Sometimes I forget what it's like playing at sub 10fps. I did it for years on a laptop with a first gen i3 and 4gb of ram. Now I have a R5 5600x and rtx 3070 with 32gb of ram and everything runs so smooth it's jarring to see framerates that low.
I'm a new Christian. I have guilt over people that claimed to be Christian, and scared others off from the faith. Overall, Christianity is a beautiful, truthful faith that I'm proud of. I have positive feelings about it. It's the bad christians and weak, deceitful pastors that I have negative feelings towards.
The god in the bible is an alien called enlil. He wanted to make the existing hominids take over his work so, he modified them into the modern human. That is where Adam and eve come from. Enlil's brother, Enki, added an essence to our DNA that can make us better than anyone in the galaxy, but only if we realize it. So he "tricked Adam and eve to "eat the fruit" which made them understand they are more than slave test subjects. Enlil ofcourse got upset and now hates us so much that he demonized Enki and created the bible to keep humans scared of him so that we are ok with working our whole lives and die. And of course you go to hell for sure! Unless you live in fear of him, only then will you go to heaven.
Being ashamed of some Christians isn't the same as being ashamed of Christianity. Of course some Christians don't act as they should and do push others away, but that isn't Christianity's fault, it is the fault of those individuals, so that doesn't count as real Christian guilt.
Don’t think you’re alone-as a theologically conservative working musician in the Episcopal Church, there are more people who share your beliefs and experiences than you might suppose within mainline churches.
The same reason conservatives run away from churches is the same reason conservatives start shutting up in their churches-fear. So i wouldnt be surprised if he knew what you said already. One of the biggest impacts on fearful people who have not yet lost their convictions that can happen is for the more courageous to inspire them by simply speaking out loud and proud. Im still glad you said it tho. What you said can also inspire. People need community. A person believing there are persons in his own church who could support him is often the jumpstart a person needs for becoming more vocal and community-focused.
Then they need to act on the knowledge of the Truth God has revealed to them. If they stay quiet because they fear man more than God than they’d have been better off never having gotten involved in church at all then participate in something you know is destroying the family and the Faith and the country and leading to a Noahic final judgment. It’s a big deal.
Same here! I don't know about the Presbyterian Church USA, but there are so many wonderful orthodox parishes (and a few dioceses!) in the Episcopal Church that are worth fighting for.
@@jamesaustin1988 Presbyterian reporting, comparable situation over here. We have a distinct split between the conservative and progressive factions, there's plenty that's more or less intact.
@TheLostNoob not really this was a few years ago when I was 8 and besides the pastor being gay and the weird Harry potter stuff from what I remember besides that it was fine
Meanwhile, the time before last that I went to a Presbyterian church, they had one of their hymns in Ecclesiastical Latin and were being very Jesus-y, focusing on His suffering and the degree of sacrifice as evidence of God loving us. The flags in the sanctuary were Byzantine violet, with a Ukrainian one outside for sentiment's sake. The sermon focused on how God can seem cruel, but one cannot forget that he sees what you do, and feels the same grief that you do when tragedy strikes. They're kind of all over the place.
I find I'm far too progressive for my conservative friends and far too conservative for my progressive friends. I feel really reading the Bible and following Jesus' teaches pretty firmly smashes any attempt I have to adhere to a strictly "liberal" or "conservative" tradition. We all have our biases and want to bend God into our political/lifestyle shaped boxes but he calls us to something higher. I feel the biggest thing missing from any and every church I've gone to is a focus on the grace of God. Progressives lump the concept of grace in with the love of God and in the process somewhat ignore the need for forgiveness. Conservatives acknowledge it often in passing while still placing most of their emphasis on rigid rule following and behavior management, thereby missing the beauty and depth of God's incredible grace and mercy.
Honestly, i think reality is wired to always have conflict, it's impossible to have a balance between conservativism and liberalism. Right now i feel like people finally stopped tolerating the crazy people, but i am hearing the "woman don't deserve rights more and more again", so. F
I appreciate your comment and hold similar beliefs in my Christian walk. The subject of grace is one that has the most to offer for a broken and traumatized world after this pandemic that we’ve all experienced. I think the main issue of relevance is that church leaders will not leave their silos to form collaborative efforts in their communities. The Message IS God’s Grace is sufficient. Received by accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and learning from the level of discipleship that He Instructed during His earthly ministry. That will cover a multitude of sin and pain redeeming people to leading lives of service for God’s Kingdom. All of the tenets of Jesus’ words and actions. We ARE “Christians” correct? But Christianity is now a business so there is a level of competitiveness and profiteering along with entrenched dogma. It’s damaging our witness, but not changing God’s Plans which we will never truly know or understand. That’s why we believe by faith because without it, it’s impossible to be in God’s Will. So I said a lot and since I too am not a Bible scholar or trained theologian my comments are based on my discernment. I was raised in the A.M.E. church and I’m currently serving in a Pentecostal nondenominational ministry.
My "negative" response when it comes to the hearing "Christian" is when it comes to "Christian" media and "Christian" homes. Generally Christian media is just bad and turns people a way more than it brings them in. And when people say that they grew up in a Christian home I kind of cringe, because this is either going to be a good story of how they had a truly Christian upbringing in a wholesome family that taught true Christianity and values... or their dad brought out the belt for saying "Dang" or "Crap".
@@renhaiyoutube I mean, I guess all art is subjective and to each their own. I like Theocracy, Saviour Machine, and a few others, but I find most Christian music, particularly mainstream music, to be uninteresting at best.
While I do not have a negative association with the word 'Christian', I feel like American protestants have given it a very bad reputation, so when someone asks about my religion, I always go more specific and just say Im a Catholic
*Stage 1* 2:50 Christian Guilt - Feeling like Christianity as a whole has been bad 4:12 Progressive Christianity 6:28 *Stage 2* 6:55 Disordered Focus *Stage 3* 9:17 Scriptural Denial *Stage 4* 13:53 Explicit Heresy 15:53 Explicit Denial of Resurrection, Denial of The Trinity, is Heresy *Stage 5* 16:55 Essential Agnosticism
@@redeemedzoomer6053 I'm assuming - because the story is the same (although I suppose there could be multiple of the same story and you were referring to someone else) He went on to be a Bible and philosophy professor at Belhaven University after that happened. So yeah - yep - actually Pretty cool (btw I love your videos, they're great)
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;” 2 Timothy 3:4 KJV
"God loves you is not the Gospel" man what Bible have you been reading? "God so loved the world"? "Love one another as I have loved you"? "Love thy neighbour"? Love is absolutely the central theme of the Gospel, Christ's sacrifice and Resurrection was a proof of God's love "Greater love hath no man," remember? We are supposed to love God and one another in the same way that God loves us, that is literally the most important lesson in the whole of Christianity, as said by Jesus himself.
Yes, that's true. God's love is the central theme of the gospel and the bible, but it isn't the gospel in it's entirety. God's love isn't just I love you so much but I love you so much that I can't let you continue in sin and allow you to live by your sinful nature. So yeah, in our culture that definition of love isn't usually what they're referring to so it is very important to highlight the other part of the gospel that talks about sin and human nature. That means just telling someone God loves them doesn't actually present the gospel fully especially if they do not have this understanding of God's love...it's a great way to start but it isn't the whole gospel so that's what he means when he says "God loves you isn't the gospel". The gospel must be presented in it's entirety for it to actually be called the gospel. Cheers ✨
@@kemi1223 Yep, 100% correct. "So I went to the angel and said to him, “Give me the little book.” And he said to me, “Take and eat it; and it will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.” Then I took the little book out of the angel’s hand and ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. But when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter." - Rev 10:9-10. We cannot pick and choose what we take from the bible, we must take the bitter with the sweet.
I’m a pretty Catholic follower of Christ but I think gay people are okay,so long as you’re not hurting anyone. I’ve looked a lot into the scriptures and what their original writings are and honestly even if we follow Christ we shouldn’t be hateful ever. You can view homosexuality or transexuality as a sin but you can’t judge damn others over it if there’s no true injustice,that’s why god is there to judge them. Main goal of being a Christian is to spread the word of god and his love. Wisdom and kindness are the way.
@@emanueldelacruz1101 I’d love to understand what you’re saying,your grammar seems to be below that of a 7 year old,could you type your comment again but properly so I can read it?
So originally I had guilt because I was exposed to a lot of the pain and suffering others have felt in the name of Christianity. But in my experience I’m starting to wonder if there’s just a general lack of wisdom across the board between conservatives and progressive. Tie that in with the now all or nothing stances in both camps and we are getting horrifyingly further and further from the example of Christ. There’s room for compassion and understanding without warping and diluting the gospel
Christ tells us to embody the same unconditional love that god holds for all of his creation. Most people on both sides of the spectrum do not truly understand the scripture.
@@Porook that means loving Liberals, Conservatives, Homophobes, Transphobes, Trans Rights Advocates and Gay Rights Advocates, etc. It means to love ALL and to love our ENEMIES, there's even a Bible quote talking about that.
@@zebu2294 If I recall, the largest sects (I guess you can say) of Baptism are extremely conservative though sadly, Liberalism like the cancer that is has infected some sects of Baptism too to where you have Progressive Baptist Churches which makes about as much sense as the existence of the Conservative Communist Coalition, lol.
@@jaredcaldwell4270 I do recall my pastor back in my home town mentioning that the baptist organization for the state was gradually "tolerating" some things that did not align with the bible. i have known someone from all the churches i have attended and i suppose that makes it a lot less likely for me to have run into a mushy gooshy non gospel focused church.
Sending prayers from Brazil :/ Even tho we have to learn a lot and we have a very few people who get explicitly heretical in their churches, the most of them actually take the scriptures and the christian basis very seriously. Hearing you talk made me feel there are a lot of messed up speeches and a very disoriented church overall in the USA. Stay good man! Your content is really nice :)
@@WangLin-jt8pj Cara aqui no sul infelizmente já vi algumas igrejas que apoiam o pecado da homossexualidade, com bandeiras e discursos bem liberais teologicamente.
Where do you live? I find it interesting what you consider “mainline” Christian and think that it is so progressive. I live in the Midwest and VAST majority of churches are more on the baptist/Pentecostal/nondenominational spectrum. I’m talking like 95% plus. I have met maybe 30 Catholics who live in the Midwest in my whole life, and my cousin is the one and only progressive Christian I personally know.
rural minnesota is chock full of catholics and lutherans from my experience; fairly even split between western german and nordic immigrants seems like it might be why, but I also differentiate between the midwest and the rust belt.
I grew up catholic but I’m sort of agnostic right now. My grandma passed on recently, and her death has made me rethink my faith. I guess i’m struggling because I’m not a very conservative person, and have struggled with my sexuality(had sex with another woman), but I can’t deny what the bible says. I guess I can’t bring myself to return to full catholicism (in part out of guilt) but I can’t deny the feeling I get when I pray, or step inside a church. Not sure why Im commenting, just trying to process I think
Hey, I am a progressive christ from Presbyterian in Europe. And I really wanted to answer to you. Because you are already good. And when you love women than there's nothing wrong with that. I have actually many catholic friends, who don't believe homosexuality is evil. And I just want to tell you that God loves you, and don't hide yourselve, because you are wonderful just as you are. ❤
If it helps, I've been a Christian my whole life. As I entered my teen years, I realized that I was gay -- something I never saw happening to me, of all people. For as long as I could remember, I always planned to grow up, marry a girl, and have a family, so finding out I wasn't attracted to girls at all really threw me off. At 17, I decided to live my life as a non-practocing homosexual since I believe that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin. Now, I lived in Oregon for 10 year, from 4th grade to when I was 19, and then I become a theater major in college, so I've been in very liberal environments all my life. Everyone I've ever gone to school with has usually been super left leaning and a lot of them have also identified as LGBTQ+. I can say first hand that choosing to be a part of a church rather than the queer community has left me feeling much more fulfilled and joyful in my life rather than choosing to be a part of the gay community. I genuinely believe God brings true happiness to people who follow him, so even though I likely won't ever date or get married, I still live my life in a way that's fullfilling. God's given me a lot of great friendships and support with getting through the rocky relationship I have with my family. All this to say, if you're struggling with your sexuality, even same sex attraction, that's an obstacle for other Christians too. You can't practice it when you join the faith, but choosing not to join just to keep it isn't worth it. God may change you in that way, but, like me, he may not. I hope this helps you!
I am Baptist, from Texas, Conservative.. and I am going to say what you probably wouldn't expect based on those pre-qualifiers. God loves you right where you are. Church is an emergency room for sinners and not a country club for saints. That being said.. two or more meeting in HIS name.. that's church. So sorry for your loss.
@@Keychain696Praise God for your faithfulness to our Lord, brother! We’re all struggling with something. Working out our salvation with fear and trembling. I can’t relate to same sex attraction, but I can relate to battling lust. I’m glad you choose a community of life to equip you for battle and encourage you to walk in the way of the Lord. Inspiring!
I am curious about one thing. If You deny some aspects of Christianity because of right wing or third positionist beliefs do the same stages apply or is there another spectrum of this movement of thought? I have geniunely met people and communities of people who criticized Christianity for being too racially inclusive and denied even Jesus as an impostor. Don't even get me started on the chosen people aspect and so forth. Most of these people, though obscure in numbers and voice, gravitate towards ancient polytheistic faiths, beliefs in pure science/atheism or even Satanism.
As someone who is "Third Positionist" generally speaking and a Christian I'd say the stages do apply, but obviously with the reasoning behind the many heresies or outright rejection of Christianity that they espouse changed. Much like progressives, however, anti-Christian right wingers' "arguments" fall apart like wet tissue paper upon any examination and their ulterior motives are very obvious.
@@MacCoalieCoalson What do you think that their ulterior motives are? I mean. typically those that are anti-christian are more concerned with race and universalism in Christianity (mostly being too inclusive and treating the gentiles as people that are inferior and should be destroyed) although some other things can be occasionally brought to light.
@@eternalflame8104 Well much of the time they disguise their personal hatred for Christianity, Christians, or God Himself as genuine or legitimate concern that Christianity has some kind of intrinsic flaws that conflict with their political ideals, on both sides of the political spectrum.
Rightwing atheist here. I would say orthodox Christianity isn't too inclusive because its beliefs state that all people are full of shit (sin) and no one deserves to go to heaven. Many progressive Christians let go of this hard line, and instantly become too inclusive because they turn another Christian belief that anyone can be redeemed into the idea that anyone should just be accepted and are good enough the way they are born, no matter how dumb or crazy they are. There is a big difference between regarding "gentiles" (whoever you mean by that) as inferior and wanting to destroy them, by the way. Almost everyone subconsciously acknowledges that some people (and by extention groups of people) are inferior to others in some regard. I consciously acknowledge these patterns if they really appear to be statistically true, which means in some regards I can be racist/sexist/anti-gay/whatever, but that doesn't mean I want to kill anyone because of those beliefs.
The thing is, conservative and Christian values align very well. The only people on the right that deny aspects of Christianity or Christianity itself and accept things like pagan religions are usually very far-right. Like how Hitler mostly gravitated toward old pagan gods. So it's most likely a much more sharp divide, because most people on the right aren't even close to far right enough to the point of denying Christianity due to it being too inclusive, which is probably where the denial begins. But because liberalism is much more ideologically opposed to Christianity, so the doubt in it starts much earlier. I'm being pretty speculative here though so I could be wrong.
