Lessons a Non-believer Can Learn From God (Exodus Clip)

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  • @mccm4497
    @mccm4497 ปีที่แล้ว +515

    "I am infinitely more interested in what God wants from me than what I want from God" I love it

    • @aldencole6714
      @aldencole6714 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      We should definitely care about what God wants from us, but we need to recognize that God doesn't need us... we need him.

    • @JK-uo3pd
      @JK-uo3pd ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Amen.
      Prager the only one close to representing God biblically here.
      The rest were just speaking like a bunch of new agers

    • @gailhill8391
      @gailhill8391 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@JK-uo3pd If Prager wants to know what God wants him to do he's going to have to read, understand, and believe the New Testament. THEN he can act and speak accordingly.

    • @JK-uo3pd
      @JK-uo3pd ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Gail Hill
      Sadly Jordan exposes himself at the 1:09 mark saying he leaves God out as much as possible.
      What a prideful statement to suggest that anyone can just “add in God when suited”
      God is sovereign and when I say God I mean the Trinity - Jesus Christ of whom is not mentioned once here…..also very telling. These new agers are just creating their own god.
      Jesus Christ name above all names. The only Living God. King of Kings and Lord of Lords

    • @gailhill8391
      @gailhill8391 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JK-uo3pd I think Jordan plays his cards close to his vest and I see nothing wrong with that. Was he saying that in his discussions he tries to leave God out of it? It's your job and mine to proclaim the name of the king of kings and lord of lords: Jesus Christ. Right? And I do proclaim it. However I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. Meaning: he is the "SON OF God," not "God." God is spirit John 4.24. God bless.

  • @GordGonzola
    @GordGonzola ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Also, Thanks and Respect for 12 rules, was an Excellent eye opener. Words cannot express...

  • @zacharytuttle5618
    @zacharytuttle5618 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wish they would of had a couple of atheists to actually challenge some of these points.

    • @macmac1022
      @macmac1022 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I wish I was up there. I have some questions I would like to see them answer.

    • @sonkeschmidt2027
      @sonkeschmidt2027 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The question is, how much of a point is there to debate if the fundamental presumptions of the debate are by nature contradictory. You will only conclude disagreement.

    • @zacharytuttle5618
      @zacharytuttle5618 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Sönke Schmidt well I would assume they would be talking about those assumptions, but yeah there are already a lot of conversations between Christians and atheists and it usually results in nothing. It just struck me as weird to have a video called lessons for non-believers and not include any non believers.

    • @sonkeschmidt2027
      @sonkeschmidt2027 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zacharytuttle5618 hehe, that's a good point indeed. It comes off a bit wierd =)

  • @jacksonelmore6227
    @jacksonelmore6227 ปีที่แล้ว

    What if God is the One All, Who is the Self

  • @richardaaron4454
    @richardaaron4454 ปีที่แล้ว +403

    I read The Bible at 15 after I was taught Atheism at a young age. I couldn’t force myself to believe which made me unhappy. Then I studied philosophy for over a decade (over two decades now) and it made sense. What I learned from philosophy was that I should’ve just believed in The Bible and saved myself a decade of studying but that wasn’t my path to God. My path to God was a long and arduous one, I’m just glad I made it to the other side. I now hope to become a pastor one day if I can and help people to be saved.

    • @richardaaron4454
      @richardaaron4454 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @David R Thank you, Sir.

    • @richardaaron4454
      @richardaaron4454 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@BMFstudiosNYC That’s not true. If that was the case then I could’ve read two books and tried to justify believing. If that was indeed my goal. Especially if I read Pascal or someone pushing Christianity but it took me over a decade of studying even though I read Pascal a few years in. I disagreed wholly with The Wager and still do, fear of being wrong does not constitute faith. Other than Pascal (Christian), Nietzsche (Existentialist) and Schopenhauer (Pessimistic Atheist); I mainly read classical philosophy which would be considered Pagan. Not sure how you imagine any of them outside of Pascal could lead me to God, in fact philosophy led me further away from God before I made it back to God. Plato’s Republic and Nietzsche’s The AntiChrist were the first books I read, followed by Schopenhauer who was extremely irreligious. I wasn’t trying to become a Christian because I didn’t believe that I could, so I went down the path of Philosophy instead of Religion, not intending to justify being or become religious.

    • @BMFstudiosNYC
      @BMFstudiosNYC ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@richardaaron4454 but you said you were unhappy because you couldn't force yourself to believe. That sounds like motive to me. You wanted to be happy, but why did you consider believing to be happiness?

    • @richardaaron4454
      @richardaaron4454 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@BMFstudiosNYC Well I read The Bible at age fifteen after believing what my uncle who was a scientist taught me since I was a child, avid Atheism.
      “The people who wrote The Bible fasted and didn’t sleep so they hallucinated it all.” He said. When I was fifteen I decided that I wanted to read The Bible because I can’t dismiss something that I don’t understand. I asked my Mother to get me one for Christmas and my Uncle was disappointed that I’d asked for it.
      I went to his house after reading it thoroughly and asked if he’d even read it and he said that he’d never read it, not even once. The same Uncle told me that the old politicians who never smoked weed and didn’t know anything about it, made it illegal. So I saw him as a hypocrite after that night.
      I realized that he took something from me, which was a choice that I should’ve been able to make in my own when I was ready to that’s the reason I was truly unhappy.
      I knew that he was very intelligent l, the most intelligent person in the family but what I didn’t know as a young child was that there is a difference between intelligence and wisdom.
      Philosophy made me happy, I think there is no greater happiness than making new connections in your mind. Learning and understanding philosophy was the happiest I’ve ever been, the feeling of knowledge increasing by degrees is a happiness that I find impossible to articulate with words.
      I didn’t need religion once I learned to philosophize, it gives you the religious experience without religion. I think it was when I got heavy into the philosophy of quantum mechanics towards the end of the first decade that I started to believe there was something greater than myself.
      That belief wasn’t necessary to make me happy though. It’s been an extremely long process and I truly didn’t think it was possible for me to be religious. I felt as if it was simply impossible to circumvent my intellect and believe in something without proof.
      I never aimed to be religious because I never thought that it was even a remote possibility that I could so late in life. I thought that if you didn’t believe by six years old then you never will.

    • @richardaaron4454
      @richardaaron4454 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@BMFstudiosNYC I hit ‘like’ on your question because it is a good question. I could’ve worded my first comment better to be sure. It’s important to ask good questions.

  • @victoriacarr6685
    @victoriacarr6685 ปีที่แล้ว +247

    As Carl Jung stated, " Without God, State becomes God."

    • @Tiipod
      @Tiipod ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I guess it's Chesterton's quote: Once abolish God and the government becomes God

    • @michaelparsons3007
      @michaelparsons3007 ปีที่แล้ว

      Checkout the Migration of the Holy (sacred) by William Kavanaugh

    • @josephposenecker9741
      @josephposenecker9741 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @DCA just because a tyrannical king claims his actions are God’s will doesn’t mean that the church or holy people agreed with him. Throughout history as kings/tyrant’s made such claims there were always holy people disputing them. Unfortunately, organized violence, power, has been in control of those most willing and able to use it. The Catholic Church has long debated the idea of just war. It is their official position that there has never been one. The misconception that the Catholic Church was all powerful and therefore anything that happened during its religious reign was ideally how it wanted things to be is just naive and incorrect. The church from its very beginning with Jesus is well aware of what a tyrannical government can do to try and wipe a religion off the face of the earth and from human history.

    • @GordGonzola
      @GordGonzola ปีที่แล้ว

      How many 'Every OTHER Weekend' "Gods" do YOU know? Are their children the 'same' as jesus?

    • @davida.rosales6025
      @davida.rosales6025 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Only if you're a drone.
      And yes, most people are drones.

  • @FQuintanaMarrero
    @FQuintanaMarrero ปีที่แล้ว +133

    What a fantastic debate where everyone politely intervenes without fuzz or rudeness. Truly refreshing.

