When I was a kid, my heart stopped for about a minute in a swimming pool accident. I didn't see any white light or feel the presence of God. Then again, for all I know, God might have been the one trying to drown me-he's got a track record for having that kind of kink.

@brucebaker810

Ай бұрын

The poolwater parting. The plate of cookies at the bottom. Mighta been a setup.

@JordanMMiracle

Ай бұрын

I mean, I personally fall into more of a "David Chalmers" view of consciousness. A dualistic view, if you will. Anybody who has ever had true psychedelic experiences generally had terrible coming away thinking about consciousness in the same way. These things get into far more than, "random hallucinations" and"seeing things on drugs". My wife and I are both atheists, and I follow a sort of loose Theravada Buddhism as a moral philosophy. Anybody curious should listen to Chalmers talk about consciousness and read The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman. At the very least, it shows how little we know of consciousness.

@briandeney1615

Ай бұрын

Priceless

@user-vu5dp2wm4e

Ай бұрын

@@JordanMMiracle I personally don't like philosophical approach of the consciousness .Though I do have some hypotheses for questions like why do consciousness exist, and they have something to do with death.

@oxcart4172

Ай бұрын

Brilliant!

"Have you ever faced your own mortality" Fourteen times in the last 30 years. I've got THREE signed death certificates because doctors didn't think I'd pull through three different times. I'd like to say I'm a bit of an expert on the subject. Still an atheist because I understand he process of death, and I'm not a coward. There's no such things as souls. Period. "If you're been in the room when someone passes..." I've held a dying person in my arms. I felt their chest stop. I breathed in their last breath. I know what the shutdown process entails and nothing special happened. A broken lump of meat stopped working. Nothing more.

@petyrkowalski9887

Ай бұрын

Sorry.. but nobody gets a signed death certificate unless you are actually certified as Dead…

@jeffknott1975

Ай бұрын

He basically said "something happened that reminded me of death and this afterlife story made me feel better" religion exists because of our fear of death

@Paranitis

Ай бұрын

@@jeffknott1975 It was literally the premise of the Ricky Gervais movie, The Invention of Lying. Someone was afraid of dying, in a world where nobody ever lied, so he made up this bullshit story about an afterlife, someone else overheard it, asked if it was true, and he said yes, then went on to expand upon his lie, creating a religion.

@mikemcwilliams7801

Ай бұрын

you dont get death certificates unless you are dead

@oxcart4172

Ай бұрын

I had a bad asthma attack once that came very close to finishing me off. Weirdly, I just felt extremely relaxed and thought of a joke! (I was so grateful that I my sense of humour didn't let me down!)

Fear of death is no excuse for worshipping an end-time superstition with no plan for the future beyond waiting for Jesus to destroy all their enemies for them.

@toughenupfluffy7294

Ай бұрын

Oh, and don't forget the endless eternity of self-flagellating narcissist worship, which somehow gives finite life meaning. Yeah, whatever.

I guess the Nobel Prize Committe hotline was busy, so he figured he'd call into the show, and try again later.

@dodumichalcevski

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@Columbiastargazer

Ай бұрын

i should cancel my travel to Oslo reservations then and i was looking forward to that pickled herring dinner too...

@bradhorowitz2765

Ай бұрын

Heck not even the Nobel prize, think of the more integral academic journals, or MUSEUMS where educators and academic ph peeps work together to try and present ANY new information deemed appropriate to the public.

@tpoy1274

Ай бұрын

How often is the Nobel Prize ever given to a philosopher? Once in my recollection, but for literature, and he turned it down. This is a complete non sequitur. You may as well say that if there were good arguments for the existence of God, they would have been given an Oscar. But since they never got an Oscar, or even a Golden Globe, they must not be good.😂

@TheZombieSaints

Ай бұрын

Good one 👏👏👏🤣🤣🤣

I was dead on the table at the hospital once. The experience made me even more of an atheist. In adddition to that experience, I was recently diagnosed with heart failure. My atheism made accepting death much easier. Luckily, I found out that i won't be dying anytime soon.

