Norm was the smartest guy in the room playing the dumbest guy in the room. A lot of people didn't realize how deep a thinker he was and what a profound sense of irony he had.

@rickytavilla4259

Жыл бұрын

Well put

@randykerkman7246

Жыл бұрын

True, he was so overlooked because people missed his genius. What other comedians discussed their personal search openly?

@jaystannard

Жыл бұрын

He was an old chunk of coal who didn't own a doghouse.

@displeaseddog7504

11 ай бұрын

@@jaystannarda wagon with five wheels for sure.

@kirkstable

11 ай бұрын

I always say I know God has a sense of humor because he created me.. God employs irony, everywhere in the universe

My husband of 50 years passed away from cancer a year ago. He always respected my faith, and in his last months gave his life to Jesus. I mention this because he also had a great sense of humour and loved Norm. Hopefully they are meeting up in Heaven. God bless. 🙏🏻

@jeannine1739

11 ай бұрын

I'm so thankful he came to Jesus, sorry for your loss, and thankful for the promises that ensure that we know where he is. God bless you!

@raolhooley

11 ай бұрын

Omg he finally weakened ..lol..poor bastard..it was all those crazy tracts you left laying around..he should never have recanted...just because you believe that bullsheeet..

@heavencanwait421

11 ай бұрын

@@raolhooley NEVER did I leave a tract around. I lived it, as best I could. I have no idea what has caused your bitterness and cynicism, but there is no real need to reach out like this.

@raolhooley

11 ай бұрын

@@heavencanwait421 tough titty darlin... remember the crusades as well I suppose..lol

@ghouliesgarage3922

11 ай бұрын

So Great That he came to Jesus.! Praying

Norm was both an original thinker and courageous. I often go back and go down the Norm McDonald rabbit hole on KZread and try to imagine what was going on in his mind. Looking forward to a conversation with him one day.

@BennyBornAgain

6 ай бұрын

God Bless you Destin.

@alive_twicedead_once34

4 ай бұрын

I most certainly didn’t expect to see you on this side of KZread.

@nathanlove4449

4 ай бұрын

Amen Destin!

@abundantharmony

4 ай бұрын

I'm happy to see you still lurking around on Christian videos.

@brittonbell5909

Ай бұрын

Bro. Destin, can you do a series on evolution.

This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to actively love Jesus more. Thanks David

@killerrabbit2693

11 ай бұрын

He wasn't that bright, he believed in an invisible, undetectable being. Not so bright.

@chikkipop

11 ай бұрын

Why does anyone concern themselves with loving an ancient character?

@BobbyVans-hf8mq

11 ай бұрын

Sure is an “Ancient Character” the one the only Supreme GOD. No matter what you want to call it or not.

@abelturner2999

11 ай бұрын

@@chikkipop imagine what it means if Jesus is real and is exactly who he claimed to be. If he truly is divine then the ramifications are beyond description and of transcendent importance.

@chikkipop

11 ай бұрын

@@BobbyVans-hf8mq *"the one the only Supreme GOD"* What "god" and how do you know about it? You could win a very prestigious science award for this stunning information. I wonder why no one has won the Nobel Prize for showing a "god" exists. 🤔 Give me your evidence and I'll nominate you for the award! 😅

Jesus is Lord of Lords.

@AstariahJW

Жыл бұрын

Jehovah is the God of goda

@kingwater6596

Жыл бұрын

And Holy Spirit our Great Counselor

@geoshfrohmann6244

11 ай бұрын

Amen.

@danielthesaint

5 ай бұрын

AMEN

No other celebrity death has ever bothered me. I still miss Norm. I hope to see him in Heaven.

@FixYouNowYT

9 ай бұрын

you wont

@josephdykes1820

9 ай бұрын

@Grendhar lol, glad your judgment means nothing, but God's judgment means everything

@jamesn151

6 ай бұрын

cun.t@@FixYouNowYT

@hellomate639

6 ай бұрын

I have a sense that he is now experiencing profound peace. And also still being his goofy self.

@josephdykes1820

6 ай бұрын

@@hellomate639 same

This, to me, is just more proof that the Christian perspective is the most intuitive, logical, and truest. In the image of God but fallen and wretched. There is a great divide between us and animals. There is also a great divide between us and God. Jesus remains the only bridge

@calebe4266

Жыл бұрын

It's just recently that i finally understood that, i'm thankgul that God revealled that to me while i'm still young

@bassjeff2005

11 ай бұрын

Getting it young is a wonderful thing. Keep seeking and you will find truth. Jesus is the way the truth and the life. God doesn’t make mistakes. He is in charge and has a plan that is better than anything we could ever imagine. Trust and obey. He will always be there.

@chikkipop

11 ай бұрын

*"more proof that the Christian perspective is the most intuitive, logical, and truest"* How so? I don't see the slightest indication that it's true or logical. Or intuitive. At all.

@calebe4266

11 ай бұрын

@@chikkipop What make you feel that way? What isn't logical and imtuitive?

