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Show 45: Magic Numbers and Secret Codes in the Bible? · The Uncensored Catholic

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Y'all, welcome to today's show. Apologies for not getting one out yesterday.
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But I had a very very long drive that you know, never count on
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the directions you get off of Google. Just put it that way. They
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are more often wrong than not. And what should what according to several actual
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maps that I turned pulled up online to you know, you look up your
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directions, what should have been about three and a half hour drive. I
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turned into about a seven hour drive. And I didn't even make it all
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the way to my destination. It got too late. I had to just
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cancel everything I had planned. And it was blazing hot. Oh my gosh,
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it was hot. I was down in eastern North Carolina, easter Raleigh,
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and it was it was bad. Actually yeah, I mean, you
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know, the temperature was like ninety five ninety seven something like that, but
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humidity was really high, and I mean every it was miserable. It was
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just miserable. Got a really good sandwich though, So you know, I
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always trying to find the bright side. I always look for the upside and
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things. But I did. Guy got in very late and was not able
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to do the podcast. So let's get back on track and we'll get you
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know I'm going to start each show with a little excerpt from the book.
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Radio replies by M Let's see Father's Rumble and CARTI. And before I said
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I thought they were both in Australia, I don't know why I thought that
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one was actually in Sydney, Australia, the others in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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So very very influential, and that's probably why the venerable hopefully soon to
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be Saint Fulton Sheen endorsed the book and the ford. He was probably very
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familiar with the one in Saint Paul, so M. One of the questioners
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asks or posits, I guess I should say, there is no need to
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talk of future balancing of the scales. Virtue is its own reward in life,
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even as this wicked, even as the wicked endure endure remorse. Let
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me see looking at that right, Virtue is its own reward in life,
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even as the wicked endure remorse. Well, they answer that will not do.
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Consciousness of virtue is not so much good to a man about to be
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wrongfully hanged, or who cannot live to enjoy it. Nor does vice always
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bring proportionate remorse. Many are too hardened to experience deep remorse. There will
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be a leveling up someday after this life, and by God. That was
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a very common humanist argument before World War Two. I think after the holocausts,
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people well, it had been the Russian Revolution and the Chinese Revolution,
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communism spread. I think people began to have a little less faith in the
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inherent goodness of humanity. I think most of us do now at least admit
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that man has a fallen nature and is more prone to evil than good.
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But if you follow that line of reasoning, it basically undermines all liberal thought.
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So maybe not that main people do actually, but yeah they should.
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I think let's see old saying a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged,
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or, as Winston Churchill said, if you're under twenty and you're not a
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liberal, you have no heart. If you're over twenty still a liberal,
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you have no brain. I think it was money. It could have been
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a little bit older. I'm not sure. This next one says Joseph McCabe
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believed in God, but he was, but he renounced bigotry and became agnostic.
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McCabe was quite an influential thinker at this time, And they answer There
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are many men, such as Joseph McCabe, who have given up their profession
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of a belief of God, but they do not give up that belief because
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agnosticism offers them a higher and holier life. They find agnosticism less irksome,
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whether it be an emancipation from moral laws or from the restraints of truth and
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logic. Nor should you talk of bigotry. Many agnostics have far worse bias
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than that which they attribute to believers, garbling facts and distorting evidence without any
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without any of the scruples which one who really believes in God would certainly experience.
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And boy, isn't that true? You think of Margaret Sanger just quote
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I read recently, and she was saying that they couldn't let people know that
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the goal of planned parenthood was the eradication of the Negro race, as she
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put it, Yes, planned parenthood, this is, you know, Hillary
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Clinton's hero actually one of Barack Obama's heroes, wanting to kill all black people.
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And I don't believe she was actually agnostica, that she was an atheist,
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but it doesn't really matter. She was a communist, a socialist,
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a progressive, or all part and parcel of the same. And let's see,
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we'll finish up with this one. If I sincerely believe that there is
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no God and there be a God, would not invincible ignorance save me.