The Amazon tribe without supernatural beliefs is called the Pirahã people. The Pirahã do not even have a word for god in their language. One time a missionary told them about Jesus. He was asked if he had met Jesus himself. Since he answered "no", they were no longer interested in his stories.

@cy-one

Ай бұрын

Based.

@duanejohnson9798

Ай бұрын

Death scares people. I don't believe in atheists becoming a theist. I watched my mother die, she was a believer. She fought Death. My father was an atheist and he fought Death. I accept my eventual death. Got close a few times. Science and religion are opposed to each other.

The idea that you have to be rich to not believe in a God is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. My dad left when I was 6, my mom became a waitress. This is the 1970s. We were dirt poor, and every bad thing that happened to us further reinforced my growing skepticism. As a small child we went to church, and I said my prayer every night. By the time I was 8 my mom had discovered the bar scene, and we had lived in several tiny towns in Oklahoma and Texas following her oilfield boyfriends. By the time I was 10 I was certain there was no God. People would ask what if you are wrong and you have to stand before God when your life ends, and I still reply he better have some darn good security because imma kick his ass

@mirandahotspring4019

Ай бұрын

All the more reason to die with your boots on!

@chrisgraham2904

Ай бұрын

Yep! Life can be tough and your childhood was not "living the American Dream" by our North American standards. However, we also need to recognize that "your life that sucked" was probably better than 90 percent if the world's population. Vast numbers of people in India, Africa or North Korea that would have killed to to have your life as a child. It really is all relative and that too, has nothing to do with god(s).

@cy-one

Ай бұрын

I come from poor beginnings and am still not "well off." I'm doing better than my mom did at my age, but not by a long shot. Very much lower middle class, to the point I elect to not have a car because it would burden my finances too much. I could, but I don't want to (and living in central Europe, I don't need to have one either). Certainly not rich. Still an atheist.

@jackmehoff9616

Ай бұрын

Carved into the wall of concentration camp. " If there is a God he has a lot to answer for"

@mirandahotspring4019

Ай бұрын

@@jackmehoff9616 Absolutely! He also has Lot to answer for.

I was raised in a secular household. My father was a doctor, a scientist, a skeptic, a rational thinker and an Atheist. When I was about 8 years old I told him that every time we had to stay over at Granny’s house, she would make us say prayers and sing the “Jesus loves me” song. I told him I didn’t understand it and asked him about it. He told me that some people, like Granny, believe that there is a God who wants to punish everybody because our ancestors did something he didn’t like, and he punishes all of their descendants. The punishment was to burn in Hell for all eternity. Me: That doesn’t seem fair. So he’s the bad guy? Dad: Yes. But there’s also a guy called Jesus that can keep you from going to Hell and let you go to Heaven. Me: So he’s the good guy, right? Dad: that’s what they believe. Do you want to hear the kicker? Me: yeah. Dad: They’re both THE SAME GUY! Me: Stop kidding around, that can’t be true, it doesn’t make any sense. We need God to save us from God? Dad: That’s the idea. Me: Well, that’s a pretty stupid idea. Ah, the wisdom of youth!

Always special pleading. There is no argument for deities without it.

I'm 58 years old, have never believed in a god and the last time I faced my mortality was about 9 months ago when I had triple bypass heart surgery after a heart attack. The last thing I was thinking about was gods. I was far more concerned that my surgeon and his team were on their `A game` that day. I am pleased to be able to say they were, and received my undying thanks. If this particular person when facing their mortality decided there is a god, then okay, but I've come to terms with my mortality and other existential issues long ago. Facing death isn't going to make me a theist. An actual god might, by not my own mortality.

@petyrkowalski9887

Ай бұрын

I hope you are doing well now

@jeffknott1975

Ай бұрын

And these theists will take the hard work and sacrifice surgeons do throw it away and say a magic man in the sky saved you, taking away from these great people!

