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You're listening to the Bible Guys,
a podcast where a couple of friends talk

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about the Bible in fun in practical
ways. Hey, we are here,

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and it is the third podcast recording
for us and the third day of the

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week, right, and we are
in a series where we're doing highlights of

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the Old Testament. The milestones.
Were really gonna get that, right,

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the milestones of the Old Testament.
Maybe that's it. Okay, I like

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milestone, milestones, mile markers.
I like highlights, all right, whatever,

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milestones of the Old Testament. We're
going to get it. I just

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I feel like there's only about two
hundred more stories, so we're gonna have

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to figure it out between now and
then. Yeah, I understand. So

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we are in Genesis chapter number six. Now, by the way, if

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you listened yesterday, we sort of
ended with the murder of the First righteous

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Man, actually the first murder and
all the Bible able and then we're sort

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of skipping over chapters four and five, which really just talk about the descendants

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of Cain. You know, he
had Enoch and then and then you know,

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then there's so long lives, Yes, they have long lives. They

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give birth to south Adam and Eve
have another so able or Kine now has

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another brother. And then there's some
sort of lineage that gives, you know,

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from Adam all the way to Noah, because we are about to enter

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into the flood, that's right,
which is a pretty massive event for humanity.

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And they lived very, very long
lives. In chapter eight it says

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that Adam was one hundred and thirty
years old when kin was born, right,

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and he died at nine hundred and
thirty years old, right, And

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there's and there's the part that we
said we were going to get to.

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Yeah, yeah, Then it talks
about how you can go on down.

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All these other guys lived, you
know, nine hundred years. It finally

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gets to Methuselah, and Methuselah was
nine hundred and sixty nine years old,

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and then by the time Noah was
five hundred years old, he was the

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father of Sham sham Ham and Jayfith. And then the story of Noah picks

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up right where Noah's about six hundred
years old at this point, so they

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were just a young boys just getting
into that's right. Right, he's middle

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aged at this point, that's where
he's at. He's just starting the back

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nine. Yeah, that's right,
the back nine hundred and so they lived

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a very long time. Yes,
there's some interesting which can we just acknowledge

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how crazy that is for people who
doubt the Bible and people who have a

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hard time swallowing that. Sure,
Uh, it is pretty crazy to imagine

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humanity living that long. We're so
fragile anyway, right, Yeah, Well

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we know some of the things,
so we know that the body seems to

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be a perpetual living machine. And
then something starts to happen where we suddenly

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start aging. So it's you're not
aging. You're not aging, you're not

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aging, You're you're developing, developing, developing, developing. Then a switch

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flips in us, Well you're always
aging, yeah, but you're not dying,

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which is very interesting. Rights our
physical body remakes itself. The cells

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regenerate, they clean themselves, they
realign their information, they do all the

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things, and the body seems to
be this perfect machine for staying alive.

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And then suddenly something happens as we
hit our prime, where all of a

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sudden we shift into a mode from
that point on where our cells are not

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as efficient at cleaning, not as
efficient at regenerating, not as efficient,

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and then eventually we age that seems
to be aging, and then we die.

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So there's several things we know.
Our environment has that impact on us.

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We know our food and what we
take into us, our water and

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fluids that that has, and then
the sun has a lot to do.

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We can't live without the sun,
but the sun kills us too. So

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there's a lot of interesting things.
I would say, if you really want

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to dig into why did lives last
so long, then I think that there's

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a very viable argument, scientific argument
for why answers in Genesis gives they're also

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the ones responsible for the arc encounter
down in Kentucky, but they give a

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great model. One of those is
because of the story of Noah. So

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the Bible says that a rain for
forty days and forty nights and NonStop in

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order to cover the entire planet with
water, that kind of water vapor environment

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around our planet would have radically cut
down in the amount of UV without cutting

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down on the light right, and
the UV is what kills us from the

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sun. It's one of the things
that just destroys ourselves. And so what

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they're saying is, hey, you
would have had a much higher constant concentration

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of oxygen. You would have had
almost perfect temperature on the planet. You

