Christian YouTuber Responds to EX Christian TikToker

[@dsen2283]

I remembered reading the OT and wondered why were there poor Israelites living in Israel. As I continued reading I realized God doesn’t always change a person circumstances but changed the heart of the person dealing with the circumstances so that they can take the necessary action to fix the situation.

[@HarryNicNicholas]

i stopped reading when i realised snakes can't talk.

[@mentalwarfare2038]

*snake

[@erindebaun8315]

Improper grammar, why’d you correct a sentence that was already correct?

[@highofflife16]

@erindebaun8315 Because there are many snake's in the grass, but only one was in the garden, the context wasn't correcting the sentence structure, just the scripture supporting it

[@erindebaun8315]

@@highofflife16 But instead of just saying "snake*" he should've corrected the entire sentence, because it's just grammatically incorrect.

[@22moonpie]

“Big squish ball Hippie” 😂 Good job young man ! Love your content ! ☀️

[@Unity116]

I like how vulnerable this guy is, you can tell he's not just blindly attacking Christianity but addressing the things that he's struggled with and nobody was willing to talk about

[@theender664]

i don't see any problems with that we are people after all

[@r.a.panimefan2109]

Ya. I listened to some of there arguments. Becuase im 30. I waited till now to really start study. Ive believed in god all my life. Its just i felt i couldnt understand. As a kid it confused me in genises Why did the snake get put in garden. Why put the tree there. The why evil question. Is one at 6 i seen. God knows all so why the serpent. I.p. finally answered I looked at the athiests to see if others thought it. The other. Is at least looking at the words. Satan didnt quite lie. But he didnt tell the truth. Him saying you wont die today. Was the truth. Eve thought they would die that very moment. Satan exploited that ignorance. Satan also told the truth about our eyes knowing good and evil. God didnt tell us that. God simply told us we would die when we ate the day we ate we would be destined death. But adam and eve didnt see it as a later they seen that as a death immediately. But because of them misunderstanding The devil delivered poisoned water. U cant poison us with only lies. But becuase of the way it reads it makes it read like god lied. But god never did. Je just didnt tell us all the gruesome detailes. Until we did what we did.

[@highofflife16]

@@r.a.panimefan2109 my grandma told me this once, and I truly hope it helps your answer seeking. When God called out to Adam, he didn't scold or yell, he simply asked Adam, "Why are you Hiding?" And then after Adam said I'm naked, God asked how Adam knew that? He then threw them out of the Garden as an act of Mercy. I know, I know, wait Mercy? How?!?! There was another tree, the tree of life, imagine if they were deceived into eating from the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil... Well then perhaps they would of eaten of the other, being forever stuck in a fallen state, with no Jesus as our Redemption back to God. I'm not fully sure if it's true, but man did it give me peace! Anyways hope that helped

[@GalaxyCatPlays]

@@highofflife16 God, the gentle Gardener, walked among the fragrant blooms. His voice, like a breeze through leaves, called out to Adam. Not in anger, but with a tender curiosity: “Why are you hiding, my child?” Adam, trembling, confessed his nakedness-the vulnerability of flesh and soul laid bare. And God, in His infinite compassion, asked another question: “How did you know you were naked?” The answer hung heavy in the air, like ripe fruit waiting to fall. Adam had tasted the forbidden, and the knowledge of good and evil clung to his tongue. The veil of innocence had been lifted, and shame wrapped around him like fig leaves. And so, with a heart both heavy and merciful, God cast them from Eden. Not as punishment, but as redemption. For beyond the garden’s walls stood the tree of life, its branches reaching toward eternity. To eat of it now would be to live forever in a fallen state, severed from grace and hope. But God, in His wisdom, had a plan-a second tree, a second chance. The cross, where Jesus would hang, bearing the weight of humanity’s sin. Through His sacrifice, redemption would bloom anew, and the garden gates would swing wide once more. So yes, even in expulsion, there was mercy. For sometimes love must prune away the old to make room for the new. And as Adam and Eve stumbled into the wilderness, they carried with them the promise of salvation-a seed planted in the soil of their exile. And so we, their descendants, stand on the edge of that same garden. We, too, have tasted both knowledge and grace. And in our longing, we reach for the tree of life, where redemption waits with open arms. 🌿🌺🌿 Ai can alot of times answer deficult questions :)

[@eluclid]

@@highofflife16 you forgot the part where he cursed them

[@RandomInternetGuy11]

”But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless.“ ‭‭Titus‬ ‭3‬:‭9‬ ‭(NKJV‬‬) This video is not arguing in vain btw. Guys, this is because I see people arguing in the comments everywhere, it is not discrediting the video in any way.

[@roscowbrown3937]

if you believe this verse is true, then it means that we should disavow the Bible

[@Tiffany_titus213]

@@roscowbrown3937your interpretation is scary.

[@roscowbrown3937]

@@Tiffany_titus213 I would love an explanation for why it’s incorrect… but keep in mind, the original comment talks about avoiding foolish disputes

[@Miscelanou]

​​@@roscowbrown3937why does this verse mean we should disavow the Bible? What's your reasoning? Also, I'd put emphasis on foolish and what that entails.

[@roscowbrown3937]

@@MiscelanouI kinda feel like it should be self-explanatory, but my implication was that following the Bible is a foolish dispute, and if you disagree with this, then I don’t know what you could possibly consider to be a foolish, unprofitable or useless

[@DarrthFaderr]

My church’s reading plan every year has us going through the whole bible

[@daviddrew3372]

About every two years in mine.

[@CharlieKraken]

Whenever someone claims God is evil. Ask them to define the term "evil". Then ask them where they get that definition from. If they give you an answer, then ask them why that source is objective and absolute in its definition of right and wrong. Eventually, their argument will fall apart. This is a strong wine to swallow for many, but God IS good. Not because He fits some external concept of "good", but because He Himself is what good is. Thus, what is opposite to God is what is evil. God also DEFINES good and evil and is unchanging in His nature, thus right and wrong never change. They are, as Frank Turek says, stealing from God in order to attack God. They are stealing the idea of objective morality, which cannot exist without God, in order to try and criticize Him. This is so antithetical to modern western thinking, but we are to be judged under God's eternal, perfect, and absolute standards (and we all fall short, which is why we have Jesus), God is not to be judged under our sinful, limited, and flawed standards. And that's the end of the story. God bless you and your ministry as always!

[@DesGardius-me7gf]

Frank Turek is a bullshitter.

[@DesGardius-me7gf]

Why should we believe that he’s perfect? Because the Bible says so? Sorry, that doesn’t cut it. Words in a book are NOT a valid reason for a belief.

[@roscowbrown3937]

By your own logic, we have no reason to believe in the Bible, because you cannot give me any reason as to why that source is objective and absolute in its description of right and wrong. So your argument means we should all abandon the Bible

[@DesGardius-me7gf]

@@roscowbrown3937Of course you should discard the Bible. It’s nothing more than a collection of uncorroborated, agenda-selected writings.

[@infinite-anon5316]

​@@DesGardius-me7gf He's perfect because that's what His nature is, that's the definition of being God. If He weren't perfect, He wouldn't be God

[@modest_timing45]

People get mad when God doesn't go after evil people. Yet also get mad when he does...

[@wingsoffreedom3589]

Faxx they never let him have a win

[@prinka2096]

If he can see into the future, then why even create evil people in the first place?

[@modest_timing45]

@prinka2096 to give us the choice to love him or not. Free will must be truly free. Otherwise, it isn't.

[@prinka2096]

@@modest_timing45 But he already knows our choices before creating us. So why continue to create people whom he has seen will sin?

[@modest_timing45]

@@prinka2096 why not ask him that. For his ways are above our ways. I can't speak on that. But I do know in my heart he knows best.

[@thabompala6524]

Amen brother, powerful and necessary conversation!

[@sandrahribar9930]

Thank you, brother! God bless ❤

[@shadowm2k7]

"Saying that the God of the old testiment is mean, and God in the new testiment its nice means that you've never read the Bible" is SO TRUE Imagine the only parts of the Lion King you've ever seen is when Simba calls scar weird The part where he claws scar in the face And the part where he throws him off of Pride Rock And then you're like "wow, Simba is horrible, i don't know why anyone would like this movie, he's just a spoiled mean child who grows up to be a tyrant, Scar was right to hate him & want to kill him" That's literally what I think every time someone calls OT God evil 😭😭😭

[@oreox1000]

Good way to illustrate it.

[@_Sloppyham]

I think people consider the drowning of millions to be a unforgivable offense compared to calling a dude weird. Just my two cents on perspective

[@shadowm2k7]

@@_Sloppyham He had to do that because the fallen angels corrupted all our DNA, created a race of superhuman giants, and they were all killing & eating us. Noah & his family were the only ones left who's DNA was uncorrupted so God flooded the world to drown out the unwanted violent race of nephilim giants

[@butt3rcat]

​@@_Sloppyham The millions of people who were worshipping false idols, r*ping women, murdering one another, fornicating, and other unholy and evil acts that Satan has made?

