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Welcome to PCL where we cover everything from Wesleyan Theology to Protestant Apologetics and much more! Subscribe & join us as we pursue and encourage Scriptural Holiness!
Why the Church Fathers Prove the Perspicuity of Scripture
Did the Church fathers hold to the Perspicuity of Scripture? How about the earliest fathers? Yes, and today we prove it.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
1:07 What is the Perspicuity of Scripture
2:20 Joe Heschmeyer's odd claim
3:03 The Didache
5:37 Polycarp of Smirna
7:37 Justin Martyr
11:19 Irenaeus of Lyon
13:13 Theophilus of Antioch
14:58 The witness of the early Church is clear
15:21 The Absurdity of Rome and Post modern critiques
16:31 Closing Thoughts and the contradictions of Rome
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
1:07 What is the Perspicuity of Scripture
2:20 Joe Heschmeyer's odd claim
3:03 The Didache
5:37 Polycarp of Smirna
7:37 Justin Martyr
11:19 Irenaeus of Lyon
13:13 Theophilus of Antioch
14:58 The witness of the early Church is clear
15:21 The Absurdity of Rome and Post modern critiques
16:31 Closing Thoughts and the contradictions of Rome
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Critiquing Supralapsarianism - Jacob Arminius Declaration of Sentiments Part 6
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Please like & subscribe! Today we return to Jacob Arminius's Declaration of Sentiments. One of the most accessible works of Jacob Arminius, and perhaps one of the most important in terms of understanding the debate between Reformed and Arminian thought. We now move from Arminius describing Supralapsarian theology, to now setting up the framework of his critique highlighting how it is simply not...
What was unique about the Old Testament Priesthood? Why the Bible and not the Ba'al Cycle
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Please like & subscribe! We continue an important series on the channel inspired by John Oswalt's The Bible Among the Myths and by the absolutely terrible scholarship on the Bible that comes from those with a Hermeneutic of Suspicion. This series will be going through various aspects of the Old Testament and comparing it with the culture around it, showing how it's so utterly unique there is on...
The Israelite Tabernacle and Temple
Please like & subscribe! We continue an important series on the channel inspired by John Oswalt's The Bible Among the Myths and by the absolutely terrible scholarship on the Bible that comes from those with a Hermeneutic of Suspicion. This series will be going through various aspects of the Old Testament and comparing it with the culture around it, showing how it's so utterly unique there is on...
Do We Need an Infallible Magisterium to Understand the Scriptures?
Today we are discussing the frankly awful critique that "because ancient people weren't literate" (aka they at large couldn't read and/or write) we need an infallible magisterium to interpret the Scriptures. Our Flagship UA-cam Resource. Learning, Living, & Defending the Faith! ua-cam.com/play/PL4VeIAMo4PNWpnJlR2I4MYg8D5pTxilM2.html Here is the Playlist for this series: ua-cam.com/play/PL4VeIAM...
The End Times of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Please like & subscribe! We delve back into the Dead Sea Scrolls, specifically looking at how their messianic and eschatological ideas worked. Who was the teacher of righteousness, who was the Messiah(s), what was the final judgement? Our Flagship UA-cam Resource. Learning, Living, & Defending the Faith! ua-cam.com/play/PL4VeIAMo4PNWpnJlR2I4MYg8D5pTxilM2.html Here is the Playlist for this serie...
The Divine Melchizedek of the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Please like & subscribe! We delve into the mysterious topic of Divine Melchizedek. He appears in only a few places in Scripture, and is seen as a type pointing forward to a Divine Messiah, but how ancient is this idea? Is it a Christian invention? Our Flagship UA-cam Resource. Learning, Living, & Defending the Faith! ua-cam.com/play/PL4VeIAMo4PNWpnJlR2I4MYg8D5pTxilM2.html Here is the Playlist f...
What Do We When Temptation is Heavy? John Wesley's Teachings
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Please like & subscribe! Welcome to PCL (Practical Christian Lessons). Today we continue the means of grace series! We pull from pages 82-91 of Odens work, and John Wesley's sermons "Heaviness Through Manifold Temptation." This is tied into the previous videos on admonition, as well as darkness of mind and the wilderness state, and very much builds upon them. Means of Grace Series: ua-cam.com/p...
The Golden Calf: Why the Bible and not the Ba'al Cycle?
Please like & subscribe! We continue an important series on the channel inspired by John Oswalt's The Bible Among the Myths and by the absolutely terrible scholarship on the Bible that comes from those with a Hermeneutic of Suspicion. This series will be going through various aspects of the Old Testament and comparing it with the culture around it, showing how it's so utterly unique there is on...
The Bible and Slavery: Why the Bible and not the Ba'al Cycle?
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Please like & subscribe! We continue an important series on the channel inspired by John Oswalt's The Bible Among the Myths and by the absolutely terrible scholarship on the Bible that comes from those with a Hermeneutic of Suspicion. This series will be going through various aspects of the Old Testament and comparing it with the culture around it, showing how it's so utterly unique there is on...
Can we Understand God or the Scriptures?
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Today we are discussing a unique critique I don't hear very often, but does sometimes come up when discussing the Scriptures and even the reliability of the Scriptures. Our Flagship UA-cam Resource. Learning, Living, & Defending the Faith! ua-cam.com/play/PL4VeIAMo4PNWpnJlR2I4MYg8D5pTxilM2.html Here is the Playlist for this series: ua-cam.com/play/PL4VeIAMo4PNVnL07jMDP3RtTro84OlGTF.html Discord...
