In Defense of Sound Guys, Oppression and Exegesis, a Bit on Psalm 12 and the Text

Opening Banter and the Life of the Church Sound Guy

Welcome to the dividing line. It's a Monday. We gotta get things done early this week my lord willing and Travel goes well tomorrow then on Wednesday, I hope to do a program from up in North Las Vegas, Nevada with my daughter summer and Probably since they're a homeschooling family the grandkids to from.

Assuming I assume we'll try to use zoom for that and try to make that try and make that work as best we can and so but when you do stuff remotely like that, there's all sorts of possibilities of Everything going wrong.

So we'll give it a shot and and do our best and and Go from there. Important breaking news here. I saw just again just before going on the program Ridgeline, California when pastor Blake Middleton's voice failed to come through the house system at Maple Street Bible Church Sunday morning.

Every single member of the congregation turned to look at sound technician. Johnny Bray assuming it was his fault. After a few brutal seconds fiddling with knobs and sliders Bray looked up in motion for Middleton to check his wireless pack.

To make sure it was actually on. Oh Whoops a daisy looks like I forgot to flip the little switch do hickey up. Yeah, my bad the pastor said in an Unprecedented admission that not everything that went wrong in the service was the sound guys fault.

Ha I knew it Bray declared triumphantly unable to contain himself. I tell you every week not to forget to turn your mic on and every week you give me that smug little look that Says, you know everything well guess who's got the smug look now pastor guess You'll be eating crow at the potluck this afternoon a poll of congregants taken out of the service However revealed that 92 still blamed the sound guy for the hiccup.

Now with all the important stuff to be talking about today why in the world start with that. Because I Could have written that and I'm not sure why I didn't. I could have written that. Because and mine would have been a better version of it to pronounce me it would have been because Anybody who was ever in the late 1970s early 1980s a member of or attended the North Phoenix Baptist Church Pastor Richard Jackson Would know the kind of pressure you lived under to be a sound guy in that church.

Rich thinks he has it tough in there with the little board this big ha ha ha ha. Nothing to that at all try getting to church at 6 o 'clock in the morning and setting up PZM microphones 250 voice choir full orchestra.

Soloists who are always going more me more me. And oh, yeah, oh man, I'll tell you and One day Early on in my sound career. There were two services. There was an early service which was less attended.

It was like 8 o 'clock in the morning. I think and then the big service and Pastor Jackson as someone had sung a solo pastor Jackson I guess it really liked it got up to start speaking and I missed the first few words.

Because there was nothing coming through the lavalier. Now. This was before there is wireless. So loves that you just had this big long thing that he had to keep throwing around remember that He and he he could do it without thinking about I mean He's learned how to just throw that cable around and this is a long time ago and so I quick pop the pulpit mic on and I'm like Where's the love?

Well, the other sound man happened to be up in the balcony that that day and Buddy Havens is the name and he was best man at my wedding and He jumps into the sound booth and there's a full-size camera full-size TV camera up there for the that they only record the later service and So he takes it and he zooms in on Pastor Jackson.

There's no microphone on Pastor Jackson he pans over to Jackson's chair because you'd plug the lav in and you'd hang it on the chair and There it's swinging back and forth on the chair he had so gotten into the solo that he had completely forgotten to put the the thing up, but he does not know this and I'm a new sound guy and The point was if you're the new sound guy the old sound guy could leave Everything you don't touch a thing and Jackson would think you were doing it wrong because you're the new guy.

He trusted the old guy. But you've you've messed it up somehow even though you don't touch a thing. So, I know what's gonna happen because everybody knew that what would happen is he'd start getting into his sermon and he starts moving and Eventually at a certain point he starts He's gonna take a few steps off this direction a few steps off that direction and he's just on the pulpit mic.

So he's gonna fall right out of what are called the fullbacks up front the speakers that he's listening to so Right his clockwork. He takes a few steps to the left and he's gone and So you see his shoulders go down and he gets he could get this Disgusted look on his face.

