Dennis Prager - Rational Bible: Exodus (2018)
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- Опубликовано: 5 дек 2018
- On November 28, 2018 the Pepperdine, School of Public Policy hosted its annual Patricia Tagliaferri Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series. We were honored to welcome keynote speaker Dennis Prager, radio talk show host and founder of PragerU.
Prager's newest book, released in April 2018, is the first of his five-volume Bible commentary entitled, The Rational Bible: Exodus - God, Slavery and Freedom. While many people may think the Bible, the most influential book in world history, is outdated Prager's explanation of the Book of Exodus, the second book of the Bible, will demonstrate that the Bible is not only powerfully relevant to today's issues, but completely consistent with rational thought.
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The Rational Bible on Genesis was so excellent that I bought Exodus even before I finished reading Genesis. It really helped me see things in a rational way. And I can't wait for Leviticus.
Check out Genesis 6:1-4 🤷♂️
What a great commentary. Mr. Prager is correct... Knowing the Torah will make one a better Jew, a better Christian or a better secular person. It takes effort to love God. Mr. Prager makes logical sense.
Another name for wisdom is Dennis Prager. He is such an inspiration and such a blessing.
I started calling my dad again, largely because of you.
He was always my favorite one, my hero. I’m happy I did.
Right.you are ! This quasi intellectual makes me vomit
My dad has got to be in Heaven despite all of his faults. Someone ask me, "If you could sit on a park bench and speak to him again, would you do it?" I ask, "Which father? The young one or my Alzhiemer's father I had to care for, who became combative and violent every afternoon?" With all the crazy in the world now, I will take that park bench comversation with either one.
8 Bit Hero Without sacrifice there can not be a true love.
@@bolsesolheim7469 I am almost certain I would object to your post if it was coherent.
@@QuiltHoncho You know nothing but choose to insult and attempt to harm regardless. You need to study the Torah.
I love that I can hear so many great speeches from all over the world now from the comfort of my home. Much appreciated!
All jewish RELIGIOUS MYTHS are accepted as true...but christian MYTHS are derided why???
What a wonderful lecture! Thanks to technology and Pepperdine School Anyone can watch it. Dennis Prager is indeed a important man to America and the spreading of its values to the world. Thank you! i really feel grateful for that.
Rational Bible a contradiction in terms.
An important man. Learning does not stop in universities. Just the tip of the iceberg. The beginning of wisdom is God.
@@claudiasmith8913 Learning, too often, is NEVER allowed in universities!
Most of their foolish agenda is below the surface, like the iceberg analogy.
The tip of wisdom and knowledge is that smaller portion that rises above it!
The fear of man brings a snare, the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom!
@@RoseNoho No it is just you have an irrational view of the Bible and have failed to grasp what Dennis Prager is saying.
@@promiskept "Show me any governmental principle in the Constitution that is in the Bible.
The Constitution is not based upon the Bible, but upon rationalist Enlightenment thinking." Ernest W. Adams
Thank you all for praying to restore religious freedom in our country!
@@drrydog But Islam and Hinduism is perfectly fine at tax-payers expanse?
Religious freedom also includes freedom from religion.
Amen!
What religious freedoms do you lack?
@@soniag4516 wat
Dennis Prager, where have you been all my life?
This goes beyond terrific. Thank you!
Thanks Dennis
Dennis, Thank you for your morals and ethics.
His view on life is a blessing.
When Dennis talked about going through pain and how he can help others through their pain because of it, I was reminded of 2 verses in 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 where it says that the God of all comfort comforts us in our suffering so thay we may be able to comfort others when they are going through suffering.
Sorry Dennis, but I dont talk to my parents because they are so toxic. I'm a Christian, but I dont care to subject myself to their constant criticism. I know its a commandment, but i dont need thier brand of relationship. I'll accept whatever chastisement the Lord chooses to give me for avoiding them.
Excellent man. I really feel affected by his words. And I'm a know-it-all.
Can we multiply Dennis Prager times a million! I love this guy! What an intellectual, insightful, and wise! God bless you!
