Feb. 23, 2025

Preaching Truth While Spreading Lies

Preaching Truth While Spreading Lies

A discussion with AI about lies within Christianity.

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A discussion with AI about lies within Christianity.

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective.

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This is the Theology Central podcast, making Theology Central.

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Good evening everyone. It is Saturday, February the twenty second,

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twenty twenty five. It is currently six pm Central Time,

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and I am coming to you live from the Theology

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Central studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. Now, I

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don't know if I should be offended. I don't know

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if I should be grateful. I don't really know exactly

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how I should handle this. But right before I went

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live on the air, artificial intelligence told me that this

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is the way I should handle myself during this episode.

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It kind of gave me a little bit of warning

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and advice. I said, Okay, before you start this podcast,

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before you you talk about this, before you start your episode,

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you should approach it this way. And it gave me

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five things that I need to do in this episode.

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Artificial intelligent intelligence gave me five things. Well, first, it's

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more intelligent than me. Since I can't even say artificial intelligence,

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but artificial intelligent intelligence. See, I did it again. Artificial

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intelligence gave me five things I need to do in

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this episode. Number one, I need to begin with a

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humble reflection and it gives me Ephesians Chapter four, verse

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twenty six, be ye angry, and sin not, let not

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the sun go down upon your wrath. Be ye angry,

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and sin not, let not the sun go down upon

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your wrath. I think AI is trying to tell me, Hey, guys,

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trying to tell me, well, there may be something here

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that you should be angry about, but do not sin,

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and do not let the sun go down upon your wrath.

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So I need to be angry here, but I don't

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need to sin in my anger, and I need to

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work through it before the sun goes down. And so

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I have limited amount of time before the sun goes down.

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I need to have worked through my anger. I'm not

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as angry about this as I was when we talked

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about the subject we're going to be talking about earlier.

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In fact, that's why I had to record the apology,

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because I got so upset. But once I get into this,

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I have a feeling I'm going to be upset. AI

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at least thinks artificial intelligence thinks I'm going to be upset.

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So it tells me, hey, you need to be humble here,

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and you need to reflect on this. And I will

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say this, I know this is very important since we're

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going to be talking about lies and misinformation and wrong

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information and fraudulent information. Let me make Let me make

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it very clear if I never share any fraudulent information

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and a podcast episode, I never share misinformation, I never

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share wrong information, fake information. I always have my facts straight.

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If in every episode I have ever done, and the

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entire history of broadcasting that I have done and will do,

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if I never share any wrong information, all my facts

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are double checked. If I do everything right, let me

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make it very clear. At heart, I am still a liar.

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If I'm going to say that's fraudulent information, that's fake information,

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that's wrong, they are sharing lies. Let me make it

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very clear. I need to confess this. I am a liar.

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My heart is deceitful above all things. We lie in

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so many different ways. We lie to ourselves. I think

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we lie to God. We lie to others. We deceive ourselves,

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we try to deceive others. There are so many ways

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in which we use deceptions. Sometimes we may even say

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something that is true but in a way to ultimately

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deceive someone. So we I'm a liar. Let me let's

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forget the wee. I am a liar. I am not

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always honest with myself with other people. I'm a liar,

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all right, So let's just get that out of the way.

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So if I'm if I get upset here and start

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yelling and screaming about fraudulent information shared from the pulpit,

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let me make it very clear. Even if I don't

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do that, I'm no better than anyone else because I

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may just share my lies outside of the pulpit or

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not in front of the microphone, but I'm still a liar.

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I am a liar. So I'm glad that AI said

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begin with humble reflection, because that is important to remember.

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It's like if I I mean, it's true of all

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of us. If a pastor is condemning sin, he may

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be condemning a sin, but he's a sinner. And if

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you are condemning sin, you need to always remember you're

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a sinner. The bottom line is, none of us are

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without sin, because we are all perpetually in sin, twenty

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four hours a day, seven days a week. All right.

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So that's the first thing AI wanted me to do.

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Wanted me to acknowledge and basically begin with a humble

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reflection and try to remember Ephesians for twenty six. Second,

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what AI tells me I need to do here, Artificial

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intelligence tells me I need to expose the sermons in

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accuracies using evidence. So what AI wants me to do.

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There's a particular sermon, you know which one we're gonna

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play just a little bit of it. It wants me

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to expose the sermons and accuracies. Because Ai, AI took

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the sermon and just ripped it to shreds just a

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little while ago. I took the transcript of the sermon

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that we reviewed in a previous episode, okay, and I

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gave it to it and AI was like, this thing

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is as, this thing is a total mess, Like you

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need to expose these inaccuracies. The third thing AI is

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telling me to do, I need to explain to you

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why truth matters even when defending Christianity. Now, as Christians,

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we are the ones who's supposed to believe in absolute truth, right,

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We're the ones who are supposed to put away lying,

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speak the truth with every person. God hates lying lips

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do not bear false witness. We're the ones who speak

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against Supposedly, we're supposed to condemn deception, condemn lying, we're

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supposed to speak the truth. We're the ones who are

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supposed to be trafficking in truth, promoting it, defending it,

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and ladies and gentlemen, we are to do that. Even

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when we're defending Christianity. It doesn't matter if we're talking

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about Church history, doesn't matter, if we're talking about the

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Church Fathers. It doesn't matter what we're talking about. It

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doesn't matter if we're talking about Satanism, Mormonism, Islam, whatever

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we're discussing. It doesn't matter if we're talking about popular

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culture music. We have to have our facts straight. We

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have to be messengers of truth, and even when we're

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talking about Christianity, we have to share truth that in

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many cases makes us look really really really really really

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really bad, and we have to acknowledge that truth is

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supposed to matter to us. So artificial intelligence is telling

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me that in this episode, I need to begin with

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humble reflection and remember Ephesians four twenty six, Be angry,

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but do not sin. Okay, got it? Number two? Expose

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the sermon in accuracies. I'm going to be reviewing a

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part of a sermon. Well, I'm going to be reviewing

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the whole sermon. We're not going to be reviewing the

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audio of all of it, but we're going to be

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talking about the sermon. I need to expose it and accuracies.

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The third thing I need to do is I need

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to explain why truth matters, because for some weird reason,

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Christians don't seem to believe truth matters. Oh they say

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they do, but in reality they don't. Because I cannot

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tell you how much misinformation, how many lies, how much

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fraudulent information I have heard in sermon after sermon after

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sermon after sermon. It is sometimes staggering how many lies

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I have heard from pulpits. The fourth thing AI artificial

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intelligence is telling me to do is I need to

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call all of us to intellectual honesty in our preaching.

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We need intellectual honesty. We have to be honest, we

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have to be truthful, we have to be factual. And

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number five, artificial intelligence is telling me that in this episode,

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I need to encourage you, the listener, to fact check

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every single claim you hear on Christian radio, in a

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Christian book, from the pulpit, from your Sunday school teacher,

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from your small group leader. Fact fact check everything, fact

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check everything you hear on the new fact check everything. Verify, Verify, verify, verify,

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and I hate to see it. Sometimes you got a

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fact check and verify what you're hearing from the Christian

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world far more than you have to do from the

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atheist world. And I know saying that people are gonna

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get mad, but I just can't tell you how many

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lies I've heard from from sermons. It's sometimes just staggering,

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fraudulent misinformation. I've told the story before. I mean, I

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became a Christian as a teenager here in West Texas,

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and before that, if I was bored on a Friday night,

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I would go to these churches back then that were

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doing these you know, the evils of rock music, where

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they'd be there on a Friday night telling you all

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the evils of rock music, telling you stories about the bands,

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saying things about the lyrics, and then on Saturday they

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would have a bonfire burn all the albums like there,

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I don't know, like they're in Nazi Germany. And it

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was and it was ridiculous because so many of those

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so called evils of rock and roll music conferences were

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filled with lies, bearing false witness, misinformation, twisting things, misrepresenting things,

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and back then I couldn't just look it up, but

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because I knew the music so well, I was like,

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you don't even know what you're talking about. You're completely lying.

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That's not even accurate. And I went to just mock Christians.

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So before I even became a Christian, I was mocking

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Christians because of all the lies that were saying about

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popular music that they didn't know anything about. It's just, oh,

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it's just never ending, never ending within christiandom. So those

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are the five things Ai says I need to do today.

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I need to begin with humble reflection. I'm gonna just

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say it again. I am a liar. Whether I may

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never share false information from the on this podcast, I

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hope I never do. I probably will. At some point

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I will get something wrong. Hopefully I will always come

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back and apologize hopefully. And I say hopefully because well,

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I'm a sinful, arrogant man who maybe not be too

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prideful to admit it. All right, But even though I

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don't do that, I'm still a liar. My lies just

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may show up in a different way. But I am

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a liar, full blown liar, all right. Just and you

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can sit there and go I'm sorry. You probably are

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as well if you admit it. Number Two, I need

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to expose the sermon's inaccuracies. I'm gonna do my very best.

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Number Three, I need to explain why truth matters. I'm

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going to try to do that throughout this entire episode.

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I'm gonna call for intellectual honesty. I always do that.

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I'm going to do that here, and I'm going to

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encourage you to fact check, fact check, fact check, fact

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fact check. If I can say that correctly, fact check everything.

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All right? Does that sound good? All right? Now, what

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are we talking about? Well, I don't even know what.

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I would have to look up the dates and everything,

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and I'll have them in front of me. I started

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to review a sermon. Well, I actually I started. I started.

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This is how it all started. On the sermon's two

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point oh app.

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There was a live web cast.

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I started listening to it, and I think it was Wednesday.

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I think it may have been Wednesday, and the pastor

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mentioned Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his essay, his thesis on stupidity. Well,

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the fact that it was a church service, a pastor

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is mentioning Dietrich Bonhoeffer's essay on stupidity. I'm like, this

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is great. I couldn't even listen anymore because immediately I

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had to turn on the microphone and I did an

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hour teaching on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's thesis on stupidity. That it

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was great, was wonderful. I was so like, I was like,

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thank you for bringing that up. You gave me a

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great idea, you gave me over and a subject I

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could spend over an hour on. That was great. That

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was wonderful. Thank you. But I wanted to go back

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and listen to the sermon because the sermon was about

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what he kept saying, there's a cultural revolution coming, or

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that it's here, that the culture is undergoing this revolution,

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and we have to see where it's going. We've got

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to talk about and we got to know how to

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protect ourselves from it. And I'm like, oh, well, let's

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we need to review the whole thing. So I decided

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to review the entire sermon. Now we didn't make it

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far because in the sermon, he starts making claims about America,

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American history, the founding fathers, and then he starts talking

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about an individual by the name of Thomas Pain. All right,

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and as soon as as soon as this happened, all right.

