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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to this episode of Thinking Christian.

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Speaker 2: I'm doctor James Spencer and I'm joined today by Scott Lindsay.

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Speaker 1: He's an executive director.

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Speaker 2: At Lagos, and we're going to be talking a little

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Speaker 2: bit about Bible study, and we're going to be talking

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Speaker 2: about what Logos offers to help you with Bible study.

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Speaker 2: And so Scott, I'm really excited to have you on

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Speaker 2: the program. I you know, we were talking a little

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Speaker 2: bit before the episode and I said, I tried to

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Speaker 2: lead into this how Logos got started. When I first

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Speaker 2: started seminary, I took Greek and Hebrew only computer aided.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't really read it.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't you know, I couldn't cite read Greek or Hebrew.

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Speaker 2: But I was doing these sort of complex exegetical tasks

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Speaker 2: know whether people know what that is right now, but

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Speaker 2: that was sort of my origins with this, and so

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Speaker 2: I'm interested to hear a little bit about how Logos

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Speaker 2: got started and what your initial products were and just

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Speaker 2: how it got off the ground.

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Speaker 3: Well, I can tell you have a doctric as you

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Speaker 3: said logos. Okay, Now I did go to seminary, but

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Speaker 3: I say logos simply because if I say that, you know,

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Speaker 3: on an airplane, I don't know what they're going to Google,

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Speaker 3: La gi whatever. Now what I won't accept is low gos.

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Speaker 3: I'll hear that where people took the two and made one.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, no, no, logos right, yeah, but yeah, no, it's

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Speaker 3: an amazing story. So this is my twenty ninth year

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Speaker 3: with Logos. Were just celebrated thirty four years as a company,

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Speaker 3: and we're up here Pacific Northwest, little north of Seattle.

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Speaker 3: And that's part of her story because the founder was

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Speaker 3: Bill Gate's youngest program manager at the time at seventeen.

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Speaker 3: So the family that started Logos again thirty four years

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Speaker 3: ago was East Coast Jersey. Bob got this internship at Microsoft.

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Speaker 3: I think it was sixteen when he initially started interning. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: very very smart guy, smart kid, and was grown up

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Speaker 3: in a home where the Bible was important, church was important.

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Speaker 3: Mom was a librarian, Dad was kind of in tech.

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Speaker 3: So hey, let's take tech and libraries and let's let's uh,

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Speaker 3: So Bob has a brother is uh, you know, they

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Speaker 3: they had access to computers, probably before anybody else did,

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Speaker 3: just because of what Dad did. And the rule was,

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Speaker 3: I'm not buying any software you're going to create. If

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Speaker 3: internship at Microsoft. And while at Microsoft, he met another Christian.

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Speaker 3: My joke is there was one other. And they used

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Speaker 3: the labs at Microsoft to create the first ever Bible

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Speaker 3: software program in this new thing called Windows. And so

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Speaker 3: they met with the leadership was about a year and

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Speaker 3: They were excited, Hey, we can use Windows to study

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Speaker 3: the Bible. And they said, no, we're not. You can.

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Speaker 3: So they signed the rights over to Bob and his

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Speaker 3: friend and they thought, wow, you know, I think this

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Speaker 3: would really benefit the church. So they that was a

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Speaker 3: tough decision to make and I've asked him, you know,

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Speaker 3: And he's like, don't ever ask me that again, Scott,

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Speaker 3: you know, He's like, no, I want to serve the church.

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Speaker 3: I want to help people study the Bible better. So

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Speaker 3: the family cleared savings, everything moved out to Washington State

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Speaker 3: and lo and behold. Logo Research Systems was the first

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Speaker 3: official name, and then we joked then with Logos Bible Software,

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Speaker 3: which we don't say that anymore either. It's just Logos now.

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Speaker 3: And what's amazing about the story is we're now a

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Speaker 3: couple million users now worldwide, multiple languages, so we have

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Speaker 3: logos in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean. But the

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Speaker 3: the number that's most exciting, is we have three hundred

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Speaker 3: I'm here in Washington. You know, after COVID, three hundred

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I love it here. Not leaving. But that's

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Speaker 3: a little history of how we got started.

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Speaker 2: And now you've got an AI sort of built in

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Speaker 2: Let's just talk through that a little bit, because when

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Speaker 2: everybody kind of gets that vibe. So the open source

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Speaker 2: going to crawl, They're gonna find information for you. Claude chat, GPT, Gemini, gronk,

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Speaker 2: those kind of they're pulling information, but you don't necessarily

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Speaker 2: how much training I try to give, you know, my

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Speaker 2: you know that's that's problem A. And then I think,

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Speaker 2: you know, problem B is that when we use these

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Speaker 2: up to what I would say is sort of unnuanced

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Speaker 2: up at the top end of your Google search. Now,

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Speaker 2: every time that these are just you know, real pithy,

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Speaker 2: think your system really solves both those problems plus a

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Speaker 2: lot more So. I'm just interested how you talk it

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Speaker 2: through and maybe explain it to people. And obviously we're

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Speaker 2: but just help people understand what you all have done.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So I'm I'm gonna dog on AI a little

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Speaker 3: the State of the Church for twenty twenty six, and

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Speaker 3: believe it or not, Christians of any demographic in the

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Speaker 3: United States right now are using AI more than any

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Speaker 3: other people group right now. The church. Okay. The thing

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Speaker 3: that's scary though, is more than half now say they

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Speaker 3: people say to me all the time, you know, oh, Scott,

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Speaker 3: AI is not as bad as you say for biblical

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Speaker 3: questions in theology. And you know, I say, listen, pit

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Speaker 3: bulls make great family pets, right, No, they don't. I mean,

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Speaker 3: know the stats. Now the pushback from people is again,

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Speaker 3: with guardrails. Because we're using AI, we have a philosophical

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Speaker 3: Number one is garbage in, garbage out. We're not connecting

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Speaker 3: Number two is hallucinations. Now you know AI hallucinates, and

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Speaker 3: And then when you dig, and here's the thing most

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Speaker 3: It's tickling those ears. It's always kind of patting you

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Speaker 3: It'd Scott, it is absolutely game changer for me, but

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Speaker 3: I'm curious. I went out to Chat. I asked a

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Speaker 3: Logos doesn't do that. We're not trying to figure you

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Speaker 3: out now, you know, we don't hallucinate. And when I

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Speaker 3: love that about logos because I can say, how what

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Speaker 3: because you know new stuff, right. But the two things

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Speaker 3: first one's called study Assistant. Okay, so Study Assistant. This

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Speaker 3: just released, I want to say, six months ago, and

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Speaker 3: this is where you're having a conversation in logos now

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Speaker 3: about anything. So it could be, hey, my wife is

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Speaker 3: struggling with anxiety, how can I be a better husband?

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Speaker 3: How can I serve her? Logos has counseling. It'll pull

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Speaker 3: in the verses and ways in which to accomplish what

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Speaker 3: I need help with. You can say, what is this

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Speaker 3: Greek word and Ephesians chapter three, verse whatever, and go

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Speaker 3: pull my Greek diction. I mean, the amount of work

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Speaker 3: is significant, or it can be theology. So I'm going

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Speaker 3: to start simple and then I'll blow your mind with

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Speaker 3: some new things that have just recently happened, actually, but

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Speaker 3: I'm going to start with what is the trinity? So

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Speaker 3: I just type in study assistant, what is the trinity?

