¶1Elias, I'm wearing a shirt from the glorious Gama. Look at this shirt, it's so cute! Gama, look here, dressed in the sacred mantle. There was a team I'd never heard of, but I went to launch my book, "The Boy Who Wanted to Be God," which is even here in Brasília, and some nice people gave me this Gama shirt as a gift. Glorious Gama.
¶2I had a lot of friends named Gama. Oh, Gama Football. What is Gama doing? Where is it? Sociedade Esportiva do Gama.
¶3Gama thrashes São José. That news from a month ago, look. Gama thrashes São José at Bezerrão and gets promoted to Série C after 16 years. Congratulations, Gama. Great Gama.
¶4Now, I'm a non-practicing Gama supporter. Yes, I wear a Fortaleza shirt. I'm a non-practicing Fortaleza supporter too. I support football, that's my team. I support the good of football.
¶5I've been to the stadium, I went to the stadium once. I don't find the environment very welcoming, no. The stadium is full of swearing, lots of marijuana. When I went, there was a lot of swearing, a lot of marijuana. That's how it was, that was my experience, forgive me.
¶6There was a lot of swearing and a lot of marijuana. You're near the old folks , that's the tip, near the old folks. I'm going with Pedro Poplona. I think he'll show me the truck, he takes his boys, right? So I'll try to go to the stadium again in honor of Gama.
¶7Welcome to Fingers of Theology. I'm Pastor Iago Martins and you're with me on what? On Ask the Pastor. Yes, this channel isn't just for theologians on Twitter. What did I do?
¶8I opened the last three videos of Ask the Pastor, which is this program. One of them has 160 comments, another has 204 comments, another has 327 comments. I'm going to go through the comments on these three videos. I put them here in order by top. That's the order YouTube gives.
¶9Okay, so I'm going to try to find the main questions that YouTube gave me here and try to answer them from these last three videos. Do you want to be answered in the "Ask the Pastor" video? In this video here, leave your theological questions too, okay? So I can try to answer them. Have you already asked a question and it wasn't answered?
¶10Repeat it here, and who knows, maybe it will appear in the next "Ask the Pastor." The first question I saw here was: " Where's the video of the evangelical Flávio Bolsonaro kissing the statue of the saint?" Did that happen? Are you aware of this, Yasmin? I'm totally out of the loop. Look, this is a "Ask the Pastor" with a theologian vibe on Twitter, right? Let me see.
¶11I searched it on Google. Flávio Bolsonaro raised an image of Our Lady during a campaign walk in São Paulo on September 28th; there's no record of him kissing the statue that people spread that fake news about, right? He wanted to remove Mary as the patron saint of Brazil and all that. Fake news from the left, right? Who would have thought the left would be full of fake news, right?
¶12And he's an evangelical, right? There's a video here on the channel where I present Notre Dame Cathedral, it's a " theology on the road" video, where I discuss precisely that. Appreciating architecture from a tourist perspective , that's one thing, attending mass is another, but it's not that. Visiting for tourist purposes, nothing more. I thought you were going to talk about the thorny issue of the moment.
¶13From what I saw on Wall's channel, the subject occupies more than 70%of the mentions on social media. What is the subject? He doesn't say what the subject is. Now I'm in doubt, what is this subject that 70%of the mentions on social media are about and I don't know what it is? People think I know everything that happens in the world, right, Iago?
¶14Aren't you going to talk about Renan Santos's statements about performing a ritual? Renan Santos was going to perform a ritual and you did several things with him and now you're not going to comment. What did I do, people, with Renan Santos? I didn't do anything, I didn't perform any ritual either. He must be referring to the fact that I gave a talk at MBL.
¶15Listen, I gave a talk at MBL. I give talks wherever, wherever. And I'm saying this , it's been years since I gave a talk at MBL, and last year I gave a talk at the event with Nicolas Ferreira, and nobody says I'm Bolsonaro's pastor, you know? But people say I'm from MBL, that I gave a talk for MBL. Listen, I go everywhere, okay?
¶16I did a live stream with Lucas Bonzoli. I'm the nicest theologian there is. But if you're a Twitter theologian, stay away from him. >> You understand? Now, I'm a Seventh-day Adventist.
