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00:08:18.360What is coming from this atrocity of a show that we do?
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00:20:44.280Now, when it comes to Jesus and Paul, there is a false premise and there's an agenda.
00:20:49.480The false premise is that Jesus and Paul were talking to the same people under the same set of circumstances, and they were not.
00:20:59.140Now, if they were, then you could definitely see a conflict because they both talk about salvation.
00:21:05.760But Jesus does, in fact, say you have to be saved by doing the will of the Father, by doing the will, by obeying the law, by doing all these different things.
00:21:14.500In the present tense, that's how he speaks. In the future tense, he does talk about, you know, whosoever believes in me will not perish, but have eternal life.
00:21:20.820But that's still to do. He's talking about doing things. Paul very much says that you are saved by believing grace.
00:21:28.200And we need to talk about what grace is, because that's huge. Grace, which leads you to faith, which leads you to salvation.
00:21:33.040so if they're talking to the same audience that's a problem however they were not talking to
00:21:38.240different audiences and here's something that you guys have to you know kind of brace yourself for
00:21:42.280this because it's going to sound a little heretical jesus was not talking to christians
00:21:46.740during his ministry he was not they didn't exist exactly a christian because what's what's a
00:21:53.940christian what is a follower of of christ in the sense is someone who believes in the death
00:21:58.580resurrection and ascension of Jesus and has a Holy Spirit dwelling in them.
00:22:03.060That didn't happen until Acts chapter 2.
00:23:01.420So the split between what we call the Old and the New Testament is actually erroneous, technically speaking.
00:23:06.860Because if you say that the Old Testament is the Old Covenant, the law and the prophets, and the New Testament is the New Covenant, where we have salvation through the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus, then the New Testament doesn't start until Acts chapter 2.
00:23:21.100Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are technically Old Testament, Old Covenant books.
00:23:25.800Jesus was talking to Israelites primarily.
00:44:32.460Well, because they're liking soccer more and more.0.75
00:44:34.620If you looked at the charts, it's going up, and I don't agree with it.
00:44:38.380Yes, I want to get one last example, and this is the Sabbath as it relates to, you know, the law versus grace versus, you know, God speaking to us.
00:44:45.620Because, you know, I don't know if you have any Seventh-day Adventists who listen to the show and who come in.
00:44:49.980I get some pop up in my comments once in a while who always say, you should be, you know, you got to worship on the Saturday, on Saturday.
00:44:56.900That's the real Sabbath. And, you know, the Sunday worship was created by the Roman Empire, blah, blah, blah.0.78
00:45:02.240But again, they have the wrong definition of what the Sabbath is, because I think the Sabbath rest means that you're supposed to just like lounge around and not do anything.
00:45:09.760That's not what it is at all. The Sabbath is based on, you know, the seventh day of creation.
00:45:14.380when God said, you know, I'm going to rest.
00:51:13.720Before the outside of Jesus, if you wanted to be saved without Jesus dying for your sin, you'd have to obey the law perfectly, which means you would have to never sin.
00:51:21.320So if you were able to somehow never, ever sin, you would be saved on your own without Jesus.
00:51:26.380But not unless people are the only one that lived a perfect life, a sinless life.
01:00:31.720First of all, in the Bible, Hebrew is a very precise language, just like Greek, which I think is great that the Bible was written in those two precise languages.
