I've lived a Godless life that's led me to failures, hurt, sorrows and shame for me but perhaps most importantly for those near me (my wife justly left me) and these results have brought me to a truthful harsh reality: a life without God is a meaningless, lost and dark one. I'm now in the process of hopefully building my true faith in Jesus and I find your talks very genuine and inspiring. Please don't stop doing what you're doing. Lots love and God bless you!!
@@jasonnoble7302 life can still be comfortable without God, but life with God just makes things all the more better. So I just want you for one day to live your normal life but have alittle faith in God and lets just see what happens. maybe nothing changes, or maybe you see your great life now without God become even better with God. I hope you dont see this as me "attacking you" but more or less just giving you a challenge to try that wont hurt you one bit!
It is one thing to not believe in God and have those things you mentioned, those are all well and good, but this person just wants to get to know God in vulnerability by providing a bit of his life here and I find it troubling how you can say how that is funny. @@jasonnoble7302
Stuart handled that perfectly. His ability to really listen to what people are saying and get right at the heart of it is really a gift from God. God bless the Give Me An Answer family and team!
I’m a Christian but I feel very similar to how that first girl felt. I constantly have doubts about my own religion. Sometimes idk if I believe at all, but I want to be saved and I want this Jesus that people talk about that is loving and kind. Oftentimes I read the Bible though and struggle to see that love and kindness.
Not hard at all to see the love and kindness of Christ when you read the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. You see the selflessness of Christ through his works, his treatment of others, and his care for our very souls.
Consider first that you may think that you're a good person. If you think that way, then you have no need for Jesus. If you acknowledge your sin and cry out to the Savior whom you've sinned against, He is able to forgive you and cleanse you from all unrighteousness. God is not a liar. He said He would do it. Then put your trust in Jesus. A human being wasn't a worthy sacrifice for all of the sins of the world for all time, it had to be God himself that was the sacrifice. One more thing. Your personal miracle will be that you will notice that you desire to obey Him and do that which is right because you will be a new creation, the Bible says. Read the Gospel of John. John 14 talks about how you will be in Him. Reach out to Him today. Don't put it off. Life is short. The devil will try to steal the seed of faith that you have. Look at the first temptation in the Garden of Eden. Satan asked Eve, "Did God really say...?". It was a deception to put doubt in her mind that the devil continues to use today because it is effective. God bless you ❤️ 🙏
Like you and every fallen sinner, Adam and Eve put a dark face on God, succumbing to Satan’s temptation and doubting His goodness and love; even as He had lavished it on them from the day He created them. But they were tragically wrong. God IS love and the source of all good. But none of this was outside of God’s sovereign plan and purpose for the world He’s created and will finally and for all eternity reconcile to Himself. Even in Genesis 3 immediately after the fall, God shows His love and mercy by providing a covering, a covering that points to His plan of redemption in Jesus Christ whereby He removes the filthy garments of sin and shame from His own, and covers them with His righteousness. When we hear the proclamation to the serpent/ Satan in Genesis, hear the first proclamation of the Gospel! The God man Jesus Christ would be the One who would crush his head by His death and resurrection defeating sin, death, and the Devil for all of God’s adopted and beloved children.
This is a great episode. Stuart is on his A game. His counselor side shines here. I love to see this. He's talking to one person yet thousands of people may be helped by what he says and how he treats the young lady.
@@jasonnoble7302😂he already proof that by sacrificing himself their is also Romans Proof 🧾 of evidence that they killed a guy name Jesus at that time and his mother name mery
@jasonnoble7302 He gave you a cogent answer but you just plugged your ears. How do you know if ANYONE loves you? By their actions. Jesus says in the gospels that he came to die as "a ransom for many" (meaning those who will have him -- some won't), so what could have motivated that? Boredom? Curiosity? Mental infirmity?
@ Well, that’s the story. What was the big sacrifice anyway? Jesus knew he wouldn’t die. He knew he was going to come back to life. He was a God right ? He knew he was a God right ? So he left for a few days? Big deal 🤷♂️ That means he loves me Give me a break
Stuart knetchle and his Dad Cliff has helped me to know God in a personal Way... Praise be to God for ever and ever AMEN..and may GOD continue to blessed their ministries IN JESUS mighty name we pray AMEN and AMEN 🙏✝️🕊️🔥❤️☝️👑
Oh how I’d love to lose myself in a sea of believers, and be found worshipping God like angels, singing songs of grateful adoration to God. I could be one with everyone, with all the saints, indistinguishable from anyone found singing in the holy throng. Could there be a greater joy than belonging to these choirs of lovers of God, filled to the brim with love for one another. What a joyous time it will be when the Lord returns, snatching us away, meeting Him in the air into our new life of no cares.
Im not a college grad but even i understand this fact that non living inorganic material can not create living organic organisms, & it doesnt take a scientist to know this
As a skeptic turned Christian, I really wish Stuart would’ve just laid out the evidence solely. Skeptics are always looking for emotional manipulation tactics and some of his advice could’ve been misconstrued that way in my opinion.
It’s not the lack of evidence they are in search for it’s an issue of heart and them not wanting to give up their self to God .. all we can do is pray for them and show them how a believer should act
While I agree Stuart would have laid out the evidence, Cliffe has previously addressed this question in another way. When a skeptic says there is not enough evidence for a belief in God, truth is the evidence for skepticism doesn’t even come close. At the heart of the issue we all have a world view. The Christian has a world view, so does a Muslim and Buddhist and also so does an atheist and skeptic. We are all living for something, so all you have to ask is what is the evidence that what you are living for is true or reliable. And finally agnosticism and skepticism is a prcatical impossibility, like Cliffe says” if skepticism and agnosticism is true then just try to live it out consistently”
39 years of age and ive spent my most of my life questioning and being a skeptic. Never have I ever seen a man like Cliff. Cliff absolutely cleared the smoke screen for me to find jesus... thank you so much guys. I will be forever grateful for your work.
one major point we need to remember is we should never get religion and faith confused. these kids always seem to be confused on that point. Religion is the SYSTEM of worship where as faith is an internal TRUST that develops because you see and recognize the reliability of a person/being. As children of say 3 we have absolute trust in our parents to look after us coz we just "instinctively" know that without them we won't have food, drink or comfort and if they are properly loving they will have shown they are willing to provide those things for us and we for a time accept it WITHOUT QUESTION. that's the kind of faith (TRUST) God want from us. hence why he tells us to come to him as children. the religion part come out of that faith (TRUST). if you trust in God (HAVE FAITH) as a child trusts in their parents you will demonstrate that trust by seeking his aid and support and obeying his commands and displaying gratitude and love in return. and it should be as natural to you to do so as it is for that child of 3 to do for their parent coz like that child we should want to please him. How do you display your love and gratitude to God? by recognizing he is the one in charge and praying and praising him for all he has given us and doing as he asks us to do and love each other as good caring siblings.
Gosh the first girls questions and statements were tough for me as a believer. I’m not sure how I would have approached her questions if given the position but you guys handled it well. Because it seems like she has a good direction in life and has doubt and I just feel so bad for her
Cliffe has previously addressed this question in another way. When a skeptic says there is not enough evidence for a belief in God, truth is the evidence for skepticism doesn’t even come close. At the heart of the issue we all have a world view. The Christian has a world view, so does a Muslim and Buddhist and also so does an atheist and skeptic. We are all living for something, so all you have to ask is what is the evidence that what you are living for is true or reliable. And finally agnosticism and skepticism is a prcatical impossibility, like Cliffe says” if skepticism and agnosticism is true then just try to live it out consistently”
@@mikeayoma I don't think we're born with a specific purpose in life, as i was growing up no one ever told me what my purpose was, our parents do their best to teach us and guide us to to the right things in life and to encourage us to do well in life. What would you say the purpose of life is for a Hindu or Muslim?
@@mikeayomaTrue isn't the evidence for skepticism, evidence is the evidence for skepticism. Proof and validation through replicatable testing is the proof. Saying something is true means nothing if you can't show that its true.
