Letter from a Deconstructed Son: What are his biggest issues with Christianity? 

So glad I found this video. I’ve been questioning a lot of my beliefs lately.

The deconstructionist movement forgets that we look up to Jesus not other people who are equally fallen to us.

I thought 'deconstruction' was just a fancy new word for apostasy. The main problem with people today is that their faith was built on the 'wisdom of man' and not the 'power of God'. i.e. they believed in their head but not their heart.

If someone says to me, “The Bible is full of contradictions.” I say, “Name one.” In 45 years, I have heard disagreements and misunderstandings, but I have yet to hear a contradiction.

It’s up to those who know the one who has left the faith, to lift them up in prayer. That’s probably the most important thing one can do. God can do anything, I can pray.

I've been a pastor for 29 years. One of my dearest friends, a man that i served with in ministry for years and years. We prayed together, share each other's pulpits. One day he packed up his offices and left the church. He divorced his wife, moved in with a yoga instructor and eventually married her. In order to do this he had to jettison the historic biblical faith. He now is a "pastor" at a "spiritual center" where he teaches a class on "awakening the Christ within" based on the teaching of Richard Roar. I still can't believe it. 😢

The reading of the prophecy in Isaiah and Jesus speaking in Luke gave me chills. ❤

I’m so glad that I listen to this tonight. (I’m subscribed to so many channels that there just aren’t enough hours in the day to listen to every one of them all the time.) I think for the first time since I realized that two of my four adult children have wandered away from God that I now see that I do not need to feel guilty for not pushing the subject with them. They are still a part of our lives, but religion is not discussed very much in our relationships. I pray for them all the time but have not felt God prompting me to say things about their spiritual state. I have felt guilty too much that perhaps I’m not doing enough, but I think the truth is that God has been holding me back from saying the wrong things. Thanks again! I will not ever stop praying for them!

Thankyou so much for your faithfulness to the Lord. I get so tired of seeing people I grew up with go apostate. I am so grateful for the people who haven’t. The older I get the more I realize what Paul said about suffering for the elects sake: “Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.” ‭‭2 Timothy‬ ‭2‬:‭10‬ ‭KJV‬‬

Thanks Alisa on the deconstruction of our Christian Faith. This is very simple to resolve in our Changing culture if Christians follow the holy and unadulterated word of God where Jesus is the the same Yesterday today and tomorrow this means everything around us will change but God word never changes. The Lord says I am God and I change not. Agree the word of God takes preeminence on every issue like deconstruction. Great show Alisa.

Hola Alissa 🤗 I'm so greatful 4 U & the Great Content U & others bring us🎉 Blessings ✝️ to U & ur family 💖

You may have mentioned this already but I’ve found it helpful to inquire if the person would be willing to change their position even on one issue if we worked through it in a way that made them understand possible problems. This may be that they move from ‘I know this to be true’ to ‘oh, I can see problems with my position’. This has kept the discussion more fruitful and purposeful.

This was great, it shows that we don't need to be afraid of questions. :)

That is exactly what I have in my family. My elder daughter has told her siblings that I am dangerous to her children and doesn’t want me to have anything to do with them. So far she has accepted my birthday and Christmas and Easter gifts, but I never receive a thank you from them. I pray for them. The reason this happened was I told my daughter and her husband that God was holding them responsible for taking their children to an openly homosexual run church. The lead pastor is female and from what I gather from their website, a lesbian. She posted a photograph of my youngest granddaughter with her face painted at what looks like a pride celebration over the weekend. My daughter knows better. She memorized scripture as part of our homeschool curriculum. Jesus’s own words in Matthew 5,6 and7 were the initial scriptures she and her brother memorized. I know the word is in her heart, but she has decided that standing on God’s truth is not loving. How can accepting open sinful behavior be loving when sin keeps us separated from the God that created us and loves us?

I am glad for your bring gifted with words and with speaking with love and reason. Thank you.

Powerful content Alisa! Thank you for your work.

I left my church because of the era taught in the church. I was Pentecostal for over 12 years. I left but I didn’t leave my faith in God or his word. I’m a believer and nothing can change my mind.

Great points! I was an english major and we were pushed very hard to deconstruct during literary analysis. Which, ironically, isn't literary analysis at all since an analysis would eventually lend way to a truth or insights. Deconstruction tells us that our opinions are more important than the authors intent, or what it says about truth. It's basically literary criticism for the intellectually lazy.

