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Welcome to the Gospel Truth Project Podcast. I'm your host Jason Cooper and I have here

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with me my co-host.

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It's me, it's Dylan.

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It's me. Can you imagine if someone's name was actually me?

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Oh my gosh. Well there is a good name, I am.

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Yes, I am. I don't know about a guy, but definitely something.

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I am, I am.

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Can you imagine just be like, what's your name? Me? Yes, me. Go ahead.

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I think I got like family. What's, uh, Ming Ming. It's close to me.

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Yeah, Ming Ming. Yeah. Yeah.

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So how are you doing today? Like how are you feeling?

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Oh, I'm feeling super awesome. Just running around.

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Uh, some people might know Halloween is next Monday. So for youth group, we're doing like

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a counter Halloween of like Bible dressed up and I had to run around and go get a bunch

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of stuff today and I just had to sit down and relax for a little bit and get this going

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with you. And so I'm like, okay, let's relax for a little bit. Take a breath. Talk about

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our subject today, which is a construction of the Bible, which is a big thing that I've

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seen a lot. But we'll get into that more. How are you doing Jason?

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I'm doing good. You just made me realize that we probably should do a Halloween episode

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to talk about Halloween in general. We might have a podcast coming out on Halloween. Just

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say it. I know it would be fun. Like it's a, it's a good topic because a lot of Christians

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have back and forth feelings about Halloween and, uh, in general. And, um, no, they're

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good points and it's good to talk about and just kind of discuss from a biblical standpoint,

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what are we looking at and what are we talking about? So I think we should.

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Yeah. I love free candy. It does not really about anything else. How did you cavities?

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So, but I already have them. Right. So yeah, uh, doing good. And like Dylan said, um, our

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podcast this week, like we explained last week is that we wanted to talk about Bible

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deconstruction as that is growing more so popular as a topic. And you can see it on

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social media a lot more. You see it on Facebook, tick tock, Instagram, Instagram reels, Snapchat.

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Uh, just in general, people are more and more coming out saying, Oh, deconstructed the Bible.

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So we're going to talk about what that is and, um, you know, how it can be dangerous

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because it is dangerous. I mean, there's a reason for it and we'll talk about how it

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all fits in to everything going on right now. And as Christians, is that something that

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we do or do we talk against it or what, what is it? What is our position in this whole

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movement that's happening out of postmodernism? Um, so it's a really good topic. I like it.

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We've been excited to talk about this topic though. Yeah. I like, I think it was last

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Wednesday. I saw a lot of it, uh, just on social media and I was like, what is going

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on? And I was like, I want to talk about this. And of course, you know, you can't just, something

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that goes, there's a lot of, a lot of content behind this that we'll get into in the upcoming

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hour, but there's a lot that's going on with this. I've seen, uh, even people in leadership

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kind of dive into this a little bit or a lot. Um, and I'll just say, I mean, my opinion

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is basically is that, um, well, I should just maybe get into what it is first as far as

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to start sharing my opinion. Um, it's just the basic theory that texts, the texts is

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a, uh, for interpretation, but it doesn't mean what it, exactly what it means. There's

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means behind it. I mean, not like, you know, it talks about like, oh, well when they're

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talking about this, what they really mean is, you know, uh, it's a theory. It's not

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really real, you know, the text isn't, you know, this, exactly what it means. And, uh,

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I've seen it a lot. Like Sonny was trying to say that with Jacob and Esau that, uh,

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you know, Jacob was a trans person because he believed, you know, he was hairy and he

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wanted to stay in the kitchen with mom and it's, it's interpretation of the Bible with

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that in time deconstructed to make it work with the times and things that, you know,

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had nothing to do with this time in general, but just the way they want it to fit in. And,

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uh, I don't agree with it, but we're going to talk about it. Yep. I had this question

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and I'm open to hearing people's thoughts and what you have to say. If you do, if you're

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one to the, like, I like the deconstruction. That's fine. Um, I love to hear your opinions

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and why you think that, um, like, like we would say every week, um, we have our opinions,

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but we are open to hearing your opinions. Um, when I hear the judge, we are here to

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love on you and just give you our opinion and to inform people.

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So first off, we do want to say, what is it? And then Dylan handled it, uh, the definition

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pretty decently. And so I'll add on, I'll add on deconstructionism is basically a theory

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of textual criticism or interpretation that denies there's any single correct meaning

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or interpretation of a passage or text, um, at the heart of deconstructionist theory of,

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uh, interpretation of two primary ideas. First is the idea that no passage or text can possibly

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convey a single reliable, consistent and coherent message to everyone who reads or hears it.

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The second is that the author who wrote the text is less responsible for the piece's content

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than are the impersonal forces of culture, such as language and the author's unconscious

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ideology. Therefore the very basic tenants, uh, deconstructionism are contrary to clear

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teaching of the Bible that absolute truth does exist and we can indeed know it. And

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that's kind of an overview, right? We have verses that kind of touch up on the topic.

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We have versions, verses like Galatians two, four through five that say, my concern was

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because of the false brothers, those people masquerading as Christians who had been secretly

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smuggling or smuggled in to the community of believers. They had slipped into the spy

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on the freedom, which we have in Jesus Christ in order to bring us back into bondage under

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the law of Moses, but we do not yield to them even for a moment so that the truth of the

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gospel would continue to remain with you in its purity. Um, postmodernism has brought

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upon the denial of the existence of absolute truth. This is a very self contradictory thing

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to say if you don't know, because no one can rationally deny absolute truth because to

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do so you are forced to state an absolute truth. So as someone claims that there is

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no absolute truth, then you ask, are you absolutely sure about that? Because if they say yes,

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then they have made a statement contrary contradictory to the very premise of their argument. I think

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that's interesting to me. Like, yeah, it's very interesting. Um, I think we just get

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caught up too much now in the way the world is and that's affected the way that you believe

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where it's like, I think a lot of what I hear and it's like, what's what my truth is. And

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I think the Bible itself and God himself is very black and white. This is what it is.

