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Defeating Atheist Claims of Biblical Contradictions (part 3) · Relish: a Christian podcast

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  How you doing? Doing all right. We just want to take a moment in the midst of
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  all the different podcasts to raise up the fact that when we are putting these
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  podcasts together, I come into it very cold.
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  Yeah. And so some of our answers come right off the cuff. I mean,
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  seriously, off the cuff.
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  And we appreciate all the comments that are coming in in this series of videos.
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  So keep them coming. We want to keep the conversation happening. and
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  if we need to warm up don to the conversation
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  we can do that yeah and i could do more study ahead of
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  time but in this context we we come
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  to a cold right right i think we didn't we
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  didn't mention that on the part one of the defeating atheist claims of biblical
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  contradictions but we did obviously notice that there was a ton of views on
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  it and even more comments and it's It's obviously something that is a topic
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  that has a considerable battleground on it.
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  And we're thankful for most of the comments.
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  Obviously, some of them are just digs and trolls in there.
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  But there are a handful of them that did point out some things.
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  Like, for one, was just how I read the atheist intro to it.
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  Okay, that one was a little... I did read it in a snarky way.
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  That probably wasn't necessary.
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  Right. But we want to be part of the conversation. Yes. And we invite your comments,
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  and we are not setting them aside.
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  We're going to take them seriously and look through them, and they could create
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  further content. Right.
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  And so we're sticking this piece in here because there's two more episodes.
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  There's two more parts to this defeating atheist claims of biblical contradiction.
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  That are already recorded. They're already recorded.
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  And so we just didn't want you guys to think that we weren't addressing some
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  of the problems you might have had with how we were going about it.
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  And so we're going to continue with what we do already have videoed,
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  but we will get to these things over the course of time. Yep.
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  Right? That's exactly right.
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  So enjoy the series and yeah, keep the questions coming and the comments coming and we'll get to those.
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  And we thank you for them. Yes, thanks. All right. Enjoy.
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  Pastor Don. Good morning, Alex. Good morning.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, we are still here. you used the word slog we are slogging
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  through it we got more of these,
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  contradictions that are raised by an atheist website pulled from an atheist author.
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  What they say are contradictions within the Bible, and that somehow is a... Not somehow.
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  If there's contradictions within something, that's very reasonable for us to
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  claim that thing as non-authoritative, okay?
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  But we're going through this, and so far we haven't found anything that would
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  say that they are a contradiction in the way that it diminishes the authoritative nature of the Bible.
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  Right. Or authoritative power, okay? Okay.
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  We closed last time on punishing crime, and we're getting into the next topic, which is temptation.
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  All right. So, in James chapter 1, verse 13, it says, Let no man say when he
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  is tempted, I am tempted of God.
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  For God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.
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  And in Genesis chapter 22, verse 1 says, and it came to pass after these things
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  that God did tempt Abraham.
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  Well, yeah, I guess I don't see.
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  Yep. He tempted Abraham and he had him work it.
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  But what's interesting is then I'd throw it in James chapter one, two through four.
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  And I think the same word is being used. Consider it pure joy,
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  my brothers, when you endure trials of many kinds, temptations of many kinds,
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  because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance,
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  and perseverance, when it has
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  finished its work, leaves you mature and complete, not lacking anything.
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  Interesting that that is in the very same chapter that this James passage is, saying, but God isn't.
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  What James is trying to do is saying, God's not going to put a temptation on
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  you in a spot that's not in you. I understand.
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  Because in that context of James chapter one, he also says that it is coming
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  up from within us, this temptation.
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  Don't be deceived. No, no, no, no. Here it is. But each one is tempted when
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  by his own evil desire, which is the next verse after that,
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  he is dragged away and enticed after desire
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  is conceived it gives birth to sin and sin when it's fully grown
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  gives birth to death right so had they read
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  past if they had they read past then they
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  would see the rest of it and says wait a minute it's not
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  so much god tempting us right it's us being tempted right and and god isn't
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  using temptation i mean in in the passage i'm not sure I'm sure it's quite rendered
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  correctly in Genesis 22 when they said it was temptation. I'm not sure about that one.
