"Spiritual, Not Religious" Means Lazy, Not Curious Ep-2479

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Episode links:

• HERE WE GO AGAIN: CNN’s Jake Tapper just confidently told the world the J6 pipe bomber was a “white man”… while completely ignoring the surveillance image that shows a suspect who is very clearly not white.
• Wild “Coincidence” – J6 Pipe Bomb Suspect is Mentally Simple, His Father, Also Brian Cole, Worked with Civil Rights Lawyer Ben Crump, a Close Personal Friend of Pam Bondi
• Portland jury clears black man of assault because white man he stabbed had said the n-word
• Jewish Zionist activist Melanie Phillips, at pro-Israel conference, mocks Christianity to widespread laughter as "a Jewish sect that got slightly out of hand." - "The values that everybody in the West holds dear, secular or religious, are fundamentally Jewish values," she insists. 
• Where will Jesus return?
• Sit and feel it on your own
• Spiritual but not religious people claim the Holy Spirit is in everyone

What Does God’s Word Say?

Romans 11:25–26

“I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery… Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, and in this way all Israel will be saved.”

Zechariah 13:8–9 

“In the whole land,” declares the LORD,“two-thirds shall be cut off and perish,and one-third shall be left alive.And I will put this third into the fire,and refine them as one refines silver…they will call upon my name,and I will answer them…”

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Three Stories version of The Todd Hermer Show.
Story number one Jake Tapper in a sea of white
see pretty clever. Story number two up, can Christian Zionists
even question Israel? And Story number three spiritual but not
religious means lazy, not curious. We'll talk about this all
with the help of God Almighty.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:46):
Today is the day the Lord has made in. These
are the times to which God has decided we shall live.
Jake Tapper found himself in a sea of white. Jake
Tapper did it to himself again. Did this at a
time that Jake Tapper could have availed himself of this
thing called what's that? Well, Alex, you might have to

(01:07):
start again. It's at social media site that Elon Musk donebot.
It's the Twitter they called it X. So Jake Tapper
could have just been, you know, on his phone and
while he's doing his show, or they could have had
a screen up from Twitter dash x. Because people on
Twitter dash X were doing this looking and saying, oh,

(01:29):
there's the guy now accused of doing the pipe bombing.
And by the way, lots of questions about this, as
there always are, whorre and intelligence services are involved. Here's
Jake Tapper though, going on CNN while this picture was circulating.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Attack Brian Cole Jr. A thirty year old white man from.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
The But can we start it again from the very
tip top. By the way, the person who put this
together is making fun of a trend that's going on
in the in the country where people are booked into
jail being explained to be white when they are very
clearly black or anything but white. And it's all very purposeful.

(02:07):
It's about skewing the crime statistics. So here again a
Jake Tapper will let him get through his whole very
important report.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Here.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Capital attack Brian Cole Junior, a thirty year old white
man from the DC suburbs, is charged with transporting an
explosive device in interstate commerce and with malicious destruction by
means of explosions. Seeing an observed local and federal law
enforcement outside his home in Woodbridge, Virginia this morning.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Now, maybe Jake was just assuming because Woodbridge equals white,
which would make Jake a racist. Of course, it'd also
make Jake's producers lazy and incompetent, being that that picture
was circulating at the time that Jake made this report.
But he lives in a sea of white. Now, there's
a lot of questions about this. To me, a lot
of questions about this guy and this guy actually the

(02:55):
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There is is this about this guy, Brian Cole who

(05:02):
is not a white man Jake Tapper. According to the
grandmother of suspected J six pipe bomber Brian Cole Junior,
he's a simple minded man, autistic like thirty year old
who lived with his parents. He would wear shorts all
under long, no matter how cold it was. He would
be outside in the shorts walking. He would wear red crocks.
One longtime neighbor recalled Brian Cold's father is Brian Cole Senior.