"A drowning man will grasp at the blade of a sword". All variations of 'there are no atheists in fox holes' idioms are ridiculous and false. In addition, if something is so ludicrous that the only time you can accept it is if you are facing death and will take any alternative, no matter how bad, it is a poor excuse for a way of life. The point of ultimate desperation is not the time to expect rationality.

@emordnilaps

Ай бұрын

Trust me: In war, those in foxholes are the least likely to believe that an invisible father is looking out for them, or that paradise awaits them. That's why they are in the foxhole.

I'm Rolling My Eyes....

My mom passed. I nearly died. Heart was operating at 11%. I'm still an atheist

My brother, a good christian, died when I was really young in a terrible accident rupturing religion in our family, and it entirely started my path towards atheism and skepticism. The whole 'mysterious ways' line of thinking is what we call a red flag

I have been faced with possible death a couple of times due to medical issues and i have never felt closer to a god or believing that one might exist. Not being able to save my sibling from death did not make me think of god.

In my life, I've faced my own mortality I didn't once think of god, i was busy trying to come up with something witty or profound as my last words.

@mirandahotspring4019

Ай бұрын

Good attitude!

My uncle literally died under my hands, when I performed CPR after he suffered fatal heart attack. I looked into his still open eyes. I don't know at which moment exactly he died. No soul appeared or was felt. I'm still an atheist.

@EaglesQuestions

Ай бұрын

I'm sorry you went through that. And I'm sorry for your loss.

@sirbarryvee-eight6485

Ай бұрын

Likewise, sorry for your loss and sorry you went through that. You can hold your head high that you did what you could, which is more than a lot of people could have done. I was the first on the scene of a fatal hit and run once. A guy my own age (20 at the time) was hit by a car that overtook me and was doing about 80mph. He was dead when the paramedics arrived, and I don't doubt he was killed on impact. I held his hand while the air left his lungs. Not something I will forget. It was strange looking at a person who until a few moments before was a living breathing person full of life and promise and hopes and dreams etc, and then (as much as I hate to say this) nothing more than a corpse, an object. I felt nothing around me, no soul, no presence, no spirit urging me to do anything. Just my own sense of tragedy over what I witnessing. No God, no Jesus, no Krishna, no Allah. Just me and a dude who lost his life.

@FrikInCasualMode

Ай бұрын

@@sirbarryvee-eight6485 Thank you. Worst thing is the bitter sense of failure. "Did I do everything right? Maybe I didn't enough?" I trained and took First Aid courses and it still wasn't enough. Objectively, I know it was a massive heart failure and probably even hospital wouldn't be able to save his life, much less two guys frantically trying CPR in the mud. But my emotions don't give rat's ass about what my brain knows.

@sirbarryvee-eight6485

Ай бұрын

@@FrikInCasualMode I understand that. There will always be that sense of not knowing whether you did enough. I don't want to come across as sounding dismissive here, but he had a massive heart attack - put a trained paramedic in your situation and the outcome might not have been any different. Having your uncle pass is bad enough, and it's made more personal because you were there, and then there is the added investment for you because you tried to save him. I can appreciate that the emotional part of you to let your logical part take over and say "I gave it the best shot, I used what I know from First Aid, and it wasn't enough because the heart attacked was too great". But the reality is, that is what happened. The heart attack was too much and there wasn't anything more you could do. You should be proud of yourself for what you did do, not what you couldn't do. You did what was in your power and means to do and that's commendable. I think you're a legend, massive props for stepping up to the challenge and giving it your all to attempt to save your uncle. In his condition, CPR would either work or not work and that wasn't your call. The result was not one of your making, the heart attack made that decision. You did your best. You did, you know it and you need to tell yourself that. Grief is a process. And it's a personal process. In your case it's made more personal because you were hands on at time. Never be hard on yourself for what you did. I hope nobody is judging you harshly for what you did, and I hope you can find some peace. End of the day, you're pretty bloody awesome for going "hold my beer, I'm giving this a go."

