Open Air Theology “AI questions Part 2”

We are, you can say what you want but you won't around me. Cheap among misfits. A misfit in the trailer park at night. A misprint with the sixth sense. Been sick ever since my brother died of an O .D.

My two cents never made sense, either to me or anyone else inside of the sheep fence. My ninth sniff on my right side. Tell me what's the bottom line. The bottom line is I'm not right. I'm not left but this elephant won't fight.

There's nothing left but the spot, find me in the moon. In the deep end and I can't find my assigned seat to sit in. My theology don't fit in. Black sheep of the reformation sheep pen. I'm just another Baptist baptized again.

The best child of Anabaptist. I was going to say hello first and I got to do it first.

So hello, everybody. This is Open Air Theology. It's a blessing that you're joining us here tonight. I'm going to pass the mic over to my lovely co-host here to let him introduce himself first. And then I will go after Tom.

So go ahead, Tom.

Hey, well, hold on. I'm reading a text from Jeff right now. But anyway, I'll go ahead and kick this off. I'm waiting to see if Jeff's going to come on as well. Anyway, my name is Tom Shepard and I'm with Grace Bible Church of Birney.

And I head up a street evangelism team that goes out in Fredericksburg and Curville and Birney, San Antonio. As far south as Corpus Christi, we. Oh, Jeff's having trouble getting on as far south as Corpus Christi.

And we've even gone out to Oklahoma City or actually Oklahoma State in Tulsa and preach the gospel out there. And I'm also a host of Even If None and a co-host of Open Air Theology with Brayden Patterson and Jeffrey Rice.

Back to you.

Heck yeah. Love it. Yeah. So my name is Brayden Patterson. I am the I am. It's kind of a weird. I'm in a weird place right now. I have an installation going on in January on January 12th at Grace Bible Church in Moore Park, California.

And so I am set up to be the new pastor at that church. And so I also have a YouTube channel called Reformed Ex Mormon. And it's a great blessing to be a co-host with Tom and Jeff on Open Air Theology here.

But but maybe just as a quick heads up, if you're new to this channel, if you're watching this show for the very first time, please subscribe to our YouTube channel, Open Air Theology. It'd be a great blessing to see you here.

We try to get on once a week on Sundays on the Lord's Day. Talk about our service, how worship was and just a variety of different topics. It's a great blessing. These guys make me laugh a lot more than a lot of other people do.

So it's good to be around. But Jeff is trying to get on right now. So we're going to see if we can get Jeff on. And then we're also potentially going to get Big Red Samuel Harris on as well. So we'll see what happens with that.

What's the update on that, Tom?

Well, I said, let's go, Jeff. He said, bro, chill out. It's not letting me on. That's all we got.

There he goes.

Hey, it's your turn.

All right, Jeff, go ahead and introduce yourself.

We'll pass it down.

What?

We're on. We're live.

What am I doing?

Introduce yourself.

You're introducing yourself as the pastor of Covenant Reformed Baptist Church, Jeffrey Rice, pastor and street evangelist from Tullahoma, Tennessee, also the co-host of Open Air Theology. There you go.

Now you don't have to do it.

And a great Bible reminder.

That's right. Well, we're we just got done just doing intro. So we're just about to talk about how our Lord's Day was.

So I got to go first, Jeff.

I do have a question, though, real quick, Braden. Is this only being streamed to YouTube or we got it on Facebook, too?

I did not send it to our Facebook just because it hasn't been doing right on my side on Facebook. Has it been doing? We can add it to it here. Do you want it on your Facebook?

Well, I just shared the YouTube to my Facebook, so that's cool. Yeah. So, Jeff, how's the Lord's Day? I heard two baptisms today.

And we had two baptisms at a Christmas feast. Good day. It was a good day. Good people were baptized were members of the church who who believed themselves to be Christians. But through the the sequential exposition of God's word came to faith in Jesus Christ.

Good. Really? All attending your church recently or what? That's pretty awesome.

We've had nearly we've had nearly 10 people in our small church saved and baptized this year.

Dude.

That's so cool. Praise the Lord. That's awesome to hear.

Yeah, that is how many actually came from evangelism?

Most of them.

So evangelism works.

Well, so for the most part, it was witnessing the one and then bringing other people, their families.

