You could make a religion out of this!

@henryconner780

6 ай бұрын

More like you can base all of western civilization off this ;) Without the Bible we’d be nothing!

@supersonicx7216

6 ай бұрын

No, don't.

@alexfilma16

6 ай бұрын

@@supersonicx7216 How bout I do, anyway?

@cobracommander8133

6 ай бұрын

@@alexfilma16no, don’t

@alexfilma16

6 ай бұрын

@@cobracommander8133 AND SO THE RELIGION WAS PUT INTO PLACE

I thought you'd be a good one to cover this!

@MannyBXNG

6 ай бұрын

Sup terry

@NewslandiaRela

6 ай бұрын

YOOOO MR TERRY

@mizcaesar1804

3 ай бұрын

MrTerry the goat

@hellsSG

5 күн бұрын

Mr. Teerryyy the one and only.

Redeemed Zoomer also made a video were he talks about the content of every book of the Bible and what the massage of them are, it's really interesting and definitely worth a reaction.

@alexfilma16

6 ай бұрын

The Bible can give me a massage? I gotta start reading!

@jonsampiro

6 ай бұрын

@@alexfilma16 The Song of Solomon mentions some hand moves that would still be illegal in all 50 states.

you weaving through religion and science is an art. this is a pretty intense video regarding all the knowledge. my favorite video you have made.

While I'm Non religious, I actually found this fascinating as I have never fully read the Bible, all I've done is go to a few church gatherings with my great grandparents, but you explaining the events referenced in this video really helped sell some of the ideas the Bible has produced

@frontgamet.v1892

6 ай бұрын

Here is a cool perspective: it would be morally more logical to believe in a religion than not to believe in one. Due to the fact that if an atheist dies (or a person who doesn't believe in God) and there is a God then he will suffer eternally in hell. But if a Christian, for example, dies and there is no God... then nothing happens. So the cards are better for a religious person than for an atheist.. In every sense.

@Magnustopheles

6 ай бұрын

​@@frontgamet.v1892 ah, but Pascal's wager doesn't take into account the fact that there are many denominations of Christianity, and other religions, each with their own view of what hell is. What if you pick the wrong god? Also, when your belief is founded only on getting a lower chance of damnation, can you call that real belief? I was a Christian who rationalized my faith through Pascal's wager for years, but I ultimately gave up when I realized how much of the Bible contradicts observable things in the real world. I can disprove the accuracy of the Bible, and since the Bible is the only real source we have to legitimize Christianity, I'd argue that in doing so I'm disproving Christianity, thus invalidating Pascal's wager.

@BarnabyCrumplebum

6 ай бұрын

@@frontgamet.v1892if the only reason you are christian is basically just , “To be safe when I die,” then you aren’t that strong of a Christian

@frontgamet.v1892

6 ай бұрын

@@BarnabyCrumplebum YEAH OK I GET IT.. the argument was stupid. Better? Hopefully. I am NOT a Christian.

@BarnabyCrumplebum

6 ай бұрын

@@frontgamet.v1892 ok. I wasn’t necessarily trying to say you were, if it came off that way sorry, but I was talking about Christians in general.

When I was a teenager I actually read the entire Bible in a year. It’s influenced my think throughout my adult life, even though I spent 10 years agnostic before returning to church when I was almost 30.

@NotJordy

6 ай бұрын

Based

@samuelljayy6705

6 ай бұрын

If you read the entire bible and believe it, ur just lost tbh.

@irlAlchemist

6 ай бұрын

@@samuelljayy6705lol. Lmao even.

@theamericanpotatonamedphil4306

5 ай бұрын

​@@samuelljayy6705"someone doesn't agree with me they must be insane" atheist logic

@kurolap7882

4 ай бұрын

@@theamericanpotatonamedphil4306 i don't know how you listen to the first 5 minutes of this actually and don't understand how insane the story is.

I'm an atheist but I love your reaction to theological subjects.

@TheRealForgetfulElephant

6 ай бұрын

I have this argument with my brother (who is an atheist) all the time Is atheism a religion?

@nathansimpson5721

6 ай бұрын

@@TheRealForgetfulElephant It is absolutely not a religion. It is a response to theism. Atheism (as myself an atheist defines it) is the LACK of belief in a god or gods. I consider myself to be an agnostic atheist, which means I do not KNOW whether or not a god or multiple gods exist, but I also don’t have enough evidence to be convinced that a god or multiple gods do/does exist. Can atheists also be a part of a religion that does not require belief in a god or gods? Absolutely, but not all atheists do that. Let me know if you need any more clarification :)

@samrevlej9331

6 ай бұрын

@@nathansimpson5721 I have the same position.

@billy9497able

6 ай бұрын

@@TheRealForgetfulElephantit is not a religion.

@JuanNunez2023

6 ай бұрын

@@TheRealForgetfulElephant Atheism can have religion-like qualities for some people. IE an interest that becomes a core part of their value system and day to day lives. But that doesn't make it a religion due to the lack of faith and worship. You can't have a religion without faith, and you can't be an atheist who is driven by faith. They are incompatible. It's also worth noting that most Atheists don't build their personalities around atheism like high profile online atheists do. Most atheists are simply people that don't participate in religion and don't have any strong feelings against it.

The phrase that Chris talks about in the beginning is ".אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה‎" (ehye asher ehye) in the original Biblical Hebrew. The repeating verb in that phrase is conjugated in a really interesting way that makes it very vague. The basic way that Biblical Hebrew does verbs is not based on past and present. Instead, it has a distinction between perfect and imperfect; basically, whether an action or an event is over and done or continuous. Like the difference between "He hit me" and "He was hitting me." "Ehye" is the first-person imperfect of the verb that means "to be", and 'asher' is a Hebrew equivalent of "that" or "who", so you could translate it as "I am that I am", as many do, but it could also be interpreted as "I am who I am" (it is self-evident who I am), "I am that I will be" (essentially, "I am eternal"), or "I will be that which I am" (a prophetic interpretation of the messiah, maybe?), and all of these interpretations can be true at the same time because the only thing the verb is not saying is that God has already existed and doesn't anymore. I'm just a boring atheist linguistics student, but I find immense beauty in how the exact language this phrase was written in conveys the message so elegantly.

@keepclimbing2015

6 ай бұрын

I heard an interpretation recently that "In the beginning" should be translated more like "When God began creating".

@connorlee9007

6 ай бұрын

​@@keepclimbing2015correct, Jewish translations render it such as do newer Christian translation e.g NRSVue "When God began to create"

I should have recognized that he was a Presbyterian; a lot of the language he used to explain stuff is similar to the Westminster divines. I love the commentary, Chris, and I'm glad you chose to react to Redeemed Zoomer!

Vlogging Through History and Redeemed Zoomer crossover is something I did not expect. Redeemed Zoomer is great.

I’m Catholic, but I have a lot of respect for VTH and Redeemed Zoomer and all of our Protestant brothers and sisters. Viva Cristo Rey!

The idea of the Apple for the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil stems from medieval Morality plays put on by the catholic church. They needed a fruit to be portrayed, so they used the apple and the idea stuck in pop culture forever. The same is true with Angels having wings (Seraphim and Cherubim have wings, Angels do not) the Devil with horns and a pitchfork, etc. There are several ideas we have about things in the Bible that came from these morality plays from 500-1500 years ago.

@jonsampiro

6 ай бұрын

In medieval art, since most people did not read, they would usually portray Biblical characters with some item that defined them or was traditionally associated with them: David with a sling, Moses with the tablets, the Virgin Mary with a blue veil [which the scripture doesn't mention her wearing, but it was used early on and just became part of her brand] etc.. Adam was disginguished by the fig leaf and Eve was depicted with a piece of fruit and in time the fruit was standardized into an apple. (A few early drawrings also depicted them without navels, but that's not as easily noticed as the apple and fig leaf.)

@wes4736

6 ай бұрын

That's simply not true. It's true that it originates from Catholics, but not because to make a morality play, it's because of the Latin language. Malus in Latin means bad or evil, and the apple fruit is also called malus. It's a pun, the fruit brought for evil, malus begat malus. And then in English, because the word Apple meant any general fruit, when seeing the apple fruit depicted as the fruit Adam and Eve ate, that fruit specifically was given the name of apple.

@micahmenrath9032

6 ай бұрын

I'm glad @wes4736 you mentioned the word apple meant fruit in general. That's where I thought the idea of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil came from. I didn't know it also meant bad or evil in Latin.

The theory around flood myths that I find most realistic is that all neolithic agricultural societies were in river valleys. Therefore floods occasionally happened in those areas leading to different societies creating their own flood myths independently

@mastadonman

6 ай бұрын

When the glaciers melted, it almost caused the extinction of humans

@LOTHBROKE12

13 күн бұрын

​@mastadonman I agree as my theory is that it likely happened after the ice age.

Even as someone who is an atheist, theology might be one of the most interesting topics out there

@henryconner780

6 ай бұрын

Most certainly, the Bible has ideas about human nature from 1800BC that still has prescriptions to help people that modern clinical psychologists use to this day! Which in my opinion is almost scary. How the heck did people from so long ago know this? I’m not religious, but I love theology, history, philosophy and psychology. I’m somewhat religious in that sense. I certainly believe in a god. Perhaps I’m deist like our founding fathers. But I urge you to learn about theology, you’ll learn all about history and human nature!

@Llyd_ApDicta

6 ай бұрын

​@@henryconner780 "... the Bible has ideas about human nature from 1800BC that still has prescriptions [...] to this day" - Can you provide an example?

@henryconner780

6 ай бұрын

@@Llyd_ApDicta yes! For clinical psychologists and ppl with extreme depression. It’s been studied that the more these people take on responsibilities in terms of why there life is the way it is they can then actually begin to better themselves. Are they depressed bc they are lacking perseverance through suffering? 90% of the time the answer is yes. Judeo-Christian ethics tell us that all humans suffer one way or another it is up to us not to blame others for our state of life but to bear it and work through it. When we face the evils of life head on (like Jesus did) then we will be reborn into someone knew. (That’s the Christian terminology, being reborn, significance of Jesus resurrection) but the same is true if you are religious or not. It’s actually proven that this way of thinking is the most healthy and sustainable. It is not healthy to blame others for you downfall, and it is not healthy to combat evil with more evil. Judeo-Christian ethics tell us (story of Cain and Abel, Old Testament) if we begin to Blame the state of our lives on others we dive into a deep depression (you could say hell) and throughout biblical stories we learn that when it gets to an extreme point, hell is always worse than merely dying. (Hints why people want to commit suicide) It is important to note, whether you believe the stories of the Bible or not, the reason why we still talk about it today is because it holds much morale truth to it. These truths are foundational. The reason Harry Potter stirs a lot of people, is because Harry was born with burdens many of us can’t imagine. What did Harry do? He not only faced evil, he faced evil with perseverance and optimism. Then Harry is actually reborn himself (Harry Potter is exactly the story of Jesus) It is obvious to us now that Harry is the good guy in the story. But it isn’t necessarily obvious that Voldemort is evil without our foundation of biblical ethics. Voldemort thinks he is doing good by keeping magical ppl as one. He is an underdog who thinks he suffered by the hands of tyrants of the good wizards and witches. (This is also exactly what the devil did) This is one example, there are thousands and thousands of books like this because the Bible and it’s ethics aren’t just true, they are the truth. In western society. Every book ever written you’d be able to trace it Back to judeo-Christian ethics. These ethics seem obvious to us now, but that’s because they are quite literally the ethics of western society. So they are almost second nature for many of us. I am not religious per say, but I believe it to be important to know the Bible to a solid degree for these reasons above. Sorry for the long answer ! This is one example of many, and even this example isn’t to full detail. I would urge you to watch Jordan Peterson talk about the Bible and It’s ethics. Or any other person! Keep an open mind and trust me, you’ll learn so much about how to better yourself. I was suicidal for 3 years and sense I learned about the Bible you could say I have been reborn myself! Much love my friend

@Alec0124

6 ай бұрын

@@Llyd_ApDicta Religion seems to go along with culture. I think the Abrahamic religions were a transition from pagans to unity. Instead of making human sacrifices and the such, we agreed that we could pray to a single god. so absolve our guilt of being human, we may use confession, restitution, and asking for forgiveness. Islam calls is tawba? I can see confession, restitution, and forgiving one's self as a part of psychology probably.

@Alec0124

6 ай бұрын

The different religions should probably be seen as different methods discovered to help one live, rather than as any being superior to another. But hey. 🤷

When it comes to the Great Flood and the prevalence of flood stories around the world, I’ve always felt people overthink the issue a bit. First, there were a LOT of very significant floods around the world near the end of the last ice age as glacial dams began to melt and retreat, removing runoff blockages while doing significantly to the runoff. A prime example here in the states would be the Missoula floods of the northwest that occurred ~13k years ago around the same time Native Americans were arriving across the land bridge. If you fly over parts of Utah and Idaho you can still see signs of this catastrophe in places like the Channeled Scablands - done this myself and its are-inspiring once you realize what you are seeing. In addition, keep in mind many early civilizations formed specifically around rivers well known for their flooding! Mesopotamian mythology is full of capricious, chaotic gods and regular violent flooding. Egypt mythology is also heavily influenced by flooding albeit for the opposite reason as the Mesopotamians- predictable and helpful rather than chaotic and destructive and the mythologies reflect this difference. China’s founding myth centered around the destructive flooding of the Yellow River and the first effort to control the floods to bring true civilization. Flooding was front and center in everyday life for early civilizations and you didn’t need to flood the literal whole world for a cataclysmic flood myth to be born - you just needed to flood the KNOWN world to each of these civilizations for it to be remembered as a “worldwide” flood. All that said, my personal favorite explanation of the origin of flood stories in early western civilizations is the one suggested in Julian May’s Many-Colored Land alternate history saga. The Great Flood there actually represented the flooding of the Mediterranean basin (which in his story had been dry and inhabited) when the narrow Strait of Gibraltar was cataclysmically opened to allow the Atlantic in. While there is actual evidence for a cataclysmic flood (or even multiple floods) of this nature filling the Mediterranean, they happened much further back - more than 5 million years ago at least so unless we are talking a serious example of ancestral memory, that’s not going to explain the prevalence of flood stories around the world. My money is still on the shared experience of our early ancestors as they grappled with the realities of trying to survive in a world where necessity often placed them in areas where devastating floods were a very real reality and ever-present threat. I’d be more surprised if we didn’t have so many flood legends from early civilizations.

@lliamreusser4534

6 ай бұрын

I personally prefer the Persian Gulf Theory, which states that the Persian Gulf was once dry and then flooded relatively quickly. Stories from this could spread from there. Plus likely other great floods of the time as well

@georgied8110

6 ай бұрын

It’s almost like a species dependent on a resource ( water) would have stories about that resource

@leemarshall348

6 ай бұрын

That doesn’t explain the myth being in the Americas, East Asia, and Africa though. I think looking for actual examples of floods is getting too in the weeds. The main thing about the worldwide flood myths isnt just the flood themselves, its that nearly all of them explain that the world before the flood was great and after the flood humanity went through a fall, not just an economic fall but a spiritual collapse. I think something is being said theologically rather than spiritually.

@cervanntes

6 ай бұрын

@@leemarshall348Possible, although again, there were some major floods in the Americas right around the time the Natives were beginning to arrive here as I mentioned in the very beginning of my post, so it's also very possible they witnessed some of the catastrophic floods that occurred as the glaciers of the last Ice Age retreated and carried those stories down through oral tradition. A lot of flood stories around the world could derive from the glacial retreats during the last couple of Ice Age cycles, in fact. As far as East Asia and Africa are concerned, I already mentioned China, where the regular devastating floods of rivers like the Yangtze and Yellow regularly figure in legend and mythology. Like Mesopotamia, catastrophic flooding in China had a significant influence on the development of religion, culture, and social structures for millennia. Don't know so much about Africa other than the Nile civilizations which very much wove floods into their core belief system for obvious reasons. The earliest known flood story is from the Epic of Gilgamesh (interesting read, by the way) and closely resembles the story of Noah, so much so that its hard not to think they both were based on the same older story that had spread around. In any case, I still believe that the catastrophic flooding that occurred as the glaciers retreated during the last ice age and the fact that so many early civilizations by necessity developed in, as the original "History of the Entire World...I Guess" so colorfully put it, dank river valleys; places where flooding was just a fact of life...and death. I think its easy these days to underestimate just how devastating floods could be in the past -- using China as an example, the 1887 Yellow River flood is estimated to have killed over 900,000 people. For people living in the affected regions, it must have seemed like the end of the world. As another example, the Missoula Floods in the northwestern portion of the U.S. were on an almost unimaginable scale and given that they occurred during the early period of migration across the Americas, stories of floods like these could easily have spread far across the continents to the ancestors of many of the later cultures. While the exact details of those floods are still debated, last I heard there was probably around 30-40 floods at around 40-50 year intervals between them as the glaciers retreated, each one releasing massive amounts of water across multiple northwestern states that left colossal visible scars that can still be seen today. It's believed that water up to 300 ft deep rushed across some regions at speeds in excess of 60 mph to give these events some sense of scale.

@tetricuscm

6 ай бұрын

@@cervanntes Also, imo when you know the consept of flooding, it doesn't take much to make up a story of this huge world wide flood. And when that gets passed around long enough it becomes a myth.

Seriously, thank you for this! Your commentary on this was really wonderful! I've been struggling with my own faith for a while, but your commentary made a lot of this easier to understand!

I grew up as a Muslim and the great majority of these events are told the exact same way in the Quran, it's really fascinating. Also I loved every bit of information you added about both historical and scientific stuff, as always I continue to learn a lot from your videos. Appreciate you so much Chris!

@robertjarman3703

6 ай бұрын

Usually the Quran would put more emphasis on judgment too and monotheism, and by that I mean in a manner that also rejects the idea of the Christian trinity.

@wvt5825

6 ай бұрын

Of course the Quran has a lot of Bible references. The Book of Revelation was written around 96 CE and the Quran was written in the 7th Century

So when the bible was translated into the Latin from greek they had to come up with a name for the forbidden fruit. The word apple in latin, Malum can also mean the word Evil if pronounced as (Maloom) with a long u. So that's where the forbidden fruit being an apple comes from. It's a play on words.

@Volaer1

6 ай бұрын

This.

I'm agnostic, and I freaking love the Bible and it's stories

@nathansimpson5721

6 ай бұрын

Beats Lord of the Rings every single time.

@Thaboggelwoggeler

6 ай бұрын

Jesus died and loves you man, I hope you find the path brother god bless

@chrissonofpear1384

6 ай бұрын

Yes, but how did Jesus help medieval Spanish Jews, or African slaves? Given Jehovah did used to be... so, hands on, in past...? Also, what does Romans 8:30, say, of... paths.@@Thaboggelwoggeler

@benjaminroe311ify

4 ай бұрын

@@nathansimpson5721 well sure. But LOTR is still really really good.

@warlordofbritannia

2 ай бұрын

The Bible is full of the wackiest stories this side of anime

I just found your channel a few months back. I've enjoyed every video but for some reason have not subscribed to your channel. (I'm selective on channels I subscribe to) but when you said you were a Pastor, I hit the subscribe button! I'm a Pastor in Northern New York and I love history! It's just nice to find a channel of someone coming from a similar world view!

Sir, your channel is the one of the most informative and entertaining on the whole platform. Keep up the good work🙏

Loved this video and your commentary on it! Great job expanding on the video!

It's so cool as a Redeemed Zoomer fan to see a history channel I love watching cover his stuff. It's also gonna be really interesting seeing the commentary between both his Presbyterianism and you being a pastor as a Catholic 😂 4:30 I actually know this one, the reason why it's an apple is because it's basically a pun. The word for bad or evil in Latin is Malus. And the word for apple in Latin is Also Malus, but the vowel annunciation is different making it a different word. The evil is brought forth by the fruit (apple in English also used to mean any fruit) so the Malus brought forth malus, and it's drawn as an apple. Then English gave the word apple specifically to the apple fruit because eating the apple (the fruit) was depicted as an apple, and so the fruit and the name combined in English. It's so cool to see how that little thing has such an amazing story behind it in Christianity, In history, and even linguistics.

@marthamaxey5791

6 ай бұрын

same here

@MossW268

6 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure Chris is from the Church of Christ, not the Catholic Church.

@wes4736

6 ай бұрын

@@MossW268 - I know. I might not have been clear, but I was trying to say that cuz both are different kinds of Protestant, it would be very interesting for me as a Catholic to hear a bunch of different Protestant positions bouncing back and forth

This was very well done. Thanks so much for doing this video. I look forward to more.

I've been watching both of your channels for a while and they came together which i was not expecting

Again another well done reaction video and great job keeping biases out of the subject!

I love your content! Thanks for all these videos that you do! -fellow Northeast Ohioan

Love this video! I'm an atheist with little knowledge of the actual history of religion. More videos going into detail with all the history would be brilliant my man!

Hey Chris I just want to say love the video even if I’m more agnostic I really love how you gave a non biased perspective on the video I even learned stuff I didn’t know. If your interested in learning about the quaran and other religions, theirs a KZreadr called Cognito who has those types of videos you were talking about at the end. Again great video Chris and keep up the good work.👍🏼

@kubricklynch

6 ай бұрын

He definitely gave a biased pro christian perspective. Which is fine, but don't trick yourself into thinking there isn't bias here.

@gicobra1159

6 ай бұрын

@kubricklynch is right, I like VTH, but some of the stuff mentioned don't looked to be historical. Such as Joshua's conquest. Most of the cities mentioned weren't destroyed at that time, and some didn't even exist yet.

Loved it, Redeemed Zoomer did an excellent job covering a very condensed version of the Bible! As a brother in Christ and lover of history I appreciate hearing you review the history of the Bible. I also understand why you are careful with this subject and try not to force beliefs on others given this diverse community. Still would be cool to have you in a Bible study though!

Mentioning the sin, judgement, restoration cycle in Judges was the giveaway that this guy really knows his stuff.

@jenniferpajor5365

6 ай бұрын

I think the guy who originally made this video is super religious. Hence, why he is “redeemed.”

@ryantannar5301

6 ай бұрын

@@jenniferpajor5365 he is, but that idea is something you don't usually see talked about outside theology nerds and academic circles. There's exceptions but you won't really hear about it in the average church

@chrissonofpear1384

6 ай бұрын

Or why Satan kept powers... what 'spiritual death' means for angels, vs the inheritable human kind... and also, what Eve did know, of stakes, to more than two lives... Sorry - just, stuff that curiously enough... does not seem to come up, all that often. Or if, the premise of Romans 1:20, held as strongly, with angels, pre Revolt (but I assume, it held no better...) Just a minor tangent, there.@@ryantannar5301

@ElijahDawkins-yb1uc

5 ай бұрын

Well, he is a self described theology nerd.

I think it's interesting to look at the different references in the bible, not so much as a religious text, but as an historical document with local folklore thrown in. You get this rich story of a people of a certain nation living through years of hardships and different struggles, while trying to maintain their own country and compete with rival tribes/nations. And then if you look at the more magical elements of the story, it's quite fascinating how a lot of them almost directly come or reference details from other fantastical stories or religions at the time. For example, we have these really wild sounding descriptions on the different kinds of angels and what they looked like, and while they look extremely weird in our culture, they have almost direct counterparts in the old Babylonian religions.

The reason why you find tropical stuff in Canada isn’t because of a water canopy that kept the world warm but because of continental drift so Canada was once near the equator.

A theory of why we call it an apple in our English language because the old English word for fruit was apple. And we speak English and one of the most influential versions of the Bible is KJV

Have you ever watched inspiring philosophy's Exodus series? Super interesting. Makes the case for Ramses II being the Exodus pharaoh. Also Ryan Reeves history of Halloween that just came out is a fun video.

Really Enjoyed your Commentary on this one, Chris.

Would be cool to see an "Alternative History" style episode on what could've happened if Adam and Eve hadn't tasted the forbidden fruit... Also 10:53 a shame you didn't pause to read the nation names, there was an Empire of Ohio covering half of USA's footprint.

@thebrahmnicboy

6 ай бұрын

Well what would happen? Today would be the same as yesterday and tomorrow would the same as today. There would be no need for the planet Earth and they would live in Heaven. Because there's no need to have children if there is no death.

@ElijahDawkins-yb1uc

5 ай бұрын

There wouldn't be a history. Everyone lived happily ever after. The eternity.

Thanks for sharing this video! I enjoyed it!

I am personally Deist but I do love learning about Theology and the history thereof. Redeemed Zoomer has some great videos on the history of Christianity that perhaps you should also look into. Love your work, as always, Chris.

@Frazier16

6 ай бұрын

Why r u a deist

@thewalkingcontrarian257

6 ай бұрын

@@Frazier16 It just makes the most logical sense to me.

@jacobb17

6 ай бұрын

@@thewalkingcontrarian257 I used to be a deist. At the same time though, I believed in Jesus and the more I read I personally began to see that miracles, divine intervention, and such things were very important to God and my belief in him. I don't really know what term to describe what I believe, I guess Non-denominational Christian. I'm curious as to what specifically you believe in?

@captainkrajick

6 ай бұрын

​@@jacobb17i think you should look into Bible believing Christianity!

I’ve been hoping for a video from you like this. I was raised Roman Catholic and still am. But I’ve never actually read the Bible itself, just when passages were read during Sunday mass. I grew up going to religion classes so that I could make my first communion and then later to be confirmed, but not once did someone teach me about the Bible itself and how it’s layed out and all that jazz. It’s nice to finally see a start to finish summary video from you since you add valuable extra information.

Hey, I just wanted to say that this is my favorite video you've made! I have a recommendation for a reaction. There is a podcast called Pain Killer Already and they have a segment called Bible Stories where one of the host tells a Bible Story in a funny and entertaining way. I think you and your audience would really enjoy a video of you watching and adding additional layers to the original video as you did here.

Magi is the name of the Mazdeist priest of Iran. It's also where we get the word "magic" from

Been Christian my whole life but the Bible is really a historical book just as much as it is a religious text. You can learn a lot of history and context just by knowing the Bible.

@Jane-qh2yd

6 ай бұрын

Anything that was EVER recorded by humans could be used to learn history. The only difference is that one must always keep in mind the purpose, context and biases of these recorded pieces of history

@wes4736

6 ай бұрын

A historical book, yes. A history book, no. The Bible is very liberal with it's allegory, so to read it literally will leave one ignorant of both history and scripture.

@Washingtonium

6 ай бұрын

​@@wes4736If you read though books like Acts, you realize that it's actually one of the most historically accurate books in existence. It is a very good history book of the early Christians actually. Now, some people think that the early chapters of Genesis are allegorical. I don't, but even if you do think that part is the big is, you have to admit that pretty much everything in the Bible is historically accurate. Every time there's been a disagreement between historians and the Bible the Bible was eventually proven correct. Where do you believe the Bible is allegorical?

@wes4736

6 ай бұрын

@@Washingtonium - I speak of the scriptures overall, not of individual books. Apocalyptic books such as Daniel, Revelation, Micah and Zachariah, are examples of very convoluted books. The Book of Acts is historical because that book specifically is supposed to tell of the history of the Apostles early ministry. The Bible is not one book, it is a compilation of many and so each individual book must be read in a different light from the others, with consideration of past and future revelation in conjunction with the period the book is set and written.

@Washingtonium

6 ай бұрын

@@wes4736 I think it's only common sense that when the Bible is talking about history or when it's not. But i think even if some parts aren't dedicated to talking about history, can't it still be a history book?

That was really enjoyable to watch. Great share. I learned a lot through this, for instance: the supporting evidence from different civilizations for the flood, where the word excruciating came from, deeper explanation around women testimony during that time, and the historical context around Jericho and Sodom and Gomorrah. One thing I also always wondered was what Judas was really like. I don't know if I agree with The Chosen's portrayal. I'm leaning more towards a much more distinct figure (with a very distinct character) to the other disciples, but not so much where it would be obvious... yeah, I don't know. A lot to ponder. From an historical perspective, though, I also hope you do one of these on the Quran.

One of the really cool things about the Bible too is that so much of it echoes previous stories. For example, Noah builds an ark, coats it in pitch, and they survive the waters. Moses's mom builds a mini arc (same word in Hebrew for Noah's Ark in the Moses account for the basket of reeds.) Coats it in pitch, and Moses survives the waters because of it. This sort of wordplay happens all over the place.

I love biblical history and investigating if it really happened. Please do more of it.

In the scouts where I lived to get the cold weather camping badge, kids had to camp in 0°f for one night. -17.222°c outsideevery single kid with that badge. Most used snow caves that never go below 0°c while occupied and stay around 1-2c while there are humans in them.

Wow, I was not expecting a Redeemed Zoomer reaction. I am very pleasantly surprised!

The reason people think of an apple when discussing the forbidden fruit is because in the middle ages when monks were making illuminated manuscripts they would illustrate the forbidden fruit as an apple. Why? Because the word for knowledge and the word for apple in Latin were very similar and the monks did it as a joke.

“We’re not here to break down the history of every story” No. Yes we are. Chris I been watching your videos for at least a year now, and as someone who believes in god but doesn’t subscribe to Christianity or any other religion at this exact moment, midway through this video, this is the most interesting anyone has ever made biblical history (props to the original video maker as well) but your breakdown or real history to tie into something I thought had very little historical accuracy is so interesting and I hope you do more videos including this period of history seeing as you’ve studied extensively on it. Also thanks for another great video.

Be for the word “fruit” was used pretty much anything that grew off a plant was called an apple which eventually changed as language began to change and new languages came to be so that’s why it’s still called an apple Tldr: “apple” used to be the word for “fruit”

I’ve seen a theory that the great flood is related to part of a comet hitting the earth followed by a torrential downpour from the comet ice being vaporized on entry, along with flooding from the ice sheets melting. This along with the fact that most civilizations were along rivers or coast lines means the rain made the rivers flood, and with ice melting, the sea rose by potentially hundreds of feet in a relatively short period of time. Might help explain stuff like doggerland, Egyptian cities that are underwater, cities off the coasts of Asia, and more that are still being discovered. Don’t know if it’s true or not, just thought it was an interesting possibility.

I'm a Christian, and I remember when I read for the first time the story of the golden calf disaster of Exodus 32, and it was one of those instances where I could feel what I was reading. When God tells Moses what the Israelites were doing, and how Joshua then tells Moses, "I can hear the sound of war in the camp," and Moses responded it was the sound of singing. I could feel Moses's anger from off the page as he destroyed the calf and spoke to his brother Aaron about why it was happening.

Even though I am leaning atheistic, I am super fascinated by all of this, and especially to hear more insight by people who believe. I am someone who (if I were a believer) would argue that "fixation on if this text is historical or if it is a literally descriptions, is missing the forest for the trees" if you catch my meaning.

My guess as to why everyone thinks its an apple straight from wiki...Apples appear in many religious traditions, often as a mystical or forbidden fruit. One of the problems identifying apples in religion, mythology and folktales is that the word "apple" was used as a generic term for all (foreign) fruit, other than berries, including nuts, as late as the 17th century.

I've heard you mention the misconception about the apple before. From what I understand "apple" was just another word for fruit. See the French for potato for example, "apple of the earth", or pineapples (basically pine fruit).

Thanks for giving a shoutout to The Chosen. It really is a great show & this is coming from someone who thinks most Christian entertainment is garbage

I've watched like 5 of your videos so far reacting to Rome stuff and as soon as you said you were a pastor I said, to myself "oh how did I not notice before?"

LEBANON PA! I lived in Lebanon before marriage, and I've recently moved back into Lancaster county. If you ever need a small vacation in the woods, I recommend Mt Gretna.

At the beginning of the video, during the patreon shoutout. Aww heck! I live in Lebanon, too!

I am a pastor as well, I attended/attend Midwestern Baptist Theological seminary here in Kansas City. In my studies I took comparative religions course. Our final was to meet a different religious leader, attend thier religious service, and then write an essay about that experience. I chose Islam and met with a local Imam. I spent quite a bit of time digging into the faith of Islam beforehand. I have read and studied much of the Quran, Hadith, etc. I would be interested in sharing what I know, if you wanted to reach out. It may help to prepare to react to a video on Islam.

8:25 I read that during this time the strait of Gibraltar was closed so water of the Atlantic couldn't get into the Mediterranean and many people settled in the coast of it, the something of a earthquake opened the strait and the amount of water was so much the water level of the Mediterranean grew so quick that it buried the settlers

@lucianobertoncasanovas4342

6 ай бұрын

I forgot to mention that not only the Bible but some other civilizations have documentation of a big catastrophe happening at that time which were not believers of God, so it is very possible that it actually happened

@danielbishop1863

6 ай бұрын

XKCD's "Time" is about a distant future repeat of this event.

The beginning of John with "In the beginning was the Word" is actually playing on the Greek concept of logos ("word"), since John is the gospel that was directed towards the gentiles so he was trying to relate it to their ideas.

Been hoping you'd review this since I saw the original video.

I’m not a Christian myself but have spent most of my life surrounded by it (I’m in rural part of England, where ideas of “traditional English” remain strongest). There are many stories in the bible that to me personally don’t feel like they’re true, but my view has always been that it actually doesn’t matter. As far as I’m aware, most of the stories in the bible have a moral message, particularly in the New Testament. What’s important, in my opinion, is not whether these stories are true, but that we learn the moral lessons they provide. That way we become better people to both ourselves and others. I think every religion shares this goal, actually: to help people be the best person they can be. It is why I’ve never understood why people are so ready to dismiss all religions because they find it unbelievable. Regardless of whether it is believable, it is helping people be better citizens, and therefore it should be welcomed. Of course, religion isn’t perfect (nothing is), but I think it does more good than bad.

@CUZZZZZZZskalzzz

6 ай бұрын

As a Christian myself, thank you! It is not often you see people actually be respectful, openminded, and reasonable, your comment was refreshing. Also, I don't know if you actually care, and I don't want to bash you with apologetics, but IF you are interested, I just thought I'd let you know that a lot of the stories in the Old Testament have been proven, corroborated, or semi-proven, and I just think that is really cool and adds a little bit more credibility. But alas, I don't want to go on an apologetics rampage, and besides you seem to have ascertained the point of the stories whether they are real or not, so it doesn't really matter. But just thought I'd share that if you/anyone is interested in learning more about the historicity of the Bible.