I was in a medically induced coma for weeks and I remember HOURS of turning my body on one nerve at a time I remember being trapped in my own body and being terrified I’m still an atheist

@CycocelVocalist

Ай бұрын

Holy shit fam. That's nightmare fuel.

When I was about 14 my aunt passed. First time seeing a dead person. I walked by her coffin and I had this urge to just smile. I did not feel anything scary. She was a wonderful woman. She had a long good life. All I wanted to do is smile because of knowing her. Not smiling that she wad dead but it was like it shows how life and death define each other.

I almost died during open heart surgery last year........Still an atheist.

@sirbarryvee-eight6485

Ай бұрын

I was in an armed hold-up and had a sawn off shotgun pressed to my upper lip. I don't thank God that the trigger wasn't pulled, I thank the robber's better judgment in not escalating his crime from "armed hold up" to "murder". Likewise, still an atheist. Did I call upon God at that point? Nope, my first thoughts were "please don't harm my girlfriend because she has a daughter and has more to live for than me".

When my mom passed, I never felt any presence leaving the room when it happened. It took me a week to fully register that she was gone. I knew she was dead the night it happened because I was there trying to keep her alive.

I have been in the room in hospice when someone has died. There is no actual change when a person dies, You feel like something is different when you discover the person is dead.

If there's two words that never ever ever belong together it's "scientific" and "theist" that's like saying "dark light" or "silent noise"

@Glasschin2.0

Ай бұрын

A dark light exists lol

@realdaggerman105

Ай бұрын

Look, I don’t think that’s entirely accurate. You can definitely be a scientist and religious. Maybe not like a young earth creationist, but most of the time these two things are like not overlapping. A chemist doesn’t challenge their belief in god doing chemistry. A geologist might.

@Glasschin2.0

Ай бұрын

@@realdaggerman105 if your a scientist you follow the scientific method. Using the evidence to come up with the must likely and logical conclusions to things. You can’t follow the scientific method and believe in a god as there’s no evidence. Any scientists that do believe in God are doing so purely on faith or untestable personal experience.

@jeffknott1975

Ай бұрын

​@@realdaggerman105 look, what I meant was using the scientific method to test god claims gives no results, if there was evidence scientists would be fighting to be the one to examine it but there is none to examine

@jeffknott1975

Ай бұрын

​@@Glasschin2.0 haha that's true but you get my point! How about "dry water"? 😆

Y'all have been suggested to me for a while. Finally remembered to subscribe though. My partner is from Texas and we have to spend a lot of time out there. Flying Spaghetti Monster bless you for dealing with the people there

If there were evidence that the gods exist, it would make international headlines.

There is a serious epistemological dissonance when one claims to be a scientist and a theist. A scientist *never* accepts a proposition as true without sound evidence. A theist does the opposite.

@chrisgraham2904

Ай бұрын

Yep! Damon needs to do some serious brushing up on his scientific methods.

I have faith in those suspenders. 😍😍😍

I was deployed to iraq for a year where I was shot at multiple times and got mortared daily, sometimes as close as a few hundred feet. Still an athiest. Nexxxxxtttttt

again, personal life stories and 'experiences' are irrelevant to supernatural claims and only serve to undermine the callers 'stronghold' by reducing their case to the mundane that most people experience let alone being 'scientific' evidence.

“The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility, and vice versa.” - Robert A. Heinlein

There was recently the largest atheist convention held in kerala,India

I have been in many rooms with people passing. It doesn’t mean anything except that the person is dead. Nothing has changed except the person has permanently ceased to function. The “feeling” is generated in the mind of the observer

When a Theist becomes an Atheist, people ask, why did you lose your faith? When an Atheist becomes a Theist, I ask, why did you lose your reason?

