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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. Good morning, good morning.

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We talked the whole night through.
Good morning, Good morning to you.

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I missed it, well, no, no, I missed it. I

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did the little reprice you did it
arise, Okay, so yeah, you

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you went and did like a cool
version. Well you know, actually ending

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of it. No, it's the
second. It's the second sung by the

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girl. What's her name? Come
on, Kerry Fisher's mom? Uh,

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missus Fisher. I don't know.
Is it Donna Reid? I don't mean

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Kelly. And no Kathy, No, Kathy Sheldon was her name in the

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movie Goofball. Yeah, it's gonna
bother me. It's super important. People.

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People are looking up right now.
People are looking it up right now.

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Important whatsoever. But I'm doing it
anyway, Go ahead, continue talking.

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I can't yeah, I will function. No, this is riveting now.

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I can't hardly look away. So
if you can find it right away,

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if only there was a little box
you could carry in your pocket,

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they had all of the knowledge of
the universe. Yes, wouldn't it be

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cool? Yes? And I good
gravy. Oh there's another singing in the

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rain. What's happening? I didn't
know that? Is this real life?

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Okay, so it's Gene Kelly Debbie
Reynolds. Debbie Reynolds almost said that she's

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dead. Okay, yep, she's
dead in the ground. Okay, hard

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of belief. Way to start this
message, by the way, Yeah thanks,

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Okay, Hey, we're gonna start
off with a segment and well,

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I think you should explain why you
sang that for our new listeners who are

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going like, really, is this
the best that's gonna get? Oh?

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Yeah, Well, so we have
a suitet listener who wrote in and said,

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I like when you've seen good morning
and h and Chris does what the

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listeners tell him to do, and
said, I would appreciate you doing that

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at least once a week. Now. I haven't done in several weeks because

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I did it for weeks and weeks
and weeks, probably like eight or ten

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weeks in ago, and then I
missed a few weeks. So I just

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thought, hey, i'll sing it
here. We are well, thank you,

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Chris, Yeah, you're thank you. You've made our day. Yeah,

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well, welcome. What is her? What is our Joe competition.

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Yes, so we love this.
We have not read these, and so

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we have five each and I will
go first. Okay, you do it

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all right, Here we go,
did Jodiye you didn't read through them because

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you just said we haven't read through
these. I haven't read through mind yet.

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Here we go. Okay. I
was really struggling to get my wife's

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attention, so I sat down on
the sofa and looked comfortable. That did

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the trick. What what I was
really struggling to oh saying she bugs me

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when I when I'm on the count, I think so. Yeah, I

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was really struggling to get my wife's
attention. So I down sat down the

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sofa and look comfortable, And that
did the trick. Yeah, that's when

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she nags him. Yeah, as
soon as he says down he gets comfortable,

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that's when she If you have to
use that much work to understand a

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joke, it was not fun.
Well, the complexity of a dad joke

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for you. Sometimes you got to
work through a little bit. Yeah,

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here we go. I'm over here
with my crayons. Where where what you

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at? Okay, I've been banned
from the Secret Cooking Society. I kept

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spilling the beans. Oh, get
clever. We'll give it a clever sna.

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God, I would like it.
Yep, all right. How about

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this one? I heard that you
should always look into a mirror before making

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a big decision. It helps you
reflect. That's not bad. Okay.

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I had a happy childhood. My
dad used to put me in tires and

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roll being downhills. Those were good
years. I like that one. That's

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pretty good. I used to do
that, but did you. Yeah?

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That explains a lot where where you
at. That's good. Okay, here

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we go. Light travels faster than
sound. That's why some people appear bright

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until you hear them speak. Life
travels faster than the speed of sound.

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It's a it's a science joke.
Yeah. Wow, light faster than sound.

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That's why some people appear bright until
you hear them speak. Yeah,

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that's right. That's good. Yeah. Again, it's not a mystery as

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to she gave that to you?
Oh wow, didn't she? You know

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what, Jeff, it's random.
Okay, sure there's randomness in this one.

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Doesn't give any thought as to who
reads which one. I'm sure she

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just gave that to you. Correct, Okay, two slices of bread got

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married. The wedding was amazing until
someone decided to toast the bride and groom.

