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00:01 - Most of us like to think that for the most part,
00:04 we have our lives under perfect control, 00:06 but the older you get, the more you start to realize 00:10 that might not be as true as you hoped. 00:12 Today on "Authentic," 00:14 we're gonna talk unintended consequences. 00:18 [upbeat music] 00:37 Back in 2003, 00:39 photographer Kenneth Adelman was posting pictures 00:41 of the eroding California coastline 00:45 on the now defunct website Pictopedia.com. 00:49 Unfortunately, one of the photos featured 00:51 Barbara Streisand's multimillion dollar 00:53 Malibu property, and she didn't like that, 00:56 so she launched a $50 million lawsuit 01:00 in an effort to get rid of the picture. 01:02 Up to that point, 01:04 only six people had actually downloaded the photo, 01:07 and two of those were downloaded by Streisand's lawyers. 01:11 Her intent, of course, was to protect her privacy, 01:13 but then when word of the lawsuit hit the newspaper, 01:17 suddenly everybody wanted to see the photo. 01:19 And over the next 30 days, 01:21 more than 420,000 people visited that website. 01:26 Streisand's effort to stay private misfired, 01:29 and it misfired on a spectacular level, in fact, 01:33 the lawsuit was dismissed and the judge ordered Streisand 01:37 to pay the photographer's legal fees. 01:40 It was such a notorious case 01:42 that today when people try to hide sensitive information, 01:45 but inadvertently draw more attention 01:48 to it, they call it the Streisand effect, I mean, 01:52 her intention was to make the problem go away, 01:55 but here I am nearly two decades later 01:57 and we're still talking about it, 01:59 and I'm guessing that some of you are probably 02:01 gonna Google streisand and today, 02:03 and you're still going to find that photo online 02:06 for the whole world to see. 02:09 It's a really good example of unintended consequence, 02:12 which is a regular feature in the average human life 02:17 we seem to be born with this desire to tweak our 02:19 surroundings and make our lives more comfortable, 02:23 but unfortunately we just aren't omniscient enough 02:26 to anticipate all of the fallout. 02:29 We might think we're smart enough to engineer a perfect 02:32 existence, I mean, just even a little bit. 02:35 But at the end of the day, things always happen 02:38 that we couldn't possibly have predicted. 02:41 Take for example the CIA strategy for helping 02:44 the Afghans fight the Soviet Union back in the 1980s. 02:48 We thought it would be a good idea to provide money 02:51 in arms to the Mujahideen because well, hey, 02:54 they're fighting communists and we didn't like communists. 02:57 But wouldn't you know it? 02:59 Some of those same people ended up joining the Taliban 03:02 or Al-Qaeda where they used the support we provided 03:05 to fight against us. 03:07 And nobody of any real consequence saw that coming. 03:11 It's something that happens almost every time we try 03:14 to tweak the world we live in to some degree or other. 03:18 Sometimes our plans produce rather happy accidents like 03:22 the discovery that sinking old boats 03:25 in the ocean provided artificial reefs, 03:27 which provided homes for all kinds of life forms, 03:30 and the practice proved to be a net positive. 03:34 But more times than we'd care to admit, 03:36 our very best planning seems to go awry, 03:39 which is why people show understandable concern 03:42 when governments launch hyper ambitious plans 03:46 to tweak the world on a global scale. 03:49 We all know that none of us is smart enough 03:52 to anticipate every possible outcome. 03:56 I'll give you another example, 03:58 and this is one that I personally find a little disturbing. 04:00 There's this growing concern that we need 04:03 to slow down or stop the warming of our planet, 04:06 and in recent years, a rather novel idea has emerged. 04:10 Maybe we could actually block the sun 04:13 to cool down the earth. 04:15 Back in 1991 when Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines, 04:19 it released something like 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide 04:23 into the stratosphere, that in turn created a high altitude 04:28 haze made of particles that some observers noticed cooled 04:32 the planet by about half a degree Celsius. 04:35 And the effect lasted for roughly a year and a half. 04:39 So the thinking kind of goes like this. 04:42 What if we artificially released particulates 04:45 into the atmosphere? 04:47 Could that possibly reverse the current warming trend? 04:50 Now, it wouldn't be sulfur dioxide, 04:53 it would be calcium carbonate 04:54 or some other hopefully innocuous substance. 