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There are certain things like, you know, if you really like Psalms and translations where

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it can be up to interpretation, like I look at like where, uh, talks about the colorful

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cloak and that is given, uh, Joseph Joseph. Yeah. I always want to say Jacob. I know it's

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not Jacob because I know Joseph wasn't a wrestler. Um, but so my thing with that is like it talks

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about what Joseph talks about. He had received a rainbow cloak. That's the interpretation

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that we have received through the Greek and Hebrew, but the actual translation cause in

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Greek, I believe it's in Greek or maybe in Hebrew, it's the same meaning. It was just

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of more royalty and of ranking and what that would have actually translated into instead

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would have been a shirt or a t-shirt because with sleeves, because only the wealthy back

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then had sleeves wrong. And the most it was said, you're rocking the cutoff sons out guns

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out like, but that's more or less like that stuff is up to like is different than saying,

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well, um, you know, you know, like I was saying, Jacob and you saw Jacob was, was a feminine

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man and possibly homosexual because he liked to cook. Right. Like he's a guy, most chefs,

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by the way, he worked in a professional chefs are men. It's not, it's not, it's not, they

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are not into one gender. It's very silly. Right. I wouldn't say cooking is to any gender.

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It's just, if you like that, do that and do it. Like, that's it. Yeah. You're looking

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in my household. I, you know, I think the men do more cooking than the women. Yeah.

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And that's now I know my sister is going to listen to this and she's going to call me

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out because I probably do. She does. Um, well, I mean, she's, she's a good cook. I mean,

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I think I think, but it's also good, you know, crap for not probably the best, but it's fine.

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I make a good meatloaf and that's all that matters. Yeah. The King of dreams is a good

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thing to bring up Joseph because Joseph is from Genesis and Genesis 37 and Genesis is

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written in Hebrew. So just to kind of go back and reiterate, you were asking about that.

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It's an, it was written in Hebrew. Um, yeah, that's what I said. I was completely right.

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See? Yeah. Yeah. See. So, um, at the heart of deconstructionist, they think that they

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can discover a personal or social motivation behind what scripture says and therefore can

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determine what is really being said. Uh, the result is a subjective interpretation of the

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passage in question, uh, instead of accepting what the Bible actually says to deconstructionist

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is arrogant enough to think that they can determine the motive behind what was written

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and come up with the real or hidden meaning of the text by saying that they have discovered

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the true meaning behind the passages. They're claiming they're claiming an absolute truth

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about the very subject. They say that has no absolute truths. Again, it comes back to

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that. You're claiming something that contradicts what you're claiming, right? Um, first Corinthians

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3, 18 to 20 talks about this actually, which is funny enough. Let no one deceive himself.

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If anyone among you think that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool, discarding

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his worldly pretensions and acknowledging his lack of wisdom so that he may became and

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become truly wise for the wisdom of this world is foolishness, absurdity and stupidity before

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God for is written in scripture. He is the one who catches the wise in clever and their

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craftiness. And again, the Lord knows the thoughts of the humanly wise that they are

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useless. Um, Oh yeah. Right. It's like I've been saying the past few weeks and you're

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talking about, cause talking about who Jesus is, that's what I'm talking to you right now.

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Uh, and one thing I was talking about how he is protector, he is our shepherd. And I

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was saying that we are sheep. I'm like, Oh, we're sheep. I'm like, no, no, no. It means

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that we're stupid. I'm like, we are, we are dumb compared to the all knowing God. We are,

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we are not smart. We're we are, we are nothing. I was comparing that to, we are like sheep

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and like sheep are so stupid that the shepherd has to go up and take Vaseline or oil sorts

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and stick it up the nostrils of the sheep. Because if not, flies will go in there and

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lay eggs inside their brain. Right. The kids are like, well, why don't it wasn't the sheep

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doing things like, cause it's too dumb to even go and blow its nose. Right. It doesn't

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feel better. Right. In the grass to do anything. Right. I'm going like that is Jesus. He has

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this thing that he pretends like sheep, but he's also a little bad. Cannon may be in a

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sense calling us dumb. Like you think, you know, wise what not as wise as, as yes. You

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need us. He is our shepherd. You, you watch us over us protects us in that we do not have

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an idea what is good for us because it was for us to be that the flies go inside our

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brains and deconstruct our brains. I mean, uh, decompose our brains, deconstruct good

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topic point. You know, like, it's, you know, I have to call people a fool. Cause it says

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something called something you fool in the Bible. I, you know, I think that's what, where

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is it at? I forget where it's at, but then there's a, is it Romans? You've talked about

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Romans, don't they? Something about a fool. I don't know. I'd be wrong. Uh, Romans one

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21 to 22. I think, I think that's what you're referencing. If, Oh, for every, Oh yeah. No,

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it's for, even though they knew God as the curator and they do not honor him and give

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him thanks for the wondrous creation. I mean, look at it. Um, on the contrary, they become

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worthless and they're thinking Godless without, with pointless reasoning and silly speculations

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and their foolish heart was darkened, claiming to be wise. They became fools. That's right.

