What to Do if You Have Doubts About God? w/ Alisa Childers | Pints with Aquinas Episode
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- Are you or someone you know struggling with doubt right now?
In this episode of Pints with Aquinas, I’m joined by Alisa Childers: blogger, author and former member of ZOEgirl!
Together we discuss:
• The “Deconstruction Movement” - What it is and how you can avoid it
• How Christian celebrity can dispose you to “deconstruction”
• Why the local church is key to maintaining your faith
• And a whole lot more….
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I pray the Rosary. Once a man was asked, "what did you gain by regularly praying to GOD?" The man replied, "nothing...but let me tell you what I lost...anger, ego, greed, depression, insecurity, and fear of death." Sometimes the answer to our prayers is not gaining but losing, which ultimately is the gain. He lost insecurity..but found comfort and faith in GOD's word, lost fear of death..and gained everlasting life. The holy Rosary is a powerful weapon. Use it with confidence and you'll be amazed at the results - St Josemaria Escriva... When I was growing up, I was told... real men play rugby...but St John Paul the Great showed me that REAL MEN PRAY THE ROSARY.
Excellent! Thank you!
Catholic Rugby Fan I have made up my mind to learn the Rosary. Maybe it will help.
@@maureen-paulbarnes-vonkulm480 Hi Maureen, will keep you in my prayers. Remember its ok if you fall asleep when saying the Rosary, your Guardian Angel will finish it for you...you will also be in good company, St Peter, James and John also fell asleep. GOD bless!
Love ur Evangelism with the Rosary! Many are being called but I got to tell you, I enjoy your teachings.
@@loribothwell5493 Thanks Lori. After the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and Adoration, there is nothing in the Church that I love as much as the Rosary. GOD bless!
What connects us with the protestants is way more than what separates us from them !!!
God bless us all !!!
Amen !!!
I can't imagine Christians who do not accept the Holy Communion...
No, that is not true.
God Almighty connects all Christians and there is nothing more powerful than God.
Protestant here! Agreed.
@Ash Boulus God bless you for your spirit of Love and unity in Jesus.
When I announced my intention to become Catholic, my mother had a heart attack-literally. She survived and eventually I moved in with her to become her caregiver. She was a saint of a Christian and eventually passed with visions of Jesus in the process. It was our respect and love for each other that overcame the pain of differences and focussed on our common love of Jesus.
😥🙏🙏💞JMJ💞🙏🙏
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0:00 Intro
4:16 Interview Starts
4:50 How Alisa Childers became Alisa Childers
6:55 Meaning of Alisa's Logo
9:53 Matt Apologizes for his tiny mug
11:08 Aquinas and John Henry Newman on unbelief
12:00 Why people are leaving the faith
16:26 Christianity in America is weird...
20:02 Alisa's father, the original Christian pop star!
25:09 In defense of Christian pop
27:04 Alisa on her deconstruction of Faith
33:28 Childer's husband's reaction to her faith struggle
35:08 Alisa's experience with 'progressive' christianity
40:05 Tools against progressivism
45:00 What happens when protestants disagree?
50:48 How Alisa reclaimed her faith
56:46 Recommendations for people struggling in their faith
57:46 Is the internet hurting our faith?
1:01:41 The progressive movement vs. traditional sexual values
1:06:14 Where to learn more about Alisa and her mission
1:11:20 The cumulative case for Atheism?
1:13:38 Alisa Childers on Augustine
1:14:52 Wrapping up
Thanks for the timestamps. "Christian rock" has gotten a bad reputation but there's a lot of genuine gems in there. I still listen to The Lost Dogs, 77ths, Terry Taylor. Amazing songwriters. Yes, there's a lot of junk and a lot of schlock too but so there is in the secular scene.
hey Matt if you're looking for a word other than progressive to accurately describe Mainline Protestants there is one. It's heterodox.
stop believing this silly nonsense. faith is idiotic.
@Brian Farley there is no intellectual point of view of studying scriptures. it is just silly fairy tales.
@@louiscyfer6944 go take another intellectual selfie of your intellectual abs
I’ve been watching Matt for awhile now. Just discovered Alisa two days ago and already spent at least three hours with her. Can’t wait to watch these two talk!
Thank you for everything you do! I’m a Lutheran but growing in love more with our Holy Mother Mary! She is so beautiful and loving her means that I love the Son, Father and Holy Spirit more!
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Amen to you 🙏🏼🌹🙏🏼
Matt, I hear your cry about asking for money for a talk , podcast, etc, but the work you do is so important. I feel like the work of lay people to educate the masses about the Catholic Church is critical. We need people like you and others for this work. And hey, you gotta eat, so let’s feed Matt Fradd!!! Thanks brother.
And the Patreon model is great, because it allows people to contribute what they feel they can. It's like Alisa's father giving away CDs for suggested donations. The content here is free, but if you want to support the ministry, you can do that, too.
