Love Ray! God used him to show me what I need to be doing as soon as His grace and mercy came upon me. Spreading the Gospel to all creation as Christ commanded us! It's been a joy and his tracts are wonderful!
Ray is the number 1 evangelist of all time no question. That’s how to do it the right way. His love and compassion is unmatched. He is only second to John the Baptist
JM#G,.....Ray C. is one of the greatest conn artist of all time. He is not a Christian, he is the seller of the Godless worlds fake antichrist christianity. You are 100% steeped in darkness and deception.
Lot of people tried to convert me from paganism, only problem is they gave me a lot of prosperity "gospel" cds to convince me to turn to Christ. The issue with the prosperity "gospel" is it basically taught paganism with the name of Jesus slapped on it. Why do I need Christ with his formula for health, wealth and prosperity when I'm able to use that exact same formula, minus the the need for being a moral person? Ironically enough, one of the audio cds that was right next to all these other pagan cds, masquerading as Christian, and taught the exact opposite message, was "Hell's best kept secret". It is from there I began my journey with Christ!
Before Ray Comfort I had no idea whatsoever of how to share the law and gospel. All I could get out of my mouth was, "Ummm, God loves you?" I was very ill prepared! Thanks for following the call, Ray!
Another great show! So important to evangelize even when you live in a country that doesn't speak english and all I know is english.😵💫😂👍thank you for blessing our day!
Saving repentance is realizing that you are a sinner deserving of God's just punishment in Hell and turn (repent) from whatever you trusted in before, if indeed you trusted in anything; to trusting in the person and finished work of Christ "alone" for salvation.
I know this is completely random but I would like Pastor Jeff to react to the TikTok “woke” religious videos. They are so wild! Ppl are believing this stuff 😢
Nick. Not true. I didn’t say you had a porn addiction. I asked you if you had one, and you didn’t deny it. All you had to do was say, “No. I don’t look at porn.” But you didn’t. 🙂
@@LivingWaters You dont get it. My point is thats a really weird and perverted thing to ask. And no you didnt ask that you made a statement question. Why would you do that in the first place? Maybe dont ask people questions on their sexual lives.
How does my beleif that our decision to accept Jesus into our hearts male a synergist? A decision is not a work. Ephesians 2:8 (non-plural) The decision of faith which is not works.
Is the 144,000 supposed to be taken literally or figuratively? Is it the ethnic jews sealed after the rapture of God's people? Or is it God's people as a whole throughout history?
Ray, I'm sorry you have to read some of these ridiculous comments people have to say about you. You don't deserve to be talked about in that way after serving the Lord Faithfully for so many years. I watched a video by Servus Christi, it's his latest video I believe, where he goes into all this TBN stuff as well, and he has a lot of subscribers. I can't stand it. If you don't mind, I might start putting some really good moments of yours in my shorts to help combat to some of that negativity. I've looked deep enough into your ministry to have heard you say, "no man can come to me unless the father who sent me draws him". Because of that, I fight for the honor of your soteriology wherever I find it being attacked
So you see the facts that Ray Comfort is partnering with and promoting some of the worst heretics the world has ever known, defying the commands of Scripture to 'mark and avoid such people' and to 'expose the fruitless deeds of darkness, having no fellowship with such' and you wilfully reject God's Word and the truth in favour of your idol Ray Comfort? Stop idolising man, if you had really 'looked deep' into Ray's ministry, you would see nothing but hypocrisy and compromise and rotteness and death as these men disdain God's Word for the sake of their own gain and influence.
@@lryan9747 what are you going to do with all of those endorphins, now that they've settled into your bloodstream nice and cozy? Will you relax for a time, or are you already seeking a higher dose? This message flooded you with them, no doubt. Please, feel them as you consider a response. It is the law of sin working in your members
@@roguecalvinist What are you going to do with all your endorphins that have no doubt come flooding in as you wrote your idolatrous response to me? Did you consider them as you wrote your response? That was sin working through your heart to your members. You saw Servus Christi's latest video, explain how anything that he said was a lie or miscontrued in any way. You know that he just showed you Justin Peters', Ray Comfort's and Ken Ham's own words and actions that condemn themselves with their own hypocrisy and compromise.
@@lryan9747 I had no emotional response whatsoever to any of our messages so far, neither yours nor mine. I assure you that my blood is still quite cool. I owe you no explanation
@@roguecalvinist Sir, your blood being cool has nothing to do with whether you're an idolator who blocks their ears to the truth because their favourite preacher has been exposed. Ray Comfort is a hypocrite and a compromiser who denies Christ by his deeds, as you have seen for yourself. Don't become twice a son of hell as they are and as you are on your way to becoming already, with your hyper defensive emotionally based response you've given me, devoid of any objective or factual refutation of the proof you now cannot unsee.
