Jeremiah Chapter 39: Atheist Bible Study

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[00:01:20] the Bible for the very first time. We grew up without religion and wanted to know what all the fuss

[00:01:25] was about. Well, what do we learn so far? That God is a dick and apparently some people believe in

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[00:01:45] read the Bible. Yeah let's get to it. Husband! Wife! Do you remember what happened yesterday and where

[00:01:54] the hell we are today? Well, yesterday we read Jeremiah chapter 38. We did. And in that chapter I

[00:02:02] believe Jeremiah was trying to tell everyone how they're all gonna die and shit so like there were

[00:02:09] some guards that like through a system. They threw them in a sister and like in the muck, in the

[00:02:15] mire, in the pit, in whatever. And there wasn't enough bread for them and stuff so like there was

[00:02:21] this other person that was working for the kings at Akaya. Yeah. And he was like dude he's gonna

[00:02:26] die with no bread. Yeah it was an Ethiopian unit. Yeah yeah that guy. And so they were like okay go

[00:02:33] get 30 men or three men one of the two and go save them. Yeah. And so they went and saved them

[00:02:38] and then they brought them to the king. And the king was like for the second time because he'd

[00:02:42] already talked to him in the past. This was more than a second time. Whatever he's talking to him again

[00:02:45] and he's like hey hey is it what's what's what's the what's the real deal? Can you tell me the real

[00:02:50] deal and then God's gonna save us right you guys see where Miracle in your pocket. Jeremiah's like dude

[00:02:56] I told you I told you this man you're like are you just gonna kill me you're gonna what it what's

[00:03:01] gonna happen like why would I why should I tell you yeah and he's like he promised to get to

[00:03:07] he's do you swear you won't do anything bad and he's like I swear to God you know I'm not

[00:03:11] gonna do anything bad. And then Jeremiah's like okay and he told him and the same thing nothing new

[00:03:18] right yeah same thing he's gonna die whatever if he doesn't do doesn't give up to Babylon or whatever

[00:03:24] and then many you know instead of Kyah or the guy was like don't tell anybody that all right what

[00:03:30] you told me yeah that tracks okay and then he was in the good prison instead of the sister in

[00:03:35] right and that's pretty much I think what happened last time he was not in the scribes dungeon

[00:03:41] no no he was in the better prison. I'm just so excited that a scribe had a dungeon. I am actually

[00:03:47] really excited that he was able to keep his mouth shut right now to not get thrown into the sister

[00:03:52] again again for the third time right. He's been in it twice because I think that was a real

[00:03:57] feat for him actually yeah honestly and he seems to not be able to do that generally. Well I mean

[00:04:04] he is playing the part of a double spy so. I mean that's what I think yeah yeah I totally think

[00:04:10] red yeah so that was Jeremiah chapter 38. It sure as fuck was which means that today we're getting

[00:04:16] into Jeremiah chapter 39. All right let's do this. Okey dokey.

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[00:05:04] Okay so we are hopping into Jeremiah chapter 39 okay and as per usual with this fucking book I have

[00:05:11] some notes before we start. Let me say something real quick before we start because I think everybody's

[00:05:16] going to be getting this episode in the morning on Friday. When it should be coming out Thursday?

[00:05:23] Well yeah so I mean what we fell behind this week because of sickness and whatever right so

[00:05:29] we're gonna try to do another episode later today even so there there may be two episodes coming

[00:05:35] out today just like there was yesterday so if you are planning on keeping up this week or whatever

[00:05:41] be prepared that there might be yet another episode coming out today later. Thank you sorry thank you

[00:05:47] yeah yeah so I just wanted to preface that before we started the the full episode here.

