March 22, 2025

New Article on Acts 27

New Article on Acts 27

I take a look at a new article on Acts 27

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I take a look at a new article on Acts 27

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good afternoon everyone.

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It is Saturday, March the twenty second, twenty twenty five.

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It is currently three point fifty three pm Central Time,

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and I am coming to you live from the Theology

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Central studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. Now, I'm

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starting to think that someone is messing with me, right.

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I'm having a hard time believing that this is just

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a coincidence. Something is up here. Someone is pranking me,

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punking me, whatever word you want to use. Messing with me.

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Someone someone out there. You're not very funny. You're not

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very funny. Something is up right, I mean, something happens

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once you're like, okay, that's interesting. Happens twice, okay, maybe

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it's a coincidence. Happens three four times you're like, okay,

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something's going on. And that's kind of where I am today.

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So let me try to put this all back together.

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Remember it all started at about three or four o'clock

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in the morning. I'm listening to Christian radio. They're like, hey,

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go to this web address right now and you can

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get a seven week Bible study on how to weather

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the storms in your life. And as soon as I

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hear how to weather the storms in your life, I'm like,

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oh boy, here we go, the storms of life metaphor.

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I can't stand that old thing that's not from the Bible,

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that's being imposed upon the Bible. Okay, all right, So

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I went downloaded the study guide and I thought, you know,

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it'll be fun. I'll just tell everyone about the study guide,

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not really say whether I agree or disagree, and just

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someone will have a resource, and whether they agree or disagree,

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they will have this seven week resource, seven week Bible

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study resource, and they can use it. All right. Great,

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So I turn on the microphone, tell everyone how to

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get it, and then I'm like, well, let's start looking

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at it. So we looked at like the introduct with

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the first page, and then we looked at the introduction

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and then we're like, oh, so this study guide for

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seven weeks is going to take different storms that are

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recorded in the Bible, and then of course then interpret

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these storms in an allegorical metaphorical way. All right, hermeneutical

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red alert, you know, sound the sirens. This is a problem, okay.

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And then we saw that the first one was Acts

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Chapter twenty seven, and I'm like, you gotta be kidding me, No,

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not Acts twenty seven. So then I'm like, okay, you

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know what, We're already this far in. We're just gonna

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spend We're gonna spend I don't know how many weeks

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going through this seven week study guide on the Storms

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and the Bible so that we can supposedly learn how

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to weather the storms of our lives. I think what

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we're going to learn with this seven week Bible study

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guide really is how to weather really bad hermineutics. I

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think that's what we're going to learn. We're not going

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to learn how to weather the storms of life. We're

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going to learn how to weather very very very very

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bad hermoneutics. Because this thing is is a train wreck

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of epic proportion. So I said, let's start working on

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Acts twenty seven. The first thing we did with Acts

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twenty seven is we started reviewing sermons. And guess what.

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We reviewed two sermons that were absolute disasters because guess

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what they opened their bibles to Acts twenty seven. Here's

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a storm, Paul is in the storm, and it all

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becomes a metaphor, an allegory for the storm in your life,

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even though the text is not about you, it's not

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about me. It's not a prescriptive text, it's a descriptive text.

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All the hermeneutical problems are glaring, and I'm like, man,

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that was bad. So I'm like, I don't think we

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need to review any more sermons. So I'm like, you know,

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let's start working through the study guide. So we started

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working through the study guide and we're like, well, let's

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let's look at the history of this storms of life metaphor.

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We went through church history. We I tore apart the

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whole metaphor that pastors use, and I'm like, We've got

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to stop using this metaphor. Right, that was interesting. That

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was good, And I'm like, Okay, at the very first

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chapter or the first section of the Bible Study Guide,

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it gives us the reasons for the storms in our life.

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Now it's still using the storm metaphor. But I'm like,

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this could get us into some very interesting philosophy about

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why God does this and why this happens and why

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this doesn't happen. Okay, and I saw I got it already,

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have about ten pages of notes. I'm like, let's do that.

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And then today happened? What is going on? I get

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an email of a new article that has been published

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right now. It's an email, so I know I can't

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really make the sound of you know, you got mail.

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I guess I could do that, right, But all I

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have is this a brand new article has been published

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on Acts twenty seven. Not only that, when I was

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just walking up the stairs to come into the studio,

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I noticed on one of the steps that I had

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a stack of sort of The Lord newspapers that I

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had not brought into the studio. I always bring these

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up into the studio, leave them right here on the

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desk because they make for great podcast episodes. Right, I

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can just open up a sort of The Lord and like,

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let's take this apart hermeneutically, theologically, let's go right. So

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I picked one up, I dropped it on the desk.

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I looked down. I'm like, you gotta be kidding me.

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So I'm turning on the microphone to talk about this

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new article on Acts twenty seven, and then I throw

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down the sort of Lord newspaper and the very front

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it's a picture of a lighthouse, big waves crashing against it,

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and it says in the midst of the storm, and then,

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but not long after, there arose against it a tempetuous

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wind called your Rouklad Acts twenty seven fourteen. I'm like,

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you gotta be kidding me. Everywhere right turn, it's Acts

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twenty seven, Acts twenty seven, Acts twenty seven everything what

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is going on? Like, I don't get it. So that's

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more than just interesting, that's almost more than a coincidence.

