8:32 I highly recommend, "Cynical Theories". Such a great book that gives an in-depth overview of Postmodernism, Critical Theory, Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, Feminism and other woke movements.
@@jeanwanchen1 you're welcome! Authors Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay have done RUclips interviews discussing the book / some of its topics. So, that's a good starting point if you don't want to read the whole thing. The book is a great resource, but it's a lot of information. Lots of history and terminology
All good. We must remember that racism and racial injustice is real and the church first and foremost should stand up against injustice. Just dismissing it as a sin problem isn't enough but actions need to be taken. Imagine if Martin Luther King Jr. didn't push his movement as he did and he just told people to pray because it's a sin problem. That's what I keep hearing from the church.
Very true, but don't seek comfort in the culture over the Kingdom of God. BLM is truly a doctrine of devils. The organization not the words of course. And ultimately it is a sin problem.
@@adrianespinoza8016 Amen. MLK might not have been apart of that movement if he was still around reason for his execution he saw what was real. His family is blinded from the truth seemingly.
Thank you. Think parents need to hear this , to help address issues that our children could run into and not understand why " they " are treated a harsh way.
I'm not a critical theorist but the bit about generational repentance is biblical in the story of David hanging Saul's grandchildren because of Saul's sins against the Gibeonites. I know we're not under that covenant but I was hoping to hear some opinion on that. God bless
@@JamesRichardWiley Well it's important to view the stories as events, not promotion. Your comment aligns much with the way I used to read the bible. Like, the first time I read the book of Judges I was kind of like, "Wtf" lol But God sometimes uses sinners to progress His plan because if He didn't, there would truly be no hope.
Women are in union with men, men are in union with Jesus and Jesus is in union with The Father. 1 Corinthians 11:3 But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; in turn, the head of a woman is the man; in turn, the head of the Christ is.. God. John 17: 21 Jesus said: so that they may ALL BE ONE, just as YOU, Father, are in union with ME and I am in union with YOU, that they also may be in union with US, so that the world may believe that YOU SENT ME. 22 I have given them the glory that you have given me, in order that they may be one just as WE ARE ONE. - Our Father who is in heaven YHWH Jehovah love the world so much, that he sent his only begotten son Jesus.
@@johnmakovec5698 change his mind? Jesús said that was suppose to happen like that before it happened, Paul said God the father resurrected Jesus in Galatians 1:1, Peter and John too in Acts 3:13:15
@@Thlastday00 You are right. You used the word "sent". Very often, the phrase with "gave" is used. But that "gave" doesn't make sense, if he knew, that he will have him back.
@@johnmakovec5698 You don't make any sense, people can give things regardless of them getting it back or not, you're in denial. Moreover the word "give" is applied to the sacrifice made for sins by Jesus' Passion and death, not Jesus staying dead.
@@VirginMostPowerfull I'm not native English speaker...but I thought, that "to lend" is the right word, if you give something to someone to limited period of time. "To give" is more about not expecting to have it back. People does not usually consider "giving life" to be something temporary, but if you want to apply it on resurrected person, I would consider the phrase "give life" to be false, if you know beforehand, that you are going to be alive later. If you are not sure, than "risk your life". If you are sure, that you are to be resurrected, than we can't really talk about giving a life, but more about giving a period of time from that life - for example - Jesus sacrifised 2 days of his life. If you want Jesus to give his life & be resurrected, it seems that you want to have a cake and eat it in the same time. The resurrection lowers the sacrifise of the life to sacrifise of few days, if you want Jesus to know about it before event itself.
Bottom line is most people couldn’t care less about ones race today. The media and the Democrat Party needs it to be true so you continue to vote Democrat. It’s also used for the American version of socialism. Instead of dividing by class it uses race. It’s not 1865 or 1965 anymore. It’s time to move forward. Never forget and always teach the past but stop creating something that isn’t there. Why do you think so many “hate crimes” have to be made up today.