He was an intimidating man. I mean 35 years later. I still have dreams about about Richard Jackson going after you about something and It's been longer than that actually. Well, no right about there. Anyway, so he walks back to the pulpit and he goes like this he goes so it's something wrong.

He looks down and then you see him go like this. Looks back to his chair and there's the microphone hang on his chair and I'm just sort of sitting there now I'm a long way as what you guys realize North Phoenix Baptist Church.

You can you can see what North Phoenix looked like back then if you go online and you look up Glen Campbell no more night. Because it's a fairly regularly watched been watched widely he did a beautiful solo about three months after I left North Phoenix and North Phoenix was still set up then the way it was that I I I knew it when I was there and So you're a long ways away.

Thankfully you're I don't know how many feet it is. But you're you're a good distance from the pulpit. And so he gets this grin on his face and he sort of looks up at everybody and he says Doesn't work very well, if you don't put it on, huh?

And everybody in the audience is like ha ha ha ha ha and and I'm just I'm just I Did not scream from the balcony. Aha. I told you no. No, that was no. No, that was no. That would have been really bad.

Really really bad. The best thing you could have done if I did that was just jump out of the balcony to my death. Because Same same thing would have happened afterwards break me break my neck on a on a pew.

Average of Jackson break my neck same same difference. It's same result. But from that day onward There were no more questions about my running sound because he was right it wrong. I had done it right and so I that was it.

It was sort of like a graduation thing and So I saw this and I'm like, yeah. Yeah, I Can't tell you how many times I've gone to churches and I've thanked the sound guy. Because I said I did it. It's thankless.

No matter how hard you work something's gonna go wrong and they always know where to look and who to blame. There you go now there's no parallel to anything the rich does because he's just supposed to have all this done and all is down and told me that he does so.

You know when things go wrong it is his fault so so there we go anyway. Thanks Babylon B for completely messing all of this up. Obviously today is Monday and over the weekend the news started coming across slowly.

Christchurch, Evil, and a Biblical Anthropology

Concerning the and I still don't have all the details because. One story that I heard this morning was that there was only one shooter that doesn't make any sense that there's more than one mosque. Did he do it at two different mosques or something?

And and how could he get away from the one and to the other? I don't know anyway but the horrific actions 4950 people killed a similar number injured down in Christchurch in in New Zealand and as Dr. Moller pointed out if you if you run the numbers as Far as the number of people killed in comparison to the population of the country.

This was an interesting comparison. Given how given that there are More people in the metropolitan Phoenix area in the Valley of the Sun than there are in all of New Zealand. Okay, that's how sparsely populated it is.

You run the numbers and that's their 9 -11 the the number the percentage of people who died is similar to the 3 ,000 almost 3 ,000 in the United States on 9 -11, so It you just don't think of that normally in a place that's that's inhabited by Dwarves and hobbits and elves and things like that that they would be having a they do have these major wars With the forces of evil all the time in which huge armies are decimated, but I guess that's different somehow Sort of how that works.

So the news started coming across and Everybody started commenting about it and and I all I said was I'm gonna take some time. I don't want to just it's just noise everybody in the In the in the world is is talking about this right now and saying exactly the same thing I did grab the manifesto that this guy put out Because someone I'm not sure if it was that day or the next Started talking about him as a Christian.

This man is not a Christian In his manifesto, it said are you a Christian and says that's complicated. But I'm not going to that right now and If you're asked if you're a Christian, you don't say that's complicated.

Okay, this guy was into some type of weird Environmentalism, you know sort of like that brave it guy who I think he did mention was a wodenist and that has nothing to do with Odin or Comic stuff and Thor and I guess does have something to Thor and I think about it But he was a wodenist before Thor was or something.

I don't know anyways, these people who write these long manifestos Tend to be really really really strange individuals and so the Responses over the past couple of days you've seen I guess There there was some Australian Government official or elected official or something like that.

