Priest Answers Questions About the Bible
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Please never stop making videos, neither in this, nor in the next live... You're one of the reasons I'm finally becoming a catechumen in the Catholic faith 🙏🏻
0:44 "Relatively recently... FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO." I love the Catholic Church.
I read an article talking about slower than light travel to other stars, taking some hundreds of years. They suggest asking one of the established churches to monitor the mission because they are the only organization capable of being around that long lol
@@glenchapman3899 What's a few schisms, anti-papacies, and reformations between friends?
4:02 This is definetely one of my favourite quotes so far, Thank you Fr for continuing to use your wise words to help others understand the Christian truth
Our parish priest says, “Everything in the Bible is true, some if it really happened.”
I wish I could track down where it came from but I remember as a child hearing "the Bible is truth but its not necessarily true "
The bible uses narratives to teach existential truths about us and our relation to God. Some of these narratives are actual historical events, some are legends long in circulation before Genesis was written, and repurposed to convey the message of YHWH to humanity.
In addition to all the criteria you mentioned Father Casey, one other thing that was also used in determine which books to include when the canon was compiled was something referred to as the "Doctrine of Embarrassment."
That is--The Bible (Old Testament or New) does NOT hold back on calling out the faults of its heroes. The authors will even call out their OWN faults and sins (something completely unheard of in other religions' sacred texts). This runs in stark contrast to Roman, Greek, and Germanic tendencies to paint one's self as larger than life or even infallible.
The authentic gospels and epistles all contain concepts of personal humility (NOT considered a virtue in the ancient world) and mentions of the writer's own short comings and failures.
These would have been considered odd at best, and in most cases scandalous to either Jew or Gentile, and to Romans in particular.
Most of the heretical gnostic texts on the other hand contained more "powerful" and charismatically appealing characters and acts that bent towards worldly pagan virtues rather than God's.
I can't see this applied to jesus though, where did he sin? Where was he at fault?
@@KarmaBurner It very much applied to Jesus's teachings. He didn't sin. He DID however preach among many other unpopular concepts humility and servanthood, which, in the ancient world were NOT considered virtues like they are today. Not to jews, and especially not to Roman gentiles.
But if you read some of the heretical texts. They portrayed Jesus differently, and in most cases, the false Jesus would have been more tolerable to wide audiences.
How would this line up with the heroine Judith? She was a very beautiful and prayerful widow who assassinated an enemy general. Perhaps you could mention that the people of the city were ready to surrender under the siege.
@@killianmiller6107 Excellent question, and now that I think about it, that may play a part in why Judith is considered part of the deuterocanonical apocrypha to protestants.
They don't consider it a "forbidden" or heretical text by any means, just not one as easy to completely validate by all the criteria.
@@jakecarter9920 yet he's still portayed as perfectly coherent with the narrative he was representing, wasn't he?
You say other cultures tend to portay their heroes as larger than life, infallible etc.
Isn't jesus portrayed the same way, coherent with his narrative?
1:07 a wise man suggested me to stat reading the bible with John first letter, and then Gospels.
7:00 It is worth noting that "Bible Annotations" are not infallible and reflect other people's interpretation of Scripture. For example, the footnotes in the NAB are not authoritative Church teaching and promote a certain view of Scripture. One should be following what the Church teaches on certain bible passages, but these teachings are not often found in bible annotations.
Perhaps I could observe that there are 80 books in the Bible; well 81 as the Ethiopian included Enoch
Father Casey doesn't even seem to know how many books are accepted as cannon by the Roman Catholic church
@@russellmiles2861 Nope, there are 73 books in the Catholic Bible.
When I think of the Creation, I imagine the Earth as clay on a pottery wheel. Every turn is a year - so who cares if it took millions or thousands of years to make? He made it and that's okay with me. I don't question his methods.
God in the Old Testament was dealing with kings and rulers, directing international relations and wars, and the overall survival of humanity. The ministry of Jesus Christ as God the Son on Earth was directed towards individuals to teach us how to live virtuous lives that please God the Father.
You didn’t mention them, but the psalms are a source of strength for me each day. “Like as the hart desire the water brooks so longeth my soul unto you, oh God.”
Father Casey, you are an amazing conduit for teaching. You truly have an amazing Spiritual Gift for this. I’ve always struggled reconciling evolution and creation, but you harmonized them so succinctly for me. This is a combination of “mind blown” and shear joy. Thank you, again.
Loved the evolution explanation. I will use it when confronted with that question.😊
Evolution isn’t real, but ok…
Another great explanation is in the film The Cardinal, in which the priest brilliantly explains this to the convert.
It's even obvious in the text that it's what we're supposed to understand (because chapters one and two give different order in which things were created, yet it didn't lead to one chapter being cut).
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Ask Francis Collins, but ok.
@@gergelymagyarosi9285you have every right to believe you evolved from apes and I have every right to believe I am a descendant of a man called Adam.
This is high quality content Father! Thank you so much!
Could you explain something fundamental: why was Jesus’s death on the cross necessary to achieve remission of sin. Why couldn’t God just forgive our sins. Why was Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross needed?
That's a really important question. I hope Father Casey addresses it.