That's pretty incredible. Yes. Yesterday we we went out to Bernie. You know, it's a lot easier to share the gospel during Christmastime. You know, everybody's nobody's really giving you flack and nobody's going to over talking about Christ in his incarnation when you're.

So anyway, we had we had a guy by the name of Eric and his wife came to church this evening.

And it's just a blessing.

It's a huge blessing to see some fruit from the labor that when we go out on the streets and we proclaim the gospel, even if they're already Christians, not that you're trying to move believers from one church to another.

But maybe maybe a more solid church at our church. But anyway, it's always encouraging to see people that you meet out on the street come to church.

And that's what happened with us today.

It was really encouraging.

Praise the Lord. That's awesome. That's great.

I heard you do some kind of outreach at a facility and then somebody came to your church.

Yeah. So I got to I got to go. There was a cigar lounge nearby where we moved to. And so I got to go try it out the other night and met a gentleman who looking good right there. Met another gentleman who was really got to got to talk with him.

Whole bunch talked with him for an hour and 30 minutes. He ended up coming to church today. I was really good to see a new visitor the very first Sunday I got to preach at the church. So that was really exciting to see that.

But the church service itself was an absolute blessing. Grace Bible Church in Moore Park. It just really sweet fellowship today.

I got to preach.

So I got to do Sunday school. And then I got to preach from Ruth chapter 2 verse 3, which I was tying it in as a Christmas message. So it was really fun to be in Ruth, a book that a lot of people just look over and don't really consider and really see the implications of what God was bringing about even in Ruth.

Many, many, many years before his incarnation. So that was a blessing. And then I got to hang out with a whole bunch of other brothers and sisters in Christ throughout this day. So it's been a good day so far.

Yeah, that's good.

Yeah.

And then I saw Jeff at your Christmas party online. Samuel got to open up his present.

Yeah.

I call that the ESV CNC red.

That's right.

Yeah, that's right. What a joy to hear. He goes, Jeff, you look tired, bro. He goes, you wore out. Jeff has been, what does he say? He goes, dig down, joy. You're not a dispensationalist.

Who is that? I can't see him.

You still can't see him on your side?

I can't see anything, man.

That doesn't make any sense. I don't know why you can't see him.

It doesn't.

This is what Troy just said right here.

Yeah, well, I'm wore out.

Yeah, well, you've been building a church. Not only spiritually, but.

I spent two days over there. Worked my full-time job. Spent two days over there at the church. I'm talking daylight to dark. And then got up at daylight this morning and started studying for my sermon again.

And preached. And I got home. I got home at right about almost 7 o 'clock from church.

Is that right? Wait a minute. Who's this here? I don't know who this is.

Let me look.

This is Dakota Clark. Hi, Tom. Joining y 'all from Bernie, Texas.

Hi.

Well, we're in Bernie, too. I'm glad you can join us today. Thank you for joining us.

Nice.

That's pretty cool.

That is great to see.

Yeah, that's awesome. So what else? Oh, so I got to tell you guys. So not everybody's seen this. So we're going to be bringing these to the conference. We got two. These are types. These are not the anti-type.

These are the types.

There's one type right there.

That's the original.

The original logo right there.

That's my favorite.

And that's Debbie's favorite, too.

She likes this one. She really likes this one.

So there's type one. And here's type two.

Not it.

Huh?

The AI special. Red coming on tonight?

And this is the AI special.

I didn't know that.

Well, we weren't sure where you were when we were looking. We just didn't know.

We figured.

What's up, Red?

There he is. What's up, Red?

What's going on, brothers?

All right, man.

It's good to see you, brother. Real good to see you.

That Bible is looking like the second nicest Bible in the world right behind mine.

Since yours is third, mine is number one.

Yeah.

Hey, y 'all ain't never seen one like this.

Nah.

But I got VR on.

I've never seen one like that.

It does look pretty good, Red. It looks real good. It looks really, really good.

Man, it is slick. It is.

The gold.

The gold page die.

Yeah.

Going to red.

I didn't know. Jeff did message Bibles.

Just the Bibles that have the message in it.

Hey.

Well, Sam, which mug do you like out of these two that Tom was just showing? Which ones are you a fan of?

I like the original design.

You like the original design?

Yeah, that one's sick. I like both of them, but the original design is.

