Lytt til Stone Choir

HOSTS [https://stone-choir.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/mahler-profile-e1666204276660.png] COREY J. MAHLER coreyjmahler.com [http://coreyjmahler.com] @CoreyJMahler [http://twitter.com/MahlerLCMS] [https://stone-choir.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/woe-profile.jpg] WOE aka Eschatologuy @treblewoe [https://twitter.com/treblewoe] The Word of God has been preserved — miraculously — down through the ages, faithfully transmitted forward from past generations to us. This is according to God’s promises, and yet God nowhere (in the Old Testament) says which language He will use to accomplish this. Many have long claimed that God used Hebrew to do this, but the Hebrew language was never a true written language until the 20th century and, above and beyond this, the Hebrew language was dead for more than two thousand years. How, then, did God preserve His Word? He caused it to be translated into Greek — the Septuagint (LXX). It was the Septuagint that was used by our forefathers in the faith, by the Apostles, and by Christ Himself. In this first of our four-part (really five-part) series on the Septuagint, we cover the history of the Hebrew language and the history of the LXX up until about AD 1000; we trace how the so-called “Masoretic Text” was infiltrated into the Church by those who deny Christ, curse His sheep, and serve another master, and how, tragically, Christians failed to prevent this and permitted the MT to supplant the LXX; and we begin to make our case for a return to the Word of God as He has preserved it and as the Church has always received it — in Greek, as the Septuagint. ---------------------------------------- Subscribe to the podcast here. [https://stone-choir.com/subscribe-to-podcast/] ---------------------------------------- SHOW NOTES * SEE ALSO * Against the Judaizers [https://coreyjmahler.com/against-the-judaizers/] FURTHER READING * Letter of Aristeas [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_Aristeas] [Wikipedia] * Greek and English [https://www.ellopos.com/blog/4508/letter-of-aristeas-full-text-in-greek-and-english/] * Although we do not (yet) have an English translation using the LXX that we unreservedly recommend, we recognize that some will want a version for the sake of comparison. This is one option: The Lexham English Septuagint [https://amzn.to/4lOLGbS] * The Brenton edition can be found in several places online. PARENTAL WARNINGS None. TRANSCRIPT The transcript for this episode can be found here Other transcripts can be found here [/transcripts/] CURRENT SPONSOR(S) Coming soon? SUPPORT THE PODCAST * Recurring Donation [https://donate.stone-choir.com/] * One-Time Donation [https://donate.stripe.com/dR6bMr9jTcCb4XC6oo] * Cryptocurrency Donation [https://donate.stone-choir.com/cryptocurrency-donations/] * Mahler’s Amazon.com Wish List [https://stone-choir.com/Amazon-Mahler] * Woe’s Amazon.com Wish List [https://stone-choir.com/Amazon-Woe] * The Stone Choir 2024 Challenge Coin [https://shop.stone-choir.com/shop/challenge-coins/stone-choir-challenge-coin/] COMMENTS? Join the discussion on Telegram [https://t.me/StoneChoir], visit the feedback form [https://stone-choir.com/feedback/] or comment below.

HOSTS [https://stone-choir.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/mahler-profile-e1666204276660.png] COREY J. MAHLER coreyjmahler.com [http://coreyjmahler.com] @CoreyJMahler [http://twitter.com/MahlerLCMS] [https://stone-choir.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/woe-profile.jpg] WOE aka Eschatologuy @treblewoe [https://twitter.com/treblewoe] All men have limitations — be they physical, intellectual, or something else. One such limitation is a thing we call, in the technology fields, a “context window”. In essence, a context window is the amount of relevant information that a man can hold in his mind at a given moment. In a conversation, it is the history of the conversation (along with any previous history from prior conversations, et cetera); in a relationship, it is the entire history of that relationship. In all cases, only to the extent such information can be held in the mind. Some questions call for a small context window (e.g., a bar fight may require only ten or twenty minutes of context to understand) and some questions call for a significantly larger context window (e.g., the current state of the Western Church is a matter of millennia). Not all men are equally suited to handle all matters — a man can be competent or incompetent with regard to a particular question or a particular discussion. In this preliminary episode leading into our upcoming series on the Septuagint (LXX), we discuss the concept of a context window and how it plays into the LXX specifically and many issues in our daily lives generally. ---------------------------------------- Subscribe to the podcast here. [https://stone-choir.com/subscribe-to-podcast/] ---------------------------------------- SHOW NOTES * SEE ALSO * FURTHER READING * What Is a Context Window? [https://youtu.be/-QVoIxEpFkM] [YouTube] PARENTAL WARNINGS None. TRANSCRIPT The transcript for this episode can be found here Other transcripts can be found here [/transcripts/] CURRENT SPONSOR(S) Coming soon? SUPPORT THE PODCAST * Recurring Donation [https://donate.stone-choir.com/] * One-Time Donation [https://donate.stripe.com/dR6bMr9jTcCb4XC6oo] * Cryptocurrency Donation [https://donate.stone-choir.com/cryptocurrency-donations/] * Mahler’s Amazon.com Wish List [https://stone-choir.com/Amazon-Mahler] * Woe’s Amazon.com Wish List [https://stone-choir.com/Amazon-Woe] * The Stone Choir 2024 Challenge Coin [https://shop.stone-choir.com/shop/challenge-coins/stone-choir-challenge-coin/] COMMENTS? Join the discussion on Telegram [https://t.me/StoneChoir], visit the feedback form [https://stone-choir.com/feedback/] or comment below.