@chikkipop

11 ай бұрын

@@calebe4266 Believing things without evidence isn't logical, and intuitions are *feelings* about things, often due to the lack of *actual knowledge.* Now, you could present something you think is logical, but unless there is evidence for it it's just a guess. Let me know what you've got!

Norm pretended to be dumb, but very clearly was very clever, and an absolute savage with his humor. Miss him very much.

@namapalsu2364

11 ай бұрын

Comedian is usually very smart.

@norm77

11 ай бұрын

Norm was genious

@JoelSquire85

11 ай бұрын

He always said no one likes someone smarter than themselves.

Norm was just an old loveable chunk of coal, I sure hope he got to be a diamond. I hope we all do.

@deathbydeviceable

11 ай бұрын

I mean, "we're all stars now, in the dope show" 😂

I'm glad to see this video again! I loved this line, "the work of a genius is the work of an even greater genius." It remind me of the watchmaker argument. Thanks as always, David!

@rawdayoussef4223

Жыл бұрын

I love to watch David’s superior intelligence in debate apologetics with areas other than Muslim-themed subjects. I think it is easier for other ideologies to accept rational or logical ( my knowledge is too limited to know the difference between one and the other) but other ideologies or most may accept logical evidence, explanations, deductions while Muslim ideology very easily detect where a logical explanation is heading, their intellect, which is definitely far superior than all the people they so revere whether past or present instinctively panic and shy away from continuing the “philosophical world problem” (as my uneducated self sort of regard it) to its logical conclusion where I can finally write down my Q.E.D. as trained long ago in mathematics proof problems at school. The conversation is abruptly interrupted by : Of course, we know all that ……. Followed by the usual Muslim completely warped version of the Christian gospel I was trying to tell or begin to introduce. Unlike David I have lived and been raised among them I know every Muslim ideological concept and warped version of the truth. But my friends are so like trying to get hold of a drop of mercury spilled from old thermometers. Has anyone tried that ?

@futurereflections4097

Жыл бұрын

Why is he questioning Norms Christianity. Norm has said he is a Christian many times. I am done with this Christian hatred.

@adrianC1998

Жыл бұрын

@@futurereflections4097 Norm also said many times he wasnt a christian. which is it?

@Adam-tp8py

Жыл бұрын

I’m an atheist, but a fan of David’s commentary and his videos with AP. I’m an ex-Muslim, and I heard the watchmaker argument all the time in mosques. I never found it particularly convincing, because I was in advanced physics classes at 13, and it was clear to me that the rules of the universe don’t apply before the universe. Are religious people sincerely convinced by this argument?

@BobbyVans-hf8mq

11 ай бұрын

It’s just getting worse and worse each day the straight Christian white male especially working class is in big trouble. This country is going half backwards

Welcome back David. I realize now how much I missed you. You see I am neither an ex Muslim, nor a Muslim seeking to confound your arguments, I am a middle eastern, middle aged Christian woman who is just inspired by the story of your conversion, and most importantly you are THE only philosopher who has the wonderful ability to make philosophy intelligible to me. You make things so simple and logic and easy to understand. Christianity is logical. The Bible to whomever gives himself the chance and the time and shuts up his big mouth to humble himself and read it from page one to page xxxx( whatever it might be in the translation he chooses), the Bible is logical. This is what I concluded when I decided to find out for myself and picked it up to begin reading starting from page 1 in hard copy AVD Bible. I kept doggedly reading and falling in love with a Book that I had been fed propaganda that it is false and contradictory and many many slander since my early school days and in every media channels. I remember it was nearly 3:am and I was reading Hebrews 4:14 when I felt I had an experience similar to Paul’s when the scales fell from his eyes and he saw. It’s not that I hadn’t been Christian before and became Christian,no but to me I have no date, hour or year that I can name when I first knew Jesus as my Lord and Savior because I as baptized as a baby of 1 year old and I grew up calling Jesus “Lord”, But He became my true savior during a crisis in my life when I was 25 years old. Anyway I want to say please please my dear atheist or agnostic, gnostic, skeptic, Muslim, Jew anybody who is not a follower of Jesus Christ, please humble yourself for a few days and take the time choose an authorized translation that is easy for you to understand and pick up the Bible and read it. Then go on with your life as before if you are uninterrupted by the God of the Bible, because if you have honestly read through the whole Bible and He has not called you maybe you are one of the many that are invited but not of the few who are chosen. Proceed with your life and forget about Him if so you wish. I just wonder why so many atheists don’t believe the God of the Bible even exists, and are sure we evolved from a lump of cells, why do they blaspheme and badmouth someone who is not even there? What makes them so angry?

