@@pukalo that's a little bit to easy don't u think The reality is that mother stayed home while the father worked b4 a child wents to school and worked when they come from school So the mother was more present in the life of children after the ww2 and we're viewed as more important then fathers
@ZapDash The traditional family structure is extremely important. A child fares best when they have a present mother and father. This is why the Left wants to ruin the traditional family structure.
ZapDash - Whatever the role of the mother when the male was a baby it will be unconscious later in life. But if it was a good and happy interaction, then those will be the all important core in the mans brain. However, other things can intrude in that all important first six to seven years of life. And then . . . .
@X OP implied that somehow this video shows how PragerU is obsessed with gender. I told him that this video is an obvious response to those who claim that Christianity is patriarchal because it depicts God as male and as a "father," instead of as a female and a mother.
So a man who maybe existed, written about in a book of fairy tales, called an invisible dude who lives on a cloud "father", proving that the thing nobody had ever seen was a man.... Hmmmm....sounds a bit weird...
@Lord Cobra I actually believe that (based on evidence) "Jesus the man" existed. The religious overtones are obviously added over time by hearsay, politics, exaggeration, and wish believe... To me, Jesus is simply one of the greatest historical philosophers...
To be on topic, Jesus called God Father because Jesus was good jew and all good jews call the Hebrew God Father. As for why, then watch the video again to find out
This applies even to animals. In the Pilansburg National Park, a new nature reserve in South Africa, there was a project in the 1970's to relocate orphaned baby elephants to this reserve from other reserves, like Kruger National park. A female Matriarch was brought in to lead the growing herd. All went well until in a few years, the young males became "teenagers", with the same raging hormones that boys have. Anger and sexual violence manifested itself as these youngsters tried to mount Rhinos, often crushing and killing them in the process. As this was a new reserve, the Wardens were at first mystified as to the Rhinos deaths. However, when a Field Ranger witnessed an attempted violent rape of a Rhino, a large Bull Elephant was brought in, and he quickly instilled discipline and order and separated the teenage males into a separate herd until they were mature enough to be herd bulls on their own, in their late 20's to 30's.
We ourselves are animals, we just have a higher intelligence and different social structure etc, and our personality and enviroment shape us so I'd think we would just need that figure, rather than it having to be a father because it can't always be helped etc
@@shrivak : 1) I'm no expert but am aware that most animals have no sense of guilt (and thus attack and eat whatever human and other whenever hungry) and no sense of "ought" as do most humans. 2) We have an understanding of moral valuation not held by animals. So they have no regrets in the sense that humans do when they injure or kill something or someone. 3) The intellectual power of our brains far exceeds that of even the highest of animals approaching the limit of energy consumption - so much so that it contradicts basic theory of evolution which has animal capabilities developing only to the level required for "survival of the fittest". 4) There is a class of animals, "soulish" that seek a relationship with man, e.g. dogs. these animals do endeavor to avoid behavior that displeases their current human "friend" giving the appearance of moral awareness but is really just sensitivity to the human "friend's" commands and/or guidance. Ref. WWW.Reasons.org
My father wasn't worth his weight in gold so my mother was forced to take the lead. She raised me and my three sisters to the best of her ability. All four of us grew up to be excellent parents. My question to you is wasn't your mother there?
@@benjaminshealey7451 Why are you replying to a comment 10 minutes before the OP was posted. Are you working for stasitube? And a mother cannot be a father, if a mother raise boys in a fatherless home, the boys become women.
@douglas carpenter Sorry to hear that, and if you bacame a man, I assume you had your grandfather to guide you the right way, and your mother did not bring other men into the home. You are old, correct, grew up in the good old days. In the good old days, boys had to start working from their early teens, and they grew up like that, with responsibilities and workethic. Different time.
dude, you had to make it political? well, if you had, so just for your knowledge, studies has shown that women get better grades at tests which their language prefers to both genders, so, maybe, all the language shenanigans aren't a bad idea
@@HolyKoolaid glad to know I'm not the only atheist who watches PragerU specificly because I disagree with him. Also I'm a big fan of your channel, keep up the fantastic work.
Grew up without a father during my most impressionable years and only now I see how much damage it caused me. Thank God, I have a Father in heaven who had mercy on me and sent His only begotten Son, my Savior Jesus Christ to redeem a great sinner like I am. Glory to Him alone!
@@glennweyant8566 The Adam and Eve story Is as believe as Humpty Dumpty. Sorry to tell you, it's a fairly tale. All of it. Simple history and carbon dating tells us the bible has no truth to it. I hope you look for yourself.
@Smittinator - Well Smithereens, I’m sorry to tell YOU, but you’re wrong. Carbon dating is flawed, it always has been, especially now, with too much Co2 in the atmosphere. Plus, science and history DOES prove the Bible and the God of the Bible is correct & true. But, you just go ahead and believe it’s a fairy tail or anything else you want, and I’ll believe what I want. See how simple that is, hey, we both end up happy, crazy man!
Dennis Prager is not rude to people. Indeed, he regularly tells those who disagree with him, that he seeks "clarity over agreement". On his talk-radio show he regularly and frequently brings on those who disagree with his conclusions.
@@dirtydanthesecretsauceman8519 1. doesn't sound real. 2. if praying got rid of the child's terminal heart cancer, why did the child need their terminal heart cancer cured a second or third time? doesn't sound like it was gotten rid of
It's not just boys/men who need father figures. Women/girls need it too. Society as a whole needs father figures to give order and rules. The maternal role exists in all species. It's the role of the father that sets apart humans from animals.
@Kristin j.r. atleast I backup what I say more then you lol, "wrong" you won't even answer and instead try to insult me lol, quiet obviously if I say anyone can fill that role then I'm curious as to why they can't, you also don't specify what's wrong so even that is a poor attempt, for all I know you could think humans aren't animals
@@terenyi-szabomarton5034 make your statement, whatever. But back it up. For someone claiming that some videos are misleading and propaganda it's ironic that you call this out without any evidence
Interesting video, however the point about men needing fathers to avoid trouble is a strange thing to say when you see how messed a man can be without a mother. It's ideal to have both but many people today show you can do well despite.
I do agree on what you said but also he is just making point on why male or man or father and not mother. He never said that men didn't need mother. In fact if you read the Bible you'll see even Lord Jesus care for his human mother.
The evidence is pretty overwhelming that most single-parent households are moms-running-the-show, and that sons coming out of those arrangements are more messed up than not.
4. In Hebrew the Male noun is also the general unspecified noun... for instance, if you have a large group of only females you refer to them as female but once it is either unspecified or is mixed you use a male noun.
I think it is in all languages where such situation can appear. If there is a mixed group or a person of unknown gender it is used masculine. It is in Semitic languages, European languages, (written) Chinese...
This was also typically understood depending on what one was reading in English, albeit hundreds of years ago, but true nonetheless whenever reading the word ‘men’ for instance when it was used to describe ‘humans’ or ‘the human race’. “All men are created equal..” for example. Yeah. From THAT to Shakespeare and beyond.
So God can't be an "it" because that noun doesn't exist in Hebrew. That means God couldn't exist as such due to language barriers and by that logic couldn't exist before language. Prager gone all out stupid again
I have been wondering about exactly this for a long time and never found a good explanation before. Another incredibly profound video as usual Mr. Prager.
I had a guy in the mall tell me that there is a female God. Or that God is a female. I told him it wasn't true but he had the right to believe that. I asked my dad and he explained to me exactly as Prager just did in this video. God is a spirit. Not a man or woman.
in the original hebrew; God has many names, each with a different specific characterization. For example God as Jehova vs God as Elohim vs God as Jehova-Elohim. These were further grouped into masculine on the 'pillar of justice', feminine traits on the 'pillar of mercy''; with the path of forgiveness between them. Ancient hebrew kabalah (not hollywood new age kabalah) can reveal more as can the Aggadah The Father is atop the resulting hierarchy as all life springs from his virility essentially. The interplay of masculine and feminine is deeply rooted in almost all spiritual and mystical traditions. I correct this video because it reduces the topic to talking points essentially meant for engaging feminists and thats neither alright nor accurate
I honestly do not think God is depicted as male because we earthly males need a Godly male figure. God is not described as male because of us. He is male because of himself, he is the beginning of everything also of this. Adam was the head of the wive, he rules over her. God rules over and created mankind, including the male. As the women was created out of the man, God created the human being from reasons out of himself. I understand that a womanly God would not be logical, but I think the direction of the theoratical explanation of God being a He is wrong in this video. It would be better to state: God created a man in a way that the man has a need for the figure of who God is, a fatherly figure, his Ruler and Caretaker amongst others. From our earthtly intersocial male-female intersocial relations we can better understand the position of God to humans. God created the women in a way that she has a need for the figure who God is to women, The women and male, moreover have in between them needs for a certain relation, which is described above. You guys should seek advise from a theologian for this.
it is only possible to know the information about God that He reveals to us Himself through scripture. Of course, God is Spirit (John 4:24), so is biologically neither male nor female, and He does not have a sexual nature. The simple answer is that God is described in male terms because that best describes how God relates to His creation; God has revealed Himself to humanity in male terms; and God became incarnate as a man, not a woman. Jesus prayed to Him as Father and taught His disciples to do the same (Matt 6:9). The Second Person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ, became incarnate as a man, not a woman, and Jesus referred to the Holy Spirit with the pronoun ‘He’ (John 14:16-17). These are not similes or metaphors, but teaching regarding the very nature of God and how He relates to His creation, and how the members of the Godhead relate to each other. God is male in every sense except for the biological. However, ever since the conception of Christ, God is also biologically male. This video isn't a good explanation.
You're arguement with boys growing up without fathers and crime is faulty, correlation doesn't not equal causation. It ignore factors like single women needing to pick up the financial situation from the father's absence, which leads to boys to risking circumstances in order to help their mother
@@johosk5503I never said he was persecuting single mothers. The video is ultimately trying to make an argument, but does not give an adequate causation to a correlation, thus can be rejected until a causation is presented. It would be like if I left a bag of hot fries and a pint of cold ice cream out to sit for several hours then making the argument that my ice cream melted because my fries got cold.
@nicholas.h9558 hi thanks for your perspective. Can you point me to some articles that explore this... missing dads are not causative... id be very interested to learn more. Thank you
More importantly, it has literally nothing to do with the historic reality of the development of the Hebrew deity and surrounding mythology. "Go slaughter all the women and children, but save the virgin girls for yourself" isn't exactly good fatherly advice.
I tend to gravitate towards truth, and this explanation rings true to me. If nothing else, it's an EXCELLENT description of why we tend to call God he. I must thank you for this well articulated explanation.
Are you sure it has nothing to with God the Father is always described in the masculine by himself, his followers, and that all members of the Godhead revealed themselves as men?
Consider that maybe they used he because that's just the default pronoun. There is no evidence that the original authors had any of this in mind. He just put words in their mouths thousands of years after the fact.
You never thought of it this way because the analogy makes no sense. No where in this video does Prager defend how the case of biological parental figures applies to a supposed omnipotent being so far out of our comprehension that giving a human identifier makes no sense to begin with...
@@Sylvertaco Yes it does. They state that god can help fill in for boys without a father so they still have a male role model that they will listen to. Did you even watch the video?
@@zynix3698 - The video does state this, but doesn't say how or defend the claim. First off, having God play a distinct role for half the population doesn't make sense if both sexes are judged on the same standards. Unless you are implying that God acts as a maternal figure for girls who don't grow up without mother's... And if God does, that tosses out the entire premise for using a gender based identifier for God.
in hungarian language we dont have he/she/it differenciated it is just simply "Ő" and even items can get this occasionally. dont know how that affects anything tho :D
Ice Bear In the Hawaiian Language (ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi), ‘he’ and ‘she’ are also the same word: ‘ʻo ia’ and no distinction between ‘he’ and ‘she’ can be made. In the bible, ‘heavenly father’ is called ‘ka makua ma ka lani’, which translates to ‘the parent in the heavens’, because ‘makua’ means ‘parent’, ‘father’, or ‘mother’. ‘Makua kāne’ could be used to mean ‘father’ specifically, but it is not used in this context.
@Paul Terrano Everybody has an agenda to push. Our heavenly father, who has our best interests at heart. Teachers, parents, politicians, basically everybody that has goals.
@@lotgc I have no reason to believe that humans are built in gods image.I believe god is a spirit if god was out of flesh and bones god would die one day like us. Don't believe everything that the bible says and remember the bible was written by humans not god :)
@On SB can you shut up? I've seen you on many posts just bashing down on others, it's getting very cruel. If you have nothing nice to say to people who could be going through some very tough times, then dont say it! And the worst part about you is when people have clearly called you out you never defend your point of views, all you do is bash on people and its bold of you to assume this person is Male, they sure as hell can be female. And even if they are Male that still does not change a danm thing. God created all beings, Male and female equally. The man cares for the Wife and kids while being the head of the house. While the Women takes care of the Kid and herself. They both are equal!
And what if someone simply is curious and intellectual with their asking? I asked this question not too long ago. Not because I was agitated but rather very curious how/why this pronoun was used.
