Hey, All! Really excited to be starting this new series. Would love any and all feedback on the structure, timing, content etc. Excited to have a record of the full cannon on this channel. Thanks for your support!
Man, I really feel like I can't really give you any advice here. You're fair, concise and balanced, and aren't presenting your beliefs in any heavy-handed way, so I think you have a large potential to reach a wider audience. You have great insight, demonstrating that you've truly thought these things through, and this is a great idea. I can literally see it as becoming the future concise biblical overview. Great work, Brandon. I'm proud to be an early subscriber and glad the algorithm's working for you with your numbers growing. I think you deserve it.
My only suggestion would be to put in timestamps for your subheadings, that might be handy. And are you limiting yourself to ca. 30mins per video? As I feel there's scope for so much more. Maybe not for all books, but dense ones like Genesis or King's, take the time you need to do what you have to. Which is basically asking you to do more work, I know!
@@simongiles9749 WHAT my chapters are not showing up! I have them listed in each and every video that I do. Thanks for the callout, but no idea why they are not doing what they are supposed to. Also thank you for the encouragement to go longer where needed. I have been nervous to do longer, but maybe for certain books I will or do them over 2 episodes. Thanks again, Simon.
A month ago I was disappointed with finding your channel too soon bc I binged watch all the videos in one day. And now I can’t even keep up 😂 this is exactly the resource I need to better articulate my biblical criticisms without being all over the place.
I really enjoy your tone and approach! Like so many Atheists, you know your Bible better than most Christians. But you're also willing to acknowledge the redeeming qualities along with all the problematic parts.
@@sundayoliver3147 “And in process of time it came to pass” (Genesis 4) "concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them and that they might see that they themselves are beasts" (Ecclesiastes 3)
Two years ago, I decided that things were crazy in the world, and I needed to get closer to God. I had not been involved in a church on a regular basis since my childhood, and I am 63. I bought a beautiful new Bible and a Concordance. I decided to read the Bible from beginning to end, something I had never done. So many problems! When I got to the story of Lot hosting the Angels, and him having to protect them from those that wanted them for sex- what, they can't protect themselves? And then he offered his two virgin daughters? No one would do that. I put it down for a month. I went back and read through Leviticus. And I have not read another page. The bible is a sick book, about a sick God. Preachers cherry-pick the verses they want you to know, tell you what they mean, and if you never read it for yourself, you will never figure it out. Thank you for this series, and your channel. You are confirming what I had decided for myself two years ago.
I haven't watched yet, but already I'm so glad I found this channel. Biblical stories are filled with so much symbolism, history, and depth, and it's so hard to find people who want to talk about them as stories that were written by humans rather than as religious doctrine. I'm very excited to see where this goes.
I'll always love the Tower of Babel story. The one time in human history where everyone got along and stood together and then God was like, "Well, we can't be having that!" 😂😂😂 Seriously though, this was great stuff. Great overview of probably the most influential book in human history. And even though I know it had to hurt when you eventually came to no longer view it as you were brought up to view it (I've been there) I'm glad you can still appreciate the artistic value of it. And I'm reminded of a Genesis joke: After God made Adam, Adam complained to God that he was lonely and needed a female of his own. God said, "Ok, but it'll cost you an arm and a leg." And Adam said, "Hmm. Well, what can I get for a rib?" 🤣
lol never heard that joke. I love a good christian joke, or bible based I should say. And yes Babel is just so insane of a story. I think its Holy Koolaid that has a series, nothing fails like bible history, and his coverage of Babel was amazing!! check it out if you have not
"The one time in human history where everyone got along and stood together and then God was like, "Well, we can't be having that!"---- Are you referring to the modernist period in which man discovered nuclear energy? A marvellous and useful discovery, no doubt. But perhaps children should be dissuaded from playing with fire.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the garden, there were the lovers Adamus and Steve, who never fell from grace and have been punished for it by Christians ever since.
as an atheist raised in a secular family, i've always wanted to study the bible to see similar parallels to some of the world mythologies i've picked up on (while Sis is essentially a walking world mythology encyclopedia), but i didn't want to have any religious bias forced on me (or pjss off my old man). as i start on this series/playlist you've created/curated, thank you for making this 🙂
Half Way Through, and holy cow!! You are so knowledgeable. This is the most information I have ever seen condensed into a video like this. This should be THE video on Genesis. All these Christians I have seen commenting that you don't know your bible....really?! watch this.
