When the Hebrew male slave goes free but his wife remains a slave, that shows the “sacred bond of marriage” is less important than the bond of slavery.
Indeed, and it's also a handy way to keep a slave a slave for life while maintaining a cover of plausible deniability. "I didn't make him stay after his period of indentured servitude expired. He chose to stay."
They really have no excuse for complaining about Bible verses being taken out of context when that's the very reason we have thousands of their denominations.
Hmmm ! 70,000 yrs of localized spirtual answers used to add some validation to their sense of cultural superiority. Resulting in the most powerful and dangerous words ever used by man... ....God said so.
@@thomasridley8675 Whose god said that? Where is that alleged god? How does that alleged god justify its cruelties to humanity? Why cancer in children?
@@larryparis925 Oh please ! My God said so is the foundation for every religious theology. It's not us making up arbitrary laws that just happen to validate their right to rule over you from birth to death..it's god. 🙄🙄 I mean you have too either be really gullible or suffering from a severe case of egomania to believe their god is real. But yes the question of an all powerful god allowing suffering is one they have trouble justifying.
Context was one of the last bricks of my deconversion process. I started actually paying attention to sermons and taking notes. The formula was the same for every sermon: the preacher would pick 3 random verses, weave together a story about how much god loves us and how much we fall short of deserving his love and then to give money in response. I would then spend some time afterwards actually reading the context of the verses used in the preacher's arguments realizing that this preacher who had some master's degree in bible study was wrong. When I brought it up to him then I was told I didn't understand that the story of The Gospel was complex and interwoven. It required many different facets to reveal the whole story and he was just focusing on one that day. My critique was never appreciated and after a few times he stopped talking to me; but they did continue cashing my checks. My only conclusion was that a preacher could get the Bible to say anything if you string together any 3 verses and just claim that because they were in the Bible it made whatever he was saying supposedly right. It wasn't long after that I didn't want anything to do with this god if how the preacher was using the supposedly "word of god" to get us to give our money to him.
@@Daviddaze Sad to see that's your experience with sermons. How many different preachers/sermons did you do this with? Just like any following in the world there are those who will definitely bring shame to it. And unfortunately we're seeing a lot of this with religion today, especially Christianity. This doesn't mean because a flawed person misrepresents it or exploits through it, that the core is wrong. That's like saying because their are people who use math to cheat, that I won't use or follow mathematics. 😮
@@micahwilliams5854As a thought experiment, how many preachers would he have to go through this with, with the same outcome, before you accept his conclusion about scripture being able to be made to say anything, is correct?
The fact that there has to even BE apologetics is embarrassing and should make anyone bail out. If it is a flawless book then it wouldn't require justification.
Yep, to me the most damning verse in the Bible is I Corinthians 14:33: “God is not the author of confusion.” Then he either didn’t inspire the Bible or doesn’t exist. Or, I suppose, he’s a lying trickster god like Loki. Take your pick.
Eh, they might say that their "perfect" god/religion/book is judged imperfectly by an imperfect society. A straight line looks warped when viewed through a warped lens. I don't have a good counter for this yet, but it seems like the kind of BS that people like them might pull.
@@zendikarisparkmage2938The obvious counter is "if you don't know what a straight line looks like, how can you claim God is one?" Would a good God create people who can't tell if he's good?
@goldenalt3166 They might say that a straight line is whatever (their interpretation of) God is, because everything (their) God does is morally right, using a deontological model of morality. I used to be Christian, and I remember being taught how lucky I was to be raised in the "true" church and had a "clear" perspective on how wrong everyone else's churches and perspectives were. Too many people are taught that they're right and that everyone else is wrong.
I was raised as a JW, and I was abused by my parents. I eventetally joined the Navy, and my parents rejected me. In 25 years, I've talked to them 8 times. The reason why I left the faith was a lot of the reasons you listed because I read the bible cover to cover and I couldn't justify the context.
I never got baptized because when I was a teenager I was an avid reader and never really got the message that I wasn't supposed to be asking questions so I just asked questions until they didn't show up for bible studies with me anymore 😂😂😂. I had a huge afro and they would tell me I have to cut it and i told them no, they weren't happy at all.😊 Btw I'm sorry you had to got through that.🫶
If the Bible was written by a deity then it shouldn't need context. I should be able to pick any verse and read it plainly and get the correct meaning right away.
Only if this deity is benevolent. A teenagy sadistic deity may be fooling around with the ants in their garden. When things get too boring, just inspire some new interpretation or some novel revelation. Amusement guaranteed for generations.
Just came here to say I love the work you put into your videos. I have a friend who’s a “Christian” yet it feels like they just use that as a shield to say “gay bad” and it makes them more of an ex-friend to me. It’s people like you who make videos online that make me happy because it makes me feel less alone when I see so many Christians out there using their religion just to hate who I am or who others are with no real evidence to hate them. I know I shouldn’t take them so serious sometimes considering I’ve heard conspiracy theories from some of them but it gets to me sometimes. Your videos are very comforting when that happens. Love your work.
I'm so tired of American christians whining about nonbelievers critiquing their interpretations of the Bible. They say" if you don't believe in God, then why do you care how anyone chooses to interpret the Bible?" It literally affects my day to day life when lawmakers say things like "If you want to know my views on any issue and how I'm going to govern, look no farther than the Bible." If it was only the guy who runs the public cemetery or transfer station, it wouldn't be a big deal but when it comes out of the mouth of the 3rd most powerful elected official in the US it's a huge deal. Keep up the great work breaking it down and giving me another resource to fight the christian nationalist oligarchy, Brandon. ❤
If you want to mess with them ask them which Christians will dictate rules in this new Christian National Government they have brought about. Usually they can only say "Christians". When you point out that there are so many denominations, and that most say you have to follow their interpretation a little light creeps in. When you point out Catholics are the largest denomination in the U.S. and ask them if everyone will be converting a little more light creeps in. Etc. It can be wonderful.
Basically "it's the American government". The American government is run overwhelmingly by people who 100% believe this stuff, even though they also claim to believe in some degree of religious tolerance. Their idea of what a religion even means is based on Christianity. Ergo, it can be difficult for religions to get legal protection equal to Christianity in this country depending on how "alien" or unfamiliar their beliefs are to Christians.
When you get comments screaming “CONTEXT” just refer them to your entire YT catalog and tell them they can’t question you until they watch ALL your videos for “context”.
@@MindShift-Brandon In regards to context, direct believers to: *Context!!!!!!* by NonStampCollector. (A good video for believers who try and justify Biblical atrocities and immorality by saying "Out of context!)
You have helped me so much!! Escaping the prison of a "believer" has been a journey. I am finally living my life for today filled with true joy and happiness without the fear of no matter how hard I have tried, I would still be judged to eternal doom. Thank you and please keep exposing all of the conflicts in the bible.
@xtina2189 what if you end up in hell and you know your never getting out. Won't you be angry at these people who deceived you from believing and obeying the Bible?
Christians use verses out of context all the time. When I went to Bible stores I would see tons of pieces of art and paintings and graduation gifts with the verse Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.” It is not talking about us, it is talking about the nation of Israel. And the claim in the verse is not even true given the punishments inflicted on Israel by Yahweh in the Bible.
The entire Old Testament was directed towards the “original Israelites”. Then Jesus inspired The New Testament and the covenant between the original Israelites and God was Broken. People who believe in God can still be inspired by the words of God in the Old Testament. Romans 2:29 - But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
That verse is always in the bios of high school boys who play sports lmao. They think it literally applies to their game against McKinley Prep on Friday. I laugh but it makes me angry, ngl. Not even really at the kids but I hope that they at some point in their lives apply some critical thought to their religious beliefs. But at this God. How is it that he finds a way to guide all of these already very well off kids through relatively meaningless struggles like high school sporting events but has absolutely nothing to offer to children dying of malaria in Africa or being forced into bacha bazi in Afghanistan?
@@theredbonekingwow, this timeless and unchanging and perfect God who had one covenant with one group and then had to send himself to die to himself to undo that first contract he signed sounds pretty ephemeral, changing, and imperfect! If you had to start over and conceive of how a perfect God would interact with its children today (assuming it would at all), would this be your plan for how it would happen? Would it be anything close?
That's why i love your channel. You're after truth, not just drama. Makes it really easy when my religious relatives come after me, to know truths. Wish i could give more on patreon, but I am glad to support the cause.
@Mindshift Great video. TY for expressing your views. I have been trapped in my family for 20 years and been hated on for not being a "true Christian" for most my life because I refuse to believe their nonsense. What really frustrates me is i actually read the Bible whereas most of my family goes on Faith alone and some will even refuse to listen when I try to read their nonsense back to them.
One thing about having been forcefully brainwashed into that filth from birth, is that at some point you're gonna have to have an honest conversation with yourself about what you believe and why. It happened to me after I got my college diploma, I realized that what I was actually doing was trying to make the bible make sense, because I essentially had to, to salvage my own existence seeing that the whole thing was based on the bible. So I needed it to be true otherwise I'd be an adult with a worse understanding of reality than a damn infant. Revisiting the book without the constant threat of violence for non - participation, was a totally different experience. Not only was it so very evident how ridiculous it is, but how casually EVIL it is.
So that proves that you lost your faith because the Universities just teach communism. Actually I don't believe that, but I am hearing too much of that rhetoric lately.
Wow. Now THAT's what a REAL testimony is !! (none of this "I have to make you believe jezzus because "he" "solved my X problem. Any making YOU believe, this affirms MY 'faith' ". Ick.) Maybe one can use this excellent comment to create the term "salv-age-ation" of one's understanding of reality !! Virtual hugs through the internet !!!!
I've noticed that whenever the Bible says something that makes God look bad or is obviously scientifically or historically wrong, the Christian says that it's out of context or it can only be understood in the original Greek/Hebrew/Aramaic . But if it says something they like, then you can take it for what it says on the page in modern day English. For example "I can do all things through Christ who strengthen me". Christians take that to mean exactly what it says in English. I have never heard anyone say "That doesn't really mean what it says, you have to read it in the original Greek". But when it says something like "If a prophet be deceived, I the Lord have deceived that prophet". Now the Christian will say that it doesn't mean what it says on the page, but you have to know context or the original Hebrew blah blah blah.
Your framing of these verses shows the evil nature of them. These are my favorite; when you show the inconsistencies and the shocking reality of what many people excuse away and take as truth. Thanks for your excellent perspective and for laying this out in such a way that it's impossible for anyone to justify, no matter how hard they try.
