I'm read the Bible cover to cover again. Using Fr Mike's Bible in a Year and Bergsma & Pitre's Catholic Intro to OT. Learning a ton and your videos compliment it nicely.
Hey Suan I just wanted to say thanks for all that you do on this channel. I’ve considered being Catholic for over 3 years now but I am finally in an RCIA program. Your channel has helped me immensely in growing understanding and a deep love for the Catholic Faith
Bravo! 👏 This is such an important conversation for Catholics in academia! So often, these dark passages and the archeology of Scripture is used as a crowbar to pry the faith from eager students. By providing a hermeneutic of interpretation, Ratzinger and Aquinas showing the way, you enable students of the Bible to grow in their understanding of Sacred Scripture while deepening their faith.
I'm in the beginning of the video, just want to add another reason of why we should address this, and it's for the kids that are growing.. When they are little loving God comes natural, but for the teens they start to question (like I did) and the usual typical answers (that seems they don't even buy it), make you go away.. For me took me more than 20 years
I'm not a scholar by any stretch of the imagination, but I do very much enjoy listening to these talks and your guests Suan. Regarding historical criticism, and the historicity of various events recorded In the Bible; for some time now, I've thought about the Adam and Eve account, and it has come home to me that after 41 years of life, in and out of the military, in and out of faith, that yes, the story of Adam is true. 100% true. A man that shirks his responsibilities and blames those that are given into his care, who even blames his creator. Do I read Genesis like the folks at the Creation Museum? No. But I'm Adam. I've seen this with my own eyes. I have lived this. Of course the scriptures are true. Anyhow, God bless and keep you both.
The book, “Jesus’ Biological Father was Joseph: According to the New Testament” (DS WAGGONER) addresses a few “dark” passages in the Birth Narratives, but concludes with a blessing
@ because once you walk down this path every narrative story is up for grabs. It becomes impossible to have a consistent hermeneutic on whether the avg OT story is real history or just a made up story to teach us some truth.
@@sk8board3111 I feel like that’s a false dichotomy. It seems like you missed a lot of the points in the video. Even if it were the case most of the OT was just there to be spiritual truths, I don’t see how that’s a major problem for the faith. Christianity is focused on Christ
@@isaacromero3475Because Jesus literally talks with Moses in the gospels and if he didn't exist then not only the gospel authors are completely wrong about the life of Jesus but also all the prophets and Jesus himself were wrong. If that is true then one has to be a slow minded moron to think that Christianity is true. I think that full literalism also doesn't work but even if the biblical descriptions aren't fully literal or fully accurate, they need to "touch" the physical reality. Even if all the statements about Moses aren't true, he has to be a real person for Christianity to be consistent and reasonable. English isn't my first language so forgive me for all the grammar mistakes
@@stls800 That’s not the point I was making. I agree that to make sense of Christianity, we would have to grant that prophets such as Moses literally existed. That being said, we don’t have to believe everything said about them in the Bible was literally true. We can interpret many of their stories to be exaggerated or mythologized to an extent for the sake of illustrating a greater spiritual truth. I think we probably agree on this topic. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve watched this video though so if there’s something you don’t think I addressed let me know. Your English is great by the way.
Ratzinger, like most of the modernist "experts" at V2 was an anti-Thomist and more generally and anti-Scholastic. They identified the "Schoolmen" of blessed memory as a major obstacle to be removed so the "reforms" could progress.
I'm read the Bible cover to cover again. Using Fr Mike's Bible in a Year and Bergsma & Pitre's Catholic Intro to OT. Learning a ton and your videos compliment it nicely.
Hey Suan I just wanted to say thanks for all that you do on this channel. I’ve considered being Catholic for over 3 years now but I am finally in an RCIA program. Your channel has helped me immensely in growing understanding and a deep love for the Catholic Faith
Wow. I have Dr. Ramage's book on my desk, waiting to read after I finish Copan, and here he is!
I'm ur biggest fan Suan
Bravo! 👏 This is such an important conversation for Catholics in academia! So often, these dark passages and the archeology of Scripture is used as a crowbar to pry the faith from eager students. By providing a hermeneutic of interpretation, Ratzinger and Aquinas showing the way, you enable students of the Bible to grow in their understanding of Sacred Scripture while deepening their faith.
I'm in the beginning of the video, just want to add another reason of why we should address this, and it's for the kids that are growing.. When they are little loving God comes natural, but for the teens they start to question (like I did) and the usual typical answers (that seems they don't even buy it), make you go away.. For me took me more than 20 years
I'm not a scholar by any stretch of the imagination, but I do very much enjoy listening to these talks and your guests Suan. Regarding historical criticism, and the historicity of various events recorded In the Bible; for some time now, I've thought about the Adam and Eve account, and it has come home to me that after 41 years of life, in and out of the military, in and out of faith, that yes, the story of Adam is true. 100% true. A man that shirks his responsibilities and blames those that are given into his care, who even blames his creator. Do I read Genesis like the folks at the Creation Museum? No. But I'm Adam. I've seen this with my own eyes. I have lived this. Of course the scriptures are true. Anyhow, God bless and keep you both.
Hi Suaan. I absolutely love your content. Could you make some more videos vindication the new eliakim typological argument?
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This protestant response seems pretty cogent
I find Dr. Ramage conclusions almost identical with the protestant theologian Greg Boyd works, “Crucifixion of the Warrior God.”
The book, “Jesus’ Biological Father was Joseph: According to the New Testament” (DS WAGGONER) addresses a few “dark” passages in the Birth Narratives, but concludes with a blessing
How does this not turn you into a major skeptic
Why would it
@ because once you walk down this path every narrative story is up for grabs. It becomes impossible to have a consistent hermeneutic on whether the avg OT story is real history or just a made up story to teach us some truth.
@@sk8board3111 I feel like that’s a false dichotomy. It seems like you missed a lot of the points in the video. Even if it were the case most of the OT was just there to be spiritual truths, I don’t see how that’s a major problem for the faith. Christianity is focused on Christ
@@isaacromero3475Because Jesus literally talks with Moses in the gospels and if he didn't exist then not only the gospel authors are completely wrong about the life of Jesus but also all the prophets and Jesus himself were wrong. If that is true then one has to be a slow minded moron to think that Christianity is true. I think that full literalism also doesn't work but even if the biblical descriptions aren't fully literal or fully accurate, they need to "touch" the physical reality. Even if all the statements about Moses aren't true, he has to be a real person for Christianity to be consistent and reasonable. English isn't my first language so forgive me for all the grammar mistakes
@@stls800 That’s not the point I was making. I agree that to make sense of Christianity, we would have to grant that prophets such as Moses literally existed. That being said, we don’t have to believe everything said about them in the Bible was literally true. We can interpret many of their stories to be exaggerated or mythologized to an extent for the sake of illustrating a greater spiritual truth. I think we probably agree on this topic. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve watched this video though so if there’s something you don’t think I addressed let me know. Your English is great by the way.
Would you consider hosting me or joining us in the Zealot's Den? God bless 🙏
Ratzinger, like most of the modernist "experts" at V2 was an anti-Thomist and more generally and anti-Scholastic. They identified the "Schoolmen" of blessed memory as a major obstacle to be removed so the "reforms" could progress.