Thanks for watching! This kind of comparison will for sure bring about all the typical Christian rhetoric, but it doesn’t satisfy the issue. It’s what they have had to create to try and reconcile what is obviously different thought, principals, morals, philosophy of life between the old and new testament. This video is just one small way of displaying those differences. This god and the wisdom he gives about what is good and right simply changes.
I'd add reconciliation with god. Paul says the intervention of a high priest and a sacrifice was needed. Solomon said (1 Kings 8, starting around 37 into the 40s?) that the people would eventually stray, but he prayed that when they sought god that god would simply forgive them. No Messiah, no death, no son of god required.
I really, really appreciate the notations of scripture !!! Please keep including verses !! There is nothing more satisfying than bookmarking them, so when having a sincere conversation with a "believer", one can pull out "the 'good' book", point to the words, and say "what about **this**"? The christian's "authoritative" source is no longer some preacher's or apologist's spin. The explicit words are mightier than a sword, if the battle is about truth... thanks to you my friend!!
As I was listening to this, I could hear the mental gymnastics going on in my head from decades of indoctrination explaining to myself how they were really saying the same things if you look at them “spiritually.” Christianity masterfully inoculates its followers from any critical thinking even when things make zero sense.
An old Jewish joke goes like this: A religious man is shipwrecked on a desert island. When his rescuers arrive a couple of years later, they discover he has built three huts during his isolation. One is his home. The other two? “This is the synagogue I go to,” he explained, “and that is the one I don’t go to.”
I heard a similar Jewish joke, it goes like this: If you have two Jews, how many synagogues do you build? The answer: 3. One for me, one for you, and one for that S.O.B. who’s moving here next year.
My favorite fact about Solomon is that he was the person whose god gave him boundless wisdom - and he was found shortly thereafter with thousands of wives and concubines and attending ceremonies to other gods.
Going to Church all my Life, I've Always HATED THIS STORY! In the 2000s I'm told I Am Wrong for wanting 1 Blonde Haired, Blue Eyed Pretty Wife for me being a Normal White Guy. SOMEONE'S LYING!
The weird thing about Paul is he seems to know more about what Jesus wants than the people in Jerusalem that actually knew Jesus personally such as James, the brother of the Lord and "Upon this rock I will build my church," Peter. Apparently, while on Earth Jesus chose as followers people that were incredibly stupid and so needed to reveal himself to Paul in visions later so he could correct the mistake.
Yeah the fact that Jesus said that he'd build his church upon Peter...yet appeared to Paul which spurred Paul on to dominate the New Testament while Peter only gets 2 books (if you accept Peter wrote those)...kinda suspicious.
The other thing to consider is that Paul was a false apostle and actually created "christianity" by making Jesus into something Jesus never claimed himself to be. Paul claims that "Jesus" appeared to him in 2 ways that Jesus said himself that he would not appear to anyone in Matthew 23. Much of the contradictions and confusion in the Church is due to trying to reconcile Paul with both Jesus and the Old Testament Law and Prophets. Because people a thousand years ago decided to place Paul in a book, people assume his writings must be true, even though Paul himself calls himself a liar in Romans and 2 Corinthians. "Doctrine" like the infallibility of the Bible makes people blind and incapable of critical thought.
Was it a mistake or was it written in buy some human to correct the mistake. Let's not forget the Catholic Church where the custodians of the scriptures for centuries and a lot of these transcripts were written hundreds of years after jesus's death
It amazes me how Solomon was living that “champagne life” in the Old Testament all because he was the wisest king that ever existed,BUT he never once practiced what he preached smh
Solomon is, literally, peaceful Sun. The name is derived from, or rather is a translation of, the Hebrew salem peace= the summer Sun (same as Melchizedek aka King Jupiter). It is composed of three syllables, Sol-Lat. Sol = Sun; Om = the unutterable Sanskrit Om or AUM = the Jahveh of the Jews, and 0n = the Coptic sun.
@@harveywabbit9541 I have looked it up. The root for sun is not mentioned in the etymology given in the Abarim Publications' Biblical Name Vault. And part for that, it’s difficult for me to get away from the fact that in Italian the name sounds like “big salame”. 😂
@refus .... ok but ...Solomon never existed as a historical person. There is zero historical evidence for the existence of Moses, David, Solomon, Jesus or Paul :)
I loved this fresh take on comparing Paul's writings! I'd already gone through the contradictions with him and Jesus, but hadn't thought of how you could compare them to Solomon before. Thanks again for the intriguing video!
@@absolstoryoffiction6615 Four of them were the four cardinal directions of Aquarius, Leo, Scorpio/Eagle, and Taurus. Each had a royal star aka Fomalhaut, Regulus, Antares, and Aldebaran. These four were also the four brothers/sons of Horus at Canopus Egypt. Horus and Jesus had the same mother. She is a Sun Goddess and her only son is the Sun. She also went by the names of Athena and Minerva.
@harveywabbit9541 I have heard of the Sun God and their 12 Zodiacs. At the end of the Age to whom Jesus is, comes forth the next Age followed by a man with a vase of water ever pouring outward to the their feet as if to wash away the dirt ground for anew. (I forget the name of this Zodiac.) Such is the next Age of Mankind. The Age of true peace and prosperity after the wake of calamity. The dawn of the next generations to whom humans lead in universal love without but in memory too the fall of our predecessors. To try in, never repeating that fate again. This is the next age, the 3rd Testament of Mankind. But I fear if Mankind falls too greatly. We will repeat the past two Testaments again. I do not mean the Bible. I mean the Ages of Mankind to whom Jesus fully represents. The real Jesus who lived, not the one glorified in the three religions. Blessed are those who walk in enlightenment. As in their ways, all can be in the light. In earnest and in love. Blessed are those who walk in the Shadows. As in their ways, all can be protected by the Shadows which hold the Light. In honor and in valor with love, all the same. Light and Dark was once one now made two. Woe onto those who divide Light and Dark. For they dare to tempt Evil into their hearts and homes. Woe onto those who cast away the Dark yet summon the blinding light onto their own. For they dare to play God in the face of the Cosmos. Yet to the Woe, they are forgiven as they must walk the path of redemption. To redeem not themselves, for they have not yet fallen. But to redeem their words and their way. Mercy and love to all that is. Even to a fallen star, Lucifer. For the name of true Evil has yet to be. Fear not of God nor Men. Fear the one who can unmake God and Man. Fear such Evil. To wield both Light and Dark against the Eye of Evil and its Hand of Gods. Fear the Dark Worlds and the Dark God who forsake the Light in balance with the Dark. Just as "we" once stood against the Dark Father, the Primordial Evil, who brought forth the Dark Divine Nature. The twisted form of love. (Metaphorically speaking... What I say is true. Walk in enlightenment as there are many paths to aid all of Mankind. Be warned of evil and avoid dwelling in it for too long. Be warned of corruption as it blinds the path of enlightenment. Walk the path of humility if enlightenment is foggy to thyn.) This is true regardless of Gods... Whatever happens. Never forget who you are. Keep your individual identity and hold onto it above all. The moment you forget yourself. All paths will no longer work, but one... ... ... The path of rebirth for thyn soul. But that path takes eternities. Fortunately, the human mind is eternity itself. All can make the journey, but it requires genuine effort in thyn. ... Lessons of a Thousand Kings. To whom taught me great wisdom...
@harveywabbit9541 Of the Sun God and the 12 Zodiacs... Correct. There is more to it for that tale. At the end of Jesus's age. The next Age of the Zodiacs are to arrive. The Age of Love and Prosperity from the next Zodiac. It all depends on Mankind in the end. (Walk in enlightenment. There are many paths for different Human Natures. Such is life... ... ... We and the Cosmos are One. Never forget it.) Gods or no Gods... This is true.
What I like about your videos, even the short ones, is how actionable they are. It’s great watching the long and detailed explanations from Aron Ra, it’s great watching Matt Dillahunty hang up on annoying and uneducated religious people. But to get so specific with contradictions, to have the exact verses with context - that’s the beauty of your presentations! I used to write down specific points for specific arguments with theists. Now I just link your videos for each topic. Thank you.
Agree 100%. I watched the video where Matt had Brandon on his show and there was such a contrast of styles and frankly, respect. I think the longer someone has been out of Christianity the more they lose patience with those still in it.
Brandon, everyone of your shows begins and ends with such a consistent theme. That’s one of many huge draws to your show. God as the inspired person for the Bible could’ve learned something from you.
It's funny how in quite a lot of your videos you will concede to opposing ideas 'In the spirit of fairness', yet Christian apologists will never do the same. This shows an unwillingness to be open minded that there is the possibility that what they believe is bs.
"For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.” Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe." (1 Corinthians 1:18-21) Are you willing to be "open minded" to hear what God is saying to YOU through His Holy Word?
@@christophergibson7155 Sure, I'm open minded. So bring your evidence of God. Since you communicate with him, get him to show himself to the world physically and bring his band of angels with him. With today's technology, there would be no way anyone could disprove him. Oh, remember, God said he loves to be tested.
@@davidb7180 "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God," (Romans 8:16) "“Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father! THE WORLD HAD NOT KNOWN YOU, but I have known You; AND THESE HAVE KNOWN THAT YOU HAVE SENT ME And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.” (words of Jesus in John 17:24-26) And you are in error that God loves to be tested. The only righteous test of proof He gave was in Malachi 3:10 regarding the tithe.
Forget Newton and Einstein, Solomon is by far the smartest man that ever lived. Calculus shmukulus! Theory of relativity? More like theory of stupidity! Listen to real wisdom from king Solomon: 'All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.' Wow! Mind blown!
Wisdom is different to Scientific facts/theories. I’m an atheist but I can appreciate the Bible has some good wisdom regarding philosophy and the human condition. You have to admit with the very little scientific knowledge they had back then, they came up with some amazing literature. If you provide the full verse, which includes afterwards “unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again”, this describes the cycle of nature and life. That’s quite profound if you ask me.
