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Wonderful Video, love Elden Ring but I love Christ Lord more✝️

Very interested to hear your thoughts/analysis on SotE. Aside from some of the more obvious allusions like Enir-Ilim/Tower of Babel, the revelations from Ymir's questline about the Greater Will and the Fingers were really striking to me.

Personally i think it (like the darkness in DS but it is more obvious there) to be more complexe than frenzyed flame = bad . I see the frenzied flame as the destruction of the established order, chaos and obviously madness. But the point of the sewer is to show you the horrific aspect of the golden order(a bit genocidal) to make you think about their legitimacy and if they truly are better than chaos. Creating such structures :thesis antithesis ->your choice is quite common in fromsoft games my fav exemple is in ds1 where we are shown first the catacombs blighttown the hollow village(the bad part of the fire age) and then another mondo good part . It is the same here the beautiful leyndell and just after the horrific sewer. All of this to say that in DS or ER there is no such thing as good and bad but more complexe idea and the best one is more about opinion than objective good and evil. (And for my personal opinion on the subject i think Aldia says it very well : NO MATTER HOW GENTLE, HOW ECSIQUISIT, A LIE WILL REMAIN A LIE)

It feels, when you refer to the alchemical rebus as a Bamophet, and when you call marriage the traditional solution to this red king/ white queen dynamic, like I am listening to a religious scholar on team "Christian Jungian Psychology" just categorically disrespect practioners of the Ideologies that created Jung's work. I don't know how exactly it came to feel so partisan. I do know that this is the last of your videos I'm ever going to watch- I have seen the work of Christians in our world, and it reminds me of Marika.

While I compared Miquella to a cult leader in the original base game instead of the outright Antichrist, I was one of the few that wasn't on Team Miquella then. I noticed the holes in the "savior" image Miquella projected, especially when the Bewitching Branch revealed he gained worship through mind control. I feel vindicated.

This was such a great in-depth analysis, I am surprised to see such a complex comparison with so many references to myths and alchemy. Keep up the good work!

Was hoping you'd make a video covering this, great work

Ok but serious counter point? Is this show still good for people to watch so long as they don’t take it anymore seriously than Dave and the giant pickle? A new Christian might go with friends after church and get a few things wrong because there’s a difference here in the expectations between a cartoon and a presumed well researched tv show but I do feel like if some Christians think the shows outright wrong the Dave and the giant pickle come back works

Mohg’s ending is already in the game as the dung eater questline

The Greater Will is Yahweh, parasitic, capricious, and bloodthirsty.

Christ died for our sins, he was buried and rose again the 3rd day; according to the scriptures

Pretty good well though out video , you missed some elements here and there but still pretty cool

My two cents: "how else do you abide for" well, we dont. Thats the point. Its the acceptance of not knowing. Ofcourse we cant say there is no god, the honest answer would be: we dont know if there is a god because there is no evidence for god existing.

sick vid

It’s actually sad how the majority of people are arguing over Protestant and Catholic views within the show. I think it’s ignorant to attack the Catholics when they technically make up the majority of Christians (consisting of over 1 Billion members). Of course the show is going to have some Catholic leaning messages. It’s also sad seeing people with such an anti-Catholic attitude when they truly do not understand 99% of what they believe. I think the real issue at hand is the Mormons who are a big part of the production of this show. Say what you want about the differing beliefs of Catholics and Protestants (I still believe both are devote followers of the true gospel), but the Mormons are the biggest group of heretics that have been slowly taking over the west for the last two hundred years. It’s time to address the issues they present to the faithful and how they’ve caused millions of fall astray of Christs true message.

Woah, how in the world did TH-cam recommend the exact video I needed at this moment. Peace and blessings, brethren!

Miquella is both Griffith, and your archtypical Dark Messiah, except instead of wanting to bring about some world of like, fear and death and all that, he wants to bring about peace, love, and order, through basically stripping away free will

Keep in mind that as a student of Golden Order fundamentalism, Miquella would be deeply familiar with the Law of Causality, which imposes a form of deterministic order upon the world. Going even further, Golden Order fundamentalism was developed in large part by Radagon, who trained in Carian astrology, and so it is highly likely that Miquella was aware that before Radahn came along, the stars had the power to control fate, and even now, fragments of starlight can usurp the will of mortals. He may have been casual about removing free will because he might not have believed free will existed to any significant degree to begin with, and decided that people were better off having their wills steered by a god who loves them rather than far off stars like Astel who don't care one way or the other.