[00:05:52] That we are working very hard to try to catch up to where we should be right right yeah and that

[00:05:59] being said you said you had some notes. I did thank you sir yeah yeah so Jeremiah chapter 39

[00:06:05] is numbered as my favorite part of every episode I know Jeremiah chapter 46 in the septo

[00:06:13] agent which is the Greek translation right and also this chapter is part of that narrative

[00:06:20] that we've been discussing that consists of chapters 37 through 44 okay you know this one little

[00:06:26] story bit that's actually kind of interesting right now I'm enjoying the way this is being told

[00:06:31] in the way the information that they're parsing out right so it's it's been a little bit more

[00:06:38] tolerable than some of the other stuff in Jeremiah thus far right it's definitely like way better

[00:06:43] than Isaiah yeah well that's not hard to do no the bars on the fucking I mean the repetitiveness is

[00:06:50] still just as bad in general but this section we've got some good stories okay I mean things are

[00:06:56] happening for the Bible for a profit story whatever yeah it's just doing it's it's it's better

[00:07:00] caveat caveat caveat yes yes caveat all day okay here we go yeah in the ninth year of

[00:07:09] Zedakaya king of Judah uh-huh in the 10th month in the 10th month

[00:07:14] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged it

[00:07:20] that's right we left off where Jeremiah was in jail until they got besieged yeah and taken over

[00:07:28] so this that's happening right now yeah okay all right in the 11th year of Zedakaya yeah so like

[00:07:34] two months later in the fourth month sure oh in the four oh so six months later yeah okay in the

[00:07:39] ninth day of the month the city was penetrated yeah it was then all the princes of the king of

[00:07:48] Babylon came in and sat in the middle gate okay okay so this is who these guys were Nergal Sherser

[00:07:57] Sam Garnibo Sarsishim Rabsaurus Nergal or Serazar Rab Mag you know with the rest of the

[00:08:08] princes of the king of Babylon I'm sitting here watching you try to pronounce these and it's it's

[00:08:12] entertaining just to see you like struggle with the names because you're like gnarled down you know

[00:08:18] you're kind of an asshole I am I am you are trying really hard really hard and I should give you

[00:08:24] you're doing you're doing very well so anyway all those guys that I struggled over yes along with

[00:08:29] all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon sure they went and they sat in the goddamn

[00:08:34] middle of the gate they were like boom here's my lunch there but they sit in the middle of the

[00:08:37] gator they said at the middle gate oh they sat in the middle gate in the middle gate and probably

[00:08:44] in the middle of the middle gate maybe maybe they sat on the side of it but it was definitely the

[00:08:49] middle gate I think that they sat in the middle of it and I'll tell you why in a minute okay right yeah

[00:08:53] so it was when Zedekaya the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them that they fucking fled

[00:09:00] and went out of the city by night they were like bitch bye I gotta go man are these guys that

[00:09:05] terrifying they just fucking knocked down the walls of your city yeah they're probably gonna kill you

[00:09:11] according to Jeremiah you're the king and you've been like you're like new up bae fair enough

[00:09:18] yeah um so they went out of the city by night by way of the king's garden by the gate between

[00:09:25] the two walls and he went out by way of the plane you know the plane yeah but the childy and army

[00:09:32] pursued them and overtook Zedekaya in the plains of Jericho and when they had captured him they brought

[00:09:38] him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the hand of Hamath or I'm sorry in the land of

[00:09:45] Hamath okay where he pronounced judgment on him oh yeah okay so I have a few notes I bet he

[00:09:52] had to twice words to say since he was supposed to be his little you know puppet yeah yeah well

[00:09:58] I I have some notes okay yeah so when I said in the ninth year of Zedekaya king of Judah in

[00:10:05] the tenth month yeah that would have been about January 587 BCE okay yeah so that's the time

[00:10:14] period that we're discussing okay and then further on when it says the eleventh year of Zedekaya

[00:10:18] in the fourth month that would have been about July of 586 BCE okay okay okay so the walls of Jerusalem

[00:10:27] were breached after 18 months of siege and the city fell afterward completely devoid of food so

[00:10:34] that cannibalism became prevalent oh and that was a common practice they would just sit and wait

[00:10:41] him out which is kind of interesting because when you think about what's happening in Gaza right now

[00:10:47] yeah um this is this is a way that this this was common this is how they beat them and this is

[00:10:57] what is happening yeah and you know no it's really it's really disgusting to me what is happening

[00:11:04] in Gaza because hey look there's no winners in war right and I don't I don't agree with

[00:11:12] you know fighting for whatever it doesn't I don't agree with war you know like but

[00:11:18] there's there's there's better ways to do it than what the is being done and I mean they literally

