The Dividing Line: Flying Solo!

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I ran everything myself today, so even I am interested in how it turned out! Covered a lot of current events driven topics, which, being June, included a lot of cultural stuff, the sufficiency of Scripture, legal cases, the SBC, that kind of stuff. Touched lightly on eschatology, law, etc. Just over an hour in length.

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Well, greetings and welcome to The Dividing Line. We're flying solo today So I'm sure lots of stuff is gonna be all messed up and wrong and I don't even know if we're recording or not it says we are and So as long as it says that I'm gonna have to trust it
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Which which brings me to my first? Right at the end of the program
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Last week. I saw a story and Have you ever just sat there and gone
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How did the movies get all this right long before it actually happened? I mean, you know, we've thought about 1984 and it's like Okay, brave new world
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Fahrenheit 451 or whatever it was a brave, you know brave new world and one of my favorites
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This perfect day, these are all back in the 70s and stuff and it's it's all happening and Then we start doing these genetic vaccines.
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We're going I am legend. Yeah, okay Well, I saw a story
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The news had come out that In a in a simulated test
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The Air Force was testing an AI program and They told the
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AI program that it got points For destroying enemy anti -aircraft sites or something along those lines but the
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AI program had to get Permission from a human operator to strike and It figured out that when the human operator said no that it lost points.
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It wasn't gonna get the points that it could have gotten and And so it so it killed the operator
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Why not Or then I think when they when they told it don't do that then it destroyed the communication
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Capacity of the operator to tell it the program to stop doing this to not not make the strike and I'm like How many movies did we make about this happening?
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I mean the entire Terminator series and there were ones back in the 60s, you know about computers taking over and launching missile strikes and It's like here we are and the scary thing is the people that are warning the loudest about are the people who have made these things and they're going this could get really bad and I Obviously a lot of professors are asking the question how how are you to know if a
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Paper that has been turned into you was written by the student or by AI Is there a way to find out can you there's so you know,
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I've not used AI I have not gone to any of these bots, you know I I saw someone mentioned it months ago that you can go to chat something or whatever and I Just I just made the decision then
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I'm not interested in helping to train these things because that's what you're doing You are aiding your your train.
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You're helping to train these things. You're helping to make them more Intelligent and I have no interest in participating in that so I just never have but I've seen a lot of other people doing it and You know everybody's saying it's hey
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It's the thing in the future Google and all that kind of stuff is going to be irrelevant as far as search engines are concerned
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AI is the is the way to go and yet I've seen all sorts of funny stuff even about myself people have asked questions about me and I think was it
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Tom Buck. I think maybe Tom Buck told me he was Asking AI about us and stuff like that and it had connected us it did connect us together
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But I think it said he was a Presbyterian at some point or something. I don't I don't know There was a lot of silly stuff in it.
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It was nowhere near fully accurate Just like the results of almost any search engine search you would put in Will give you all sorts of responses and all sorts of answers that are not not accurate
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But I don't know how we're supposed to know and If a paper was written by AI because I've never used it.
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I don't know if you could go to a I guess there's a bunch of them now But I don't know if you go to one and say was this paper written by you
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And whether it would tell you what they would tell you Honestly, I don't know
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Really really don't but all comes back to worldview
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It all comes back to worldview, you know, Elon Musk is doing some some neat things, but he's also doing a lot of things that are very questionable and his push toward the interface of the human mind with the internet basically
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I Think is really really really off off base and is very very dangerous and as Christians We haven't thought these things through yet.
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There's there's so many things that we have not thought through because we've not been faced with them before and The real
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The real question for a lot of us is we we talk about the sufficiency of Scripture the some maps conventions getting together real soon and It's it seems really plain to me very very plain to me that this whole
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Rick Warren thing is a Scam it's a it's a planned thing that they're being put out was a planned thing
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That the people did it. We're doing it in cahoots with Rick Warren to Force the
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SPC they won there were there was one last shot last year, I think and The progressivists won and so they're like, all right, let's do exactly what the
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US government's doing They're establishing a monoparty and They're just they're running with their victory with with Biden, you know and let's do the same thing and So let's
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I just saw Rick Warren. Literally. I just I didn't it didn't it's not up anymore But I literally saw
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Rick Warren saying that the Southern Baptist Convention needs to be a mission defined denomination not a confession
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Defined denomination, so there they want to change the Southern Baptist Convention the the
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Bapst faith message They already have themselves they've already decided we're not gonna do this
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We're not gonna do that instead of just being open and saying well we take an exception to this we take an exception to that They want to fundamentally change things and I tweeted this morning.
