Ex-healer astrologer Angela Ucci debates demonic new age & theology | Matt Arnold & Billy Hallowell
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- Опубліковано 26 жов 2023
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Get ready for an eerie journey into the world of Halloween on "Unbelievable" with your host, Billy Hallowell. We'll delve into the spine-tingling Halloween hysteria, raising questions about its true nature. Is it all innocent fun, or could there be something more sinister lurking in the shadows?
In this special episode, we're bringing together a unique panel of experts:
Ex-healer and now Christian Angela Ucci, Pastor Ray Comfort, who, after his own fears of Halloween, found a way to use it to share the message of Jesus and Matt Arnold, the editor of The Christian Parapsychologist Journal. Together, we'll uncover the mysteries surrounding Halloween, explore the depths of the spiritual realm, and address the question: Should Christians be celebrating this holiday?
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Ray and Angela have powerful testimonies of Jesus Christ saving them! I find Matt to be off track and what he has I do not want, ever!
I loved this broadcast. This speaks to me and for this reason there are many things I have put aside and through Jesus have repented of and choose not to participate in. I have dressed up this season just for fun, but felt out of place while doing it. I feel I was lead to this podcast to answer those questions and to rectify it once and for all. I listened to both sides of the spirit argument and I personally do not believe our dead relatives communicate with us because they are basically on pause while in the grave until Jesus returns. The voices we hear most likely are not of God and most likely like Angela, lead us down a rabbit hole to Spiritualism that is NOT of Christ.
Who told you they're on pause in the grave? Not the Bible. Read Matthew 17:3; Revelation 6:8-10, 1 Peter 3:18-4:6... When they tell you that the Bible says the dead sleep, it's a beautiful metaphor for physical death - 1. To the observer, the sleeper still exists and 2. To the observer, they cannot enter into the experiences that the sleeper is having, because they're in the dream state. Just like the dead still exist and their experiences are inaccessible to the physically alive generally.
And the things which lead to Spiritualism is the Church having a poor theology of the dead which cannot cope with after death communications from them, demonizing people's experiences of them. After WW1 / 2, loads of people were having after death communications from their deceased loved ones who died in fields far away. The Church ministers were either ignoring them, psychologising them, or demonizing them. And so they went to the Spiritualist Churches and increased their numbers. Expect the same thing again with so many post Covid after death communications, and a Church stuck in 500 year old anti afterlife Reformation theology. The rest of the Christian Church gets this stuff better than us protestants, because we a priori don't allow an active afterlife, and read into the Bible what our itching ears want to hear.
1 Thessalonians 5:22 KJV - Abstain from all appearance of evil.
Indeed, and perpetuating false witness against historical truths and also against certain people groups like witches / New Agers etc is a form of evil we should be abstaining from.
Isaiah 32:6 KJV - For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
@@lionelbradley4394 what are you saying?
1 Thessalonians 5:22 KJV - Abstain from all appearance of evil.
@@lionelbradley4394 even Satan can quote Scripture. What's your point?
Halloween is one of the best time of the year for Christians ENGAGE with those around them. Why not “light up the night” in your neighborhood, even if it means just sitting out front on a lawn chair, handing out candy, maybe age appropriate tracts, and praying for the people in your community. “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” (Romans 12:21)
I have my candy gospel tracks all filled out ready to go.
I prefer this. I think drawing the curtains and turning off the lights is creepy. We used to NOT dress up or go to haunted houses or decorate creepily. We handed out candy and church invites many years. Wish we'd bought tracks. But this is different than proactively putting on witch costumes and going to haunted houses and going out trick or treating. In college, our church young adults group went out Reverse Trick or Treating. We knocked on the doors and yelled REVERSE TRICK OR TREAT! Then we'd give them bags of candy and tracts.
Put on some Lustmord. It is ideal music for Halloween.
Yes, it is harmless fun.
Ray is so adorable. When Matt seemed to be getting upset, Ray looked so sincere. I love him lol
Lol - I think you'll find I wasn't upset at all. I was frustrated that Ray was asking such silly, childish questions regarding my recently departed mother, and how he was so biblically illiterate and incapable of understanding first century Christian beliefs regarding the afterlife, daimones and prayer for the departed. But not upset. Remember, I used to be like Ray before I began to study the Bible in the original languages and contexts in which it was written. It was then I realised that ideas like Ray's were modern inventions of man, not scriptural.
He's a lovely guy, but really needs to go deeper into his Bible to understand it better.
Ray is purely evil though.
@@Quint-ib4nf not so. I might disagree with some of his techniques and understandings of what the Bible is and how we use it to learn more about God and the creation, but I wouldn't say he's pure evil.
@@matthewarnold5531 He supported Josh Duggar after the sexual molesting. You dont find that evil?
@@Quint-ib4nf I didn't know that. Hmm, not good at all. If that's true, he's lowered himself in my estimation.
It's an outdoor costume party with free candy and well wishes and politeness (always say, "Thank you!") all around. We have the choice of making of it what we will. I choose to make it fun, no matter what anyone else makes of it.
Happy Halloween !!🎃
@@say10.. Thank you! Happy Halloween!
Excellent conversation 👌
This is good stuff. I love Ray and Angela, the work they do, and the beliefs they hold. I don't always agree with them on secondary issues, but I love what they do nonetheless. Don't know much about Matt, but will look him up soon to find out more. Glad I stumbled on this podcast. Subscribed.
You love Ray? So you love evil?
@Quint-ib4nf I must assume you are of those who call good evil and evil good.
@@scottbailey9242 No I call people who support child molesting like Ray pretty damn evil.
I don't think Mr. Arnold is evil but I really don't think he's right about deceased humans being harmless or morally good or whatever he's saying.
that isn't what he said at all. He said they were unclean and in need of assistance to find their way into the afterlife
and later he said that there is a great cloud of witnesses around us (a la Hebrews 11) and potentially they are in a dimension beyond us to which we do not have access
I never actually said that. For more information, please rewatch what I did say.
@@matthewarnold5531 I took your side, but I didn't agree with whatever you were saying.
@@20july1944 what did you disagree with then?
If Halloween decorations are a "type of bondage" are Christmas decorations the same? This us zll so foolish.
Why crystals are evil ? Aren’t they part of beautiful creation of God? I have them as beautiful objects but don’t do anything with them.
You'll find crystals are used in the Bible, from the 12 crystals in the high priest's ephod (breastplate) to the crystal foundations of the heavenly kingdom. Crystals are even used in computing to help the processors keep everything in sync (quartz). As with anything, the intention of their use is the key. If crystals are being used because of their beauty and as a reflection of the glory of their Creator, then there's nothing harmful in having them on one's shelves. If one is using them for divination purposes, then that's another issue. It's all about who gets the glory with these things - God or humans?
Hope this helps :)
Ray how many people were there? Did he go to the hospital? Where are the people that can attest to this miraculous story?
Good questions. 👍
It's not just about how you feel. The issue is there are external beings involved. They are not departed human spirits but the fallen angels of Revelation chapter 12. The Bible helped shape English and our modern thinking, not the other way around.
Unfortunately, it's your modern thinking which has shaped your understanding of demons and unclean spirits.
Certainly the original writers believed that some fallen sons of God were demons, as gods of the nations, but there are other demons in their understanding that the context of scripture, the Greek Septuagint and New Testament, provides: demons as messengers from those particular gods, and unclean spirits of the departed that are not made clean through Christ. Look up Mark 5 - the guy is possessed by unclean spirits, even though he's called a Demoniac. Read the Bible in the original languages, not post 1973's Exorcist understanding of demons, or even Tertullian's misinformed ideas.
Having studied the scriptures in contexts they were written, I'm even more convinced we've departed from the faith first received (Jude 3).
Angela- amazing testimony & so eloquently expressed 🙏🏻
Have inspiring philosophy on to discuss this topic
When did Halloween become a holiday? I had a co-worker who ignored my preference to not decorate my cubicle with witches and goblins. No one should be forced to 'celebrate' this day, at the same time, I believe what is being said here is great.
609AD - as per the info I stated in the video.
No one is forcing you to celebrate this church originated Holy day. It's up to you. Knowing the truth sets you free, as Jesus said.
I was so happy when I heard that the faithful Essenes (of Dead Sea Scrolls fame), recorded that there were four righteous dates celebrated in a year (since Creation, I think) on the days of seasonal change, i.e. the summer and winter solstice, etc. I felt like WE own these dates, not the pagans! Dr. Ken Johnson has unearthed this in his studies of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
It is difficult to tell the happy children and their parents the origins of the horror that amuses them. It was difficult to escape it myself as a new Christian, when my kids were small. Basically, my opinion is that anything like Halloween and all the other holidays on which we spend so much time, money and effort takes away from what is due the Lord.
