so called, and flies the rainbow flag and all that stuff, they’re probably in more danger in that church than not being in that church.
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So in that case, you need to do something.
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If they’re in one of the churches that just happens to be Elca but isn’t that bad, and the same thing is true, right?
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For Presbyterians and others, there’s the spectrum, right?
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There are the crazy, far left, radical Marxist churches and the really good ones and everything in between.
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So you have to make the assessment of what kind of church that is.
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If it’s a decent church, then you can slowly nudge them toward better things.
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If it’s a really bad church, you need to be more aggressive in stepping in to fix the problem.
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Because if they continually hear apostate theology, it will be harder in the future to undo that harm and bring them to an actual belief, to proper belief.
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So make the assessment of how bad the church is.
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I don’t know which one it is, because again, that umbrella is too broad.
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So if it’s a really bad church, you need to be more aggressive in trying to get them to do something else.
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If it’s an okay church, then great, at least, they’re hearing the word of God.
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It could be better, but that’s true of most churches.
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Just keep talking to them about the faith, and get them to, on their own, recognize some of the problems.
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And then when the opportunity presents, perhaps you can get them into a better church.
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But you have to make that assessment of how bad the church is.
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Question 6.
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Okay, I am going to get the question on the Germans and the Celts.
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I forgot how far down the list it was.
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I was curious if you could explain the connection between Celtic and Germanic peoples, which you made reference to in a recent tweet.
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So, if you actually run the genetic analysis on, say, the Germans and the Scots, or the Germans and other Celtic populations, the Irish are a little more distant, the actual Irish, not the Northern Irish, who are Scottish people pretending to be Irish, but the actual Irish, they’re a little more distant, but by and large, the genetic distance between Germanic and Celtic populations is extremely minimal, to the point where we’re basically the same people.
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Maybe historically, the Celtic people, and this is in, like, prehistory, right?
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This is, we don’t necessarily have the records to make this analysis, we don’t have enough DNA samples from skeletons and things like that.
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But perhaps in prehistory, the Celts descended from one of the sons of Gomer, and not Ashkenaz, Ashkenaz being the father of the Germans.
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Maybe he was one of the other sons of Gomer.
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But over time, the tribes have moved around and mixed to the point where we’re effectively one people.
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Yes, we have national distinctions now, and we have cultural differences, certainly.
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The Germans and the Scottish are not identical culturally, but we’re not really different people, fundamentally speaking.
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You could take a German, and he’d live in Scotland just fine, or a Scotsman, he’d live in Germany just fine.
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You might get a little mad about how organized things are sometimes, but we’re the same people.
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We are such close cousins that there’s no real reason to call us distinct unless it is in terms of preserving, say, Scottish culture and German culture, which I would love to do.
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I would like our victory to be such that we preserve these distinctions culturally despite the fact that we are quite nearly brothers, not even really cousins, but quite nearly brothers genetically.
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So, we should be friendly nations on the best of terms.
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Yes, we have those cultural differences.
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Yes, it’s good to preserve those, but we’re not alien people to one another.
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So, we should view them as brothers, both groups.
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As Americans, we should view the Scottish, the British, and the Germanic nations.
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Those are Germanic nations.
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So, all the Germanic nations, we should view as brothers.
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And yes, that includes the Dutch before anyone comments about the Dutch.
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The Dutch are just swamp Germans that speak weird German, but they’re still brothers.
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On the topic of annihilationism and eternal conscious torment, could you address the verses of Matthew 10, 28, where it talks about God being able to destroy body and soul in hell, and Romans 6, 23, where it talks about the wages of sin being death?
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So, I will pull up Logos after I make a note for myself.
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Okay, let’s pull up Logos.
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And I don’t think we need the introduction, the preface to the Book of Concord talking to Emperor Charles, but we’ll pull up.
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Matthew 10, 28.
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He pretty much gave the full verse, but I will read the verse.
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And do not fear those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul.
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Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
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Right?
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So.
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And the verb there is just destroy, right?
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We’re not dealing with any weird sort of Greek here.
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You can’t see what I’m highlighting because, Logos, but at any rate, it is destroy.
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So let’s look at the next Roman 623 before I comment on them.
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For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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And so, I’m not going to do a broad study of scripture right now.
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I’m partly because I’m just not prepared for it, and you don’t need to watch me looking verses up.
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But partly because I don’t want to dedicate the next hour to this, so I can get through more questions.
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But the general sense here, the general understanding that you need to have, is that there is a contrast in scripture with regard to really two pairs.
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You have life and death, and you have eternal life and eternal death.
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Hell is eternal death.
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Death is separation from God.
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That’s sort of fundamentally what it is.
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Now, is God present everywhere?
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Yes.
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You know, in the words of the scripture, you can’t hide from God, whether you are in the deepest Hades or the furthest ends of the earth, to paraphrase the psalm.
