Welcome to the Gospel Truth Project Podcast. I'm your host Jason Cooper and I have here
with me my co-host.
It's me, it's Dylan.
It's me. Can you imagine if someone's name was actually me?
Oh my gosh. Well there is a good name, I am.
Yes, I am. I don't know about a guy, but definitely something.
I am, I am.
Can you imagine just be like, what's your name? Me? Yes, me. Go ahead.
I think I got like family. What's, uh, Ming Ming. It's close to me.
Yeah, Ming Ming. Yeah. Yeah.
So how are you doing today? Like how are you feeling?
Oh, I'm feeling super awesome. Just running around.
Uh, some people might know Halloween is next Monday. So for youth group, we're doing like
a counter Halloween of like Bible dressed up and I had to run around and go get a bunch
of stuff today and I just had to sit down and relax for a little bit and get this going
with you. And so I'm like, okay, let's relax for a little bit. Take a breath. Talk about
our subject today, which is a construction of the Bible, which is a big thing that I've
seen a lot. But we'll get into that more. How are you doing Jason?
I'm doing good. You just made me realize that we probably should do a Halloween episode
to talk about Halloween in general. We might have a podcast coming out on Halloween. Just
say it. I know it would be fun. Like it's a, it's a good topic because a lot of Christians
have back and forth feelings about Halloween and, uh, in general. And, um, no, they're
good points and it's good to talk about and just kind of discuss from a biblical standpoint,
what are we looking at and what are we talking about? So I think we should.
Yeah. I love free candy. It does not really about anything else. How did you cavities?
So, but I already have them. Right. So yeah, uh, doing good. And like Dylan said, um, our
podcast this week, like we explained last week is that we wanted to talk about Bible
deconstruction as that is growing more so popular as a topic. And you can see it on
social media a lot more. You see it on Facebook, tick tock, Instagram, Instagram reels, Snapchat.
Uh, just in general, people are more and more coming out saying, Oh, deconstructed the Bible.
So we're going to talk about what that is and, um, you know, how it can be dangerous
because it is dangerous. I mean, there's a reason for it and we'll talk about how it
all fits in to everything going on right now. And as Christians, is that something that
we do or do we talk against it or what, what is it? What is our position in this whole
movement that's happening out of postmodernism? Um, so it's a really good topic. I like it.
We've been excited to talk about this topic though. Yeah. I like, I think it was last
Wednesday. I saw a lot of it, uh, just on social media and I was like, what is going
on? And I was like, I want to talk about this. And of course, you know, you can't just, something
that goes, there's a lot of, a lot of content behind this that we'll get into in the upcoming
hour, but there's a lot that's going on with this. I've seen, uh, even people in leadership
kind of dive into this a little bit or a lot. Um, and I'll just say, I mean, my opinion
is basically is that, um, well, I should just maybe get into what it is first as far as
to start sharing my opinion. Um, it's just the basic theory that texts, the texts is
a, uh, for interpretation, but it doesn't mean what it, exactly what it means. There's
means behind it. I mean, not like, you know, it talks about like, oh, well when they're
talking about this, what they really mean is, you know, uh, it's a theory. It's not
really real, you know, the text isn't, you know, this, exactly what it means. And, uh,
I've seen it a lot. Like Sonny was trying to say that with Jacob and Esau that, uh,
you know, Jacob was a trans person because he believed, you know, he was hairy and he
wanted to stay in the kitchen with mom and it's, it's interpretation of the Bible with
that in time deconstructed to make it work with the times and things that, you know,
had nothing to do with this time in general, but just the way they want it to fit in. And,
uh, I don't agree with it, but we're going to talk about it. Yep. I had this question
and I'm open to hearing people's thoughts and what you have to say. If you do, if you're
one to the, like, I like the deconstruction. That's fine. Um, I love to hear your opinions
and why you think that, um, like, like we would say every week, um, we have our opinions,
but we are open to hearing your opinions. Um, when I hear the judge, we are here to
love on you and just give you our opinion and to inform people.
So first off, we do want to say, what is it? And then Dylan handled it, uh, the definition
pretty decently. And so I'll add on, I'll add on deconstructionism is basically a theory
of textual criticism or interpretation that denies there's any single correct meaning
or interpretation of a passage or text, um, at the heart of deconstructionist theory of,
uh, interpretation of two primary ideas. First is the idea that no passage or text can possibly
convey a single reliable, consistent and coherent message to everyone who reads or hears it.
The second is that the author who wrote the text is less responsible for the piece's content
than are the impersonal forces of culture, such as language and the author's unconscious
ideology. Therefore the very basic tenants, uh, deconstructionism are contrary to clear
teaching of the Bible that absolute truth does exist and we can indeed know it. And
that's kind of an overview, right? We have verses that kind of touch up on the topic.
