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All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Open Air Theology. This is a show that me and my homeboys get together and do. My name is Jeff. I'm one of the co-hosts. I'm also one of the elders at Covenant Reformed Baptist Church in Tallahoma, Tennessee.
If you're ever in this area, we would love to have you to worship the one true God with us. Also, if you like the intro music to this show, me and my co-elder, well my co-elder, he remastered it, not me, I didn't do any of that stuff, but he remastered it and a lot of people have been asking, they would like to be able to have it whenever they want to.
The single drops, I believe on the 22nd, sorry, I'm going to pass it over to Brayden, I'm going to stumble that.
I am Pastor Brayden Patterson of, well, so I got so much things to talk about now. So I am the pastor of Valley Baptist Church in Southern Idaho. We meet on Sundays at 11 a .m. in the morning on the Lord's day.
If you live in that area, I'd love to see you. However, on that note as well, I have been called to pastor a church in Southern California, Grace Bible Church. It's going to be full time ministry. It's a confessional 1689 church.
Really looking forward to that. And so California Kid, SoCal, as I've heard they like to call it. Anyway, yeah, they meet on Sundays at 1030 a .m. on the Lord's day of them. Please, if you live in that area, be a great blessing.
If you were to go to that church, check it out. Even before my family and I get there and love to see you in December when we do finally move. So also, I have Reformed Ex-Mormon as a YouTube channel.
Go check that out. And we have a conference coming up in February. So go look up OpenAirTheology .com. OpenAirTheologyConference .org. Go to Jeff's Facebook, click on the link and get yourself a ticket to next year's OpenAirTheology .org.
On that note, after I'm done talking for five minutes, I'll pass the mic down to. We're not doing so well tonight.
We're not doing well at all. As a matter of fact, so if I'm going to be I'm going to be looking in the camera. I know I'm looking at you now, but I don't see these yahoos over here. Oh, you don't see anybody?
Well, no, I see if I do this, but now I'm not looking through the camera because I'm on my iPad. So I'm going to do that. I like it better when you look at me. I know it's a rough day, but it was a good day, but a rough day.
I'm having technical difficulties. So I'm on my iPad. My camera's not working on my on my computer. And just so I could keep on whining a little bit more, I didn't even get to hear the new song.
I didn't even hear this. I mean, it's the same one. I haven't been able to upload it yet. And I'm not going to upload it to the OpenAirTheology until it drops.
OK, well, I still couldn't hear it. And you guys are dancing and it's just not the same. I just I you know, because, you know, the song is something that really gets us going. The song, you know, Jeff Rapp, everybody's going and I got nothing.
So I'm not motivated at all to do this. And now we're talking about Mormonism. I do have, however, a Lost City Opus X cigar that I plan on smoking to the glory of God after the show. Let's introduce myself.
My name is Tom Shepherd and I'm a member of Grace Bible Church of Bernie. And I am the co-host of OpenAirTheology. I do a YouTube show, even if none, all about evangelism. But today we're going to we're going to be talking about somewhat about evangelism today, aren't we?
With some Mormons. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, I'm excited to be here. I think you're in.
It might have been. It's just it's just not fair. That's just not fair. So so we are the three Mormon rejects and we have facial hair. Could you imagine?
We got to talk about that real quick. Number one, we had a great graphic for the show that Braden Patterson had ready to go. And it was all of us. It was looking good. And then he made this fake one where everybody had beards, including Braden.
And we're weird. And Jeff wasn't. I don't even have the right. Do you have that? You have a different nose. It's horrible. Awesome. No. So anyway, Jeff messed up and I can't even see comments on this either.
So I can't. That's sovereignty.
That's that's sovereignty, right?
That was a horrible graphic. That was one of the worst graphics that we've ever done on the show.
Let me let me do this here real fast. I'll I'll I'll show it just in case somebody doesn't have it, because I thought it was pretty funny.
And it was it was just fault.
You know, it was without a doubt. Not none of Braden's. None of Braden's. Is that showing? I got nothing.
Well, it looks good. Look at that. That is weird beard. Look at that. It looks like Dom DeLuise. What is going on there?
Whenever I went to get the graphic, this is the first one that popped up. So that's what I use. I was like, well, you know, this is what you do.
Oh, my God. My wife would divorce me if I looked like that.
Look, Jeff's got a blonde beard. Yeah. Look at this. That's good looking is what that is.
No, that looks still. Mormon with a beard is what that looks like.
Dude, your beard didn't add no weight to your chin like.
Was with the nose. I don't know. Just give me a beard without the nose. It was an A .I. thing I did. It was pretty funny.
Oh, man. Oh, boy. All right. Well, what are we talking about tonight? Besides talking about those Mormons, those Mormons, dem boys, dem.
Mormons, they don't even like being called Mormons.
So the male audience is, yeah, they really don't.
But not necessarily Mormons. We're talking about modern, modern. I can't say the word modern, modern, modern. I can't say it.
Mod earn modern earn. And there's a few words from Pastor Jeff Jeffrey.
Listen, my congregation knows there's a lot of words that this just straight lingo kid cannot say. Brayden's want to write a book. I mean, it was like, well, let's think of a title. He says the title.
And I can't even say the title. People ask me what's in my book. I was like, ask Brayden.
I can't say it. Oh, man. The architecture of the new covenant.
So we are talking about modern day. LDS is actually so actually later, later day, better letter, letter. They say later, latest. It's the latest day. Latest, latest day saints. Why. These guys just can't get it right.
Can they? They just keep on going ladder and ladder.
I don't see how we got an audience for guys.
Yeah, please subscribe and share this video around. Let me just say that up front, right? It's going to get better. Okay. I swear here on out it's better now. So there are, um, this, this conversation really came up after several weeks ago, we talked about doing a show on this and then it was, well, we should do a show on this and that got precedence and then we were like, well, let's talk about Mormonism next week.
And then there was something else that popped up. And so every Mormonism kept on getting put on the back burner. And then, um, in that meantime, I had the opportunity to talk with a LDS individual named Zachary, right?
Um, he's a LDS apologist guy and he was bringing up things that he believes as an LDS member that when I was LDS, I would never say, um, and so it really opened my eyes about the lat latest day. Saints are evolving and they're muddying up the water even more in the process.
So would you say that they don't even disagree? They don't even agree with the, the, the church leaders of the latter day saints right now.
That's absolutely, absolutely not. Yep.
Does that make it harder to evangelize them?
Absolutely. It, it, you have a harder time putting a pin on what exactly they believe because it's going to change even in the middle of the conversation, just so you can't actually nail them down on, on an actual engaging conversation.
And so, um, I mean, there's so many things. So I'm going to share a screen real fast with you. I think this is kind of funny because this happened right as the show was starting. I was, I wanted to pull this up just to show people this.
Um, but let's do this. Bam, bam. So we talk about different AI programs, right? Uh, pastor stealing chat, GPT sermons and dah, dah, dah, dah. Well, did you know that there is a website called LDS bot and it's an AI apologist LDS website?
So I said, what is this jank to it? They responded. And then I called it a heretic and it didn't respond. So, um, I don't know. Um, yeah, so just, I mean, you can see the type of ways that they're, they're going about now being able to argue with Christians.
And so if I, if an LDS person that is really wanting to have a thorough conversation with the Christian, they utilize this website and it's a Christian that's really unknowing, you're going to be thrown with a plethora of things that you don't know how to maybe handle right off the top of your head.
So I hope that tonight we can give you some really valuable insights that hopefully will help you engage not only Mormons, but Jehovah witnesses and every other cult in between.
So, yeah. And eventually we're going to have Jake D on here, Mr. Derringer, and we're going to interview him on Jehovah witnesses, being that he is an ex Jehovah witness, right? And, uh, he can probably give us some practical tips on how to have those conversations, uh, whenever they come knocking at your door or when you see them standing in an airport by a tall box with information, just with their arms crossed.
