That’s a hard question. I firmly believed in God, but I didn’t want to follow God because I wanted to do what I wanted to do. After some soul searching I finally decided the wisest thing was to take His offer and follow God. I was 7 years old. Now I’m 82. Incredibly blessed, and still following.
@@wma5440 It’s definitely the attitude that Jesus says we should have when submitting to God. “I assure you: Whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it. Luke 18:17.
Well, I’m 66 and I rejected god(s), religions and the mediocre prophet Jesus all my life and I’m very happy I did so because it’s a drug worst than any other.
@@gingercake0907this mediocre prophet who lured a lot of his audience with the promise that they wouldn’t need to get circumcised also said: 'If you want to be my disciple, you must, by comparison, hate everyone else-your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters-yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple.' Do you know that such a demand differs in nothing from the very first demand of every, narcissistic, sociopath; control freak, pimp, cult leader. If your daughter would come home with such a boyfriend I really would like to be a fly to measure your appreciation and approval of her choice. And he was definitely a conman given the fact that he had the audacity to call himself son of a non existent being.
@@frankcardano4142 Youre missing the point. Frank asked him it it were true. Which means if we KNEW for a fact we were created by God would you be a follower of Christ and he basically said NO. Thats illogical
@@mnight207 No it’s not illogical. I think he even states he would believe it but he wouldn’t follow his immoral commands to kill his own son. Would you?
@@mnight207 Also, Franks “Gotcha” question has problems which is why non believers are stumped. It has nothing to do with an issue of the heart. To what I understand, being a Christian requires us to believe on faith. If Christianity were proven true, we wouldn’t need faith. So being a Christian would no longer be possible under that definition.
He really delves deep into any subject matter, and is one of the top experts in the world on Sharia law, the pagan roots of IsLame, and the truth about the Talmud. Now he’s unveiling the roots of Atheism 😊
I love how this atheist (now agnostic) is not the regular in-your-face kind of a person. He is honest in his enquiry, and is open to go where evidence would lead him. Be it an atheist or a theist, this attitude should be universally followed. Beautiful video!
BOTH THIESTS ARE THE SAME..THE DIFFERENCE THE DISTANCE A IS TO THE THIEST THEN THE A IS FOR THE ATHIEST...Now if FRANK got the athiest to see hes agnostic...thats great but the book He recommended STEALING FROM GOD makes me want to command the agnostic to present to me what he learned
@C L There is not "overwhelming evidence already that God exists...". I'm an atheist because it's the most honest position to hold. I don't care either way if a god or gods exist. I just have a belief in things that have epistemic justification. Being convinced of a god or gods existing is not one of them. Every argument I've ever heard is flawed and is not a sound and/or valid syllogism.
@@cl6693 I find it interesting that most arguments for god have to do with how everything started 13.7 billion years ago which scientists are still trying to figure out. What about in the last 2000 years since your god supposed lived for a few decades, died as all humans do, never to be heard from again (again as all humans do after they die). No answered prayer other than what would happen from random statistics. Good and evil happen at random. Sure don't see any "overwhelming" evidence.
Likewise I & Exactly beloved brother & Co-religionist, I'll corroborate that that's the sacred-scriptural apologetical attitude-behavior epitome. Wishings of wisdom for you & your fam. 👋🏽👊🏽💪🏽🫂☮️
I’m sorry but I’ve heard enough from Frank to say he isn’t respectful when it comes to talking about atheism/atheists and science/scientists. He misrepresents the topics.
I'm not so sure he's showing either by demanding someone to outright reject Jesus Christ with his patent leading question. Neither do I think he's being wise in forcing one to solidify their doubts.
@@pescatoralpursuit1726 well the east one-“I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist”….doesn’t take faith. Frank also acts like atheism is more than just a position. It’s not. He talks like he knows more about atheism than actual atheists. He acts like all science and scientists agree there was a beginning to the universe…that’s not true. He cherry picks science.
This is how these conversations should be. It's very difficult to have a conversation like this on social media, which can be a sewer sometimes. A lot of people have either never been taught how to disagree without insulting, or they just dont care. That's not how you get your point across.
Calvinists and determinists have tried to lay claim to all of reformed theology. Which is of course ridiculous as every denomination that stemmed out of the reformation did not agree with Calvin. But nonetheless, they try to say it's theirs. Which is interesting when they also now state that they don't believe in free will. That's why he is saying that "although" and implies he can still appreciate it. It's because he holds a misinterpreted view that people don't have a choice. Which is you follow to it's logical conclusion makes God the author of evil, which He has said in His Word that He is not.@@Luvallo
It's nice to see an atheist that has actually read Turek's book and is seeking. It's also scary to see how much his heart is set against seeing the truth.
@@trumpbellend6717 Truth can easily be asserted. I assert many truths every day of my life. Especially to those who speak in a condescending manner and think truth is relative, as your quotation marks seem to imply.
@@Milocinia "Truth" is best determined using FACTS & EVIDENCE dear not "faith". Science has all the FACTS yet claims nothing as "absolute" truth Christianity conversely claims Absolute truth in everything yet has no FACTS
@@Milocinia _"his heart I set against seeing the truth"_ Lol *BELIEF IS NOT A "CHOICE"* or a mere act of volition. Sure someone can pretend to believe anything but the things one actually believe are not something you choose they are an involuntary response to one's level of information and understanding of their environment. You are either convinced or you are unconvinced and its EVIDENCE that convinces. I could not just make myself believe in pixies no matter how much I closed my eyes and stamped my feet. Anymore than you could right now "choose" to be convinced that God is not real or that the laws of gravity don't apply to you if you step off that cliff. Tell me could you genuinely "choose" to believe the internet does not exist and we are not having this discourse now ?? I'm talking about being CONVINCED of it bud not just pretending!! Give me an honest answer , could you right now "Choose" to believe in Thor or Zeus ??? 🤔 for exactly the same reason I can't choose to believe in Yahweh. Now if I recieved some irrefutable knowledge or evidence then I would have no "choice" but to believe, I would have to deny my own reasoning and senses. That what changes beliefs, not "choice" If you came home and found your spouse in bed with the neighbour, could you just "CHOOSE" to believe in his fidelity and go back downstairs to make him a nice cup of tea ?? 🤣😅🤣
Atheist: a person who full well knows God exists by all creation but really wishes He didn't. A prideful person who rejects God's authority for their own. A person who will be judged by this same God for their sins unless they repent and believe on Jesus Christ for their salvation.
@@Mavors1099 As some other folks have pointed out in the comment section. There is no clear definition about atheism until an atheist feels she or he has been misrepresented but some people who claim to be atheist are angry at a God in which they are supposedly don't care about god because they're an atheist.
That’s not true. As a Christian, I know that there are people who don’t believe. It’s much easier to tell people about god when you understand what they believe
Imagine you are on a guided tour through a beautiful jungle. You and your guide come upon a moss covered rope bridge across a deep chasm. Your guide says, "Cross, it's safe." The difference between faith and trust lies in which side he's saying that from.
I like that. One issue with it is the analogy breaks when applied to Christianity. Jesus did not promise we would be safe in this world, when following Him. He specifically stated the world will hate Christians, because they first hated Christ. He warned some of us will be hunted, some of us killed, some of us rejected and persecuted. Going back to your analogy, Jesus says "trust me" from both sides. He doesn't say it's safe.
@@nathanielalderson9111 Nope. Just do a bible search and you will find many passages stating the God/Jesus promises "protection" and "safety" for believers.
@@Max_Doubt sure. They aren't contradictions. They are time and context sensitive. We eventually will be safe. All who believe in Jesus Christ and Him crucified will be saved. Some of us will barely scrape in, with loss, but still saved. All who reject Jesus Christ will not be saved. And we will face the consequences of what we do. You guys think in Either / Or, Must. But you need to understand. God is a person, and you cannot force Him to do anything. He will do as He wills. And He gives each one of us the free will to choose to be with Him for eternity. His promises are Yes and Amen. (Including the if you do bad you will be punished promises.) Obviously a good dad is not going to give his son access to power tools without safety lessons first. Otherwise the son could do serious harm to himself and others. We ate the fruit. We wanted to become like God. He's giving us the room and opportunity to try. And the lessons that humanity continues to not learn is no matter our progress, God still has to come down to meet us, because our efforts aren't enough to get "there". This Earth is the battleground. This is the school room. This is the nursery. We are not ready for adulthood yet.
@@reality1958 If you're willing to discuss it, where is the severe immorality in the Bible? I know of a few examples of *apparent* immorality, but it isn't actually.
@@frankcardano4142 Try this for size Frank. In the world of gem stones there are 2 different categories, Isotropic, and Anisotropic, this has only been discovered recently, certainly within the last 70 years or so. It has only been discovered because of discovering how to filter light into straight lines, laser. Under a microscope when filtered light is aimed straight at an Isotopic stone such as diamond and ruby, it passes straight through and the stone just looks black and grey, when the same is done to Anisotropic stones such as Sapphire and Jasper, the result is all the colours of the rainbow and quite beautiful to behold. This is due to the compound makeup of the stones to put it crudely. So we have Isotropic and Anisotropic stones. Now the book of revelation was written over 2000 years ago when none of this was known, nor did they have the means to know this, yet revelation 21 lists 12 gem stones that are used in the building of the new Jerusalem, all 12 listed are Anisotropic stones that will radiate every colour when pure light is shone on them. There is no way that 2000 years ago this could have been known, not by man, anyway, but there it is.
@@horace9341.... yet Jesus didn't know the mustard seed isn't the smallest seed. We can play this game back and forth... all day long. Proves absolutely nothing
You have to appreciate this fellas apprehension and even the bible talks about testing the word and seeing that it stands up. Dr Turek is awesomely patient and understanding and it’s indicative of the spirit working through him. I’d be curious to see a conversation between these two after he has read that book
@@finnhuman1599 No you’re correct but you can apply that method of reasoning to suggest that anything is ultimately responsible but it won’t help you to determine what actually is .
Aethist should take notes. See how he wasnt mocked, laughed at, or ridiculed for not believing? He wasnt even convinced at the end of the conversation and they still were able to respect each other. Very nice to see.
It’s like sons. They know I’m their father. They don’t necessarily want to listen to what I tell them. He seems like an honest person. Atheism has more to do with the heart than the intellect.
@@shinywarm6906From an earthly father I agree. But from God, who really does know everything, is it egomania that you should follow Him? He wants you to also be perfect. If your earthly father was as good as he could possibly be and treated you in the best way you could you imagine, wouldn’t you love him? And if you quit loving him through no fault of his, wouldn’t he want you to return his love? How could/would you communicate that love? By telling him how much you love him. The giant difference is that with God, you are praising His perfection. When I do something righteous, I praise my Father, God, for teaching me the right way to do something.
@@rclarkson5 thanks. What's strange to me is this insistence on the personification of what should be an ideal. It makes the message not "praise love" or "esteem cooperation", but "worship the patriarch". Not only does it open the way to domestic tyranny, it leads to the tribalism that has plagued the homelands of Abrahamic religion in the Near East for centuries. When you claim to yourself that you've "done something righteous", but view it in these patriarchal terms, how do you make that judgement? The Israelis presumably believe they are doing "something righteous" when they bomb a Palestinian refugee camp. Hamas believe the same when they take an Israeli citizen hostage. Their holy texts, filled with tribal brutalities ordered by a patriarchal god, only reinforce that sense.
Translation: I’m the god of my own life, and I’m unwilling to submit to anyone, even if they are objectively wiser and more powerful than me. Pride is the most dangerous sin.
@@frankcardano4142 that's a nice bait, but I won't take it. If I say yes, you'll say I'm a horrible human being, and if I say no, then you'll say that I don't trust God. God wouldn't tell me to kill my own son. Frank explicitly explains in the video why God commanded Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, and I know that if I believe that God commands me to kill my son, then it's not truly God.