By the Grace & Guidance of The HOLY SPIRIT, I stumbled upon this video. I pray, my Share, will not be ignored by those I love.
Thank you 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
Never expected to buy Exodus...But I was in B&N the other day,.. and there it was.. so now I have it ;)
Mr. Prager, you are a jewel and source of light to our society... Thank you for all your effort.
I enjoy this every time I rewatch it...even though I disagree to some extent with a few points.
Thank you Dennis Prager!
God Bless
God has blessed this man, my prayer is for many more hear this message and the other brilliant snippets on Pragger U, I cannot explain how enlightened I and others in my family are after watching this man! Thank you for this post
Thank You Dennis for answering the questions I've had for years. I was a Christian for 64 years and was not very happy I knew there was something else for me. and it was Judaism. I was always interested in it and very curious. But I thought you like so many people... that one had to be born a Jew. I started studying 6 yrs ago and attending a Conservative Synagogue.. I LOVE IT!!!
John 14:6. Jesus said to him, I am the way and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Judaism misses the most fundamental point of the whole OT.
It is really sad that i just discovered Dennis Prager in my 70s!!!
I'm 47, just discovered him.
Never too late
He does say some refreshing things
Better late than never :)
No! It's now or never! I'm 66. :-)
. God keeps up His gifts as we get wiser...48 when found Mr Prager. I'm 49 and absorbing God daily :) Prager has a lot to give
WOW, this was an Amazing Lecture and so on point with Facts!!! GOD Bless You Mr. Prager, you are a light at the top of the Hill!!
i find him to be a very wise person. I believe I have benefited from listening to what he has said here.
Dennis has a truly expansive sense of humor, as well. He uses it, wisely, as an important educational adjunct.
@Mark Matthew Pace please, explain.
Thank You Mr. Prager..God Bless you in Lord Jesus Amen.
What a wonderful and wise speeech. It brought tears in my eyes. I am from Germany. Just yesterday i thought about my grandparents who livesd during WWI and WWII and fought. My parents were young kids, when WWII endedy. My Parents and my grandmother, who was living, when i was born, never talked about war, never talked about their experiences with war. My Mother told me in her 70's, that it was painfull enough, even after the war. I don't blame them for not talking about war, because they were traumalized. But i think they traumalized us, their children. So they can't gave us the strength to live a fearful live in god. We the children hadn't the choice to advantage from their experiences. Today i know there was great lack of strength in my younger years. Nevertheless today i know my grandparents never gave up life, love, faith and hope, and that makes me very proud because of my grandparents and parents. And now in my 60's i have the strength to live in these times. Yesterday i had those thoughts and today i find this wonderful speech. I thank you very much Dennis prager and i thank god for leading me to this speech.
My first time listening to Mr. Prager and I am one happy "listening" camper. I highly reccomend his presentations to everyone. Loved your way of presenting your subject. GREAT, and THANK YOU!
Mr. Prager for your wisdom to enlighten the way through life. From a Buddhist.
I enjoy listening to Dennis a lot to the point that it competes with my work.
I adore Dennis Prager. Gems of wisdom and fine humor.
LynnColorado the humor makes it so much more consumable. Great guy!
Never trust someone without a sense of humour
@Sam Covington The "Fact Checking" for contradictions in the bible does not mean there are contradictions in the bible. It may imply the writers either did not understand the bible, or had a predetermined agenda to find the bible self contradictory. Even Maimonides who was a great Dr. & scientist not only at his time, said: "If you think the bible contradicts science then you either don't understand the bible or you don't understand science."
The fact you don't like the bible is your choice. The real question here is: whether you think learning the bible is essential or not. From the content you wrote I deduct you will choose the latter, and that you don't really like Dennis Prager, although you didn't quite write it. Well maybe you only like his humorous rhetoric.