I once said this when I was an atheist: "I'd much rather hear an evangelical Christian tell me to go to hell than Hillary Clinton tell me that she doesn't believe in hell."
A focus on "love and justice" is not "disordered focus", it is Christian praxis. This was Christ's mission statement: “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” The greatest failure of the modern church is insisting that this message is only ever spiritual and not material when it is both. Salvation is critical, but if we are not working to make the world a more just and loving place then what evidence is there that we are animated by the Spirit of God and not mere self-righteousness? The example of Martin Luther King Jr. is instructive here: a devout Christian minister, a civil rights champion, and a socialist. A true Christian progressive. This idea that social justice is at best a distraction and that spiritual concerns are a Christian's only true concerns, together with the rise of "Prosperity Gospel" charlatans and fake miracle peddlers and reactionary fundamentalists, is a major reason- if not the primary reason- why the moral authority of the church has virtually disintegrated. It is a spiritual disease, and the White American Evangelical church in particular is riddled with it.
theres nothing wrong with making the world a better place & real Christians are not opposed to that. check out who do food drives/banks/homeless outreach programs/the plethora of charities. the world will never be a good place as hard as Christians try, because humanity is in a fallen state. but they try & will continue to do so, but trans drag story time, rioting to make white people pay reparations or forcing Christians to accept homosexuality & make their cakes/marry same-sex-couples is not "making the world a better place", and is the definition of self-righteousness, what progressive people get criticized all the time for; "virtue signaling". im sick of even hearing conservative people say the phrase it happens so much. Lastly, the person you chose as a "true" progressive Christian is laughable & very telling, why not the many other African American reverends? you chose the most generic & widely known one (i assume its the only one you know), who was also reputed to have some serious issues with alcohol, prostitution & you already mentioned that he was a communist, (as if it was a good thing ironically) which is pretty much one of the only governments systems explicitly and systematically atheistic.
Definitely. Christ reformed Judaism to open it up to the gentiles as well as spreading significant philosophical concepts such as Stoicism and Altruism throughout the region. Even if you don't believe him to be the literal son of god (like the Muslims' don't) you cannot deny his existence and the effects he has had on the morality of the classical world. To deny classical liberal ideals it's place in the faith is tantamount to only seeing the surface of the religion and keeping only that hollow husk. Equality and ethical practice (loving thy neighbor in practice) is precisely the spirit of Christ's Teaching. I see in many churches nowadays, especially the so-called "fundamentalists" a critical deviation from his teachings. The catholics likely started this trend of perverting His teachings, but seeing as so many Christians do not act charitably, nor stoically in the face of adversity, it is safe to say that they don't have the holy spirit in their hearts, just blind devotion to the literal texts of the bible. (Which might I remind everyone are man-written memoirs of Christ's teachings, written for the people of their times [even if they have been revised by kings and translators over the years]).
I think there's a weird overlap between progressive "social justice" Christians and hyper-conservative post-mill theonomists, in that each one teaches the necessity of bringing God's kingdom to earth in an authoritative way. Both seem to be more interested in using Christianity as a Trojan horse for their political ideals, however, than in practicing Christianity. You're right about this, but only sort of accidentally. The reason the Church must be both _material_ and _spiritual_ and not merely one or the other, is that _Jesus_ is both material and spiritual. Separating the soul from the body is called "death" - and an oppositional view of material things is called "gnosticism". The reason God gave us bodies in the first place is because our bodies tell his story. Heaven is not a place where angels play harps, sitting on clouds. It's a real, tangible place - a place you can physically go to. And while God isn't letting us take our cars, our houses, our money, or even our clothes with us - he is going to ressurect our _bodies_ .And that's also what the social justice crowd get wrong. They tend to make it a game of equalizing wealth - essentially turning covetousness into a virtue. That's not what God has in mind at all. But I disagree with you about why the "moral authority" of the church has disintegrated. It has a lot more to do with hypocrisy than anything else - it's really easy to poke holes in people's faith by watching what they do. And it's comepletely unfair to make it about race. What does that have to do with anything? I'll expand on this a little and give you my prescription for renewed "moral authority" - it starts with commitment to God at the personal level. Then it moves on to God-centered sexual morality, because that's the heart of the family and thus the heart of society. From there, it can lead to generous giving and other acts of mercy. But it has to start with getting sex right. Can you guess why? I've actually already mentioned it. God gave us bodies to tell his story. When we get sex wrong, we drastically distort our own view of God, let alone the world outside. And the wild thing is - the Christian sexual ethic isn't what people think. It isn't repressive, it isn't a starvation diet. It's better than the alternatives - it's the treasure they're looking for but can't find. And it's worth selling everything you have to go and buy.
Former progressive christian here (kinda still progressive? - especially considering your points - But I dont use that label anymore). Let me explain how progressive christianism brought me back to the faith. I was raised catholic, but never very orthodox. Eventually, we drifted away from practice and I became an atheist. Because of bad internet influences, I developed a big hate towards the Christian faith. Later, I also turned far left wing. But then, the UA-cam algorithm recommended me a video explaining the gospels through a gnostic lense. After watching that video, I couldn't get the teaching of Jesus out of my head. I wanted to join other religions instead, as I had a bad opinion of the faith, but I eventually decided to start my cathequism process to complete my missing sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church. It was a lot of going back and forth. There was a lot of internal fighting within myself, but I now can consider myself pretty orthodox, specially considering that I'm a lesbian. (I know many of you are very conservative on this subject, so I just want to make clear this: I'm not up for debate. I've already made up my mind on the subject. I'm not only affirming because of scientific research, but also because of my own experience as a gay person. So I ask you to, please, not try to convince me that homosexuality/acting on it is a sin. I also know what the Church's stand on homosexuality is, I've read the cathequism and I love doing so. I also don't need you to cite me verses of the bible, as I know those verses, they won't convince me otherwise - I can literally give you my point of view on it, even if it's not "canon" in the Church's beliefs, but I really have no intention to convince you. I also don't need you to pray for me because of this. If you will pray for me anyways, I can't really stop you, can I? but don't ask me for permission and, please, don't tell me you will do it. So yeah, basically that, if you want to respond to this, please don't speak about homosexuality or gender. I don't mind you having your, according to me wrong, beliefs, please don't mind me having MY, according to you wrong, beliefs). I still have some progressive views, but those are mostly because I consider some thing forms of discrimination. I can't stand FOR discrimination and be christian at the same time. But I totally get what you're saying. The thing that attracted me to progressive Christianity was how worried about social justice it was, but as I was instructed in the faith, I realized how it neglected the thing that makes Christianity... Christianity. Like, it's fine if your religion pushes you towards social justice, but it doesn't mean your religion IS social justice. I could've literally been an atheist and I could've still been considered a good christian according to it. A big part of being a christian is performing acts of charity and standing up for others, but we shouldn't forget WHY we do it. The whole point of our faith is the resurrection, if Christ didn't raise from the dead, then our faith is meaningless. I don't judge those who assist churches where they preach about LGBT+/Women/BIPOC rights, but I wouldn't assist a church like that. When we go to church we don't go to hear about that, although it can be mentioned and discussed, but to hear about the teaching's of God. To grow on faith. To participate on the sacrifice of our Lord. There is no Christianity without Jesus and his resurrection, the can be social justice without it tho. That's why we can't lose focus on the dogmas of the faith. I also totally get what you said about christian guilt. When I first started converting, I felt ashamed of calling myself a christian. But that's not right! That's literally being ashamed of following Jesus! I have learned that you can be critical of the Church's history of corruption (in my case because I'm catholic) and still be proud of your faith. After all, Jesus didn't preach about allowing corruption, but about loving God and each other (and many other things of course, but that sums it al up). We christians should love the church, as she's Christ's body (at least in catholic theology 😅 sorry idk much about other denoms), and that comes with treating her with respect. So yeah, I just wanted to rant about progressive Christianity a little. I used to watch UA-camrs like God is Gray, which I think are very good people and very faithful, but they are way to evangelical for my linking lol.
UA-cam comments usually are cesspools, even by Christians on Christian videos. But your comment is awesome; thanks so much for sharing. What gets me most upset about Progressive Christian churches is the label, the way it is used to modify the word Christian. The phrase "conservative Christian is also upsetting. "Christian" should stand on its own.
I won't say anything on whether homosexuality is right or wrong. I do want to mention that, if there's a behavior that, were you to become convinced that it was sinful, you wouldn't be willing to give it up, that's a problem. Whatever you believe on any topic, whether it's drinking, violent video games, hypnosis, or food with too much sugar (all things I believe are not inherently sinful), you have to be able to say to yourself "if God told me explicitly to give it up, I would heed his will". And yes, the Church is considered the Body of Christ in most Protestant denominations as far as I'm aware. We might mean something slightly different by it than Catholics do, but the term is the same. I very much appreciated your comment, and I wish you the best.
@@nanowasabi4421 Hey, thank you for your comment. I agree with you. I have been asked many times (by other queer Catholics) whether I would remain celibate if God asked me to because I'm gay, and I always answer yes. I put God above everything, even my opinions. And that's what we're supposed to do as christians, we don't struggle with God.
this. all of this!! im queer myself and trying to love God as much as possible. I feel that my identity is wholesome and normal. The only reason why people could say its not to me is if it is fueled by immorality. I believe that we should love one another and love Him especially. when people get away from that, it just doesn’t feel right. i’m so happy that i found my Lord and i can enjoy my existence with Him. God bless!! :)
The basis for determining what is sinful and what is not comes from the word of God, period. Not from science, not from feelings/personal experiences, not from any secular ideas of what is right and wrong. We are all born with proclivities towards certain sins, whether that be homosexuality, heterosexual immorality, hatred, greed, unforgiveness, or any other. And we are not doomed to continue in these sins all our lives because "that's just who we are." I know from your comment you don't want to hear it, but nevertheless you really need to hear it. As does anyone else reading this who has embraced any form of sin because "that's just who I am."
I think he is saying that the students of this teacher came out and did not take their faith or life for that matter seriously. He just used smoking weed to point out the lack of seriousness in these kids live's.... Serious about their faith, not even serious about life.
@@drductapeCame here looking for this, 29 years straight edged and Cannabis and Mushrooms both bring me closer in talking with God. I view entheogens as sacramental and see nothing but the laws of man that seek to dispute that. seems like common cause to keep to in the atheist pipeline to take away mind expanding substances
Man as a Catholic, I empathize with so much of what you said at the end. You’re going through the same thing we went through in the 60s and 70s with seminary infiltration and the ones who could have done something running away from the real issues and hiding behind something trivial. When you say “evangelical” I can easily substitute “traditionalists” or more appropriately Latin purists. It’s a cycle that goes back a long way. Every splintering of the faith back to and beyond Martin Luther running away from explaining himself to Rome and starting his own church and many, many wars. 🙃 Overall an interesting video and something we all need to guard against.
He didn't run, he was kicked out. If he hadn't have went into hiding they would have killed him. He didn't start his own church, he restored the catholic church and the papists rejected it
Luther got kicked out, he initially just wanted to reform the church (95 theses was written in Latin and not meant to go public!) So saying he started his own church isn't entirely correct.
What was "seminary infiltration?" I am genuinely curious, so if you could explain with some suggestions for further reading that would be great, brother.
I agree with most of what you said but I'm not sure saying someone who deeply cared about the Catholic church and was excommunicated only for people to follow them and still go to churches anyways was just "running away" is an accurate depiction of church history.
I'm politically/socially progressive in almost every way, but theological liberalism annoys me as far as rejecting the supernatural. Like why would you claim the title of Christian if you're just a secular humanist?
@@dariusluca5469 I'm hopeful for universalism but reading the Scriptures, annihilationism seems more likely. Also I think the "sheep and the goats" parable is more relevant to Salvation than most want to admit on any side. I think my big differences would be that I DO think God's love is the center of the Gospel message and I'm LGBT-Affirming. Not looking to debate or argue because I've heard it all, just saying what I believe based on scripture, tradition, experience, and reason.
I just attended a meeting at my church. They’re wanting to leave the UMC. This real sad what is going on today. I really miss the good days when people decided that they weren’t Christian and simply left the church.
@@emanueldelacruz1101read Galatians and you will see zoomer's statement is fully aligned with what the Bible says. Apostle Paul wrote the letter to the church in Galatia to warn them of the false teachers trying to preach their distorted version of the gospel. Paul basically tell's the church of Galatia to keep the church centered on the true gospel of grace and salvation instead of allowing the false teachers to enter the church (essentially handing the church over to people who do deny the true gospel)
Inside my Lutheran State Church, I'm super Conservative, when talking to European Confessional Lutherans, I'm a moderate. When I'm talking to American Confessional Lutherans, I'm a super lib hippie.
@Redeemed Zoomer, sorry for the late response. I am a lib in their eyes because: even though I am not in favour of female clergy, I accept the Communion (with a female celebrant Priest) as a valid sacrament, it is his body and blood. It is still Christ's doing, not hers. I also hold to an Old Earth Creation and Theistic Evolution. I am indifferent to whether or not Mary was a perpetual virgin. The virgin birth is what I hold to.
I am super Conservative in my "home field" because I oppose same sex marriage in Church, prefer non-female clergy, I prefer a very high church mass (liturgy with incense and the old Swedish Church prayers), against all theological interfaith initiatives (not ecumenism with Christians) etc etc
Here is a tip for future videos, don’t play the game and talk while you are playing. Play and record a bunch of stock footage and then record your voice separately while not gaming and put the video +audio of your voice together in editing. That way you can focus just on what you are saying and won’t sound like you are trying to do two things at once.
I used to edit the writings of a stage 5 "pastor" for work--he was NOT good for my blood pressure! In fact, he was one of the main reasons I eventually left that job. These days, I would have to refuse to work with him/help him spread his heresies altogether, but sadly I was in a "coasting" stage of my faith at the time, so I just kept biting my tongue and telling myself it wasn't my place. I never could figure out how that guy graduated from a seminary, because both his writing skills and his theological sophistication were second-grade-level, at best. Thanks to your video, now I know--it was the commies' fault! 😆
9:10 Wait wait wait what I thought you recorded your playthroughs beforehand and then talked over them, not that you were doing both at the same time Multitasking is one thing but to keep preaching without losing focus on the game and what you’re saying is a skill lmao
I was ashamed of being a Christian. After learning how extraordinarily good the Church and Christianity have been to the world throughout history, I have never felt this way again. It also helped socializing with other brothers and sisters through real life and the internet to see that Christianity has led some people to become very great people, despite the modern media wanting to portray us as backward or inferior. It was such a satisfying moment to see these lies crumble off my shoulders.