Let’s feed him XD I would be a patron if I could but feeding him sounds weird.
They are part of our Christian community. We can love each other, always🥰❤
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This woman was awesome. I hope she gives the Church another shot.
I know it’s from left to have a wrestling Mormon here but this conversation helped me on my struggle. The beauty is I learned from an evangelical and catholic and I’m understanding more now about my relationship with the Lord. Thanks Matt and Alisa.
You should also look into Eastern Orthodoxy… may also help with figuring some of your questions out
@@elyudekrane15 that very very much. God bless
No problem bro, I grew up with a lot of friends who were Mormon, I was raised Catholic, started attending a Protestant youth group and went to a Protestant seminary and now am headed back towards historical Christianity either Catholic or Orthodox. God is good bro!
There is more time between a modern protestant and Luther than there is between Augustine and Jesus. Just an observation. If protestants disagree with Augustine because of the Catholic-sounding things he said, consider how much more has been “added” or “changed” since Luther’s movement, given the new absence of authority and the greater expense of time. Matt is right; that should be a serious point of difficulty for people today to think about
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Why would that be a point of difficulty for anyone?
I mean, that's really not something most protestants take issue with. I think that's a "gotcha" argument that only works in catholic circles.
It’s true we really do need to start having dialogs with each other (Catholics and Protestants ) we are obviously not going to agree with everything but we can agree to disagree on some things and focus on what we do agree on namely Jesus and God and so on 🙏🏼🕊
you could have perfect philosophical proof that god exists (and even much more tangible proof by looking at society and the enemy) and honestly those feelings of momentarily doubt can still come in. It’s not a bad thing, if anything it’s just more proofs of gods existence.
@@konyvnyelv. the world's a stage ran by Satan. All politicians, celebrity's scientists have sold their soul to Satan In exchange for wealth. Want proof of this ? Look at Kanye exposing Hollywood.
?? God - ONE God (The HolyTrinity - The Father, Son Holy Spirit)
Matt Fradd, your interviews are always very top quality.
This was a great episode! God Bless you, Matt and Alisa!
I second that statement.
Yes, me too, and Matt looks good bc of good living no or little over-indulgence, no gluttony, and fasting. ()like the Mormons clean living, despite their error.)
I didn't run across any agnostic pastor's when I tried out Protestantism but I did find they mostly approached preaching in a very ad-hoc way. I had convinced myself that I wanted stay away from all of the structure and what I saw as over-the-top ritualistic dogma of Catholicism but then I went to Mass after a decades long absence and discovered the lack of structure within the other churches played a big role in me never feeling at home. That's a long winded way of saying I rediscovered the beauty of the Catholic Mass and within the first five minutes I knew I was home. And I made myself a promise that day to never leave again.
I've seen a few of Alissa's video's and I like her and her approach to worship. We are on different paths but her message is a lot more grounded and truthful than some of the other stuff out here. Having taught for many years I have a natural intellectual curiosity, partly out of habit, so I like hearing different perspectives. But I have to be mindful of that since Satan uses that against me to plant some pretty screwy ideas into my head, but they don't seem screwy at the time. That is why I get what Alissa is saying about doubt when you run up against well packaged false teaching. I'm convinced it's Satan making inroads into the church but that's just my take on it. Anyway, this was a great discussion.
As a Protestant Christian I love this. You both did great
Two of my favorite people. Matt, with you, Alisa, and Cameron coming together- I feel like the Avengers are being formed! lol
I am a devout Christian Bapticostal Evangelical and love your show. Although I will never be Catholic, I find your heart for the Lord to be really authentic. Thank you for all you do Brother
"I will never be Catholic" Then you will never get to heaven (Mathew 18:17).
@@lukebrasting5108 omg!😅
I am almost your age, and I remember Zoe Girl, they were very popular when I was in jr high. I did not realize Alisa Childers was a member of the band.
What you state in the first 2 minutes of this video is why I have subscribed to your channel.
My father always told my brothers and “I the devils greatest lie he ever told is that he doesn’t exist”. And why would he? He has everything to gain from him not existing and nothing to gain from him telling and proving he exists.
I need you to invite Alisa Childers again and ask her what Catholic Church added to the faith, because I love listening to her even more than I love listening to you, Matt. :D
The only thing I didn’t like about this episode is it wasn’t long enough 😆
Could you please talk more about the destruction that “Catholic priest” Richard Rohr has done to both Catholics and Protestants?
I have schizoaffective disorder which basically means I'm not always in control of my thinking process. For me doubt is a big thing I struggle with just because I can never tell while it's happening if it's a clear thought or my illness taking effect.
praying for you man!
Listen to Fr Ripperger’s talk on Rule for Life!
I've been saying for a long time that the internet is the new Tower of Babel. We've all learned that we don't speak the same language and it is dividing us.