@@mrjayz94 The problem with that is that you can not only interpret it in any way you want, you can say the same thing without coating it in mystery and people will be less amazed. Let's take your example "unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again”. You say it's a cycle of nature. Is there any human being above the age of 8 that doesn't know that dead things rot, plants eat rot and we eat plants? It's common knowledge, and not only it doesn't explain anything new, but is there purely for oohs and aahs. You say "rivers return where they come from", what if interpret it that it's literally just describing a water cycle and nothing else? Does it lose it's explanatory power? No! Because it didn't have any in the first place! I had to know about the water cycle _beforehand_ in order to assign this as a meaning! This flowery language is not any form of wisdom and knowledge, it's a carrier for our own knowledge, designed to fit into any narrative we already hold true. What if I believe that nature doesn't have a cycle, and matter simply appears somewhere, and gets disintegrated somewhere else? Then you would be here saying how this Salomon guy was sooo smart, he was talking about the cycle of nature, because it came from nothing, and it turned into nothing!
Yay mindshift uploaded again! Edit: btw i would love a series (or even just another video or two) comparing the biblical characters, like Paul and his gospel vs the other apostles and their gospels, or the comparison of Jesus with other several OT characters and such
Internal contradictions are also fascinating, when Jesus contradicts himself, for example. But I’d also enjoy more of these side by side comparisons of biblical figures
It becomes exceedingly undeniable that this book is written by common humans in their context with no woo-woo powers. Wisdom and common sense are ideas that have the limit of their own context.
It is undeniable but most "religious" people never even think about reading them let alone read them. Which is hilarious because who wouldn't want to read the words of the most powerful being to ever exist
Wisdom is not an idea. Wisdom comes from God. And the wisdom of God is found in the Word of God, The Holy Bible. The wisdom of this world is not the wisdom of God. (1 Corinthians 1:18-26)
@christophergibson7155 There are words of wisdom in the Bible. There's also a lot crap. Stuff like how to do genocide and where to get you slaves. Stuff like altering a guy's penis or how to literally kill your child if they are disobedient. It's really a poor harvest when there's precious little wheat and so much chaff.
@@christophergibson7155 Just because the bible says it doesn't automatically make it true. Especially since one verse says that god never ever changes his mind, yet there's other verses where he objectively changes his mind, making the whole thing inconsistent as heck.
God says that he doesn't of change and then, he changes his mind which if you really think about it, if he is all knowing, he can't change his mind. Paul says that God is not the author of confusion but.... so many contributions and absolute confusion hence, 45,000 different Christian denominations we see today. Ever since I realized that man created God not the other way around I was no longer confused. It ALL fell right into place. TRUTH is worth seeking because it will make you free from all the lies. Great video Brandon ❤
Absolutely. Truth is when every little detail you see, big or small, throughout your entire life, makes perfect sense without having to stretch whatsoever. Truth is when the puzzle pieces snap together perfectly, and create one clear picture. A large picture, to be sure, but not a confusing one.
God, the summer sun of seven signs, is not the author of confusion, the winter sun of five signs. You will find the winter sun (Scorpio/Satan) leading the four signs of Sagittarius thru Pisces. Revelation 9.5. God, (the Ram/Aries) leads the summer signs of Taurus thru Libra.
@@harveywabbit9541 None of that actually deals with the issue at hand, which is that if we assume God's word in the bible is absolute truth, and the humans speaking for him inspired by God himself, then we're lead to blatant contradictions, outright impossibilities, by trying to take two facts that don't click together and claiming they're both true at the same time. In real life two true things CANNOT contradict each other, ever. A contradiction proves that one or both things must be incorrect. That's what that word means. And if you need examples of contradictions, just watch the video above. So the only conclusion we can draw is that it is not possible for the bible to be absolute truth. At least some of it is incorrect. That is simply a proven fact at this point.
@@harveywabbit9541nothing like a bit of astrology to mix with a dash of religion - what a great post to leave on an atheist channel, where NONE of this idiocy is respected. Even if tolerated. Is Jupiter in retrograde, by any chance (whatever tf that means…)?
Wait, why did Paul especifically said to not drink wine when Jesus himself gave wine to the apostles and to the people which was one of His first miracles?
You can actually see the character flaws in Paul. Fascinating... It sounds to me that Paul was a humble-bragger of biblical proportions. I remember trying not to feel smug about not feeling smug about not being perfect. That's the vibe I get from Paul's diatribe.
@@gamingwithmaya502to be fair, I don't think hr was trying to tell you how to please your wife sexually, so he being a virgin or not isn't really that relevant.
That is where she gets it from. Check out the history of penitential practices in the Roman Catholic Church. Especially saints like St. Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks. You will be appalled!
@@suicune2001 You should be scared to look. In the case of St. Kateri, she was an orphan who was raised by her uncle who was definitely not a Christian. Kateri was already somewhat of an outsider in her village due to an episode of smallpox that severely scarred her. She had been taught a rudimentary form of Christianity from her convert mother before her mother died, but it was not until the Jesuits came that teenaged Kateri started a regimen of penitential self-punishment that lasted until her death a few years later. When her uncle tried to step in and bring her back to sanity, she fled with the Jesuits to a Christian Mohawk village where she not only resumed her practice of self-harm, she encouraged another older woman to compete with her in seeing who could do the most suffering to themselves. Did her Jesuit mentors know about this? Of course they did! They themselves engaged in the same sort of practices. Not only that, somewhere along the way she developed a horror of sex, which given the fact that the Mohawks lived in large communal longhouses with very little privacy, meant that she was constantly exposed to the traumatic sights and sounds of couples making love, which was another reason she fled to the Christian village where presumably her chastity and purity would not be offended. Even before she was officially canonized (by Pope John Paul II, if I recall correctly) she was held up as a model of purity for youth, hence her nickname Lily of the Mohawks. Keep in mind I am giving you the sanitized version of her story. There were and are a lot of people who admire her, including my late mother who would have named me after her except that my Lutheran father put his foot down and told her to pick another saint's name because back in the 1950's "weird" names like Kateri were simply not acceptable, especially among whites. I'm not sure the saint I did get named for is much better, story-wise. But yeah, penitential self-harm was a thing in Catholicism up until Vatican II: a Sister of St. Joseph told me that the nuns used to whip themselves every Friday in honor of Jesus' suffering. We children were also told that if we experienced anything painful or unpleasant we were to embrace it and offer it up to God. I've been told by that same SSJ nun that that kind of thinking is no longer condoned by the Church. Maybe so, maybe not.
Thank you so much Brandon. It's so easy to understand the way you present all this. Thanks for all the time you put in each video, it makes it so easy for us. Take care❤
The more you read and think about what Paul said, the more he seems like a grifter. It's astounding how much he contradicts pretty much everything the bible had said up to that point.
I never went to church with any consistency growing up. My mother would sometimes make us go on Easter. But as an adult, I make sure to attend the church of Brandon every Sunday!
One thing important to remember is that even Paul says that one covenant doesn’t cancel out another, so you have to look at these two men as if all covenants- including the Mosaic covenant- are still in full effect.
I ❤ how you appropriated The G-Rated Version of FJB. I never liked that version as I HATE our current president and don't even see him as such. Here COMPLETELY APPROPRIATE LETS GO BRANDON
The disheartening part is that if Paul were really a Pharisee, he would have absolutely known about Proverbs and Solomon's take on all this. But yet he never mentioned it once. It almost seems that he is spitting in the face of Solomon, being, ironically, sacrilegious to the Old Testament
It would be really cool if you could make a video on the different afterlifes presented between the old and New Testaments. Outside of a verse in Daniel 12, the OT is basically vacant when it comes to heaven and hell and most Jews thought there was no afterlife except Sheol.
And with this suggestion, you just reminded me of a offensive joke from South Park, where Cartman says to Kyle that the Jewish idea of heaven is getting $5 off their soup at Bennigan's by lying about a hair in it (which then drives Kyle furious enough to punch Cartman in the head on the spot).
This type of comparative analysis is extremely useful!! At least from my experience, it is an analysis that has not been explored as much in the theism vs atheism/ atheism vs christianity discussions in the past few years. Thank you! Your work is very appreciated. Though the alcohol subject needed the rest of the context. Where it states that alcohol is not for kings.
It’s amazing how strongly many Christians believe in heaven and hell, especially hell. One would think that God would tell folks about them earlier than 2000 years ago. Pretty important info, if it were true.
ALL RELIGIONS versus a book, the BIBLE The UNBIBLICAL teachings and doctrines of Religions about "hellfire", "afterlife", "immortality of the souls", "Armageddon", "Trinity", "reincarnation", and "rapture" will definitely bring nothing but dishonor, disgrace, shame and ETERNAL DEATHS to Jehovah's Witnesses, SDAs, Mormons, SDAs, Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Born Again Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions. The BIBLE, GOD, and JESUS CHRIST bring HONOR and ETERNAL LIFE and EXISTENCE on EARTH to HUMAN BEINGS Lowly, ordinary, kind, and respectful persons on earth who honor and obey Jesus Christ as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King will definitely be honored and rewarded by the loving, kind, and merciful GOD with ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4 and the teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are the guarantee that loving, kind, considerate, and respectful persons on earth who died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others will all be RESURRECTED back to life in GOD's right and proper time so they can live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient citizens and subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD" and fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings of GOD and his Christ for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his GOD and Father's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
They say never to attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance. I do my best to follow that rule, dare I say, "religiously". And so I took the little I knew about Paul (learned from some guy also named Paul) and I gave the benefit of the doubt to him. A man who'd had a vision of something he could not explain, and was doing the best he could with what he had, I'd thought. It seemed to fit all the data I had access to, so it was the safer belief. Every single thing I learn about Paul, from his own mouth, makes that belief more difficult to sustain. If you were writing a book, and wanted to create a character from scratch who embodied the traits of a manipulative leader, you would look at the result and find that you had accidentally recreated Paul. This man is the blueprint that cults throughout history, religious or otherwise, follow to obtain and retain membership. Grandiose promises of wellbeing that can in no way be shown to truly exist. Constant complaints about how wrong his followers are doing everything, coercing them into precisely the box that he wants them in, and holding that grand reward as hostage until behavior perfectly fits within that box. The occasional hollow reminders of excessive love, to keep the people thinking they're actually cared for and respected, despite the constant griping. Always blaming the followers, with the fault never resting on the leader except in extremely superficial, meaningless ways. The rules the followers must follow, though claimed to be some universal truth rather than the whims of the leader, somehow are never required to be followed _by_ that leader. This is Paul's behavior, and the behavior of countless others throughout history who have snatched and stolen any person they can get their hands on, twisting their reality until only the leader can be trusted, and the whole world is your enemy. Just the way Christianity wants it. Just the way dictators want it. Just the way cult leaders want it. It is their favorite strategy to employ. They are above. They are blameless. They are untouchable. They control. They restrict. They blame. They're confusing. They're contradictory. They're hypocrites. They should not be trusted. They should not be respected. They should not be followed. They do not deserve you. They are powerless without you.
