Pastor to skeptics Tim Keller - becoming a Christian and dealing with doubt // From the archive

In this video from the Unbelievable? archives, church leader Tim Keller tells Justin Brierley about his journey towards faith and his ongoing urban ministry to the sceptical.
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[@jessewallace12able]

I have an education in philosophy and also in science. It’s been very difficult for me to understand or be open to many aspects of Christianity. I am now 43 years old, and I am now a believer and I am very grateful for Tim Keller- he has been able to help me find what I’ve been looking for.

[@weirdwilliam8500]

Sorry for your loss. The loss of your intellectual integrity, critical thinking, and moral autonomy.

[@othername6345]

I have a friend who is a Lecturer in Philosophy and I've honestly never seen someone so...untethered? (Sorry, second language). I don't know if he has come to a conclusion once since entering a Philosophy class 15 years ago. I wanted to study Philosophy until I met him. I just can't go through life never having an opinion. I used to practice law - I'm all about conclusions. Anyhoo, all that to say I'm also 43. Haha. I'm glad you came to faith and realized Christianity isn't actually at war with your curiosity, intellect and education. God gave you that brain to use it.

[@dani4157]

@@weirdwilliam8500So triggered by someone coming to a different conclusion. I guess it just easier to say others are dumb when faced with a different opinion. A good way to keep yourself in a box

[@weirdwilliam8500]

@@dani4157 I’m just hearing projection. I’m not upset, and I was sincere in my comment. As someone who can be happy, fulfilled, and comfortable in my non-belief, while also fully embracing good reasoning, I feel sorry for people who can only find emotional comfort by embracing fallacies and superstition. I’ve seen how this lack of good reasoning extends into other facets of life and causes secondary harm.

[@dani4157]

@@weirdwilliam8500 Ok so lets hear this good reasoning for your lack of belief. The guy you accused of lacking good reasoning never gave you one to criticize anyway, and actually studied philosophy and science, so your reasoning seems be lacking so far already. So you seem to be the one projecting and assuming so much about others based on not much at all

[@hanykheir7643]

Thank you both from EGYPT, I continue praying for Tim on his sickness

[@sabah4123]

Total respect for Tim, always well spoken, in the name of Jesus. 👍🇦🇺

[@kyleg4453]

"An idol is something good being made into something of worship. That’s a whole thing behind honor killings." -Tim Keller

[@CP-qn1mn]

That guy is a great interviewer.

[@archangecamilien1879]

Yeah...I think so too...if I didn't know he was Christian, I wouldn't have been able to tell when watching him moderate debates between atheists and Christians...

[@elena19044]

@@archangecamilien1879 He is a great pastor... I listen to his podcast daily... he teaches truth.... .look into his other sermons/videos.... he explains the Bible extremely well with massive amounts of dissecting... he will make you check yourself for sure! He is like a therapist for your soul...

[@elena19044]

He is a great pastor.... he has a way to make you look deep into your soul and he teaches the Bible with such clarity and knowledge... Download his podcast or at the least, watch his youtube videos... crazy intelligent all the while teaching THE TRUTH.

[@davidhawley1132]

Perfect. Keller is stunning as usual, and great chemistry with Brierley who did a fine job.

[@mackdmara]

He is someone I have just started looking into. He seems smart & well versed. As long as you take the notion of moulding Christianity to culture without bending the truth, all is well. I would rather be hated because I believe in Christ, than accepted because I changed the parts I did not like to suit the audience. The issue he had in his youth is a great example of that. Christianity had been altered by culture, not seemly odd by sticking to its tenets. Love your neighbor as yourself, could not & did not mean, only the neighbors you accept as neighbors. It is everyone. Many people cannot over come their biases & Love people anyway. A very Interesting interview. If he can do it in NY, God Bless him.

[@bleirdo_dude]

How do you know what you believe is true?

[@mr.c2485]

Cpt Blu Bawlz He undoubtedly asked Sy ten

[@mr.c2485]

Jim Scott His BLACK wife.

