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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
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I finally sat down and shared the entire story of when I almost walked away from the faith. I had the privilege of sitting in on my dear friend @CalebHyers podcast, this clip was taken from the full video. Go to his channel for the full interview!
Caleb’s Channel: youtube.com/@C...
You’re either born again or you are not. There’s no back & forth. Once saved, we’re regenerated from the inside & our salvation isn’t something we can undo. It’s important for believers to understand this truth. We might wrestle with some aspects of theology but the Lord will graciously help us walk through doubts & give us the clarity we need.
Deconstructing is the greatest tragedy in the modern era, Jesus is real and alive and loves each and every one of us so so much that he as an immortal being humbled himself enough to die so you can live forever and he proved it by raising from the dead proving he is who he says he is.
”But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.“
2 Peter 3:8-9
It's got to be real hard loosing your faith when it was such a part of your identity and basis for meaning, purpose and morality...
If I had seen any miracle till my NDE it would convince me.
God made it in 2018 very easy for me - He just took me to Heaven while my heart attack which I cannot still forget. It's always there.
You have to go into the wilderness sometimes to strengthen your faith. Often if you grew up in Christian way of life and never question it, you are put in this layer of protection from the reality of the world. You can say it is a form of blind faith because you follow a faith you don't even know why you follow it. God wants true followers and not a bunch of yes men that don't even know why you are following him. This is why so many fall away because they follow a religion that their parents grew up in and never actually seek God for themselves. I was in that wilderness until God revealed who he is. He exists in other historical facts that aren't written in the bible. If you're ever in doubt, check out Chinese characters depicting the Book of Genesis event and Three historical facts of Jesus Birth, death and resurrection in the Han Dynasty Astronomy record. These are historical facts which many Christians overlook. But God is there if you need answers and strengthen your faith.
Thank you so much for sharing this testimony. I have experienced almost the exact same thing over the last year, and hearing this gives me so much hope.
Thank you for sharing. I’ll be praying for you!
My faith is fading away from me fast and I need your help. Please send me something, anything that can help me regain it.😢
Love this talk! Thank you.
You are so welcome!
This video came just at the right time! Praise the Lord. I've been experiencing this doubt after watching way to many videos on either side of the debate whilst simultaneously wrestling with my personal experiences. This has without a doubt made me firmer in my faith again. Ive also seen demonic presences and have been going through an absolute wave of depression over the last year. The Lord is faithful and he has stuck through it with me for every waking moment. I love Jesus. My comment is not a joke. This is my real experience, this is genuinely the most relatable and faith restoring video i have seen in ages. The videos would say im hallucinating and im delusional.
I'm not lol, i know that now.
The Lord speaks to me through dreams aswell!
I have been really uplifted by this. This is a seriously powerful video for the confused Christian!
Wow this is incredible. It’s why I shared my story. Thank you for sharing
My goodness. Absolutely my goodness. You couldn't have worded that any more perfect. I'm in the EXACT same boat. I work from home and am constantly listening to Christian Vs. atheist debates, e.g., Kent Hovind, Aron Ra, Matt Dillahunty, etc. I currently feel so far from GOD. I've been experience major depression and serious doubt. However, your comment as well as this video is picking me up and setting me on the path that I want to be on.
@@fcweddington this is so encouraging. The Lord promised me that the JUNK I went through would be used to help other people who were in the same boat. Im praying for you!
“Deconstructing” you never really believed in the first place.. a lot of this case happening now in evangelicals because of watered down preaching to fit the politics.
Did you watch the entire video?
"Almost" is the key word there. You didn't feel the full impact of leaving so you only have half the story. Ask anyone who HAS left. LEAVING, actual leaving is hard, very hard. It's not something we wished for ourselves. We mostly didn't WANT to. But it was inevitable. Once you see the truth about Christianity, you can't unsee it. If you turn back, you choose untruths to live by. "Almost leaving" is like being "a little bit pregnant." That's not a possibility.
I understand. I was lucky that I was able to hold on to my faith. I feel deeply for anyone who walked away. It’s the hardest thing
Truth…… so what was the “truth” that caused you to leave the faith? Interested in how that compares to the “ truth” that holds me in the faith.
