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- Date: 2026-06(Jun)-26(Fri)
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- AI Translation of LXX, Luther, etc
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- Dealing with etymology and a living language
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- Organ Donation?
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- Advice for a future Lutheran pastor
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It is the 26th of June, 2026.
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I am Corey J.
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Moller, and this is At Any Cost.
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This is episode 32, a Q&A episode.
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And I see there are a number of questions coming in the chat already.
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I’m trying to copy those over just so I don’t lose those.
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But I do not have any housekeeping for today, so I suppose I will just get straight into the questions here.
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Question one, could AI translation agents be configured to sufficiently satisfy the requirements you and Wo lay out in translating scripture from Greek, referencing the Stone Choir episode, of course?
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If not that, could they at least do a satisfactory job at translating Luther and other authors who don’t have inexpensive English versions available?
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The answer to that would be no and then yes.
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No with regard to scripture, I don’t think it’s wise to use AI to translate scripture.
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I’m not saying you can’t use AI to translate a passage here and there.
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Ask for definitions of a word, etymology, things like that.
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Certainly, you can do that.
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You should double check against reliable resources, which certainly exists, particularly if you have something like Logos up on your computer so you can look at the ancient writers and others as well.
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You can look at the dictionary and things like that, the Diglot Dictionary.
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But I don’t think it’s wise to use AI to translate scripture.
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That is something that should be reserved for Christian men.
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But for other authors, it’s good enough.
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At this point, human translators are still better, but it’s going to be good enough.
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So you can use that sort of thing for even writers that are writing about Christian subjects like Luther.
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So I think that’s fine.
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Is it ideal?
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No.
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I think ideally you use human translators, but it’s good enough, and like you noted, it’s a lot cheaper and it’s a lot quicker.
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I won’t say that I don’t use it for translation work.
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I use it to translate languages I don’t know.
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So if you want to do that, I think it’s just fine.
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A tangentially related question, question two here.
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How do you deal with the tension between the etymological bases of words and the colloquial understanding of the words without giving a lesson to everyone you meet?
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And then by way of example, the most obvious example is the conflation of country and nation, but I’m sure there are others.
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There are many others.
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Usually, I just ignore it.
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Unless it is vitally important to the conversation in some way, it’s important to a point that I’m making.
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If that’s the case, then I’ll define these things in order to make it clear what exactly it is that I am saying, what I’m not saying.
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But otherwise, you just…
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Human communication is generally relatively imprecise.
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When we want to be precise, we speak in a certain way, and we write in a certain way.
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It’s one of the reasons that contracts look so different from everyday speech.
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Because in a contract, every word matters and every party has to understand the words in the same sense, in theory at least.
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That’s why you have that very sort of stilted, drawn-out, legalese.
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That’s not the case in everyday speech.
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In everyday speech, things are imprecise.
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People are going to understand to a certain level.
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Some men will understand 95 percent of what you’re saying, some will understand 80 percent.
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That’s the reality of human communication.
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You do the best that you can, and if it is warranted under the circumstances, then you go through the effort to define your terms.
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Which if you’re discussing something like theology, then go through the effort to define your terms, because you may very well not agree with other people.
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And so, it’s important to do that.
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But generally speaking, human communication is imprecise, and we just have to accept that.
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Question three.
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Is organ donation legitimate?
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So the reasoning given is red pill me on organ donation, I think is rather sinister.
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I have heard that you have to be alive to be a viable donor, so you are effectively harvested like an animal.
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You have to be, I guess, for lack of a better term, fresh.
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You have to be recently deceased, because obviously, as your systems start to shut down, or whether you want to call them yours at that point, because at this point, you’re in theory dead, right?
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There are different kinds of death.
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That’s kind of an important starting point, I guess I should mention.
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And the one that we really term death these days, because we have all these medical devices, and we can actually test things, is brain death.
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When your brain’s dead, you’re dead.
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Your body may still be alive, because your heart may keep pumping for a while.
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Your heart can actually do that, at least for a while, without your brain.
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Other organs will keep functioning, but you’re no longer there, and there’s no way to bring you back from brain death.
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Probably also shouldn’t do it.
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I don’t think that would turn out well, even if, you know, zombie movies aren’t a thing.
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I don’t think bringing someone back from brain death is going to be a good outcome.
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So, you have to be, in theory, dead before they can harvest your organs, but it has to be quickly done, because otherwise you have all these problems, build up the toxins and muscle damage and cell death, and all these other things that happen post-mortem.
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So, that’s the theory.
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These days, I don’t know how much I would trust health care professionals.
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So, I think it’s probably wisest, in most cases, not to be an organ donor, which I find very unfortunate that I have to say that, because if we were under different circumstances, if we had a good government, a righteous government instead of a wicked one, and we had people working in the medical field who were good men, who were reliable and honest, I would absolutely champion organ donation.
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I would say it should be the default, and then you have to opt out.
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We don’t live under those circumstances, and so I would be very careful about signing up to be an organ donor these days, because there have definitely been cases where medical professionals have made calls that were the wrong call, because they needed the organs.
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This is more of a problem in some countries than others.
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It’s a pretty big problem in the UK, for instance.
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Definitely don’t be an organ donor if you live anywhere near Israel.
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They’re not going to ask consent anyway, but by and large, probably be careful about doing that these days, just because of the realities of the system right now, not because organ donation itself is per se immoral.
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It’s morally fine to do that.
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There’s nothing wrong with that.
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We’re not, you know, Jehovah’s Witnesses or anything like that, where they think that all sorts of medical intervention are bad.
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You can get a blood transfusion.
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That’s not consuming human flesh.
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That’s not cannibalism.
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That’s a medical intervention.
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Question four.
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Advice for a future Lutheran pastor.
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I have been following you, Woe and Stone Quire, for a few years now.
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I am a Zoomer entering a path where I’m eventually going to an undisclosed Lutheran seminary.
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Good choice there.
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I have listened to almost the entirety of Stone Quire, and I believe it wholeheartedly.
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I’ve asked you questions before on various live streams that you’ve done.
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I’m wondering specifically what should be the path for those who are going to become Lutheran pastors and already established denominations.
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I know eventually a new church body will be formed of the faithful, but what approach should those like myself going into seminary and eventually becoming ordained in an established Lutheran denomination be?
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How should my ministry approach be?
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I have considered using topics covered in episodes of SC for sermons.
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I also want to make an effort to talk more directly one-on-one with my congregants.
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I recognize that God has bestowed certain abilities and circumstances to allow me to further God’s kingdom through pastoral ministry, but I’m still a young man.
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I desperately wish not to falter in my ministry, for I know that teachers have the stricter judgment.
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I seek to be a godly and faithful shepherd in the light of the faithless and anti-Christ clergy of our time.
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So becoming a pastor is a perfectly fine career choice.
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I’m not one to say that all pastors are evil.
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You know, I’ve said some things about pastors, and quite frankly, they deserve probably worse than the things that I’ve said.
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But that’s because of the quality of current pastors.
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Becoming a pastor is an important thing, it’s a good thing.
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We need pastors.
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However, I think it’s probably better if you become a pastor later in life, because you should probably…
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It’s not in the sense that, you know, boomers tell women, gain life experience, but it is gain life experience, which is something that men actually do acquire as they get older, as they mature, as they’ve had more experience in life.
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And I think it’s probably better if men do something else first, and then go into the past, so in your case, because you’re still quite young, I would say the best thing to do is do some other career first, and spend the excess, the free time that you have studying this stuff.
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Make sure that you have an aptitude for it, make sure that it continues to interest you really is important, make sure that you’re apt to teach things like that.
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You can do all of those things without actually being on the proper track to become a pastor.
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And then in the future, whether seminary is required or there’s some alternate route, whether it’s you have an apprenticeship under an existing pastor, whatever it happens to be, however that shakes out in the future, then go into the pastorate when you feel you’ve had that time to mature and gain that life experience so that you’ll be the right man for the job.
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And part of the reason for that is that when you’re a pastor or a teacher, you are serving in a fatherly role.