Spiritual Habits for the New Year
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Happy new year! Many make goals to start off the new year, but many times we fall. Well I have some hopefully practical advice on how to actually start some new habits, some habits to be starting, and how to finish them that you may grow through them. Our Flagship UA-cam Resource. Learning, Living, & Defending the Faith! ua-cam.com/play/PL4VeIAMo4PNWpnJlR2I4MYg8D5pTxilM2.html Discord discord.gg...
The Hebrews Battle with Egypt: Why the Bible and not the Ba'al Cycle
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Please like & subscribe! We continue an important series on the channel inspired by John Oswalt's The Bible Among the Myths and by the absolutely terrible scholarship on the Bible that comes from those with a Hermeneutic of Suspicion. This series will be going through various aspects of the Old Testament and comparing it with the culture around it, showing how it's so utterly unique there is on...
The Prophetic Word
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Please like & subscribe! We are delving back into our Trinity series on the channel, specifically defending it from the Old Testament. This is still During these introductory videos to the series we are going to be laying down a few important principles to keep in mind throughout the entire series. Today we are putting together several past pieces, and examining the phrase all throughout the Sc...
Critiquing Supralapsarianism - Jacob Arminius Declaration of Sentiments Part 5
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Critiquing Supralapsarianism - Jacob Arminius Declaration of Sentiments Part 5
Was Moses Real? Why the Bible and not the Ba'al Cycle
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Was Moses Real? Why the Bible and not the Ba'al Cycle
I have seen the Lord and Lived, Does the Lord Have a Body?
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I have seen the Lord and Lived, Does the Lord Have a Body?
Were the Genesis Patriarchs Real? Why the Bible and not the Ba'al Cycle
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Were the Genesis Patriarchs Real? Why the Bible and not the Ba'al Cycle
Does Augustine Disprove the Perspicuity of Scripture or Sola Scriptura?
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Does Augustine Disprove the Perspicuity of Scripture or Sola Scriptura?
Is the Old Testament Historical? Why the Bible and not the Ba'al Cycle
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Is the Old Testament Historical? Why the Bible and not the Ba'al Cycle
Critiquing Supralapsarianism - Jacob Arminius Declaration of Sentiments: Part 4
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Critiquing Supralapsarianism - Jacob Arminius Declaration of Sentiments: Part 4
Why the Bible and not the Ba'al Cycle? Ancient Laws and the Bible
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Why the Bible and not the Ba'al Cycle? Ancient Laws and the Bible
Are Protestants Nominalist? Answering Objections to the Perspicuity of Scripture
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Are Protestants Nominalist? Answering Objections to the Perspicuity of Scripture
Arminius' Declaration of Sentiments: Part 3
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Arminius' Declaration of Sentiments: Part 3
What Christians MUST DO in the Modern Culture
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What Christians MUST DO in the Modern Culture
What is Wrong With the Documentary Hypothesis? Why the Bible and not the Ba'al Cycle
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What is Wrong With the Documentary Hypothesis? Why the Bible and not the Ba'al Cycle
Bait and switch on the thumbnail! 😏🤣
Listen the beard will be back lol
@@PracticalChristianLessons it’s all good! Appreciate the video 🙏
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I thought the Essenes existed only 100 or 150 years before Jesus was born.
There is some debate on if they should be dated to the 2nd or 3rd century, I should've noted that when I made my statement. So some manuscript are dated as old as 250 and of course they are getting many of their ideas and such from before their own time, but as with all things in scholarship there's debate. That is sloppy language on my part.
1950년 한국에 예수가 재림해 현재 활동하고 있다 나그함마디 문서 사해문서 발견은 그 징조였다 멜기세덱 = Jesus
Since filming this I have also found another Messianic thought within the Dead Sea Scrolls. That of the Arch Angel Michael playing a role as Messiah. Definitely interested in delving further into the scholarship on Messianic thought. Are there competing Messianic thought amongst the authors in the dead sea scrolls, some way they all come together, something else? What are your thoughts?
These books only confirm what Jesus said in Matthew 11:14-15 and what The Disciples said in Matthew 17:13... in few words, Melquisedek and Jesus are the same person ... In the Book Of Melquisedek, it clearly states that Melquisedek is the same God that SPOKE TO ABRAHAM before destroying Sodom and Gonorrah... just think about this for a moment. The only way to return back to life is by reincarnating, that's why The Pharasees asked Jesus, "are you one of the prophets?".....ETC. but why would they ask Him that? Simple, BECAUSE that's the only way they knew someone could return back to life, in few words Reincarnation.. And it all boils down to this: The Son Of God MUST HAVE BEEN BORN AGAIN by now... He, God HIMSELF walks amongst men again... Subscribed!
I appreciate the sub, but definitely disagree with a few points here. Ressurection is a Biblical thought, but I'd say Reincarnation is reading something into the text that isn't there. Hebrews would be a clear example where it shows Melchizedek is a type, not the same person.
@PracticalChristianLessons well, let's agree to disagree then because Matthew 11:14-15 is completely about reincarnation and if you "don't see" maybe is not for you to know then, and that's all good with me. Did you AT LEAST know that there was a synod in 543 - 553 AD in which Emperor Justinian participated and presided, and that pne of the things Justinian changed was The Teaching Of Reincarnation"?? I guess you'll fly away like most of my Evangelical friends, good luck then 🙂👍
@@hernandez-yanezboldvoyager2623 I'm firmly a Methodist, and I've heard the claim about Constantinople which can be read here: www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf214/npnf214.xii.html. If you wish to discuss the council feel free to pull a citation from this work. I have spent a lot of time in the Church fathers, and I can say with confidence it is firmly lacking from their writings. I'm happy to agree to disagree, but I would challenge these claims about the contents of 2 Constantinople and the Church's teachings on it.