This is why I had started suspected that, like all of the other dictators, religious/cult leaders (as often attributed to being said by Robert Heinlein, a religion is a cult with political power), and other manipulative scumbags throughout history, Paul was doing this to enrich himself, that he wanted to pad his pockets and live the high life for the rest of his life. Why else would someone who has none of the highest possible accreditation (or what could be considered such back then) of having been an actual direct apostle to Jesus rather suddenly start making all these contradictory claims about Jesus and his teachings? The fact that his "explanation" is a sudden vision does not - or at least _should_ not - do him any favors, but then again, is this not as you described about such people? In fairness, this is nothing more than personal speculation of mine, and I have no way of knowing or finding out for sure if this really was the case. That said, if it ever somehow came out that this really was what Paul was doing, all I will feel and thus say about it is, "Called it."
@riluna3695 I love @MindShift-Brandon videos because they are so intelligent and well-crafted, and I learn so much from them. I also love his videos because he attracts so many intelligent viewers who leave intelligent and well-crafted comments like yours, which I also learn so much from. Thank you so much for your comment!
This was an interesting video, especially when I haven’t seen anyone do this specific comparison. I liked that you pointed out the proverbial context of Solomon, since I was thinking when I started the vid. While it is obvious that there are OT and NT contradictions, some of the things listed don’t seem so to me honestly, some that stood out to me would be on wealth, as this just seems a difference given the post-Jesus context of the christian’s given that they would face repression from the roman empire, a context different from Solomon’s time (if he actually existed), on counsel this looks like a difference of a general advise for life and then Paul making a doctrinal statements. On righteousness, this difference to me seem that righteousness is akin to being perfect, as it is implied in Jesus, which would seem to be a different meaning from other OT literature. Wish I could comment more but Im in a bit of hurry right now haha, but in any case, good Sunday episode, cheers.
Not really a book, even... It's an anthology compiled by a council specifically to be biased in favor of (and, you would think, self-consistent with) a specific orthodoxy.
It is the inspired word of God there are no flaws, the only thing that's flawed is man. God is holy and just and perfect and you do not understand the Bible because you do not have the holy spirit with you and you want to live in your sins (Just wanted to save the apologists who visit this channel the time of replying with something like that)
@@PittPens6866 How can man have ever become flawed if man is a part of God’s Perfect Creation that is flawless in every way? (Just wanted to save the anti-apologists some time)
We put so much effort to understand a scripture thought of by someone at a point in time and which would have changed in authors minds the longer they lived
I try to have patience with people who claim that there are no contradictions in the Bible, because I used to be one of them. But they can be so annoying to deal with!
You are a genius and you are doing very important work, to accurately and honestly find faults with the Bible is a tremendous good service to mankind. In the last 20-30 years of my 51-yr Christian life and intensive constant Bible study I too have noticed many of these contradictions but to square them away and preserve the integrity of my Christian life I have always rationalized and deferred to them in the benefit of the doubt. In my ongoing consideration of them it is no longer always wise to make the deferment.
ALL RELIGIONS are WORTHLESS and USELESS The UNBIBLICAL teachings and doctrines about "hellfire", "afterlife", "immortality of the souls", "Armageddon", "Trinity", "reincarnation", and "rapture" are all worthless and useless, nothing but lies and deceits of the mockers and haters of GOD and Jesus Christ and will definitely bring nothing but dishonor, disgrace, shame and ETERNAL DEATHS to Jehovah's Witnesses, SDAs, Mormons, Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Born Again Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions. GOD and JESUS CHRIST bring HONOR and ETERNAL LIFE and EXISTENCE on EARTH to HUMAN BEINGS ETERNAL LIFE and existence without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death on a safe and peaceful Earth without liars, slanderers, perverts, traitors, and murderers as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4, 8 is the loving, kind, and merciful GOD's favor and reward for lowly, ordinary, kind, and respectful persons on earth who honor and obey Jesus Christ as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King and the teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are the guarantee that loving, kind, considerate, and respectful persons on earth who died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others will all be RESURRECTED back to life in GOD's right and proper time so they can live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient citizens and subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD" and fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings of GOD and his Christ for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his GOD and Father's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
On Galatians 1:12, it seems clear to me that a lot of people picked up on this. Just say it came from the Lord, why do you need to fact check it? It is such a useful rhetoric that even the Muslims realized this when they defend their tenets on the basis that their prophet received wahi from an angel or God directly. We even see this in Acts, where Peter receives a vision of various animals and God telling him to kill and eat and Peter rebuts with "No Lord don't let me do this unclean thing", and then God just tells him "Do not consider unclean what God has considered clean", it happens 3 times and he just leaves. If it were indeed so easy to change a commandment, could have done it with slavery. In fact ANY commandment really can be done with this rhetoric. It can even go against scripture as we see in Acts. Personally I think Ecclesiastes is heavily underrated as a book. One of the very few books in the bible to acknowledge suffering.
That is something I have to give credit to Ecclesiastes for. Sure, it still has plenty of its own problems, but at least it, along with Solomon by extension (still with plenty of his own problems, naturally), does make the acknowledgement of "Hey, sh^t happens, this way of dealing with it seems to work best, so maybe try this, but ultimately, do not let anything stop you - slowing down is fine, but do not stop." Of course, there is still the matter of following through, but hey, a start is a start.
I'd love to see a video covering the conflict - both scriptural and personal - between Peter and Paul. Bart Ehrman touched on it in one of his episodes but I'd love a broader or more in depth look
Wow Brandon !! Your presentations just keep getting better !! What a fantastic contrast between these two men's religions !!! 100 thumbs up. The trinity is supposed to be the same in the past, the present and future. Yet the trinity couldn't offer jesus before the flood? And then the trinity inspires these two guys with different messages ?? Only the writings of joe smith and mohammed are more contradictory from "divine inspiration". If I'm going to read fiction, J.K. Rowling's story has more pages, but is more fun to read.
Hmmmm, specifically pitting the OT against the NT. This should be interesting, given how much Christians talk about how the OT prepares us for the NT. 😁😈👹
“But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:23-26 KJV
@Brxwn9 Don't try to visit God, you will be burned by a consuming fire. Hebrews 12:28-29 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire.
This was a really clever idea. People often get an impression of the differences between the Old and New Testaments, but you've showcased here how the picture is always a lot more complicated (and cannot always be explained away by references to covenental theology), not least because neither Testament is a monolith, nor even are individual books. But if I were to ascribe an overriding difference, it would be this - the New Testament is primarily an apocalyptic text, which is why almost all of its advice is applicable only to the idea of making oneself perfect before the end comes, whereas the Hebrew Bible, despite being often painfully a product of its time, does at least have some advice that was meant to be applicable to everyday real life.
Hey, the other day i thought about the problem of evil, and i think i got a very strong version of that problem: 1) God, by definition, is not contingent, meaning he couldn't be otherwise. (Christian premisse) 2) God is the maximum good, necessarily. (Christian premisse) 3) So, at some point P, before God created any contingent creatures, everything that existed at P was the maximum good. 4) The maximum good can't get any more good, by definition. 5) So, when God created any contingent creatures, such as angels or humans, no additional good was added to the total amount of good in existence. 6) But after God created contingent creatures, previously inexistent evils were added to existence. 7) So, the creation of contingent creatures, such as angels and humans, was an evil act, since it lead to the increasing of the total amount of evil in existence from zero to some positive amount, while it added no additional goods to existence. 8) So, God is not omnibenevolent. 9) But God must be omnibenevolent, necessarily. 10) So, God doesn't exist.
Whenever I hear Christians present premise 2) God is Maximally good, it’s kind of a workaround to avoid premise 8) God is omnibenevolent . You do a good job laying out an argument that a maximally good being isn’t omnibenevolent, but doesn’t really carry much weight. That’s why the term Maximally Good was invented in the first place. Also, the classic problem of evil is only a problem for the Tri-Omni god. A god that isn’t omniscient or omnipotent could be omnibenevolent, but unable to prevent the evil.
@@lifefindsaway7875 what about this: 1) God, by definition, is not contingent, meaning he couldn't be otherwise. (Christian premisse) 2) God is the maximum good, necessarily. (Christian premisse) 3) So, at some point P, before God created any contingent creatures, everything that existed at P was the maximum good. 4) The maximum good can't get any more good, by definition. 5) So, when God created any contingent creatures, such as angels or humans, no additional good was added to the total amount of good in existence. 6) But when God created contingent creatures, previously inexistent evils were added to existence. 7) So, the creation of contingent creatures, such as angels and humans, was an evil act, since it increased the total amount of evil in existence from zero to some positive amount, while it added no additional goods to existence. 8) A maximally good God wouldn't increase the total amount of evil in existence without increasing the total amount of good in existence. 9) So, God is not maximally good. 10) But God must be maximally good, necessarily. 11) So, God doesn't exist.
@@lifefindsaway7875 About the tri-omni distinction, i would use some kind of Anselmian argument, which says God is "a being than which no greater can be conceived". So, if i can conceive a tri-omni God, that God is greater than the non-tri-omni God. So, God must be tri-omni
If it's between Paul and Solomon, for me it makes more sense to go with Solomon. At least we read God bestowing him with the knowledge but Paul? We read that Paul says he saw Jesus and Jesus said xyz, then he goes on to make a WHOLEFOOL of himself.
You know, with the way he contradicts Solomon and especially Jesus (not to mention himself and perhaps more often than Solomon did himself), Paul feels like an old South Park portrayal of Mel Gibson, where he is depicted as being absolutely nuts and chases Kyle and Stan from Hollywood to South Park after they took $16 from his wallet as reimbursement for their disappointment from watching _Passion of the Christ._ Now I am trying to figure out what Paul's version of Mel dressed up as a half-nude Braveheart and driving the tanker truck from Road Warrior while screaming "GIVE ME BACK MY $16!" would be.
The Seventh-Day Adventist state that immediately after death, there’s no afterlife however; at the second coming (hence the name “Adventist”) god will resurrect the righteous to take them to heaven for 1000 years. During this time, the righteous will witness the judgement of the wicked (that are still dead on earth). Then, after the millenium in heaven, then Jesus and the righteous will return to earth with the holy city and will live on earth for eternity…. After believing it (and teaching it) for many years, I’m baffled about the idiocy of such fairy tale. So glad for people like you Brandon!
