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Speaking of tear gas. Yeah. Peter Teal. Peter Teal. What is old Peter up to? Our good friend, our best friend, our most trusted ally. Just saw that he is doing a he there's an advertisement on Instagram that there's this conference called was it the Acts 17? Is that what it's called? That's who puts it on. Um but he's doing a 4-day seminar on the antichrist.
What? How is he an expert? Listen, I read this article by Christianity Today about the Acts 17 ministry or whatever, and there's some parts where I'm just like, this seems weird. But their whole thing is they're I think they're based in San Francisco, California, and I think their intentions are good.
They want to reach the tech industry with the gospel. Mhm. I don't know if they're doing it the right way. I don't know. I'm not going to judge because the gospel is a gospel and people can receive it however sure you know. Um but apparently the guy the husband of the founder of Acts 17, he used to work for Peter Teal at Palanteer. Mhm. And they went over to one tech industry dude's house to do like this like house church kind of thing.
And Peter Teal was there and Peter Teal just started talking about like the Antichrist and stuff. Yeah. And all apparently all these Silicon Valley tech dudes were just like, "We didn't know if Peter Teal was a Christian." And it's like, "Is he though?" I mean, because his whole he emphasizes a ton on the Antichrist. Yeah. And I watched that interview from the New York Times, like that podcast.
We mentioned it before. Yeah. But uh he brought up the conversation of the antichrist and I Peter Taylor made no sense. I mean his the concepts that he was like coming up with the guy was pushing back a lot. It was a little annoying because the guy's like I'm just like let Peter Teal talk. Yeah. Guy kept on cutting off and arguing with him.
But he's like Andrew could probably explain this part a little bit better. But I did want to say about the Acts 17 thing. There's this this is a snippet from like one of their church services that they did. They said we did a Sunday service at Gary Tan's home. He's a famous tech investor and his home was converted is a converted missions church uh somewhere in San Francisco.
We had alcohol and we had really good local food. We had DJ Canvas again remixing worship beats in the background. CC Winnis with Jake Carlo. Um, and then we had Peter Teal come back to give a talk about political theology. Cool. Oh my gosh. What does that even mean? Seems pretty solid. Just let's just judge based off the fruits.
The the atmosphere doesn't sound like a very good atmosphere for spreading the gospel. I don't know. Yeah, we don't. Yeah, but I mean Jack Harlo, what is Jack Harlo doing there? perform music at a church service and DJ with canvas remixing worship beats. His his uh seminar was called Holy Guacamole pilot event with Peter Teal. We're having tacos. All right.
Go get to So So Peter Teal is a libertarian and there's a professor that he studied under whose political and ideological views he like and all a lot of his quotes regarding Christianity are direct quotes from this professor. And so I forget the name of the book, but Peter Teal is basically puppeting this professor's ideas.
He I don't think he's saying they're my own, but it's clear that he has this person as an influence. Yeah. He's like adopted his Yeah. He's very much a disciple of this professor and so which is fine. Um, but the the professor and and him are very very as far as like the antichrist and stuff like that, there's this tension between the apocalyp apocalypse coming and the antichrist is the hero that saves everyone from it.
And so his entire thing is like something's going to happen that makes you choose one or the other. But he defines himself as far as his own religious views as a heterodoxical Christian which is him using big words. Um it it's it's the same root as heretic. And so he's saying I don't hold to the convention. He doesn't believe you need to evangelize.
He's like my faith is real for me. I don't need to convince you of it. The truth of it doesn't rely on your conversion. Which I understand that that is true, right? But you cannot call yourself a believer. And the last thing that Jesus said after his three years of ministry, death, and resurrection, he says, "Go and make disciples of all nations, teaching them to teaching them to obey the things I've commanded you.
" You cannot be a follower of that human and say, "I don't have to teach you to obey." It's in direct defiance. Yeah. To the harvest is plentiful. The workers are few. Let's go. Let's just go party in Silicon Valley. DJ Canvas. But is an awesome So, so Peter Teal I hope is he seems too smart to call him young in his faith and for this to be a naivity.
Like I think there is a political advantage that he's trying to pull from this. Like you're you either believe in the Jesus of the Bible or you don't believe in Jesus, right? And so you don't get to pick and choose what you believe. And so I don't that's what I know what from the little bit of research I did.
So that's all I want to assert. But and that doesn't necessarily reflect poorly on Act 17. I didn't do a deep dive into what they're doing. They could be doing good work and then you know he's just a keynote that was like, "Hey, I want to talk about this." And they said, "Okay." I mean, how many churches with good intent have let someone take the stage and then halfway through you're listening to a guest speaker going, "Oh no.
