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Well greetings and welcome to the dividing line it is the 7th of December Unfortunately for most younger people

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Don't know what that means, but I have been in Pearl Harbor. I have stood on the memorial

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USS Arizona One of the battleships I built as a child Plastic model

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I might still have that someplace. I might have finally thrown it out. I don't remember but Maybe I'll talk a little bit more about that later on but we have a guest to bring on the program

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Unfortunately rich has his I'm angry at the computer look on his face

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We're all fine now, he says we'll see haha, but as we have announced we are

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Going to explode the politically incorrect Meters on the program today by being joined at the top of the hour

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Just briefly the man's a busy man, and he's got lots to do and it's probably been a long day But dr.

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Owen strand is with us. I'm there he is. Oh, you know what? Where's the hoodie?

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I thought doing the hoodie thing with With Justin was just such a

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So so when you had that look on your face when that guy said what he said about Paul It just it was perfect.

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So I'm Yeah, I Was I was ready for the hoodie?

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But then I intuited through the spirits of the age that you didn't have your Coogee sweater on so I I couldn't

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I Couldn't I couldn't do it man. I had to go. I had to go more normal.

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Oh normal. Okay. All right well, you know, I You what are you gonna do if a

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Coogee sweater shows up in your mail for Christmas? I mean you wouldn't you wouldn't hurt an old man like me by by by not wearing a

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Coogee sweater Would you I think you are the last man? Wearing Coogee sweaters as many folks have observed and the weird thing is

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If you liked 90s rap Like East Coast rap like I very much did and do uh -huh

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Then the Coogee that is my only previous context for the Coogee sweater By the way, it's like Nas and Jay -z and then some years later

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James White. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you gotta understand something. I was wearing

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Coogee's before they Were out of diapers. Okay. Okay, so I'm sorry if they tried to steal the the aboriginal

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Australian beautiful knit things But literally, I think I was given my first I think

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I was given my first Coogee In actually about 93 now I think about it probably but they were extremely expensive and they were not associated with rap yet at all so I just love colorful stuff and that's all there is to it

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Why are we talking about any of this the world is burning down around us and we're talking about rap things like that So you are in You are in Conway, Arkansas and I pretty much know almost exactly where you are at the moment and We had the opportunity of doing

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Some some speaking together just a few a few months ago now on the

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Solas We had a chance to sit down and have have lunch and talk and so the

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Lord has brought things together so that you all are seeking to try to really do something there with with the seminary and so today all of announced that You've decided to completely abandon any hopes of ever be considered politically correct, right?

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We have and by the way, just attack on there. I think you're the OG Coogee So I just want to put that in public the public stream of thought.

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Yeah, we we are thrilled That I am now your boss. That's right

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That's right. So I Want you to know I planned that line before I came on no in all seriousness

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You are now Congratulations. You are now professor of apologetics and church history at Grace Bible Theological Seminary in Conway, Arkansas As you you rightly pointed out you've been here.

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You've preached with us and for us We have Jeff Johnson and I and and our staff and faculty have tremendous

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Appreciation and thankfulness for you and your decades of ministry in the work of apologetics

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Systematics church history and other topics and so this is honestly a big step forward for us as a school

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We've been called a strip mall seminary, and I guess we got to add a new sweater store to the circle.

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I think I think a GPTS Coogee would would really would really go over.

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Well, yeah But anyway, yeah, yeah, no, yeah somebody somebody will do that But let's not let's not go there let's

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I did so look the reality is we're facing some of the most amazing challenges that the church and especially

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Christian education has has faced in the United States there is no question that the current regime is not amenable to the

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Promulgation of a Christian worldview that is directly opposite to the totalitarianism. They're trying to shove down everybody's throats

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I have made the the assertion that I cannot think of a worldview that is more opposed to everything that Christ Stood for and taught and stands for today as the risen

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Lord than secularism does I mean it it? Fundamentally says that mankind is an accident.

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There is no redemption. There's nothing to be redeemed from there's nothing to be redeemed, too There is no judgment.

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There is no future. There is no value It's it is the negation of the Christian worldview and yet that is

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Seemingly the direction that our society is running with its hair on fire and its fingers and its ears as we scream after it saying

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Here's the danger that you're heading for So to have to be trying to provide meaningful

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Christian education at this point in time lots of challenges Has to be a tremendous amount of flexibility today in light of travel and and just the the fact that the the the powers that be

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Want to promote a very different perspective of things than what we are wanting to teach people so having the flexibility that we have at the seminary to be able to reach out to all sorts of folks and to also do education within Context of local churches.