@@a.r.5695 Grabbe, Lester L. (23 February 2017). Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?: Revised Edition. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-567-67044-1. "The impression one has now is that the debate has settled down. Although they do not seem to admit it, the minimalists have triumphed in many ways. That is, most scholars reject the historicity of the 'patriarchal period', see the settlement as mostly made up of indigenous inhabitants of Canaan and are cautious about the early monarchy. The exodus is rejected or assumed to be based on an event much different from the biblical account. On the other hand, there is not the widespread rejection of the biblical text as a historical source that one finds among the main minimalists. There are few, if any, maximalists (defined as those who accept the biblical text unless it can be absolutely disproved) in mainstream scholarship, only on the more fundamentalist fringes."
@@a.r.5695 „Common view of MBS: some tribes/groups/clans that would later go on to join the Israelites told stories of their miraculous departure from Egypt; the story of these few became the story of the many. Most Israelites were actually of Canaanite stock; their ancestors did not participate in an Exodus from Egypt;
"•Israelites did not build the pyramids!!!”
-Shaye J.D. Cohen
MBS=modern Bible scholarship. Cohen is a believing Jew, but he isn't stupid.
I am in love with the book of Leviticus! It's the best book to teach Christians to how to be a Christian. As Peter tells us as obedient children we are to be holy because the one who called us is holy, as it is written, "You shall be holy because I am holy, says the LORD." It's directly quoted from Leviticus, which is said several times. It's the book to teach us holiness and how to be holy in all our behavior. I can't wait for the release of Pragers Leviticus commentary.
I absolutely loved this! I really hope you have Mr. Prager back to give a speech on each of the 5 books of the Torah
Thank you so much Jesus Christ today again specially!
All the grace and the glory to our God Almighty the Father Jesus Christ our Lord today again!
Thank you so much for sharing!
So wonderful!
I was so impressed!
God bless all!
God bless AMERICA!
I think you are one in 7 people i listen too regularly that makes complete since! So refreshing 😁🙏
Complete since?
@@yashamanning4712 sense
Amazing speech by an amazing man. Thanks to Dennis Prager I opened myself to learn the wisdom of the Bible and thanks God, I got to know Mr Prager in my 20s.. 🙏
I would be honored to work for this man one day
Fascinating, simply fascinating!
This man is one of the most brilliant thinkers and speakers of our time. God bless you, Dennis Prager!
What a wonderfull man ❤️🇩🇰🇺🇸
If you haven't trusted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, TODAY is the day of your Salvation, please accept your free gift that was purchased and paid for the sins of the whole world.
Romans 6:23 kjb - For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The Gospel (the good news)!!
Salvation is not your 'good works', 'religion' or 'rituals', it's God's Work On The Cross. Religion says you have to do something. Jesus Christ said, "IT IS FINISHED".
Jesus Christ is God, manifest in the flesh and He came on earth to die for our sins. He bore our sins on the cross of Calvary. Have you accepted His free gift of Salvation? Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour? Have you truly BELIEVED from your heart that Jesus Christ is LORD? Have you BELIEVED in the death, burial and resurrection found in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 KING JAMES Bible? That's how a lost soul can get saved. Remember that it's NOT what we do that gets us saved, it's what Jesus Christ DID on the cross of Calvary, that's what SAVES a lost soul.
Ephesians 1:13 KJB - SAVED and SEALED until the day of redemption.
Ephesians 2:8-9 KJB - 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Take this opportunity and please accept your free gift of ETERNAL LIFE now because time is running out. Please get saved before it's too late for your soul!!
John 3:18 kjb - He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Heaven and Hell are REAL, LITERAL places.
There's ONLY 1 Eternity to choose from, Heaven or Hell, choose wisely for your soul!!
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Grace and Peace to all!!
You're such a beautiful person, wish there were more people like you!!
Amen!
@@jeanmarietuggle3428
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Wow Dennis! What a gift! I am wiser for having watched this. I'm ordering your book right now. Thank you
Also try Jordon Peterson and Dr. Victor Hanson.
God blessed you, Mr. Prager, with a brilliant mind. Thank you for sharing that brilliance!
God bless you Mr. Prager. I love you book on Exodus. Hope you keep writing.
Not enough people have watched this video. If more people listened to the wisdom of Dennis Prager, the world would be a much better, loving, and moral place!