@pastformal8354

6 ай бұрын

@@CUZZZZZZZskalzzz the reason non religious folks are often not openminded and reasonable is because of apologetics. I think religious people fail to see how damaging apologetics is to the image of your religion from the outside. Religious apologetics don't come off as scientists and historians attempting to contextualize and prove the bible to atheists. From the atheist perspective apologetics is like a snake oil sales man trying to prove the effectiveness of their products by citing a crack doctor. Because people like you talk about how "Stories from the bible have been proven, semi proven, or corroborated." Semi proven/Corroborated means actually literally nothing in the context of a 2000+ year old book that has been mistranslated between ancient languages that we don't even properly speak or read as a species anymore dozens of times over. You can corroborate something from the bible with historical evidence but whos to say the event the bible is describing in the modern translation your sect uses is even remotely properly translated? You could very well be trying to corroborate an event that never happened, or at the very least didn't happen the way the bible describes it as happening. A good example of this in this video is Chris talking about historical and geological evidence of a flood story amongst lots of cultures. While its true that many cultures from the areas in and surrounding where the stories of the bible take place do have a flood story, the lack of written history and geological evidence from large portions of the world at the time immediately discredits the bibles specific flood myth. If there was truly a globe spanning flood we would have similar records of it and/or geological evidence of it from other areas of the globe, like north and south America. For example I live in northern Canada and none of the aboriginal peoples religious/spiritual stories I have had the pleasure of being told by elders in the community mention anything of the sort. Like the original commenter said, the important things non religious folk can draw from the bible ARE the moral messages. I have yet to see an argument from an apologetics perspective that was even remotely convincing to me. In fact most of them fall apart under even the tiniest bit of objective scrutiny, to the point where when these things are being debated religious apologetics, not just Christians, often turn to ad hominin attacks or other logical fallacies. If you would like to see some of the debates I am talking about the channel cosmic skeptic has many such debates posted in full and analyzed in post on his channel.

@LC-sc3en

6 ай бұрын

Religion in itself can be a force for good and I think a lot of people who aren't religious don't mind so much those who only use religion for community, good, or benign purpose. We have a lot of atheists who are extremely vocal against religion because a lot of them have directly been hurt by people who justified their actions with their religious views. People sometimes lash out in vengance, because they belive that by doing so they will convince someone and therfore save someone from pain (a lot like some proselytizing religious people), or because they want to feel heard and agreed with as their lack of faith has isolated them in one way or another from the communities in which they were raised. Even small things like sharing grief can be difficult as an atheist in a religious community. In certain areas it is worse than others. But historically and presently people are killed, oppressed, and thrown from their homes on the basis of religion and it's rules. Science has also been used to justify evil as well, but science is wholly concerned with understanding how things work and behave and outside of the scientific method and peer review doesn't command people to behave or think of others in specific ways. Therfore, with science it is easy to say the evil done in its name was the choice of the specific person or culture and science did not lead them to it. Meanwhile with religions you get a lot of religiously motivated hate crimes, things like witch burnings, and other religiously driven moral panics and herirarchical systems coded as inherently moral. Currently, there are a lot of tensions in some countries as far right religious movements are becoming very influential and actively making things worse for people who don't share their religious views (atheist or simply the wrong type of theist). Unfortunately, a lot of begnin and good religious people get caught in that backlash. It is my hope that one day people will feel no need to attack or defend regardless of religion or philosophy.

@sarascarpati887

6 ай бұрын

Hello to both of you , thanks for the respecfil tone

So cool to know someone else from Lebanon, PA watches this channel !!!

I honestly don’t really have any belief system, but I love hearing the history and getting inferences based on sources like this

I think the canopy idea has kinda faded from popularity among creationist scientists these days though yeah, it was a theory that made the rounds for a while. It seems to not mesh well with what’s described - if there was a significant vapor canopy then the sun moon and stars wouldn’t have been visible for instance. But regardless there could have still been significant differences in environment pre/post flood. The genetic impact of a population bottleneck combined with the advanced age of Noah when his sons were born (we now know that mutations passed on from the father accumulate proportional to age of the father) seems to be a better explanation for the rapid life span reduction.

Would love to see a video like this on the Quran and other religious texts. That was fun

The apple comes from a Latin pun because both apple and evil are similar in spelling/ pronunciation

I’m surprised you missed the “Empire of Ohio” in North America at 10:54. Gave me a good giggle 😂

As a Conservative Christian myself I was looking forward to this one😂

@IamnotfromUSA

6 ай бұрын

Just a question for people who believe in god. If god is all powerfull and knows everything then how can you have a free will or choise or are you okay with not having free will and choise because god knows what will happen right?

@MannyBXNG

6 ай бұрын

@@IamnotfromUSAGod does give us free will We can do anything we want but with the consequences of going to hell If we listen to the Word of God we go with him in everlasting life

@IamnotfromUSA

6 ай бұрын

@@MannyBXNG How can we have free will if god knows what will happen to us? This is the question

@IamnotfromUSA

6 ай бұрын

@@MannyBXNG If there is a being which knows our destiny then it is set already and we have no choise that is how I think about it.

@valurimist9861

6 ай бұрын

@@IamnotfromUSAI would argue that free will doesn’t exist- I am what some Christians might call a Calvinist, which means that I take a theistic determinist view on God

I also highly recommend useful charts series on the history of the Bible and its creation. It’s fascinating.

So cool to see two of my favorite channels in one video! I never expected this!

To your point about the Magi coming later, in Orthodox iconography the scene of the natively is often depicted with the Magi traveling in the background rather than being at the manger.

I was hoping you would do a video about this one!

Redeemed Zoomer also has a video "Story of every Christian denomination, i guess". That also be interesting to see your reaction to it, as it deals as much with history as with religion itself.

the flood myth similarity can be attributed to the fact that civilization need to be near bodies of drinking water for irrigation and other needs and more likely than not they would all experience flooding especially in earliest days where people have not developed tech to counter that.

Didn't expect you would react this! Lets see your commentary on that.

@ahmadburhanhabibi

6 ай бұрын

One thing I noticed is your bias is too strong on this video. understandable though.

A propos of nothing... had NO idea you are a pastor, but that made your take on this content more interesting. I was raised Catholic, and grew up with all the stories. Even though I now follow a more Pagan path, I cannot completely discount the Bible stories. Thanks for one again mixing politics, history and adding religion in a thought provoking and balanced way.

Not only flood myths are common in many different religions/cultures around the globe with no contact with each other but also some form of an Apocalypse such as Ragnarök in Nordic mythology and Buddhism with a future war that will end with a "new golden age" will begin. Many different cultures also fears snakes and have a serpent or dragon-like monsters in their myths. Very fascinating!