*The Enuma Elish would later be the inspiration for the Hebrew scribes who created the text now known as the biblical Book of Genesis.* Prior to the 19th century CE, the Bible was considered the oldest book in the world and its narratives were thought to be completely original. In the mid-19th century CE, however, European museums, as well as academic and religious institutions, sponsored excavations in Mesopotamia to find physical evidence for historical corroboration of the stories in the Bible. ***These excavations found quite the opposite, however, in that, once cuneiform was translated, it was understood that a number of biblical narratives were Mesopotamian in origin.*** *Famous stories such as the Fall of Man and the Great Flood were originally conceived and written down in Sumer,* translated and modified later in Babylon, and reworked by the Assyrians ***before they were used by the Hebrew scribes for the versions which appear in the Bible.*** ***In revising the Mesopotamian creation story for their own ends, the Hebrew scribes tightened the narrative and the focus but retained the concept of the all-powerful deity who brings order from chaos.*** Marduk, in the Enuma Elish, establishes the recognizable order of the world - *just as God does in the Genesis tale* - and human beings are expected to recognize this great gift and honor the deity through service. Google *"Enuma Elish - The Babylonian Epic of Creation - Full Text - World History Encyclopedia"* Also discussed by Professor Christine Hayes at Yale University in her 1st lecture of the series on the Hebrew Bible from 8:50 to 14:30 minutes, lecture 3 from 28:30 to 41:35 minutes, lecture 4 from 0:00 up to 21:30 minutes and 24:00 up to 35:30 minutes and lecture 7 from 24:20 to 25:10 minutes. From a Biblical scholar: "Many stories in the ancient world have their origins in other stories and were borrowed and modified from other or earlier peoples. *For instance, many of the stories now preserved in the Bible are* ***modified*** *versions of stories that existed in the cultures and traditions of Israel’s* ***older*** *contemporaries.* Stories about the creation of the universe, a cataclysmic universal flood, digging wells as land markers, the naming of important cultic sites, gods giving laws to their people, and even stories about gods decreeing the possession of land to their people were all part of the cultural and literary matrix of the ancient Near East. *Biblical scribes freely* ***adopted and modified*** *these stories as a means to express their own identity, origins, and customs."* *"Stories from the Bible"* by Dr Steven DiMattei, from his website *"Biblical Contradictions"* ------------------------------------------------------------------ In addition, look up the below articles. *"Debunking the Devil - Michael A. Sherlock (Author)"* *"The Greatest Trick Religion Ever Pulled: Convincing Us That Satan Exists | Atheomedy"* *"Zoroastrianism And Persian Mythology: The Foundation Of Belief"* (Scroll to the last section: Zoroastrianism is the Foundation of Western Belief) *"10 Ways The Bible Was Influenced By Other Religions - Listverse"* *"January | 2014 | Atheomedy"* - Where the Hell Did the Idea of Hell Come From? Watch *"The Origins of Salvation, Judgement and Hell"* by Derreck Bennett at Atheologica (Sensitive theists should only watch from 7:00 to 17:30 minutes as evangelical Christians are lambasted. He's a former theist and has been studying the scholarship and comparative religions for over 15 years) *"Top Ten Reasons Noah’s Flood is Mythology - The Sensuous Curmudgeon"* *"The Adam and Eve myth - News24"* *"Are The Ten Commandments Based On The Forty-Two Principles Of Maat That Appeared 2,000 Years Earlier? - Ancient Pages"* *"Before Adam and Eve - Psychology Today"* *"Gilgamesh vs. Noah - Wordpress"* *"No, Humans Are Probably Not All Descended From A Single Couple Who Lived 200,000 Years Ago"* *"Adam & Eve: Theologians Try to Reconcile Science and Fail - The New Republic"* *"Adam and Eve: the ultimate standoff between science and faith (and a contest!) - Why Evolution Is True"* *"Bogus accommodationism: The return of Adam and Eve as real people, as proposed by a wonky quasi-scientific theory - Why Evolution Is True"* *"How many scientists question evolution? - **sciencemeetsreligion.org**"* *"What is the evidence for evolution? - Common-questions - BioLogos"* (A Christian organisation) *"Why scientists dismiss 'intelligent design' - Science"* *"Old Testament Tales Were Stolen From Other Cultures - Griffin"* *"Parallelism between “The Hymn to Aten” and Psalm 104 - Project Augustine"* *"Studying the Bible"* - by Dr Steven DiMattei (This particular article from a critical Biblical scholar highlights how the authors of the Hebrew Bible used their *fictional* god as a mouthpiece for their own views and ideologies) *"How do we know that the biblical writers were* ***not*** *writing history?"* -- by Dr Steven DiMattei *"Contradictions in the Bible | Identified verse by verse and explained using the most up-to-date scholarly information about the Bible, its texts, and the men who wrote them"* -- by Dr. Steven DiMattei
*Let's briefly run through the 'ten plagues':* First the rivers are turned to blood, all the fish die and the waters stink. No one has any water to drink. This lasted for seven days and would have resulted in mass deaths due to dehydration. Amongst the first to die would have been the children. *The author doesn't think to explain how the Hebrews were saved from this. No record of it was made anywhere in any Egyptian records.* Exodus 7:17-25. This is followed by a plague of frogs which had somehow survived the rivers of blood that had killed all the fish. A mere inconvenience, nothing more, and a big stink when they all died, *but no record anywhere.* Exodus 8:2-13. Next we have the plague of lice about which very little is said *and of course no record was made.* To a people who would have been accustomed to lice this would probably have been nothing remarkable. Exodus 8:16-18. Then the flies. Apart from the land being 'corrupted', whatever that means, there don't appear to have been any ill effects from this and they disappear as quickly as they came a few days later. *Nothing worth recording there, obviously.* Exodus 8:21-31. Now the author seems to begin to lose the plot and describes a 'grievous murrain' *which kills all the Egyptians' cattle, horses, camels and sheep.* ***They all died - hold that thought.*** *No Egyptian historian or keeper of official records deems it worthy of mention.