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Wow, that's a little presumption, isn't it. Such ignorance is not invincible,
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he said, you can overcome it. You violated your reason in suppressing
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its spontaneous concept of God, and by persuading yourself that religionous faults. If
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you took the sure off your reason and let it swing back to the supreme
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cause of its very being, it would do so as the needle to the
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pole, meaning like a compass. Right Pascal rightly says, Pascal, I
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think that's I mispronouncings. I know, I'm just not anything French. I'm
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going to mispronounce even though I'm about half French. Pascal rightly says that there
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are two types of men, those who are afraid to lose God and those
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who are afraid they might find him. So I when to wrap it up
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with that one on our quote from radio replies, because it's a very profound
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statement, those who are afraid they might lose God and those who are afraid
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they might find him. I remember Pope Saint John Paul's second saying when he
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met with Fidel Castra, he said that he was a man whose physical appearance
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and his countenance when the two met, told him that he was in great
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need of going to confession. Communists, of course, being atheists, and
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well great persecutors of Christianity and the Church. All right, so let's get
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to an interesting subject. You will see really even in Catholic circles, which
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is really a shame, very much so in Protestant circles, and again especially
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like I'm on the fringe groups you're to observe at your seven day Adventist,
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your Church of God, etc. Etc. Home church type people and all
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that they are always seeking codes in the Bible, magic numbers, basically hidden
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insights. We could go with that, right. You may remember in the
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late nineties, early two thousands, the whole Bible code thing was a real,
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real hot topic. I read the book. I cannot say I was
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convinced by the evidence, but they said, you know, if you took,
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oh, I don't know, the third letter of each word in the
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Bible, or the seventh letter of every other word, you could get prophecies,
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You could get insights into the future. Yeah, it's really not how
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the Bible is supposed to be used. But you know, there was remarkable,
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striking similarity and well, I wouldn't say similarity, but things that they
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said were foretold and the Bible seemed to happen. Well, okay, I'm
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not gonna quibble with that. You gotta remember there's so many different translations of
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the Bible, and the Bible is a very big book. So it's almost
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like rolling the dice and saying, you know, I'm going to come up
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with a seven out every now and then, right, well, I'm gonna
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flip through the pages and I'm gonna figure it out. Using the Bible as
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an oracle is actually condemned by the Church. We're not supposed to inquire into
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future events. Now. Occasionally, an angel or uh, you know,
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God, I mean, you know, may manifest himself to someone in a
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vision and like you know, at Fatima and say a warning from our blessed
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Mother, this is going to happen, and you could prevent it. But
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that's a direct communication. That's not opening the book and using it like a
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Uiji board trying to find something hidden. It's uh, but that's well,
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that's one extreme. But many people would talk about the symbology of numbers in
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the Bible, and it's true to an extent. Some numbers did have certain
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meanings to you know, the Hebrew people. At twelve was a number that
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represented, um, you know, fullness, entirety. I guess you would
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say seven being significant from the seven days of the week. Um, well,
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there are there are the three, you know, the Trinity, and
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these all have some symbolic meaning. But people go way too far with it,
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way too far. I mean, there are people who will tell you
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that because certain number is used in the Bible, it symbolized something that it
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you know, obviously isn't in the clear writings of the Bible. And we
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have to wonder from whence does this spring? Well, it actually goes back
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to the Gnostic heresy. Now you may remember I mentioned them a few days
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ago in I think it's an ax. Pretty sure it's an ax. The
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Apostles, Saint Peter and a couple of the other Apostles encounter Simon. The
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magician. Simon, also known as Simon Magnus, sometimes was a well you
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would call him a great magician. He used trickery and spells and witchcraft to
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amaze the people and had quite a following. Drafted to a demons. You
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know, he was a man of the occult, and he was a very
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popular figure in his day. I believe it's yes. Saint Justin Martyr tells
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us that there were statues of him in some area, and he was even
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well known to the Greeks and Romans. He was presented himself as a god
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when he saw the apostles laying on hands the sacrament confirmation. It says that
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the people have been baptized but had not yet received the Holy Spirit. You
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know, you have to be confirmed into the Catholic Church to get the fullness
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of the spirit. He was amazed and tried to buy this power from Saint
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Peter, and Peter was able to read hearts. That was just one of
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the gifts that was given to Saint Peter. He knew exactly who this man
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was and how he would misuse the gifts of God, and he said,
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may your silver perish with you. And Simon the Magician begged him to spare
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life, because you may remember that when people lied to Saint Peter sometimes they
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dropped dead. Okay, So he fully recognized the power of God and the
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apostles, but being a wicked man, went into apparently Samarian a few other
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places and claimed to be Jesus. He set up his own church, and
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it was a mystery church. He claimed to have all this hidden knowledge.
