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What why Grimes is called responded to your questions 2276 just like always want to hear from you. Give me call you on the board is running some windows your left and right try to catch up with some stuff. It's been busy lately. It's a good alright alright so to do is just jump right on the phones was good to Anthony from Virginia Anthony welcome mat that we were having a conversation about the grounding of knowledge. You remember from a couple days ago and why did was our last conversation I actually went back and looked at the video and I transcribed it and read it to make sure I was understanding your argument now is having a hard time understanding at the time but I think thought about the questions you are up to me and develop responsive and outgoing. If I couldn't deliver them at this time. When the time the shots I hear you're a bit off breaking up can you hear me go ahead and hear me yes go ahead out of people grounded their knowledge. Your basic argument is there must be a reason for the universality of concept we are using example of the number two so your basic question was how do we explain the universality between people of the under of the knowledge of the number two is that accurate knowledge of the grounding of tales say again, people have the ability to understand various things but can they ground why it is atheist can be moral atheist can use logic atheist can count, can they ground their morality, their rationality of accounting is the thing which is very supportive sank to the ground.

It can he provide or establish a perspective or set of actualities, rational ones that provide the under girding foundation for those positions.

Okay I met the question I want to answer to that that are are all of our ideas and that is knowledge is grounded and that idea it concept that we generate in our own minds based on observation of the reality and there's no there's nothing beyond that. There is no external like what I called Platonic ideal of the existing in the universe and beyond our mind what they like the okay using you grounding a conservation circulars and presupposing that what you observe actually represents reality you presupposing that your senses are accurate is called empiricism and empiricism has lots of problems because it's subjective.

How do you know what sense awareness you have of the environment is the same sense awareness somebody else has for you to say that it just is. Can't be grounded because your experience is subjective and not universal. The self and will reside at hand that right now there's not available valued not a valid option okay will let me let me read my response to why a concept is universal in your it or why you have to question why are they, and any in the example, it was widely example of the two universal between mine and is my answer. The concept is not universal what is happening is that different people with different rational minds are generating nearly identical concepts in their minds based on their individual privations and experiences of reality. The reason the concepts are in harmony, is that because the concept formed by each individual correspond to the same mutually shared reality of the existing universe. This is why people will disagree on more complex subject to is a simple enough concept that most people can easily generate a youthful accurate concert of an arguable conform with each other.

However, for more complex subject and concept. People have different abilities to form accurate mental construct an example I would get in the car. Another different level car is a concept like to have the confidence will hold on to the dinner Jack I say all you're doing is thinking the question you just going back to the issue of empiricism say these concepts are generated is nearly identical concepts are generated based on basically with you, observe, this is empiricism right though what you acknowledge their hold on okay okay I really told you. The problem with empiricism is doing are you I often have to explain this over and over to people who don't have a biblical worldview because they are beginning with their legs tied together and are trying to get entered to race with the Christian logician theologian, the can't compete, but they don't know they can't compete because their worldview was insufficient. The Christian worldview is complete and provides the ultimate authority which rests in God's nature.

What you're doing is trying to rest ultimate authority and truth values and Christological issues in human concepts in human level, so you're automatically not in a God perspective your humanist when you say that generating concepts we generate them because of based on observations and what you're saying is there is a universal concept that relates to actuality from the physical sense but what is that bridge between the actuality that exists and the concept. Why is it that one person who senses are different than your senses. We come up with the same thing if epistemological issues are based on empiricism, then it would imply then that the subjectivity of it of experience and perception somehow has a universal awareness with that self refuting because subjective experience cannot universal, so empiricism is self refuting. In that sense I know it you want to move to the topic of impure which I would like to defend. Would you agree that there is an external reality to be observed that God had created the universe and it it actually this course would you agree that our scented are capable at least that level of observing the universe and basically forming concept about what were observing in our mind can only do that. Can we observe the universe and of getting concept of it actuality in our mind, that's the problem. The question is can you. How do you know that what you observe is actual so here's an illustration I give to people. We discussed these things how empiricism is based upon observation and conclusions based on observation a man is walking down the road to the left.

