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Sometimes it's even too deep for conscious thought. And he communicates them to the Father as our prayers. That's what it means when we say that the Holy Spirit intercedes for us.
Yeah. And it's a beautiful reality to know that God himself is praying on our behalf. God the Holy Spirit is going to God the Father on our behalf.
That's huge. I mean, you know how it feels when you hear someone here on earth, some human who's like, hey, I'm praying for you. I mean, it feels good. It feels good to know that somebody is remembering you.
But for God himself to be interceding for you, man, that's beautiful. 100%. 100%. Well, today is Tuesday and you guys know what that means. It doesn't mean anything in particular, but this Tuesday it means it's time for the gripe vine.
Welcome to the gripe vine. I had burritos last night at my house. Okay.
Yeah. I love a good burrito. My wife got home and this is actually kind of a rarity where I got home and my wife had dinner like all laid out.
Like presentation was on point. Had the tortillas just nicely stacked on the table. Beef cooking in the, um, the pan, I guess you'd call it.
I don't know. Uh, and then, uh, like all the little fixings on the table and stuff. Even, she even did this thing that I love where she cut up potatoes like into little baby bites, put them in the air fryer and we had crispy little seasoned potatoes to put on the burrito. So I went buck wild as I always do. I overfilled my burrito, which I knew was going to be a problem.
Here's my question. It's not about overfilling the burrito. Why is it so difficult to start eating a burrito? Like the first few bites? What I would love is if I take a bite of the burrito and I get nothing but sour cream.
That would make me really happy. That's exactly what happened. I took a bite and it was nothing but air and sour cream. Making a burrito I feel like is both a science and an art.
Right. It is very delicate in how you craft it. You wouldn't think so because it's just like, Hey, dump it in the tortilla, wrap it up. But in order to get that perfect toppings ratio in the bite, you've got to be very strategic in how you make the burrito. And even burrito professionals, like when I go to Chipotle, when I go to Moe's, they don't do it right.
Like I still, and maybe it's because I don't get that many. I mean, calling them burrito professionals might be a little generous. Maybe a little bit generous. Maybe it's the case, and David has said this before, maybe it's the case that I'm, don't put enough in there.
That is true. Your, your burritos are rather sparse. What's your, what's your burrito? Like, like what's your idea? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. So I'm going to get, um, probably either chicken or pulled pork. Okay.
Love that. Um, I'm going to get some rice. Uh huh. I'm going to get some black beans. I'm going to get some Pico. Okay.
You got the guy, y'all. Yeah. We're pushing capacity. I'm going to get some, um, you know, I'm probably gonna opt to up, upsell and go for the homewrecker. So I'm gonna get guac and sour cream. Okay, sir.
We're reaching a capacity. I'm going to get some mushrooms. Add more.
I'm going to get some, probably some lettuce in there. Okay. Yeah.
Can we get, can we get another burrito professional over here? Uh, yeah. Yeah.
I'm feeling that joker to capacity. When I give me the extra large size, cause I'm going to fill it up. Now, does it, do they have problems wrapping it?
No. And when you buy it, they do, they don't say it. They just kind of like, when you bite it is the first bite satisfactory to you? Sometimes, but sometimes you get just like a bunch of sauce. The trick with a burrito is how you lay the toppings out because you've got to lay them out with the, with the bite in mind.
You've got to build a burrito, build it with the bite in mind. So everything has to be laid out in horizontal strips. See my guys just slop it on there. They just. Right.
Right. So if you're just globbing it on there in like pile, pile, pile, you're going to bite into like a, an expansive guacamole and then an expansive tomatoes and then an expansive sour cream. You're not going to have a proper ratio, but you've got to lay them out horizontally and then wrap them so that the, the burrito is oriented correctly. When I order a burrito, I'll go no rice, no beans. Sure. Put a little ground beef on there. Okay. After that ground beef, you know, I'm going to want some chills on there.
Just put a little sprinkle of cheddar. Sure. Give me some sour cream.
Okay. Roll that bad boy up. Wait, that's it? And feed it to me. That's like, that's like that big around. My burritos typically end up coming out pretty small. If I'm feeling really a little touch of derring-do, I might have some rock and roll sauce, but that's about it.
And then regret it later. Yeah, that's about it. Yeah, it's true. It's true. My burritos kind of aren't hitting on much. Mine are like the size of a football, but you got to wrap the burrito at the end in mind. That's true. That's true, man. A lot of burrito professionals ain't doing that.
