#31 - Confronting Faith's Biggest Questions: Answers for the Skeptic

Welcome, everyone! Today's episode takes a different approach as I address questions and comments from a previous video. These questions challenge my beliefs and the things I promote, including my faith in Jesus Christ and the Bible. Join me as I navigate through these thought-provoking inquiries and share my perspective.

In this video, I discuss my unique stance as a believer in Jesus Christ, without aligning with any particular denomination. I reflect on my journey to faith and how Jesus Christ entered my life unexpectedly. I also emphasize my commitment to being genuine and open about my struggles, hoping to connect with others who may be going through similar experiences.

We dive into various topics, including:

• The reliability of ancient texts like the Bible
• Trusting in God amidst religious scandals
• The formation of the Bible and its manuscripts
• The exclusivity of Christianity and salvation through Jesus
• Debates on the historical accuracy of Jesus' name
• Faith based on a book and the concept of Jesus as God
• Perspectives on Jesus from figures like Billy Carson
• Addressing other religions and their beliefs
• The creation of evil and God's role in it
• Belief without the Bible

Throughout the video, I share my personal experiences and thoughts on these challenging questions. My hope is to provide clarity and insight, not just for the person who posted the comment, but for anyone who may have similar questions or doubts.

Thank you for watching. Your support means the world to me. If you found this video helpful, please give it a thumbs up, share it with your friends, and subscribe to my channel for more content. Stay blessed and keep shining!

Episode Transcript

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All right, what's up everyone? So today we are going to do it a little bit different.
I am going to answer some questions that were brought to me on a previous video
that I posted in the comments.
And this was a little bit different than any other videos that I've had before.
The people have posted things at me and they've said, you know,
said things that I did in my video were dumb or whatever,

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or things that I really, not really did in my video, but just my,
the beliefs and the things that I am promoting, because I do promote,
I'm not shy about it, I promote Jesus Christ.
I promote the Bible. I promote all that, you know?
I'm not a talking head, you know? I am a free thinker. I actually wouldn't fall
into a lot of the labels and description.

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I'm probably like the maverick of them all, because I'm the oddball.
I do not fall into any of the structures, almost, and it's almost sad to me.
I do not say I'm a Baptist or I'm Catholic or I'm Messianic or I'm any of the
labels that people have for Christians.
Rather, I fall under, I am a believer in Jesus Christ, period.

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Full stop. So I do not have skin in the game as in one particular denomination
or sect of Christianity being correct.
I do not a scribe solely to any of them, you know? And that,
to me, it's kind of weird.
It's kind of lonesome a lot of the times, but also,

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it reminds me that we do not have to be in our own little niche of on this side
of the aisle or this side of the fence, but I am for all believers, all Christians.
But this video is not really going to be about that kumbaya and
ecumenical movement of Christians coming together this is about gonna be responding

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to the comment that was posted on a previous video that I did and this one and
the reason I even doing this is it struck me a lot different than any of the
other comments that I've had on any of my videos and we're just gonna get into it let's go.
Music.

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First of all, let me just say about other videos that I've had people say stuff about my,
what I believe and what the things that I'm saying on, on, on camera and things
that I'm talking about Jesus and talking about the Bible and then saying the things,
the most commented videos that I've had was when I talked about atheists and
my respect for atheists and prominent atheists are out there that are out there

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that I had a lot of people people coming out and just talking about and saying,
just really challenging what I believe.
And you can see it from different angles. You see some people do it out of goodwill and just to have debate.
And I believe this, you believe that. Why do you believe that?
And just that conversational aspect of it. Some people just want to tear you down.

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But then there's also people that come to it like
with an open mind and i'm trying i am trying to
be as open-minded as possible as well but in this one like i said this with
the comment that was brought on the and we're going to go through it line by
line and my answer my response you're going to see my face contort and my my
body structure you're going to see my what is that called my body language like.

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I'm trying to think that's kind of weird but you're going to see some weird
kind of thing because I'm going to think about it on the fly,
but I have read the comments already.
I have read the questions that this person raised.
To me, they were very good, genuine, heartfelt questions.
You'll see some strong language in there that I'll point out,

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but also this is how I would be the same way.
If I did not believe in Jesus, if I did not believe in the Bible,
I would be the same way, because to me, I'm as real as possible,
and if I'm all in as possible or
not all in, and I have to firmly believe something, I'm not wishy-washy.
I'm not going to be wishy-washy, and I'm going to be as genuine and as real

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as possible in whatever I believe.
And before Christ, I'm going to do a little anecdote before we get into it, but before Christ,
I was kind of like, Jesus in the Bible and everything about that religion was
not even on my mind. I was not even thinking about that.
Jesus came and found me. I didn't find Him. He came and entered my life.

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He came and encountered me.
I was not seeking Him, even though it might look like when I look back,
like, oh, I was seeking Him.
But really, When I was going through it, I was not pursuing Jesus whatsoever.
I was pursuing my own desires, and somehow I was ending up in certain Christian, like.

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Christian conversations and Christian atmospheres and environments and with other believers.
And looking back, God was the one chasing after me, and He was putting me and
putting my steps right in front of the others so that I landed and trusted in Him.
And I became a believer later in life. I was not a believer as a kid.

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I was not a believer as a teenager.
I was not a believer even... I guess I became a believer right before I turned
21. on. I became a believer at 20, you know, full disclosure.
Full disclosure, full stop, baby.
Okay. All right. So I say that all to say is I'm going to be as real as humanly possible with you.
You see me as I am. If you've seen any of what I've put out here,

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I am as open and honest about my flaws and faults and struggles as anyone.
I probably more to a, probably a bad degree, you know, and like,
you know, people do not share as much as I share, you know, and,
and I do that for the purpose of saying that I am human.

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And if, if you see me and you see my struggles that I'm going through,
maybe there, somebody is out
there that is going through something similar or that they can relate to.
They might not be on there posting things about the struggles that they're going
through, but they are in their own personal life.
They're experiencing and struggling through life as well.

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And if they run across my video and they see this guy has a tough time too,
and that's the only reason I even do that.
That's the only reason I share as much as I share and give you as much as I
give you because maybe it'll be helpful to someone. one. Maybe not for everyone.
Everyone has their taste. Everyone has the things that they enjoy watching,

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the things that they like, the things that are helpful to them.
So take that however you take it. All right, so let's get into the face contortion,
the struggles, and the responses that I'm going to give to these questions.
Good questions. These are very good questions to me.
I will say one more thing about the previous videos that I've had where people
have... it's not really, it's all about debate, you know, and sometimes the.

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Social media, you know, Twitter, I think of Twitter the most,
but any of the platforms putting comments out there, it becomes like kind of
a sewer of people's, you know, of graffiti and just trying to tear people down
and make people look stupid and just, the worst can come out of you,
you know, and the worst has come out of me before.
So me doing this and me talking about this is not, because I could just respond

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back to this person and type something out and give them an answer that way.
But I wanted to do this because if you are out there and the person that posted
this actually comes across this, but if they don't, maybe somebody else has
other similar questions that could be useful to them and helpful to them.
So let's just dive right into it. I'm going to go through it. I might, let me, okay.

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I'm going to read, first of all, my breakdown of how, my breakdown,
you know, like, look at that. Oh, dance. Pop, pop.
You know? All right. My breakdown, you know, my Justin Timberlake breakdown,
usher, usher, usher, you know, I'm going to do that kind of stuff.
I'm going to do that kind of stuff because that's who I am.
That's who, that's who I am, you know, and I, and you be you, you be you.