Did you see a kid that's that? Broke the egg on his head and then he turned around and smacked the kid and the kid looked like hey What what'd you do? I thought I was getting away with this I thought this just could be a great YouTube video for you know.

And the guy just turns around clocks him a good one. Then they yeah, then they then they went at it for a second. I don't know this backstory on that but there was some may have been the same guy I don't know that wrote something right afterwards.

That was really not advisable. But This kind of You know, I I guess the guy the guy live videoed the whole thing I can it the level of Of Depravity and what's interesting to me is we will never understand.

First of all you it is a simple fact That what we're seeing in Western society right now is the next generation has become so dependent upon Government that they want government to be able to protect them from all things not realizing it.

The only way to get that Has a very high cost it's called liberty and freedom and All this goes back to anthropology all this goes back to what you believe about man and it was interesting that I Had a little back-and-forth with some Muslims on this subject.

One of the major areas of difference between us is on Anthropology our doctrine of man. Sadly the vast majority of individuals that engage in apologetic work with Muslims have a defective or unbiblical anthropology themselves and so they don't normally see that this is actually a fruitful area of discussion and Because you can go into God's law.

You can go into consciousness of sin and and really Go straight into the gospel and in a unusual Fashion with the Muslim that way so I had seen I follow on Twitter a group called Muslim matters and They had retweeted a Tweet from someone named seditious medic Navid said at seditious medic and Here's what they were saying and they were promoting this.

And here's what the tweet said it's time to silence the leaders of this terrorist cult forever let's start with and then you have a list of groups or individuals normally by their Twitter handle imam of peace.

That's tawhidi. I think Tariq Fatah Confessions ex-mu which is confession confession of an ex-muslim Tommy Robinson Garrett Wilders Sam Harris org the atheist and Then it says they need to be removed from society permanently.

Authorities must act today hashtag Christ Church attack now. I looked at that and I'm like Okay First of all you're talking about silencing people. You're calling them leaders of a terrorist cult now.

They're all very different from one another the only thing that would that would connect any of them together is what that they criticize Islam and so you're taking the actions of a single evil individual and You're turning it you're politicizing it and turning it into an opportunity to say you cannot criticize Islam even though Far more Christians died in the past Month at the hands of Muslims than this wacko Evil man evil not sick not sick.

Don't that that's one of the problems. This is not disease. This is evil. This is evil in the heart. This is depravity. Than this guy did in his attack. It's just in other places where the media Quite honestly as we got it's gotten used to it.

You don't expect this in Christ Church. You don't expect this in New Zealand. And so I Wrote back as I am disappointed Muslim matters that you would retreat. We retweet a call for more violence removed from society permanently imprisoned perhaps shameful to see such politicization of the evil act that should be condemned by all and They they they responded and Basically, well, we're not talking we're not talking about Violence like that's like well, okay, if you're not then how do you get these people out of society?

How do you silence them? You're calling upon the authorities to act to remove these people from society permanently. Is this life sentences for daring to say something negative about Islam? And I Gave them.

Let me see here. Yeah, let's see if I can pop this up real quick. I Gave, you know, I I pointed out a a reference and Dee dee dee dee da. Why? That's great. Oh That's not gonna do me any good. Let's try this side.

There we go, no, that's not gonna do it either is it well I I pointed out a There it is Sir a 98 6 in the Quran. Those who reject truth among the people of book and among the polytheists will be in hellfire to dwell therein forever.

They are the worst of creatures. I'm not sure which This is was that Yusuf? That's terrible. Anyway The point is that the Quran identifies Rejectors of truth amongst the people the book as the worst of all creatures.

Now what if somebody used that verse or many other verses that you could cite in the Quran as a basis for well doing what Muslims have done in many churches in Egypt and and Pakistan and places like that go in and throw bombs and and blow people up because they're the worst of all creatures and So should what if after yet another of these attacks?

