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@ceceliamahoe2747 8 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing your story. It’s great how the gospel transforms these broken places.

@danielc513 6 ай бұрын

i am new to this channel . very interesting concept.

@taketheopenseat 6 ай бұрын

Welcome to Take the Open Seat, Daniel! Hope you enjoy yourself and benefit as you peruse our channel. Please let us know how we can serve you in your journey.

@sofidofie 8 ай бұрын

❤❤ I have a similar story.

@taketheopenseat 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing, Sofi. Is your story similar about the part of God and others holding you through a challenging season?

@Hearts4gojo_and_geto 10 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤❤

@geraldhochstetler8007 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Addie for sharing your testimony!

@adeyemiakande7384 Жыл бұрын

Thanks too much for the video

@adeyemiakande7384 Жыл бұрын

I really like what you're doing ❤

@taketheopenseat Жыл бұрын

Thanks for letting us know!!!

@Dan-eu6sj Жыл бұрын

So encouraging. Thank you for sharing Kiril!

@makeachoice6439 Жыл бұрын

Amen 🙏🏼

@readinzession1308 Жыл бұрын

GOD GOT YOU ALL MAN, TAKE CARE KEEP IT FAMILY, FAITH AND LAUGHTER

@2156cynthia Жыл бұрын

Great job Addie!

@nancywallace4411 Жыл бұрын

Such a powerful story!

@JDJENT Жыл бұрын

amen !

@nancywallace4411 Жыл бұрын

Wow! Love seeing how God has worked in Leila's life.

@adeyemiakande7384 Жыл бұрын

Praise God 🎉

@claytonrath8033 Жыл бұрын

Wow. So many good questions discussed. What I’m hearing is… Islam and Judaism (at least from the perspectives offered here) cannot assure you of your salvation like Christianity can through Jesus… which is a sad thought to think Thanks for producing this content- it’s much needed

@taketheopenseat Жыл бұрын

Thanks for joining the conversation, Clayton. One way to look at it is that Jesus provides the only true assurance of salvation because he is the only one who 1.) claimed to be God and backed up his claim by returning from the grave three days after he died; 2.) has provided a true solution for what separates us from God (our sin) through his sacrificial death in our place. While this is sad for those who don't choose to follow him, it's incredibly good news for those who put their lives in his hands, even for Jewish people that have the chance to embrace their true Messiah and Muslim people that have a chance to put their faith in one who is infinitely more than the prophet they traditionally understand him to be.

@nancywallace4411 Жыл бұрын

Powerful story!

@audreybrown5128 Жыл бұрын

As a Christian wanting to pursue astrophysics, thank you from the bottom of my heart for this video. I try to seek confirmation in all things that I will be glorifying God in them, and while that of course will come from the Bible and from my own conviction, there is an undeniable sense of peace in hearing it from another believer :)

@thedude0000 Жыл бұрын

__I never actually really questioned the atheism that I came to adopt_ I also NEVER question the non-stamp collecting that I came to adopt either.

@Tyler-gx7lz Жыл бұрын

Imagine being an adult that believes in a god lol some people are so pathetically stupid and unable to think for themselves

@christiancampbell3523 Жыл бұрын

Daf

@DontHateMeCausImSexy Жыл бұрын

Sheep

@taketheopenseat Жыл бұрын

Thanks for being a part of the conversation. You’re so right. We all are! The best part is having a Good Shepherd who laid down his life to give us true life (see John 10:11 in the Bible).

@dirkaminimo4836 Жыл бұрын

Easily converted. I have some awesome swamp land….

@taketheopenseat Жыл бұрын

Thanks for joining the conversation. If it’s true that Nick converted so easily, perhaps it’s because he converted to something much more beautiful and true than a swamp.

@andrewpaintball246 Жыл бұрын

He met for some coffee and got anally penetrated. You are now part of organized religion aka the biggest hoaxes humanity has ever pulled off.

@billmoore8740 Жыл бұрын

Incorrect. We are not evil, we are free to choose good or evil. He created us to make free choices, just like you do every day, if you choose evil, that will harm someone else, who can be innocent of it completely our evil actions bring evil into the world.

@taketheopenseat Жыл бұрын

Thanks for joining the conversation, Bill. You're right that we have the ability to make choices for good or ill. The trouble is that there's something within us (the Bible calls it a sinful nature) that inclines us toward evil choices in spite of being created good in the image of God. The good news is that Jesus forgives us when we trust him to do so, and he gives us a new nature that has a growing ability to choose good as we follow him.