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You should be of a certain age for that, because even for, say, I’m 40 years old, right?
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If I go into a classroom and I’m teaching, and I’m teaching a bunch of 65, 70, 80-year-olds, and I’ve done that, in a sense, I’m in a fatherly role, because all authority derives from that certain, that kind of relationship.
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If you are too young, it’s going to be awkward, right?
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If you have 60, 70-year-old men in your congregation, particularly if you’re lucky and get men who have studied scripture in a dedicated fashion for 50 years, that’s an awkward position to be in, where they are sort of in the child position of the relationship, and you’re kind of the father.
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That’s not as much of a problem once you get into your mid-30s, your 40s, your 50s.
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Then the difference between 50 and 80 is not as big of a deal.
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The difference between 20 and 50 is a world of difference.
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So I think the best advice I can give you is, do something else for a while, acquire that life experience, go find a wife, get married.
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I don’t think that that husband of one wife thing is optional.
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I think pastors should be married.
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Not the time to argue about that necessarily, but I do think that you should go and do that.
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Do the studying.
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You don’t have to be in seminary to read the books, right?
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I’ve never attended seminary.
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I have all the books they read here.
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I’ve read basically all of them.
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You can do that on your own.
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Unfortunately, the prices are a little high because CPH overcharges, but you can find PDS for free.
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So if you want to do it that way, by all means get an e-reader, do it that way.
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That’s perfectly acceptable.
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So, I think that’s the best route.
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And then depending on how things shake out, the path forward will be more clear in, say, 10 years or so, once you’ve had that experience, once you’ve gone out and done those things, and are in a firmer position to take on that role of authority.
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I’m not saying that there are no young men who are capable of being pastors.
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There are men who are in their early 20s who are capable of being pastors.
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It’s still not ideal.
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So, can you take on some teaching authority and things like that in your church?
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Absolutely.
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Teach a class on the Bible, go through a book of the Bible, whatever it happens to be.
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That’s a good way to get experience doing the very thing that you’d like to eventually do.
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I think that’s the best path forward just because of how these things should play out in a properly organized society.
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So, we’re doing the best that we can with what we have.
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I do think it’s better if men who go into the pastorate are, as it were, second career, because then you have some life experience that helps you connect with those men in your congregation who’ve only ever had some career that wasn’t academic, something like that.
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So, I think that’s the best path forward.
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And feel free to ask follow-up questions if you have more concerns about that.
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This is not one of the questions for the episode, but I saw someone ask you take questions from the chat.
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The answer is yes, which is what I am going to do in a couple questions here.
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I have a couple more to get through before I get to the chat.
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Question five, a close friend thinks gender roles are just social constructs.
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This friend says couples should do whatever works.
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For example, the woman has a career, the man at home, and sees his girlfriend as his best friend.
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I don’t really know what to do.
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This is going to depend in part on your read of this friend.
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Now, this is a male friend, so you have an easier time.
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Because with a female friend, you’re going to have more trouble appealing to reason and logic, because of the way that men and women are wired.
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I’ve gone over this in previous episodes.
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So, what you probably want to do in his case, is you can bring up studies that we’ve done in psychology.
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There’s some very good studies in this area.
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Men and women are different from the time they exit the womb.
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As soon as girls start playing with toys, they gravitate toward dolls, and babies, and things like that.
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And even when they use toys that were clearly designed for boys, right?
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You know, trucks, cars, helicopters, army men, whatever it happens to be, they treat them in the way that girls treat girl toys.
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Which is to say, they take the army truck and start putting it to bed, and having it feed, and do things like that.
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These differences are fundamental.
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These differences are not something that appears later on.
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They are not something that is taught.
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Some things are taught, of course.
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So, the colors, for instance, that apply to girls versus boys, those are cultural, and those have changed over time.
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For instance, pink used to be a male color, because pink is red, and red was a male color.
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That’s changed over time.
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Pink is now associated with girls.
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That sort of thing is socially constructed, to some degree.
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There are still biological preferences there as well.
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But when it comes to things like raising children versus having a career and all that kind of stuff, even the secular, in some cases, quite leftist psychology, can’t avoid the reality of what they keep encountering, particularly with regard to very young children.
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They’ll argue it away with adults, right?
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They’ll say that if you have someone who’s 20 or 30 or whatever it happens, even early teens, they’ve been acculturated to believe something, they’ve been trained to believe something, and they act in that way because of the programming.
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Try to excuse it, they’re wrong, but at least they have an argument there.
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You don’t have that argument with a one-year-old.
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If a one-year-old just decides, as a female, right, I want the doll versus as a male, I want the truck, that wasn’t trained in any way, particularly with modern parents who just give them a whole bunch of different random toys, not even designed for their gender, they still pick that.
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So you can bring up that stuff with your friend and point out, no, this is very real, this is demonstrable evidentially from what we have learned from psychology and some other fields.
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If he’s a Christian, hopefully he is a Christian, then you can point out all the places in scripture where it says what women are supposed to do versus what men are supposed to do.
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What does it say in the New Testament and elsewhere for women?
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Marry a husband, right?
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Get married to a husband more properly, raise children, keep a home.
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That’s what women are supposed to do.
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It’s very simple.
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Women actually have it a little easier because it’s already laid out exactly what they’re supposed to do.
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Men have to find their way, particularly these days, more so than women.
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You have to figure out, what am I actually good?
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Where can I actually get employed?
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All these things like that.
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There are a bunch of considerations for men that aren’t there for women.
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Women have to find a husband, have babies, keep a home.
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Pretty straight forward.
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And scripture is abundantly clear on that.
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So if he’s a Christian, you can appeal to scripture, but in either case, Christian or not Christian, you can certainly appeal to the wealth of evidence that we have demonstrating the fundamental difference between boys and girls.
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And it is purely biology.
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Let’s see, the next question here.
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Question 6.
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How should Christian theology respond to virtual reality as it becomes more immersive and addictive, especially with pornography becoming part of that space?
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This is actually something that I have somewhere in this room, a mostly finished essay written on, but I’ll go ahead and just answer the question instead of sort of punting it for later.
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Virtual reality can become a problem when it starts to supplant reality.
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I’m not going to say virtual reality is always wrongful, right?
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If we had immersive virtual reality, it was actually good.
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I don’t think the current stuff’s that good.
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But if we had a virtual reality, it was actually good.
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And, you know, you want to play a game for an hour a day or 30 minutes, whatever it happens to be.
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Don’t go overboard, not six hours a day.
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But if you want to do that, fine.
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There’s nothing wrong with that.
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I don’t think that raises any real problems, unless it becomes an addiction that starts to supplant other things in your life you should be doing.
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That’s the problem.
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It’s kind of like drinking alcohol is not bad until you become a drunk.
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Once it becomes an addiction, now it’s a problem when it’s controlling your behavior.
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Pornography, obviously, always impermissible, morally wrongful.
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A huge issue.
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This is sort of part of the essay that I have written somewhere here.
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And what I want to do is warn, particularly young men, but certainly more and more, unfortunately, young women these days as well.
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If you are dabbling in that stuff, we’ll be kind with our terms, you need to stop.
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Put in whatever effort it takes to stop.
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It’s going to get so much worse as technology advances.
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They are dialing in how addictive this stuff is, and they will eventually get you hooked in a way where it will be nearly impossible for you to stop.
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So stop now before it gets worse.
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It will never get better, it will always get worse for you.
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So, the easiest time you are going to have trying to stop is now.
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It will only get harder with each additional day, each additional month, year, whatever it happens to be.
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And the Christian response to it is that we should have legislation banning this stuff, it should not exist in our countries.
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Anything short of that is a substandard response from Christians.
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What we can do as individuals, because obviously we don’t currently have control of the government, as individuals we just avoid it.
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It’s the same problem that pornography has been for years and years and years.
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Granted, it gets worse as technology gets better, but the same sort of things that you can do to avoid it now can be done with virtual reality, right?
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Virtual reality is not yet anyway.
