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Jim, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.

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Hi, how are you, Jesus? I'm well, Jim. What's

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going on? I'm just having problems
in my marriage. It's my second marriage,

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and I'm not sure what to do. Uh. I've been married now,

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in my second marriage for six years. I was married fifteen years prior

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to that to another woman who I
am friends with. Now. Basically,

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you know, the blended family thing
is just not it's really not working.

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So you there's kids both from previous
marriage. He has she has two daughters,

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and I have one daughter. And
they're all teenagers and they're all girls.

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So I live in a house basically
with four with four you know,

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young women and one adult woman.
And and you know, from a man's

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point of view, at least from
my point of view, it's very difficult

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at times to deal with their mood
swings, you know, from their hormonal

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or whatever standpoint. And I,
you know, prior to her meeting me,

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I used to drink a lot.
When I separated from my first wife,

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I suffered depression and I drank a
lot. And I've had a lot

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of women in my life to escape
and what were you escaping from? Changed

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all that? So what were you
escaping from the pain of not being with

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my daughter? Okay, and you
know I've changed all that, but you

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know, she just still doesn't trust
me. I'm always getting accused if I'm

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a salesman, if I get if
I get home late, if I leave

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early, you know, if she
if she reads my text messages, which

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I don't have a problem with,
but you know, ask me in a

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way that you know is respectful,
don't accuse me of stuff. Well,

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well, let's kind of look at
this through a couple of different perspectives.

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First of all, you mentioned the
being with a bunch of women and their

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home hormones or whatever. I don't
know that that's particularly the case. There's

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many things that can cause issues when
you blend a family automatically, and it

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doesn't necessarily have anything to do with
hormones. So I don't know that that's

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always the fair assessment. I know
many guys tend to go to that place,

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but there can be a lot of
things that you're bringing to the equation

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that can cause people to be upset
or what have you. You have had

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a pattern, This doesn't come out
of nowhere now. You may know that

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it's unjustified now, but your wife
emotions aren't completely unjustified. It you you've

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said yourself that you used to drink
and used to womanize exactly. So these

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are all based on things you've done
in the past. How is how is

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the so other than than your wife
being curious as to where you are and

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what you're doing. How is the
so called problems in the blended family materialize

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them? I mean it was a
struggle. It was a struggle early on,

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a real struggle. And you know, especially with one of her daughters,

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you know, who was really disrespectful
and and just you know the way

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she was raised. She she,
my my new wife came from a really

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bad marriage where there he was verbally
and emotionally abusive to them, and so

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she really had a negative attitude.
And you know, I had to have

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a I was gentle, but yet
at the same time, I had to

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have a firm hand if I was
going to make this work with them.

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And I'm not allowed now to say
anything. My opinion is not respected or

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allowed. And if I see something
that I don't think is right, I

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state my opinion. I do it
respectfully, but I'm basically shot down.

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What would be something you see that
you don't feel is right? Okay,

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well I think that Okay. The
oldest daughter is the one that I have

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the problems the most with, and
I love her dearly, but she is

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a procrastinator. She's an underachiever.
She's had several boyfriends after her mother swear

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that she would not let her have
boyfriends anymore. And she spends a lot

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of time on the on the couch
watching television. How old is she?

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She's seventeen. She's going to be
going to college this fall. Is so

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is my daughter. Okay, but
my daughter is a four point two student,

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which you know, I'm not comparing
the grade point averages here, Yeah

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you are. You just did actually
literally you just did well. I guess

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I did. But I'm comparing the
effort, is what I'm saying. Is

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there do you find that there's a
learning disability of any kind with the eldest

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daughter or anything that might cause that
to manifest in a way that hurts?

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Like her youngest daughter is fourteen,
and she's very smart and gets all a's

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in school too, And she says, well that her older daughter just struggles.

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She's just not as you know,
smart as the other ones. And

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I don't I'm not willing to sell
you sold on that I think she is

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that smart. Okay? Has he
did the eldest daughter do better in school

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at one time? Or Yeah?
When she was in middle school and junior

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high school, she did a lot
better than she Then she got into high

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school. And what happened around high
school, Well, you know the first

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thing that happened is that she I
got a phone call because her mom was

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out of town, and I got
a phone call and she was caught having

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intercourse with a boy at school.
And I mean I didn't say anything.

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I didn't yell at her. I
went and picked her up, and she

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got suspended from school, and I
talked to her and I said, you

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know, people make mistakes, and
you know, did you use protection?

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And I asked the basic questions and
I let it go. At that point,

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I said, you're going to have
to deal with your mother at this

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point, because I don't handle I'd
never handled her girls in that fashion.