Someone were to tweet It's time to silence the leaders this terrorist cult forever let's start with and then you start with Muslim matters and you go down a whole list of Muslims and Say they need to be removed from society permanently authorities must act today hashtag.

Whatever terrorist attack has taken place against a Christian Church How would you respond to that? Well, that's identified as Islamophobia. Well, then why isn't this? Seen as having the very same horrific foundation as anything else.

I Was just really disappointed because Muslim matters tends to be more on the balanced side, but situations like this and balance, unfortunately and so There has been obviously and there will be reaction for quite some time obviously for a Christian when you see This kind of violence you are reminded That it is only the grace of God that restrains this from happening over and over and over again every single day.

You are once again faced with having to deal with the reality that you want your places of worship to be open you want anyone to be able to come and Yet this is the reality that can happen. Remember the guy that What was the church in Sulphur and I wasn't Sulphur Springs, but there was someplace in Texas early last year as I recall you know goes in and just start shooting people up and thankfully Someone a neighbor hears it and has an AR -15 comes after him.

Sulphur Springs, is that what it was? Yeah. So what is it Sutherland it was some something Springs anyway. This is the reality that we face it has nothing to do with guns. There were churches being Sacked and this type of thing happening For a long long time before the invention of gunpowder.

This is a human evil Situation this is evil men taking advantage of people who have gathered for Religious purposes it may be good or bad religion. It happens in both places. It really does force us back to a biblical Anthropology a biblical understanding of who man is and why he acts as he does and what God's sovereign purposes are.

God can Restrain evil. The scripture tells us that he can. So why doesn't he in all instances? Well Will we have an answer to that in this life in all instances we will not. Are we told to trust that God has a purpose in all these things?

And are we given a proper foundation for understanding? That in light of sin and the fallenness of The created order natural disasters as well as eruptions of evil Are used by God as judgments. Just as sin is it just as death is a judgment upon sin that death can come at any moment and That can happen in ways that seem to us to be accidental or in ways that are very clearly The result of human evil human animus, whatever else it might be.

My hope and prayer is that people would be prompted to think How many times have we prayed For Opportunities to reach out to the Muslim people. I spoke on this at g3 back in January and Right now we should be praying that the Christians in Christ Church would have opportunities Not to try to set up debates but to speak clearly as To why They have assurance of salvation and what grounds that's in and it's not in them.

It is in the work of another because very few Muslims very few Muslims have any meaningful understanding have ever had a meaningful conversation with a Christian as to what the Christians true hope is and When you think of those 50 people They will not have that opportunity.

I find it hard to pray for this man. That level of evil seems to me to be indicative of a person who's been given over But you never know. But I have great animosity and anger in my heart toward anyone who can with such callous evil and wickedness Just be shooting men women and children innocent men women children who they're defenseless.

It's just How do you how do you even I don't know anyway. If you have Muslims in your life and Because of fear you have not been speaking to them stop. You need to take the time To speak to these individuals and Not just give them a few verses but to truly Communicate a meaningful message to them of what the gospel is who Christ really is.

Get that get that that relationship going and and active. Now on a few other topics here Must be March. I'll tell you I Forgot to look at what it is, but the dew points in March and in Arizona are Ridiculously low.

I mean sometimes below freezing. It's so dry right now. Over the weekend I got in trouble because I responded to a Post by Mika Edmondson with whom I've had some brief exchanges in the past. He was responding to Another tweet I in following some of these I've discovered that well my hope for The continued existence of simple common sense within our society is was pretty well dashed over the course this weekend.

Listening to people Who call themselves Christians that it's it's it's so obvious that their worldview has been come completely subverted by a Deconstructionist intersectional oppressor oppressed worldview not by a biblical worldview not by a worldview where where God is sovereign and God is working his Working out his the counsel of his will.