@memowilliam9889 Жыл бұрын

The whole world is already going to hell. They don’t need to kill 6m jews or do drugs. All are under the curse of Adam. Until (and unless) you are born again into the 2nd Adam (Jesus) you will go to hell.

@taketheopenseat Жыл бұрын

Thanks for joining the conversation. You’re right that we all sin and fall short of God’s standard, which merits death. That’s what makes the good news so amazing that the gift of God is eternal life through trusting in Jesus (see Romans 3:23 and Romans 6:23).

@crabbypatty_. Жыл бұрын

christianity is not a work based faith. u cannot get into heaven by works alone. everyone has sinned, and the wages of sin is death. however Jesus paid the final price. he paid the fine so u don’t have to go to hell bc he loves u tremendously. the bible says that once u are saved, it is as if God forgets all of ur sin. God is perfect and holy in every way, and us sinners cannot be in his presence without Jesus and repentance, which is Christianity.

@babyfrank66 Жыл бұрын

Amen!

@taketheopenseat Жыл бұрын

Thanks for joining the conversation. Your comment connects to Ephesians 2:8-9, which talks about how God makes us right with him because of our trust in his undeserved favor, not through what we do.

@Ryderspider9 Жыл бұрын

So murder is a sin that can be forgiven the only sin that can’t be forgiven is if you have a vision of god and still deny him. I know it’s confusing but because Jeffry Dahmer Came unto god he is clean and has no sins.

@babyfrank66 Жыл бұрын

Matthew 12:31-32 31:Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. 32:And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

@taketheopenseat Жыл бұрын

Thanks for being a part of the conversation. Your comment connects to how Jesus forgave those who came to him in true faith, even when they were about to die (see Luke 23:39-43).

@babyfrank66 Жыл бұрын

There is a problem here, first you must accept God in your life, confess your sins to him and he forgives you because we are his children and for love and because Jesus died on the cross for us, but there is a problem and that is that people think that the sins they committed are so strong that they think that God will not forgive, and that is wrong because if you really repent and ask the Father for forgiveness, he will forgive you so he says and in the name of our Jesus.

@crabbypatty_. Жыл бұрын

said it better than i could. God bless.

@taketheopenseat Жыл бұрын

Thanks for joining the conversation. Your comment connects to 1 John 1:9 in the Bible, which says that, “If we confess our sins, he (God) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Such good news!

@rndincircles Жыл бұрын

It’s why Mormons do baptism on behalf of the dead, by proxy, so if you decide to accept Jesus in the life after, you have the opportunity.

@taketheopenseat Жыл бұрын

Thanks for joining the conversation. This practice makes sense in light of Mormon beliefs. The difficulty with this belief is that "it is appointed for people to die once and after this comes judgment" (Hebrews 9:27). This is why Paul says that now is the time to respond to Jesus' loving offer of salvation (1 Corinthians 6:2).

@rndincircles Жыл бұрын

@@taketheopenseat 1 Corinthians 15: 29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead? Why is baptism for the dead a foreign concept when the members of christ's church practiced it?

@taketheopenseat Жыл бұрын

@@rndincircles this is such a good question. Thank you for asking it. At the least, this is a passage with a less clear meaning and one that makes sense to understand in light of a more clear passages like the ones mentioned above, which refer to the urgency of responding to Jesus' good news in this life to death and then judgment without indication that there are more chances for salvation between those two events.

@taketheopenseat Жыл бұрын

This would work great if what the Mormons believe is true. But that seems to be a really big "if" that doesn't seem to account for the other things mentioned.

@calvintillman9250 Жыл бұрын

Please don’t listen or believe nothing (Demons) white people say about God.

@jadonkro2714 Жыл бұрын

Yes

@blitzuser8074 Жыл бұрын

According to Dante Alighieri, you’ll be going to the first circle of hell. It’s filled with people who didn’t have the chance to know Jesus, but they were also virtuous and not at all bad people.

@taketheopenseat Жыл бұрын

Thanks for adding Dante's thoughts to the conversation. Jesus is clear that eternal life hinges on believing in (i.e. trusting one's life to) him (John 3:36) and that those who choose otherwise remain in a precarious spot. Our prayer is that God would work through the conversations we share on Take the Open Seat to encourage students toward that life-saving, life-changing belief in Jesus.