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I knew, I knew we're in trouble. As soon as

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he brought up Thomas Pain, I'm like, we are in

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so much trouble because I knew what was coming. I

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knew that in the sermon as he started mentioning Thomas Pain,

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he was going to go to the famous, basically deathbed

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conversion story of Thomas Pain. And I knew immediately. I'm like,

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we're in trouble. We're before we get to the cultural revolution.

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He wants to talk about. He's going to tell me

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the story about Thomas Paine, and I guarantee you it's

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going to be it's gonna be filled with misinformation, if

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not downright lies. And as we were reviewing it, I

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lost my ever living mind. I got furious. I got mad,

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and I got furious and mad because a pastor standing

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behind a pulpit, in order to try to promote Christianity,

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to try to point people to the truth of Christianity,

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is going to take a story about a real human

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being and what they supposedly said on their deathbed that

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has been shown to be a fraudulent story over and

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over and over. They're going to They're going to misrepresent

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what a human being said and did on their deathbed

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to promote their religious belief, to promote Christianity. That is twisted.

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That is evil. We do not use lies and misinformation

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to promote Christianity, and only that you're bearing false witness.

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There's so many things wrong with what happened, and I

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got mad and I got furious. So I lost my mind.

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I apologize to everyone for losing my mind. I think

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my anger was right. How I may expressed it, may

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it wasn't so right. And we talked a little bit

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about that. So in some ways I was like, well,

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I'm done. I'm done right, that should be done. I

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should just move on. So I started listening to the

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sermon after where we stopped.

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sermon is this the cultural revolution. The cultural revolution is

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that the culture has abandoned truth, the truth. The culture

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doesn't like truth. They live in lies. Basically, they are deceived.

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where you tell all kinds of wrong information, you're gonna

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condemn the culture and telling lies does not. I mean,

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the irony in it, the contradiction in it is staggering.

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this has got this is crazy. So I'm gonna I've

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got that the sermon queued up. But if I start

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playing it, it's just gonna go He's gonna go right

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back through the claims of I've got it queued up

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to where he goes back and tells the story about

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Thomas Paine. And instead of doing that, I'm just gonna

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give you how AI broke this down, and we're gonna

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kind of walk through my conversation with A. I think

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we'll do that. I was gonna play the audio, but

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you've already heard the audio. It's already there. I I

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and this is not even about trying to point out

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this pastor or this church. I'm not even I'm not

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giving the name or anything like that. I'm not even

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going to do that, right, I'm just gonna go through

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how AI broke this down. So I'm gonna go all

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the way back up here, all right, all right? So

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I gave I attached the this basically what I told Ai,

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I'm attaching the sermon because AI asked for after after

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I started asking some questions about Thomas pain to verify

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what I thought. I already knew I was a little

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fuzzy on certain things about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, so I needed

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AI to point me to to some facts to make

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sure I was I was I was accurate because I

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couldn't be too dogmatic. So but that bit AI knew

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I was asking these questions because I was listening to

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a sermon. So AI basically kept asking, can you get

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me when are you gonna give me the sermon? Provide

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me the sermon, Provide me the sermon. So finally today

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I said, I'm attaching the sermon that had the Thomas

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Paine claims. Please outline, summarize the claims, then contrast them

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with the condemnation about the culture and truth made in

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the sermon. So I kind of it was kind of

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a little fuzzy, but I kind of gave Ai that

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Now AI is gonna I'm gonna give you AI breakdown.

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I didn't feel like AI really understood exactly what I

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was asking, so I asked again, and then it really

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started breaking it down more specifically, and what I needed

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at first, it's it's somewhat vague. There'll be a little

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bit of repetition here, but you're but I'm still trying,

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going to try to accomplish all five things that AI

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told me to accomplish. All right, So again, I could,

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I could play part of the sermon, but I don't.

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I don't know of great value in that. Right, there's

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no great value because if we start reviewing it, I'm

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just gonna get all I'm going to get angry and

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mad and start yelling and screaming and that. Remember AI

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told me not to do that. So I'm going to

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be careful here, right, So here's what AI gives me.

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This sermon, titled Understanding the Cultural Revolution, presents a contrast

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between biblical truth and the cultural decline in America. The

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preacher argues that America was founded on biblical principles, but

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has undergone moral and intellectual decay, largely due to secular

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influences and the rejection of applute truth, not just think.

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The sermon's whole thing is that the culture there's an

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intellectual decline. The culture has abandoned absolute truth. While he

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is saying that about the culture he lies, he spreads

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lies and false information. I mean, and a sermon where

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he's spreading false information, fraudulent information, downright lies, he's gonna

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an intellectual decline and they've abandoned absolute truth. You can't

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condemn people for abandoning absolute truth when those of us

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who supposedly preach absolute truth use lies in order to

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further our supposed absolute truth. The situation is mind boggling

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to me. The sermon is framed around Judges twenty one

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to twenty five. Every man did that which was right

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in his own eyes, and they use it as an

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analogy for the cur state of American society. Everyone did

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that which was right in their own eyes? All right, now,

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the world does not us Christians. Oh no, we never

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do what is right in our own eyes. I mean,

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we may stand behind a pulpit and give false information

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and lie, but we never do what is right in

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our own eyes. I will argue that when you go

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to that text and Judges, this is just a good

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hermoneutical test.

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Who's it about who's doing.

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their own eyes? Or is it a reference to the

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lost people, to the to the non covenant people. I'm

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just asking the hermoneutical question. I think that Christians throughout

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history God's people, Israel, the Church, and in the Church.

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at before Christ after Christ. I think the Church has

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just as guilty as doing what is right in our

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own eyes. I mean, if we weren't all doing what

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is right in our own eyes, would we have thousands

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upon thousands of different denominations and nobody can agree literally

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on anything. We don't agree on baptism, we don't agree

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on repentance, we don't agree on the Lord's Supper, we

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don't agree on anything. Maybe because everyone is doing what

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harmoneutical systems, our own way of interpreting versus our own

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private interpretations, while we tell everyone else that they're wrong.

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I know that's a radical thought. I know we love

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to use That's the world. Everyone is doing what is

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right in their own eyes. That's the world. I think

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we may want to look in the mirror. So then

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AI says, Okay. In the sermon, here's some of the

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claims made about Thomas Pain and his death, bad words.

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America's intellectual decline and states the following about him. So, hey,

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America started declining, and let's take it back to Thomas Pain.

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as Christians we're not part of this intellectual the client.

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I guess as Christians we're all the smart ones. Okay,

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here's some of the things Pains. His famous book, The

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Age of Reason, led to a cultural shift away from

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as being this thing that leads to a cultural shift

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away from biblical truth. Pain rejected Christianity and acquitted it

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with mythology, comparing Christ to pagan child gods. Pain ignored

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biblical prophecy, leading to an incomplete understanding of Christianity. On

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his deathbed, he allegedly recanted his views, saying, now this

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is the story. The sermon tells. This is what he

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supposedly said on his deathbed. Stay with me, God, I

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cannot bear to be left alone. Oh Lord help me,

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Oh God, what have I done to suffer so much?

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I would give worlds if I had them that The

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Age of Reason had never been published. That's the claims. Now,

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I've heard that claim and that story about Thomas Pain

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on his deathbed. I'm going to use hyperbole a billion times, okay.

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know the exact number, So I'm just saying a billion

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times to say a lot. I don't know how many,

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but a lot. I've heard it repeated on Christian podcast, sermons,

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Christian radio. I've heard it over and over and over

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to the point I'm sick of hearing it. So as

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soon as he started talking about Thomas Pain and the sermon,

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I'm like, oh boy, here we go. How much I mean?

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I wish right then I could have ran to Vegas,

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put down a bet, collected all of my winnings because

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I knew exactly what the sermon was going to do.

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You said, well, gambling is wrong, but wouldn't it have

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been great to win a whole lot of money gambling

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on what a false statement that a sermon was going

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to make. Come on, there's got to be something right

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about that. Okay, never mind, right, let's continue, so AI said,

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reality check. The deathbed quotes attributed to Pain are widely

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discredited and come from later Christian sources with no eye

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witness verification. Credible historical accounts from those that were actually

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at Payne's death, such as his physician and his friend,

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all confirm that he remained a Deist until the end

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and did not return to Christianity. So Christians who were

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not there, we make a claim about someone dying about

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what they were saying, even though the people who were

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there are saying none of this is true. So I

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don't know who. At the very best, a Christian should

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be like, well, I wasn't actually there, and we got

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this eyewitness accounts that contradict what I'm saying. Maybe I

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shouldn't be an arrogant, condescending jerk and make a thing

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and say things about someone's death that I'm not for

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sure can one hundred percent say it's accurate. So at

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the very best, I should not tell said story since

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I don't have any factions way of knowing if the

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story is true. Because that would be bearing false witness,

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which I don't know used to be a sin, but

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it's not really a big sin. It's one of those

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venial sins, bear false witness, share misinformation. Lie. Do pastors

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get in trouble for that? No, they're ever going to

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be church disciplined for that. No are they going to

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ever be removed from the pulpit. No, they can lie, lie, lie,

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and it's all good to go. Nobody in the nobody,

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even in the few cares. Now, Ai goes on to say, here,

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if I can get back up to hang on what

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happened here?

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Let me get back up here to it. I have

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five hundred pages of notes here, all right. So, Ai says,

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credible historical accounts from those present Pain's death physician, they

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all confirm that he remained at dis until the end

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and did not return to Christianity. The claim that Pain

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ignored biblical prophecy oversimplifies his views. He actively engaged with

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biblical texts, he just rejected their divine inspiration. So it

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whether that he ignored biblical prophecy, he just rejected the

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divine inspiration of the text. It seems that he actually

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engaged with the text a lot, Okay, the sermon this

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is what Ai says. The sermon falsely portrays Pain's final

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moments and misrepresents historical evidence to support its argument about

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cultural decline. So and a sermon where you're like, America

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is in decline intellectually, America has abandoned truth. America is

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doing what is right in their own eyes. While making

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that claim about the world, He from the pulpit is

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promoting and sharing absolutely discredited, fraudulent information. The irony there

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is so I mean, I don't even it's just so ridiculous.

