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This wonderful song comes to life with this video! One of my favorite from ALVIN SLAUGHTER

Love Pastor Ricky Holmes wish he had a church in Buffalo NY❤️

Glory to God Almighty thank you Lord for all your goodness!

I'm now following you, I appreciate your wisdom and understanding of the scriptures. I follow you on ask the pastor. You do an amazing job, keeping the other pastors on their toes, and I'm not the only one opening their Bible more. So, are the pastors. Amen

Keep coming on ask the pastor. You are not only good news to me, but also the pastor. Keep spreading the word of God.❤

Bishop Ricky sure knows the word of the Lord. Amen, keep up the good work ❤

Where is your church located

You're really knowledgeable in the Bible, I really appreciate that, and your intellect is very enlightening. I discovered you on ask the pastor. Now I watch you regularly. Keep up the good work

He loved me with his cross his cross was my everything I thank you so much Jesus Christ for dying for my sins my love my life my heart dropped when you was on the cross but you did it for me for love I love you Jesus Christ ❤❤

*Ephesians 6:9 KJV - And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your MASTER ALSO IS IN HEAVEN; NEITHER IS THERE RESPECT OF PERSONS WITH HIM.* Colossians 1:18, Jesus is supposed to have the "preeminence" in all things, wouldn't that mean that God is having "respect of persons" for His Son? Which is sin as clearly defined in James 2:9: *But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.* For your information, Tertullian was a pagan philosopher, okay. Look it up. His term trinity is ADDING to and perverting the scriptures. Also according to the definition of the Webster's 1828 dictionary, PERSON is defined as a BEING, so there you have it: 3 beings, yet that's your "God". Also, I will follow God's own words in the KJV, thank you. Person SINGULAR in the Bible when it comes to the Father, or the Son, and eventually the Spirit, not personS plural, that God is ONE PERSON singular, designated by either His soul, body or spirit, but remaining ONE PERSON SINGULAR: THE LORD JESUS. ⚪ *Father: SOUL of Jesus, so Jesus IS the Father:* _Isaiah 9:6 KJV - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace._ [the name of the son IS the everlasting Father] _John 8:24 KJV - I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins._ ["he" is the Father in the context here, vs. 19] _John 10:30 KJV - I and my Father are one._ [not 2, not 3, but ONE person] _John 12:44-45 KJV - Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me._ [Jesus and the Father are not 2 separate persons, but one person] _John 14:7-9 - If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?_ [Jesus is the Father, you Catholic pagan polytheistic heretics] _Luke 23:46 KJV - And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost._ | _Acts 7:59 KJV - And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit._ [Lord Jesus is the name of the Father] _Matthew 28:19 KJV - Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:_ | _Acts 8:16 KJV - (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)_ | _Acts 19:5 KJV - When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus._ [Lord Jesus is THE name of the Godhead] _Matthew 9:22 KJV - But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour._ | _Mark 5:34 KJV _And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague._ | _Luke 8:48 KJV - And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace._ [why does Jesus call a woman who believes in Him "daughter?" Because Jesus is the Father] _John 8:58 KJV - Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am._ | _Exodus 3:14 KJV - And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you._ ⚪ *Son: BODY of Jesus, so the Son IS Jesus:* _Colossians 2:8-9 KJV - Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily._ _Acts 20:28 KJV - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood._ _Hebrews 10:5 KJV - Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:_ _Genesis 22:8 KJV - And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together._ | _John 1:29 KJV - The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world._ | _Revelation 17:14 KJV - These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful._ ⚪ *Holy Spirit: SPIRIT of Jesus, so the Holy Spirit IS Jesus:* _John 14:16-18 KJV - And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you._ ["I" will come to you, Jesus is the Comforter, that is the Holy Spirit, vs. 26] _2 Corinthians 3:17 KJV - Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty._ [the name of that Lord is Jesus cf. John 13:13] _John 1:14 KJV - And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth._ | _John 6:63 KJV - It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life._ [Jesus is the Word, the word is spirit] *3/3=1 only person* ⚪ *JESUS ​​CHRIST who is the ONLY God,* it's just that His divine power allows Him to simultaneously disperse His 3 parts, soul, body, spirit / Father, Son, Holy Spirit. _Genesis 1:26 -27 KJV - And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them._ | _James 3:9 KJV - Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God._ | _1 Thessalonians 5:23 KJV - And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ._ [God has a body, a soul and a spirit] _1 John 5:7 KJV - For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one._ | _John 15:26 KJV - But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:_ | _John 8:18 KJV - I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me._ [these 3, body, soul, spirit, are ONE {1 John 5:7}, that "one" IS Jesus Himself {John 8:18}] _John 3:13 KJV - And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven._ | _1 John 5:20 KJV - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life._ _Revelation 1:8,18 KJV - I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death._ | _Revelation 22:12-13 KJV - And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last._ WHO IS IN YOU??? _Galatians 4:19 KJV - My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,_ | _Romans 8:9 KJV - But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his._ | _Ephesians 4:6 KJV - One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all._ THAT'S THE ONE: _2 Corinthians 13:5 KJV - Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?_ NOT 3 SEPARATE PERSONS, but ONE PERSON, ONE JESUS instead of many Roman Catholic gods: _Acts 17:7 KJV - Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus._ ❌The "Trinity" is a CATHOLIC polytheistic pagan vestigial remnant, a VAIN WORLDLY PHILOSOPHY, a TRADITION of man de-emphasizing Jesus Christ in His kingship and divinity, and confusing people who would place their faith in Him (Colossians 2:8, Catechism of the Catholic Church 251-252 {p. 74-75}, Mark 7:9, The Kabbalistic Conclusions of Pico della Mirandola), while the GODHEAD is biblical (Acts 17:29, Romans 1:20, Colossians 2:9 ) and it is the SIMPLICITY that is IN CHRIST (2 Corinthians 11:3) from which we must not deviate (Ephesians 4:14). The GODHEAD is not the ""trinity"" abomination, nor Modalism which is nonsense also. The Trinity is SATAN's counterfeit of the biblical GODHEAD: *_Revelation 16:13 KJV - And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet._*

