Mike Signorelli - Hugh Ross Interview (Part 1)

January 27, 2026 | 27:29

Pastor Mike Signorelli brings bold, Bible-based teaching to help believers walk faithfully in today’s often compromised world

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| Mike Signorelli - Hugh Ross Interview (Part 1) | January 27, 2026

How many people claim
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To get saved, but their cravings never change.
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You can scroll on your phone
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For four hours, but you can't spend four minutes in prayer.
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Something's gotta change because you say.
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If it was about me, i would keep scrolling.
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But it's about this density, so let me destroy.
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Oh, come on, somebody.
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Oh, oh oh.
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So we're going to have
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An incredible conversation and we're just going to jump right in.
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But i wanted to first acknowledge our true guest of honor, jesus christ.
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And we just honored jesus christ. and.
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The presence of the holy spirit has been so strong.
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And i just sense that he's doing something very special here.
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And of course, doctor hugh ross is team and we honor them.
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And, they're doing so, so much hard work.
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And and so we want to, get to maybe get to some of those questions,
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But selfishly, i'm going to ask my questions
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And let me give you a little bit of the backstory.
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But before i do, let's pray now that the room is sort of settled.
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Let's pray.
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Heavenly father, i thank you for your presence in our midst.
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And god, i know that as every question is asked,
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Lord, that there are long standing questions in our mind, things
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That many of us here have struggled with doubt, anxiety, worry, fear, apprehension.
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Many of us here have wrestled with our faith.
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Like jacob,
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We've been wrestling through the night and the night seasons of our lives.
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And lord, i know that in the midst of that, you do have the answers.
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But more so than that, you're also going to deal with our heart.
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And we give you permission, father, to deal with our heart and father,
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There are many disciples here who are laying a foundation.
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And lord, maybe the cracks are going to be exposed that need to be filled.
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And lord, that you're going to build a firm foundation
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So that we can build in, in the seasons to come.
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And father, we just glorify you.
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We magnify you, and we give you all the credit for what happens tonight.
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Everybody said, in jesus name, amen, amen.
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So we've got him here.
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And i know
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Everybody's like, okay, stop talking, let's get to business.
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But i want to just start by by reiterating my story.
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Many of you know it, but i was raised in church.
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Many of you know, my mother and i was quite frankly, forced to go to church.
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I was one of those kids where you didn't have a choice.
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And i became the first college educated person on both sides of my family.
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And so as i begin to attend a big,
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Big ten university, i was exposed to many different ideas.
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And i actually had the cliche professor of biology who got up in front
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Of the entire classroom and said, god does not exist,
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And i'm going to devote this entire semester to proving it to you.
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And over the course of that semester, it worked.
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And i begin to deconstruct my faith.
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And essentially that started my sophomore year of college.
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And for the next two years, i went on a really intense journey
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Of trying to determine what do i believe?
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But i abandoned christianity, and as fate would have it,
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I moved into a house at the corner of atwater and jordan
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By the school of music in in iu bloomington,
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And i got randomly come on, say it in air quotes.
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I had one of my roommates was a guy named lamont king black.
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This is his real name, which is an epic name,
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And he had devoted his life to apologetics.
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He devoted his life to theology.
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And when he found out that i used to be this hardcore christian who loved god,
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But that i had deconstructed and i had left the faith, he
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He began to ask me, well, what is it?
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And we started going on this journey and a particular point in our discussion.
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He said, oh, you need to read doctor.
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He, ross and i said, well, what do you mean?
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He said, he's an astrophysicist and he's written all these books.
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And so i begin to read, you know, his books, and i'll never forget
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Getting to a point and where essentially one of your books, you checkmated me
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And i was like, oh, no, i'm wrong.
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And and the christian faith is true.
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And it is right. and i just begin to weep.
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And those tear stained pages of your book,
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And there's a young mike signally, that makes a journey back to christ.
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And lamont actually prayed that prayer with me in that house
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At the corner of atwater and jordan, and i gave my life back to christ.
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And it was funny because right after that, i met this curly headed girl
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Named julie ra.
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And it was soon after that that we got engaged and we got married.