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just learned about foolishness and fools and this is another word that says don't call

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somebody a fool because it is, um, it is, it is a sudden testable and I ever something

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like that. I forget. Um, Romans 12, let's live in harmony with one another. Do not be

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haughty, conceited, self-important, exclusive, but associate with humble people. Those with

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a realistic self view. Do not overestimate yourself. Yeah. And then do not call them

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a fool for the, or something that for maybe they are not as far as there was something

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about that. I can't remember. We'll have to look it up during this episode while we're

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talking. Yeah. Um, yeah, they kind of get back on topic though. Deconstructionists,

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uh, do not study the Bible in order to find out the meaning intended by the writer, but

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to attempt to discern the cultural and social motives behind what was written. They're only

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limited in their interpretation by their imagination. Therefore to deconstructionist, there is no

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right or wrong interpretation and the meaning of the text becomes whatever the reader wants

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it to be. I'm assuming this is what you've been seeing, right? Yes. Uh, I've seen that

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where people are like, well, I've, I've heard it, um, as well as things is like, well, the

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Bible doesn't really talk about homosexuality. Uh, that's completely fine. What does it say?

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It's not okay. And then talks about, you know, I heard them say, uh, I heard someone say,

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oh, you know, is it pre-marital sex is fine. You know, it doesn't really say that. I'm

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going like, yes, it does. This is with another, another leader. I believe at one point was

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saying something like this and I was going like, wait, what, what did you just say? Like,

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I'm sorry, but the Bible is very clear, like new and old. That's what they're trying to

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say with the new test. This is just old test. This is this. I'm like, okay. But like, there's

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the Vitticus 18, the Vitticus 20. I mean, that's old and Romans one 26, first 13, six,

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nine and first Timothy one, one, first 10. I'll talk about that. I was over 31 scriptures,

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31 scriptures that say it's not okay, but we can't, it's like, I'm like, I said something

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like, oh, then they switched the subject and I'm like, what? No, like if we're going to

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talk about it, let's talk about it. I'm trying to understand why the reasoning for saying

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that and where they don't, I mean, they didn't have any scripture to back it up. I was going

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to create an argument cause I'm not trying to cause they're a friend. Right. I think,

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I think what we need to do is one of these episodes, just talk about over overall sexuality

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because I think a lot of Christian podcasts as well as Christian preachers do not like

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to talk about sexuality in general. I rather not get canceled. I'm okay getting canceled

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on the six episode or whatever. So that way completion, right? Exactly. It'll be the shortest

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podcast ever hit the internet, but we'll get, we'll take off real quick. If I, I, you know,

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it's something that I've studied a lot and it's something that I'm sure you have as well.

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And uh, the sexuality in general is something I like to talk about because I do have friends

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that, um, you know, do these things and practice these things across the board. And it's a

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good subject to talk about. And I've talked to them about it as well. And uh, you know,

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it's okay to disagree and it's just, let's talk about it. But like, and we will get to

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that. We will get to that. We have, you know, but we're getting on topic again. I know,

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but this is, you know, thinking about it. We do have, you know, I think a handful of

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people that we went to youth group with, you know, that have, you know, had struggles with

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that or have gone through things with that type of stuff. Um, you know, so like we've

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seen it like, so we know and we've, and like, you know, we're still friends with them. Like

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there's nothing that's changed. It just, we have different beliefs on that. We can still

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discuss it and still come together with common ground. Yeah. Um,

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discussion is always good. It's always good to discuss. That's what, that's when it stops.

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That's when nothing beneficial comes out of it. And it's no longer, uh, I mean, it just

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becomes more evil and more cynical the way if you will become when there's no longer

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discussion and it becomes more personal instead of just being a friendly conversation. Um,

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go back to the deconstruction. Um, did you want to say something? Yeah. Um, so by talking

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everything we talked about so far, um, there's other philosophies that come out of postmodernism,

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which is kind of what we're in right now is a lot of postmodernist idealism. Um, deconstructionism

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celebrates human autonomy and determines truth by the Intel intellect of man, right? Therefore,

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according to the postmodern thinker, all truth is relative and there is no such thing as

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an absolute truth. And at the heart of postmodernism and deconstruction is deconstructionism is

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pride. That's at the heart of it saying that, you know, actually there's a lot of verses

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on pride, uh, first John two 16. I didn't talk about that. No, this is the deep pride

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of the one proud. Right. First John two 16, the fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride

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and arrogance are the way of evil and perverted speech. I hate, you know, Romans 12 16. Show

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me another. Oh, you're showing me the verse. Nevermind. Live in harmony with one another.

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Do not be haughty, conceited, self-important, exclusive, but associate with humble people.

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Those really don't be hard. Right. Realistic self-use. You don't overestimate yourself.

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Every time I hear I'm like, howdy, howdy, um, I know, right? Don't be haughty. That

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could be a feature there. Do you have a, do you have proverbs 16 five up by chance? Proverbs

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16 five. I got some Hebrews. I got some Yeshua. Uh, Hebrews coffee. Not, not yet. Uh, proverbs

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16 18 or 25 16 5 16 5. Yes. Hold on. I think I got this. Hold on. I'm right there. I'm

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right there. That's right. Then proverbs, uh, everyone who is arrogant in the heart.

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Oh gosh. Okay. Uh, you're funny. Errogant in the heart is an imbal, abomination to the

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Lord. Be assured he will not go unpunished. Well, dang it. How hardcore is that? Like

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you're arrogant in your heart or abomination. Well, good thing I'm not really arrogant in

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the heart. I act like I am, but I haven't. I have all this self-confidence and little

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arrogant, but in the heart it's, I am nowhere. Yep. Um, proverbs 11 two says it too. When

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pride comes boiling up with arrogant attitude of self-importance, then come dishonor and

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shame, but with the humble, the teachable who have been chiseled by trial and who have

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learned to walk humbly with God, there is wisdom and soundness of mind. Ooh. Yeah. It's

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like proverbs 29 23. Like it says in the notes too, when pride comes boiling up. It's the

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same verse. Oh, I that no, no, no, that's a wrong. I know I wanted to read it. I thought

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it'd be fun. Oh, it's gone now. How am I going to read it again? I have notes up and we go

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back and forth on them, but you know, I messed up on one of them. So we can try to follow

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along and have something where it's not just, you know, an hour long rabbit trail. Right.