15:56 my father did exactly that. Took me to the elders of the church for being rebellious. My rebellion? Undiagnosed Autism and Tourette syndrome. Should I feel blessed I wasn't killed?
@@dwightdhansen My daughter had a rare condition called PANDAS, it’s a brain infection which CAUSED her to be rebellious. Thank goodness the doctors knew how to help, and not stone her to death like the Bible says
THEY DIDN'T WANT SUCJHA THING IN THE NEWS PAPER. ALTHOUGH THE MEDIA IS PART OF THE GROUP THAT HIDES EVIL YWH FROM THE PUBLIC MAKE FOR GREAT SLAVES TO BUY THIS EVIL CRAP
The real context that matters when reading the Old Testament was that this was one warmongering tribe, during one period of world history, that was completely isolated from everything not going on in their very small part of the world, and that was trying its best to document its tribe’s history or at least its traditions. That truly is the only way to read the text sympathetically without misinterpreting other verses and trying to fit a square text into a circle theological framework.
I love this video! This is a perfect one to send to a person who is starting to question or begin deconstructing. So many great concise points that can easily be looked into further in your other videos. I love your content… keep it up!
send them Brandon video on 20 things that show EVIL YWH MORALS AREN'T OBJECTIVE KRIST BURKE HAS AGREAT ONE ON 25 AND CHRISTEN2, WHO WOKE ME HAS MANY VIDEOS TOO.
Yep, according to the bible: (1) God created everything, therefore (2) God created the angels, and not only simply created them, but created them with the capacity to rebel against God, therefore (3) God created evil. This was a big one for me.
@@justice8718 If God is perfect, then why would he/she create the angels with the obligation of rejecting or not, and in the case of man, obligating them with making the choice of accepting him or not? God made his mistakes, but puts the obligation of decisions on the angels and us??? That is MESSED UP! Looks like a gigantic SET UP to me.
@ What’s wrong with God wanting to make an order between the angels and mankind, and having them witness the corruption of evil that comes from breaking God’s will? Is it wrong for God to desire someone that will honor his will based on their own will? To desire his strength instead of stepping away from him?
@@Sealust50 It's worse than this - what programmer of any level of competence would intentionally set up his application in a way where he _knew_ it would break and not do what he wanted - and then turn around and get mad at the _application_ , rather than his own incompetence? All-wise, all-knowing God somehow doesn't even measure up to the standard of a half-decent human Android developer.
Sometimes when I point out that the Bible endorses chattel slavery in things like Leviticus 25:44-46 Christians will respond that thats out of context and from the Old Testament so it doesnt really matter (75% of the duration of the Bible btw) and then cite verses or chapters also from the Old Testament to contradict it like Deut 24 or Leviticus 19:18 that are ACTUALLY out of context and apply only to the Israelites, both when read properly and when you understand that God, when he wants something to be unambiguously universal, like his commands to murder entire cities without leaving anybody alive but the livestock, he does so. And then they just divert me back to “mysterious ways” and “something can’t come from nothing” and things like that
But slaveowners in the parts of the United States where slavery was legal, did not take the view modern apologists do. Go research what many of them said on the eve of the Civil War. They were very upfront about wanting to defend their "peculiar institution" and they did so using many of the same verses that modern apologists say are now out of context or only apply to indentured servitude. The founders of the Confederacy did not think that way. The ability to own a certain class of people they saw as a divinely ordained right and they felt so strongly about it that they seceded from the rest of the United States and were even willing to go to war over it. They would look at modern apologists and say, "What the fuck are you talking about? OF COURSE the Bible supports slavery, it says so here, here and here. YOU are the one taking it out of context."
For Lot offering his daughters, the best steelman I can think of is that rape was a property crime against the man who owned her. Lot was devaluing his own assets so he wouldn’t be able to sell them as wives and he’d be stuck supporting them forever, but Lot was so righteous about hospitality that he was willing to make that sacrifice.
That works, but only because the biblical context already thinks so lowly of women. Who cares about their suffering. Lot is willing to take that hit to his property. Lol i know you see this too. Just adding on that even when we can excuse one thing it usually just highlights another issue more clearly.
@@soyevquirsefron990 it also highlights what lame ass angels those two were to allow this. Where's their righteous outcry and involvement? They just went along with it to see how Lot would fare under stress? See if he'd make "the right decision"? Shows again how God unnecessarily lets people suffer for "obedience".
@@CatDaddyGuitar I was going make the same exact point! The angels were there, they could have said something to Lot about the wrongness of offering his two daughters to the mob, but, you know, context.... lol
I brought up the one about the lord intentionally hardening the pharaoh’s heart just to have an excuse to brag about slaughtering the babies and sure enough the Christian I was talking to said “You don’t understand the context” and then refused to elaborate on the context.
God hardening the Pharaoh’s heart is meant to imply that free will was a gift from God that empowers a man’s decisions. Also, Jesus is going to do it again and you cannot stop him because he is the lamb.
@@justice8718bruh Zeno from dragon ball super would rock the shit outta jesus I mean jesus walked on water Zeno destroyed 19 universes The lamb ain't doing shit to the omni-king,who is said to be able to destroy anything So the lamb is getting he's ass kicked,no-diff Hell next time Imma bring in Kratos 🙏
@@justice8718 time for the old "if god is omniscient - knowing the past, present and future infallibly - then free will cannot exist" discussion is it?
@justice8718 The Bible literally says that the pharaoh relented and chose to let the slaves go but God hardened his heart to make him change his mind. This is restated multiple times in the Bible, with God himself even stating that he would do just that to bring himself glory. In fact Paul dedicates a chapter of the New Testament to explaining that people do not chose God, but God chooses them, and then Paul uses the Pharaoh as an example of somebody that God created to be a “vessel for his wrath”. Then Paul goes on to say that some people will think that this is unfair, but Paul says that it is fair because God can do whatever he wants with the people that he creates. So the Bible is extremely clear that pharaoh’s actions were not his own free will. Anybody who says otherwise is using mental gymnastics to fix the narrative.
What "context" can be made for judges 19:1-30, where a man allowed his wife to assaulted by a gang of strangers and died as result, then he cuts her body into 12 piece? I get crickets
@@carolynmathieu6062 I can't even think of one movie (then again, I'm not a horror fan at all) in modernity that shows that heinous if a scene. Some of what's in the Bible is straight up f-ed up.
The book of Judges repeatedly emphasizes that "everyone did what was right in their own eyes" because "there was no king in Israel" You're trying to frame it as if this moral chaos was somehow justified.
But dont you find it interesting that God is bad in all these atheist channels, yet what where this humans doing that they are called evil and corrupted in the bible? Its funny cause mostly the entire old testament is people constantly doing great evils, yet this context is never brought up. Yes, the horror films are about how evil humans can be.
I know it's a serious subject, but your tone when you said "so what, you killed all the children?" was hilarious. Just really shows how absurd the whole thing is.
By what measure do you judge God? If there is no God, your judgment is baseless. Plus, if there is no God, you’re literally arguing against nothing, and therefore wasting your time. If you have no higher moral authority by which you base your own morality, your morality is literally nonexistent.
@KeeganStephen0914 By what measure is God not to be judged? Because he is more powerful than me? Because might makes right? Pretty pathetic. Nope, my judgement isn't baseless. This is a non sequitur. No, I'm not "arguing against nothing", I'm arguing against people like you who need a divine bully to know that things are wrong. Unless the divine bully does it or commands it, then its ok. That's just not true. We have observed several non human animals exhibiting basic morality. They do not base those actions in a higher moral authority.
@@iluvtacos1231 No one said that might makes right. I’m not sure where you draw that conclusion, but I hope it’s not an insecurity. I’m simply asking you to be intellectually honest. If you do not have a higher standard by which you judge behavior through a moral lens, the only other option is that you are viewing it through your own subjective, flawed lens. By this method anyone could be ‘right’ about anything, including Hitler, but it doesn’t matter by that point. The word ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ are meaningless at that point. Nothing really is either of those things. They just ‘are’. Yet you know by your own moral inclinations that this isn’t the case. Again, practice intellectual honesty with yourself.
@KeeganStephen0914 You appear to have deliberately misunderstood me. You asked "By what measure do you judge God?". To which I asked "by what measure is God not to be judged" and gave two options, might makes right being one of them. There may be others, but those were the 2 I thought of. How about you practice some intellectual honesty and answer my question: by what measure is God not to be judged? I'll be honest, the rest of your comment bores me. There are tons of ways human moral systems have evolved, and a quick Google search will show that your dichotomy of "my God = morality, no God = no morality" is patently false.
@ there were several points from my first post that you did not address. I’m not going to engage in games where you accuse me of the very same thing you’re guilty of. You still have not addressed my point. I’ll wait…
What's messed up is that they ask for context and when you give it to them, they still justify the horrible acts, such as those that advocate for genocide, because, "god said to do it".
When Christians scream context they're trying to convince themselves, as well as others that their God is still good, even though his actions in the Bible clearly says otherwise.
11:00 The sexist/misogynistic dehumanizing of women I bring up sometimes. I'll ask a guy if he values his wife as an equal, and if he says yes, I say then why are you able to value her as an equal and god can't? It's an obvious moral failure.
Different roles does not mean inequality. Two points 1) sin in the Bible does not mean God sanctioned it or approves of it. A lot of people assume that because the Bible has slavery in it, that means God approves it. That’s like saying that the writers of a school textbook featuring history about slavery approve of the slavery. 2) men arguably have it worse off than women do when it comes to the expectations placed upon us by God. Men are given more responsibility and are arguably held accountable to a larger degree.
Love this video! Your point about thought crimes equaling actions gets to the heart of all this stuff - that Christians don’t REALLY believe what the Bible actually says.
I never realized that about the commandment to honor your mother and father. I always knew it was so you may live a long life and recently learned that they could straight merc their kids if they didn’t listen but never made the connection that that was what it was talking about. Very interesting
CONTEXT = I'm uncomfortable with verses that make my God look like the monster he is. Therefore, I have to do mental gymnastics and reframe the text to my own liking so that my indoctrination stays intact and I can argue with atheists who see through the BS that I refuse to.
You can literally flip your own argument to say atheist cherry pick verses without their context to portray God as some immoral being, further more your arguing from the modern morality that Comes from shaped by Christianity..
@Samuel-uq9mg Atheists don't have to portray God as immoral. The way he is described in the Bible and the repulsive behavior of his followers is evidence enough.
