Give Me an Answer -
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- Cliffe Knechtle has a great conversation with college students at a campus in the southwest US.
The "Give Me An Answer" ministry began as an outgrowth of the dialogues Cliffe Knechtle has had with students on various university campuses throughout the United States. These universities include the University of Maine, Harvard, MIT, University of Florida, University of Texas, University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota, University of California Los Angeles, University of California San Diego, Berkeley, Stanford, University of Hawaii and the University of Washington. Cliffe spoke on these campuses in front of the Student Union or Library at noon for five to ten minutes. At the close of his initial remarks, he'd open up the time for questions and answers, which usually turned into a two to four hour dialogue with students. His crowd size ranged from 25 - 500 students at a time, and between classes, new students would join the discussion. This is an extremely effective way to reach a large number of university students with the Gospel of Christ.
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God bless Pastor Cliffe
Thank you for all that you do pastor Cliffe
Excellent conversation, Cliff! You make me wish that we lived in CT. Maybe we will visit sometime. I've always wanted to see the Atlantic Ocean, so we'll have to plan a trip. Visiting your church would be the highlight of it all!
There is suffering and bad, but also good, delight, beauty, virtue, wonder, heroism, mercy, kindness, sacrifice, love, etc. The Bible is filled with accounts of people who recognize the good and evil in this world; who feel the same way we do about it. The very feelings of sorrow, joy, anger and awe that we feel come from the God Whose spiritual image we bare. The fact that evil happens doesn't mean God agrees with it, likes it or doesn't care. It means that by thinking we knew better, we are now quite messed up. It means we don't get to see the entire picture, but God does. It's one of many reasons I've decided to take a chance and trust Him.
I'm in ct also shot out to ct.
Go cliffe!!
Thank you for making these videos cliffs these videos have given me the courage and the knowledge to witness to my Mormon friend. God bless you and your ministry Cliffe
Really good episode. Thank you.
Great video Cliffe. So many say they can't believe in God because of all the suffering but how does atheism make that any better? The suffering is still there and means it will always continue. No justice. No hope. And like Cliffe always says that is despair.
Best youtube channel ever thanx cliffe
Thanks for another great video Pastor Cliffe. May God bless... !!!
Ive been binge watching these for weeks now 🙏👍🤣
Same here 😂 I can't go a day without watching these...
Have you both genuinely put
your Faith and Trust into Jesus
Christ to save you & Repented
of all sin? Have you both been
made Born Again through the
receiving of The HOLY SPIRIT?
@jeffreyr.gilbertjr.1321 yes brother. I have as I pray for all.
@@cavazosking AMEN!
@@-D-I-V-A- amen 🙏
The kid is trying so hard to deny the truth. If preserving my genes is what's good, doesn't it follow that no matter what I need to do to further my genes, those things are by default 'good?' What do I care about someone else's genes? Why is it bad to kill them off?
People have absolutely no understanding of objectivity anymore.
@busterkey l.
You should know better than to insult others if you're a Christian. And if you're not a Christian... well that's still mean. Most people today are at each others throats, resorting to insults with no intentions to understand one another. This kid, even if naïve and stubborn with his worldview, was still willing to have a dialog with Cliffe. That is something we definitely need more of.
@busterkey l.
Well damn, wasn't expecting a response like that. I appreciate your honesty. Definitely a pleasant surprise on the internet. God bless you.
alot people stop at matthew 7:1-2 and jump over verses 3-5. its about hypocritical judging of others. it never says not to judge anything or not to judge anyone. it never says that its wrong to correct others
its about not thinking ill of people when you are doing the same things. it says to take out the plank out your eye, so you can see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
correct your own wrong doing, THEN you can correct others wrong doings
Absolutely beautiful cliffe. ❤
The scriptures tell us to test these things to see if they are true. And... be like the Bereans, who searched the scriptures for answers. The Bible also tells us not to believe every voice. (That's paraphrased, but accurate.)
Knew you uploaded before I checked :)
Love his videos
Science is nailes in thes students head everything is science to rhem.
You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
Jn 5: 39- 40
19:20 cliffe should have asked him what the evidence is for infinite universes? (there is none)
Jesus said He will return to remove all death and suffering. He died and rose again to prove it. Therefore we believe in Jesus.