@@heavenbound7-7-7-7 "In this world, when it was destitute of brightness and light, and enveloped all around in total darkness, there came into being, as the primal cause of creation, a mighty egg, the one inexhaustible seed of all created beings. It is called Mahadivya, and was formed at the beginning of the Yuga, in which we are told, was the true light Brahma, the eternal one, the wonderful and inconceivable being present alike in all places; the invisible and subtile cause, whose nature partaketh of entity and non-entity. From this egg came out the lord Pitamaha Brahma, the one only Prajapati; with Suraguru and Sthanu. Then appeared the twenty-one Prajapatis, viz., Manu, Vasishtha and Parameshthi; ten Prachetas, Daksha, and the seven sons of Daksha. Then appeared the man of inconceivable nature whom all the Rishis know and so the Viswe-devas, the Adityas, the Vasus, and the twin Aswins; the Yakshas, the Sadhyas, the Pisachas, the Guhyakas, and the Pitris. After these were produced the wise and most holy Brahmarshis, and the numerous Rajarshis distinguished by every noble quality. So the water, the heavens, the earth, the air, the sky, the points of the heavens, the years, the seasons, the months, the fortnights, called Pakshas, with day and night in due succession. And thus were produced all things which are known to mankind." Mahabharata, also called fifth Veda.
@@heavenbound7-7-7-7 *The Enuma Elish would later be the inspiration for the Hebrew scribes who created the text now known as the biblical Book of Genesis.* Prior to the 19th century CE, the Bible was considered the oldest book in the world and its narratives were thought to be completely original. In the mid-19th century CE, however, European museums, as well as academic and religious institutions, sponsored excavations in Mesopotamia to find physical evidence for historical corroboration of the stories in the Bible. ***These excavations found quite the opposite, however, in that, once cuneiform was translated, it was understood that a number of biblical narratives were Mesopotamian in origin.*** *Famous stories such as the Fall of Man and the Great Flood were originally conceived and written down in Sumer,* translated and modified later in Babylon, and reworked by the Assyrians ***before they were used by the Hebrew scribes for the versions which appear in the Bible.*** ***In revising the Mesopotamian creation story for their own ends, the Hebrew scribes tightened the narrative and the focus but retained the concept of the all-powerful deity who brings order from chaos.*** Marduk, in the Enuma Elish, establishes the recognizable order of the world - *just as God does in the Genesis tale* - and human beings are expected to recognize this great gift and honor the deity through service. *"Enuma Elish - The Babylonian Epic of Creation - Full Text - World History Encyclopedia"* *"Sumerian Is the World's Oldest Written Language | ProLingo"* *"Sumerian Civilization: Inventing the Future - World History Encyclopedia"* *"The Myth of Adapa - World History Encyclopedia"* Also discussed by Professor Christine Hayes at Yale University in her 1st lecture of the series on the Hebrew Bible from 8:50 to 14:30 minutes, lecture 3 from 28:30 to 41:35 minutes, lecture 4 from 0:00 up to 21:30 minutes and 24:00 up to 35:30 minutes and lecture 7 from 24:20 to 25:10 minutes. From a Biblical scholar: "Many stories in the ancient world have their origins in other stories and were borrowed and modified from other or earlier peoples. *For instance, many of the stories now preserved in the Bible are* ***modified*** *versions of stories that existed in the cultures and traditions of Israel’s* ***older*** *contemporaries.* Stories about the creation of the universe, a cataclysmic universal flood, digging wells as land markers, the naming of important cultic sites, gods giving laws to their people, and even stories about gods decreeing the possession of land to their people were all part of the cultural and literary matrix of the ancient Near East. *Biblical scribes freely* ***adopted and modified*** *these stories as a means to express their own identity, origins, and customs."