Give Me an Answer -

Cliffe Knechtle has a great conversation with college students at a campus in the southwest US.
The "Give Me An Answer" ministry began as an outgrowth of the dialogues Cliffe Knechtle has had with students on various university campuses throughout the United States. These universities include the University of Maine, Harvard, MIT, University of Florida, University of Texas, University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota, University of California Los Angeles, University of California San Diego, Berkeley, Stanford, University of Hawaii and the University of Washington. Cliffe spoke on these campuses in front of the Student Union or Library at noon for five to ten minutes. At the close of his initial remarks, he'd open up the time for questions and answers, which usually turned into a two to four hour dialogue with students. His crowd size ranged from 25 - 500 students at a time, and between classes, new students would join the discussion. This is an extremely effective way to reach a large number of university students with the Gospel of Christ.

[@andrewgardner1702]

I haven't seen you do a 1 on 1 yet. That was very heart warming. God has gifted you with a very talented way of speaking and reaching people! God bless you brother.

[@sloothlothos1]

Great job, Cliffe! He tried to drag a red herring across the path a couple of times, but you kept your focus. I love seeing you work with these young college students.. you're a shining light in the midst of a twisted generation. You have an admirable attitude of gentleness and respect. God bless you and your ministry!

[@donnawilkins911]

I have watched most of Cliff's videos...I have to say this kid takes the cake! Cliffe is awesome!

[@saintsoftheking]

Yea, it was definitely a little painful to watch. Haha

[@sirmayse1545]

I enjoy the individual conversations with students at the end

[@jelly7310]

I'm dizzy after listening to this kid. God bless him

[@autry33]

He thought he found a dumb Christian to condescend. He was wrong.

[@kronos01ful]

what a beautifull conversation at the end.

[@bmlsb]

Up a creek with out a paddle

[@cam4nier695]

one of his best debates tbh

[@raymondgriffin9067]

I understand that one cannot intimate in words the relationship one has with God, but that is what is the most convincing argument (although one I cannot use, since that is experiential) to me. Cliffe mentioned here at the end with the young lady, which is something that I would like to see him give as a reason for his faith and belief, perhaps prompting others to seek God through His Words and Truths. Just sharing a thought I had.

[@tyronefowler7314]

Cliffe was on fire this day!

[@nickk6373]

I love these videos. It's an open discussion about God. And it opens my mind. Keep it up Cliffe!!

This kid's circular logic is baffling.

[@Bak3dB3an]

25:30 You might want to use the illustration that you can't prove you wore a red shirt last tuesday. You can only base it on eye witness testimony. Sometimes the meaning of the word "prove" is very misunderstood.

[@krispando9705]

Hello Cliff, I enjoy watching you teaching them at there level. You should bring up the point that till this day we all do not agree on moral values, as per Democrats and Republicans.

[@Dark-mj5tk]

The kid was not trying to understand or even debate , he just wanted to be right… good luck with that

[@mackdmara]

He points to morals in the animal kingdom. Some animals help each other. Others eat each other, within their own species like snakes. What about those that care for each other most of the time? Sometimes hamsters eat their babies. That mother is not a good mother, but she is morally neutral as an animal. Something died, but there is no murder present. Anthropomorphizing animals doesn't suggest ethics exist for them. Your dog is not a baby, regardless of how much you value it. Your dog will protect you though, but not on moral grounds. 'Looks like' & 'is' are very different.

[@JoeMama-sd2kl]

right. The guy is cherrypicking a small percentage of good things that animals do according to human ethics and ignoring the majority ugliness of it

[@georgedoyle7971]