So, um, I did want to also start with showing this real fast. So this comes right from, so there's several places I want to go with this, like this conversation tonight, but this comes right from LDS .org's website.
So when you talk to an LDS person and you bring up things that they are unfamiliar with, or at least when I was LDS, this was the case. If somebody had brought up something to me that I was, it sounded not right.
It sounded anti is how I would describe it. It sounded like you're trying to undermine my belief. I would just say, well, that that's anti Mormon. And that doesn't come right from the LDS website. And so this is the LDS website on this topic right here.
This is the 13 articles of faith that they have. And these are just short statements that the church holds to. And in statement of faith eight, it says, we believe the Bible to be the word of God, as far as it is translated correctly.
We also believe the book of Mormon to be the word of God. And so when you compare that statement right there to what Joseph Smith claimed when he was 14 or a story he claims when he's much older than 14 years old.
But one that he says he experienced when he was 14 was that Christ appeared to him. The father in Christ appeared to him, which right there are our apologist. Red alarm should be going off because has anyone seen the father, Jeff or Tom?
No, no. But Joseph Smith says he didn't. And he says that Jesus told him. Well, you've seen Jesus. You've seen the father. Well, this is true. But he's saying two different two different personages. Right.
So actually two different gods, correct? Two, two different beings. Yep. Two different. Yeah.
Yeah. I, according to Mormonism. Yeah. We'll, we'll get into that too here in a moment as well. But, um, J Jesus tells Joseph supposedly that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight, all the Protestant believers, all the Christians in Joseph Smith's day in the 1800s, all their creeds were an abomination in sight that they drew near with their lips, but their hearts were far from him.
And so part of the, the creeds is chapter one, paragraph one of the 1689, which is a confession that all three of us hold to. And it says that the word of God, the Bible, the scriptures, the 66 books are the only infallible inspired, uh, sufficient rule of all knowledge and saving faith.
And so the Christian saying the Bible alone is the sufficient revelation of God. And the book of Mormon is saying, no, no, there's more. And by putting in this word, as far as it is translated correctly, they're putting a caveat under every contentious or contradictory claim from the book, from the Bible that proves Mormonism wrong.
They can just say it wasn't translated correctly. Gotcha.
So kind of a win-win for them. Yep.
Yep. It's a, it's a moving of the goalposts to make it so that somebody can never score on you. Um, so I, like even you bring up Ephesians two, eight and nine. Well, that was, that was translated incorrectly.
Gotcha. You bring up Romans chapter three. Well, that was translated.
Well, what if you break out the Greek, like, like if you were to just read to them, the.
Greek, yeah, they're, they're, they're not going to like it because of ultimately they think that it's been corrupted in some way.
The Greek has been corrupted, the manuscripts, the manuscripts.
Yep. And also even in this talk, go ahead.
But will they pay, uh, you know, like if you point out how the Book of Mormon has been.
Changed over the years. When you are talking to your average, when I say average, I mean, the, the LDS person that doesn't do a lot of, doesn't have LDS bought, right. Doesn't, doesn't, isn't actively engaging with Christians.
That kind of LDS person isn't know any of this, but. And they think that there hasn't been any changes to the Book of Mormon, but modern LDS apologists now are going way further, changing, changing definitions that I would have never held to.
So something that, that Zachary Wright guy, that's, he said that I would have never believed in when I was LDS was that each one of us, you, Tom and Jeff, myself, we are all as eternal as God is, that there's never been truly anything created that we've just been reshaped.
Which, which also would include us being former sinners, but now achieving Godhead. Yes. So basically that claim would make God the father that we believe in. He would say that that person was actually a former sinner.
Yeah, but don't, so when I was going to a Mormon church, just to, you know, for people that don't know, I, for about two or three months, I was attending a Mormon church just to find out what they believed.
What I was told is that we were spiritual offsprings of heavenly fathers, how they would, you know, that that's the lingo. So in heaven, the father had sex. Can we use that language here with heavenly mother and had spiritual offsprings.
So that right there eliminates us being eternal, right? If we were in any fact created. So, so, so even in their own theology, it seems to go against what Mormons have taught. And so this is something that I was taught in 2004 ish, five ish.
Yeah, it is that that saying right there is completely different than anything I'd ever heard growing up as LDS. I always had heard that we were spiritual offspring of a heavenly father and a heavenly mother.
And then that was our preexistence. And then we came to earth to get our bodies so that then one day we could be exalted, be like God, the father or heavenly father. But now it's now it's removing that and saying, well, science says nothing has come into existence and nothing can truly be destroyed.
It's just that things change their their form. Well, that's exactly how God or our God works is that we're all ontologically. Listen to this. We're all ontologically the same. Just just different, different stages of that sameness.
Now, would would the Mormon missionaries that that used to be the ones that are in the tie, what knocking on doors, would they do that, too? Or is this something totally different?
So something that we're going to watch here in a moment is a great brother in Christ. His name is Aaron, and I'm going to butcher his last name. It's Aaron Shavovloff.
I yeah, that is terrible.
I think that was actually listen, I was practicing before we got on. I think that was the closest time I've gotten to it.
It's a terribly. It's all I've used out of Pentecostal church.
Listen, it sometimes came out of me right there. Someone else coming on. He has brought to my attention. I didn't know this was a thing. So one of the ways that why Mormonism is being changed so much is that you have these rogue people that are doing their best to be apologists for the church.
And so they're changing all these different views on things and trying to arm people with with answers that the church never officially take. So then they have always a cop out because they say, well, this hasn't been officially said, this is just what I it's terrible stuff.
And so the the group that it's called, it's called the Calvary. It's not Calvary is in the mountain of Calvary where Christ was crucified by getting on your horses and riding a Calvary in the war, the Calvary on Facebook.
And it's this missionary group that is, I would argue, peddling this new, modern, more latest day saints muddying the water stuff. And it's it's scary stuff.
Now, what what do the true Mormons think of these guys? Real quick. I think that.
I would imagine as time goes on, there'll probably be a more of official statement from the LDS officials that just double down and say, well, if it doesn't come from us, then it's not.
The church's authority or or those that are in the main church would get a profit that would side with them just to keep that because because they hope to what the living prophets say, not necessarily what dead prophets have said.
That's right. And so that's something that Aaron in this video discuss on is that in the 1950s, the 1970s, we had LDS prophets standing up and teaching X, Y or Z things behind their pulpit on general conference that now modern prophets are completely contradicting and having several teachings that are going against these things, which which one's true.
And this gentleman, his name's it's Dustin Dixon. Dustin Dixon, who's this LDS, I would argue, in practice, an apologist here who's a part of this Calvary group is a part of Zachary Wright and Travis Anderson, I think is another name that's in there.
And he's he's essentially says, well, both can be true, but they're contradictory statements. And he just doesn't want to acknowledge that. So we watch the clip here. I have a clip. So I have I have several clips here.
I will say that this first one that we show does have a curse word in it at the very.
Real quick. Can I ask this much, Michelle, a question, Michelle, what is GTS? Why? She says, hey, oh, hey, GTS, my sister.
It's good. It's good to see you, Jeff.
Oh, OK. Oh, listen, I I'm not with the time.
You know, Jeff, you just allowed.
I'm just not with it, right? I mean, I'm I'm I'm 44 years old, OK? I mean, I'm not a young buck no more. I love it. I get up in the middle of the night to pee five times and hurt myself twice. All right, we'll put this up.
Sorry. Listen, this is a different kind of show, OK? This is a different show. Yeah. And to answer Bruce, he asked, do we only do the videos? We would do a podcast with faces. And what fun would that be?
Yeah, we will one day. Hopefully, Lord. Yeah.
And just don't figure it out. We're a bunch of dumbos before I play this video. I do want to just show.
And the only reason I show this is not as this is a form of showing authority. But this was this was my quad when I was LDS.