I would also suggest that choosing not to participate in something because it grieves the Lord, is hardly the same as fearing it.
Why would celebrating a day of remembering the lives of the Saints that have gone before us be grieving to the Lord? If you don't like the commercialised Halloween, don't celebrate that part, just like you'd not celebrate the commercialised Easter and Christmas by not giving presents (You don't celebrate these two Holy days either, do you, just for consistency?).
@@matthewarnold5531 It is a tradition of men. There's nothing Biblical about it, and anyone who can't see the darkness connected to it, hasn't been around much. An insurance in celebrating such a day comes purely from a desire to be a part of the world. Call it whatever you want. You're making excuses.
@@angietorok8389 I guess you should try meeting the Jesus of the Bible, whom God, loving the world so much, sent into the world as a human being to partake in the celebrations, parties and festivities, which would have included Hanukkah (a festival I bet you don't have recorded in your Bible-lite version).
When you know the origins of something are Christian, and you can celebrate the original meanings of the festival, you're okay with God...
I bet you don't worry about the extortionate consumer fest that birthdays, exam passing celebratory meals, Christmas and Easter have become, and they're "traditions of men".
Puritanism was a cancer in Christianity that the people rebelled against, because God is the author of light, life and joy - not ignorance-driven naysaying, and Gnostic-inspired physical world denial.
@@matthewarnold5531 Wow. It blows my mind when Christians so mean to other Christians. Why would you condemn someone for simply trying to follow God's will. It's clear in the Bible that some feel convicted of certain things while others do not. I've been involved in the occult, and I can tell you that this particular season is a stumbling block for many. And you missed my first point. That is, people who choose not to celebrate this day don't refrain for fear of darkness, but for fear of the Lord. No Christian should scoff at another for that.
@@angietorok8389sorry you felt I was scoffing. I was merely pointing out that the Jesus of the Bible has a very different modus operandi than certain Christians who appear fearful of the world and prefer a hands-off approach to leaning the origins of things and deep biblical studies on such things.
Peace and blessings
Any person that says Santeria isn’t satanic is completely blind. It absolutely is!
I rather teaching my children re God of love not scare them. Worship based on fear is not the pure love in my opinion. I was born Muslim and all the taught us in school was sin, hell and angry God. My parents taught me of God of love and wanting to be a good human being for the great gift of life and love of God.
I have family that decorates because they daughter was born on Halloween!
Interesting program, but a predictable perspective from two of the guests.
I read Ray Comfort as challenging not only Matt Arnold's hermeneutic, assuming only his popular interpretations are valid, but also questioning the legitimacy of of his conversion experience because you has an alternative interpretation to his own. Surely believers can disagree over issues without resorting to this.
Angela Ucci articulates a well-worn ex-member narrative, very popular within popular evangelicalism, particularly where so-called "cults" and "the occult" are concerned. This was noted in our 2004 Lausanne issue group paper on new religions from 2004, and in a podcast earlier this year at Multifaith Matters with two scholars I explored why evangelicals are so drawn to alleged "ex-occultist" narratives. This is part of what scholars refer to as the apostate testimony type of narratives, where former members are considered experts in their former religious tradition. I try to remind people that while they may be experts in their personal experience in a tradition, their past participation does not make them an expert in the entire tradition, let alone others under the sweeping and ill-defined categories of "cults" and "the occult." Good to hear Matt Arnold share a different perspective for consideration that moves beyond evangelical and fundamentalist assumptions and stereotypes.
One final thought, and that is the quality of Premier Unbelievable? has gone down this year for whatever reasons.
The Christian Church pinched the mid winter festival date to become Christmas day. Let kids and folks enjoy Halloween and have some fun.
also pagan, against scripture
@@alanhoyle9431not pagan, watch inspiring philosophy
Demons are the disembodied spirits of nephilim, NOT humans.
And also fictitious. But yes, demons are not human by definition. Neither are angels, which are also fictitious. And both demons and angels are appropriate for Halloween, which is a holiday about fiction. Why these people are all wound up about it is puzzling at best. Oh, I'll take that back - their entire world view is based on fiction. Ah - got it!
@@smequalsdaimones in the original context of the first century Ancient Near East could most definitely include human spirits. This isn't what's taught in most churches, but it is in ancient near east academic studies.
@@matthewarnold5531 Sure. Humans have believed and also made up all kinds of weird stuff. Orcs aren't real, but in 20th century texts they can be found written about. I've even seen drawings of such things.
@@smequals come back when you've got a mature response.
@@matthewarnold5531 ?????? Are angels and demons real? If you say yes, please explain how you know. I really want to know.
What an amazing testimony from Angela.
I sometimes listen to your podcast. I appreciate you bringing different point of view from people with divergent understanding of the world and christianity. I'm confused with this panel because both sides believe in the "immortality of the 'soul'". How can they disagree with what Matt believe in? Please enlighten me.
I speak for myself when I say that I believe that we don't go unconscious when we physically die, but pass into the unseen realms of the afterlife, where we continue our journey towards God.
I believe the scriptures teach that sleep as a metaphor for death is how the awake can not understand the experiences of the person they're watching who is asleep (and still exists).
I know the earliest Christians believed in the afterlife, where those who have passed over are still able to be with the living as part of the Great Cloud of Witnesses. In fact, the reason why the disciples wouldn't initially open the door to the recently freed Peter and thought it was his "angel" is because angels are messengers from God, and they believed Peter had been executed (as per Herod's killing of James previously, and his intentions for Peter), and it was Peter's spirit that was at the door to deliver the news of his death to them.
Christianity is replete with many stories of the dead interacting with the living, and it's often those who have a very new Christian tradition and aren't aware of this, who are the most vocal against ghosts and after death communication.
My website, linked in the description, has many Bible studies on these things, and my new book, The Invisible Dimension (coming out before Christmas) contains much, much more.
My approach is to be open minded and explore Scripture as though I was one of its original listeners / readers, using the language and understanding of the words as would be understood in their cultural context. It's the best hermeneutic for biblical exegesis.
Angela is a very young Christian, only 2 years old, so wouldn't be familiar with this kind of thing, as her tradition has told her everything in her past was only ever evil.
Ray seems only to know a set script and uses that. Going off-piste into contextual Biblical Studies isn't his strength, so I would imagine he couldn't cope with thinking like an ancient Christian.
Jude 3 tells us to hold to the faith first received, not one that's only 500 years old (Protestantism). I'm a protestant, but recognise the whole Body of Christ is much bigger than the protestant church.
I can only guess that
@matthewarnold5531
You have referred to Hebrews 12:1 to defend your theory about the afterlife, but if I understand this passage correctly it's connected (therefore) to the previous chapter which is talking about their FAITH not their state after death.
If you feel your interpretation of some scriptures about the state of the dead is correct, what would you say about Ecclesiastes 9:5,6,10; Psalm 115: 17; Job 14:10-12
Do you believe angels are manifestation of dead people?
@@NanGouM-xp8rn please understand, this isn't *my* interpretation of Scripture alone, but the vast majority of Christianity, which isn't protestant.
As to your verses of the Bible from the old Testament - the Bible has an evolution of the understanding of the afterlife throughout the old to the new testament. To try and use verses in the old Testament to state what the afterlife is like in the whole of the Bible and thus Christianity isn't a valid methodology.
Jesus himself says God isn't the God of the dead but of the living, before then going on to giving three long deceased patriarch names, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He speaks with the long deceased Moses on the Mount of Transfiguration, so all are indeed alive in Christ in the unseen realm of the intermediate afterlife.
As to angels - if we understand angel as a messenger from God, and remember Paul was "welcomed as an angel", we can understand why Peter's appearance at the door of the disciples was understood as his spirit, with the disciples thinking he had been beheaded, like James before him. See my website linked in the description to find out more about this particular story.
It's become ridiculous now.
Heb 9:27 you are correct. it is not the final judgment but it is still judgment. Meaning that when you die you go somewhere. There are no loved ones hanging around this earth.
You definitely do go somewhere after you die and God to Hades for the initial judgement - either remain on one side of the "chasm" or are carried by the angels across to paradise / Abraham's Bosom...
But in the mind of the biblical writers, the afterlife was "under" this plane of existence, one went "down" into Sheol / Hades, and one was brought "up" from it... they're still on earth, just in the unseen realms. Where else would they go? They don't zip billions of light years to go outside of creation. It's our inherited faulty understanding of the afterlife, post the Reformation, which has screwed our understanding of the Bible as written by the original writers.
Correct, you have an initial judgement upon physical death, to determine your starting point in the afterlife. And you could think of the various restorative justices required in the afterlife to include somehow making amends for wrongs in this life. Otherwise there's no point in making the same judgement twice if there's no opportunity for restoration in Christ between then and the final judgement.
