You're welcome! I hope have fun and you are successful in your catch!

@@Dennis8795 thank you ☺️

My mistake, 580 billion gallons.

Thanks!

I saw this place in videos and pictures which does not compare when going in real life. I love NYC drinking water, so it makes it even better!

My pleasure! One of the great hidden gems of the New York City Metropolitan Area

The pictures from this site does not compare to visiting in real life

@lovingboye1, I appreciate your response and criticism. I ask that before you read the rest of my response that you understand that I am trying to help you clarify these issues, not impose a debate. Otherwise, this wouldn’t be helpful and useless. Also, please ask questions if my response needs further clarification or if I failed to answer some questions. I tried to address all questions. I should clarify that having sinful thoughts or temptations is not a sin. Jesus was tempted by Satan in Matthew 4:1-13. I apologize if I expressed that idea in the video. But having sinful thoughts can lead to sinful actions and that is considered committing a sin. Showing repentance is a standard that we should be following, but the truth is that we fall short on it. God didn’t promise us that we as believers would be immune from sinning. He didn’t create people to be robots. Instead, he created people to have free will and choice to want to follow him. Therefore, because we currently live in a sinful world with sinful fleshly desires we can still yield to sin. People choose to pursue the temporary desires of instant gratification, not knowing their effects. That includes myself. So far, there doesn’t seem to be a difference between a believer and non-believer in this regard. You claim that the Bible says that everyone is judged according to their own ways. That’s true. So let’s say that a person has never heard of any commandments in the Bible. God has given all of humanity a conscience, so their definition of morality will come from their conscience. That person knows that lying is wrong, regardless of the circumstances or extent. Sometime in their life, they told a lie to someone. How should that person be judged? Because that person falls short of their standard, they deserve punishment and consequences. That’s a sin and the ultimate consequence is that any sin will lead to death. Thus, I say that there is no work that I can do to justify my sins. Good deeds do not cancel out nor mitigate my sinful actions. I do deserve to die and go to hell. Because God is just, He won’t remove that punishment from humanity. Instead, He sent Jesus to die on the cross to pay for the penalty for all of humanity’s sins. His sacrifice is enough, so that on the final judgment God will not judge believers for their sins, but will reward their works. Instead of going to hell and being eternally separated, we will reign with Christ and be fully reunited with him forever. Also if we do commit a sin, God is open and ready for us to return to Him and to give forgiveness and restore the relationship. This is a free gift of grace and the only way to receive it is to believe. Believing is the only condition to be saved and is the bare minimum to be a believer. So should Christians continue to commit sinful actions or take advantage of God’s grace. No, Romans 6:1-4 says that we shouldn’t live like that. In addition, continuing to live in sin disrupts the relationship between man and God, minds and thoughts are impure, and there are still consequences that God will put on our lives to show us this is not this is not the right way to live. There are absolutely no benefits to yield to sin. Repentance is important to turn away from our sins to restore our relationship with God. We have the protection of God, the family of God, we can walk in purity, and through God’s wisdom he can give us earthly blessings, or even better heavenly blessings. It will help us reach out to witnesses that believers can find true love, hope, and joy in Christ. Your definition of idolatry is correct, but Jesus is more than a man. He is both man and God. Jesus is not God the Father. He is God the Son or the Son of Man. There is the idea of the trinity that is not explicitly expressed in the Bible, but implicitly taught. Jesus has a different role than Yahweh, but Jesus did His Father’s will not His. There is a lot of evidence throughout the Bible, both Old and New Testament to prove the deity of Christ. But I want to know what your definition of God is so I can pinpoint a specific Scripture reference to respond to your claims. In my other videos, I do a breakdown of Scripture and will not be afraid to provide sufficient context to verses.