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He would use the Gospels, he would use the books of the Bible,
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and he would tell people he knew all kinds of amazing information revelations that had
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been given to him because he was God and he had existed from all time
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right. And that became the Gnostics and the Nastics were a great heresy,
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and one of the main things they focused on was hidden codes in the Bible,
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often based on numbers. It well, they were essentially blending Greek mythology
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and some of the mystery religions of the East with Christianity in an absolutely satanic,
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demotic way, and it was condemned by the early Church, especially by
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Saint Irenaeus. And I'm going to read a little bit from one of his
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passages, but one of the things he said that, of course there were
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multiple gods, there were multiple deities, there were multiple heavens. And they
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would say were they're twelve of them, or they're thirty of them, and
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they find something in the Bible and they would say, look, this proves
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it because when Jesus started his ministry at whatever age, this proves that they
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were that symbolized this many deities in heaven or levels of heaven right, or
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the woman who was bleeding for so many years that Jesus healed, that's symbolic.
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And they used any time they could find a correlation between these numbers.
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They said they had hidden knowledge. And that's what gnostic means, nsus means
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to know. And really, even though this was condemned in like the three
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hundred a d. I think maybe even earlier than that, thoroughly removed,
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people keep coming back to it. People keep coming back to it over and
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over and over. I told you how the like once Saved, Always saved
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doctrine of some Protestant churches, especially Baptist comes directly from the Nastics. These
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these errors, these heresies keep coming up. And it's not like people are
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going and reading one of the Nastic gospels, so called forged gospel called the
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Book of Judas, in which they said Judas was a good guy, and
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you know he was actually sent by God to do this and that as opposed
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to being the man who betrayed Christ and was committed suicide and suffered eternal damnation.
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They turned everything on its head, they turned it inside out. Well,
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modern Protestants are not like Pentecostals. I mean, you know, Pat
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Robertson was big into this Bible Code stuff. He wasn't going reading the Nastic
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Gospels. How do these ideas keep getting into people's head when they're totally ignorant
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that they haven't discovered it on their own. They think it's brand new and
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they came up with themselves. I would argue that it's a matter of demonic
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influence. I mean, Satan is a father of lies, and the same
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wise keep popping up every so many years, every so many generations. I
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mean, oh, who was it Calvin? I think it was Calvin who
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said there were only you know, one hundred thousand people going to go to
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heaven out of all mankind, all Christians, all Jews, everybody who had
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existed from the beginning of time, from you know, Adam and Eve to
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this day, only a hundred thousand gon go to heaven. And you would
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say, well, okay, there's not one. The Bible actually says but
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he said he added up this number of times. This number that's the only
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because you know, talks about the multitudes. I think it was from the
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Book of Revelation and it's a symbolic number meaning fullness. It really comes from
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like the twelve tribes of Israel. Well, this is like when Jesus said,
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you know, how many times should I forgive my brother? Shows to
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be seven times. He says, no, seventy times. Seventy you know,
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it's a number meaning infinity. Well, in there's twelve times whatever.
