Midwestern Seminary Baptist Sick of the Bigots Who Pay His Salary - Andrew King's Tweet

Andrew King's Tweet on Breonna Taylor and Abortion

Well, this is Andrew King. Before to before yesterday. I didn't know anything about Andrew King. But I saw a tweet that he tweeted out and it was the dumbest tweet that I've seen in the year 2020 which this year is Saying something.

Yeah, I'm not kidding this this tweet was really dumb. So I looked into this guy and I normally I would just scroll past it. But I wanted to see because a couple people were were mentioning it. And his profile says that he's a Christian husband father assistant professor of biblical studies at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary assistant Dean of Spurgeon College an associate editor of this Old Testament journal.

So an Old Testament scholar it seems a professor a mover. This guy looks like an up-and-comer in Big Eva most likely no blue check mark. But definitely on that track and the tweet that he tweeted out that I said was the dumbest tweet that I've seen all year.

Which a lot of people were making fun of me because we've we've had some pretty dumb tweets this year so this is just my personal opinion is this tweet and The way it reads is it seems that Breonna Taylor was 26 years old 20 I'm sorry 26 years too old for some Christians to mourn God help us hashtag Breonna Taylor this is this is this is stupid guys, this is really stupid and I had a I had a Twitter follower say that I say stupid too much because Sometimes he listens with his kids and his kids started to say stupid.

Sorry about that, but I did check the not necessarily made for kids commentary section on YouTube. So anyway. So but but but this is this is ridiculous. This is absolutely ridiculous. And I think that Especially an Old Testament scholar ought to know that you know to be perfectly honest with you.

You know, the Old Testament isn't as isn't as widely covered in Christian circles. It isn't as widely known and many people might not know how the Old Testament applies to the Breonna Taylor case but even if they did and Andrew King didn't know that for some reason that the Old Testament case laws, you know, they're not really taught in Christian circles.

Very often they're not really known by the run-of-the-mill Christian, even if you didn't know that Andrew. This is a really stupid Idiotic take there's just no question about it because the comparison of abortion which is what he's trying to say.

He's trying to say if Breonna Taylor was aborted as a fetus or as an infant. Then people would care about her but because she was killed in a police raid. Nobody cares about her. That's insane Andrew and it's almost embarrassing for me to have to explain this to you.

But apparently I do have to explain it to you because you see People make choices bad and good choices and doesn't mean they deserve to die necessarily. But we understand that there's a very big difference between a baby being in the place where that baby Belongs in the womb probably the safest place that you could possibly imagine when you're so vulnerable.

You've made no choices in your life essentially and you're just there Completely dependent on your mother and your own mother kills you in that place of safety and security. Even though you've done nothing good or bad at this point.

You've you've just existed. You're just growing you're just your brain is starting to develop and stuff like that like there is a chasm of difference between that and Someone who's made a series of poor choices that ended up leading to her death now.

Again, hear me saying that doesn't mean she deserved to die. But what it does mean is that these were completely different situations. Let me tell you a little story from my own past because I am a man who's made a lot of very poor decisions in His life and so before I was a Christian, I was a pretty I was a train wreck.

I was an absolute train wreck and I would hang out with the wrong crowds. I would do the wrong things. I would take drugs. I would do alcohol all the whole thing, right? I did everything and I remember one time I had broken up with my girlfriend at the time and a few months later, she invited me to a party and I was all about it.

I wanted to go I wanted to go to it. She didn't live in a very good neighborhood. She lived in a mostly black neighborhood. And it was the kind of neighborhood that you would expect there'd be a lot of drug activity and stuff like that so I was there at her house and She had some people over and there was this one guy that I started getting to know and talking to he was a cool guy, he was a black dude and We were just chatting stuff like that.

Anyway at one point we needed to get more alcohol. And so he goes Yeah, I'll go. Why don't you drive me and because I wasn't drinking at the time because I think I had to go back to school or something like that.

And I was like sure I'll drive you. So I drove him to the liquor store around the corner and I'll never forget what he was getting. He was getting that Alizé stuff if you ever had Alizé, that's what he wanted to get so we're we pull up to the liquor store and He's in that he's in the passenger seat and all of a sudden his mood just changes.