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Speaker 3: And I want you to notice something, James, that there's

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Speaker 3: two buckets if you will, the all the answer from

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Speaker 3: So there's your books. That's my logo. So that's the

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Speaker 3: late You know the different options we have, which we'll

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Speaker 3: share here towards the end, but I want everybody to

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Speaker 3: notice that all books is an option. Now. This is

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Speaker 3: my pastor's favorite new feature in logos, and probably will

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Speaker 3: be James's favorite feature because when you flip the switch

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Speaker 3: to all books, we are allowing you to search a

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Speaker 3: seven million dollar theological library. Remember I said we have

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Speaker 3: three hundred thousand books. We're letting you search that whole

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Speaker 3: theological library. Now, the danger, James is we're going to

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Speaker 3: introduce you to books that you don't own. So you'll

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Speaker 3: read a little bit and then it'll say what twelve

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Speaker 3: ninety five, eighteen ninety five. So James, before you ever

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Speaker 3: do this, take your wallet, lock it in another room

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Speaker 3: because the temptation will be great. As my past says,

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Speaker 3: so I would advise to always start with your books

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Speaker 3: that that's your level, Premium, Proomax. Those are the three

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Speaker 3: levels we have at Logo. So I'm going to start

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Speaker 3: with my level and I'm going to enter and here

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Speaker 3: we go. Now, what Logos is doing right now is

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Speaker 3: for me, it's reading a couple thousand books. Okay, So

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Speaker 3: how long would it take you to read all the

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Speaker 3: theological books you own? Hey, go give me a good

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Speaker 3: answer on the Trinity and I you know you're not

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Speaker 3: going to do that. But notice notice the citations right, So,

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Speaker 3: great answer on the Trinity, but number one represents that

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Speaker 3: particular Bible dictionary and the page number this one is

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Speaker 3: another dictionary and page number right the Evangelical Dictionary Theology.

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Speaker 3: So if I want to read further out of let's

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Speaker 3: say this particular theology, then I just clicked the button

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Speaker 3: and I'm reading. So you're never going to click and

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Speaker 3: logos and have us say you got us, we made

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Speaker 3: that up, right, you know, No, we're gonna We're gonna

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Speaker 3: give you the book and the page number. Now here's

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Speaker 3: the thing. If this is not enough for you, So

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Speaker 3: one of the goals in Logo say, is not to

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Speaker 3: kill you with too much information, right, But some people

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Speaker 3: want to be killed like James might be studying something

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Speaker 3: later tonight, and you're like, listen, I want as much

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Speaker 3: very possibly, right, so you can type down here, give

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Speaker 3: me more, and it will layer in more Bible dictionaries,

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Speaker 3: more theologies, more input. Right. So I just want to

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Speaker 3: point that out because I've had people say, hey, Logos,

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Speaker 3: sometimes I feel like, ah, you know, give me more.

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Speaker 3: I said, did you ever ask that? Nope, Well there

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Speaker 3: you go. Okay, Now I'm gonna continue the conversation. I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna now say I've got my theology. I'm gonna say

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Speaker 3: what are key passages? So I'm typing what are key passages?

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Speaker 3: And notice, James, I didn't say about the trinity because

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Speaker 3: my conversation is already about the trinity. So Logos knows, Hey,

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Speaker 3: that's what we're talking about. I don't need to restate

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Speaker 3: the conversation. And this is this is exactly what happened

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Speaker 3: to me about four months ago. This is a good answer, James. Okay,

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Speaker 3: key passages. If I wanted more, I could say more.

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Speaker 3: But about four months ago, I got a phone call

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Speaker 3: and when I answered the phone, I could tell it

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Speaker 3: was an elderly gentleman and asked me James to would

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Speaker 3: you please, Scott come out to my house and show

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Speaker 3: me how to use the new logos. I've been hearing

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Speaker 3: about it. My scholar friends are talking about it, and

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Speaker 3: I said, oh, well, first, who is this right? Oh oh,

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Speaker 3: I'm so I'm so sorry, Scott. This is doctor Bruce Walkey.

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Speaker 3: Now I thought it was a joke, but it literally was.

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Speaker 3: He's going to James. He's going to be ninety six

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Speaker 3: years old, I think next week. Now do you know

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Speaker 3: the conviction that gripped my heart that a ninety six

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Speaker 3: year old scholar bar nun like? Honestly, I think maybe

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Speaker 3: one of the greatest Old Testament scholars living today, doctor

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Speaker 3: Bruce Walke, wants to study the Bible even more efficiently,

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Speaker 3: Like you know, hey, Bruce, you can call it in man.

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Speaker 3: You're you're you're good, right. So I literally went to

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Speaker 3: his house. I spent a whole day with him. This

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Speaker 3: is the same example that I started with him to

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Speaker 3: show him how do you study assistant And when he

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Speaker 3: saw James one passage for the Old Testament, he said, Scott,

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Speaker 3: come on, you know it's in there more than that

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Speaker 3: I know. So all I had to do to clear

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Speaker 3: that up James was say, I could say, give me

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Speaker 3: more OT, right, give me more OT. Logo snow's OT's

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Speaker 3: Old Testament. And this is when doctor Walke put his

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Speaker 3: arm around me and said, okay, you've You've made this

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Speaker 3: Old Testament scholar much much happier right now. The most

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Speaker 3: amazing thing, James is I brought my Old Testament theology,

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Speaker 3: uh you know, book of the year. I mean it's

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Speaker 3: it's probably one of the seminal Old Testament theologies. I

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Speaker 3: brought it with me for him to sign. I didn't

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Speaker 3: pay attention. I went home. I opened up the cover

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Speaker 3: James and he sided to Scott my mentor. So it

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Speaker 3: is now I'm now telling people, James that I am

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Speaker 3: doctor Bruce Walkie's mentor. It's now one of my treasured

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Speaker 3: possessions for sure. But again, notice how easy logos is.

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Speaker 3: You just have a conversation. But now I'm going to

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Speaker 3: get a little apologetic here. I'm going to ask a

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Speaker 3: great question about the Trinity. I'm going to say, can

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Speaker 3: we know love without this doctrine? Now, obviously someone can

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Speaker 3: experience love without being a Christian or understanding, but listen,

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Speaker 3: the Bible declares God is love and God is trinitarian

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Speaker 3: fathers and the Holy Spirit. So I love this answer

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Speaker 3: because it's here they're inseparable, right, You really fundamentally have

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Speaker 3: to have the doctrine of the Trinity to know what

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Speaker 3: love is. Now here's the reason why this question came

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Speaker 3: to mind. I'm working with an NFL quarterback right now

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Speaker 3: who is leading the Bible study with his team, and

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Speaker 3: he's now he's had some Muslims attend the Bible study.

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Speaker 3: He's been using this idea to plant gospel seeds in

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Speaker 3: the hearts of his Muslim teammates. Because what do we

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Speaker 3: know a llahs one not father son hoys and what

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Speaker 3: is pretty radically missing from an Islamic worldview is love

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Speaker 3: and great why they don't have the trinity? Right? So

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Speaker 3: and watch this, James. This is how specific you can

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Speaker 3: be in study assistant, because there's a goal for this idea.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to say, now, how can I use this

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Speaker 3: to plant gospel seeds and the hearts of my Muslim teammates?

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Speaker 3: I mean, look at how specific this question. So this

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Speaker 3: is the big idea. You can have a massive conversation

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Speaker 3: and study assistant. I mean you can dig deep, deep deep.