Only one interpreter the Holy Spirit and He has no color. Don’t be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Than you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing and perfect will of God. Take up your heavy cross with the help of Jesus Christ. It’s not our duty to change people that God’s business. Christ’s sheep knows His voice He knows ours. 2 Timothy 2:24-25 2 Corinthians 12:9-11 2 Corinthians 10:4-5
I need not bear a cross, I can laugh at your piety, sin against God himself, and live the life of the most debauched sinner you can imagine. I shall dedicate my sin at every opportunity to provide you a cross to bear. And I shall repent at the very end, take God into my heart and God will have me sit next to you in heaven.
@@NewCreationInChrist896 Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, This sounds like utter nonsense and you bring ridicule and mockery to yourself for following it. You don’t have a renewed mind. You are pretending you have.
Moralistic, altruism and acting in the common good of a society evidently predates abrahamic religion. Even if you assert that the inate guide, of what is right and wrong, is derived from God. Why then is religion needed. The answer is the accumulation of wealth, power and control. This is business amd should be taxed as such.
True, but the creator predates Abraham and every man... the bible says "he made us in his image and in his likeness" set laws/commands are necessary because it's easy to override that "likeness" especially in a culture like now that glorifies hedonism and Godlessness.
God's real name is Yahweh. Yahweh is the Hebrew character in the Bible stories who drowned all the unborn babies, approved of human slavery and came into human form to be tortured and crucified instead of admitting and correcting his mistakes.
@@adrianespinoza8016 The Beatles predate Sergeant Pepper's, but they are still the band that made it. The Abrahamic God...it the God of Abrahamic religions. I'll grant you, sky wizards of various names were christenined before Abraham, yes. All just as powerful as a fart.
@@bobdrooples missing the point Bud... IN the BEGINNING God made man in his image. So whatever goodness is in man is because of God even if they deny or don't know the Creator and even if they predated Abraham....
Very informative, I can imagine the socialist, communist, and entitled people pulling the strings and manipulating average people to achieve their aims, not hard to imagine the force behind this.
@@mikedestroyer5139 In common language, if you want to give your claim some value (not manipulate people or create clickbait article header), usually "science proves" means "the explanation accepted by big majority". If 99,9 % scientific community in related fields consideres evolution (macro & micro as one big system) to be best explanation we have, I can consider your sentence misleading, at minimum, or manipulative. If those 0,1 % of scientist would be able to provide evidence, that their explanation is more valuable, then they are going to become the mainstream and then your sentence would be trully truthfull. So "Some people believe, that genetics proves intelligent design". But most of people in related fields of study consider biological evolution to be better explanation.
@@johnmakovec5698 Science proves facts not chance and its a fact Genetics proves Intelligent Design/Creation Used/Designed by Creator nothing else. Is that all you have is Opinion???? 😂👍
@@mikedestroyer5139 Science proves facts, not chance? It seems, that you, sir, don't know much about science. Science (outside of mathematics) operates with probabilities. It's not rigid, it can grow with our understanding and creating more functional models. But with you knowledge of science, I have doubts, that it's reasonable even trying to explain you, why you are wrong.
According to Mark (11:23 and 16: 17-18) and John (14:12), those who have faith in Jesus will perform miracles; sometimes even larger than those of Jesus himself. These miracles are not reserved for first century Christians, but this is a hallmark of any believing Christian in Jesus. Indeed, the consequences of this conception are serious because the one who, in spite of his faith, will not perform miracles risks being exposed to doubt. So, according to this conception, the majority of Christians who do not perform miracles are not true Christians.
When will Yahweh appear and end the god debate that has been going on for thousands of years? Oh, wait, he already came and went and the debate continues.
One day the famous Voltaire said: I had two hundred books which spoke of Christian theology. But the worst part was that when I read them all, I felt like I was in a mental hospital! (The History of Civilization, by Will Durant page 205 & volume 38.)
All roads lead to an invisible desert god with three personalities hiding in the clouds above Mt. Sinai. How dumb do you think I am after 72 years of reading, thinking and observing all the evidence presented by the Christian Right?
