This is going to be a weird episode because I'm going to keep running with this analogy that we were talking about yesterday

you got two kinds of board games right you got the kind of board game that's like

risk or I don't know insert whatever game where you try to defeat your enemies maybe you have

friendly or fun ones but the point is still crush everyone and be the last person standing and win, right?

And you got these other kind of games that have become popular in recent years.

I mentioned a couple last time. There's Forbidden Island is one of these board games.

Another one is Pandemic and another one

what's it called like Shadows over Camelot. It's a beautiful game that's kind of

confusing and hard but I used to play that one with my family as well. And in this game, you play against the mechanics of the board game.

So the board game is the problem, and no one is the game,

no one is your enemy. the situation is the enemy.

And what's fun about this kind of game is everybody has to put their heads together

and everybody brings their unique gifts or attributes that they're assigned as a character.

They bring all of that to bear on this problem to resolve it together.

And what it really is, these are two completely different things.

I mean, they're both board games laid out on a table so they

look the same to the naked eye just like going through life in the world system just looks like going through life. I mean you

eat you drink, you sleep, you go to work whatever you have relationships in the kingdom kingdom but when you really

look at the nuts and bolts and the mechanics of it and the motives for the players it's not the same at all

one is crush everyone one has worked together to defeat the faceless evil.

And I think there are versions of Christian Theism where we imagine the invitation is more like the

risk version. We're going to beat bad behavior.

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