As I said in the video - where in the bible does it say we fly outside the universe when we physically die? Nowhere. In fact, scripture said we're surrounded by those who have passed on, cheering us on, Hebrews 12:1. God isn't the god of the dead, but of the living, of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - all of whom had passed over when those words were spoken by Jesus.
Wanted to hear Ray and Matt go at it more. First time hearing Matt. Had similar thoughts, very interesting to hear from him. For one, if elohim are gods (Satan is called the evil god of this world, the 1st 2 commandments implies there are other gods as seen in psalms 82, Deut 32 etc), and we can entertain them, thus will talk to them, is there any reason we cant speak to say our guardian angel/god? Also if in war there are such a thing as prisoners of war, such as the nephilim Solomon used to build the temple with, and theyre told what to do, is there something in the occult one can use to extend dominion?
Ray Comfort? The quality of this channel is really declining since Justin left, huh?
I'm not a big fan either, but he is a sincere and experienced Christian evangelist.
@@sorenpx he's awful. Bottom of the barrel. And has nothing new to say. And did I mention that he's not sincere and he's a con artist? If I didn't, then let me just say that he's not sincere and he's a con artist.
If you don't like Ray Comfort you probably are lukewarm. Check yourself my friend
No one should like Ray.
@@sorenpxYou mean that guy who accuses people who pushback of having a pron addiction and then runs away?
Stop worshipping this con man.
Perfaps we can all respect people's beliefs when they different from our own and not use one of their celebration as an opportunity to convert them.
I wouldnt appreciate Jehovah's Witnesses using Christmas or easter as an "opportunity" to convert me.
It is not an album, it is a SONG.
The song is called:
If You Want Blood (You Got It)
By AC/DC
From the album:
Highway To Hell (1979)
Amazing music, nothing to do with Satan, God blessed this band with talent & goodness to create inspiring music.
God loves AC/DC.
FYI
Never let a story get in the way of facts eh? 😉
AC/DC Rocks 🤘😈🤘
Oh Yes. The Big Balls song is very inspiring. Doing "Dirty Deeds" as cheaply as possible is even more so. 🤣 You say If You Want Blood has nothing to do with Satan, but the album itself is called Highway to Hell. I suppose that has nothing to do with Satan. Neither does the song Hell's Bells, right? Ray Comfort is not the smartest guy in the room, but don't pretend this music is inspired by men blessed by God. It's an absurd stance to take.
3:46 "ghastly masks and spiderwebs" what a baby.
It's a personal thing. I love the spooky stuff, because it's fantasy and shows that the living are victorious over the dead.
So listening to this (and I have bias so may have to relisten) I noted that the one more pro halloween speaker sounded like he was bringing a load of history and language context to create his argument and it was met with other bible verses (with no context to really give weighty reply) and then met with a completely different point that wasn't actually part of the question.
He may be wrong and like all scholars our arguments are subject to criticism....but it sounded like only one person on that panel really understood the world the bible was written in
Angela's testimony was so captivating and inspiring. You can hear the power behind her words and the love she has for God. Build God's kingdom everyday!
She is very deranged.
Who would have thought that Ray was so unfamiliar with the bible? 😹
No-one!
Hes a con man.
Unfamiliar with the Bible or unfamiliar with people who rely extensively upon extra-biblical sources to support their doctrines?
@Redeemed52597 the bible is understood in the contexts it was written in, so you need extra-biblical sources as commentaries. You know, commentaries - the things pastors use to help expound the scriptures to their congregations.
Families can use this as a tool of reference not reverence!
I agree with useing the time to evangelize in subtle but fun ways and after half a century I've come to see it as a lens for young minds and adults to be reminded that it is evil in the world .
Obviously only Jesus christ is the answer .
Point out and emphasize the pagan & evil along the way replace it with biblically themes or just play out hobbies or kid dreams that are more positive less dark .
I dont think anyone should get all pushy or over challenge neighbors or community but rather enjoy it by dressing up positive and Turn it into a good example not one of self righteousness of bitterness.
I don't think Jesus Christ being the answer is obvious. Or true. It's a strong claim to say so.
@@smequals nothing else connects to the alpha & Omega.
Long before physics found out that we needed a unification of this classically physical & qauntom physics only salvation can fulfill the network need to tie it all together spirit body and soul .
Your in the right place if your tired of wrestling with God.
Jesus is the answer
@@smequals as I was saying holloween & even horror movies gives evil a face that is normally hidden from view. Its typically more elusive & hidden but it makes people aware of its presence in the world.
We all face our own demons staring the ✝️ in the face but we know Jesus salvation already paid for atonement
@@dadsonworldwide3238 So, God sacrificed himself (or his son) to himself for rules He made up because blood sacrifice was his atonement of choices He made. If Jesus still exists, and is either truly God himself or his Son in Heaven, then Jesus sacrificed nothing. He had a bad weekend at best. I would endure 2X what Jesus endured to save my kids from harm, and would not expect resurrection. That's real love and real sacrifice. I don't know if you would do the same, but think about it. The story. doesn't. make. sense.
As for Halloween, evil exists every day. A guy shot up a bowling alley in Maine the other day. A town where I plan to bring students in a few months for a competition. That's scary stuff. That's evil. There's a lot of evil in this world. Something about that, though - where was God when that evil was happening? Not there? How does God let stuff like that happen? Did those people have to die? Read the news and you'll see evil every day, in this world that God created with his plan and his rules. The issue is not Halloween. The issue is what are we going to do that is positive in this world, and appealing/praying to a nonexistent god is not the answer.
John Ramirez literally said he was serving Satan and would do his bidding. Matt was way off base accusing Angela of falsehoods.
Where in the video did I accuse Angela of falsehoods? I think you'll find there's none of that in there.
As to John Ramirez - anyone can make a claim about anything, though claiming to be something that he wasn't is not a truth, it's a falsehood. But, he's making a healthy living from telling his story around the world.
@@matthewarnold5531is there a difference between Santeria and witchcraft?
I would advice not listening to what Ray Comfort claims after all it has been said he is dating an under age female that he uses in his videos. Ray is not a decent man.
Thank you for putting on this show!! Great panel, discussion, and topic! How to keep this under a certain amount of minutes must've been an extremely challenging task... my grateful appreciation to you, Billy! Angela... absolutely fantastic, you blew me away with all you shared, All of it!!! I resonate, actually. During high school years I considered myself a white witch. I had Jesus in my background from Sunday school and I thought I could juggle. No, never went to church during high school years. The Lord began wooing me through my search deeper and deeper into darkness. Similar though different story from yours. Just LOVE ALL of what you said. Ray has been a Favorite Of Mine for nearing a decade now. Great, informative show, TY Unbelievable! 🙏🌹
No one is perfect in this world except the the God.
Thank you brothers and sister for having healthy discussion this is encouraging for new age group to come to the lord Jesus
Hearing that unclean spirits are unsaved dead people's spirits, and not demons, for the first time. Lol
I appreciate that the actual origins of Halloween are described here. It has happened just the same with Easter and Christmas. Can you recognize these holidays as Christian in your neighbourhood? Unlikely. They look totally different from their Christian roots. Be free to celebrate them for what they are truly! But be discerning in how you celebrate them. Are you celebrating them with careful intent that all the details glorify God? Do you give more attention to saint Nicholas on Christmas than Jesus and are you celebrating materialism? Are you celebrating (in the way you are doing it) death, darkness and fear on an evening when you could celebrate the faith of those who have gone before you? Do you actually desire to use it as an opportunity to reach out to an oppressed world with the good news of true freedom?
It's not so much a celebration of death and darkness, as a celebration of victory over death and darkness. The very kids dressed up in clothes depicting these things are actually alive inside - think upon the metaphor for that, with our physical bodies that decay, but the life inside that will go on due to the work of Christ. That's where the origins of dressing up in these clothes came from... the Church.
That the Church advocated running away from these things has allowed the world to step in and replace the meanings. You can either give the victory to the consumerist world here, or reclaim and redeem it once more.
She is lying. Word curses? As opposed to action curses? A warlock is an path breaker not a witch. She was no witch. Matt is spot on.
*oath
Out of the same mouth come blessings and curses. Yes curses are spoken with words. She is actually not lying. She has had a consistent testimony since day one. We should not be accusing our brothers and sisters in Christ like Satan (the accuser of the brethren) does.
@beththomas8430 oh dear!
Was going to watch this but as soon as she said I hate to disappoint everyone with (her presumptuous attitude ) had to post this and then switch off.
Then you missed out on a great conversation. Angela Ucci is a sweet soul who spends her life sharing the truth of the gospel with everyone she meets. I hope you will give her a chance. 😊
Santeria is a satanic practice, so it's not completely wrong to say he was practicing satanism. I don't think she was bearing false witness but probably misspoke or found incorrect information.