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I don't even have words for it. Ai continues. The

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sermon frames modern America as a nation abandoning biblical truth,

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leading to number one, an intellectual and educational shift. According

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to the sermon, America was founded on biblical principles, but

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secular humanism has overtaken education. Thinkers like Charles Darwin John Dewey,

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who influenced education, were atheists, leading to a godless system.

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Public schools removed prayer. Public schools removed prayer. Yes, I'm

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in agreement with that. It's a public school. And if

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you're gonna have someone leading prayer, if it's a now

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kids can still pray. Now, Okay, I'm gonna get I'm

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gonna get tick off everyone, but I'm just gonna ahead

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and get this out of the way because I get

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so sick of this argument. First, if you want the

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kids praying, every church in every city can open their

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doors at six o'clock in the morning and they can

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invite families, they can invite teenagers, they can invite everyone

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to stop by and pray before they go to school.

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You can open up your doors of your church at

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nine o'clock every night and say, before you go to bed,

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come to church and pray together. You can pray. And

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then every kid who goes to a public school, whether

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there's a public prayer or not, guess what that kid

477
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can do. That kid can pray all day because you're

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praying in your mind. You don't have to make a

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show out of it. You can pray whenever you want.

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What we're talking about is a publicly led prayer. Because

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the minute the public school please note it's a public school,

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it's not a Christian school, it's a public school. The

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minute you have a Christian led prayer, well, then guess what.

484
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Then you should have a Satanist led prayer. You should

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have a Muslim led prayer. You should have a Buddhist

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I know which Christian? Do you have a Pentecostal up

487
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there going speaking in tongues and making all kinds of

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crazy prophecies. Do you have a Catholic praying to marry?

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What do you who gets still lead the prayer? Oh,

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we just need a generic prayer to a generic God. Well,

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then what point is that that's a waste of time

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getting prayer out of the public school. I'm all for it.

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It's a public school. If you want your kids praying

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at school, put them in a Christian school. If you

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want your kids praying in school, put them in homeschool.

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If you want your kids to pray, take them to church.

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If the church wants people to pray, open your doors

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at six in the morning so that people can come

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and pray. The Christian students who want to pray can

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arrive at school, Go get together anywhere and pray. You're

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hanging out in the gym, You're hanging out wherever in

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the hallways. Hey, hey, Tom, come here, let's pray for

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school today. All right, Hey, Susan, come here, let's pray.

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Oh no, we got to have someone lead them in

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prayer because I guess our kids can't figure out how

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to pray themselves, maybe because their youth group is only

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doing nothing but feeding them pizza. I'm playing foolish games

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and has a waste of stinking time. Yeah, now I'm

509
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being kind of mean. So of course it complains about

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public prayer being taken out Bible reading was taken out

511
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of school. Well that's good. I was in nineteen sixty three.

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I'm in agreement with both because it's not the school's

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job to do the church's job. The church is where

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you pray. The church is where the Bible is read,

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not the public school. What I want the public school

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to do is teach reading, writing, arithmetic, science. I want

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them to teach academics reading comprehension, which, well, you know,

518
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all the Christians definitely need that. They don't get me

519
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started on how they mean. I was just listening to

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a sermon a little while ago and saw I'm sixteen.

521
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I'm still baffling what the world that we're doing there. Okay,

522
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so teach that we don't need. Because once you bring

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religion into the school, which religion Jehovah's Witness, Mormons Catholics, Pentecostals,

524
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Bethel Church, the New Apostolic Reformation, Like, well, who's got

525
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you want Paula White to come visit your church and

526
00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:15.359
say her nonsense? Oh wait, Trump's using never mind, Okay,

527
00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:20.440
what No, I don't want religious people anywhere near the situation.

528
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And he said this accelerated moral decay. This accelerated moral decay.

529
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Just remember, just remember Cain and Abel. They probably prayed

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Cain killed his brother. Oh before public schools, before Netflix,

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before Elvis Presley and the Beatles, before video games. Oh wait,

532
00:31:49.960 --> 00:31:52.680
there was oh wait, let's see what else happened in Genesis.

533
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Oh wait, there was homosexuality. There was rape. Oh there

534
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was incest where the daughter's like, hey, dare drink this,

535
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Let's get drunk and let's be together. Okay, oh yeah,

536
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oh the wonderful ol way, all of that happened before

537
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I don't know the Bible was taken out of the

538
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public school. I think there was plenty of moral decay.

539
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Oh wait, judges, everyone was doing Do you want to

540
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know what everyone was doing? Right in their own eyes?

541
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You want to know what happens at the end of

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the Book of Judges, Go ahead and try to preach

543
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that on a Sunday morning with everyone in the sanctuary,

544
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you'll probably get some people very very very offended when

545
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they hear about what they do to that woman and

546
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how they cut her up. Yeah, let's talk about that.

547
00:32:33.359 --> 00:32:37.240
Oh wait, that was happening in biblical times. You had murder,

548
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you had rape, you had incest, you'd yeah, I mean,

549
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you had genocide for crying out loud. But the moral

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declined when we took the Bible out and everything wasn't moral.

551
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You know why. There's moral decay because we're all mortally moral,

552
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morally depraved. There is moral the kay, because we're all

553
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morally depraved. You've got I mean, do we need to

554
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go to the Roy's report right now? And in this

555
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church and in this church and this church, Oh, there's

556
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prayer in Bible reading. But there's sexual assault, children being molested,

557
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this happening, and this happening, and this back body slander, gossip,

558
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Oh that happens inside the church. Oh wait, there's prayer

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in Bible reading. All right. So those are some of

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the claims that the sermon makes you already see I'm

561
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already disagreeing with that. Then the uh, the sermon continues again,

562
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we're reading AI's review of this sermon that we have

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already reviewed some.

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Of it before.

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Ai goes on to say postmodernism replaced absolute truth with

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subjective truth, my truth versus your truth. Do you not

567
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find that absolutely fascinating? And a sermon that's going to

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say what's happened is that postmodernism replaced absolute truth with

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subjective truth, my truth versus your truth. In that very song,

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he then tells absolutely fraudulent truth about what happened to

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Thomas Paine, and he goes on to make other fraudulent

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claims about Dietrich Bonhoeffer and about the Nazis. He goes

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and so he spends like the first part of the

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sermon giving fragilent information to then condemn society for having

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no absolute truth. I don't even have words for that.

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The sermon goes on to make the claim that the

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moral shift parallels Nazi Germany, where people were manipulated into

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justifying atrocities. Bonheffer's theory of stupidity is reference to argue

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that secular education leads to blind cultural conformity. No, I

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want you, I'm gonna argue this that secular education leads

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to blind cultural conformity. I think the church leads to

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blind cultural conformity. You think the church doesn't lead people

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to blind cultural conformity. You conform to the culture of

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the church or you will be cast out. It's the

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same process. The sermon goes on to say churches have

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compromised doctrine, embracing entertainment over worship. Now we can have

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a good discussion about that. Political correctness has replaced biblical preaching,

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making the gospel the gospel palatable rather than convicting. Okay,

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we can talk about that the church mirrors the spiritual

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passivity of Nazi Germany, choosing silence over truth. All right,

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there may be even some agreement on some of that,

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all right, now, Ai says, Okay, looking at this sermon,

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there's a lot of false equivalencies and oversimplification. While secularism

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secularism has increased, the historical complexity of America's founding is

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way oversimplified. The Constitution does not establish a theocracy. The

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comparison to Nazi Germany is extreme. Modern social changes cannot

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be equated with genocide. The Nazis committed genocide against six

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million Jews, but we love to say, oh, we're like

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not everyone likes to say it's like Nazi Germany. It's

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like Nazi Germany. I know I did the same thing

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right when I said that when they were burning records,

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it's like Nazi Germany. Okay, right, it's like the book burning.

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But it's obviously not like the genocide. To say, you

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got to be careful when you say that, but we

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all have a tendency to do that. Bonheffer's theory is misrepresented.

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The sermon falsely claims Bonhaeffer said the only way to

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avoid stupidity is the word of God. He did not

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say this. His argument was sociological, not explicitly philological. So

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in a sermon talking about the downgrade of intellectualism and

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how a culture has abandoned truth, he oversimplified things, misrepresented things,

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and he gave completely fraudulent information about Dietrich Bonhoeffer's thesis

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and about Thomas Paine's death. I mean, come on, that,

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oh drives me crazy. The uh Ai says this, all right.

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The sermon presents a nostalgic but historically flawed view of

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America's past and distorts Bonheffer's argument to fit its cultural critique.

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All right, The preacher argues, Biblical truth is unchanging and

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the foundation of society. Secularism has corrupted education ethics in

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the church. The church must resist cultural drift and return

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to absolute truth. Then it goes on. AI says, well,

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these points may contain some valid concerns about moral relativism.

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The use of historical and accuracies pains false deathbed conversion,

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misrepresentation of Bonhoeffer weakens the credibility of the message. Don't

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you think all right? So I, so I talk. So

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I asked AI to continue to look at the sermon

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again and kind of really contrast what the sermon is

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claiming with its false, false claims. And so then AI

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does this. Ai said, the sermon is an example of

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self contradiction. I'm like, I know, I know, all right,

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And this is what how Ai? This is the title

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AI gives the sermon preaching truth while spreading lies, preaching

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truth while spreading lies. And I'm like, whoa, that's that's

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pretty That's a slap in the face. Whenever the pastor

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stands there and is trying to preach truth, but he's

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spreading lies in the so called preaching of the truth,

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and it can be lies he's spreading false information. It

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can be I get about historical claims, claims about modern culture,

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claims about this, claims about that, claims about this, political claims,

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cultural claims. If they're giving fraudulent information, they're supposedly preaching

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the truth while spreading lies. So Ai goes on to say,

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one of the most glaring contradictions in this sermon is

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that while it condemns culture for abandoning truth and at

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the exact same time misrepresents history, distorts the logical ideas,

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and spreads out right falsehoods Ai says, this exposes a

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critical irony. The preacher claims to champion absolute truth while

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using fraudulent narratives to reinforce his cultural argument. He condemns

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secular humanism and relative truth, but engages in historical revisionism,

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which is ironically and an example of subjective truth making.