Not father Casey but the reason is God’s justice. God is perfectly just and perfectly loving. Since God is just he’s not going to let sins go unpunished but since he is perfectly loving he wants no one to go to hell
To prove the axiom: there is no greater love than to give your life for another. There is no greater love than God’s, and the crucifixion is the proof and the example
We also see God act in the popular imaginations notion of the “Old Testament God” in the Acts 5:11 with Ananias and Sapphira
Father Casey, about the chapters and verses, I would like to point out that the chapters were done first in the 13th century by Stephen Langton [a Catholic archbishop], and the verses were done by two people, first Sanctes Pagnino [also a Catholic], and then refined by Robert Estienne, who was Catholic at the moment he did the verse numbering, but will turn protestant later on, indeed.
Sola scriptula is not in the Bible😢
Sola Christ is. and you know who the Word is
You are correct my friend. Sola scriptula is actually not mentioned anywhere. 😘
"Sola scriptula" ... hmm, "little scriptures"? ;D It's sola scriptura, but I catch your drift. To my understanding, the big deal there is the role of tradition and the living Church, which Catholics appreciate, and Protestants enjoy less. End of the day, we're still all on "Team J", right?
@@hoi-polloi1863 Team J every day my friend:) Blessings
Catholic don’t believe in sola scriptura
Evolution could have happened simultaneously to Adam and Eve being in eden. Then when they fell, they started the human race.
Pretty much what I think.
Adam and Eve where uplifted humans.
God is good .
GUD MORNING FROM SARAWAK BORNEO ISLAND🌾🤝
The division of the Bible into verses was made by Robert Estienne, starting in 1551, in Paris and Geneva. However, the numbering of verses in the Hebrew Bible appeared around 1440, when Rabbi Isaac Nathan added them to create a concordance. Stephen Langton (Lincolnshire, 1150 - Slindon (Sussex), July 9, 1228) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1207 until his death and was a central figure in the dispute between King John of England and Pope Innocent III. He is recognized as the person responsible for dividing the Christian Holy Bible into chapters.
Thanks for the video ❤️ May the Peace of the Lord Jesus Christ be always with you ✝️
Padrecito keep bringing folks to Christ,!
This is so cool. Thank you for making these videos. Please keep it up!!!❤❤❤
😊💕🙏✝️. Thank you
Oh boy, and I was reading the Bible but started from Genesis, currently reading Sirach. Well, I made my goal to read all 73 books and so will I.
That was great. Thanks 🙏🏼❤️
Fr. Casey, would you please do a video about the 3rd order?
Perhaps a good video idea would be a longer video on the words of Pope Pius stating the belief in evolution is not a contradiction to belief in Christianity. Since it's such a controversial topic in the Church world, a lengthier explanation might be helpful.
As always, very well done Father Casey.
Interesting vid. I appreciate your perspective. I have never had an issue with Genesis v evolution. As you noted, the Bible explains why and evolution explains how.
That's not what the people who wrote it believed
Its a matter of function and form and conserving energy. It makes more sense to have animals change to suot their enviromwnt than it is to make ten trillion animal species. Its a beautiful solution to a fallen world. In the beginning it was "Bird, beast, fish" and everything comes from those original designs. Its elegant in its simplicity but mind blowing in Its complexity.
The Apocrypha was in Martin Luther’s Bible translation.
That’s actually a good video tbh
Edit: I meant that, it was an ESPECIALLY good video this time around. Haha
You sound surprised ❓- Father Casey pumps out some awesome stuff for years now and I am certain has brought a plethora of people closer to GOD via his videos
@@openminds8765 haha, I didn’t mean it like that, I just meant that I found the video to be especially well done this time around.
I like Fr Casey, been watching him for a year now
First time?
@@generalyousif3640 Kool 👍🏼 - thanks for the clarification - glad you like his videos too - I find his stuff thought provoking and informative - I think the videos help grow in my Spirituality
I was discussing Creation and the Big Bang with my fundamentalist supervisor. I told him to imagine the biggest possible number for the age of the universe. Then what was here a week older than that number, God
Amen good brother amen!❤
POPE BENEDICT XVI, in 2007, said that the debate raging in Germany and the United States between those who believe in God as Creator and those who support evolution is an absurdity. The two positions, he said, are “presented as though they were mutually exclusive alternatives.” The pope said, “This antithesis is absurd because, on the one hand, there are so many scientific proofs in favor of evolution, which appears to be a reality we can see and which enriches our knowledge of life and being as such. But on the other hand, the doctrine of evolution does not answer every query, especially the great philosophical questions: Where does everything come from? And how did everything start which ultimately led to man?”
i lol'd at the frozen desert question XD
Lovely video, thank you! A couple thoughts...
* In re Genesis and evolution: I see the Old Testament as the "explain it to me like I'm a Bronze Age savage" approach. God left the biomechanics and mathematical research to us to do later.
* In re translations: at some point could you review the Jehova's Witness "New World Translation"? I read parts of that and got unhappy, because it seems so disingenuous. I feel like my JW buddy is being deceived.
* Also about translations and accuracy vs ease of reading: is the standard higher for "the words in red"? That is, my Bible has all of Jesus' words written in red.