* Exodus 9:3-6. Next come the boils which afflict everyone and everything, including all the livestock ***even though they had been killed by the 'grievous murrain' a few days earlier,*** *apparently, and yet no-one thought to write anything down anywhere.* Of course, anyone who understood anything about microorganisms and the aeteology of boils would have described this as an infestation with Staphylococcus - the signs of faecal contamination - but the author was obviously unaware of these. Maybe he was just in too much of a muddle by now to care. Exodus 9:8-11. Now it's hailstones so bad that every plant, every tree, every servant (for servant read slave) ***and even the livestock (that our story-teller has forgotten already that he killed off in the fifth plague before given them boils in the sixth) were harmed.*** It looks like our story-teller has learned from his earlier silly mistake with killing all the livestock too soon then having to resurrect them later. He mentions that some plants survive. Do I smell stinking fish again? *The greatest hail storm in all Egyptian history, apparently, but not worthy of being recorded.* Exodus 9:18-25. It's the turn of the locusts and it's suddenly obvious why some plants had to survive. *How could the locusts turn Egypt into a barren desert if the hail storm had done it earlier?* Good thinking there. Shame about the earlier boob! *Mysteriously, no Egyptian scribe appears to notice any of this or the inevitable famine and mass starvation which would have ensued.* Exodus 10:4-15. And for the penultimate trick, it's going to be dark for three days. *No one makes a record of this, obviously.* Exodus 10:21-23. The last 'plague' is not so much a plague as a ritual genocide. *Here our tale takes a nasty turn and the true character of the Hebrew god is revealed in all its glory - a petty, vindictive, homicidal psychopath who has not yet acquired the omniscience he will be granted later. He kills every firstborn Egyptian in a single night,* ***including the firstborn of all the cattle that died in the fifth plague.*** *For some reason he needs the Hebrews to leave a secret sign so he doesn't kill them too. Weirdly, he can't tell his own chosen people from ordinary Egyptians and doesn't even know where they live.* And he had been leading up to this, apparently, because after every plague he 'hardens the heart' of Pharaoh so that he wouldn't let the Hebrews go. He had actually been planning this genocide all along just to impress people with his powers. *And still no-one thought even this mass killing in a single night worth making a note of in any Egyptian records.* Exodus 12:1-30. And then, of course, Pharaoh could muster up 600 horses to pull the chariots ***from amongst all the dead livestock from the 5th plague*** (Exodus 14:7). Google *"Rosa Rubicondior: Origins Of The Exodus Myth"* ------------------------------------------------------------------ In addition, look up the below articles. *"Debunking Christianity: PATTERNS OF POOR RESEARCH- A Critique of Patterns of Evidence:Exodus"* *"For you were (not) slaves in Egypt: The ancient memories behind the Exodus myth - Archaeology - **Haaretz.com**"* *"Why the Exodus Story Has Value Despite Being Complete Myth - Psychology Today Australia"* *"Is the Exodus a Myth? - Worlds Beyond"* *"Historicity of Exodus and Moses - The Creatively Maladjusted"* *"Biblical Contradiction #81. When did the Exodus allegedly happen: during the reign of Rameses II (1279-1213 BC) OR in 1447 BC?"* - by Dr Steven DiMattei *"Biblical Contradiction #87. Does the god of the Hebrews reveal himself to Moses in Midian OR in Egypt?"* - by Dr Steven DiMattei *"Bible Contradiction **#134**. Which Ten Commandments?"* - by Dr Steven DiMattei *"Bible Contradiction **#147**. Who writes the laws and commandments on stone tablets: Moses OR Yahweh?"* - by Dr Steven DiMattei *"Ten Reasons Why the Bible’s Story of the Exodus is Not True - by Tim Zeak - ExCommunications - Medium"* *"Why Moses Did Not Write the Torah - Thomas Shoemaker"* *"Sargon the Great and Moses - The Word of Me… Wordpress"* *"The Death of the Documentary Hypothesis | Rev. David Bokovoy"* *"The Neo-Documentary Hypothesis | Rev. David Bokovoy"* *"How do we know that the biblical writers were* ***not*** *writing history?"* -- by Dr Steven DiMattei *"Contradictions in the Bible | Identified verse by verse and explained using the most up-to-date scholarly information about the Bible, its texts, and the men who wrote them"* -- by Dr. Steven DiMattei
That's a heaping helping of garbage. No way I can address all this nonsense but a proper reading of scripture and 2 ounces of grey matter easily disprove that Hell is not in the Old Testament scripture. If you cannot understand when you're commiting a word-concept fallacy or that literal, verbatim wording cannot always be traced through centuries of changing linguistic norms or outright different languages you don't have any place trying to interpret scripture. There are countless references to sinners either going to Sheol, the grave, the underworld or the pit. But it also makes it very clear in many, many, many passages that all people (quite obviously) die. It *very clearly* makes a point of saying sinners go to the grave, the pit, Sheol (understanding this can be interpreted as simply a burial plot in the ground) while those who are right with God are kept out of all such references. Many times mentioning that *all people die* but only sinners go to "Sheol". Warning: logic ahead. This means that the OT scripture is isolating sinners as the ones who go to Sheol having well established that everyone dies: meaning, it is not simply referring to a bodily death. This is clearly talking about the second death. And yes, a firey place of torment as a place where all those go in the eschaton is actually a misunderstanding and misrepresentation, but that proves the point all the more. Paul talks about the second death. Jesus talks about the death of the soul. All the old Testament scripture talks about the same thing. Perfect continuity. 👍😊 You tried. I'm sure your master will reward you *so* well.
By the way, all the attempts to undermine scripture by saying there were things that predated them. Here's something to chew on: one such thing was the oral history of God's people. There are countless thousands of years that predated the surviving written word. So, just because you can find an older reference to something you *think* is related elsewhere in the world means literally nothing. The Bible tells us that Abraham was from Mesopotamia, so we understand that there were things there before. It's not some new revelation by secular archeology. You really did try though. So proud of you.