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It's almost like, you know what you're gonna have to

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talk about Acts twenty seven. For a long time, I

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never dreamed that Acts twenty seven would take up this

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much time, but obviously it has. So at some point

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we'll get to the Sword of the Lord newspaper and

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see how they handle in the midst of the storm.

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I guarantee you it's gonna be guess what allegorical metaphorical?

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Because everyone does this, and why do they do it?

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Because it comes Christianity has been forever changed because of

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three books right Pilgrim's Progress, which all allegory Right A

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Morning and Evening by Charles Haddon Spurgeon. I mean he

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uses this like one verse, take it out of context,

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and does all kinds of just the otional type reading

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where you take a text make it about us, even

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if it's not about us, and then you have my

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utmost for its highest, which brings into this kind of

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almost mystical hearing God's voice type of thing. So we

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talked about those are the books that cost all of

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this problem, and sermon after sermon, publication after publication, they

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all handle ACS twenty seven the same way. It's about

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our storms. It's about us. It's not about your storm.

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It's not about us. It has nothing to do with you.

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It's not prescriptive, it's descriptive. I mean, I could go

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all day. It's a historical narrative, all right, But all right,

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I just want to lose my mind. So I'm like,

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what do we do? So I'm gonna set the Sword

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of the Lord newspaper. I'm gonna set it down, all right.

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I'm gonna put it down right here next to me.

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We will come back to that. I'm gonna come over

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here to my left, pick up my iPad. I'm gonna

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go over and here it is, ladies and gentlemen, The

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Gospel Coalition dot o RG. The Gospel Coalition dot oh

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RG article today entitled Biblical Theology, helps explain Paul's c

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Journey and Acts twenty seven. Now I hear biblical theology,

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I get excited. I mean, all of my education, of course,

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is in theology. I've got degrees in theology and some

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are more specified or specifically focused on biblical theology. All right,

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I courses in practical theology, biblical theology, theology proper. We

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can get into all of the philological distinctions. But I'm like, okay,

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biblical theology, this should be interesting. How will biblical theology

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read Acts twenty seven? Now immediately, I'm like, okay, this

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is going to come up at it from a more

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academic perspective. But my question was, even though it's going

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to approach it maybe from a more academic perspective, when

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we strip away all of the academic language, when we

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strip that all away, are we going to find ourselves

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right back to kind of an allegorical metaphorical way. And

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I'm like, I bet you we do. I bet you

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we do. So we're gonna start exploring this article again.

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You can go to the Gospel Coalition all run together,

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the Gospelcoalition dot oorg. You will see it. Now before

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we can even get to the article, right at the

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top of the they have a banner at the top

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of the page TGC twenty five, TGC twenty five At

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TGC twenty five, Happening April to twenty second through twenty

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fourth in Indianapolis, thousands of us will be standing shoulder

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to soldier, soldier to shoulder to shoulder, not soldier to soldier,

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shoulder to shoulder, soaking in inspiring keynote talks, joining in

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heart changing worship, and being filled up by the unifying fellowship.

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You'll be there right. Oh, they want me to go

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to a conference so I can stand shoulder to shoulder

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with other people soaking in all of this information. It's

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going to be life changing. Right, So it says register today.

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Let's just click on it. Register today. Let's see what

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happens here, all right. So they want me to come

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to a conference so I can worship. They want me

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to come to a conference so I can hear teaching

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and preaching. Right. Well here it is. Well the keynote speakers.

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We've got John Piper, Oh boy, so everyone should be happy.

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David Platt's there, Alistair Beg is there, Andrew Wilson is there.

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Kenneth I don't know how to say his last name.

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Met Booga mid Bugabooga. I have no idea how to

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say his last name, but here it all is. Here's

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the keynote speakers. Here's our register now, all right, and

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I'm said his last name incorrectly. I apologize, not trying

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to do it on purpose. All right, So I'm going

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to register now. It's called a live together, faithful living

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and a faithless age, so that we want to go

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to learn how to live faithful and a faithless age. Right,

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don't you need to know that? Don't you need to

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know how to live faithful in a faithless age? Don't

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you need to be encouraged? Don't you need to experience

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life changing worship? Don't you need don't you need this

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preaching and this teaching? Don't you need it? Oh? Yes,

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I need it. Okay, well let me register. Let's see

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what happens here registering. Oh wait, okay, hang on? Oh wait,

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gives me the ticket type? Now I got to put

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in my name. It doesn't give me much information here,

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hang on, Oh I gotta fill all of this out.

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Oh no, okay, hang on. Let me see here. Let's

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do this live on the air, because this is the

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very first thing before we get to the article. I

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know this is taking away from the article, but hey,

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I'm doing this for a reason. I'm doing this for

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a reason, right because if they're the ones putting out

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the article, well then if the article is of great quality,

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well then obviously we want to go to their conference. Right, Okay,

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So hang on, Well let's just see here all right.

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Hang on, here's my email address. Oh I got to

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put a phone number. Okay, this is ridiculous. I just

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want to know, Okay, hang on, uh okay, I'm trying

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to find out. Why do they make me go through

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all of this. They won't let me get to They

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will not let me get to the price. Okay, give

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me the schedule. Oh, here we go, Here we go.

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All right. I was like, man, just show me the price,

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all right? Are you ready so to get to a

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place so you can experience life changing worship, To get

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to a place so you can hear the Book of

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Ephesians taught because it looks like the Book of Ephesians.