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In theory, the technology is good enough where we’d have additional problems, but it’s the same problem as a computer, right?
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A computer in your private room, if that’s a temptation for you, put it in a public part of your house.
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Put it somewhere that you use only between certain hours when there are others around, things like that.
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Take the same sort of measures you would for other temptations, because it is the same, it’s not the same exact kind of temptation, but the physical nature there is similar.
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You can use structure to avoid the sin, which is the best way to do it, and obviously just if you avoid it, then that part of your brain slowly rewires and the addiction fades, which is part of why you should stop immediately, because the sooner you stop, the sooner your brain can start repairing that damage.
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But the basic answer is that VR itself is not necessarily a threat or even a problem, it’s not morally impermissible, but obviously the pornography aspect is going to be a huge problem going forward, as that gets more and more addictive.
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Now let me pull out some questions from the chat.
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Question about Methodism.
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So I’ll answer that one first.
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This is question eight.
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I’ve noticed a couple, this is question seven, rather, question seven.
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I’ve noticed a couple of times you have negatively referenced Methodists.
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Good faith question, what is your reasoning for your negative stance on the Methodist Church?
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So the Methodist Church, technically speaking, is what Lutherans would call Enthusiasts.
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And Enthusiasts are, the term has a number of different meanings, but generally speaking, it means those who believe that the Holy Spirit comes to you and gives you faith, not via the means of grace, which is to say not via the sacraments and the gospel, that he just gives you faith, right?
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He just zaps you and gives you faith.
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This is nowhere in scripture, so that’s sort of a fundamental difference we have.
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And there’s some…
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It depends on the Methodist Church, obviously, because there are some that are not as hardcore on that aspect.
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This is the same problem with so many groups.
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The umbrella is broad, right?
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You’ll have some that are conservative with regard to their own tradition and liberal with regard to their own tradition, and they’re not all identical.
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So, they will say that the sacraments are means of grace, but they still don’t mean it in the sense that Lutherans mean it when they say that.
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So, they are still enthusiasts in the sense where they do believe that the Holy Spirit will just, you know, zap some people and they magically have faith, which is nowhere in Scripture.
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God always acts through means.
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But the two, perhaps, bigger objections, and these are probably easier for people to grasp than the theology of the means of grace and things like that, would be their view of the role of the person, right, in his own salvation.
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They focus a little more on, really a lot more, but works, righteousness, and things like that.
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And the biggest part of it is they think that you can become, via sanctification, entirely sanctified or perfectly sanctified in this life and no longer sin.
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Rome kind of teaches that a little bit too sometimes, but the Methodists are really big on that one.
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That’s not in Scripture.
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As long as you’re in this life, you will be a sinner, you will continue to sin.
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Will you sin as much?
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No.
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In theory, and this is how it should be, as you are sanctified, as sanctification progresses, you should sin less.
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But that comes with a really big caveat.
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And that big caveat is the Holy Spirit will address the big sins in your life first, the obvious ones, so, you know, previous question, that kind of stuff.
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As those problems start to get tamped down via sanctification, and yes, you have to work on it as well, you’ll notice more problems.
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You’ll notice, oh, that other thing that I’ve been doing for decades that I didn’t really think much about, that’s sin as well.
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So, you’ll notice things that you didn’t notice were sin, and realize they’re sin.
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But yes, you will sin less via sanctification over time.
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That is just the way that it goes.
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So, I think those are probably the two big ones.
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Their view of the human element, they’re Arminian.
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They believe in prevenient grace that anyone can basically work their way toward God and believe in God of their own free will.
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Lutherans obviously don’t believe that.
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The Reform don’t believe that.
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The Roman Catholics kind of agree with the Methodists on this one, but that’s a big point of difference, a point of contention between particularly Lutherans and the Methodists, and then their view of what they would call entire sanctification.
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Because that’s not taught anywhere in Scripture.
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Nowhere in Scripture does it say that you will become perfect and no longer sin, because you won’t.
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You are tainted by original sin.
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You’re living in a sinful world, surrounded by sinful people, in sinful flesh, tempted by the devil and your flesh and society.
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You’re never going to not sin.
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All you can do is sin less via sanctification.
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So those are the two big points that would be real disagreements between particularly Lutherans, but also the Reformed and the Methodists.
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And then obviously the other theological point, but that’s a little more, not nitpicky, but technical.
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Let me grab another question here from the chat.
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And I am trying to copy and paste them into the show notes as I go, so I do not lose them.
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Before I started today, there was a question from someone in reply to my tweet, saying the Q&A would be tomorrow, obviously.
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I said that yesterday.
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That reply disappeared.
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So if that was your question, please ask it again, because I refreshed and the comment just disappeared.
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And it no longer shows a count, and it also doesn’t show anything deleted.
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So the website H-er your question.
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That’s why I’m copying things to try and not lose them.
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Question 8.
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I learned today that the Bible does not prohibit first cousin marriage.
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That is technically correct.
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That Pope Gregory prohibited it for more practical reasons, which Luther condemned.
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This was troubling as Christianity’s eugenic nature was one of the main reasons I found it convincing compared to other faiths.
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Would appreciate your thoughts.
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So just because scripture does not explicitly state that you cannot do something doesn’t mean that society cannot legislate against it.
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This is one of those places where people get mixed up with regard to categories.
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There are things that scripture categorically prohibits.
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There are things that scripture says are unwise, and there are things that scripture permits, and there are things that scripture says you must do.
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When it comes to marrying your first cousin, scripture does not explicitly prohibit that.
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Scripture gives a pretty long list of prohibitions with regard to marriage, because apparently the Jews needed a lot of rules, but just because scripture doesn’t explicitly prohibit it, doesn’t mean we have to permit it.
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That is still something we are allowed to ban.
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Luther’s objection, I didn’t have time, obviously, reading this just now, and then I didn’t go and look up what Luther said, but undoubtedly, I have zero doubt that Luther’s objection to be the Pope probably promulgated that and said, this is required according to Christianity.
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That would be impermissible, because if you’re saying that scripture requires this, but it’s nowhere in scripture, you’re lying about the word of God.
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What you can say is that wisdom, which God commands us to be wise, prohibits first cousin marriage.
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We all know that.
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We can look at the world and see what’s going on in pretty much the rest of the world.
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That’s permissible.
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In fact, that is something Christians should do, because we’re commanded to be wise.
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There’s no explicit prohibition against it in scripture.
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That’s the point Luther was making, undoubtedly, and that’s true.
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But again, that’s not the end of the story, because just because it is not explicitly prohibited doesn’t mean it is not implicitly prohibited by something else, which in this case is to say wisdom.
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So if the pope had written it in that way, I don’t know that he did.
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I highly doubt Luther got this one wrong when reading what the pope wrote, though.
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If he had written it that wisdom, which is commanded us by God, says that you should not marry your first cousin, and so we should ban this according to our positive law, not the moral law, but according to our positive laws, that’s perfectly permissible and something Christians should in fact do.
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So Christianity is still definitely eugenic, because obviously all of the outright incestuous relationships are banned.
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You’re not allowed to marry your daughter, your mother, your whatever, that’s all banned.
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You can go read that in, Leviticus has all of those rules enumerated.
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It just doesn’t go all the way to prohibiting first cousin, second cousin, whatever.
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We should have those as part of our positive law rules, and we should interpret that as being something God requires of us, because we are stewards of creation, and it is according to wisdom.
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And we have greater wisdom about these issues than they did 500 years ago, undoubtedly.
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They knew that marrying your own siblings was deeply unwise and caused problems over time.
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This didn’t stop certain royal families, but they were aware of those problems.
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They did not know as much as we know about first cousin marriages.
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And even then, first cousin marriages, unless you’re doing that for many generations, don’t actually typically cause that many problems, unless you already have genetic problems when you’re starting.
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We see the problem with it in places like India, but they’ve been at it for 4,000 years, or perhaps longer.
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So, the problems have arisen and they’re just compounding them.
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But yes, I’ve spoken about this before, we should ban first cousin marriage, and the ideal is third or fourth cousin, because that’s the peak of fertility, which is another part of this, of course.