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I've just stated my case, okay, And what what kind of relationship does

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the eldest daughter have with her birth
father? She moved out when she was

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fourteen, she left him and came
to the house because she wanted to be

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with me rather than him. And
uh, do you guys bicker? Are

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we excuse me? Do you bicker? Do you fight? Like not knock

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down, drag out? We don't
bicker. We don't bicker. There's times

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where she's out of wine, where
you know, she gets frustrated because I

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tell her, you know what,
you need to just go to your room

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and be quiet, and she gets
a little bit upset about that. But

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we don't We don't fight. We
don't argue. I mean, and for

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the most part, she respects me
all the time. But if I ask

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her for her help, she helps. You know, she's a good kid.

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But you know, there's things about
her that I wish to improve,

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and I'm not being allowed to do
it. Okay, but it's going to

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be hard to improve. You've got
a lot going on. First of all,

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she came into your life at you
know, eleven years old or so,

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and you're dealing with her as she's
going through an important time in her

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life, and she's being pulled apart
from a family that in her head was

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always going to be together regardless of
whatever problems they had in that household.

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Blended families can be very difficult.
The key always is going to be between

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you and the mother, two parents
loving each other and being the example,

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setting the example. As far as
discipline, the discipline of those children is

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really going to be based on your
wife. Their mother. She should set

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the tone for discipline for those girls
because they're her girls. And you can

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be a good step dad, and
you can be good counsel to your wife

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and all of those things, but
she has to raise those children, and

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you've got one that's going to go
off to college. You can't help but

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wonder if there's a sexual intercourse going
on at such a young age that it

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might not have something to do with
her searching for that male attention and those

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things that are being torn apart in
her life. It's not about being a

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stern hand. It's about being a
good voice and a good partner to your

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wife in a way that the kids, all the kids yours and hers,

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can see it and use it as
an example. That's the best you're going

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to be able to do in a
situation like this. Sean, Welcome to

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the Jesus Christ Show. Hi.
All right, My question is why did

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Satan rebell against God if he ultimately
knew God would destroy them at the end.

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And basically, you know what makes
Stayton think that he'll be able to

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result himself above the throat of God. It's an interesting question because you think,

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Wow, you know you're there in
the presence of God already, You're

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a special creation, a beautiful angel, powerful angel, and then all of

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a sudden there's this rebellion. The
belief in modern Christian theology is very simple.

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It's pride. Now, angels have
the same ability to rebel as humans

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do, with some exceptions. They
have the total some knowledge they will will

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ever have, so anything done will
be permanent, and the decision has been

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made, both good and bad has
been made. So the one third of

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Heaven that went with him all locked, that's their decision. Those that stayed

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all locked, that's their decision.
It is also said that it is believed

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that angels have intellectual and emotion as
well, the same as humans do.

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Again, the difference being they have
the total some knowledge they're going to have,

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whereas you are accumulating knowledge throughout your
life, and only at the point

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of death will you be at that
point that that same point that an angel

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would be where you had the total
knowledge of making any decision that would be

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permanent. So now you take all
of those things, and you have this

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angel that slowly starts becoming prideful,
wanting to be God. Isaiah fourteen twelve

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through fourteen. How you are fallen
from heaven Odai, Star, son of

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Dawn, How you are cut down
to the ground. You lay the nations

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low. You said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven above the

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stars of God. I will set
my throne on high. I will sit

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on the mount of Assembly. And
it goes on and on, And that's

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the version I'm kind of stuck at
because so it's angels are supposedly, you

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know, a thousand times smarter than
us humans are. I mean, how

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does that make any sense that he
knows that he's signing his own dessentence?

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Or does she think that? Isn't
that interesting? Isn't that interesting that your

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assumption is that sin is based on
ignorance not intelligence. That's not the case.

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It's a matter of thinking you can
get away with it, building up

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pride. That's what we talked about
earlier. Getting to a place where you

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know, many criminals are caught people. They understand the consequences, but you

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fool yourself into believing and you think
it's an intelligent thing and it's not not

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at all. Pride supersedes that.
Pride becomes the power that leads, not

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the mind or the intellect. So
you go straight to the smarts when it's

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not smarts at all. It has
nothing to do with that. It's pride

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that builds up exactly every time.
Think about the things you do wrong in

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life. So Sean, when you
make mistakes, you sin, you know

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you're coming for that sin. You
know it, you're approaching it, and

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you're justifying it in your head.
Well, it's okay if I speed because

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I need to get there and i'm
a little late, or I'm a good

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driver. These other people are idiots, but I'm good and I'll take care

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of this. You justify it,
and that's all the enemy did. It's

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not about intellect at all. There's
very smart criminals out there. All they

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do is they allow their emotions to
supersede their greed, to supersede their intellect,

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to transcend above that and tell them, hey, you could be something

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even better if you broke the rules. Karen Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.