Enjoyee the video, but I will say I'm not overly confident in all of your points. To slightly push back against a few points, I believe a correct amount of stage one can be relatively healthy and I disagree with a few points made on stage two... First, while "Christian Guilt" is a bad thing, we are to call out injustices and to fight for justice, love, and peace. On one hand you are correct that you shouldn't be ashamed to be a Christian, the counterpoint I make is if someone feels like the church is ___, they should feel both encouraged and empowered to bring thar to the body. Through bringing it to the body, the church can then reflect and either dismiss it based on facts or collectively grow. Furthermore, while the Church has done great things regarding race and gender, we can't grow complacent in past achievements either and we have to understand the church can still grow and that our work isn't done. Second, I disagree with a few of your points regarding priorities. Simply put, Jesus directly says that love is the most important commandment, and that he died because "God so loved" us. Sure salvation and law are important, but law means nothing without understanding Christ's love and sacrifice that fulfilled the law. These points don't have priority, as I cannot understand Salvation without understanding His love, I cannot understand His love without the Bible and Biblical law, and the law means nothing without understanding how Christ fulfilled it through his sacrifice and how we partake through Salvation. To say Love and Justice is after Salvation is Law is ignoring that God is Love and God is Justice. I think I understand the point you were attempting to make, but how it was expressed is a very dangerous perspective that falls into legalism, which was the same thing Jesus convicted the Pharisees of falling into. Nonetheless, I did enjoy the video and it did enlighten me a little bit on where I may fall. Personally, I fall into stage one due to Church hurt. I have a brother with FAS, and have had churches plan him out of youth events, bully him, and even tell us that our family can come but he has to stay home. I've seen corruption first hand and have had questions of mine silenced, leading me to nearly denting Christ altogether. I wouldn't call it Christian Guilt, but I will say I don't particularly have positive feelings regarding the state of the Church, which may make me slightly more progressive.
I will also comment, I am a Pentecostal Christian (weirdo I know) currently enrolled at a Church of God university and pursuing a masters in Psychology and potentially a minor or major in theology. As such my religious background is vastly different from yours, and my understanding of psychology also influences the lens in which I understand and perceive the Bible, ontop of anecdotal experience. In that sense my gripes may simply be influenced by denominational differences, and if that is the case I Apologize.
“If you love me you will obey my commandments.” Loving God and neighbor summarizes the first and second tables of the law (commandments 1-4 and 5-10, respectively). The entire Christian life is one of obedience and repentance. We “do justice” only insofar as we are commanded.
First of all I feel sorry for what your former church did to your brother with FAS, I just found out what it means and couldn’t believe anyone over the age of 12 could bully someone for a health condition, imagine fully adults. think I can understand the Christian guilty and explain to you. It’s like the democracy guilty, we know democracy isn’t perfect and in the name of the democracy people do evil in large scale, but we can separate democracy from its idea to the evil people who use it. Or school guilty, school has made the life of people so miserable, not only psychologically, through teachers abusing and humiliating students, but by the bully which is inherit to the school, and little changed in 300 years, like it was never taken a serious issue. But we don’t feel like a school guilty, we understand that the idea is good, but people will ruin everything, and everything will make people suffer, but we can see the positive effects way more than the negative effects, that defends the school existing. We can propose to change the school, but most people wont go to the point of denying its existing. The science is another one, we as humans did so evil in the name of science and guided by science, not only scientific racism that was brought by evolution theory, but unethical experiments on humans and even in children, lobotomy, etc. But we don’t feel like a science guilty, we understand that overall it is a good thing, and evil seeds and evil ideologies can’t affect the core ideals. technology too, with the atomic bomb and other mass destruction weapons. I think you get what I meant. But the most radical example is Love, by love we did so many evil things, there is even a Japanese philosopher called Uchiha Madara who said that “Hatred is born to protect love.” And when a man learns to love, he is also willing to learn to hate when this love is stopped. But we don’t feel a love guilty. We can see the beauty of the love, and separate it from evil and hatred that is caused in name of love. I think that this is the point of Church guilty, not that church is perfect, and there isn’t things to change, but that church isn’t intrinsically bad, and should be overcome, or at least is a synonymous of evil, because it does more bad than good. Instead of being a good place with bad people, is a bad place with eventually good lost people that should be elsewhere. This is what he meant, I know this because he did many videos about how we should hijack mainline churches, if he thinks that Church guilty is trying to reform the church, he would be a church guilty, otherwise he wouldn’t even be Protestant because Protestantism was born out of a will to change the Church. And he even did his new version of 95 teses to chance the church again.
Non-Christian here that is studying Christianity for school/college. I love your channel. Can I ask how long you have been a Christian? Many blessings.
@Kit Agreed. This guy advertises his channel with like two good videos and the rest is dogshit opinions from an open far right bigot while playing Minecraft at 5 FPS.
@@niccolopaganini1782 He's anti LGBT and claims it's an "abomination unto god" when in reality God loves everyone equally and the verses in the bible "condemning homosexuality" are either blatantly mistranslated or wildly taken out of context. Along with that, there is no mention of trans people whatsoever and the few times they're even implied (Eunichs) they're portrayed positively. Jesus himself (literally God) is also heavily implied to be canonicly aromantic/asexual. (no sexual or romantic attraction) OP is also anti trans and believes in far right conspericy theories like "ThE lbErAl MeDiA cOnTrOlS tHe ScHoOlS aNd Is UsInG tHeM tO tUrN oUr KiDs GaY!" He has a whole video condemning college and education in general claiming it's all "a liberal woke propaganda buzzword buzzword buzzword training facility" which is classic right wing fear mongering in order to make the population less educated so that the right can better manipulate them to benefit the 0.1%. Basically your classic bigoted religious zealot with a hint of a messiah complex since he apparently believes that he'd "building God's TRUE kingdom" in MINECRAFT of all things, a game made by a sweetish atheist and currently owned by one of the biggest cooperations in the world founded by Bill Gates (a major funder for the Democratic party and the feature of many far right conspericy theories) who's also blatantly pro-LGBT.
I think its okay to be a progressive Christian(i think im one to a degree) but then you get churchs like the "United church of Christ"/"United church of Canada" and wonder what went wrong
You can't be a liberal and a Christian. It makes no logical sense. Liberalism/leftism is all about self-worship. Everything that liberalism/leftism promotes is antithetical to Christianity. Liberalism is philosophically linked with Satanism.
As a conservative atheist I really don't 'get' progressive Christians (although I do know a lot of them). Seems like they really just enjoy the worst of both worlds.
Yeah, for me the problem isn't with having female priests or even being ok with same-sex couples if you can come up with a good Biblical argument for doing so. The problem is that this seems to too often lead to the church's disassociation with the central tenants of Christianity in favor of a vague Christanish philosophy that isn't too far off from Universalism.
Hey! A fellow PCA member! Great video. One question: Do you think these stages naturally advance, like stage 1 will eventually grow into stage 2, or is it more of a pick-your-poison kinda thing?
sort of. I mean, my denomination's churches didn't just randomly go from fully Christian to atheist. Right now, my Church is stage 2 and is on the danger of going to stage 3 which I'm trying to stop
@@redeemedzoomer6053 Dear friend, I replied to this conversation because I'm currently EPC and thinking of switching to PCA. However my home church is PCUSA. I have been searching for a church home and I have found your videos very topical. If I may ask why are you still in the PCUSA. I will agree, several people from my home church share similar opinions as you do and don't care for the larger PCUSA.
@@biffspigler1093 Because the PCUSA is the denomination that contains the Reformed heritage. It has most of the historic buildings, seminaries, universities, etc. All this stuff is worth fighting for and not worth giving to the liberals and running away
@@redeemedzoomer6053 but do the conservatives in the PCUSA even have the capability to replicate an SBC style conservative resurgence? Most of the conservatives left a long time ago. The SBC and LCMS were able to do what they did because they still held a considerable amount of sway with the laity. I don’t think that exists in the PCUSA anymore. For all intents and purposes Westminster is what Princeton used to be and has been for decades.
Me too man, I was a hardcore atheist to the point I would debate online and even convince that God didn’t exist. I used to think I was super smart and most people were dumb, I remember watching Stephen Hawkins documentary about how he would prove that God didn’t create the universe by saying: with the creation of the universe, it was also the creation of time, because time and space are just one thing according to Einstein Relatively, and so God didn’t create the Universe, because God didn’t have time to create the universe. I was ready to believe that Nothing could create everything than to believe that was an atemporal, spaceless and immaterial being that would create the time, space and matter. At some point, I got so into investigating everything that I started to realize that things started to make less and less sense and more and more faith I was requiring to be an atheist, to the point that I decided to pretend that God existed for the sake of an argument, and I decided to investigate Christianity history and I understood that everything I thought I knew about Christianity was either false or misinterpreted on purpose. From that point Christianity started to make more and more sense to me, philosophically even before finding out historical evidence for Christianity, I was already fully sure Christianity was true because I stated to see Gods signs the more and more I was studying christianity and Jesus life.
How do you personally deal with being part of a church that is borderline heretical? Enjoyed this video!! I’m learning a lot from you as a new Christian lol.
My church broke away from a church that was stage 3, the parent church allowed gay marriage even though Corinthians is still a thing so my church noped out of it and left. I went to that parent church once, it's very pretty and beautiful but also very bland and cooperate in a way. Borderline heretical churches are still somewhat neat but like can they be considered Christian at this point?
If we can agree that god is omnibenevolent (and omniscient) then surely god doesn’t hate LGBTQ. Lots of Christians I know do support them, and that doesn’t make them any less Christian.
@goose_president5504 nice try but if you were actually catholic you would know that the pope is the anti-pope so by that heresy alone he is not fit to be pope. If you truly want to learn more go on search Vatican II exposed
I mean I’m an Christian evolutionist so I’d say that’s a stage 0 😂 Modern Evangelicals/Fundamentalists are the only Christians who have ever really had a problem with evolution
@@redeemedzoomer6053oh cool, I am a Christian evolutionist as well. That aside, I do really like the channel. (I’ve tried to think of a good follow up for like 10 minutes and still can’t think of anything good so imma just leave it at that)
I would say my ideology as a United Methodist would be about a stage 3. I believe undertaking the new covenant with Jesus eliminated a lot of the rules in the old testament, other than the 10 commandments, that Jesus felt was too extreme. I believe as long as someone believes in the trinity, the resurrection, follows the commandments and participates in Church tradition, that they are a Christian. I am glad Christians can have these theological discussions through social media. No matter if youre conservative or progressive, we are all sinners who have been saved and we all live under the Kingdom of God, together 💜
Do you have any casual social media, I've been fighting a similar fight and would really love to talk to a sane person for a change. I commented on your new video, but there's so many other comments I didn't want to get drowned out.
You make very fascinating videos and I'll definitely stay to learn more about american church and religious structures, but why is it that you think leftism is a virus inside higher educational institutions? Going into university I felt similar at the beginning because I was quite apolitical, but being part of that structure made me realise that a lot of leftist beliefs are aligned with my beliefs in justice. Also, I understand now that the reason why higher educational institutions are left leaning because it is cultivating openmindedness and progressiveness, which should be expected from people going to university in my opinion, because how can we expect new knowledge coming from people who are taught to think in old structures, or should theology not be part of that in your opinion? Another question I have is even if it is written in the bible that same sex couples cannot get married, are they not allowed to to express their love or are they not allowed to get married as in an act of christian monogamy? What do you think about atheists getting married? Has the thought of the bible being manipulated in the past 2000 years crossed your mind or are you a firm believer of what is written there? I'd love to have these questions answered even though I don't expect a reply after this brick wall of text.
In revelations it says very bad things will happen to you if you alter it in any major way. I don't remember what it was specifically. I don't think anybody would be willing to risk it.
Progressivism doesn't preach openmindedness. They preach "tolerance." Much like how Satanism preaches "kindness to others" they don't mean it for people who disagree with them. In their minds, you're an "ingrate" or insert arbitrary label here "______."
@@Copyright_anonymous I pray that every human who's ever copied the bible believes this too... But then again we have multiple translation for bibles already don't we? Many fine points seem up to how people choose to interpret the bible, just as people interpret the constitution
@@robertsloppytopenheimer256 I see you avoided my question, and are pretending I said something I didn't say. Why is so much dishonest rhetoric required to defend something so wonderful?
I just don't get how anybody could care about it. It's not even about if you agree with it, it literally has no effect on your day to day life. So why be against it
Stage 3 has be the worst in terms of cognitive dissonance. At least at the 'higher' stages you can let go of the arbitrary beliefs and dogmas of people who lived before the scientific method was used (sadly to be replaced with the even more ridiculous beliefs and rules of modern left-progressivism for many people on this "progressive Christian" trajectory)
since i don't believe in god itself anymore and therefore am not a Christian anymore i probably fall out of this logic but I'd probably be at #2 or #3 aswell if i still believed in god
I would love to see a video where you scroll through r/Christianity or the various denominational subreddits sharing your views on the questions that are posted there and or statements. Love your videos.
@@bartbatz1515 also Australian I think (I'm Canadian) (but also, the doctrine of Terra nullius came from Catholic Church philosophers, and lead to the conquest of the Americas, including the trail of tears)
I’ve been watching your videos for a bit now and really enjoying them. I’m a zoomer myself. I agree that we should fight for our churches tooth and nail, but I think once a church has reached a certain point it might be time to leave. One problem is that most people get their theology from their church. Yes, we ought to do our own research and study the Bible, but most Christians simply aren’t going to do that or they’ll be confused when their church and their research differ and likely take the side of the church even if their theology is dead-wrong. Therefore, I wouldn’t be comfortable inviting agnostics or new believers to a church controlled by progressives because I’d be caught saying “I know the church (or the pastor) says this, but that’s not true. Regardless, I appreciate your fight to save your denomination. - a Baptist
On the other way round, it's been interesting seeing someone like Jordan Peterson almost go the other way. His lectures seemed to start to start with an exclusively psychological and sociological understanding of God and religion, but it seems to be creeping towards a more traditional understanding. I haven't watched any of his stuff properly in a while, he's a bit too far in the culture-war space for me to be that interested anymore, but it is curious.
I would say I have Christian guilt, but I still believe Christianity is a force for good. I just think that modern churhces need major reform in the way they approach the non-Christian world and how they approach each other. I am Eastern Orthodox btw.
Other Christian’s actions aren’t on you. It’s okay to recognize how sinful other Christian’s are towards non believers, without taking it out on yourself. Yeah, It hurts to think about those who fear Christians because of what a few has done to them
I agree with you. I (think) have christian guilt, but I was unsure if they were other people like me! I just want christiany to be more open to others and that some Christians did criticize other people's religion/covert them.
@@bigwinz Converting people to Islam is literally the most important job we have as Muslims. A Muslim's goal is to emulate Mohammad(pbuh), and Mohammad(pbuh) was sent to us to act as a missionary, essentially. It's what he spent most of his time doing. Criticizing other religions is a major part of that process. Why would anyone accept Allah if they're perfectly happy in their own church? I agree that Muslims should be less hostile as a whole though, if only because it's better optics. If aggression were working to win converts today like it did hundreds of years ago, we should be all for it. But the world has changed.
@@neildalessandro8196 God is omnibenevolent according the the bible. God's word is also true according to the bible. However I doubt you even know what true or good actually mean. What does it mean that gods word is true. What does it mean that gods word is good. Analyze the meanings of good and true themselves.
@@neildalessandro8196 well it does say god is a word if you take it literally. Which is allegory for it being a concept and not a physical existing being. However you have to be atheistic to get the nods to atheism in the text.