I have read (more than once) the complete works of Francis Schaeffer (I learned of his existence back in ‘82 through reading Whatever Happened to the Human Race?) and whilst his style of writing is not always the easiest to read, the content of his writings is superb. I highly recommend Nancy Pearcey’s books Total Truth and Finding Truth which are based on Schaeffer’s theses but are much easier to read. Pearcey’s books are well worth the investment and they will help you to think (and understand) Biblically about ALL REALITY (not just the religious stuff). Childers is reminding me of what Pearcey writes in her books and my spirit resonates both with Pearcey and Childers. Keep up the good work guys! Simonline🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🤔🙏😀👍

Appreciate how you so clearly expound the truth and shed light on the lies. Thank you! God Bless.

Is it just me, or does it seem like these young people who are falling into this trap of deconstruction are actually impulsively bailing and taking the easy way out? I can’t help thinking that they are really not doing a thorough job of sorting through their doubts with a critical and humble perspective. I wonder if they have sorted through and engaged with the stories of all the brilliant minds throughout the history of Christianity, who have struggled with these and many other more complex problems, yet still arrived, kneeling at the feet of Christ? it really reinforces to me as both a dad and a pastor that we need to expose our kids and students in our ministries to the whole story, warts and all, to help them navigate the road ahead!

become grounded in the 2000 year old orthodox christian faith!

God is good... Greatly appreciate you Alisa. God bless

God bless you and your family and friends and ministry , I've had to examine my own beliefs and faith which has helped me and strengthen my faith in Christ

I have a request for future podcasts for those of us who maybe are hearing you for the first few times. Would you be so kind as to define deconstruction in a nutshell each time so that newbies like me know what you’re talking about? I’m talking about the deconstruction in regards to our spiritual faith. I’ve been so confused over these past weeks listening because I didn’t understand what you were talking about exactly. Maybe it’s just my senior citizenship here and not familiar with the terms that the young folks are using. Thank you so much.

I’m reading R.C.Sproul’s book “What is Reformed Theology?” And in it Mr Sproul talks about idolatry as any form of lowering God to our level of humanity. Humanism is the ultimate in idolatry and that’s what deconstruction does. The infallibility of scripture has to be honored or we are left to pick and choose our own “truth”.

I am in a sudden weird place these days so thank you for helping us through this stuff.

Dear Alisa This cast is in my eyes very important. You speak about a theme that moves me since 10 years or so. So thanks for this vid. The process of deconstruction/reconstruction of faith is not as new as it might be seen, but you're right, it is a postmodern thing (at least the naming). You can say that in some ways Luther was deconstructing his (catholic) faith and reconstruct it ending in protestantism. Deconstruction means you pick every piece of your faith and judge by the postmodern premisse of relativ truth - and you throw it away (you are right about that). You end up by leaving the faith. This is understandable but logically wrong (by the way, theologians - and all believers - should study philosophy to learn how to think properly...:-)) With the most of your examples in the second five minutes in your speech (look at your doubts, rethinking old truths ....) falls into the process of reconstructing. Been there. Ten years or so ago a german professor for practical theology (Tobias Faix) made an online poll especially for people who went away from church and/or faith and asked them about their story. He recieved a lot of answers and destilled them into a book named (german) "Warum ich nicht mehr glaube" (Why I don't believe anymore). He worked out some motives and ways of thinking by the persons who were going through this processes. He found out that many of them had a bad or wrong theology, at least not whole truly biblical, and/or lived a life with a "sundayschoolfaith" which didn't grow and become "mature". With growing older, become aware of that not all things in life comes out like the truths from sunday school, the tension between reality and faith grows until the person become unable to make faith and reality "congruent"(as the son wrote about science facts - in his sight). This letter shows that exactly! They then deconstruct or (luckily) reconstruct their faith. The reconstruction ends up in a more (mature) grounded, secured, resilient faith. Why they didn't grow and become adult in their faith has many reasons and is a good question (Faix wrote about that in the second book named "warum wir mündig glauben dürfen" - "Why we may believe mature"). For me Faix' book was an eyeopener, it described what was going on with me (I was an Salvation Army Officer back then). It helped me in my reconstruction. My story to this point back then is another one for another day. You made very good points. Thank you for that. But, sorry for that, for my taste with way too much words. But as I said, very good. Wish you all the best and blessings of the Almighty. M.D.

Thank you for the explanation! Well done &! Helpful for those who are struggling in their belief.