@gregorybyrne2453

Жыл бұрын

Be in the world not of the world child if you want a better world as this world is passing away. TicTok You are not God's. You can no more change your gender than you can change the climate of this planet. The galactic Milankovitch cycles cause our climate trends and cataclysms. The 240,000 year rotation of the galactic bulge Eccentricity causes epoch level cataclysms at perihelions. The Obliquity precession of the Sun's orbit between the galaxies Fermie bubbles magnetosphere causes close mate trends. The precession of the equinoxes, Earth's orbit between the two Fermie bubbles of the Sun's Oort cloud causes these the climate change END TIMES Jesus warned us to watch and prepare for. These are just the birthing pains. Mother Earth's WATER won't break until the MOON pulls the Earth's increased magnetosphere and oceans OUT and around the planet east to west as in the days of Noah. The first of 19 Antidiluvian deluges will happen with the conjunction of mercury -venus-moon and earth in 2033 and every 40 years thereafter for the millennium it takes to eclipse the nucleus of the Sun's magnetosphere. We started crossing in 2012 and Gobekli Tepe were buried by 19 Antidiluvian deluges spaced 40 years apart spanning a Millennium. The truth Jesus the Christ/Messiah told us will set us free but the truth is inconvenient and the false flag, red herring, false dichotomies lies are comfortable.

@dorothyhinkel185

Жыл бұрын

God makes sense and his plan makes sense.

@Peginafication

Жыл бұрын

Completely see your point about atheists, rather than just being indifferent to God (which is non existent to them) they are angry about it. Almost as if they are angry at God and, for that reason, choose to not believe in him as an expression of their anger. It's strange and yet also makes perfect sense as I think the knowledge that God exists is ingrained in the innermost part of our being. Maybe they're not angry at God, but they're angry at themselves for not being able to turn off the faint feeling that He exists. I could be wrong of course but believing that everything came from literally nothing is a much larger leap of faith than believing in God. Some athiests even go as far as choosing the explanation that an infinite number of universes created themselves from nothing rather than the much more simpler/logical explanation that a powerful being created 1 universe. I have athiest friends that are super intelligent and I truly love them but their logic is completely broken when it comes to this topic. God bless you and all people, especially athiests!!

@paulleannefischer1148

Жыл бұрын

Wonderful, wonderful, and heartfelt comment. Thank you. Well put! Thanks so much for sharing your testimony.

@rawdayoussef4223

Жыл бұрын

@@paulleannefischer1148 thank you. May God bless you

Norm was my favorite comedian/celebrity by far! I believe that he found Christ in the end. You can see compassion/empathy in his eyes. Love the channel! God bless 🙏🇺🇸🇺🇲

@jamesrecknor6752

Жыл бұрын

Hope you are right, wishing him the best.

@NotDuncan

11 ай бұрын

He was Christian for a long time

@chikkipop

11 ай бұрын

*"I believe that he found Christ in the end."* Where did he find this person? And why was he missing?

@GoyBenius_0901

11 ай бұрын

​@@chikkipopThat's either a brilliant Norm-esque joke, or you're a miserable athiest.

@earthwormandruw

11 ай бұрын

@@chikkipopFinding something doesn't mean it was lost.

Norm is my all time favorite comedian and has been since I was 15. Never been hit harder by a celebrity death. Knowing he loves God only makes him easier to love.

I loved Norm from the day I first saw him do standup in the early 90s. I watched him grow and evolve and came to love him more and more. I'm sooo happy he found Jesus before he left this world!

I've been getting nothing but norm on my feed for years. I never expected this crossover.

Norm was one of those comedians I could never put my finger on. I first saw him on Star Search in the 80s and was too young to appreciate his humor/perspective. Then anyone who actually listened to him realized his advanced intellect. I just pray he accepted the true Christ before his end.

@dirty_cowboy

Жыл бұрын

Hey brother me too. Loved norm form his comedy and he sparked my interest in Christianity. Now I am in a relationship with the Lord. The tweeted this on October 31 2017 “Scripture. Faith. Grace. Christ, Glory of God. Smart man says nothing is a miracle. I say everything is.”

@bryanpeed5334

Жыл бұрын

@@dirty_cowboy that's awesome, praise God and I'm praying for you and your walk with Christ 🙏

@machtnichtsseimann

11 ай бұрын

IMO, Norm accepted God/Christ. Maybe not in "praying the sinner's prayer" specifically, maybe not "accepting Jesus as Lord", i.e. maybe it comes down to God seeing his heart and that's just fine. As a Christian, Norm was the kind of man and fellow Believer who I could relate to: dry, smart, crass in a sophomorically revealing-your-hypocrisy kind of way, crude in a shockingly humorous manner, grounded, thoughtful, fun, engaging, old-fashioned, hilarious, unapologetic about his views, free. Real. Sadly, I haven't met many Christians who are this type of free and real. Their sense-of-humor, IMHO, reflects their view of God as a pent-up sourpuss who is TOO offended by the slightest ribbing or tease or even joke about Himself! Obsession over words and slightest tittle of the Law vs the Spirit. A "religious spirit" vs the Spirit. People might disagree with me here. I'm used to it. LoL. Still, we can agree on missing Norm. R.I.P.