HOSTS [https://stone-choir.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/mahler-profile-e1666204276660.png] COREY J. MAHLER coreyjmahler.com [http://coreyjmahler.com] @CoreyJMahler [http://twitter.com/MahlerLCMS] [https://stone-choir.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/woe-profile.jpg] WOE aka Eschatologuy @treblewoe [https://twitter.com/treblewoe] Man is an animal, created on the sixth day with all the other land creatures. And yet man is more than an animal, for man has not only body, but also mind and soul. To ignore the soul is to fall into Materialism; to ignore the body is to fall into Gnosticism. We must endeavor to fall off of neither side of the horse. This tripartite nature of man plays out in many things and in many ways; one of those things is addiction. When a man (or a woman) becomes addicted to something — whether it is a substance (e.g., marijuana) or an activity (e.g., gambling) —, it is a matter of all three parts of man. The atheistic world would have us ignore the spiritual aspects of addiction (e.g., that it is sin); far too many Christians would have us ignore the biological and psychological aspects. God commands us to be wise, and so we must not ignore the good tools that science has put at our disposal — biology has given us insights into the physical bases for addiction and psychology has given us insights into the psychological aspects of addiction. We do our brothers and sisters no good when we ignore the fullness of reality, and that holds no less true when dealing with addiction. ---------------------------------------- Subscribe to the podcast here. [https://stone-choir.com/subscribe-to-podcast/] ---------------------------------------- SHOW NOTES * MBTI Assessment [https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test] [one of many sites offering it] * Empathy Test [https://psychology-tools.com/test/empathy-quotient] SEE ALSO * FURTHER READING * PARENTAL WARNINGS We discuss both pornography and sex in this episode. The discussion is not explicit, but you may wish to review it before listening with your children. TRANSCRIPT The transcript for this episode can be found here Other transcripts can be found here [/transcripts/] CURRENT SPONSOR(S) Coming soon? SUPPORT THE PODCAST * Recurring Donation [https://donate.stone-choir.com/] * One-Time Donation [https://donate.stripe.com/dR6bMr9jTcCb4XC6oo] * Cryptocurrency Donation [https://donate.stone-choir.com/cryptocurrency-donations/] * Mahler’s Amazon.com Wish List [https://stone-choir.com/Amazon-Mahler] * Woe’s Amazon.com Wish List [https://stone-choir.com/Amazon-Woe] * The Stone Choir 2024 Challenge Coin [https://shop.stone-choir.com/shop/challenge-coins/stone-choir-challenge-coin/] COMMENTS? Join the discussion on Telegram [https://t.me/StoneChoir], visit the feedback form [https://stone-choir.com/feedback/] or comment below.