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would have had almost perfect food and
water at that point because the world hadn't

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been polluted, and you would have
had almost no negative UV, only the

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positive aspects of light, producing vitamin
D and all those things in your body,

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And so it's not unreasonable. Then
the animals would live much longer,

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get much bigger, trees would get
much bigger, the leaves would be much

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larger, and humans would live much
longer. All those things to me seem

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like the perfect environment for longer life. And I think if we could reproduce

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that today on Earth, I think
you would see that. We do know

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that we can make plants bigger and
animals bigger if we put them in perfect

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environments like that. So that may
have been it, I think if you

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want to dig into a little bit
more answers, and Genesis has a really

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interesting model that you can find on
that. So anyways, here we go.

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Now we're going to pick up in
Genesis chapter six, and it tells

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the story the begin of the story
of Noah. Everything goes wrong at this

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point. It says, then the
people began to multiply on the earth,

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and daughters were born to them.
And the sons of God saw the beautiful

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women and took them, took any
they wanted as their wives. And then

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the Lord said, my spirit will
not put up with humans for such a

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long time, for they are only
mortal flesh. In the future, their

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normal life span will be no more
than one hundred and twenty years. In

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those days and for some time after, giant Nephthelites lived on the earth,

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for whenever the sons of God had
intercourse with women, they gave birth to

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children who became the heroes and famous
warriors of ancient times. The Lord observed

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the extent of human wickedness on the
earth, and he saw that everything they

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thought or imagine was consistently and totally
evil. So the Lord was sorry he

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had ever made them and put them
on the earth. It broke his heart,

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and the Lord said, I will
wipe this human race I have created

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from the face of the earth.
Yes, and I will destroy every living

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thing, all the people, the
large animals, the small animals that scurry

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along the ground, and even the
birds the sky. I'm sorry I ever

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made them. Noah found favor with
the Lord this is the count of Noah

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his family. Noah was a righteous
man, the only blameless person living on

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the earth at the time, and
he walked in close fellowship with God.

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Noah was a father of three sons, shem Ham and Jayfith. Now God

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saw that the earth had become corrupt
and was filled with violence. And God

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observed all this corruption in the world, for everyone on earth was corrupt.

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So God said the Noah, I've
decided to destroy all living creatures, for

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they filled the earth with violence.
Yes, I will wipe them all out

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along the earth. So build a
large boat from cypress wood. Waterproof it

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with tar inside and out, and
construct decks and stalls throughout his interior.

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Make the boat four hundred and fifty
feet long, seventy five feet wide,

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and forty five feet high. Leave
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the way around the boat. Put
the door on the inside on the side,

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and build three decks inside the boat, lower, middle, and upper.

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Look, I'm about to cover the
earth with a flood that will destroy

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every living thing that breathes. Everything
on earth will die, but I will

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confirm my covenant with you. So
enter the boat. You and your wife

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and your sons and their wives,
and bring apa hair of every kind of

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animal, a male and a female
into the boat with you to keep them

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alive during the flood. Pairs of
every kind of bird, and every kind

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of animal, and every kind of
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come to you to be kept alive. Sure to take on board enough food

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for your family and for all the
animals. So Noah did everything exactly as

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God had commanded him. Well there
you go. Wow, And you know

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again, I'm a movie guy,
so my my brain goes to, uh,

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what is it movies? No,
no, hang on, we're Morgan

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Freeman played God. It was the
first one was Jim Carrey. The second

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one was Steve Carrell. Oh my
goodness, what is it? Oh?

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I forgot Bruce. Almighty Almighty was
the Noah one. Yeah, that's right.

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And then but I remember Morgan Freeman
playing God and he said, you

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know, he said, because it
was about the arc. And he said,

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you know, most people think that
the arc is a story of God's

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wrath. And then and then the
lady says, well, what do you

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think it is? And he goes, I think it's a story of love.

