AI and John 2

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[1] Well, ladies and gentlemen, all I can say is I'm a little disappointed today, right?

[2] I'm kind of let down.

[3] I'm kind of just...

[4] frustrated.

[5] I'm not in a great mood currently, and it's probably my own fault.

[6] I let my expectations...

[7] get too high, and then there was kind of a letdown.

[8] And so, in my mind today, I would be doing broadcast, and we would be talking about the Sermons 3 .0 app, which is actually Sermons by Sermon audio app, okay?

[9] We would be talking about that, and ooh, I just saw this, and check this out, and check this out.

[10] But it didn't really happen the way I...

[11] at least wanted it to happen.

[12] Now, I think we had some, you know, we had a little bit of warning that it wasn't going to be this, going to be what I thought it was going to be.

[13] But still, I was, I was hoping for a massive, maybe I was hoping for something far different than I should have even been expecting.

[14] My hope was probably more than reality should have allowed for.

[15] And that was my own fault.

[16] Still, I would challenge everyone who hears this.

[17] Go to the Apple App Store, the Google Play Store.

[18] Look for, I guess you can type in sermons 3 .0.

[19] But what you actually need to look for is sermons.

[20] Hang on.

[21] In fact, let me look at the actual name of the app.

[22] Sermons by Sermon Audio.

[23] Sermons by Sermon Audio.

[24] That's the name of the app.

[25] It was basically released yesterday.

[26] Look, for some of you, there may be a lot of changes that will make you very happy, especially for Android users.

[27] Hopefully you've been using it.

[28] You've been looking around.

[29] You've been happy.

[30] I had all these other ideas and these other things.

[31] So today when I woke up, I started messing with the app and I still couldn't, still wouldn't let me follow anything.

[32] So that was irritating.

[33] So what I basically did is I took the entire morning.

[34] to delete every broadcaster I was following, every series I was following, everything.

[35] I deleted everything and basically started over.

[36] So the only thing I'm following currently is Dallas Theological Seminary because I just always start with the seminaries.

[37] And so I've got one thing I'm following.

[38] I'll probably slowly add because I'm curious what happens when you get to number 32, number 34, number 37.

[39] Do you get that error message?

[40] Does it give you the impression that you're following, but when you go back and go back in, you realize you're not actually following it?

[41] I don't know.

[42] So we will find out at some point.

[43] I was going to just focus on that all day, but...

[44] then I was like, well, what do I do today?

[45] I got to broadcast about something and I don't want to just sit here and broadcast about, well, it doesn't have this feature.

[46] And maybe even there was a part of me thinking, well, it was released yesterday.

[47] We'll get an update today.

[48] I know that's very unrealistic.

[49] So, yeah, it's a little disappointing, but I'm going to be hopeful that over the next three, four weeks, maybe two months, Is that even, is that being too hopeful?

[50] Maybe I'm going to say within 30 days, maybe we get some updates that will prove to be very, very interesting and much more, maybe adding some, I'm not saying every feature I've suggested, but adding some that I think would be very beneficial.

[51] So that's been going on.

[52] So I've got to get past that frustration.

[53] I got to get past that letdown.

[54] Let's, I know what we will do.

[55] Let's listen to a sermon.

[56] Why did I pick this sermon?

[57] Well, I picked this sermon because, well, I have a feeling I'm going to be very frustrated and let down.

[58] So why not just keep that theme going and we'll talk about this sermon right after I say...

[59] Welcome, everyone.

[60] It is Tuesday, February the 25th, 2025.

[61] It is currently 3 .58 p .m. Central Time, and I'm coming to you live from the Theology Central Studio located right here in Abilene, Texas.

[62] Now, to set this up properly, let me take you back to the third school.

[63] I ever attended.

[64] Okay, if I go through the schools in some kind of chronological order, I believe Grace University in Omaha, Nebraska was the first school I attended, right?

[65] Grace University, Omaha, Nebraska.

[66] The second school was Twin Cities Baptist Bible Institute, Papillion, Nebraska.

[67] So that school, well, I actually take that back.

[68] If I'm actually going in order, it would be Cisco Junior College here in Texas would be number one.

[69] Grace University, number two.

[70] Twin Cities Baptist Bible Institute would be number three.

[71] And then number four would be Family Radio School of the Bible, Harold Camping.

[72] Now, some of you, that name doesn't ring a bell.

[73] That's like some ancient thing in church history.

