Glenn Beck

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Yet to give that answer with gentleness and reverence. Our host is dr. James white director of Alpha Omega ministries and an elder at the Phoenix reformed Baptist Church. This is a live program and we invite your participation.

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Here is James wife under the topic of Salvation. Number one unconditional or general salvation. That which comes by grace alone without obedience to gospel law consists in the mere fact of being Resurrected.

In this sense salvation is synonymous with immortality. It is the inseparable connection of body and spirit so that the resurrected personage lives forever. This kind of salvation eventually will come to all mankind except only accepting only the sons of perdition.

But this is not the salvation of righteousness the salvation which the Saints seek. Those who gain only this general or unconditional salvation will still be judged according to their works and receive their places in a terrestrial or Celestial kingdom.

They will therefore be damned their eternal progression will be cut short. They will not fill the full measure of their creation, but in eternity will be ministering servants to more worthy persons. Number two conditional or individual salvation.

That which comes by grace coupled with gospel obedience. Consists in receiving an inheritance in the celestial kingdom of God. This kind of salvation follows faith repentance baptism receive the Holy Ghost and Continued righteousness to the end of one's mortal probation.

Full pain by virtue of knowledge truth righteousness and all true principles. Many conditions must exist in order to make such salvation available to men without the atonement the gospel the priesthood and the sealing power.

There would be no salvation without continuous revelation the ministering of angels the working of miracles the prevalence of gifts of the Spirit. There would be no salvation if it had not been for Joseph Smith and the Restoration there would be no salvation.

There is no salvation outside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These are some of the sections on the doctrine of salvation from Elder Bruce R. McConkie's book Mormon Doctrine 1979 edition.

Bruce R. McConkie was one of the twelve Apostles of the LDS Church and When I first started ministering to Mormons His viewpoints were reflective of the vast majority of Mormons with whom we spoke. But times they be a-changin right after discussion of salvation.

You then have in his book Mormon Doctrine the topic salvation by grace. Listen to what this says. Salvation by grace since all good things come by the grace of God that is by his love mercy and condescension.

It follows that salvation itself and all its forms and degrees is bestowed because of this infinite goodness. However one of the untrue doctrines found in modern Christendom is The concept that man can gain salvation meaning the kingdom of God by grace alone and without obedience.

This soul-destroying doctrine has the obvious effect of lessening the determination of an individual to conform to all the laws and ordinances the gospel. Such conformity being essential if the sought-for reward is in reality to be gained.

Salvation in the celestial kingdom of God. However is not salvation by grace alone rather it is salvation by grace coupled with obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel. Mormon Doctrine. Bruce R. McConkie now in The years since well even toward the end of McConkie's life.

This was happening. You need to understand what's happened in Mormonism. Mormonism has made a specific attempt a a push to mainstream itself and to in essence do more of its proselytization internally from within a instead of standing outside saying we're the only true church and proselytizing door-to-door.

They made the decision at some point in time to begin attempting to Look more like we're all Christians. Part of that process involved sending their brightest and their best out to study at places other than Brigham Young University and To get their doctorates and their graduate studies in in Pauline studies and things like that.

The I think unforeseen result of this Has been that you have had scholars coming back to Brigham Young University infected with the viewpoints of the Apostle Paul. If anything is to be said about Joseph Smith, he was grossly ignorant of the Bible grossly ignorant of the Bible.

If you want an example of someone who interpreted the Bible Thoroughly and completely in an anachronistic fashion. Well Interpreted completely within an in early 19th century American context is Joseph Smith that's where the Book of Mormon comes from that's where all the anachronisms the Book of Mormon come from etc, etc, and so Smith's knowledge of The Bible as a whole.

And of the themes and concepts of the Bible is absolutely positively abysmal. This leads to many of the most amazing statements that he makes and so for anybody to to learn more about the backgrounds of the Bible and especially Pauline thought and grace.

Trying to to meld that With the grossly anti-christian theology of Joseph Smith is. Well, it's painful to watch a number of years ago a Book came out published by book craft, which is one of the LDS publishers out of Salt Lake City.

1991 is the date Called our Mormons Christians by Stephen E Robinson. It's a very small little book. It barely let's see here. It's 120 pages approximately 133 pages very small little book, but a lot of standard material attempting to find ways of Finding early church writers that sounded Mormon and so on and so forth.

But the whole argument was to try to say that Mormonism is Christian and and what Robinson really? began putting into The Mormon mainstream was a concept of grace because Joseph Smith did not understand grace.