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Just look at history every mainstream denomination that is Shriveling up into nothingness today.
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This is where they started This is this is this was the the place where they they made the decision to Yeah, okay.
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We really can't find a biblical basis of this But so the the question of scriptural sufficiency we hear about all the time the conservative resurgence and the
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SPC all the rest that stuff It doesn't mean anything if you can sign a confession that says you believe in inerrancy when you can a redefine it
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Anyway, you want to and B. Don't believe in scriptural sufficiency. But what does scriptural sufficiency even mean? In our modern day, there are just a lot of people that would say how can it be sufficient for today?
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We're facing so many new issues We are literally facing issues that the church has never faced before the church has never had to face
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Genetic manipulation has never had to face human cybernetic
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Interfacing Transgenderism which right now is just nothing but mutilation, but you know, what if they what if they could change that in the future?
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These are things the church has never faced before and so a lot of thoughtful Christians are going
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How is scripture sufficient to address issues that have never been addressed before have never
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Been before the the very attention of the church and this is where you know,
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I remember a couple years ago There were well, it wasn't all that long ago You can't use the term worldview that that came from this philosopher that philosopher, whatever
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This is where they Christian worldview that is This is where having a mind of Christ, but would you prefer that one?
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having the mind of Christ Having a functional
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Christian worldview that is you have foundational truths
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Foundational truth, there's one God who created all things There is one
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God who is accomplishing his will and his purpose in this world That it's all going to Result in the praise of his glorious grace.
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He is going to be vindicated in the existence of evil and In how he guided the events of history in How he brought about redemption he's gonna be vindicated in all these things.
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It's all gonna be to his praise and his glory Okay, those are fundamental foundational things and as Christians then we are called to Take those foundational truths and make application in our lives
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Up to this point in church history It's only been in the modern few centuries that we have been encountering things that have never been encountered before the the
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Romans were extremely advanced in their Military techniques weapons things like that and there wasn't all that much advancement until the modern period
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You still pretty much had armies riding around horses and firing projectiles at each other and okay you get gunpowder and okay that does something there and things like that, but now nuclear weapons and space -borne weapons and lasers and Genetic weapons and all sorts of stuff like that.
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Yeah, this is a this is a these are new challenges and So, how can we even talk about scripture being sufficient in that context
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Goodness, there's a article out yesterday Some whistleblower saying we've got alien spaceships and we know that they are they were not made by humans.
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I'm not sure how you know that but Because everybody that works there has seen every single
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Stargate SG -1 Star Trek and Star Wars Movie television show cartoon and read every out -of -canon book
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Every single one so they know they can tell I don't know anyway,
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I Right now there's almost nothing that comes from any source whatsoever, especially anything related to the government that I Have I think has any reason to be believed at all anyway
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All this stuff, how do you believe in scriptural sufficiency and I will submit to you that right here
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This is why we will see all the progressivists abandoning even a pretense of Belief in scripture most of them already have you look at the the you know
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PC USA United Methodist the liberal Lutherans Episcopalians all these all these folks over there.
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They've already abandoned any meaningful concept of inspiration or Consistency of scripture or anything like that But you're gonna see the rest doing the exact same thing
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They have to The only way to continue to believe in Scriptural sufficiency is to have a view of scripture
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That views it not only as being God speaking God breathed
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But that it was God's intention and purpose that the scriptures as a
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As a united whole were to be in the possession of his church and if you don't have that perspective and I I I Know I think it's just a spiritual default where New believers just come to believe that it's
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I think it's I think it's just comes in the Holy Spirit of God and So most of us like well, what else is there?
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Well, there are lots of other views out there and we need to be aware of that We need to be aware of the fact that if we hold those perspectives if we have that high view of scripture we are in the small minority right now as far as The various groups that identify themselves as being
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Christian Without that perspective, you don't have the doctrine of the
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Trinity. You don't have the resurrection of Christ. You don't have any of those things having any definable meaning any any
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Meaning that you can proclaim to the world. This is why this happened this is why the the crucifixion is so important to things like that and so Those of us who
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Have those convictions will then be able to think those convictions through and go. All right.