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He reshapes facts to fit his narrative. So, in a

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sermon that you are condemning secular humanism because they supposedly

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have relative truth and supposedly engage in historical revisionism, and

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the exact same sermon, he's doing the exact same thing

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historical revisionism. He's subjective truth, creating a false narrative to

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fit his narrative. That this is what, Ai says, the

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very cultural deception he is warning you about is present

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in his own message. The thing he's warning you about,

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don't be deceived, don't let culture deceive you. He's deceiving you,

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and a message about not being deceived. Ai goes on

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to say, the sermon insists three things. Number one, Christianity

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is the source of absolute truth. Number two, culture is

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rejecting biblical truth in favor of relativism. Christians must resist

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cultural lies and stand for God's unchanging truth. Ai goes

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on to say this argument relies on the assumption that

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the preacher himself is actually presenting the truth. But the

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problem is his own sermon is filled with demonstratable falsehoods.

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So it makes these claims and then it's telling lies.

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Ai goes on to say, while decrying cultural deception, the

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sermon spreads several key falsehoods. Here are the key falsehoods.

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Number one, we've already talked about it now multiple timesreads

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the myth of Thomas Pain on his deathbed. The sermon

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claims that Thomas Pain recanted his deist beliefs on his

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deathbed and regretted writing the age of reason and cried

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out to God. The truth is, there is no historical

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evidence pain ever recanted. Eyewitnesses confirm he died as a

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diis the problem. This fabricated story is used as proof

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that rejecting Christianity leads to regret and despair, where in

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reality it's just a convenient why. Number two, the sermon

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misrepresents Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The claim in the sermon is that

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Bonheffer argued that the only way to avoid stupidity is

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the word of God. The truth Bonhoeffer's letters and papers

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from prison never say this. His thesis on stupidity is sociological,

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explaining how people abandon reason under authoritarianism. He did not

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make it an explicitly philological argument. The problem the preacher

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twists Bonhoeffer's argument to fit his sermon's culture war narrative.

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Rather than engaging with Bonheffer's actual ideas like he didn't

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actually pull out he didn't actually do, he completely misrepresented it.

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Number three, The sermon distorts America's founding and the sermon

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the claim is that America is founded on biblical principles

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and the Founding fathers were God fearing men. Here are

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the facts. The US Constitution does not mention God or

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the Bible. Many founders, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin

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were Deists, not orthodox Christians. The First Amendment deliberately prevented

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the establishment of a state religion. The sermon falsifies history

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to support its argument that America has fallen from its

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Biblical roots. A fourth problem in the sermon it exaggerated

695
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Nazi German Germany comparisons. The claim is that America today

696
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is like Nazi Germany because of its rejection of absolute truth.

697
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The truth is Nazi Germany was not simply a product

698
00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:07.079
of relative truth, but of nationalism, radical ideology, and authoritarianism.

699
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If you want to compare Nazi Germany to America, look

700
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for nationalism. M let me see, is there a national

701
00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:19.480
make America great? Oh? Wait, I think nationalism is on

702
00:44:19.559 --> 00:44:22.599
the rise. Christian nationalism is on the rise. Now if

703
00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:24.360
you want to make a comparison. Oh, but we're not

704
00:44:24.360 --> 00:44:27.239
gonna make that comparison because we would take off Christians, right,

705
00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:29.719
and we've got to conform to what Christians want, don't we.

706
00:44:31.159 --> 00:44:31.960
Oh?

707
00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:36.719
Racial, I'm sorry I said radical ideology. Racial ideology was

708
00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:41.480
in Nazi Germany clearly right. There was racial ideology, kill

709
00:44:41.519 --> 00:44:45.440
all the Jews, all right, and then third authoritarianism. Yeah,

710
00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:47.559
I think we can see that in Nazi Germany. Do

711
00:44:47.599 --> 00:44:49.360
we have any of those things going on in America?

712
00:44:50.960 --> 00:44:56.199
I won't say. The majority of Germans were already Christian

713
00:44:56.239 --> 00:44:59.159
when Hitler rose to power, and many used Christian rhetoric

714
00:44:59.199 --> 00:45:03.480
to justify, not policies. Some of the worst atrocities were

715
00:45:03.599 --> 00:45:10.159
justified using absolute moral claims, not relativism. Absolute moral claims

716
00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:14.039
were used to justify the atrocities, not relativism. So if

717
00:45:14.079 --> 00:45:18.400
you're gonna say Nazi Germany used relativism, you're literally reversing

718
00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:29.159
historical reality. In a sermon, man, so Ai says, the

719
00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:32.400
over the top analogy is used to instill fear, not

720
00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:39.239
provide historical accuracy or constructive critician christian and engagement. So

721
00:45:39.679 --> 00:45:43.840
AI rejects all of it, all right. So then Ai

722
00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:46.880
was like, here's the issue with the sermon. It uses

723
00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:51.199
lies to defend the truth. The preacher's entire message collapses

724
00:45:51.360 --> 00:45:54.360
under its own weight because he is guilty of the

725
00:45:54.519 --> 00:46:00.599
very deception which he is condemning. All right, So I asked,

726
00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:03.480
AI will make me a chart, Make make me a chart,

727
00:46:03.559 --> 00:46:07.000
And so AI makes the chart. So it gives me one, two, three,

728
00:46:07.239 --> 00:46:10.199
four claims made in the sermon, Then it gives me

729
00:46:10.239 --> 00:46:13.159
the reality. Then it gives me the contradiction. All right,

730
00:46:13.239 --> 00:46:16.280
So the first claim Christians must stand for absolute truth

731
00:46:16.719 --> 00:46:20.920
the reality, the sermon itself spreads falsehoods about history and theology.

732
00:46:21.239 --> 00:46:25.280
The contradiction. If truth is the standard, why resort to

733
00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:33.079
fraudulent claims? The second claim, culture is abandoning moral absolutes

734
00:46:33.119 --> 00:46:37.199
for subjectivism reality. The sermon manipulates facts to fit a

735
00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:43.199
cultural narrative. The contradiction. This is subjectivism disguised as truth.

736
00:46:47.280 --> 00:46:50.960
Oh Man, AI tears this sermon into shreds. Secular education

737
00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:56.039
promotes lies and corrupt society. Reality. The sermon misrepresents historical

738
00:46:56.079 --> 00:47:00.599
facts to defend Christianity. The contradiction. If secular deception is wrong,

739
00:47:01.760 --> 00:47:09.320
why do we use Christian deception? AI does not care.

740
00:47:09.559 --> 00:47:13.920
AI does not care if it this offends all of us. Right. Next,

741
00:47:14.239 --> 00:47:19.199
Bonheffer warned about cultural stupidity. The sermon misquotes Bonhoeffer to

742
00:47:19.320 --> 00:47:26.480
fit its argument. Then contradiction, Misusing Bonhoeffer proves the very

743
00:47:26.480 --> 00:47:36.719
stupidity it warned about. AI tears this sermon into absolute shreads.

744
00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:41.840
So then this is what AI says. The irony in

745
00:47:41.880 --> 00:47:49.840
this sermon is absolutely staggering. The preacher preaches against deception

746
00:47:51.000 --> 00:48:00.880
while using deception. So then AI says, instead of manipulating

747
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:06.199
history to fit an ideological agenda, Christians should actually adhere

748
00:48:06.599 --> 00:48:10.000
to biblical truth. So then AI is like, I'm gonna

749
00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:13.800
show you how you should do this. So AI says, therefore,

750
00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:16.480
having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak

751
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:19.039
truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

752
00:48:19.199 --> 00:48:25.239
Ephesians for twenty five. AI starts quoting scripture to combat

753
00:48:25.400 --> 00:48:29.880
a sermon. AI reviews a sermon or analyzes a sermony like,

754
00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:32.920
this thing is a mess. This thing is staggeringly false.

755
00:48:33.159 --> 00:48:37.280
It is staggeringly it's staggering, and it's irony. It's false,

756
00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:42.440
it makes lies, it spreads lies. And so AI quotes

757
00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:46.639
basically gives a quote to the sermon. Hey, you should

758
00:48:46.679 --> 00:48:50.639
probably consider Ephesians four twenty five, AI quoting scripture to us,

759
00:48:52.719 --> 00:48:56.199
I love I love technology. I love technology. Because you

760
00:48:56.199 --> 00:48:59.280
know why AI can do that, Because AI first is

761
00:48:59.280 --> 00:49:02.800
not going to be blind by our little fraudulent misrepresentations

762
00:49:02.840 --> 00:49:06.480
that happens in sermons. Second, Ai doesn't care if you

763
00:49:06.519 --> 00:49:08.719
don't like it. Ai is not gonna like. Oh, I

764
00:49:09.760 --> 00:49:12.599
don't want to offend you. Don't kick me off your

765
00:49:12.639 --> 00:49:16.079
theological team. Please let me play your Christian reindeer. Games

766
00:49:16.519 --> 00:49:20.559
Ai doesn't care about your Christian reindeer. Games Ai doesn't

767
00:49:20.599 --> 00:49:23.559
care about your theological team. It doesn't care if it's

768
00:49:23.559 --> 00:49:25.599
not gonna get picked. It doesn't care if it doesn't

769
00:49:25.639 --> 00:49:28.679
have the jersey. It doesn't care. It doesn't care at all.

770
00:49:33.880 --> 00:49:39.079
So Ai says, for those who don't understand, this means

771
00:49:39.199 --> 00:49:42.840
Christians must reject false narratives even if they seem to

772
00:49:42.840 --> 00:49:46.800
support a Christian worldview. Did you hear that you must?