Great show as always. You should do an interview with the SSPX priest or some other trad break away catholic group. That would make for some good drama.
SSPX are not a "break away" group. Though I agree with you Matt should host an SSPX priest to learn about why they exist and how they have been literally saving the Church for the last 50 years.
@@supergene256 How can any group "save the Church" when they're not even in full communion with her?
Unfortunately I've been exposed to progressive christianity and the recovery is painful. I remember wanting to walk out of church in furious anger as the preacher was teaching what I thought was heresy, yet thinking I need to repent and maybe change my ways. That was until a few elder couples, strong in faith, walked away at the same time. Thank God we saw the light. Not orthodox (yet), but orthodox theology, early church father, Aquinas, etc is certainly healing my wounds. To quote Spurgeon (sorry) - 'That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.'
I find that sad. To have heard a more open, more loving version of Christianity and to consider it a wound, in fact be convinced it is abhorrent. Or as catholics would say - heretical.
And why? Because it doesn't align with medieval or bronze age morality?
It's really puzzling to me that people such as that pastor she was talking about, or people in progressive Christianity in general, who don't preach anything hurtful to others in any way, are being put down by these legalistic, mainline believers.
If anything the progressives are the honest truth seekers.
At the same time main liners such as Catholics worship the words of humans who never even met Christ, or the words of Popes...all of whom were people of their time and some of whom were really horrible people.
It's no wonder there's an exodus from the churches, which is neither here no there for me, as long as they don't interfere with politics..and in Europe where I'm from, that's really a non-issue.
But the catholic church - that corrupt institution, set up to accumulate and protect its wealth, even if it means knowingly protecting pedophiles...that needs to go.
And Alisa Childers is very beautiful. Your husband is a lucky man. God bless all protestants atheists and agnostics please come home to the kingdom of kingdom on Earth the holy Catholic Church.
So so good. Answered prayers to my doubts! Thank you both so so much.
I so agree with you on keeping ugly names on ugly things.
What you say about taking your identity to the road sounds like what happened w John Denver. Sounds like your good wife keeps you humble, Matt :). Keep up the good struggle, we all need you, but God and family first! Blessings.
Listening to Alisa talking about the CCM music world reminds me of Amy Grant's song Always The Winner.
As a Protestant who is going through a "reconstructing" phase and investigating the Protestant v. Catholic question, I love seeing honest, loving discussions between both sides of the debate. As much as I love White-v.-Madrid style "debate me in the ring bro, one-on-one" intellectual matches, I find these discussions to be far more helpful.
Thanks for this btw Matt, very similar to what I'm going through right now. it was helpful to hear her story and how she navigated through her faith transition.
"What do you reckon?" "Don't even look in their general direction"🤣
Alisa's story reminds me of St. Patrick, getting out of slavery to a lie, but then going back to help save those still in the lie.
With respect, i don’t think the title of the video is accurate. The conversation seemed to focus more on Christian Music and Deconstructionism, rather than on doubt. Still a good conversation, but “doubt” as a topic was only a very small portion of the conversation
Well deconstruction comes from doubt. That is where it starts, it starts with doubt. In those dark times it only takes a few people who can victoriously shake your faith with something that sounds right to start your deconstruction. But that is why it's so important that there are discussions of deconstruction that eventually turns into reconstruction. No matter if its protestant or catholic, you want other people to know that they aren't the only ones that have been here. There is hope and by the Grace of God they can be led back to Him.
Matt Fradd has an amazing beard and mustache!
to catholic rugby fan,what you said was brilliant. God bless. The devil attacks me through my sight especially when I’m low and struggling with particular Crosses. The devil would tell me I was praying/talking to thin air which really challenged me. So I’d counter by saying what’s the opposite to what the evil one is saying-it’s not thin air I’m talking to but Jesus who is God and is without limit-no borders. Also no one can say Jesus is Lord without the grace of the Holy Spirit who’s within and without! Praise Jesus and Mary always!!!
The late Keith Green would be discussed with the protest church today. Keith Green lead me out of the Catholic Church, but the Holy Spirit with Steve Wood brought me Home in 1992 🙏 There's no place like Home 👍🙏 Viva Cristo Rey 💪🙏
I grew up on the early Christian music and I'm wondering if her Pop was in Love Song🤔
Wow, I've listened to Alisa for some time, now, and had no idea she was Chuck Girard's daughter!! Does she keep that under wraps so that nobody thinks she is a name dropper...or because she's afraid nobody will have heard of him? I went to a Girard concert toward the end of his career. It was just he and his piano. I was never a huge follower of LoveSong. But that particular night it became clear to me that this was an awesome man...an awesome disciple of Christ.
Thanks Matt for this. Gives us some idea to ponder & chat upon when we meet our brother & sister's who are not in Communion, yet. Will be great if you can get a Presbyterian & others also.