Awesome thanks. God bless you Gather Casey 🙏
I was under the impression that the first edition of the King James Bible has the Apocrypha, And that it was taken out to save printing cost.
Titus 3:3 KJV "For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers (many different) lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. 4 But after that the Kindness and Love of GOD our SAVIOR toward man appeared 5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to HIS Mercy HE saved us (through HIS real shed Blood/Justification), by the washing of regeneration (born again spiritually/cleansed as by Water/Sanctification), and renewing of the HOLY GHOST (restoring our soul not sacrificing CHRIST over and over again in the unbloody sacrifice of the mass); 6 which HE shed on us abundantly through JESUS CHRIST our SAVIOR; 7 that being justified by HIS grace (GOD's free gift of salvation), we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life."
(Parenthesis mine)
Thank You Fr. for sharing this video with us. My question is not so much about the Bible as it is about the faith. Is there forgiveness of our sins after we die? I head someone on youtube ask this but didn't really answer it. Thanks much for your help. Blessings.
Wonderful answers to the questions great clsrity and help understandable .thank you Father.
Thank you for saying "communities reflected...and wrote the texts", I am a big believer in the Johannine community rather than a single author of John. I find myself in good company with Pope Benedict 16th ;) Thanks Father.
I've had the occasional luck using 2 Peter 3:8 to get young earth creationists to back down (specifically the ones who "believe" it because that's what everyone at their church believes, not so much the ones who actively study YEC to the exclusion of other ideas). Since it doesn't just say that one day is 1000 years but also 1000 years is a day, that doesn't mathematically work unless one understands that God controls time -- not the other way around. It doesn't convince the YECs of evolution but it does get them to understand that Old Earth Creationism is a "Biblical" interpretation and maybe even see Theistic Evolution as a variety of OEC.
Highly recommend the Didajé Bible ✨ has comments, explanations, maps, history and everything you need to know in order to really comprehend the Bible 😊
Thank you for your insights, Father Casey. I wish my theology professor explained things the way you did. 🙂
I would like to know if I can be a catholic without worshipping mother Mary. I have faith, I believe in the Holy Trinity and the presence of the Holy Trinity in our daily lives, i believe in the sacraments and I believe in the literal body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist..but I respect Blessed Mother Mary's role in the Bible.
Because of this reason of not worshipping Mother Mary, I was actually considering moving to another denomination for a while but I admit that your videos have stopped me in my tracks for the present time.
Luke is my favorite. There is a TON of basic truth, knowledge and information in there. 🙂
Fr. Casey, I thought I read that the Septuagint was the Scripture in use in 1st Century Israel. Do you know if this is in fact true?
It depends on what strain of Judaism. The saducees, pharisees and samaritans relied strictly on hebrew scriptures. The hellenists (which included the Apostles) used the septuagint.
Biblical scholars may point out that when the NT quoted the OT, much of it was quoted from the Greek translation, ie the Septuagint.
It is interesting to look at the books excluded from the New Testament. For example the gospel of Thomas is just a list of things Jesus said that Thomas thought noteworthy. They would have been extremely relative to those who may have encountered Jesus, but without context some of their meaning is lost. The four Cannon Gospels cover the same information, but provided context for us later readers.
If we evolved through evolution, then sun never came into the world through the fall, so how do we understand that? I’ll keep creation, thanks
I mean no ill will here, Father.
Can you make videos of church history?
I think e first one who divided the Bible in verses and chapters was Sanctes Pagnino OP, a Dominican friar and an expert hebraist
What does this question mean “Can a Christian believe…?” Believing something isn’t an act of will. You don’t decide to believe in it. You believe it because that’s the conclusion your mind has come to of its own accord. You also can’t turn it off just because someone says to. This is a total abuse of the meaning of belief.
I think your use of the word "belief" conflates opinion with assent of faith. One can have lots of opinions that are natural but ill-informed. An assent of faith may not come naturally, but it is something that compels us to the truth even if it doesn't seem obvious at first.
Question 1. Why does the old testament God seem more wrathful than Jesus? There are those that believe that we as a human race are like child. When we were first around, God treated us more like an infant. Don't do this and don't do that or you will be punished. Yes he loved us for sure as a parent does love his toddler. Then we as a race matured a bit. We were now treated as "I expect you to do better", perhaps similar to a parent talking to now a younger child. Then we get to teenage and young adult years as a race. We now think we know better and have life all figured out. Jesus comes and talks to us as a late teenager or young adults. He tells us by his actions how he loves us and wants what is best for us but also makes clear what is wrong. Now one could follow this and figure out roughly when Jesus would come back. When our race has matured to old age.
1:08 When I was in high school and taking my confirmation classes, the priest, who was there at the time, always suggested specifically to start with either Matthew or Luke. He believed those gospels where the best ones to start with so those were the two gospels I often suggest. But I do agree all the gospels are a good start with the Bible. He has a podcast I listen too a lot of Sundays because he still says a lot of good homilies.
Sorry for my negative comments. I stand by them, but its clear you are a great priest. Peace
Some gloss overs, especially when it comes to Protestant views (expected,sadly, when we are dealing with Vatican vs. Others). Imagine if we could bite the bullet on where we were wrong.