But a very much man-centered worldview and They're willing they're now willing to accept almost anything including some of the wildest leftist dreams. There is anyway someone named Lisa Sharon Harper had had hashtag decentering whiteness in white evangelicalism would require all Capitalized seminaries to require all students to soak in the voices of theologians from social locations closest to the writers of the biblical text itself the oppressed and Call that theology Hashtag liberating evangelicalism.

So you see this stuff all over the place. It takes one form the United States takes another form in South Africa. They're doing the decolonization thing. You know in Cape Town. I saw I saw an article that at one of the universities in Cape Town.

They're actually undertaking to decolonize science. Which basically means if it was written by or discovered by a white person we're going to reject it so theory relativity Newton's laws. I Mean the reason the result is insanity, of course.

The result makes me not want to drive over any bridge that any of the graduates of this particular institution would ever design. But it's just insane but it's it's the thing and There's this insanity going around the world where everybody just wants to do something.

Well that something makes any sense or will actually bring about improvement. Or is logical or rational or that doesn't matter. It's just do something which is why the leftists in the United States want to lower the voting age to 16 and Let anybody in their second cousin vote.

I mean, they're already doing that. I mean, you know, we all know in Chicago you have to die four times before you stop voting. That's just sort of how it works up there. But this is how they want to establish one party rule.

They've already established it in California. There's one party rule in California. There's there's not a second party in, California. I'm sorry. Pretty much. Yeah, New York and and California. That's what they want for the United the entire nation and they will succeed at the rate that they're going.

Sooner than most of us want to want to think. And then all the insanity that you see in California, New York will just be forced upon all of us and they'll take the same attitudes as this seditious medic did.

And that is silence. Anyone who says anything else remove them from society. It's the Stasi prison coming at us yet. Once again, it's only been closed for what? 30 30 years. Yeah. Stasi prison closed 30 years ago, and we've already forgotten it.

Uh. Forgotten the vast majority of Millennials don't even know that it happened even though it was within their lifetime. Don't care about things like that. So anyway. Got off topic there in response to Lisa Sharon Harper.

Mika Edmondson had said these words the oppressed and by the way. So what you're supposed to do is you're supposed to soak in the voices of theologians from social Locations closest to the writers the biblical text.

What does that mean? Because Social locations today wouldn't be the same as they were back then and So the idea is the social location are the oppressed now, of course, we know that. That oppression is now defined has been redefined just as racism has been redefined.

When I grew up you knew what a racist was because they made it known by their words and their actions their hearts were filled With animus toward another race. That's not racism anymore. Read Jamar Tisby.

There's a there's a new definition of racism. That you can't avoid no matter what's in your heart. It has no one has nothing to do with the content of your character anymore. Nope, that's irrelevant. It's a it's a social thing and So you can be a racist without trying to be you just Just are just live with it type of a thing.

And so the same thing with who's the oppressed and who are the the oppressors? There doesn't have to be a desire to oppress someone in Some of these conversations I had. There's they've totally sold out to the idea of privilege.

And so I need to lay my privilege down in the service of others and they really think this is biblical. I mean I had a woman actually attached that Philippians chapter 2. Yeah. Instead of recognizing in Philippians chapter 2 it's within the church.

We all have equal rights before God and we're laying those those rights that we have Down in the service of us has nothing to do with privilege. It's not a societal thing. Has nothing to do with your economic status.

If any and if you try to bring ethnicity and economic status into Philippians chapter 2 you will turn it into a mishmash of foolishness. It's it's absolutely heretical eisegesis. But people are doing it and it's happening in our seminaries.

It's happening more and more often in what used to be the last reformed seminaries and That means your pastor in your church may be coming in sounding like the old pastor. But they're not really. Using the same words don't mean the same things.

That's what's gonna cause people to go. Hey, what happened? Well, it's already happened. It's already happened. I was listening to the cross-politics show by the way, but I am gonna get to this. Sorry.