When Joseph Smith came up with his alleged inspired version of the Bible many of the changes he made demonstrated very clearly. He had no concept of what grace meant. He changed the description of God as the one who justifies the ungodly to God who does not justify the ungodly.

He stuck the word not in there. He just did not have a clue what grace was. Now the problem is you you can't just slightly change Mormonism you can't. It's just not possible to do because you're talking about a system that is so fundamentally anti-christian.

You have the wrong God the wrong Savior the wrong scriptures. You've got it wrong from the start. It's just not possible to do and the attempts to try to do it are our RMS Robinson eventually came out with another book called believing Christ the parable the bicycle and other good news and.

The most that you can say this is the next year 1992. The most you can say about these particular things is That they have attempted to create Just as there are some Mormons attempting to create a an economic Trinitarianism without completely abandoning abandoning their polytheism and and so on so forth.

It is is that they've produced an amazing synergism. It's it's never grace alone. It can't be because they don't have a God who can be truly gracious. When you have a God who was himself dependent upon a process to become a God.

Well at that point you just have completely left any meaningful Biblical categories behind when it comes to the LDS concept of salvation now keeping in mind what McConkie said about universal salvation, which is the same thing as resurrection and Then individual salvation, which is exaltation exaltation to godhood.

The very goal of salvation and Mormonism is completely different because again you have a completely different God. It's a completely different religious system. There there are few religions that are more Completely contradictory to separate from biblical Christianity and Mormonism and so with all that in mind.

Today on the program at least for the first half the program may be a little bit longer. We'll see we will see if we get to calls all depends. I've had a lot of people contacting me and Saying did you did you hear what Glenn Beck said.

I? Mean Glenn Beck's a Mormon, but I think Glenn Beck's an evangelical and Evangelical Mormon, I guess. Or other people are saying how can he be saying this stuff is has he been deceived by Mormonism.

Does he does not know? What Mormonism teaches I? Don't know. I know next to nothing about Glenn Beck. My understanding is he's a Catholic who became a Mormon. I Don't watch him. You know you can't avoid seeing him.

He's all over the place these days and and I Frequently O 'Reilly's on when I'm having dinner, and so I'll catch him. You know saying things, and you know he says things I agree with. I'm clearly a conservative.

But sometimes I catch some of the stuff. He's saying. I'm just like whoa where on earth did he get that? And we played a section that demonstrated when it comes to like the Council of Nicaea and Constantine.

That he's really confused about the Dead Sea Scrolls and history the Bible, and you know all sorts of stuff like that, so I Don't have any clue. What Glenn Beck does or does not know? Anything along those lines, but I can tell when someone is confused about Mormonism and Whether Glenn Beck is being deceptive or whether he really just doesn't know his own faith very well or he's sort of a Stephen Robinson type Mormon.

I don't know. I have no earthly idea. But we need to listen to what he had to say and I've got ten minutes worth of his stuff Interacting with it. I'm not sure how much commentary I'm gonna make so we'll see whether we take calls at the end of the program.

Not we'll see well. We'll just see. I'm obviously not gonna break up the Glenn Beck stuff to do that, but we'll see if Johnny wants to hold on. That's great. All right. Let's just listen what he had to say he's talking about Black liberation theology and There is absolutely no question in my mind at least what he's saying about this.

He's exactly right on because Black liberation theology has nothing to do with Christianity. It's not Christianity, it's it's not related to Christianity. It's a it is it is a reprehensible perversion of Christianity.

We went over cone stuff on the dividing line a number of about two years ago now and It is it is such a gross perversion of anything that even come close to Christianity. It is it is radical Communist political ideology with a splash of religion on it.

It's it's revolting and disgusting and should be condemned. I Personally don't see any difference honestly between black liberation theology and the KKK. They're just they're just mirror images of each other.

That's all they are it is as racist Dripping with racist drivel as anything. It's out there. It's just disgusting and so I agree with him He brought somebody on who did a good job what little I saw of him in this section.

You know talking about these very issues, but that's where He made all these comments that made a lot of people go what on earth is Glenn Beck talking about as a Mormon. Well, let's let's find out what Glenn Beck was talking about as a Mormon because a perversion of God is Extraordinarily dangerous.

Now I started right there because Mormonism has a gross perversion of God. Does does Glenn Beck understand that I mean he's gonna say later He called Stephen land of the Southern Baptist Convention and sort of gave the idea that what he was we saying is what all Christians believe.