Yeah editing software helps substantially with that. When other people film them and post it he doesn't seem as calm and collected odd it's almost like his videos are cherry-picking the best of his b*******
@Deston Swan so now you are saying mythical creatures were created? or the idea of them was created by humans? You arent using clear language and your definitions are weak
If definition are "subjective" like morality and truth then Franks definition of atheism is just as valid as an atheist or will the atheist claim objective truth when they claim misrepresentation
Well, language changes and our use of words have fluidity. Example: Christians were considered atheists back in history during Roman times. Anyway, let's look a the word Theist: "a person who believes in the existence of a god or gods, specifically of a creator who intervenes in the universe." Now, let's look at the prefix "A": which means not or without. So an Atheist is some *without* belief or does *not* have a belief in God or gods.
Definitions are just a matter of convention. Languages change all the time. You don't need to know the "objective" definition of a word to understand what someone is saying. You just need to know what definition they are using.
In Poland and in almost all eastern culture, when we speaking to someone or asking questions, we don't put our hands into the pockets. This is a sign of disrespect to the person we talk to.
What God is asking of us is really simple. Love Him for what He’s done for us. Then represent Him in the world by loving our neighbor. Then sharing His message to everyone. Easy to say….difficult to stop worshipping ourselves.
Takes more effort to believe in an ancient carpenter zombie to have resurrected and eat his body and drink his blood as remembrance of his sacrifice to save you from himself.
If I had to deal with the cognitive dissonance of a religious person I'd be very depressed. Believing in something when the universe and facts work against those beliefs must be very tiring. Explaining everything you don't know as magic makes some of that a bit easier though LMAO
Weirdly, I find reading the Bible to be much easier as an atheist. I don't have to constantly construct lame excuses for why two passages don't seem to add up, or why God is commanding genocides or causing plagues. It's a human book with human errors, and I can just let it speak for itself.
Honestly, I think that's rational position. I just believe Abraham had the privilege to know that God is not an evil God, who would love to have fathers sacrifice theirs sons and rather He is a loving God who takes care of His children. Probably he knew it was a test or that even if he sacrifices Isaac, God would ressurect him later.
@@taylorthetunafish5737 asking for something isn't disobedient. Solomon was promised one things of anything he ASKED for.. "Ask and it will be given to you, Knock on the door and it will be opened." Mattew 7:7
I think the dude's answer may have actually been "yes", but for some reason or other, he didn't want to voice that. I could be wrong, but that's my theory.
@Deston Swan perhaps, but also consider what's at stake: death and eternal non-existence or death and eternal punishment vs. death and eternal communion with a personal God.
@Deston Swan , the difference is there is tons of evidence for Christianity and zero evidence for leprechauns. Also, the worst case scneario if no leprechauns exists is you may never find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow; whereas the worst case scenario if you reject the salvation offered as a free gift from God, then you spend an eternity apart from him, by your own well-formed choice. . Saying "there's no evidence for Christianity" denies the over 25,000 early manuscripts of the Bible we have which agree to within 99.7% accuracy of transmission, the well-ordered universe, the fact that we know nothing material comes into existence without a source (and thus presupposes a non-material creator), testimony of extra-biblical sources, the rapid growth of Christianity in spite of tremendous persecution (no other worldwide religion grew without state sponsorship except Christianity) and a host of other arguments and evidence backed claims. There are literally TONS of evidence, so to compare Christianity to leprechauns is a false comparison from the start. . Suggestion: Try examining all the evidence for Christianity some day, and then after careful study decide if you reject it or not.... there's plenty out there to keep you busy for several years if you care to make the effort. If you do not care to make the effort....fine and dandy...but then you most certainly must give up making the claim that there's "not enough evidence" if you don't care to study it in the first place or risk being intellectually dishonest.
What I don't get is, as far as the Universe is concerned, how did it come into existence while getting everything just right? Isn't it like trying to bake an elaborate cake for the first time, without a recipe, and getting every ingredient just right? Or more to the point, what are the chances of that happening?
@@FluffyHawk13 don't you know? that's humanities fault for god creating a tree with fruit that a chick ate, but he knew she would eat it and put it there anyways, definitely our fault!
@@sdog1234 Yep, it's human's fault for choosing the bad option. God literally gave them everything they could ever want and their every need was satisfied, and He just gave them one rule to follow and they couldn't even do that. Imagine having the ability to choose between right and wrong and still choosing to do wrong.
@@NovusIgnis Humanities fault or Eve's fault? Or is it that beings fault for putting a tree there in the first place that he knew would be eaten? What is the point of a test you know the answer to and the result you know will horribly damage your creations? That fictional story will never make sense to me.
Yeah when you get edit videos and tell bold-faced lies the whole time it's pretty easy to stay calm. He's calling you and you need to verify his clearly baseless claims
The question of whether or not you would do something that God commands absent of a relationship with God is not going to yield a sincere answer. Before having children, I don’t know if I would have declared, with the level of confidence that I would today, that I would lay down my life for them.
I always find the whole atheist contempt with God asking Abraham to kill his son is rich. The fact that atheists condone and sometimes encourage the over 3000 babies that are killed by their parents every day. That's over 3000 a day. I'm pretty sure the only people trying to stop all that bloodshed are Christians... so I just find it a really disingenuous gripe rhat there is one example where God asked someone to kill their son, and they act like God is immoral. It's definitely rich
I wonder how far you would go if God were to speak to you one day, saying, "Take your son to the mountain top and make an offering of him to me"? Would you ignore Him? Would you take him to the mountain top as commanded? What would you answer if, like Isaac, your son asked what you were doing with the knife? Would you actaully kiill him? And what do you hope you would do?
When he mentioned that He would not sacrifice his son if God asked him to. The whole time I was thinking, if you only knew that is precisely what Jesus did for you. He died for your sins, so that you wouldn't have to die and live. If only you would believe.
Hey I've been watching your videos for a while. I've probably watched around 15 or 20 now. And I've noticed almost all of these clips from these prerecorded broadcasts have poor sound quality. I am wondering why? I work in video, perhaps I could give some advice.
That guy should have asked Frank: if it was true that the Olympian gods Zeus and Apollo and all the rest were real and they wanted us to worship them, would you? Or if the Hindu system was actually true, would you become a hindu?
He has actually addressed that before when an atheist asked "if atheism were true would you become an atheist". Frank responded that he would in fact become an atheist if it were true - because to not do so would be illogical.
but the dilemma still remains that we have no knowledge of whether or not christianity is true. frank, being indoctrinated into christiandom since childhood, accepts "evidence" of christianity that would certainly not convince him if it were not connected to his religion. likewise, a devout hindu who grew up in india accepts "evidence" of the truth of the hindu system that wouldn't convince him if he were raised in a non-hindu country.
@@chrispatterson8210 Frank also doesn't have a clue what atheism is so that reply has no substance. He believes you need to have "faith" to not believe in what he takes on faith. It's the dumbest position you could possibly take publicly.
@@onsenguy It would be easier to believe this claim from Atheist if they didn't spend so much time acting in unison like a religion, burning resources and time trying to prove something doesn't exist. Ask me how many hours I have spent in comment sections trying to prove Leprechauns don't exist.
3:20 The atheist is (again), trying to use the story of Abraham and Isaac as his crutch for not adhering to the Bible. In the atheist’s head he’s thinking, “If God tells me to kill my son, that’s immoral, so I won’t do it, therefore your God is evil.” Blah, blah blah. Here’s the problem. The atheists NEVER finish that story. So, I’ll put on my Dana Carvey imitating Ross Perot hat and ask, “Can I finish? Can I finish, can I finish, can I finish!” The story ends with Abraham NOT killing his son. Why? Because the story-the lesson to be learned-is to obey God’s command, even when you do not understand why. Want to know why this is 100% logically sound? Because parents do this all the time! Parents constantly tell their kids to do something that the kid doesn’t want to do and doesn’t understand why they’re doing it. But you (the parent) do! Because you have a firmer grasp on reality than your child does. THAT is the lesson or the comparison to be learned.
@@chosenone8408 atheism isn't something you "accept" you either believe in gods or you don't. Atheism is logical and reasonable as no god has ever been demonstrated to exist
@Deston Swan I see, so as atheists mythologize Darwin-who admitted his “theory” was DOA-is an intellectually profound, and mic dropping moment. LOL Tell me more!
That's odd that Frank wouldn't reference 'thou shalt not murder' when the guy brought up killing his son. It's a false dilemma as God wouldn't tell his followers to do something that goes against his commandments.
God telling Abraham to kill his son was like a trust fall. Someone tells you to fall backwards, if you trust them you will, because you know they'll catch you.
Not trolling my friend. I'm only interested in what is most likely to be true that's all and I think the world and humanity would be better off without delusion and magical thinking.
Atheist was right on point with his example of why he wouldn’t automatically fall in line with God. As the Bible teaches, God can be extremely violent and bloodthirsty. I wouldn’t want to risk having blood on my hands as a consequence of following him. No way.
That's not what the Bible teachers or says... But while we're making things up. Why should I ever consider atheism when it doesn't seem any of you all know what you believe in. Or when your logic begins to fall apart you just double down on it or completely copout and say "we don't know".
@@blackhaze8233 _" you just double down on it or completely copout and say "we don't know"."_ When you don't know something, that is the intellectually honest answer to give. It's a better answer than 'we don't know so a god must have done it'.
@@markh1011 no. That's just mental gymnastics and copping out. We know nothing produces nothing something never comes from nothing. We know life comes from life not non life... We know reason exist. Saying "we don't know" is the cowards and lier's way out of the answer. We also know that just because we can't see touch smell or hear something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
@@blackhaze8233 So when we didn't know what caused the weather the right answer was "god did it". While saying "we don't know" was merely "mental gymnastics and copping out. " 🤣🤣 You might want to think about your position a little harder.
@@blackhaze8233 _" Saying "we don't know" is the cowards and lier's way out of the answer. "_ Nope. That's intellectual honesty. Understand what these words mean. _" We also know that just because we can't see touch smell or hear something doesn't mean it doesn't exist."_ ....and? What's that got to do with your illogical statements?
"If God existed and...." Which God? The Jewish god? The Christian god? The Muslim god? These are all mutually exclusive, i.e., pick one cuz believers in the others are headed to hell. And if choosing the Christian one; is it the Catholic one or the protestant one? And if it is the protestant one; is it the current one or the one from, say, the 1950's. Because what is 'acceptable' now and what was acceptable in the 1950's are very different (divorce, female clergy, LGBTQ tolerance, etc.). Who decided and approved these changes? People as a whole...society. Whether in the U.S., Europe, SW Asia; and from 1000 BCE to now, somehow 'our' gods have always held the same beliefs as we do...nearly like we invented them to back up our sense of what is morally acceptable.
If there were no God and no Satan trying to deceive people, wouldn't there only have been clear Gods of the Gaps? Why does the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and Christian Bible (New Testament) have so much proof of the people, places, events and prophecies coming true? They weren't writing Comic books back then. These aren't fictional testimonies and events. So on and so forth... you should really look into Jesus with an open mind. Or if you want to continue thinking that the entire universe and everything in it came from a giant or small ball of nothing out of nothing, or whatever, then that is your choice. God provided proof. People saw that proof and died for it. Also on your note about acceptable behavior/society norms; There's a difference between trying to warn people and hating people. Hate is akin to Murder according to God. Sexual sin, be it heterosexual or otherwise is still a sin. Watching porn is the same type of level of sin as having sex with the same sex. We're all guilty of sin. True Christians are just warning people that their house is on fire and trying to get them to safety. The only person in history that is perfect is Jesus. Nothing more, nothing less.