[@mackdmara]

Cpt Blu Bawlz By first doubting it. Let me set something before you. In math, you have rigorous proofs. In science, you have a working theorem from evidence, but no conclusive proof. In philosophy, you have logically valid beliefs. So why God? Jesus is a real historical person & when I put the facts of his life, death, & resurrection in perspective against the lives & teachings of individuals like Buddha & Mohammad (among others including atheistic thinkers), Christ is the Logical choice. When I look at philosophy, God gives me the most logically coherent view for morality, personal worth, & explanation for the nature of the Universe. When I look at science, it backs up my belief in the Biblical claim. Beyond this, I have my personal experience of the Holy Spirit. This I would call the most powerful, but you need to experience it yourself to verify it. In fact, it is the one form of evidence that does not pass through some one or thing else, before I experience it. ALL of this together, gives me reason to believe. I believe God/Jesus is right because it fits with known reality & has greater explanatory power than all the alternatives. Why? What great wave of evidence makes you believe what you believe & what do you believe?

[@mackdmara]

Jim Scott Incorrect. In the Parable of the good Samaritan, Jesus puts it clearly who you neighbor is. Jews of that time despised Samaritan's & the reverse was also true. A Jewish man is injured horribly & some passers by see it. Blood makes you unclean in Jewish practice. Thus, these three charged by God to protect their fallen brother, avoid him to keep on their way & not have to endure the purification ritual. Then an enemy, a Samaritan, stops having seen him. He pulls him from a ditch, binds his wounds with the best medicine available at the time & then pays for his care. Jesus instructs these Jews to act as this man did. Putting aside prejudices & ones personal life, to help others. That was what I was pointing to. God Bless son

[@Shoji.S2]

Great

[@charlieallansen9763]

Great Video, thanks.

[@archangecamilien1879]

5:17 I was talking about that just before the video reached that point...the belief in miracles is actually what kept me a Catholic for as long as I remained one...I mean, not only a Christian, a Catholic...there are so many stories about the Eucharist become flesh, literally, and Fatima, still, I think, an impressive miracle, if so many people supposedly saw the event, and many other miracles...I remember showing my 5th grade teacher a miracle that had occurred at Port-au-Prince, the Eucharist had turned into a piece of flesh in her mouth, complete with blood...everytime I felt I was doubting the veracity of it all, I always remembered: "But, what about the miracles?"...

[@archangecamilien1879]

A classmate once told me, a guy who had started doubting Catholicism and Christianity all together, who was a deist, or, I would say, a theist for an unknown god, he asked me: "Why would you be right, as opposed to Buddhists [for instance]?", I remember thinking: "Very good point", but answered, as I did later when someone told me he couldn't believe the Eucharist was really the body of Christ: "What about the miracles?"...it was always my justification, anything absurd of Christianity (and, more precisely, Catholicism, which I doubted even as a child, because I read all the narrative parts of the Bible, and the Gospels really make it look like Jesus wasn't god, but a man, a prophet, in some parts) was brushed away because it was proven true through miracles...if not, I think I would have started doubting the Catholic Church early on, some Protestant ideas made much more sense to me save for their (I thought) lack of miracles to prove them...

[@archangecamilien1879]

7:20 Christianity migrated so much, leaving Europe, because of conquests, haha...come on...that's not evidence Christianity fits any culture...if the Islamic world had conquered the Americas, the countries in Africa, etc, the whole would be Muslim now, as it's slowly becoming, it's the fastest growing religion nowadays...really?...Haha...I mean...imperialism is the reason Christianity spread...

[@archangecamilien1879]

Yes, Christianity started out from Judaism, and eventually become the Roman religion (note that they were ruling over a good part of the known world of the time), so naturally it was later Europe's religion, and the religion of various other places that were affected by Rome...look at Islam, how it spread, unifying all of the area fairly quickly after its inception...I mean...it was supposed to have been a uniting force...

