You're listening to the Bible for Normal People, the only God ordained podcast on the internet.

I'm Pete Ends.

And I'm Jared Byis.

This episode, it's a little bit different than other episodes because what we did was we asked people in our society of normal people.

What kind of questions they have, what kinds of things they want to talk about, and so we got a great list of questions.

And here's the thing, rather than just grabbing random questions, we collected them around what we think is a very clear theme.

And I would say it's a theme of balance.

So, you know, if this is true, what do we do with this kind of thing?

It's like a this or that.

Right.

Both of these things seem to be present.

How do we handle when the answer's not black or white?

It's like this or that.

So it's balanced, but it's also wisdom because we often talk about wisdom as navigating between things that seem like opposites, but basically living in a world where it's not black and white.

And discerning like paths to take with, there aren't always clear answers to all these questions, but the questions are very good ones of this balance and wisdom.

And I like balance.

You know, sometimes balances use the wrong way, Jared, at least for my taste, because that's too extreme.

You have to be more balanced.

In other words, you've got to pull back, which is just a way of saying, I don't like what you said, come to where I am.

And I'm balanced, right?

It's not about achieving some balance where we have, you know, a perfect answer or thinking process about things, but it is recognizing that there are tensions that build up with some of these things.

And how do you embrace one thing and not let go of something else that you actually think is valuable?

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