I am inspired by your God given Jesus blessed voice! So, how can you be a 33rd d. Mason? That's not what the father and son honors. You loved the Lord in the beginning. So sad 😞

I like this video, its all true. I am not an atheist because I see Gods existence through my life and His word is timeless in context and in nature. The only problem is, it takes time effort and spiritual growth to get to that point where a person can understand the text and see it correspond with reality. Young spiritual minds see things in the bible and it just goes over their heads.

Amen Bishop Holmes

Wow." Great and Mighty are the works of Your Hands o God. You are worthy to receive All our Praises, Glory, Honour Adoration and Thanksgiving forever and ever" Amen.

the first time i heard this song i was just a teenager. it touched my soul so much then. it still touches my soul now. praise god. thanks for posting.

You needed 4 parts? From the sounds of it, it is beyond your comprehension. Do not make the same mistake as other believers, don't compare the creation of atoms to the manipulation of atoms or existing materials. I agree, the universe is amazing. If I do not know the answers to the universe, that does not make your beliefs true. Also, I find it odd that someone could conceive of the complexity of the universe, the unfathomable wonder of it all and claim it must have an even more complex systems to have created it and then say that they even more complex system did not have a creator. With that logic, we might as well say, the universe has always existed. We have no proof otherwise. We can believe anything we wish, just look around our large country and you will find people willing to believe anything. So, the idea that faith has value is self-serving and blind. One need only look at the faith of those that have enough faith to blow themselves up. And don't point to the lack of morality of the atheists without first cleaning up the Christian house first. Don't confuse us with the evil named Catholicism and their hundreds year old, organized syndicate of child rape. Fix that and then you can point.

At 7:45 _"if the Earth's rotational speed were to slow down just a little, we would be crushed beneath the Earth's gravity"_ Where did you get that nonsense from? There are two spots on the Earth where the force from rotation does not act in opposition to gravity: the north and south poles. People visit the poles all the time without being crushed. The source you got that information from is clearly unreliable, and you have been made a fool of by whoever that source is.