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But then proverbs 16 18 is that correct? When pride comes boiling up. Yeah. Again. No, it's

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not. I'm here three times. Here you can read that one. Proverbs 29 23. One's pride will

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bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor. Ooh, hold up. One's pride

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will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor. Yep. Ooh, that's

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a powerful verse right there. No, it's I like that. It's even better if you actually read

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when it says pride, anytime it says pride in Hebrew. Pride is associated with something

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else. Pride is associated with sense of self-importance. So anytime you see the word pride in Hebrew,

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it's pride and and self and sense of self-importance. So it's that whole thing as pride because,

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you know, English language doesn't really have much for context, but Hebrew language

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and Greek both have a lot of context involved in their translation. So a lot of times we

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see those words like pride or humble or spirit, etc. There's a lot more context there. Right

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or hottie. There's a lot more context there. Yeah, we're in like eight times that during

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youth group. I just know now they can say, what do you mean? I'm like, exactly. Hottie.

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But this goes right into what we're the next part of our topic is do not do not take things

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at face value. Donuts. Yeah, donuts. That's tricky right there. Yeah, exactly. Real quick,

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real quick. I know sidebar. Sidebar. So those who go to church, maybe you have donuts, maybe

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you don't. But it's important that everyone knows that donuts are biblical. They can be

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found in the Bible. Oh, no. No, no, this is not deconstruction. This is a straight facts.

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Okay, so some of you may know in the desert for 40 years, what did God provide from the

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sky? Manna. What is manna? Sweet dough from above. Now tell me that ain't a donut. Amazing.

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I know. Here's the thing. There's a theory, right? There's a theory that manna is also

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known as the sap of the tamarisk tree. In Calabria and Sicily, Italian farmers cut the

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bark of the flowering ash to get the dried sap. The only domestic form of what they still

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call today a lot of times is manna. And that theory was that the name originated from back

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then when those trees were found and the sap was leaking out and they were eating it and

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a sweet flavor to it. And it was just the sap of a tamarisk tree. Wow. I still always

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refer to donuts as manna. And donuts were in the Bible. Right. I know. I mean, that's probably,

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I mean, that's not what it is. It's probably very similar to it. Right. So that's where

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for like, well, you know, Danny, one of our good close friends, he's always said that

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and I mean, he's a jokester or a kidster. He's like, no, no, no donuts. They're biblical.

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That's why they're at church too. It's manna. I can't argue with that. Like I think, you

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know, a little deconstruction, but right. Is the manna, the word itself means what is

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what is it? What is it? Right. And then we're going yet. Nana was also referred to in the

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Bible as the bread of heaven, corn of heaven, angels, food and spiritual meat. Those have

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all been referred to by when it's talking about manna. So there's a lot of different ways to talk

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about manna. That's a good sidebar, though. That's fun. I mean, it's a little goofy thing,

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but you know, right. So maybe it's deep person right there. It was fantastic. I love talking

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about this. So that's cool. So get back on track. Do not take things at face value. Most

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ideologies that believe that there are many interpretations of the Bible are because people

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take things at face value rather than studying and learning the original definitions to add

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more context to many verses like we just explained as well. So let's say someone's reading just the

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message Bible, which if you don't know, there's there's two major. I'd say three. I'll say three.

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of explains like, hey, this is what you should see it as. This has been explained to where you can

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understand it. Anybody picking up can read it and understand it. Then there's the definitive. I call

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it a definitive, but it's just basically saying like, this is what it translates to without the

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extra context needed. You get the point if it says pride rather than pride and sense of self worth.

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which the explanative, which I call it that because it goes in depth and adds all the context and

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takes a long time reading because there's so much added context for all these different words that

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came from Hebrew and Greek that have a lot of context. So for example, in the message Bible,

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Romans 6 22 to 23, but now that you've found you don't have to listen to send to tell you what to

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do and have discovered the delight of listening to God's telling you what a surprise a whole healed

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put together life right now with more and more of the life on the way. Work hard for sin and your

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whole life and you pension is death. But God's gift is real life, eternal life delivered by Jesus,

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our master. That right there is just, you know, I'm going to just tell you how it is. It's

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interpretive that way you can read it. But how different is it from like something that goes

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into like explanatory, like explanative or whatever. For example, amplified same verses,

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right? The exact same verses. And now since you have been set free from sin and have become

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willing slaves to God, you have benefit resulting in sanctification being made holy and set apart

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for God's purpose. And the outcome of this is eternal life. The wages of sin is death,

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but the free gift of God that is his remarkable overwhelming gift of grace to believers is eternal

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life and Jesus Christ our Lord. So you can see that they both get the same message, right?

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oh, you have listened to the sin to tell you what to do, but you just you discovered the light of

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listening to God telling you. But this in the actual translation is like you have become willing

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slaves to God and people don't like that word, but it means that servitude, right? Sleeves and

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Greek is a dual. Oh, a doilo. I think it's doilo. Give myself really hope not is to give myself

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holy to one's needs and service makes myself a bond man to them. It's basically being bondage.

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Not putting on the same way that we know it to be nowadays. Right. It's more of a yeah,

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give myself holy to one's needs and services willingly. It's not it's not somebody.

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If somebody had saved your lives. Or something you're in, you know, you're indebted to them

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with your life, you know, stuff like that. And it's more or less like I think of what's that one?