Is somehow the first woman that was speaking is watching this video, (I mean this in the most respectful and highly motivated way) you do not have a hardened heart despite what you think. If you have a hardened heart you will not continue to search. It is in our nature to search and look for true signs. For for only a moment when your are either outside sitting or merely looking out a window close your eyes and silence your thoughts. Then when that happens open yours eyes again. Your sign of God is then in front of you. The World. Remember the ways of the Pharisees that saw Jesus do miracle in front of their eyes and still did not believe. In my own way of teaching and still learning, this the best way I can connect your search towards God. Either way I pray this message finds you well, Do not be discourage and do not stop your search you will find him. Jesus has always been watching over you even when we don’t feel it. There will be days where we don’t feel connected and days we feel strongly connected. In either of these days, let the light of the world shine upon you.
i recently went through psyhosis event, i ended up in london hospital after beeing arested on one of the rooftops that i climbed on the outside on top floor grabbing on to satelite dishes to get on the roof, i dont remember much but i remember when police approached me they were baffeled of how did i got up there, i think they got to me from a different roof because i had to show them the safe way out and i knew the door that was locked because i had to climb the window to circumvent the passage, it was surreal and i thought these police officers were like angels or some sort of extraterrestrial beeings because i knew i risked my life climing that building and i dont know why, what happened afterwards was even more troubling to my mind, because i didnt know who i was or what day it was, i believied that everyone died in my family and i was grieving but i was wrong, everyone is alive but in my psyhosis i threw all my clothes away and i was only given a piece of linen what i thought, i covered myself with it so i am not fully naked but i did it because of others and not me, i didnt care at that time how i presented myself... and for the next 12 hrs or more i was walking around in london on my bare feet, almost naked and not knowing what is happening,mind me it was very cold, one moment i was shivering and another i was burning in flames.... i am so lucky not to catch any infection or so, i remember i was cleaning some sort of park and it had trees with markings on it to be cut, i thought these were the nice trees so i took these markings off so they stay there and i was picking up the litter like that park was my home .... i had bruises on me and scars on my head and while i was cleaning the ciggarete buts i pulled out a needle from the ground, again i was lucky not to get stabbed by it ...... and its been 4 weeks now i am still struggling to come to terms of what happened to me, all i know is that this is less that 1% that i want to explain but so mutch things happened that week i still need time to remember, im ok now and i just want to tell everyone that everything is going to be alright, whatever we go through is necesary for us to grow and accept the truth, jesus is here and he always has been, bless you all and pray for the ones that have mental issues and especially the homeless ones, because i have seen how bad things can get and we have no control over it, i just know that things will get better soon, i dont know when, but i know its all up to you
Perfect explanations by Cliffe at 10:15. I had the same idea :D. I think the student's ultimate question was, can we trust God to do what is best for us? Anything is possible but, this always goes down to... is Jesus reliable and does reality have a purpose or can anything be really be anything e.g. a square circle.
3 hours on a Monday and I count... Just one of the resident trolls? Not to worry! The other 3 will be along shortly! This channel is like church to them. They're here any time the 'doors' are open! 🤣
The reason only God can create objective morals is because he is our creator. The creator of the robot vacuum gives it its purpose and knows when it's doing good and doing bad. The creator of a computer knows when it's running well and fulfilling its objective. God created us for a purpose and as the creator he knows exactly what that purpose is.
If your statement is true, god doesnt even follow his own objective morals and commands his own followers to break them as well. Also if the world is running as he intended then why did he have to restart the world via a flood and why is he supposedly planning another restart with fire? Does this mean its not running as he intended?
for the girl who said she’s tried so hard for 7 years, I hate to say this because it sounds harsh, but she probably didn’t actually try. But it may not be her fault. Like Stuart said, she may have not been trying the correct way. If she actually read the gospel, she’d notice how following Jesus isn’t just an idea, but an action. An earnest desire to die to your flesh daily and not rely on your own knowledge. Yes Christianity is not a blind faith, but in the case for this girl, I’d bet she hasn’t really been exercising her faith. I wonder if she’s even worshipped God. Of course if all you do is intellectualize Christianity, always go to the books and internet, and never aim for spiritual experiences then obviously you’ll probably never have a personal experience as she claimed she wanted. It usually has to do with pride and unwillingness for change due to the uncomfortableness required to surrender to God. Pride is the unwillingness to surrender what you thinks is yours, which can even be intellect.
Just because false religions exist, don’t mean we have to tell others “it’s not a religion” so we can get away with that issue. Book of James says it’s a religion, and what Jesus taught is a religion that pleases God
I agree, but yet the idea of or word religion has been twisted and no longer is it used correctly. Everyone is religious some way, they do not all worship God .
Interesting. I have had time of doubt and am a skeptic, I find it is not because of not enough evidence or if there is or no a God, it isn't because of "Christians" being mean, it comes down to I love sin, I love self. I don't think I am any different than anyone else. The problem is self, and truth.
I get her in a way. Theres also alot of cynicism in me but this is another reason humility is so important. That u not trust your own understanding ultimately but trust in God. What i dont understand tho is how she got into apologetics and thst turned her off? Apologetics are an amazing way to fight cynicism because it confronts those notions head on and breaks them down with evidence
How do I repent intentionally? Every time I get lustful thoughts; the urges are just too strong, and I can't go to God to protect me from sin, yet I keep doing it repetitively! And I've prayed to God to remove the people that bring me down and those that will lead me to sin.
While we face outside temptations ; trials that squeeze us, those outside forces cannot make us sin. Just like when a ketchup bottle is squeezed, what comes out is what’s inside:ketchup; so it is with fallen man. When we are under pressure, our sin will come out; the pressure may be the occasion for sin, but it’s never the cause of it. James 4:1-2 explains the source of our sin-our desires and covetousness, our inability to trust and believe God for His goodness and supply. So what should you do? The Bible says to cry out to the Lord, ask the Sovereign God and Savior to form that work of repentance and faith in Jesus’ perfect life, atoning death, and victorious resurrection in you that you cannot. And then give all glory to God knowing that He alone saves by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, according to the Word alone, to the glory of God alone.
God will help you to quit sinning but invariably it’s a slow process. But provided you believe it’s possible to quit sinning, even though you are struggling with sin, you’ll get the help you need from God, over time, provided you are trying and striving. Sometimes we think we have repented but it can be a repentance that’s not at 100%. We have to deny ourselves and be prepared to go without, and that’s not easy to do. Ultimately what contributed to me eventually losing lust, it took me a lifetime, was the realisation that it was a deceit. The truth on this subject wasn’t easy for me to grasp because I was so riddled with lust, but I think my old age, now 77, helped to pave the way to get a better understanding because I was experiencing a decrease in sexual desires, typical of most old men. Women are essentially innocent but if they don’t pretend they are interested in sex then men will pass them by. And this realisation did much to free me from lust. And boy it’s great to be free of it. It’s been replaced with love.
CLIFFE YOU NEED TO SEE THIS IVE HAD DREAMS AND SIGHNS THATS THERE IS SOMETHING IN BENSON BOONE HE TURNED AWAY FROM JESUS WHEN HIS GRANDMA DIED BUT I BEILEVE HE IS GOING TO LEAD PEOPLE TO CHRIST SOON... PLEASE DO A INTERVEIW WITH HIM PLEASE!! make this the top comment pls like this so its at the top so cliffe will see tjis PLEASEEE❤️❤️❤️❤️🫶
Hey Stuart and Cliffe, I have a question. As a young boy that is in high school in the UK, how do I spread the gospel to my Muslim friends, I don't know if its a hard question to answer you don't have to answer but I wanna spread the gospel I stopped my friend from swearing and he stopped. But how do I spread the gospel to my Muslim friends.
Jesus said you must sell all your possessions, abandon your mother and father, and go preach the word of God, and if anyone strikes you, offer them the other cheek. Luke 14. Matt 19. Matt 5.
15:09 here Cliffe says that the abuse of an innocent child is wrong and cites it as a case of OBJECTIVE morality, a moral code that NEVER CHANGES and is shared among different cultures. However in 1 Samuel 15:3, god commands the death of infants. surely there were some Israelites who "reeled back," as Cliffe says, when they had to kill those babies face to face, going against their conscience to fulfill god's orders. did god instruct his people to do something OBJECTIVELY WRONG?
