April 8, 2026

Cults | Roman Catholicism: Mary and Prayer to the Saints

Cults | Roman Catholicism: Mary and Prayer to the Saints

Episode 2.98


In this episode of Cults, Michael and Zach examine two closely related areas of Roman Catholic theology: Marian doctrine and prayer to the saints. The goal is not to question whether Mary was blessed—Scripture clearly affirms that—but to ask whether later doctrines go beyond what the Bible actually teaches.


The discussion walks through key claims such as Mary as the Ark of the Covenant, perpetual virginity, and the Immaculate Conception, comparing each with the biblical text and early church history. Along the way, the episode highlights how Marian theology developed over time and where those developments may extend beyond explicit scriptural support.


From there, the conversation turns to prayer to the saints—addressing whether Scripture provides any category for speaking to departed believers. By examining Old Testament prohibitions, New Testament patterns of prayer, and the doctrine of Christ as the sole mediator, the episode makes a clear distinction between asking living believers for prayer and addressing those who have died. The takeaway is straightforward: Scripture consistently directs believers to approach God directly through Christ, without the need for additional heavenly intermediaries.


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Mary.
Prayer.

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Did You Know?
Mary, did you know that there'd

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be Marian doctrines?
And.

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Praying.
We should rewrite Mary, Did you

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know to be like, hey, did you
know that they were going to

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call you the Mother of God?
Wow, there is a parody song of

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Catholic doctrine and Mary.
Did you know somewhere?

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Like there's something you're
just guessing, or you've heard

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it.
No, no, I'm, I'm saying there's

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no, I'm I'm just, I'm saying
there should be 1.

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Like there's some, there's
there's something there.

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Yeah, yeah, you know, yeah,
that's, yeah.

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That, that'll play.
Yeah.

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So this is this may be well we
were requested, we haven't even

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talked about this.
We were requested to do another

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episode in the series via
comment in the YouTube section.

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So we can talk about that
offline.

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So we have to talk about.
That what's the What was it for?

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Well, that's why it's not really
a cult.

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It was feminism.
Oh.

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I'm not a feminism.
I'm fascinated by the history of

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feminism in the fact that not
even like first wave, second

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wave, 3rd wave, all this stuff,
but how it does coincide with

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like World War 2 and that's like
the beginning of the end of

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America.
I don't I don't know how much

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conspiracy theory, but it is
like crazy.

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We're all like, it seems like
that was a downward trajectory

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in some fashion, even though in
many other ways it's been very

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positive.
It's just it's fascinating to me

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and it's I forgot this guy's
name on there, but he's bringing

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up.
I just need to get acquainted

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with a good source.
Like I need to know this stuff

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more versus like, just
spitballing, but I would have

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loved to talk.
Well, I guess we could talk

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about feminism without talking
about the history.

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Of it, he mentioned a book that
I haven't read.

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So sorry we are we're really
taking a sidestep from the the

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Mary Pot my podcast.
But I was listening to Dusty

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Slay comedian.
He has his own podcast and he

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said that he's been watching
these old westerns and these old

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movies from the like the 50s and
60s.

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He's like the treatment of women
is pretty stark and like he's

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like, I remember one of them
where it says like when I get in

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the kitchen, he's like, now I
wonder if that is really how it

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was back in the 50s and 60s or
if that's Hollywood's portrayal

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because they want to make it
seem bad to kind of foster this

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feminist move.
Like that's, you know, to kind

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of push.
But you know, Dusty, you

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wouldn't necessarily know He's a
believer from his stand up

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comedy.
Not that he's dirty or anything

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like that, but he's like, he's
like, I'm there to let everyone

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have a good time.
I'll talk to you about Jesus on

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my podcast.
But he said, you know, people

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always show, you know, this
Ephesians, you know, why submit

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to your husbands?
And they don't read the very

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next verses.
Like basically he's like, my

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translation is husbands, treat
your wives as a queen.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
There you go.

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But so.
We didn't forget.

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We did not forget about the
comment.

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That is good.
Yeah.

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We haven't forgotten about that.
So we, so this may, you know,

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there may be another we, we need
to decide whether this is the

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last one of this year.
I need to find a.

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Is this book an audio book that
he recommended?

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I don't know.
We'll have to go back and look

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and see, yeah.
I'll I'll run through that and

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look at some looks that that
would be I would love to do more

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on that because you know, these
women, right, taking taking over

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the world, but.
Pending anything, you know, if

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we get a whole lot of comments
from some Roman Catholics, maybe

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we, but this is our last planned
episode on Roman so.

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To kind of tie it together,
Mary, the first feminist, the

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first feminist.
I'm just kidding.

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So we are talking about cults
and these beliefs that we're

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talking about today I don't
think would rise necessarily to

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the label of cult.
And we're using cult in the

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academic sense.
We've covered that throughout

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that.
We're not using it in the

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pejorative or you know, the like
a, you know, new age type thing.

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We're using it in the the
academic sense of the word.

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But I thought if we're going to
look at Roman Catholicism's view

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on salvation, the gospel, and
we're going to look at their

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view on authority, we should go
ahead and just touch the kind of

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the major other difference we
have with them as Protestants.

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And that falls into two
categories, their high esteemed

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status of Mary, and they're
praying to the Saints.

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So this episode covers both of
those.

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So anything you want to say
before we take it to the next

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level?
Let's go ahead and take it to

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the next level.
Let's fire up that twang music.

