44th session. 2-21-24. FUNDAMENTALS OF READING THE BIBLE

NOTES ON THE 2-21-24 CLASS
>> For the first time in almost a year, there was a technological problem that degraded the quality of my voice throughout the recording. However, it is still usable. I think I have corrected the problem, and I definitely will do what I can to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
>> The last forty minutes, which was all open discussion, were about the approaches to sex in the Bible and in traditional Christianity. I think this was a discussion that has significant practical application that may be more obvious than much of what we have discussed before. This discussion starts at about 1:38:15 or maybe a little earlier.
>> The points I made from 2:12:44 to the end of the recording (5m45s later) are a summary of a large part of what I have been trying to teach since the start and of a very large part of the Bible. The churches have never understood a single particle of this, which to a large extent is why they have never come even remotely close to understanding the Bible. The ideas I presented were not entirely familiar to Doug, which means I have to assume that no one else understands them at all. This is at the core of everything I ever have taught or ever will teach and also at the core of the meaning of the Bible. I recommend that you listen to this portion as many times as necessary to understand what I said there. The entire lecture portion of the 10-29-2023 class, which is from 19:08 to 1:30:59 on the recording of that class, is an expanded version of what I summarized in the last 5m45s of this class.

CORRECTIONS TO MY STATEMENTS AT THE 2-21-24 CLASS
>> At 5:44 – 5:46, “the class schedule this week” was meant to be “the class schedule this year.”
>> From 23:20, “the three types of things that you’re going to see are” should have been “the three types of things that you’re going to see on a typical page are.” Study Bibles in fact have other types of study helps in addition to verse-by-verse notes, footnotes for alternative manuscripts and translations, and cross-references.
>> At 1:27:00 – 1:27:03, Avila was and is in Spain, not France.
>> At 1:30:13 – 1:30:14, “I think is tares” was meant to be “I think is wheat.”
>> At 2:02:54 – 2:03:00, “If my built-in nature is to have sexual urges” should have been “If my built-in nature is to have sexual urges, and that’s sinful for me.”
>> There was a brief audio failure at 1:48:41 – 1:48:49. What I said, which was not entirely recorded, was “a real strong sense of their relationship with Jesus or attraction to God.”
>> At 2:13:05 – 2:13:08 “this year” was meant to be “last year.”
>> At 2:14:18 – 2:14:23 “make them guilty” was meant to be “make them feel guilty.”

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES FOR THE 2-21-24 CLASS
>> With regards to 43:51 to 46:45, there are probably hundreds of references in the Bible to having only one god and to having no gods before Yahweh. Among the most prominent are the first of the Ten Commandments at Exodus 20:3-5 and Deuteronomy 5:7-6, the Shema Y’Israel at Deuteronomy 6:4-5, Jesus’ restatement of the Shema at Mark 12:29-30, and “no one can serve two masters” at Matthew 6:24 and Luke 16:13.