But again, you can't talk about the Atonement and you can't talk about soteriology. You can't talk about salvation you can't talk about grace alone or anything else if you're talking about a God who was once a man lived on another planet and That there are billions of gods beyond him and he had a God he worshiped and he the God of this world lives on a planet that circles a star named Kolob and That Jesus is the spirit brother of Lucifer and someday We'll get to get to have wives and have kids so he can become fully exalted and get his own planet and all the rest of this stuff.

You want to talk about a perversion of God there? There you go. That's that's the best you can come up with any group that has institutional power now this evidently is cone. Remember I read from his book, but it's even worse listening to him say it directly.

They are violent. Therefore the main line Denominations in this country have been violent against black people. The crucifixion of Jesus was the first century legend. America has a tradition of legend.

And which American lynched more than 5 ,000 black people in this land. The Christian Church said very little about it. It was very violent lynching. So if We understand the cross correctly We will see it as Jesus being a victim of lynching a victim of violence.

So at the heart of the Christian faith is Is God taking upon God's self The suffering of the victim when you see a lynched black body. That's who God is.

Now I just I stop right there. Beck's gonna comment on as well, but when you see a lynched black body, how about a lynched white body? I Mean I the racism is disgusting to me. But the only thing more disgusting me in racism are racists who don't realize the racists.

Or Racists who are racists but say they can't be racist because their race. That's what absolutely drives me insane. And I've heard people defend that I can't be a racist because I don't have the power to be a racist.

The abject foolishness of such thought is is is really difficult to comment on. There's a lot there this is kind of complex. Because Jesus did identify with the victims, but Jesus was not a victim. He was a conqueror.

The death of Jesus Christ is a moment of victory as is the resurrection. See, this is the main difference here victims as opposed to Messiah's conquerors. Victims or conquerors. Jesus Conquered death.

He wasn't victimized. He chose to give his life. He did have a choice if he was a victim and this theology was true, then. Then Jesus would have come back from the dead and made the Jews pay for what they did.

That's an abomination. This is straight now from Cone quote black theology refuses to accept a God who is not Identified totally with the goals of the black community if God is not for us and against white people.

Then he is a murderer and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill gods who do not belong to the black community. Okay, it gets worse from here, so how does a white person get salvation in that system according to Cone?

If the powerful in our society the white people If they want to become Christians they have to give up that power and Become identified with the powerless if you're going to be a Christian. You can't be identified with the powerful and also Christian at the same time.

The only way in which your repentance your forgiveness can be can be authentic your reception of it can be authentic your repentance can be a thing is that you give back what you took and White people took a lot from black people.

Okay, follow this. The only way you can be saved according to this theology if you're an oppressor Is you give back what you took. I've never taken anything. I've I've earned What I have. You have to give it back through reparations you step down from that job.

You took from someone else. I Think I've worked hard for this job. I didn't take it from someone else. You have to give back that money you took from someone else. I've earned this money. Do you notice anything that is missing here here we go.

There's a couple of things one. Merit the idea of your character and merit you earn certain things, but when it comes to salvation. What's missing grace? Grace. You're saved by grace at this point in the video.

There's big screen says saved by grace. Right here on on the Fox Fox News Network, I'm sort of wondering what what Beck's Critics I do it with this particular program. They must have been going. Whoa, what is going on here?

But is big saved by grace on on the screen. You cannot earn your way into heaven. You can't there is no deed no random act of kindness. No amount of money to spread around to others that earns you a trip to heaven.

It can't happen. But is there obedience to gospel rules and principles that absolutely must be rendered so that grace can be made? Effective or efficient. That is the question that I would have for Glenn Beck.

In fact, I would I would direct Glenn back to well the scriptures that he himself Is carrying along? To look up certain things in his own scriptures and specifically in the subject of the topic of grace and What grace is?

Now again, I realize that Mormonism has a pretty, you know wide variety of perspectives these days, but in his own Bible dictionary page 697 of the quadruple combination that I have in my hand here We find an entry for the word grace and I would think that for a Mormon this would be sort of important.

I would like to if Glenn Beck has found out that this stuff is not true. That'd be great. But I think he needs to tell other folks that because he's gonna say a little later on I am a Mormon. He's not gonna say anything about you know, I've found their problems here under the term grace.

It is through the grace of Lord Jesus made possible by his atoning sacrifice that mankind will be raised in immortality. I remember him. That's everybody. So Christ death makes simple resurrection possible in Mormon theology.

