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You're listening to KFI A six forty
on demand, you know. Driving recently

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saw a bumper sticker. A bumper
sticker said I can fix anything with the

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right hammer, and it got me
thinking about how as people of faith,

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there are times when you want the
confirmation of God. And listen to me

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that you want the confirmation of God
even if you don't have the confirmation of

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God, that you'll do anything to
get that. You'll twist, you'll contort

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scripture, you will press push,
yes, sometimes even get out that big

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hammer to get the job done.
And the word of God is something yes,

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breathing, absolutely, But is it
something that you are to twist or

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contort to your particular view to prove
yourself right. Absolutely not. You are

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supposed to receive from scripture, not
put your views into scripture. This mindset

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will save you a lot of pain
and anguish and frustration with God. I

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have met many a person's who have
rejected truth, trying to pull from scripture

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something that they want because it's easier. And I don't want you to be

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there, not today, not any
day. I don't want you to ever

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get to a place where you feel
that it's okay for you to place your

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will into scripture rather letting. Rather
than letting, Scripture breathe its will towards

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you, and this bumper sticker off. I can fix anything with any hammer,

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with the right size hammer has that
same mentality. That's not truly about

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fixing it. It's about banging into
your will. And I don't want you

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to do that with scripture in the
Bible. As Paul writes to Timothy,

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a young man going into leadership at
the in the Ephesian Church, he writes

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about scripture, he writes about care, he writes about scripture. Two Timothy

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two fifteen says, be diligent to
present yourself approved to God as a workman

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who does not need to be ashamed, first and foremost, setting yourself apart.

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Paul has talked about the difference in
Scripture between being ashamed in front of

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man and being ashamed in front of
God. Obviously being ashamed in front of

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God greater concern. And in some
translations, I want you to hear the

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words that are used. The sentiment
is in every single one, but the

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verbiage is interesting. It says not
to be ashamed. That goes on rightly

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dividing the word of truth, rightly
dividing the Word of truth. Now this

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is not a phrase that shows up
a lot in Scripture. Are those that

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go back and forth as to what
this might mean, because it really translate.

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Rightly dividing translates into cutting straight the
Word of God. And there are

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those that go back and forth as
to you know what this might mean.

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Many scholars believe that this this term
to cut straight or rightly divide, that

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Paul had in mind the stonemasons that
had to cut every stone precisely in order

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for the building to be erected properly, to stand properly, to have the

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fortress like qualities that you want in
a structure. But think about that precision.

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Think about what that means. To
divide rightly the Word of God.

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That means to set apart when you
sit and read scripture, to know that

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when you proceed with reading and learning
and taking from Scripture, that you do

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it in a prayerful manner, in
a manner which rightly divides the Word of

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Truth. That isn't just hammering your
thoughts into it. That the words there

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imply specific division and a delicate touch, not the big hammer method. I'm

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reminded of that play school toy.
It looks similar to a globe, but

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it's a geometric shape that has two
sides. It has handles. One side

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of it is red, one side
blue. The handles are yellow. You

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pull it apart and all the shapes
come out, and then you put the

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shapes back through each hole of the
same shape. So you have hearts,

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you have moons, half moons,
you have stars, circles, squares.

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Now, some kids that you give
it to, they will look at the

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shape, the shape they hold in
their hand, they will look at the

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cutout and they'll put it in the
proper location. There are other kids that

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will take the palm of their hand
and push the circle through the square slot

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because their goal is merely to get
it inside the container. And I see

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people do this with scripture. They'll
take a verse and they will push,

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and they will push, and they
will pull, and they'll yank, and

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they'll twist, and they'll try and
cram it to mean what they want it

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to mean. Do you do this? Do you try and get scripture to

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say to mean what you wanted to
say or mean, or do you let

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it breathe and speak to you rightly? Dividing the meaning and the truth of

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the Word of God. It's interesting
that this term is not used throughout scripture,

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that Paul used a specific way of
saying to divide the truth the Word

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of God, that this imagery of
a stonemason, or some say it might

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even be a surgeon or something.
But the importance here is that Paul saw

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the need to specifically use these words
to rightly divide, to cut straight the

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word of truth. Sometimes I feel
like there are those that go through Scripture

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with scissors, taking out what they
want or don't want, and leaving what

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they do, sort of making their
own version, kind of the Thomasonian Thomas

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Jefferson with his Jeffersonian. Rather,
his Bible is a Bible of removal.

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It's basically removing the things that Thomas
Jefferson didn't want to deal with, leaving

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what he did what he referred to
as the teachings of Christ. But my

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teachings were not just those. My
teachings go throughout the tirety of Scripture.

