Unashamed with the Robertson Family - Ep 5 | Tiger Woods vs Jesus, Treasure Hunting, and Genesis

Episode Date: May 26, 2019

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Welcome to the Unashamed podcast with Phil Robertson, your host, Al Robertson, along with Jace and Phil, some redneck wisdom from down here on the river. We're loving that you guys are joining us. Today we're going to be, we're going to talk about Genesis 1, although it takes us a little while to get there. We'd have to talk about some of Jace's reasons why he married Missy, which I think you'll find interesting. You know, there's even a comparison between Jesus and Tiger Woods. So, I mean, just, is really going to be interesting, as well as, of course, how God created the planet and why we believe that. So sit back and get ready. It's going to be good. I am unachanged. What about you?

So, Jace, have you been doing anything? You've been anywhere interesting or done anything interesting here lately? I'm in between events. I get, I got, actually, I have one tomorrow that I'm going. I'm not sure where I'm going. but uh so i you know i hadn't been doing a whole lot i did take mea fishing and you know the thing with me i was just i had that hunting fishing in in my veins i mean that that's what excites me well with all my kids they do it but they're not as excited as i was you know when i was a kid so i was explaining to her because she said yeah i'll go but i mean she said dad don't take this wrong but fishing's kind of boring and i'm like look that's why

why they call it fishing. I mean, so I was giving her the story because I was trying to play it down. But I'm telling you, when we went out there and I found this place where, and it's actually, you know, someone I know, and it's their private pond,

I would call it a lake. And I don't want to say who it is because I don't want them to know that I'm down there catching all their cropping. But they gather up under this old school now. Under this bridge right before dark. But, you know, sometimes you go down there, it don't happen.

But we went out there, and I'm telling you, it was literally as fast as you could put the bait in the water. Boom, boom, boom, boom. I bet we caught the first 25 in 10 minutes, and she caught most of them because I was trying to get the same type of bait tied on. But by the time I got it tied on, we had 25, how many of you want? So did she say, okay, it's not as boring as I thought it was? Well, that's what she said. She said, well, if we could do this every time, I might get into this. And I was like, well, I hate to tell you this.

I've been on the earth almost 50 years, and that was top five croppy fishing moments. And I'm glad you were part of it. And one of these days, you're going to think this is way more cool than it actually is right now. So she took the little bit. You remember, Jace, the bloodline with each generation begins to be watered down somewhat. And they have words for your particular, your daughter. they have like she's part of the what do they call it now z generation ex generation generation she's generation what are we going to after z do we start i don't know but it's going

it's going down it's what so you got to factor that in you know the bloodline is weakening with each generation i'm married a sophisticated woman these things happen i mean there's a balance of i'm calling sophistication and what are we red neckification Probably so. Well, see, you got that method. Jase is his setting, Dad. So it's sort of, you remember the show of Green Acres? You know, the lawyer from New York, and he's got the socialite wife, one of the Gabors, you know.

So they move out to the country. And so she's wanting to be the socialite. He's trying to be a farmer, you know, that's his goal. That's the basis of a show. Well, that's Jay's life. You know, Missy, you know, convinced Jace to buy this plantation, you know, that was around one of it was 1700 or something oh yeah they bought the land at like 1780 or you know so now she wants to she's imagining you know these weddings and yeah fancy social settings and then

you got jason there you know wanting to hunt and fish it well look here's what happened oh treasure hunting i have found more stuff on that plantation i mean i'm into this metal detection now you're talking a good clean fun. It's right under actual hunting because you're hunting. Once you get past all the frequencies going off in your head, you know, it's static. I went out there, I'm digging up old shovels and cans, but I figured out, okay, there's a lot of stuff under the ground. But here's where we had our moment that describes our relationship. She had this kind of an open house because we're making it a wedding venue place. And so we wanted people to come see, hey, come have your wedding here. But she's remodeling it.

Not changing the history of it, but, you know, doing what she does. Spending a lot of money, basically. And so I'm out here because, look, I found their trash pile. And I found a listerine bottle from 1920. Because when I Googled it, it said they quit making these with the cork in like 1925 or whatever. Well, I had one that had a piece of the cork. But here's what got me. Then it had out to the side 30 bucks.

I'm like, that bottles worth $30? I was like, I got to go back into that hole where I found it. So now I found probably 100 bottles, but I have a four by six foot hole in front of the house. And so she comes out there, I got the big party the next day, you know, and I'm literally, the only thing sticking out of the hole. Digging up the yard.