(05:23):
As noted by The Daily Wire, Brian Cole Junior worked
for a bail bond's company run by his father that
worked to free illegal immigrants from ice facilities, ensue the
Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security. Weeks before thirty year
old Cole Junior allegedly planted pipe bombs at the headquarters
of the Democrat and Republican National parties. On jan five,
twenty twenty one, or court ruled against the company a
lawsuit attacking the Trump administration on immigration issues. Benjamin Crump

(05:48):
is a well known to this audience. And by the way,
this is from the website that wrote this and it's
the last refuse dot com you've seen this laf reesuge
dot com regiment. Crump is well known to this audience
as the lawyer who represented the family of Trayvon Martin
and the lawyer who fabricated a fake witness against George Zimmerman.
Unrelated to the assistant DA Benjamin Crump has a history

(06:09):
of manufacturing false witnesses based on racial cases. In the
Florida case, ben Crump worked with Pam Bondi to advance
the false witness claims Rachel ghent Till sold as Trayvon
Martin's girlfriend an ear witness. She was neither as Florida
ag pambonnie knew Rachel Gentell was a false witness, but
supported her friend Benjamin Crump and selling that story. Now,
the legal representation of Crump appears in the DC Pipe

(06:32):
Barmber story, having represented the father of the accused. Racial
lawfare practices lots of questions here. If he's really mentally simple,
is that why the pipe bombs didn't go off? I mean,
autistic people could be very focused at times. His mother
said he wasn't political a bit. She just told Fox
News He's not one side or the other. He's not

(06:53):
political a bit. Seems to me like the perfect sort
of young man to go out and cause to do
something like this, maybe not understanding the ramifications of this,
and the FBI, of course had this information for years,
just simply decided to not act upon it as they
were going down and hunting down eighty year old men
from Harlem who happened to walk through the capitol peacefully,

(07:14):
bothering no one and later frog marching them out of
their homes. So Jake Tapper comes around with the but
he's white story and later forced to retract that now
white is not a defense, nor should black be a defense,
but black can be a defense. This comes from Portland, Oregon,
by way of the Daily Mail UK. Of course, the
American media is slow to report on this. A Portland

(07:36):
jury has cleared a man of assault, and this is assault.
He stabbed a man. You can see a picture of
this year. The guy who's been stabbed. Is the white
man the guy who did the stabbing. And if you
look at the picture you can see the knife in
his hands or one of his hands. He did the
stabbing of the white guy. Now, this is Portland's this
stuff happens all the time. It's a city that has

(07:58):
massive violence problems, massive drug problems, and gang problems. So
the white guy gets stabs and perhaps in frustration, or
perhaps he's just guy who speaks this way, he called
his assaulter the N word. Because of that, the jury
let the staberr off. The guy who cut a man

(08:18):
who stabbed him and could have killed him will face
no jail time, no prison time, because after he was
stabbed the guy used the N word. I don't use
the N word. I think it's a foul word. I
don't want it in my mouth. I don't want it
in my mind. It is not a reason to let
someone off for hitting a guy with a knife that

(08:39):
you could have killed him with. Maybe Jake Tapper could
come around and reverse the races. Maybe then it would
all make sense to Jake. Second story in Today's three stories,
can Christian Zionists even question Israel?

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Now?

Speaker 1 (08:53):
I have a challenge for you, someone come to me
and give me a non AI, non web reseearch state
about what it means to be a Christian Zionist. I've
yet to hear two people answer this the same way.
And this is a conversation, of course, because Charlie Kirk
had said before he was murdered that he felt that
Israel was about to perform an Essex cleinting a genocide

(09:16):
against people in Gaza, and there are many people who
believe that Charlie Kirk was killed because of that view.
I haven't seen the evidence of that. I know people
who are very smart people who do believe they've seen
the evidence of that. I just don't yet concur I've
not seen the evidence. So the topic of Christian Zionism
became something that people want to talk about. So again,
get to me at the Todd hermannshaw dot com comment

(09:37):
sections wherever you're watching and are listening to this, and
you tell me, without going to AI or Google, what
is a Christian Zionist. I have this question, if people
are Christian Zionists, can they even question Israel? I asked
this really because I saw a Jewish Zionist. Someone said
she's a Jewish Zionist. Someone again, come to me, tell
me what Zionist means. I get the idea of being

(10:00):
a Jewish supremacist or a white supremacist. I get all
those ideas. I need to know what Zionist means. I
need someone to give me the Cojin explanation for this.
She made a statement about Jesus that I could find
offensive if I wanted to, if I wanted to be
offended by it. Now it's heretical. It mocks God. In
my mind, God may well be offended by it. He's

(10:20):
not going to be mocked. But I'll let you make
your decision here in just a second. It's a brave
thing to go out and speak truth. It really is.
We had an opportunity to talk with a film director
named Jenner first last week. Jenner directed a film called
Thank You, Doctor Fauci. They began digging into the Cordian
that the origins of the COVID flu, and they've come
away believing that we're in a bio arms race with

(10:42):
the Chinese Communist Party, and that both of our countries
are being played by double agents who are acting as scientists,
and they are Peter Dashik and Ralph Barrack. The film
contends that these guys are probably double agents, spying on
us for the Chinese Communist Party and spying on the
Chinese Commonist Party for us. There are also people with

(11:02):
huge sway within the technocratic medical class, and they're the
sort of people who've hung around Fauci's whole career. Did
you know that many the same people involved in Fauci's
mishandling of AIDS, And that's to say the least mishandling,
we're also involved in the mishandling of COVID. And again
that's to say the least. I have no good things
to say about doctor Fauci, and the film doesn't either.