    • @cottonclarksa
      @cottonclarksa ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I agree. This "round table" of conversation very much reminds me of PBS programming in the early days - 1970s and some of the 80s - where such intellectual dialog (and respect) were the norm. I must confess that in both instances - then and now - the dialog pushes the limits of my intellect and understanding, yet the gentility of conversation and the social graces that were on full display in this clip have allowed the "hamster wheel in my head" to zoom forward at breakneck speed! I will be deciphering this bit for some time... and it was only a mere 14 minutes!
      I could never have learned as much in a heated debate, which is too often the norm today. Such displays prove to be nothing more than events of assassinating the character of your opponent. This forum, on the other hand, was built to edify all involved, especially us as the listener but I dare say that each of the participants walked away with new information and/or understandings of issues. What a great forum!

    • @hawkenfox
      @hawkenfox ปีที่แล้ว

      They did not debate, they are sharing.

    • @harkyo
      @harkyo ปีที่แล้ว

      More like a discussion than a debate.

  • @robertnervoso771
    @robertnervoso771 ปีที่แล้ว +271

    I realized that i always treated God like a Butler...... I asked him a Lot of stupid things... This conversation changed everything for me. Thank you ALL!

    • @jessebbedwell
      @jessebbedwell ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It isn't that we are not to ask of God, but in what we ask of God? Since God reveals Himself as Father, there is a proper request to be made of God which is attributed to His and our position. There are many things a father does of his own volition which is toward the goodness and betterment of the child, but the child is unawares of the direct (or at times, indirect) benefit. But the greatest thing a child can express in asking, is that it be trained to be just like their father (if indeed the relationship is a healthy one).

    • @cynthianichole2732
      @cynthianichole2732 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's awesome. It was help to me too.

    • @gailhill8391
      @gailhill8391 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Too bad Prager rejects Jesus Christ and the New Testament:
      [Phl 4:6 KJV] 6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

    • @esjel9804
      @esjel9804 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@gailhill8391 IKR. How IRONIC that Prager can SEE the necessity of God thru considering His absence, but cannot see the ABSOLUTE necessity for the substitutionary atonement of Christ. A covering was needed, not just right action, but a right being which Christ was and is for all who believe. May God show him the absurdity of right standing with God apart from faith in Jesus Christ -- may he see that before he ends up like the man in the parable of the wedding feast who showed up in the wrong attire, and was cast into outer darkness.
      Prager problem is being too behavioral/ethical in his approach. He only sees religion as important in terms of its practical benefit to this temporal world. I dont see a desire to glorify God in the deepest sense-- from the inside out. At this point he is a pragmatist, Jordan too. And this idea, of God's usefulness, or necessity as Prager put it, is what won him over. He found it irrefutable. That's enough for him, and it frames his thought and reading of Scripture. He likes the ethic. But Jordan is closer because at least he is able to see that Christ is the logos. However, I dont think he is yet to see Christ in His fullness.

    • @DH-og5yr
      @DH-og5yr ปีที่แล้ว

      Queue up the moral panic

  • @williambradley6429
    @williambradley6429 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    What Os said of turning the world upside down reminds me of Chesterton: In G. K. Chesterton's biographical sketch of St. Francis of Assisi, he describes a time when Francis felt deep discouragement and a sense of failure. He emerged from that experience looking at the world "as differently from other men as if he had come out of that dark hole walking on his hands." "If a man saw the world upside down," Chesterton continues, "with all the trees and towers hanging head downward as in a pool, one effect would be to emphasize the idea of dependence, for the very word dependence only means hanging." Standing upright, we see a world rising on the foundations of our own achievements. Turned upside down, we see everything suspended precariously, dependent on God rather than being solid and secure.

    • @chrisriley9182
      @chrisriley9182 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is brilliant. I often get this feeling when lying down looking up at the night sky, as if I'm about to fall off the face of the earth into the vastness of space, "what is man that you are mindful of him?"

  • @philiph.5113
    @philiph.5113 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    What Dennis doesn't understand is we are to seek God's will daily. We are to go to him for all matters. No we don't ask for the riches of this world, but we do ask for guidance, forgiveness, strength, a closer walk with him, and what our spiritual gift is.

    • @jeremiahragira7633
      @jeremiahragira7633 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I wholeheartedly agree. The need for a cultural Jesus to only allow for people to act out their divine will isn't enough. There needs to be an active relationship with the divine to ensure the proper placement of their heart's motive. Asking for guidance, forgiveness, strength, and a closer walk with him makes this possible. Without this open communication, individuals run the risk of making the divine will yet another prescription for a surface-level self-improvement guide.

    • @gailhill8391
      @gailhill8391 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      He lacks understanding because he rejects Jesus Christ and the New Testament.

    • @bobgriffin316
      @bobgriffin316 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I don't know much about Dennis but I think that is exactly what he is praying for. He wants to know what he should do. He would then pray for guidance and ask what his gifts are so that he can do what God wants. Hopefully he would want to walk closer to God because that would be what God wants for him to do.

    • @gailhill8391
      @gailhill8391 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@bobgriffin316 Which would mean confessing Jesus Christ as his Lord and believing that god raised him from the dead.

    • @bobgriffin316
      @bobgriffin316 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gailhill8391 Yes.

  • @johnbugnoii
    @johnbugnoii ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Always believed in God. Saw the universe - the heavens and the stars as a boy and said to myself how could there not be a Creator with this absolute grandeur. I would fall away in my Christian faith as I got older and in college, but always believed in God, but viewed Him as a great grandfather busy with other things and not me. Oh boy, was I wrong. God would answer a prayer, many since then, help convict me of sin, which lead me to realize my need for a Savior, Jesus Christ. I would soon rededicated my life to the Lord, Christ then freed me from an addiction on the day of my baptism and my life has never been the same. “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:32 God bless everyone!!

    • @s0ld4u
      @s0ld4u ปีที่แล้ว

      Pfft. The universe is much more extraordinary having come about naturally, from infinite possibilities bound by the laws of physics, no god necessary.
      God is Santa for adults.

    • @marcocortes9968
      @marcocortes9968 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@s0ld4u the Universe is already “extra-ordinary” thanks to God. It is even more amazing when you know that it exists for a purpose, and it is part of a greater picture which is perfect and more mysterious than what you could ever possibly understand in your finite years and limited human mind. Knowledge that can only be revealed by God. That to me is better than thinking the earth is a coincidence, its creatures go through a life of delusional meaning, and ultimately it doesn’t even matter because all will end in a couple million years for nothing.
      Also, I don’t think the universe is bound by laws. It would be more accurate to say that both laws and the universe are bounded to eachother. There are no laws if there is no nature to be bounded to. There are no laws if there is no order. Yet atheism suggests order is oddly achieved continuously by what is “disordered”. Which as believer in God we know it isn’t disordered

    • @IramCoercere
      @IramCoercere ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@s0ld4u humble yourself and ask for god and he will show him to you.
      May god come to your life and open your eyes

  • @billoehlschlager6503
    @billoehlschlager6503 ปีที่แล้ว +156

    I was brought up in the church but became an atheist at age 16. I looked at the God question as a philosophical question, i.e., if there is a God he's way out there in the universe somewhere and we can't know if there's a God out there or not. At age 27 I started to read the gospels and eventually realized that all those years, not only did I have the wrong answer but I had the wrong question. The question is not, is there a God way out there in the universe somewhere; the real question is who is Jesus Christ. I eventually realized that the only possible answer to that question is that he has to be the Son of God.

    • @lounaannajung4454
      @lounaannajung4454 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I came to the same question but from a different path. It's surprisingly common for people (at least around me) to not even sit with that question of "Who is Jesus Christ?" It should be on everyone's mind though, since even if you only think He's "just a human being", He's still the most famous human being for over two thousand years.
      However, everyone thinks they got Him all figured out 🤣 even though He's (considering only His humanity) on a completely different level than them. Yet they dare to just put Him in a box and "get busy" with something "more important".