@@Childfree334Agree-- but I would say, "repulsive behavior of MANY of his followers". I don't know how they do it, but some Christians actually find ways to use the scraps of the Bible to affirm love, kindness, and generosity to others. They are, in my mind, much better than their scripture or their religion, but since they claim Christianity helps them be decent and likeable and generous folks with open minds, I kind of don't want to argue with them.
Koalas are the reason I stopped believing in the flood. We're supposed to believe that the waters receded and the two koalas on the ark made their way to Australia? The two sloths hustled over to the Americas? No sir.
But science has proven that in Noah's day all the continents were one big land mass so that it was easy for all the animals to walk to the Ark, and, once the flood receded, to walk away. Then, the land mass cracked and the pieces separated from each other to form the present-day continents, all within a few months, before the animals had a chance to reproduce. So--bingo--we wind up with different species on different continents LOL !!!!!!!!!
@18471902 Science has not proven this. The Bible's chronology begins ~4000 years ago (doing the math of the earliest character's ages when they died, had kids, etc), and the Earth's continents have not been connected for tens of millions of years. Winter ice-bridges existed, but there are very few animals who would survive the polar weather where they're located.
I think it's an important time for our culture to establish strong boundaries regarding many of the ideas held by the men who wrote the Bible as being harmful and arbitrary. Not the will of a God. Good work!!
that's one of my big hang-ups with Christianity right now... the fact that they think their bible is what makes them good people. like someone in an abusive relationship telling everybody publicly that their partner is the best.
I've seen way more moral people out of non believers than I have with believers aka people wearing masks then taking them off as soon as sunday is over
They say it's what makes them not Murder, RAPE WHAT MONSTERS TO THINK THEY SHOVE THIS EVIL ON KIDS, OR ANYONE THE RULERS DID A HUGE MIND F ON THESE PEOPLE
Don’t ever feel apologetic about bringing these verses up again and again. Revision is important - I feel the need to keep these fresh in my memory, and now I have all of them in one place. As always, thank you for your work both in terms of research and commentary. Love listening to you, no matter how horrendous the topic that’s being discussed.
The Context that No theist can get past is the Context or premise that their god is claimed to be Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent. No actions of this god is excusable viewed in the aforementioned context.
One thing I don't see discussed about the Eden story is how god could have stopped all the suffering by just not allowing Adam and Eve to procreate. If the christian misreading of the story is right and A&E sinned and that caused sin & death to enter the world, then a loving god would have not allowed innocent descendants to suffer because of A&E's sin. Just tell them that they are now sterile, let them live out their lives, and then start over with a new earth. Allowing the huge evil & suffering to affect the innocent descendants was totally immoral and totally avoidable. (Don't try "free will" as an excuse -- all punishment violates free will, including the punishments in the story. And don't try the excuse that mankind gave the devil control over the world -- that was not a part of the story at all.)
It's even worse when you get down to the fact that if the story were true, Adam and Eve didn't even know what right and wrong were. They didn't get that knowledge until after eating the fruit. That's something that theists twist themselves into knots trying to explain.
Don't blame yourself-- those "rules" have also been deeply incorporated into secular society. For instance, Western European education was formed by the Church.
ME I DIDN'T READ ANY OF THE BOOK, OR GO TO THE EVIL CORP HOUSE OF EVIL YWH TOOK ME 1/2 HOUR VIDEO TO BAIL THIS EVIL CRAP, THAT'S JUST ON HOW EVIL YWH ISN'T INERRANT, THE EVIL IN THE BOOK JUST A EXTRA OH GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WIZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ WHAT EVIL
I was always taught as a child about the stoning of the disobedient child thing that it was some really specific thing that would never happen, the parents had to speak with the same voice, look the same, the child had to steal money from their parents and use it to buy and consume a certain large amount of meat and wine. But if that's the only verse in the actual Bible about it, maybe all the other stuff is just recontextualisation from the Talmud. Also, I was taught that the 'honour your parents so you may have a long life', along with 'you should scare away the mother bird before you take her eggs' was that those were the two commandments that you are specifically rewarded with a longer than usual life for, rather than you don't die young, your videos is the first place I've seen that interpretation and it's really interesting, and quite obvious connecting the dots I suppose, if you're not told all that other stuff as a child and just have the word of the Torah (or the Old Testament)
ATHEISM, CHRISTIANITY, and all RELIGIONS are WORTHLESS and USELESS because the loving, kind, and merciful GOD's favor and reward of ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4 is definitely NOT for Atheists, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions but ONLY for LOVING, KIND, RESPECTFUL, and SUBMISSIVE persons on earth who honor and obey Jesus Christ as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King in their obedience to what's written in Matthew 28: 18. Atheists, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions will never be glorified in their make-believe and fairy tale Heaven nor destroyed in their Armageddon and tortured for eternity in their invented and fictitious Hell but just turn into worthless and useless dusts on earth forever after their inescapable deaths while the teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are the guarantee that all the LOVING, KIND, RESPECTFUL, and SUBMISSIVE persons on earth who died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others will all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD" and fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings of GOD and his Christ for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his GOD and Father's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
@@FoursWithinHATEFUL, CRUEL, MERCILESS, and DECEITFUL persons will NOT LAST on EARTH FOREVER because their Satanic LIES and Unbiblical teachings about "hellfire", "Armageddon", "Trinity", "afterlife", "rapture", "immortality of the souls", and "reincarnation" will definitely bring them dishonor, disgrace, shame, and cause their own downfall and ETERNAL DEATHS while LOVING, KIND, RESPECTFUL, and SUBMISSIVE persons will LIVE and EXIST on EARTH FOREVER because their submissiveness to the authority of Jesus Christ in their obedience to what's written in Matthew 28: 18 will definitely be rewarded by the loving, kind, and merciful GOD with ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4 and the teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are the guarantee that all the LOVING, KIND, RESPECTFUL, and SUBMISSIVE persons on earth who died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others will all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD" and fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings of GOD and his Christ for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his GOD and Father's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
You are a veritable genius in your Mindshift work. Truly your mind is analytically superior to that of Yawheh and of the writers of the Bible, you have pegged them cold and dead in the water, you have disarmed their wizardry and their mysterious aura of invincibility. Your name deserves to stand in humble honor historically for having come up honestly and accurately against the illusion of truth that the Bible loves to stand itself on.
Not genius, but something better. A careful, thoughtful, inexorable march through the text to its implications. The rest of us might not be able the follow a genius, but Brandon charts a textual and logical path even the dumbest honest seek can understand. I don’t see apologists trying to debunk his videos, perhaps because they’re as solid and water right as a battleship.
After the Great flood there wouldn't have been any food left on the Earth for the animals and Noah's family to eat. And I always figured that if God is ALL Knowing and ALL Powerful then all he would have to do is to snap his fingers to make everything right instead of going through all this hog wash.
I was told as a child that as god can do anything he wants to, then he could supernaturally provide food from very little for everyone & everything to have enough. Like the loaves & fishes story. And it's gods supernatural 'trickery' that brought all the living beings to the ark in the first place. And distributed them everywhere afterwards. Also god sent supernatural levels of water (as the earth doesn't have enough to cover the top of mountains) then god supernaturally got rid of the excess water afterwards. Well, what can you say to that haha!! 😅 Science doesn't matter!
I wonder if any apologist will make a response video… I am SO relieved I no longer need to come up with a defense for why these horrific stories are from the God of Love
Thank you for this video Brandon! I'll be somewhere in the comments section with a fresh bag popcorn awaiting the apologetics that are sure to be coming for this! 🤣🍿
When people ask me if I would do better than God. I answer like this. "Right now, no. Because I don't have God's powers. But if I had the same powers as God. I could most definitely do better." I think anyone could. Unless it works like Populous and God runs out of power and has to wait for it to recharge. If so that would explain why he haven't seen God in a while.
Job 38 2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? 3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. 4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; 7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, 10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, 11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? 14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment. 15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken. 16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? 17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? 18 Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all. 19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof, 20 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof? 21 Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great? 22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, 23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war? 24 By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth? 25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; 26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; 27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? 28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? 29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? 30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. 31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? 32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? 33 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? 34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? 35 Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are? 36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart? 37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, 38 When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together? 39 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions, 40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait? 41 Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
Hey, atheist/agnostic here but I think the Lot story is a little more complex than it is usually presented, at least from my understanding. Lot isn't supposed to be seen as callous towards his daughters, but zealously following the laws of hospitality. Offering harm to his own family before allowing harm to a guest under his roof, lack of hospitality also being one of the primary sins ascribed to Sodom. Also, he doesn't just offer them up out of nowhere, the crowd of violent criminals is demanding he sacrifice his guests right outside his door. I don't think it's an argument for a god, but protecting guests at all costs isn't an inherently immoral, and I'm pretty sure the listener/reader was supposed to be shocked by how far Lot was willing to take hospitality customs.
You are right, but it doesn't change then that being hospitable to guests is considered so righteous as to be greater than offering up your daughters to be r*ped. Which is a wild moral code to live by for a person today, but not for a bronze age tribal person who viewed their children (daughters especially) as property.
True, but offering up your daughters to be 🍇 isn't the moral way to do it. And Lot was considered a righteous man, so it seems like Lot offering up his daughters wasn't an issue here.
Sir, I applaud your work and efforts! This world is in serious need of real and honest intellectual rigor. I personally observed a profound laziness among those who profess to “believe” the inerrant truth of the Bible. Often choosing to accept what they are told about the text, without bothering to read it themselves. Or if they do actually read it? There is a tendency for “believers” to cherry pick those verses which fit their assumptions while conveniently ignoring the rest. You have done a superb job of articulating many of the glaring contradictions which stain the credulity of the Christian idea of divinity. Bravo!
One of the things I love most about your videos is that you DO give context. You DO understand context. I very rarely hear anything you say that I see enough of a problem with that feel the need to comment, this is one of those times however. As a fellow atheist, one who grew up in church, whose brothers are both ministers with the SBC, and whose father was and is a music minister since before I was born (this all stated simply so people understand I'm not here to undercut anything. I'm actually sending this video to my family in the next couple minutes), I have to point out a problem I see with what you said when discussing 1 TIm 6:1-2. You said, "I don't think you can be devoted to the welfare of something you own as property." I appreciate that you, as I would and often do, say "think" because it shows once again you know you can be wrong! I have to point out though, that I own my cats. My cats are my property. I, and a vast number of other pet owners, am absolutely devoted to the welfare of something(s) I own as property. While I felt the need to point out that it can be done, I agree with the heart of your statement. I don't think someone owning another sentient human being can VIEW them as a sentient human being and still care about their welfare. That can only happen (while staying internally consistent) if someone viewed their slaves as inherently 'less than' or 'sub-human.' So I'd suggest clarifying that, or slightly rewording that point in the future. As you and I both know, people will latch on to any tiny inconsistency or mistake in our logic and words to claim our entire point is invalid. To help that not happen, I'm offering up this (definitely too long) comment in the hopes that situation can be avoided. I love your videos. Keep em coming!