[00:11:23] literally are starving these people on purpose I mean can I like have two ideas in my head at

[00:11:30] the same time which is that what Hamas did in the first place was obviously bad and wrong right

[00:11:36] but can I also say that but genocide is way bad and way wrong yeah no I think that's the problem is

[00:11:43] that you know we're not allowed to hold like the main narrative on the media is that we're not

[00:11:49] allowed to hold these two narratives at once right no it's only they have a right to exist and

[00:11:54] they have a right to protect themselves and I'm like at the cost of genocide I don't think that

[00:11:59] is true sir right right no nobody has the right to exist at the price of genocide sorry no

[00:12:08] measured response I think is the correct words here they need to be implemented and utilized

[00:12:13] like if children were to react like this we would teach them to do better right you know

[00:12:21] we would take away their toys yeah like this is not okay so anyway I'm sorry we're going to have

[00:12:26] a little tangent there well when I read that you know the city fell afterward because they just they

[00:12:32] sat them out they ringed the city they blocked anything from coming in or out yeah and they starved

[00:12:38] them out right and then they the people inside fell to cannell cannibalism because there was literally

[00:12:43] nothing else sure and that is it was a common tactic in those times you know like that's not an

[00:12:48] uncommon tactic back then and it seems that it is still a common tactic today because that is what's

[00:12:55] happening it's it's happening today I wouldn't say that it's uh looked upon as a good tactic and one

[00:13:02] should that should be in place not definitely not something that we think should be implemented it's

[00:13:06] not a humanitarian act I will tell you that not anyway what's what and in the year of our mother

[00:13:12] fucking lord 2024 not my lord we should be better than this we definitely as a whole so anyway

[00:13:19] okay when I told you that they sat in the middle gate all those princes yeah in a modern day setting

[00:13:25] so if we were to like do a you know analogy of you know here's what it would mean if that happened

[00:13:32] today yeah okay sitting in the gates of the city was similar to an enemy conquering Washington D.C.

[00:13:39] and then sitting in the obel office and I like it think was but that happened on January 6th no

[00:13:46] I didn't okay but similar you know what I mean okay yeah they went on the the floor yes that's not

[00:13:55] anywhere near the goal office no I know I'm just saying like similar you know okay like that was

[00:14:01] the analogy that was used by the people who wrote these notes that I'm drawing from sure but

[00:14:07] all I could think was the right January 6 because they went and they sat and you know

[00:14:13] right I just wanted to clarify that wasn't the oval no I know what was in the fucking

[00:14:16] oval office it wasn't the White House I know that okay I know that it was still very sure yes

[00:14:23] the symbolism is very equivalent once again you know we are seeing a similar act done today by

[00:14:31] shitty people shitty actors yeah okay so one more note here on the capture of Kingsettakaya

[00:14:39] um wait yeah Kingsettakaya yeah so it was at the city of Ribla is what I said yeah

[00:14:47] where you brought him for judgment yeah um Ribla was a city on the O'Rontus River in Syria okay

[00:14:54] okay and it was strategically located out acrossing of the major roads between Egypt and Mesopotamia

[00:15:01] okay okay and he was likely like one hour away from safety when he got captured

[00:15:08] oh wow yeah yeah like he almost made it right um about 22 years before this or around 609 BCE

[00:15:17] Faro Nico had brought Jehovah has there putting him in chains and that was in second Kings

[00:15:24] prior to taking him captive to Egypt so yeah that's interesting right now Nebuchadnezzar made it his

[00:15:32] base camp for his campaigns against the Palestinian states and his seat of judgment on prisoners

[00:15:38] brought to him there hmm okay that's just a little bit of history side notes yeah yeah which

[00:15:44] you know I just love that shit yeah okay so anyway he's been brought for judgment he's captured

[00:15:50] and brought for judgment okay then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedakaya before his eyes

[00:15:55] in Ribla which yeah right the king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah more over he put out

[00:16:05] Zedakaya's eyes so first he made him watch his sons be killed and then he put his eyes out right

[00:16:11] and apparently it was common for the Babylonians to um blind their enemies by sticking their thumbs

[00:16:18] in their eyeballs oh god yeah and that was just the thing they did that's horrible like maybe we take

