Dr. Michael Peppard

Augustine, or at least I do, as like, St. Augustine, he's one of the greatest theologians and philosophers in all of history. But you also have to reckon with the fact that he was betrothed to a prepubescent person. But that's not our place to, I guess, judge morally, but that's the culture... of the time. Pretty weird though, right? When you think about it that way.

Augustine, or at least I do, as like, St. Augustine, he's one of the greatest theologians and philosophers in all of history. But you also have to reckon with the fact that he was betrothed to a prepubescent person. But that's not our place to, I guess, judge morally, but that's the culture... of the time. Pretty weird though, right? When you think about it that way.

Yeah, and probably other chemical factors too, I would say.

Yeah, and probably other chemical factors too, I would say.

Microplastics and other things in our water supply and our soil.

Microplastics and other things in our water supply and our soil.

Yeah, it is. I mean, it's been a long time since I, I don't, I could not tell you, Chad GPT would be able to tell you faster probably. Okay.

Yeah, it is. I mean, it's been a long time since I, I don't, I could not tell you, Chad GPT would be able to tell you faster probably. Okay.

I should have been confident because I thought it was 10. Yeah, you got to trust yourself. But I got thrown off with the puberty thing.

I should have been confident because I thought it was 10. Yeah, you got to trust yourself. But I got thrown off with the puberty thing.

So that's my way of thinking about, like, I think that is this a virgin or a young woman question in the text? I'm like, I don't think there's a difference. I mean, the term, like in Greek, the term parthenos means virgin. It also means young woman. Like it's a woman who's not marriageable yet. Yeah.

So that's my way of thinking about, like, I think that is this a virgin or a young woman question in the text? I'm like, I don't think there's a difference. I mean, the term, like in Greek, the term parthenos means virgin. It also means young woman. Like it's a woman who's not marriageable yet. Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's what homosexuality is for.

That's what homosexuality is for.

But what I would say, though, about the other piece is that as people, as you and I live post-1968, that is post the pill, we struggle in our culture to really understand what what the bifurcation of sex and procreation has done to the mind and has done to our sense of everything.

But what I would say, though, about the other piece is that as people, as you and I live post-1968, that is post the pill, we struggle in our culture to really understand what what the bifurcation of sex and procreation has done to the mind and has done to our sense of everything.

Yeah, I mean, every sexual act is a potential procreation, and then there's consequences, right? It's not easy to deal with that. It's still not easy to deal with that, but it's very difficult to deal with that in an ancient culture.

Yeah, I mean, every sexual act is a potential procreation, and then there's consequences, right? It's not easy to deal with that. It's still not easy to deal with that, but it's very difficult to deal with that in an ancient culture.