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I mean, this is the way it's gonna have to be done in the future the the days of the big -box

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Seminary with the massive. Look. I love the smell of a large library

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I think I mentioned last time we spoke that the smell of of Trinity live that's the the the reading room at Trinity College in Dublin.

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Oh No It's glorious it surely truly is but look you can't move that thing real fast the government knows where it is

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You know what? I mean? and so the ability to To get to people where they are to get to those who are seeking to faithfully minister where they are actually located vitally vitally important in in the coming decades and so it you of course started you didn't start seminary, but you started the the discussion

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Because you you went the opposite direction of what would have been

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What you needed to do in the 1990s to quote -unquote keep going up the ladder yes, and so that sort of set the tone and So you're you're you're responsible for all this so it's all your fault

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So you're accused of all that kind of stuff all the time. Anyways, you have to get used to it, but it's true

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We if we keep doing things the way we've been doing things We're going to run into a big brick wall and there's not gonna be any way out of it

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We've got to be thinking ahead and and and we're doing that. So I'm really looking forward to right now

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The first class is scheduled for the first weekend in in February. Mm -hmm and That's You know the last time

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I actually was in a classroom I've been teaching church history for a group in in in Frankfurt for for quite some time.

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That's been really really enjoyable But last time I was in a classroom setting it was 20 at one point 28 degrees below zero

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With about six feet of snow, you know where that was Samara Russia Samara Russia that was in January of 19 and So that was last time

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I had that wonderful opportunity it's so enjoyable to be in the classroom to have the conversation to be

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During the breaks you get to talk with students and things like that So if if people want to to get involved they want to they've been thinking about yeah

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I really want to pursue these types of things What's what's in store for them what they need to do?

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Yeah Well, first of all a lot of good words there We're light infantry in this day and age and we're light infantry on purpose.

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We don't represent at GBTS Napoleon's divisions, we don't have thousands and thousands of faculty staff and students on this campus in Conway, Arkansas We actually don't really want that though.

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We we don't have secular accreditation right now We're pursuing accreditation through arts, which is a reformed accreditation agency that other

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Strong seminaries have accreditation through we would have it now, but we're younger

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And so we've only been in existence for just a few years So we're we're not counting our chickens before they hatch, but that is very much the direction

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We are strongly headed and intentionally pursuing and we're building a faculty by the day

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We just hired Jeff Moore a Westminster grad last week in New Testament theology and you this week and I'll say this in public

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On your program. There's more to come. We're not done yet And so we just want folks to know that we don't have the backing of you know

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Major groups or denominations or something like that We don't even really care per se what backing we get what we care about is being faithful to God's Word We recognize actually that there are a lot of entanglements today

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The bigger the school you mentioned this the the bigger the campus you give thanks for these things

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I'm not snotty against these things But the more you accrue the more you have to manage and I will return to my initial metaphor.

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We are light infantry We are we are moving light. We are packing light and that lets us move fast and hopefully strike hard at Satan's anti -kingdom

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Your class is a part of that. It's February 3rd through 5th 2022 right here in Conway, Arkansas Those who are interested and I'm guessing we've already actually had a lot of inquiries today

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I mean a lot of inquiries today and Those who are interested can go to GBT seminary dot org

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GBT Seminary dot org They just fly in or drive in to Little Rock, Arkansas It's 25 minutes north up the highway.

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You're here for three days This is going to be only an in -person class because we're emphasizing that in -person class experience this one unlike our other classes is not going to be on zoom because we're seeing it as a kind of Point of our school our young school where we want the student body to gather.

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We're excited about this happening So February 3rd through 5th 2022 go to the website apply

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We we have a strong MDiv hundred -hour MDiv. I'm not gonna be a salesman here But I'll just quickly put it out hundred -hour

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MDiv, which is by the way Ridiculous in this day and age. Everybody's cutting their MDiv.

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We're ramping up our MDiv We're trying to build a Baptist Westminster here And then we also have two other programs a shorter master's program and pastoral studies and then even a certificate for lay elders

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So you don't only have to do the MDiv. That's our focus. You can do other programs as well And as I say, we want students to come we want them to come for all our classes

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We want many of them to move here And we also want them to come for your modular course and even take classes online if that's the best way forward

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Right, so there are classes that are online just not all of them Is there is there a a way that people can tell what's going to be available within which context ahead of time?

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Or is that just something that's sort of announced as as we're putting materials together. It's announced semester by semester, but basically dr

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White all of our classes are on zoom This is going to be a unique one where it's going to be an in -person class

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We may open up a lecture or two outside but Fundamentally, this is in person all other classes though are online and in person here in Conway, right?

