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All right, friends, welcome to the show.

Greg Kokel here, your host.

The show is called Stand to Reason, because we stand to reason.

Metaphorically speaking, I'm actually sitting now, but we are standing up in the public square

and wherever we have opportunity to make the case for classical Christianity and classical Christian values, and we're making the

case in a reasonable way, giving our justification rationale why the scriptural view of reality

is the true one.

All right, so that's standard reason.

Of course, that's why you've listened for so long.

I want to start out by saying that we're going to have open calls today or make that open mic calls.

And I want to start out by making a distinction that might be helpful that is often missed, and that distinction

is one that's important in Scripture when you're reading a passage, particularly in the Old

Testament, and critics will come down and say, or come in and come down on Scripture or Christians, by saying or citing something

in the Hebrew scriptures, especially, that took place that's pretty awful and gnarly.

And see what your book teaches.

And there are things, obviously, that the book teaches that are hard to follow,

far hard to understand, and things that you need to be mindful of the cultural background,

the historical background, and some of the aspects of the way people did things

back then and the way they talked about them back then, that will help you understand what's going

on. So you've got to be mindful of some of that. But sometimes there's a different mistake going on,

and I want to introduce you to two related

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