Jacob Griffin I love the #2 statement and when I heard it in the video it really made a lot of sense. One could surely argue, ‘this is God we’re talking about. Why not create a pronoun specifically for God in order to avoid confusion?’ I can have sympathy for the already large hurdles language put on people of those much earlier times had. So I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt not to crate a new pronoun. How about today though? Is there a reason why we don’t create a new pronoun for God? Maybe it should be Ze? I’m not a huge fan of the radical left agenda getting wrapped up in pronouns but maybe this is a moment we can take and grow from their work? Unless it really is that imperative for psychological development that God be seen as a male so other males can associate with the characteristic traits of God? As a psychologist/neuroscientist, I’m not fully convinced that’s the best method for preventing violence. The emergence of Self through development of executive attention has greatly increased non-violent methods for conflict resolution when taught in children ages 4-6 for example (Rueda, Posner, & Rothbart, 2005). So maybe we can help to dismantle a little bit of the strife between sexes in religion now that we have access to a wide variety of additional means to develop anger/violence management?
Because he is the literal father of our spirits. He raised is out of the deep and gave us spirit bodies in preparation to recieve these physical bodies. God's work and glory is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. His true Church has been restored in these Latter Days. Ephraim has come and passed down the keys of proxy ordinance work for the dead. Prophets once again speak for God. And soon all of Isaiah's prophesies will be fulfilled for Jesus Christ will soon return to reign in Jerusalem.
@Cole Evans Hood no, Elohim is married, but he doesn't like to talk about it because us mortals are perverted. And he does want us lewding his beloved.
Well, Dennis Prages is an Orthodox Jew. They reject Christ as the Son of God and the New Testament for that matter so it makes sense that he's not going to use Jesus's words as an argument. If you're a christian then YES, that settles the problem.
If you call God a mother then again you are biasing God based on your opinions.... I think these arguments are so silly to prove bible is false.... Your takeaway & My takeaway from bible always has to be the message God trying tell us.....
Yeah. What a ridiculous line of logic. If you agree the world should be a better place than you should totally get on board with this book that clearly has the same values as you. Except when you take into account what's actually "in" the Bible itself. bibviz.com/
I honestly do not think God is depicted as male because we earthly males need a Godly male figure. God is not described as male because of us. He is male because of himself, he is the beginning of everything also of this. Adam was the head of the wive, he rules over her. God rules over and created mankind, including the male. As the women was created out of the man, God created the human being from reasons out of himself. I understand that a womanly God would not be logical, but I think the direction of the theoratical explanation of God being a He is wrong in this video. It would be better to state: God created a man in a way that the man has a need for the figure of who God is, a fatherly figure, his Ruler and Caretaker amongst others. From our earthtly intersocial male-female intersocial relations we can better understand the position of God to humans. God created the women in a way that she has a need for the figure who God is to women, The women and male, moreover have in between them needs for a certain relation, which is described above. You guys should seek advise from a theologian for this.
I was curious about an old, beautiful church where I live, went to their website and learned they’re Episcopal and discovered how anti God they are! It was disappointing and sad. God is not politically correct!
To me, it seems like a leap in logic to relate the harmful effects of the absence of fathers to the benefits of having a male God. A father is present for the children and actively taking a role to shape them, while God is a metaphysical, non-present being. Yes, boys may benefit more from having a male God, but wouldn't girls benefit more from having a female God? I would argue that a genderless God is the best option here, and I disagree with the point that an "it" is unrelatable or unlovable. It's very possible that if God had been genderless all this time, millions of people would still be relating and loving it. In fact, I believe that if the original Hebrew had a genderless pronoun and applied it to God, everyone today would find it natural and there would be nothing to be argued about.
No. Father's are more important in shaping women. Femininity is one thing, but our heavenly Father teaches us values and morals and thus, that's where a woman's morals and values come from overall and what she will seek when she grows up.
@@Dasani_water_drinker Big no. A father figure and a mother figure are equally important in shaping a child’s life. Also, it doesn’t have to come from a parent. For someone to say that mothers or fathers are more important is being disingenuous to the other guardian raising the kid.
@@yasminthespiritsinger7704 you're welcome to your opinion. How many women with just mothers turn out to be successful in relationships? Women don't go out seeking a man just like their mother, they seek men like their father or the age in a man similar when he is absent. I never said a mother wasn't important just that a father carries more weight in shaping values and morals of a woman in a sexist world.
I thought Dennis was a Christian, this video makes more sense knowing he is coming from a Jewish perspective. From a Christian perspective Jesus calling God, Father settles it.
Most people who pick on Ariana Grande for this "belief" of hers didn't listen to the song. She doesn't insist that "God is a woman". She's just trying to act all sexy by saying "Guys, I know you know we women are hot, so beautiful that you'd believe God is a woman, because we're the next most perfect thing you could imagine." Honestly, if I were an easily-triggered SJW, I'd be _mad_ at Ariana for being so chauvinistic and heteronormative in her song.
We had a conversation about this in my 8th grade religion class. I was confused then but now thanks to this video, I fully understand what my teacher was trying to tell us. Thank you PragerU!!!
0:37 - the most important part of this entire video! That said, God is really a "they" than a mere "he". As in, "Then God said: Let *US* make man in our image, after our likeness." (Gen 1:26a)
That is a reference the Trinity. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. He is a male. That's why Adam was a man. Made in Gods image. Just as Jesus told us to pray in Their name. This video was made by someone who doesn't understand the Bible.
The US includes the angels. Another explanation is that G-d enlists man to make himself into a man. After all man is the only creation that has freewill and can improve himself. He can choose to go after his impulses and be no better then an animal or he can choose to be a man
God is a he *thousands upon thousands* of times, and never a they. God says the word “us” only around *four* times, and every single time, us doesn’t change its meaning to a multipersonal God. It just means God and others. If I say let us bake a cake you will obviously assume there are others present with me, not that I am multiple persons all at once. God is announcing what he himself is doing to the angels, the hosts of heaven. The very next verse after Genesis 1:26 says we are created in the image of only one person, a he, not a they. Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear O Israel, the LORD is our God! The LORD is one!
I grew up without father or any male role model during childhood until now I'm adult. Now I'm having trouble making friends and desperately seek attention on older men. Yes having no father on child's life really mess them up
Although it is true wht you state, I honestly do not think God is depicted as male because we earthly males need a Godly male figure. God is not described as male because of us. He is male because of himself, he is the beginning of everything also of this. Adam was the head of the wive, he rules over her. God rules over and created mankind, including the male. As the women was created out of the man, God created the human being from reasons out of himself. I understand that a womanly God would not be logical, but I think the direction of the theoratical explanation of God being a He is wrong in this video. It would be better to state: God created a man in a way that the man has a need for the figure of who God is, a fatherly figure, his Ruler and Caretaker amongst others. From our earthtly intersocial male-female intersocial relations we can better understand the position of God to humans. God created the women in a way that she has a need for the figure who God is to women, The women and male, moreover have in between them needs for a certain relation, which is described above. You guys should seek advise from a theologian for this.
You should draw close to God. Jesus is the way to the Father, he is also the truth and the life! God will provide for those gaps a lack of a father left in your life, and will get you in your way to becoming more like Him. I pray that you will find him.
To be honest I'd never really had issues without my father in my life raising me. Didn't really bother me, but I'm not saying everyone else is like me though.
SINCE THE TRIUNE GOD IS THREE PERSONS, ONE GOD ENTITY, it would have been confusing to have Jesus a female, or God the Father a female. Fathers and sons can be "beloved" to each other, and since they are of the same triune God, the same gender makes sense. The Holy Spirit is also a He, to avoid confusion, otherwise we have a weird sort of love triangle. We see in Matthew 23:37 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing." that Jesus (God) shows some female traits like compassion, which are shown in other parts of Scripture, which helps illustrate God being not just exemplifying a solely male nature. For instance, even though it is clear in Scripture that God is the source of all wisdom, we can see like in Proverbs 8 wisdom being depicted as a female, to make an illustrative point.
@@wannabe2038 Yall are so dumb(sorry, had to get that out) he just said at the beginning of the video that GOD is actually generless(transcends gender) so to change GOD Into either gender is reduce GOD and do the people an injustice who really seek to know GOD. To top it off he just admittedly told you, they essentially lied to you, in your bible and you're ok with that...🤤
@@byobtv1394 In the bible, God created us in his image. We cannot be like God if he is in fact an it. We are binary, Male and female, as God is a male. And he can't lie. He is a God of truth. It would undo all he stood for
@@wannabe2038 So if GODS a man🚹 (And you do realize that all books were written by men📚) And we're created in his image then where tf do women come from?💁 For them they would need to be created in her image. Am i right or wrong?
Informative video. In the next one you could explain why anybody would need to know this. Inferiority complexes? Fragile masculinity? Incel culture? It seems weird and petty to need to have this video at all, but then, you know probably know God better than I do because you've probably got a lot of explaining to do when you meet him. For anybody who can't be arsed to google it, Judaism doesn't share your opinion of a gendered God: "God has no body, no genitalia, therefore the very idea that God is male or female is patently absurd. Although in the Talmudic part of the Torah and especially in Kabalah God is referred to under the name 'Sh'chinah' - which is feminine, this is only to accentuate the fact that all the creation and nature are actually in the receiving end in reference to the creator and as no part of the creation can perceive the Creator outside of nature, it is adequate to refer to the divine presence in feminine form. We refer to God using masculine terms simply for convenience's sake, because Hebrew has no neutral gender; God is no more male than a table is."
Damn I knew it was gonna be hard for this NOT to sound misogynistic but I didn’t think they were just gonna straight up say “God is a he because we need to reinforce that being like a woman in any way is bad.” Like damn y’all just straight up said it!!!
@@RoseNoho some of the most hardest men who have commanded armies throughout history have been theist and God fearing men, your statement shows absolute stupidity.
This is the most powerful argument I have ever heard about this topic. It's a clever position from which to bust through an individual's stone block of feminist resistance. Wow. Prager donation earned!
He's talking about Hebrew, not English. Because Hebrew is the original language of the Bible, not English. In Hebrew there are no gender neutral pronouns, there are even different masculine and feminine "theys".
My guy we shouldn't reinforce the fragility in a lot of men who try do do everything in their power to be seen an manly, we should instead teach them that that's incredibly immature and childish, because it really is.
what you described is the "shadow" of the masculine. you described the tyrannical potential. masculinity in it's mature form is very loving and compassionate (so is female in it's maturated form), but what it has as different to the female aspect is the ability to preserve justice through action (to protect others). a male has higher chances to protect the weak from someone who is physically poweful as well, compared to a female - due to body strength, size, etc. hence the mature male aspect. that's why God has a component of a Father and is not a brother, let's say. a father is mature in his ideal form. you will ask maybe why the father is mature in his ideal form, and I will answer "because if he stuck around he took responsability - hence he is mature". because he didn't leave, he lived up to the good behavior of being a father once he contributed to the creation of a baby.
A good mother best teaches their child in ways of compassion and class. While a father best teaches discipline and restraint. Vital pillars that influence the mold the characters of the children they raise.
@domhnall777 right........ classic conservatism....... serval thousand years...... before conservatism was even a barebones consept... Huh and giving God a male pronoun is a means of instlling familiarity and comfort, who would you rather pray to?, our Father who art In heaven or it who art heaven? Sounds extremely off putting to me..... IT....
@@yvesmartin4788 He wasn't arguing that God exists. He just says that if you're going to believe in God, it makes no sense to call him a woman. Did you even watch the video? Or are you just going from Christian video to Christian video to respond to comments?
@@yvesmartin4788 No, from a book that has withstood the test of time, and until now, it stands unrivaled. No one can disprove its power nor its claims, and neither can you. Those same claims have changed more people for the better and given people more hope than your previous statement ever can. God does not just exist, he is, and so is Jesus. God bless you.
@@4everMayito If God is unable to prevent evil, then he is not all-powerfull. If God is not willing to prevent evil, then he is not all-good. If God is both willing and able to prevent evil, then why does evil exist? In conclusion, if he can't stop evil but doesn't, then either he doesnt exist or is complicity and is not fit to be worshipped! Get it? The least religious countries on Earth also have the lowest levels of rape, murder, gun crime and teenage pregnancies. These countries are also the best educated and have the highest number of Atheist per head of population. Also if you get your morals from the bible and the 10 commandments and you believe that these are God's instructions for life then you must also believe the following; and not you cherry picking verses. 1) Kill People Who Don’t Listen to Priests Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT) 2) Kill Homosexuals “If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives.” (Leviticus 20:13 NAB) 3) Death for Cursing Parents A) if one curses his father or mother, his lamp will go out at the coming of darkness. (Proverbs 20:20 NAB) B) All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense. (Leviticus 20:9 NLT) 4) Death for Adultery If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT) 5) Death for Fornication a priest’s daughter who loses her honour by committing fornication and thereby dishonours her father also, shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:9 NAB) 6) Death to Followers of Other Religions Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed. (Exodus 22:19 NAB) 7) Kill Nonbelievers They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB) 8) Kill Sons of Sinners Make ready to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and possess the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants. (Isaiah 14:21 NAB) 9) God Will Kill the Children of Sinners If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey, I will inflict you with seven more disasters for your sins. I will release wild animals that will kill your children and destroy your cattle, so your numbers will dwindle and your roads will be deserted. (Leviticus 26:21-22 NLT) 10) The following passage shows that slaves are clearly property to be bought and sold like livestock. However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT) 11) The following passage describes the sickening practice of sex slavery. How can anyone think it is moral to sell your own daughter as a sex slave? When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl’s owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT) 12) More Murder Rape and Pillage (Deuteronomy 20:10-14) As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labour. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town.
