glumpy and the gang
mystery solved of hebrews chapter 11 - march 1, 2014
i’m kinda looking forward to this one if i’m honest. we’re in the new testament - at least in theory - and we should be talking about things a little more grounded in reality than aliens and crystal underwater pyramids. fingers crossed!
jim just said that kids these days are “gloomy and glumpy” well i may have been a gloomy teen but i’ll be goddamned if i was ever glumpy. where i come from them’s fighting words
“this is very important” drink
“it’s very important” drink
saying it again for the one millionth time, yhvh does not mean christ.
“we’re only to help our own race, our own people! we’re not to take in all these scrounges and scourges and slurges of the world”
“quantrum mechanics”
we’re just gonna read straight through hebrews 11 today. it’s a beautiful chapter but listening to him go through 40 verses may drive me insane
“why did he take abel’s gifts but he refused cain’s gift? because cain was not of adam. cain was brought forth with the seduction of eve in the garden” according to genesis 4, the reason god rejected cain’s offering was because he didn’t bring his firstfruits, just some of his produce while abel brought the fat from the firstborn of his flock. it has nothing to do with cain not really being the son of adam
jim is now claiming that there are no great rivers in the middle east/levant. ancient people who lived along the tigris, euphrates, nile, etc would beg to differ i imagine
“it would be a land of unwalled borders where the people and the cattle would be safely therein - there’s no cattle over there!” and now i quote from this paper: “African cattle genomes were very similar to those of cattle first domesticated in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago, the researchers discovered, concluding that those cattle were either brought to Africa when farmers migrated south, or traded, before interbreeding with African wild cattle, aurochs” this stuff is just not that difficult to find out
“english, alright, is a very descriptive language. it is not only descriptive, it is what, expressive. it carries two bases, alright? descriptive and expressive” what does this mean jim. why did you bring it up
i think jim has a hard time - and fair enough, most people do - with the idea that god told abraham to go kill isaac with a knife and then changed his mind at the last minute. jim says that he thinks there was a translator who was making errors because obviously the god of the bible wouldn’t command human sacrifice. this is a pretty common problem to have, even though god eventually stopped abraham it does present a different picture of him than we’re used to. turns out there’s pretty good evidence that firstborn sacrifice was practiced, at least at times, in ancient israel along with more generally levantine/mesopotamian cultures
“this is very important” drink
“vaccinations: stop putting the poison in your babies which give them autism” oh my god i hate these people with a pure and righteous hatred