Exactly. Practicing Santeria is practicing witchcraft with the burning of candles and the sacrificing of animals, etc. it’s just one method out of many.
Christmas is just as pagan as halloween
US and UK culture are so different
I grew up thinking Aussie culture was similar to US culture, after two big touring trips there I worked out beyond a common language that's about as similar as it gets, weird arse place , I'll not be bothering to go back, religious nut jobs with guns.
@@billybobwombat2231 Stereotyping nearly 336 hundred million people...lovely. All my interactions with Australians have been men in relationships looking to carry on online emotional affairs with American women. I suppose I should be judging all Australian men by those interactions.
Oh good grief…
What does that mean, douchebag?
7:04 "spending hundreds of thousands of dollars" on Halloween decorations? Seems legit
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While Christian organizations literally spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on tracts and bibles and inserting themselves into people's lives to spread their message. It's interesting, isn't it?!
@@taaron5595 more is spent at Easter and Christmas, so to be consistent, we shouldn't be celebrating these either ;)
@@taaron5595 I think you're probably right, but then it seems the number is too small. Think I was just annoyed by the whole topic.
Happy Halloween !🎃
Unfortunately holloween & horror film franchises are a very useful tool in introducing Jesus saves .
I was very reluctant to accept this but many many people around the world who would never give us the time of day are profoundly influenced by these.
Its worthy of studying just how much feedback is given by these things helping to ultimately convert people.
Ironically, having more people actually read the Bible is a great way to create atheists.
Its not a one time affair .
A single blind read without any historical context or archeological understanding at all would be rather vague .
I couldn't even begin to question that notion based on 50 years of etymology from the alphabetical exodus and all countless in depth studies of near eastern history before during and after the time of Bible.
@@dadsonworldwide3238 It's fortunate I've read the Bible a few times, with specific concentration on the main parts. I just didn't stick with the recommendations of my Pastor, but instead read all of it. And not blindly, but thoughtfully. And it's rubbish.
I also do understand science, history and archaeology enough to know that the Bible does get some place names and some of the culture correct. And then is woefully incorrect about much of it, rendering the Bible to be not at all divine, but written by mostly anonymous authors telling stories and passing on ideas and allegories and saying and other things that aren't necessarily true.
@@dadsonworldwide3238 I learned recently that there is no evidence for Moses' Biblical Exodus. Blew my mind! No evidence that it ever happened. So, what do we have? Evidence shows that Genesis 1 in the beginning is scientifically accurate. The Garden of Eden story is untrue and also ridiculous and immoral. The flood never happened. The tower of Babel is completely ridiculous, as we know how languages evolved. And there was no Exodus. I don't have to even start to justify talking donkeys, talking bushes, talking snakes, and other weird stuff. The story of Jepthah is horrible. So are the other biblical genocides. So is slavery. So is all the rules about the sabbath. I know this is all Old Testament, but the New Testament is pretty much rubbish as well. It's disgusting and immoral and contradictory and just plain terrible. I do agree that there is some value to these texts, but not as a book for people to live or base their lives on. It's a terrible book with some interesting things in it, and that's the best I can say.
Satanist and santeneria have the same name. What do you mean they are different?
It's worth looking up the spellings and then researching the beliefs of each - very different belief systems.
@matthewarnold5531 martinez called satan" dad"
@@martarico186 I was talking about John Ramirez, who claimed to be a Satanist, but was into Santaria, a totally different religion / belief system. Who is Martinez?
Sorry, I meant john ramirez
@@martarico186 I'm sorry to say, but Santaria wouldn't have anyone calling Satan "dad". He's, and I'm sorry to break it like this, someone who, when came to Christ, was told by Christians around him that his old life was "satanic", and that he was a Satanist. As such, his testimony incorporated that he was a Satanist and, as Tolkien's Gandalf character says "Every good story deserves embellishment". He's made such a good living touring around as an "ex Satanist" that it's difficult now for him to admit to the world that he wasn't a Satanist.
This is exactly the issue I see with Angela. She's been told absolutely everything of her pre-conversion experience was only all evil with nothing at all of any merit in it, and she's started to create a narrative that includes her claiming to have been a witch. I have many genuine witches as friends, and let's say, you know when you're a witch, you don't have to invent a back story which says you were one, but didn't know it at the time. It seems she's gone down a 1980s list of "evil things to repent of", including rock music, etc and picked some to build her testimony up. It's nice money if you can get it, appearing and telling your story, and there's plenty of Christians who love a good ex-[insert other faith path name(s)] story. My fear is that she'll find herself, like John Ramirez, when put under the spotlight of truth discovering by others, appear to just be another storyteller with a story that includes fake elements.... which then causes people to think the rest of your story is suspect, and that the truth of Christ is also suspect.
Scripture tells us to test everything: Ray Comfort's methodology regarding just firing out thousands of tracts and encouraging others to buy his slightly deceptive money tracts, Angela's narrative, and even my cultural contextual exegesis of Scripture which seeks to read Scripture through the mindset of the original writers.
Truth is truth, no matter how inconvenient and uncomfortable it makes us feel at the time. Truth is not evil or to be shunned, but embraced.
God bless.
Compared to Christianity definitely.
Yes. End of discussion
Hardly.
Could we say that Ray had a cult-ure shock? ….Har har har
Very prideful man😵💫
2 Corinthians 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
Souls from the saved dead goes directly to heaven. Luke 16:23 the rich man was in hades. Lazarus was in Abraham's side. The unsaved souls went directly to hades.
Hebrews 11 and 12 tell us that we're surrounded by the Great Cloud of Witnesses. They're not outside of our universe.
Hades is where *everyone* goes when they die. The original Greek, Hades, meaning "unseen" was the Septuagint translators word chosen for Sheol. Hades is where Jesus went when he died (Acts 2:27,31; Ephesians 4:8-10). He's got the keys of Death and Hades now (revelation 1:18) and will empty it at the final judgement (Revelation 20).
Re the Rich Man and Lazarus sorry... the first century Pharisees understood all went to Hades for initial judgement (Apocalypse of Zephaniah 6-10), and that there were segregations in Hades that includes the region of the blessed dead known as the Vale (or bosom) of Abraham / Paradise / Third Heaven. So when Jesus says that Lazarus died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side, he's implicitly stating to his original listeners that Lazarus died, went to Hades, was judged righteous, and was carried by the angels across the chasm nobody can cross (unless with angelic escort) to the realm of the righteous... whilst the Rich Man stayed in his region of Hades for further refinement.
The problem you seem to have is that you're reading the Bible with modern eyes and understandings... but the Bible wasn't written to you, it was written to ancient people in their languages and understandings of the various words. We have to read it like them in order to understand what it is trying to say to them. Read like an ancient biblical writer and reader.
Oh and though the Bible wasn't written to us modern people, it was written for us, with its message of God's love and redemptive plan being for all people in all times and places.
I've got biblical studies on all this on the website linked to my name in the description. Check it out, as they're part of my award winning Master's thesis at an Evangelical Methodist college.
Ray Comfort needs to study more. I like a lot of his older work, but lately he’s contending with people far more advanced than he is and using the same tired script. At this point if he doesn’t want to change his one trick he might as well just send a tape recorder. Mind you, I would be inclined to agree with RC.
Why would Ray change his script? He and his ministry are rich and the script makes him millions and gives him plenty of celebrity and influence.
I tend to agree with you to an extent. I'm grateful for his ministry and boldness to proclaim the gospel daily to complete strangers but the formulaic approach with an unwillingness to adapt in the confrontations can be tough to watch. I hope that for the sake of time, he cuts out a lot of the conversation between he and the stranger in the final production. He is still being obedient to Jesus's command but I agree with your point.
@@nessessary6792 is he though? Is dishonestly portraying his conversations (among other things he says and does) being obedient to Jesus and honestly spreading His message? Can't Christian apologetics be honest? Does the ends justify the means? Does it matter how the message is communicated, or is it ok to use the dishonest tactics he uses? I would think that if this is truly God's ministry, he would be above reproach. He's be even better than that. Yet he's in the same camp as other fraudulent Christian apologists. Just ask yourself - did God tell him to tell people about the banana in his famous (and now very old) video? Does God tell him to say anything he says? If God is telling him these things, and the things are wrong, what does that say about his God, or his claim that the message is from God? Just think about it for a minute.
@smequals of course the ends do not justify the means but God's Truth makes all uncomfortable, specifically unbelievers, 1corinthians 1:18. Please be specific with the 'dishonest tactics' he is using. You are also calling him a fraudulent apologist for Christ but can you please give me an example of who you consider to be a non-fraudulent apologist for Christianity. Tell me a church or pastor you believe is above reproach as well. This will better help me understand where you are coming from. As for the banana video, that was actually brilliant on his part. God gave us creation and creativity. Are you saying we are not allowed to defend the Bible through such means? I'd argue it is actually commanded that we do defend our faith through scripture, 1peter3:15. I'd love to hear your replies my friend so I can get closer to better understanding your point of view. Thanks for replying!