Yeah, it's my head. And look, she looked at me and look, she just busted out bawling. And I was like, what's wrong? I thought she was happy that I'm finding all this treasure. Tears of joy. No. Look at these bottles, honey.

She said, I have these people coming over. I was like, babe, I can put the dirt back in the hole. See, she views Jay's. He's like a dog that digs out the flower bed right before the company shows. That's the way she's viewing Jay's. She don't realize what I have to go through being married to her. I mean, look, the last time we were at the airport, I mean, this is a week ago. I just observed from afar.

and I said, yeah, that's old geez. No, what? Look. Look. We're at the airport. You know, and we're in the, you know, the line where you get special, it's the fast track, whatever they call that. TSA. Yeah.

And so we come up there. Well, we walk up there together to show our. He said, sir, wait your turn. And I'm looking around like, is he talking to me? And she said, that's my husband. He went, oh, I'm sorry. I'm like, what did you say? happening.

They just summed up the whole thing right there. He thought you were just some homeless guy. I'm like, what are you doing with a woman like this? Give her some space. Remember, Jason. You've been extricated and shown the door at Trump Hotel because. They thought it was an almost. And look what happened.

We got to be good friends. That's right. That's right. And I thought I handled that, you know, pretty decent because I thought, here's my deal everybody's talking about oh Trump wants to build a wall and you know my first experience with the Trump organization was at that hotel and I realized yeah they put safety at a high regard which they should because the first thing they did when I walked in was escort me out facial profiling so so just the audience you may not have heard the story this was a few years ago we were at the

Trump and staying there which we we always liked staying at the Trump way before Trump was president just because they have they have yeah this is before that happened so this is bone in rib eyes that's why dad likes it is living large no it's a nice place especially if somebody else is paying for it that's right so we were all heading over to do a show no we were going to a musical that's no no this was in the morning we this was in the morning and we were going to do because because here's how I know why it was the Michael and Kelly or whatever you know yeah yeah because you told the story. So, so Jace, he comes downstairs with the

lobby of the Trump, there's no bathroom. So he would have to go back upstairs. Yeah, I didn't want to go back upstairs. So they said, sir, if you'll just go next door to the restaurant, you know, it's not open, but there's a restroom. So Jace goes over the restaurant, it's not open, it's right next door. Well, he walks in there, and they're eyeing him up, and so they just show him the door literally. Well, the guy grabbed my arm. I said,

where's the restroom? And he said, oh, right this way, but he grabbed my elbow and I thought, that's weird. You know, New York can't have enough. Well, I didn't know. I'm like, why are you making physical contact with me leading me? It just seemed weird. Well, then he was literally taking me outside. And you know what I thought?

I thought, well, these trumps, they got some kind of bathroom outside the building. Because I'm looking around. You're looking to Central Park is what you're looking at. Yeah, and then he pointed to Central Park and said, have a good day, sir. And I'm like, well, what? And by the time I turned around to say, what just happened here, oh, he's already back in.

So you come around, come back in. I had to circle around because I didn't want him calling the law. And Missy's like, I thought you had to go to the bathroom. That's the first thing she said. I was like, I do. I just got escorted out of here for being a threat to you. So you tell us that, and we're all laughing because it's like, well, of course. So then Jay Springs up on the show, they were,

were doing, y'all were doing. I did. It's on national TV. Right. Well, I just thought it was funny. I mean, I was, I didn't really wasn't trying to make a political statement about it. I just thought it was a weird thing that happened. And it was funny.

I thought it was funny because I realized with the way I look, it's like when I go through the airport, if people know me, they're like, hey, that's that guy from that Dynasty. If they don't, they're like. Clutching their children and their person. Well, are they calling the police? I did notice that the Trump personnel. all the way to the top, including Mr. Donald J. Trump, I did notice that they got into damage control in a hurry.

You know, I was impressed with them. Number one, I don't know how they found my number. They called me. They were like, we're sorry for that. You know, it was a minor inconvenience. But I kept saying, well, don't fire the guy. I mean, he did his job. If you did not know who I was, I want you escort me out.

If you think I'm a danger or a threat or a vagrant. And so we actually got to be good for. friends of that because then they said the next time you come why don't you play golf why don't you come to one of our places and it'll be on us so i took them up on that wound up meeting with the two sons eric and donald trump junior and really we had a lot in coming when it came to you know our charity lives with dealing with kids with left lip and pallet and then they're hunters and so i'm like hey come duck hunting with me and that's how we got to be friends way before the trumps were running but you know It was interesting.