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Speaker 3: It could be twenty thirty layers of questions. But when

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Speaker 3: you need to use it for something, you can say

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Speaker 3: something like this, and logos picked up on the word

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Speaker 3: Muslim and it's literally apologetically imputting that for me with this.

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Speaker 3: So but this answer is going to be a lot

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Speaker 3: more evangelistic because that's what I said I wanted, right,

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Speaker 3: So this is amazing. And again, this is on your phone. Now.

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Speaker 3: If you start a conversation on your Android or iPhone

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Speaker 3: or whatever you have, the minute you go to your

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Speaker 3: desktop laptop, it's already there, so everything stays in sync.

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Speaker 3: So listen, James, I don't mind shopping with my wife

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Speaker 3: anymore more, you know. And I'm going to be sitting

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Speaker 3: there in that chair. I have logos on my iPhone

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Speaker 3: like I have had. I've had moments where I've told

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Speaker 3: my wife, go ahead, continue shopping, honey. I'm in a

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Speaker 3: study right now on whatever. Because the power of this

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Speaker 3: is in your pocket, right. And then lastly, I want

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Speaker 3: to show this. I love to do this in logos.

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Speaker 3: I can now say something like what did Augustin say?

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Speaker 3: You know, because maybe I want to know what a

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Speaker 3: father said? What did C. S. Lewis say? What did

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Speaker 3: you know if you have a favorite author, preacher dead old,

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Speaker 3: what have you? I love doing this because a lot

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Speaker 3: of times I want to know what did Augustine say?

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Speaker 3: What did C. S. Lewis say? What did Moody say?

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Speaker 3: What did you know? So you can say that in logos.

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Speaker 3: Now notice this, and you'll appreciate this because you've done

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Speaker 3: a lot of you know, research. Notice what it says

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Speaker 3: the search was constrained, so it gave me my answer,

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Speaker 3: But it said the search was only from Augustine's writings,

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Speaker 3: But would you like me to search everything? So when

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Speaker 3: I say yes to that, prompting James, it's now still

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Speaker 3: what Augustine said, but what scholars say.

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Speaker 2: Augustine said the interpretations of Augustine.

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Speaker 3: Which is so now I went from primary to secondary

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Speaker 3: sources just by saying yes. Okay. Now, notice James, at

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Speaker 3: the bottom of every section there is a little copy button,

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Speaker 3: So each part of each of the conversation. If I

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Speaker 3: want to copy that, jump over. Let's say I'm leading

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Speaker 3: my Men's Bible study and I've got some things i

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Speaker 3: want to share. I hit paste and everything is cited

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Speaker 3: so people watching can't see what just happened. But if

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Speaker 3: there is any students or writers right now that saw

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Speaker 3: what I just did. The hallelujahs went up, because that

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Speaker 3: is amazing that logos will cite everything in any citation style.

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Speaker 3: Tarabian sbl MLA eight have all the citation styles, so

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Speaker 3: huge feature. Now a couple of things left and study assistant.

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Speaker 3: I want you to notice, James the copy all button,

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Speaker 3: because maybe I want the entirety of my conversation copied

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Speaker 3: over to maybe I'm teaching a Bible study or something.

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Speaker 3: I want you to also notice recent okay, recent shows

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Speaker 3: you all the conversations that you're having, okay, which means

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Speaker 3: what I can go back in and ask more and

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Speaker 3: continue that conversation, make it deeper, make it bigger, and

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Speaker 3: so on. So let me just show you, you know,

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Speaker 3: the practical use. You know, we've gotten a little geeky

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Speaker 3: with you know, some doctrinal study and again you could say,

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Speaker 3: what is this Hebrew word in this passage? And but

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Speaker 3: I want to show everybody how practical this is for life.

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Speaker 3: Meaning I've got some preteens. Again, I've already said I've

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Speaker 3: got a ton of kids, and one of my sons

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Speaker 3: asked me not too long ago, you know, Dad, why

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Speaker 3: does guy that allows suffering? So I just went in

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Speaker 3: here and said, how do I talk to my preteens

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Speaker 3: on why God allows suffering? I love. The beginning of

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Speaker 3: the answer was Jesus experience suffering, so we have a

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Speaker 3: God that knows it, right, that suffered, so great place

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Speaker 3: to start this conversation. But another reason is suffering is

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Speaker 3: because we can hurt people. Right. Here's another point that

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Speaker 3: logo said is that we grow through suffering and difficulty, right,

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Speaker 3: and then it helps us give comfort. So this is

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Speaker 3: a really good simple answer. And again, if I want more,

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Speaker 3: I would simply say, give me more. But then I said,

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Speaker 3: what are examples in the Bible, Because that's what I'm

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Speaker 3: always trying to do with my kids, is, Hey, where's

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Speaker 3: this in scripture? Give me examples in the Bible where

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Speaker 3: God uses suffering in someone's life for good? And I

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Speaker 3: got Paul and job. And again, if I wanted more,

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Speaker 3: just say more. But I'm fine with that. But look

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Speaker 3: what I did, James. I then said, summarize this into

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Speaker 3: three points for me to lead my family in a

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Speaker 3: Bible study. Okay, Now again I could have gone ten

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Speaker 3: layers deeper than this, right, And then said summarize all

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Speaker 3: of this. But I want you to notice James great outline.

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Speaker 3: God transforms evil into ultimate good, Suffering develops character and

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Speaker 3: suffering it help equips us to help others. Notice it

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Speaker 3: didn't write the lesson. So here's the big idea. We

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Speaker 3: have one hundred coders at Logos Okay that are working

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Speaker 3: on this every day, making it better, adding new features.

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Speaker 3: But you know what they hard coded into logos AI.

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Speaker 3: It will never write your paper, it will never write

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Speaker 3: your sermon, it will never write your Bible study? Can

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Speaker 3: I get an amen? So we've hard coded our AI

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Speaker 3: to say if someone dare James goes in and says, hey,

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Speaker 3: I golfed too much this week and I'm leading my

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Speaker 3: men Bible study Thursday night, Logos, can you just write

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Speaker 3: my Bible study? You know what it'll say, No, I

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Speaker 3: love that about logos Now it'll come back with promptings.

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Speaker 3: It'll say, Nope, not going to do it, but I'll help,

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Speaker 3: Like would you like an outline? Would do you want

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Speaker 3: to do some key Greek words studies from the text?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: But never will it write your Bible study? Now, lastly,

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Speaker 3: I want to show you this, especially if we have

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Speaker 3: any Baptist watching right, you can actually say this, James,

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Speaker 3: can you alliterate these because I know what teenagers are precheams.

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Speaker 3: They learned with alliteration. So I just said, can you

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Speaker 3: alliterate these points? And logos came back with God's good

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Speaker 3: from evil, suffering shapes soul, and comfort connects to communities.

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Speaker 3: So if you want so, that's the power of this tool, right.

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Speaker 3: It's going to help moms and dads lead their kids

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Speaker 3: and answer those tough apologetic questions, which I love, right.

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Speaker 3: I love it when my kids ask me a tough

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Speaker 3: theological question. But now I have the confidence, even on

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Speaker 3: my phone, to say, hey, I'll get you an answer

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Speaker 3: on that right now. The last thing I wanted to

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Speaker 3: show James is I'm going to go to recent I

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Speaker 3: might have shared this with you when we met, maybe

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Speaker 3: a month ago, but I noticed pretty recently that there's

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Speaker 3: no exorcisms in the Gospel of John. And this kind

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Speaker 3: of blew me away because think about the ministry of Jesus.