Oh here's another one. Just because you can see similarities between two things, does not necessarily mean that either one influenced the other. That's ... logic 101. X jazz musician sounds like Y jazz musician, therefore X jazz musician must have influenced Y jazz musician. No. ❌ That is not logically sound and no, there is little to nothing to show anything further on those cases. The story of Gilgamesh has 95% unique material yet you look at the 5% and say, "*gasp* stolen!"
If anyone thinks the Bible is the "word of God" and not ancient authors speaking for their imaginary god, they need to read the below article from a critical Biblical scholar and spend some time reading the other articles on his website. "So for example, when we read carefully what Yahweh says in the book of Leviticus, namely that the Aaronids (the sons of Aaron only), are high priests contrary to the Levites, that they alone are Yahweh’s mediators and the Levites are reduced to mere ministers of the Aaronids, that only through sacrifice can one atone for sins and not confession as preached by the Levites, or more precisely the Levite’s Yahweh, etc., *it can be no coincidence that in these laws and commandments,* ***which are placed on the mouth of Yahweh,*** *that Yahweh himself is presented advocating and legitimating the very views and beliefs of the specific priestly guild writing the text, and, contrary to the views and beliefs of their rivals, the Levites and the Levite’s Yahweh!* We will examine this more closely when we get to the contradictions in these books. But in short, this was the function of ancient literature, and we are allowing these ancient texts to speak for themselves. *In this particular case, the Levites and Aaronids wrote specific texts that each advocated their religious beliefs, views, and their position as high priests* ***by writing these sentiments directly into the mouth of their god!*** But just studying the Bible alone, scientifically, affords us the occasion *to see that many of these so-called words of Yahweh are* ***actually the very words of the texts’ authors.*** When we see numerous texts employing this ancient literary technique, and moreover, ***presenting Yahweh as the spokesperson for their own views and agenda,*** *and* ***contrary*** *to Yahweh’s other words in other texts written by other authors employing the same technique,* how can one conclude otherwise. In other words, when in the composite text that we now call the Bible we find: Yahweh declaring that only Aaronids can officiate as his priests and Yahweh declaring that all Levites can officiate as high priest; Yahweh declaring that sin is atoned through confession and Yahweh declaring that sin is only expiated through the sacrificial cult, no exceptions; Yahweh declaring that he gave laws and commandments at Sinai and Yahweh declaring that he only gave the Ten Commandments at Sinai; Yahweh commanding to exterminate all the Canaanites without pity and Yahweh declaring to tolerate them and live in their midst; Yahweh declaring that the wilderness generation were disloyal and rebellious and Yahweh declaring that they were a paradigm of loyalty and faith; Yahweh declaring that he may be offered sacrifices at any altar and Yahweh declaring that there is only one altar where sacrifices are to be offered up; Yahweh declaring that the people saw him at Sinai and Yahweh declaring that they only heard his voice; Yahweh declaring that circumcision is an eternal covenant and keeping the land depends on observing this very commandment and Yahweh declaring the Mosaic laws as the covenant and keeping the land is dependent on keeping these laws; Yahweh declaring that he dwells in the midst of the people and Yahweh declaring that he only resides in heaven; Yahweh commanding Passover to be celebrated by all at Jerusalem and Yahweh commanding it to be celebrated at each person’s home; Yahweh commanding that animals for consumption must be ritually sacrificed and Yahweh commanding that they don’t have to be sacrificed ritually, etc. ***one must conclude that Yahweh is being used by these authors, each with their own contrary views and beliefs as a spokesperson for each of these authors’ agendas.*** These are all the personal, and competing, views, theological beliefs, and religious systems of our biblical authors. And this is only the tip of the iceberg." *"Studying the Bible"* - Dr Steven DiMattei *"Contradictions in the Bible | Identified verse by verse and explained using the most up-to-date scholarly information about the Bible, its texts, and the men who wrote them"* -- by Dr. Steven DiMattei
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I have learned so much from Comfort and During my Christmas life has been change by both of this men
Such an important evangelist for our times. He has blessed me greatly with the confidence to share the true Gospel!
CD,.....Ray C, has nothing whatsoever to do with the Jesus or Christianity of the Bible. He is the seller of a 100% fake christianity.
Love Ray! God used him to show me what I need to be doing as soon as His grace and mercy came upon me. Spreading the Gospel to all creation as Christ commanded us! It's been a joy and his tracts are wonderful!
JD,.....You are only spreading the false gospel of the Godless world. That is what RC spreads (sells).
This was great. Ray's such a faithful servant of the Lord. Such an encouragement.
RDN,.....Wrong! Ray C. is a fraud and sells a 100% fake christianity.
Thanks! I really loved you in "Heat"
That intro is super tough 💪🏼🙏🏼
I got saved through hearing Ray Comfort 11 months ago!
JK,....No, you did not get saved, you got deceived and snared into a 100% fake christianity,
🙏 That's awesome!
Ray always comes up with the coolest analogies that hits home
Grateful for this brother. His videos inspired me to regularly pass out tracts and share my faith in High School.
What a bomb intro. I'm glad you got Ray on the show. Both of your Ministries have meant a lot to me
So grateful for Ray and his godly example!
Hell’s Best Kept Secret was life changing for me as well. Great episode guys!
Thanks for this, guys. Ray's great.
I LOVE JESUS .
Every generation has its Paul. For us it's Ray Comfort.
Ray is amazing!