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God has spoken God has given examples to us in scripture and so we can then make application of these things to The rise of AI and we can say
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God has called us as human beings To behave and act in certain fashion
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That would not include the turning over of our responsibilities to digital masters over us
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That would not include the alteration of the human mind so as to Bring in Artificial Mechanisms now
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I recognize again. This is an area that a lot of us haven't thought through and You know, we're all sitting here using computers right now, is that a violation well,
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I don't believe so This computer is not being inserted in my body.
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I am NOT altering my Physiology my created nature to interface with the computer
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I'm using it as a tool and So just as I don't think the printing press violated any aspect of the
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Imago Dei I do believe that There are chemical substances
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That would violate that obviously anything that causes a person what one of the greatest
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Activities the Holy Spirit and a Christian is self -control. So if you use substances That make it impossible if you do engage in self -control
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Then that's an issue. That's that's a violation and If you turn your control over to a machine
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Of that would be a violation and We need to be thinking in terms of the goodness when
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God created Adam. He said he was good and We need to be thinking in terms of the goodness of the natural
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Creation, this is already obvious in dealing with transgenderism Transgenderism is a is a denial of the goodness of God's creative order full stop
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I mean, that's just That's what it is. It's it is a Full -on
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I have given you over to your own destruction rebellion Against God's create order.
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It's all there is to it so With that in mind there are gray areas
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That we just hadn't well I haven't Done the reading in and I haven't necessarily seen a whole lot of discussion.
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I'm sure it's out there. I'm sure it's out there I'm sure there are people who have Already started this conversation, but it's a conversation that's gonna need to continue on and It probably would be good to be doing it now while we can have it
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Globally as I sit here in our studio I'm speaking to people all across the globe and Right now we have that freedom to have these conversations and to hear back and to learn from people from other perspectives and from other places and Now it's now it's the time to be thinking about how do we
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Communicate to the next generation the goodness of the original intention of God in creation over against the secular
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Rebellion and destruction of the goodness of God's creation. We see what we see what's happening
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We see the sexualization of children. We see the mutilation of children. We see the murder of children in the womb. We see euthanasia
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Taking place we see the desire for eugenics again another fundamental rebellion against the sovereignty of God in history and We've been warned by scientists themselves
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What the possibilities could be here When you start playing with genetics
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The results could be Absolutely catastrophic
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They could not be outside of God's control and so we have to have this conversation we all need to be thinking about Well, we all need to be thinking about Not wasting so much of our time thinking about nonsense
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About shallow things about silly things But thinking deeply about important things and speaking about these things with one another
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I think it's really really important and I wasn't gonna get in all that just from the AI controlled drone that took out its human master
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But I can guarantee you in the computer rooms at the Air Force They have already assigned a picture of a
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Terminator to that particular drone program, you just you know it It's not it's not possible for that not to be the case
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Today news came down that Northern District of Florida judge
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Robert L. Hinkle Has granted a preliminary injunction against the law to the law which
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Restricted minors from as accessing surgical sex change procedures puberty blockers and hormone therapy
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Once again the attack on language very much at this at the center of these things
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This is not Therapy This is not medical care.
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This is the mutilation of functional bodies irreversible With long -term impact that cannot even be defined
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But I'm gonna tell you right now you You'll you'll you'll get you will get the final and full
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Confirmations if you're allowed to have this kind of information after I'm dead and gone But I can guarantee you right now and This doesn't take much to do
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I Can guarantee you right now? that when you take a male body and You mutilate it
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You cut off the sex organs You pump it full of hormones from the opposite sex
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The long -term impact on Health vitality bone structure
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Muscle heart and especially cancer liver kidneys
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It's going to be extremely negative The lowering of life expectancy will be dramatic
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Same thing in reverse Same thing when you mutilate a female body and pump it full of s of testosterone and Then if you
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Try to do the fake stuff you try to recreate something. It was never meant to be there.
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I Can't even talk about in the program. Well, maybe someday we'll do one where we're just It's only gonna be posted one place and we warn ahead of time and everything
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But you can right now read the stories the horror stories
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I first saw them in Irreversible it's called irreversible damage that was called.
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Anyways, it was the book. I've recommended a number of times There was a couple chapters in there on the surgical nightmares
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That people go through the things they have to do every day every day to themselves
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That would make most of us vomit all to keep up this insane pretense of Transitioning it is it's tragic, but it's a just punishment.