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That comes up to about one hundred thousand. I don't have the exact quote
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in front of me. It's nonsense. That was a number that would be
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known to people from the Jewish tradition to represent a lot of people. Essentially,
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he had an innumerable number of people. But he comes up with and
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says, I think it was one hundred thousand. People are gonna go to
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heaven. And meanwhile he has this like really strict, stringent Protestant church,
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and you're thinking, well, why why would I join your church if I'm
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not going to go to heaven one way or another. And he said,
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you could be the worst center on earth. And if you were numbered in
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that chosen group. You know, you were going to go to heaven one
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way or another, and no matter how good you were, you'd be the
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best Christian on earth. And if you weren't in that chosen group, you
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weren't going to heaven. Makes no sense of all. I can't understand how
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you know, millions of people fell for it. I'll never understand. You
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know, Presbyterianism, Methodistism, it's all based on Calvin. And the guy
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was a complete freaking luon. I mean, yeah, a compreplete freaking lunatic,
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and who was so presumptuous to think that he knew better than God's own
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church, founded by the apostles, taught by the apostles. And you know,
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a lot of the things he said was just really nutball stuff. Calvin
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Knox. Knox was probably even worse. I could go down the list.
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But anyway, these numbers keep coming up and people, Oh, I learned
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something numerology, It's it's fascinating. It's hidden knowledge. Yeah, narcissism,
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hidden knowledge, a grave error and sin. Actually, so now let's look
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at what Saint iron As said. He said, and I guess this is
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chapter fifteen of his second book, against heresy. God is not to be
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sought after by means of letters, syllables and numbers. Necessity of humility in
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such investigations is required. Okay, that was a bullet point. It just
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says necessity of humility and such investigations. Anyway, He says, if anyone,
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however, say, in reply to these things, what then is it
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meaningless in an accidental thing that the position of names, and the elections of
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the apostles, and the working of the Lord, and the arrangements of created
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things are what they are? We answer them, certainly, not but with
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wisdom and diligence. Twelve, he says, you know it is a coincidence
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to twelve apostles. No, but with great wisdom and diligence. All things
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have been made, have clearly been made by God, fitted and prepared for
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their special purpose. And his word formed both things ancient and those beginning to
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the latest times. And men ought not to connect those things with the number
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third. That was one of their big ones. They said they were like
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thirty gods and thirty heavens, So every time they saw the number thirty,
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they said. The Bible is given a hidden information. Right, But to
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harmonize them with what actually exists or with right reason. Nor should they seek
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to prosecute inquiries respecting God by means of numbers, syllables, and letters,
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For this is an uncertain mode of proceeding on account of their various and diverse
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systems, and because every sort of hypothesis may at the present day be in
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like manner device anyway. In other words, you can come up with anything
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and make it fit your system, of your own ideas, by anyone,
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so that they can derive arguments against the truth from the very theories, inasmuch
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as they may be turned in different directions. But on the contrary, they
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ought to adapt the numbers themselves and those things which have been formed to the
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true theory lying before them. For system does not spring out of numbers,
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but numbers from a system. Nor does God derive his being from things made,
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but things made from God. For all things originate from one and the
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same God. But since created things are varied and numerous, they are indeed
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well fitted and adapted to the whole creation. When viewed individually by are mutually
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opposite and inharmonious when not okay, And he goes on a little bit and
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talks. He talks about the harmony of a liar and how you should see
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things as a whole and not as individual pieces. You know, you gotta
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have three notes to make a chord. But it's a little flowery. I
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don't need to get into that. If, however, anyone does not discover
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the cause of all those things which become objects of investigation, let him reflect
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that man is infinitely inferior to God, and that he has received grace only
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in part, and it's not yet equal or similar to his maker. And
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moreover, that he cannot have experience or form a conception of all things like
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God, but in the same proportion as he who is formed, but today
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and received the beginning of his creation, is inferior to him who is uncreated,
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and who is always the same in that proportion as he as respects knowledge,
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the faculty of investigating the causes of all things, inferior to him who
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made him. In other words, we're so inferior to God, we're never
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going to understand all of God's secrets. And coming up with these systems of
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numerology is creating confusing confusion. It's not giving you any insect sight. For
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thou o man are not an uncreated being. Nor didst Thou always coexist with
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God, as did his own word. But now through his preeminent goodness,
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receiving the beginning of thy creation, thou dost gradually learn from the Word the
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dispensations of God, who made thee preserve therefore the proper order of knowledge.