@PracticalChristianLessons my friend what Jesus said was HIGHLY clear, John The Baptist was Elijah, and as He said, "IF you are willing to accept it", then He adds, "he who has ears to hear, let him hear and underdtand"... in few words, if you catch it great, if you don't ... oh well, but Jesus said it plainly and clearly that John was Elijah, any child can understand what He meant, why not you guys that are supposed to know better? Did He not become flesh? Does Rev 12 not say that He is born of a woman? I just hope you guys don't believe He comes back flying out of a space ship.
@@hernandez-yanezboldvoyager2623 I believe I cover this point, but that is language common at the time. There also places where the Messiah is called David, but Jesus is not David. David was a type pointing forward. It is common in Biblical language for a type to be named and point to a different figure that will later be the greater figure. David is not the eternal son of God after all. This is why death was seen as death and final. That is why at the tomb Marry said Lazarus will rise again in the final resurrection, but mentioned nothing of reincarnation. And no need for condescension.
warnings of bible corruptions Gospel of Holy Twelve But there shall arise after you, men of perverse minds who shall through ignorance or through craft, suppress many things which I have spoken unto you, and lay to me things which I never taught, sowing tares among the good wheat which I have given you to sow in the world. Then shall the truth of God endure the contradiction of sinners, for thus it hath been, and thus it will be. But the time cometh when the things which they have hidden shall be revealed and made known, and the truth shall make free those which were bound. Gospel of Holy Twelve 12 Woe is the time when the spirit of the world entereth into the Church, and my doctrines -and precepts are made void through the corruption of men and of women. Woe is the world when the Light is hidden. Woe is the world when these things shall be. AT that time Jesus lifted his voice and said, I thank thee, 0 most righteous Parent, Creator of Heaven and Earth, that though these things are hid- den from the wise and the prudent, they are nevertheless revealed unto babes. Gospel of Holy Twelve Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ye shut up the 5. kingdom of Heaven against men: :for ye neither go in yourselves neither suffer ye them that are entering, to go in. 7. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! :for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; .and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the .child of hell than yourselves Gospel of Holy Twelve And he said against Moses indeed I do not speak nor against the law, but against them who corrupted his law, which he permitted for the hardness: of your hearts. Gospel of Holy Twelve even as the Gentiles who knew not the truth, or who knowing it, have changed it into a lie Gospel of Holy Twelve who forsake it and bound to it, who continue it. 2. Nevertheless the fruits of the sin must continue for a season, for as we show so must we reap, for God is not mocked, and they who sow to the flesh shall reap corruption, they who sow to the spirit shall reap life, everlasting. Gospel of Holy Twelve AND he spake another parable, saying: The kingdom of Heaven is like unto good seed that a man sowed in his field, but in the night, while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went his way. But whP.n the blade sprung up and brought forth fruit in the ear, there appeared the tares also. 8 And the servants of the householder came unto him and said, Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field, whence then hath it tares? And he said unto them, An enemy hath done this. 9 And the servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay, lest haply while ye gather up the tares, ye root up the good wheat with them. 10 Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, AT END DAYS ONE WILL TAKE OUT CORRUPTED TEACHINGS. Wake up I'm trying to help you ,you have seconds left Gospel of Thomas says,theirs 5 trees in Paradise who ever knows them will not taste death,these 5 trees are Persons ,it's Methaphors 1. Palm tree - Father 2. Apple tree or Grapes - Mother 3. Pomegranate tree - Bride 4. Olive tree - Jesus 5. Fig tree - self House Haggia 2:19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you. Joel 1:12 12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men. Nenimah 8:15 Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths (houses), as it is written. The bible is Methaphors Mary Magdalena taught Gnostic teachings in France if this is true why ain't we?,5 trees in Paradise in Gospel Thomas sayings,their in the bible
Grapes Means Teachings This is about grapes,it is metaphors for teachings and at the end you'll see the two trees in the bible are teacher's, one being God and the other Satan that is know also as Azazel,who corrupted the teachings,these are called sour grapes,the Bible uses stories in stories to teach. Hosea 10:13 - KJV - ye have eaten the fruit of lies Isaiah 5:1- 4 KJV - Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? Gospel of Holy Twelve - pg 91 - bread and wine is teachings - Again the kingdom of heaven is like unto a woman who taketh of the incorruptible leaven and hideth it in three measures of meal, till the whole is leavened, and being baked by fire, becomes one loaf, Or, again, to one who who taketh a measure of pure wine, and poureth it into two or four measure of pure wine, till the whole being mingled becometh the fruit of the vine. Hosea 9:7-9 -1879;Greek Septuagint - The days of vengeance are come, and Israel shall be afflicted as the prophet that is mad, as a man deranged: by reason of the mulittude of thine inquities thy madness has abounded. Jeremiah 32:15 -1879 Greek Septuagint - different in KJV - Thus said the Lord God of Israel : Take the cup of this unmixed wine from mine hands and thou shalt cause all the nations to drink, to whom I send thee Songs of Songs 2:13 - KJV - 13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. Isaiah 62:8-9 - 1879 Greek Septuagint - I will no more give thy corn and thy provisions to thine enemies; nor shall strangers any more drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured. But they that have gathered them shall eat them, and they shall praise the Lord; and they that have gathered the