You start by talking about atheists that are not nice. [although their comments were not that bad?] I have had several comments from you Christians lately that really have been ‘not nice’ after I have politely tried to debate with them. Comments like ‘I hope you burn in hell’ and f**k all atheists. The reason we atheists do not attack ‘other’ fairy tales is because they are harmless and Christianity is not. This is not only a no brainer to work out but you know it! You then go on to say the atheists that did the billboard obviously believe in Santa. No comment apart from a facepalm and a suggestion that you stop being dishonest perhaps? You say you live in a world where there is intelligence so how about reading a good book on evolution and becoming intelligent then? You have obviously just been fed the pseudoscience from the Christian apologists on the subject of creation and the universe and just bought into it without understanding the subjects for yourself and then just repeating it. But the reason why this video is so sad and so concerning to me is that theists like you with little or no scientific qualifications think you know more than the real scientists that do know what they are talking about. So you make a video like this in your arm waving condescending way, trying to look all authoritative, you then put it on TH-cam and not only embarrass yourself but mislead the gullible as well. Attack us atheists if you wish sir but expect us atheists to fight back sometimes. [with a billboard perhaps?]

Hi again Bishop. As always, I enjoy leaving my comments under your videos. Hope that's cool, still. Atheists do not talk about other fairytales because they don't have to. The politicians aren't out to make laws based on Hansel and Gretel or to spend tax money on Little Red Ridinghood decorations in public places, and no one are suggesting that we teach as fact that Goldielocks and the three bears is a real description of something that actually happened. If people did these things, then atheists would spend just as much time talking about these issues as they do with Christianity and the Bible. Wouldn't you? It's right that we don't believe in the stories. But we do believe in _people_ who believe these stories and act on behalf on them, and these people's actions can and do affect us. That's a perfectly reasonable reason to take up this subject, right? Btw, I really doubt that the bill board writer actually believes in Santa - I think that was tongue in cheek. Bishop, I'm sorry, but when you present the things you comprehend this incomprehensible god to be, your definition includes the logically contradicting and thus impossible. By definition the god you proposed cannot possibly exist as defined. You think God is perfectly just, which you define as a hating sin and never clearing the guilty, yet you believe he is merciful. Mercy and justice is a direct contradiction, and I have no idea how you think you can believe both. The idea of being immutable is also in direct contradiction with what the bible says, as God changes drastically all the time - especially from the OT to the NT. Once demanding everything from animal sacrifices to stoning-punishment to eye-for-an-eye, and now he doesn't. How can an immutable being change? The list of contradictions is rather long. So even if there is some kind of a god or god-like being, it would be nothing like what you propose. It couldn't possibly be. Why is there something rather than nothing? No reason. I remember telling you this on one of your earlier videos. You ask why there's something rather than nothing. I as why there's a god rather than not. For what reason does this god exist rather than not? The only answer I ever hear is that there's no reason. God doesn't exist _for_ any reason. He wasn't designed or created, he's not the product of any natural process or anything. God just exists. No reason, he just does. And if people can believe that a god can just exist absent of any account for why that is rather than some other way, then we can believe this about matter too. There doesn't have to be a reason why there's something. There just is. You say that you can see that there's intelligent design behind this world. That would be an interesting place to start. But I don't see that design. Especially not in everything. We may be able to look at a few examples that could potentially be discussed like the potential design and purpose of a cell or a body part, but what is the order and purpose and design in a rock? I'll get a little more into this with your book analogy. You say that we wouldn't exist if the natural laws were just a little different. And that's correct. But that is not only a weak argument; it's an extremely strong argument against your case that a God is behind it. _Everything_ is exactly as it should be if there were no gods. Why are we living on the _only_ kind of planet we could _possibly_ live on if there exists a god that could have had us walking living breathing on Pluto with no water, no sunlight, no apparent explanation for why we could survive there? You're pointing to the absolutely 100% natural as evidence for super-nature, and that does not follow at all. The fact is actually that everything is as it should be in a totally natural universe. Your argument can also be boiled down to a single tautology: If things had been different then things would have been different. Who says things couldn't have been different? Who says that there couldn't have existed a universe without life in it? No, the book wasn't a product of chance. Nor was it a product of natural processes - an option you left out in that dichotomy. But how do we know? Because we _already_ know. We already know of books. We know that we create books and that books have _never_ been seen forming by _any_ other mechanisms. You attempt to make the point hat we recognize design, but the fact is that we know of design by _seeing_ it in the process of being designed by the designer or by contrasting it with nature. So if you look down on Mars and see a book next to a rock, why do you pick up the book? If your conclusion is that _the entire universe_ is designed, then there should be no difference in picking up a book with the designer autograph on it or picking up a rock ... or a handful of soil. The fact that you speak of books to me clearly demonstrates that you know that there's a difference and that there is no design in a ton of things we can observe. And the example you can give of design is one known already to be designed since we have designed such a thing already. Back to the false analogy. Because we do _not_ say that life on Earth is a product of random chance. Life - the very first life - was a product of the non-random chemical laws and the natural electro-magnetism. Unlike nuts and bolts and welding, molecules (like DNA) form by electro-magnetic forces and _do_ naturally stick. There's no way you can honestly compare the natural and automatic electro-magnetism to nuts and bolts and welding being done by wind force. So far you've demonstrated a fairly good scientific understanding which I've congratulated you on, so to make this lazy and unrealistic analogy is really beneath you, Bishop. "How does one explain the single cell apart from an intelligent creator?" Well, as you probably know, that is an argument from ignorance. "If you can't explain it, then I'm right". The intelligent creator doesn't explain it any better or worse than magic does. I'm not saying that there isn't a creator. But so far "God did it" has never been the explanation that turned out to be correct. Every single object we've ever questioned from the rainbow to the stars to humans, we've _always_ found that the explanation was totally natural, and no scientist _never_ needed a god to balance _any_ equation. So I have no reason to think it should be any different now that we come to a new mystery. We don't currently know exactly how life formed. But before we even know that it's possible that a god can exist let alone do anything like creating lifeforms- before we even know that it's possible in theory - I'm not going to jump to claiming that it's probably enough to start belief. But there may be a designer. Who knows, it's only reasonable to admit that I could be wrong, but _if_ there is one, then he was a scientist. He is _not_ the magician wizard that the biblical miracle worker god is. And there's _certainly_ no reason to think that even if we find a designer behind life that this designer was also behind everything else. Or if it knows what this cell has become over so many millions of years. Or if it even cares. Or if it even still exists.