5 feet is a cliff to the right 5 feet as a forest in this road. This path is a thousand feet long. He's walking down this path in a tiger jumps out at him from the forest. He docs the tire goes over the cliff and the man's idea is all I have to do is dock whenever a tiger jumps at me. He's observing this and he's drawing a conclusion based on this observation.

She goes on a want to test his theory and lo and behold 100 feet later. Second tiger jumps.

He did docs again because of the cliff. The man estate. He concludes that his docking is what saves him, but it's incorrect.

It's only part of the solution, but the condition only works in a particular environment so observation depends on your environment and the rationale that you put with that. This is why empiricism is weak.

You can elevate knowledge on empiricism.

You have to build a test it and you have people tested and with his consistent enough studies of candid hold on in order to do that you have to impose rationalism, which is that knowledge is gained through rational means sufficient to show you empiricism a rationalism or are bedfellows with the each have to have presuppositions that would justify the presuppositions and discomfort felt a million times. Okay, right. I think I think you will you're still out of the home. I want to be quiet. I think your your failing because empiricism on Hannity okay well you understand he has had you don't understand. I'm not saying you can't look at something and learn I'm saying is what you get. You guys don't get you can't justify ultimate knowledge using empiricism. I think you can, because what U you you generate on the concept of the is only tell me what's ultimate what's ultimate knowledge. What ultimate is God in the reality that you created in the empiricism cannot be used because God is not determined or known empirically. You're different. But how adolescents create your creation is on look if you're ultimate is God.

And yet you want to be in empiricist, then you're saying that empiricism has to be that which judges God and the truth values come out of his nature and his essence, and that's all category error. It is not a total answer, but it can be used to establish thumb through it. Not every Catholic the younger to ask you if empiricism is true. Did you use empiricism to validate empiricism you have you thought, you will get you. Did you know empiricism you trash you rational ideas. If then you then if you don't use empiricism to validate empiricism than you refute empiricism. If you use rational, let me finish. If you use something else to validate empiricism, then empiricism is invalidated because it's been something else. Empiricism is not the way you want to go to determine ultimate truth can only give you theoretical ideas of truth, but you'll even know if those are right because are not grounded in anything other than the empirical method which ultimately self refuting study that I get I get for not arguing is that you're arguing that the general concept of empiricism that what I'm arguing is that we can use our scented to gain an accurate understanding of reality at a party level. How do you know because I was a square auto E equals MC squared is an accurate representation of reality but is not determined by your your senses is not in her that because it is imperative not a complete answer to all we can use what's called ration and rationality as adjunct to enter the paper but the quick favor, put your hand from your face that looked to left no dislike for some side several times to cosseted her question at it. If our sentence cannot beat you at. Determinate determination of what he really did not hear me you don't listen to me. Okay, we can start our scented we can say that Anthony you don't listen, you don't listen, I didn't say you can't use your senses or you can't trust your senses. I keep telling you, your senses are not the basis for ultimate truth, ultimate you LT by M AAR Google. It's not the basis of ultimate truth. It had not. You're right, they are misrepresenting me you don't understand what I'm saying this time I'm not in a difficult lot of people who aren't Christians. I'm not arguing that imperative limited basis for ultimate truth I'm using art I'm arguing that this is due.

That's what were talking about that. A list of aphasia. Listen to what was is often a falsely like that three open lines 87720776 max Y call 77077 I was clear but Anthony senses the way over already.

Nicole three open line coming to open lines 877-207-2276 go to Rev. Harvey from Georgia welcoming on your map. All I called her the other day about the discussion on your car informed about their atonement will have another question today only that about the difference between imputation impartation for the garden, Jesus bearing our sin can then be imputed Jesus without contaminating him through impartation yes because into imputed is a legal transfer and impart is a substance transfer builder.

Basically the differences so to impart something to to somebody that has a similar meaning to impute, but imputed strictly legal thing and so to impart. Is it kind of a transference of more than just legality or something of the legality, but a kind of presence or essence or something like that to impart this to him gave him with the ability to see you imparted to impute as a legal transfer and so our sins were imparted imputed to Christ extremely okay Yep that's what I agree with that support the theme of thinking their atonement. Things like some of the people that don't are blatant imputation and with impartation Catholics call us Catholics and cults to the Eastern Orthodox Catholics in the Colts. They said they were confused by confusing justification and sanctification justifications legal and signification is more internal work.