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But you have that separation from God because you are a sinner.
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And so unless you are in Christ, that separation is in life, you’re basically a living death.
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And then in death, it’s eternal death in hell.
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And so that’s what that destruction is.
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The destruction is not annihilation.
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Greek has a verb for annihilation.
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That’s not the one there.
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It’s destroy.
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So this is not ad nihilo, right?
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It’s not annihilation, it’s not reduction, or the erasure of something.
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It’s not reduction to zero, to nothing.
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This is eternal destruction.
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That’s what hell is.
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Hell is eternal separation from God, eternal torment.
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It does not end.
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You are not annihilated.
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You do not disappear.
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The torment does not stop, because the wages of sin is death.
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And in this case, it’s eternal death.
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And the payment is infinite, because the transgress of sin is infinite.
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And so, you being a finite, the only way you can pay an infinite is with an infinite amount of time.
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That’s why you need God and the scales.
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That’s why you need Jesus Christ, because Jesus Christ being God could pay an infinite sum, because he is the infinite.
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And so, if you are in Christ, you get eternal life.
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If you are not in Christ, you get eternal death.
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It’s not annihilation, it’s destruction in the sense of being in fire that does not consume.
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It is just that eternal separation from God.
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So, it’s not annihilationism.
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There are many other places that speak of this, and I could draw out the doctrine from many other verses, and a full study would obviously do that.
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But annihilationism is simply not taught in scripture.
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There is no actual support for it.
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It is an attempt, philosophically, to soften hell.
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That’s all it is.
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And it’s only an attempt to soften hell for those who don’t understand the destruction of that which is good is evil.
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And so, God can’t destroy his creation, because God cannot do evil.
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And so, anything God has made is good.
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God will not annihilate anything he has made.
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Now, the infinite separation from God, that is due to the willful choices of the person in hell.
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God does not desire that any would be lost, but that all would come to faith and be saved.
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Scripture is abundantly clear about that as well.
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But yes, hell is eternal, and it is eternal separation from God, and you are conscious for the entire time.
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So, don’t make that choice, because it is a choice to go to hell.
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The free gift of God is available to all, because God so loved the world, Tan, Cosmon, all things, the universe.
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We could translate that more accurately than just world.
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Question 8.
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What is your opinion of the Muslim attack in Utah by Peter Larson?
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I actually had to look this one up, because I have not been really following that sort of news.
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So, the general rule for this, my general comment, I’ve commented on it before, so I don’t mind necessarily commenting on this sort of thing again, but don’t do dumb stuff, and don’t say dumb stuff on the internet, because this stuff isn’t a game, right?
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And you can make your life very unpleasant, and you can cause problems for a lot of other people as well.
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So, there’s also the fact that white men don’t behave like that.
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White men organize and achieve things as a coherent group, politically, in the broadest sense of political.
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That’s how white men do things.
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Don’t do the lone wolf nonsense, particularly, you know, you didn’t even achieve anything, like, it’s completely ineffective, you haven’t done anything.
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So, am I always going to condemn, sort of, as a moral matter, what we would call vigilanteism, right?
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In this case, sure, but you can think of the famous case of, the man’s name has slipped my mind, I’m sure someone in the chat will know it.
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But you can think of the pedophile, and the victim’s father solved that problem in an airport.
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So, I’m not going to say I always condemn vigilanteism, because it’s not always wrong.
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Where the state fails, the duty devolves to others.
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Eventually, it’s going to devolve to individual Christian men.
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But the general rule is, don’t do dumb stuff, don’t say dumb things, particularly on the Internet, and white men don’t do the lone wolf thing.
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White men act as a coherent group in a way that is effective, in an ultimate sense, politically and meaningfully.
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Question 9.
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Which punishments other than the death penalty for murder are we obligated to copy from the civil law and why?
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So, we are not actually obligated to copy any punishments from the civil law.
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The punishment, the death penalty for murder is not from the civil law.
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It’s in the civil law, but it’s not the civil law.
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It is the moral law.
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He who sheds the blood of man by man shall his blood be shed, for in God’s image, God made man.
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That’s Genesis 9, 6.
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Genesis 9, 6 is moral law.
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So, the moral law is binding on all men for all time, because the moral law flows from God’s nature.
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And the civil law was for Old Testament Israel, for the polity of Old Testament Israel.
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It is not for us.
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It is persuasive, because God gave it to a nation.
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And so, obviously, this was something God would said, at least it was good for them, and it is not wicked, because God cannot enact something that is evil.
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So, it is persuasive for us, but it’s not binding on us, because it’s not eternal.
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It’s for a certain time and people in place.
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It’s for Old Testament Israel.
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The moral law, again, flows from God’s nature, binding for all time.