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Well, let's just be honest having me on zoom is is is is sort of counterproductive Anyways, I mean, you know,

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I'm not very very good -looking. I'm I'm probably the oldest guy. You've got am

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I the oldest guy? You've got teaching yeah, yeah, but Yeah, we won't say who's second but Well, I'm not sure if I mentioned at lunch and we were talking that one time but I I when

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James Anderson at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte Took us took some time off.

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I filled in for him on Apollo for teaching apologetics and I went into Dr.

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Kruger's office who's the president there in Charlotte? And of course His stuff on Canon and stuff like that is just just unparalleled.

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It's great great stuff We're sitting there talking and all of a sudden it struck me. I realized I was the oldest guy in the room and I'm gonna tell you you just wait young man someday.

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You may be my boss now, but someday You're gonna be sitting there and realize you're the oldest guy in the room and it is

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It's a wake -up call. It really really is because I I'm very thankful I was raised by my parents to be extremely respectful to my elders and to To people in positions of authority and and so on so forth and that's that served me well but eventually you get to the point where Now all those folks are younger than you are and you're just like oh wow

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But obviously what I hope to be able to do is to share those decades of experience with the students

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Yes 175 moderated public debates so far and that doesn't include last week's discussion with William Lane Craig but but does obviously

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Provide a lot of background material for for people to Draw from my own experiences and the application that we're gonna be making and things like that So I'm excited about about that opportunity.

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Let me just say a quick word there. That's that's a large part of The draw there are numerous reasons why we're very excited about today

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This is a day that will live in infamy in terms of American history as you alluded to but it's a day of Celebration here in Conway.

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So let the listener understand but fundamentally What we one of the things we really appreciate about you here is that you have taken

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Presuppositional apologetics or covenantal apologetics. It's called different things as you well know, right and you've really put them to work

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That's not all you've done you've written in numerous areas, but we really want to show folks today that the torch of Presuppositional apologetics is well and truly lit

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So not everybody in this day and age is even wanting to draw up a plan to build a

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Baptist Westminster if that can even be done in some approximate form, but we believe in Structuring an entire seminary according to a clearly outlined biblical curriculum

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Biblical is the key Modifier in all of our disciplines many schools have gone away from that apologetics

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Disciplines has gone away from that in different respects. We're thankful for different Christian voices out there But we want to build an apologetics program that a is second to none and B is faithful to the

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Word of God You've taught that but you've also put it very much into practice and that's part of why

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I'm excited for our students to learn From you they're not all gonna go and be able to do a hundred seventy plus public debates to be honest

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But they are gonna be able to take an apologetic perspective grounded in the Word of God and recognize apologetics does not depend upon acquiring some

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Second body of knowledge outside of Scripture right apologetics depends upon standing on the Word of God and and applying it

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Oh, no question about you. You have to have your theology before you create your apologetics if you do it backwards

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The result is very very ugly and we've seen that down through church history Another subject that I obviously am going to be addressing and love so much

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I had one of your current students mentioned. They were just doing a Current church history or more modern church history class.

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I think with you And they said they had been very blessed by that and I said, well I'm very glad to hear these doing that because I get a little mushy after the

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Reformation But I'm really looking forward to hopefully at some point. I realized it would be an elective type thing

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We haven't even talked about this type of thing yet. But one of my favorite classes I've ever taught I taught it for Golden Gate many many years ago was development of patristic theology and I can believe it or not.

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I can actually Make that really really interesting and enjoyable and relevant and it's exciting stuff

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It really really is and I the first class I ever taught when a graduate in seminary was church history

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I was scholar in residence at Grand Canyon University and it was a required class That's why I had a lot of students that came in there just sort of like now, you know required class and my goal was for them to walk out in love with church history as I have always been in love with church history because I had such a good church history professor who himself was in love with church history.

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That's that's how you pass It's infectious if I've never understood and and you can't explain it to me, but I've never understood the people who teach in fields

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They're not passionate about I don't I don't understand it. I would that would be the worst thing I could ever do in my life

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I'm passionate about New Testament Greek for crying out loud I'm passionate about textual criticism and I I bring that stuff into into my teaching and so I'm looking forward to that It's gonna be exciting

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And you also have a Cain's chicken fingers not far from the campus, which is really great. I'm very excited about that Yeah, yeah, and I'll I'll just say a word about that Last point you made because it's really important We really are going against the grain at this small little school

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Reform Baptist School 1689 school in Conway We're open to students who can submit to that confession even if it's not let's say they're their church's home confession

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But we also are going against the grain in lecturing not lecturing, you know without questions that our students ask

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Right, but we are not Sending our students some bullet -pointed list of things that they just regurgitate to us on a message board somewhere

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We are standing up in front of students and putting in energy and time and we are trying to give them excellent lecture material

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We're doing this in person here in Conway and we're also doing it on zoom so we are flexible when it comes to delivery method and we just recognize times change and While we love the classroom residential learning we're going to adapt to that We want to serve the broader body of Christ in that way, but I repeat myself

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We fundamentally very much believe in the lecture in a learned Humble man of God standing up and delivering truth that he not only is able to speak out in public

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But as you alluded to truth that has set him alight Truth that he would be teaching if he had to pay to teach it.