    • @dannyreborn
      @dannyreborn ปีที่แล้ว

      Amen

    • @KevinMarshall757
      @KevinMarshall757 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Jessie You could ask both questions and you'd find that if you are serious about trying find the answers the choice of who to follow becomes an easy one to make.

    • @KevinMarshall757
      @KevinMarshall757 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Jessie The choice of who to follow becomes an easy one AFTER seriously trying to find the answer to the question of their identities, but answering those questions meaningfully will likely take a lot of effort. I didn't mean to suggest that the overall process would be an easy one. It is very important to know what each one says himself. There are plenty of people who claim to be followers of one or the other but whose conduct doesn't match up with the one who they claim to be following.

    • @KevinMarshall757
      @KevinMarshall757 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Jessie What I'm trying to say is that you can read and study what Muhammed has said and done and do the same with Jesus Christ and then decide who is better to follow. I hope that is a little clearer.

  • @JaketheJust
    @JaketheJust ปีที่แล้ว +95

    I learned a lot about God and the necessities of God from Christopher Hitchens, one of the biggest New Atheist speakers. I wished he was still alive today, I believe he and Dr. Peterson would have had an astounding conversation about religion, morality, ethos and freedom of speech

    • @enriquebaez504
      @enriquebaez504 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I find interesting and joyful on the contemplation of him towards God, which hopefully he made a change to believe.

    • @enriquebaez504
      @enriquebaez504 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@decimaldan4316 he was in his last days, maybe out of fear, but still was moving towards theism.

    • @enriquebaez504
      @enriquebaez504 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@decimaldan4316 i was a devout listener to Willian lane Craig and he stated that by the end he had personal conversations with Will onto the fact he was repenting. The thing about salvation is that he need it to ask himselve for it, hope he did.
      Smart dude but God never loses, only allows our path to be reach.

    • @e_8074
      @e_8074 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The more my belief in God grows and matures, the more I love listening to Hitchens. Perhaps it's his sincerity or lucid ability to articulate questions, or even his utter disdain of the Clintons. Whatever it is, I sure hope we both make it to the realms of light because man, I really love the guy.

    • @overkill1025
      @overkill1025 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Decimal Dan I think we've have learned many of the Christian myths are Jewish traditions. Well I'm not Jewish. I'm Celtic and Germanic. My people do not come from Moses(Egypt) or abraham(mesopotamia)

  • @hendriksmedia
    @hendriksmedia ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "The conclusion of the matter, everything having been heard, is: Fear the true God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole obligation of man." --Ecclesiastes 12:13

  • @fatalheart7382
    @fatalheart7382 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out."

  • @HowieDewitt7575
    @HowieDewitt7575 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Everyone talks about God, but no one talks about the deceiver of the world

  • @ClassicFantastic5028
    @ClassicFantastic5028 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    “We can notice God if we pay enough attention.” We live in the most attention zapped point in human history. We have a hard enough time giving our friends and loved ones enough attention! It ain’t good folks.

  • @matthewr7593
    @matthewr7593 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Also another super interesting thing with Kant, because they touch on the dichotomy between the first critique, where he says we can't have theoretical knowledge of God, and the second critique, where practical reasons says ethics means we need to believe God exists. But the third critique is cool too because it almost combines the first two in aesthetics. Like in nature its so overwhelming and beautiful to us that it feels like it's designed by a God for us and in many ways that's as powerful and convincing as any proof of God.

    • @cesarkopp2
      @cesarkopp2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Then you go to the world of physics, biology, chemistry... And then you can saw everything as a delightful symphony of energy, dancing and flowing around the universe.

    • @MaryamPirzada
      @MaryamPirzada ปีที่แล้ว

      God Kant is a different beast. Love him.

  • @VidkunQL
    @VidkunQL ปีที่แล้ว +10

    _"No god; chaos. You don't believe in God? At least understand what the consequence of that non-belief are."_
    The tendency of believers to get _God_ and _religion_ mixed up is so common and persistent, that I think it's a feature of religious belief. Religion _must_ suppress certain kinds of rational thinking, in order to survive.

    • @lifewasgiventous1614
      @lifewasgiventous1614 ปีที่แล้ว

      Religion and God go hand in hand unless that is you want to throw out all of humanities clues about God and create your own personal God...
      Never the less I don't think we have to suppress rational though, understanding the limits of rationality is not the same as "suppressing it"..

    • @VidkunQL
      @VidkunQL ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lifewasgiventous1614 You may not realize this, but you're proving my point for me.

    • @lifewasgiventous1614
      @lifewasgiventous1614 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@VidkunQL
      Not sure how...everything I said is antithetical to what you wrote but If that's your takeaway so be it I suppose

    • @VidkunQL
      @VidkunQL ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lifewasgiventous1614 Of course I can create a new religion, but do you really think that I can create a deity?
      *You are not talking about God as if you were talking about something you thought were real.*

    • @lifewasgiventous1614
      @lifewasgiventous1614 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@VidkunQL
      Yes, you certainly can create an idol and for all intents and purposes that will serve as your God. I'm not sure how anything I've said makes you think I don't beleive in God.. I simply think it's ridiculous to beleive in God and simultaneously beleive religion has nothing to offer us in comprehending said God.

  • @djo-dji6018
    @djo-dji6018 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The most important thing I learned from God as a non believer was that God actually exists.

  • @Evan-yl4rs
    @Evan-yl4rs ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm disappointed Kanye west wasn't invited.

  • @frankethomas1248
    @frankethomas1248 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Do, and THEN teach. _“Ezra had prepared his heart to _*_seek_*_ the law of the LORD, and to _*_do_*_ it, and to _*_teach_*_ in Israel statutes and judgments”_ (Ezra 7:10).

  • @TiredEyePilot
    @TiredEyePilot ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Jordan peterson said that people didn't like "I try to behave like God exists" as an answer to the question of if he believes in God but I actually really like that quote. I can't say I'm certain that God exists but I want to act as if he does.

    • @KevinMarshall757
      @KevinMarshall757 ปีที่แล้ว

      I like that quote too but I'm saying that as someone who is convinced of God's existence, where behaving like God exists is what it actually means to believe. I can understand why Peterson would say that as someone who may not be convinced of God's existence but is definitely convinced of God's necessity. I don't know if it makes much sense outside of those two perspectives.

    • @macmac1022
      @macmac1022 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Are you a theist if you are not certain god exists? Theist - a person who believes in the existence of a god or gods, specifically of a creator who intervenes in the universe. JP thinks god is fictional and the top of the pyramid of values. Hes not REALLY a theist, that is why he gets mad and avoid the question does god exist.

    • @KevinMarshall757
      @KevinMarshall757 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@macmac1022 It seems that JP thinks of traditional stories about god as perhaps fictional in that he isn't convinced those events actually took place but that what is conveyed through those stories is actually more real than things that may have actually happened. I don't think that's quite the same as thinking god is fictional unless you mean fictional in a similar sense that might be more real than something that actually occurred. I suspect he gets mad about that question though because he doesn't like the idea of someone categorizing him one way or another and then dealing with him as though he is not an individual.