Why did the Creator (of all things) want the serpent to be smart, cunning and full of knowledge !!!? Why the Creator (of all things) wanted Adam & Eve to be very ignorant, very naive and very gullible !!!? Why did the Creator create, in the Garden of Eden, the serpent like this (total intelligence and wickedness) !!!? Why did the Creator create, in the Garden of Eden, Adam & Eve like this (ignorance, credulity and total naivety) !!!? Why God who is the Omniscient and knew in advance what the serpent was going to do to Adam & Eve … did not do the necessary to save Adam & Eve and therefore save Jesus from crucifixion and death !!!? Why God Who is the Omnipresent was not present at the place where the serpent began to trick Adam & Eve and only appeared after the catastrophe: after having tricked these two creatures who had the ability of two babies, God, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent, came to seek Adam: Adam, where are you !!!? Like he didn't know where Adam was or wanted to play the game of hide and seek with him (Genesis 3: 9) !!! ??? Placing Adam & Eve in a dangerous place without weapons (without knowledge of right and wrong unlike the snake)… was unfair !!! In your opinion, my dear friend the naive Christian, that he was responsible for the original sin and the suffering of all mankind: Adam & Eve, the serpent or God (the Ingenious Creator, the Omniscient, the Omnipresent ) !!!? I beg you to go and look in the church where his men hid your brain and put it in your head and think about these very logical questions a little and answer me. Cordially. The church told you that God only sent his only son, Jesus, to earth to be killed in order to save humanity (SALVATION) from the fallout of original sin for which Adam was primarily responsible; my dear friend, where Jesus spoke throughout the bible with his own mouth about this bizarre sin or Adam or at least where he alluded to them !!!? Nowhere. Nowhere. Nowhere.
I will try to walk you through this, if you left a long rambling I'm guessing you care about us and want to help us desperately, decent intention but misguided. *1.* God chooses to do *or* allow things only in as much as they contribute to his ultimate glory, which means all evil in this world contributes one way or another to increasing his ultimate glory when this world will come to an end and we are all judged on the last day. *2.* Evil does not possess existence of itself, it is a lack of existence, something faulty, the etymology of the word sin is "missing the mark". So we cannot direct our wills to do evil per say, we can only direct it towards doing an *apparent* good, which in fact is evil. Seduction to do evil is brought with the general aspect of good but the core of nothingness, of meaninglessness, of vanity, of a lie. *3.* The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil being opposed to the Tree of Life represents this well, since knowledge of itself is good, but seeking knowledge that is antithetic to one's own state in life is evil. You see, our first parents Adam and Eve *already* had knowledge of good and evil but only by reference to God's nature which can do no evil and thus only shows them evil as a privation of good, as disobedience, but when they ate from the fruit they lost this mystical clarity and received experiential knowledge of evil, which made them fall from grace, they saw each other naked and were ashamed of what the other could do with such vulnerability, for they were no longer psychologically and spiritually bound by their common agreement with God. *4.* In the Garden of Eden, God allowed the serpent (Satan) to tempt our first parents, because we can only merit eternal beatitude through trial of the will, whether that be the will of our parents or our own will. It is true that Adam and Eve lived in a natural paradise, but it was not a *supernatural* paradise like Heaven. What is of supernatural origin must be merited, and even merit on its own is not powerful enough to attain it, God must grant the grace, the priviledge. *5.* The angels received a test as well, that is why Satan exists, he failed it. Both for the angels and for humans, God knew in advance what would happen, and he also knew in advance what glory would come of it, but the responsability remains ours for it was our choice to spit on the eternal God and look inwardly taken by a satanic narcissism. If your friend watches the news before you, and you both watch it together later, then your friend will be able to tell you in advance what the reporter will say and what crimes have been committed, but it is not because he has forknowledge that he also has responsability. You see responsability is determined by two things, the first is one's nature, the second is one's power, if by nature you are equal to another then you have the responsability to sustain his life in as much as you have the power to do it. However if your nature is superior to another, like the animal you eat, then no such law applies, more complicated ethics must be employed. Likewise God being of the greatest nature there is, the divine nature, seeks goals that are above our comprehension and scope, and is thus under no obligation to use his power to sustain our lives unless the express promise is made in which case he has bound himself by his infallible honesty, being God and not a sinner. *6.* The fall of Adam and Eve was a tragedy, understood on its own. But this great evil would in the end pave the way for an even greater good than what was promised to us in the Garden of Eden were we to succeed the test. Adam was the head of the human race, and as our head he made us fall by his sin, but this gave God the opportunity to send his only begotten Son Jesus Christ to be our new head, making a divine and human being the head of the human race. *7.* Jesus Christ both God and man, is a greater head than Adam could ever be, and by union with him we undergo what the Greeks call "theosis" and what the Latins call "sanctification", we are divinized, become as gods, being conformed to the image of Christ who is God, being part of his body which is God's body. We do not possess divinity in ourselves, only God is the true God, but by intimate and mystical mariage with the divine savior we will one day radiate divine light. Even at this hour, if we are to understand the writings of St. Theresa of Avila, we may attain virtual perfection, in wait of the true mariage at the hour of death.