[@archangecamilien1879]

The moment Christianity spread around the Roman empire, it was destined to be the religion of a huge part of the world...now, it was only a question of which part of the world was going to colonize the rest of the world, which would have "empires that never set", etc, haha...it reminds what someone said about the English language...it was a German, was it one of the Grimm brothers?...Feels too early for me, I'm looking for someone from the 19th century or so, maybe early...the person was trying to explain why English spread so much...the article I was reading that said that said: "Almost all linguists today would disagree today with his conclusion that it was spreading around the world because it was easy", haha...English is considered one of the hardest languages in the world...recently, in the film The Two Popes, they have the popes comment on how difficult it is, "so many exceptions to so many rules", haha (who were forced to speak in English because it was supposed to the best "compromise" language, haha, the language they both knew well enough to be semi-comfortable speaking, pope Francis not knowing Latin well enough, and certainly not pope Benedict's native German...and pope Benedict probably only spoke some Spanish (in the film, of course, I mean)...of course, the filmmakers probably just wanted the audience to feel more comfortable listening to them go at it in English than using subtitles all through)...English becomes even harder if you factor in how it's written as compared to how it's spoken, vowels changing for every other word...it is an absorbing language, sponging up words from around the world, so maybe it has some universality...but still, would you expect it to be so widespread without the British basically conquering the whole world, haha?...Why is Spanish spoken in almost all of South America, minus Brazil?...Because of the universality of the Spanish language, or because Spain colonized it all, haha (and I suppose a pope divided it between Portugal and Spain, was it some pope Urban?...The same goes for Christianity...I mean...it spread because of conquests, not because it's a more universal religion...

[@archangecamilien1879]

Of course, a religion like Judaism is restricted to a people, but Islam might not be...Haitian voodoo also might not be about preaching to people, etc...

[@militaryandemergencyservic3286]

Have MERCY on the doubters (Jude v 22)

[@Software.Engineer]

:O Tim Keller! Everyone read his book on marriage, it's brilliant. It's called "The meaning of marriage" - Tim Keller

Woah 😨 at the 9min mark, if you found a way to evangelise to nyc it wasn’t because you opened the doors due to your smarts mr kellar it was because God opened the ears my friend, Give glory where it is due !!

[@vaytray5510]

thats what i was thinking..it just seemed like he said i knew how to do it because the other levels are "beneath me" they are not smart enough to pay attention to a long intellectual talk..just these folks could relate..

[@rolandovelasquez135]

Yes 👌🏼

[@hoopfool8]

It's obvious when listening to non-believers that they trivialize their wrong-doings because they have no concept of "holiness". There is a Frank Turek clip with a young woman who is trying to bait him into saying that she is doomed to hell because she doesn't believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ. She says she tries "to be a good person", and, like most of us, her standard of "good" is relative to Hitler ( though she doesn't say that }. Paul said that he was "chiefest of sinners" because he understood that he was trying to suppress the Gospel through persecution. Jesus said to him, "Why are you persecuting me?" Note that he didn't tell Saul (Paul) to stop, only ask what his motive was. Our motives generally are self-serving; the essence of Love is to abandon self-serving motives in favor of sacrificing oneself to the needs of others. Please understand that it's not the wants of others that Love sacrifices for, but NEEDS. Until we realize that our wrong-doings, no matter how small, no matter how few, no matter how seemingly innocent, are what Jesus died for, we will not appreciate His sacrifice.

[@bonnie43uk]

@Christopher Gee, if a man was being sentenced for a serious crime he committed, and another man stood up in the courtroom and stated that he would take the punishment and serve the criminals sentence, would you say that justice was being done?. That seems to be what this whole 'Jesus dying on the cross for our sins is saying'. For me, it's immoral and wrong for another person to take your punishment. Any wrongdoings I may do in my life are my sole responsibility, and its up to me to accept my 'sins' and to ask forgiveness from the person I've wronged, and that person is under no obligation to forgive me if they don't feel I've deserved forgiveness.

[@thomasmartinscott]

+bonnie43uk : God is who you've wronged. But He WILL forgive you...if you ask Him to, but you have to understand how helpless you are before you WILL ask.

[@bonnie43uk]

@@thomasmartinscott I can assure you, Thomas, I've been in some terribly desperate situations at various times in my life, and called out to God, eventually, I realized that it's up to US to help ourselves as a species.