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It really is It is a fulfillment of Romans chapter 1
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Verbatim it truly is Anyway these like this this attack on language here you have a judge
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Saying great weight of medical authority supports these treatments that is absolutely absurd you can
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Think about how Academia has been utterly corrupted by the culture of death
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You cannot publish papers that You'll lose your job
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In so many areas of quote -unquote science now You will lose your job if you try to publish a paper
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Supporting special creation. Bye. Bye if you try to publish paper specifically
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Demonstrating the fundamental errors of neo -darwinian micromutational evolutionary theory. Bye. Bye you're
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No job not gonna get published not gonna get funded nothing like that Climate There's so much evidence of the tampering the fact the governmental agencies
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NASA has Tampered with the data. They've literally changed it over time to try to make it look different than it actually is
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You try to publish on that goodbye so long you think in the psychology journals and areas of academia
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You you think that You Think you're gonna you're gonna get accurate papers peer -reviewed papers in that context not gonna happen
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It's all this gender study stuff is It's just completely
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Yeah, it it doesn't work I just realized I Didn't do something
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I was supposed to do before starting the program so I'm hoping this is working It's just a lot of little details and there was there was one thing.
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I forgot to do and never crossed my mind. So We've gone 27 minutes.
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I hope it's it says it's recording Well, we'll find out There but next time
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I'll remember to do the one thing I I forgot to do it would give me a little more control here I Was realizing but what?
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Seems like a I need to stop talking so loudly and then then I realized well There's nothing I can do about it.
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And then I realized oh, that's I could have if I had done what I was supposed to do There's a bunch of things to do anyway
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So even though the state of Florida has attempted to care for its children
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By stopping their abuse I mean Lord willing
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Hopefully not too far down the road, but it could be But Lord willing someday people gonna look back at this time period there you go what on earth happened
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Was something in the water? What happened to you people? Maybe we won't even be around to answer the question anymore but You you actually you people were actually doing that stuff to children
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You actually thought you could change genders You people are you people were nuts
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Yeah There you go, that's that's that's quite true that's quite true speaking of which just a couple others here
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June 2nd Oxford College Threatens to expel
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Students who don't use the proper genders On June 3rd
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New Mexico State The Democrat governor
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Michelle Lujan Grisham Signed Laws That will
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Allow minors Not people who dig in the earth, but children to get
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Again mutilated without informing their parents or without their parents approval. It's very similar
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I guess to the insanity and evil of the Washington state law It would allow the state to take your children and mutilate them
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If you won't voluntarily mutilate your children We We truly are facing a
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Culture of death And once you put these types of things into law
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You are now making law evil What was it that I saw?
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Oh, I was gonna grab that I Think it was in response to Uganda and it was someone
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I forget what the context was now. It was someone who was
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Basically saying well, that's not what government's supposed to be doing government's supposed to be rewarding the good and punishing evil
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Yeah, keep going think you're just You're sort of hoping that the person who wrote this
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Will stop and look what they just wrote and went. Oh, wait a minute But if if government's supposed to be
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Rewarding good it then it has to have a objective standard as to what good is and if it's gonna be Punishing evil and it has to be able to know what what evil is and oh goodness.
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What am I gonna do now? What what if the government decides that what is good is evil and what's evil is good?
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But Romans 13 says I'm sure no it doesn't Because when Paul wrote
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Romans chapter 13 when he used the terms good and evil everybody he was writing to knew what he was talking about and knew how he would define those things and what the basis of that definition is and He was not saying
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Caesar gets to decide what is good and evil and We just have to do whatever
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Caesar says that's not what he said. That's not whatever he was going That's not how the
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Apostles acted when the leadership in Jerusalem Decided that it was good for Peter to be killed
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The angels let him go. He didn't sit there on the floor and go. Sorry Paul's gonna write
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Romans 13 as an apostle. I know this and I need to stay here because that's how we you know obey the
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Government not how it worked. So yeah, it was it was it's really really
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Hilarious when I I looked at it and it was a screenshot type thing of a article and I'm like, okay, and how do they know what good and evil is?
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Well, they don't know so much of this kind of Amazing stuff that it's it's hard to even know where to go
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Let me see here. I forgot to pull up and I apologize. I had a screenshot that I wanted to look at Yeah, here we go there's a couple of them here that I wanted to look at We've got a little more on Ted Cruz, I'm very thankful I really am thankful That the
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Cruz Askel conversation is taking place we all need to see that we really do and I'm looking here for oh
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Is that the wrong one, okay good Did it did it did it did him? I don't see
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Where that one went, so I'll just have to go off top my head. Sorry about that If I if I even get to it We still got 27 minutes.