Thank you for addressing these claims in such a clear common sense way. I personally couldn’t relate to any of the 12 complaints on the show which did not make sense to me.

I'm strongly opposed to any bio-pic of Jesus.. Bio-pics in general are really unfair to their subjects, giving a false sense of familiarity, actually more false than true even some of the subjects words are used.. And obviously with regard to the Lord Himself, any degree of falsification is a very big problem, possibly even sinful.. Jesus was undoubtedly a skilled preacher, teacher and story teller.. but I would think He was also a lot more apocalyptic, other worldly and uncompromising than portrayed in the Chosen.. In His earthly life, only those called by the Father partially understood Him. (as He says). To everyone else He probably seemed a lunatic or a dangerous fanatic.. As is to be expected, because the Kingdom is radically different and opposed to this world.

I never thought that the argument it “adds to the Bible” was particularly strong. It’s art. The nature of adapting Biblical material necessitates artistic and fictional input. I do understand it may make some people feel weird to see a Jesus portrayed who does not fit their own notions/views so I personally don’t like Jesus portrayals. But there’s nothing wrong with the Chosen in that regard. My main issues with the Chosen are about the structure of the show itself. As well made and entertaining as it is, I find the pacing to be inconsistent and typically too long. The acting is good but the transitions between the humor and serious moments are somewhat clunky (mostly because the humor/jokes and set-up scenes are made up and the serious moments are actual Bible scenes). Also personally I don’t like the fake accent they speak with. I find it unnecessary and doesn’t really accomplish the point of adding to the setting of Middle East. I have a lot of gripes with the show and don’t like it. I can recognize it as well-made though.

Very interesting. I never herad of the movie or show. but still very interesting.

The only problem for me is that we don't add or take anything from the Bible yet The Chosen clearly does. It's a TV show after all.

Excuse me, I'm German. You're speaking too slowly for me. Please speak faster. It's too boring for me. With such important things, you should pick up the pace to underline the importance.

And you and every Protestant is lying to themselves. You are not trusting the Holy Spirit. You are trusting yourself and only yourself. If any of you trusted the Holy Spirit you would all be orthodox.

The Roman Catholic Church left the church in 1054. Orthodox Catholics have the one true church started by the apostles and Christian himself.

Here are my 2 cents of the points. 1. Yes, this sentence was poorly made. It doesn't agree with basic biblical principles. It could be argued that in that specific moment, Nicodemus was (in the show) being saved, was literally made alive, a new creature, in that specific moment, would you really say that a new belivers heart cries out anything other than "Jesus is my Christ, He is my Lord, He is my Savior"?? Really? So I could also see that point being made. Whatever the case may be, this is not repeated throughout the show, as if this was the messagem being conveyed. So, the series as a whole IS NOT trying to argue/defend that "being a Chrsitian" means listening to your heart. If someone says that, they're crazy or never watched the whole show. In summary of point 1, yes, the sentence sits badly and the scene would be better without it (or with a better/biblical sentence). But it has reasonable doubt (as showed above), and if it didn't, it's one thing, that doesn't by itself disqualify the rest of the show. 2. Stupid argument. Doesn't deserve an answer. 3. John did actaully doubted, as seen in the Bible and in the show (when he asked his disciples to confirm Jesus' identity). If these people were willing to let go of their pride and give up their fictional notion that the first century people where long-bearded monks with halos on their head, they would not have trouble understanding the obvious and correct things the Chosen is trying to show. The show does depict John being Jesus' prophet very clearly, specially in 4x1. 4. "It's too funny" L.O.L. The guy who commented this probably never realized the jokes in the Bible and even on the Gospel accounts. (That is, if he reads his bible) 5. Kind of a fair point (very kind of). But it's such a small thing to be annoyed by. Like, dude the series has 32 episodes already. They preach a very good message agains prosperity gospel, against triumphalistic gospel, against easy-believism, against ecumenical sources of salvation, it preaches purity in relationships. It's well scripted, well filmed, well acted, it's funny and insightful, it teaches true things about history, jewish culture, etc. What kind of shows/movies do these people watch that they thing The Chosen is so bad? 6. Apparently not, huh? If it was, there wouldn't be a 12 point comment like this. 7. Doesn't portray drunkeness. Also a stupid argument. 8. Yeah, aslo stupid arguemnt. Seems he's running out of things to criticize. I guess if it isn't in the Bible it didn't happened and it couldn't have happened. (insert clown meme) 9. (...) Jesus was hunger, Jesus cried, Jesus was afflicted, Jesus got distressed. This guy (and many others who criticize the show) has made an idol of a picture he has in his head of how Jesus was in His ministry, and he isn't willing to give up that idol to waht the Bible and Logic says. He is the one that has a corrupted view of Jesus. 10. ... 11. ... 12. Yes, they do one or two things about Mary that goes beyond what they should. It's no mistery that there's a catholic in the roundtable discussion. Yes, Roman Catholicism is blasphemous. But The Chosen is not doing that. Creedence, while you are doing videos looking for heresies in The Chosen, I am looking for good argument/criticisms against The Chosen and have not found them it yet.