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From the hearts of the Low
Country in South Carolina.

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It's the Take Two podcast where
we take theology to the next

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level.
All right, so Mary and prayer to

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the Saints and we would all say
Mary holds a blessed position.

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And why would we all say that if
we?

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Go back to last episode, Final
Authority for Protestant.

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So no, no, and I hate this
because it's not not a low view

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of Mary.
Right, right.

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We have a high view of Mary.
Yeah, yeah.

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In fact, we did a, we, we had
like some awkward spacing

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between our Sunday school
classes and it happened to be

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around Christmas time and Joel
was like, what can we do 3 or 4

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weeks?
Like well, why don't we like

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each take a lesson, talk about
Christmas.

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I was like, what do I want to
do?

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I didn't want to do the Michael
Ruins Christmas thing like where

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I kind of re talk about the end
and stuff because I've done that

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a lot.
And I was like, well, I just

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want to do it on the humble
faithfulness of Mary and Joseph

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and, and you know, kind of what
they went through and all of

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this.
So we we do esteem Mary as being

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in a 'cause.
I don't want it to seem like

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we're like trashing on Mary.
An honored position, but we

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don't think we think that that
pendulum has swung way too far

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in the Roman Catholic Church.
Yes.

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And I, and I think what we'll
see is many of the claims really

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go along with our last episode
where they go beyond scripture

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and steeped in some tradition.
So let's kick it off.

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Yeah, so you might hear someone.
These are just things I've heard

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because I get, you know, I'm a
believer.

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So I think the algorithms knows
that I like to watch things on

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faith and doctrine.
And so I'll get some videos

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clearly made for a Roman
Catholic, then I'll get some

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that are clearly made for a
Protestant who's debunking.

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But you know, 'cause the, the
algorithm, it doesn't know

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doctrine, it's just trying to.
That's right.

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But one of them was talking
about Mary as an ark, the New

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Testament ark.
And so the the argument went

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that the ark carried the
presence of God.

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OK, Mary carries the fullness of
God in her womb, and therefore

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quite clearly Mary is the new
ark of the new covenant.

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But this one actually had a a
Protestant response and I

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thought he did a good job.
And so if you clarify this, the

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ark was a physical object.
Checks out.

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Yeah, God dwelt in a in a
physical way in that object, but

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it's Christ, not Mary who is the
analog of the Old Testament ark,

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since the fullness of deity
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not in Mary.
Therefore the ark pointed to

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Christ, not to Mary, because you
know, it's in the ark was the

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mercy seat.
That's where the sacrifice is

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there.
And so Christ is that ark.

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He is the say the word for me.
I'm always bad at.

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Propitiation.
There we go.

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If you fix an analogy, what
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That Christ is the Ark.
Well, I mean, yeah, where?

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Where does Mary?
Fall.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If you fix the analogy, then

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Mary would might be the
Levitical priest carrying the

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ark.
I can get behind that.

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And they're in a, they're in a
blessed position.

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Not everyone could carry the ark
around there.

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There was, they were set apart
and they had this exalted place

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in order to carry the ark.
But that would be more of where

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she would she would be.
I I like that a lot, 'cause Mary

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important a vehicle, a means by
which Christ entered the world.

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So you don't that's good.
That's good to clarify 'cause

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you might hear that that that's
great.

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Yeah.
So that, so just thinking

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through that.
Alright, so perpetual virginity.

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Great.
So Catholicism.

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Rome is gonna teach that Mary
was a virgin before Christ's

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birth.
We'd affirm that during Christ's

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birth.
We'd affirm that after Christ's

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birth.
This is where we have definitive

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separation.
Right, right.

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So scriptural issues.
Matthew 125.

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Joseph's kept her a virgin until
she gave birth to a son the

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like.
The natural reason is like ever

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that they had normal sexual
relationships.

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Yes, that's at face value what
you would would anticipate on a

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natural reading.
We read other places Jesus had

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brothers.
Nothing in scripture mentions a

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whole lot about perpetual
anything but perpetual

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virginity.
It doesn't say and the Spirit

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came upon her and Jude was
conceived and not born, and

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James was conceived, and I think
it even says somewhere where

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Jesus had a sister.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, in

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there.
And then, you know, we see this

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like many doctrines kind of gets
more, gets its stamp on there

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many, many years later.
Oh, let's say there's no slam

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dunk biblical argument.
Hey, this verse says perpetual

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that virginity existed.
Right.

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And well, yeah, I would say
there's nothing that hints to

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that even even hints.
Yeah, yeah.

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And you had to refer to our last
Thursday episode.

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We're using this as our final
authority.

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So we and so we would, we would
say that, you know, we're going

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to take this over what some
church father might say in 400.

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I love it.
All right, another issue around

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Mary is the sinlessness of Mary,
AKA the Immaculate Conception.

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Question real quick, would they
would Catholics, and I don't

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know if we talked about this
later, Catholics would say Jesus

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had brothers and sisters.
That's like cousins.

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That's like a term for like not
or a or would they say it is

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brother's just not with Mary
like it's Joseph and.

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I think you would hear different
things from different Catholics.

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So if you're a Roman Catholic
and you got a thought on this,

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you're listening, Tell us how
you understand Jude and James to

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be 'cause I think I have heard
the cousin thing, and I think

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I've also heard that no, though
they were just other Immaculate

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conceal.
But maybe I'm off on that.