I Was listening to the last edition of cross-politics where they had Doug Wilson on it's really good. I listened to it on a ride today. It's really good. And I'm gonna listen to it again. It was so good.

I want to get it the second time. But they had some criticisms for the statement on social justice, which you know, I had something to do with and And one of Doug Wilson's criticisms was It's too late.

It's too late. They were they were ten years too late and you know, I again I remember exactly where I was I had just I Was doing this ride because I'm going up. I'm gonna be riding up a mountain tomorrow on a new bike with new tires and new new tubes.

You always go for a ride and check that stuff out and About seven miles in one of my Tires started de-seating from the rim. I started feeling I just fixed that re-inflated the tire with a quick fill and Was accelerating back up when Doug Wilson said That's that's it.

Let's see you figure out the time index in the cross-politic program based on the Reinflation of my back tire, that's not gonna work too well. Anyway, Doug Wilson said One of my criticisms is it's about ten years too late and I went Yeah, I'll I'll admit that Because I've said from the start Almost all of us were like MLK 50 hit and we're like whoa Something just happened But it didn't just now happen this has been happening and we've been asleep at the switch.

And I so I No matter what I say in this issue and man the hatred that is expressed if you say anything is just stunning but No matter what I say. I Will never claim that I saw this coming because I didn't I've said over and over again.

I I thought solo scriptura would Be the bulwark to keep this stuff out it hasn't been it hasn't been and That's that's problematic so anyway catch the the last episode of Cross-politic and you'll you'll see I think you'll hear some some good insights.

Yes. I know go ahead send the emails Whatever. I don't care If you won't listen To what those guys say because of that guy or that guy's association with a whatever. I can't help you It just Just telling you if you are actually interested in insightful Meaningful commentary there was insightful meaningful commentary offered by everybody on the panel including Doug Wilson If you if you can't handle that Sorry Back to Mika Edmondson.

So I'm sorry back to Lisa Sharon Harper. So the social locations closest to the writers of biblical text itself the oppressed so Mika Edmondson's interpretation of this is the oppressed are often the most faithful interpreters of Scripture.

Seeing things about Christ in his kingdom that privileged biases Simply refused to see and my response was no no no a thousand times. No now let's at least let's let's demonstrate that I can give you a Generous reading of Mika Edmondson's words when.

Okay, I'm listening to The Hiding Place right now. I read the book in high school Maybe before maybe eighth grade. Read a couple times saw the movie when it came out years ago. I Need to rent that movie again and watch it.

Because I'm hoping To get a chance to visit the ten boom house next month and to see The Hiding Place and so I'm Re familiarizing myself with the story after you know, probably 30 years since I saw the saw the movie over in Tempe Right across the bridge and in Tempe where that steakhouse used to be it finally closed down Monty's my was it my little Casa Vieja.

That was a landmark. It was a shame to see that thing go and it's good food, too but I was You know Cory's father Was just a a fount of godly wisdom really was and of course what the ten booms experienced Cory and Betsy in Concentration camp Just how anybody could survive that was was amazing.

But there would be an element of truth that Cory ten boom Having experienced what she experienced the hands of the Nazis and survived it Would have Insights Into The suffering of the people of God the grace of God That would be worthy of listening to.

There's no question about that. There's no question about that and the reason for that is that she had a firm and solid foundation in sound theology that allowed her to respond in a Supernaturally biblical fashion.

But it does not follow that every person that suffered the hands of the Nazis becomes a better interpreter of scripture than people who did not. We can recognize That the experience in life not of the oppressed as some nebulous Group out there, but that the the work of the Spirit of God in conforming people No matter what their ethnicity social status political status.

Conforming them to the image of Christ is what gives insight Into the scriptures and that's why we have the body of Christ. That's why we have People in the body of Christ who experience Horrible things that we do not experience and yet we can learn From them and they can learn from us.

