I was predestined from all eternity to make a comment telling you that I was predestined from all eternity to be glad I was predestined from all eternity to watch this video, interesting stuff, thank you. Edit: predestined typo
The singularity and timeless that barth described is extremely strange. That sounds a lot like hinduism or buddhism. The concept of nirvana (not the band) is basically an afterlife where everyone is joined backed to the universal spirit, and its more a timeless state of mind than a heaven.
I'm really proud of you for fighting for the PCUSA. i have to admit, i never thought to take that approach for orthodoxy. p.s. I'm another reformed man, with a R Catholic brother and in-laws, and I'll say I sometimes wish i could be catholic. but I can't.
Re: musical instruments in church - most denominations that don't use musical instruments, have a group of the best-looking women the church can muster leading the singing. I've never met a man who could be led into sin by contemplating a pipe organ, although I suppose pride might be a risk. Seems like instruments are the safer route, though.
As someone one who is on his journey of finding christ after being raised in a non believing household and having held the long time belief that because my mom died so young which caused my family so much pain that I could not belive in a kind or loving god. I have since luckily come to find the light of christ in my life but I have had difficulty finding a church. My familial roots are in Catholicism but the idea of one true church especially after your videos just is not something I can belive in. Reformed used to scare me when I had a very limited understanding of it because the surface level explination of election sounded more like the arbitrary whims of the greek pantheon then a loving god who wishes to see man redeemed and even though I think only christ has the ability to redeem us from sin I can't understand how we as his followers don't have a responsibility and possibility to prove we are worthy of redemption. I know this is a long text and youtube is youtube but I hope my fellow brothers and sister in christ can help me find a greater understanding.
Hey young man, i just want to encourage you to keep up the good work. You are years ahead of your age in wisdom, may God use you to bring many to the Truth
Damnation was defined around St Augustine’s time as the Absence of the beatific vision, Catholics believe unbaptised children will be in limbo, the place where the Old Testament righteous stayed until Christ redeemed mankind, unbaptised children are damned in the sense that they will not have the beatific vision, but they have as a perfect a happiness a soul can have without the beatific vision, and it is a common belief that unbaptised children will be given the beatific vision at the end of the world
That does not mean he didn‘t influence them. In many instances (the view of the Sacraments) they hold Zwinglian views so it‘s reasonable to say that their understanding came from there as Zwingli‘s views certainly influenced a lot of the Revival theologians.
I think if you want to understand Barths views on these theological topics you have to see that he is strongly argueing against the liberal theology of 19th Century Germany heavily influenenced by theologians like Friedrich Schleiermacher. This explains his low view of individual election and his denial of natural election. Because this enlighted theology was all about the religious feeling of the subject, denied the revelation in Christ and only accepted (natural) revelation in reason. But he also was not thinking in classical theological topics like you do, he was more influenced by the philosophy of existentialism. This also explaines his weird language and all the confusion in his texts.
This is the best example I have heard about Christianity and individual beliefs. When ships go out to sea if they drop their anchors in 100 ft of water they let out 300 ft of chain. That means the boat can drift 400 ft in either direction. Christianity as a whole is like this. We are all shaped by experiences in life. We might be more conservative or more liberal. However as long as the bible is our anchor and we are truly seeking out its truth I believe God can help us with the rest and shape us into what he needs us to be. Don't be afraid to share beliefs with others that are receptive its the only way we learn. Great content I lack any sense of where our (nerd)history comes from so I find this very enlightening.
16:04 i really want to know from where you get the idea that reformed theology is a sacramental salvific theology. Because you are the first reformed guy i meet to state that, i know of no contemporary reformed theologian to say that, and when i read the reformers i don’t see that. I did not read John Knox (as a dutch reformed he is not that significant to me), maybe he is of that opinion, but from that single quote, idk about you but i don’t get that “baptism saves”. And then you have all the lutherans who throuout the history criticized the reformed tradition because of this very reason
So, whether we believe the sacraments save is… complicated. Calvin said the sacraments are signs, and the effect what they signify ONLY for the elect. So Westminster calls the sacraments “effectual means of salvation”
Zoomer, in Deuteronomy 1:39 it says “ Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.”. The language is the same used to describe the very sin which Adam committed (eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.) I think this verse pretty clearly shows God does not hold little children accountable for sin, and also the context of the verse is they shall enter the promise land, which is a picture of Gods kingdom as well as a literal land.
As nonresistant nonbeliever I have an honest question. Why does the imperfect and fallibility of human sources not apply to Paul or even the later church leaders who were the ones who choose exactly what is an official part of the Bible?
22:38 the Catholic Church has a fest of the Holy Innocents (December 28th if I'm correct). If we think about it, Jesus was 3 days old, and was therefore not yet circumcised. So, if Jesus was killed in Herodes' bloodbath, would HE not be saved? (Since, as you said, according to Covenant Theology, Baptism is the continuation of the circumcision). I mean, there were babies that were not circumcised and were not only saved (according to the RCAC), but justified and sanctified. Dude that's so curious.
Maybe Kox was right on his patriarchal stance "My people-infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up[a] the course of your paths."