AMEN! GLORY TO ALMIGHTY GOD!!! HE IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED BECAUSE HE IS SOVEREIGN!!! FANTASTIC JOB putting this video together! It sends you straight into worship!

You say the universe has order and design, then I must ask is where is the design in volcanoes or earthquakes. What is their purpose? You say that a creator must be involved and that in itself is a logical leap as you automatically assume God, well why God? Why not something or someone else? I understand your questions as these questions are yet to be answered by science. However your questions and the inability of science as of yet to answer them does not therefore equal God. The Bible is a flawed source that provides no evidence without just having faith in it being true. I also must ask why the law of causality does not apply to God? Was the deity created? If he is eternal then why can't the universe also be eternal in some sense.

Greetings Bishop. I am looking forward to more on this series. I have read some of the comments and as always there will be those who have things to say against the existence of God. It all boils down to we all will pass from this life and have to answer for our own actions if believing in God proves to be the truth it will be their loss but if we are wrong we have nothing to lose. We all believe and put faith in something. Each day someone believes their car will start, the chair they sit in will hold them, when they put their feet on the ground they will be able to stand, when I lay down to sleep I will get up the next day. It is up to each individual to choose where their faith lies. I choose to believe their is one true and living God that exist in 3 separate and distinct personalities...the father , son and holy spirit. to all those who choose not to believe I respect that and appreciate you respecting my beliefs as well.

‘The universe had a beginning therefore it had to have an 'intelligent' cause’? It almost seems as though this man has a sort of ‘limiter’ in his brain. He can’t think or reason outside of his limited reasoning and talks like his assumptions are facts and then builds on them. I call it the 'William Lane Craig syndrome' This man is not a scientist but acts as though he is one like so many other Christian apologists that come on TH-cam.