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That's the kind of teacher We're looking for here. And that's the kind of experience. I pray our students can have well, that's definitely that's definitely why

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I fit in and why I hope to be a Very much a positive addition to what's going on there and to the students as well.

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I already know some of the students Some have known me for for years and years and years

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I'm thinking of Jean client up in the out in the Piney woods and and people like that It's it's exciting to to be involved with all of that and so people need to head over to GBT Seminary so not s seminary, but GBT seminary org and Get started on filling out what they need to fill out take a look at what's going to be going on this semester and get involved because it's going to be exciting and I'm I I hope we have many years to do this kind of thing openly and without interference

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But there are things going on in the world that are pretty amazing right now and we need to have a solid foundation to be able to to stand when the pressures are coming and so you obviously have made the decision to stand over against the normal route of Advancement to the utter heights of the ivory walls of Academy and obviously some of the books that you've written since then

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Express why that is and I've obviously been doing that my entire my entire career.

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I've always been a churchman first and foremost And in fact, let's tell you one thing. I had

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I was criticized for some of the comments I made a Mullen ism because I Dr.

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Stratton basically said I didn't see you at ETS presenting papers on these subjects, which he was doing and In my response,

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I pointed out that I I have presented at ETS. It was 1998, which was a long time ago and I was hurt.

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I was I was deeply Disturbed in my soul by what I saw there and this is this long time ago but there was

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There was an attitude amongst the Academy that we are the enlightened leaders and the

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Church is the benighted people that we need to benignly lead into great wisdom and I was so turned off by that that I never went back.

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It's not that I didn't have good experiences there I had a great experience Dan Wallace and I stood at the NET table and argued the

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Carmen Christie He has a different view than I do on the basis of the Greek text that we had both memorized

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I mean that was a great experience and there are great people there. I'm not saying everybody it was just the general

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There wasn't a church centered Thing and GBTS is based in a church.

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So I'd it would have a hard time Ever adopting that kind of attitude yeah, and that that is that is excuse me, that's part of What we really are trying to establish here we want strong scholarship

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We want men who publish? We want those who are scholarly and sound and thoughtful and and bearing the fruits of the

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Spirit If students and faculty want to go to ETS, that's that's great. We don't have anything against ETS but I will say

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I for one am resisting the spirit I see in some of Academic evangelicalism surely not all right but some in that there is this sense that degrees and fancy papers and fancy settings confers a sort of extra sheen upon your scholarship and I have gone and I'm sure will go to God willing different conferences and scholarly events over the years

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But I am NOT in this game. I'm not in the Academy the seminary

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Because I want to puff myself up I'm a sinner in need of God's grace every single day I live But that's not what

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I'm here for. I'm here for scripture. I'm not here for Networks, I'm not here for little

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Societies where we all agree on every particular and then torch everyone who might disagree with us on any point

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That's not what we're in it for we are in it here for the Word of God and I sadly do sense again among some not all a spirit that is kind of Adapted to the world with regard to scholarship and I'll just repeat myself.

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It has no real pull for me I'm from a 50 person Baptist Church in Downey's, Maine. I'm not from fancy environs.

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I've worked in great schools I'm very thankful for a lot of folks over the years But I don't have to be in a sort of high -flown place in order to feel like The work of the kingdom going on around me matters

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I know firsthand that 50 Saints gathering in a dusty cold church building in Coastal Maine matters to God their worship matters to God and it doesn't matter because some scholar somewhere approves of it it matters because God has saved those people and now they worship him out of the overflow of that without fear without fear of government without fear of Death without fear of what man may think about us

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I pray I can take a little bit of that background that God gave me and apply it here in in our work

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Christian scholarship must be done first and foremost under the lordship of Christ to the glory of his name and to the benefit of his body

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Outside of that it does not have any real function as far as I can see in the New Testament and when you do it that way it is a such as Well, you you know this

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But I'll just tell the one story I remember meeting a young man I was debating a sort of a

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Wesleyan guy on on free will At RTS in Jackson actually the only time

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I've ever been there and he came up to me and his wife was with him and there was a little child, you know in a in a stroller and He informed me that the little child was not going to live that the little child had a had a disease that would not allow that the child live and he said to me if if The Lord had not used you to introduce me to an understanding of his

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Sovereign freedom and goodness to glorify himself In the way, he chooses to glorify himself.