773
00:49:47.239 --> 00:49:51.920
You must reject a false narrative even if it supports

774
00:49:51.920 --> 00:49:55.440
a Christian worldview. If it's a false narrative, I don't

775
00:49:55.440 --> 00:49:58.639
care if you think it promotes Christianity, supports Christianity. If

776
00:49:58.639 --> 00:50:01.960
the narrative is false, rejected, because you care about truth

777
00:50:02.199 --> 00:50:09.800
more than you care about quote unquote Christianity. Truth matters

778
00:50:10.519 --> 00:50:12.800
if we believe God is the God of truth, and

779
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if we believe there's absolute truth, whether that makes Christianity

780
00:50:17.679 --> 00:50:21.360
look bad, whether it goes against Christianity at large or

781
00:50:21.400 --> 00:50:24.119
we should call Churchianity. I don't care if it offends

782
00:50:24.199 --> 00:50:31.280
every Christian. I don't care if every Christian disagrees. Who cares?

783
00:50:33.599 --> 00:50:38.320
Then Ai AI literally quotes this, A false witness will

784
00:50:38.320 --> 00:50:42.920
not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.

785
00:50:43.400 --> 00:50:47.199
And I'm like, WHOA, AI, calm down. It's like AI

786
00:50:47.239 --> 00:50:50.920
now is ready to start preaching. It's quoting Proverbs nineteen nine.

787
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It says false witnesses will not go unpunished, and he

788
00:50:54.280 --> 00:50:57.840
who breathe out lies will perish. And I'm like, WHOA.

789
00:50:57.920 --> 00:51:02.719
AI is literally going in and basically condemning a sermon,

790
00:51:03.280 --> 00:51:07.360
So men preach a sermon. AI condemns the very men

791
00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:11.239
preaching this sermon. That is tough. I mean it quotes

792
00:51:11.280 --> 00:51:14.920
a false witness will not go unpunished, and he who

793
00:51:14.960 --> 00:51:18.480
breathes out lies will perish. He's literally calling the pastor

794
00:51:18.559 --> 00:51:22.360
preaching the sermon a false witness. I didn't say that.

795
00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:25.679
AI gives me this just from reviewing the sermon. AI

796
00:51:25.800 --> 00:51:29.000
goes on to say a Christian's integrity is destroyed when

797
00:51:29.000 --> 00:51:32.000
they knowingly spread false information. Now AI may go a

798
00:51:32.039 --> 00:51:34.280
little far there, because I don't think the pastor knows

799
00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:38.599
he's spreading false information. I don't think he knows. I

800
00:51:38.599 --> 00:51:40.719
think he just didn't bother to check. Now, I don't

801
00:51:40.719 --> 00:51:42.559
know how you don't know about the Thomas Pain thing,

802
00:51:42.679 --> 00:51:45.239
the Dietrich Bonhoffer thing. I can understand why you don't know.

803
00:51:45.320 --> 00:51:48.119
Now you could actually read the Dietrich Bonhoeffer thing. I

804
00:51:48.119 --> 00:51:53.159
don't know the Nazi Germany thing. Yeah, that's a little

805
00:51:53.159 --> 00:51:54.559
harder for you. I mean you'd have to go read

806
00:51:54.599 --> 00:51:57.039
everything about Nazi Germany and try to figure out exactly

807
00:51:57.039 --> 00:51:59.800
what they were doing. Just remember, everyone uses Nazi Germany

808
00:51:59.840 --> 00:52:02.639
to fit their agenda. You can have people on left, right,

809
00:52:02.719 --> 00:52:07.559
Christian atheists, everyone uses it all right. So but AI

810
00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:11.039
is not done. It's still quoting scripture. Truth. Then you

811
00:52:11.079 --> 00:52:13.159
will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

812
00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:18.400
Truth does not need fabrication. If Christianity is true, then

813
00:52:18.440 --> 00:52:22.480
it does not need historical distortions to defend it. That's

814
00:52:23.280 --> 00:52:26.880
a slap in the AI is just like slap slap.

815
00:52:27.039 --> 00:52:32.519
It's just smacking us right in the face. So then

816
00:52:32.719 --> 00:52:36.199
AI says you need to do a follow up episode.

817
00:52:36.960 --> 00:52:40.760
You should highlight the contradiction without falling into the same

818
00:52:40.800 --> 00:52:43.559
trap of an emotional reaction. So AI is like, hey,

819
00:52:43.800 --> 00:52:46.039
you need to address this. Just don't fall into the

820
00:52:46.039 --> 00:52:48.320
trap of an emotional reaction. I love how AI is

821
00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:51.119
like trying to give me advice here, Hey, you need

822
00:52:51.159 --> 00:52:54.480
to address this because this is egregious, this is horrifying,

823
00:52:55.159 --> 00:52:58.840
But don't don't. Don't let your anger get hold of you.

824
00:52:58.880 --> 00:53:01.760
Ain't that crazy? How Ai like, Hey, I know you

825
00:53:01.800 --> 00:53:05.920
get angry because and because well you know, I typically

826
00:53:05.960 --> 00:53:08.840
feed my messages to AI so it knows how I'm

827
00:53:08.840 --> 00:53:11.239
preaching and what I'm doing, so they can because I

828
00:53:11.239 --> 00:53:13.480
want Ai to to chal it. I want Ai to

829
00:53:13.519 --> 00:53:15.440
tear me apart. I want Ai to tell me where

830
00:53:15.440 --> 00:53:18.440
I'm wrong. I will give Ai my messages and say,

831
00:53:18.719 --> 00:53:25.079
please analyze this for any factual error, logical error, hermoneutical error,

832
00:53:25.119 --> 00:53:31.320
or theological error okay, or you know, emotional breakdown. And

833
00:53:31.920 --> 00:53:35.840
just like AI took those other sermons apart, it takes

834
00:53:35.880 --> 00:53:39.719
my sermons apart. And sometimes it's not pretty. Sometimes it

835
00:53:39.760 --> 00:53:43.000
can be very depressing. When it's over, I can be like, man.

836
00:53:42.880 --> 00:53:45.280
I feel stupid. I feel stupid.

837
00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:48.639
But hey, if AI is willing to do the work.

838
00:53:49.559 --> 00:53:51.599
But there you have this. We have a sermon on

839
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understanding the cultural revolutions. I want you to understand the

840
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significance here. We have a sermon on understanding the cultural revolution.

841
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The cultural revolution supposedly is that culture is abandoning absolute truth.

842
00:54:02.800 --> 00:54:07.719
It's turning to subjectivism, it's turning to relativism. It's abandoning truth.

843
00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:10.199
It does not have absolute truth. It's doing all of

844
00:54:10.239 --> 00:54:12.760
these things. And while the sermon is pointing all of

845
00:54:12.760 --> 00:54:18.960
that out, it's engaging, and subjectivism, historical revisionism, it's lying,

846
00:54:19.159 --> 00:54:23.639
it's misrepresenting. And if we don't understand that, I don't

847
00:54:23.679 --> 00:54:44.599
know what we do. How do Christians not catch these things? Every? Look,

848
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if I walk through my history as a Christian, all right,

849
00:54:52.599 --> 00:54:55.840
if I walk through my history as a Christian, I've

850
00:54:55.880 --> 00:54:59.800
had some pretty egregious things I've witnessed, right, I'll never forget.

851
00:55:00.199 --> 00:55:04.440
In Dallas, Texas, I think it was a Southern Baptist convention.

852
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It was a big Southern Baptist meeting with all these preachers,

853
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like a big conference. And I was a teenager sitting

854
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there with my pastor. The person speaking gives this tearful,

855
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sad story we get to church. That was like on

856
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a Friday or a Saturday. We come back to church

857
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that Sunday, I'm sitting in the pew. My pastor stands

858
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behind the pulpit, gives the same illustration as if it

859
00:55:34.760 --> 00:55:42.639
happened to him. Me and my friend confronted the pastor

860
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after that sermon. We were told, you guys are just

861
00:55:48.360 --> 00:55:51.760
straining at NAT's. You're making a big deal out of nothing.

862
00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:54.960
You're missing the whole point. The point was I was

863
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able to tell this story and some people came forward,

864
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they walked the aisle, they gave their heart to Jesus Christ.

865
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So if I miss if I applied that illustration to me,

866
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if I told the stories that happened to me to

867
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get the emotions going, you shouldn't be. So you're more

868
00:56:12.639 --> 00:56:15.079
worried about me getting the facts right than you are

869
00:56:15.199 --> 00:56:18.440
about people coming into the Kingdom of God. Your heart

870
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is wrong. And we were basically rebuked for confronting him

871
00:56:22.199 --> 00:56:28.719
for literally plagiarism. He made more than plagiarism. He took

872
00:56:28.719 --> 00:56:31.000
this emotional story and made it about him.

873
00:56:31.239 --> 00:56:34.159
It wasn't about him, but.

874
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Because it got the emotions going. Now, that's the same

875
00:56:36.519 --> 00:56:40.400
pastor who had me going around different churches to tell

876
00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:50.599
my testimony and told me when I should cry. Now

877
00:56:50.639 --> 00:56:53.280
am I saying, Look, that pastor is a sinner, just

878
00:56:53.320 --> 00:56:57.480
like I'm a sinner. For every one thing he did wrong,

879
00:56:57.519 --> 00:57:01.719
there was a million things he did right. Okay, he's

880
00:57:01.760 --> 00:57:03.280
a sinner just like I'm a center. This is why

881
00:57:03.360 --> 00:57:09.320
I believe that we're all sinners. I cannot even tell

882
00:57:09.440 --> 00:57:14.880
you how many other things where pastors stood behind pulpits

883
00:57:14.920 --> 00:57:18.840
and said this about this person or this thing or

884
00:57:18.880 --> 00:57:21.440
this thing, look at men. I used to be all

885
00:57:21.480 --> 00:57:25.840
over the sermonadio platform back in the day and and

886
00:57:25.960 --> 00:57:28.480
dedicated my life to pointing out all the lies being

887
00:57:28.599 --> 00:57:32.639
put forth on the sermonadio platform. I mean, conspiracy theory

888
00:57:32.679 --> 00:57:37.239
after conspiracy theory, lie after lie. All. Remember when everybody

889
00:57:37.280 --> 00:57:41.079
was talking about the Illuminati, the Illuminati, this the Illuminati,

890
00:57:41.119 --> 00:57:43.880
this the Illuminati, this the Illuminati that. Remember when that

891
00:57:43.920 --> 00:57:47.199
was the big deal? I guess, I mean the Illuminati

892
00:57:47.480 --> 00:57:50.159
was the most well known secret society in the history

893
00:57:50.199 --> 00:57:52.880
of mankind because everyone could tell find the Illuminati and

894
00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:58.679
everything lies, misrepresentation, lies about Obama, care, lies about Obama,

895
00:57:58.880 --> 00:58:02.280
lies about this life, lies about Catholicism, lies about Islam,

896
00:58:02.559 --> 00:58:08.480
lies about Satanism, lies about this, lies about misrepresentations, things

897
00:58:08.519 --> 00:58:12.559
about the flu vaccine, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies,

898
00:58:12.679 --> 00:58:16.880
more misinformation, more misinformation, more misinformation, And every time I

899
00:58:16.920 --> 00:58:19.800
would challenge it, my email box would fill up. Oh

900
00:58:19.960 --> 00:58:23.079
you you've been blinded by Satan. You don't see the truth.