*What came first?, A Man/Animal or A Baby/Cub Animal? A God had to make 2 adults of every being first for life to start. "When you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.", James 1:6. A lot of us doubted at some point. But there has to be a Father overall that created everything. "If one hasnt loved, They do not know God.", is what one of the scriptures say about Love. *
Here is a funny thing about Christianity.. Catholic leader is the Pope The Pope leads the Vatican In the Vatican you can see the a painting made by Michelangelo approved by the Pope at that time and therefore by the church. The painting shows Adam on the ground reaching his arm and finger out and then God is shown as an old man on a cloud doing the same motion.. The second Commandment says: "You shall not make Idols" I have seen alot of Christian churches and a thing they all have in common are....... IDOLS “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them”: second of the Ten Commandments. Which means you are not allowed to make images of God or heaven. And since it also says "Anything in heaven above that would mean that pictures of Angels would be a sin too. But many of the churces I have seen has paintings of Angels
*Well, That would be very arrogant for any human to say, I came up with The Ten Commandments, I came up with The Laws of Caring for Your Beast in the world, I came up with The Law That says, If you get injured in a facility due to poor maintenance, The Owners are responsible, etc. Most of the laws we know came from God. How do you know God is not evil? The Very Fact That He Allows You To Say He Doesn’t Exist Without Striking You Down, Is The (Blessing)Answer.*
Exactly on the first college student who keeps talking about herself and not talking about us. When you are self centered and make requirements for God (e.g. personal experience), you separate yourself from existence and its/our amazing Creator. For the second college student, it likely would have been more valuable to him to share the beatitudes. The third college student is currently only interested/focused on a subset (specific scientific disciplines) of a subset (science) of a subset (natural realm) of existence. He's trying to discuss all of existence and is completely incapable when focusing/interested in such a small fraction of existence.
So if you read these I have a question about an experience I had yesterday. I been trying to find a church did for some reason I thought I found one. Although I struggle to go I could not figure out why. So anywho yesterday the congregation was asked to scan a QVC code and rate your spiritual Maturity and The spiritual maturity of someone in The congregation. I felt like that's not my place to rate anybody's spiritual Maturity. Am I wrong to feel this way and should I try to find somewhere else to go?
If you don't have a opinion it's better to not rate it. At the end of the day it's just simply a poll and no you're not wrong to feel skeptical of your own conviction of someone else or yourself. Continue to learn about the faith by reading the Bible and listening to Christians like Cliffe and Stuart.
Rating your current spiritual maturity can be a good thing, but rating someone else’s could be problematic. I would talk with the minister or someone else in leadership and express that you feel uncomfortable or have concerns with this task, and ask any questions you deem necessary. Simply leaving and finding another church would be considered rash without finding answers to the questions you may have, because the reality exists that you may encounter something else in the new church that concern you and then you’d be on to another church.
There's probably several ways this could go but I think a phone call to the pastor might be in order. Just ask what the purpose is. It could be that it's meant to help people discover growth opportunities but I'm not sure and sadly, neither is anyone else here. Good luck. God bless.
I don't think she's telling you Stuart the full truth in her heart, just giving you the outside of her beliefs. Maybe someday, she'll believe in God and that Jesus died on the cross, and with His blood, washed away all of our sins. Pray for her. 🙏's and love.
What does Jesus say true religion is? James 1:27 “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
to answer that first girl's question, you don't search for personal experience; you seek the truth, and you seek God. God doesn't owe you anything, he. doesn't need to give you any evidence like that. Do not test God. If a man is with a girl, and he says to the girl, " You need to have sex with me to prove that you love me." That is just absurd, the logic is the same here. God will give you more experiences like that as your relationship with God get better.
Its amazing how easy it would be for god to prove himself, yet he only seems to prove himself to the ones who don't need it. So Stuarts solution is just pretend god is their until you convince yourself gods real. The thing that induces anxiety is wondering if god is real and if you've displeased him so much you've been prematurely punished.
You’re correct in understanding that it is futile to “fake it until you make it” when it comes to faith in Christ. The Bible is One Big Story; the revelation of God as to who He is, who man is, the fall of man into sin, and the way of redemption God has made in the person and work of the God-Man Jesus Christ. Genesis reveals God as Creator and chapter 3 the fall of man. Romans 1 and 2 explains how God has revealed Himself generally by what He has made in nature so that men are without excuse. In short: God has ‘proved Himself’ all around us! In Matthew 16:4 we read how the pharisees (self-important, God-deniers) rejected Jesus’ claim to be God and Savior and wanted a sign (to “prove Himself”) and Jesus says, “And evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah…” The account of Jonah being sacrificed over board, swallowed into a fish unto death, and expelled out onto shore, was a picture, a type of Jesus who would be sacrificed for our sins, suffer the full wrath of God on the cross and dying the death that we deserved in our place, and then rising on the 3rd day to defeat sin, death, and the Devil for all who by God’s grace wold come to repent and put their faith in Him. In short: you and all of us, have all the proof we need and we are guilty in our high-handed enmity against Him. But there is good news: Jesus says, “Come to me all you that are weary (of sin, and working for peace with God) and heavy laden, and I will give you rest…” So don’t wait, cry out to the Lord for salvation today. In Isaiah 55:1 God says, “Come everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.” And “Roman’s 10:13 says, “whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved!” And know that salvation from start to finish is a sovereign, loving, merciful, gracious work of God for sinners who rightfully deserve death and judgement. Mercy is getting what you don’t deserve and grace is a free, unmerited gift of God even in the face of our Demerits! This is a loving and merciful God!!!!
@michelleinchristalone2769 Im going to have to diagree. You can throw all the scripture you'd like but they are meaningless. Nature is proof of nature. Not proof of god. All the scripture you recite is nothing more than stories. Stories are not proof. They have stories of Dracula. But we know Vlad the Impaler (the actual Dracula) was no vampire. Some legends take a life of their own. Thats all the bible seems to be.
Why is everyone stuck on what man has made ? What/who is truly pure anymore? (Besides Jesus) Reading a lot of the comments show how ungodly a lot of you are. Speaking your wants & not what Jesus wants from us.
Praise to the most high god and our lord and saviour. My lord jesus i thank you for everything and may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Keep in prayer, repent and read the bible.
Traditional Christianity does have a structure. Protestants have essentially done away with it in their churches. The Catholic and Orthodox churches both have a structure to their worship, and new converts to the faith undergo a several month (if not longer) process of learning the church’s teachings before being baptized and fully accepted into the church. They resemble the ancient church much more than modern Protestant churches do.
Stop searching logically and start working on submitting your will for Gods will. God will show himself to you if you submit yourself to him. Wrestle with what he asks of you and what you think want to do for yourself. Beg for revelation of his will for you and he will show you. His word is out there. Through showing God you choose Him and His way, you will find what you are looking for. Get out of your head and get in to your heart.
In claiming, as the Neo-Euthyphro-ites do, that God's moral standard is arbitrary, they set up a silly infinite regress of transcendent morality: If God's moral standard is necessarily arbitrary because he is failing to appeal to a moral standard outside himself, then whatever that moral standard is that the Neo-Euthyphro-ites insist God rely on to avoid the charge of arbitrariness is ALSO arbitrary -- unless that inanimate standard in turn appeals to a moral standard beyond itself. But then this third standard has to appeal to a 4th moral standard beyond itself, which in turn requires a 5th and a 6th and a 61,376,545th... Pass the Advil. It's amazing how the accusation of "subjective" or "arbitrary" comes up ONLY when it is posited that the source of morality is a living entity, aka God. Somehow an inanimate source for morality, like a Platonic form, gets to skate on this charge even though there is no sound philosophical reason to think it can. (Therefore I suspect it has less to do with sound philosophical reasoning than with the convenient fact that inanimate sources of morality can't talk back or push back.) But if the universe is ontologically legitimate and real, then if the God of the Bible is real and he spoke this very real and legitimate universe into existence, it follows that his edicts on morality are every bit as legitimate and real. And to complain about them and call them arbitrary, subjective, or circular is like complaining that the source of a mountain stream is arbitrary and subjective and circular. It is what it is. (I am that I am.) Drink this real, legitimate living water or die of thirst.