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Genesis 9, 6 is moral law.
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This comes way before Old Testament Israel, way before the civil law.
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This is moral law handed down by God.
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So, moral law always binding, civil law persuasive, ceremonial law completely gone, because it was fulfilled in Christ.
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And its only purpose ever was to point forward to Christ.
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That’s the tripartite division of the law in the Old Testament.
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Question 10.
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Any thoughts on the PCA condemning kinnism?
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Tried to ask on Telegram.
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Okay, that’s just about Telegram, so.
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I have not read their condemnation of kinnism, so-called.
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So I don’t know exact…
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I mean, obviously, a condemnation of kinnism, given the formulations of kinnism that I’ve seen from every group that’s formulated it thus far, is wicked.
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They sinned.
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They sinned by doing that.
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They’re in high-handed sin.
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They’re basically apostate, because they still hold to it.
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And unless they repent, they’re probably damned.
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So that is the general assessment, the general rule here.
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You know, there’s always felicitous inconsistency to consider, but these are men who are in a position of teachers, strict judgment.
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I would not want to be in their shoes on judgment day.
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The problem that I have with kinnism is that it’s a nonsense category, ultimately.
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It has the same problem as ethno-nationalism.
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There’s no such thing.
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Nationalism is nationalism.
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Nationalism is necessarily tied to an ethnos being a race or a nation.
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Nation, so you’re calling it nation nationalism.
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We do that sometimes in English, though, but it’s harmless when we do it with something like non-bread, right, bread bread, or any of a number of other times we do that.
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But when we do it with something like this, it’s subversive.
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It’s wicked because it is misleading in a way that is impermissible.
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Nationalism is necessarily tied to a race because nation and race mean the same thing, and ethnos also means race.
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So at that point, you may as well say ethno-national, racialism, just, it’s gobbledygook.
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Just call it nationalism.
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If you’re doing it in order to distinguish what you are advocating from, say, civic nationalism, that’s a limited use case.
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That’s probably fine because you are defining yourself contrary to this group through the use of a term, so it’s a shortcut instead of having to do the whole explanation every time you encounter someone.
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But recognize that the term has been made necessary due to subversion.
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It’s not a term that we should even be using, and kinnism is in the same class because it’s insane to accuse someone of sin for favoring his kin.
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God requires that.
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Those who do not provide for their own, and particularly for members of their own household, are worse than unbelievers.
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And there are plenty of other places in scripture where God teaches that, and it is known by the light of reason, because God built it into humanity and creation itself.
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So, they are attempting to define something that is part of human nature, instilled by God, and is good in and of itself as a sin.
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And so, the fact that the term exists is itself wicked.
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The fact that they then condemned this thing is even more wicked.
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So again, these are men in high-handed sin, and don’t stand near them in a lightning storm.
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Question 11.
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Do you believe the authenticity of the released Charlie Kirk text showing he did not, in fact, have a positive view on Jews or Israel?
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I do think that at least the ones that have come out thus far, you know, as time progresses, the likelihood of any additional leaks being valid decreases, or at least your skepticism should increase.
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But I do think that he had a very skeptical view of the Jews and of Israel, so called, because he dealt with them a lot.
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You can’t avoid it if you deal with them, because they always let the mask slip.
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So, and I think that’s one of the reasons that they killed him, because he was starting to, to their mind, turn on them, or at least had outlived his usefulness.
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Question 12, I guess this is related to question 10, actually.
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Can you explain what it means to sear one’s conscience?
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This is related to hardening one’s heart, but it’s important to recognize that there are two senses of hardening your heart, and one is permissible, and it’s sort of a colloquial use, and one is impermissible, and it’s a theological use.
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So, colloquially, hardening your heart is when you need to do something difficult, and, you know, your heart is going to try to drag you back or make it, you have to harden your heart to do the thing that needs to be done.
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This is something that soldiers need to recognize in times of war, and that ordinary men need to recognize in extraordinary times, politically.
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You may have to harden your heart to do certain things that are themselves necessary.
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They’re not bad, they just…
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In a perfect world, you wouldn’t have to do them.
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But we don’t live in a perfect world, so you have to harden your heart to do the thing you have to do that’s difficult.
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The other kind of hardening your heart is hardening your heart when God is telling you, you need to repent, you need to change, you need to stop doing this thing.
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When instead of doing what God is telling you to do, you say, no, I’m going to do my own thing.
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I like this sin, I’m going to keep doing this sin.
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I’m going to do this thing that the Holy Spirit is telling me not to do.
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That’s hardening your heart against God.
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That was Pharaoh refusing to let God’s people go free, despite the fact that God had very clearly demonstrated he wanted Pharaoh to actually do that.
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And do note that Pharaoh hardened his heart, and then God confirmed him and further hardened his heart.
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Pharaoh did the initial sin.
