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#99 - If Jesus Is God, the Multiverse Theory Collapses · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  Do you ever feel like an NPC? Well, that's because you are an NPC.
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  How do you become a PC? And when I'm talking about this, I'm talking about a
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  non-playable character as opposed to a playable character.
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  The only playable character is God. And all the rest of us are NPCs until one
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  thing happens. And we're going to get into that.
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  My name is Brandon Fogel. This is Evolution.
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  Let's dive into this tough topic that I'm going to try to break down for you all.
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  Okay, so I don't know if you are familiar with the whole NPC versus PC argument,
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  and a lot of people use it as just to sideline everyone else and say that I'm
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  the only one that matters.
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  And I did a lot of thinking about this, and I came to the conclusion that God
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  is the only true and real playable character,
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  but that this playable character actually stepped into our time in space through,
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  I'm going to say the name, Jesus Christ.
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  Everybody out there might just be turn it off, right? When you hear Jesus Christ,
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  I'm going to swipe away because the most,
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  some, I would say sometimes the most electric, for some people,
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  the most vulgar word in the English English language is Jesus Christ.
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  And that's why I think sometimes people use it in a bad way.
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  You know, it really, it gives everyone a jolt of adrenaline when everybody hears
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  that, but we're not going to get into all that.
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  I would argue that the, that what demolishes the whole multiverse where if you've
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  heard of the multiverse is that everything that is happening is happening at
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  so many different levels.
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  There, there is a different version of you in all these different worlds and realities.
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  And Jesus, if he is God, that destroys the whole multiverse argument.
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  Because we think, if you've seen the whole new Deadpool movie with him and Wolverine,
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  there's all these Wolverines and there's all these Deadpools and all these people out there.
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  There's a million, maybe not a million, a trillion different versions of you out there.
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  And I would say that the reason that we come to that, this is just a 21st century.
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  Understanding of reincarnation.
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  We have to somehow, we get away from realizing how special we are.
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  And this can go in different directions. This can go in the direction that we're
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  just this blip on the planetary radar of all these planets out there that we're really nothing.
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  We're not that special or it can go in the opposite direction.
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  Whereas you are God, you are God.
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  Did you know that? Did you know that? That you yourself are God and all this
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  does, and whether you take it as we are completely nothing or that we're just all God.
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  All it does is dilute the reality that we are special and God is uniquely special.
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  You could say the word holy. That is what holy is. It's completely separate.
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  He's different from us. He's completely apart from us. But you are truly special, but you're not God.
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  And at the same time, you're not just a microorganism on this random planet in the universe.
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  And there's all these other infinite random organisms on these other planetary
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  universes that are out there.
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  No, there is one God, but there is one you and there will only be one you.
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  So I've really tried to think about this because the whole, think of it as a
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  video game. There's a video game and the player is God and God turns on this video game.
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  And that's when in the beginning of,
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  God spoke the universe into existence, or then in the New Testament,
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  it talks about Jesus is the one who was with God and through whom God created everything.
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  I heard a great analogy because whenever you try to understand God and Jesus
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  and the Holy Spirit and all this, we label it three persons,
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  which I agree with the doctrine of the Trinity, but it is itself just a doctrine.
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  It's a way to try to formulate this understanding of how do we grapple with
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  what the Bible has revealed.
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  So God turns on this game and creates time and space. And he's the only one playing the game.
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  And there's all these people that he's kind of spoken to existence,
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  but they're just non-playable characters that are really just creations of him.
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  But then he steps into the game.
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  He comes into the game. He makes himself a playable character in the game.
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  And that's when Jesus comes into
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  the world. It's when he steps into this infrastructure that he created.
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  This game that is going on, that's been happening for who knows how long, thousands.
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  Some people go to millions of years and all that, and billions of years,
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  you know, if you want to be safe. But he steps into time and space.
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  And Jesus starts turning other people on.
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  He starts turning the switch on other people on.