grapes shall drink thereof in my holy courts. Matthew 7:16 - KJV - Do men gather grapes of thorns, ot figs of thistles? Isaiah 65:8 -1879 Greek Septuagint - Thus saith the Lord, As s grape stone shall be found in the cluster, and they shall say, Destroy it not; dor a blessing is in it: so will I do for the sake of him that serves me, for his sake I will not destroy them all. Apocalypse of Abraham 23 Now I ook again in the vision and see who it is that seduced Eve and what the fruit of the Tree was, and you will know what is to be, and how it will be for your progeny among the people at the end of the days of the age. And all that you cannot understand I will make known to you for you are well-pleasing in my sight, and I will tell you of those things which are kept in my heart.Then I looked into the vision, and my eyes looked at the side of the Garden of Eden, and I saw there a man of imposing height and he was great (powerful) in stature, incomparable in appearance.He was embracing (entwined with) a woman who looked like his size and stature.They were standing under a tree of the Garden of Eden, and the fruit of this tree was like a bunch of grapes on a vine. Standing behind the tree was one who had the appearance of a serpent (dragon) but it had the hands and feet of a man and it had wings on its shoulders. There were six pairs of wings, so that there were six wings on the right shoulder and six on the left shoulder. As I continued looking, I saw the man and the woman eating the fruit from the tree. And the serpent (dragon) was holding the grapes of the tree and feeding them to the two I saw embracing each other. And I said, "Who are these two that embrace, and who is this between them, and what is the fruit which they are eating, Oh, Mighty, Eternal One?" And He said, "This is the world of men (this is humanity). This (one) is Adam (man), and that one, who is their desire upon the earth, is Eve. But he who is between them is the ungodliness of their behavior that is sending them on the way to perdition. It is Azazel." And I said, "Eternal Mighty One! Why have you given the likes of him (Azazel) the power to destroy mankind (children or generations of men) and their works upon the earth?" And He said to me, " I gave him power over them who want do evil and those whom I have already hated and they will even come to love him."13. And I said. "Eternal, Mighty One! Why did you want to bring into existence an evil that men would desire in their heart since you are angered at what was chosen by those who do useless (vain/unprofitable) things in your light (counsel! presence)?" Chapter 24 He said to me, "I am angered by mankind on your account, and on account of those who will be of your family to come, because as you can see in the vision, the burden of destiny is placed upon them, and I will tell you what will be, and how much will take place in the last days. Now look at everything in the vision." I looked and saw the created beings that had come into existence before me. And I saw Adam and Eve and the cunning adversary who was with them; the crafty Cain, who had been influenced (led) by the adversary to break the law; Aramaic Targum - Ruth 4:22 Now Oved begot Jesse, who was called Nahash, because no corruption and perversion, for which he might be delivered into the hands of the angel of death, who would take his life from him, were found in him. He lived a long time, until the serpent's counsel to Eve, Adam's wife, to partake of the fruit of the tree, the eating of which resulted in wisdom to distinguish between good and evil, was recalled before God. Because of that counsel, all inhabitants of the earth are mortal, and as a result of that blunder, the righteous Jesse died. He is Jesse, who was the father of David, the king of Israel. EXEGETICAL LITERATURE - 4Q180 .181 - And concerning Azaz’el [who misled them into fallacy,] 9 [to love] sin and to make them inherit evil for all the ag[es, for destruction] 10 [for the fervour] of the judgments and the judgment of the council of [...] You can see the serpent was Azazel who gave them sour grapes or corruptted scriptures. My tik tok is fivebookteachings
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Hey I see the other comment. Mary did teach any Gnostic teachings, those are heretical and false teachings. Irenaeus's Against Heresies is the work to demonstrate that and I would recommend taking the time to go through it.
@PracticalChristianLessons so I don't listen to the catholic church or Constantine, theirs just wackos, in Ezk 12:23 - 14:11 it talks about someone trying to confirm the word by false dreams and false visions, actually Constantine had them and and did just that, I teach you much in the bible, don't need Gnostic teachings actually basically at all
@@MaxKi-g3s SO Constantine didn't do those things, and by "Catholic" I assume you mean Roman Catholic which I am not. But I do follow the Scriptures, which aren't corrupted, and the ancient teachings of the Church. Gnostic teachings however, are open heresies and condemned text from well before The Roman Catholic church was started or Constantine ever stepped into power. Irenaeus himself is the evidence of this in it's greatest form though not the only one, and resounding refutation of it.
@@PracticalChristianLessons what do you know about the fig tree and the vine
God is not a man. All failed messiahs rely on a second coming.
What is a link for the archaeological Bible you use? I find several related options on Amazon.
I shop at thriftbooks (www.thriftbooks.com/w/archaeological-study-bible-niv-an-illustrated-walk-through-biblical-history-and-culture_anonymous_walter-c-kaiser-jr/264343/vintage/?vid=1669737685&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAkJO8BhCGARIsAMkswygyz7jubMfSuefhcwwqajzFc7ubAWYIRjjqgTPB9T1Cx8h4BZRaLJwaAh48EALw_wcB), but it is available on Amazon and I believe places like Logos. Though it's out of print so any physical copy is limited print.
@PracticalChristianLessons Ah, NIV - thanks! I see the same book with different translations. Either Zondervan or Kaiser is author depending.
@@BrianOxleyTexan Those would be different study Bibles. They are good I've seen them and own some, but the NIV Zondervan Archeological Study Bible I've been reading from is only available in the NIV one I linked (or a leather bound one). It's been out of print for some time, but they've for some reason printed similar study Bibles.