01:00:39.940the words that god uses for eating and tree are literally that he's not using euphemisms here this
01:00:46.540isn't poetry he is saying that he's talking about when you take a fruit and put it in your mouth and
01:00:49.820chew it that's what he means by eating it and if if eating of the tree meant having illicit sex0.77
01:00:56.040with an elohim then what did he mean when he said you can eat of any tree in the garden except for0.99
01:01:00.980this one so what's he saying you can have sex with any angel just not that one you can have sex with1.00
01:01:07.060yeah you can have sex with any angel except for satan that's a great observation because um you0.99
01:01:13.340know if you're going to say that that that is a euphemism this eating of the forbidden fruit is0.85
01:01:17.720yeah then it's like well what is the the the you know the declaration that you can eat of any of0.55
01:01:24.300the other you can have sex with any of these other creatures i'm interested to see uh what you think
01:01:28.540about this episode i'll send it to you because it's not yet released but we interviewed this
01:01:32.400guy named jeb uh jed uh boza boza yeah yeah great dude his idea uh about the primordial origin of
01:01:40.160satan and it goes back to genesis 1 and he's talking about god creating the earth and then
01:01:47.960him hovering over the waters waters being this like primordial chaos right yeah basically what
01:01:55.460he does is separate light from darkness he makes stuff good and he makes stuff bad
01:01:59.520and what i got from that is like this chaos that he's separated now but he's used it to create
01:02:07.560but he also has them uh it says later in the new testament that the darkness can't even
01:02:13.820comprehend the light so it can't it doesn't have access to that you kind of need both of
01:02:17.460these things to create but if this is a chaos a chaotic water and let's just say this chaotic
01:02:24.240water was in a stream and let's just say that something grew from it like a tree let's say
01:02:30.600that's now a chaotic tree of you know a chaotic tree that that grows chaotic fruit he compared
01:02:37.740it to this idea of like a glitch in the matrix like this thing that shouldn't be and when you
01:02:41.860insert that into human beings or into anything it has to now be out of this uh heavenly realm
01:02:49.260and i was like this is actually a very interesting idea yeah that's that's one of those um
01:02:54.220i i highly recommend yeah we'll say i probably botched it but you should yeah you should check
01:02:58.460it out both every time something good like that comes along i i have like oh i want ed's thoughts
01:03:03.460on this and i want matt's thoughts on this so i've been pestering matt like you know you got
01:03:07.100to listen to this episode because he was citing scripture and he was showing you the the original
01:03:12.960greek and hebrew translations for the words and everything like really solid in other words i
01:03:18.740couldn't fault the dude like you know not that i know whether or not he's correct or incorrect but
01:03:24.240i certainly couldn't fault him for coming to those conclusions because i was like oh yeah i see how
01:03:27.760you got there like i could see it was very clear how he got there so i'd be interested i'll check
01:03:31.720it out but one thing i'm seeing is impossible as we talked about before whenever you see a conflict
01:03:35.100there's there's probably it might be a premise that you have wrong and i think a premise that
01:03:39.540he might have wrong is the idea that god created evil or that god can create evil and you can't
01:03:46.020actually an oxymoron if you know what the definition of evil is evil is destruction
01:03:52.180you can't create a destruction destruction is an effect of of what you do something good so god
01:03:57.940didn't say i'm going to make evil you can't it's like saying i'm going to make darkness you can't
01:04:01.300darkness it's a measurement of the absence of light evil is what happens when there's when when
01:04:06.260when good isn't there so god only created good now good can be corrupted but he didn't he didn't make
01:04:13.620a satan he didn't say i'm gonna make a bad guy first of all number one he didn't do that because
01:04:18.260that would be impossible god is light and there's no darkness in him at all god cannot create
01:04:22.260darkness god is 100 light darkness can go when light is can be can come into play when light is
01:04:28.660absent so what created darkness what creates that then the absence of light when when when light
01:04:36.100withdraws when God withdraws by definition darkness grows so my my
01:04:42.160thought on that and is it happens in my Genesis series is that um the that
01:04:48.100primordial darkness they talk about that chaos he's correct that is called chaos0.97
01:04:51.220it's called the Mayim it's chaotic waters that was the effect of a
01:04:56.660primordial rebellion that happened and it called that let God to read that to
01:05:01.160that let God to withdraw his light God created everything perfect he created
01:05:05.800the Elohim first, there was a rebellion with this entity called Leviathan. When it says God was0.85