@theunknownatheist3815

Ай бұрын

It is almost always someone emotionally vulnerable. It wasn’t “reason” that led them to theism, it was feelings

One guy, when asked about his death experiences, says yes, I was paranoid as a child and walked down a scary street. The caller, who said he had scientific proof started talking about feelings in a room. This is not anyone's best work.

12:17 feel like this was a missed opportunity to point out that people who believe in things like ghosts are much more likely to mistake natural phenomenon for a supernatural experience.

"A Scientific Theist" Definition of Science: The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment: "The world of science and technology" Definition of Theism: None of that.

When I was 10, I was buried in a earth tunnel that collapsed on me and I screamed for my mummy (We don't have 'moms' here in the UK). It was before I learnt about god.

A scientific theist is like a magical realist. In other words, non-existent.

People who are up against death believe in god? Gee, it's almost like when the rational part of your brain says "Oh shit, I'm fucked," the emotional part says "But I don't WANNA be fucked!"

I'm scientific because I employ scientific means of discovering the truth....like "majority rules".

I don't know what he means by "facing my mortality". I'm immortal until proven otherwise.

@SecondaryHomunculus

Ай бұрын

"Thanks to denial, I'm immortal." -Philip J. Fry

@petyrkowalski9887

Ай бұрын

You are not immortal..your inevitable demise will prove that.

@ryvercardn3387

Ай бұрын

​@@petyrkowalski9887And right until that moment, they were right.

@gainer83

Ай бұрын

why are most of these theist callers on here sounds like brain damaged

Paraphrasing Hank Green from Journey to Microcosmos' "This Ciliate Is About to Die": "Life is chemicals working together to take in energy to keep themselves far from chemical equilibrium." "Life is a chemical system that uses energy to keep itself from reaching chemical equilibrium." "Death occurs when the system that was using energy to keep itself from reaching chemical equilibrium has ceased to exist." I held my mother's hand when her chemical equilibrium system ceased to exist. I learned from her how that final surrender can be done with grace and courage. And without the belief in a god.

"God exists because a dead person is different from a live person" Guy's a philosophical genius. Or something.

This caller is so typical of most theists. A bit arrogant, a bit condescending and also willfully ignorant. His argument is; “I’m terrified of dying so I’ve convinced myself of a delusion to ease my anxiety”

Hi, I live in Poland. I don’t speak English fluently, but I watch your KZread video show compulsively and have subscribed to it. Is this evidence of a divine miracle?:)

Aaaaaannnnnd..... not.

I have been in the room with someone as they died. Nothing changed other than how everyone else in the room reacted to the person is gone

I'm a logical absurdist lol

If you talk to emergency room doctors they will often tell you it's actually quite difficult to pinpoint the exact moment of death.

@bradmathis8196

13 күн бұрын

That's because its a process, and its a process that doesn't always happen the same way. And "death" has different definitions (some with their own problems): heart stoppage (not a good indicator because hearts can be restarted), certain brainwave activity ceases (not a good indicator, re: vegetative states), breathing ceases (also can be restarted or artificially induced). When all those things stop, tissues still live on until they are starved of oxygen which happens at different rates for different organs. I'm sure ER docs have guidelines to follow, but the patients' circumstances dictate the "official" declaration/"moment" of death.

THERE CAN NEVER BE A CALLER WHO HAS ANY 'PROOF ' OF GOD , BECAUSE THERE NEVER HAS BEEN ANY GOD . HOW MANY CALLERS TO ALL THE ATHEIST PROGRAMS OVER ALL THE YEARS HAVE CLAIMED THEY HAVE PROOF OF THEIR GOD ? THOUSANDS ? TENS OF THOUSANDS ? NO GOD = NO PROOF OF A GOD EVER

@bradmathis8196

13 күн бұрын

A lot of people (like me) won't read your posts when you are YELLING. If you have a point to make, I suggest appearing civil.

