Or would you say this is just more of a secondary issue and doesn't really matter?

Well, no, it's...

There, there's a, there's a vast, um, vast number of options between doesn't matter, adiaphora, definitional.

Um, I have said many times that my life would be a lot easier and my ministry would be a lot larger if Galatians wasn't in the Bible, um, because when you talk about Roman Catholicism, uh, or Eastern Orthodoxy, when you talk about, uh, people who add in some way to the empty hand of faith, uh, that's terminology I've always used when I speak of Romans 4 and 5 especially, that the, the hand of faith that grasps the hand of grace can't have anything in it.

If you're trying to bring merit, if you're trying to bring sacraments, if you're trying to bring anything else with you, uh, you've now got something in the way, in your hand.

You won't be able to grasp that, that, uh, hand of grace.

And so obviously any type of addition, any type of merit, uh, falls under Paul's condemnation in Galatians 1.

We're not, but he is.

What do you mean by self-consistency?

Well, I developed a phrase in the many months I was preparing to debate one of the leading Islamic apologists in the world today, Shabir Ali.

We debated in May of 2006 at Biola University.

I developed a phrase that I used a number of times in that debate that has now sort of taken on a life of its own, and I've heard it being used in many other debates on both sides.

And that is, inconsistency is the sign of a failed argument.

And I developed it because Shabir utilizes liberal Christian, quote-unquote, Christian viewpoint on the Bible, the history of the Bible, the development of the New Testament, things like that.

Very, very liberal.

So, you know, right away they've undermined themselves in the debate.

So, you know, right away they've undermined themselves in the debate.

Well, it did seem that there was a bit of a rift there, and you may notice that there was a shift.

I think even Even Richard Dawkins sort of had to buy into it eventually because he saw the division.

But obviously the theists, because one was not a Christian, there were two Christians and one Jew, and neither of the Christians were presuppositionalists by any stretch of the imagination.

But they could not help but point out that the atheists were violating their own worldview.

They were borrowing from their worldview.

They had to, as much as it must have galled them, point out presuppositional conflict.

Is it a means by which you convince people? Do you open their minds to certain things? Does the spirit of God use this in a positive way to reach folks? Have you ever convinced anybody?

But yeah, the Kama

Yohannim, I've never heard of that.

My goodness.

If someone had just written a book back in 1994 on this topic.

Yeah, well...

You know, I can't win for losing.

Either I'm a boomer and I'm too old to be relevant anymore, or you get stuff like that.

but jesus ever said it

i don't understand

but maybe someone will explain it to me i don't know i know that if you have a british accent you sound smarter so maybe it's so we sound smarter while we sing but that doesn't make any difference because we don't pronounce it any differently so I don't know.

I just was noticing it.

It said Savior with a U.

And I'm like, you know, we don't need the extra U's.

You know, we got rid of all that stuff.

We told the king to go away.

It's so different.

If you'll turn with me, please, to the Gospel of John, Chapter 2.

Gospel of John, Chapter 2.

So, Pastor Jeff is gone this week and next, so my assignment is... to do the second chapter of John.

So we will divide it in half.

We will do the first 12 verses today, Lord willing, and then the last verses next week.

There are lots of topics in this chapter, but we will do our best to do so.

glory is flashy power.

Glory is Thor with his hammer slamming the ground and lightning comes down and all the bad guys get zapped and their eyes glow and that's glory.

Let's, uh, you know, explore more Brute, um, you know, uh, possibilities in the meantime"?

Uh, here's a little bit of an, uh, an insider story.

So we actually designed a brand-new Lavaya adult hero.

She was planned to be in this set, and after seeing the reaction to, uh, the new adult Ascalio in Omens, we learned from this lesson and pulled her from the set.

And the reason why is that fans don't seem to like it when there is, like, this mixed messaging around, like, what is actually the version of the hero that is being supported by the product release? In, in the case of Omens, like, their product shipped, and we've spoken about this in, I think it was the last BnR, uh, I, I, I believe it was, where Omens shipped with the complete understanding from us internally that original Ascalio would be the benefactor of the new Lightning Wizard cards and Lightning cards from Omens, and that the new adult Ascalio was, would play second fiddle to OG.

But the point of it was to make- To, to provide continuity of people's collections for when the OG Ascalio LL'd.

So you had right in front of you, already available, your next go-to point for your Lightning Wizard and Lightning cards.

Mm-hmm

How real is it, James?

Unfortunately, Fran, it's very real.

And I suppose when one looks at the scourge of drugs in society, there is no town or village in the country, and certainly not in Tipperary, that's immune from that.

And as a direct result of that, people accrue debts.

And I always use the expression, like, revenue, if you owe money to revenue, you see the tax devolvers list, and revenue will charge you interest and penalties.

Well, the people that are claiming their owed money for drugs are worse than that.

Because one could owe someone 1,000 euros, and within a week, they have their own expression.

Are they also fearful that they're incriminating their son or daughter or whatever as well because they're buying illegal drugs? Absolutely.

But when Brantley explained the charge, White panicked.

I've never really been in no kind of trouble.

You know, I've got DUI charges, I've got a possession charge, public drunk charges and stuff like that.

But now I'm talking, they talking about a murder case.

And the reason, according to James White, is simple.

For me to have any contact with Betty at all, period, it had to come through Peggy, seeing how Peggy's the only one I knew.

And I think society's trying to figure out, well, how did James get convicted? How did Betty get convicted? And Peggy walked away when Peggy's the only one that James knows.

If you'll turn with me, please, of course, to the first chapter of the Gospel of John.

The challenge that I face today is we have already opened this text last week and have rather thoroughly walked through it in that context.

And so my assignment is to deal with the objections that we would encounter in the utilization of this text, whether in our teaching or most especially in our context at Apologia Church in doing evangelism with Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Unitarians, whatever else it might be.

And of course, that is a bit of a challenge.

Uh, the challenge that I face is this is basically an assignment to give a seminary-level lecture.

Now, I have taught seminary for many, many, well, as the way Zach put it, many decades.

[laughing]

... not too distant future.