You think of some of the insights that we have we have gained from people? Who have had diseases and injuries to their bodies and yet have remained faithful and Do not live a life of complaint. This has nothing to do with oppression.

It has everything to do with God's sovereignty in Building his church from all sorts of different kinds of people and putting us together in one body and we learn from the Spirit's work of sanctification not from socio-political forces and So you recognize the germ of truth that is that God has at times?

Utilized what we would call oppressed peoples. He put the children of Israel in Egypt for a reason but he had a reason in it and It was his intention to deliver them out of that oppression for a reason and Then he was going to put them back into slavery and out of slavery and into slavery and back and forth and back and forth to illustrate things and to teach things.

Vast majority of evangelicals don't have a theology of providence and sovereignty and a divine decree to even start plugging any of that in and so because there's a vacuum there because there's your theology Needs to be fully formed and if you've just I'm not gonna talk about that I'm gonna leave that part out that creates a vacuum something else is gonna come in and And that's something else in this situation is being funneled in through deconstructionism and Sociology and that's why I'm seeing these.

I've just saw a glut of people over the past few days Speaking Christian words that have been filled with a completely foreign meaning because of this very issue and so a lot of people responded so. The germ of truth is That I can learn.

You know next week South Texas Bible Conference Justin Peters is going to be speaking Justin I do not live the same kind of life. I Listened to cross-politic today while doing about a 26 and a half mile bike ride.

I'm training for my big rides in July and I'm excited about that and and You know working on fitness and Justin can't ride bikes and he never will and So that's a on one hand is a great blessing. Very very thankful for the health.

I've had it could end tomorrow. Not only by accident, but by disease. I know that I Recognize that and it's all of God's sovereign will and so Can I learn from Justin's insights from the limitations that have been placed upon his but how about Johnny Erickson Tata?

How many of us have not learned something from Johnny Erickson Tata's? Continued faithfulness. Justin Peters continued faithfulness. But that doesn't make them a class of super interpreters of Scripture.

It does give them the ability to make application. But it seems to me that a lot of these folks think that there is no objective message of Scripture any longer. It's all a matter of just how we feel and a lot of these people that's exactly I say once you start pushing They have bought into the liberal mindset of Interpretation that does not believe that there is a identifiable core of objective truth in Scripture.

It's all Experiential it's all how you feel so When I see this Privileged Biases, let me just stop whatever you mean by privilege the fact the matter is that we all have biases and Right now I'm seeing a tremendous amount of bias in my black brethren Who are embracing racist ideas and interpretations of Scripture.

Just stop and ask yourself a question. Is that even possible anymore in someone's mind? Because if you buy the idea, there's only one kind of privilege. It's white privilege. Then you've completely bought into a non-biblical perspective because there was no white privilege in Moses's day.

They weren't white. So the point is if these biases are Due to our fallen nature related to sin related to Our status or something or prejudices in the past. Then if it's a matter of sin, then anyone can commit that sin.

There can be no sin where by definition now, of course, you might say well, you know. So like the people you're just talking about they can't be proud of their athletic prowess. So there's some sense of that's that's different we're talking about categories of sin and if you Tell me that a black man or an Asian man or a Hispanic man Cannot be just as biased just as prejudiced as prejudiced just as racist as any other man Including the dreaded white man, then you've bought into something that no biblical author could have ever even dreamed of.

You've already accepted it lock stock and barrel so it sounds like what Mika Edmondson is saying is Whoever it is that has privileged biases, that's buzzword for not people who are not POC. Simply refuse to see things that The oppressed get to see obviously there is not a single Apostle that ever even began to make such a a statement.

Even began to teach such a thing and Please I did some correction of someone. Yeah, but what about Acts 6? Wow has founding of the diaconate using the men that could actually communicate with the people in need never picked up in the requirements of the diaconate in 1st Timothy chapter 3 and Yet somehow you want to read it in a way that the that Luke never intended it.