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At least I know where we are in the program Let's do this because we're still on the same topic.
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I did a screen capture from Zach Lambert and I Suppose I could do this rich does this type of stuff, but Let's uh, let's see if we can there we go.
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So Zach Lambert A well -known progressivist.
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Well, I don't know how well -known he is, but I've certainly seen a lot of his stuff Bible verses about being trans
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Zero Bible verses about homosexuality six Bible verse is about promoting peace 429
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Bible verses about loving God and others 714 Bible verses about caring for the poor 2 ,000 plus.
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Well, there you go There you go, right I mean that That's pretty much the end of that right that should pretty much take care of everything
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This is this is how Progressivists think this is this is how they go.
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See it. There's only six verses about homosexuality Well, I think there are actually more than that There are six plain clear texts all of which are fundamentally negative and If he actually lists six and that would mean he's admitting that arson a coitus is about homosexuality
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Which a lot of the progressivists want to try to try to ignore But About promoting peace
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Okay. How do you how do you promote peace? if you can't tell men and women
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What it is they're doing in their lives that is causing a lack of peace
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Breaking God's law Separating yourself from God's will is what destroys peace
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Christ came to bring peace To repentant sinners to those who are in him and How do you bring that about he brought that about by his sacrificial death on the cross?
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why do you have to die upon the cross because God's wrath Abode upon us.
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I'm sure Zach Lambert doesn't believe in God's wrath but scriptural teaching is that his
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His wrath because his broken law Laid upon us and so By taking away that sin by nailing those
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Those written documents which are against us to the cross He brought about the possibility of peace.
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See once you pit these things against each other, you no longer have biblical peace
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Because you're no longer talking about having an ability to define what's good. What's sin? What isn't?
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That's what progressivism is all about you end up with a you know again
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Went through seminary with a lot of progressivists before they were quite as progressive as they are now and There was just it was always so troubling
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Because when it came to answering basic questions that scripture is is quick to answer they couldn't
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They didn't have a view of scripture that would allow them to be able to do so and it just was so muddled that I was
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I was always going and Then they never understood why I was involved in apologetics and things like that because they don't do apologetics
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They don't understand apologetics. They don't defend defend the faith. Why why that that this doesn't make any sense to them it assumes an objectivity that they don't believe exists and so I'm sure that's case with with Zack Lambert, but That first one
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Bible verse is about being trans Takes us back to where we were before right is scripture sufficient because he says zero.
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I Say there's all sorts of scriptures that are relevant Matthew 19 being the most obvious have you not read in the beginning the
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Creator made them male and female and Defined male female husband wife father mother child son daughter all defined
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By God's creative decree So is that relevant? Of course it is unless you have his view of scripture and then there's nothing in the
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Bible about being trans And there's nothing in the Bible what if you read The same -sex controversy that Jeff Neal and I wrote years ago
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I remember very clearly that one of the things that Jeff emphasized when we had our first meal at a
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Mexican restaurant together about how we were gonna Line out the book and who was gonna cover what topics and things like that.
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He had already been Studying this subject he had done. He had led his church Through a study on homosexuality back when it was not popular to do that kind of thing at all
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And one of the things he said then was well look Most Christians do not have a meaningful positive understanding of Human sexuality from a biblical perspective and so everything in Scripture that Presents a positive
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Understanding of husband and wife male female the roles have been assigned Violation of those roles fulfillment of those roles.
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Those are all relevant to the subject of homosexuality That's why it's not just six passages. You do have to deal with Sodom and Gomorrah you got to deal with Leviticus 18
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Leviticus 20 Romans 1 1st Corinthians 6 and 1st Timothy 1 Because that's where you have a specific mentioning of these things
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But it's not like those exist separate from all the positive things that the Bible teaches about how
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God created us what marriage is what the family is and all of the
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Brutally honest clear Texts where man has failed to live up to those standards.
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It's all there So this kind of a thing like Zack Lambert gives us is truly
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Pathetic really really is oops Hmm wonder how
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I did that I do know The button didn't really feel like it went down quite right so maybe that was it
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I got how'd I get to him and that's pretty cool Years and years ago my my wife would do stuff on the computer and I'd she'd go something's wrong and I'd look at the screen
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I was going to new undocumented feature I'm sure that they never never thought anybody would ever do that.