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Guess what if I want to if I want to

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register today, it will cost me three hundred and thirty

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nine dollars to get into a bill to hear the

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word of God. Preached three one hundred and thirty nine

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dollars to hear someone teach from the Book of Ephesians

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so that I can experience life changing worship. Because nothing

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will change your life like paying three hundred and thirty

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nine dollars so that you can worship because you can't

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worship me. I guess so you pay them three hundred

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and thirty nine dollars. Yeah, the whole conference industrial complex.

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I will constantly bash it. I will constantly condemn it.

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I don't care who gets offended. That's ridiculous. You. Oh,

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you open a church and let people come in to

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hear you preach from the Book of Ephesians, and guess what,

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then worship there and then you know what, you can

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take up a love offering. You can then divide the

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love offering amongst the speakers. Or if it's a very

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big church, because there's these very big churches, let me see,

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they could pay for the travel for those preachers to

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come preach. Oh wait, wait, wait, many of those speakers

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come probably from big ministries. Those ministries could see their

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pastor or their leader them going to speak in other

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places as an extension of their ministry, and they could

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pay for their pastor to travel and guess what, nobody

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has to get paid or rich. You could just have

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a conference where you open up for the teaching of

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God's word. But no, no, no, no, no, we got

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to make sure we charge three hundred and thirty nine

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stinking dollars to get in to hear the word of

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God preach. Yeah, I get sick and tired of it. Now,

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if you have done it early, it would only been

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two hundred and twenty nine, But then there was a

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holiday rate of two fifty nine, and then there was

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a regular rate of two ninety nine, and then ultimately

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it came down to three thirty nine. So I just

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kept increasing the price as it got closer and closer

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to the end. So if I want to hear the

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word of God taught, three hundred and thirty nine dollars,

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And so what am I paying money for? Am I

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paying money to hear the word of God preach? So

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what is the product being sold? Is the product being

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sold the Bible? The preaching of God's word is now

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our product we sell for three hundred and thirty nine.

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The apostle Paul should have been charging people money, right,

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So I'm going on missionary journeys, the Apostle Paul have

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an Apostles conference, right, get Paul, Peter, get them all together.

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You gotta probably charge seven eight hundred dollars. So what

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is the product being? Oh? Is the product that Piper?

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Is it? His name? Is that the product? Wait? I

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thought we were against celebrity culture. No we're not. We

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do everything we can to promote celebrity culture. Now why

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am I spending all of that time talking about the conference?

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While I apologize first because I thought I had to

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register and I'm like, I'm not gonna give my number

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and everything. Okay, So all right, I got it's all

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the way at the bottom, all right. That don't put

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the prices at the top, obviously at the bottom, all right?

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So now why do I do that? I'm gonna exit

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that out now that banner is gone, because is this

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article now going to be somewhat an example of what

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I can give it if I pay for three hundred,

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I would just say, instead of going to that conference

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and dropping three hundred and thirty nine dollars, you could

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give three hundred dollars to sermon audio since they provide you,

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I don't know about five to six thousand new sermons

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every week for free. Or you could pick a broadcaster

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and say, sermonadio who pay sixty dollars a month to

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be on that platform and for three hundred and thirty

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nine dollars. Well, you can you can break down the math.

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How many months you could be supporting them sixty dollars

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a month? You can figure it out. You're paying for

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a couple of months of them broadcasting, and depending on

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the broadcaster, they may actually give you more content then

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you'll get at that conference. Now, that conference may say,

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well we're offering forty of this. You can only be

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at one at a time. So how many are you

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actually going to get? What? How was it a two

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day conference? Two day conference? Read? How many sessions are

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you actually going to get for three hundred and thirty

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nine dollars? I guarantee you I will provide you more

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content and a week than they will provide for three

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hundred and thirty nine dollars. That stuff has got to stop.

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So let's see now the quality of this what we're

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going to get for three hundred and thirty nine dollars. Now, again,

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I know that that's not a completely fair argument, but

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it's the main article right here on their website. Right,

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that's the first It was sent to me today by email.

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So it's got I mean, it's under the Gospel Coalition

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dot org and they're the ones putting on the conference.

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So you know what, I'm gonna draw a correlation here.

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So what are we going to get? Well? This comes

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from the Carson Center Biblical Theology helps explains Paul's Paul's

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see journey in Acts twenty seven March March to twenty second,

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twenty twenty five by Patrick Shriner. All right, here we go.

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Oh boy, okay, here we go. I'm gonna try to

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take a deep breath. I'm gonna try to be nice

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and calm here. Now, at some point we'll break this

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entire article down. I just want to. I'm just going

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to read the intro and then the first paragraph of

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the first point. Here we go. The second half of

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Acts is a whirldwind journey. Paul travels some ten thousand

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miles as he witnesses in Turkey, Syria, Greece, and Israel.

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Of course, he was going all those places to hold

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conferences for life changing worship, and you could soak in

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the Word of God and stand shoulders. Okay, Now, being

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a little sarcastic, all right, So he travels ten thousand

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miles as he witnesses in Turkey, Syria, Greece, and Israel.