Didymus the Blind: www.ccel.org/ccel/herbermann/cathen04.html?term=Didymus%20the%20Blind
Thank you for sharing. I don't know how I found this channel but I really feel it is a blessing that I did.
Great video. I was looking up the dead sea scrolls and found your channel, really interesting stuff
Thankyou! I'll be delving into them a little bit more this year, lots of super fascinating stuff in them. And also a frustratingly large amount of broken text 🤣.
Listeners should also take look on a longer video that deply analaze the interview and exhibits Carmen's flaws and blunders. Failed Defence of BIBLE SLAVERY… is GROSS! (feat Dr Joshua Bowen & Dr Kipp Davis) on Paulogia's channel. That will give you a more complete picture of Biblical slavery...
I think you and I will just disagree then. I think Carmen does an excellent job and demonstrates the accurate picture of what was happening in the Old Testament. I have been repeatedly and extremely unimpressed and disappointed in the work both Joshua and Dr Kipp have put out in regards to slavery. Especially in regards to their intentional deceptions and underhanded tactics in regards to their conversation with Trent Horn and Gavin Ortlund. You are welcome to disagree with me and voice your own opinion, but I would not trust those two on this matter.
Glad to encounter your channel! Amazing work and may God continue blessing your scholarship in the word of God. Grace and peace be with you brother, all the way from 🦬 NY ❤️🔥✌🏽🙏🏽
Much appreciated! Especially as I'm working through the Dead Sea Scrolls. The massive amount of parts where it's fragmented right where I need the full text for one reason or another is slightly maddening 😵💫🤣
Looking forward to it.
We can make our best effort through the church.
This is why we need to unite against Christians. Modern day colonial mindsets.
no.. Slavery was ended by the British Empire, driven by the enlightenment movement. Christianity on its own, could never end slavery. The proof of this, is that it didn't. It took the power and intellectualism of the worlds largest empire to have even an impact on the global slave trade. Meanwhile, the bible condones it.
5:18 Slaves bought according to Leviticus 25:44-46 are not released in the 7th year. Leviticus 25:47 specifies that this redemption and freeing applies only to Israelites who sell themselves due to debt. It does not apply to people bought as slaves from foreign nations.
I encourage you to watch the video in the pinned comments by Carmen Ilmes.
@@PracticalChristianLessons No offense meant, but I don’t have time to watch that whole video. That said, if you can point me to the rough time stamp he discusses my specific objection, I have no problem listening to a few minutes to hear it out
@stubbwinkley4015 if I can fins the time I will. But the video should be broken up in chapters. And if you are on a browser you should be able to use ctrl + F to search through the manuscript like a PDF and possibly find a time stamp.
@@PracticalChristianLessons I’m going to pass. I responded to something YOU said, so why would I put in effort to try to find someone else to respond in your place?
@@stubbwinkley4015 Honest intellectual discussion & the pursuit of truth.
How much more clear can it get? There is no commandment that says “Thou shalt not own another human being as property”. Owning a slave is not a sin. Exodus 21 tells you where to buy slaves, how long you can keep them for, how you can treat them, etc. Anybody who tries to twist the meaning of this knows it is immoral to own slaves and wants to falsely defend the Bible. For example, there is absolutely no mention of the words “indentured servitude” in the Bible, but apologist will swear that is what it means. In any case, that is STILL owning another human being as property. It doesn’t matter if they were treated nice or were let go after some years…slavery is slavery no matter how much you try to sugarcoat it. The laws governing non-Hebrew slaves were more harsh than those governing Hebrew slaves: non-Hebrew slaves could be owned permanently, and bequeathed to the owner's children, whereas Hebrew slaves were treated as servants, and were released after six years of service or the occurrence of a jubilee year.
The rules where for "slaves" who where Israelites, But not ones from other places " he says it quietly .
And the Non Isrealite slaves ? What happened to them ?
I encourage you to watch the video in full, and see Carmen Ilmes video for a very in depth case as to exactly why you are wrong friend. You may object to slavery, but why do you do so? Odds are, the culture you live in, which rejects slavery because of Christianity's influence. Slavery was the almost universal practice of all humans until recently, and it is the Church who was the force behind the movement that ended it.
@@PracticalChristianLessonsNo any decent person with moral values would acknowledge that slavery is wrong. One person, knowing another person as their property is immoral it is cruel and it is evil What happened to your moral values? Did you hand them over to the God of the Bible to decide for you. when the scripture talks about foreign slaves being slaves for life, do you acknowledge that or do you have an excuse for why that would happen ? One other point I wish to make is that just because slavery was normal during that time. Does not make it right something I haven’t heard you mention of course you’re gonna tell me I didn’t watch the full video but that’s OK. That’s a standard line.
@Bugsy0333 I think you should watch the video I pinned in the comments and you will see all of this addressed in full.
Christianity didn't end slavery. If you use your faith as a means to better this world and reduce the suffering in it, that's awesome. I take your point that slavers in america may have edited the bible in order to justify their practice, but that wouldn't have been for the slaves benefit as they were predominantly illiterate. It's a christian society in amercia, so they were the only ones who could end slavery, if they wanted to. So it wasn't "christians" as a group, it was specific sects (like the Quakers) who pushed for this reform. They may have informed their beliefs from the bible, but it was their political leanings and sense of justice that brought them to that point. So hurray they ended chattel-slavery. But There is still the prison industrial complex that is rampant in america. Predominantly run by christians as well. There is also a massive slave economy in the Congo, mining precious minerals for our technology - and that is overwhelmingly christian. If you can use your book to influence other christians to be better people, more power to you. But the implicit message you tout with this is christian=good, other faiths=bad. That breeds more division and obfuscate the reality of the situation we are actually in. Use your faith, speak to the experience of christians doing good works, but also recognize that people of all faiths are striving for a better world. Just as people of all faiths, and a lot of christians, are striving to make this world horrible for everyone else.