Also Paul referring to the body as a tent--no, the body is more than just a tent. Much more. CLOTHING is a tent. Not the body. That's some anti-flesh Greek philosophy creeping in. If the body is just a tent, and the disembodied soul is capable of living on after death, then why is its resurrection so important in Christianity? Why will we need physical bodies in heaven? What will we do with them? According to Jesus, there isn't any marriage therefore no sex or reproduction in heaven; we will be like the angels. But apparently we will eat and drink. Does that mean that we will also need to urinate or defecate or will the digestive process be so efficient that we won't need to eliminate waste products? Methinks Paul hasn't really thought through what he is saying here about the resurrection and the body. If it's a tent, a tent can be discarded at will when the owner no longer needs it. If its the same owner, but a new tent, now we are getting into reincarnation territory . . .
"Also Paul referring to the body as a tent--no, the body is more than just a tent." Paul doesn't downplay the body, the context here is temporal vs eternal body. "For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." 2 Corinthians 5:1
It felt that way as i read the words but to be fair Solomon was no peach. All that wisdom and he still thought slave labor was the best way to build the temple.
When Paul talks, it’s like he’s taking the meaning of life completely away..everything is just about “god” and everything else is bad. That’s just a disgusting damaging horrendous mindset. That is one of the BIGGEST contributing factors to religious trauma. It just makes me feel sick, sad, and absolutely horrified. Life hurts, but it’s so beautiful at the same time. I mean hell, we are all living life for the first time together. We get to have beautiful relationships, help people, Make the World better one step at a time. Being able to go through the one life we get with someone is one of the most beautiful precious things. This earth and what it has to offer is precious. Traveling, fun activities to do, no matter how small…it’s all beautiful and precious. We are all animals born into a universe that started with an explosion. We are still learning everyday, still evolving to understand new things. Everyday we have a greater chance at coming together as humans. We are a very unique species. You should never feel guilty for being HUMAN. There is nothing wrong with it. It’s not a sin, it’s not evil, you are not inherently evil or wicked. We tend to have such a negative mindset, keeping us from thriving, but if only we could all realise that, and make a change
@@ralphricart3177 The bible is a book of metaphors, stories that convey wisdom or teaching in a memorable way just like kids story books. Hell and Heaven taken literally is a place you go to if your good or bad after death. Interpreted metaphorically (and more consciously) it is a state of mind. Most people are living in hell right now on earth, they are miserable about everything, drowning in desire and endless expectations causing suffering, its only when you let go of desire and your selfish ego do you reach the state heaven. To be in heaven is a state of mind you can reach right now, its not a physical place. Christianity and all religions are books guiding people towards enlightenment but because of the low level of development of the average person the message goes way over there heads. The devil and Satan is a metaphor for YOU! Your selfishness is the devil, your distinction between good and bad is devilry, your self-deception is devilry.
The importance and impact of belief in an afterlife is seen in how Solomon says to experience joy, to find a good wife because of the happiness it brings. Then there's Paul's view which is pretty stark, depressing, denying one's self of anything that gives joy in this world, banking on the more you suffer in this life, the happier you will be in the next one. Thanks, Brandon.
Two different authors or people presenting two different ideas but saying its coming from the same God problematic much!? or this is how one person viewed God vs another person, but mashing them together there is the issue!
"For my people are destroyed for lack of understanding" but everyone else will do just fine learning from their own mistakes, like Kent Hovind handling a Rattlesnake... poor snake.
Oh my, that was incredible that he just exposed himself as not being a true believer because _that was a sign of a true believer_ 😂😂😂😂. Kont Hevind is a real whacko and abuser.
Mwhahahaha! "The Bible is a book as flaqwed as their authors!" I don't know about anyone else, but I kinda want to see the Bible written in the style of contempary authors (Rick Riordan, Randsom Riggs, JK Rowling, STtphanie Meyers, Steven King, just to name a few) with the same litarly tropes but in modern language and storytelling conventions. I din't think that version of bible would be a best seller but I would buy one just for shits and giggles.
We have to remember that the wisest man who ever lived, could not tell the difference between a real god from an idol later in his life. Is like changing a real woman for an inflatable doll 😅Same with all Israel; they were always going back to idol worship on and off thru the whole old testament. They could not tell the difference between one god from another, otherwise why would you change. My apologist mind would say that it was in order to practice evil things, but you would not start believing that a carved piece of wood is alive just to do whatever you feel like; specially if that would offend even more the real god you already believe in. They were definitely polytheists... they believed many gods were real.
"We have to remember that the wisest man who ever lived, could not tell the difference between a real god from an idol later in his life." This shows how sin blinds people. "And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left-and also many animals?” Jonah 4:11
@@heavenbound7-7-7-7 "On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict". Real history, not legends. An imaginary god did exactly what an imaginary god should do about the most atrocious act in human history.
This shows how inconsistent this holy book is and also if Solomon held wisdom more vast than any human on earth how did he even end up in that sorry state to begin with other than not having earn actual wisdom but gotten handed to him on a sliver platter plate but that just my guess
@@miguelatkinson "This shows how inconsistent this holy book is" Nope, this shows human sinfulness, wise people aren't sinless, Solomon was wise in many things but he was completely foolish by rejecting God's clear commandments.
“Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius; lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name. And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other. For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.” 1 Corinthians 1:10-21 KJV
“And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 3:1-11 KJV
I thought the name Paul meant “small one” which could be a sort of reverse psychology pun attributed to his character since he loves to appear as the most humble and weak, but in actuality is an ego maniac.
Thanks for watching! This kind of comparison will for sure bring about all the typical Christian rhetoric, but it doesn’t satisfy the issue. It’s what they have had to create to try and reconcile what is obviously different thought, principals, morals, philosophy of life between the old and new testament. This video is just one small way of displaying those differences. This god and the wisdom he gives about what is good and right simply changes.
I'm glad to be here.
I'd add reconciliation with god. Paul says the intervention of a high priest and a sacrifice was needed. Solomon said (1 Kings 8, starting around 37 into the 40s?) that the people would eventually stray, but he prayed that when they sought god that god would simply forgive them. No Messiah, no death, no son of god required.
I really, really appreciate the notations of scripture !!! Please keep including verses !!
There is nothing more satisfying than bookmarking them, so when having a sincere conversation with a "believer", one can pull out "the 'good' book", point to the words, and say "what about **this**"? The christian's "authoritative" source is no longer some preacher's or apologist's spin. The explicit words are mightier than a sword, if the battle is about truth... thanks to you my friend!!
Another tour-de-force. Keep em comin...
As I was listening to this, I could hear the mental gymnastics going on in my head from decades of indoctrination explaining to myself how they were really saying the same things if you look at them “spiritually.” Christianity masterfully inoculates its followers from any critical thinking even when things make zero sense.
An old Jewish joke goes like this: A religious man is shipwrecked on a desert island. When his rescuers arrive a couple of years later, they discover he has built three huts during his isolation. One is his home. The other two? “This is the synagogue I go to,” he explained, “and that is the one I don’t go to.”
My sides!! Lol
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Nice.
I heard a similar Jewish joke, it goes like this:
If you have two Jews, how many synagogues do you build?
The answer: 3.
One for me, one for you, and one for that S.O.B. who’s moving here next year.
My favorite fact about Solomon is that he was the person whose god gave him boundless wisdom - and he was found shortly thereafter with thousands of wives and concubines and attending ceremonies to other gods.
It’s almost like as soon as he gained wisdom, he realized “this is nuts”, and decided “screw it, I’ll do my own thing”
Yeah is that God's wisdom or the world's wisdom? Lol
It seems like Solomon was led by his pecker and not by the holy Spirit? You can exchange lust for pecker if you'd like
His father David had many wives and concubines also. He was just following a family tradition.
Going to Church all my Life, I've Always HATED THIS STORY! In the 2000s I'm told I Am Wrong for wanting 1 Blonde Haired, Blue Eyed Pretty Wife for me being a Normal White Guy. SOMEONE'S LYING!
The weird thing about Paul is he seems to know more about what Jesus wants than the people in Jerusalem that actually knew Jesus personally such as James, the brother of the Lord and "Upon this rock I will build my church," Peter. Apparently, while on Earth Jesus chose as followers people that were incredibly stupid and so needed to reveal himself to Paul in visions later so he could correct the mistake.
Yes its a huge point. Jesus needing to go to paul at all is such a hit on his followers
Yeah the fact that Jesus said that he'd build his church upon Peter...yet appeared to Paul which spurred Paul on to dominate the New Testament while Peter only gets 2 books (if you accept Peter wrote those)...kinda suspicious.
The other thing to consider is that Paul was a false apostle and actually created "christianity" by making Jesus into something Jesus never claimed himself to be. Paul claims that "Jesus" appeared to him in 2 ways that Jesus said himself that he would not appear to anyone in Matthew 23. Much of the contradictions and confusion in the Church is due to trying to reconcile Paul with both Jesus and the Old Testament Law and Prophets. Because people a thousand years ago decided to place Paul in a book, people assume his writings must be true, even though Paul himself calls himself a liar in Romans and 2 Corinthians. "Doctrine" like the infallibility of the Bible makes people blind and incapable of critical thought.
Was it a mistake or was it written in buy some human to correct the mistake. Let's not forget the Catholic Church where the custodians of the scriptures for centuries and a lot of these transcripts were written hundreds of years after jesus's death
It amazes me how Solomon was living that “champagne life” in the Old Testament all because he was the wisest king that ever existed,BUT he never once practiced what he preached smh
So that is where Pearl gets her audacity from. Preaching to women about how to live a life she herself is not living.
Solomon is, literally, peaceful Sun. The name is derived from, or rather is a translation of, the Hebrew salem peace= the summer Sun (same as Melchizedek aka King Jupiter). It is composed of three syllables, Sol-Lat. Sol = Sun; Om = the unutterable Sanskrit Om or AUM = the Jahveh of the Jews, and 0n = the Coptic sun.
@@harveywabbit9541 I have looked it up. The root for sun is not mentioned in the etymology given in the Abarim Publications' Biblical Name Vault.
And part for that, it’s difficult for me to get away from the fact that in Italian the name sounds like “big salame”. 😂
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The words Lord and God will always refer to the sun. Remember where Joshua addressed the sun as Lord?