We have versions, verses like Galatians two, four through five that say, my concern was
because of the false brothers, those people masquerading as Christians who had been secretly
smuggling or smuggled in to the community of believers. They had slipped into the spy
on the freedom, which we have in Jesus Christ in order to bring us back into bondage under
the law of Moses, but we do not yield to them even for a moment so that the truth of the
gospel would continue to remain with you in its purity. Um, postmodernism has brought
upon the denial of the existence of absolute truth. This is a very self contradictory thing
to say if you don't know, because no one can rationally deny absolute truth because to
do so you are forced to state an absolute truth. So as someone claims that there is
no absolute truth, then you ask, are you absolutely sure about that? Because if they say yes,
then they have made a statement contrary contradictory to the very premise of their argument. I think
that's interesting to me. Like, yeah, it's very interesting. Um, I think we just get
caught up too much now in the way the world is and that's affected the way that you believe
where it's like, I think a lot of what I hear and it's like, what's what my truth is. And
I think the Bible itself and God himself is very black and white. This is what it is.
There are certain things like, you know, if you really like Psalms and translations where
it can be up to interpretation, like I look at like where, uh, talks about the colorful
cloak and that is given, uh, Joseph Joseph. Yeah. I always want to say Jacob. I know it's
not Jacob because I know Joseph wasn't a wrestler. Um, but so my thing with that is like it talks
about what Joseph talks about. He had received a rainbow cloak. That's the interpretation
that we have received through the Greek and Hebrew, but the actual translation cause in
Greek, I believe it's in Greek or maybe in Hebrew, it's the same meaning. It was just
of more royalty and of ranking and what that would have actually translated into instead
would have been a shirt or a t-shirt because with sleeves, because only the wealthy back
then had sleeves wrong. And the most it was said, you're rocking the cutoff sons out guns
out like, but that's more or less like that stuff is up to like is different than saying,
well, um, you know, you know, like I was saying, Jacob and you saw Jacob was, was a feminine
man and possibly homosexual because he liked to cook. Right. Like he's a guy, most chefs,
by the way, he worked in a professional chefs are men. It's not, it's not, it's not, they
are not into one gender. It's very silly. Right. I wouldn't say cooking is to any gender.
It's just, if you like that, do that and do it. Like, that's it. Yeah. You're looking
in my household. I, you know, I think the men do more cooking than the women. Yeah.
And that's now I know my sister is going to listen to this and she's going to call me
out because I probably do. She does. Um, well, I mean, she's, she's a good cook. I mean,
I think I think, but it's also good, you know, crap for not probably the best, but it's fine.
I make a good meatloaf and that's all that matters. Yeah. The King of dreams is a good
thing to bring up Joseph because Joseph is from Genesis and Genesis 37 and Genesis is
written in Hebrew. So just to kind of go back and reiterate, you were asking about that.
It's an, it was written in Hebrew. Um, yeah, that's what I said. I was completely right.
See? Yeah. Yeah. See. So, um, at the heart of deconstructionist, they think that they
can discover a personal or social motivation behind what scripture says and therefore can
determine what is really being said. Uh, the result is a subjective interpretation of the
passage in question, uh, instead of accepting what the Bible actually says to deconstructionist
is arrogant enough to think that they can determine the motive behind what was written
and come up with the real or hidden meaning of the text by saying that they have discovered
the true meaning behind the passages. They're claiming they're claiming an absolute truth
about the very subject. They say that has no absolute truths. Again, it comes back to
that. You're claiming something that contradicts what you're claiming, right? Um, first Corinthians
3, 18 to 20 talks about this actually, which is funny enough. Let no one deceive himself.
If anyone among you think that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool, discarding
his worldly pretensions and acknowledging his lack of wisdom so that he may became and
become truly wise for the wisdom of this world is foolishness, absurdity and stupidity before
God for is written in scripture. He is the one who catches the wise in clever and their
craftiness. And again, the Lord knows the thoughts of the humanly wise that they are
useless. Um, Oh yeah. Right. It's like I've been saying the past few weeks and you're
talking about, cause talking about who Jesus is, that's what I'm talking to you right now.