A KINGDOM and a RELIGION are two completely different things. I mean you really cannot get more night and day than a kingdom and a religion. It's interesting because when you study Jesus and look at his words, the first thing Jesus says as he begins his public ministry is: "Repent, the Kingdom of heaven is at hand." Not, "the RELIGION of heaven." (Matthew 4:17)
Around 21:40, I see the discussion as, is complexity enough or is there something beyond complexity. Isn't this just talking about process though? It doesn't contradict God
He said being a creator do not mean that you are the arbitrary of morality... ok well if you create a watch and the watch don't tell time then what?... You going to let the watch continue to not tell time when you created the watch to do that?... Nobody will know you better then the one who created you... The same way you created the watch to tell time and it stop telling time is the same way are Holy God looks at us and notices that we are not doing what we are created to do... its Gods nature... the same way we don't second guess why the watch needs to tell time, is the same way God don't second guess on why we should not commit sin...
The young lady 1:00 in explains perfectly the need for the sovereign regeneration of God. Fallen men cannot in and of ourselves seek for or “choose” for God. We do the opposite in fact; seeking everything BUT Him and rejecting Him high-handed ly. In John 3 Jesus does not tell Nicodemus what Stuart told this woman; as if she could somehow muster it up in herself to believe and trust in Christ. Jesus explains that the New Birth is Holy Spirit wrought and is like the wind. When God grants us the new Birth, regeneration, salvation; we need to understand what scripture teaches: from predestination and election to glorification - salvation is all of God in Christ; He saves a people for Himself, by Himself, and from Himself. Repent of your man-centered, Christ-demoting Arminianism Stuart & Cliffe, and give ALL glory to God because on the Day, no one will boast!
Good point but they're not being man centered as youve heard Stuart said seek outwards to God and thank him and not focus on yourself and the experience you are looking for...but still good point
@ It’s subtle, but I would argue that Arminianism is ultimately man-centered because to say you had anything to do with any aspect of your salvation is to steal from the person and work of Christ and to have a piece kept aside to boast of. It’s why we see the church-growth, pragmatic entertainment in many churches today. They don’t trust God’s way and Gospel means for salvation and sanctification; His prescribed way of worship for the Church, but instead think they have to adopt worldly ways to grow the church. This all stems out of Arminian way of thinking. If your smart enough to regenerate your own dead heart of stone, if you think you can do anything to revoke Christ’s perfect and all-sufficient atoning and eternal intercession and to remove the Holy Spirit seal and lose your salvation (and Arminian view), and if you think you can persuade anyone to believe with clever apologetics or just the right technique, or conversely, keep them from Christ with a feeble approach; you are not wholly Christ-Centered and Gospel-focused. It’s a subtle but important and dangerous error and feeds into most of the errors and false-teaching we see today.
if conscience comes from God, then what about cultures who have different consciences... Example: Group A: eating humans is bad Group B: eating humans is normal. if conscience is a bases for morality then how does one reconcile these differences.
Because all of us Human Beings also have the Free Will to actually override our Conscience! You know that it's wrong to lie, but you have still lied & then perhaps you will feel guilty. Which is the biggest evidence that your Conscience is true & legit! People murder everyday, & it doesn't mean that they're actually thinking or knowing that murdering isn't wrong...
@@D-1-V-A the thing is, what if they dont feel guilt. example, what about the moabites and Canaanites who practice child sacrifice...am sure they had no guild since no one went against that practice outside their culture. how does this work saying conscience is legit and true
@@tyroneloki5131 People can seer their Conscience after a long period of time. That's called having a Reprobate Mind in The Bible... That's when you reject God & your Conscience for so long that you don't feel guilty anymore... HAVE YOU TRULY REPENTED OF ALL OF YOUR SINS & PUT YOUR COMPLETE FAITH & TRUST INTO JESUS CHRIST (ALONE) TO SAVE YOU? *WHERE WILL U SPEND ETERNITY?*
What are you searching for? What do you want to find? How you can search if you cannot describe what you are searching for? Just submit yourself to God and ask Him to lead you. Simple like this.
If you ever find yourself questioning your existence or you want answers about what your purpose is in this life,The Q u r a n is the only book in the world which will give you the true answers to these questions.
@@jessebryant9233and by that statement, are you in agreement that the reason most of us “fight” or wrestle with the God of the Bible is because it does seem like it’s the truth out of every other religion?
@@SolidPain6624 Yes, folks fight hardest against the God of the Bible because they know intuitively that if the God of the Bible is THE GOD, it does matter and they are in trouble.
@@jessebryant9233 I see what you mean. They are more likely to fight againts the idea of the christian god because of the restrictions and repurcussions it may bring. But people are more open to wiccan because wiccan is all about worshiping nature as god. But the difference is that if you look at what Wiccans beliefs, you notice quickly that they have no real restrictions like the 10 commandments in the bible. They just kind of do their free spirit thing, So they are not inherently bad but they also seem to ignore a part of reality (evil)
I swear Cliffe is one of the most intelligent and well thought people I have ever seen and heard.
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I've lived a Godless life that's led me to failures, hurt, sorrows and shame for me but perhaps most importantly for those near me (my wife justly left me) and these results have brought me to a truthful harsh reality: a life without God is a meaningless, lost and dark one. I'm now in the process of hopefully building my true faith in Jesus and I find your talks very genuine and inspiring. Please don't stop doing what you're doing. Lots love and God bless you!!
That’s funny 🤷♂️
I live a Godless life and have prosperity, family and friends
@@jasonnoble7302 life can still be comfortable without God, but life with God just makes things all the more better. So I just want you for one day to live your normal life but have alittle faith in God and lets just see what happens. maybe nothing changes, or maybe you see your great life now without God become even better with God. I hope you dont see this as me "attacking you" but more or less just giving you a challenge to try that wont hurt you one bit!
It is one thing to not believe in God and have those things you mentioned, those are all well and good, but this person just wants to get to know God in vulnerability by providing a bit of his life here and I find it troubling how you can say how that is funny. @@jasonnoble7302
@@CuAustin1I have to disgree. A life without god is freeing. A life with god is fearful, stressful, anxiety inducing, isolating, ect.
@@jasonnoble7302 hope it'll last for you but I honestly have my doubts about it
I pray that the Lord strengthen you to carry forward your Ministry for many more years to come.
Stuart handled that perfectly. His ability to really listen to what people are saying and get right at the heart of it is really a gift from God. God bless the Give Me An Answer family and team!
I’m a Christian but I feel very similar to how that first girl felt. I constantly have doubts about my own religion. Sometimes idk if I believe at all, but I want to be saved and I want this Jesus that people talk about that is loving and kind. Oftentimes I read the Bible though and struggle to see that love and kindness.
He is love and kindness but he is also just and fair. I’ll pray for u brother ❤
Not hard at all to see the love and kindness of Christ when you read the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. You see the selflessness of Christ through his works, his treatment of others, and his care for our very souls.
@@MRios1128 Well yes that's true but there are difficult parts of the gospels as well, not to mention other texts in scripture.
Consider first that you may think that you're a good person. If you think that way, then you have no need for Jesus. If you acknowledge your sin and cry out to the Savior whom you've sinned against, He is able to forgive you and cleanse you from all unrighteousness. God is not a liar. He said He would do it. Then put your trust in Jesus. A human being wasn't a worthy sacrifice for all of the sins of the world for all time, it had to be God himself that was the sacrifice. One more thing. Your personal miracle will be that you will notice that you desire to obey Him and do that which is right because you will be a new creation, the Bible says. Read the Gospel of John. John 14 talks about how you will be in Him. Reach out to Him today. Don't put it off. Life is short. The devil will try to steal the seed of faith that you have. Look at the first temptation in the Garden of Eden. Satan asked Eve, "Did God really say...?". It was a deception to put doubt in her mind that the devil continues to use today because it is effective. God bless you ❤️ 🙏
Like you and every fallen sinner, Adam and Eve put a dark face on God, succumbing to Satan’s temptation and doubting His goodness and love; even as He had lavished it on them from the day He created them. But they were tragically wrong. God IS love and the source of all good. But none of this was outside of God’s sovereign plan and purpose for the world He’s created and will finally and for all eternity reconcile to Himself. Even in Genesis 3 immediately after the fall, God shows His love and mercy by providing a covering, a covering that points to His plan of redemption in Jesus Christ whereby He removes the filthy garments of sin and shame from His own, and covers them with His righteousness. When we hear the proclamation to the serpent/ Satan in Genesis, hear the first proclamation of the Gospel! The God man Jesus Christ would be the One who would crush his head by His death and resurrection defeating sin, death, and the Devil for all of God’s adopted and beloved children.