[@InitialPC]

​@@_Sloppyham He can either spare those millions and allow them to corrupt billions or He can kill those millions and bring salvation to billions. Not a hard choice.

[@ambros470]

The objection: "Why does God let bad things happen to good people?" The answer: "Who is a good person?" The objection: "Why wouldn't an all loving, all powerful God remove all evil from the world?" The answer: "Well, He could, and he'd start by killing you and killing me."

[@LFDLittlefluffydino]

Amen

[@GalaxyCatPlays]

Everytimes I see the OT Genesis 6:6 hits. So despite God regretting to make us he still didn't completely Wipe Out everyone in the flood, also Noah preached to the people and they didn't care. He spared the righteous who were in Sodom and Gomora and also it took God's 400 year of mercy to wipe out the Canaanites because they would sacrife children to Molten Gods. God had regreted making us but in his mercy he has tried again and again to change the harden hearts of men but we would not respond and harden our hearts more. I mean God hardened pharaohs heart so that Pharoah would say No to Moses so that the isrealities would see God Glory. God Hardened there enemies' heart so that he may show them he truly exists but they still murmured against and rebelled against Moses and Aron. God want so far as to harden the pharaohs heart the heart of the Israelites enemies and they still rejected him. God could have softened Pharaoh's heart but then the Israelites would not believe in him and would probably still be in Egypt so God had to harden pharaohs heart so that they may be brought out of Egypt and that they may see and believe in his power. Yet they still rejected him and I'm guilty of seeing God move in my life and still reject him. Which is why we can see God Mercy since the Begging. Genesis 6:6 Despite that he sent his son.

[@Keef220D]

If he’s God, and God could do anything, cant he just remove the evilness without killing?

[@LFDLittlefluffydino]

@@Keef220D Then we'd just be mindless robots

[@Keef220D]

@@LFDLittlefluffydino sorry that was a genuine question, i mean no disrespect, but how would we be mindless?

[@kimberlyrodriguez8479]

When I re-read the Old Testament or the New Testament, I fall more in love with God each time. 💜

[@julisacastillo574]

I’m not even halfway through and the kid saying “if I were God why would I include this in a religious text” sigh… he has much to learn, I pray for his humility and maturity in Christ

[@jaydas8976]

I remember Jared, I remember seeing his Christian content a few years ago. It’s sad to see how much has changed since then, but I wish him all the best and I’ll be praying for him ❤

[@UnholyChurchboy]

Everyone knows that you can't start reading a story in the middle of it and expect to know what the whole thing is about . Why can't people use this same kind of logic with the Bible?

[@theender664]

explain please?

[@Elle-hx8ji]

@@theender664context is important

[@theender664]

@@Elle-hx8ji what context? bible is literally stitched up there's literally no context

[@Elle-hx8ji]

@@theender664 y’all love the word literally

[@theender664]

@@Elle-hx8jii'm one person : p

[@zinogre6225]

7:40 two things to add onto your point: 1: look at similarly evil societies like Sodem and Gamora. The people were literally demanding for Lot (a leader/elder of their city) to bring out his guests so they could gangbang them… without consent. Not only that, but God in his mercy would have spared those cities for the sake of 10 righteous people. And 2: look what happened when one of these societies wasn’t wiped out. The Amalachites were spared by Saul and were a thorn in the side of Israel basically for the entirety of the Old Testament. God understood that if these societies (which, btw, were usually perfectly fine with sacrificing infants to their gods, engaging in slavery, and treated their women like property) were allowed to remain in any capacity then they would be a huge problem for Israel. I feel for people like this guy who’ve grown up in churches who just couldn’t explain things properly. Places that coddle you and tell you “don’t question the Lord” as if God doesn’t actively invite & encourage people to look for themselves (James 1:5-6) Questions are only condemned if you’re just trying to see if you can get a “gotcha!” out of Him.

[@cadebraaten687]

Funny how he says that church only focused on the “good” parts of the Bible. That means that church was failing at its job to teach and preach the word. I see this a lot in the American ministry to the younger generation, when the only passages discussed are the cool miracles of Jesus to them rather than something like the missionary journey of Paul (which we’re going through in church) that teaches so much about spreading the word to unbelievers and how believers ought to live their lives. No discredit to Jesus’ miracles, they are the most astounding parts of the Bible, but sometimes you have to dive into other passages than just the gospels, especially when speaking to people that are supposed to be believers

[@_Sloppyham]

Maybe they aren’t willing to teach the other parts of the Bible because they recognize that’s a fast track to get more people to dip from the service

[@wingsoffreedom3589]

Which is why so many churches are so dull I prefer tackling the hard subjects first because it shows if the pastor is well studied and has a backbone.

[@Danae78]

I'm impressed that you didn't cover the cancerous corruption of Genesis 6 and how God was pushing back at Satan's plan to corrupt God's creation before Christ came. Plus it's not like it didn't grieve God to destroy a large part of His creation, but that creation chose to be evil and lived it unto destruction.

[@lilchristuten7568]

If you're referring to the lie that comes from the book of enoch where angels who have no physical bodies took on physical form to have children with human women, when they were created without the seed to do so. And also the supposed fact that God allowed it to happen multiple times. Then you need to study more.

[@LFDLittlefluffydino]

Amen

[@kabuuj3400]

@@lilchristuten7568 Angel (including fallen angels) can take the form of human with physical body (for example angels who visited Lot in Sodom) but if you know basic knowledge about the Bible you should know that

[@HarryNicNicholas]

er. everyone seems to assume satan is going to be horrid. if i go to hell then GOD is "punishing me" for my sins, but why would satan want to punish me too? satan despises christians. if i'm being punished by satan, then satan is doing god's work - that makes zero sense. hell is more likely to be eternity having more fun than you ever could on earth, this is what god hates, heaven will just be eternal worship, satan is SAVING you from an eternity of boredom and slavery. i see no reason why hell wouldn't be a great place to be, no mind control, no ten commandments to follow, just eternal life that you can probably quit if you get bored with learning guitar from hendrix or trying to grasp relativity from einstein. why would hell be undesirable? why would satan want to torment me - he detests god and christians, not sinners.

[@lilchristuten7568]

@@kabuuj3400 Show me a single instance of a fallen angel having a body. The angels that are shown having bodies are angels that are on assignment from God to carry out His commands. These are not angels in and of themselves producing bodies for themselves to interact with humans. Those angels that we see having bodies are no different that Peter walking on water after Jesus commanded him to come to Him on the water.

[@hiashleykelly]

AMEN! I really enjoyed this. These accounts on TIK are overwhelming please do more!

[@lizzard13666]

As soon as the atheist said "I read the Bible", but then goes on to cite the 3 or 4 most popular atheist experience verses to cherry pick and lie about ... I knew he wasn't sincere at all. Anyone who HAS read and understood the Bible knows what those verses mean and why they aren't a problem for Christians.

[@voltekthecyborg7898]

A true atheist simply doesn't believe in God, thus has no faith, and is lost. An antitheist attacks God, and those that put their faith in God, and is a false shepherd. A Gaslighter, if you will.

[@melissazabower339]

This young man is right when he says God never changes. God IS the same God He was in the OT. He is still holy, and we still deserve wrath. But now, in His great mercy, He has poured out His just wrath on Christ instead of on us. That is a promise for everyone who believes! 30 years ago, when I was struggling with this same thing, a wise man in my church said, "You're asking the wrong question. The question isn't 'why would God destroy everyone?' The question is 'why didn't He destroy me?' And the answer to that is Grace."

[@prinka2096]

Why would an "OMNISCIENT GOD" regret creating his creation, and hence need a flood? Did he not see it coming?

[@melissazabower339]

That's a good question. But by that logic He wouldn't have created Adam & Eve in the first place. He created us in His image and with free will, knowing the outcome and providing the plan of redemption even before He created the world. The people in Noah's day could have believed just as Noah did, and they would have been saved. The question isn't "why didn't God save them". The question is "why did He save me." The answer to that is Grace. 😊

[@prinka2096]

@@melissazabower339 Why would you create something that you know is going to destroy itself? Why didn't God just create those who were going to believe Noah?

