@@Justexposingevil Thank you for watching at least part of the video, brother. I appreciate your concern for my walk with God. However, I'm puzzled - if you believe I'm in error, wouldn't love compel you to show me where I've mishandled Scripture? I used numerous biblical texts to make my case. If I've interpreted them wrongly, I'm genuinely open to correction from God's Word. The issue isn't about a building or institution people are proud of - it's about biblical faithfulness in church leadership. If you're willing to continue watching and then show me where my biblical analysis is flawed, I'd welcome that conversation.

@@fiddyfresh7350 Thank you. Amen. Praise God we can walk by the Spirit and no longer by the dead letter.

@@eternaltruthrev18 Thank you brother - appreciate you seeing the parallel principle here. While critics often dismiss any connection with this Jeremiah passage because it specifically describes idol-making rather than holiday trees, they miss that its deeper warning about adopting worldly customs absolutely applies. Our celebrations today might not involve carved idols, but they can still become their own form of idolatry in our hearts - which is exactly what my video addresses.

@ man I just want to be more biblical; Holy Spirit show us, lead us, sanctify us in Thy Truth, Your Word is Truth. Thanks brother for all your efforts and wisdom; appreciate it.

Amen

@@sergesavard636 Thank you for this comment that perfectly illustrates Sin #3 from the video - presuming and defending an unbiblical tradition while disregarding others' biblical concerns. The Catholic mass represents a false gospel that denies the sufficiency of Christ's once-for-all sacrifice (Hebrews 10:10). As you probably know, I cannot and will not affirm practices that contradict the true gospel of salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.

@@GospelNerd Youre wrong

There is no darkness in God! The heavens are light and the earth darkness!

@@Melanie-cy6pw yes, also correct. Lol.

@@ThorfinnSkullsplitter-fz7ff Agreed

@@skl1023 Thank you for engaging with Scripture! If I follow your logic, that would mean that since God created us mortal, He must be mortal too. Or since we're finite beings, God must be finite. We know neither is true. Being made in God's image doesn't mean we share all His attributes (like moral perfection, immortality, omniscience, etc.). Rather, it means we have capacity for relationship with Him, moral responsibility, and ability to reflect His glory... which is exactly what He accomplishes by transforming us from darkness to light (Eph 5:8). Just as a master artist might use dark colors to make light appear more brilliant, God created beings He knew would fall into darkness (Isaiah 45:7 - 'I form the light and create darkness') specifically so that His light could shine all the brighter in redeeming us. I'm curious how you understand Paul's specific wording in Ephesians 5:8 where he says we 'were darkness' (not just 'in darkness'). How would you reconcile this with your perspective?

@@eternaltruthrev18 amen brother

@@sanderbaumann6304 I recorded this just after dinner and a couple of the boys were doing that and it just clicked. So I told the kids I was putting that in.

Exactly, the church must return to the church we see in the book of Acts, and cut out all the man-made traditions!

Thanks for the love brother

@@hannahflores4353 ❤️

@@michaelnoffsinger9020 Hey there. I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here. Would you mind maybe rewording this and breaking it up? It seems like maybe there's multiple questions you're asking?

Sorry Michael. I'm still confused by your question. Stop resisting? My basic point is that Paul's teaching about lawsuits to the Corinthians was clear. It's already a defeat, and a shameful testimony before the world. Further, I'm questioning whether the modern mega-church culture and it's corporate structures prevent biblical obedience in cases like this.

Thank you for the support!

May we be found among them

@@kurtweiand7086 Absolutely! That's what I love about the book of Acts, that it shows us the Holy Spirit directly starting the church, and you can see His design clearly. So you don't get the dilution with men's ideas as we see today.

Thanks for your perspective. Sorry you didn't understand it.

@@GospelNerd I too am sorry that you are an ignorant christian. That you think the universe is limited to what your fairy tale book tells you. I am not trying to be mean, just resolute to the fact that people like you think that the universe is limited to "your" book. Before the Hubble Space Telescope we thought the universe was about 300K light years across. After Hubble, we believe we believe the universe is 13 billion light years across. With the James Webb Space Telescope we now believe the universe is closer to 94 Billion light years across.. The better we get at seeing the universe, the smaller "god" gets. That is your future. God being reduced to nothing, because she is nothing. There is no god and hopefully you will learn that before you die.

Sad tho

@@steveunger8249 I think it's one of the church's biggest areas of weakness today and I have a great desire to stir it up. So I encourage you, if the Spirit is working in you that way too, first of all, be sure you are doing all to live it out yourself towards your local brothers and sisters, and then exhort your congregation to study the early church pattern in Scripture and examine if we are properly imitating the church the Holy Spirit started.

@@reichardvega-reyes4028 No. While I abused my share of substances in my youth before I was Christian, I never had a serious substance addiction. But I want to be clear about the point of my addiction analogy - we often think God 'forcing' our will would make His love or our love for Him less real. But just as an addict's family doesn't love them less by intervening, God's sovereign work in changing our hearts doesn't make His love or our response less genuine. His sovereignty doesn't diminish the reality of relationship, it enables it. But yes, as sinners, we often return to our sin "like a dog returns to its vomit." The struggle with our fleshly desires is real. But if we belong to Christ, even our own will can not defeat His power to save us. He will have every soul that belongs to Him in the end.

Amen

Thank you for the encouragement. To God be the glory

@@LennyCooke636 Thank you for the encouragement!

@@emmanuelbeaucage4461 You're claiming moral authority to judge how God should judge evil. Think about that for a moment. Are you making this comment ironically? Because that's the whole point of the video. Where does this sense of moral authority come from? TLDR: you judge because God judges, and you're made in His image. Thank you for the comment!