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Yeah, Yeah.
So you can clarify that on

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there, all right, Sinlessness of
Mary, AKA the Immaculate

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Conception.
I you know, growing up in the

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middle of rural Arkansas, I just
thought Immaculate Conception

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was talking about Jesus.
I growing up as a kid, same

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thing.
It's actually Mary was conceived

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without original sin, which
might like blow your mind a

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little bit.
Like when you're like wow.

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Also, what blows my mind is that
this was defined dogmatically in

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1854.
Right, very early, Very early.

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At Abraham Lincoln, yeah, It's
like, yeah, very early.

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And also on top of that, she
remained sinless.

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Not just she was immaculately
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remained.
So even we were looking at, we

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just doing a little bit of study
on what some of the Church

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fathers, Thomas Aquinas believed
that she was conceived and had

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original sin, but then after her
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cleansed from that sin and then
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on.
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then that this Holy Spirit kept
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What's what's what's the point?
Is it like, would it be better

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if like Mary's mother was
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just like keep you keep it more?
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because I think the argument is
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work or Yeah, because.

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Which doesn't.
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It doesn't make sense.
But if Mary, I I think you do

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have an argument.
It's a it's a factum.

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What there's a Latin phrase for
just continue on the the the the

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logic there.
Sorry, but yeah.

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So Mary's mother should have to
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going to be sinless.
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So there has to there has to be

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a breakdown in that does.
Scripture talk about people

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being, you know, fundamentally
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Let's look at some of these.
So some of the these are just

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proof texts so obviously you
want to read the full context.

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But Mark 10/18 says why Jesus
being asked question why do you

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call me good?
Only God is good.

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Well Jesus Mary isn't God.
Romans 323 all have sinned kind

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of the famous Roman Rd. passage.
Romans 310 none is righteous, no

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not one.
Romans 623 The wages of sin is

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death, but the free gifts of
Christ is eternal life through

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Jesus Christ our Lord.
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claims here.
Now, we are explicitly we know

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that Jesus Christ was sinless
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there's nothing in Scripture
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also accepted from these
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And that that's good.
And if you want to kind of

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expand this argument a little
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speaking herself says, my spirit
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implying that she needs saving.
A Savior is needed by by

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sinners.
That there's really no biblical

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statement whatsoever that Mary
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He was basically doing a homily,
a commentary on Luke and we

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could dive into it, but
basically it's talking about,

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you know, her having some doubt
and he's making the point it

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through this quote that if Mary
or just make the point if Mary

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had doubt, then she wouldn't
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That's true in here because of
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You know this was talking about
the passage where a sword will

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Pierce your own soul as well.
Because when we look at early

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Catholicism, like really early,
Mary is honored as blessed and

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faithful.
Fine with that, not elevated in

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this like extra special way over
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Yeah, we have a timeline in here
of thoughts like you were

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saying, New Testament, what we
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She's blessed among women, she's
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not central.
Yeah, that's.

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She even shows up one time and
they're like, hey, your mother

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and brothers out there and Jesus
says my family are these are my

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brothers and my sisters right
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So in the New Testament, she's
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suggestion of her being sinless
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Moving on to 100 to 200.
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had these figures.
Early church fathers, Ignatius

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of Antioch, Justin Martyr,
Irenaeus of lions.

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Virgin birth is emphasized here.
And we don't start seeing these

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comparisons between Mary and
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I think there are some
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We looked at one quote that
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Like Eve tied the Gordian knot
of sin and Mary loosed it like,

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well, no, Christ loosed that
knot through his life, death and

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resurrection.
Mary didn't do that.

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Now, did Mary play a physical
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Yeah, Early 3rd Century Tension
200 and 250 Key figure

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Tertullian is one of the major
voices to explicitly reject

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perpetual virginity from his
work on the flesh of Christ.

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Heretic.
Suppose that Mary did not give

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birth, and that her body was not
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and that she afterwards married
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consistent position of Jesus's
brothers that are literal

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brothers, so.
Yeah, that's interesting.

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A lot of the argument seems like
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saying like she wasn't truly
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Oh, that's good.
He also criticized Mary a little

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bit.
Yeah, yeah, His mother and

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brother and stood without.
He repudiated them kind of

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taught when when he shows up and
they're they're like, hey, your

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family's here to get, you know,
like you need to kind of exit

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left like 'cause this is where
he's really kind of gone public

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with his ministry and he's
saying things that are not the

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normal Jewish things to say And
he's and he's causing a a stir.

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So so summary of this stage is
you know, some elevate Mary,

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others like to Turley and treat
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universal consensus yet.
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300 figures origin.
We already talked about him and

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his specific quote 1st century
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So we do start to see a little
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Athanasius wrote a great creed
Ephraim of Syrian major

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development, perpetual virginity
begins to gain some dominance

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strongly to figure defended by
some later figures like Jerome,

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A council of ephesus and 431.
Mary is affirmed as the mother

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of God.
Theo telcos.

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You do you like that phrase?
You know, I, I, I don't think

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it's the worst thing in the
world.

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And honestly, I think, you know,
many Presbyterians and Anglicans

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and these people are, it's fine.
I think it's good to clarify

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terms and that kind of thing.
Mother of Jesus?

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Sure.
Yeah.

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I don't.
The mother of God just.

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It sounds like there's something
that predated God in.

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Marriott, obviously, is not
she's.

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Not eternal.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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She's, she's a, she's not a
necessary eternal being.