And at 7:04, I sweep into debunking the incorrect assumption that you have dismissed polytheism with Genesis 1:26, on the very same first page...

Hi Bishop. You welcomed me to comment on your future videos, and I saw that you've made this part two, so I thought I would comment on it. :) (After having done it, my god it's long. Hope you can fight your way through it, but if nothing else read the last few lines for a compliment.) :) When you say that you believe in a creator _ because_ you believe in a world that did not create itself, then I'm sorry to tell you, but in that alone there's so much wrong. First of all it's a false dichotomy. The options are not 1) had a creator, or 2) created itself. You know this, because you do _not_ believe that either of them are true of the god you believe exists. Clearly you don't believe that God created himself. That before he existed he performed the act of creating himself and then he existed. God would have to exist in order to do anything, including creating anything, so you do not believe that God created himself. And you _certainly_ don't believe anyone else did. Right? So you know that the dichotomy is false and that there are more options. Options that you've ignored. That is why it's extremely dangerous to draw conclusions about what _is_ the case based on what you know is _not_ the case. You don't know all the options. We accept things when there's actual evidence _for_ them. Not because we don't have any other options we can't (currently) think of. That would be an argument from ignorance. So already here in the first sentence there's so much wrong. "We know that the universe had a beginning" you say, and sure, but "universe" in this sense means the current form that our universe has with stars, planets, etc. We do not know that time and space ever had a beginning, nor that physical existence or material had a beginning. And even _if_ time and space had a beginning, then we can't speak of any causation of it. After all, causation _implies_ time and space and material. The idea of "causing time" is logically contradictory. It makes no sense. So even if we accept for the sake of your argument that physical existence, time and space had a beginning, it couldn't have had a cause. Basically I'm introducing the concept of an "acausal beginning". And now we're back to the false dichotomy. You haven't thought of all the options. You didn't even consider the concept of an acausal beginning. Because you introduce the law of causality, but you misrepresent it. It doesn't state that everything that begins has a cause. It states that every _effect_ has a cause. And that's completely different. Because we don't just get to assume that the universe is an effect. That would have to be demonstrated. You didn't spend much time on why you think this premise is true. But let me tell you why I think it's false. You gave an example of computers, cars etc and how they have a cause. And yes they do. But do not make the mistake of arguing from analogy. You can't jump from "cars have a cause" to "the universe has a cause" anymore than you can jump from it to "God had a cause". Analogies have to be justified, and they often break down. They do so in this case. Because the difference is that a car is made _of_ material. The atoms are in motion. And what happens in a causal event is actually that the atoms - the material - takes a new form. For example. We can cause iron, bolts, windows, a motor and other parts to become a car. And _that_ is absolutely important here. Causality implies that something that already exists causes something else that already exists to become something new or do something new. When I cook I cause groceries to form a meal. This is true for every causal event we've ever observed. So how does that fit when we suggest that the _material_ it self was caused too? Things made of material can and do have causes, but saying that the material had a cause would imply that the material is made of material too. But it isn't. It _is_ the material. And that's a huge difference. The movement of material _is_ in fact what we call time and causality. They apply to things made _of_ material - but not to the material itself. Causality implies material. So what already existing material did God cause to become physical material? And if there was such an already existing material, then where did it come from? Did God cause it? What material did he use then? Did it "just" exist? I'm fine with that answer actually, but can't we save a step and simply accept that our material "just" exists? You can't claim that