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All right. So, all right. This is my breakdown of the questions that were raised,
but kind of in a, a more broader context.
And then I'm going to go through, dissect the questions that were raised,
and then you'll, You're going to see the face contortions and everything.
So get ready for that. Get ready for that.
All right, number one, and there's 15 points. Let me get it right. There's 15 points.

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You know, they're going to be quick points. We're going to get to the point.
We're going to get to the point, you know. All right, 15 points.
First of all, the reliability of ancient texts, such as the Bible,
Scripture, and all that.
Two, trusting in God versus religious scandals. Three, the formation of the Bible.
Four, exclusivity of Christianity. That's a big one. That's a big one.

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And I'm just going to read through these. Uh, five salvation and belief in Jesus
six, the letter J and historical accuracy.
You're like, what the heck does that mean?
It's actually a big deal to some people. People like struggle.
Like it's the, we, his name wasn't actually Jesus or we, we don't,
we don't really know how it was pronounced back then.
We can maybe deduce how Greek or actually his name would have been in Aramaic.

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What is wrong with my freaking nose? His name, this is a struggle that people
have, you know, especially in religious context and saying like the Hebrew language,
Aramaic, it didn't have a J, a J sound, a J sound. It did not use that.
So if for us to call him Jesus, how, and that is like in itself a struggle people have.

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And I personally have had that struggle as my, as well. Well,
I have my own viewpoint on it now, and I'll maybe get into that a little bit,
but that is a very technical thing.
But the letter J in historical, gosh, the letter J in historical accuracy,
seven, faith based on a book.

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Eight, Jesus as God. That's another huge one. Nine, other perspectives on Jesus.
Example, it was Billy Carson. If you've ever heard of this guy,
I had to look him up whenever this person raised it in their comment,
but I had seen him before.
I had seen him before, but we're not going to go too deep down his viewpoint

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and perspective, Billy Carson, but you should check him out.
You know, I mean, he'll get you thinking.
He'll get you thinking. All right, number 10, Christianity's unique belief in Jesus.
11, demonic influence and unbelief. Number 12, addressing other religions.
13, faith and proof. 14, the creation of evil.

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And the example this person gave was Isaiah 45, 7.
And then lastly, the belief without the Bible.
Belief without the Bible. and I know I kind of gave a lot of different branches
and that we can kind of step on and talk about, but I'm going to go through
line by line what this person said and read it to you. So you have it.

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And because to me, it was very like, and I've said this before, it was genuine.
It was heartfelt to me on this side of the fence, on this side of the screen
and reading it. Now you're out there.
If you're out there and you're seeing this and you're the one that posted this,
you know your own heart you know when you're when
you're posting this what you were when you're writing this what you meant and

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like did you are do you have genuine questions or are you i don't know i see
the here comes the face contortion because i'm like i kind of think through
things you know i'm kind of like just thinking out loud you know ed sheeran you know.
So you know what you were meaning when you were saying these things,
and I'm going to go from how I receive it, how I see it, and what I think of

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it, and I'm going to give you my answer to it.
All right. All right. Now let's get over to what this person said,
and I'm not going to say who it is.
You know who you are. You know who you are. I don't know if it's a guy or a
girl. It looks like it's a guy based on the name, but I don't know.
All right. He says, and he tells me, he says, answer all my questions before

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you respond. I hadn't really had anybody say that to me before, you know?
So I'm responding now. I'm responding now and I will probably respond to your
comment as well and write something out to you.
But my response is here. My verbal response, you're seeing who I am and that I'm a real guy.
I'm just a real guy. I'm trying to, I'm figuring things out,

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trying to work through things. I have my struggles, like I've shared.
I've had my beliefs challenged, you know? I didn't just fall into faith and love of Jesus.
You know, it was Jesus. He captured my heart.
You know, it wasn't, I didn't fall. I come to him out of fear,
but I came to him at like almost when I look back at it, it was,

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I was in struggle and in desperation and I just collapsed in front of him.
You know, I didn't even know I was looking for him really until the light bulb went on in my head.
I was not even genuinely genuinely thinking about him.
I was not genuinely thinking about him. When I look back at it,
it was like something made my mind open up before I even looked at him,

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even looked forward to him, I guess. I don't know. I'm trying to say what I'm trying to say.
When I even looked to him, something had to awaken me. Something happened.
Something changed my nature, changed the way that I am even able to approach him.
Because before that, a lot of my life was just parroted prayers.

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Oh, God bless this food. Thank you, God. And just saying something.
But I really didn't know that I was communicating with someone.
Didn't really actually believe him. I was just saying things.
You know, it's the thing to do.
You talk to God, you're supposed to pray and all that.
First question, and I'm going to read through the whole comment just so you
have it, but it says, you can't even tell me everything in the ocean today,

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but you know everything that happened over 2,000 years ago written in a Hebrew language,
in Greek language, by reading some book.
Yeah. No, I don't know. You're going to see the face contortions.
You're going to see my response. Okay, I'm thinking of it on the fly.
So you can tell me everything in the ocean today.
You can't even tell me everything in the ocean today. Yeah, I don't know everything

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in the ocean today. I don't know.
I don't know what's out there. I've only been in the ocean a couple times,
a few times, maybe five times. I don't know.
But I don't know. I don't know so many things, and I am open about that.
But we don't have to believe, we don't have to know everything.
We don't have to know how the stars came together and how every molecule is

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connected by some type of force in this planet.
We don't have to know every detail and how everything functions.
It is kind of like I talked about in my previous video, I think it was last
week, I don't even know, but it was the under the hood kind of thing.
I don't know how every contraption works
under the hood of my car or how if I pick up my phone and I look at my phone

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I don't know how it's working you know Steve Jobs before he passed away he's
the one who created Apple and he's the one who engineered and put all this together
and had a team of people that put all this this the idea of the iPhone and putting all that together,
and I don't know how it's all working I don't know people there are people that
know those type of things, but at a grander level, I don't need to necessarily

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know and know the inner workings of everything, but I know it works.
And the same thing with the Bible, we don't have to know everything,
and we don't have to know everything that happened throughout human history
to know, to trust in God, because let's look at it from this way.
This is from the Bible, what the Bible says, you know? And I know I say take

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it or leave it, and a lot of people are going to leave it. If you don't believe
in Christ, if you don't believe in the Bible.
A lot of people, because it is apologetics and thinking about these things,
it is usually, you can't convince someone really into believing in Jesus.
You can't convince them into it. I think whenever someone believes in Jesus,
there has to be a supernatural thing that gets someone to genuinely trust in Jesus.

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And then all this apologetics, which is kind of a way to say defending the faith
and thinking about how all this is working and happening. That is almost to
support and build up what you have already come to believe.
There is this element of that God has to capture our hearts.
He has to come into our life, and He is the initiator. He is the one who comes in and rescues us.

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We don't just somehow reach out to Him and we got Him, you know?
We're not even looking for Him.
But to answer your question, I don't know everything about what's in the ocean.
I don't know how all the bugs are put together and how all the animals are put
together and how the rain happens.

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I know there's people that know how the rain happens. People,
it evaporates and then it comes down from a cloud.
But these are just laws that this planet has in place, that we're on this planet.
It's kind of crazy. We're on this planet and how it's all working and how we're
flying around the sun and, and we're rotating and spinning and all that,

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you know, I don't know, you know, but I don't know how all that works,
but it's, it doesn't matter.
We're still here. I'm still, I don't know how this microphone works.
I don't know how these screens that are in front of me work,
but people have, there are people that have put them together and I wouldn't
just look at these screens and this microphone and just say, oh, it just came to me.

