Praise the Lord!

@stephenzaccardelli3270

6 күн бұрын

@@miriamabraham9694 praise tolkien for the Lord of the rings

What sets Christianity apart is found in the definition of the word Sacrifice. In all other religions Sacrifice is what we do/give to please a God. In Christianity, Sacrifice is what GOD did, so that we could be closer to him.

@BigMac4459

8 күн бұрын

What an amazing way to put it

@wglennhowells

8 күн бұрын

@@BigMac4459 I wish I could take credit, but a long time ago I heard that, and it’s always stuck in my heart.

@stephenzaccardelli3270

6 күн бұрын

@@wglennhowells sacrifices happened before Christianity .

@wglennhowells

6 күн бұрын

@@stephenzaccardelli3270I don’t get your point Stephen, I never suggested they didn’t. What I suggested is that the meaning of the word sacrifice is different in Christianity than in other beliefs.

@stephenzaccardelli3270

6 күн бұрын

@@wglennhowells what gives Christianity the right to use the word in any other way ?

I don't have big fancy words to tell you why Christianity is different than other religions. All I have is a testamony of how Jesus changed my life. He filled me with His peace and joy. Not because I was good or did enough good works. He did it because I asked Him to show me if He was real. I know He loves you and wants a relationship with you, not because your good enough but because He is so good. Stop fighting against such a wonderful gift and give your heart to Him so you can have His hope and peace today.

I absolutely love Professor Lennox's talks! God blessed this man with a fantastic brain and mind! ✝ 🙏

@stephenzaccardelli3270

6 күн бұрын

@mtothejizzy it's unreasonable to be a mathematician and follow the trinity it's illogical.

@mtothejizzy

6 күн бұрын

@@stephenzaccardelli3270 That's an unreasonable and illogical statement, both generally and specifically but I'll focus on the latter. Professor Lennox holds and has held several positions of note within academia and is respected by the majority of his peers which suggests he's a reasonable and logical man. I believe that alone demonstrates the inaccuracy of your comment. Furthermore, Professor Lennox is just one of a multitude of reasonable and logical people who have been and are believers in and followers of Christ. Cheers.

@stephenzaccardelli3270

6 күн бұрын

@mtothejizzy so 3 being 1 is logic¿

@mtothejizzy

6 күн бұрын

@@stephenzaccardelli3270 Within the context of limitless power… yes. I understand, both from personal experience and observation, that’s a difficult concept to grasp so let’s take a more practical example of a similarly analogous process… Mitosis. If you can understand the process of mitosis then you are equipped with the ability to understand the Trinity. Cheers 👍😎

@stephenzaccardelli5863

6 күн бұрын

​@@mtothejizzyand ionisation and at the quantum level 2 up one down and 1 up two down doesn't change the mathematical logical of 3 being 1 1 and 1 separately.

Incredible description. Praise the Lord 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻❤️

@stephenzaccardelli3270

11 күн бұрын

John flummox

Amen praise the Lord

@stephenzaccardelli3270

6 күн бұрын

@@inolsrpinto5998 praise to the Lord of the rings for being fictitious and not claiming otherwise.

beautiful explanation . Praise the Lord Pastor

The fact that its the one true way as many of the false doctrines attack it ,as team evil!

@stephenzaccardelli3270

6 күн бұрын

@@bornagain9192 truth is godless

@bornagain9192

6 күн бұрын

Wh​@@stephenzaccardelli3270

It would be interesting to see JL discuss religion with a Buddhist Master.

@jensbernhard7509

10 күн бұрын

Jesus is the (incarnate) Noble Eightfold Path to liberation that the Buddha discovered about 500 years before Jesus.

And in his closing statement he says it all about why I keep the seventh day Sabbath. It is because I love Him and want to be with Him. Doing His will has become pleasant, even joyous because of the freedom He has given me because of His sacrifice. As these two verses indicate: “Speak also to the children of Israel, saying: ‘Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the LORD Who sanctifies you. Exodus 31:13 and Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. Revelation 22:14 Why did God specify a seventh-day Sabbath, if it didn't mean something important to Him?

@stephenzaccardelli3270

6 күн бұрын

@@evanmartin8199 he didn't people put them words on paper.

@arthurblennerhassett429

4 күн бұрын

Sabath? Every day is Sonday.

People ask or demand evidence for God but at the same time they are prepared to reject that evidence because they don't want God to exist.

@stephenzaccardelli3270

11 күн бұрын

God exists in the minds of men if you want it to

@TIMO-lt7mj

11 күн бұрын

or perhaps your "evidence" wasn't really an evidence

@fredriksundberg4624

11 күн бұрын

So because of reasons therefore reasons and because of reasons therefore reasons? Got it, and now what?

@graceomakada5082

10 күн бұрын

They only want evidence that they agree with. If it's contrary to what they know, they'll reject it and deem you a lunatic.

@bobwilkinson2008

10 күн бұрын

@@stephenzaccardelli3270 Exactly, it's all in the mind, no evidence present.

What sets Christianity apart is our salvation is GUARANTEED when we put our faith in Jesus. No other religion makes this claim.

@seventy9819

23 күн бұрын

What makes your comments stand out so boldly is the fact that any claim can be made and be very impressive. And you take the light in claiming something that cannot be proven?

@roybuckle7576

18 күн бұрын

​@@seventy9819It's through faith and faith can't be proven, you either have faith or you don't

@stephenzaccardelli3270

11 күн бұрын

​@@roybuckle7576And faithfulness can be pragmatically worse than faithlessness.

@rudysimoens570

11 күн бұрын

Christianity sells illusions and less then a bag of hot air and earn shed loads of money with it! The species of great apes called the Homosapiens came into existence by the unguided process called evolution. The difference between the Homosapiens and the other apes and other animals is a GRADUAL difference but not a fundamental one! Do all the so-called believers really believe that the Homosapiens are the only species of apes that can survive their own death by going to an imaginary hell or heaven just because they developed a bigger brain and frontal lobe by the unguided process called evolution? Are they serious? Absurdity squared!

