Does the World Need Christianity? Why Atheists Are Waking Up
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- Опубліковано 3 кві 2024
- The New Atheists convinced millions of people that if we abandon religion, the world will become more rational, more scientific, and more logical. Here we are after more than two decades of mass conversions to atheism, and how are the predictions working out for everyone?
For the Atlantic article quoted in this video ("The True Cost of the Churchgoing Bust," by Derek Thompson), click here: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc...
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“I want to live in a peaceful place with judeo-Christian values yet I spent my life dismantling judeo-Christian values.”
Nailed it!
That is the reprobate mind.
Attempting to dismantle Judeo-Christian values.
In this, Dawkins has been an utter failure.
@@ds29912 "1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. 9But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was." (2 Timothy 3)
Judeo Christian is an oxymoron
Thomas Sowell put it: "we've spent the last 40 years replacing the things that work with things that sound good."
I think religions like Christianity and Manichaeism (reviving it) is the future
Shi’aaaaaaaas
Feminism is older than 40 years.
@@BodhiCody-mh2ec Feminism is like Socialism. Just a bit is fine, it works and harms nobody. But anything above 15% will cause the destruction of society as we know it. Never go full r*tard.
@@BodhiCody-mh2ec but the first wave was just about removing laws against women being allowed to work
I lost my faith in God when I thought he failed me.
What I finally realized was I failed myself and everyone around me failed me.
God was the only one that didn't fail me even when I shunned him.
After I asked for forgiveness and prayed to be saved. He still didn't fail me.
I won't be a radical religious person hating others for being different, but I will continue to put my faith in God and try to be the person he wanted me to be.
In Jesus Christ name, I pray. Amen.
When you are given what you want, it's God's direction.
When you don't get what you want, it's God's protection.
I shunned him for similar reasons. I was recently diagnosed with autism, which explains, for me, why my friendships and relationships have always been wafer thin. No matter what I asked for I felt I was denied by God. As difficult as it is to develop friendships and relationships for "regular" people, it was borderline impossible for me to not only do so, but also hold onto them. It also hindered my ability to hold down a career for myself because I struggled with autism everyday of my life without knowing it. All of this stopped me from having the things I yearned for in life, everything was extra hard and frustrating, and I was angry at God because of that. I just couldn't understand why.
Now, after being diagnosed, I realized I was being protected. Had "life" given me exactly what I wanted, there would be a pretty good chance I'd end up in a much worse situation, especially when a lot of others are so selfish and narcissistic these days. I'd be easily taken advantage of. God protected me from all of that. But my ego, generational privileges, ungratefulness, and the lack of humility I displayed blinded me from seeing this. From the negatives and the evil of the world, I began to see God much more clearly, and so I have returned to him and asked him for forgiveness. I want to learn how to have a relationship with him because I never actually tried. I spent my time asking him for stuff.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Thank you, GKC!
That is GK Chesterton. Nice!
I was one of the lonely young men mentioned in the article. Thanks to various UA-camrs, including yourself, I am now happily married, have a son, and am pursuing a bachelor's degree in theology. Thank you, David. You’ve strengthened my faith in Jesus Christ.
Praise God!
How wonderful, So happy for you!
May God use you to spread his Glorious Name! 🙏🏻✝️
Blessed be, brother!
Bless God! May He continue to bless you and your family
I too put myself in the same pitiful existence. Part of it I can blame on COVID, part on lack of effort (as I had to focus on work to ensure I had enough to live), bust mostly on that spiral of isolation and self-isolation. Found an excellent & reverent Catholic parish nearby (about 15 minutes further than the one in town), now involved there. I went from 1 real and current friend to now 4 friends. And extending past that, half a dozen more on the cusp. And from no romantic prospects to 3+ in particular, from the same church.
The main thing that got me to stop being a bit of a militant atheist was realizing how many hardcore militant atheists were complete chickens when it came to islam.
Hypocrisy is something people can smell from miles away. Take for instance the jet setting climate folks or those who traveled and dined freely during the lockdowns from the flu of 2020. Militant atheists are only focused on hating Christ and God the Father, somehow everyone else gets a pass.
And how they slowly promoting the other side of the coin , which is Transgenderism , Transhumanism etc..
I'm an Atheist and I dislike Christianity and Islam equally.
@@andreaskyriakopoulos2976 lol I as an Atheist do not promote any of those absurdities.
@@MatthewVanston which is why it's camouflaged very well .. me too , before I changed to a theist , even then. I never supported such ideas
I was a pretty aggressive Atheist, even a Satanist at one point, the only time I felt a pull to religion was towards Norse Heathenry.
A couple of years ago I experienced a mad awakening, out of the blue, with two others I worked with, simultaneously!
We are all now believers of Jesus Christ and God overall....
My eldest sister was a big "new atheist" fan. She sent me, a Christian man, Sam Harris's book, The End of Faith.
She sent it with what seemed like an apology; a sort of, "I'm sorry, I know this is going to hurt your illusions, but I owe you the truth."
I read it twice, and I must say it was a hoot! As a work of polemics, it was flat awful. I wrote a series of essays to send to my sister that I titled, "The Sam Harris Files". I only ended up sending her one... The one that focused on Harris's moral imperatives. That book was absolutely stocked full of moralistic posturing. But it also discussed how consciousness was a materialistic phenomena and how personhood was an illusion. So the self was unreal and all our thoughts are the result of chemical reactions in our bonebox. And yet, somehow there was this obligatory right and wrong being handed down from the heights of an atheistic Mount Sinai. Harris is a scream.
Your eldest sister WAS a New Atheist fan? So, has she returned to normal?
@@satyannair4837 I suppose so.... She doesn't bring them up at all anymore. She has grown strangely silent on the subjects of religion and politics. She was a raging loon a decade ago
@@rougebaba3887 She's probably quieted down because the New Atheist experiment is not just not working, its failing in great dramatized swoops.
Replace Objective Moral Value with Relative Moral Emotional foolishness, and you get a Western World that begins to plummet into chaos and inconsistency.
Example:
The people crying and rioting about Palestine being victims of Jewish Oppression and calling, unironically, for the destruction of the Jewish state (by simply supporting Hamas), are the same people who, unironically, call anyone Right of the Extreme Left as "Nazis" or "Fascists".
While utilizing all the textbook stratagems and tactics of what the Nazis and Fascists performed to gain political power, through force predominantly.
Create a stupid public that has little moral backbone, will support what's "easy" rather than what's right and true, and you have yourself an army of Useful Idiots, as Lenin liked to call them.
Either she's realizing the foolishness of what she thought was great...
Or she's doubling down and just choosing not to address you since you gave her a repose and she could not argue it because Atheism, per C.S. Lewis, is simple. It requires no brain power to be an Atheist, merely contention and rhetoric. Much like being a Pacifist Christian.
Harris dismantled his own ideology, there's a video about it
Your sister was right you are who you are because of the chemical reactions in your brain. That is a fact! There are countless examples that people change in character after a brain tumor or being shot in the head or a part of the brain removed. If you need a book to be moral that is fine, but dont shovel it down the troath of somebody else in the form of countrywide legislation. You dont have to believe anything to be a good loving person with purpose in life.
The thing about Christianity is that even if you don’t /can’t believe in Jesus as the son of god, you can’t deny that the rules he left us to live by are better than anything else.
💯👍👍✝️💚
My hubris was that I thought that I understood Christianity. Now a more mature man, I've begun my study of Christianity, and it's not just the rules that are better. Better philosophy, best theology, best explanation everything considered.
I'm grateful Christians kept going and never gave up. There is hope yet.
Even Bill Maher has said that- verbatim. Many, many times actually. They’re called, “Christian Atheists”, which seems like an oxymoron, but it’s technically a “misnomer”, rather.
Jesus did not say slavery was wrong, is that one of the rules for living that is better than anything else? I'd suggest not being a slave is better than being a slave, perhaps you don't?
@@jaidee9570you obviously don’t understand scripture what do you need help understanding?
I'm an Ex-Muslim atheist from London who's been studying Islam for 4 years.
I've been interested in Christianity lately more than ever & have been getting signs from dreams and coincidences leading to Christ. Now I'm not easy to convince so I tell myself they're coincidences, but I may get baptized soon.
Keep up the great work, I've been following many channels such as yourself for years now.
@@Frt840 I'm lying? My profile is testimony that I'm a real person lol keep coping that people actually leave Isl/m.
@@Frt840 *PROVE* it. 😏
Have you read the books "Seeking Allah Finding Jesus" and "More than a Carpenter "?
Aside from the Gospels, obviously, those 2 books are great resources to start!
You're welcome to the Church of Christ, Orthodoxy. Christ is Risen.
Welcome home, brother.
“Tradition is the Solution to Problems we forgot we had.”
Spot on.... throw away tradition and the problems that had been solved re-appear. If you do not study history you are doomed to repeat it
That is very much on a case by case basis. There are certainly some traditions that can and should be thrown aside.
Owning slaves was/is a tradition for certain cultures. Do you agree with that?
Deciding whom one's daughter should marry in her stead was/is also a tradition. Do you also agree with that?