Where's Petra when we're discussing Christian Rock? : )
Beyond Belief could be an appropriate tune for the clouds of doubt.
Aside: doubt and dryness of faith and reason is also a time for growth, where faith can get stronger.
St. John of the Cross' _Dark Night of the Soul_ is quite the book.
In Essentials Unity, In Non-Essentials Liberty, In All Things Charity
That’s beautiful for ecumenism.
Even for this purpose, nevertheless, who decides what is essential but arbitrarity on the principle that heresy and schism are by nature divisive?
Respondid politely as a Catholic. For the doctrine of faith, it is pretty much what the Sacred Scripture says: ONE spirit (Eph 4,3-4), ONE body (not “40.000 bodies” - Eph 4, 4), ONE faith, ONE Lord, ONE baptism (Eph 4, 5), because God himself wanted us to be ONE in some ONENESS so perfect that Jesus Christ compared this kind of unity to the ONENESS He has with God the Father (John 17, 20-21).
Greetings from 🇧🇷 Brazil.
Master Chief
Thanks, funny to come from a Catholic from Brazil neighbor to Argentine from which the catholic pope is calling for the worst ecumenism by combining Christianity with Islam. Words do not solve the problem of substance. Only as I mentioned earlier it is the only absolute word Jesus Christ who said “whosoever is not against us he is with us”
Kameel Farag I’m not a fan of Pope Francis ecumenism, but as a leader the has to make stability moves. Pope Saint John Paul II also made it. As I usually say, ecumenism must not be confused with compromising doctrine or the integrity of the “depositum fidei”, and it must be guided by the theological virtue of charity. If these two conditions are attained, it will be fruitful; if not, good fruits won’t come.
But since you quoted the Bible to defend “relativism” (twisting things out of its context, let me respectfully say), I may quote other passages from the Golpels to remind you, my friend:
_”Every kingdom _*_divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or HOUSEHOLD divided against itself will NOT STAND_*_ “_ (Matthew 12, 25).
_”Whoever is not with me is against me, and _*_whoever does not gather with me SCATTERS_*_ “_ (Lk 11, 23).
_”Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who _*_built his HOUSE on the ROCK_*_ . The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet _*_it did NOT FALL, because it had its foundation on the ROCK_*_ . But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and _*_it fell with a great crash”_* (Matthew 7, 24-27).
_”And I tell you that you are Peter, and _*_on this ROCK I will BUILD MY CHURCH_*_ , and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven”_ (Matthew 16, 18).
And one from Saint Paul, remembering that the pillar of the truth is not the book, but the Church Authority, because only it may discern the canon and may come to interpret it correctly.
_“(...) if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in _*_GOD’s HOUSEHOLD_*_ , which is the _*_CHURCH_*_ of the living God, the _*_pillar and foundation of the TRUTH_*_ ”_ (1 Timothy 3, 15).
You have time to come home, my friend. We will be happy to receive you in the true faith.
Anticatholicism in the USA is like a moral disease, but by God’s grace you may overcome it.
Greetings from 🇧🇷.
Nice sentiment, but it's not Bible. Christ said that those who refuse to listen to the Church are to be considered as heathens (Mathew 18:17).
This will be interesting. I went through a pretty bad crisis of faith last month and sank into a sort of nihilistic despair. I then spent days researching the Aristotelian and Thomistic proofs for God’s existence and came away pretty convinced. Although I’m pretty certain now that God exists and that He founded the Catholic Church, I’m not absolutely convinced - there’s still that bit of uncertainty in the back of my mind which I can’t seem to quench.
I feel the same. I think it is like a cross we have to bear. Reminds me of the dark night of the soul that the saints faced.
Take it as a motivation to keep studying and diving deeper into the riches of the Catholic intellectual tradition!
Doubts and questions are good. Keep digging and researching and praying. It'll only make your faith stronger.
The only advice I can give is to keep living our faith.
Me too! It’s such a struggle.
Alisa is incredible. I like her approach. I hope that she would be willing one day to reopen the case for Catholicism and investigate it once again. Maybe a little push from some friendly folks in her circle of friend might do the job! lol
Matt, God bless your work, I really admire what you're doing, but please consider watching how someone like Joe Rogan avoids interrupting, especially with noises, and when he does interrupts, it's more a prompt than derailing the guest.
I’m 25 and Zoe Girl was my first CD.
Oh, I think it's particularly interesting that you bring up the disbelief in Hell, since I'm taking a class titled "Death and Afterlife in the Ancient World" as part of my religious studies minor and we touched on that topic.
I just wanted to let u know I am also on ur strive program even though Im a woman, but I find it so helpful for myself
Simon the Sorcerer
…Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. When Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money. “Give me this power as well,” he said, “so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”…
Acts 8:17-19
A great episode, well done
What is the best book to learn about Thomism’s conception of God?