Ray is the number 1 evangelist of all time no question. That’s how to do it the right way. His love and compassion is unmatched. He is only second to John the Baptist
JM#G,.....Ray C. is one of the greatest conn artist of all time. He is not a Christian, he is the seller of the Godless worlds fake antichrist christianity. You are 100% steeped in darkness and deception.
Of all time? Eh..a bit far. We have to consider Paul, and many of the disciples who did so much for the church.
Ray you are such an inspiration and an encouragement to me, even with a good sense of humour.
Then you guys for this episode
Praise the Lord!
Lot of people tried to convert me from paganism, only problem is they gave me a lot of prosperity "gospel" cds to convince me to turn to Christ. The issue with the prosperity "gospel" is it basically taught paganism with the name of Jesus slapped on it. Why do I need Christ with his formula for health, wealth and prosperity when I'm able to use that exact same formula, minus the the need for being a moral person? Ironically enough, one of the audio cds that was right next to all these other pagan cds, masquerading as Christian, and taught the exact opposite message, was "Hell's best kept secret". It is from there I began my journey with Christ!
Before Ray Comfort I had no idea whatsoever of how to share the law and gospel. All I could get out of my mouth was, "Ummm, God loves you?" I was very ill prepared! Thanks for following the call, Ray!
I love the intro.
Thanks so much for having Ray on your show.
RIP Sam ❤
God is good. In Jesus precious and holy name! 😁🙏❤️♥️
Another great show! So important to evangelize even when you live in a country that doesn't speak english and all I know is english.😵💫😂👍thank you for blessing our day!
This was great, thanks!!!!
Love Ray!
"Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool." - Mark Twain
JR,....Yes, and that is exactly what Ray C. is, a conn artist selling a fake christianity.
What movie did he say? I want to watch it!
Ben-Hur from 1959. It’s truly a classic!
Just imagine the treasures he has laid up in Heaven.
None.
Crazed Con man Comfort.
Saving repentance is realizing that you are a sinner deserving of God's just punishment in Hell and turn (repent) from whatever you trusted in before, if indeed you trusted in anything; to trusting in the person and finished work of Christ "alone" for salvation.
I know this is completely random but I would like Pastor Jeff to react to the TikTok “woke” religious videos. They are so wild! Ppl are believing this stuff 😢
✌️♥️👍
Did he just compare rugby to American football🙃.
I really dont get Ray. I tried talking to him once. He came off as rude. He said "I have a porn addiction" even though I never said anything about it.
Do you have a porn addiction?
@@roguecalvinist No.
Nick. Not true. I didn’t say you had a porn addiction. I asked you if you had one, and you didn’t deny it. All you had to do was say, “No. I don’t look at porn.” But you didn’t. 🙂
@@LivingWaters Hi Ray!
@@LivingWaters You dont get it. My point is thats a really weird and perverted thing to ask. And no you didnt ask that you made a statement question. Why would you do that in the first place? Maybe dont ask people questions on their sexual lives.
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How does my beleif that our decision to accept Jesus into our hearts male a synergist? A decision is not a work.
Ephesians 2:8 (non-plural)
The decision of faith which is not works.
Question, is he a member of a church?
Is the 144,000 supposed to be taken literally or figuratively?
Is it the ethnic jews sealed after the rapture of God's people? Or is it God's people as a whole throughout history?
Ray, I'm sorry you have to read some of these ridiculous comments people have to say about you. You don't deserve to be talked about in that way after serving the Lord Faithfully for so many years. I watched a video by Servus Christi, it's his latest video I believe, where he goes into all this TBN stuff as well, and he has a lot of subscribers. I can't stand it. If you don't mind, I might start putting some really good moments of yours in my shorts to help combat to some of that negativity. I've looked deep enough into your ministry to have heard you say, "no man can come to me unless the father who sent me draws him".
Because of that, I fight for the honor of your soteriology wherever I find it being attacked
So you see the facts that Ray Comfort is partnering with and promoting some of the worst heretics the world has ever known, defying the commands of Scripture to 'mark and avoid such people' and to 'expose the fruitless deeds of darkness, having no fellowship with such' and you wilfully reject God's Word and the truth in favour of your idol Ray Comfort?
Stop idolising man, if you had really 'looked deep' into Ray's ministry, you would see nothing but hypocrisy and compromise and rotteness and death as these men disdain God's Word for the sake of their own gain and influence.
@@lryan9747 what are you going to do with all of those endorphins, now that they've settled into your bloodstream nice and cozy? Will you relax for a time, or are you already seeking a higher dose? This message flooded you with them, no doubt. Please, feel them as you consider a response. It is the law of sin working in your members
@@roguecalvinist What are you going to do with all your endorphins that have no doubt come flooding in as you wrote your idolatrous response to me?
Did you consider them as you wrote your response? That was sin working through your heart to your members.
You saw Servus Christi's latest video, explain how anything that he said was a lie or miscontrued in any way. You know that he just showed you Justin Peters', Ray Comfort's and Ken Ham's own words and actions that condemn themselves with their own hypocrisy and compromise.
@@lryan9747 I had no emotional response whatsoever to any of our messages so far, neither yours nor mine. I assure you that my blood is still quite cool. I owe you no explanation
@@roguecalvinist Sir, your blood being cool has nothing to do with whether you're an idolator who blocks their ears to the truth because their favourite preacher has been exposed.
Ray Comfort is a hypocrite and a compromiser who denies Christ by his deeds, as you have seen for yourself. Don't become twice a son of hell as they are and as you are on your way to becoming already, with your hyper defensive emotionally based response you've given me, devoid of any objective or factual refutation of the proof you now cannot unsee.