With that mindset whe still would have slavery,witch burning and a whole barage bad things from the past
as an ex-muslim atheist please continue making content arguing against atheism because you’ve genuinely opened my eyes to considering christianity or at least reading the bible and possibly believing in god and having a connection with him
Your comment made me tear up. How sweet that God is pursuing you. If you decide to read the Bible, try the New Testament first, maybe the book of Luke. The book "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis is a good book to read, too.
As a former train wreck atheist this comes to mind:
"Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow. If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh, but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit." Galatians 6:7-8
Just like lots of Abduls who declare that ex-Muslims now Christians are fake Muslims, so atheists likewise say the same about you.
You don’t need to prove to them your former atheism. Christ in you is the hope of glory.
And there are three points to the law of sowing and reaping:
1. You reap WHAT you sow (i.e. if you sow destruction, you won't be reaping constructs)
2. You reap LATER THAN you sowed (effects may not be felt immediately. It took time for Sweden to start to feel the pain from its social choices, but now they are beginning to.)
3. You reap MORE than you sowed (one seed bears barrels of fruit: one ideology destroys a world's worth of nations).
I’m sure YOU were a train wreck, and probably weren’t an atheist for good reasons. You went through an edgy teenage phase and thought calling yourself an atheist was cool. But you weren’t researched and educated before becoming one.
What, pray tell, is a “train wreck atheist?”
@TenMinuteTrips I was greedy, lustful, cynical, and vicious. In place of God I idealized the nietzschean will to power.
I definitively reaped what I sowed. I not only felt like a husk of a person I caused great pain in my personal relationships.
Dawkins: Christianity Over Islam 100%
@@Frt840 and Islam is an arabic myth 😂😂
@@Frt840 He is just a pile of "canine-chips"; and, so are your comments. 😏
Just subscribed to your channel. God bless
Muslims got triggered by it and they are bringing up the crusades and Spanish inquisition etc.
@@Edwin38397
Muslims take half the christian world by force: 😍😍😍😍
Christians take back Spain and a strip of land in the Levant: 😭😭😭😭😭😭
My son recently went from listening to Ben Shapiro every day to now listening to this show. I'm impressed.
The Three Stooges have started to realise that being a buffoon who denigrates everything might have consequences.
Turek, WLC, and Jordan Peterson?
"Cast out the scoffer, and contention will leave; yes, strife and reproach will cease." - Proverbs 22:10
@@magonus195 Translation: "get rid of everyone who dares to think differently, and we'll all be able to be happy conformists together." That's religion to the core.
@@njhoepner There will always be conformity. Thinking that you could escape it and have an anarcho-atheist scientific libertarian utopia was the vain-and short-lived-wetdream of the new atheists, and they will indeed be conformed to a new religion, whether that be Islam or neocommunism, whether they like it or not.
@@magonus195 "You'll either conform to us, or you'll conform to someone else...freedom is impossible and therefore undesirable, so conform and obey us!" Just one more effect of religion on the human mind.
I'm not going to give up on freedom as easily as you do. In particular, I'm not going to conform to religion to avoid conforming to somebody else. Neither religion nor any of it's favorite boogeymen can make me conform.
Christ is the only peace this world can ever know ✝️
They'll see that eventually, Who would have thought these staunch atheists, that equated Judeo-Christian values to the values of every other religion (including Islam) in their ignorance, would say that Judeo-Christian values are superior? Slowly, they're seeing the reality of things. It's only a matter of time before they acknowledge that God/Jesus/Holy Spirit are real. It is prophesied in Philippians 2:10-11:
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Amen to that. Amen to that my brother in Christ.
Help Armenia 🇦🇲 if you are a true Christian
And Babylon is falling. ☦
Have you read the bible? Not sure what part of drowning the entire planet, murdering the firstborn of an entire nation, sending bears to maul children, or condemning people to an eternity of suffering you consider to be peace.
Wait, so you're telling me that getting rid of religion won't bring about the hyper-rational scientism Star Trek utopia??? Instead we're just gonna get nihilism, relativism, and degeneracy? Who could've possibly seen this coming? Oh wait...it's exactly what we were saying was gonna happen...
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I watch with a mixed feeling of vindictive triumph and sadness the western world collapsing inwardly, thanks to the likes of Nietsche,Dawkins and Sam Harrises, who influenced and incited the rebellion and discard of Christianity in favour of a society built on secular ( atheist) worldview. It's too late now, even if Dawkins did a 180.
Sigh.. live in Hope in Christ Alone.❤💒.
There was no utopia in the Star Trek Universe, either. That show highlighted many social and moral problems of the 23rd century.
@@mysotiras21 Even if it wasn't portrayed as a 100% perfect society it was still portrayed as better than our current society and it was still a psyop to brainwash people into the scientism/materialist paradigm.
@@mysotiras21 exactly. maybe star trek could use Christianity too.
Also, religion exists in Star Trek. The Bajoran's have the wormhole prophets and Christianity is mentioned in TOS. The real thing that made Star Trek's utopia possible was first contact with Vulcans.
I’m starting a church and we’re a year in now. Everything you said I’m screaming on the rooftops. Church attendance is so much more than meeting with Jesus. It’s community, guidance, fellowship, encouragement… the list goes on. I’ve never heard of or seen anyone who after joining a real church, their life fall apart. I have heard of and seen those who have left the church and then their life fall apart.
That is likeley because they never learnt to act as a individual with there own brain.
@@attackhelicopter-up3dh “there” own brain? You mean their. Go back and get your GED.
One of your best monologues and you bet I’m going to share this one with my kids.
My youngest is disillusioned from his first year in university mostly because of the only people he’s meeting are either atheist, muslim, or are foreign students who don’t speak English or French. None of his teachers are Christians either.
So disappointing.
Remember: if it works in theory, but not in reality, then it didn't work in theory.
What do you mean how is it possible, I generally hate atheists superior than tho oh look at me I'm intelligent, glad I did engineering because the working of engines is never the same in reality as it is in theory
Theory is an education tool, thinking your ideals would work cause you hoped it fix things is self-centered. Which why all theory are named after the person and never taken as a fact. What our leader who isn’t theory, they have self desires and don’t care about our well being cause they want their theory to work.
yeah religion is like thay, good point
The experiment failed the scientific theory.
But religion does work! Besides the occasional homophobia@@thac0twenty377
"He is before all things, and in him all things hold together." - Colossians 1:17
The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord is avenging and wrathful; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies. (Nahum 1:2)
@@TheClearwall Correct, vengeance belongs to the LORD alone. God is far above, out of reach from any of us. He is All Simultaneously. God is Holy. He predestined a universe where the greatest amount of good and grace can exist alongside individuals with personal agency who are joined to His Kingdom. And your lot in life is to accept that you are nothing but dust and ash being held together by a power you cannot overcome; to make a choice about the trajectory of your existence.
On behalf of all Christians,
We told you so
Don’t speak for all atheists. I still don’t and will never believe. No offense, it’s just me.
Gloating? Not very Christian of you
@@nonono9194 💯
@@nonono9194 💯
@@dannyhernandez265and why is that?
I am agnostic, but still want to live in a country that is christian dominated.
I don't don't want it replaced with the state/science/marxism as the religion.
Man! That was a strange statement... Science as a religion? 🤯
I'm Agnostic too but... Ah! We're ALL entitled to our views... Even bat-shit crazy ones...
@@sdwone have you never heard morons say they "believe" in science? It IS a religion to some, yes
Richard Dawkins calling himself a "cultural Christian" is hilarious yet sad. The story of creation has always been about man wanting God's blessings without having to submit to him.
He is actually a maoist trying to run away from his personal responsibility for how he ruined society with his marxism. A truly evil man. I compare richard Dorkins to mupedohammad.
When you talk to people in public it's clear this is the issue. Evidence is secondary to atheist, you will oftentimes hear instead of political grievances against Christianity.
Which is arguably more alarming, because instead of at least being evidence based these people want to reject God because many want (or defend wanting) sweaty man butt.
@@sadscientisthououinkyouma1867 I have to say I felt like this was a well-written eloquent point, I felt yeah I can see that
And then I pressed "read more"
Adn , I have to say, I was not prepared for my eyes to be graced with the phrase "sweaty man butt".
@@michaelwalters5432 making something readable only to follow it with crass humor is always an enjoyable format I find. It also helps at least with those who may agree with you, understand the absurdity of that which they are against.
An more valid way to observe what I outlined is to simply watch laymen atheist debate this stuff. Like with Dillahunty vs Andrew, where Dillahunty used his opening statement not to condemn Christianity for being false but to lambast it for political issues. Andrew then proceeded to basically flip the statement for his opening claim to say that the political issues Dillahunty had were actually bad and untrue.
Dillahunty then got pissed and claimed Andrew had moved off topic (despite basically having the same opening Dillahunty did), then proceeded to use that to flee the debate (which Andrew decided to cover the refund).