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Speaker 3: He was always dealing with Satan and casting out and

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Speaker 3: it was a big but missing from John. So I asked,

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Speaker 3: why are there no exorcisms in the Gospel of John? Now?

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Speaker 3: What's great about this answer is amazing insight into John's

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Speaker 3: view of things. But it's a third paragraph that just

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Speaker 3: blew me away. And it's this line right here. In

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Speaker 3: John's worldview, Jesus is presented as equal with God, making

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Speaker 3: Satan and his a gents already defeated foes who need

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Speaker 3: not appear in the narrative, James, what John's basically saying

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Speaker 3: is Satan, I know what happens. Jesus is king. You're defeated.

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Speaker 3: I'm not even gonna waste ink on you. I mean,

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Speaker 3: that is the ultimate backslap. I love that, like I

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Speaker 3: wanted to share that with my men's Bible study. So

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Speaker 3: here's the new feature, James. Notice the copy link button. Okay, now,

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Speaker 3: actually text me right now just so that it's the

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Speaker 3: top of my messenger or whatever. But basically, uh, if

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Speaker 3: if I can get to your text, because I've got

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Speaker 3: my messenger open up another, uh send me a little text.

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Speaker 3: So it's the top of my crazy messages inbox here

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Speaker 3: and I'm gonna text you. There we go. There, I

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Speaker 3: heard the ding. So you just saw me hit copy

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Speaker 3: link on my Mac. I just sent you something which

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Speaker 3: was the copy link. I want you to click the

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Speaker 3: link that I just sent you to your phone and

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Speaker 3: tell everybody what is now on your mobile device.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I have the entire study Assistant why

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Speaker 2: John's Gospel.

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Speaker 3: So the whole thing that I just did on screen

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Speaker 3: you now have and James, it's all sighted, it's all sited. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so listen for anybody watching that is you know you're

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Speaker 3: discipling somebody, you're discipling your families, Maybe you're having a

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Speaker 3: good conversation, or maybe you're having a tough conversation with

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Speaker 3: somebody and you want to give them a biblical perspective

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Speaker 3: on this. You literally build out the conversation and study assistant,

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Speaker 3: hit copy link and send it to them. Now here's

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Speaker 3: the thing. If they have logos, it'll loaded into their

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Speaker 3: study Assistant, which means what they can continue the conversation,

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Speaker 3: go further with it. But here's the thing. If if

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Speaker 3: I sent that, James to somebody that doesn't have logos,

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Speaker 3: that whole thing still loads up on their phone, the

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Speaker 3: whole conversation all cited. So I love. So I've been

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Speaker 3: in live streams James, where we've gotten to a little

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Speaker 3: theological debate, like some random that came in with, you know,

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Speaker 3: and I went into study assistant and I nailed it

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Speaker 3: with some scholarship. And I'll just post that in the

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Speaker 3: comments and say, hey, here here is the here's the

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Speaker 3: right view on that, if you will, And this is

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Speaker 3: really what the Greek says, not that I don't know

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Speaker 3: where you got that, right. I love this new feature

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Speaker 3: because of its implication for discipleship.

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Speaker 1: It's really great.

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Speaker 2: I mean, just looking at this, it's like all the

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Speaker 2: right sources you'd want to do. Like you said, you

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Speaker 2: could go fifteen layers deeper. Question for you, Like when

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Speaker 2: you're doing this and you get down to that point

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Speaker 2: where you say, hey, can you summarize a you know,

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Speaker 2: an outline for my family so I could teach them

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Speaker 2: about suffering? Do you have to go through all the

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Speaker 2: other prompts to get to that or did somebody just

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Speaker 2: come in and sort of ask that last question and

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Speaker 2: get what you got?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? So the more you layer in a conversation, you're

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Speaker 3: you're kind of you're bringing more to the table, right, ye?

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Speaker 3: So you could someone could have just right out the

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Speaker 3: gates say hey, how do I talk to my kids

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Speaker 3: about suffering? Right? But I did want to ask give

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Speaker 3: me examples in the Bible, because I want my kids

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Speaker 3: to go to scripture as much as possible. Right, But yes,

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Speaker 3: you literally can just real quickly say and listen, that's

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Speaker 3: happened to me when the Mormons show up at my

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Speaker 3: house or the Jehovah witness And I'm like, okay, you

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Speaker 3: know I did go to Seton, but I really want

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Speaker 3: to I want to nail that thing you just said,

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Speaker 3: because that's not right. I can go right into study

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Speaker 3: assistant with exactly the question I want right now. This

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Speaker 3: is where that all books comes into play. Let's say

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Speaker 3: somebody watching. Actually this happened to me recently. I've spoken Dallas.

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Speaker 3: I had a young woman come up to me and

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Speaker 3: she said, Scott, this is this is this is so

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Speaker 3: providential because I've been having Mormons come to my house

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Speaker 3: a lot, and I feel a little threatened because I

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Speaker 3: don't know my stuff enough. I think she's a relatively

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Speaker 3: new Christian, but she wants to keep the engagement going.

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Speaker 3: She she's glad they're showing up, you know. And so

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Speaker 3: she's like, oh, I can't wait for the next door knock, right,

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Speaker 3: I can't wait for them to show. But here's I

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Speaker 3: told her this I think she went with the pro level,

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Speaker 3: which is the middle. And again we're going to talk

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Speaker 3: about the three versions of logos. But I said, you know,

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Speaker 3: on a question like that, that's very specific, and there

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Speaker 3: will be in each version of logos, there'll be some

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Speaker 3: apologetics for that. But this might be where you flip

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Speaker 3: the switch to all books so that you can really

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Speaker 3: broaden what you're pulling from, you know. Yeah, And she said, oh, well,

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Speaker 3: that's a good point, because you know that that's kind

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Speaker 3: of a nuanced study or you know, you're you're you're

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Speaker 3: looking at theology, but from from a totally different angle,

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Speaker 3: right apologetically. So that's where I would flip it to

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Speaker 3: all books and open up the floodgates, if you will,

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Speaker 3: on all the apologetic material that might be available to you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so that is study assistant. The thing will a

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Speaker 3: couple of things will close with. But factbook is where

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Speaker 3: I go for study. Okay, So study assistant is where

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Speaker 3: I go. I need some help build my Men's Bible study.

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Speaker 3: I want to look at this theological idea. I'm I

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Speaker 3: want to look at this Greek word. I mean, this

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Speaker 3: is where I specifically go with my questions. But factbook

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Speaker 3: is where I go study. Now, notice I'm here. I

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Speaker 3: was doing a little study in Ephesians chapter two. But

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Speaker 3: you can also type in a topic, so you could

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Speaker 3: type resurrection manuscripts, like tell me more about Dead Sea Scroll.

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Speaker 3: I mean, whatever you want to know about, type it

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Speaker 3: in fact book. Now, I'll tell everybody this was not preempted.

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Speaker 3: I didn't talk to you before. But give me a passage,

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Speaker 3: James that maybe you're in personally, or or you're getting

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Speaker 3: ready to go teach somewhere and you just happen to

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Speaker 3: be in. Give me a chapter older New Testament.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll say that the one I always go to

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Speaker 2: is my go to passage Genesis six four and five.