¶17I was at the Book Biennial at a table, me, Amon Jaim, a priest, a Wiccan guy, the religion of the goddess , you know? So what am I now? I'm the nicest theologian there is. >> I'm saying that, I don't know anything about Renan's speech, I don't know anything about the ritual, and I didn't do any of their things, you understand? You're all crazy.
¶18There's a complaint here, look. Now, this tick of his of constantly fiddling with the microphone is a joke, huh? He uses the microphone movement as a comma. I'm going to stop, Elias, help me, Elias. No, I'm going to stop.
¶19I'm going to stop fiddling. I'm going to stop fiddling. I have my little hand here, look. And it is of utmost importance that we, as Christians, research the elements that point to the Antichrist, in order to prepare ourselves. We can know who he is and if he already dwells among us or if he already did.
¶20Nero. I don't believe in a preterist view, I don't believe that the Antichrist is Nero or some ancient historical figure. Especially because the way the scripture describes the Antichrist is that the Antichrist will be a world government leader, he will rule the entire world. There are several other elements in the Book of Revelation that point to immense future catastrophes that have not materialized, have never been realized in the history of the church. So the Antichrist has not yet appeared.
¶21The Antichrist will still appear. I don't believe the church will be here on earth during the Antichrist's reign. I believe in the rapture. Follow the pre-rapture position. I don't believe we will be here.
¶22Iago, explain the pre-rapture position to me. There are few books in Portuguese that defend this. I think that book, "The Easter King," by Travis Snow, will have some chapters on this. If you want details of my eschatological positions, I expounded the entire Book of Revelation verse by verse. There at Manaimin, at our church .
¶23You can find it both on my Spotify and there. Can you explain better how we can maintain friendships with non-believers? In a previous video, you said that the Bible says we end up picking up the ideas of those we associate with. How should we proceed? That's really cool, huh?
¶24I think it's important that you know how to distinguish between yourself and other people. What do I believe, what do they believe, what do I believe, what do my friends believe, so that in this process you can protect and defend yourself from ideas contrary to your own. People might mock your faith, they might try to encourage you towards what is wrong, what is evil, what is false, or you might have debates about what you believe. These are two very different things, okay? Very different.
¶25You can't live with friendships where people mock your faith or with people who are living a life of sin alongside you. Like, someone who lives a life of morality, talking dirty, being licentious, dishonest, angry, and you try to interact with them frequently, constantly, intimately, it's impossible . So, friendship is possible, but you don't participate in sin. People who live in sinful practices openly and freely, you can't have that much intimacy, especially in the practice of sin, right? In surrendering to sin.
¶26So, make that distinction very clear. I don't participate in the sinful environments, moments, and conversations of those people, but I can treat them well, have a good relationship, have a good friendship, and everything else. You don't sit in the company of mockers, that's Psalm 1, but you can be friends with sinners. But that's the Gospel of Luke. Man, I left a really cool comment here.
¶27He said, "The Bible isn't soda, it's a fine wine unsuitable for childish palates and for simplistic and one-sided thinking." Poetry, you see? He nailed it with poetry. The poetry he sent. Look, I thought it was beautiful. I thought it was beautiful.
¶28Oh, man, the Bible is refined. The Bible isn't fast food. Do I agree now? I'm thinking carefully about whether I agree with that, you know? The Bible isn't like that, biblical knowledge, it goes deeper, right?
¶29It, it, it. And now, how do I say it? The Bible tastes like soda for children. She, she is water for the thirsty. She is, she is delicious for those who need to savor the taste of life.
¶30She is refined for those who seek erudition. The Bible offers everything we need in all phases of life. I understand what he's saying here, but now I'm mentally complicating the point that when we say the Bible is a fine wine unsuitable for childish palates. Man, the scripture is so wonderful that it can even be suitable for childish palates, you understand? But he's saying here, right?
¶31It's unsuitable for a simplistic and one-sided thought. Seriously. And that's what he means. I'm not trying to, I'm not going to overcomplicate the guy's point here. But I think the Scripture is so glorious, so fascinating, that it speaks to us in all different phases and moments of our lives.
¶32Actually, you know, it teaches us and transforms us and instructs us in so many ways, in so many forms, that we can only be grateful, you know, for God revealing Himself in such a multifaceted way throughout the wonder and truth of His word. I just didn't want the Bible to appear in someone's head as, I don't know, something excessively sophisticated. Because sophisticated things have their place. There are days when you have a fancy drink, right? There are days when you drink a fine wine.