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He preaches in various cities including Listra, Philippi, the Thessalonika, Corinth, Athens,

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and Ephesus. What sometimes overlooked is an obvious reality, most

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of this is done on land, all right, So it says,

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sometimes we overlook an obvious reality that most of all

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of this occurs on land. Yet and Acts, chapter twenty seven,

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Luke devotes forty four verses to a detailed description of

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Paul's ce journey. The purpose of this long marine narrative

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sometimes eludes interpreters. Some think it simply recounts a change

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of location for Paul, but this does little to explain

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the narrative's length and all the specifics Luke includes. To

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understand this narrative properly, we must employ biblical theology. Three

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Biblical realities help us ascertain the purpose of Luke's narrative

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and see it as Paul's climatic journey. Now that sounds

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so thiological sounds so academic to me. The screams, we

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got a problem, We got a problem. We got a

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serious problem here because of the logic being utilized. Now,

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how is he going to use biblical theology to help

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us understand? Well, point number one, pull the conqueror. The

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first thing to understand is that the sea is symbolic

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in the biblical narrative. There we go, ladies and gentlemen,

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there we go. Immediately it slides right over into the symbolic,

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right over into the allegorical, right over into the metaphorical.

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I knew it's where it was going to go before

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I I before I even before I even looked at it,

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I knew that's where it was going to go. I

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could have bet you money. We could go to Vegas

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and put money down. Because everyone, I don't care if

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you're saying we're approaching it through the lens of biblical

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theology or we're approaching it through a devotional list. I

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don't care what nonsense you want to dress it up.

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And the bottom line is you are following the tradition

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of Bunyan Spurgeon and Oswald Chambers, and this devotional allegorical

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metaphorical approach to scripture, which is an enemy to biblical hermeneutics.

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So immediately I'm like, this, what is happening? What is happening?

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So I have already taken apart the entire article, but

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I don't want to go there. I just want to

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start taking this apart in small segments. All right, So

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the opening argument from the article, and this is what

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I did. I started discussing this with artificial intelligence. We

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kind of went back and forth. Artificial intelligence. I started

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asking it to analyze it, critique it, and break it down,

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and AI ultimately gives me this. This opening argument from

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the article lays the foundation for Patrick schiner symbolic reading

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of Acts twenty seven. Did you just hear that? Did

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you hear that? The opening argument from the article lays

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the foundation for Patrick Schriner's symbolic reading of Acts twenty seven.

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Even AI knows he's taking this symbolic, allegorical, metaphorical approach

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to Acts twenty seven, and I'm so sick and tired

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of this happening. AI goes on to say, however, it

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contains several assumptions and interpretive moves that deserve careful critique.

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While it's rhetorically smooth and seems reasonable on the surface,

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it actually sets the stage for a problematic hermeneutic shift.

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Let's examine it in detail. And I'm like, yes, let's

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examine this in detail. All right. Here, so Acts twenty seven.

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We've been talking about it a lot. Now here we go.

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We have this article on the Gospel Coalition. By all means,

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go to the website and if you want, pay three

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hundred and thirty nine dollars and go to their conference

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so you can have life changing worship and you can

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hear the Word of God preached. Okay, by all means

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go But I mean you could obviously then do other

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things with the money, but all right, we won't get

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into that. However, what are you going to get for

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your three hundred and thirty nine dollars? Is this article?

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And I gives us an idea of what the content

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the Gospel Coalition puts out. Well, let's find out. Here

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we go. AI obviously think thinks there's a problem. Artificial

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intelligence believes there's a problem. Let's see if there's a problem.

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Number one, this is what AI tells me. The argument's

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key claim. Because the narrative is long and detailed, it

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must mean more than it says than AI quotes from

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the article. Some think it simply recounts a change of

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location for Paul, but this does little to explain the

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narrative's length and all the specifics Luke includes. So, according

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to the article, basically the argument being made the narrative

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is long. It is detailed, so it has to mean

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more than what it seems to say. It gives us

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all of this detail, and it's very long. It can't

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just mean what it says. No, no, no, no, no,

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it doesn't mean what it says, But I'm here to

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tell you what it actually means. It doesn't mean what

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it says, but I'm going to tell you what it says,

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not by I'm gonna tell you what it means, not

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by what it says, but by what I say it says.

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That's what preachers do all the time. I know it

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seems to say this, but what it really means is this.

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Well where did you come up with it? Because either

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I determine what a text says by the words that

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are used, or I just impose whatever meaning I want

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upon the text. AI says, this is a classic argument,

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and the argument goes like this, All right, narrative length

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equals deeper symbolic meaning. A lot of pastors make this,

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If the narrative is long, ooh, that's going to be

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telling us something deeper. There's got to be a symbolic

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meaning here. It has to be an allegorical It has

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to be metaphorical, because look at how long it is,

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look at how detailed it is, Ooh, something must be

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going on. I mean, it spends a lot of time.

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That pastors love to do that, all right, but that

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assumption is not hermoneutically sound on its own. Narrative length

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in scripture is not automatically tied to hidden or symbolic

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philological significance. Luke may include details for reasons of historical realism,

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eyewitness precision, or simply because he was present. Right, If

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you look at Acts twenty seven, who's the author of Acts?

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It's Luke and No. And when it was determined that

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we we should sell into Italy, they delivered Paul. So

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that's not Paul referring to that's that's Luke talking. Luke

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is present. Most believe Luke was present for this. So

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maybe the detailed and length of the account just comes

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to the fact that I don't know Luke was there.