I really love the book Rational Bible. Thanks Dennis Peager
1:07:28 As a native of Southern California who now lives in OKC, OKC's weather is actually quite nice. We get almost as much sunshine every year as SoCal, summers are sometimes muggy but the winds take the sting out of the humidity, it snows every year but seldom enough to shovel it. The tornado threat in Oklahoma is exaggerated--in reality, tornadoes are becoming less and less common in OKC and DFW while places like Nashville and Birmingham are having more and more tornadoes.
"Nobody living before the left was a good human being, may be Lenin"
GOLD!
Thanks, Pepperdine University and the School of Public Policy for posting this wonderful video which I think contribute so much to true education in America and add so much value to every family in our country!
~My comments are directed to Dennis: I like you, Dennis Prager, I am 100% sure we, all Christians love you and I am positive of the fact that the whole Christian community at least in USA thanks God for your life and commitment and we all pray to God to give you a long-lasting and productive life doing what you do and influencing the world in the values of God's ways and morals!
~So my comments from a loving heart are: Dennis when you say: "You love The Tora more than you love God", (we too can say the same) which is perfectly fine to me because it is God's first manifestation and revelation to humans, but for Christians Jesus Christ is tantamount to bibliolatry, the logos of the scriptures, from the Genesis. Many of God's communications by means of the prophets announced him and prepared his people for the "unbelievable", the coming of a Mesias. Someone whom his people could identify themselves with as they would be liberated from the burden of the Wonderful Law that by God's love would help our human nature stay out of trouble and still does. But still being slaves of our sinful nature, God himself needed and wanted to connect with his people in an unprecedented way and LOVED the World in a way they would understand if they were just able to set aside strict religious believes and traditions!
After all Jesus Christ came to fulfill, not to abolish!
~When you say I have my issues with God, I understand you; I know you love God! From time to time we humanly think the same way; So much suffering? etc. But Jesus didn't come to end suffering, not yet (Jesus even said the poor you will ALWAYS have among you), but to "demonstrate" to us the Great Love of the father and to attract generations to come towards him for everlasting salvation; after all, God is and become whatever he decides to be, because He is of spiritual nature; for me is spiritual dimension! . . . So a clear answer to the suffering and why God might look not responsive to it could have many theological explanations, but deepening into Jesus Christ PRE-and post prophesies and Jesus Christ life, death, and resurrection may shed new information and fresh answers to that and many other questions!
Thank you for your teachings! I have learned a lot watching PragerU, and many other videos where you are in. WE NEED YOU! America needs you!
Dennis, I am always learning, so if you think there are other things, non public information, or any information that as a God loving person I should know, please direct me to it: davinciandres35@gmail.com
Prager Purposefully Powerful! Thank you, Sir!
Excellent lecture by Dennis Prager.
I love listening to Dennis Wisdom is a thing of the past in much of our culture
@LostXProphet23 The Bible says people who work on Saturdays should be tortured to death. What is wise about that? It says a man can sell his daughter as a sex slave. What's wise about that? God orders the slicing open of the bellies of pregnant women. What is wise about that?
@@RoseNoho whenever I hear someone talking about how they get morality from their " faith" ...I usually ask them to explain these atrocities in their bronze age mythological book.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your wisdom
I had the honor of playing a show at Pepperdine while i was touring the states with a famous group in 2000 and it was a very memorable experience for me. Everyone was so friendly i was blown away. I should have known one of my favorite speakers had a connection to the university.
Love it! 🌝
I've shared this with all my heart and soul to my family members and friends. I hope you will also. THANKS for posting
Brilliant lecture. Deep thinkers are rare nowadays
Deep thinkers are rare in public places....
I may be British, yet politically I think like an American! This is because I will always stand by the belief that all of humanity is better off being poor and free than rich and oppressed, however if you are free you have the potential to become rich, prosperous and happy.
I feel grateful for your words and your mind. Thank you mr. Prager
It is really sad that I just discovered Dennis Prager in my 80s!!! God Bless us both, Pawel Trawicki! And I wish Dennis Prager would comment on the greatest sin in the Torah compared to the New Testament where Jesus says that to offend the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, but offending Jesus or His Father will.
