Hey, this is John. And this is Tim. And this is a question response episode of the Bible Project Podcast.

Oh, we're facing each other senses. We are. We've been doing this together for that long.

You know, it's not saying that the listeners can't see is that every single time we start a podcast,

you smile and kind of squint your eyes and start speaking into the microphone.

As if you're imagining people...

People are going to sound like...

Oh, no, people. What it looks like is that you're looking at someone.

But it's not me. You're never looking at me. You're looking like through me or into the corner of the room,

but you smile, squint your eyes, and then you start talking.

Anyway, so that's for you, everyone out there to imagine John smiling.

I think that's how maybe I talk to people in general. I just like look past them and then my own world.

Oh, I love about that. Anyway, this is a Q&R episode that is interacting with your questions and responses to

a multi-part podcast series on the wisdom literature and the Hebrew Bible. The books of Solomon

is what we ended up calling the video that we created out of all these conversations.

And there you go. You guys sent in lots of questions. It was hard to pick.

But as always, every question that we picked represents two to five people who ask the same basic thing.

So yeah, there you go. It should be interesting. Just some great questions here.

Yeah, thanks for joining us.

Yep, let's jump into it.

Great.

The first question is from Tuna, who lives in Canada, but is Nigerian, and you have a good question.

Hi, Tim and John. My name is Tuna, and I am calling from Canada. I'm Nigeria,

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