HOSTS [https://stone-choir.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/mahler-profile-e1666204276660.png] COREY J. MAHLER coreyjmahler.com [http://coreyjmahler.com] @CoreyJMahler [http://twitter.com/MahlerLCMS] [https://stone-choir.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/woe-profile.jpg] WOE aka Eschatologuy @treblewoe [https://twitter.com/treblewoe] A true confession is not simply a matter of speaking a truth; rather, it is a matter of speaking the truth that is demanded under the circumstances. In fact, it is entirely possible to lie or to deceive with the truth. To say that it was the Romans who crucified Christ is entirely true, but to advance that particular truth in order to deny the truth that the Jews murdered the Lord Christ would be to lie with a truth. This is a tactic that Satan has employed from the very beginning. Today, we most often see this playing out with Christians who run to their doctrinal statements or confessions when faced with novel problems. The battles of the Reformation era were important (and remain important), but they are not the things that Satan is attacking today. The man who holds up his confession and denies that he could ever be wrong because he has Abraham (his doctrinal statement) as his father has become a pharisee who follows after Satan’s footsteps in lying with the truth. Confessions must not become idols, and the battles of centuries ago are not the battles of today. To look upon the bronze serpent because God commanded it is one thing; to worship the bronze serpent because you have distorted what it was is another matter entirely. Satan is rightly called a serpent — do not give him the opening he needs. ---------------------------------------- Subscribe to the podcast here. [https://stone-choir.com/subscribe-to-podcast/] ---------------------------------------- SHOW NOTES * SEE ALSO * FURTHER READING * PARENTAL WARNINGS None. TRANSCRIPT The transcript for this episode can be found here Other transcripts can be found here [/transcripts/] CURRENT SPONSOR(S) Coming soon? SUPPORT THE PODCAST * Recurring Donation [https://donate.stone-choir.com/] * One-Time Donation [https://donate.stripe.com/dR6bMr9jTcCb4XC6oo] * Cryptocurrency Donation [https://donate.stone-choir.com/cryptocurrency-donations/] * Mahler’s Amazon.com Wish List [https://stone-choir.com/Amazon-Mahler] * Woe’s Amazon.com Wish List [https://stone-choir.com/Amazon-Woe] * The Stone Choir 2024 Challenge Coin [https://shop.stone-choir.com/shop/challenge-coins/stone-choir-challenge-coin/] COMMENTS? Join the discussion on Telegram [https://t.me/StoneChoir], visit the feedback form [https://stone-choir.com/feedback/] or comment below.

HOSTS [https://stone-choir.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/mahler-profile-e1666204276660.png] COREY J. MAHLER coreyjmahler.com [http://coreyjmahler.com] @CoreyJMahler [http://twitter.com/MahlerLCMS] [https://stone-choir.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/woe-profile.jpg] WOE aka Eschatologuy @treblewoe [https://twitter.com/treblewoe] In every endeavor, there is an excellence. A man can be excellent in his field, regardless or what it may be, or excellent at his undertaking, also regardless of what it may be. There are excellent paintings, excellent poems, excellent plays, excellent athletic performances, excellent shoes, and a whole host of other things that one could only begin to list. A part of the Christian life is recognizing the existence of excellence and then aiming for it. Not all men can achieve the same level of excellence, not even all men engaged in the same field, but every man can recognize excellence and strive toward it. Further, we must recognize, respect, and honor excellence when and where we find it, instead of giving in to the tendency of the modern world to minimize and dismiss it. The man who is excellent in his field has achieved that excellence due both to natural talent (i.e., gifts from God) and hard work (i.e., the acquisition or skill or knowledge); every man, even and often in the mundane, is participating in the same sort of striving toward excellence. We all see the man who wins some top athletic honor with his excellent performance, but what we do not see is the tens of thousands of hours of practice that went into that performance. Excellence does not fall from the sky (even if the gifts of God essentially do so), but is pursued with motivation and determination — it is a purpose toward which one strives. As Christians, we should recognize that all excellence is a gift from God, and we should honor and respect it when and where we find it, and then we should use it to motivate our own efforts, instead of joining the world in sarcasm or indifference. ---------------------------------------- Subscribe to the podcast here. [https://stone-choir.com/subscribe-to-podcast/] ---------------------------------------- SHOW NOTES * kalos [https://biblehub.com/greek/2570.htm] * areté [https://biblehub.com/greek/703.htm] SEE ALSO * FURTHER READING * PARENTAL WARNINGS None. TRANSCRIPT The transcript for this episode can be found here Other transcripts can be found here [/transcripts/] CURRENT SPONSOR(S) Coming soon? SUPPORT THE PODCAST * Recurring Donation [https://donate.stone-choir.com/] * One-Time Donation [https://donate.stripe.com/dR6bMr9jTcCb4XC6oo] * Cryptocurrency Donation [https://donate.stone-choir.com/cryptocurrency-donations/] * Mahler’s Amazon.com Wish List [https://stone-choir.com/Amazon-Mahler] * Woe’s Amazon.com Wish List [https://stone-choir.com/Amazon-Woe] * The Stone Choir 2024 Challenge Coin [https://shop.stone-choir.com/shop/challenge-coins/stone-choir-challenge-coin/] COMMENTS? Join the discussion on Telegram [https://t.me/StoneChoir], visit the feedback form [https://stone-choir.com/feedback/] or comment below.