Why are there all round numbers in the book of Numbers ? They fiddled with the numbers by the look of it. King Saul only killed a 1000 but God loved David more because he killed 10,000. What,s this ,,Thoult Shalt Not Kill ,, all about ?
In the Middle Ages, people in Europe relied on rye as a staple food. However, this is one of the main grains that ergot can contaminate. After cold or wet winters or damp springs, the fungus could grow on rye from the previous harvest. By summer, the bread could be toxic. Ergot poisoning happens when a person or animal consumes the Claviceps purpurea fungus and its byproducts. This fungus grows on grains such as rye and wheat, producing toxic alkaloids that are similar, but not identical to LSD. As C. purpurea grows, it replaces individual kernels of grain with dark, hard “ergots.” These ergots can mix into healthy grains during harvest, contaminating any products a person makes with the grain, such as bread or animal feed. It is more likely, in my opinion, that John ate ergot-containing bread rather than 'shrooms, but who knows? Not I.
I don't think the apostle John wrote Revelations. It was another John. John of Patmos. But being imprisoned in a Roman jail isn't the nicest place on Earth. Maybe some of his visitors were slipping him some "medication" to help him cope with his imprisonment. Especially at his old age & having to bear the constant screams & moaning of the other prisoners.
@@JamesHill-lj2dy Thanks for the info on ergot fungus ,LSD is my favourite, I last tried it in 2021 aged 60 and 1st tried it in 1979 aged 18 ,so much better than alchohol. I use to be a drunk Jehovah Witness now I,m a sober Atheist and my Jehovah Witness wife is very impressed with my transformation. My last drink 8th Dec 2022 my last Canibis 6th Aug 2022 .I now have less anxiety and depression, drug free aged 63.
Let's say there have been 10,000 human religions. Christians reject 9,999 of them; we have that in common. Atheists simply go one more than that. Don't be afraid to take the last step!
Like the Bible story about Evil Queen Jezebel who was thrown out of a window ,I had to throw Jehovah God out of my imagination. I got sick to death of him looking over my shoulder every time I wanted to play with myself .No privacy.
God loved the world so much he forgave Adam and Eve, he just smacked their bottoms, no need for 6000 years of human suffering, no need to torture your son as a human sacrifice no need to punish your great ,great granddaughters with birth pains and no childhood cancers just very,very sore bottoms.
The story of Adam, Eve and the fall of man was an essential part of the creation story. God creates a perfect world, but it is obvious it isn't perfect so that needs an explanation, hence Eve and the forbidden fruit. Therefore, God could not have forgiven man, it would spoil the creation story. There is little difference from the Greek myth of Pandora and the gift of a box she must not open. The stories also put the blame on women, a way of justifying their expected subservience.
There is a talking donkey in Skreck but it,s not real. The talking donkey in The Bible book of Numbers ch 22 is a true story ,just like the talking snake in Genesis because God told me it,s true.
A friend of mine, back in 1968, studied for and received the God and Country award in his Boy Scout troop here in Pennsylvania . The result ? He became an atheist 🤣 Nice singing, Justin Stay well and hello to your wife 👍
Gday John ,I was in boy Scott's in 1973 -1974 aged 12 and 13 .I,d like to say hello to my wife from you John but she doesn't want me to mention her in my videos, if she knew she,d get me to delete the video , the jws talk about me to her ,,We miss Justin, Justin was such a vealous brother, they talk about me in the past tense ,like I,m dead ,that's the robot version of me ,I,m no longer available in that model.
Nothing to lose by not believing in "him" except my selfrespect, my integrity, my decency and my own values by following sort of God deciding if I'm "saved" or if I'm gonna spend the rest of my life burning in Hell because I don't want to believe this narcissist psychopath exists. In other terms, I have one life so I'll do what I want to make it rich, meaninful and fullfilled.
You’re ironically proving right now why Hell exists and why some people go there. This is exactly the mentality of non-believers, they hate a God that supposedly does not exist(illogical). They also simply and continuously and willfully reject the idea that God is capable of being good and wanting to bless His creation, not damn it Hell is a jail locked from the inside my friend. “There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth” Simply take a brief moment to reflect and stop gnashing your teeth at this “phony” God and listen to Him. EDIT: not a JW by the way. Sorry if that cult hurt you or anyone else.
@@1337wafflezz I keep hearing this notion that atheists secretly believe in God but hate him. No, we simply don't believe he exists. And - related but separate - we are glad he does not exist because as fictional characters go, he's pretty unpleasant.
Dude, I really don't care about your God, so imagine how useless your threats are. So keep weeping and gnashing your own teeth and "continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling".@@1337wafflezz
@@1337wafflezz How can atheists hate God if we don't believe God exists? Your God created Hell as a threat to people who chooses not to love or obey Him. I will never worship a God that will send people to Hell. If the Xtian God exists, fuck that god.
I'm also an atheist. If there would have been a creator of our reality, this would be the conscious designer of cholera. It's a bit silly to expect such a being to give a damn about your afterlife. They get their ideas from a book of which they admit that it takes some interpretation, it's mostly a metaphor, but if the stories in it are up for interpretation, that means it's not a source of objective morality any more. For the rest that youtube by Ricky Gervais on religion is indeed amazing, you wouldn't expect him to have so much wisdom, but there you go.
If the Bible said ,,Thoult shalt not dig up fossil fuels ,coal ,oil or gas .If Thoult Shalt disobey Me ,thoult shalt become extinct ,, I,d take the Bible a little bit more seriously and stop being a practicing Atheist.