This is a great episode. Stuart is on his A game. His counselor side shines here. I love to see this. He's talking to one person yet thousands of people may be helped by what he says and how he treats the young lady.
Stuart wearing the og cliffe blue long sleeve
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Hey, he’s an old guy and nothings wrong with that. The only people who don’t get to be old are people who DIE young.
Hey, he’s an old guy and nothings wrong with that. The only people who don’t get to be old are people who DIE young.
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Morphing into his dad more and more each day 😆
Jesus loves you all
How do you know that?
@@jasonnoble7302😂he already proof that by sacrificing himself their is also Romans Proof 🧾 of evidence that they killed a guy name Jesus at that time and his mother name mery
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Did I ask if Jesus unalived himself?
No I didn’t ask that did I?
I asked how do you know Jesus loves you ?
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He gave you a cogent answer but you just plugged your ears.
How do you know if ANYONE loves you?
By their actions.
Jesus says in the gospels that he came to die as "a ransom for many" (meaning those who will have him -- some won't), so what could have motivated that?
Boredom? Curiosity? Mental infirmity?
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Well, that’s the story.
What was the big sacrifice anyway?
Jesus knew he wouldn’t die.
He knew he was going to come back to life.
He was a God right ?
He knew he was a God right ?
So he left for a few days?
Big deal 🤷♂️
That means he loves me
Give me a break
Stuart knetchle and his Dad Cliff has helped me to know God in a personal Way... Praise be to God for ever and ever AMEN..and may GOD continue to blessed their ministries IN JESUS mighty name we pray AMEN and AMEN 🙏✝️🕊️🔥❤️☝️👑
GREAT EXPLANATION TO KID WITH GLASSES...JUST GREAT!!! CLIFF IS AWESOME
🌸I Choose the Jesus Way
It’s the Best Way
And the Only Way
Hey, my sister, you're on a channel.I used to be on all the time.I used to be on here for years.Yes, ha God bless you sister.I've been praying for you
Oh how I’d love to lose myself in a sea of believers, and be found worshipping God like angels, singing songs of grateful adoration to God.
I could be one with everyone, with all the saints, indistinguishable from anyone found singing in the holy throng.
Could there be a greater joy than belonging to these choirs of lovers of God, filled to the brim with love for one another.
What a joyous time it will be when the Lord returns, snatching us away, meeting Him in the air into our new life of no cares.
Im not a college grad but even i understand this fact that non living inorganic material can not create living organic organisms, & it doesnt take a scientist to know this
Crazy world
Cliff & Stuart, we appreciate you. Your interactions and videos are touching people’s hearts and planting seeds.
Stuart that was pure brilliance! Thank you
Great stuff Stuart in the beginning with the women in her thoughts 💭 ✝️🙏
As a skeptic turned Christian, I really wish Stuart would’ve just laid out the evidence solely. Skeptics are always looking for emotional manipulation tactics and some of his advice could’ve been misconstrued that way in my opinion.
It’s not the lack of evidence they are in search for it’s an issue of heart and them not wanting to give up their self to God .. all we can do is pray for them and show them how a believer should act
While I agree Stuart would have laid out the evidence, Cliffe has previously addressed this question in another way. When a skeptic says there is not enough evidence for a belief in God, truth is the evidence for skepticism doesn’t even come close. At the heart of the issue we all have a world view. The Christian has a world view, so does a Muslim and Buddhist and also so does an atheist and skeptic. We are all living for something, so all you have to ask is what is the evidence that what you are living for is true or reliable. And finally agnosticism and skepticism is a prcatical impossibility, like Cliffe says” if skepticism and agnosticism is true then just try to live it out consistently”
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God Bless y’all
Loved this stuart and Cliffe!
I love watching this channel.
God bless and save all those watching in Jesus Christ precious name Amen.
God bless the Knechtles!
39 years of age and ive spent my most of my life questioning and being a skeptic. Never have I ever seen a man like Cliff. Cliff absolutely cleared the smoke screen for me to find jesus... thank you so much guys. I will be forever grateful for your work.
You’re kidding right ?😂
one major point we need to remember is we should never get religion and faith confused. these kids always seem to be confused on that point.
Religion is the SYSTEM of worship where as faith is an internal TRUST that develops because you see and recognize the reliability of a person/being.
As children of say 3 we have absolute trust in our parents to look after us coz we just "instinctively" know that without them we won't have food, drink or comfort and if they are properly loving they will have shown they are willing to provide those things for us and we for a time accept it WITHOUT QUESTION.
that's the kind of faith (TRUST) God want from us. hence why he tells us to come to him as children.
the religion part come out of that faith (TRUST). if you trust in God (HAVE FAITH) as a child trusts in their parents you will demonstrate that trust by seeking his aid and support and obeying his commands and displaying gratitude and love in return. and it should be as natural to you to do so as it is for that child of 3 to do for their parent coz like that child we should want to please him.
How do you display your love and gratitude to God? by recognizing he is the one in charge and praying and praising him for all he has given us and doing as he asks us to do and love each other as good caring siblings.
Awesome video, thanks
Gosh the first girls questions and statements were tough for me as a believer. I’m not sure how I would have approached her questions if given the position but you guys handled it well. Because it seems like she has a good direction in life and has doubt and I just feel so bad for her
Cliffe has previously addressed this question in another way. When a skeptic says there is not enough evidence for a belief in God, truth is the evidence for skepticism doesn’t even come close. At the heart of the issue we all have a world view. The Christian has a world view, so does a Muslim and Buddhist and also so does an atheist and skeptic. We are all living for something, so all you have to ask is what is the evidence that what you are living for is true or reliable. And finally agnosticism and skepticism is a prcatical impossibility, like Cliffe says” if skepticism and agnosticism is true then just try to live it out consistently”
@@mikeayoma I don't think we're born with a specific purpose in life, as i was growing up no one ever told me what my purpose was, our parents do their best to teach us and guide us to to the right things in life and to encourage us to do well in life. What would you say the purpose of life is for a Hindu or Muslim?
@@mikeayomaTrue isn't the evidence for skepticism, evidence is the evidence for skepticism. Proof and validation through replicatable testing is the proof. Saying something is true means nothing if you can't show that its true.
2:55 new stance unlocked
I was listening to this while I was driving I didn’t get to see this 😂 thank you for this
God bless Sir, doing the great commission. I appreciated how you handle the confuse and playing ppl.
This was refreshing cause everyone here was so respectful and genuinely interested in learning
these are all great questions that a lot of young people nowadays have. Y’all nailed it with this one keep going!
I always love these uploads, just entertaining and wonderful.
Love seeing Stuart in the back going to town 😂😂
Thank you Stuart and Cliff for helping me come back to Christ!
The first 3mins and 30sec reminded me of psalm 77
Is somehow the first woman that was speaking is watching this video, (I mean this in the most respectful and highly motivated way) you do not have a hardened heart despite what you think. If you have a hardened heart you will not continue to search. It is in our nature to search and look for true signs. For for only a moment when your are either outside sitting or merely looking out a window close your eyes and silence your thoughts. Then when that happens open yours eyes again. Your sign of God is then in front of you. The World. Remember the ways of the Pharisees that saw Jesus do miracle in front of their eyes and still did not believe. In my own way of teaching and still learning, this the best way I can connect your search towards God. Either way I pray this message finds you well, Do not be discourage and do not stop your search you will find him. Jesus has always been watching over you even when we don’t feel it. There will be days where we don’t feel connected and days we feel strongly connected. In either of these days, let the light of the world shine upon you.