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God designed that peak fertility in, and we should use our wisdom to look at that and say, well, this is God’s design.
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This is the mark of the Creator.
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We should obey what He has commanded us, in effect, implicitly to do.
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So, Luther was undoubtedly just making a technical point about scripture, and also he kind of liked to poke the Pope in the eye.
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I have a question here about the Book of Job.
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Let me pull that up.
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Two related questions here, actually.
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I will split them because they are separate questions.
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The first is about a passage in Job, of which we are all undoubtedly aware, and with which we should all be familiar.
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I will pull it up in Logos here in a second, so we can actually look at it.
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And I can answer it before actually reading it.
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It is less, perhaps explicitly, Christological, but it’s still there.
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And also, bear in mind, when you are reading the Septuagint these days in English, the translations we have are not great yet.
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They are stilted, very academic, particularly the nets is academic, which is what I’ve opened here.
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We open up the lexam as well.
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So I don’t think we need the Greek here.
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We’ll get rid of that.
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There we go.
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So Job 19.25, the question is, is this Christological in the same sense as basically the Masoretic text?
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Because, just to pull up the Masoretic text here real quick, we all know this one, right?
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For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth, right?
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Very clearly Christological.
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No one has any question about that.
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So, some little word choice things here in the footnotes, but other than that, very straightforward.
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In Job, in the Greek, it says, For I know that an eternal one exists, one who is about to free me upon the earth.
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And so, is it different?
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Yes.
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Is it still Christological?
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Yes.
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The eternal one is still Christ.
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And it says, to raise up my skin, which endures these things.
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That’s the resurrection of the dead.
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That is still there, the resurrection of the just.
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So, it is still Christological.
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It probably could be better translated from the Greek.
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I’d have to look at the underlying Greek in order to make an assessment.
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Usually, the nets is pretty good when it comes to that stuff.
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But again, you know, stilted.
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Sometimes it’s nice to swap back and forth between the two and compare them.
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But yes, it’s still Christological.
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It’s just not the neat, tidy one we’re accustomed to in English, because we don’t have a nice English translation of the Septuagint yet.
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That’s still pending.
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There are some ones that are slated to be published in the not-too-distant future.
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Hopefully, at least one of them will be good.
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The second part of this question, really the second question, question 10, is Genesis 3.15 Christological in the Septuagint?
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Yes.
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That one is as well.
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And this one comes up, because it doesn’t have the same wording, right?
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I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring.
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He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel.
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The one we’re all accustomed to in the Masoretic text is different in the Septuagint.
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I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring.
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Greek uses between in both places, whereas we just put between and then both of the objects, so I just skipped that when I’m reading because it sounds weird in English.
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He will watch your head and you will watch his heel.
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This has some necessary exegesis in the Septuagint that you don’t really necessarily have there.
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In the Masoretic, because in the Masoretic we all, it still needs the exegesis, right?
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Because bruise your head, bruise his heel.
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Okay.
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What exactly does that mean?
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Right?
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You still need some, and these verbs are not exactly identical either, but you still need some exegesis there to understand what’s being said.
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We all know what the exegesis is, right?
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This is a Christological prophecy about Satan having his little victory with the cross, and then his ultimate defeat also with the cross.
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This is the same thing we have here.
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There are a number of other places that this particular sense of watch in Greek pops up in the scriptures, and I would have to do some searching to find those.
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I don’t remember them off the top of my head.
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I know there’s one in one of the Psalms, but I can’t remember which number Psalm it is, so I don’t want to take the time right now to try to find that.
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But, in this sense, I’m very tempted to go find it, but I will resist the temptation right now.
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This is a sort of enemy watching, right?
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This is an enemy watching for an opportunity to strike in the sense of Satan watching, in this case, the Christ, the offspring, the seed of the woman.
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And in the case of Christ, it is watching for the opportune time to crush Satan.
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It is still a Christological prophecy.
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It still refers to the same thing.
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It’s just, again, Greek idiom and the way that it’s used in the Koine Greek of the Septuagint, and like I said, it’s in other places as well.
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I’ll look those up and put those in the show notes.
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It doesn’t come across the same to an English reader unless you have the explanation of what a Greek reader would have heard, particularly a Greek reader actually versed in scripture.
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Let’s see.
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Make a note for myself to add that to the show notes.
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And I’m having to search through the chat instead of usually I would watch the chat so I could just sort of catalog what was went through because Restream plugin in OBS has decided not to work.
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Like I’ve said, it basically, if I ever open up OBS and everything works with no issues whatsoever, I will be worried my computer is going to explode or something.
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There’s just every week there’s something that doesn’t want to work.
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Question 11 is also a scripture question so I’ll leave Logos up.
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What does Acts 735 refer, why does Acts 735 refer to an angel appeared in the burning bush if it was in fact Christ?
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This one comes up a number of times, more in the Old Testament actually than in the New Testament.
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This is also one of those where if I had prepared beforehand, I would have some examples from the Old Testament.
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I can think of some of them off the top of my head that are useful.
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Probably the biggest one is with Sampson.
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But there are times in the Old Testament where the angel of the Lord is in fact Christ.
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So, this Moses whom they rejected saying, who made you a ruler and a judge?
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This man God sent as both ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
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What is the Greek word for angel there, right?
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Angelos is the word you have there.
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And I click so that it will show up the interstitial, but of course it doesn’t show it to you guys.
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I figure eventually they’ll fix that in the software, but at any rate, it is angelos in the Greek there, it’s not showing for you.
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But angelos is messenger.
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So, Christ serves as the messenger of God at many times in many places in the Old Testament.
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Like I said, with Samson.
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And one of the ways that you can recognize this is that what do angels, in the sense we use angel, because in the Greek, it means both messenger and angel.
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But in the sense we use angel, what do angels not permit mortals to do?
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Worship them.
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That’s the biggest one.
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That’s the biggest tell.
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And so, you have John falls down before the angel in Revelation.
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He says, you must not do that.
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I’m a man.
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You know, he says, you must not do that.
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And then you have the disciples do the same thing.
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The apostles do the same thing.
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You must not do that.
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I’m a man just like you.
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Those who are just messengers of God, whether they are mortal or immortal, will not permit other mortals to worship them.
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You can think of some other problems that are there for perhaps some church traditions, but there are times in the Old Testament where the angel of the Lord receives the worship of mortals and doesn’t rebuke them.
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He doesn’t say that’s wrongful.
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And sometimes he will speak, referencing himself and identifying himself with God, because he will say things of himself that can only be posited of God.
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Like I said, with Samson, that’s probably one of the clearest examples, because his parents worship the angel that appeared to them, sacrifice to the angel.
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They bring out a sacrifice for him, and he doesn’t rebuke them.
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He blesses them.
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That was Christ.
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You can say the pre-incarnate Christ, but time doesn’t really apply to God, so it’s Christ.
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Just like it’s Christ in the garden walking with Adam, because the father is spirit only and doesn’t walk in the garden.
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Christ walks in the garden.
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So the angel of the Lord, in many cases in the Old Testament, is Christ.
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So saying angel is just the natural way to say it in Greek, because he was acting as a messenger.
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Okay, the next one is also a scripture question, so I will leave Logos up, copy that question over so I don’t lose it here.
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Question 12, what is your exegesis of Mark 10, 18?
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It once caused me doubt, seeming like a denial of Christ’s divinity.
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But when I read the whole passage with the Spirit, I read it as Christ hinting at his divinity to a man who does not understand the gospel.
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So let’s pull up Mark 10, 18.
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That’s what I figured it was.
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I could have just said it, I guess.
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And Jesus said to him, Why do you call me good?
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No one is good except God alone.
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He’s testing him.
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Christ does this all over the place, loves to do this.
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It’s one of the tools, one of the sort of rhetorical tools that he likes to employ.
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So it’s a test essentially saying, Why do you call me good?
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Only God is good.
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Well, what’s he inviting him to do?
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You are God, you are the Christ.