@mrm8850 I have been fooled before ,about everlasting life which is just wishful thinking .All the evidence points to no life after death ,a painful truth that people refuse to accept. ❤
@mrm8850 I agree Atheism is sad ,so many Atheists would love to live forever and love life ,but religious people still cry at funerals ,they should be happy their loved one is waiting for them in heaven or soon to be resurrected onto a paradise Earth. I would love there to be a loving God who will reunite us with our dearly departed but Iike most Atheists I,m not convinced it,s true. Like most Atheists and Christians, I'm still very agnostic about it ,I just try to be a good person and whatever happens at death is what happens at death regardless of what we believe in .
@@justinporter458 Grief is a natural and deeply emotional response to loss, and crying is a healthy expression of that grief. It's not a sign of weakness but rather a sign of emotional strength.When it's all said and done, the Lord declares that He will wipe away every tear. A better day is indeed coming, and He is working to bring an end to all pain and suffering. As we place our trust in Him, we can know that a new Kingdom awaits… one that makes every moment until then worthwhile! Rev.21 Verses 1 to 4.
I love the lyrics to ,,For the Good Times ,, it matches how I feel about losing my family and friends by Watchtower,s inhumane shunning policy, I'm going to listen to Don McClain sing it now ,for the 1st time ,I never knew he originally sang it. Thanks for the compliment.
You aren’t a fool! Someone is trying to fool us! I think that if Satan exists, he really did a great job writing a book with so many contradictions and prone to interpretation that because of 66 books, there are so many Christian’s religions and all sat they have the truth 🤦🏽♀️ I respect eachothers opinion and each one has to seek their own path! By the way, thanks for the song- saids a lot about what life is all About! And as always: DOWN WITH THE TOWERRR
Gday Migdalia , God and the Devil are gambling buddies ,,God says,, Go on Satan ,I bet you can't fool Adam and Eve to eat my forbidden fruit ,, ,,I bet ,I can ,,....Satan says with a Devilish grin .
@@justinporter458. 😂😂😂 grin So true! Long time ago, I saw this movie: I don’t remember the title, anyway there are these gods looking down and playing around with people! I think the god that I read in the Bible is doing exactly that- looking and seeing the worst things happening: children being molested, crimes, abuse, etc and here we still here waiting for it to stop! And I always remember that scene and after waking up from Watchtower indoctrination I’m in a gray area or borderline to atheism sometimes have questions: 1- in the garden: Satan didn’t say a lie- they didn’t die that day (for them a day must’ve been 24 hrs) it’s not fair that that it was Gods days!) anyway almost a 1000 years living miserably it was best (my opinion) 2- in the garden: there were 2 trees: the one of the knowledge good and bad (which they ate from) and the tree of life! So they were eventually going to die anyway because they didn’t eat from the tree of life. 3- god set them to failure by tempting them with the fruits - why test these innocent, mortal people? Doesn’t make sense (atleast to me it doesn’t) 4- if Satan lived in the heavens before mankind (according to the Bible) and HE was the problem- zap the guy and leave the pair alone! In the meantime, for all these years (more than 6000 according to biblical years) he and the demons continue alive doing what they want?? (Doesn’t make sense to me) And in the meantime we all die - rarely reach 100 years of age? 5- And what fault do I have that they were tempted by God and by Satan - I wasn’t there? Bahhh my explanation: our bodies are made to live certain time and when the biological clock stops- it’s game over! Zap! Afterlife: is uncertain : heaven, in earth, in another dimension and to top it off as per the Bible if we are resurrected I will loose my identity because the people that were part of my life will be erased from my memory: my parents, uncles, siblings, friends, kids, grandkids! Who will I be?? A yes Robot? Have a nice day! Greetings from Puerto Rico! ☀️ 😊
true, if science would work the same way as religion, we'd still have debates on what shape should be used for a wheel, somehow science figures things out and build on the progress that was made... religion, the existence of a soul, the afterlife, creationism, this never yielded any useful progress... reason to assume that it's not relevant for life on earth... would be a bit weird to admit that this god exists outside of reality, and we have no way of knowing what he wants, but we'll live anyway according to some rules that some tribe elders wrote down thousands of years ago, slave owners, gay bashers and wife beaters... that would sacrifice children and lifestock as a means to appease their wargod...
@@josepheridu3322 universities? as in 'schools', teaching philosophy? not even by circular reasoning they managed in these places of study to confirm the existence of a soul, an afterlife... Darwin was about to be a priest, did he invent creationism?
Some Bible Scholars think that the Romans invented Christianity to pacify the Jews and unite the 1st Century Roman Empire, see the documentary called,, Caesar,s Messiah ,,
@@justinporter458 The explanation I like is that Christianity was an adaptation of the Greco-Roman mystery cults that were popular at the time they were centred around a dying and resurrecting pagan deity (who would have a 'last super' with wine representing the gods blood his followers would drink) and whoever understood the true meaning behind the story would have eternal life after death. The Jews didn't believe in the Roman or Greek gods so they used the figure of the Jewish Messiah and merged him with the Jewish God so the Jews could join in the fun. They just happened to hit a very rich vein with that combination.
One day claymans wife, rib woman was conned by the talking snake and convinced to eat fruit from the magic tree. As a consequence god had to create a 1/3 mini me version of himself to be sacrificed to himself in order to find a loophole in the rule that he created himself, why is that considered unreasonable and hard to believe?
G#D is One ... the Life of all the Universe... No beginning, no ending, total Experience.... Eternity has many descriptions and even more misconceptions .😊🎉
She doesn't write books or care about us ,or aware we exist, but we can get to know Mother Nature with the microscope and telescope, she,s absolutely awe inspiring.
Thank you for sharing your reasoning for why you don't believe in God. It came across as thoughtful and respectful. I especially enjoyed your rendition of Perry Como 's song, sung from the heart. I'm glad you have encountered Christians who are kind to you. Perhaps, one time, you may find a group of Christians who would be okay with hearing that you are an atheist. That could lead to fruitful dialog, I would think. My brother once told me that you will find God if you search for Him with all your heart. That resonated with me. I have found Him to be faithful when I am faithless, and forgiving and restorative when I slip and fall. Turning to Him was my best ever decision. Thank you again for your thoughtful post.