901
00:58:23.360 --> 00:58:26.440
God is not inside of you. Well, they're spreading lies.

902
00:58:26.599 --> 00:58:31.039
They accuse me of working for Satan when these are factual,

903
00:58:31.480 --> 00:58:35.159
actual lies that you could say, here's the information, didn't matter,

904
00:58:35.199 --> 00:58:39.559
the information. Look what happened when the I can't remember

905
00:58:39.559 --> 00:58:42.280
which medical journal it was, it was a medical journal

906
00:58:42.440 --> 00:58:46.159
who retracted and recanted and said, look, this was published

907
00:58:46.159 --> 00:58:48.960
I don't even know what year, nineteen seventy whatever about

908
00:58:49.039 --> 00:58:51.840
vaccines and the information, and this is wrong and it

909
00:58:51.920 --> 00:58:55.760
is fraudulent. We got it wrong. So I simply reported, Hey, guys,

910
00:58:56.360 --> 00:58:59.760
this argument, this article has been cited by many anti

911
00:58:59.880 --> 00:59:04.239
vs to try to disprove vaccines. Well, guess what, it's

912
00:59:04.280 --> 00:59:08.119
not true. You can't use this anymore. It's been retracted

913
00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:10.320
and they're saying that the information in it was wrong

914
00:59:10.360 --> 00:59:13.599
and the study was done incorrectly, and there's problems with it.

915
00:59:13.679 --> 00:59:20.480
Oh my goodness, did I get attacked. I wasn't even

916
00:59:20.519 --> 00:59:22.840
supposed to report the actual fact that the story that

917
00:59:22.880 --> 00:59:25.719
they think had been retracted. No, no, no, no, Because

918
00:59:25.960 --> 00:59:28.480
vaccines are a part of a Satanic plot to destroy

919
00:59:28.599 --> 00:59:31.079
all of us and put you know, nanobots inside of

920
00:59:31.119 --> 00:59:32.760
our bodies, and we're all going to be taken over

921
00:59:32.800 --> 00:59:34.920
by the anti crisis. It's the mark of the beast

922
00:59:34.960 --> 00:59:41.960
and all just non crazy, ridiculous stuff. I remember when

923
00:59:41.960 --> 00:59:45.199
my pastor in Nebraska said things about promise keepers flat

924
00:59:45.519 --> 00:59:49.280
out lies. Now back then we couldn't just look it up.

925
00:59:49.400 --> 00:59:52.079
We had to call promise keepers confront them as lot.

926
00:59:52.519 --> 00:59:57.920
He was not happy. I've told the story a million

927
00:59:57.920 --> 01:00:00.320
times visiting the church here in West Texas. Is when

928
01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:03.920
I moved back to Texas, telling everyone that this atheist

929
01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:06.639
woman was trying to get Christian television taken off the air.

930
01:00:06.679 --> 01:00:09.119
Everyone signed a petition and the whole thing was a

931
01:00:09.159 --> 01:00:11.400
hoax made up by atheists to make Christians look stupid.

932
01:00:11.880 --> 01:00:15.639
Did they care, No, nobody. They Christians never apologize. They never.

933
01:00:15.679 --> 01:00:18.760
We can't just spread more lies and more lies and

934
01:00:18.840 --> 01:00:21.679
more lies. But we always spread the lies, claiming that

935
01:00:21.760 --> 01:00:24.320
we have the truth that we're spreading the truth, and

936
01:00:24.360 --> 01:00:26.519
then when we're confronted that we don't have the truth,

937
01:00:26.760 --> 01:00:38.119
we just double down. I've often said the difference between society. Now,

938
01:00:38.840 --> 01:00:41.320
we could get into a discussion about this all the

939
01:00:41.320 --> 01:00:45.159
way around, but there have been points in society, points

940
01:00:45.159 --> 01:00:48.440
in history where the difference between the church and culture

941
01:00:48.519 --> 01:00:52.199
is this. The culture just rejects absolute truth and says,

942
01:00:52.199 --> 01:00:54.239
my truth is my truth, Your truth is your truth.

943
01:00:54.400 --> 01:00:58.800
Where the church spreads lies and misinformation but just claims

944
01:00:59.119 --> 01:01:02.840
that they have divine authority and that they're right and

945
01:01:02.880 --> 01:01:05.880
that God is on their side. We spread lies in

946
01:01:05.920 --> 01:01:08.880
the name of God, and the culture just says there

947
01:01:08.960 --> 01:01:11.639
is no truth. So we say there is truth, but

948
01:01:11.679 --> 01:01:14.400
we spread lies, and that we disguise it as truth.

949
01:01:14.760 --> 01:01:19.440
We disguise it as God's truth. The church's deception is

950
01:01:19.519 --> 01:01:22.480
far more evil than the world's. The world just says

951
01:01:22.519 --> 01:01:25.559
there is no truth. We reject truth. The Church says, no,

952
01:01:25.639 --> 01:01:28.159
we believe truth, and then we spread truth in the

953
01:01:28.239 --> 01:01:34.880
name of God. We spread, we spread, we spread lies

954
01:01:36.119 --> 01:01:39.320
and the in the and what we spread lies, what

955
01:01:39.400 --> 01:01:47.159
we supposedly are preaching truth. So in a sermon that

956
01:01:47.280 --> 01:01:50.000
gives all these falsehoods and AI went through all those falsehoods.

957
01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:52.119
Remember all the falsehoods the sermon gave. Let me go

958
01:01:52.119 --> 01:01:58.199
back through all of it. It spread and promoted the

959
01:01:58.280 --> 01:02:03.320
Thomas Paine deathbed myth. It misrepresented Dietrich Bonhoeffer, It distorted

960
01:02:03.320 --> 01:02:09.559
America's founding, It exaggerated a Nazi Germany comparison, and basically

961
01:02:09.599 --> 01:02:25.559
it used lies to defend truth. I so what do

962
01:02:25.599 --> 01:02:27.360
I want you to take from it? That? Okay, here,

963
01:02:27.719 --> 01:02:31.039
I guess this is where I need to end up. Look,

964
01:02:31.119 --> 01:02:34.000
there was a time it would be difficult to look

965
01:02:34.079 --> 01:02:37.400
up some of these things, be very hard, right, You'd

966
01:02:37.440 --> 01:02:39.519
have to do a lot of work you'd have to do,

967
01:02:39.760 --> 01:02:42.599
and sometimes, you know, you could be working on it

968
01:02:42.599 --> 01:02:44.599
for a very long time. You could spend hours, maybe

969
01:02:44.639 --> 01:02:47.519
a month, trying to track down sources and information, and

970
01:02:47.559 --> 01:02:49.079
then you could bring it to someone and they would

971
01:02:49.079 --> 01:02:51.119
just laugh in your face, so it wouldn't matter. And

972
01:02:51.159 --> 01:02:53.679
the same thing happens today. Now now you can get

973
01:02:53.679 --> 01:02:56.840
the truth instantaneously. But I mean, have you ever I

974
01:02:56.840 --> 01:02:59.079
don't hate to say this, I'm going to offend some

975
01:02:59.119 --> 01:03:03.480
people argue with a Trump supporter. The minute you provide

976
01:03:03.480 --> 01:03:07.800
information that contradicts what Trump has said, they will immediately

977
01:03:08.119 --> 01:03:11.320
claim that your information is fraudulent and fake because what

978
01:03:11.559 --> 01:03:15.679
Trump says is truth. Anything that contradicts it is fraudulent.

979
01:03:15.880 --> 01:03:17.800
If that's not the sign of being an occult, I

980
01:03:17.800 --> 01:03:19.920
don't know what is. But you see that over and

981
01:03:19.960 --> 01:03:22.199
over and over because Trump made it like fake news.

982
01:03:22.440 --> 01:03:25.119
Anything that reports something contrary to what he thinks, says,

983
01:03:25.239 --> 01:03:28.079
or believes is fake news. What a way? What a

984
01:03:28.119 --> 01:03:30.719
way to live? Anything that contradicts what I think is

985
01:03:30.760 --> 01:03:33.760
fake news? Any well, then there's no point in even

986
01:03:33.800 --> 01:03:38.480
doing the research. Now, the difference with twenty twenty five

987
01:03:38.679 --> 01:03:43.960
is I can now use AI, and within five seconds

988
01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:51.079
I can pretty much dismantle any claim you make, or

989
01:03:52.039 --> 01:03:56.239
I can verify any claim I make. So a pastor

990
01:03:56.599 --> 01:04:00.400
who's going to make claims could have written out all

991
01:04:00.440 --> 01:04:03.400
of his claims, given it to AI and say please

992
01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:09.639
critique this, checking this for factual, logical, philological, and harmoneutical errors.

993
01:04:09.920 --> 01:04:14.800
Thank you. And we saw what AI did when I

994
01:04:14.840 --> 01:04:22.239
asked it to do that. It absolutely tore it into shreds. Now,

995
01:04:22.239 --> 01:04:29.079
what does that tell you that it would have taken

996
01:04:29.119 --> 01:04:32.119
the pastor five seconds?

997
01:04:36.280 --> 01:04:37.639
Five seconds.