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Is it a video game? Never mind. I get it. Oh, it's I don't know. It's you know, where somebody saves

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your life and they're like, oh, I'll serve you. I'll be there. And how I know you know, like that

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like that debt thing like I owe you my life. I owe you a debt. Yeah, they're in bondage.

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because you want to read something that's like simple, where you can understand the basic gist

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and then get more in depth to see what the actual translation literal translation is.

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So you can see exactly what it's talking about. And the reason why you do both is so that you

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can understand that is discovered the delight of listening to God telling you what to do. And then

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also knowing that that means becoming willing slaves to God. So what the slaves mean, will

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you look it up? Like we said before, it's to give myself holy to one's needs and service. And that's

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to give that means I choose to give. So it's just something to think about. Yeah, I totally suggest

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to if you want to read the Bible, like you want to get really in depth and everything, get to study

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Bible. Oh, yeah. Like get like an old school King James study Bible that is going to have like the

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breakdown of the words and everything. Like there's my one minds, I think it's a and I have one wasn't

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an IV once pigeon. And I think I've got that message. I've got more, you know, a few of them. But

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I think the one I get like the most out of though is probably that the study one,

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because you sit there and looking like, oh, yeah, right here. When it's referring to this,

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it's referring back like when Jesus, you know, all the time he is talking, he mentions a lot,

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he refers to the Old Testament. And I love when I said to pull it up and say, Oh, what he's referring

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to is an Isaiah 42, when it talks about the Lord, you know, sits upon a throne and blah, blah, blah,

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and goes into that. Because I feel like it just it helps. And then, you know, you have

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the same thing that you're saying with the different ways they present it and they show it.

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And there's, you know, the pigeon Bible, which is just puts it so simply sometimes. If you say,

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but it brings in the context. I also shared a link in the podcast notes on our discord as well.

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because the artwork that they do in it, because it's an artist series.

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yeah, if you get a chance to look at it. The thing is, what they do is that they take the Bible and

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then they make it smaller inside the book and then give you like this bridge on each side of the

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as the Bible for you to write notes on. So you can write notes for everything.

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I will know it's on the Bible. Yeah. So like Bible on Bible, I will on Bible.

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It's really cool. That is pretty cool. What does the Bible say about the word of God, though?

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So Bible on Bible. This is fantastic. So Matthew 4, Jesus replied, it is written and forever remains

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written. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God.

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So that's important to know. What? And steak. Yeah.

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And it says not to make fun of them either for it. Oh, I did not. I was just referencing the

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fact that they are weaker and that is OK. And also it means more steak for me.

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Right, right. More steak. Yeah. So Hebrews 4, 12 to 13. What do you think of that one?

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Hebrews 4 for the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two edged sword,

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piercing to the division of the soul and spirit of joints and of marrow.

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Oh, that just I'm sorry that just sounds gnarly. Right. Sharper than a two edged sword,

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piercing to the division of the soul and spirit, soul and spirit already. That's crazy.

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skin and animal ever seen it happen. Yes. Gnarly. That is like that's just gnarly. And

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the certain the thoughts, intentions of the heart. Oh, I like that. That's a good verse.

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I'm going to have to highlight that. That's a note now. OK. And no creation is hidden from his sight.

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All of those are exposed and naked to the eyes of him to whom he must give account.

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See right there at 13, that's verse 13. That reminds me of in the garden.

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But all are naked and exposed, just like when Adam and Eve ate from that original tree.

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You know, that tree. Everything was exposed. God saw all he sees all. Yeah. And he

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and he must give an account like it doesn't, you know, that's as good. That's good. That's good.

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So good. So Josh, the one one eight, this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth,

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but you shall read and meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do everything

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in accordance with all that is written in it, for then you will make your ways purposes,

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a purpose prosperous. Sorry. And then you'll be successful because.

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That's really important. What about the next one? Second Timothy, second Timothy,

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three sixty. All scripture. Yeah. Is God. Breath, breathe, breathe, breathe breath

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breath given by divine inspiration and is profitable for destruction of conviction of sin

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for correction or error of restoration to obedience for training and righteousness,

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learning to live comfortably. Conformity conformity to God's will.

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Say comfortability. No, that's not right. Right. You just actually pull it closer to my face. I

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can read it to God's will, both publicly and privately, behaving honorably with personal

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integrity and moral encourage that all believers of God may be complete, proficient, outfitted

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and thoroughly equipped for every good work. You.

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You equipped all the scripture is from him.

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He will. We should be equipped in his word that is from him, that is given by him.

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And it's clearly his. Yep.

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Don't waver. Don't listen. If it's not his word, if it doesn't say what he is saying,

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the Bible and say otherwise and say, in other words, are misconstruing the word of the Lord.

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And you know, it also, I don't know if we have it in the notes to an revelation.

378
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:48,440
One of the very last things it says, anybody who adds or takes from this

379
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:54,200
and our altars, the word of God, I don't know what verse it is.

380
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,360
It's the very last verse of the Bible.

381
00:40:56,360 --> 00:41:01,800
Yeah, it's the very last one. I don't know what it says. I'm trying to remember it.

382
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,200
I mean, if you want me to jump in, I got you.

383
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:11,400
I, you know, yeah, you know, very last first it is.

384
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:15,480
I am coming.

385
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,520
I am coming. He who tells the first 19.

386
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:20,600
Isn't it 19?

387
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:22,600
19. Yeah, I know very well.

388
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:29,800
Oh yeah. If anyone takes from the word, takes away from this word, the scroll of prophecy,

389
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:34,280
God will take away from them. That person on the share of the tree of life and the holy city,

390
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:40,120
which describes in the scrolls. So basically you take away, you alter the word of God.