This is the story about that when it happened. Because, you know, the show was hot, so anything happens to us on a national level. So for, you know, a few hours, it was a story. But the story was, look at that, look at how duck dynes. That's the kind of way they view everybody. Look at how they handle a situation. Because you handle it gracefully.

It's like, you know, I'm not holding it. Which I really didn't think about it. No, but I'm saying the story became that versus, and they had two or three other instances because you can find it every day. where someone is offended. Yeah, I think Oprah got offended because she was in some foreign country and she went into a really expensive shop. And she said, I want to look at that purse.

And it was like, you know, $100,000. And the woman behind the, it wasn't that much, it was a lot. And she's like, I don't think you can afford that. Well, she got offended. Because she took it as a racist. Well, because she's like, I'm black and you don't think of money. Once they interviewed that woman, You know what it was funny?

Because she's like, I'm not a racist. You know, she was like some Scandinavian coach. She said, I'd said it because she was overweight. And most of the time in our culture, people who are overweight don't have any money. So it wasn't that she was black. It's because she was fat is what the woman basically said. Oh, that just made it worse. She should have just said no comment.

That's exactly right. Sometimes it's better not to comment. But anyway, so that's, you know, that's exactly what happens, you know, over time. So anyway, I don't know where we're going with. that but well the bottom line was it's a pretty strong evidence that there is a god when you look at my wife and realize i pulled that off you did do because the only thing we have in common is our faith in jesus that's it but i learned something that's enough that's enough and i tell people that i was like you don't think there's a god look at what i'm married to that's right sometimes it works uh where we've been

talking about, last time we talked about the Bible itself. And so we kind of want to dive in today at the beginning. I don't know a better place to start than in the beginning in Genesis. So part of the, you know, the, you said it, Dad, the most incredible statement, probably in the entire, and there's a lot of great statements. But the very first one is, it's a grabber. When you think about really the three questions of life, you think, how did I get here? Yep. What am I supposed to be doing here? And how am I leaving?

Those three questions stop everybody in their tracks, whether they're a believer or not. How did you get here? You got to come up with some philosophy. What are you supposed to be doing here? What am I going to do? That's right. And how am I leaving is a little more tricky because people are like, what do you mean? Well, you're either leaving in a box, riding.

or there's some consequences or some rewards life after death. So, I mean, really the first verse of Genesis, if you believe that's true in the beginning, God created, then it sets the foundation for what you're going to read. Well, and you're right. The one common thing that all humanity has always had is that we're here. Somehow we got here. Yeah.

Somehow everything we see around us got here. And then there's all these theories about how that happened. You know, what's interesting is we talked before about atheism, which is, you know, basically I don't believe any of this. It was random chance. We're here. Survival of the fittest, Darwin. Theory, yeah, it's all theories.

Which you're not going to prove conclusively either side. Because Hebrews 116 is really clear. without faith if you put your faith in trust in God so you believe the Bible is real but the verse says Hebrews 116 without faith it is impossible to please God faith being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see right so because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and he rewards those who seek him that's what that verse says so you you know if somebody's whispering in your ear which but you know if they say God whispered in my ear, which would be miraculous. It kind of goes against what he says in his Bible that he wants you to come to him through faith. Right.

Now why? Maybe he wants you to search. You know, you have the creation itself, which we believe, Romans 1, among others, that it leads you to a creator. My view is this. And it takes a little bit of, sure enough, contemplating. Let me put it this way. For thousands of years, however long it was back to the Genesis account, creation, the cosmos getting here.

For thousands of years, you have to really listen to this carefully or you'll miss it. We're seated at a table here. There's three of us seated here. For thousands of years, by any count, we were not. not here. We three. We were not here. We didn't exist. Think about what a short period of time we've been here. I've been here 73. You're like, as far as

cosmic time is concerned, that's not long. In other words, 120 years ago, all the people of that day, 120 years ago, 1,900, you say, how many people were on the earth, how many people were there, are any of them here now? You say, they're all gone. Were any of the 7.2 billion, which we're a part of,

were they on the earth at all in 1900? No, they didn't exist. So we went through a long period of time. We three, and a lot with us. We didn't take up any space. And I'm stressing space, thin air. We didn't exist now. We weren't here.