The bible is frequently distorted and misconstrued in order to fulfill an agenda. If god was omniscient he should have accounted for this and made his words clearer. Rather he left it up to interpretation so he is either uncaring or bumbling (or both).
Scripture does account for this, in it's own words. People distort words all the time, that doesn't make them not clear. I address this in an earlier video in the Perspicuity series (found in the playlist)
@@PracticalChristianLessons "Scripture does account for this, in it's own words." Why does the bible state to love thy neighbor and than tell masters where to purchase their slayves (Exodus 21)? Why has science disproved everything written in Genesis?
@@PROVEIT2 You're approaching Scripture with flat feet friend. 1, slavery isn't like what we think it is, especially with how the Bible says to handle it (watch my video on slavery and follow through to the video by Carmen Ilmes). That is very much part of showing love to neighbor, notice Paul also said it would be better to free a slave as a brother than keep him in slavery. Genesis, regardless of how one approaches it, is poetry like anything else. And science has disproven nothing from Genesis that was portrayed as actual events. Many scientist are devout and faithful Christians. Testify and Inspiring Philosophy are great channels that address many claims on the scientific front.
@ " slavery isn't like what we think it is, especially with how the Bible says to handle it " Does Exodus 21 not say to not beet your slayves? Does it not tell a master where and from whom to purchase their slayves? last time I read it it stated both those verses. Why are you trying to excuse such a terrible behavior?
@@PROVEIT2 Watch the Carmen Ilmes video and you'll find a lengthy answer to that. It also has many rules on what one can't do to a slave, and on how they must free them. Free them after 7 years, hits the eye or tooth, etc. It's a massive stretch to compare that to what we think of as slavery. The much closer comparison is indentured servitude. Again, all these are addressed in depth in Carmen Ilmes video that is the best response I think you can find out there on these things and the case you need to address to make this a sticking point.
nah God ordained all things bro
Arminius agreed.
@@PracticalChristianLessons oh rlly?
@@Raisin22_ I would recommend going to the Arminianism playlist on my channel or finding my videos on things like God's Will & Sovereignty.
Who is Melchizedek? ua-cam.com/video/kEruf1XhdpA/v-deo.html My goodreads review mentioned: www.goodreads.com/review/show/7065359613 Dead Sea scrolls: couldbeanonymous.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/complete-scrolls.pdf - This is not the commentary and translation I read from in this video. The scroll in this is 11Q13, Pgs 584 and following in this link.
It's all based on a fictional storybook used by one of three competing monotheistic deathcults. A fictional storybook, written by ignorant humans and based on mythological malarkey and superstitious hogwash.
Wow, I was thinking about reading Arminius on youtube. But you already did this! Many thanks for bringing this often misjudged follower of Christ to the attention of the public. He deserves this.
Still could. Many people talk about Reformed and Arminian debates, but so few actually delve into Arminius or Wesley or the Church fathers on these matters. Even if it's just presenting a summary of something, definitely a voice not given his due credit.
Unrelated question: Regarding Arminius and his theology, by my lights it sounds like he denies real presence in the sense that Calvin teaches. He still uses the sign and thing signified terminology, but it seems like he thinks that mere signification is what conveys grace, not the sacrament itself. Of course he denies ex opere operato (as he should), but he also seems to deny any realism within the sacrament (same with baptism). This certainly seems to be outside of the confines of reformed orthodoxy, even under the two forms of unity. From the Belgic Confession: “In order that He might represent unto us this spiritual and heavenly bread, Christ has instituted an earthly and visible bread as a sacrament of His body, and wine as a sacrament of His blood, to testify by them unto us that, as certainly as we receive and hold this sacrament in our hands and eat and drink the same with our mouths, by which our life is afterwards nourished, we also do as certainly receive by faith (which is the hand and mouth of our soul) the true body and blood of Christ our only Saviour in our souls, for the support of our spiritual life.” Now, Anglo-Arminians (including Wesley) are, much better with the sacraments in my estimation. The Dutch Arminians had lots of disagreement regarding lots of things save predestination. Gesselius, Vossius Corvinus, and Uytenbogaert, among some other remonstrants seemed to have a more realist view… but it wasn’t universal. All in all, do you think that Arminius himself was a realist about the sacraments or was he more of a Zwinglian?
@@TheOtherCaleb what have you read from Arminius on this? (If I don't until tomorrow don't be surprised, Merry Christmas!)
@@PracticalChristianLessons Merry Christmas to you as well! And I’m referring to his “On Sacraments in General” and “On the Sacraments of the New Testament in General” One place that sticks out to me is point 6 of the latter, where he outright denies that the new testament sacraments exhibit grace.
@@TheOtherCaleb Hmm. On his disputation on the Lord's Supper, though I'd probably use stronger language, he does seem to use the Reformed language of the sign and the thing signified, as well as seeing it as a seal on the believer to the union of Christ and a promise of grace. DISPUTATION LXIV. Is this "The matter is the external element itself created by God, and, therefore, subject to his power, and made suitable to seal that which, according to his wisdom, God wills to be sealed by it." what you are reading and getting a denial of grace from? ccel.org/ccel/arminius/works2/works2.iii.lx.html
@@TheOtherCaleb Sorry saw you meant the latter. How would you balance that with point though. "And, therefore, the sacraments of the New Testament do not differ from those used in the Old Testament; because the former exhibit grace, but the latter typify or prefigure it."