I paid for the original.

Is more your cup of tea?

More my cup of coffee.

Ah, yeah, yeah, there it is.

They have another one.

So this is what we can do, too.

They have another one where she can make this to where it looks. Where it looks just white, right? And then you heat it up and magic happens and logo appears.

No, that's pretty cool.

Yeah, we can do that too.

So.

That's pretty cool.

Well, what are we talking about, guys?

What's that?

How you liking your new digs?

Brother, it's a blessing so far. So we've been here for seven whole days now. The church itself is beyond gracious and kind. It's been a blessing getting to know everybody. And then the area, everybody in the area has been super, super, super kind.

From what I've been hearing is that this area that we're in is one of the more safe areas. One of the more conservative areas. One of the more family-orientated areas that we're living in in Southern California.

And so, really, we haven't had any bad experiences. The worst experience I've had all week long is spending three dang days at the DMV.

That was terrible.

That tried my patience. It was close to taking the Christian gloves off and starting to go fisticuffs with people in there. Because, man, oh, man, the people inside were super nice. The employees, super nice, super kind.

Can't say anything bad about them. The length of time I had to wait to get through the whole process. Three days of taking different paperwork in. And, oh, my goodness, it was a pain in the butt.

Yeah.

So, we're outvoted here. It looks like this one's going to be the one that we're going to get for the conference.

Cool.

Because people are liking this one the best. So, this right here, you can have this on special for just $19 .99. $19 .99.

You just got to come to the conference. This is a good time. We got to do a plug-in for the conference. Sam, what are we doing in February in Tullahoma, Tennessee?

We're going to be having an open-air theology conference. On the 19th, I believe we're having the pre-conference on evangelism. And then the 20th through the 23rd, is that correct?

22nd, but it's closing up.

22nd through the 22nd. Well, 23rd, we'll still be having the after party. We'll still be out there evangelizing.

Oh, yeah, dude.

And we'll have to do the Lord's Day too, won't we, Jeff, on the 23rd?

Yeah, Lord's Day.

We'll have the Lord's Day at my church.

Yeah, it's going to be a good time. If you guys have not been to an open-air theology conference, make this one your first one. I mean, the fellowship is unbelievable. Nobody's hiding behind the walls.

None of the speakers are in a different room where you can't touch them and talk to them and take a picture with them. We're all out there fellowshipping with each other, singing with each other, you know, and worshiping God together.

So it's going to be a lot of fun. So it's going to be in Tullahoma, Tennessee. Tullahoma, Tullahoma, Tullahoma, Tennessee.

And then your church building is going to be, it's going to... Jeff, give us an update. I don't think everybody on the internet has heard the update.

Tullahoma, yeah.

What's the update on the church building, Jeff?

You guys got to start saying it right, man.

How do you say it? We can't ask Jeff how to say it.

He doesn't know how to say it.

Tullahoma.

Tullahoma.

Okay, Jeff doesn't know how to say it.

There you go, Brayden.

Quit talking like your brother.

No, it's a U in there.

It's Tullahoma.

It's not Tullahoma.

Jeff just said Tullahoma. Tell a homie.

You went silent.

Tell a homie.

Tullahoma.

Tell a homie.

Tell a homie.

Tell a homie about the Open Air Theology Conference.

You have a...

Let's see here. What is this? Yeah, question for Pastor Brayden. Are you still making Tobacco Pipes Brother?

I am planning on it during this whole move and getting called to be the pastor at Grace Bible Church. I haven't been able to dedicate time for that. I plan on picking that back up as soon as we're in a house, so it'll take another six months before that takes place.

I do have a few.

So, if that's something that's interesting to you, send me a text message, or not a text message, a message on Facebook, and I'll send you a picture of the stock that I have right now, and if there's one that piques your interest, I can get that to you.

And then also, if not, it'll probably be six months before I'm able to start making pipes again. Seven months, somewhere in that ballpark.

I'm curious. Dakota, Clark, where do you go to church in Bernie?

We gotta wait now.

Georgia.

It's gonna be at Covenant Reform Baptist Church in Tullahoma, Tennessee. Do you have an address, Jeff?

1605 East Lincoln.

1605 East Lincoln. Put it up there, Brayden.

I can't.

Oh, my gosh.

Weird.