@@smequals I believe he’s doing what he can with what he’s got. I don’t think of him as dishonest. I believe God tells us all to go and speak, I believe God has given him a platform, it’s up to Ray to sharpen his own saw (which I believe he should). His approach is effective within certain contexts, not all the time. Even Jesus didn’t use the same method of teaching all the time. I believe the Bible calls us to speak with a “word in season” Prov 15:23 my only qualm with Ray is that he refuses to contextualize the message he sticks to the same script, and if someone, like the paranormal investigator, poses something different he immediately questions the guys orthodoxy/salvation experience. I think that’s a but disingenuous. He’ll do well to be humble and listen to other legitimately Christian thinkers that may differ from him.
Death is the result of sin.
We're definitely not supposed to talk to the Dead I'm sure Ray will bring that up as the video goes on
Nobody talks to the dead.
@@smequalsnecromancy?
@@LeslieFlemons Do you believe in necromancy, Leslie? I don't. I mean, if you are playing D&D or something, sure, it can be part of the game. But if we're talking about reality, please direct me to the nearest necromancer, because I'd love to meet and talk with them. I'm very interested in knowing what they do and how it works.
@@smequals I don't know any. I just know that there are people that try to talk to the dead. They literally do seances and play with oujia boards to contact the dead.
@@LeslieFlemons I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but people that do seances, or play with Ouija boards (made by Hasbro, who also makes other games like Battleship, Clue, Risk, Scrabble, and many others), or do tarot readings or similar stuff, are not really contacting the dead. And they know that. They do it for social and entertainment purposes. Some do it purposely to fool people and make money. Those who do that are con artists and charlatans who prey on the ignorant and gullible. My daughter has done tarot readings for fun. She knows it does not have anything to do with spirits or the dead or anything but the luck of laying down cards. But it's both entertaining and a great way to have a fun conversation and discussion with someone about past, present and future subjects/ideas that are sometimes hard to talk or think about. I don't necessarily recommend it, but I do understand it. Ouija boards are nothing but a board with a pointer with low-friction pads on it that people close their eyes and move around. Seances are just shows that people put on, sometimes with props and sound effects. Please don't believe in any of that. But don't take my word on it - the information about all of these things is widely available.
δαίμον in anciενt Greek culture was a deity which would impart one's fate . μοίρα.
And included human spirits too. It's called cultural contextual biblical studies.
I hope Ray hands out nice candy with the tracts.
Also…If people go to hell…You Have to come to the conclusion that God Wants people in hell.
Not if free will exists.
@@sorenpx God set rules, the punishment and how to get out of the punishment…all the while knowing how we’d choose. And, if He had the freedom to choose another way, like where Jesus’ payment paid for everyone, without requiring belief… Or, didn’t require payment at all….And, still chose the path where most people end up on Hell…He wants people in Hell.
@@jayvansickle7607 I am of the opinion that if there had been another way, God would've chosen it. But contrary to what some say, God cannot do anything at all. For instance, the Bible tells us that God cannot lie.
In this case, God cannot do something that violates his own holiness and the sanctity of his realm. The free gift of salvation is on the table for anyone to receive. The question is whether or not you are WILLING to believe.
@@sorenpx So, you don’t believe that God could’ve decided to use the death of Jesus to pay for everyone’s sins, even after death?
@@jayvansickle7607 People have to make their own choice to enter into God's presence. I'm open to the possibility that God's offer might extend into the afterlife, and that there is still a post-mortem opportunity for reconciliation, but if that is the case the Bible does not state it clearly.
Demons are real fallen angels, NOT humans! Remember the demons that fallen angels kicked out of Heaven for rebellion against Yahweh. We MUST always go to Holy Scripture and to use it to interpret it itself. It seems that Matthew is not Born Again as he is actually going against Scripture and placing his beliefs to supersede Scripture. To be Born Again, we Must Repent for breaking Yahweh's Law deserving Hell of which is punishment and then accept what Yahshua did by shedding His blood to wash away our sins.
I agree no Holy Spirit ohhh pray for him
Ray Comfort - I don't want to hear his take on anything
To any atheist (or non Christian)…. I think we should stop being overly polite to people evangelizing. Don’t need to be rude. But, don’t take a tract if you don’t want it, and after one “no thank you” be more assertive that you’re not interested. Whatever won’t let them walk away with a sense of pride for trying to convert you.
There are a lot of Christian organizations with deep pockets. It's unfortunate that they have the ability to keep printing tracts and materials to be given out. Bibles in every hotel room, etc. I have had a couple of Christian books mailed to my house (and every house in my city) so they can get their message out. I had a Jehovah's Witness today (no kidding) leave papers in my door that I didn't ask for. I agree. I'm not overly polite to people evangelizing. I try not to be rude, but I don't have a problem offering my side of the story if the opportunity is there. And I'm not going to freely take their tract if they offer it. They can put it in the recycle bin just like I can, and I would prefer them to do so and not get any more.
@@smequalsor they can pass them out to someone who wants it
@@LeslieFlemons yup, they sure can. Are the Christians asking if they are wanted, or are they just passing them out? I certainly did not want to receive books sent to my house that cost $15 to ship, plus the cost of the book. That goes for the other thousands of books which were sent to people who didn't ask in my city, and others. I've found out that this is more common than I first realized. Christian organization seem to have a LOT of money to burn. Send that money to homeless shelters or poor people and not to me and others who didn't ask. Instead of putting Bibles in 5 million hotel rooms, put those millions of dollars towards helping people who are in need. If you can afford to stay in a hotel room, you probably didn't need someone to pay for a bible to be in the room. Those who want to read their Bible in a hotel room can probably afford to bring their own anyway. Mormons, too - I've noticed the Book of Mormon in most hotel rooms that I've been in recently. What a waste!
How very sad! When Christians give out tractsvot witness to you, we are trying to help you find the greatest gift any human can receive! We're not selling anything . We're not looking for club members. We're not looking to grow our Heavenly bonus. We're hoping to help you find Jesus, be born again and have a joy-filled eternal future!
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Yeah well, some people don't want or need any of that stuff.
Angels and Ray Halleluyah Holy Spirit filled xxx
That's epic. A mom to be who has no idea what's coming is ok with the child missing out, on certain worldy stuff as if this automatically means the child will miss out on Jesus Christ's great works on the cross and the identity we have as christians.
I get there are a certain background where she comes from. It also unables her to have a balanced view of the matter. IMHO.
There will be a time where there is gonna be a shock for many of these people when they realize that their children is gonna question things. When they are realizing they are their own person and not an extension of their parents.
Why these extreme opinions. I had thrown after me that GOD FORBIDS US TO CELEBRATE THIS WICKED DAY BECAUSE IT'S SATANS HOLIDAY! There is ONE THING - NONE - of you can do, and that is to build a biblical case for an innocent day of activities and fun being demonic and anti gospel and it has to be one or the other.
We dont' use crystals. We don't use tarot cards. We don't acknowledge anyone being able to make deals with the devil or cast spells and curses towards christians. It's not that I don't take it seriously. It's actually the fact that what I am STRONGER than this.
Holiday is just like any other day of the year. Put on the armor of God. Know the truth. Don't listen to the lies and scheming fear mongering lies of the devil and his followers.
A mask is a mask. A costume is a costume. There is NOTHING satanic about it in itself. It is what you do about it. It has NOTHING to do with quenching or grieving the holy spirit - that, you'll manage to do all on your own without halloween.
For those who are with me to the end - I don't celebrate halloween. My kids neither. They never had any interest. But I don't accept it being tossed at me that it is something satanic when one choose to dress up and go out hang with kids and friends and have fun - SHOCKINGLY all without sinning.
While I mostly agree with what you said, when it comes to this issue and issues similar to this one, I try to remind myself of what Romans 14:13-23 says. Angela is a young Christian ( I'm not referring to her physical age, but spiritual) and while it's obvious that she's being genuine and 'on fire' for Christ, she still has a lot to learn.
The Amish miss out on a lot of our culture and they have a period where the go out and experience what they missed out on then choose if they want to go back or not. Would be interesting how many return. I suspect you are seriously downplaying the influence a parent has because you seem to be rather bitter against your own.
To the English man - the bible tells us we are not to pray for the dead.
Here's the "English man"... please provide verses for your claim. I'll wait, but I'm guaranteeing you'll never find any verses forbidding prayer for the dead. That you believe what you have said reveals a lack of scriptural knowledge. As Jesus would say, "You are in error because you don't know your scriptures".