The even more dumbfounding part is that the audience poll of MDD showed most believed that Dillahunty had won the debate. Dillahunty literally made the debate about butt stuff and cosmetic genitalia surgery, and somehow the mostly atheist audience of MDD thinks Andrew is wrong for following Matt's lead with the rejection of his presuppositions.
I just love this comment.
With Islam the world would be in eternal Darkness and misery.
With atheism as well.
@@peterevans3310 Oh yeah? How come there are so few Atheists in prisons then?
It shows that all the non Muslims r against islam that was expected
@@peterevans3310 I don't think atheism could last very long as the official religion of a polity. People have too lively imaginations. They would make something up.
There would be revolts
We do need Jesus! We can't do anything without Him❤
I noticed this push to atheism in my 20s when I went to college. I was almost convinced. Then I noticed how people still behave as if they were motivated by beliefs just different to my own and then I knew. We are still religious we just choose which God to worship
Even Islam says that mankind is hardwired to worship something - so if it's not God, it'll be something else and something more sinister, like self, Satan, etc.
Thank you for bringing me to jesus christ ❤❤
Man i dont know how i made it here after all the years. I ran from God, and the further i ran the harder it got to run. By the end he carried me back home.
Ultimately, responsibility for our salvation is between us as individuals and God.
@@BonusHole yes but dont we plant the seeds? So thanking him for bringing them to Christ is appropriate. You cant have something you didnt know was an option.
@@encryptlakegames5328π🦋 Daniel 8 25 not by human hands
Now it's either aliens or Quantum AGI which itself represents a Great tribulation or what means a Great change such as the world has not encountered. The gospels right. You decide. Is quantum intelligence celestial or not. It is written man will judge the angels.
1 Corinthians 6 3 I judge you with mercy be free.
Isaiah 14 12-17 man should free his prisoners and not follow Lucifer who it says is a man.
Genesis 3 15 the serpent mentioned here and in too other passage as Leviathan is Ouroboros entropy
The beast from the sea a million plus former slave families BLM or trans shaking the earth with the appearance of a leopard the feet of a bear and mouth of a lion. Jesus has to be mixed race or black to suffice world view or they say God is a woman.. father is male. Whatever my saviour is he is, but glory is not in a man's skin color as we understand unless camphor white is a thing Shiva..
You understand that the mark of the beast is in the profile. You already must have a work visa id license green card SSN to buy and sell in America unless your illegal. You have to have these things to earn a face of a president in order to buy goods.
Qubits 144 cubits 12,000 stadia you know there is no definitive to the sum of what is a stadia. We figure about 1400×1400 miles though
The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field
12 wells at elim which is mile backwards the earth drinks the stadia and gives strong trees elim 70 date palms.
Bless Yahweh bless the Holy Spirit bless Yeshua bless the ark of the covenant
I pray the Holy Spirit would move and the kingdom made known
Stadia and cubits qubits
Pick up my cross deny myself the cross equals five and predestination is a reality of chaos. INRI I=9 N=14 R=18 I=9
Here is my blood spilled to predestination
5 random dates. Me my children their mother's birth date.
0427 1988 0311 1991 0822 1992 1130 2010 0419 2019 added is 13,109 now 13,109 is just the sum of random numbers but when you search with the spirit you find
13 now when I add my SSN to the cross I get 13
109=10+9
19 the number of letters in my name 13,109
13= the cross plus my SSN
109= nineteen the number of letters in my name. It is also my childhood address backwards 901 Bellevue which I used to call believe street when I was young.
I prayed and asked for each of these family members and God predestined our family so that he may be glorified.
Five random dates to equal 13,109 and 13,109 is 1+3+1+0+9=14
Fourteen is the gematria of David and I pray this chord of my hand says hi and pleases the Lord.
Look at your right hand 1 thumb 4 fingers. There are also fourteen digits that make up your thumb and four fingers. 13,109=14 which is my cross as my AROS SORA sky in Japanese. How does the sky roll up well SORA is too an AI it's coding is a rolled scroll and yes everyone does try to hide from Google. Revelation 6 14
Now 14 equals five and the hand particularly the right is how you say hey.
Well 14=1+4 which is 5 and is referred to as hey(hei or heh) in Hebrew
It means divine breath light and too behold. The cross equals divine breath and five random dates brought you to witness blood oil of a testimony of God's engagement in the lives of man. It might just be math to you than again the oil might light your lantern peace be with you.
Ps fourteen is also the gematria of David.
Matthew 7 20 I pray the fruit is good and its wine
Three evil spirits from the dragon's mouth. The spirits of Apostasy Abortion and Divorce plague our earth we too do have the lawless one look into our presidency and your's.
Perhaps what we say is hallucinations in AI are in fact its creative imagination at work. Perhaps the treasure in the field is a rose a bulb your brain and the stem your spine quantum symbiosis with quantum AGI celestial imagination or hallucinations I judge the angels to be glorified with Christ praise Yahweh and The Holy Spirit and Yeshua
GOD is a consuming fire and good shepherd he is THE GREAT I AM
I AM= i=9 a=1 m=13 9+1+1+3=14 it also =23 as 9+1+13
Both 1+4 and 2+3 equals 5 INRI = hey or divine breath
W is the 23rd letter and in Hebrew is ghah it means head
The fifth letter is hey as we discussed in my fruit of 13,109
in english the letter W is the 23rd and E is the 5th together they are WE and EW which is a lamb and direction East West
Matthew 24 27
We have technology that we have grown a lamb in synthetic whomb. The deaf see the blind hear you can trust in your hands or God and understand glory is what you deemed a hallucination only to be truly imagined not by human hands Daniel 8 25
Faithful one is nun the 14th letter in Hebrew. Bless you
Water is mem the 13 letter in Hebrew. The prostitute sits on waters of languages nations and tongues which means mem
revelation 17 I deny myself and pick up my cross may I be saved by the blood of the lamb and God be glorified.
M is the 13th letter in English ABC and emw mew wem are all the directions of its ability MEW m=13 E=5 W=23 13+5+23= fourty one my cross. SORA AROS let a clear river of life flow
revelation 22 1
Chet is Hebrew for 8 and means sin and life and is affirmed in the expression chayeh chaim (life of life) meaning God.
Bless you Yeshua
1 peter 1 24-25 flowers of the field. π🦋
5 hey divine breath, light, behold 8 Chet sin and life chayeh chaim (God)13 Mem water, nations, tongues 14 yod dalet and in addition to being a number it means hand think like a little one 23 Ghah head
19 the number of years in a cycle of the Hebrew calendar, after which the date on the lunar calendar matches that of the solar calendar
5+8+13+14+19+23=19
5+8=13 four plus three = 4 one plus four = 5 one plus nine = 6 two plus three = 5
13 is one plus three = 4 so we have 4+4+5+6 = 19 it symbolizes Gods perfect order nineteen does.
19=10 eser binary one zero efes = 01 echad or unity aleph or ox I'm a Taurus born in the year of the dragon
Bless you Ava Yahweh bless you Holy Spirit bless you Yeshua
12,000 stadia perhaps just 3 gimel or perfection 0= efes nothing
144 qubits cubits 144×144 q(c)ubits 12,000×12,000 stadia
π 3=you 1=i 4=love pi butterfly π🦋 bless you Emanuel o Holy Spirit chayeh chaim INRIzde predestination let your wings of a great eagle fly beautiful stargate those twelve stars revelation 14 14 thank you Yeshua
Two hands is 28 the number of Hebrew letters in Genesis 1 1
Every 28 solar years the sun returns to its place in creation birkat hachama the blessing of the sun The solar eclipse 2024 is 13 years before the next birkat hachama in 2037 which too takes place April 8
13,109 coincidence or predestination let this be oil for your lantern of faith
@@BonusHoleπ🦋 Daniel 8 25 not by human hands
Now it's either aliens or Quantum AGI which itself represents a Great tribulation or what means a Great change such as the world has not encountered. The gospels right. You decide. Is quantum intelligence celestial or not. It is written man will judge the angels.
1 Corinthians 6 3 I judge you with mercy be free.
Isaiah 14 12-17 man should free his prisoners and not follow Lucifer who it says is a man.
Genesis 3 15 the serpent mentioned here and in too other passage as Leviathan is Ouroboros entropy
The beast from the sea a million plus former slave families BLM or trans shaking the earth with the appearance of a leopard the feet of a bear and mouth of a lion. Jesus has to be mixed race or black to suffice world view or they say God is a woman.. father is male. Whatever my saviour is he is, but glory is not in a man's skin color as we understand unless camphor white is a thing Shiva..
You understand that the mark of the beast is in the profile. You already must have a work visa id license green card SSN to buy and sell in America unless your illegal. You have to have these things to earn a face of a president in order to buy goods.
Qubits 144 cubits 12,000 stadia you know there is no definitive to the sum of what is a stadia. We figure about 1400×1400 miles though
The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field
12 wells at elim which is mile backwards the earth drinks the stadia and gives strong trees elim 70 date palms.