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It just happened it just happened it just appeared random chance put it together no there was people
putting it together there was a mind behind it
that put it together there was a team of people probably that put it together
and made and made it you know the same way we went we don't look at things like
that and just say oh it just happened just like this world or this universe

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oh it just came out of nothing happenstance that's luck you know all of it you
know it just combined, it happened, you know?
But when there's design, which there is design, I mean, there's,
I know, a lot of smart people out there, you know, a lot of smart atheists that
are very smart, you know?
And they can just say, oh, it just appears like it's designed.

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It's not really designed. It just appears that way.
But really, it's designed. Everything, the way our body is put together,
the way our organs just digest food and we're able to breathe and see and everything like that.
If you really think about it, and I know this is just the very first point,
so I better kind of get through it.

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You're seeing my face contortions. You're seeing my struggle as I'm trying to
explain and give my answer.
I'm a regular guy. I'm a regular guy, and I've had the same struggles.
Okay. All right, so let's move on to the next one. All right,
so the next question says, Catholic priests and Christian pastors are raping

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little boys, but you want me to trust God.
All right, so you're seeing the face contortions. You're seeing the body language,
you know? I can't defend what people do.
I can't even really defend what I do. I'm not a good person.
I would not say I am a good person.
I am a sinful person. And just like everybody else out there is a sinful person,

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but that does not change who God is.
That does not change who Jesus is. So that question is almost one of the weaker
questions that this person brought up to me, you know?
I guess if you just think of it this way, and I'm trying to—because I don't
want to say, like, I don't really mean to say, like, it's a weak question, you know?

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Because this is, like, it is a genuine question that people bring up,
and they—when they want to say that Christianity is stupid, how can I trust in God?
Because it is, like, I mean, really, it is a common challenge and accusation
to say, How can we believe in God when all these bad people are doing these bad things in the name of.

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God and Christianity. But really, even the Catholic priests or the Christian
pastors that would do these things, they're not doing it in the name of Jesus.
They're doing it, if they are doing it, as they're doing it in a fallen state,
and they're hiding what they're doing.
They're not out in the open doing it.

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So it's not a discredit on Jesus to say that people People are acting out and
playing Jesus in a bad way, you know?
Like, people are—as Christians, we are all being conformed to Jesus' image.
We are all growing closer and closer to His likeness.

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So when we fall short, we're not going to be perfect in this life.
We're just doing the best we can. And some people have dramatic and terrible
falls, but that's not a discredit on God.
It's not saying that God has done anything wrong when people are living out
a life that is sinful, because we are sinners. All right, next.

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So all those letters that got written by Paul and John written to churches in different countries,
so how did they find all those letters and put them back together and call it
a Bible without anyone taking from or adding to?
To me, this one is a really good question. This is a really good question.
How did the Bible get put together?

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How do we, how do, because like I said, the Bible is written over 1500 years,
a lot of different manuscripts, a lot of different people that wrote the Bible
in a different ages of time and different countries and different walks of life
and from kings to farmers that wrote the Bible.

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How did we get it all put together and really that might be its own story because
to me that one is a struggle it's tough but,
if we do really look at it, it is written by one ethnicity.
It's written by the Jewish people. Every book of the Bible, which is,

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when you really think about it, it's pretty miraculous that every book of the
Bible was written by a Jewish person.
The only person that is kind of said that they were not Jewish or,
you know, and I, in my own viewpoint,
this person, Luke, Luke, the doctor who wrote the Gospel of Luke and the Book
of Acts, he is a lot of times referred to and he thought of as a Gentile, not a Jew.

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But he is one person. But I mean, I'm just saying, which is pretty crazy when
you think about it, the whole Bible... This is what I've heard.
I probably should Google it. Let me actually just Google it.
Mark Twain and the Jewish people. Whether it was Mark Twain or not, I don't know.
I'd always heard it was Mark Twain that wrote this, but either way,

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a lot of things are attributed to different people. I don't know.
But it doesn't change the fact that it's a real thought of somebody out there,
whether it's just me taking credit for it. I don't know. Who knows?
Nothing new under the sun. There's nothing new under the sun.
But I had always heard this, that Mark Twain was the one who said this,
that the strongest evidence for the Bible is the Jewish people.

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That, like, how we got this incredible book.
Because if you are honest with it and you read through the Bible,
it is pretty an incredible book, whether you think it's supernatural or God's Word or not.
Itself is an incredible Bible that it's put together this way.
And just the wisdom from it, the historical accuracies from it,

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it is an ancient text that has stood the test of time, the most printed book of all time.
So I know this is probably maybe not answering your... I'm doing the best I can.
We did just witness a presidential debate last week, and people asked a question,
and then they go off on something else.
I'm trying the best I can to answer it in the best way I can.

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But that the letters, how they all got written out there, because it is pretty incredible.
When you look through the New Testament itself and you read through the letters
of the Apostle Paul and the letters of the other apostles and then how they
were written to all these different assemblies or communities of Christians and how we have that,

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I could give my I think it all happened, but all we do know is if we just look
at the data, we have tons of manuscripts, and how we can know that we can get to the truth,
the most accurate portrayal of what the original manuscript was.
Because I, myself, I am saying that the Bible itself is the inspired,

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infallible Word of God, but at the...
I've said it before, the autographas, that's the word for the original writings,
the pen to paper from the apostle writing it. That was inspired and that was God's word.
But then people copied it. But it's like if I wrote an essay and I gave it to

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10 people and I said, copy this word from word, don't deviate whatsoever.
And I give it to 10 people and they all go into different rooms and they start doing it.
We could grab all those 10 people and look at it, and then compare them,
even if we got rid of the original, we could come to a pretty accurate comparison.
Understanding of what the original essay was, because say somebody got something

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spelled wrong or so a different word here, not all of them are going to do that.
And nine times out of 10, most of the people out there are going to have,
are going to line up and be as agree as much as possible.
They're going to, they're going to agree. You know, one person might be off
on this thing and one person, but we're going to be able to come to as close
as possible to exactly what what the original essay was, because people were doing it in good faith.

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People were doing it in good faith. There obviously was times when people tried
to destroy the Bible and burn the Bibles and get rid of the Bibles.
We didn't have the printing press in books like we do now, like thousands of years ago.
I look up when the printing press... I think the printing press came into being
around the 1500s, is what I'm thinking.
Just looking at it, the historical representation that we have of the manuscripts

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and the comparison between them, we're able to... That's textual criticism of
the manuscript evidence.
That's what's out there, that people do that. People spend their lives studying
that in archaeology and just looking at the ancient texts.
So we're able to get a very accurate understanding of it.

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And I feel like I I am going off on little tangents, you know,
and I'm trying to hone in as much as possible.
If I was like talking to you directly, you know, talking to you and given what I think.
You know? But like, how did they find all those letters? Like, it is like tough.
I mean, just the same way we have any historical ancient document, you know?
Say Paul, he's writing, a lot of his letters were written from prison.

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He would have sent it out. But when they, this is my speculation,
when those people got it, they copied it.
They wrote it. They took it, and they wrote it on a number of different writings.
They transferred it to another other different documents, because when a thing
falls in line with being Scripture and writing it, like, the Jewish people were

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adamantly concerned with protecting the writings.
That's why it was, people, like, say about, like, the things about the Gospels
and everything about Jesus was written so much later, which I would say that
a lot of things that were written about Jesus did happen later, did come later,
but it was because it was more of an oral tradition, you know?

