[RoosterRedux]

The transcript doesn't indicate when Bret is speaking or when Jordan interjects a comment. You'll have to watch the video to figure that out.

I thought there were some very interesting points made in this video by both Bret and Jordan.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Bump.

[wbarmy]

the Old Testament is not a book of monogamy

Not correct. The whole system was started out as monogamous (Adam and Eve) but the lusts of people changed that. The O.T. shows constantly monogamous relationships working but polygamy causing issues every single time it was used. Abraham having Ishmael, Leah and Rebekah and the multiple problems there, David and his serious problems, Solomon and wives leading him astray, etc.

[P8riot]

Christ taught us to love one another (including our enemies) because we are all created in the image of God. None of us has a complete grasp on the truth, we are all dead in our trespasses and sin. Therefore we are to be patient with one another. Loving one another, but not necessarily affirming each other’s behavior. Our love for one another should extend to compassion for their souls, to the extent that we confront each other humbly when we see they are in sin, and offer the forgiveness of God to them through Christ.

[Wuli]

“Our argument in the book is that our consciousness is fundamentally collective first, and that individual consciousness has been overly focused upon because our individual consciousness is so much more vivid than our collective consciousness.”

If there is a “collective consciousness” it came after our indiviual consciousness. Self indentification comes first, followed by that self being part of groups outside our self.