Lots of talk about cleansing and impurity in the fourth gospel. Lots of talk about cleansing and impurity in, well, in purity culture. Not a good look. Not a good legacy.

Disgust toward humans, it turns out, disgusts humans. Or it should.

Many of us have found ourselves closer to Jesus through being delivered from disgust and purity paradigms toward one another. Yet there all the purity talk is in the Bible. What if we've been translating and imagining those passages backwards? This week, Brandon and Brandon take a look.

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Translation (Google Doc): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-GDoc

Translation (PDF): https://bit.ly/FIT-John-PDF

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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