Look up "GhostsGhoulsAndGod" and check out the biblical studies on prayer for the dead. You'll discover why you're so very wrong in this matter.
Eccl 9:5-6 “….the dead know nothing , they no longer play a part here on earth” NLT , just because Jesus spoke to Moses and Elijah on the Mt of transfiguration) He is God by the way). Doesn’t mean that we should be talking to the dead. We pray to God and Jesus is the only mediator.
@@Jesusfollower77 but you're using a passage of Scripture in Ecclesiastes which is a polemic against necromancy - that's the context. Necromancy is bringing up the dead to divine information from them about the future. This passage isn't saying anything against praying for the departed, which isn't seeking info from them. So you're using the Bible incorrectly to try and prove your point, which isn't a wise use of Scripture. You'll also find the martyrs in the heavenly realms certainly know things, because they knew that they'd not received justice for their martyrdom (Revelation 6:9-11). So you see, using a verse from an earlier time in Hebraic understanding of the afterlife to apply to today completely ignores the evolution of the afterlife realms understanding that had taken place during the intertestamental period, up to the first century Christian beliefs about the afterlife, which includes praying for the departed.
As to the one mediator between God and humans... We agree, Jesus is the only mediator. However, you're confusing the term with intercessor, which is what humans can do on behalf of others when praying to God for them. I'm sure you're aware of the many passages in Scripture which implore us to "pray for one another" (e.g. James 5:16). I'm also sure that you're in agreement there is only one Body of Christ - which is true for those in and out of the flesh. I'm also sure you're aware of Jesus's teachings that God is not the God of the dead, but of the living, of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (who'd physically died well over 1500 years previously) (Mark 12:26,27). In fact, all are alive in Christ (Luke 20:38). We're also surrounded by a Great Cloud of Witnesses (Hebrews 12:1, which is directly after a roll call of physically dead faithful followers of God in chapter 11). Also, Paul went to paradise and was so completely aware of his existence there that he didn't know whether he was in or out of the physical body (2 Corinthians 12:2-4), and told amazing things, so there's an awareness in the heavenly realms, not like the incorrect use of a Bible passage from an older time, like Ecclesiastes.
So, if
1. God is not the God of the dead, but of the living...
2. All are alive in Christ
3. We're surrounded by a Great Cloud of Witnesses of the faith
4. There's only one body of Christ, whether we're in or out of the flesh
And 5, we're told to pray for one another, then...
Your understanding of praying for the departed and asking them to pray to God for us is completely unbiblical, and your understanding and usage of the Bible verses you've used in your argument against such a practice are out of context proof texts that are invalid.
See the link to my site in the description, check out the Articles database, and read through the series on praying for the dead, which looks at the biblical passages where praying for the dead is presented, and what the earliest Christian beliefs and practices of praying for the dead are - (Jude 3 - hold to the faith first received, not one invented 1500 years after Jesus).
God bless you in the revealing of his word to you.
Comfort's "gospel" is not the gospel of the kingdom that Jesus brought us - ray's is "another gospel". He and others like him are doing more harm that good in the world
I found this a very shallow and one sided conversation.
For lack of a better term it felt very "American" and lacked a lot of nuisance and intellect.
The whole 'everyone celebrating hallowen is going to hell' narrative is the complete opposite of the likes of NT Wright would say, and I think represents the worst thoughts of Christianity.
I can’t see how any atheist would even be convinced by this discussion, and if anything just reinforces stereotypes atheists have of Christians.
Like Jesus asked " who are you?" They replied "we are legion" and cast them out and restored the man's health.If they wasn't evil he wouldn't have cast them out.Christ is the only one we should believe.Great discussion though 👍
Do you really think that happened? It sounds like a story about mental illness. People who couldn't explain what was affecting a person because they didn't know - like mental illness, epilepsy, and other well-known and well-studied ailments - were considered demon-possession. Once people figured out what was wrong, the number of cases of demon possession went down considerably - to none. Oh, you may say there are cases of demon possession today, but you need to show that they are actually possessed by demons. It couldn't be shown then, it was only assumed because they didn't know better. And it can't be shown today. Funny how that works.
So why should we believe this Jesus story? Why should Christ be the only one we should believe, according to you? Is there any evidence, or is it just a story you read in a book that contains many other stories that are untrue?
They were certainly behaving in an evil manner. You'll find a good series on the Demoniac of Mark 5 on my website, which is linked in the description.
@@matthewarnold5531 Thanks Matt I liked a lot of what you said The Bible is a book of both good and evil and we're all evil at some stage me included i believe .I woke up one morning years ago and there were 5 figures standing round my bed I said " Lord Jesus help me" and they vanished.Only God knows the real truth how it started what's fact or fiction different life forms and dimensions, what's good or evil cause he was there and sees all.And modern day Christianity seems watered down with smiley faced preachers who are full of it .will have a look anyway at your Demoniac in Mark 5.
Premier Unbelievable? has really dropped off in intellectual quality since Justin Brierley left.
What did you not like about this episode?
Where did Justin go?
@@daleb4148when did he leave?
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@@sorenpx I think the guests were mismatched. Ray Comfort and Angela Ucci are both interesting people, but their positions on this issue are so close, especially in contrast to Matt Arnold. The core question "Is halloween harmless fun?" can be addressed Biblically, or historically, or ethically, and none of the guests are real experts on any of these aspects, though Arnold comes closer to expertise on the history. An aspect that Ucci specifically stated she wasn't interested in. The guests barely engaged each other, and the first instance where Arnold confronted Comfort's Biblical argument, Comfort just said they'd have to "agree to disagree". Even the guests who agreed with each other, Comfort and Ucci, had little interesting interaction. This could have been three short podcasts with the guests individually, without any real loss in content. I wish the host had brought on someone with real credentials or expertise in the Bible, history, or ethics. Someone like Wright, or James White, or even Matt Slick, who has a view similar to Comfort's, but with more substantial engagement with the Bible and history.
The Unbelievable? series itself has really fallen off. I unsubscribed from it for this reason, and just keep popping my head in to see if things have changed. Every once in a while, I'm pleasantly surprised. The rich conversation with Alister McGrath & Alex O'Connor being one notable example.
Omg. Listening to Ray Comfort outlining how to psychologically abuse your children makes me sick that I ever believed in any of this. THIS is the wickedness to recognize and avoid.
You have to understand the bad news before you can accept the good news.
@@sorenpxright!
I grew up under a church which focused on fear of God. When I learned the love of Jesus, it caused my spiritual walk to lift off into orbit.
Ray is the worst.
Love of Jesus? The guy that sits around every day watching children die agonizing deaths?
Why was Matt A even given a platform to speak on this prodcast? Praying for Matt. Believe he has a very distorted view of demons which has opened him up to attach and bringing others down with him.
100 percent and rest ohhh
Your prayers are very much appreciated. Thanks.
You might believe I have a distorted view of demons, but that's exactly what first century Christians would think of much of today's Christian teaching on the matter. Jude 3 tells us to hold to the faith first received, and we're told to break open ancient wells. We do this through understanding Scripture through the eyes of the original writers and what they meant when they wrote the word daimon and pneuma akathartos (unclean spirit).
Please do keep up the prayers for me, I'm really appreciative of any who will pray for me and my ministry. Thanks.
Ray believes Halloween wouldn't be demonic if only bananas were handed out, he says that bananas are Gods perfect creation! Yeah, about that, bananas are a genetically altered fruit, genetically altered by man!!! Ray, The Banana Man don't know bananas about bananas! Or anything else for that matter!!!
Yes, I remember the banana thing. It seems to give Ray a lot of coverage he would not have gotten otherwise. So many atheist scientists were all over this. In fact, I first heard of Ray Comfort from one of these guys. Thank you, atheists! I wouldn't have found out about Ray's ministry without your press coverage.
I am not an atheist! I am a blood bought, blood washed born again child of God! I died in Christ and was raised again, yet not me but Christ in me!!! Ray Comfort is a Charlatan, he likes to confront people, badger them, accuse them, convict them and condemn them to hell!!! It's all just part of his schtick!!! Ray Comfort is nothing more than an act!!! There are NO salvations accredited to his nonsense!!! What Ray does is NOT taking the Gospel of Christ into all the world as Jesus commanded, it is just an act for $$$!!!@@scottbailey9242
Absolute malarky.
All holidays are based on pagon beliefs and halloween is not a devil holiday.
You'll find the word holiday derives from Holy day. Even the Bible has Holy days, so it's patently wrong to say they're all derived from pagans.
Dead people are not floating around.
Hebrews 12 tells us we're surrounded by the great cloud of witnesses, the faithful departed.
Explain how Jesus spoke with the long dead Moses at the Transfiguration... how the ghost mistress of En-dor could summon Samuel from the underworld ...