[74] You don't know all the controversy and everything that happened with Harold Camping, right?

[75] So when I enrolled in the school, Family Radio School of the Bible with Harold Camping, I mean, it was very much a, I mean, I know some may argue with this, but I mean, I was a student, so I think I have a right to be somewhat dogmatic.

[76] Very Reformed in its theology, right?

[77] Reformed in a soteriology.

[78] I mean, very Presbyterian -like.

[79] Covenant theology, you know, election, all of that.

[80] Amillennialism, just a lot of the Reformed Presbyterian infant baptism.

[81] Some of the very Presbyterian concepts were very much there.

[82] I took Hebrew, I took Greek through them, all the different courses I took.

[83] I mean, I could go through everything.

[84] I had to do a whole thing on the Gospel of John.

[85] But there was a specific hermeneutical approach of Family Radio School of the Bible.

[86] And that approach was that the Bible has different layers of meaning.

[87] Right.

[88] You have kind of the historical, literal meaning.

[89] But underneath that, you have this spiritual meaning.

[90] You have something that everything has a spiritual meaning and everything ultimately points to the gospel.

[91] So it doesn't matter where you are in scripture.

[92] You're like, OK, yeah, that's historically that happened.

[93] Literally that happened.

[94] But, but, but, but, but wait, it pictures something.

[95] There's a spiritual picture and you almost made everything in the Bible have a spiritual picture that ultimately pointed to, well, Christ crucified, basically the gospel.

[96] Doesn't matter where you were in scripture, you found the gospel, you found it, you put it there.

[97] In fact, what you ultimately were doing was reading it into it.

[98] So when you were like, when I was working through the gospel of John and I got to Jesus turns water into wine.

[99] Boom, I got to get to work, right?

[100] I got to write a paper, all right?

[101] It's not just what Jesus did, a literal miracle in a historical setting, and that literal miracle had this basic literal meaning.

[102] No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Now, okay, what did these water pots, what do they represent?

[103] What does the water represent?

[104] What does the wine represent?

[105] What does this represent?

[106] What does this represent?

[107] What does this represent?

[108] And then you go find cross -references for all of that.

[109] I had to write paper after paper.

[110] paper after paper from that hermeneutical approach.

[111] And it had a profound impact on me. And the reason it had such a profound impact on me is because whenever I would write these papers or listen to, you know, a lecture or do whatever I had to do for school, I would learn, oh, that picture is this, that picture is this.

[112] Okay, here's the cross -reference.

[113] Here's the cross -reference.

[114] Here's the cross -reference.

[115] Okay, great.

[116] Oh, this is awesome.

[117] And then anytime I had an opportunity to teach.

[118] Adult Sunday school, teenagers behind the pulpit, everybody like, wow, I've never seen this before.

[119] I've never heard this before.

[120] This is crazy.

[121] How did you find this stuff?

[122] Well, you know, I do a lot of study and I do a lot of work, okay?

[123] And I've always made it like everyone wanted to hear my preaching because like, so what does this represent?

[124] What does this represent?

[125] It was fun.

[126] It was cool.

[127] I felt like, wow, yeah, people think I'm a great teacher.

[128] And then slowly but surely, I begin to call into question all of this.

[129] And one of the things that helped kind of motivate me beginning to question this hermeneutic is when, well, Harold Kemping lost his ever -living mind, told us the world was coming to an end in 1994.

[130] And then when that didn't happen, started telling us that we had to leave our local churches because all the local churches was under the control of Satan.

[131] And if we didn't leave the church, we were taking the mark of the beast.

[132] And then he did these extensive long studies.

[133] Jeremiah and other Old Testament books where this represented this and this represented this and this represents the church.

[134] And it was like, it was like all millennial allegorical approach on total crack.

[135] I mean, it just, it went crazy.

[136] And then it was controversial.

[137] Then he moved the end of the world to 2000 something.

[138] And then they put billboards everywhere and it was all over the news.

[139] And then at that point, I had already, you know, was left to school.

[140] was done with that.

[141] And then it was just sad watching it all unfold.

[142] Then he had a stroke.

[143] He kind of repented at least to some level.

[144] But I used to have all of his books, all of that.

[145] So I'm very familiar when people go to a passage like John 2.

[146] And they're going to, you know, they're going to turn it into something other than what I think it is.

[147] So when I was sitting here, kind of disappointed, kind of frustrated that the sermons.