* *"Stories from the Bible"* by Dr Steven DiMattei, from his website *"Biblical Contradictions"* ------------------------------------------------------------------ In addition, look up the below articles. *"Yahweh was just an ancient Canaanite god. We have been deceived! - Escaping Christian Fundamentalism"* *"Debunking the Devil - Michael A. Sherlock (Author)"* *"The Greatest Trick Religion Ever Pulled: Convincing Us That Satan Exists | Atheomedy"* *"Zoroastrianism And Persian Mythology: The Foundation Of Belief"* (Scroll to the last section: Zoroastrianism is the Foundation of Western Belief) *"10 Ways The Bible Was Influenced By Other Religions - Listverse"* *"January | 2014 | Atheomedy"* - Where the Hell Did the Idea of Hell Come From? *"Retired bishop explains the reason why the Church invented "Hell" - Ideapod"* Watch *"The Origins of Salvation, Judgement and Hell"* by Derreck Bennett at Atheologica (Sensitive theists should only watch from 7:00 to 17:30 minutes as evangelical Christians are lambasted. He's a former theist and has been studying the scholarship and comparative religions for over 15 years) *"Top Ten Reasons Noah’s Flood is Mythology - The Sensuous Curmudgeon"* *"Forget about Noah's Ark; There Was No Worldwide Flood | Bible Interp"* *"The Search for Noah’s Flood - Biblical Archaeology Society"* *"Eridu Genesis - World History Encyclopedia"* Watch *"How Aron Ra Debunks Noah's Flood"* (8 part series debunking Noah's flood using multiple branches of science) *"The Adam and Eve myth - News24"* *"Before Adam and Eve - Psychology Today"* *"Gilgamesh vs. Noah - Wordpress"* *"Parallelism between “The Hymn to Aten” and Psalm 104 - Project Augustine"* *"Studying the Bible"* - by Dr Steven DiMattei (This particular article from a critical Biblical scholar highlights how the authors of the Hebrew Bible used their *fictional* god as a mouthpiece for their own views and ideologies) *"How do we know that the biblical writers were* ***not*** *writing history?"* -- by Dr Steven DiMattei *"Contradictions in the Bible | Identified verse by verse and explained using the most up-to-date scholarly information about the Bible, its texts, and the men who wrote them"* -- by Dr. Steven DiMattei
@@nati0598 "In this world, when it was destitute of brightness and light" ---- Your hypothesis presupposes a world a priori to your god, thus that being cannot by definition be God.
@Dryad89 Or the simple fact that a supposedly omnipotent god needed 6 days to create everything. A truly omnipotent being can create anything and everything in literally no time at all.
Many believers insist the Bible is infallible and inerrant because... protestant doctrine. Centuries of systematic reinforcement of a power structure. The Genesis fable MUST be taken literally. Without literal interpretation, there is no Special Creation of Man, no Fall from Grace, no intro of sin/death into the world. If you don't have a literal Eden, there's no need for Salvation or Jesus. Oops. That's a problem. Great video. Looking forward to the next installment.❤
To be accepted by people in the 21st century, it would have to fit what we call reality. The old earth creation models will fit into a 4B year timeline quite closely. The Bible has trees existing long before oceans, it also promotes whales are birds that adapted to flying in water after about 4M years the adapting was finished. 3 species, things that fly, things that swim and things that walk on dry land. There are no cross species.
27:02 In contrast to "the Devil planted dinosaur bones to deceive us", JMike once proposed a god that valued logic who planted religions as a test and who would reward those who saw that religion didn't reflect reality and would thus reject it. It's a great thought experiment.
@@MindShift-Brandon He's a smart guy, and I love watching him, but too often what he says goes way over my head. I found this particular argument to be really memorable - it reminds me of the response to anti-vaxxers that maybe anti-vaccine messaging is Russian propaganda intended to weaken the US.