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Go read the text very carefully, it’s there.
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So, hardening your heart basically eventually leads to searing your conscience.
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If you continue to participate in particularly egregious sins, usually not, you know, little minor sins, right?
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We’re not talking about, well, occasionally overeating, I would say, but if you overeat and it becomes your personality, then yeah, you’ve kind of seared your conscience with regard to obesity.
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I don’t know that that will necessarily damn you, but it is certainly a sin onto which you are holding, of which you have not repented.
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It’s a very real problem these days.
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But, you know, think of the more extreme examples, right?
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Think of the impenitent sodomite, right?
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He engages in that behavior over a long period of time and to such a degree that he has completely seared his conscience and he no longer hears the Holy Spirit.
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The Holy Spirit has departed, and so he no longer feels that prick of conscience telling him, this thing you are doing is wicked and wrong and you must stop, because he has done it so many times, he’s just scarred over that faculty.
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It is possible to destroy what is essentially a spiritual faculty.
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That’s what searing your conscience is.
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And so if you continue to engage in, again, particularly egregious sins, for a long enough period of time, with that impenitence, that hardening of your heart against God’s call to repentance, you will eventually find your conscience no longer tells you to stop, because you’ve effectively killed your conscience.
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That’s what searing your conscience is.
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And as a general rule, you’d know if you’ve done it because you wouldn’t be asking about it if you had.
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It’s kind of like the unforgivable sin.
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If you can ask the question, have I committed?
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You have not, because you can worry about it.
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If you had committed it, you wouldn’t be worried.
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Question 13.
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You have mentioned on X that including other races alongside whites is stretching the definition of man.
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Could you elaborate on this?
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And a little postscript that’s a separate question, but I’ll just include it as, I guess, 13B as it were.
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Any chance Woe comes back, we miss him.
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I’ll answer that one first.
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Woe is still posting on X, he’s posting on his tech account, which you can certainly find, it’s not hard to find.
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But he’s posting mostly about tech issues right now, it’s just what he’s doing on X and that sort of stuff.
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He’s not gone, he’s still around, I still talk to him, of course.
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He’s just not posting on the other account right now.
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But to answer the core question here, this is related to, I had an exchange with one of the enemy pastors on X about the Imago Dei that came up.
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And I went to, went at some length to explain the nature of the Imago Dei, the image of God and man, and how that plays out, and what the fathers also believed about it, because I’m not saying anything new on this.
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This is something that has been believed down through the centuries.
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So, and it infuriates people because they don’t want to hear it, because it runs counter to the modern orthodoxy with regard to the new global religion.
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In this case, mostly egalitarianism, particularly racial egalitarianism.
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And I, of course, I’ll set aside the issues I have with just the term Imago Dei, because usually when it’s brought up, it’s brought up by enemies to do something destructive.
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I don’t have a problem with the term per se, but it’s a term that is almost exclusively used by the enemy.
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It can be used productively, and you find it used productively in centuries past, but these days, usually wicked men.
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But to answer the question, there, and you can find my thread on that and my more expansive answers on X if you just search for my posts in Imago Dei, I think it’ll pop up as one of the top three or four results.
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I’ll put a link in the show notes.
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I’ll actually make a note of that for myself.
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But there are two senses of the Imago Dei.
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There’s a binary sense and sort of a spectral sense.
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The binary sense is, are you human?
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Anyone who is a homo sapien is human, is in the image of God in the binary sense.
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And that includes the most degenerate pygmy you can find somewhere in a dark jungle somewhere, and the pinnacle of humanity, the most intelligent, attractive, most morally upstanding person who ever lived, whatever man that happened to be, second obvious to Christ, right?
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So, the other sense is the spectral sense.
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And many of the Church Fathers wrote on this, and they emphasize this one because this is sort of the more interesting case, right?
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The binary case is simple.
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Is this a human being?
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It’s in the image of God.
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The other is the attributes of man that correspond to the gifts God has given us, particularly those above and beyond the animals.
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So, man’s intellect, man’s creativity, man’s physical beauty, that’s part of it, because obviously goodness, beauty, truth, right?
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We’re dealing with the transcendentals.
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Man’s moral goodness, his righteousness, these are all aspects, and there are other ones as well, but these are all aspects or attributes of man.
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God gave to man, and there’s a spectrum, right?
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You go from the dumbest person ever to live, to the smartest person ever to live.
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Beauty is a spectrum as well.
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Moral uprightness is a spectrum.
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How righteous a person is before God is a spectrum.
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How good the person is, all of these things.
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And so, the person who is closer to that which God intended is more in the image of God, more conformed to the image of God, or the image of Christ, if you prefer to be specific, right?
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Because men are being conformed to the image of Christ, that person is more in that image than someone who is not as close, someone who is closer to the other end of the spectrum.