Uh, and one thing I was talking about how he is protector, he is our shepherd. And I
was saying that we are sheep. I'm like, Oh, we're sheep. I'm like, no, no, no. It means
that we're stupid. I'm like, we are, we are dumb compared to the all knowing God. We are,
we are not smart. We're we are, we are nothing. I was comparing that to, we are like sheep
and like sheep are so stupid that the shepherd has to go up and take Vaseline or oil sorts
and stick it up the nostrils of the sheep. Because if not, flies will go in there and
lay eggs inside their brain. Right. The kids are like, well, why don't it wasn't the sheep
doing things like, cause it's too dumb to even go and blow its nose. Right. It doesn't
feel better. Right. In the grass to do anything. Right. I'm going like that is Jesus. He has
this thing that he pretends like sheep, but he's also a little bad. Cannon may be in a
sense calling us dumb. Like you think, you know, wise what not as wise as, as yes. You
need us. He is our shepherd. You, you watch us over us protects us in that we do not have
an idea what is good for us because it was for us to be that the flies go inside our
brains and deconstruct our brains. I mean, uh, decompose our brains, deconstruct good
topic point. You know, like, it's, you know, I have to call people a fool. Cause it says
something called something you fool in the Bible. I, you know, I think that's what, where
is it at? I forget where it's at, but then there's a, is it Romans? You've talked about
Romans, don't they? Something about a fool. I don't know. I'd be wrong. Uh, Romans one
21 to 22. I think, I think that's what you're referencing. If, Oh, for every, Oh yeah. No,
it's for, even though they knew God as the curator and they do not honor him and give
him thanks for the wondrous creation. I mean, look at it. Um, on the contrary, they become
worthless and they're thinking Godless without, with pointless reasoning and silly speculations
and their foolish heart was darkened, claiming to be wise. They became fools. That's right.
Yeah. I thought that was what you were referencing. I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like, I
just learned about foolishness and fools and this is another word that says don't call
somebody a fool because it is, um, it is, it is a sudden testable and I ever something
like that. I forget. Um, Romans 12, let's live in harmony with one another. Do not be
haughty, conceited, self-important, exclusive, but associate with humble people. Those with
a realistic self view. Do not overestimate yourself. Yeah. And then do not call them
a fool for the, or something that for maybe they are not as far as there was something
about that. I can't remember. We'll have to look it up during this episode while we're
talking. Yeah. Um, yeah, they kind of get back on topic though. Deconstructionists,
uh, do not study the Bible in order to find out the meaning intended by the writer, but
to attempt to discern the cultural and social motives behind what was written. They're only
limited in their interpretation by their imagination. Therefore to deconstructionist, there is no
right or wrong interpretation and the meaning of the text becomes whatever the reader wants
it to be. I'm assuming this is what you've been seeing, right? Yes. Uh, I've seen that
where people are like, well, I've, I've heard it, um, as well as things is like, well, the
Bible doesn't really talk about homosexuality. Uh, that's completely fine. What does it say?
It's not okay. And then talks about, you know, I heard them say, uh, I heard someone say,
oh, you know, is it pre-marital sex is fine. You know, it doesn't really say that. I'm
going like, yes, it does. This is with another, another leader. I believe at one point was
saying something like this and I was going like, wait, what, what did you just say? Like,
I'm sorry, but the Bible is very clear, like new and old. That's what they're trying to
say with the new test. This is just old test. This is this. I'm like, okay. But like, there's
the Vitticus 18, the Vitticus 20. I mean, that's old and Romans one 26, first 13, six,
nine and first Timothy one, one, first 10. I'll talk about that. I was over 31 scriptures,
31 scriptures that say it's not okay, but we can't, it's like, I'm like, I said something
like, oh, then they switched the subject and I'm like, what? No, like if we're going to
talk about it, let's talk about it. I'm trying to understand why the reasoning for saying
that and where they don't, I mean, they didn't have any scripture to back it up. I was going
to create an argument cause I'm not trying to cause they're a friend. Right. I think,
I think what we need to do is one of these episodes, just talk about over overall sexuality
because I think a lot of Christian podcasts as well as Christian preachers do not like
to talk about sexuality in general. I rather not get canceled. I'm okay getting canceled
on the six episode or whatever. So that way completion, right? Exactly. It'll be the shortest
podcast ever hit the internet, but we'll get, we'll take off real quick. If I, I, you know,
it's something that I've studied a lot and it's something that I'm sure you have as well.
And uh, the sexuality in general is something I like to talk about because I do have friends
that, um, you know, do these things and practice these things across the board. And it's a
good subject to talk about. And I've talked to them about it as well. And uh, you know,
it's okay to disagree and it's just, let's talk about it. But like, and we will get to
that. We will get to that. We have, you know, but we're getting on topic again. I know,
but this is, you know, thinking about it. We do have, you know, I think a handful of
people that we went to youth group with, you know, that have, you know, had struggles with
that or have gone through things with that type of stuff. Um, you know, so like we've
seen it like, so we know and we've, and like, you know, we're still friends with them. Like
there's nothing that's changed. It just, we have different beliefs on that. We can still
discuss it and still come together with common ground. Yeah. Um,
discussion is always good. It's always good to discuss. That's what, that's when it stops.