Women in government is a bad idea for a plethora of reasons. If there is not a capable man to fill the position, then the society as a whole is failing to produce worthy men. But some general reason are more emotional instead of logical, more manipulable, an inherent inability to "lead" compared to men because of what the essence of leadership is, etc. There is also the general Biblical principles of the roles that men and women were created for, men being the head of household, head of churches, God the Father, Christ the Son, etc. while women were intended, even before the fall, to be subservient to man as helper; Genesis 2:18 _"Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”"_ Genesis 2:20 _"The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him."_ Part of the curse of the fall is for woman to want to be in charge of the man, clearly contrary to God's design: Genesis 3:16 _"To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”_
(This is probably wrong but this is what my confirmation class taught me and some pastoral blogs said so take it with a grain of salt) Predestination is a fancy way of saying that God is in control of the universe and that He has a plan for everyone and everything. Most Christians believe this as far as I know. The area of contention is whether God creates people who cannot or will not be saved no matter what, and this is called “double predestination” and basically the only people who believe it are Reformed people.
It's really difficult to talk about predestination without getting into extremely twisted logic, especially if you are constrained by a desire to keep God recognizably good. I'm not sure it can be reasoned out, but I don't believe in any of the five points of Calvinism anyway
Basically since God knows everything and is all-powerful, free will fundamentally doesn't exist. So before you were born god already decided whether you were saved or not (predestination). Double predestination I don't remember very well, but I think it's related to us not knowing who is saved so anyone could be saved.
Bro, it is a curse to be ruled over by women and children, however that is not to say that churchmen ought to overthrow governments that have women as their head.
honestly, i have no damn clue why youtube keeps reccomending me the weirdest channels, but you are quite based.
Glad to have you!
I was predestined from all eternity to make a comment telling you that I was predestined from all eternity to be glad I was predestined from all eternity to watch this video, interesting stuff, thank you.
Edit: predestined typo
A predestined reply
The singularity and timeless that barth described is extremely strange. That sounds a lot like hinduism or buddhism. The concept of nirvana (not the band) is basically an afterlife where everyone is joined backed to the universal spirit, and its more a timeless state of mind than a heaven.
I'm really proud of you for fighting for the PCUSA. i have to admit, i never thought to take that approach for orthodoxy.
p.s. I'm another reformed man, with a R Catholic brother and in-laws, and I'll say I sometimes wish i could be catholic. but I can't.
This is my favorite youtube series by far. This is awesome man.
Re: musical instruments in church - most denominations that don't use musical instruments, have a group of the best-looking women the church can muster leading the singing. I've never met a man who could be led into sin by contemplating a pipe organ, although I suppose pride might be a risk. Seems like instruments are the safer route, though.
There's nothing wrong with having pretty girls sing.
@@josephbrandenburg4373 yeah, only if they dress modestly, which is what you expect from christians in a church
7:07
You are looking for glowstone no? Then why do you pass chunks of glowstone look at them and then not mine them?
I don’t know anything about Minecraft, but I thank God for the lessons I learned from your videos. Thank you for sharing your faith.
As someone one who is on his journey of finding christ after being raised in a non believing household and having held the long time belief that because my mom died so young which caused my family so much pain that I could not belive in a kind or loving god. I have since luckily come to find the light of christ in my life but I have had difficulty finding a church. My familial roots are in Catholicism but the idea of one true church especially after your videos just is not something I can belive in. Reformed used to scare me when I had a very limited understanding of it because the surface level explination of election sounded more like the arbitrary whims of the greek pantheon then a loving god who wishes to see man redeemed and even though I think only christ has the ability to redeem us from sin I can't understand how we as his followers don't have a responsibility and possibility to prove we are worthy of redemption. I know this is a long text and youtube is youtube but I hope my fellow brothers and sister in christ can help me find a greater understanding.
Hey young man, i just want to encourage you to keep up the good work. You are years ahead of your age in wisdom, may God use you to bring many to the Truth
Its funny hearing him talk all this smack about supralapsarianism (from him not understanding it properly) just to later become one.
The only way to understand Bath's view on revelation, is by searching for the "Analogia Fide vs Analogia Entis" conflict between Barth and przywara
Damnation was defined around St Augustine’s time as the Absence of the beatific vision, Catholics believe unbaptised children will be in limbo, the place where the Old Testament righteous stayed until Christ redeemed mankind, unbaptised children are damned in the sense that they will not have the beatific vision, but they have as a perfect a happiness a soul can have without the beatific vision, and it is a common belief that unbaptised children will be given the beatific vision at the end of the world
1:26, no, it’s not, most evangelicals never heard of Zwingli 😂😂
That does not mean he didn‘t influence them. In many instances (the view of the Sacraments) they hold Zwinglian views so it‘s reasonable to say that their understanding came from there as Zwingli‘s views certainly influenced a lot of the Revival theologians.
Bro just exposed himself
I think if you want to understand Barths views on these theological topics you have to see that he is strongly argueing against the liberal theology of 19th Century Germany heavily influenenced by theologians like Friedrich Schleiermacher. This explains his low view of individual election and his denial of natural election. Because this enlighted theology was all about the religious feeling of the subject, denied the revelation in Christ and only accepted (natural) revelation in reason. But he also was not thinking in classical theological topics like you do, he was more influenced by the philosophy of existentialism. This also explaines his weird language and all the confusion in his texts.