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And then i was ordained in ministry a couple of years later.
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And so i just want to sincerely thank you, because you've been a hero in the faith.
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You've been a mentor from a distance.
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I've gleaned from your books, i've pored over your books
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And and then a couple of years ago, i invited you to my youtube channel,
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And we talked about aliens and all kinds of weird nerd stuff, which i love.
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And it went mega viral
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Like many, many millions of views and short form content and long.
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And so in many ways, this is part two.
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So, doctor hugh ross, thank you for coming to manhattan for v1 church.
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Thank you for leading me back to christ.
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Thank you for the work that you do. and welcome.
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Oh, it's been my pleasure. thank.
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Okay, so that's the story.
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I didn't cry, i'm proud of myself.
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I cried backstage, but we're just going to jump into it tonight.
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Is that all right?
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Okay.
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So you've got a new book, noah's flood revisited.
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And many of us were in sunday school.
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We did the coloring book version of noah's flood.
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I'm just going to start by simply asking you noah's flood fact or fiction?
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Fact.
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Like did it really happen?
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And, maybe you can go a little bit deeper about about this, the story noah's flood.
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Oh, the reason i wrote the book is noah's flood
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In genesis is the most ridiculed part of the entire bible.
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Yeah, it's a number one reason why people reject the bible
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As the inspired word of god. so i said, hey,
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I need to write a book showing people this is not just an allegory.
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This is actually true chronological history.
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And it's more scientifically defensible today than it was two years ago.
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Five years ago, and ten years ago.
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So the book is packed with recent scientific discoveries
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That really leave no doubt this is an historical account
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Has a chronological it's historically and scientifically true, and hopefully
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A lot of people will now have confidence that the bible really is god's word.
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Wow, isn't that encouraging?
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And you know, this this phenomenon continues to happen.
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And this was actually what led me back to christ.
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It was modern discoveries in science that continue to prove
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The hebrew account of creation and various different biblical narratives.
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So can maybe we go a little bit deeper, because i think that skeptics
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Look at the story of noah's flood, and they say, well, this is a mean god.
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This is an angry god. this is a vengeful god.
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But could could
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There be a deeper revelation of god's justice and mercy in noah's flood?
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You know, i'm actually make the point.
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This is an example of god's mercy.
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This is a time when murder was rising out of control.
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I show in the book that the murder rate was above 95%.
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Humanity was in danger of self extermination.
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God had to step in to rescue humanity from wiping itself out.
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And so that's what he did.
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It's a principle you see throughout the entire bible,
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Whenever a human civilization becomes reprobate or evil,
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Just like a surgeon says, hey, you got a stage four tumor,
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I need to take it out of your body, otherwise your whole body will be infected
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By christ.
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God says, hey, i have a whole city or nation becomes reprobate.
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It must be removed to save the rest of humanity.
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The good news is it's in the new testament area.
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It can't happen.
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When jesus rose from the dead, when the holy spirit,
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For the first time permanently indwell followers of jesus christ,
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They became the salt of the earth, preventing societal reformation.
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Because skeptics will often say, well, the god of the new testament
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Is different than the god of the old testament.
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He's not.
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The difference is, humanity has changed.
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Oh, isn't so good, but isn't that good?
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If you're near one of our campuses,
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I want to give you a personal invitation to check out v1 church.
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There's no way i can describe the atmosphere of revival in the experience.
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If you've never driven up or driven in, you know,
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Let me just tell you it's a powerful atmosphere and a bunch of
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People who really love the lord and want to get to know you.
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So let us know when you're coming and i'll see you at v1 church.
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So when we look at
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Noah's flood, you had reference these modern scientific discoveries.
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Can we go a little bit deeper into that?
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Because i'm really intrigued.
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How many of you are going to get the book, by the way?
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You know, i want to create an appetite in you to to go deeper
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In your journey, but i'd love to hear more about those discoveries.
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Well, i wanted to write the book a decade ago, but i said,
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I'm going to wait until we can nail down
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What scientific certainty events of genesis ten and 11.
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And this is post-flood when god basically deals with humanity's
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Rebellion for the same, we're going to stay in one place and god says,
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I'm going to scatter you over the whole the land masses of the earth
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For the first time.