04:58 And some people are suggesting probably to the delight 05:01 of the chem trail conspiracy people that airplanes 05:05 could continually release particles until the earth 05:08 had been adequately cooled, so that was the big picture. 05:12 But then we discovered another favorite of the conspiracy 05:15 crowd, Bill Gates was financially backing the project, 05:19 hoping to get this idea off the ground. 05:21 Now, I'm really not a conspiracy theorist 05:23 and I'm not a chem trail guy, 05:26 but the project still bothers me because 05:29 of our long history of unintended consequences. 05:31 I mean, here we are thinking about engineering the planet 05:34 on a massive scale, 05:36 and the truth is we have no way of knowing what else might 05:40 happen if we start to tinker with the atmosphere. 05:43 How do we really know we're 05:45 not gonna cause a climate disaster? 05:48 And by the time we find out, 05:50 we will have already tinkered with the whole planet. 05:52 So all of us are gonna have to live with the consequences. 05:57 Now I've got to say I'm not exactly a Luddite, 05:59 or at least I like to think I'm not a Luddite. 06:02 Human beings are incredibly inventive. 06:05 Something I believe we can attribute to the fact 06:07 that we were made in the image 06:10 of an infinite creator, a very creative God. 06:13 And we really have solved all kinds of big problems 06:16 by applying a little bit of human ingenuity, for example, 06:20 I'm a big fan of the fact that I can swim in a river 06:23 and not have to worry about getting polio or ending up 06:26 in an iron lung. 06:27 And I love the fact that the surgeon knows 06:29 how to knock me out before he opens up my chest cavity. 06:32 Those are really good developments. 06:35 I love the fact that I can get to work when it's 30 degrees 06:39 below zero without freezing to death 06:41 because I have a car with a heater. 06:44 A little human ingenuity 06:45 really has made our lives a lot better, 06:49 but when we start to tinker with things 06:51 that are clearly bigger and clearly more complex, 06:54 bigger than our capacity to understand, 06:58 well then I start to worry. 07:00 Some of you might remember the way that Australian farmers 07:03 tried to protect their crops from beetles back in the 1930s. 07:07 They were growing sugar cane, 07:09 a species that the settlers introduced to the continent back 07:13 in the 19th century and beetles were destroying 07:16 their livelihood, so in 1935, 07:19 they got reports from Hawaii that can toads, 07:25 the ones the Hawaiians were importing from Puerto Rico, 07:26 they were really beneficial for pest control. 07:30 So somebody brought them to Australia and released 07:34 2,400 of them into the wild before anybody even tested 07:37 to see if they would eat the beetles. 07:39 The problem was that the toads proved 07:42 to be very destructive, 07:44 and today they are still spreading across the top half 07:47 of Australia and nobody can stop it. 07:50 It turns out that once you've cut a pillow open in a 07:53 windstorm, you will never, ever pick up all the feathers. 07:59 Most of you know the story the Greeks told 08:02 about a woman named Pandora. 08:04 She was created by Zeus and placed on this earth 08:07 to punish the human race because Prometheus had stolen fire 08:11 and given it to us. 08:13 Pandora was given a jar by the gods 08:16 or in later editions of the story of box. 08:19 And she was told never ever open it, but of course, 08:22 like most of us being told no was a serious problem. 08:26 It only made her more curious. 08:28 So she opened the forbidden box and all the evils 08:32 that plague us today started to pour out 08:34 of the box uncontrollably. 08:36 At the very last moment, she managed to slam the lid shut, 08:41 but in the process, the story goes, 08:43 she trapped the gift of hope inside the box, 08:45 which made us even more miserable. 08:48 It was a huge mess that nobody could fix, and to this day, 08:52 we still talk about opening Pandora's box when we're afraid 08:56 that somebody is going to generate unintended consequences, 08:59 stuff that everybody's gonna have to live with. 09:02 And what the Greeks were trying to do is illustrate 09:05 the dangers of human pride. 09:07 You and I are not nearly as smart as we think we are. 09:11 I'll be right back after this. 09:17 - [Narrator] Here at The Voice Of Prophecy, 09:19 we're committed to creating top quality programming 09:21 for the whole family, like our audio adventure series, 09:24 Discovery Mountain. 09:25 Discovery Mountain is a bible based program 09:28 for kids of all ages and backgrounds. 09:30 Your family will enjoy the faith building stories from this 09:34 small mountain summer camp and town with 24 seasonal 09:37 episodes every year and fresh content every week, 09:41 there's always a new adventure just on the horizon. 