@rudysimoens570

11 күн бұрын

​@@roybuckle7576faith is not a reliable pathway to the truth! On the basis of faith people can believe all sorts of supernatural nonsense!

love, forgiveness, compassion for others and your enemy, giving of yourself to others in actual kindness. that is what seperates christianity from other religions.

Time is such a sublime realm, in which what you call past, present, and future exists inter-relationally. That is, they are not opposites, but rather parts of the same whole; progressions of the same idea; cycles of the same energy; aspects of the same immutable Truth. If you conclude from this that past, present, and future exist at one and the same "time," you are right. (Yet now is not the moment to discuss that. We can get into this in much greater detail when we explore the whole concept of time - which we will do late.) The world is the way it is because it could not be any other way and still exist in the gross realm of physicality. Earthquakes and hurricanes, floods and tornadoes, and events that you call natural disasters are but movements of the elements from one polarity to the other. The whole birth-death cycle is part of this movement. These are the rhythms of life, and everything in gross reality is subject to them, because life itself is a rhythm. It is a wave, a vibration, a pulsation at the very heart of the All That Is. Imagination - Process of Pure Creation The process of creation starts with thought - an idea, conception, visualization. Everything you see was once someone's idea. Nothing exists in your world that did not first exist as pure thought. This is true of the universe as well. Thought is the first level of creation. Next comes the word. Everything you say is a thought expressed. It is creative and sends forth creative energy into the universe. Words are more dynamic (thus, some might say more creative) than thought, because words are a different level of vibration from thought. They disrupt (change, alter, affect) the universe with greater impact. Words are the second level of creation. Next comes action. Actions are words moving. Words are thoughts expressed. Thoughts are ideas formed. Ideas are energies come together. Energies are forces released. Forces are elements existent. Elements are particles of God, portions of ALL, the stuff of everything. The beginning is God. The end is action. Action is God creating - or God experienced. Conversation With God - The Holy Trinity You are a tree-fold being. You consist of body, mind, and spirit. You could also call these the physical, the non-physical, and the meta-physical. This is the Holy Trinity, and it has been called by many names. That which you are, I am. I am manifested as Three-In-One. Some of your theologians have called this Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Your psychiatrists have recognized the triumvirate and called it conscious, subconscious, and super-conscious. Your philosophers have called it the id, the ego, and the super ego. Science calls this energy, matter, and antimatter. Poets speak of mind, heart, and soul. New Age thinkers refer to body, mind, and spirit. Your time is divided into past, present, and future. Could this not be the same as subconscious, conscious, and superconscious? Space is likewise divided into three: here, there, and the space between. It is defining and describing this "space between" that becomes difficult, elusive. The moment you begin defining or describing, the space you describe becomes "here" or "there." Yet we know this "space between" exists. It is what holds "here" and "there" in place - just as the eternal now holds "before" and "after" in place. These three aspects of you are actually three energies. You might call them Thought, Word, and Action. All three put together produce a result - which in your language and understanding is called a feeling, or experience. Your soul (subconscious, id, spirit, past, etc.) is the sum total of every feeling you've ever had (created). Your awareness of some of these is called your memory. When you have a memory, you are said to re-member. That is, to put back together. To reassemble the parts. When you reassemble all the parts of you, you will have re-membered Who You Really Are. GOD THE FATHER is knowing - the parent of all understanding, the begetter of all experience, for you cannot experience that which you do not know. GOD THE SON is experiencing - the embodiment, the acting out, of all that the Father knows of Itself, for you cannot be that which you have not experienced. GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT is being - the disembodiment of all that the Son has experienced of Itself; the simple, exquisite is-ness possible only through the memory of knowing and experiencing. This simple being is bliss. It is God-state, after knowing and experiencing Itself. It is that for which God yearned in the beginning. Of course, you are well past the point where you must have it explained to you that the father-son descriptions of God have nothing to do with gender. I use here the picturesque speech of your most recent scriptures. Much earlier holy writings placed this metaphor in a mother-daughter context. Neither is correct. Your mind can best hold the relationship as: parent-offspring. Or: that-which-gives-rise-to, and that-which-is-risen. Adding the third part of the Trinity produces this relationship: That which gives rise to / That which is risen / That which is. This Triune Reality is God's signature. It is the divine pattern. The three-in-one is everywhere found in the realms of the sublime. You cannot escape it in matters dealing with time and space, God and consciousness, or any of the subtle relationships. On the other hand, you will not find the Triune Truth in any of life's gross relationships. The Triune Truth is recognized in life's subtle relationships by everyone dealing with such relationships. Some of your religions have described the Triune Truth as Father, Son. and Holy Ghost. Some of your psychiatrists use the term super-conscious, conscious, and subconscious. Some of your spiritualists say mind, body, and spirit. Some of your philosophers say a thing is not true for you until it is true in thought, word, and deed. When discussing time, you speak of three times only: past, present, future. Similarly, there are three moments in your perception - before, now, and after. In terms of spatial relationships, whether considering the points in the universe, or various points in your own room, you recognize here, there, and the space in between. In matters of gross relationships, you recognize no "in-between." That is because gross relationships are always dyads, whereas relationships of the higher realm are invariably triads. Hence, there is left-right, up-down, big-small, fast-slow, hot-cold, and the greatest dyad ever created: Male-Female. There are no in-between in these dyads. A thing is either one thing or the other, or some greater or lesser version in relationship to one of these polarities. Within the realm of gross relationships, nothing conceptualized can exist without a conceptualization of its opposite. Most of your day-to-day experience is foundationed in this reality. Within the realm of sublime relationships nothing which exists has an opposite. All is One, and everything progresses from one to the other in a never-ending circle.