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And so, racially speaking, you have entire races that are further down the spectrum from whites.
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That is the case with regard to physical beauty, that is the case with regard to intelligence, it is the case with regard to creativity, it is the case with regard to righteousness, because there are besetting sins that apply to certain nations.
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Some are collecting them, as it were, and some have very few.
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The ones that have few of them and do not engage them as consistently and as deeply and in such a depraved nature, down over a course of centuries, are closer to God, are more in the image of God than those who are at the other end of the spectrum.
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And that makes the modern egalitarian uncomfortable, because for the modern egalitarian, that runs entirely contrary to his system, but it is manifestly true if you just look at creation.
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So that’s sort of the quick rundown, the overview of that particular issue.
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Question 14, let me check something real quick here.
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I think I’ll go maybe 10 more minutes, because then I need to check on the bread in the oven before it does bad things and becomes an extremely large crouton.
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Question 14, I am definitely not getting through all 30 tonight.
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What historical works that cover the Reformation would you recommend?
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I have James Wiley’s History of Protestantism on my shelf, but have yet to delve into it.
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Are there any works by Lutheran authors which you would prefer?
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Great, this is an easy one to answer, and that is The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology by Charles Crout.
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And as you might guess, with the last name like Crout, he is indeed a German.
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There’s an H on the end, though.
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I will put a link to that in the show notes.
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But I think that’s probably the number one recommendation for this particular topic.
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I could probably make additional ones, but I would have to think about those or at least look at my library.
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I don’t think I have any of them on these bookshelves.
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I think they’re in the other room.
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There are some very good books on the subject, but that is sort of the number one recommendation.
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I think I would start there.
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Question 15.
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Did Adam’s children and Noah’s grandchildren have to engage in sibling incest, respectively, to populate the earth?
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The answer is yes.
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And also the answer is no.
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And the reason the answer is yes and no is that until God said that was something you cannot do, and until it was outlawed by God as it were, it would not have been incest in the sense we mean.
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Because when we say that, we mean the crime, we mean the moral transgression.
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And for those people, it was not.
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And the reason it was not is that they were better than us.
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And they were better than us because they were not as separated from God, not as genetically, particularly degenerate, as we are today.
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We have more problems today.
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We have problems that will easily concentrate over a course of not so many generations.
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However, that comes with the caveat, people who are not as genetically degenerate could, in fact, engage in that, you should not engage in that behavior, do not marry your sister.
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But people who are not as genetically degenerate could engage in that behavior for more generations with fewer problems than those who are starting out in a more morally and genetically degenerate position.
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Because that concentrates problems.
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For those who don’t know how genetics works, we’ll just take the sort of 30,000 foot view, right?
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Problems that are acquired over generations due to usually mutation concentrate if you continue to intermarry in the population that has that problem.
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So, for instance, if you have a recessive gene, and I hope you know what dominant and recessive genes are, but if you have a recessive gene that would cause some sort of deformity if expressed, but you have one copy recessive, one copy dominant, the dominant one expresses not the recessive.
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However, if you then marry someone who has one dominant and one recessive gene, the same as you, you have a one-quarter chance of, roughly one-quarter chance of producing a child that expresses the recessive gene and has the problem, whatever the deformity is.
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That’s the issue.
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They didn’t have that because they did not have the accumulated baggage that we have today due to millennia of separation from God and living in a fallen world, the compounding consequences of the fall.
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That’s part of the reason that God instituted those laws at the time that he did.
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Prior to that, it was not a transgression because there was no law against it.
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So, that’s something that is really only an issue for this life, but you know, it’s not an issue for the next life anyway, because you’re not going to be marrying your sibling in the next life either.
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So, it sounds like something that would be horrible to our modern ears, but to them, at the time, under those circumstances, it did not produce the same problems, and so it didn’t have a prohibition.
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So, yes, they were marrying siblings or first cousins for a while because there weren’t very many of them.
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Which incidentally, if you start playing out the logic and the math there, it’s a very real problem for evolution for those who pretend that we’re on an upward trajectory instead of downward, because you have this founder issue with populations that just occurs again and again and again and again, particularly if you’re talking supposedly millions of years.
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It’s an insurmountable problem for the evolution crowd.
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Makes them very mad when you bring it up, but most of them don’t actually know anything about what they believe.
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It’s just they hate God, and so they love Charles Darwin.
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They’ve never read what he wrote, but they love him and hate God.
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Question 16.
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In the new earth, will humans get to play with animals?
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It’s a little more friendly question, the last one, I guess.
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Will the animals be forbidden from harming people?
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The answer is yes.
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And I will actually read a passage from scripture about this one, because it’s a great passage of scripture, and it’s one that we should really, if not necessarily commit to memory word for word, then at least remember very clearly.