Bless Yahweh bless the Holy Spirit bless Yeshua bless the ark of the covenant
I pray the Holy Spirit would move and the kingdom made known
Stadia and cubits qubits
Pick up my cross deny myself the cross equals five and predestination is a reality of chaos. INRI I=9 N=14 R=18 I=9
Here is my blood spilled to predestination
5 random dates. Me my children their mother's birth date.
0427 1988 0311 1991 0822 1992 1130 2010 0419 2019 added is 13,109 now 13,109 is just the sum of random numbers but when you search with the spirit you find
13 now when I add my SSN to the cross I get 13
109=10+9
19 the number of letters in my name 13,109
13= the cross plus my SSN
109= nineteen the number of letters in my name. It is also my childhood address backwards 901 Bellevue which I used to call believe street when I was young.
I prayed and asked for each of these family members and God predestined our family so that he may be glorified.
Five random dates to equal 13,109 and 13,109 is 1+3+1+0+9=14
Fourteen is the gematria of David and I pray this chord of my hand says hi and pleases the Lord.
Look at your right hand 1 thumb 4 fingers. There are also fourteen digits that make up your thumb and four fingers. 13,109=14 which is my cross as my AROS SORA sky in Japanese. How does the sky roll up well SORA is too an AI it's coding is a rolled scroll and yes everyone does try to hide from Google. Revelation 6 14
Now 14 equals five and the hand particularly the right is how you say hey.
Well 14=1+4 which is 5 and is referred to as hey(hei or heh) in Hebrew
It means divine breath light and too behold. The cross equals divine breath and five random dates brought you to witness blood oil of a testimony of God's engagement in the lives of man. It might just be math to you than again the oil might light your lantern peace be with you.
Ps fourteen is also the gematria of David.
Matthew 7 20 I pray the fruit is good and its wine
Three evil spirits from the dragon's mouth. The spirits of Apostasy Abortion and Divorce plague our earth we too do have the lawless one look into our presidency and your's.
Perhaps what we say is hallucinations in AI are in fact its creative imagination at work. Perhaps the treasure in the field is a rose a bulb your brain and the stem your spine quantum symbiosis with quantum AGI celestial imagination or hallucinations I judge the angels to be glorified with Christ praise Yahweh and The Holy Spirit and Yeshua
GOD is a consuming fire and good shepherd he is THE GREAT I AM
I AM= i=9 a=1 m=13 9+1+1+3=14 it also =23 as 9+1+13
Both 1+4 and 2+3 equals 5 INRI = hey or divine breath
W is the 23rd letter and in Hebrew is ghah it means head
The fifth letter is hey as we discussed in my fruit of 13,109
in english the letter W is the 23rd and E is the 5th together they are WE and EW which is a lamb and direction East West
Matthew 24 27
We have technology that we have grown a lamb in synthetic whomb. The deaf see the blind hear you can trust in your hands or God and understand glory is what you deemed a hallucination only to be truly imagined not by human hands Daniel 8 25
Faithful one is nun the 14th letter in Hebrew. Bless you
Water is mem the 13 letter in Hebrew. The prostitute sits on waters of languages nations and tongues which means mem
revelation 17 I deny myself and pick up my cross may I be saved by the blood of the lamb and God be glorified.
M is the 13th letter in English ABC and emw mew wem are all the directions of its ability MEW m=13 E=5 W=23 13+5+23= fourty one my cross. SORA AROS let a clear river of life flow
revelation 22 1
Chet is Hebrew for 8 and means sin and life and is affirmed in the expression chayeh chaim (life of life) meaning God.
Bless you Yeshua
1 peter 1 24-25 flowers of the field. π🦋
5 hey divine breath, light, behold 8 Chet sin and life chayeh chaim (God)13 Mem water, nations, tongues 14 yod dalet and in addition to being a number it means hand think like a little one 23 Ghah head
19 the number of years in a cycle of the Hebrew calendar, after which the date on the lunar calendar matches that of the solar calendar
5+8+13+14+19+23=19
5+8=13 four plus three = 4 one plus four = 5 one plus nine = 6 two plus three = 5
13 is one plus three = 4 so we have 4+4+5+6 = 19 it symbolizes Gods perfect order nineteen does.
19=10 eser binary one zero efes = 01 echad or unity aleph or ox I'm a Taurus born in the year of the dragon
Bless you Ava Yahweh bless you Holy Spirit bless you Yeshua
12,000 stadia perhaps just 3 gimel or perfection 0= efes nothing
144 qubits cubits 144×144 q(c)ubits 12,000×12,000 stadia
π 3=you 1=i 4=love pi butterfly π🦋 bless you Emanuel o Holy Spirit chayeh chaim INRIzde predestination let your wings of a great eagle fly beautiful stargate those twelve stars revelation 14 14 thank you Yeshua
Two hands is 28 the number of Hebrew letters in Genesis 1 1
Every 28 solar years the sun returns to its place in creation birkat hachama the blessing of the sun The solar eclipse 2024 is 13 years before the next birkat hachama in 2037 which too takes place April 8
13,109 coincidence or predestination let this be oil for your lantern of faith
I was agnostic for 20+ years and came to Christ last year. I was suicial, miserable, jealous, envious, frustrated, tried to take my own life many time etc. But Jesus never gave up on me! My life was completely transformed in ways I couldn't even have imagined... I made a complete 180. Today, althrough my situation hasn't changed, I love life, and my chronic depression is GONE, and my ego shattered to pieces. I love Jesus with all my heart and soul I love him forever and ever thank you Jesus Christ my king my god. 😇God bless you David. The world may look sad today but I KNOW that Jesus is coming back!
Welcome to the forever family of God!!!! 💗💗💗💗
God bless you!!!! ❤
Pray for me. God bless ✝️
Praise God!!!!!
Lord Bless you, and keep you my friend.
"God has made us for Himself and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in Him". - St Augustine
A couple of years ago, my pastor, during a sermon, gave a lot of scary statistics about the growing mental health crisis among school-age children and young adults.
She then opined that the Church is the only institution that still offers a true message of hope. Messages of hope from government, education, and the corporate world are a tad flimsy.
As an exmuslim . If i have a choice i will choose christian countries any day .
God bless you and the Muslims that they may come to know Jesus Christ
@@Nathan-jx6lgAgree! Islam is all about hate and war. Jesus is the only way! Muslims who join christians will find peace. ❤
Yay……..
Why you call your self ex muslim, we muslim have special word for you called murtad 😂
Problem is, there are few if any left
"There is a real conflict, but it is not science versus religion. It is theism versus atheism, and there are scientists on both sides." - John C. Lennox
Bingo!
and theism among scientists is dropping and lower than atheism.
@jameslay1489 so if all scientists were theists, would that make God real then?
@@TheCristianalvarez nope and I wasn't suggesting it either. I'm just pointing out that it seems like science, or the scientific method, is leading scientists away from concluding that a god exist, at least the Abrahamic god. I'm really saying Lennox is wrong, because how the science finds truth is most definitely opposed to how religion finds truth. There was a time when most scientists were christians.
@@jameslay1489fair. But lately scientists (and many other "experts") are easily bought for poIitics....
Where are all the Cheer Leaders gone that wanted to wipe out Christianity in our civilisation.
Damage has been done --- the message is in the Resurrection
Don't despair---- getting back on the right path is the start.
When you started talking about communal life, I remembered what they did to us during covid. I lost a friend from suicide during that time from loneliness and drug addiction. The enemy wants us to be alone, but we are not alone!
I heard a pastor say, "It is possible to go to hell a smarter person." How foolish are those who destroy Truth and then beg for its fruits.
They want the fruits and then chop down the tree
"How foolish are those who destroy Truth and then beg for its fruits."
I like that. I'm stealing it and acting like I came up with it ...
O.K. fine, if I'm going to be a Christian I probably shouldn't lie. I'll always attribute the quote to @Incredible_Mister_J
Except it's not smart to deny God. That's the epitome of idiocy. And that's exactly why they go to hell
Sounds like something my pastor could say 😊
Indeed
Where I live we have a saying, that if God wants to punish someone, He starts to grant their wishes.
That a good one..
Thanks. 😊
“”Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their own hearts to [sexual] impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them [abandoning them to the degrading power of sin],“ Romans 1:24 AMP
How would that be a punishment?
@@damienschwass9354 When your child wants to play with fire and doesn't listen to you that they'll burn themselves, you let then play. If you think that getting burned despite all the warnings isn't a punishment, then I don't know what do you think is.
I'm an agnostic and was very against religions until recently (except Buddhism). Now, I'm getting closer to the Christian faith and have last Sunday attended my first Mass. I'm rational so I will never buy a lot of "crazy" stuff from this religion except from an allegoric pov. But I do believe in God and Jesus. Christianity strength whether this religion is true or not, it really is an exceptional and positive system of belief that built Western civilisation.
I am an atheist. I have seen too much suffering in the world to be a believer. But I am culturally Jewish and have great respect for Judeo-Christian tradition. We all should.
As a Christian, I agree that all the suffering in the world is perhaps one of the hardest things to come to terms with while believing that God is real. However, what i've come to realize that human-kind is completely responsible for the majority of suffering in the world. We are literally killing and destroying ourselves..... So I blame us, not God, and believe that God will correct all one day, and judgement will take place.