God imparts to us the spiritual presence of this will to confuse them. That's why there is false because they don't see the difference, but would love to have you on they are. Many of the cabinets informed.

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I tried to get in no no I can't get in. I try to try for an hour. I went to different passwords I can't get in it all even locked me out of the call of Dara who's the one who runs it, she does for me and she couldn't get me on either yeah so it's a little problem and the waiting for the system to give me a reset and it. I wanted to do it and it wouldn't work and so now I have to go when the S FTP I to find out which file to download alter the file and then upload it's about the right SCh mod settings then I can hopefully give you an excellent I do that it's a project that looked to have you might appreciate or a fleet got a lot of interest in the deep things of their don't know if you can tell by the questions we ask or whatever, but would be glad to have what I'd like to get in there like to set up a discussion time.

I've offered it to him for many people who are anti-reformed and on Facebook. Of the many time to different venues are different forms there.

I mean if official pictures said hey look, I know reformed theology well I know how to write a biblically if any of you have any questions. I am an open up a visual, verbal chat room. Here's the thing.

It'll happen on on this date at this time. No, and I opened up all the critics, all of the critics who hate reformed theology don't show up and then we ask him why they say, because it will be fair left so they have their excuses for bad to not actually have someone answer the questions in real time what they want is written stuff I have time to write it all the stuff out and then have them ignore the points that I raise in a written form that have it then it takes more and more and more writing in order to get it done where I can just answer the minor stands going on that that's a directors life that go in and they're not interested in.

It's interesting. So why is that maybe you could ask would you be interested in having Metzler come in or arrange assume Colby can have a bunch of people meeting different place. We can have discussions on this.

You can fire questions and I can show you stuff, etc. see what they say it will give you excuses right away so it would shut the tag here video in there on the form so that they can about the Robo monster will be willing to wait for you then you all. I'll try again tonight just to see if I can figure it out but asking and didn't just say would you be interested in a mess trying to get in but is having trouble getting a believer, not even Leona. But is no tech problem that happens to this asking through the logistics with exclusive right in the thank you for what you do for thank you could go blessed. All right, let's make this clear. Yeah I am reformed my theology. If you're not, that's okay with me. Unclear. When I have a problem with his people who attack another Christian perspective and do it unfairly with gossip with misrepresentation and are not open to been corrected that the everydayness is right, but not open to being correct because a lot of people who attack reformed theology don't understand it and it's very true and I'll say all you disabled understand anything. I know you understand this concept that we teach and about decree and ordination and understand reformed perspective.

Very often it misrepresented an offer to correct them politely signal there's a physician or documentation on this is your opinion okay.

I look at this talk with you know I just say that you're just demonstrating your own total depravity and I'll I'll often offer opportunities for people to ask questions and I'll be doing that unpatriotic would be working more unpatriotic good picture.com/Matt slick and outside if you want to be having some open Q&A sessions there as well.

Okay, having said all that was good to Josh from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Josh walking on here think that they click my question.

Sure over the last few months I've been talking to what a Mormon missionary and sharing the true gospel with them.

And my question is for the practical question though they God.

They want to grant them salvation by remains of the conversation now think in their wake family. Everybody got them out there living with other Mormon missionaries you have any light practically okay now they're stable. What do I do it the United yes they need to understand. I forgot the exact reference. Jesus says that you must give up mother and father, brother, sister for him if he's greater than all this is a risk that they have to face because I tell people to become Christians. I tell him you have to count the cost, there's always a cost. In Luke 11 Jesus says count the cost and so a lot of people tell others what a Christian told her he become a Christian. Everything will be fine folks, the right leg after these messages to Matt slick. Why call 77077 pairs Metzler. There okay so they have to know the getting involved with because we don't have a false convert were the points that were they to do well if they leave their mission to be ostracized, ridiculed, Sean by the community and so I've known people who have offered Mormon missionaries are on the verge of leaving to say look whatever happens, you come stay with us will provide for to get your feet. That's how severe it can be from missionaries and the to be difficult when you tell me know. It just depends on your particular situation, you can ask, do you think your parents really kick you out, you think all of your friends or to hate you. Do you think your Mormon job you might have as good a fall through because the Mormons what they do is they shoot their own that he thorough and I can tell you I got a story from a guy who's Mormon is true story horrible how the church treat horrible for just asking some questions and so were the Mormon church can turn on you turn on them and they have to know that in this perspective might escape just in case nothing want, but it is that serious. So more in eighth grade asking a question that I could talk a lot more about this company yeah and Mike, my approach typically you get.