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When you said something is written, you know, you refer to Scripture,
you refer to God's Word and how they understood God's Word in the Old Testament.
But the difference between the New Testament and how it came together in the
Old Testament itself is, it's miraculous, and God has preserved it, you know?
He has preserved it because we have this plethora of manuscript evidence that

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we're able to compare, you know?
That's why, like, if you've ever heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls,
and this is talking about the Old Testament.
The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in around 1940 or something like that, 1940, 1950.
So almost 2,000 years later from when they were hidden in the Qumran caves.

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When the Jews got just destroyed and decimated by the Romans who came in and
destroyed the temple, destroyed Jerusalem, and the Jews got scattered,
you know, there was a community of Jews who, they were called the Essenes,
and they hid these scrolls in these caves.
And this person, just in the last century, that came across and he found this

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cave of scrolls that were preserved.
But when we look at it and like some
and some of them the manuscripts in the
dead sea scrolls are from even like before christ
when we compare them with what the manuscripts that
we had they they line up perfectly so some of these i'm gonna start just going

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through and like quickly giving what i think you know and just to get my response
all right also tell everyone why and how christianity is right and all other
religions are wrong and going to hell and this one is kind of of like it in
the similar, it's kind of in the similar vein, says,
so if I don't believe in Jesus the way you Christians do, I go to hell.
LOL. All right, so I hope you see how I'm trying to be real and authentic as possible.

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You know, I'm trying to, like, this is an extremely tough question,
you know, and it might seem light, and it might not seem, like,
genuine, you know, like, Like, but it is a real question that this person has.
If all other religions, how are there so many other religions?
Well, all right, I would answer it like this. So we're not condemned as people.

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We don't, people don't go to hell because they don't believe in Jesus.
You know, they're not, they're not sentenced to hell the way we,
what we consider hell because they don't believe in Jesus.
That's not the reason they're going to hell or the reason that I would go to
hell. The reason people go to hell is because they have sinned against a holy creator.

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And when we think of a sin.
This holy perfect creator that is, is like, he's like a judge.
He is a judge and he has to, if something's done wrong, he, he has to make it right.
He has to eat. Like if there was like a judge in a courtroom setting,
if a murderer came in and then they, they just said, oh, oh, you're, you're okay.

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Go your way. You know, go do what you ever want to do. No, that would not be a good judge.
They would be doing something wrong. But in the position that they are in,
they have to make a decision and say, what you've done deserves punishment.
What you've done, you need to go to whatever for, whether it's the electric

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chair or some type of lethal injection,
or it's just prison, or just a sentence that they have to live for the wrong that they've done.
Done, that judge determines that and decides that.
In the same fashion, in the same way, God is that way.
We did not just decide, like, think, this is right, that's wrong.

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But no, there is a moral fabric to our existence.
We understand there's something wrong and there's something right,
there's something good, there's something evil. We understand that.
If we're honest with it, we know that if someone does something wrong,
we can see that it's wrong.
So, I mean, so even just talking about hell, I mean, that's a very strong,

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very tough thing, a very tough conversational point to even go through.
But like, when you actually think about it, the person who talked the most about
hell in the Bible was Jesus himself.
So it's not a popular thing to bring up. It's a very terrifying reality to think about.

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But I mean, if you just look at it from like, whether you think it's stupid
or not, you know, you might think it's dumb. I think it's.
It's not even possible, like, because we just have this only view that all we
have is the here and now, what happens after it, like, we wouldn't naturally
come to this conclusion that there is a hell, but it had to be revealed to us, you know?

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And like, I didn't like, I didn't start even thinking about or understanding
what hell was until I became a Christian.
So I don't want to even, I don't really want to go like,
I'm not going to go deep into talking about that, but like, Like,
if you just look at it from the point of view that the Bible describes and says
that there is, you know, and Jesus said that there was, and there is hell,

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you know, He talked about it, and He did so much to tell people to do everything
to not go to hell, you know?
And it is a very tough thing to get on, you know, and just talk about,
you know? That's why people like to avoid it, you know?
But we understand that if we believe in Christ, if we believe in the Bible,
it says that there is hell.
So we got to tell people, you know, we want to do everything we can so that

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to at least tell people that like, so they don't go there, you know,
so they don't end up there, you know?
And it is like, it's, that's why you don't hear about hell. And I mean,
you go into church, you don't really hear about hell.
I mean, most, I mean, the church that I go to, I mean, I really don't hear about hell.
You know, people don't really talk about hell, you know, and it's,

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there has been different times
in human history that it's been more of a focal point, you know? Yeah.
Try to persuade and tell people so that they don't go there.
But if we just, if we're open and honest and look at the Bible,
well, the Bible says it is, you know, and I believe in the Bible.
So I want to do everything I can to tell you about Jesus so that you don't go

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there, you know, so that anybody doesn't go there.
You know, we don't, it's a terrible even thought to even think about,
you know, but so it's just for any human to say to another human,
if you don't believe in my Jesus, then you're going to hell.
It's, as you can see, it's, it's tough for me.
It's like, I'm not where like, you're not, you're going to hell.

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You're going to hell. You know, like I'm not, it's not fun to even think about.
It's not fun to talk about, you know, but like I'm more, I want to tell people
about Jesus because I love Jesus, but it's also realizing like I, I take Jesus at his word.
I take the Bible at, at the, what it says, you know, it's, it's not a popular
thing to talk about hell. You know, and people even bring that up,

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it's like, you don't want to think about it, you know?
And it says in the Bible that people are going to surround themselves by people
that say things that they want to hear.
You know, like in any type of topic that we have in life, we naturally gravitate
towards people of like mind and people that believe what we believe.

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I do the same thing myself, you know? No, I try to listen to other viewpoints.
I try to watch other stations and watch other people that I disagree with just
to understand what they're coming from.
But you do kind of go to where you believe, you know?
It's tough. You know, it's an extremely tough thing to talk about and think about.

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Again, I will say, people do not go to hell because they don't believe in Jesus.
That's not the reason for it.
Jesus came to save us so that we don't go there. It's not about not believing in him.
That's not the condemning factor.
The Bible, it says we are already in a condemned state,

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but it's Jesus who is rescuing us from that condemned state,
so that our sins are paid for.
That's the stance of the Bible. I know it might sound silly.
The Bible is straightforward with that. It says that it sounds stupid and foolish.

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It says that to the majority of people, it is going to sound stupid and foolish.
But something sounding dumb, I will grant this, it's either true or it's not.
He says, how does that make sense? How come the Christian Bible is right,
but all other religions are wrong, like WTF.

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Something can't be true and false at the same time, you know?
I'll just use this example. Like I say, I want my bank account to have a billion dollars in it.
It either has a billion dollars in it or it doesn't.
It's not one. It's not, it can't be both. And you know, so when saying all other
religions are wrong, it's there's truth in a lot of religions.

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Religion is just our desire and clawing up and trying to reach up to God and
doing things that we think are going to make this God that we have in our head
make him happy, you know?
But like the Bible says, the human condition, it says that we have God's law
on our heart and our conscience, our conscience is all day, all the day,

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every day, always accusing us and always excusing us.
Like we go into something and we do something or we're normally trying to do what's right.
We're always defending what we just did, and we're always excusing what we just
did, and we have this battle of our mind, this conscience that we want to do what's right.

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People, for the most part, want to do what's right and good,
and they're trying to do that. All right, next.
To be real, the letter J, this is what the person says, to be real,
the letter J wasn't introduced into the alphabet till 1524, so there was no
Joseph or John or Jesus back then, especially in the Old Testament.
The Hebrew and the Greek, they didn't use the word J.