@@neildalessandro8196 None of the spiritual entities actually exist. Like hell or heaven aren't places you can actually go. God isn't in reality all powerful. They're all just concepts that you perceive as physical, and since you do perceive them as physical they have an impact on your behavior. This alteration of behavior is how the religion operates. It compels you to go to and financially support your church, act by an interpretation of gods morality, etc.
I am not sure whether or not I am on the 3rd stage, since I started to study the formation of Bible and textual criticism. For example, 1 Cori. 11:34-35 was not included in the MS 88, placed after 1 Cori. 11:40 in Westen text type, and shown as variant in one of the easiest copies. I do not believe these changes in textual transmission were from God, but I think they are from the ideological conflicts in early chirstianity.
This reminds me of a piece from "Unqualified Reservations", which made the proposal that all Progressives are memetically linked to Christianity. Basically Protestantism if it kept cutting corners forever, they left behind God, Christ, dignity, and salvation, but kept the guilt of sin.
I speak from the perspective of someone who's never believed in any religion, I've only ever been in a church once when it was easter, I drank the wine and ate the saltine and then another time when a friend of mine rented out their church for their birthday party to have a nerf war. I say this to preempt the point of why all of this has and always will just seem like bogus to me. I do not have a positive position on religion, I look at history and I see the church oppressing the serfs of Europe for thousands of years, I see pointless wars over a made up holy land and I look to today and I see churches propagating hatred; the conversion camp and the constant bickering amongst those who believe. And yet, I admire the propensity, the devotion, however misguided and unintentionally harmful it may be I admire the people and I admire the goal. I wish there was a higher power, I wish it simply was that easy, I wish I could simply devote myself to some divine and their divine rulings and have it be so simple, and yet, it isn't. But what many seem to ignore is *faith*. They tear down god and destroy him in their minds and they try to hold onto the material and the factual, the scientific. They give up on *good* and just simply try to live, for themselves, for whatever they can. But what I maintain is that there is a higher power above us- ... it's *us*. It *has* and always will be *us*. What I ask anyone who believes is not to believe no more, but to replace that faith in the divine, with a faith in humanities future, a faith in *us*, a faith in *ourselves*. To believe in yourself and the people around you, to help them, guide them as you help and guide yourself. You are the shepherd, you always have been. 5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. 6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
listen, my opinion is that the fundamental logical endpoint is agnosticism, we simply cannot prove the divine, in that respect we agree. the problem with atheistic humanism is that it doesn't actually have any values besides "advance humanity". This has no incentive structure, meaning there's no reason to not be selfish, since the material world is all that we have, we might as well be self-serving hedonists. Because it has no values, nazism is essentially the most "humanistic" path since it reduces suffering in the long term (ethnic cleansing, uniformity, getting rid of genetic undesirables, creating a perfect world). point is without religion there's really no agreed upon set of rules and even when people try to make up rules (by imitating religion) there's nothing to stop people from disobeying besides physical violence (which won't be as much of deterrent when death is oblivion, not judgement).
Very concisely stated. I used to have this exact view at some point before I became a Christian. I just want to add that it’s also the end point of utilitarianism in my view. Now that I type this I see I actually went backwards through these stages.
I recently had a discussion with one such "Christian", somehow he was of the opinion that even though calling somebody the pronouns of the sex was lying to them, was justifying it by ignoring all the verses in which the Bible and Jesus tells us to stop lying.
@@sharkinator7819 Jesus made wine, but not for the purpose of intoxication, which is how modern men use it. Galatians 5:19-21: "The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: ... drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God." Ephesians 5:18: "Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit." Wine has a very different context in the bible, because water could not be drank in abundance and alcohol was an accessible way to get sanitized drink. It also had a vastly lower alcohol content compared to modern drink. It's also unclear whether Jesus actually did make wine at all. The original Hebrew word refers to all juice-derived beverages. It's typically translated as wine because wine has a luxurious connotation, thus making the feat seem more impressive. Either way, the bible is extremely clear that intoxication is sinful. A church that accepts inebriation is no different than one that accepts homosexuals.
Hey just found your content. I myself in the recent past began to truly walk with Jesus, I was raised Christian and believed in God but didn't live like he existed. That has changed now. I am curious, it seems like the church you attend and its affiliates have a lot of very unbiblical stuff going down, from what you said in this video. Would you be interested in explaining your reasons for staying at that church or if you have another video explaining that I'd be more than happy to watch it. I myself am searching for a church and your situation baffles me on a surface level. Thanks and God bless!
“For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.” 2 Timothy 4:3-4
In regard to stage 4, what do you believe of those in the first 300 years from Christs birth who didn’t have either any or at least a clear understanding of the trinity? Seeing as it was set in order and enforced after 325 AD. Would Jewish and Greek converts in the first 300 years of Christian history not be equally considered Christian?
That's a total modern myth. Christians from the very beginning taught and believed in the trinity. The only reason it's not quite as obvious in the scriptures to us is that we don't have an ancient jewish background to draw from. It was VERY obvious to the jews of his day that he was claiming to be God. The only thing that happened in 325 is that the things that were already commonly known and taught were codified in a way to fight back against the various heresies, especially arianism, that denied Christ's claim to be God.
The idea that if you deny the trinity, you aren't a Christian, that's ridiculous. For hundreds of years, nontrinitarian Christians have existed, and it's a very priviliged take to believe you are qualified to say what is and isn't Christianity.
@@garylyon2986 The Nicene Creed is followed by most major denominations, but it is not the be all end all that defines all Christians, and religion isn't defined by a single council or creed. Those following the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth are all Christians, even if they share significantly different interpretations on his direct divinity or his relationship with God. It's not the same as seeing him as a prophet like other Abrahamic religions.
@@evanmarlowe4722 I agree with non-trinitarian Christians falling under the definition of Christianity, but I disagree with what you said about those who follow the teachings of Jesus being Christian. Muslims follow Jesus too(to what extent you consider that to be the case might vary, especially based whether you are a Muslim or a Christian, but they certainly follow him to a significant extent as both religions are fairly similar in comparion to other faiths) since Muslims believe he was a prophet but no one would classify them as Christians.
@@evanmarlowe4722 you’re saying he’s not “qualified to say what is and isn’t Christianity.” Yet he is simply expressing the view of 99.9% of people who over history have called themselves Christian. What are your qualifications to say what is and isn’t Christianity?
Around 13:50 the talk of weed due to not being taught well is a very bad argument. I was born in raised in a very theologically sound home. My dad is a pastor and mom a Sunday school teacher. We would have Bible study at home nightly for most of my life and it was more in depth than I'm sure many Seminaries are. I started smoking weed at 21. It wasn't due to not knowing the Bible or who God was. I smoked weed and fully felt the feeling of knowing I was sinning and going against God's will. Drugs can be used to fill other voids in life.
This guy probably prays every night that God will make redstone rails push a minecart one block further instead of trying to understand how to make a functional coaster lmfao. ☠️
I was in a public church today and the pastor was a fat woman who did dollar store magic tricks during the sermon and at the end they played "Phantom of the Opera" on the organ, I wish I was kidding
Well dang.... here I was thinking I finally found a channel that could finally represent Christianity in a new, non-defensive, intellectually stimulating way. And for the most part it is. But I still can't help feeling disappointed that underneath all that intellectualism remains the attitude of "eww gay people want to be Christian? Not while I can minecraft about it." Oh well. To be clear, I wouldn't care so much about your own personal beliefs if you regulated them to your own church or even your own denomination. My problem comes from how you are single handedly leading a movement to infiltrate progressive churches with cultural significance to resort them back to places unwelcoming of queer people and God knows who else. (And you call liberalism a virus.) What I thought was thoughtful and humble approach to understanding Christianity, is but another reaction to people worshiping God in a way you don't agree with as "they are doing it the wrong way and must be stopped." All while failing to recognize your own self richeouse piousness. Like honestly, "people who smoke weed must not have had the seed of Christ planted in their heart"???? You're arrogance is truly humbling. I hate to break it to you, but the Bible is not the window into Christ you think it is. While surely divinly inspired, none of it comes directly from God, the Angles, or even Jesus himself. But rather from people with undeniable love for God but a limited understanding of Him. In the centuries that went into constructing the Bible, a council (the counsel of Nicaea in 325) amongst the rubble of a collapsing empire and in a desperate attempt to pivot to a new popular religion, elected what would be canonical and what wouldn't be. very little of the True teachings of Jesus remained, either out if ignorance or intentional dishonesty to retain power. None of this is to say the Bible isnt a beautiful source of Spirtual Inspirstion which can help point people in the right direction if they know how to read it. But it isnt a direct account of Christ (for that, look to a Course In Miracles) And it DEFINITELY isnt a reason to mock LGBTQ+ people or excluded our people and our families from places of worship. That is a YOU problem. One that YOU will have to deal with. After all, it says in Matthew "what you do to the least of these, you do to me." And, "those who deny me, I will also deny." As much as it saddens me, I can't help but concede that you may very well be successful in your self appointed, ego driven crusade to restore mainline Christinity to this puritanical vision of exclusion, protected against this nebulous threat of "wokeism." But all that will prove is that Christinity as a religion is at best a distortion and at worst a deception of the True teachings of Christ which are about Forgivness, Love, and the welcoming of God's Children back into the Kingdom of heaven. You may push us out of your spaces as much as you wish, persecute and disown us, but we will merly turn the other cheek and continue to move closer and closer to a divine form of love. So forgive me of my own righteousness born of exhaustion of being told I and my people are not good enough for Christ as I am (working admittedly) on Forgiving you for yours. May God Bless you. And rest assured, I say this as passive aggressively as possible. May the Father Help me.
Honestly, well said. I think many forget that religion is supposed to help/serve people. If they won't even sit next to you then that's them being wretched.
Wisdom is knowledge gained from real life experiences, and I can testify to the fact that the man is generally correct in his description of the stages of apostasy for "progressive Christians". Dismissing the mans argument based on a single quip shows that you have a distinct lack of Wisdom yourself.
I love how half the comments are about the church and the others are complaining about the Minecraft gameplay in the background.
He doesn’t even have Netherite gear bro
@@fury_blade9303 might be an old version
Proof that his plan worked
Bro literally doesn't take food on a trip far away from home base
He has bread
Pray to God for a better personal computer, this frame rate is heretic.
Ikr 💀💀💀💀
i think it's a problem with his recording software actually
@@knicechawtyeah ive been seeing his other videos its usually really smooth
You could make a denomination out of this.
@@Mohtellawi lol
Bros playing Minecraft on a toaster 💀
Glad I wasnt the only one who noticed this, i thought I was buggin
Lol
I mean, that's mine scraft
brings me back to the good old days when my frame rate was like that.
It's the capture software
I loved the slideshow!
Sometimes I forget what it's like playing at sub 10fps. I did it for years on a laptop with a first gen i3 and 4gb of ram. Now I have a R5 5600x and rtx 3070 with 32gb of ram and everything runs so smooth it's jarring to see framerates that low.
@@DarthCiliatus I played on a 100$ laptop with a celorn and inter graded graphics. Now I play on a rx 6600 and a i5 12400
real
I'm a new Christian. I have guilt over people that claimed to be Christian, and scared others off from the faith.
Overall, Christianity is a beautiful, truthful faith that I'm proud of. I have positive feelings about it. It's the bad christians and weak, deceitful pastors that I have negative feelings towards.
The god in the bible is an alien called enlil. He wanted to make the existing hominids take over his work so, he modified them into the modern human. That is where Adam and eve come from. Enlil's brother, Enki, added an essence to our DNA that can make us better than anyone in the galaxy, but only if we realize it. So he "tricked Adam and eve to "eat the fruit" which made them understand they are more than slave test subjects. Enlil ofcourse got upset and now hates us so much that he demonized Enki and created the bible to keep humans scared of him so that we are ok with working our whole lives and die. And of course you go to hell for sure! Unless you live in fear of him, only then will you go to heaven.
PREACH! I feel the same way. I don't like how many “Christians” have given us such a bad reputation…
Being ashamed of some Christians isn't the same as being ashamed of Christianity. Of course some Christians don't act as they should and do push others away, but that isn't Christianity's fault, it is the fault of those individuals, so that doesn't count as real Christian guilt.
Righteous indignation is the term I think for that feeling
Knights of St Nicholas when?
Don’t think you’re alone-as a theologically conservative working musician in the Episcopal Church, there are more people who share your beliefs and experiences than you might suppose within mainline churches.
The same reason conservatives run away from churches is the same reason conservatives start shutting up in their churches-fear. So i wouldnt be surprised if he knew what you said already. One of the biggest impacts on fearful people who have not yet lost their convictions that can happen is for the more courageous to inspire them by simply speaking out loud and proud.
Im still glad you said it tho. What you said can also inspire. People need community. A person believing there are persons in his own church who could support him is often the jumpstart a person needs for becoming more vocal and community-focused.
Then they need to act on the knowledge of the Truth God has revealed to them. If they stay quiet because they fear man more than God than they’d have been better off never having gotten involved in church at all then participate in something you know is destroying the family and the Faith and the country and leading to a Noahic final judgment. It’s a big deal.
Same here! I don't know about the Presbyterian Church USA, but there are so many wonderful orthodox parishes (and a few dioceses!) in the Episcopal Church that are worth fighting for.
@@jamesaustin1988 Presbyterian reporting, comparable situation over here. We have a distinct split between the conservative and progressive factions, there's plenty that's more or less intact.
@@mateopribyl9218 No thanks.
I once went to a Presbyterian church with lgbtq flags and a gay pastor. The whole sermon was about how much God loves you and Harry potter
so basicly blasphemy
@TheLostNoob not really this was a few years ago when I was 8 and besides the pastor being gay and the weird Harry potter stuff from what I remember besides that it was fine
@@thelostnoob67 lol nah
Meanwhile, the time before last that I went to a Presbyterian church, they had one of their hymns in Ecclesiastical Latin and were being very Jesus-y, focusing on His suffering and the degree of sacrifice as evidence of God loving us. The flags in the sanctuary were Byzantine violet, with a Ukrainian one outside for sentiment's sake. The sermon focused on how God can seem cruel, but one cannot forget that he sees what you do, and feels the same grief that you do when tragedy strikes.
They're kind of all over the place.
What the hey?
I find I'm far too progressive for my conservative friends and far too conservative for my progressive friends. I feel really reading the Bible and following Jesus' teaches pretty firmly smashes any attempt I have to adhere to a strictly "liberal" or "conservative" tradition. We all have our biases and want to bend God into our political/lifestyle shaped boxes but he calls us to something higher.
I feel the biggest thing missing from any and every church I've gone to is a focus on the grace of God. Progressives lump the concept of grace in with the love of God and in the process somewhat ignore the need for forgiveness. Conservatives acknowledge it often in passing while still placing most of their emphasis on rigid rule following and behavior management, thereby missing the beauty and depth of God's incredible grace and mercy.
Honestly, i think reality is wired to always have conflict, it's impossible to have a balance between conservativism and liberalism. Right now i feel like people finally stopped tolerating the crazy people, but i am hearing the "woman don't deserve rights more and more again", so. F
I appreciate your comment and hold similar beliefs in my Christian walk. The subject of grace is one that has the most to offer for a broken and traumatized world after this pandemic that we’ve all experienced. I think the main issue of relevance is that church leaders will not leave their silos to form collaborative efforts in their communities. The Message IS God’s Grace is sufficient. Received by accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and learning from the level of discipleship that He Instructed during His earthly ministry. That will cover a multitude of sin and pain redeeming people to leading lives of service for God’s Kingdom. All of the tenets of Jesus’ words and actions. We ARE “Christians” correct?