I definitely think there's a connection between the Nephilim and the Fire Giants - there is in-game text that flat out states that the art of smithing and forgery originated with the giants, and the ability to harness fire, which is the very thing that's deemed heretical by the Golden Order. So you're spot on with that analysis!

Finally some good fucking lore content again. Everyone is so wrapped up in attempting to create a fully functioning, diegetic canon that can be neatly summarised in a Wiki, that everyone forgets to think about what it all actually MEANS. What the inspirations are, what the point of all of it is. I always thought the inspiration taken from Norse mythology was vastly overstated, to be honest. Judeo-Christian themes are so much stronger here than any others, and while Norse mythology clearly serves as a reference point for a lot of aesthetic choices, thematically it seems much more concerned with a solid mix of the aforementioned Judeo-Christian tradition, Japanese traditional mythology (as well as Japanese buddhism) and modern, existentialist philosophy a la Sartre, Camus and maybe even some of the older stuff like Kierkegaard. Some small piece of constructive criticism: I really wish that you would've edited out all of the mouth-clicking sound and long pauses you take between breaths. It's sadly kinda distracting from what you're actually saying, and the mouth-clicking is some sort of anti-ASMR that makes listening a lot harder. No shade meant by this, just maybe something to watch out for for your next upload

Not that John the apostle lives forever, but there was this rumour.

You know, people dunk on Miquella and call his methods reprehensible...but how is he doing anything different from what the player is doing? We go around and butcher practically anything and anyone with any sort of authority in the lands between (and most of its wildlife) with nothing but our own lust for power and craving for violence as justification. Hey, if we want we can even curse the land or destroy it altogether on nothing but a whim. Suddenly Miquella taking extreme measures to ensure peace in the land via forcefully pacifying its inhabitants don't seem so "villainous" any longer. I mean Ranni, Miquella's supposed "good" counterpart plans to remove any semblance of order from the Lands Between in the name of "freedom" when this is guaranteed to cause even more chaos and warfare until there's no one left or some other tyrant takes the helm and everything's back at square one.

When comparing Miquella to Jesus in Shadow of the Erdtree, my main takeaway was that sacrifice is pointless without love. And because Miquella lacked love, all that he did was only done to glorify himself, or in other words he tried to "save himself."

My thing when it comes to Rhema is ppl who say “My Jesus would have brought her back” think that God will do anything they ask. And no it’s HIS WILL BE DONE. There are things that we want that we don’t get. We don’t understand now what he’s doing but we will. Nothing says that he would have done every miracle and everything ppl asked.

He the anti Christ of Elden Ring

I think Miquella's curse of nascency is more than just being young looking forever. A lot of lore analysis type of content creators think it's directly relating to him starting things and never being able to finish them, which directly runs into an unfortunate circumstance considering Malania being cursed by the god of rot. Another thing about this game that is so interesting is the direct comparisons to Christianity so consistently, in regards to Marika more than anyone else. Its a thing that's even more interesting given the Japanese history around Christianity.

miquella the glorious would never do such things!

Miquella's actual curse is Nascency, nothing they plan, nothing they do, every comes to fruition, they can never complete any task, they are always "becoming" but never arrive, they are the most powerful entity in the setting, but never can they achieve any goals, only start them.