It would be so cool for you to get Carl Trueman on your show!
I have not had serious doubts about God himself but I’ve had plenty of doubts about the Church, both catholic and Protestant types. Thing is, I’ve thought and prayed a lot about religion and I’ve come to often quite different conclusions that those stated by church leaders. Am I supposed to throw out my God-given intellect so I can obey a bunch of corrupt bishops and pope? This is a very serious problem.
Remember that the kind of obedience you owe your Bishop and the Pope is not groveling obsequence.
Not everything the pope says is infallable. If we're talking about the official social and moral teachings... try to pray to God so that He helps you understand why the things are the way they are. Please, do not dismiss the whole Faith
Gotta love lofi.
Lol, poor Matt & his age! Just watched Rubin say you guys are about the same age but I believe Rubin is about 10 years older than Matt! haha!
0:33 omgoooodddness!! She's from ZoeGirl????? I used to loooooovvvee ZoeGirl. Still do😭
Speaking of Christian merch in places like Walmart, which I also find weird, how is it different than almost every Catholic app or spiritual program costs money?
I was going to say about to be 40. I was pretty close. But the beard was what makes you look older think. But please don’t get rid of your glorious beard. I would not have believed you if you said you’re 55 to me though.
I encourage conversations between people of different religious faiths and always found these conversations - so long as they remain respectful and non-condescending - incredibly rich. I do have many issues though with the mix religion/politics, and don't much like when it is insisted upon on how I should be leaning politically. So yes, to Catholic conversations, interreligious dialogue, philisophical discussions, debates etc... but nay to further political conversations. Unless, the objective of this channel is to grow (like so many others) in political activism coated with a sprinkle of religion, which would be a shame.
Can I just say how weirdly messed up it is that we would even conditionally accept the concept of a pastor or priest that doesn’t actually have faith? It’s like accepting a science professor that believes in flat earth. We wouldn’t accept that, but we would tolerate this. It’s so off.
What about if its a tween/teen who is doubting?
Matt's australian accent is so funny😂
God bless you both 🙏
I'd say that we as Catholics have to engage more whit these "progressive christians" they are not atheist yet, but are not hardcore protestants also, maybe we could evangelize them and given that they are in theory open minded, maybe they are open to receive the Lord in the one true church.
Lets pray and evangelize people 🕆
So your goal is to try and trick people into your cult before they become intellectually honest and able to think for themselves? Very noble of you! You cultists crack me up.
@@ant9925 Yes.😎
@@joelmontero9439 good luck with that. You should get cracking though because as education standards progress it's going to make your job a lot more difficult.
@@ant9925 Thanks
My question is; are you in agreement with the doctrine of Hillsong and Ravi Zacharias?
i was gonna say that i thought you were early 30s, 55 is insane 😂. maybe they just thought that because you have style that is wise beyond your age, including the beard.
Great conversation! Is this Alisa that helps with ATL?
Can someone write down all the recommended books?
He's 37. Love ya Matt! ;)
Easy: you explore those doubts. You explore whether you have reasonable justifications for believing the things you believe. Because, frankly, no theist has ever demonstrated the existence of any deity, and the reasons theists often present are highly fallacious.
So, how many theists have you read, though? It's easy to just throw the word "frankly" around, but that's more a rhetorical distraction than, dare I say, a demonstration?
What would a 'demonstration' entail? Then ask: do you have sufficient 'demonstrations' for any number of beliefs you entertain (the existence of the external world v. philosophical solipsism ; realism v. idealism ; the eternality of the universe v. a finite universe).
Necessity and certainty are some difficult things to come by, if that's what you demand by a 'demonstration.'
I mean, good on you for listening to Pints with Aquinas, but those are some pretty bold claims...
"Pints (of beer, folks, that's what it refers to in Aussie lingo)" (CARNAL/FLESH) "with Aquinas" (CARNAL/FLESH - 1 Corinthians 2:14)
"Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God....That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit....Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again" (John 3:3, 6, 8)
"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.....
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his" (Romans 8:1, 4-9)
Read also John 4:23-24 and Galatians 5 & 6. You'll read more about the flesh and the Spirit. And you'll read how sowing to the flesh means reaping from the flesh: hence the fruit of the flesh found among most Catholics and all fake "Christians" (ANGER, IDOLATRY, DRUNKENESS etc - Galatians 5:19-21) whilst the fruit of the Spirit (JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE etc - Galatians 5:21-23) is found in the truly regenerate Christians (the only kind according to Romans 8:9, John 1:12-13, 2 Corinthians 13:5). It's why Jesus says "Ye MUST be born again (born anew/born of the Spirit)" (John 3:8 emphasis mine). It's why a GENUINE conversion is a work of the Holy Spirit (the word for wind and spirit is the same and Jesus knew it - John 3:3-8)) and why a GENUINE convert is a completely transformed person, a NEW CREATURE in Christ where ALL things are become new (2 Corinthians 5:17). And even more good news, the power of Satan, sin and death is destroyed (John 8:34-36, Romans 6, 1st John 3:4-10, 5:18) and with the Holy Spirit indwelling, you never doubt again. How can you doubt with Jesus inside you? Impossible (2 Corinthians 13:5. John 14:16-17). * All the verses make more sense in the original Greek or KJV. Modern versions are corrupt. If you don't believe me, do a Biblical word study of the Greek word SARX and see how modern versions have misled people for decades by deliberately mistranslating it. Nothing else in life matters as much as your salvation, folks. We are warned in every Gospel and every epistle not to be deceived. We are also warned that there will be many false teachers and that deception will increase in the last days...