(11:24):
It's called Thank You, Doctor Fauci. You can go stream
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films that demand accountability, get made. It's Angel dot com
slash Herman. So this is a woman named Melanie Phillips.

(11:45):
She is at a pro Israel conference and here she
is effectively mocking the Messiah, Jesus Christ. Of course, she
doesn't believe he's the Messiah.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
We are seeing an alliance, an unholy alliance, between the
Left and the Islamists, an alliance which has turned language
and thought in itself inside out to produce an image
of demonic Jewish control over the world. It is as
if we are living through a posthumous victory of both

(12:16):
Stalin and Hitler. Why has this happened? There are many reasons. Complicated.
Holocaust guilt by the West is part of it, the
idea that they can never again have the reality of
the Jew as victim. They have to cast the Jew
instead as the victim isa to escape their own historic guilt,

(12:38):
not just for the Holocaust, but for centuries of Jewish persecution.
We have the rise of identity politics based on the
hatred of the Western nation state, the hatred of Western
culture itself, which has produced for decades and onslaught by
Western intellectual elites on the West's core values. And the

(13:01):
onslaught on the West's core values has meant an onslaught
on Judaism because it is Judaism. Although Christianity is of
course the infrastructure upon which the West is based. But
Christianity didn't come from nowhere. One could say Christianity was
a Jewish sect that got slightly out of hand. The

(13:26):
values that everybody in the West holds, dear, secular or religious,
are fundamentally Jewish values. And we're very shy of saying that.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
Not that shy since you just said it.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
So on.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Earned salvation is a Jewish value. No Judaism is a
works for salvation idea. It's a Jewish value that we
are living now in the Church age, in the Age
of Christ. Now know that is a Christian value. Turning

(14:03):
the other cheek is a Christian value. As you treat
the least of these, so you treat me as a
Christian value. Now there's great value in the Old Testament. Clearly,
it's the Bible of Jesus. Read and Jesus loved my
question for Christian Zionists, and again, come and tell me
what it means. What I understand it means is this
is that many people view Christian Zionism as the idea

(14:25):
that all Jewish people will be saved, period, and that
means that they don't have to turn to Christ. That
can't be true. Jesus Christ said I Am the Way,
the Truth, and the life. And if you believe that
all Jews are going to be saved, then you don't
believe that Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and
the life. You have to believe that they have to
come to Jesus first. A lot of people are Christian

(14:47):
Zionists because they believe the state of Israel must be
protected because that's where Jesus is going to touch down. Okay,
fair enough, Jesus said, he touched down there. I went
to got Questions dot Org and asked a very simple question,
where will Jesus return? And they write this, what will
Jesus do when it returns? Elsewhere in scripture we find
other clues as to where Jesus will return. The first

(15:09):
piece of business for Jesus upon his turn, will returned
to deal with those assemble to defeat Israel. Zacharaiah fourteen
to two tells us, I will gather all nations to
Jerusalem to fight against it. The city will be captured,
the houses ransacked. Revelations sixteen, fourteen and sixteen tells us
that the battle on the Great Day of God Almighty
will be in a place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.

(15:31):
The exact location of Armageddon's unclear, as there's no single
mountain called Mejidio. However, interpretation of the term leads to
the hill, most likely the hill country surrounding the plains
of ParvE Megido, which is about sixty miles north of Jerusalem.
As as soon as Jesus returns to Earth, he sets
out to defeat the Confederation of Nations, seeking to eliminate

(15:52):
his blood Israel. As mentioned in Zachari fourteen, the reason
that God draws them together in one place is so
he can battle them all at once, a strategy any
commanding officer would appreciate. The quote battle isn't much of
a struggle, as Revelation nineteen twenty one describes the enemies
of God being killed with the sword coming out of
the mouth of the writer on the horse. Jesus wins
the victory by simply speaking, game, set match. So where