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And do not, as being ignorant of things really good, seek to rise
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above God himself, for he cannot be surpassed. Nor did thou seek after
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anyone above the Creator, for thou wilt not discover such, for the former
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cannot be contained within limits. Although thou shouldst measure all this universe, and
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pass through all His creation, and consider in all its depth and height and
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length, would thou be able to conceive of any other Father above the Father
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himself, For thou will not be able to think of him fully out.
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But indulging in trains of reflection opposed to the nature, opposed to thy nature,
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thou wilt prove thyself foolish. And if thou'll persevere in such a course,
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thou wilt fall into utter madness. While so deemiest thyself, loftier and
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greater, greater than the Creator, and imagine that thou canst penetrate beyond his
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dominion. In other words, you keep on this path, you're going to
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go nuts. I mean seriously. And a lot of the Cabala types,
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Yeah, yeah, that's a I mean cabolish They get into this stuff.
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And even many faithful Jews will tell you these people drive themselves insane trying to
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discover things that are beyond human knowledge. We can only take what we know
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from what God tells us and what he guaranteed his truth through the apostles,
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and what we can see in sense and touch, and we can learn through
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science and such as was an ability to give in to us by God.
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We can't go beyond our ability. You know, Saint Augustine when he had
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written Suma Theologia whatever I was pronounced, you know what I'm trying to say.
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When he had written the Suma and he had written, I mean,
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probably the most brilliant man, the Theologian, he looked at it and said,
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you know, my knowledge of God is like a couple of drops of
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water compared to the whole ocean. And people think they can find these hidden
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insights. I'm telling you that's just an invitation to anything from true demonic influence
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to you know, serious error. And it's based on the presumption that there
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are hidden things that you're being given permission to know that because you're more special
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than everybody else, even the apostles in their church. You're not You're Sarah,
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You're not anyway. He quotes, let's see, Well, it's a
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Bible verse, I think, is it, John Paul? Yeah, see
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Paul, knowledge puffeth up, but love aedifith. It is therefore better and
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more profitable to belong to the simple and unlettered class, and by means of
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love, to attain nearness to God, than by imagining ourselves learned and skillful
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to be found among those who are blasphemous against their own God, inasmuch as
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they conjure up another God as Father. And for this reason Paul exclaim,
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knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth, not that he meant to inveigh against
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true knowledge of God, for in that case he would have accused himself.
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But because he knew that some puffed up by the pretense of knowledge, fall
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away from the love of God, and imagine that they themselves are perfect for
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this reason that they set forth an imperfect creator with the view of putting an
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end to the pride which they feel on account of knowledge of this kind.