[148] Well, 3 .0, the sermons by sermon audio app didn't really kind of do what I wanted.

[149] I was like, well, let me just look here.

[150] And actually, I wasn't even looking on the app.

[151] I was looking on the website.

[152] And I looked at new sermons.

[153] And then I saw one that was labeled, or let me say, was entitled this.

[154] I have the title written.

[155] I want to make sure I write it or tell you it exactly correct.

[156] having a hard time talking, that I can give you the correct title as I learn how to talk.

[157] All right, here we go.

[158] It is called The Marriage at Cana.

[159] Jesus Transforms Our Vessels.

[160] I'm like, oh.

[161] Okay, so the vessels, I guess the water pots, because the water is put in and it's transformed to wine, then that's somehow now a picture of our vessels being transformed.

[162] And I was like, here we go.

[163] Here we go.

[164] Here we go.

[165] So we're going to review this.

[166] But before we get started, what do you think?

[167] Do you think AI can make some predictions here?

[168] So I said, AI, I'm about to review a sermon.

[169] entitled, The Marriage at Cana, Jesus Transforms Our Vessels.

[170] And I said, hey, what do you think is going to happen?

[171] Here's what AI said.

[172] You ready?

[173] Based on the sermon title, The Marriage at Cana, Jesus Transforms Our Vessels, I predict, now this is AI speaking, this is AI doing the prediction, I predict that the preacher will likely interpret John 2, 1 through 11, allegorically or metaphorically, emphasizing personal transformation.

[174] Here's how I think the sermon will unfold with potential hermeneutical, theological, and logical errors.

[175] AI's going in.

[176] AI's like, okay, thank you.

[177] I'm going to tell you everything it's going to do wrong.

[178] AI's like, predicted interpretation.

[179] This is how AI predicts the interpretation is going to go in this sermon.

[180] The wedding will be seen as a symbol of the Christian life.

[181] The preacher may present the wedding feast as a metaphor for salvation, joy, or the new covenant.

[182] The lack of wine could be framed as a picture of human insufficiency, sin, or spiritual dryness.

[183] The water to wine miracle will be seen as personal transformation.

[184] The transformation of water into wine may be interpreted as a symbol of how Jesus changes people's lives.

[185] The six stone water jars could be portrayed as representing human vessels, our bodies, lives, or hearts that need to be transformed by Jesus.

[186] The phrase, Jesus transforms our vessels, suggests a focus on internal renewal, possibly through sanctification or personal improvement.

[187] Next, Mary's role as an example of faith and obedience.

[188] The preacher may emphasize Mary's words, do whatever he tells you, as a call to trust and obey.

[189] This call could lead to a moralistic application, urging listeners to be obedient so that transformation can occur.

[190] Number four, the best wine as the abundant life in Christ.

[191] The idea that Jesus provides the best wine last might be used to suggest that life with Jesus is always better than life without him or that Jesus brings increasing joy over time.

[192] It may also be tied to eschatology, such as the great banquet in the kingdom of God.

[193] So that's what it predicts as kind of the way it's going to go.

[194] Then it predicts the hermeneutical.

[195] theological and logical errors.

[196] And it spends a lot of time giving me all the hermeneutical errors that it thinks is going to happen, all of the theological errors that's going to happen, and all the logical errors.

[197] Now, what we will do, I could read all of them, but what we will do, we'll go straight to the sermon.

[198] and see if it follows what AI predicts for its interpretation.

[199] And if we start hearing any of the errors, or I hear any of the errors, I will look down, see what AI said, and then report to you if AI gets this all right.

[200] So what we're about to, once again, this kind of goes with our whole series on artificial intelligence.

[201] Can AI predict what a sermon will get right or get wrong?

[202] So far, every single time, AI has done basically perfect and predicting.

[203] I don't know if it's going to get this one right, but that title seems to give it away.

[204] All right.

[205] And I feel like this is going to be me back at Family Radio School of the Bible.

[206] And I got to do this allegorical, metaphorical, over -spiritualize the text, where basically I'm going to do eisegesis.

[207] I'm going to read something into the text, then exegesis, pulling it from the text.

[208] Here's what makes it so frustrating.

[209] People will claim, we do exegetical studies.

[210] We do exegetical studies.

[211] They will try to tell you that they're pulling it from the text.

[212] And sometimes you can't even tell when you're actually pulling something from the text versus when you're reading it into the text.

[213] Because if you're doing eisegesis, guess what happens?