@refus .... ok but ...Solomon never existed as a historical person. There is zero historical evidence for the existence of Moses, David, Solomon, Jesus or Paul :)
Calling out that Paul is listing his sufferings in a “Dr Seuss nature” made my day! That is so funny😂😂 but it’s so true!
Ikr 😂
I loved this fresh take on comparing Paul's writings! I'd already gone through the contradictions with him and Jesus, but hadn't thought of how you could compare them to Solomon before. Thanks again for the intriguing video!
Brandon is excellent.
Good ol Paul, the world's greatest know-it-all. The damage that guy has done to humanity is incomprehensible
..and he is a fictional character.
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Authorship... Correct. As the authors of each Gospel is not known.
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Four of them were the four cardinal directions of Aquarius, Leo, Scorpio/Eagle, and Taurus. Each had a royal star aka Fomalhaut, Regulus, Antares, and Aldebaran.
These four were also the four brothers/sons of Horus at Canopus Egypt.
Horus and Jesus had the same mother. She is a Sun Goddess and her only son is the Sun. She also went by the names of Athena and Minerva.
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I have heard of the Sun God and their 12 Zodiacs. At the end of the Age to whom Jesus is, comes forth the next Age followed by a man with a vase of water ever pouring outward to the their feet as if to wash away the dirt ground for anew. (I forget the name of this Zodiac.)
Such is the next Age of Mankind. The Age of true peace and prosperity after the wake of calamity. The dawn of the next generations to whom humans lead in universal love without but in memory too the fall of our predecessors. To try in, never repeating that fate again.
This is the next age, the 3rd Testament of Mankind. But I fear if Mankind falls too greatly. We will repeat the past two Testaments again. I do not mean the Bible. I mean the Ages of Mankind to whom Jesus fully represents. The real Jesus who lived, not the one glorified in the three religions.
Blessed are those who walk in enlightenment. As in their ways, all can be in the light. In earnest and in love.
Blessed are those who walk in the Shadows. As in their ways, all can be protected by the Shadows which hold the Light. In honor and in valor with love, all the same.
Light and Dark was once one now made two.
Woe onto those who divide Light and Dark. For they dare to tempt Evil into their hearts and homes.
Woe onto those who cast away the Dark yet summon the blinding light onto their own. For they dare to play God in the face of the Cosmos.
Yet to the Woe, they are forgiven as they must walk the path of redemption. To redeem not themselves, for they have not yet fallen. But to redeem their words and their way.
Mercy and love to all that is. Even to a fallen star, Lucifer. For the name of true Evil has yet to be.
Fear not of God nor Men. Fear the one who can unmake God and Man. Fear such Evil. To wield both Light and Dark against the Eye of Evil and its Hand of Gods. Fear the Dark Worlds and the Dark God who forsake the Light in balance with the Dark. Just as "we" once stood against the Dark Father, the Primordial Evil, who brought forth the Dark Divine Nature. The twisted form of love.
(Metaphorically speaking... What I say is true. Walk in enlightenment as there are many paths to aid all of Mankind. Be warned of evil and avoid dwelling in it for too long. Be warned of corruption as it blinds the path of enlightenment. Walk the path of humility if enlightenment is foggy to thyn.)
This is true regardless of Gods... Whatever happens. Never forget who you are. Keep your individual identity and hold onto it above all. The moment you forget yourself. All paths will no longer work, but one... ... ... The path of rebirth for thyn soul. But that path takes eternities. Fortunately, the human mind is eternity itself. All can make the journey, but it requires genuine effort in thyn.
... Lessons of a Thousand Kings. To whom taught me great wisdom...
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Of the Sun God and the 12 Zodiacs... Correct. There is more to it for that tale. At the end of Jesus's age. The next Age of the Zodiacs are to arrive. The Age of Love and Prosperity from the next Zodiac. It all depends on Mankind in the end.
(Walk in enlightenment. There are many paths for different Human Natures. Such is life... ... ... We and the Cosmos are One. Never forget it.)
Gods or no Gods... This is true.
What I like about your videos, even the short ones, is how actionable they are. It’s great watching the long and detailed explanations from Aron Ra, it’s great watching Matt Dillahunty hang up on annoying and uneducated religious people. But to get so specific with contradictions, to have the exact verses with context - that’s the beauty of your presentations! I used to write down specific points for specific arguments with theists. Now I just link your videos for each topic.
Thank you.
Thats such an awesome compliment. Thank you very much.
Agree 100%. I watched the video where Matt had Brandon on his show and there was such a contrast of styles and frankly, respect. I think the longer someone has been out of Christianity the more they lose patience with those still in it.
Paul was like 'Trust me, bro! it all happened like I said!'
Brandon, everyone of your shows begins and ends with such a consistent theme. That’s one of many huge draws to your show. God as the inspired person for the Bible could’ve learned something from you.
Ha! Thanks so much, Jeff. Consistency for the win!
This is another unique but pertinent topic to dissect.. For those who have ears to hear, let them hear!
Thanks, Carla!
Peter loves to cut off ears.
The one thing Jesus said I didnt have to cut off ! Someone typed this for me btw. I gouged out my eyes and cut off my hands long ago....
It's funny how in quite a lot of your videos you will concede to opposing ideas 'In the spirit of fairness', yet Christian apologists will never do the same. This shows an unwillingness to be open minded that there is the possibility that what they believe is bs.
Unfortunately its the privilege of the non believer to do so. A christian simply cannot give an inch or it would mean losing the whole mile.
@@MindShift-Brandon Exactly Brandon and for some, opening your mind (too much) can put you in league with the devil.
"For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.” Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe." (1 Corinthians 1:18-21) Are you willing to be "open minded" to hear what God is saying to YOU through His Holy Word?
@@christophergibson7155 Sure, I'm open minded. So bring your evidence of God. Since you communicate with him, get him to show himself to the world physically and bring his band of angels with him. With today's technology, there would be no way anyone could disprove him. Oh, remember, God said he loves to be tested.
@@davidb7180 "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God," (Romans 8:16)
"“Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father! THE WORLD HAD NOT KNOWN YOU, but I have known You; AND THESE HAVE KNOWN THAT YOU HAVE SENT ME And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.” (words of Jesus in John 17:24-26) And you are in error that God loves to be tested.
The only righteous test of proof He gave was in Malachi 3:10 regarding the tithe.
Forget Newton and Einstein, Solomon is by far the smartest man that ever lived. Calculus shmukulus! Theory of relativity? More like theory of stupidity! Listen to real wisdom from king Solomon:
'All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.'
Wow! Mind blown!
Lol!
We need an "Atheist Comedy Show!" This sarcasm is brilliant. Thanks for the huge laughs !!
Wisdom is different to Scientific facts/theories. I’m an atheist but I can appreciate the Bible has some good wisdom regarding philosophy and the human condition. You have to admit with the very little scientific knowledge they had back then, they came up with some amazing literature.
If you provide the full verse, which includes afterwards “unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again”, this describes the cycle of nature and life. That’s quite profound if you ask me.
@@mrjayz94 The problem with that is that you can not only interpret it in any way you want, you can say the same thing without coating it in mystery and people will be less amazed.
Let's take your example "unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again”. You say it's a cycle of nature. Is there any human being above the age of 8 that doesn't know that dead things rot, plants eat rot and we eat plants? It's common knowledge, and not only it doesn't explain anything new, but is there purely for oohs and aahs.
You say "rivers return where they come from", what if interpret it that it's literally just describing a water cycle and nothing else? Does it lose it's explanatory power? No! Because it didn't have any in the first place! I had to know about the water cycle _beforehand_ in order to assign this as a meaning!
This flowery language is not any form of wisdom and knowledge, it's a carrier for our own knowledge, designed to fit into any narrative we already hold true.
What if I believe that nature doesn't have a cycle, and matter simply appears somewhere, and gets disintegrated somewhere else?
Then you would be here saying how this Salomon guy was sooo smart, he was talking about the cycle of nature, because it came from nothing, and it turned into nothing!
@@nati0598 For the knowledge they had in those times it’s incredibly wise. There are Bible verses that are still wise by today’s standards.
Yay mindshift uploaded again!
Edit: btw i would love a series (or even just another video or two) comparing the biblical characters, like Paul and his gospel vs the other apostles and their gospels, or the comparison of Jesus with other several OT characters and such
Yes it was fun. I am sure i’ll do more! Thanks
Internal contradictions are also fascinating, when Jesus contradicts himself, for example.
But I’d also enjoy more of these side by side comparisons of biblical figures
It becomes exceedingly undeniable that this book is written by common humans in their context with no woo-woo powers. Wisdom and common sense are ideas that have the limit of their own context.
Well said!
It is undeniable but most "religious" people never even think about reading them let alone read them. Which is hilarious because who wouldn't want to read the words of the most powerful being to ever exist
Wisdom is not an idea. Wisdom comes from God. And the wisdom of God is found in the Word of God, The Holy Bible. The wisdom of this world is not the wisdom of God. (1 Corinthians 1:18-26)
@christophergibson7155 There are words of wisdom in the Bible. There's also a lot crap. Stuff like how to do genocide and where to get you slaves. Stuff like altering a guy's penis or how to literally kill your child if they are disobedient.
It's really a poor harvest when there's precious little wheat and so much chaff.
@@christophergibson7155 Just because the bible says it doesn't automatically make it true. Especially since one verse says that god never ever changes his mind, yet there's other verses where he objectively changes his mind, making the whole thing inconsistent as heck.
What a fantastic innovative study. Dayam, Brandon. 😇 Primo stuff! Thank you.
Thanks so much, Jenna!
Solomon: “He that finds a wife find a good thing.”
Why did he need 700 wives then?
(And 300 concubines)
Lol right?
He wanted more of than good thang
He never met my first wife - definitely not a good thing.
You can never have too much of a good thing!
I think he's pointing out that
" he who finds a God finds a good thing."
Great , I found 700 Gods.
God says that he doesn't of change and then, he changes his mind which if you really think about it, if he is all knowing, he can't change his mind. Paul says that God is not the author of confusion but.... so many contributions and absolute confusion hence, 45,000 different Christian denominations we see today. Ever since I realized that man created God not the other way around I was no longer confused. It ALL fell right into place. TRUTH is worth seeking because it will make you free from all the lies. Great video Brandon ❤
Spot on! Thank you!