¶33There are days when you eat junk food. There's the junk food day. There's that 10-real pizza. Do you have 10-real pizza? The 10-real pizza is all gone.
¶3420. No, in my neighborhood there are pizzas for 17 over there. Where I am, my neighborhood, wait a minute, now I live here. That's right. My neighborhood isn't in the outskirts anymore.
¶3536 is cheaper. Wow, man, pizza is expensive, huh? I don't eat much. I don't usually buy a lot of pizza, so I don't know. Man, but when I used to buy pizza for the young people at church, I'd lower the price, it was a 13-real pizza.
¶36It was 13 for the pizza. There was one for 10, but the 10-real one was too much, it was way too little. The 20 -something ones were bad, they were lame. There was this pizzeria in Záia that was top-notch, where the pizza was like 30-something, which was the best pizza, man. It was good.
¶37Our pizza. Sometimes you want a 10-real pizza, but I just want a little something here. Sometimes you want that really well-chosen tomato sauce, right? You want that pizza that comes with that chocolate crust, pizza with chocolate there. Sometimes you just want to dry off, finish your shower and dry yourself with any old towel that sometimes feels like sandpaper.
¶38Sometimes you want to dry yourself with Home products. Home is the favorite of those who want a sophisticated product. Look at this presentation here. I've already crumpled everything you threw here. It's the comfort of hotels.
¶39Six stars now in your home. Yes, my dear, Rome sent me this. I'll tell you this, I've been using the Rome bedspread and comforter at home. I haven't, look, it hasn't left my bed. I don't think I've washed it even once.
¶40It's wonderful. It's delightful. My wife, look, completely approved of the Home brand. And then, what did Rome do? Rome went and sent us what?
¶41Look at this wonderful thing. Attention, comfort zone. Home brand towel set. Face towel. No, people.
¶42Hmm. It smells nice, huh. Hmm, hmm. Wow, how nice. Towel, look, here, one of those towels that you spread, it's the towel that soaks up, you understand?
¶43Do you know the difference between a napkin and a spreader? There's the napkin that you pour and keep, you understand? And there's the spreader napkin that you pour. This one here just spreads. There are these towels you buy that just spread out.
¶44You grab the towel, you dry yourself, and it doesn't dry anything. The towel looks like it's on 15-grit sandpaper and doesn't do anything. And then there's the home towel. Oh, this is hotel quality, you know? This here, look.
¶45Good hotel quality. Wow, how lovely. Sit down, sit down here, Elias. Feel it. Feel the home towel.
¶46Sit down, feel it, feel the sheet. >> It looks like a sheet, doesn't it, man? >> Dry yourself and go to sleep. >> Yeah, look. It's good, man.
¶47>> Oh my God. It's a sheet. >> Dry two, look. >> Dry two. >> There, look.
¶48Dry two. It's, >> what's it like? That friendship shirt. Crazy. >> Oh, yes.
¶49Isn't it? >> Look at that. Look. It's big. You could make a cape out of it.
¶50The kids fight, you put them together, right? The boys here, look. Here, look, here came the bath towel and a face towel that looks like a bath towel. The size of a face towel. >> And the pudding is ugly.
¶51It's nice. Look at that. Are you tired of your towels that get thin after two months and don't dry until the next shower, that kind of gross thing hanging in your bathroom, shedding lint on your skin? The Home towel is 100%Turkish cotton with 670g. The highest grammage Turkish cotton towel in Brazil.
¶52It's 1.70 m by 1m. My brother is big, you know? And that's why it absorbs up to three times more water than a regular towel and dries up to 12 hours faster. Do you have a towel there, Elas? Do you have a towel there, ASM?
¶53A face towel there, ASM, get me a towel, Elias, get me a towel. I want to see if this is really a good deal. Do you want the little towel we use in the studio, man? No, not that, man. That's crazy.
¶54No, wait a minute. Here they are, both of them, right? Look at these little things. No, but it's not the size. It's not the size, man.
¶55Just look. No, this one is uncomfortable. No, no, no, no, man. You pick it up, it's absurd, because just holding it is a nice thing , you know? >> Then you pick up another towel.
¶56Put it in each hand. Look how crazy. It's awesome. Even the thickness of the thing, man. It's thicker, you know?