@@TheRealTrucido "Why does the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and Christian Bible (New Testament) have so much proof of the people, places, events and prophecies coming true?" Very little of the Bible can be corroborated historically. A few places...a few people. But none of the supernatural claims can be. And how people have twisted and interpreted things to be "prophetic fulfillment" is irrelevant. This is just a "believe these claims as truth". Not actual verification of a claim. "Or if you want to continue thinking that the entire universe and everything in it came from a giant or small ball of nothing out of nothing, or whatever, then that is your choice." This isn't what science says at all. This is a continuing theist Strawman fallacy. "Hate is akin to Murder according to God. Any entity that would state such a thing is being ignorant. "We're all guilty of sin." A "god who requires your obedience" has to first be shown to factually exist, else the concept of "sin" is irrelevant. "True Christians are just warning people that their house is on fire and trying to get them to safety." And we've looked. No fire anywhere. "The only person in history that is perfect is Jesus." Baseless claim. BTW,...how could you know something was "perfect"? How would you provide the data points to back it up? Saying someone was "perfect" is meaningless.
Mr Frank Turrek,,,You are a Brother in Christ,,,I see I John 2:27 is evident with you by His Holy Spirit,,,Praise the Lord Jesus Christ for anointing upon you such a ministry of the Gospel
The literal definition of Atheist is a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods. The literal definition of faith is complete trust or confidence in someone or something. Frank knows this, so he was just straight up lying here.
Wise response from Frank as he got directly to the point about God asking to murder your son and used the Abraham example to unveil the plan of salvation through Jesus Christ on that very same mountain of Moriya where God gave His son but saved Abraham’s son !
Well, if God is all powerful and forgiving, He could just have forgiven mankind. Would have been the decent thing to do, given all the blood and gore that comes with the current solution. Not really a story you tell your young children. And if he couldn't, would He really be all powerful?
@@HansBezemer Sir , your argument does stand the test at all ! Even on a natural point there a lot things that you cannot persuade your kids ! For example evolution : The Big Bang theory From matter to the beginning of life From bacterium to human species Let us go back to Abraham offering his Son asked by God ! Did you know the pagan nations (Canaanites ,Hittites )at that time were offering their children to the their idols ? God tested Abraham : Are you able to do what the pagans could do unto their false gods ! In fact Yahweh intervened to stop Abraham from sacrificing Isaac !! You do not understand God’s character and His ways !! This is story that you should tell your kids !!
Makes no sense, stand up to give some argument and yet declines any offer even if it was right in front of him. Why even come up to ask anything in the first place?
@Justin Gary shoosh justin. The adults are talking and we all know You are a flat out liar who can’t handle an adult conversation so you trying to say others are dishonest….is pure hypocrisy
@@DRayL_ It is logically impossible for a lack of a position to be a position. Furthermore, a rejection of a claim is the exact opposite of lacking a belief in said claim.
@@eznight25 The position _is_ not having a reason to accept unfounded claims. 😕 Also, you can reject a claim....and lack a belief at the same time. I have no idea how you could think these as "the exact opposite".
@@paulbogle8161 To even entertain the possibility of living in a matrix is placing doubt in God. The prominent satanists are admitting they could be a brain in a vat and reality doesn't exist, basically living in a matrix.
@@albertsmith6717 wow you commented was censored! I'm guessing just because it mentioned satanism. He did not entertain the idea in himself it was a conversation tool. Its not wrong to say 'for the sake of argument, I'll grant you that.'
But we could. That's the entire point of faith. If you claim that you *know* that God exists, then you aren't relying on faith. Faith and knowing are mutually exclusive. You can't have faith in something you know. If you know, you know. There is definitely the possibility that were in the matrix. There's also the possibility that the vikings got it right and we're just one of the nine realms that sprouted from the organs of the first giant. Do I think withe rof those two are as likely as what the Bible says? No. But I don't know it for sure. Anyone that claims they know is being deceived, either by their own arrogance or by the works of Satan.
Brother Frank: So if God exists and you disagree with his commands, then you would go your own way? Atheist: Yes. Me: SMH! That's like a new age Atheist saying, "There is no God and it's fact." Both positions are completely absurd, smh. Now I will say that many people claim to be Christian, but yet, they don't obey God and follow his commandments. And as Christians we know that the judgement first starts at the house of God. 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. 16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. 17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? 19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
I was wondering if you might be able to do a more in depth TH-cam video on Catholicism and why you chose to leave the Catholic Church? Could you talk more about why protestants don’t need the authority of the Catholic Church to discern scripture.
God gave us His Word to read for ourselves. We can go straight to God through Christ. He is our mediator. We don't need a priest, a bishop or any of the so called church hierarchy that claims to represent Him.
I have a question! Should I use the label atheist, agnostic, or something else? 1. I wouldn't say that I know a god doesn't exist, but I don't actively believe that a god exists. 2. I actively believe that the _Christian_ God, specifically, doesn't exist. I'm curious to see which label y'all prefer for me.
Atheism is not believing in a god. A-theism. No believing It is not an assertion that gods don't exist. It's not believing, generally due to a lack of any incontrovertible evidence, that one exists. Agnosticism is not believing that we could know if a god exists. A-gnostic. No knowing. Agnostic does not mean "I'm not sure." It means, I don't think there's a way for us to know. If some being did present itself as a god to me, I would still be doubtful that it was the supreme being that created the universe and rules over everything. And even if I was pretty sure, I'd still rebel against it, because he's a shitty god. He could have made the universe perfect, but he didn't, but still expects us to believe he's omniscient and omnipotent and omnipresent and omnibenevolent. It's ridiculous.
I would also give him an earful and even try to kill him if I could. Thankfully I'm as worried about facing god when I die as Frank is about facing Allah.
@@sterlingfallsproductions3930 Sounds like there's a trust in riches or trust in God issue. Is that between you, you're pocket book and God? Because that's over my pay grade.
@@sterlingfallsproductions3930 No. While evangelists are to be supported by the church (1 Timothy5:18 Luke 10:1-12), we are not to place our faith in money. Paul who was an Apostle, worked on the side while evangelizing (1 Thessalonians 2:9, 2 Thessalonians 3:8) in order to eat without being a burden to the church. Plus, Paul at times had nothing (2 Corinthians 11:27).
Atheism, a position of disbelief towards gods. The most logical and reasonable position as no god has ever been demonstrated to exist, nor do they have evidence of existing...
@@logicalatheist1065 There are plenty of NDEs here on YT (probably thousands). It is mathematically impossible that absolutely all of them would be lunatics, narcissists or liars. Logic dictates that at least some of them MUST be telling the truth. If that doesn't convince you, nothing will.
@@I_am_Raziel they most certainly can be... There's thousands of alien abduction claims, does that make some of them true (according to your logic) What about other religions that claim NDE as evidence for their religion? According to your logic their gods must be true as well.. Tell me, why hasn't anyone ever demonstrated any god to exist???
@@logicalatheist1065 Aliens most probably do exist. The universe is unimaginably big. What is visible to us is already extremely big (the light which can reach us) and it could be infinitely bigger outside of this bubble, we will never know. And yes, the same logic applies there, too. There are thousands of sightings. Reports which are going back hundreds of years back and further. Plenty of information on that, too. Even the US Gov has officially admitted that "something" is in the air. The so called UAPs. "We just don't know"
It seems to me, my friend, that: "I need more information" is just another way to say: "I don't want to obey God" which is the cry of humanity since Day One!! All the information you need is in His Word. 🙂
I’m an agnostic atheist, it seems disingenuous to me when people say they wouldn’t follow God if he proved he existed. Ultimately he’s omnipotent and omniscient, regardless of if he is moral or immoral he will literally torture you forever if you disobey and NOTHING ANYONE could ever do would even slow him down. It’s in the best interest of everyone to comply
@@gregbooker3535 debatable about annihilationism, I don’t consider a permanent death to be an eternal punishment because you don’t exist to suffer, I wasn’t being punished for billions of years before I existed and I don’t buy that verses proclaiming eternal punishment just mean annhilation. My first statement was meant in the context of the whole comment, the biblical God wouldn’t deserve worship but what he deserves is irrelevant when he wields absolute power. There is no point in disobeying because you could never do anything to resist, and you’ll just be obliterated of tortured or whatever you want to say, meanwhile if you do what he says then you live in eternal bliss. So it really doesn’t matter what he would have us do here because if everyone complies everyone gets eternal happiness which completely negates any suffering we would go through on earth because of his commands. You’d be dying or suffering for nothing more than your pride
Strange. I recently, in the last year or so, thought about the concept of faith which coincided with how I view confidence. It was during college years that I discovered that confidence can be built and that ultimately it shouldn't be built from nothing. It is built on doing something and being successful at it. As I eventually internalized that more and more, I realized that the whole notion of just believing in yourself as if you just need to believe was false. Confidence is not built from nothing. That's wrong. It needs a ground - a firm one - to stand on. Anyone who really knows sports will tell you that the importance of winning is to build confidence. The success tells you you really can. Later on, that's when I questioned the notion of blind faith. Somehow I coincidentally thought that that notion of faith is wrong, and thought that to have faith, you need to have something. Something to build it upon. That made more sense. Similar to how you shouldn't just believe someone when they tell you a story. You need something. A little evidence or something solid, coherent, etc to push you towards the direction of believing. If you have that, then that makes your faith stronger than if you didn't base it off anything. And given some of the explanations I've heard from people about science being in favor, and listening and thinking about a few things, it makes more sense. You answering that definition about what atheism is just happened to coincide with what I already thought about faith.
The thing is (and Turek alluded to this), belief in God couldn't be further from the blind faith you speak of. A true believer has not just the many evidences from historical, archeological, philosophical, and testimonial sources to establish this belief, he/she has many personal experiences that validate God's existence also, and align with the Bible to bring virtual confirmation, this confidence you speak of.
Couple of thoughts (in no particular order) 1. It seems to me (And I Could Be Wrong) Agnostics live just like Atheists. You don't see a lot of Agnostics going to church. 2. After 2000 years (or in the case of Judaism 3500+ years), and some of the Smartest people to ever live studying/writing about this, saying "I Don't Know." what you are really saying is I Don't Want To Know.
Nope. Agnostics aren't persuaded by evidence for either position. That's all. Stop assigning dishonesty to people who aren't convinced by things you're convinced of.
@@nikor9640 "some say truth cannot be known of God's existence. The latter is refuted easily" a Beat me to it!~ :-) My point is most of those who say they don't know, aren't really looking.
Notice how apologists will never frame atheism correctly. Atheism is about _gods!_ Not just God. Billions of _religious_ people reject God: Muslims and Hindus mostly but many others. Atheism is nonbelief in, disbelief in or denial of _gods._
As a former atheist who is now a spirit filled Christian I find it astounding that they are Christians that will actually say you can’t know for sure that there is a God. I’m not sure that a person with a relationship with God through Jesus the anointed (Christ). I know with 100% certainty of God‘s existence because I experience his presence every day tangibly in the relationship has two way communication daily. You have as much chance of convincing me my heavenly father doesn’t exist as you do my earthly father doesn’t exist. Some Christians really still don’t experience God from a biblical perspective. Remarkable
@@darcymr353 Lol 😂 You literally don’t have the time. If you were sincere, you wouldn’t be an ageist because other than the obvious science there are literally MILLIONS of testimonies
@@i-primeproductions1517 this has nothing to do with ageism. There could be billions of testimonies. It doesn't mean they're true. One or more could of course be true but you can't verify that, hence why you can't just assume they're valid.
I would probably answer the same way. If the Bible "god" proved to be the existing one, I wouldn't blindly embrace it. Especially if it _is_ how Christianity depicts it. I won't elaborate further on this, though. Each person must [and should] consider these things on their own,...not from a bias constructed by other people.
@@silentghost751 The problem is that when you allow yourself to see things from outside the preconceived and insisted upon bias, you can uncover what you never saw....which I have. As for your condescending reply,...please attempt to have civility.
Right off the bat he's making up a definition of "faith"... Ive looked at a whole.bunch of well known dictionaries and none define "faith" as Frank does. He pretty much closes the door to fruitful discussion right off the bat.