@@destynationq7400 Adam and Eve did not know what is evil or something that is wrong or ... that when they ate this so-called fruit of the knowledge of good and evil and the proof is in the same story: Genesis 3: 9 But the LORD God called the man, and said unto him, Where art thou? Gen 3:10 He answered, I heard your voice in the garden, and was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself. Genesis 3:11 And the LORD God said, Who told you that you are naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I forbade you to eat? Genesis 3:12 The man answered, The woman whom you placed with me gave me of the tree, and I ate it. Genesis 3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, Why hast thou done this? The woman answered, The serpent deceived me, and I ate it. God put them face to face like a serpent without having the slightest knowledge of what evil is, what it is to transgress orders, what it is to be naked ...
@@destynationq7400 Did the God of the Bible drive Adam out of the Garden of Eden because he was afraid he would eat the fruit of the tree of life or because Adam sinned by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil !!!? God of Christians was afraid !!! God of Christians was afraid !!! Yes, God of Christians was afraid !!! But of what !!!? Adam & Eve transgressed the God by eating the fruit of the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil and therefore became knowledgeable just like this God. And God was afraid that these two humans would dare to also eat the fruit of the tree of life and become eternal like him, he placed guardians, cherubim who wave flaming swords to protect this tree. What a funny sect, this Christianity. Genesis 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Genesis 3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. Genesis 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Great interview and podcast. Thank you Dr. Shenvi and and Dr. Turek!
8:32 I highly recommend, "Cynical Theories". Such a great book that gives an in-depth overview of Postmodernism, Critical Theory, Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, Feminism and other woke movements.
Wow seems interesting, thank you!
@@jeanwanchen1 you're welcome! Authors Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay have done RUclips interviews discussing the book / some of its topics. So, that's a good starting point if you don't want to read the whole thing.
The book is a great resource, but it's a lot of information. Lots of history and terminology
All truth claims are a bid to power?
Very well then.
My lived experience informed me that truth claims are not a bid to power.
All good. We must remember that racism and racial injustice is real and the church first and foremost should stand up against injustice. Just dismissing it as a sin problem isn't enough but actions need to be taken. Imagine if Martin Luther King Jr. didn't push his movement as he did and he just told people to pray because it's a sin problem. That's what I keep hearing from the church.
Very true, but don't seek comfort in the culture over the Kingdom of God. BLM is truly a doctrine of devils. The organization not the words of course. And ultimately it is a sin problem.
@@adrianespinoza8016
Amen.
MLK might not have been apart of that movement if he was still around reason for his execution he saw what was real. His family is blinded from the truth seemingly.
This tied so many things together. Why ppl say math is racist. Why woke groups infight.
Excellent podcast! I'm a brazilian that is listening the true!
Reason and order is from God choas and abstraction is from the enemy. They are like their father, the Devil.
Yahweh has supreme power over Satan.
Satan does what his master tells him to do.