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So that’s the correct response to this.
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He’s not saying that he’s not the Christ.
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He’s not saying he’s not God.
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He is, like you said, hinting at it fairly heavily, but in a way that would have been easily missed, perhaps, by most of the Jewish audience at the time.
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When we read this, we clearly can see that what he’s doing is saying, I’m God, I’m good because I’m God, but why are you calling me good if you are not willing to go the next step, the required step, and believe that I’m God?
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That’s what’s going on here.
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So it’s not a denial of his divinity, it’s Christ hinting at it and using a particular rhetorical device to teach.
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Christ is very fond of using that sort of rhetorical device.
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I have a question here where I think I am missing part of the question.
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The person in chat who said, what is the exegesis of 10-5?
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You did not give me a book.
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So if you could reply with what book you mean, that would be very helpful.
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Okay, next question.
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Let me copy it before I…
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We have a fight with Firefox.
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There we go.
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Question 13.
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Genesis 25.25 says, Esau had red hair.
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I am a redhead, and this has always interested me.
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What is the significance of his hair color?
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The significance there essentially is that his name means red.
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Esau, Edom both mean red.
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He is named after his hair color.
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So other than that, I don’t think you necessarily take anything away from just his hair color alone, other than of course the fact that you can draw things out genetically speaking, because we know that peoples in the Mediterranean and that part of the Levant were in fact fair skinned in antiquity.
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It is only after the Arabic conquests of the area that because of that admixture, they were darker complexion, darker hair.
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You still have very fair skinned populations in places like Syria, parts of those, Libya, not the entire population anymore, but it’s because of that admixture over time.
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So David as well, described as ruddy.
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These are indications of not that they are European or were descended from them, as some would like to argue, but that you had light skinned people in other parts of the world as well.
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Which should come as no surprise, because the Japanese and the Koreans still exist, right?
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Plenty of them are fair skinned, they’re definitely not European.
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But his name just means red.
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That’s the connection there.
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A lot of times, they like to name people in a way that was connected to the individual or auspicious in some way.
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We do a little bit of that historically in European culture as well.
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Some of our names have things that are obviously auspicious in some cases, or just geographic in some cases like my name.
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But that was very popular in that part of the world.
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Someone asked a question about non-Christian exorcisms, and I admittedly do not know enough about the actual evidence for that, to say anything firm, so I will copy that for the future, because I’m not going to just make up an answer here if I don’t know.
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So, let me just go ahead and copy that, so I will have it for later.
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My inclination would be that a non-Christian exorcism would not work unless the demon decided to be cooperative for some reason, and I think that would probably be pretty obvious in how things played out, but like I said, I have not really researched the subject at all, so I’m not familiar.
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Question 14.
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What would you advise Roman Catholics like myself who are looking into Lutheranism?
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The initial advice would just be to read the Small Catechism.
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That’s the first thing you should certainly do.
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And if you’re looking into Lutheranism, you’ve probably already done that.
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But commit the Small Catechism to memory.
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That’s something that I advise all Christians to do.
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If you are a non-sacramental Christian, which almost is a contradiction in terms of…
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We’ll leave that aside for now.
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Even if you are that, memorize the parts of the Small Catechism up to the parts in the sacrament, because they go in order.
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You can’t disagree with the first parts, because, you know, it’s the Lord’s Prayer, and the Ten Commandments, and things that every Christian must believe.
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So, at least remember those, at least memorize those.
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And I pointed out before that even Roman Catholic missionaries have historically printed and used the Small Catechism to evangelize other parts of the world, because they realized this is one of the best things ever written by a Christian as a quick summary of the faith.
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So, despite how many Roman Catholics, particularly priests and others, feel about Luther, they used the Small Catechism that he wrote.
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But other than that, read the Large Catechism as well.
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Certainly, if you are a father, a head of a household, someone in a position of authority with others under you.
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So, basically, just grab a copy of the Book of Concord.
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All that stuff is in there.
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It has the creeds as well, which are important.
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The Augsburg Confession is really the statement of what exactly it is Lutherans believe, and in some ways, contrary to Rome, what Rome asserted versus what we asserted.
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And on the bookofconcord.org, that is the online version of the Book of Concord.
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I’m the one who maintains that website.
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If you look at the Augsburg Confession, you can actually go to individual articles, and I set this up to make it as easy as possible.
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You can look at the confession, the apology of the confession, which is the defense, right?
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The Latin term, apologia, not apology in the modern sense.
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So that’s a longer version of the article saying why we believe this, how it’s founded in scripture, all those things.
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Many times responding to comments that the Roman Catholics made about the article, and then there’s also linked to the confutation, which is the Roman Catholic document, because there was the Augsburg Confession, the Roman Catholic Confutation, and then the apology of the Augsburg Confession, basically replying to each other.
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Rome didn’t reply to the apology.
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They just kind of let it drift off into the void there.
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They were extremely embarrassed about the quality of the confutation, and more or less hid it for years.
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They wouldn’t even give the Lutherans a copy of it, which was actually contrary to imperial law.
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The only reason the Lutherans had a copy of it in order to draft the apology is that the Germans had shorthand scribes who were present and had taken down the entire thing.
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And so they could compare the shorthand scribes, and so they had the whole document.
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But the Roman Catholics would not give them a copy because they were embarrassed about the quality of the thing.
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And they were just being churlish.
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But insofar as looking into Lutheranism, I think that’s really kind of how you start.
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You read those core documents that detail the differences between the Lutheran understanding of scripture and the Roman Catholic understanding, and then there’s an article in there as well about the Pope, specifically the power of the Pope, what he can do, what he can’t do, what he shouldn’t have done, things like that.
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That’s in there.
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That’s certainly worth reading when you’re coming from that background.
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If you have specific questions about specific doctrines, then there are certainly many books that I can recommend that are more voluminous, that just depends on sort of what level you’re at with regard to reading theology, so I could calibrate my recommendation there.
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So if you have a follow-up question, by all means, let me know.
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There’s, you know, Peepers, Christian dogmatics, there’s the critique of the Council of Trent by Chemnitz, where he goes through exhaustively and picks the Council of Trent apart.
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That’s sort of the full rebuttal of Rome’s stance on these issues from the Lutheran perspective.
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There’s great material from Walther, and that’s probably a great one for an American reader.
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He’s writing in a German-speaking context in America at the time.
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All of it’s translated into English.
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Now you can access it.
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He even has an essay critiquing communism, one of the first ones written in the US to do that.
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But he has some excellent work.
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It’s a little higher level.
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It’s aimed at teachers and pastors, but maybe that will interest you.
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His distinction on law and gospel is very good.
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But there are many, many materials that you could certainly read.
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But I think the real core of the difference is that clear distinction, like I just brought up with Walther, the law and gospel distinction.
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The Romans tend to muddy the waters a little bit when it comes to these things, particularly when it comes to works.
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They tend to bring works into the article of justification, and it makes Christ’s sacrifice less than it was and destroys confidence for the Christian.
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Because the core of the Christian faith is Christ crucified for sinners, and his sacrifice was of infinite value and atone for all of your sins that you ever committed, that you ever will commit.
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And there is absolutely nothing you can do to contribute to your salvation.
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That’s excellent news because it was all done by Christ.
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But you must do good works because a living faith will produce good works.
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But it’s important to understand there is a clear divide there.
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These things are objectively different.
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There’s justification, which is entirely God’s work.
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You can contribute nothing to it.
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In fact, the only thing you contribute to it is your sin.
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That’s it.
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And so, Christ, His sacrifice, infinite value, took away all your sin, done.
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You’re justified, it’s done.
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It’s a one and done.
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Sanctification is the ongoing process.
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You’re sanctified.
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The spirit works with you.
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You actually do work with the spirit.
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This is synergistic.
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Monarchistic justification, synergistic sanctification.
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And you get better over time, and you produce good works because you have a living faith.
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That is a difference between Rome and the Lutheran Church, and it is a very important difference, because it is the difference of how you conceptualize the gospel.
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And from the Lutheran perspective, Rome weakens the gospel.
