How NOT to Read the Bible | Don’t Misunderstand the Words

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You smell that, Michael.
Is it what the rock is cooking?

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Wow, what a callback.
I was gonna say it smells like a

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new series.
It's cooking up.

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Very nice, very nice.
I always love you've heard This

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before, a start of a new series.
Starting and ending.

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That's great.
It's so good.

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This one is how not to read your
Bible.

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Very nice.
There's a lot of good ways read

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your Bible.
There are a lot of that.

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I would rather you read the
Bible than not read the Bible.

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Always read the Bible, but
thought maybe we could go

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through a handful of ideas to
keep in mind, things that you

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should do by virtue of looking
it through it.

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What?
What should you not do?

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Yeah, yeah.
So really, we're saying read

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your Bible, but here's how not
to understand it.

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You shouldn't employ these
things in trying to understand

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your Bible right?
And a big, big part of reading

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the Bible is understanding.
So you don't want to

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misunderstand or misread the
words.

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And we'll make more sense as we
go along.

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And I what I don't want to do is
I don't want to undermine people

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using Greek and Hebrew because I
think that's very, very

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valuable.
I think when you're exposing

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scripture, you should do that.
You should have at least a

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cursory understanding or have
tools to be able to understand

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how you have to know everything
because.

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You got to be careful because I
just preached through Jude and

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we talked about earnestly
contend and we talked about the

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Greek word there so.
Yeah, this is not aimed at you.

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I think it is good, but if
you're not careful, you can

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overly run into that.
Have you know people?

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I think they magically say,
well, in the Greek this means XY

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or Z, and you feel like maybe
you've unlocked a secret

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meaning.
Maybe it has helped you

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understand the text more, but
maybe you're actually distancing

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your distancing yourself from
the text.

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You gotta be careful.
Right.

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Yeah.
And I don't know, since these

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are your notes, I don't know
exactly what you say, but like

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there's sometimes where like
that Greek word for earnestly

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contend, it has the root that we
would recognize as agonize, but

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it doesn't mean like there's
some of that that carries over.

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But you wouldn't want to say,
oh, this means you should

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agonize.
Exactly.

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This is exactly.
The point yeah, or like

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Ephesians 2 and 10 where it says
for we are his workmanship.

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And the word workmanship, if you
look at it, it's poema.

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And like, oh, this is where we
get a word for poem.

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And like we should be a poem
like well, if if it should have

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been poem, the translators would
have translated it.

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If if you.
Don't.

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If you can't understand Michael,
he's saying poem.

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Poem.
Sorry.

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No.
OK, I'm just kidding.

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I love.
It poem, poem.

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My our kids.
I can say it both.

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I can slip into either poem.
Poem, Yeah, whatever.

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It's great.
And a lot of this information

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I'm taking from a couple of
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DA Carson, what's the name of
his book?

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It it's something like word
fallacies or something like

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that, or exegetical fallacies.
And then I'm also reading from,

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I like this book.
It's by a guy named Andy

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Nacelli.
He he was a research assistant

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for DA Carson Frost.
So they they share a lot of the

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same kind of thoughts, ideas,
because like you were saying,

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when you look at things like
word studies, this kind of

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things, those are some of the
most helpful tools, but they

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also can be the most abused or
you can run into them recklessly

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and not even well, intentionally
well-intentioned come to an

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erroneous meaning.
That's really not what the what

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the text is driving at and and
something what I read DA Carson

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would do in his seminary
classes.

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He would he would challenge his
students.

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Think of one word in the English
language that only means one

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thing, just one thing, and it
can't be done.

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Everything's got.
Multiple shades, yeah.

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Yeah, yeah.
You have to think of like some,

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some like word like that,
because even words like

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literally don't mean literally
bark.

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Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, going back to calling back

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the one of my favorite things to
do is kind of a joke, but you're

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like, you know this word, No, in
the Greek it means no, no.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're like, hey, surprise in

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Andy Nicelli's book, he's got
this, this funny.

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He, I it's from, I don't know if
you've ever heard of this work

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called Crazy English, but it
shows you, you know, the Bible

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was not written in English.
But even as an English speaker,

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it's easy to get things mixed
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It says in what other language?
The people drive in a Parkway

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and park in a driveway, and what
are their language?