@@MindShift-Brandon Well, slaves were essentially farm and household and sexual machinery, so there is a self-serving part of being "devoted to their welfare" the way you would oil and maintain and fuel machinery. Maybe just something like "care about a person you consider to be an subhuman thing you can own"?
For such a perfect God, supposedly, he sure needs a lot of explaining, defense, and (re)framing to match the current Zeitgeist of any era. Strange that the perfect Truth can't stand on its own. It's almost like it's Man-made or something...
right. That always gets me and I stop myself from saying to them: you show doubt in your god by feeling he needs defending rather than let him do it himself. But apart from being rude on my part, it would likely elicit some trite peice of nonsense such as god wants us to prove our devotion by standing up for him, blah-dee-blah.
You made an incredibly compelling and accurate argument that I am unable to refute in any way BUT you made a very small technical error so I will dismiss everything else you've said and only focus on the 4 words I could find an issue with.
@@ZeusAssassin if someone types "their" instead of "they're" then you get to dismiss their entire argument! It's a brilliant strategy, truly a master gambit 😂
Yeah that "screw the Egyptian slaves too" was a thing I noticed as a child and it made the story less "inspiring"... Even as a believer it seems more like, "do what God says because he can do scary things" is the true moral.
24:59: You misspoke, saying "Job had to kill these children, the livestock," instead of Satan . . . . For a brief moment I thought I had misunderstood previous tellings of this story, then realized it was just misspoken. You might want to add a captioned correction. It's a small thing, but it gave even me pause briefly. Thanks for all the videos. They are among the very best I have ever seen.
No, what does God knowledge have to do with your freewill??? Sin is a function of freewill, not God having knowledge of all things that are true. You can know something will happen based on patterns such as Pharaoh's heart, but ultimately its up to the individual to choose not God.
@sammur1977 Ammon Hillman says that Jesus was a pedophile and a child sex trafficker. In Mark 14:51 he was caught with a naked boy. That's why he was crucified! His followers were children. His little sheepies. They would rub oil on each other's bodies like at P Diddy freakoffs. Ammon Hillman explains it All on the Danny Jones Podcast. He claims that Preachers are hucksters and COWARDS because None will debate him. And he refuses any money offered to him.
Oh man this is beautiful and this isn't even all the toxic horrible verses 😭 Though I will say I heard from a Christian about the marry your rapist verse that the word translated as that wasn't used in the other verses talking about noncon stuff and actually referred to premarital consensual stuff. I don't know if that's true and it's weird that there's consensual stuff then noncon then back to consensual again, but it's possible it's not as bad as some English translations make it out to be How something that problematic could come in translation like that I'll never know and it's still bad that people can't leave bad decisions but yeah
Sending Support to a channel that has “Direction” and that is not like “Water, Sloshing everywhere”. A channel that Stays “Consistent” and is “Informative”..!! Thanks for the work you do and For sharing your Knowledge.
I've actually asked my preacher dad about the 10th plague and how God sent down the angel of death to kill the innocent firstborn and his only answer was, "God can do what he wants" um.. but to support that is baffling. After I heard that I saw no point in debating him to to him being too far in delusion.
So righteous to traffic one's own daughters to strangers. The "morality" of this book is as SUBJECTIVE and insane as it is possible to be. Subjective according to the whims of a psychopath.
Christians who have the illumination of the Spirit are supposed to just understand the Scripture because of that, and anyone else is unable to understand it. Sometimes I think this plays out like the emperor's new clothes.
Well yes. You are naked emperors thinking you’re above the creator and his ways, and you can frame him as a monster. The emperor with new clothes is actually a reference to scripture regarding a church. Revelation 3 15I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. In your attempts to be clever, you walked back to God.
@@justice8718 In your attempt to appear wise you only reminded us how believers will randomly cherry pick one word out of a verse and attempt to entirely alter its context for whatever point they're trying to make.
Several weeks back I saw a video of Pastor Stephen Anderson screaming from the pulpit about how he has the God-given right to kill his kids if they don't obey him, in response to his oldest daughter running for her life, and her and two of his sons calling out his abusive behavior... it was absolutely horrifying, but he openly uses verses like this to justify it 🤢
just know a little of this one, some YWH FAMILY had A TV SHOW AND THE SON RAPED HIS 2 SISTERS, AND TOLD HIS MOM, DAD, I SAID SORRY TO ZOMBIE EUNUCH BRAT, HE SAID OK YOUR CLEAN, AND THEY BOUGHT IT. NO ANYTHING
Thanks for being here!
I take my attendance here religiously. (It's a joke, folks. A joke)
I feel this will be a classic Brandon episode, I can wait to watch it later 👍🏼
Always a pleasure! 😃
Better than church. I can dress how I want and the coffee is better. Plus the speaker is not yelling at me.
That verse in the Old Testament that’s definitely a logically perverted mind behind it that story !”
When the Hebrew male slave goes free but his wife remains a slave, that shows the “sacred bond of marriage” is less important than the bond of slavery.
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Indeed, and it's also a handy way to keep a slave a slave for life while maintaining a cover of plausible deniability. "I didn't make him stay after his period of indentured servitude expired. He chose to stay."
“Property rights over human rights” is a principle older than God.
Ha! Great catch! I wonder what an apologist would say?
They really have no excuse for complaining about Bible verses being taken out of context when that's the very reason we have thousands of their denominations.
Exactly.
Hmmm ! 70,000 yrs of localized spirtual answers used to add some validation to their sense of cultural
superiority.
Resulting in the most powerful and dangerous words ever used by man...
....God said so.
@@thomasridley8675 Whose god said that? Where is that alleged god? How does that alleged god justify its cruelties to humanity? Why cancer in children?
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Oh please ! My God said so is the foundation for every religious theology.
It's not us making up arbitrary laws that just happen to validate their right to rule over you from birth to death..it's god. 🙄🙄
I mean you have too either be really gullible or suffering from a severe case of egomania to believe their god is real.
But yes the question of an all powerful god allowing suffering is one they have trouble justifying.
@@thomasridley8675 Well, if I understand you correctly, what you stated were my points.
Context was one of the last bricks of my deconversion process. I started actually paying attention to sermons and taking notes. The formula was the same for every sermon: the preacher would pick 3 random verses, weave together a story about how much god loves us and how much we fall short of deserving his love and then to give money in response. I would then spend some time afterwards actually reading the context of the verses used in the preacher's arguments realizing that this preacher who had some master's degree in bible study was wrong. When I brought it up to him then I was told I didn't understand that the story of The Gospel was complex and interwoven. It required many different facets to reveal the whole story and he was just focusing on one that day. My critique was never appreciated and after a few times he stopped talking to me; but they did continue cashing my checks. My only conclusion was that a preacher could get the Bible to say anything if you string together any 3 verses and just claim that because they were in the Bible it made whatever he was saying supposedly right. It wasn't long after that I didn't want anything to do with this god if how the preacher was using the supposedly "word of god" to get us to give our money to him.
This! Nailed it
You got it!
In Acts 17, the Bereans would research the scriptures to check what was said to be true. Since people not perfect, always search what is true.
@@Daviddaze Sad to see that's your experience with sermons.
How many different preachers/sermons did you do this with?
Just like any following in the world there are those who will definitely bring shame to it. And unfortunately we're seeing a lot of this with religion today, especially Christianity.
This doesn't mean because a flawed person misrepresents it or exploits through it, that the core is wrong. That's like saying because their are people who use math to cheat, that I won't use or follow mathematics. 😮
@@micahwilliams5854As a thought experiment, how many preachers would he have to go through this with, with the same outcome, before you accept his conclusion about scripture being able to be made to say anything, is correct?
The fact that there has to even BE apologetics is embarrassing and should make anyone bail out. If it is a flawless book then it wouldn't require justification.
Yep, to me the most damning verse in the Bible is I Corinthians 14:33: “God is not the author of confusion.”
Then he either didn’t inspire the Bible or doesn’t exist. Or, I suppose, he’s a lying trickster god like Loki. Take your pick.
Eh, they might say that their "perfect" god/religion/book is judged imperfectly by an imperfect society. A straight line looks warped when viewed through a warped lens. I don't have a good counter for this yet, but it seems like the kind of BS that people like them might pull.
@@zendikarisparkmage2938The obvious counter is "if you don't know what a straight line looks like, how can you claim God is one?" Would a good God create people who can't tell if he's good?
Who says the Bible is infallible? sounds more like the muslim claim of the Quran
@goldenalt3166 They might say that a straight line is whatever (their interpretation of) God is, because everything (their) God does is morally right, using a deontological model of morality.
I used to be Christian, and I remember being taught how lucky I was to be raised in the "true" church and had a "clear" perspective on how wrong everyone else's churches and perspectives were. Too many people are taught that they're right and that everyone else is wrong.
I was raised as a JW, and I was abused by my parents. I eventetally joined the Navy, and my parents rejected me. In 25 years, I've talked to them 8 times. The reason why I left the faith was a lot of the reasons you listed because I read the bible cover to cover and I couldn't justify the context.
Congratulations on leaving the JWs! I'm sorry about the relationship with your parents:(
All of the Abrahamic religions serve Satan. Your parents are Satan worshipers.
So sorry to hear this ❤ Sending love ❤
I never got baptized because when I was a teenager I was an avid reader and never really got the message that I wasn't supposed to be asking questions so I just asked questions until they didn't show up for bible studies with me anymore 😂😂😂. I had a huge afro and they would tell me I have to cut it and i told them no, they weren't happy at all.😊 Btw I'm sorry you had to got through that.🫶
@@MrUndeterminedbro,them wanting you to get rid of a afro is pure stupidity
If the Bible was written by a deity then it shouldn't need context. I should be able to pick any verse and read it plainly and get the correct meaning right away.
And right here is one of the weaknesses of adding chapter and verse to writing that did not originally have them
Exactly. I've been saying this for years.