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Hi, good morning. I was
wondering about pluralistic marriage where a man

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could have more than one wife in
the Old Testament, and my husband and

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I are just driving along and discussing
this. So I was wondering if you

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could give me some insight about when
that became permissible in the Old Testament and

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then when it stops being permissible.
Okay, it's not permissible, It's never

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permissible. Why is your husband?
Uh? Is he trying to negotiate with

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you? Or this is just theological
We're driving along and we've got the Bible.

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We just we talk about things.
Okay, that's wonderful. I was

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wondering, you know, somehow he
was going, so, honey, what

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would you think if we got a
little, you know, extra help around

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the house? Uh? Yeah,
probably not not a good idea. But

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since you both are just looking at
it academically, understand this that not everything

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in the the Bible is prescribing what
you what you should do. Sometimes it

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just talks about what's being done,
and that happens throughout the entirety of scripture.

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Now, there's ways that you can
you can conclude based on what's being

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said in scripture uh that polygamy is
not for the godly person. In the

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New Testament, for Timothy three to
two and twelve Titus one six, it

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talks about the standard and qualifications for
spiritual leadership, and that person is to

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be a husband of one wife,
it says, right. And it also

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goes on to talk about different things
that dealing with leadership, dealing a beat,

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like being above reproach, being temperate, self control, respectable, hospitable.

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So if these things are for every
believer, then there's no reason to

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believe in not just for leadership,
there's no reason to believe that the other

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qualifications here in this case dealing with
the husband of one wife, that that

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is not forevery Christian either. Plus, you can look back to Adam and

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Eve and the creation, that God
was looking to build a couple that would

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work together and that could be partners. And the word in scripture is help

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meet, and that God wanted Adam
to have a help meet, proper help

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meet, and in this case it
was woman, and it was one woman.

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So when you combine all those things
and you look, you can even

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find in Deuteronomy Deuteronomy seventeen fourteen through
twenty. If you read through that,

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you'll see that it's talking about having
that it's not good to have multiple wives

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and these types of things. So
anything that's prescriptive, that's prescribing what you

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should do or not do in scripture. In scripture says no, not good.

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But the other stuff is just describing
what's taking place, that there are

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people that were doing that, but
it describes all kinds of sins in scripture,

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correct, correct, And was the
action of taking more than one wife

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influenced by the cultures around them?
Sure? Many times that's why you're not

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seeing a direct consequence. So you're
not seeing a consequence necessarily to it.

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So you think, well, gosh, you know, maybe God is okaying.

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I don't give any thumbs up,
no difference, because God allows all

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kinds of things, and the Father
is very allowing because humans need to make

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their decisions. So if God was
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a decision, then no one would
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the case of people in scripture that
you know, people will say, well

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what about you know, mighty kings, what about Solomon? What about these

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things? Well, if God says
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things that aren't great. But that's
the entirety of scripture. Moses was a

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murderer, you remember, Moses murdered
the Egyptian and he looked left, he

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looked right, and forgot to look
up, you know. And so there's

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there's many times where you will find
people who miss the mark in scripture that

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are still referred to as great men
and women. It's because they in overall,

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looking at them in comparison to other
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of God, that their stand up
to a certain standard. But they all

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are sinners, and they all will
make mistakes, and some of them grievous

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mistakes. So there if you look
through scripture and the men of renown and

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those that people often quote as being
wonderful and great and everything, they all

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have problems. And that that that
goes for even great kings with you know,

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the the heart and mind of God. There are those that make many

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mistakes. But polygamy is never in
scripture condoned. It's allowed, just as

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any other sin is allowed, but
not condoned. Very good. So I

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hope that helps your drive this morning. It does, it does, Thank

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you very much. You're very welcome. There is nothing more beautiful to me

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than when a couple takes the time
to spend and discuss these things. I

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just I think it's fabulous. It
builds a wonderful relationship between two people to

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engage in ideas and thoughts and wondering. And so I commend you in your

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hus been for Karen for spending time
in the car that most people could just

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be quiet or you know, be
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wherever these types of things, and
then using it for something so productive and

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wonderful. I think that's uh.
I think that's pretty cool. Bob,

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Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Hey, how are you? Thank you

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for taking I'm well, how can
I help you? Well, I'm kind

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of in a dilemma. I'm a
new Bible reader. And you know,

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when you start, when you talk
about the Bible with people, everybody has

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an opinion, of course, but
I'm sure not everybody is right because there's

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so many difference. So my question
is I started at Genesis, and my

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dilemma is this. I read that
Adam and Eve were presented with an opportunity

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to make a decision and they failed, But the result of their decision was

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told to them in advanced that they
would positively die. My question is were

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they do they did they have the
prospect of going to heaven? Because if

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that was presented to them, the
pros you know that they would positively die.