Every person receiving his body from the grave in a condition of everlasting life it is likewise through the grace of the Lord that individuals through faith in the atonement of Jesus Christ and repentance of their sins receive strength and assistance.

To do good works that they otherwise would not be able to maintain if left their own means this grace is an enabling power that allows men and women to lay hold on eternal life and Exaltation after they have expended their own best efforts.

Now when you think about what the Book of Mormon itself says on this subject It's it's even it's even worse. 2nd Nephi chapter 25 Says the following for we labor diligently to write to persuade our children and also our brethren to believe in Christ and be reconciled to God.

For we know that it is by grace that we are saved after all we can do. So you do your best. You give forth a hundred percent effort and then grace meet you. Now Or should no one has ever given forth a 100 effort and No, one ever will and no one ever can.

That's one of the problems. Is that really what the message of the Book of Mormon is? Well, it seems so. Because in Moroni chapter 10 verse 32, we read the following words in the Book of Mormon yea, come unto Christ and be perfected in him and Deny yourselves of all ungodliness and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness and love God with all your might mind and strength.

Then is his grace sufficient for you. That by his grace, he may be perfect in Christ and if by the grace of God you're perfect in Christ He can in no wise deny the power of God. So If you will deny yourselves of all ungodliness and Love God with all your might mind and strength then is his grace sufficient for you.

Now the question I have asked Many Mormons down through the years is if you can rid yourself of all ungodliness. And if you can love God perfectly apart from the grace of God, then why do you need the grace of God?

This this is again. I'm just I'm reading straight out of the oldest scriptures here and wondering Where Glenn Beck stands in regards to such things? It's earned by God's grace alone. By believing that Jesus died on the cross for you.

This is what Christians believe. So rather than repentance and faith and Believing who Jesus is There you have a definition of well, you need to believe that Jesus died on the cross for you. I think Glenn's been around too many fuzzy evangelicals.

Not doing a whole lot of biblical study, but fuzzy evangelicals That don't quite have the message right as an individual. You make the choice. You know what, you know what I think the biggest Sin is the biggest problem.

We're all gonna have when we get up to the pearly gates even Christians who say yeah I accept the Atonement. Did you really did you really accept that gift? Did you really unload all the stuff that you had done in your life and give it to him?

That's how it works. Now that doesn't I don't believe that that means that now, you know. Like Constantine who died was baptized like I got a lot of thing. I gotta be a king. I gotta kill a lot of people baptize me when I'm dying.

I Think that's kind of you're trying to work the system there. You yeah, I don't know what Beck's problem with constant. It's a it sounds like he's a way over influenced by the Da Vinci Code or something like that.

I don't know. You really have to have a change of heart. That's where the deeds come in. It's the change of heart. May I quote the book of James? 220. But wilt thou know O vain man that faith without works is dead.

Now, I don't know how many times I've had Mormons quote that text to me very rarely in context. Often they thought it was Paul saying it but I it's it's I. We commented, you know decades ago that Mormon children learned James 220.

At the same time the Christian children late learn John 316. That's just how fundamental and basic it is but Mormons do not give this Interpretation of James 220. What does that mean? Our work is a demonstration of our faith.

That's pretty much what most evangelicals would say. That by doing these things we are giving demonstration of the existence of our faith. That's not what Bruce R. McConkie would say. That's not what the vast majority of Mormon missionaries I've ever talked to would say.

So where is that coming from? I don't know don't ask me. Could I come up with an Orthodox spin. Orthodox from the Mormon position position spin on that. Maybe maybe but I. He's not using the standard language.

That one would expect now. He's a new convert to I'm relatively speaking. He's only been a few years. What was it two three years ago something like that? I don't know. But that might explain it. I Don't know clearly being in the political spectrum.

He is in he would be around a lot of Conservative evangelicals, so maybe what you've got here is a guy raised Catholic converts to Mormonism for Who knows what reasons I? Mean I've told a story before of many people that I met that had become Mormons and they became Mormons out of ignorance.

They met some nice missionaries some nice people's their next-door neighbors, whatever and For a long time now The Mormon Church has had no qualms getting you into baptistry on the minimum amount of knowledge.

Hoping that when you you know start doing your own study, whatever. That you would sort of pick it up and absorb it over time and embrace it. Has that process been short-circuited to where you've got a guy who's maybe a nominal Catholic.