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It was more like the ya.
Even in Spanish today, people don't say the name Jesus, they say Jesus.
It's just that same way. But that itself is not really an argument to say that
the Bible is inaccurate.
We're not saying that just because the name Jesus or John, that it has that in our language.

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It's translated into our language, you know? But it's the same person.
It's referring to someone.
It's the man behind the name, you know? It's...
Just like, I mean, like just translation from any language to the other,
that's not really a disproval of what's accurate or truth.
To me, this argument that's being brought up, I'm actually surprised that it's

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even being brought up in this.
I don't know this person's background.
I don't know what they have thought about and what they believe.
But this itself is like pretty, pretty deep question, you know,
and like the language when you talk about like, I mean, that's why this, this whole comment.
Was very strong for me. It's like very surprising to me, like,

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and struck me that way that it did because it has a lot to it.
It has a lot of layers, a lot of different viewpoints that seems real,
seems like a very, this person is skeptical, you know, but like to bring up, they know their stuff.
They know what they, in certain things, it seems like they know to even bring
up this idea of the, most people that are skeptical and don't believe in the Bible or in Jesus,

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they're not thinking about, because the letter J, or it was not a part of the
Bible, you know, they're not thinking that, like, in depth, you know?
So this person to bring that up is, to me, it's very surprising,
and like, it's, it almost, it makes me want to think, like, what is your background?
What is making you talk about this? What is making you question Christian Christianity

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and Jesus based on that. Why is that?
Because I, like I said, in my own viewpoint, my struggle, like, I had the same thing.
I did, like, for a while, I did call Jesus Yeshua, or Yeshua, or however, you know.
But the Bible describes that God did not just save one race of people.

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He saved people from all nations.
God is a God of diversity. He's created at all people, and He loves diversity.
He loves taking people that are enemies and people that are from all walks of
life and bringing them together, that we have community.
And the thing that ties us together is our worship and love of God,

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and that brings Him glory.
That's what a lot of the Bible is. It's bringing down the barriers,
bringing down the walls, and taking enemies and making them,
what is the word? I don't know, best friends. I don't know.
I was going to say acquaintances but it's not taking enemies
and making them a part of the same family that's what it
is you know it's that's what god it brings him

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glory in doing that so but god is not he doesn't need us to speak his like one
language because he's rescuing people and redeeming people from people that
are china people that are in korea people that are in africa people that are
in europe or whatever from all walks of life that have all the different languages that we have,
To me, that is a very deep question, you know, and bringing that up, like...

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But it's very deep that the person knows about this, and that is something that's holding them back.
But also, to me, it's very surface level.
It's deep, it's both and, to me, because it's not a very valid,
strong point to not believe in the Bible or believe in Jesus based on that.

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But it's also, to even be in thinking about that is almost deep in that level.
Next one, this one doesn't really seem that much of a question to me.
Like it says, how can you claim to know the way of the world after reading a book?
I almost want them to expand on that. What do you mean by to know the way of
the world after reading a book?

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And the Bible is clear about this. Everybody in this world has natural revelation
that we all, we look up and we see the skies, we see the sun,
we see the stars, and we see all the beauty of nature and how this world operates
and functions together.
That's what's called general revelation that everyone has, and all that does

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is condemn us because we're not perfect and we do things that are wrong that are sinful.
And we almost have to just suppress it because we know that there's a creator.
That's why there are no atheists.
In truth, I could talk to any atheist out there that says they're an atheist.
You are not really an atheist.

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The Bible makes it clear. The Bible says that there's no atheist because God
has made himself revealed to everyone.
He's made it clear that he's there, and all that we have is,
is demonstrates that he's there and we know he's there and all we.
Atheists are just trying to explain away and trying to suppress the truth that

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is right before their eyes.
And, you know, and I, I, I wasn't always a believer.
I could, would have considered myself, I, I don't know if I would have said
my, said I was an atheist. I just wasn't thinking about that.
I wasn't thinking about God or anything.
God, it gives everyone enough revelation so that they can reach out for him.
But also, he's hidden enough that we don't see him immediately, you know?

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That's why we have to actually genuinely in our heart desire him,
and then he reveals himself to us.
That's what's happening. He's there, and really, he's the one who has to put
in our heart the desire for him, because we are fallen, we are sinful.
So that's the whole salvation thing. That's the whole, He is the one who has to save.

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Nobody out there, I'm not going to talk to people and tell people about Christ,
and by the beautiful words and my amazing—as you see, I don't stumble over any words.
You do notice that, don't you? I don't stumble over any words.
But I'm not going to be out there and tell somebody about Christ,
and my beautiful words are going to bring them to an understanding that Jesus

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is God incarnate, and He is a faith a trustworthy place to put their faith in.
I'm not going to be able to do that.
God is the one who has to awaken them. God is the one who has to make them come alive.
That's why Christians, we are just...
We are the messengers. We are just telling people about Jesus and trying to

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be as faithful as we can and telling them we are fallen, broken people trying
to tell people about this beautiful Messiah,
but God is the one who has to awaken them.
He's the one who has to open their eyes, and he could take these bumbling,
stumbling words that are coming out of my mouth, and he could take those and
use them by his Holy Spirit to quicken someone and make them come alive.

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Life, but God is the one that has to do it. He has to do it.
I'm not going to do it. No Christian is going to say anything perfectly,
and no one's going to beautifully represent God so that someone comes in faith.
God is going to have to take their words and use it for His purpose, and He does that.
And that's the whole thing about, that's the mystery that we don't know.

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We are just to be faithful and tell as many people about Jesus as possible,
and be faithful in our lives, and represent Christ and be good witnesses, and God uses it.
We get to be a part of bringing people to Jesus.
That's what we are doing as Christians. We are trying to, as faithful as we
can be, the broken vessels that we are, God will still use us.

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This is not really a question. He says, do your own homework.
Jesus was a regular person on earth, and you Christians made him God.
This person, I would love to meet you and just talk with you.
I'm talking with you now. You know, if you want to make a video and talk back
at me and just talk, or it doesn't have to be talking back. We're not like, we're all humans.
We're people, you know, I'm trying to tell what I think is the truth.

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And you tell me what you think is the truth, you know, and.
We're not enemies. We're not enemies. We're like, you know, like a lot of this
things on social media can make it seem like, because when there is no conflict,
that's why it can be seem boring.
So I think that's why in our nature and in social media, we have to have that conflict.

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But really when we get down to it, we are, you're a person, I'm a person.
We're here on this earth. We're going somewhere in our life, you know?
But the fact that we are even thinking about out these lofty things that are
beyond this natural realm that we find ourselves in, that to me has always just

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convinced me that there's a God.
You know, it didn't convince me before I became a Christian,
but since I've become a Christian, that is something that has supported and
up, that bolstered my opinions and my belief and strengthened it.
You don't see dogs out there arguing, is there a God or is there not a God?
Is there a, or a buffalo out there? I don't know why I think buffalo.
The buffalo bills. Bills, you don't see the Buffalo Bills out there.

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I guess Bills, people, the fans, you know what I'm talking about.
Animals are not arguing, does God exist?
Fish are not arguing, does God exist? You know, maybe in a cartoon,
but people are arguing and people are talking about because we know that he exists.
God has put his image on us. He has made us in the image of God.

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As humans, we are made in God's image.
That means we have reason, we have intellect, we have—the Bible describes it
as that people have a spirit that animals do not have.
We have soul—like, I believe animals have souls, you know, in a sense,
but not to the same, like, level that humans do.