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This is his eyewitness account. The detailed narrative may reflect

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Luke's interest in maritime travel, maybe in Greco Roman historiography,

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or even literary pacing. As Paul nears Rome, not necessarily

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some hidden typology, because the minute you say, ooh, there's

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some hidden type. I know this seems to be talking

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about just a storm. But look at its length, look

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at it actually says something else. See it says something

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that it doesn't actually say. It's saying something below, oh,

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the surface. You just got to be able to find it. Well,

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the minute you say that, then anybody can pull anything out.

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There's no objective way to challenge it. Or because you

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just make it say whatever you want, and then you

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just start then death by cross reference and find any Oh,

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then it just becomes a mess. Ai says, this is

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a flawed assumption. Long narrative equals philological metaphor. That's a

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flawed assumption. Long narrative does not equal philological metaphor. Nobody

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can make that claim. A better hermeneutic would be long

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narrative equals attention worthy. But meaning must come from textual

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and con but the meaning must come from textual and

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contextual clues, not link alone. So when you see something long,

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you know what that means. Pay attention. It obviously is

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worthy of this much space. God believes that this account

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is worth this much space. That's what it means. Now,

461
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the meaning of the text doesn't come from how long

462
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it is. It comes from the textual and contextual clues,

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not link alone. Well, Acts twenty seven or Acts the

464
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Book of Acts is a historical narrative. It's a historical account.

465
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It's telling you what happened, Literal things that happen, real

466
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things that real people, real places, real death, real persecution,

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real prisons, real everything. It's not some allegory, allegorical story

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about the storms in your life or anything along that line.

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So Ai points out that number one the argument's key claim,

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because the argument's key claim is this, because the narrative

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is long and detailed, it must mean more than it says,

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and that that's just not true. It is not true

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that the narrative length equals If it's long, narrative length,

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it equals deep symbolic meaning. That's just not true. Number two,

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overting overstating the lack of interpretive purpose without symbolism. Overstating

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the lack of interpretive purpose without symbolism. AI quotes from

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the article. Some think it simply recounts a change of

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location for Paul, but this does little to explain the

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narrative's length. AI criticizes this. This falsely presents a false dichotomy.

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Either the chapter is either symbolic and rich with biblical

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philological meaning, or it's just a dry travelogue. It's just

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simply an account of a change of location. See, it's

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either symbolic or it really doesn't mean anything. That's a

484
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false dichotomy, and you've got to learn to see these

485
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logical flaws when pastors and Bible teachers do this, this

486
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is a hermeneutical misstep. There is a middle ground. Acts

487
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twenty seven is a historical narrative with a nomadic, philological

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and missional significance without being symbolic. It doesn't have to

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be symbolic to have important philological significance. You don't have

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to make it an allegory, a metaphor. You can still

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get the theology from it. Anyone reading Action twenty seven

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should be able to see the theology all over it.

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God is sovereign. God's purpose is going to be fulfilled

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in Paul's life. For example, so I asked Ai for

495
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some examples that Acts twenty seven. It demonstrates God's providence

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and Paul's credibility as a messenger. It builds tension betward

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towards his arrival in Rome. It shows Paul's trustworthiness, leadership,

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and courage, setting up his final witness before Caesar. There's

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a lot of different things you can find. These are

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narrative functions, not allegorical symbols. It's a narrative function. The

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Acts twenty seven is not a story just and removed

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from the overall narrative. It's a part of the narrative arc.

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It plays a part there. So AI has pointed out

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that number one, the argument's key claim in the article.

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The article's key claim is that because the narrative is

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long and detailed, it must mean, it must mean more

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than it says, and that it basically is providing the

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classic argument that narrative link equals deeper symbolic meaning, and

509
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that is just not accurate. Number two, it overstates the

510
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lack of interpretive purpose without symbolism Basically, the article is like, hey,

511
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if it's not symbolic, this text is useless and that's

512
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just not accurate. Number Three, to understand this narrative properly,

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we must employ biblical theology. Here's the critique AI offers.

514
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This sounds still logically grounded, but the phrase employ biblical

515
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theology becomes a license to import outside theological theme into

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the text, even when the text itself does not point

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to them. Just because you say we're going to utilize

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biblical theology doesn't mean you can just take any theological

519
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idea and read it back into the text. You get

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the theology from the text, you don't read the theology

521
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into the text. That's basic herboneutical role one oh one.

522
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You we take from the text, you don't put into

523
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the text. That's for crying out loud. But hey, this

524
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is the Gospel Coalition. Let's pay three hundred and thirty

525
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nine dollars to hear this great preaching. Okay. I know

526
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it's not a direct correlation that this article represents what's

527
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going to happen at the conference, but it's just funny

528
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that when you try to get to the article, the

529
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first thing you see is the banner ad to sign

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up for their conference. But it's just not a correct

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way of thinking, all right, biblical In fact, let me

532
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put it this way, so let me read this again.

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When they talk about we need biblical theology must be

534
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employed here it sounds still grounded. The phrase employee biblical

535
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theology becomes a license to import outside theological themes into

536
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the text, even when the text itself does not point

537
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to them. Biblical theology is not about reading thematic echoes

538
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into every detail. It's about tracing redemptive history through the

539
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actual progression of revelation. It's not about reading things into

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the text. And Acts twenty seven, there is no direct

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textual signal that Paul's journey is to be read as

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a parallel to Israel's Red Sea crossing. There's nothing in

543
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Acts twenty seven that would tell you to do that right,

544
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or to Jesus calming the storm, or to creation chaos,

545
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creation chaos. There's nothing. I'm gonna make it very There

546
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is no textual signal in Acts twenty seven to say

547
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we should read Paul's journeys parallel to Israel's Red Sea crossing,

548
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or to Jesus calming the storm, or to creation chaos.