If people come out as Atheist,s they will be ostracised by their religious friends, it,s tribalism, deep down they know death,s lights out and don't get excited about their friends going to heaven but grieve like any Atheist does.
Keep on reading the Scriptures and you will salvation ! The universe has definitely have a creator and if He can create such a Majestic, amazing world He can do anything. The question remains what do you believe ? How did the creation started. Many members leaving the Organization becomes atheists. Very sad !
All these ‘atheists’ who love quoting the Bible to prove their points as a valid reference. What a joke 🤣🤣🤣 Keep spreading the Word!! God works in mysterious ways 🙏🙏🙏
"God moves in mysterious ways". Possibly the main piece of religious bullshit that made me an atheist back in my early teens. Those who claim they know the will of their supposed God, but trot that out when asked to explain one of his claimed actions.
JWs are a cult, not Christian, that isn't an excuse to dump Christianity. True Christians wouldn't ask you to do that. If you actually read your bible and trusted in Jesus you would have realised the JW's were teaching you false things.
I don't believe in jesus or the Muslim religion. Despite what you say i dont think that you meet the Jewish definition of atheist. As you believe in "the universe" and in "mother nature" when the Jewish bible is translated into English we see words like "god" "lord" and "jahovah" but the better translation of it would be "almighty/ highest power" "my master" and an acronym for "he (not a man but a entity) who was he who is and he who shall remain" A higher power that exists is the Jewish god
@@justinporter458 the why bad things happens to good people question is the book of Job and although it's from the Jewish bible job is not a jew keep asking questions and searching never stop
Judaism, Islam and Christianity all follow the same Abrahamic God. This God is identified as Yahweh in Hebrew and Allah in Arabic. You're trying to build a word salad of confusion. 🙄 Judaism has exactly the same God as Christianity and Islam.
I believe in God in both light of the scriptures and science Romans 1:20 KJV for the invisible things of him are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his eternal power and Godhead 1 John 5:7 for there are three that bear record in heaven the father the word and the holy Ghost and these three are one So looking at majority of creation i see multiple triune things that are three in one Universe= time space matter Space = height length width Matter= energy motion phenomenon Earth = land sea air Water form's = frozen solid or vapor mist or liquid Fire consists of = heat oxygen fuel Three most common lights in nature = sun moon and stars Family = man woman and child People dominant hands = left handed or right handed or ambidextrous Three ways of answering = yes no or maybe Three things the Bible says a person is = Spirit soul and body Three places a person can be according to the the Bible= alive or heaven or hell
🥺🥺🥺... 🤔.............. Being GOD, GOD, how to judge HIS morals or standards??!!! After all, who is GOD, the creature or the CREATOR??!! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄...........................🙄
God is living in the imaginations of people. We weren't created but are highly evolved human apes ,I,m happy my video has got you to seriously consider your beliefs .❤❤
@@justinporter458 Sorry to disappoint you, sir... but videos about evolution and atheism mean nothing to me or waste my time. All it took was a second or two... 😉.... So, continue at peace with your "faith" in monkeys 🙈🙉🙊... because mine (I assure you ) has evolved enough for yours to constitute even the slightest threat! In any case, this God who you prefer to deny or reject, knows your heart (something that is impossible for me), so.. all I can say more is : May God bless you! 🙏🙂💚
name calling is mostly used when someone doesnt have any good arguments and dont have a sturdy foundation for the belief they hold, that they want you to hold as well. this is commonly used by theists. often when theists are asked why they belief. they rarely have rational reasons to. thats because most only belief because they are indoctrinated to belief. not because they where convinced of the truth of it. its also why thats rarely the reason why they leave. most common ways people leave their religion, is for moral reasons. because the religion holds immoral beliefs they dont agree with.
If you have a pet, that's what God is, you're not always there and you let it live according to its own desires, but it needs to eat and feel comfortable for you to be considered it's true protector, it doesn't always know how and it wouldn't understand if you tried to explain it, were children of God, if that doesn't make sense, think of it in terms of a broken family, you never knew your Father and Mother above and you don't want to, so they allow it to be.
I believe the sun is real because I can see the sun. If a god is real there is no reason for it to hide especially if it wants to have a relationship with me.
I think there are plenty of reasons to hide: 1. Imagine you're writing a novel. You're basically a god of that world - you can make characters do anything, write any laws, no matter how absurd and nonsensical. But very few novels include the author in them. It could be the same situation with god. 2. A god could be testing his creations for something. Maybe the process of creation is not instant, but iterative, and we're one of the iterations. If he's testing the emergence of critical thinking, he needs to hide. His supposed words about relationship could be a test to see whether you can discern the lies or not. 3. A god could create countless universes, in which different things happen. In some, people are aware of him, and in some, they are not. We could simply be in the latter type. These are just some of the possible reasons. As I've said, there are plenty more. Overall, the point is, you cannot use the logic of the natural world to reason about something that lies outside of it.
@peezieforestem5078 Peezie it,s true what you say ,I can't disprove the existence of God if he lives in another dimension ,but I definitely don't believe in the Abrahamic God Yahweh or as we liked to call him Jehovah.
I remember when I first realized I was an atheist. I was so excited to tell people I knew because I thought "if they just heard these obvious issues with religion, they'll be atheists too!" ...I was wrong. Unfortunately you will rarely ever change anyone's mind. They tend to be dug in DEEP
I try to avoid conversations about religion whenever I can. A few years ago, at the end of an outdoor party, we were sitting around and this guy asked me what I believed.....I told him to move on but he kept on insisting. After I told him I'm an Atheist he just about lost his mind. I said I didn't want to tell you buddy. But truth is, you cannot even prove that Jesus Christ existed. Don't get me wrong, I think the words of Christ are instructive for us all, I just wished more "Christians' followed those words.