First of all I very much relate to Pennywise second off that man is so far up his àsś Trump is quaking. THIRD why art hey using it?? Just use they/them LIKE LITERALLY EVERYONE EVER
Prager's conclusion is correct (God is best depicted by 'He'), but I disagree with his reasons. It's pretty straightforward. Male and female parent differently. Mothers are inseminated from the outside; they nurture the baby inside their bodies (and cannot leave them, modern mass-murdering of in-utero children aside). Fathers, on the other hand, are 'outside' and 'detached from' the mother and baby. *They can leave, and often do.* For this reason, it is more obviously a CHOICE when the Father stays and supports the mother and child. Our Father in Heaven is like this. He is 'outside' His creation of the universe ('mother earth', where we are materially grown and nourished). And yet He doesn't abandon 'mother earth' or His children within her; in His divine and perfect free will and superabundant love, He *stays,* and attends to our needs. This is much more beautiful and appropriately put in the language of Fatherhood (where staying and caring for the child is a CHOICE) than motherhood (where staying and caring for the child is, at least during pregnancy, is almost an automatic process that, apart from the first moment, doesn't require continued choice). Also, and as others have obviously pointed out, God has told us His preferred pronoun. It's 'He'. And 'Father'. So if you're a Wiccan or whatever, then this doesn't apply to you -- but don't come around to Jews, Muslims, or Christians and try to make us anachronistically revise our own revealed sacred texts to match some feminist ideological complaint about pronouns. Either conform to an existing religion, or make your own up -- but *stop trying to forcefully mutilate existing religions.* They're not your property to play with.
@@WadelDee Obviously I can’t speak for all Christians, but generally I think most Christians would see angels/god as genderless, even though we often associate gender with them.
CS Lewis said that God is that Masculine which by comparison all else is feminine. In this vein consider that the body of all believers is called the bride of Christ.
Starlord: Where is God? Iron Man: I'll do you one better, Who is God? Drax: No I'll do you One better, How is God? PragerU: The real question is What is God? Everyone stares at PragerU
John Martin GOD IS.. God is evreything.. Considering He owns all the real estate. .. Funny how atheist have A FAITH THAT EVERYTHING CAME FROM NOTHING And have nothing to back up their claims.. Call beleivers names Claim we dont understand or believe science.. But Science by its own laws has not proved the big bang ..or the evolution theories.. It was Judao-Christian society that created a civilization that afforded and allowed science to be taught. And today we have many who follow ill informed prophesors. Infringed on our religous and spiritual rights.. You dont necessarily have to read or follow the Bible to scientifically believe he had to exist. Simple question.. How did everything come from nothing? . .my answer and opinion.. It didn't.. God is Always.. Always been even before their was a "here" and before there was a "there" His mind understands the dimensions we couldent even comprehend.
@@salvatoredemattia6911 Official i'm Christian on paper, but i do not practice religion. I was altar server till my 15 year of age, my father was sexton. I was almost every day in church most of my childhood. Until i had some "bad experience" with church officials. After confirmation i left the church with wrath.
Hate to break this to you Prager U but the Bible also depicted God as a she. It is true that God is depicted as a father but there are also times God is depicted as a mother. In Matthew 23:37 and Luke 13:34 God is seen as a mother hen protecting her brood under her wings. In Isaiah 42:14 God is depicted as a crying woman in labor. In Hosea 13:8 God is depicted as an angry mother bear robbed of her cubs. In Isaiah 49:15 It talks about God not forgetting about you like how a mother doesn't forget her child from the womb. In Psalms 123:2-3 While it does describe that men can look to God like a male slave looks to his master it also describes how like a female slave looks to her mistress women can look up to God. In Luke 15:8-10 the parable depicts God as a woman looking for her lost coin and when the woman finds her lost coin she rejoices over it. While it is true that throughout the Bible God is more commonly depicted as a He it is true that God is also depicted as a She. And like a mother God tenderly cares for each and every single one of us. God can be a powerful role model for men as well as women. Just like when God is depicted as a man He is shown as an example of what a strong leader is. When God is depicted as a women She is showing an example of what a strong and caring mother should be.Prager U implying that God is only depicted as a He is simply wrong. This is why instead of blindly listening to someone's advice we should fact check each and every argument they construct. This is also why it is important as well to read your Bible and throughoughly check every so called preacher,prophet, or teacher's words to make sure they align with the Bible and are not leading you astray.
I looked up all of those verses and found little to your argument. Prager clearly states that God is not actually male and he transcendence gender so describing him either way shouldn't matter. What does matter is the perception people have of God's form especially young men.
@@just-some-menace6138 Personally I disagree with this argument. But I can understand your point of veiw. I hope you have a wonderful day and that you grow in your walk with God.
@@nipnop4954 How do you know the logic is made up? Give a rational response. Even if you don't believe in the concept of God, why did the Hebrews choose to refer to God as a male instead of female?
Instead of the fallacious and unfounded reasons, consider the fact that it's because he was constructed by people who were also a he. Has anyone ever told you that your dogma is ridiculous? Looking forward to your next video being consistent with this one and arguing that gay couples are the ultimate parents though...
But if not for this, there'd just be something else you'd bitch about. If he were to comment on something as benign as the price of peanut butter in Brazil, you'd find a bone of contention somewhere in it. People like Dennis Prager can't win with people like you.
For starters, claiming god is a he because he wrote a book and the book is true because it was written by god is a circular argument. This channel is run by creationists, the fallacies aren't hard to find for anyone who's not a faithful sheep.
I don't want to re-watch this nonsense. Its fallacies and why it's wrong are further explained in a video titled "PragerU Dismantled by an Evolutionary Psychologist".
@@GodOfMySalvationIsYeshua That's because Hebrew is a gendered language. For example, cattle, sin, year, hand, covenant, door etc. I don't how how can assign gender to these. It's a form of language.
Theo Christian no. There’s a reason why Hebrew is a gender language. I speak several languages and see gender as a more specific expressive advantage and not ambiguous. When it comes to God gender is a role as opposed to as “sex”
No, this is one point where I may have to disagree. Our Heavenly Father is a male, as gender is central to identity. It is clear that God created us in his image. Therefore we can conclude that God would have to have a wife, which is often not spoken of as she is cherished and held sacred by our Father. God's plan is dependent on gender identity and its 2 roles in starting a family. God could not be perfect or be God without having an eternal and equal companion, that being our Heavenly Mother. I almost always agree with Prager University values but God is strictly male with power shared equally with our Mother in Heaven.
depends what you consider love to be. I will make the distinction in the following: if someone is gambling money, you can either (love-1) them and let them gamble and face the horrific consequences of their bahavior if they keep it up and spent all their money. Or you can (love -2) them and tell them the truth, that they are acting towards bad consequences and no matter how much they tell you that they are right, for you to not back down on their self deception. In love-1 you are just mindlessly supporting them in whatever they choose to do without any critical thought, and I dare say it's not love, but something else. It's agreement. You just agree with their point of view. In love-2 you understand they are heading towards a wall and are actively attempting to stop them from heading into a wall. You do not just agree with them, you truely support them in being better human beings. Given the fact that there are only 2 sexes - male and female, and gender is a simple perception of self (one's feeling of own identity) which doesn't constitute a factual information, I would mention the fact that loving-1 them is doing them harm because they are denying reality, while loving-2 them would be the actual form of love. So the conclusion would be that simply affirming someone does not equate love, just approval. Loving someone is being honest with them and meaning them well, aka telling them that they are heading away from reality into illusion and that doing so will have catastrophic consequences. People that do not enforce someone's delusion truely loves them and means them well.
@Kevin Henderson Hahaha ! Anyway, he never did a p#rnstar, never had scandale, did end his 8 years properly. Yep, really the baddest president ever.....
@@zedekiah3563 I read once that the seemingly cruel and wrathful God of the Old Testament can be understood better by knowing how the theology of the ancient Hebrews writing the Old Testament was different from the followers of Jesus’ legacy writing the New Testament. What I remember reading is that essentially, Jewish people saw God as Reality. Reality can seem beautiful, peaceful, and perfectly suited to an individual’s satisfaction one day, and be hell on Earth the next. For them, God decided these things, and frankly it just wasn’t productive or helpful to curse God for His actions, because it’s the same as cursing reality. If you stub your toe on a rock, it’s futile and kind of pathetic to get angry at the rock. What are you going to do, smash every rock you find? You’ll never get them all. You’ll die of thirst in the desert hunting down every last rock. You’ll die of exhaustion digging them up and breaking them. Instead of trying to impose your will on God, on Reality, impose your will on your own mind and embrace God, embrace Reality. Learn to love God and learn to love Reality. And that’s the attitude that informs my attempts to be a good Christian too, it’s just that I see Jesus as the ultimate and eternally applicable role model for how to live that kind of life.
@@maxotto9877 all I can say is I disagree with the assertion that God is evil. One question, if there was a good and he was evil, could you tell? If there was a God he made you and gave you your sense of right and wrong, if God gave you your sense of right and wrong than why should you trust your own convictions if God is evil?
@@maxotto9877 not all killing is of nessesity murder. Even the bible admits that we aren't to call God good out of flattery or what it calls "respect of persons". I ask again, it there is a God, did not God give you your own power of reasoning?
True - whereas God the Father's 'maleness' is more of an analogy to human nature, Jesus (considered the second person of the trinity) is explicitly male in a much more concrete sense. If balance is desired, however, then it may be worth noting that the Holy Spirit (the third person of the trinity) is occasionally referred to in feminine terms.
Gutless Spigot my point is that it’s based on Christianity and Judaism while not explicitly being of it. It’s sort of a middle eastern Mormonism that really took off.
Be N S O N Islam is based on Judaism. There is some kinda mention of a person who sort of describes Jesus but it’s not very close. Their roots mostly date back to Abraham and Ishmael, which of course is Old Testament. Btw I loved Snatcher, I was able to figure out that Benson puzzle pretty easily since it occurred to me that you can spell words with the periodic table thanks to Breaking Bad haha
@@sarsath7481 lucky! I got this one from daily Bible verse: "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don't wash their hands before they eat!" Matthew 15:2. I will happily trade mine with yours! I may not end up in jail, but certainly in a hospital with that one!
Well, since Jesus, a male, is the human representation of God, we can assume that God is a man. Of course, being a Jew, Dennis does not believe in Jesus, but that would have been a better answer.
Napoleon Bonaparte l'Empreur de la Francois Actually, when it comes to answering this question, the literal divinity of Jesus is irrelevant. Jesus could be a fictional character, but that would not change the Bible’s depiction of him.
The reason God is not male or female is because God does not have a physical body like us; He is a Spirit. He does have the characteristics of both a mother and a father because otherwise He could not have been able to create mothers and give them the qualities of a mother. Therefore God as our Father can show us motherly and fatherly love in the absence of a physical father or mother.
@@davidnisson4741 Jesus took on the form of a human body yes, but He too is Spirit. Just like we are spirit beings with physical bodies. When we die, our physical bodies die but our spirit lives forever.
Briljant! Excellent explanation! On a lower scale: many experienced teacher tells; if you want to have a calm, well working co-ed class; its the most important to keep the boys in shape. The girls will usually adapt anyway; especielly now when they dont get disturbed by boys. They will just be happy with the situation and cooperate.
God's portrayal as male in the Bible has nothing to do with needing a sky-daddy father figure or being too preoccupied with kindness. The reason for his portrayal as male is simply that the author thought he was male, the same way Canaanites thought some gods were female. Plain and simple.
it's Propaganda because they always equate role models with fathers. Why is that necessary? It's sexist to say that women couldn't be that role model. Prager U is full of shit
I paid attention to what he didn't say, but then I reminded myself that his view is from his perspective as an orthodoxed Jew. So he's not inclined to say God is masculine because Christ referred to him as The Father. The reasoning is still good and all the more reason why we should avoid downplaying God's plan with genders.
Rose NoHo you seem to be coming at this from an atheists perspective. Is that true? And if so I’m wondering how are you have come to be so confident in your views. There is a lot of very reasonable evidence for the existence of God and no evidence that I’m aware of that he does not exist. The least of these reasons to believe in God can be found in pascals wager. Check it out.
The traditional Christian view is that God is neither male nor female. www.compellingtruth.org/God-male-or-female.html Sorry to see how many people are disagreeing from a religious viewpoint.