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Speaker 3: Okay, now you could do Genesis six four five, and

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Speaker 3: you could you could do John three sixteen. But I

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Speaker 3: always type the book and the chapter and let this

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Speaker 3: drop down because sometimes I don't know where really does

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Speaker 3: this start and stop the theme of it right, as

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Speaker 3: a matter of fact, using James, I'm sorry, using John

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Speaker 3: three sixteen as an example. If somebody wanted to study

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Speaker 3: Jesus and Nicodemus, well that starts in chapter two, right,

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Speaker 3: So if you don't know that, you're missing a good

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Speaker 3: chunk if that's what you want to study. Oh, I

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Speaker 3: could do four or five. But is there and you

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Speaker 3: know this we call this a perricopy, But is there

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Speaker 3: a perricopy here that we see that you would want

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Speaker 3: to hone in on.

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Speaker 2: You could do you know, you could do Genesis one, six,

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Speaker 2: one through probably eight, the increasing corruption on like that exactly,

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Speaker 2: just one of those really complicated passages.

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Speaker 3: So I'm going to select that. And so here's the

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Speaker 3: thing I would say, James, The greatest barrier to Bible

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Speaker 3: study for most is they don't know the right questions

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Speaker 3: to ask the text, right. So one of the skills

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Speaker 3: that you've honed over the years and getting your doctorate

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Speaker 3: and doing this and do that is is you you

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Speaker 3: know how to engage with the text to the level

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Speaker 3: that a lot of people don't, right. So when you

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Speaker 3: look at a text, you've got your exegetical glasses, your

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Speaker 3: historical glasses, your cultural glasses, and so most people don't

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Speaker 3: know how to do that right. And so what Logos

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Speaker 3: just did in a second, So for those again just

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Speaker 3: hearing and not seeing, I typed in the passage that

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Speaker 3: James gave me, and in one second, what Logos did

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Speaker 3: on the screen as I scroll, is probably thirty to

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Speaker 3: forty hours worth of biblical research already done. We're talking

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Speaker 3: journals and Sermont archives and passages and commentaries. So remember, James,

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Speaker 3: you know the excuse we try to give the Lord.

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Speaker 3: I don't have enough time. No, no, no more. We

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Speaker 3: literally cannot do that if you have logos. But there's

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Speaker 3: your commentaries, now, James, what's the average price of a

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Speaker 3: commentary these days?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: They're like the most expensive.

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Speaker 2: Books you can buy, you know, easy easy.

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Speaker 3: Right, and romans could be two three volumes, right xer so,

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Speaker 3: so they're very expensive. Logos comes with hundreds of commentaries.

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Speaker 3: So notice that I've got Kenneth Matthews from New American Commentary.

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Speaker 3: I've got Derek Kidner right, So I love Derek kid

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Speaker 3: and especially for the Psalms out of Tyndale. So all

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Speaker 3: I had to do is click the link and I'm

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Speaker 3: now in the Genesis volume commentary for Tyndale Derek Kidner. Now,

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Speaker 3: if you have the time to read all this insight,

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Speaker 3: that's great, But sometimes I'm a little busy, James, and

853
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Speaker 3: I don't have time right now to read thirty pages

854
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Speaker 3: of Derek Kidner being brilliant. Right, So look at what

855
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Speaker 3: I've got right here. Summarize. There's a button on the

856
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Speaker 3: screen so I could click summarize now to what you said.

857
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Speaker 3: I don't want anybody thinking, oh, now I don't need

858
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Speaker 3: to read the commentary. No, no, no, no, that's not why

859
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Speaker 3: we did this. Basically, when I go into a Christian

860
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Speaker 3: bookstore and there's a book that interests me, what do

861
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Speaker 3: I read? I read the back. I read the back

862
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Speaker 3: of the book because what does it do. It summarizes

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Speaker 3: the content of the book, and I make my decision James,

864
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Speaker 3: on whether I'm going to buy this book or not.

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Speaker 3: A lot of times buy those summaries, right, that's what

866
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Speaker 3: we're doing. So what this enables you to do is, look,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to do this for like three different commentaries

868
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Speaker 3: and logos, just summarize the kind of the theological view

869
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Speaker 3: of that scholar. Right. Which is great because for the

870
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Speaker 3: time it used to take me to read two pages

871
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Speaker 3: out of a commentary, I could summarize four or five

872
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Speaker 3: and then decide, oh, that's the angle that I want

873
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Speaker 3: to tackle the text with. Right, So that's that's huge.

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Speaker 2: Well, if I can say, just for people who may

875
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Speaker 2: be sitting back thinking like this seems crazy to do.

876
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Speaker 2: Why wouldn't you just read the whole thing? I would say,

877
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Speaker 2: we do this with journal articles all the time. There's

878
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Speaker 2: usually an abstract, and you read the abstract and you

879
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Speaker 2: decide is this is sort of information you're looking for?

880
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Speaker 2: We always use these kind of shortcuts. You're just building

881
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Speaker 2: a system that gives us shortcuts that we didn't have previously, right,

882
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Speaker 2: And so, I mean, I think just to say that,

883
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Speaker 2: so the people aren't feeling like, oh, you're just building

884
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Speaker 2: shortcuts all over the place.

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Speaker 1: Not really, This is.

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Speaker 2: How I would do it if I were if I

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Speaker 2: were searching a journal article, I don't usually have the

888
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Speaker 2: option to do it with the commentary, and so this is.

889
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Speaker 1: A great option.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And even Bible dictionaries. You know, sometimes

891
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Speaker 3: I'm studying Let's use the example of the Trinity, and

892
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Speaker 3: obviously I can go to ten Bible dictionaries on the

893
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Speaker 3: Trinity with this feature and logos. If I went to

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Speaker 3: factbook with Trinity, it would line up all my Bible

895
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Speaker 3: dictionaries and then I can summarize ten of them and go, oh,

896
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Speaker 3: that one, that's the one I really want to read

897
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Speaker 3: right now, right that's right. Again, if you have the

898
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Speaker 3: time later to read all ten, have at it. I

899
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Speaker 3: usually don't have time to read ten Bible Dictionary articles

900
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Speaker 3: on Trinity. That's right, all right, all your Bibles lined

901
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Speaker 3: up as the next section. So I like the ESV.

902
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 3: But maybe someone listening wants new King, James, new living.

903
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 3: There we go. But this is the goal. This is

904
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Speaker 3: new to factbook, a new section called questions to ask

905
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Speaker 3: And so basically what we've done is applied those lenses

906
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Speaker 3: to the text. So look what it did for Genesis

907
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Speaker 3: one through eight? Who are the sons of God? Does

908
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Speaker 3: God truly regret? You know? This is you know, I've

909
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Speaker 3: had people, you know, think they got me on this one, right,

910
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Speaker 3: you know, No, No, what is the Nephilum? So what's

911
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 3: awesome about this, James, is if I went through these

912
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Speaker 3: questions like what is the theological significance of the nephilum?

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Speaker 3: Or how about what ancient Near Eastern myths? I mean,

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Speaker 3: that is amazing questions to ask the text?

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that's great.

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Speaker 3: And I use this example. I wasn't raising a Christian home.

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Speaker 3: I got saved on a Sunday. Next Monday, I was

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Speaker 3: at a bookstore buying a Bible. I didn't know this

919
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Speaker 3: Christian books stores names. I went to like just a

920
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Speaker 3: secular whatever, and they had a couple of Bibles. I

921
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Speaker 3: bought my first Bible. I didn't know where to start

922
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Speaker 3: because I never read the Bible. And someone wisely said, hey,

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Speaker 3: I would live in the Gospel of John, Like, just

924
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Speaker 3: pick a gospel. I recommend John. So that's what I did.