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And so to segment or partition or
take away, or to cram and twist

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the Word of God is to lose
the truth about Scripture. It is to

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lose the value because really, instead
of you imposing your view on scripture,

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instead of you imposing your thoughts,
your wants, your desires on scripture,

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on the contrary, scripture should be
imposing its views on you. So interpretation

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scripture receiving from scripture what it has
to teach you. The important thing is

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to use scripture itself to interpret itself
so that you don't get lost in your

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own interpretations or trying to squeeze out
of scripture what you want. Continue to

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read everything in its context. There
are times where to get a huge and

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important truth out quickly, you need
to condense it. And I know that

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this is very common, and so
is scripture memorization and uh, taking certain

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scripture and you know, putting them
on notepads or a bumper sticker or a

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T shirt. And there are definitely
scriptures that are concise and to the point,

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and you will remove it and you'll
go, okay, this really,

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you know, says what I'm trying
to get across. But everything in scripture

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is seated in its context for reason, and where it sits is important to

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how you understand it when you dive
into scripture, when you open it up,

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I know you want it to speak
to you, well, hear it

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out. Hear it out in its
entirety, read and understand the context,

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what was taking place, and then
it will speak to you truly, rather

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than you feeling the need to only
cut a little peace out and say,

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okay, this is what I'm going
to remember. Now, you may read

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an entire chapter and find that one
verse in that chapter seems to sum it

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up. That's okay, but read
it in its entirety. Know that scripture,

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those that you come across that are
difficult, those verses to come across

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that are difficult, should be interpreted
by the rest of scripture. So you

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go through and you read, You
see things in their proper context, and

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let them come to life. You
can compare and contrast against other parts of

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scripture, and then you can know
what God wants you to know. I

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see people take very difficult scriptures out
by themselves and try and make something that

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contradicts the entirety of the Bible and
tries to make some sort of doctrine a

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belief out of it. You have
to look at them and say, well,

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it's contorting or I hear people make
comments, oftentimes antagonists against God or

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God's word, taking things complete completely
out of context, and trying to make

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them say something ugly or awful without
knowing what their purpose was to begin with.

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If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when you do it.

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Ed. Welcome to the Jesus Christ
Show. Thank you, Hello Jesus.

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I want to tell you that I
have never craved a bag of like

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I am this morning. And whether
it's onion or raisin, that's the dilemma.

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Cream cheese is just a given.
Oh well, goodness, that's your

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only problem or dilemma today. You're
doing all right, my friend. I

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wanted to ask you, you hear
that argument will prove to me that God

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exists without using the Bible. Now, the Bible is the foundation of my

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belief in Christ. But can that
be done well? The Bible is the

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foundation of the practice of your belief, but often there's something that precedes that.

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Something has to precede it, otherwise
you wouldn't have gotten to the Bible.

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So it's not like in some cases
some people have the Bible put in

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their face as young kid and they
just kind of okay, well, this

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is what I do. But as
you know, children tend to grow up

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and become rebellious. And the simple
truth is you either believe what your parents

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believe or you believe the exact opposite. I mean, that's usually where people

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go. They usually rebel or accept. But outside of that, and I'll

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explain why the Bible is okay to
use, even though I wouldn't always recommend

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it, but intellectually why it's okay
to use. But outside of that,

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you have to start at the basics. You have to start at if there

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is a God at all, and
before you get into the specifics of the

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nature of God, which is what
the Bible kind of reveals and focuses on.

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So there are certain things and arguments, and all of them break down

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in one form or another, but
they do paint a picture that points to

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the necessity for transcendent being something that
is outside of creation. And you can

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do that by saying by looking around. Some call it the law of contingency.

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If you look around, there is
nothing in the universe, nothing that

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you can point to that doesn't have
to point outside itself to explain its existence.

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The tree has to point to the
acorn, which points to the tree,

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which points to the acorn. You
to your parents, to their parents

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to their parents and everything. You
know, the table you're sitting at has

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to point back to the tree that
it came from, which came from the

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acorn. So if you see,
everything has to point back somewhere. And

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the law of contingency would argue that
if everything in the universe is contingent,

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then the universe itself is contingent,
meaning that it's dependent upon something, and

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that points to that something being possibly
a god. So it's the equivalent of

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saying, you know, if the
legs of the chair are would, and

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the seat of the chair is would, and the back of the chair is

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wood, then what's the chair made
of? Ed? What exactly? So

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if everything in the universe is contingent, dependent upon something to prove its existence