That's when nothing beneficial comes out of it. And it's no longer, uh, I mean, it just
becomes more evil and more cynical the way if you will become when there's no longer
discussion and it becomes more personal instead of just being a friendly conversation. Um,
go back to the deconstruction. Um, did you want to say something? Yeah. Um, so by talking
everything we talked about so far, um, there's other philosophies that come out of postmodernism,
which is kind of what we're in right now is a lot of postmodernist idealism. Um, deconstructionism
celebrates human autonomy and determines truth by the Intel intellect of man, right? Therefore,
according to the postmodern thinker, all truth is relative and there is no such thing as
an absolute truth. And at the heart of postmodernism and deconstruction is deconstructionism is
pride. That's at the heart of it saying that, you know, actually there's a lot of verses
on pride, uh, first John two 16. I didn't talk about that. No, this is the deep pride
of the one proud. Right. First John two 16, the fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride
and arrogance are the way of evil and perverted speech. I hate, you know, Romans 12 16. Show
me another. Oh, you're showing me the verse. Nevermind. Live in harmony with one another.
Do not be haughty, conceited, self-important, exclusive, but associate with humble people.
Those really don't be hard. Right. Realistic self-use. You don't overestimate yourself.
Every time I hear I'm like, howdy, howdy, um, I know, right? Don't be haughty. That
could be a feature there. Do you have a, do you have proverbs 16 five up by chance? Proverbs
16 five. I got some Hebrews. I got some Yeshua. Uh, Hebrews coffee. Not, not yet. Uh, proverbs
16 18 or 25 16 5 16 5. Yes. Hold on. I think I got this. Hold on. I'm right there. I'm
right there. That's right. Then proverbs, uh, everyone who is arrogant in the heart.
Oh gosh. Okay. Uh, you're funny. Errogant in the heart is an imbal, abomination to the
Lord. Be assured he will not go unpunished. Well, dang it. How hardcore is that? Like
you're arrogant in your heart or abomination. Well, good thing I'm not really arrogant in
the heart. I act like I am, but I haven't. I have all this self-confidence and little
arrogant, but in the heart it's, I am nowhere. Yep. Um, proverbs 11 two says it too. When
pride comes boiling up with arrogant attitude of self-importance, then come dishonor and
shame, but with the humble, the teachable who have been chiseled by trial and who have
learned to walk humbly with God, there is wisdom and soundness of mind. Ooh. Yeah. It's
like proverbs 29 23. Like it says in the notes too, when pride comes boiling up. It's the
same verse. Oh, I that no, no, no, that's a wrong. I know I wanted to read it. I thought
it'd be fun. Oh, it's gone now. How am I going to read it again? I have notes up and we go
back and forth on them, but you know, I messed up on one of them. So we can try to follow
along and have something where it's not just, you know, an hour long rabbit trail. Right.
But then proverbs 16 18 is that correct? When pride comes boiling up. Yeah. Again. No, it's
not. I'm here three times. Here you can read that one. Proverbs 29 23. One's pride will
bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor. Ooh, hold up. One's pride
will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor. Yep. Ooh, that's
a powerful verse right there. No, it's I like that. It's even better if you actually read
when it says pride, anytime it says pride in Hebrew. Pride is associated with something
else. Pride is associated with sense of self-importance. So anytime you see the word pride in Hebrew,
it's pride and and self and sense of self-importance. So it's that whole thing as pride because,
you know, English language doesn't really have much for context, but Hebrew language
and Greek both have a lot of context involved in their translation. So a lot of times we
see those words like pride or humble or spirit, etc. There's a lot more context there. Right
or hottie. There's a lot more context there. Yeah, we're in like eight times that during
youth group. I just know now they can say, what do you mean? I'm like, exactly. Hottie.
But this goes right into what we're the next part of our topic is do not do not take things
at face value. Donuts. Yeah, donuts. That's tricky right there. Yeah, exactly. Real quick,
real quick. I know sidebar. Sidebar. So those who go to church, maybe you have donuts, maybe
you don't. But it's important that everyone knows that donuts are biblical. They can be
found in the Bible. Oh, no. No, no, this is not deconstruction. This is a straight facts.
Okay, so some of you may know in the desert for 40 years, what did God provide from the
sky? Manna. What is manna? Sweet dough from above. Now tell me that ain't a donut. Amazing.
I know. Here's the thing. There's a theory, right? There's a theory that manna is also
known as the sap of the tamarisk tree. In Calabria and Sicily, Italian farmers cut the
bark of the flowering ash to get the dried sap. The only domestic form of what they still
call today a lot of times is manna. And that theory was that the name originated from back
then when those trees were found and the sap was leaking out and they were eating it and
a sweet flavor to it. And it was just the sap of a tamarisk tree. Wow. I still always
refer to donuts as manna. And donuts were in the Bible. Right. I know. I mean, that's probably,
I mean, that's not what it is. It's probably very similar to it. Right. So that's where
for like, well, you know, Danny, one of our good close friends, he's always said that
and I mean, he's a jokester or a kidster. He's like, no, no, no donuts. They're biblical.