Two combat tours in Vietnam and service in Desert Storm. There ARE atheists in foxholes!!! I have seen many people die and while there is a noticeable change I've never had the feeling of 'something' leaving. I have also had to have several beloved pets euthanized. I have seen the same changes that I saw when humans die.

Hey guys you have to work on your lighting and background. For some reason it looks like a 80s call in show in terms of quality

Is he talking about the piraha tribe in South America?

Neopagan here: I have a concept of an afterlife, but I'm also aware that it's speculative and 100% unfalsifiable. I have zero business pushing it on other people, and I don't. If someone remains unconvinced of the existence of the soul or an afterlife, that's ok by me.

That's the trouble when people never travel or spend quality time in other cultures, they think everyone is like them. The dude can't say that in a situation where there is much death or pain there are no atheists. Non religious countries have traumatic events also. We dont suddenly believe in gods when fighting fires or arriving at a murder scene. What a load of dribble.

Strange argument. I have "faced my own mortality" multiple times as a motorcyclist....where i ACTUALLY got hit, or the time my front sprocket popped off on a mountain road doing 50 in a turn. I never found any of those instances as leading me to a "god"

Yes, this is the “talk abowt ya self “ show.

I'm an atheist and I just walk around like an idiot. Kind of like a beach bum type of character, Jimmy Buffet style.

But you don't have scientific evidence damon, you think you are a " scientific theist" but you clearly aren't, I'm not even sure that can exist when it comes to god belief, all of the scientists I see/hear that also believe do not believe for scientific reasons, it is always a "feelings" reason

We have no evidence of a soul!

@duncanbryson1167

Ай бұрын

One on the underside of each foot? 😂

Starts by complaining that they are probably going to eyeroll if he says things they don’t agree with. Try not saying stupid things that are contradictory, and there’s a fair chance of avoiding the eye rolling. 🤷‍♀️ His argument boils down to, “aren’t you scared of death, why don’t you use (my specific idea of) God as a security blanket to make yourself feel okay about that?” My answer would be, “because I outgrew the need for a security blanket when I was about 4 years old. Try growing the hell up…”

I think the caller was Nicolas Cage.

I have a couple of questions for Damon (and I would appreciate it, Damon, if you took the questions seriously rather than rolling your eyes and starting to make a bunch of shit up)-Damon, did you ever contemplate your own death and feel a need to make up *Sky Daddy* stories so that you could pretend you're not really going to die? And, finally, Damon, have you ever made any money with the *Sky Daddy* scam-the most lucrative scam known to man?

If god existed there would be no need to prove his existence

Regarding Br. Bob and his popcorn or watermelon theory, the popcorn or watermelon could grow only 20 feet apart of perhaps the walker was navigating by the potion of the popcorn or watermelon.

Atheists like myself also get Christian video suggestions. It goes both ways !😏

I'm 64 so all of my grandparents and both parents are dead. One cousin so far in her 30s and my best friend at school died suddenly of a brain aneurysm at 18. Nothing ever left them or changed in any observable fashion other than their ability to live. No soul or anything spooky. Damon is demonstrably unscientific in his thinking, at least about the subject he's been indoctrinated into believing.

There is a huge difference between "A soul" and "THE (supernatural immortal) soul". The first one hardly even mean anything, the second one is an extraordinary claim. And there is also difference between "many people believe it on faith" and "many people have some good reason(s) to believe it". (First is ad populum, second is just begging the question what those good reasons are.)

Pastor George. Does no one else hear it?

...The bible told me so....

@razony

Ай бұрын

Someone saw Jesus in a cloud. 💯 %!

So, he though or experienced something about death, got scared and now he believes in god so he can sleep at nigth thinking everything is going to be ok?

Where is his scientific proof, ? spouting nonsense as usual.

So faith is ultimately his reason? Not good

"...actually getting hit by a semi-truck", so Damon doesn't count experiences where you thought you would die, only the ones where you actually did die?