Agnostic: deals with knowledge or that one doesn't know. Atheist: deals with belief or that one is not convinced or doesn't believe. What horrifies me is when Christians are willing to do what God says (like destroying their child) and will justify that by saying, "Well, God can just bring them back to life." The ends don't justify the means and IMO... is completely irrational.
Hi Mac 👋, hope all's good my friend. - *What horrifies me is when Christians are willing to do what God says (like destroying their child) and will justify that by saying...* Well, be horrified by that hypothetical no more Mac. Jesus Christ wouldn't ask for such a thing from His Christians. Peace my friend, talk later.
@@T0Mmichael1234 Hi Tom 👋 Doin good, glad to see you!💯 I understand what you mean but this is more about the Hebrew Bible (OT) and using a hypothetical. The guy was trying to give an example of when he would go against God. It was only a hypothetical. What would you do, Tom? Let's say God did ask you to destroy your child? Would you do it? I wouldn't.
@@jrc99us Well, from my perspective, the idea that someone would destroy their loved one because God said so. I guess I see it differently than you do.
@@mustachemac5229 I don't think you are fully comprehending who you are talking to. This would be the maker of all things, something that knows much more than you ever would, and has the power to right any wrong thing. With that I would assume that it can only be a good thing that is being asked, though i don't know the reason why. So I don't think you have considered all the attributes that are also at play
Please provide the factual backing that he was "dealing with incoherent fools". Rather than "praying" you reach that level of patience, try "praying" that you _not_ become so jaded against people who merely don't believe your religious stories...and for _good_ reason!! Because it isn't at _all_ "foolish" to reject claims of "a supernatural, invisible, tri-omni, always existing god entity" that hasn't been even remotely satisfactorily evidenced. Not "foolish", but quite reasonable.
@@DRayL_We all know God, including atheists who lie to themselves in an attempt to suppress the truth. No point lying to me. The proof of God is that without him, you couldn't prove anything. Your worldview can't justify the uniformity of nature, the laws of logic or morality - you know, the metaphysical stuff you need to do science! You literally can't justify any rational argument unless you start with God. You sit on God's lap to slap him in the face. You believe that everything popped into existence from nothing and everything is merely matter in chaotic motion at its most basic level. Stop and think about your perspective and how vacuous and irrational it is. You probably won't because you love your sin but, in the end, you know God already because God placed that knowledge of him inside of you and you know it. Farewell, and God bless.
@@logicalatheist1065 Classic, a man who calls himself the 'Logical Atheist' yet he subscribes to a worldview that can't rationally explain Logic. You only believe in matter in motion; nothing metaphysical, yet the 'law of logic' can't be explained under the atheistic worldview - they are immaterial and invariant. See this is why God describes people who reject his truth as fools. The Logic Atheist, what utter incoherent nonsense.
@@clintgreive Atheism only explains disbelief in gods tho... i never mentioned anything about my worldview... fallacious fool. Yes, atheism is the most logical and reasonable position as no god has ever been demonstrated to even exist, lmao nice comment of complete and utter garbage No your book of claims calls people who dont accept the baseless claims, a fool. when in actuality, you cant even support your own position, making you the fool :)
I like how he mentioned that the story of Abraham and his son was in relation to our heavenly Father and Jesus. God stopped Abraham but God didn't stop Jesus. I wonder if this also may be in connection to the rapture happening before the tribulation because God has not appointed us to wrath.
I appreciate Bart Ehrman's "agnostic/atheist" definition. He said, (paraphrasing): AGNOSTICISM: Agnosticism is an epistemological claim (about KNOWLEDGE). Q: Do you KNOW if there's a Creator who wound up the Cosmic Clock and created everything that is? A: How the Hell would I know?! Therefore,... - I'm agnostic. THEISM: Theism is a question about one's 'personal beliefs'. Q: Do you BELIEVE in a personal God that has a specific name and narrative, who intervened at a specific point in history, who completed a special mission, who listens in and supervises human activity and who listens to, (and answers) individual prayer? A: No, I don't 'believe' that. Therefore,... I'm an atheist
"I need more information about ... what He's asking me to do and whether I agree with it" (4:23). "He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God" (Micah). "Humbly" - aye, there's the rub.
No, an agnostic says I don't know. An agnostic atheist says I don't know, and I'm not convinced by your claims. That is a position on knowledge and belief. You can lack belief in X without taking an affirmative position on faith. It's called the rejection position. It's like not knowing whether there are an even or an odd number of stars in the universe. You can lack belief in anyone's positive claim, while not actually defaulting to a position of faith. THAT ISN'T A "COP OUT" FRANK Frank is horribly confused
He seems like he had a heart truly searching lacking any malice or anger towards God. It takes a lot of courage to ask honest questions in public like this.
Dictionary definition of faith in the context of religion: strong belief in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof
And what are his commandments? 1 John 3:23 “And this is his commandment, That we should (believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ), and (love one another), as he gave us commandment.” There are no other commandments required for “Salvation”.
@@skippy675 a·the·ist /ˈāTHēəst/ noun a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods. A deistic god is still a god. If you believe in a deistic god, you cannot be an atheist. By definition.
I would think most would be thankful for some religions as we can see how many may be self-governed by their beliefs. to me it seems that we as humans need to think we have someone taking care of us even if there is not. To me, there is no greater miracle than the life on this planet and there is no need for a creator to have all the credit. if experience in life is all we really get, then I would suggest we all go get some.
First, thank you Abba for Your Son Yeshua! Thank you Yeshua for the gift you gave which we all take for granted. I wish all Q and A's were like this one. Mr. Turek is his usual loving and respectful self, and the gentleman in this video is respectful towards him. While a polar opposite view of course, but he was open to what Mr. Turek had to say. So give credit to where it's due.
As a Christian, the Abraham response was weak. Asking someone if is it rational to sacrifice their child in the same faith that Abraham did, ignores the entire context of the relationship between God and Abraham. The covenant, the way he walked with God, their interconnectivity in the creation of Israel. To assert that it would be rational to obey such a command is to ignore the fact that as a "CHRISTIAN" God would never ask one to do that in the first place. He sent His son already. And to ask an atheist or agnostic to have faith in that sacrifice is quite a steep leap of logic to prove how unwise it is to not believe in God if God were real to him.
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That’s a hard question. I firmly believed in God, but I didn’t want to follow God because I wanted to do what I wanted to do. After some soul searching I finally decided the wisest thing was to take His offer and follow God. I was 7 years old. Now I’m 82. Incredibly blessed, and still following.
Amen !!!
@@wma5440 It’s definitely the attitude that Jesus says we should have when submitting to God. “I assure you: Whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it. Luke 18:17.
Well, I’m 66 and I rejected god(s), religions and the mediocre prophet Jesus all my life and I’m very happy I did so because it’s a drug worst than any other.
@@gingercake0907this mediocre prophet who lured a lot of his audience with the promise that they wouldn’t need to get circumcised also said:
'If you want to be my disciple, you must, by comparison, hate everyone else-your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters-yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple.'
Do you know that such a demand differs in nothing from the very first demand of every, narcissistic, sociopath; control freak, pimp, cult leader. If your daughter would come home with such a boyfriend I really would like to be a fly to measure your appreciation and approval of her choice.
And he was definitely a conman given the fact that he had the audacity to call himself son of a non existent being.
@@walterdaems57 I did not know buildings could build themself could you show me.
Both sides were respectful and a good conversation came about.
Agreed. But the guy isnt a logically thinking human being
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Why?
Even if Christianity were true, the gif of the bible is an atheist. He doesn’t believe he was created by god.
@@frankcardano4142 Youre missing the point. Frank asked him it it were true. Which means if we KNEW for a fact we were created by God would you be a follower of Christ and he basically said NO. Thats illogical
@@mnight207
No it’s not illogical.
I think he even states he would believe it but he wouldn’t follow his immoral commands to kill his own son.
Would you?
@@mnight207
Also, Franks “Gotcha” question has problems which is why non believers are stumped.
It has nothing to do with an issue of the heart. To what I understand, being a Christian requires us to believe on faith. If Christianity were proven true, we wouldn’t need faith.
So being a Christian would no longer be possible under that definition.
Thank you sir for your ministry. I am following and learning from your teachings/answers. Watching from South Africa
Hey there,
Go watch Lloyd de Jongh
He’s a fellow South African making waves in the polemics world.
He’s currently doing a series on atheism
@@daduzadude1547 thank you
That's awesome to hear. Greetings from the US!
He really delves deep into any subject matter, and is one of the top experts in the world on Sharia law, the pagan roots of IsLame, and the truth about the Talmud.
Now he’s unveiling the roots of Atheism 😊
From SA tooo!!!
I love how this atheist (now agnostic) is not the regular in-your-face kind of a person. He is honest in his enquiry, and is open to go where evidence would lead him.
Be it an atheist or a theist, this attitude should be universally followed.
Beautiful video!
BOTH THIESTS ARE THE SAME..THE DIFFERENCE THE DISTANCE A IS TO THE THIEST THEN THE A IS FOR THE ATHIEST...Now if FRANK got the athiest to see hes agnostic...thats great but the book He recommended STEALING FROM GOD makes me want to command the agnostic to present to me what he learned
@C L There is not "overwhelming evidence already that God exists...". I'm an atheist because it's the most honest position to hold. I don't care either way if a god or gods exist. I just have a belief in things that have epistemic justification. Being convinced of a god or gods existing is not one of them. Every argument I've ever heard is flawed and is not a sound and/or valid syllogism.
@@cl6693 none of those arguments are evidence based
You are a very optimistic person.
@@cl6693 I find it interesting that most arguments for god have to do with how everything started 13.7 billion years ago which scientists are still trying to figure out. What about in the last 2000 years since your god supposed lived for a few decades, died as all humans do, never to be heard from again (again as all humans do after they die). No answered prayer other than what would happen from random statistics. Good and evil happen at random. Sure don't see any "overwhelming" evidence.
Gotta love how Frank shows love and respect while disagreeing.
Likewise I & Exactly beloved brother & Co-religionist, I'll corroborate that that's the sacred-scriptural apologetical attitude-behavior epitome.
Wishings of wisdom for you & your fam.
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I’m sorry but I’ve heard enough from Frank to say he isn’t respectful when it comes to talking about atheism/atheists and science/scientists. He misrepresents the topics.
I'm not so sure he's showing either by demanding someone to outright reject Jesus Christ with his patent leading question.
Neither do I think he's being wise in forcing one to solidify their doubts.
@@therick363 Misrepresent in what way?
@@pescatoralpursuit1726 well the east one-“I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist”….doesn’t take faith. Frank also acts like atheism is more than just a position. It’s not. He talks like he knows more about atheism than actual atheists.
He acts like all science and scientists agree there was a beginning to the universe…that’s not true. He cherry picks science.
This is how these conversations should be. It's very difficult to have a conversation like this on social media, which can be a sewer sometimes. A lot of people have either never been taught how to disagree without insulting, or they just dont care. That's not how you get your point across.
Although I'm reformed, I appreciate this content. God bless.
What do you mean by reformed?
@@Luvallo Reformed Theology maybe? Might be referring to Calvinism?
@@Luvallo I think that means he’s a calvinist?
Calvinists and determinists have tried to lay claim to all of reformed theology. Which is of course ridiculous as every denomination that stemmed out of the reformation did not agree with Calvin. But nonetheless, they try to say it's theirs. Which is interesting when they also now state that they don't believe in free will. That's why he is saying that "although" and implies he can still appreciate it. It's because he holds a misinterpreted view that people don't have a choice. Which is you follow to it's logical conclusion makes God the author of evil, which He has said in His Word that He is not.@@Luvallo
Awesome back and forth the way it should be 👍
Frank, love your work. I would love to see. you get on more big podcasts. Rogan, PBD etc.