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It's probably what just happened to trying to reach over here I probably hit two buttons at the same time. I should just play around with stuff and I'll probably end up breaking things but well, we'll try to avoid that for now anyways, but Ted Cruz Responded to Tom Askew Didn't respond to me.
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That's fine Pastor I don't know you but I honor your ministry Your biblical analysis is an error
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Jesus told us to render the Caesar things or Caesars and to God the things that are God's We were talking laws of man not the
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Old Testament laws of God Do you really believe the US government should execute every person who is gay? Secondly Viticus also tells us for anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death
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Should the government execute every child who's disrespectful to his parents that ignores grace in the New Testament as the
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Savior taught us that he That is without sin among you. Let him cast a stone at her. Well Wow Yeah, I Was sadly struck because I have a lot of respect for Ted Cruz he obviously has a brilliant mind
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He's very bright But I don't
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I don't know how anyone survives in Washington DC just in Washington DC as a whole
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Let alone in Washington DC in political office it would be so destructive and They're just some major problems with what senator
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Cruz said here the problem is Most Christians would probably agree With what he said first of all ready to seize the things or Caesars and to God the things are
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God's if that is a Recognition of sphere sovereignty
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Okay, but how is that relevant here? Because he's gonna say we were talking the laws of man not the
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Old Testament laws of God Well notice it's Old Testament laws of God. So there's clearly an assumption held by many that the
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Moral law Found in the Old Testament Just ends at Malachi or maybe
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John the Baptist or maybe the resurrection somehow There's some kind of disjunction in The sense that what was once Representative of God's holy nature isn't anymore just not
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That's really dangerous, but it's very very common very very common Caesar doesn't get to make these decisions
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Caesar will be judged by God about the decisions that he makes as To what is good and evil again
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Romans 13 What's what's the magistrates job?
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to reward good and punish evil Got to have a standard be able to be able to know by what standard?
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So it's a it's an old phrase, but there's a reason why it's an old phrase It's important And So Caesar does not get to determine these things
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God does that's first thing We are talking about the laws of man, but here's a question we all have to have to think about Does a nation have the right?
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To desire to be blessed by God and How would a nation behave?
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If it desired God's blessing and wanted to avoid God's wrath Vast majority of Americans would say we can't answer that question.
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God doesn't care about how we behave Because when you think about it
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You would think that would be something that we're talking about in Sunday school But we don't how does a nation
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Seek God's blessing and it's not by writing songs saying God bless us biblically a nation is blessed that walks in God's ways and Biblically a nation is cursed that rejects
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God's ways. And so the answer is simple a nation that wants
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God's blessing will do what God says to do and If Uganda Actually wants
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God's blessing and says this behavior Brings death
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Disease It does not bring life and those who engage in this activity
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Through use of drugs or with children or with the infirm
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We will execute because that's what they said. That's what aggravated homosexuality is if they are seeking
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God's blessing Are you going to say that is not
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God's way? It sounds like he's Because that says do you really the
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US government should execute every person who is gay a It should not be the federal government's job
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B if local government makes the decision To seek
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God's blessing and say this activity is a capital offense raping children a
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Homosexual rape of a child is a capital offense Then yes, they should have the right to do that.
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No question about it and if they turn around and say no, not only is it not going to be because every nation's got a
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God and What's our nation's God right now Look around Look around It's June 6th
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It's June 6th, you know what we used to talk about on June 6th D -day, that's what we used to talk about.
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I Remember going and seeing Private Ryan saving Private Ryan when it first came out
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I forget what year it was, but there were still veterans alive at that time they were very old and They were traumatized by it because it was so well done that it was so much like the real thing
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That they had never experienced that and they were traumatized by it, but that's what we used to talk about on June 6th
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Was the sacrifice those men that stormed those beaches the thousands who lost their lives and And now what is
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June 6 it's just one of 30 days of the celebration of sexual depravity and It's getting more and more obvious every single year that the focus of this is on the corruption of children the sexualization of children the mutilation of children
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And the lowering of the age of consent Maps minor attracted persons
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Pedophilia, that's the plus. That's what the plus is. Don't don't ever doubt it. That's the plus.