    • @macmac1022
      @macmac1022 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@KevinMarshall757 "" It seems that JP thinks of traditional stories about god as perhaps fictional in that he isn't convinced those events actually took place but that what is conveyed through those stories is actually more real than things that may have actually happened.""
      Yep, its insanity. By that same logic I can use any story that has a meta meaning behind it that is still something happening today and say the events of the story were so real they are still happening today, like he said to answer his own questions of did the events of exodus really happen.
      >> I don't think that's quite the same as thinking god is fictional unless you mean fictional in a similar sense that might be more real than something that actually occurred. ""
      Fiction is the opposite of real. Fiction - literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people.
      Real - actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact; not imagined or supposed.
      Saying a fiction is real is a contradiction.
      >> I suspect he gets mad about that question though because he doesn't like the idea of someone categorizing him one way or another and then dealing with him as though he is not an individual.""
      Every theist I have ever asked if god exists they just say yes, no hesitation, its the definition of theist. Most I dont not even have to ask, they just say it eventually. Cosmic skeptic did a really good video about it. th-cam.com/video/5-yQVlHo4JA/w-d-xo.html&lc=UgyidgseyThj5Mwub0V4AaABAg

    • @KevinMarshall757
      @KevinMarshall757 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@macmac1022 I wouldn't call it insanity, you really could take a work of fiction and extract a meta meaning that applies today and say that meta meaning is still happening. I think though that when there is a concept that is real enough it will manifest clearly in reality and the need for referencing fiction should disappear. I do find it silly that Peterson would basically say he believes in the value of the story and that it is in some sense happening today, but somehow not believe that it happened then.
      In case there was confusion on my use of "real" and "fiction", what I meant was that there are real concepts that can be found in fictional works.
      If you want to determine whether or not JP is a theist I guess the question is: would you count what he believes in as a god?

  • @grikalanovv
    @grikalanovv ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The necessity of god is very obvious. It's simple, some people's egos, can't accept the nothingness of death as a unit (1, me) intelligent enough to understand (partially) infinite and finite...

  • @zgobermn6895
    @zgobermn6895 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is a very important conversation especially in this current moral and ideological confusion engulfing Western civilization.

  • @nikki-wh5cn
    @nikki-wh5cn ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We are made in the image and according to the likeness of God, and there is no definition of human life outside of God. According to scripture- Jesus said there are many gods and many lords… so there is no such thing as atheists. Everybody has gods; it just depends what they are. Ultimately, the clash is between the true God and the false god.

  • @Sojourner24_7
    @Sojourner24_7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'd love to hear the class on "The Sermon on the Mount" if you're willing to share it. 😀

  • @mark5694
    @mark5694 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Many people believe in God ..... But without a Personal Relationship and understanding that he is Sovereign there is no foundation .

  • @drittenberry1
    @drittenberry1 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    This is Grandma from Texas. I’m trying to teach my children and grandchildren that we ARE created BUT we are NOT created for HERE and we are NOT created for ourselves. We are created for THERE and we are created for Him. Thank you for everything y’all do. I am SINCERELY praying for y’all. 🇺🇸🙏

  • @TheRobert519
    @TheRobert519 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Personally as a non-believer I find the point that without god that it leads to a live of gaos en despair other nonsense, I personally believe that you don't need a god or religion to live a "good" or mortally" live style.
    In my view I think that people look to god or religion to get/find strength to do certain things or overcome things, or find hope and love that brings them through tough times and brings them that power that cannot be explained in a normal sense, I am convinced that that power lies in you even with out god or religion.
    But that is just my opinion just wanted to share my thoughts on this. Have a nice day folks.

    • @zacseymore1611
      @zacseymore1611 ปีที่แล้ว

      In your sentence, what do you define the word "good" as?

  • @throwed210SATX
    @throwed210SATX ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Dennis is on point! Amen! We should learn to serve God first and foremost. The blessings WILL follow in serving God. Real talk 💯

  • @respecteternalbenefits5202
    @respecteternalbenefits5202 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Brilliant. Love it. Mature discussion!

  • @v11a03
    @v11a03 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think a non-believer by definition can't learn from god. Adequate non-believer would think that "lessons" didn't even come from god, but people with ideology and agenda or because of some other causes. You don't need god to be happy and kind. The idea of god can certainly help, it factually does to many people, but it has no monopoly. So as a non believer, when I hear that there are useful lessons from god, what I actually hear is an attempt to trick me into agreeing that these ideas and lessons are unique to god, unless it is specified otherwise in discussion, which literally never happened for me to hear from a believer. Why tie these lessons to god if we have no knowledge of god?

  • @xDonJuanx
    @xDonJuanx ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Regardless of the topic, I will always enjoy the discourse of serious men.

  • @mackblack5153
    @mackblack5153 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Dennis nailed it. Jordan needs to listen carefully.

    • @Alec0124
      @Alec0124 ปีที่แล้ว

      The preacher man? I was falling asleep when he was talking. :p

    • @gailhill8391
      @gailhill8391 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dennis is WRONG.
      [Rom 10:1-4 KJV] 1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ [is] the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

    • @mackblack5153
      @mackblack5153 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gailhill8391 You didn't get his point.

    • @gailhill8391
      @gailhill8391 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mackblack5153 I get his point. He's a natural man, not a spiritual man.

  • @machtnichtsseimann
    @machtnichtsseimann ปีที่แล้ว +8

    “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened." - Jesus Christ in Matthew 7:7-8

    • @Ishakexplorer
      @Ishakexplorer ปีที่แล้ว

      Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is expedient for that i go away: for if i go not away, the comforter will not come unto you; but if i depart, I will send him unto you. #John16:7
      So who is that comforter?
      "The Comforter is the HOLY GHOST!''' from John 14:26
      "Holy Ghost." ''Pneuma," is the Greek root word for SPIRIT. There is no separate word for GHOST in Greek manuscripts of the new Testament.
      Comforter which is HOLY SPIRIT"!
      But the comforter, which is the Holy -Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,
      He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your rememberance, whatsoever i have siad unto you. #John 14:26
      Beloved, believe not every SPIRIT, but try the SPIRITS wheather they are of God; because many false Prophets are gone out into the world. #1John 4:1
      You can observe that the word spirit is used synonymously with a prophet. A true SPIRIT is true prophet, and a false SPIRIT is a false Prophet.
      Hereby know ye the SPIRIT' of God: Every SPIRIT that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God #1John 4:2
      I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and i will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that i shall command him. #Deuteronomy 18:18
      You see the most important word of this prophecy are 'SOO JY IS' (like unto thee), -LIKE YOU- like MOSES, and Jesus is not like Moses. According to Christianty- 1)'JESUS IS A GOD', but Moses is not
      2) 'JESUS DIED FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD', but Moses did not.
      3) 'JESUS WENT TO HELL FOR THREE DAYS', but Moses did not.
      Who is the prophesied prophet like Moses?
      1) Moses had a father and a mother, Muhammad also had the same.
      2)"Moses and Muhammad were born in the normal, natural course, i.e. the physical association of man and woman.
      3) "Moses and Muhammad married and begot children.
      4)Moses and Muhammad (pbuh) were accepted by their people.
      5) "Moses and Muhammad were prophets as kings.
      6) "Moses and Muhammad brought new laws and new regulations for their people.
      7) "Both Moses and Muhammad died in natural deaths".
      8) "Moses and Muhammad lie buried in earth", but according christianity Jesus rests in heave.

  • @esjel9804
    @esjel9804 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How IRONIC that Prager can SEE the necessity of God thru considering His absence but cannot see the ABSOLUTE necessity for the substitutionary atonement of Christ. A covering was needed, not just right action, but a right being which Christ was and is for all who believe. May God show him the absurdity of right standing with God apart from faith in Jesus Christ -- may he see that before he ends up like the man in the parable of the wedding feast who showed up in the wrong attire and was cast into outer darkness.

  • @kylemacdowell4470
    @kylemacdowell4470 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Am I the only person who would just like a Peterson extemporaneous lecture uninterrupted to go through Exodus?

    • @bunsandbutter600
      @bunsandbutter600 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I like words from Mr Prager's more, because he only use common vocabulary, and lots of analogy, which make stories on the book so convincing.

    • @alvareo92
      @alvareo92 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I believe he’s going on another of his lecture tours after this

    • @cindyscott8470
      @cindyscott8470 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ain't happening like that, accept this .

    • @Mshine2
      @Mshine2 ปีที่แล้ว

      unfortunately, I think your right

    • @EVLS10
      @EVLS10 ปีที่แล้ว

      That would be a bad thing believe it or not. Prophecy "understanding the word of God" is a gift of those in the faith. It is not only not wise but dangerous to listen to someone explain the bible who doesn't actually believe that it is the inspired work of the one true God.