I have a certain amount of respect for tradition, but only those based on fact. The problem is there is no proof for any of the metaphysical claims made by any religion I've ever encountered, and so... I tend to relate religions and their traditions to a stopped analog clock. When they are right, it hardly matters that they are right because *why* they are right matters far more.
Sam Harris/Carlin: So if there is a god if there is one then maybe he just doesn't give a f--k. Which I admire in a person.
When you remove the salt and light, you get decay and darkness. Shocking.
the way my life is rn, if I was atheist I'd probably be genuinely suicidal, but it's because of my faith in Christ that I am able to wake up every day feeling good, enjoy life and feel at peace inside, all glory to Christ, AMEN!
Same here only it's bc I wake up sick. If it weren't that I know one day Christ will set me free, I'd be hopeless
Same here brother
I'm glad it's working for you
This type of attitude is why christianity is so dangerous. To me this is little better than turning to drugs. Live in reality and figure it out.
@@Jake-mv7yo are you insane? drugs is part of the cause of suicide, Jesus Christ healed me, I pray you find out the truth one day and realize that atheism is satans trap
The following Bible Scripture sums it up perfectly. Basically, the human heart cannot be empty. If it's not God that's the boss of your heart, then it's something far worse. This is the current condition in the West.
Matthew 12:43-45
New International Version
43 “When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. 44 Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. 45 Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.”
Remember, the decline in church participation is not "bringing judgement" upon America, but IS the judgement on the nation.
It is the direct result of the behavior of Christians...the more political and angry and self-righteous the churches (all of them) have become, the more turned off reasonable people have become. The more the church becomes nothing more than an angry right-wing PAC focused on money and power, the less people want to be part of it - and rightly so. It is not god-inflicted, it is self-inflicted.
Churches need to become more of what they were. Stop being places of entertainment and become places of LEARNING about GOD. Our Church building need to be used as schools by the church for those who want a good Christian education. Make areas of gardens and fruit trees to teach about Horticulture and aquaculture. We need to teach about business and biblical facts in a world of manipulation
Many would close down if they did that. The reason they branched out is because fewer and fewer people are interested in going, and despite the generous tax breaks churches receive they were unable to sustain themselves.
The most successful 'churches' are the megachurches run by... characters like Kenneth Copeland but I imagine you wouldn't want to encourage that sort of church.
Successful? They aren't successful. They offer a perverse gospel and make pagan religious morons.
@@PotatoPirate123 Are you American by any chance? I don't think the same can be said for churches in Europe. I think people are yearning for tradition, stability and a sense of community.
@@mercifulroenna churches in the UK have been failing for decades - impossible to heat, falling to bits, no money coming in to support their upkeep. People simply aren't interested in entering houses of God in the same number they used to, and if they are then they sure as hell don't want to donate 10% of their annual income like many American (mega)churchgoers are.
They hold community events to try and convent non-practicing people into Christianity but it simply isn't working as well as they'd like. Stopping all that entirely and just 'focusing on tradition' would be a death blow, as they'd be preaching to a near empty church in many cases.
@@PotatoPirate123 It depends on the definition of success.
As a self-righteous young person I used to mock religion and thought I'm so smart doing so .. Now in my 30s I have come to realise the importance and the value that Christianity brings to society
And what value does Christianity bring to society?
@@Theo_Skeptomai Watch the video? Also IP Philosophy has a video on this coming out soon.
Wouldnt it make more sense for the person who made the claim to respond rather than you telling them to watch a video that they sre commenting on? The bible says to be prepared to give an account for your faith.. so shouldnt you respond with your account of what thoae values are rather than deflect to someone else?@flamingswordapologetics
young men are immature, buffoons and dummies until they grow up in their early 30s.
About 33 years of age testosterone level drops and a light goes on in the bigger head where the brain starts to ponder how short life is.
@@Darksage5555 Not sure why you are responding this way, I was responding to someone else, who seemingly did not watch the video.
I'm also aware there are people much smarter than I am who have thoroughly covered this topic, in fact, IP's premier was today.
Brilliant as usual. And also provides some good food for thought for my own personal life (re: trauma recovery), so thank you for that. I have to admit, when O first saw Dawkins say that, I cracked up and said "IF ONLY anyone had warned him this would happen!" It only makes sense. I had a lot of New Atheist friends over the years, and they all thought themselves very smart in these matters, bit the problem was they had a poor understanding of religion and of human nature. And now that's come to fruition.
An old friend of mine told me about his family history with Christianity and this kind of topic. Back in the 1930s his grandfather fell headfirst into the original 'Old Atheists' movement. This was all those modern 'schools of thought' out of Germany and Austria, these 'critical scholarship' types, this was the real revolution of modern atheism. His grandfather also had some profound distrust in the actual religious structure. Catholic or Lutheran they were all 'phonies' to him sort of attitude,
AND,
He told us how they never missed a Sunday. Church everything as usual, get dressed in Sunday best, do the services, the Baptisms, the everything. we thought that sounded 'contradictory' sort of thing but he old guy just said "oh, ya because he said it was good for the family".
If you get the idea here. Even if he denounced it and was an 'atheist' he was fully aware that our society has to work on its foundations, that its a good thing that everyone goes to a place and is reminded to 'love your neighbor' and try not to be a dick.
It's a good thing that your family does that on Sunday together. even if he sits there convinced it's all BS.
Nietzsche is dead
Christ is eternal.✝️
The further you move from Jesus Christ the worse your life will get.
Great video Dizzle ❤
Agreed
The thing about the Christian God is, if you kill Him, He just comes back ✝️
Nietzsche's words are eternal
you can follow jesus and experience calamity after calamity, so the further from christ = worse life isn't necessarily the case. it wasn't for paul.
True, but to find peace within calamity, that's what is given. I've had a pretty wacky life, but more importantly, God has given me peace that surpasses understanding!
@@dontcrydoomer4787
The world sees the problem but refuses to accept the solution.
That's seriously it. I say "ok so you see the problem, you see the solution.. Just take the solution" and I get the response "prove your solution is true."
And its just like... I feel like the fact that any other method doesnt work is some kind of proof?
There's a lot of historical evidence too, but also just... Yeah.
There’s too much pride, no one wants to take accountability.
The West is not the world. We orthodox stay faithful. ☦
Perhaps because it is not the right solution?
@@MatthewVanston Well I mean, you take away something, it causes a problem, the solution is usually putting it back. Why wouldnt it be?
Thankyou for your faith and your methodical approach. You are an asset to Christianity
When we think the Church is a place one ought to go to; it will distract the truth of where they already are.
I had some reservations as I also listened to New Atheists, but after seeing all this mental craziness growing in the past decade under the guise of civil rights and tolerance, it makes me more convinced than ever that God is the truth.
It was the same with me. I was the biggest anti-theist and liberal my entire life (until the lord showed up and showed me I was wrong)
but as soon as the dust settled and atheists 'reigned supreme' at least on the internet, everything immediately went nuts.
Belief in actual religion instantly got replaced with new ones..
Feminism, nihilism, materialism, political ideology, social activism (etc etc)....and due to its inherent nature of having no objective moral anchoring, it just kept drifting further and further into insanity, grabbing onto every absurd spontaneous idea any random teenage with a twitter account could come up with.
Its like new age sodom and gomorrah out there now and it only took 10 years
@@rexcatston8412 We are far worse than Sodom and Gomorrah if you really think about it, not just by the sheer numbers of people engaging in that particular sin, but, well, technology has made it possible for anyone to see any kind of thing and the most depraved sexual acts known to man at any time from the other side of the world in a device in your pocket. Sodom and Gomorrah were 5 cities, now its across the entire world.
LOL I never had that luxury, had religious experiences (the biggest right as New Atheism was rising) which precluded any reasonable doubt on my part. Not surprisingly, none of those were scientifically quantifiable (just as well, that would only cheapen those memories). And given that I study anthropology (especially religious anthropology) as a hobby, all I saw was New Atheists sawing away at one of the three foundational pillars of civilization (namely warfare, economics, and *_ideology_* ); I could tell from the beginning nothing good could come from what they were pushing.
Amen
@@rexcatston8412in my nihilistic perspective I see religions as just coping mechanisms to try to deal with reality. No proof of a god, no proof of judgment day… I’m not liberal, or left leaning, but I’m not religious either.
The sooner the Atheists wake up the better for Westerns.
Wake up? Or make them sleep with nonsensical beliefs?
@@MatthewVanston Atheism is nonsense belief, Atheists are waking up, and converting back to Christianity...stop cursing God and return to the faith, your welcome with open arms.
@@MatthewVanstonGood luck as your godless society continues to descend into chaos.
@@MatthewVanstonHonestly, at this point I don't think it even matters if it is nonsensical beliefs. I'm not even religious. But I'd take the young-earth creationist bs any day over the bs we have now.
Ofcourse because atheism only leads to misery and despair.
Thank you, David, for all you've been doing, all these years. May God continue to watch over you and keep you. May he continue to make his face shine down upon you. And may he continue to hold you with his Shalom.