Anyone else go look up the naughty response to "Cheers big ears"? lol
Haha! I looked it up on TH-cam and couldn’t find it. Maybe best I didn’t! Lol
3:39 19,000 Catholic men? Why would you want to help them if they're a protestant?
/sigh
Thanks for NOT being one of those Catholics, Matt. As a Methodist, I appreciate you.
Chug those expressos bro!
JM+JT 🙏💒🕊🙇♀️❤🙏Speak directly to Him. HE ALWAYS ANSWER OUR PRAYERS. IF WE SPEAK FTOM THE HEART AND REALLY MEAN IT.🙏💒🕊🙏
Please, invite Alisa again. :(
It's better if our money and business be Christian than not Christian. Hundreds of millions of Christians spend good money to watch literally-pagan comic-book movies, but when I went to the one day event of "Patterns Of Evidence; Red Sea Miracle" the theatre was almost empty... what are Christians interested in and fascinated by? Who's mind are Christians thinking with? The mind of Christ? "You say some have works and some have trust, but I say show me your trust without works and I will show you my trust by my works".
Money being involved in ministry should feel fine IF you first really meditate on it and get your mind of Christ around it and be sure to keep full integrity. Modern money is actually debt, and a global banking fraud (mass theft); so meditating on the facts is rather heavy, but by Christ and Him Crucified we can accept that there is wrongness involved in the money system and yet we have necessity to it so we must do our best to not participate in the damage and fraud (for example, I don't participate in publicly traded stocks for two major reasons: 1, their god is money and that means that Truth gets set aside and the Enemy is allowed to unleash destructions to earth and souls; 2, there are people making so much money without working for it and that is a burden on the struggling working people, I'm sure many investors work hard in general, but investment is not work but is a way to buy someone else's earnings without working for it).
Just a note to your comments about how old you look, beards generally make men look older, unless the beard is closely trimmed. If you are concerned about how old you look, consider losing the beard. Where I live long, untrimmed beards are common with very young men, so you don't really know what they look like. Eastern monks wear beards, and I suppose it's a way to hide the beauty (or not) of their faces, but they don't care.
I thought you were 35, exactly! 😂
Why do protestants need to become catholics? Can we not each be happy in our places? Aren't we all one body or Christ? Very confusing to me.
So please help me understand....
I was raised Catholic, married a Protestant and the whole time I've struggled with it.....The bible doesn't do much for me. Having quiet time with God is absolutely excruciating. Never been good a praying. Can't stand the concept of hell and will never accept it. I have a problem with how Jesus was crucified so that I could be forgiven by the big guy upstairs. No matter how hard I try IT. JUST. DOESN'T. WORK.
Do I actually need a check list for salvation?
- Believe in the virgin birth
- Believe in peaking donkeys
- Believe in eternal torment.
- Believe Jesus is God.
Etc.......
What if I just don't!!
Can I not just say I THINK I believe but have I have some major problems with the story line?
Will I be disqualified?
Unworthy?
Unwanted?
REALLY!?
Is that how it works?
That's pretty shitty in my mind
@Loreto Mazzola God is looking for brokenness and humble calls for assistance, not cock sure certainty. Yes, you can say with the grieving father in Mark 9:24, "I do believe. Help thou my unbelief!"
@@ericcarlson9885 Thank you Eric👍
You're never unwanted, Ctaholicism is not about struggling to deserve God's love, it's about accepting it. I've struggled with the idea of hell lately, too. But logically, it's not God throwing people there, everyone chooses freely if they want to accept the gift of salvation. Satan tempts us by portraying God as cruel and unworthy of our trust, but it's not true. Pray for the conversions and try to evangelize in your surroundings. God wants everybody to be saved and our efforts make it more possible if we accept His Will
@Anna Słowik thank you Anna
I still don't accept the concept of eternal punishment. Even if people don't accept Jesus, or understand what Jesus did. ESPECIALLY as you say, Satan is fooling people. Geez, what chance does anyone have?
In my mind, Jesus finished it!
There is nothing more we need to do, but believe what Jesus wants us to believe, and that is......He is a son, and so am I. Jesus destroyed the lie that we are separated from God.