God has chromosomes though? Isn't god a being of pure light? Isn't light energy? Kinda hard to make DNA out of photons, let alone entire chromosomes. 😕
God probably genderless and hopefully we're just a computer program. That makes me feel the safest since I'll just respawn as a bunny rabbit or something.
Never trust a Jew who doesn't believe in the fullness of the Bible to tell you what it means. 1. God made Man in His image. 2. God appeared to Moses in the image of Man. 3. God appeared in the flesh (Jesus) as a man. 4 Jesus said, "If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him." 5. Men do NOT commit most violence, we are all sinners before God. 6. God, by scriptural accounts, is a male figure but not a human man, Jesus is though. 7. God impregnated a human female and didn't impregnate Himself. 8. Mary is queen and mother in the eternal kingdom of God.
The only people who don't agree on whether or not God is a "He", are also people who can't agree on or submit to God. If everyone believed what the Bible said, everyone would agree that God prefers to be referred to as a "He". Unfortunately, we live in a fallen world, in which no one can agree on who is the real God. "14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Matthew 17:14
I once read a religious article by Sir Peter Kreft, one of the foremost Christian religious thinkers back in England that said that God is also a mother
@Orthodox_Muslim Mary's getting pregnant with Jesus the Christ was a direct creative act by the Holy Spirit. There was no sexual intercourse as it looks like you're trying to imply.
God is a he, and that is the way it is meant to be. What is not meant to be is when men use the fact that god is a man, as a justification to demean or belittle the role of women. Or endowed superiority justifies the permission to beat or harm their wives due to a submissive/less dominant status.
@@steyrauga1 I do agree that the certain verses in the Quran state that, but I do not think this applies to just religion.... men naturally are more stronger than women so becuase of this superiority some men can abuse that. the bible is great in the sense that it does not condone such practices, especially in the new testament because stoning against women ws justified in the old testament for the purposes of adultery
aww, aren't you sweet? I'm sorry to tell you, but Prager "U" is just propaganda for use by people already committed to its cause. Prager is a conservative radio shock jock with no academic credentials. Good work on checking his BS, though. If you check out his 'debates', you can see how disingenuous (I don't think he's really dumb) he truly is.
ChannalMath I still find it confusing and funny at the same time at how you leftists are so quick into name calling. Makes me wonder how strong you faith is with God (if you are Christian or Jewish, of course) this man provided facts backed up by data and you have provided nothing. The word dumb shouldn’t be thrown around so easily.
Gungholio Orrrr maybe they’re explaining it more simply for people to understand it quicker and easier. Say for example if you are starting to just learn about these things now at a beginner level.
Don't forget Knowing Better's audience. Though they're more shaking their heads and going "Isn't it a pity people believe that way?...if only they were smart like me" As a Prager fan, I do actually like a lot of Knowing Better's content, though.
@@chidozieezeome2847 Firstly, there is no free will to the fullest extent and even if there was, then god could still decide to make us love something called by the 'it' pronoun.
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Yes indeed, lack of a father-figure on a child’s life is the greatest crime to social structure there is.
And lack of a mother is lack of the child
The problem is that being rejected/not having a mother causes just the same thing when one is rejected/not have a father
You can thank the degenerates of the 1960s for the decline of traditional family and Judeo-Christian values in the western world.
@@thxhxndrick6364 A lack of a child is better than an unruly child who could harm themselves or others.
@@pukalo that's a little bit to easy don't u think
The reality is that mother stayed home while the father worked b4 a child wents to school and worked when they come from school
So the mother was more present in the life of children after the ww2 and we're viewed as more important then fathers
Title : "Why God Is a He ?"
Ariana Grande : **screaming**
Haha good one!.😄👏👍
Edit: i only imagine her face.
Miley Cyrus: **start twerking furiously**
Because why not
God: "I identify as Male."
Lamo! Gold.
@Daniel Setiawan Good one. 😂👍
I'd be interested in Prager's opinion on the role of mothers in men's development.
Might be a good Mother's Day topic.
@@starbrander 😂😂😂
@ZapDash
The traditional family structure is extremely important. A child fares best when they have a present mother and father. This is why the Left wants to ruin the traditional family structure.
ZapDash - Whatever the role of the mother when the male was a baby it will be unconscious later in life. But if it was a good and happy interaction, then those will be the all important core in the mans brain. However, other things can intrude in that all important first six to seven years of life. And then . . . .
Yes, actually such a good idea
Agree!
Conservatives: why is the left so obsessed with gender?
Also conservatives:
Well, this video is kind of a response to the gender-obsessed feminism that advocates for a female supreme deity and all that jazz.
@X OP implied that somehow this video shows how PragerU is obsessed with gender. I told him that this video is an obvious response to those who claim that Christianity is patriarchal because it depicts God as male and as a "father," instead of as a female and a mother.
this is for the people who are obsessed
Ninja Frost god isnt Male tho
Why are women so obsessed with gender?
Obvious that God is a man because jesus called him father...
sarcasm?
Didn’t he call him Daddy...
So a man who maybe existed, written about in a book of fairy tales, called an invisible dude who lives on a cloud "father", proving that the thing nobody had ever seen was a man....
Hmmmm....sounds a bit weird...
@Lord Cobra I actually believe that (based on evidence) "Jesus the man" existed. The religious overtones are obviously added over time by hearsay, politics, exaggeration, and wish believe...
To me, Jesus is simply one of the greatest historical philosophers...
To be on topic, Jesus called God Father because Jesus was good jew and all good jews call the Hebrew God Father. As for why, then watch the video again to find out
This applies even to animals. In the Pilansburg National Park, a new nature reserve in South Africa, there was a project in the 1970's to relocate orphaned baby elephants to this reserve from other reserves, like Kruger National park.
A female Matriarch was brought in to lead the growing herd. All went well until in a few years, the young males became "teenagers", with the same raging hormones that boys have. Anger and sexual violence manifested itself as these youngsters tried to mount Rhinos, often crushing and killing them in the process. As this was a new reserve, the Wardens were at first mystified as to the Rhinos deaths. However, when a Field Ranger witnessed an attempted violent rape of a Rhino, a large Bull Elephant was brought in, and he quickly instilled discipline and order and separated the teenage males into a separate herd until they were mature enough to be herd bulls on their own, in their late 20's to 30's.
John Niks that’s the thing, in the wild the males are forced from the herd when they sexually mature by the females.
We ourselves are animals, we just have a higher intelligence and different social structure etc, and our personality and enviroment shape us so I'd think we would just need that figure, rather than it having to be a father because it can't always be helped etc
This is why I don't believe women should be teaching young men. I would know what young men think about women, I was one.
some gamer Curious how we are so very special in our intellect from the animals...
@@shrivak : 1) I'm no expert but am aware that most animals have no sense of guilt (and thus attack and eat whatever human and other whenever hungry) and no sense of "ought" as do most humans. 2) We have an understanding of moral valuation not held by animals. So they have no regrets in the sense that humans do when they injure or kill something or someone. 3) The intellectual power of our brains far exceeds that of even the highest of animals approaching the limit of energy consumption - so much so that it contradicts basic theory of evolution which has animal capabilities developing only to the level required for "survival of the fittest". 4) There is a class of animals, "soulish" that seek a relationship with man, e.g. dogs. these animals do endeavor to avoid behavior that displeases their current human "friend" giving the appearance of moral awareness but is really just sensitivity to the human "friend's" commands and/or guidance. Ref. WWW.Reasons.org
I grew up father less. Thank god I had my grandfather and god. If it weren’t those two I wouldn’t be half the man I am today
My father wasn't worth his weight in gold so my mother was forced to take the lead. She raised me and my three sisters to the best of her ability. All four of us grew up to be excellent parents. My question to you is wasn't your mother there?
@@benjaminshealey7451 Why are you replying to a comment 10 minutes before the OP was posted. Are you working for stasitube? And a mother cannot be a father, if a mother raise boys in a fatherless home, the boys become women.
@@dnciskkk9037 I never became a women so your statement is warped.
Everyone has G-d, whether they know it or not.. What you had perhaps more, was a good book _about_ G-d.
@douglas carpenter Sorry to hear that, and if you bacame a man, I assume you had your grandfather to guide you the right way, and your mother did not bring other men into the home. You are old, correct, grew up in the good old days. In the good old days, boys had to start working from their early teens, and they grew up like that, with responsibilities and workethic. Different time.
Or because in hebrew, when you don't want to be specific about gender/sex you use the male form of expression.
Nah, it's because god knew the statistics that the media won't tell you.
Also as I’ve learned Spanish over the past 4yrs, I’ve learned that often the “masculine” term ex. niños can refer to both “boys” AND “kids”
@@JSTPPodcast yes. A lot of languages use male pronouns to be gender less at the same time.
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dude, you had to make it political?
well, if you had, so just for your knowledge, studies has shown that women get better grades at tests which their language prefers to both genders, so, maybe, all the language shenanigans aren't a bad idea
"We have too many absent fathers on Earth to begin to even entertain the thought of having no father in heaven"
To bad there's no evidence for one
We have too many families without magical wish-granting unicorns to even entertain the thought of having no wish-granting unicorn in heaven.
@@HolyKoolaid glad to know I'm not the only atheist who watches PragerU specificly because I disagree with him.
Also I'm a big fan of your channel, keep up the fantastic work.
@@johnsphpaulin1162 Thanks. I'm working on a response video to this. :)
@@HolyKoolaid Awesome :) can't wait to see it in my subscription feed
Grew up without a father during my most impressionable years and only now I see how much damage it caused me.
Thank God, I have a Father in heaven who had mercy on me and sent His only begotten Son, my Savior Jesus Christ to redeem a great sinner like I am.
Glory to Him alone!
Very sweet and strong .
I myself do not believe in this, i find it highly inspiring, thank you for posting this.
God is an asshole for allowing you not to have a father.
@@glennweyant8566 The Adam and Eve story Is as believe as Humpty Dumpty. Sorry to tell you, it's a fairly tale. All of it. Simple history and carbon dating tells us the bible has no truth to it. I hope you look for yourself.
@Smittinator - Well Smithereens, I’m sorry to tell YOU, but you’re wrong. Carbon dating is flawed, it always has been, especially now, with too much Co2 in the atmosphere. Plus, science and history DOES prove the Bible and the God of the Bible is correct & true. But, you just go ahead and believe it’s a fairy tail or anything else you want, and I’ll believe what I want. See how simple that is, hey, we both end up happy, crazy man!
Ariana Grande: God is a girl.
Prager U: Hold my beer.
Dennis Prager is not rude to people.
Indeed, he regularly tells those who disagree with him, that he seeks "clarity over agreement".
On his talk-radio show he regularly and frequently brings on those who disagree with his conclusions.
@@O8080808O I know, it was just a joke. Lol.
Feminist will hate this video lol!!
* *HOLD MY CIGAR*
@@MrGetwellsoon God doesn't exist. God is just Santa for adults. Why don't you just grow up?
It should have been a compilation of priests saying “father”.
@Fuert Neigt i have trouble understanding your comments, to jumbly and disorganized for an insomniac like me to be able to read with my sleepless eyes
why do you seem mad at religion?
@@dirtydanthesecretsauceman8519 1. doesn't sound real.
2. if praying got rid of the child's terminal heart cancer, why did the child need their terminal heart cancer cured a second or third time? doesn't sound like it was gotten rid of
As a woman I have never felt disrespected or lesser because the Bible refers to God as a "he" if one WANTS to be offended it's easily enough done.
How about the fact that the Bible condones rape of women? That cool with you also?
Youre not woken up. Well hopefully you are now … 4 years later. Its all control.
@@micalanmusic1714hi, what do you mean by this? The ‘It’s all control’ part
@@kbyeforgrande4555thats a bot.
Maybe
@@RUBIKS.R. stfu .. look at your name talking bout Im a bot.
It's not just boys/men who need father figures. Women/girls need it too. Society as a whole needs father figures to give order and rules. The maternal role exists in all species. It's the role of the father that sets apart humans from animals.
Default2012 So... people without a father aren’t human? That’s just plain retarded.
Except... Humans ARE animals, and that role can be filled by anyone, you don't need a father to do it, you just need someone willing to
@Kristin j.r. lol ok, how? Proof? Or why not, saying "W R O N G" isn't helping
@Kristin j.r. atleast I backup what I say more then you lol, "wrong" you won't even answer and instead try to insult me lol, quiet obviously if I say anyone can fill that role then I'm curious as to why they can't, you also don't specify what's wrong so even that is a poor attempt, for all I know you could think humans aren't animals
This UA-cam Channel is so good, that I can't stop watching
God Bless y'all.
Ikr there are so many good and productive ideas from many differnt people best of all i learnd here to separate wrong and right ideas and movements
I'm your hundredth like!!!
No offense, but 50% of PragerU's videos are misleading/propaganda.
bloomad name one give an example .
@@terenyi-szabomarton5034 make your statement, whatever. But back it up. For someone claiming that some videos are misleading and propaganda it's ironic that you call this out without any evidence
Interesting video, however the point about men needing fathers to avoid trouble is a strange thing to say when you see how messed a man can be without a mother. It's ideal to have both but many people today show you can do well despite.