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  And he says that, I'm really going to do this after I die, after I'm resurrected,
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  and I'm going to send the Holy Spirit.
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  Then there's that third person of what we call the Trinity, that that Holy Spirit,
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  which is God himself also,
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  that comes into different people, these non-playable characters that are in
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  this world, and he starts becoming a playable character in these random people
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  that are out in this world.
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  And that's what Christians are. Christians are the ones who have been turned on, so to speak, by God.
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  We're going to take a look at a verse in the New Testament where Jesus is,
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  in my kind of weird way of understanding this, is speaking about this and what
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  he says. this is in the gospel of Matthew.
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  And in Matthew chapter 11, we're going to look at it from chapter 11, verses 25.
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  And you can see it on the screen right there. Jesus talking in front of all these crowds.
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  And at this time, he stops talking to all the people that are around him.
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  And he looks up to heaven and the playable character that is the son of God
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  starts looking up at the player that is outside of the game.
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  And Jesus says to him, says to himself, but it's not himself.
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  This is where it's kind of, it gets really kooky and really tricky.
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  But he says to him, it says, at that time, Jesus declared, I thank you,
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  Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the
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  wise and understanding and revealed them to little children.
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  Yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. All things have been handed over
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  to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father,
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  and no one knows the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
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  And then he goes, there's a lot of, I mean, you could keep reading the Bible.
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  And I mean, if somebody said, I'm going to read this verse to this verse and,
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  and they just kept going, I would just sit back, you know,
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  cause all of it's good, all of it's good stuff, you know, but right there,
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  what he says that this playable character that is standing in our midst,
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  this avatar that we see that is right before us, if we're, if we're back in
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  the first century Palestine,
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  that, that God who is, that we always just, just talked about that's out there.
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  And this is primarily the Jews.
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  The Jews are the one that through whom all the scriptures were given and through
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  whom the Christ himself came into the world because Jesus was Jewish.
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  And there's all prophecy that prophet prophetically told about him coming into the world.
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  And then he actually comes into our world and steps into time and space.
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  But he says, no one knows the father except the son.
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  So there's this relationship that's happening with the player outside the game
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  and then the avatar that's inside the game and speaking to each other.
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  But then there's this Holy Spirit kind of thing. Like, where does all,
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  how does all this make sense?
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  I always, I heard one of the best analogies that I'd ever heard before for the Trinity.
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  And every analogy you try to make sense of, of God in the Trinity,
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  it always breaks down at some point.
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  And that wouldn't, to me, it would be weird if it didn't break down,
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  if it, because what makes sense to me are other religions.
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  Islam, that naturally makes sense to me. And all these other offshoots of the
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  true Christian religion make sense to me because they diminish God and just
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  say there's a million other gods and Jesus isn't really God.
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  He's just the first creation of God.
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  And then Islam says, no, Jesus, they hold him as a prophet.
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  He's a real prophet indeed, but he's not God.
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  And if you say he's the son of God, you're committing a huge heresy.
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  And they try to just make sense of what the Bible has given them.
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  And what naturally makes sense to me is heaven is these 70 virgins out there.
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  That's what a naturalistic mind would think and create.
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  So in this world, we got 70 virgins waiting us. But in Christian religion,
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  I hate to even use the word religion, but that's what it is.
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  In Christian understanding and worldview, there's this revelation of God.
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  And he's the father, he's the son, he's the Holy Spirit.
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  If that was cookie cutter and just made sense perfectly, it would make sense
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  that a man, a person invented it.
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  But rather, it's revelation.
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  The playable character is just putting himself in the game and he's revealing
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  it. And the apostles that are around him, his disciples.
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  Are trying to grapple with this and understand. We fiercely believe there is
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  one God because God made it absolutely clear.
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  You are committing a huge heresy to think if there's millions of gods or even more than one God.
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  God says, I am one.
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  Hero Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. That is the foundation and crux
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  of the Jewish religion and Christian religion, Abrahamic religion.
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  But the one that is unique and special is the Christian understanding because
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  it had to be fully revealed.
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  We wouldn't have just naturally wanted to create this guy as God because that
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  wouldn't fit into our understanding.
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  And I think we just take it for granted because we're 2,000 years removed and
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  this is just all we've grown up in.
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  Whereas it was completely against the grain, this revelation that was happening 2,000 years ago.
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  It did not go at all with what would have been naturally expected by the Jewish people.
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  That's why they struggled with it. The apostles really struggled with it.
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  It was tough for them. But who are you going to trust?
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  Are you going to trust people that are not around the guy who starts making these claims?
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  Are you going to trust the people that were geographically different and further
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  away and time and space different from him or the people that were the closest
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  and heard him speak and what he was claiming.
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  I would trust their opinion the most. And that's where people,
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  that's why they disagree with the Bible.
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  They have to put the writings further and further and further away from Jesus
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  and from his time and say, these can't be the real guys that walked around with him. They can't be.
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  And then they'll elevate other, which we know are completely fabricated and
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  just falsely created gospels.
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  They'll give them a time and space, which we know that those are hundreds of years later.
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  So they bring those to the level of the understanding that those are as legitimate
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  as the canonical gospels, the four that we have, and they devalue the canonical
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  gospels and have to push them so far away from Jesus's time.
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  Whereas in those gospels, they were people that were.
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  Very sober in what they revealed and talked about and wrote about.
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  They were very sober in just saying, this is the facts.
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  I'm giving an account. I'm not going to try to put the people that you would
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  think that I would put in the best light. I'm going to show blemishes and all.
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  I'm just reporting what it is. And you can see a huge difference between the
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  false gospels, the Gnostic gospels, what we call them, which you could call them that or not.
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  And then the true four canonical gospels that we have, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
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  But what does this mean for us? What does this mean? How do you become this playable character?
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  And because, like I said, I started off with, it's because you are an NPC.
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  I am an NPC, or I was an NPC.
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  Until you trust in Jesus, you are an NPC, period.
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  The only PC or playable character is God.
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  But the beauty and wonder and miracle of the gospel is this playable character
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  came into our world, and he starts flipping the switch on random people.
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  But then as we progress and we get a little bit further revelation,
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  it's not so random, these people, but God had this whole thing planned out in advance.
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  And then it starts talking about before the foundations of the world,
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  which we could say before God turned on the game, that he had this all preordained,
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  preplanned, And all of this is just carrying out and walking out what was already in the mind of God.
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  Like I said, if you want to be a playable character, you trust in Christ,
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  you trust in Jesus, you surrender to him, and then you will actually become
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  the most real version of yourself until then.
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  And many people are just going to push this away and say, this is stupid talk. This is foolish.
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  This doesn't make sense. It doesn't jive with what is my understanding of this
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  world. and my understanding of myself because, and this was me,
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  this was me before I surrendered to Christ.
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  I was like, it was all a foreign language. It doesn't make sense.
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  Like the movie, The Matrix is a, I know it's not like perfectly Christian,
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  but it does give a good indication of the reality of Christianity.
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  You got to take that red pill and that red pill is trusting in Jesus.
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  And The Matrix goes off in different directions and there's all these like other
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  things that are added to it. but until you trust in Jesus, that is that red
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  pill that you got to take.
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  But it's like, what, what causes one person to take it as opposed to another?
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  And why, when people speak out, speak the gospel, why do some people come closer
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  and some people just, that's stupid. And they, they make fun of it.
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  They mock it. It's because it's natural.
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  It's because it's natural. And the only thing that can make it be acceptable
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  to anyone is it has to be supernaturally infused. God has to awaken us.
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  But any Christians that's out there, you still got to tell people the truth.
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  You've received this enormous gift that you could never think or imagine that you would have.
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  And you're just walking around people that are NPCs and you have the opportunity
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  to give them a little cheat code of how to turn on. So I'll leave it at that.
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  Keep going and keep evolving to that best version of you.