So all of a sudden, that's why I recommend when people say happy birthday, I would rather they say happy conception day. Because when you began to take up space, you were very tiny. One little embryo with a little sperm. and for the first time ever, thousands of years have passed. All of a sudden, each one of us, our mothers united with our fathers,

a little sperm hit an embryo, and you now, for the first time, take up space. And time. And time. And matter. And matter. And look, there's not much there at the end of this. I mean, we are tiny. Okay, we get the idea.

So what? nine months later, you're alive and you're taking up more and more space inside your mother. But you're not out yet. You're still, but you are taking up more and more space and her tummy proves it. All of a sudden, boom, bingo, here we come. Happy birthday. So you come forth. You have no idea where you are, how you go.

got there, right or wrong, you have no idea of sin, of God, of nothing. But you truly are innocent. You truly are innocent. It's fascinating. And for the first time, you're taking up space. I view that next period of time. You're there, and a lot of them, it comes early, something happens, and you quit taking up space.

You're back to where you were when you didn't exist. It happens early sometimes. it happens midway sometimes car wreck heart attack cancer some kind of you say well you're still taking up space your body

that's right so this is the trial period as far as you're taking up space you go through the trial period when you get old enough to know better all of a sudden things like sin comes your way and you begin to look at what everybody dreads physical death

The reason they dread it is because they, based on their previous experience, you didn't exist. Now you do. But you're looking at an end to it. And everybody's very aware. Uh-oh. Physical death. Oh, my goodness. I'm going to go back to where I was before I started when I had no awareness, no space.

I was, I'm fixing to go back there. Oh, my goodness, I'm fixing to disappear again. However, during this trial period, you come upon what's in front of me, the Bible, and you say, wait a minute. And as you begin to go forth, you say, oh, my goodness, the God of creation, Genesis 1-1, the rest of the story says, I'll fix it. Not you. I, God, will fix it so that you can continue to take up space. even after physical death. You live on.

I'll fix it so you'll take up space forever. If you believe in me, I'm the life, the way, the truth, the resurrection. Whoever lives and believes in me, even if he dies, yet shall he live. Jesus destroying death and you're saying, oh my goodness, he's put me here so that I can partake an immortality in eternal life if I so choose. But it's my call. So when we read these stories, you say, there's a lot writing on this. What's writing on it is your ability to take up space and have an awareness way better than before you got here.

You weren't here. You say, you weren't here. You are here. I will give you eternal life. So you'll continue to take up space for, whatever you'll be you'll inherit what I have and you'll continue to live but that's why the the question comes so to me that's a strong argument for following what the Bible says and the one it's about no doubt because time space and matter had to come together so how do you explain that that's right in the

beginning there's the time God created the heavens which is the space and the earth which is the matter I mean that took care of that that saved you a lot of time And not of your doing. Not of your doing. And if you don't believe that, what do you come up with? Well, you know, every once in a while, just, I mean, I'm curious what people are saying and believing because it's constantly changing. You know, firstly said it was not a beginning.

There was just always this energy, you know, that collided with some sort of gas. And but even now, pretty much everybody says there was a beginning, you know, in the beginning, even the people don't believe in God said there was a beginning, but they have, you know, string theory combining with the big crunch with, you know, that produce the gas. And I'm like, that trickle down to at some point life and not just our life, but all the creatures. And, you know, you read fascinating facts when you're reading all this. I mean, like, you know, I read not too long ago that 80 to 90% of the actual living creatures on the earth have yet to even be discovered

when you talk about the smallest of life to the biggest of creatures. Here's the point. You say, you read a text like 2nd Thessalonians. End of time, the return of Jesus, like you mentioned earlier in the last podcast, here comes Jesus. Here comes the Lord Jesus.

He's going to be revealed from heaven. We're waiting on him in blazing fire with his powerful angels. He will punish those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. You're at the trial period. If you're unprepared, this is the way you could be unprepared

and you go back to no space again. They, the ones who didn't take God up on his offer to give them eternal life, they will be punished, listen to the way it reads, with everlasting destruction. He didn't say they'll be destroyed. That would have covered it. He said, no, you will go back into the same position you were in before you ever started taking up space.

I'm going to destroy you everlastingly if you don't know me and you don't obey the death, burial, and resurrection of my son. And you look at that text and you say, boy, we have an opportunity here to live on and on. It's like the Apostle, when he was talking to the Corinthians, he said, if there's no resurrection, even the ones who were followers of Jesus, even those are lost. I mean, they're gone if there's no resurrection. They have no hope. Your faith's futile. If there's no resurrection, you say that living on, that continuum of taking up space is a big thing.