Imho, John Lennox is a brilliant modern day saint.

The biggest difference between true, Biblical Christianity and other religions is that if you find the body of whomever in the world's various religions outside of Christianity you can still be a good adherent to that religion, whereas, if you find the body of The Lord Jesus Christ, you have no religion. They haven't found his body yet

@davidbolen8982

Күн бұрын

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The supernatural , The Holy Spirit !

Say hello to John Lennox, an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, an Emeritus Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College, Oxford University, and has worked as adjunct lecturer at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University and at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School and a Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum." Wikepedia John gives public lectures sharing his love of churchgoing and his Bible readings. He doesn't acknowledge the contradictions and the immoral practices and beliefs of the barbaric Hebrews whose written thoughts appear on its pages.

@stevemills1481

12 күн бұрын

If you're a non believer, so be it, but why waste time trying to change anyone else to your opinion? If there's no God and no heaven/hell then what's your point? Surely it's all useless! We die, there is no God and so that's it, we just disappear, so why try to convince anyone that there isn't a God? Likewise John Lennox opinion would be completley a waste of time also...There is no God end of, there's no need for you to say a thing because there is NO God. However, if there IS a God, then your opinions matter greatly as they may well turn someone away from God....John Lennox who now, instead of being a waste of time, is trying to save souls! No God...no need to bang on about it. There is a God, you are on a very slippery path!

@rudysimoens570

11 күн бұрын

John Lennox is the perfect example of how corrosive indoctrination from childhood on with all that supernatural nonsense of the specific religion of the parents and the community can be to the minds of even intelligent people! He puts his reasoning abilities and critical thinking skills on hold as soon as his religion comes into play because of brainwashing at a very vulnerable age! He is a severe victim of his own indoctrination. It's tragic to see that he is too deeply brainwashed and that's why he is no longer able to realize it himself!

@rudysimoens570

11 күн бұрын

​​@@stevemills1481because holding irrational supernatural beliefs is not innocent at all! The harm and atrocities religious people have done and still do, both to the individuals and the societies, on the basis of those bronze age man-made myths, doctrines and rules how to behave to "please" their imaginary celestial dictator are unimaginable! The list is endlessly long! And women and minority groups have been and still are discriminated and considered second class people for centuries on the basis of those man-made supernatural nonsens! And the concept of a "soul" is a dead horse! Souls don't exist! There are people who have a split brain due to an accident or an illness. Some of those people's left hemisphere said that they believed in the existence of a god. The right hemisphere couldn't speak of course but wrote down that they didn't believe in the existence of a skydaddy. Do they have two souls then? And is the left soul going to an imaginary heaven and the right soul going to an imaginary hell? Absurdity squared! And there are people who have a damaged frontal lobe due to an accident or an illness and who's personality drastically changed. Is their initial soul then flown away? And at what time was the non-existing soul "blown" into the heads? Was it in the heads of the common ancestor that we share with the bonobos and the chimpanzees? Or was it in the heads of the many hominids that existed before or even along side the Homosapiens? The concept of a soul is utter nonsense!

@fredriksundberg4624

11 күн бұрын

Exactly yes.

@stephenzaccardelli3270

6 күн бұрын

@stevemills1481 The only reason to disbelieve is because religions bang on about the belief and prejudice non believers with a higher stance, which they claim to be true.

Then ponder upon the fact that the morality that's shared between people in different religion, usually are shared by atheists as well, which points to the fact that morality has no base in religion, it's just that different religions have tried to document morality in different manners and are trying to teach morality to people who lack it by claiming they will be punished if they go against their version of it.

@hedwshjredns

6 күн бұрын

where are atheist getting their basis of morality? if it is from culture it is from religion since culture has been shaped by religion no matter from what culture you belong to

@dyvel

6 күн бұрын

@@hedwshjredns true, but all religions based their morals on previous religions as well as from protoreligions and from when there pretty much were no religions, so it will have to include for example paganism, satanism, and shamanism and back at least 60'000 years ago with the first known religious evidence. I would claim that anything that have survived through the hundreds of thousands of religions that have existed is above and beyond religion.

@hedwshjredns

6 күн бұрын

@@dyvel the way i like to think about it is if the bible is correct then of course all religions share some basic principles is because if people really did come from adam and eve and branch out ofc they share the same ideas as christianity since the storys have been passed down now with so much time just like any other oral story details have been changed or misunderstood changing into other religions (although i dont think this is true for every religion but i dont really know im not a scholar😭)

@dyvel

5 күн бұрын

@@hedwshjredns if Christianity was the first religion then I think you would have had a good point. But Christianity has borrowed from ancient Mesopotamia they have borrowed from Egypt they have borrowed from zoroastrianism, Eastern traditions, and there are thousands if not millions of religions that came before Christianity. How do you check "the evolutionary tree of religion"? It's an image that, based on similarities and influences between religions, location and time, tries to put together the relationship between religions. Which ones developed or evolved into new ones by misinterpretation, adaptation etc, and which one influenced others or traveled to new places. Very interesting!

@dyvel

5 күн бұрын

@@hedwshjredns is there a reason to believe that Christianity is _not_ one of the traditions that is a misunderstanding of an older one while passing down orally?

Psalm 14:1 ONLY FOOLS SAY THAT THERE IS NO GOD.

@stephenzaccardelli3270

6 күн бұрын

@user-yt8kb8te1m only a fool would say that

Christianity has a risen saviour.

The Christian Church persecuted Galileo for telling the truth about God`s creation.

Truth separates all other faith from jesus

The word religion in Latin means “again the law”. To follow Christ, one must depart from treating others according to their own law. Christ loved his enemies. To follow Christ one must love their enemies. Christ loved even those that persecuted him. To follow Christ and call yourself of Christ, which is the meaning of the word Christian, one must love those that persecute them and doing so one must depart from the law. Most religions don’t do that, including those that profess to be of Christ when that’s precisely what they don’t do.