(16:15):
exactly will Jesus stand after his monumental victory over the
attacking nations. Jesus will stand on a specific location. Zachari
have fourteen forest dates. On that day, his feet will
stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, at
the Mount of Olives will be split in two from
east to west, forming a great valley, with half of
the mountain moving north and half moving south. The mount

(16:36):
of Olives is a fitting place for Jesus to return.
Not only will he be standing in the very amount
where he preached the Olivet discourse to disciples, but that
is also the place where he ascended into heaven after
his resurrections and Acts one, verses one through ten. So
he's going to return there that set. He's going to
defeat Satan in his armies. That set, he's going to

(16:59):
land in Israel that set. So does this mean that
people who are Christian sidists cannot question the government of Israel.
God himself has questioned the government of Israel. God has
churned from the government of Israel. God has turned Israel
over to its enemies many many times. Read the Old Testament.
Of course, we can question the government of Israel. It's

(17:21):
not Israel. It's a series of politicians and powerholders. That's
not Israel. America is not Donald Trump, unless you believe
it is, in which case we've got some serious, serious problems.
The Bible is very clear in a number of things.
In this defense or this position of Christians ideis and
that all Jews will be saved. I can't see that

(17:41):
that's true. In Romans, chapter eleven, verses twenty five through
twenty six, we read, I do not want you to
be ignorant of this mystery. Israel has experience, are hardening
in part until the full number of Gentiles has come in.
And in this way all Israel will be saved. And
in this way, okay, that's Paul right in Romans. And
in this way, here's what Zachariah, a known prophet, said.

(18:05):
Zachariah thirteen, verses eight through nine, in the whole Land
declares the Lord, two thirds shall be cut off and perish,
and one third shall be left alive. And I will
put this third into the fire and refine them as
one refined silver. They will call upon my name, and
I will answer them. A third of the living Jewish
people would be about what a million people or less.

(18:28):
If all Jews are saved without going through Christ Jesus,
that would mean that Jesus said, I am the Way,
the Truth, and the life for everybody except Jews who
do not need to accept ME as savior to enter
the kingdom. That doesn't make any sense, because on Earth,
during his three year ministry, Jesus Christ decried the Pharisees

(18:52):
for not being able to see who he was and is.
So can you be a Christian Zionist and question the
Israeli government? Is it going to be this government that
make sure that Israel still exists? Does God need our
help in this? Is he impotent without us? This is
not to say we should turn our back on the

(19:13):
Jewish people. It's to say that we should not turn
our back on calling out a government that is in
fact corrupt. And this Israeli government is right now corrupt
because bet and Benjamin Netanyahu is a corrupt politician, and
we should be okay calling that out. After all, Christ
himself warned us to not lord our power over others.

(19:34):
Story number three Spiritual but not religious means lazy but
not curious. If you've seen this, you've probably heard this.
People tell you, well, like, you know, I'm spiritual, but
I'm not religious, or have had people say this to
it to me? You know, I am very spiritual. I
mean I'm not in the organized religion. I'm not religious
at all, but i am very spiritual. Now a lot

(19:55):
of people will mean that that to mean that they're
open minded or they're curious, they're not ready to commit.
What it means to me is you're lazy. Because there's
been a lot of research on this, a whole bunch
of it. And there's also some quick thinking you can
do if you want to be, you know, lightly intellectual, curious,
or apply a little bit of rigor because there's a

(20:15):
war on for your soul. And if you're spiritual, so Satan,
Satan is really spiritual. He's a spirit, his minions are spirits.
So if you're spiritual, you're just like him. And he
also believes in God. He's not agnostic, he actually knows
who God is. In Timothy tewod Timothy, chapter three, verses
five through seven, read this, having a form of Godliness

(20:38):
but denying his power, have nothing to do with such people.
He's talking about people who have a form of Godliness
but deny his power. Have nothing to do with such people.
They're the kind who worm their way into homes and
gain control over global women who are loaded down with
sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,
always learning, but neighbored, never able to come to knowledge
of the truth. Always learning me. And I know people

(20:59):
who are spiritual people who one week they're wearing runes.
I remember, back in the day when I was dabbling
an agnosticism, I were runes. I didn't care what they meant.
I just thought they looked cool. Bought them at a
spiritual bookstore, you know, one of the New age bookstores,
and they had some fascinating books there. They had some
cool art there, and I bought some of it. Worred around,
and one day someone said, do you know what that
ruine means? I realized I didn't, and I was worried

(21:21):
around my neck. That was a little creepy. I had
no business wearing that around my neck. There are people
who go involve themselves in religious ceremonies they don't know
what they mean. I know this is very controversy among people.
I know it can be very, very hurtful to people.
I know friends who sometimes want to pray over me
in tongues. I love them, I trust them, but I
cannot accept a prayer if I myself do not understand it.