That's right. Let us know your thoughts on the, on the burrito wrapping schematics. How do you do it? What are your complaints? What are your gripes?
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You can find all of his work on his website. That's AbbadanShah.com. Dr. Shah, have you ever wondered why it's just so disappointing to begin a burrito? Like have you ever just bit into a burrito and you get nothing but sour cream, just nothing but bread, just like a big glob of like whatever, whatever sauce they put in it. I like the soft stuff.
So I mean, it's just me. I like, I like fighting to that first bite and there's no substance to it. It's just, it's just a big glob of sour cream. Hot sauce to it and hot sauce make everything better.
That's true. I do like the rock and roll sauce at most. It is, it is very telling how a person wraps a burrito because if you prepare it and you spread the ingredients out, then roll it together, then you know, you're going to have a myriad of flavors in your mouth.
They don't do that at most. Here you go. I do like most, but they do not care about your burrito. Your burrito is not made with love.
No, no, no. It's made by Moe. Very nice dude. Dr. Shah, what's the best burrito? Best burrito? Like your dream burrito.
What are you putting on? Oh man. Wow.
That's a great question. We've had a very burrito heavy, a burrito heavy episode today. I like the, I don't think that's a burrito though. The, the, the street tacos. Oh yeah. That's those.
Those are good. Is that a burrito? No, that's not a burrito.
I don't know. I like street tacos. That's my thing. You get them with steak.
I get steak, pork, whatever. They just have that real, you know, real feel like I'm in, I'm in Mexico. A lot of people probably ask you, do you like your tacos el pastor? Cause you're a pastor. You hear someone say that and you go, ugh.
Do you want to like pinch the, pinch the bridge in your nose and just kind of go. And then ask them to firmly leave the restaurants. Please don't ever say that again. People are always going to be people. People are going to be people.
People be people. And that's true now. And it was true in the days of when scripture was written. That's right, man.
That's right. Yesterday we began the conversation about the Bible, about God's word and about, you know, what it means that the writers of the, of the, of scripture were inspired. What is, what do we mean when we say that? What does it mean that God was the inspiration behind that?
And we talked about the incarnational model of scripture. That's right. But the Bible was also written by human authors too. Right.
Which is a very important dichotomy for us to talk about. Still protected from error because of the divine element, but they brought their own personalities. They brought their own skills and their educational levels, their provenances, wherever they were, who they were writing to. So just, I'm sure many of you, if you grew up in church, if you taught Bible study or you had a good Bible study teacher, you know, these things, their differences, of course, 40 different writers.
That's okay. For a time span of 1500 years, wrote the Bible. That's incredible.
40 different people. It's not just like one man going up into the hills, getting revelation. Right.
Or somebody who is, you know, feels some burning in his bosom and writes stuff in King James English. Some angel drops some golden plates on him and then... Yeah. Yeah. No. He looked into a hat and he just kind of saw like a little kaleidoscope image and just wrote it down. Yeah.
You made a bibbidi-bobbidi Bible. Very nice, dude. Hold on one second.
I got to give you that one, man. Well, that's disappointing to not hear. That's disappointing to not hear. Technical issues. Technical issues.
No sound effects. Hate that for me. Yeah. All right.
Well, I'm going to try one more time. Give it to me, Dave. Give it to me, Ryan. Bibbidi-bobbidi Bible. There you go.
All right. We love a life track. We love a life track.
We're going to fill our homes with happiness. Three different languages. That's true. Yeah. Hebrew was the next one. Greek. Greek. Before... Oh, Aramaic. Aramaic. Oh, and then Greek.
And then Greek. Nice. Yeah.
Nice. Three different continents. Which continents do you think they are?
Oh, man. We say Asia. Asia is one. Yep. I would guess places in Europe. Europe. Yep.
Europe is another one. Yeah. I mean, think about it.
Greece and... Yeah, I was thinking Paul would have been the Greek. Oh, yeah. True.
Well, there's the whole point of... That was the whole point of the second missionary. Yeah. Yeah. Rome. You know. Africa?
Africa. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Africa? Oh, yes. Egypt.
Egypt. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That makes sense. Yeah.
Wow. So, three different continents. And so Moses is in Sinai.
Right? Sinai desert. Paul is in Rome. Daniel is in Babylon, which is modern day Iraq. Ezra is in Jerusalem. Think about... How about the occupations?
Like the occupations of the authors? Like what they did? Right. I mean, I think of David was like a king.