​@@Dennis8795 First, I will like to say I appreciate your response. Also, I want you to know that I am being critical not for the purpose of being a nuisance or combative, but instead I'm speaking the truth out of love. I posed these issues and concerns because they are very important. Grew up under the Christian teachings myself and I am very familiar with it. It was not until I read the entire bible for myself before I understood how corrupt the Christian gospel is. A lot of scriptures are taken out of context to teach a hypocritical corrupt message that are full of contradictions. Let me explain what I mean. "Therefore, because we currently live in a sinful world with sinful fleshly desires we can still yield to sin." Now, consider what you are really saying here. Now, compare it to what Paul says here. Romans 6:15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! 16Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, YOU ARE SLAVES OF THE ONE YOU OBEY-WHETHER YOU ARE SLAVES TO SIN, WHICH LEADS TO DEATH, OR to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17But thanks be to God that, though YOU USED TO BE SLAVES TO SIN, YOU HAVE COME TO OBEY FROM YOUR HEART THE PATTERN OF TEACHING THAT HAS NOW CLAIMED YOUR ALLEGIANCE. 18You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. Now, according to your logic what Paul is saying here is not true. You are basically admitting that your sinful fleshly desires still has rule over you and you have no choice but to "yield" to it at times. Yet Paul points out that those who obey the "pattern of teaching" that has been passed down to them from Jesus will have power over the sinful fleshly desires and will no longer be subject to it. How can it be both? You claiming that a "believer" will still yield to sin is a direct contradiction to scripture. In fact, when you come to learn the truth that Jesus taught it is suppose to set you free from the evil desires of your flesh so that you are no longer subject to it. Romans 6:20When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22BUT NOW THAT YOU HAVE BEEN SET FREE FROM SIN and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. Again, the question is how can you claim to be set free from sin and at the same time admitting to still be subject to it? And if you are still subject to sin then how has Jesus saved you? Romans 6: 23FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. If you remain sinning and/or a sinner then you will reap what you so. God does not show favoritism. There are no qualifiers here. Romans 2:6God “WILL REPAY EACH PERSON ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY HAVE DONE.” 7To those who by PERSISTENCE IN DOING GOOD seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. 8But for those who are self-seeking and who REJECT THE TRUTH AND FOLLOW EVIL, there will be wrath and anger. 9There will be trouble and distress for every human being WHO DOES EVIL: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; 10but glory, honor and peace for everyone WHO DOES GOOD: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 11For GOD DOES NOT SHOW FAVORITISM. Also, it seems that you have taken scripture out of context by stating that a person who commits a sin deserves death as if this is an extreme law. This is not what the biblical writers meant. The purpose of their writings is to get people to turn from sin because sinful behavior ultimately leads to death. It does not mean if a person committed one sin they are doomed to die, because of that one sin they have committed. Instead, pretty much everyone from the time they are young until they grow old have grown up in an environment that shapes us to learn to be selfish, jealous, prideful, prejudice, greedy, hateful, covetous, etc. to some degree or another. This is why there is a need for us to REPENT and come out of these corrupt ways of thinking and living. The prophet Ezekiel makes these points clear. It is God's will that we REPENT and CHANGE from our evil/bad ways. Ezekiel 18:20THE ONE WHO SINS IS THE ONE WHO WILL DIE. The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE RIGHTEOUS WILL BE CREDITED TO THEM, AND THE WICKEDNESS OF THE WICKED WILL BE CHARGED AGAINST THEM. 21“But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, THAT PERSON WILL SURELY LIVE; THEY WILL NOT DIE. 22NONE OF THE OFFENSES THEY HAVE COMMITTED WILL BE REMEMBERED AGAINST THE. BECAUSE OF THE RIGHTEOUS THINGS THEY HAVE DONE, THEY WILL LIVE. 23Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign Lord. Rather, am I NOT PLEASED WHEN THEY TURN FROM THEIR WAYS AND LIVE? 24“But if a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin and does the same detestable things the wicked person does, will they live? NONE OF THE RIGHTEOUS THINGS THAT PERSON HAS DONE WILL BE REMEMBERED. BECAUSE OF THE UNFAITHFULNESS THEY ARE GUILTY OF AND BECAUSE OF THE SINS THEY HAVE COMMITTED, THEY WILL DIE. Now, consider that to what you said, " Good deeds do not cancel out nor mitigate my sinful actions." Is this not a direct contradiction to what the prophet Ezekiel says? Here you can clearly see TRUE JUSTICE. A sinner who REPENTS and CHANGES from his wicked ways will not have his/her past sins held against them. They will live BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS. Not because Jesus died on the cross (these scriptures are also taken way out of context). Jesus died so that his followers will learn the truth from him and that truth he taught them was the way of love and peace. It is because his followers learn from him and CHANGE and live righteously this is what qualifies them to pass over from death to life. 1 John 3: 14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death. Galatians