" Well, they're good friends with Peter Teal. That's the thing like they know where he stands and stuff and they said that he's wellversed in the antichrist and my whole thing is like I don't know it just seems so like um left behind Kurt Cameron like it's a very very specific es escatological viewpoint like yeah and I don't I don't think the point and I know this differs from a lot of guests we have on and a lot of people who listen to our show but I don't think the point of all the prophecy and scripture is to
know what's coming to know what is coming other than to know something is coming and our Lord and Savior wins. And so, and there's a but there's a big difference between uh having conversations and then being put up as a teacher. Yeah. And learning. There's the Bible's very clear of people who teach should be very careful.
And and we talk about like Katie Perry has like she made that comment forever ago and people were asking her political things. She's like, "I'm just a musician. Why do you care?" And you know, like but but now it's almost like people who make a lot of money are like he's he's just a tech guy. I don't care what his theological viewpoint is.
Nor should anyone in Christendom. What you should care about though is the fact that he is behind so many big things involving your everyday life. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know. Yeah. And I did hear in our future. Yeah. He did one of his arguments for like transhumanism, you know, the involvement of AI in into our everyday human lives.
His what I believe I got from it was his excuse was that Christians are transhumanism. It's the renewal of the spirit. You become a new person. Like your your soul is transformed. You're a transhuman. You're not living. It's Christ that's living through you. So that's almost like an excuse for his deception. Yeah.
And I'm like, "This sounds like the antichrist." That's why he likes talking about it so much cuz it's him. You're already transhuman. So put this chip in your brain so you can buy and sell things, right? It sound when he talks about like using technology to cuz he he admits like living forever or like eternal health, like those are goals, which I get if you're trying to like solve degeneration or cancer, any of these things.
a perfect solution would be your body just doesn't fade. But like when you're when you're looking at him talk about this, it sounds babel like tower of babel like like we're gonna solve all of the problems that our humanity has been cursed with. And that's what that guy's push back was from the New York Times. He's like you're talking about this threat and stuff.
He's like but you own companies that is part of the threat like Palunteer, right? And he's like how do you excuse that? And it was just kind of this word jigsaw puzzle. Yeah. And anyone who refers to themsself as a heterodoxical Christian instead of a heretic, it's like, yeah, that's what you're doing. That's so funny. I I didn't hear that.
He labels himself that way. Yeah. I that's what it is. I mean, that's what chat GPT said about his views and there were links you can click where they say he said that, but I didn't hear him say that. Yeah. So, this is this is for fun. And obviously, we're Joe like Peter Jill. He's our bud. He's our friend.
I don't know how many times we have to say this guy. Come on the podcast. Yeah, please. Um, watch watch that be the completely wrong word. But just look out for deception, people. That's the whole point of the story. Yeah, exactly. And like and the only way to do that is by having a personal and authentic and genuine relationship with Jesus every day.
It is a picking up your cross every day decision. You have to make that effort every day. It is not I got baptized while I was raised in the church. It's a constant decision every day to say, "I'm putting you first." There's constant prayer happening throughout the day. That's the only way we're going to be able to discern any of this stuff confidently.
Yeah. And you know, there's there's going to be a lot of mysteries and unknowns, but there is stuff that we can stand on and say, "Well, simply that's not biblical because this is right and this is wrong." Yeah. You'll appreciate this, Josh. So, the word is heterodoxy. different belief holding views that diverge from official doctrine but are not outright heresy is how that's defined.
In contrast, it's opposite would be orthodoxy. Interesting. So he's literally the opposite of pure. Nice. Maybe not complete opposite, but it's but yeah, not true. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. So, he is flying in the face of orthodoxy, which it's actually kind of funny because I was reading um last night in Revelation about the seven churches, you know, that were Jesus wrote like send this letter to the angel of this church.
Yeah. And I read this one thing from Acts 17. I think that's what they're called. Uh their ministry, that thing of their church service. I'm like, that almost lines up exactly with one of these churches to where Jesus is like, you're getting drunk, you're doing this all the debauchery stuff, and he's like, cut it out. Yeah.
Or I'm going to blow your candle out. Mhm. You know, so but that's a that's a it's a not it's like um Jesus did that so that they would fix their ways. Exactly. You know, it wasn't like you're done. He's not trying to condemn them right then and there. It's like I'm warning you.
He said it starts off with you did you've been doing this right, but this is the one thing that you've not been doing right. Yeah. It's just like Paul's letters. It's just like like listen, I love you, but golly, straighten up. Yeah. Maybe don't serve alcohol in your church. Like Yeah. I mean, like it's like for a normal service that doesn't sound very productive. Yeah.
Especially for people who struggle. I mean, like, you don't know. You don't know who struggles with whatever. It's like center it around Jesus. You can have celebrities. You can have these people, but it's like you just want to be able to look at stuff in confident and it's like obviously we don't know.
We haven't been in the service, but you just have to perception is reality in this world and we have to be careful of how we're being what we're being known for. Like and that's what I hope like hopefully we people look at this podcast can watch it and know that it's like yeah they talk a lot of silliness and they don't know a whole lot but at the end of the day the core is Jesus.
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