@@kelkabot Just trying to be the voice of reason and truth that gets people out of the cult of Jesus so they can get their minds back. Jesus destroyed my family, so it's the least I could do to pay that ahole back.....
I've been following Bishop Barron and his homilies/talks for a number of years now including Bible/Book studies and he never disappoints in his passionate delivery of the Truth. I didn't hear him say God is not one fussy causality among others... In this particular talk. Bishop Barron definitely has a way with words and is definitely witnessing to a culture that's devoid of God. May his message and Truth of God open the hearts of many. God bless you Bishop Barron and all priests and religious who pray for our world 🌎🙏❤️
Only when ad if you feel the call, consider going to Adoration of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. Call your local parish and find out when they offer it. Then, just go and sit in silence in Christ’s Presence. Take your bible. Read scripture, pray, contemplate. Tell the Lord of your search for truth, of your doubts, worries, even fears. Then, be as patient with Him as He has been with you. When you receive the grace to know that HE IS THERE, you will be forever changed. Miracles occur in Christ’s presence - of that I can personally attest.
It is curious, as a Catholic I admire many things of Methodism and Wesley. It is the only Protestant denominación I del confortable with, probably because I think that you understand God as He is.
Convert to Catholicism here from a Methodist background. Much to love about both faith practices. If you are at all curious about Catholicism, I recommend reading the work of converts such as John Henry Newman, Scott Hahn, and Patrick Madrid. Learning about the early centuries of Christianity especially compelled me to join the Catholic Church.
Well, Methodism is close to Anglicanism, which in turn was at least originally very similar to the Roman Catholic Church (while being utterly different in some important ways, of course). So Methodism is like a low-resolution photocopy of a low-resolution photocopy of the Roman Catholic Church.
@@minui8758 study history. Disapprove also orthodox church, Lutheran Church, Coptic church,Greek Orthodox they are heriarchal. Read ,read don't believes lies about RC
@@minui8758 What? the Catholic church has always been a haven for child abusers and still is. And it is run and financed by one of the largest banks and THE most corrupt bank in the world-the Vatican Bank, which aggressively launders billions of dollars a year for drug cartels and organized crime worldwide. Do you never read ANY of the many investigative reports that have been published and broadcast over the last 30 years? Or do you just believe everything your church tells you? One of the more recent Popes secretly looked into it and they caught him. They told him he fkd up and he needed to resign as Pope or they would assassinate him without hesitation and the Vatican would make it look like a natural death. He was so terrified there was a new Pope within 6 months. I'm not joking. Look every bit of this up. Behind the Catholic Church lies pure evil masked as salvation ordained by God.
@@repealthepatriotact to quote you back "I am always amazed at how many people still believe their disproven lies." Easy to say what you said.. quoting unreliable sources, believing "authoritative" people making a living on conspiracy theories. Ultimately - you need to look at the fruits of the Catholic Church... and you'll understand how the devil wants to make the masses believe the One TRUE Church is evil... then what is evil is promoted as good.. and what is good is promoted as evil. Tell me.. is the world "good" at the moment?
@@georgekustner3440 LOL. It is literally the MOST rational comment in the entire comment section of this video. You should probably break out a dictionary.
Wow, what a superb homily! It is full of theological depth yet accessable to the average person. As an Evangelical pastor, Bishop Barron makes me long for preaching that inspires the mind and heart with the awe of a great cathedral.
One must be insanely arrogant to suggest knowing something of a God. It is by boldness, Moses became the world's worst navigator, by having one foot in some fantasyland. There is a fine line between fishing & standing on the shore, looking like an idiot. Fail to get the Jews to buy it for 2000 years & they should know who their Messiah is. Jesus is a fake, to immortalize the war against the Jews. Jesus Christ is crucified for all time in literature & the subjects of Rome are illiterate. Freud wrote, "The antidote to Christianity is literacy" & the joke is in the scriptures. "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:" Galatians 3:13 An improvement on your God & faith; would outlaw indoctrination & abuse of the vocabulary of fiction on children.