[214] Almost sometimes in a kind of a...

[215] You know, you're not even conscious of it or you're kind of doing it in an unconscious way.

[216] You're reading it into the text.

[217] Then you pull it out of the text and say, I did exegesis.

[218] But you're pulling out what you put in.

[219] It can be very deceptive.

[220] So I don't know what's getting ready to happen here, but we're going to find out.

[221] What I do know is right when I hit play, you're going to get this loud bell like ding, ding, ding, like a. Like a boxing ring or a wrestling match.

[222] Ding, ding, ding, ding.

[223] I don't know what in the world that is.

[224] I don't know why it's there.

[225] So you may want to just lower your volume a little bit.

[226] I don't know why it's here.

[227] I don't know if that's like, it's time to fight.

[228] It's time.

[229] I don't know what it is.

[230] I don't know.

[231] I don't.

[232] It doesn't sound like a school bell.

[233] It's definitely not like a church bell.

[234] You're like calling everyone to worship.

[235] It's just like, I don't know.

[236] You'll hear it.

[237] All right.

[238] Are you ready?

[239] Here we go.

[240] Let's see what happens.

[241] You have to remember.

[242] What is that?

[243] It's like a whip.

[244] It's like a whip with a...

[245] Let me listen to that again.

[246] What is that?

[247] You have...

[248] It's like a whip.

[249] It's not even like a boxing...

[250] I thought it was like a boxing.

[251] It's like...

[252] It's like someone's shooting.

[253] It's like shooting at something.

[254] What in the world is this even supposed to mean?

[255] I don't know.

[256] Let's listen to that one more time.

[257] Can anybody tell me what I'm hearing here?

[258] You have to remember.

[259] That's just crazy to me. I don't know what that's supposed to be.

[260] Maybe if I watched the video, I could tell.

[261] Maybe I could watch the video.

[262] I don't know.

[263] All right, let's go back.

[264] We'll start this now.

[265] Now he's going to do this.

[266] And well, I hope it's loud enough.

[267] Here we go.

[268] You have to remember, Genesis 1 opens up with, in the beginning, God, right?

[269] We all know that.

[270] And then God has an earthly ministry.

[271] He basically spends six days creating light, the firmament, the land and the vegetation, the sun, the moon, and the stars, the land animals, and then mankind on the sixth day.

[272] Guess what?

[273] With two genders.

[274] That'd be a man and a woman.

[275] And then that was it.

[276] That was the genders.

[277] And then God already signed the executive order.

[278] We should know it.

[279] Just hold up the Bible and say, look, God already passed the executive order.

[280] And so what He did is He shows up and He performs the first marriage between a man and a woman.

[281] And because we're a Bible -believing church, that's who I will only marry is one man and one woman because that's what God said.

[282] He already said it.

[283] And that's not being mean.

[284] That's being biblical.

[285] Now the tie -in is that John 1 opened up with...

[286] Aren't you glad we got an in -depth, very nuanced discussion between biological sex and gender?

[287] Right?

[288] I mean, typically biological sex refers to the physical, biological, and genetic characteristics that...

[289] differentiate, if I can read correctly, males and females.

[290] So when we talk about biological sex, we're referring to physical, biological and genetic characteristics that differentiate between males and females.

[291] All right.

[292] And so you would have like chromosomes, hormones, anatomy.

[293] All right.

[294] Gender is often described as social, psychological and cultural roles, behaviors, identities that society associates with biological sex.

[295] Gender identity.

[296] A person's internal sense of being male, female, both, neither, or something else.

[297] This gets into a whole, is there a distinction between biology, biological sex, and gender?

[298] It's very, there's a little bit of nuance.

[299] I know we just like to say, well, in the beginning, it created male and female.

[300] That settles it.

[301] The problem is over.

[302] Okay, well, in the beginning, God created people in a garden without a sinful nature.

[303] But then they fail.

[304] And everyone after that is created, is born with a sinful nature.

[305] Do you not think possibly that sinful nature impacts every area of our life, right?

[306] Don't we believe the fall impacts us physically?

[307] Don't we believe the fall impacts us psychologically?

[308] Doesn't it impact us mentally?

[309] Doesn't it impact every aspect of our life?

[310] I mean, it had to have a pretty good impact since it wasn't long after the fall that a brother was killing another brother.

[311] But I guess we're not going to, we're just going to throw that out there.

[312] He signed the executive order.