Jesus finished it, Satan and death have no power. There is nothing I can do. Whether I believe it or not, Jesus still finished it.
If I accept this concept of eternal punishment, then I have to accept that God lost the fight to satan.
Just how I feel it😊
@@loretomazzola403 Well, God is merciful and just, nobody is judged unjustly in the end. People who are invincibly ignorant, never heard of the Gospel or are truly convinced that something else is true but are seeking the Truth and live according to the natural law have a possibility of being saved. It's much better and easier in the Catholic Church, that's why we have to evangelize and correct people in a loving way. But it's not impossible, since God gives enough Grace to everyone. People don't go to hell for not knowing, if they sin mortally and don't want to repent from it, they are the ones who reject the gift of salvation, not God. God gives, gives, gives. We don't pay for the salvation with our good deeds, but by doing good deeds and cooperating with God's Will, we say 'yes' to being with Him eternally. Analogically, by doing what we know is wrong, we say 'no' to Him because we want something else more. And then, we can always come back either by being baptized or by confession if we're truly repentant
I appreciate the protestants... sometimes I almost envy them. Their Sunday services can be really uplifting, and some of them are so passionate... but it still can't come close to Catholicism. I point to the one phrase Alisa said, after talking about a split in their church where she finally said "that church doesn't exist anymore". It's gone because it wasn't God's Church... it was a man's church that praised God, which is fine. I guess. But the Catholic Church is the Church Christ started, and will always exist.
The Catholic Church looks effeminate in comparison with the Orthodox.
That pastor will have his place in hell. So heartbreaking to hear how he ripped the church apart in concert with Satan.
I still make fun of my prot buddies
Dress for very, very warm weather . . .
You should get someone who can explain progressive Christianity. I felt like there was at least a bit of straw manning.
Alyssa does this same schtick with "Capturing Cameron." He pushes back a little, but not enough.
Pine Creek offers a more stringent criticism of Alyssa's approach here:
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1:45 - missed opportunity for the best answer: it's the art of war baby, ya gotta know your enemy
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This is a very unfortunate conversation that is tiptoeing on different topics
Unfortunate?
I have listened to her conversation with capturing christianity, he told her about the nicene creed she flatly said that wasn't historic christianity, I could see Cameron just suppress his disappointment
@Qwerty not meaningless, just unfortunate, its like grade 1 stuff while matt fradd is PhD, Cameron is at that level
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Doubts about god? Listen to them! Embrace a life of education and leave silly fairytales behind. Archaic religious beliefs are holding humankind back. Be part of the solution, not the problem.
Good luck with trying to formulate a materialist system of ethics, it’s literally impossible. David Hume proved that, one of your own. If some one thinks every form of religion is incompatible with science, they don’t know what they’re talking about.
@@matthewmayuiers prove it's impossible. You have made a claim there without backing it up, so either fulfill your burden of proof or stop wasting my time with nonsense.
Ant I Gotchya I should’ve elaborated more to begin with. You can’t go from “is to ought”, that’s David humes whole point, it’s a little abstract. So materialism (not strictly atheism) posits that everything is material. A rock, dog, human, or plants are nothing more than the parts that make them up. Under this view of course free will is an illusion, because all of our actions are predetermined by physical processes. Every event is like one domino knocking over another with no free agency or decisions, choices are an illusion. Now for there to be any talk of ethics requires some degree of free will, you can’t blame some one if they couldn’t have acted differently, only creatures with wills can be subject to moral praise or blame. Therefore in principle there can be no materialist ethics, this is something real Materialists are loud and proud about, they’ll tell it with no shame. Naturalism or some other form of Dualism have a much stronger case for ethics than materialism, while still maintaining an atheistic world view.
@@matthewmayuiers a lot would depend on your definition of "free will". I would argue that free will doesn't exist and that doesn't change whether you are an atheist or a theist. Every single decision we make is influenced by outside sources. Under a theistic worldview we would all just be a product of our creation. There's no free will there, especially if one believes in an omnipotent/omniscient god. Under a broader definition of free will, I think an atheistic worldview supports the notion of free will much better than a theistic worldview. As an atheist I have the ability to consider implications resulting from actions without any deity determining my behaviour. In a materialistic worldview this doesn't change. You are correct in that I am a product of physical processes (this is demonstrable for us all) and this clearly influences our choices. However there is more to it than that. We are a product of nurture as well as nature. Thinking for ourselves and using information to influence our decisions is a survival trait. Ethics and thus our morality comes from the ability to absorb information and make informed decisions and moral judgements. This has evolved in us since the dawn of man as it has always suited the human race as a whole to be a sociable species. We rely on others to survive. In a theistic worldview this whole matter becomes moot as we would be a simple product of our creation. Human wellbeing is the source of our morality.
