My PhD was from Cambridge University. My goals here are to provide free, quality explorations of history, philosophy, art, and even subjects I find interesting.
I don't take myself too seriously, though I always try to take each subject seriously. I also do not expect everyone to agree with me on everything. That is the fun of history: a lot to argue over!
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Wow, you are an excellent teacher. Thank you for posting this account.
They are gnostics.
الكنيسة الحقيقة هي الكنيسة الروسية الوحيدة التي لم تتغير
Pentecostal here who came to the movement through Catholic charismatics. Great video. Your balanced and fair analysis is greatly appreciated.
This Christianity does not sound very messianic, with all the violence generatedm
The roman icons are just idols.
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No, there is no excuse for Catholicism under the heaven, even less on its post schism tributaries... Bear in mind, the nails that the schism was hung on - the completely unbiblical precept of monastic living. Let that sink in.... So, when claiming to be orthodox, what precisely are they claiming to be Orthodox in precisely? The closest Catholicism ever came was the Reformation with Martin Luther, and even Lutheranism from a theological perspective, is not Christianity it's performed Catholicism. Folks need to take a theology class.
Very nicely done, subscribed. I knew a bit about Rowbotham, and I've leafed through _Zetetic Astronomy,_ but this added a great deal of fascinating background. I would agree that there are lots of modern flat Earthers who are not religious, but after years of chatting with thousands of them online, I get the feeling that most are inspired by what they think the Bible says about the shape of the Earth. What the authors of the Bible meant is of course a topic unto itself, one that I suspect has no good answer, because they obviously didn't draw a hard line between literal and figurative language. Thanks, looking forward to more videos. Cheers from sunny Vienna, Scott
look on your paper money government hides it right in front of us it shows the firmament jlk❤
Apostolic Pentecostals believe that the Spirit is Christ Romans 8:9
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us and our world ☦ 🙏 🌍 🙏✝️
the orthodox are the successors of the jettisoned roman bureaucracy that were momentarily given pseudo-Catholic titles to allow Catholics to become acclimated to rome not being hostile. your earliest ancestors date from around the 300's, but your group didn't take off until bishops of constantinople wanted unquestioned power, convinced the emperor to ally with the m*hamm*d*ns to try to d*str*y The Church. they failed to d*str*y The Church, and the m*h*mm*d*ns w*ped out constantinople (using h*jra) for their f*ilure.
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Actually, flat earth was never a conspiracy. Everyone new it was flat...and stationary....for thousands of years. It's amazing what you can learn when you use your own God given brain and senses and do your own research. Stop believing the lies ! All experiments to prove the globe have failed. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH !
we've known the earth isn't flat for millennia. you are the one that needs to stop believing the absolutely moronic lies that you seem to have swallowed.
It would be great if you could make a video on the compromise of oaths at the treaty of Westphalia.
let's goo
*People making false claims that the King James Bible is somehow 'special' compared to other translations need to address the following* First, no way can anyone claim the King James Bible is the best or only ‘Holy’ Bible. There is no verse that tells me how God will preserve his word, so I can have no scriptural warrant for arguing that the King James has exclusive rights to the throne. The arguments must proceed on other bases. Second, the Greek text which stands behind the King James Bible is *demonstrably inferior* in certain places. The man who edited the text was a Roman Catholic priest and humanist named Erasmus.1 He was under pressure to get it to the press as soon as possible since (a) no edition of the Greek New Testament had yet been published, and (b) he had heard that Cardinal Ximenes and his associates were just about to publish an edition of the Greek New Testament and he was in a race to beat them. Consequently, his edition has been called the most poorly edited volume in all of literature! It is filled with hundreds of typographical errors which even Erasmus would acknowledge. Two places deserve special mention. In the last six verses of Revelation, Erasmus had no Greek manuscript (=MS) (he only used half a dozen, very late MSS for the whole New Testament any way). He was therefore forced to ‘back-translate’ the Latin into Greek and by so doing he created *seventeen* variants which have never been found in any other Greek MS of Revelation! He merely guessed at what the Greek might have been. Secondly, for 1 John 5:7-8, Erasmus followed the majority of MSS in reading “there are three witnesses in heaven, the Spirit and the water and the blood.” However, there was an uproar in some Roman Catholic circles because his text did not read “there are three witnesses