I told you this before. I can't do that right now, because I'm on my iPad.

Hey, is Orthodox MacArthur on?

Yeah, he's on.

Listen.

Orthodox MacArthur, why are you going to bring me double-A batteries whenever you see me next?

What?

I don't even want to know.

He sent me a text saying he was going to send me some, or he was going to give me double-A batteries the next time he saw me.

He said no.

Hey, did Jeff tell you guys that he pulled me into a bar fight earlier?

Yeah, you pulled me into one.

Oh, no. Tell us, Red.

What happened?

His wife come out and told me that Red was beating somebody up, so I had to go out there and help him.

Dang.

I can tell you this. If something like that were to go down, Jeff's got my back.

Heck, yeah.

No, we had some type of scuffle that happened down the way from us. A guy got knocked out, and we went down there to try to see what was going on, make sure he was all right. Ended up having to call the police.

But before I ran down there, I yelled into the church building, Jeff, and he come out and ran down there with me. And it was crazy. We've had an eventful Lord's Day for sure.

Dude pulls out. Another guy comes out. I was like, dude deserves it. And dude starts cussing him out. He's knocked out, back of his head busted, his face busted.

Oh, wow.

He jumps up, trying to fight the guy that said he deserves it, pulls out a freaking razor blade, trying to cut him. But everything that was on video, it turned out he did deserve it. He started banging on this guy's car, and the guy got out and freaking licked him, son.

Knocked him out.

Well, hey, so Dakota, I know that church. I know that's Dick Jones' church, and I know that we've been praying for him. Dick Jones is Dakota's pastor, and he has cancer. He's actually the pastor that Ryan Dittin is filling in for several times.

It's why Ryan didn't have to pull out of the conference, because he's going to be filling in for Dick on that. So we are praying for him. You have a great church over there, just so you know. Good brothers over there.

Very evangelistic team. So it's a good group of brothers. So glad you've made it on. Make them a pipe, Braden.

I got you. Got you, Dakota.

Just hit me up.

So today's episode.

So last, if you guys were here, what was it? A couple weeks ago?

Two weeks ago with Andrew.

Yeah, that's right. Andrew Rappaport was on last time. And we were going to do stuff like ask AI what these questions were. They'd come up, and we would have to answer them whether to agree or disagree.

So you guys want to do that now, or do you want to talk about something else?

I'm in.

Let's do it.

I'm just in it for the ride, man.

Go for it.

All right.

So the first question is this, and I'm going to read it here. Okay, so AI made these questions. Agree or disagree. Would Jesus use social media if he were living on the earth today? I didn't make up these questions.

So is this speaking of, like, his incarnation? Like, if this was his first coming?

No, I think he's basically saying that if he was living on the earth right now, today.

I think that question is more clarification. Because I think to say yes, it goes against the gospel. To say yes, it goes against the gospel and the fact that he had to come at a time where crucifixion was perfected.

Absolutely.

In order to be made a curse of God, he had to be hung on a tree.

Yeah, the question is, if there was Internet and social media when he came the first time, would he be on it and use it? Would he be on Facebook, in other words?

I think that's the question.

Sure.

What do you think, Jerrod?

I think he's using it right now with you knuckleheads. Yeah, for sure, man. Like, saying that he's the creator of all things, I mean, in a sense, he is using it right now. But I think that he would use it if it were implemented during that time.

I mean, the message was amplified from Jerusalem anyway. So, I mean, social media back then would have just exploded the gospel.

Yeah, that would have been a lot easier to be his witnesses in Acts 1 -8, right? I mean, you wouldn't even have to leave the house. You just get online and start sharing the gospel with people. No, I don't know.

That's a hard question.

I would say I don't think Jesus would. I think his apostles would. I think the disciples would, but I don't think Jesus would be messing around with that personally.

You can't see him scrolling?

No, I can't see him. I would agree with Georgia.

If he was on it, he definitely wouldn't be obsessed about it. But, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, that's what I would think.

All right, so, okay, kind of a messed up question. So, again, I did not make these up. These are all artificial and totally generated. So, the other question, next question is, the King James Bible version is the only accurate English Bible translation.

Agree or disagree? Everybody's on board with that. It's not the only accurate. There are many other accurate translations.