It's enough to motivate me to be prepared for a judgment day. You understand what I'm saying? What gets me so much, though, is our world, people, you know, they're like, I don't believe in God. It's a, you know, a bunch of fairy tales and they'll go on. But you look in our society, look, people love the idea of living forever or selling that. You know, I told y'all, I'm not sure if it was the last couple podcasts, but, you know, Charmin toilet paper just come out with this new, you know, their big new product.

And it was basically that, you know, the woman held it up and said, this is new for 2000. It's called Charmin Forever. And it was a wagon wheel looking roll of toilet paper. And I thought, forever. And then she said, it'll last a normal person about a month. Which, you know, I started thinking people like sigh, and he'd go through that in four days, you know. My point is they put that phrase on there, Charmin Forever.

You said, why? because the idea of that is encouraging. People are like, well, why would I want to ever go buy? All I got to do is buy this. I'll have it forever. And let's face it, who wants to run out of toilet paper, right? That's like the greatest fear.

You reach over for the roll and it's empty. I actually have a problem with that. Yeah, I'm like, that's one thing we're not running out of. You know, I've told this story many times. You have an emergency roll somewhere. Yeah. I have one in my truck. You know, when you get down to the woods,

with the leaves, which will work. But it's just not preferred. So I notice everybody that hunts when we have our buckets and we're at daylight, everybody's getting their stuff out. You always notice everybody has a zip-locked bag, was the toilet paper for emergency purposes. I just hunt up leaves myself. But if it's preached that Christ has not been raised,

if it's preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead? Watch. if there's no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless, and so is your faith.

I can see how people would look at us and say, why do you keep hollering about this? You say, if there's no resurrection, if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is you. More than that, we're found to be false witnesses about God. The Apostle Paul said, we're going around here,

just lying to people about the resurrection. We've testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him. In fact, if the dead are not raised, watch. If the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile. You're still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ, they're lost.

If only for this life, we have hope in Christ. We're to be pitied more than all men. just put the redneck theology on it by saying, I know at one time I didn't take up space. Now I do. I'm seated at this table. Well, and if Genesis 1 is right, if he can create man from dust, then he can also take the same man that died and bring him back if he's the power. The only one that can create matter and destroy it is God himself.

And you say, here we are, Al. Oh, that's right. But what I'm telling you is society is not consistent when they'll argue about things in the Bible. You know, just like Tiger Woods just won the masters. Look, I'll admit, it was one of the greatest sports comebacks. He had four surgeries. His personal life was a wreck, you know, and I watched it. I was like, this is incredible.

This guy. He hadn't won a major in, what, 15 years or whatever. About 10. He does. Everybody's fired up. And then this announcer makes this statement. He says, well, Tiger Woods, I guess, has immortalized himself. And I thought, wait a minute here.

Immortalized? Immortal? As in can't die, which I know he meant his memory will go on forever because I was like, these people like that concept. But it got me to thinking, here's a guy who could take a metal stick and put this round object in a hole in the ground in fewer shots. And immortality as he is. And look, you have a guy who we count time by who actually comes back from the dead and they want to kill him. It's the total opposite. I mean, Jesus was no Tiger Woods. I mean, that's the bad. If he wanted, you know, one-on-one Tiger

Woods and Jesus playing golf, Jesus is going to win because he controls the atoms and the molecules. Oh, that ball is going in the hole. He's going in the hole and yours is not. because all he's got to do is just breathe it offline. It's gone. I think I'd go with Jesus instead of tagger. But that's my point, how society, I mean, they do the same thing in Hollywood.

You know, they got to show out that I haven't seen when it's called God friended me. And I don't want to watch it because I'm scared of what I'll see. But I heard somebody say it's actually positive, but it's a guy who, you know, was friended by God on Facebook. And I'm like, that's what our culture. They want the idea of it.

but then they try to bring it down to our level. Oh, I don't think God created the earth. But he actually sent my text on Facebook, and he wants me to do some things that are... He wants to be my friend. You know, even, you know, the movie that I love Mission Impossible, that's the one that sticks out in my head most of all. Because when you break that movie down,

it is a complete lie. You go pay your money to see Tom Cruise do something that they said is impossible. Because deep down, we want to do the impossible. We want to have something that's impossible. Living again without God, it's not possible. You have nothing to answer Genesis 1.