@rowleyj31

Ай бұрын

I got T-Boned by a Chevy Truck on my motorcycle.....didn't find God then or any other time.

"on-scene photo journalist" aka paparazzi?

Your soul is your body, it's physical it's solid in form. Due to paganism and pagan religion people have come to believe that they have a spirit body which they call their soul. Nothing could be further from the truth even animals are called souls after all they have a body just like humans do. There is no Spirit body that can be called an immortal soul. Nowhere in the Bible does it ever imply that man has an immortal soul. If you read where the first use of the term soul is, it reads that man became a living soul, not infused with an immortal soul that cannot most people are not sharp enough to realize that that is the case even the so-called teachers of Christendom miss the point from the very beginning of the Bible.. when you die you become a dead soul, there is nothing to go flitting off into the wild blue yonder as a immortal soul, people have been bamboozled by that false belief.

as soon as i hear these two words together, i cringe - scientist theist.

Funny when ever this is discussed how the comments explode with people who claim to have been “dead” ( I.e not breathing /heart has stopped)...please stop, I get it a dramatic, even traumatic event & a story that will stay with you...but you weren’t dead as cardiac arrest hasn’t a definition of death since about the 1950s.

The “ hear ya self” talk show

Don’t know why they gave this guy so much time - he said nothing of any substance . Yes I,like many have witnesses death it’s quite chilling one minute they exist then then have have ‘gone’ . That is all there is to it , of course we have memories etc but they have gone. It’s that simple , often very sad but it very straightforward.

Hope you folks don't hide theists comments. I need some to ague/debate with.

Is this guy ever going to get to his point …..??

Did he get back in touch ?

Stop eye rolling please 😂

@boogit9979

Ай бұрын

Why?

@boogit9979

Ай бұрын

Why?

This is boring and hard to get through. 8 minutes in and it seems the debate still hasn't even started.

Damon, be good. Eleven minutes in and signing off. Some of us have actually witnessed deaths. It doesn't sound like you have.

Ten minutes in, and nothing of interest has been discussed so far. Getting tedious, and quickly.

i am bombarded with religious videos.

@CycocelVocalist

Ай бұрын

I'm sorry to hear that.

That greatest tragedy of hell is the fact you don't have to go. There aren't any works we must perform for salvation, it was all taken care of at the cross and is offered as a free gift. Romans 4:5, "And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness," Romans 1:16 tells us, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 tells us exactly what this Gospel is, "Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures," All the breaking of God's laws and evil things you and I have ever done (past, present and future) has already been paid for. It won't do any good though if you don't accept the payment. Why not take the free gift of eternal life? :)

@sirbarryvee-eight6485

Ай бұрын

"Why not take the free gift of eternal life?" I'm holding back until it is offered with a free set of steak knives.

@Gwaithmir

Ай бұрын

If the teachings of Christianity are so true and so convincing, why do they have to be backed up with a threat?

@A-WallfromAL

Ай бұрын

Demonstrate that the Bible is a reliable and accurate source of information.