How amazing that God is so beyond us and yet reveals Himself in such a straightforward, elegant manner. Miraculous grace!
Yahweh could easily defeat his enemy Satan and end global suffering right now.
What is his reason for refusing to do this?
Thank you. Think parents need to hear this , to help address issues that our children could run into and not understand why " they " are treated a harsh way.
I'm not a critical theorist but the bit about generational repentance is biblical in the story of David hanging Saul's grandchildren because of Saul's sins against the Gibeonites.
I know we're not under that covenant but I was hoping to hear some opinion on that.
God bless
The Bible is full of immoral stories.
I could not benefit from reading them.
@@JamesRichardWiley Well it's important to view the stories as events, not promotion. Your comment aligns much with the way I used to read the bible. Like, the first time I read the book of Judges I was kind of like, "Wtf" lol But God sometimes uses sinners to progress His plan because if He didn't, there would truly be no hope.
@@JamesRichardWiley
Nice to meet Mr. Moral himself!
@@JamesRichardWiley Do read the actual story and who did what. The story is rather more complicated.
Women are in union with men, men are in union with Jesus and Jesus is in union with The Father. 1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; in turn, the head of a woman is the man; in turn, the head of the Christ is.. God. John 17: 21 Jesus said: so that they may ALL BE ONE, just as YOU, Father, are in union with ME and I am in union with YOU, that they also may be in union with US, so that the world may believe that YOU SENT ME. 22 I have given them the glory that you have given me, in order that they may be one just as WE ARE ONE.
- Our Father who is in heaven YHWH Jehovah love the world so much, that he sent his only begotten son Jesus.
And after 2 days, he changed his mind...resurrected Jesus and took him back to Heavens.
@@johnmakovec5698 change his mind? Jesús said that was suppose to happen like that before it happened, Paul said God the father resurrected Jesus in Galatians 1:1, Peter and John too in Acts 3:13:15
@@Thlastday00 You are right. You used the word "sent". Very often, the phrase with "gave" is used. But that "gave" doesn't make sense, if he knew, that he will have him back.
@@johnmakovec5698 You don't make any sense, people can give things regardless of them getting it back or not, you're in denial.
Moreover the word "give" is applied to the sacrifice made for sins by Jesus' Passion and death, not Jesus staying dead.
@@VirginMostPowerfull I'm not native English speaker...but I thought, that "to lend" is the right word, if you give something to someone to limited period of time. "To give" is more about not expecting to have it back.
People does not usually consider "giving life" to be something temporary, but if you want to apply it on resurrected person, I would consider the phrase "give life" to be false, if you know beforehand, that you are going to be alive later. If you are not sure, than "risk your life". If you are sure, that you are to be resurrected, than we can't really talk about giving a life, but more about giving a period of time from that life - for example - Jesus sacrifised 2 days of his life.
If you want Jesus to give his life & be resurrected, it seems that you want to have a cake and eat it in the same time. The resurrection lowers the sacrifise of the life to sacrifise of few days, if you want Jesus to know about it before event itself.
I just have to say be careful what you read out side of the bible. Things that take away from the truth can change ppl.
Seek God’s will daily.
1 Corinthians 3:7-9
Ephesians 2:8-10🕊
If Yahweh is all powerful then he has complete control over you at all times.
@@JamesRichardWiley
Repent
Hoping you will with all the time you and others spend refuting.
Hebrews 12:2🛡
Everything is God's will
@@johnmakovec5698
Permissive will = free will.
Romans 8:28-29
@@NewCreationInChrist896 So you just open the Bible and guess, what would your god love you to do, right?
See also the channel ‘New Discourses’
Bottom line is most people couldn’t care less about ones race today. The media and the Democrat Party needs it to be true so you continue to vote Democrat. It’s also used for the American version of socialism. Instead of dividing by class it uses race. It’s not 1865 or 1965 anymore. It’s time to move forward. Never forget and always teach the past but stop creating something that isn’t there. Why do you think so many “hate crimes” have to be made up today.