Revelation 21 "3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”"
That young man stays stuck on his same relative opinion and is determined to say that if Cliffe would have hit the young women rather than giving her money , would be a negative thing , yet he has nothing to base his standard on .
Who said / says that peace and education are good things ?. Why is'nt your statement or the one of the lad in the video anything more than just another opinion [s] ?
A true atheist cannot answer Cliffe here, if they are truly honest (with themselves) they must acknowledge a God outside of humanity. They just don't want to give up their sinful pleasures, so a God should not exist to keep them from it.
Can we clearly define what is 'sinful' and what is not? Something I consider perfectly healthy and natural, you may consider sinful. Conversely, there may well be things that you consider ok, which I may find abhorrent.
Thanks "BecomingMike" for your reply. I just cannot reasonably understand how the words you use like "sin", "evil", "hate" and "wrong" fit with the theory of true atheism. Can you assist with an explanation, many thanks.
BecomingMike Hi Mike, have to agree with you on that, one of my other big bug bears is when I hear the expression " if Atheism is true". That kind of gives the impression that the atheist is saying categorically " God does not exist " , which is not strictly true, most of the Atheists i know are simply saying in response to the God question, .."i don't believe it", but if credible evidence came about, they would change their view.
What credible evidence would you like to see ? It is a good question.... :-)
@Bradley, yes, it's a good honest question. There are lots of things that I would take as credible evidence for God. If you ask another atheist, he/she may well give you a different answer, but as you've asked me, here is something which *would* convince me. Lets say a US soldier is badly injured in Afghanistan, he has both legs blown off by an IED, he is flown back to the US for expert medical treatment. His family and friends are all committed Christians and they gather round his bed all joining hands and they pray for him with all their sincerity, the next morning, the nurses pull back the bedsheets to see to his wounds, and low and behold, his legs are completely restored. God has completely healed him.
That would do it for me. It would destroy my disbelief in God. In short, God does not heal amputees.
The first girl said that she gave her life to Christ years ago, has a bunch of doubt, and is wondering if she even believes anymore. Cliffe seemed to just assume that she was saved and went on to say that doubt isn't a bad thing. I agree that doubt isn't always bad, it can be good and is normal for everyone. However, shouldn't Cliffe have focused more on the salvation soul part of it, which is ultimately the most important part? Maybe dig deeper and ask her questions about the Gospel? She has doubt and wonders if she still believes, but maybe it's the case that she was never saved to begin with. There are lots of false converts out there. Cliffe doesn't know her at all, her fruit, if she is repentant or any other evidence of salvation, yet he seemed to assumed that she was saved and then basically said no worries, we all have doubt. I'm not saying that she isn't saved we can't judge the heart based on this clip one way or the other. I just wish that he would have talked about where the Bible says that we are to test ourselves to see if we are even in the faith. Her question seemed to be about whether she truly believes in Christ or not.
Jesus Christ is Lord 👑🙏Maranatha
It's so sad to see these students ask clip so many questions they can't answer one... Sad
16:30 kid ain't making sense. He can't grasp the concept.
can you not prove gravity though?
The young man had impressive questions but he is missing an essential aspect of reality. Morality cannot simply be what is best for the continuation of the species or what causes "positive" feelings or interactions. Eugenics and mass euthanasia could very well be what is best for humanity because of overpopulation, limited resources, the threat of Climate Change and wars that are much more likely given these realities.
I have yet to hear a non-theist address this issue in a sound manner.
Furthermore, how can we be certain that continuing the human species is a good thing? Millions of species have come and gone so why should we be any different? A serious scientific argument can be made that the appearance and extinction of species is a part of the natural order of life, and trying to change this can be seen as evil.
Even more, the evidence is definitive that the human species has been destructive to the earth and to millions of other species, or as one might say, we are genociding our other animal siblings by abusing natural resources, razing forests, burning fossil fuels and causing Climate Change.
I couldn't have said it better. If we are the result of millions of years evolutionary change and progess I'd say evolution is doing a really bad job..because as you said no other species is as destructive as the human species.
Atheists can indeed be altruist and do good..but they have no foundation as to why we ought to do good and be kind to others if we are simply accident by-products of evolution and reality is simply indifferent to our well being. And if there is no comic justice then empathy, compassion and kindness is meaningless..This logical conclusion that atheism leads to hard for the atheist to accept. Not only that it is impossible for them to live it out.
oldgordo61 It's not necessarily that Evolution has done a bad job but that it has no rational or moral standard, any more than the long term effects of a river or a volcano upon the local ecosystem; they just are.
