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Great interview.

Absolutely thoroughly enjoyed this man’s teachings rest in peace and may your memory be blessed❤

1.) Not a religionist here, but I thought the Armana tablets described the invading Habiru (Hebrews). 2.) The Euphrates River actually begins in the Highlands of Anatolia. Could the writer of the passage about Solomon's kingdom be more accurate if the writer had north in mind rather than east (toward Iraq)?

36:00 theyre facts but theyre not relevant? I think the big problem with the pro choice debate is that neither side actually cares about the children in any way. It's pretty much entirely about female autonomy at the expense of everyone else, which is very telling. It's life, it's human; re-framing that is pointless, and continuing to try is dehumanizing to yourself and everyone else involved. There's no soul, the bible is no good for sorting this out. No one is actually focusing on the real issue, they just want to push their own personal philosophies at all costs.

freethinking through book reading, autodidacticism, malcolm x style, very inspirational from new generation

I am a convert to Catholicism from an agnostic background. I appreciated this discussion for its calm rationality and avoidance of derogatory remarks. I wish more Christians were like that. I can't say I don't struggle with some Catholic doctrines. But we need to acknowledge that there is a dimension of being beyond both reason and emotion, and even scientific "proofs" are taken on faith. Thank you for pointing out that Christians need to get rid of having a superior attitude. I am working on that !

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence...so they haven't found the litter of water bottles across the Sinai...but the Egyptians know that the Hyksos were Semites as shown by DNA testing from new discoveries in Alvaris...need to keep up!

Where is part1?

I wish someone would ask more hard hitting questions, especially given it was a friendly audience. For example, if we grant his theses that the scribes and priests represented a minority of the population, and most of their contemporaries were polytheists, and they only wrote for themselves because most people lacked the training, why did they weave together conflicting ideas? We take it for granted that Dr. Avalos is reading the text fairly, but it makes them out to be foolish geniuses. Like they are staunch monotheists but don't even recognize they (allegedly) worship multiple gods and their wife/wives. I find him much easier to follow when he is discussing material remains than when he tries to read the text.

I am aware that Ingersoll on his deathbed was given the gospel of Jesus Christ by a Christian. But he was unable to accept it; and died and went to a Christ less eternity. This is because he had gone beyond the point of no return on the subject of returning to Jesus Christ, who loves us despite our unfaithfulness. 😢😢😢

Stop defending

The Mother archetype, which symbolizes the unconscious psyche, gives birth to the Self, which is symbolized by Jesus, Apollonius, Buddha, Horus, Krishna, and many others. If one does not understand depth psychology and the archetypes of the unconscious, it is impossible to understand the origins of these myths and writings, which after all, originated from the archetypes in the collective unconscious. The Hero has a thousand faces.

The Romans wrote the gospels, which contain no original or new teachings that weren't already out there for hundreds of years. The gospels are a syncretism of Roman paganism, Greek philosophy, and Jewish thought. These were Bronze Age people that wrote the gospels. These people were entirely ignorant of science and particularly of psychology. The Flavian Caesars were directly involved in creating Christianity to control the masses, especially the Jews, whose country and Temple the Romans sacked and annihilated. This is why the gospels are pro Roman and anti Jewish. Jesus tells people to "[pay their taxes to Caesar" and in another place people are instructed to "submit to the authorities". The gospels are clearly anti Semitic. The teaching of "original sin" is perhaps the most damaging and cruel teaching of all time. Augustine of Hippo created the doctrine of original sin, which says that humans are worthless sinners from birth and need a savior to avoid the fires of hell. The whole premise is false, evil, and damaging to the human psyche. The Christians cling to the Bible even though the Bible is clearly toxic and not the words of a loving G-d.

Descanse en paz maestro.

They just debated a dead man and lost. Did a good job of bolstering reasons to believe.

He shouldve done ASMRs on the side. His voice is so soporiphic

If you had any doubt then, the facts that 70 million voted Trump in 2020, that USA had 3x the COVID mortality rate of ,say, Canada because of science denial, would confirm that the retrenched evangelicals are a threat to America, to the post WWII peace.