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I could not handle what we're facing right now Wow, and when you when you experience that That's what when you realize this is why you do it.

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All the rest of stuff is extraneous This is why you do it and and you normally don't know

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When you're doing that part of it, it just it's it's it comes from the consistency and faithfulness over time

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And that's what you strive for and at my age. You're just striving. My goal right now is finished. Well, that's that's what that's

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That's what you got to do. Once you get into those last decades. You got to finish well, and that's what we're shooting to do

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Anyways, we were supposed to do like five or seven minutes. Ha ha ha ha We should have known that wasn't gonna work very well.

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Oh, but I I've already mentioned I want to have both you and Jeff Johnson on the program.

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There's other things that we need to be talking about we need to be talking I want to talk with with Jeff about Aquinas and natural theology and At some point

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I really do think it would be really beneficial for everybody if we have a discussion about Trinitarian issues and stuff like that and demonstrate how that can be done in a collegial way and without Without fire brands and torches and you know, all the rest that kind of kind of stuff.

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That seems to be the natural element of Online interaction, unfortunately,

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I think that's one of the problems with it, but we'll get to all that stuff. We've got stuff to do I literally need to put my syllabus together and get it submitted as soon as I can

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You being in charge of those things will probably be appreciative of hearing that I do have that as a as a priority and so Yes, so we want we want to thank you what you've already been doing down there

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I've really enjoyed the time that I've been there. We're gonna be back Here Lord willing pretty soon.

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Obviously, I have a few things take care of between now and then so But we're gonna be looking forward to that if you can avoid

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Mounds and mounds of snow I would appreciate that since since I have to drive to get there

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But I'm not sure. It's a really snowy snowy snowy area to boot to begin with. Uh, Yeah, it's not now.

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I will say that my own free actions do ripple throughout the effect of divine causation

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So I will I will admit whatever I can that way To clear snow for your come.

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Okay. Yes, you're the the true Subjunctive conditionals of your free actions something like that.

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I'm still confused. Anyways, hey Thank you very much for taking the time to join us today We look forward to having further conversations and and what the

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Lord has to do We just ask people to pray for what you're doing there in in Conway and for what Jeff's doing and we're all doing and May the

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Lord be glorified in all of it. Thanks for joining us. God bless you. Dr. White. Thanks. Thanks. God bless All right.

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Thank you. Dr. Strand for doing that Excellent wonderful time and I I should have known we were never gonna get done in five or seven minutes

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I I actually had that thought and now now that now that we've gone half an hour. I realized that that was silliness, but anyway

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Thank you for giving us the opportunity of doing that. I am obviously excited and extremely pleased we started talking about this couple months ago, and I am

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I Love teaching. I love being in the classroom Like I said the last time I was in in the class

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Well, at least I think the last time I was in a classroom was in Russia It's a little easier to teach without having to stop and start for translation even though in Russia I had the best translator in the world brother

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Nick and so that's the easiest way to do it is to have someone you can absolutely trust and And but I'm looking forward to that opportunity and teaching apologetics

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I've done it many many many times and thankfully It's still a passion.

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It's it's not just going back over the same old things and You know

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I'm still very much involved in the field. And so that's a growing body of experience to draw from Even on the practical level when we're talking about preparation for a debate or whatever else it might be you know

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I've had some interesting experiences just recently that we can we can draw from and so go to GBT seminary org if you want to get more information and There you go so I very much honored to be professor of apologetics and church history my two favorite favorite areas and Look forward to what the

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Lord has for us in the in the future. The only thing that concerns me is

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Driving from here to Conway Done it obviously, but there's this thing called,

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New Mexico in the way and If it goes as wildly blue as as it already is

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I mean it's already that bad You know, I may have to find interesting ways of you know

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Well, there's some blue states up there, too Well, I know but Colorado is not exactly the the reddest state that it once was either though Down in those southern parts and not sure there could be overly concerned what they say in Denver anyways

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So, yeah, that's possibility anyways So only have so much time to Add to the program today.

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So I want to talk about Since we are on Something other than YouTube.

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I can talk about this. This is not Me. Oh, by the way, I just want you know,

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I've got I've got a I Actually am back to my rooibos tea, so I have my rooibos tea here in a real nice mug and There's another mug.

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I need to use I showed this to you once before 30 years of debates 1990 to 2020 says dr.