But Christianity is now a business so there is a level of competitiveness and profiteering along with entrenched dogma. It’s damaging our witness, but not changing God’s Plans which we will never truly know or understand. That’s why we believe by faith because without it, it’s impossible to be in God’s Will.
So I said a lot and since I too am not a Bible scholar or trained theologian my comments are based on my discernment. I was raised in the A.M.E. church and I’m currently serving in a Pentecostal nondenominational ministry.
you do realize jesus was litterally a socialist
Yea
I’m curious where the Bible differs from conservatism?
My "negative" response when it comes to the hearing "Christian" is when it comes to "Christian" media and "Christian" homes. Generally Christian media is just bad and turns people a way more than it brings them in. And when people say that they grew up in a Christian home I kind of cringe, because this is either going to be a good story of how they had a truly Christian upbringing in a wholesome family that taught true Christianity and values... or their dad brought out the belt for saying "Dang" or "Crap".
You strike way to close to home but yeah
However today's Christian media is better like superbook or the chosen
Wdym? Christian rock music is extremely good (like Skillet or TFK or Nine Lashes)
@@renhaiyoutube I mean, I guess all art is subjective and to each their own.
I like Theocracy, Saviour Machine, and a few others, but I find most Christian music, particularly mainstream music, to be uninteresting at best.
@@IIBloodXLustII I literally grew up with Christian rock music (I'm Orthodox by the way)
While I do not have a negative association with the word 'Christian', I feel like American protestants have given it a very bad reputation, so when someone asks about my religion, I always go more specific and just say Im a Catholic
*Stage 1*
2:50 Christian Guilt - Feeling like Christianity as a whole has been bad
4:12 Progressive Christianity 6:28
*Stage 2*
6:55 Disordered Focus
*Stage 3*
9:17 Scriptural Denial
*Stage 4*
13:53 Explicit Heresy
15:53 Explicit Denial of Resurrection, Denial of The Trinity, is Heresy
*Stage 5*
16:55 Essential Agnosticism
I'm happy to see so many embracing reality (:
Thank you.
Username checks out 👏🏼👏🏼
@@vondas1480 Lies lol.
Fun fact: the pastor who was kicked out of the PC USA for not ordaining women was actually my uncle (he was pretty cool)
lol
wow actually?
@@redeemedzoomer6053 I'm assuming - because the story is the same (although I suppose there could be multiple of the same story and you were referring to someone else)
He went on to be a Bible and philosophy professor at Belhaven University after that happened.
So yeah - yep - actually
Pretty cool
(btw I love your videos, they're great)
I'm sorry about that
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;” 2 Timothy 3:4 KJV
"God loves you is not the Gospel" man what Bible have you been reading? "God so loved the world"? "Love one another as I have loved you"? "Love thy neighbour"? Love is absolutely the central theme of the Gospel, Christ's sacrifice and Resurrection was a proof of God's love "Greater love hath no man," remember? We are supposed to love God and one another in the same way that God loves us, that is literally the most important lesson in the whole of Christianity, as said by Jesus himself.
Yes, that's true. God's love is the central theme of the gospel and the bible, but it isn't the gospel in it's entirety. God's love isn't just I love you so much but I love you so much that I can't let you continue in sin and allow you to live by your sinful nature. So yeah, in our culture that definition of love isn't usually what they're referring to so it is very important to highlight the other part of the gospel that talks about sin and human nature. That means just telling someone God loves them doesn't actually present the gospel fully especially if they do not have this understanding of God's love...it's a great way to start but it isn't the whole gospel so that's what he means when he says "God loves you isn't the gospel".
The gospel must be presented in it's entirety for it to actually be called the gospel. Cheers ✨
@@kemi1223 Yep, 100% correct.
"So I went to the angel and said to him, “Give me the little book.”
And he said to me, “Take and eat it; and it will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.”
Then I took the little book out of the angel’s hand and ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. But when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter." - Rev 10:9-10. We cannot pick and choose what we take from the bible, we must take the bitter with the sweet.
they all read different bibles because christianity has no consistancey
"God loves you" is definitely not the Gospel. Have you never read Romans chapter 1:16-32?
Bro called focusing on love and justice "Disordered" Literally rolling rn🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣
The first time I saw railroad tracks in church.
The Holy Locomotive
Nice! /)
most surreal youtube video ive ever seen
I’m a pretty Catholic follower of Christ but I think gay people are okay,so long as you’re not hurting anyone.
I’ve looked a lot into the scriptures and what their original writings are and honestly even if we follow Christ we shouldn’t be hateful ever.
You can view homosexuality or transexuality as a sin but you can’t judge damn others over it if there’s no true injustice,that’s why god is there to judge them.
Main goal of being a Christian is to spread the word of god and his love.
Wisdom and kindness are the way.
Do laying is Ok if I'm not hurting anyone?
This people are nuts
@@emanueldelacruz1101 I’d love to understand what you’re saying,your grammar seems to be below that of a 7 year old,could you type your comment again but properly so I can read it?
@@moist_blue >judge not
>Proceeds to insult someone for mistakes in their comment
@@floridaman318 not insulting,it’s a factual statement with a proper comparison.
I was also genuinely asking.
And why do you type like “me>fart>yeah”
@@moist_blue it's a way of expressing contrast.
So originally I had guilt because I was exposed to a lot of the pain and suffering others have felt in the name of Christianity. But in my experience I’m starting to wonder if there’s just a general lack of wisdom across the board between conservatives and progressive. Tie that in with the now all or nothing stances in both camps and we are getting horrifyingly further and further from the example of Christ. There’s room for compassion and understanding without warping and diluting the gospel
Christ tells us to embody the same unconditional love that god holds for all of his creation. Most people on both sides of the spectrum do not truly understand the scripture.
I hope Synode 2024 will solve that.
@@Porook true
@@Porook that means loving Liberals, Conservatives, Homophobes, Transphobes, Trans Rights Advocates and Gay Rights Advocates, etc.
It means to love ALL and to love our ENEMIES, there's even a Bible quote talking about that.
@@SunIsLostChristians trying to be normal when they hear that you have to treat everyone with respect or decency even gays: 🗿 but what uhhh ummm
I'm a Baptist and nearly every Baptist I meet is stage one or less. Also I agree 100% with your 95 theses
I too am Baptist and all Baptists I know are definitely not higher than stage one.
every baptist church i have ever been to has been about as conservative as you can get. i do live in the Midwest so that may help.
@@zebu2294 If I recall, the largest sects (I guess you can say) of Baptism are extremely conservative though sadly, Liberalism like the cancer that is has infected some sects of Baptism too to where you have Progressive Baptist Churches which makes about as much sense as the existence of the Conservative Communist Coalition, lol.
@@jaredcaldwell4270 I do recall my pastor back in my home town mentioning that the baptist organization for the state was gradually "tolerating" some things that did not align with the bible.
i have known someone from all the churches i have attended and i suppose that makes it a lot less likely for me to have run into a mushy gooshy non gospel focused church.
I'm a baptist and I don't think I have ever met a liberal baptist before, but that might be because I live in the south
Just found your channel and watched a few videos. Now I'm planning to binge listen all day tomorrow.
Did you do it?
I am doing it
Sending prayers from Brazil :/ Even tho we have to learn a lot and we have a very few people who get explicitly heretical in their churches, the most of them actually take the scriptures and the christian basis very seriously. Hearing you talk made me feel there are a lot of messed up speeches and a very disoriented church overall in the USA. Stay good man! Your content is really nice :)
Prazer em achar um conterraneo aqui! fique com Deus.
@@WangLin-jt8pj Cara aqui no sul infelizmente já vi algumas igrejas que apoiam o pecado da homossexualidade, com bandeiras e discursos bem liberais teologicamente.
Os católicos podem ser bem desinformados e esquerdistas mas a igreja católica nunca que muda sua teologia para trazer esquerdismo.
Where do you live? I find it interesting what you consider “mainline” Christian and think that it is so progressive. I live in the Midwest and VAST majority of churches are more on the baptist/Pentecostal/nondenominational spectrum. I’m talking like 95% plus. I have met maybe 30 Catholics who live in the Midwest in my whole life, and my cousin is the one and only progressive Christian I personally know.
Mans starting a conversation like Palpatine
rural minnesota is chock full of catholics and lutherans from my experience; fairly even split between western german and nordic immigrants seems like it might be why, but I also differentiate between the midwest and the rust belt.
he said in a recent video he lives in new york city
I grew up catholic but I’m sort of agnostic right now. My grandma passed on recently, and her death has made me rethink my faith. I guess i’m struggling because I’m not a very conservative person, and have struggled with my sexuality(had sex with another woman), but I can’t deny what the bible says. I guess I can’t bring myself to return to full catholicism (in part out of guilt) but I can’t deny the feeling I get when I pray, or step inside a church. Not sure why Im commenting, just trying to process I think
Hey, I am a progressive christ from Presbyterian in Europe. And I really wanted to answer to you. Because you are already good. And when you love women than there's nothing wrong with that. I have actually many catholic friends, who don't believe homosexuality is evil. And I just want to tell you that God loves you, and don't hide yourselve, because you are wonderful just as you are. ❤
@@tabsi2436 thank you:)
If it helps, I've been a Christian my whole life. As I entered my teen years, I realized that I was gay -- something I never saw happening to me, of all people. For as long as I could remember, I always planned to grow up, marry a girl, and have a family, so finding out I wasn't attracted to girls at all really threw me off. At 17, I decided to live my life as a non-practocing homosexual since I believe that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin. Now, I lived in Oregon for 10 year, from 4th grade to when I was 19, and then I become a theater major in college, so I've been in very liberal environments all my life. Everyone I've ever gone to school with has usually been super left leaning and a lot of them have also identified as LGBTQ+. I can say first hand that choosing to be a part of a church rather than the queer community has left me feeling much more fulfilled and joyful in my life rather than choosing to be a part of the gay community. I genuinely believe God brings true happiness to people who follow him, so even though I likely won't ever date or get married, I still live my life in a way that's fullfilling. God's given me a lot of great friendships and support with getting through the rocky relationship I have with my family. All this to say, if you're struggling with your sexuality, even same sex attraction, that's an obstacle for other Christians too. You can't practice it when you join the faith, but choosing not to join just to keep it isn't worth it. God may change you in that way, but, like me, he may not. I hope this helps you!
I am Baptist, from Texas, Conservative.. and I am going to say what you probably wouldn't expect based on those pre-qualifiers.
God loves you right where you are.
Church is an emergency room for sinners and not a country club for saints.
That being said.. two or more meeting in HIS name.. that's church.
So sorry for your loss.
@@Keychain696Praise God for your faithfulness to our Lord, brother! We’re all struggling with something. Working out our salvation with fear and trembling. I can’t relate to same sex attraction, but I can relate to battling lust. I’m glad you choose a community of life to equip you for battle and encourage you to walk in the way of the Lord. Inspiring!
Bro what are your video settings? They look like they need optimised
I am curious about one thing. If You deny some aspects of Christianity because of right wing or third positionist beliefs do the same stages apply or is there another spectrum of this movement of thought? I have geniunely met people and communities of people who criticized Christianity for being too racially inclusive and denied even Jesus as an impostor. Don't even get me started on the chosen people aspect and so forth. Most of these people, though obscure in numbers and voice, gravitate towards ancient polytheistic faiths, beliefs in pure science/atheism or even Satanism.
As someone who is "Third Positionist" generally speaking and a Christian I'd say the stages do apply, but obviously with the reasoning behind the many heresies or outright rejection of Christianity that they espouse changed. Much like progressives, however, anti-Christian right wingers' "arguments" fall apart like wet tissue paper upon any examination and their ulterior motives are very obvious.
@@MacCoalieCoalson What do you think that their ulterior motives are? I mean. typically those that are anti-christian are more concerned with race and universalism in Christianity (mostly being too inclusive and treating the gentiles as people that are inferior and should be destroyed) although some other things can be occasionally brought to light.
@@eternalflame8104 Well much of the time they disguise their personal hatred for Christianity, Christians, or God Himself as genuine or legitimate concern that Christianity has some kind of intrinsic flaws that conflict with their political ideals, on both sides of the political spectrum.
Rightwing atheist here. I would say orthodox Christianity isn't too inclusive because its beliefs state that all people are full of shit (sin) and no one deserves to go to heaven.
Many progressive Christians let go of this hard line, and instantly become too inclusive because they turn another Christian belief that anyone can be redeemed into the idea that anyone should just be accepted and are good enough the way they are born, no matter how dumb or crazy they are.
There is a big difference between regarding "gentiles" (whoever you mean by that) as inferior and wanting to destroy them, by the way. Almost everyone subconsciously acknowledges that some people (and by extention groups of people) are inferior to others in some regard. I consciously acknowledge these patterns if they really appear to be statistically true, which means in some regards I can be racist/sexist/anti-gay/whatever, but that doesn't mean I want to kill anyone because of those beliefs.
The thing is, conservative and Christian values align very well. The only people on the right that deny aspects of Christianity or Christianity itself and accept things like pagan religions are usually very far-right. Like how Hitler mostly gravitated toward old pagan gods. So it's most likely a much more sharp divide, because most people on the right aren't even close to far right enough to the point of denying Christianity due to it being too inclusive, which is probably where the denial begins. But because liberalism is much more ideologically opposed to Christianity, so the doubt in it starts much earlier. I'm being pretty speculative here though so I could be wrong.
I once said this when I was an atheist:
"I'd much rather hear an evangelical Christian tell me to go to hell than Hillary Clinton tell me that she doesn't believe in hell."
Wait, Hillary doesn't believe in hell?
A focus on "love and justice" is not "disordered focus", it is Christian praxis. This was Christ's mission statement: “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” The greatest failure of the modern church is insisting that this message is only ever spiritual and not material when it is both. Salvation is critical, but if we are not working to make the world a more just and loving place then what evidence is there that we are animated by the Spirit of God and not mere self-righteousness? The example of Martin Luther King Jr. is instructive here: a devout Christian minister, a civil rights champion, and a socialist. A true Christian progressive. This idea that social justice is at best a distraction and that spiritual concerns are a Christian's only true concerns, together with the rise of "Prosperity Gospel" charlatans and fake miracle peddlers and reactionary fundamentalists, is a major reason- if not the primary reason- why the moral authority of the church has virtually disintegrated. It is a spiritual disease, and the White American Evangelical church in particular is riddled with it.
theres nothing wrong with making the world a better place & real Christians are not opposed to that. check out who do food drives/banks/homeless outreach programs/the plethora of charities.
the world will never be a good place as hard as Christians try, because humanity is in a fallen state. but they try & will continue to do so, but trans drag story time, rioting to make white people pay reparations or forcing Christians to accept homosexuality & make their cakes/marry same-sex-couples is not "making the world a better place", and is the definition of self-righteousness, what progressive people get criticized all the time for; "virtue signaling". im sick of even hearing conservative people say the phrase it happens so much.