He never said men didn’t need mothers
I do agree on what you said but also he is just making point on why male or man or father and not mother. He never said that men didn't need mother. In fact if you read the Bible you'll see even Lord Jesus care for his human mother.
Ask obama
the point of this video is not a strange thing at all, your logic is just flawed.
The evidence is pretty overwhelming that most single-parent households are moms-running-the-show, and that sons coming out of those arrangements are more messed up than not.
4. In Hebrew the Male noun is also the general unspecified noun... for instance, if you have a large group of only females you refer to them as female but once it is either unspecified or is mixed you use a male noun.
I think it is in all languages where such situation can appear. If there is a mixed group or a person of unknown gender it is used masculine. It is in Semitic languages, European languages, (written) Chinese...
yolok3
Same in Latin.
interestingly, in Hebrew it flips when talking about numbers. But only then
Adam also means human beings
This was also typically understood depending on what one was reading in English, albeit hundreds of years ago, but true nonetheless whenever reading the word ‘men’ for instance when it was used to describe ‘humans’ or ‘the human race’.
“All men are created equal..” for example.
Yeah. From THAT to Shakespeare and beyond.
Groove Coverage: God is a Girl
Dennis Prager: Hold my beer
"hold my Bible"
@@danielswan7817 Hold my cigar*
Make me a sammich.
So God can't be an "it" because that noun doesn't exist in Hebrew. That means God couldn't exist as such due to language barriers and by that logic couldn't exist before language. Prager gone all out stupid again
@@btsnyder1s No shit
I have been wondering about exactly this for a long time and never found a good explanation before. Another incredibly profound video as usual Mr. Prager.
I had a guy in the mall tell me that there is a female God. Or that God is a female. I told him it wasn't true but he had the right to believe that. I asked my dad and he explained to me exactly as Prager just did in this video. God is a spirit. Not a man or woman.
in the original hebrew; God has many names, each with a different specific characterization. For example God as Jehova vs God as Elohim vs God as Jehova-Elohim. These were further grouped into masculine on the 'pillar of justice', feminine traits on the 'pillar of mercy''; with the path of forgiveness between them. Ancient hebrew kabalah (not hollywood new age kabalah) can reveal more as can the Aggadah
The Father is atop the resulting hierarchy as all life springs from his virility essentially. The interplay of masculine and feminine is deeply rooted in almost all spiritual and mystical traditions. I correct this video because it reduces the topic to talking points essentially meant for engaging feminists and thats neither alright nor accurate
I honestly do not think God is depicted as male because we earthly males need a Godly male figure. God is not described as male because of us. He is male because of himself, he is the beginning of everything also of this. Adam was the head of the wive, he rules over her.
God rules over and created mankind, including the male.
As the women was created out of the man, God created the human being from reasons out of himself.
I understand that a womanly God would not be logical, but I think the direction of the theoratical explanation of God being a He is wrong in this video.
It would be better to state: God created a man in a way that the man has a need for the figure of who God is, a fatherly figure, his Ruler and Caretaker amongst others. From our earthtly intersocial male-female intersocial relations we can better understand the position of God to humans.
God created the women in a way that she has a need for the figure who God is to women,
The women and male, moreover have in between them needs for a certain relation, which is described above.
You guys should seek advise from a theologian for this.
What is that profile picture?
it is only possible to know the information about God that He reveals to us Himself through scripture. Of course, God is Spirit (John 4:24), so is biologically neither male nor female, and He does not have a sexual nature.
The simple answer is that God is described in male terms because that best describes how God relates to His creation; God has revealed Himself to humanity in male terms; and God became incarnate as a man, not a woman.
Jesus prayed to Him as Father and taught His disciples to do the same (Matt 6:9). The Second Person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ, became incarnate as a man, not a woman, and Jesus referred to the Holy Spirit with the pronoun ‘He’ (John 14:16-17). These are not similes or metaphors, but teaching regarding the very nature of God and how He relates to His creation, and how the members of the Godhead relate to each other.
God is male in every sense except for the biological. However, ever since the conception of Christ, God is also biologically male.
This video isn't a good explanation.
You're arguement with boys growing up without fathers and crime is faulty, correlation doesn't not equal causation. It ignore factors like single women needing to pick up the financial situation from the father's absence, which leads to boys to risking circumstances in order to help their mother
This man is not persecuting single mothers, he is presenting facts.
@@johosk5503I never said he was persecuting single mothers. The video is ultimately trying to make an argument, but does not give an adequate causation to a correlation, thus can be rejected until a causation is presented. It would be like if I left a bag of hot fries and a pint of cold ice cream out to sit for several hours then making the argument that my ice cream melted because my fries got cold.
@nicholas.h9558 hi thanks for your perspective. Can you point me to some articles that explore this... missing dads are not causative... id be very interested to learn more. Thank you
More importantly, it has literally nothing to do with the historic reality of the development of the Hebrew deity and surrounding mythology. "Go slaughter all the women and children, but save the virgin girls for yourself" isn't exactly good fatherly advice.
I tend to gravitate towards truth, and this explanation rings true to me. If nothing else, it's an EXCELLENT description of why we tend to call God he. I must thank you for this well articulated explanation.
Are you sure it has nothing to with God the Father is always described in the masculine by himself, his followers, and that all members of the Godhead revealed themselves as men?
'I tend to gravitate towards the truth so I believe this thing that sounds nice but had no evidence'
And why is it retarded? Cant you let him have his opinion in peace, plus this video did quite a good job explaining why we call God a he.
Consider that maybe they used he because that's just the default pronoun. There is no evidence that the original authors had any of this in mind. He just put words in their mouths thousands of years after the fact.
@@halieeverett9142 so all the studies Dennis cited on the importance of Fathers in the home doesn't count? Just keep taking the blue pill, deary.
Never thought of it this way but I really appreciate it. Thank you.
Same
You never thought of it this way because the analogy makes no sense. No where in this video does Prager defend how the case of biological parental figures applies to a supposed omnipotent being so far out of our comprehension that giving a human identifier makes no sense to begin with...
@@Sylvertaco Yes it does. They state that god can help fill in for boys without a father so they still have a male role model that they will listen to. Did you even watch the video?
@@zynix3698 - The video does state this, but doesn't say how or defend the claim. First off, having God play a distinct role for half the population doesn't make sense if both sexes are judged on the same standards. Unless you are implying that God acts as a maternal figure for girls who don't grow up without mother's... And if God does, that tosses out the entire premise for using a gender based identifier for God.
@@Sylvertaco He acts as a male role model for both men and women and the point was society is more harmed by a lack of male role models for men.
in hungarian language we dont have he/she/it differenciated it is just simply "Ő" and even items can get this occasionally. dont know how that affects anything tho :D
But Jesus called God "father" . Don't say your language has no word "father"
Ice Bear In the Hawaiian Language (ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi), ‘he’ and ‘she’ are also the same word: ‘ʻo ia’ and no distinction between ‘he’ and ‘she’ can be made. In the bible, ‘heavenly father’ is called ‘ka makua ma ka lani’, which translates to ‘the parent in the heavens’, because ‘makua’ means ‘parent’, ‘father’, or ‘mother’. ‘Makua kāne’ could be used to mean ‘father’ specifically, but it is not used in this context.
@@heard_leaderofmepoo5372 dude read the comment below yours. Languages vary drastically
"I identify as Ö̸̢̩̲̭͉̰̙̠̦̯̙̥̫͎̳̮͎̩̳̑̌̑̔̈́͐̓̄̃̄̽̉̕͜͠͝"
Similar in Turkish, but with “O”
I always thought god is a spirit without gender. The only reason god was called father was because in the past men were in charge of everything.
I was tought he has a body of flesh and bone. How could humanity be built in his image if he didn't have a body?
@@lotgc I agree.
@Paul Terrano Everybody has an agenda to push. Our heavenly father, who has our best interests at heart. Teachers, parents, politicians, basically everybody that has goals.
@@lotgc I have no reason to believe that humans are built in gods image.I believe god is a spirit if god was out of flesh and bones god would die one day like us. Don't believe everything that the bible says and remember the bible was written by humans not god :)
@@melon10177 There is no proof for that. Maybe that is true but it is not what I personally believe. :)
I just woke up & I'd been praying for intervention. Praying for an answer from my heavenly father. My prayers have been answered & thank you.
Intervention of what??
@On SB can you shut up? I've seen you on many posts just bashing down on others, it's getting very cruel. If you have nothing nice to say to people who could be going through some very tough times, then dont say it! And the worst part about you is when people have clearly called you out you never defend your point of views, all you do is bash on people and its bold of you to assume this person is Male, they sure as hell can be female. And even if they are Male that still does not change a danm thing. God created all beings, Male and female equally. The man cares for the Wife and kids while being the head of the house. While the Women takes care of the Kid and herself. They both are equal!
@@nipnop4954 ? The way you worded that left me a bit confused on what you were trying to say?
@@vienie1245 Do I have to respond?
@@nipnop4954 nope, you have every right to remain silent, I just thought I should ask, I hate misinterpreting things.
Another accurate and concise explanation of a tough topic from a brilliant man! Thank you Mr Prager.
If someone starts to actually complain about God being referred to as a 'he,' it's time to laugh and walk away.
Nate Murdoch more like a new crusade, comrade.
And what if someone simply is curious and intellectual with their asking?
I asked this question not too long ago. Not because I was agitated but rather very curious how/why this pronoun was used.
@@austinlokey Well this video seems To be the Answer we get and need
1. Jesus was sent to the world as a man
2. There were no neuter pronouns in Hebrew so He had to be referred to in the masculine form
Jacob Griffin I love the #2 statement and when I heard it in the video it really made a lot of sense.
One could surely argue, ‘this is God we’re talking about. Why not create a pronoun specifically for God in order to avoid confusion?’ I can have sympathy for the already large hurdles language put on people of those much earlier times had. So I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt not to crate a new pronoun.
How about today though? Is there a reason why we don’t create a new pronoun for God? Maybe it should be Ze? I’m not a huge fan of the radical left agenda getting wrapped up in pronouns but maybe this is a moment we can take and grow from their work?
Unless it really is that imperative for psychological development that God be seen as a male so other males can associate with the characteristic traits of God?
As a psychologist/neuroscientist, I’m not fully convinced that’s the best method for preventing violence. The emergence of Self through development of executive attention has greatly increased non-violent methods for conflict resolution when taught in children ages 4-6 for example (Rueda, Posner, & Rothbart, 2005). So maybe we can help to dismantle a little bit of the strife between sexes in religion now that we have access to a wide variety of additional means to develop anger/violence management?
In Hebrew one of the way we call God is "aba" - father
Aba is the more modern Hebrew term for a human father. Generally, G-d is referred to as “av.”
Lovely! 🌹Abba Father!
Because he is the literal father of our spirits. He raised is out of the deep and gave us spirit bodies in preparation to recieve these physical bodies.
God's work and glory is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
His true Church has been restored in these Latter Days. Ephraim has come and passed down the keys of proxy ordinance work for the dead. Prophets once again speak for God. And soon all of Isaiah's prophesies will be fulfilled for Jesus Christ will soon return to reign in Jerusalem.
Cause he is the dancing *king*
@Cole Evans Hood no, Elohim is married, but he doesn't like to talk about it because us mortals are perverted. And he does want us lewding his beloved.
So Jesus called God, FATHER, means nothing?
Well, Dennis Prages is an Orthodox Jew. They reject Christ as the Son of God and the New Testament for that matter so it makes sense that he's not going to use Jesus's words as an argument.
If you're a christian then YES, that settles the problem.
the bible was written by men, if it were written by women however, the gender of god may have been different
Are we saying that everything in the bible is a lie?
@@inoeyu I thought that fact was common knowledge at this point.
If you call God a mother then again you are biasing God based on your opinions....
I think these arguments are so silly to prove bible is false....
Your takeaway & My takeaway from bible always has to be the message God trying tell us.....
*me sees title
welp let just jump right into it
Let's get riiight into the dramaaaaaaa
God was pretty smart with that one
Well he is God
Sheev Palpameme tell me how God could be fake if they even got this right in the past. People today wouldn’t even think of this.
@@shqiptariidukagjinit5650 is there proof of his existence
i thought I mean how is a human supposed to prove the existence of God?
if eve ate the apple, and adam didn't
the only female in the world would be outside the garden, and the only male in it
no humans
@@shqiptariidukagjinit5650 We can't because he doesn't exist lmao
Jesus called God father so did all the other biblical prophets and many more
Hank Goodwin alright I get it the Christians had daddy issues.
@@maxotto9877 I mean I don’t care, call me whatever you want as long you don’t try to degrade me.
@@maxotto9877 lmao I was just stating a fact not defending a religion that I don’t believe in
and all of them were males HAHAH
Yeah and that's either because of translation errors, language evolution, or sexist language rules. What are you going on about?
If you share these goals, you'll have to agree the Bible made the right decision. Well damn. Cant argue with you now
No..no..no, we can still debate! What are u thinking?
@@2kevinthecool He's being sarcastic.