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Speaker 3: I started in John one one. Now I want everybody

926
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Speaker 3: to think about the amount of theology that's in the

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Speaker 3: first fifteen to sixteen past and listen, James, I missed

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Speaker 3: all of it. I didn't know that was in there.

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Speaker 3: Why I didn't do this, I didn't know the right

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Speaker 3: questions to ask the text. So here's what you do.

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Speaker 3: If you want to know what are the Nephlum? Who

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Speaker 3: are the sons of God in Genesis City? You just

933
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Speaker 3: click the arrow next to the question that you're like, oh,

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Speaker 3: give me more of that logos. Now, is doing the

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Speaker 3: research guarded right, It's not pulling any random craziness off

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Speaker 3: the internet. It's going the scholarship right. And there's views

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Speaker 3: of interpretation right. So there's the angelic interpretation, there's an

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Speaker 3: alternative interpretation, you know, it pulled in a little grudam,

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Speaker 3: little William Cook, little utly, but this is this is great.

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Speaker 3: Now here's the thing. This is kind of a hot

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Speaker 3: topic with a lot of people getting into the Nephelom

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Speaker 3: and the sons of You know, I want to I

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Speaker 3: want to do.

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Speaker 1: That all day with it, more than I really want to.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, right right, Notice though, at the bottom of

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Speaker 3: my answer, so again, Logos is going to be gonna

947
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Speaker 3: give me a good quick synopsis scholarship cited. But notice

948
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Speaker 3: that button, James. If I clicked that, it loads the

949
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Speaker 3: question into my study assistant for me to go further,

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Speaker 3: so I can say something like, what did Heiser say? Right?

951
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Speaker 3: And let me make sure I spelled Mike's names right?

952
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Speaker 3: What did Heiser say? And again, this is how specific

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Speaker 3: I could be. Obviously, doctor Michael Heiser wrote a lot

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Speaker 3: about this. Logos has got a ton of books by

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Speaker 3: doctor Michael Heiser, and here we go. Heiser identify sons

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Speaker 3: of God as angelic beings who co cohabited with human wit.

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Speaker 3: So specifically, now I'm going to look at that it's

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Speaker 3: only citing three books of doctor Michael Heiser, because that's

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Speaker 3: what I asked But the beauty of this, James, is

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Speaker 3: the fact that now I'm not scared of numbers, right,

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Speaker 3: Like those books are the Bible that are like I

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Speaker 3: wouldn't even know how to study that, right, Leviticus, You

963
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Speaker 3: know what is the book of the Bible where most

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Speaker 3: people's Bible reading plan falls off right when they hit Leviticus. Right.

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Speaker 3: So that's the power of fact book is the fact

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Speaker 3: that I can go there with a text, I can

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Speaker 3: go there with a topic, and the amount of research.

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Speaker 3: Again as I scroll again. You talked about theological journals.

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Speaker 3: Logos brings me those it brought in sermons. I'm a

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Speaker 3: massive Tim Keller fan, so I clicked that little button there,

971
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Speaker 3: and I'm discovering that Keller preached a message back in

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Speaker 3: two thousand on this text. There it is right, and

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00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:04,280
Speaker 3: I can go even further. Right, there's a whole section

974
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,640
Speaker 3: here called dig Deeper if I want to go even

975
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:10,280
Speaker 3: further with this. But the big idea is it's that easy.

976
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Speaker 3: You just type the text you want to study, and

977
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Speaker 3: Logos does thirty forty fifty hours worth of Biblical research

978
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Speaker 3: for you. Now, let me know how much time we've

979
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 3: got left. Those are the two main tools I wanted

980
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 3: to show we're study assistant when I have questions or

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00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 3: direction help. You know, I'm writing a Bible, study a

982
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 3: blog post or what have you. And then factbook is

983
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Speaker 3: where I go study a text or a topic.

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Speaker 2: We probably got about ten minutes left, so and we

985
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Speaker 2: want to make sure we get to the level take

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Speaker 2: that kind of good stuff. So yeah, So the other thing.

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Speaker 3: That logos does and largely do because and you know this,

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00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 3: one of the radical shifts in education today is is

989
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:58,240
Speaker 3: we learn visually. So you know, the use of charts

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Speaker 3: and graphics. I mean, look at a newspaper and I

991
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:03,719
Speaker 3: might say that somebody and somebody's like, newspaper. What's that?

992
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:07,239
Speaker 3: But a newspaper today compared to ten years ago. The

993
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 3: radical shift is visual, right, visualizing with charts and graphs

994
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:15,239
Speaker 3: and things like that. So we're trying to do that

995
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 3: in logos as well for the Bible because it helps

996
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:21,840
Speaker 3: us learn. So there's a thing in logos you just

997
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:25,080
Speaker 3: go to tools here and you scroll down to the bottom,

998
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 3: and it's called interactive media. Okay, so just go here

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Speaker 3: later and there's hundreds of these. I'm going to show

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Speaker 3: you two or three for sake of time, but what

1001
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Speaker 3: these do is visualize your studies. So the first one

1002
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Speaker 3: we're looking at here is called the Bible books explore,

1003
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Speaker 3: and notice on the screen, I see all the books

1004
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Speaker 3: of the Bible, and there's some colors happening. So I

1005
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Speaker 3: noticed Genesis is mainly blue. I see Leviticus is kind

1006
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Speaker 3: of split between green and yellow. And notice up here, James,

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Speaker 3: that's why here's it's telling me. Blue is mainly narrative.

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Speaker 3: Leviticus is kind of procedural behavioral. So the color is

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Speaker 3: kind of giving you know, the emphasis, if you will,

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Speaker 3: are the literary emphasis of the book? Right now, Notice

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00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 3: I can put it in the order of the Hebrew canon,

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Speaker 3: the order of what books have the most words. That

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00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 3: would be Jeremiah chapters. There's some So I can look

1014
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Speaker 3: at the books of the Bible in any lens or view.

1015
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Speaker 3: But let me just put them back in the way

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Speaker 3: that we're used to Genesis exous, leviticuts. So there we go.

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Speaker 3: Now again, notice Genesis is primarily blue. But if I

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Speaker 3: float on it, there's my snapshot. So it's ninety one

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00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:41,760
Speaker 3: percent narrative. Now that's great, But what if I really

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Speaker 3: wanted a better overview of a particular book of the Bible.

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Speaker 3: And you mentioned Genesis, so I want a better overview

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Speaker 3: of Genesis. So this is where I click it. Now,

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Speaker 3: when I click it, notice what instantly shows on the screen.

1024
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Speaker 3: Here are my details. Moses wrote it, the languages it

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Speaker 3: was written in, the BIB local eras that are encompassing

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Speaker 3: that book, right, the key people, the key places, the

1027
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Speaker 3: key things. Now, notice James, the things that are in blue.

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Speaker 3: So notice key places. You know I need to know

1029
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Speaker 3: about Eden and Canaan and Babylon. Those are the kind

1030
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Speaker 3: of the big ones there. But let's say I don't

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Speaker 3: really know much about let's say Babylon. Okay, notice it's

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Speaker 3: in blue. Now I can float and get a brief

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Speaker 3: definition on what that is. And this is great because

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Speaker 3: sometimes you know, I forget who Jfeth is or you know,

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Speaker 3: the people of Yeah, so I love that. But watch this.