¶57I'm seeing it. >> Look, the thing is thicker, man. It's too good, man. Look, it's not that thin towel that looks like a dishcloth, nor will it get all wrinkled after two washes, no, my brother. Why is Roma so special?
¶58It's because the high grammage of the cotton is what allows for greater liquid absorption. A common towel on the market has between 400 and 500 g. Home has 670. It's a difference you can already feel to the touch. Oh, water.
¶59But I really wanted to try it, no problem. Rome gives you 15 days. Let's stall here. It's so nice. Rome gives you 15 days to try it.
¶60If you don't like it, Rome will refund your money. That's very rare, okay? In home products, which shows their confidence in the quality. And using the coupon two fingers, which along with the discounts already applied on the site, you can get more than 20%off Home products. What are you waiting for?
¶61I've been using Home products daily, and it's made a difference in the quality of my sleep. They are products, look, with the refined quality of a hotel available for your own home. So, go to the link in the description or the pinned comment, or even if you have it on your television, you can scan the QR Code, it's there on your screen, and discover Home products while you watch the rest of this video. Go ahead and take advantage. I stopped to pay attention to something.
¶62When the ark is carried by Rophite and Phinehas and Israel loses the battle and the ark is taken captive by the Philistines, the whole story of its return and how David begins to plan the construction of the Temple in Jerusalem unfolds. There is no further mention of the tabernacle. He arrived, he presided as the last high priest to be mentioned. Why didn't the ark return to that tabernacle? What happened to that tabernacle?
¶63So, I think it's wrong, okay? I think the tabernacle is mentioned, yes. Oh, again it's there between Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles, but the text doesn't really explain much why they didn't bring it back to the tabernacle, right? I'm opening the biblical text here to check . In 1 Samuel 6: 6 and 7, right?
¶64The ark arrives in Bethmeh. After the judgment that takes place there, the inhabitants asked the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim to collect the ark. The ark goes to the house of Abinadab. Ah, they consecrated Eleazar to guard the ark. I think the ruin of Shiloh would be a way to explain some of this, okay?
¶65Because Shiloh is the sanctuary where Eli served. But this Samuel recounts the capture of the ark, the death of Eli, but he doesn't exactly describe the destruction of Shiloh. But Jeremiah talks about that, right? Jeremiah speaks precisely about the destruction of that environment where the ark was kept. The devastation of Shiloh by the Philistines.
¶66Maybe that explains why the ark didn't return there, right? It's an inference I'm making historically here, but I don't know. I'm kind of improvising. Good question, okay? It's a good question.
¶67Which one is working here? Second Chronicles. Second Chronicles 5 shows the transport of the ark, the transport of the tent of meeting and the sacred utensils to the temple, which is the final destination indicated for these items, but it doesn't detail where the parts of the old tent were kept. So, I don't know, but I think that's why. I think the destruction of Shiloh partly explains this reason.
¶68Good question, really good. When a pastor prays from the pulpit and we say amen, do we participate in the prayer he made, or should each of us pray individually at the moment he is praying? We are participating in the prayer he made. One person prays, and the other people are participating in the prayer of a third person, and after that person prays, you say amen because you are participating in their prayer. If everyone is praying at the same time, it's complicated, right?
¶69How do we have a collective prayer? There will be collective prayer, you understand? I find it very strange when people are praying, all together on top of each other. I've participated in many moments of prayer. I'm not Pentecostal, you know that, but I used to be Pentecostal.
¶70I found it very strange when everyone held hands and then it was like, let's pray for so-and-so. People would pray aloud, God bless so-and-so and everyone else. And I would always say, man, but there's one person praying. We participate together in this single prayer. It's strange for everyone to pray at the same time, but it works too.
¶71I'm not saying it's wrong , that God doesn't allow it, or that God doesn't receive it. Of course He receives it, obviously. But when we say "amen" to a prayer, it's because we're agreeing with another person's prayer, right? Seeing so many Christians being cowardly attacked, when we can defend ourselves, how should we act? Allow it or react?
¶72It depends on the type of attack, the aggression, right? It's a physical attack. We are being physically attacked, we have to fight to defend ourselves from physical attacks. We're talking about environments of persecution, right, in other countries, right, and that the gospel is persecuted. We need legal battles, right, in international law to help people escape from these countries , to change governments and everything else, so that people can live in peace.