549
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Luke gives no interpretive commentary. Luke gives no interpretive commentary

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suggesting symbolic meaning. He doesn't say in any way, he

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doesn't give any clue. Luke the author doesn't give any

552
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clue in X twenty seven, going hmm, I think there's

553
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some symbolism here, but guess what he does that in

554
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regards to Peter's vision in Acts ten, but not in

555
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Acts twenty seven. So, while biblical theology is valuable Shriner's

556
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use of it, Shriner's use of it here expands the

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boundaries of the method into the territory of creative allegorization, which, well,

558
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you're just being creative, and how you're using allegory. That's

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not biblical theology. You're just using biblical theology as the

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excuse for going in and over allegorizing the text. But

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it sounds still logical, It sounds academic. This is the

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thing that a pastor can do from the pulpit. And

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everybody are like, well, this sounds good, this sounds he

564
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learned this in seminary. This sounds great. Well, you just

565
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all they're doing is just manipulating the text right in

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front of you. Number four, the framing implies a hidden meaning.

567
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Luke never mentions this is AI taking this this this

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introduction to this article apart. By asking why Luke includes

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forty four verses and suggesting it must mean something deeper,

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Schriner implies there's a philological lair Luke assumed but did

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not articulate. So the idea is like, well, Luke didn't

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articulate this, but there's there's this philological lair, and you

573
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just got to see it. You just got and so

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you need a well, you need a pastor, you need

575
00:35:49.639 --> 00:35:51.639
you need to go to a conference and pay three

576
00:35:51.719 --> 00:35:55.039
hundred and something dollars to hear this theological layer because

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00:35:55.079 --> 00:35:56.480
you just can't see it. You know why you can't

578
00:35:56.519 --> 00:35:59.880
see it, because it's not there. Someone is putting it

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into the text and sounding all smart when doing it.

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The journey itself is a symbol of the Gospel's advance

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over chaos or Paul's prophetic significance. See he's implying that

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the journey itself is a symbol of the Gospel's advance

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over chaos or Paul's prophetic significance. But there's nothing in

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the text that says that Luke never invites the reader

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to interpret the voyage that way. Luke never invites the

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reader to interpret it as there's a deeper theological layer here,

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or that the journey is a symbol of the Gospel's

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advance over chaos or Paul's prophetic significance. Luke never insinuates

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that the text doesn't hint at that. And fact, what

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is Luke known for. He's known for historical precision, naming

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Roman officials, cities, and roots. Well, guess what. Since he's

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known for his historical precision, then Act twenty seven fits

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perfectly with the way Luke typically writes. So I don't

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need d it fits perfect. It would be one thing

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if Luke is not known for historical precision, not known

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for details, not known for any and all of a

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sudden Acts twenty seven, and then you would be like, well,

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something weird is going on. But that's not the case.

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Geographical awareness, especially in Acts. Luke is very aware of

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geography and acts and points it out. So guess what.

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He points out. All the geography in Acts twenty seven

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that's consistent with his writing doesn't mean that there's something

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deeper going on. Literary build up Paul's journey to Rome

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spans many chapters and culminates in Acts twenty eight. The

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most consistent reading is that Acts twenty seven is a climatic, real,

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real world journey, not a symbolic reenactment. Now I know

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what something. Well, I'm not saying it's it's not literal. Yeah,

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you say it's not literal. And then you turn it

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all into a symbol, into an allegory, into a metaphor.

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Who cares if you are going to pay lip service

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that it's a real event, when you're going to just

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leave the real event to then just add whatever you

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want to it. Because now you say there's something deeper here,

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there's no there's no textual there's no hermeneutical clue for

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anything more than a historical narrative about what happened in

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this overarching narrative of Paul's journey ultimately to end up

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in front of Caesar. Right, I think that's I think

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that's very important, all right, And it ends in Acts

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twenty eight. That's where the narrative ends, okay, now, or yeah,

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I believe Caesar, Okay, if I get that wrong, The

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00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:51.280
story ends in Acts twenty eight. It's all about him

622
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ultimately getting to his destination. All right, now, Ai says,

623
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the argument relies on hermeneutical assumptions, not exegesis. It elevates

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narrative length to a tool for inferring meaning, and we

625
00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:06.840
don't do that. You don't infer meaning from how many

626
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verses are used. You infer meaning from what the words

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that are used. It uses biblical theology as a platform

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for non contextual symbolism. Biblical theology is not an excuse

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for using non contextual symbolism. Next, it quietly applies that

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historical narrative is not sufficient unless it's interpreted metaphorically. Basically,

631
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it implies, maybe quietly, hey, this text is really useless.

632
00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:41.360
It's not really sufficient unless it's unless we interpret it metaphorically.

633
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Unless we interpret it metaphorically, there's not really much here

634
00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:52.960
that's that's not true, ay I says, here's a better approach.

635
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Recognize the historical and literary function of Acts twenty seven

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within the narrative arc of Acts. See it as a

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demonstration of God's providence, Paul's obedience, and the unstoppable mission

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to Rome, without turning it into a metaphor for spiritual

639
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chaos or symbolic exodus. So then I was like, Okay,

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I agree, Ai, I agree that this whole thing is

641
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starting us off and raw. This is another example of

642
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what's going on. This is another example of what's happening.