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Speaker 3: If I really want to dig deeper into a person,

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Speaker 3: a place, a thing, a biblical era, whatever you see

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Speaker 3: on the screen, click it and logos again. In fact,

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Speaker 3: book just did what literally just did about ten hours

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Speaker 3: worth of amazing study on Babylon with the questions right,

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Speaker 3: the questions asked, there's my media, my maps, I get

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Speaker 3: a picture of Tower Babbel, I get key passages. There's

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Speaker 3: my Greek, my Hebrew pronounce so notice the speaker. It'll

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Speaker 3: pronounce your Greek for you properly. It'll pronounce your Hebrew

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Speaker 3: for you properly. But again the point I'm look at

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Speaker 3: all this. Look look what it did in one second.

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Speaker 3: I mean that that's unbelievable. And all I did, James,

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Speaker 3: was click on the word babblin. That's it, right, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Now here's where it gets good timeline. That little button

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Speaker 3: there will show me the age of the particular books

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Speaker 3: of the Bible, right, so so someone might be learning

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Speaker 3: for the first time right now, James, that Job is

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Speaker 3: actually the oldest book. People assume Genesis first book got

1054
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Speaker 3: to be the old No, Job is the oldest book

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Speaker 3: in the canon. But this is the goal. Notice the

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Speaker 3: button here that says tertext. So by clicking that, what

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Speaker 3: we're looking at now is how the Old New Testament

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Speaker 3: talk to each other. So notice there's some connections here

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Speaker 3: happening Old New Testament. So if I float on Romans,

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Speaker 3: what we're now seeing are the Old Testament book cited

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Speaker 3: in Romans. Okay, if I come here to Psalms, or

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Speaker 3: Isaiah in an Old Testament book. Now what we're seeing

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Speaker 3: is Psalms is cited in these New Testament books. So

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Speaker 3: this is so good because I'll be honest, if I'm

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Speaker 3: in a New Testament book or you're in Genesis, you're

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Speaker 3: probably not thinking about the New Testament as much as

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Speaker 3: you should be, right because I'm in the Old Testament.

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Speaker 3: So I love this because the more we connect those dots,

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Speaker 3: absolutely the better study you're going to get when you're

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Speaker 3: linking all all the books of the Bible. Now here's

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Speaker 3: what you can also do. Notice this was just me

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Speaker 3: floating to see the interaction. But if I click, so

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Speaker 3: I'm now going to click on the slice here that

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Speaker 3: says Psalms. And now what we see is the actual passages.

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Speaker 3: So this is where Psalms is cited in the New Testament.

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Speaker 3: So quite linkage. There's a lot of verses there. Yeah, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 3: so that's the Bible book. Looks for. Another one that's

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Speaker 3: great is we'll take books of the Bible. We did

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Speaker 3: this with the Book of Psalms, where you know, here's

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Speaker 3: all the Psalms lined up. If I was to pick

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Speaker 3: my favorite, probably Psalm twenty three and look at how

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Speaker 3: geeky you can get. This is what it would look

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Speaker 3: like in my leatherbound Bible that I have my morning

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Speaker 3: time with. And you know, but one click, there's the Hebrew,

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Speaker 3: next two Psalm verse one, two, three, four, five, there's

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Speaker 3: the parallelism instantly, and even the structure. So this is

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Speaker 3: the level and depth at which you can dig into

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Speaker 3: the Psalms. But notice again in the corner, I've got

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Speaker 3: some buttons. By book shows me the five books of

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Speaker 3: the Psalms. So there's structured in five books. And notice

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Speaker 3: some one nineteen's the biggest dot, So that's telling us

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Speaker 3: what it's the biggest chapter in Psalms author who wrote what?

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Speaker 3: So with one click, I see what Moses wrote? What's anonymous?

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Speaker 3: Solomon David? So on structure, we don't have time. I'm

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Speaker 3: for this, but this is awesome to see the literary

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Speaker 3: devices and and and uh used in some of the Psalms.

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Speaker 3: But I want to stop here at genre, because what

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Speaker 3: do we see right now instantly on the screen is

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Speaker 3: the biggest genre or theme running through Psalms is lament

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Speaker 3: and grief and sorrow. And this is why I love Psalms.

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Speaker 3: You know, if I'm going through something tough, James, I

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Speaker 3: run to the Book of Psalms. Why, I find great

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Speaker 3: comfort in the honesty of the writer. Right. You know,

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Speaker 3: not too long ago I did a live stream with

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Speaker 3: Anti right actually, and he said he feels the church

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Speaker 3: has lost the art of lament, meaning we're we're real

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Speaker 3: quick with the right theological answer and and but we

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Speaker 3: we we've lost the art of putting our arm around

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Speaker 3: a person and weeping with those who weep, and and

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Speaker 3: just being silent. Right. And I love the fact that

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Speaker 3: we see here in the Book of Psalms that was

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Speaker 3: this is an emphasis in the Book of Psalms, right,

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Speaker 3: So just little dots floating around gives me some real

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Speaker 3: perspective on things that are happening in the Psalms. Now,

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Speaker 3: the last one I'll show, and I've not yet been

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Speaker 3: and you've probably been numerous times. I've not been to

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Speaker 3: the Holy Land, but you can and logo. So look

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Speaker 3: at what we're seeing here on the screen. We're seeing

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Speaker 3: Jerusalem ephesis. So it's not just the Holy Land, it's

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Speaker 3: you know, the Middle East and Turkey and so on.

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Speaker 3: But you get to go where you want to go.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to click here on the little picture of Jerusalem,

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Speaker 3: and notice what happened. For one, it gives me my definition,

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Speaker 3: so all the basics that I need to know about

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Speaker 3: Herod and the Jebusites and so on and again everything

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Speaker 3: clicks to factbooks. So if I have no idea what

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Speaker 3: a Jebusite is, well you either float or click and

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Speaker 3: there's all your information. But look what we did for you.

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Speaker 3: This is a satellite image right now of Jerusalem. But

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Speaker 3: if you take the bar here scroll it across the screen,

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Speaker 3: we give you kind of an artist render rendering of

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Speaker 3: what Jerusalem might have looked like at the time. But

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Speaker 3: I love this because it just adds another layer of

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Speaker 3: depth and insight into my studies. And I'll close with

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Speaker 3: this as we tell everybody how do I get my

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Speaker 3: free sixty days? I need to warn everyone, James that

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Speaker 3: downloads logos for the first time, You're gonna lose some sleep. Okay,

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Speaker 3: it will be one o'clock in them, but listen, James,

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Speaker 3: wouldn't it be amazing to lose track of an hour,

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Speaker 3: two three hours because you're digging and clicking and learning.

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Speaker 3: And I mean, that's the kind of tool we want

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Speaker 3: to create. It logos to where Bible study is not

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Speaker 3: the broccoli on the TV dinner. You know, it's the

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Speaker 3: dessert and it's the meat. I mean, it has nutrition

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Speaker 3: and BROCCOLI's part of it. But I'm just saying, we

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Speaker 3: want to create a tool that makes Bible study addictive.

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Speaker 3: Like wouldn't it be great if we binged the Bible?

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Speaker 3: You know, not a series, and I'm not against that.

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Speaker 3: My wife and I right now we're binging alone. That's

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Speaker 3: kind of our show. But wouldn't it be great to

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Speaker 3: binge the Bible? Right? Like? Can't get enough of this thing?