I have a theory. God is the source of energy that keeps everything going. Energy is never created nor destroyed. The bible is a book about humans trying to find out what and who god is. In the old testament, it’s the old testament of what god is. The arch of the Covenant was the vessel of where god rescided in. The new testament the vessel was a Man. The newer testament is that we recognize it is us and that this source of energy rescides in everything and powers everything in and around us.
Because there is no evidence what so ever to convince me. If you believe in God, I've got a condo I'd like to sell you for $100,000 but you can't see the property first, you can inspect it in any way, you just have to take my word for it, give me your money and no refunds. If you wouldn't buy my Condo on those conditions why believe in a God on those same conditions?
It's not just a condo. You can't inspect anything. You can't prove other people are real. Yet (I hope) you believe they exist. People don't believe things because they are true - they have no way to verify if anything is true - people believe things because of convenience.
We know Adam ,Eve and Noah,s flood never happened ,if they were true, that means God is a murderous psychopath ,and yes I have read the Bible many times and have pondered over these stories. ❤
Ohhhh - people call you a fool. Oh dear. Yesm I remember that verse in the Bible. You must have felt God's spirit, though, when you were doing talks and preaching when a jw?
This might work as a quip, but it fails as a philosophical argument - because your atheism does not exist because of "the same reason" that a theist doesn't believes in the tooth fairy. If we're talking about Christians, it's not for "the same reason" we don't believe in the Koran. You should try interacting with St. Thomas Aquinas, if you aim to respond to Christian apologists and not just your pensioner friends. Additionally, work on some syllogisms for your position, rather than just assuming your worldview makes sense.
@@justinporter458 That's an overgeneralization (on death) and a stereotype (the opium bit). You can do better and get into ontological and epistemological arguments against God and the Christian worldview.
Thomas Aquinas trotted out the same claims that Christian apologists have been trotting out ever since. His supposed evidence has been well and truly debunked, time after time. He has nothing worthwhile to offer.
@@justinporter458 that is the problem people have been so lied to even you, millions of people that have been lied to that much no longer believe. i would be wasting time with such people because their that blind. The world is totally Flat. You have been told the big bang theory lie as will as many other truth,
It truly is, @@justinporter458 I wish I had seen it when it ran here where I live. But sadly, it has not come back since it left some time ago. One of my daughters turned me on to it so I listened to the soundtrack and LOVED it! Let's just say, they aren't being pro-Mormon by any stretch of the imagination! As a lifelong non-believer, it gets my endorsement! LOL. It's available on some streaming platforms. I use Amazon Music and can listen to it there. Even though I have never subscribed to any faith, there are some things that I have appreciated nonetheless. Being a musician and a filmmaker, there are some spiritual songs that I find to be very beautiful and even some movies (rare, though they may be) that I find entertaining, if for nothing else, the production value. I enjoyed watching your video and hearing your take on all this stuff. You have a new subscriber, my friend. Good job!
as a programmer, i found the book of numbers disapointing...
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Why are there all round numbers in the book of Numbers ? They fiddled with the numbers by the look of it. King Saul only killed a 1000 but God loved David more because he killed 10,000. What,s this ,,Thoult Shalt Not Kill ,, all about ?
@@justinporter458 lets say thou shall not kill except... =]
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The apostle John got hungry and found some funny little brown mushrooms and then wrote the book of Revelation
In the Middle Ages, people in Europe relied on rye as a staple food. However, this is one of the main grains that ergot can contaminate. After cold or wet winters or damp springs, the fungus could grow on rye from the previous harvest. By summer, the bread could be toxic. Ergot poisoning happens when a person or animal consumes the Claviceps purpurea fungus and its byproducts. This fungus grows on grains such as rye and wheat, producing toxic alkaloids that are similar, but not identical to LSD.
As C. purpurea grows, it replaces individual kernels of grain with dark, hard “ergots.” These ergots can mix into healthy grains during harvest, contaminating any products a person makes with the grain, such as bread or animal feed.
It is more likely, in my opinion, that John ate ergot-containing bread rather than 'shrooms, but who knows? Not I.
I don't think the apostle John wrote Revelations. It was another John. John of Patmos. But being imprisoned in a Roman jail isn't the nicest place on Earth. Maybe some of his visitors were slipping him some "medication" to help him cope with his imprisonment. Especially at his old age & having to bear the constant screams & moaning of the other prisoners.
@@dxer22000 No moans or screams from the grateful dead ,the dead are dead quite about death
@@JamesHill-lj2dyI 1st tried LSD in 1979 aged 18 ,Last tried it in 2021 aged 60 loved it still.
@@JamesHill-lj2dy Thanks for the info on ergot fungus ,LSD is my favourite, I last tried it in 2021 aged 60 and 1st tried it in 1979 aged 18 ,so much better than alchohol. I use to be a drunk Jehovah Witness now I,m a sober Atheist and my Jehovah Witness wife is very impressed with my transformation. My last drink 8th Dec 2022 my last Canibis 6th Aug 2022 .I now have less anxiety and depression, drug free aged 63.
Let's say there have been 10,000 human religions. Christians reject 9,999 of them; we have that in common. Atheists simply go one more than that. Don't be afraid to take the last step!
Like the Bible story about Evil Queen Jezebel who was thrown out of a window ,I had to throw Jehovah God out of my imagination. I got sick to death of him looking over my shoulder every time I wanted to play with myself .No privacy.
God loved the world so much he forgave Adam and Eve, he just smacked their bottoms, no need for 6000 years of human suffering, no need to torture your son as a human sacrifice no need to punish your great ,great granddaughters with birth pains and no childhood cancers just very,very sore bottoms.
The story of Adam, Eve and the fall of man was an essential part of the creation story. God creates a perfect world, but it is obvious it isn't perfect so that needs an explanation, hence Eve and the forbidden fruit. Therefore, God could not have forgiven man, it would spoil the creation story.