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He says, you know, he
says he brought the animals two by

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two. I thought to myself,
I was like, holy cow, that

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is an interesting little because you know, when my son was born, we

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decorated his entire nursery and uh,
Noah's art even the border on the wall,

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the wallpaper. Yeah, one of
our kids was Noa's art, was

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it? And that we did the
whole thing. Those aret and you know

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it's so cute because the animals are
there two by two. You know,

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but this picture here is crazy because
we do see God's love because he says

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his heart broke. Yeah, he
was so sad. He was so sad

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he because of his love for humanity. Yeah, well, if we make

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it all about us, it's pretty
horrible. Yeah, if we make it

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about God, this is how devastated
God was. Oh you know what,

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that's a really good that. Yeah, that's a really good perspective right there.

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So yeah, so it's it's pretty
devastating when when it's all about God,

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because the creator was heartbroken and said, I'm sorry I ever made them.

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How sad do you have to be
to say that? Yeah? Yeah,

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yeah, you know, everything I'd
hoped and planned their ruining. They're

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destroying it all, and it's because
of sin. At this point, it

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said all they ever thought about and
imagined was completely and consistently and totally evil.

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Yeah, right, consistently and totally
evil, totally that's all they imagine

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was just evil at that point.
Hey, I don't think we're far from

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that now, right right. But
this is what God had said was,

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oh, my goodness, it's just
in just a few thousand years, it

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has gone completely insane on this planet. And so they God said, it

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broke his heart. And then let's
not glance over the fact that he says,

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my spirit, when I put up
with humans for such a long time

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for their only mortal flesh. In
the future, holy cow, in the

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future, the normal life span will
be no more than one hundred and twenty

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years after the flood. After the
flood, so when that canopy fell,

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yes, we lost, we lost
a lot of the protection from the sun.

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So what is the oldest person ever
recorded? The longest documented and verified

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human lifespan is that of Gene Common
of France eighteen seventy five to nineteen ninety

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seven, a woman who lived to
age one hundred twenty two years and one

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hundred and sixty four days. This
is from Wikipedia, So one hundred and

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twenty two and a half. Yeah, there you go, all right,

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which is there was a guy who
died just four weeks ago. He's one

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hundred and fourteen. Yeah, so
right on the money, isn't it.

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So God says no more than one
hundred and twenty years. Obviously she scooted

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under the two years one hundred and
sixty six days, right, but yet,

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yeah, that's what God says.
And so it's so crazy how these

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writings. So think about this,
So this this was found a long time

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ago. Uh and well I guess
by then humanity was only living that that

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long too, right, because this
wasn't this was Yeah, so when Moses

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wrote it, yeah, they were
bumping one hundred and ten. I think

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that's moses age, right something like
that. Yeah. Well anyway, all

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that's pretty crazy. So yeah,
just that that idea to me just blows

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my mind. I can't even imagine
it, honestly, I really can't.

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Now we can't overlook the fact that
this story, this flood story, shows

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up in other places, not just
in the Bible. Uh, there are

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Sumerian I think it's in your in
your in your Bible too, But there

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are Sumerian writings. There's the epic
of Gilgamesh, right, there's an Akkadian

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story called Atrahasis Epic, and all
of them are talk about the same.

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The Babylonian, Sumerian that kind of
thing right there around Mesopotamia has stories very

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similar to this story. Sorry,
the gods decide they're going to destroy the

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planet because of evil. They're going
to flood it. They tell in this

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instance Gilgamesher. They tell the other
guy, hey build a boat, save

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the animals, right, very very
similar. So archaeologists would say when multiple

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cultures have the same legend, it's
probably rooted in some kind of truth.

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Right, every culture on the planet, almost every every native culture on the

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planet has had dragon stories. The
British did, the Germans did, the

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Russians did, but so did the
Chinese, so did the South Americans,

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separated by oceans, right, have
these stories of dragons. Probably there's some

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kind of truth A dinosaur, a
flying reptile, something on that on that

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grand scale. That way, because
it's all the cultures developed the same story

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independent of each other, right,
And so a lot of times legends point

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to a core truth, maybe not
the truth but a core truth, and

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the core truth is all of the
cultures back then, in the ancient cultures

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seemed to point to in Mesopotamia,
seemed to point to a cataclysmic flood that

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was caused by God and that one
person and his family were the survivors.