  • @kimstruck910
    @kimstruck910 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Love this series! Can’t wait for the next episode!!

  • @matthewman249
    @matthewman249 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

  • @junevandermark952
    @junevandermark952 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    While I was still confused by my religious childhood indoctrination, an Atheist once shared his personal feelings with me.
    He said, "If I pretended to believe in a god, and the god was real, it would know that I was pretending, because the fact is, I just don't believe that a god exists."
    That point of view resonated with me as being heartfelt and as honest "as could be."
    I later chose to become a born-again Atheist, and wanted to be as honest with my self, as that man had been honest with me.
    Once I was doubtful about the existence of a god, there wasn’t any way to entrap my thoughts where they once had been, as freedom from religion was my only alternative.
    Now I believe as did Stephen Hawking before he died ... that the universe in one form or another always existed ... no creator or plan involved ... and that suffering of all forms of life always was ... and is ... natural.

  • @doctwiggenberry5324
    @doctwiggenberry5324 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I fascinated by these discussions. The experiences I had as a medic in Vietnam taught me that there is a God, as the plea from those who were about to die, was God help me. Whether they were religious or not led me to believe that it was God in their spirit or soul that was crying out to their father for help. Maybe that is a topic for further discussion.

    • @billyalexander5645
      @billyalexander5645 ปีที่แล้ว

      Could you ask God why he gives babies Aids, I feel like he could have not done that.

    • @JamesIsAway
      @JamesIsAway ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@billyalexander5645 worldly brokenness is caused and created by man, not God. He allows it to exist because it must stand to qualify man’s free will to choose between good and evil and accept the consequences of each.

    • @billyalexander5645
      @billyalexander5645 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JamesIsAway God created aids, humans can't create disease it's a natural thing not, man made. So God decided that.

    • @JamesIsAway
      @JamesIsAway ปีที่แล้ว

      @@billyalexander5645 humans literally created half the periodic table and you don’t think they can cause disease?

    • @billyalexander5645
      @billyalexander5645 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JamesIsAway well it's more like why did God create a universe in which that is even possible.

  • @nikki-wh5cn
    @nikki-wh5cn ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gods moral laws and worshipping him is intrinsically connected to him if we want our own morality based on our own morals then we become our own gods.. that’s free will- separation from God

  • @Bartisim0
    @Bartisim0 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This conversation nourishes and restores the world.

  • @AnnaAnnieAnneofGreenGables
    @AnnaAnnieAnneofGreenGables ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Always looking for something "more" than God
    Good luck with that one.

  • @fox_trot
    @fox_trot ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I respect you all for doing this.

  • @daedricdragon5976
    @daedricdragon5976 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    No one really challenges the idea here, but rather everyone more or less agrees with it. That is not good at all.

  • @aaronwebb1548
    @aaronwebb1548 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light. - Albert Einstein

  • @evamoreno8909
    @evamoreno8909 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I’ve learned more in this discussion than what I read in days. Great presentation

  • @coldcreation6676
    @coldcreation6676 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you don't believe in God at least have a understanding the consequences of not believing in God there is one pair if you go to a single point and get to the superhuman level over there is a low goal and go there or there are different possibilities different drivers opinions that may conflict in the future and that results in anxiety and despair on your decisions at least have some clear go because of clear shot and clear root not multiplicity of roots you should be more interested in what was from you then what you want from God going away from God leaves you to psychological despair

  • @MG-py9gb
    @MG-py9gb ปีที่แล้ว +16

    You definitely need an Orthodox Rabbi in the mix for this series. They specialize in this field more than anyone one else specially the Hebrew language and the root of the words.

    • @craigsmith1443
      @craigsmith1443 ปีที่แล้ว

      Isn't Dennis Orthodox? And isn't he a kind of 'lay' rabbi? He's at least a recognized teacher.

    • @MG-py9gb
      @MG-py9gb ปีที่แล้ว

      @@craigsmith1443 Prager is religious (based on his own words) but a lot of his views are very different from traditional Judaism. Most of the time he gives his opinion and not explain what Judaism really hold wich I think is the real need here.

    • @craigsmith1443
      @craigsmith1443 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MG-py9gb _Prager is religious (based on his own words) but a lot of his views are very different from traditional Judaism_
      Perhaps, but if you would give examples it would be very helpful. I have had several Orthodox and Conservative friends, and they sound a lot like Dennis. I have read much of the Talmud, and found that 'traditional Judaism' says a lot of things, including much (at least) of what Dennis says. I can remember a spring-morning walk past a yeshiva on Chicago's near north side, and out of the door rolled a wave of voices arguing over the meaning of a Talmudic passage. Traditional Judaism spends a lot of time figuring out (through disagreement) what it really says. Mind you, I think that this is a strength, for life is like that. Orthodoxy (in both senses) is never a static set of beliefs, especially in a living, relational, active religion like Judaism.
      And then there's Reformed and Hasidic and Haredi and Dati and Masorti and Hiloni...

  • @LaTtwahag99
    @LaTtwahag99 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The conversation lacks Sam Harris, it’s bad there’s too many apparently smart people but they all seem to agree with each other.

  • @elinope4745
    @elinope4745 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The word god means different things to different people. Among the various definitions is one that describes the self, another that means great people and is always to include the emperor of Japan, another that is synonymous with the universe, and many different named gods as well. The word is not well defined because of the wild differences in its various definitions and meanings.

    • @di-li
      @di-li ปีที่แล้ว

      Очень справедливое замечание. Прежде чем вести адекватную дискуссию, надо определить точно и однозначно используемые термины, хотя бы в рамках беседы. Остаётся надеяться, что эти люди выполнили этот шаг, или им повезло и они всё равно адекватно понимают друг друга.
      На счёт определения Бога, как Вам такое: "Бог есть источник всего сущего"?
      A very fair remark. Before conducting an adequate discussion, it is necessary to define precisely and unambiguously the terms used, at least within the framework of a conversation. It remains to be hoped that these people have completed this step, or they are lucky and they still adequately understand each other.
      As for the definition of God, how do you like this: "God is the source of all things"?

    • @Ishakexplorer
      @Ishakexplorer ปีที่แล้ว

      He is Allah, the One and Only; Allah, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him.

    • @davidhawley1132
      @davidhawley1132 ปีที่แล้ว

      In the culturally Christian West, when the average person says God they mean Jehovah, and by religion mean Christianity.

    • @elinope4745
      @elinope4745 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@davidhawley1132 I'm on the west coast, the average person here isn't Christian and are more likely to mean a hallucinogenic experience probably from drugs when they say god.

  • @roberttyler1206
    @roberttyler1206 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you deny Jesus, you don't believe in God. Jesus is the word.

  • @gentile-for-Jesus_Messiah
    @gentile-for-Jesus_Messiah ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I have come to believe through my human existence,, that the heart is our personal Holy Temple, where we can find the Love of God... Unfortunately, I also believe the brain is the gateway, which through our own control, either accepts or rejects the evils of the world, to exist within us... Our heart can never control how we think,, but instead can allow us to feel about what we control through our thoughts and actions... I believe that the adversary can never exist in our heart,,, but can dwell in our brain, if we allow it in through our senses,, touch, smell, hear, taste, and sight... I believe what gives all of us humans a fighting chance of being alive,, is the presence of a Holy Temple within our heart, placed there at birth through the Holy Spirit, as an Act of God, an Act of Love, never to be seen by man,, but to be honored through the Belief in Jesus,,, and His Works accomplished here on the earth... Amen, amen...

    • @kevinkelly2162
      @kevinkelly2162 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh no! You have caught Petersonism. Words and words and words but no meaning. Drivel.

    • @gentile-for-Jesus_Messiah
      @gentile-for-Jesus_Messiah ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kevinkelly2162 I've got wide shoulders,, but to direct anything towards Dr. Peterson, just proves your inept character, with empty thoughts,, so sad...