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Speaker 3: So that's kind of Logos in a nutshell. But let

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Speaker 3: me close with the offer, and we did all this,

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Speaker 3: so here we go. All they need to do is

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Speaker 3: go to logos dot com, Forward slash Thinking Christian, or

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Speaker 3: they can scan the QR code when they go to

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Speaker 3: the page and it's live. Now. These are the three options.

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Speaker 3: Premium fantastic, but I highly recommend pro And here's the

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Speaker 3: reason why. Notice James, the amount of books that you

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Speaker 3: have access to study assistant and for fact book, because

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Speaker 3: again we're not connecting to the internet. So the more

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Speaker 3: books you have to pull from, the better the answer,

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Speaker 3: the more insight. So four thousand books in premium. That's phenomenal. Right,

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Speaker 3: that's a big library, but pro doubles the amount of

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Speaker 3: books you have access to. And at the pro level

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Speaker 3: you can do Greek and Hebrew study. So if you're

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Speaker 3: in Genesis you want to dig into the Hebrew text,

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Speaker 3: that's what's also added are your Greek Hebrew dictionaries, your

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Speaker 3: heat Greek Hebrew text airmake as well. And then max

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Speaker 3: is just the uber geeky. I think that's what you've got, James,

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Speaker 3: But that's a whole level. You know, this is where

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Speaker 3: your ancient languages come in, Coptic, Syriac, you Garritic, and

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Speaker 3: it does add more books. So notice again we add

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Speaker 3: another twenty five dollars. So all people need to do

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Speaker 3: is either go to the website logus dot com, Forward

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Speaker 3: Slash Thinking Christian, scan the QR code. But pay attention

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Speaker 3: to the deadline. This is just a two week offer

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Speaker 3: from the release of this podcast. Okay, so Wednesday, September eighth,

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Speaker 3: at eleven fifty nine, almost midnight, that website goes away

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Speaker 3: with the free sixty days. So this is a special

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Speaker 3: offer for your audience. I want to say, mobiles amazing.

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Speaker 3: Almost everything that we did today is accessible on your iPhone,

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Speaker 3: Android tablet, what have you. Yeah, let me just close

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Speaker 3: with this. And when I do this James at a conference,

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Speaker 3: people won't look at me, you know, and I listen this.

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Speaker 3: I had, I had my team do this for me.

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01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:42,040
Speaker 3: I just told them here's what I'm subscribing to. But

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Speaker 3: for those listening, and what we're looking at on the

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Speaker 3: screen is Scott subscriptions like Hulu, ESPN and listen. I

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Speaker 3: don't need six ways to watch a movie. I just don't, right,

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Speaker 3: get rid of something. And you can have logos again,

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Speaker 3: as low as ten dollars a month, you can have

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Speaker 3: this tool and it will radically enhance the way you

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Speaker 3: study scripture. Love to close with this quote, Dan Story said,

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Speaker 3: the ultimate goal of apologetics is to bring unbelievers to

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Speaker 3: the point where they must admit, even if only to themselves,

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Speaker 3: that if they reject Jesus Christ, they're not doing so

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Speaker 3: for intellectual reasons. They're not. And that's the tool we want.

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Speaker 3: We want to You know, my quarterback buddy, who will

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Speaker 3: remain anonymous for now, has said I used to when

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Speaker 3: I got a question from a teammate, I would say

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Speaker 3: I'll have the answer next week, Like because he had logos,

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Speaker 3: but he didn't have the AI yet. And now that

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Speaker 3: this is mobile, he says, Now, he says, give me

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Speaker 3: the question right now, what is the question? And he's

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Speaker 3: able to copy link and send him the answer like

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Speaker 3: literally within thirty seconds of that conversation. So I'll leave

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Speaker 3: this up if you want to close with any closing comments.

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Speaker 3: But again, the deadline is Wednesday, September eighth. There's the

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Speaker 3: QR code and there's the URL. It's thinking, Christian, I

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Speaker 3: just noticed that. There we go, go.

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Speaker 1: Thinking, Christian, there we go. There you go?

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Speaker 3: Got it? Fixed it all right?

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Speaker 2: No, Scott, I mean I really appreciate this. We do

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Speaker 2: a lot of conversations about AI. I'm just finishing up

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Speaker 2: a book on digital discernment with IVP, and I think

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Speaker 2: a lot of times when people listen to the incorporation

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Speaker 2: of AI into a system like logos, they get a

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Speaker 2: little iffy on it. And I would just sit back

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Speaker 2: and say, I don't actually think what you all have

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Speaker 2: done is that ify at all. I think it's really great.

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Speaker 2: I think it does really do what you said it did.

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Speaker 2: It shortcuts a lot of the research that you would

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Speaker 2: ordinarily have to put in just like finding resources, spending

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Speaker 2: time getting the right commentaries, you know that part of

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Speaker 2: the process.

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Speaker 1: As as much fun as I have with.

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Speaker 2: It, it does take a lot lot of time and

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Speaker 2: there are moments where I just need the information more quickly.

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Speaker 2: And so where you guys have done a really great

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Speaker 2: job I think is putting quality resources in the hands

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Speaker 2: of people, giving them access to those quality resources, and

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Speaker 2: access not just from a speed perspective, but from a

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Speaker 2: what question should I ask? And how can I access

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Speaker 2: more of that information? I think it's great stuff and

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Speaker 2: would just highly recommend that listeners go to logus dot

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Speaker 2: com backslash or forward slash thinking Christian. We'll put that

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Speaker 2: in the show notes with the time you know the

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Speaker 2: time to release on it, so if you miss that deadline,

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Speaker 2: don't go to the website and expect to get the

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Speaker 2: free copy. But we'll have that in the listener notes

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Speaker 2: so you'll know where to go exactly. And this KEW

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Speaker 2: guard code obviously up on the screen. You can just

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Speaker 2: click on it and you know, snap with your camera

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Speaker 2: and get it taken care of.

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Speaker 1: But I just encourage you to go try it. It's

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Speaker 1: been great. I've been working with the one you gave me, Scott,

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Speaker 1: and it's awesome. So, I mean, I'm a fan and

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Speaker 1: just to.

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Speaker 3: Get everybody excited, I was in a meeting last week

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Speaker 3: and there's some enhancements coming to Study Assistant that are shocking.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's absolutely I actually had somebody tell me

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Speaker 3: last week I was at a conference that Scott if

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Speaker 3: the only thing Logos did with Study Assistant, that's it,

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Speaker 3: Like I clicked, that's the only thing to open up.

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Speaker 3: It's my favorite thing right now for solid biblical studies.

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01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:28,760
Speaker 3: But what's coming unbelievable. So this is again one of

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Speaker 3: the advantages of subscription is just constant updates and you

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Speaker 3: get them instantly. It's just part of the subscription, right,

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Speaker 3: so be prepared. I think mid September. Amazing new update

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Speaker 3: coming to Study Assistant.

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Speaker 2: Nice well, Scott, thanks for sharing it with us, Thanks

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Speaker 2: for being here, and we'll close it out with this.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, get your free copy of August dot Com

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Speaker 2: forward slash Thinking Christian and outside of that, hopefully enjoyed

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Speaker 2: this again, Scott, thanks for being here, Thanks every prepared

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Speaker 2: for listening, and we'll catch on then next episode of

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Speaker 2: Thinking Christian.

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Speaker 1: Take care