@rudysimoens570

10 күн бұрын

@@jeffburman7832 whether christianity has another philosophy or not, it does not make it true! Anyway, science and especially evolution have already debunked the crux of christianity and the crux of all the other religions I know of ages ago! And there is not a shred of evidence for the existence of ANY god or Allah or whatever name they gave to their non-existing celestial dictator!

What sets it apart…the sheer stupidity of the claims!

Catholicism with Islam .......

Did you know that there is no inherent illumination or luminosity in photons? “Light,” as such, cannot be found there. Photons are, perhaps, ‘packets’ of energy which have the properties of both spread-out waves and localized particles. Photons only take on the appearance of being luminous as they arise within consciousness, in our mind’s eye. It may be that photons are spread-out energy potentials that fill the immensity of space, and only take on the appearance of being a localized discrete particle of “light” when we become aware of them in consciousness, in this actualized awareness we call mind. Thus, you are the light of the kosmos. This “light” is only arising in us. The world outside of a mind is perfectly ‘dark,’ or empty, unactualized in any way. Of course, what else could it be? What would perceive it as illuminated, or as any “thing”? All of our thoughts are the activity of consciousness, modulations of that consciousness, incarnations within that pure consciousness, rays shining from inside that consciousness. We are agents of that consciousness, emerging from within that consciousness. All there is to experience is the knowing of it, and that knowing is God’s own Self in us, living in us, the source of our life, the energy of consciousness itself. We could say that God lives in us, since consciousness seems to have become localized in this particular body-mind. Or we could say that we live in God, since all that we perceive arises in that consciousness, including our body-mind. Thus, Jesus was right to say, “I am in the Father and the Father is in me” (John 14:10-11, 20). Both are true, and they are true of us as well. We are arising within God, and God is arising within us as well. Sometimes this is called “mutual indwelling,” the Father in the Son and the Son in the Father, also called perichoresis or co-inherence in Christian terminology. God is the field of consciousness in which all knowing occurs, in which all thoughts and perceptions and feelings and sensations arise, like waves in the ocean. Our body-mind and its thoughts are like localizations within that consciousness, temporary manifestations of that Ultimate Reality, expressions of that consciousness, that being, that One. God becomes veiled and hidden from our awareness when the thoughts that arise in and from consciousness believe they are something separate and discrete from the consciousness in which they are arising. The thoughts form a separate entity, a dualistic subjective ego, a separate self identity, an independent being, an “Adam/Eve,” which thinks it is apart from infinite nondual divine consciousness and Ultimate Reality. This seems to be the “Fall,” the beginning of duality and separateness and alienation from God’s Presence. But how could thoughts be separate from the consciousness in which they have arisen? They can’t, but that is exactly what our thoughts and our self-identification with them think they are. It is a kind of psychological illusion. The thoughts take on their own separate identity apart from pure nondual consciousness, forming a self, a person, an entity, seemingly cut off from its own source and essence. Once we look at it like this, it seems impossible, and that is because it is. Our ‘self’ is never actually separate from the source in which it arises, thoughts are never separate from the consciousness in which they emerge, the wave is not separate from the ocean. The thoughts that make up our ‘self’ are just finite actualizations or relative localizations of the infinite potential of absolute consciousness, or Divine Being, or Ultimate Reality. In Christian symbolism we call this the incarnation of God. In Buddhism it is the Dharmakaya that incarnates as the Nirmanakaya Buddha. In Hinduism it is Brahman that manifests itself as each Atman. God becomes incarnate in reality, in the flesh, embodied, in us and all things. There is no time, no space, nowhere we can go, nowhere we can be, that will be outside of this Presence of God, outside of this consciousness, beyond the borders of God, or the Ultimate Reality. God is always present, and is Presence itself, awareness itself, consciousness itself, the “spirit of life” within us, from which we derive all being, all knowing, all our substance, every thought, every sensation. It all arises in God. This is perhaps why, in order to pierce the veil and know God directly, contemplative practices such as meditation help train us to transcend thought, to go back to the source of thought itself, beyond all thoughts of self, to recognize that from which it all arises, this pure open vastness of nondual unitive at-one consciousness. Do you see why we cannot “think” God? Nothing that arises in consciousness as a thought will be that consciousness in which it is arising. No relative finite manifestation in consciousness can be the absolute pure infinite consciousness, even though every manifestation or relativization or actualization of that consciousness is made up of nothing other than that consciousness. God is Present even while we are trying to comprehend God, even in the midst of that very comprehension. God is what makes that attempt at comprehension even possible. God is the very field in which we are trying to know God. When we let go of the trying, the conceptualization, surrendering the thoughts that are trying to know themselves, and rest in the pure still silent open awareness of being, that is when the realization of God may dawn on us, as us.

So a person can live his entire life as a mass murderer and a con man cheating and hurting others and he gets the same acceptance and forgiveness as a moral charitable individual who spends his life trying to help others? That is what you consider a fair and just God?

@mischievouself8047

6 күн бұрын

Matthew 20:1-16 answers your question.

@anthonykanemd

6 күн бұрын

@@mischievouself8047 Exactly the point. According to Matthew, God can do what he wants even though it is unfair. So Christianity teaches that a person can exploit others for his own gain at their expense with impunity. Murder, rape, steal (think Crusades), and enjoy yourself because, in the end, you get what the saint gets anyway. So why be good? Why try to perfect yourself? It will not help you. The God you project is a fiend. This is not acceptable and not in line with what we see in the world.