    • @kevinkelly2162
      @kevinkelly2162 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gentile-for-Jesus_Messiah So Peterson cannot be critcised? OK Will you praise him for me? Tell me one clever thing he has said here. I ask this all the time and........crickets.

    • @macmac1022
      @macmac1022 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kevinkelly2162 JP fans avoid hard questions about JP. Theists avoid hard questions about what they believe. People will even avoid questions about a statement they just made if you can point out something wrong with it. Been researching avoidance of questions by myself for over a year now. I think I understand it now. Would you like to know what I think it is?

    • @kevinkelly2162
      @kevinkelly2162 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@macmac1022 Yeah, would be interested. I also ask christians what is good about God and they wont answer me either. Sometimes I get some drivel about God being goodness itself. Something else I notice is the weird way these people use language. They talk absolute gibberish but seem to understand each other.

  • @captaindanger13
    @captaindanger13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    10:15 i'm sorry for being distracted but man this guy's voice is smoooooooth.

  • @xXxCrazyJay810xXx
    @xXxCrazyJay810xXx ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very Intelligent table!!👍😎

  • @michaellemmen
    @michaellemmen ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lessons a Non-believer Can Learn From God: Believe in God.

  • @skinpalette
    @skinpalette ปีที่แล้ว +3

    These are AMAZING.

  • @chanisecarvalho5869
    @chanisecarvalho5869 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love what Prager said ...what does God want of me ...

  • @ibrahimskandarani118
    @ibrahimskandarani118 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love this roundtable discussion. Imagine the amount of mental growth one could experience listing to such practical intellectuals with great minds.

  • @DanFedMusic
    @DanFedMusic ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2 Timothy 3:16, All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness,

  • @borneandayak6725
    @borneandayak6725 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I hope they will publish the whole discussion later in TH-cam. I unfortunately, don't have much money to watch it in premium.

    • @bunsandbutter600
      @bunsandbutter600 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It took so much effort to put experts in different fields in this room. But I get you.

    • @cindyscott8470
      @cindyscott8470 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Daily wire is the platform to access this. No doubt a hacker will steal it later and post on youtube. BUT that is what we are talking about, morality , God. If it is worth it to you, pay the small amount.

  • @aguyinavan6087
    @aguyinavan6087 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hate to say it, but these guys don't know what they are talking about.

  • @Moqlnkn
    @Moqlnkn ปีที่แล้ว +5

    3:36 - "Ye have not because ye ask not."

  • @franklinochieng4151
    @franklinochieng4151 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    God is the ultimate revolutionary

  • @erickedmondromanharris1549
    @erickedmondromanharris1549 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Forget believing, try KNOWING.

    • @JoviBootlegs90
      @JoviBootlegs90 ปีที่แล้ว

      "The only thing I know for certain is that I know nothing" this was said by one of the greatest minds ever. Think about it.

    • @kevinkelly2162
      @kevinkelly2162 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JoviBootlegs90 He knew words and the meanings of those words

    • @macmac1022
      @macmac1022 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JoviBootlegs90 Socrates. I love using the socratic method, just sucks when people avoid answering the questions though LOL. Also loved voltaire with his dont judge a man by his answers but by his questions.

    • @macmac1022
      @macmac1022 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kevinkelly2162 >>He knew words and the meanings of those words""
      Its socrates. He said that because he just questioned everything and everyone and found that they knew nothing either LOL. Socrates is on our side :)

  • @kobaby
    @kobaby ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank God for Os Guinness

  • @darrennew8211
    @darrennew8211 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In other words, acting as if something exists that doesn't is good for you. You must lie to yourself, rather than facing reality, you pretend there's someone external helping you out.
    Personally, if chaos is intrinsic to the world and to people, I'd rather deal with chaos than believe in some supernatural entity that will deal with the chaos for me.

    • @matthewr7593
      @matthewr7593 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't think it's so black and white because it's not act as if something exists but you know for sure doesn't, it's act as if something exists that perhaps you have a deep intuition of and that maybe theoretically you're on the fence about it. Most people can't have devout faith but says that knowledge wise they don't believe whatsoever.

    • @darrennew8211
      @darrennew8211 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@matthewr7593 I know for sure it doesn't. I'm not on the fence. I have absolutely no reason at all to believe in the existence of the god of the bible, and many reasons not to. Also, if I actually wanted to follow the actual word of the bible instead of some feel-good alternative that fits my own morality, it would be a pretty awful place.
      In other words, most people who have what most people would call good morals and blame it on god are doing just that, rather than acting in the way their god is documented as wanting them to act.
      Just look at the earlier "everyone who abolished slavery did it because they were religious, regardless of what they actually claimed was their motivation." Sure, except the god of the bible actively promotes slavery, which is conveniently ignored or rationalized away.

    • @darrennew8211
      @darrennew8211 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@docwhat8370 And what the evangelical christians you're talking about were saying directly contradicts what's in the actual bible as laws from god.
      If you say homosexuality and slavery are both bad, it's because (A) the bible is self-contradictory or (B) you're not really reading the bible. The fact that the people advocating for something are christian doesn't make the thing they're advocating for a christian value.
      And yes, I can say for a fact god doesn't exist. That's how facts work. We have plenty of evidence that the god of the bible doesn't exist, as well as being logically impossible. Everyone who has the burden of proof has failed to meet the burden of proof. We've looked for evidence of god and not found any. I can equally say that I can say for a fact that there's no oak tree growing in my kitchen.
      The only way you can say "you have no evidence that god doesn't exist" is to make all god's existence so irrelevant that no possible evidence could be evidence of god's existence.
      And why only one god? Why not lots of gods? When you can demonstrate that there aren't two gods, I'll agree maybe there's one.

    • @darrennew8211
      @darrennew8211 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kevinkelly2162 Yeah. The only actual moral rule the Abrahamic god has is "obey me." There's no morality going on there beyond that. No "wash your hands before you eat" or "don't own humans" or "treat women like real people." Just "obey me" and "don't screw over your neighbors if they live close enough to get back at you."

    • @darrennew8211
      @darrennew8211 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@docwhat8370 If man is made in the image of god, why did god command men to kill, rape, and enslave other men?
      I have exactly as much evidence for the nonexistence of god as I do for the nonexistence of the oak tree. It's trivial to empirically verify there is no god of the bible - it's called evolution, geology, and cosmology. Also the fact that engineers are hired to move mountains and not priests. The fact that praying for sick people tends to make them more sick instead of less, contrary to the descriptions of god in the bible. The god of the bible makes many, many claims which are false, yet is also generally believed to be omniscient and infallible. Nothing attributable to the god of the bible is actually verifiable fact, and a great deal of evidence exists that all the descriptions of the god of the bible don't conform with reality. Just as I'd expect acorns and fallen leaves in my kitchen if an oak tree was growing there yet I don't find them, I'd expect the world to conform to the designs of the all-powerful who created it but I don't find that. God did not create men in god's form, because men evolved. We know that as a fact that's basically as well-established as gravity and quantum mechanics. Yet here you are saying that god created men from dust, woman from rib, in a magical land where nobody died and carnivores didn't eat meat.
      I know that god doesn't exist in the same way I know the oak tree doesn't exist - there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of the god of the bible in spite of many people having looked for said evidence.
      Now, do I know there's no such thing as the supernatural at all? No, because that's too ill-defined to even describe. But once you start attributing behaviors and effects to a supernatural entity, and then you go look for those behaviors and effects, you can disprove the existence of *that* god.

  • @Chris-mo5xs
    @Chris-mo5xs ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We are to serve God, not the opposite

  • @williss1192
    @williss1192 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was expecting at least there to be 1 bad egg among these men. But I was wrong. Everyone is contributing to the discussion and was respectful and polite.
    Jordan Peterson has really been rising more then I expected. Before Dailywire he probably couldn't make gatherings like this.