Neil Shenvi’s website is so well-organized it provides the most straightforward crash-course in critical theory on the web.
When you get to the level of Sir Roger Scrutton let me know.
Only one interpreter the Holy Spirit and He has no color. Don’t be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Than you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing and perfect will of God. Take up your heavy cross with the help of Jesus Christ. It’s not our duty to change people that God’s business. Christ’s sheep knows His voice He knows ours.
2 Timothy 2:24-25
2 Corinthians 12:9-11
2 Corinthians 10:4-5
2 Timothy is a forgery.
I read enough of the Bible to see how dangerous it was to my mental health.
I need not bear a cross, I can laugh at your piety, sin against God himself, and live the life of the most debauched sinner you can imagine. I shall dedicate my sin at every opportunity to provide you a cross to bear.
And I shall repent at the very end, take God into my heart and God will have me sit next to you in heaven.
@Frank Bob and James
REPENT
Romans 12:2
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
@@NewCreationInChrist896
Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,
This sounds like utter nonsense and you bring ridicule and mockery to yourself for following it.
You don’t have a renewed mind.
You are pretending you have.
Moralistic, altruism and acting in the common good of a society evidently predates abrahamic religion. Even if you assert that the inate guide, of what is right and wrong, is derived from God.
Why then is religion needed.
The answer is the accumulation of wealth, power and control. This is business amd should be taxed as such.
True, but the creator predates Abraham and every man... the bible says "he made us in his image and in his likeness" set laws/commands are necessary because it's easy to override that "likeness" especially in a culture like now that glorifies hedonism and Godlessness.
God's real name is Yahweh.
Yahweh is the Hebrew character in the Bible stories who drowned all the unborn babies,
approved of human slavery
and came into human form to be tortured and crucified
instead of admitting and correcting his mistakes.
@@adrianespinoza8016 The Beatles predate Sergeant Pepper's, but they are still the band that made it. The Abrahamic God...it the God of Abrahamic religions.
I'll grant you, sky wizards of various names were christenined before Abraham, yes.
All just as powerful as a fart.
@@bobdrooples missing the point Bud... IN the BEGINNING God made man in his image. So whatever goodness is in man is because of God even if they deny or don't know the Creator and even if they predated Abraham....
Very informative, I can imagine the socialist, communist, and entitled people pulling the strings and manipulating average people to achieve their aims, not hard to imagine the force behind this.
While Jesus watches
and does nothing.
3rd!!!
I’m gay for Jesus
5th commenter!
Genetics proves Intelligent Design/Creation nothing else proven 👍
If that would be true, than creationism would be the mainstream of science in that field. It is not.
@@johnmakovec5698 Doesn't matter if it's mainstream or not BUT what DOES matter is what science proves and that Intelligent Design/Creation 😊👍
@@mikedestroyer5139 In common language, if you want to give your claim some value (not manipulate people or create clickbait article header), usually "science proves" means "the explanation accepted by big majority".
If 99,9 % scientific community in related fields consideres evolution (macro & micro as one big system) to be best explanation we have, I can consider your sentence misleading, at minimum, or manipulative. If those 0,1 % of scientist would be able to provide evidence, that their explanation is more valuable, then they are going to become the mainstream and then your sentence would be trully truthfull.
So "Some people believe, that genetics proves intelligent design". But most of people in related fields of study consider biological evolution to be better explanation.
@@johnmakovec5698 Science proves facts not chance and its a fact Genetics proves Intelligent Design/Creation Used/Designed by Creator nothing else. Is that all you have is Opinion???? 😂👍
@@mikedestroyer5139 Science proves facts, not chance? It seems, that you, sir, don't know much about science. Science (outside of mathematics) operates with probabilities. It's not rigid, it can grow with our understanding and creating more functional models.
But with you knowledge of science, I have doubts, that it's reasonable even trying to explain you, why you are wrong.
Here’s a line of logic: Satan means accuser, critical theory accuses everything, therefore there is a relationship between Satan and critical theory.
Satan exists only at the whim of his Supreme Master, Yahweh, your God.