391
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:45,640
Yep. And you take, you do that and then he will take away from you from the city of heaven.

392
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:50,200
So that doesn't sound like a thing I'd like to do.

393
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:52,360
No, I do not want to test it either.

394
00:41:53,240 --> 00:41:57,640
No, you know, I've also, I've had discussions too, which has been the other topic

395
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:02,840
about the books that were removed from the Bible during the Catholic,

396
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,640
after the reformation of the Catholic church,

397
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:09,080
like the book of Enoch and Thompson, that's another discussion from the time.

398
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,000
I'll talk about that another time for sure.

399
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:15,720
What one thing I wanted to bring up before,

400
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:23,240
well, let me do the conclusion paragraph and then just a sidebar right after that.

401
00:42:23,240 --> 00:42:24,040
Cause I have an idea.

402
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:26,040
Oh, it's all right.

403
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:30,280
Deconstructionism is created out of postmodernism ideology.

404
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,880
Like we talked about that there is no absolute truth to the truth.

405
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:35,800
That there is no absolute truth.

406
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,760
All truths are broken down to an individual level.

407
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:43,000
This creates a self contradictory statement claiming that the newly discovered truth

408
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:46,280
is the absolute and therefore there are no absolute troops.

409
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:47,800
It will take culture.

410
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,240
If we take culture into an account of the writers of the Bible,

411
00:42:51,240 --> 00:42:55,400
we can see over and over again, they were stoned, tortured, beaten, killed, maim,

412
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:57,960
and more for preaching what they did.

413
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:04,920
And this truly was something about cultural or trying to get ahead at the time

414
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:06,360
because they were teaching those things.

415
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,560
They would not have continued preaching what they preached

416
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:17,160
considering they got so stoned, maimed, tortured, and so negatively received

417
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:18,360
from many different people.

418
00:43:19,240 --> 00:43:19,560
Yeah.

419
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:21,240
And not the good stone either.

420
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,720
No, no, I'm with rocks.

421
00:43:23,720 --> 00:43:29,480
I forget what pastor makes that joke every time.

422
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:30,840
It's like, not the good stone.

423
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:35,560
It's like, oh, it's hilarious because it's like, you know,

424
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,520
I think a pastor's like not the good stone.

425
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:40,600
It's like, oh, no, no.

426
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:42,760
Yeah.

427
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,960
Well, I'll bring him one verse and then I got a sidebar.

428
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:46,440
Yeah.

429
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:47,720
I want to hear what you think.

430
00:43:47,720 --> 00:43:53,480
James 1 22, but prove yourselves doers of the word actively and continually

431
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:58,360
obeying God's precepts and not merely listeners who hear the word,

432
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:02,920
but fail to internalize its meaning, deluding yourselves by unsound reasoning

433
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:04,360
contrary to the truth.

434
00:44:07,720 --> 00:44:12,680
That right there, all that just kind of like blows the idea of deconstructionism

435
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:18,680
out of the water because there is absolute truth and it's very well explained.

436
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:21,160
And you read the Bible as a whole, not individual.

437
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:27,960
These verses that we brought up today are in context for us to take,

438
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:38,360
like it said in second Timothy 3 16 to for profitable, for instruction and conviction

439
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:39,080
and correction.

440
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:41,480
So that's kind of what we brought today.

441
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:44,520
I do have a sidebar though for you.

442
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:45,480
I want to see what you think.

443
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:51,880
So I was talking to this guy who studies Hebrew and he knows Hebrew very, very well.

444
00:44:51,880 --> 00:45:01,800
And so he was saying that what people don't understand is that in the Bible,

445
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:05,640
when it talks about God and God's name, where you see Moses, ask him,

446
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,120
like have the courage to ask God his name.

447
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,040
And Noah only could write it down as,

448
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,440
why HWH, right?

449
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:21,000
And yeah, Moses and, oh, sorry, Moses, sorry.

450
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,560
Moses asked him, ask God, what's your name?

451
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:30,280
And he said, and he was only able to write down why HWH, right?

452
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:36,840
And over the years, we've like over the centuries, we've come to the conclusion

453
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:38,280
that that is Yahweh.

454
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:42,360
And said and pronounced Yahweh.

455
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,960
But in the Bible, it says every man will confess that he is Lord and say his name.

456
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:48,520
So why HWH?

457
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,320
How would you pronounce that without vowels?

458
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,760
Because it doesn't have vowels and Moses only wrote it down the best he can.

459
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:01,560
Yeah, yes.

460
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:02,600
Yeah, sure.

461
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:09,160
Well, here's the answer.

462
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:13,240
And he said it in Hebrew, the sound, it's actually a sound.

463
00:46:13,240 --> 00:46:15,720
It's not actually a verbal word.

464
00:46:15,720 --> 00:46:16,440
It's a sound.

465
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:21,240
And the sound that Yahweh, that we say Yahweh makes is,

466
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:28,440
is breathe in, why H and breathe out, WH.

467
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:32,600
Wait, was this on TikTok?

468
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:36,360
I did see it on TikTok later because I asked him, did you see it from that?

469
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:37,720
He's like, well, I did research on it.

470
00:46:37,720 --> 00:46:38,280
It was real.

471
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:43,240
But the guy that I was talking to was telling me that that is accurate.

472
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:48,600
Because I was like, OK, so on TikTok, this guy was saying that.

473
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:50,200
And he was like, it's accurate.

474
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:56,840
The breath of life and the breath of what's explained how the sound of breath is YHWH.

475
00:46:56,840 --> 00:47:04,120
And so when you go, but like with an open mouth, it's like,

476
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:05,560
I was listening to this right now.