That's why they're at church too. It's manna. I can't argue with that. Like I think, you
know, a little deconstruction, but right. Is the manna, the word itself means what is
what is it? What is it? Right. And then we're going yet. Nana was also referred to in the
Bible as the bread of heaven, corn of heaven, angels, food and spiritual meat. Those have
all been referred to by when it's talking about manna. So there's a lot of different ways to talk
about manna. That's a good sidebar, though. That's fun. I mean, it's a little goofy thing,
but you know, right. So maybe it's deep person right there. It was fantastic. I love talking
about this. So that's cool. So get back on track. Do not take things at face value. Most
ideologies that believe that there are many interpretations of the Bible are because people
take things at face value rather than studying and learning the original definitions to add
more context to many verses like we just explained as well. So let's say someone's reading just the
message Bible, which if you don't know, there's there's two major. I'd say three. I'll say three.
There's three major translations of the Bible. One, which is the interpretive, which just kind
of explains like, hey, this is what you should see it as. This has been explained to where you can
understand it. Anybody picking up can read it and understand it. Then there's the definitive. I call
it a definitive, but it's just basically saying like, this is what it translates to without the
extra context needed. You get the point if it says pride rather than pride and sense of self worth.
Because in English, we can take pride as the whole thing. And then there's the explanative,
which the explanative, which I call it that because it goes in depth and adds all the context and
takes a long time reading because there's so much added context for all these different words that
came from Hebrew and Greek that have a lot of context. So for example, in the message Bible,
Romans 6 22 to 23, but now that you've found you don't have to listen to send to tell you what to
do and have discovered the delight of listening to God's telling you what a surprise a whole healed
put together life right now with more and more of the life on the way. Work hard for sin and your
whole life and you pension is death. But God's gift is real life, eternal life delivered by Jesus,
our master. That right there is just, you know, I'm going to just tell you how it is. It's
interpretive that way you can read it. But how different is it from like something that goes
into like explanatory, like explanative or whatever. For example, amplified same verses,
right? The exact same verses. And now since you have been set free from sin and have become
willing slaves to God, you have benefit resulting in sanctification being made holy and set apart
for God's purpose. And the outcome of this is eternal life. The wages of sin is death,
but the free gift of God that is his remarkable overwhelming gift of grace to believers is eternal
life and Jesus Christ our Lord. So you can see that they both get the same message, right?
But if you just read the first one at face value, it's really easy to just look at it and be like,
oh, you have listened to the sin to tell you what to do, but you just you discovered the light of
listening to God telling you. But this in the actual translation is like you have become willing
slaves to God and people don't like that word, but it means that servitude, right? Sleeves and
Greek is a dual. Oh, a doilo. I think it's doilo. Give myself really hope not is to give myself
holy to one's needs and service makes myself a bond man to them. It's basically being bondage.
Not putting on the same way that we know it to be nowadays. Right. It's more of a yeah,
give myself holy to one's needs and services willingly. It's not it's not somebody.
If somebody had saved your lives. Or something you're in, you know, you're indebted to them
with your life, you know, stuff like that. And it's more or less like I think of what's that one?
Is it a video game? Never mind. I get it. Oh, it's I don't know. It's you know, where somebody saves
your life and they're like, oh, I'll serve you. I'll be there. And how I know you know, like that
like that debt thing like I owe you my life. I owe you a debt. Yeah, they're in bondage.
But like that see, that's where that's where you don't take things at face value,
because you want to read something that's like simple, where you can understand the basic gist
and then get more in depth to see what the actual translation literal translation is.
So you can see exactly what it's talking about. And the reason why you do both is so that you
can understand that is discovered the delight of listening to God telling you what to do. And then
also knowing that that means becoming willing slaves to God. So what the slaves mean, will
you look it up? Like we said before, it's to give myself holy to one's needs and service. And that's
to give that means I choose to give. So it's just something to think about. Yeah, I totally suggest
to if you want to read the Bible, like you want to get really in depth and everything, get to study
Bible. Oh, yeah. Like get like an old school King James study Bible that is going to have like the
breakdown of the words and everything. Like there's my one minds, I think it's a and I have one wasn't
an IV once pigeon. And I think I've got that message. I've got more, you know, a few of them. But
I think the one I get like the most out of though is probably that the study one,
because you sit there and looking like, oh, yeah, right here. When it's referring to this,
it's referring back like when Jesus, you know, all the time he is talking, he mentions a lot,
he refers to the Old Testament. And I love when I said to pull it up and say, Oh, what he's referring
to is an Isaiah 42, when it talks about the Lord, you know, sits upon a throne and blah, blah, blah,
and goes into that. Because I feel like it just it helps. And then, you know, you have
the same thing that you're saying with the different ways they present it and they show it.