I don't think it's a good accurate translation. I don't think it's accurate for our day because we don't understand. And there's so many words in there that don't mean what it meant.

Right. So, yeah, there are many words. But you would say that if a person had a seventh grade reading education, that they would be able to read that and the Bible would be God honoring and be able to make a person wise to salvation, right?

For sure. However, I think there's just words in there. I don't think it has to do with theology and doctrine or whatever. Well, some of it might. But I just think there's better translations.

Right. Yeah, I agree. I would agree with that, too.

Matter of fact, I'm walking around here with that big old gray cell phone, right?

Yeah. How about. So, what is everybody's favorite translation?

ESV. I'm using ESV right now.

What I just what I just got was ESV.

But I like the LSB as well. I like the LSB as well, too.

Which one's your favorite, Tom? I'm going to go with LSB.

And the NASB. I got me an 07.

I'd have to agree with Jeff on the way that the ESV flows.

The ESV is made for reading and reading in public.

It's not made for memorizing, though. It's bull crap. Actually, you could. Actually it's been proven that you can memorize the King James version easier than you can.

The ESV. No, that's garbage because of that. I can't even read the King James. How am I going to memorize it?

I mean, when when I mean, there are some because, you know, you grow up with it.

Listen, here's what I want people to do. I want you to grab a King James Bible. Yeah. And I want you to turn it to First Corinthians chapter five. And I want you to read First Corinthians chapter five and tell me what it's talking about.

Because every time I get a wild hair at my butt and thinking I'm going to read the King James Bible, I'll go to First Corinthians chapter five. And I have no idea what I just read. Zero. So that's not a heart.

It's a zero.

If it is reported, Jeff, you said he loves the King James.

So so back in back in twenty eighteen, whenever I whenever I picked up. No, I actually it was I think in twenty twenty. My sons both came home with the ESB Bible from school. They did an after school program and my understanding of what I was reading exploded.

And yeah. Yeah.

So I mean, when I read, for example, OK, so the King James version, this is what I this is what I started in for my grace. You're saved through faith and that not of yourselves. It is a gift of God, not of works.

Lest any man should boast.

Tell Debbie to read First Corinthians chapter five.

She can do it. So tell me what it says.

I want you to articulate it. That's because she's smarter than Tom.

That's that's that's there's no doubt about that. But listen to the same one for my grace. You have been saved through faith and this is not of your own doing. So it didn't flow as well as the King James for my grace.

You're safe through faith and that not of yourselves. It is a gift of God. Lest any man should boast in King James versus the ESB for by grace. You have been saved through faith and this is not of your own doing.

It is the gift of God, not a result of works. That's how I got it. It is easier to memorize in my when I read that it it's easier for me to to memorize the King James.

We'll switch to the King James.

No, I'm I like the I like the church.

It's because you're as archaic as the King James.

Exactly. I got a great beard.

You were there when they were writing it, dude.

The Apostle Paul was right there. Right. No, I'm just joking.

You know, you were the plow boy that when William Findel was talking about.

That's right. That's right. Yeah. So anyway, I don't know. But if I was to choose one, if I had one to go with, I would either go with NASB or LSB number for my from. For my number one, I'd go LSB.

I remember a day where we were all like, yeah, we're all going to get ESB and have them together. And then I have later you stopped. We're going to use it like that was going to be what we're like. We're all going to worship God in the same Bible translation.

I remember like taking a I thought we did like a blood oath or something like that. Then that just went away real quick.

Well, actually, because because matter of fact, we were talking about a passage. I can't remember what it was. I think it was in Corinthian. And we were we were talking about it. And and we actually agreed that the ESB had it right.

And the LSB.

So there are places in Rome.

Romans 11 has a great translation with ESB. Absolutely phenomenal.

Yeah.

Yes. Yeah.

First Corinthians chapter seven talks about the marriage of the virgin.

Yeah.

So God honoring translations, right?

OK.

Next one, Tom.

Get the get the.

All right.

OK.

Agree or disagree. Using curse words in certain situations is not always sinful. Agree or disagree.

Agree. And I don't cuss.

So.

So, like, let's say if you were to say the word shit. Simple or not simple. Depends on.

I counted all this Google.

Huh? Google. Yeah.

Depends on the context.

Yeah.

So if you I guess if you were to say it in a sinful manner. Like on.