I would love to hear the conversation that Stuart is having when Cliff is talking to to the guy in the green shirt.
Love you cliffe and Stuart ❤️ btw i love the. Way Stuart wears the og cliffe polo❤
CLIFFE: You gotta take your relativism seriously guys!
STUDENT: No necessarily... 😉🙃🤣
Goodmorning everyone it’s 5 AM in California, yall have a good rest of your day. God bless America and the people around the world 🌎✝️
i recently went through psyhosis event, i ended up in london hospital after beeing arested on one of the rooftops that i climbed on the outside on top floor grabbing on to satelite dishes to get on the roof, i dont remember much but i remember when police approached me they were baffeled of how did i got up there, i think they got to me from a different roof because i had to show them the safe way out and i knew the door that was locked because i had to climb the window to circumvent the passage, it was surreal and i thought these police officers were like angels or some sort of extraterrestrial beeings because i knew i risked my life climing that building and i dont know why, what happened afterwards was even more troubling to my mind, because i didnt know who i was or what day it was, i believied that everyone died in my family and i was grieving but i was wrong, everyone is alive but in my psyhosis i threw all my clothes away and i was only given a piece of linen what i thought, i covered myself with it so i am not fully naked but i did it because of others and not me, i didnt care at that time how i presented myself... and for the next 12 hrs or more i was walking around in london on my bare feet, almost naked and not knowing what is happening,mind me it was very cold, one moment i was shivering and another i was burning in flames.... i am so lucky not to catch any infection or so, i remember i was cleaning some sort of park and it had trees with markings on it to be cut, i thought these were the nice trees so i took these markings off so they stay there and i was picking up the litter like that park was my home .... i had bruises on me and scars on my head and while i was cleaning the ciggarete buts i pulled out a needle from the ground, again i was lucky not to get stabbed by it ...... and its been 4 weeks now i am still struggling to come to terms of what happened to me, all i know is that this is less that 1% that i want to explain but so mutch things happened that week i still need time to remember, im ok now and i just want to tell everyone that everything is going to be alright, whatever we go through is necesary for us to grow and accept the truth, jesus is here and he always has been, bless you all and pray for the ones that have mental issues and especially the homeless ones, because i have seen how bad things can get and we have no control over it, i just know that things will get better soon, i dont know when, but i know its all up to you
Why would an all loving God permit people to have mental illness?
Perfect explanations by Cliffe at 10:15. I had the same idea :D.
I think the student's ultimate question was, can we trust God to do what is best for us? Anything is possible but, this always goes down to... is Jesus reliable and does reality have a purpose or can anything be really be anything e.g. a square circle.
I prefer Jiminy Cricket's answer to Pinocchio, always let your conscience be your guide.
I pray for big person one and two because I think they are truly suffering. Their thoughts are clouded and I pray the are healed amen.
Come to Houston Texas 🙏🏼🙏🏼
In Jesus Mighty Name Amen
3 hours on a Monday and I count... Just one of the resident trolls? Not to worry! The other 3 will be along shortly! This channel is like church to them. They're here any time the 'doors' are open! 🤣
I hope you could also film your Sunday services if you have’t so we could also see. If there is already, can anyone send me a link?
The reason only God can create objective morals is because he is our creator. The creator of the robot vacuum gives it its purpose and knows when it's doing good and doing bad. The creator of a computer knows when it's running well and fulfilling its objective.
God created us for a purpose and as the creator he knows exactly what that purpose is.
God is a person
Persons are subjective
God cannot be the source for objective facts
If your statement is true, god doesnt even follow his own objective morals and commands his own followers to break them as well. Also if the world is running as he intended then why did he have to restart the world via a flood and why is he supposedly planning another restart with fire? Does this mean its not running as he intended?
Awesome
This is one of the first times I seen Cliff struggle to answer.
for the girl who said she’s tried so hard for 7 years, I hate to say this because it sounds harsh, but she probably didn’t actually try. But it may not be her fault. Like Stuart said, she may have not been trying the correct way. If she actually read the gospel, she’d notice how following Jesus isn’t just an idea, but an action. An earnest desire to die to your flesh daily and not rely on your own knowledge. Yes Christianity is not a blind faith, but in the case for this girl, I’d bet she hasn’t really been exercising her faith. I wonder if she’s even worshipped God. Of course if all you do is intellectualize Christianity, always go to the books and internet, and never aim for spiritual experiences then obviously you’ll probably never have a personal experience as she claimed she wanted. It usually has to do with pride and unwillingness for change due to the uncomfortableness required to surrender to God. Pride is the unwillingness to surrender what you thinks is yours, which can even be intellect.
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Just because false religions exist, don’t mean we have to tell others “it’s not a religion” so we can get away with that issue. Book of James says it’s a religion, and what Jesus taught is a religion that pleases God
I agree, but yet the idea of or word religion has been twisted and no longer is it used correctly. Everyone is religious some way, they do not all worship God .
@@dentonhahn2907 Pretty much be Zealous to be a student to Christ than the false traditions of the world ..
Interesting. I have had time of doubt and am a skeptic, I find it is not because of not enough evidence or if there is or no a God, it isn't because of "Christians" being mean, it comes down to I love sin, I love self. I don't think I am any different than anyone else. The problem is self, and truth.
I get her in a way. Theres also alot of cynicism in me but this is another reason humility is so important. That u not trust your own understanding ultimately but trust in God. What i dont understand tho is how she got into apologetics and thst turned her off? Apologetics are an amazing way to fight cynicism because it confronts those notions head on and breaks them down with evidence
How do I repent intentionally? Every time I get lustful thoughts; the urges are just too strong, and I can't go to God to protect me from sin, yet I keep doing it repetitively! And I've prayed to God to remove the people that bring me down and those that will lead me to sin.
While we face outside temptations ; trials that squeeze us, those outside forces cannot make us sin. Just like when a ketchup bottle is squeezed, what comes out is what’s inside:ketchup; so it is with fallen man. When we are under pressure, our sin will come out; the pressure may be the occasion for sin, but it’s never the cause of it. James 4:1-2 explains the source of our sin-our desires and covetousness, our inability to trust and believe God for His goodness and supply. So what should you do? The Bible says to cry out to the Lord, ask the Sovereign God and Savior to form that work of repentance and faith in Jesus’ perfect life, atoning death, and victorious resurrection in you that you cannot. And then give all glory to God knowing that He alone saves by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, according to the Word alone, to the glory of God alone.
God will help you to quit sinning but invariably it’s a slow process. But provided you believe it’s possible to quit sinning, even though you are struggling with sin, you’ll get the help you need from God, over time, provided you are trying and striving. Sometimes we think we have repented but it can be a repentance that’s not at 100%. We have to deny ourselves and be prepared to go without, and that’s not easy to do. Ultimately what contributed to me eventually losing lust, it took me a lifetime, was the realisation that it was a deceit. The truth on this subject wasn’t easy for me to grasp because I was so riddled with lust, but I think my old age, now 77, helped to pave the way to get a better understanding because I was experiencing a decrease in sexual desires, typical of most old men. Women are essentially innocent but if they don’t pretend they are interested in sex then men will pass them by. And this realisation did much to free me from lust. And boy it’s great to be free of it. It’s been replaced with love.
CLIFFE YOU NEED TO SEE THIS IVE HAD DREAMS AND SIGHNS THATS THERE IS SOMETHING IN BENSON BOONE HE TURNED AWAY FROM JESUS WHEN HIS GRANDMA DIED BUT I BEILEVE HE IS GOING TO LEAD PEOPLE TO CHRIST SOON... PLEASE DO A INTERVEIW WITH HIM PLEASE!! make this the top comment pls like this so its at the top so cliffe will see tjis PLEASEEE❤️❤️❤️❤️🫶
Question ; why do we not debate the existence of birds, trees or flowers ?
Answer ; because we do not believe they exist !
Hey man gotta give it to the public school system for their product 👏
Hey Stuart and Cliffe, I have a question. As a young boy that is in high school in the UK, how do I spread the gospel to my Muslim friends, I don't know if its a hard question to answer you don't have to answer but I wanna spread the gospel I stopped my friend from swearing and he stopped. But how do I spread the gospel to my Muslim friends.