Your creation idea doesn't have anything to offer in the next life. It's impossible. I was talking to an atheist, and I told him I loved him, and I would think that he should weigh these matters that we're discussing. His reply was, at first, as the conversation went on, it changed somewhat

because I just kept pointing him to the one who could continue to give him life beyond the grave. But one of the things he said is he said, well, you know, I mean, I hope there's a light at the end of the tunnel and all. He said, but nobody's going to tell me who I can have sex with. Well, that's the deal.

When God is real, you got to change your life. I knew right then. And what my reply was, oh, make no. doubt about it, no mistake about it. I said, this calls for a life of restraint. I said, it's built into it. I'll get you off planet Earth alive, God says, but you will live a life of restraint with me and mind every step you take. You will appreciate what I've done for you and you will prove it by the way you live. He was having a hard time of that. But think about though that's the same reason you raised us and you told us about sex and you told us,

you know, look, boys, it's best to you marry. I mean, you laid out the biblical principle. You didn't do that because you didn't love us and because you wanted to be mean to us and I'm going to shove this religion. You did it because you knew it would be best for us. It's exactly what God does with us. He created us. And I knew that you guys, when you had children.

of your own. I was preparing you when they started growing up before you like y'all did before me and before God. I said, I'm going to prepare them to remember these things. So when they have children and all of y'all have said, you know, thanks, Dad, because now that I have children, I am beginning to get it now. I taught my kids that now. That's why it has to be generational.

We've lost that in America. I think with God it's a little deeper just because in Genesis, you know, he is. who he is he is he's eternal all-powerful you know he doesn't change like we do i mean we see the creation and i'm like there's too much detail there's too many creatures for this just to happen randomly but when he gets to john one and becomes flesh there's three kind of interesting things that he he basically conveys that he is in john one that jesus is not that he wants to be or he's doing it for a bit he just is and it says is he's life. You know, I think John 1, 2, there was just nothing that has been created

that has been made, was made without him. He just is life. You know, when Jesus said that later on, he said, I am the life. It wasn't like, that's why it was impossible for him to stay dead. He couldn't stay dead because it's not possible for God to be dead. So he became a human so he could die. I mean, it kind of makes sense once you start, you know, viewing on why he became human why this all happened and then he's light meaning he he's righteousness you know he he's always going to do the right thing he doesn't there's there's no darkness in him no that's why we have the problem occur and then he's love and that's what when he says in john 117 you know the law came through you know moses but grace and truth well that grace love you know god being willing to love us

despite the mistakes, you know. Mercy. It's not something he just one day decided to do or change his mind. He just is. You know that verse in 1st John 4 where he just says, God is love. It just is. Yep.

There's nothing you can, you don't decide it or it just is. We were all predestined to conform to the likeness of Jesus. God says, be like him. Right. Be like him. Go around and do good and tell people about me and I'll deliver them from the evil one. That's what you do.

That's walking like Jesus did. Inform to his likened, being like God. Right. It's a scary concept most people. Well, I can't do that. So yeah, can you get up and do good and point people to Jesus? Well, yeah, I think I can do that. I think Jesus is right.

It's in all of us because he created all of humanity. That's why we do have that longing. Even people that don't know him, they have that longing for immortality. Hey, you want to test it out? Go ask any random stranger, those three. questions. How'd you get here? What are you doing here? And how you're leaving? They will at least consider that because those are big questions. And if you have an answer better than what they have, it's amazing how people will listen to that. So when are we going to get to Genesis 1? Because we get

in Genesis 1. So let me tell you this. So here you go, Dad. Here's your jump in. So most people know about Charles Darwin. Yeah. The theory of evolution. And by the way, Darwin said about his own theory, this may prove out to not be true. And if any tenant of it proves to not be true, then the whole thing falls apart. He said that himself. DNA was unheard of. Exactly. They didn't know about it.

So most people don't know about a man named Herbert Spencer, who was one of his contemporaries. So this is like a couple hundred years ago. He came up with what he called the synthetic philosophy. I want you to listen to this. Five properties of the universe. We've mentioned almost everyone already in the discussion. Time, force, energy. space and matter.

That was just his observation, which was a great observation. He's right on target. So listen to this. In the beginning, time, God, the force, created energy. You made it happen. The heavens, space, and the earth matter. So you look at the five principles, even if it was recognized hundreds of years ago, rightly so, and you look at that one verse and you see all the tenants in one statement.