@@JoeMama-sd2kl Well said!! Its what’s known in analytical philosophy as the (Appeal to Nature/Naturalism Fallacy) and the (Is/Ought Fallacy) it’s self refuting!! The (appeal to nature/naturalism fallacy) tries to draw a conclusion about how things “ought” to be based on claims concerning what is natural, as if naturalness were itself a kind of authority. When it clearly isn’t as this claim can not be justified and is a “truth” claim that is a philosophical claim and a metaphysical presupposition that ironically can not be grounded in naturalism itself. Equally, the (Naturalistic Fallacy) appeals to how things are done by animals as if the actions of animals and material evolution has some kind of authority on how we should view “oughts” and values such as morals and ethics when humans have clearly transcended a purely naturalistic/materialistic account of reality and existence including evolution itself. The is/ought fallacy is when statements of fact (or ‘is’) jump to statements of value (or ‘ought’), without explanation. First discussed by Scottish philosopher, David Hume, At least be a consistent strictly reductive materialist, atheist or philosophical naturalist because according to the atheists with possibly the highest IQs of all the atheists that have ever lived…. “You can not get an (ought) out of an (is)” (David Hume). “Suppose we want truth: why not rather untruth? and uncertainty? even ignorance?” - (Nietzsche). Reference: Beyond Good & Evil. “To be truthful means to employ the usual metaphors. Thus, to express it morally, this is the duty to lie according to a fixed convention, to lie with the herd” (Nietzsche). In contrast the historicity and the birth, life, death and (eucatastrophe) of Jesus Christ provides an alternative that affirms life, affirms caring relationships with our family and friends and fellow human beings, affirms hope, truth, morality, goodness and ultimately affirms love. The fact is that the twentieth century spilled more blood than the previous 19 centuries including all the centuries prior and it speaks volumes that it’s the one century that proudly proclaims “God is dead”. The people of 21st century are suffering the greatest existential crisis and epidemic of clinical depression in history!! Not to mention confusion and misinformation regarding the limitations and boundaries of the “natural sciences”. Nevertheless, according to the father of western philosophy Emanuel Kant “Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.” (Emanuel Kant, Reference: Critique of Practical Reason).

[@zeraphking1407]

Who is part of the consensus?

[@JoeMama-sd2kl]

The kid is trying to argue that helping handicapped people is deemed as "beneficial" to the human race based on a evolutionary perspective (goal to survive) by helping their families mentally and emotionally. The flaw with that argument is that it still takes natural resources to do so and it doesn't provide as much of a ROE if that's the case. Human population keeps growing and resources eventually will start to run out as a result since it's limited. You gotta admit, if your view of life is based on a evolutionary perspective, they're still some messed up views on morality no matter how you want to justify it.

[@PaulRizzo]

Another complete decimation by Cliffe!!

[@Jesuswarnedus]

I do love his work!! I do have to say that I had a teacher in high school that worked on the atom bomb and he eventually died from it. He was a mathematical genius and could mathematically prove that God exists. It would take him many hours but he could do it and was very impressive. God Bless everyone!!

[@mioninja231]

Pretty cool

[@onyeilonyeil9468]

I know it's hard for some people to understand or accept, but truth is. If there is no God, morality IS relative. POINT BLANK. I never thought about it till Pastor Cliffe said it.

[@Yeeeooo000]

Most people confuse moral ontology with moral epistemology

[@elkellenhabla]

What's that mean?

[@grasuh]

elkellenhabla Moral ontology means the origin of moral, where do morals fundamentally come from? Moral epistemology means how we get to know what is moral; through life's experience, learning the history, personal experience, etc. Moral argument for God focuses on ontology, not epistemology.

[@1godonlyone119]

grasuh Yes, and that is Cliffe's first point with the kid in the gray T-shirt (the second kid).

[@lionking3150]

+EasyFlare good

[@rwjws2689]

1st guy was lost at end

[@Emk315]

Why does it bother people that God is mentioned?

[@severehobo]

❤

[@Ameydusa1]

Morality is not an intellectual pursuit, clearly

[@ifunanya24]

Why do most Athiest or Agnostic people that come to challenge Cliffe start by standing up strong and then by the end they're slumping, slouching, stammering. They go from stiff to flaccid real quick.

[@PaulRizzo]

😂😂 IKR!

[@jelly7310]

Because they are used to talking to people way less knowledgeable than Cliffe.

[@knxcholx]

7:26 was he being serious?

[@dsmoke919]

I have a question i wonder about should we call him yeshua or jesus? Alot febate about it

[@obedjean4523]

Its doesn't matter all that matters is you have a personal relationship with Him.

[@thepogue]

the kids failing...lol

[@a45williams]

Cliff should not be hesitant to demonstrate his personal experience with the Lord himself. I understand stand that he doesn't want to express his experience because he doesn't want people to rely on that. You can prove that there's a God, only based on personal experience. God did that on purpose because God wants us to rely on faith, not by sight.

[@maat77]

Properly defied biblical faith includes evidence. Walking by faith does not mean void of evidence. Cliff's personal experience does not prove there is a God. People have experiences that have nothing to do with God. The experience in and of itself is not proof to others. Cliff has made distinction between proof and evidence. God wants you to trust Him because He is trustworthy, not because He wants you to trust without evidence. Evidence is important to God. He is trustworthy to the point that you rely on that fact as evidence to believe Him. If He were not trustworthy, it would not be wise to trust Him or have faith in Him. John 14:11"Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe **because** of the works themselves. mark 16:20 And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with and **confirming** the word through the accompanying signs. Amen. 15 **Beware** of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

[@blockboy2735]

Both great points 👍

[@tharcisse7103]

Empathy in the animal kingdom is extraordinarily rare. When a lion jumps out to attack a herd of antelope, you don't see the other antelopes trying to protect the old or handicapped. They just runaway and observe from a distance. If an animal loses mobility and can't travel across the savanna with it's family, the family will leave it behind. This student was trying to use extremely rare examples of kindness in an otherwise horrific animal kingdom to rationalise his beliefs. He was being totally irrational to avoid questioning himself.