Jesus said you must sell all your possessions, abandon your mother and father, and go preach the word of God, and if anyone strikes you, offer them the other cheek. Luke 14. Matt 19. Matt 5.
15:09 here Cliffe says that the abuse of an innocent child is wrong and cites it as a case of OBJECTIVE morality, a moral code that NEVER CHANGES and is shared among different cultures. However in 1 Samuel 15:3, god commands the death of infants. surely there were some Israelites who "reeled back," as Cliffe says, when they had to kill those babies face to face, going against their conscience to fulfill god's orders. did god instruct his people to do something OBJECTIVELY WRONG?
Have you even listened to Cliffs videos? He destroys this in almost every video he posts
@@c0ax I haven't seen his response to this specific verse, no. please enlighten us.
Can someone explain why there is a PG rating for these videos? To my knowledge these aren’t on television they’re just TH-cam videos and online
Wow!
*What came first?, A Man/Animal or A Baby/Cub Animal? A God had to make 2 adults of every being first for life to start. "When you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.", James 1:6. A lot of us doubted at some point. But there has to be a Father overall that created everything. "If one hasnt loved, They do not know God.", is what one of the scriptures say about Love. *
Here is a funny thing about Christianity..
Catholic leader is the Pope
The Pope leads the Vatican
In the Vatican you can see the a painting made by Michelangelo approved by the Pope at that time and therefore by the church.
The painting shows Adam on the ground reaching his arm and finger out and then God is shown as an old man on a cloud doing the same motion..
The second Commandment says: "You shall not make Idols" I have seen alot of Christian churches and a thing they all have in common are....... IDOLS
“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them”: second of the Ten Commandments.
Which means you are not allowed to make images of God or heaven.
And since it also says "Anything in heaven above that would mean that pictures of Angels would be a sin too.
But many of the churces I have seen has paintings of Angels
*Well, That would be very arrogant for any human to say, I came up with The Ten Commandments, I came up with The Laws of Caring for Your Beast in the world, I came up with The Law That says, If you get injured in a facility due to poor maintenance, The Owners are responsible, etc. Most of the laws we know came from God. How do you know God is not evil? The Very Fact That He Allows You To Say He Doesn’t Exist Without Striking You Down, Is The (Blessing)Answer.*
I want the full theme back😢
Exactly on the first college student who keeps talking about herself and not talking about us. When you are self centered and make requirements for God (e.g. personal experience), you separate yourself from existence and its/our amazing Creator.
For the second college student, it likely would have been more valuable to him to share the beatitudes.
The third college student is currently only interested/focused on a subset (specific scientific disciplines) of a subset (science) of a subset (natural realm) of existence. He's trying to discuss all of existence and is completely incapable when focusing/interested in such a small fraction of existence.
You live in a fantasy world
“Hey babe stop what you’re doing, Cliffe and Stuart just dropped a new video!” (I’m not married nor have a girlfriend) (girls are scary)
So if you read these I have a question about an experience I had yesterday. I been trying to find a church did for some reason I thought I found one. Although I struggle to go I could not figure out why. So anywho yesterday the congregation was asked to scan a QVC code and rate your spiritual Maturity and The spiritual maturity of someone in The congregation. I felt like that's not my place to rate anybody's spiritual Maturity. Am I wrong to feel this way and should I try to find somewhere else to go?
Protestant church?
If you don't have a opinion it's better to not rate it. At the end of the day it's just simply a poll and no you're not wrong to feel skeptical of your own conviction of someone else or yourself. Continue to learn about the faith by reading the Bible and listening to Christians like Cliffe and Stuart.
Rating your current spiritual maturity can be a good thing, but rating someone else’s could be problematic. I would talk with the minister or someone else in leadership and express that you feel uncomfortable or have concerns with this task, and ask any questions you deem necessary. Simply leaving and finding another church would be considered rash without finding answers to the questions you may have, because the reality exists that you may encounter something else in the new church that concern you and then you’d be on to another church.
There's probably several ways this could go but I think a phone call to the pastor might be in order. Just ask what the purpose is.
It could be that it's meant to help people discover growth opportunities but I'm not sure and sadly, neither is anyone else here.
Good luck. God bless.
Stuart with the classic blue shirt from cliff , if Stuart gets his dame "I'm about to drop a bomb " stance.... Atheists are in trouble 😂😂😂
4:53 definitely not uncommon or anything. We all have been there but Jesus grace abounds almost all.
Is it me or do people do things for themselves and try to say they did it for the sake of religion
I don't think she's telling you Stuart the full truth in her heart, just giving you the outside of her beliefs. Maybe someday, she'll believe in God and that Jesus died on the cross, and with His blood, washed away all of our sins. Pray for her. 🙏's and love.
What does Jesus say true religion is? James 1:27
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
to answer that first girl's question, you don't search for personal experience; you seek the truth, and you seek God. God doesn't owe you anything, he. doesn't need to give you any evidence like that. Do not test God. If a man is with a girl, and he says to the girl, " You need to have sex with me to prove that you love me." That is just absurd, the logic is the same here. God will give you more experiences like that as your relationship with God get better.
10:30 i didnt quite understand his initial question, can anyone help me out
Cliffe Cooked 🤌🏻
Its amazing how easy it would be for god to prove himself, yet he only seems to prove himself to the ones who don't need it.
So Stuarts solution is just pretend god is their until you convince yourself gods real. The thing that induces anxiety is wondering if god is real and if you've displeased him so much you've been prematurely punished.
You’re correct in understanding that it is futile to “fake it until you make it” when it comes to faith in Christ. The Bible is One Big Story; the revelation of God as to who He is, who man is, the fall of man into sin, and the way of redemption God has made in the person and work of the God-Man Jesus Christ. Genesis reveals God as Creator and chapter 3 the fall of man. Romans 1 and 2 explains how God has revealed Himself generally by what He has made in nature so that men are without excuse. In short: God has ‘proved Himself’ all around us! In Matthew 16:4 we read how the pharisees (self-important, God-deniers) rejected Jesus’ claim to be God and Savior and wanted a sign (to “prove Himself”) and Jesus says, “And evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah…” The account of Jonah being sacrificed over board, swallowed into a fish unto death, and expelled out onto shore, was a picture, a type of Jesus who would be sacrificed for our sins, suffer the full wrath of God on the cross and dying the death that we deserved in our place, and then rising on the 3rd day to defeat sin, death, and the Devil for all who by God’s grace wold come to repent and put their faith in Him. In short: you and all of us, have all the proof we need and we are guilty in our high-handed enmity against Him. But there is good news: Jesus says, “Come to me all you that are weary (of sin, and working for peace with God) and heavy laden, and I will give you rest…” So don’t wait, cry out to the Lord for salvation today. In Isaiah 55:1 God says, “Come everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.” And “Roman’s 10:13 says, “whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved!” And know that salvation from start to finish is a sovereign, loving, merciful, gracious work of God for sinners who rightfully deserve death and judgement. Mercy is getting what you don’t deserve and grace is a free, unmerited gift of God even in the face of our Demerits! This is a loving and merciful God!!!!
@michelleinchristalone2769 Im going to have to diagree. You can throw all the scripture you'd like but they are meaningless. Nature is proof of nature. Not proof of god. All the scripture you recite is nothing more than stories. Stories are not proof. They have stories of Dracula. But we know Vlad the Impaler (the actual Dracula) was no vampire. Some legends take a life of their own. Thats all the bible seems to be.
Why is everyone stuck on what man has made ? What/who is truly pure anymore? (Besides Jesus) Reading a lot of the comments show how ungodly a lot of you are. Speaking your wants & not what Jesus wants from us.
the human condition is such, that to believe or not, requires the same degree of insanity.
That's why we got to ask God to reveal himself the way he wants not the way we want.
Sounds selfish on Gods part
@jasonnoble7302 because any other way is pure hubris. Anytime I've heard someone say, "oh you love me? well then prove it!", cant be convinced
If I was baptize as a little child should I be baptize again as an adult?