[00:16:24] prisoners but we don't take them friendly right yeah so um then he bound him with bronze fetters to

[00:16:32] carry him off to Babylon okay so he basically you know put him chains right and the chaldeans burned

[00:16:39] the king's house and the houses of the people with fire because that's what burn that's how fire burns

[00:16:47] yes they didn't know not with ice say what definitely wasn't ice and or silly putty or coffee no

[00:16:55] yeah they burned it with fire right yeah and that they burn the houses of the people with fire and

[00:17:01] broke down the walls of Jerusalem so whatever was still standing sure they knocked that shit down

[00:17:07] then nebazera dan the captain of the guard carried away captive to Babylon the remnant of the people

[00:17:16] who remained in the city and those who defected to him with the rest of the people who remained

[00:17:22] okay so there were some Judeans who were like just kidding I'm on your team

[00:17:27] sure sure which is fair yeah why didn't even that's what Jeremiah has been promoting too so I mean

[00:17:34] that was probably at least some people that listened to him and were like yeah you're here we're

[00:17:38] definitely yeah but we'll go with you nose goes right not it then nebazera dan the captain of

[00:17:47] the guard left in the land of Judah the poor people who had nothing and gave them vineyards and

[00:17:53] fields at the same time so he didn't leave them completely bereft right but I feel like that

[00:17:59] was more to work the fields for them oh yeah and it wasn't like shipping them the fields no it was

[00:18:05] and this is your job now right you can eat though you get to live yeah and work this land sure so I

[00:18:12] mean yeah was it cruel it was less than water yeah it was probably no worse than what they were

[00:18:18] dealing with before right exactly exactly now we get into the next little section okay now nebacad

[00:18:26] nezir king of babelon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to nebazera dan the captain of the guard so

[00:18:34] the king told his guard take him and look after him and do him no harm but due to him just as he says

[00:18:42] to you okay so he's like take care of this guy you know because he's my fucking double slide right

[00:18:48] yeah so he's like thank you for not this is totally vindicating everything right yeah the fact that

[00:18:55] he's like okay anyway I want to hear this out I'm really I'm really glad you didn't kill him while

[00:19:00] you were out there killing everybody right mr guard of mine and also yeah take good care of him

[00:19:06] right if you would I want to hear out you know I want to hear the whole thing but like yeah that's

[00:19:11] that's interesting yeah he gets a little bit of a choice lot here so nebazera dan the captain

[00:19:17] of the guard sent nebousha ban rab seris nairgol sharazera rab mag and all the king of babelon's chief

[00:19:27] officers then they sent someone to take Jeremiah from the court of the prison and committed him to get a

[00:19:33] liea the son of a heek him the son of chiffon that he should take him home and those were people

[00:19:39] remember that had been friends of his yeah so okay he was like all y'all you know higher upy people

[00:19:49] take care of him sure like you get to live you get to live you get to live and you take care of

[00:19:53] Jeremiah right right okay so he dwelt among the people okay so these people um the people that

[00:20:02] he stayed that Jeremiah was assigned to yeah those were people of great affluence and

[00:20:09] they had high positions which leads me to believe that they were probably part of

[00:20:17] that or not zedakaya babelon nebukinezar they were probably part of that whole babelonian

[00:20:24] um uh intrigue you know what i mean like that they were probably part of that these were definitely his

[00:20:32] friends and not people from okay yes because a heek him he had helped him before all right okay it stood

[00:20:39] up for him before okay okay um i don't remember what chapter where that was but there was a cohort

[00:20:44] of them that were like probably conspiring with babelon yes that's that's this transition

[00:20:49] and they're getting treated well because yes they did yes at least that's how i'm interpreted

[00:20:54] and that's what i was trying to convey and i couldn't make the words come out right so thank you for

[00:20:57] understanding what i was trying to convey yes so that is what happened okay all right so let me go

[00:21:04] back to my little notes over here and um there was some question like how was Jeremiah known

[00:21:12] to the babelonian authorities so i i could answer this one i think it wasn't made clear in the bible

[00:21:18] no but i i was able to uh extrapolate that information from the information that was given yeah at

[00:21:24] least before i was even told um why that might be a thing i guessed at it yes and now it seems to

