They have to stop telling innocent young children from an early age that they are sinners. Pointing the finger at them and telling them, ''you're bad '' when they have hardly even lived yet. The ones that are telling them these things are the the ones who are in fact themselves the sinners, How dare they make sweeping statements across the board that we are all sinners Those filling children's minds with seeds of fear are down right evil and only God can forgive, not a priest in some wee box! Mind control from an early age to inflict fear and anxiety is just shameful. Oh dear Jesus, the things that are done in your name. I could weep.
Thank you for being here, John. I love my Christian friends, but my goodness they need to wake up. Keep up the great work. We are enjoying your perspectives.
Growing up Presbyterian in a Roman Catholic community, I often was the target of scorn/ridicule from classmates, teachers, acquaintances, etc. My family ate meat on Friday (except on Good Friday). That left many scars. Over the decades things have slowly changed for the better.
Life is so much more beautiful without having fear indoctrination fed to us in the name of religion. I have always held the belief that all “religions” keep God in a box. Like you John, I always thought that God is so much bigger than being confined to man’s definition of what we think God is supposed to be. 🙏🏽
@therecoveringcatholic yes many Christians believe he are bad but we are created in gods image when I looked, look within and you shall find what you need 💙
It was during my 30s that I came out of the Catholic church, thanks to the book ACIM. It’s sad that every day young children are being brain washed but they will get the opportunity to see the truth once they become adults.
Interesting that the word "sin" in Spainish means "without" in English. Using that meaning spiritually could say "you are without God" or better yet "you are without the realizaton that you are one with God".
GREAT POST JOHN!!! As I was listening to what you were talking about I had many “AHA!” and connected-dots, even from one word eg. “Saviour” in a way Jeshua was indeed a saviour, not so much from atonement from his death, but from FEAR!!! All he preached of was love and self-empowerment and the eradication of fear. Like he said in the book of John ( good book btw, my favourite 😜 ) he said something along the lines of “I didn’t come to free people from bondage, but liberation of their own sin”. To worry stems from fear and considered ‘a sin’ so he came to teach us how to be liberated from FEAR!!! It’s true that modern day Christianity is a far cry and vastly different to what Jeshua taught, it’s a sad state of affairs, which is why Orthodoxy is so different and even frowned-upon by other sects since it’s based on love rather than fear I’m glad you touched on the concept of the modern interpretation of “hell” being derived from “Dante’s Inferno” which was no doubt a result of the Western Orthodox Church aka Roman Catholic Church was invaded and subjugated in increments by the Francs like Charlemagne, Charles Martel etc which incorporated their fear-based dogma in what you see in the Catholic Church today and the Protestants since. It’s really disheartening… the OG understanding of hell, which the Orthodox maintain to this day, is that God loves all equally, prepare yourself for that love by being loving. If you are filled with everything steamed from fear like ego, hatred, revenge, resentment etc you’ll be ‘less acclimated’ to the love God is which could be “torment” for some… Please keep it you and keep spreading love since the world desperately needs it Appreciate you, brother 💚💚💚 PS that Popeye impression had me on the floor lol
I feel Yeshua demonstrated to us exactly how to transcend suffering, how to transcend the cross; if we focus all our life on suffering, we missed his most precious teaching, which was to transcend to G-d, to transcend suffering, to overcome and be in victory. G-d realization is always the victory. Isn’t continual suffering h#ll anyway.
I can honestly say I love you John. I try to live your teaching the best I can. What is this? A second RUclips channel? ❤❤ Awesome 👌 More of you to listen and learn from. Keep spreading love ❤ John 😊😊😊
The old theater one where Krama convinces a guy his not crazy and Jerry had to wear crazy lost and found glasses 😜 hahaha Hahaha Hahaha Hahaha Hahaha 😆 🤣 😜
My Facebook friends are posting how a mother was arrested and sentenced to 41 months in jail for preaching the gospel in front of an abortion clinic. I researched the court case and the woman was harassing and terrorizing the clients and staff and eventually crushing a women's hand in the door and refusing to remove herself from the door. That's not persecution...
I was told about the no meat on Friday was because the fishing industry was hurting financially and they went to the church asked them for help, and in turn, they would give the church a percentage of their profit. I'm not sure if that true but it sounds about right.
“From the first century, the day of the crucifixion has been traditionally observed as a day of abstaining from flesh meat (“black fast”) to honor Christ who sacrificed his flesh on a Friday” (Klein, P., Catholic Source Book, 93).
John is right, Wednesday Fast is also observed in commemoration of the day Judas sold out Jeshua to the Pharisees, seeing us in the Orthodox Church still practice No meat and no milk, and no meat and milk plus fish and oil on strict days like ‘Good Friday’ even though there was nothing good about it
Apparently, I heard incorrectly, or my source was incorrect. Thank you for the correction. I am a recovering Catholic and am open to the truth. Again, thank you for the clarification.
John love your channel , on this video "Christian Suffering Syndrome" u mentioned Hitler was baptised which is true but didn't mention what age he was which i looked up and noticed he was baptised by his parents as a child i.e he was less than a year old, would like to know you thoughts on baptism in general , myself been both baptised as a child but became agnostic but returned to love and faith due to a spiritual encounter and baptised again of my own free will.which for me is more important.