I'm sure you know 2 Peter 1:20, "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of any private interpretation." If the Scripture is God breathed by men who spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit, even if we don't know what God's meaning is, I'm sure God knows the exact meaning of what He said, which He did not leave to our private interpretation.
And how exactly are we supposed to get at that meaning? I can't hear God's word directly from Him, so interpretation seems the only valid way. However, if that interpretation is informed by scholars, or the Church, it isn't private anymore. Interpretations become more valid, if based on good research and many people's involvement.
@@loran1212 We should use the Scriptures to be instructed how we can get very close to God. The problem is most people find that too high a price to pay. We could start in Jeremiah 29:13, " And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart." There are too many things we love more than God and won't give up in order to hear the Holy Spirit clearly, but don't think it can't be done. It's not that God doesn't want to get close to us, it's us that separates us from Him. He wants us to seek Him.
The Church gives us the proper interpretation of Scripture which protects us from the errors of private interpretation as seen in Protestantism.
@@carolynkimberly4021 You might have used that excuse 150 years ago when education and the Scriptures were not readily available to the general public, but when you say that today, it just shows a laziness and willing ignorance to ignore the truth, much like foolish cult members that become brainwashed and blindly follow, leading to their destruction. The Apostle Paul instructed Timothy to study the Scriptures (unlike your way of thinking) so that he might correctly understand them. (2 Timothy 2:15) He didn't say don't bother studying them, just listen to me, even though he was a true Apostle. If a true Apostle like Paul instructed that the Scriptures should be studied, why do you believe we should just rely on the "Church" to give us the proper interpretation of them?
Can you comment on the books of dr michael heiser?
Is this a re-upload it seems like a familiar video
Here's a Biblical question that bugs me: why does the Abrahamic God seem so...small?
Typically, he's attributed with all these traits like omniscience and omnipotence, a perfect entity who can do anything and is responsible for the existence of everything. If he created our universe, then he's responsible for a universe of hundreds of billions to trillions of _galaxies_ that predate the existence of our humble little ball of iron by billions of years.
But God, as depicted in the Bible, seems utterly indifferent to anything but tribal squabbles in a small portion of the near east for most of the book.
From a non-religious perspective, this makes perfect sense: the authors of the text were living in their own little cultural bubble, and were blind to everything outside of it. They obviously couldn't write about what they didn't know.
But if we accept the idea the Abrahamic God is real, and the Bible his inspired word, then we have to accept the idea of an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-wise creator who made a trillion galaxies over a span of billions of years spending his time worrying about people's haircuts and foreskins, or taking pleasure in the smell of burnt offerings, or getting angry when people don't worship him.
God made one offer to one nation: worship Him through the covenant he offered them at Sinai, and in exchange they will have a country.
In the context of this promise, the Old Testament makes perfect sense, it narrates the ups and downs of this nation's attempts at upholding their end of the bargain, and the politics following suit.
Why would God offer this deal? Well, in hindsight he was preparing for the incarnation and the crucifixion, the events where God gives His greatest gift to mankind. And in the context of the bronze and iron age, a country was still a grand, overabundant reward for something so natural as religiosity.
Much of this we can ascribe to what is called divine condescension, meaning “to go down with,” as well as progressive revelation, meaning God takes time to reveal more about himself. The Christian God meets us where we’re at, rather than expect us to climb to his heights. You don’t hear about a God who created a trillion galaxies in the Ancient Near East because the people God was trying to reach didn’t have a clue about even one galaxy until the 1600’s. Further, his intent isn’t to teach us the many secrets of his creation, but to will what is good for us in whatever time or situation we find ourselves in. The reason we even came to know about a trillion galaxies is largely founded upon a Christian foundation, since we have a transcendent intelligent creator God (meaning the world is not god so it doesn’t offend him to test it, and it’s possible to test because it’s intelligible), and a motivation that to know the creation is to better know the creator.
However, I don’t think you can so easily discount the omni-‘s in scripture. Consider Genesis 1 where effectively everything is created by God (as if to say these created things are not gods); or how God basically fought the gods of Egypt so to speak with the 10 plagues (which all represented one of their gods) showing his superiority; or how God took Job on a tour of things he didn’t understand, constantly asking “do you know” and “can you do this”; or a new favorite of mine is Wisdom 13 which mentions idolaters which seek God but get distracted by beautiful created things, falling short of the “author of beauty.”
Another thing to note is that though scripture is divinely inspired, it indeed has human authorship, meaning they were written by a particular person in a particular time (CCC 106).
It actually is quite profound that a God who created something so big and complex could care about things so small and trivial (especially for people who were not aware of the expansive universe), because if not then we would have an unreachable God and no hope of eternal life, since God would be so far away that he couldn’t possibly care about our puny existence. But because he loves us and wills good for us, he went so far as to become one of us and die for us. This is the God that cares when a sparrow falls to the ground, this God knows the number of hairs on your head. This God speaks not so much in the whirlwind or the earthquake or the fire, but in a tiny whisper.