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People play at a recital and
recite at a play.

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Why does night fall but never
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And day breaks but never falls?
Why is it that when we transport

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something by car, it's called a
shipments, but when we transport

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something by ship, it's cargo?
Why do we pack suits in a

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garment bag and garments and
suitcases?

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And it's like literally like,
yeah, it goes on and on and on

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where you can even see, even
when it's your native tongue,

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you can make mistakes, man.
When you're going looking at the

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great Hebrew, it's like you just
got to be careful.

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So anyway, that frames the
conversation.

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Michael's really good up not
letting.

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No, that's good.
That's.

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Good, let's take it to the next
level.

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Let's fire up that twangy music.
From the hearts of the Low

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Country in South Carolina.
It's the Take Two podcast where

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we take theology to the next
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Well, the number one fallacy
that we're going to talk about

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is what some would call the root
fallacy, where you just assume

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you mentioned it earlier, where
words meeting is tied to its

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origin or parts totally.
The etymology is is king where

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context is always king.
That being said, etymology very

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helpful.
It can be helpful.

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It's it's good to know that.
Concept can help you maybe like,

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well, like apologetics.
That's a game to apologize,

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yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, 'cause that

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that's like every, yeah, every,
I feel like every apologetic

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suppose has to like have that
disclaimer because it is.

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And I know as like a teenager.
You're like, that's always

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happening, yeah.
So interesting, but you know

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you'll get a word like bookshelf
that helps you understand if

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you'll get an etymology that's
good as a shelf for books.

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An earthquake, something's
homemade, a keyboard, a

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waterfall.
Etymology can help you

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understand a lot.
However, there are words where

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it where it doesn't work for
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Think the classic one thing like
butterfly or and, and the way

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you know, I've heard it taught
is like, you know, people 3000

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years from now, like translating
English from something else, you

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know, you'll look at butterfly.
That's gonna be confusing if

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you're just relying on
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Other words, honeymoon could be
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Pineapple brainstorm.
There you.

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Go these would be tough.
One that's interesting that is

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cited in in DA Carson's book is
this Greek word dynamis in

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Romans one for I'm not ashamed
of the gospel for it is the

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power, the Greek word dynamis of
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And you might hear someone say
like we get this is where we

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get, you know, dynamite.
That's that's right.

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So the gospel is the dynamite of
God for salvation.

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It's explosive dynamite, like
power.

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And and like you said there, I
think there's an element of that

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like you can you can read like
power.

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But what DA Carson does a good
job of pointing out is not only

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is maybe this is not exactly
where it's also, it's actually

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not where we get dynamite from.
I think it comes through like

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Sweden or it comes through like
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I mean, maybe it starts there,
but it goes through some

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different languages and it can
be a little anachronistic.

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Like Paul wasn't thinking about
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He wasn't like, Oh yeah,
dynamite, you know, it's like,

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no, no, it's like the
equivalent.

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I think it's in like, man,
what's Russell Crowe?

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What's a gladiator?
I think there's like a scene

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where someone's like wearing
blue jeans, like a a extra or

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something or someone's wearing
like a watch or something and

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you're like, oh, there's.
Some there's some scene, maybe

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it's.
Maybe it's something else?

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Where there's like a car in the
background.

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Maybe that's it, Yeah.
And.

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You're like.
It just slips in and you're

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like, that's if you're paying
attention, you're like, well,

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that that doesn't make sense to
the time period.

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And then, you know, if you're
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that the danger is, you know,
what else does Ottoman do?

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Dynamite do destroy things, blow
things up, you know so proper

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place.
But you don't want to just do

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etymology and call it a day.
You, you shouldn't take that and

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go, all right, our gospel
evangelism should be explosive

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on the people.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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So you can see how people might
make.

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If it's not explosive, it's not
biblical.

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That's right.
You got to really get in there

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and, you know, blow things up.
You know, we've talked about

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words like apostle before and
it's good.

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It's got, it's got like a
literal meaning.

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It's got a specific meaning.
It all that to say, context

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really helps you understand
these things.

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Yeah, because there's places
where Jesus Paul will firmly

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defend his apostleship.
And I think we would say that's

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a big letter, A apostleship.
And then at the end of a a book,

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he'll say, yeah, these people
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Like, how are they apostles?
You know, and it's like it was

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because there's shades of
meaning here.