Jesus spoke about Hell more than anyone else in the Bible. The most vivid description was in Luke 16. Which was written about a thousand years before the Middle ages, even if it was several hundred years after Jesus. Forgive me for not having watched all of your old videos yet, but that seems to be a large discrepancy. Granted, traditional Catholic doctrine is far removed from even Orthodox doctrine, let alone the early church, but hell is clearly written about in the gospels.
The Gospel of Luke, Matthew, Mark, John, and the rest were all written, hundreds of years after the crucifixion. None of it was written by the original people. There was oral tradition that was handed down, but it's been edited, manipulated, altered, and used to support an agenda for thousands of years in the ancient text Sheol was where the dead went. Your concept of hell that you were defending did not exist when Jeshua walked the Earth.
@@therecoveringcatholic I am not accusing you of anything I am asking a simple question. It seems that you are being pretty judgmental and being hateful. But that is just my personal opinion and I do have a right to that opinion. I just found this post pretty offensive and more of a judgmental accusation. It seems a little off base coming from you. It just caught me off guard that’s all.
There is no hate on the teachings of this video, in fact it’s comforting and supportive - that’s my personal opinion based on what’s in my heart and mind. You can choose to see hate or love and you are correct that’s your personal opinion. Therefore you can answer your own honest questions. 💚
They have to stop telling innocent young children from an early age that they are sinners. Pointing the finger at them and telling them, ''you're bad '' when they have hardly even lived yet. The ones that are telling them these things are the the ones who are in fact themselves the sinners, How dare they make sweeping statements across the board that we are all sinners Those filling children's minds with seeds of fear are down right evil and only God can forgive, not a priest in some wee box! Mind control from an early age to inflict fear and anxiety is just shameful. Oh dear Jesus, the things that are done in your name. I could weep.
Honestly speaking Christianity is more about dominance.But Jesus alone is absolutely amazing and gives freedom. I love you Jesus.
He was a man not a deity
Thank you for being here, John. I love my Christian friends, but my goodness they need to wake up. Keep up the great work. We are enjoying your perspectives.
Beautifully presented. Thanks John 😊
Growing up Presbyterian in a Roman Catholic community, I often was the target of scorn/ridicule from classmates, teachers, acquaintances, etc. My family ate meat on Friday (except on Good Friday). That left many scars. Over the decades things have slowly changed for the better.
Sad. But your beautiful words. You are so pure John I tear up 🥲🥰
Life is so much more beautiful without having fear indoctrination fed to us in the name of religion. I have always held the belief that all “religions” keep God in a box. Like you John, I always thought that God is so much bigger than being confined to man’s definition of what we think God is supposed to be. 🙏🏽
"I am fearfully and wonderfully made" Psalms
precisely why I left the religion.
@therecoveringcatholic yes many Christians believe he are bad but we are created in gods image when I looked, look within and you shall find what you need 💙
Yesssssssssssss🥰 Thank you so much. Everything on Target❤️🤲🏾🧘🏾♀️🥰
It was during my 30s that I came out of the Catholic church, thanks to the book ACIM. It’s sad that every day young children are being brain washed but they will get the opportunity to see the truth once they become adults.
"A kink in the slinky" love it.. that one's going in the book! 🤣🤣
Interesting that the word "sin" in Spainish means "without" in English. Using that meaning spiritually could say "you are without God" or better yet "you are without the realizaton that you are one with God".
This comment just BLEW MY MIND 🤯🤯🤯
That’s exactly right.
@@StrengthGuildsin Spanish it’s without. Sin overall means missing the mark, the mark being God.
GREAT POST JOHN!!!
As I was listening to what you were talking about I had many “AHA!” and connected-dots, even from one word eg. “Saviour” in a way Jeshua was indeed a saviour, not so much from atonement from his death, but from FEAR!!! All he preached of was love and self-empowerment and the eradication of fear. Like he said in the book of John ( good book btw, my favourite 😜 ) he said something along the lines of “I didn’t come to free people from bondage, but liberation of their own sin”. To worry stems from fear and considered ‘a sin’ so he came to teach us how to be liberated from FEAR!!!
It’s true that modern day Christianity is a far cry and vastly different to what Jeshua taught, it’s a sad state of affairs, which is why Orthodoxy is so different and even frowned-upon by other sects since it’s based on love rather than fear
I’m glad you touched on the concept of the modern interpretation of “hell” being derived from “Dante’s Inferno” which was no doubt a result of the Western Orthodox Church aka Roman Catholic Church was invaded and subjugated in increments by the Francs like Charlemagne, Charles Martel etc which incorporated their fear-based dogma in what you see in the Catholic Church today and the Protestants since. It’s really disheartening… the OG understanding of hell, which the Orthodox maintain to this day, is that God loves all equally, prepare yourself for that love by being loving. If you are filled with everything steamed from fear like ego, hatred, revenge, resentment etc you’ll be ‘less acclimated’ to the love God is which could be “torment” for some…
Please keep it you and keep spreading love since the world desperately needs it
Appreciate you, brother
💚💚💚
PS that Popeye impression had me on the floor lol
I feel Yeshua demonstrated to us exactly how to transcend suffering, how to transcend the cross; if we focus all our life on suffering, we missed his most precious teaching, which was to transcend to G-d, to transcend suffering, to overcome and be in victory. G-d realization is always the victory. Isn’t continual suffering h#ll anyway.