[@melissazabower339]

@prinka2096 I understand your conundrum and the difficulty in wrestling with this question. I appreciate your willingness to discuss it! When I first accepted Vhrist as my Savior I ran into a similar brick wall. See, my mom died when I was 8, and people said, "She's in a better place" and "She's not in pain now." It was little comfort, but it was all I had. Ten years later, a friend from school invited me to church youth group, and six weeks after that I accepted Christ: I understood my own sin kept me far from God and the only way to bridge that gap was through the death and resurrection of Christ. I was on a spiritual high for a few months, until I ran smack into a brick wall: not everyone goes to heaven because no one is good. What if my mother is not in heaven. I wrestled with that for a couple of months. I still remember the night I came to a decision, standing alone in my room, speaking out loud: "God, I don't know I'd my mother is in heaven. If she is not, that was her choice. You are still good. And just, and merciful, and I choose to follow you. No turning back." You're asking good questions and I wish I had a more substantial, convincing answer for you. For me it all comes down to God's sovereignty. Either He is perfect in His planning and execution of that plan, or He's not. If He is not, He is not worth following. But if He is perfect -- Sovereign, just, kind, merciful, holy -- then He is worth following with my whole life. No turning back. (That's a song from the 1990s, BTW: no turning back, no turning back) Do you believe that?

[@prinka2096]

@@melissazabower339 Not really because why would an all powerful God need to be worshipped or praised? This God already owns everything in this world, there's nothing that you can give to such a God. And a God who just watches as children are getting abused is not a God, I think is worthy of praise or worship.

[@voltekthecyborg7898]

I'm 20, and I have an unwavering faith in Jesus Christ. I've been like that since I was 11. And even if someone were to attack me, and my faith, I will still try to keep a spot warm for them, in case they change their mind.

[@ConnorMcKee-k9w]

First I wanna say I knew who that guy was in person, he used to go to my university. Second I want to say you answered some of my questions on some of those unpopular verses in the Bible. Thank you!

[@loganvanderveer]

Lol he is in a class I am in right now haha. I never talked to him but he is in my comm class

[@GalaxyCatPlays]

@@loganvanderveer Send him this video to answer his questions :)

[@CrystalLovesChrist]

@@loganvanderveer you should fr show him this video

[@madisonjulian4382]

I use to watch him... I'm so sad to see how he has fallen away from the faith. Thank you for making this video.

[@AB-bc9tf]

What’s his name so I can pray?

[@jaydas8976]

@@AB-bc9tfhis name is Jared shult

[@lydiakantu]

​@@AB-bc9tf Jared Shult

[@SteyrM95]

40 years after he was born is very recent for that day people like Julius Cesar's life was documented nearly 300 years after he was born

[@Yojimbo16]

I have a story to tell. I was getting called bigoted for being Christian and saying that Homosexuality is a Sin, saying I was an idiot for quote, "believing in a dusty old book written by a bunch of old guys that prohibits eating pork and shellfish." I simply said, "Sodom and Gomorrah" in reply. They respond by saying that I prove myself I not having an actual argument if my go-to argument was quote, "The Worst Bible Story." And that thing with the Great Flood you talked about made me realize, "Do these people actually think God destroyed the 2 cities because 2 guys walked up to each other saying I love you?"

[@LFDLittlefluffydino]

I'm sorry, you lost me...

[@juratory8876]

You had no actual argument to make and they were correct in putting you on blast.

[@Yojimbo16]

@@juratory8876 They were right about 1 thing: Sodom and Gomorrah is the worst story in the Bible. After all, with all the horrible constant acts of depravity they kept committing, it's no wonder God decided to smite them.

[@tell-me-a-story-]

Ex Christians be like- “I went to church once when I was four. I know so much more than you who are a Christian now and always have been.”

[@juratory8876]

And this attitude, on top of Christians overlooking the rampant abuse within the curch, is why so many people are leaving en-masse.

[@tell-me-a-story-]

@@juratory8876 This attitude, as in daring to notice blatant arrogance?

[@Kailyn_Evans_]

Your content is always so uplifting! You are always so encouraging and truthful with every area of scripture. I always look forward to your videos. Keep making great content!

[@nicbreezy6290]

I think one of the biggest issues today, is that many Christians read a verse and take it out of context without knowing the historical background when this passage was written. The problem is that they don't fully understand why that scripture was written. I haven't watched the video of this guy so I don't know everything he says. But if you read the book of Leviticus, it is rough, it just gives harsh and long instructions, but at the time, it was normal for the culture to do things. That is why God spoke into it. He made it known that some things that other cultures are doing are okay, but a lot of the things the other cultures were doing were not. I think another important thing is to Read the Word with the Holy Spirit, He will reveal things that God says things in the bible, that most reading with no context will take as "evil" but actually it is Gods way of saying I love you and you are my people, so let me show you what to do and not to do.

[@roscowbrown3937]

if you’re gonna talk about people taking a Biblical verse out of context, you gotta also address how people (including the jerk who made this video) take opposing views and especially scientific views out of context

[@Bruno_SLC]

Oh I wish I could talk to that guy! He clearly hasn't had his questions answered, or has been around sound Biblical teaching. This is the failure of many modern churches today, who water down the Word of God and avoid difficult verses as it "raises too many questions". I pray God works in his life

[@daltonburroughs3811]

Some of this is thinking his morality is greater than God's. We are told why the Flood happens (because they were committing evil acts) and the people were given 120 years to repent and they did not. Without God's wrath and justice you can't understand how lost we are without Jesus's sacrifice and mercy.

[@prinka2096]

Why would an "OMNISCIENT GOD" regret creating his creation, and hence need a flood? Did he not see it coming?

[@daltonburroughs3811]

@prinka2096 you can regret things you saw coming...just because you know your children will do evil doesn't make it any less sad when they do it. People like to complain and ask God why He doesn't stop evil, then when He does, they complain that He did. The only other option here is to make us robots that have no free will. But then we are incapable of love and being able to choose to follow God. Being a robot prevents a real relationship.

[@prinka2096]

@@daltonburroughs3811 If I'm in charge of everything then why would I create things that I would regret?

[@daltonburroughs3811]

@prinka2096 God created humans to have relationship with us and so we could worship Him. But He gave us free will because He wanted us to choose Him willingly. Humans decided to rebel and there were consequences to that. So while God loves His creation He regrets that we choose evil. God is also just so He could not let the evil go unpunished thus the Flood.

[@CrystalLovesChrist]

@@prinka2096 we all do or create things that we may come to regret later. Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI, recently resigned from Google regretting the technology he aided developing bc of its dangers. AI is still generally used and will be used more probably despite his warnings. And so, yes it’s totally possible that God had regret for His creation but still let us live our lives with the free will He gave us bc He still wants a relationship with us

[@TheHcjfctc]

Totally agree that this shows the importance of going verse by verse. I’ve moved a lot, so have been apart of many churches, only two of them have been a verse-by-verse church including the one I’m at now. I didn’t really see the importance until the last year or two, but should I move again, it will definitely be part of what I’m looking for when church hunting.

[@MeakH1]

Bible allows Slavery, next question. In more detail, Christ nor God did not come to abolish slavery nor approve of it. So, it wouldn't make a difference if slavery was still practiced or not. Moreover, slave owners would be expected to treat their slaves with love. Slaves would be expected to obey in return.

[@damascusthefox]

It's crazy to me how some people think their morality is superior to Gods, but they have nothing to bas their morality on. Thank you for the video. You have helped me so much with your channel.

[@ChristinaMBasler]

You are so good at explaining the meaning of things in the Bible, i love watching your videos!

[@AB-bc9tf]

I will pray for this young man. Although he challenges the Bible I think the fact that he speaks on it as part of his work reflects that there is a searching. I will pray that God gives him wisdom. As the bible says “If any of you lacks wisdom you should ask God who give generously…”

[@NW-tc5xg]

Hallelujah ❤️ Praise to God Most High

[@melissazabower339]

Isaac, you do a beautiful job of presenting the Gospel. God bless! 🙏😊

[@TearDownThisWall]

Imagine crusading against God publicly, trying to turn people away from their redeemer, then dying and facing God. I shudder to think what that would be like.

[@OMGUKILLKENNY2]

Yeah, facing a monster head on like that would be horrifying. Better to just blindly obey and ignore the fact it is currently torturing billions of people who were no worse they you are in life.

[@hglundahl]

1:37 In the Catholic Church, this is the rule: 1) laymen hear from the pulpit a set of pretty substantial selections from the Bible, pre-chosen by the Church, the individual priest has basically no say (ok, some, he may have a say in whether to celebrate mass for this saint or for that saint, or for weekdays in Lent on some occasions), but not all of the Bible; 2) however, clergy and monastics or religious are obliged to read the Bible in lectio continua. They start today where they left off yesterday, and where they leave off today, they start tomorrow. No skipping allowed.

[@mariatr492]

Ya the lectionary is set up so that over a 3 year Sunday cycle/2 year daily Mass cycle, you will hear roughly 80% the entire Bible read (if I got my math right haha) during Mass

[@InitialPC]

@@mariatr492 I went to a Catholic church on Sunday with this woman I was seeing and all they did was tell church stories about a bunch of different saints, not a single verse from the Bible was read that day.