Yes
Praise to the most high god and our lord and saviour. My lord jesus i thank you for everything and may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Keep in prayer, repent and read the bible.
Nah…
Saying Christianity isn't a religion, it's a relationship with God is a way to try to excuse the fact that it has no real structure.
Traditional Christianity does have a structure. Protestants have essentially done away with it in their churches. The Catholic and Orthodox churches both have a structure to their worship, and new converts to the faith undergo a several month (if not longer) process of learning the church’s teachings before being baptized and fully accepted into the church. They resemble the ancient church much more than modern Protestant churches do.
She thought she was Stuarts first skeptic until he rope-a-doped her and shatttered her logic, ideology, and unbeknownst truth claim
Stop searching logically and start working on submitting your will for Gods will. God will show himself to you if you submit yourself to him. Wrestle with what he asks of you and what you think want to do for yourself. Beg for revelation of his will for you and he will show you. His word is out there. Through showing God you choose Him and His way, you will find what you are looking for. Get out of your head and get in to your heart.
That girl's not a skeptic.
In claiming, as the Neo-Euthyphro-ites do, that God's moral standard is arbitrary, they set up a silly infinite regress of transcendent morality:
If God's moral standard is necessarily arbitrary because he is failing to appeal to a moral standard outside himself, then whatever that moral standard is that the Neo-Euthyphro-ites insist God rely on to avoid the charge of arbitrariness is ALSO arbitrary -- unless that inanimate standard in turn appeals to a moral standard beyond itself. But then this third standard has to appeal to a 4th moral standard beyond itself, which in turn requires a 5th and a 6th and a 61,376,545th... Pass the Advil.
It's amazing how the accusation of "subjective" or "arbitrary" comes up ONLY when it is posited that the source of morality is a living entity, aka God. Somehow an inanimate source for morality, like a Platonic form, gets to skate on this charge even though there is no sound philosophical reason to think it can.
(Therefore I suspect it has less to do with sound philosophical reasoning than with the convenient fact that inanimate sources of morality can't talk back or push back.)
But if the universe is ontologically legitimate and real, then if the God of the Bible is real and he spoke this very real and legitimate universe into existence, it follows that his edicts on morality are every bit as legitimate and real.
And to complain about them and call them arbitrary, subjective, or circular is like complaining that the source of a mountain stream is arbitrary and subjective and circular. It is what it is. (I am that I am.) Drink this real, legitimate living water or die of thirst.
God does not exist and if we pretend that he does exist for all we know he is lying to us for his own amusement
You can tell right away which 1 ain't getting it bc they're choosing not 2
A KINGDOM and a RELIGION are two completely different things. I mean you really cannot get more night and day than a kingdom and a religion. It's interesting because when you study Jesus and look at his words, the first thing Jesus says as he begins his public ministry is: "Repent, the Kingdom of heaven is at hand." Not, "the RELIGION of heaven." (Matthew 4:17)
Around 21:40, I see the discussion as, is complexity enough or is there something beyond complexity. Isn't this just talking about process though? It doesn't contradict God
Stuart is looking and sounding a lot more like Cliffe everyday
You cant have a relationship with God purely on your own terms.
He said being a creator do not mean that you are the arbitrary of morality... ok well if you create a watch and the watch don't tell time then what?... You going to let the watch continue to not tell time when you created the watch to do that?... Nobody will know you better then the one who created you... The same way you created the watch to tell time and it stop telling time is the same way are Holy God looks at us and notices that we are not doing what we are created to do... its Gods nature... the same way we don't second guess why the watch needs to tell time, is the same way God don't second guess on why we should not commit sin...
The young lady 1:00 in explains perfectly the need for the sovereign regeneration of God. Fallen men cannot in and of ourselves seek for or “choose” for God. We do the opposite in fact; seeking everything BUT Him and rejecting Him high-handed ly. In John 3 Jesus does not tell Nicodemus what Stuart told this woman; as if she could somehow muster it up in herself to believe and trust in Christ. Jesus explains that the New Birth is Holy Spirit wrought and is like the wind. When God grants us the new Birth, regeneration, salvation; we need to understand what scripture teaches: from predestination and election to glorification - salvation is all of God in Christ; He saves a people for Himself, by Himself, and from Himself. Repent of your man-centered, Christ-demoting Arminianism Stuart & Cliffe, and give ALL glory to God because on the Day, no one will boast!
Good point but they're not being man centered as youve heard Stuart said seek outwards to God and thank him and not focus on yourself and the experience you are looking for...but still good point
@ It’s subtle, but I would argue that Arminianism is ultimately man-centered because to say you had anything to do with any aspect of your salvation is to steal from the person and work of Christ and to have a piece kept aside to boast of. It’s why we see the church-growth, pragmatic entertainment in many churches today. They don’t trust God’s way and Gospel means for salvation and sanctification; His prescribed way of worship for the Church, but instead think they have to adopt worldly ways to grow the church. This all stems out of Arminian way of thinking. If your smart enough to regenerate your own dead heart of stone, if you think you can do anything to revoke Christ’s perfect and all-sufficient atoning and eternal intercession and to remove the Holy Spirit seal and lose your salvation (and Arminian view), and if you think you can persuade anyone to believe with clever apologetics or just the right technique, or conversely, keep them from Christ with a feeble approach; you are not wholly Christ-Centered and Gospel-focused. It’s a subtle but important and dangerous error and feeds into most of the errors and false-teaching we see today.
I’ve never heard of someone having a personal experience with God because they were searching for one.
if conscience comes from God, then what about cultures who have different consciences...
Example: Group A: eating humans is bad
Group B: eating humans is normal.
if conscience is a bases for morality then how does one reconcile these differences.
Because all of us Human
Beings also have the Free
Will to actually override our
Conscience! You know that
it's wrong to lie, but you have
still lied & then perhaps you
will feel guilty. Which is the
biggest evidence that your
Conscience is true & legit!
People murder everyday, &
it doesn't mean that they're
actually thinking or knowing
that murdering isn't wrong...
same conscience from God -- not equal -- same morals followed by Men
@@D-1-V-A the thing is, what if they dont feel guilt.
example, what about the moabites and Canaanites who practice child sacrifice...am sure they had no guild since no one went against that practice outside their culture.
how does this work saying conscience is legit and true
@@WhileSilent not equal to what? i dont get what you mean.
@@tyroneloki5131
People can seer their Conscience
after a long period of time. That's
called having a Reprobate Mind in
The Bible... That's when you reject
God & your Conscience for so long
that you don't feel guilty anymore...
HAVE YOU TRULY REPENTED OF
ALL OF YOUR SINS & PUT YOUR
COMPLETE FAITH & TRUST INTO
JESUS CHRIST (ALONE) TO SAVE
YOU?
*WHERE WILL U SPEND ETERNITY?*
where did cliffe gain his knowledge about the bible?
He went to seminary. He learned Greek and Hebrew in order to study the original texts.
Institute of make believe
What are you searching for? What do you want to find? How you can search if you cannot describe what you are searching for? Just submit yourself to God and ask Him to lead you. Simple like this.
Which one?
@ Jesus Christ of Nazareth
@@margaretmichniewicz2849
Jesus is God ?
@@jasonnoble7302 you did not know? Now you know what to search for. Easy.
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She's a skeptic towards god but not a skeptic with wiccan?
If the Wiccan view is true, it doesn't really matter, does it? Nobody fights against any god the way they do the God of the Bible...
@@jessebryant9233and by that statement, are you in agreement that the reason most of us “fight” or wrestle with the God of the Bible is because it does seem like it’s the truth out of every other religion?
@@SolidPain6624 Yes, folks fight hardest against the God of the Bible because they know intuitively that if the God of the Bible is THE GOD, it does matter and they are in trouble.
@@jessebryant9233 I see what you mean. They are more likely to fight againts the idea of the christian god because of the restrictions and repurcussions it may bring. But people are more open to wiccan because wiccan is all about worshiping nature as god. But the difference is that if you look at what Wiccans beliefs, you notice quickly that they have no real restrictions like the 10 commandments in the bible. They just kind of do their free spirit thing, So they are not inherently bad but they also seem to ignore a part of reality (evil)