​@@Dennis8795 Galatians 6:7Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. We cannot have it both ways. Either we live by the flesh or by the Spirit. Also, can you show me the scriptures where the apostles are claiming Jesus is both man and God? Does this not defy logic? You have to create a bunch of hoops to jump through to try to force this logic to work and finally come to the conclusion that it is some deep dark secret or mystery that we are not meant to understand. In other words, you have to deceive people into believing something that does not make any sense. There are no Trinity teachings in the bible because the HEBREW people who wrote the bible did not have such beliefs. Those ideas came from GREEK philosophy. The Jews did not believe in man-Gods. The Gentiles did. Acts 14:11When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “THE GODS HAVE COME DOWN TO US IN HUMAN FORM!” 12Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes because he was the chief speaker. 13The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates because he and the crowd wanted to offer sacrifices to them. 14But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of this, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting: 15“Friends, WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS? WE TOO ARE ONLY HUMAN, LIKE YOU. We are bringing you good news, TELLING YOU TO TURN FROM THESE WORTHLESS THINGS TO THE LIVING GOD, who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them. 16In the past, he let all nations go their own way. 17Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.” 18EVEN WITH THESE WORDS, THEY HAD DIFFICULTY KEEPING THE CROWD FROM SACRIFICING TO THEM. Consider what has happened here. Paul heals a paralyzed man JUST LIKE JESUS HAS DONE and you can see how the LYCAONIAN people reacted to this. This miraculous event made Paul seem like a GOD to them. Paul TRIED to correct them and told them to TURN FROM THESE WORTHLESS THINGS TO THE LIVING GOD. Why would he say this? Because the Gentile people are known for these type of idolatry beliefs viewing God as some creature like a human etc. The Hebrew people did not believe in man-Gods so this perception of God was foolishness to Paul and Barnabas. Paul did not say hey wait I'm not the man-God you are looking for that would be Jesus of Nazareth. He told them this perception of God is false and foolish and to come out of that way of perceiving God. This is also echoed in the book of Romans. Romans 1:20For since the creation of the world God’s INVISIBLE QUALITIES-his eternal power and divine nature-HAVE BEEN CLEARLY SEEN, BEING UNDERSTOOD FROM WHAT HAS BEEN MADE, so that people are without excuse. 21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but THEIR THINKING BECAME FUTILE and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although THEY CLAIMED TO BE WISE, THEY BECAME FOOLS 23AND EXCHANGED THE GLORY OF THE IMMORTAL GOD FOR IMAGES MADE TO LOOK LIKE A MORTAL HUMAN being and birds and animals and reptiles. 24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They EXCHANGED THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD FOR A LIE, AND WORSHIPED AND SERVED CREATED THINGS RATHER THAN THE CREATOR-who is forever praised. Amen. Even up to this day things have not changed much with a huge percentage of the world under the belief and perception that God is a man that live in the sky (heaven). Ironically, the Hebrew people in the bible point out that this perception of God is foolishness no matter how good in sounds in the minds of people. Consider what the Jews said to Jesus when they saw him perform the SAME miracle Paul did in front of the Lycaonian people. Matthew 9:7Then the man got up and went home. 8When the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe; and they praised God, WHO HAD GIVEN SUCH AUTHORITY TO MAN. Luke 7: 15The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother. 16They were all filled with awe and praised God. “A GREAT PROPHET HAS APPEARED AMONG US,” they said. “God has come to help his people.” The Jews have heard the stories of many prophets in the past who performed miracles by the Spirit of God. When they saw Jesus perform such a miracle they identified him as a prophet (man sent by and anointed by God). They did not praise Jesus as God. They thanked God for sending them a prophet (a man in which the Spirit of God was in). Acts 2:22“Fellow Israelites, listen to this: JESUS OF NAZARETH WAS AMAN ACCREDITED BY GOD TO YOU BY MIRACLES, wonders and signs, which GOD DID AMONG YOU THROUGH HIM, as you yourselves know. Acts 10:38how GOD ANOINTED JESUS OF NAZARETH WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND POWER, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, BECAUSE GOD WAS WITH HIM. Compare this to the Lycaonian people reaction to Paul. They did not praise the invisible God that was working through Paul. They worshipped Paul himself as God. I say all of that to get you to understand that this idea of Jesus being God or a god came from the Gentiles. It is a corrupt interpretation of the Hebrew text. The Gentiles INSERTED their perception of God into the text when reading it and those popular beliefs are still circulating today. Now, today the entire world falsely believes that the bible teaches us to believe God is a man that live in the sky. Smh.