He's a fraud and he lies to you why do you like being lied to?
Absolutely love Dr Turek’s approach👍🏼 I’m learning how to defend my faith in God by watching these videos❣️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Drug addicts tend to love their dealer also and since religion is the worst and most dangerous drug of all… :)
It's nice to see an atheist that has actually read Turek's book and is seeking. It's also scary to see how much his heart is set against seeing the truth.
The heart is desperately wicked who could know it.
"Truth" is demonstrated not asserted dear.
@@trumpbellend6717 Truth can easily be asserted. I assert many truths every day of my life. Especially to those who speak in a condescending manner and think truth is relative, as your quotation marks seem to imply.
@@Milocinia "Truth" is best determined using FACTS & EVIDENCE dear not "faith". Science has all the FACTS yet claims nothing as "absolute" truth
Christianity conversely claims Absolute truth in everything yet has no FACTS
@@Milocinia _"his heart I set against seeing the truth"_
Lol *BELIEF IS NOT A "CHOICE"* or a mere act of volition. Sure someone can pretend to believe anything but the things one actually believe are not something you choose they are an involuntary response to one's level of information and understanding of their environment. You are either convinced or you are unconvinced and its EVIDENCE that convinces.
I could not just make myself believe in pixies no matter how much I closed my eyes and stamped my feet. Anymore than you could right now "choose" to be convinced that God is not real or that the laws of gravity don't apply to you if you step off that cliff.
Tell me could you genuinely "choose" to believe the internet does not exist and we are not having this discourse now ?? I'm talking about being CONVINCED of it bud not just pretending!! Give me an honest answer , could you right now "Choose" to believe in Thor or Zeus ??? 🤔 for exactly the same reason I can't choose to believe in Yahweh.
Now if I recieved some irrefutable knowledge or evidence then I would have no "choice" but to believe, I would have to deny my own reasoning and senses. That what changes beliefs, not "choice"
If you came home and found your spouse in bed with the neighbour, could you just "CHOOSE" to believe in his fidelity and go back downstairs to make him a nice cup of tea ?? 🤣😅🤣
Atheist: a person who full well knows God exists by all creation but really wishes He didn't. A prideful person who rejects God's authority for their own. A person who will be judged by this same God for their sins unless they repent and believe on Jesus Christ for their salvation.
That's not an atheist
Festus, totally agree.
Yep that's an athiest
@@Mavors1099 As some other folks have pointed out in the comment section. There is no clear definition about atheism until an atheist feels she or he has been misrepresented but some people who claim to be atheist are angry at a God in which they are supposedly don't care about god because they're an atheist.
That’s not true. As a Christian, I know that there are people who don’t believe. It’s much easier to tell people about god when you understand what they believe
Imagine you are on a guided tour through a beautiful jungle. You and your guide come upon a moss covered rope bridge across a deep chasm. Your guide says, "Cross, it's safe." The difference between faith and trust lies in which side he's saying that from.
I like that.
One issue with it is the analogy breaks when applied to Christianity. Jesus did not promise we would be safe in this world, when following Him. He specifically stated the world will hate Christians, because they first hated Christ. He warned some of us will be hunted, some of us killed, some of us rejected and persecuted.
Going back to your analogy, Jesus says "trust me" from both sides. He doesn't say it's safe.
@@nathanielalderson9111 Nope. Just do a bible search and you will find many passages stating the God/Jesus promises "protection" and "safety" for believers.
You can see the moss rope though. Where is god?
@@Max_Doubt sure. They aren't contradictions. They are time and context sensitive.
We eventually will be safe.
All who believe in Jesus Christ and Him crucified will be saved.
Some of us will barely scrape in, with loss, but still saved.
All who reject Jesus Christ will not be saved.
And we will face the consequences of what we do.
You guys think in Either / Or, Must. But you need to understand. God is a person, and you cannot force Him to do anything. He will do as He wills. And He gives each one of us the free will to choose to be with Him for eternity. His promises are Yes and Amen. (Including the if you do bad you will be punished promises.)
Obviously a good dad is not going to give his son access to power tools without safety lessons first. Otherwise the son could do serious harm to himself and others.
We ate the fruit. We wanted to become like God. He's giving us the room and opportunity to try. And the lessons that humanity continues to not learn is no matter our progress, God still has to come down to meet us, because our efforts aren't enough to get "there".
This Earth is the battleground. This is the school room. This is the nursery. We are not ready for adulthood yet.
@@TheTruthKiwi
I don't understand your question or challenge. I don't have enough context for it sorry.
Beautiful conversation, respect and honesty
Absolutely beautiful how this conversation goes. I pray for that man's heart to soften!
Well you’d need to prove the bible is true first. 2000 years and no proof.
It’s not going to happen.
Turek won't change.
@@reality1958 If you're willing to discuss it, where is the severe immorality in the Bible? I know of a few examples of *apparent* immorality, but it isn't actually.
@@frankcardano4142 Try this for size Frank.
In the world of gem stones there are 2 different categories, Isotropic, and Anisotropic, this has only been discovered recently, certainly within the last 70 years or so. It has only been discovered because of discovering how to filter light into straight lines, laser. Under a microscope when filtered light is aimed straight at an Isotopic stone such as diamond and ruby, it passes straight through and the stone just looks black and grey, when the same is done to Anisotropic stones such as Sapphire and Jasper, the result is all the colours of the rainbow and quite beautiful to behold. This is due to the compound makeup of the stones to put it crudely. So we have Isotropic and Anisotropic stones.
Now the book of revelation was written over 2000 years ago when none of this was known, nor did they have the means to know this, yet revelation 21 lists 12 gem stones that are used in the building of the new Jerusalem, all 12 listed are Anisotropic stones that will radiate every colour when pure light is shone on them.
There is no way that 2000 years ago this could have been known, not by man, anyway, but there it is.
@@horace9341.... yet Jesus didn't know the mustard seed isn't the smallest seed.
We can play this game back and forth... all day long.
Proves absolutely nothing
I hope God moves in his heart and reveals the truth of salvation and what a relationship with Christ means that he may believe and be saved!
Amen, Thank You Jesus
I hope I’ll win the lottery but it’s unlikely. The likelihood that a god exists is even less likely.
Abiogenesis is a failure
I hope God moves my heart too, would love to believe I have eternal life
@@tonymaurice4157
Still demonstrating your ignorance I see .
You have to appreciate this fellas apprehension and even the bible talks about testing the word and seeing that it stands up. Dr Turek is awesomely patient and understanding and it’s indicative of the spirit working through him. I’d be curious to see a conversation between these two after he has read that book
Without God all crumbles in the end.
You can hope a god exists but that doesn’t mean one does .
Amen Joshua.
@@MartTLS Doesn't mean one doesn't exist.
@@finnhuman1599
No you’re correct but you can apply that method of reasoning to suggest that anything is ultimately responsible but it won’t help you to determine what actually is .
@@MartTLS It just seemed like a pointless comment to make. It comes off as just trying to be hurtful to the person you replied to for no reason.
He reminds me of an old roommate of mine from years back.. loved that dude
Aethist should take notes. See how he wasnt mocked, laughed at, or ridiculed for not believing? He wasnt even convinced at the end of the conversation and they still were able to respect each other. Very nice to see.
It’s like sons. They know I’m their father. They don’t necessarily want to listen to what I tell them. He seems like an honest person. Atheism has more to do with the heart than the intellect.
How does atheism have more to do with "the heart" than the intellect??? Please elaborate.
Only a father who is an egomaniac would want his children to echo every one of his opinions or values, or demand endless praise from them
@@shinywarm6906From an earthly father I agree. But from God, who really does know everything, is it egomania that you should follow Him? He wants you to also be perfect.
If your earthly father was as good as he could possibly be and treated you in the best way you could you imagine, wouldn’t you love him? And if you quit loving him through no fault of his, wouldn’t he want you to return his love? How could/would you communicate that love? By telling him how much you love him.
The giant difference is that with God, you are praising His perfection. When I do something righteous, I praise my Father, God, for teaching me the right way to do something.
@@rclarkson5 thanks. What's strange to me is this insistence on the personification of what should be an ideal. It makes the message not "praise love" or "esteem cooperation", but "worship the patriarch". Not only does it open the way to domestic tyranny, it leads to the tribalism that has plagued the homelands of Abrahamic religion in the Near East for centuries.
When you claim to yourself that you've "done something righteous", but view it in these patriarchal terms, how do you make that judgement? The Israelis presumably believe they are doing "something righteous" when they bomb a Palestinian refugee camp. Hamas believe the same when they take an Israeli citizen hostage. Their holy texts, filled with tribal brutalities ordered by a patriarchal god, only reinforce that sense.
Translation: I’m the god of my own life, and I’m unwilling to submit to anyone, even if they are objectively wiser and more powerful than me.
Pride is the most dangerous sin.
Yep. Atheism/Secular humanism....blurred lines. Both deadly.
Would you kill your own son if god told you to?
@@frankcardano4142 that's a nice bait, but I won't take it. If I say yes, you'll say I'm a horrible human being, and if I say no, then you'll say that I don't trust God. God wouldn't tell me to kill my own son. Frank explicitly explains in the video why God commanded Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, and I know that if I believe that God commands me to kill my son, then it's not truly God.
@@spencergsmith
How do you know god wouldn’t ask you to kill your own son?
Where are you getting that morality from?
@@frankcardano4142 Frank you know better. Try to be better.
Frank is cool and calm as usual 😎
He's just happy he's had his gender affirming surgery
Yeah editing software helps substantially with that. When other people film them and post it he doesn't seem as calm and collected odd it's almost like his videos are cherry-picking the best of his b*******
@@darkeen42 let me guess, your nickname is "Cool hand Luke " 🤣
@@RS-gh2mf what does the point of that comment? Is that what you do when you can't justify your beliefs?
but wrong 😉
Thank you sir
I am an agnostic too. all about real evidence, and real solutions.
Great video God bless.
@@kingpeer14
Bless your spelling
@@kingpeer14
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Pray for this man, he is close, our Loving King is calling him.
Yes, yes yes🙏🙏
@Deston Swan God isn't a creature. Hes the creator not a created being. Gotta get your definitions straight
@Deston Swan LOL no he doesn't. A creature is created and by definition that doesn't fit the God of the Bible
@Deston Swan so now you are saying mythical creatures were created? or the idea of them was created by humans? You arent using clear language and your definitions are weak
@Deston Swan okay so who was the prime mover?
If definition are "subjective" like morality and truth then Franks definition of atheism is just as valid as an atheist or will the atheist claim objective truth when they claim misrepresentation
Definitions are conventional.
Conventional: based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed. Is a objective definition or subjective
Well, language changes and our use of words have fluidity.
Example: Christians were considered atheists back in history during Roman times.
Anyway, let's look a the word Theist:
"a person who believes in the existence of a god or gods, specifically of a creator who intervenes in the universe."
Now, let's look at the prefix "A": which means not or without.
So an Atheist is some *without* belief or does *not* have a belief in God or gods.
Definitions are just a matter of convention. Languages change all the time. You don't need to know the "objective" definition of a word to understand what someone is saying. You just need to know what definition they are using.
Morality and Truth are not subjective.
In Poland and in almost all eastern culture, when we speaking to someone or asking questions, we don't put our hands into the pockets. This is a sign of disrespect to the person we talk to.
What God is asking of us is really simple. Love Him for what He’s done for us. Then represent Him in the world by loving our neighbor. Then sharing His message to everyone. Easy to say….difficult to stop worshipping ourselves.
Gosh...... It takes a lot of effort to be an atheist
Takes more effort to believe in an ancient carpenter zombie to have resurrected and eat his body and drink his blood as remembrance of his sacrifice to save you from himself.
How so?