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Someone asked a question about whether I believe Solzhenitsyn’s account of the Gulag Archipelago and the various things like that.
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Yes, those things are very well documented.
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And yes, there are certainly some Russian apologists online who try to minimize these things because they feel it is a matter of Russian pride to sort of rehabilitate the USSR.
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It’s not something that, it’s Dugin, it’s Dugin, Dugin, however you want to pronounce his last name.
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I don’t even know how it’s supposed to be pronounced.
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I don’t care, he’s an evil man.
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It’s his thing.
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And there are many people in that circle at this point, and don’t get pulled into it, because it is trying to rehabilitate something that cannot be rehabilitated because of the, just the deepness, the depth of that evil.
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And the evil of the communists is well documented across many countries.
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It was not limited to Russia.
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It happened in Hungary under their communist dictatorship.
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It happened in Romania.
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It happened every single place the communists took power.
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And it was largely but not exclusively run by Jews.
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They had non-Jewish collaborators in every single one of those countries.
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So the depth of the depravity and the evil is not exclusive to Jews.
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They are just overrepresented to an alarming degree, we’ll say.
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I guess I’ll make that question 15 there.
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Question 16.
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A follow up to the previous question, so I’ll just address it quickly, so we get that all in one place nice and neatly.
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How can you then argue that false gods and demon worship what leads to dysgenics?
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Because the demon worship in which most of these people have engaged is outright incestuous when it comes to these things.
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And the reason that you have, part of the reason that you have the exhaustive listing and leviticus of prohibited relationships, those are all of the relationships that were part of Canaanite worship.
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Incest was a part of Canaanite worship.
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It has been a part of worship in places like India, and in Africa it’s different.
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It’s not a part of the worship, it’s just that, not to sound like I’m making a joke, but they literally don’t know their fathers, because promiscuity is so rampant there, that they wind up committing incest accidentally, because they don’t know this person is a sibling.
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But obviously, you’re going to have greater problems with regard to disgenics more quickly if you are marrying your sibling versus your first cousin.
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Marrying your first cousin for thousands of years is going to cause problems.
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Marrying your sibling is going to cause problems in generations.
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These things are measured in different spans of time.
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So that’s how the demon worship will cause greater problems more quickly, because it is just more of a problem, because they’re marrying, not really marrying, but they’re producing children with their siblings.
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Look up what the Canaanites did in their worship, and you’ll see why God condemned it, and why He condemned it so extensively in the Old Testament.
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And, you know, there are other aspects as well, obviously.
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You have lots of child sacrifice and things like that, and cult prostitution, and it’s a whole constellation of things that cause those problems.
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But yes, there is a huge issue with consanguineous marriage, we’ll be polite, in pagan worship in certain parts of the world.
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The question from Twitter or X, whichever one you want to call it these days.
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Question 17.
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Is participating in the stock market long term or short term slash day trading morally permissible?
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It’s not as abusive as usury, but still seems to be misusing the purpose of money.
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Under a Christian government, it would be banned.
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But given the reality of where we are today, I don’t think that I can say that it is categorically banned.
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Which is not to say that morality is relative to, you know, the sort of government under which you live and the conditions.
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Rather, it’s to say that we are still ordered by God, commanded by God to act with wisdom.
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And so, if you were to take all your money, right, and hide it in a shoebox, you wouldn’t be directly, perhaps still indirectly, but you wouldn’t be directly involved in usury, charging of interest, anything like that.
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But you would also be acting in a way that is unwise, because you wouldn’t be protecting what has been entrusted to your care by God, because you wouldn’t be hedging against inflation.
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So, at the very least, you should have it in, you know, a savings account or a money market or something like that.
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Ideally, we wouldn’t have any of these things, because under a Christian government, the market would be regulated in a very different way.
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It’s not what we have today.
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So, you have to act within reason and not act against your conscience.
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It’s a balancing act, which, like I said, is unfortunate that we have to do that, but it is the reality of where we are today.
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So, no, you don’t have to avoid the stock market, but, you know, don’t be the predatory individual who is deliberately destroying companies to make, you know, a large sum of money, usually, it’s not a small sum, but to make money.
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Don’t do that.
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And your conscience is valuable.
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Your conscience will warn you when you are approaching that edge.
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Let’s grab another question from the chat.
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Let’s see.
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Question 18.
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What is the exegesis of Mark 10 verse 5?
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Can it be applied to Deuteronomy 22, 28?
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Pull that up just a second here.
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I’m going to grab another question from the chat before I lose it and it disappears.
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Go through a couple more questions here, I think, maybe more than a couple, maybe a few.
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Get over to Logos here.
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I moved all my stuff around in OBS to try and make it easier to find, and that hasn’t panned out yet.
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So we want Mark 10.5 and, what was it, Deuteronomy 22.28.
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And Jesus said to them, Because of your heartness of heart, he wrote you this commandment, but from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.
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Therefore, a male shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife.
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The two shall become one flesh, so they are no longer two, but one flesh.
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What therefore, God has joined together, let not man separate.
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This is one that comes up all the time, because of course, it’s the decree of divorce from Moses, right, the certificate of divorce that was permissible in Old Testament Israel, which is Deuteronomy 24, one through four.
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Let me pull it up.
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Now, if anyone takes a wife and lives with her, and it shall be, if she does not find favor before him because he found a shameful thing in her, then he write her a bill of divorce, and he shall give it into her hands, and shall send her out of his house.
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And if having gone out, she becomes another man’s, and the last man hates her, then he will write her a bill of divorce, and give it into her hands, and send her out of his house.
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Or if the last man who took her for himself as wife dies, the former man who sent her away shall not be able, having returned, to take her for himself as his wife after she has been defiled, so on and so forth.
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You can’t remarry a woman after you divorce her.
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That’s certainly banned.
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The general rule, and it’s always worth stating the general rule with regard to divorce, is that divorce is basically never permissible.
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The sole exception being sexual immorality or something that has tantamount to it.
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So abandonment, tantamount to sexual immorality.
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That’s really one of the only cases, right?
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So, for here, we have, but if someone finds the girl, the virgin who is not engaged, and after he forces her, lies with her, and he has discovered the man who lay with her shall give 50 silver to Drakhmas, to the young woman’s father, and she shall become his wife because he humbled her.
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He shall not be able to send her away for all time.
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So, this is a limitation, of course.
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It comes before the part in 24, but this is a limitation.
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You’re not allowed to send away a virgin when you basically took advantage of her.
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This is not, like I’ve said before, we went over this in a previous episode.
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I don’t remember which one, or I’d reference it.
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But I went over this in a previous episode.
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This is not what we would call, say, violent stranger rape, which is usually the more or less technical term we use for what is in our law, rape.
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We have some more modern laws that deal with some other specific circumstances, but that is the general one.
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This is not that.
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That’s a different thing because that is treated elsewhere in the Old Testament, and for that you get stoned.
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There’s a difference for that.
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For this, you have to marry her, unless the father objects, because the father is allowed to object.
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The father gets a veto with regard to marriage.
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So, for this, what Christ is saying is what was always the intention from the very beginning, which he makes very clear here, right?
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From the beginning of creation.
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God made them male and female.
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And once you are joined together with a woman in marriage, you are never supposed to divorce her.
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The only exception is when you’re already divorced, which is what adultery is.
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If your wife cheats on you, you are already effectively divorced.
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She divorced you by the act.
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You can forgive her and take her back, but you are not required to do so.
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The question that arises, what is to be done with those who are divorced, right?
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Well, this comes down to what the state does to punish adultery.
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If the state punishes adultery as a capital crime, problem solved, you don’t have a bunch of people hanging around who committed adultery and are now divorced, because they were executed, which you can argue that’s what the state should be doing.
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It would solve a lot of problems, Luther would agree, and I happen to think that that probably is the best way to go about it.
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It solves a lot of the problems.
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If a woman commits adultery, make it a capital crime for her and for the other man, at least if he knew she was married.