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or to explain its existence, then
the universe itself has to point outside itself

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to explain its existence. So that's
one form. And all of these have

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fancy names, the cosmological argument,
the teleological argument, the deontological argument,

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and things like that, but when
it comes to these arguments, a lot

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of them are just looking at logic
and understanding. You can get into science,

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you can get into thermodynamics and how
things are winding down and becoming simpler,

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which implies they were wound up and
they're not getting greater, which points

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to evolution becoming more complex. Nothing
in science gets more complex. It always

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gets simpler. Thermodynamics, things are
breaking down. If you put an apple

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in the cupboard, it doesn't become
a greater apple. It breaks down in

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rocks. It gets simpler in nature, not greater in nature. You can

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point to design. You can point
to the fact that there's nobody in their

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right mind that would be driving through
the Dakotas and look at Mount Rushmore and

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saying say that, oh, look
that is, you know, because of

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erosion and rain. Wouldn't that seems
silly that someone would look at Mount Rushmore

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and think that it came just out
of happenstance because of erosion. Oh absolutely,

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that would be silly, because your
mind knows that when it sees complexity,

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that it has design, and design
comes from a designer. Yet when

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you look at humanity, people look
at humanity and go, oh, well,

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that's just an accident. I'm often
floored by the the atheistic evolutionist who

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sits there and chuckles about the these
guys believe in this magic guy named Jesus

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that came down and kind of threw
his faery dust around, and now everybody

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gets lived for forever. Reductionism,
you know, you can reduce it to

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sound silly, just like I could
say that the evolutionist believes you come from

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a magic bowl of soup. So
if you look at the complexity of humanity,

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if you look at the complexity of
the universe and the necessity of the

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universe, meaning every little star has
a purpose and every grain of sand has

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a purpose and a balance to this
life, that that shows design. That

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points to a designer and doesn't just
point to randomness, and the actual mathematical

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laws that you'd have to use and
skew mathematically to say that humanity just happened

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out of chaos runs on the other
side of impossible mathematically. So there's a

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lot of different areas you can run
down and point to and use his arguments,

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but ultimately there's going to be a
point of faith because you're dealing with

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a past singular like the creation of
time and the universe and the world as

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you know it. And even the
evolutionary scientist has to do the same thing

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because forensics is the only science you
can use, which is the science of

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basically looking backwards through that which is
left. So no one could go back

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to that moment and create that moment
and say, okay, this is how

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the world came to be, because
the world's already here and you can't recreate

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it. Somewhere, there was some
some years ago there was a scientists that

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created a simple and which is essentially
like a life, and threw their arms

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up in the air and said,
whoao, we created life. See,

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we did it. We finally in
a Petri dish, we created life.

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This is it. We've showed everybody
that we can do it. And the

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theist looked up and said, let
me get this straight. You did what

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well? We created life? I
said, well, what kind of environment?

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Oh it was it was a specific
environment a lab excellent, and who

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monitored well are greatest scientists. So
you're saying that intelligence in a created environment

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brought forth life, which is what
the theist has been saying since day one.

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All that proves is that you need
intelligence to create intelligence and science.

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The law is that the law of
causing effects says that the effect is never

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going to be greater than the cause. If I can push something, it's

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because my strength leverage the viscosity of
the ground that the item sitting on,

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whatever it is, is going to
be in my favor. I'm stronger than

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whatever it is. If I can
pick it up or throw it, I'm

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stronger. My cause is greater than
the effect of the ball being thrown or

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whatever I'm tossing. Right, Well, they have to kind of reverse that

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when it comes to creation and evolution, because in the evolutionary model, the

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effect evolution is greater than the cause
because it's getting more complex. It's getting

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bigger, better, stronger, faster, smarter, and not smaller simpler.

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There's a lot of problems with it. And I know that a lot of

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folks will roll their eyes at this
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the cosmological has problems this way,
the deontological has problems this way. Tellia,

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they start picking apart, and all
arguments do break down in certain areas,

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but as a whole, you bring
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look at it and say, wow, there actually is great argumentation. It's

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not illogical to believe in God.
It's not just fantasy or faith. Faith

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is great and important, but ed
faith is that which comes after that which

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you can know. I like that
it's not illogical. No, absolutely not.

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If you're going to serve a god. Do you want to serve a

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whacked out illogical God? No?
And I find it silly. And you'll

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find that the cults or the occult
at times other belief systems heretical systems.

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Within the Church, they're often very
nonsensical and usually teetered towards manm uh,

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this is you know, you look
at people and say, let me get

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this straight. You think we made
up scripture. You think that I wrote

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a book telling me not to do
the very things that is in my nature

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to want to do, and that
I'm going to live by it. Why?

