Cooper Stuff Ep. 207 - The 1916 Project w/Seth Gruber 

Yes, I noticed the attached ad on abortion info. Pathetic!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

You can report the ad. I did. Reported as misinformation. Abortions end human life, not pregnancy. 21 people liked your comment so far but did anyone take 5 seconds to do that?

@@codyowen I've been doing this for a while, and will do it for this too. I don't know if corporate RU-vid cares all that much unfortunately.

​@@mackenziedougherty2754 Yeah, I don't know if it matters but I will report too. I do know that if we do nothing then their side wins by default. We've got to keep trying in every way we can and pray and trust God with the results. Can you imagine if we got to post misinformation on all the videos where they lie?

You can report the ad. Please do so.

Seth I have also heard you take it way too far in your critique if the late Tim Keller (not this episode). I too was extremely disappointed with this total lack of discernment regarding the 2020 election and his failure to take a stand for life. However, to impugn his motives and to tell Christians never to read any of his books (as you have done in other podcasts) is taking it a bit too far. You are a little unhinged and come across as self righteous and perhaps this is why some Christian colleges don’t invite you to speak.

Hey friend. Good questions. Re: baptism, study the Jewish mikvah. That’s what a baptism is. Sure, you had John the Baptist who sort made that action of baptizing others famous, but the simple truth is you don’t need a pastor in order to get baptized. In fact, if you only get baptized once in your life, you’re doing it wrong. Baptism is something that should be done regularly, like bathing. The most important role of the church is to tend to the health and growth of the body by drawing new people in. New people aren’t going to be drawn to the body by baptism, repaving the church parking lot, and upgrading the espresso machine for the coffee ministry. Protecting life is probably the single most important role the church can serve in this world, especially because the practice of abortion is directly linked to modern, active, pagan worship. Buildings, budgets, and baptisms can take a back seat to that as far as I’m concerned. Those are all unimportant parts of the club.

Lame. Christian faith produced the entirety of western culture, particularly the Western European culture from which most of us are descended. Christianity is our ancestral tradition and it is our right and obligation to create the society we wish to live in, not sit passively by and just allow the enemy to run roughshod all over the world.

@@codyowen Christianity is our faith. Don't confuse the traditions of the kingdoms that Satan tempted Jesus with, for the Kingdom of God.

@@LukeSwasbrook I think Yeshua, that’s his real name, not the made up name Jesus, said “make disciples of all the nations.” How do you expect to do that without influencing the kingdoms? Politics is downstream of culture. It was precisely because western culture was predominantly Christian that, that our faith had such an impact on government. For a brief moment in history, we enjoyed exceptional freedom and opportunity. Now that society has elected to abandon virtue as a whole, so has politics.

@@codyowen i expect you to do it, by following the sermon on the mount. You can't do that and elevate the state at the same time. The kingdom of God grows via osmosis, not by the fiat decree of fallen men.

@@LukeSwasbrook #1: you do not have ownership over me so you have no right to expect anything from me. #2 Who said anything about fiat? I think you’re confusing influencing government through Christian virtue with a theocracy, which is not what I or this post was about. It was about using using biblical morality, converting it to virtue, and taking a stand against evil and corruption in government. Unless you believe David was evil. In that case, there were no good kings in Israel. They were all evil. To be true, they all sinned. But some, like David, aspired to the virtue of holiness, despite his woeful shortcomings. Have you forgotten Elijah and his murdered brethren? Or are your ear dead to the cries of their blood and in what endeavor it was shed? I think you need to go back and do a proper word study on the spiritual gift of administration. One of the most poorly translated words in the new testament. The word is actually “shophtim” which is the same word used for the title of the book of Judges. Except shophtim does not mean judge, it means ruler. Let me be clear, the prophets served the kings, even as Nathan confronted David, he did so in service to the king (and also to God). Some are called to be kings (ex: John Cooper has the gift of rulership. That is why he has this podcast, that is why he has been given influence) and some are called to be prophets. Others healers, and so on. It seems that your point of view is that it is evil for believers to influence government. Now, it might not be for you to do that directly, but it is for people like John, Seth, myself, and others to rally biblical virtue and wield it against corrupt forces that would otherwise (and are in the process now) enslave us if left unopposed.