“On a global sphere…”
Jesus lol
*The Enuma Elish would later be the inspiration for the Hebrew scribes who created the text now known as the biblical Book of Genesis.* Prior to the 19th century CE, the Bible was considered the oldest book in the world and its narratives were thought to be completely original. In the mid-19th century CE, however, European museums, as well as academic and religious institutions, sponsored excavations in Mesopotamia to find physical evidence for historical corroboration of the stories in the Bible. ***These excavations found quite the opposite, however, in that, once cuneiform was translated, it was understood that a number of biblical narratives were Mesopotamian in origin.***
*Famous stories such as the Fall of Man and the Great Flood were originally conceived and written down in Sumer,* translated and modified later in Babylon, and reworked by the Assyrians ***before they were used by the Hebrew scribes for the versions which appear in the Bible.***
***In revising the Mesopotamian creation story for their own ends, the Hebrew scribes tightened the narrative and the focus but retained the concept of the all-powerful deity who brings order from chaos.*** Marduk, in the Enuma Elish, establishes the recognizable order of the world - *just as God does in the Genesis tale* - and human beings are expected to recognize this great gift and honor the deity through service.
Google *"Enuma Elish - The Babylonian Epic of Creation - Full Text - World History Encyclopedia"*
Also discussed by Professor Christine Hayes at Yale University in her 1st lecture of the series on the Hebrew Bible from 8:50 to 14:30 minutes, lecture 3 from 28:30 to 41:35 minutes, lecture 4 from 0:00 up to 21:30 minutes and 24:00 up to 35:30 minutes and lecture 7 from 24:20 to 25:10 minutes.
From a Biblical scholar:
"Many stories in the ancient world have their origins in other stories and were borrowed and modified from other or earlier peoples. *For instance, many of the stories now preserved in the Bible are* ***modified*** *versions of stories that existed in the cultures and traditions of Israel’s* ***older*** *contemporaries.* Stories about the creation of the universe, a cataclysmic universal flood, digging wells as land markers, the naming of important cultic sites, gods giving laws to their people, and even stories about gods decreeing the possession of land to their people were all part of the cultural and literary matrix of the ancient Near East. *Biblical scribes freely* ***adopted and modified*** *these stories as a means to express their own identity, origins, and customs."*
*"Stories from the Bible"* by Dr Steven DiMattei, from his website *"Biblical Contradictions"*
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In addition, look up the below articles.
*"Debunking the Devil - Michael A. Sherlock (Author)"*
*"The Greatest Trick Religion Ever Pulled: Convincing Us That Satan Exists | Atheomedy"*
*"Zoroastrianism And Persian Mythology: The Foundation Of Belief"*
(Scroll to the last section: Zoroastrianism is the Foundation of Western Belief)
*"10 Ways The Bible Was Influenced By Other Religions - Listverse"*
*"January | 2014 | Atheomedy"* - Where the Hell Did the Idea of Hell Come From?
Watch *"The Origins of Salvation, Judgement and Hell"* by Derreck Bennett at Atheologica
(Sensitive theists should only watch from 7:00 to 17:30 minutes as evangelical Christians are lambasted. He's a former theist and has been studying the scholarship and comparative religions for over 15 years)
*"Top Ten Reasons Noah’s Flood is Mythology - The Sensuous Curmudgeon"*
*"The Adam and Eve myth - News24"*
*"Are The Ten Commandments Based On The Forty-Two Principles Of Maat That Appeared 2,000 Years Earlier? - Ancient Pages"*
*"Before Adam and Eve - Psychology Today"*
*"Gilgamesh vs. Noah - Wordpress"*
*"No, Humans Are Probably Not All Descended From A Single Couple Who Lived 200,000 Years Ago"*
*"Adam & Eve: Theologians Try to Reconcile Science and Fail - The New Republic"*
*"Adam and Eve: the ultimate standoff between science and faith (and a contest!) - Why Evolution Is True"*
*"Bogus accommodationism: The return of Adam and Eve as real people, as proposed by a wonky quasi-scientific theory - Why Evolution Is True"*
*"How many scientists question evolution? - **sciencemeetsreligion.org**"*
*"What is the evidence for evolution? - Common-questions - BioLogos"*
(A Christian organisation)
*"Why scientists dismiss 'intelligent design' - Science"*
*"Old Testament Tales Were Stolen From Other Cultures - Griffin"*
*"Parallelism between “The Hymn to Aten” and Psalm 104 - Project Augustine"*
*"Studying the Bible"* - by Dr Steven DiMattei
(This particular article from a critical Biblical scholar highlights how the authors of the Hebrew Bible used their *fictional* god as a mouthpiece for their own views and ideologies)
*"How do we know that the biblical writers were* ***not*** *writing history?"* -- by Dr Steven DiMattei
*"Contradictions in the Bible | Identified verse by verse and explained using the most up-to-date scholarly information about the Bible, its texts, and the men who wrote them"* -- by Dr. Steven DiMattei
*Let's briefly run through the 'ten plagues':*
First the rivers are turned to blood, all the fish die and the waters stink. No one has any water to drink. This lasted for seven days and would have resulted in mass deaths due to dehydration. Amongst the first to die would have been the children. *The author doesn't think to explain how the Hebrews were saved from this. No record of it was made anywhere in any Egyptian records.* Exodus 7:17-25.
This is followed by a plague of frogs which had somehow survived the rivers of blood that had killed all the fish. A mere inconvenience, nothing more, and a big stink when they all died, *but no record anywhere.* Exodus 8:2-13.