@@zar3434 Anyone who believes in vaccines has had the serpent's scales pulled across their eyes. Viruses do not exist - this is our Father's creation and non-living strings of rogue proteins were not part of his plan. Dinosaurs were created by the fallen Watchers when they corrupted not ONLY our Father's image of MAN but the animals too. The whole realm was corrupted by their evil works (nephilim, hybrid giant animal and half-man beasts) so the flood brought JUDGEMENT
Wow, I'm watching this October 14th 2023. I don't know what to say except it's eerie to think about the history and how it's affecting us even today on a global scale.
I just heard about this bible study at the most perfect time!! Yesterday I started reading from a non Christian standpoint for the first time, and just going front to back. I will definitely be going through this using this secular bible study! Haven’t listened to the first one yet, but had to comment because I’m super excited!!!!
Finally a secular Bible study that’s not angsty kids rebelling against their Christian parents being a disrespectful and shallow as possible. Someone taking the Bible seriously and analyzing it as a historical document. Thank you
The psychological priming of the music during the intro... it's just like going to church 😂 I bet Brandon got a chuckle-or at least a smirk-when editing this video and slapping that on
Another common misconception: Eve was deceived and she deceived Adam later. Nope! She just does all the talking in this scene and is the one to physically pick the fruit. Adam is standing right there the entire time, silent, and he passively takes some of the fruit Eve picks. Gen. 3:6 "So she took some of the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her. And he ate it."
I don't believe it was consecutive. She probably ran to Adam to give to him, wherever he was. But I don't believe Adam was deceived either. He chose to disobey because he wanted the same fate as his wife, whatever that may be.
And god being omni aware of everything also doesn't know and doesn't ask eve her take or else he'd hear (yet he also knew before creating them) that eve used gods own words to attempt to not eat the fruit. Which would be rewarded given how god says he is at first. Then she gave it to adam who didn't say or do shit a male who knew all in the garden like her yet somehow didn't think the fruit he knew was the do not eat fruit was in his palms and he choose to ate it which god who for some reason asked adam not eve of things & adam who was present at the same meeting with god as she was who said "don't eat this fruit" meaning adam not only shows he didn't listen to god but saw the fruit and ate it by choice so god should've killed adam right off and either made eve asexually reproducing or killed adam and made a new adam cuz god already created adam knowing he'd choose to sin. so adam caused all the down fall of all males and sin for mankind in the world yet god played favorites he decided dick who chose to eat the fruit without protest was the one to lead women anywhere? Weird sounds like guys wrote this to brainwash women to follow males off cliffs. Truly very fake story god makes no sense and is inconsistent and what he does is likewise before we even get to he knew before he made them what would happen yet also shows in the narrative he doesn't know things as he can't find them.
Among the horde of atheist pods and videos, you are unique in that you are not just having a snark-fest and critiquing others’ theist videos. You are generating actual, original thoughts about a topic that has just about been beaten to death. I learned much from Ep1… you presented the books of the Bible in context and stripped of the modern day superstition with such clarity. I’ve heard people say that the Bible is ‘great literature’ but I never understood that concept until you opened the door today. Really great work. What a LOT of work! You are chipping away at the world’s mountains of ignorance…you are doing un-God’s work! Don’t forget to sleep occasionally.
Every video of yours I watch, I become more and more impressed with your insight. You managed to be balanced in your presentation while at the same time being concise. I predict this series will serve as the definitive overview of the bible for future (questioning) Christians and atheists/agnostics going through the deconversion process. You've definitely found a niche here, and I'm glad to see your numbers going up.
beyond kind, thank you much! I can only hope a few people who are doubting or having issues with the bible stumble across it at the right time. Thanks for the feedback, it means a lot!
@@andrewferg8737 you believe your religion with so much emotion and fear that you’re afraid to even question it. You rather hold on to your brainwashed perspective of the verses "It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." - Epictetus We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. Christians believe out of fear, faith, emotion, feelings, hallucination, or simply being born into the culture.