in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit.” Erasmus said that he did not put that in the text because he found no Greek MSS which had that reading. This implicit challenge-viz., that if he found such a reading in any Greek MS, he would put it in his text-did not go unnoticed. In 1520, a scribe at Oxford named Roy made such a Greek MS (codex 61, now in Dublin). Erasmus’ third edition had the second reading because such a Greek MS was ‘made to order’ to fill the challenge! To date, only a handful of Greek MSS have been discovered which have the Trinitarian formula in 1 John 5:7-8, though none of them is demonstrably earlier than the sixteenth century. That is a very important point. It illustrates something quite significant with regard to the textual tradition which stands behind the King James. Probably most textual critics today fully embrace the doctrine of the Trinity (and, of course, all evangelical textual critics do). And most would like to see the Trinity explicitly taught in 1 John 5:7-8. But most reject this reading as an invention of some overly zealous scribe. The problem is that the King James Bible is filled with readings which have been created by overly zealous scribes! Very few of the distinctive King James readings are demonstrably ancient. And most textual critics just happen to embrace the reasonable proposition that the most ancient MSS tend to be more reliable since they stand closer to the date of the autographs. I myself would love to see many of the King James readings retained. The story of the woman caught in adultery (John 7:53-8:11) has always been a favorite of mine about the grace of our savior, Jesus Christ. That Jesus is called God in 1 Timothy 3:16 affirms my view of him. Cf. also John 3:13; 1 John 5:7-8, etc. But when the textual evidence shows me both that scribes had a strong tendency to add, rather than subtract, and that most of these additions are found in the more recent MSS, rather than the more ancient, I find it difficult to accept intellectually the very passages which I have always embraced emotionally. In other words, those scholars who seem to be excising many of your favorite passages from the New Testament are not doing so out of spite, but because such passages are not found in the better and more ancient MSS. It must be emphatically stressed, however, that this does not mean that the doctrines contained in those verses have been jeopardized. My belief in the deity of Christ, for example, does not live or die with 1 Timothy 3:16. In fact, it has been repeatedly affirmed that no doctrine of Scripture has been affected by these textual differences. If that is true, then the ‘King James only’ advocates might be crying wolf where none exists, rather than occupying themselves with the more important aspects of advancing the gospel.2 *Third, the King James Bible has undergone three revisions since its inception in 1611* incorporating more than 100,000 changes. *Which* King James Bible is inspired, therefore? Fourth, 300 words found in the KJV no longer bear the same meaning-e.g., “Suffer little children…to come unto me” (Matt 19:14). “Study to shew thyself approved unto God” (2 Tim 2:15). Should we really embrace a Bible as the best translation when it uses language that not only is not clearly understood any more, but in fact has been at times perverted and twisted?3 Fifth, the KJV includes one very definite error in translation, which even KJV advocates would admit. In Matthew 23:24 the KJV has ‘strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.’ But the Greek has ‘strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.’ In the least, this illustrates not only that no translation is infallible but also that scribal corruptions can and do take place-even in a volume which has been worked over by so many different hands (for the KJV was the product of a very large committee of over 50 scholars).4 Sixth, when the KJV was first published, it was heavily resisted for being too easy to understand! Some people revere it today because it is difficult to understand. I fear that part of their response is due to pride: they feel as though they are able to discern something that other, less spiritual folks cannot. Often 1 Corinthians 2:13-16 is quoted with reference to the KJV (to the effect that ‘you would understand it if you were spiritual’). Such a use of that text, however, is a gross distortion of the Scriptures. The words in the New Testament, the grammar, the style, etc.-in short, the language-comprised the common language of the first century. We do God a great disservice when we make the gospel more difficult to understand than he intended it. The reason unspiritual people do not understand the scriptures is because they have a volitional problem, not an intellectual problem (cf. 1 Cor. 2:14 where ‘receive,’ ‘welcome’ shows clearly that the thing which blocks understanding is the sinful will of man). Seventh, those who advocate that the KJV has exclusive rights to being called the Holy Bible are always, curiously, English-speaking people (*normally isolated Americans*). Yet, Martin Luther’s fine translation of the Bible into German predated the KJV by almost 100 years. Are we so arrogant to say that God has spoken only in English? And where there are substantial discrepancies