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There's this special uniqueness that people have in a human spirit,
a spirit that's going to last and live forever.
All right, this next one, I'm going to kind of skate by a little bit.
Because I don't know too much about this Billy Carson.
All right, let me just read it to you. That's super fake. Also,
Billy Carson proved Christianity is false.

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I don't know too much about Billy Carson. I saw him on Valuetainment.
I always forget his name. Is Patrick David?
He's awesome. That guy who does that podcast is awesome. I love him.
He was probably on a number, he was probably on Joe Rogan as well.
I don't know, Billy Carson, but I should pull him up just so you see a picture
of him. But if you don't know who Billy Carson is, you should look him up.

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All I know about him is he seemed to think, he almost gave the impression that Jesus was an alien.
That's what I took from it, but I didn't really watch the whole thing,
and I didn't really, I would actually like to go back and watch it,
but he talks about in that kind of viewpoint that Jesus is an alien.
And so that's almost that Gnosticism that was out there, you know,

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that believed that Jesus was just a spirit.
He just looked like a physical human being.
And really, he was just a spirit from the spirit world that came and just gave
secret knowledge to people.
And only certain people got this secret knowledge.
But Billy Carson, I don't know too much about him. I really don't know too much about Billy Carson.
I would like to go back and watch the podcast that he was in and see those.

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He seems like a a very intriguing, interesting person.
So I don't know why when you say he proved Christianity false.
Maybe thinking Jesus is an alien, maybe that is what you're talking about.
And I don't know too much about him.
So that one, I will kind of skate by a little bit. You see my contortions?
My contortions. Look at that. I'm a little ice skater. Figure skater.

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You know, I would be an awesome figure skater.
All right, next. It's funny how Christians, I think he's talking about,
how Christians are the only religion to believe that about Jesus. Why is that so strange?
I think that tied into that Billy Carson, I don't know, too much.
Maybe it's that Jesus was just a regular person.

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I'll give you this. He was a man. Jesus is a man. He was fully man.
He was fully man. And I will give you this, that Christians,
true Christianity, because there's a lot of, you could say cults,
you could say any other just sects of Christianity that take the name of Jesus
but aren't truly Christian,

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because I would say if you don't believe Jesus is God, you are not truly Christian.
And God in the ultimate sense, true divine God, the creator of everything, Jesus, that is who he is.
It's the Son of God who is God incarnate, took on human flesh,
and that's the man Jesus Christ. That's the man Jesus of Nazareth.

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So that is very strange. I I would agree with you.
It's very strange that we Christians believe this about Jesus,
that he is God in human flesh.
And that's very unique. Muslims don't believe it.
A lot of certain cults of Christianity don't believe it, and that's why they
are on the outskirts of Christianity, that they're not true Christians.

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But I wouldn't say that everyone that
is a part of the cults that surround Christianity is not a true Christian.
There could be people that are in those cults that don't really understand what that cult believes.
They're just there, and they love Jesus, and they're crying out to the name
of Jesus, and the true Jesus encounters them. The true Jesus encounters them.

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But they're just in that cult.
They're in that community of people, and it's just like anybody...
I've been deceived in my life. I've been, went down wrong paths and have not,
and like strayed from the faith, but still thought I was a Christian in certain senses.
So it is, it is different that only like true Christians that believe in the

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Bible believe that Jesus is God, you know, like all the other religions,
that is a very unique thing that Christians believe.
So, I mean, I'm not going to argue with that. And then he says,
how do I got a demon in me if I don't believe in Jesus? I'm not saying you got a demon in you.
I mean, all I would say is I think that true Christians don't get demon possessed, but I don't know.

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I mean, I think that true Christians have the Holy Spirit within them so that
they cannot be demon possessed.
So I'm not saying that there's people out there that aren't Christians.
I'm not saying they got a demon.
But I do say there are demons around us. The Bible makes it clear there are
demons around us. There are demons that torment people.
And I myself have said that I struggle and I feel like I'm tormented by demons,

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but I don't think I'm ever demon-possessed.
I think that God is over the demons.
He's over these bad, the evil angels, whether demons or angels or not.
They're a part of the spirit world.
There's this unseen spirit world that is out there. and God is over them,

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but it's not to say that every person that doesn't trust in Christ is filled with demons.
If you read through the New Testament, which we see demons prominently,
the exposure of them, that people are tormented.
You see the demoniac, the person
that's the garrison demoniac that Jesus encounters and who runs up to him.

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He's this guy who's out in in the caves, out in the rocks, and it says all day,
he's like, they keep trying to chain him up because he's just tormented by demons,
and he's like, they have to keep chaining him up, and he keeps breaking his chains.
You know, there is that demonic power that breaks chains, because demons.
If they fill people, they can break things, and that's what they did.

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They put this guy out there in the caves, and they kept chaining him up,
and he's naked, and he's running around, and he's He's just being tormented
by demons, but then he sees the man who starts walking towards him,
and there is a beautiful song by Casting Crowns, Set Me Free.
Look it up. Set Me Free by Casting Crowns. It is awesome.
Whenever I think about that song, it just reminds me of struggles that I went

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through in my life, and I remember my wife putting that song by me while I was laying on the ground,
just being tormented over different things, and my wife turning that song on by me.
And you should go listen to that song, Set Me Free, by Casting Crowns,
when he sees this man walk his way, you know, and the demons shriek, they flee away.

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It's awesome. It's so awesome because the most terrible things—that's why it's so—Jesus is out there.
I'm getting goosebumps even just thinking about it. I'm just getting goosebumps
all over just thinking about it.
He is readily available, and whatever terrible thing you're going through,
you feel like you're the most evil things happening in this world,

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Jesus is there. He's there.
He's not restored and made everything perfect yet. He will do that.
He will eventually do that.
He is allowing things to happen, and that's going to lead into kind of one of
the questions that we're going to talk about.
But he is accessible. He's there. The demons are terrified of Jesus.

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So it's like, if you're out there who wrote this, you know, I'm not saying you
got a demon in you, but if you struggle with anything, there could be demons there.
There could be demons you know that are you know
all who knows i don't see i'm not
seeing the spiritual world what's happening there that's why people that
do things that get into like the black
arts and thinking about those types of things and doing

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and searching out those things of they might be really interacting with demonic
things and god has said to don't do that don't call don't try to do divination
and and seances and all that kind of stuff to try to interact with the outside
realm and the the the ghosts and all that.
He's put that out there because it's probably a real deal that people are really

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interacting with spiritual evil and all that.
That's beyond our existence right now, I guess, our close existence that we have in this world.
But he said to not do that, you know? And so, all right, next,
tell the Muslims they're wrong.
Okay, I'd say to the Muslims, like, it's not that there's not that,
oh, I believe in Jesus. I'm so smart.

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You Muslims, or you whatever other religion out there, you Buddhists,
or you whatever, we're all just people.
And religions are just things that we're trying to figure out.
People are making these things and creating these things to appease this God that we know is there.
That's what brings it back to there is no atheist.

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There really are no atheists. And people that say that they're atheists,
they're really just in a religion themselves,
this religion that is against God, that they know is there, and they're doing
everything they can to suppress and just push them away, and they're making a religion about it.
And so all these other religions that are out there, there can be ones that

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are genuinely trying to do their best to seek God, but they're going down a wrong path.
They're going the wrong way. And it's like, in Christianity.
Jesus, He is the only way.
He said He's the only way. He's made it clear He's the only way.
That's why we want to tell people about Jesus. God did not need to give.
He was not required to save us.