Lastly, the person you chose as a "true" progressive Christian is laughable & very telling, why not the many other African American reverends? you chose the most generic & widely known one (i assume its the only one you know), who was also reputed to have some serious issues with alcohol, prostitution & you already mentioned that he was a communist, (as if it was a good thing ironically) which is pretty much one of the only governments systems explicitly and systematically atheistic.
Definitely. Christ reformed Judaism to open it up to the gentiles as well as spreading significant philosophical concepts such as Stoicism and Altruism throughout the region. Even if you don't believe him to be the literal son of god (like the Muslims' don't) you cannot deny his existence and the effects he has had on the morality of the classical world. To deny classical liberal ideals it's place in the faith is tantamount to only seeing the surface of the religion and keeping only that hollow husk. Equality and ethical practice (loving thy neighbor in practice) is precisely the spirit of Christ's Teaching. I see in many churches nowadays, especially the so-called "fundamentalists" a critical deviation from his teachings. The catholics likely started this trend of perverting His teachings, but seeing as so many Christians do not act charitably, nor stoically in the face of adversity, it is safe to say that they don't have the holy spirit in their hearts, just blind devotion to the literal texts of the bible. (Which might I remind everyone are man-written memoirs of Christ's teachings, written for the people of their times [even if they have been revised by kings and translators over the years]).
How is MLK socialist? And please stop promoting your political bs here
@@pilotfg4612 he was, look it up -- it's pretty easy to verify
I think there's a weird overlap between progressive "social justice" Christians and hyper-conservative post-mill theonomists, in that each one teaches the necessity of bringing God's kingdom to earth in an authoritative way. Both seem to be more interested in using Christianity as a Trojan horse for their political ideals, however, than in practicing Christianity.
You're right about this, but only sort of accidentally. The reason the Church must be both _material_ and _spiritual_ and not merely one or the other, is that _Jesus_ is both material and spiritual. Separating the soul from the body is called "death" - and an oppositional view of material things is called "gnosticism". The reason God gave us bodies in the first place is because our bodies tell his story. Heaven is not a place where angels play harps, sitting on clouds. It's a real, tangible place - a place you can physically go to. And while God isn't letting us take our cars, our houses, our money, or even our clothes with us - he is going to ressurect our _bodies_ .And that's also what the social justice crowd get wrong. They tend to make it a game of equalizing wealth - essentially turning covetousness into a virtue. That's not what God has in mind at all.
But I disagree with you about why the "moral authority" of the church has disintegrated. It has a lot more to do with hypocrisy than anything else - it's really easy to poke holes in people's faith by watching what they do. And it's comepletely unfair to make it about race. What does that have to do with anything?
I'll expand on this a little and give you my prescription for renewed "moral authority" - it starts with commitment to God at the personal level. Then it moves on to God-centered sexual morality, because that's the heart of the family and thus the heart of society. From there, it can lead to generous giving and other acts of mercy. But it has to start with getting sex right. Can you guess why? I've actually already mentioned it. God gave us bodies to tell his story. When we get sex wrong, we drastically distort our own view of God, let alone the world outside. And the wild thing is - the Christian sexual ethic isn't what people think. It isn't repressive, it isn't a starvation diet. It's better than the alternatives - it's the treasure they're looking for but can't find. And it's worth selling everything you have to go and buy.
Music student, relatively conservative protestant/Sola Scriptura Christian, zoomer, plays minecraft on a potato? Dude, am I your clone?
Former progressive christian here (kinda still progressive? - especially considering your points - But I dont use that label anymore). Let me explain how progressive christianism brought me back to the faith.
I was raised catholic, but never very orthodox. Eventually, we drifted away from practice and I became an atheist. Because of bad internet influences, I developed a big hate towards the Christian faith. Later, I also turned far left wing.
But then, the UA-cam algorithm recommended me a video explaining the gospels through a gnostic lense. After watching that video, I couldn't get the teaching of Jesus out of my head. I wanted to join other religions instead, as I had a bad opinion of the faith, but I eventually decided to start my cathequism process to complete my missing sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church.
It was a lot of going back and forth. There was a lot of internal fighting within myself, but I now can consider myself pretty orthodox, specially considering that I'm a lesbian.
(I know many of you are very conservative on this subject, so I just want to make clear this: I'm not up for debate. I've already made up my mind on the subject. I'm not only affirming because of scientific research, but also because of my own experience as a gay person. So I ask you to, please, not try to convince me that homosexuality/acting on it is a sin. I also know what the Church's stand on homosexuality is, I've read the cathequism and I love doing so. I also don't need you to cite me verses of the bible, as I know those verses, they won't convince me otherwise - I can literally give you my point of view on it, even if it's not "canon" in the Church's beliefs, but I really have no intention to convince you. I also don't need you to pray for me because of this. If you will pray for me anyways, I can't really stop you, can I? but don't ask me for permission and, please, don't tell me you will do it. So yeah, basically that, if you want to respond to this, please don't speak about homosexuality or gender. I don't mind you having your, according to me wrong, beliefs, please don't mind me having MY, according to you wrong, beliefs).
I still have some progressive views, but those are mostly because I consider some thing forms of discrimination. I can't stand FOR discrimination and be christian at the same time. But I totally get what you're saying.
The thing that attracted me to progressive Christianity was how worried about social justice it was, but as I was instructed in the faith, I realized how it neglected the thing that makes Christianity... Christianity. Like, it's fine if your religion pushes you towards social justice, but it doesn't mean your religion IS social justice. I could've literally been an atheist and I could've still been considered a good christian according to it.
A big part of being a christian is performing acts of charity and standing up for others, but we shouldn't forget WHY we do it. The whole point of our faith is the resurrection, if Christ didn't raise from the dead, then our faith is meaningless.
I don't judge those who assist churches where they preach about LGBT+/Women/BIPOC rights, but I wouldn't assist a church like that. When we go to church we don't go to hear about that, although it can be mentioned and discussed, but to hear about the teaching's of God. To grow on faith. To participate on the sacrifice of our Lord.
There is no Christianity without Jesus and his resurrection, the can be social justice without it tho. That's why we can't lose focus on the dogmas of the faith.
I also totally get what you said about christian guilt. When I first started converting, I felt ashamed of calling myself a christian. But that's not right! That's literally being ashamed of following Jesus! I have learned that you can be critical of the Church's history of corruption (in my case because I'm catholic) and still be proud of your faith.
After all, Jesus didn't preach about allowing corruption, but about loving God and each other (and many other things of course, but that sums it al up). We christians should love the church, as she's Christ's body (at least in catholic theology 😅 sorry idk much about other denoms), and that comes with treating her with respect.
So yeah, I just wanted to rant about progressive Christianity a little. I used to watch UA-camrs like God is Gray, which I think are very good people and very faithful, but they are way to evangelical for my linking lol.
UA-cam comments usually are cesspools, even by Christians on Christian videos. But your comment is awesome; thanks so much for sharing. What gets me most upset about Progressive Christian churches is the label, the way it is used to modify the word Christian. The phrase "conservative Christian is also upsetting. "Christian" should stand on its own.
I won't say anything on whether homosexuality is right or wrong. I do want to mention that, if there's a behavior that, were you to become convinced that it was sinful, you wouldn't be willing to give it up, that's a problem. Whatever you believe on any topic, whether it's drinking, violent video games, hypnosis, or food with too much sugar (all things I believe are not inherently sinful), you have to be able to say to yourself "if God told me explicitly to give it up, I would heed his will".
And yes, the Church is considered the Body of Christ in most Protestant denominations as far as I'm aware. We might mean something slightly different by it than Catholics do, but the term is the same. I very much appreciated your comment, and I wish you the best.
@@nanowasabi4421 Hey, thank you for your comment. I agree with you. I have been asked many times (by other queer Catholics) whether I would remain celibate if God asked me to because I'm gay, and I always answer yes. I put God above everything, even my opinions. And that's what we're supposed to do as christians, we don't struggle with God.
this. all of this!! im queer myself and trying to love God as much as possible. I feel that my identity is wholesome and normal. The only reason why people could say its not to me is if it is fueled by immorality. I believe that we should love one another and love Him especially. when people get away from that, it just doesn’t feel right. i’m so happy that i found my Lord and i can enjoy my existence with Him. God bless!! :)
The basis for determining what is sinful and what is not comes from the word of God, period. Not from science, not from feelings/personal experiences, not from any secular ideas of what is right and wrong. We are all born with proclivities towards certain sins, whether that be homosexuality, heterosexual immorality, hatred, greed, unforgiveness, or any other. And we are not doomed to continue in these sins all our lives because "that's just who we are." I know from your comment you don't want to hear it, but nevertheless you really need to hear it. As does anyone else reading this who has embraced any form of sin because "that's just who I am."
Can we laugh that there is a witch living in the basement of the church at the beginning of this video?
what does smoking weed have to do with religion
Not sure, but I once saw a video about a guy who claims Jesus was a mushroom.
I think he is saying that the students of this teacher came out and did not take their faith or life for that matter seriously. He just used smoking weed to point out the lack of seriousness in these kids live's.... Serious about their faith, not even serious about life.
@@brentlocher5049 I figured, but it kinda sounded like he was saying "if you smoke weed you can't be a christian" or some similar thing like that
@@drductapeCame here looking for this, 29 years straight edged and Cannabis and Mushrooms both bring me closer in talking with God.
I view entheogens as sacramental and see nothing but the laws of man that seek to dispute that.
seems like common cause to keep to in the atheist pipeline to take away mind expanding substances
@@drductape The bible says to have a sober mind, so thats one thing.
hearing this over minecraft definitely gives a unique feeling
It's more casual style, which I love.
We don't always have to have serious setting when talking about serious topics, we can play games while talking about serious stuff.
Divine Intervention is needed to fix the frame rate
Man as a Catholic, I empathize with so much of what you said at the end. You’re going through the same thing we went through in the 60s and 70s with seminary infiltration and the ones who could have done something running away from the real issues and hiding behind something trivial. When you say “evangelical” I can easily substitute “traditionalists” or more appropriately Latin purists. It’s a cycle that goes back a long way. Every splintering of the faith back to and beyond Martin Luther running away from explaining himself to Rome and starting his own church and many, many wars. 🙃 Overall an interesting video and something we all need to guard against.
He didn't run, he was kicked out. If he hadn't have went into hiding they would have killed him. He didn't start his own church, he restored the catholic church and the papists rejected it
Luther got kicked out, he initially just wanted to reform the church (95 theses was written in Latin and not meant to go public!) So saying he started his own church isn't entirely correct.
What was "seminary infiltration?" I am genuinely curious, so if you could explain with some suggestions for further reading that would be great, brother.
I agree with most of what you said but I'm not sure saying someone who deeply cared about the Catholic church and was excommunicated only for people to follow them and still go to churches anyways was just "running away" is an accurate depiction of church history.
TLM is timeless ad orientum is proper .
I'm politically/socially progressive in almost every way, but theological liberalism annoys me as far as rejecting the supernatural. Like why would you claim the title of Christian if you're just a secular humanist?
I'm probably Stage 3 by your metric, but the Nicene creed and Bible are what I center my faith around.
@@spadinnerxylaphone2622 Same =)
Just as a question, are you an universalist? Or do your beliefs rather revolve around other principles of stage 3?
@@dariusluca5469 I'm hopeful for universalism but reading the Scriptures, annihilationism seems more likely. Also I think the "sheep and the goats" parable is more relevant to Salvation than most want to admit on any side.
I think my big differences would be that I DO think God's love is the center of the Gospel message and I'm LGBT-Affirming. Not looking to debate or argue because I've heard it all, just saying what I believe based on scripture, tradition, experience, and reason.
@@spadinnerxylaphone2622 I see, I was merely curious, thank you for sharing this information. God bless you and have a good day!
@@dariusluca5469 Sorry my "don't debate" wasn't meant for you. I just know how UA-cam commenters can be.
I just attended a meeting at my church. They’re wanting to leave the UMC. This real sad what is going on today.
I really miss the good days when people decided that they weren’t Christian and simply left the church.
you gotta encourage them to stay and fight!
@@redeemedzoomer6053
Their job is not to save a denomination. Their job is to preach the gospel
@@emanueldelacruz1101 You preach the gospel by making sure a denomination stays gospel-centered and not given over to those who deny the gospel!
@@redeemedzoomer6053
Apostle Paul would probably say otherwise
@@emanueldelacruz1101read Galatians and you will see zoomer's statement is fully aligned with what the Bible says. Apostle Paul wrote the letter to the church in Galatia to warn them of the false teachers trying to preach their distorted version of the gospel. Paul basically tell's the church of Galatia to keep the church centered on the true gospel of grace and salvation instead of allowing the false teachers to enter the church (essentially handing the church over to people who do deny the true gospel)
Inside my Lutheran State Church, I'm super Conservative, when talking to European Confessional Lutherans, I'm a moderate. When I'm talking to American Confessional Lutherans, I'm a super lib hippie.
Interesting. Can you explain more? Like how would you be liberal in their eyes?
@Redeemed Zoomer, sorry for the late response. I am a lib in their eyes because: even though I am not in favour of female clergy, I accept the Communion (with a female celebrant Priest) as a valid sacrament, it is his body and blood. It is still Christ's doing, not hers.
I also hold to an Old Earth Creation and Theistic Evolution.
I am indifferent to whether or not Mary was a perpetual virgin. The virgin birth is what I hold to.
I am super Conservative in my "home field" because I oppose same sex marriage in Church, prefer non-female clergy, I prefer a very high church mass (liturgy with incense and the old Swedish Church prayers), against all theological interfaith initiatives (not ecumenism with Christians) etc etc
@@lemokemo5752 Wait people other than Catholics have Transubstantiation?
@@fury_blade9303 Lutherans have consubstantiation
Here is a tip for future videos, don’t play the game and talk while you are playing. Play and record a bunch of stock footage and then record your voice separately while not gaming and put the video +audio of your voice together in editing. That way you can focus just on what you are saying and won’t sound like you are trying to do two things at once.
Don’t sound like the reality hahaha
You speak so well! More people need to hear what you have to say! ✝
I used to edit the writings of a stage 5 "pastor" for work--he was NOT good for my blood pressure! In fact, he was one of the main reasons I eventually left that job. These days, I would have to refuse to work with him/help him spread his heresies altogether, but sadly I was in a "coasting" stage of my faith at the time, so I just kept biting my tongue and telling myself it wasn't my place. I never could figure out how that guy graduated from a seminary, because both his writing skills and his theological sophistication were second-grade-level, at best. Thanks to your video, now I know--it was the commies' fault! 😆
If I might ask ,what kind of job did you have that had you editing the writings of a pastor?
@@krizthecookingbeaner2567 I was a freelance editor.
the stuff about communists came totally out of nowhere 😭
If the conservative pastors are being kicked out of the mainline churches, how can you blame them for then going and starting evangelical churches?
9:10 Wait wait wait what
I thought you recorded your playthroughs beforehand and then talked over them, not that you were doing both at the same time
Multitasking is one thing but to keep preaching without losing focus on the game and what you’re saying is a skill lmao
I was ashamed of being a Christian.
After learning how extraordinarily good the Church and Christianity have been to the world throughout history, I have never felt this way again.
It also helped socializing with other brothers and sisters through real life and the internet to see that Christianity has led some people to become very great people, despite the modern media wanting to portray us as backward or inferior.