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And of course that would have been
known from the descendants of humanity, right

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because after the flood, Noah repopulates
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allows Noah to repopulate the earth.
So legends of these epic stories. Can

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you imagine having that story? I
mean, my Lizza's grandmother used to tell

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us stories about the Great Depression and
we would sit around and all of our

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kids would say, tell us,
Grandma, what was it like about during

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the Great Depression and she and she
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got an orange in our stocking and
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you know, it was like what
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big treat. That was her story. And but can you imagine that story?

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So tell us, grandpa, what
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family surviving with a bunch of animals
and and uh, and listen, we

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haven't gotten to the actual flood yet, so we'll save that for tomorrow.

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But but you know this idea that
you know, the idea that God had.

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Uh here, So here's the plan. We're going to build a boat

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and it's going to be this big
and uh And by the way, that

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arc experience in Lexington that you referenced
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didn't get a chance to see it. I literally drove right by it,

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and I'm so angry I didn't get
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have to go down there one day
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been told that the dimensions of this
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where it's it's exactly the right size
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people say, well what about you
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there? Well guess what they could
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well, yeah, that's the answer
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if you believe in a biblical creation, then the dinosaurs and humans would

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have been on the same planet at
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where the dragon legends came from.
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dinosaur on the on the arc,
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do that, right, and very
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was surprised. We were in East
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safari and we come around the corner
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like the size of our truck,
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our truck, rhinoceroses. And so
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then all of a sudden, a
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was only about two and a half
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I might have been able to pick
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more than one hundred pounds. It's
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right, three tons, She was
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the corner and looked not much bigger
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like, okay, that's how you
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don't go get the five ton animal, you go get the one hundred and

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fifty pounds baby, right, that's
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down that trail. That's that's for
not I love that though, that's for

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tomorrow. Yeah, well he told
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you're wondering, how did he get
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And they'll come too by two and
God it says God brought the animals right,

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that's right. But as we were
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he's going to destroy the earth,
but Noah found favor. Think about this,

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I wonder what the Earth's population was
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people would have been on the face
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was the only human who was living
blameless, right he was. He was

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the one with the pure heart.
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They didn't say that, right,
blameless meaning his heart posture was one who

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loved God and obviously followed him and
was not being corrupted with things that were,

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like God said, totally and completely
evil. Yeah. So yeah,

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here's one thing we blew over was
the Nephtalites. By the way, yes,

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we didn't even cover that. Yeah, do you want to take a

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few minutes there In those days and
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lived on the earth. For whenever
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with women, they gave birth to
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of the ancient times. Yeah,
so some people would say, Hey,

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these sons of God are angels coming
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and that's where these giants came from. It's unlikely because Jesus talks about how

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the fact that angels are not don't
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right, So it seems to imply
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So I think that's unlikely, but
it's probably more likely that it's Seth's line,

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who is a godly line, blending
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But coming out of that, Hey, there's some big people, right,

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and we know that by the time
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Is or a thousand years later,
you still have people that are almost ten

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feet tall, right, not all
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and you might go, oh,
that's kind of weird. But hey,

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I don't know if you knew this. There's people tribes in Sudan and a

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couple other places where the average height
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Average height is almost seven feet tall. Right, So even today we

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have when the average height the humans
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something like that. Right, there
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then it's not surprising to me that
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create entire tribes of people. Sure, we know it's possible because there was

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the tallest man on Earth was almost
as tall as Goliath. Yeah, well

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the tallest guy in the Guinness Book
World records to me, because Goliath would

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have been taller than that guy,
right right, right, right, yeah,

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but I mean on the yeah,
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so it was his name. I
forgot his name, but Guinness brook will

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a record. This is this is
why I love this. Yeah, who

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is the tallest man ever recorded in
history? Oh, I didn't do it.

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It has to think about it.
Who is the tallest man on Earth?