@dianecourtney2724

11 ай бұрын

@@machtnichtsseimanngreat comment ✌🏼

@mjproductions312

11 ай бұрын

He will be resurrected and have 1000 years to know Christ in His kingdom as He prophesied in the book of Revelation

The more we hear from his friends about his death, it reveals how truly sentimental that old chunk of coal was and how deeply he loved his friends.

Beautiful video about a beautiful man. I had only really been into his stuff for about a month before his draw with cancer, and despite having only been familiar with him so briefly, his death had far more of an impact on me than that of any other celebrity. His appeal to intuition is what pushed me into theism. He helped me to realise that I'd never not believed, I had only been denying my instincts. Thank you, you ol' chunk o' coal. Rest in peace

This video is so deep! Definitely one to watch again.

@JesusmySavior15

Жыл бұрын

@@mynameis......23 Stop spamming the comments with your stu...d thought You're an abdool !!!

@doolbor2382

Жыл бұрын

Come on. All you have do to do is Just asking why? What's deep about it. A guy who claims he knows god's plan and his goal of creating world. Don't give credit to him for these nonsense . after you watched his whole speech ,all you have to do is, just ask why? What's the point? If a person does something like that, what you think about him? Let's say a scientist, built a miniature world to be his image and all that pointless bullshit, what you think of that guy? Not exactly a all knowing powerful divine God. If that's his goal , i don't give a shit about it. I'm just here to make a dude feel better about himself? What a great plan. So smart. Oh im so so blessed to be image of a fuckin retard

Not a Christian, but I’ve been reading the Bible because of norm. Norm is my favorite comedian, and learning about how interested he was in religion is starting to rub off on me. I started reading the Bible because he said you should never judge a book you’ve never read, so simple, sounds like something I’ve heard other people say a million times. But when he said it, I realized he was right. Going to read all of the Bible and see where it takes me. I grew up Mormon, and it kind of ruined my view of religion, norm has somewhat repaired my biases.

@kingambrosius9125

6 ай бұрын

How are you making it?

@McDingus360

6 ай бұрын

@@kingambrosius9125 It has been interesting, for sure a slow process. There's so many parts of it that I find confusing, and I still have my skepticism. But like norm I have somewhat of an inclination toward a higher power. Some days I read it and some days I don't, I'm reading in chronological order, because I really want to grasp it. I am currently on Genesis 31. I remember when I read about the tower of babel I asked a question to my father about it, there was something I found confusing. After the conversation I realized he has likely never actually read the bible, just funny because it's the inverse of that norm quote, he's in the same situation I was in, just on the opposite side. I enjoy some parts of it, others I find strange. I'm not quite sure what I believe, but it's honestly a fun read. My dad always used to say that the book of mormon is much more fun to read than the bible, but after starting the bible I totally disagree. The historical context alone is worth the read. But I have no one to talk about it with. The religious side of my family is mormon, and it always circles back to that. The rest of my family are on the hippy spectrum, and they don't really see too much value in traditional religious concepts. Thank you for asking that question!

@kingambrosius9125

6 ай бұрын

@@McDingus360 Good on you for making the attempt, at least. I would recommend that once you reach Leviticus, you pair your reading with Joshua onwards. Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and Numbers mainly deal with ceremonial procedures, which, while extremely important for understanding the shadows of Christ, do not make for exciting reading. So, if you pair them with the following books, it might make it easier for you. It may also help to pair 1 and 2 Chronicles with 1 and 2 Kings since they mostly overlap.

@McDingus360

6 ай бұрын

@@kingambrosius9125 I'll keep that in mind for when I get there, thank you for the advice!

@quettabird2707

6 ай бұрын

The interesting thing about the Bible is it is a historical document... at the same time, it’s useful for every situation

I am familiar with most of Norm's comedy, and never have I once heard him say anything disparaging about religion. In retrospect, I assume that he held in such great esteem that it should be beyond the reach of mockery. I hope you are with Lord now.

You are such a gifted communicator. Thank you for sharing your gift.

We have missed you Dave!!! 💟🙏✝️ Thank you for continuing to shine light ✨️ upon the world! 🌎

Thanks "I'm not Norm" for all the great Norm content, and thank's David for your teaching:D

Norm had an extremely unusual God given gift of evangelism that he probably didn’t even realize he had. In his special way of influence influencing people with logic, sarcasm, and humor, I wonder if he’s unknowingly led more to souls Christ than most who pose the question, “Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?”

@CJ-lr4uq

11 ай бұрын

Probably, considering that "accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior" doesn't save anyone. Believing the Gospel is what saves a person.

@moldyshishkabob

11 ай бұрын

@@CJ-lr4uq It's semantics, but even the demons know and believe that the Gospel is true. I'm certain there are people who believe that the Gospel can save, but to surrender to Christ means giving up the glory they gather for themselves in this life.