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Now, you can avoid these problems in your life by simply not fornicating, but the reality is that people are going to continue to do stupid stuff, and the solution for fornication is to make them get married.
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That’s what the Puritans of all people used to do.
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They recognize that human nature, things happen sometimes, do the best that you can with the situation that’s been created, marry them off and let them live an honest life together.
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But, if you deal with…
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Just notice something in the chat, I’ll get to it in a second here.
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But, if you deal with adultery as a capital crime, then you avoid a lot of these problems.
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If not, then you have the issue arising of like, who can you marry again, and can you remarry your previous husband?
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The answer is no, despite the fact that we allowed that in our society today.
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But, this is one of those cases where, if you just avoid the initial sin, so many other problems never arise.
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Because there are so many times where you’ll get questions, particularly people who want to ask, not, I’m not saying this one, but, you’ll get people who want to ask super technical questions, you know, it’s the Sadducees coming to Christ and saying, well, if the brothers all die and they’ve all married this woman, then whose wife will she be in the resurrection?
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That’s Jewish squabbling over the law.
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And, if you just don’t have, in that case, it wasn’t sin, but in many cases, it’s where there’s a sin.
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If you don’t have the sin, then you never have the additional complications.
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All the complications were created by the sin.
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This arises when you have single mothers and you have a mother who has children by a bunch of different men.
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You make a giant mess.
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Sin makes everything messy.
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It makes a disaster.
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So just avoid the sin in the first place.
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Leave from it, as the scriptures say with regard to sexual sins.
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Someone asked if his question got deleted.
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I certainly didn’t delete anything because I am using Restream, so I just have all of the comments from everywhere aggregated on my screen.
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I’m not actually looking at the…
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excuse me, I’m not looking at the moderation for any particular platform.
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So if your question disappeared, please go ahead and ask it again.
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I don’t know why it would disappear.
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I certainly didn’t do it.
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I don’t think I even can delete things from here.
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I cannot.
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Question 19, how can a single person or an entire people do penance for their sins?
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How can a collective call for forgiveness to God?
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The way that we see in scripture.
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And unfortunately, the real way for it to be done is for the leader to call a convocation of some kind, and then for the leader and the leaders of the people to repent, whether it’s in sackcloth and ashes, or whatever the cultural way of repenting is in that society, which it probably involves some form of a basement like that.
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That’s how that’s done.
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And we do not have faithful leaders.
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So the best that we can do is repent as individuals, as congregations, and then we can also work together as Christians.
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This is more difficult, obviously, with such a large and disparate nation, like the United States, like America.
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But we can set, say, a national day of prayer and repentance.
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That’s something we can do, and then hopefully many individuals will participate.
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We can’t compel it in the same way that, say, a king could, because a king could say, today we’re all going to pray and repent, or else.
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And that’s perfectly permissible.
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The king’s allowed to do that.
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We don’t have that option.
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If God gave us a Christian, a faithful Christian ruler, we would have much better options.
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But unfortunately, we don’t currently have that.
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So the best that we can do is individual repentance, corporate in the sense of our individual perishes, and then, you know, optional, unfortunately, as it were, days of repentance and prayer.
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And we have those.
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There are days of fasting and things like that on the church year calendar.
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Following those is good praxis.
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I see someone is still having a fight with the chat about sending a question.
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I suppose that maybe you used a word that triggered some sort of moderation.
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Misspell it, and then maybe it will show up.
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Question 20.
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What are your thoughts on Hungarians?
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When I look at DNA charts, their genetic distance is very close to Germans, but they seem to be very different in a lot of ways.
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They’re definitely very different.
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I like them.
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I’ve known a number of them.
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I got along with them just fine.
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Their language is incomprehensible, and I hope never to have to learn it.
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But I don’t know if that’s their fault or not.
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I guess it probably kind of is.
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But no, they’re European brothers, and they’re good people.
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But they’re definitely, they’re unique, which is a good thing.
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I want individual European nations to remain individual European nations to remain unique, not to lose their distinct cultures.
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I don’t want to have a pan-Europeanism that just blurs everyone into vaguely European.
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That would be a loss.
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It’s better than going extinct, but it’s not a victory.
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So yes, I hope the Hungarians survive into the future.
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Thought, okay, the question that was being eaten by some sort of invisible moderation function.
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Thoughts on the Save Europe Act.
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It requires full name and email, but it’s promoted by seemingly normal people.
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I actually don’t know what that is.
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I have not looked into it at all, so I do not have an opinion on it.
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In some sense, I’ll just answer sort of a practical question, practical matter related to it, because I don’t know that much about it.
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I’ve seen it pass by in my feed, but I have not read it or gone through it or anything like that.
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I don’t know which individuals are supporting it, promoting it.
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But as a general rule, anonymity these days is not as powerful as most men still think.
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Anonymity works against individual actors.
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Anonymity works against some corporate actors, and that’s only if you’re doing a good job.
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So if you’re good at what you’re doing, you know, you have your browser set up in such a way that it’s blocking as much as possible, but not too much, because if you block everything, it actually makes you more identifiable, which is a problem with using certain browsers, because that’s actually a pretty strong signal, because no one else is, you know, double-edged sword kind of thing.
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You add in a VPN, and you add in all these measures, and the standard steps we all know.
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You can add these things up, and you get pretty good privacy, but you have to also have very good opsec then.
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You have to make sure that you don’t recycle email addresses.
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You have to make sure you don’t access them on your personal computers.
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They are always accessed via the VPN.
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Make sure you’ve got location service.
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Like, there’s a whole litany of things you can do to try to stay anonymous, to try to stay, well, it’s really pseudonymous usually, but to try to stay out of the spotlight and not get tagged for certain stuff.
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And it works, again, against individual actors, against some corporate actors.
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It’s not worth anything against a government actor.
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A government actor can absolutely disambiguate you, and it’s not even a challenge.
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Just speaking as someone who’s worked at law firms, I could have found you with those tools.
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I had to pay for it, well, the firm had to pay for them, but a government has even better tools, far better tools.
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It will not take them any real effort to disambiguate you.
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And so, to some degree, yes, act with wisdom, but recognize that you’re already compromised to a certain degree.
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I’m not saying you should necessarily go all in on this sort of thing, but I’m just highlighting the fact that the government already knows who you are.
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And maybe they don’t have the easy way to get you if they felt like it yet, but if they really wanted to get you, they’d just manufacture it.
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That’s the harsh reality of the system under which we live.
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If they really wanted to take you down, they’ll just plant something on your hard drive and then no knock rage you at 3 in the morning, hopefully not shoot your dog.
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So the reality is that you can only protect yourself to a certain degree and that in the coming years, we’re all going to take some risk because it’s going to be the nature of the beast.
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And you’re taking them regardless, right?
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If you do absolutely nothing, then things continue to get worse.
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If you do something, then there’s some risk you sustain in doing that.
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So this is one of those times where it is a matter of using the gifts that God has given you, employing your wisdom, and acting according to both conscience and wisdom.
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I can’t give a blanket recommendation with regard to do this, don’t do that, because every single man’s tolerance for threat, for danger, for risk is going to be different.
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We’re not all the same, obviously.
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I’m doing this with my full face and name and my own study wall behind me.
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Not the prettiest wall in the world, but it’s there.
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Right?
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So the reality is that you just have to apply conscience and wisdom and then make the decision.
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So is it a honeypot?
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It might be, but what would a honeypot really gain them?
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The only people who would gain from a honeypot would be someone who did not have the means to disambiguate you anyway, and any of the big actors can already do it.
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And just so you know, for those, sort of a tangential point, for those who think that a VPN is going to protect you from government actors, I have some news.
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It will not.
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AT&T, for instance, can see right through your VPN with trivial ease.
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And I don’t want to get into something too technical here.
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This is actually what I wrote in part my master’s thesis on, I was actually on net neutrality, but this was a related issue.
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If you control both ends of the network, you can see the traffic, enter and exit, you can identify the traffic.
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It’s that simple, really.