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  It came to pass that these things, God tempted Abraham. Both of these set as
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  tests of individual's faith.
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  And we are going to get our faith tested. And God has the privilege to do so.
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  And part of that testing is to develop perseverance within us.
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  And to and paul would go
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  say perseverance to character and who
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  are we in christ unless we have weathered the
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  test and and are shown to be a
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  reflection of the king right so there
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  there really isn't a contradiction here we can
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  be tested by god that genesis
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  passage i am just not feeling very comfortable
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  with that being rendered as tempted okay i
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  think we can also like do an example so like
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  let's say that you were going to test someone versus tempting
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  someone right so if i was going to i wanted to make sure that you drink this
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  water in here and if i was going to test you to see if you would drink it i
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  would offer you knowing like let's see if he's thirsty i'd crank the heat up
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  in here that might be a little bit of a test but i wouldn't say that's That's tempting. No.
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  And this word is used other places and would be more apt to be tested rather than tempting.
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  Okay. So I think that using the King James there might not be the best. I understand. For that.
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  So, yeah, God can test us. Yeah. He has that prerogative. Yeah,
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  and we've even talked about that before.
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  You know, it's like, well, he put the tree in the middle of the Garden of Eden
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  and said, hey, don't eat this.
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  It could have done without that, but it was a test to see where...
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  Sure, you're saying there's a temptation there?
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  No, a temptation would be like, oh, boy, look at how delicious this to you. You'd know everything.
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  Well, it actually took the serpent to make that connection for Adam and Eve.
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  Right. The serpents are the temptation. right so there
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  you can see a very different way of the test and tempt right okay
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  now there might be a blurring of the lines between those two and
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  and even linguistically sure there's
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  a blur in that line right yeah and i
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  think it's disingenuous to say
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  that one equals the other in this instance and doesn't equal it
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  in the other in any other instance in the in our life correct
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  right yeah yeah when we go to school and we want to
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  see what we know we're tested we're not tempted right so and
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  she gives a grade on that one right that's what i
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  experienced yeah yeah good grades i assume i hope
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  so the next one is family relationships exodus chapter
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  20 verse 12 honor thy father father
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  and thy mother and then
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  in luke chapter 14 verse 26 if
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  any man come to me and hate not his father
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  and mother and wife and children and brethren and
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  sisters yay and his own life also
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  he cannot be my disciple duh yeah
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  you want to answer this one yeah it's uh
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  god is first yeah and everything else
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  there's not a boy like i even feel uncomfortable being like god's number one
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  my wife's number two and like i might even i mean i'm you're down the pecking
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  order god's way up here and everything else is down here here.
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  My priority is to look to God.
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  Everything else is a gift of God.
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  So I am putting those aside and I hate those things to honor God because he
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  is the most important thing. Right.
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  Loving him, loving others is a way to love him.
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  That's how that is. Is that good? Yeah. Yeah. To me, this one is funny.
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  Right. Yeah. It doesn't make any sense. But anyway, the other side of the coin
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  is if somebody were just reading down through these, they'd say, oh, yeah, you're right.
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  It doesn't. but to the christian who's reading this
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  we're we're saying get real that one was
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  definitely the one that was the most get real yeah mm-hmm
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  yeah i feel like there's a that most what
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  are we called easter christians yeah that was called sorry if anyone's out there
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  but you still come see any christians right christmas and easter christian right
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  see any yeah it's we understand that part of it right yeah and you should go
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  to a bible study learn more about this is fun.
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  Next one i guess resurrection of the dead job chapter
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  7 verse 9 he that goeth down the
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  grave shall come up no more and then
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  the next one from john chapter 5 28 through 29
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  the hour is coming in which all things are in
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  the graves shall hear this his voice and shall come forth so so that was it's
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  not so bad yeah that was a little more substantive substantive than the other
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  so job is the first book of the bible written it was it was some of the oldest book in in the bible.