Studying when Jacob and Moses occur in egypt is a really fun study. I AGREE with the general Amenhotep timeline. I'd love to compare notes.

I highly recommend Crecganford's channel, not necessarily for reaction content, but because I think it is an absolute crime that more biblical scholars are not studying indo-european myth and phylogeny, and more phylogenists aren't consulting with theologians to get a sense of how actual living religion and faith systems operate in real time.

I would watch a super extended version of Chris explaining the Bible. A Bible Study if you will.

There's definitely a Villareal in Spain (I've visited). Are you telling me there's also one in Portugal as well?

@barriehull7076

6 ай бұрын

Villarreal is defo a Spanish football(soccer) team. Vila Real is the capital and largest city of the Vila Real District, in the North region, Portugal. It is also the seat of the Douro intermunicipal community and of the Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro historical province. Wikipedia Who knew.

Thank you for pointing out that the Bible never said that there were 3 Magi. Always noticed that when reading Matthew, even as a kid

Would be genuinely interested in hearing your take on the verified historical texts and archaeology pertaining to the Bible's stories.

10:54 I am disappointed you didn’t see the Empire of Ohio.

@VloggingThroughHistory

6 ай бұрын

I'm really disappointed I didn't see that!

@HothVeteran

6 ай бұрын

@@VloggingThroughHistoryfor April fools next year can we get a video on the History of the Empire of Ohio? With your work in Genealogy you can tell us about your ancestors who lived in the Empire and whatnot.

I've watched some videos about the Pole shifting that has happened in the past> they say the earth stops but the wind and tides don't causing a flood.

Hey, I did some research about that Apple thing., I’m pretty sure it comes from a pun in the Roman language. Apple in Latin is malum, and the word for evil is Malúm so when it was either a translating error, by the later Catholic Church, or protestant preacher/pastors, or they intentionally did that, dropping the accent to make a pun in a comedy or something like that

Best explanation I've heard to understand the 3in1....think about it like water. Liquid, ice & steam....one thing, but in 3 forms.

@marie_h1104

6 ай бұрын

Technically, that is modalism; it was considered heresy by the early Church as early as Tertullian (About early 200s.).

This is kind of a neat concept and I really do applaud you for sitting down and try and rationally look at this. Since I’m a historian, too, though, it’s always helpful to remember the intent and context of a text before picking up a trowel to go digging. The Old Testament was not written to be a documentation of historical truth. It CANNOT be. History does not work the way the ot is written and the concept of recording history for history’s sake and…factual chronicling of events is a much more recent concept. Like all other myths, they’re moral stories or etiologies for what the people of that time thought. The evolution of linguistics in no way can jive with the Tower of Babel story. Many societies have a flood myth to help explain fossils of fish and the like that happen, and there wasn’t a single period when parts of the earth were warmer, there were many variations in climate throughout its history. You also have to consider that many societies also considered themselves to be at the very least the omophaloi of their worlds, but usually, mythological conceived of themselves as being isolated, surrounded by the world sea (just like Genesis😮) so, when that area experienced a catastrophic flood, the way it’s recorded is that the WORLD flooded. They aren’t verifying each other. There is no possible way to reconcile flood myths and history. Also, it’s pretty archeological clear at this point, that religions DID NOT devolve from a proto-monotheism. Most religions (including the religions of the region in question) were a blend of polytheism and animism and had been for thousands of years. The world did not start off monotheist and then fall away to other religions, humans have a tendency towards reverence and one of those traditions (actually, a handful), developed monotheism later. I don’t want to write an entire reaction to the reaction, but the TLDR: There’s nothing wrong with reading a mythological text for its symbolic value especially when that’s how the document was written.

The apple on the Tree of Knowledge comes from a slight misunderstanding of the Latin translation. In Latin, the word evil/bad is malus. The full name of the tree is the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (or something like that - I'm not a native English speaker, so don't know how it is usually translated into English, but that's the basic meaning or maybe Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad), which in Latin is ligno autem scientiae boni et mali. But mali can also mean apple in Latin. Somewhere down the line someone misinterpreted the word mali and instead of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil/Bad it became the apple of the Tree of Knowledge of Good. There are a few more such misinterpretations, like if you look at the statue of Moses by Michelangelo, you see that he has horns on his head. That comes from a similar mistake, where someone misread the word 'shining' in Hebrew as 'horned' at the part, when Moses comes down from Mount Sinai with the stone tablets.

I would like to hear you talk more about being pastor and I love ur content.

4:43 this actually is because apple used to just mean fruit. Over time, apple grew to mean the specific kind of fruit we know as apple.

There’s tropical plants in Canada because of Pangea not because of a “water canopy” there’s been seasons, since the Earth was on an axis before humans, and before life

"community of a variety of different belief systems who are almost welcome".... funny how much that sentence changes if you say almost vs all most

Love this! Because I am a Christian too however I am also a very logical and rational person I while I believe there is no Christianity without faith (the belief in something without proof) it is still nice to hear the actual findings and reaffirm some of my beliefs hearing that they are finding proof that some of the things in the Old Testament actually happened and the places actually existed

It's said that the apple became the forbidden fruit because of a mixup with or perhaps a pun on two Latin words in the Vulgate translation. There's "mālum," related to the Greek word for apple, μηλον, and "malum," meaning evil. So, illustrators who knew Latin wanted to make a joke about the word for apple and the word for evil, or maybe they got confused, and that's how we get the apple as the forbidden fruit.

Agree with what you said many religions around the world have similar stories. In that era, it was difficult for people to record information. Instead, they passed down events through stories. Over the years the stories are slightly altered, but the main event still exists in every story. Some people passing on stories have underlying goals. For example, after Buddha passed, his followers divided the Buddhist religion. Some continued to practice the very conservative rules of Buddhism while others decided to be a little more liberal. The liberal group traveled to other countries spreading stories of all of the magical abilities Buddha had in order to bring more foreign people in their travels into the Buddhist faith.