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It's right there a nation has a God and This nation wants the blessing of the
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God of the culture of death and so while we have one day
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To honor our nation's fallen heroes in the past We have 30
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Did you see in Canada? Joe boot quoted a tweet that said
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The federal government of Canada is rushing emergency funding for pride events
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Somewhere in Canada forget where it was Toronto, Ottawa. I forget where it was That are struggling with the costs of security
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Your tax dollars at work your tax dollars at work, so every nation has a
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God and every nation is seeking the blessings of their God and The blessings of the
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God of the culture of death is death That's where we are
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But then Cruz goes on To say for anyone who curses his father's mother shall surely put to death should the government execute every child who's disrespectful to his parents that is
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Exactly Exactly the argumentation used by the president in the
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West Wing episode. In fact, I'm pretty sure I tweeted a link to the
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YouTube version Where I played that exact segment, but here's
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Ted Cruz doing it a self -professed
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Christian Demonstrating a fundamental ignorance of the
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Holiness Code that ignores grace and the
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New Testament as if grace Does away with God's holiness Grace does not do away with God's holiness
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Senator Cruz it doesn't and Then to To quote
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John 8 again a text not found in Any Greek manuscript of the
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Gospel of John before the 5th century? It's a known story
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But it appears in multiple places in John it appears in the Gospel of Luke it is so clearly a later addition to the text and To say well, there you go and that's not what but even if even if you
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Ignore the textual issue with the pre -copay adultery Even if you ignore that that's not what
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Jesus was saying He was he wasn't saying oh God's holiness doesn't mean anything to me
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God's law is irrelevant. It's not what he was saying. He is talking to people who evidently had had caught her and He was saying to them
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They were hypocrites He revealed to them with whatever he wrote on the ground that they were hypocrites that they deserved the punishment as well
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He wasn't saying Hey nations should just allow
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Bestiality and pedophilia and ever just to run rampant And that's good because he who was you need to be without sin to cast the first stone
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There you go It was it was sad to see Was really really sad to see but this
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We have to we have to recognize that's where the vast majority of people are when it comes to God's law
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The vast majority of people that's where they are is where Ted Cruz was Hey, I got into trouble
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And I've only got a few minutes left here Because I'm willing to go an hour because like I said when
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I stopped this thing I'm hoping there's gonna be a file there Otherwise, I've been sitting here staring at this new camera that we've got got two new cameras here
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And accomplished absolutely nothing which could happen I'm thinking
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I got it right I'm thinking I'm hoping anyways Anyway, I got into trouble
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I I Responded and I didn't bring this up so I can't quote it, but I I responded to Someone else's someone else made a comment
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About Thomas Aquinas And by the way,
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I had some some guy Derek Bright, I think posted a
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Picture from the God who justifies I Didn't know but I had made reference at one point
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To Thomas Aquinas I Actually what it was
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I'd made I was talking about Romans 328. I was talking about Luther's rendering Faith alone the accusation of Roman Catholics He was changing the
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Word of God and I was giving examples of people before Luther Roman Catholics before Luther who had rendered it faith alone sola fide and One of the people that I quoted
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Likewise said that Aquinas had rendered it that way something along those lines as I'm not really sure why
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But Derek Bright decided that that somehow was inconsistent for me I'm just like Okay, all right if you say so It was similar to a
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Comment, maybe I can find it here before I get too far. Oh Yeah, there we go.
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I think I might be able to find this here Yeah, I was looking for something that Steve had said
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Steve camp has said to me he made some comment about Theonomist that was just so far off base.
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It was it was sort of sad, but I can't can't find it now, but Anyway That's that's the problem trying to find stuff on the fly while you're recording live anyway,
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Steven Wolf I I've switched over to using tweet deck now, so maybe
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I'll see more notifications. I don't know Hopefully it takes up more room on the screen, but I'm trying anyways
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Ah Steven Wolf went after me and It's it's always the same thing from Thomas Thomas are like a broken record there.
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There isn't enough variation amongst these people Even when they disagree with each other it's still the same argument.
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You just haven't read as much as I have Well, I've read more than you have. Well, I bet you and Basically, he was literally arguing
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That what we call Thomism today was just what all reformed people believed only a century ago and basically
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Now the the big theme I guess is that the 20th 20th century was just a bunch of idiots
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And the chief idiot was Cornelius Van Til and we made up a complete completely never heard of before Reformed view of man because I had made a comment about Thomas's anthropology and How his anthropology is not a biblical anthropology, it's certainly not a reformed anthropology and he was just going after me on it just not very kindly either and I'm and I'm like what he did just just read this is read that he's posting a bunch of stuff
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They're really never even doing it But he went to Calvin and I I Read just a few lines past where he quoted because he was talking about How God had created man upright and things like that with certain capacities and we don't we don't
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Denigrate the capacities of God has given to man all the rest that stuff But then he goes on to say but none of that changes the fact that an unregenerate sinner is as blind as a mole
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When it comes to divine truths which was the whole point and I was just I was really taken aback.