If I had to deal with the cognitive dissonance of a religious person I'd be very depressed. Believing in something when the universe and facts work against those beliefs must be very tiring. Explaining everything you don't know as magic makes some of that a bit easier though LMAO
Not really. Not believing in something until there is evidence is the default position. Believing things without evidence, now there is a heavy lift.
Weirdly, I find reading the Bible to be much easier as an atheist. I don't have to constantly construct lame excuses for why two passages don't seem to add up, or why God is commanding genocides or causing plagues. It's a human book with human errors, and I can just let it speak for itself.
He is saying his moral standard is higher than Gods
If that god ordered to kill his son, yes.
Yes. You too must be moral than your God
Honestly, I think that's rational position. I just believe Abraham had the privilege to know that God is not an evil God, who would love to have fathers sacrifice theirs sons and rather He is a loving God who takes care of His children. Probably he knew it was a test or that even if he sacrifices Isaac, God would ressurect him later.
@@Mavors1099 In an atheistic worldview, why is that objectively wrong?
@@juliogomez9145
Ask an atheist.
This guy seemed genuinely curious and somewhat open minded. Remember to 🙏
If god has a plan, then prayer is useless and blasphemy.
@@taylorthetunafish5737 No, constantly throughout the Bible he tells us to pray. It's about obedience, not changing the future.
@@liquidmiilk7764 If it's about obedience, you shouldn't be asking for anything.
@@taylorthetunafish5737 asking for something isn't disobedient. Solomon was promised one things of anything he ASKED for.. "Ask and it will be given to you, Knock on the door and it will be opened." Mattew 7:7
@@liquidmiilk7764 Obedience is doing what you're told to do, not asking for things.
"His blood be on us! And on our children."
Atheist: A person who believes the prepositional phrase 'God doesn't not exist' is a true statement.
I think the dude's answer may have actually been "yes", but for some reason or other, he didn't want to voice that. I could be wrong, but that's my theory.
Exactly... You're wrong.
So many cop outs, "I need more information" "I need more information".
Yea we do.
What’s your problem with that?
A wise man always asks more questions.
@Deston Swan perhaps, but also consider what's at stake: death and eternal non-existence or death and eternal punishment vs. death and eternal communion with a personal God.
@Deston Swan , the difference is there is tons of evidence for Christianity and zero evidence for leprechauns. Also, the worst case scneario if no leprechauns exists is you may never find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow; whereas the worst case scenario if you reject the salvation offered as a free gift from God, then you spend an eternity apart from him, by your own well-formed choice.
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Saying "there's no evidence for Christianity" denies the over 25,000 early manuscripts of the Bible we have which agree to within 99.7% accuracy of transmission, the well-ordered universe, the fact that we know nothing material comes into existence without a source (and thus presupposes a non-material creator), testimony of extra-biblical sources, the rapid growth of Christianity in spite of tremendous persecution (no other worldwide religion grew without state sponsorship except Christianity) and a host of other arguments and evidence backed claims. There are literally TONS of evidence, so to compare Christianity to leprechauns is a false comparison from the start.
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Suggestion: Try examining all the evidence for Christianity some day, and then after careful study decide if you reject it or not.... there's plenty out there to keep you busy for several years if you care to make the effort. If you do not care to make the effort....fine and dandy...but then you most certainly must give up making the claim that there's "not enough evidence" if you don't care to study it in the first place or risk being intellectually dishonest.
I'd say a "cop out" is coming to an assumed conclusion with no objective verifiable evidence.
What I don't get is, as far as the Universe is concerned, how did it come into existence while getting everything just right? Isn't it like trying to bake an elaborate cake for the first time, without a recipe, and getting every ingredient just right? Or more to the point, what are the chances of that happening?
Getting everything just right? 🤔 Then why is there mutations, cancer, natural disasters, death???
@@FluffyHawk13 yikes, you hit him hard with reality
@@FluffyHawk13 don't you know? that's humanities fault for god creating a tree with fruit that a chick ate, but he knew she would eat it and put it there anyways, definitely our fault!
@@sdog1234 Yep, it's human's fault for choosing the bad option. God literally gave them everything they could ever want and their every need was satisfied, and He just gave them one rule to follow and they couldn't even do that. Imagine having the ability to choose between right and wrong and still choosing to do wrong.
@@NovusIgnis Humanities fault or Eve's fault? Or is it that beings fault for putting a tree there in the first place that he knew would be eaten? What is the point of a test you know the answer to and the result you know will horribly damage your creations? That fictional story will never make sense to me.
Wow. What an excellent exchange. Turned out good
'Believing without evidence' is the definition of the word "surmise."
Well done Frank your patience is a great example 👍
Yeah when you get edit videos and tell bold-faced lies the whole time it's pretty easy to stay calm. He's calling you and you need to verify his clearly baseless claims
@@darkeen42 didn't open a dictionary, why is the definition of copium and strawman here? lol.
The question of whether or not you would do something that God commands absent of a relationship with God is not going to yield a sincere answer. Before having children, I don’t know if I would have declared, with the level of confidence that I would today, that I would lay down my life for them.
If a god told me to murder my children I would tell that god to go F themselves
@@CaptainFantastic222 thanks for sharing
I always find the whole atheist contempt with God asking Abraham to kill his son is rich. The fact that atheists condone and sometimes encourage the over 3000 babies that are killed by their parents every day. That's over 3000 a day. I'm pretty sure the only people trying to stop all that bloodshed are Christians... so I just find it a really disingenuous gripe rhat there is one example where God asked someone to kill their son, and they act like God is immoral. It's definitely rich
I wonder how far you would go if God were to speak to you one day, saying, "Take your son to the mountain top and make an offering of him to me"? Would you ignore Him? Would you take him to the mountain top as commanded? What would you answer if, like Isaac, your son asked what you were doing with the knife? Would you actaully kiill him? And what do you hope you would do?
Pride is a helluva drug
Taste the rainbow.
When he mentioned that He would not sacrifice his son if God asked him to. The whole time I was thinking, if you only knew that is precisely what Jesus did for you. He died for your sins, so that you wouldn't have to die and live. If only you would believe.
Hey I've been watching your videos for a while. I've probably watched around 15 or 20 now. And I've noticed almost all of these clips from these prerecorded broadcasts have poor sound quality. I am wondering why? I work in video, perhaps I could give some advice.
Arms crossed says alot
Lol...
Big fax
That guy should have asked Frank: if it was true that the Olympian gods Zeus and Apollo and all the rest were real and they wanted us to worship them, would you? Or if the Hindu system was actually true, would you become a hindu?
He has actually addressed that before when an atheist asked "if atheism were true would you become an atheist". Frank responded that he would in fact become an atheist if it were true - because to not do so would be illogical.
but the dilemma still remains that we have no knowledge of whether or not christianity is true. frank, being indoctrinated into christiandom since childhood, accepts "evidence" of christianity that would certainly not convince him if it were not connected to his religion. likewise, a devout hindu who grew up in india accepts "evidence" of the truth of the hindu system that wouldn't convince him if he were raised in a non-hindu country.
@@chrispatterson8210 Frank also doesn't have a clue what atheism is so that reply has no substance. He believes you need to have "faith" to not believe in what he takes on faith. It's the dumbest position you could possibly take publicly.
@@MrTheclevercat very true. it's like labeling someone who doesn't believe in alchemy a "non-alchemist."
@@onsenguy It would be easier to believe this claim from Atheist if they didn't spend so much time acting in unison like a religion, burning resources and time trying to prove something doesn't exist. Ask me how many hours I have spent in comment sections trying to prove Leprechauns don't exist.
3:20 The atheist is (again), trying to use the story of Abraham and Isaac as his crutch for not adhering to the Bible. In the atheist’s head he’s thinking, “If God tells me to kill my son, that’s immoral, so I won’t do it, therefore your God is evil.” Blah, blah blah.
Here’s the problem. The atheists NEVER finish that story. So, I’ll put on my Dana Carvey imitating Ross Perot hat and ask, “Can I finish? Can I finish, can I finish, can I finish!”
The story ends with Abraham NOT killing his son. Why? Because the story-the lesson to be learned-is to obey God’s command, even when you do not understand why.
Want to know why this is 100% logically sound? Because parents do this all the time! Parents constantly tell their kids to do something that the kid doesn’t want to do and doesn’t understand why they’re doing it. But you (the parent) do! Because you have a firmer grasp on reality than your child does. THAT is the lesson or the comparison to be learned.
There's no good reason to accept the Bible as true
@Deston Swan Using “nothing” to justify the creation of our universe is what idiots do.
@@logicalatheist1065 There is no good reason to accept atheism.
@@chosenone8408 atheism isn't something you "accept" you either believe in gods or you don't.
Atheism is logical and reasonable as no god has ever been demonstrated to exist
@Deston Swan I see, so as atheists mythologize Darwin-who admitted his “theory” was DOA-is an intellectually profound, and mic dropping moment. LOL Tell me more!
That's odd that Frank wouldn't reference 'thou shalt not murder' when the guy brought up killing his son. It's a false dilemma as God wouldn't tell his followers to do something that goes against his commandments.
God telling Abraham to kill his son was like a trust fall. Someone tells you to fall backwards, if you trust them you will, because you know they'll catch you.
Frank Turek demonstrates a winsome approach to apologetics-- the best, in my opinion, to win people to the Lord.
You can't come to magical entities in other dimensions through rationality and reason. It is irrational and absurd. Frank is deluded to the extreme.
@Justin Gary shoosh. The adults are talking. You’re a demonstrated liar and hypocrite
@Justin Gary I'm sorry if you don't like the truth Justin but that's just tough.
@@TheTruthKiwi anti christian trolls are silly people.
Not trolling my friend. I'm only interested in what is most likely to be true that's all and I think the world and humanity would be better off without delusion and magical thinking.
Atheist was right on point with his example of why he wouldn’t automatically fall in line with God. As the Bible teaches, God can be extremely violent and bloodthirsty. I wouldn’t want to risk having blood on my hands as a consequence of following him. No way.
That's not what the Bible teachers or says... But while we're making things up. Why should I ever consider atheism when it doesn't seem any of you all know what you believe in. Or when your logic begins to fall apart you just double down on it or completely copout and say "we don't know".
@@blackhaze8233
_" you just double down on it or completely copout and say "we don't know"."_
When you don't know something, that is the intellectually honest answer to give. It's a better answer than 'we don't know so a god must have done it'.
@@markh1011 no. That's just mental gymnastics and copping out. We know nothing produces nothing something never comes from nothing. We know life comes from life not non life... We know reason exist. Saying "we don't know" is the cowards and lier's way out of the answer. We also know that just because we can't see touch smell or hear something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
@@blackhaze8233
So when we didn't know what caused the weather the right answer was "god did it". While saying "we don't know" was merely "mental gymnastics and copping out. "
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You might want to think about your position a little harder.
@@blackhaze8233
_" Saying "we don't know" is the cowards and lier's way out of the answer. "_
Nope. That's intellectual honesty. Understand what these words mean.
_" We also know that just because we can't see touch smell or hear something doesn't mean it doesn't exist."_
....and? What's that got to do with your illogical statements?
"If God existed and...."
Which God? The Jewish god? The Christian god? The Muslim god? These are all mutually exclusive, i.e., pick one cuz believers in the others are headed to hell. And if choosing the Christian one; is it the Catholic one or the protestant one? And if it is the protestant one; is it the current one or the one from, say, the 1950's. Because what is 'acceptable' now and what was acceptable in the 1950's are very different (divorce, female clergy, LGBTQ tolerance, etc.). Who decided and approved these changes? People as a whole...society. Whether in the U.S., Europe, SW Asia; and from 1000 BCE to now, somehow 'our' gods have always held the same beliefs as we do...nearly like we invented them to back up our sense of what is morally acceptable.