God caused physical material without explaining what it was that existed that he caused to become this material. And correct me if I'm wrong, but you don't think that there was anything that already existed, right? You believe that this god was once all there was. If God is all there was, then he didn't have anything to cause to do anything. So God didn't cause anything to do anything. He couldn't. Not by any actual appliance of the principle of causality. You can of course say that God can make things out of the blue because he's God, and that's fine, but now you're no longer operating under the principle of causality and you're talking about something indistinguishable from magic and you're no longer making an intelligible argument like you tried. The only way to do that is to tell us what already existing material God caused to make the material of our universe, and then explain why that isn't just a case of material having always existed or "just" existing in of itself. Now you go into the argument from design. And how you think you can know that there's design in this world I didn't hear. You skipped over that without any demonstration of how you know that there was design. I know, and we recognize design by contrasting it with nature - by contrasting it to that which naturally occurs. And you can't make such a contrast without having ... well, something to contrast it with. You have only one universe, so you can't make the contrast that you would need. But even _if_ we accept that there's design, there's absolutely _no_ way to jump to that which you around 4:30 call "someone of unlimited power and infinite knowledge". I'll set aside the fact that omniscience and omnipotence both in of themselves are self-contradictory and further that they certainly contradict each other, since omniscience would leave you impotent to the pre-written future you would know of. I'll set all that aside and simply say that you can't claim that the designer was _that_ good. There are _so_ many things we observe that are utterly stupid in the light that we were designed, such as the fact that we have one single tube for breathing and eating so that we're in constant risk of chocking to death, or the fact that we don't have enough space in our mouth for the number of teeth we have, or the fact that the birth canal is way too narrow and has mother and child in mortal risk, etc etc etc. We have no valid justification for concluding that the designer was perfect from observing imperfect design. You then say that it is the atheists obligation to explain creation without a creator. And where I was so happy that you caught your own loaded language in the statement "Who made the universe?" I had hoped that you would have done it here too. Because you don't get to simply call it creation. You have to demonstrate that it's a creation. Of course a creation needs a creator, that's obvious, but who says that this is creation? I reject that it's creation. It's existence. It's reality. And no, it doesn't require _more_ faith to be an atheist than to be a christian. First of all because it's not an atheist belief that the universe "just" exists as you implied here. Atheists reject your proposed explanation and don't necessarily claim any in its place. It's perfectly honest to say that you have no explanation. But I personally am happy to say that the universe "just" exists, and no, that doesn't take more faith either. Because we both believe that _something_ has to just exist. We agree, so our "faith" is equal here. But now you suggest that there's some _extra_ thing that exists, where I keep it to the things we actually know exist. I know that physical material exists, and I'm happy to say that it just exists. You believe that physical material exists _as well as_ believing that a god exists. Can you count to two? :) Your beliefs include more than mine and therefore clearly would have you have more faith. Well, Bishop, that was some of a comment, I know, but you're welcome to do with it as you please. It was fun writing it. :) And let me just say that I think it's absolutely fantastic that you're presenting this as an intelligible argument. As I touched on, you could have simply said "Well, God can make a universe out of the blue so there you are" but you try to make a logical argument. The fact that I think you made a lot of logical errors and included many false or unjustified premisses is another thing. But I really want to congratulate you for going this way of presenting an actual argument. That is a fruitful method. Happy Christmas, Bishop. Have a good one. :)