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And I guess we’re going to test myself right now, remember which chapter it’s in.
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Let me pull up Logos.
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I think it’s Isaiah 11.
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See, I’d say don’t quote me on that, but I can’t edit the video because we’re doing this live.
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And it is indeed, starting with verse 6.
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And the wolf shall graze with the lamb, and the leopard shall rest with the kid, and the calf and the bull and the lion shall graze together, and a little child shall lead them.
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And the ox and the bear shall graze together, and their young shall be together, and together shall the lion and the ox eat husks, and the young child shall put its hand over the whole of asps, and on the layer of the offspring of asps, and they will not hurt or be able to destroy anyone on my holy mountain, because the whole earth has been filled to know the Lord, like much water to cover seas.
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That’s a picture of the new creation.
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And in the new creation, you will not have predators, you will not have animals that destroy and kill and eat their kill.
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We don’t know how diet is going to work, right?
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I’m not even going to speculate on that, but we know that here it’s saying that these animals, at least, are going to eat grass, are going to eat plants again.
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That was God’s original intention.
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God’s original intention was not for predation, because predation supposes death, and death is a wicked thing.
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Death is an evil thing.
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It only entered creation due to Adam’s sin, because Adam, being the head of all creation, condemned all creation in his sin, as the body follows the head.
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So in the new creation, yes, you will be able to have a pet lion, or at least go and play with the lions, if not necessarily have your own personal pet lion.
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I don’t know that I want a pet lion.
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I guess it would be kind of nice to have a, a lark.
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I’m just not super fond of cats, usually, so I guess a bear would be more in line.
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Maybe a moose.
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Be different from meeting a moose in the forest these days.
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It’s sort of one of the only things I don’t want to meet, don’t like to meet when I hike.
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I’d rather meet a bear.
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Question 17.
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What are your thoughts on the old KKK and the new KKK?
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So, I’ll answer those in reverse order, because the new KKK is a great way to meet FBI agents.
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So, if you want to meet FBI agents, have fun.
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Because at this point, the organization is so infiltrated at this point that it is basically just a honeypot.
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And they don’t even do anything anymore.
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So, what is the point?
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Don’t join the KKK, join some productive group, right?
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Not that one.
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The old KKK was started for good reasons, because they had a lack of law enforcement and a lack of order in the South after the Civil War, and particularly the Jim Crow era, and then leading up to and in and through the Civil Rights so-called era.
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They were filling a necessary niche, enforcing the law and enforcing like the actual law, I mean, the moral law in this case, not just the positive law, that was not being enforced by many of the authorities.
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And so the stories you hear about them doing, you know, some evil nonsense or whatever, are mostly propaganda.
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You can look up, many of them were Christians, they had celebrations of Christmas, they had times where they would attend church services together.
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It was a largely Christian group.
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And the things that they were doing were not the supposed stuff the media likes to paint them with, they were doing good things for the community.
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They had some weird views on certain things, like they were really weirdly anti-foreign, but not in the sense where we would think it’s like a good anti-foreign.
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They were anti-foreign, and like, they didn’t like Europeans sometimes for some of the group, which is taking a little too far, right?
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But other than that, this sort of quibbling with the group, they were focused on domestic issues, but…
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no group is perfect.
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Never going to say any group is perfect, but they were doing good things certainly early on, and then they got infiltrated, and now they’re pointless, and like I said, great way to meet an FBI agent.
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So, don’t.
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Question 18.
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Could you expand more on circumcision being a sin?
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There are three ways I would go about this.
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Number one would be the most obvious, right?
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If you undertake it as believing this is something that is required by the law, something that Christians should do, then you’re trying to be justified by works, and you are severed from Christ, you would be justified by works of the law, right?
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Just to quote scripture there.
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That’s the easiest case.
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The second argument against it would be that the modern practice is not the ancient practice, and we see this, I’ve gone over this many times.
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You can go and look at Stone Choir and some other places where I talk about circumcision, where I’ve gone into the instances in scripture that prove this is the case, and we can also look at what we know from archaeology.
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But the ancient practice was a cut in the foreskin or just cutting the tip of the foreskin off, which, yes, as a man sounds horrible, but at the same time, it’s not the modern practice of removing the whole of it.
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Totally different practice.
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The modern practice is male genital mutilation, and so it is sinful to mutilate your children.
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Pretty straightforward.
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The third argument I would make is that ultimately all forms of it these days are Judaizing.
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You cannot find someone who engages in and defend circumcision who is not ultimately a ranked Judaizer.
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They will try to make the argument, oh, it’s aesthetic, which is a very odd argument to be making, but, you know, they try to make that argument.
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Or they’ll say, it’s more hygienic, because apparently these are people who are too stupid to wash themselves in the shower.
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But ultimately, what they’re doing is they’re engaging in Judaizing.