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We can accurately date when that scattering occurred.
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And what's amazing is it's simultaneous all over northern europe, southern europe,
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Australia, tasmania, you know, borneo and japan,
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Western africa, they're all colonized at the same time.
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So it basically demonstrates god's word of god.
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Right?
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So the only time in human history where you see that kind of aggressive
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Simultaneous migration and colonization, now that we've got accurate dates
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For that, that establishes noah's flood must predate that.
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And the dates basically remove all the scientific challenges
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To taking the bible as god's inerrant word.
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Okay, this is okay.
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Now, i know that you're not afraid of scandal.
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You've referenced the dates.
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Now, this is actually one of the things that that i needed to reconcile.
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In my mind, going way back to the early 2000s
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When i first started reading your books, the big breakthrough for me
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Was understanding the the actual age of the earth.
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Right.
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So do you mind maybe stepping in that direction lovingly
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And helping people understand to to corroborate
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This evidence, we have to really, truly believe,
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Something about the timeline of the existence of our universe.
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Right. well, what attracted me to the christian faith?
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I was not raised in a christian home.
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I actually studied the other religions of the world.
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First of all, what i notice about the bible
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Is it taught a two creation model with two revelations from god.
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He reveals himself through the book of scripture.
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He also reveals himself through the book of nature and they cooperate one another.
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Now, you asked me about the age of the earth.
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As an astrophysicist.
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I would say, well, we got that nailed down to five places at the decimal 4.5662
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Billion years ago, plus or -0.0001 billion.
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And it's like, how does that square with the bible?
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Well, when i first picked up the bible at age 17
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And began to go through genesis one, i said, number one,
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The hebrew word for day here must have at least three distinct,
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Literal definitions, because three are used in the text.
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So with creation day one, it uses the word day for the daylight
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Hours, creation day for its contrasting seasons, days and years.
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That's a day as 24 hours.
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But in genesis two four
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It uses the same word day for the entirety of creation history.
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So as a day as a long period of time,
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I also notice the first six creation days and with an evening morning phrase
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Basically telling me each day has a definite start
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Time, each day has a definite end time.
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But you get to creation. day seven.
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There's no evening, morning phrase implying we're still in god's seventh day.
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That's explicitly stated in psalm 95 and hebrews four.
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For to live our lives in such a way that we can enter into god's seventh day
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And notice,
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God creates for
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Six days, he ceases from his work of creation,
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And he will create again in the new creation.
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The eighth day is coming.
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But what god does in the seventh day, and we're to model
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What god does for to work six days on the seventh day, or to focus
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On the most important issues of life, which you see in scripture.
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God begins his works of redemption before he creates anything at all.
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For six days he creates.
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What does he do?
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In the seventh day, he redeems and tells us in romans eight,
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When the full number of humans that god intends to
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Redeem have been redeemed, he will create again.
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The day is coming.
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So as a young man, i never saw any contradiction
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Between the book of scripture and the book of nature.
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They're saying the same thing.
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They clobbering one another.
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You know the fact that genesis one describes all of creation events
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And the correct scientific order and correctly describes them?
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It's the only book
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Of all the ancient religions of the world that gets everything right.
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The best i found outside of the bible only got two of the 14, right?
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The bible gets everything right.
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That was my first clue.
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This book did not come from a mere human being.
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It was inspired by the one that actually did the creation deeds.
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Thank you.
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So that what you what
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He just said was when i rededicated my life back to christ.
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And let me tell you why i had read the hindu vedas.
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I read the koran.
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And as i begin to read each other major world religions book, it was easily
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Debunked from a scientific perspective, from a historic perspective.
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And so my thought was, if i could simply do that to the bible, then
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I am free from any obligation to ever be a christian for the rest of my life.
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So remember when i talked about him checkmating me?
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He just did it again,
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Because i was basically reading that
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In one of his books and i realized, oh no, if
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If the hebrew kind of creation is true as recorded in scripture
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And the bible is reliable, then everything else in scripture is also true.
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And then i have one decision do i submit or rebel?
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See that?