@@CheknoEternity "brainwashed perspective of the verses"--- Paraphrasing scripture for clarity; note the term God is substituted with the phrase Existence in and of itself, per the Mosaic Hebrew theonym יהוה derived from the existential verb hayah meaning "to be" : “[ Existence in and of Itself ] Is; this is My name forever” (Exodus 3) "without [ Existence in and of Itself ] you can do nothing" (John 15) "in [ Existence in and of Itself ] we live, and move, and have our being" (Acts 17) "by [ Existence in and of Itself ] all things consist" (Colossians 1) "Those who war against [ Existence in and of Itself ] shall be as nothing, as a nonexistent thing” (Isaiah 41) “Praise ye [ Existence in and of Itself ]; for [ Existence in and of Itself ] is good” (Psalm 135) These statements are self-evident.
19:22 ... I would be more than willing to listen to all you have to say about contradictions, even for hours and hours. Because I learn soo much from your videos. They help to start thinking critically and deconstruct from organized religion. Thank you!!
I took a Greek mythology class in university, and there is a similar Greek myth about the flood. Really a light bulb moment for someone like me who grew up with this story from "the bible" "In Greek legend, Deucalion, the son of Prometheus (the creator of humankind) is the equivalent of Noah. When Zeus, the king of the gods, resolved to destroy all humanity by a flood, Deucalion constructed an ark in which, according to one version, he and his wife rode out the flood and landed on Mount Parnassus."
I find your secular study quite engaging as a former catholic and later former presbyterian. Keep it up love to see all the books of Christian bible discussed
@@MindShift-Brandon it can be indeed. I still find myself in awe reading the king james bible but i do enjoy seeing it again in a secular and mythological perspective.
It's really helpful when you talk about common apologetic rebuttals ALONG with your points because it helps me process these concepts in real time against what I've always been taught. Those "Yeah but Brandon?!" parts are so useful! Thanks! 😊
Half way through…. Wow. Where were you when I was in high school? I remember going through the Bible book by book in my youth group. Needless to say, this was not the explanations or discussions I had. Really could have changed my life trajectory early on. Great stuff.
Brandon, another great show. I am a cradle Catholic now at 57 years old went all the way through high school at a Catholic school lost my belief about four or five years ago. I have a masters in mathematics and I’ve worked almost 35 years as a data scientist in an a rural department so look at the world in a logical fashion, and look back and wonder how I ever believed things I did. I’m currently reading a fantastic book called Bible Unearthed which speaks Ann Gish archaeological evidence to how the first seven books of the Bible were just legendary analogies to aseventh century, political and economical movement it’s a great book. Thank you for all the great Content
I've come full circle here .. I've been on and off watching episodes for a while now but I want to start this at Genesis. That explanation of Judges this week made me want to start at the beginning.
my comment seems to not be going through. I just wanted to say this is so very good. half an hour is perfect. This must have been so much work and I am really impressed that you pulled this off considering you just started. Excited to see the others!