@CJ-lr4uq

11 ай бұрын

@moldyshishkabob uh, no. It doesn't say the demons believe the Gospel, the verse states that they believe there is one God. Believing in one God doesn't save, believing the Gospel does. And demons can't believe the Gospel because Jesus did not die for demons. Please actually read the Bible before you go around misquoting it and spreading misinformation. These are peoples' souls we're talking about here. When you do get around to actually reading the Bible, you'll find that nowhere does it state that "surrendering glory to Jesus Christ" is a requirement to save a person. It does however state time and time again to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. Believe that He died, was buried and rose again on the third day so that you could be forgiven and have eternal life. That's it. Now I can already tell that you are a faith+works backloader, and that you have a false Gospel. No one can be argued into the truth; it's a heart issue. You'll figure it out on your own at some point, hopefully before it's too late. And before you start mindlessly vomiting up scriptures out of context that you think declare a person must do certain works to be saved, spare me. I've heard them all. I'm not concerned with what you can fabricate through twisting scripture, I'm concerned with what God's Word actually tells us in its entirety.

@moldyshishkabob

11 ай бұрын

@@CJ-lr4uq The Gospel is the good news that Jesus Christ died for the sins of all mankind. The Gospel is the good news that belief in Jesus Christ leads to His eternal kingdom. Of course the demons believe the Gospel, they obey Jesus when he rebukes them and casts them out of people. They recognize His authority and know His power. They know God's saving power but, in their pride, want to yank people away from Him. They know God can and will destroy them in time, but will take everyone they can with them. They certainly have an understanding of the Gospel and believe that, yes, Jesus Christ saves. But they decided to rebel and not have fealty to God.

@CJ-lr4uq

11 ай бұрын

@moldyshishkabob The point is, you're using that passage to insinuate that believing the Gospel is not enough save a person, and that is tragically wrong. It is the one and only requirement to be saved. Nothing more, nothing less.

It’s awesome to hear DW talking theology. Psalm 8 is another great place to go to see man’s position in the created order. It’s an incredibly beautiful and epic chapter.

The “intuition,” Norm felt was his spiritual discretion. All logic, reasoning, philosophy and science (if viewed in context with all other ideologies) eventually brings us to the scriptures. Using wisdom, all roads lead to Jesus Christ. I pray for myself and all others who can be saved to constantly seek and receive Salvation by God’s Grace in Jesus Christ’s name. Amen 🙏

@bobloblaw2958

11 ай бұрын

But what of those who also possess wisdom that didn't lead to Christ? Are you sure you want to say that human reasoning can lead one to Jesus? The bible puts that notion to rest.

@lambrosk3790

10 ай бұрын

@@bobloblaw2958 correct. It does. There’s earthly knowledge ( which will bring you to the Bible) Then there’s heavenly/ divine knowledge. Which only God knows. It’s our faith that’s being tested.

I truly miss him. Thank you for this video, highlighting a lesser known side of a comedic genius that made many people very happy, yet didn't burden even his closest friends with his personal battles.

Really loved that “the more I don’t care for it” in regard to cancer 😭 also thanks for making this video. Strangely enough, the Norm rabbit hole (along with countless other seemingly unlikely subjects) has definitely been a large part of my journey in faith. And strangely enough, “intuition” also had a fair amount to do with all of this.

@jimma1432

11 ай бұрын

Same. It really is some wild gateway to the faith lol.

Greetings from Serbia! Some parts of my country were under Turkish rule for 500 years! And we survived! You know why? Because of our faith, our christian church and because of taking up our crosses and forcing up on that hill called freedom! Stand strong christians, hard times are coming 💪😎

@kaybrown4010

11 ай бұрын

Amen.

@girnucci

11 ай бұрын

Amen. American Serb here. God bless!

David, I loved the old you, ruthlessly attacking the silliest arguments for Islam. However, I really love the new you, brother. I like the way you weave in the Gospel, revealing the God-given truth in such a methodical and directional way. Thanks, brother. Jesus is Lord.

You explain very complex and deep topics extremely well. Thank you so much. Your approach is refreshing and to the point. :)

@rawdayoussef4223

Жыл бұрын

Yes, he is the only philosopher that has the talent to explain philosophy and make it understandable to ordinary “non philosopher” citizens like myself. I feel so inclined to understand Jordan Peterson, however one minute into the video and I am at a complete loss, I feel he is speaking several intellectual layers above mine so that even though the subject he discusses is interesting and I would like to follow and learn from him, it is beyond my capability to comprehend his superior mentality so I give up and leave. David is perhaps more intelligent but he has the talent to simplify difficult concepts that are hard for most people.

David this is probably my favorite video that you’ve ever put up. Thanks for the reupload!

David!! We miss you!!! So glad to finally hear your voice! May the Lord continue to bless your ministry!

Awesome!!! Great sermon David!! RIP Norm. :) :)

This is such a great video and makes so much sense. May God continue to use your amazing gift of communicating draw others to the truth. God bless you David 🙏🙏🙏

This was a great take, man. Thanks for putting this video together. I loved your explanation of the _imago dei_ as a verb.