[@hglundahl]

@@mariatr492 _"over a 3 year Sunday cycle"_ That's in Novus Ordo. Latin Mass has a one year cycle.

[@hglundahl]

@@InitialPC _"not a single verse from the Bible was read that day."_ Did you miss Holy Mass and go to a Conference, sermon only? In Holy Mass, it's guaranteed there are two readings (and a chant from psalms, if you'd call that another reading). EVERY saint has his or her Gospel reading, sometimes tailored for that Saint's feast, sometimes there is a "commune" for a certain class of saints (virgin not martyr, virgin martyr, martyr) ... but _every_ time there is an Epistle and a Gospel. The commune martyrum for instance has a an Epistle reading from Wisdom 5:1--5, called after the first words "Stabunt Justi" ... the Epistle reading is usually from St. Paul, sometimes (like here) from OT.

[@mariatr492]

@hglundahl Thanks for the info! I've attended TLMs before but my parishes have always been NO, so I wasn't aware of that, it's good to know that :)

[@jimmyc.491]

My dad refers to this as CIE -- Context Is Everything.

[@DesGardius-me7gf]

I refer to this as CII - Context Is Irrelevant.

[@Glidynn]

​@@DesGardius-me7gf you have made 100+ comments on this channel arguing with Christians i'd assume that you are a atheist so you probably have better things to do

[@RoyDontHugMeImScared]

​@@DesGardius-me7gf I refer to your reply as CIL. Context Is Lost

[@ladosdominik1506]

@@DesGardius-me7gf This is nonsense.

[@ReligiousG]

Context Is Irrelevant... Sounds like something that someone who picks and chooses verses they like, or that seem to support their belief(s) would say.

[@Youthhunter-u6m]

And the Bible does not encourage slavery, but teaches us that servants must respect their masters and our masters to respect their servants. And children to respect their parents, and parents to respect their children. Because that is what love is all about.

[@Naturallife7.]

It's not because something was practise and written in the Bible that YAHWEH approves of it, polygamy was practice and was written in the Bible but YAHWEH has never approved of it.

[@MeakH1]

Its different, the Bible supports Slaves being obedient to their master's (verse is in the new testament).

[@bobbobby8054]

yahweh definitely approved of poligamy

[@butt3rcat]

​@@bobbobby8054 When did God say that it was okay? The people He chose were also sinners, they weren't perfect at all.

[@wingsoffreedom3589]

From what I've seen poligamy is only scripturally permitted when a brother has died had no heir in which case the brother was to marry the widow and produce an heir this worked as a social safety net.

[@InitialPC]

@@MeakH1 as opposed to what? violent revolution? the Bible also supports masters freeing their slaves

[@santtuhyytiainen]

Exodus 20 verse 21 does not say the slave recovered but that the slave only sucumbed to his injuries a day or two after the beating. Is such a case the slave is not avenged for his master did not intend to kill him. Since the death was unintentional the loss of the money invested into purchase and upkeep of the slave suffises as a punishment. If someone tried to expoit a loophole by murdering his slave by having them succumb to their injuries at least a day after the beating, should verse 20 be applied.

[@evanbell7825]

I’ll never understand why people will leave Christianity because they won’t put in the effort to understand the context, cultural relevance, or just simply read the Bible. It’s like people aren’t LOOKING for the truth, they just call themselves a Christian and when someone questions them about their faith they just leave.

[@Maksie0]

Or maybe the truth can't be found in your cult after all.

[@bigredog100]

​@Maksie0 You sure love commenting on a cultist channel. You might as well subscribe to get notified of when he posts.

[@Keef220D]

@@Maksie0 yet, you support LGBT…makes zero sense. Your way of thinking is backwards. You support the devil stop calling Christianity a cult because it’s not

[@loganvanderveer]

Woah this kid is in my class at college right now. Sad that he feels this way

[@chadkndr]

Some thoughts that came to me watching the last bit of this video. I fully recognize my brokenness, and my sin. There is nothing that I can do to save myself, but Jesus alone is my salvation. I fall short every single day. Despite this, I find that I have many qualms with the reality of it all. A bit of a side note to my main line of thought, but I find 10:25 a bit silly. God commanded Abraham to sacrifice Isaac as a test of his faith. Obviously, this was not a test for God, but for Abraham. God knew how much faith Abraham had. I don't really see how it's that gracious that God gave a substitute sacrifice, when he was the one commanding the sacrifice in the first place. I do agree that God's grace towards us as sinners is immense, and I deeply thank him for that grace. Alongside this though, I can't help but question in my heart why God would create us to be sinful. It seems that it's so that his grace and mercy can be displayed. How can he show how vast and incomparable his grace and mercy are if we aren't in need of it? So he created us fallen, so that he could save us. (I'll avoid going into that deeper though) The common apologist answer for that last bit would be that, "God didn't create us sinful, but we as humans chose to be evil" which I really just think is a terrible argument when you actually think about it all. What you say about not knowing God because of having not read enough scripture is so true; but I do partially understand the mindset of thinking God to be evil. For me, it's never been because of the stories that are in the bible (though there are many that I don't understand, I don't conclude that God is evil from those), but rather, things that reality brings forth about the nature of God, in tandem with what the bible says about his character. For clarity, I don't think God is evil; but there are some terrifying implications about who God is that are impossible for me to shake, and that also have no answer. It all seems much more grey than most Christians seem to be willing to accept. Who really knows though.

[@nameirrelevant0]

I know where you're coming from. I do hold to the idea that God created us perfect and then humanity chose to surrender it, because that's what the Bible teaches. But I think what you're getting at is "why did God create us while *knowing* ahead of time we would make that choice, and that things would end so horribly, yet He still went ahead with it?" I've asked myself that a lot. I'm an antinatalist now because of it. It seems hard to reconcile the idea that God doesn't want us to suffer (which is made evident by Jesus sacrificing so much to rescue us from Hell) with the fact that God creates us knowing that we will suffer (and that most end up in Hell anyway). I've heard the whole "God created us because He loved us too much not to," but if I knew for a fact my future kids were going to be miserable, I'd avoid creating them at all costs. And the whole "God just created us to worship Him, so everything else is secondary" really calls God's love into question, because that seems to place self-interest ahead of selflessness, which is the opposite of Jesus's character. I'm not accusing God of wrongdoing. Like you, I just don't know how to reconcile a lot of it.

[@evanbell7825]

Why is “we chose to be evil” a bad argument? I mean that’s objectively true both in the Bible and clearly in real life.. Also regarding the need for sin, God didn’t create sin. He created the angels in which Lucifer had free will and rebelled against God. When Lucifer took the form of a snake and tempted Eve to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, sin entered the world and was cast down to generations (original sin). I know orthodoxy and Catholicism have different views of original sin, but it’s mostly the same. “I’d avoid creating them if they were miserable” Really? Do you also agree that unborn children who will have a tough life should be aborted? Not creating or killing off your creation because people will struggle doesn’t really make sense to me. I think you’re getting confused of Gods omnipotence / foreknowledge and sin. Admittedly, it’s a very tough idea to grasp, but God has a plan. He let Satan and humans do what they did because he knew ahead of time what decisions we’d make and his plan of salvation further exemplifies that. I really do understand your questions as I’ve had/still have them today, that’s how I’d answer some of your points at least

[@nameirrelevant0]

@@evanbell7825 "We chose to sin" isn't a bad argument. I was agreeing with that in my reply. And no, I don't support the idea of aborting kids because they have dismal futures. But that's because once a life is conceived, you've already crossed the threshold of existence. You can't justify that any more than you could justify murdering a poor person just to "relieve" them of the suffering of poverty. But when a life truly doesn't exist yet, the paradigm is different. Otherwise, all Christians would be guilty of murder for *not* having as many children as possible, because they're technically preventing life from even beginning. But neither of us is suggesting that Christians are obligate baby machines, so I'm not going to delve into that. Basically, I just find myself disagreeing with the idea of "existence is always better than nonexistence, regardless of quality." Jesus said Judas was better off not being born. Solomon said that depending on how someone's life turns out, nonexistence can be preferable. Biblically speaking, the only time existence is "worth it" is if we know we're going to Heaven, because then you have finite suffering on Earth vs infinite pleasure in Heaven.