These were things I came across myself when I deconstructed * How can Adam and Eve be sinners and held accountable for disobeying god if they couldn't know it was wrong to disobey god in the first place? * the Adam and Eve story is myth because logically it makes no sense. * How can you disobey when the tree itself that you’re eating from allows you to understand the concept of disobeying. So logically they didn’t disobey because they have no concept of what disobeying even was until the fruit allowed them to understand what disobeying was….. * Cain marries outside his family despite him supposedly being the only 3rd human in existence. * Tower of Babel makes no sense mathematically or scientifically. From the 100 years between Noah and the Tower of Babel, there wouldn’t have been enough population of people produced to create the tower. It’s like a small family reunion building a massive tower… * Tower of Babel violates Freewill. • abraham likely didn't exist. • ... or moses • there was no exodus (no sign of hebrews in egypt, no signs of what 2million people + stuff stamping the earth would have left behind, no encampments on the sinai peninsula... it's so bad that archaeologists who went to find evidence of the encampment (i.e. refuse piles, latrines, dropped stuff) by mount sinai couldn't find... mount sinai itself, because the mountain appears to not exist) • the israelites didn't kill all the canaanites - they WERE canaanites (it appears that they were all one collection of people, and at some point the "israelites/jews" became the dominant faction) * In the stories of the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac Jacob) we read about camels and caravans of camels, although the stories happened before the camels were domesticated in the Levant region and before the trade routes of camel caravans opened. The reason it was even mentioned was that the books were written later, in the days of the camel trade, by people who did not know it was a relatively recent development. * Not at all unusual for hymens to break on their own, so it's pretty much a guarantee that this God-ordained legislature had innocent girls killed
@@MindShift-Brandon no it is not awsome its awful 10 it all has roots back to the first chapter of Genesis notice in the same context where Genesis 1 mentions the days of creation that days is defined and is even contrasted with years surely there's no way to insert millions of years into this text true there is after all Genesis being written about seven successive days is apparently based on a much older myth written on Seven Tablets and which talks about seven generations of gods wherein the sixth generation of the Elohim said let us create man in our image to complete creation so that the seventh Divine generation could rest we can also tell that the word yam in Genesis 1 means an actual day bc each usage of the word day is prefaced by evening morning and then a number Yom is used 2301 times in the OT when used with a number yam always means an ordinary day and this occurs 410 times outside of Genesis 1. evening and Aron Ra Rebutting Genesis Apologetics = 2nd of 7 Alleged Myths
When I was studying this, I was being told the whole universe was created in just the first verse, and the explanation unfolds from there. I was also told the light for the first three days was God himself. But that wouldn't work for a morning and an evening, because they also say God's light is omnidirectional and shines everywhere all at once.
Hey, Brandon. I'm rebinging your secular bible study series, my favorite series. Do you think you could ever consider making an entire video in the future, even if it's an hour long refuting many of the erros in Genesis? There are so many of them.
Mindshift, I really love your vast knowledge and your balanced, compassionate approach. This series is exactly what I've been looking for. I need to KNOW. Thank you so much for welcoming others on your journey. Xx
I would love to see your insights on some of the non-canonical books as well such as the books of Enoch or gospels that are not included. I like your perspective and how you are respectful and informative. Thank you for your channel.
I see a book in your future. Does that make me prophetic? LOL! Perhaps a handbook as a guide to how to read the Bible, keeping in mind the 10 aspects you outlined. It would be very helpful for anyone at any stage! This is going to be a great series. 😘
Ha, thank you! my first love is literature and eventually I would love to publish a few things, time will tell just how prophetic you are, lol. Thanks again for this amazing kindness.
@@MindShift-Brandon I have 5 grandsons ranging in age from 14-31 (and two are gingers who match your beard!) I feel like you could be one of my intellectually stimulating boys. In a format often filled with nonsense it is really nice to see it used for education and enlightenment. Thank you!
You need to leave it vague to qualify as prophecy. Example: there will be wars and rumours of war. See, you're clueless of the date, the year and month. If it happens, your followers will claim it. If it doesn't, they will keep looking out for it. Now that's prophecy. 😂
The Genesis acct has a lot of stuff that just doesn't add up. Consider this one: If Adam's punishment was to have to sweat & labor to struggle to get food from the ground......why then, is Cain out working the field??
Brilliant! Love your style. I know a lot of this stuff but could never bring it all together into such a digestible form. You deserve way more subscribers. I look forward to you picking apart individual chapters, passages and verses in the future.
Very kind. Thank you much! Yes. 20-30 min overview this year to set the stage and then ill go verse by verse i think. In the mean time im going to also start doing secular bible stories where i take daniel and the lions den or wrestling with the angel etc and break them down m. Im looking forward to that!
What I like about this is you can see him reworking this channel in real time - 14:12- and the show is so good he just keeps going without reworking the graphics and script - hes really good at this.
Brandon asked what would the world be like without religion. Well, ‘apologist’ wouldn’t be an occupation and William Lane Craig would be in a Van Halen tribute band.