There is little difference from the Greek myth of Pandora and the gift of a box she must not open.
The stories also put the blame on women, a way of justifying their expected subservience.
Jimmy Buffet was right. There’s always a woman to blame.
Isnt there a talking donkey in the mivie Shrek?! 😂
There is a talking donkey in Skreck but it,s not real. The talking donkey in The Bible book of Numbers ch 22 is a true story ,just like the talking snake in Genesis because God told me it,s true.
@@justinporter458 Fine. Now prove that "Donkey" is real.
A friend of mine, back in 1968, studied for and received the God and Country award in his Boy Scout troop here in Pennsylvania . The result ? He became an atheist 🤣 Nice singing, Justin Stay well and hello to your wife 👍
Gday John ,I was in boy Scott's in 1973 -1974 aged 12 and 13 .I,d like to say hello to my wife from you John but she doesn't want me to mention her in my videos, if she knew she,d get me to delete the video , the jws talk about me to her ,,We miss Justin, Justin was such a vealous brother, they talk about me in the past tense ,like I,m dead ,that's the robot version of me ,I,m no longer available in that model.
i get it , sadly their loss@@justinporter458
@@justinporter458 man jw messed you up
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 Before I was messed up on drugs ,now I,m messed up on God ,Living the Messed Life ever.
@@justinporter458 nice. i drink beer a bit too much. I bet when I'm your age I'll be just like you lol.
Nothing to lose by not believing in "him" except my selfrespect, my integrity, my decency and my own values by following sort of God deciding if I'm "saved" or if I'm gonna spend the rest of my life burning in Hell because I don't want to believe this narcissist psychopath exists.
In other terms, I have one life so I'll do what I want to make it rich, meaninful and fullfilled.
You’re ironically proving right now why Hell exists and why some people go there.
This is exactly the mentality of non-believers, they hate a God that supposedly does not exist(illogical). They also simply and continuously and willfully reject the idea that God is capable of being good and wanting to bless His creation, not damn it
Hell is a jail locked from the inside my friend.
“There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth”
Simply take a brief moment to reflect and stop gnashing your teeth at this “phony” God and listen to Him.
EDIT: not a JW by the way. Sorry if that cult hurt you or anyone else.
@@1337wafflezz I keep hearing this notion that atheists secretly believe in God but hate him.
No, we simply don't believe he exists. And - related but separate - we are glad he does not exist because as fictional characters go, he's pretty unpleasant.
Dude, I really don't care about your God, so imagine how useless your threats are.
So keep weeping and gnashing your own teeth and "continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling".@@1337wafflezz
@@1337wafflezz How can atheists hate God if we don't believe God exists? Your God created Hell as a threat to people who chooses not to love or obey Him. I will never worship a God that will send people to Hell. If the Xtian God exists, fuck that god.
@@1337wafflezz and how do you know all that?
I'm also an atheist. If there would have been a creator of our reality, this would be the conscious designer of cholera. It's a bit silly to expect such a being to give a damn about your afterlife. They get their ideas from a book of which they admit that it takes some interpretation, it's mostly a metaphor, but if the stories in it are up for interpretation, that means it's not a source of objective morality any more.
For the rest that youtube by Ricky Gervais on religion is indeed amazing, you wouldn't expect him to have so much wisdom, but there you go.
If the Bible said ,,Thoult shalt not dig up fossil fuels ,coal ,oil or gas .If Thoult Shalt disobey Me ,thoult shalt become extinct ,, I,d take the Bible a little bit more seriously and stop being a practicing Atheist.
Fools believe in talking snakes 🐍
would that make you one Justin?
@mrm8850 I have been fooled before ,about everlasting life which is just wishful thinking .All the evidence points to no life after death ,a painful truth that people refuse to accept. ❤
@@justinporter458 sad way to view Life.
@mrm8850 I agree Atheism is sad ,so many Atheists would love to live forever and love life ,but religious people still cry at funerals ,they should be happy their loved one is waiting for them in heaven or soon to be resurrected onto a paradise Earth. I would love there to be a loving God who will reunite us with our dearly departed but Iike most Atheists I,m not convinced it,s true. Like most Atheists and Christians, I'm still very agnostic about it ,I just try to be a good person and whatever happens at death is what happens at death regardless of what we believe in .
@@justinporter458 Grief is a natural and deeply emotional response to loss, and crying is a healthy expression of that grief. It's not a sign of weakness but rather a sign of emotional strength.When it's all said and done, the Lord declares that He will wipe away every tear. A better day is indeed coming, and He is working to bring an end to all pain and suffering. As we place our trust in Him, we can know that a new Kingdom awaits… one that makes every moment until then worthwhile! Rev.21 Verses 1 to 4.
Love that song. Don McLean wrote it and it's on his first album, "Tapestry." Perry Como did a nice job of it and so did you!
I love the lyrics to ,,For the Good Times ,, it matches how I feel about losing my family and friends by Watchtower,s inhumane shunning policy, I'm going to listen to Don McClain sing it now ,for the 1st time ,I never knew he originally sang it. Thanks for the compliment.
Jews didnt believe in heaven or hell till the romans came along and shared plato's teachings. Even kept the terms tartarus and hades.
The Romans with the help of Josephus the Jewish historian invented Christianity to pacify the Jews .
You aren’t a fool! Someone is trying to fool us!
I think that if Satan exists, he really did a great job writing a book with so many contradictions and prone to interpretation that because of 66 books, there are so many Christian’s religions and all sat they have the truth
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I respect eachothers opinion and each one has to seek their own path!
By the way, thanks for the song- saids a lot about what life is all
About!