And there's, you know, the pigeon Bible, which is just puts it so simply sometimes. If you say,
Oh, yeah. If you see, I recommend the amplified study Bible, because it's still plain English,
but it brings in the context. I also shared a link in the podcast notes on our discord as well.
There's an ESV is called the single column journaling Bible. I think it's really cool,
because the artwork that they do in it, because it's an artist series.
We use art and pictures and stuff. I like that. It's really, really cool. If you get the chance,
yeah, if you get a chance to look at it. The thing is, what they do is that they take the Bible and
then they make it smaller inside the book and then give you like this bridge on each side of the
as the Bible for you to write notes on. So you can write notes for everything.
I will know it's on the Bible. Yeah. So like Bible on Bible, I will on Bible.
It's really cool. That is pretty cool. What does the Bible say about the word of God, though?
So Bible on Bible. This is fantastic. So Matthew 4, Jesus replied, it is written and forever remains
written. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God.
So that's important to know. What? And steak. Yeah.
And don't be really, because if you are vegetarian and you're listening,
I remember Romans 14, those who don't eat meat are weaker.
And it says not to make fun of them either for it. Oh, I did not. I was just referencing the
fact that they are weaker and that is OK. And also it means more steak for me.
Right, right. More steak. Yeah. So Hebrews 4, 12 to 13. What do you think of that one?
Hebrews 4 for the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two edged sword,
piercing to the division of the soul and spirit of joints and of marrow.
Oh, that just I'm sorry that just sounds gnarly. Right. Sharper than a two edged sword,
piercing to the division of the soul and spirit, soul and spirit already. That's crazy.
And the joints and of marrow. I don't fever if you've ever been anything to do with like
skin and animal ever seen it happen. Yes. Gnarly. That is like that's just gnarly. And
the certain the thoughts, intentions of the heart. Oh, I like that. That's a good verse.
I'm going to have to highlight that. That's a note now. OK. And no creation is hidden from his sight.
All of those are exposed and naked to the eyes of him to whom he must give account.
See right there at 13, that's verse 13. That reminds me of in the garden.
But all are naked and exposed, just like when Adam and Eve ate from that original tree.
You know, that tree. Everything was exposed. God saw all he sees all. Yeah. And he
and he must give an account like it doesn't, you know, that's as good. That's good. That's good.
So good. So Josh, the one one eight, this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth,
but you shall read and meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do everything
in accordance with all that is written in it, for then you will make your ways purposes,
a purpose prosperous. Sorry. And then you'll be successful because.
That's really important. What about the next one? Second Timothy, second Timothy,
three sixty. All scripture. Yeah. Is God. Breath, breathe, breathe, breathe breath
breath given by divine inspiration and is profitable for destruction of conviction of sin
for correction or error of restoration to obedience for training and righteousness,
learning to live comfortably. Conformity conformity to God's will.
Say comfortability. No, that's not right. Right. You just actually pull it closer to my face. I
can read it to God's will, both publicly and privately, behaving honorably with personal
integrity and moral encourage that all believers of God may be complete, proficient, outfitted
and thoroughly equipped for every good work. You.
You equipped all the scripture is from him.
He will. We should be equipped in his word that is from him, that is given by him.
And it's clearly his. Yep.
Don't waver. Don't listen. If it's not his word, if it doesn't say what he is saying,
then it is false. Don't use it as your foundation.
Yeah. As a savings, the deconstruction people not, you know, we're trying to just deconstruct
the Bible and say otherwise and say, in other words, are misconstruing the word of the Lord.
And you know, it also, I don't know if we have it in the notes to an revelation.
One of the very last things it says, anybody who adds or takes from this
and our altars, the word of God, I don't know what verse it is.
It's the very last verse of the Bible.
Yeah, it's the very last one. I don't know what it says. I'm trying to remember it.
I mean, if you want me to jump in, I got you.
I, you know, yeah, you know, very last first it is.
I am coming.
I am coming. He who tells the first 19.
Isn't it 19?
19. Yeah, I know very well.
Oh yeah. If anyone takes from the word, takes away from this word, the scroll of prophecy,
God will take away from them. That person on the share of the tree of life and the holy city,
which describes in the scrolls. So basically you take away, you alter the word of God.
Yep. And you take, you do that and then he will take away from you from the city of heaven.
So that doesn't sound like a thing I'd like to do.
No, I do not want to test it either.
No, you know, I've also, I've had discussions too, which has been the other topic
about the books that were removed from the Bible during the Catholic,
after the reformation of the Catholic church,
like the book of Enoch and Thompson, that's another discussion from the time.
I'll talk about that another time for sure.
What one thing I wanted to bring up before,
well, let me do the conclusion paragraph and then just a sidebar right after that.