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No, great, great, different
words we could talk about.

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Let's go ahead and move on to
the next one, the semantic range

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fallacy.
And basically what this is

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saying is that a word, every
word can have multiple meanings,

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but you do have to pick one for
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You can't just like they're all
the meanings that import on the.

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Text, yeah, this is where if you
have an amplified Bible, and I

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do.
Have one it.

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Can be.
It's like because the Amplified

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Bible wants to give you every
single shade of meaning of some

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keywords and it's like you can't
choose all of them.

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Yeah, yeah, by necessity you
can't.

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So sometimes it's I think it's
less helpful to have to amplify

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that.
Yeah, it's one of the things I

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can, I can see it's usefulness,
but it's like, man, you got to

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be careful with it because then
you can just be importing all

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sorts of stuff because it does.
You read A10 word verse, it's

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like 80 words or whatever, you
know, it's like throwing it on

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here.
Here's an example of a familiar

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verse.
Have you ever?

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I thought I put it in here.
What did you say?

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Have you ever heard of John 316
before?

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3/16.
It's very obscure for God to

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love the world.
So you'll look at what does

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world mean cosmos in the New
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It could refer to things like
the created universe.

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It could refer to humanity in
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It could be like, oh, the world,
the the sinful, the fallen

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system opposed to God.
You, you can't say that's all

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those things is what is meant in
John 316, right?

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You can't import all of those.
You kind of have to pick pick

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what it means based on the
context.

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You can't say God love the
universe and humanity and you

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know the evil system opposed to
him so much.

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I mean you get the get the idea.
Essentially, those would mean

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very different things to put in
there, so it couldn't mean all

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of those at the same.
Time exactly right.

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Another example I think one of
the more it can be challenging

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is Sark's this word flesh Cause
is it like physical or

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spiritual?
Is it sinful or like godly?

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It's hard sometimes to pinpoint.
That and sometimes translators

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will make that decision for you
instead of just putting Sark's,

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you know, flesh in there and
then letting you decide because

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sometimes it just means the
body, it could, sometimes it

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means the sinful self.
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context to help you figure out
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It exactly.
I think a repeated theme you're

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gonna hear in this series is
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Context, context.
This other fallacy DA Carson

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brings up is called the
illegitimate totality transfer.

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Sounds like a fancy 1 Carson.
He would define it this way,

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importing the full theological
meaning of a word into every

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occurrence.
His example he likes to go to is

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we've talked about many times on
this podcast, but talking about

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Romans and Paul versus James and
James on justificate justified

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by works like what's this mean?
And if you import the full

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theological meaning onto both of
these words, it means different

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things, different contexts to
really frame it like who's

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writing this, Who's the
audience?

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Justify does not always mean the
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You can create this
contradiction.

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That's not a contradiction at
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It actually do the opposite.
It complements each other.

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Right, right 2 Two sides of the
same coin.

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Another example maybe we haven't
talked about before is this word

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save.
If you're saving someone, it can

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talk up, it can mean eternal
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in Matthew 8.
I think they're on the boat and

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they're like nervous, like Jesus
save us.

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They don't necessarily mean,
hey, I wanna live in heaven,

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have a relationship with you
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They're like, I don't wanna die.
I wanna physically be saved.

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Or it can mean, like in First
Corinthians one, your ongoing

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sanctification, you're being
saved.

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Not not everything's past tense,
but there's an ongoing component

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of it.
And so it's an error to re save

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every way as going quote UN
quote, going to heaven.

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You're going to miss what the
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Many other examples we could go
through, but you can kind of see

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that, you know, you've got to
read these things in its

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context.
And then one we can get into

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because I've heard some of these
a lot is over spiritualizing

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Greek and Hebrew.
And I'm curious where you'll

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come out on this.
But you know, it's it's two

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sides of the coin.
I don't know if you experienced

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this when you were learning
Greek, but it's like, I got into

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it and I was like, man, I'm
gonna like read the Bible in a

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new way and I'm gonna like
understand it in a much.

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And part of that's true.
But at the same time, you're

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like, man, the translators did a
really good job.

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Yeah, they did.
And it's like, did you ever have

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a a thing that you had to
translate?

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And you're like, like, yeah,
I've got the translation right

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here.
It's like it's hard.