It just like it went like this. We were joking laughing smiling all of a sudden his mood just changes and he's like, oh man. And I'm gonna censor him because he was he was talking, you know, he was talking rough and he was saying Oh, man, you see that guy over there.

I was like, yeah, he goes that guy's that guy. It's gonna be trouble here. It's gonna be trouble here and he pulls out from his pocket a knife. And he pulls out this knife and he goes I'm gonna have to take this with me and I said, whoa.

Whoa, what are you doing? Like I was I was completely I was sober. You know what I mean? I was totally sober and this guy pulls out a knife. I go with him. What are you doing? He goes, yeah, you know me and that guy have some beef this and that and I didn't know this guy at all.

Like I like I didn't have any I had no knowledge of this man before this night. All I knew was that he you know, he dressed like you would expect, you know. Sort of a thug to dress and he was hilarious.

He was he seemed like a good guy, but I had no idea what this guy was capable of. I was just taking those liquor store. He was definitely intoxicated and Now he's got a knife in his hand he's about to get out of the car to go into this liquor store.

I don't know what he's gonna do. But he's told me that there's gonna be a problem here because of a certain man that he saw Inside or outside the liquor store. Some of the details are a little fuzzy here.

And I said no way man. Absolutely not look we're not we're not doing this. We're not doing this and at this point I'm in a panic because I'm like I just drove this dude to this liquor store and he's about to go kill this guy.

And now I'm gonna be you know, I'm gonna be arrested too because I drove him to the scene, right? And I'm just trying to convince this guy. Look it's not worth it. Let's just go to a different liquor liquor store.

You could beef with this guy some other time, you know, you're drunk this and that and he's like nah, man. Nah, we gotta settle this. He just he just was very in adamant that he was gonna go in this liquor store.

Anyway, I was able to convince him to not go to the secret stores. We went to another one and that's that it's funny. I actually have this knife. I own this knife that he had because he ended up putting it in In my glove box and he accidentally forgot it there.

I never saw the man again. But you see like that that the decisions that I made in that moment. There were some poor decisions and then there were some some good decisions I I would imagine because I know myself if I had been drinking that night.

I probably would have just let it ride. I probably would have gone with him into the store. You know what I mean? Because that's the kind of guy I was I wasn't I wasn't a very strong-willed person put it that way when I was when I was when I was when I was drinking and None of that meant that I deserved to die right like like I made some poor decisions in that in that process.

Maybe I made a few good ones. None of that necessarily meant that I deserved to die, but I had injected myself into a situation with the person I didn't know very well with a person that You know apparently had some questionable character character and stuff like that.

And if I were have to have gotten into an altercation let's just say the situation was reversed and the guy that he saw at the liquor store saw us first and Started shooting into the car because of some kind of beef that I didn't know about right.

I would have been dead. Potentially and it wouldn't necessarily have been my fault. But we can all understand how it was more my fault than it was for an infant in the freaking Womb. Andrew, this is an idiotic tweet.

It's absolutely idiotic because the thing is my mom would be very sad. And you could be very sad for my family because I died in a I don't know some kind of drug beef. Let's just call it because I didn't know exactly what the beef was.

But let's just call it a drug beef because that's popular, right? Yes, certain people would be sad and you could be sad for my family in a certain way. But it's going to affect you a lot differently than millions and millions and millions and millions of Infants dying in the womb for no other purpose, but the fact that their mother didn't see their life worth living.

It's a big difference Andrew, and I think I think you understand that. So what's this tweet about? I just I just. It's just very difficult to even understand the mindset someone would have to be in to tweet a tweet like this because if you look At the majority of the Christian response to Breonna Taylor, right?

Because again as I said the details of this case are somewhat complicated for a Christian because of the Lack of knowledge of the Old Testament, right? If you look at the response though of most Christians most Christians are There they admit that it's a sad situation.