And as always:
DOWN WITH THE TOWERRR
Gday Migdalia , God and the Devil are gambling buddies ,,God says,, Go on Satan ,I bet you can't fool Adam and Eve to eat my forbidden fruit ,, ,,I bet ,I can ,,....Satan says with a Devilish grin .
@@justinporter458. 😂😂😂 grin
So true!
Long time ago, I saw this movie: I don’t remember the title, anyway there are these gods looking down and playing around with people! I think the god that I read in the Bible is doing exactly that- looking and seeing the worst things happening: children being molested, crimes, abuse, etc and here we still here waiting for it to stop!
And I always remember that scene and after waking up from Watchtower indoctrination I’m in a gray area or borderline to atheism sometimes have questions:
1- in the garden: Satan didn’t say a lie- they didn’t die that day (for them a day must’ve been 24 hrs) it’s not fair that that it was Gods days!) anyway almost a 1000 years living miserably it was best (my opinion)
2- in the garden: there were 2 trees: the one of the knowledge good and bad (which they ate from) and the tree of life! So they were eventually going to die anyway because they didn’t eat from the tree of life.
3- god set them to failure by tempting them with the fruits
- why test these innocent, mortal people? Doesn’t make sense (atleast to me it doesn’t)
4- if Satan lived in the heavens before mankind (according to the Bible) and HE was the problem- zap the guy and leave the pair alone! In the meantime, for all these years (more than 6000 according to biblical years) he and the demons continue alive doing what they want?? (Doesn’t make sense to me)
And in the meantime we all die - rarely reach 100 years of age?
5- And what fault do I have that they were tempted by God and by Satan - I wasn’t there?
Bahhh my explanation: our bodies are made to live certain time and when the biological clock stops- it’s game over! Zap! Afterlife: is uncertain : heaven, in earth, in another dimension and to top it off as per the Bible if we are resurrected I will loose my identity because the people that were part of my life will be erased from my memory: my parents, uncles, siblings, friends, kids, grandkids! Who will I be?? A yes Robot?
Have a nice day!
Greetings from Puerto Rico!
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We are all philosophical and nobody knows all the answers we can only speculate.
Theists are only looking for answers. They don't want questions. That's sad!
@@carlpaquin8065May the Pickle Jarz of Indoctrination be Broken
Human delusion really puzzles me. It's so tiresome to listen to religious people.
The delusion of human rights is worse... you are required to "accept" people as equal.
true, if science would work the same way as religion, we'd still have debates on what shape should be used for a wheel, somehow science figures things out and build on the progress that was made... religion, the existence of a soul, the afterlife, creationism, this never yielded any useful progress... reason to assume that it's not relevant for life on earth... would be a bit weird to admit that this god exists outside of reality, and we have no way of knowing what he wants, but we'll live anyway according to some rules that some tribe elders wrote down thousands of years ago, slave owners, gay bashers and wife beaters... that would sacrifice children and lifestock as a means to appease their wargod...
@@marcdc6809 "religion, the existence of a soul, the afterlife, creationism, this never yielded any useful progress.."
Universities
@@josepheridu3322 universities? as in 'schools', teaching philosophy? not even by circular reasoning they managed in these places of study to confirm the existence of a soul, an afterlife... Darwin was about to be a priest, did he invent creationism?
I,m glad my video made an impression on you ,and common sense comes your way ❤
These were virtually all points Roman/Greek philosophers were using to argue against Christianity at the time.
Some Bible Scholars think that the Romans invented Christianity to pacify the Jews and unite the 1st Century Roman Empire, see the documentary called,, Caesar,s Messiah ,,
@@justinporter458 The explanation I like is that Christianity was an adaptation of the Greco-Roman mystery cults that were popular at the time they were centred around a dying and resurrecting pagan deity (who would have a 'last super' with wine representing the gods blood his followers would drink) and whoever understood the true meaning behind the story would have eternal life after death. The Jews didn't believe in the Roman or Greek gods so they used the figure of the Jewish Messiah and merged him with the Jewish God so the Jews could join in the fun. They just happened to hit a very rich vein with that combination.
One day claymans wife, rib woman was conned by the talking snake and convinced to eat fruit from the magic tree. As a consequence god had to create a 1/3 mini me version of himself to be sacrificed to himself in order to find a loophole in the rule that he created himself, why is that considered unreasonable and hard to believe?
G#D is One ...
the Life of all the Universe...
No beginning, no ending, total Experience.... Eternity has many descriptions and even more misconceptions .😊🎉
If God was never created, Maybe matter has always existed and never was created.
My last drink 8th Dec 2022 and last Cannibis 6th Aug 2022 ,I,m now enjoying life as a 63 yo sober Atheist .
Well done,genuinely, your comment has encouraged me greatly, in my own recovery,
Your comment that nature may be God is food for thought.
She doesn't write books or care about us ,or aware we exist, but we can get to know Mother Nature with the microscope and telescope, she,s absolutely awe inspiring.
Thank you for sharing your reasoning for why you don't believe in God. It came across as thoughtful and respectful. I especially enjoyed your rendition of Perry Como 's song, sung from the heart. I'm glad you have encountered Christians who are kind to you. Perhaps, one time, you may find a group of Christians who would be okay with hearing that you are an atheist. That could lead to fruitful dialog, I would think.
My brother once told me that you will find God if you search for Him with all your heart. That resonated with me.
I have found Him to be faithful when I am faithless, and forgiving and restorative when I slip and fall. Turning to Him was my best ever decision.
Thank you again for your thoughtful post.
not all religions can be right. but they can all be wrong
God is alive and well and living in the imaginations of believers .
If people come out as Atheist,s they will be ostracised by their religious friends, it,s tribalism, deep down they know death,s lights out and don't get excited about their friends going to heaven but grieve like any Atheist does.
Reason and common sense in a nutshell. Well done sir.
Thanks Al for the info ,Is that why Satan the Devil is drawn as a Goat ? because God and Christians put all the blame on him .God,s scapegoat .
