Tim Keller - Human Nature: To Err is Human?

Tim Keller speaking at Human Oxford 2019, a week of events exploring the story of Jesus and what it means to be human.
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[@heliaalves9062]

"Sin is a dislocated heart" This man is absolutely remarkable, I admire him so, so much! He's quickly becoming my favourite preacher.

[@milels6917]

Hélia Alves yes I have found one of the modern day preacher David Porson Intelligent thinkers

[@annbrucepineda8093]

Hélia Alves My favorite, too. I guess you’re British or learned your English in the UK since you write favourite and you know I’m not for the same reason. I do so agree with you and will pray that he can live to be 100 so he can share the Word with millions.

[@heliaalves9062]

@@annbrucepineda8093 I did learn British English, you're the first to notice. Tim Keller is brilliant, such a blessing ❤️

[@celenecranenburgh9566]

And he's hit GLORY now so he's PERFECT. God be with you in your journey and may you know His Love in your life right this second. Xxx

[@arthurczech3193]

When I listened to him for the first time 8 years ago at the Redeemer my jaw dropped to the floor...I have rediscovered Christianity then.

[@michaelpederson7886]

This man reminds me of a man Larry Erie I used to work for. It's easy to understand him, I think because he truly believes. He has giving me so many light bulb moments and a lot to think on. I feel that I have been punished unreasonably but this man is one of my keys I pray to heaven and above all to gods grace. When I wallow on such hard times he has helped me with my faith that this is all a lesson and a road to god. I remember a time when honest minesters like him were my stairways but as a child didnt recognize the importance, now I realize time is running out. This man is incredible...

[@chagiRenee]

You can’t love someone unless it’s a free choice and we were made for loving God. Wow

[@SamOgilvieJr]

He makes it clear. Great to have access to his preaching.

[@bigfootartist7411]

Thank you for this. I always learn so much from listening to Timothy Keller. :)

[@michellebiland5163]

Ditto 👍

[@hangryturtle9006]

Excellent preaching. Excellent message

[@sabah4123]

God put a conscious on everyone, He is sovereign! 🤲🇦🇺

[@annbrucepineda8093]

Sabah Amal God made us conscious of many but not all of our errors so I pray that God will reveal to me the errors I am not conscious of. Blessings from El Salvador. Most people here also believe that God is sovereign. Amen! May His will be done.

[@sciencewithsam1034]

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[@jpb6511]

Is this material part of kellers books?

[@eddie0009]

Why did God give us the ability to have dislocated love, aka sin? In order to freely choose to love God, and not be programmed to love, which is not true love. But to freely choose to love Him, it also means freedom to hate/disobey God. Before the fall, man had the ability to sin, and ability to not sin. He chose to sin. The consequences of sin was death. But also, radical alteration of spirit of mankind plunging him into slavery to sin. A slave is no longer free to not sin. "Truly truly I say to you, those who sin are slaves of sin. ... If the Son sets you free, you are truly free..." Christ

[@annbrucepineda8093]

EDDIE 000 Well said. I recommend Zach Williams in Harding Prison singing and playing his song, “No Longer a Slave to Sin”. It’s been translated roughly into Spanish and fills auditoriums but the late and great Julio Melgar, for all of the declarations of healing he received, did not conquer cancer. The woman who sang this with him was beautiful and had a good voice but nothing is so powerful as seeing the prisoners singing along with this simple country boy, so pure in heart, and raising their hands to the Lord. I have a problem with singers who think they can dress up, wear hair pieces and false eyelashes and fancy clothes; and don’t even give credit to that poet whose relationship with the Lord was so pure and profound that he could write the words and compose the music for such a song.

[@ekai_is_okay]

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[@fatimareyes3594]

Why did God allow for disorderly love? Free will and love. Both parties having free will is the only way that a loving relationship is possible.

[@Gumballs66]

A marxist to the core, who uses Biblical contextualism to cofuse the simple message of Jesus, He's holy and we"re sinners separated from that necesassary perfection only cured by our death to self and accepting of his sacrifice on the cross.