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Robert Pershing Wadlow. The tallest man
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height. So his answer is from
Wikipedia, thank you. Yeah, and

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he lived in the He lived in
the twentieth century, right, which is

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me which he was only ten inches
shorter than Goliath, right right, He's

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nine feet tall. Right, eight
feet eleven inches tall. Right, literally

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he could so Jack Hyles knew him
by the way, and yeah, and

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he could reach up and his elbow
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a basketball hoop. That's what Tolly
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tall, his elbow go a foot
over his head, and he could reach

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above the rim stand a flat footed. So the fact that this existed,

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it doesn't surprise me at all.
It's not a weird thing. And it

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didn't mean that it had to be
angels that was breeding with women on that's

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right, that's right, because the
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and Eve and Cain and Abel and
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following God. Cain was not right, and that then you'd have good people

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and bad people, right, And
that's what came out of that. So

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that's what I believe. Now we'll
get people who will want to write about

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that because there's really it's fun to
be a conspiracy theorist and go, oh

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no, this was angels and they
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whole new race of humanity and all
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that I think that's true. But
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There's also this design for the boat
you referenced it earlier. It's exactly

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the right form The notes here in
the Life Application Study Bible talk about how

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it was exactly six times longer than
it was wide, which is the same

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ratio used by modern shipbuilders today.
Wow. Right, So if you're going

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to be build an aircraft carrier,
if you're going to build a cargo ship,

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if you're going to build an arc, you use the same formula.

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And here it is thousands of years
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and it's exactly the right right size. And then he built it with exactly

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the right you know, having the
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top piece would pull all of the
It created draft for the sake of getting

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air all through everything. It's just
it was perfect. It was a perfect

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design for what humanity could do with
their technology at that time. Yeah,

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and think about how far we've come
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and nobody is like, to your
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with anything better. Yeah, right, which is crazy. Yeah. Yeah,

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So let me finish with this.
I was talking to a guy one

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time on a plane and he goes, he knew I was a Christian,

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and so he said, hey,
so I struggle with this. Do you

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really believe in a flood? You
see? Because the reason why I can't

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believe in the Bible, the reason
why I can't believe God is because I

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don't believe in Noah. And he
said, I have a it's impossible for

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me to believe. And there's I
saw comedian recently do something along these lines

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too. It's impossible for me to
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boat, two animals of every kind, and God floods the entire planet.

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I just can't wrap my head around
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said, so, you know we're
talking about You're asking a guy who also

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believes a creator created everything. Right, This isn't hard for me to believe

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if I believe that a creator created
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I can't believe that either. I
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easier to believe that everything came from
nothing, right, And he started laughing

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and he goes, well, I
don't know. And I said, so

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you understand it takes faith. It
takes faith. But I'm not going to

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let you come and go, Oh, it's silly for you to have faith

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in this when you are the guy
who's claiming that everything, not just on

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this planet, but in the entire
universe came from nothing. Right, And

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he sat there for a man and
I said, I have this little poem.

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I like the quote. Sometimes it
says I was a tadpole when I

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began to begin, and then I
was a toad with my tail tucked in.

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Next I was a monkey swinging from
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professor with a PhD. I said. He started laughing. I said,

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so, really, you know what
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is everything came from nothing, and
now you're intelligent enough to even contemplate that

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concept as opposed to I believe an
intelligence created it all and made me intelligent

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on purpose. And now I'm able
to sit here and have an intelligent conversation

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with you while you reject that intelligence. That's what I believe. I said,

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that seems more reasonable to me than
yours, and he goes, well,

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when you put it that way,
right, So sometimes people will use

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the story of Noah to try to
embarrass you as a Christian, and I

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would say it's not unreasonable if you
believe in a creator, right, it's

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not. And it literally says the
creator's heart was broken and he decided to

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hit the reset button, but his
love and his grace was I'm going to

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preserve humanity in and through Noah.
Yeah. Well, that is a great

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place to end, and we would
pick up for the rest of the story

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tomorrow on the Bible. Guys,