It was such a satisfying moment to see these lies crumble off my shoulders.
Enjoyee the video, but I will say I'm not overly confident in all of your points. To slightly push back against a few points, I believe a correct amount of stage one can be relatively healthy and I disagree with a few points made on stage two...
First, while "Christian Guilt" is a bad thing, we are to call out injustices and to fight for justice, love, and peace. On one hand you are correct that you shouldn't be ashamed to be a Christian, the counterpoint I make is if someone feels like the church is ___, they should feel both encouraged and empowered to bring thar to the body. Through bringing it to the body, the church can then reflect and either dismiss it based on facts or collectively grow. Furthermore, while the Church has done great things regarding race and gender, we can't grow complacent in past achievements either and we have to understand the church can still grow and that our work isn't done.
Second, I disagree with a few of your points regarding priorities. Simply put, Jesus directly says that love is the most important commandment, and that he died because "God so loved" us. Sure salvation and law are important, but law means nothing without understanding Christ's love and sacrifice that fulfilled the law. These points don't have priority, as I cannot understand Salvation without understanding His love, I cannot understand His love without the Bible and Biblical law, and the law means nothing without understanding how Christ fulfilled it through his sacrifice and how we partake through Salvation. To say Love and Justice is after Salvation is Law is ignoring that God is Love and God is Justice. I think I understand the point you were attempting to make, but how it was expressed is a very dangerous perspective that falls into legalism, which was the same thing Jesus convicted the Pharisees of falling into.
Nonetheless, I did enjoy the video and it did enlighten me a little bit on where I may fall. Personally, I fall into stage one due to Church hurt. I have a brother with FAS, and have had churches plan him out of youth events, bully him, and even tell us that our family can come but he has to stay home. I've seen corruption first hand and have had questions of mine silenced, leading me to nearly denting Christ altogether. I wouldn't call it Christian Guilt, but I will say I don't particularly have positive feelings regarding the state of the Church, which may make me slightly more progressive.
I will also comment, I am a Pentecostal Christian (weirdo I know) currently enrolled at a Church of God university and pursuing a masters in Psychology and potentially a minor or major in theology. As such my religious background is vastly different from yours, and my understanding of psychology also influences the lens in which I understand and perceive the Bible, ontop of anecdotal experience. In that sense my gripes may simply be influenced by denominational differences, and if that is the case I Apologize.
“If you love me you will obey my commandments.” Loving God and neighbor summarizes the first and second tables of the law (commandments 1-4 and 5-10, respectively). The entire Christian life is one of obedience and repentance. We “do justice” only insofar as we are commanded.
First of all I feel sorry for what your former church did to your brother with FAS, I just found out what it means and couldn’t believe anyone over the age of 12 could bully someone for a health condition, imagine fully adults.
think I can understand the Christian guilty and explain to you. It’s like the democracy guilty, we know democracy isn’t perfect and in the name of the democracy people do evil in large scale, but we can separate democracy from its idea to the evil people who use it.
Or school guilty, school has made the life of people so miserable, not only psychologically, through teachers abusing and humiliating students, but by the bully which is inherit to the school, and little changed in 300 years, like it was never taken a serious issue. But we don’t feel like a school guilty, we understand that the idea is good, but people will ruin everything, and everything will make people suffer, but we can see the positive effects way more than the negative effects, that defends the school existing. We can propose to change the school, but most people wont go to the point of denying its existing.
The science is another one, we as humans did so evil in the name of science and guided by science, not only scientific racism that was brought by evolution theory, but unethical experiments on humans and even in children, lobotomy, etc. But we don’t feel like a science guilty, we understand that overall it is a good thing, and evil seeds and evil ideologies can’t affect the core ideals.
technology too, with the atomic bomb and other mass destruction weapons. I think you get what I meant.
But the most radical example is Love, by love we did so many evil things, there is even a Japanese philosopher called Uchiha Madara who said that “Hatred is born to protect love.” And when a man learns to love, he is also willing to learn to hate when this love is stopped. But we don’t feel a love guilty. We can see the beauty of the love, and separate it from evil and hatred that is caused in name of love.
I think that this is the point of Church guilty, not that church is perfect, and there isn’t things to change, but that church isn’t intrinsically bad, and should be overcome, or at least is a synonymous of evil, because it does more bad than good. Instead of being a good place with bad people, is a bad place with eventually good lost people that should be elsewhere.
This is what he meant, I know this because he did many videos about how we should hijack mainline churches, if he thinks that Church guilty is trying to reform the church, he would be a church guilty, otherwise he wouldn’t even be Protestant because Protestantism was born out of a will to change the Church. And he even did his new version of 95 teses to chance the church again.
so real
Non-Christian here that is studying Christianity for school/college. I love your channel. Can I ask how long you have been a Christian? Many blessings.
been a Christian for 6 years now! Raised in a very atheist part of the country but became Christian as a teenager
I kinda started that way too. Be careful. Don’t let the alg rabbit hole you lol
My brother in Christ, fix your frame rate.
*playing Minecraft while talking about progressive christianity*
63.000 people: insteresting
What is this quality
Nonexistent.
@Kit Agreed. This guy advertises his channel with like two good videos and the rest is dogshit opinions from an open far right bigot while playing Minecraft at 5 FPS.
@@krimsonkatt hows he a bigot?
@@niccolopaganini1782 He's anti LGBT and claims it's an "abomination unto god" when in reality God loves everyone equally and the verses in the bible "condemning homosexuality" are either blatantly mistranslated or wildly taken out of context. Along with that, there is no mention of trans people whatsoever and the few times they're even implied (Eunichs) they're portrayed positively. Jesus himself (literally God) is also heavily implied to be canonicly aromantic/asexual. (no sexual or romantic attraction) OP is also anti trans and believes in far right conspericy theories like "ThE lbErAl MeDiA cOnTrOlS tHe ScHoOlS aNd Is UsInG tHeM tO tUrN oUr KiDs GaY!" He has a whole video condemning college and education in general claiming it's all "a liberal woke propaganda buzzword buzzword buzzword training facility" which is classic right wing fear mongering in order to make the population less educated so that the right can better manipulate them to benefit the 0.1%. Basically your classic bigoted religious zealot with a hint of a messiah complex since he apparently believes that he'd "building God's TRUE kingdom" in MINECRAFT of all things, a game made by a sweetish atheist and currently owned by one of the biggest cooperations in the world founded by Bill Gates (a major funder for the Democratic party and the feature of many far right conspericy theories) who's also blatantly pro-LGBT.
I think its okay to be a progressive Christian(i think im one to a degree) but then you get churchs like the "United church of Christ"/"United church of Canada" and wonder what went wrong
You can't be a liberal and a Christian. It makes no logical sense. Liberalism/leftism is all about self-worship. Everything that liberalism/leftism promotes is antithetical to Christianity. Liberalism is philosophically linked with Satanism.
As a conservative atheist I really don't 'get' progressive Christians (although I do know a lot of them). Seems like they really just enjoy the worst of both worlds.
Just remember that you can't cherry pick the bible
Yeah, for me the problem isn't with having female priests or even being ok with same-sex couples if you can come up with a good Biblical argument for doing so. The problem is that this seems to too often lead to the church's disassociation with the central tenants of Christianity in favor of a vague Christanish philosophy that isn't too far off from Universalism.
@@violentblue355 you got it on spot how i feel
Loved the minecraft slideshow
Great video, it was so awesome I fell out of my chair as soon as I tried to get up! Cheers!
Hey! A fellow PCA member! Great video. One question: Do you think these stages naturally advance, like stage 1 will eventually grow into stage 2, or is it more of a pick-your-poison kinda thing?
sort of. I mean, my denomination's churches didn't just randomly go from fully Christian to atheist. Right now, my Church is stage 2 and is on the danger of going to stage 3 which I'm trying to stop
btw I'm PCUSA not PCA, which is why I'm so invested in combatting progressivism
@@redeemedzoomer6053 Dear friend, I replied to this conversation because I'm currently EPC and thinking of switching to PCA. However my home church is PCUSA. I have been searching for a church home and I have found your videos very topical. If I may ask why are you still in the PCUSA. I will agree, several people from my home church share similar opinions as you do and don't care for the larger PCUSA.
@@biffspigler1093 Because the PCUSA is the denomination that contains the Reformed heritage. It has most of the historic buildings, seminaries, universities, etc. All this stuff is worth fighting for and not worth giving to the liberals and running away
@@redeemedzoomer6053 but do the conservatives in the PCUSA even have the capability to replicate an SBC style conservative resurgence? Most of the conservatives left a long time ago. The SBC and LCMS were able to do what they did because they still held a considerable amount of sway with the laity. I don’t think that exists in the PCUSA anymore. For all intents and purposes Westminster is what Princeton used to be and has been for decades.
Underrated channel is underrated.
You should make this into a podcast. I would definitely listen.
The weed thing is so true lol, that's completely what happens
I feel like in my life I've been all 5 of these stages at various times. Happy to be lower on your spectrum these days though :)
Me too man, I was a hardcore atheist to the point I would debate online and even convince that God didn’t exist. I used to think I was super smart and most people were dumb, I remember watching Stephen Hawkins documentary about how he would prove that God didn’t create the universe by saying: with the creation of the universe, it was also the creation of time, because time and space are just one thing according to Einstein Relatively, and so God didn’t create the Universe, because God didn’t have time to create the universe. I was ready to believe that Nothing could create everything than to believe that was an atemporal, spaceless and immaterial being that would create the time, space and matter.
At some point, I got so into investigating everything that I started to realize that things started to make less and less sense and more and more faith I was requiring to be an atheist, to the point that I decided to pretend that God existed for the sake of an argument, and I decided to investigate Christianity history and I understood that everything I thought I knew about Christianity was either false or misinterpreted on purpose.
From that point Christianity started to make more and more sense to me, philosophically even before finding out historical evidence for Christianity, I was already fully sure Christianity was true because I stated to see Gods signs the more and more I was studying christianity and Jesus life.
@@icarojose6316 God bless you for finding Him
It’s like a disease: it progresses
How do you personally deal with being part of a church that is borderline heretical? Enjoyed this video!! I’m learning a lot from you as a new Christian lol.
My church broke away from a church that was stage 3, the parent church allowed gay marriage even though Corinthians is still a thing so my church noped out of it and left. I went to that parent church once, it's very pretty and beautiful but also very bland and cooperate in a way. Borderline heretical churches are still somewhat neat but like can they be considered Christian at this point?
@@rainbowlegend8567Ripped out a Pauline letters?
Heresy....
If we can agree that god is omnibenevolent (and omniscient) then surely god doesn’t hate LGBTQ. Lots of Christians I know do support them, and that doesn’t make them any less Christian.
Yeah it does.
Its condemned stop coping
@@EzeBall1710The Pope would like to disagree with you on that. He literally called trans women daughters of God
@goose_president5504 nice try but if you were actually catholic you would know that the pope is the anti-pope so by that heresy alone he is not fit to be pope. If you truly want to learn more go on search Vatican II exposed
let me elaborate
God loves the lgbtq community. Lets be real He does not affirm them though
There are only 2 stages. Stage 1. Biblically accurate. Stage 2. Actual Satanism.
Where would you place those who try to find a way to connect Christianity to things like evolution and whatnot.
I mean I’m an Christian evolutionist so I’d say that’s a stage 0 😂 Modern Evangelicals/Fundamentalists are the only Christians who have ever really had a problem with evolution
@@redeemedzoomer6053oh cool, I am a Christian evolutionist as well. That aside, I do really like the channel. (I’ve tried to think of a good follow up for like 10 minutes and still can’t think of anything good so imma just leave it at that)
I would say my ideology as a United Methodist would be about a stage 3. I believe undertaking the new covenant with Jesus eliminated a lot of the rules in the old testament, other than the 10 commandments, that Jesus felt was too extreme. I believe as long as someone believes in the trinity, the resurrection, follows the commandments and participates in Church tradition, that they are a Christian.
I am glad Christians can have these theological discussions through social media. No matter if youre conservative or progressive, we are all sinners who have been saved and we all live under the Kingdom of God, together 💜
Do you have any casual social media, I've been fighting a similar fight and would really love to talk to a sane person for a change. I commented on your new video, but there's so many other comments I didn't want to get drowned out.
You make very fascinating videos and I'll definitely stay to learn more about american church and religious structures, but why is it that you think leftism is a virus inside higher educational institutions?
Going into university I felt similar at the beginning because I was quite apolitical, but being part of that structure made me realise that a lot of leftist beliefs are aligned with my beliefs in justice. Also, I understand now that the reason why higher educational institutions are left leaning because it is cultivating openmindedness and progressiveness, which should be expected from people going to university in my opinion, because how can we expect new knowledge coming from people who are taught to think in old structures, or should theology not be part of that in your opinion?
Another question I have is even if it is written in the bible that same sex couples cannot get married, are they not allowed to to express their love or are they not allowed to get married as in an act of christian monogamy? What do you think about atheists getting married? Has the thought of the bible being manipulated in the past 2000 years crossed your mind or are you a firm believer of what is written there?
I'd love to have these questions answered even though I don't expect a reply after this brick wall of text.
In revelations it says very bad things will happen to you if you alter it in any major way. I don't remember what it was specifically. I don't think anybody would be willing to risk it.
Progressivism doesn't preach openmindedness. They preach "tolerance." Much like how Satanism preaches "kindness to others" they don't mean it for people who disagree with them. In their minds, you're an "ingrate" or insert arbitrary label here "______."
@@Copyright_anonymous I pray that every human who's ever copied the bible believes this too...
But then again we have multiple translation for bibles already don't we? Many fine points seem up to how people choose to interpret the bible, just as people interpret the constitution
Couldn't have worded it better.
I feel a very firm and simmering contempt in this video's analysis..
@@CatabolicWaffle The Truth will always generate seething from lesser beings.
I think the dude who created the universe has more to worry about than two men being happy together
If what you're talking about is so great, why do you have to use a euphemism for it?
How does it affect you if gay people get married?
@@robertsloppytopenheimer256 I see you avoided my question, and are pretending I said something I didn't say. Why is so much dishonest rhetoric required to defend something so wonderful?
I just don't get how anybody could care about it. It's not even about if you agree with it, it literally has no effect on your day to day life. So why be against it
@@IThinkItsDark I said it gay marriage not using a euphemism 😱😱😱😱
Well that was fascinating. I am at stage 3, I guess. Did you come up with the stages yourself or do you have a source?
I agree, definitely fascinating, I would also be stage 3 as well by this system
@@Simke8 you look like you have stage 3 diabetes too
Stage 3 has be the worst in terms of cognitive dissonance. At least at the 'higher' stages you can let go of the arbitrary beliefs and dogmas of people who lived before the scientific method was used (sadly to be replaced with the even more ridiculous beliefs and rules of modern left-progressivism for many people on this "progressive Christian" trajectory)
since i don't believe in god itself anymore and therefore am not a Christian anymore i probably fall out of this logic but I'd probably be at #2 or #3 aswell if i still believed in god
@@Ayyuna_chan Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3, etc. Funny. It's almost like Liberalism/Leftism is a form of cancer, lol.
I would love to see a video where you scroll through r/Christianity or the various denominational subreddits sharing your views on the questions that are posted there and or statements. Love your videos.