Absolutely. Truth is when every little detail you see, big or small, throughout your entire life, makes perfect sense without having to stretch whatsoever. Truth is when the puzzle pieces snap together perfectly, and create one clear picture. A large picture, to be sure, but not a confusing one.
God, the summer sun of seven signs, is not the author of confusion, the winter sun of five signs.
You will find the winter sun (Scorpio/Satan) leading the four signs of Sagittarius thru Pisces. Revelation 9.5.
God, (the Ram/Aries) leads the summer signs of Taurus thru Libra.
@@harveywabbit9541 None of that actually deals with the issue at hand, which is that if we assume God's word in the bible is absolute truth, and the humans speaking for him inspired by God himself, then we're lead to blatant contradictions, outright impossibilities, by trying to take two facts that don't click together and claiming they're both true at the same time. In real life two true things CANNOT contradict each other, ever. A contradiction proves that one or both things must be incorrect. That's what that word means. And if you need examples of contradictions, just watch the video above.
So the only conclusion we can draw is that it is not possible for the bible to be absolute truth. At least some of it is incorrect. That is simply a proven fact at this point.
@@harveywabbit9541nothing like a bit of astrology to mix with a dash of religion - what a great post to leave on an atheist channel, where NONE of this idiocy is respected. Even if tolerated.
Is Jupiter in retrograde, by any chance (whatever tf that means…)?
Wait, why did Paul especifically said to not drink wine when Jesus himself gave wine to the apostles and to the people which was one of His first miracles?
"The Son of Man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners." Luke 7:34
Kitboga as a top supporter! The kitboga? Phenomenal if true.
You can actually see the character flaws in Paul. Fascinating... It sounds to me that Paul was a humble-bragger of biblical proportions.
I remember trying not to feel smug about not feeling smug about not being perfect. That's the vibe I get from Paul's diatribe.
Exactly it should all be constant especially coming from God yet it keeps changing based on individual writing
Solomon vs Paul, or as I like to call it, the Wisest Stud vs the Humblest Virgin.
Lol!
Stiff vs Stiffer.
Always thought it was weird that a virgin is telling me how to keep my wife happy.
@@gamingwithmaya502to be fair, I don't think hr was trying to tell you how to please your wife sexually, so he being a virgin or not isn't really that relevant.
@@gamingwithmaya502 The people most sure about parenting advice don't have kids.
Great Sunday talk. Thanks for what you do.
Thanks, Bill!
Interesting! Reading a bit about Mother Teresa and how she was a sadomasochistic person, I kind of see that in Paul. He seems to revel in suffering.
Yup. Saints, both of them. /s.
That is where she gets it from. Check out the history of penitential practices in the Roman Catholic Church. Especially saints like St. Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks. You will be appalled!
@@theresemalmberg955 Oh no. I'm scared to look. x_x; It's just baffling how the only "true" religion causes so many crimes against humanity.
@@suicune2001 You should be scared to look. In the case of St. Kateri, she was an orphan who was raised by her uncle who was definitely not a Christian. Kateri was already somewhat of an outsider in her village due to an episode of smallpox that severely scarred her. She had been taught a rudimentary form of Christianity from her convert mother before her mother died, but it was not until the Jesuits came that teenaged Kateri started a regimen of penitential self-punishment that lasted until her death a few years later. When her uncle tried to step in and bring her back to sanity, she fled with the Jesuits to a Christian Mohawk village where she not only resumed her practice of self-harm, she encouraged another older woman to compete with her in seeing who could do the most suffering to themselves. Did her Jesuit mentors know about this? Of course they did! They themselves engaged in the same sort of practices. Not only that, somewhere along the way she developed a horror of sex, which given the fact that the Mohawks lived in large communal longhouses with very little privacy, meant that she was constantly exposed to the traumatic sights and sounds of couples making love, which was another reason she fled to the Christian village where presumably her chastity and purity would not be offended. Even before she was officially canonized (by Pope John Paul II, if I recall correctly) she was held up as a model of purity for youth, hence her nickname Lily of the Mohawks. Keep in mind I am giving you the sanitized version of her story. There were and are a lot of people who admire her, including my late mother who would have named me after her except that my Lutheran father put his foot down and told her to pick another saint's name because back in the 1950's "weird" names like Kateri were simply not acceptable, especially among whites. I'm not sure the saint I did get named for is much better, story-wise. But yeah, penitential self-harm was a thing in Catholicism up until Vatican II: a Sister of St. Joseph told me that the nuns used to whip themselves every Friday in honor of Jesus' suffering. We children were also told that if we experienced anything painful or unpleasant we were to embrace it and offer it up to God. I've been told by that same SSJ nun that that kind of thinking is no longer condoned by the Church. Maybe so, maybe not.
Thank you so much Brandon. It's so easy to understand the way you present all this. Thanks for all the time you put in each video, it makes it so easy for us. Take care❤
The more you read and think about what Paul said, the more he seems like a grifter. It's astounding how much he contradicts pretty much everything the bible had said up to that point.
A grifter stepping in the long line of grand grifters.
He preached another God, not Yahweh.
He's utilizing a lot of known cult indoctrination techniques. Information control, isolation, us vs them rhetoric.
Morning! A good deep think video to statt off the day thanks!😊
Hope so! Thanks for watching
All I know is I’d rather have a beer with Solomon than Paul…
I never liked Paul. I did wonder why Solomon who was so wise would do things he did but having wisdom doesn't mean you will do the wise thing.
I absolutely love it when you do these comparisons! My goal is to go through my Bible and notate all of them.
This was a good comparison video. Thanks.
I never went to church with any consistency growing up. My mother would sometimes make us go on Easter. But as an adult, I make sure to attend the church of Brandon every Sunday!
Many thanks for that!
One thing important to remember is that even Paul says that one covenant doesn’t cancel out another, so you have to look at these two men as if all covenants- including the Mosaic covenant- are still in full effect.
seems like an interesting comparison, gonna watch the whole vid
Thank you so much for talking about Amenhotep 111 and Flavious Josephus! You are on the right track:P
Amenhotep sounds a bit like Jupiter and the sacred seven.
@@harveywabbit9541 REALLY? SOL O MOON doesn't say Sun and Moon to you? REALLY?
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or salome.
@@harveywabbit9541 U must be a troll...Salome has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with Amenhotep 111...
Been waiting all morning, let's go Brandon!!
Yes!
Thanks so much!
The one time “let’s go, Brandon” is not met with hostility…
@@BorisTheRed 😂😂
I ❤ how you appropriated The G-Rated Version of FJB. I never liked that version as I HATE our current president and don't even see him as such. Here COMPLETELY APPROPRIATE LETS GO BRANDON
Well done! Subscribed.
The disheartening part is that if Paul were really a Pharisee, he would have absolutely known about Proverbs and Solomon's take on all this. But yet he never mentioned it once. It almost seems that he is spitting in the face of Solomon, being, ironically, sacrilegious to the Old Testament
Neither Paul nor Salomon ever existed. Their stories are about anatomy.
Excellent to see the comparison between Solomon and Paul. Like the old testament and new testament, they are two totally different things.
Solomon, the Sun, is still alive.
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Appreciate it!
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Really great video, Brandon. Apologies again for whatever annoyance I might have been regarding audio.
Good morning!
Morning!
Mindshift is great in the kingdom of youtube bible study ! ✨
It would be really cool if you could make a video on the different afterlifes presented between the old and New Testaments. Outside of a verse in Daniel 12, the OT is basically vacant when it comes to heaven and hell and most Jews thought there was no afterlife except Sheol.
And with this suggestion, you just reminded me of a offensive joke from South Park, where Cartman says to Kyle that the Jewish idea of heaven is getting $5 off their soup at Bennigan's by lying about a hair in it (which then drives Kyle furious enough to punch Cartman in the head on the spot).
😂 South Park.@@DavidRichardson153
Riveting video, Mr. B. Brilliant.
man I laughed so hard when Jesus popped up (on Solomon's side too)
Lol! I almost had him pop in from the top left corner upside down but it felt too much like a nonstampcollecter move
This type of comparative analysis is extremely useful!! At least from my experience, it is an analysis that has not been explored as much in the theism vs atheism/ atheism vs christianity discussions in the past few years. Thank you! Your work is very appreciated. Though the alcohol subject needed the rest of the context. Where it states that alcohol is not for kings.
It’s amazing how strongly many Christians believe in heaven and hell, especially hell. One would think that God would tell folks about them earlier than 2000 years ago. Pretty important info, if it were true.
ALL RELIGIONS versus a book, the BIBLE
The UNBIBLICAL teachings and doctrines of Religions about "hellfire", "afterlife", "immortality of the souls", "Armageddon", "Trinity", "reincarnation", and "rapture"
will
definitely bring nothing but dishonor, disgrace, shame and ETERNAL DEATHS
to
Jehovah's Witnesses, SDAs, Mormons, SDAs, Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Born Again Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions.
The BIBLE, GOD, and JESUS CHRIST bring HONOR and ETERNAL LIFE and EXISTENCE on EARTH to HUMAN BEINGS
Lowly, ordinary, kind, and respectful persons on earth who honor and obey Jesus Christ as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King
will
definitely be honored and rewarded by the loving, kind, and merciful GOD with ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4
and
the teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26
are the guarantee
that
loving, kind, considerate, and respectful persons on earth
who
died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others
will
all be RESURRECTED back to life in GOD's right and proper time so they can live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient citizens and subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD"
and fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings of GOD and his Christ for eternity
under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his GOD and Father's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
Well done! 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you!
@@MindShift-Brandon I cannot express my gratitude to you for your work enough. I am OUT of Christianity after 57 years!
@@Sologicalreally appreciate that and you being here!
My little truth sunday school
They say never to attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance. I do my best to follow that rule, dare I say, "religiously". And so I took the little I knew about Paul (learned from some guy also named Paul) and I gave the benefit of the doubt to him. A man who'd had a vision of something he could not explain, and was doing the best he could with what he had, I'd thought. It seemed to fit all the data I had access to, so it was the safer belief.
Every single thing I learn about Paul, from his own mouth, makes that belief more difficult to sustain.