I read I think your chapter in the one book on Mormonism going through Monday it out on the Scriptures, but let my approach is bad.

All right, everything about the click of Scripture. My anything you claim to be profit be the word of God cannot contradict what is already established that the word of God. Typically I get them the claim make the claim. Okay yeah the Bible is Scripture Bible is God's word that I've been okay I think their teaching, not by side with Scripture and the God of Mormonism, the God of the Bible is the gospel of Mormonism the gospel.

The Bible I can approach it that way and show them the contradict knowledge to get them out right rounded it out that a good approach that if an afterthought vacant that conversation on am fine with having them pump that my health Laura try to put together even a network within our church than a would be willing. You know we have a lot of Mormons a big market that will go again at Pittsburgh to be proactive rather than reactive sleep is building a temple after yeah they have five S. half hour about that for 20 minutes because one of things I do is go out with. Sometimes I do connect to the Pocatello one I could make it but I flown different places and driven different places to be a temple openings and hold up signs and suites going different places and you and I know in fact, if you were to contact MRM lately.

Maybe listing right now that the Bill McKeever Eric Johnson with Mormonism research ministry. They are at some fantastic and there Johnson goes out and he does a lot of that and you pass out literature goes in the areas and I like to help him. He doesn't faithfully I'm not very faithful at it, but you never know because if you could tell me was a map of one of the Pittsburgh want to go to the bank was going so you never know. I don't always look for places where people put us up in us buddy to give the writer and stuff like that and then that he tries to get speaking engagements out there. I would do the same thing for other pretty regularly.

Contact MRM MRM REIT.org and check when I have asked about their awesome yet when I have questions that those are the guys a call from one of Mormonism is little the these guys do three credible great yeah but I have a group where you got the temple and everything on my part apologetic but next week, that's not worth more generally fundamental right clap but I clear your ministry event you help a lot will appreciate that MRM would be glad to do video teaching.

I would do that as well that's good I say to Bill and Eric are the experts. They are the experts and to Sandy Tanner. I know Sandra, she's the world's expert on on Mormons use Mormons better than warmest, and she's a writer and Selleck city proper. So any rate, so you never know that you never know go often, emailed out and rolling down your 1 o'clock when morphing look up look up the impossible gospel okay and it was developed by Keith Walker think the impossible gospel and what it does, it goes through Mormon teachings. I got it on my website to buy forgot where and basically the Mormon theology says you can't get to heaven. If you have sin you can be forgiven if you have sin you can forsake all of your sins, but if you commit the same sin than all the former since Québec upon you is that of the NCI thing right music and so you say you can eat and how I've listed the long times I've had to use it. But if if the Mormon gospel is laid out to Mormons. It's impossible to be forgiven. According Mormonism you have to be perfect and I also love Barack 1032, which ought to talk to them in on all say the but it says he had to dice deniers of all ungodliness and if you deny yourself of all of God's, then God's grace is sufficient for you and ask you tonight is a long godliness. Electronic also you have not that this was set and so that the Mormonism you know it doesn't work at 75 2523 save a grace have to face after all you can do all he could do no matter what it thing when you when you think I did… Bullet on your website. I don't even know that a lot.

Of course not. Once this is really interesting.

Once I picked up the couple to my age at the time of the older they had a flat tire and take amounts to get a story in all gas station to work and then have self-respect and talking animals looking for an opportunity to talk and they said they were just converts to the Mormon church two years ago. This really will love you before the Baptist is at all okay so then do you know that that Mormonism teaches God you see a man on the planet. They look to be like it was a moral on this. It is teach that is yet does and that you have to have people lost the celestial law, and yet they have secret handshakes that were to go to the temple and Italy's rituals have potential becoming a God of your own planet and they both looked visit.