[00:21:32] to be hitting home pretty solidly so do you want to know what apologist i do i do i do

[00:21:38] want to know what the counter offer is here they're saying it was very likely through the judayan

[00:21:43] deserters that they they were like oh i am a prisoner of yours now oh there goes Jeremiah he's

[00:21:52] he's a prophet he was profiting on your team oh shit right oh sorry did i yeah i cough there i

[00:21:57] think yeah i'm like no they were they were not excited about no no so fuck off with that bullshit

[00:22:03] right yeah miss me with that shit as the kids say yeah that fucker was conspiring with babelon right

[00:22:10] i was like are you kidding me right now yeah i look i don't want to judge him for doing that maybe

[00:22:15] you thought that was what was best for baton for um israel you know yeah i mean babelon was like

[00:22:20] i'm not trying to judge him for that act i'm just saying that don't tell me he wasn't doing this

[00:22:25] because that's how the whole fucking story sounds yeah it's quite obvious right even though

[00:22:32] this is being told from Jeremiah as we said in just the last chapter the fact that it is being told

[00:22:38] by Jeremiah makes it even more likely that this was the case because if i'm getting that from what

[00:22:44] he's telling me right imagine if somebody else word it yeah yeah there's literally people in israel

[00:22:51] before they got captured throwing him in jail for thinking he's conspiring with the fucking babelon

[00:22:55] but the babelonians yeah yeah yeah so totally yes i love these chapters now because

[00:23:04] this is great they're making us feel sorry yeah no honestly i mean okay i got to give credit where

[00:23:09] credit is due you were the one that put this together it just made perfect sense once you said it

[00:23:14] yeah and i was like oh yeah obviously right i mean it's fun to just sit here and listen to

[00:23:20] the story because i have no preconceived notion as to what is going to happen or what isn't going

[00:23:26] to happen or what have you right and so i'm just listening to you tell it to me and i'm like

[00:23:30] that sounds like that could probably have like i love being able to comment on how these things

[00:23:36] i how i see them right you know yeah i'm not always right i'm probably never right well i'm only

[00:23:42] half right because there's always somebody else with a different idea right but the fact that i'm

[00:23:48] not always completely wrong makes me very happy yeah no it's the same kind of um validation that i get

[00:23:56] when we think of a question and then we go and look like i go and research it later and it's like

[00:24:03] a question that everybody's asking and i'm like oh okay that makes me feel good like yeah we're not

[00:24:09] i don't mean attention yeah yeah i'm learning something yeah exactly exactly even if it's not

[00:24:15] with the apologists want me to learn exactly yeah all right so we got one little section left

[00:24:20] okay mean while man with a ranch the word of the lord had come to Jeremiah i bet it did

[00:24:28] mm-hmm better did while he was shut up in the court of the prison saying so here's God talking

[00:24:33] to Jeremiah according to this is before you got rescued by the Babylonians um no this is while

[00:24:39] he's being taken care of by the guys oh so you know um the king of Babylon said oh yeah guard take

[00:24:47] care of him and then the guard was like yeah cool cool go stay with your friends right but it says

[00:24:52] while he's shut up in the court of the prison um oh you're right which is where he was my apologies

[00:24:58] you're you're right sorry so um according to baruch according to Jeremiah according to God

[00:25:05] because you know baruch wrote this right yeah whatever maybe go and speak to a bed malac the Ethiopian

[00:25:12] that's the guy that helped pull him out of the sister wait a second wait a second a bed malac got saved

[00:25:18] here yeah all right because this is this is just this is all coming together yeah like this is all

[00:25:27] coming together exactly like i thought it might mm-hmm because it like what the fuck did this guy get

[00:25:32] a mention for right if he didn't have something to do with the whole conspiracy after all right and

[00:25:37] I was like at the time when they were when they mentioned at first I was like he's totally part of like

[00:25:42] the the team babbled yeah right yeah i'm like okay this is weird because like why is this guy the servant

[00:25:48] of the king he's a nobody right right yeah okay anyway go ahead go ahead sorry I'm enjoying this

[00:25:54] immensely right now so I know my smile is so big it's making my my cheek muscles hurt