Yeah. What a ridiculous line of logic. If you agree the world should be a better place than you should totally get on board with this book that clearly has the same values as you. Except when you take into account what's actually "in" the Bible itself. bibviz.com/
I love that I woke up to a video like this. Good way to start off my day.
Conservative wokeness
Jerry D. White beats leftist wokeness... any day.
Same here! Good way to start the day.
Same here
I honestly do not think God is depicted as male because we earthly males need a Godly male figure. God is not described as male because of us. He is male because of himself, he is the beginning of everything also of this. Adam was the head of the wive, he rules over her.
God rules over and created mankind, including the male.
As the women was created out of the man, God created the human being from reasons out of himself.
I understand that a womanly God would not be logical, but I think the direction of the theoratical explanation of God being a He is wrong in this video.
It would be better to state: God created a man in a way that the man has a need for the figure of who God is, a fatherly figure, his Ruler and Caretaker amongst others. From our earthtly intersocial male-female intersocial relations we can better understand the position of God to humans.
God created the women in a way that she has a need for the figure who God is to women,
The women and male, moreover have in between them needs for a certain relation, which is described above.
You guys should seek advise from a theologian for this.
Are you listening Church of Sweden and Episcopal Church?
Noah G Would bring in the reddit crowd if they could show up to church in a trench coat and tip their fedora calling god “m’lady”
I was curious about an old, beautiful church where I live, went to their website and learned they’re Episcopal and discovered how anti God they are! It was disappointing and sad.
God is not politically correct!
When did the Church of Sweden declare that God is not a man? Citation?
*Mosque of Sweden
**Mosque of Swedenistan
Cool YTP. It is just like an actual PragerU video.
Is it fun being as stupid as yourself?
@@nofatchxplzthx Looks like someone doesn't understand jokes.
@@glaxxico907 looks like someone makes jokes that are impossible to understand
@@nooblord1233 it really isn’t, I understood it instantly
I love YTPs of pragerU, they have more worth than the real videos
To me, it seems like a leap in logic to relate the harmful effects of the absence of fathers to the benefits of having a male God. A father is present for the children and actively taking a role to shape them, while God is a metaphysical, non-present being. Yes, boys may benefit more from having a male God, but wouldn't girls benefit more from having a female God? I would argue that a genderless God is the best option here, and I disagree with the point that an "it" is unrelatable or unlovable. It's very possible that if God had been genderless all this time, millions of people would still be relating and loving it. In fact, I believe that if the original Hebrew had a genderless pronoun and applied it to God, everyone today would find it natural and there would be nothing to be argued about.
Females are made by a male and mother is depended on Father without Father Females and mother never go existed
God isn't a genderless If he stills in his spirit form he is still considering as a Father Male
No. Father's are more important in shaping women. Femininity is one thing, but our heavenly Father teaches us values and morals and thus, that's where a woman's morals and values come from overall and what she will seek when she grows up.
@@Dasani_water_drinker Big no. A father figure and a mother figure are equally important in shaping a child’s life. Also, it doesn’t have to come from a parent. For someone to say that mothers or fathers are more important is being disingenuous to the other guardian raising the kid.
@@yasminthespiritsinger7704 you're welcome to your opinion. How many women with just mothers turn out to be successful in relationships? Women don't go out seeking a man just like their mother, they seek men like their father or the age in a man similar when he is absent. I never said a mother wasn't important just that a father carries more weight in shaping values and morals of a woman in a sexist world.
I thought Dennis was a Christian, this video makes more sense knowing he is coming from a Jewish perspective. From a Christian perspective Jesus calling God, Father settles it.
Settles it how?
Still waiting for Jesus after 2000 years...
Settles what? God doesn't have a sex, he created sex.
@@Aphoresis Or he just doesn't exist
@@Luca-bv5ic or you just didnt think about it enough
Ariana Grande: God is a woman.
Jesus: Hold my water, oh wait a second...
Je ne sais quoi Hold my wine now 🍷
The Movie Wolf more like hold my body and blood
On SB what? Its a joke.
Most people who pick on Ariana Grande for this "belief" of hers didn't listen to the song. She doesn't insist that "God is a woman". She's just trying to act all sexy by saying "Guys, I know you know we women are hot, so beautiful that you'd believe God is a woman, because we're the next most perfect thing you could imagine."
Honestly, if I were an easily-triggered SJW, I'd be _mad_ at Ariana for being so chauvinistic and heteronormative in her song.
On SB its not even trashing women wtf
Ariana Grande watching this like:
👁👄👁
Who is she?
@Chris depallan Official *Random
@Bekir Kara It's a joke
She still doesn't get it.
Ariana Grande: God is a woman
God: Did you just assume my gender?
We had a conversation about this in my 8th grade religion class. I was confused then but now thanks to this video, I fully understand what my teacher was trying to tell us. Thank you PragerU!!!
was it a male teacher?
jimUkay yes
Your 8th grade teacher used Prager U in class? And not to denigrate it? Wow, your teacher is great.
@@aabb3340 agreed!
aa bb I don’t think he used the PragerU video, he just had the same lesson for that day. He was still a great teacher though. 👍
Christianity, Judaism, and Islam says God is a he. He is the Father.
It's easy because he impregnated virgin marie and got jesus... could a woman do that? No
i am a proud feminist and i have a vagaina xoxo if it was a physical impregnation, then I’m pretty sure that’s rape.
@On SB Boi you dont the laws for female in Islam.
Be N S O N No it wasn’t physical and Mary loved the idea of being the mother of Christ
@On SB 😂😂
0:37 - the most important part of this entire video!
That said, God is really a "they" than a mere "he".
As in, "Then God said: Let *US* make man in our image, after our likeness." (Gen 1:26a)
That is a reference the Trinity. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. He is a male. That's why Adam was a man. Made in Gods image. Just as Jesus told us to pray in Their name. This video was made by someone who doesn't understand the Bible.
The US includes the angels. Another explanation is that G-d enlists man to make himself into a man. After all man is the only creation that has freewill and can improve himself. He can choose to go after his impulses and be no better then an animal or he can choose to be a man
God is a he *thousands upon thousands* of times, and never a they. God says the word “us” only around *four* times, and every single time, us doesn’t change its meaning to a multipersonal God. It just means God and others. If I say let us bake a cake you will obviously assume there are others present with me, not that I am multiple persons all at once. God is announcing what he himself is doing to the angels, the hosts of heaven. The very next verse after Genesis 1:26 says we are created in the image of only one person, a he, not a they.
Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear O Israel, the LORD is our God! The LORD is one!
God transcends the genders, I.e he's transgenders, thats why the pronoun 'they'.
@@jamesfuqua2 wait so God is a physical male? what?
I grew up without father or any male role model during childhood until now I'm adult. Now I'm having trouble making friends and desperately seek attention on older men. Yes having no father on child's life really mess them up
Although it is true wht you state, I honestly do not think God is depicted as male because we earthly males need a Godly male figure. God is not described as male because of us. He is male because of himself, he is the beginning of everything also of this. Adam was the head of the wive, he rules over her.
God rules over and created mankind, including the male.
As the women was created out of the man, God created the human being from reasons out of himself.
I understand that a womanly God would not be logical, but I think the direction of the theoratical explanation of God being a He is wrong in this video.
It would be better to state: God created a man in a way that the man has a need for the figure of who God is, a fatherly figure, his Ruler and Caretaker amongst others. From our earthtly intersocial male-female intersocial relations we can better understand the position of God to humans.
God created the women in a way that she has a need for the figure who God is to women,
The women and male, moreover have in between them needs for a certain relation, which is described above.
You guys should seek advise from a theologian for this.
You should draw close to God. Jesus is the way to the Father, he is also the truth and the life! God will provide for those gaps a lack of a father left in your life, and will get you in your way to becoming more like Him. I pray that you will find him.
This is some stupid made up narrative.
@Jacob Howell Bro... Psalm 34 as well. I found that one in my hardest place. And I saw it come true.
To be honest I'd never really had issues without my father in my life raising me. Didn't really bother me, but I'm not saying everyone else is like me though.
Jesus called him father, so a man he is.
honestly dont see how his gender is up to debate. It's very clearly set in stone
SINCE THE TRIUNE GOD IS THREE PERSONS, ONE GOD ENTITY, it would have been confusing to have Jesus a female, or God the Father a female. Fathers and sons can be "beloved" to each other, and since they are of the same triune God, the same gender makes sense. The Holy Spirit is also a He, to avoid confusion, otherwise we have a weird sort of love triangle. We see in Matthew 23:37 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing." that Jesus (God) shows some female traits like compassion, which are shown in other parts of Scripture, which helps illustrate God being not just exemplifying a solely male nature. For instance, even though it is clear in Scripture that God is the source of all wisdom, we can see like in Proverbs 8 wisdom being depicted as a female, to make an illustrative point.
@@wannabe2038 Yall are so dumb(sorry, had to get that out) he just said at the beginning of the video that GOD is actually generless(transcends gender) so to change GOD Into either gender is reduce GOD and do the people an injustice who really seek to know GOD. To top it off he just admittedly told you, they essentially lied to you, in your bible and you're ok with that...🤤
@@byobtv1394 In the bible, God created us in his image. We cannot be like God if he is in fact an it. We are binary, Male and female, as God is a male. And he can't lie. He is a God of truth. It would undo all he stood for
@@wannabe2038 So if GODS a man🚹
(And you do realize that all books were written by men📚)
And we're created in his image then where tf do women come from?💁
For them they would need to be created in her image. Am i right or wrong?
Informative video. In the next one you could explain why anybody would need to know this. Inferiority complexes? Fragile masculinity? Incel culture? It seems weird and petty to need to have this video at all, but then, you know probably know God better than I do because you've probably got a lot of explaining to do when you meet him.
For anybody who can't be arsed to google it, Judaism doesn't share your opinion of a gendered God:
"God has no body, no genitalia, therefore the very idea that God is male or female is patently absurd. Although in the Talmudic part of the Torah and especially in Kabalah God is referred to under the name 'Sh'chinah' - which is feminine, this is only to accentuate the fact that all the creation and nature are actually in the receiving end in reference to the creator and as no part of the creation can perceive the Creator outside of nature, it is adequate to refer to the divine presence in feminine form. We refer to God using masculine terms simply for convenience's sake, because Hebrew has no neutral gender; God is no more male than a table is."
this is great, thank you
Damn I knew it was gonna be hard for this NOT to sound misogynistic but I didn’t think they were just gonna straight up say “God is a he because we need to reinforce that being like a woman in any way is bad.”
Like damn y’all just straight up said it!!!
I love men just as God made them ! Dont change a thing !
victoria quesnel - I think I like you!
victoria quesnel is speaking the truth
God is just Santa for adults who have aged, but not grown up.
@@RoseNoho some of the most hardest men who have commanded armies throughout history have been theist and God fearing men, your statement shows absolute stupidity.
Actually, the whole point of there being a male authority figure is _to change_ young males, not to let them be as God made them.
Very correct. Thanks from India.
This is the most powerful argument I have ever heard about this topic. It's a clever position from which to bust through an individual's stone block of feminist resistance. Wow. Prager donation earned!
TheWriterWalker Are you on Twitter?
@@antipositivism3128, yes and no. I have a Twitter account but have never used it. Let me get it going and I will let you know when I do.
Isnt the fact that the bible says father enough of an argument
1:10 they/them, it is in the english language and is used for all genders
He's talking about Hebrew, not English. Because Hebrew is the original language of the Bible, not English. In Hebrew there are no gender neutral pronouns, there are even different masculine and feminine "theys".
@@jyreklordinthrain7813 oh ok, thanks
My guy we shouldn't reinforce the fragility in a lot of men who try do do everything in their power to be seen an manly, we should instead teach them that that's incredibly immature and childish, because it really is.
Being seen as manly is not immature childish or fragile it is necessary for society and highly rewarding. Don’t buy feminist propaganda
what you described is the "shadow" of the masculine. you described the tyrannical potential. masculinity in it's mature form is very loving and compassionate (so is female in it's maturated form), but what it has as different to the female aspect is the ability to preserve justice through action (to protect others). a male has higher chances to protect the weak from someone who is physically poweful as well, compared to a female - due to body strength, size, etc. hence the mature male aspect. that's why God has a component of a Father and is not a brother, let's say. a father is mature in his ideal form. you will ask maybe why the father is mature in his ideal form, and I will answer "because if he stuck around he took responsability - hence he is mature". because he didn't leave, he lived up to the good behavior of being a father once he contributed to the creation of a baby.
A good mother best teaches their child in ways of compassion and class. While a father best teaches discipline and restraint. Vital pillars that influence the mold the characters of the children they raise.
Ohhhhh the MSM and the sjw's are gonna loose their minds
Cant wait 😂
The stupidity on display will be glorious
...you mean even more than their minds are already?🤣😂🤣😂
@domhnall777 right........ classic conservatism....... serval thousand years...... before conservatism was even a barebones consept... Huh and giving God a male pronoun is a means of instlling familiarity and comfort, who would you rather pray to?, our Father who art In heaven or it who art heaven? Sounds extremely off putting to me..... IT....