You have no idea what you're talking about studying this and they said no it doesn't teach us ago Esther Bishop and I dropped them off. You never know what happened with that just an example of how they morphed most Mormons don't know what Mormonism teaches most Mormons don't know about the Mountain Meadows massacre with the Mormon officially murdered over hundred 20 men women and children. Mountain Meadows massacre or the Haun's Mill massacre. What happened because of that, with the Mormon of other people did when they hacked try to hacked to death a soldier with the sword in here all the stuff it, or how the D&C doctrine and covenants been altered severely or how the a rental fiery has been discovered exactly part of the Joseph Smith had his own hands and wrote on the back of it. If it is a book of Mormon and they been able to translate the book of Abraham achieving been able to translate it, and has nothing to do with what he said absolutely nothing. There's so much fact out there. Mormons don't care about don't want to know. And if you say I can prove it is false.

They going to appear their deceptions upon the right always. Almost truthful relative to the problem with that is the whole desert is sent by Jesus, but their Jesus is not the God of the Bible, not the Jesus of the Bible because the Jesus of the Bible's prayed to worship and called God, but their Jesus even prayed will be to worship: so they don't have the Jesus of the Bible and therefore the true Jesus is the Holy Spirit who bears witness of truth. They don't have the true Jesus that Jehovah spirit something is impersonating the Holy Spirit right got you beat them Mormonism about that is so true that I've said that sometimes good teacher Mormonism to show how bad it is yet right Josh I had in the bumper that I freaking okay Matt got blessed. All right, that was Josh from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. If you going to be calling 772072276 Lucy Tiberius from New Jersey better break coming up but that's what get what he got and how are you. Thanks for taking my call.

Loki lifted the harm question is are you the first F: three of them lie. Calling 772076 max Y call 77077 charismatic slave back on okay. Quick question for you regarding first Corinthian 15 and four Byrd.

What I received I pressed upon you.

It is important that Christ died for our thing. According to the Scripture ED because you can find that the Scripture by the authority goes on the day that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the Scripture cannot find that anywhere in Old Testament Scripture wanting to get a perspective on Psalm 116 is at once and will allow his holy one to see corruption. And that's what it's reference to stage III days necessarily, but Jonah represents three days of the decree to the will of God, one thinking I think so let's see I can double check it, it's there is just Psalm 01 16 W Psalm 1610 for you will not abandon my soul to shoal nor will you allow your holy one to undergo decay got it got it perfect for you Matt. I appreciate everything you do on this kind of slick that God bless you and thank you for all you do good all right goblins. Also, I just happen to have a good Bible program in front of you has cross-references and with no spec deal test with his and is given the reference so that's why do you think about that smart. I just practiced my tools. All right, let's get to Mitchell from Charlotte, North Carolina, Mitchell welcome around here. I'm not good all right so we got but I got a quick question box on your article that you recommend to learn about the culture I get on I can enjoy culture in the old jerk out of pocket money and they recommended a book by George the rear ends slave is to see was a Roman historian and render your 90-ish give or take. But if you want to know you took manners and customs of the oath of the Jewish time.

You can literally do just look it up on on on the thing you do online, whatever of manners and customs of the Bible by James Freeman is one manners and customs of Bible lands by Fred Rupp white WI GHD handbook of Bible customs by Freeman so you know it there's this little lots of them and one that I have learned a lot out of his poet and peasant and through peasant eyes by Kenneth Bailey, but there's something in that the people know that I'll tell you, but it's a two-volume set poet and peasant and through peasant eyes is Bailey PAI Ellie why would go on the web and also just look up books that show the customs and manager manners and customs of the Bible you'll find just a plethora of books but this one poet and peasant through peasant eyes. Not only will show you culture, but it will also introduce you to Chi gastric structure and it's very interesting Chi gastric structure right it'll introduce you to chiasm CH IASM chiasm and it's not very known among Christian students know chiasm was a linguistic tool used by the ancients to be able to memorize long portions of Scripture and so for example, a chiasm, the skull, the step chiasm, ask, seek and knock has BAS Kate ask, and it be given seek so Jesus is asking you find seek in this document and this is for he who asked for he who seeks for he would not switch a SK a escape in English. Will they would do the same thing but they would've memorized the pattern of the understood but will be asked then seek the knock then repeat ask and seek the knock so you have to memorize one thing and you got to memorized. Let's call the step chiasm was down the repeat to go down the same way. But then you can go and do well, chiasm work, let's say hypothetically I'm have five verses five thoughts 12345 let's say an the first thought in the fifth thought the same like to discuss the same thing. This second and the fourth discussed the same thing.

