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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI on demand, Lewis, welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ Show.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So, I just would like to hear you talk about,

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Speaker 3: you know, fathers or to be the leaders of the family,

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Speaker 3: the nuclear family, the household, and also how that applies

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Speaker 3: to the larger family, the church, and if you could

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Speaker 3: talk a little bit about the scripture second first timoth

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Speaker 3: to eleven, where it talks about women learning in silence.

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Speaker 3: Many people try to say that this only applied to

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Speaker 3: the church in that time. I mean, I've looked up

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Speaker 3: that they and they say that, well, it's ridiculous that

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Speaker 3: a woman should be absolutely silent in the church. And

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Speaker 3: if you look up in your concordance the worst silence

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Speaker 3: your concordance, the worst silence there doesn't mean absolute silence.

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Speaker 3: That you could talk about that subject, I'd appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: I can't stay on the phone, but I like to

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Speaker 3: hear what you have to say about it.

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Speaker 1: That's fine, that's fine, I appreciate it. This question, obviously,

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Speaker 1: is one that has been argued for many, many years

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Speaker 1: and will continue to be argued because it's not as

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Speaker 1: clear cut as people would like. And there are some

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Speaker 1: things that people in general, both men and women, don't

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Speaker 1: want to jump over, or no one likes to be

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Speaker 1: pigeonholed or anything like that. But there are differences. There

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Speaker 1: just are. The confusion comes in the placement of equality.

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Speaker 1: The assumption is equality means you're exactly the same. No,

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Speaker 1: not true. Means that you have the same value, but

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Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that you're exactly the same. And once

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Speaker 1: people get over the concept of being that equality means

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Speaker 1: being exactly the same. No one wants to be exactly

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Speaker 1: the same. No one should be exactly the same. That's

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Speaker 1: the first hurdle. A second hurdle is position. Is that

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Speaker 1: it's hard for people to stand the difference of position

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Speaker 1: versus person. In the United States, the position of the

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Speaker 1: president is higher above any other position. But the president

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Speaker 1: himself is a human being, is not more of value

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Speaker 1: or more equal than someone else. It's about position, value

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Speaker 1: There are those that argue that some of this is

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Speaker 1: that they were saying, hey, listen, this is something that

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Speaker 1: not in this context. There's all kinds of hypotheticals this

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Speaker 1: is why, and this is why, and this is why.

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Speaker 1: But let's just say it is what it is, specifically

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Speaker 1: what it is. That doesn't mean that a woman is

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Speaker 1: and you can't walk away from that. You can't belittle

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Speaker 1: that or make excuses for it or any of those things,

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Speaker 1: certain context in which God sees that a man should

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Speaker 1: in a submissive position. That doesn't make you less than them.

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Speaker 1: for order, doesn't belittle There's many things that women do

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Speaker 1: about equality. You see activists, so called activists, really a

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Speaker 1: to to fight for the underdog, absolutely, but you know

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Speaker 1: and you don't see us squabbling. Jeanie, welcome to the

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Speaker 4: Oh, thank you.

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Speaker 1: How can I help you?

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Speaker 4: We ked a question, and the question was kind of

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Speaker 4: a true part question. First parting is there a difference

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Speaker 4: the question is as a Catholic.

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Speaker 5: I was born great to believe that people were born

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Speaker 5: are born sinful, period, They're just bad.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so you're born in a state of sin, not

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Speaker 1: There's not one that is apart from sin except for me.

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Speaker 1: That's it. On all of mankind, So you will sin. Now,

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Speaker 1: which is evil. Dennis, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.

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Speaker 6: Yes, good morning, money is Dennis.

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Speaker 1: Hi, Dennis, how can I help?

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Speaker 6: I appreciate this service. I really believe in their Lord

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Speaker 6: Jesus always taught us how to love, you know, the beatitudes,

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Speaker 6: the durable of the Good Samaritan forgives seven times seventy.

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Speaker 6: I just read Revelation, and I've read it before, but

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Speaker 1: He even says he's vengeful, even says he's jealous.

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Speaker 6: I mean, just the torture of people. They were wishing

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Good morning Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Hi Floyd, what's going on?

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Speaker 1: That's how you became an alcoholic. And you in reverse

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Speaker 1: do the same process to weed these things out of

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Speaker 1: your life, and you'll be surprised how you allow God

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Speaker 1: into your life more once you've done that. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for taking the time to join me today,

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Speaker 1: and remember, more importantly, in all this craziness, I am

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Speaker 1: with you always. KFI AM six forty on demand