[@finray2]

I think many of these people see cliffes point about absolute morality but just dont want to go where it ultimately leads.

[@TheMirabillis]

If there was no moral accountability for how one has lived their life when they die, then there is no reason why anyone ought to do what an atheist tells people they should do now.

[@SuperSlartibartfast]

Are you saying that without god you'd be totally amoral?

[@TheMirabillis]

SuperSlartibartfast We would all be amoral if there was no God. However, one can live a moral life not believing in God. However, no one could live a moral life if there was no God. God is the meta-ethical basis for objective moral values & duties.

[@SuperSlartibartfast]

TheMirabillis Why is a god required for morality to exist and how, if I don't believe or even know of the existence of him or her or even them, to I know how to behave.

[@TheMirabillis]

SuperSlartibartfast Did you watch the video ?

[@SuperSlartibartfast]

TheMirabillis I'm interested in your thoughts.

[@Bak3dB3an]

you should call them un-believers, because Romans 1:18-22 says a-theists don't exist.

[@1godonlyone119]

True -- and they don't. However, some individuals (basically demons) do posit the belief in atheist Dogma. =)

[@dsmoke919]

He is oersonal god and language is important so im curious

[@arokiaprince1935]

I thank Jesus that he made cute dogs if there was no dogs there would have been no best welcome ever.

[@MaikyNV]

🙂

[@dannylinc6247]

This young man doesn't realize the environment that allows him to have these thoughts and the society he lives in that allows him to consider these thoughts without oppressing him to where he doesn't have time to study or think is occurring in an institution created for his use, originally by Christians and laws that come from judeo christian values and the king James bible. If his kind of thinking grows unchallenged, there was no judeo christian influence, it would all be run and changed by those exerting force and financial ruin. They would not have to abide by laws , or morals, or beliefs that give him access to his God given rights. They could just take from everything and everyone and keep it, give to their leaders, or give it to everyone else as he is forced to work in whatever work environment they would establish. He would not have the freedom to be different and he wouldn't be listened to. He would be cancelled, or he would only be allowed to discuss the dominant paradigm. It may be Godless, and may elevate one group or one man as visionaries and he would end up subject to them.

[@robertsumners931]

When this Cliffe Knechtle gets hit with the tough Questions he gets LOUD and talks over the top of the student Hmm....I cannot see any reason to declare my allegiance to anyone - deity or otherwise - simply because not to do so means they'll be angry with me PUNISH me. For one thing, on God's part, that isn't love, merely power and control, and on my part, it wouldn't be love either, merely fear. That Christianity has persuaded millions of its followers to be convinced that power, control and fear are all examples of "loving" behavior is deeply disturbing, as they really distort what love really means out of all recognition. Doing something because you fear being hurt (hell damnation) otherwise is known as terrorism, and doing it for reward (heaven) is selfish. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. There is no other evidence of the miracles apart from the holy book that a man walking on water, or feeding 5000 with five loaves and two fishes, or turning water into wine. We are left solely with testimonial attestation of these events. Would adding centuries of possible embellishment and distortion make the testimonies more, or less, credible? The reason we non believers reject their testimony is that we have prior experience that these things do not usually occur. We base our beliefs depending on the weight of the evidence, considering that such things might occur outside our experience and the possibility that the "miracle" witnesses were mistaken.

[@michaelmartinez3944]

The young man's intelligence makes him a fool. It all falls under idolatry he believes he is the standard. God Help Him as God has helped everyone who believes.

[@michaellemmen]

Yes intelligence is a big hurdle for many. That’s why the Bible is so brilliantly written.

[@michaelmartinez3944]

@@michaellemmen Are you being funny . My intelligence are you serious that why the Bible is brilliantly written.

[@Ameydusa1]

People do evil. They always have. They always will. The sooner these kids realize this, the more Jesus will make sense

[@rotty1100]

This kid is really not getting it or he's just plain stubborn that human beings are and will always be fallible to make mistakes and we'll always have tendencies to cheat ourselves into almost anything. There must be some type of being who created this world to live our lives for the purpose of the greater good.

[@SuperSlartibartfast]

+Tiger Snake You are right humans will cheat ourselves in almost anything and that includes belief in supernatural beings.