Much of this we can ascribe to what is called divine condescension, meaning “to go down with,” as well as progressive revelation, meaning God takes time to reveal more about himself. The Christian God meets us where we’re at, rather than expect us to climb to his heights. You don’t hear about a God who created a trillion galaxies in the Ancient Near East because the people God was trying to reach didn’t have a clue about even one galaxy until the 1600’s. Further, his intent isn’t to teach us the many secrets of his creation, but to will what is good for us in whatever time or situation we find ourselves in this fallen world. The reason we even came to know about a trillion galaxies is largely founded upon a Christian foundation, since we have a transcendent intelligent creator God (meaning the world is not god so it doesn’t offend him to test it, and it’s possible to test because it’s intelligible), and a motivation to better know creation so to better know the creator.
However, I don’t think you can so easily discount the omni-‘s in scripture. Consider Genesis 1 where everything is created by God (as if to say these created things are not gods themselves); or how God basically fought the gods of Egypt so to speak with the 10 plagues (which all represented one of their gods) showing his superiority; or how God took Job on a tour of things he didn’t understand, constantly asking “do you know” and “can you do this”; or a new favorite of mine is Wisdom 13 which mentions idolaters which seek God but get distracted by beautiful created things, falling short of the “author of beauty.”
Another thing to note is that though scripture is divinely inspired, it indeed has human authorship, meaning they were written by a particular person in a particular time (CCC 106).
It actually is quite profound that a God who created something so big and complex could care about things so small and trivial, because if not then we would have an unreachable God and no hope of eternal life, since God would be so far away that he couldn’t possibly care about our puny existence. But because he loves us and wills good for us, he went so far as to become one of us and die for us. This is the God that knows about and cares when a sparrow falls to the ground, this God speaks not so much in the whirlwind or the earthquake or the fire, but in a tiny whisper.
Much of this we can ascribe to what is called divine condescension, meaning “to go down with,” as well as progressive revelation, meaning God takes time to reveal more about himself. The Christian God meets us where we’re at, rather than expect us to climb to his heights. You don’t hear about a God who created a trillion galaxies in the Ancient Near East because the people God was trying to reach didn’t have a clue about even one galaxy until the 1600’s. Further, his intent isn’t to teach us the many secrets of his creation, but to will what is good for us in whatever time or situation we find ourselves in this fallen world. The reason we even came to know about a trillion galaxies is largely founded upon a Christian foundation, since we have a transcendent intelligent creator God (meaning the world is not god so it doesn’t offend him to test it, and it’s possible to test because it’s intelligible), and a motivation to better know creation so to better know the creator.
Much of this we can ascribe to what is called divine condescension, meaning “to go down with,” as well as progressive revelation, meaning God takes time to reveal more about himself. The Christian God meets us where we’re at, rather than expect us to climb to his heights. You don’t hear about a God who created a trillion galaxies in the Ancient Near East because the people God was trying to reach didn’t have a clue about even one galaxy until the 1600’s.
However, I don’t think you can so easily discount the omni-‘s in scripture. Consider Genesis 1 where everything is created by God (as if to say these created things are not gods themselves); or how God basically fought the gods of Egypt so to speak with the 10 plagues (which all represented one of their gods) showing his superiority; or how God took Job on a tour of things he didn’t understand, constantly asking “do you know” and “can you do this”; or a new favorite of mine is Wisdom 13 which mentions idolaters which seek God but get distracted by beautiful created things, falling short of the “author of beauty.”
Another thing to note is that though scripture is divinely inspired, it indeed has human authorship, meaning they were written by a particular person in a particular time (CCC 106).
It actually is quite profound that a God who created something so big and complex could care about things so small and trivial, because if not then we would have an unreachable God and no hope of eternal life, since God would be so far away that he couldn’t possibly care about our puny existence. But because he loves us and wills good for us, he went so far as to become one of us and die for us. This is the God that knows about and cares when a sparrow falls to the ground, this God speaks not so much in the whirlwind or the earthquake or the fire, but in a tiny whisper.
Regarding your ans et on Genesis and how it tells us that God created the world, just not how, I think it's interestong to put chapters 1 and 2 side to side, as the order of the Creation differs in both (man and woman together vs separately, and also plants days before man vs after he was milded from clay). Sounds like the men who wrote those parts and kept them side to side agree with this position.
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The Old Testament has a theme of failed attempts to eliminate sin. The New Testament theme is to live in a sin filled world. This also tell us or displays the man working to understand God.
God seems to fail consistently at stopping it. And hey, he designed us while being omniscient, so the outcome is part of the plan. If he wanted it any different, he couldve made a different version of humans.
@@trafalgarlaw8373 I'm struggling to follow the post. God failed at what? It would seem humans choose; they choose narcissism, commonly called original sin. We do not have to sin however we do. How can we blame our choices on God.
@@whatsup3270 Well apparently god wants to eliminate sin,but hes still not succeeded. He failed with his original design, he failed with the flood.
While you can blame individuals for their individual choices, god still chose the nature of humans. He chose the things we like, the sins we have inclincations for. At the point of designing, he knew EXACTLY which setup would lead to what outcome, every single choice we made. If he didn't like the future this would lead to, he could have changed it.
The way things are and went is exactly what he wanted and planned. Alternatively hes incapable of making his plan succeed, or us sinning etc is part of his plan and is what he wants.