Cause I have an idea.
Oh, it's all right.
Deconstructionism is created out of postmodernism ideology.
Like we talked about that there is no absolute truth to the truth.
That there is no absolute truth.
All truths are broken down to an individual level.
This creates a self contradictory statement claiming that the newly discovered truth
is the absolute and therefore there are no absolute troops.
It will take culture.
If we take culture into an account of the writers of the Bible,
we can see over and over again, they were stoned, tortured, beaten, killed, maim,
and more for preaching what they did.
And this truly was something about cultural or trying to get ahead at the time
because they were teaching those things.
They would not have continued preaching what they preached
considering they got so stoned, maimed, tortured, and so negatively received
from many different people.
Yeah.
And not the good stone either.
No, no, I'm with rocks.
I forget what pastor makes that joke every time.
It's like, not the good stone.
It's like, oh, it's hilarious because it's like, you know,
I think a pastor's like not the good stone.
It's like, oh, no, no.
Yeah.
Well, I'll bring him one verse and then I got a sidebar.
Yeah.
I want to hear what you think.
James 1 22, but prove yourselves doers of the word actively and continually
obeying God's precepts and not merely listeners who hear the word,
but fail to internalize its meaning, deluding yourselves by unsound reasoning
contrary to the truth.
That right there, all that just kind of like blows the idea of deconstructionism
out of the water because there is absolute truth and it's very well explained.
And you read the Bible as a whole, not individual.
These verses that we brought up today are in context for us to take,
like it said in second Timothy 3 16 to for profitable, for instruction and conviction
and correction.
So that's kind of what we brought today.
I do have a sidebar though for you.
I want to see what you think.
So I was talking to this guy who studies Hebrew and he knows Hebrew very, very well.
And so he was saying that what people don't understand is that in the Bible,
when it talks about God and God's name, where you see Moses, ask him,
like have the courage to ask God his name.
And Noah only could write it down as,
why HWH, right?
And yeah, Moses and, oh, sorry, Moses, sorry.
Moses asked him, ask God, what's your name?
And he said, and he was only able to write down why HWH, right?
And over the years, we've like over the centuries, we've come to the conclusion
that that is Yahweh.
And said and pronounced Yahweh.
But in the Bible, it says every man will confess that he is Lord and say his name.
So why HWH?
How would you pronounce that without vowels?
Because it doesn't have vowels and Moses only wrote it down the best he can.
Yeah, yes.
Yeah, sure.
Well, here's the answer.
And he said it in Hebrew, the sound, it's actually a sound.
It's not actually a verbal word.
It's a sound.
And the sound that Yahweh, that we say Yahweh makes is,
is breathe in, why H and breathe out, WH.
Wait, was this on TikTok?
I did see it on TikTok later because I asked him, did you see it from that?
He's like, well, I did research on it.
It was real.
But the guy that I was talking to was telling me that that is accurate.
Because I was like, OK, so on TikTok, this guy was saying that.
And he was like, it's accurate.
The breath of life and the breath of what's explained how the sound of breath is YHWH.
And so when you go, but like with an open mouth, it's like,
I was listening to this right now.
I was going like,
Right.
It's interesting because that right there, if God's name is the breath and the breath
of life is considered something very intrinsically valued in the Bible and that breath is something
that's like that first breath out of the womb.
That first breath out of the womb when Adam breathed life, etc.
That is the name of God consistently happening over and over and over again.
And not just people breathe, but everything breathes.
Animals like, shoot, you can say mountains do,
technically when the wind blows through the caves, like everything.
So when the Bible says everything is going to preach his name, the mountains and the
earth and everything, it's like, if the sound of breath is that of God's name,
then everything would breathe God's name.
And it's it.
I don't know.
That's it.
That's an interesting sidebar.
I think that's really kind of a cool like tidbit of information.
That's like, I didn't think of that before.
Yeah.
I know.
But I didn't study that.
I had seen it like you, you sent it to me on TikTok, but like,
Yeah.
I saw something like that.
And it is interesting because there is so many different interpretations with
Hebrew, the Greek and everything.
You know, like I look at like this words that you see, like, I mean, just like drunkenness
too is another one.
I always think about how drunkenness, you know, you think, oh, it's the alcohol,
but it's drunkenness in the Hebrew, the Greek and the Greek.
Oh, Hebrew is the same thing as the Greek for the Greek says,
is an altered state of mind or thinking.
So it's any substance, you know, it's like, it's weird how chance at all,
but all the way it works, but it's like, but it's so it's all true though.
It's all, you know, a hundred percent because it is the word of God.
And it's always overindulgence of something that leads to inability to process.
Yeah. And the people, you know, the people that, you know, also believe that, you know,
the destruction also goes into the, you know, the having the whole like,
well, how's the Bible even real?