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Extremely informative and knowledgable

I like how you're honest to the atheist position and to science. I like how you're honest enough to say that God's existence can't be proven. I still think that you made some errors, and I thought I would point them out. When you spoke of Genesis 1:1, I was hoping that you wouldn't end it at that. Because simply claiming that a god exists and then claiming that this is "self-evident" isn't a demonstration. The bible simply claims that a "God" capital G exists, but that doesn't demonstrate atheism, pantheism or polytheism wrong. We're still just at the claim-level here. And that's where you were completely right in saying that we don't accept the bible for anything other than a list of claims. That you got totally right, and for that reason it's not self-evident simply because it's in there. You asked where a lot of things come from. Where did Earth and the galaxy come from? Where did the Sun come from? Where did matter come from? You're in luck with some of the questions, but not all of them. The questions on the planet and the sun are easy enough, and you sound like you know enough about science in order to find those answers yourself. But the question about matter confuses me. Thermodynamics say that matter can't be created or destroyed. Well, if it _can't_ be created, then surely it wasn't created. You ask if it created itself or if something else created it. I can think of several other options. It not having been created at all, it having always existed, it having an a-causal origin, it being the most default state of existence, for instance. So I don't accept your dichotomy as complete. In fact, you yourself know of at least _one_ thing that doesn't fit. You believe that a god exists, and even so you don't believe that this god was created or caused or anything like that. You just believe that this god ... exists. And that's it. If that's good enough for you, then it's good enough for me, and I am happy to accept that physical existence (material, matter, energy) just exists. For no reason with no cause. That's perfectly fine with me. So we must _not_ ask "Where did that come from?" Because that is a laded question, and you already accept that _something_ didn't come from anywhere. If you believe that God simply exists for no reason with no cause then you yourself know that there are two categories: That which exists _for_ some reason, and that which doesn't. I am happy to say that physical existence didn't have a cause and didn't come from anywhere, and that it's self-evident that it just exists. But at least, as a minimum, we don't get to jump to loaded questions like "Where did it come from?" As far as we know it neither did nor could come from anywhere. And we know that there are two categories and we don't get to skip one. Atheists do _not_ want to explain "creation" apart from a creator, because we don't accept that it's "creation". It's nature. It's reality. Again, we don't get to jump to a loaded word like "creation" without any demonstration. By calling it by the word "creation" then we've already assumed the answer up front. Of course a creation needs a creator. Obviously. Now, how do we know that it's a "creation"? The cosmological argument is _looooong_ outdated. Especially in the specific version that you present it in. You said that since it exists then it must have had a cause. That line of flawed logic would demand a forever-going infinite chain into the past of causes, _and_ if we accept the existence of a god, then it would dictate that this god had a cause itself. The cosmological argument is very flawed and was defeated centuries ago simply by being self-refuting - by automatically defeating the thing it's trying to prove. There are newer versions of the argument, like Kalam, but that's flawed too in the fact that it equivocates on the definition of "begin to exist" and violates known needed components of a causal event. The fact is that I haven't been presented with any argument for the existence of a god without it containing numerous logical fallacies as well as being so vague that it could be used to prove anything - which in the end means that they prove nothing. I am very happy that you see the limitations of believing in something outside of human perception and science, and it's great that you honestly approach atheists. And I think that your approach of using argumentation is really great. But I think that you need to think it through a little further, because I don't see at all how you can reach those conclusions rationally.

Praise God Bishop I'm a follower of Christ but my girlfriend is an Atheist I will be showing her this

Greetings my friend, I hope you are well and happy. Please allow me to make comment on your video, first saying I respect you and your right to believe as you wish, to hold dear what you wish, as I do ALL beings as long as that belief causes no one suffering. And as long as that person gives to ALL others the same loving kindness, respect and compassion they seek for themselves, their loved ones and what they choose to believe. So the reason I am making comment is you have chosen to perhaps not give to theist the same respect you seek for you and your belief. point 1- You give a definition of Atheism and use the one that is correct, the disbelief in a God or Gods, nothing more. 2- then you go off the rails by being dishonest, ill informed "bearing false witness" displaying prejudice and hypocrisy when you say you know the mind, thoughts, lives and actions of over a billion people. Saying the greatest disagreement about what Atheism is, is between Atheist. A) there are over 1.1 billion Atheist ( or far more) world wide when considering material and non material Atheists ( such as Buddhist, Jainism, Bön, Confucianism, Stoicism, Taoism,, sects of Hinduism, many Jews are also Atheist),. You like many don't recognize this fact. B) you do not know what all, or most or many or even a tiny, tiny most tiny % of what Atheist people think or how they define Atheism. So here you are being dishonest. C) Yes there will be a $ of Atheist people who will be "strong" Atheist demanding there are no Gods, they are acting as silly as a Theist demanding there is a God and it just happens to be theirs. D) you also are being dishonest to intimate that there is great division in Atheist people while there is no place where that is more true than in your belief of Christianity. There we find 38,000+ sects who demand ( some do not all) all differing sects are " not real Christians". Even within the same sect we find it is hard to get 2 people to fully agree on the entire Bible. So here you display a great hypocrisy. 3- Then you go on to say Atheism arguments have changed over the years and now most Atheists do not assert as fact there is no God. Once again you make wild statements of what you have no proof, you do not know even .000000000009% of Atheist now or in the past so you do not know what they "use to do" 4- You then move on to display more prejudice believing people who do not believe as you do have no right to express their belief, this is silly and your ego speaking. The fact is you call any belief that differs from yours "lies and false" you call their followers " lost, blind etc" the FACT is you are a Christian 100% because of family and place of birth. The fact is you have not with an open mind read all, lets be honest none of the holy books of the worlds belief nor made study of them or their history. The same with books of Atheist thinkers, yet with a large ego you attack them as lies, doing to them that which you do not wish done to you or your children and loved ones. Great hypocrisy, you do not mind telling others and their families that their histories, what they hold dear, what they believe is a lie, that they are lost, blind, evil yet you whine your children will be confronted with Atheism? Hows sad. I saw no reason to listen past 3:04 Please be well and happy and believe as you wish, hold it dear and please mature and give to all others the same respect you seek for yourself, your loved ones and what you choose to believe. and p.s. dude get a bigger sweater you are busting out that one.. lol just picking on you.