between Luther’s Bible and the KJV (such as in 1 John 5:7-8), are we going to say that God has inspired both? Is he the author of lies? Our faith does not rest in a singular tradition, nor is it provincial. Vibrant, biblical Christianity must never unite itself with provincialism. Otherwise, missionary endeavor, among other things, would die. Eighth, again, let me repeat an earlier point: Most evangelicals-who embrace all the cardinal doctrines of the faith-prefer a different translation and textual basis than that found in the KJV. In fact, even the editors of the New Scofield Reference Bible (which is based on the KJV) prefer a different text/translation! Finally, though it is true that the modern translations ‘omit’ certain words and verses (or conversely, the KJV adds to the Word of God, depending on how you look at it), the issue is not black-or-white. In fact, the most recent edition of a Greek New Testament which is based on the majority of MSS, rather than the most ancient ones (and thus stands firmly behind the King James tradition), when compared to the standard Greek New Testament used in most modern translations, excises over six hundred and fifty words or phrases! Thus, it is not proper to suggest that only modern translations omit; the Greek text behind the KJV omits, too! The question, then, is not whether modern translations have deleted portions of the Word of God, but rather whether either the KJV or modern translations have altered the Word of God. I contend that the KJV has far more drastically altered the scriptures than have modern translations. Nevertheless, I repeat: most textual critics for the past two hundred and fifty years would say that no doctrine is affected by these changes. One can get saved reading the KJV and one can get saved reading the NIV, NASB, etc. I trust that this brief survey of reasons I have for thinking that the King James Bible is not the best available translation will not be discarded quickly. All of us have a tendency to make mountains out of molehills and then to set up fortresses in those ‘mountains.’ We often cling to things out of emotion, rather than out of true piety. And as such we do a great disservice to a dying world that is desperately in need of a clear, strong voice proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ. Soli Deo gloria!
Wicked and evil, brought up PAOC, we now have Joel Osteen, Kenneth Hagen, such heresy
These videos are amazing. Thank you for producing. As a Catholic I wish to unite with my Orthodox brothers and would support efforts to do so.
Pentecostals and charismatics are the worst heretic, hell-bound hypocrites on planet earth.
There is a wondefull book by Jeffrey Burton Russel: Inventing the flat earth. In this context: the estrangement of the past. By Anthony Kemp
Do you have a video on the early churches' understanding of spiritual gifts? If not that would be amazing. A series of Christian canonization would be great too. Thank you 🙇
Echolalalia. PSYCHIATRY: meaningless repetition of words just spoken by another person, occurring as a symptom of mental conditions. There are treatments for this. How rude I am.
I enjoyed your video, thanks for putting that together. I'm a space-systems architect, and have gotten pulled in a few times discussing and trying to counter Flat Earth believers, particularly West Point graduates. I personally know five West Pointers that believe in flat earth. Ironically, Buzz Aldrin, a West Pointer himself, gets very irritated with those people. I, myself, am a Naval Academy graduate, and would say it's impossible to become a Naval officer, understanding celestial navigation, to fall into the flat earth paradigm. There is one point in your video that I disagree with, which is a remark you made about young-earth. While I don't disagree that Rowbotham may have also had that view, the young-earth discussion is not tied to flat-earth. Discussion of physics, radioactive dating, carbon dating, how DNA works as an information system, disproving evolutionary claims, and other such topics, is a valid scientific discussion. But, again, thanks for your video.
there are west point graduate flattards? no way.
Christ gave us a Pope not a Bible, and the Pope(Damasus 1) gave us the Bible with the help of some other Catholics-- and anyone who goes against the Catholic Church will not go to heaven.
Donald Trump sells indulgences in the form of gold tennis shoes. Buy the gold sneakers and get right with the Lord.
How can you even begin to compare your 7 and 9 year old of today who do nothing but stare at their dumbing down so called smart phone to either one of yester year who had nothing to do in their spare time but ponder on the wonders of life and physically investigate reality? That in itself demonstrates your inability to intelligently investigate reality.
Flat earth is the truth. The Biblical description of our world is right. The Big Bang and evolution are the same lies from the same liars. Christians have been fighting the heliocentric lie for hundreds if years. It is time to revive it and confront the lie of the moon landings.
wrong and stupid. biblical description of our world is iron age ignorance.
_"biblical description of our world is right"_ biblical description of our world is superstitious iron age goat herder ignorance.