Keep spreading the word brother.
I with you on everything recept Leprechauns!
LEPRECHAUNS ARE REAL DUDE!!😂😂
Keep on reading the Scriptures and you will salvation !
The universe has definitely have a creator and if He can create such a Majestic, amazing world He can do anything.
The question remains what do you believe ?
How did the creation started.
Many members leaving the Organization becomes atheists.
Very sad !
Just evolved primates coping with their own mortality and grief, as long as we are afraid of death there we always be religion.
All these ‘atheists’ who love quoting the Bible to prove their points as a valid reference. What a joke 🤣🤣🤣 Keep spreading the Word!! God works in mysterious ways 🙏🙏🙏
"God works in mysterious ways"
This is what people say when things do not go to plan but you want to cling to your belief.
What is a joke to expect to believe in God without any justification to believe in God. Your God is a joke, if it's real.
"God moves in mysterious ways". Possibly the main piece of religious bullshit that made me an atheist back in my early teens.
Those who claim they know the will of their supposed God, but trot that out when asked to explain one of his claimed actions.
@@paulbeardsley4095 You need to open your eyes. Atheists walk with blinders on. Materialistic human beings, sadly.
@@justbeingme003 You must be fun at parties.
God, nameless and generic but always male.
The angels who sinned in Gen ch 6 ,what type of plumbing did they have in their pants ?
A Bloody, Born-again, Evangelical and Practicing Atheist I am at that and I know snakes don't have vocal cords even if the Bible tells me so.
The religious duck said indignantly ,,I,m not related to birds ,I,m a duck and was created in God,s image ,I am not a bird !!
I agree flying Dutch guy ,Atheism isn't a religion, just like abstinence isn't a sexual position. 😂
I left JWs because I was told not to talk to a dissfellowshipped sister at her own mother's funeral.
JWs are a cult, not Christian, that isn't an excuse to dump Christianity. True Christians wouldn't ask you to do that. If you actually read your bible and trusted in Jesus you would have realised the JW's were teaching you false things.
lovely voice and song.. i never ever believed in the bible or any religion.. and happy with that.
i believe in motorbikes and motorbike racing.....
I don't believe in jesus or the Muslim religion. Despite what you say i dont think that you meet the Jewish definition of atheist.
As you believe in "the universe" and in "mother nature" when the Jewish bible is translated into English we see words like "god" "lord" and "jahovah" but the better translation of it would be "almighty/ highest power" "my master" and an acronym for "he (not a man but a entity) who was he who is and he who shall remain"
A higher power that exists is the Jewish god
I,m also a agnostic ,,Maybe God has gone on vacation and has left the universe with he,s phone of the hook ,,Please do not disturb !! ,,
@@justinporter458 the why bad things happens to good people question is the book of Job and although it's from the Jewish bible job is not a jew keep asking questions and searching never stop
Job is my 2nd favourite book in the Bible, Ecclesiastes is my favourite a masterpiece of literature.
Judaism, Islam and Christianity all follow the same Abrahamic God. This God is identified as Yahweh in Hebrew and Allah in Arabic.
You're trying to build a word salad of confusion. 🙄 Judaism has exactly the same God as Christianity and Islam.
@@justinporter458 funny you should mention those two books as they are the only two books of the Jewish bible ment for a non Jewish audience.
I believe in God in both light of the scriptures and science
Romans 1:20 KJV for the invisible things of him are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his eternal power and Godhead
1 John 5:7 for there are three that bear record in heaven the father the word and the holy Ghost and these three are one
So looking at majority of creation i see multiple triune things that are three in one
Universe= time space matter
Space = height length width
Matter= energy motion phenomenon
Earth = land sea air
Water form's = frozen solid or vapor mist or liquid
Fire consists of = heat oxygen fuel
Three most common lights in nature
= sun moon and stars
Family = man woman and child
People dominant hands = left handed or right handed or ambidextrous
Three ways of answering = yes no or maybe
Three things the Bible says a person is
= Spirit soul and body
Three places a person can be according to the the Bible= alive or heaven or hell
So you believe in a tripod God 3 legs ,3 eyes ,3 heads and 3 arms ,well good for you ,a third eye on the back of the head would be handy 😂
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Being GOD, GOD, how to judge HIS morals or standards??!!!
After all, who is GOD, the creature or the CREATOR??!!
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God is living in the imaginations of people. We weren't created but are highly evolved human apes ,I,m happy my video has got you to seriously consider your beliefs .❤❤
@@justinporter458 Sorry to disappoint you, sir... but videos about evolution and atheism mean nothing to me or waste my time. All it took was a second or two... 😉....
So, continue at peace with your "faith" in monkeys 🙈🙉🙊... because mine (I assure you ) has evolved enough for yours to constitute even the slightest threat! In any case, this God who you prefer to deny or reject, knows your heart (something that is impossible for me), so.. all I can say more is : May God bless you! 🙏🙂💚
Easy on the talking donkeys. I saw Shrek. 😀
Not just a atheist a bloody atheist
JOHN 14 : 6
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name calling is mostly used when someone doesnt have any good arguments and dont have a sturdy foundation for the belief they hold, that they want you to hold as well. this is commonly used by theists. often when theists are asked why they belief. they rarely have rational reasons to. thats because most only belief because they are indoctrinated to belief. not because they where convinced of the truth of it. its also why thats rarely the reason why they leave. most common ways people leave their religion, is for moral reasons. because the religion holds immoral beliefs they dont agree with.
If you have a pet, that's what God is, you're not always there and you let it live according to its own desires, but it needs to eat and feel comfortable for you to be considered it's true protector, it doesn't always know how and it wouldn't understand if you tried to explain it, were children of God, if that doesn't make sense, think of it in terms of a broken family, you never knew your Father and Mother above and you don't want to, so they allow it to be.