477
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:06,760
I was going like,

478
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:09,160
Right.

479
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:14,360
It's interesting because that right there, if God's name is the breath and the breath

480
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:21,320
of life is considered something very intrinsically valued in the Bible and that breath is something

481
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:23,720
that's like that first breath out of the womb.

482
00:47:23,720 --> 00:47:27,880
That first breath out of the womb when Adam breathed life, etc.

483
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:32,200
That is the name of God consistently happening over and over and over again.

484
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,480
And not just people breathe, but everything breathes.

485
00:47:37,720 --> 00:47:41,240
Animals like, shoot, you can say mountains do,

486
00:47:41,240 --> 00:47:44,520
technically when the wind blows through the caves, like everything.

487
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:49,000
So when the Bible says everything is going to preach his name, the mountains and the

488
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:55,400
earth and everything, it's like, if the sound of breath is that of God's name,

489
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,760
then everything would breathe God's name.

490
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:00,280
And it's it.

491
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:00,680
I don't know.

492
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:01,240
That's it.

493
00:48:01,240 --> 00:48:02,680
That's an interesting sidebar.

494
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:06,440
I think that's really kind of a cool like tidbit of information.

495
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:08,600
That's like, I didn't think of that before.

496
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:10,040
Yeah.

497
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:10,360
I know.

498
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,760
But I didn't study that.

499
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:17,400
I had seen it like you, you sent it to me on TikTok, but like,

500
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:17,640
Yeah.

501
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:20,840
I saw something like that.

502
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:24,920
And it is interesting because there is so many different interpretations with

503
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,440
Hebrew, the Greek and everything.

504
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:36,360
You know, like I look at like this words that you see, like, I mean, just like drunkenness

505
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:37,080
too is another one.

506
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:41,400
I always think about how drunkenness, you know, you think, oh, it's the alcohol,

507
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:47,240
but it's drunkenness in the Hebrew, the Greek and the Greek.

508
00:48:47,240 --> 00:48:50,040
Oh, Hebrew is the same thing as the Greek for the Greek says,

509
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:52,600
is an altered state of mind or thinking.

510
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:59,800
So it's any substance, you know, it's like, it's weird how chance at all,

511
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:03,640
but all the way it works, but it's like, but it's so it's all true though.

512
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:07,240
It's all, you know, a hundred percent because it is the word of God.

513
00:49:09,240 --> 00:49:13,800
And it's always overindulgence of something that leads to inability to process.

514
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:20,840
Yeah. And the people, you know, the people that, you know, also believe that, you know,

515
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,920
the destruction also goes into the, you know, the having the whole like,

516
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:26,040
well, how's the Bible even real?

517
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:28,120
How do we know that it's true?

518
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:31,240
It's not just altered and made up by these guys and the church.

519
00:49:31,240 --> 00:49:37,400
And I mean, that's where I believe faith comes in and those who don't have faith.

520
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:38,280
I mean, that's okay.

521
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:45,240
Like the faith is definitely a spiritual gift that the faith of the, you know,

522
00:49:45,240 --> 00:49:49,400
how does faith in the Lord is provider and that he is, you know,

523
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:55,160
that he has done all these things and that his will is being done with his word.

524
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:59,640
And like with the removal of the books, you have to have faith.

525
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:01,160
That's what God's plan is.

526
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:05,400
God has the books that he has in there and has given a sermon to man,

527
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:09,880
to the people who were in leadership to take it out or, you know, or not.

528
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:13,080
We don't know, but you want to hear something that's interesting.

529
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:14,200
Yeah.

530
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:20,280
There's people at the that believes on, on, on Muhammad, right?

531
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:22,120
Yeah.

532
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:23,560
They're like, yeah, Muhammad was real.

533
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:25,640
Yeah.

534
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:26,360
You believe that.

535
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:27,240
Well, I mean, he was real.

536
00:50:27,240 --> 00:50:28,200
He was a real guy.

537
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:34,040
He was a real guy, but it's interesting because when we look at it, there's,

538
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:40,280
there's about 60 fragments of papers that comes out to like 2000 folios about,

539
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:43,080
and that's it.

540
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:51,960
When, when you look at the accuracy of the Bible, there's 2000 from one writer.

541
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:59,000
And then there's about, I would say about 200 of different writers, all translating as well.

542
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:06,920
And then there was about 24,000 manuscripts on the New Testament and 6,000 of alone in Greek.

543
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:12,120
So when you come down to how many manuscripts there were about the Bible from different writers

544
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:17,560
and from different time zones and from, or from different time periods over the last century,

545
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:23,240
or a couple of centuries, there's over, there's over 27,000

546
00:51:23,240 --> 00:51:27,880
manuscripts.

547
00:51:29,720 --> 00:51:31,960
And they all say the same thing.

548
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:38,280
It just came down to context of translation from the original Greek and Hebrew.

549
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:39,320
That was it.

550
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:41,400
But there's that many translations.

551
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,600
So when people look at Muhammad, oh yeah, there's 2000.

552
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:46,200
He was real.

553
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:49,480
And you got people who are atheists and Bible deconstruction.

554
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:52,760
There's like, who is like, oh, Muhammad was real.

555
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:54,040
And he was.

556
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:56,200
We know this by history.

557
00:51:56,200 --> 00:52:00,360
And then we had those same writers and same manuscripts and same people

558
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:08,760
writing about Jesus and God and have 26, oh sorry, 24,000 plus 6,000 plus 2,000 plus

559
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:09,560
a hundred, couple hundred.

560
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:17,880
So about 28,000 plus manuscripts about the Bible, all being completely written by different people

561
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:23,000
over different times and still being accurate across the board for all of them.