@GospelNerd you're so funny! Why would i think something that could not beleive to exist have any authority on anything? your god have no more authority than the tooth fairy or the easter bunny! would you argue that genocide, murder of the innocent childs and animals, setting up knowingly your creations to fail and suffer eternal torture and needing constant praise or reating like a maniac are good qualities for an infinitly good god? would any other creatures doing even just one of those be considered good? Lol!

@emmanuelbeaucage4461 Thanks for your perspective! It is a pretty common one unfortunately.

@@GospelNerd I sure hope so... if everyone was arguing that rage fueled genocides of innocent creatures and eternal torture for how you were created are justified and good, we would live in a dangerous world...

@@emmanuelbeaucage4461 Good thing literally no one believes that. It's just a common meme on the internet, fortunately not in real scholarship. Thanks again!

@@Arg0naut0 Sorry you missed the punch line. It was pretty early on. Thanks for hearing me out!

@@GospelNerd Shirley! I want to ensure I have sufficient perspective before I post a comment. I watched the video again and couldn't find the punchline. What is the timestamp?

@Arg0naut0 The key section is from right after my logo to about 2 minutes in. I'm showing how Tyson's argument contains a false dilemma fallacy (either not all-powerful OR not all-good), but more importantly, how his very ability to judge natural events as 'evil' undermines his naturalistic premises. Thanks for taking the time to watch it carefully!

@@GospelNerd What? Did Tyson claim those natural events as 'evil'? Also, I don't recall him expressly claiming "not all-powerful" or "not all-good" were the only two possibilities. Perhaps I'm not understanding correctly, but now it appears Tyson has a good point. 🤷 I appreciate your patience in making my comprehension clearer

Amen

Wow, ok. Thanks for sharing all that. What School of thought did all this come from?

@@GospelNerd - Wow! Talk about your rapid response! 😀 This comes from a divine revelation called the Urantia Book. It begins with this: "0:0.1 (1.1) IN THE MINDS of the mortals of Urantia - that being the name of your world - there exists great confusion respecting the meaning of such terms as God, divinity, and deity. Human beings are still more confused and uncertain about the relationships of the divine personalities designated by these numerous appellations. Because of this conceptual poverty associated with so much ideational confusion, I have been directed to formulate this introductory statement in explanation of the meanings which should be attached to certain word symbols as they may be hereinafter used in those papers which the Orvonton corps of truth revealers have been authorized to translate into the English language of Urantia." Divided in 4 parts: The Central and Superuniverses, The Local Universe, The History of Urantia, and The Life and Teachings of Jesus. The last part fills in all the missing years of Jesus' life and leads to a much fuller understand of both the man and his message. The book is available for free in the App Store, or on-line: www.urantiabook .org/urantia-book-table-of-contents [remove spaces to activate link, I do this to placate Google that apparently doesn't like links that go somewhere else.] Hard copies are also available from the Urantia Foundation and some bookstores. (I've had mine for over 50 years.)

P.S. I got the term 'god-of-the-gaps' from atheist videos, not the UB. The UB talks about evolutionary religions, it just doesn't use that term.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts

The issue isn't what God 'needs' - He's completely self-sufficient. But also, you're selling redemption far too short. God isn't just "rescuing us" like a reset back to Eden - He's creating something infinitely more glorious through Christ's redemption than could have existed without the fall... I'm curious.. What do you consider the 'better answers'?

@GospelNerd The problem with a lot of apologist's theodicies is they are man-centered, they are geared and motivated by making you "feel better" about the fall, when that violates the Biblical morality and principle handed to us, that's God love does not put us first-it puts his own glory and holiness first. Thus a creation-enthroned theodicy is a misguided attempt to placate the self-centered and sinful nature of mankind who will never accept that God's importance, his ultimate value, his supreme worth above all creation, his fundamental right to be the single most exalted thing by virtue of his infinite substance and authoring and sustaining all other things, is the guiding principle of a true Biblical theodicy. The collateral damage, the delegated responsibility, the value of the severity of all judgment on sin, the extent of the punishment for wrongs done, are things that will never "feel right" to the innate morality of a soul who makes itself the center of all worth over God, and Jesus never minced words that somehow God will "seem okay" to a sinful soul if we just work hard enough to make it seem like there are plenty of good reasons to curse an entire creation for one man's sin. No, Jesus promised us the Gospel would be offensive and bring offense, and if you goal is to somehow say it's not offensive, but that it can seem right and good to an idolatrous value system, I challenge you to stop and ask the Holy Spirit if there is something wrong with how you are describing and defending the Gospel. Don't get me wrong-I both believe in the Gospel and want it preached, but not where it glosses over the truth and postures claims it never makes, that is a bad witness. You may at first think what I'm saying is "the same" thing as what you said, or the difference I make seems inconsequential. I assure you, it is not. There are assumptions being laden with the Gospel presentation that really are idolatrous and do not recognize the true difficulty of the problem of evil to our souls, how difficult for us it is to find a morally justified reason that actually works, and how we must exalt God even without the answer, and when it comes it will never even please us in a million years. Humans naturally devalue God-they count God as not worth much, not "worth it," not worth a sea of endless suffering just become one man rebelled against him. And that will never, ever in a thousand lifetimes seem right to a man who refuses to put God on the throne. So all these soul-building theodicies, these greater-good theodicies, they not only fail logically and morally, they misrepresent the truth that Scripture presents us, that the Gospel is foolishness because we exalt creation over Creator. Making us "feel better" about babies born with tumors is not going to drive a man to repentance for the hell his sin deserves, and one must never act like it will. Peace and respect.

@@sk8ordie-t2v thanks for your thoughts