You didn’t see the truth about Christianity, you realized that you were believing a counterfeit and you were finally honest with yourself that it wasn’t real. If it were real and you walked away then again it’s not the Christianity that was not real but your own ambitions and loves for other things not related to Christianity.
Let’s not assume that you are an authority in knowing true Christianity either way.
Walked away from secular fundamentalism around 14 years ago, in great part, because I couldn't unsee what I'd seen regarding the bankruptcy of the white man's religion. Couldn't stomach the nonsense ever again.
@@ryanp8159can you define what you mean by "secular fundamentalism" and "white man's religion" ? The Bible is definitely not secular or white lol. I'm a little confused what you're talking about.
The video with Rhett's deconstruction was that he was basing his faith on objective evidence, trying to intellectualize his belief, that it ended up failing him The problem is the evidence he is looking for is experienced in the subjective experiences where data can't be collected nor can be measured. His faith was not centered on God, but rather in the certainty of him being correct about God. Once that came into question and challenged, deconstruction occurred. A lot of people are going through this for the similar reasons. However, if God is centered in one's faith, reconstruction will happen.
It becomes impossible to be honest with yourself and sincerely believe. I have become abandoned to face the truth alone. It's as if my mistake was being genuine and having too much faith. They act like I gave up when they are the ones who refuse to take a step forward. It's heartbreaking. Their fear of the unknown is greater than the love they claim we shared for each other. So now here I am exiled, in search of righteousness as I have been from the very beginning
Not really the more I dig the more it leads to orthodoxy.
Powerful....."I thought a thought I couldn't unthink"..I needed to hear this, I wish it would have worked though....the mind is a fragile thing and sounds like you were hurting, wanting desperately to get back into the fold/comfort place so bad you gave up fighting because if you didn't your career and life would have been destroyed. Yes, once you give up and give all yourself (truly commit) to something you will believe it. I've seen no Mirical's that nature couldn't explain. Like you, TH-cam also turned my world upside down and now I'm stuck in the closet not willing to come out. Like you would have, I would have surely lost my wife and most of my family. Yes, knowledge might very well be the antichrist. I'm sure my wife has figured it out about me although she is not willing to push the subject. "As for me and my house" we are now living the one and only life we have to the fullest. signed Lost Soul
Thank you for your vulnerability. I am praying for you, and if there’s anything I can do to encourage or maybe answer any questions I would LOVE to. It’s the reason I told my story. Because I KNOW there’s more people dealing with this.
im 30min in and so far from what i heard, what i believe happend is that God gave you this tribulation, or so to say test, in order for you to experience and grow yourself what some people go through aswell, imagine how much closer you got to people who are seeking God now, and come up to you with questions such as "what do i do with those doubts? how do i know its real?" now you experienced it first hand so you can give much better explanation and answers to those
i want to just say that im happy for hearing your message
Catholicism and the Eucharist is as real as it gets.
Jesus is as real as it gets.
@@D_Michal is there an echo in here? I just said that when I said Eucharist. It's the source and summit of Christian life....Jesus
Respectufully, no matter what you believe about partaking in the Lord's Supper (and I do think it's important as a Christian), it does not replace who Jesus is. My point is that it may be easy to make DOING something, like partaking in the eucharist, replace actual faith in Jesus. No tradition or religion can save. Only faith in Christ can.
Blessings to you.
@@D_Michal because we have faith, we partake in things Jesus asked of us to do. Faith without works is dead. You show me faith without works I'll show you my faith BY my works. Blessings to you.
@@D_Michal consider looking into Jesus referring to the passover liturgy he had been conducting when he said "it is finished" on the cross. He couldn't have been referring to his redeeming as that wasn't to be finished until AFTER his resurrection
So one thing I ask myself is if someone of another religion came to me with spiritual experiences exactly like yours. Should that be evidence for me to be convinced? I say no which tells me my beliefs were predicating on something else.
Also every time I pray and ask God for things I get nothing. Can you pray for my shoulder and knee right now? Maybe God will listen to you since He hasn't to me.
Salvation is by faith alone. If you lose your faith, you are ignorant
You say this story true why don't you prove it and if this story is true why doesn't God show him or her self to me every time I pray that he or she will?🤨I really need to know because I'm still very sceptical of this video.