Breonna Taylor probably didn't deserve to die. There was probably some mix-ups there, but they're not exactly sure how we should adjudicate this thing Andrew. Why don't you why don't you put on your scholarly robes and tell us exactly what should have happened here?

Because the reality is that it's complicated. Even if you look at the Old Testament case law, it is complicated. Do I think that that that that people cops should be able to go into somebody's house? You know in the middle of the night kind of thing unannounced and stuff like that and and start shooting.

No, I definitely don't think so. But you know, that's how most people see what happened in this case, but that's actually not what happened in this case. They went to their the house they announced themselves and then they kicked the door down then the boyfriend started shooting and they started shooting.

Back now there is case law here in the Old Testament that talks about this kind of thing. What happens if somebody comes in the middle of the night number in the Bible? It's a robber a robber comes in the middle of the night.

What happens if you end up killing the robber that comes in the middle of the night? Well that case law probably applies in some way, but as you can see, it's not the same exact situation. It's not the same exact situation and so Andrew like you're an Old Testament scholar.

And so maybe you just don't know that people don't understand the Old Testament as much as you know. Maybe you do but even yourself has to know that case laws here are it's complicated. It's very complicated what should happen in this situation.

Now what I don't think is necessarily complicated is the boyfriend. I don't know if there's been a decision on the boyfriend being charged with shooting at the cops. To me that seems like it that shouldn't happen if he didn't know it was cops.

He didn't hear it was the cops. He's telling the 9 -1 -1 dispatch agent that he doesn't know who it is. That kind of thing that seems fairly believable to me. And I think that the case laws in the Old Testament would probably support him not being charged.

For the the part that he did the one cop who was charged with a crime. It certainly seems like that cop should have been charged with a crime. Apparently like the neighbor's houses are getting shot up accidentally with his stray bullets.

And that's probably very unacceptable for a police officer who should be trained on how to shoot a firearm the correct way. So What I'm saying though Andrew King is that you're trying to make this thing like a like a like a like a race thing you're trying to make this.

This a race thing you're trying to make this. Cops are all bad kind of thing and the reality is that we live in a system that is very disconnected from the biblical law where we do have these police Apparatuses that are work very differently than didn't the Old Testament law and yeah, maybe we ought to go back there.

Maybe we've got to look to that law and say okay. Well, how do we make a more just system? But the system we have right now is a certain way and so Christians understand that Andrew, you know what I mean?

Like you might want to beat them over the head with this race thing with this race thing and and and and let's Let's just make sure that we understand what it is because if Breonna Taylor was named, you know, Karen Smith.

You'd never hurt. You'd never hear her name. This wouldn't be this wouldn't be a thing. You wouldn't have been mourning like crazy all day Andrew. Let's just face it. It's it's absolutely ridiculous. It's not about the facts of the case.

It's about the fact that she was black. She had black skin which had nothing to do with the case. And so Andrew this tweet is idiotic. It's it's absolutely idiotic and I think that you've been Roundly told that this is ridiculous.

And so you should you should really consider this one you should probably add a little bit more color here you should probably take this one back because we all understand the difference between abortion and Someone who's made very poor choices in her life.

I mean, let's just face it. Breonna Taylor chose a terrible boyfriend. And so she's responsible for that kind of thing. She's responsible for the third for dating a boyfriend that was involved in the things that he was allegedly involved in and things like that.

Like that's part of you. You need to you need to she needs to own that. She needs to own that. You know, I The idea and so much of the woke church is that you know, it's really just white people's fault, right?

It's the white people's fault that have to own their decisions and really blacks don't have to own their decisions. And that's just not how it is at all. That's not how it is at all. It's absolutely insane.

This is a this is a stupid idiotic dumb tweet, and that's that. Now I think there are some lessons that we can learn here that we can go again back to the Old Testament code and figure Out what we should do.

I think that that the drug war has to end. I'm not in favor of the drug war. I don't. I'm not in favor of executing warrants. No knock or knock. Which in this case it was a knock warrant. Or at least they did announce themselves and knock.

Yeah, like like like we shouldn't have those for drug cases. But do you really want to take away the ability to raid a house just in general? I mean, let's think about this. Let's try to think a few steps ahead.