This was stunningly beautiful to listen to. Your content is top notch. Thank you very much for this.

Great video brother! I caught with Sister Hatun and your plans are working perfectly! To God be All the Glory! God bless you brother and your ministry!

Great stuff. I wonder if Norms thoughts ended up leading anyone to Christ.

@briggy4359

Жыл бұрын

Me

@leigholding1397

Жыл бұрын

Probably leading more away. Can't stand catholics proclaiming God then turn around and cures viel words. David letterman asked norm, so.. are you are Christian now... then he 🤬 and letterman Laugh 😂 because he understood he's mocking...

@joinjen3854

Жыл бұрын

​@@briggy4359very cool.

@murkartik

10 ай бұрын

and me

thank you for this tribute to Norm and our great God whom he found.

Thank you David. These help me understand, as someone who has been struggling a lot with mental illness these videos help me understand.

This is one of my personal favourite David Wood video!! An absolute masterpiece!!

I Love the way David Wood breaks down very complex topics and make them absorbable for dummies like me. You're a gift.

Rest in paradise norm you are missed

Of course Norm Macdonald finds his way into my spiritual life

I love the question you ended your video with it is one i will ask myself every morning from now on so thank you David for helping me be even more aware of God.❤✌

Thank you David. This was beautiful. I'm downloading it to watch again later. Greetings from South Africa.

Thank you David for this video, it is very powerful

Thanks David, you definitely brought a new angle to this - and I finally got the message!

@doolbor2382

Жыл бұрын

Come on. What's the message. That your life means nothing and you only here to a guy in clouds feel better about himself? Is that really sounds convincing to you? And for what reason? Is god trying to prove himself to someone or what? this guy is saying he knows god's plan and his goals. And you thanking him. Nice

@kbeetles

Жыл бұрын

@@doolbor2382 man, you are overreacting. What's your sore wound?

@rickytavilla4259

Жыл бұрын

@@kbeetleswow they are so angry at God. Heartbreaking. Well I used to be that guy ,not as angry though

I'm so happy to see Dr David Wood again. It's been a long time!

Thank you so much, brother, once again for continuing to use the wonderful gifts God has given you. This message is fantastically helpful in something I pray about frequently due to it being such a struggle, unfortunately. Really grateful that I was able to watch this and hear the message about the image of God. It has already helped me to look at everyone in a more loving way. My mind and heart are opening up in a greater way to loving everyone as the Spirit has shown, because no matter what someone is doing, they are made in His image and for good or bad we are called to LOVE. WITH MUCH LOVE

I'm going to image God by liking, subscribing and commenting on your video for the algorithm. But in all seriousness, this was great. Thank you and God bless you and your viewers

@apologeticsroadshow

Жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!

@Peginafication

Жыл бұрын

@@apologeticsroadshow thank you. Have actually seen lots of your vids but not sure why I wasn't subscribed! Remedied today :-) God bless

God sees your efforts to image him and share the great gifts He gave you….you inform and inspire us and we thank you for all you put into your videos !

Excellent video. Thank you David. We're watching this in our small group. Keep up the good work!

I'm sooo happy I finally found your channel. You're very knowledgeable and insightful. And I hope everybody finds Jesus and accepts the gift of everlasting life. ❤️

This was an amazing video. You earned a new sub. God bless, also rest in peace, Norm!

I really hope norm got saved and is in heaven with Jesus

Thanks that's beautiful and helps me understand a lot better n I've been at this for 40yr lol. God bless you David hope all is well let us know how you and the kids n wife etc how's all that going I know the health things were rough last time I saw your old ch act17. So it's great to see you've returned lol the world needs you maybe now more then ever n things may heat up yet even more not sure we'll see how things go. But with all the darkness going on now I hope you are doing well and the family and everyone God bless let us know what happened in this gap between when ya left and returned would be much appreciated thanks.

Wonderful. Thanks for putting this together for the folks at home.

Norm-ally I don’t like religious breakdowns of people, but I really liked everything I heard in this video. Well put together, good job!

"how will YOU image God today"? Well done David. That question readdresses our responsibility in the relationship between us and our Creator, Savior.

@skippy675

11 ай бұрын

I always picture Jesus going to town on my sausage. He always gets the job done. Thanks Jesus, that was Heavenly!

Thank you Sir for the Video. It was eye opening. Your ending makes a person think. God Bless.

Thank you for bringing me to tears, I hope to fully understand the image of God someday

I remember when Norm told Larry King that he had a God shaped hole in his heart

You are breaking the mold of being a "Christian" and are a true "Follower of Christ". Please keep up the "good works".

Wow! One of my new favorite videos on KZread. Great video with gems for the viewer. Thanks!!