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She's a fleshly contingent being
with a sinful mom and dad.

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That's true.
That is true.

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start seeing the modern dogma,

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we see increasing devotion,
theological expansion, we see

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some formalizations in the
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which we already reference, and
the Assumption of Mary in 1950.

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So some really late.
Yeah, yeah, that, that's always,

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it's always interesting to see
what gets like play in the

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1800s, nineteen hundreds, this
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Like we're about to fight a
civil war and they're over here.

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And, and, and basically the
Assumption of Mary says that

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Mary was taken body and soul
into heaven at the end of her

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earthly life.
You know, did not.

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Die Enoch.
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Elijah.
Mary.

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It doesn't definitively.
I think there's disagreement on

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whether Mary died first or not,
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So unique.
Obviously this is not in

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Scripture, but in case you're
like wondering, you know what's

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going on.
And that's the Assumption of

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Mary all.
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So we don't have a lot to say
other than I, I guess we would

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say we take Mary as a good
version, a good representative

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of the female race, but still
sinful, had normal relations

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with Joseph and conceived
normally kids after that and

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lived a life and she had doubts
and fears and just like everyone

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else and needed a savior.
And we really don't have a lot

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to say because it's not like
there's text look at and argue,

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you know what I'm saying?
Like it's not.

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There's not a lot to work with.
You're really relying on

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tradition pretty heavily.
Yeah, and there was there was a

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passage and I and I just
remembered I think Paul refers

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to Mary, but he doesn't prefer
to her by name, just calls her

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the mother of, of Jesus and so.
You might go, oh, well, if she

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was had this high exalted spot,
you would think Paul might name

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her by name.
So yeah.

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That that's especially, yeah,
you would think in that, yeah,

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that's right, transition.
Transition to Part 2 prayer to

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the Saints because it kind of
goes along with Mary because you

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do have the famous football pass
when you really need to make a

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lot of yards at the end of the
game called the Hail Mary.

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There you go.
But it's named after this idea

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that we're going to, you know,
pray to Mary, worship Mary, the

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Ave.
Maria.

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I remember I think I've
mentioned this.

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Before when I.
Was in college, it was in choir.

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We were singing an Ave.
Maria.

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Most people think in Ave.
Maria is just that one song we

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hear at Christmas all the time.
But in Ave.

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Maria was just a, a, a musical
set to those words.

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So there's different musical
versions of Ave.

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Maria.
We are singing one of those and,

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you know, it's it's good old,
you know, Mozart or, you know,

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that type of music that we're
singing.

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And I remember the choir
director like, OK, because you

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always want people to feel the
emotion.

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He's like, you got to really
think about the words you're

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saying here.
And I was like, no, this good

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Protestant does not need to
think about the words that he's

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saying.
That's funny.

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He's just making a joyful noise
to the Lord and you know,

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bearing under having a say these
words that really I think are

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blasphemous because you're
you're basically praising Mary

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on on par.
But anyways.

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And I I what I what I might do
if we well, we probably won't

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record another one on this, but
I would be curious looking back

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at even Mary, mother of God, I
was trying to look it up.

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I couldn't find it, but I bet, I
bet I in that council.

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That's around the time of
Calcidon.

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All these other things.
I bet it was honestly not to

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elevate Mary, but to affirm the
person of Christ, like protect

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against like Nestorianism or
something like it was.

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It's not even about Mary.
It's about that Jesus that you

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know.
I think that's.

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Probably I was like the timing
of it seems like it's around.

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That's a good insight.
Yeah, where that's, you know,

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anyway where some people would
be like it's I think Mary,

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mother of Jesus is better.
But I think later Gnosticism,

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yeah.
So anyway, just wanted to throw

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that in there because we
transitioned to praying for the

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Saints.
All right, so our we exist to

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glorify Christ by bringing
sinners to Christ likeness and

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fill in the blank here, Saints.
And Saints, Oh.

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Wait a minute, sinners to
Christ, and Saints to Christ,

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like this among all nations,
right among all?

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Nations, yeah.
Forgot about that so sorry I

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messed up our own thing that we
say all the time, but we we say

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over and over again, sinners to
Christ, Saints to Christ's

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likeness, interlocal because we
don't believe that there is this

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higher category of Christians.
Oh yeah, Saints are special.

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That's right, Saints are
special.

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So Scripture does not teach an
ontological tear of Christians

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heavenly believers, or it does
not teach heavenly believers who

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function as spiritual
intermediaries.

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Yeah, Paul talks.
He writes to the Saints in

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Corinth.
He's all the Saints and he's not

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singling out people, right?
Right.

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So, but you know, there are a
lot of good examples of people

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praying to the dead and it's
just a it's a common, it's, it's

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a positive thing, right?
Yeah, so, so this is good 'cause

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if you're looking at Scripture
to affirm, yeah, let's start

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looking at, let's look at the
let's look at First Samuel 28.

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Let's dive right in.
Yeah, so Samuel's dead.

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And Saul is, he's concerned.
He's worried and so he seeks out

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a medium and it, I think from
the passage, the medium maybe

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was a con or something.
I don't know.

439
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Because she's surprised when
when Samuel comes back.

440
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:17,120
Not the time for it, but I
should Got a medium Northwich

441
00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:19,480
shirt, got a got a small not
good anyway back.

442
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:21,400
It's all not the right kind of
medium.