This is beautiful argumentation. Hi-ALISA; Thank you doing this. It is a brilliant representation of your character and personality to make such well articulated nuanced clarification on the Life Moral Teachings and Philosophy of Jesus The Christ versus the conflation that grew out of over thousands of years of intrigue roguery and ignorance. This is all you ! You parsed the overused word ‘deconstructing’ perfectly. You are so beautiful when you’re lucid and fluid in your thinking and heart as a representative of the gospel. Bravo ! There is no comparison of your understanding of the use of the Scriptures when matched with the online ‘evangelical christian’ tripe of Pastor Greg Locke. Love in His Name always. … . ~

As far as I'm concerned with what I know and have heard from deconstructionist, it comes down to, then being apostate. They are deconstructing something they never had in the first place. They were never born again. They never had true saving faith. 1 John 2:19. Matthew 13:20-22

This channel is so impactful. One small request, the sound of water being swallowed really really irritates me. Is there a way to minimize that sound? Respectfully, thank you.

Some fairly debatable characterizations being asserted in that list. It's hard to tell where the son is at, but hopefully they are open to thinking more deeply about these objections. These are the objections of someone looking for a way out, more than the truth.

I heard a Christian woman host who said she was disappointed that Jesus didn’t go Himself to visit John the Baptizer while he was in prison. My opinion is that Jesus didn’t because it is a level playing field in that it is the authority of His Word we are to believe what Jesus said. The man in hell wanted someone sent to warn his brothers to avoid the place of hell, but Jesus replied they had the Law and the Prophets that should suffice, not a resurrection miracle.

Glad your mom is better. So important!

I believe people should be able to explain why they believe random things, as well as Christians being able to explain their beliefs.

“God has more information when He gives commands that feel harmful.” I am a Christian who has unwanted same sex attraction, and you just explained this better than I ever could. God’s commands to people like me might feel painful at times, but I know He has more information about what will and will not be good for me, and He has my best interest at heart.

Hearing that guy's letter really brought me back to the New Atheism of the mid-2000s. To me, it just sounds like the same stuff but rebranded. You've done a good job addressing those points.

Beautiful!! 😍

She gets to the letter at 21:10

When someone leaves Christianity they tend to still view the world from that standpoint for the rest of their life. It depends on how much they understood it in the first place. They then have to wrestle with their new position. Then their epistemology is tested again. That's why you get a lot of testimonials about it. It's the lived-out version if the parable of the sower.

answering those questions will not save this man

Thank you. ♥

Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today and tomorrow. simple and clear

To deconstruct is simply to understand that certain things that you have assumed to be true have to be reexamined. If we engage in this process in the light of a deeper understanding of Scripture you are still "deconstructing" in the sense that you are dismantling a mental "construct" that had never really been authentic in the first place in the sense that it had been inherited rather than the arising out of our own relationship with God. So the process of deconstruction may vary from one person to another and may have different outcomes, but the term "deconstruction" remains appropriate insofar as you end up no longer believing exactly what you were brought up to believe.

Very informative apologetics!

Poor kid never grew out of the cringe Internet atheism stage.

Thanks for the presentation

Alisa, I want to expand a little on your explanation on "faith being above evidence" (at 42:23 minute) to highlight an important matter. First, your analogy of having faith flying on an aeroplane is spot-on. It requires faith, based on evidences that much effort have been put in place to make the whole system of air travel safe. More importantly, your own experiences of past successful flights had solidified your "faith" in taking flights. One's experiencial evidence is ultimately the rock of one's faith. But it is very different in Christianity. The Christianity's Gospel is: Rom 10:9 "If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." Rom 10:10 "For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved." Surely you will agree that faith that is based on "openly declaring your faith", truly rests on nothing, but is only a "make-believe"? This is the reason why: ▪︎ increasing numbers of Christians are "deconstructing" their faith. ▪︎in the US, the mainstream Christian churches have declined in size by 30~50% over the past two decades. By the way, I commend you for being clear-minded about Jesus's teachings. I think you are doing a great service to the LORD God. In fact, because I hardly hear you quoting from Paul, I think you are not Christian, but a follower of Jesus's Way. Jn 14:6 I, too am a follower, now a disciple of the Lord Jesus. I have traversed the full stretch of Jesus's Way.

I think it's important to emphasize that deconstruction from the point of view of people deconstructing false-beliefs & traditions that aren't in alignment with the Word of God is a GOOD thing! There should be no question we can't ask of God, bc Jesus Who is BOTH Truth & Love (inseparable) from Genesis to Revelation (key) is able to bear scrutiny; it's when we begin thinking God's Word is in need of deconstruction that we've fallen for a LIE.

