HeyJaredSergio DeSoto | The Counterintuitive Thinker
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I Have Been Screaming the Wrong Word (opens the original)
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Rome mediated, and burned the men who handed out keys. Protestants gatekeep. For years I aimed the first charge at the second church, and I could not work out why it kept sliding off the people I most wanted it to land on. Say no mediation to a Protestant and he agrees with you. He doesn’t squirm — he quotes 1 Timothy 2:5 back at you before you finish the sentence, and he means it. His tradition was founded on saying it out loud against Rome. I was walking into rooms and prosecuting a count the
The Heart Hires the Mind (opens the original)
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This one started with a book. Reading David Robson’s The Intelligence Trap — a study of how smart people end up believing foolish things — I kept seeing educated minds use their full horsepower to rationalize attachments they had already formed. Robson was not writing about romance. He was describing why people attend the systems of Western Christianity, and why pastors and churches curate them. Nobody reasons his way into love. The attachment arrives first, uninvited, and then the mind goes to
There Were No Jews at Nicea (opens the original)
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There were no Jews at the Council of Nicea. The men who walked with Yeshua were Jews. The men who ratified the empire’s Christianity were not. That absence is not a footnote to church history — it is the story. This episode walks the sequence in order: * 135 CE — Hadrian bans Jews from Jerusalem after the Bar Kokhba revolt. The city is rebuilt as Aelia Capitolina, and the unbroken line of fifteen Jerusalem bishops “of the circumcision,” running back to Ya’akov (James), ends. The next bishop is a
The Grave Was a Mikvah (opens the original)
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Ask what happened in the three days between the cross and the empty tomb and you get one of two answers: a holy pause, or a raid on hell. The Hebrew was built to say a third thing. In this episode I read the burial itself, from the third sentence God speaks in Genesis to the stone rolled away, and make the case that the grave was a mikvah. An immersion. You go down a servant and come up a King, down with a heart of stone and up with a heart of flesh. The water Yeshua rose through is the same wat
Communion: What It Really Is, and Why I Refrain (opens the original)
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I get invited to church often, and every time we do communion, I refrain. On purpose. This episode is why. Look hard at what we did with that cup. Yeshua put the new covenant in His own blood into the hands of His friends, and we turned it into a sacrament, administered on a schedule, from the front of a room, by a professional. But a covenant that is sealed cannot be re-sealed. There is nothing left to administer. The cup was never meant to found a priesthood. If anything, it dissolves the need
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