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It’s more complicated than that with regard to how exactly it’s done technically, and there’s a whole bunch of that stuff, but big players like AT&T or Level 3 or any big backbone provider, they can disambiguate you eventually.
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Probably almost immediately in the case of someone like AT&T if you’re living in the US.
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So, that’s the reality of what we live in right now.
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So, calibrate accordingly.
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I’m not crazy and paranoid.
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Obviously, I’m not, but I don’t turn off all location services and lock everything down and always use a VPN and never go here or there, and I just don’t do that stuff, because at some point, you wind up dedicating so much time and effort to that, that it’s almost become like your religion at that point, you’ve just wasted so much time and effort, and life is a matter of balancing risk, right?
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When you go hiking, there’s a risk you get hit by a tree.
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There’s a risk of that just being in my yard here, but there’s a higher risk when I go hiking, like, you know, a tree could drop a branch on me, or I could encounter a bear or a moose or something.
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Not moose around here, but I’ve been other places hiking.
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But it’s worth the risk for what I gain.
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The same thing is true with regard to our various technological devices and services and things like that.
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Sometimes the risk is worth the gain, sometimes it’s not.
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So, employ your wisdom as best you can.
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But yet, don’t go typing your information into random places on the Internet, you know.
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If someone asks for your home address, maybe don’t do that.
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But name, email address, you know, give them a proton mail one.
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I don’t think that’s a big deal.
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I think that I got all of the questions from the chat.
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Follow-up question on the divorce topic here.
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I’ll just drop in real quick here, and then I think that’ll be the last question for this week.
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The question is whether that ruling in Deuteronomy is an example of a law being for the hardness of their hearts, not asking about the divorce aspect specifically.
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So the question is, is the marriage for a man who overpowers a virgin, and to be clear, I’m using that term not, you know, to make it nicer sounding, because obviously I have no problem saying the other word.
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I’m saying it because it’s not the same thing there.
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Is that given to them because of the hardness of their heart?
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I think in some sense, but it’s not the core sense of hardness of heart that’s meant there with regard to divorce.
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It’s given to them specifically because of the deficits of the people who live in that part of the world and their culture and their morality.
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It’s not really a problem that we have in the Western world.
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We don’t really have laws saying, you overpower a virgin in the forest, you have to marry her.
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That’s not a rule we needed.
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It is a rule that they needed.
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So it is something that is tailored to them.
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And I’ve gone over this before.
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It’s not for us.
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It’s for them.
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It’s civil law, not moral law.
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It’s for Old Testament Israel.
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It’s not for us.
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Moral law, unchanging flows from God’s nature, applies to all men, all places, all times.
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Thou shalt not murder, applies to all men, all places, all times.
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Overpower a virgin in the middle of the desert, but the barrier applies to people who live in the Levant, and can’t keep their hands to themselves.
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Because, you know, civil law versus moral law is really the core concept there.
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Maybe I’ll do one more question here.
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I see a question about Matthew 25.
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I’ll make this one the last one for this week.
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How do you respond to Matthew 25, 41 through 46 being used to defend immigration?
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So I’m going to add that to the show notes here.
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I don’t forget later.
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And then we’ll pull that up so we can actually look at it.
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Then he will say to those on his left, depart from me, you curse it into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
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For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.
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Then they also will answer saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not minister to you?
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Then he will answer them saying, truly I say to you, as you did not do to one of the least of these, you did not do it for me.
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And these will go away into eternal punishment but the righteous into eternal life.
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The reason this doesn’t apply to what is called immigration, it’s not immigration, it’s an invasion, which is part of the answer here of course, right?
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This doesn’t apply because if this applied to the invasion that’s ongoing in the West, then it would apply to the Canaanites, then it would apply to the Egyptians, it would apply to the Assyrians and the Syrians, and every other people who invaded Old Testament Israel, they would have had to say, oh, well, come on in and we’ll give you food and drink and clothing.
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And God didn’t command that, God commanded them to destroy them.
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Because God has entrusted certain things to your care, He has given you land, He has given you borders, He has given you a family, an extended family, a nation being a further extended family.
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You owe duties to these things, you are to protect and defend them.
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And that includes defending them against those who would come and steal from you.
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That’s not what this is.
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This here is when you see the person of your own people who needs help, and you don’t help him.
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For that, that would be a sin.
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For that, you’re cursed.
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For that, you should do something.
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This is not when you see people invading your country.
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You don’t go out and give enemy soldiers, you know, warm cookies and a cup of tea.
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That’s called being a traitor.
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You’re not permitted to do that.
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That’s not what is in view here.
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This is for those who believe that the Christian faith is just, you know, words and not deeds.
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These are the people who never go out and help their neighbor, never give to the poor, never donate time, effort, anything.
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It’s a condemnation of those who do not have a living and active faith, who have a dead faith that doesn’t produce good works.
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Because if you have a living faith, they will produce good works.
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And the primary group to whom your good works should be dedicated and to whom they should be directed after, of course, your family, is your neighbor, your neighbors.
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Because God has put you in a certain place at a certain time, those people are in your life, assuming that you aren’t surrounded by, you know, invading military of some kind.
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But if things are going as they should be, you’re supposed to help your neighbor.
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You’re not supposed to go 2,000 miles away and help some hostile alien.
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This is just one of those verses.
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And there are many verses that are going to be polluted, perverted, and abused by the enemies.
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And you have to remember, when Satan was attempting to tempt Christ, he used scripture.
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If Satan is willing to use scripture to God, to his face, to try to tempt him, then certainly the enemies of God, the minions of Satan, are going to try to pervert scripture to confuse and tempt you, to lead you astray.
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So just because someone quotes scripture and then shows you a picture of a sad child doesn’t mean that he has an argument.
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In fact, he’s probably trying to mislead you.
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Certainly be wary of anyone who is trying to lead you by the nose with regard to emotion.
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Men, by and large, and I’m not saying exclusively, because sometimes emotion, it has a place, right?
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If you have a giant political rally, part of that will be emotional.
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There’s nothing wrong with that.
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But by and large, particularly a one-on-one discussion, a man should not be trying to get another man to agree with something or change his position on the basis of emotion.
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That’s not how men engage.
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Men engage with reason and logic, and the people who are pointing to this and then showing a picture of a sad child, or a dead child in the surf, trying to cross the Mediterranean, whatever it happens to be, that person is trying to beat you over the head with isogesis and then get you to emotionally capitulate.
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That person is not a Christian.
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That person is trying to mislead you.
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But no, that passage does not apply to what they’re calling immigration, and part of the key there is recognizing it’s not immigration at all.
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It’s an alien invasion, and it is incumbent on Christian men to repulse it by arms.
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And our leaders stand condemned for failing to do so, and they’ll answer to God for that.
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But I think that is it for this week.
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So thank you to those who submitted questions and participated in the chat.
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Always glad to do this.
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As always, if you submit the questions on omniforah.com, there should be a link in whatever platform you’re using in the show description, video description, whatever it is.
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If you submit the questions there, it is easiest for me and easiest for those in the future to then click through and read those because then it’s on the forum.
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And that is my site, so you’re not signing up for some random website.
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It’s my site, I’m the only one who has access to it.
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That’s just the easiest way.
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But if you want to, you can submit, as always, in the chat via Telegram, via X, other places.
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If I don’t notice your question, then please feel free to submit it again.
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Sometimes things disappear.
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Like I said at the beginning of the chat, there was a question in reply to my Tweet announcing the Q&A, and it disappeared, and doesn’t even show as deleted or hidden or anything.
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So sometimes platforms eat things.
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If I do not notice your question, then it will not be in the future topic slash question list, which is again on the forum.
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If it’s there, I noticed it because I copied it.
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If it’s not there, I probably missed it.
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Please ask it again.
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As always, I enjoy doing this, hopefully, mostly every week, every now and then I have to skip a week, sort of depends how my week goes.
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Thursdays or Fridays, again, depending on how my week goes, and basically one hour a week.
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So I will see all of you next Thursday or Friday.
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Have a great weekend, and of course, go to church on Sunday.
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Until then, God bless you.