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The notion that it is human intellect that makes us superior to animals is the most dangerous idea; it is widely accepted that dolphins and horses are more intelligent than humans--after all, they don't kill one another nor do they try to destroy this planet. No, human emotions, especially love, are what make us superior.

Thank you for this awesome conversation. I am so glad I found this channel.

Love your discussions Pastor Stecker! Such wisdom with all of your guests, including Dr. Christian Preus. Thank you so much. I'm listening right now in Kosice, Slovakia, the 2nd largest city in Slovkia, where I'm serving as a teacher. God bless you.

This is hypocrisy. Boundaries are not a real thing. To say put our nation before all else, knowing there are practicing, devote Christians through this globe, is nasty work.

Thanks for honoring freedom of speech. From the book ... Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif … published 1926 But at that time, in the middle of the seventeenth century, great things were astir in the world. Here and there in France and England and Italy rare men were thumbing their noses at almost everything that passed for knowledge. “We will no longer take Aristotle’s say-so, nor the Pope’s say-so,” said these rebels. “We will trust only the perpetually repeated observations of our own eyes and the careful weighings of our scales; we will listen to the answers experiments give us and no other answers!” So in England a few of these revolutionists started a society called The Invisible College, it had to be invisible because that man Cromwell might have hung them for plotters and heretics if he had heard of the strange questions they were trying to settle.

Thank you for honoring free speech. To be a theologian or any preacher of any religion … you must preach that bad results are going to happen (in the afterlife) to those in other tribes … and only good results will happen (in the afterlife) to those in OUR tribe. If the preaching was that only good results will happen to every soul in the afterlife … there wouldn’t BE any theologians or preachers … because there wouldn’t be a NEED for any religious myths. And that proves that religion only exists … because of FEAR … that in the afterlife the very god that chose to create humans on planet earth is also going to judge that EVIL souls deserve to suffer for eternity. Only a monster would create something that it knew ahead of “time” would have to suffer for even one second … never mind “eternity.” Religion exists only because of tribal mentality … “I’m saved” and YOU are NOT.”

Easy question. How many churches were there in the first century?? How does one become a member of that church??

Yes! We are sick of moral relativism! We want the firm ground of the Way, the Truth and the Life!

Wow, wrong straight away from the opening sentence. Just because you want your religion to look in line with modern moral standards doesn't mean it is. God explicitly tells "his" people to kill all the men, women, and little boys and to enslave the virgin girls. I guess you think it's more blessed to be raped by and forced to bear the children of the men who murdered your entire family in front of you rather than to be killed beside them. Those are the morals you accept when you call yourself a christian.

What is the church called an how many were there in the 1st century??

The church is a pyramid scheme that is at its tipping point

4:15 “What are you going to do, genocide them?” Yeah that would be CRAZY… say, what happened to the Amalekites, Midianites, Hittites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites?

What BS. The church has become the example of hatred toward those who are different. That is why the people are leaving. The words don’t match the actions.

I can say this is true as i see many more people my age turning to serious Christianity, as well as becoming a lot more serious and intentional in general

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So god isn’t all powerful because he can’t outlaw slavery….. Or god isn’t omnipresent because he’s constrained to the specific time periods/societies of his people…….. Or god isn’t Omni benevolent because he allows chattel slavery for those who are not his specific Christian group. “What were they going to do with all these people?” Same thing we ask you guys Show us/them your God lmfaoooo, and literally anything you can think a Pagan religion was doing that was evil, the Israelites did those same practices at one point or another too….. 😂😂😂

I wish this video had gone through actual passages in the Bible, because some of them frankly are very troubling to me. I found this video didn't really address what the Bible has to say about slavery almost at all. I've looked into it in detail, and the laws in the Bible were not that different than the laws existing in other nations at the time. Some better, some worse, but mostly consistent. But the Bible does actually condone chattel slavery. Actual lifelong, generational chattel slavery. Not something I would have expected, especially since it doesn't really say a word against the practice itself. And the Israelites did not take the Gibeonites as slaves. They were made a vassal state, not slaves at all. A big difference the guest should have known. In fact the Israelites never took male slaves in their wars. They were all ordered to be killed, not taken as slaves. It's in the Mosaic law?

Very good discussion. Thanks for making it happen.

I see mega-concert style churches blowing up teaching self-help seminars and smaller churches focusing on the Bible dying out. What stats are being cited here?

Is it a sorting of the sheep from the goats.??

The Bible condones and promotes chattel slavery. Chattel slavery is defined as "the enslaving and owning of human beings and their offspring as property, able to be bought, sold, and forced to work. Another definition is: "The condition in which one person is owned as property by another and is under the owner's control, especially in involuntary servitude." Leviticus 25 explicitly describes and condones chattel slavery. "44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. 46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour." Under Mosaic law, foreign slaves were chattel slaves. They could be bought, sold, separated from their families, beaten, raped, killed, kept for life, and passed down as inherited property. Every specific reference to foreign slaves in the Bible is to deny them rights and protections afforded to Hebrew slaves. The treatment of foreign slaves was every bit as bad, or worse, than slavery in the Antebellum south.

We must also remember that Christ is a slave. A slave to his promise for us we received at baptism. How cruel are we to our Lord that we sin against him daily, yet He still serves us? How cruel were the Isrealites that sacrificed their children, yet he didn't destroy them and kept his promise (Psalm 106)? How cruel was Saul that murdered Christians, yet He made Saul into Paul to preach his promise to the gentiles? Despite all of the sin, he laid down his life like a slave. Despite all of the Isrealites' problems, He became flesh and dwelt among them. Despite evil men like Saul, He washes away their sin and turns them into Pauls.

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Also slavery meant work back then. The one who owned the land was the master. In many civilizations.