562
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:25,800
And then people like, how can we trust the Bible is real?

563
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:29,480
That's how history is known.

564
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:30,920
That's how we know history.

565
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:32,600
That's how we understand history.

566
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:38,760
And not only that, we know that a lot of the Old Testament, we have Dead Sea Scrolls

567
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:44,840
dating back to 200 BC to 68 AD, which is in between the time that Jesus was born,

568
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:46,440
you know, at zero AD.

569
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:50,440
And we know that the Bible, New Testament stuff, like Old Testament stuff was written

570
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:51,160
up until then.

571
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:54,440
We have New Testament stuff that started being written around 117.

572
00:52:56,040 --> 00:53:01,400
I mean, you got stuff that's like within one generation of understanding what was going

573
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:08,760
on, what was happening and translations and rewrites and rescripts happening within one

574
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:10,360
generation at the most.

575
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:17,080
And with Muhammad, you have stuff that was like 100 years after more than 100 years after

576
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:18,360
he was even around.

577
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:20,520
And people were like, oh, yeah, we were going to write about him.

578
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:24,040
It was like 168 years after the death of Muhammad or something like that.

579
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:26,920
And it's like, yeah, we could talk about that.

580
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:29,800
That's a whole other topic we can go into.

581
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:31,400
But I just wanted to bring that part into it.

582
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:36,200
It was like, when you said that, I was like, well, I just wanted to bring that in real

583
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:36,440
quick.

584
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:38,200
Yeah, it was very, very haughty of you.

585
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:39,720
Very haughty.

586
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:43,880
You know, honestly, that should be a t-shirt idea.

587
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:45,160
You know what?

588
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:47,800
We should reach out to seek Jesus.

589
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:49,320
See, they can make a haughty shirt for us.

590
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:53,720
I'm going to open up a merch store for us that we can have our own merch store.

591
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:55,240
Oh, really?

592
00:53:55,240 --> 00:53:55,640
Yeah.

593
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:59,160
I'm going to open up with Seek Jesus.

594
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:00,360
I was wanting to work with them.

595
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:03,000
They just have their own stuff.

596
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:04,280
It's just the Seek Jesus brand.

597
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:05,480
And that's all they should say.

598
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:10,520
I want to create our own store and we can have our own merch and we can create it as we go.

599
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:13,400
And I'll be adding that to our website links and et cetera.

600
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:14,920
So be looking for that.

601
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:17,720
Seek Jesus is like the Christian clothing brand, right?

602
00:54:17,720 --> 00:54:22,600
Yeah, we actually are working with Seek Jesus as one of their ambassadors.

603
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:24,920
And if you seekjesus.co.

604
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:27,720
Oh, yeah.

605
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:31,880
And we're talking about podcast GTP, right?

606
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:33,640
Yeah, podcast GTP.

607
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:39,720
Use that as your code and you actually get 15% off right now until next week.

608
00:54:39,720 --> 00:54:40,680
Then you only get 10.

609
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:46,760
So if you want some cool Jesus merch, that's a good place to start and you get a portion of it.

610
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:51,160
And so, yeah, always looking for ambassadors too as well.

611
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:52,680
So like definitely reach out.

612
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:55,240
They've got some really cool, really cool swag.

613
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:57,560
I agree.

614
00:54:57,560 --> 00:54:58,120
I agree.

615
00:54:59,960 --> 00:55:00,840
All right, cool.

616
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:03,000
Well, we're getting to the end of the podcast.

617
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:04,440
Do you want to pray us out this time?

618
00:55:05,240 --> 00:55:06,040
Heck yeah, dude.

619
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:06,680
You know me.

620
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:08,280
All right, do it.

621
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:09,420
Okay.

622
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:16,360
Dear Father, I just pray that that these words that we speak are not falling deaf ears, Lord,

623
00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:19,720
but it'd be opportunity for growth for anybody who listens to it.

624
00:55:19,720 --> 00:55:25,160
And those who are just tuning in for a little bit, just, you know, for the full hour,

625
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:31,320
if they just tune in here and there, just that they'd be reached or that your people would be reached,

626
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:38,840
that they would not feel like they are alone, that there'd be people that are all different walks

627
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:44,280
in their life with you, that they would be able to reach them, open to dialogue with them,

628
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:47,160
and have a discussion and to grow your kingdom.

629
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:51,640
And have it open to dialogue with people, Lord, maybe who don't know you.

630
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:55,480
I thank you for the heart that you've given me and Jason to do this.

631
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:57,160
I pray that you'd keep blessing us, Lord.

632
00:55:57,720 --> 00:55:59,880
I pray for everyone that they have a great week.

633
00:55:59,880 --> 00:56:02,440
And until next time, amen.

634
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:03,000
Amen.

635
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:03,960
All right, cool.

636
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:06,280
Well, we'll see everybody on the next episode.

637
00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:08,360
We hope you're looking forward to it.

638
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:11,640
And yeah, we might launch one on Halloween for you guys.

639
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:12,920
We might do something special.

640
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:14,280
Yeah.

641
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:15,320
Keep an eye out.

642
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:15,800
Cool.

643
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:19,800
You know, go to our Twitter, click that like button, click that follow button,

644
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:23,960
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645
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:25,160
get those notifications on.

646
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:25,800
We got you.

647
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:27,000
Yeah.

648
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:30,040
Yeah, follow us on podcast, GTP.

649
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:31,720
Yeah.

650
00:56:31,720 --> 00:56:32,200
Awesome.

651
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:33,240
Yeah.

652
00:56:33,240 --> 00:56:35,240
Well, see everybody on the next week.

653
00:56:35,240 --> 00:57:01,080
See you on the next week.