This fact creates a seemingly insurmountable problem for Atheists who also affirm any kind of morality outside of the individual or collective will.
You are correct, Atheists have difficulty accepting the logical conclusion of their worldview. I respect their right to do so but I am eager to see a rational argument justifying the illogical combination of a Godless universe with moral imperatives.
Let me be completely honest with you, none of us nonbelievers are really jumping for joy over the thought that we are nothing more than the result of millions of years of evolutionary processes and the idea that life has no ultimate meaning certainly doesn't make me want to have a party either, in fact, the thought is quite depressing, it does make life seem empty, I totally agree, so, I can understand why many might not want to entertain the notion and for what it's worth, I'd feel much happier if I could believe that I was specially created by a being who loves me to pieces and has a plan for my life rather than thinking I'm just some accident that might or might not have happened, do you really think anyone likes that idea? But the plain and simple truth of the matter is that as nonbelievers, we are embracing reality like it is, not like we want it to be, facts are facts, whether we like them or not.
What Christians, Muslims and other kinds of religious type theists are asking us to do is ignore all the hard evidence to the contrary and just believe in the equivalent of fairy tales and magic and what we are turning around and saying is yes it all sounds wonderful, yes, it would be nice to believe in the happy ever after, life after death, singing hallelujah with the angels in Heaven and seeing loved ones we have lost up there, yes, it sounds beautiful, who wouldn't want that if it was true? Emphasis on IF it was true.....and therein lays the whole problem, wanting to believe something is true and having good reason to believe it's true are not the same, ask me would I like to believe in a loving God, Heaven etc? I'll say yes, sure I would like to believe it but ask me if I actually DO believe it?.....No....I'm afraid I don't, why? Because I don't have sufficient reason for me to justify believing it's true.
Just telling me I have to have faith in it is not justification for believing something is true, in fact, that makes me more doubtful than ever because faith is only required when there is no other justification for something, if there was sufficient reason to believe something was true, we wouldn't need faith, faith = absence of evidence, sufficient reason = evidence and before you say there is evidence for Gods existence, I don't just mean looking at the Universe, Trees and Flowers etc and concluding that God is the only possible explanation, I get that but it's not enough, because if God really exists and he wants us to be absolutely sure of it, he should be able to do a lot more than just expect us to look at all of those things and all come to the same conclusion "ah well...there has to be a God", we're obviously not all coming to that same conclusion, otherwise we wouldn't be having this discussion, Cliffe wouldn't need to visit those University camps and tell those students that a God exists if this God made his existence obvious, we would all know, so if there is a God and his plan was for us all to come to the same conclusion that he must exist based on the Universe, he must be very disappointed, his plan is a big fat fail, far be it for me to advise the highest of high beings but if he truly cares that we believe he exists, maybe he needs to try something different, like showing himself directly?
At the end of the day, the evidence for something has to be in PROPORTION to the claim in order to be valid evidence, for example, if I told you I had magic power, then the evidence that I need to prove I have magic power has to be as good as the magic power I am claiming I have, otherwise, if I told you I can do magic but then told you I can't show it to you and that you have to just somehow trust me that I have magic power, does that make sense to you? Of course, it doesn't, if I've got magic power then I should be able to do magic right in front of you to prove it, there's no excuse, if an all powerful God exists who loves us and wants us to know he exists, then this all powerful being could easily show himself, he could use his all power to convince us of his existence and he would know EXACTLY what it would take to convince me and all of us who doubt his existence that he is real.....and yet he hasn't done it.
That fact alone only serves to put even more doubts in my mind that this God exists at all, I would be happy to be proven wrong and he should know I would be happy to be proven wrong, there's no free will violation either like some theists try to claim as an excuse for God not providing us with that kind of direct proof of this existence, I am willing......WILLING to be a believer, if this God is real, then is this God equally willing to remedy my unbelief? Seems not, maybe he exists and just doesn't care whether I believe or not? In which case, my doubts are still justified, because, if God exists and doesn't care whether I believe he exists or not, that's no better than if no God existed at all, I'm only interested in getting evidence for a God who exists that wants me to know he exists, for the simple reason that this would be the only God worth knowing, a God who doesn't care isn't worth us knowing, deists believe in that kind of God but whilst I get their reasoning for how they conclude that this being exists, it's completely pointless.