Well, it was right in front of Charles Darwin and his buddy the whole time. The whole time. Right in front of them. Exactly. To quote emerald. Bam. We need a good emerald quote every once in a while. So this is the beginning place.

And then, of course, you know, as it goes on to say, the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was moving or hovering the NIV says over the surface of the water. So we know that it was water. But you have two, the three entities of God, I say three, they're one. It's hard to explain. Yeah.

Because you have, you have God, you have the spirit hovering over the waters, and then God says, which is, you make the inference that that's Jesus, because he's the word. Right. He was at the beginning. He is the word of God. He's the communication. When God said that, because Jesus explains God. John 117. So they were all there. That's why when he said in verse 27, let us make man in our image. It's a great verse because people are like, well, there wasn't anybody there but God,

but he said our. They were all there. Which thing about this. So he made us in his image and guess what we're made up of three parts. We have our body. We have our spirit, which is the animating force of who we are. And animals have both of those, by the way. But then we have something unique and special which locks us into God. Which is why when he said he made man, it was very good. It was very good. Because that was the relationship aspect, which is what separates us from dogs. And we love dogs.

Right. But they just don't have a soul. They don't season their food. They don't feel guilty. That's the difference. They breed in the neighborhood and they don't offend that. There's no shame whatsoever. They have a horrific time loving one another too.

especially Bobo Yeah You know Every time I look up Bobo's getting his tail torn up Because he just jumped on the wrong dog That's exactly right They have a big problem with love

I'm telling you Especially among their neighbors Without the soullessness That's right So we're made in the image of God That's how he begins it He starts out his own the planet You get the idea

Because the spirit is down Sort of on the perspective of the earth And then as the creation narrative Is explained And by the way, this was laid out by Moses. He wrote the first five books. So quite a bit in the future from when this happened or the story in Genesis 1. Moses writes all this down as a direct revelation from God.

Genesis, Exodus, Exodus, Libica's, and others, Deuteronomy. So Moses, man, he was pretty smart, I guess, to come up with the basic way, the scientific beginning of the earth. All I have to say is, and I think everyone must agree, even the ones who say there is no God, I notice every one of them, they use the same terminology to describe matter as Moses did. He said he separated the waters from the water and he called the expanse in between sky. Well, if you ask an athos, what do you call the expanse between the earth and the atmosphere appearing? They say, sky.

I said, then he talked about separating waters. I said, what do you call that fluid that was a ball of fluid? It's called water. What do you call it? All these years later, from the time Moses said, what do you call that? They say, we call it water. You say, and the land that came forth and rose. up. It's called, he said, look, because nobody, it's, we called the dry ground, God did. God

called it land. So I would ask an atheist, what do you call it? And why do you call it that? They borrowed all these things that matter is called. The atheist uses it without even thinking, well, where did it get that name? Genesis 1. Why not call it something else? else. Why is it, why do the Chinese call it in Chinese land? The Africans call it land. The Russians call it land and water and sky. It's what it is. So, so who named it? I mean, I'm looking at Moses, evidently, God named it. Well, why is it we still use the same name? We call the animals, animals, four-footed beasts, we call birds, birds. Well, Adam and Eve, they got to name the animals, which would have been fine.

That's one of my points. You say, there he is naming the animals. You say, well, all these years later, whenever this took place, whatever you want to come up with that, why is it that whatever Adam and Eve called them, that's what we call them? We call dogs, dogs, cats, cats. You say, is it worldwide? Yeah. Just called on, you know.

So what you're saying to him? What you do? Just pick it out of thin air and start calling things what they are. I'm going to start calling a dog a cat. Yeah, there you're mistaken there. No, it's a cat now. Which is what our culture does. Well, they did the thing with male and female.

You're like, that's a male and that's a female. Not necessarily. My point is, why do you call the sky of the sky, land, the land, water, the water, wind, bird the bird, animal there. Why do you call them out? So you're saying that the original scientific textbook for humanity, we're looking at it. That is precisely what I'm saying. In Genesis 1. And using the language that this man used speaking on behalf of God, we use his exact language. Now, why hasn't that changed through the years? Right. Because God call it, that's what this is going to be.