That's about as high as you can get. Yeah. You've also got shepherds. Shepherds.
Yeah. Shepherds. Who would be the shepherd?
Well, I mean, David first. They would be a shepherd. Yeah. Right. Right.
Musician as well. Yeah. How about a general? Do you know a general in the Bible? General. Joshua.
Joshua would be a general. Yeah. A priest? Oh.
Oh, hold on. Who's a priest? Was the Levites priest? Ezra. Ezra is a priest?
Okay. Scribe. Scribe. I would say scribe.
Nice. A tax collector. That's an easy one.
Oh, yeah. Matthew. Matthew, fisherman.
100%. That'd be Peter. Peter. Peter. Okay. A medical doctor.
Luke. That's right. Oh, this is fun. Yeah. So, you see, I mean, a lot of different professions there.
People coming from different like walks of life. That's right. Yeah. There are various literary forms. So there's poetry. Anybody know any poetry in the Bible? Psalms. Psalms.
Definitely Proverbs. Prose. What is prose? Prose is like Genesis.
Like a narrative account. Oh, okay. Okay.
Okay. And how about in the New Testament? Prose. Prose, I would say. Acts. Acts. Gospels. Is this a narrative? Yeah.
The gospel is true. Speech. Any speech in the Bible? Speech.
Like a monologue speech? Yeah. Yeah. I'm a prophet. Some of the prophets.
Yeah. Prophets would be speech. And then if you go to the New Testament, you have famous, famous, famous speech.
Like the greatest sermon of all time. Oh, oh. Yeah. Go ahead, David.
David would like to answer this one. Beatitudes. There you go. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Fair enough.
Yeah. Beatitudes. How about any lists? Are there any lists in the Bible? Lots of lists in the Bible. Lots. Lots.
But it would give Buzzfeed a runt for their money. Leviticus, of course. Yeah.
Numbers. How about in the New Testament? Are there any lists in the New Testament?
I'm sure. Yeah. Genealogical lists. Yeah.
Genealogical lists. Yeah. In Matthew and Luke. But I feel like there's an obvious wisdom.
I mean, the fruit of the Spirit. Yeah. Yeah. True. Yeah.
Like the On Track series from Peter. Oh, yeah. Good point.
Second Peter. Yeah. Great point.
They're all under different circumstances. So think about Joshua wrote during war. Somebody wrote during sorrow. Anybody remember who might have written during sorrow? Sorrow.
Is New Testament, Old Testament, both? Jeremiah, of course. Yeah. I was thinking Lamentations.
I don't know who wrote that, though. Yep. Jeremiah. Jeremiah. Okay.
Imprisonment. Oh, that Paul, for sure. Jeremiah, too. Again. Yeah.
How about under domination from an evil empire? Oh, you got to go Daniel, man. Daniel.
Like you got to go Daniel. Esther. Was Esther under domination? Yeah. Yeah. She was in exile. Yeah. New Testament?
I mean, everybody. They were under Roman rule. Rome or Herod or whatever.
And then what are the subjects that they talked about? Because it's not just one thing. I mean, of course, the underlying story is Jesus. Right. Right. Right.
But there are different kinds of subjects. So there's judgment. Judgment. Would you say prophecy falls into judgment?
Like God's judgment is coming. Right. How about encouragement? Proverbs? Yeah.
Maybe. Yeah. Proverbs are encouragement. And then, of course, Psalms can be encouraging. Yeah, that's true.
New Testament has tons of encouraging. Yeah. Like the epistles and stuff. Yeah. Parenthesis.
You know, Paraenetic passages. Conflicts. Any conflicts in the Old Testament? I mean, they're all conflicts, right? I would say most of Exodus.
Yeah. Fighting. How about the New Testament? Does it have conflicts? Have you heard of the church in Corinth? Several people in the early church did not get along.
And people did not like the early church. Yeah, there's definitely personal conflict too. Information? Information. Acts fall into that?
Yeah, definitely. Like historical information, like narrative. I would say a lot of the Old Testament and then, of course, Acts. You know, at one time, people used to think that the Bible was written, especially the New Testament was written in Holy Spirit Greek. And until they began to truly examine the scripture, especially Greek, Koine Greek, and they realized this is Koine Greek. The Bible is written in Koine Greek. It's not some special spiritual Greek. What is Holy Spirit Greek?
This is a misunderstanding. It's like the way the Bible reads. It's like written. But there's no such thing as Holy Spirit Greek. Just different than like the common vernacular Greek? Yeah. Okay. I think many times they're referring to like the King James type English.