Now whether you want to argue that materialism cannot provide us a moral code is irrelevant until you can indeed demonstrate there is more to the universe than the material. The supernatural isn't even an option until it can be demonstrated.
Ant Every single decision is indeed influenced by outside sources, that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re completely determined by external forces. I’d define “freedom” in its most basic form as the capacity to deliberate without constraint, interior or exterior. Freedom as well consists in seeking the Good and Truth, anything that inhibits your full rational processes makes you live under false beliefs and illusions and cuts man off from what is natural to himself. I take the Aristotelian route that freedom is the ability to seek out what is good and natural for man qua man. Under a Calvinist conception of God humans are certainly robbed of free will, but if you read into some one like Boethius or others in the classical theist tradition you get a very different view. “Rather should we say that God does not, strictly speaking “foresee” anything: God is eternal, eternity being defined in a famous phrase as “interminabilis vitae total simul St perfecta possessions, and His knowledge is the knowledge of with is eternally present to Him, of a never fading instant, not a foreknowledge of things which are future to God. Now, knowledge of a present event does not impose necessity on the event, so that God’s knowledge of mans free acts, which are from the human viewpoint are future, though from the divine view point they are present does not make this acts ldetermined and necessary (in the sense of not-free). The eternity of God’s vision, “which is always present, occurs with the future quality of an action”, that’s brief quote on the Classical theist view. But as you said, much of it hinges on whether God exists and what conception of God we’re talking about. Do you think there’s an infinite regress or...?
Both are followers of Christ, the head of the Church. But Matt is a Catholic, the real Church of Christ. She's so eloquent, intelligent and faithful. Why isn't she a Catholic? What's she missing in the Bible?
@guscaldas3 I agree with you, but in the opposite direction. Matt Fradd is eloquent, intelligent, and faithful. Why isn't he an Evangelical? What's he missing in the Bible? I tend to think it's just because he hasn't thought through things carefully enough. It takes a ton of perseverance to go through all the arguments with a fine tooth comb and figure out all the discrepancies.
Matt looks a little hot, no doubt about it
I'm very close to leaving Christianity (as objectively true) and becoming an Agnostic Theist 😕
I pray that you don't.
@@saintejeannedarc9460 thanks, but it's too late as of today. I got new philosophy now ✌️
I probably shouldn't tell you why I left either, because it would most likely destroy your faith, too 🤐
Well, I'm interested. You can share why you left if you want to
@@amask99 for a crass and blunt example, I don't know how a loving God can be silent amidst 678,000 diet related deaths each year in just the US alone. No father figure?
Animals do not want to die, they have a desire to live just like we do. This said, the archaic and plainly immoral practice of animal sacrifice is just one amongst a few examples of how YHWH is an product of cultural amalgamation of Ancient Near Eastern deities like El or Baal. Innocent creatures shouldn't have to pay the price for another's crimes, no matter how symbolic it is.
The fact that we do not need to consume animal products to thrive healthfully, (as plants serve as rich sources of nutrition, phytonutrients, antioxidants, etc.), means that we don't need to inflict the pain suffering that humans compose upon factory farmed sentient animals. The fact that an omnibenevolent God remains silent while over 70 billion land animals and over a trillion sea creatures have their lives taken without necessity shows a blatant contradiction between God's biblically demonstrated character and reality.
These are just a few of the reasons why. I really do hope you can make a response, because this isn't meant to be a gotcha.
@@amask99 I edited my reply btw
You don’t look older than 50.
I really hope you find truth dude. You cannot put Christianity & the Catholic Church in the same boat at all. I pray you find Jesus and become born again.
@@matthewbroderick6287 Yes, on PETER...not on Linus, Anacleutus, Clement, Evaristus, Alexander, and Sixtus.
@@matthewbroderick6287 Moses had but one successor, Joshua. David had hereditary successors. (Did Peter have a son who carried on his work?) In the OT, kings and high priests have hereditary successors. In the NT, we have succession by lot (in the case of Matthias). Is that how Catholics do things?
One does have a succession of bishops and elders in various sees in the early church. But there is no indication whatsoever that any of them are tied to Peter in terms of title or responsibility. Or that any of them have Apostolic authority. Irenaeus has Linus leading the church in Rome, a see founded by both Peter AND Paul.
Apostles we’re Apostles…and had no successors.
All of your problems with losing your belief start with the problem of ever believing in the first place. All of your problems with god stem from the belief in a god in the first place. What doesn't exist can't help you and it can't hurt you - what you BELIEVE exists and is helping you (and also promises to destroy you - if you don't get things right) can cause you all kinds of problems when you try let go of that belief. The ultimate problem is that mankind, for whatever reason, still NEEDS to make up a god or gods to cope with his/her reality. Ultimately, conversations like this one are meaningless because they orbit around a delusion - and we are stunted as a species thanks to this god-crutch and the ensuing dumbing down / fantasy enabling of humanity.