[@zach2980]

If this god never created anything, would there be evil? The Nazis were Christian, don't forget that Keller. Pretending to know what a divine being wants you to do, yeah, that usually goes wrong. In light of one who believes that they'll spend eternity in heaven, this whole shame sermon of us in the nothingness of 60-90 yrs seems silly, no? Did pharaoh have free will? I was hoping Tim would explain his Calvinist doctrine of predestination and how it speaks to free will. If you were a god, would you want to be worshiped?

[@zach2980]

CL Thanks for your thoughts. CL, so you’re a true Christian? I’m no expert on the nazis, but are you saying they wouldn’t have called themselves true Christians? Are you saying anti Semitic views weren’t derived from the Bible? My point is the texts can be interpreted subjectively. Pretending certain texts are inspired by a deity and acting on them is a recipe for disaster, that’s my point. Do you truly think that if you were a citizen in Germany at the time that you would’ve had the fortitude to stand up against it? Clearly many “good” Christians didn’t. These things are a slippery slope and when you stop asking how you know things, it can go wrong. By all means derive what is good and humanistic from the texts but you and Tim are just pretending to know that Christianity is true. You might find this view interesting. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKWYmH-caZpoh5o

[@tomcampbell9773]

@@zach2980 ​you and the guy in the video have nice logic. But is it not also "circular"? If you start with the Nazis and bring it around to all events in history where people were mass murdered you also start with subjective morality and end up with your brand of it, don't you? As a matter of fact, you place it over all other things in your logic. Are you the true harbingers of peace on earth? Can you say that pain and death will be some day eliminated through your subjective morality? Or are pain and death "just" the natural causes of our materialistic being? Are there are no real reasons to live and love? If you start with your logic you put yourself over history itself. Are not relationships vital in our daily lives? And what if these realtionships cause us to act in both good and bad ways? You say, "what?". Has pain and death never brought about cleansing and renewal? Or do you propose a world where everyone lives in peace and harmony, but please, leave God out of it, after all our logic tells us that a God of love would never let people suffer and certainly wouldn't command such gruesome things. In one sense or another you are yourself proposing to be god, aren't you? You know "best", although you wouldn't really say that because best doesn't exist in a world where there are no absolute truths.

[@zach2980]

@@tomcampbell9773 Thanks for your thoughts. Although I'm not really sure what to say in response except, prove a god exists and prove you know what it wants, if anything at all. Were you being facetious with "you and the guy in the video have nice logic"? I don't have a strong opinion yet of subjective or objective morality. But if a god who was apparently quite capable of doing his own killing of men, women, children, and babies, then asks you or I to do it is, in my subjective opinion, a sadistic psycho. People can rationalize just about anything, but it's the society that subjectively responds or doesn't. We're an evolved species, so if you go far enough back, killing and eating one of your own species wasn't "wrong" in some ultimate way. We've evolved both physically and socially to see that as wrong. "Can you say that pain and death will be some day eliminated through your subjective morality? Or are pain and death "just" the natural causes of our materialistic being?" Not sure what you're saying here, but no I don't think there's a heaven or hell. My pain and death will end with my death. Yes, we are evidently materialistic beings. I'll believe that we aren't when I see the evidence. Guess I could go on with ur other comments, but it's sorta pointless as a god hasn't been proven. If there was something, repeat it and I'll try again. We're social animals, so yeah, I'm pro social. :) Are we perfect? Obviously not. Was Yahweh perfect?

[@tomcampbell9773]

@@zach2980 if logic were the onlly requirements of understanding, then yes, it was good logic. if God chose to reveal himself in the manner of law-giving to Moses and the people of Isreal, wanting to be in relationship with the people he had chosen, then might he not see certain problems they would have if they did or did not do things, like a good father protecting their children? Just asking.

[@zach2980]

@@tomcampbell9773 Could you maybe reword that and/or provide an example? I'm having trouble comprehending. Why would a god have a "chosen" people? Would you chose to save only 1 of your 4+....... children?