[@stevenrivard9246]

@@bonnie43uk Hey bonnie, can you define "serious crime" for me? People who act like their personal sin is minor compared to others doesn't recognize the sheer magnitude that any sin can have. Example 1 - A smoker may think that its not a big deal.... but if he gets cancer and dies early in life, that could lead to all types of sorrow and depression for his family.... his smoking could have influenced others to smoke as well. Example 2 - What about a woman who argues a lot.... maybe her daughter grows up with, picks it up herself, and it leads her daughter to argue a lot with her own husband and a divorce occurs... that leads to depression in the granddaughter who commits suicide. We are all sinners. Under different circumstances you might have ended up a lot different and even become a murder or slave owner. What Jesus did for us was the an amazing act of love. The only "immoral" act is not to repent of own own sin and accept his free gift of salvation

[@bonnie43uk]

@@stevenrivard9246 Hi Steven, no I wouldn't regard your examples as worthy of being called 'serious crimes', smoking is an habitual habit that's been going on for hundreds of years dating back to Sir Walter Raleigh, and even further back, people do it purely for the pleasure it gives them. Absolutely it may have a knock on effect by non smokers breathing in the smoke and getting cancer, but it's not a deliberate act by the smoker. An example of a serious crime for me is someone deliberately causing extreme pain and/or death to another person, particularly if done purely for that persons own self-gratification or gain. I don't see any need to 'repent' to a figurehead who I don't believe existed in the form of the character of Jesus in the Bible. If I commit any wrongdoings in my life, it's down to me and me alone to ask forgiveness from the person I've wronged, ..and that person is under no obligation to forgive me if they don't feel it's warranted. Hope that helps.

[@liamkrut1733]

@9:30 is he quoting Gaining Favor with God and Man?

[@villarrealmarta6103]

Sounds like I need to move to Manhattan

[@deladonics]

I argued for most of Sunday with people on Twitter about this Keller quote... "We only fully grasp the gospel when we understand, as Paul did, that we are the worst sinner we know." Does this set anyone here off in any way?

[@craigmcgrath8681]

Me. Does Jesus' sacrifice make any sense if Adam and Eve never existed?

[@editorsphilosophynow3646]

Hi Craig, I think Eastern Christianity does not depend on Original Sin, so their answer would be no. In fact, Christianity has always had many ways of interpreting the Fall story, and non-symbolic literalism is a fairly recent way of doing so. The word 'Adam' means 'humanity' and 'Eve' means 'living', so it's ripe for a more symbolic interpretation. Personally, I see it in evolutionary terms, such that the fruit of the tree of knowledge is self-consciousness of abstract concepts such as 'death'...

[@editorsphilosophynow3646]

I mean to say that Eastern Orthodoxy doesn't need a literal Adam and Eve

[@craigmcgrath8681]

The idea of sin is ok for getting people to be nicer, but it can be abused as it is in Paul's writings. He sees our sin as a just reason for God to torture us, or at least reject us. This is a dark fairy tale. You should stop believing it just because it seems true to a lot of people. It's ugly and it doesn't come from any real God.

[@editorsphilosophynow3646]

Craig, I don't see it like that either. If 'holiness' means 'unadulterated good', then it cannot be polluted with destruction, which is the core of evil in many ways. Rather, what is heading for or leading to destruction must be destroyed (in the process of fullfilling itself, if you like). That's the only way you can have (eventual) unadulterated good. Moreover, only that which is destructive is sinful. In fact, I see it as defining the term 'sin' to call sin 'a deliberate action that tends towards destruction' (this does mean that only that which tends towards destruction is sinful. But often it's difficult to spot). Therefore sin is to be destroyed in order to fulfil the manifestation of ultimate good. It is unfortunate if you should find that process torturous, but one doesn't have to, at least any more than necessary (PS 'repent' literally means 'change your mind!' or 'think again!'). Anyway, that's basically how I think about sin and eternal destruction.

[@AlejandroDeLaRosa05]

Justin has looked mid 20s-early 30s for at least a solid decade!Brother stays youthful!

[@koubl]

Justin, what year is this from?