If you were writing a book, and wanted to create a character from scratch who embodied the traits of a manipulative leader, you would look at the result and find that you had accidentally recreated Paul. This man is the blueprint that cults throughout history, religious or otherwise, follow to obtain and retain membership. Grandiose promises of wellbeing that can in no way be shown to truly exist. Constant complaints about how wrong his followers are doing everything, coercing them into precisely the box that he wants them in, and holding that grand reward as hostage until behavior perfectly fits within that box. The occasional hollow reminders of excessive love, to keep the people thinking they're actually cared for and respected, despite the constant griping. Always blaming the followers, with the fault never resting on the leader except in extremely superficial, meaningless ways. The rules the followers must follow, though claimed to be some universal truth rather than the whims of the leader, somehow are never required to be followed _by_ that leader.
This is Paul's behavior, and the behavior of countless others throughout history who have snatched and stolen any person they can get their hands on, twisting their reality until only the leader can be trusted, and the whole world is your enemy. Just the way Christianity wants it. Just the way dictators want it. Just the way cult leaders want it. It is their favorite strategy to employ.
They are above. They are blameless. They are untouchable.
They control. They restrict. They blame.
They're confusing. They're contradictory. They're hypocrites.
They should not be trusted.
They should not be respected.
They should not be followed.
They do not deserve you.
They are powerless without you.
Yes! Love this.
This is why I had started suspected that, like all of the other dictators, religious/cult leaders (as often attributed to being said by Robert Heinlein, a religion is a cult with political power), and other manipulative scumbags throughout history, Paul was doing this to enrich himself, that he wanted to pad his pockets and live the high life for the rest of his life. Why else would someone who has none of the highest possible accreditation (or what could be considered such back then) of having been an actual direct apostle to Jesus rather suddenly start making all these contradictory claims about Jesus and his teachings? The fact that his "explanation" is a sudden vision does not - or at least _should_ not - do him any favors, but then again, is this not as you described about such people?
In fairness, this is nothing more than personal speculation of mine, and I have no way of knowing or finding out for sure if this really was the case. That said, if it ever somehow came out that this really was what Paul was doing, all I will feel and thus say about it is, "Called it."
@riluna3695 I love @MindShift-Brandon videos because they are so intelligent and well-crafted, and I learn so much from them. I also love his videos because he attracts so many intelligent viewers who leave intelligent and well-crafted comments like yours, which I also learn so much from. Thank you so much for your comment!
@@roadrunner7545 Thank you :D This comment means a lot to me.
Well said, very well written !! Thank you for sharing.
This was an interesting video, especially when I haven’t seen anyone do this specific comparison. I liked that you pointed out the proverbial context of Solomon, since I was thinking when I started the vid.
While it is obvious that there are OT and NT contradictions, some of the things listed don’t seem so to me honestly, some that stood out to me would be on wealth, as this just seems a difference given the post-Jesus context of the christian’s given that they would face repression from the roman empire, a context different from Solomon’s time (if he actually existed), on counsel this looks like a difference of a general advise for life and then Paul making a doctrinal statements. On righteousness, this difference to me seem that righteousness is akin to being perfect, as it is implied in Jesus, which would seem to be a different meaning from other OT literature.
Wish I could comment more but Im in a bit of hurry right now haha, but in any case, good Sunday episode, cheers.
Thanks Brandon. Interesting video.
When a "holy book” is equally flawed as every other book made by humans.
Not really a book, even... It's an anthology compiled by a council specifically to be biased in favor of (and, you would think, self-consistent with) a specific orthodoxy.
It is the inspired word of God there are no flaws, the only thing that's flawed is man. God is holy and just and perfect and you do not understand the Bible because you do not have the holy spirit with you and you want to live in your sins
(Just wanted to save the apologists who visit this channel the time of replying with something like that)
@@lilacintheshadeTbf, when you get a counsel together, everyone has different ideas of what is “God’s perfect message to humanity” is.
or more
@@PittPens6866 How can man have ever become flawed if man is a part of God’s Perfect Creation that is flawless in every way?
(Just wanted to save the anti-apologists some time)
this might be your best video for sending to a christian family member for a concise but powerful dispute against the whole religion
In the Old Testament the Devils job was to keep you from keeping God's Commandments. In the New Testament that job became Paul's. 😂
Where does Paul do that?
We put so much effort to understand a scripture thought of by someone at a point in time and which would have changed in authors minds the longer they lived
I try to have patience with people who claim that there are no contradictions in the Bible, because I used to be one of them. But they can be so annoying to deal with!
There is no contradictions in the Bible just wrong interpretations.
@@heavenbound7-7-7-7 You are proving my point.
@@DannyS177
Why should I care?
@@heavenbound7-7-7-7 if you don't care, then why are you here? Are you lost?
@@timothylinga1427
I don't care Mr Danny's opinions.
You are a genius and you are doing very important work, to accurately and honestly find faults with the Bible is a tremendous good service to mankind. In the last 20-30 years of my 51-yr Christian life and intensive constant Bible study I too have noticed many of these contradictions but to square them away and preserve the integrity of my Christian life I have always rationalized and deferred to them in the benefit of the doubt. In my ongoing consideration of them it is no longer always wise to make the deferment.
ALL RELIGIONS are WORTHLESS and USELESS
The UNBIBLICAL teachings and doctrines about "hellfire", "afterlife", "immortality of the souls", "Armageddon", "Trinity", "reincarnation", and "rapture"
are all worthless and useless, nothing but lies and deceits of the mockers and haters of GOD and Jesus Christ
and
will definitely bring nothing but dishonor, disgrace, shame and ETERNAL DEATHS
to
Jehovah's Witnesses, SDAs, Mormons, Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Born Again Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions.
GOD and JESUS CHRIST bring HONOR and ETERNAL LIFE and EXISTENCE on EARTH to HUMAN BEINGS
ETERNAL LIFE and existence without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death on a safe and peaceful Earth without liars, slanderers, perverts, traitors, and murderers as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4, 8
is
the loving, kind, and merciful GOD's favor and reward for lowly, ordinary, kind, and respectful persons on earth
who
honor and obey Jesus Christ as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King
and
the teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26
are the guarantee
that
loving, kind, considerate, and respectful persons on earth
who
died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others
will
all be RESURRECTED back to life in GOD's right and proper time so they can live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient citizens and subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD"
and fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings of GOD and his Christ for eternity
under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his GOD and Father's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
On Galatians 1:12, it seems clear to me that a lot of people picked up on this. Just say it came from the Lord, why do you need to fact check it? It is such a useful rhetoric that even the Muslims realized this when they defend their tenets on the basis that their prophet received wahi from an angel or God directly.
We even see this in Acts, where Peter receives a vision of various animals and God telling him to kill and eat and Peter rebuts with "No Lord don't let me do this unclean thing", and then God just tells him "Do not consider unclean what God has considered clean", it happens 3 times and he just leaves.
If it were indeed so easy to change a commandment, could have done it with slavery. In fact ANY commandment really can be done with this rhetoric. It can even go against scripture as we see in Acts.
Personally I think Ecclesiastes is heavily underrated as a book. One of the very few books in the bible to acknowledge suffering.
Agreed. I am doing a podcast soon about Ecclesiastes with a philosophy grad. Excited to dive in!
That is something I have to give credit to Ecclesiastes for. Sure, it still has plenty of its own problems, but at least it, along with Solomon by extension (still with plenty of his own problems, naturally), does make the acknowledgement of "Hey, sh^t happens, this way of dealing with it seems to work best, so maybe try this, but ultimately, do not let anything stop you - slowing down is fine, but do not stop."
Of course, there is still the matter of following through, but hey, a start is a start.
I'd love to see a video covering the conflict - both scriptural and personal - between Peter and Paul. Bart Ehrman touched on it in one of his episodes but I'd love a broader or more in depth look
Wow Brandon !! Your presentations just keep getting better !! What a fantastic contrast between these two men's religions !!! 100 thumbs up.
The trinity is supposed to be the same in the past, the present and future. Yet the trinity couldn't offer jesus before the flood? And then the trinity inspires these two guys with different messages ?? Only the writings of joe smith and mohammed are more contradictory from "divine inspiration". If I'm going to read fiction, J.K. Rowling's story has more pages, but is more fun to read.
Well said! And thank you
Around @25:00, Paul is advocating the "FREEZE" response to fear, which is terribly toxic and self-defeating.
Here for church!
excellent comparison
Thanks!
By today standards, Paul was pretty toxic.
Thank Brandon
Kinda seems like drunk guy talk. Like grizzly vs. tiger or something 😅. I can't wait to listen!
I'm 4 months late but still worth the watch
Hmmmm, specifically pitting the OT against the NT. This should be interesting, given how much Christians talk about how the OT prepares us for the NT. 😁😈👹
The lies begin in Genesis 1.
“But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.”
Galatians 3:23-26 KJV
@@harveywabbit9541 LOL. Sorry I only have one "thumbs up" to give 🙂
@@onedaya_martian1238
We are all children of the sun.
@Brxwn9
Don't try to visit God, you will be burned by a consuming fire.
Hebrews 12:28-29
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
For our God is a consuming fire.
This was a really clever idea. People often get an impression of the differences between the Old and New Testaments, but you've showcased here how the picture is always a lot more complicated (and cannot always be explained away by references to covenental theology), not least because neither Testament is a monolith, nor even are individual books.
But if I were to ascribe an overriding difference, it would be this - the New Testament is primarily an apocalyptic text, which is why almost all of its advice is applicable only to the idea of making oneself perfect before the end comes, whereas the Hebrew Bible, despite being often painfully a product of its time, does at least have some advice that was meant to be applicable to everyday real life.
From the start of the video: We playing Solomon Says, the ancient Hebrew version of Simon Says?
Lol i felt that a few times as i said it.
Well researched and presented. I have nothing to add. Dammit
Hey, the other day i thought about the problem of evil, and i think i got a very strong version of that problem:
1) God, by definition, is not contingent, meaning he couldn't be otherwise. (Christian premisse)
2) God is the maximum good, necessarily. (Christian premisse)
3) So, at some point P, before God created any contingent creatures, everything that existed at P was the maximum good.
4) The maximum good can't get any more good, by definition.
5) So, when God created any contingent creatures, such as angels or humans, no additional good was added to the total amount of good in existence.
6) But after God created contingent creatures, previously inexistent evils were added to existence.
7) So, the creation of contingent creatures, such as angels and humans, was an evil act, since it lead to the increasing of the total amount of evil in existence from zero to some positive amount, while it added no additional goods to existence.