@@JohnCashin what evidence did you find that says there is no God?
You have ball of fire burning in the sky all by itself yet you close the possibility of the supernatural having any impact on our lives.
Interesting discussion. I don't think there is any clear evidence that in order for mankind to show things like compassion and caring, that it has to come from God. There are many other animals which have these traits. The mother of any young, whether it's human or animal will go above and beyond the call of duty to protect it's offspring.
His argument is that the opposite would be just as valid. So if a mother wants to kill her offspring because they are a drain on her resources, then that's fine. "Survival of the fittest".
If there is no God.
Yes, i get that Chris. in nature I know that a certain sea bird will hatch 2 eggs, and deliberately kill the smaller one, that seems quite brutal, but it's how that particular bird has evolved to survive. Also, I'm not sure if you are aware of the cuckoo bird it deliberately lays it's egg in another (much smaller) birds nest, when the cuckoo chick is born, it pushes the other chicks out of the nest so that the mother bird will only feed him. As I said, nature can be quite brutal. But humans have evolved to show immense love and tenderness to their young, a baby is pretty helpless for the 1st year or so of it's life and it would not survive without the care of especially it's mother. There are far more positive reasons to raise the young baby/child, than kill it, society also does not accept the killing of infants in particular.
Is euthanasia ok. By your argument it is OK because we are doing something good by eliminating harm to them.
Without some type of deity defining right or wrong what is right or wrong. I always respected Richard Dawkins (atheist) who said that "there is no right or wrong, just pitiless indifference". Without God, morality is just a social construct of the mind. That is the logical conclusion of atheism.
Hi Chris, yes, euthanasia can certainly be a good moral option. I know it's a controversial subject. If a person is in a lot of pain and close to death, they may well wish to be put out of their misery. I lost my own mother to cancer last year, she had a very uncomfortable and painful ending, I know she would have preferred to have passed away much earlier, but currently here in the UK euthanasia is not legal here, but it's only a matter of time before our parliament will change our law.
However, it's something that needs strict regulation, I'm obviously not in favor of killing people off. I know I would much prefer to be able to take a pill to end my life rather than live on in pain if it got too much to withstand.
We don't hesitate to put our pets out of their misery to end their lives when they are in too much pain, but we don't allow it for ourselves. Times are changing though.
Thomas Jefferson? A great American? Just what makes one a "great American"?
You don't have to be morally perfect in order to be a great American.
Same old thing why can,t the people that say this same old stuff see that all the suffering is caused by humans but blame GOD who they say does not exist
If god always acts in accordance with his nature (whatever that means), then he still must have more than one viable option that does not contradict his nature if he is to ''claim free will.'' Otherwise, he is a slave to his nature, like a robot, and not a free personal agent. What would the word "option" mean to a being who created all options?
Some say that "free will" with god does not mean what it means with humans. But how are we to understand this? What conditions of free will would a christian scrap in order to craft a "free agency" for god? Multiple options? Desire? Freedom? Power? Potential to avoid?
Perhaps desire could be jettisoned. Desire implies a lack, and a perfect being should lack nothing. But it would be a very strange "person" with no needs or desires. Desire is what prompts a choice in the first place. It also contributes to assessing whether the decision was reasonable. Without desire, choices are willy-nilly, and not true decisions at all. Besides, ''the biblical god expressed many desires.'' Basically this supposed god is RELYING on his ''faulty creations'' (the fall of adam & eve) to go around and CONVINCE each other that he exists, that's preposterous.!!!
No objection saves the christian god, he does not exist. Perhaps a more modest deity can be imagined: one that is not both personal and all-knowing, both all-knowing and all-powerful, both perfect and free. But until a god is defined coherently, and then proven to exist with evidence and sound reasoning, it is sensible not to think that such a being exists.
This guy is ONLY expressing his own personal views, having said that, it DOES NOT mean he is right, at the END OF THE DAY, it's only his OPINION.!!!
I would agree with you if Jesus didn't come and reveal God perfectly and then backed up his claims by performing miracles and raising from the dead, if you are so close minded to the possibility that the supernatural has a deep impact in our lives then i can safely say you are spiritually dead, feed your soul once in a while instead of cowarding away from it because it makes you uncomfortable.
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