[313] Oh, man. Look, you can stay true to what you believe the Bible teaches, but at the same time acknowledge it in a much more deep, reasonable, rational, even theological way.

[314] So the question is, How much does the fall impact people?

[315] You say, well, it impacts us in every single way.

[316] Meaning, if we're all born sinners, is it possible that people could be born, I don't know, and find that they don't have a desire for people of the opposite sex?

[317] They have a desire for the same sex.

[318] In other words, couldn't it not explain a whole lot of issues that we encounter?

[319] Now, how do we work on that?

[320] How does that fix that?

[321] Now, Christians will say, well, if you get saved, it just fixes that.

[322] Well, if getting saved just fixes that, then you have to then logically imply that if someone gets saved, it just fixes everything, and then we no longer sin.

[323] But that doesn't work.

[324] So then why does it only fix this problem, but it doesn't fix that problem?

[325] Why is it that if someone gets saved, it takes away same -sex attraction, but for some weird reason, heterosexuals still lust, commit fornication, look at porn?

[326] Okay, all right.

[327] Now I just get so frustrated.

[328] I hate when we say things and such, we minimize the issue, even from a theological perspective.

[329] If you believe in total depravity, then for crying out loud, act like it.

[330] The world was this way.

[331] The fall happens, and then everything has not been the way it's supposed to be.

[332] Isn't that the whole point of the fall?

[333] The fall messed up everything.

[334] Our physical bodies get sick and die, disease, on and on, psychological issues, everything, emotional, everything is off, right?

[335] That's why it didn't take long for a brother to decide, I'm going to kill my brother.

[336] Why do we always minimize things and just like...

[337] We have to talk down to people.

[338] It just makes me so mad.

[339] Sometimes, especially within the new conservative movement in our country, this kind of political conservatism, we just like to talk like jerks.

[340] We like to be bullies.

[341] And I'm so sick of it.

[342] Look, let the political world talk like bullies and jerks.

[343] Can we in the church go, wait, wait, wait, like, okay.

[344] Yeah, the Bible speaks that there's male and female.

[345] Absolutely.

[346] Not in any way denying that.

[347] Now, first, is there a distinction between biological sex and gender?

[348] Okay, what does history and science tell us?

[349] Whether you agree or disagree, let's at least explore it.

[350] And if there is some issues or times where people struggle with their biological sex, what could be leading to this?

[351] Why could it happen?

[352] I don't know.

[353] I thought Christianity, we have a very good explanation for it all.

[354] Everything is out of order.

[355] Everything is messed up because of the fall.

[356] But we talk, we believe in depravity.

[357] And they're like, what is wrong with you?

[358] And what is wrong with them?

[359] And what is wrong with them?

[360] I don't know the same thing wrong with us.

[361] We're all messed up.

[362] But I don't know.

[363] What do I know?

[364] Okay.

[365] All right.

[366] Let's back this up a little bit.

[367] You hear my frustration.

[368] A man and a woman.

[369] And because we're a Bible -believing church, that's who I will only marry is one man and one woman because that's what God said.

[370] He already said it.

[371] And that's not being mean.

[372] That's being biblical.

[373] Well, is it that simple?

[374] Hey!

[375] Because the Bible says it.

[376] This is all I'm going to do.

[377] Well, the Bible tells you to love God with all your heart, mind, body, and soul.

[378] How come you're not doing it?

[379] The Bible says love your neighbor yourself.

[380] How come you're not doing it?

[381] The Bible says to be holy as he is holy.

[382] How come you're not doing it?

[383] The Bible says to do all things with grumbling and blank.

[384] How come you're not doing it?

[385] Is it just so simple?

[386] Well, the Bible says do it.

[387] I'm a Bible believer, so we just do what the Bible says.

[388] Well, then just do everything it says.

[389] Problem solved.

[390] We don't need Jesus.

[391] The end.

[392] Well, the Bible says, so this is what I do.

[393] Yeah.

[394] Congratulations.

[395] You do that.

[396] I'm sure you've never lusted.

[397] I'm sure you never do this.

[398] I'm sure you never do this.

[399] We're not going to even get to John chapter 2.

[400] All right, here we go.

[401] Now the tie -in is that John 1 opened up with, in the beginning was the Word.

[402] Genesis 1, in the beginning God, John 1 opens up with, in the beginning was the Word.

[403] And then what happened in John 1, we see in verses 19 -28, John the Baptist shows up on the scene.