The Gog of Magog War The Bible points to a future attack on Israel known as the Gog of Magog War (Ezekiel 38-39). It says a military alliance that includes Russia, Iran, Turkey, and a number of Muslim nations will attack Israel "in the latter days" (Ezekiel 38:8) when God brings His people home from among the enemy nations (Ezekiel 39:27). Today, we see those nations forming an alliance for the first time - an alliance that has never existed in world history. Russia, Iran, and Turkey all have an active military presence in Syria, meaning they're right on Israel's northern border at this moment. Why is this important? Because Ezekiel specifically says this alliance will attack Israel from the north (Ezekiel 38:15; Ezekiel 39:2). In addition, the ancient territory of Magog covers a number of modern day nations, one of which is Afghanistan. Up until recently, it was difficult to imagine U.S. occupied Afghanistan joining the Gog of Magog invasion. But now? With the Taliban back in control, it would be odd if they didn't join this invading alliance. The way nations are aligned today, the Gog of Magog invasion could take place tomorrow. All the pieces are in place. Even just a few years ago, that wasn't the case. Global War Prospects While "rumors of war" have been common since the end of World War II, the current situation is different. The world is in the midst of an energy crisis. Europe has seen natural gas prices surge in the past month. China and India are experiencing rolling blackouts of electrical service. Not only will this create problems in an already broken global supply chain, but these are the conditions which often give rise to war. And energy resource issues could provide the spark that ignites the next world war. For example, China threatens to invade Taiwan on an almost daily basis. If China does invade, the United States claims it will defend Taiwan. If it occurs, such a conflict will devastate the world. Both China and the U.S. are nuclear powers, and both likely have high-tech space weapons, cyberwarfare capabilities, and innovative weapons never before seen on a battlefield. Such a conflict could easily erupt into World War III. Even if it doesn't, the global economy would collapse and the global supply chain would be irreparably broken if the two largest economic powers went to war. 1. WARS, VIOLENCE, AND LAWLESSNESS Watch for wars-big wars, little wars, ethnic wars, wars of all sorts, along with escalating violence and increasing lawlessness-which will increasingly affect all of the world, especially the English-speaking nations. A common perspective is that the world will somehow get better. Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush talked often about a “new world order” as though there was going to be peace. Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor to former U.S. President George W. Bush, described her vision of U.S. foreign policy as to “help developing countries move from war to peace, poverty to prosperity, poor governance to democracy and the rule of law” (Foreign Affairs, July/August 2008). Yet increasing numbers of people around the world consider the U.S. a threat to world peace. An April 2007 poll by the Forsa Institute found that German citizens consider the U.S. the greatest threat to world peace, with 48 percent naming the U.S. as the main instigator of war and lawlessness around the globe. This post-Cold War time is unstable and extremely volatile. Will peace emerge from the chaos? Brian Urquhart, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General, reminds us that “in the age of humanitarian intervention, the human catastrophes of failed states and civil wars will continue to come before the Security Council” (“A Force Behind the U.N.,” The New York Times, August 7, 2003). Indeed, the “new world order” is only producing a faltering, fading peace. Events will grow worse, not better. Why is our civilization bankrupt of workable solutions to global, peaceful cooperation among nations and ethnic groups? Norman Lear, long-time television producer and political activist, clearly delineated the problem in a speech addressed to the National Press Club, saying that “at no time in my life can I remember our culture being so estranged from this essential part of itself,” referring to “the spirit-led, or spiritual, life of our species,” mentioned earlier in Lear’s speech. The gospel of Matthew contains Jesus’ prophecy to His disciples about the state of the world just prior to His Second Coming. “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom” (Matthew 24:6-7). While humanity has lived with warfare over the millennia, our time in history is unprecedented because of the massive annihilative potential of modern weapons and the massive global scale of potential conflict. Verse 22 is a prophetic qualifier that only points to our time of high technology and its awful, brilliantly evil weapons of mass destruction. “And unless those days were shortened [the time of world war using these new weapons], no flesh would be saved [human extinction]; but for the elect’s [God’s repentant, obedient saints] sake those days will be shortened.” Today’s world is full of widespread wars and rumors of wars. There are many ethnic wars taking place-not only in the former Yugoslavia, but also in the former Soviet Union and in many places throughout Africa and Asia. Dozens of regional wars are now being fought around the world! America will not escape this increasing intranational and international strife. The day will come when the Los Angeles riots of 1992 and the destruction of the World Trade Center towers in 2001 will seem like minor skirmishes as America’s old allies become unstable and its old alliances fall apart. Civil wars and wars between nation-states will increase. There will be little wars and big wars, resulting finally in a great war that will culminate at the battle of Armageddon in the Jezreel Valley in Israel-at which point Christ will return. Some think this is alarmist, pessimistic thinking, unwarranted because of mankind’s innate goodness. Such naïve people exude a quirky kind of optimism, proclaiming in the best “Pollyanna” tradition, “Oh, things are going to get better.” Well, as a minister of God, I am commissioned to tell you they are not going to get better until after Christ returns. Yes, there is a wonderful tomorrow’s world, but, realistically, you should realize that life will grow very dark and desperate before a new world dawns. Have you noticed the completely inexplicable outbreaks of violence-random shootings, murders, and mass killings? Jesus Christ predicted this societal breakdown just before his return. “And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold” (Matthew 24:12). In the United States, we used to think we were a Christian society; perhaps some still do. But today, our leisure time entertainment-television, movies, and the Internet-rivals ancient Rome’s lust for sex, drugs (including alcohol), violence, and brutality. Paradoxically, the United States and Canada have remarkably high percentages of their population who say they believe in God and go to church regularly. This hypocritical national behavior was foreseen as characteristic of the human society existing just before the Messiah’s return. The Apostle Paul was inspired to write, “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power” (2 Timothy 3:1-5). Men deny the authority of God, despite a show of religiosity. Paul commands, under inspiration of God, that we “from such people turn away” (v. 5)! Get away from people who talk about religion, but deny the authority of God, because they will mislead you. They will confuse you. This sassy, sarcastic, lust-filled generation is headed for big, big trouble. You need to recognize that and not be a part of it. The sign of wars, increasing violence, and lawlessness is the first thing to watch for.