And I explained to them what a quad is.
It's the Book of Mormon, the Bible, the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price all bound together in one one go with it. But I just want to let you know that I was very much an LDS member.
And so I'm speaking from experience and a what used to be a testimony on these things. And I'm telling you, when I was growing up, this is a completely different form of Mormonism now and it's dangerous.
And so I hope that this is a blessing to everybody that watches. So but on that note, we're going to watch just the first two minutes here of this does have a curse word in it. So if you don't want to hear the S word said skip for a couple minutes.
But here it is. Just toughen up. Yeah, just toughen up. We're up in the hands. It's almost like John and Cash flipping somebody off. Yeah, that's that's controversial.
Let's keep on going. Yeah, it's like my ability to choose good and wrong, my ability to like do works of good or works of evil. Yeah. But we would define that as a moral public. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah. Not having a premoral life was a big part of that.
How so? Well, if if I was created from nothing, right. I mean, God's infinite foreknowledge already knew what what place he's going to put me in or what decisions I've made. Given what circumstances, that's a pretty standard Latter-day Saint view, though.
No, it's not actually. Most Latter-day Saints we talk to believe in divine, definite foreknowledge. I don't I don't really give a shit what those Latter-day Saints have to say, but thank you. It doesn't matter to me.
Most of your leaders, though, have taught that God knows the definite future. When they've spoken on the issue. But you know the story of Osler and Maxwell. You told me you were a candidate for Blake Osler.
Correct. Neely Maxwell on timelessness and he agrees with them on this point. I don't I don't know how that what the outcome was. But OK, but the changes, but the dominant position of historic Latter-day Saint theology is that God knows the definite future.
OK, that's the dominant position for just traditional Christianity in general. I would expect those Protestant presuppositions to be within Christendom in general. I don't I don't people haven't really given much thought to Latter-day Saint dialogue.
But your leaders have taught that God knows the definite future. I think that the Bible teaches that. I'm I'm that who's posing a problem is why I brought it up with agency. And it also contradicts to a lot of the prophecies in the Bible.
I don't think your leaders think that's true. OK, I was just appealing to your authority, right? My authority? Yeah. No, no, no. No, because the Bible would disagree if that. Oh, you're the objective authority.
The Bible, the Bible teaches that the Bible holds that God knows the definite future. I would say some verses in the Bible indicate that.
And then let me pause here and just I hope you guys heard that. This Dustin gentleman said there is no objective authority. And that was in response to Aaron saying the Bible is the objective authority.
So that's my question, too. So Aaron is assuming that this guy is going to represent normal Mormon beliefs at first.
Great question. So let me let me be up front and tell us a couple of these things. So this was this is a two hour long video that Aaron does. Let me also say Aaron does a fantastic job in this video. And even in areas where we would say, well, maybe we could have said this.
I would be doing the same thing if I was watching one of my evangelism videos. I'd be like, man, I wish I would have done this instead of this. Right. And so I know I know that Aaron is getting a lot of slack regarding people saying, well, why are you casting pearls before swine?
This guy doesn't want to hear the gospel. Why did you waste two hours of your time on him? Listen, we all get led in different ways when we're doing evangelism to try to talk to people in different ways.
And sometimes we immediately shut down conversations. Sometimes we keep on having those conversations. And one of the fruits of this conversation, listen to me. One of the fruits of this conversation is the fact that everyone now can watch what more modern apologetics looks like.
Right. We can all take notes and we can all put these things in our tool belt to be able to evangelize to LDS people. But one thing I would say that I do think here going forward, you see that Dustin is having the presupposition that there is no objective reality.
There's no objective truth. So therefore, everything he argues for is 100 percent subjective. Aaron is trying his best to point himself, point Dustin to the word of God that shows objective truths within it.
The Bible tells us that the natural man will not accept the things of God, that we are enemies of God, we're haters of God. All those Bible verses that tell us a presupposition that we have as believers towards unbelievers.
Right. When I was LDS for those 19 years, I would have thought that I could understand the things of God. And it was revealed to me personally and through feelings and burnings in the bosoms and all these kind of things.
Right. However, it wasn't until God opened my eyes and did something to me that his objective truth was made so bright and clear. I could no longer reject it as objective truth. And so Dustin, in this video, the LDS individual, he's not going to accept these things.
And he even admits it in the video, unless the Lord is kind to him and opens his eyes and changes his heart, which is the prayer.
So we would say the natural man receives not the things of the spirit because he's spiritually discerned. Right. That's right. It's foolishness unto him of this entire conversation. So the things that he's trying to communicate to him are right over his head.
He's trying. Absolutely.
Yeah, absolutely. Listen, this is something I noticed, Tom, I sent you the voice messages of this as we sat and listened to it and for accountability and whatnot. That Zachary Wright gentleman, I want to get your opinion on what you thought of what he was saying as somebody who never broke his LDS.
What did you think of him and what did you think of my interaction with him?
So he was trying to put yourself, well, number one, he was just trying to twist everything. Every single thing that you brought up to him, he went to something else. As soon as he knew he was wrong, he would go into, well, what about this?
He would never address any of the issues that you brought up because he knew he was trapped. So, I mean, it was almost like he was trying to spin everything that you said to him and going on to another issue.
In other words, he would spin 10 different opinions, saying everything was subjective and that none of the things that you were saying were. So he was just trying to spin the conversation constantly. So he wasn't interested in knowing the truth.
He was putting himself on the same level ground as you were, yet he had no standard by which to stand on. And you were telling him the standard is the scriptures, the standard are the 66 books of the Bible.
This is what it says, but he wouldn't accept any of it. He wouldn't accept any of the truth. He was just argumentative.
Absolutely. Yeah, I would agree with you on that. And I think, so what we see in those voice messages from Zachary is the exact same type of argumentation that this Dustin gentleman is doing in here. He's coming at it with an attitude of arrogance and pride.
And he, this guy, he actually admits it. He says, I am arrogant. At one point in this video, he says, I am arrogant. Something that, you know, something that I would just say to Michelle, too. So she just brought up something about Isaiah with God's word doesn't return void.
Amen to that. We're dealing with men. Listen, let me show you this real fast. I'll put this up on the screen and I can bring back this here in a second. But let me share screen on this. This is, I don't know if we'll be able to see this or not.
Oh, yeah, we will. So this is just one of the messages that was sent by this gentleman to myself. He says in here, so he brings up Isaiah. So that's the reason I'm wanting to bring this up, Michelle. Your comments about Isaiah actually verify my point about you ultimately holding to a subjective standard.
We can't objectively prove that Isaiah wrote all of Isaiah because we can't find any manuscripts that that date that far back. That would be objective. And we just don't have that. So you are imposing your subjective opinions into the text to arrive at your conclusion.
However, one thing that I bring out to him is how does Jesus treat the words of Isaiah? He quotes them and he treats them as historical facts. And Isaiah is prophesying about a thing in the future that according to Isaiah chapter 44 to 46, he says, I will tell you these things before they happen so that you may know that I am God and there's none other that there's none before nor after me.
So God himself speaks. I tell you future events to let you know that I am God and that this was true, that I prepared this beforehand so that you would know that I'm the only God. And what Zachary is doing and what Dustin is doing in these videos is is no better than the atheist that's trying to take the modern textual criticism approach of trying to disprove every book of the Bible so that then you don't have any objective reality.
You have no objective truth.
And so, you know, so Georgia, Georgia, just ask the question, do you think that OK? Yeah. Do you think that these cults are to read that again on mine? Do you think that all of these are just false teachings that are cultivating a secular beliefs in their religion?
And in my opinion, they're basically trying to conjure up a God of their own understanding that's going to suit them. Whatever God that they want to to follow or that that's that's going to be the one that they're going to that they're going to follow a God that they've made up in their own mind.
Amen.