I suppose people just don’t want to think death is the end..like what was all this (life) for! People hope for here after.
Motivations for religion are various and complex. You're making the atheist equivalent of "I guess atheists just want to sin".
I believe the sun is real because I can see the sun.
If a god is real there is no reason for it to hide especially if it wants to have a relationship with me.
God is alive and well and living in the imaginations of people.
I think there are plenty of reasons to hide:
1. Imagine you're writing a novel. You're basically a god of that world - you can make characters do anything, write any laws, no matter how absurd and nonsensical. But very few novels include the author in them. It could be the same situation with god.
2. A god could be testing his creations for something. Maybe the process of creation is not instant, but iterative, and we're one of the iterations. If he's testing the emergence of critical thinking, he needs to hide. His supposed words about relationship could be a test to see whether you can discern the lies or not.
3. A god could create countless universes, in which different things happen. In some, people are aware of him, and in some, they are not. We could simply be in the latter type.
These are just some of the possible reasons. As I've said, there are plenty more. Overall, the point is, you cannot use the logic of the natural world to reason about something that lies outside of it.
@peezieforestem5078 Peezie it,s true what you say ,I can't disprove the existence of God if he lives in another dimension ,but I definitely don't believe in the Abrahamic God Yahweh or as we liked to call him Jehovah.
I remember when I first realized I was an atheist. I was so excited to tell people I knew because I thought "if they just heard these obvious issues with religion, they'll be atheists too!"
...I was wrong. Unfortunately you will rarely ever change anyone's mind. They tend to be dug in DEEP
I try to avoid conversations about religion whenever I can. A few years ago, at the end of an outdoor party, we were sitting around and this guy asked me what I believed.....I told him to move on but he kept on insisting. After I told him I'm an Atheist he just about lost his mind. I said I didn't want to tell you buddy. But truth is, you cannot even prove that Jesus Christ existed. Don't get me wrong, I think the words of Christ are instructive for us all, I just wished more "Christians' followed those words.
Did he tell you, you were going to hell without Jesus?
I have a theory. God is the source of energy that keeps everything going. Energy is never created nor destroyed. The bible is a book about humans trying to find out what and who god is. In the old testament, it’s the old testament of what god is. The arch of the Covenant was the vessel of where god rescided in. The new testament the vessel was a Man. The newer testament is that we recognize it is us and that this source of energy rescides in everything and powers everything in and around us.
Because there is no evidence what so ever to convince me. If you believe in God, I've got a condo I'd like to sell you for $100,000 but you can't see the property first, you can inspect it in any way, you just have to take my word for it, give me your money and no refunds. If you wouldn't buy my Condo on those conditions why believe in a God on those same conditions?
It's not just a condo. You can't inspect anything. You can't prove other people are real. Yet (I hope) you believe they exist. People don't believe things because they are true - they have no way to verify if anything is true - people believe things because of convenience.
We know Adam ,Eve and Noah,s flood never happened ,if they were true, that means God is a murderous psychopath ,and yes I have read the Bible many times and have pondered over these stories. ❤
Perry Como.... 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Perry Como born the same year as Elvis,s mother Gladys 1912 to 1958 ,Perry Como 1912 to 2001
Ohhhh - people call you a fool. Oh dear. Yesm I remember that verse in the Bible. You must have felt God's spirit, though, when you were doing talks and preaching when a jw?
This might work as a quip, but it fails as a philosophical argument - because your atheism does not exist because of "the same reason" that a theist doesn't believes in the tooth fairy. If we're talking about Christians, it's not for "the same reason" we don't believe in the Koran. You should try interacting with St. Thomas Aquinas, if you aim to respond to Christian apologists and not just your pensioner friends. Additionally, work on some syllogisms for your position, rather than just assuming your worldview makes sense.
Religion is the opium of the people and as long as people are afraid of death there will always be religion.
@@justinporter458 That's an overgeneralization (on death) and a stereotype (the opium bit). You can do better and get into ontological and epistemological arguments against God and the Christian worldview.
atheism is not a world vieuw. it doesnt habe to make sense. as long as theism does not make sense, atheism makes more sense
Thomas Aquinas trotted out the same claims that Christian apologists have been trotting out ever since. His supposed evidence has been well and truly debunked, time after time.
He has nothing worthwhile to offer.
Only in my imagination.
hey Justin with the lies taught told at birth and false programming do you think the world is Flat?
No
@@justinporter458 that is the problem people have been so lied to even you, millions of people that have been lied to that much no longer believe. i would be wasting time with such people because their that blind. The world is totally Flat. You have been told the big bang theory lie as will as many other truth,
Relax. Just rest.
I hear ya, brother!
The Book of Mormon was an EXCELLENT musical, though. Just sayin.
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I've heard from friends the Mormon musical was a classic.
It truly is, @@justinporter458
I wish I had seen it when it ran here where I live. But sadly, it has not come back since it left some time ago. One of my daughters turned me on to it so I listened to the soundtrack and LOVED it! Let's just say, they aren't being pro-Mormon by any stretch of the imagination!
As a lifelong non-believer, it gets my endorsement! LOL. It's available on some streaming platforms. I use Amazon Music and can listen to it there.
Even though I have never subscribed to any faith, there are some things that I have appreciated nonetheless. Being a musician and a filmmaker, there are some spiritual songs that I find to be very beautiful and even some movies (rare, though they may be) that I find entertaining, if for nothing else, the production value.
I enjoyed watching your video and hearing your take on all this stuff. You have a new subscriber, my friend. Good job!
Wise people only believe in things that are true through evidence.Fools believe anything.😅😅😅said 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
No God , no Satan or Santa ! GROW UP !!!
Satan is an anagram of santa. Santa = Father Christmas or Father Christ, a replacement Jesus Christ, ie Father Christmas = satan.
@@leehighland5435 is a Christard contortionist.