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They think that this is some special thing that was a sign that was great for the Old Testament Jews, and so we should do this too, because it’s good.
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And so, no, you should not engage in it, it’s sinful.
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Ultimately, someone who defends it, advocates for it, whatever, will fall into at least one of those categories, right?
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They’re deliberately mutilating children for that second category, or they’re Judaizing for the third category, right?
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Or, you know, that’s basically just use those three categories to sort of assess the person, and you’ll find the person is in fact committing some kind of sin.
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And so, it’s one of those tells.
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Someone advocating for circumcision is always going to be doing something evil on top of the thing that he’s doing that is openly evil, which is the advocating for circumcision.
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And it’s just something Christians should not be doing.
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We’ve never done it down through history.
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It is not a practice of our people.
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It is something that was imported from the Jews.
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It’s evil, and that’s even without commenting on the tissue selling and all that stuff that happens behind the scenes, which there’s plenty of that making a great deal of money.
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So, it’s just, it’s an evil practice, and it’s performed by evil men and defended by evil men.
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Question, let’s see.
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Question 19 might be the last question for this week.
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I know I did not get to the chat.
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I have the chat window open.
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I will copy the questions from the chat.
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Unfortunately, like I said, OBS is not working right now, the chat functionality, because that would be too easy.
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And I’ve refreshed it three times, and it still doesn’t work, so.
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But I have the chat open.
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I will go through and copy the questions from the chat, and I will try to get to those next week.
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Maybe I’ll do a couple of questions quickly here.
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I see a couple of people donated.
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I’d like to try to get to those, so maybe I’ll take the time.
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Hopefully, my bread will not burn.
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Maybe I can get someone to take it out of the oven for me.
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Let’s see.
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Question 14.
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Question 19.
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What am I talking about?
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Question 19.
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I was looking at the wrong number over here.
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Could you expand on your view that the Great Commission has been fulfilled?
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When I Google about it, the results just call it full preterism.
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So, there are essentially two streams of thought on this one.
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Two ways you can look at the Great Commission having been fulfilled.
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I don’t want to get into this into too great a depth right now, because I’m somewhat limited for time.
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But the first is that it was fulfilled during the time of the apostles, right?
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You had the apostles who spread out over almost all of the world and took it to all of the great races of men, at least, which is to say, the major racial divisions that flow from Noah’s sons.
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The Japhethites heard the gospel.
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You had, in fact, one of the apostles is buried in Europe.
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He’s not even buried in the Middle East or below the Alps.
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He’s buried in Europe.
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And, I mean, there are a number buried in Europe, obviously.
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I’m talking about the part of Europe that’s above the Alps, but not Italy.
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Because obviously, you know, you have Peter and Paul both died in Italy.
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You have the Shemites, obviously, were very much evangelized by a number of the apostles, and certainly the disciples, and certainly those who followed the apostles.
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And you had the sons of Ham as well, because one of the earliest individuals who heard the gospel after the resurrection was an Ethiopian who took it back to his people.
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And so, you had the gospel taken to all of the three great races of men.
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There are many today who will try to say that it’s every little tiny subrace, and every little group, and every part of the world has to hear it before…
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It’s nonsense.
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And usually, those are the kind of people who think that we have to create heaven on earth before God comes back, right?
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That’s nowhere in Scripture.
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Scripture says things are going to get really bad near the end.
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It doesn’t mean things can’t go up and down, right?
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They can get better now, and then get worse, and better, and worse.
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They do get worse near the end, though.
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We don’t construct heaven on earth, and then God comes back to an already great world.
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There’s no millennial reign, none of that stuff.
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That’s Judaizing.
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The other sense of it would be, and I think this may be the stronger argument, because I think there were groups of which individuals writing at that time weren’t aware, particularly the Amerindians, that have been evangelized now, right?
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I think during the period of colonialism, it was fulfilled.
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That’s my personal stance.
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I think that the Great Commission was fulfilled during the colonial period, because during colonialism, you had the gospel taken to basically every corner of the world.
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So, the requirement was never that every single person hear the gospel.
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The requirement is that every nation hear the gospel.
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Every race has to be evangelized.
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And so, if you take race to be the sons of Noah or the grandsons of Noah, then it was probably fulfilled during the time of the apostles.
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If you take it to be the races that have arisen from those races down through the millennia since then, I think that’s probably the better interpretation than it was fulfilled during colonialism.
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And this is something that has been a strain in Christianity from very early on.
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The Lutheran fathers also wrote about it during the Reformation.
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I would have to look back through my own notes to see what reading recommendations I would make.
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But this is not something that…
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it’s not preterism.
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This is not…
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this is a different thing.
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This is specifically the Great Commission and its fulfillment, not the fulfillment of end time signs and things like that.
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That is, again, preterism or full preterism, which is false in the full sense.