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That's ultimately why many of you are here tonight,
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Because you'll be put in a crossroads to determine whether you're going
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To submit to the authority of scriptures and my conversion stories the same.
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I basically realize, okay, hindu, vedas, koran,
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Buddhist commentaries, they all get the science wrong.
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The bible gets everything right.
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It even predicts future scientific discoveries thousands of years
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Ahead of time.
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Yeah, kind of brought me to the same point of decision.
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What do i do with this?
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Do i reject it or do i give my life to christ?
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And i realize that this is true, and more reliable than the laws of physics.
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I trust i have to give my life to christ.
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So. wow, is that amazing?
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More reliable than the laws of physics.
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I love that line. you know,
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If you want to continue to go deeper on this, i know that we're we're
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Talking about the scientific evidence that god created the universe.
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We're talking about the date and the age of the universe.
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And, if we were to kind of, like, continue to flesh that out, i mean, there's
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Probably some people here
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Who are struggling that they're still in, you know, wrestling with doubt.
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And i remember reading about you making the presentation about the how
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And the new miracle certainty of god creating,
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I don't know if you'd be willing to kind of share that.
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Well, i was studying the bible the same time that physicists
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Were developing the first of the space time series,
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Which basically states, if the universe contains mass
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And the general relativity reliably describes the movements
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Of massive bodies in the universe, space and time
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After the beginning of space and time are created,
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Which implies there must be an agent beyond space and time
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That created a universe of matter, energy, space, and time.
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So when a scientist says, i want to see scientific evidence
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For a miracle, i said, what bigger miracle can you actually require
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Than the coming into existence of all the physical reality?
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God can do that.
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He can do all that smaller miracles.
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Wow. can you imagine?
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So yeah. that's incredible. and so,
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You know what?
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Okay.
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Because i want to keep pointing back to the book,
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As you talked about these recent discoveries.
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And, i feel like noah's flood
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Is a theme that just continues to, to come up in culture right now.
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Have you guys all been picking up on that?
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Rick renner has been writing about it extensively.
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People have been visiting the site.
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Anthony mitchell's talking about it.
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It's like, you know, so many diverse voices
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In the body of christ are talking about, noah's flood right now.
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What are some of those recent scientific discoveries?
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Well, number one, we can date when this great scattering
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Humanity happened, described in genesis ten and 11.
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Yeah, those dates come in at 40 to 50,000 years ago,
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Which implies noah's flood must predate that.
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If it predates that, we don't have a genetic challenge
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To all of humanity coming from eight people onboard noah's ark, and then people
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Wondering, well, could people that far back actually build a boat of that size?
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Well, just before this book went to press a paper published where they discovered
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These big thick ropes in the southern islands of indonesia,
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And realizing these had to be ropes for large ships
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Going from indonesia to australia over 3 or 400ft long.
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So basically showing your people that far back pretty could build boats that big.
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And people were saying, well, you know, what's this go for?
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Would, notice the old testament mentions 20,
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21 different kinds of hardwood.
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Go for what is not identified for the fact that the bible mentions
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21 other different kinds.
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The hard one tells us go for
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What has a higher strength index than acacia would have.
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It does.
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You can easily have a wooden boat 450ft long, which has been a primary challenge.
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People saying no one can build a boat that big, we know they can.
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And then now you know, what about the animals on board the ark?
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Seven different hebrew words are used in genesis six
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And seven and eight for the animals on board noah's ark.
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If you look at all seven words, it's basically talking about a bizarre nefesh,
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Which means the animals domesticated by humans
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And the total number of animals pairs would have been domesticated
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By humans would be under 300, which means
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The ark is plenty of big enough to house all those animals.
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And again, you look at the bible text on judgment.
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The only animals that can be negatively impacted
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By human sin are the animals that we can domesticate
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For agricultural purposes, and we make us pets.
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Which is why it says in the old testament of a cow has a habit
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Of curing other animals.
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And that continues and the owner is rebuked that that continues.
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Then the cow must be killed, and the owner along with it, making the point.
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The human is responsible for that animal behaving in that way.
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But don't worry about cockroaches.
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Your sin is not going to affect the behavior of a car much.
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That's so.
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Doesn't that satiate so many questions you've had?