643
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But I had to ask Ai a question. I'm like, well,

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you know, if we kind of take the argument that

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he uses, and his argument basically is the link of

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this narrative means it's got to mean something more than

647
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what it says, I asked Ai. If we take this

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argument and we follow it logically, then where do we

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00:40:41.199 --> 00:40:48.239
end up? All right? So Ai begins to say that

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if we take this narrative and it's forty four versus

651
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and length, then this could possibly mean that we then

652
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interpret it any narrative that's forty four verses in length,

653
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because twenty seven is forty four verses in length. Let

654
00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:04.079
me make sure of that, yes, it's forty four verses

655
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in length. Then it would mean we could interpret any

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narrative that's forty four verses long in an allegorical metaphorical way.

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And Ai says that's the logical consequence of Schriner's argument

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if followed consistently. If narrative length is used as a

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justification for symbolic or metaphorical interpretation. Then any extended biblical narrative,

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especially one with around forty four verses or more, would

661
00:41:29.199 --> 00:41:33.079
by that same logic be presumed to carry hidden symbolic

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or philological meaning beyond the historical events themselves. That would

663
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be a deeply flawed hermeneutic because number one it uses

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literary quantity verse count as a basis for interpretive method

665
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rather than textual clues or the intent of the author.

666
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Number two it overrides genre, treating a historical narrative as allegory.

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You're not you're over writing what the genre is supposed

668
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to be understood. It's a historical narrative interpreted as a

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historical narrative. Number three is suggest that the meaning is

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inferred by structure or length, not what the author actually says. Now,

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AI was like, Hey, if we approach this logically, here's

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what would happen. Well, Genesis twenty four Isaac and Rebecca

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sixty seven verses. Would we allegorize this as Christ Isaac

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choosing the church, Rebecca through the spirit Abraham's servant. Many

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devotional and mystical readings have done just that, but the

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text itself gives no internal warrant for such symbolism. And

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guess what, you go look up sermons right now on

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Genesis twenty four. They will take this metaphorical allegorical approach.

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They will I've heard it a million times. Well, are

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they doing that just because they've been taught to preach

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it that way? Or look at sixty seven verses? It's

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gotta be There's got to be something deeper here. You've

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got to have something in the text more than just

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the number of verses. How about Genesis twenty nine, Jacob

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Leah and Rachel thirty five through fifty verses combined across episodes.

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Would we allegorize Leah and Rachel as law and grace?

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Are Jacob's labor as striving under the law. Again, this

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00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:29.000
has been done in historical interpretation, but with disastrous theological results,

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and there's no justification from the text. How about the

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passover in the Exodus fifty one versus. Now, I know

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what you're gonna say, Oh wait, wait, this is going

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to prove the point. But listen carefully. The passover in

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the Exodus, I think we could all argue, is clearly

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topological event and redemptive history. How do we know this,

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it is confirmed in the New Testament. It becomes clear

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because the New Testament explicitly develops it as such. First Corinthians,

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John Chapter one. The difference, it's not the link that

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makes it typological. It's the divine commentary elsewhere and scripture.

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So you don't look and go, well, the length of

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this says, I can look at it typological, symbolical, metaphorical, allegorical. No,

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do you have anything else in the Bible that says, hey,

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do you have anything in the immediate text that says,

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look at it symbolically, allegorical whatever? Or do you have

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another passage somewhere that interprets it in a symbolic allegorical way,

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then you can if you have some other text that

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tells you to do that. How about the Raising of

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Lazarus fifty seven verses, Should we treat lazarus resurrection as

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a metaphor for spiritual rebirth? In all cases? Many do that.

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It is a historical narrative with clear theological implications, But

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it's not an allegory unless the text signals it now

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over into over and over. Pastors do this. They go

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to a text and just start adding symbolic meaning. Unless

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there's something in the text that indicates that you have

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Acts ten through eleven. I've got a number of examples

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Ai gives, but we have Peter's vision of Crenilius sixty

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six verses combined important redemptive historical turning point. The Gentiles

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receive the spirit, but the text interprets itself. Peter explains

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the meaning, and the Church confirms it again. Theology drawn

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from the narrative is authorized by textual signals not inferred

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from length. And then Ai points out something, isn't it ironic?

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Don't you think? Okay, I'm borrowing from isn't it ironic?

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That Acts twenty seven is not one of the places

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where Luke gives us any theological commentary. It is one

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of the most straightforward eyewitness style travel narratives, and all

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of Acts It's length likely reflects Luke's presence, maritime detail

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and suspense. As Paul heads to Rome, not symbolism. If

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length implies allegory, you break the Bible. If we follow

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Shriner's logic, any long narrative is symbolic. Historical accounts are

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simply parables and disguise. Reader's imagination becomes the key interpreter

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and the intent of the author, who cares the text

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becomes pliable, not authoritative. This opens the door to the

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Bunyan style allegory, medieval typology, and modern devotional metaphor, none

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of which are grounded and careful biblical exegesis. And of

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course then you could say, well, Genesis one through two,

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that's fifty six verses. Maybe it's just a metaphor. Maybe

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it's just an allegory. Maybe God didn't really create things

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in six days. Maybe maybe creation is just a metaphor.