Fantastic speech by Dennis Prager!
This is so good that I have shared it with my family and friends
So so so so much wisdom here. I really enjoyed this! Always have enjoyed Mr Prager’s lessons!
Thank you Dennis for your Wisdom from Go.....A breath of fresh air !!!!!
"loving God isn't natural, it's effortful"...nice statement...
I forward these speakers to my son's and to my grandson who is a Jew. The remark afterwards were also very encouraging. Keep up the good fight.
Wonderful talk Dennis..
Wisdom for the ages..... thank you Dennis......... I pray the Messiah will find you and soon and speedily in our days may Moschiac return
What a great speaker and helps explain many things..that's happiness to me!
Dennis is the manliest man ever. Because he is a stable and true human being, totally solid man. Just a trustworthy soul. Love him. Great guide and leader. Great man..
Always love hearing Dennis he brings such insights into every discussion and debate its a pleasure to hear. One thing that made me wonder was when he said that he loved the word more than God. What made me wonder was how you could separate God from His Word the two are one because God will not contradict His Word ever in essence God is His Word to love the one and not the other makes no sense.
Same here. That statement puzzled me. I was hoping that he would go further into it, because I couldn't understand how he could have peace about that statement.
Edgar; yes I was enlightened also by hearing Dennis explain that to love God takes effort, and He knows that.
Tku Mr Prager, so helpful to me.
Such wise words of wisdom! Thank you Dennis! Good job!
Many excellent points, especially surprising is on LOVE Your GOD with All your Heart, All your mind, And Soul. 59:37
Amen!
Dennis, don't ever die, my Grandkids need you.
Dennis God Bless You !!!
I've only seen half of it thus far, but it's brilliant.
EXCELLENT MAN OF WISDOM ‼️‼️‼️‼️
You can clearly see it a spiritual battle between satan and the almighty God
tfw the "allmighty" god needs to fight
@YT CanSMD
Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them. For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you. Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off. And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again. For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.
@YT CanSMD read romans 11
Just fantastic! Couldn't stop to listen to it.
I remember a teacher in High School that said no one could be really educated that is lacking in knowledge about the Bible.
What a wonderful legacy to leave in memory of your wife.
I can listen to him all day. So soothing.
I pray we get over this pandemic and go back to enjoying live lectures, events with our fellow friends and families .
People are lost without The Word Of God !
LOVE LOVE LOVE
Wow! So much wisdom in just 1 hour. Thank you!
Mr. Prager, you are a treasure - not a national treasure - not a world treasure - not in your generation. You are a treasure for all time everywhere you can be heard. Your work is a gift. Thank you.
The Torah is the treasure. Mr. Prager is just a vehicle.
I have watched this as an atheist. I am quite impressed. I have studied the bible decades ago, and I did not get this understanding from it. Just the bit about "don't murder" is illuminating. But so much more.
One of my adult kids no longer talks to me, so you have hit a major chord there.
I am also surprised that, even with over 90 thousands views, not one comment.
Glad I found this on RUclips. Great talk.
Thank u for all u have done
Thank you Dennis
This was amazing. Thanks for your work!
This IS a big deal!
Thank you ,Dennis for all you do, helping me to keep perspective.
Thank you, Dennis Prager & Pepperdine University!
Would love to discuss the lessons of Bible as applicable to Ostrich story. Agree with you but for other reasons, just simple person that has vast knowledge of animals and their behaviors.
Thank you for this upload.
Love Dennis
Thank ypu for this. I'd forgotten about the bible verses with dinner on the airlines (It wasn't just Alaskan. I seem to remember another doing it as well).
Loved your talk, can’t waittobuy your book and listen to more lectures! Thank you!
Wonderful! thank you
Great lecture, thanks for uploading!
Seems to me there was alot of Pop music songs in the 70', 80's & 90's to "Follow Your Heart". That's one of the doors which let in today's belief system.
Good to see that there are brave families that are united in standing for the Bill of Rights and our Constitution!
Dennis Prager is the human embodiment of the Hebrew principle of Tikkun Olam. He is a national treasure. May the LORD bless him and keep him....