@@lovingboye1, thank you for taking the time to respond to this. Let me say a few things before we go further. First, the Bible is not written to us, but rather for us. I say this because if we interpret the Bible like this, it can lead to some misunderstandings. Think of it as like a movie, the characters are not interacting with the audience, they are interacting with characters in the film in a specific setting. Based on their actions and responses, we can learn and apply the lessons to our lives. The same is true for the Bible as there are many history books in the Bible. Second, we need to be careful on how we interpret scripture from the Old Testament because God was talking to the nation of Israel at a specific point in time. The nation of Israel is not the church. We also need to establish that the nation of Israel was under the Old Covenant, which Israel failed to keep due to their sins. However, because of the sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus, we are under the New Covenant where His followers and believers, whether Jew or Gentile, are rescued from the penalty of our sins. Lastly, please read the entire text before coming up with a response as there is a lot of bear.

​@@Dennis8795 I hear your rebuttal but I don't agree with it. Your argument sounds as if the bible is a made up story telling book for modern day Christians. The bible is composed of writings that were specifically written for an audience to hear and learn from what was being said. These scrolls and writings were collected and put together into what we call the bible today. My point is that the bible is not some giant book written for modern day Christians. It is a collection of writings that came from a people who were speaking directly to their people and trying to teach them something important. Now, we can read their writings and also learn the same lessons today, but to think that the bible was specifically written for Christians in the 20th and 21 century this is the incorrect way to read and interpret scripture. It was written by Hebrews for Hebrews PRIMARILY. In order for us to understand the Hebrew text we then need to understand the background and mentality of these people and even pay attention to the language and the idoms, and figurative language they use to put their words into it's proper context. Also, God's word does not change or alter and it is the same in the past, present, and future. The same message the prophets were teaching in the Old Testament is the SAME message Jesus and his followers were teaching. Read the entire chapter of Ezekiel 18 if you have not already. The prophet ultimate goal is to get people to stop doing evil and mistreating others and instead do good. Fast forward to the New Testament and the MESSAGE does not change. There is no difference between the teachings in the Old Testament and the new. God's requirements remain the same. I'm not talking about animal sacrifices, and/or keeping Sabbath holidays, or fasting rituals etc. If you go back and carefully pay attention to the Old Testament prophets you will see that they themselves were not concerned with such things but the corrupt priest in their times were the ones putting emphasis on those vain traditions. Here is an example, but there are PLENTY more. Zechariah 7:4Then the word of the Lord Almighty came to me: 5“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted? 6And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?........8And the word of the Lord came again to Zechariah: 9“This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘ADMINISTER TRUE JUSTICE; SHOW MERCY AND COMPASSION TO ONE ANOTHER. 10DO NOT OPPRESS THE WIDOW OR THE FATHERLESS, THE FOREIGNER OR THE POOR. DO NOT PLOT EVIL AGAINST EACH OTHER.’ 11“BUT THEY REFUSED TO PAY ATTENTION; stubbornly they turned their backs and covered their ears. Isaiah 1:11“The multitude of your sacrifices- WHAT ARE THEY TO ME?” says the Lord. “I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I HAVE NO PLEASURE IN THE BLOOD OF BULLS AND LAMBS AND GOATS.12When you come to appear before me, who has asked this of you, this trampling of my courts? 13STOP BRINGING MEANINGLESS OFFERINGS! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations- I CANNOT BEAR YOUR WORTHLESS ASSEMBLIES. 14Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. 15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood! 16WASH AND MAKE YOURSELVES CLEAN. TAKE YOUR EVIL DEEDS OUT OF MY SIGHT; STOP DOING WRONG. 17LEARN TO DO RIGHT; SEEK JUSTICE. DEFEND THE OPRESSED. TAKE UP THE CAUSE OF THE FATHERLESS; PLEAD THE CASE OF THE WIDOW. 18“Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. 19IF YOU ARE WILLING AND OBEDIENT, you will eat the good things of the land; 20but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” Micah 6:6With what shall I come before the Lord and bow down before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 7Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of olive oil? SHALL I OFFER MY FIRSTBORN FOR MY TRANSGRESSION, THE FRUIT OF MY BODY FOR THE SIN OF MY SOUL? 8He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And WHAT DOES THE LORD REQUIRE OF YOU? favoritism