@@trafalgarlaw8373 Again I struggle to follow that logic. What sin did God commit? Is the comment God doesn't need us so if eliminated there would be no sin. Or if we were incapable of choosing, we could not choose. Is the claim since God made us capable of choosing God must bear the consequences of our choice. It seems mixed with the claim the entire history every move was known first before man was created which is to say no man has ever actually sinned as he never had any choice. Again, that blames God., nice for us. I can't see any logic that leads me to believe we are just actors in a plan every thought and action already exists, and we just are the robot that performs. Our performance seems to benefit us not God. If one steals does God benefit? it seems to me God benefits when we benefit by choosing to follow his plan without his stripping our free will. This means high losses but excellent wins. We can benefit here, or we can benefit after it is our choice.
@@whatsup3270 1) What sin did god commit? Lots of killing in his book mostly, plus the whole creating a system where anyone he doesnt save is tortured forever. One can argue whether its immoral to not help people when you can, with all the horrible suffering that goes on.
2) Well, having choice is of course nice. But even with that, it's not like they're random. For example, a man cheating is partly led by lust for another woman, something new. Now, having that desire is not his choice, it's innate. His choice is to control it, and some other things. But if you assume god designed our nature, then you must also assume the desires we have, whether to help people or steal, are also something he intended.
He has created people without that, like angels. Or himself, depending on your perspective about what determined his nature
3) I think its fair to say we shouldnt give god responsibily for our mistakes and sins. However, we then also cannot give him responsibility for the good things we do. If i steal, it's my sin, and if I gift, it's my good deed.
Just watched this video with the wife. We loved the content but have a request ... can you perhaps take a breath between questions? You speak rapidly and go from one question to another with the speed of an auctioneer ... Just a little pause maybe 2-3 seconds before giving a new question/answer point would be nice. Are you on a time line? So that you have to cram as much data into an 8 segment period as possible? Just saying ...... Thank you for the content and your effort.
You know what they say, "the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night". Meaning we don't know how much time Fr. Casey has left to get us this info! That said, I wouldn't mind a quick pause for breath between questions either. ;D
This was an excellent teaching
I would just like to add that burning the Bible to stay warm would probably not provide more than 1-2 minutes of warmth. I think that might change one's calculation.
At best it would be good for kindling to create a larger fire, but beyond that, not much value as a source of heat.
So funny story, I don’t remember what video of yours I was watching, but you said at the beginning “ which God would you want? The God of the Old Testament or the God of the New Testament? Before you got your next sentence out, my thought was “ I want the god of the Old Testament. He continually is trying to woo the Israelites and Jesus talks about damnation the most of everybody.” You then said in the previous video something like, “ thinking they are two different gods is a heresy or something like that and most people probably want the hippie loving Jesus rather than the wrathful God of the Old Testament.” All I could do at that point was laugh.
I have a question, Father Casey. How can you say that God is literally angry when the Bible is not to be taken literally. I thought that theologically, God does not get angry as in literally. Can you expound more on that?
I'm not sure how Pope Pius XII concluded that there is no inherent conflict between evolution and Christianity. It seems to me that there is. Genesis and all the books that follow it were written based on what I'll call the "Static & Lonely Earth Principle." This principle holds that everything we see today is as God created it. Nothing existed before man, and nothing (no life) exists beyond Earth. That's how the writers of the Bible arrived at the notion that GOD MADE MAN IN HIS IMAGE. It's based on the idea that we were the purposeful pinnacle creation of a Supreme Being. But evolution leaves open the possibility that beings superior to us could exist elsewhere in the Universe or one day here on Earth. That would harpoon the idea of God specially and specifically creating Man as His crowning achievement. Since that belief is primary to the faith, I don't see how one can honestly believe in both evolution and the Bible.
Because the Bible is not a science textbook.
Hmm... I'd have to disagree here. Whether or not there are aliens out there, we do know that the Lord chose our giddy globe to send His son to. I doubt there would be an Incarnation on another planet, because of Romans 6:9 "knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him". That is, his sacrifice on Earth is enough for all Earthlings and space critters.
Loved this!
"the establishment of Israel is a sign from God" Guess who said that?
Amen
I would beg to differ about where to start reading the Bible. As it is such an enormous book, it can be very overwhelming to start somewhere in the middle. Since most people already know the basic gist of the gospels, I'd say try to read cover-to-cover. It's the only way I was able to not get distracted during the less exciting parts, and it helps, I hope, when reading certain passages later, to have a broad overview, that reading the whole thing can give you.
That hard thing about that is many are likely to read through Genesis and halfway through Exodus, then get kneecapped by all the rituals and laws in the second half, Leviticus, and Numbers, discouraging them from pushing through and getting to the more readable narratives. To go cover to cover you have to really want it no matter what. I think it is good to go cover to cover, to have a broad overview of everything, but you do have to want it or else you’ll get stuck some places and it’ll take 3 years to get to the New Testament (which was my case)
Yes, the Septuagint/LXX is older than the Masoretic Text…but that’s such a misleading statement. The MT is in the original Hebrew. So that, in chapter 7, Isaiah says “the almah (young woman) conceive.” In the LXX, it says “the virgin (παρθένος) will conceive,” leading to the idea that this verse was about immaculate conception (it does not have that connotation in Hebrew, nothing about the word “almah” denotes virginity).