8) So, God is not omnibenevolent.
9) But God must be omnibenevolent, necessarily.
10) So, God doesn't exist.
Whenever I hear Christians present premise 2) God is Maximally good, it’s kind of a workaround to avoid premise 8) God is omnibenevolent .
You do a good job laying out an argument that a maximally good being isn’t omnibenevolent, but doesn’t really carry much weight. That’s why the term Maximally Good was invented in the first place.
Also, the classic problem of evil is only a problem for the Tri-Omni god. A god that isn’t omniscient or omnipotent could be omnibenevolent, but unable to prevent the evil.
@@lifefindsaway7875 what about this:
1) God, by definition, is not contingent, meaning he couldn't be otherwise. (Christian premisse)
2) God is the maximum good, necessarily. (Christian premisse)
3) So, at some point P, before God created any contingent creatures, everything that existed at P was the maximum good.
4) The maximum good can't get any more good, by definition.
5) So, when God created any contingent creatures, such as angels or humans, no additional good was added to the total amount of good in existence.
6) But when God created contingent creatures, previously inexistent evils were added to existence.
7) So, the creation of contingent creatures, such as angels and humans, was an evil act, since it increased the total amount of evil in existence from zero to some positive amount, while it added no additional goods to existence.
8) A maximally good God wouldn't increase the total amount of evil in existence without increasing the total amount of good in existence.
9) So, God is not maximally good.
10) But God must be maximally good, necessarily.
11) So, God doesn't exist.
@@lifefindsaway7875 About the tri-omni distinction, i would use some kind of Anselmian argument, which says God is "a being than which no greater can be conceived". So, if i can conceive a tri-omni God, that God is greater than the non-tri-omni God. So, God must be tri-omni
Free will isn’t an evil act, logic fails
@japexican007 the argument never claims that. Read my argument carefully.
Just brilliant, as always! 🎉🎉 Comparing Paul's teachings to jesus was the beginning of my deconstruction. The Bible is _meant to confuse_ 😂😂
Confusion is a trademark of Satan. Satan is the real author of the bible.
Man everytime I hear Paul say something, it just makes my stomach turn
I believe that you are righteous Brother.
If it's between Paul and Solomon, for me it makes more sense to go with Solomon. At least we read God bestowing him with the knowledge but Paul? We read that Paul says he saw Jesus and Jesus said xyz, then he goes on to make a WHOLEFOOL of himself.
'The Dr Seuss nature of how Paul has suffered " - I'm dead HAH!
You know, with the way he contradicts Solomon and especially Jesus (not to mention himself and perhaps more often than Solomon did himself), Paul feels like an old South Park portrayal of Mel Gibson, where he is depicted as being absolutely nuts and chases Kyle and Stan from Hollywood to South Park after they took $16 from his wallet as reimbursement for their disappointment from watching _Passion of the Christ._
Now I am trying to figure out what Paul's version of Mel dressed up as a half-nude Braveheart and driving the tanker truck from Road Warrior while screaming "GIVE ME BACK MY $16!" would be.
The Seventh-Day Adventist state that immediately after death, there’s no afterlife however; at the second coming (hence the name “Adventist”) god will resurrect the righteous to take them to heaven for 1000 years. During this time, the righteous will witness the judgement of the wicked (that are still dead on earth). Then, after the millenium in heaven, then Jesus and the righteous will return to earth with the holy city and will live on earth for eternity….
After believing it (and teaching it) for many years, I’m baffled about the idiocy of such fairy tale. So glad for people like you Brandon!
Also Paul referring to the body as a tent--no, the body is more than just a tent. Much more. CLOTHING is a tent. Not the body. That's some anti-flesh Greek philosophy creeping in. If the body is just a tent, and the disembodied soul is capable of living on after death, then why is its resurrection so important in Christianity? Why will we need physical bodies in heaven? What will we do with them? According to Jesus, there isn't any marriage therefore no sex or reproduction in heaven; we will be like the angels. But apparently we will eat and drink. Does that mean that we will also need to urinate or defecate or will the digestive process be so efficient that we won't need to eliminate waste products? Methinks Paul hasn't really thought through what he is saying here about the resurrection and the body. If it's a tent, a tent can be discarded at will when the owner no longer needs it. If its the same owner, but a new tent, now we are getting into reincarnation territory . . .
"Also Paul referring to the body as a tent--no, the body is more than just a tent."
Paul doesn't downplay the body, the context here is temporal vs eternal body.
"For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." 2 Corinthians 5:1
OMG I was like Kitboga?! I love him.
Comparing the two, warts and all, Solomon comes across as the more balanced personality.
His wealth may have had something to do with that though...
It felt that way as i read the words but to be fair Solomon was no peach. All that wisdom and he still thought slave labor was the best way to build the temple.
@@MindShift-Brandon Agreed! I wasn't implying perfection on either part, just that I would rather go by Solomon's words than Paul's.
@@MindShift-Brandonwell, at that time slave labor WAS the best way to build things. Best for the purpose of building, not best for the slaves…
Comfort is something everyone thrives for.
Wow! That's all I've got to say.
When Paul talks, it’s like he’s taking the meaning of life completely away..everything is just about “god” and everything else is bad. That’s just a disgusting damaging horrendous mindset. That is one of the BIGGEST contributing factors to religious trauma. It just makes me feel sick, sad, and absolutely horrified. Life hurts, but it’s so beautiful at the same time. I mean hell, we are all living life for the first time together. We get to have beautiful relationships, help people,
Make the
World better one step at a time. Being able to go through the one life we get with someone is one of the most beautiful precious things. This earth and what it has to offer is precious. Traveling, fun activities to do, no matter how small…it’s all beautiful and precious. We are all animals born into a universe that started with an explosion. We are still learning everyday, still evolving to understand new things. Everyday we have a greater chance at coming together as humans. We are a very unique species. You should never feel guilty for being HUMAN. There is nothing wrong with it. It’s not a sin, it’s not evil, you are not inherently evil or wicked. We tend to have such a negative mindset, keeping us from thriving, but if only we could all realise that, and make a change
Religion just limits your senses for self discovery, indoctrination hurts
The Bible is not about religion. It's a book about the anatomy.
@@ralphricart3177 The bible is a book of metaphors, stories that convey wisdom or teaching in a memorable way just like kids story books.
Hell and Heaven taken literally is a place you go to if your good or bad after death. Interpreted metaphorically (and more consciously) it is a state of mind. Most people are living in hell right now on earth, they are miserable about everything, drowning in desire and endless expectations causing suffering, its only when you let go of desire and your selfish ego do you reach the state heaven. To be in heaven is a state of mind you can reach right now, its not a physical place. Christianity and all religions are books guiding people towards enlightenment but because of the low level of development of the average person the message goes way over there heads.
The devil and Satan is a metaphor for YOU! Your selfishness is the devil, your distinction between good and bad is devilry, your self-deception is devilry.
A divine lobotomy.
@@MarioGabrielJ02 Your comment is on point.
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I filtered today’s video through a wiz and broomstick commentary for a Biblical death battle.
The importance and impact of belief in an afterlife is seen in how Solomon says to experience joy, to find a good wife because of the happiness it brings. Then there's Paul's view which is pretty stark, depressing, denying one's self of anything that gives joy in this world, banking on the more you suffer in this life, the happier you will be in the next one. Thanks, Brandon.
Paul, like Solomon, is a myth and not historical.
@@harveywabbit9541 sorry, sloppy writing - should have said the writings attributed to them. :)
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Solomon = sun sun sun.
Two different authors or people presenting two different ideas but saying its coming from the same God problematic much!?
or this is how one person viewed God vs another person, but mashing them together there is the issue!
Hey Brandon there's a video called "In defense of pascals wager." By Testify could you do a reaction video to it.
Ill take a look!
"For my people are destroyed for lack of understanding" but everyone else will do just fine learning from their own mistakes, like Kent Hovind handling a Rattlesnake... poor snake.
Oh my, that was incredible that he just exposed himself as not being a true believer because _that was a sign of a true believer_ 😂😂😂😂. Kont Hevind is a real whacko and abuser.
Good morning
Morning!
Mwhahahaha! "The Bible is a book as flaqwed as their authors!"
I don't know about anyone else, but I kinda want to see the Bible written in the style of contempary authors (Rick Riordan, Randsom Riggs, JK Rowling, STtphanie Meyers, Steven King, just to name a few) with the same litarly tropes but in modern language and storytelling conventions. I din't think that version of bible would be a best seller but I would buy one just for shits and giggles.
Paul says no to Wine, go straight for the Vodka.
We have to remember that the wisest man who ever lived, could not tell the difference between a real god from an idol later in his life. Is like changing a real woman for an inflatable doll 😅Same with all Israel; they were always going back to idol worship on and off thru the whole old testament. They could not tell the difference between one god from another, otherwise why would you change. My apologist mind would say that it was in order to practice evil things, but you would not start believing that a carved piece of wood is alive just to do whatever you feel like; specially if that would offend even more the real god you already believe in. They were definitely polytheists... they believed many gods were real.
"We have to remember that the wisest man who ever lived, could not tell the difference between a real god from an idol later in his life."
This shows how sin blinds people.
"And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left-and also many animals?” Jonah 4:11
@@heavenbound7-7-7-7 "On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict". Real history, not legends. An imaginary god did exactly what an imaginary god should do about the most atrocious act in human history.
This shows how inconsistent this holy book is and also if Solomon held wisdom more vast than any human on earth how did he even end up in that sorry state to begin with other than not having earn actual wisdom but gotten handed to him on a sliver platter plate but that just my guess
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"This shows how inconsistent this holy book is"
Nope, this shows human sinfulness, wise people aren't sinless, Solomon was wise in many things but he was completely foolish by rejecting God's clear commandments.
can you discuss suffering? why does God allow bad things to happen to good people? and allow evil and unjust behaviour to go unpunished?
I have covered quite a bit in other videos
Of course Paul is more important than God and Jesus. 😂
Paul gets his name from Phallus.
“Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius; lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name. And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other. For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.”
1 Corinthians 1:10-21 KJV
“And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”
1 Corinthians 3:1-11 KJV
I thought the name Paul meant “small one” which could be a sort of reverse psychology pun attributed to his character since he loves to appear as the most humble and weak, but in actuality is an ego maniac.
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Many P words, in the bible, refer to the phallus. Peter is another phallus.
See works of James B. Hannay