@@JamesRichardWiley If you don't believe in free will then how did you choose to say that? Satan is a being of free will and so are we so choose.
According to Mark (11:23 and 16: 17-18) and John (14:12), those who have faith in Jesus will perform miracles; sometimes even larger than those of Jesus himself. These miracles are not reserved for first century Christians, but this is a hallmark of any believing Christian in Jesus.
Indeed, the consequences of this conception are serious because the one who, in spite of his faith, will not perform miracles risks being exposed to doubt.
So, according to this conception, the majority of Christians who do not perform miracles are not true Christians.
When will Yahweh appear and end the god debate
that has been going on for thousands of years?
Oh, wait, he already came and went and the debate continues.
@@JamesRichardWiley
Tell me my friend, where is Yahweh's name inscribed or measured in the New Testament according to the first manuscripts?
One day the famous Voltaire said: I had two hundred books which spoke of Christian theology. But the worst part was that when I read them all, I felt like I was in a mental hospital! (The History of Civilization, by Will Durant page 205 & volume 38.)
All roads lead to an invisible desert god with three personalities hiding in the clouds above Mt. Sinai.
How dumb do you think I am
after 72 years of reading, thinking and observing all the evidence presented by the Christian Right?
You’re very Critical ---- Theory
Why did the Creator (of all things) want the serpent to be smart, cunning and full of knowledge !!!?
Why the Creator (of all things) wanted Adam & Eve to be very ignorant, very naive and very gullible !!!?
Why did the Creator create, in the Garden of Eden, the serpent like this (total intelligence and wickedness) !!!?
Why did the Creator create, in the Garden of Eden, Adam & Eve like this (ignorance, credulity and total naivety) !!!?
Why God who is the Omniscient and knew in advance what the serpent was going to do to Adam & Eve … did not do the necessary to save Adam & Eve and therefore save Jesus from crucifixion and death !!!?
Why God Who is the Omnipresent was not present at the place where the serpent began to trick Adam & Eve and only appeared after the catastrophe: after having tricked these two creatures who had the ability of two babies, God, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent, came to seek Adam: Adam, where are you !!!? Like he didn't know where Adam was or wanted to play the game of hide and seek with him (Genesis 3: 9) !!! ???
Placing Adam & Eve in a dangerous place without weapons (without knowledge of right and wrong unlike the snake)… was unfair !!!
In your opinion, my dear friend the naive Christian, that he was responsible for the original sin and the suffering of all mankind: Adam & Eve, the serpent or God (the Ingenious Creator, the Omniscient, the Omnipresent ) !!!?
I beg you to go and look in the church where his men hid your brain and put it in your head and think about these very logical questions a little and answer me.
Cordially.
The church told you that God only sent his only son, Jesus, to earth to be killed in order to save humanity (SALVATION) from the fallout of original sin for which Adam was primarily responsible; my dear friend, where Jesus spoke throughout the bible with his own mouth about this bizarre sin or Adam or at least where he alluded to them !!!? Nowhere. Nowhere. Nowhere.
You need to watch many more Cross Examined videos.
I don’t understand why someone would care enough to leave a long rambling comment like this. From nothing to nothing with no coherence between.
I will try to walk you through this, if you left a long rambling I'm guessing you care about us and want to help us desperately, decent intention but misguided.
*1.* God chooses to do *or* allow things only in as much as they contribute to his ultimate glory, which means all evil in this world contributes one way or another to increasing his ultimate glory when this world will come to an end and we are all judged on the last day.
*2.* Evil does not possess existence of itself, it is a lack of existence, something faulty, the etymology of the word sin is "missing the mark". So we cannot direct our wills to do evil per say, we can only direct it towards doing an *apparent* good, which in fact is evil. Seduction to do evil is brought with the general aspect of good but the core of nothingness, of meaninglessness, of vanity, of a lie.
*3.* The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil being opposed to the Tree of Life represents this well, since knowledge of itself is good, but seeking knowledge that is antithetic to one's own state in life is evil.