" the bozos running the show at the time..." Okay, I subscribed. 🤌🏼
Christ prayed that his sheeps be one, we continue to see splintering of the Orthodox Church while the Roman Church remained one and in fact adding more to its fold various oriental churches and even the heretical Anglicans and Lutherans,
Right, and Muslims, Hindus, and various other pagans added to the fold as well. Popes kissing the Quran and praying in mosques because Vatican 2 says we have the same God as the Muslims who don't believe Christ is God. We will ignore also the Protestant Reformation that happened. And also the schism between the Catholics and the Anglican Church. So How did it stay whole again?
How has the Roman church remained one? Did you forget about the Protestant reformation?
Was king james black or white?
Shoofly pie has molasses,right?
the earth always was flat in encyclopedia americana
wrong and stupid.
Really happy you’re back! I’m an atheist but I love learning history from research-backed and reliable sources.
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Good lecture. But there is a point that struck my mind that if Cristopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan in the West and Lord Buddha in the East have discovered and proved that the Earth is sphere ( while the later was long time before and both of them are before Rowbottham lived) what prompt the Westerners to accept the Rowbottham theories of a flat Earth surpassing the others?
ignorance
"Westerners" did not accept Rowbotham's theories. BTW, "Westerners" knew the Earth was spheric more than 2500 years ago, long before Columbus and Magellan.
This is BS. You really act like King James didn't force it on the people and push out all other thought. Sanction or no sanction. It's still a King's influence to rule a population.
Again Dr. Ryan lack the science knowledge relativity is a theory has never been proven and indeed it proves useless if the Earth is fixed and centralized universally can be used as the origin as to base celestial calculations. thus we don't need relativistic mechanics Dr. Barnes has shown at realistic speeds it is not mass increasing but the flux density of the electric field is increasing: relativistic mechanics is Poor science and has made science go into a dark age.
NASA probes and date the mapping of the universe using background radiation imaging shows the Earth to be at the center (the axis of evil) of the universe as does the universe rotates around the earth fix in space as suggested by the Bible. Dr. Ryan is a supreme expert which is credentials have shown him to be an excellent historian however he seems to be lacking in updated scientific knowledge.
Were science contradicts the Bible we will evidently found out the Bible to be correct and science wrong because creation is based upon science and engineering principles. Whatever we see in creation it's foundational principles are Scientific.
although the age of the earth was not germane in st. augustine's day, the age of the earth is completely germane today as evolutionist's theories totally falls apart with a young earth Biblically dated creation of 7,000 years. Jesus stated: " For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
Weird
u fell for it u took the bait the universe is a little over 6000 yrs old and the earth is round u prolly think the speed of light is a constant. Around creation it was much faster God stretched the heavens (Says 8 times) which created the ZPE which increased in strength making the speed of light slow down exponentially its basically flat lined now. this was observed over 300 yrs by scientists
you fell for it. you took the bait. you believe the earth is 6000 years old. that's fucking stupid. the speed of light is a constant and is used every day by people around the globe.
I don't know how I missed this announcement but I'm so glad you're back making content.
Cessationism is a doctrine that spiritual gifts such as speaking in tongues, prophecy, and healing ceased with the Apostolic Age. The doctrine was developed in the reformation and is particularly associated with the Calvinists. I believe that the real danger to the church is denying the power thereof. If your church does not mirror the first century church (as in the book of Acts) in action and doctrine then youve missed it. This is why one must approach the Epistles through the Book of acts first. Being it is literally the history book of how the first church operated and should still operate. Granted there will be false churches claiming to have the power. One must adhere to the apostles doctrine. They were literally executing the will of Jesus after that the Holy ghost fell upon them on the day of Pentecost. Baptizing (and even re-baptizing) sinners in the NAME OF JESUS, and laying on of hands that they may receive rhe holy ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues. Check out the book of acts. Yall like skipling right over that and right into the Epistles with your Calvaninst lense.
So are you sharing all your belongings and finances with the brethren and claiming none of it as your own? Are you selling any of it off to help support the needy brethren? It is in the book of Acts..chapter 4, verses 32-35.
@@TripleR-kb6uc The practice of generous sharing is STILL practiced today in our Apostolic churches. (At least they should , humans are fallible creatures) The early church did not sell all their possessions and live communally. Essentially, they shared their possessions and distributed food to those believers who were in need. They still had their own homes as shown in verse 46. Believers went to each others’ homes to eat together.