I loved this video, glad to see it back

I just found your channel through your talks about Islam and especially the jordan Peterson video on the scientific revolution. I love your work! You bring a new light to the faith. You expand the scope so much and open up the minds of Christian’s to explore Gods works as well as his word. Incredible stuff! I love you man

@rickytavilla4259

Жыл бұрын

I got hooked the same time

love Norm, mainly when he was clean (surprisingly often for a big comic). thanks a lot for this video, and for the challenge at the very end. how am i going to image God today? if we focused on this question daily, boy would we impact the world for Christ

I love this video. So happy i can watch it again!

Thank you David this video meant a lot to me. I hope this sews over 100 fold (Matt 13:23). God bless

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! God bless D Wood!

You explained it so well because I was riddled with what image of God meant.

Glad to have you back ❤❤❤

David what profoundly deep and powerfully true and inspiring insights you’ve concisely packaged for us. I like how you contrast intuition and reason while demonstrating that they are to be integrated in order to more fully understand reality (eg our nature and how we are most fulfilled, when we are accurately reflecting God’s image). God bless your mission.

David is my favorite theologian and Norm was my favorite comedian. Simply epic stuff.

@chikkipop

11 ай бұрын

People are easily convinced when they wish to believe something. It's called self-deception.

@lapacesiaconvoi

11 ай бұрын

i don't know dw, but i liked listening to him because didn't criticize different Christian religions.

Norm Macdonald wasn’t just one of the greatest comedians of all time, but one of the smartest and amazing people that has ever lived. The man played dumb, because he knows people didn’t like it when comedians acted as if they’re smarter than you. He was an amazing talent and is missed. RIP Norm.

Amazing message David. Really powerful and inspiring.

Praise God for your gift, may He bless you, your work and your family!!

i love your work!

You expressed God wonderfully. God is the conductor. We are His instruments.

Your videos are excellent... I use them often in my Sunday school class.

thank you for these videos God bless you!

A Classic. Thanks

You fired up my faith Dr. Wood. Jesus bless you.

@doolbor2382

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah? How faithful you are saying thank you to a guy who claims to know whats god plan and his goals of creating world. Based on nothing. Just because something sounds good it doesn't make it true

@halim1016

Жыл бұрын

@@doolbor2382 What makes you think what I hear sound good to me?

@destroyerofyorks

11 ай бұрын

​@@doolbor2382What are you saying?

I took a lot from this. I listened twice. Thank you!

This is my favorite video you've ever done. Thanks.

David why are you back on KZread!? I thought you deleted your channel! Just kidding just said that to annoy you. God bless bro

@apologeticsroadshow

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

He's the only celebrity I've ever cried for over their death.

@lapacesiaconvoi

11 ай бұрын

i didn't follow lisa marie presley like a fan, but i grieved her death because like elvis' mother, she had to be as precious to him.