Why is that a problem we call ships she for chrissake
My preferred biblical pronouns are: thine, thou and thee.
Or why not just used GOD instead of any pronoun.
Those are informal pronouns in Early Modern English, I don’t imagine they’d be used for God. I think He uses them for us, though
Another great, logical, & common sense video from Prager U. Thank you.
Logical? From a fairytale entity and book!? Lol.
@@yvesmartin4788 He wasn't arguing that God exists. He just says that if you're going to believe in God, it makes no sense to call him a woman. Did you even watch the video? Or are you just going from Christian video to Christian video to respond to comments?
@@yvesmartin4788 No, from a book that has withstood the test of time, and until now, it stands unrivaled. No one can disprove its power nor its claims, and neither can you. Those same claims have changed more people for the better and given people more hope than your previous statement ever can. God does not just exist, he is, and so is Jesus. God bless you.
@@4everMayito If God is unable to prevent evil, then he is not all-powerfull. If God is not willing to prevent evil, then he is not all-good. If God is both willing and able to prevent evil, then why does evil exist? In conclusion, if he can't stop evil but doesn't, then either he doesnt exist or is complicity and is not fit to be worshipped! Get it?
The least religious countries on Earth also have the lowest levels of rape, murder, gun crime and teenage pregnancies. These countries are also the best educated and have the highest number of Atheist per head of population. Also if you get your morals from the bible and the 10 commandments and you believe that these are God's instructions for life then you must also believe the following; and not you cherry picking verses.
1) Kill People Who Don’t Listen to Priests Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)
2) Kill Homosexuals “If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives.” (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)
3) Death for Cursing Parents A) if one curses his father or mother, his lamp will go out at the coming of darkness. (Proverbs 20:20 NAB) B) All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense. (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)
4) Death for Adultery If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT) 5) Death for Fornication a priest’s daughter who loses her honour by committing fornication and thereby dishonours her father also, shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)
6) Death to Followers of Other Religions Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed. (Exodus 22:19 NAB) 7) Kill Nonbelievers They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
8) Kill Sons of Sinners Make ready to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and possess the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants. (Isaiah 14:21 NAB) 9) God Will Kill the Children of Sinners If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey, I will inflict you with seven more disasters for your sins. I will release wild animals that will kill your children and destroy your cattle, so your numbers will dwindle and your roads will be deserted. (Leviticus 26:21-22 NLT)
10) The following passage shows that slaves are clearly property to be bought and sold like livestock. However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)
11) The following passage describes the sickening practice of sex slavery. How can anyone think it is moral to sell your own daughter as a sex slave? When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl’s owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)
12) More Murder Rape and Pillage (Deuteronomy 20:10-14) As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labour. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town.
@Smooth kriminal I think we found a soy boy.
“We can not relate with... an it”
the non binaries are WRITHING
First of all I very much relate to Pennywise second off that man is so far up his àsś Trump is quaking. THIRD why art hey using it?? Just use they/them LIKE LITERALLY EVERYONE EVER
Lmao you made this comment, you seem to care more :/ people don’t really go by “it” anyways stop making a joke of yourself 😂
Prager's conclusion is correct (God is best depicted by 'He'), but I disagree with his reasons.
It's pretty straightforward. Male and female parent differently. Mothers are inseminated from the outside; they nurture the baby inside their bodies (and cannot leave them, modern mass-murdering of in-utero children aside). Fathers, on the other hand, are 'outside' and 'detached from' the mother and baby. *They can leave, and often do.* For this reason, it is more obviously a CHOICE when the Father stays and supports the mother and child.
Our Father in Heaven is like this. He is 'outside' His creation of the universe ('mother earth', where we are materially grown and nourished). And yet He doesn't abandon 'mother earth' or His children within her; in His divine and perfect free will and superabundant love, He *stays,* and attends to our needs.
This is much more beautiful and appropriately put in the language of Fatherhood (where staying and caring for the child is a CHOICE) than motherhood (where staying and caring for the child is, at least during pregnancy, is almost an automatic process that, apart from the first moment, doesn't require continued choice).
Also, and as others have obviously pointed out, God has told us His preferred pronoun. It's 'He'. And 'Father'. So if you're a Wiccan or whatever, then this doesn't apply to you -- but don't come around to Jews, Muslims, or Christians and try to make us anachronistically revise our own revealed sacred texts to match some feminist ideological complaint about pronouns. Either conform to an existing religion, or make your own up -- but *stop trying to forcefully mutilate existing religions.* They're not your property to play with.
0:37 "The god of the bible is neither male nor female. God transcends gender."
It surprises me that this is actually your opinion.
God the Father is not a human, therefore he is not a biological man nor a biological woman. It's simple, and most Christians have this opinion.
@@ianw1976 What about angels?
@@WadelDee Look up a picture of a biblically accurate angel.
@@ianw1976 Yeah, I know what you mean. But is this something most Christians believe in?
@@WadelDee Obviously I can’t speak for all Christians, but generally I think most Christians would see angels/god as genderless, even though we often associate gender with them.
CS Lewis said that God is that Masculine which by comparison all else is feminine.
In this vein consider that the body of all believers is called the bride of Christ.
Clearly CS Lewis never heard of gay marriage my dude
Are you saying we're supposed to emulate everything God isn't?!
Starlord: Where is God?
Iron Man: I'll do you one better, Who is God?
Drax: No I'll do you One better, How is God?
PragerU: The real question is What is God?
Everyone stares at PragerU
John Martin why is god?
John Martin your comment has not received as much notice as it should 👏🏾
Expossive bro thanks for saying it
@John Martin
No, Drax would say “why is God?”
John Martin
GOD IS..
God is evreything..
Considering He owns all the real estate.
..
Funny how atheist have
A FAITH THAT EVERYTHING CAME FROM NOTHING
And have nothing to back up their claims..
Call beleivers names
Claim we dont understand or believe science..
But Science by its own laws has not proved the big bang ..or the evolution theories..
It was Judao-Christian society that created a civilization that afforded and allowed science to be taught.
And today we have many who follow ill informed prophesors.
Infringed on our religous and spiritual rights..
You dont necessarily have to read or follow the Bible to scientifically believe he had to exist.
Simple question..
How did everything come from nothing?
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.my answer and opinion..
It didn't..
God is Always..
Always been even before their was a "here" and before there was a "there"
His mind understands the dimensions we couldent even comprehend.
I was angry atheist. Now i respect Christianity. Thx!
That sounds like a lot of bs
@Austin Martín Hernandez Your hopes were dashed in his comment
Well that was easy
@@salvatoredemattia6911 Official i'm Christian on paper, but i do not practice religion. I was altar server till my 15 year of age, my father was sexton. I was almost every day in church most of my childhood. Until i had some "bad experience" with church officials. After confirmation i left the church with wrath.
@Austin Martín Hernandez I respect PragerU video.
Hate to break this to you Prager U but the Bible also depicted God as a she. It is true that God is depicted as a father but there are also times God is depicted as a mother. In Matthew 23:37 and Luke 13:34 God is seen as a mother hen protecting her brood under her wings. In Isaiah 42:14 God is depicted as a crying woman in labor. In Hosea 13:8 God is depicted as an angry mother bear robbed of her cubs. In Isaiah 49:15 It talks about God not forgetting about you like how a mother doesn't forget her child from the womb. In Psalms 123:2-3 While it does describe that men can look to God like a male slave looks to his master it also describes how like a female slave looks to her mistress women can look up to God. In Luke 15:8-10 the parable depicts God as a woman looking for her lost coin and when the woman finds her lost coin she rejoices over it. While it is true that throughout the Bible God is more commonly depicted as a He it is true that God is also depicted as a She. And like a mother God tenderly cares for each and every single one of us. God can be a powerful role model for men as well as women. Just like when God is depicted as a man He is shown as an example of what a strong leader is. When God is depicted as a women She is showing an example of what a strong and caring mother should be.Prager U implying that God is only depicted as a He is simply wrong. This is why instead of blindly listening to someone's advice we should fact check each and every argument they construct. This is also why it is important as well to read your Bible and throughoughly check every so called preacher,prophet, or teacher's words to make sure they align with the Bible and are not leading you astray.
I looked up all of those verses and found little to your argument. Prager clearly states that God is not actually male and he transcendence gender so describing him either way shouldn't matter. What does matter is the perception people have of God's form especially young men.
@@just-some-menace6138 Personally I disagree with this argument. But I can understand your point of veiw. I hope you have a wonderful day and that you grow in your walk with God.
@@just-some-menace6138 Also your avatar is awesome.
Thank you for this video, I have never heard this explanation before.
I have, Jesse Lee Peterson says the same thing, Jordan Peterson says the same thing, and others.
Jeff Hulett that’s because it’s stupid
yeah cause its completely made up
@@nipnop4954 How do you know the logic is made up? Give a rational response. Even if you don't believe in the concept of God, why did the Hebrews choose to refer to God as a male instead of female?
@@grezdaed They don't know anything, they are just inserting random one-liners without any substance to back them up. Otherwise known as trolling.
I'm sikh
Guru granth sahib also depicts God as Masculine and all human beings including men and women are feminine..
@Tech Tacho this type of bonding is also mentioned in guru granth sahib too.
Soo much common things in most of the religions.
Morning squad where you at
Instead of the fallacious and unfounded reasons, consider the fact that it's because he was constructed by people who were also a he. Has anyone ever told you that your dogma is ridiculous? Looking forward to your next video being consistent with this one and arguing that gay couples are the ultimate parents though...
But if not for this, there'd just be something else you'd bitch about. If he were to comment on something as benign as the price of peanut butter in Brazil, you'd find a bone of contention somewhere in it. People like Dennis Prager can't win with people like you.
How is it fallacious?
For starters, claiming god is a he because he wrote a book and the book is true because it was written by god is a circular argument. This channel is run by creationists, the fallacies aren't hard to find for anyone who's not a faithful sheep.
I don't want to re-watch this nonsense. Its fallacies and why it's wrong are further explained in a video titled "PragerU Dismantled by an Evolutionary Psychologist".
I love the points you make here. But I also believe that God is literally male, not just depicted as male.
God doesn't have a physical body therefore he can't be male or female
That's a good point, you can only be omnipotent if you have a dong
@@koalanefelibato4365
Nope, God the Father proved that to not be true.
Not having a physical body doesn't mean he can't be male in spirit.
Didn't gensis say he created *MAN* in his image?
I'll add one more for you. Jesus was male. Yes the Hebrew works were written ages before His birth, yet the nature of God doesn't change.
Exactly--spirit has no gender; but I am so glad I have a personal relationship with my heavenly *Father*. ❤
Oh brother did you just impose a gender on this god and just expect him to play along
In Hebrew, spirit has a gender. It's female
@@GodOfMySalvationIsYeshua That's because Hebrew is a gendered language. For example, cattle, sin, year, hand, covenant, door etc. I don't how how can assign gender to these. It's a form of language.
Theo Christian no. There’s a reason why Hebrew is a gender language. I speak several languages and see gender as a more specific expressive advantage and not ambiguous. When it comes to God gender is a role as opposed to as “sex”
No, this is one point where I may have to disagree. Our Heavenly Father is a male, as gender is central to identity. It is clear that God created us in his image. Therefore we can conclude that God would have to have a wife, which is often not spoken of as she is cherished and held sacred by our Father. God's plan is dependent on gender identity and its 2 roles in starting a family. God could not be perfect or be God without having an eternal and equal companion, that being our Heavenly Mother. I almost always agree with Prager University values but God is strictly male with power shared equally with our Mother in Heaven.
"We cannot obey or love an it"
But we can obey or love a they. We can have relationships with non binary people
depends what you consider love to be. I will make the distinction in the following: if someone is gambling money, you can either (love-1) them and let them gamble and face the horrific consequences of their bahavior if they keep it up and spent all their money. Or you can (love -2) them and tell them the truth, that they are acting towards bad consequences and no matter how much they tell you that they are right, for you to not back down on their self deception. In love-1 you are just mindlessly supporting them in whatever they choose to do without any critical thought, and I dare say it's not love, but something else. It's agreement. You just agree with their point of view. In love-2 you understand they are heading towards a wall and are actively attempting to stop them from heading into a wall. You do not just agree with them, you truely support them in being better human beings. Given the fact that there are only 2 sexes - male and female, and gender is a simple perception of self (one's feeling of own identity) which doesn't constitute a factual information, I would mention the fact that loving-1 them is doing them harm because they are denying reality, while loving-2 them would be the actual form of love. So the conclusion would be that simply affirming someone does not equate love, just approval. Loving someone is being honest with them and meaning them well, aka telling them that they are heading away from reality into illusion and that doing so will have catastrophic consequences. People that do not enforce someone's delusion truely loves them and means them well.
I'm always severely disappointed when I hear the Dennis Prager which hasn't been edited by Comrade Cora. I prefer the Cora Dennis.
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Same though. HE ISN'T COMMUNIST ENOUGH IN THIS ONE.
Cora, Cora, Cora
2:00 Wow, Obama actually said something that made sense.
Well he made a lott of sence to Half U.S. and the rest of the world.