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He says, knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. Now, there can
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be no greater conceit than this, that anyone should imagine. He is better
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and more perfect than he who made him, fashion to him, and imparted
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life to him, and commanded this very thing into existence. It is therefore
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better, as I have said, that one should have no knowledge whatever of
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any one reason why a single thing in creation has been made, but should
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believe in God and continue in his love. Then, puffed up through the
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knowledge of this kind, he should fall away from that love which is the
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life of man, and he should search after no other knowledge except the knowledge
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of Jesus Christ's the son of God, who was crucified for us. Than
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by subtle questioning, that then that by subtle questions and hair splitting expressions he
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should fall into impiety. There was also Saint Augustine who said, it's one
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can have a false concept of God, like I think it was. Someone
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said one time, it's like imagine the old man with the white beard,
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and if that's you're a concept of God the Father, it's it's false and
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so limited by a human ideas that you're not actually worshiping God. Well,
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there are many people, I mean from Cambolish to modern Bible scholars to you
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know, all these Bible code people who are creating a false concept of God
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because their egos are inflated by believing they have this hidden knowledge. Let me
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tell you one thing very clear. If you believe something other than what the
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Catholic Church teaches and what's in the Catechism, you know that they've given us,
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so we know exactly what's what. You're wrong. You're just playing wrong,
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and that's well, it's presumption, it's arrogance, and it's actually a
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mortal sin because you're worshiping a false God based on the creation an image for
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him by your own ideas. You know, that's what Jesus said to Martin
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Luther, Why do you seek my keys? I left them with Peter.
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Martin Luther admitted that his idea, and he changed the very words of Jesus
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in the Bible to fit his doctrine, thus making himself his own God.
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And again, Martin Luther was an incredibly evil man that has led millions of
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people astray, and he admitted doing it. I mean all on, he
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admitted. He said, I you know, I don't care what the papists
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say. As he said, you asked him, on what authority I changed
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the words of Jesus, doctor Luther's authority. He made himself his highest authority
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and his own God. Not a good man. Martin Luther was a very
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evil antichrist. Anyway, He goes on and says, for how would it
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be if anyone gradually elated by the attempts of the kind referred to, should
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because the Lord said, even the hairs of your head are numbered, set
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about inquiring into the numbers of hairs on each one's head, and endeavor to
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search out the reason on account of while some have many and others have few,
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and some are almost bald. You get where he's going on this,
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Or again, if anyone should because of the expression which occurs in the gospel,
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are not two sparrows sold for a farthing, and not one falls to
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the ground without the will of your father, take occasion to reckon up the
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numbers of sparrows caught daily. And you know he's making just very obvious points
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of logic that you can't just pull something randomly out of the Bible and twist
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it to fit your preconceived notions. If I say, anyone, in obtaining
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our adherents and consent to this, should proceed to reckon up all the sand
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and pebbles of the earth, yea discovered, would not his labor be in
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vain? And would not such a man be justly declared mad and destitute of
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reason by all possessed of common sense. And the more he occupied himself beyond
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others in question of this kind, the more he imagines himself to find out
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beyond others, styling them unskilled, ignorant, and animal beings because they do
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not enter into his useless labor, the more is he, in reality insane,
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foolish, struck, as it were, with a thunderbolt sits. Indeed,
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he does not, in no one point own himself inferior to God,
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but by the knowledge which he imagines himself to have discovered, he changes God
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himself and exalts his own opinion over the greatness of the Creator. And I
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think Saint iron Aus said it far better and probably more charitably than have I.
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But yeah, just as we, as faithful Catholics, do not use
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astrology, crystal balls, sorcery, means of the occult. We should not
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fall into this trap of hidden meanings and messages in the Bible. Some books
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of the Bible are symbolic and hard to understand. Book of Daniel, Book
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of Revelations, especially how many people, how many people now have said throughout
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time they found a hidden message in the Book of Revelation and the world was
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going to end on a certain day. Well, it happened so much in
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nineteen hundred that it almost caused an economic depression. It spread among prides of
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churches and ministers that January first of the year nineteen hundred was going to be
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the last day of the world, or I guess the day before that,
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you know, the world would end Jesus coming back, you know, January
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one, nineteen oh one, the world would end. December thirty first,
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nineteen hundred. Tens of thousands of people, probably hundreds of thousands of people
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sold all they had, gave everything they had to churches or to the poor,
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to charities, stayed up waiting for the coming of Jesus. This is
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in America, you know. And well, January one came along, and
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January two came along, and they were in pretty bad straits. They had
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no they had quit their jobs, and they had no food, and they
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had lost their houses. And this was a widespread phenomenon throughout the United States
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because people thought they had found this code in the Bible. And it's happened
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several times. I mean when the year two thousand came along, there were
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many many especially it seems like it was Church of God. They were real
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big up around Mount Isla, North Carolina, and then Billboard's all over,
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Billboard's all up and down nine five saying that you know the world was going
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to end January one, two thousand whatever. And of course that whole millennium
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scare, the whole thing where the computers weren't supposed to work and everything was
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going to fall apart. That, you know, Pat Robertson and them were
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really pushing. I mean people were freaked out just because the date was the
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calendar page was turning to the year two thousand or two thousand and one,
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whatever it was. He was two thousand. Yeah, Well they were wrong.