Nah
Only if this deity is benevolent. A teenagy sadistic deity may be fooling around with the ants in their garden. When things get too boring, just inspire some new interpretation or some novel revelation. Amusement guaranteed for generations.
The Bible is Satan's book.
Just came here to say I love the work you put into your videos. I have a friend who’s a “Christian” yet it feels like they just use that as a shield to say “gay bad” and it makes them more of an ex-friend to me. It’s people like you who make videos online that make me happy because it makes me feel less alone when I see so many Christians out there using their religion just to hate who I am or who others are with no real evidence to hate them. I know I shouldn’t take them so serious sometimes considering I’ve heard conspiracy theories from some of them but it gets to me sometimes. Your videos are very comforting when that happens. Love your work.
I’m convinced toxic masculinity is one of the primary contributing factors to the gen z surge in religiosity.
I feel ya there for sure and thanks so much for the encouraging words.
The most clear and important thing in christianity is to love everybody... its funny how so many christians miss that point lol
@@aleguitarrawhich is why theirs the saying "thiers no love like Christian hate "
@@paulglennie1991 i heard "no hate like christian love" almost the same
Early Christians believed that the world would end in their generation because they didn't understand the context that they were living in.
🙌 Boom! More people should like this comment.
Bingo !! LOL !!!
The world ends"at the spring equinox. The new world aka sacred year begins and ends at the spring equinox.
And nothing much changed. Ok, just a tad bit😂😂
@@harveywabbit9541for ancient tards.
I'm so tired of American christians whining about nonbelievers critiquing their interpretations of the Bible. They say" if you don't believe in God, then why do you care how anyone chooses to interpret the Bible?"
It literally affects my day to day life when lawmakers say things like "If you want to know my views on any issue and how I'm going to govern, look no farther than the Bible." If it was only the guy who runs the public cemetery or transfer station, it wouldn't be a big deal but when it comes out of the mouth of the 3rd most powerful elected official in the US it's a huge deal.
Keep up the great work breaking it down and giving me another resource to fight the christian nationalist oligarchy, Brandon. ❤
If you want to mess with them ask them which Christians will dictate rules in this new Christian National Government they have brought about. Usually they can only say "Christians". When you point out that there are so many denominations, and that most say you have to follow their interpretation a little light creeps in. When you point out Catholics are the largest denomination in the U.S. and ask them if everyone will be converting a little more light creeps in. Etc. It can be wonderful.
@@mmoreno7137 Well, the Opus Dei folks would be happy about that, but good point for the Protestant ones.
@@mmoreno7137 Aren't evangelicals the biggest denomination?
Basically "it's the American government". The American government is run overwhelmingly by people who 100% believe this stuff, even though they also claim to believe in some degree of religious tolerance. Their idea of what a religion even means is based on Christianity. Ergo, it can be difficult for religions to get legal protection equal to Christianity in this country depending on how "alien" or unfamiliar their beliefs are to Christians.
When you get comments screaming “CONTEXT” just refer them to your entire YT catalog and tell them they can’t question you until they watch ALL your videos for “context”.
Lol!
@@MindShift-Brandon In regards to context, direct believers to:
*Context!!!!!!* by NonStampCollector.
(A good video for believers who try and justify Biblical atrocities and immorality by saying "Out of context!)
You have helped me so much!! Escaping the prison of a "believer" has been a journey. I am finally living my life for today filled with true joy and happiness without the fear of no matter how hard I have tried, I would still be judged to eternal doom. Thank you and please keep exposing all of the conflicts in the bible.
So glad to hear that! Thanks for being hetet
@@onemishelle 🥂 TO US!!!😁
You won't be saying thank you on judgment day
@@Jesuslordoflords-y4m you won't be saying anything on the tooth fairy's birthday. Now hush with ya fables.
@xtina2189 what if you end up in hell and you know your never getting out. Won't you be angry at these people who deceived you from believing and obeying the Bible?
Best Sunday School ever.
Hey thanks!
Definitely, I love it also
Powerful, bro. Your clarity, focus, and passion drive home your message like a nail gun.
I like that analogy !!!
Love this compliment. Thanks so much
Christians use verses out of context all the time. When I went to Bible stores I would see tons of pieces of art and paintings and graduation gifts with the verse Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.” It is not talking about us, it is talking about the nation of Israel. And the claim in the verse is not even true given the punishments inflicted on Israel by Yahweh in the Bible.
Oh yes. Christian decor and motivation misuses the Bible like crazy!
The entire Old Testament was directed towards the “original Israelites”. Then Jesus inspired The New Testament and the covenant between the original Israelites and God was Broken. People who believe in God can still be inspired by the words of God in the Old Testament.
Romans 2:29 - But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
That verse is always in the bios of high school boys who play sports lmao. They think it literally applies to their game against McKinley Prep on Friday.
I laugh but it makes me angry, ngl. Not even really at the kids but I hope that they at some point in their lives apply some critical thought to their religious beliefs. But at this God. How is it that he finds a way to guide all of these already very well off kids through relatively meaningless struggles like high school sporting events but has absolutely nothing to offer to children dying of malaria in Africa or being forced into bacha bazi in Afghanistan?
@@theredbonekingwow, this timeless and unchanging and perfect God who had one covenant with one group and then had to send himself to die to himself to undo that first contract he signed sounds pretty ephemeral, changing, and imperfect!
If you had to start over and conceive of how a perfect God would interact with its children today (assuming it would at all), would this be your plan for how it would happen? Would it be anything close?
@@AdamKlownzinger Yep. When life is going well it is very easy for a person to ignore the problems others are having.
That's why i love your channel. You're after truth, not just drama. Makes it really easy when my religious relatives come after me, to know truths. Wish i could give more on patreon, but I am glad to support the cause.
So appreciative. Thanks as always!
@Mindshift Great video. TY for expressing your views. I have been trapped in my family for 20 years and been hated on for not being a "true Christian" for most my life because I refuse to believe their nonsense. What really frustrates me is i actually read the Bible whereas most of my family goes on Faith alone and some will even refuse to listen when I try to read their nonsense back to them.
One thing about having been forcefully brainwashed into that filth from birth, is that at some point you're gonna have to have an honest conversation with yourself about what you believe and why. It happened to me after I got my college diploma, I realized that what I was actually doing was trying to make the bible make sense, because I essentially had to, to salvage my own existence seeing that the whole thing was based on the bible. So I needed it to be true otherwise I'd be an adult with a worse understanding of reality than a damn infant. Revisiting the book without the constant threat of violence for non - participation, was a totally different experience. Not only was it so very evident how ridiculous it is, but how casually EVIL it is.
So well put. An excellent example
"casual evil"...such a perfect term to describe this faith.
So that proves that you lost your faith because the Universities just teach communism.
Actually I don't believe that, but I am hearing too much of that rhetoric lately.
Wow. Now THAT's what a REAL testimony is !!
(none of this "I have to make you believe jezzus because "he" "solved my X problem. Any making YOU believe, this affirms MY 'faith' ". Ick.) Maybe one can use this excellent comment to create the term "salv-age-ation" of one's understanding of reality !!
Virtual hugs through the internet !!!!
@onedaya_martian1238 🫂🤗
I've noticed that whenever the Bible says something that makes God look bad or is obviously scientifically or historically wrong, the Christian says that it's out of context or it can only be understood in the original Greek/Hebrew/Aramaic .
But if it says something they like, then you can take it for what it says on the page in modern day English.
For example "I can do all things through Christ who strengthen me". Christians take that to mean exactly what it says in English. I have never heard anyone say "That doesn't really mean what it says, you have to read it in the original Greek".
But when it says something like "If a prophet be deceived, I the Lord have deceived that prophet". Now the Christian will say that it doesn't mean what it says on the page, but you have to know context or the original Hebrew blah blah blah.
Yup. Its insanely inconsistent
And it makes Jehovah a brainless idiot.
Omniscient Omni idiocy
They use it with Trump constantly, he didn’t mean that…you’re taking it out of context 😂
Most Christians read at a 6th grade level. Comprehension is a problem.
Lol Omni-idiocy 😂@@abstraction6212
Your framing of these verses shows the evil nature of them. These are my favorite; when you show the inconsistencies and the shocking reality of what many people excuse away and take as truth.
Thanks for your excellent perspective and for laying this out in such a way that it's impossible for anyone to justify, no matter how hard they try.
Thanks so much for this!
Brandon, this might be one of your best ones. Thank you so very very much.
Glad you enjoyed it, Jeff. Thank you!
15:56 my father did exactly that. Took me to the elders of the church for being rebellious.
My rebellion? Undiagnosed Autism and Tourette syndrome.
Should I feel blessed I wasn't killed?
So sad man. Sorry to hear
@@MindShift-Brandon 30:05 absolutely spot on.
FFS Dwight. That's obscene. And people ask why atheists feel the need to comment on religion because it doesn't affect them.
@@dwightdhansen My daughter had a rare condition called PANDAS, it’s a brain infection which CAUSED her to be rebellious. Thank goodness the doctors knew how to help, and not stone her to death like the Bible says
THEY DIDN'T WANT SUCJHA THING IN THE NEWS PAPER. ALTHOUGH THE
MEDIA IS PART OF THE GROUP THAT HIDES EVIL YWH FROM THE PUBLIC
MAKE FOR GREAT SLAVES TO BUY THIS EVIL CRAP
I can literally give context to anything using the word faith. Add a fictionally historical book, and it’s even easier!
oh yeah :)
✨mYsTeRiOuS wAyS✨
the Big Bang requires as much faith as it is to believe in a God
🙏"GOD'S PLAN" 🙏
The real context that matters when reading the Old Testament was that this was one warmongering tribe, during one period of world history, that was completely isolated from everything not going on in their very small part of the world, and that was trying its best to document its tribe’s history or at least its traditions. That truly is the only way to read the text sympathetically without misinterpreting other verses and trying to fit a square text into a circle theological framework.
And bc of all their racist rampaging, they now own the media, and threaten "the Samson option", to keep their illusion foisted
I love this video! This is a perfect one to send to a person who is starting to question or begin deconstructing. So many great concise points that can easily be looked into further in your other videos. I love your content… keep it up!
Really appreciate that!
send them Brandon video on 20 things that show EVIL YWH MORALS AREN'T
OBJECTIVE
KRIST BURKE HAS AGREAT ONE ON 25
AND CHRISTEN2, WHO WOKE ME HAS MANY VIDEOS TOO.
Yep, according to the bible: (1) God created everything, therefore (2) God created the angels, and not only simply created them, but created them with the capacity to rebel against God, therefore (3) God created evil. This was a big one for me.