[404] Now look at John 1 .29.

[405] It says, the next day John seeth Jesus coming into him.

[406] Use your fingers and count.

[407] That's one day has passed.

[408] First day of Jesus' earthly ministry.

[409] Now look at verse number 35.

[410] And again, the next day after John stood and took his disciples, looking upon him, Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God.

[411] There we go.

[412] That would be the second day of Jesus' earthly ministry.

[413] And now look at verse number 43.

[414] The day following, Jesus would go forth unto Galilee and findeth Philip and saith unto him, Follow me. That's the third day of Jesus' earthly ministry.

[415] And now look at John chapter 2 and verse number 1.

[416] Watch what it says.

[417] And the third day.

[418] How many days have already passed?

[419] How many days do we have here?

[420] Three.

[421] What's three plus three, homeschoolers?

[422] Six.

[423] You know what just happened in John 2?

[424] On the sixth day, God shows up in the New Testament and He's going to perform a marriage.

[425] He's going to be at a marriage.

[426] He's going to be at a wedding.

[427] And you know who's joining?

[428] Whoever's getting married here, you know who's joining them together?

[429] God.

[430] Because a biblical marriage is something that God does.

[431] He takes a man and he takes a woman and he brings them together in a union for his glory.

[432] Day six, God showed up right in Genesis one.

[433] Okay, now this is interesting.

[434] So day one, day two, day three.

[435] Now, how did he get three plus three?

[436] Okay.

[437] Did I miss something here?

[438] All right.

[439] So he goes through the days.

[440] Hang on.

[441] So the next day.

[442] And then the next day.

[443] So he counted out three.

[444] Then he says three plus three is six homeschoolers.

[445] Okay.

[446] All right, I'm confused, all right?

[447] I'm going to ask AI here.

[448] The sermon I'm listening to counts days and John 1 and then concludes...

[449] John 2 .1 is the sixth day.

[450] Am I missing something here?

[451] I may have to back this up.

[452] I'm sorry if I'm going to belabor the point, but here we go.

[453] Okay.

[454] Now, this is what, now remember AI, I am not giving AI the transcript at this point.

[455] Okay.

[456] I'm just, I'm just asking AI, I'm doing this in real time, right?

[457] This is having AI as a tool.

[458] All right.

[459] So this is what AI says.

[460] The idea of counting the days in John 1 to conclude that John 2, 1 occurs on the sixth day is an interesting but problematic approach.

[461] For several reasons, let's analyze both the reasoning behind the interpretation and a potential hermeneutical flaw.

[462] The argument for the sixth day, the preacher is likely counting the reference to specific days in John 1.

[463] John 1, 19.

[464] The next day, possibly day 1.

[465] John 29.

[466] The next day, which would be day two, John 1 .35, the next day, day three, John 14 .3, the next day, day four, John 2 .1, on the third day, which they interpret as three days after day four, making it day six.

[467] Okay.

[468] The preacher may be attempting to link day six to theological themes, the sixth day of creation.

[469] Genesis 1 .26, when God created humanity.

[470] Possibly a connection to Jesus bringing a new creation or renewal.

[471] The potential hermeneutical errors and logical errors.

[472] Arbitrary counting method.

[473] The phrase on the third day in John 2 .1 is unclear.

[474] Does it mean three days after the last event or something else?

[475] The Gospel of John does not seem to be as structured as a day -by -day chronological record, but rather a theological storytelling.

[476] forcing a pattern that may not exist.

[477] The claim that John 2 .1 is the sixth day assumes that John 1 is presenting a consecutive timeline rather than just recounting events with transition markers.

[478] There is no textual reason in John 2 .1 to connect this timeline to the day of creation.

[479] When John does have creation imagery, while John does have creation imagery, John 1 .1 echoes Genesis 1 .1, the gospel structure does not originally follow a seven -day structure.

[480] Even if John 2, 1 was on the sixth day, it is unclear what significance that would have for the narrative.

[481] If the sixth day is meant to symbolize the creation of humanity, how does that tie into the wedding at Cana?

[482] The text itself does not hint at a creation parallel.

[483] A more textually grounded interpretation of John 2 .1.

[484] Instead of forcing a six -day interpretation, a better approach is this.

[485] Jesus' first public miracle, John 2 .11, states that this was the first of his signs to reveal his glory.

[486] Symbolism of the wedding, the miracle points to Jesus as the true bridegroom and the ultimate provider of the new covenant.