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  Job doesn't think there's resurrection okay those are his words not god's in
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  fact seven that's not even job's words that's one of his friends that's one
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  of the friends that are talking to job so it's It's what they're trying to comfort,
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  if you will, which they don't do very well in Job.
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  And then the other is Jesus speaking in John 5, the hour is coming.
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  And that resurrection is talked about several places in the New Testament.
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  1 Corinthians 15, Thessalonians 5, there's going to be a resurrection. Right.
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  There's going to be a resurrection. Mm-hmm. is
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  it the earthly bodies we've talked about that
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  before yeah we've talked about that before initially not but eventually right
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  i mean we even hear testimony of that after when jesus is resurrected right
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  yeah yeah i feel like there's very little talked about with that i feel like
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  that would be very shocking yeah it'll definitely get people's attention yeah.
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  So is that a contradiction? You got to roll Job back to the context.
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  Okay. So it's in the midst of the story, and this is a person talking to Job,
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  trying to comfort him and tell him to get a hold of his sin.
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  And it's taken out of context just total. Because this is not God speaking,
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  and this is one of his friends, which we don't put any stock in what the friend's
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  saying, because we find out in the course of the story,
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  that these loving men that are comforting Job really aren't very loving at all or very comforting.
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  Right. And this was said in that term, in that context.
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  Okay. So, yeah.
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  Get real. Once you're dead, you're dead. Don't worry about it.
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  Yeah. And all your problems will be over with.
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  Yeah. And Job's wife would say, well, curse God and die.
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  Be over with this. You know, get real. Like, we're going to take that as God's
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  word? Right. Yeah. Okay.
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  See, last one here is the end of the world, and there's one,
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  two, three, four, five, six, six different verses that they have.
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  Matthew 16, verse 28. Verily I say unto you, there be some standing here,
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  which shall not taste of death till they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.
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  Okay. Okay. Luke chapter 21, verses 32 through 33.
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  Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass away till all be fulfilled.
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  Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away.
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  The next one is romans 13 11 through 12 and that knowing the time that now it
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  is high time to awake out of sleep for now is our salvation nearer than when
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  we believed the night is far spent the day is at hand let us therefore cast
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  off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light,
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  the next one is james chapter 5 verse 8 be also patient establish your hearts
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  for the coming of the Lord dwelleth nigh.
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  1 John 2.18, Little children, it is the last time, and as ye have heard that
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  Antichrist shall come, even now are there many Antichrists, whereby we know that it is the last time.
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  1 Peter 4.7, By the end of all things it is at hand,
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  but the end of all things is at hand be therefore
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  sober and watch unto prayer so it's
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  saying that it is contradictory saying it's going to happen in
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  the and it hasn't yet future and it haven't hasn't hasn't happened and it's
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  actively happening where's the contradiction here i'm trying to find the contradiction
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  because it is it was and it will be yeah it may happen this afternoon right
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  but the end of all things is present tense.
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  Yeah. And generationally we are, even if it's been what, 25 generations, uh.
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  Still same generation okay so here's something that they say after that says so these words,
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  were written between 1800 and 1900 years ago okay and
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  were meant to warn and prepare the first christians apologies
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  for the immediate end of the world some words
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  are those some words
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  are those supposedly straight out of the mouth of the
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  quote son of god the world did not end
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  1800 or 1900 years ago all that
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  generation passed away without any of the things foretold coming
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  to pass no amount of prayer brought it
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  about nor ever so much patience and belief and sobering living or sober living
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  the world went on as usual and different to the spoutings of yet another batch
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  of doomsday prophets with visions of messiahs dancing in their deluded brains
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  the world by By surviving makes the above passages contradictions.
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  Oh, really? Okay. But every one of them died.
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  Right. Their end did come. Yeah. And is still coming. Right.