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They never said they were wrong. I don't remember any of these people
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that were, you know, doomsday preppers on religious programs on you know,
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cable TV coming on the next day and say, boy, howney, I
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got that wrong. And they didn't lose their congregations, and the donations and
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money kept pouring in. Just like you know, all know how much respect
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I have for Pat Robertson. I think though he was a really good man,
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very mistaken. I mean, I remember when God said, he said,
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God told me I'm going to be president of United States, and he
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pulled here's a Bible prophecy which implies that I'm going to be president of the
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United States. Yeah, he didn't win. He never came back and said,
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well, either God got it wrong or I did. He just went
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on like nothing ever happened. You know, we really it's presumption. It's
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a sin of presumption to think, you know better than what Jesus actually said
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in his plain words in the Bible, the apostles actually said in the plain
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words of the Bible. I mean things that are not symbolic, things that
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are really easy to understand, or what the Church teaches. If the Church
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says it's right, it's right. If the Church is wrong, it's wrong.
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If the Church is true, it's true. Etc. And you know,
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it's very much part of human nature. To feel special, to feel
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exalted, to feel very self satisfied because you think you know a secret that
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other people don't know. Conspiracy theories or whatever. Now, you know,
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like a Steve Bannon always says, there no conspiracies, but there are also
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no coincidences. Sometimes they are actually out to get you. But when you
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when you think that, you know you're much wiser than everyone else around.
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You're the anointed. That's why people join the Masonic Order. And really that's
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the scent of our first parents. The serpent told them if they ate of
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the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they would be like God's.
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Well, when someone picks up the Bible and they seem they think they
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found hidden messages and meanings in there, that the whole rest of them,
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humanity for the last two thousand years, was just too ignorant to find out
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on their own. That's the same thing. And it's making oneself, one's
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opinion, one's own god. And that's you know, that's a failure to
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adhere to the first commandment, that will shall help have no other gods before
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me. Well, it depends on how you count the commandments, you know.
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Some people like to say it's one or two. It doesn't matter.
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It doesn't matter again, whatever the church says, just believe it. It's
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like I always say when I'll get into debates with people and they'll say,
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you know, baptism isn't necessary. I say, what do Jesus say?
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Jesus said you must be born of water, you know, born again of
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water. Jesus had said, go forth and baptize Jesus. If Jesus said
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it, do it, Just do it. Just believe it. You either
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believe that God is God, in which case he is incapable of lying because
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any God is the creator of all things. Anything he says is absolute truth,
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or you don't. That's yeah. You know, if Jesus said it,
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believe it. Do it. If the church says it, believe it.
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Do it. If someone come up and said, I have a secret
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knowledge, a hidden meaning that's been given to me, say whoa hold on,
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Simon the Martin Luther, evil man, get away from me just enough.
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You're ignorant, you're misled, you're foolish, you're evil, you know,
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go away. I mistake with the truth because I can. As as
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Jesus said, those who keep my commandments are those who love me. Anyway,
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y'all have an excellent evening and i'll talk to you next time. Remember
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the words of Saint Padre Pio that I always lead to quote, Pray,
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hope, and don't worry.