Would be an interesting video
"the church has not done explicitly bad things" have you never heard of residential schools? Terra nullius?
He's American so possibly not. Residential schools was a Canadian thing primarily if I recall.
@@bartbatz1515 also Australian I think (I'm Canadian) (but also, the doctrine of Terra nullius came from Catholic Church philosophers, and lead to the conquest of the Americas, including the trail of tears)
@@a.wadderphiltyr1559 I said the doctrine, not the concept. Nice try, charlatan.
@@a.wadderphiltyr1559 also, curious that you ignored the trail of tears, and the residential schools we're talking about.
Or the sexual abuse and coverups in every denomination
You would start getting eternally damned at Stage 3, because it's heresy to say that the Gospel is NOT the written word of God
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Just a screen recorder issue, look at some other kingdomcraft vids
I would argue if you deny the authority of scripture you are also not a Christian.
Just curious; what are you going to use all that andesite for?
He did use it for building boarders for all the stained glass in his church building.
I’ve been watching your videos for a bit now and really enjoying them. I’m a zoomer myself. I agree that we should fight for our churches tooth and nail, but I think once a church has reached a certain point it might be time to leave. One problem is that most people get their theology from their church. Yes, we ought to do our own research and study the Bible, but most Christians simply aren’t going to do that or they’ll be confused when their church and their research differ and likely take the side of the church even if their theology is dead-wrong. Therefore, I wouldn’t be comfortable inviting agnostics or new believers to a church controlled by progressives because I’d be caught saying “I know the church (or the pastor) says this, but that’s not true.
Regardless, I appreciate your fight to save your denomination.
- a Baptist
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I hate to tell you this you're not in a church you're in a social club.
On the other way round, it's been interesting seeing someone like Jordan Peterson almost go the other way. His lectures seemed to start to start with an exclusively psychological and sociological understanding of God and religion, but it seems to be creeping towards a more traditional understanding.
I haven't watched any of his stuff properly in a while, he's a bit too far in the culture-war space for me to be that interested anymore, but it is curious.
I would say I have Christian guilt, but I still believe Christianity is a force for good. I just think that modern churhces need major reform in the way they approach the non-Christian world and how they approach each other. I am Eastern Orthodox btw.
Other Christian’s actions aren’t on you. It’s okay to recognize how sinful other Christian’s are towards non believers, without taking it out on yourself. Yeah, It hurts to think about those who fear Christians because of what a few has done to them
I agree with you. I (think) have christian guilt, but I was unsure if they were other people like me! I just want christiany to be more open to others and that some Christians did criticize other people's religion/covert them.
@@christophergarcia4742 why did God create humans?
@@bigwinz Converting people to Islam is literally the most important job we have as Muslims. A Muslim's goal is to emulate Mohammad(pbuh), and Mohammad(pbuh) was sent to us to act as a missionary, essentially. It's what he spent most of his time doing. Criticizing other religions is a major part of that process. Why would anyone accept Allah if they're perfectly happy in their own church?
I agree that Muslims should be less hostile as a whole though, if only because it's better optics. If aggression were working to win converts today like it did hundreds of years ago, we should be all for it. But the world has changed.
I am proud for everything Christianity has done
I really enjoyed this video man
god=truth=good but you don't even know what truth or good are
and god is a bunch of words on a page you assume to be true
Where in the Bible does it say that lol.
@@neildalessandro8196 God is omnibenevolent according the the bible. God's word is also true according to the bible. However I doubt you even know what true or good actually mean. What does it mean that gods word is true. What does it mean that gods word is good. Analyze the meanings of good and true themselves.
@@safarizone6791 No I mean where does it say God is just a bunch of words on a page? Do you even read the Bible?
@@neildalessandro8196 well it does say god is a word if you take it literally. Which is allegory for it being a concept and not a physical existing being. However you have to be atheistic to get the nods to atheism in the text.
@@neildalessandro8196 None of the spiritual entities actually exist. Like hell or heaven aren't places you can actually go. God isn't in reality all powerful. They're all just concepts that you perceive as physical, and since you do perceive them as physical they have an impact on your behavior. This alteration of behavior is how the religion operates. It compels you to go to and financially support your church, act by an interpretation of gods morality, etc.
I am not sure whether or not I am on the 3rd stage, since I started to study the formation of Bible and textual criticism. For example, 1 Cori. 11:34-35 was not included in the MS 88, placed after 1 Cori. 11:40 in Westen text type, and shown as variant in one of the easiest copies. I do not believe these changes in textual transmission were from God, but I think they are from the ideological conflicts in early chirstianity.
Oh, sorry, it is chapter 14.
This reminds me of a piece from "Unqualified Reservations", which made the proposal that all Progressives are memetically linked to Christianity. Basically Protestantism if it kept cutting corners forever, they left behind God, Christ, dignity, and salvation, but kept the guilt of sin.
how do you make such great power point slide shows
I speak from the perspective of someone who's never believed in any religion, I've only ever been in a church once when it was easter, I drank the wine and ate the saltine and then another time when a friend of mine rented out their church for their birthday party to have a nerf war. I say this to preempt the point of why all of this has and always will just seem like bogus to me. I do not have a positive position on religion, I look at history and I see the church oppressing the serfs of Europe for thousands of years, I see pointless wars over a made up holy land and I look to today and I see churches propagating hatred; the conversion camp and the constant bickering amongst those who believe. And yet, I admire the propensity, the devotion, however misguided and unintentionally harmful it may be I admire the people and I admire the goal. I wish there was a higher power, I wish it simply was that easy, I wish I could simply devote myself to some divine and their divine rulings and have it be so simple, and yet, it isn't. But what many seem to ignore is *faith*. They tear down god and destroy him in their minds and they try to hold onto the material and the factual, the scientific. They give up on *good* and just simply try to live, for themselves, for whatever they can. But what I maintain is that there is a higher power above us- ... it's *us*. It *has* and always will be *us*. What I ask anyone who believes is not to believe no more, but to replace that faith in the divine, with a faith in humanities future, a faith in *us*, a faith in *ourselves*. To believe in yourself and the people around you, to help them, guide them as you help and guide yourself. You are the shepherd, you always have been.
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
listen, my opinion is that the fundamental logical endpoint is agnosticism, we simply cannot prove the divine, in that respect we agree. the problem with atheistic humanism is that it doesn't actually have any values besides "advance humanity". This has no incentive structure, meaning there's no reason to not be selfish, since the material world is all that we have, we might as well be self-serving hedonists. Because it has no values, nazism is essentially the most "humanistic" path since it reduces suffering in the long term (ethnic cleansing, uniformity, getting rid of genetic undesirables, creating a perfect world). point is without religion there's really no agreed upon set of rules and even when people try to make up rules (by imitating religion) there's nothing to stop people from disobeying besides physical violence (which won't be as much of deterrent when death is oblivion, not judgement).
Very concisely stated. I used to have this exact view at some point before I became a Christian. I just want to add that it’s also the end point of utilitarianism in my view. Now that I type this I see I actually went backwards through these stages.
What is social justice and why is it incompatible with Christianity?
Do you enjoy playing Minecraft on a microwave?
turns out it wasn't my minecraft that was the problem, it was that I had my video editor set to 8 fps lol
Nice samsung fridge gameplay
I recently had a discussion with one such "Christian", somehow he was of the opinion that even though calling somebody the pronouns of the sex was lying to them, was justifying it by ignoring all the verses in which the Bible and Jesus tells us to stop lying.
The Bible is very explicit about sobriety. Have you ever drank?
@@Porook Jesus turned water into wine so I’m pretty the Bible doesn’t flat out condemn alcohol, it simply doesn’t condone alcoholism
@@sharkinator7819 Jesus made wine, but not for the purpose of intoxication, which is how modern men use it.
Galatians 5:19-21: "The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: ... drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God."
Ephesians 5:18: "Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit."
Wine has a very different context in the bible, because water could not be drank in abundance and alcohol was an accessible way to get sanitized drink. It also had a vastly lower alcohol content compared to modern drink.
It's also unclear whether Jesus actually did make wine at all. The original Hebrew word refers to all juice-derived beverages. It's typically translated as wine because wine has a luxurious connotation, thus making the feat seem more impressive. Either way, the bible is extremely clear that intoxication is sinful.
A church that accepts inebriation is no different than one that accepts homosexuals.
Hey just found your content. I myself in the recent past began to truly walk with Jesus, I was raised Christian and believed in God but didn't live like he existed. That has changed now. I am curious, it seems like the church you attend and its affiliates have a lot of very unbiblical stuff going down, from what you said in this video. Would you be interested in explaining your reasons for staying at that church or if you have another video explaining that I'd be more than happy to watch it. I myself am searching for a church and your situation baffles me on a surface level.
Thanks and God bless!
Amazing explanation! Thank you!
“For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.”
2 Timothy 4:3-4
Dude I love your videos man. Bless you dude!
In regard to stage 4, what do you believe of those in the first 300 years from Christs birth who didn’t have either any or at least a clear understanding of the trinity? Seeing as it was set in order and enforced after 325 AD. Would Jewish and Greek converts in the first 300 years of Christian history not be equally considered Christian?
That's a total modern myth. Christians from the very beginning taught and believed in the trinity. The only reason it's not quite as obvious in the scriptures to us is that we don't have an ancient jewish background to draw from. It was VERY obvious to the jews of his day that he was claiming to be God. The only thing that happened in 325 is that the things that were already commonly known and taught were codified in a way to fight back against the various heresies, especially arianism, that denied Christ's claim to be God.
The idea that if you deny the trinity, you aren't a Christian, that's ridiculous. For hundreds of years, nontrinitarian Christians have existed, and it's a very priviliged take to believe you are qualified to say what is and isn't Christianity.
This was settled at the first council of Nicea in the year 325
@@garylyon2986 The Nicene Creed is followed by most major denominations, but it is not the be all end all that defines all Christians, and religion isn't defined by a single council or creed. Those following the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth are all Christians, even if they share significantly different interpretations on his direct divinity or his relationship with God. It's not the same as seeing him as a prophet like other Abrahamic religions.
@@evanmarlowe4722 I agree with non-trinitarian Christians falling under the definition of Christianity, but I disagree with what you said about those who follow the teachings of Jesus being Christian. Muslims follow Jesus too(to what extent you consider that to be the case might vary, especially based whether you are a Muslim or a Christian, but they certainly follow him to a significant extent as both religions are fairly similar in comparion to other faiths) since Muslims believe he was a prophet but no one would classify them as Christians.
@@evanmarlowe4722 you’re saying he’s not “qualified to say what is and isn’t Christianity.” Yet he is simply expressing the view of 99.9% of people who over history have called themselves Christian. What are your qualifications to say what is and isn’t Christianity?
@@garylyon2986 You got a source for that '99.99%' number? There's a pretty large number of nontrinitarian denominations.
Around 13:50 the talk of weed due to not being taught well is a very bad argument. I was born in raised in a very theologically sound home. My dad is a pastor and mom a Sunday school teacher. We would have Bible study at home nightly for most of my life and it was more in depth than I'm sure many Seminaries are. I started smoking weed at 21. It wasn't due to not knowing the Bible or who God was. I smoked weed and fully felt the feeling of knowing I was sinning and going against God's will. Drugs can be used to fill other voids in life.
This guy probably prays every night that God will make redstone rails push a minecart one block further instead of trying to understand how to make a functional coaster lmfao. ☠️
You need to repent for that frame rate.
Was fine with the other video, recording software issues?
I was an atheist that converted to Progressive Christianity, but I was always a leftist and just became a Christian.
I used to be Anti-lgbt Roman Catholic ever since I was born and teached and stuff, now I'm Roman Catholic and part of the LGBTQ.
@@SunIsLostyou're not roman catholic, you are a heretic. God and his prophets continously said that any non-heterosexual relationship is sinful.
This comment section is so cursed. Disgusting
How is that even possible 😂
I was in a public church today and the pastor was a fat woman who did dollar store magic tricks during the sermon and at the end they played "Phantom of the Opera" on the organ, I wish I was kidding
Well dang.... here I was thinking I finally found a channel that could finally represent Christianity in a new, non-defensive, intellectually stimulating way. And for the most part it is. But I still can't help feeling disappointed that underneath all that intellectualism remains the attitude of "eww gay people want to be Christian? Not while I can minecraft about it."
Oh well.
To be clear, I wouldn't care so much about your own personal beliefs if you regulated them to your own church or even your own denomination. My problem comes from how you are single handedly leading a movement to infiltrate progressive churches with cultural significance to resort them back to places unwelcoming of queer people and God knows who else. (And you call liberalism a virus.)
What I thought was thoughtful and humble approach to understanding Christianity, is but another reaction to people worshiping God in a way you don't agree with as "they are doing it the wrong way and must be stopped." All while failing to recognize your own self richeouse piousness.
Like honestly, "people who smoke weed must not have had the seed of Christ planted in their heart"????
You're arrogance is truly humbling.
I hate to break it to you, but the Bible is not the window into Christ you think it is. While surely divinly inspired, none of it comes directly from God, the Angles, or even Jesus himself. But rather from people with undeniable love for God but a limited understanding of Him.
In the centuries that went into constructing the Bible, a council (the counsel of Nicaea in 325) amongst the rubble of a collapsing empire and in a desperate attempt to pivot to a new popular religion, elected what would be canonical and what wouldn't be. very little of the True teachings of Jesus remained, either out if ignorance or intentional dishonesty to retain power.
None of this is to say the Bible isnt a beautiful source of Spirtual Inspirstion which can help point people in the right direction if they know how to read it. But it isnt a direct account of Christ (for that, look to a Course In Miracles) And it DEFINITELY isnt a reason to mock LGBTQ+ people or excluded our people and our families from places of worship. That is a YOU problem. One that YOU will have to deal with.
After all, it says in Matthew "what you do to the least of these, you do to me." And, "those who deny me, I will also deny."
As much as it saddens me, I can't help but concede that you may very well be successful in your self appointed, ego driven crusade to restore mainline Christinity to this puritanical vision of exclusion, protected against this nebulous threat of "wokeism."
But all that will prove is that Christinity as a religion is at best a distortion and at worst a deception of the True teachings of Christ which are about Forgivness, Love, and the welcoming of God's Children back into the Kingdom of heaven.
You may push us out of your spaces as much as you wish, persecute and disown us, but we will merly turn the other cheek and continue to move closer and closer to a divine form of love.
So forgive me of my own righteousness born of exhaustion of being told I and my people are not good enough for Christ as I am (working admittedly) on Forgiving you for yours.
May God Bless you. And rest assured, I say this as passive aggressively as possible. May the Father Help me.
Honestly, well said. I think many forget that religion is supposed to help/serve people. If they won't even sit next to you then that's them being wretched.
11:52
Best argument for any topic:
“I think im right, deal with it” XD
"Most people disagree with me, I don't care. I think I'm right, deal with it." Way to admit your distinct lack of wisdom in a single quip.
Wisdom is knowledge gained from real life experiences, and I can testify to the fact that the man is generally correct in his description of the stages of apostasy for "progressive Christians".
Dismissing the mans argument based on a single quip shows that you have a distinct lack of Wisdom yourself.
"I need other people to validate my opinions. I am very smart and confident btw."