Next we have the plague of lice about which very little is said *and of course no record was made.* To a people who would have been accustomed to lice this would probably have been nothing remarkable. Exodus 8:16-18.
Then the flies. Apart from the land being 'corrupted', whatever that means, there don't appear to have been any ill effects from this and they disappear as quickly as they came a few days later. *Nothing worth recording there, obviously.* Exodus 8:21-31.
Now the author seems to begin to lose the plot and describes a 'grievous murrain' *which kills all the Egyptians' cattle, horses, camels and sheep.* ***They all died - hold that thought.*** *No Egyptian historian or keeper of official records deems it worthy of mention.* Exodus 9:3-6.
Next come the boils which afflict everyone and everything, including all the livestock ***even though they had been killed by the 'grievous murrain' a few days earlier,*** *apparently, and yet no-one thought to write anything down anywhere.* Of course, anyone who understood anything about microorganisms and the aeteology of boils would have described this as an infestation with Staphylococcus - the signs of faecal contamination - but the author was obviously unaware of these. Maybe he was just in too much of a muddle by now to care. Exodus 9:8-11.
Now it's hailstones so bad that every plant, every tree, every servant (for servant read slave) ***and even the livestock (that our story-teller has forgotten already that he killed off in the fifth plague before given them boils in the sixth) were harmed.*** It looks like our story-teller has learned from his earlier silly mistake with killing all the livestock too soon then having to resurrect them later. He mentions that some plants survive. Do I smell stinking fish again? *The greatest hail storm in all Egyptian history, apparently, but not worthy of being recorded.* Exodus 9:18-25.
It's the turn of the locusts and it's suddenly obvious why some plants had to survive. *How could the locusts turn Egypt into a barren desert if the hail storm had done it earlier?* Good thinking there. Shame about the earlier boob! *Mysteriously, no Egyptian scribe appears to notice any of this or the inevitable famine and mass starvation which would have ensued.* Exodus 10:4-15.
And for the penultimate trick, it's going to be dark for three days. *No one makes a record of this, obviously.* Exodus 10:21-23.
The last 'plague' is not so much a plague as a ritual genocide. *Here our tale takes a nasty turn and the true character of the Hebrew god is revealed in all its glory - a petty, vindictive, homicidal psychopath who has not yet acquired the omniscience he will be granted later. He kills every firstborn Egyptian in a single night,* ***including the firstborn of all the cattle that died in the fifth plague.*** *For some reason he needs the Hebrews to leave a secret sign so he doesn't kill them too. Weirdly, he can't tell his own chosen people from ordinary Egyptians and doesn't even know where they live.* And he had been leading up to this, apparently, because after every plague he 'hardens the heart' of Pharaoh so that he wouldn't let the Hebrews go. He had actually been planning this genocide all along just to impress people with his powers. *And still no-one thought even this mass killing in a single night worth making a note of in any Egyptian records.* Exodus 12:1-30.
And then, of course, Pharaoh could muster up 600 horses to pull the chariots ***from amongst all the dead livestock from the 5th plague*** (Exodus 14:7).
Google *"Rosa Rubicondior: Origins Of The Exodus Myth"*
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In addition, look up the below articles.
*"Debunking Christianity: PATTERNS OF POOR RESEARCH- A Critique of Patterns of Evidence:Exodus"*
*"For you were (not) slaves in Egypt: The ancient memories behind the Exodus myth - Archaeology - **Haaretz.com**"*
*"Why the Exodus Story Has Value Despite Being Complete Myth - Psychology Today Australia"*
*"Is the Exodus a Myth? - Worlds Beyond"*
*"Historicity of Exodus and Moses - The Creatively Maladjusted"*
*"Biblical Contradiction #81. When did the Exodus allegedly happen: during the reign of Rameses II (1279-1213 BC) OR in 1447 BC?"* - by Dr Steven DiMattei
*"Biblical Contradiction #87. Does the god of the Hebrews reveal himself to Moses in Midian OR in Egypt?"* - by Dr Steven DiMattei
*"Bible Contradiction **#134**. Which Ten Commandments?"* - by Dr Steven DiMattei
*"Bible Contradiction **#147**. Who writes the laws and commandments on stone tablets: Moses OR Yahweh?"* - by Dr Steven DiMattei
*"Ten Reasons Why the Bible’s Story of the Exodus is Not True - by Tim Zeak - ExCommunications - Medium"*
*"Why Moses Did Not Write the Torah - Thomas Shoemaker"*
*"Sargon the Great and Moses - The Word of Me… Wordpress"*
*"The Death of the Documentary Hypothesis | Rev. David Bokovoy"*
*"The Neo-Documentary Hypothesis | Rev. David Bokovoy"*
*"How do we know that the biblical writers were* ***not*** *writing history?"* -- by Dr Steven DiMattei
*"Contradictions in the Bible | Identified verse by verse and explained using the most up-to-date scholarly information about the Bible, its texts, and the men who wrote them"* -- by Dr. Steven DiMattei
That's a heaping helping of garbage.