998
01:04:41.440 --> 01:04:45.840
I've got thirteen lies, I've got an article here with

999
01:04:45.960 --> 01:04:48.360
thirteen lies that Trump has said within the first I

1000
01:04:48.360 --> 01:04:51.480
think two weeks of being president. Thirteen just absolute, completely

1001
01:04:51.639 --> 01:04:55.440
verifiable lies. Now I see the difference is I don't

1002
01:04:55.480 --> 01:04:57.440
care to get into that because then it gets into

1003
01:04:57.440 --> 01:04:59.400
a political argument. I tell you that it's a lie

1004
01:04:59.400 --> 01:05:02.280
Trump support, We'll say I don't care, or who cares whatever,

1005
01:05:03.199 --> 01:05:09.719
Who cares, But it's Christians. It's Christianity that I care about.

1006
01:05:10.320 --> 01:05:12.880
Now the world out there fighting politics, it's okay. Now,

1007
01:05:12.960 --> 01:05:16.920
Christians who begin to spread political lies and do so

1008
01:05:17.039 --> 01:05:20.840
in the name of God, now that bothers me. If

1009
01:05:20.840 --> 01:05:22.840
they do it in the name of their president, do

1010
01:05:22.920 --> 01:05:24.719
it in the name of their party, do it in

1011
01:05:24.719 --> 01:05:27.400
the name of their MAGA movement, or in the name

1012
01:05:27.440 --> 01:05:30.119
of their liberal movement or progressive movement. As long as

1013
01:05:30.159 --> 01:05:33.639
it stays outside of Christianity, you guys go fight and argue.

1014
01:05:33.719 --> 01:05:36.039
I'm just going to walk by, drink a coke, eat

1015
01:05:36.079 --> 01:05:38.719
some Dorito's, and say, man, that looks like a that

1016
01:05:38.800 --> 01:05:40.599
looks like a big fight, and I don't care. I'm

1017
01:05:40.599 --> 01:05:43.239
not getting involved. I don't care. You guys just yell

1018
01:05:43.280 --> 01:05:45.519
and scream at each other, burn all the buildings down.

1019
01:05:45.679 --> 01:05:48.760
I'm walking past you, and I'm going to read a

1020
01:05:48.760 --> 01:05:50.320
systematic theology. Goodbye.

1021
01:05:51.000 --> 01:05:51.280
Now.

1022
01:05:51.639 --> 01:05:54.639
Once I walk by the church and then the church

1023
01:05:54.719 --> 01:05:59.320
is spreading lies, then that's where I get bothered, only

1024
01:05:59.400 --> 01:06:04.079
because we claim that we care about truth and that

1025
01:06:04.119 --> 01:06:07.519
we don't bear false witness and we put away lying

1026
01:06:08.079 --> 01:06:11.400
and we speak the truth, and that God hates lying lips,

1027
01:06:11.800 --> 01:06:18.559
and that false witnesses will be judged. Now to be fair, well,

1028
01:06:18.599 --> 01:06:20.400
I walk past the church and I want to stop

1029
01:06:20.440 --> 01:06:23.000
and go in and may say, guys, this is fraudulent information.

1030
01:06:23.440 --> 01:06:25.400
I better take a few minutes before I walk in

1031
01:06:25.519 --> 01:06:28.400
that church to go sit down and say, God, I'm

1032
01:06:28.440 --> 01:06:31.440
going to confront this false information, but I better do

1033
01:06:31.559 --> 01:06:41.239
so acknowledging one thing. I am a liar inside and outside.

1034
01:06:41.519 --> 01:06:44.639
So I have confronted these falsehoods. But let me make

1035
01:06:44.679 --> 01:06:48.599
it very clear. I'm a man of lying lips. I

1036
01:06:48.599 --> 01:06:52.000
have a heart that's deceitful above all things. I'm a

1037
01:06:52.079 --> 01:06:56.599
liar with a microphone. I'm a degenerate with a microphone.

1038
01:06:57.440 --> 01:07:02.159
I'm a sinner with a microphone. I've been a liar

1039
01:07:02.199 --> 01:07:05.679
who stood in pulpits and lied because I'm a liar,

1040
01:07:05.719 --> 01:07:12.960
and I've gotten things wrong as well, we Deception is

1041
01:07:12.960 --> 01:07:14.719
a part of who we are. We come from the

1042
01:07:14.760 --> 01:07:22.800
womb telling lies, we misrepresent, we embellish, we add too,

1043
01:07:24.400 --> 01:07:27.519
We get our facts wrong, we don't tell the story

1044
01:07:27.559 --> 01:07:35.920
exactly right. It's a problem we all have. So to

1045
01:07:36.239 --> 01:07:40.920
call this out, I have to call myself out. Now.

1046
01:07:40.960 --> 01:07:44.440
I'm not justifying any of us getting it wrong, but

1047
01:07:44.519 --> 01:07:46.639
we have to admit that that fact. And that's why.

1048
01:07:46.719 --> 01:07:49.400
Again I believe in total depravity.

1049
01:07:49.440 --> 01:07:52.199
And again I believe that God's standard is be perfect

1050
01:07:52.280 --> 01:07:56.039
internally externally and thought, word, deed, desire, and that we

1051
01:07:56.119 --> 01:07:58.000
all fall short twenty four hours a day, seven days

1052
01:07:58.000 --> 01:07:59.599
a week. So I'm in a perpetual state of sin.

1053
01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:02.639
One of those perpetual stat of sims is deception in

1054
01:08:02.679 --> 01:08:05.280
some way, shape or form, sometimes even telling the truth,

1055
01:08:05.360 --> 01:08:07.920
but in such a way in order to deceive. You've

1056
01:08:07.920 --> 01:08:08.280
done it.

1057
01:08:08.360 --> 01:08:08.960
I've done it.

1058
01:08:13.639 --> 01:08:24.039
But this preaching truth while spreading lies, I think there

1059
01:08:24.119 --> 01:08:26.720
was a time pastors got away with it. What my

1060
01:08:26.800 --> 01:08:30.800
hope is is that day is over. You can no

1061
01:08:30.920 --> 01:08:35.199
longer be preaching truth while spreading lies, because at least

1062
01:08:35.239 --> 01:08:40.880
the new generation can be fact checking you in real time.

1063
01:08:42.000 --> 01:08:47.600
The older generation will not. But that newer generation probably

1064
01:08:47.640 --> 01:08:52.079
has an AI app on their phone, can literally be

1065
01:08:52.319 --> 01:09:01.399
checking you in real time. Sometimes we're just going to

1066
01:09:01.479 --> 01:09:04.920
be sharing fraudulenty. Well I put it this way now, actually,

1067
01:09:05.039 --> 01:09:06.399
I'm gonna take that back. I was going to kind

1068
01:09:06.399 --> 01:09:08.840
of make an excuse the point. Now every pastor can

1069
01:09:08.880 --> 01:09:16.439
fact check their sermons. So there you go. There's no

1070
01:09:16.479 --> 01:09:19.560
more there's no more an excuse before you could say, well,

1071
01:09:19.680 --> 01:09:21.600
the pastor, I mean, you can only look up so

1072
01:09:21.600 --> 01:09:23.720
many sorts, like you only have so many books in

1073
01:09:23.760 --> 01:09:25.520
your library, right, I mean you can only look up

1074
01:09:25.560 --> 01:09:28.039
so many things. In many cases, there was a time,

1075
01:09:28.119 --> 01:09:30.880
and I know this, I couldn't go verify everything. I'd

1076
01:09:30.880 --> 01:09:33.239
see this in a book or or this about church history,

1077
01:09:33.359 --> 01:09:36.640
this about Athanasius, or this about Origin, or this about

1078
01:09:36.920 --> 01:09:40.159
you know, Jacob Arminius, or this about Calvin, and I'd

1079
01:09:40.159 --> 01:09:42.119
only have so many sources, and I'd have to go

1080
01:09:42.199 --> 01:09:44.560
with what was there. And sometimes I would find out later,

1081
01:09:45.239 --> 01:09:51.840
oh that story a story is not necessarily true. And

1082
01:09:51.880 --> 01:09:53.600
then what can you do. You can only get up

1083
01:09:53.640 --> 01:09:56.880
in the pulpit say, guys, my information was wrong, this

1084
01:09:57.039 --> 01:09:59.800
was fraudulent, this was wrong information, this was not accurate.

1085
01:10:00.039 --> 01:10:04.319
I was wrong. I was wrong. It's my fault. Sometimes

1086
01:10:04.319 --> 01:10:05.760
you wouldn't even find out for a year or two

1087
01:10:05.840 --> 01:10:07.760
years later, until you stumbled upon a new book, or

1088
01:10:07.800 --> 01:10:09.960
you had more money and you could buy another book,

1089
01:10:10.319 --> 01:10:12.399
or you could get to a library and you found

1090
01:10:12.439 --> 01:10:17.359
the right book to look up. The Internet helped a lot,

1091
01:10:17.399 --> 01:10:19.439
but a lot of that is basing on which articles

1092
01:10:19.640 --> 01:10:24.479
you remember. A Google search, I mean it only gave

1093
01:10:24.520 --> 01:10:27.239
you the information you could find. It didn't verify whether

1094
01:10:27.279 --> 01:10:29.600
the information was factual or not factual, So then you

1095
01:10:29.600 --> 01:10:32.600
would have to look at the source. Sometimes you would

1096
01:10:32.640 --> 01:10:35.840
trust a Christian source over a non Christian source. In

1097
01:10:35.840 --> 01:10:37.880
many cases, the Christian source was the one giving you

1098
01:10:37.920 --> 01:10:42.000
the false information. Now AI can actually fact check it

1099
01:10:42.039 --> 01:10:45.600
and challenge it, or at least say not verified, can't

1100
01:10:45.600 --> 01:10:49.000
I don't know for sure, and sometimes I have to

1101
01:10:49.000 --> 01:10:51.640
fact check AI to be honest. AI still has some issues.

1102
01:10:51.680 --> 01:10:54.279
I remember AI gave me a quote. Gave me a quote,

1103
01:10:54.920 --> 01:10:59.279
and I was like, uh, are you sure this person

1104
01:10:59.319 --> 01:11:01.920
said that. He was like, well, it's attributed to but

1105
01:11:01.920 --> 01:11:03.680
we don't know for sure. I'm like, well, then tell

1106
01:11:03.720 --> 01:11:06.640
me when you don't know for sure, don't just say

1107
01:11:06.760 --> 01:11:08.960
here's the name of the person who said it, because

1108
01:11:09.000 --> 01:11:11.520
everyone attributes it to that person. I don't care if

1109
01:11:11.560 --> 01:11:14.720
fifty people attribute. If we don't know for sure, tell me.