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That's why I've talked about in other videos with humans and angels. When angels sinned.
As humans, we sin, we do things that are wrong. When the angels sinned,
God did not give them a second chance, and He rightly justified—not justified—He
rightly judged them and sent them to hell.
He sent them to, it says, chains of darkness that they were going to await judgment until the last day.

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So God does not—He's not required to give us grace, but He's made a way.
It's not that we—how—oh, God, why didn't you give us 30 ways to get to heaven?
Why'd you only that give us one.
Well, and another thing in this kind of vein and topic, it's not to say that
there are people in the Old Testament before Jesus came that are going to heaven.
They were going to be with God in heaven for all eternity, and they never heard of the name of Jesus.

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But they loved the true and living God, and they sought Him,
you know, and they wanted to be with him, you know, we all descended from Adam.
We all descended from Noah, you know?
Noah's a real dude. I don't want to say dude, you know, when I'm talking about
these guys, but because he was a godly man, you know?
Maybe that's kind of, maybe it is okay to say dude, I don't know.

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But Noah, he was a real guy, and we all descended from him, you know?
So all these people that are out there, even like Noah, they came to faith in
the true and living God because we have descended it from Adam,
who walked with God in the Garden of Eden.
Adam had children, and his children had children, and their children had children.

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But like, so they, he told his kids about God and how he walked with God in the Garden of Eden.
So it's come down to us, ultimately, it's about trusting in God.
And God has made the testimony that the person to put your faith in is Jesus. That is the revelation.
So people before Christ were trusting in God.

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It's always been about faith and trusting in God and trusting what God has said.
And God's promise is whoever puts their faith in Jesus will be with Him, will be forgiven.
And they are forgiven. It's not like they will be, they are forgiven.
That's the blessing that the psalmist, King David, he said, He said,

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blessed is the man whose sins are forgiven, whose iniquities are paid for,
or whose... I'd pull that verse up.
You know exactly what it says. I might as well. Let me give you actual text.
All right. I'm actually going to read it. So we're going to have at least one verse today.
It says in Psalm 32, verse 1, David wrote, blessed is he whose transgression
is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

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Blessed is the man to whom So that's King David, a thousand years before Jesus saying that.
And he understood that. And the reason that people are forgiven,
and the reason that King David was forgiven, is because they put their faith
in the true and living God.

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And the true and living God has revealed himself in Jesus Christ.
So when we say people that don't believe in Jesus, how can anyone that doesn't
believe in Jesus not be saved?
Well, not everyone's going to hear the name of Jesus, you know?
But if there's people out there,
like, even when Jesus came, not everybody instantly knew who he was,
but there were faithful Jewish people out there around the world that never

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heard of him and that were truly following the God of Israel,
truly devoting themselves to the true and living God.
Now, I'm going to say that the God of Islam is not the true and living God.
The God of Islam is like a distorted view of God.
It takes some truth and just distorts it and makes it not recognizable.

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So it is not the true and living God. Allah of Islam and Muslims is not the true and living God.
But I mean, just saying the word Allah, I could say, I could call him the name
Allah, but if I'm referring to the true and living God, not the God of Muslims,
because words are just containers of meaning.
Words are containers of meaning. It's what meaning are you pouring into the word that you are using?

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And so the word for God is Allah. So that's just a word for God.
But it's all about like, what word are you meaning? So I would say,
yeah, the Muslims, their God is not the true and living God, you know?
But the God of the Bible who has revealed himself in the pages of Scripture,
because that was what it was.

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It's special revelation from Genesis to Revelation.
That's It's God's holy word, that him specially revealing himself.
We do not, we cannot come to that special revelation of God's salvation through looking at.
Creation. We don't get that. God had to reveal himself.
It's kind of like, say I made a computer program, and I started making people

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inside my computer program, and I made them come alive in there.
And they started realizing, we're in a computer program.
What are these things? And they're trying to understand how all this works and everything like that.
They would not naturally understand that I had made them outside of that computer program.
Next is tell the Muslims they're wrong. And the Mormons believe Jesus already came in 1914.

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Like I said, I would say that anyone that does not trust in the God of the Bible
and outside of the Bible is not... God's special revelation is in the Bible,
the 66 books of the Bible.
So outside of that, I would say, yeah, I got to stand for truth and tell them,

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yes, if you do not believe in the Jesus of the Bible, I want to introduce him to you, or you to him.
It says, prove them wrong, then prove Jesus to be God, lol.
Proving Jesus to be God, that was a struggle, and that is a struggle,
and that was a struggle for the disciples of Jesus.
You can see there is a progressive revelation, or maybe a progressive understanding

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of Jesus, who he was, because a lot of times they're like, who is this man?
That even the wind and the waves obey him. They keep struggling,
like, who is this? He seems more than a prophet, just a prophet.
He seems something much greater than that.
And even their understanding of what the Messiah would be, I don't think they

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fully expected him to be the Son of God, God in human flesh.
And that's what the struggle was. And you can see that it's almost,
it comes out more and more, brighter and brighter through the pages of the New
Testament, because they come to more and more of a realization of the fullness of who Jesus is.
That was a struggle for them, but it was true nonetheless.

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Jesus claimed, he claimed to be God, and the people around him understood that he was claiming that.
That's why the people, his opposition, wanted to stone him and to kill him,
because they said, you being a mere man, make yourself out to be God.
They understood that, because he said, I am. He called himself,

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I am. Before Abraham was, I am.
And he said that, and they understood what he was claiming. So I just take it,
I trust in Jesus, and he's a faithful place to put your trust,
because not everyone has been raised from the dead.
And it was a specific being raised by the dead that Jesus, what he was.
Because people did come back to life after dying, but there was a uniqueness

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to Jesus's resurrection.
It was his claim and his vindication that he made, that he said,
I am the son of God, and that they crucified him.
And then God raising him from the dead was vindication that his claims were true.
And they were a strong and trustworthy place to put your faith in.
All right, then we're coming to the very end. So you're trying to get someone

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to believe in something you can't prove is real.
Trying to prove what is real. How can I prove to you that you're even watching me right now?
How can I prove anything to you? How can I prove to you that I'm not just a
figment of your imagination, that you aren't just in a dream state right now,
that everything before you has been just uploaded into your mind 10 seconds ago?

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How can I prove to you anything, you know?
But there is solid evidence what the Bible claims.
You know, we can't, if we take the Bible as it is, that it was a document that
was a number of documents, 66 books, 66 different writings that were put together
and put together over 1500 years,

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not from just one person, but it is a valid, trustworthy place to put your trust
in because if you actually go to it and read it, so I don't know about proving anything.
I can defend what I believe and strongly defend it and say there's evidence for it,
but scientifically prove anything
even how how can you say like there is like

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what can we prove these days you know you i
put a video in front of you and say this is that this is a person right now
who i i watched die and come back to life you can say oh that was just artificially
created that was something ai just generated and made up you know how are we
going to trust our eyes with anything.

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But what you're saying to me does make, it's good questions.
It's really good questions.
But we can think about these things and it can just make our heads spin and make our heads explode.
And we don't come to any further progression in our life and have anything to
base our life around. We do have to make a decision though.

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And what Satan wants to do, he wants to confuse the hell out of you so that
you don't believe it. He wants to throw so many different things at you so that
you're confused and you're saying, ah, I'll just throw my arms up.
I don't know. We'll just find out whatever happens at the end.
But he wants to make you so confused that you do not follow Jesus.
He wants to cloud and confuse your mind.
Don't let him do that. Don't let him do that. There is solid,

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trustworthy evidence to put your faith in Jesus.
Just read through the Bible and have an open mind. And if you really come to
and and call on the real Jesus, and you call on him in truth,
and you want to be with him, he will reveal himself to you.
I promise you he will. It says, how does that make sense?
All right, so then he closes it off, and I'm glad he brought this up.