Hey, thanks from Brazil!

We are all slaves to something, id rather be a slave to righteousness! I like gibeonite example!

I think its so hard to teach the gospel to strangers because they need to know, not only the the philosophy of the religion, they need to know the history of the religion because there is so much lies about the church and Christians. Teaching about archeological evidence to cement the modern factual truths is also something that helps. People simply have a fabrication of the religion and it's hard to break them from it without explaining everything I just mentioned.. Although, some people are happy to accept lies about religion because they feel guilt and shame. They will reject the gospel and truth no matter what but some people need the truth anyways. I thought everyone knew the Gospel and just rejected it but many people have no idea what the gospel is.. We should share it more often.

And stanza 3 confuses law and gospel - We are not a debtor to Grace, it sets us free, pays our debt. That's the whole point. If you are in God's grace, you have no more debt, it's all paid. No loan, but a gift, freely given.

Amen..in a nut shell, how sweet,you can't sweeten it much more..well said..in faith we build that trust and the more you do it,the more it's good for you..

Right, I know in my heart my wife loves me, but when she speaks to me and says specifically, “I love you.” That objective declaration is more comforting and removes doubt; just similarly to a pastor pronouncing that forgiveness in private confession and absolution! It all goes back to the idea that we should confess those continue to burden our hearts …

I attended one of those churches for a little- a lot of crowd hype and 0 depth. Also very little spiritual growth

Spot on! Return to an intellectually sound faith.

as above so below... now, this may be masonic, its all one and the same. The lessons are many, the translations are many, the versions of ideas are many, but the truth is contained in the love you have. When you love for real, you will see the parables in the bible for what they are and not until then and that path is so very narrow almost no one on the whole of the planet are there... get it? Look around at people acting insane everywhere>>..... because these things are hidden and most never found them to share.

Do we let our children rebel, live lives of hatred toward God, and commit all manner of vile sins.... so that we can preach Christ to them? Or do we raise our children up in the admonition of the Lord, teaching them, from birth? .... We have been called to be salt and light to the world.... western civilization has been formed and shaped by Christianity.... discipled if you were. Certainly, we are called to shape our nation for Christ given the opportunity.... loudly and without shame.

This sounds sooooo wrong..

What is interesting is that Rev. Ramirez articulates a position that is often times used by economists that people are offended by and that is the standard of "compared to what"? So, slavery is perhaps terrible but compared to what? Some ideal of complete personal autonomy? Sure, maybe. But what if the alternative is starvation? Sure, working in a sweat shop may be bad, but again, compared to what? Picking your way through garbage for your dinner? Engaging in prostitution?

I really believe that people intend to be one body in Christ,so have it be a nation a bragging point.

This guy is Prince Harry twin😅

I am not a member of your absurd religion, however, I can say that I just do not comprehend why serious academics are interviewing this unlicensed psychologist on matters of philosophy and theology. It is beyond all reason, logic, and common sense.

After divorce nearly 40 years ago and my children growing up and leaving home , poor health making it difficult to see the few friends still alive , I could be very lonely. However Jesus fills my heart more and more , like a husband or friend living with me . I wouldn't have it any other way , Jesus is the love of my life .

Possibly quite true, men seriously need to man up.

Wait until they realize how the reformation deceived Christians.

Well somebody is missing the boat only 29.29 % of world pop consider themselves Christian..2.3 billion come to church at once that would be a voice..Mein Herr.

I'm quite conservative when it comes to doctrine and worship, but the Missouri Synod made the right decision when it changed its position on prayer fellowship. The Wisconsin Synod is way too strict on this issue. I'm LCMS, but I wish we changed our position on Church Polity (from congregational to episcopal) and Predestination (in conformity with the scholastic dogmaticians).

Ai will be used to reveal the image of the beast that the world will worship

Sorry wrong , you must repent, confess your sins and accept Christ as your personal savior. Mary and a priest cannot forgive you.

Such beautiful and comforting words.

This is an excellent episode. My husband and I are adult converts to the LCMS from Pentecostalism. I was shouting amen when the pastor discussed how beautiful it is to take the Lord’s Supper in a sacramental church and what a joy it is to be in a church that appreciates church history. Love this episode!

Very interesting! Here are some thoughts I had about the religious liberty topic: My Ancestors were Lutherans in Austria (who didn´t leave) and their Faith was illegal. i am very grateful that they stayed and preserved the faith there. also i think it is good to missionize in that context... and also: isn´t it better to have religious liberty (to a certain extent)? Because 1. the Lutheran State Churches are liberal and Unionist and 2. we have more possibilities to set up Orthodox Lutheran Churches in historically non-Lutheran states? also what about people who get saved by the Holy Spirit in other Denominations? There is this Argument by Rodney Stark that more "competion" leads to more religious practices and that is also why latin america and the us have more people who go to church on sunday... But this is maybe an example of what Pastor Ramirez says towards the end... that people in these situations move towards Orthodox Evangelisch (Lutheran) Christianity because a guy who was an atheist an becomes an pentecostal is now A. a Christian and B. Closer to Orthodoxy. I ask myself these questions as someone who grew up in europe with state founded churches (i lived in both historically lutheran and roman areas) and now i live in latin america where you have more pluralism and for that reason more christians in general and a Confessional Lutheran Chruch which in Europe is very rare. that being said i also dont want a religious liberty like in the us where all the big cults come from and you have legal satanism and stuff like that... maybe the best way would be a Lutheran "Leitkultur" in lutheran areas with religious liberty to a certain extent... anyway very thought provoking interview... thank you very much! and also I agree that abuse doesnt destroy the proper use so lets pray for an expansion of Christendom.

From a German Lutheran- Cheers!