They're not floating around - that's just a straw man image.
It’s not even fun. Even before I became a Christian I found it tedious, boring and empty.
You sound fun.
@@Quint-ib4nf I prefer my fun life affirming
Amazing that people nowadays are still so superstitious. Happy Halloween everyone !! 👻🎃😈🐈⬛☠️🍬
People think the crazy stuff in the Bible actually happened, so it isn't a stretch 😉
Powers
Bunch of hypocrites
Halloween is just fun. It's not evil.
OMy,,,, YES! Please let's quit celebrating Xmas and Easter... neither of which are Biblical. Rather let us celebrate the Feasts of the LORD! Beginning with Passover in spring and Tabernacles at harvest, which foretells the future Wedding Suppler of the LAMB. Go read your Bibles!
Best add Hanukkah to that, though, Jesus celebrated it. Hmm.
However Ray Comfort is a awful person.
What religious indoctrination does to otherwise rational adults is scarier than a kid dressed up as a pink spider asking for candy. These three Christian guests should be a Halloween costume.
Are you ashamed of your name? Why do you keep changing it, douchebag?
I love Halloween - if you want to dress up as me though, I'll want royalties lol
@@matthewarnold5531 Naw I'm a bit old for that. Ask M. Night Shyamalan for royalties though. The kid from Sixth Sense was based entirely on you.
@@onionbelly_ I really can't see dead people.... I've not got that gift.
@@matthewarnold5531 That's awesome mate. Take care.
No offense to Matt but he’s wrong about ghosts existing.
Ghosts don't exist - holy or otherwise.
@@smequals other ghosts no. Holy Ghost yes! 🙏🏿
@@LeslieFlemons what's the difference? And how can you tell which is real and which is not?
@@smequals The Holy Ghost is God. He’s real because I have Him in my heart. ❤️
@@LeslieFlemons I'd love to see him. Does He show up on an MRI? If he doesn't, how do you know he's there? Does he come and go, or is he always there? I'm sure you'll say that you feel him there. I sometimes feel something in and around that area too. It's usually after I eat spicy food, and I have medicine for that. Do you take God medicine too, or do you always have that same feeling? I can recommend my God medicine to you - it's over the counter and it might help your God feeling if it gets too intense.
It's also amazing that the God of the universe fits inside your internal blood pump. And that he chooses to be there. It's a funny place for him to be, with all the blood squishing around. It doesn't seem to be a very good place to hang out. To be honest, I don't think being in my heart is a very reasonable place for Him to be. If He'd like to have a relationship with me, I'd ask him to please not inhabit my organs and instead sit with me on my comfy couch, have a beverage and some nachos, and chat about things. I have many questions for him. Plus we could watch a football game together - he seems to have a natural affinity for football, as a lot of folks thank him for touchdowns and for winning. If the game isn't on, we can just literally sit and talk about the weather. I'm betting he has a LOT to say about that. Or morality. Or why his Son's picture appears on toast sometimes. Or why healing people doesn't include amputees, even though some lizards and sea creatures can do it. Gosh, so many questions for God.
Here's a question: Am I still saved if instead of inviting God into my heart, which frankly is kind of gross, I invite him onto my couch? For nachos and conversation? And so that I'm not rude, and you seem to know him, what does God drink? Wine? Maybe I just get him a water and he makes his own? I just don't know the social norms here. It's awkward. I'm sure he knows he can just stop by when he's free - I mean, He's God, why would he need or even want an invitation? Just stop by when you are free and not creating things or answering prayers or finding people's car keys or helping football players score. He knows my schedule - heck, he knows all of our schedules because he created them all. I don't know. The door is unlocked and I can make some nachos if he wants. It's not a problem. Happy to do so. I guess it's the least I can do.
I’m not a big Halloween fan, but I disagree with these folks. They certainly can use Halloween to preach their own message, and that’s fine. My experience is that they don’t need an excuse to preach and evangelize anyway, so Halloween is just another day. Where I really disagree with Ray (and somewhat with Angela) is the supernatural stuff as well as their fear of evil. Ray Comfort may speak about evil and how he spends every day “horrified”, but he himself is a phony, a liar, and a con man who does what he does for money. He has made a living horrifying people and telling them they are going to Hell if they don’t repent. He literally preaches the house is on fire and he has the only solution. That’s a horrible message. And it’s extremely self-serving for Ray as this is how he has made his fortune. It’s more disgusting than any costume or display you will every see on Halloween.
How do you know that? Even if he's wrong about Christianity, what phoniness and lies do you accuse him of?
@@20july1944how is he wrong about Christianity?
@@LeslieFlemons I'm saying that IF Comfort is wrong and Christianity is false (I'm a Christian) that still doesn't show he's a lying phony.
Hello, as a Christian, we are commissioned to deliver the gospel message of Jesus dying for our sins. That all we need to do is believe in Him, follow Him, and repent from our sinful ways. Then He will grant us eternal life. I do believe there are false teachers who do what they do for personal gain; prosperity gospel - Kenneth Copeland types. But to call Ray a phony bc you disagree with his message seems unfair. I think you would need to provide more evidence of him exploiting others for personal gain. I do pray that God works in your heart to see His revealed truth. God bless you friend.
@@20july1944 oh okay sorry
Matt Arnold is out in la la land.
Yeah, contextual Biblical Studies it's called. Scripture says there will be a time when people won't stand for biblical stuff. Jude 3 tells us to hold to the faith first received
Love Halloween. Hate Ray Comfort.
I have a feeling that Matt Arnold might be studying too many things. I get that he wants to know the truth and to be discerning when studying the scriptures. Proper hermeneutical analysis of the scriptures is important because all sorts of false beliefs can come out of a poor understanding of what the authors intended. But I think it’s conflicted with our experiences. Maybe he had an experience and was drawn into the paranormal investigation world. I’ve had my experience with a spirit but I can’t imagine becoming an expert in explaining what it was. He’s got an unbiblical view on spirits. He believes in something that is not practiced in any place in the Bible. Nobody prays to the dead in the Bible! That’s the occult. It’s pagan beliefs being injected into the scriptures. Many expressions are used in the Bible which are in context to the time. Just because the word demon was used in those times as a human spirit doesn’t mean that is what they meant. As we have heard he thinks there are errors in the Bible. Maybe those errors are just things he doesn’t agree with and will not accept? I don’t know but that’s what I can hear from the way he communicates. I think he’s just dealing with loss but it’s just not biblical. I think he’s just holding onto this belief because he’s emotionally motivated to. He’s coming off as being intellectual about this whole thing but he’s really dealing with mourning. I’m saddened to hear that he’s praying for his mother who already passed. I’m saddened for anyone who has lost a loved one. It’s hard to imagine what has happened to them in eternity. I’m sorry to hear the pain in his eyes and voice. He needs healing and true understanding to come through this loss. I think it comes down to how he believes who God is. It comes down to everyone’s view on God and sometimes it’s a preference that is comfortable to us which is an idol.
There is really only one question to ask: "Is there any real merit in Halloween?" No. I do not need to know the history or justification for it. I don't care because on almost any level, there is nothing meaningful in it. I cannot forget the many scenes of children crying over seeing strange creatures.
@@Esb0714 agreed. It’s disgusting that we put these images in front of little children and encourage them that it’s all in good fun. All weren’t doing is desensitizing them to their instinctive fears. It’s messed up!
I’m on Ray’s side of the approach to these cultural events. I’m handing out candy this year because I want to be kind to my neighbours. I don’t have an issue with giving out candy. But I won’t dress up or decorate. I wish we could redeem it. Why not just call it culture day and people can dress up in their own ethnic costumes. It would be a more beautiful thing.
@@TheLilleyPadisn't it a shame you can't see the difference between fantasy and reality, and that the street is the theatre for the fantastical. Or do you keep your children from watching the news about real death and violence too? Sanitised, sugar pink Christianity is brittle when put under the pressure of the real world.
You'll also find my hermeneutic is actually very sound and approved at Master's level, as my thesis on these things from an Evangelical college shows.
We're told in Scripture the following:
1. Study to show yourself approved of God.
2. Add knowledge to our faith
3. That it's the glory of God to conceal a matter, and the glory of kings to reveal it.
4. Break open the ancient wells
5. Hold to the faith first received.
If you are going to understand Scripture as first revealed, you need to think like its ancient writers, its ancient readers.
And if you're saddened by me praying for my mother, then give your theology a wobble... the earliest Christians and Jews prayed for the dead... that you're saddened about someone praying for a member of the one Body our Christ reveals much about how little you know what prayer actually is. Check out the praying for the dead series on Ghosts, ghouls and God, the website, and my upcoming book "The Invisible Dimension". You'll discover just how modern Christianity has been robbed of much of its original traditions and where in the Scripture you'll find praying for the dead.