[@rotty1100]

+SuperSlartibartfast Are you being sarcastic with your comment?

[@SuperSlartibartfast]

bmlsb69 Not at all, I believe it would be abhorrent yet the Bible would support rape.

[@stewwweee]

Try hard guys you can't escape from the objective morality.

[@brianmabasa5251]

These people don't understand how moral relativism works. It means each person has their own view of what is right and wrong. And if that is your worldview, make sure you live by it and apply it to your life. Don't be a hypocrite and come running and crying because somebody punches you in your face and tell everyone that he is wrong. Apply your worldview with your dignity intact and say "That guy isn't wrong because for him its ok to punch me" . And just walk away. Or you can fight him off if you don't agree with his morality. Then again if that is going to happen, then everyone will fight with each other and "Survival of the fittest" is going to happen and next thing you know, World War is going to be inevitable.

[@CJBlake-ym6ky]

Bringing up slavery is an interesting tactic. There were so-called Christians on both sides of the aisle that would argue their God allows/disallows slavery. According to the Bible, who's objectively wrong?

[@pankobro4536]

Slavery is objectively wrong according to the Bible. The entire narrative can be interpreted as a contradiction to slavery. God did not make Adam and Eves to be His slaves. Humans become slaves to their sin and they enslave each other. God leads the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt. Christ comes to free people from the slavery of sin. Paul writes to Philemon to accept Onesimus not as a slave, but as a brother in Christ. The Bible teaches that humans are made in the image of God, and Christ taught that we should love even our enemies. We shouldn't enslave anyone because no one is lesser than us. We shouldn't enslave our enemies because we are love our enemies. We are not to be slaves to the desires of our flesh, but we are to find the freedom in Christ that is available to us. I hope this perspective shines light on slavery as being objectively evil according to the Bible.

[@tjswilley5265]

Bro really said"why do you have to sneak God in there"why does he bother you so much?

[@dperkins01]

This really makes no sense. Cliffe changes subjects as the guy makes points and talks over him. I would like to see unedited videos. Cliffe doesn't understand a word or phrase he trivializes the subject. He is destroyed is debates with real debaters. aron ra embarrassed him for his lack of knowledge.

[@boltrooktwo]

Much of Christian faith hinges on a material event the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that is more evidence to me that God is not immaterial, God is transcendent miraculous material.

[@davidplummer2473]

Reality is not determined by majority vote. A bunch of people getting together and agreeing to pretend that human life has value is not the same thing as human life actually having value. The answer to 3+3 is 6 and it would be 6 even if no human minds were around to vote on it. And it would be 6 even if every human mind thought it was 13. Likewise human life has value -- or not --independent of what anyone thinks. To reduce humanity to just matter and energy but still insist that human life has high intrinsic value is not only a contradiction, it's nothing but mutual anthropological gaslighting among the academic ivory tower tribes, a way to whistle past the cosmic graveyard and avoid the inevitable despair that comes from following their relativist thoughts all the way home. Or in other words, it's make-believe, the very same charge leveled at religion to disqualify it as a viable worldview, a secular fairy-tale of sound and fury told by a bunch of over-educated idiots, signifying nothing...

[@ryanappleford9010]

Different cultures have diff morals..morals are not objective...they are only objective to ppl in the west that believe that every other country shares their values and morals lol

[@IBenZik]

If you are trying to disprove God using objective morality you are basing your morality on "your" opinion which then dictates Hitler was OK in what he did because without God his morality is just his opinion.

[@jamesbrice6619]

I'd tell her all of the prophecies about Christ in the Old Testament prove it

[@AsixA6]

No, they don’t. They prove you’re gullible.

[@jamesbrice6619]

@@AsixA6 Tick...tick...tick...

[@AsixA6]

@@jamesbrice6619 Stated the gullible invisible magician believer.

[@jamesbrice6619]

@AsixA6 Tick...tick...tick...

[@jamesbrice6619]

@@AsixA6 Tick...tick...tick...

[@Endeavr_]

@Matthew Jacob Dude.... Learn to spell...

[@zeraphking1407]

Is this man on drugs?

[@greatjaygatsby]

Not a great job at all! Cliffe always chooses such "objective" moral issue example which is accepted all over the world - rape, slap in the face etc, yet there are such differences accross societies and cultures that in one culture one thing is objectively moral and in the other is absolutely not. A few examples: monogamy - polygamy, stoning to death, consent age for sex - even pedophilia (parts of Africa, lookup hyena in Malawi, young girls are brought to one man in tribe to rid them of virginity and it is considered moral). Morality is definitely created by groups, societies and cultures and does not point to any god. This is a false assumption, absolutely unnecessary.