[@chadkndr]

@@evanbell7825 I just find it to fall short of actually answering anything. We definitely do choose to do evil, but I guess the root of my question is, "Why do we want to do evil?" We are continually evil before the Lord, and through him alone do we have any hope of being saved from that evil. I didn't choose to BE evil, but I am evil, and I do evil against my will. We literally cannot choose righteousness, unless God reaches out his hand to us; and even with the extending of his hand, we still sin daily. I don't mean to be rude in saying this, but it doesn't really seem like you answered much of anything in your comment. Your answer was, "God has a plan." which just doesn't scratch the itch within me enough to dismiss the question any longer. Forgive me if I misunderstood your answer, that's just how I interpreted your response. So God existed for all of eternity in perfect, eternal bliss. He never lacked anything, as he himself perfectly fulfills any desire that might've somehow arisen within him for something more. At some point during this eternal bliss, he created the angels. He gave them free will, and a THIRD OF THEM rebelled. He knew this would occur ahead of time, and instead of just never creating them in the first place, or getting rid of them after their rebellion, he gave them dominion over his creation of this universe that we exist within. He placed a test (tree of knowledge of good and evil) into the garden he created for the first two humans that he had made, and told the humans that they fail the test if they go against what he commanded. Then he had the most powerful angel that he ever created go down, and tempt the two humans into going against his word, knowing that they would. Was the tree, and command of avoidance, not enough of an option for them to exercise free will? He let this scenario play out until humanity became so evil that he regretted making them, despite knowing that all of this was going to happen before he ever did any of it. I would imagine almost every Christian to agree that, in heaven/the new earth, we won't have any desire to rebel against God. All evil will be wiped from existence, provided what Revelation says comes to pass. Assuming we will still have free will, why didn't God just start us off like that? If evil is required for free will to exist, then we won't be free in the next life; which would make us robots, which is the biggest argument I see made in favor of free will actually existing, because God doesn't want robots worshipping him. What I've said in this comment barely scratches the surface of the confusion I have surrounding it all. I have searched far and wide, and have yet to come across a genuine answer to these problems, as well as the many others that stem from it.

[@Ohe11itsODell]

I’ve been listening to Genesis. Rick Burgess has a podcasts where he reads Genesis week by week and the explanation is so clear. I would suggest others to listen to it as well. To better understand the end we must fully understand the beginning.

[@DougWarner25]

“Millions of people were drowning just for existing.” 🤦‍♂️ You can’t make up this level of ignorance…

[@RueIsYou]

Yeah, it's not like there were children under the age of 5 who died in the global flood 🙄... such sinful toddlers and infants. We all know God is all for killing babies.

[@therealhardrock]

0:50 It's the old story: "I went to a milquetoast church and then I discovered these ugly parts of the Bible that they never told me and now I think I'm smarter." This is an old cliche that has been answered for over 10 years now, ever since the "New Atheists" made "deconstruction" popular, but the reality is, their understanding of the Bible is still very limited and superficial. When you REALLY get into Bible study and read what scholar much smarted and more well read than you have written about this stuff you discover that: 1. Those verses don't mean what you think 2. Those verses are part of a societal, cultural context that isn't relevant to us today Every time some deconstructionist thinks they've discovered something new and novel, they're really just re-hashing the same old talking points that more scholarly and well read apologists have refuted a thousand times.

[@voltekthecyborg7898]

Literalists and deconstructionists are the same type of people: they both don't understand, for they lack faith

[@shadowm2k7]

"What made me change was reading the Bible" is wild to me 'cause reading the Bible is what solidified my faith, love & passion for the Lord I agree with him that church does pick & choose & can have a watered down thing going on. I've been a Christian my entire life and last year i was suffering heavily from religious trauma. I did not have Jesus, I only had religion, i never felt good enough no matter what i did, i was lukewarm, in but mostly out, i was lgbt, agreed with everything the left was doing 'cause i thought that's what God would want, love, acceptance, equality, all that stuff, and it does sound good on the surface. I had also never read the bible before in my entire life, everything i knew about God & Jesus I learned from movies, worship songs & whatever the church said. Things came to a head last year and i was so stressed out. I was anxious & depressed, i was doing new age witchcraft to help my mental health ((i had no idea it was new age witchcraft at the time!!! 😭😭😭!!! Yet more evil disguised as good)) and i decided that i either need to go all in for God or cut Him off completely and just live my life 'cause the religious trauma was so bad, you guys. It was so bad. I chose God and i went ALL in, gave Him everything. I decided that if I was going to follow God, I would have to accept the Bible, which i was super skeptical on. Like, super skep. Wow was I missing out 😭😭😭!!! I had NO IDEA that it was 1 continuous story of 1 family bloodline!?!??? I thought it was a collection of stories that may or may not have happened and the only thing that connected them was that God was in it-- like a collection of books like "here is snow white" "here is the little mermaid" "here is Cinderella" i thought the bible was the same thing "here is noah" "here is moses" "here is daniel" like just unrelated stories but God is in them, i didn't know it was a connected cinematic universe 😭😭😭 of 1 story 😭😭😭 DETAILING OR HISTORY!?!?!???????? Last year I got super interested in ancient lost civilisations, ancient technology, architecture, why bones of giants have been found but for some reason the world doesn't care, like, i KNEW there was something about our history that wasnt matching up with what we are being told. And even if you're not Christian & don't believe the Bible, something is STILL UP with our history, the earth, something isn't right, and for me, the Bible answered everything. my worldview has completely changed, I believe God's account of my history. Also, in reading the Bible, I understand that i never actually knew God at all. I knew "of" Him!!! I had a parasocial relationship with Him. Like a celebrity who's tweets & news articles i could read but i hadn't met Him really. we had no relationship and i was deluded in to thinking i did even though i was doing everything He asked me not to do I have a prayer life, i love spending time with Him in His word, journalling, song writing, worshipping, hanging out with Him & our mutual friends, making plans with Him, having secrets with Him, its the best 😭! I never would have thought that i could have this kind of relationship with my creator, it was so difficult before, like a chore but now its easy because i love Him & finally understand the weight of what Jesus did for me, it is a pleasure and honour to serve Him

[@Christainwithautism]

Oh my! God bless you sibling in Christ. More people should read your story! My gosh it’s so amazing! I had a similar story: I was a very progressive “Christian”. I professed as Christian but watched porn, took God’s name in vain, watched violent games, played ouja, and was practically into whatever the world was into…..I since realized who God really was, and accepted Him! I still struggle with doubting thoughts among others, but I always pray to God and spend time with God. God bless you! I love you 💕

[@shadowm2k7]

@@Christainwithautism wow what a story!!! I pray every plan of the enemy over you be CANCELLED in jesus name!!! Any wickedness, curse or demons from Ouija be CAST OUT in Jesus name! I love you too, cant wait to see you in Heaven!!! Something that really helps me if i feel doubt is to check out all the archeological evidence of the Bible & research the context of the civilisations around Israel & in Canaan at the time of the old testament, it's so interesting!!! There's a great Christian science channel on here called "Answers in Genesis" and that really changed my life & pointed me in the right direction to God

[@TheHcjfctc]

There’s a great book Reading the Bible through Western Eyes which is fantastic in divorcing our Western biases and understanding from the original context.

[@orandegellogaming4793]

Good video! Yeah for anyone saying the NT God is different and nicer, read Revelation lol

[@hmbackup6577]

“His life was documented only 40 years after he died” NO SHIT, it’s a matter of compiling 12 distinct accounts plus Paul and the others, there has to be some consensus as to what’s going to be in the “final edit”

[@LFDLittlefluffydino]

To be honest, I feel bad for God... He made the angels and 1/3 of them rebelled. He made us and we rebelled... And He let us have free will because He loves us... 😢

[@Maksie0]

Seems like he's bad at his job

[@LFDLittlefluffydino]

@@Maksie0 We choose to

[@ArchlordZer0]

If God is omniscient, then he literally knows everything before he created it. If he's perfect, then he can't make a mistake. So God created the angels to rebel and created man to sin and already decided who's going to hell and heaven before we're even born. So yeah, that's evil.

[@hurrican_h5015]

​​​@@ArchlordZer0 God knew what would happen, but that's not gonna stop him from doing so. And he made us to have a choice, not to make us perfect. Becuase if he made us perfect, then why would we need God? And he didn't make the angel to rebel, that makes no sense, but similar to us, they were made to have a relationship with God. Just as God didn't make us to sin, God made us to have a relationship with him, and when we chose to go against him, that leads us into sin. He gives us free will becuase if he made us perfect and sinless, then We would not need Christ. But we all do, that's why he died for everyone even if they didn't want to or if they wanted to be with God. And if you choose to be without him, then after awhile he'll let you commit to that choice. And God didn't decide who was going to heaven or Hell, but he knew those who would follow him and reject him, Hell is a place of absence of God. God is love, I am and so is everyone else, are the evil ones...

[@ArchlordZer0]

@@hurrican_h5015 Everything you said makes absolutely no sense. You can't have free will if God knows everything that is going to happen before it is even created. Every single action you make was already determined by God. If God is perfect, then he can't make a mistake. So his creation must be perfect. Thus, sinning and angels rebelling is by design. If it is not, then God is imperfect and has made a mistake in his creation. If God is omnipresent (meaning he is literally everywhere) then he would also be present in Hell and he would also exist as every single atom he created. So sending people to Hell to be tortured would by extension be sending pieces of God to Hell. The bible makes no sense and neither does your logic.