[487] Connection to purification.

[488] The water jar used for Jewish purifications are turned into wine, signaling a transformation from the old covenant to the new.

[489] The preacher's attempt to count days to reach day six is speculative and likely reading into the text eisegesis rather than drawing from it exegesis.

[490] Unless there is clear textual or theological connection at John itself, such an interpretation risks adding unnecessary complexity and distracting from the actual meaning of the passage.

[491] All right, so AI is not seeing it.

[492] I'm not seeing it.

[493] I'm going to back that up and see if we can figure out exactly.

[494] How did he get the six?

[495] And I may have missed something.

[496] So we may have to go.

[497] We may not get very far in this, but at first I'm like, well, this is awesome, right?

[498] Because this is good observation.

[499] He's seeing that it's giving these time markers.

[500] I love that.

[501] I just wasn't quite prepared for where he was going to do with it.

[502] Let's see if we backed up far enough.

[503] On chapter two and verse number one, watch what it says.

[504] All right, let's back this up a little further.

[505] I'm going to go way back.

[506] Here we go.

[507] And because we're a Bible -believing church, that's who I will only marry is one man and one woman because that's what God said.

[508] He already said it, and that's not being mean.

[509] That's being biblical.

[510] Now, the tie -in is that John 1 opened up with, in the beginning was the Word.

[511] Genesis 1, in the beginning God.

[512] John 1 opens up, but in the beginning was the Word.

[513] And then what happened in John 1, we see in verses 19 -28, John the Baptist shows up on the scene.

[514] Now look at John 1 .29.

[515] It says, the next day John seeth Jesus coming into him.

[516] Use your fingers and count.

[517] That's one day has passed.

[518] First day of Jesus' earthly ministry.

[519] Now look at verse number 35.

[520] And again the next day after John stood and took his disciples, looking upon him, Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God.

[521] There we go.

[522] That would be the second day of Jesus' earthly ministry.

[523] Please note that there's already a discrepancy.

[524] AI puts day one in John 1 .19.

[525] All right, where it says the next day, but the King James does not use next day in John 1, 19.

[526] So there are there already a discrepancy in days.

[527] I need another translation here.

[528] Hang on.

[529] Let me wait.

[530] I think that's a King James.

[531] I don't know where my other.

[532] I don't know where my other translation is.

[533] Hang on.

[534] Let me look here.

[535] Oh, we're getting all confused on this.

[536] All right, here we go.

[537] Here we go.

[538] Let me look here.

[539] John 119.

[540] Did AI make a mistake here?

[541] Yeah, I don't know why it has, why AI puts 119 as a day.

[542] Hang on, let me go here.

[543] Bible Hub?

[544] Yeah, I don't know where AI is getting that, okay?

[545] Yeah, that's weird.

[546] That's weird.

[547] I'm going back to AI.

[548] Yeah, AI has day one, John 119.

[549] Possibly day one.

[550] Yeah, John 1, 18, no man, and then verse 19, and this is the record of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, who art thou?

[551] So I guess Ai is saying, well, there's like, now you start this section in verse 19 following, and that's a separate day right there.

[552] That's a separate day because then verse 29, the next day.

[553] So if 29 is the next day, then 19 to 28 is the previous day.

[554] So AI is saying, okay, now I see what AI is doing.

[555] Then if the next day is 29, well, then the previous day has to be 19 to 28.

[556] So 19 to 28 would be day one.

[557] 29 would be day two.

[558] 35 would be day three.

[559] 43 would be day four.

[560] Now, he doesn't use 19 as day one.

[561] He says he goes to 29 where it says the next day and says that's day one.

[562] Well, if it's the next day, why would that be day one?

[563] Wouldn't the day before the next day be day one?

[564] So already things are starting to fall apart.

[565] Things are starting.

[566] I'm going to back this up again.

[567] What is happening here?

[568] Okay, hang on.

[569] Hey, John the Baptist shows up on the scene.

[570] Now look at John 1 29.

[571] It says the next day John seeth Jesus coming into him.

[572] Use your fingers and count.

[573] That's one day.

[574] Okay.

[575] Well, if it says the next day, how can that be one day?

[576] Because wouldn't the previous day be the first day?

[577] So it says the next day, but he says that's the first day.

[578] Well, I don't understand how that's day one.

[579] If it's the next day, next comes after the previous.

[580] The previous then would be first.

[581] Okay, all right.

[582] We're trying to follow this.