Lol you destroyed Barth 😂
This is the best example I have heard about Christianity and individual beliefs. When ships go out to sea if they drop their anchors in 100 ft of water they let out 300 ft of chain. That means the boat can drift 400 ft in either direction. Christianity as a whole is like this. We are all shaped by experiences in life. We might be more conservative or more liberal. However as long as the bible is our anchor and we are truly seeking out its truth I believe God can help us with the rest and shape us into what he needs us to be.
Don't be afraid to share beliefs with others that are receptive its the only way we learn. Great content I lack any sense of where our (nerd)history comes from so I find this very enlightening.
Do you have a discord or minecraft server IP? Great content btw.
Yeah he recently opened the minecraft server
15:44
Ok that's actually hilarious
16:04 i really want to know from where you get the idea that reformed theology is a sacramental salvific theology. Because you are the first reformed guy i meet to state that, i know of no contemporary reformed theologian to say that, and when i read the reformers i don’t see that. I did not read John Knox (as a dutch reformed he is not that significant to me), maybe he is of that opinion, but from that single quote, idk about you but i don’t get that “baptism saves”. And then you have all the lutherans who throuout the history criticized the reformed tradition because of this very reason
So, whether we believe the sacraments save is… complicated. Calvin said the sacraments are signs, and the effect what they signify ONLY for the elect. So Westminster calls the sacraments “effectual means of salvation”
That scottish accent sounded more british ngl
10:58 you mean BEFORE the flood
Zoomer, in Deuteronomy 1:39 it says “ Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.”.
The language is the same used to describe the very sin which Adam committed (eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.) I think this verse pretty clearly shows God does not hold little children accountable for sin, and also the context of the verse is they shall enter the promise land, which is a picture of Gods kingdom as well as a literal land.
As nonresistant nonbeliever I have an honest question. Why does the imperfect and fallibility of human sources not apply to Paul or even the later church leaders who were the ones who choose exactly what is an official part of the Bible?
22:38 the Catholic Church has a fest of the Holy Innocents (December 28th if I'm correct). If we think about it, Jesus was 3 days old, and was therefore not yet circumcised. So, if Jesus was killed in Herodes' bloodbath, would HE not be saved? (Since, as you said, according to Covenant Theology, Baptism is the continuation of the circumcision). I mean, there were babies that were not circumcised and were not only saved (according to the RCAC), but justified and sanctified.
Dude that's so curious.
Probably Augustine did some kind of mess with the doctrine of Salvation to say such a thing.
Straw manning catholicism in the intro to a video that's not about Catholicism is hilarious.
He makes jokes in the beginning of the videos he strawmans everyone then
10:46 this is a weird opinion. How could you possibly come to this conclusion by reading the strongly emotionally charged language in the Bible?
How can you be Calvinist and not supralapsarian?... Didn t you read Thomas Goodwin?
That was your Scottish accent?
Maybe Kox was right on his patriarchal stance
"My people-infants are their oppressors,
and women rule over them.
O my people, your guides mislead you
and they have swallowed up[a] the course of your paths."
As a salty catholic:
U Based
Women in government is a bad idea for a plethora of reasons. If there is not a capable man to fill the position, then the society as a whole is failing to produce worthy men. But some general reason are more emotional instead of logical, more manipulable, an inherent inability to "lead" compared to men because of what the essence of leadership is, etc. There is also the general Biblical principles of the roles that men and women were created for, men being the head of household, head of churches, God the Father, Christ the Son, etc. while women were intended, even before the fall, to be subservient to man as helper;
Genesis 2:18
_"Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”"_
Genesis 2:20
_"The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him."_
Part of the curse of the fall is for woman to want to be in charge of the man, clearly contrary to God's design:
Genesis 3:16
_"To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”_
Knox was right.
Calling him “sexist” is an anachronism and behind silly
I just don't get all this pre-destination nonsense
(This is probably wrong but this is what my confirmation class taught me and some pastoral blogs said so take it with a grain of salt)
Predestination is a fancy way of saying that God is in control of the universe and that He has a plan for everyone and everything. Most Christians believe this as far as I know. The area of contention is whether God creates people who cannot or will not be saved no matter what, and this is called “double predestination” and basically the only people who believe it are Reformed people.
It's really difficult to talk about predestination without getting into extremely twisted logic, especially if you are constrained by a desire to keep God recognizably good. I'm not sure it can be reasoned out, but I don't believe in any of the five points of Calvinism anyway
Basically since God knows everything and is all-powerful, free will fundamentally doesn't exist. So before you were born god already decided whether you were saved or not (predestination). Double predestination I don't remember very well, but I think it's related to us not knowing who is saved so anyone could be saved.
@@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 I guess its more that I just reject it.
@@ianbowden2524 I'm not into it either no worries
Bro, it is a curse to be ruled over by women and children, however that is not to say that churchmen ought to overthrow governments that have women as their head.