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To like first John's like a
classic one or something like

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some of these and you're like, I
know this now, there's only so

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many.
It's almost like the culture

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would be more beneficial than
just the language because you

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have to know the culture in
order to make sense of the words

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that they're using, and the
translator said generally done a

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good job at helping do that.
You know, I think you nailed it

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and I think like what you did in
your sermon, Pastor Joel does in

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his sermon is he does a good job
where he's not hyper fixated on

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the original language, but he'll
point out like what's the tense?

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Is it something that's ongoing
totally like things that that

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have bearing like, or if there
is a keyword, you're like, let's

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get to the bottom of this
keyword or a theological word or

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something.
It's.

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A plural you versus singular
you.

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That can change and that doesn't
translate well into English

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unless you have the Y'all
version of the Bible, which I

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think is a good idea.
I'm so it.

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It it it really.
It really would if you're.

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From Michigan, just get the you
guys, you guys, you guys.

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That's that's great where you
know you can hyper import

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meaning on on the text.
You know there's there's

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different examples.
You can use 1 here.

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This John 21 one though, it does
seem I've heard both sides.

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Of this point, I've heard both
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He goes to great lengths in this
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I know I've heard I've heard
this before and it's like, I

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don't know, it seems like
something that's going on here.

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We I'm not I'm not in the you
know, I'm 2000 years removed and

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the translators just say love.
So maybe they know what's going

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on, But we're referring to the
place where you know, Jesus will

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say, do you agape me?
And Peter says, I filet owe you,

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you know, do these things.
Then he'll say, do you agape me?

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And he's like I fellao you.
He's like, you know, I fellao

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you.
And then finally Jesus says, do

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you fellao me?
And then Peter says, yes, Lord,

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you know I fellao you then you
know, and it has these

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instructions like feed my sheep,
you know the the and so the two

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sides of the the bank here is
should we read more into those

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is is.
Is there like that Last it means

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something different, yes.
Is this?

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Where Peter is like humbling
himself because before Peter's

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always like, you know, I'll die
for you.

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And now Peter's like, you know,
if you hear this preach, he's

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recognizing his fallibility.
And Jesus is finally saying, all

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right, if you just Fellaomi,
that's enough.

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I I reckon.
You you realize you don't really

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agape me but right?
Yeah, that's fine.

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You can.
You can do that and.

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And so and I, I've heard both
sides too.

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This is this is what DA Carson,
Andy Nacelli are getting at.

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Even if we take this passage
aside to different ones,

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sometimes you'll see synonyms
used in a list or something.

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And you got to make the decision
like, is the author trying to

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like repeat a common theme or is
he really trying to draw these

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major distinctions?
An English example he gives is

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there's a, it's if someone says
I'm tired, I'm tired and weary.

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You might be like, oh, those are
the same things.

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If someone said I'm tired, but
I'm not weary because when I'm

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tired, I know I can solve
problems when I get rest, but

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I'm weary.
The problem's deeper than

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needing rest.
That then those things would

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mean different things.
But in the first one, you don't

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really, you don't have a lot of
context to tell you.

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You probably say, oh, probably
talking about the same thing.

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He's not making this, they're
just trying to emphasize that.

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They are very tired in the first
one, yes.

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And so when you get to a text,
like you said, you just have to,

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you know, read the text and say,
'cause I, I went back and forth

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like I love DA Carson and they
know much more than me.

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But it's like I see the textual
basis, the contextual basis for

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saying what you're saying in
other areas 'cause it seems.

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Odd that John would put that in
and Jesus and Peter would say

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that if they didn't mean that.
You know I don't know, right?

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And and his and he has a really
great argument we don't have

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time to get into but he would
say things like he also says

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feed my lambs, tend my sheep,
feed my sheep.

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Is he meaning vastly different
things by those 3 phrases or are

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those close enough or you know
what I mean?

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Do you read into that too?
I get I understand that as well.

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But all that to say it is good
to dig into the context.

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Another example they have on
here.

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And regardless, regardless.
Peter's.

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Being commissioned or, and, or
restored, depending on how you

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read this.
I, I think he was being

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commissioned, I think cause
'cause Jesus and Peter already

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met earlier.
And you can't imagine that Peter

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wouldn't have apologized and
asked for forgiveness there.