How do we know that it's true?
It's not just altered and made up by these guys and the church.
And I mean, that's where I believe faith comes in and those who don't have faith.
I mean, that's okay.
Like the faith is definitely a spiritual gift that the faith of the, you know,
how does faith in the Lord is provider and that he is, you know,
that he has done all these things and that his will is being done with his word.
And like with the removal of the books, you have to have faith.
That's what God's plan is.
God has the books that he has in there and has given a sermon to man,
to the people who were in leadership to take it out or, you know, or not.
We don't know, but you want to hear something that's interesting.
Yeah.
There's people at the that believes on, on, on Muhammad, right?
Yeah.
They're like, yeah, Muhammad was real.
Yeah.
You believe that.
Well, I mean, he was real.
He was a real guy.
He was a real guy, but it's interesting because when we look at it, there's,
there's about 60 fragments of papers that comes out to like 2000 folios about,
and that's it.
When, when you look at the accuracy of the Bible, there's 2000 from one writer.
And then there's about, I would say about 200 of different writers, all translating as well.
And then there was about 24,000 manuscripts on the New Testament and 6,000 of alone in Greek.
So when you come down to how many manuscripts there were about the Bible from different writers
and from different time zones and from, or from different time periods over the last century,
or a couple of centuries, there's over, there's over 27,000
manuscripts.
And they all say the same thing.
It just came down to context of translation from the original Greek and Hebrew.
That was it.
But there's that many translations.
So when people look at Muhammad, oh yeah, there's 2000.
He was real.
And you got people who are atheists and Bible deconstruction.
There's like, who is like, oh, Muhammad was real.
And he was.
We know this by history.
And then we had those same writers and same manuscripts and same people
writing about Jesus and God and have 26, oh sorry, 24,000 plus 6,000 plus 2,000 plus
a hundred, couple hundred.
So about 28,000 plus manuscripts about the Bible, all being completely written by different people
over different times and still being accurate across the board for all of them.
And then people like, how can we trust the Bible is real?
That's how history is known.
That's how we know history.
That's how we understand history.
And not only that, we know that a lot of the Old Testament, we have Dead Sea Scrolls
dating back to 200 BC to 68 AD, which is in between the time that Jesus was born,
you know, at zero AD.
And we know that the Bible, New Testament stuff, like Old Testament stuff was written
up until then.
We have New Testament stuff that started being written around 117.
I mean, you got stuff that's like within one generation of understanding what was going
on, what was happening and translations and rewrites and rescripts happening within one
generation at the most.
And with Muhammad, you have stuff that was like 100 years after more than 100 years after
he was even around.
And people were like, oh, yeah, we were going to write about him.
It was like 168 years after the death of Muhammad or something like that.
And it's like, yeah, we could talk about that.
That's a whole other topic we can go into.
But I just wanted to bring that part into it.
It was like, when you said that, I was like, well, I just wanted to bring that in real
quick.
Yeah, it was very, very haughty of you.
Very haughty.
You know, honestly, that should be a t-shirt idea.
You know what?
We should reach out to seek Jesus.
See, they can make a haughty shirt for us.
I'm going to open up a merch store for us that we can have our own merch store.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
I'm going to open up with Seek Jesus.
I was wanting to work with them.
They just have their own stuff.
It's just the Seek Jesus brand.
And that's all they should say.
I want to create our own store and we can have our own merch and we can create it as we go.
And I'll be adding that to our website links and et cetera.
So be looking for that.
Seek Jesus is like the Christian clothing brand, right?
Yeah, we actually are working with Seek Jesus as one of their ambassadors.
And if you seekjesus.co.
Oh, yeah.
And we're talking about podcast GTP, right?
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Use that as your code and you actually get 15% off right now until next week.
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So if you want some cool Jesus merch, that's a good place to start and you get a portion of it.
And so, yeah, always looking for ambassadors too as well.
So like definitely reach out.
They've got some really cool, really cool swag.
I agree.
All right, cool.
Well, we're getting to the end of the podcast.
Do you want to pray us out this time?
Heck yeah, dude.
You know me.
All right, do it.
Okay.
Dear Father, I just pray that that these words that we speak are not falling deaf ears, Lord,
but it'd be opportunity for growth for anybody who listens to it.
And those who are just tuning in for a little bit, just, you know, for the full hour,
if they just tune in here and there, just that they'd be reached or that your people would be reached,
that they would not feel like they are alone, that there'd be people that are all different walks
in their life with you, that they would be able to reach them, open to dialogue with them,
and have a discussion and to grow your kingdom.
And have it open to dialogue with people, Lord, maybe who don't know you.
I thank you for the heart that you've given me and Jason to do this.
I pray that you'd keep blessing us, Lord.
I pray for everyone that they have a great week.
And until next time, amen.
Amen.
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