443
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,160
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So the result of this, you can

444
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:25,960
go back and read it.
First Samuel 28.

445
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:27,440
God condemns the act.
Yeah.

446
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:28,480
It's not good, not.
Good.

447
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:32,080
No, no, no.
It's associated with rebellion.

448
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:36,680
It's not portrayed positively.
And it's from there that Samuel

449
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:41,160
from the dead, says Saul.
Tomorrow you and your sons are

450
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,040
going to lose.
Your life shall die.

451
00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:45,880
It's very bad.
So if you're looking at for any

452
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,320
shred of evidence, it's like
man, this has to you have to

453
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:52,960
weigh this and everything.
Furthermore, you look at the Old

454
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:56,200
Testament at large, Deuteronomy
and Leviticus verse, Chronicles,

455
00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:01,240
Second Kings, Isaiah.
There's a lot to to set to be

456
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:05,600
said about things of of this
nature, talking to those who

457
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:10,520
have passed from this earthly
temporal life, and none of them

458
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,680
are positive.
Yeah, we, we, we can't read all

459
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:14,840
these, but there was a long
list.

460
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,680
Maybe we can put them in some
show notes or something, but

461
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,840
let's just read 1 Deuteronomy 18
nine through 14.

462
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:22,480
Obviously there's some editing
here.

463
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,480
Says there shall not be found
among you anyone who and then

464
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:28,680
we're going to live long less
we're going to skip ahead

465
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:33,960
practices definition tells
fortune interprets omens or a

466
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:38,040
sorcerer or a charmer or a
medium or a necromancer or one

467
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:43,040
who inquires of the dead.
For whoever does these things is

468
00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:46,080
an abomination to the.
Lord and you see a lot of the

469
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,040
same thing in the Leviticus.
I'll read this one in First

470
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:52,040
Corinthians 10 it says, so Saul
died for his breach of faith and

471
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,280
also for consulting a medium.
He did not seek guidance from

472
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:58,680
the Lord.
So it's saying by consulting a

473
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:02,240
medium he was going against
Yahweh.

474
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:09,640
We could go on and on and on.
And where again, Isaiah is kind

475
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,720
of the same thing.
You're talking about mediums.

476
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,040
You're not going to God.
It's like, it's like not yeah,

477
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,240
you're it's a good stepping
stone.

478
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,200
To God, I think you said First
Corinthians and I was like,

479
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,960
sorry, I did not.
I was like wigged out like we

480
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,040
have a New Testament passage.
I've never heard this.

481
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:25,720
I was looking for it.
First Chronicles.

482
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:27,360
What he meant say, yeah, yeah,
sorry, sorry.

483
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:28,160
Go ahead.
Go.

484
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:29,720
You were I.
Didn't know that was it.

485
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:30,240
OK.
All right.

486
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,160
All right.
So, yeah, So the clear,

487
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,800
consistent, consistent teaching
across all these passages,

488
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,440
Isaiah, Kings, First Chronicles,
First Samuel, Leviticus,

489
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:43,120
Deuteronomy is this.
We're to summarize this.

490
00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:45,880
The new, the Old Testament
teaches do not inquire, the

491
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:49,560
dead, do not seek mediums, do
not consult spiritists, do not

492
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,600
attempt communication with
departed spirits.

493
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,920
Such acts are defiling,
abominable, worthy of severe

494
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,920
judgement, evidence of covenant
unfaithfulness.

495
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,640
So if you talk to a Catholic, in
fairness, right, they're going

496
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,760
to say, well, we're not using a
medium.

497
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,760
The Saints are alive in Christ,
and we're not asking for

498
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:08,680
divination, but for
intercession.

499
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,080
So I can get behind.
Since you're alive in Christ,

500
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:13,760
great.
When you're saying I'm asking

501
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,440
for intercession, then you start
getting a little bit more

502
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,040
wobbly.
Wobbly here.

503
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:20,520
Yeah.
And I've talked to one of them

504
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,480
and I've talked to one of them,
one of them.

505
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:27,480
I've talked and and basically
the response was, well, some

506
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,720
people might have better pull
with God and God is busy.

507
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,800
I'm like your view of God.
Theology proper is all.

508
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,920
Theology proper is because God
has no problem knowing all the

509
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:39,760
prayers.
He knows what you're going to

510
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:43,520
pray three weeks from now, much
less than being able to handle

511
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:47,920
what's coming in currently.
So God does not need assistance

512
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:52,560
in, you know, pecking order of
your request and stuff being

513
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,960
made known to him.
Yeah, all right.

514
00:27:56,320 --> 00:28:02,760
And I just Section 4, God is
theologically unnecessary.

515
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:08,800
So just to recap the last part,
Isaiah 819 explicitly says

516
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,800
should they inquire of the dead
on behalf of the living?

517
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,040
This question alone is
rhetorically forceful.

518
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,920
So even if intentions differ
than what the mediums were, the

519
00:28:19,120 --> 00:28:22,520
practice of addressing the dead
is never encouraged in

520
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,280
Scripture.
And like we said, it's

521
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:26,920
unnecessary.
God is omniscient.

522
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:28,920
He's omnipresent.
He's omnipotent.

523
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:32,200
He does not need assistance
managing prayer traffic now.

524
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:36,400
That that's really, really good.
Let's go to the intercessory

525
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:41,440
part, the mediation.
First Timothy 2 says there's one

526
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,360
mediator between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus.