Oh, okay. I was literally thinking the same thing. Like, would we call the King James Bible Holy Spirit English because it doesn't read like an everyday person would talk. I was going to make a joke out of that and it turns out like, yeah, that's common. That's probably how they thought.
You know, thou shalt not. So is Koine Greek common Greek? Like that's what the common, but that's not what people now in 2024 would speak Koine Greek.
In Greece, they would speak, you know, modern Greek, which is derived from sort of Byzantine Greek, which is coming from Koine Greek. And so it's very similar. Not much has changed then.
I teach Greek on a college level, seminary level, and it's quite interesting to see classical Greek was very different. Really? Yeah. I mean, I'm not saying like very, very, very different, but it was different.
Right. And Alexander the Great wanted it to be sort of a language that everybody can speak and not just Homer. I mean, it makes sense. Like if you read like old English, it's not like it's extremely, you can understand it, but you got to work a little bit. What is it?
What is it? Beowulf is like not even comprehensible as old English. Yeah. Would you say it's kind of the same with between classical Greek and Koine Greek?
Or do you think they're more similar? I mean, maybe parts of it, I would say more middle English. Gotcha. So like Chaucer and stuff like that. I think that's more middle English.
Edmund Spencer, the Fairy Queen, I think that's more middle English and compare that to Elizabethan English. Gotcha. That's I think would be more classical. More like the gulf between classical and Koine.
Yeah. And then there was a revival of classical Greek at one time among some people. So it also complicates things. It's like, where do you think that construction, is it like the normal way of saying, or are they trying to like bring back a certain way of saying Greek that they did at one time? So those are some of the issues that grammarians work with. And I'm not a Greek grammarian. I mean, I know Greek and I teach Greek, but it's a pretty vast subject. I never tried to undermine a person wanting to study the word of God and say, well, you can, but you're never going to get to the real deep good stuff or the real thing.
I don't want to do that. That's why I think it's beautiful that the Bible is still the word of God in a translation. That's sometimes very hard for people to understand.
They think it's only the Bible is inspired in the original languages, but not in translation. We disagree with that. Isn't that a very Islamic thought? That's an Islamic thought.
Yes. Very Islamic. But there are Christians who think that? They think it.
That it's only the word of God in Greek or Hebrew or... Right. Yeah. Wow.
And that's not true. You believe that it's inspired. Why is it inspired?
It's inspired because it's God's breath. Right. So translations, as long as they're being faithfully translated, are also the word of God. So I can hold my English Bible or German or Hindi or Chinese or Afrikaner. I mean, I can hold it up and know that this is the word of God or Spanish. And it's true because there's nothing holy about that Greek alphabet.
There's nothing holy about the Hebrew symbols or letters that make it the word of God. That's not the Holy Spirit. Right.
Right. That's not the Holy Spirit Hebrew. That's a podcast title, Holy Spirit Hebrew.
Holy Spirit Hebrew. A few centuries ago, they would have said, yeah, what's wrong with that? But now we know better that this is just the way people spoke. This is just the way a Galilean fisherman who is educated in a Jewish setting would speak. You know what, Peter specifically?
Yes. Do you ever find it funny that people put down Peter so much? Like Peter was just an ignorant backwoods boy. Like he was just a little ignorant Israeli redneck boy like me.
And I'm like... No, he was not. And they even quote from Acts where it says, you know, when they realized that they were untrained men. Untrained does not mean illiterate. Right. Right.
That's not the same thing. Yeah. Untrained doesn't mean they were like... Untrained in the art of reading. Bumpkins.
Yeah. Untrained means they were not schooled in the rabbinic things. That's what they were... Not even rabbinic because rabbinic kind of sort of came later. But they were not schooled in all the Pharisaic legalism.
Right. And that was very shocking that they were speaking to these people who were... Some were from the Sanhedrin, some were Pharisees, some were, you know, important people in the temple or synagogues. And they were like, how do they know all this stuff? Oh, wait, they've been with Jesus because he's been teaching them all this. Right. But never illiterate.
Right. They knew. One reason we know is because this is a Jewish population we're talking about. They learn how to read and write the word of God.
They learn how to read and write. Also, where Peter came from, you know, he was in Capernaum. Right. And that was not his original hometown.
I mean, he moved there. But in that area, there were Jewish people who were living in a Galilean setting. And they were very particular about learning and sticking to the word of God. I think I preached on this a couple of years ago just about Peter. And he was trained growing up in studying God's word.