@@PracticalChristianLessons Is that Arminius saying that the sacraments of the NT do not exhibit grace? I may be wrong, but it sounds like he’s saying that they typify (symbolize) grace, not exhibit grace.
Article on Ordo Solutis learn.ligonier.org/devotionals/order-salvation
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I guess newest isn't actually the criteria used to sort comments who would have known.
I thought they were in a single playlist under the same title but I may have been wrong. Here is Disciple Dojo's Video, and on his channel there is a playlist going through his Exodus Bible study. ua-cam.com/video/dvTTx6PYVao/v-deo.htmlsi=Yy0AhG2AmImjBkaa.
Jesus is a fictional character.
Even the most ardant atheist will admit that Jesus revolutionized ethics and morals. How could a fictional character do that? Without the Biblical God how can we have good or evil? Without the Biblical God good and evil lose all meaning. Not big on basic logic or reason i see. In India they walk over adying humans in the streets yet the sick cows gets help. In China and pagan Asian nations the same thing happens. It was the same everywhere before Christianity. Don't believe me just read a credible history book.
@@uncle_Samssubjects _"...Jesus revolutionized ethics and morals."_ Like these? “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters - yes, even his own life - he cannot be my disciple." (Luke 14:26-27) “No one can become my disciple unless you give up all of your possessions." (Luke 14:33) "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law - a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household." (Matthew 10:34-37)
@@uncle_Samssubjects _"...Jesus revolutionized ethics and morals."_ They already existed, right? Should we expect God to know what the Ten Commandments are? Which was Jesus's sixth commandment? (Notice that Jesus lists only the secular commandments that make no mention of God): 1. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. (Matthew 19:17-19) 2. Honor thy father and mother: Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honor thy father and mother. (Mark 10:19) 3. There was no sixth. Jesus listed only five commandments: Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor thy father and thy mother. (Luke 18:20) In Mark 10:19 Jesus add the Commandment to "not defraud".
@@uncle_Samssubjects _"No one needs Christianity or a Christian source to prove the reality of Jesus."_ So, provide the single-best evidence you have that Jesus existed. There is literally no contemporaneous evidence that Jesus ever existed. 1. None of the Gospel authors witnessed Jesus. 2. In the entire first century Jesus is not mentioned by a single historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher, or poet. His name never occurs in a single inscription, carving, sculpture, or monument and is never found in a single piece of private correspondence or official record. 3. Jesus himself left no archaeological evidence of any kind, such as artifacts, tombs, dwellings, works of carpentry, or self-written manuscripts.
@@uncle_Samssubjects _"You stupid atheist make me embarrassed..."_ I'm not an atheist and Jesus is not God.
Carmen Ilmes Video - ua-cam.com/video/qWvwkHKWAfE/v-deo.html&pp=ygUTY2FybWVuIGltZXMgc2xhdmVyeQ%3D%3D
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For God remembers still, His promise made of old.." Israel *_is_* being gathered.
THE PSALMS ARE THE KEY OF THE CHURCH ..THERE ARE PROPHECIES ABOUT JESUS THE CHURCH THE VIRGIN MARY PS.45 THE CROSS AND MANY OTHERS....
THE PSALMS ARE THE KEY OF THE CHURCH ...THEY ARE PROPHECIES OF JESUS OF THE VIRGIN MARY PS.45 THE APOSTASY OF THE JEWS AND MANY OTHERS...
one huge discrepancy -- what the Bible proves as God's church is not what the catholic system is. they don't meet His criteria.
I'm sorry, I don't understand how this relates to my video. And by catholic do you mean Roman Catholic, or the definition of the word catholic which means universal?
@@PracticalChristianLessons well, we have to know just who God's church is or we are lost. i mean catholic or 'roman catholic' -- neither fits His qualifications, Sir.
@@tony1685 Ok. I'm not Roman Catholic, so I'm a little confused as it seems your comment was aimed at me and my video 😅(unless I just misunderstood the target of the comment)
@@PracticalChristianLessons no friend, no problem! i just love to get people thinking about the forgotten Commandment! from Genesis --->>> Revelation, absolutely zero supports the change of the Command from the 7th day to the 1st. i just enjoy explaining that fact and seeing how many have questions about it, as it's of major importance for our time. when i hear people say 'the Church', i often am wrong when i think they are suggesting it's the catholic 'church', apologies if you weren't speaking of that system. but that is where the sunday 'keeping' originated....welll from babylon and catholicism.
Great video! When I first read through Augustine's Confessions, that quote was one of the most challenging ones I encountered. Thank you for bringing clarity and context to it.
Happy to be a tool of the Lord in this matter!
www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf104.iv.viii.vi.html Here is Augustine's writing
I think you've already started on a wrong foot since the Church is not "above scripture". Rather, the Church (he meant the visible institution) reflects the Scripture's teachings.
Did you watch the entire video? I would be impressed if you did, since the video isn't out yet.
@PracticalChristianLessons I read the description of the upcoming video and describing the Church as "above Scripture" is problematic.
@@computationaltheist7267 So you would agree the Church is not above Scripture?
@@PracticalChristianLessons Yes. The concept is that the Church reflects the Scriptures similar to how the moon reflects the sun.