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Is that prospect to all men that
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Now, obviously we're sinners, so
I guess we we all die. I

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guess just I want to know what
their disposition is. Do they have the

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opportunity to go to heaven? I
love that you are thinking this way.

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You've you've pointed out some really wonderful
things to be thinking about from going through

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Genesis. So I want to commend
you on that you're going down the right

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the right path of how people should
approach scripture. Scripture says in Thessalonians to

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test all things and hold fast to
that which is true. And I love

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that you're doing that. But let's
look a couple of things. What is

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it you have to look at what
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to surely die? Well, it's
not talking about a physical death. It

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was talking about a spiritual death.
So you're rightly curious to say, well,

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does that mean that they're for sure
going to go to hell. Which

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is the spiritual death or what part
does it play. There's nothing in scripture

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that points to Adam and Eve specifically
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or paradise in their case. Nothing, But you have to look at it

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in context and look at it this
way. Everyone that sins is going down

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the path of surely dying. So
imagine and you tie that with later in

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scripture, the wages of sin are
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that the wages of sin is death. God's saying here that Adam and Eve,

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if they if they eat of this
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the same statement, those that sin
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so imagine it more like a payment. Those that do this, in this

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case, sin will have to pay
a million dollars. Let's make it simple.

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We'll have to pay it a million
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So that payment will have to be
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the entirety of scripture that payment is
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Now, a million dollars can be
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to think of it in a way
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So all that says will surely die
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is the consequences or the judgment is
death. So our Jewish brothers and sisters

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look towards. We're looking forward to
the Messiah. So imagine this way that

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really the things that they did were
more like writing a check on a bank

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account that will be filled one day, whereas modern day Christians are looking backwards

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at an already filled bank account that
they're tapping into by receiving Christ or not

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receiving Christ. Either they accept or
reject me. So if you look at

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it, all those pieces play a
part. What our Jewish brothers and sisters

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did to write that check was to
do sacrifices, animal sacrifices, and those

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burnt offerings and the like were pointing
towards the ultimate sacrifice which would pay for

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it, which was my death on
the cross. You're taking all of these

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things into account, and you read
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twenty one says, and the Lord
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garments of skin and clothe them.
Many theologians believe that this was actually the

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first sacrifice, and that this sacrifice
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garments and to clothe them points to
the fact that they, Adam and Eve,

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indeed were saved. And I say
that in air quotes to understand the

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difference between somebody looking forward and writing
that check by way of animal sacrifice versus

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a Christian that is looking backwards towards
the filled account that it was paid for

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on the cross. So it's not
the it is the full justice, which

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is the full justice. The wages
of sin are death, period. However,

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that's for everyone across the board.
Yes, even Adam and Eve.

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They will surely know death. What
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they will have a debt that is
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death. But in this case the
sinless lamb. So it's all everyone that

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has ever sinned, oh man,
all of sin and fallen short of the

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glory of God. The consequence of
that is spiritual death. However, by

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receiving the gift of grace, the
blood on the cross, that debt can

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be paid for. But that's after
the crucifixion and the resurrection. So prior

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to that, all the Jewish believers, all of those that were people of

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faith were looking forward towards the Messiah, Messiah, the Machikh, and therefore

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they were writing the checks on that
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three twenty one applies the sacrifice by
the garments of skin. So that would

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imply to many theologians that in fact
Adam and Eve were saved by the grace

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of God via the sacrifice. Also
the relationship that God has with them afterwards,

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although changes does not go away,
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that points to that as well.
So really the scripture is best when you're

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reading it, and I love the
way you're parsing it and hearing those things,

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and they stood out to you they
should. But really, in the

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fullness of scripture, they call it
the hermeneutics. Reading through and seeing the

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harmony of scripture throughout the entirety of
scripture, not just one book or one

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verse or something like that, you'll
see that that that overall theme is throughout

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the entirety of scripture, that the
debt is death, and the payment is

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my life, my resurrected life,
and that blood on the cross, and

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that death that took place the perfect
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combination of those things, although look
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the cross you're standing. If you're
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looking back at it it's already happened. The actions are different, but they

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have the same meaning. So that's
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It wasn't that God the Father was
saying, you're you're going to surely

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die and there's no way out of
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the wages of sin are death.
That payment will have to be made,

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and at this point, because the
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be made by way of a burnt
offering, an animal sacrifice, and that's

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talked about in Genesis three twenty one
kfix on demand