If there were no God and no Satan trying to deceive people, wouldn't there only have been clear Gods of the Gaps? Why does the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and Christian Bible (New Testament) have so much proof of the people, places, events and prophecies coming true? They weren't writing Comic books back then. These aren't fictional testimonies and events. So on and so forth... you should really look into Jesus with an open mind. Or if you want to continue thinking that the entire universe and everything in it came from a giant or small ball of nothing out of nothing, or whatever, then that is your choice. God provided proof. People saw that proof and died for it.
Also on your note about acceptable behavior/society norms; There's a difference between trying to warn people and hating people. Hate is akin to Murder according to God. Sexual sin, be it heterosexual or otherwise is still a sin. Watching porn is the same type of level of sin as having sex with the same sex. We're all guilty of sin. True Christians are just warning people that their house is on fire and trying to get them to safety. The only person in history that is perfect is Jesus. Nothing more, nothing less.
@@TheRealTrucido "Why does the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and Christian Bible (New Testament) have so much proof of the people, places, events and prophecies coming true?"
Very little of the Bible can be corroborated historically. A few places...a few people. But none of the supernatural claims can be.
And how people have twisted and interpreted things to be "prophetic fulfillment" is irrelevant. This is just a "believe these claims as truth". Not actual verification of a claim.
"Or if you want to continue thinking that the entire universe and everything in it came from a giant or small ball of nothing out of nothing, or whatever, then that is your choice."
This isn't what science says at all. This is a continuing theist Strawman fallacy.
"Hate is akin to Murder according to God.
Any entity that would state such a thing is being ignorant.
"We're all guilty of sin."
A "god who requires your obedience" has to first be shown to factually exist, else the concept of "sin" is irrelevant.
"True Christians are just warning people that their house is on fire and trying to get them to safety."
And we've looked. No fire anywhere.
"The only person in history that is perfect is Jesus."
Baseless claim. BTW,...how could you know something was "perfect"? How would you provide the data points to back it up? Saying someone was "perfect" is meaningless.
Mr Frank Turrek,,,You are a Brother in Christ,,,I see I John 2:27 is evident with you by His Holy Spirit,,,Praise the Lord Jesus Christ for anointing upon you such a ministry of the Gospel
The literal definition of Atheist is a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods.
The literal definition of faith is complete trust or confidence in someone or something.
Frank knows this, so he was just straight up lying here.
Wise response from Frank as he got directly to the point about God asking to murder your son and used the Abraham example to unveil the plan of salvation through Jesus Christ on that very same mountain of Moriya where God gave His son but saved Abraham’s son !
Well, if God is all powerful and forgiving, He could just have forgiven mankind. Would have been the decent thing to do, given all the blood and gore that comes with the current solution. Not really a story you tell your young children. And if he couldn't, would He really be all powerful?
@@HansBezemer
Sir , your argument does stand the test at all !
Even on a natural point there a lot things that you cannot persuade your kids !
For example evolution :
The Big Bang theory
From matter to the beginning of life
From bacterium to human species
Let us go back to Abraham offering his Son asked by God !
Did you know the pagan nations (Canaanites ,Hittites )at that time were offering their children to the their idols ?
God tested Abraham :
Are you able to do what the pagans could do unto their false gods !
In fact Yahweh intervened to stop Abraham from sacrificing Isaac !!
You do not understand God’s character and His ways !!
This is story that you should tell your kids !!
@@HansBezemer Maybe God values justice, too.
@@noncompliant4316 Do you imply there are external ethics as a concept God has to adhere to?
@@HansBezemer Not at all. Perhaps our external ethics are governed by God's own internal character.
Makes no sense, stand up to give some argument and yet declines any offer even if it was right in front of him. Why even come up to ask anything in the first place?
I mean why would anyone dare come up and challenge Franks nonsense. How dare they?
Wait, Atheism has multiple definitions? 🤔🤔
No, just lack of belief towards gods
@Justin Gary shoosh justin. The adults are talking and we all know You are a flat out liar who can’t handle an adult conversation so you trying to say others are dishonest….is pure hypocrisy
So outside of nonbelief in gods, what else does atheism offer?
@@TheRastacabbage that's all it means a position of disbelief
@@TheRastacabbage outside of belief in gods, what does theism offer?
Neither offers anything
Good conversation
THANK YOU FRANK FOR PLANTING THIS SEED, A SEED I CAN SOW WRITE UP 🧑🏫💫
My neighbors cat is an atheist because it lacks a belief in God.
Atheism is a position. Cats don't have that ability.
@@DRayL_ So now atheists have attempted to change the definition of atheism again, from "lack of belief" to "a position" ?
@@eznight25 A lack of belief _is_ positional. It is a rejection of "god claims" that haven't met their burden of proof.
@@DRayL_ It is logically impossible for a lack of a position to be a position. Furthermore, a rejection of a claim is the exact opposite of lacking a belief in said claim.
@@eznight25 The position _is_ not having a reason to accept unfounded claims. 😕
Also, you can reject a claim....and lack a belief at the same time. I have no idea how you could think these as "the exact opposite".
Frank, I can't believe you said we could be in a matrix.
I know Kung Fu...
He said it was silly but that he would grant the possibility for fair debate
@@paulbogle8161 To even entertain the possibility of living in a matrix is placing doubt in God. The prominent satanists are admitting they could be a brain in a vat and reality doesn't exist, basically living in a matrix.
@@albertsmith6717 wow you commented was censored! I'm guessing just because it mentioned satanism.
He did not entertain the idea in himself it was a conversation tool. Its not wrong to say 'for the sake of argument, I'll grant you that.'
But we could. That's the entire point of faith. If you claim that you *know* that God exists, then you aren't relying on faith. Faith and knowing are mutually exclusive. You can't have faith in something you know. If you know, you know.
There is definitely the possibility that were in the matrix. There's also the possibility that the vikings got it right and we're just one of the nine realms that sprouted from the organs of the first giant. Do I think withe rof those two are as likely as what the Bible says? No. But I don't know it for sure. Anyone that claims they know is being deceived, either by their own arrogance or by the works of Satan.
Brother Frank: So if God exists and you disagree with his commands, then you would go your own way?
Atheist: Yes.
Me: SMH!
That's like a new age Atheist saying, "There is no God and it's fact."
Both positions are completely absurd, smh.
Now I will say that many people claim to be Christian, but yet, they don't obey God and follow his commandments. And as Christians we know that the judgement first starts at the house of God.
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
Why is that absurd? If Molech existed, would you immediately start burning people on alters?
I was wondering if you might be able to do a more in depth TH-cam video on Catholicism and why you chose to leave the Catholic Church? Could you talk more about why protestants don’t need the authority of the Catholic Church to discern scripture.
God gave us His Word to read for ourselves. We can go straight to God through Christ. He is our mediator. We don't need a priest, a bishop or any of the so called church hierarchy that claims to represent Him.
I have a question! Should I use the label atheist, agnostic, or something else?
1. I wouldn't say that I know a god doesn't exist, but I don't actively believe that a god exists.
2. I actively believe that the _Christian_ God, specifically, doesn't exist.
I'm curious to see which label y'all prefer for me.
Same.
Atheist, specifically Agnostic atheist
Don’t just say agnostic though because people will think you are up in the air about it
You are a gnostic atheist about the Christian god
Just an atheist is fine.
Atheism is not believing in a god. A-theism. No believing
It is not an assertion that gods don't exist. It's not believing, generally due to a lack of any incontrovertible evidence, that one exists. Agnosticism is not believing that we could know if a god exists. A-gnostic. No knowing. Agnostic does not mean "I'm not sure." It means, I don't think there's a way for us to know.
If some being did present itself as a god to me, I would still be doubtful that it was the supreme being that created the universe and rules over everything. And even if I was pretty sure, I'd still rebel against it, because he's a shitty god. He could have made the universe perfect, but he didn't, but still expects us to believe he's omniscient and omnipotent and omnipresent and omnibenevolent. It's ridiculous.
I would also give him an earful and even try to kill him if I could. Thankfully I'm as worried about facing god when I die as Frank is about facing Allah.
This is an excellent 'when rational answers become reasonable conversions' moment. This is why Frank earns the big bucks (metaphorically speaking). 😉
@@sterlingfallsproductions3930 It's always about how a person views the story about the widow's mite.
@@sterlingfallsproductions3930 Sounds like there's a trust in riches or trust in God issue. Is that between you, you're pocket book and God? Because that's over my pay grade.
@@sterlingfallsproductions3930 You sound like you wanted financial advise. All that talk about how much to give or not to give.
@@sterlingfallsproductions3930 No. While evangelists are to be supported by the church (1 Timothy5:18 Luke 10:1-12), we are not to place our faith in money. Paul who was an Apostle, worked on the side while evangelizing (1 Thessalonians 2:9, 2 Thessalonians 3:8) in order to eat without being a burden to the church. Plus, Paul at times had nothing (2 Corinthians 11:27).
@@sterlingfallsproductions3930 And yet, you make a generalized statement for all churches when you base your opinion on some you have seen.🤣
Atheism, a position of disbelief towards gods.
The most logical and reasonable position as no god has ever been demonstrated to exist, nor do they have evidence of existing...
It is rather belief that God would not exist. It is still belief.
@@I_am_Raziel a god is a baseless assertion never met with evidence.
Burden of proof is on the one making the claim a god exists
@@logicalatheist1065 There are plenty of NDEs here on YT (probably thousands).
It is mathematically impossible that absolutely all of them would be lunatics, narcissists or liars. Logic dictates that at least some of them MUST be telling the truth.
If that doesn't convince you, nothing will.
@@I_am_Raziel they most certainly can be... There's thousands of alien abduction claims, does that make some of them true (according to your logic)
What about other religions that claim NDE as evidence for their religion?
According to your logic their gods must be true as well..
Tell me, why hasn't anyone ever demonstrated any god to exist???
@@logicalatheist1065 Aliens most probably do exist. The universe is unimaginably big. What is visible to us is already extremely big (the light which can reach us) and it could be infinitely bigger outside of this bubble, we will never know.
And yes, the same logic applies there, too. There are thousands of sightings. Reports which are going back hundreds of years back and further. Plenty of information on that, too. Even the US Gov has officially admitted that "something" is in the air. The so called UAPs. "We just don't know"
It seems to me, my friend, that: "I need more information" is just another way to say: "I don't want to obey God" which is the cry of humanity since Day One!! All the information you need is in His Word. 🙂
I’m an agnostic atheist, it seems disingenuous to me when people say they wouldn’t follow God if he proved he existed. Ultimately he’s omnipotent and omniscient, regardless of if he is moral or immoral he will literally torture you forever if you disobey and NOTHING ANYONE could ever do would even slow him down. It’s in the best interest of everyone to comply
@@gregbooker3535 debatable about annihilationism, I don’t consider a permanent death to be an eternal punishment because you don’t exist to suffer, I wasn’t being punished for billions of years before I existed and I don’t buy that verses proclaiming eternal punishment just mean annhilation. My first statement was meant in the context of the whole comment, the biblical God wouldn’t deserve worship but what he deserves is irrelevant when he wields absolute power. There is no point in disobeying because you could never do anything to resist, and you’ll just be obliterated of tortured or whatever you want to say, meanwhile if you do what he says then you live in eternal bliss. So it really doesn’t matter what he would have us do here because if everyone complies everyone gets eternal happiness which completely negates any suffering we would go through on earth because of his commands. You’d be dying or suffering for nothing more than your pride
God bless you!! God is definitely real, created universe governed by laws and defined by time, space, and matter.
Strange. I recently, in the last year or so, thought about the concept of faith which coincided with how I view confidence.
It was during college years that I discovered that confidence can be built and that ultimately it shouldn't be built from nothing. It is built on doing something and being successful at it. As I eventually internalized that more and more, I realized that the whole notion of just believing in yourself as if you just need to believe was false. Confidence is not built from nothing. That's wrong. It needs a ground - a firm one - to stand on. Anyone who really knows sports will tell you that the importance of winning is to build confidence. The success tells you you really can.