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And not something I’ve ever advocated.
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But I do think that the Great Commission was fulfilled by the European colonial powers, expanding and taking Christianity to the conquered peoples.
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And that was also a fulfillment of Noah’s prophecy about his sons.
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Question 20.
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I’ll just take a few quick questions from the chat, and then I think that is it for this week.
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But question 20.
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I am a Wasp Canadian.
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My wife is American.
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Can we move to the USA?
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My wife is Wasp seventh generation USA.
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As far as I’m concerned, Canada should never have been separate from the US.
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And we should conquer Canada and make it part of the US.
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Part of America, to be specific, because the US is not going to survive that much longer.
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But no, the Canadians are extremely close.
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They’re not even cousins.
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They’re brothers.
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You guys are brothers and sisters.
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You are not a foreign people.
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I have no problem with Canadians being here, or Americans being in Canada.
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And I would like us to fix our problems here as quickly as possible, so that we can rescue Canada from their own problems, which are getting to be insurmountable in some parts of Canada.
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They’re going to need help.
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So, no, by all means, if you’re Canadian, feel free to move here.
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You are your brothers and sisters, and there’s nothing wrong with having Canadians as neighbors.
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Question 21.
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If Christ came to save the lost sheep of Israel, does that refer to us today or a specific group in the past?
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How would I know I am descended from them?
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So, Christ is actually…
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This is one of those questions where I can talk about it for a long time, but Christ is actually testing the apostles here.
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He does this a number of times.
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He actually does this with the Syriac Phoenician woman as well, because when he deals with her, she demonstrates a faith in the Christ that the apostles lack at the time, and he’s actually chiding them and praising her, and they don’t quite get it.
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I’m sure at some point they understood, but they didn’t quite get it then.
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The lost sheep of Israel are believers, are the elect.
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The lost sheep of Israel are not Jews.
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Jews are not the lost sheep of Israel.
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Think of what Paul says, right?
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You have the children of the promise and the children of the slave woman.
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So you have earthly Jerusalem that is the slave woman, those are the Jews, and you have heavenly Jerusalem that is the free woman.
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Well, those are the elect.
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Those are the true believers.
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There has only ever been one Israel of God.
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The Israel of God is the church, and the church includes all believers, starting from Adam, down through whatever man is the last believer to stand on this earth before everything is destroyed.
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So you don’t have to be descended from any particular person to be a Christian, because the promise was made first to Adam, and we are all descended from Adam.
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So I guess in a sense, you have to be descended from Adam, but if you’re not descended from Adam, I have some further questions for you.
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It’s not a matter of descent, right?
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The Jews thought that, right?
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What did John the Baptist tell them?
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What are they told every single time in scripture?
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They bring up, oh, we’re children of Abraham.
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What could God do?
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He could raise up children for Abraham from these stones, right?
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That’s the condemnation of the Jews.
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The Jews are not chosen in any sense whatsoever.
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The only thing that was ever chosen about the line of Jacob, renamed Israel, was that from his line would come the Messiah.
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That was it.
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So you don’t have to be descended from anyone except Adam in order to be saved.
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And again, we’re all descended from Adam.
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Let’s see, that’s not a question.
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So I will try to get all of the questions out of this chat, so I do not miss them, but I think I am going to call it on, it’s a good note on which to call it for this week.
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I’m going to go check my bread before it burns.
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So thank you for everyone who submitted questions, always good to do this.
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I try to do it every week, don’t always make it every week, depends how my week goes, it’s either Thursday or Friday.
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As always, you can submit the questions primarily through the forum, that’s the best way.
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It just helps me to organize it, I can link it in the show notes more easily.
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It just makes my life easier and also makes it easier for people to find in the future.
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And the show notes are actually a wiki, so anyone who is a member of the forum and you’ve been a member for a while and replied a little bit, you’re able to edit that, so please feel free to do that.
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If I missed something, you can add that.
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Anyway, the questions can also be submitted on X or via Telegram, those are probably the best ways to get them to me other than the forum.
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If you submit them in the chat, I do try to copy those.
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I have an on-going list of pending questions on the forum.
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The link to the forum, of course, is in the show notes and in the stream information, wherever you happen to be watching this.
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If you do not see your question in that list within a day or two after a particular stream, please go ahead and ask it again.
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I may have missed it.
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Sometimes things disappear.
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I’ve had things disappear on X while I was looking at them.
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At any rate, that is it for this week.
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Again, thank you for submitting questions.
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Thank you for participating in the chat.
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If you have follow-up questions, of course, feel free to ask those.
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I’m trying to whittle down that list of questions, sort of getting there over time.
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At any rate, it is, of course, Friday, so I hope you have a great weekend and go to church on Sunday.
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I will see you all next Thursday or Friday, and until then, God bless you.