[@alisacraft5570]

My church goes book by book, chapter by chapter. Nothing is skipped.

[@dominicadrean2160]

Can you please pray that God takes away my autism I absolutely hate it it has been nothing but a curse in a drawback and has robbed me of so many things that I never could get to experience And please don't say it's a gift for something I've heard that all before people try to find meaning for every kind of physical impairment for some people it can be a blessing but for me it's a curse I need this to be removed from my life so I can live a normal life and start over and make sure I don't have to rely on anyone I live with my parents which I don't like and I want to go live abroad for many reasons and counting every option I have when I can get the opportunity to leave because you have to study and think of every possibility on what you're going to do after😅 And I want to find a girl to be my future wife( never had a relationship with a girl) and I don't want it to affect my relationship or marriage and I don't want to pass down my autism to my kids because I don't want them to deal with what I've dealt with that's one thing that really scares me

[@FollowerofChristSpidey]

Now I'm not gonna sit here and tell you its a gift but even with it your faith in God shows that even though you go through the same challenge everyday you still trust in the Lord that he can help you. That's the gift part of it.

[@sheeniebeanie2597]

Look at Paul's prayer in Colossians 4: ”Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving; meanwhile praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in chains, that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.“ Colossians‬ ‭4‬:‭2‬-‭6‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ Does Paul ask for them to pray to make his life easier, or does he pray for strength to walk in the light and complete the task that God has given him? That is my answer to your questions. Then I will pray that God strengthens you to do His will and to complete the tasks that He has given you, but this will not be a prayer to make things, as you claim, easy. The Christian life is not easy. Gracious God, our Heavenly Father, I thank You for this day and this life and the grace that You have extended to give us another day to live. I thank You for Your providence, Your truth, Your gifts of faith and repentance and salvation. I thank Your for sending Your only begotten Son, Jesus, to die on the cross for our sins and for paying our debt in full. I thank You for not leaving us here without hope, for You are our hope. And Your grace abounds. Even so, come Lord Jesus. We excitedly await Your Kingdom to come where You will judge sin and make all things new! Lord, I pray for my brother in Christ. I pray that You provide him comfort and strength as he battles autism and give him the knowledge and. strength and wisdom to know that You can turn anything bad into good, for You are good. You are so kind to us, and You say that if we ask of You and if we seek Your kingdom, then we will find. So I pray that You bless him/her and strengthen him in Your perfect ways and that You protect him/her from any weakness in the abilities that you have given him/her a d that he/she keeps heart and fights the good fight for Your namesake. That what the enemy is telling him is a setback that is a hinderance, that You show him that You make no mistakes and that every situation, You have providence over and will be made for Your glory. I pray that You give him the chance to tell his family about Your goodness and through the sharing of the Gospel that you save his family and repair his relationship with his parents. I pray that You are with him in this time of loneliness and show him that he is not alone and that he must seek satisfaction in You, not in moving away or getting a girlfriend or these other things that may be telling him will make him happy but will not give him joy--that joy is found in You and give him understanding of his purpose in his situations. I pray that You fill his life with truth. I pray that You focus him onto You. I thank you for all of these things and we ask these things in the precious name of Jesus, Amen.

[@buybuytiger6460]

You are a young man with so much potential, you view your autism as a weakness & i am not going to preach to you that it is some gift but you are clearly intelligent have self awareness. Turn that anxiety into strength by reading Proverbs & submitting to Christ. It changed my life.

[@deprecated8036]

Sorry man, autism is a lifelong disorder. Your abilities are nerfed, but that does not mean they can't be improved upon. I am in the same situation you are in. We are both on the same mathematical wavelength. Improve yourself and trust in your creator. Do what you can do, life will unfold no matter if you do something or not.

[@neftalibahamundi7270]

Hello, I'm a Christian with autism and I used to have the same view towards it. When I got older and followed Christ, I began to change my perspective on it with 2 questions, "Is my autism really what's stopping me or is it myself?" "What is normal and why I want to be that?" Try to answer this question without comparing yourself to someone else who isn't autistic. If you can't then most like that's jealousy towards what a non autistic person have. What do they have that you don't and can you also have it if you put in the work? Im living by myself, working out, I have a job and soon to graduate from college. I'm succeeding by God's grace and accepting my autism. I don't allow my condition to put limits in the way. It's simply just a different view of life. I don't know your situation but I think my explanation and advice can still help you in some way. I believe you can do the things you want if you change to a positive mindset and believe in yourself. Also, you'll be relying on your parents for the rest of your life. Asking for advice, guidance and help like the rest of humanity. I'm an adult who's still asking my mom on how to cook.😅 God bless.

[@lePirateMan]

On the 40 year point, I think he meant that its weird that someone so influensual and famous for doing crazy things, who filled houses with people listening to his words and had thousands gather at times wasnt written about before 40 years after.

[@deconteeko7446]

There’s just no explaining away slavery. “Good slavery” vs. “Evil slavery” is a ridiculous argument. “Dignified slavery,” is just a wild thing to say. Christianity lost me on that one.

[@Poultry_Plays]

your thinking of the modern slavery which is bad because it harms the slaves and the masters treat them wrong good slavery (what God wanted) is where you basically hire them its a job

[@deconteeko7446]

@@Poultry_Plays there’s no such thing as good slavery. Saying “good slavery,” sounds crazy.

[@Poultry_Plays]

@@deconteeko7446 i just told you the slavery that God set rules for was a job it was not bad

[@deconteeko7446]

@@Poultry_Plays God setting rules for slavery is crazy. Stop trying to justify the unjustifiable. It’s sounds nuts.

[@Poultry_Plays]

@@deconteeko7446 you still arnt getting it IT WASENT SLAVERY

[@Youthhunter-u6m]

the reason why God started a flood and wiped out an entire city was because of the people in there and the people in there were rejecting God and going to their own sinful ways. This upsets God and that's why he did those things.

[@knowthyenemy]

My dude, that fact that you can sit there and say there would ever be a time or situation where owning another human being would be acceptable, is showing just what kind of monsters Christians truly are!! So thank you thank you thank you! My friends were dabbling in Christianity and I just had to show them this video to illustrate what apologizing for your abuser looks like and you saved them a lot of wasted time! Thanks again, keep up the good work

[@DiamondWorldYoutube]

The slavery wasn't FORCED it was more of like a job except you lived with your customer for a few years and not abused

[@Qijon]

Brother in Christ you speak so well! I am very impressed and convicted to do better for God, your explanation was brilliant, praise the Holy Spirit for putting this in your heart, praise God!

[@AtlanticPunch]

Those rules for Indentured Servants ONLY applied to Hebrew slaves. Foreign slaves NEVER got freedom and were property to be passed on to slave masters children. Be more honest Does defending slavery make you feel dirty at all?

[@anuiype]

If you read the Bible, you see Jesus indeed taught multitudes about the relationship with God, yet despite the large audience, only a few truly grasped his teachings. Even the disciples struggled to comprehend until Jesus himself explained the deeper meanings. It emphasizes that reading the Bible alone does not guarantee understanding, as its truths require divine guidance for comprehension . It stresses the importance of humility and sincere seeking of God to unlock the profound truths within Scripture. Additionally, the truth found in the Bible can be challenging to accept, as it often confronts human pride and self-centeredness. Bible teaches the Truth and as said the Truth is always BITTER for ones who Idolize themselves. For it is written "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it" Let the wise understand.

[@cygnusustus]

Yes, the Bible endorses slavery. Leviticus 25 explicitly describes and condones chattel slavery. "44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. 46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour." Under Mosaic law, foreign slaves were chattel slaves. They could be bought, sold, separated from their families, beaten, raped, killed, kept for life, and passed down as inherited property. Every reference to foreign slaves in the Bible is to deny them rights and protections afforded to Hebrew slaves. The treatment of foreign slaves was every bit as bad, or worse, than slavery in the Antebellum south.

[@butt3rcat]

Jesus's sacrifice ENDED the Mosiac law. Jesus was chosen by God. I don't understand why people are constantly bringing up stuff from the Old Testament. Majority of the Old Testament doesn't apply to the New Testament. God NEVER supported slavery, neither did he create it. The verses you applied here weren't even about slaves, they were about SERVANTS. Maybe actually listen to Christians professors that studied the Bible and know the context of the actual thing instead of saying God is evil because of the words you see on that page and the media that is corrupt and doesn't know God at all.

[@cygnusustus]

@timburtonsdandruff It did not. Not even a jot or a titte of it. Actually, the Babylonians ended Mosaic Law. But that's irrelevant to the fact that you worship a god that condoned chattel slavery.

[@cygnusustus]

@@butt3rcat "God never supported slavery. " That is a shameful lie. I quoted the Bible for you.

[@cygnusustus]

@timburtonsdandruff Maybe actually listen to ACTUAL professors of Ancient Near East History rather than professors with an agenda to promote.