So, what sets Christianity apart from every religion? Simple to answer. Christianity is not a religion! Religion was created by man, Christianity was not! Christianity is a way-of-life, not a religion! Christianity is about our Lord and Savoir Jesus Christ. Simple as that…………….

@stephenzaccardelli3270

6 күн бұрын

@@timburdick6207 and following Buddha is Buddhism.

The analogy doesn't work when you consider the cookbook to be the 10 commandments. How would you feel about your wife if she committed adultery? Or lied to you and stole from you? Jesus instructed us to keep God's laws, not doing so without repenting could be a basis by which our acceptance by God would be lost.

Christ is a person or God ? How he died ? How raised ? When he died who was controlling universe ?

Why is it that all the three abramic religions never stop hitting out at one another in every possible way. Even going to the extent of still battling and even waging wars till today !!

@drmahaCroc9164

8 күн бұрын

Is it the same story with humans who kill each other down ages? Even amongst the same race.

@hedwshjredns

6 күн бұрын

should we stop eating since people fight over food? even waging wars over food or other resources. Should we stop having different ideas in things such as politics since people even wage wars over it?

Set apart by hateful judgment of others

@fredriksundberg4624

11 күн бұрын

Exactly christians.

Pacifism

Because all other religions are false.

@stephenzaccardelli3270

6 күн бұрын

@@user-wo6qn3vf9n because all religions are false.

what sets Christianity apart is special pleading.

@fredriksundberg4624

11 күн бұрын

And virtous circular reasoning instead of viscously circular reasoning according to Sye Ten Bruggencate.

Anything at all or perhaps nothing at all? Or perhaps it's just being the christian exclusivity card being propagated, because of reasons?

Well, you have only part of the truth. That was the intention of the creator of christianity. And the result is ... Scriptures tells us to follow the example of our Messiah: 1Pe 2:21 For to this you were called, because Messiah also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps, Our Messiah says we will be known by our fruits: Mat 7:20 “So then, by their fruits you shall know them - Jesus is not the name of the Hebrew Messiah of the Bible! Let’s see what are the fruits of the followers of Jesus, the Greek Messiah: Pagan Names For the Father and Son(Lord/Jesus); Sunday rest; Pagan feasts of Easter and Christmas; popes; nuns; holy water; sacraments; or any separation of Messiah’s body into a “priesthood” and “laity”; eat pork(unclean foods). None of the above found in the Bible. The Hebrew Messiah of the Bible did none of these above church traditions. Followers of Yahusha, the Hebrew Messiah: Call the Father a Son by the Sacred Name Yahuah and Yahusha; 7th day Sabbath rest; Keep the Torah and Scriptural feasts of Lev 23; eat Kosher; circumcised and wear Tzitzits. (all found in the Scripture) In other words, if you follow Jesus, you received the one who came in his own name: Joh 5:43 “I have come in My Father’s Name and you do not receive Me, if another comes in his own name, him you would receive. But if you Follow Messiah Yahusha, you will love Him and guard His Commands: Joh 14:15 “If you love Me, you shall guard My commands. You are the servant of the one you obey: Rom 6:16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves servants for obedience, you are servants of the one whom you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

Sorry but This is the most stupid example ( the wife and the cooking book) I ever seen. I love to work for him and get paid first whatever I did the job or not or studying with him and get my A degree before studying or taking any exams this man is fantastic I hope I have a more of him I will be rich and successful with no time or any efforts 😂😂

@JITKanno0

17 күн бұрын

Its OK to not understand. To each his own time.

@joashmaneipuri2758

16 күн бұрын

That's true in every way - given you believe in Him.

Not adhering to any religion is also not based on a merit, but just to be a decent human. If you care about other human beings, other human beings will care about you, and you don't have to wait until you die! There's not even a requirement to believe in stuff that doesn't make sense. Because if you don't believe the "right" thing (which by the way can't be agreed upon even among christians) - you're doomed.

@hedwshjredns

6 күн бұрын

what makes you want to be decent to another human being? and what is being decent to another human being? and what doesnt make sense? just because it doesnt make sense to you doesnt mean its wrong if i tell a child 5+6 is 11 and they dont get it does it mean im wrong? no it just means they need a teacher. your right there is no requirement to believe in it that is the free will god has given us the ability to have our own personal agency. the "right" thing as you put it cant be agreed upon even among atheist which have even less of a basis for morality so your point?

@dyvel

6 күн бұрын

@@hedwshjredns from whenever a child sees that another child gets sad when they hit them or steal their toys, and they associate it with the feeling they get when they themselves feel pain or lose their toy - they stop doing that thing that makes them sad. No teacher needed. The fact that religions have it written down doesn't mean that's the origin. I think it's all based on feelings and the ability to understand that other people also have feelings, and communicating them with body language.

@dyvel

6 күн бұрын

@@hedwshjredns observing people being happy makes me happy, observing people being generous makes me generous, observing people being sad or hurt makes me sad. Being happy is a feeling of pleasure that releases happy chemicals in my body, being sad feels bad or painful, and Pain is by definition something that I want to avoid or I wouldn't survive. The body has evolved to produce chemicals that brings about pleasure when I do things that are good for the survival of me and those I identify with, and to produce signals that the brain interprets as pain when I experience situations that I generally want to avoid.

@hedwshjredns

6 күн бұрын

@@dyvel but what makes one person happy doesnt make everyone happy what makes someone happy may not be for the greater good by your logic spoiling children is the best way to go about raising them which isnt true since once you can no longer spoil then the world is going to put a beating on them so morally you were wrong for spoiling them and not preparing them for the world

@hedwshjredns

6 күн бұрын

@@dyvel bro have you ever met a child? they mean asl and if they arent corrected they will continue those behaviors ever see a spoiled brat video? also being selfish is a natural behavior people show (and what ever else negative terms that have your self interest in mind are natural) people arent perfect and dont always work together religion is a guide for people now which religion is correct well thats a whole other conversation

John sets up a false dichotomy at the very start. "They cannot all be true". Not in John's selection that he presents. But a new category emerges: they can all be false.