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But he probably feels like he is
still like down and out and

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Jesus, like, no, we're not.
We can't just stand here.

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You gotta go.
You gotta go do do what you're

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called to do.
And, and so wherever you land on

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that, yeah.
You can still get that that's.

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The main part of the story?
Big, big.

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Picture exactly right.
I'm gonna skip down in our notes

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to where it says word study's
gone right?

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Because I would hate for someone
to look at this and be like,

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man, I should never do a word
study 'cause I'm never gonna get

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it right that that's not the
thrust of this recording.

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But to do a word study.
And maybe you have things you

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want to add here too, Michael is
first thing you have to do is

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pick, pick a word to study.
Maybe it is a theologically rich

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word like propitiation.
And you're like, man, I want to

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see where all the, you know,
this is used.

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Maybe it's an unclear word like
the first born Christ is the

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first born of all creation.
You might be like, that seems

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weird.
Like if you're trying to unpack

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what's that mean?
That's a good word to word

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study.
Maybe it's a word like flesh and

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you're like, man, let me see
where else it's used and try to

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compare the context.
Or maybe it's first Corinthians

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13, the love chapter, and you're
like, man, is this all about

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weddings or is it not?
You know, or maybe it's not, but

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it can apply to weddings.
You're trying to figure out like

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what's what's, what's going on
here #2 discover the range.

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A word could have that example
given by Andy Nasali's a good

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one.
This word run can mean a lot of

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different things.
I'm going to run 2 miles today.

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My nose is running.
I need to run to the store.

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I ran out of gas.
I'm gonna run for president.

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My computer runs fast.
Don't let the water run, because

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if I do, the water bill's going
to run up.

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So even just with a simple word
like run, you could mean like

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100 different things, right?
That's.

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Very good.
That's right, It's actually.

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Pretty pretty crazy.
I think he said in his book

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there's like 82 sub definitions
in one of the in a in some sort

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of dictionary.
On top of that, you might look

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at how words function in a
Septuagint maybe and Josephus,

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some of these extra biblical
sources.

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But at the same time, you you
take these things together.

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It doesn't do the hermeneutics
totally for you because you're

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right, you can some random guy
writes about this way.

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You don't want to say that's
what the biblical author meant.

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It's just a tool that kind of
helps inform you of what it

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could mean and from that try to
understand what what's most

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likely in.
Some word studies you might have

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to do more than just pull out a
concordance, especially if

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you're.
That's right, that's the.

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Point if you want, like let's
say you want to do a study on

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prayer and you, you use a
concordance and you find every

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time the word prayer, pray or
prayer is used.

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But then there's going to be
times where people are praying

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but they don't use the word
prayer.

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So you're going to have to, you
know, sometimes if you really

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want to understand a concept
that is tied to the word, you

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know, some of these words you
gave, you know, a concordance

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will probably be fine because
you're wanting to then

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understand how is, you know,
monogenes used.

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You can find all those places.
But if it's more of an activity

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like prayer, then it might take
you actually reading through and

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taking notes and going, OK, in
chapter 6, they were praying and

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this is what they prayed for and
this is how they prayed.

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If you were, you're doing like a
study like that.

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So, so don't necessarily think
that the concordance will give

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you actually every instance of
an activity happening, even if

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you're looking for that word and
it's.

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Like I like if you can find it
within the same book or the same

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author, that's helpful.
But like you're saying too, if

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you like, maybe read a word in
one of Paul's letters and then

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and then you see that same word
used in like an extra biblical

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source talking about something
totally different.

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It might actually be the
opposite state.

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Should it be?
So, yeah, by any things, that's

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good.
What if?

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You found the word Yom used by
the same author in the same set

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of books that's translated
different ways.

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There you go.
Some, some food, food for

449
00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,440
thought.
Think about it, 'cause yeah, the

450
00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:34,600
semantic range of meaning is
there.

451
00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:35,680
Yeah.
It's these things.

452
00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:39,280
These are good to think about a
lot of different place.

453
00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:43,440
We, we could go with this, but I
think a big take away is

454
00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,920
seminary degree is great.
You don't need a seminary degree

455
00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,480
or to have eight years in Greek
to understand your Bible.