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Oh my goodness. Now that's a
good one. I really like that.

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That's a good one. Excuse me. Okay, just bought a book

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called one hundred and one Ways to
Get Glue Off your Hands. It's dreadful,

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but I can't put it down.
That's a good one. Okay.

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For her birthday, I took my
wife to an orchard and we stood there

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looking at the trees for half an
hour. Not the apple watch she was

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expecting. Apparently. I literally felt
the physical disappointment in that one. Sometimes

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that's one of the benefits. I
mean, that's what you're going for.

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Is either you're going for such a
great surprise that makes you laugh until you

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cry, or it has to be
like massive disappointment where you've just grown almost

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out of It's almost a physical pain
you feel. It's the it's the other

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direction. Yes, Okay, how
about this one. I walked down the

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street dressed as a screwdriver. I
turned a few heads. Okay, here's

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my last one. I've just invented
the first thought controlled air air freshener.

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It makes sense when you think about
it. Oh wow, sense it's a

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great play on words. That really
a good one. Okay, not bad,

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thank you. Those were good ones. Desire, Yeah, those are

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good. They weren't bad. They
were like, you know, either Sometimes

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you get like a phenomenal one and
then a really growner. I feel like

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this was sort of in the middle. In the middle. Yeah, it's

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skating between. I thought they got
better as we went on. Yeah,

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they skatered between like a seven and
a four. But there was no two's

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and there was no tens. Okay, so there you go. Thank you

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for rating those. WHI should gets
you like cards, number cards to rate

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the jokes. Well, for the
only the viewers, the listeners won't be

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for my benefit. I wasn't even
thinking about them. But yes, I

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was just thinking it'd be great for
you to have you hold up a number

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that was a solid six. Okay, we could do that. We could.

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Hey, we're about to launch into
the second week of our brand new

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series, which is second day.
What did I say week? Yeah,

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the second you're way out ahead of
yourself. Well, it's a week for

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creation, That's what I was thinking. Good safe, Yeah, And so

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it's the second day of our new
series and we are covering milestones of the

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Old Testament. Oh, that's a
pretty good day. Milestones. Yeah,

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important. These are the highlights.
Yeah yeah, highlights of the Old Testament.

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Yeah. So yesterday, if you
missed our first episode in the series,

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we just talked about the first verse
in the first chapter of the Bible,

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Genesis chapter one, Verse one,
about the fact that there's a creator,

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right, and then it unpacks the
rest of Genesis chapter one unpacks the

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first day of creation, he created
light, and then then the second day

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he created sky and water, and
the third day created the land and the

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seas. The fourth day he created
sun, moon and stars, and then

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on the fifth day created the fish
and the bird. On the sixth day

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he created animals, and then he
created a man and a woman to care

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for everything that he had made.
On the seventh day he rested chilled.

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That's right, that's my favorite day. So today we're going to just establish

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the fact that God created humanity.
So again we're only reading just a couple

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verses here, but i'd encourage you
go read Genesis chapter one. It's interesting

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for sure. And then if you
have a life application study Bible, there's

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probably fifteen notes, right, Pa
that we're about to read from is all

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commentary. There's so much to unpack
for sure. Anyways, Genesis chapter one,

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verse twenty six, it says,
then God said, let us make

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human beings in our image to be
like us, and they will rain over

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the fish in the sea, and
the birds in the sky, and the

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live stock, and all the wild
animals on the earth, and the small

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animals that scurry along the ground.
So God created human beings in his own

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image, in the image of God. He created them male and female.

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He created them. Then God blessed
them and said, be fruitful and multiply

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fill the earth and govern it.
Rain over the fish in the sea,

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the birds in the sky, and
all the animals that scurry along the ground.

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Then God said, look, I've
given you every seed bearing plant throughout

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the earth, and all the fruit
trees for your food. And I've given

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every green plant as food for all
the wild animals, the birds in the

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sky, and the small animals that
scurry along the ground, everything that has

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life. And that is what happened. Then God looked over all that he

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had made, and he saw that
it was very good. The evening passed

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and morning came, marking the sixth
day. There it is now. I

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think I was only supposed to read
through verse twenty eight. Yes, I

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just to say that, But then
I thought maybe I shouldn't. You know

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what, I just decided I was
going to throw in some bonus value for

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our listener. I think it's three
extra verses. I think you you got

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six for the price of three.
Sometimes you just can't help but to keep

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reading. Oh, I love the
Bible so much. That's it right right.