If anyone thinks the Bible isn't Inspired ... consider this:- Song of Solomon contains 5151 letters, which is 303x17. The book contains 8 chapters (7+1) and has 117verses. 'Pey' is the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It occurs 117 times. The 7th chapter contains 17 letter 'peys'. This links with Noah's ark which rested on Ararat on the 17th day of the 7th month. No human being could write a book like that. The Bible is God's Word and therefore true. So Genesis 19 really happened: it's the same God who looks down on this planet and will similarly judge this generation.

Deconstruction? It just means never being saved.

I’ve also seen on YT many deconstruct because of the LGBT issue.

Jesus taught in a way consistent with the time and place in which he lived. Even Jesus fully expected his return to earth to be within the lifetime of the generation that he was a part of. Lessons of Jesus were never intended for people thousands of years into the future, yet we continue to try and bend and mold and reinterpret them for modern day.

So the sinner doesn't want the church to use conversion therapy. But yet at the same time they want to use deconstruction which is the aversion of a conversion therapy as far as I am concerned

Hi Alisa - I'm a little confused about the letter you read. It's all pie in the sky. His supposed facts are incorrect and he can't even hide his obvious left-leaning political bias. It's nothing but the typical, left-leaning, God hating tantrum. Imho a waste of precious time even getting into it. BUT anyone watching this can see your genuine, heartfelt sincerity in attempting to tackle this. God bless you for it.✝️🌷

Exactly

I only recently went through what I guess would be called a "crisis of faith" and would like to give a 2 cent testimony on my process. First, I started with completely denouncing Christians and everything I was ever taught in church. I then spent two years reading 6 different translations of the bible cover to cover and started studying Biblical Hebrew and Ancient Greek so I could fully understand what the Bible was actually saying in their original languages. At the end of the day, my ecclesiastical and eschatological views still does not align with what Christians teach in church but I do believe in the fundamentals of a new testament faith. Jesus is the God of the Old Testament who came as a man who died for the atonement of our sins in order to restore a relationship with those who believe by which we will be given eternal life. Its the free gift of God in that we don't deserve it but He did so for His own sake out of His love for us. And I do believe in the trinity. That poses a question: How do you define a "Christian"? Studying denomination after denomination, I found Messianic Judaism that also, for the most part, do not consider themselves Christian but recognize Christians as brothers and sisters in Christ. Not to scare off anybody, Messianic Judaism should not be confused with the Hebrew roots movement... which is a very different thing. While I'm a gentile, the "reconstruction" of my faith falls squarely in line with the Messianic Jews. While I reject the "Christian RELIGION", I do agree with the fundamentals of the faith is it based on. What do I call myself?

When I decided on Christianity, right I looked at the claims, and I looked at the evidence of those claims, and I came away with my beliefs strengthened, I think its important to know when a question has been adequately answered, I also know that many young people, go off to university, right and they elevate an instructor, or professor to genius status, they put these people on pedestals that they dont need to be then they just kind of blindly follow them even against their own faith. Jesus said that he was the truth, he would not represent an untruth in his name.

Questions start at 21:10

(John 1:1-2) "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. {2} The same was in the beginning with God." (John 1:14) "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." (Psalms 138:1-2) "I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee. {2} I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name."

I cannot remember which video it was, or if I even commented. But You said that we can believe what the apostles say bc who would lie to the death? What about all the cults that have committed suicide. They lied or were lied to, to their death.

Two words: higher criticism.

Language needs to be so clear. Was this son saying that promoting a particular political view was immoral or that the political view was promoting immorality? It's so sad that this young man seems to have looked up the standard atheists reasons for not being a Christian and most likely doesn't even know what is meant by most of the statements???? They seem to be the classic no thought gone into any of those "issues". Thanknyou for deconstructing this young man's letter! I pray that struggling people hear your sound biblical answers of truth!

46:38 I've heard Bart Ehrman talk about these variations, and I don't recall him saying anything of the sort. While the majority of variations are spelling and format errors (sleepy scribes,) some are far more considerable, such as the changes to the end of Mark, or the centuries-later addition to John of the story of Jesus and the adulteress.

I must say I read the Bible daily, and it is often mis-taught, but it is 2000 years of history, and a future, that has proven true. Denominations often fall into some heresy but God does not change.

Funny how the few that set the rules on how we think, and want is true. This is where science and skeptics become fools.

Square One - Ground Zero - is Mount Sinai -- 3,335 years ago, when nearly two million newly liberated children of Israel witnessed the Voice of the Creator speaking out the first few commandments -- and then calling Moses to come up the mountain and receive the Torah. This did not require faith. This was direct experience.