Becomes a Mormon without really understanding what Mormonism is all about now. He's around evangelical Christians all the time. He's borrowing their language. Just trying to cobble something together.

Seems like a possibility. Seems like a possibility, but who knows? It's really hard to say from this we want to concentrate on liberation theology and Trish traditional Christianity because one is a perversion and If you get into the churches and you start teaching some perversion of it.

It's going to be a radically bad outcome. Now Cone himself has argued that the Bible is insufficient to know what social justice is. Do you know why? Because social justice isn't in the Bible. He says you need Marxism to understand what Christianity means.

Now I have to tell you I don't think and I think most Christians will agree with me that Karl Marx speaks for God. I don't think so. What do you see? We 86 marks here. Thanks, but no, thanks. But I also am wise enough to know that people will say yeah, but Glenn Beck is a Mormon.

He's not even a real Christian. Glenn Beck is a Mormon. He's not even. Yeah, I didn't know we talked like this. You can believe what you want. I Will tell you that I am a man who needed the atonement more than most people do.

I appreciate the atonement. What is the atonement Glenn. I mean honestly from from the LDS perspective. What is the atonement? It sounds to me like he's reinterpreting Mormonism in An in a completely different context than what Joseph Smith intended Mormonism to actually be.

What is the atonement accomplished Glenn? What was it? Where did it start Glenn? According to Mormonism start in the Garden of Gethsemane it was only completed on the cross. And What is the result of it?

What's the effect of it? These are things that I don't hear him. Recognizing the fundamental difference between Christianity and Mormonism on these issues. I accept Jesus as my Savior. I know that I am alive today.

Because I did give all of it to him because I couldn't carry it anymore. But I know the game that people play so don't take this from me. Not only did we call Anthony Bradley on black liberation theology?

I also called Richard land. He is the president of the Southern Baptist Convention's ethics and religious Liberty Commission. I wanted to make sure that me that I would be saying the same thing that mainline Christianity would say same exact definition of Individual salvation as opposed to the perversion of collective salvation we talked.

I said Richard. Salvation is an individual relationship between the individual and God. Through the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, right? Jesus said John 14 6 I am the way the truth and the life. I cannot be saved for you.

I cannot save you. I Can't even save myself. If you're a Christian you believe that Jesus can save you if you just tuned in boy. This has got to be the weirdest damn episode. You've ever heard of the Glenn Beck program.

There is a point to this and It is a crucial point that you understand. When Jesus died he died for everyone that ever lived. If you're a Christian you believe that. Well. Okay, I just got banished from the kingdom.

Obviously those folks around Glenn Beck are not reformed. Folks they are definitely our minion folks. But we were just just kicked out of the kingdom right there if you actually happen to believe. Actually interesting enough if you actually happen to believe what Glenn Beck just said.

In other words, he just said Christians believe that Jesus Christ can save. That's exactly right. But why can he save. Well, what does Hebrews chapter 7 say? Why is he able to save the uttermost because he ever lives to make intercession for them.

Is he making intercession for every single individual if he is then all people will be saved clearly. These are issues that have not yet Entered into the radar screen but it's still interesting to listen to a Mormon making these statements because again remember what we read earlier.

From the Moran perspective the Atonement of Christ makes it possible for everyone to be saved because everyone's going to be resurrected. So is he using saved in the Mormon way? That everybody is saved ie resurrected.

I Don't hear any language here at all that makes the classical distinctions between universal Resurrection and individual salvation exaltation. I'm just not hearing it. Does he know about these things?

I don't know. I wish I could answer that question for you, but I don't know. It was a collective act. It was an act that covered the collective everybody who had lived and everybody who will live the entire collection of people.

But it must be accepted. Personally individually got it want to show you the difference here. Here is traditional Christianity. Jesus died to now again. This was a video. So he's now pointing to his infamous chalkboard.

Yes. Written he's got a nice little tomb and you know all this stuff on a on a chalkboard two thieves over here. He took on the sins of the world by choice. The empty tomb represents that he conquered death.

He was not a victim because he did it by choice. He's not a victim. He's a victor. He was a conqueror. He conquered death got it. To receive his salvation you accept his forgiveness of sins and live your life according to his will that's what Every Christianity Christian Church in the country in the world believes.

This is biblical again amazing to to listen to that given the many different takes on that and and of course the Very unique aspects of that that are part and parcel of the faith. He says that he follows.