¶73It's about the persecutions we receive, right, in politics and in contemporary life. We need to have the intelligence to know where to turn the other cheek, where we simply don't resist evil, and where we can use some kind of intelligence, wisdom, to deal with specific situations. It's difficult to say, but ultimately, it's important that we have the spirit of Christ and not think this is strange, okay? We, as Christians, will be constantly attacked in a cowardly way because our Christ was attacked in a cowardly way. We worship a God who was attacked in a cowardly way.
¶74So it's normal that this happens, right? We defend ourselves however we can, however it's possible, but without finding it strange at all. Jesus said, "Don't find it strange, because this is part of who we are. We will always be persecuted, right, by this world that hates the Christ we follow. What's your opinion on Lutheran theology?
¶75It's good, it's a great theology. I have problems with Lutheran theology because I think it's still too Catholic, in my opinion. So, I don't follow the Lutheran views on the Eucharist. I don't believe in such a liturgical service as is common in Lutheran circles. I think I'm really a Baptist, right?
¶76I believe a lot in Baptist theology, in the way we do church. The idea of simplicity, the idea of a less liturgical service, a simpler, more popular service, let's say. But the problems with Lutheran theology are small. I would disagree, it would be similar to my disagreement, with Presterian theology, if you doubt it, right? I don't have, I'm not Lutheran, but I don't have any great feelings, right?
¶77To speak Regarding Lutheranism, no. Good brothers. We have good brothers in the Lutheran church throughout Brazil. Thank God. Pastor, comment on the book*The Melchizedek Factor*.
¶78Man, I read it in theological seminary when I was a seminarian, and I remember liking it a lot. Well, I don't remember, so that's it. I remember really liking the idea that God provides cultural points, right? That we can use to preach the gospel to other peoples, to other cultures. I also remember reading*The Peaceful Tottenham*, same author.
¶79And I, honestly, I don't remember much about the book. It's been about a decade since I read it, but I remember liking it a lot, finding the idea that God provided elements of connection in contemporary culture that we can use to present the gospel very, very interesting. Maybe I should reread it precisely because maybe we are constantly doing this when we do public theology, when we create a world copy, when we watch a series. Because this is only for animistic cultures, only for indigenous cultures, right? Perhaps there's a resonance, isn't there, in the theses of this book that can be applied to more contemporary cultures as well?
¶80I think it's worth rereading, but if I remember correctly, I really liked it. And I mentioned that I was in Brasília, Elias, that I got this Brasília t-shirt, the guy commented here, and then I was in Brasília, it was incredible to talk to him in person . Oh, guys, that's great. I'm always very happy when you meet me in person. I'm always treated with great affection , with great respect, very, very grateful for your affection.
¶81Second time asking this question to the pastor . Wow, let's see here. I'm 30 years old , I grew up in the Baptist church learning that we choose God. From 26 until today I started a battle within myself, until my Bible studies convinced me of election, but now I'm lost because I always thought I had to seek salvation and I'm not sure of my salvation today. If there's nothing I can do, do I just give up trying and hope to be chosen by God?
¶82Man, what That's a good question, okay? I'll say absolutely yes and no. What do I mean by that? Do you give up trying? Yes.
¶83We don't achieve salvation. We don't catch salvation. We don't conquer salvation. We receive salvation. And receiving salvation is giving up on saving yourself.
¶84It's trusting. It's receiving . It's throwing yourself into the arms of the one who receives us. So, how do we do it? We throw ourselves to Him.
¶85We trust in Him, we believe in Him. Because salvation is by faith, by grace , it's given. It's not by merit. I have nothing, there's nothing I can do to be saved. I only receive salvation.
¶86He gives me salvation. And when He gives me salvation, I, you know, celebrate. But in a certain sense, you have to seek salvation. But how do you seek salvation? You seek the one who gives you salvation.
¶87You seek Christ, and Christ is the one who freely gives salvation. Even the act of seeking Him, obviously, comes from the work of the Holy Spirit in us. But you realize how wonderful it is and how...The idea that salvation isn't something I deserve, or something I work for, or something I achieve through my own effort, but something He gives me and I rest in Him , is satisfying. And by resting in Him, my certainty of salvation can grow ever greater. Look, you can't have certainty of salvation through works, salvation that I earn, that I achieve through my own effort.