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  So, yeah, I don't understand. So they're saying it's a contradiction because
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  all of them thought that that generation was going to be the last generation?
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  Well, and I would make the case that I think each generation needs to live as
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  if we're the last generation.
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  Okay. What spurs on our faithfulness?
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  Unless we realize that, hey, it could be today. Yeah. It could be.
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  And if I don't take action on it today and share with my brother and sister
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  what this means with some urgency.
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  To me, all those passages speak of the urgency that the kingdom of God is coming
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  and we urgently need to share it.
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  What's interesting then is in Matthew 24, it basically says the end will come
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  when all these things have happened and when every nation has heard.
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  Right. And we're just now getting close to the time when every nation will have
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  heard. Right. And had the gospel in their own language. Right.
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  And there's no way that could have been fulfilled earlier.
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  Right. They said this generation shall not pass away till all be fulfilled.
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  What is Jesus saying when he's saying that? basically what
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  is the generation of humanity i mean basically the
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  generation of who are christians okay and
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  so it's a very broad way and and one that we would not normally read into generations
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  we usually i see your generation my generation next millennials okay yeah and
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  we know but but the the writer is talking about that that group of people who
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  will know jesus right Right. What we would call Christians.
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  Right. So you Christians will not die out.
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  No one's going to get rid of the Christians until everything is fulfilled.
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  Right. Right. That's how I see that too.
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  And then what about with Matthew said there, I say to you, there'll be some
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  standing heroes who will not taste death till they see the son of man coming in his kingdom.
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  Some say they're talking about John and there's a conspiracy that John is not
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  dead. That's a fun conspiracy. That's a fun one. Check that one out. Yeah. But.
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  It gets a little sticky i'm not sure and the
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  concept end of the world if that one plays into it
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  too much i would handle that one
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  loosely yeah it's just i to
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  me it was trying to put icing on a cake that they
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  thought they'd already cooked and this cake isn't done
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  yet i see i see they're like
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  this is he's saying hey there's more
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  to do right yeah i'm leaving you
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  guys have got this very special holy spirit gift now don't
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  be preparing like it's the end right there's a lot left that
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  needs to be done right yeah and you're not gonna know when but
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  it'll be when all these things are been fulfilled it yeah and it's meant to
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  give a urgency right to get to it right urgency as well as there's a lot of
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  time left to do it maybe you know what i'm saying though like don't like i i
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  would say it's flipping it it's saying don't don't bank on
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  there being enough time don't bank on there being enough time i have a lot that's
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  to do a lot is going to happen but don't act like you have a lot of time don't
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  procrastinate it right okay,
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  so that was the last of them praise the lord right sorry yeah and i've heard
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  other ones as well and i'm surprised they don't have them in here probably because
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  they don't these are sort
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  of lame i thought so too i'm sorry there are there's better ones that don't necessarily have.
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  Deeper implications right so like if if if this temp one about temptation,
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  was a contradiction that that might
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  be a big deal but there's one where there's you
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  know like two two of the accounts of
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  one event one says there was three men and
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  one says there was one men yeah you know like
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  that one's a that one's a very big
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  contradiction that was a very clear contradiction but that's
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  one of those ones where it's like well that's just this is how many people
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  i saw is how many people you saw it's what does that
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  have anything to do with it right it's like well that means the
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  bible's not true because of that one thing you're like okay really
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  hold on you're gonna discount the newspaper because they got it wrong or right
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  but what they're trying to do here is that these are kind of important things
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  opposed to numbers yeah and if all of these were contradictions that might say
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  something about the urgency of the bible.
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  It's still got to know it well enough to know whether they aren't or not.
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  Okay. I'm going to read what their conclusion is after this list. Okay.
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  Okay. Prepare yourself. Don't laugh, but hold onto the table.
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  Let's think of how we would talk to someone like this. Okay.
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  Because it is very difficult to, if you were talking to someone like this and
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  they had this list in front of you, let's try to figure out how to love this person.