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Well, because the early man did
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structure of law and so people would
abide. No, humans don't want to

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abide by anything, no matter who
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me and the Father since day one. Written or unwritten, oral tradition or

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not oral tradition. Man wants to
rebel, why would that same man write

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a book that he's going to rebel
against. It's not a book that a

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man would write if he could,
or could write if he would. So

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there's many, many, many,
many different ways of going about it.

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But lastly, Ed, I want
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Scripture is not one book. That's
the mistake people always think it's one

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book. Scripture is over sixty five
books, written by approximately forty authors on

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three different continents, in three different
languages, by priests and peasants, at

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times of peace at times of war. It's voluminous. It's not one book.

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Now, if I brought thirty books
to somebody throughout the centuries that were

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written by different people that all pointed
to the same thing, that's not circular

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reasoning or going back and arguing your
point from your point. That's building a

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case. If you ask me,
John, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.

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Follow Jesus. Hi John, what's
up? Jesus. I decided to

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call you today because I'm having a
lot of problems in my life. Aside

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from the fact that I'm going through
a lot of financial difficulties, I've also

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recently found out that my wife has
been having an extra amount affair. It's

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been about three months give or take
since I've found out, and not by

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any admission but just my own general
knowledge. Oh so you're saying that she

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hasn't confessed to this in any way, shape or form. Well, she

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confessed after I presented her with the
proof, So she got caught pretty much.

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Okay, Well, John, I'm
going to ask you a hold on

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a second, as we're up against
the clock. I want to talk to

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you more and hear more of the
story. We've been married for seventeen years,

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find out, in addition to having
financial woes right now, that your

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wife is having an affair. When
we come back, I want to talk

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to you a little bit more about
that and see what scripture has to say.

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We were talking with John, been
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his wife was having an affair.
Now, John, you called her on

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this right? Oh yes, okay, so you saw signs or whatever it

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was you finally called her. How
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on the carpet on that she was
very upset, very upset, and come

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to find doubt that it was a
coworker of hers. And quite honestly,

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you know, I'm doing a little
bit more research. I found that I

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confronted this person, okay, and
you know I told them what my intentions

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were, and you know, he
says there was just a strong friendship and

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so forth. But in reading emails
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there was I seemed like there was
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them. Jesus, I know,
I know you didn't quit on us when

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you were preaching your word the non
believers, and I'm trying to follow that

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inspiration and not not trying to quit
on my marriage. There are children involved,

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and I'm trying to be the better
person, but it just seems so

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difficult. You know, sometimes you
don't you wish for the response, a

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certain response, and you're not getting
that certain response back, and all you

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hear is any time I need time
one day at a time. Is that

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is that the response that she's giving
you or is this this you working through

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it? Uh? No, this
is this is her responses. She needs

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time for what I I don't know
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were a lot of text messagings and
and things of that nature. Yeah,

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Technology unfortunately has made it even easier
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keep contact and kind of ruminate and
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you know, without knowing anything,
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you know, are you having an
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she both denied it. Come to
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for about a year or so.
Wow, okay, well here's the rules.

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This is what it means to you. Do you have you know,

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biblical right to save the marriage?
Yes, of course you do. Yeah.

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This is a debate that goes on
throughout Christendom. But the most Christians

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would believe that in context on you
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this say this case, an adulter, that you could save the marriage.

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However, that isn't that's not my
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ten is really about reconciliation. Reconciliation
should always be at the forefront. But

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these are the rules that I want
you to know. One, John,

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you could only be fifty percent of
the relationship. You can't go over and

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be her part as well. She
has to participate in this. You have

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to give the ultimatum that this is
where we're at. I would like to

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reconcile this relationship, but it's going
to take work. None of this I'm

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not ready now now that if you're
not in now, then you're not in.

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If you're not going to be a
part of the marriage now, then

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you're not going to be a part
of the marriage, and we'll go our

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separate ways. That stinks because for
the children, most importantly, you both

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should be together. However, in
this particular case, if she's going to

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be bringing other men into the relationship
in one way or another, or these

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types of things, and that's equally
if not worse for the children. So

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for the protection of the family or
what's left of it, you have to

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put the ultimatum down on the table
and say this is what I want,

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this is what I need. She
has to be all in and you have

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to be all in. You can't
continue to beat her over the head with

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it. She can't continue to make
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You have to know where she is, know where you are. You guys

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have to have an equal amount of
trust in this, and then from that

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point it can move forward. KFI
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