09:47 - Paul actually at one point describes the devil in it comes 09:50 as a surprise to a lot of people that the devil is not a man 09:53 with horns wearing red pajamas. 09:57 He doesn't have a pitch for it. 09:59 That's an image that came from European pagan mythology more 10:02 than anything else, 10:03 and you won't find it in the pages of the Bible. 10:05 Here's the way that Paul describes the devil 10:08 in a passage where he's warning a church about listening 10:11 to false teachers, he writes "For such our false apostles, 10:15 deceitful workers transforming themselves 10:18 into apostles of Christ. 10:20 And no wonder for Satan himself transforms himself 10:24 into an angel of light, therefore, 10:26 it is no great thing if his ministers also transform 10:30 themselves into ministers of righteousness 10:32 whose end will be according to their works." 10:37 In Paul's description, evil appears beautiful, 10:41 which makes you wonder why in the Genesis account the devil 10:44 would appear as a snake. 10:46 Well, he's trying to get 10:47 the mother of humanity to disobey God. 10:49 And so you'd think he'd appear in the most attractive form 10:53 possible, maybe even as an angel, but he doesn't, 10:56 he's a snake. 10:58 And quite literally the temptation he presents is curiosity, 11:03 knowledge, which is something that most of us want. 11:07 Julian the apostate made a huge point out 11:10 of this when he ridiculed the faith of the Bible. 11:13 Julian was a fourth century pagan emperor 11:16 who tried to reverse Constantine's efforts 11:19 to Christianize the Roman Empire. 11:20 And Julian demanded to know why would there be a problem 11:24 with human beings wanting to know more? 11:26 What exactly was wrong with the devil's offer? 11:29 Isn't knowledge something we should want? 11:31 Here's what he actually wrote, he said, 11:34 "Is it not also excessively absurd that God 11:37 should forbid men fashion by himself 11:40 the knowledge of good and evil? 11:42 For what can be more foolish than 11:44 one who is not able to know 11:46 what is good and what is depraved 11:47 for it is evident that such a one will 11:49 not avoid some things, I mean evils, 11:51 that he will not pursue others such as our good, 11:55 But as the summit of all, 11:59 god forbade man to taste of wisdom that then, 12:01 which nothing is more honorable to man 12:04 for that the knowledge of good and evil is the proper work 12:07 of wisdom is evident even to this stupid." 12:11 Julian, why don't you tell me how you really feel, the whole 12:16 account in the Garden of Eden seems stupid to Julian, 12:20 and I suspect a lot of modern critics would agree, 12:25 yet it's hard to deny the staying power of the Bible. 12:29 Quite literally, billions of people find the story 12:32 of Eden absolutely fascinating, not stupid at all. 12:36 There's something about this story that arrests 12:38 our attention because we suspect there's more 12:42 going on here than first meets the eye. 12:44 There's something really quite primordial about the story. 12:48 And I guess the question I want you to think about today 12:51 is why the devil would appear as a snake. 12:54 Over the long and many centuries since 12:57 the story was first written down, 12:59 there have been all kinds of allegorical explanations 13:02 for the devil's serpentine appearance. 13:04 But as Rabbi David Foreman points out, 13:07 the narrative of Genesis itself prevents a really practical 13:10 reason for a snake. 13:12 It's a snake because his snake is an animal. 13:17 Pay careful attention to the way the story unfolds, 13:20 and I think you'll see a very important pattern. 13:22 And I really am indebted to Rabbi Foreman 13:24 for starting me down this path. 13:28 In Genesis chapter two, 13:29 we get the introduction of the tree of the knowledge of good 13:32 and evil, where it says this, 13:36 "The Lord God planted a garden, eastward in Eden, 13:38 and there put the man whom he had formed 13:40 and out of the ground, 13:42 the Lord God made every tree that is pleasant 13:44 to the site and good for food, 13:46 the Tree Of Life was also in the midst of the garden 13:50 and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." 13:54 The story continues in verse 15, it says, 13:57 "Then the Lord God took the man and put him 13:59 in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. 14:01 And the Lord God commanded the man saying, 14:03 of every tree of the garden, you may freely eat, 14:06 but if the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall 14:08 not eat for in the day that you eat 14:10 of it, you shall surely die." 14:14 Now, there's a curious fact that emerges later 14:17 on over in chapter three of this story. 