01:05:10.460hovering over the face of Teom, the darkness, that word for the deep is the word Teom, which
01:05:18.020in Ugaritic, in Sumerian, means Tiamat. Tiamat is a seven-headed dragon. God is standing over
01:05:24.600in a victory pose over this dragon, the seven-headed dragon who fell. Some people say it's
01:05:31.380Satan. I don't think that was the entity. I think it's a different entity. Why? Because Satan's in
01:05:35.400garden of eden the garden of eden was a garden was on the mountain of god evil cannot be in the
01:05:39.960presence of god i believe that satan fell when he lied when he came to eve and said he asked her a
01:05:47.720question and then he lied he said a truth and a lie he said if you eat this you will know good
01:05:51.640and evil but you won't die that was a lie that was the first lie ever told so that's why he that's
01:05:58.440why i believe that's when he fell and god cursed him but they have the primordial chaos that was
01:06:03.400not produced by god god made everything good but he also gave the angels initial free will
01:06:10.520angels have free will until until you're judged you have free will once you're a judge you no
01:06:13.880longer have free will so they decided to rebel for we can get into the i have my some theories
01:06:18.360on the reasons but for whatever reason they a section of them rebelled and there was a judgment
01:06:24.680and that darkness was a result of the judgment so so satan didn't grow out of the darkness
01:06:30.280that the darkness was a result of a judgment
01:06:33.480it's such an interesting and you get and one more one more thing about evil people i get this all
01:06:43.140the time well if god knew satan was going to sin why did god make him well again that's a false
01:06:49.160premise that false premise is that god knew he didn't and this is something that really messes
01:06:54.940a lot of christians up because they have this idea of the ominous that you get from calvinism
01:06:59.440that god is um omnipotent omnipresent and omniscient that he knows everything god knows
01:07:05.600everything but the true definition of that is god has all the information that exists
01:07:11.280god does not have information that doesn't exist why because it doesn't exist
01:07:15.680and you know what doesn't exist the the choice i'm going to make tomorrow i haven't made it yet
01:07:22.880god did not know that satan was going to sin he could know his tendency but god didn't know that
01:07:27.600because if god knows everything we're gonna do before we do it then there's no such thing as free
01:07:30.480will we can only have free will if we have if if if that's a mystery and in this and before you
01:07:36.400say this is sacrilege look at going back to the sacrifice of isaac when when um when abraham
01:07:44.640raised his hand up to to plunge a knife into into um into isaac god stopped him he sent an angel
01:07:51.040and he said to him now i know that you would not withhold your son for me wait a minute what do
01:07:56.160to me now i know that's god saying i didn't know beforehand he was testing his faith he didn't know
01:08:01.620he said abraham i don't know if abraham's gonna do this for me maybe he will maybe he won't let
01:08:05.760me let me see god doesn't know who's good god doesn't know who's going to choose him or who's
01:08:10.840not going to that's why jesus said for god's love loved the world that he gave his only begotten son
01:08:14.420that whosoever believes he doesn't know who that's our choice he says so god for god's love
01:08:23.280the world that you know 3 billion and 28 people will be safe he didn't know he doesn't know how
01:08:26.580many people are going to be saved we have free choice and that and i know there's some christians
01:08:31.020who are probably not happy with what i just said and don't believe it i understand i didn't believe
01:08:35.840it at first either i had to be dragged kicking and screaming to this but think about it would
01:08:40.260it make sense if god knows everything we're going to do before we do it do we have free will and if
01:08:46.020we don't have free will then we can't choose if we can't choose then we can't love we can't love
01:09:18.960And now I have to put them up next to each other.
01:09:20.780You know, it's been a long time since I had anything comparative to like, be like, does this, would this even make sense or fit?
01:09:26.880Yeah. And the idea that, that God knows everything past, present and future that brings up, that's, that's when you start having contradictions. That's when things don't make sense because then that makes God responsible for evil.
01:12:20.340Everyone who's going to everyone who spends their eternity separated from God is there for one reason, because they rejected an invitation.
01:16:24.680It's like it's a it's a lot to wrap your head around still.
01:16:29.420I think it's, you know, how Matt talks about the triune nature of the Godhead, right? Like, this idea that we can understand that there is a man in the Godhead, that there is three elements to this being, that we're trying to wrestle with something that exists outside of space and time and, you know, our reality.