I would go back to the Garden for my first question to the son, “Who told you these things?” If God asked it, it evidently holds weight. I can guarantee you that the son did not compile this list on his own. And those source/s need to be ‘deconstructed.’

It says you are in Austin Nov 16- does not mention nashville at all

That letter has the logical weight of a toddler. It is both amusing and sad.

The objection to Christianity's discounting the authorities of other religions makes perfect sense if you've already decided that there's no objective truth. If that's the case, then there's no reason for any religion to be exclusive. But, of course, Christianity makes claims of objective fact which are either true or false--and if true, then anything that disagrees with them must be false.

John 1:1&2 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.. He was in the beginning with God.

WHY are people "deconstructing"? They're all valid reasons actually.

Similar to Alisa, i dont feel that "Deconstruction" is the best word to use. Personally, I would simply call it "re-examining" my Faith. When I think of Deconstructing, i think of a building that is demolished and completely torn apart. "Something", will be re-built its place, but it may not be a rebuilding of your Faith-- at all. It may, and these days, with MOST people it is re-building something different, and very often its Atheism or skepticism. When I think of Re-examining, the "building" isnt demolished. It still stands but I go through it room-by-room, seeing what may need over-hauling, correction, repair, "a new look/viewpoint'....But when all that is done, i very likely have an improved, better understood, more grounded Faith. Not a complete rejection of the Faith i had. That *could* happen, possibly, but there's much less intent for it to happen and more of a spirit of "lets save what we can save here, and what still has value." There, i hope this shines light on the difference. There is one more point to be made-- *************************************************************************** I have heard a number of people on RU-vid who said they were Christians who have now "deconstructed" and in the vast majority of cases, one of 2 things happened: 1. Their parents, were strict, almost UBER-Christians and the kids went to church Sun. Morn., Sun. Night, and Wed. Night, for years....and and after several years...its as if they are rejecting what one might call an "overdose" of strictness! Had their "walk" not been so hard-core (I hate to say it that way, but it makes the point) all those years, the rejection wouldn't be so strong now. It was too much, too soon, too hard and for too long. So the day comes when they move out from home and reject it all. -OR- 2. Atheistic/skeptical stuff convinced them away from Christianity BUT-- again, in many, many cases, the people who deconstructed never knew much Bible at all. Oh, they went to the church services, but they never got into "the Word" that much. I'm betting, (and feelin' pretty confident!) that ALOT, probably MOST of the ones who Deconstructed away....have never even read ONCE, the New Testament completely! I'll bet there are Tons of people like that. So, to be blunt...its nearly always, either like "throwing up years of an overdose" and running away...or....having no "roots"/knowledge/grounding and being built on shallow sand and falling away from whatever "skeptical wind" comes along. These two points apply to "a zillion" RU-vidrs and people on Tik-Tok, Instagram, etc. and many people who just decide to leave.

A Response to statements made from 12:50 through 13:48. *Lack of evidence:* Let's assume a Christian is a loving, compassionate, person who only wants people to be saved. Said Christian is not trying to protect an institution, or trying to gain power over others. The problem is the answer the Christian gives when the skeptic asks _"why do you believe the Bible is God's word?"_ The Christian's answer *will always* somehow be some form of 2 Timothy 3:16, _"the Bible is true because it says so in the Bible."_ That answer is simply not enough to convince the skeptic. From there, the skeptic may falsely assume the Christian has ulterior motives and that's not fair, but nevertheless, 2 Timothy 3:16 is an inadequate answer to a good, legitimate question.

Do you think that some people deconstruct as an excuse to live in sin? Do they deconstuct so they can live like the world?

*Intellectual dishonesty* is when a person says not believing the claims of a scam artist, or not believing myths and fairy tales is _"healthy skepticism."_ However, not believing the claims of the Bible is _"hyper skepticism."_