[@butt3rcat]

@@cygnusustus Considering that EVERY religion mentioned the flood, it's not an agenda. The Bible mentioned Julius Caesar, a historical figure, which means that the Bible is a part of history. What about LGBT activists gr00ming little kids to be gay in schools? What about the teachers that has been cherry picking history and not telling you what parts of it that has been hidden from us for decades? Those aren't agendas to you? You can't even trust psychologists these days because of how much they cater to the LGBT demographic. The New Testament and the Old Testament are TWO different things. Majority of the stuff from the Old Testament doesn't apply to the New Testament. Servitude and slavery are two different things, and I can tell you're a agnostic person with a rebellious spirit that is looking for fights about the Bible because of your pride.

[@DailyDose_0455]

Context is the key word, without it you will miss the whole purpose 🙏🏽

[@cygnusustus]

The laws of slavery in Exodus 21 stipulating that slaves would be set free if maimed by their masters applied only to Hebrew indentured servants (verse 2). Not to foreign chattel slaves. Exodus 21 states that a master could beat his Hebrew slaves nearly to death without punishment. Then Leviticus 25 states that masters could treat their foreign chattel slaves even more harshly.

[@rockweirdo8147]

First off, these are not slaves as the English definition knows it, these are bond servants. Secondly, your evidence as to why bond servants weren't under the same laws, is weak. Just because they may be treated harshly, doesn't mean the law isn't applied.

[@cygnusustus]

@@rockweirdo8147 " these are not slaves as the English definition knows it" They absolutely were. Only Hebrews were indentured servants under Mosaic Law. Foreign slaves were chattel slaves, exactly like the slavery in the Antebellum South, but worse. There were some laws protecting African slaves in the South. There were no laws protecting foreign chattel slaves in ancient Israel.

[@rockweirdo8147]

@@cygnusustus - Exodus 21:16 outlaws owning a stolen person, it never says only a Hebrew, you've added that to benefit your point. It would be a bond servitude, as it would be willful.

[@cygnusustus]

@@rockweirdo8147 Exodus 21 only outlaws kidnapping fellow Hebrews. The entire chapter is about how Hebrews should treat fellow Hebrews. Read verse 2. There are many place in the Old Testament were God condones that capture/kidnapping of foreign chattel slaves. "It would be a bond servitude, as it would be willful." That is a lie. Foreign chattel slaves could be obtained by purchase, by capture, and by birth. None of those are voluntary. Learn your Bible.

[@rockweirdo8147]

@@cygnusustus - Verse 2 does specify the Hebrews were only subject to indentured servitude, but I never said otherwise. I'm talking about bond servitude, that's different from indentured servitude and different from slavery. As per Exodus 21:16, it lays out all kidnapping to be punishable by death, not just for Hebrews. By capture is different, those are laws of war. By birth is from the willing servitude of the parents, as they made a contract knowing their family would be in servitude until freed, that is if the woman was also a servant.

[@stillbuyvhs]

@7:01 They weren't drowning "just for existing." They were drowning for failing to meet a standard by such a degree there wasn't much of a choice on God's part. Has he not read the rest of the Old Testament? There were some pretty messed up people back there; people who burned their children to idols; people who thought it was ok to catch & abuse the new guy in town.

[@cygnusustus]

"In the Old Testament, kidnapping and rape were both punishable by death." More lies. Kidnapping of fellow Hebrews and foreign free persons residing in Israel was punishable by death. The Bible describes God allowing and promoting the capturing and kidnapping of foreigners from other nations several times. Also, rape was not even a crime under Mosaic law. What was punishable by death was having sexual intercourse with a woman who was not your property, regardless of consent.

[@dahliaherrod4301]

Hello! Do you have any scriptural references for the laws you mentioned? I'd like to do my own study and see what the Bible has to say on the matter. Thanks in advance.

[@AnnaSmithWithLove]

It’s also a big point to say that God also said for the masters to be fair to the slaves

[@swiftkillt7005]

I love it when Christians lie so openly about things. "Oh, it's not slavery we think of it's just a type of indentured servitude for poor people". Leviticus 25:44-46 very much disagrees with you but whatever you need to tell yourself. It's almost as if Yahweh had the same moral understanding as the rest of the ancient world.

[@irenicrose]

This is why baby Christians need not to try to grow platforms for evangelism. You need to grow as a believer before you start trying to essentially shepherd other believers. Too many people decide to be teachers without the credentials. In James it talks about this.

[@aliasfakename3159]

It's wild how gaslight-y Christians get when you point out God being cruel or abusive. It's like watching a beaten person defend their abuser

[@MannyManDeLaTorre]

Cognitive dissonance kicks in 😂

[@BongBing11]

Moreso because God isn't cruel or abusive. Its like a kid saying their dad is evil because he took away their Xbox :P

[@Choosafunga777]

I know right.

[@Choosafunga777]

@@BongBing11 I don't think God killing someone's entire family for the lols is the same as a Dad taking away their Son's Xbox.

[@BongBing11]

@Choosafunga777 In relative terms yeah, God is both the giver and life and eternal sovereign, if he chooses to take away the life he gave then... y'know :P

[@Cesar-pq2ck]

The tik toker took out of context to a new level! We can’t be lazy when it comes to reading scripture.

[@cygnusustus]

"God was putting regulations around slavery. That doesn't mean that he gave it his full endorsement." More lies. There were no regulations on foreign chattel slaves. They had no rights or protections. Psalms 2:8 describes the enslavement of foreigners as God's gift to the Israelites. That sounds like pretty full endorsement to me.

[@Gannecus86]

Exodus 21:16 clearly outlines what we would consider chattel slavery and the punishment is death. Also, since slaves that were taken by the Israelites were to be treated as human beings and not chattel, they had to be treated with respect and dignity. You don't like the wording but that doesn't mean it's immoral, especially when I'm guessing you are an atheist with no foundational framework to argue this point anyway since you believe we are all just cosmic accidents, the product of random time/matter/chance, thus who cares what star dust does to other star dust? This argument because 2000 years ago they didn't use the word you want them to so therefore it can be dismissed has to be one of the dumbest lines of argumentation I've heard. Take IDPOL for instance. Jesus, in Matthew 19:4-6, clearly defines both gender and marriage but still you have people trying to wiggle out of the clear picture Jesus painted of what both gender and marriage was to be. It is the same thing with your argument. Just because the verse doesn't say "Chattel Slavery", its clearly painting a picture of chattel slavery by every definition. Also,

[@cygnusustus]

​@@Gannecus86 "Exodus 21:16 clearly outlines what we would consider chattel slavery and the punishment is death. " Chattel slavery is defined as the ownership of a human being as property. Exodus 21:16 mentions nothing about that. Leviticus 25 explicitly describes and condones chattel slavery. "44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. 46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour." "since slaves that were taken by the Israelites were to be treated as human beings and not chattel" Which orifice did you pull that lie out of? Exodus 21 states that Israelite indentured servants could be beaten nearly to death, and Leviticus 25 states the foreign chattel slaves could be treated even worse. "This argument because 2000 years ago they didn't use the word you want them to so therefore it can be dismissed has to be one of the dumbest lines of argumentation I've heard." I never made that argument. You must be one of the dumbest apologists I've ever met.

[@martinapraisedance]

Amazing video, brother in Christ. God bless you! Reading the Old Testament and seeing how people acting will help you understand why God, our Heavenly Father did what He did. What wicked and sick people they were. Truly deserved their punishment. Never repented, turned away from their sin or acknowledged God. The fact the people are choosing to be blind to whats happening now and what happened back then is supper sad. There's still time before God's wrath, people.

[@cygnusustus]

The quickest way to get a Christian to lie is to ask them about slavery in the Bible.

[@rodster811]

😂😂😂... Oh you're serious

[@cygnusustus]

@@rodster811 Absolutely. Does the Bible condone chattel slavery?

[@UNDRGRNDOFFICIAL]

@@cygnusustusI wonder why the prophets ended slavery

[@cygnusustus]

@@UNDRGRNDOFFICIAL They didn't. Wonder no more.

[@UNDRGRNDOFFICIAL]

@@cygnusustus you don’t read the Bible then

[@Tadeo-ud7ty]

Great video. Congrats. God bless you.

[@cygnusustus]

"I'm no expert at this." Yet you feel you are qualified to create a youtube video about it. Such arrogance. "Now when we're looking at slavery in the Bible we shouldn't be thinking about slavery we're more familiar with, that happened in the United States or Great Britain in terms of this undignified kidnapping. It's not about that. It's about indentured servitude." Lie, lie, lie. Slavery under Mosaic Law included chattel slavery identical to slavery in the antebellum south. Under Mosaic law, foreign slaves were chattel slaves. They could be bought, sold, separated from their families, beaten, raped, killed, kept for life, and passed down as inherited property. Every reference to foreign slaves in the Bible is to deny them rights and protections afforded to Hebrew slaves. The treatment of foreign slaves was every bit as bad, or worse, than slavery in the Antebellum south. All of these is condoned by your scriptures and your God.