So yeah, the LXX is older than the MT, but the MT better preserves the meaning of the Old Testament by not having botched translations like that. Which is why even the Bible you recommended (NAB), which has the Catholic seal of approval, uses the MT as the base for translation of the non-apocryphal parts of the Old Testament. By saying the LXX is older than the MT, you seem to be implying that Luther’s choice NOT to use the LXX made his translation inferior to preexisting Catholic translations based on the LXX. But all Bible scholars today agree the MT preserves the original Old Testament better than the LXX, hence the official Catholic translators no longer use the LXX (except for the deuterocanonical books, of course).
Of yeah and, same goes for the Jewish religion, it doesn’t use the LXX and there are only 24 books (Genesis to Chronicles) in their Bible. So Protestants and Jewish people agree on canon, it’s just the former has the New Testament to interpret the Old Testament whereas the latter has the Talmud for interpretation.
I expected more from this video. Yes, the old testament god has his good moments, and jesus gets angry (like... once?), but there IS a very clear difference between god in the old and new testament. Even a child can see that
Again, I think this is a case of selective reading. The God of the Old Testament is far, FAR more merciful in almost every case than he is angry.
@@BreakingInTheHabit that may be the case... but he still was responsible for literal genocides and the destruction of entire cities. He was merciful to his own chosen people (sometimes, and at the cost of the lifes of others)... but ask the egyptians, Sodom, Gomorrah... everyone on earth except from one family (according to the Noah story). Yes a lot of people may ignore the good stuff, but you are also doing your own kind of selective reading.
Actually Gods Chosen people the Jews do not believe the so called Apocrypha is not Spirit inspired so they do not put into their Jewish Bible The Torah and the Tanach are what they accept! same with the Messianic Jews!
Father Casey, is Eucharistic adoration idolatry?
The Eucharist is the true body of Christ, and so, by definition it cannot be idolatry. But people's approach to it can be very idolatrous when they approach it as a magical object with no effect on their lives. If your "worship" God is only about getting what you want without any desire for conversion or mercy, then you're not worshipping God, you're worshiping yourself.
God v1 was a cruel entity, drowning babies and innocent children.
Many years later v2 became jesus, a kind human who performed lots of party tricks.
His role was top soften the cruelty of the old testament.
I'm now waiting for v3.
I'm not sure how a Christian could believe in evolution since it contradicts Genesis.
No it doesn't. Evolution is a scientific theory. The creation accounts in Genesis are theological statements.
As Galileo remarked: the Bible teaches “how to go to heaven not how the heavens go."
@byrondickens Evolution is no Adam and no Eve. No Adam, no sin. No sin, no Christ
@@sbaker8971 Wrong.
@byrondickens Just wrong? No explanation on why it's wrong?
@@sbaker8971 I already explained it to you but I can't understand it for you.
I'm reading the New American Bible. Where does Jesus say anything about eternal damnation? Am I missing something? He talks about Gehenna, the Outer Darkness, and contrasts the life of the age with the pruning of the age. All of these are states of being we experience in this life. None of this is about what happens after we die. The Kingdom is here and now, and we choose here and now whether or not we are part of it. Jesus says nothing about the afterlife in all His teachings except in parables which are meant to alert us to what we need to do in our lives today. So please list any verse where Jesus talks about the afterlife in terms of eternal damnation.
Matthew 25 is the judgment of nations, and Revelations speaks extensively about the world that is fading and the world that will come.
@@BreakingInTheHabit Where in Matthew 25 does He talk about eternal damnation? He compares the sheep getting the life of the age to come (living in the Kingdom now) and the goats getting the Kolasis (pruning, chastisement) of the age to come. There is no word in this passage that suggests an eternal state.
Revelation is allegory. It is talking about the fall of Jerusalem. All the events alluded to in Revelation have already happened, and none of them lasted forever.
6:51 This is a non-sequitur. It does not follow that the Greek Septuagint is a more accurate canon of Scripture than the Masoretic Text just because the Greek Septuagint is older. That's like saying that the Marcionite canon of the New Testament is correct because it predates Athanasius' list by over 200 years.
The comments regarding infallibility were rather interesting from a Protestant perspective, because I have met some Protestants who believe that the Bible was “entirely free from error” and “literally true” in “the original manuscripts.” Somewhat ironically, I can’t find the least bit of biblical justification for this idea, and tend to go for the Catholic ideas about infallibility and some amount of non-literality instead (with, of course, the Protestant proviso that scripture is nevertheless a higher authority than any synod counsel or whatever).
A book is not an authority. Authorities are people or organizations that have the right and ability to settle a dispure.
If what you mean by the "Bible is an authority" is that those that produced the Bible had authorities greater than anyone active today: that's true. The Bible is part of the Deposit of Faith, which is what the Apostles gave to the church as public revelations. The books of the Bible, though not in a clear list, are part of what the Apostles' authority binds us to.