Okay, so for a drug case, we want to take it away. But maybe for what if there was a pedophile ring and there was like kids being actively raped inside of a house. And you got a warrant or whatever like that.

Like like like do you want to take the ability to conduct a raid from the police altogether? Well, I don't know some people don't really seem to want to make distinctions there. But but I'm willing I'm I'm I'm I'm nuanced enough to want to to make distinctions like that.

You want to look to the Old Testament code and say or is this kind of thing really off the table in all circumstances? I'm not so convinced that it is. I'm not so convinced that it is. So this is a much more complicated conversation Andrew.

And I think you are willing to virtue signal your your amazing Virtue on for your seminary and your employer and all that kind of stuff. It's just it's just really Pathetic that you want to make it like like an issue like this where it's just like well They just don't care because she's not a fetus like you sound like a pagan Andrew.

You sound like a secular Humanist you sound like a freaking rabid anti Christian Village atheist is what you sound like you sound like the atheist that I used to argue with on Twitter when I be first first Became a Christian you sound like an idiot.

That's what you sound like. Okay, and so doesn't you're obviously not an idiot because you're a professor and all of these kinds of things. So why are you sounding like an idiot on this issue? It's just it's just ridiculous.

It's absolutely ridiculous. Last thing I want to mention is the parable of the talents now last night if you watch reform Jellicle You got my commentary on the Tim Keller thing about white skin being worth a million dollars and how even if you're from Norway.

You're still guilty stuff like that. That was a ridiculous clip. So many people sent it to me this week and I understand why because it was so racist and it went so far. But me and Matt at last night on reform Jellicle We're talking about the parable of the talents and how God expects a return on Everything that he gives you even if he gives you a lot.

He expects a return on that. He gives you a medium amount. He expects a return on that. He gives you a little bit. He expects the return on that and I think the parable of the talents applies in a variety of different ways, right?

So God gives you a lot of money. Yeah He wants you to share your clothes with people who have none your food with people who have none. And so if you have a lot of extra you have a lot of money. He's gonna expect that you share a lot but the thing is that that rule of if you have a shirt share it with someone who doesn't have none the Expectation of charity and and being generous with what you have.

It doesn't go away if you get less. It doesn't go away if you have not as much and so if you're poor and you'd only have the one talent, right? You only have the one talents or relatively speaking. You're poor.

There's an inequality there. God is still still expecting a return on that. It's not like you know, because you have more you have a different set of rules. No, like you actually still do have to give to the poor.

You actually still do share with people who don't have Enough no matter if you're rich or poor and I think that the talents also applies to a situation like this. Like you have a lot of authority because let's just go with their their narrative of authority and power, right?

The white police officers the evil white police officers have a lot of authority and they've got Responsibilities before God to do the right thing and to make the right decisions and to make smart decisions and to be wise.

Fine, but guess what in this little narrative in this little fantasy story of white cops with all the power hunting black people with none Of the power Brianna Taylor also had responsibilities. She had responsibilities to be wise to do the right thing to be smart about things to maybe not live with her boyfriend stuff like That and again, don't hear me saying she deserved to die or she had it coming.

But the reality is to try to compare Brianna Taylor situation. Which was partially her making with someone who is in the womb. Just in there growing the way that that little baby is supposed to do and then just sucked out with mercilessly with a vacuum cleaner or stuck in the head with a poison or something like that is Absolutely Unbiblical in every way it's insane and all you're seeking to do Andrew because I think you know how insane it is.

All you're seeking to do is to put yourself up here. How wise and good and virtuous and wonderful I am and put your fellow Christians down here because they're just a bunch of Neanderthal Racist bigots and I for one am freaking sick of it.

I'm freaking sick of it. And so your your salary gets paid by all of these bigots that you're talking about here. So I wouldn't maybe think twice before you tweet nonsense online like this about situations that are obviously more Complicated than you're trying to make them seem all so that you look really good and holy and righteous.

Anyway, I hope you found this video helpful. I'm gonna do a fun video later. God bless.