He is brilliant and he has his own channel with over 1.1m followers. One of the top evangelist and theologian of this era. Very glad to see this channel sharing some of the Bishop’s homilies. Lots of luck to this channel.
Bishop Barron on 20 July 2022 in his interview by Lex Fridman on "Christianity and the Catholic Church" at time 51:46 separated vow to man in Christ from vow to God by asserting "a higher way of love" of consecrated celibate marriage vowed to man in Christ to consecrated male female marriage vowed to God. Hence Barron denied the Holy Spirit's keeping of the inseparability and qualitative equality of these vows. Hence you assert "The Holy Spirit is working through him" but omit asserting 'being' in him as inseparable and qualitatively equal. This is that: "Positivism, as we know, [that] results in agnosticism in theory and utilitarianism in practice and in ethics ..." (Gratissimam Sane, Pope St John Paul, "Letter to Families", 2 February, 1994, 13).
I’m a great fan of Bishop Barron. He’s brilliant but can bring it to a level we all can understand and learn. A master evangelist! Keep him on your radar and your following will soar!! Thank you for this segment! Blessings!!
I truly love listening to Bishop Barron because he doesn't talk down to us. He speaks the truth of God. It is wonderful to listen to him. I have only been a Catholic for about 7 years, but I have learned so much from Bishop Barron.
I used to think God is only as close to me as I am to myself. Bishop said God is closer to me than I am to myself. I think both are true. As I know myself I see Him more clearly. As He knows me intimately I see myself more clearly. It is a dance .
I happened upon a Mass celebrated by Bishop Barron twenty years ago, when he was still Father Barron and before his Internet presence. His homily was so compelling that I asked him questions afterward. He was most gracious and thoughtful in his responses. I remembered his name and wasn’t too surprised that he has become a major spokesperson for Christianity.
Thanks God for all of preacher s . Amen, amen and amen with peace and love to all of God's family spread love not hate. Rodney Alan Godwin room 77, Oaks on Parkwood. 2625 Laurel Oaks Dr Bessemer Alabama 35022. RAG 24
Thank you for this message. Kind of like trying to explain the Holy Spirit. It’s a personal experience. A beautiful experience most of the time but not always. Sometimes it can be very emotional, sometimes painful but the peace and love override the difficult times.
I am a Catholic and I am very thankful and so glad that I listened to this podcast by Bishop Barron. I learned something more about man’s existence in the universe and his relationship to the origin and cause of his existence. Very insightful.
No, he's great at talking about nothing using big words and general ideas, and wielding scripture as his proof, when there is no proof in scripture, just opinions.
I'm reminded of Carl Jung's statement that "the light is preached everywhere, but no one tells you how to see it". Imo Bishop Barron's explanation is just another example.
You think the Bible is light? It is a tool of the dark to maintain control over the ignorant and gullible masses. And has been and still is being used to subjugate entire civilizations. I know because it was used to destroy my people and make them forget who they are.
He is truly a wonderful. I thoroughly enjoy speaking with him and I look forward one day to go to the Cubs game with him in chicago. God bless all of you! Keep the faith brothers and sisters
Subscribed, thanks for posting this. I got interested in Bishop Barron. And you are really doing it well, you let him talk, unlike many who constantly interrupt. Good job
I am a Catholic. Loved listening to Bishop Barron. Two questions came to mind 1.Why do we (Catholics, not sure about other Christian confessions) represent God in Human form? It strikes such a dissonant note . 2. I understand that the Jews refer to God as "Theirs", as hold the view that they are the "Chosen" race. We seem to labouring under the shadow of that concept, when in fact, we believe God is Universal. Therefore that same God is also the God of Egyptians and indeed of the people of the whole world..