That's right. I always say that people think if you believe in God, you don't believe in science. I'm like, hey, God's the greatest scientist there is. And we've met a lot of Christian scientists in our years of travel and walking. And look, every atheist conversion story that I know of always started with someone, like you mentioned yourself last time, saying I'm going to disprove the Bible. In other words, I'm going to prove that the Bible is not scientific. Every one I've heard that says now I'm a believer started out that way. They were used to being atheist. They set out to look at the Bible as a way to disprove religion or religion.

mighty throng of mighty thronged and that that doesn't mean that obviously there's still a lot of atheists out there so our work is is yet to be done there's one little bit of the cosmos god calls it over in joe whatever pleity what's what's the words he used yeah the panoply uh the he named a couple of stars he called he named them right and you got to remember man came along and they named venus venus mercury mercury venus on the other side of they called they said let's call this one marr on our right over here, then Jupiter and Saturn and on across these planets going around. But you do notice that what they call Earth, they call it to this day, Earth. In the beginning, go to the first sentence in the Bible.

In the beginning, God created the heavens. You say, yeah, that's the cosmos. And the Earth, to this day, everyone calls Earth, Earth. and then they came up with names for the rest of them, and that caught on. God did name them, men did, and so at hell. But from the beginning, God called Earth the Earth. You see my point? Exactly.

By the way, some of the ancient Job was in one, I think there's one in Psalms, where it talks about the universe, the heavens, is the way they would put it, being spread out like a sheet. Like a tent. Like a tent. So guess what? So the more we go and look now, now that we can send these super telescopes and we go, look, guess what?

the universe is flat. He also said the circle of the earth. That's right. It's suspended upon nothing as opposed to Confucius, you know, riding on the back of an elephant, right on the back of a turtle or whatever. You're right. And the idea that the earth was flat because I can just walk so far. And then after that, I'm going to fall off.

Just a big waterfall. That's exactly right. Instead, in the biblical narrative, you already see it's a round ball. That's right. So which over and over and over it proves itself. How would Moses think about it? In this time frame, how would he have known that? I mean, give him a break.

And isn't it interesting that he started his ministry when God came to him in a burning bush that wouldn't burn up? I love that story because he's like, I need to go over and check out this strange site. I wouldn't check it out. Then it starts talking. Yeah. And then he's like, well, God's like,

I want you to be my representative. And he's like, well, I'm really not, you know, I don't have the gift of gab. And then he makes that famous statement. like it ain't about you because he said who am i and he said having never travel over you know 50 miles you want me to start elaborating on oceans the land coming up and seas and all well i've never been over to look but i'm just i'll take your word for it if you come to me on a burning bush that don't burn up and you start talking i'm in on whatever you want to do well you always have the same

reaction moses did he took his shoes off and he bowed down to the ground you know this when someone encountered God or some, you know, facsimile of him that he sent here to the earth, everybody went down. But really the creation. If I look over the bush and it's burning and it won't burn up and a voice comes out of it says, take off your shoes, feel. And because it's holy, I would take off my shoes immediately. But really the creation itself is that fascinating?

It is. Since we're around it, we take it for granted. But when you start looking at the details, oh, it's going to lead you to a creator. The question is, is it plausible the majesty of the heaven, the cosmos? When we're looking at them with telescope, the galaxies, and all of that matter, is it plausible to at least say, there's a being behind this? Instead of saying it just happened by pure accident, is it plausible that someone first caused it? I mean, is it plausible?

And I'm looking at it, Al, and I'm accepting it by faith. I can't prove it. They can't disprove it. So here we are. I love them and say, guys, there's a lot of promises and good things that are promised us if we just go with this, that he's there. I just don't see the downside. At the end of the day, him saying, if you will do what I say, you can keep taking up

space and you can keep living forever if you just love me and love each other. I just for the life of me do not see the downside of the bottom line on the Bible. Crazy. The third, the third verse, he separated the darkness from light in a physical way. But it's interesting that the last thing he'll do on earth is separate the spiritual dark from light. That is correct. Revelation says there will be, there will be no night. So that's a good. Good summation, I think, for this episode. Next time we're going to talk, kind of take that next step. Dad started out talking about the idea of us and how we were created and how we continue to create.

By the way, here's how you can look at this. The audience has listened to these three. Think about it, audience. This is three rednecks talking. And this information is coming from three rednecks. They're of average intelligence you said, but you know, there may be something to this,

God thing. That's why I started saying the evidence of God, look at my wife, the spirit of God can turn some of the, I don't even have a word, the lowly into people that make sense because God's always right. Well, that's us,

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