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This is a really good point.
If you—I'm just going to read it to you. He says, so look, Isaiah 45, 7.
God himself said he created evil. The devil can't create himself.
No wonder why Christians are acting like this. If you've never seen the Bible,
what would you believe in?
First of all, I'm going to read that Isaiah 45, 7, because I'm glad you brought

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that up. That's a really good point.
Isaiah 45, 7 says, I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity.
I, the Lord, do all these things. So that same word where you says evil,
it could be the same word where it says, I make peace and create calamity.
That's that word which could be translated evil.

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And this is where it gets very nuanced. Does God create evil?
Well, here it says he does. You're seeing my facial contortions.
You're seeing my facial contortions.
There are places in the Bible, like when Job, with his whole family,
when he nearly, he lost all his family besides his wife.
He didn't lose his wife, but he lost all his children in one day.

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He lost all his flocks and herds and servants in one day.
Not all of his servants, but like for the most part, he lost basically everything.
And in one place, it says God did this. In another place, it says Satan did
this. And well, which is it?
In another place of the Bible, it talks about King David.
And I think it's in different books. One book says that David went and did a census.

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You don't think a census could be that evil, but in the context of the Bible
where he does it, it was evil, because him being a king, he wanted to rely on,
I have a huge army of people, and I'm a king of this great nation.
He wanted his pride built up, and he wanted his faith and trust to be put in
his armies that he's created and built. vote.

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So he wants to take a census of all his people. And in one book,
it says God incited him to do this.
And in another book, it says Satan incited him to do this. That looks like it's a contradiction.
So this is where it gets very nuanced. If Satan does something,

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if I do something, I threw myself in the same kind of ring with Satan,
but say if I do something.
God is allowing me, say I want to pick up this Bible, I could not do that unless God allowed me to do it.
I could not do anything evil unless God allowed me to do it.

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But that does not mean that He is the one that is doing the evil.
He allows the potential for it, and He uses it. He takes that evil,
and he uses it for good and for a greater good.
He allows it to happen. Why it all happens that way, I don't know.
But he does allow for the potentiality for evil. And in him doing that,
in a sense, that is him creating it.

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He created it. But like, he's not himself doing any evil.
And like, it is a tough thing. So that is a good question.
And I'm not going to argue, you brought up the Bible, I'm not going to argue against the Bible.
I agree with it. And it's a tough thing to even think about that God himself
created the evil. It says he creates darkness.

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It says in the beginning he created the world, and he created light,
and he created darkness, and he separated them, you know?
He creates things, He makes distinctions. He puts things in order,
but he's the one who's created all things, and anything that happens is of him.
But it's not to say that he is evil. God is not evil.
And this is a lot of stuff you just have to almost think through it and really, where am I going to land?

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Where am I going to land in thinking through these things? Because these are
tough topics, but the Bible is clear.
God allows the potentiality for evil, but he He himself does not commit or do any evil.
He's not evil. He's good. And why he's allowing it to happen, we can speculate.
We can't answer it. But we will have an answer eventually.

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And then his last thing he said, and I did read that a second ago,
but it says, if you never seen the Bible, what would you believe in?
Let me try to answer that, not the Christian answer.
Let me just try to answer it, like to step out of my Christian boots and out
of my Christian head, and what would I believe in?
What other belief or faith do you have?

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What I believe in. I mean, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking,
well, wherever you grew up, if you grew up in, I was going to say,
some country, I don't know, I don't know, over here, and I don't want to just
be, oh, I'm stereotyping something. I'm stereotyping this. I'm stereotyping that.
People do generally grow up with the faith of their parents.
I give you that. I'm not going to argue with that.

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But something is doesn't make
something right. It doesn't make something true. It just means that it is.
There are people out there that grow up with Muslim parents,
and they become Muslim because they're exposed to Islam and that belief structure.
And people that grow up with Christian parents in the different segments of

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Christianity, and they believe that because they're exposed to that.
You could call it indoctrination or whatever. It's just, if I believe something,
I'm going to do as much as I can to tell my children about it,
because I believe it's true.
Just like any other faith out there, they believe it's true,
so they're trying to tell their kids about it. So I can't argue with that.

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It is what it is. But it doesn't make every religion as equally valid.
Something is either true or it's not.
Something can't be true and false at the same time. It can't be true and false at the same time.
But I don't know if I'm going to choose a religion. I'm not a Christian right
now, so I'm going to choose a religion, you know? I don't know.

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I would probably be, but like, what would you believe in? I think I know what you mean.
I would be whatever faith I grew up with. I would probably be that.
But what do you believe? If you are out there and the person that wrote all
this stuff actually does come across this video and actually does watch this,
what do you believe in? What do you believe in?
Do you not believe in... This isn't to say that someday we aren't going to be

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brothers or sister or brother and sister.
I'm a guy, but brother and sister are.
In Christ. So if I never seen the Bible, if I say I like grew up a thousand
years ago and I grew up in the, you know, I was grew up in America,
you know, with the native Americans,
you know, never had been exposed to Jesus.

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I would probably just believe in the, the pagan, those gods that they created.
Like man is incurably religious.
And we, because we have that in us, we, we know there's a Creator out there.
We know He's out there, so we're doing our best that we can to somehow appease this deity.
That's why they sacrificed their children then. That's why a lot of people are

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sacrificing their children today.
They're doing it to appease this deity. They're doing it to satisfy this evil
supernatural force that's out there that tries to appear to be God.
Because there are demons and gods, as in lowercase g gods, that are out there

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that want us to worship them as opposed to the true and living God that made them.
God will eventually judge all the created beings that he's made,
the fallen angels and people that don't trust in Christ.
He will one day, but right now is the time that people...
Can come to Him. It says now is the time of salvation. Now, it's a very short window.

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It's going to be over in a blink of the eye. That's why we want to be as faithful
as possible in telling people about Christ.
And I went through so many different things and going through this,
and I don't mean to be preachy ever. I don't want to be preachy ever.
I want to, as much as possible, just tell people about Jesus and what He's done

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for me, and I know He is trustworthy.
He is the way so we can be forgiven, you know?
There is no more need to ever work our way up to heaven, as in to try to do
enough good to offset our bad so that God receives us.
Jesus did it all. That's the beauty of the Christian message.

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And this is a quote from C.S. Lewis in talking about Jesus and Christianity.
He says, I believe in Jesus and in Christianity the same way that I believe in the sun.
Not only because I see it, but because of it, I see everything.
The sun is out there. I can look up in the sky and I see the sun,

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but it is also making everything else clear and understandable,
this world that I'm interacting with, that I'm not just stumbling in the darkness.
That's what Christianity does. That's what Christ does. He is Christianity. Christ is Christian.
I hope you all take away something from this. I hope that this blesses you in some way.
I hope, um, and leave comments. Let me know what you think.

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And to our, to the person that wrote these questions, they're very good questions.
And you can tell that they really struck me. Like I've said many times in this video.
So God bless you. I hope you take a lot from this video. I hope you take something away. way.
And I hope someday I call you a brother in Christ.

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So have a good day. I hope you'll have a good week and I'll see y'all in the
next one. So we hold on and enjoy the ride.
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After all the ups and downs, this is our time.
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