Praying for the dead certainly isn't occult - and that you've actually said that reveals just how little you know of Christian Church history and even the occult itself. What you're doing is using a word you don't really understand, but it's a bogey word designed to instil fear into readers so they are misinformed about praying for the dead. Stop bearing false witness on these things, it's a sin.
God bless.
@@matthewarnold5531 Just because people pray to deceased family members it doesn’t mean it’s right. I’m sorry, I know this is a difficult thing for you but I have to bring this up again. By your way of thinking it sounds like you would know the fate of your mother after death. How would you have this knowledge? I’m curious to know how you would communicate with the deceased to get this information out.
I guess I will have a look at what you say about it. I have experience with one. I’m curious to see your experience.
By the way, I am not sure if you have kids. But, I do. I don’t sugar coat anything. I don’t know how you got this idea.
And many people with Masters Degrees have been wrong. I’m sorry but this is not an argument that proves that you’re right on the subject. There are plenty of people with Doctorates out there too and I am sure you could meet one who wouldn’t agree with you.
You must have had a class in apologetics and understand this is a false argument.
@@TheLilleyPad my mother is a believer, so I know she's in the blessed state of those who have passed over into the intermediate afterlife before the resurrection
And I don't think your understandings of prayer is biblical. Prayer is the language of relationship. We all ask others to pray to God for us, and as there's only one body of Christ, those who have passed on, who are closer to God, can still pray for us.
This is the faith of the earliest Christians - and I suggest you learn the history of these early Christians, doing a Jude 3 and holding to the faith they first received... not some modern misunderstandings that have sought to divide the body of Christ and ignore part of it. It's so sad to think that Christians are suggesting that praying for each other is a bad thing.
Study the Great Cloud of Witnesses in Hebrews 11 and 12. Learn church history outside of your own tradition, for you'll discover you're only a small part of the one Holy, Catholic and apostolic church.
No, it's definitely not harmless fun. Like many other holidays it's of pagan origin and involves violence, horror, spiritism, demons, evil, & we know this originates from Satan the devil.
"Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not become partners with them; for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord." - Ephesians 5:6-12
No. Halloween does not involve violence. I'll give you horror, and sometimes demons and evil are associated with the horror genre. But there is no violence inherent in Halloween, unless someone chooses to be violent. And people do that every day - Halloween is not special in that respect.
If you are worried about spiritualism, then keep in mind that you are a Christian, and that's a very spiritual religion. And you believe that Satan is real. I don't. It's made up. Satan hardly shows up in the Bible, and the modern view and understanding of Satan is from art and literature, and not from reality.
I don't think you realize that just like Christmas, Halloween is a made-up holiday whose current representation in the US and many countries is commercial in nature. It represents basically nothing of its origin nor does it mean or manifest anything beyond what people decide to put into it. It's mostly make-believe based on loose family traditions and modern day wealth and comfort. Whether it's fun or not, that's up to the individual. I would have my kids avoid your house for Halloween. And Ray's too - I don't need more paper to recycle, thank you!
I guess you didn't like what you heard about the original Christian origins of the holiday, which are zero to do with Paganism?
I disagree with Matt Arnold on humans being unclean sprits haunting peoples… you would never know if your talking to demon or your Grandma
Discernment is a gift of the Holy Spirit. It's how we perform 1 John 4:1.
Unclean spirits are human because of what Scripture says about ritual uncleanliness and the dead. It's what Bible scholars accept is the case.
@@matthewarnold5531 sorry my friend, have known many Bible scholars and none have come to that conclusion…. I never even heard people suggest that… but I’m sure you can find a couple that do …
To go from New Ager to Evangelical Christian? A history of bad choices?
Matt is nuts. You cannot pray for the dead. Hebrews 9:27. After death comes judgement. Angela’s testimony was inspiring
The religious folk said Jesus was nuts too, so I'll take that as a compliment.
You know, when people quote Hebrews 9:27, they don't understand that it's only part of a bigger, comparative sentence, and not a slam dunk they think it is against ghosts as human spirits.
For one thing, there's no "the" definite article for judgement in the Greek of that verse, so it's not the Final Judgement being spoken of there. In fact, why have a Final Judgment if there's only one judgement. There's an initial judgement when we die (As seen by those experiencing a near- death experience, who are judged and discover what their actions throughout life have been doing to others). But the earliest Christians wrote about the initial judgement as something which determines our initial starting point in the afterlife (in fact, Lazarus in Luke 16 would have had this and been judged righteous, so was carried by the angels to paradise).
Also there's scope for an initial judgement meaning one is not permitted to move on until restorative justice has been accomplished. Remember, the martyrs under the throne of God were crying for justice before they were placated by God. What of those who aren't placated? And remember, Abel's blood cried from the ground for justice at his being murdered.
I've written on Hebrews 9:27 on my website which is linked above, and it shows why it's a poor proof text to use against ghosts and an active afterlife.
I've also, as a protestant, written about prayer for the dead, why it's biblical, an early Christian practice, and why you've probably inadvertently prayed for the dead without realising it. 😊
@@matthewarnold5531 appreciate your response but I stand but what I said, you are playing with demons
@@rhm5158 thanks. Not exactly playing, more like bringing the kingdom of God in, where there is unquiet dead... you did realise that daimon in the first century included the unclean spirits of the dead? That's literally what's happening in Mark 5 to the man who is demonized - he's possessed by unclean spirits of the dead.
I recommend you look up the account of 19th century Lutheran pastor, Johannes Blumhardt and his exorcism of Gottliebin Dittus, who was possessed by spirits of the dead, and non human spirits.
Remember, read the Bible through the eyes of the original writers, not the modern understanding which really isn't biblical.
And it's a bit rude to claim I'm "playing" with them, when I'm actually helping bring peace to the afflicted, on both sides of the veil... a blessed peacemaker.
Ramirez is a liar.
Ray getting schooled all over the 42 min mark.
I think that was the other way around
Yeah, I agree.
The other way around that is.
Personally as a Christ centred Christian Halloween leaves me cold. It may have it's origin in Christianity with thanksgiving etc but today that has been forgotten. The whole theme, of what is to scare you says it all. Strange that it promotes death rather than life. Having moved on from Evangelical Fundementalism with its lieralistic interpretations I have less concern for the so called unsaved as our speakers here. Orthodoxy with its understanding of Apokatastasis, and some what less so Roman Catholicism with Pergotary, indicates that God IN Jesus on the cross reconciles ALL of creation to Himself after His story is cocluded. Death is also defeated and thus being saved for myself is an awakening to Jesus's Kingdom of God amongst us in our ignorance (wilful or otherwise) NOW. For those who never are " born again?" Yes there will be the hell of regret of having taken God's name (I AM) in vain upon seeing the face of God's refining Love. But as God is sovereign with the attributes of unrelenting love INFINITE grace and mercy ALL will be reconcilled. This surely takes the pressure of Evangelicals in their sincere and zealous works being saviors. Love thy neighbour by shining Christ's light within. Less talk debating etc and more walk in the WAY of Faith Hope and Love. Dear brethren I leave you this Bible verse which spoke volumes to one who is absolutely a nobody in the eyes of the world. It will relieve you of much angst of hell eternal torment for those who chose to ignore you.
Even if we are without faith (in God) it is God's FAITH that sustains us...for He CANNOT DENY Himself. God being God wins, He will not lose one sheep or lose one coin! Hallelujah ❤️
You could say the same about Christmas and Easter. It's about Christians being emboldened to understand the origins of these festivals, and to redeem what's been lost - after all, Christianity is about redemption, not running away from these things.
Amen to the apokatastasis
I wouldn't count on the catholic church to be a biblical Christian entity
I wouldn't freelance for the Accuser of the Brethren as to suggesting parts of the Body of Christ are not members of the Body of Christ.
@martarico - Then you have much history to change…
History shows us that Jesus didn't leave us a bible, the apostles didn't tell us which books belong in the bible, the church fathers never agreed on the 27 books of the NT through the 4th century, not only did they not agree but their list of would-be NT canons were GROWING during this time. So, if it wasn't the Catholic/Orthodox church, guided by the Holy Spirit, that compiled the 27 books of the NT in the 5th century, just 75 years AFTER the council of Nicaea which began the Trinitarian doctrine, and then with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and preserved these scriptures by laboriously hand copying them over and over throughout the centuries before the invention of the printing press, the “rule of faith” for many, please tell us, show us, who did? And if this church no longer exists today, what good is the text which came forth from her if she couldn't sustain herself?
Israel is bombing innocents in Palestine, Christianity is being erased from Holy Land. You guys are doing dumb discussion.
I swear no one asked for this Halloween discussion🤦♂️ question the producers