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I had known that I just didn't like Wolfe's book There was just it did not speak with a reformed voice and Now I know why he may be a
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Presbyterian and stuff like that, but the the essence of Of God's sovereignty man's deadness and sin
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The reality that God's revelation does get through but is invariably suppressed as An act of rebellion on the part of the natural man by means of all sorts of things whether it's religious oppression or anything else
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Just doesn't seem to be a part of What he thinks is
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Reformed theology and so I was it was It was revealing.
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It was really really Revealing and it's another reason why
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I just I do not use the term Christian nationalist Because it's going to be directly associated with him and his perspective and I want nothing to do it
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Well, nothing doing it. Sorry can and pick that book up to be honest with you guys really am I think that was a swing and a miss
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Especially with what's come out since then I don't think you you wanted to be connected with some of the things that unfortunately you're stuck with now not not that you all support that kind of stuff, but the books there
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But the whole the whole term if all you mean by Christian nationalism is two verses
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Blessed is a nation whose God is Yahweh and sin is a rebuke to any nation to any people fine
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What you're saying is it's okay for a nation to seek God's blessing and the way to find
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God's blessing in light of the fact that Jesus is the one who is enthroned on Glory, and I actually
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I actually was going to bring the cordons up and I'll keep it for the next time In fact, I'll not shut everything down.
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I'll just keep this here. I want to do Boy, I hope I remember to do this.
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I hate when I promise to do something and I forget I Want to look at the use of Psalm 8 and Psalm 110 by Paul and first Corinthians chapter 15 and especially
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For he must reign Because I you know, I've got my shirt, it'd be good to wear my one of my shirts cuz
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I've got a bunch of them now that have digar out on bustle you on for it is necessary for him to reign
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Akri who in First Corinthians 1525 until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
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What does that mean? And Then to compare that with the
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Greek Septuagint, there's a slight change and very often that slight change can be very
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Illuminating and so we'll be looking at that next time around but if all we're talking about is
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Nations wanting to fulfill those verses and recognizing that since Jesus Christ is enthroned in heaven
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That the only way to have that blessing is to follow his law word his revelation of what is pleasing in his sight
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If that's Christian nationalism great but unfortunately a Lot of folks have gone way past a basic definition like that and I think have gotten into things that I don't know that we're mature enough to be discussing it and The only way to discuss it,
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I believe I believe the big division and It's one that wolf recognizes is between those who would say that this can be done by a minority and Those that would say the only way it can truly be done.
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That is lasting is By a massive work the Spirit of God in drawing the nations unto
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Christ So you've either got a post -millennial theonomic understanding or you've got the
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Thomistic Stephen Wolf view Don't want anything to do with that. I agree with you that doesn't work
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That's off to the side This is the only is the only way and until that move the
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Spirit happens working on details Is pretty silly
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That's one of the things that Steve said Steve Steve camp said something about I can't find it now again, that's one of the wonders of things here
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Maybe it was under replies. Let me just just scroll down here real quick that that that that that that that uh
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Yeah Nope, can't find it. Anyways, he says some long lines of he was sort of mocking
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Quote -unquote Christian nationalists or or maybe it was post -millennialists. I don't remember which he had said
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It was glad that I had repented of it and I just provide him with numerous Video references
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YouTube or I hadn't But he was right
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The idea you got a bunch of young guys They're gonna come along and somehow save the world without that move of the
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Spirit first That is pretty silly There's no question about it. I can I can join in going.
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Yeah, okay, right but that doesn't mean that the overarching principles That the only way of blessing is going to come that way
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By submission to Jesus Christ are not true. They are true and We need not be embarrassed by them
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But we need also to have to contextualize them within the entirety of Christian truth. So well, we'll try to I'll Hopefully if I leave accordance up at this reference
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That'll be a good reminder unless something happens between now and then and I come walking in here focused on something else and I Got no one to remind me
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We're flying solo this week as I said So I hope this has worked out from as far as I can tell
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I can see the meters moving It says it's recorded for an hour and six minutes Hopefully all that's gonna end up working out somehow some way