That is for sure. Right. And that's what we expect from people who are dead in their sins. Absolutely. That follow after the imaginations of their mind. Right. That's one that's our layer.
One's not that that's not going to punish me according to my sin that, you know, I forgive myself. I'm accepted by everything. Just a God that's going to suit us. And that's what all idolatry is. Yeah.
We're our own God.
And so the question I kept on trying to hound is accurate, which this gentleman I know I haven't shown you everything. And a lot of it was through voice messages. But one thing that he never did was answer my question of how do you believe?
Why do you believe in what you believe in? And and he didn't want to answer it because I would assume and this is this would be the reason why I wouldn't want to answer it as an LDS individual. Previous LDS individual was because you have to admit I got a good feeling about it.
Hmm. It's it's based on my opinion rather than something other than my opinion. And and you listen, let me let me ask you guys this, Jeff. If if let's say I was wanting to argue with you, debate you on whatever topic it was, but I didn't believe in the laws of logic.
I said I was a purple cow and you can't convince me any other reason. And all the other cows in this world are really chickens and all chickens are really just fire engines. How are you going to debate me on anything?
OK, you can't.
You don't have an objective reality to hold to someone to. That's the importance of knowing the laws of logic and understanding presuppositional apologetics in some in some basic understanding. Right.
I've had a conversation with one. They spoke about the testimony and the burning in the buzz. And I just say, yeah, man, I've had gas before, too.
That's right. I love it.
Yeah. And that's and that's really that's really. The issue is, is that we are going with the presupposition that God, God's word is final authority. There's absolute authority in God's word and that we must submit to that that word.
If John Stott said we cannot agree on anything unless we first agree how to agree. So what's the standard of our belief? And so what do we do, Braden, when a guy just keeps on going out, spinning and spinning and spinning?
My opinion is that we go right back to the hard issue. What is what's the gospel?
That's right. Yeah, that's right. I think every conversation, listen, and this goes for old what my experience of LDS individuals were and even what LDS people of today are modern LDS people, the latest day saints.
And that is you need to tell them about Jesus. You you can try to bring up different Joseph Smith history, bring in young history. Look, I got a quote right here that's real easy to show craziness of Joseph Smith.
He he says in here, I was reading it to Jeff earlier. You can't call it. Yeah. So it's it's in the Journal of Discourses. It's in volume six. This is produced by the LDS Church, which they reject now as doctrine.
That's you can find that on their LDS website. But this was preached by Joseph Smith. He says this. It is necessary that we should understand the character and being of God and how he came to be so. For I'm going to tell you how God came to be God.
We haven't imagined and suppose that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea and will take away and deuce away with the veil so that you may see. OK, he says in the following page here, then, is eternal life to know the only wise and true God and how you have got to learn how to be gods yourselves and to be kings and priests to God.
The same as all gods have done before you that. That's the founding of Mormonism is wanting to become your own God. Yeah. And listen, that's the reason why Joseph Smith talks about not wanting to believe in the confessions, because the confessions are very clear about this, that there's only one God from all eternity to eternity, because God's word that is inspired, infallible, inerrant and sufficient tells us that there's only one God from all eternity to eternity.
That's right. I do. I, you know, one of the questions that that was asked that you put up on the screen just a little bit ago, yes, they are. They are starting to use secular reasoning to influence their beliefs big time, big time.
So I do have I do have another minute marker here. If you want to put this one up on the screen, Jeff, check this out, guys.
And why should we assume that being God does means that they can't sin? I don't know. What is it? What are you talking about? The Bible doesn't speak the same way about David as it does about God. No, it's there's only it only says finishing the thought real quick.
It only says of God, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is this to come? No one's described that way other than God. So when the Bible talks, when it was a psalm that was read to the Davidic kings, calling them Elohim, right?
What are you thinking of? Sorry. So when the Bible, when the Psalms.
Which psalm are you thinking of? I can find it for you. She's in where you want to be.
Just as a courtesy, we are mic'd up right now. Psalm 45, 67. That's fine. Yeah, fine. Psalm 45, 6 to 7.
Want to read it? Yeah, sure. You're on day 19, but that is where exaltation comes in. You're about to get it all. You see red clouds. So my thoughts bring love. Oh, I'm just like different person. See if the eye of a dentist is on it for you all the time.
Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. Thy scepter of thy kingdom is the right. Is a right scepter. Thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness. Therefore, God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
This was specifically the psalm written to the Davidic kings. That's what I call them, okay? And so when the author of Hebrews uses it in reference to Jesus Christ and God the Father, that is exactly what you were just asking me around.
When is the Davidic king ever equated the same way as God is equated? Right here in Psalms and right here in Hebrews. So in the history, in the Christian tradition, reading that. Hold on. I would recommend not following the rhetorical patterns of Travis Anderson here.
I don't know what you're talking about. I think I learned this from Travis Anderson. Well, maybe the community that you're in has a style of rhetorical aggression that doesn't allow for complete thoughts.
I actually think you're... I would feel the same way about probably all of traditional Christian theology. I don't... That's just a subjective claim. I don't... Talking about the mode of speech and interfaith dialogue.
I think we should... There's a little bit of a threshold of interaction, of interruption where there's a kind of like excited back and forth. But we should allow each other to finish most thoughts. Unless I'm going on and on and on.
But in the Christian tradition, when we read such passages, the idea is that David is a type of Christ to come. That there are certain things said of David that are more true of Christ than they are of David.
That they are exemplified in Christ in the way that they're not exemplified in David. So you're saying there's scriptures that talk about David the same way they talk about Christ, right? Of Moses, Abraham, Joshua.
So that's the contradiction you were telling me before. Because you just said... Originally said the opposite. No, that the things that are true of these typological figures are pointing to something that's crystallized in the person of Jesus that is even more true of Jesus than it is of these sinful figures.
So when the prophets would read...
What do you guys think of that? So what's the guy's name who's doing the Christian guy's name again?
The Christian guy, his name is Aaron.
So Aaron, number one, I think is doing a great job. He's absolutely talking about what the truth is. That there are typological figures in the scriptures that is pointing to Christ. The issue with that, not that he's...
And I don't mean to be dogging him at all, I'm not. He's speaking truth. But this is something that even Christians have a hard time understanding, that this guy is just not... I wouldn't even go there.
There's just no way he's going to be able to understand what the Bible is pointing to. But I do know, to be fair, in minute 20, when you get there, he starts talking about who God is. And then the other guy is trying to make his argument, why God wasn't a sinner in the past.
And so he eventually gets there. But in case anybody's looking at this saying, why is he even discussing this about it? Well, eventually he does get there. You want to bring that up? Yeah, let's hear it.
Okay.
I'll play it right here, minute 20. But that was your question, right? Because that was the criteria for what an Elohim is. That's what we were originally talking about. I think maybe my point was, there's certain superlative, extreme, categorically unique statements about God that are not made of David, are not made of any other figure.
So for example, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come. There's no other figure in the Bible spoken of like that. Nobody even comes close or even possibly... Okay, close to that.
And so back to what we were originally talking about, you're saying that those verses teach that to be a Christian, it's required that you believe that God was not a sinner. Is that... Well, I'm making the observation, there has never been a Christian that has believed God may be sinned.
As it... Per your criteria of Christian, sure. The historic Christian position. Okay. That's unanimous. For the criteria of the Bible, like what is the criteria to be a Christian from the Bible? To believe in the Lord Jesus Christ substantially and not merely superficially.
Okay. So what does that mean? Substantially, not superficially. To repent and not be an idolater, but to look to God as the most... So in the past thought that God was a sinner, is that not what they're...
Could they not fit under that criteria? That would be idolatry. It would not be the same God, right? So then I asked you where in the Bible that that doctrine is contained, right? Revelation 4, 8. So it says like, it doesn't say that God was never a sinner.
It says that he was holy, right? Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who... They were commanded to be holy in Leviticus. Right. So we're even supposed to be that way. Can you see the difference?
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come. That's not true of you.
But never was true of you. Amen. Boom, my drop right there. So correct me if I'm wrong, Bray. He's the other dude is trying to make the argument that God was formerly a sinner. And the reason why he's doing that is because of the Mormon beliefs that they believe then as a sinner at one point by grace, somehow they were saved and they can achieve Godhead.
They believe that God was once a man. And so if God was once a man, that would include him being a sinner.
Listen, this comes from the words of Brigham Young again. This is sometimes accepted and sometimes not, depending on the group of LDS that you're talking to. Because again, it's all based off of subjective how I want to feel about the opinion at the time.
But in the journal Discourses again, this is Brigham Young during a message. He says, they appear to be bounded in their capacity for acquiring knowledge. His brother Orson Pratt has a theory bounded, has in theory bounded the capacity of God.
So he's referring to another person who's LDS who is not teaching what he's going to say right here. So right there, that should throw some what, like, how does that work? If both are inspired of God, but still we'll keep on going.
It says this, according to his theory, God can progress no further in knowledge and power. But the God that I serve is progressing eternally. And so are all his children. They will increase to all eternity if they are faithful.
So right. Listen, they believe that the father, depending again on the LDS person, if you, if they are just this LDS saying that, that we're all eternal ontologically beings that we've never come into existence, but we've always listened.
That's just weird to think about, right? That statement of God. I am that I am. If we're wanting to say we're ontologically the same makeup, can any of us say I am that I am absolutely not. And so Brigham Young is arguing.
And what this gentleman is arguing for is that, that the father was able to increase and he's still increasing today, which is completely different than the immutability doctrine of.
Yeah. What do you do if I am the same yesterday, today and tomorrow? What do you, I mean, what do you, what do they do with those verses?
They would say just because I think a plastic, so listen here, plastic cup was something else prior. It just has changed a little bit. And you see, they would try to throw something out there like, well, did Jesus change when he became flesh or did Jesus go through puberty?
Or did Jesus, did he turn 29 to 30 years old? Like things along those lines, which we know as Christians.
And as, as, as, as evangelists became flesh, God took on humanity.
That's right. Right. And we, and that, that right there is falsely understanding the hypostatic union, the nature of God never changed. But part of the nature of man is that you grow old and you do change throughout time.
So there's some things going on there, but that, that's just this type of argument and reasoning that tries to make the LDS sound right. And, and whatnot. So one thing I hope that this proves everybody that's listening to this is that LDS are dangerous and they're educated on this matter right now.
So given, given this, you're, you're, you're going here that you're trying to achieve Godhead. I mean, do you go to just, just the scripture when you, you know that, listen, if God, if God was a sinner, if Christ was a sinner, he's not qualified to die on the cross to pay for your sin.
He's not qualified as a sinner to be able to pay the penalty for your sin, because he would have to die for his own.
Well, they're not covenant theologians.
And they're also saying that Jesus, they would say that Jesus didn't sin. They would say Jesus was perfect.
And didn't sin. However, Father sin, but Jesus. Yep.
Really? So one of the things, one of the things is, is that Joseph Smith in, in one section, I should have read for you right there. Joseph Smith seems to admit that the father was the savior of his earth, of his world, whatever world that was called that he was that to that one.
However, he could save that world as a sinner, but he creates a world for his son to save them, but he could not be a sinner.
That's yeah. Yeah. One of those things with it's crazy stuff. And I would say that not all LDS believe this by any means. I think this is just them throwing something out there saying, well, you see, David was a sinner, but yet David is called Elohim from Psalm 45.
So why couldn't the father? It's not admitting that he was a sinner. It's saying he could have been and not violated the term. So here's the issue.
Here's the issue. So I'm not saying, and the Orthodox Christian faith, right. Christianity, there are, you know, beliefs that we can differ over, right. And still remain a Christian, but there are certain things, core issues, the doctrine of God, the doctrine of the Trinity, justification by grace alone through faith alone.
Essentials of the faith. Yeah. It cannot be messed with. Right. And if you mess with it, you're not a Christian. What are those essentials in the Mormon church? Cause it sounds like it's like, you can just pitter, patter all you want to with the, with their view of God.
Like what? Yeah. What are the, you know, like, like, like for someone to claim to be a Mormon. Listen, this is the, this is the moving of the goalposts that I'm talking about with this.
I'm going to change the definition to fit whatever I wanted to fit at the time, according to these LDS people. I would argue that in order to be considered LDS, it would be a person that holds to the 13 articles of faith that we looked at earlier.
One of those being that the Bible is not trend or the Bible is the word of God, as far as it's translated correctly. But we also believe that the book of Mormon is the word of God. There's several other statement of faiths in there that you too have, would have to believe in.
Second, you'd have to believe that Joseph Smith was a prophet who received priesthood authority, which is completely different than the biblical propositions of what the priesthood was and is. But that Joseph Smith was a prophet that there's a modern prophet today.
And that you've been baptized into the church. Who's the modern prophet today?
It's oh, gosh, dang it. Of course, you'd have to ask that. It's used to be the modern prophet, the president.
Yes. Yeah. They call it the president of the church.
Yeah. So whenever I was going to that Mormon church, it was Gordon B. It was. Yeah. It's Russell M. Nelson. I can't believe I didn't remember that.
But yeah, it used to be Gordon B. Hinckley. That's what I grew up with too, Jeff. Then it became Thomas S. Monson. And now it's Russell M. Nelson.
Just one step closer to God then, right? Godhood. One step closer to Godhood. Yep.
And their eternal progression. So you can manipulate the doctrine of God all you want, but just don't manipulate the doctrine of Joseph Smith.
I would agree with that. That's one of the things. And listen, so this is something that I brought up with that conversation I had with Zachary, right? At one point in the conversation, I said, look, how would you like it if I claimed to be LDS and I went to each one of my neighbors and told them I am a Mormon, but I reject Joseph Smith.
I reject the Book of Mormon. I reject baptism and priesthood authority and temples and so on and so forth. I reject it all. And I tell them I'm LDS and I'm speaking as an LDS person to you and I represent LDS doctrines.
How would you like it? And every time I've had a conversation with a missionary in person, they always say, well, no, you can't claim that. You got to wear your white undies. Right. And I look at them and I say, listen, you can't claim to be a Christian for the exact same reason I can't claim to be a Mormon.
That's because definitions matter. Right. And so with this Zachary Wright gentleman, I kept on pointing him to what the historical and biblical essentials of the Christian faith are, which is when Christ says you must do believe X and where you'll receive Y like John 8.
Unless you believe I am, you shall die in your sins. If someone doesn't believe in Jesus Christ as the Eagle Amy that I am, you will die in your sins. That's a promise from Jesus. That's an essential of Christianity.
You cannot be a Christian and deny the fact that Jesus Christ is the I am.
However, that's a great flip, by the way. I mean, that's you're flipping their own their own thing. Absolutely.
Yeah, that's great. He then argued with me that I was being responsible for the true Scotsman fallacy, which is the fallacy that says, well, no true Scotsman would eat porridge with honey because you have to eat it with peanut butter, whatever the example is.
The issue with that is that is not a true Scotsman's fallacy, because in order for a true Scotsman fallacy to be a fallacy is you have to have an objective standard of what makes a true Scotsman a Scotsman in the first place.
Yeah, they don't have that.
They don't. So listen, this is this is where a lot this is where presuppositional apologetics and really logically thinking through these kind of things can really help you, because if you were accused today, well, you're just you're making things up so that you can claim the title of Christianity.
But I can't. Well, no, the Bible is coherent together, and it tells us the definitions. It tells us what the true Scotsman is, what the true Christian is. Right.
And you're just not meeting those standards. And then they would go right into, well, we have the Bible, too.