Nobody has a higher authority than the Apostles, but you may have misunderstandings on the contents of the deposit of Faith, it's the church's job and her inherited, lesser authority that steps in to solve disputes about what the Apostles have already bound
@@tafazziReadChannelDescription uhh, if this is meant to be the start of some explanation of why “sola scriptura” is wrong, don’t bother. You wouldn’t be the first Catholic on UA-cam (and specifically in comments on Father Casey’s videos) to attempt (and fail) to convince me of the error of my Protestant beliefs, and UA-cam isn’t the only social media platform where Catholics have tried and failed. I’m better educated in theology and ecclesiology than most lay Catholics, and that education is a large part of why, while I respect my Catholic brethren and the good men of the Catholic Church like Father Casey, and find things like these educational videos worth watching, I will almost certainly never be Catholic.
@@logicisusefulwhy are you misusing the word authority, by attributing it to a book, if you have such an extensive education?
@@tafazziReadChannelDescription why can’t a book be an authority? You said that, but you provided exactly no justification for it.
@@logicisuseful An authority means a person or organization that has the right and ability to settle a dispute.
Is the Bible litterally a person? No. If it "governs" in a given context, it's through an exegete, who is the authority.
Are you using a different definition of the word authority?
Okay you better understand this the right way. Dark humor is about pro-creative unconditionally and God the Father told them to go sow their loins … Jesus our savior went through the transfiguration. Sorry I really hope that doesn’t sound arrogant and too Catholic!
BTW Father Casey thank you for your channel 🙂
Thank you for your perspective on evolution. I will be recommending this video if the topic comes up again.
Yeah I have always viewed evolution as Gods tool box
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1:02 not only the chapters and verses....
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
Selective reading sure:
Elohim killing every man woman and child at Sodom (Genesis 19:24),ordering the ripping the unborn from their mother's womb (Hosea 13:16) slowly killing Beshebas's baby (2 Samuel 12 17) killing the Firstborn (Exodus 12:29) putting to death women, children and infants (1 Samuel 15:3), has 2 She bear kill boys (2 Kings 2:24), killing Jobs children (Job 1: 19) and all the other tales of God killing children
What did the Babies do to derserve such punishment from God
i have the full apocrypha/ deuterocanonical texts in a seperate book. there are some theological divergencies with the standard 66 book bible
1995 NASB is the best translation imo.
There was no Police or National Army then so no rule of law.
Correction about the Apocrypha. Luther had access to Greek, Hebrew and Latin texts. The main reason the reformers treated the Apocrypha the way they did is because they saw that the Jewish people did not consider the Apocrypha to be part of the Bible. There is more to it than that of course.
Jews rejected it only in 2nd century AD.
Is it okay to believe that Jesus is not temporal, and also circumstantial to the fact that I can live to receive him, meaning that there's a Jesus for every believer, and he's born of the Virgin Mary of the said believer?
I have no idea what this question is asking about. Jesus is the second person of the Trinity who incarnated into time as a man and ascended into heaven with his humanity. Make of that what you will.
@killianmiller6107 wouldn't his ascension be the thing that allows scholars to point at Jesus before he was born in time and space, meaning that the born Jesus of flesh is just an example of the universal Jesus that is not purely a physical entity?
I pray when we finally meet the space aliens they already know and have a relationship with Jesus 🥲
I see you enjoy drinking the Kool-Aid. Of foolishness and mythology.
God had to be harsh because of how the society was then. Do you treat a seasoned terrorist or a serial killer with kid gloves?
I feel like society isn’t any better now though. We may have different issues, but issues nonetheless. But God has always remained the same! God may have seemed more harsh back then, but God hasn’t changed. If He has changed, that implies He was imperfect, which isn’t the case!
I am not trying to disagree or anything, your comment just sparked some thinking :)
You fall into the trap of literalism. However, not even the apostles understood the Hebrew Bible as literally true: see 1 Peter 3:21, where the flood is compared to baptism. Now, God is angry because we should not be: the wrath of God is a consolation that prevents us from transgressing because we act in anger. Vengeance is mine, says the Lord, no doubt because we should not seek revenge.
Harsh? God goes around murdering kids en masse. In 2 Samuel he personally slowly kills an innocent, defenseless child. To punish the dad. This is the pinnacle of morality: murdering kids to prove a point.
People doing bad stuff is often the case. And god designed humans and our nature personally while knowing how it would turn out, so this is according to plan.
You say "kid gloves" but his kid gloves seem to mostly be murder
We can’t so easily discount the “literal” sense of scripture (what the words are literally conveying), though I try to make a distinction between that and a literalistic interpretation (ie reading the “days” in Gen 1 as literal 24hr periods). Just because Peter uses the flood narrative as a symbol for baptism doesn’t mean there was not a massive flood event being accounted in the Bible (I’m inclined to believe it was an embellished local event), the same way we can view the crossing of the Red Sea as a symbol of baptism. Real events can be used as symbols for other teachings, in fact it’s more supportive if it actually happened.
@@killianmiller6107 I don't disagree with you. Actual events referenced are often meant to convey a teaching. The factual truth is the coat hanger for a splendorous robe of wisdom and faith.
The Old Testament God demands genocide and you avoided that topic... because you have no answer.
When? The Canaanites? When Moses is ordered to slaughter them all.
Turns out they still existed after the conflict. Soooooooo we can safely say they were speaking in Hyperbole which is in exaggeration.
The one and only verse is in 1 Samuel, which is the book of the hebrew Bible with the worst textual corruptions...