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It doesn't tell us how it's done. It's just it's

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telling us something else. How about the passion narratives, Death, Baryl,

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Resurrection of Christ Matthew twenty six through twenty eight, one

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hundred and forty verses, Matthew fourteen through sixteen, one hundred

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and twenty verses, Luke twenty two through twenty four, one

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hundred and fifteen verses, John eighteen through twenty one, one

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hundred and forty verses. Each gospel devotes three to four

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full chapters to the events surrounding Christ's death Baryl trial, crucifixion,

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Baryl resurrection. If we follow Schriner's logic, do these long

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sections mean they must be primarily symbolic or metaphorical. Should

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we interpret the Cross as a metaphor for personal suffering

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or the resurrection as a symbolic for emotional renewal? Absolutely not.

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These are the most historically and philologically anchored events in scripture,

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repeatedly affirmed as literal redemptive acts by the rest of

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the Bible. AI completely rejects this approach outright. That is

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just completely wrong. So AI concludes this way, if we

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follow the standard put forth in this article the Gospel

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Coalition RG, nearly every lengthy, phiological, rich narrative is treated

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as an open canvas for symbolic meaning, not a text

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to be executed for what it actually says. This ends

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up aligning with devotional metaphorical style of the Pilgrim's progress

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life as allegory morning and evening verse simply as a

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prompt or my utmost for his high as texts as

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an introspective springboard, and now Biblical theology being used to

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justify metaphorical reinterpretation. Then AI says the irony. Schriner's article

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warns against using Acts twenty seven merely as a life

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application metaphor weathering storms, but then turns around and uses

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it as a cosmic gospel metaphor. It's the same hermineutical mistake,

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just dressed in philological clothing. In both cases, the objective

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historical meaning of the text is displaced by symbolic meaning

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and posed upon it. If Shriner's interpretive logic is correct,

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all long narratives would carry hidden or symbolic meaning. We

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would be forced to reinterpret the creation and Crucifixion accounts metaphorically.

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That would undermine the historical, redemptive and theiological foundation of

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the Bible itself. And that's why narrative length and detail

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can never be used as a hermonutical key. Meaning comes

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from the author's intent, the genre of the passage, and

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textual and canonical clues, not from how many verses is

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used to tell a story. And just remember this, versus

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were not in the original. There wasn't like, oh, there's

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twenty verses, sixty verses, There wasn't chapter divisions, and there

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weren't verses. So even using that as a way to

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try to well, look at how many verses are used,

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it's got to mean something. There weren't any verses, so

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why are you counting verses? Once again, we have Acts

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twenty seven being turned into a metaphor, and no, I

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would challenge you to go to the Gospel Coalition dot

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org if you want to spend three hundred and thirty

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nine dollars and go to their conference, by all means,

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go have a great time in Indianapolis, all right, By

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all means go. And I'm not even saying that in

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a sarcastic way. You want to support the conference industrial complex,

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you get your money, you go spend it, all right.

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I think at some point people need put it. And

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if you support the conference industrial complex, don't tell me

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you're against celebrity culture and Christianity because you're supporting celebrity culture.

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Because what are you paying three hundred and thirty nine

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dollars for? Let me tell you. Let me see what

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to hear the Bible taught? Yeah, that means you're paying

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money to hear the Word of God taught. That's you

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don't see a problem with it. Okay, but go read

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the article Biblical theology helps explain Paul's ce journey. In

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Act twenty seven. We read the introduction. We read the

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first paragraph of the first point, which is Paul the Conqueror.

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All right, and you can just see how he handles

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it in a symbolic way. Yeah, well we'll get into that. Yeah,

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I want to start taking it apart. But we're already

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at fifty one minutes. I've already done my point. We

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could start taking apart. You start taking it apart. Their

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second point, Paul's the new Jonah. Paul is the prophet. Oh, yeah,

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there we go. Oh, you can register to hear of that.

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Patrick Shriner will lead a TGC virtual cohort, the Mission

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ends April to twenty ninth. Hang on, Oh, here we go.

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Oh I can register today. Go here we go. Oh,

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I gotta put in my credit card. Oh, guess what.

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It's two hundred and ninety nine dollars. I have to

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pay two hundred and ninety nine. Oh my, now, I'm

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gonna lose it two hundred ninety nine dollars to hear

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this man walk through Acts on Fridays from two to

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It's a six week online cohort, six week study, six session,

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six session weekly online cohort. So it's just on Tuesdays.

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I guess for six weeks, and I'm gonna pay two

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hundred ninety nine dollars. And we just saw all the

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hermeneutical errors. Two hundred ninety nine dollars for that. Man,

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I gotta stop recording podcast episodes and giving them away.

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I gotta stop. I gotta do. You gotta just have

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some major ministry support you. And then you're like, hey,

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three hundred dollars and I'll give you six lessons. What Christianity.

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I don't get it. It's it's a business, ladies and gentlemen.

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It's a business. And you know what's being sold right here,

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the preaching and teaching of God's Word. The preaching and

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teaching of God's Word. I have no words. Acts twenty

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seven is a historical narrative. It means what it says

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by the words that are used. Now you go to

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read the go to Gospel Coalition dot RGI. Read the

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article for yourself. Read it. It's going to sound good,

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it's going to sound philological, it's going to sound academic.

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It's going to sound smart, and who knows your pastor

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may see it has preach a sermon on Acts twenty

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seven in the next couple of weeks or months, and

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you're going to know exactly where it came from. All right,

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thanks listening, everyone, have a great Saturday. I'm gonna go

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give up. God bless h