@justafishingdude

Ай бұрын

@@A-WallfromAL Thanks for the reply - we should definitely have a reason for why we believe something, otherwise it doesn't make much sense to place our trust there. It is said that novel, testable predictions are the gold standard for science. The Bible provides it! Here is an example of a prophecy that we can see fulfillment in the recent past and up to this day, which means we can know with certainty it happened after it was written. Deuteronomy 28:64 and Ezekiel 36:19-24 tell us that a specific people (Isr...l) would be scattered throughout the world for their disbelief and be returned back to the very same geographic land - in order for this to mean anything, they would have to be an identifiable people. "I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them. But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of his land.’ But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Isr..l had profaned among the nations to which they came. I Will Put My Spirit Within You. Therefore say to the house of Isr..l, Thus says the Lord God: It is not for your sake, O house of Isr...l, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came. And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes. I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land." Though the dispersion throughout the world aspect took place throughout the years (prophesied in Deuteronomy 28:64), the prophecy of these specific people returning to the very same geographic land after being scattered throughout the world in every direction didn't start happening until recent times - and continues to this day. What other people in the history of humankind has been scattered all across the world for hundreds/thousands of years and then returned to their homeland (the very same geographic land) as an identifiable people/nation once again? This isn't just being moved from one place to another place after being conquered - it is being literally scattered throughout the world in every direction from one end of the earth to the other. It wasn't until recent times that they began returning to the very same geographic land - starting roughly in the late nineteenth century according to an article by "History" and really picked up after WWII. Thus, we can show with certainty that this regathering to the land after being scattered throughout the nations happened after it was written given we have manuscripts from well before this time. If this is simply a self-fulfilling prophecy, history should be riddled with similar examples, correct? What other people in the history of humankind has been scattered across the world in every direction (China, The US, Japan, Russia, India, France, Argentina, Sweden, Spain, Poland, Canada, the UK, South Africa, etc.) for hundreds/thousands of years and then returned to their homeland (the very same geographic land) as an identifiable people and as a nation once again in that very same land? There isn't any other example throughout history. This means the Bible made the claim that something that has NEVER happened to any other people group throughout history would happen to a specific people long before it happened - and it did and we can see fulfillment throughout the past 130ish years

@A-WallfromAL

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@@justafishingdude I’m unimpressed with this for several reasons: (1) Jews were actively working throughout history to make this “prophecy” a reality. I cannot determine what we can credit to human effort and what was supposedly God’s intervention in bringing the Jews back to Israel. Prophecies are far more convincing when humans have no power to affect the predicted outcome. (2), All the spurious and failed prophecies in the Bible. (3), I’ve personally made predictions. Saw things before they happened and had knowledge of things I couldn’t have otherwise. Which means it was coincidental OR I’m also a prophet and you should take me seriously. (4) Other religions also have prophecies, some of which turned out to be true. I should say “true.”

Love the channel but, snark and roast like comments get a little out of hand, and a bit immature.

@albaniahenry-franklin2829

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

Here are the correct equations for relativity. x'=x-vt y'=y z'=z t'=t

No atheists in foxholes. 😮

@therick363

Ай бұрын

That’s a lie

@wyldink1

Ай бұрын

Which is demonstrably false.

Respectuflly you are extremely wrong about the Piraha (the tribe mentioned). Yes it's true that the Piraha do not have gods in a western sense of the word they DO in fact believe in supernatural beings. Specifically they believe the jungle is full of spirits. Beings that the Piraha can see but others do not. Daniel Everett, the missionary who brought the story to the west and who has since become an atheist, has spoken about this common misconception even giving a talk to Freedom From Religion on the subject (you can find a transcription on google). What make the Piraha fascinating, at least in my opinion, is that they believe only in what they directly see and experience but that experience extends beyond what the rest of us can. I'd personally love to get to know them perosnally and explore this (I wonder if they might actually have an animistic view but who knows) but frankly I"m to old and to poor in shape to go visiting the Amazon.

Repent. Believe in Jesus Christ for salvation and become a new person in this life. John 3:16 KJV For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Matthew 4:17 KJV From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

@LogicalKip

Ай бұрын

You seriously think anyone watching this video wouldn't have heard those verses ?

@sbalneav

Ай бұрын

Sorry, don't believe a god exists. Far as I can see, I gotta fix my own problems.

@cshubs

Ай бұрын

You like cutting/pasting this text to everything you watch?

@inBtweenHandles

Ай бұрын

Why? Give us 1 worthy reason.

@Jambi14

Ай бұрын

You do know that if you have to believe in anything that Baha'i or Jainism are far more peaceful faiths than yours. Xtians have been responsible for the horrific deaths of millions. No thanks.

Chakaras and Orah's are not religious beliefs

@A-WallfromAL

Ай бұрын

Chakras and auras you mean? Depends on the person. The belief in chakras is part of some traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism.