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Show 29: why some people insist we must call Jesus Y'shua and why they are wrong · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, y'all, welcome today's show. Let's just go ahead and wrap up
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this series where we're really kind of caultering. The arguments made by the so
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called Torah observant Christians and Messianic Jews and such as that they make a big
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deal about how to spell the name Jesus really strange, actually, but you
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know you are communicating with one of them if they insist on spelling Jesus Yeshua.
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I don't know why they do this, Okay, all right, It
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is absolutely true that in Hebrew the name Jesus is either y e Shua that's
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of course anglicized from Hebrew, or why apostrophe s Hua Yeshua, that's actually
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josh It's kind of odd that they insist that we call Jesus Joshua. After
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all, if the name of Jesus is so unique that we need to call
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him specifically Yeshua, how how do well? I mean? It's it's it
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sort of undermines their own argument, because, of course there's Joshua and the
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Bible. You know, Joshua fit the Battle of Jericho and the walls came
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tumbling down. Jesus is not the only figure in the Bible to have the
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name Jesus. In fact, if you actually have a complete Bible, a
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Catholic Bible, is it seracra wisdom, you will see that the author's name
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was also Jesus. It doesn't really matter in the big scheme of things how
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you spell his name. It matters in what matters is your belief that he
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is God. But it's become a real sticking point. I mean, these,
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you know, as Saint Paul would have called a modern judaizers say that
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Jesus's name must be spelled in this essentially anglici Anglicized version of Hebrew, that
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that's the only name by which he can be called, and anyone who calls
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Jesus Jesus is somehow a Satan worshiper or something. I don't get it,
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frankly, the argument is absolutely ridiculous on his face. You know, first
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of all, when we think of Jesus, we have to remember he didn't
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speak I mean, I'm sure he knew Hebrew, but in his normal everyday
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conversations with his family and the people in his community and with his disciples,
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he spoke Aramaic. So he wouldn't have referred to himself necessarily as Yeshua.
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The disciples themselves spoke I'm sure some Hebrew, okay, that was the formal
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language of the temple, but Aramaic was a commonly spoken language. Several disciples
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spoke Greek as well. The name of Jesus is rather different in Greek.
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By the time when Saint Jerome translated the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin,
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somewhere around three hundred, he changed the spelling to be Latin spelling.
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It's still the same person, I mean, but more than that, Jesus
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said the Bible is also called Emmanuel, the Messiah, the Lamb of God,
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the Prince of Peace. He more often referred to himself as the son
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of Man than he did by his name. He's referred to as the King
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of the Jews, Lord. I mean, there, how many titles can
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we actually give Jesus and how many are listed in the Bible? A dozen,
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probably more. But then you also have to remember also the same name
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is spelled different in different languages. As I mentioned yesterday, my first name
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is William. That's my English first name, right named after I don't even
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know how many generations of Williams there have been in my family, going back
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to some of the first kings of England, who are actually my ancestors.
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We've had Williams in my family and in the past, you know, three
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or four generations there have been William Owens, and William judsons and William you
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know, there are lots of Williams, and really two or three sides of
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my family, we got a ton of Williams. Right well, that's how
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we spell it. Because we write and speak English. The same name in
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French as Guillaum its spelled g u i l l a u m e as
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opposed to w I l l i a M. Now, if I am,
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my identity doesn't change just because someone writes my name in French as opposed
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to in English. If I'm I mean part of my family's French. If
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someone calls me Guillaum, I'm still who I am, even though they pronounced
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my name different or they spelled it a little different. The same thing is
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true of Jesus. If you want to call him Yeshua, that's fine.
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He's still the same god as the one we call Jesus. Think about this
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all right. I like to wear hats, I love fedoras, I mean
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I'm just I'm a hat fanatic, Okay. I have a fedora for every
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season, and one for rain, and one for a straw, and for
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hot sunny days, a waterproof one that i'm you know where, when I'm
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out in the field bird hunting or something. I like hats. And in
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English a hat, it's a hat. In French it's a chappo. It's
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still the same thing you put on your head. It's just a different language.
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And you know, there's really nothing singularly holy about the Hebrew language.
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The Hebrew language predated Abraham at least its origins did what supposedly makes the language
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of Hebrew particularly holy. It was the people, the descendants of Abraham,
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who were God's chosen people, not the language they spoke. And as I
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said, they didn't always speak Hebrew. By the time of Jesus, they
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were speaking more Aramaic. And the Hebrew was really just a formal language used
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in the Temple. It was not the language written or spoken by most early
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Christians or the early Church. And again, if we want to like take
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the Bible as our main authority, you know, the process of belief is
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the Bible alone as the sole authority, Well, the Apostles were identified at
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Pentecost, but the gift of tongues, which was the ability to speak in
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any and all language, so they were by the power of the Holy Spirit,
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the apostles could speak to every single person in this world in his or
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her own language. So would the apostles be speaking of Yeshua Yeshua, I
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guess you're gonna I mean, if it sounds like Joshua, I guess it's
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Yeshua to a person from Crete, you know, to a person from Turkey.
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Now they would have said, however, that same name was pronounced and
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spelled in their language. Greek is actually extremely different. But the Apostles wrote
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most of what they wrote in Greek. But like I said, I mean,
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it's really they make such a big issue saying you have to call Jesus
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by this name because this is the most important name. Of course, it's
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true, it's at that name every nicheshall bow, right. But there's more
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than one Joshua in the Bible. And you can also translate the name of
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Jesus as Isaiah. The names Isaiah and Joshua are so close and spelling and
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pronunciation in Hebrew that you don't know, really which is which it could literally
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go either way. So Jesus's name may have been Joshua or Isaiah or something
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kind of in the middle. It's I don't know. It's one of those
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just like mind boggling our arguments that's so misguided it's almost hard to unravel.
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And it's so new. No one argued fifty or one hundred years ago that
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you had to call Jesus Jeshua. And that's because people actually had an understanding
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of history, okay, at least a little bit of history, a little
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bit of formal education in history, which no, I'm sorry, our modern
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schools do not do they do. They are indoctrination centers, not education centers.
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You know. Like I said, the New Testament was originally written in
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Greek, not Hebrew, and that was then translated into Latin, which was
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the universal language of the time. But Jesus's name in Greek. As I
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always say, I can't pronounce Greek, I'm not Greek, and I don't
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speak Greek, but in and I can't read the Greek alphabet. So I
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had to find what the Greek name for Jesus is in English letters, and
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it's I E with an accent line kind of thing. What do you call
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that a macron over the E s O U s so eos eusus eosus.
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What does it sound like? Sort of like Spanish Jesus Esus. Well,
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okay, you can kind of see how this is starting to evolve as we
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go through different languages. In Latin, it's I E s vs because they
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did not have a U. And in Latin in ancient Rome, there was
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no U, the V operators of use. So that's usus very similar,
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right, You've just taken the O out and replace the U of a V,
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but it's still pronounced Esus. Essentially is in Middle English, which is
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the origins of the language that most of us speak here in America, the
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name of God was spelled Yesu or Jesu j e s u, not Joshua,
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but Jesu. And if you listen to the Old English hymns, they're
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still very popular in the Anglican churches, such like Jesu Jesu King of Men's
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Storing or so I cannot remember the name of that song all of a sudden,
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even though it's like in my head it's j E s U. The
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modern English spelling, which is more similar to the Greek is Jesus. As
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I said, in Greek it was Jesus. In English it's Jesus. Basically.
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While it's difficult to refute something that has no basis, in fact,
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some even go a little bit further out into the wacko fringe. There are
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many tour observant Christians that who make the claim that anyone who calls the Christ
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another name for Jesus, right, the Christ Jesus is not actually worshiping Jesus,
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but the pagan god Jews Zeus, not Jews obviously Zeus. There is
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no historical or factual basis for this claim. No one claimed this for like
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two thousand years up until recently. Basically, I can only assume that really
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ignorant people heard the Spanish pronunciation of Jesus, which sounds like Jeseus, which
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again is rather similar to the Greek aus Esus aus Aeseus, right, or
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the Latin Aesus. Well, in Spanish it's Jeseus Jeseus. Basically, you
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have to think people who are completely ignorant heard that and assume they were saying
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something about the Greek god Zeus, which is freaking stupid. But they believe
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it, and they have made you could do okay, just you know,
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spend two seconds on Google and you will read a thousand bigoted articles written by
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otherwise very well meaning, devout people who insist that Jesus's name must be pronounced
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Yeshua. I guess, with no foundation in history whatsoever, basically based on
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nothing more than a bigoted anti Catholic bias. In other words, they're saying,
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if this is what Catholics believe, it must be wrong. Frankly,
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although there have been many heresies over the centuries, no one was foolish enough
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to claim that must call Jesus by his Hebrew name until our modern era of
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both extreme ignorance and the Internet. In our era, one only has to
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put out some completely moronic argument like Jesus has to be called Jeshua, or
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you're worshiping Zeus, and a million people are going to read it and believe
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it, and they're going to pass it on to their friends, and before
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you know it, there's a new heresy. But the only thing that puts
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an into heresy is a higher authority, and people who reject the authority of
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the Catholic Church make themselves their own authorities or their ministers who promote themselves as
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the ultimate authority based on nothing more than their own opinion, which they believe
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to be guided by the Holy Spirit, which is impossible because there's only one
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truth, and you can't have two churches, one of them not be much
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less fifty thousand Protestant denominations. And essentially, they make themselves their own gods
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because they say they are the highest authority. Their opinion is the truth,
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regardless what, well, what the Bible says in some instances, say like
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on divorce, or what the Catholic Church, founded by Jesus and guaranteed against
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all error, says is on the matter. Well again, so just like
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in divorce, they make themselves their own gods, saying what is right and
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wrong. And one of them may say, you got to call Jesus Joshua,
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and another one may say, oh, you know, even though the
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Bible specifically says homosexuality is sinful and that homosexualities and sodomites in particularly will not
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go to heaven, we're gonna make you know, gay marriage just fine now,
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And we'll have lesbian ministers in an Anglican church that are gonna bless those
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unions. That's purely satanic. But if you don't have the authority of the
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Catholic Church that can say what's right and wrong, how can anyone counter it?
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Well, what it comes down to, especially in this Internet age,
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is what it's an old statement. Actually, this statement may go back as
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far as ancient Greece in various forms, but as we know it now,
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Jonathan Swift probably coined saying a lie can travel halfway around the world before the
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truth puts on its shoes. I believe could have been Mark Twain said a
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lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth puts its pants on.
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Anyway you look at it, that was in an era before even modern media.
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Just think about how quickly a lie can travel around the world and the
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age of the Internet, and think about how much worse that's going to be.
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As artificial intelligence transhumanism becomes an issue. They're already saying that, you
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know, AI, this transhumanism stuff, they're going to set it up as
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a the highest authority on earth. It will be the super intelligence that supposedly
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knows more than the Catholic Church and all the words of the Bible and God
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himself. So I guess here, We're gonna be sitting here in five to
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ten years, and I'm gonna have to say, you know what, even
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though the superpowered computer that everyone is now worshiping as God says that divorce is
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okay and homosexuality is just fine and natural actually, and that you know,
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ten years old children should have their generals cut off because they were born into
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the wrong body because apparently God makes mistakes, which is of course logically impossible,
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right as wrong and wrong is right. And you know, right now
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I'm arguing against set observant Christians. In a few years, I guess I'm
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going to be arguing against the trans humanists. Let's hope to God that Tower
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of Babel gets knocked down before it gets to that point. So y'all have
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a wonderful day. Remember Jesus's Lord. Call Jesus Jesus if you really want
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to call him Joshua. I don't think he really cares very much. Honestly,
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I think Jesus is probably a little smarter than most people, and being
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God, having all knowledge and knowing the intent of a person's heart, I
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don't think he cares a whole lot. You could call him Lamb of God.
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You'd call him many titles, the Messiah of the Christ, etc.
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Etc. But if you really want to call him Joshua, then you know,
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hey, that's between you and God. That's not my problem. So
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uh, in the words of Saint Padre Pio, pray, hope and don't
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worry and I'll talk to you next time.