[00:26:00] go and speak to a bed malac the Ethiopian saying thus says the lord of hosts the god of Israel

[00:26:08] behold I will bring my words upon the city for adversity and not for good and they shall be performed

[00:26:16] in that day before you but I will deliver you in that day random person says the lord yeah

[00:26:25] and you shall not be given into the hand of the men whom you are afraid of whom you are afraid

[00:26:31] for I will surely deliver you and you shall not fall fall by the sword but your life shall be as a

[00:26:37] prize to you because you have put your trust in me says the lord wow the end that's so beautiful

[00:26:44] and amazing and so easily prophesized when you are friends with the fucking Babylonians

[00:26:53] such bullshit I know like we're supposed to take this whole book as a prophecy uh-huh

[00:26:59] and it's nothing but BS and when propaganda it's fucking politics this is crap

[00:27:06] and when I'm reading the apologists they're like oh because he trusted in the lord and put his faith

[00:27:13] and what a brave man and they're like you know just in love with a bed malac his 10 one out that's

[00:27:20] all that happened here germans team one out you can't be that foolish you know any like

[00:27:26] so they can they can do you think that they really believe that the apologists yeah 100% really

[00:27:33] they have to in order to keep their their entire structure of their god real and relevant

[00:27:40] they have to believe this shit they have to believe it the way that it makes sense as to where this

[00:27:46] is the word of god like they're reading this from the perspective like look we're reading it from

[00:27:52] the perspective of this is a story that we're reading them there's words on a page right

[00:27:55] they're reading it from the perspective of our god though this god that we love and and worship and

[00:28:02] respect and love and and he takes care of us and we you know whatever all the things but he

[00:28:10] they they have to do it from that perspective because otherwise their entire

[00:28:15] world falls apart and they just can't allow for that to happen that's why there is that's

[00:28:22] why there are apologists apologists are the ones that are like this has to work so how how do we

[00:28:29] construct this the other way to make this work to where god is real where so they're enthusiastically

[00:28:37] trying really hard oh yeah their own brains into pretzels yes i just it's the same conversation I have with

[00:28:47] with um theists all the time they they work from the the so they work from the end product

[00:28:56] backwards to make it happen the way they wanted it to happen right instead of just going through

[00:29:01] it for the first time ever and looking at it and being like oh well obviously two was two is four so

[00:29:07] and you have to i mean just to be fair when you grow up indoctrinated with these beliefs and they are

[00:29:12] something that is not just um a fairy tale but something that you literally viscerally feel and believe

[00:29:23] wholeheartedly because your entire community your entire world believes and feels the same thing

[00:29:30] according to them and i'm not saying everybody feels the same way even in the religious communities right

[00:29:34] but from that person's perspective this whole world believes and feels these same things

[00:29:42] so why wouldn't you believe that it's true why wouldn't you believe that you have to find a way

[00:29:46] to make it work if you truly believe that god is real you have to find a way to believe this book

[00:29:53] and these words and make them fit the narrative that's going to create your god as a real god that exists

[00:29:59] and is you know i just have created everything and did all of the thing i have such a hard time with this

[00:30:06] because in the apologist notes that i was reading um when they were talking about the city being

[00:30:13] starved out and the mother's um resorting to cannibalism and eating their own children yeah right

[00:30:20] those random people versus this random guy you know what i mean and i'm just like how do you make

[00:30:28] that work you you don't you you you can but you have to be looking at it from the perspective of

[00:30:37] your you believe in god right you believe in god so you have to believe that there is a reason why

[00:30:43] he chose that why he's single this person out for mentioned even though he's just a servant of a

[00:30:48] god you know he's an Ethiopian servant of a king that wasn't really that hell hell been on helping god

[00:30:54] or anything like that right why is this person being singled out right you have to believe that

[00:30:59] god has a purpose or you have to create something that's gonna allow that person to have some higher

[00:31:04] purpose and just fuck all those babies and children yeah just fuck them well yeah

[00:31:11] that's that's what i have the problem with that's um just like okay no i agree random guy

[00:31:17] but that's not what people are thinking about when they when they read that they're not but

[00:31:20] they're not thinking about them that's what i want to ask them though like what about all of those