456
00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:54,800
I think it's helpful, but read,
reading your Bible, you don't

457
00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,400
need all of that.
It is helpful, but not

458
00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,440
necessary.
The goal.

459
00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:03,000
Also, the goal isn't hidden,
meaning it's what the author's

460
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,520
trying to say, 'cause it's like
we're all looking for that

461
00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:08,280
hidden, hidden angle.
Even even when I want to teach

462
00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,040
what the Bible says, it's like,
oh, can I get an angle on this?

463
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:12,960
Or you know, like you, you know
what you know, but it's like,

464
00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:14,800
man, just just teach the text,
man.

465
00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:18,080
It's like simple, right?
What's the author trying to say?

466
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:22,880
The plain reading is a lot of
times the right reading if you

467
00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:26,360
have that historical context,
what they would what the

468
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:28,000
audience, what I love you're
writing stuff down.

469
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,480
I can't wait to hear what what
you're Well, I was.

470
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:33,760
Just there's some place, I think
it might be Peter's mom when or

471
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:37,600
mother-in-law when she's healed
that she gets up and feeds them.

472
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:42,880
And I remember listening to I
Harold Camping would be on all

473
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,720
the time when I was coming back
from so I would listen to it

474
00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:49,920
just to and this was old days
and he did this like he over

475
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:51,880
spiritualized everything in the
Bible.

476
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,560
And I remember someone asked him
about this passage.

477
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,160
I think that was the passage,
but it was some passage where

478
00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,560
someone is serving someone
else's milk and it just goes on.

479
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:02,840
But he's like, and that is the
gospel.

480
00:23:03,120 --> 00:23:05,160
You can see it.
And I'm like, what are you like?

481
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,320
I think they literally just fed
someone milk.

482
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,840
They gave, they were being, you
know, gracious host instead of

483
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,240
the milk.
So that that is not what we're

484
00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:16,760
doing.
Because no one in in their right

485
00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:21,440
mind in the early ages would
read that and try to extract all

486
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,440
of this hidden meaning.
Like it's not like this huge

487
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:26,880
allegory where you got to figure
out what the meaning behind the

488
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,120
meaning is.
Like the when the you know, the

489
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,840
probably you've heard when the
plain sense makes perfect sense,

490
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,240
seek no other sense.
And yeah, it.

491
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,240
So if, if, if it seems like
someone just gave someone else

492
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:42,960
some milk and there's no one, no
other commentary on it, then

493
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:44,880
that's probably all that there
is going on there.

494
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:49,680
That's that is good.
I think if you don't have time

495
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:53,640
to do like this major word
study, to me, a quick easy way

496
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:57,520
is compare 5 or 6 modern
translations and you can kind of

497
00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,960
see some of the shade.
Probably, you know, they've

498
00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:01,200
narrowed it down to this or
this.

499
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:03,480
You kind of get an idea.
OK, I see what we're driving.

500
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:04,200
There's a.
Range.

501
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,800
Kind of what could be and if
it's?

502
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,640
Like every, I don't have a good
example in my mind every now and

503
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,000
then there is a difference
that's they don't line up good.

504
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,120
That might be a time to dive
into it more with some of these

505
00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:15,560
Bibles.
You know, why did they come to

506
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,400
such drastically?
Cause 99% of the time it'll be

507
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,760
very, very similar, right?
And there might be things like

508
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:27,760
some of some translations are
really gonna focus on majority

509
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,920
Byzantine text, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

510
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:33,080
And then some translations are
gonna kind of favor some of the

511
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,720
older but minority.
Like these are older, they're

512
00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,160
more but but there's fewer of
them.

513
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:43,000
And so how the translating body
is trying to weigh some of those

514
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,200
textual variants could could
involve there.

515
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:46,920
Yeah, I was thinking.
Maybe this is a good example.

516
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:51,040
Genesis 315 through 17, Like,
you know, it's got you know what

517
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:52,360
I mean?
Like I think that's like 1 where

518
00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:55,520
translations go different ways,
even the ESVI think and it's

519
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,240
like renditions of like flip
flops back and forth.

520
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,640
Like is it like usurping?
Yeah, yeah.

521
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:05,120
Is the is the woman has a desire
for her husband?

522
00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:06,600
What's that?
You know what I think we know

523
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,040
what it means, but the way you
word it is tricky.

524
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,200
Do you want to be formal or
dynamic?