527
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:49,840
So you don't need to go through,
you know, a St. who has been,

528
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,960
who has died to access God.
That access is direct through

529
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,840
Christ.
Hebrew 7 Christ always lives to

530
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,400
make intercession.
Romans 8, The Spirit intercedes,

531
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,160
the sun intercedes, the Trinity
is already interceding.

532
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,800
So there's not this gap that you
need to pray to the dead to help

533
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,560
you intercede all.
Right.

534
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:12,800
But what if I said, hey, Zach,
man, a lot of things going on.

535
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:14,960
Will you pray for my family
right now?

536
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,560
Man, I, I, I think this is, this
is on its face one of the better

537
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,640
arguments 'cause you're like,
OK, I, I get that.

538
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,280
But there is distinction between
asking a friend or, you know,

539
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,600
trying to talk to the dead.
Your friend's alive.

540
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:33,000
You're speaking to them
directly.

541
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,880
You know who you're talking to.
And likely, you know, you're

542
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,120
praying, praying together to
God, you know.

543
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,080
Yeah, and I think there is.
Well, we're told to bear one

544
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,200
another's burdens.
That's clear how.

545
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,360
Could I bear my mother's burdens
right now?

546
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:49,440
She's passed.
She doesn't have any burdens.

547
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:54,160
And I'm, I'm aware of, But when
you're praying to a departed St.

548
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,080
you're dressing the departed,
you're entrusting your burden to

549
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:58,680
them.
You're asking them to carry it

550
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:03,160
to God And I, you know, if you
believe demons are real and

551
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,440
we're not, we're not equipped, I
don't think, to discern the

552
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,200
spirit world there.
There's some risk there as well.

553
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,280
Yeah, because you don't
necessarily know who you're

554
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,240
addressing.
All that scripture doesn't, you

555
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,320
know, condone communicating with
the departed.

556
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,400
No, It would be nice if there
was like one example that was

557
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:21,600
positive.
Like just one.

558
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,640
Of someone praying to a St.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that'd

559
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:25,920
be good.
Well, I thought you gonna say it

560
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,520
would be nice if we had some
type of pattern or prayer or

561
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:30,600
some.
Type of model.

562
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:34,640
That we could use to pray after.
Obviously that's tongue in

563
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,120
cheek.
Jesus does give us a model

564
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:38,920
prayer, our father who art in
heaven.

565
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:46,720
So prayer is addressed to man,
the father in Jesus name and we

566
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:51,080
pray in the Spirit so we we can
look back and we the apostles

567
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,040
never is like hey Abraham,
Abraham would be the guy.

568
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:55,320
That would be one of them, you
know.

569
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,400
Lazarus is said to be in the
bosom of Abraham.

570
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,000
Abraham's bosom do.
A couple prayers his way, maybe

571
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:05,680
Moses one or two.
But we never see the apostles

572
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,880
pray to Abraham, Moses, David,
Stephen after his martyrdom, or

573
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,520
Mary.
And this is not just like it.

574
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,800
Well, it is an argument from
silence, but we have positive

575
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:19,560
direction on how to pray.
It doesn't.

576
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,120
There's a lot of.
Prayers in Scripture, and even

577
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:22,960
if you're just looking at the
New Testament, Paul's got a

578
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,880
bajillion prayers.
Jesus is praying.

579
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:27,720
It's we.
It's not like there's no

580
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,600
examples of prayer.
There's, you know, a decent

581
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,800
amount.
And we also have a prohibition

582
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,680
against, you know, in the, in
the Old Testament.

583
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:41,120
So final summary kind of the
whole thing, Mary was blessed

584
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,760
among women.
She was not sinless.

585
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:49,040
She was not perpetually virgin
and she should not be an object

586
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,040
a prayer scripture commands us
to bring our burdens directly to

587
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,040
God through Christ.
He's our one meteor that's both

588
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,280
salvifically we look at Romans
8.

589
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,840
He's also our intercessor along
with the the spirit.

590
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,720
We don't need heavenly
intermediaries when we already

591
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:07,960
have direct access to the throne
of grace.

592
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:08,560
It's.
Great.

593
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:10,640
I love it.
It's good.

594
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,640
We might be wrapping up Colts.
Might be, yeah, we, we

595
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,040
definitely isn't.
Probably wouldn't fall in our

596
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:16,320
Colts.
We can probably address it,

597
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:16,920
yeah.
I would.

598
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:18,280
Were you doing?
I thought we were doing that

599
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:19,880
episode on Pats fans.
Pats fans?

600
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,520
No, I'm just kidding.
If you were paying attention to

601
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,720
our definition, that wouldn't
have, it would not fit.

602
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:28,280
Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So we talked about possibly

603
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,640
doing like we might do something
like New Age or something.

604
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:32,560
Like that?
I don't know, I.

605
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:36,880
Don't that could that could be a
later, yeah.

606
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,560
I think it's good break.
And then something we've

607
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,720
revisit, like, I like these, you
know, apologetics cults, you

608
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:47,400
know, it seems like people like
to give their thoughts about it,

609
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:48,520
too, you know?
That's good.

610
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:53,840
There's no It's not a
coincidence that cults and

611
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,240
cults.
Sound similar?

612
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,080
That's funny, yeah.
'Cause the cults are a cult.

613
00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:01,840
There we go.
I love it.

614
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,560
Great final take.
Final take.

615
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,200
Man living that Doctor Pepper
life.