How would you like me to prove it? If im able to I will!
@@The_table_242 show me an undeniable miracle with no Photoshop or anything that can be regarded as fake magic and maybe then I will believe. Keyword maybe.
@@The_table_242Firstly give me full detail of what this supposed demon that you saw looked like. Secondly give me full detail of what God in that situation that you experienced sounded like. Lastly do a miracle with out the use of any photo shopped or some other advanced technology but a miracle performed only in the Lord's name and maby I might trust you. Also how did you know that what you experienced was not a hallucination or some creatures(aliens/people with advanced technology) trying to deceive you.
@@The_table_242if you can perform a miracle maybe I will believe and maybe you could give me full detail of what's the demon looked like what God sounded like and if those descriptions are accurate maybe and if it's not some hallucination I'll be able to believe again I really hope you give a response soon cuz my faith is really fading away.
Can you show me instances when people saw God or at least heard God's voice because I still don't fully trust this video.
Im guessing the insinuation is that I would be lying or are you saying I would be mistaken? Also I think you’re asking the wrong question. Even if someone told you they heard or saw God they still couple be lying. You need to be searching for physical evidence that can be attested by several sources, primarily miracles. Do your research. See if there are peer reviewed medical journals where the doctors admit to medical miracles after people prayer to Jesus… hint hint there’s a lot of them.
However if you’re approaching this question as a Christian who doesn’t believe God speaks or shows up to people today then I would say do what I stated above plus search the scriptures to see if we should still expect these things today… hint hint we should.
I don't know I'm still having doubts.😥
If you dont really have God but an opinion.. or doctrine .. deconstruction makes sense.. but if you actually know God and have experienced his existence the idea of deconstruction doesnt make sense
Exactly this topic makes me so angry all these people that never really surrendered to God in the first place have the audacity to turn around and deny him whatever they get is deserved I'm sorry I said what I said
@@adamsilva711 Well Christianity got a remake some time ago making a fast food salvation.. the word believe was cheapened to mean an opinion about biblical truths without Taking up your cross its become all a mental exercise rather than an act of faith.
@@dargostvolos614 completely agree. Such is the church age we live in.
@@adamsilva711 its why we need to find others who love God with there lives to fellowship
Mehn. I don’t know why TH-cam’s algorithm brought me to your channel but I’m glad it did. Thank you for sharing your story. I feel I got one of the pieces to a puzzle of what I’m personally going through now. I felt one more step closer to freedom
Thank you for sharing this! I’m believing it’s the Lord!
Please!!! Tell me with all the honesty in your heart is this story true, because I myself am struggling with my faith.🥺
It really is! I have SO many stories like that. God is real, He loves you, and he will SHOW himself to you!
@@The_table_242 Thank you!!! you have no idea what that means to me!
Although I'm still having doubts.😢
Coincidence, in no way, proves anyone's god. Sorry... it just doesn't.
I was a bit confused with the title but I am glad that I watched it
I’m sorry I got lost when he started talking like he had an audible conversation with God, I know peoples responses they are going to say the sheep hear his voice! It’s the most abused scripture ever. If you read that in context it does not mean that you are going to hear his voice in your head
Are you saying that we can’t hear the Lord speak to us within our hearts?
His sheep absolutely do hear his voice.
When I preach the gospel.. It's not actually me that is preaching, so you either hear his voice or you do not.
[2Co 13:3 KJV] Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
So who is speaking? Not I.
[Gal 2:20 KJV] I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
So, the sheep do hear his voice and the goats do not.
@@TheGingerbread-Man yes I agree what I mean is that there are people after they are believers kinda disregard the Bible and listen to thoughts and feelings to dictate there walk. From that way of thinking there has been a lot of church deception when people say “ God told me”! That’s a very bold claim to say God told you something outside of scripture because if you are wrong you are speaking falsely about God and slandering him saying he said something to you that he did not say. I do agree because we are his sheep we hear his word from scripture, most certainly but not in an audible way. God spoke to people through the prophets and later threw Jesus Christ. Trusting in thoughts and signs as a conversation with God is not biblical it’s mysticism
You can’t just walk away you have to help the accuser now?
I dont think you watched til the end…. spoiler alert im still a Christian