As far as it can be translated correctly. Yeah. But again, like that craziness. So what happened? I don't know. Do you guys hear that? No. Oh, an ad popped up on one of my other screens. I was like, what is that?
It was some.
Joseph Smith coming to get you.
So there is one thing I did want to show show people this if you wouldn't mind pulling up the screen, something that the Zachary Wright gentleman did that I think this is where I if I had the opportunity to talk to Dustin in that conversation, there there are times where men are called Elohims in the Old Testament.
There's. Hey, I just share two pictures to our Facebook chat. I mean, our group messenger at the very end. Could you pull those up whenever we're done? OK, I should be able to do that. I should be able to do that.
We need to start doing that. Yes, we do.
But however, so one thing that I took Zachary right to which he just couldn't comprehend this, which again, I think that goes to show that this is the things of God are folly to those that are unconverted.
Right. But Philippians two, so he's he referenced Philippians two. So again, how can an LDS person reference anything in the Bible if it's not the objective standard? Exactly. They can't. They just can't.
They can't. It is. But he said in Philippians two that it's Jesus. So whenever we see Jesus being worshiped, because that was one of my arguments was that Jesus is worshiped. God's only one that receives worship.
So therefore, Jesus is God and flesh worthy of worship. Unlike other humans, right? No other humans worthy of worship. And he said, well, no, Jesus receives worship, but he gives it to the father. He's working as a mediator for us to worship the father, not him, which that goes against exactly the words that it says that they worship Jesus.
But regardless of that. So he referenced Philippians two, which has nothing to do with the son giving worship to the father.
It's only to the glory of the father. That's right.
So listen to this verse four of verse five and on is what exactly brought up and I'll read it. Have this mind among yourself, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God, a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself found in human form.
He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore, God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name so that the name of Jesus, every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every time should confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord to the glory of God, the father.
Now, listen to this. Jesus, who existed in the form of God, when he becomes in the form of man, where was the father at during this time? He was sitting on the throne receiving worship from angels. He was hearing glory, glory, glory, right?
Where was where, where was Jesus at? The one who is also God that is worthy of all that worship. Where is he at on earth? He's on earth here in crucify, crucify away with him away with him. That's the humility that's being talked about in here is that Jesus Christ, who was in as who was in the form of human was also God in flesh.
And that's why it's talking about humility. Have this attitude in yourself. However, that's not the point that I took that. So Zachary references first. I loved it that he brought it in here because this verse right here unequivocally approves what is the word approves, demonstrates whatever you want to say, demonstrates to us the deity of Christ here in verse nine and on.
It says, therefore, God has exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name so that the name of Jesus, every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the father.
That is a quotation from somewhere in the old Testament. It is a quotation from Isaiah somewhere in 44 to 46. Don't don't. I can't I can't remember off the top of my head exactly where it is. Don't stall me, please.
But Isaiah says that at the name of Yahweh, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Yahweh is Lord. You see what I'm saying? So what is Paul done in here? He says at the name of Jesus. So Jesus connects Yahweh, the one and only God that there's none before, nor after, nor like to Jesus.
And so, yeah, there are times where men are called Elohim. There is not a single time that another man in the Old Testament is called Yahweh. Amen. In fact, that's the whole reason that the Jews crucified Christ, because he being a man made himself out to be God.
He being a man made himself out to be the son of God, and he himself made himself out to be equal. God's three accusations of why they try to kill him and stone him. The mid John and each time it comes after he claims that he is the great I am.
That's right. Straights, his deity, Yahweh, the one and only God. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Yeah. So I yeah, it's it's 23. Read it. Send it. That's it.
You know, I actually reference this Philippians to five to 11 today. I don't even know what I'm doing, man. I'm over here looking in Ezekiel. All right. What I say? Forty five. Twenty three. Yes, sir.
OK, here we go. OK, yeah. It says about myself, I have sworn from my mouth has gone out in righteousness, a word that shall not return to me. Every knee shall bow. Every tongue shall swear allegiance only in the Lord.
Capital LRD, which is Yahweh. It shall be said of me, all righteousness and strength to him shall come and be ashamed. All who were increased and again increased against him. And the Lord, capital LRD, Yahweh, all the offspring of Israel shall be justified and shall glory.
And then the very first few verses of 46, it says that Bell will bow down and Nebo will stoop over speaking about the false gods of Babylon. They will bow their knee to the name of Yahweh. And then you go to Philippians to listen.
LDS, Dustin, Zachary, any other LDS person that might watch this, you will either have your knee bowed one day under the wrath of God or today is the day to bow it to the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's right. Hey, I think that Aaron guy is watching. Yeah, he is. Yep.
So I do have another spot up here that we can watch if we want. Let me, I haven't presented it to you, huh? Let me present it. My fault. My fault. I get passionate about this stuff, guys. So I hope, I hope it's received well.
This is it. Holy, holy, who was and is and is to come. Those that hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. This course, you have your own as well. Let me ask you a question. I'm just asking you a verse like Revelation 4, 8, as previously quoted.
If I understand you correctly, that does not suffice to establish that God never sent. Is that fair? I'm just trying to understand. It doesn't matter if it's under mine or your theology. That verse does not suffice to say that God was never a sinner, period.
Under any sort of theology. On the book of Revelation alone, I don't. Do you think that the Bible is sufficient to make a case that Heavenly Father never was a sinner? No, that's, that was my whole point.
No. Okay. That's why I was asking you about that. Okay. So that's why I asked you why it was a criteria for someone to be a true Christian. They have to believe that God was never a sinner. Yeah, that's built into the very definition of.
I mean, the Father, the person of the Father. Of all three persons of the Trinity. I'll make sure it is not in the Bible. So again, we can like, wow. I'm asking about specifically God, the Father. We can formulate the Trinity if you want to, but it's not the two.
Hero, Israel, the Lord, our God, the Lord is one. And then, and then sort of the creed or the confession, Jesus is Lord. To say that God is one. So what does God is one mean? To say that God is one. What does that mean?
To say that God is one. I don't want to build off their false position. I want to understand.
So I hope you guys are seeing. Listen to how this gentleman, Dustin, is not wanting to hear the actual argument. And he's just wanting to go off on this rabbit trail. Let's chase this other thing. Let's chase this other thing.
Let's chase this other thing. Instead of letting Aaron, rightly so, get out the biblical view of this. Let's just stop it and cut it short and chase something else.
So is Dustin claiming that God was a sinner and he's no longer a sinner? That he's now holy? Is that what he's claiming?
Dustin's argument, if I'm not mistaken, he's saying that the Bible is not sufficient at teaching us that the Father never sinned. And I don't think Dustin believes that he ever sinned. I think he's just saying that the Bible isn't sufficient at making that case.
Wow. He's saying that you need modern prophets for that. Yeah, to be a Christian.
So he said that it doesn't prove that the Father didn't sin. So what is the criteria for being a Christian? I mean, so one of the... Again, and you said that Mormonism does teach that Jesus never sinned, but the Father did.
It leaves... I think it leaves it open for interpretation, especially because the LDS in modern times haven't continued to talk openly about it. It's not with clarity that you could say one way or the other, according to the LDS.
But it is clear to say that God is not Trinitarian, as Dustin said. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, Dustin and all LDS people would say that there's a plurality of gods within the Godhead, that the Deuteronomy 6, 4 is more or less the way that I would have argued it was that the Father is a God, the Son is a God, and the Spirit is a God, and they're one in purpose.
Yep. Wow. This, though, I think is pretty interesting. There's two other spots. There's three other spots I want to show. So I'll be quick and show on this. Oh, clicked off of it.
So it's a few seconds. The interpretation of Scripture by your prophets and apostles matter to you? Yes. Yes. Okay, so if you believe that it says one thing, but your prophets and apostles have interpreted it to mean something else, does that have any bearing on you?
Yes. Okay. Yes. Good. Yeah. I can give an example. Ezekiel 37 has been interpreted by, to this day, as in the Preach My Gospel manual, suggesting that the prophecy about the two nations gathering is about the Book of Mormon and the Bible together, okay?
When I read that, and I'm taking my LDS presuppositions out of it, I see it as about the two nations of Israel and a restoration of the nations of Israel going back into being one instead of Judah and Israel together, right?
Both and or either or for you. So that's what I was getting at. Why can't it be both? Why can't I agree and respect and fear the interpretations of my Latter-day Saint apostles and also say that this is about the nations of Israel?
Why can't I have my take in either two?
Did you guys catch what he's getting at with that? Yeah, right, right. Saying just because something is LDS doctrine official that has been taught and proclaimed and LDS little kids are learning this right now, just because that's the case doesn't mean that it's necessarily true.
In other words, your interpretation of the truth is your truth and my interpretation truth is my truth, and we can just agree to disagree and keep on going on living peacefully. That's right.
That's right. I couldn't help but notice, Aaron, if you're still on, brother, what kind of Bible is that? It looks like a nice Bible.
Oh, what Bible he's got there. Yeah, yeah. What you holding, bro?
What Bible you thinking is, Jeff? I couldn't hardly see the way he was moving it, but it looked like a nice Bible. Of course.
I'm a Bible enthusiast. If you haven't gotten a post-Tenebrous Lux Bible rebind yet.
ESV creasing confessions, he says. You might need to get yourself a PTL post-Tenebrous Lux Jeffrey Rice special. This guy is the best Bible.
Go grab your belt. Go grab your world champion Bible. I do got a belt.
I try not to boast. Where's my belt? Hey, Aaron, man. I mean, seriously, what a great job you did with this young man. I don't think I've been able to stand up there with him that long. I was just, you know what, I've had enough.
Good patience there.
Good job. Let me just say, Jeff's Bible, if you buy a Bible from Jeff, it will last you. Your kid's lifetime. They'll have the same Bible as you. It's it's that's right. It's the quality is unbeatable.
Look at that. There's the Bible. Wow, that is fantastic.
Just wear that the rest of the night, dude. Love it. All right. Listen to this now. BYU professors can see more than Latter-day Saint prophets and apostles. They think that sometimes. Yeah, you're missing the point where the Latter-day Saint prophets and apostles.
Are they are our theologians? They interpret scripture publicly for the church. So they're not theologians. They're not philosophers. They're not really studying those arts. And unless they're specifically before their calling was in those arts, maybe like a little bit like Jeffrey R. Holland.
And so when the church has people who write books for Deseret, for scholars like that, it is explicitly their job to go into the history, to do like things like the Joseph Favors Project and to interpret history and have a more accurate representation of history.
That is explicitly not the prophets and apostles job. It's just explicitly not. I don't I don't. To interpret scripture. That's not what I said. I said to like to go into the Joseph Smith papers and interpret history and see like who taught what, when and all this stuff.
That's explicitly not their job. That's that's not what they're claiming to do. How are you linking that with stuff like 2nd E5 2523? Because it's not their job to study the English language enough to understand that the word after and that in the way that it was used at that time when the book of Mormon was translated could have meant despite it is it is their job to proclaim the doctrine of the church.
That is that is their job, right? So as they're doing that, they're interpreting scripture, right? Yeah. So when they get up for millions of people in the general conference pulpit and they interpret a passage like 2nd E5 2523 after all we can do, they have a responsibility.
I hope you'd agree to the responsible interpretation and responsible exegesis at some basic level before before they get up as a possible exegesis. No, that's not at all what like Matthew was doing. No, what are you talking about?
Responsible LDS prophets and apostles have a responsibility to responsibly exegete LDS canon from the pulpit of general conference. I would I would say no. Why they have no, I don't think I have any training in exegesis.
Why would I expect them to give perfect exegesis when they use LDS scriptures? How do you communicate? Should Latter-day Saints be able to trust Latter-day Saint prophets and apostles to publicly interpret scripture over the church?
Yes. Do you trust the LDS prophets and apostles from the 1950s to the 1990s to interpret 2nd E5 2523? I do trust them and respect their interpretations. Okay. And we're respecting so much to claim that they're even inspired.
Guys, I can't watch this again.
You know, I mean, seriously, I don't know what he believes. I have no clue. He don't know what he believes. He's just making it up as he goes. I mean, I would like him to write down on a piece of paper.
This is what I believe. And let's, I'll even start with you there. Let's just go here. And now let's compare it with the Bible.
Just crazy stuff. Listen, if Dustin sees this, you are formally invited to come on to Open Air Theology and have a conversation with us. Yeah. Zachary Wright, you are formally invited to come on here and have a conversation with the three of us.
I might have to, I might have to plug my earphones just saying. Now this is the sad part, guys.
Let's listen to this real fast. Yeah. This is where, let me be really like.
Hold on, let me clear something up real quick. They're talking about my Bibles. So it cost me $125 in material costs to make a Bible. And if I buy the Bible, I buy nice Bibles. So like those LSBs, I spent $70 for the Bible.
And so that's $120, $25 plus the $70, $75 with shipping. So I got like right at $200 out of pocket. All right. And then the eight days it takes to make a batch. And the labor is worthy of his wage. And I am, you know, hand stitching, like the stitching, everything is hand done.
Everything is hand done. Like these things do not fall apart. You can't buy anything like this. Even all the rebinders out there, like the style that they do. They stowed it for me. I came up with a style.
On this LSB leather, the leather they get, they get for those be not as good as the leather. I get, I get theirs from China and China. And I'm sorry, I'm still in it. But China and Korea, I get mine from, from Italy.
And, and this is a mostly from Italy.
And just so everybody knows that this is the, this is the judge of PTL Bibles right here. There's not another one made like it. If you notice.
I mean, I make them. Of course, I'm going to make myself the best one.
I mean, I mean, look at, I mean, you've got blue and you got silver.
We got your, we got to get back to the video. You guys, this is, Hey, your Bibles are nice. I are. They are absolutely. Look, you pay how much for a new phone? And it lasts you two years at most two years.
I bought a John MacArthur church grace community. Did you give it? Do you have a 2002? What's her name? Didn't Dineen Dineen. Oh, I wonder if she has one of the limits. I wonder if she does. NASB grace community church.
You know, the, the conference one. Oh my goodness. The, the shop con one. Do you have one of those?
Oh, sorry. Okay. Bible. Well, well, I do think you are a polytheist. So, and I, I don't, I think that if your God were to exist, I would want to go to hell. Okay. That's where you're going.
That's how the video ends.
Dude. I really hope you get the gospel and repent and believe, or else your wish is going to come true.
My friend. Yeah, that is sad, but, but you know what? I mean, listen, I mean the gospel we've, we've said it before the gospel is impregnatory. It, it pushes judgment on those who want to remain in their sin, who cannot see God for who he is, who want, who love their sin more than Christ who died to pay the penalty for your sin.
If you would just repent and submit and bow the knee, you can have life eternal. But if not, you will, you will go to hell and you will burn. And it will be a darkness that none of us could even imagine.
That's the reality of it right now. You want me to pull that video back up? Yeah. Pull back up real fast.
I do want to just show this. Look at this light, dark. This is a man that spent several hours trying to get through to this blinded individual who's dead in his sins. That is a true, a Christian needs to remember that these, these people, these people that reject Jesus Christ, the biblical Jesus Christ, they are dead in their sins.
And you could spend another 10 hours here and never talk this person into heaven.
And yeah, I'm sorry to interrupt. I was just, I was just going to add that. And God is glorified in that right there, right there. He's glorified Aaron.
Good job, man. Aaron is a man that loves Dustin enough to stand out there for two hours. Amen. Knowing that God, and he's a man that loves Jesus enough to tell this individual about what the LDS are claiming to believe in Jesus Christ.
