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I want Christians to be on guard about deception. There
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are a lot of people out there right now giving
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prophecies saying that they got this word from God. I'm
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not here to judge who has it, who haven't gotten
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a word from God. I'm not there, I'm not with him.
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I wasn't there when they heard whatever they say that
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they heard or came up with their theory. But what
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I did, I gave some rules that you should always
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keep in mind when you are looking at any type
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of prophecy, any type of so called prophet. The number
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one rule is to know who God is, so that
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you know who he isn't that he will never contradict himself.
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He will never say something to anyone that is not
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in his word or that contradicts his word. So if
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they do that, then run from them. All right, we
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are live with Ed Maybray. How are you, Ed? I'm good?
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How are you great? So tell us who you are
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and what you do? Sure. So my name is Ed Maybray.
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I am a podcaster, a researcher, and a Christian truth seeker.
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And so what I've been doing for while the last
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over ten years, it didn't make It's been that long
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over ten years is running a website called Faith by
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Reason's Faith by Reason dot net not dot com. Dot
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net is my site and I started doing that because
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of the journey I've been on in my life of
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being basically raised in the church. My father was a minister.
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Well he's still with us, he's just not in that
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I could be minser anymore. He's retired. My grandmother was
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a matriarch of our church. So I just grew up
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in the church and under and like most people, I
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just I took for granted that it was true. I mean,
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I still believe it's true, but there was no there
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was no challenge to it even throughout my youth because
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I either went to private Christian school or you know,
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I'm in community. African American community is very religious of
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pre capita, you know, with where the most church going group.
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So I never had my faith questioned or so I
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didn't what wasn't used to being challenged. And then of
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course I went to college and went to a secular
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college like most of them are. And as I've said
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many times before I'm on other podcasts, my professors and
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my fellow students like took great delight in challenging me
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and deconstructing what I believe, and it forced me to
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get into apologetics to defend my faith. The journey started
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where I was I started doubting things. I never doubted God,
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but I started to doubt and wonder about the things
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I was told about God because I couldn't answer some
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of those basic questions, like, you know, if God is good,
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why is there evil? You know, why did he flood
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the entire earth? That seems kind of genocidal? You know
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in the time of Noah? You know where Adam and Eve?
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Were they real people or was that an allegory? And
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why does God seemed so angry all the time and
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punishing people and braining down fire and brimstone. So I
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didn't have a lot of answers. You know, how was
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Jesus born of a virgin? You can go on and
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know with all the classic questions. So it just led
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me on a journey to really understand who God is,
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not what we're told about him, but who he actually
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is according to his word, and how that makes sense.
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I'm a logical thinker, I'm a systems thinker, and my
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prayer to God is I was going through this, you know,
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exploring other religions and things like that. I'm like, if
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you're real, then you should make sense. You know, if
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you created everything, then you also created the rules of
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logic and reason and you should be a part of that.
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And you know, he answered that prayer. He actually he
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put me in touch with people who were also had
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a scientific mindset, and they helped me a lot too,
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and he brought me to resources that helped me on
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my journey. And the conclusion of my journey was it
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was two basically startling facts. Number one is that unlike
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what I was told, that God is unknowable, that God
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actually can be known to the degree that we're capable
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of knowing him, and more importantly, that he wants to
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be known, that he delights in being known. And you know,
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which makes sense to me. Why would you create intelligent life,
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relatively intelligent life, and not want to interact with them,
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and not like I can't speak for everyone, because I
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our people every day and I'm like, are you able
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to walk and not fall down? Because you don't seem
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very bright? But he wants to interact with us, And
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that was just stunning to me, because, like everyone else,
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I grew up thinking that God was this angry guy
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on a cloud who couldn't wait to punish us anytime
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he did anything wrong, and that really isn't the case.
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So I started Faith bad Reason because I assumed that
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I was not the only person who had was on
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this journey, and I wanted to help my fellow Christians
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understand who God is and why our faith makes sense
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and why our faith is reasonable. Hence the title of
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Faith by Reason. So Faith O Reason dot Neagic can
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find me there. I'm also on YouTube. I'm getting more
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active on x and as you know, I just started
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a Patreon a bottom almost two months ago where I'm
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offering exclusive bonus content and q and as. And also
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if you go to the higher tier, there are two tiers.
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We go to the second tier, you can be a
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part of a monthly Bible study where I take a
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group of people on a journey through the entire Bible
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in one year from the supernatural point of view. So
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we're looking at it as God's story. It's called the
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Jehovah Story Bible Study. And we look at it it's
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because this is God's story. It's not our story. It's
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God's story. It's Jehovah story, and we go at it
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from that standpoint, and we look behind the availa what's
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happening in the spiritual realm, Because honestly, if you don't
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look at what's happening in the spiritual realm, you're easily
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missing eighty percent of the story. And I think one
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of the reasons why people have so much trouble understanding
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the Bible is because they think it's our story and
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not it's His story. Yeah, agreed.
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I think that's one of the most misunderstood things about folks.
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You know, about Christianity in general, is that this is
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a super natural based story and it's not. It's you know,
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Christ's centered, God centered, whatever you want to call it.
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And and when you actually learn how to look at
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things through that lens, changes the whole game.
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Right.