The reason God came into human form is because it makes him imminently knowable and, moreover, he could saves us from our sins. That doctrine of the Trinity and the incarnation are crucial to understanding salvation and how we can know God in the first place. I recommend st. Ireneaus and his theory of recapitulation. Just google search that and read up on it. It helps makes sense of the incarnation.
I appreciate everything that was said in this video. But the leap between its themes and uniquely Catholic doctrine - Mariology, transubstantiation, purgatory, etc. - requires too much of a logical leap for me. Even the trinity, which isn’t uniquely Catholic, isn’t a derivative of anything said here about God’s essence. It’s all fine, and I’m glad it gives people hope. But it’s not essential, as is often postulated by Catholic theologians, including the good bishop. I still agree with the Jesuits who tell us to find God in all things. The Eucharist is awesome in that regard, but it isn’t required, in my view.
@@SknappCFA Bishop Barron has covered all that in other videos. Don't let those questions/concerns you have fester. Check out "Catholic Answers" or Bishop Barron's "Word on Fire" channels.
@@cico4487 I will, and thank you for your advice. I’ll also watch videos from Islamic, Buddhist, and other religious scholars who also seek understanding. Years ago, I asked one of my Jesuit mentors why millions of people follow other religions if God truly reached down to us via the incarnation. He replied, “That’s how they find Christ.” I found his answer to be very insightful. In the end, we all choose a path to enlightenment based on our preferences, backgrounds, and traditions. The bishop is an expert at communicating the one he chose, and I really appreciate his wisdom.
Too medicated & in pain from a surgical procedure to write much at all. However, what Bishop Barron said has made me rethink the Founding Fathers who believed God was a deist, etc. I haven’t thought about all this in years. They seemingly blamed God for not being involved, not being in touch, paying enough attention to them basically, but the real problem is they got angry or where in such pain that they dumped God basically. I have no judgement; I’ve done what they did due to trauma & terrible pain myself. As Christians, we have to figure out how to show, not tell, this to others who have walked away or become “deists” due to terrible pain, injustice. Most Christians who even try just end up victim blaming the person for being disobedient, not trusting God, which only makes people hate Christians & pull away from God even more. The public deists, Founding Fathers really are just people who changed their phone number, didn’t give it to God, & think the fact he didn’t call is proof of his bad character. Jesus’ existence & suffering tells us everything we really do need to know about how much he actually loves us. As a Protestant, it’s becoming crystal clear in this moment with the violence of the crucifixion is so important, should be the “mascot” of Christianity. He only went through that torture because he loves us. It’s the equivalent of moms & dads jumping in front of their kids or even children they’ve never even seen before to sacrifice themselves for the kids. I’ve obviously understood these things intellectually before, but I feel it, can really understand it now through my own anger & pain.
I'm sorry you are suffering. You are right, suffering can bring us closer to God because sadly, a lot of us only turn to God during hard times. We don't feel the need when things are okay. That said, only a handful of the founding fathers were deists, agnostics, or atheists. Many, like John Adams, were very devout. Washington called on God daily and he always acknowledged God's Divine Intervention in the American cause. I do hope you feel better soon.
I hope you feel better soon. I do want to say that its important not to place all deists in the same category. I don't believe all were or are angry at God, and if they are that is in itself not necessarily a sin . As for the founding fathers , Benjamin Franklin did not seem to be angry at God he was a deist . Other deists were not all hostile to Christianity, Nicholas Leonard sardi carnot the physicist and engineer believed that god was good abd and was in fact a deist . Davinci was one i dont think he was hostile to the god of the Bible. Please be fair that is all i am saying. Peace be with you
All humans suffer. As Christians we have the incredible blessing of joining our suffering to that of Christ for the sake of others - Colossians 1:24. Offer that suffering for the conversion of sinners, or for mercy at their judgment for those who pass away. Bishop Fulton Sheen lamented the sheer amount of wasted suffering on earth. When we suffer, we are most Christ-like, as it was ONLY through Christ's suffering that the world was offered redemption. Thus, our suffering has a redemptive aspect to it. When we suffer, let us decide to suffer well.