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I don't know why desiree wants to. I saw forming above you as

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you kept on reading. Can you
hear the angels singing all down? Chris?

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Can you hear the angels singing all
the time? Like? Can you

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hear? Or is it just when
I'm around you? Did you say like

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angelic chorus? What not? Everybody
has that? Okay, we'd have to,

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you know, question you there if
that was the case, if that

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was your claim. So so here
God made people. Yeah, and let's

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let's start off with we sort of
referenced this yesterday. But he said let

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us make human beings. It says, so actually it says then God said,

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let us make human beings in our
image to be like us. So

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like us and so the word trinity
is not in the Bible. A lot

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of people they hear the word trinity
and they think, oh, yeah,

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that's in the Bible somewhere. That's
a word that man invented to create,

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basically, a word to piece together
all the the fundamental doctrine that we are

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told about God himself. So,
in other words, God is talking about

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himself, and he describes himself in
various parts of the Bible, all the

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way from the first book all the
way through the last book, right,

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and and he references the Father,
he references the Son Jesus Christ, and

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then the Holy Spirit, and it
refers to that is one God. They

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are God. Jesus himself said,
if you've seen me, you've seen the

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Father. I and the Father are
one. He says, I am,

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and everybody falls down. We read
all of that. And so so anyway,

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when he says, let us we
understand the Trinity to be God,

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one God in three persons, the
trinitarian belief is it's a it's not polytheism.

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It is it is monotheism. It's
one God. And yet we have

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trinitarians God who has three persons in
one that's correct, Yeah, yeah,

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and so the word, it uses
that word. The word. And by

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the way, this is in the
notes for Genesis one twenty six Pone uses

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the plural words. It's not definitive
whether he's talking about the trinity, let

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us the three of us one,
or is this the majestic use of plural

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like a king or a queen would
say, we are so pleased. That

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is true? Right, that is
true. So it could be either way,

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but it sure seems like God is
establishing at the very beginning what we

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know to be true throughout the whole
rest of the Bible. So most of

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the key elements of the entire Christian
faith, most of the key elements of

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what we believe about God and creation
and humanity and all things, happen in

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the first eleven chapters in the Book
of Genesis, right, So everything else

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is informed by those first eleven chapters. And so as we know that the

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rest of the Bible begins to unpack
the idea of a trinity, it's established

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first here, right at the very
beginning. So there's this law in you

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know this in the in Bible study, they call it the law first mentioned.

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So the rest of the Bible will
never go against what God says the

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first time about a thing. And
so when you read Genesis chapter one,

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it's not just or Genesis two or
three, four, five, sixty seven,

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eight, nine, ten, eleven. It's not just those are random

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stories. What God is doing is
using those as as anchors now for the

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rest of the human story, anchors
for the rest of what we can know

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about God. He does it.
He builds a you know, when we

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talk about sin in a couple of
days, that becomes the anchor as to

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why everything else in the Bible has
to happen. Right, So those first

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eleven chapters established all of those anchors
that God ties the entire human story into,

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and it will never deviate from it. It may expand, but it'll

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never actually go opposite of what you
discover those first eleven chapters. So that's

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why I would believe then that when
He says let us, he's speaking about

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the Trinity, not just in a
royal way, but in a Yeah,

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it would be very unusual and it
would be inconsistent with if that was the

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choice. That's right, right,
And what we're going to see in this

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series is the scarlet thread. You
know, is Jesus even even through the

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Old Testament, right, So the
scarlet Thread of Jesus is the theme,

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and you're right, it's one big
story. And even though even though that

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it's so random that you know,
which, by the way, aren't all

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of our lives random? You know, it feels like it all our lives

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feel like they're just a crazy story
after crazy story that are unrelated. And

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yet there the scarlet thread is our
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And so what we're going to see
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everything launches back. Even the purpose
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into these verses in Genesis. So
the original word in Hebrew there let us

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make human beings is the word adam, right, and it's translated as man,

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so let us make man in our
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he's talking about humanity, not just
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And so then the man is hot
Adam, which is interesting, right,

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So when he's talking about let us
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he uses the word adam. That
eventually the first guy, his name is

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Adam, right, which is very
clever name, which we name it.