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So, so one of another questions that I ask all
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to get all my guests is so my So it's
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kind of funny that the Bible right has gotten looped
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in with all the supernatural, paranormal, h strange and this stuff, right,
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but yet it fits there perfectly, frankly, And in my opinion,
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people get mad at me for that constantly. But so
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like my gateway, and I just I always call it
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a gateway drug. My gateway drug to this world was Bigfoot. Okay,
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but that's just for me. You've got plenty of people
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that you know, that's the same thing, but some people
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UFO some other fok.
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It's like that too. Obviously yours.
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Well, I'm not going to speak for you, but obviously
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you talk about the Bible.
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What was your gateway to to this?
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I mean, like, because you've been on a million podcasts
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and at the end of the day, they're all kind
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of the same, but they're all very different too.
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So what was your gateway to this whole? To the strangeness? Yeah,
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the strangeness, the high strangeness world. I think two books
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of the Bible, the two that I that one I
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finished doing a series on last year and one that
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I'm working on now. And that's the books of Genesis
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and Revelation. Oh yeah, those come on, Yeah, amazing. I'm
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one of those. I guess you can call them Christian circles.
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I'm kind of a strange one in that that's the
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book I gravitated towards when as a kid, because no
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one wanted to talk about that, you know, everyone would
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talk about, you know, David and Goliath. They would talk
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about knowing the flood, they would talk about King. Yeah,
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you know you have King David, King Solomon, the Exodus,
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all that stuffsquat and of course Jesus and the Disciples,
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and you know, the Apostle, Paul and I get all
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wonderful stuff, but no one spends a whole lot of
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time in Genesis or in revelationists, but especially Revelation, no
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one talked about that. So I'm like, well, what's going on?
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So I started reading it, and I'm like, oh, this
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is some weird stuff happening here. You've got these this
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you know, these beasts with seven heads and ten horns,
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and this woman riding the beast, and then you have
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these four horsemen different colors, riding around and just slaughtering
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millions of people, and I'm like, wow, this is So
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that was kind of my gateway into the whole strangeness,
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because I wanted to understand this because it just seemed
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it at the time. It's this seems so much different
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than what I'm told, not that it's different than what's
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in the Bible, because you know, you go to do
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the books of Daniel and Isaiah and Ezekiel. They have
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some strange stuff happening there, but then no one talks
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about that supernatural stuff. They talk about the things that
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are just easy to digest. So that's what got me
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into it. And I say, this is part of the Bible,
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and if the Bible it's true, if it's really God's worth,
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then he wants us to understand this part too, And
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I just I go on the path less travel, and
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I wanted to go down that road. And so I
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became obsessed with it, and I started reading commentaries on it,
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and as I got older, I would listen to broadcasts
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of people who are really into it. Like one of
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my mentors is the late doctor Chuck Missler, who he
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did a series of what I'm showing my age here
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of audio cassetts back those are actually a thing. And
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I remember I remember saving up damn mixtapes, man exact. Yeah,
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I made my mixtape. I remember the getting off topic here,
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but the first time I made my mixtape with this
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girl I had a crush on in college, and I
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confessed all my feelings on it and then like had
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all these love songs and oh my god, that was
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a bad decisition. She Britta just like played it for everyone.
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This is my heart, this is my heart on tape
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for you. All my friends are like, oh, you are
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such a simp. I love.
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I remember MIDS tapes too. Man, I'm I'm I'm fifty,
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So I get it. I that game, Yeah, I get
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I get it all.
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So so anyway, I saved up my money and I
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bought this. The Chuck missed the Revelation series, and I
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think it was like twenty five audio cassettes and I
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just listened to it not to stop. So that was
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my gateway into it, was having him explain it and
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then just going from there and doing my own research
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into it. And then Genesis is the same way. That's
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why after I finished my Revelation series last year, sixty
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episodes of videos and podcasts, now I'm on Genesis because
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Genesis is just in some ways, Genesis is even weirder
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than Revelation.
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Well, there's so much duality in a lot of it,
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and there's just it's it's I don't think we're supposed
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to maybe, I think clarity is not supposed to be there.
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I think we're supposed to use our brains obviously, But
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I'll like it into that for sure.
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Yeah, you have to inferral Lot. We can talk, we
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can start talking to Mars just a bit, and maybe
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get back to Revelation, because I think basically what I've
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been telling people and in the Bible Study, which is
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against it's twelve it's twelve months. Obviously it's going to
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be from from this February to next January twenty twenty six.
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So you think, you know, I'd have to squeeze like
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three or four books into every that was, which I will.
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But the first two months of the Bible Study, you're
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just going to be on Genesis, job and parts of
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the Book of Enoch. Because if Genesis is so important,
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if you really grasp what's going on in Genesis, you
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understand the rest of the Bible. The entire story of
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the Bible is in Genesis. And I say, and one
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of my other friends Mentors, said the same thing. He
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says that basically the rest of the Bible is just
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commentary on Genesis. God, that the introduction is there, his
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plan is there, his personality, his will, the fall, redemption,
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the future are our eternity, what God wants. All that's
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in Genesis and the rest of the Bible is just
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all that playing out, and then of course revelation is
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the conclusion, right, But.
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No, it's it's just it's it's a great it's a
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great point is that it just puts the exclamation mark
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on the fact that this is his story and and
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this is what's being told.
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It's not about us, right, It's about him. And yeah,
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I'm I'm.
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Super excited for the study. Bottom line, I just I