[00:31:25] babies and children who got eaten by their own mothers but the answer is going to you already know

[00:31:31] what the answer is going to be right what what is it what is the answer going to be oh god's plan

[00:31:35] and lord works a mysterious ways exactly exactly i know i know there is no you don't ever you're

[00:31:42] never going to get a defined answer from them and the only answers that were allowed to have are

[00:31:47] the ones that god grants us right from their perspective from their perspective yeah the only

[00:31:52] answers that were allowed to have are the ones that god allow us to have okay and that's that's

[00:31:58] just how it works and we are not here to question god and that's part of the problem with being able

[00:32:05] to break away from religion is that part of the ingrained idea of what god is doesn't allow you

[00:32:12] to question him as a legitimate being right that you aren't allowed to question god god is just god

[00:32:20] and your trash right yeah who the fuck are you to question god right right you worm right essentially yes

[00:32:28] i mean that's what he has called us you first do you worm right so none of this really

[00:32:34] the what we're doing here is is just a exercise in in hopeful uh i i i really do hope that we reach people

[00:32:46] you know not not necessarily to de convert them i i i i'm not here to specifically say i want to

[00:32:53] de convert Christians okay that's not my goal right if anything my goal is to get Christians to

[00:33:00] think more evenly about what they're what they're doing start asking the questions right why is it

[00:33:07] not okay to ask the questions the questions are right there to be asked yeah you should be able

[00:33:12] to ask these questions i should be able to say these things without being called blasphemous right it's

[00:33:17] in the fucking bible right you you should ask these questions they are right they're in the words

[00:33:23] right and they need to be asked and they need an answer they deserve an answer

[00:33:31] that's not for me to decide though and that's you know for the person that has their fate to

[00:33:35] decide whether or not they want question answered or they just won't blind faith so this just to

[00:33:40] clarify a point here this makes it sound like i'm like bitter that a bed malac got saved right sure

[00:33:50] i'm not bitter that he got saved i'm bitter that the innocent people didn't yeah that is not fair

[00:33:59] well just to play devil's advocate for a second they would say well how can you worry about saving

[00:34:04] everybody people have to die at some point right what goddard obviously has some specific i'm just

[00:34:10] playing devil's advocate here goddard obviously has some specific perfect purpose in in mind for a bed

[00:34:15] malac and so a bed malac got saved now the other people they serve to purpose too to show gods

[00:34:24] willingness to destroy even his own people as much as he loved them but he had to prove his point

[00:34:30] for the disobedience that they showed now a bed malac helped even though he wasn't necessarily

[00:34:37] an israelite he helped Jeremiah who was a true servant of god and he helped him you know further

[00:34:43] his path so he he helped god in his mission to save Jeremiah and certain aspects of the the israel

[00:34:50] like community i just i can't with no i either but i'm just i'm trying to to portray it in a way that

[00:34:59] would make sense to somebody like i'm trying to be fair you know like if you want to look at

[00:35:04] that way you can i can't look at it that way that's what i'm saying like i don't understand how

[00:35:09] somebody could look at a baby being killed and say it's not mine to know or question and you know

[00:35:18] it's just god's plan an ineffable plan you know and that baby served its purpose like what

[00:35:24] you're okay with that how i agree and i would say that that kind of uh acceptance of babies dying

[00:35:32] is probably a main driver of people not not a main driver but it is definitely one reason why some

[00:35:38] people will have left religion like it's not okay that god kills babies willy nilly like what the

[00:35:44] fuck man yeah it's bullshit it is so you you can't do that and and call yourself a god

[00:35:50] it's not okay yeah we do not approve of that sir right yeah we're better than you sorry

[00:35:58] anyway i think we're rambling on here we are just kind of fuck a bed malak is all you know

[00:36:04] honestly fuck god okay fuck god and the way that he saved a bed malak in nobody else okay i'm sorry

[00:36:11] fuck that fuck this hypothetical god sorry i get carried away in our little like how we yeah play

[00:36:17] into the the whole thing in canning gods a dick in canning god is a dick okay well end on that note

[00:36:25] sounds good all right that was Jeremiah chapter 39 sure as fuck was and we're hoping to be back later

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