14:19 When the devil asks Eve if God really told her that she 14:23 couldn't eat from every tree in the garden, she tells him, 14:27 I'm not allowed to eat from the tree in the midst 14:29 of the garden, in other words, 14:31 the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 14:33 But in Genesis chapter two, 14:35 it's the Tree Of Life that you find in the midst 14:37 of the garden, not the tree of knowledge. 14:40 So either both those trees were in the middle 14:42 of the garden or the focal point of the story is shifting 14:47 from one tree to the other. 14:49 It's describing the moment when the human race 14:52 changed its mode of existence. 14:55 What Rabbi Foreman points out is that between these 14:58 two references to the trees, we find another story, 15:01 really an insertion where God asks Adam to name the animals 15:06 and search among them for a suitable mate. 15:08 And he suggests that interlude, 15:11 that extra story is very deliberate. 15:14 Here's how the Bible tells the story again 15:16 from Genesis chapter two, it says, 15:18 "Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the 15:21 field and every bird of the air and brought them to Adam 15:24 to see what he would call them and whatever Adam called 15:27 each living creature that was its name. 15:29 So Adam gave names to all cattle, 15:32 to the birds of the air and to every beast of the field. 15:35 But for Adam, 15:37 there was not found a helper comparable to him. " 15:41 And the very next thing that happens is the creation of Eve. 15:44 This comes in verse 21, it says, 15:47 "And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam and he 15:50 slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh 15:54 in its place. 15:55 Then the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, 15:57 he made into a woman and he brought her to the man. 16:00 And Adam said, 16:02 This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. 16:04 She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man." 16:10 So here's what's happening. 16:12 When God presents the animals, 16:14 he isn't really trying to convince Adam to adopt one 16:17 of them as a wife. 16:19 What he's trying to do is show Adam 16:21 that he's different from the animals. 16:25 There's something that sets you and I apart from the 16:26 animal kingdom, animals appear to live by instinct 16:30 and human beings ostensibly try to live by our reason. 16:34 So what happens next in the story? 16:37 A member of the animal kingdom suddenly tempts the human 16:40 race to pivot away from their God-given authentic human 16:43 existence, did God really say you can't eat from that tree? 16:48 Well, what the devil is doing 16:49 is trying to convince human beings that there urges, 16:52 their instincts are more reliable than the word of God. 16:59 And what you'll notice is that he appeals directly 17:01 to our senses, when he tries to persuade us. 17:04 The story says "So when the woman saw that the tree was good 17:08 for food and it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree 17:10 desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, 17:14 she also gave to her husband with her and he ate." 17:19 This is a push for human beings to live like animals. 17:24 Now it's a lot more complicated than that, 17:26 and I'm not at all convinced by all of Rabbi Foreman's 17:29 observations, but at the same time, I have 17:32 to admit, the animal element does appear in this story. 17:35 Adam has decided to get a human made 17:39 because he is not like the animals. 17:40 And now the devil in some ways 17:44 tries to get that decision reversed. 17:46 I mean, look at that fruit. 17:48 I know what God said, 17:50 but didn't he also create you with instinct? 17:52 I know God gave you reason, 17:54 but didn't he also give you passion? 17:56 Why can't you be like the animal 17:58 and just follow your instincts? 18:02 And so begins the sad saga of unintended consequences. 18:06 We believed that we could out guess God and engineer 18:10 a better existence for ourselves all on our own. 18:14 And personally, 18:15 I think the story of Pandora's box is just a memory 18:19 of this story, I'll be right back after this. 18:26 - [Narrator] Dragons, beasts, cryptic statues, 18:31 Bible prophecy can be incredibly vivid and confusing. 18:35 If you've ever read Daniel or Revelation 18:37 and come away scratching your head, you are not alone. 18:40 Our free focus on prophecy guides are designed to help you 18:44 unlock the mysteries of the Bible and deepen your 18:46 understanding of God's plan for you and our world. 18:50 Study online or request them 18:52 by mail and start bringing prophecy into focus today. 