It sounds like you need to continue as a believer. Great intro, by the way. I'm an older atheist, I'm one of those, "There are no gods." I'm not sure why you'd think that we would think we were gods. Not all atheists are anti-religion or anti-Christian, most of the people I love are Christians. I do understand the idea of your god being outside the context of our existence. But, I'm not a science-based or evidence-based atheist. Man has created tens of thousands of gods and each had or has a purpose. Usually, they are used to answer complex questions with simple answers. After all, what does one say to 9 year old when their entire family was ended in a fire? They went to a better place and you will join them someday sounds pretty good to a child. Lots of promises are made to those that believe in different holy texts. You sound like your intentions are well intended and you don't belittle the atheist, or at least not like most others. We're not all like the loud American Atheist champions, voicing our opinions on anything via TH-cam or the authors of the books. We are your neighbors, family members, grocer, doctor, computer guy, banker, congressman and sometimes sit in the pew next to you. On a rare occasion we are also the man behind the pulpit. We do not wish to be known as "atheist." We wish to fit in, but we are the negative affect from your perspective. If your faith fails, we are the results. I remember telling my aunt, she asked me if I worshiped in the Devil, I had to tell her that was a Christian character in a book. We haven't spoken in over 30 years. The point is, we are unable to believe? It would be easier to believe. But we have no perception of an of the gods, it's not just about yours. It doesn't appear any more real that the others. I'm retired military and hate to see how Christians are being treated these days. The 1st amendment is there to protect your right to express, just as much as the government is not supposed to favor a church/religion. I like knowing there are reasonable people like you out there in the mix.

Thank you for representing the atheist position fairly.

This video is breathtaking, speechless!

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Lol....she is hilarious. ..I am sharing this on Facebook.

I Love that song at the end! Outstanding job Bishop!!!

What a wonderful video! I Love the ending song!!

Thank you so much for your encouragement woman of God.

I am so happy that you told the TRUTH about hell. No sugar coating it! Teach on Dr. Holmes! I Love it sir. Keep it coming. HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!

what god ?

Glory to God in the Highest, Thank you Jesus, for being ever by the side of this sinner. (btw, This VIDEO is one of the BEST on YT.....period!)

this video is wonderfully done being put to such an awesome song reflecting THE MOST HIGH GOD. blessings to the creator of this masterpiece.

GLORY TO GOD !! AWESOME Video....GOD IS SOVEREIGN !

Thank you so much Bishop!!! God bless you

Good message bishop

Thank you so much woman of God. Your comments are greatly appreciated.

Well I take my hat off to you sir for teaching the truth! If there were no hell, what are we getting saved from? I feel like I have been to bible school. I thank God for you Bishop. Keep it coming. We need the TRUTH!!! Bless God!

THANK YOU DEAR GOD 4 BEING JUST 4 WHO YOU ARE !!!!!!!!!

Sharon Alberts its just very hard for me to accept something as truth just based on faith alone.. I am a 25 year old black graduate student i dont consider myself stupid by no means.. I just have to question and through questioning truth will reveal itself.. Even though there are claims as bishop holmes stated supporting the christian truth, there are also substantial amount of evidence refuting it..

Resurrection story. This is why the story of jesus is seen over and over again throughout history...