  • @jamesscott2605
    @jamesscott2605 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Old timer once said: The difference between God and me, is that God doesn’t want to be me.

    • @JamesIsAway
      @JamesIsAway ปีที่แล้ว

      To add a more positive twist to the saying, it may be helpful to then say “…but He does want me.”

  • @debspringchannel831
    @debspringchannel831 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I totally agree with Dennis view...
    In Him ( Christ we live we move we have our being ) Acts 17:28

  • @elijah8867
    @elijah8867 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This conversation puts me in mind of Col. 2:8 "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of this world and not after Christ." And this: "And I, brethren, when I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom...I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified." 1 Cor. 2:1 & 2. We're not, as Christians, tasked with saving the world or a world's culture. We're tasked with saving some out of the world by saying : "Believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved." Neither do you arrive at knowing God through confusing philosophical/psychological gobble-dee-gook. Prayer and the Word of God is how you come to know God, but only after being saved through faith in Christ."Our current parochial conceptualizations"? OH brother.

  • @davidd.perata2085
    @davidd.perata2085 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm interested in the celestial butler theory. You have many philosophical sources from which to quote but there is a body of work within Catholicism that zeroes in on the metaphysical, philosophical, physical, and spiritual dimensions of the Divine.
    Aquinas & Augustine for a start, and they are not inconsequential. Then you have the actual verbal accounts of Jesus Christ both in the New Testament as well as the lives of those chosen humans who went on to become saints. If you were to read Padre Pio's conversations with his spiritual director with regards to his interaction with Jesus Christ and Satan, it would open your eyes to an entirely new perspective, not only on Jesus Christ but the entire spiritual dimension.
    Aquinas, for example, tells us that far from God being a butler, He actually wants us to come to Him in petition. What father would not want his child to come to him in time of trouble, of whatever nature. That is what makes our relationship with God a complete one. A circle. You cannot have a relationship of one.
    I cannot begin to go into Aquinas here, but if you go to his Summa Theologica online you'll find his treatise on more aspects of God and the spiritual world that you could read in a month. He's very logical in his approach, but also fairly complex in his explanations. My wife has Alzheimer's, and for the past three years I have been researching extensively in an attempt to discover from these sources the connection between prayer, faith and healing.
    Jesus is quoted as saying, "You have to believe that what you are asking for will be granted." Do you know how difficult that is?
    Why would He even say that if He didn't wish us to ask?
    Jordan: As far as I can tell you were an atheist when Tammy was diagnosed with an incurable disease, but can you imagine having enough faith to believe without a doubt that she would be healed? Could you ever fathom that she would have a miraculous cure? Do you believe it was a miraculous cure? And do you have any idea why she was cured? Why so many sick people ask and are never healed, but she was? How did her cure blow up you rethinking of the existence of God?
    Jesus' mother Mary is an often overlooked source of spiritual intercession and information. But Jordan: Mary has said that there is power in numbers with regard to the rosary, which I believe Tammy began saying after her healing. My wife and I included Tammy in our rosaries for her healing. Do you know how many people who "follow" you may have said rosaries for her? Can you imagine the immense spiritual power of thousands of people for Tammy's healing?
    So this notion of God not being a spiritual butler is a nice catch phrase but it isn't the truth. I know that you are a pillar of truth, Jordan. I know that you live by the truth. In fact you'd be hard pressed to find another public figure who lives and breathes the truth as much as you. Do you recall who said that He is the Truth, the Way, and the Life? If Jesus Christ is the Truth, and you seek and live the Truth, you are inadvertently seeking Jesus Christ. He is calling you, Jordan whether you realize it or not. He is pulling you toward Him.
    In short? Tammy's healing was not for her benefit but for yours. He wanted you so much that He actually reached into time and performed a miracle just as He did when He was on earth. And He did it for the very same reason as He did 2,000 years ago: to make an impression. To call you to believe. And you did!

  • @theohuioiesin6519
    @theohuioiesin6519 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Prager bragging about not asking God for things makes so much sense.

  • @Diggles67
    @Diggles67 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We are divine. We are created in the image of God. Our life’s journey is to act that out to overcome our brokeness/fallen nature. Anything else is madness.

  • @adaline3467
    @adaline3467 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    У Джордана Питерсона такой родной взгляд.

  • @robpetrone2459
    @robpetrone2459 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These videos of Jordan and the seven other scholars are fascinating, but they are not Jordan's biblical lectures. Those had a different pace, format, presentation, engagement and value that made them popular. These videos are valuable, but Jordan just needs to be given a stage and an audience again.

  • @Mblandreth1
    @Mblandreth1 ปีที่แล้ว

    JESUS is Lord, Love one another. 🦁🐂🦅👤🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙉🙈🙊

  • @crassusofrome6386
    @crassusofrome6386 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I MUCH preferred the format of Genesis. This series seems all over the place.

  • @teronjames7457
    @teronjames7457 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you ask jordan peterson.....do you believed in god.....
    the answer is.....he act it out....god exist

  • @woodlyz
    @woodlyz ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The full conversations in this series are as interesting as this short clip.

  • @collinwheeler7297
    @collinwheeler7297 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Never listen to anyone who tells you you're going to hell for questioning details about WWII.

  • @GordGonzola
    @GordGonzola ปีที่แล้ว

    I believe, yet I also KNOW that the Equation : Mom+Dad='God' is Valid. It scares most parents as there are consequences for action.
    Remember this (and the 'commandment' THOU SHALL NOT LIE' this christmas.....because a Lie, is the WORST drug plaguing humanity. G'head 'Try'...but first check your bathroom to SEE why the 'Faiths' use Reflection .

  • @deborahvanderhamm598
    @deborahvanderhamm598 ปีที่แล้ว

    It is easy to believe IN God.
    But, I want MORE. I want TO KNOW Him! To Love Him well. To Enjoy every aspect of Him, and to KNOW that if I do need something, He WILL provide it.
    I’m reminded of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who said to King Nebachenezzar,
    ”If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.”
    ‭‭Daniel‬ ‭3‬:‭12‬, ‭17‬-‭18‬ ‭NIV‬‬
    THAT IS the FAITH I crave!

  • @junevandermark952
    @junevandermark952 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have asked the following question to many Christians and have yet to receive a response.
    "Being that you are a Christian ... which religion do you believe Jesus would have preached as being universal truth ... Judaism ... Catholicism ... or Protestantism?"

  • @redeemerstrikes9522
    @redeemerstrikes9522 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’m grateful that this is available for free.

  • @cinhofilms
    @cinhofilms ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Our worded abstract conceptual thought depends on having been taught to communicate by someone who already respects logic that consists in worded abstract conceptual thought, who points things out with words; this means that language has always existed and is articulated by the Logos through whom reality is lovingliy, logically judged into an existence of long-term primary justice. (See John Haldane, St Andrews University).

    • @kevinkelly2162
      @kevinkelly2162 ปีที่แล้ว

      You ever heard of grammar? Use it. It might make you understandable.

    • @Ishakexplorer
      @Ishakexplorer ปีที่แล้ว

      He is Allah, the One and Only; Allah, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him.

    • @hfyaer
      @hfyaer ปีที่แล้ว

      Modern languages do not give access to concepts outside of direct human possibility of action. We're trapped in this. Look they're all smart people struggling to express an abstract idea about how we came to be and what we should become. They surely can conceptualize the idea of God as a necessary truth, but expressing why it's true seems to be impossible for them. And when you look at the comment section completely missing the point you understand that modern languages are just too earthly. If you can't see it and you can't touch it, then you can't name it. We also ended up mixing "how" and "why" when we ask questions. "Why" is not asking for a reason anymore, but for a cause. Same with science. The untold rule of science is "if you can't explain a phenomenon in the system only with causes internal to the system, then it's not science". They say that the theory has to be relativistic... No wonder science can't prove God. It's literally by design.