Wow, what a massive undertaking! Looking forward to your presentations and I so appreciate the obvious effort, research and passion you bring to the topics you present. All the best and thank you!
Great idea, always thought something like this should be done, so much that I almost thought of doing it myself, so glad somebody else is:) PS a good primer for any viewers here is Northrop Fryes online lecture series called "The bible as literature". If you haven't checked it out, do it just for his hair.
I would add, or clarify, that Genesis explains natural disasters and political/military defeats in moral terms. The flood and other phenomena were the result of sin. Successive defeats and enslavements were due to disobedience, not to the weakness of their god. This got the prophets off the hook for all their mistakes. The eterna promises of better days has served their purpose down to this day. Amazing
yes i tried to hit on the morality or theology forced into every aspect of what otherwise would be typical story telling, nature explaining, or myth, but thank you for the feedback.
I find it interesting how some Christians will take this book written thousands of years ago and take it as literal history rather then what it is, stories of the Jewish mythology. To me its similar to taking a collection of Greek mythological stories and saying they literally happened.
I love this! If I may suggest one thing: "Secular" may be more inviting than "Unholy," just a thought, but overall, I love this! I'm here for it!!! The only reason I suggested a name change is that I wanna be able to share this with Christians without scaring them into thinking it's evil right away. Personally, speaking only for myself, I hope for my Christian loved ones to come to something like this with an open mind because, for them, this is a thing to be met with skepticism already. They are the skeptics here, not us. My hope is for them to better understand how someone can live a secular life without words like "devil," hell," "unholiness," or "evil." I can only bring myself to understand secular things without holding myself to unrealistic "holy" ideals. I'm sorry if this is socially wrong, I have some social awkwardness, and I'm never certain if I'm saying the wrong thing. I like this video, so I don't mean it as an insult in any way to anyone. I have medically diagnosed mental health conditions that nearly fade away without religion. Devils and demons used to be very real to me, they still are to my mother, for example, and she would never read or watch anything titled "unholy." I was of the same mind back when I was "in the faith." The title of this video alone woulda scared me. I can't promise my parents will ever watch anything "secular" either, but I can promise they'll NEVER willingly watch anything "unholy." Just some friendly food for thought.
no its great to hear. I had it in the back of my mind. I may very well change it because I agree, of all the videos I make, i think this has the best chance for christian viewership. thank you.
New to the channel. One of the best atheist channels. He straddles that middle ground between just the facts mam and a certain animus toward his subject. He sounds scripted which I prefer. If this is off the cuff, then he's got a hi pay grade above the next. Or, a great memory .
Hey Chris, welcome! thank you for the kind words. Most of my videos are off the cuff reactions. I did a bit more fact checking and research on this one, and did indeed make an outline, but no script. Glad you enjoyed it, and excited to have you here!
I am an atheist who does have appreciation for religion of all kind so this is helpful and then considering what is going on with the world and Christian nationalism… We really really need to bring people back to their Christian center rather than allowing them to go on some hateful tirade. I appreciate your work here
It's widely believed by Orthodox Jews that Moses only wrote what G-D told him write and only what needs to be written in the Torah. However, the last few chapters in the last book might have been written by Joshua.