18:56 - The story of Eden ends with the human race being kicked 18:59 out of its original home so that the now changed human race 19:02 cannot eat from the Tree Of Life. 19:05 Human beings developed an experiential knowledge 19:08 of evil, the ability to do wicked things, 19:11 and we would be capable of producing untold wickedness 19:15 if there wasn't a time limit. 19:17 And so today we think that we're rational beings 19:20 entirely governed by our reason, 19:23 but we are also driven by untamed passions 19:25 that cloud our ability to think clearly. 19:29 The Bible describes that condition as sin, 19:32 which is an English translation of a word that literally 19:35 means missing the mark, like a marksman who misses a target. 19:40 Our perception of the universe has been skewed. 19:43 And so people who were made in the image of God find 19:46 themselves in a condition where they think they're doing 19:49 the right thing, 19:51 but they may well be moving away from God's design. 19:54 The book of Proverbs famously says, 19:56 "There is a way that seems right 19:58 to a man, but it's end is the way of death." 20:01 It's a really bad case 20:04 of unattended consequences, a condition which dooms us all. 20:10 So it comes as no surprise to students of the Bible 20:12 that the human race misses the mark again and again 20:15 and again and again, and often with disastrous side effects 20:19 that nobody predicted. 20:22 And yet we continue to delude ourselves into thinking 20:24 that we're mostly right most of the time, I mean, 20:27 just listen to something that Jesus said. 20:29 He said "These things I have spoken 20:32 to you that you should not be made to stumble," 20:35 in other words, just like it was 20:37 in Eden, God is asking us to listen to what he says, 20:40 and then he contrasts his advice with the way that we think 20:43 He continues, "They will put you out of the synagogues. 20:47 Yes, the time is coming that whosoever kills you." 20:50 Now listen to this. 20:51 "We'll think that he offers God's service and these things 20:55 they will do to you because they have not known 20:58 the Father nor me." 21:00 It's a description of unaided human reason. 21:03 You and I are perfectly capable of convincing ourselves 21:05 that almost anything is a good idea. 21:08 I mean most of us love to think 21:10 that we are intellectually immune 21:12 from doing terrible things, 21:14 and it horrifies us to think that there might be 21:16 a Charlie Manson lurking in every human heart. 21:20 But don't forget, 21:22 Hitler's mother didn't give birth to a immoral monster. 21:25 She gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. 21:28 Not that I know for sure that Hitler was a beautiful baby, 21:31 but you get my point. 21:34 Therefore, Paul wrote, "Let him who thinks he stands, 21:38 take heed lest he fall." 21:40 No temptation is overtaken you except such 21:42 as is common to man in other words, 21:46 never delude yourself into thinking that you can't do 21:48 what other people have done, we're all human after all, 21:52 and everybody's reason is clouded by passion. 21:55 Almost all of us, given the right circumstances, 21:58 are capable of just about anything. 22:03 And then Paul says, But God is faithful 22:05 who will not allow you 22:07 to be tempted beyond what you are able, 22:09 but with the temptation will also make the way 22:11 of escape that you may be able to bear it. 22:15 So where does Paul suggest that we find some moral clarity 22:19 so we can actually do the right thing? 22:21 Well by returning to the words that God has spoken. 22:26 Our baser instincts are not a reliable measure 22:29 of right and wrong. 22:30 What Adam and Eve did was choose 22:31 to live by the dictates of human passion. 22:34 They chose to become masters of their own destiny, 22:37 ignoring the council of God and forging their own future. 22:42 The result, a world riddled with unintended consequences, 22:46 many of which have caused untold pain and suffering, 22:51 including for you. 22:53 Which brings me to another observation 22:55 from the story of Eden, after Adam and Eve are expelled 22:58 from paradise, God places chars at the gates 23:02 of Eden, it says to guard the way to the Tree Of Life. 23:06 You'll notice God does not bar the way to the Tree Of Life. 23:10 He guards it as if it needs to be preserved. 23:14 In the Bible, chars are the angels who stand right next 23:17 to the throne of God. 23:18 Lucifer is described as a covering chair 23:21 before he sinned, in the Old Testament sanctuary, 23:24 the arc of the covenant had two golden chars on the lid, 23:27 and under the lid there was a copy of the 10 Commandments, 23:30 the moral law of God. 23:34 The presence of God, and the Moral Commandments 23:36 are figuratively speaking, 23:38 serving the same function as the Tree Of Life. 23:42 And it's here that Rabbi Foreman makes a 23:43 really good point, he writes, 23:46 "We noticed earlier that cherubs appear just twice 23:49 in the entire five books of Moses. 