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It's a man, right, And
then the man, it's what Adam did

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when he when he saw and he's
like fly, yeah, exactly, exactly.

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So well, yeah, where is
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this passage? I just read go
name the animals isn't alive yet? Yeah?

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Yeah, well he just made him. Well he hasn't breathed life into

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it. And he said, look, I've given you everything. Yeah.

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Oh yeah. So it tells the
story twice. So tomorrow we're going to

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do a different piece. Okay,
there's there's a little layover. That's correct,

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it's it's a little lay right.
So this one he's talking about just

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the fact that he made humanity and
he made them in his image. It's

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this idea being made in the image
of God, I think is a really

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important thing. It's what sets us
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Right, So, people who don't
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believe in a God, would say
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of the rest of the animals.
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humanity separate, and I made humanity
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he made ard varks in his image, right, he made humanity in His

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image, and so there's a lot
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that is that we're spiritual beings,
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determination in a lot of ways.
We're not only driven by instinct, even

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though we have instincts, but we
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have the ability to make moral choices, and anyways, there's so many elements

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along those lines of being made in
the image of God. Did you ever

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read McManus's book or Teasian Soul?
Yeah, yeah, So it was an

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interesting way. That was a reach
back. Man, this how old is

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that? Fifteen year at least?
But the concept was interesting. I didn't

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love the book, to be honest
with you. Sorry, if Alex McManus

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is listening or Irwin, I apologize, No, Alex, I knew Alex

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personally, but uh, it's it's
a good book. Let me let me,

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let me let me say, Let
me say that the concept of the

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book is spectacular, which was he
basically said, every time you and I

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create, we are we are in
the image of God because God created and

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he made us in his image,
and so he gave us the ability to

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create. And he talked about how
only humanity has the ability to create,

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right. I mean, beavers can
certainly build a damn, But I'm talking

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about like the inception of saying,
Okay, let's sit down and come up

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with a brilliant, brand new idea
and create it, you know. And

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so every time you create artistically,
which is why it's called the teas and

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soul. Uh. You know that, then you are fulfilling a part of

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you created the image of got right, which I thought was brilliant. Yeah,

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there's several of those things. Reason
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Especially complex reasoning is significant speech.
There are animals that can communicate,

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but there are any animals that they
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We have speech, and speech being
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So the ability to reason come on
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able to with speech convey complex ideas. The creativity component is a God element

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as well, not that we are
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There and then, like as I
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be the really big ones. And
then on top of that, God expected

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us to reflect his character love and
joy and peace and gentleness and kindness and

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right self control, all those kinds
of things, and God then elevated us

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above the rest of creation and gave
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And then he also made us diverse. So where God made one human,

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then we'll talk about this tomorrow.
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The diversity of humanity, the complexity
of God goes beyond either of the

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genders. Right, but God made
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that's great. And so then it
goes on and it says, you know,

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he made human beings, and then
it says they will rain over the

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fish of the sea, the birds
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everything else on the ground. So
so then he gave us authority, didn't

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he. So along with along with
the creation and everything else, he gave

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us a job to do. And
so we have clearly assigned dominion over the

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planet. And so and we're about
to find out that, you know,

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he gave Adam and even job a
fruitful and multiplier. Was the first job,

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yes, yes, And the second
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yes, and name the animals.
So Adam was then, in essence the

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first zoologist, right, yeah,
the first gardener, yes, in the

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first landscape architect, right, he
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Yeah, yeah, wow, good
good gravy. So there's a note

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on verse thirty one, which thirty
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that he had made. This is
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that it was very good. And
I love this note as we wrap up,

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it says God saw that all he
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You are a part of God's creation
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you. If at times you feel
worthless, remember that God made you for

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a good reason and you're valuable to
him, which leads totally into tomorrow's conversation.

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Yeah, that's awesome, incredibly important. All right, Well, we

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will pick up next time, and
hopefully we will see you there on this

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journey with us in this new,
brand new series through Genesis. We'll see

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you next time on the bubble.
Guys,