I remember in my early twenties thinking that I had learned pretty much everything necessary for adulthood. Over the following decades, of course, I've realized that not only must I continue learning, but that there is much that is even beyond my ability to grasp. Apparently 'growing up' is a longer journey than we expected. :)

Why are so many trans males fat? I'm beginning to suspect there's a causal relation between men being fat and trans identity.

Absolutely beautiful description of your experience as a director, thank you. Hugely inviting + clear, light hearted but profound. Thank you for finding the words to describe such a difficult thing to explain 💘 And Brandon-thank you for giving her space to speak her heart. You both are beautiful vessels of the Holy Spirit 🕊️ Praise be to God for your gifts to our Church!

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Happy to know that you're making these videos! Thank you!

Love your neighbor as yourself is fundamental is Christianity. Should a Christian vote for racists and Nazis? God cannot be mocked. Whatever you sow, you shall reap. God is the ultimate judge.

Why would you vote for DEMONcrats when they push for abortion? Why are you voting DEMONcrats when they push experimental procedures on children. Why are you voting DEMONcrats when they push gay propaganda and men wearing women's clothes?

You and I appear to be almost completely on the same page! Thanks so much for your diligent study, reflection and meditation (leaning on the HS) to help you see Christianity much more clearly! 😉

Thank you for this...

I read your twitter thread and came here just to say well done and I wish you the best! I don't do religion / faith myself - but I appreciate it when others do it correctly. :) I hope you can perhaps reach others with this.

Thank you for this, and I'm sorry for the rejection you're experiencing from friends, family, and church community. I will add that I'm not quite sure how Christianity is persecuted in the United States, considering how impossible it is to escape Christmas and Easter holiday celebrations, the huge tax breaks for churches, and the pervasive Judeo-Christian influences throughout our culture.

Tick tock...

As someone that turned my back on organized religion decades ago, exactly because of the contradictions and hypocrisy I saw and heard continually, thank you for being true to the actual word of Christ. You give me hope. ❤

Re Abortion...what republican candidate is advocating banning abortion???

Dear Christian, it was an honor and a pleasure to hear your thoughts and your assessments of your faith and values ​​here. May the blessing of your faith light your path, and the goodness of the Father and the Son rest upon you. And I wish that for you as someone who values ​​and loves the teachings of Jesus, but whose own faith and path would not identify him as a Christian. So I tell you with the Corinthians, chapter 13 verses 4-8. Because I sense, feel and perceive that this love is alive in you.These are my thoughts and my feelings, they may serve as thanks to you, but they are not a judgment, because I am not called to judge you. Pax Vobiscum, friend.

Thank you.

Youre going to hell you filthy pedo

I think you mean well...

Hey, I really appreciate your perspective on this particular topic. Just tonight I was at a reconstruction class with my church, and I realized that I was having a hard time believing in God as good because of the way humans have been seemingly created to struggle, wreaking havoc and harm. The progress toward improvement seems trudgingly slow. How can I think of God as good if we have been left in this absolute mess? At the same time, though, I can't deny the presence of a strong force of good in, if not always in humans, then at least in nature... Where does that come from? "No God" or "an evil God" just feel like hollow answers... Anyway, all that to say, your struggle with this dissonance spoke to me, and helped me feel less alone. Thank you so much for sharing

Thanks for this well researched video.

The most fair way to engage: I would grant the use of the definition of evidence as: information that informs a belief. This way, two people with different views are on equal footing. They present their evidence for god, I present my evidence for no gods. If we do not change our beliefs, then so be it.

lol - so I wasn’t the only person that struggled with transforms! Laplace transform in differential equations. Over the past 5 months I’ve watched many videos on it so I finally got it - 34 years later 😃 what a great comparison. If I may try to reflect back to see if I am understanding you. When you can look at it from a completely different perspective, say you study Islam and can sort of see it from that perspective, that’s the “transformed” view of the same problem the two of you are looking at. You might find it easier to find a “solution” to the problem and you can transform back to your Christian view with a solution you would not have gotten or been very difficult to see if you had stuck to the standard way of solving the problem. That’s now transforms are used in differential equations - kind of, I’m trying to say this in the easiest way possible.

If you are a Christian and you encounter a less than friendly atheist, please remember that it is very difficult to remain polite to someone who is promoting literature and good and true that contains Psalm fourteen. This atheist would never promote literature that said such disgusting things about you just because you don't share my lack of belief in your god. Please don't concern yourself however, I wear the bigotry and hatred of the literature that you prompt as "love", with pride.

I find it very frustrating when Christians ask how I define words. I'm a simple person, I don't make up definitions I just use a dictionary.