Angels were created with the choice to reject God, mankind was created with the choice to accept him.
@@justice8718 If God is perfect, then why would he/she create the angels with the obligation of rejecting or not, and in the case of man, obligating them with making the choice of accepting him or not? God made his mistakes, but puts the obligation of decisions on the angels and us??? That is MESSED UP! Looks like a gigantic SET UP to me.
@ What’s wrong with God wanting to make an order between the angels and mankind, and having them witness the corruption of evil that comes from breaking God’s will?
Is it wrong for God to desire someone that will honor his will based on their own will? To desire his strength instead of stepping away from him?
@@Sealust50 It's worse than this - what programmer of any level of competence would intentionally set up his application in a way where he _knew_ it would break and not do what he wanted - and then turn around and get mad at the _application_ , rather than his own incompetence?
All-wise, all-knowing God somehow doesn't even measure up to the standard of a half-decent human Android developer.
@@lightyearsfromhome5385 PERFECT - EXACTLY.
Sometimes when I point out that the Bible endorses chattel slavery in things like Leviticus 25:44-46 Christians will respond that thats out of context and from the Old Testament so it doesnt really matter (75% of the duration of the Bible btw) and then cite verses or chapters also from the Old Testament to contradict it like Deut 24 or Leviticus 19:18 that are ACTUALLY out of context and apply only to the Israelites, both when read properly and when you understand that God, when he wants something to be unambiguously universal, like his commands to murder entire cities without leaving anybody alive but the livestock, he does so. And then they just divert me back to “mysterious ways” and “something can’t come from nothing” and things like that
Oh man. I feel all that frustration. Classic
But slaveowners in the parts of the United States where slavery was legal, did not take the view modern apologists do. Go research what many of them said on the eve of the Civil War. They were very upfront about wanting to defend their "peculiar institution" and they did so using many of the same verses that modern apologists say are now out of context or only apply to indentured servitude. The founders of the Confederacy did not think that way. The ability to own a certain class of people they saw as a divinely ordained right and they felt so strongly about it that they seceded from the rest of the United States and were even willing to go to war over it. They would look at modern apologists and say, "What the fuck are you talking about? OF COURSE the Bible supports slavery, it says so here, here and here. YOU are the one taking it out of context."
@@theresemalmberg955That’s another part of it for sure
IMMUTABE EVIL YWH
For Lot offering his daughters, the best steelman I can think of is that rape was a property crime against the man who owned her. Lot was devaluing his own assets so he wouldn’t be able to sell them as wives and he’d be stuck supporting them forever, but Lot was so righteous about hospitality that he was willing to make that sacrifice.
That works, but only because the biblical context already thinks so lowly of women. Who cares about their suffering. Lot is willing to take that hit to his property. Lol i know you see this too. Just adding on that even when we can excuse one thing it usually just highlights another issue more clearly.
Maybe, but when I read those verses it sounds less like a labor of hospitality and one instead of fear and self-preservation on Lot’s part.
Oh god.
@@soyevquirsefron990 it also highlights what lame ass angels those two were to allow this. Where's their righteous outcry and involvement? They just went along with it to see how Lot would fare under stress? See if he'd make "the right decision"? Shows again how God unnecessarily lets people suffer for "obedience".
@@CatDaddyGuitar I was going make the same exact point! The angels were there, they could have said something to Lot about the wrongness of offering his two daughters to the mob, but, you know, context.... lol
I brought up the one about the lord intentionally hardening the pharaoh’s heart just to have an excuse to brag about slaughtering the babies and sure enough the Christian I was talking to said “You don’t understand the context” and then refused to elaborate on the context.
Classic
God hardening the Pharaoh’s heart is meant to imply that free will was a gift from God that empowers a man’s decisions.
Also, Jesus is going to do it again and you cannot stop him because he is the lamb.
@@justice8718bruh
Zeno from dragon ball super would rock the shit outta jesus
I mean jesus walked on water
Zeno destroyed 19 universes
The lamb ain't doing shit to the omni-king,who is said to be able to destroy anything
So the lamb is getting he's ass kicked,no-diff
Hell next time
Imma bring in Kratos 🙏
@@justice8718 time for the old "if god is omniscient - knowing the past, present and future infallibly - then free will cannot exist" discussion is it?
@justice8718 The Bible literally says that the pharaoh relented and chose to let the slaves go but God hardened his heart to make him change his mind. This is restated multiple times in the Bible, with God himself even stating that he would do just that to bring himself glory. In fact Paul dedicates a chapter of the New Testament to explaining that people do not chose God, but God chooses them, and then Paul uses the Pharaoh as an example of somebody that God created to be a “vessel for his wrath”. Then Paul goes on to say that some people will think that this is unfair, but Paul says that it is fair because God can do whatever he wants with the people that he creates. So the Bible is extremely clear that pharaoh’s actions were not his own free will. Anybody who says otherwise is using mental gymnastics to fix the narrative.
Well, the problem is if I pluck out my eye, I already have what I saw in my head. It's like boycotting something I already bought.
“Memory is stored in the eyes” is the Bible’s “pee is stored in the balls”.
It would have been funny if the Bible had said that people who had an unclean thought had to pluck their brain out.
@BluStarGalaxy lmao 🤣
@BluStarGalaxy I think some have 🤣🤣
"boycotting something I already bought." this just keeps getting better.
What "context" can be made for judges 19:1-30, where a man allowed his wife to assaulted by a gang of strangers and died as result, then he cuts her body into 12 piece? I get crickets
@@carolynmathieu6062 I can't even think of one movie (then again, I'm not a horror fan at all) in modernity that shows that heinous if a scene. Some of what's in the Bible is straight up f-ed up.
YES PEOPLE DON'T MENTION THAT one much
CHRISTENDUMB2 READS SO MANY OF THESE VS TOO
The book of Judges repeatedly emphasizes that "everyone did what was right in their own eyes" because "there was no king in Israel"
You're trying to frame it as if this moral chaos was somehow justified.
Yes, and what?
You people have overstepped those horrors easily today with what values you given to our children.
@@NemopolyI mean god being all-powerful means he could have stopped it,but hey,mysterious way 🙏
These biblical teachings can easily be used in the plots of some of the scariest horror films.
BIBLE STORIES = 😱
The plight of the girls in Numbers 31 is literally nightmare fuel.
But dont you find it interesting that God is bad in all these atheist channels, yet what where this humans doing that they are called evil and corrupted in the bible?
Its funny cause mostly the entire old testament is people constantly doing great evils, yet this context is never brought up. Yes, the horror films are about how evil humans can be.
I know it's a serious subject, but your tone when you said "so what, you killed all the children?" was hilarious.
Just really shows how absurd the whole thing is.
By what measure do you judge God?
If there is no God, your judgment is baseless. Plus, if there is no God, you’re literally arguing against nothing, and therefore wasting your time.
If you have no higher moral authority by which you base your own morality, your morality is literally nonexistent.
@KeeganStephen0914
By what measure is God not to be judged?
Because he is more powerful than me? Because might makes right?
Pretty pathetic.
Nope, my judgement isn't baseless. This is a non sequitur.
No, I'm not "arguing against nothing", I'm arguing against people like you who need a divine bully to know that things are wrong. Unless the divine bully does it or commands it, then its ok.
That's just not true. We have observed several non human animals exhibiting basic morality. They do not base those actions in a higher moral authority.
@@iluvtacos1231 No one said that might makes right. I’m not sure where you draw that conclusion, but I hope it’s not an insecurity.
I’m simply asking you to be intellectually honest. If you do not have a higher standard by which you judge behavior through a moral lens, the only other option is that you are viewing it through your own subjective, flawed lens.
By this method anyone could be ‘right’ about anything, including Hitler, but it doesn’t matter by that point. The word ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ are meaningless at that point. Nothing really is either of those things. They just ‘are’.
Yet you know by your own moral inclinations that this isn’t the case. Again, practice intellectual honesty with yourself.
@KeeganStephen0914
You appear to have deliberately misunderstood me.
You asked "By what measure do you judge God?".
To which I asked "by what measure is God not to be judged" and gave two options, might makes right being one of them. There may be others, but those were the 2 I thought of.
How about you practice some intellectual honesty and answer my question: by what measure is God not to be judged?
I'll be honest, the rest of your comment bores me.
There are tons of ways human moral systems have evolved, and a quick Google search will show that your dichotomy of "my God = morality, no God = no morality" is patently false.
@ there were several points from my first post that you did not address. I’m not going to engage in games where you accuse me of the very same thing you’re guilty of.
You still have not addressed my point. I’ll wait…
What's messed up is that they ask for context and when you give it to them, they still justify the horrible acts, such as those that advocate for genocide, because, "god said to do it".
When Christians scream context they're trying to convince themselves, as well as others that their God is still good, even though his actions in the Bible clearly says otherwise.
Yes, its a one word defense and ultimately fails.
@@MindShift-Brandon
At least the one word defense has the salutary quality of brevity. 👍😉
@@timdowney6721 Given the plethora of apologetics around that one word, I'd question the brevity!
@@sauron69447 You can tell a tree by its fruit
@@festeringboils3205rather obvious....
Thanks! Great explaining, love this one! ✊️
You're welcome!
And once again it's Sunday afternoon... in that sense, good morning! ☕😊
Hey Das!
☕
Good morning, good evening and good night.😂
@@maggienewton8518hey good to see you in the early bunch..
Sunday afternoon here in South Africa too!
Loved the point about confessing to "adultery"!😊
Always just on the hunt for good christian consistency lol
And it would destroy the guy’s ego if his wife picked up on the spirit of confession and started recounting HER “affairs.”
11:00 The sexist/misogynistic dehumanizing of women I bring up sometimes. I'll ask a guy if he values his wife as an equal, and if he says yes, I say then why are you able to value her as an equal and god can't? It's an obvious moral failure.
OOPS! 👍🏻
Different roles does not mean inequality.
Two points
1) sin in the Bible does not mean God sanctioned it or approves of it. A lot of people assume that because the Bible has slavery in it, that means God approves it. That’s like saying that the writers of a school textbook featuring history about slavery approve of the slavery.
2) men arguably have it worse off than women do when it comes to the expectations placed upon us by God. Men are given more responsibility and are arguably held accountable to a larger degree.
Again !!!
You keep on outdoing yourself.
Great work Brandon 💯👏👏👏
Love this video!