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  I guess it says, what is incredible about the Bible is not its divine art,
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  the authorship, is that such a concoction of contradictory nonsense could be
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  believed by anyone to have been written by an omniscient God.
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  To do so, one would first have to not read the book, which is the practice of
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  most Christians, but that's not untrue, or if one does read it,
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  dump in the trash can one's rational intelligence,
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  to become a fool for God, in other words.
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  To be an atheist which one
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  need only be able to laugh when
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  such obnoxious nonsense is offered as being divine
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  truth so be an atheist
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  laugh when people say that the bible is true and therefore your righteousness
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  is established essentially except they don't need any righteousness that's there's
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  no advocate for it right yeah that's a tricky one i don't quite understand yeah
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  and then And so what's the author of any morality?
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  There's no moral concept. Right. Right. Constructor. The atheist argument is interesting.
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  If you listen to people who are actually proclaimed atheists,
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  it's interesting because they want to be moral, right? But not because of God.
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  I don't do it because of that, which is interesting.
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  So why do you do it? Because then, exactly, why do you do it?
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  Then they would say, you know, well, why do you do it? Just so you can go to
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  heaven? Well, no, you don't understand.
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  So that's kind of a difficult topic to bring up. But then also at the same time,
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  why do you defend your faith?
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  It's like, we don't have a faith. That's not faith, but it is.
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  So how do we talk to someone like this? Because it seems like there's not a
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  very big openness, and I don't know about you guys, but there's a defense.
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  A mockery generally makes me, I have a hard time not being a little bit angry.
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  But I like your approach of saying, Saying, you know, so what do you base such and such on? Right.
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  If they aren't using the Bible to construct their morality or their ethics or their hope.
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  Yeah. I mean, where is hope in that? Right. Because you talked about faith.
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  Faith and hope go very much hand in hand.
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  And so what's their reality?
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  And what I find is that they believe God just enough not to believe God. Well, yeah.
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  And so, yeah, this may be probably one of the more lame presentations,
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  but I'd ask, so what ever would give you hope?
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  And so what do you enjoy as far as love?
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  Well, I would assume that would be one of those things where they kind of rest
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  on their morals, their self-righteousness. Where'd they get those?
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  From themselves. I'm right about this. And how do you know that?
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  Because I've made this list and I know it. And if you try to refute this list, I'll laugh at you.
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  But at least you know you don't want to adopt this Christian faith. Right.
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  But you are adopting something. Right. So what is it?
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  Well, it's a faith, yeah. They don't like to call it faith. No,
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  they won't. But they're living by something.
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  Right. And so basically what it is is a polarization.
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  They want to push against God
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  because they have to have something to push either for or against. I see.
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  And so they've laid down this, okay, can't be God.
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  Right. But then by pushing away from something, and if you're not pushing against
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  them, the argument falls on its face.
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  Because what are you doing then? We know what you're against,
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  but what are you for? Right. And where do you get it from?
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  Right. And what do you derive any human pleasure?
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  How would you know what righteousness is? Where are your measures and your constructs
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  that help you navigate this life?
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  True. And so it's not this. Okay. That's it.
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  But I have to ask you what it is. You know what you're against,
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  but you don't know what you're for. And if you're an atheist and you're listening
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  to this, or maybe you're agnostic or something, this is us just right now trying
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  to be like, we don't understand. Right. So enter the conversation.
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  Help us understand this, because I don't understand where the morality comes from.
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  We know it's probably influenced, at least if you're living in the United States,
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  and a lot of it's going to be influenced by Christianity, because that's just
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  how this country was founded.
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  What do you think about that i i would assume that some of that i mean you do get to enjoy.