No way I can address all this nonsense but a proper reading of scripture and 2 ounces of grey matter easily disprove that Hell is not in the Old Testament scripture. If you cannot understand when you're commiting a word-concept fallacy or that literal, verbatim wording cannot always be traced through centuries of changing linguistic norms or outright different languages you don't have any place trying to interpret scripture. There are countless references to sinners either going to Sheol, the grave, the underworld or the pit. But it also makes it very clear in many, many, many passages that all people (quite obviously) die. It *very clearly* makes a point of saying sinners go to the grave, the pit, Sheol (understanding this can be interpreted as simply a burial plot in the ground) while those who are right with God are kept out of all such references. Many times mentioning that *all people die* but only sinners go to "Sheol". Warning: logic ahead. This means that the OT scripture is isolating sinners as the ones who go to Sheol having well established that everyone dies: meaning, it is not simply referring to a bodily death. This is clearly talking about the second death. And yes, a firey place of torment as a place where all those go in the eschaton is actually a misunderstanding and misrepresentation, but that proves the point all the more. Paul talks about the second death. Jesus talks about the death of the soul. All the old Testament scripture talks about the same thing. Perfect continuity. 👍😊
You tried. I'm sure your master will reward you *so* well.
By the way, all the attempts to undermine scripture by saying there were things that predated them. Here's something to chew on: one such thing was the oral history of God's people. There are countless thousands of years that predated the surviving written word. So, just because you can find an older reference to something you *think* is related elsewhere in the world means literally nothing. The Bible tells us that Abraham was from Mesopotamia, so we understand that there were things there before. It's not some new revelation by secular archeology.
You really did try though. So proud of you.
Oh here's another one. Just because you can see similarities between two things, does not necessarily mean that either one influenced the other. That's ... logic 101. X jazz musician sounds like Y jazz musician, therefore X jazz musician must have influenced Y jazz musician. No. ❌ That is not logically sound and no, there is little to nothing to show anything further on those cases. The story of Gilgamesh has 95% unique material yet you look at the 5% and say, "*gasp* stolen!"
If anyone thinks the Bible is the "word of God" and not ancient authors speaking for their imaginary god, they need to read the below article from a critical Biblical scholar and spend some time reading the other articles on his website.
"So for example, when we read carefully what Yahweh says in the book of Leviticus, namely that the Aaronids (the sons of Aaron only), are high priests contrary to the Levites, that they alone are Yahweh’s mediators and the Levites are reduced to mere ministers of the Aaronids, that only through sacrifice can one atone for sins and not confession as preached by the Levites, or more precisely the Levite’s Yahweh, etc., *it can be no coincidence that in these laws and commandments,* ***which are placed on the mouth of Yahweh,*** *that Yahweh himself is presented advocating and legitimating the very views and beliefs of the specific priestly guild writing the text, and, contrary to the views and beliefs of their rivals, the Levites and the Levite’s Yahweh!* We will examine this more closely when we get to the contradictions in these books. But in short, this was the function of ancient literature, and we are allowing these ancient texts to speak for themselves. *In this particular case, the Levites and Aaronids wrote specific texts that each advocated their religious beliefs, views, and their position as high priests* ***by writing these sentiments directly into the mouth of their god!***
But just studying the Bible alone, scientifically, affords us the occasion *to see that many of these so-called words of Yahweh are* ***actually the very words of the texts’ authors.*** When we see numerous texts employing this ancient literary technique, and moreover, ***presenting Yahweh as the spokesperson for their own views and agenda,*** *and* ***contrary*** *to Yahweh’s other words in other texts written by other authors employing the same technique,* how can one conclude otherwise.
In other words, when in the composite text that we now call the Bible we find: Yahweh declaring that only Aaronids can officiate as his priests and Yahweh declaring that all Levites can officiate as high priest; Yahweh declaring that sin is atoned through confession and Yahweh declaring that sin is only expiated through the sacrificial cult, no exceptions; Yahweh declaring that he gave laws and commandments at Sinai and Yahweh declaring that he only gave the Ten Commandments at Sinai; Yahweh commanding to exterminate all the Canaanites without pity and Yahweh declaring to tolerate them and live in their midst; Yahweh declaring that the wilderness generation were disloyal and rebellious and Yahweh declaring that they were a paradigm of loyalty and faith; Yahweh declaring that he may be offered sacrifices at any altar and Yahweh declaring that there is only one altar where sacrifices are to be offered up; Yahweh declaring that the people saw him at Sinai and Yahweh declaring that they only heard his voice; Yahweh declaring that circumcision is an eternal covenant and keeping the land depends on observing this very commandment and Yahweh declaring the Mosaic laws as the covenant and keeping the land is dependent on keeping these laws; Yahweh declaring that he dwells in the midst of the people and Yahweh declaring that he only resides in heaven; Yahweh commanding Passover to be celebrated by all at Jerusalem and Yahweh commanding it to be celebrated at each person’s home; Yahweh commanding that animals for consumption must be ritually sacrificed and Yahweh commanding that they don’t have to be sacrificed ritually, etc. ***one must conclude that Yahweh is being used by these authors, each with their own contrary views and beliefs as a spokesperson for each of these authors’ agendas.*** These are all the personal, and competing, views, theological beliefs, and religious systems of our biblical authors. And this is only the tip of the iceberg."
*"Studying the Bible"* - Dr Steven DiMattei
*"Contradictions in the Bible | Identified verse by verse and explained using the most up-to-date scholarly information about the Bible, its texts, and the men who wrote them"* -- by Dr. Steven DiMattei
I love that this is all prewritten text apparently quote mined from some source online as if you ... can't formulate your own thoughts.
Oh man..he's a doctor. He must know it all!
Ray Comfort is the worst. Why even have him on here?
Go somewhere else then if you feel that way, why do you say this?
What are you doing for the kingdom? Post links to your open air preaching or whatever ministry you’re involved in?
The worst? Whatever lol
Who is the best, Darth Vader?
He seems a little intense but that was harsh!
@@brianmendenhall8387 I like to see his stuff. Hes interesting Ill give him that.