However, Jesus Christ claimed that all the inerrant and sufficient old Testament scripture pointed to him and the LDS are not being consistent and looking at the word of God alone for their sufficient role of all saving faith and knowledge.
And so that you're not believing in the same Jesus. And that's why you have started to deny the deity, the singularity of the deity of Christ and that he is immutable. And then he does not change that.
He is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the last, that there's none before him nor after him. You want to claim you have made a God in your own mind, and you are wanting to claim that you are ontologically the same or similar to the father.
And how dare you? That is not, that's not biblical Christianity. No, it's not.
By at least the first two commandments. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Aaron, are you on Facebook by chance? He is. Yeah. Okay.
I'll look for him. All right. He's a good dude. He has a great debate with, I can't ever say his name. It's the guy that James White had a conversation with him with Jeff Durbin. It's the LDS Kwaku or L however you say.
Yeah, Kwaku. Yeah, I just got one of my Bibles, man. Yeah, dude. That's bad. A Mormon's got one of my Bibles and most of my peeps on here don't. You know what? And to answer her, she asked if she would have sent me a Bible.
It really depends, you know, but you can get one bound for 300, you know, and you're, I mean, the leather itself, the materials cost me nearly 125. I'm not making a killing. I wish that was though. If everyone would pay me my royalties, they owe me.
I'd be all right. I wouldn't complain a bit. Tell me how many Bibles can do this.
Just let me show you this real quick. Look at this flop. Yeah. Yeah. You watch out. I know it's already flying up. Look, like that is just like, I mean, it's at least flat. That's a beautiful Bible. It's dark in here, but man, that is nice stuff.
All right. Well, that's all I got.
I will say this, and this is a true statement. I am the only one that has the totalistic imprint right there. Right now.
This isn't the goat. This is the goat. Hey, Brayden, if you could pull up those two pictures. Oh, yes. Let me do that right now. My fault. Yeah. We got one of Iran elephant. Don't worry. We'll bring it up.
It's with your weird nose too.
I have a picture of Jeff. No, you don't.
It's about to be a one man show. So I'm over here trying to advertise for our upcoming conference. Yeah. Oh, this is fantastic. Yeah. You want to go to war? I'll take you to war. That's right. Listen, if you're not coming to this conference.
Missing out.
Like, what are you doing with your life? I mean, I could do without three people being there. Actually, I'll say four. Jeff, myself, Tom, and obviously, Andrew doesn't going to be there.
Yeah, this is going to be a really good conference. So listen, as good as the conference is, we also have Kenny and Claire coming back. As good as the conference is, which the conference is phenomenal.
The conference alone is worth the money, right? But the fellowship, like if you actually come and hang out with us afterwards, meet us at the restaurants, meet us at the cigar shops and hang out with us.
It is a blast. And I guarantee you, I guarantee you. Listen, I talked to a guy the other day. He goes to the G3s. He goes to all the MacArthur stuff, right? And he says Open Air Theology is the best conference.
Absolutely. Hands down. We just, we have fun. It's well organized because I put it together. And but other than, but we have a lot.
No, women can come as well. Yeah, men can come. Yeah, this is for men and women. Men and women and children. Bring the children. Yeah, don't give the children cigars or nothing.
Yeah, if you want to go hang out at the cigar shop with us, don't bring the kids.
No, but the preaching is God glorifying. I mean, we make much of Christ. We're going to go out there. We're going to have an evangelism event where we actually go out on the streets, come and watch us do it, participate with us, hand out tracts with us.
I mean, we make much of Christ at this conference.
Yeah, absolutely. And Greg Moore is going to be the host. And Greg Moore from Dead Man Walking podcast. That's phenomenal.
Can you throw a link to it in the comments?
I don't know. And then we have over here at the other top is Jeremiah Nortier. And we'll pull up his graphic. He's going to be the debater. Yeah, so we're having a debate. We don't have the graphic made for the pre-conference yet.
I'm hoping to get it out Monday or Tuesday, but we'll have it for the next show. And the pre-conference is going to be on evangelism boot camp, where we're going to be walking through people how to evangelize.
So here's the debate that we're having. Listen, this is going to be good. Jeremiah Nortier has become a really good friend of mine. Him and I talked for hours. And you might think, oh, y 'all just agreeing with everything.
No, me and Jeremiah, we fight. Just like me and these two guys, we fight about it. And we have fun doing it. Yeah, it is what it is. That's why we have Jeremiah on here sometimes. He's someone that throws a sword out and he's not afraid to cut you.
And then Lucas. Lucas is the guy, he debated, I believe he debated an apology of church, one of the deacons there. And so and and he seems to be a really good guy. Like I've text back and forth with him.
And then like, I'm hearing really good things about him. Just a lovely guy. I can't wait to meet him. I mean, he's wrong on this subject, but we got to have somebody to debate, right? Yeah, but yeah. So this will be the debate.
This will be the last thing that happens on Saturday. And then after the debate, we'll be headed back out doing some street preaching. So I would encourage you to to come and join us. Come and hang out with your boys and have a good time.
And listen, I say this because I love you. If you come to the conference, I'm going to expect you to buy me a sandwich. OK, that's it is what it is. My favorite food is free. OK, if you come to the cigar shop, I'm going to expect you to buy me a cigar.
Oh, yeah, we go. That's right. So I just posted a cigar. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you sure do. Both of you do. Don't you? But I'm going to get you a cheap one. No, we don't.
I'm going to buy a twenty dollar one from here in Idaho. It'll be a two dollar one there in Texas.
So Jack, Jack, Jack legs is what they both are off the screen and we'll close. We'll shut it down. Because I got to go smoke me a cigar. I got to get on my nerves. That's what I'm going to do, too, because yeah, lost city.
This is an Opus X by something or other.
Listen, I got a two dollar cigar over here that burned just as good. I don't know. This is a good cigar right here. Hold on. Where's the thing? There it is. You know, where are you going?
You guys. It looks really good. And it's not dark enough for me. No. So this is really smooth. It's a good full flavor. This is a good cigar.
There we go. That looks better.
Listen, I didn't even see that one. It is right. Look at that, guys. Look at that. Like, I just want you don't have the gay beard.
We need to have props given where props are due. Look, look, your neckline fits perfectly. My neckline. Look at that seamless. Look at that. Even Tom. Tom don't have a neck. I do. I just got lift up a beard.
It's there. It's there. Anyway, that's what the thumbnail is supposed to be. Jeff messed it up.
You messed it up. And just so everybody knows, we got on him, too. I mean, we got him hard. He cried a little bit. All right. Last words. I got one. Go ahead. I got to pull it up. Okay, I'll pull this one.
Come to the conference.
That's that's last word. What is this? That's a good last word. There's your last word. Yeah, that's mine. Grace Bible Church, Moore Park. If you live in that area, southern Ventura County. Go check out Grace Bible Church.
Oddly enough, I go to Grace Bible Church, but Bernie, Texas. So we're a thousand miles away from each other.
I'm the only one that goes to a church that actually has a name that if you hear it, you know what exactly we believe. Covenant Reformed Baptist Church in Tullahoma, Tennessee. Hey, now. My church name.
I thought you just said you're. No, no, no, no, no, no. I thought you said your name was Covenant.
And you're just adding Reformed Baptist Church. Reformed Baptist Church. Covenant Reformed Baptist Church.
Yeah, Covenant don't say nothing. No, but I mean, the name is Covenant, but we are a Reformed Baptist Church. And so you say Covenant Reformed Baptist Church.
I mean, it could be Covenant Doctrine Covenants, you know, Mormonism. Oh, is it a Mormon? No, we beat Mormons up. That's why you repented. The latest of the latest. It's the Covenant 1689 LDS.
Anyways, I'm the one that has the name that's better than the name of my church beats their church up. These guys are gay. And yeah. Hallelujah.