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White alpha Omega on the bottom But have you ever noticed? Look at that Coogee that the cat is wearing if you look carefully my black

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Coogee If I brought that I should bring it in I think they freeze -framed this

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When I was wearing it once and it matches the yellow. I recognize that yellow very it that is identical so that's that's really really well done, so Anyway, Rich could

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Rich is actually looking away right now. He does not care. He is trying to pretend like he does not care but anyway

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Um, that's a cool cat see even Chris said that's a cool cat Yeah, he also says I can drive down through Mexico.

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Yeah. Yeah Right There wouldn't be much left of me by the time

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I got to the other side. I can guarantee you that Your Coogee there's there's your

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Coogee That would that would tell you just how little

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Artistic Color Vision Rich has he's he's more into stuff like copper, you know, right?

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I mean you anyways About two months three months ago.

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I Mentioned that I had seen Dr. Anthony Fauci The man who wants to see

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Your infant child injected with mRNA

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Poisons On national media being interviewed by perky

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Katie Couric Saying that the source of the variants are

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The unvaccinated now, we're now seeing around the world what the result of this is

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Hatred toward the unvaccinated you're selfish You're you're the reason that that that this we still can't do what we want to do.

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I mean, it's just astonishing What has what is going on around the world and people like Anthony Fauci are

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Directly and personally accountable and responsible for what they've done this situation.

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But the point was any person With For me just a undergraduate level of training in biology

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Which is what I have. I finished my major in biology I was taught a fellow in anatomy physiology under dr.

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James Witherspoon. I I was good as a student in that area. I graduated magna cum laude and And Anybody with a general

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Understanding and I've told the story before starting in high school My high school biology teacher would sit at lunch and he would photocopy college -level papers on natural selection and Evolutionary biology and we would argue creationism and evolution sitting eating those horrific burritos

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I don't I don't even know what was in those things but can still taste them today. It's sort of that's sad anyway

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So I've been at this for a long long time Anybody with even that level of knowledge would know

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That what dr. Fauci was saying was wrong now. I Mentioned when

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I talked about this first time there is such thing as selection pressure a

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Creation model predicts this would be the way it is just as well as an evolutionary model. It's not better In fact,

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I would say much better But selection pressure obviously means that certain environmental factors can influence

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The ability of any living thing from a virus to an elephant to pass its genetics on to the next generation that's most important thing is

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Getting that genetic code on to the next generation and There's different ways of doing that and viruses have really destructive ways of doing that But the point is that selection pressure is just simply a fancy way of saying

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That what we what you might which The old old term was survival the fittest

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But in in this case what you're talking about is that which is the best adapted to an environment is that which is going to predominate in the next generation and The idea is that once you get down to the level of a virus

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What you're aiming at with these mRNA vaccines is a narrow Aspect remember

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I showed you last week. I showed you the spike protein last week And it just looks like a glob of stuff to most people but those represent sugars and proteins and and they're in a particular

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Construction that allows them to attach to a cell wall and to insert the genetic material of the virus into the cell for replication and so What we've done with these this mRNA

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Material is to focus on that spike protein Now when our natural immune systems

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Develop immunity to something they're not just looking at one segment of the spike protein they're looking at the spike protein and the body of the virus

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So that when there is a mutation in the spike protein

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One sugar is replaced with another sugar one protein with another protein a

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Natural immunity which has a wider it's a it's a it's aimed at a wider portion of the target is not thrown off by that and That's why natural immunity is 13 to 27 times better than any type of vaccinated immunity aside from Issues of t -cells and things like that just simply in the ability to Not be thrown off by what is generally concerned micro mutation

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But the vaccines are aimed at such a narrow thing that if you vary that Then the antibodies are thrown off That's not there anymore

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Because the way you coded it and that's That's why

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Everybody knows there's gonna be a variant. Maybe it's Omicron That simply is not impacted by the vaccines

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Because it was so narrowly focused that you you are you have from what

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I've heard right now. We're at 2 billion doses worldwide

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Because remember we're not using this garbage in Many other places they're using more old -style vaccination

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Routines, which to me I'm still going. Why can't we get old -style stuff and It's either an overarching

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Really really really bad conspiracy or it's just plain money or it could be both

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But you know That the top people at Pfizer and the top people to CDC and the top people at all the big governmental medical organizations, they're all in bed together

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They're probably all gonna be end up found out at Epstein's Island eventually but they're all in bed together and so the money that is flying back and forth is astonishing and The greatest corruption of our day is the corruption of the medical field by money and by political power, it's just It's it's horrific what's being done today report today a man

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Killed his wife and three daughters and himself because it was found out that he had faked his wife's vaccine

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Passport at work and he was afraid they're gonna take his children, which they probably would have in Germany He was driven to despair and Those people in charge that kind of stuff are so evil.