525
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,120
And it comes across almost like
it almost looks opposite end of.

526
00:25:14,120 --> 00:25:16,960
Genesis 2, I think is right for
us not understanding what's

527
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:21,080
going on when, you know, the the
rib is taken out of Adam.

528
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:23,480
Is that literally what's going
on?

529
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:27,080
I've heard some scholars say,
well, the rib there, that word

530
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,760
could actually mean like a
sidewall, 'cause it says and God

531
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,000
closed them in.
So maybe this is like

532
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,000
consummation of our marriage and
we're really, we're really

533
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,880
mistranslating it.
But those are like very few and

534
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:40,480
far between, yeah.
Yeah, exactly.

535
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,640
Yeah, and.
And we're most of those are like

536
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,160
from very early on, we're like,
we don't necessarily know

537
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,760
exactly what's going on.
That's not the main point.

538
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,920
The main point is God created
Adam, God created Eve.

539
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,240
They're the progenitors of the
human race.

540
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,040
Let's go.
Exactly.

541
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,320
And studies and study tools are
there's a lot of good study

542
00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:58,280
tools.
I encourage them.

543
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,480
They're great.
But I think you can like hyper,

544
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:03,960
hyper obsessive study tools and
you're not actually reading your

545
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:05,240
Bible.
It's like just read your Bible,

546
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,560
use some study tools, but like
get the order in the right

547
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:09,760
proportion.
Yeah, I.

548
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,960
Do have some study bibles, but I
try not to carry them around

549
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:16,960
because I don't want I want to
read the text And then sometimes

550
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,360
I, I see people like they're
just diving the study notes.

551
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:26,440
That's fine, but ultimately you
got to read the what the text

552
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:27,640
says too.
So you know I.

553
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:29,680
I love it.
God didn't give His word to

554
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,320
confuse His people, He gave it
to be understood.

555
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:37,000
We believe in the clarity of
Scripture, but we have to read

556
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,360
it the way it was meant to be
read.

557
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,240
That's good.
Let's go to our final take,

558
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,120
'cause you are just dressed to
the mountains, my friends.

559
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:48,800
Well, I I did put on one of my
nicer button up shirts.

560
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:53,480
OK, yeah, if I think it was one
of our shorts along not shorts

561
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:58,880
as in clothing, but shorts as in
short videos where my the shirt

562
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,600
that I was wearing was slandered
as a cheap shirt.

563
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:05,120
Cheap.
Man, it was on a cults episode,

564
00:27:05,120 --> 00:27:07,400
eh?
Say it again, was it on a cult?

565
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,640
On a cults episode, what was the
episode it was?

566
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:13,480
A cut from Oh, it was the.
Yeah, it was the fine tuning

567
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,560
the.
Apologetics shorts.

568
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:16,400
That's right.
Yeah, yeah.

569
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,280
And the guy's like, yeah, this
here's this guy in this cheap

570
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,240
shirt acting like he knows what
he's talking about or something.

571
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,880
So.
So obviously you can trust

572
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,240
everything I said in this
episode.

573
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,840
Glasses and a nice shirt.
I'm like, wow, you know what

574
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:28,600
you're talking about.
That's right.

575
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:29,480
Well, the.
Glasses.

576
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,760
I'm getting old, Zach.
Man.

577
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,360
Getting very old.
These are progressive bifocals.

578
00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:37,080
Wow.
Nice.

579
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,840
And I put them on today 'cause
everyone talked about how bad

580
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,360
they are, like, oh, the
progressives, they really messed

581
00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:44,320
me up.
Like I, I, and maybe it's

582
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:49,320
because the the difference for
my reading isn't that great, but

583
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,480
I was like these are these are
these are.

584
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,000
Perfect.
I can read really well here.

585
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:56,840
I'm not like trying to squint.
Wow, I know I.

586
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:58,440
Noticed you weren't squinting as
much as the nose.

587
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,040
It was great.
I wore one time.

588
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:04,040
I was like hiking Mount a mount,
Mount Katada in Maine or

589
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,320
something like that.
And did you see any moves?

590
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,200
Of course I guess not, but 10?
Moose is what I heard.

591
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:14,440
Block.
Of meese, I didn't have

592
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:15,880
sunglasses.
My father-in-law gave me

593
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,960
sunglasses and he had like
bifocal ones.