For goodness sake, I'm an agnostic, in that I lack sufficient knowledge to conclude that a god or gods does or doesn't exist (a) latin meaning "without" and (gnostic) meaning "knowledge". As a consequence of my lack of knowledge, I have no good reason to believe in a god or gods, making me by definition an atheist. If a theist wishes to change this agnostic atheist's mind, all that is needed is to provide the knowledge that I lack. No theist however has come remotely close to providing good reasons or sufficient evidence to justify a belief in their god or gods.

I heard this from my friend Tracy. Her mother said to her, "if your enemy is telling your brother 2 + 2 = 4 and you are telling your brother 2 + 2 = 6........SIDE with your enemy, then take your brother and the two of you go learn math.

Hello. I am an atheist. I define atheism as suspending any acknowledgment as to the reality of any particular god until sufficient credible evidence is presented. My position is that *_I currently have no good reason to acknowledge the reality of any god._* And here is why I currently hold to such a position. Below are 11 facts I must consider when evaluating the claim made by certain theists that a particular god exists in reality. To be clear, these are not premises for any argument which _concludes_ there to be no gods. These are simply facts I must take into account when evaluating the verity of such a claim. If any of the following facts were to be contravened at a later time by evidence, experience, or sound argument, I would THEN have good reason to acknowledge such a reality. 1. I have never been presented with a functional definition of a god. 2. I personally have never observed a god. 3. I have never encountered any person who has claimed to have observed a god. 4. I know of no accounts of persons claiming to have observed a god that were willing or able to demonstrate or verify their observation for authenticity, accuracy, or validity. 5. I have never been presented with any _valid_ logical argument, which also introduced demonstrably true premises that lead deductively to an inevitable conclusion that a god(s) exists in reality. 6. Of the many logical syllogisms I have examined arguing for the reality of a god(s), I have found all to contain a formal or informal logical fallacy or a premise that can not be demonstrated to be true. 7. I have never observed a phenomenon in which the existence of a god was a necessary antecedent for the known or probable explanation for the causation of that phenomenon. 8. Several proposed (and generally accepted) explanations for observable phenomena that were previously based on the agency of a god(s), have subsequently been replaced with rational, natural explanations, each substantiated with evidence that excluded the agency of a god(s). I have never encountered _vice versa._ 9. I have never knowingly experienced the presence of a god through intercession of angels, divine revelation, the miraculous act of divinity, or any occurrence of a supernatural event. 10. Every phenomenon that I have ever observed appears to have *_emerged_* from necessary and sufficient antecedents over time without exception. In other words, I have never observed a phenomenon (entity, process, object, event, process, substance, system, or being) that was created _ex nihilo_ - that is instantaneously came into existence by the solitary volition of a deity. 11. All claims of a supernatural or divine nature that I have been presented have either been refuted to my satisfaction or do not present as _falsifiable._ ALL of these facts lead me to the only rational conclusion that concurs with the realities I have been presented - and that is the fact that there is *_no good reason_* for me to acknowledge the reality of any particular god. I have heard often that atheism is the denial of the Abrahamic god. But denial is the active rejection of a substantiated fact once credible evidence has been presented. Atheism is simply withholding such acknowledgment until sufficient credible evidence is introduced. *_It is natural, rational, and prudent to be skeptical of unsubstantiated claims, especially extraordinary ones._* I welcome any cordial response. Peace.

I loved the NBA player highlight reel analogy.

What a fantastic and interesting interview. Thank you.

IMO it seems like traditionalist Christians lack curiosity about those who experience a change of mind/heart because they assume sin to be the only reason someone would reject their way of thinking. If it's sin driving the change, it is equally sinful for them to go along with it/encourage it by hearing out the reason.

So insightful. I've been in the church nearly all my life, but never had anyone attempt to mentor or disciple me, this has been a main catalyst for my current deconstruction. There's definitely a better way. The quality-focused way. P.S. Seoul is pronounced "soul" 😇

To bad; God's Word is difficult for many accept!

I didn't know you got to go to Maine!! Hope my homeland treated you well!! Loved this vid. Loved the conversation with Zach. Well done, friend

I listened to all 4 videos. I do not want to believe in ECT, although many universalists claim that evangelicals enjoy the thought of others in hell. I do not however have the mind of God. Nor am I in a place to judge Him as good or evil based on my own thoughts. If there is ECT then God is good and holy and loving. If there is not ECT then God is good and holy and loving. It seems to me that, although you have studied many verses and explored some terms in original languages, there are countless and consistent calls and warnings from God our Creator, first to Adam, then humankind, then Israel and then the nations to hear Him, obey Him and honor Him as God and that there are serious consequences for not listening. I will trust that God is righteous regardless of my human sense of right and wrong. It seems that for you if God’s justice doesn’t offer a refiners fire for some limited time, that God isn’t loving or just. I am not willing to trust in your idea of good or evil anymore than I am willing to trust in mine. Can you say that if God does administer ECT that you still consider Him good and loving and just? Or do you reject Him and cast Him into the fiery furnace?