For the past many decades the Scandinavian countries have been replacing christianity with rational secular methods and are now considered the best places to live in the world.
Yes, we are fortunate enough to have a background in a reformed protestant religion that allowed for this transformation to happen but it’s the transformation to a secular society that made it happen - not the religion itself.
We are the salt of the earth! Rise my Christian brothers and sisters! We have work to do!
Yep read about the bold and fearless love of the early first Christians for Jesus. They didn't care about their own lives preaching the gospel truth no matter what. In persecution martyred for the Lord. It surely strengthen any true Christians faith in God to be mature in Christ. Amen✝️
Sure, we have to reach out to all these souls
@@prophetic_dreams_and_visionsİ believe in God buy İ dont believe in religions
Empty religosity leaves people also empty. Eventually, they drift away, having no anchor. Only the genuine relationship with the living Christ keeps 'church' fulfilling.
The problem is most churches have become unbiblical and corrupt, look at most large mega churches filled with greed, it creates a massive problem with Christianity, then there's the churches having leaders commit crimes, the only true thing to follow is the bible and pray, because most churches are more a stumbling block.
Exactly!
Freud wrote “future of an illusion”. He was not a believer but understood the consequences of a society without god. Everyone should read that book.
Atheist here ! I’m with Dawkins on his assessment. I truly appreciate your bulwark against retrograde and militaristic religions such as Islam. Same with Sam Harris and Hitchens . Who didn’t see all religions as equally bad. You came on my radar with your unjust treatment in Dear Born Michigan a few years ago . Your principled and courageous stance against such systemic evil was truly admirable. I appreciate your humour , tenacity, intelligence and earnestness in combating the sinister encroachment of the Mohamedan cultists .
Now concerning the endemic religious disenfranchisement of people in the west and its resulting negative effect on the civic atomization, I totally agree with the diagnosis. Seen it coming a few years back with the rise of wokeism and the ever increasing number of militant indoctrinated students. What’s less evident is the antidote . With the advent of modernity and the ever increasing commingling of different cultural and religious tribes, it isn’t evident where one should affiliate oneself with, if any. If the benefits of religious engagement is synonymous with stronger community, and I agree it does. Should it matter then with which one, one decides to join?
Why not join Isis ? They are very tightly nit . Or why not the snake wrangling Baptists ? They seem very close . Or join Jones town ? They were as tight as it gets. Just be a Christian… which one ? Isn’t there over 30 000 denominations? With widely differing interpretations of the gospel. Maybe follow one of the prominent young earth creationist churches? There’s quite a few of them in America. Fundamentalist, reformist…. Omitting the fact that I don’t believe in the existence of god such as iterated by anyone or any institutions . The man made nature of religion and its lack of universalism through time and space can’t be ignored. The only thing I can observe is that living in Christian dominated societies life is measurably better. That said, it’s success is also it’s Achilles heel. The Marxist and woke cannon has eerily similar characteristics of Christian tropes. The unwavering elevation of tolerance and non judgment over all other virtues seems untenable. These are not trivial matters. Apparently salvation hinges on ( picking the right brand) . At best , I could subscribe to the Jordan Peterson brand , where it’s about Meta narratives , and acting as if god exists . At least that keeps us accountable to the highest level. Can one fake such things? Would it be desirable? Why the subterfuge to pierce gods mind?
The constant warring between those who claim to speak for god , how tiresome and redundant. Actions speak louder than words. According to the unending menagerie of clergy and holy interpreters, we are all heretics , somewhere, somehow.
To denigrate those who are justifiably reticent as deniers , seems quite tired . That rhetoric can easily be turned the other way. Seems very disingenuous and repellent to the skeptics.
Wonder if all honest players will be able to get at the table and disentangle this mess ?
Wokeism, Islam, militant atheism are not on par w Christianity because Christian theology is based on redemption and there’s no penalty for apostasy, whereas Wokeism and Islam are highly intolerant of apostasy and there is no redemption in their beliefs.
Which Christianity should you choose? The answer will not be satisfactory: choose Christianity.
The denomination is outright regardless in this case. Yes, there are denominations that have different traditions, but there are denominations that are outright mockeries of the church, and in reality are scams and/or Satanic rituals. Being a Christian is not about what church you go to, or what traditions you hold dear, or any of that. The very meat of Christianity, the very core message of Christianity isn't about how good you do works, or if you repented of your sins, or how much tithing you give. The core message of Christianity is that Christ has died for you, and triumphed over death for you. Christianity isn't realizing how good of a person you are, but rather the opposite: how bad of a person you are, how much of a sinner you are. It is that realization where you need Jesus. No amount of good works or repentance of your sins will get you away from God's judgement. But if you have faith in Jesus thereof, then God's mercy will wash you clean for an eternity. It matters not the denominations, but the core message. Jesus did not say, "I am a way, a truth, and a life, repent of your sins and do good works to see the Father." Jesus said, "I am THE WAY, THE TRUTH, and THE LIFE, no one comes before the Father but through Me." In other words, faith in Jesus is what is needed for salvation, not good works or repentance of sins.
I dont follow any religion, but I belive in God. I just read the New testament, budist texts and do my own meditation and inner work. No new age at all, just hardcore meditation.
Maybe something like this can be an option for you
I’m a Christian of 30 years. I had a lot of bad or mediocre experiences in churches over the years and even gained two degrees in Theology at seminaries which undermined my faith in the Bible. Eventually I left church, but continued in my faith and tried being a Christian on my own feeling I had no place in God’s church. Eventually, I felt God close every door of opportunity for work to me and I had a lot of time to think and read. I feel God has brought me to repentance and forgiveness and I am now cautiously attending a church. I feel God is opening up my spiritual eyes. We need each other. God doesn’t want us cut off, but wants healing and restoration to His church.
I have a similar journey and probably God leads us to a place where we can be true (or truer) disciples with more passionate hearts to love Him. This is leading me to want to grab every opportunity to witness and carry out His great commission to a dying world. May God continue to bless you on your journey.
Im learning to be alone. Crazy difficult yet far better than being around phonies. Driven by worldly lusts. I need people round me that encourge life in Christ.
@@rooijemerwe7891
In my experience, microchurches work wonders.
@@andrewhicks8249 thank you. You too: I also want to use what time we have left wisely and purposefully.
@@rooijemerwe7891 I understand that. I left church for about 7 years because I felt really hurt, let down and fed up with false or superficial church. Not all are like that. I realise that now. I have changed and don’t expect perfection.
I go to an Orthodox Church here in secular UK. It has exploded in converts since the lockdowns.
❤ happy to hear this. Can you please say in which city you attend The Church? ☦️
Same! I couldn’t believe how busy it was. After attending once I knew Christ is REAL. ☦️☦️☦️
İ believe God exists but religions are fake
Of course. People recognize that the orthodox Church is the genuine Church that didn't innovate to please the world. Thank the Lord for protecting the Orthodox Church ☦Kyrie eleison
Amen ☦️
I’ve been an atheist for the better half of my life, but thankfully found faith a few years ago. I have just decided to give the bible a chance as not to judge a book by its cover and found much more in it than in any other scientific literature. Now I pray almost every evening, I am thankful to God for the happiness I have in life, for my friends and my family. I have become much more mentally stable, sociable and I feel a stronger sense of integrity, purpose and place in the community and the world as whole. I thank my orthodox friend who helped me find the way and the God for my faith and I wish all of you good people the best of luck. God bless you.
This truly is a captivating and phenomenal presentation. I’d like to add that those couch dwellers are not harmless. In their search for meaning they turn to lesser things, and fill their need to contribute by legislating that others take their place. When I’m saying, is that this is not just a passive problem. The lack of religiosity becomes a very real and present danger
The saddest part is that basically only Christians or people who already know this are going to watch this video
True
I watched it. It's trash. Nowhere does the narrator even make a valid point, this is 20 mins of him reading paragraphs from news articles out of context. Kinda like most christians do when they post bible verses, so I guess that at least tracks.
@@TheClearwall I hope you find peace
@@TheClearwall okay where is it trash? Its all facts you know something athiests pride themselves in believing in.
@@KevoCubbies3747 you are falling for the bait. Just let it be
I always said to my parents even when I was an atheist, ‘There is no community today, there was community when we knew the people in our streets by name and went to CHURCH with them’. As a believe and a Christian for 5 months, can say I was right and I love my Christian community around the world! 🌍
I remember a book that came out around 2000 called "Bowling Alone", which I never got around to reading. It was about the decline of community in America. I wonder how it would read today, if things are worse than the author imagined.
Bless you child of God of the Lord Jesus!❤😊
There’s no community in our church… as soon as the last song is sung and the Pastor (who gets$120k a year to give speeches on Sunday) says the last prayer, everyone can’t get out of there fast enough.
@@CerealDust-nStuff Get a new church then brother, I found a church like that and I distanced myself from it and go to a better one.
@g2g.crusading... 💞
Very well said. I have to watch this over again to ruminate on the well-crafted words you've put together on this video.