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They'll probably count those as all COVID deaths, too Just simply to push things forward That's the

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People who will do stuff like this People who are getting to the point where they're saying you can't even go to the grocery store anymore

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We will starve you to death if you do not take our noxious poison while athletes are

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Tripping over and falling dead all over the place These people will stop at nothing it has nothing that they are the opposite of being concerned about health health for them is a weapon and You talk about it with weak minded people who are frightened to get them to do what you want them to do

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That's that's what's going on here so the point back to the point is

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That here is a just just before the program started We have a paper

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National Journal of Physical Chemistry December 7th just came out mechanisms, so it's

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Wang Chen and Wei Wei Mechanisms of SARS -CoV -2 evolution revealing vaccine resistant mutations in Europe and America Abstract the importance of understanding

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SARS -CoV -2 evolution cannot be overlooked recent studies confirm that natural selection is a dominating mechanism of SARS -CoV -2 evolution

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Which favors mutations that strengthen viral infectivity here? We demonstrate that vaccine breakthrough or antibody resistant mutations provide a new mechanism of viral evolution specifically

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Vaccine resistant mutation and I talk about I'm not gonna get all the numbers in the spike protein

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Which occurred in these certain mutations has reduced Infectivity compared to that of the original

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SARS -CoV -2 but can disrupt existing antibodies that neutralize the virus

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So in other words the original spike protein was better at infectivity

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But by changing it because of the vaccines It's not as good as that, but it now avoids the antibodies not as good at infectivity, but it avoids the antibodies

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By tracking the evolutionary trajectories of vaccine resistant mutations we reveal that the occurrence the listen we reveal that the occurrence and frequency of vaccine resistant mutations

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Correlate strongly with the vaccination rates in Europe and America We anticipate that as a complementary transmission pathway vaccine breakthrough or antibody resistant mutations like those in Omicron Will become a dominating mechanism of SARS -CoV -2 evolution when most of the world's population is either vaccinated or infected

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Our study sheds lights on SARS -CoV -2 evolution and transmission enables the design of the next generation mutation proof vaccines and antibody drugs

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This is why we never ever ever ever ever ever dreamed

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Before 2019 Before 2020 Of dealing with a respiratory virus with vaccines and yet how many people today like absolute mind -numbed zombies

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Just repeat back to you Well, the vaccines are our best hope.

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No, they're not and they never have been But they are the best hope for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of profit for the people at Pfizer and Moderna and the people who then pretend to Approve these things and force them into your children without safety tests

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It will tell you anything about what impact that will have upon their hearts or the reproductive systems

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Or their future cancer rates or anything and they're completely protected from ever having to worry

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About where about that money being taken back from them because you can't sue them Now I would just point out that may be true in this life.

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It is not true in the next I wouldn't put it past certain people in the

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Congress to try to pass something that says that God can't do something about in the next life but Justice will be done.

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Justice will be done. So here's there's And I had not read

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Anyone saying what I was saying. I simply heard Fauci saying that I'm sitting there going That's the opposite of how this works and Here's paper saying yep, there's direct correlation between those vaccine rates and this is

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This is what's happening. This is what's happening So you can you can have something like that where you have to stop every sentence and explain

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What terms mean or you can get that Nice little

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Undertaker, did you see the videos? There did you have you haven't seen the videos that I retweeted one of them, but there's an undertaker somewhere in England who put out some videos basically saying you know

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I've been doing this a long time and I I see how people die and people are dying differently today than they were two years ago and Here's what they're dying of now that I never that I almost never saw them dying of before and he is absolutely convinced

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That the vaccines are destroying People's general immunity systems their immune systems and People are getting sick from stuff that they've just never gotten sick of before now,

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I think part of it also You lock people in their houses Your their immune systems are going to be impacted by that you force them to breathe their own air and they're gonna be impacted by that and But he was just simply saying

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I I see people that they can't even fight off a cold anymore and We Brits used to be able to just bounce through that like that was nothing because we were exposed to it all the time

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He's right the lockdowns all that kind of stuff. So you've got the two you got the two sides you've got the two aspects of it and So you you go from You know two weeks to flatten the curve

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To now in in Italy the the report today The Italian government giving permission to grocery stores to refuse admission to unvaccinated people and Yet at the same time

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You you go to the governmentally sponsored and providing data websites and What do you see?

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You see that it's a it's that the whole claim a few months ago.

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This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated It's the pandemic of the vaccinated All the wave in Germany and Austria and Europe they're vaccinated.