[@MasterChief-sl9ro]

I think Jesus told us the Model. Love the Lord God with all your ability. And treat others as you would like to be treated. In these two Commandments. You keep all of them. Yet humans have a way of messing that up and making it hard....I know. I been there..

[@albertpurification985]

There is no doubt that Jesus is God,start and ask Jesus if you are God,You would get the answer.I have experience.it is a matter of experience

[@georgechristiansen6785]

Interesting that he raises the idea of Christians thinking MLK was a communist as something negative. It's objectively true. It is swept under the rug, but not terribly hard to find out with a little poking around.

[@cartoune]

A quick correction: the majority of Muslims actually live in the Indonesia, India, and Bangladesh. There are higher concentrations of Muslims in Middle Eastern countries, but by sheer numbers, Islam has definitely outgrown the Middle East.

[@mmaea]

If you close your eyes and listen, Justin’s guest sounds like Smithers from the Simpsons.

[@anarchorepublican5954]

"dishonest doubts" and blanket skeptical denial...are the close cousins of gullibility ...they almost look identical...

[@belindaelisa5618]

Welcome to the “The Goblet of the Truth”! "To the majority of humanity on planet Earth it is hardly known, that the true prophets who walked the Earth, originated solely from the Nokodemion lineage. It was this seven-fold lineage of true prophets who brought forth the “Teaching of the prophets”, that is to say, the teaching of the Truth, the teaching of the Spirit and the teaching of Life. In the early days, this unique teaching was also known as the “Goblet of the Truth”. Unfortunately, the human beings of Earth misunderstood the teaching, endlessly falsified it and misused it for religious purposes. It was first thanks to the seventh prophet of the Nokodemion lineage, “Billy” Eduard Albert Meier, that we now here on Earth finally have a clean true version of these unique teachings. The Goblet of truth is without any doubt “Billy” Eduard Albert Meier’s greatest work and outstanding effort on bringing Earth mankind the NON-corrupted, NON-manipulated, NON-religious teaching of truth, teaching of spirit and teaching of life. The book contains the teachings of all the seven prophets, namely: 1.Henoch (Enoch) (3 February 9308 BCE to 1 January 8942 BCE). 2. Elia (Elijah) (5 February 891 BCE to 4 June 780 BCE). 3. Jesaja (Isaiah) (7 February 772 BCE to 5 May 690 BCE). 4. Jeremia (Jeremiah) (9 February 662 BCE to 3 September 580 BCE). 5. Jmmanuel (Immanuel) (3 February 02 BCE to 9 May 111 CE). 6. Mohammed (19 February 571 CE to 8 June 632 CE). 7. “Billy” Eduard Albert Meier, BEAM (February 3, 1937) As from an inexhaustible wellspring, vast knowledge emanates from the Goblet of the Truth, from which great wisdom comes forth, from which, in turn, love, peace, freedom and harmony result, as well as an integration of a beneficial balance, joyfulness and happiness. We human beings should understand the necessity of leaving the false teachings of all religions behind us and turn to the correct way of thinking and living, which involves taking responsibility for one’s own thoughts and actions, because everything is built on the law of cause and effect, interaction, interdependence, etc. In time, more and more people will turn to the truth, and this book will be one of the main factors for the spreading of this very truth."

[@candeffect]

Lifetime is a very short subset of eternity. Be saved in Jesus Christ's salvation now.

[@majm4606]

Should we change our behavior based on non-evidenced threats or rewards? I feel like if Gary promises you'll experience _infinite eternities_ if you believe in leprechauns that you're smart enough not to be convinced. He's provided no evidence it's true, and if we care about truth we must have a foundation: some _reliable way of knowing truth_ must indicate it's true. Well we just don't have that for gods or eternal life after death.

[@susanlockard823]

I've often thought Justin was . . . certainly British, possibly arrogant, and now I'm considering that he is probably not Christian.

[@stevenhunter3345]

A great deal of what Keller said is interesting and engaging, but he's wrong about Islam. Only about 20% of Muslims are Arab with the most populous Muslim country being Indonesia. Unlike Judaism or Hinduism or Buddhism, Islam is a universalist religion. It's very much like Christianity in that respect.