(21:43):
That's just me. I need to be able to understand
these things. But then again, I am religious. I follow
a very defined God, defined in the Bible that if
you're spiritual not religious, please don't come and say you're
open minded. Please don't come and see you're curious. You're not,
You're lazy. I'll make that point in just a second.
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(22:47):
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this guy has his own way of getting to God's.
He says, it's this.

Speaker 5 (23:43):
If you really want to know what God is, if
you want to have a connection to God, the best
thing I could say is to sit in silence, sit
by yourself, allow your thoughts to row and search within you.
That's where I found the higher self, the higher awareness,
the higher gods. And what I would say is God.
I actrually believe that even us them the word God,

(24:05):
are saying him all these things, we're taking them power
from something that is beyond anything that we can fathom
in this existence. It's something outside of this is something
that is guiding our entire life.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
Foods right, So we're gonna use our brain to reach
infinite power. Cool our finite brains and reach infinite power.
That's amazing. So by searching in ourselves, our infinite brains,
we're going to solve all of the world's great mysteries
by our very own selves, just the same way we

(24:39):
created ourselves. I mean, you created yourself right, simple process.
You're an unmoved mover who creates yourself. Now, we cannot
ourselves answer all the world's questions, the universe's questions. We
can't save ourselves. We can't create ourselves. We can't create
an owner's matter for ourselves. We can change ourselves, we

(25:00):
can better ourselves, but we cannot deny that we with
finite minds cannot be the infinite. Even if we join together,
we cannot be the infinite. AI cannot be the infinite.
How was you ever stumped? AI? I get a kick
out of sumthing AI. It's not that hard to do.
You just have to ask very specific questions. That's one view.
Here's another view of spiritual but not religious. This is

(25:23):
a different take. I think that.

Speaker 6 (25:25):
Folks that are saying we're spiritual not religious are basically
attempting to somehow hold on to a reality that religion
has said. You tell me what you believe, and I'll
tell you if you belong right that we have. We
hold all the religious experiences, and you can have them

(25:46):
and understand them, but you have to believe these things.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
And I think what the.

Speaker 6 (25:52):
Spiritual but not religious are saying, and I think it
has to do with the fact of Pentecost, that if
the Holy Spirit has been out on all flesh across
the earth indiscriminately, like your sermon a couple of weeks
ago about the sower just indiscriminately the Holy spirits out there.
It makes sense to me that people would resist an

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institution that requires a loyalty test before they can understand
the experience they have. But if Augustine's right, our hearts
are restless. We're longing for an encounter with divine presence
and that that supersede. That's what it means to be human.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
That's a super open minded view of the Holy Spirit.
It's not a true one. The Holy Spirit was not
poured out upon all. It was those who accepted Christ
Jesus specifically, the apostles at that point were given the
gift of the Holy Spirit and then able to pass
the Holy Spirit on to people who accepted Christ. Now,
this is attempting to walk the line between spirituality and religion,

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and there's a couple of memes that get this. One.
This is the religion versus spirituality. Religion worships God. Spirituality
encourages one this with God. Okay, one this with God?
Which one? You need religion to know what God you're
talking about? Onenes with something you don't think God defined

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himself will prove that in just a second that God
defined himself. Religion, God is outside you. Spirituality God is
within you.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Well.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Again, from a Christian perspective, the Kingdom of Heaven is
within us when we accept the Holy Spirit and God. God,
the triune god Head has always existed, always will exist. Therefore,
he's innately outside of us, able to be inside of
us if we accept him. But again, this contends that
God didn't define himself. Religion separates people who have different beliefs.