Marika's "other half" Radagon was as completely seperate person she fused with try and create the Alchemic Rebis, the Divine Hermaphrodite, wikipedia "Rebis", the problem is that Radagon was no Sulfur, he was Pyrite, fools gold, Miquella does this in reverse, to try and recreate it fully with Radahan, him being the masculine Sulfur

6:48 the problem of evil does not apply to Miquella because he is never claimed to be an all powerful god and he also never created the universe. If the god of the bible is all powerful and it created the universe, then it would not have created one where gratuitous suffering was unavoidable. I think the take away here is that Miquella's kindness is not kindness at all because it comes in the form of compulsory subjugation. Just like how the god of the bible's love is not love at all, because it comes with the threat of eternal torture if denied. If you love someone, you let them go. You don't throw them into a pit of fire. I'd have to say Miquella comes out on top here, at least he doesn't torture us for eternity

You seem unaware but "Satan" is a title and used in ways such as "the satan" meaning the opposer, as in a member of the angels that god has taken on this role to give god some pushback

The first red flag we should have seen was when his name changed from "the Unalloyed" to "the Kind" They turned him into a different character, I'm telling you

I came to Catholicism through Peterson, and I think Peterson is right on one point. I think belief in God is not a mere "yes or no" answer. Faith is almost never perfect, and most people, me included, can't believe all the time, or be always aligned with God. I think that reducing belief to a mere "do or don't" is damaging to the faith, where it becomes a mere membership card. Another point of faith is that faith comes in many forms, people are different, and trying to force everyone to adhere to the same practices just won't work (that's why we Christians keep splitting), I agree that the faith in Christ is fundamental, but trying to make everyone conform to the same identical beliefs and practices is a self-defeating game, as history has proven again and again. What's the solution then? I think it could be possible to develop a more flexible approach to Christianity, something that allows people to come to him in steps and in different ways, so to not lose the stability of religion but also not to make it all about stagnant rites and empty vows.

Just explain to me how you can say that this doesn't contradict scripture. If it is not in the Bible and you make up all these people who are not in the Bible and you then put them in the Bible then that is the definition of a false gospel message. Just because someone makes a series about the Bible and throws out a disclaimer that say's we are just saying that this is plausible, well if you accept that then you would have to be okey with someone else coming along and throwing out their disclaimer but yet they want to do exactly what Dallas is doing and they make Peters wife having an affair with his brother or worse she is a Nymphomaniac and sleeping with all of the disciples. That is on par with Dallas inventing this character called Lilith and making her an alcoholic and having her get raped and just everything that is wrong with this woman, and Peter he turns him into a Jew hater by him selling out his fellow Jews . What if someone writes in Peter's roll as being a homosexual do you think any of this would be okey to God. Listen to the reasoning and tell me if it doesn't sound familiar. Dallas is trying to give background to the people that God chose not too but he doesn't care because he doesn't honor God. But this new producer comes along and say's try to understand we just want to show the world of 2024 that the people of the Bible have the same troubles in their lives as the people in our times do, and to include everyone and not be judgmental we want to show the people outside of the church that Jesus loves them too and we wanted to show homosexuals of today that even back then this was an issue of them being judged and we wanted to show that Jesus loves them and would pick them for disciples also. I mean he picked people who were thieves and people who were addicts and hung out with ex prostitutes so why not a nympho who sleeps with all of the disciples. Sin is sin so it doesn't matter according to you and Dallas or do you guys get to play God and only Dallas can say what is plausible. Do you not see what is wrong with this ? God is going to judge anyone who adds or takes away from His commands. But that is only what the Bible say's not what Dallas says. And you talk about the three sidekicks that Dallas has to talk about the show. Are you kidding me you have a catholic priest who pray to dead people and who took God's 2nd commandment and through it out so that they could write their own commandments a short part of the 2nd commandment. You shall not make for yourselves any graven images of anything on the earth in the earth under the sea in heaven under heaven and ect. ect ect. So again you think that this guy here we should listen to anything catholic priest say, God gave a prophecy to Daniel about the roman church they wrote their own Bible not a Translation difference but a different Bible so that they could leave out things that they thought God got wrong. And if you do't know what I am talking about just ask me and I will show you were it is in their bible. And try to sound a little less like an ANTI-SEMITE Jews were the first and only Christians until they were preached to , but there are still many Messianic Jews in the world that still believe that Jesus is the Messiah.