[@brentporter986]

@Steven Hunter Sort of true. While the greatest amount of Muslims are in Indonesia by population, the religion has predominantly spread through the children of Muslims or through the sword. There are certainly many who have converted freely of their own volition since its inception, but primarily the religion remains immobile and tends to be attached to the culture. There is a reason Islam does not spread about in America or really anywhere else that was not dominated by Muhammed and his followers over the following centuries. It tends to have its own culture which you must adapt to, while the Spirit of Christ can and has become incarnate in all cultures.

[@jessewallace12able]

Islam isn’t a religion, it’s a government.

[@thegospelmessenger1corinth634]

Galatians 4:16 - King James Version 16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? John 14:6 - King James Version 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 1 Timothy 2:4-6 - King James Version 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. Romans 1:16 - King James Version 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. (The Letter of Paul to the Romans) Romans 5:18 - King James Version 18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. (offence of one - Adam's one trespass, one sin, led to the condemnation of all men - the righteousness act of one was Jesus' death on the cross to pay for human sin) We are all sinners and fall short in God his glory - how to be saved - this is the gospel of salvation - 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verses 1-4 by trusting and believing the gospel of salvation you are saved and sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise till the day of redemption and nothing can pluck you out of the Father his hand - (In whom we have redemption through his blood , even the forgiveness of sins: (Colossians 1:14 - King James Version) - eternal security is a free gift - it's a promise and God Almighty cannot lie!!! Have a blessed day! This is the gospel of salvation - 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verses 1-4 Witnesses of Christ's resurrection. 1) Moreover,brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2) ''By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3) For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4) And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures. Ephesians 2:8-9 - King James Version 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. IT IS FINISHED... Paid in Full !!! But, You Must BELIEVE IT - 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 KJV. 2 Timothy 2:15 - King James Version 15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Romans 2:16 - King James Version 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. (Paul's Gospel - 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verses 1-4). Galatians 1:8-9 - King James Version 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. KJV - Bible verses about Jesus is God John 1:1 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:14 - And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John 10:30 - I and my Father are one. Isaiah 9:6 - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. John 20:28 - And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. John 8:58 - Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. G - GRACE R - RIGHTLY A - APPLIED C - CHANGES E - EVERYTHING Religion is always dealing with you and what you're doing and what you're not doing, anytime you're sitting around thinking what should I be doing you're under religion, the grace of God is dealing what Christ did. Under religion man always says look what I'm doing for you God and under grace Christ says look what I did for you man. Under religion man says look how I went to church and under the grace of God Jesus said look how I went to Calvary. Under religion man says look at how I was raised in my denomination and under grace Christ says look how I was raised from the dead. Under religion man says look at how I gave my money and under grace Jesus says look at how I gave my life. Under religion man says look God at how I confessed my sins and under grace Jesus says look man how I took away your sins. Under religion man says look God at how I stood up against sin and under the grace of God Jesus says look man at how I died for your sins. Under religion man says look God at how I judged the lost world and under grace Jesus says look man at how I saved the lost world. Under religion man says look God at how I got up and marched against these evildoers and under grace Jesus says look man how I suffered and died for evildoers. Under religion man says look God at how I bow down to you and under grace Jesus says look man and how I became one of you. Under religion man says look God at how I healed the sick and under grace Jesus says look man how I raised the dead. Under religion man says look God at how I spoke in tongues and under grace Jesus says look man at how I spoke in life. Under religion man says look God at how successful my life was and under grace Jesus says looked me at how successful my death was. Religions my friends is always man trying to reach up to God with self effort to be accepted by God. Through classic Christianity was God reaching down to man through Jesus with love and acceptance and that's why Paul said we preach Christ and Christ crucified a stumbling block to the Jews foolishness to the Gentiles but to those whom God has called both Jews and Gentile Christ the power of God and wisdom. Source ''Truth Time Radio''. Like many "Christians" today, Satan believes Jesus died on the cross, but not for HIS sins. He believes Jesus has risen, but not for HIS eternal life. Satan believes the event of the cross but never put his trust in Christ's finished work for salvation. Salvation is not: Believing there is a God. (Satan believes that) Salvation is not: Believing Christ was the Messiah. (Satan believes that) Salvation is not even... Believing Christ died, was buried and rose the third day. (Satan believes that also) Salvation is: Believing Christ died for YOUR EVERY SIN and trusting that He rose to give you eternal life IN HIM! Something Satan and most Christians want no part of because of their PRIDE! If denominationalists truly believed Christ forgave their sins, they wouldn't spend so much time trying to GET them forgiven. One tells you to pray for forgiveness. One tells you to confess for forgiveness. One tells you to believe for forgiveness. One tells you to repent for forgiveness. One tells you to be baptized for forgiveness. And keep in mind, all of these folk with a straight face will tell you Christ DIED for your sins. Welcome to Nutsville!!! I think Dorothy got lost on the yellow brick road. Today I unapologetically proclaim that there is only one way to be saved, and it has nothing to do with getting your sins forgiven. Salvation is through FAITH. (Ephesians 2:8-9) Without faith it is impossible to please God. Salvation comes to those who are ready to give up on THEIR performance and rest their faith in JESUS' performance. The path to salvation is narrow. SO narrow that nothing you do will fit. Satan will never be saved for the same reason he was kicked out of heaven. P-R-I-D-E. (Isaiah 14:12-14) Read carefully and count how many times he says "I". How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Satan is obviously a Narcissist! Like a vain person in front of the mirror, five times in only three verses he boasts of himself. Pride keeps Satan from being saved as it does most of the world. They have fallen victim to SELFIANITY and are incapable of letting go and letting God. Incapable of taking their filthy hands off their salvation and allowing God to save them by HIS finished work! If you say --- "I said a prayer for forgiveness." "I confessed for forgiveness." "I believed for forgiveness." "I repented for forgiveness." "I was baptized for forgiveness." Then sadly you have fallen for the five I's just like Satan. Salvation is not getting your sins forgiven, it's believing they already ARE! To be saved, you must first get "I" out of the way. You only get two educations, the one you're given and the one you give yourself! Source ''Truth Time Radio'' - also here on youtube - learn the truth and unlearn the lies!