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Spirituality unites people regardless of the beliefs, right right, the
same way Pantheists are united with Satanists and Buddhists with Satanists.
They're all united, right, don't They all believe the same thing.
Now that falls apart when we even scratch at the
surface of it. Religion teaches people to be afraid of hell.
Spirituality teaches people to create heaven on earth. Oh cool, So,

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the way we created ourselves and earth, we can create
heaven on earth. Since we created all of earth and
all the things here, we can create heaven on earth.
Heaven being defined as a place where you live forever.
Got it. We can't create life without gods. We can't
create ourselves. We didn't create the world, but we can
create heaven on earth. That's cool, neat trick Bro. Religion

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based on fear and restriction. Spirituality based on love and freedom. Right,
So love and freedom in a spiritual sense. Oh, say,
like one of the many spiritual cults where you're told
that you can't speak to mom and dad if they
will not join the cult. Yeah, that's spiritualism. There's never
any restriction or fear in there. Religion feels like being
a single drop in the ocean. Spirituality feels like the

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entire ocean and a single drop. That's funny. Just the
other night, we were out eating with some friends and
I said that wine feet like it's gonna choke me.
It can't stand it. They said, no, wine feels good.
Oh feelings cool, cool feelings Bro. Religion based on others' experience.
Spirituality based on your own experience. Oh, neat. That's like
people who've never meant a Trump supporter, but they can

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describe Trump supporters because they know folks who knows Trump supporters.
Or it's the old Seinfeld thing, thee cohorts. Kramer always
had a guy who knew a guy who could bring
a guy to a situation to help you know. Seven
segments of separation. Got it. That's a neat trick. Being
spiritual not religious, is being lazy, is not being curious.

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God defines himself in order. The world's in order. The
species are easy to see that they're separated, spec some
species phylum order. God uses language. DNA is language. It's readable, writeable, reproducible, shareable, falsifiable.

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It's language. It's ordered. The planets are in order. The
amount of carbon, dioxides and other gases in our atmosphere.
Oxygen is regulated to our benefit. The water is to
our benefit. Sea water and our blood is very similar
in terms of compositional factors. He's a god of order,

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not chaos. He defines himself with order day versus night.
We don't have multiple gods. How do we know that?
Because there are not parts of the world where there's
no gravity. Because some god might think it's cool to
have no gravity. After all, he's a god. He got
to do what he wants. There's no place like that.
There's no place where animals have wheels, as cool as
that would be. Frank Albaum had some characters that had wheels,

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they didn't have legs. That'd be cool, but that doesn't
exist here. Therefore, we have this predictable structure. God has
defined himself with structure. He's also defined himself through the
Bible in ways of checking all spirits. So you want
to be spiritual, cool, let's be spiritual. In Galatians chapter
five Versus twenty three to twenty three, we read, but

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the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, for
Baron's kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control. Against such things,
there is no law fantastic. So the fruits of the
flesh then are anger, discord, disagreements, pride, et cetera. We
can check these spirits pride. Oh, I don't need God.

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I got him within me. I don't need God. I'm spiritual.
I don't need to look at the most studied book,
the most critique book, the most criticized book in history,
the Bible that every year is the most is is
the best selling book every year. I don't need to
look at that because I'm spiritual. I don't need a
construct After all, God doesn't need a Oh, he does

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need constructs for us. He made die unite for us,
He made sky and see for us. He didn't need it.
We needed the structure, so he made it for us.
John chapter five Verses nineteenth twenty. Jesus gave them this answer.
Very truly. I tell you, the son can do nothing
by himself. He can only do what he sees his
father doing. Because whatever the father sees, the son also does.

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For the father loves the son and shows him all
he does. Yes, and he will show even greater works
than these, so that you will be amazed. So a
guy who raised people from the dead in front of witnesses,
who cured people from things like leprosy, in front of witnesses,
who predicted his death on the cross, who predicted he

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would overcome it and rise again, who did overcome it
and rise again, who took his followers from scared people
hiding away from the tectocratic religious authorities, scared to death
in the upper room, shaking with fear. After they met Jesus,
became some of the bravest people in the world. They
were martyred for speaking truth. They were told weeks after

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Christ ascended, you have to stop speaking about this Jesus,
and they absolutely refuse. They were all martyred save John,
and they couldn't quite get John killed, even by bowling
of an oil. They couldn't get it done. If you
say you're spiritual but not religious, that means that you
choose not to look at the biggest body of historical
evidence ever put together about the existence of one human being,

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an ancient human being, someone that none of us has
met in person, Christ Jesus, more evidence that he existed
than the utility Hunt existed. We have more exteporaneous examples
and people writing about this during the time of Christ,
people who were anathetical to Christ writing about it. If
you're spiritual but not religious, it means that you're just
too stinking lazy to pick up a Bible and study

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it and ask questions. So enjoy your spirituality, because, as
I've already said, Satan man ask him, dude is very spiritual.
This is the Todd Hermanshaw. Please go, be well, be strong,
be kind, and please make every effort to walk in
the light of Christ.