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Because when all you have is coloring book christianity, you.
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I mean that that version of noah's ark just seems so absolutely ridiculous that
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In some ways it makes you almost ashamed to call yourself a christian.
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But when you actually look at the text, you go back to the hebrew words.
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You understand the historic context.
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It all starts making a lot more sense.
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Here's the question that i've been dying to ask you
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Is it a local flood or a global flood?
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Well, what i talk about in this book, it's not local,
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It's not global, it's worldwide.
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But you see, in second peter two, the world of ungodly people was flooded.
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So the flood extended as far as ungodly people lived.
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Well, i think we can be assured there were no ungodly people
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Living in antarctica, so there's no need for god to flood antarctica.
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There's no need for noah to take on board of penguins,
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Because they wouldn't have been damaged by human sin.
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God's judgment only goes as far as the,
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You know, the iniquity of human, evil.
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Just like a surgeon limits his operations,
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To the extent, the, you know, the metastases.
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And the bible actually uses that word for human sin.
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It operates when it's in danger of metastasizing because at one point,
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We have abraham saying, i know you're going to wipe out
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Sodom and gomorrah, but what about these wicked ammonites?
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God says the wickedness has not yet reached its fullness.
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I will not touch them.
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But he did take out the sodomites
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Because they were in danger of infecting the rest of humanity.
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So it's the world of ungodly people was flooded.
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Now i believe they inhabited a large region of the world,
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But there were no humans in north america or south
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America or australia at that time.
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We're basically talking the near and middle east,
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Maybe parts of eastern africa.
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That's still a really huge flood, which is why i'm saying here
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We're talking previous to 40 to 50,000 years ago.
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That puts it during the last ice age when you got enormous melt events
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That could easily have produced a really vast flood.
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Hey, join me for the trip of a lifetime
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Okay. did you pick up on that?
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So once you move away from a localized flood,
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But also you move away from a global flood and you now say it's worldwide
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And it's god's judgment upon those who, you know, we're in that equation.
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And then the record would also seem to indicate
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That even from like a archeological perspective, right.
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When you look at the layers, you say, can you maybe talk a little bit
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More about that, like the with the melting is it's all that
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It's it would corroborate your version of this, interpretation.
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Well, people think the last ice age was a period
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Where you just had thousands of feet of ice covering,
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You know, a lot of the land masses, for, you know, almost 100,000 years.
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The truth is, the previous last ice age had heat, melted vents.
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In other words, where you got thousands of feet, thickness of ice melting
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And then refreezing, melting and refreezing.
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Think about the ice shrinking and expanding.
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And if you get that kind of a melt event, you get a lot of water.
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Explains why the flood lasted a whole year.
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Because the only way you can last that long is if you got a lot of ice.
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It's melting, replacing the water flowing out into the ocean.
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Wow. that amazing.
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Wow. so i want to do a few things because i think this is fun.
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Are you all enjoying this?
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By the way, time is flying by. by the way.
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I'm like, enthralled.
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And again, this is just, been so enriching.
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So if you had to,
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And i'm
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Going to challenge you, but i know you're up for it.
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And so if you had to try to convince an atheist
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Somebody who's struggling in 60s, what with all the expansive
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Knowledge that you have, of course you've been delving into noah's flood.
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You've written about so many different aspects of unbelief.
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But if you were to look at somebody in 60s who struggled with unbelief,
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With atheism, what what would be the means of communication, what would you say?
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Well, mike, every day i get atheist on my social media saying
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The flood is a, scientifically provable myth.
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I say, well, is this because you think the bible teaches
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That flood is global and happened just a few thousand years ago?
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If you actually read all the texts in the bible, not just those in genesis,
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There's more content on noah's flood outside of genesis and in genesis.
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If you read all that, you'll discover the bible puts the date
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A lot earlier and really talks about a worldwide flood.
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But a global flood.
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Once you understand that,
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They say, okay, no longer does science have an objection to that,
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And then they begin to ask because of questions on other subjects.
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Come on. wasn't that good?
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Mike Signorelli - Hugh Ross Interview (Part 1)

January 27, 2026 | 27:29

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