But you don't wanna hear that 😎
Even a broken clock gets the time right twice a day.😂
@@3lightsteps Better that getting almost nothing right like certain other presidents...
@Kevin Henderson Hahaha !
Anyway, he never did a p#rnstar, never had scandale, did end his 8 years properly.
Yep, really the baddest president ever.....
@Blazing Insanity Jimmy Carter is a great human being, but he was a terrible president.
God is the source of mercy, He is the teacher of love
If you ignore all the petty, idiotic, cruel, and outright evil things said to have been done, then yeah.
@@zedekiah3563 I read once that the seemingly cruel and wrathful God of the Old Testament can be understood better by knowing how the theology of the ancient Hebrews writing the Old Testament was different from the followers of Jesus’ legacy writing the New Testament. What I remember reading is that essentially, Jewish people saw God as Reality. Reality can seem beautiful, peaceful, and perfectly suited to an individual’s satisfaction one day, and be hell on Earth the next. For them, God decided these things, and frankly it just wasn’t productive or helpful to curse God for His actions, because it’s the same as cursing reality. If you stub your toe on a rock, it’s futile and kind of pathetic to get angry at the rock. What are you going to do, smash every rock you find? You’ll never get them all. You’ll die of thirst in the desert hunting down every last rock. You’ll die of exhaustion digging them up and breaking them. Instead of trying to impose your will on God, on Reality, impose your will on your own mind and embrace God, embrace Reality. Learn to love God and learn to love Reality. And that’s the attitude that informs my attempts to be a good Christian too, it’s just that I see Jesus as the ultimate and eternally applicable role model for how to live that kind of life.
@@maxotto9877 all I can say is I disagree with the assertion that God is evil. One question, if there was a good and he was evil, could you tell? If there was a God he made you and gave you your sense of right and wrong, if God gave you your sense of right and wrong than why should you trust your own convictions if God is evil?
@@maxotto9877 not all killing is of nessesity murder. Even the bible admits that we aren't to call God good out of flattery or what it calls "respect of persons". I ask again, it there is a God, did not God give you your own power of reasoning?
@@maxotto9877 I'm say IF my God is real then it would be the case.
"God transcends gender"
GUYS I'M GOD
AMEN! I LOVE AND I NEED DESPERATELY MY FATHER GOD.💟✝️
One of the bigger reasons is because Jesus was a man, which would be the reason why we in the Christian dominated west mostly consider God a “He”
True - whereas God the Father's 'maleness' is more of an analogy to human nature, Jesus (considered the second person of the trinity) is explicitly male in a much more concrete sense. If balance is desired, however, then it may be worth noting that the Holy Spirit (the third person of the trinity) is occasionally referred to in feminine terms.
On SB you do realise Islam is based on Christianity as well, right? Jesus is actually one of the prophets.
Gutless Spigot my point is that it’s based on Christianity and Judaism while not explicitly being of it.
It’s sort of a middle eastern Mormonism that really took off.
Be N S O N Islam is based on Judaism. There is some kinda mention of a person who sort of describes Jesus but it’s not very close. Their roots mostly date back to Abraham and Ishmael, which of course is Old Testament. Btw I loved Snatcher, I was able to figure out that Benson puzzle pretty easily since it occurred to me that you can spell words with the periodic table thanks to Breaking Bad haha
Lets play read and do: Pick a random verse in the OT and do that. The last one in going to jail, wins!
OT was the word of God but Jews corrupted it
@@sarsath7481 lucky! I got this one from daily Bible verse: "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don't wash their hands before they eat!"
Matthew 15:2.
I will happily trade mine with yours!
I may not end up in jail, but certainly in a hospital with that one!
@@SubscribetoEndTheLGBTcommunity The Jews wrote it, you dumb Nazi
@@SubscribetoEndTheLGBTcommunity Excuses, excuses...
@@jansettler4828 well that escallated quickly
John 4:24-26
GOD IS A SPIRIT
God is also the Father and the Son.
@@jimmay1988 no dont make sense
@@johnpayne3409 Holy Trinity
@@dxshel no people interpret the bible wrong they are all not one
@@johnpayne3409 i suggest you read the book by Saint Augustine called "On the Trinity" Great book. I am almost finished reading it.
Well, since Jesus, a male, is the human representation of God, we can assume that God is a man. Of course, being a Jew, Dennis does not believe in Jesus, but that would have been a better answer.
Good points.
This is more about explaining why in the Trinity it's Father, Son, & Holy Spirit as opposed to Mother, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Correction, since YOU assume that Jesus is a God.
Napoleon Bonaparte l'Empreur de la Francois Actually, when it comes to answering this question, the literal divinity of Jesus is irrelevant. Jesus could be a fictional character, but that would not change the Bible’s depiction of him.
@@josephvlogsdon But people assume he is God... so to say God is a man is presupteos
The reason God is not male or female is because God does not have a physical body like us; He is a Spirit. He does have the characteristics of both a mother and a father because otherwise He could not have been able to create mothers and give them the qualities of a mother.
Therefore God as our Father can show us motherly and fatherly love in the absence of a physical father or mother.
Shaun Mallawaarachchi
Jesus said he would’ve taken Jerusalem under his wing like a mother hen does to her chicks, so I see your point...
He does have a body. He has a perfect one
@@davidnisson4741 Jesus took on the form of a human body yes, but He too is Spirit. Just like we are spirit beings with physical bodies. When we die, our physical bodies die but our spirit lives forever.
Shaun Mallawaarachchi he has a resurrected and perfect body. And so does god and all other resurrected beings.
@@davidnisson4741 read John 4.24
An interesting philosophical view of theological principles. I agree with the assessment, God Bless you all!
You agree that God transcends gender? The cognitive dissonance is strong.
Briljant! Excellent explanation! On a lower scale: many experienced teacher tells; if you want to have a calm, well working co-ed class; its the most important to keep the boys in shape. The girls will usually adapt anyway; especielly now when they dont get disturbed by boys. They will just be happy with the situation and cooperate.
Wow. I had doubts on this one, but Prager came through. 👍🏾
Justin Hall well done, you’re a victim of propaganda.
God's portrayal as male in the Bible has nothing to do with needing a sky-daddy father figure or being too preoccupied with kindness. The reason for his portrayal as male is simply that the author thought he was male, the same way Canaanites thought some gods were female. Plain and simple.
it's Propaganda because they always equate role models with fathers. Why is that necessary? It's sexist to say that women couldn't be that role model. Prager U is full of shit
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The title of the video was not promising but I'm glad i took the time to listen. It was time well spent and I actually learned something.
Come on, you didn't REALLY think it was actually going to assert what the title says.
The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Case closed.
God, even the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, is just Santa for adults who have aged, but not grown up.
I paid attention to what he didn't say, but then I reminded myself that his view is from his perspective as an orthodoxed Jew. So he's not inclined to say God is masculine because Christ referred to him as The Father. The reasoning is still good and all the more reason why we should avoid downplaying God's plan with genders.
@@torreydale God is referred to as "He" because god was created in the authors' image.
Rose NoHo you seem to be coming at this from an atheists perspective. Is that true? And if so I’m wondering how are you have come to be so confident in your views. There is a lot of very reasonable evidence for the existence of God and no evidence that I’m aware of that he does not exist. The least of these reasons to believe in God can be found in pascals wager. Check it out.
The traditional Christian view is that God is neither male nor female. www.compellingtruth.org/God-male-or-female.html Sorry to see how many people are disagreeing from a religious viewpoint.
If gods a man how do you explain something as holy and divine as sideboob?
Have you accepted the Goddess Ilias as your Lady and Saviour~?
WOW I learned so much in that video!!! I would've never known. Thanks Dennis!!
Please Dennis, log in
as if this comment is real smh
@@footnasium4267 how the heck are you to make such a lame ass comment? wow
Footnasium get nænæd libtard
Or God is a He because He actually is a He.
Agreed
God has chromosomes though? Isn't god a being of pure light? Isn't light energy? Kinda hard to make DNA out of photons, let alone entire chromosomes. 😕
God probably genderless and hopefully we're just a computer program. That makes me feel the safest since I'll just respawn as a bunny rabbit or something.
I have no money stop hitting me dad come to know the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
Never trust a Jew who doesn't believe in the fullness of the Bible to tell you what it means. 1. God made Man in His image. 2. God appeared to Moses in the image of Man. 3. God appeared in the flesh (Jesus) as a man. 4 Jesus said, "If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him." 5. Men do NOT commit most violence, we are all sinners before God. 6. God, by scriptural accounts, is a male figure but not a human man, Jesus is though. 7. God impregnated a human female and didn't impregnate Himself. 8. Mary is queen and mother in the eternal kingdom of God.
If God said He is a HE, who are we to disagree? Period.
Wait, are you being serious about that shit?
The only people who don't agree on whether or not God is a "He", are also people who can't agree on or submit to God. If everyone believed what the Bible said, everyone would agree that God prefers to be referred to as a "He". Unfortunately, we live in a fallen world, in which no one can agree on who is the real God. "14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Matthew 17:14
@@dr.jonathancrane1233 #firstamendment #Godisreal #Bible #Jesusiscoming
@@theblackpearl3880 or rather #evidencepls and #yesthefirstammendmentexistsanditalsocoversme
@@dr.jonathancrane1233 #readyourbible #Heisreal #Notmadeup #seeforyourself #firstamendmentallowsforbelief
#Jesusiscomingsoon
I once read a religious article by Sir Peter Kreft, one of the foremost Christian religious thinkers back in England that said that God is also a mother
mother depended on Father there is no way in 1 micrillion times Mother can't exists without Father
@@Abrold first of all, fathers can die and leave mothers, and second of all, lesbian parents are a thing
@Orthodox_Muslim Mary's getting pregnant with Jesus the Christ was a direct creative act by the Holy Spirit. There was no sexual intercourse as it looks like you're trying to imply.
God is a he, and that is the way it is meant to be. What is not meant to be is when men use the fact that god is a man, as a justification to demean or belittle the role of women. Or endowed superiority justifies the permission to beat or harm their wives due to a submissive/less dominant status.
I have never seen anyone beat their wives over the bible. *Islam lets you do that though, so you might wanna check that out.*
@@steyrauga1 I do agree that the certain verses in the Quran state that, but I do not think this applies to just religion.... men naturally are more stronger than women so becuase of this superiority some men can abuse that. the bible is great in the sense that it does not condone such practices, especially in the new testament because stoning against women ws justified in the old testament for the purposes of adultery
@@steyrauga1 where the heck did you hear that you idiot
From the Atheist Conservative community: We appreciate this video. Nice arguments
Love to prageru
swapnarka arnan Good to hear. The Oh yeah yeah crew has a diverse opinion of political views.
@On SB yes. Because not everything involves gender. Being pro male doesn't mean anti female. Also have you even watched the whole video
@On SB Of the few I've see, PragerU is very critical about the feminist movement than anti-woman. Two completely different things.
please start puting links or book names in description for your info? (hoppe i pronounced it right)
Even without sources, his words bless
Hope you pronounce what right?
Did you check the transcript?
Most of what he talks about doesn't actually use any facts. Based off of opinions and fake charts with no actual data.
0:40 If God transcends gender doesn't that make God non-binary?
Non-binary isn’t real so no
@@akzebraminer bruh
3:56 but weren’t all those traits Already associated with females for many centuries?
aww, aren't you sweet?
I'm sorry to tell you, but Prager "U" is just propaganda for use by people already committed to its cause. Prager is a conservative radio shock jock with no academic credentials. Good work on checking his BS, though. If you check out his 'debates', you can see how disingenuous (I don't think he's really dumb) he truly is.
@@channalmath8628 lol isnt that right. They explain complex matters so lazily and simply that a child could pick up on it
ChannalMath
I still find it confusing and funny at the same time at how you leftists are so quick into name calling. Makes me wonder how strong you faith is with God (if you are Christian or Jewish, of course) this man provided facts backed up by data and you have provided nothing. The word dumb shouldn’t be thrown around so easily.
Gungholio
Orrrr maybe they’re explaining it more simply for people to understand it quicker and easier. Say for example if you are starting to just learn about these things now at a beginner level.
I saw this as an ad and watched the whole thing. I think that no matter your beliefs or worldviews on things, this is a take on things worth hearing.
It's pretty trash view
346 feminists are having a temper tantrum right now.
Don't forget Knowing Better's audience.
Though they're more shaking their heads and going "Isn't it a pity people believe that way?...if only they were smart like me"
As a Prager fan, I do actually like a lot of Knowing Better's content, though.
903 at this point
@@blueringedoctopus4778 956
Good to know other people don"t have temper tantrum
1:15 Why not? If -he's- *it's* responsible for love, then why can't -he- *it* make us love -him- *it*
Because God has given us free will.
@@chidozieezeome2847 Firstly, there is no free will to the fullest extent and even if there was, then god could still decide to make us love something called by the 'it' pronoun.
@@神の人-f2k why do you say there is no free will to the fullest extent? Could you clarify?
@@chidozieezeome2847 ua-cam.com/video/OwaXqep-bpk/v-deo.html