Later on, that's when I questioned the notion of blind faith. Somehow I coincidentally thought that that notion of faith is wrong, and thought that to have faith, you need to have something. Something to build it upon. That made more sense. Similar to how you shouldn't just believe someone when they tell you a story. You need something. A little evidence or something solid, coherent, etc to push you towards the direction of believing. If you have that, then that makes your faith stronger than if you didn't base it off anything. And given some of the explanations I've heard from people about science being in favor, and listening and thinking about a few things, it makes more sense.
You answering that definition about what atheism is just happened to coincide with what I already thought about faith.
Coincidentally, confidence > "con fides" > "with faith"
@@Villicus interesting
The thing is (and Turek alluded to this), belief in God couldn't be further from the blind faith you speak of. A true believer has not just the many evidences from historical, archeological, philosophical, and testimonial sources to establish this belief, he/she has many personal experiences that validate God's existence also, and align with the Bible to bring virtual confirmation, this confidence you speak of.
Couple of thoughts (in no particular order) 1. It seems to me (And I Could Be Wrong) Agnostics live just like Atheists. You don't see a lot of Agnostics going to church. 2. After 2000 years (or in the case of Judaism 3500+ years), and some of the Smartest people to ever live studying/writing about this, saying "I Don't Know." what you are really saying is I Don't Want To Know.
Nope. Agnostics aren't persuaded by evidence for either position. That's all.
Stop assigning dishonesty to people who aren't convinced by things you're convinced of.
The position of "I don't know" has no expiration date. As much as we don't like that we can't do anything about it.
@@nikor9640
"some say truth cannot be known of God's existence. The latter is refuted easily"
a Beat me to it!~ :-)
My point is most of those who say they don't know, aren't really looking.
Notice how apologists will never frame atheism correctly. Atheism is about _gods!_ Not just God. Billions of _religious_ people reject God: Muslims and Hindus mostly but many others. Atheism is nonbelief in, disbelief in or denial of _gods._
Then show me a mosque of Satan ….
Atheist movement is against the Christian God.
Amen 🙏
As a former atheist who is now a spirit filled Christian I find it astounding that they are Christians that will actually say you can’t know for sure that there is a God. I’m not sure that a person with a relationship with God through Jesus the anointed (Christ). I know with 100% certainty of God‘s existence because I experience his presence every day tangibly in the relationship has two way communication daily. You have as much chance of convincing me my heavenly father doesn’t exist as you do my earthly father doesn’t exist. Some Christians really still don’t experience God from a biblical perspective. Remarkable
I don't think you're being at all sincere. You couldn't possibly know that a god exists.
what was the "evidence" that 100% convinced you a god exists???
@@darcymr353 Lol 😂 You literally don’t have the time. If you were sincere, you wouldn’t be an ageist because other than the obvious science there are literally MILLIONS of testimonies
@@i-primeproductions1517 this has nothing to do with ageism.
There could be billions of testimonies. It doesn't mean they're true. One or more could of course be true but you can't verify that, hence why you can't just assume they're valid.
@@i-primeproductions1517 So.......a lot of people made claims,....therefore you're "100% certain a god exists".
I would probably answer the same way. If the Bible "god" proved to be the existing one, I wouldn't blindly embrace it. Especially if it _is_ how Christianity depicts it. I won't elaborate further on this, though. Each person must [and should] consider these things on their own,...not from a bias constructed by other people.
@@gregbooker3535 The use of "mysterious ways" is just an attempt at rationalizing the cognitive dissonance.
@@gregbooker3535 True!
@@gregbooker3535 say you haven’t read the Bible without saying you haven’t read the Bible.
@@DRayL_ say you haven’t read the Bible without saying you haven’t read the Bible.
@@silentghost751 The problem is that when you allow yourself to see things from outside the preconceived and insisted upon bias, you can uncover what you never saw....which I have.
As for your condescending reply,...please attempt to have civility.
Abiogenesis fails!
You fail.
No It doesn't. It's accurate
It’s pretty disturbing how Frank would have no problem killing his kid just because his psychotic god told him to, it shows what kind of guy he is
The "ram caught in the thicket" is beside the point....and what is apparently lost on this story.
When someone says "Unless I agreed with God......" They are really saying "Unless I was God........" Why don't any of the speakers point this out?
Right off the bat he's making up a definition of "faith"... Ive looked at a whole.bunch of well known dictionaries and none define "faith" as Frank does.
He pretty much closes the door to fruitful discussion right off the bat.
Agnostic: deals with knowledge or that one doesn't know.
Atheist: deals with belief or that one is not convinced or doesn't believe.
What horrifies me is when Christians are willing to do what God says (like destroying their child) and will justify that by saying, "Well, God can just bring them back to life."
The ends don't justify the means and IMO... is completely irrational.
Hi Mac 👋, hope all's good my friend.
- *What horrifies me is when Christians are willing to do what God says (like destroying their child) and will justify that by saying...*
Well, be horrified by that hypothetical no more Mac. Jesus Christ wouldn't ask for such a thing from His Christians. Peace my friend, talk later.
Why would that horrify you?
@@T0Mmichael1234 Hi Tom 👋
Doin good, glad to see you!💯
I understand what you mean but this is more about the Hebrew Bible (OT) and using a hypothetical.
The guy was trying to give an example of when he would go against God. It was only a hypothetical.
What would you do, Tom? Let's say God did ask you to destroy your child? Would you do it?
I wouldn't.
@@jrc99us Well, from my perspective, the idea that someone would destroy their loved one because God said so.
I guess I see it differently than you do.
@@mustachemac5229 I don't think you are fully comprehending who you are talking to. This would be the maker of all things, something that knows much more than you ever would, and has the power to right any wrong thing. With that I would assume that it can only be a good thing that is being asked, though i don't know the reason why. So I don't think you have considered all the attributes that are also at play
Respect to the questioner. If "God" told me to murder my child, regardless of what they could do after the fact... I'd say F you.
Well, I wouldn't necessarily use those words, but I'd make sure it knew the morality in my own self.
I praise God that Frank has the patience to deal with these incoherent fools. I pray I can reach that level of patience.
Please provide the factual backing that he was "dealing with incoherent fools". Rather than "praying" you reach that level of patience, try "praying" that you _not_ become so jaded against people who merely don't believe your religious stories...and for _good_ reason!! Because it isn't at _all_ "foolish" to reject claims of "a supernatural, invisible, tri-omni, always existing god entity" that hasn't been even remotely satisfactorily evidenced. Not "foolish", but quite reasonable.
Only incoherent fool I see is frank
@@DRayL_We all know God, including atheists who lie to themselves in an attempt to suppress the truth. No point lying to me. The proof of God is that without him, you couldn't prove anything. Your worldview can't justify the uniformity of nature, the laws of logic or morality - you know, the metaphysical stuff you need to do science! You literally can't justify any rational argument unless you start with God. You sit on God's lap to slap him in the face. You believe that everything popped into existence from nothing and everything is merely matter in chaotic motion at its most basic level. Stop and think about your perspective and how vacuous and irrational it is. You probably won't because you love your sin but, in the end, you know God already because God placed that knowledge of him inside of you and you know it. Farewell, and God bless.
@@logicalatheist1065 Classic, a man who calls himself the 'Logical Atheist' yet he subscribes to a worldview that can't rationally explain Logic. You only believe in matter in motion; nothing metaphysical, yet the 'law of logic' can't be explained under the atheistic worldview - they are immaterial and invariant. See this is why God describes people who reject his truth as fools. The Logic Atheist, what utter incoherent nonsense.
@@clintgreive Atheism only explains disbelief in gods tho... i never mentioned anything about my worldview...
fallacious fool.
Yes, atheism is the most logical and reasonable position as no god has ever been demonstrated to even exist, lmao
nice comment of complete and utter garbage
No your book of claims calls people who dont accept the baseless claims, a fool. when in actuality, you cant even support your own position, making you the fool :)
Oxford English Dictionary (OED): faith = strong belief in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof.
I like how he mentioned that the story of Abraham and his son was in relation to our heavenly Father and Jesus. God stopped Abraham but God didn't stop Jesus. I wonder if this also may be in connection to the rapture happening before the tribulation because God has not appointed us to wrath.
Post trib rap is the way.
We will suffer for 7 years before Jesus returns.
Started January 2022
Abraham story has nothing to do with Jesus.
@@frankcardano4142 the tribulation has not started yet
@@vince2969
How do you know?
When will we know?
I appreciate Bart Ehrman's "agnostic/atheist" definition. He said, (paraphrasing):
AGNOSTICISM:
Agnosticism is an epistemological claim (about KNOWLEDGE).
Q: Do you KNOW if there's a Creator who wound up the Cosmic Clock and created everything that is?
A: How the Hell would I know?! Therefore,... - I'm agnostic.
THEISM:
Theism is a question about one's 'personal beliefs'.
Q: Do you BELIEVE in a personal God that has a specific name and narrative, who intervened at a specific point in history, who completed a special mission, who listens in and supervises human activity and who listens to, (and answers) individual prayer?
A: No, I don't 'believe' that.
Therefore,... I'm an atheist
"I need more information about ... what He's asking me to do and whether I agree with it" (4:23).
"He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God" (Micah). "Humbly" - aye, there's the rub.
No, an agnostic says I don't know. An agnostic atheist says I don't know, and I'm not convinced by your claims. That is a position on knowledge and belief. You can lack belief in X without taking an affirmative position on faith. It's called the rejection position. It's like not knowing whether there are an even or an odd number of stars in the universe. You can lack belief in anyone's positive claim, while not actually defaulting to a position of faith. THAT ISN'T A "COP OUT" FRANK
Frank is horribly confused
He seems like he had a heart truly searching lacking any malice or anger towards God. It takes a lot of courage to ask honest questions in public like this.
Where was this at? I know that guy behind this dude, lol.
Surprised Turek didn’t say something like “The commandments are plainly laid out in the New Testament, my dude.”
Dictionary definition of faith in the context of religion: strong belief in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof
Some people just do not want God in there life and that atheist is showing it.
And what are his commandments?
1 John 3:23 “And this is his commandment, That we should (believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ), and (love one another), as he gave us commandment.”
There are no other commandments required for “Salvation”.
Atheism means "godless", meaning one lives their life without believing there is a higher power who has a behavioral code for them to adhere to.
@@skippy675 You're describing a Deist, *not* an atheist.
@@skippy675 a·the·ist
/ˈāTHēəst/
noun
a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods.
A deistic god is still a god. If you believe in a deistic god, you cannot be an atheist. By definition.
I would think most would be thankful for some religions as we can see how many may be self-governed by their beliefs. to me it seems that we as humans need to think we have someone taking care of us even if there is not. To me, there is no greater miracle than the life on this planet and there is no need for a creator to have all the credit. if experience in life is all we really get, then I would suggest we all go get some.
If faith means trust then why not just use trust? Probably because when most people say faith they don't mean trust it's much more than that.
Because the word is a translation, and no translation is ideal. And anyway "faith" has more than one meaning in English.
First, thank you Abba for Your Son Yeshua! Thank you Yeshua for the gift you gave which we all take for granted.
I wish all Q and A's were like this one. Mr. Turek is his usual loving and respectful self, and the gentleman in this video is respectful towards him. While a polar opposite view of course, but he was open to what Mr. Turek had to say. So give credit to where it's due.
As a Christian, the Abraham response was weak. Asking someone if is it rational to sacrifice their child in the same faith that Abraham did, ignores the entire context of the relationship between God and Abraham. The covenant, the way he walked with God, their interconnectivity in the creation of Israel. To assert that it would be rational to obey such a command is to ignore the fact that as a "CHRISTIAN" God would never ask one to do that in the first place. He sent His son already. And to ask an atheist or agnostic to have faith in that sacrifice is quite a steep leap of logic to prove how unwise it is to not believe in God if God were real to him.