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They're fully vaccinated. Oh So we need to have boosters now

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You just you just do more just continue to do more and more and more of what doesn't work that's the definition of insanity or totalitarianism one of the two and That's what we're facing

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New York I've always known that Bill de Blasio wished he was the totalitarian dictator of a

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European state and he thinks he is and so now Same thing happening in New York You basically

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Need to leave New York City. Anyways Get out of the city get out of there because You will be force vaccinated if you're going to have any life in The city of New York and that is their absolute intention and they don't care that their

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Hospitalization rates and death rates are far above Florida. They don't care They they know that their friends in the media are not going to cover these things they're not going to talk about these things they're just simply gonna give them cover all the way through and That's that's how it's gonna work.

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That's that's how they're doing it. So there you go by the way, um only have a few minutes left

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I I Haven't looked here. I need to need to look again

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But Dr.

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Stratton We put the search get the search thing in here

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TS there it is. Let me see if This is going on right now, um, dr.

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Stratton Said yep, and they're actually they

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Okay, so there I'm not sure if that Says two hours and two minutes and 48 seconds

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Wow a two -hour response from Tim and Tyson To says don't miss round two with dr.

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James White So seems always happen right around the same time. We're doing the dividing line So I don't get to I have to listen to it later on Which I will two hours seems like a really long time.

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I tried to keep my response fairly short but Mine was like half an hour but again two guys who work for William Lane Lane Craig They were open about that some

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I'm not complaining even though everything I do is allegedly a complaint Nothing they do is ever a complaint.

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But what I do is a complaint But we will we will see here

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They're playing some stuff here I'm sort of Working through it here.

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It's sort of weird because They end up on it like twice I Don't see him

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Going into too much of the language here, but hey toward the end. They do get to the stuff in Colossians so I'm looking forward to Seeing what they what they have there.

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I'll try to try to cue that up for a a ride tomorrow and That's when

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I have the opportunity of listening to those things. Yes, sir A couple of programming notes here real quick We're still still trying to tweak the

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Odyssey thing Some folks may notice that some of the

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YouTube videos Over the last year and a half have disappeared from YouTube and that's not

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YouTube doing that that is us doing that We're looking at this going. Hey, and you were the one that thought of this.

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It's a great idea That is okay, you know what if you're if they're gonna object we'll take down the objectionable stuff and we'll have it over on Odyssey so this morning we did some work on that and move some stuff over to Odyssey move the links over there and So those same programs can now be viewed over on Odyssey I have noticed some folks have said hey, you know the bells the whistles the quality isn't what

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YouTube is and look That's to be understood Odyssey is a much much much much much much smaller

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Platform than YouTube is but they are dedicated to free speech and That is where we think we've got a home.

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Some people have asked about rumble. We tried rumble it was a technical failure because one of the big things is that we go back into YouTube and bring all of what

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YouTube has over into the new platform and rumble basically allowed us to have

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February of this year and that was it after that. It was just stopped Odyssey brought

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Because we've just never that's just never been our thing The Lord has provided but we just we do need to let people know that's how the

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Lord provides is people support us and they appreciate what we do and The perspectives that we take and the stands that we take and stuff like that and they're blessed by the content

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And so there you go, that's that's how we and that's how I will travel in the future

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And so we very much appreciate everyone who stood with us. We recognize that There are difficult times ahead.

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There are a lot of people who have support us in the past and They're unwilling to submit to Unrighteous demands right now and that means they can't continue to support us

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And so we just let everybody know that that need is there, but we're just we're just not the type of folks that Hammer on that all the time part of that.

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I've told the story in the past is because I Have seen that done

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I've heard that done and it's never turned out well in the long run for the people that were doing it and I'm not talking about just finding $600 ,000 in the bathroom wall.

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I Really hope we find out what you're looking at me strangely Really?

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How what rock have you been living under rich doesn't know what we're talking about You may be a busy man, but this was this was all over everywhere.

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Oh What did a plumber was fixing a toilet at Joel Osteen's Church? He broke he broke through the wall and found cash and envelopes of $600 ,000 in the wall and I think it was 2013 or 2014.

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There had been a robbery And that was one Sunday's worth and it was found in the wall in the bathroom

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Yeah, one son one Sunday's worth one Sunday's worth $600 ,000

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There's gonna be there is going to be a day of judgment there really really really is but Anyways, all right.

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Once again, thanks to own strand for joining us today and again GBT seminary org if you want to know about The apologetics class and upcoming church history classes and all the rest that stuff now that these crazy people have made me a full professor of church history and apologetics for them and I will look forward very very much to pursuing that opportunity and that teaching been doing it for years and years and years and Love to do it.

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So looking forward to that. Thanks for watching the program today Lord will and we'll see you next time.