01:16:51.600um it's it's not something that i think this is why the bible warns not to lean on your own
01:16:57.520understanding too because it's like if you're so adamant and not at some point laying this at the
01:17:03.120feet of god and and you know uh being patient and and you know asking for understanding from
01:17:09.100the holy spirit or any of these things uh you're going to come to a bunch of messed up conclusions
01:17:14.740and we see that i think these kinds of things are what gives birth to you know that thing that i
01:17:21.000mentioned before this idea of of uh of the demi urge or or you know um yeah you know the prison
01:17:27.660planet or the old testament god is not uh anything to do with the new testament that this is a demon
01:17:34.780and all these things like it's like despite the fact that the same god of the old testament is
01:17:39.420the god that prophesies the coming of jesus christ you know however many times um somehow
01:17:45.460it's not the same it's not the same god yeah that's what's so annoying about these jesus only
01:17:50.460people and by that i mean the people who say i only read the gospels i don't read any other parts
01:17:54.380of the bible or somebody say i'll go as far as to say i only read the words in red the words of0.92
01:17:59.740jesus i'm like that's so idiotic because what without the old testament we wouldn't even know0.76
01:18:04.780who the messiah was there are over 300 prophecies of jesus in the old testament how can you only0.99
01:18:09.180read the words in red and think you have a full picture of the will of god you won't know it if
01:18:14.620If you just read the Gospels, Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the promises given to Abraham.
01:18:21.020So, you know, the idea that you would omit, it's like, OK, so the whole thing is talking about this thing that happens.
01:18:28.940And then the New Testament is this thing that happens and its implications.
01:18:32.800And for some reason, you don't want to see any of or understand any of what was talking about this, this event coming to pass.
01:34:54.620And then I'll say, okay, my theory on the rapture.
01:34:58.180I grew up being like hardcore pre-trib and nothing else for most of my life.
01:35:02.200Then someone came along and they said, hey, check this out.
01:35:05.280And I was like, nah. And it took a few, it took a couple of years and I'm like, okay, well, I've got it. They have a good point. Their point makes more biblical sense than mine. So I had to change it. It was uncomfortable, but it's not about being right. I mean, it's not about your theory being right. It's about God being right and being closer and being more righteous by being closer to God.
01:35:22.660So, yeah, we all have theories. I don't care if mine are wrong. Great. Show me where I'm wrong. Show me. Well, that's the thing, man. If we're in this game of theories in some way, because we're people who are interested in in the truth and we're interested in ideas and and, you know, we have imaginations. We're trying to bring this thing to life. We're going to start thinking about, well, what if and does this mean this?
01:35:44.900And, you know, we're going to have questions. And what I can guarantee you is if you are that type of person, you're going to be wrong. You're going to be wrong. There's no way in hell. I've been wrong for so many, like so many things. I mean, if I look back to half the crap I believed 15 years ago, I've killed off so much. I mean, so it's just it's a matter of being a fallible human being. And you said it right. You get into trouble when you start saying this is true.
01:36:13.660this thing that i've theorized is now something that is is true and you you know and you start
01:36:18.480telling other people that this is the truth that that's a problem but to say i think because i've
01:36:23.540wondered if like yeah that's that's that's fine man um and but you could definitely see how that
01:36:29.720kind of thing leads to all the denominations and all that other crap it's a it's a wild never-ending
01:36:34.100branch exactly and like i said about top a few minutes ago when he said you know i was created
01:36:37.800by god i say well i didn't say you weren't i said well let's ask the question did god create you or
01:36:43.020wasn't your parents and that's an open question i could be wrong with that maybe god said you know0.56
01:36:46.620i need a top lobster boom there he goes i'm gonna i'm gonna put on some marvin gay and and put play
01:36:50.900that in the in the ears of top's mom it actually is what your mom said was playing i actually0.64
01:36:56.140phrased my i don't want to dox date dox myself never mind i won't say well i just did my brain0.61
01:37:01.560on marvin gay so that's funny i figured out i was like was this a holiday where you guys smashed
01:37:06.500very rude to ask oh you did the math on it i did the math and i was like hold on a second