As for methodoly, inventing a hell realm and threatening people with it, doesnt seem to be the ideal, so the search continues No solution can come from gods, as its top down, and does not adress the unique needs of every being that is a product of this pluralist world

I think that the point of Elden Ring is that everyone is trying to become God, but they all eventually fail because... Well they can't. The way they become God is by removing something from the world, Marika removed death, while Miquella wants to remove freedom. God, or the Greater Will, created all these things, so trying to remove them would go against his will. A "proper" God would embrace all things equally, ironically Ranni's ending is closer to this, although I don't like her as a character

I am sorry but I don't know the name of the person doing this video. But I have to correct you on a couple of things before I ask you my question. You made the statement that John is the only one that followed Jesus to His crucifixion, that is partly true. You have to remember that Jesus prophesied that all His disciples would be scattered and basically the word in this context it to disperse. But most gentile pastors that I hear on these verses tend to miss the mark, kinda what you are doing . When Jesus was going through all the stuff that the Jews and Romans were putting Him through only Peter was there John scattered and hid just like all of them except for Peter and not only that, look how much he put his life on the line . the Bible say's that he just cut off the servant of the high priest ear and where was Peter ? at the patio of the high priest so even though they could have taken him and held him over for trial he still went there. And yes he finally ran away hours later. And then yes John eventually came out of hiding when everything was over and it was safe for him.

I just heard you say something like as long as it doesn't do anything contrary to scripture it is still not a issue. I guess it doesn't really matter because how can this be okey with God ? None of these people are even in the Bible. Do you really think that it is okey that Dallas adds in that Peter's wife has a miscarriage, or that Peter sells out his Jewish friends or just Jews in general having Peter breaking the Shabbat or again selling out Jews to pay his and his brothers taxes . Do you think that it is okey with God to make up that story ? Or to have him and his brother fighting their in laws or fighting anyone and betting on that . Do you think that would be okey with God to add that to the Scriptures ? Do you think that the disciples who tried with all their might not to sin against would be okey with Dallas turning them into worse sinners , making them twice as ready for the lake of fire. Do you think that it is okey that Dallas nullified Jesus's miracle to Mary Magdalene by having her go back to her old life after she was healed by God ? Or do you think that it is okey to have her named changed to Lilith and have her be an alcoholic when she wasn't one , or have her get raped by a Roman guard that one was probably alright with our Lord don't you think ? Here is one of my favorites in the first season, the first episode there is 54 minutes in the episode and out of that 54 minutes there is not 1 SECOND never mind 45 or 50 minutes that you would expect to come from the Bible in the episode , but there was not 1 SECOND of that 54 minutes that anything came from the New Testament. The make believe father of the make believe woman ( Lilith ) quoted the 1st verse from Isaiah 43 but the problem is it is not written in the real Bible them characters just don't exist. So your key word that helps you and your wife sleep at night seems to be not contrary to scripture. Are you kidding me all of this is contrary to scripture. I have been a RABBI for more years then I can count, but I am still willing to be corrected when I am wrong. Isn't God very clear when He has the Apostle Paul say to us in Galatians 1:v6-9 and I am just going to paraphrase Paul is accusing them of deserting Christ and turning to a different gospel, he then goes on to say not that there is another one but there are some who are bothering you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an Angel from heaven should preach to you a Gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. God was so serious about this happening to us also once we received the gospel. Well I have news for you this is the epitome of a different Gospel. Be honest everyone this is defiantly a different gospel message almost none of these people and events are in the Bible .You don't need to answer to me but one day we will all give an account for every word that we say.

Miquella is basically fromsoft Griffith, as Miyazaki loves berserk references, tho Griffith is effectively the anti-christ of berserk

The real tragedy is that on paper, Miquella's plan was perfect, it was genuinely born from kind and compassionate intentions, but when he realized he had to sacrifice more to fulfill his goals, he began to abandon everything to resolve himself for his wish. Hhe believed that his dream would remain pure, separate from his actions, but the moment he decided to abandon his flesh, his sacrifices and his resolve, would all be in vain. His connection to the living, the mortal part of his demigod blood, that allowed him to sympathize with others, would be twisted the moment he ascended to godhood, and remained in St. Trina. St. Trina holds the true personality of Miquella, and the one we face at the end is a diety that can no longer comprehend or enact the human kindness he wished to guide the world towards. Just the blinded "compassion" of a god who could no longer understand the human heart. How could a god save something they can't comprehend? It would be a salvation deprived of sympathy. The same kind any other god in the Lands Between would bring. Miquella's wish, would only ever be a contradiction.

Take it back! He is God!