    • @macmac1022
      @macmac1022 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hfyaer "" _ If you can't see it and you can't touch it, then you can't name it._ ""
      Ummm god, aliens, dark matter, gravity, spirit, math, unicorns, leprechauns, ect ect ect. There are TONS of things we cant touch or see that we have named.

  • @Ishakexplorer
    @Ishakexplorer ปีที่แล้ว

    Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is expedient for that i go away: for if i go not away, the comforter will not come unto you; but if i depart, I will send him unto you. #John16:7
    So who is that comforter?
    "The Comforter is the HOLY GHOST!''' from John 14:26
    "Holy Ghost." ''Pneuma," is the Greek root word for SPIRIT. There is no separate word for GHOST in Greek manuscripts of the new Testament.
    Comforter which is HOLY SPIRIT"!
    But the comforter, which is the Holy -Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,
    He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your rememberance, whatsoever i have siad unto you. #John 14:26
    Beloved, believe not every SPIRIT, but try the SPIRITS wheather they are of God; because many false Prophets are gone out into the world. #1John 4:1
    You can observe that the word spirit is used synonymously with a prophet. A true SPIRIT is true prophet, and a false SPIRIT is a false Prophet.
    Hereby know ye the SPIRIT' of God: Every SPIRIT that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God #1John 4:2
    I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and i will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that i shall command him. #Deuteronomy 18:18
    You see the most important word of this prophecy are 'SOO JY IS' (like unto thee), -LIKE YOU- like MOSES, and Jesus is not like Moses. According to Christianty- 1)'JESUS IS A GOD', but Moses is not
    2) 'JESUS DIED FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD', but Moses did not.
    3) 'JESUS WENT TO HELL FOR THREE DAYS', but Moses did not.
    Who is the prophesied prophet like Moses?
    1) Moses had a father and a mother, Muhammad also had the same.
    2)"Moses and Muhammad were born in the normal, natural course, i.e. the physical association of man and woman.
    3) "Moses and Muhammad married and begot children.
    4)Moses and Muhammad (pbuh) were accepted by their people.
    5) "Moses and Muhammad were prophets as kings.
    6) "Moses and Muhammad brought new laws and new regulations for their people.
    7) "Both Moses and Muhammad died in natural deaths".
    8) "Moses and Muhammad lie buried in earth", but according christianity Jesus rests in heave.

  • @gailhill8391
    @gailhill8391 ปีที่แล้ว

    Too bad Dennis Prager thinks he knows more about what we are supposed to be doing than the SCRIPTURE.
    [2Co 3:5 KJV] 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency [is] of God;

  • @parameshnat
    @parameshnat ปีที่แล้ว

    Opening sentence
    “I don’t care about arguments about god’s existence so much as god’s necessity”
    Paraphrased as
    “My feelings don’t care about your facts”
    Oh the irony.

  • @gailhill8391
    @gailhill8391 ปีที่แล้ว

    Too bad Prager rejects Jesus Christ and the New Testament:
    [Phl 4:6 KJV] 6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

  • @TJB-zt9tx
    @TJB-zt9tx ปีที่แล้ว

    God revealed to the world He exists through His Son Jesus Christ. Yeshua told everyone NO ONE comes to The Father, BUT through Him, His bloody cross, death and Resurrection. This is hardest for the intellectual, Yeshua Messiah, the stone of stumbling, The Rock of offense. Talk about God all day long and many will engage, mention Jesus Christ and all hell breaks loose. The greatest struggle with many today is the gaunlet of exclusivity Christ threw down in saying NO ONE comes to The Father but through Him. Again, the greatest feat for many is getting past The Stone of stumbling, this Rock of Offense, Jesus Christ, Yeshua Messiah, The only Way, Truth and Life. To know the Father, fall in love with His Son. There IS no other Way. 😁❤️

  • @KevinORourke25
    @KevinORourke25 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you are brave enough to search for your True Self, and stop accepting the False Self, you will find "God" very easily. I recommend Richard Rohr's The Universal Christ, and his Immortal Diamonds. Both books are fascinating and give, I believe, the best explanations for both who Jesus is and what (not who) Christ means.

  • @feljohn5828
    @feljohn5828 ปีที่แล้ว

    “Why is God important changes minds” …Dennis P.
    I love this…. But to know why He’s important we have to read the Bible.

  • @santasa8888
    @santasa8888 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Is kinda cultural Judaism, cultural Christianity enough..." - well, I guess it is as long as it represents blue-eyed, blue-haired European rase and non-existent concept of Judeo-Christian "civilization". Just add aircraft carriers, trident missiles and at least a one Heckler-Koch per home, and you have paradise on Earth from Timbuktu via Gaza & Tibet to Seul - right, am I right or am I confused?

  • @LawofMoses
    @LawofMoses ปีที่แล้ว

    Everything that came after Yehoshua the teacher of what is called the Matthew gospel is of the false christ created after the gospel, after the good news preached in the gospel, that christ is false, a deception its name jesus and its cross never happened except in the man of sins lying epistles, the writings of Paul of tarsus and the rest of the ones who come in the name if jesus and not in the name of God alone as all true lost sheep will. We serve God alone not any christ!
    I know God, I walk in covenant with God and I Love God. I fear God as well and that is the beginning of Love because until you fear disobeying God and causing God to look upon you in shame so you feel horrible then you can not love Him. I started this walk when I was 32, to look for God. I started to actually begin to find God when I was 39 and sealed myself to God as the gospel tells us to, those of us who listen to the gospel teacher and not the ones who came after him, know to take up the commandments of God and to seek out our roots back to Abraham and to Moses and Yehoshua and the prophets so we become firm in knowledge of what GOD ALONE asked of us. It took me several years of fighting sin and the devil by obeying God. I fought the sin out of me with God's help, by his instructions in the written word. It is a very narrow road and as the mattan/Matthew gospel says very few will find it. We have to fight Satan and the whole world that serves him in sin in order to get out and the one who will help is God alone because we can't trust anyone else. I am with God, God provides for myself and my family and yes there is absolutely evidence BUT not until you absolutely come clean, in thought, word and deed, the absolute opposite of all the lying religions. The gospel was sent down to free us from sin by sending us to our teacher and if you reject it then you are freed from God into sin perpetually and to death spiritually from God which as I can now see is absolutely hell on earth, your light you pretend to have is absolutely darkness caused by your unwillingness to even try to obey God. I speak to 99% of the population. If you can't put everyone first after God and stop yourself from all sin THEN YOUR NOT WORTHY AND YOU ARE ALREADY FINISHED BEFORE YOU EVEN STARTED.
    So come out of all sun, take up the commandments and begin your battle, call to GOD ALONE, LEARN YOUR ROOTS, BE GOD'S PEOPLE. FIGHT SATAN WHO IS THE SINNERS INNER VOICE, THE CONSCIENCE THAT LEADS YOU TO HURT YOU, that's not you, it's Satan the deceiver. If you come to God and pass the trials cleansing yourself by obedience then GOD WILL BECOME YOUR CONSCIENCE AND YOU WILL LOVE GOD AND HATE SIN, SATAN WILL FLEE FROM YOU.
    SO there it is.
    Peace, the ball in in your court
    Be wary of this world, it is the valley of death, you need God's light and God doesn't dwell with sin or sinners. Not until they begin the journey to stop sin.

  • @louisesamchapman6428
    @louisesamchapman6428 ปีที่แล้ว

    The fear(and recognition) of God is the beginning of wisdom! Ps111. 1to10 Who else can save us..... from the sin and error that leads to death?John3.16 Jesus, God's son, told his disciples to pray to God for His Kingdom to Come , for His rulership, for His will to be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Matt6.9 ,Psalm83.18

  • @3lipalm3r
    @3lipalm3r ปีที่แล้ว

    Having a relationship with GOD THE FATHER is more important like have a relationship with your physical father. Unlike using GOD as some sort of ticket for things like here’s my list for today. No talk to GOD like you would anyone else pray but also ask for things like wisdom guidance or security.