Your point about thought crimes equaling actions gets to the heart of all this stuff - that Christians don’t REALLY believe what the Bible actually says.
Thanks, Jon!
Thank you for discussing this topic in detail Brandon. Outstanding!
I never realized that about the commandment to honor your mother and father. I always knew it was so you may live a long life and recently learned that they could straight merc their kids if they didn’t listen but never made the connection that that was what it was talking about. Very interesting
Pretty crazy!
True and don't most of the commandment breaking result in death? Pretty funny when we're all gonna die anyway...😅😅
CONTEXT = I'm uncomfortable with verses that make my God look like the monster he is. Therefore, I have to do mental gymnastics and reframe the text to my own liking so that my indoctrination stays intact and I can argue with atheists who see through the BS that I refuse to.
Another excellent definition
You can literally flip your own argument to say atheist cherry pick verses without their context to portray God as some immoral being, further more your arguing from the modern morality that Comes from shaped by Christianity..
@Samuel-uq9mg Atheists don't have to portray God as immoral. The way he is described in the Bible and the repulsive behavior of his followers is evidence enough.
@@Childfree334Agree-- but I would say, "repulsive behavior of MANY of his followers". I don't know how they do it, but some Christians actually find ways to use the scraps of the Bible to affirm love, kindness, and generosity to others. They are, in my mind, much better than their scripture or their religion, but since they claim Christianity helps them be decent and likeable and generous folks with open minds, I kind of don't want to argue with them.
@@sundayoliver3147 If they subscribe to the SAME doctrine as the repulsive do, they are no different to me.
Koalas are the reason I stopped believing in the flood. We're supposed to believe that the waters receded and the two koalas on the ark made their way to Australia? The two sloths hustled over to the Americas? No sir.
One of thousands of issues with that story for sure.
Or that snails and slugs native to North America swam across the Atlantic from Turkey, in the ocean, composed of saltwater.
But science has proven that in Noah's day all the continents were one big land mass so that it was easy for all the animals to walk to the Ark, and, once the flood receded, to walk away. Then, the land mass cracked and the pieces separated from each other to form the present-day continents, all within a few months, before the animals had a chance to reproduce. So--bingo--we wind up with different species on different continents LOL !!!!!!!!!
@18471902 Science has not proven this. The Bible's chronology begins ~4000 years ago (doing the math of the earliest character's ages when they died, had kids, etc), and the Earth's continents have not been connected for tens of millions of years. Winter ice-bridges existed, but there are very few animals who would survive the polar weather where they're located.
3:00 God _did_ try out new Adams and Eves. But ours is the only one of the 14605 timelines where Thanos loses.
And like the original ones, committed incest to repopulate the world.
I think it's an important time for our culture to establish strong boundaries regarding many of the ideas held by the men who wrote the Bible as being harmful and arbitrary. Not the will of a God. Good work!!
For sure!
that's one of my big hang-ups with Christianity right now... the fact that they think their bible is what makes them good people. like someone in an abusive relationship telling everybody publicly that their partner is the best.
I've seen way more moral people out of non believers than I have with believers aka people wearing masks then taking them off as soon as sunday is over
They say it's what makes them not Murder, RAPE
WHAT MONSTERS
TO THINK THEY SHOVE THIS EVIL ON KIDS, OR ANYONE
THE RULERS DID A HUGE MIND F ON THESE PEOPLE
Thanks for yet another great video. I agree with so many of your comments.
Thanks, Duane!
Don’t ever feel apologetic about bringing these verses up again and again. Revision is important - I feel the need to keep these fresh in my memory, and now I have all of them in one place. As always, thank you for your work both in terms of research and commentary. Love listening to you, no matter how horrendous the topic that’s being discussed.
Also, “Just really quickly, let’s do one more genocide…” floored me.
Hey thanks for this!
You brought the hammer down with this one Brandon! I am sharing it.
Thanks, Ken!
In discussing many of these with Fr. Urban. His go-to response: It's a mystery.
The Context that No theist can get past is the Context or premise that their god is claimed to be Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent. No actions of this god is excusable viewed in the aforementioned context.
100%!
One thing I don't see discussed about the Eden story is how god could have stopped all the suffering by just not allowing Adam and Eve to procreate. If the christian misreading of the story is right and A&E sinned and that caused sin & death to enter the world, then a loving god would have not allowed innocent descendants to suffer because of A&E's sin. Just tell them that they are now sterile, let them live out their lives, and then start over with a new earth. Allowing the huge evil & suffering to affect the innocent descendants was totally immoral and totally avoidable. (Don't try "free will" as an excuse -- all punishment violates free will, including the punishments in the story. And don't try the excuse that mankind gave the devil control over the world -- that was not a part of the story at all.)
Never mind that “free will” is being shown by neuroscience to be significantly less free than even people today think.
And as Brandon points out, if god is all-powerful and creates everything, then how can he "give control" to anything other than himself?
Why did I never think of this? 🤯😂
It's even worse when you get down to the fact that if the story were true, Adam and Eve didn't even know what right and wrong were. They didn't get that knowledge until after eating the fruit. That's something that theists twist themselves into knots trying to explain.
Thank you so much for no ads on this video!
Excellent. Well done. Thank you for your work, Brandon.
Thank you for including the abortion story from Numbers! Abortion has always been fine as long as it is not the woman's decision!
I feel so dumb for not critically thinking ... No wonder I was fooled for 25 yrs under the name of Christianity. 😢
Don't blame yourself-- those "rules" have also been deeply incorporated into secular society. For instance, Western European education was formed by the Church.
ME I DIDN'T READ ANY OF THE BOOK, OR GO TO THE EVIL CORP HOUSE OF EVIL YWH
TOOK ME 1/2 HOUR VIDEO TO BAIL THIS EVIL CRAP, THAT'S JUST ON HOW EVIL YWH ISN'T INERRANT,
THE EVIL IN THE BOOK JUST A EXTRA
OH GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WIZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
WHAT EVIL
I LOVE your passionate straightforwardness!! Thank you!
Thank you for that!
The context is ALWAYS their theology. When a Xtian cries context, it's because the facts aren't working with their assumed theology
A theology based on taking verses out of context.
I was always taught as a child about the stoning of the disobedient child thing that it was some really specific thing that would never happen, the parents had to speak with the same voice, look the same, the child had to steal money from their parents and use it to buy and consume a certain large amount of meat and wine. But if that's the only verse in the actual Bible about it, maybe all the other stuff is just recontextualisation from the Talmud.
Also, I was taught that the 'honour your parents so you may have a long life', along with 'you should scare away the mother bird before you take her eggs' was that those were the two commandments that you are specifically rewarded with a longer than usual life for, rather than you don't die young, your videos is the first place I've seen that interpretation and it's really interesting, and quite obvious connecting the dots I suppose, if you're not told all that other stuff as a child and just have the word of the Torah (or the Old Testament)
I was told “You are judging God!” 😱
I said NO, I am judging the Bible as a book of lies. 🤔
ATHEISM, CHRISTIANITY, and all RELIGIONS are WORTHLESS and USELESS
because
the loving, kind, and merciful GOD's favor and reward of ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4
is
definitely NOT for Atheists, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions
but
ONLY for LOVING, KIND, RESPECTFUL, and SUBMISSIVE persons on earth
who
honor and obey Jesus Christ as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King in their obedience to what's written in Matthew 28: 18.
Atheists, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions
will
never be glorified in their make-believe and fairy tale Heaven nor destroyed in their Armageddon and tortured for eternity in their invented and fictitious Hell but just turn into worthless and useless dusts on earth forever after their inescapable deaths
while
the teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are the guarantee
that
all the LOVING, KIND, RESPECTFUL, and SUBMISSIVE persons on earth
who
died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others
will
all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD"
and
fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings of GOD and his Christ for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his GOD and Father's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
@@jaflenbond7854
A full days work of spam
and scam ...
@@FoursWithinHATEFUL, CRUEL, MERCILESS, and DECEITFUL persons will NOT LAST on EARTH FOREVER
because
their Satanic LIES and Unbiblical teachings about "hellfire", "Armageddon", "Trinity", "afterlife", "rapture", "immortality of the souls", and "reincarnation"
will
definitely bring them dishonor, disgrace, shame, and cause their own downfall and ETERNAL DEATHS
while
LOVING, KIND, RESPECTFUL, and SUBMISSIVE persons will LIVE and EXIST on EARTH FOREVER
because
their submissiveness to the authority of Jesus Christ in their obedience to what's written in Matthew 28: 18
will
definitely be rewarded by the loving, kind, and merciful GOD with ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4
and
the teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are the guarantee
that
all the LOVING, KIND, RESPECTFUL, and SUBMISSIVE persons on earth
who
died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others
will
all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD"
and
fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings of GOD and his Christ for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his GOD and Father's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
You are a veritable genius in your Mindshift work. Truly your mind is analytically superior to that of Yawheh and of the writers of the Bible, you have pegged them cold and dead in the water, you have disarmed their wizardry and their mysterious aura of invincibility. Your name deserves to stand in humble honor historically for having come up honestly and accurately against the illusion of truth that the Bible loves to stand itself on.
Not genius, but something better. A careful, thoughtful, inexorable march through the text to its implications. The rest of us might not be able the follow a genius, but Brandon charts a textual and logical path even the dumbest honest seek can understand.
I don’t see apologists trying to debunk his videos, perhaps because they’re as solid and water right as a battleship.
Any book that is truly divinely inspired by an omniscient being should be all the Context that it needs. No excuse no apologetics.
After the Great flood there wouldn't have been any food left on the Earth for the animals and Noah's family to eat. And I always figured that if God is ALL Knowing and ALL Powerful then all he would have to do is to snap his fingers to make everything right instead of going through all this hog wash.
The authors of this flood story were way in over their heads when it came to developing the plot.
The hogs would have literally gotten washed if it was true.
Judging by all of the flood myths, his method of destruction was perfect to identify him as the LORD.
I was told as a child that as god can do anything he wants to, then he could supernaturally provide food from very little for everyone & everything to have enough. Like the loaves & fishes story. And it's gods supernatural 'trickery' that brought all the living beings to the ark in the first place. And distributed them everywhere afterwards. Also god sent supernatural levels of water (as the earth doesn't have enough to cover the top of mountains) then god supernaturally got rid of the excess water afterwards. Well, what can you say to that haha!! 😅 Science doesn't matter!
Great content. Can’t really make it anymore clear than that!
Hoping so. Thank you!