Adult convert to Catholicism here (from the Methodist Church). One of the things that drew me to the Catholic faith was the Church’s clear articulation of how humans can make sense of and use our suffering.
Amen and thank you for this wonderful video. You’re doing great work keep putting them out. I personally am interested in individual stories such as Ruth and Danielle the three teenagers that were thrown into the fire getting really into the details of the stories. I find them absolutely fascinating since I went through my spiritual awakening everyone have a blessed day
The writings of Italian mystic Maria Valtorta, who disabled and bedridden, wrote thousands of pages as she was given a day by day experience of Jesus's life on earth. She writes of the lives of many women followers of Jeus. A real gift for everyone! Check her out.
Bishop Barrron great job but I don’t know if you have an encounter with God I hope you did because I got an encounter with Jesus he spoke to me in a dream at 3 Am and I saw him and spoke to me like at 7 same day he said do you believe what I told you? Immediately with out fear said yes Lord I believe in you and then he said go then and tell every one to call my name and I will help them I said yes Lord I will and here I am listening to Bishop Barron is right but having encounter with Jesus and Mary and Mary of Guadalupe is the complete help we need in theses world to live a happy and free life now I believe in the Lord either he help me or not thank you Lord Jesus thank you mother Mary of Guadalupe amen⛪️😇🙏❤️
So to be clear instead of using his omnipotence to give everyone the message he picked you out of the billions of people on the planet to spread a message that he couldn't be bothered to spread himself. Sorry but I'm not convinced your experience was with an actual god.
The Catholic church does not represent Jesus Christ, it represents the will, wealth, and political power of the Vatican. Have you ever read a history book?
Thank you Bishop Barron. Please note that God Himself does create us beautiful in our destiny once we reach a fuller life "through, with and in" Him. Also, please note, in your reference to a camera being "being" or for instance a planet etc., these are certainly not Being! God Bless and Love you eternally. He is Risen! Alleluia! Alleluia!Amen Glory to God in the Highest level of Love forever. ❤❤❤
Cameras are what they are *because* they're made "to be" cameras. I don't take photos & videos with planets. Planets are what they are *because* they're made "to be" planets. I don't inhabit the universe with cameras. All things created "are" (beings), living or non-living: otherwise they can't "be" (any thing/any how) 🙏🏽
Great podcast, brother your content is excellent, maybe you can cover some content on the Eucharist, it is Truly, Really, and Substantially the Entire Body, Blood, Soul , and Divinity of Jesus where Heaven comes to Earth.🙏
I'm Catholic and a fan of Bishop Baron, however I disagree with his translation of the name of God as "I am who I am" ! My studies have told me that the correct translation is "I am who am" not "who I am" . The verb to-be in Hebrew has a present tense and an eternal tense in the same word. So the MEANING of His name is "I am who was, who is, and will always be". That is why Jesus said to the Pharisees "Before Abraham was, I am". - not I WAS, - but I AM. Your comments please Bishop. (I AM open minded)😊
❤Thanks God Amen Ave Maria Amen 💖💖💖 Vivat Jesus Maria Jose Amen 💖 Salamat sa Diyos Amen 💖💖💖 Shalom Amen 💖💖💖 Vivat Sr Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno Amen Deo Gracias Amen 💖💖💖 Thanks po our beloved Kgg. Bishop Baron ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
❤Amen 💖 Thanks po our beloved Kgg. Obispo Barron Mano po!!! God bless you and protect you always Amen Thanks God Amen Ave Maria Amen 💖💖💖 Vivat Sr Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno Amen Deo Gracias Amen 💖💖💖 Vivat Jesus Maria Jose Amen 💖💖💖 Shalom Amen 💖 Salamat sa Diyos Amen 💖💖💖
@oliverclark5604 What makes you say this? Through the apostolic priesthood, he receives the Holy Eucharist, the flesh which suffered for us on calvary, in the breaking of bread. Please research the Holy Eucharist and pray to grow closer to God.