@hedwshjredns

6 күн бұрын

how is this argument since atheism can be wrong too? any belief can be wrong which atheism falls under the label of belief since you believe there is no god

@damianabbate4423

6 күн бұрын

@@hedwshjredns Here we go again. Atheism is not a belief. Atheism is the rejection of your claim that a god exists. Atheism can't prove there is no god, but it's on you to prove your claim, and no one has produced a god, just lots of excuses for one.

@hedwshjredns

6 күн бұрын

@@damianabbate4423 atheism is a belief since you are rejecting my thoughts you thoughts go against mine just because it is a rejection of something doesnt mean its not a belief if is say the sky is blue and you say its not it doesnt mean what you are saying isnt your belief even if its just a rejection of my own and if by "produced a god" you mean given evidence and proven god i ask you this what is your basis of proof what would need to be shown to you to believe? because i believe if god appeared in the sky people would still not believe people would just say "its a projection, we were drugged, it was a cloud that just looked like that" etc

@damianabbate4423

6 күн бұрын

@@hedwshjredns You're analogies are ridiculous, laughable and childish. Of course we can agree on the color of the sky. It's something we both can observe and reason together about. But theism is not observable by both of us and also cannot be reasoned. Of course i can reject thoughts. You reject the "thoughts" of people who believe in other gods, and atheism rejects those also. So you only have a problem with atheism as it pertains to your particular god. So what we have here is religious bias as displayed by you. I am showing no bias by rejecting all god claims. I don't know what would convince me, but the one who would know would be an all powerful god. That god should know exactly what would convince any person.

@hedwshjredns

5 күн бұрын

@@damianabbate4423 first thing firs i never denied you coundnt reject it my point was the rejecting a belief is a belief in it of its self second we cant agree on the color of the sky for instance in some african languages there was no name for the color blue so it is hard for them to distinguish blue from green since in there head it is all green same goes for early european languages also are brains process information differently how do you know my blue is your blue? (think the white and gold vs blue and black dress) and you have to look for god if you just deny and deny youll never get anywhere if you are running test but because of slight variation you deny the results even if the margin of error is 0.000000000000000000001 you will never get anywhere

The crusades, the inquisition, the lies

Of all the supernatural fantasies christianity is probably the most forgiving.

The title question: "What Sets Christianity Apart From Every Religion?" Answer: "Nothing". All religions claim that theirs is the one and only ultimate truth and all the others are wrong, as evidenced in this video. Had John Lennox been born in the Middle East, he would be arguing that Islam is the ultimate truth and all the other religions are wrong. Yet none of them can see how stupid such an attitude is. It's, well, laughable really.

@hedwshjredns

6 күн бұрын

it is different in terms of its main focal teaching and how to reach god. all other religions teach that with enough dedication you can go to heaven (or its equivalent) christianty says no you never will no matter how hard you try you can never be perfect so jesus died for our "sins" the thing that makes us imperfect to give us that chance to be with god" also why are you a atheist? im going to assume you are from the US where a lot of people are christian so why arent you christian? thats right you have the ability to think for yourself.

@Chris-hf2sl

6 күн бұрын

@@hedwshjredns The detailed beliefs, of course, differ from one religion to another, but what all the Abrahamic religions have in common is the assumption that everything was created by an old man in the sky using magic. Furthermore that this old man is watching us. (I'm less familiar with non-Abrahamic religions.) There is no evidence for this idea; it is all based on superstition, stemming from a time when folk were totally lacking in any scientific knowledge, so they assumed, for example that thunder and lightning are a manifestation of God's anger. We now know better. I'm not saying that science has all the answers, because there are many questions for which we have no answers, but that's no reason to jump to the conclusion that "God must have done it". No, I'm not in the USA, but the fact that you assume that I am and therefore 'should' be Christian says a lot. I agree that had I been born in say, the Middle East, I would probably be Muslim. Why? The truth doesn't vary depending on location. It's because children are brainwashed into believing in the same religion as their parents. Most people don't stop and THINK about what it's logical to believe based on facts; they just assume without evidence that what their parents taught them is correct. People who do analyse things are called atheists.

@hedwshjredns

6 күн бұрын

@@Chris-hf2sl funny how you brought the idea that people follow what there parents say since for instance i myself dont believe what my mother believe (she is christian but has vastly different thoughts) another example my cousin, her father is a pastor and she doesnt believe in christianity she has recently and i mean very recently had thoughts on it since i brought it up to her. also i assumed you were american since A i am american and was promoted this video and the video consists of a american college professor. also when you said the thing about lighting that could still be very true since god can set things in motion even if it starts off very small it can turn into something big (although i dont think lighting is gods wrath) another question as well have you done the research and math on how a engine works? on how black holes work? on how your toaster works? etc also how do you know napolean was a real person? thats right you put faith into the workings and wrtting of other people same goes for the bible it is a historical document it is the accounts of what these people heard and saw