@@computationaltheist7267 Then I think you'll find the video is more to your liking then you initially thought. The point of my video is to critique the idea that the Church is above the Scriptures, which Augustine's quote is often abused to try and argue for.
Jesus was a creation of the early church councils maybe based on some apostate Jewish cult. Bastardizing Jewish books only shows how much a lie Christianity is.
Jesus is referenced in the Talmud, by early Christian authors outside of the Bible including figures as early as Justin Martyr and Papias, Celsus which we see in both his own fragment and Origens work against him. But he is also references clearly by the Romans. Pliny's letters (112 AD) : www.attalus.org/old/pliny10b.html#96, Suetonius (120 AD) penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Claudius*.html, Josephus (93 AD), Antiquities, 18.3.63 and 20.9.1; and by Tacitus (116 AD) in his Annals 15.44. Jesus is simply put, the most well attested to historical figure in the ancient world. We can be more certain of his existence than the Ceasars or Alexander the Great.
@@PracticalChristianLessons The charecter call Jesus or Yeshua was never mentioned in OUR Talmus but maybe in a Christian Talmud. Flavius Josephus has been debunked; it was added by Christians later. Tragin never say Jesus but believed Christians that themselves never saw him. Millions of people say and lived under the Ceasars and how many saw and fought under Alexander. I have studied all the major Jewish texts for over 30 years her in Israel and it is clear that your Jesus is a myth, a creation of the early church councils maybe based on some apostate Jewish cult. Bastardizing Jewish books only shows how much a lie Christianity is.
Grateful to have these Methodist theological resources reviewed.
@@tomlavelle8340 Happy to be able to do it! Hoping to be able to do one each semester.
What is your necklace?
That is a rosary (no I am not a Roman Catholic).
@@PracticalChristianLessons How do you pray a rosary? The 150 psalms?
@@Big_Steve11 No, though I have prayed some Psalms on it. I tend to go through things like the Anglican Rosary, or I'll pray the Sinners prayer, stuff like the Shema. Sometimes I'll use each bead to pray for a specific individual on each bead stuff like that.
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT NOTE!!! I made a big mistake in this video. When I was describing Hebrew Parallelism I somehow conflated it in my head with Chiasms. A Hebrew Parallelism is when a phrase is repeated, often with an alteration, generally to emphasize something. Such as, though I didn't mention it in this video, the 2 Sam passage of David's last words it first mentions the Spirit talking, then God. This is a Parallelism that shows the Spirit speaking is God's speech. You'll find this all throughout the Scriptures. MY APOLOGIES! In the description you'll find a playlist on studying the Psalms, in there you'll find the video by Bible project I mention and the video from Dr Seth which I will also link in this comment, alongside many other wonderful study videos on the Psalter. Thankyou for watching and God bless! ua-cam.com/video/8dqCNA-LB4o/v-deo.html
Many ancient Jews also considered themselves, Binitarian. Many times in the Old Testament we can see the word ‘Echad’ when in referral to G-d; In Hebrew this word has a meaning of a plural unity: for example, when two become ONE flesh. The trinity is completely littered entirely over the Old Testament.
YES! EXACTLY THIS!
Thankyou for watching! Be sure to check out the show notes for a large list of resources to dig into! And please comment, we will be wrapping up the fundamentals shortly and will start digging into more specific text so if you comment it might bump up a specific passage. "As a king sends his son, who is also a king, so sent He Him; as God He sent Him; as to men He sent Him; as a Savior He sent Him, and as seeking to persuade, not to compel us; for violence has no place in the character of God." - “Mathetes” ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01/anf01.iii.ii.vii.html “ For which reason He sent the Word, that He might be manifested to the world; and He, being despised by the people [of the Jews], was, when preached by the Apostles, believed on by the Gentiles. This is He who was from the beginning, who appeared as if new, and was found old, and yet who is ever born afresh in the hearts of the saints. This is He who, being from everlasting, is to-day called the Son; through whom the Church is enriched, and grace, widely spread, increases in the saints, furnishing understanding, revealing mysteries, announcing times, rejoicing over the faithful, giving to those that seek, by whom the limits of faith are not broken through, nor the boundaries set by the fathers passed over. Then the fear of the law is chanted, and the grace of the prophets is known, and the faith of the gospels is established, and the tradition of the Apostles is preserved, and the grace of the Church exults; which grace if you grieve not, you shall know those things which the Word teaches, by whom He wills, and when He pleases. For whatever things we are moved to utter by the will of the Word commanding us, we communicate to you with pains, and from a love of the things that have been revealed to us.” - Ibid, ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01/anf01.iii.ii.xi.html
The Protestant Reformation, as is Protestantism today, absolutely rife with nominalism and conceptualism. THE guy who gave legs to these ideas in the Middle Ages was William of Ockham and Luther called himself an Ockhamist. He even adopted causality from Ockham. Bible alone is nominalism at its finest, since every Protestant community exists due to experiential interpretations of scripture. The idea we don’t have free will also emanates from it. You have your work cut out for you if you want to disprove the connection between Protestantism and nominalism.
I recommend checking out those sources I shared on Nominalism, it will show how Nominalism is foreign to the thoughts of the Reformation. As there are several errors here. 1 we aren't nominalist, 2 Protestants don't deny free will (and you need to be more specific, I am a Methodist we definitely do deny free will). And I have no work to do on this front, others have already done it, and I have shared their work you are free to check it out for yourself. And of course I recommend reading the Reformers yourself, from each different tradition (because Protestants are not all one big tradition, just as Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox are not the same tradition).