You see, our first parents Adam and Eve *already* had knowledge of good and evil but only by reference to God's nature which can do no evil and thus only shows them evil as a privation of good, as disobedience, but when they ate from the fruit they lost this mystical clarity and received experiential knowledge of evil, which made them fall from grace, they saw each other naked and were ashamed of what the other could do with such vulnerability, for they were no longer psychologically and spiritually bound by their common agreement with God.
*4.* In the Garden of Eden, God allowed the serpent (Satan) to tempt our first parents, because we can only merit eternal beatitude through trial of the will, whether that be the will of our parents or our own will. It is true that Adam and Eve lived in a natural paradise, but it was not a *supernatural* paradise like Heaven. What is of supernatural origin must be merited, and even merit on its own is not powerful enough to attain it, God must grant the grace, the priviledge.
*5.* The angels received a test as well, that is why Satan exists, he failed it. Both for the angels and for humans, God knew in advance what would happen, and he also knew in advance what glory would come of it, but the responsability remains ours for it was our choice to spit on the eternal God and look inwardly taken by a satanic narcissism. If your friend watches the news before you, and you both watch it together later, then your friend will be able to tell you in advance what the reporter will say and what crimes have been committed, but it is not because he has forknowledge that he also has responsability. You see responsability is determined by two things, the first is one's nature, the second is one's power, if by nature you are equal to another then you have the responsability to sustain his life in as much as you have the power to do it.
However if your nature is superior to another, like the animal you eat, then no such law applies, more complicated ethics must be employed.
Likewise God being of the greatest nature there is, the divine nature, seeks goals that are above our comprehension and scope, and is thus under no obligation to use his power to sustain our lives unless the express promise is made in which case he has bound himself by his infallible honesty, being God and not a sinner.
*6.* The fall of Adam and Eve was a tragedy, understood on its own. But this great evil would in the end pave the way for an even greater good than what was promised to us in the Garden of Eden were we to succeed the test.
Adam was the head of the human race, and as our head he made us fall by his sin, but this gave God the opportunity to send his only begotten Son Jesus Christ to be our new head, making a divine and human being the head of the human race.
*7.* Jesus Christ both God and man, is a greater head than Adam could ever be, and by union with him we undergo what the Greeks call "theosis" and what the Latins call "sanctification", we are divinized, become as gods, being conformed to the image of Christ who is God, being part of his body which is God's body.
We do not possess divinity in ourselves, only God is the true God, but by intimate and mystical mariage with the divine savior we will one day radiate divine light.
Even at this hour, if we are to understand the writings of St. Theresa of Avila, we may attain virtual perfection, in wait of the true mariage at the hour of death.
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Adam and Eve did not know what is evil or something that is wrong or ... that when they ate this so-called fruit of the knowledge of good and evil and the proof is in the same story:
Genesis 3: 9 But the LORD God called the man, and said unto him, Where art thou?
Gen 3:10 He answered, I heard your voice in the garden, and was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.
Genesis 3:11 And the LORD God said, Who told you that you are naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I forbade you to eat?
Genesis 3:12 The man answered, The woman whom you placed with me gave me of the tree, and I ate it.
Genesis 3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, Why hast thou done this? The woman answered, The serpent deceived me, and I ate it.
God put them face to face like a serpent without having the slightest knowledge of what evil is, what it is to transgress orders, what it is to be naked ...
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Did the God of the Bible drive Adam out of the Garden of Eden because he was afraid he would eat the fruit of the tree of life or because Adam sinned by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil !!!?
God of Christians was afraid !!!
God of Christians was afraid !!!
Yes, God of Christians was afraid !!!
But of what !!!?
Adam & Eve transgressed the God by eating the fruit of the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil and therefore became knowledgeable just like this God. And God was afraid that these two humans would dare to also eat the fruit of the tree of life and become eternal like him, he placed guardians, cherubim who wave flaming swords to protect this tree.
What a funny sect, this Christianity.
Genesis 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
Genesis 3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Genesis 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.