Because that's only a part all the stuff about exaltation to godhood all the stuff about the priesthood and All of that which makes Mormonism unique. Where does that fit in it in his mind? Does it fit in some place?

I don't know. I Don't know but the the language certainly isn't pointing to it now. The perversion of the concept of collective salvation. You accept his forgiveness you Accept his forgiveness and then you live your life according to his will meaning do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

That's what it means. This is where It becomes the typical Political show or the news of the day show. Let me bring this now to Barack Obama. Okay, just I only have here like one minute or more left In in this particular segment and then then we that's that's all of Beck that I have.

But it's interesting the application he makes it. I will play some audio here lots of audio of Barack Obama talking about individual salvation his individual salvation. Depends on collective salvation.

Well, what does that mean what does that mean? Well according to liberation theology, it means that salvation and redemption bought by Jesus comes in the form of political and social liberation for minorities from white oppression.

Salvation is realized with minorities achieving economic and political parity via redistribution of wealth with whites. Minorities are saved in the sense that white people constantly confess and repent of being racist and meet the economic demands of minorities via the redistribution of wealth as a consequence of in some form or another reparations.

Now if that's the case and this was the only video I had. Maybe I know they went to a break and you know. He had a discussion with someone from King's College and there was more that went after that. I didn't see it.

That is in and of itself frightening that anyone could believe that and if that's what Barack Obama means and understands then that's definitely scary stuff, but Not our purpose to examine that our purpose really is to consider is Glenn Beck an Orthodox Mormon.

Well the language that he is utilizing is is most definitely not Orthodox language as far as Mormonism is concerned could a person make you know sort of sort of stretch things just a little bit and You know.

Are there are people going around today doing seminars giving talks that are trying to make Mormonism as Christian as possible and They will use This, you know particular kind of language. That sounds real good and is specifically intended to You know communicate the idea that there's not that much of a difference between us.

You know I I understand that. But is that what he's trying to do? I don't know I Don't know maybe somebody else out there does maybe somebody knows if he's gotten hold of the standing together guys, you know.

Is that what's going on? I don't know but What you do have today in Mormonism is a royal mess. I mean there was a day when you could define what Mormonism believed on certain certain issues. It's far more difficult to do that today.

And maybe that maybe Glenn Beck is just a very notable example of that. I don't know but it was interesting to listen to that eight seven seven seven five three three three four one is The phone number maybe if you are a Glenn Beck expert and you know everybody he knows.

You can let us know. I don't know but be that as it may eight seven seven seven five three three three four one. We're going to go to the man with the big questions Who has been wanting to ask about this particular subject for a couple of weeks now.

I I had prepared Before we started doing the syngenous slick stuff I had taken the time to prepare to answer his question and they didn't call it. Well, actually tried to call him, but he didn't call in fast enough and couldn't get in that day because there are so many callers.

So, let's let's talk after having embarrassed him now, let's talk with Johnny Hi, Johnny.

Thanks. I met this guy the Christian brother. He's got a he's got a YouTube channel. I called himself reformed apologist and he he had met me from a mutual friend and He had asked me for some input because he wanted to give a defense mark and you know.

Maybe he was disappointed that I didn't believe it was for my book King James only controversy and we kind of interacted a little bit and he started he is. His information is basically based on Dean John Bergen and I had I had heard of John Bergen before.

From the talks that you had had especially like with Gail Ripplinger and I think you even mentioned him on the Bible answer. But I can't remember and I know you quoted him in your book ordered three books from John Bergen and and David is concerned.

His book stands unrefuted and what I wanted to ask you about was number one. One of the things that John Bergen talks about is that the the claim that the last 12 verses of a mark I think it's called the asterix Obelix or glosses or something that which indicate that the oldest or best Manuscripts do not contain these last 12 verses that Dean Bergen had actually looked them up and that he found out that That actually was the opposite that they indicated that they were in the oldest manuscripts.

He cites about 19 church fathers from the second through the seventh century that Mark if you can get started there.

Well, it's real simple. Bergen's no longer relevant. He's so far outside of the time frame of modern textual studies that to rely upon someone who was writing In the 19th century is to just completely ignore everything that has happened since that time.

It is amazing that the That There are people still publishing this stuff. It's sort of like going back and it's funny. It's it's a double standard the the the King James only folks and I'm not saying this guy's King James only but the people who utilize Bergen stuff tend to be King James only even though Bergen was not Bergen recognized there was a necessity for the revision of the Texas Receptus.