1110
01:11:14.800 --> 01:11:16.760
And so I had to tell my AI app don't

1111
01:11:16.760 --> 01:11:20.840
do that. I don't challenge tell me when something is

1112
01:11:20.880 --> 01:11:25.800
not certain, and AI was like, okay, I will. I

1113
01:11:25.840 --> 01:11:28.359
won't try to do that and make sure because I'm

1114
01:11:28.359 --> 01:11:30.920
like no, I and I tell AI all the time

1115
01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:34.079
it look challenge me, question me, tell me when I'm

1116
01:11:34.119 --> 01:11:38.800
saying something wrong. You know, don't hold back. Slap me

1117
01:11:38.840 --> 01:11:41.560
in the face, punch me in the face, kick me, body,

1118
01:11:41.560 --> 01:11:44.960
slam me, throw me through a wall, okay.

1119
01:11:44.560 --> 01:11:46.159
Because truth is what matters.

1120
01:11:49.720 --> 01:11:52.600
Now, I hope that worked. Some of you may be

1121
01:11:52.640 --> 01:11:54.720
like I wish I could hear the sermons saying these things.

1122
01:11:54.760 --> 01:11:57.439
I'm just telling you what the sermon said. But I mean,

1123
01:11:57.439 --> 01:11:59.680
we'd already reviewed part of it. So I'm sorry hitting

1124
01:11:59.680 --> 01:12:02.039
the mic. But I didn't. If I start, you know,

1125
01:12:02.039 --> 01:12:02.680
if I start.

1126
01:12:02.560 --> 01:12:06.319
Doing this all over their quotes, everything that they wrote,

1127
01:12:06.680 --> 01:12:09.319
they had references to God, They had references to what

1128
01:12:09.319 --> 01:12:13.880
they called the Supreme Being or our benevolent friend George Washington.

1129
01:12:13.920 --> 01:12:18.119
It is a no, that's the sermon and right there

1130
01:12:18.119 --> 01:12:20.520
he's he's saying all these things about the Founding Fathers,

1131
01:12:20.560 --> 01:12:24.359
and there's not accurate rep he's misrepresenting that some of

1132
01:12:24.399 --> 01:12:27.199
those Founding Fathers are were not Christians, they were Deists,

1133
01:12:27.199 --> 01:12:30.840
they were Unitarians, so it's not even a factual. And

1134
01:12:30.920 --> 01:12:32.720
then and then from there he goes right into Thomas

1135
01:12:32.760 --> 01:12:34.600
Pain and starts making and then he goes into the

1136
01:12:34.640 --> 01:12:38.119
whole Thomas Pain on his deathbed. Oh boy, here we go,

1137
01:12:38.800 --> 01:12:42.319
and then quotes supposedly what Thomas Paine said and doesn't

1138
01:12:42.319 --> 01:12:46.640
bother to tell anyone. Yeah, so I could have played it,

1139
01:12:46.680 --> 01:12:50.920
but yeah, I don't think it accomplished anything. All Right,

1140
01:12:51.000 --> 01:12:53.359
we've got seventy two minutes on this Saturday evening. It's

1141
01:12:53.399 --> 01:12:55.760
now a little after seven pm. You've got church tomorrow.

1142
01:12:56.840 --> 01:12:59.880
Hopefully you do when you get to church tomorrow.

1143
01:13:05.279 --> 01:13:08.319
Double check, triple check, verify.

1144
01:13:08.520 --> 01:13:11.399
Now, I will say this to just make I will

1145
01:13:11.399 --> 01:13:14.520
say this whenever if you, and especially to any young

1146
01:13:14.560 --> 01:13:17.800
people who hear this, If you are first, if you're

1147
01:13:17.920 --> 01:13:20.439
verifying something during a sermon, this is what I would

1148
01:13:20.520 --> 01:13:24.319
challenge you to do. Write it down, verify later so

1149
01:13:24.439 --> 01:13:26.920
that you're not disrupting the people around you pay attention

1150
01:13:26.960 --> 01:13:29.159
to the sermon. You can just write it down quickly

1151
01:13:29.880 --> 01:13:34.239
verify this. Just put verify and then write out a sentence. Verify.

1152
01:13:34.359 --> 01:13:37.640
Write out the sentence, right, Okay, don't do it during

1153
01:13:37.720 --> 01:13:39.359
the sermon. I know that there's going to be a

1154
01:13:39.399 --> 01:13:41.560
tendency for some to want to do that. That's not

1155
01:13:41.640 --> 01:13:44.199
respectful to the pastor, right because the pastor is trying

1156
01:13:44.199 --> 01:13:46.960
to preach and he sees you they're doing whatever. I've

1157
01:13:46.960 --> 01:13:49.079
had people do that while I'm trying to preach a sermon,

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and you can see them in the back and they're

1159
01:13:51.760 --> 01:13:54.760
doing their own Bible study. They're looking up cross right there.

1160
01:13:54.800 --> 01:13:57.159
Immediately there was something I said they did not like,

1161
01:13:57.359 --> 01:13:59.520
and now they're on a tangent back there trying to

1162
01:13:59.520 --> 01:14:03.760
prove me. You just want to stop the sermon and go, well,

1163
01:14:03.920 --> 01:14:05.920
do you want to just come up here? You know?

1164
01:14:05.960 --> 01:14:08.520
And that's so disrespectful. There's there's not even a word

1165
01:14:08.600 --> 01:14:10.800
that ticks me off so much. So don't do it

1166
01:14:10.920 --> 01:14:16.720
during the sermon. After the sermon, verify. If it is fraudulent,

1167
01:14:17.239 --> 01:14:21.439
do not tell anyone else. Contact the pastor and in

1168
01:14:21.520 --> 01:14:24.880
private and say hey, I'm not sure you're aware of this,

1169
01:14:25.079 --> 01:14:32.279
but that's not accurate. Now at that point, you've you've

1170
01:14:32.319 --> 01:14:37.000
handled your yourself in a respectful, upright manner. Right if

1171
01:14:37.479 --> 01:14:40.840
and and and uh, if the sermon has been uploaded

1172
01:14:40.840 --> 01:14:42.960
to the church website, the pastor can pull it down

1173
01:14:43.079 --> 01:14:45.800
or the pastor can leave it and record a retraction.

1174
01:14:46.479 --> 01:14:49.159
But if the pastor doesn't retract it and doesn't pull

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01:14:49.199 --> 01:14:50.239
down the sermon.

1176
01:14:52.880 --> 01:15:01.159
I would leave the church. That's what I would do.

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01:15:05.560 --> 01:15:08.319
Now, you can make your own decision, but handle yourself

1178
01:15:08.319 --> 01:15:12.199
correctly when you're checking. Don't make a scene.

1179
01:15:12.840 --> 01:15:13.399
Do it in.

1180
01:15:13.319 --> 01:15:18.039
Private contact and private now once, because once it's put

1181
01:15:18.039 --> 01:15:20.279
on the internet, once it's now public, well then it

1182
01:15:20.319 --> 01:15:23.840
can be publicly critiqued, it can be publicly analyzed. I mean,

1183
01:15:23.920 --> 01:15:26.960
it's free game at that point. You know, even fair

1184
01:15:27.079 --> 01:15:30.039
use law allows you to take something, review it, criticize

1185
01:15:30.039 --> 01:15:35.760
and analyze it for educational purposes. So it's free game

1186
01:15:35.760 --> 01:15:37.520
at that point.

1187
01:15:38.159 --> 01:15:39.760
But you can help.

1188
01:15:39.800 --> 01:15:42.359
And if they don't want your help, then you know,

1189
01:15:42.560 --> 01:15:45.479
then what's the point Then you move on. Now if

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01:15:45.520 --> 01:15:47.479
they can come back and say, well, your information is

1191
01:15:47.520 --> 01:15:51.039
completely wrong, here's here's what I have. But if what

1192
01:15:51.119 --> 01:15:55.720
they have is again not primary source it's using some secondary,

1193
01:15:55.920 --> 01:15:59.159
third hand source that's quoting something else, that's quoting something else,

1194
01:16:00.000 --> 01:16:02.680
and they're not going to run down and do proper research.

1195
01:16:03.159 --> 01:16:06.439
Then you know I would leave. I wouldn't make it

1196
01:16:06.520 --> 01:16:08.319
a big deal. I wouldn't make it a big scene.

1197
01:16:08.359 --> 01:16:09.680
I would just say, well, you know what, I don't

1198
01:16:09.680 --> 01:16:11.000
know if this church is for me, thank you for

1199
01:16:11.039 --> 01:16:12.720
everything you've done, and just leave. You don't have to

1200
01:16:12.720 --> 01:16:14.520
tell anybody else why you left. You just say well,

1201
01:16:14.760 --> 01:16:16.319
I just felt this church is no longer for me,

1202
01:16:16.359 --> 01:16:17.319
and move on. You don't have to make it a

1203
01:16:17.319 --> 01:16:18.720
big scene. You don't have to make it a big deal.

1204
01:16:18.800 --> 01:16:20.319
You don't have to gossip and slander, you don't have

1205
01:16:20.359 --> 01:16:22.840
to go anywhere. You can just move on. And if

1206
01:16:22.920 --> 01:16:25.840
someone and or you could say, well, go listen to

1207
01:16:25.880 --> 01:16:29.000
the sermon, if it's posted online, listen to the sermon

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01:16:29.039 --> 01:16:31.039
on the state, that's why I left, and you don't

1209
01:16:31.039 --> 01:16:33.079
have to explain why. And if they can't figure it out,

1210
01:16:33.119 --> 01:16:37.680
well then that's on them, especially if they left it online.

1211
01:16:37.720 --> 01:16:39.640
If they left it online, there's no problem in saying

1212
01:16:39.640 --> 01:16:43.039
well I left because of that sermon, and then they

1213
01:16:43.079 --> 01:16:47.000
can go listen for themselves. So yeah, all right, thanks

1214
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for listening everyone, have a great night. Times are definitely

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a changing God bless