@@rubenaesparzayou claim ‘the early church did not sell all their possessions and live communally’ but the Bible says the opposite: “And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.” Acts 4:32 “Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,” Acts 4:34 This verse is referencing Barnabas: “Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.“ Acts 4:37 Also, do the people at your religious building miraculously speak in foreign ethnic languages such as the languages of the Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Cretes and Arabians, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Cretes and Arabians? Do you all instantly heal cripples? Any of you ever been freed from prison by angels? Also, have any of you seen Jesus & heaven opened? Heal paralyzed people? Raise people from the dead? Strike your enemies with blindness? Wrangle venomous snakes? It’s all in the book of Acts.
Would you do a history of Easter?
How do you explain the high altitude balloon footage we have at 100,000 feet that shows a flat level horizon? That's very hard to explain away and globe earthers usually are stumped and have nothing to say and can't explain it. Yet you can see such footage in many independent videos. Also if 100,000 feet isn't high enough to see curvature then how can you see curvature at ground level when you see ships disappearing over the horizon? You can't have it both ways. That's a big contradiction, especially since using a good telescope or camera zoom, you can see the ships zoom back into view after it's disappeared, which has been demonstrated many times since 2015 when this flat earth debate started. How do you explain this? And why do globe earthers have no explanation to this? All they have is silence and ridicule.
*"How do you explain the high altitude balloon footage we have at 100,000 feet that shows a flat level horizon?"* Lets test your claim. Video title: *High Altitude Balloon 18 (Infrared Camera)* This video was produced by a flattard. Another one: *56 Miles (90 km) Above Earth - Successful Amateur Rocket Launch* So your claim of "flat horizon" is BOLLOCKS *"That's very hard to explain away and globe earthers usually are stumped and have nothing to say and can't explain it. Yet you can see such footage in many independent videos."* WRONG! *"Also if 100,000 feet isn't high enough to see curvature then how can you see curvature at ground level when you see ships disappearing over the horizon? You can't have it both ways. That's a big contradiction"* False premise, fallacious "logic" ---> invalid conclusion *" especially since using a good telescope or camera zoom, you can see the ships zoom back into view after it's disappeared, which has been demonstrated many times since 2015 when this flat earth debate started. How do you explain this? And why do globe earthers have no explanation to this? All they have is silence and ridicule."* hahahahhahahaha Apparently you fell for trickery done by flattard con men. "A vessel can "disappear" by: (1) It simply moved away, and its angular size became so minimal that it became unresolvable; or (2) He moved beyond the horizon, so that the Earth, being spherical, began to block his view. Note, in case #1, with the vessel NOT BEYOND the horizon, all you need to do is use lenses, increase the angular size, and you will see it again. In fact, you will continue to see the horizon in the background. The problem, then, was just perspective. In case #2, the vessel will move away, but it will be BEYOND the horizon. You can even use lenses to increase its angular size, but this will not be able to reveal the part of the vessel that is simply obstructed by the Earth's surface. And you, little boy, fell for a pretty stupid trick perpetrated by those who took advantage of your total lack of education. They show a horizon without zoom, and deceive you in the premise, saying that it is case #2 (vessel BEYOND the horizon). They zoom in, see the entire vessel, with the horizon still in the background, and celebrate saying that they "recaptured" the vessel that was "beyond" the horizon. But, in fact, it was simply case #1 (vessel NOT BEYOND the horizon), which was only unseen due to its unresolvable angular size. What they will NEVER show you is an example of, even with zoom, the vessel can be seen (that is, it is not a problem of angular size), but only half way, with the lower half covered by the surface. For that, my dear, there is no zoom that solves it. What can solve this is for you to look for a school and seek more knowledge, so as not to fall for simple tricks like this. If you fell, you were manipulated by con men, young man! But nice try!
Don't all ancient cultures except the Greeks teach that the Earth is flat? Even the ancient Hebrews did. There are many models and drawings depicting this. The Bible does too of course. There are many Bible verses that say the Earth is flat. It's well documented and obvious. Ridiculing it doesn't change that fact.
_"There are many models and drawings depicting this. "_ your argument is bronze age ignorance?
Wow, @0:46 these cult followers dress just like Jesus described the Pharisees, that is obscene wealth on display there with their special robes and elaborate diamond encrusted neck pieces hanging round their necks and ornate gold laden hats! I wonder what Jesus thinks of this vulgar display of financial riches and special seats/places for a few?
Wait until you find out that most of those priests actually live in poverty and aren't dripping with cash like you're accusing them of lol