594
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:18,960
I don't think they were
progressive.

595
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,800
And boy, it was when you're
hiking and it it means I looked

596
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:22,880
down.
Yes, I was like.

597
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,720
It was like, I can't do this.
Like it was very challenging,

598
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:27,280
but it wasn't made for me
either.

599
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:28,840
And I wasn't reading or I, you
know, I don't.

600
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:30,360
I was like, oh, this is they
did.

601
00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:33,400
Say something to me like, hey,
when you look down, but for me,

602
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,720
so, so my prescription on my
right eye is -4.75.

603
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,200
And if you know that, if you
know that is pretty bad, but

604
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,320
that.
But from down here it just goes

605
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,280
it, it doesn't go into the
positive, it's just less

606
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,280
negative.
So it's like goes from -4.75 to

607
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:53,160
like -3.5 down here.
So it's just not correcting as

608
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,040
much which makes you be able to
read stuff man.

609
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,120
My, my eyes are like one side's
like -3 two, five and one's

610
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,160
negative 2/5 and I feel like I
can't see anything when my

611
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,960
contacts are out like man, the
four, the 4-5 or whatever, 47,

612
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,000
whatever they go out.
She.

613
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,960
Will put that big letter up
there with nothing.

614
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,080
She's like, I have to do this,
but I know you can't even see

615
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:13,520
this.
And I'm like, yeah, I'm like,

616
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,000
it's probably an E, but I can't
tell.

617
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:18,600
Yeah, I did.
I did get.

618
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,360
My eyes examined maybe like a
month or two ago for the first

619
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,960
time in like 7 years, 'cause my
cheat code is by daily contacts

620
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,240
and wear them for a week each
and then you have seven years

621
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:28,120
worth of contacts.
It's great.

622
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:31,920
I told the optometrist this.
None too happy.

623
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:34,600
I was like, probably won't see
me for a few years.

624
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,680
I'm gonna get my my, I'm gonna
get a year or six months and I'm

625
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,320
gonna wear the month.
They're like, they're like,

626
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,960
that's the worst thing you could
do Now.

627
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,800
I made them a deal.
I would only wear them for like

628
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,960
3 or 4 days, not seven days.
We compromised down the middle.

629
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:47,200
They weren't super happy, but it
was.

630
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,280
I have some data wears and I
have worn them more than one

631
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,480
day, but I tried your cheat code
and seven days I think is too

632
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:54,320
long.
It's like.

633
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,160
Two or three.
Days and then I got to toss them

634
00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:58,840
yeah, I've actually.
Noticed that I have been trying

635
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:03,400
to do like less and doing pretty
good especially soccer season or

636
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:04,720
it just like all that.
Pollen.

637
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,000
And there you got to throw them
away more.

638
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,920
Yeah, yeah, more than.
So anyway, but yeah, looking

639
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:11,840
good.
I'm hoping, hoping this guy

640
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,360
comments saying, hey, I'm glad
you cleaned up a little bit,

641
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,280
right?
Well, and the the real kicker is

642
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,000
that that take two shirt I was
wearing was more expensive than

643
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,960
this button up shirt because I
got this button up shirt from

644
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,840
Goodwill 'cause we were just in
there for I don't even remember.

645
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,680
I think it was they needed like
some costume like clothes for

646
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:31,080
something.
I was like, I'll just go look

647
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,520
over here what they have and my
size shirts and I saw this

648
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,960
fairly nice black button up
shirt for like 3 to box.

649
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,200
I was like, I'll get it.
Yeah, it's.

650
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,880
Like, it's what they say, like
all the rich people, you know,

651
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,680
there's no, there's no logos.
It's like all the middle class.

652
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,080
That's like spending, you know,
it's like you want to you.

653
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,440
Yeah.
The richer you go, the more

654
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,200
plain your clothes are and these
kind of things.

655
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,520
Great.
Anything else you want to say

656
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:57,960
about your your Get up here?
I'm getting old, but I'll get a

657
00:30:57,960 --> 00:30:59,600
new body someday.
Hey there we.

658
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:00,560
Go.
I love it.

659
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:02,920
Good way to end.
That's our take.

660
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,640
Thanks for listening to Take 2.
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661
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,400
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662
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