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  The morality of others that are christians that are
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  doing good deeds in order to love god
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  is why we're doing it so you do get to enjoy those
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  things if you were not a part of that community
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  of believers or at least surrounded by them you would not get
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  to enjoy those things nor would you be allowed to say that like if
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  you were in a country which was a lot less tolerant of
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  people who did not believe in their god there would not be that freedom
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  you would not have that tolerance right so you do get to enjoy
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  the fruits of the spirit from others towards
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  you what do you think about that and where
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  is the joy and is the defensiveness
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  of this and i don't get me wrong i understand it's
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  not lost on me that what we are doing here is defending our faith and that is
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  what we intended to do but and give us new material and material i mean i mean
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  help us understand the argument because this is not a really good way of understanding
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  how do you get there right.
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  And I could see it being a little bit of some of our maybe answers saying like,
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  we can dismiss it because of these things as being insufficient to you.
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  And I fully understand some of that, but also understand that the Bible does
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  say that unless you do believe some of this stuff will be lost on you.
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  Am I right in that? Is that the right? Did I say that correctly?
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  I'm trying to do book, chapter and verse.
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  So yeah, I'm sorry. It's fine. So I wouldn't start off with somebody,
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  like if someone was not a believer, and I said,
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  I believe the Bible is inerrantly true, is without error, and they did not believe
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  God, did not have a relationship with God or any sort of religion.
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  I would not, and they said, oh, yeah, prove that.
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  I would say, well, let's do some other things first, because that's going to
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  be a very difficult thing for me to convey without a knowledge of the Bible,
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  the context within the Bible.
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  The context that I don't even fully grasp yet. I'm still coming through it. I'm learning.
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  I'm embarrassed at how little I know about the Bible every day. And I am too.
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  So, yeah, anything else that you would say to someone that maybe...
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  That and the fact that, go back, what text from any part of culture,
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  what text has been honored to the point this text has been honored?
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  Right. through all the different translations, through all the different copies that have been made.
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  This is considered a holy text. We've taken care of it.
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  And so there might be a few places where you come up with some problems,
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  but they are so few compared to other documents that have come through the same
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  historical period of time that God,
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  I think God's hand is in the preservation of this text and it's done for a reason.
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  Right. Yeah. This is what I say, God-inspired writing.
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  Whereas some of the other texts are, is the Quran, that's written by...
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  My understanding. Muhammad, right.
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  So the inerrancy within for them would have to be that that thing definitely
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  never changed throughout the years.
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  Whereas this one is inspired by God is guiding the, what, the forming of the
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  Bible. Right. Right? Yes.
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  Because I've heard that objection before too, which is a very valid objection.
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  Just, you know, look into it, you know? Right.
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  And you do have to be careful. Yeah. Because just the testing and temptation
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  words that we were working with.
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  Yeah. So how were they translated from the Hebrew to what we read in the Bible?
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  And that makes a difference. Right.
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  And definitely always to anyone out there, no matter what you believe,
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  steel man every argument,
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  meaning construct the most difficult argument from the other side that's going
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  to rebut your belief or contradict your belief, make an argument against yourself.
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  Right. That's the most interesting way to do it. And that's kind of what this
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  whole show is revolved around a little bit. It was just, we're getting some questions.
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  Some of them seem too easy for Don. So I'm trying to make them a little harder.
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  I say, okay, well, what if someone said this? I know.
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  I know. But I get a lot of feedback of people being like, that was very profound.
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  And it's nothing that I said or you said, but what came out of it,
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  what got put into someone's head, put them on a trail to something that made
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  them say, holy cow. Praise the Lord.
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  Praise the Lord. And draws them closer. and those kind of things give me goosebumps
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  and maybe this love is best.
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  Good stuff. All right. Don, will you pray us out? I can do that.
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  All right. Heavenly Father, thank you for this time together.
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  Thank you for this media where we're sharing with others.
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  We thank you, Lord, for the questions and we do pray they keep coming.
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  And we pray that your blessing upon those who are listening today and continue
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  to draw us ever closer to you, Lord, in every action we do, every word we say.
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  In Jesus' precious name, amen. Amen. We did it.
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  We made it through the slog. All right, everyone. Hey, thanks for joining us
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  and blessings to you. And we'll see you all next week.