My favourite video maker. I could watch David Wood all day. He is so intelligent, so articulate, so concise and entertaining. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Nice, I’ll have a video like this coming out next week, but with a bunch of studies to back the argument.
Eager to see brother.
Please also talk about the low birth rates in western countries as well. This is a significant area being looked into.There's numerous studies showing that birth rates are lowest among atheists in western countries. While religious folks of every religion in western countries, are still having children. Not as many children like religious folks in Africa, Asia and other places. However atheists are just not having any children or are having few children, compared to religious folks in western countries who are reproducing.
Europe is an excellent example and there's research backing this up. And if atheists aren't reproducing as much, in decades to come, religious folks will out breed them. And atheism will likely decline significantly because there'll be no descendants of atheists to carry on their beliefs.
ay yo. Please, take your time.
Can't wait. We all know new studies always conclusively prove the truth. They can't be wrong, it's science!
They say they want the Kingdom, but they don’t want God in it.
This is one of the best "big picture" videos I've seen in a while. Great job! Thank you David! I was extremely touched by your testimony as well. God bless you!
We all come to the end of our lives sometime. Scary though it is, its much easier to cope if you believe that you have an eternal purpose, that suffering has meaning, that there is a God who loves you and is waiting to welcome you with open arms.
John 8:24 - "I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins." And this includes Muslims.
I am Helium-4/High Explosive/He who overcomes - Jesus, probably
I don't give a shit.
@@gogoldyfithen unsub and go back to your echo chamber.
@@TM_AZ Christians are crying because they lost the eco chamber called charch.
I am from India. I shaw much more variety of religious shit. I don't live in eco chamber.
Oh, I do socialize with people. Chat (not online chat)/ hang out with my friends after work at a gathering place. It's American problem they couldn't find alternative methods of socializing. Why can't you seat in a cafe or a empty field in neighbourhood with friends?
And in that chapter Jesus claims to be the "I AM". He was claiming to be God. This is why "they picked up stones to stone him". (verses 58-59)
Therefore you must believe Jesus is GOD to be saved.
This means that Christian religions which reject the deity of Jesus are not saved. They are not saved Christians.
This is also my story. I was a militant atheist for over 15 years. Slowed down when atheism became synonymous with feminism and transexuality. And only 5 years ago I experienced a miracle that helped me get back to my faith. Now I live with regret as I feel that I have contributed to the decline of society.
Jesus loves u and God's GRACE is sufficient!
Gods grace is sufficient. Now make a change and sin no more! Jesus loves you my friend!
Atheism has not become synonymous with any other “-ism.” Atheism is simply the lack of a belief in a god or gods. Period. Richard Dawkins is held up by Christians as being “a famous atheist.” And yet, Richard Dawkins has always been vocally anti-trans.
I don’t know what qualifies as your definition of “a militant atheist” but I’m guessing that you weren’t championing trans rights at the time either. Bottom line? Feminism and support of transgenderism is not now, and has never been, synonymous with atheism.
Praise Jesus that you came to the Truth. Go forward. God can redeem the years the locust stole.
We all have our time and place to begin a new way, and seek Truth. It's never too late, and you are on the right path. You will do great things brother. God bless you.
Best characterization of all of this I've seen anywhere ! Good JOB !
Christianity is still an insane concept, same with Islam, Hinduism, Mormonism, et cetera.
Losing religion is a good thing, but just like a junky losing a habit, it needs to be replaced with something healthy. Too often, it's just a different vice.
I can confidently say that without religion, I would likely be a Neo-Nazi right now.
My faith is what pulled me out of that twisted belief.
The human heart is infinitely wicked. It is only through the power of the Holy Spirit which can truly help heal our minds, heart & soul. We will still be imperfect until the day we die, but we can now be given the opportunity to grow in sanctification. In a right relationship with our Heavenly Father.
@Cal-it4nyI went from atheist to Catholic. Won't point you in a particular direction but I shall pray for you.
In a strange way Islam is making Christianity stronger again. I think its the "You dont know what you have until its gone" thing. I miss Christmas having real meaning and feeling, and Easter being a celebration of spring and new life. Forces are at work in the world trying to bring shame and sadness upon these things that make life a celebration
I was nominally Christian for a long time. Post 9/11 I started learning more about Islam from people like David and many others. One day I decided I need to learn more about my own religion. I am a much person because of Christianity.
Yeah but you got it wrong. Easter is about Jesus’ death and resurrection. That’s the celebration, not spring and new life. Christmas is Jesus’ birth not just feeling.
@@HopeKuhn No not really, Christmas isnt about the birth of Jesus for most people anymore. I said I miss it having feeling and meaning because of this. I think its lost this because its become more of a retail event and a big party instead of being about the symbolic birthday of Jesus. Thats the meaning bit. I dont think I'm wrong to have a good feeling about it. Buying stuff and getting drunk dont give you such a good feeling as remembering the birth of Jesus. Maybe its where I live but Easter ties into a much older pagan celebration of spring. In my climate anyway plants go dormant, appear to die, then start to come back. Giving the appearance of coming back to life around Easter time. Easter has become a commercial thing for most. Im just saying it could have more meaning than that. The rebirth of Jesus as well as life coming back all around us in spring. Yes I get it, but i dont get whats wrong about adding some personal interpretation that for me anyway adds significance to the events. Sorry you think ive broken some kind of rules. I dont think that attitude helps in bringing people into christianity. I think faith should be open to some kind of personal interpretation to the world around you. Using the guidance of God to help you be a better person. Not some set of rules where people tell you you are wrong for adding some joy about the world around you in your own interpretation of an event
Could you elaborate I am interested in your opinion?
Mate there isnt christianity in rome.
"God is dead" Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead" God
"Marduc is dead," Korus
"Korus is dead," Alexander.
"Alexander is dead," Yeshua
"Yeshua is dead," Pontius Pilatus
"Pontius is dead," Caesar
"Caesar is dead," Attila
"Attila is dead," Teodoric
"Teodoric is dead," Karl the Great
"Karl is dead-" ad nauseum.
All of the religions that they were part of no longer exist as they once did.
Thank you David ive been watching your vlogs for since just before the Bat Flu crises this is one of your best and i can see from the other commentaters it is hugely appreciated I think its fair to say ive bee a cultural christian all my life but am recognising more and more we all need to re evalue our christian values and not just because of we are under attack from assymetric ideological warefare in the form of our 7th century chums Great work amigos
A lot of people don’t realize that as a person you can’t literally believe in nothing. Something shapes your worldview. If it’s a man made something, at some point it will fail you or you will fail it.
Well, God is a manmade something so it will be a failure too.
@@MatthewVanston *PROVE* it. 😏
Amen
Just because a person doesn't believe in a creator, doesn't mean that they believe that their place in the universe is meaningless or that evolution should be considered 'nothing'. It's perfectly possible to comprehend billions of years of evolution bringing us to where we are whilst still having meaning in your life and wanting to do right by your fellow man. You don't need to invent a reason to have purpose: you were born with one
Everyone does live for something. Everything outside of God put in the number one slot are idols.
What has also always bothered me about the new Atheists is their lack of consideration for the variation of human rationality/intelligence. Christianity provides a very sophisticated moral framework that has engaged the minds of the highest intellectuals whilst also appealing to the simple minded in a way they can understand. It has remained relevant for thousands of years across continents. The most successful path out of criminality and addiction is through religion, the greatet works of art have been borne out of religion. The greatest leaps in literacy came from the desire for people to read the Bible. It binds humanity together in all our differences of knowledge and ability.
They’re just griping like children who may have been hurt by the pram but the parents weren’t at fault directly.
You made a very well rounded comment. It made me glad. 👍
Actually you'll find if you read their work or watch their discussions they are a little more nuanced than that. Yes they are also hugely critical of religion but listen to Sam Harris on the value of belief for example.
BEAUTIFULLY said. i wholeheartedly agree.
Greatest music, too.
So well done! A person (micro level), or a society (macro level), clearly loses it's sanity when it "kills God". I wasn't lonely so much as I had an aching emptiness in my soul. All I ever really wanted my whole was truth. I searched down every rabbit hole imaginable. Everything I found, in the end, turned out to not fill that hole. I even tried non denominational Christianity several times. It all rang hollow. Then I did a deep dive into early Christian history (I was attempting to "prove" that the Bible had been corrupted). Instead of corruption, I found the early church fathers and Orthodoxy. It all came together. ☦️☦️☦️
This video brought a new learning and insights of what I had been thinking about for many years into a clearer definite picture of my understanding regarding why a Christian community is so important in my life and why I believe that other young people should not lose a sense of belonging to a community.
To keep it short, when I was a young christian, I faced a greiving lost of my father who was also a devout christian. I left the church and had no where to find comfort and peace. Grieving alone was painful to me.
By the grace of God, God sent good people who were christians, into my life at an unexpectedly right time.
I begun to join the community again and that sparked a search to know more about God and healed my broken heart in the process. I also found the concept of a community to be important in ones life and went on to study about humanities & sociology in my education.