[@kyleg4453]

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.” - ‭‭John‬ ‭3:16-21‬‬

[@ashtongrist]

wow the presenter is HOT

[@ashtongrist]

@Dd S I'd rather he sat on me ;)

[@mashah1085]

If you investigate these "Life-long atheist becomes saved" stories...they almost always involve somebody who was raised a Christian, then gave it up as a young adult. Their "miraculous conversion" later in life (typically after some personal tragedy or an existential crises) is simply "reverting back" to the childhood beliefs they were indoctrinated with. Not some sudden "revelation as to the truth of Jesus." Try finding somebody who was raised an atheist or agnostic, in a stable, loving household...who later became a Christian.

[@DiogoChris]

Type it out on YT or google, and you'll find it.

[@mashah1085]

@@DiogoChris Then you could link me to one. And I'll guarantee you that person was raised Christian as a youth.

[@whynot1871]

Wow! Euro-centric much?! American, perhaps? I think you need to get out more. People who've become Christians in traditionally Buddhist or Muslim cultures don't qualify? How about people who grew up in Communist countries, with state-imposed atheism? I guess Communist, Buddhist, Muslim, and Hindu families aren't stable and loving? Animistic families aren't/weren't stable and loving? I think I've made my point.

[@Control_alt_delete]

Fallacy! It doesn't matter why a person begins to doubt, either the evidence stands up to scrutiny or it doesn't. (It doesn't)

[@dannyvalastro2638]

believe in the bible but you have no understanding what insanity

[@HM-vj5ll]

nice sweater, looks like carpet..

[@mercedesrunstuck1021]

Yes! He is misleading a lot of people!!

[@bonnie43uk]

I think Tim is wrong when he talks about younger people not asking themselves questions about miracles ( and just accepting it), I think todays younger generations ( here in the UK anyway), are more and more skeptical about whether miracles occur, or even did occur in the time of Jesus. We are becoming a more and more secular society. The credible evidence for miracles is scant at best.