i was actually going to do this very thing, go through every chapter of the entire Bible but since I know you'll do a thorough job I don't have to now lol i do however highly recommend lectures #3 and #4 Christian Hayes yale courses (free) she has a 24 course lecture series on the Hebrew bible each lecture is about 40 minutes long (excellent material) but lectures 3 and 4 specifically deal with Genesis and even it's comparison to Mesopotatian creation myths I haven't got to listen to this yet just read the headline and Christine stuff is on RU-vid you're putting out great content man
This is an exciting series, but I have some recommendations. The 10 points have quite a bit of overlap and I think you should try to isolate each point to itself, especially the book overview. I'd prefer the overview in a much more traditional and sequential explanation. Beginning middle, end. "Our story starts with X, who is given Y by Z" Etc, etc. You summarize it as if we already know a lot when some people might know nothing. It's done and also interjecting with themes and interpretations which you go over in their later sections of the video. I'm making this recommendations because I think you're awesome and I want to see more . Thanks and keep it up
Just finished reading genesis tonight so the first thing I did was to start this video. This was so insightful! you touched on some things I had noted myself and some thing I had not, great ammo against my old faith :D one thing I noted in genesis was the insane amount of inbreeding, not just adam and eve or after moses just in general. Now I have like I said copied your transcript from this video and copied it into my obsidian vault, I will prof read it and highlight the things that spoke the most to me but keep the whole thing as a reference for later studies :D if anything about that does not sound okey to you tell me and I will fix it since its your video and I dont want to step on your toes here :D Thank you for your love of the community and the effort you put into your work here on youtube. you said in one video that you dont think you vill save the world, but know you have saved mine
Here's a huge biblical fallacy. God first created light. What kind of light was it? Who knows. Then, on day 4, God created two lights, a great light to rule the day and a lesser light to rule the night. I think it's safe to say that those two lights he's referring to were the sun and the moon. He also created the stars on day 4. Wait, isn't the sun also a star? I guess somebody forgot to tell God that. Also, since there weren't any stars for the first three days, where did light come from? Oh, I forgot. Plants were created on day 3. I guess somebody forgot to tell God that plants need sunlight for photosynthesis to survive and not just water. You know, this "intelligent" designer isn't really that intelligent. This is all in Genesis chapter 1.
Was discussing evolution in my entomology class and I displayed my fascination with the theories of the age of the earth. My Christian friend asked if I was a Christian (to which I replied “yes”) and he alluded to his belief that God gave Christians the evolution theory to defeat. If that’s the case, we’re doing a bad job.
24:40 this reminds me when South Park made an episode where the belief in God didn’t exist and there were high tech, but people were still going into war for different scientific theories.
Thanks for your time and effort. It is very good. Genesis would be great reading and fun to study if it was only viewed as mythology. I enjoyed studying Greek mythology. The bible would be the same for me if viewed in that light. . I took a class in college that was intended to be like that but it was corrupted by some Fundamentalist that also took the class. It was a painful class instead of enjoyable.
I remember when I took a religious studies course at the first university I attended. It mostly just focused on the Abrahamic ones - not so much as to possibly train prospective preachers, but it still focused on the big three more than the rest. One day, the professor played Religulous. I was the only one laughing throughout the Christian stuff, and one of my classmates got mad at me for that. When she asked me how I could laugh at it, I said, "I was raised in this. It absolutely deserves to be ridiculed for being taken so seriously." I was not quite non-religious then, but I was certainly alreadh on my towards being such by the time this happened. Similarly, I got similiar crap when Passion of the Christ first came out. Back then, I had not started my journey to becoming non-religious, but even then, when some people asked me why I wouldn't watch the movie, I kept telling them, "Because unlike you apparently, I've read the book, and not only that, did so multiple times, studied it, analyzed it, wrote about, put it through the cross-examination rigor and all that. I don't need a movie that takes massive amounts of liberty with the source material being presented to me as 'the holiest interpretation.' I'll stick with Ben Hur or Jesus Christ Superstar for that, thank you."
The only problem with kids who are not exposed to church is that they miss so many allusions and understandings in the literature they will be exposed to in our educational systems and culture. We need these perspectives taught rather than the religious perspectives only.
There's always that Family Guy joke about what the Sistine Chapel would look like if the Dark Ages had not occurred and thus cemented Christianity's (and in fairness, religions in general) place in history.
Hi Brandon… I have started today watching your secular Bible studies playlist. I note that the list is published newest to oldest. Could you please publish a version that is oldest to newest?
You should also mention the Nephilim in Genesis 6. It was the sons of God and the daughters of men creating a hybrid species of giants. These were fallen angels and women. It is similar to the flood and tower of Babel in significance but not mentioned very much.