616
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:09,840
Diet Doctor.
Pepper life, yeah.

617
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,360
Man.
These are supposed to be cans.

618
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:18,040
And they got you the bottles.
And Walmart did a substitution

619
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:21,160
and then got us the bottle.
Substitutions abound in these

620
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,000
things Do.
Y'all ever have your Walmart

621
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:24,880
stuff delivered y'all?
Y'all probably don't shop at.

622
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:26,480
Well, you got Harris Teeter
right here.

623
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:30,320
We do shop, we do shop at
Walmart because it's a better

624
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,160
price than Harris Teeter.
Yeah, Harris Teeter.

625
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,920
It's like so convenient, but.
It's higher priced.

626
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,680
Yeah, it's not.
It's we still do the old ALDI

627
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:41,440
and Walmart pick up a lot.
We we even do the Walmart pick

628
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:42,800
up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

629
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:44,880
Do you have delivery though?
So we might.

630
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,080
We don't know I pay for Walmart
plus.

631
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:48,080
That's.
What we?

632
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,080
Might like to do it's free
delivery, although we do like

633
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:55,320
give the person a tip sometimes
but it it's you got five kids

634
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,520
going different directions, you
know we can.

635
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:00,440
I said it could be the move.
Yeah, yeah.

636
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,880
So we, we just say, you know,
have it delivered and got your

637
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:05,280
stuff.
And they do occasionally.

638
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:09,080
If if if your order ever says
it's delayed, just cancel it

639
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:10,159
because it's.
Not coming.

640
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:13,560
It is not coming.
Don't believe those lies like

641
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,000
it's going to be, it's going to
be later.

642
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,280
It's going to be later.
We, I don't know that we've ever

643
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:18,719
had a delayed.
Man.

644
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,000
Delivery actually make it.
That's crazy.

645
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,880
It's like, I mean, going back to
substitutions, Walmart pickup is

646
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:28,000
what we normally do, I think,
and substitutions abound in that

647
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,360
world as well.
You just can't get, can't get

648
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,320
run.
At least that one's like close.

649
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,000
Sometimes they're like, not that
close.

650
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,639
You're like, who?
What was the judge?

651
00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:37,360
What was the decision making on
this?

652
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,840
Yeah.
And if you never used it, they

653
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,400
tell you, hey, there's a
substitution.

654
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,719
And if you don't, you can
decline it or you can explicitly

655
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:46,280
approve it.
But if you don't do either, you

656
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,600
have implicitly approved it.
So they're gonna make that

657
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,920
substitution.
So if you got your phone or

658
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,040
something next to you, you can
kind of see the substitutions

659
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:54,800
happening real time and weigh
in.

660
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:58,560
But if you're busy doing
something like I was, I, I was

661
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:02,800
like what I ordered, you know, I
ordered three of the 12 pack

662
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,840
cans and we got 4 of the 8 pack
bottles.

663
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:09,680
What a world.
What?

664
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:11,440
What's this World Cup?
Post meal?

665
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:12,280
Can't be true.
Can't.

666
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,040
That's the proof right there.
Post meal.

667
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:19,040
Not, not, not here, but yeah,
the diet.

668
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,880
Doctor Pepper got to love it.
Whole family's still going

669
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,520
strong with it.
Yeah, I mean, our water was

670
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,200
recently bad.
Were we all affected by the

671
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,600
water shutdown?
I don't know I I, I don't even

672
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:33,040
know who does our water.
I just.

673
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:36,080
Are we all on CWP or Santee?
We are CWP.

674
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,840
Yeah.
So CWP is a good indication, but

675
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:42,400
it's there are some.
CWP saw some confusing yeah.

676
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:47,000
Who CWP actually buys their
water from Santee and then

677
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:48,920
delivers it to you?
So you could have.

678
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:49,920
I was.
Conservative.

679
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,080
We were conservative anyway,
'cause I 'cause I was looking up

680
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,880
that stuff and I was like, yeah,
maybe there's a chance.

681
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,600
Like people in our neighborhood
were like, don't drink the

682
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,360
water.
But I was like, we don't do it.

683
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:00,520
But I was like, they've no, they
probably some of these people

684
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,080
don't even have more time to
look up this stuff and like, and

685
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:04,600
I was like, I'll just, you know,
play it safe.

686
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:05,400
It was a lot.
It was.

687
00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:08,040
I hated it.
Like not the Charleston or even

688
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,400
Goose Creek, Moncks Corner area.
We probably should tell them

689
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:16,640
what's going on, but last week
there was a backhoe driver out

690
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:20,080
in the middle of nowhere because
our water comes up from Santee

691
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:24,720
Canal up in just north of Moncks
Corner and hit one of the main.

692
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,840
Thing.
It's like the 48 inch pipe and

693
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,120
it was, it was pushing out
water.

694
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:35,080
And so they had to figure out
how to fix that.

695
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:39,560
So while it's gushing out water,
I think you're OK because the

696
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,800
the pressure is positive.
But as soon as they did

697
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,400
something to start restricting
the water gushing out because

698
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,040
there's a hole in it, then it
then it's not good.

699
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,680
Because I saw a post that said,
hey, starting at 4:00 AM in the

700
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:50,760
morning in the water, you're
going to.

701
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:52,640
Be in the Yeah, you're.
Like a boil order.

702
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,120
I one of the football players
that I coached.

703
00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:03,200
His mom works at Santee Cooper
and she has a daughter to play

704
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:04,640
soccer with Carrots.
And.