[@ProMaxElite]

The very fact that anything exists at all is a miracle. The sudden existence of the universe from nothing requires a supernatural force and will to cause it. Earth did not create itself, and neither did the universe. You did not create yourself, and neither did I. Things do not randomly create themselves and appear out of thin air; rather they are created by an intelligent being. Why do you suppose the universe is any different? Miracles happen all the time; it’s just that the secular western society denies that it was a miracle.

[@bonnie43uk]

@@ProMaxElite Certainly life, in all it's many forms is an amazing thing. I would agree with you there. When I mention "miracles", I'm really talking about things which defy the known laws of physics, ie: a man floating in mid-air without any aids of any kind. Or a totally blind man being completely healed, something of that nature. Something magical Absolutely I did not create myself, my parents had sex and 9 months later I arrived. We can explain reproduction, what we can't fully explain is how did those first life forms begin billions of years ago. Mankind is still trying to figure that one out. We may never know.

[@theresevoerman7109]

Hold on, so if this is a so-called 'brain-box' pastor, then how come he doesn't know that most Muslims (adherents of a supposedly 'immobile' religion) live outside the Middle East!? I don't think we unbelievers have much to fear from this evangelist, darlings.

[@Booer]

Booo!!! Finding ways to fit narritives!!booo

[@MrRoundthetwist]

Strip away theism and Christianity just might survive and be worthwhile in this day and age

[@markuswmenezes]

MrRoundthetwist why do you say that?

[@johntaylor8463]

OH MY GOD! Not Tim Keller...I'm unsubscribing.

[@deladonics]

john Taylor is there a lot of hate for Keller, and if there is, why?

[@Gatorbeaux]

bye

[@jesus3373]

I personally know Christ and Ganesha. Global awakening through universal consciousness. Meditation. The light of the body is the eye: If therefore thine 👁 be single (spiritually perceptive) your whole body will be full of light. 🙏 ❤️

[@MrRoundthetwist]

Stephen Elliott who is this “I” that you speak of as knowing Christ?

[@bradenrodriguez5183]

There is only Christ. Once you know HIM, nothing else is needed. Narrow is the way, and that way is Love.

[@MrRoundthetwist]

The Beat Fabrik I have come, and am coming, to know Buddha, Christ and Brahma There’s a trinity for you lol, yet I’m sincere in saying that

[@bradenrodriguez5183]

MrRoundthetwist I respect your sincerity. We are all on a journey for sure... Keep your eyes on Jesus, mate. Once you see it, once you know him exclusively, you won't look anywhere else. All the best.

[@MrRoundthetwist]

The Beat Fabrik Christ is a pointer to God no doubt, as is Buddha and Brahman, just to name a few (of the high profile ones lol) allow that energy to flow and the seeing becomes clearer Yet if God can be explained using words and better yet symbols ..that is no God at all, if I was to say Christ is the only way to (see) God (within) I have made an idol out of him and his teachings and couldn’t be further from the truth I claim to speak Peace to you brother

[@biggregg5]

Wolf in sheep's clothing.

[@markuswmenezes]

biggregg5 why do you say that?

[@biggregg5]

@@markuswmenezes Well spoken, calm, articulate, perfect grandfather image spreading misinformation grounded in an often bigoted fairytale.

[@markuswmenezes]

biggregg5 what do you mean by “bigoted fairy tale”?

[@biggregg5]

@@markuswmenezes fairy tale- not based on reality. Gods with very little doubt, are man made. Bigoted-read the bible

[@markuswmenezes]

biggregg5 How did you come to that conclusion?

[@mercedesrunstuck1021]

Tim Keller is misleading a lot of people!! He sounds “New Age” shameful

[@andrewmorisseau2575]

Really? I've read some of his books and listen to a lot of his sermons and have never had the slightest inclination that he was at all New Age. He strikes me as more of a modern apologist for the traditional Protestant Evangelical faith.

[@dennis9423]

Mercedes, you need to hear more of TIm. He is the farthest thing from New Age.

[@consideringchristianity5028]

You should go listen to any sermon or read any of his books and you'd know that couldn't be further from the truth.