The book of John has been debunked as a source of historical accuracy and 100% not a true account of any events listed therein due to the fact it was written 900 miles away in Coptic Greek 70 years after the purported events. I knew this 35 years ago, how do you not know it right now??
Yes! Some modern churches seem to make God into a "homeboy" who is just like them, rather than the HOLY GOD that God is. God is HOLY AND TO BE RESPECTED! But, He is also to His children) a loving daddy whose arms envelope them.
The seeking soul in me loves listening to this brilliant man , but I'm a born again Salvationist who found Christ at a wooden mercy seat while they were singing Fanny Crosby 's Alas and did my Saviour bleed and did my Souverign die. why why why didn't He get to the I Ams of Christ a much greater revelation than that of Moses. I love Him and I know he knows Christ Jesus just that ministers are always tempted to delight people in what they uniquely know. God the Holy Spirit always glorifies Christ, John 17-18 and Spurgeon says a preacher sent by God takes his text and goes cross-country as fast as he can to the cross.
I believe you can be a born-again believer, American evangelical, Spurgeon-lover, predestinarian, and love everything that Bishop Barron is saying. You don’t have to pin one against the other.
Like an artist he creates from within his own heart all things visible and invisible from nothing visible . Family Is at the Heart of God. Math is God's Language Precise and eternal Beauty. I can't fathom ever really knowing God, for that would take an eternity which those with a beginning can never possess. Critique the art and the artist takes it personal , though he is not his art is he?
"I am" in Hebrew is: *'ehyeh* (transliterated i.e. written in the Latin alphabet.) The first letter is *'* (ayin) which the Latin alphabet does not have so it is transliterated as an apostrophe. Classic Middle Egyptian also has this letter. Books, magazines, videos, etc. often omit the ayin. However, to do so is to misspell God's name!
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The Judeo-Christian God is very different from the pagan god. The pagans believed that the universe was not created by God, but that the universe had always existed and always would exist, and that the pagan gods only emerged in the context of an already existing universe. The Judeo-Christian God, by contrast, is outside the universe and created the universe out of nothing.
ST. POPE JOHN PAUL II: : “The love of Christ is more powerful than sin and death. St. Paul explains that Christ came to forgive sin and that his love is greater than any sin, stronger than all my personal sins or those of anyone else. This is the faith of the Church. This is the Good News of God’s love that the Church proclaims throughout history and that I proclaim to you today: God loves you with an everlasting love. He loves you in Christ Jesus, his Son.”
God used Moses accompanied with the seven plagues to finally release God‘s people. I’m curious as to why God would not just present himself to the pharaoh for the same purpose.
Interesting question. I know the reformers would point you to Romans 8-9. That may be a starting point. I will admit, I’m not sure on the Catholic position on this point.
Interestingly I was wondering how can we distinguish between what we think is “God” and the content of our own minds..... Therefore your comment resonated with me - essentially thought worships the thought that thought created ie a way of worshipping ourselves....?