¶88I will find certainty of salvation when I give up my own effort, when I give up who I am, I understand that He is the one who will receive me, He is the one who will hold me in His lap, He is the one who will place me in His hands, He is the one who saves me, I only receive. I only receive. It may seem like just a play on words, but in the end it's a very big difference in attitude. And this difference in attitude generates a difference within our hearts in the way we relate to Christ. What can I say?
¶89Seek pastoral counseling. I think it will greatly help you find more and more certainty, right, about what Jesus is working in your heart. Iago, explain the friendship between David and Jonathan. There are some rather strange passages, but I believe this would be a good time to talk about friendship. Look, I think I've already spoken at length about this issue of David and Jonathan.
¶90Some try to attribute homosexuality to him because he loved him more than he loved women. Ah, that's a very poor literary view, you know, of reading David and Jonathan, to think there was a disguised Homeric relationship there, especially since scripture doesn't hide the sins of its characters. They exist, you know, David is treated as a murderer, he's treated as a guy who brings a woman to him, I don't know what, who was married. The sins committed by biblical characters are exposed very clearly in scripture. For me, it would be very strange if there was a sin of homosexuality that wasn't clearly established in the text.
¶91On the other hand, it was a long friendship during wartime, you understand? To treat this description as a homosexual description is extremely silly to me. Ask the pastor:" What happened to the tribe of Dan? "" Wow, man. The tribe of Dan is ignored in the book of Revelation, right?
¶92Because of idolatry. The tribe of Dan is a tribe that gave itself over to idolatry. It even abandoned its original region and migrated north. And in this migration, they added the worship of a stolen image, which is even narrated in Judges 18. Later, Dan receives the golden calves from Jeroboam, in 1 Kings.
¶93And then, with the Assyrian conquest, the story of the tribe of Dan mixes with the dispersion of the northern tribes. When 144,000 are presented in the book of Revelation, the tribe of Dan is ignored. The tribe of Dan is not treated as a tribe. This is very serious. It signifies a very profound rejection of this tribe by God because of idolatry.
¶94What happened was that they became idols and therefore abandoned the covenant. Heavy on the God of the Old Testament. Why was slaughter right in the Old Testament and not in the New? "Testament? How do you advise Jesus, who preached love, and a God who commanded killing?
¶95Look, let me tell you something, Jesus will command killing too, okay? I don't know if you're aware. Jesus will return with a sword in his mouth and will bring death, he will bring punishment, he will bring vengeance against God's enemies as well. The God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament are the same God. The difference is that the people of Israel physically and historically represented God's judgment against other peoples.
¶96Today we no longer have that representation in the present time. We have the church, which is a preacher of grace and mercy before a God who will come to carry out his judgment and vengeance eschatologically. So we, as a church, have a discontinuity with the people of the Old Testament. It's not that God has changed, it's that the way he relates to the people has changed. We are not representatives of God's eschatological judgment in the present time.
¶97Israel had that position, and Israel abandoned the covenant and no longer acts that way. We are now preachers of grace to lead people away from this path of condemnation. It expresses itself through rebellion. The men who abandon the faith. Guys, people are crazy.
¶98There are several comments saying things like:" Oh, it turned into shorts, oh, Iago, are you tired of working? What is this? You're on vacation and can post it now on YouTube ? "" Because the videos are 23 minutes long. That's it, connected.
¶99You want videos every day and they have to be half an hour long. There are always videos that are longer than half an hour. I post the long videos, 40-minute videos, there are some really heavy videos, but hold on a minute, okay? Hold on a minute, I don't like posting 20-minute videos. Sometimes I make shorter videos.
¶100When I do book reviews, it'll be about 12 minutes, 15 minutes at most, you know? There's room for every video length. I'm not going to stop being helpless, but then you guys eat lunch faster, right? People, for God's sake, 20 minutes is the minimum tolerable length, sometimes it gets longer because it just happened to get longer. For me, videos should always be 20 minutes.
¶101I always try to make 20- minute videos. I just can't. That's the reality. Let us cry. And now, normal.
¶102" I get the impression that much of the eschatology we have today forces the text to fit into an eschatological timeline and therefore loses sight of the author's original purpose. I love studying systematic theology, but sometimes some texts are used in a strange way, especially eschatology. Seriously, it's true. I'll say it, ideally we should spend more time on the text, more time on the text and less time on systematizing the texts. If we spend more time on the texts, we can better understand what the author's original intention was—to establish certain things.