Not trained on a level of a Pharisee, but he was trained. It's like you're living in a sort of a foreign setting. So you will preserve your language even more. You would kind of band together as a community. So this part of Galilee where Peter came from, they were surrounded by Gentiles. And so they really banded together to make sure they were really strong on the word. Yeah. You know, of course, Old Testament. Yeah. And yeah. This doesn't just apply to Peter, but any human who wrote something in the word of God, this is something I've heard. I'm sure you've heard it many, many times. But when someone says something like, because this person, Peter, Paul, Moses, whoever, because they're human and humans make mistakes, because what they're writing, even if the Holy Spirit is inspiring it, how do we know that the human side doesn't bring errors into the text?
Because God prepared them. You know, unlike Peter Enns, who is an Old Testament scholar, who is not an inerrantist, right? Or his version of inerrancy is very flawed. Is he a Christian scholar?
Yes, I would say so. But I don't think he would agree with what I believe or what many believe about inerrancy. In fact, in his work on inspiration and inerrancy, or in incarnation, he says that the human authors bring their errors into scripture, even among British evangelicals, not all, but many of them, they believe that scripture had errors. Wow. Yeah. So... But they still would say, I'm a Christian, I believe Jesus Christ is the word of God.
It's the word of God. But they would also add... But yeah, they were limited in their understanding, and their calculations were wrong, or their understanding of geography was faulty, so hence there are errors. Oh, gotcha.
Okay. And we find a big problem with that, because once you open the door to errors, then which part of the Bible is error-ridden versus which one is perfect? Well, yeah.
Well, also, where does it end? Yeah, right. Like, if we say there are errors... Then the parts I don't like are errors.
And there's no authority, because now you can never say anything with 100%. There always has to be that, but I could be wrong. Right. Right. So if you were to say, according to the Bible, it's very clear, homosexuality is a sin, but since the Bible has errors, I could be wrong on that.
Right. They were limited by the time and place, hence they were writing things based on prejudices that we shouldn't abandon now. And I'm like, no, that's the word of God. And they were prepared by God. The Holy Spirit supervised them. They were dependent on God. They received the revelation from God, unlike us, unlike the scribes who transcribed the same... Or passed the scriptures down through manuscripts.
We are not inspired, the scribes are not, but the original authors, yes, they were protected by God from making any mistakes. One scripture here is 1 Thessalonians 2 13, which says, for this reason, we also thank God without ceasing, because when you receive the word of God, which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe. You welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth. Truth, the word of God.
Right. So that's what Paul is saying. And then if you extend that, what Peter says over here, 2 Peter 3 verse 15, he says, And consider that the long suffering of our Lord is salvation, as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the scriptures.
So this is nothing new. There's still always been people misinterpreting God's word and twisting it. But what I want us to get here is that Paul, I mean, Peter is calling Paul's letters scriptures as they do also the rest of the scriptures.
Oh, so we talked about that yesterday, didn't we? Like, did they know that they were writing the word of God? Yeah, they realized that what they were doing was writing the word of God.
Like, Peter clearly did, because Peter's saying that Paul's words, Paul's letters are the word of God as he's writing them. That's right. Wow. That's right.
That's really awesome. So this is very, very important. These are some things. I do want to caution, some things I think we should avoid are hidden or mystical meanings behind the plain text. Like people just diving way too deep and finding symbols that aren't there. Right.
Yeah. If you, you said this before, if you're reading and you unlock some new hidden, like no one's ever thought of this before in church history, it's time to pump the brakes. If you have a YouTube channel that's dedicated to this, just know that we don't mean no harm, but you're digging too deep. There's people on YouTube who go so deep in the Bible that they're even wild stuff. You're not just digging too deep, you're digging in the wrong way. You're digging in the wrong places.
That's right. So yes, you can find types in the Bible. You know, Paul talks about them. The Hebrews talks about them, but when you extend them too far, then you get into some mystical readings and people have done that through the ages. I was going to say, do you, what do you mean by types or is that something that would take another episode to?
I mean, we can talk about that, but I mean, it may take much longer because it has to be handled carefully. I believe there are types in the Bible, not just the types in the sense of scripture has identified. That's the only reason these are types. No, I believe there are more that you can see a pattern and say, yes, there's a pattern here. But when you extend that into what we call typological interpretation, that's where we part company with some of these people because that typological interpretation makes even Israel a type.
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