I wonder if any apologist will make a response video… I am SO relieved I no longer need to come up with a defense for why these horrific stories are from the God of Love
Thanks for your important work!
My pleasure!
Thank you for this video Brandon! I'll be somewhere in the comments section with a fresh bag popcorn awaiting the apologetics that are sure to be coming for this!
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When people ask me if I would do better than God. I answer like this. "Right now, no. Because I don't have God's powers. But if I had the same powers as God. I could most definitely do better." I think anyone could. Unless it works like Populous and God runs out of power and has to wait for it to recharge. If so that would explain why he haven't seen God in a while.
Job 38
2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.
15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
18 Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
20 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
21 Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?
22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
24 By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?
25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
33 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
35 Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are?
36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
38 When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
39 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
41 Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
@@justice8718Thanks for proving why your god sucks and a good thing that it doesn't exist.
I'm on my way to get brainwashed with the family, lol. Man, that's the most uncomfortable feeling knowing what I know now. Here's to humankind 👍.
maybe listen to a song, get an ear worm and let it run through your head so that's all you hear. :)
@@maggienewton8518 But not "Last Christmas"! That will ruin your day... OMG - too late, what have I done?! 😆
@@dasbus9834 🤣
Play "boredom bingo". See how many signs of boredom you can spot. Just remember, don't shout out when your mental card is all complete!
@@dasbus9834Yoooouuuuuu MONSTER !!!
Morning Brandon! 😊 I am always get told that I am out of context lol😅
Welcome to the club
Hey, atheist/agnostic here but I think the Lot story is a little more complex than it is usually presented, at least from my understanding. Lot isn't supposed to be seen as callous towards his daughters, but zealously following the laws of hospitality. Offering harm to his own family before allowing harm to a guest under his roof, lack of hospitality also being one of the primary sins ascribed to Sodom. Also, he doesn't just offer them up out of nowhere, the crowd of violent criminals is demanding he sacrifice his guests right outside his door.
I don't think it's an argument for a god, but protecting guests at all costs isn't an inherently immoral, and I'm pretty sure the listener/reader was supposed to be shocked by how far Lot was willing to take hospitality customs.
You are right, but it doesn't change then that being hospitable to guests is considered so righteous as to be greater than offering up your daughters to be r*ped. Which is a wild moral code to live by for a person today, but not for a bronze age tribal person who viewed their children (daughters especially) as property.
True, but offering up your daughters to be 🍇 isn't the moral way to do it. And Lot was considered a righteous man, so it seems like Lot offering up his daughters wasn't an issue here.
Sir, I applaud your work and efforts! This world is in serious need of real and honest intellectual rigor. I personally observed a profound laziness among those who profess to “believe” the inerrant truth of the Bible. Often choosing to accept what they are told about the text, without bothering to read it themselves. Or if they do actually read it? There is a tendency for “believers” to cherry pick those verses which fit their assumptions while conveniently ignoring the rest.
You have done a superb job of articulating many of the glaring contradictions which stain the credulity of the Christian idea of divinity. Bravo!
One of the things I love most about your videos is that you DO give context. You DO understand context. I very rarely hear anything you say that I see enough of a problem with that feel the need to comment, this is one of those times however. As a fellow atheist, one who grew up in church, whose brothers are both ministers with the SBC, and whose father was and is a music minister since before I was born (this all stated simply so people understand I'm not here to undercut anything. I'm actually sending this video to my family in the next couple minutes), I have to point out a problem I see with what you said when discussing 1 TIm 6:1-2. You said, "I don't think you can be devoted to the welfare of something you own as property." I appreciate that you, as I would and often do, say "think" because it shows once again you know you can be wrong! I have to point out though, that I own my cats. My cats are my property. I, and a vast number of other pet owners, am absolutely devoted to the welfare of something(s) I own as property. While I felt the need to point out that it can be done, I agree with the heart of your statement. I don't think someone owning another sentient human being can VIEW them as a sentient human being and still care about their welfare. That can only happen (while staying internally consistent) if someone viewed their slaves as inherently 'less than' or 'sub-human.' So I'd suggest clarifying that, or slightly rewording that point in the future. As you and I both know, people will latch on to any tiny inconsistency or mistake in our logic and words to claim our entire point is invalid. To help that not happen, I'm offering up this (definitely too long) comment in the hopes that situation can be avoided. I love your videos. Keep em coming!
Should have said devoted to the welfare of a person you own as property. But appreciate all that very much!
@@MindShift-Brandon Well, slaves were essentially farm and household and sexual machinery, so there is a self-serving part of being "devoted to their welfare" the way you would oil and maintain and fuel machinery. Maybe just something like "care about a person you consider to be an subhuman thing you can own"?
For such a perfect God, supposedly, he sure needs a lot of explaining, defense, and (re)framing to match the current Zeitgeist of any era. Strange that the perfect Truth can't stand on its own. It's almost like it's Man-made or something...
Well said!
right. That always gets me and I stop myself from saying to them: you show doubt in your god by feeling he needs defending rather than let him do it himself. But apart from being rude on my part, it would likely elicit some trite peice of nonsense such as god wants us to prove our devotion by standing up for him, blah-dee-blah.
If they can’t get you with the “context” they’ll try to get you with the “mistranslation”.
And the. After both fail its back to gods mysterious.
FROM AN INERRANT BOOK, BY AN INERRANT GWAD, WHO IS IMMUTABLE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
It’s interesting because the out of context excuse is also how they defend Trump and Andrew Tate.
Their gods, whom they worship.
Well done again mate. Gidday from Australia
You made an incredibly compelling and accurate argument that I am unable to refute in any way BUT you made a very small technical error so I will dismiss everything else you've said and only focus on the 4 words I could find an issue with.
Theists playbook 101
@@ZeusAssassin if someone types "their" instead of "they're" then you get to dismiss their entire argument! It's a brilliant strategy, truly a master gambit 😂
How did the Saint Judes thing work out?? You inspired me to switch to automatic monthly giving. How much did you raise?
That post will come
after the end of month,
is what he said earlier
When they cry context, they're admitting that morals are not absolute.
Yeah that "screw the Egyptian slaves too" was a thing I noticed as a child and it made the story less "inspiring"... Even as a believer it seems more like, "do what God says because he can do scary things" is the true moral.
TY SO MUCH · I'm exhausted from trying to explain this.
I hear ya!
@MindShift-Brandon 🫂🫂
24:59: You misspoke, saying "Job had to kill these children, the livestock," instead of Satan . . . . For a brief moment I thought I had misunderstood previous tellings of this story, then realized it was just misspoken. You might want to add a captioned correction. It's a small thing, but it gave even me pause briefly. Thanks for all the videos. They are among the very best I have ever seen.
Appreciate that!
Another great video 👍🏼
Thanks for watching!
I'm reminded of the great video here on YT by NonStampCollector - "Context".
Its amazing
YES FUNNY VIDEO
Nonstampcollector got me started on this road. So many brilliant videos.
If God is ALL Knowing then Everything would have been perfect in the first place.
Nah... it just means that everything is the way he wanted it to be.
@@isaoblack987 Not everyone's willing to talk about God when they're bearing false witness.
No, what does God knowledge have to do with your freewill???
Sin is a function of freewill, not God having knowledge of all things that are true. You can know something will happen based on patterns such as Pharaoh's heart, but ultimately its up to the individual to choose not God.
@@sammur1977 if God knows the future infallibly then the future is set and no free will can exist.
@sammur1977 Ammon Hillman says that Jesus was a pedophile and a child sex trafficker. In Mark 14:51 he was caught with a naked boy. That's why he was crucified! His followers were children. His little sheepies. They would rub oil on each other's bodies like at P Diddy freakoffs. Ammon Hillman explains it All on the Danny Jones Podcast. He claims that Preachers are hucksters and COWARDS because None will debate him. And he refuses any money offered to him.
Oh man this is beautiful and this isn't even all the toxic horrible verses 😭
Though I will say I heard from a Christian about the marry your rapist verse that the word translated as that wasn't used in the other verses talking about noncon stuff and actually referred to premarital consensual stuff. I don't know if that's true and it's weird that there's consensual stuff then noncon then back to consensual again, but it's possible it's not as bad as some English translations make it out to be
How something that problematic could come in translation like that I'll never know and it's still bad that people can't leave bad decisions but yeah
"that's a pretty magical answer, and no context needed" 😂😂😂❤❤❤❤ perfect
Sending Support to a channel that has “Direction” and that is not like “Water, Sloshing everywhere”. A channel that Stays “Consistent” and is “Informative”..!! Thanks for the work you do and For sharing your Knowledge.
Let the church say Umm….MAN!
Another slam dunk, sir!
"Just so he could you know, curse and kill them later on." Oh that's a winner!
@@maggienewton8518 I enjoyed that line as well
I've actually asked my preacher dad about the 10th plague and how God sent down the angel of death to kill the innocent firstborn and his only answer was, "God can do what he wants" um.. but to support that is baffling. After I heard that I saw no point in debating him to to him being too far in delusion.
Like I said, it just keeps getting better! Great video Brandon.
I appreciate that!
So righteous to traffic one's own daughters to strangers. The "morality" of this book is as SUBJECTIVE and insane as it is possible to be. Subjective according to the whims of a psychopath.
Christians who have the illumination of the Spirit are supposed to just understand the Scripture because of that, and anyone else is unable to understand it. Sometimes I think this plays out like the emperor's new clothes.
Well yes. You are naked emperors thinking you’re above the creator and his ways, and you can frame him as a monster.
The emperor with new clothes is actually a reference to scripture regarding a church.
Revelation 3
15I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
In your attempts to be clever, you walked back to God.
@@justice8718
In your attempt to appear wise you only reminded us how believers will randomly cherry pick one word out of a verse and attempt to entirely alter its context for whatever point they're trying to make.
Well done!
Many thanks!
Great summary. Eagerly following the comments.
Several weeks back I saw a video of Pastor Stephen Anderson screaming from the pulpit about how he has the God-given right to kill his kids if they don't obey him, in response to his oldest daughter running for her life, and her and two of his sons calling out his abusive behavior... it was absolutely horrifying, but he openly uses verses like this to justify it 🤢
Truly disgusting.
just know a little of this one, some YWH FAMILY had A TV SHOW
AND THE SON RAPED HIS 2 SISTERS,
AND TOLD HIS MOM, DAD, I SAID SORRY TO ZOMBIE EUNUCH BRAT, HE SAID OK YOUR CLEAN, AND THEY BOUGHT IT. NO ANYTHING