23:51 The only other time we find them is when their likeness 23:54 adorns the top of the holy arc and the tabernacle 23:56 where they guard the tablets of the law. 23:59 Aptly the Book of Proverbs describes these tablets 24:02 or the Torah, they represent as another Tree Of Life, 24:05 a Tree Of Life to all who grab hold of it." 24:08 Evidently the same chars who keep us away 24:11 from one Tree Of Life grant us access to another one, 24:14 in a sense, the Torah may be seen as a replacement Tree 24:18 Of Life, okay, I'll be right back after this quick break. 24:26 - [Narrator] Life can throw a lot at us. 24:28 Sometimes we don't have all the answers, 24:32 but that's where the Bible comes in. 24:34 It's our guide to a more fulfilling life. 24:37 Here at The Voice Of Prophecy, 24:39 we've created the Discover Bible guides to be your guide 24:41 to the Bible, they're designed to be simple, easy to use, 24:45 and provide answers to many of life's toughest questions. 24:48 And they're absolutely free. 24:50 So jump online now or give us a call 24:52 and start your journey of discovery. 24:56 - When the Book of Proverbs brings up the idea of grabbing 24:58 hold of the Tree Of Life, it's talking about wisdom, 25:01 but it's not talking about my wisdom or yours because we 25:04 already know the results of just unaided raw human thinking. 25:08 It's talking about God's wisdom, 25:11 the kind that leads to an authentic human existence 25:14 where you and I actually reveal 25:16 the character of God in our lives. 25:18 Now, to be sure you are perfectly free 25:20 to keep living your own way, 25:22 We've had 2,500 years of written human philosophy to guide 25:26 us, but after all those centuries with all those brilliant 25:29 thinkers, the human condition hasn't improved one bit. 25:33 Ah sure, we've conquered smallpox and polio, 25:36 and we have the benefit of anesthetics 25:38 when we get our teeth drilled but overall, 25:42 try to convince me the human beings are actually better off 25:45 morally speaking than we used to be. 25:47 We entered the 20th century brimming with confidence because 25:50 the scientific revolution was gonna fix all our problems. 25:54 But we left the 20th century with more than 200 million dead 25:59 because we used our knowledge 26:00 to make killing more efficient. 26:02 And I know there are Christians who behave like the devil, 26:06 but then every once in a while you'll see the real thing. 26:09 A person who grabs hold of the Tree Of Life 26:13 and is restored to his rightful place as a human being 26:16 made in the image of God. 26:18 And we all stop and marvel when we see one of those people 26:21 because something tells us that's the right way to live. 26:25 And standing obviously at the top of that list 26:28 is the one man who changed human history 26:30 more than everybody else put together, 26:32 a humble carpenter from Nazareth whose life 26:35 and teachings continue to inspire even some 26:38 of the harshest skeptics. 26:40 Kurt Vanu even called himself a Christ loving atheist. 26:44 In the God delusion, Richard Dawkins said, Indeed, Jesus, 26:47 if he ever existed, 26:49 was surely one of the great ethical innovators of history. 26:52 The Sermon on the Mount is way ahead of its time. 26:55 High praise right from a man who appears to hate Christians, 26:59 an atheist I recently stumbled across on Reddit, 27:02 described Jesus as a great human being who is the perfect 27:06 role model for what we should all strive to achieve. 27:11 Jesus said this, I have come to do your willow God. 27:15 What we have in the life of Christ is a second Adam, 27:19 a redo a man who shows us what a real authentic human life 27:23 is supposed to look like 27:25 in his life, has altered human history for good. 27:29 I don't know about you, 27:30 but the last five decades of my life have been one long 27:32 string of unintended consequences. 27:35 But here's what I found when I went to this book. 27:39 If you live this way, if you grab hold of the Tree Of Life, 27:43 if you examine what God says is an authentic human life, 27:47 it really does start to go better. 27:49 So maybe it's time to have another look at this old book to 27:53 see what our human race lost when we chose 27:56 to forge our own destiny. 27:58 Until next time, I'm Shawn Boonstra, 28:01 and this has been "Authentic". 28:04 [upbeat music] |
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