@nunyadambusiness3530 Жыл бұрын

And this is exactly why nobody follows the religion anymore. If you don’t do this or that or if you do this or that you go to hell. At some point you have to ask yourself well can I do. And what kind of “god” would send someone to hell if they spent their entire life just nobody told them what Christianity is or what god is, so if someone goes their whole life without any signs or conversations about Christianity, and they go to hell? Like this religion makes no sense, none whatsoever and it’s going to continue to fall off the face of the earth. If you have to tell people you’ll be sent to a place of fire for not following extremely strict protocol, and if you mess up more than once, you’re sent to that place? No. Makes absolutely no sense, and I’m glad millions of people are waking up out of this sheeple mindset.

@nunyadambusiness3530 Жыл бұрын

And I always keep fake bills on me, not to spend, but when there’s panhandlers trying to get “money for god” I give them fake money so they think they hit the jackpot, when really it’s karma on them. Asking people for their hard earned blood sweat n tears is just not even ethical in and of itself. Not to mention the millions of people Christianity has wiped off this earth.

@rohringwarrior3354 Жыл бұрын

Dante's alagory is not biblically accurate. The idea of going or not going to heaven. Is disided by chosing God as your savior. And those who are innocent and don't know of God or the truth of him. Are innocent and there for go to heaven

@taketheopenseat Жыл бұрын

@@nunyadambusiness3530 thanks so much for joining the conversation. It makes sense that you'd be disinterested in light of the way you've framed the situation. Another way to look at it is that God is actually seeking those who have wandered from him out of his heart of love (see Jesus' words in Luke 19:10). This includes those that currently haven't heard about Christianity. The question ins't whether we're following some strict protocol or whether we've messed up more than once (we all have). It's whether we've responded to his loving initiative in our lives.

@WalkersWifey Жыл бұрын

God isn’t scientific, he made our brains to where we can’t process everything he does, only the stuff that we need to know for him to exist. Jesus was sent to the earth to help people be forgiven and for more people to come to Christ, and the main way to do that is to do things that aren’t scientific. Like healing someone’s blindness, or bringing someone back from the dead, or being able the feed 100s of people with 3 loaves of bread and 2 fish, or coming back alive after 3 days. Science is made by people that don’t have the brain capacity to know everything especially like how God has been here forever, or all the miracles He has done. Jonah did get swallowed by a big fish or whale and got spit back out because he ran away from God, he feared God and didn’t listen to what God told him to do. As I said it might not be scientifically accurate/proven but God isn’t scientific. There are all the stories in the Bible that’s teaches you a lesson, Jonah and the Whale is one of them.

@WalkersWifey Жыл бұрын

I like how it shows different levels of belief in Jesus, like how the girl with braids says science is first, not faith. Which I believe faith comes first because God comes first before anything else. But then we have the guy that’s hard in his faith, believes everything in the Bible (for what I understood) and doesn’t believe in science as much as the girl.

@taketheopenseat Жыл бұрын

Thanks for being a part of the conversation, Kenzie. We show different beliefs because we believe every voice matters. You're on point with the thought that faith comes first because God comes first.

@mitchhifi9192 Жыл бұрын

MLK wasn't a good person in reality, but hey he said some good stuff.

@taketheopenseat Жыл бұрын

You're definitely right that MLK said some good stuff. He was a mix of good and bad like all of us.

@MMcAfro Жыл бұрын

It seems as though some moron thought this was a slam dunk.

@carletonperkins2 Жыл бұрын

Hello, that is me in the video! I hope everyone who sees this, can at least take a closer look at what relationship may exist between scientific studies and belief in a Creator! Now I definitely misspoke for a bit there at 5:40 lol! What I meant to say was: The probability of all the air particles existing in a corner (which has Very Low entropy), is basically zero, but statistically speaking, one can never say it is actually zero. I find that the fact that such a ridiculously small possibility exists is poignant in a way, as it points to strange unseen microstates. So, if there is an All-Powerful-God able to manipulate entropy, energy, or really just chance; these fascinating "miracle" microstates can appear if He'd deem it so!

@taketheopenseat Жыл бұрын

Thanks for adding this helpful clarity to the conversation, Carleton!