¶103The book of Revelation wasn't written to give an order of God's decrees. Even though there is an order of decrees there, it was given to bless the church, to reveal Jesus Christ. So, if we look beyond the eschatological controversies, there's a lot of good being taught in the eschatological texts that we need to embrace and learn beyond the great debates about pre-tribulationism, post-tribulationism, and things like that. What is your view on the difference between...Soul and spirit? Man, I think scripture doesn't establish a very clear division between our material aspect.
¶104It seems to me that soul and spirit are somewhat synonymous terms, they can be used differently to describe different aspects of immateriality, perhaps, but there isn't a theology of the difference between soul and spirit. There isn't. What exists in scripture is clearly a difference between the material aspect and the immaterial aspect. So there is a body and there is a soul or spirit, however you want to call it. Oh, but scripture uses the terms body, soul, and spirit.
¶105It talks about separating soul and spirit together and so on. >> I believe these are rhetorical devices to present something of this immateriality, part of immateriality. I don't think there's a theology that clearly describes what the soul is, what the spirit is, that creates a very clear division between these two things , right? I really like the idea of conditional unity, right, or psychosomatic unity, which is a kind of dichotomy, basically. So, what I talked about Baptists being Calvinists.
¶106He commented here:" With all due respect, Pastor Iago, Baptists are not, and do not follow, Calvinism as their doctrine , nor even Armenianism. "I believe we should review the concepts, go back to the beginning. I'm not aiming for Christ to be called Christians and not Calvinists or Arminians. In fact, the first Baptists, right, they were Calvinists. The General Baptists, they started as Calvinists in the Amsterdam region.
¶107Over time they ceased to be Calvinists through their contact with the Mennonites, but they started as Calvinists. The Particular Baptists, which are another Baptist current, started completely Calvinist and remained Calvinist for a long time. So Baptists have been Calvinist from their origin, in all their origins. There's a small error there, okay? I have a question.
¶108There are several pastors with personal YouTube channels where they post sermons. Should this monetization of the videos be included in the church's finances for the expansion of the kingdom or can it be remuneration for that preaching pastor? I think it depends on each church. So, I think that when the pastor puts it on his personal YouTube channel, I think the monetization is his. If he puts it on the church's channel, then..." Sometimes monetization tends towards the church.
¶109I think each church has its own particular agreement on this. I think it depends on each one. But don't worry, nobody is making much money preaching on YouTube. The licensing fee is always very low. This question may seem silly, but I think it has an interesting point.
¶110Did Jesus resurrect himself or did God resurrect him? What are the implications of this? The Bible clearly states that he was resurrected by the Holy Spirit. Here it's Romans 8:11, right? And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in us, right?
¶111So, it's described that the Holy Spirit resurrected Jesus. But I'll say this, okay? This is one of the most powerful things to argue about the Trinity, right? Who resurrected Jesus? It's a very Trinity-centric question.
¶112I love this question. I love this question. Who resurrected Jesus? Romans 8 says it was the Holy Spirit who resurrected Jesus, but there are other passages that say the Father resurrected Jesus. I think Galatians 1, let me...Look here, wait a minute, let me open my Bible here, it's right here.
¶113Galatians 1: God the Father raised him from the dead. So, who resurrected Jesus? God the Father, but according to Romans 8 it was the Holy Spirit. But there's more, I think in Acts 2, now you have to find Acts 2:24, it's here. But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death.
¶114So , who resurrected him? Jesus or God the Father. But who raised Jesus? It was the Holy Spirit. So, there's a very close correlation here.
¶115But Jesus said several times in John that he would resurrect himself. It's in the famous discourse in John 10, right? John 10: 18-17: "This is why the Father loves me , because I lay down my life to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again.
¶116He gives and he takes it up." So, who resurrected Jesus ? Father, it was the Son, it was the Holy Spirit. The Trinity resurrected Jesus. The resurrection was a Trinitarian action. That's really powerful.
¶117It shows, right, it's yet another argument about the Trinity. The Trinity as this powerful force of expression of the divine person. I find this issue phenomenal. Okay, my dears, that's today's question for you. I hope it has edified your lives.
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¶119A kiss on your neck and until next time. Yeah.