@@maryhirst9127 In uncertainty I believe: (a) that "faith" and "idea" (thinking) are inseparable and qualitatively equal, (b) that in uncertainty keeping (Holy Spirit) this IS and QL= is, in uncertainty, belief or "conviction", (c) this, in uncertainty, keeping is only possible in consenting, in uncertainty, to be joined in consecrated marriage, celibate vowed to man in Christ or male female vowed to God as IS and QL=, (d) a "completely transformed life" is only possible through, in uncertainty, belief, (e) the objective as certain and the subjective as uncertain are IS and QL=, (f) the word "faith" is used when not yet attaining, in uncertainty, belief in consenting, in uncertainty of belief, to be joined in a consecrated marriage, celibate or male female, (g) Werner Heisenberg's "Uncertainty Principle" (c.1927) and Einstein's assertion of the "relativity of time and space" (c.1907) are correct, (h) connecting chemistry as inorganic and organic with economic processes (inorganic) and non-economic progress (organic) was achieved by Colin Clark (economist trained in chemistry) in 1960 as completed by Pope Francis (trained in chemistry) on 17 June 2021 in confirming the connection between the chemistry, economic processes and non-economic progress of human conception as the keeping in uncertainty of belief of the IS and QL= in consecrated marriage, celibate or male female, of non-economic progress in union and economic procreation processes, (i) Pope St Paul V1's "Of Human Life", Humanae Vitae, 1968, 12: "inseparable ... union and procreation" as certain in consecrated marriage was corrected and completed by Pope Francis on 17 June 2021 adding 'in uncertainty of belief' and 'qualitatively equal union and procreation', (j) to 'see together' (conscience) in time and space is always uncertain (Heisenberg) and relative (Einstein), (k) asserting with knowledge or "knowing" (Genesis 3:5) is counter-productive to in uncertainty keeping the inseparability and qualitative equality of chemical processes and progress and economic and non-economic processes and progress as true humanisation.
@@tjseaney_ where? And just about everywhere in the Gospels Jesus talks about being “One with the Father” “Iam who am” etc etc And the reason he was condemned to death and executed .
He NEVER did. In fact, if you actually read the teachings he was basically telling people not to follow ANY church leaders because they are all greedy con men. Ironically, the most successful con of all time was created around him as the Christian religion, which is still a cancer on our world today.
God alone IS. You and I are figments of God's imagination; We are God's divine sport in the play of the oposites in which God plays both sides against the middle. God is unfathomable and imperceptible, beyond imagination and perception; God is LOVE' residing in our hearts, but God hides from us because our hearts are too full of strangers. Find God there on your own and your life will never be the same; trust me !
1) If god existed there would be no need to prove his existence 2) The very first thing could only materialise out of a state of no-thing. Otherwise the very first thing couldn’t be anything less than every-thing. 3) With regards to the ‘fine tuning’ of our universe, I like to stick (pun intended) with that what we do know and can experience; ejaculations and the coming into existence of universes. Most spermatozoa are destined for the drain, only one amongst many millions results in life; sometimes barely viable, sometimes heavily disabled. The only universe that can be known is the successful one that is ‘fine tuned’ by definition or it / we wouldn’t exist. 4) The gaps and flaws in the fact (no longer the theory for some time now) of evolution don’t warrant a belief in a celestial wizard who shook the universe out of his sleeve. 5) Believing was a necessary step in evolution to transmit knowledge. A process that’s recreated in the teaching of children from whom we expect, at a certain age, that they believe less and think more for themselves. Far from it is it for me to state that believers are stuck in childhood or evolution but I must admit that the thought crossed my mind :) 6) Every god concept is rooted in ‘faith’ or ‘believing’, the exact prerequisites used by the most common of conmen to con you like there is no tomorrow. 7) Once you start believing, rational thinking flys out of the window and lands in a cuckoo’s nest from where it becomes very difficult to escape. Dragging other people into the crazy is a great way to keep convincing yourself that you are on the right path. That’s why theists need preachers, priests, popes, churches, cathedrals, ‘holy books’, props, whistles and bells to keep the mass delusion alive and kicking.
Great question. I would add, atrocities are only atrocities if a moral and benevolent God exists. If he doesn’t nothing is objective, and, therefore, nothing would be an atrocity. Come Lord Jesus come.
It’s not about brilliance or intellect or oratory skills, these are all in the law. What is brilliant is Christ and Christ crucified. That’s the mystery, foolishness and scandal of the cross.
Any definition from human perception of God is simply ludicrous. Kingdom of Heaven is an experience of unspeakable love and any effort to describe it must fail or is just finger pointing to the dark side of the moon.