@Chris-hf2sl

5 күн бұрын

@@hedwshjredns Many thanks for your detailed reply. What I meant by people following their parent's religion is broadly true in the sense that if you have Christian parents you are almost certainly not going to end up Muslim or vice-versa. Obviously, though, there will often be minor differences in beliefs. As for engines, black holes, toasters and Napoleon, I'm a retired electronic engineer, so yes, I do understand how engines and toasters work. I have some understanding of black holes, but the physics involved is beyond me and most other people, so I have to accept (or reject) the current scientific understanding of how they work. Even among scientists working in the field, there are differences of opinion, which is fine - that's how science works - people come up with ideas and test them as best they can. Others then independently verify or refute the results. There is controversy over black holes in the scientific community because testing black holes is difficult. In "simpler" cases such as Einstein's Theory of Relativity, sufficient numbers of independent scientists have checked the maths and run experiments to verify that he is correct. Our sat-nav systems for example would not work without taking relativity into account, so, there is altogether enough evidence to convince me, other engineers and all scientists that he is correct. (That does not mean that an even more accurate theory might not eventually emerge.) When it comes to Napoleon, he lived 200 years ago, at a time when many people could read and write, when historians could document things and when records were reliably archived. Furthermore, nobody claims that he could walk on water, rise from the dead or do any of the other supernatural things attributed to Jesus. So any written records about Napoleon are much more credible, therefore I have no reason to doubt them. In contrast, the Bible was written at a time when people were mostly uneducated, scientifically illiterate and most importantly, highly superstitious. Some bits are probably true; for example, Jesus quite likely existed, the son of Mary and her unknown lover and he was by all accounts a highly virtuous man who did his best for his fellow citizens. But the son of God, who was able to perform miracles? Wishful thinking. Apart from any other considerations, the Bible is an extremely long document - there wouldn't have even been sufficient paper, parchment or any other writing material around at the time to write the Bible on. It was therefore written later and embellished with miracles and other 'favourable' stories. So it is not a reliable record of events.

@hedwshjredns

5 күн бұрын

@@Chris-hf2sl you are taking everything i said at face value for instance the napoleon portion since my point is that there are things/ written and documented that as you described were written in times when people were uneducated (also that argument kinda doesnt make sense to me since even if a majority of people were uneducated the writers of the bible had to be since they were writing books) also the bible is found to be reliable because of the time gaps which you think of making it unreliable this is since many things in the bible turned out to be true and was used for exploration for many years the bible also has storys connect even when the "authors' of them were born hundreds of years apart. also i may be wrong but i think there would have been enough paper since you gotta keep in mind this was the middle east and north africa which was a big area for trade and these disciples had many years to write it down and or pass down their accounts but if i am wrong there is still many other ways these things could have been written even if they wrote it on a random rock by carving it my point on you dont know how toasters work is just saying that you put your faith in people for instance you put your faith in a doctor when you are ill or injured but at the same time you are putting your faith in those who educated the doctor and in the books the doctor read and the test that were conducted etc. when you say if you have christian parents you will almost certainly not become muslim i respond i have personally almost done it and seen many others do it and the differences between even the same religion can be vary alot think martin luther king jr and malcome x(although thats between politics) and as you said yourself "That does not mean that an even more accurate theory might not eventually emerge." which means even though many people and theories prove this it could still be wrong for example and im only saying this since i myself im not sure on it and need to do more research but lets take the theory of evolution at first it seems to make logical sense but then you pair it up with what we see in reality such as the cambrian explosion then we start to really think about it and if it makes logical sense and works in reality you look at the math and the chances for a single protein to change is like 10^70 or something like that and that is for one not the millions/billions for a complex organism then we start to think about how logical it is and i think well lets try to get to a chair from just a board well i need at least 3 legs if i grow one leg (which by evolution logic is how it would happen) it still wouldnt be up right and would fail as a chair not to mention if its a animal it would take away from the energy it needs to live and possibly hinder its ability to get energy etc. anyways i thank you for your time and thoughts but i suggest talking to someone who knows more then i do since i dont want to explain something incorrectly since i also im much better at speaking then writting. also its very late where i live and didnt really put to much though into it since i kinda didnt want to write a response so im sorry for that i please ask of you to seriously ask a person with more knowledge or seek this knowledge and discover it on you own like i do be guided to christ have a great day

Well what Jesus did with my life is damage me completely. As a consequence of such teachings I suffer from GAD.

Nothing.

Because popularised by the west. It's a Western culture. Just like democracy and socialist ideology.

Extremely good liars!

@hedwshjredns

6 күн бұрын

can you elaborate?

Christianity is a combination of earlier religions. Beginning with the Hebrew god Yahweh that always existed and created the Cosmos, followed by the fall of man, the virgin birth, the miracle working godman who became a sacrifice to save humanity and afterwards rose from the dead. It's all there plagiarized from earlier myths by the followers of a wandering Jewish preacher named Yeshua who was executed by the Roman and Jewish authorities for stirring up the people in a period of political unrest that preceded the Jewish uprising.

@rudysimoens570

10 күн бұрын

@@JamesRichardWiley exactly!

@hedwshjredns

6 күн бұрын

that jewish preacher yeshua sounds just like jesus ever think he may have been him? languages arent fully understood and how they change isnt either for example the name for jesus in the quran is wildly different and has no relation with the name jesus in the bible yet they still say that prophet is the same person

Lennox consistently ignores the voluminous substantiated false history, contrived biblical stories, impossible supernatural claims of the bible.

Answer; Christianity is not a religion, it's a lifestyle. Now, wasn't that easy!

and still no evidence for this god. Unique doesn't mean true. Lennox is a rather pitiful apologist.

@Keme63

21 күн бұрын

Nothing is nothing....sorry

@johnzuma4688

20 күн бұрын

So what evidence would you accept?

@velkyn1

20 күн бұрын

@@johnzuma4688 Christians who can do what jesus promises, to get any prayer answered, to do miracles like him, to heal people of illness and injury. Surely one of you can heal amputees, burn victims, etc? Evidence for the story that Egypt lost all of its food supply, its army and a sizable portion of its population. Curious how not one of their trading partners or enemies ever noticed that. Evidence for the certain day where there was a major earthquake, the sky darkened and dead jews wandered around roman-occupied Jerusalem during a passover. You'd think maybe pilate and caiaphas would have been told about that last, but surprise even the other gospel writers didn't notice that one.

@velkyn1

20 күн бұрын

@@Keme63 Alas, reality says you are wrong. Still no evidence for your imaginary friend.

@roybuckle7576

18 күн бұрын

The fact that you are alive should be enough proof

Literally nothing