[@nicloren2220]

first off , he has free speech , so he can comment on this . and no one is an expert on this . not even the brightest minds . we cannot understand with our limited earthly knowledge. also , God gives everyone free will . they choose what to do with it . God only allows evil up to a certain point , He wants people to follow him willfully and not mindlessly . taking away all the bad things would not be helpful since then life would have no purpose . this is always how it was meant to be . to let go and let God . I'll pray for you and hope you gain the clarity you need

[@cygnusustus]

@@nicloren2220 First off, I never said he could not comment on this, so pull your panties out of your crack. "and no one is an expert on this ." Nope. Some are, and I have read their work. "God gives everyone free will " Explain how he commands slavery and allows free will at the same time, son. "I'll pray for you" I'll think for you. You're getting the better deal.

[@cantlieman]

This guys downfall was sad but as the Bible says; They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. 1John 2:19

[@MannyManDeLaTorre]

How supportive 😂

[@cantlieman]

@@MannyManDeLaTorre wdym?

[@DesGardius-me7gf]

1st John 2:19 is merely words on paper.

[@cantlieman]

@@DesGardius-me7gf everything is words on paper for y'all😂 Biblically, he was not a Christian end of story. Don't justify him.

[@DesGardius-me7gf]

@@cantliemanI don’t give a fuck about being “Biblical,” I care about evidence. 1st John 2:19 was just written by 2nd century Christians to explain why people were leaving when they began to see through the bullshit. Anybody can make up a religion and manipulate people into it, then say that people who leave it weren’t part of it. It’s the same case with 1st John 2:19.

[@ethankeating1644]

I wasn’t that close to him but I have some friends who were before he left the faith it really has just been sad to see

[@santtuhyytiainen]

This is a prime example on the dangers of not teaching the whole of the Bible consistently. Every follower of Jesus should have read all 66 books of the Bible and know what each of them is about and why they were writen.

[@mwgfnn]

Im doing the bible recap right now with tara leigh cobble, she really changed my perspective on reading the bible. I used to be scared of the old testament cause i thought i wouldnt like what id hear, but thats only because i was looking for ME in the bible, as in i was focusing on myself and what resonated with me. But when you read the bible looking for God on every page, you see how TRULY good God is. I just finished leviticus which was a pretty hard book to read😂 I wouldve NEVER gotten through it had i not started looking for God instead of myself in it. One of my favorite parts of scripture so far is actually in Leviticus. Leviticus 26:40-45. Before this God explains the consequences for the israelites sin, but then says that if they humble their hearts before God he surely will forgive them and he’ll never break his covenant. He will forget their sin and treat them with the same love and kindness. After i read that God led me to Isaiah 53. All of it. Every single word got to me. Basically its prophesying Jesus and the suffering he would endure for OUR SINS and OUR iniquities! God would no longer punish us for our sins, cause he payed the price! long as we come to him humbly and repentant. Isaiah 53 will most definitely make yall cry so if yall havent read it, READ IT! All that said lol, old testament God ISNT MEAN. Hes the same always and forever❤

[@dickersoncharlie4961]

Mark 12:30-31 (KJV) And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

[@Krissy5050]

Thank you for this video 🙏🏼 I have been struggling with the exodus verse for some time and sent myself into a spiral because of it

[@BD-vh1mt]

You can tell they are pushing this onto kids. This 12 year old is trying to explain to us what he read in the Bible, but I have shoes older than this kid

[@419]

Interesting because I got into this conversation just the other day with someone about this. Here was my response Okay so you're taking those verses completely out of context to make it seem like it's okay to just do those things to slaves. Which is exactly what the slave traders did when making the slave Bible. Another thing is God allows evil temporarily in the hopes that people come to repentance. He also simultaneously uses it to bring about good. If he forced us to be good, we wouldn't have free will. If he didn't allow evil, we'd all be destroyed. Due to the hardness of their hearts, he couldn't abolish it completely without them becoming extremely bitter over his laws. So the greatest good is to bring in laws and regulations, and change their hearts over time. You need to read it in context of the entire law, and in the context of the time period, then look at what it ultimately accomplished. An excerpt from got questions: Jesus and the apostles did not outright condemn slavery. They didn’t need to. The effect of the gospel is that lives are changed, one by one, and those changed lives in turn bring transformation to entire families, clans, and cultures. Christianity was never designed to be a political movement, but, over time, it naturally affected political policy. Alexander MacLaren wrote that the gospel “meddles directly with no political or social arrangements, but lays down principles which will profoundly affect these, and leaves them to soak into the general mind” (The Expositor’s Bible, vol. VI, Eerdmans, 1940, p. 301). In nations where Christianity spread and took firm hold, slavery was brought to an end through the efforts of born-again individuals. The seeds of the emancipation of slaves are in the Bible, which teaches that all men are created by God and made in His image (Genesis 1:27), which condemns those who kidnap and sell a person (Exodus 21:16; cf. 1 Timothy 1:8-10), and which shows that a slave can truly be “a brother in the Lord” (Philemon 1:16). Some criticize the Bible because it did not demand an immediate overthrow of every ingrained, centuries-old sinful custom of the day. But, as Warren Wiersbe pointed out, “The Lord chooses to change people and society gradually, through the ministry of the Holy Spirit and the proclamation of the truth of the Word of God” (The Wiersbe Bible Commentary, David C. Cook, 2007, p. 245).

[@BrockJamesStory]

If you wanna see and hear the most verse by verse churches, they are Mid-Acts dispensational churches.

[@williamstaude]

That slave one wasnt really defended. So the owner should only be punished if the slave dies, and if the slaves tooth is knocked out or eyes is struck, then they can walk free. Otherwise, the owner gets away scott free. I still dont think thats fair. What if both your legs a broken?

[@krystallos81]

People forget that thousands of years ago, people struggled. It’s not like today where if you’re in a country like America, you have options. People had to be in someone’s care if they couldn’t care for themselves. If they didn’t have work, they needed to work for a family in order to have shelter, food and to support their family as well. God doesn’t do anything to people because he’s just mean. He tells us how to behave and when we don’t listen, he gives us chances. If we still refuse to listen, then he gives us a lesson. It doesn’t mean it’s pleasant at all, but it’s necessary. Evil does not stand against God. He cannot abide it. We make our own choices and the people who were killed in the flood didn’t care about God. They were warned and they mocked God. They got what they deserved. People today do too if they really choose to live a life full of sin and death. We have every chance to repent and ask for salvation, but some won’t.

[@Bugsy0333]

One pesron owning another person as there property is immoral then or today.There are no good forms of slavery ! (They were warned and they mocked God. They got what they deserved.? ) You sound like an evil sick cruel person Hey that may be because Your are ! The power that religion can do to a persons mind is evident in your comment ,I feel sorry for you i truly do !!

[@iansjogss]

This is crazy I used to follow this guy when he was a Christian

[@itstoasty7089]

The bible is susceptible to one thing: taking scripture out of context. Also, considering what was written about Jesus, sure it is true that it was written over 30 years after Jesus was on Earth but yeah the life span of the first eye witnesses were still alive and also the evidence written in the gospels is consistent with the historical Jesus we know about

[@Youthhunter-u6m]

and hes right, why would I include something that does not show love. but his view of this verse is wrong and mis interpreted.

[@Youthhunter-u6m]

the verse is suppose to be that if the master beats his slave and dies must be put to death and does not say that they should not be punished. and of course if he was right about this, then I would be confused. I don't know what kind of translation he got or kind of bible he to to come up with that conclusion. But over all, this is blasphemy and we christians should not listen to this message what's so ever because God does not tell us to beat slaves or people who are different from us, but instead love one another and love your enemies, and to love God with all your heart soul and strength. ✝🙏🏻

[@WilsonProductionsOfficial]

"You were evil in the ancient days." Yeah... that's a case that'll really stand up when we're all standing before the White Throne of Judgement.

[@zippiestjet1937]

Matthew was actively recording Jesus' teaching DURING his time on earth.

[@nemesisn4sir242]

I don't agree with his conclusions, but I must say his original observation of church, that messages are repetitive, are a growing frustration of mine. I find verse by verse much more invigorating and informative.

[@dannyruiz3329]

This is why young people shouldn't have christian channels - 99.99% have no wisdom, knowledge, or maturity to grasp it.

[@Slayer_of_demons64]

The atheist never gave any legit reason to not believe in God, it was all (my feelings).

[@schofrenzy]

Servants are not slaves the way we think of this , God saw that people had slaves and made it known how to treat them if come across ✝️✝️✝️ do you not see this