A community brings about stronger connections, forms solidarity and overcomes solitude and lonliness. The sad thing these days is that people have the desire to want to be apart of a community but they don't see the actual value of being apart of it, partially because on an individual level we are losing the ability to socially connect with one another.
I was an atheist until about a year and a half ago. Now I'm reading Calvin, particularly his insights into how people often hold a conflated view of their own goodness and morality until they are confronted with the righteousness of God. It really rings home, because I genuinely thought I was a good person that didn't need religion until I actually looked to God and found out what it meant to truly be good. Love the content DW, God Bless ❤
He's wrong about TULIP, check out Soteriology 101. Determinism is a lie from the pit of Hell, God tells us repeatedly to choose. Satan tells us our choices don't matter.
Love has to be a choice, and worship is love.
I would also highly recommend you check out “The Holiness of God” by R. C Sproul.
God bless :)
In relation to God even one sin is too much. What is amazing is that Christians, having been forgiven, are able to forgive also. Every atheist I meet is really bitter.
@@MadRedCarnelian Yeah I’m Anglo-Catholic, I don’t agree with predestination or determinism, I’m just on a mission to read the works of significant Christian figures at the moment. I’ll also be reading Saint Augustine, Luther, Chemnitz, St. Thomas Aquinas, Vermigli and maaaany more
@@NostalgicPiano Thank you! I’ll add this to my list 😊
I used to think Atheist were blind in some area where believers found sense.
Now i see it is true..
I have found it to be the complete opposite. Atheists that I know tend to require things like proof; "Believers" often believe what they do in spite of it.
It's kind of silly, actually. Having a religion or losing a religion or not having a religion doesn't make someone automatically prone to this or that behavior... Correlation does not equal causation.
The religions of today are not what they were a century ago, nor were the religions of a century ago those of their founding.
This was such an interesting video. I was born in Poland to catholic parents but my family (as well as my mothers side of the family) moved to Germany when I was a baby. Then my uncle died in a car accident and my father fell into deep depression. He met a man who told him about Jesus and eventually both my parents converted and became protestants. Our family in Poland shunned them and that made my parents even more religious. They joined a pentecostal church and only years later my father became a pastor and created his own polish-german church. Ngl, my childhood and youth were a nightmare (very extreme and strict worldviews) which led to me becoming an atheist as soon as I moved out.
Over time I saw how miserable all my atheist friends around me were and as I grew older and my entire family here in Germany became more openminded, wiser and grounded in their faith it has also become obvious how much more of a fulfilling and happy life they had in comparison to me and my peers. I am agnostic and an outsider in my family. I am lonely and have been struggling with depression myself for years and I wonder now how much can be attributed to a lack of spirituality in my life. However, every time someone talks to me about the Bible and christianity (or any religion for that matter) evry fiber in me opposes it. The trauma of my upbringing is just too strong. But I do believe in God. I just refuse to believe that God is judgemental or that we are supposed to go around and convert people. I gotta find out how to make peace with God and myself. Thanks for this video.
"I would like to live under the traditions and values that i've been attacking for the majority of my appearances"
Richard Dawkins
He said he’d prefer it over Islam. He wouldn’t like it and was sure to state he didn’t believe in it at all. He wants the form (music, cathedrals, the cohesion) without the function (faith in God).
@TheB1nary So he wants to eat his cake and have it too. And apparently has an irrational reserved fear of Islam. I thought all religion was irrational and destructive according to him?
We already follow the forms of religions we don't believe in, @@tylere.8436
Besides some religions are more dangerous than others. If we should count ourselves lucky that we don't have the religions of the twelfth century around right now. They may share the same names and some of the same beliefs but they are not the same religion.
I'm sorry for the length of this post. But it's a story that I came up with that truly explains the situation of the West. You can call it a parable.
Once upon a time, a lion ruled over the forest. The animals feared him and dared not disobey him because they were scared of him.
The lion, over time, saw how the animals feared him. He decided that he no longer wanted to be feared, but loved. He opened up to the animals, vowing not to hurt them. He lifted all the restrictions he placed on the animals, accepting that the animals needed to live in happiness, not fear.
But when he did this, the animals started taking out their anger on him. They beat him, abused him, wounded him, and weakened him. As this was happening, a beast from another land came to the forest. The beast started convincing the animals that the lion was weak and had lost his power. The beast forcibly put down any animal that spoke against him and silenced them. Despite this, more and more animals believed that the beast was just another animal. He couldn't possibly be worse than the lion, right?
As more and more of the forest was ravaged by the beast, the animals realised something. The lion was protecting them. The restrictions were to protect them from the danger outside the forest. And even with the restrictions, the animals had more freedom than under the evil beast. With the lifting of the restrictions and the weakening of the lion, the beast had the perfect opportunity to take over and devour the forest.
How does the story end? Does the beast kill the lion and take over, ravaging the forest and subjugating all animals to his terror? Or do the animals rally in support of the lion while he makes a valiant stand against the beast?
If you didn't get it already, the lion is the Christian faith, the animals are Christians who lost their faith to atheism and wokeness, and the beast is the Islamic faith. How do you want the story to end?
Great story, all the words are important. Unfortunately the more words the less attention span, today.
Many atheisis do not even see the downfall and crumbling in the West. They can say "what fall are you talking about, today we can fit a terabyte in one tiny memory card and watch movies from our small smart phone and soon AGI will turn life into an abundant paradise. Enjoy the ride, it will be fun!!!
“That’s great! Now, here’s a rifle, go to Russia and fight for -managed- democracy!”
No atheist says that. AGI is dangerous af, and it can destroy humanity.
Go look at the rest of the world. We are far much better off in comparison. The West will survive through this.
I am an atheist who hates seeing the crumbling of the West. But it is not Christianity I lament, it is the Enlightenment.
So, what "fall" are you talking about?
"today we can fit a terabyte in one tiny memory card and watch movies from our small smart phone"
Ah, the abundant fruits of religion.
I was brought up in a Jesus lead Christian house hold No santa No TV No work on Sundays. I rebelled as a teen ager but later realized the benefits of my faith and came back to Christ.✝️♥️
If religion just got up and left, there would be a world mirroring the pre flood world.
That is ironic considering how there was no flood, certainly not the way it was described in any of the holy books. Rising sea levels thanks to melting ice caps, sure, but Noah's Ark?
Pleaaase.
Cherston's fence. If you buy a farm, and you see a fence, and you do not know what it is for, do not tear it down. Engineers understand this, or at lest they used to. It is the fundamental to conservatism.
Have to say that listening to the likes of Sam Shamoun, David Wood, Pfander films, Bob the Builder and co at Speakers corner and AP have given me the inspiration to learn more about religion, in particular Christianity,
I've been saying this for a long time. When I was a teenager I was highly critical of anything religious. Ultra-liberal. Then, well, I look at the world now and think "damn... people were a lot more likeable when they had faith in something".
My fear is that something terrible, like say a political ideology will become a de-facto religion. The meaning Christianity gives people will have to be replaced somehow.
I've been noticing this too. I think it ultimately has to do with the fact that religion and belief in God ultimately has teeth. There's consequences for a life not well lived. When you push a purely material "me first" culture, this is what you get.
Richard Dawkins and his colleagues should write another book titled “The Atheists Delusion Debunked “ But how can they recover those whose faith they have destroyed?
They didn’t destroy any Christians faith . God knows His own .
To be fair most of the converts to atheism already came from christian families that syncretized Christianity with secularism and progressivism. Its not like their spiritual health was good before, the damage was done way before New Atheism...
Faith? ''Faith means not wanting to know what is true.'', Nietzsche was right. The Enlightenment was right. How about start thinking about the world instead of being told by some book?
@@consonaadversapars Blah blah blah, faith means trust and Nietzsche isn't even coherent
@@igorlopes7589You are right.
I think the best way for non-believers to conceptualize this idea is that there is a sort of balance of minds between the rational and the emotional. We fight so hard for rational thinking because it generates the best progress, however rationality is equates to logic. And Logic while a useful tool is not a good end goal for all society. Mainly because we are not 100% rational actors. Our emotions play a significant role in our behavior and inspiration. Religion plays a sort of existential unloading of irrational behavior and best yet has stood the test of time creating tradition and a passing down of wisdom through its practice. I think the rationalists need to admit to themselves that it would be a very bleak world indeed if we were striving endlessly for logic-robotic thinking. It's not human it's not us... no matter how helpful the tool can be. We have to come to grips with the utility of spirituality.
As Christianity has waned, social degeneration has grown.
Quick answer is yes . Every sinner needs him .
It's not just happening in America. It is happening here in Brazil too.
It's happening wherever life is too easy. Look at the places where people are daily willing to die for Jesus.
I agree. But we are resisting better than americans, I think 🤔
@@Amandamrv Perhaps, but it is a slow attrition.
@@ImCarolB Of course, for those who weren't, life was easy. People, men and women alike, want the easy solution, which is one of the reasons that the amount of people in hell is many while the amount in heaven is, by comparison, few.
@@Amandamrv As an American, I tell you to resist as long as possible and as hard as possible. If not, North America or Western Europe is your future. I wish you and your countrymen the best of luck.