Imagine that the World and the people are all like a large building site, people are moving around it, working, others just standing there, materials are being moved, structures are starting to appear. Nothing is finished.Someone joins you whilst you are standing there and asks"What are they building?" You reply you don't know. " Its difficult to tell whats going on here. If we had the plans - or an architects drawing- we would know", you both agree. If we only have a part of the plan or I focus on a particular part saying" This is it ,this is the whole plan .... when clearly it isn't,.... Its like saying, " If you have seen the Tower of London, you have seen Britain!" Clearly not true. So what is true? Lets posit the following ( albeit a narrow focus). Human beings are creatures whose very existence is visibly flawed- and this is recognised and experienced... Plato onwards - or if you like. Moses or...endless lines of thinkers and your mother in law attesting to this. 😢Okay. Christianity says that God has initiated a dramatic and complete process to return people AND his creation to a fully human and totally renewed state via an initiated process focussed on both enabled and enabling relationship- with him and with others. So Christians believe they are a work in progress- like the site. But that we are only truly and FULLY human in this process. So given EVERYTHING ,in my anology, where the wrong materials are delivered and things get wrongly assembled...and sometimes it all gets extra confusing..... I can say to ANY of my fellow creatures- 100% disregarding who we are, OR who ( or what) we think we are(!) NOR our education, skin colour wealth status, sexual orientation or general confusion:about identity " we are both a work in progress, there is a plan and best of all the enabling of that plan . We cn work and be changed together"

De-construction?? I don’t know anything about it. For me, i have decided to continue reading and studying the “whole Word of God”. I have not reached the “prophetic books”, yet. I have chosen to not discuss my “eschatological” questions, until i have a more well-rounded World-View, through knowing the whole Bible…NIV, or ESV. I DEFINITELY believe, that God always affirms, and confirms our faith, when we are believing that He always leads us to “victory”.

I'd like to address the question of Jesus failing to predict his own return within his generation. This is where popular eschatology will fail you. Some teachers will insist that "this generation" mentioned in the Olivet Discourse had adopted a vastly different definition than the way it was used all throughout scripture, but this is misleading. What they've failed to notice is that Jesus gave two answers to his disciples. The first question of when shall these things be he answers "this generation" and proceeds to list the signs preceeding the destruction of the temple. It was destroyed by Roman forces within that generation. But for the second answer, he says that nobody but the Father knows when he will return. In short, Jesus didn't fail to predict his return, but he did predict the fall of Jerusalem with precision. One of the most profound predictions of Christ, further proof of his divinity and claims, is obfuscated or dismissed by people in favor of them being the ones who accurately predict and understand prophesy. It's a shame, really. If anybody wants to hear more about this view, just look up something like "Olivet Discourse partial preterism". If you couldn't tell, I spent the last few years deconstructing my eschatology.

Is there a way to join without joining instagram or Facebook??😢

Where else would you turn? Jesus is the only One who gives us life. ♡

40:11 Anywhere one could find these sources? What are they? Thanks

Valuable content!!

Lee Strobel is helpful. Former atheist

Why was the title I clicked on nit the same as the one below you when it first opened???

I'm just barely into the video, but I like how you talk about the people who have Deconstructed and how they have strained relationships with people because the Deconstructee has deemed them toxic, but you completely leave out how many Christians will completely shun people who deconstructed. How they'll not listen to the person who deconstructed, but instead just spout platitudes like "if you left us, you were never one of us." You have no idea what we went through. You have no idea the torment and stress that deconstruction was. You just write us off without a second thought, I suppose becasue it makes you feel better to do so.

She dropped the ball (again) on addressing creation. She also totally avoided discussion on the flood. If the RESURRECTION happened, then the creation account and flood account in GENESIS happened. After all Jesus affirmed Genesis as history, as did the authors of the NT.

Faith IS the evidence.

Okay

This has zero to do with deconstruction.. the guy’s son is in a cult, The cult of politics. Just listen to his first question. He isn’t looking at the Bible and probably doesn’t read it anyway. He isn’t going to thoughtfully listen to you and then comment. Instead, he isn’t going to allow you to speak and he will not participate in the arena of ideas or debate. This kid is not examining his faith, his God is his political beliefs.

26:00

Amen. Question, what degree of deconstructionist do you think are from contemporary or more traditional church?

So is deconstruction basically apostasy?

Deconstruction is nothing new, its a new cute modern word for the old word apostasy. You can find those that have backslide or simply became an apostate in the parable of the sower. Paul talked about apostacy and foretold of a "great apostacy" in the latter days, our Lord Jesus had his entire disciples leave him and he was left with the twelve. Nothing new under the sun.

The dentist metaphor is a bit wierd, what about anesthetic. Also when the Holy Spirit works on us it is warm comforting healing experience

Jesus is depicted as a carefree person who occasionally winks and jokes around with others. My Bible never suggest Jesus ever joked around or laughed these last three years of his life. He was a solemn and serene person from everything I read in all the testaments.

Please Alisa activate CC. Tks

So, perhaps, Alissa should have waited longer to write her first book?