And the third is by itself.

And so it is the point of the discussion since it is a Chi gastric structure so people would memorize like 1232345123 this is left to right and 345 is right to left with a wood go backwards memorizing the points and it turns out that this is in the Scriptures. A great deal if you want to know about it go to car okay right now carman.org/footsie parables. The significant forward for parables and you and for example the good Samaritan. I think it is the product is meant to do the prodigal son. I think I have a Chi gastric structure. Yet there is Chi gastric structure because in the first port port part of that pretty. The whole thing a son is lost in the very last son is found in the second part was a beginning graduation extravagant living and using joyful celebration towards the end in the middle point is a change of mind initial repentance. That's the whole think and what you can see what it is you go check it out and read the book will show this, and it is extremely helpful to hold a okay on about how I thank you very bless you today. Let's go to Julie from Virginia Julie welcoming on their Matt taken my file. I'm not quite. I just want your thoughts on that gap. I learned about an the gap theory is is an idea that between Genesis chapter 1 verse one and verse two is a gap so verse one says in the beginning God cleared the heavens and the earth. Verse two is after the gap and the earth was formless and void and darkness was over the surface of the deep they say there's between is a gap and that everything was fine and the angelic realm happened in the fall happen and God had to do stuff again and kind of move again to re-create kind of, there's a gap that's the issue I'd I don't hold it all okay Dr. I Given like a video on YouTube about it and if you don't believe Nanette Eric denying the truth of the pipe and out like it was because it would. It says in the beginning God could heavens and the earth. Okay, could heavens and earth. The earth was formless and void, so the thing that he created was without form and void and now they're saying oh there's between, there's a gap. This is earth was with wasted with waste and emptiness and hope now you have to have a theological construct. In between there lolled a whole bunch of others and if you don't believe that your your lost or you don't know the truth, what would you get all that in their but they're actually saying the gap or sink. It splits not there there arguing for the gap great amounts of time in eons of time right so we have article on it. Written by a woman I Helen Fryman are years and years ago in 2008 and was a gap there. You can check it out will do it.

Welcome some semblance.

Okay, let's get to JT from Virginia JT welcome around here. JT looks I got with the button I better address the benevolent okay JT on here is questionable.

I want to start off with good luck to the point where I don't really believe I'm saved anymore. All because I've been reading about regeneration and everything and without all of the mark that you need to prove your youth actually been generated, and the like.

How do we know that will help the obedient good for you think works to prove that you're actually you don't nothing you don't have any general staff is not your works like if you saved it's your face, faith in God grants to you. God grants that you have faith things. 129 in the faith that you have. He gives you to have in Christ Jesus.

That's John 629 and told the apostles as Romans 452, the one who does not work but believes his faith is reckoned as righteousness is nothing you can do to improve the before God works demonstrated for people that your fear faithful but believe you have to understand that your salvation is not based on your goodness. You may say, as some do what I believe, but why not as good as I think I should be in certain areas. That's the issue that multicolor time to talk and so you see, what if there's a man who has a particular sin and bliss. Every few months he falls into it and he hates it and he goes to Jesus. Each time it says forgive me just best up a repentance. A few months later he falls into it again to go to the cross again a few months later it happens again. I ask God to give him the power to resist that particular sin can be several cents but loses one and for 50 years of his life never has complete victory over it is the man saved you is not his success over sin that makes him say it's his faith in Christ and his continued appeal to crypto Christ and trust in Christ is the evidence of his salvation, not how well he does. There are constantly about you know about like work the note work before salvation, the like. After they are supposed to get work on the part where our anything right now I don't have any obedient collectively coming for 30 closed all cargo well and wishing more time to talk about it at a time.

How would you feel a call back tomorrow and let's talk about this because you remind me of me so many things like this, which is better. How come this I've learned over the years to trust him more. More than me. I know what you mean there are certain things you gotta get rid of nest struggles will talk about tomorrow email timing.

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