What a good word thanks I enjoyed that so much, God bless your ministry

What a beautiful video, especially the ending. Thank you. May God Bless you

This a great and profound video. Thanks David for this. So much of metaphysics always brings me back the Prodigal Son parable. Every religion/epistomological assertion, to be valid, must answer these 3 questions: 1) Why is there something instead of nothing, 2) Why is there free will or choice? and 3) Why does suffering exist? These are all permanent imprints in creation. Islam does not answer any of these, however it uses #3 to attempt to eliminate #2 and says it all exists at the whim of Allah. Metaphysically, Islam cannot be taken seriously. But Judeo-Christianity does answer #1 & #2 and only half way has a posit on #3. Genesis answers #1 "because it is good". Another way of saying that is, "something is better than nothing." #2 is a very complex topic, but its theology is neatly and simply explain in the Parable of the Prodigal Son. God gives us free will. He wants us all to make our own prodigal journey with the hope that it ends up taking us to him. (Norm McDonald seems to have made that journey.) The point is, God wants us to find our way to him via our own volition. For each of us, its is going to be a different journey because we are all different. Augustine said that since God is truth, finding a truth, one finds God. For a person with an aptitude in science, finding a truth in science means one has come closer to God. Not everyone is born with a scientific aptitude, so our journeys are all unique to who we are, what natural and artificial endowments we are born with, and our own desire to find a truth in different areas. The Prodigal Son parable is each of ours' biographies told from God's perspective. And it is very encouraging. David was born a psychopath. That means he cannot find God through emotive sphere of his mind. His experience is completely intellectual and logic based. That is vastly different from, say my quest which feels guilt at every turn and at every step, and oh, I was born with a desire to learn geography, history and the social sciences, so I seek truth in other areas. These are just examples of the larger concept of the role of free will. #3 - Christianity nor Judiaism really answers the issue of suffering. But we saw Judaism suffer mightily during World War II. Hitler often saw "providence" as his guide and destiny. He didn't define "providence" but it looks occult, and if Jews were God's favorite people then, his occultness is most striking indeed. The suffering in death camps really makes no sense. Why did God create a creation (the univese) and allow for suffering, especially unjust suffering, to occur? In the Gospels this topic does come up - where a tower fell upon some people - "why does suffering, especially the suffering of non-deserving people occur?" Jesus does not really answer the question. It is worth asking why he did not fully explain why suffering is allowed in creation. That is a great mystery. However, we do know that instead of answering the question of why suffering, especially unjust suffering, exists, Jesus, instead, puts himself thru suffering, and a completely unjust suffering at that. It is as if the Christian response is: "we aren't allowed to know the reason why suffering exists, but it is so important to creation that rather than eliminate suffering in creation, God instead himself, puts himself through suffering. This is important on many levels. Before Christ suffered, God is kind of a sadist: he created creation which allows suffering (regardless as to our ability to sin, he created us with that ability and we exercised it at almost the first opportunity that we had). That means, prior to Christ, God is a sadist - watching us (all creatures with a self awared identity and a capacity to feel pain) suffer in a creation he created. It is heart breaking for anyone with a pulse and a mind to ponder. But then God puts himself thru suffering. This then makes God a masochist. But it also puts Jesus in the position to be the final judge: he's been there, done that. But there is also something else - very important. The elexir to sufferance is love. My mother went to all kinds of great deeds for me and my siblings when we were young. She didn't complain about doing most of that. She just did it. For 4 years she drove me 4 nights a week, every autumn to junior football league practice, a 40 minute ride thru suburbia, then waited 2 hours for practice to end, then drove me back. She never complained, she just did it as she thought it was the best thing for me. But if some stranger would have imposed a duty for her to do the same trip for no reason at all, she would have complained ever single minute (my mother was a great externalizer of her discomfort). She never complained about driving me to football practice because she loved me. We see lots of instances of boys who are sloppy and lazy and never clean their room or their car (if they have one), then suddenly fall in love with some girl, and suddenly they are straightening out their act: cleaning themselves, getting timely haircuts, cleaning their room, cleaning their car especially. They don't complain. They've fallen in love. Love has evaporated the sufferance. It is hard to show love in prose, but it shows up very well in song (poetry +melody). It is hard to see a photograph of what love looks like - it just doesn't show up. But there is one way in which it does show up - in the photo-negative of love, sufferance. This is why the Catholic church has crucifix's everywhere. It shows Jesus' sufferance. He is able to do that, put himself thru that, because it is negated by the massive amount of love he has for each of us, something a psychopath like David would find difficult to understand without that photo-negative (a psychopath cannot understand love, but they can understand pain and humiliation). This is why I am favorably disposed to the Shroud of Turin. It itself is a photonegative of the crucifition. Jesus, being God, was capable of creating that photo-negative. Having put himself thru such great suffering, it is not unreasonable to think he wanted and would create a permanent photograph capturing that. Remember always, that suffering shows its opposite, love. This has interesting metaphysical aspects. Maybe Satan is unable to feel/understand love but is able to understand pain. So when God created the Universe, Satan saw its flaws, but didn't see its virtue, and so he took on the cast of the anti-christ. The only way humanity could be redeemed is for Jesus to put himself thru the ultimate in suffering and humiliation. If one cannot feel love, than this kind of voluntary sufferance seems impossible. Since Satan couldn't see/feel/comprehend love, he couldn't see how Jesus could, ultimately, put himself thru it. But we all know now Jesus did. (But for good measure, Satan saw to it that Islam deny that Jesus did this, even after he did it: Islam is, I suspect, Satan's response to Christ, and it emerges 500 years after Christ died - Satan having been imprisoned for 500 years for his role in the Christ's crucifixion). (Note that in 535 Plague arose, which demolished cosmopolitan empires, but would have been less contagious to bedouin Arabs living in the desert - which helped alter the balance of power even before the Islamic conquest began). So Jesus did suffer and die, this allows us to be saved and reconciled to God even though we keep our ability of free will. The universe, then, is an engine that is slowly increasing goodness, sifting out badness, thru the engine of love, manifested in Christ's suffering, death and resurrection. At least that's a view that can be taken of it.

dw you are a great speaker and a great thinker. add teacher to that..

Someone should give you a medal for this kind of reflection. Greetings from Mexico.

Much appreciated Brother 🙏

I love the video, and the use of Norm's thoughts to explain Christian Theology. But it makes me think of the 25th and 26th chapters of Acts: Felix in 25:19 does not quite understand the gospel, and in 26:24 rejects it; Agrippa in 26:28 understands the gospel but is almost persuaded. I fear that Norm only understood and was almost persuaded. God grant that he in fact was more than almost persuaded.

That passage from Dostoevsky could also be used in a discussion as to why there is a literal Hell, and that it most certainly contains those particular Turks.

@rickytavilla4259

Жыл бұрын

I’m going with you on that. Yikes that was hard to listen to

@Alien1375

11 ай бұрын

Unless they became christian. Then they have gotten away with it.

There’s still a chance to see Norm live someday. When we’re all home.

This thought process is so beautiful and magnificent, made me tear up a bit too.