Many Christian’s don’t see the influence of mans desire for power through all the teachings. It’s like they think GOD directly wrote everything.
I can honestly say I love you John.
I try to live your teaching the best I can.
What is this? A second RUclips channel? ❤❤
Awesome 👌
More of you to listen and learn from.
Keep spreading love ❤ John 😊😊😊
❤
ONLY true happiness occurs when you have found a Seinfeld episode you have only seen twice.
LOL
Amen. What is your favorite episode?
The old theater one where Krama convinces a guy his not crazy and Jerry had to wear crazy lost and found glasses 😜 hahaha Hahaha Hahaha Hahaha Hahaha 😆 🤣 😜
@@cathybutcher4826 Mine is the Marine Biologist
according to a reincarnation researcher, Michael Richards (Kramer) was Buster Keaton in a past life. @@bjornemblem2570
My Facebook friends are posting how a mother was arrested and sentenced to 41 months in jail for preaching the gospel in front of an abortion clinic. I researched the court case and the woman was harassing and terrorizing the clients and staff and eventually crushing a women's hand in the door and refusing to remove herself from the door. That's not persecution...
I was told about the no meat on Friday was because the fishing industry was hurting financially and they went to the church asked them for help, and in turn, they would give the church a percentage of their profit. I'm not sure if that true but it sounds about right.
“From the first century, the day of the crucifixion has been traditionally observed as a day of abstaining from flesh meat (“black fast”) to honor Christ who sacrificed his flesh on a Friday” (Klein, P., Catholic Source Book, 93).
John is right, Wednesday Fast is also observed in commemoration of the day Judas sold out Jeshua to the Pharisees, seeing us in the Orthodox Church still practice
No meat and no milk, and no meat and milk plus fish and oil on strict days like ‘Good Friday’ even though there was nothing good about it
Apparently, I heard incorrectly, or my source was incorrect. Thank you for the correction. I am a recovering Catholic and am open to the truth. Again, thank you for the clarification.
I agree with this. But then, why was Christ"s suffering necessary, since we didn't need to be saved?
ruclips.net/video/CN2VD9QIT3c/видео.htmlsi=RX1DaiVeU3ZXXwK1
John love your channel , on this video "Christian Suffering Syndrome" u mentioned Hitler was baptised which is true but didn't mention what age he was which i looked up and noticed he was baptised by his parents as a child i.e he was less than a year old, would like to know you thoughts on baptism in general , myself been both baptised as a child but became agnostic but returned to love and faith due to a spiritual encounter and baptised again of my own free will.which for me is more important.
ruclips.net/video/0a9JOonb2AU/видео.htmlsi=FWZ7bjNakTOQfrfy
Ahhh "Christians" the most fear filled and judgemental people I've met. Glad Yeshua wasn't one! 🤣💜
When you replace the 'god' of the bible with 'insert imperialistic monarch here,' it makes a lot more sense.
interesting
What about those who prey on little children? Do they suffer here or is it all just in their mind?
ruclips.net/video/6KGlnASnjp0/видео.htmlsi=cvucfZtyQcAk6rm9
Jesus would have been here never forgiven this pastor's and priests.
Jesus spoke about Hell more than anyone else in the Bible. The most vivid description was in Luke 16. Which was written about a thousand years before the Middle ages, even if it was several hundred years after Jesus. Forgive me for not having watched all of your old videos yet, but that seems to be a large discrepancy. Granted, traditional Catholic doctrine is far removed from even Orthodox doctrine, let alone the early church, but hell is clearly written about in the gospels.
The Gospel of Luke, Matthew, Mark, John, and the rest were all written, hundreds of years after the crucifixion. None of it was written by the original people. There was oral tradition that was handed down, but it's been edited, manipulated, altered, and used to support an agenda for thousands of years in the ancient text Sheol was where the dead went. Your concept of hell that you were defending did not exist when Jeshua walked the Earth.
I thought you don’t teach hatred. Is this not teaching hatred towards Christianity because you had a bad experience? I am asking an honest question.
No your not you are accusing me of hatred where there is none
@@therecoveringcatholic I am not accusing you of anything I am asking a simple question. It seems that you are being pretty judgmental and being hateful. But that is just my personal opinion and I do have a right to that opinion. I just found this post pretty offensive and more of a judgmental accusation. It seems a little off base coming from you. It just caught me off guard that’s all.
"Seeming" is your assumption This video is responding to an article written by a Catholic Writer. @@crazyfaith77
There is no hate on the teachings of this video, in fact it’s comforting and supportive - that’s my personal opinion based on what’s in my heart and mind.
You can choose to see hate or love and you are correct that’s your personal opinion. Therefore you can answer your own honest questions. 💚
@@SofiNme365 I can’t answer his question. That is why I asked him.