705
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,200
We were talking to her about it
and she was like showing

706
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:11,520
pictures like the not only did
it Pierce the pipe, but it bent

707
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,360
it.
So their normal first, their

708
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,640
first line thing to to like
cover it over wouldn't work

709
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,360
because it was kind of bent in
and it couldn't get.

710
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:26,160
So they end up having So you
know, we work on, you know, do

711
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,480
you know, do you know why we
have water towers or you?

712
00:37:28,720 --> 00:37:30,200
That's kind of an engineering
question.

713
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:35,280
Well, my guess would be that I
would.

714
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,920
I'd just guess like water's
flowing over rocks.

715
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:41,160
I mean, like it like cleans it
because of the pressure.

716
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:42,760
I don't know.
And the water towers.

717
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:43,440
I don't know.
Yeah.

718
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:44,800
That that I don't know.
Yeah.

719
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:46,520
Yeah.
So water towers are there to

720
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:51,840
handle increased volume use.
So like peak volume use.

721
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,680
So you can, you have a set
number of pumps and you're

722
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:59,240
pumping water and like during
the busy time, like in the

723
00:37:59,240 --> 00:38:01,680
morning when a lot of people are
taking showers or in the evening

724
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,560
when people are coming home,
you'll actually the your

725
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:07,400
population will use more water
than what you could actually

726
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,000
physically pump with the pumps
there.

727
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,920
So you can you can accommodate
that by just adding more pumps

728
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:16,280
which are expensive.
Or during the off time like

729
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,320
while everyone's at work or when
everyone's asleep, you can use

730
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:22,760
that pump to pump up water into
the water towers.

731
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:26,840
So you have like this reserve.
So the water tower levels is

732
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:30,080
going down during peak usage and
then going back building back up

733
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:33,040
during off usage.
So I say all that to say that

734
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,560
they had to they thought they
had a fix and it didn't work.

735
00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:40,840
So but then they had to like we
we can't turn it off now because

736
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:44,600
we've built into our so that's
why it like it was always at

737
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:46,480
night that they were trying to
fix it.

738
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,600
So anyways, it did get fixed
after like 3 or 4 days and it

739
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:52,920
was like 2 days.
It had to pass test 2 days in a

740
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,000
row before we could get off the
boil order.

741
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,320
So.
Boil in that water, man.

742
00:38:57,840 --> 00:38:59,000
We did.
We have a Berkey.

743
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,880
Nice.
So a Berkey is designed that you

744
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:06,000
could like get a pitcher of pond
scum water, put it in and filter

745
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,080
it.
So we just put water in the

746
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,200
Berkey and drink it from there.
So it was.

747
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:14,640
It was easy peasy.
For us, living the life and the

748
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:18,440
Berkey is how often do you have
to like change filters?

749
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:23,280
Probably it's designed.
I think the the timing that they

750
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:26,400
give you kind of assumes you're
putting dirty water in.

751
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:28,080
There, Yeah, yeah, we're.
Putting tap water.

752
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:31,560
So I'm thinking we're not, we're
not straining it that bad.

753
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,200
But I was like, after this was
all over, I was like, we

754
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:40,720
probably should replace them.
We have I think 6 or 8 of the

755
00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:44,080
filters because the more filters
you put in the longer it lasts,

756
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,800
but the filters are the the more
expensive part of the whole

757
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:48,160
machinery.
That makes sense.

758
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:51,920
That's like a good thing, yeah.
But so like we, I, I was like, I

759
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,400
want this to last long.
So I, I think we paid 200 bucks

760
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:56,600
when that's.
Really not expensive.

761
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:58,520
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, if like for it, yeah.

762
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:02,080
Filter all your work because a
filter is like, expensive.

763
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:03,840
I mean, not expensive, but you
run through that in your fridge

764
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:05,000
or whatever, you know?
Yeah.

765
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:06,640
And it's on a Berkey.
Yeah.

766
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:08,520
There you go.
Sweet.

767
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:11,760
Anything else Superman.
No.

768
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,120
Yeah, it's always so hard with
the banter on the back end.

769
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:17,000
Yeah, it is because we're trying
to think about the banter.

770
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,360
You know, we've already, you
know, it is is difficult.

771
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:24,560
But yeah, yeah, I think, I think
we should keep it on the back

772
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,720
end.
I don't, I mean I, I, I think

773
00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:29,960
probably that's the move.
I don't like it, but I think

774
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:33,960
that's probably the move.
Or maybe we just have, you know,

775
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:38,320
a banter episode or something.
I don't know, a rant episode.

776
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:41,200
Rant rant about our favorite
theological things.

777
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:43,560
You could rant about current
affairs.

778
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:45,920
I only I won't even out you, but
you could rant about current

779
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,240
affairs.
That's great.

780
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,920
Well, yeah, a little teaser for
the for the Outsider.

781
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:53,160
Well, great.
Any any hints at with the next?

782
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,600
I mean, I guess we talk about
feminism potentially.

783
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:57,920
Yeah, I had to think.
I'm not on that.

784
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:01,600
We'll be ready for feminism by
the time we need to record.

785
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,080
Maybe.
Maybe we'll throw something

786
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:07,360
apologetic soon there.
Cool, we'll figure it out.

787
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:10,200
All right.
Well, that's our take.

788
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:15,000
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789
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,520
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790
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:18,200
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