Grant Steves has a history as a pedophile during his tenure as a high school teacher in Oakdale Minnesota, I'm one of his many victims. Do not trust anything about this "person".

Morals come from God. He is the full standard to morals. We get our conscience from God, it determines right from wrong. This is how someone who has never heard the gospel will come to know the truth. They will be judged based on nature, based on the essence and persona of God and conscience. Meat is good for us, in smaller doses. Protein keeps the bones and muscles strong.

Pedophile.

Next we'll find that Fred Flintstone was a modern day myth! It's out of control.

That woefully-misinformed first questioner... the records of the proceedings of the Council of Nicaea do not indicate ANY discussion of the canonicity of Scriptural books whatsoever...

What reason and purpose did Steves have for molesting his underage students at Tartan Senior High School in Oakdale Minnesota?

This guy is clearly a tool of Satan. He is just another fundamentalist pentacostal yurned anti-theist. He is now dead, and most likely now beleiving in what he denied when apostasized

There would be no atheists if you didn’t live in a world bathed in Christianity. Try that with any other faith or even in pagan societies, you’d be burning incense or sacrificing to something. You certainly wouldn’t be on CZcams espousing your disbelief. Fortuitous you, until to try to enforce atheism then you become what? Communists? When’re does atheism take one?

I'd like to ask the guest about his moral evolution into a pedophile.

Let's ask Grant Steves about his pedophile past!

I'd like to ask the guest about his pedophile past.

can't thank you enough for your work sir. Only in the last 200 yrs, thanks to the separation of church and state, have we been able to push back on the largest, most powerful religion on earth. Since Constantine they have had access to all the power any human being could have. Counselors to Kings, complicit in their selfish conquests, brutal in their tactics of war and punishment. Endorsing slavery and human exploitation. Thank you!

John Wreisner is my dad he is cool guy

Have you ever heard of the doctrine of Christian forbearance,? That will be found in the Constitution of Virginia of 1776.

Why would anyone be so stupid they would think hes gonna give up a career Of biblical studies when that's what he is trying to do he's not ending his career you idiot

Keep on ladies ❤

DAVID NO BODY ON THE EARTH CAN NOT DESTROYEY THE WORD OF GOD BECAUSE THE BIBLE IS TRUE! YALL ARE DIGIN UP EVIL RELICS OF EVILNESS NO BODY CAN NOT DESTROYEY THE BIBLE THE WORD OF GOD I AM WHO I AM! EVERY THING PEOPLE READ IS THE TRUTH! NO BODY CHANGE IT I MEAN NO BODY! NOT EVEN THE ANGELS!🙂

DAVID THERE IS NOTHING IN THE WOULD WILL ARACE GOD I AM WHO I AM! THE WORD OF GOD IS LIFE! GOD CREATED EVERY THING WE ALL SEE! THERE IS NOTHING WILL DESTROY! THE HOLY BIBLE!🙂

Tell us why are we here? Where did we come from? Where are we going? Atheists have no clue.

And further to my previous comment, I think it boils down to the fact that we are 'mere' humans, without any hope of fixing our inability to wholly avoid conflict within or outside of ourselves, or the tendency to think we know best. We are not 'God', but Jesus came and gave us a clue to what the creator intended. Even if you don't believe in the existence of any 'god', it is always dangerous to think too highly of one's own opinions.

I am not an academic by any stretch of the imagination, but my passion is to discover why we ended up on this amazing planet, yet cannot seem to appreciate the gift of life, natural resources and human abilities available to us. It seems to me that either we humble ourselves and acknowledge that something or someone far greater than human beings put us here and demonstrated how we might work and collaborate in order to reach our potential, OR ELSE we decide that 'man' knows best and refuse to listen to the makers instructions. Despite there being millions of ordinary souls who do basically live appreciatively and unselfishly, all through history the drive for power and success without consideration of others has blighted this world with conflict and injustice. Our only hope is in Jesus Christ who spoke the wisdom of his Father. Even if he was not God, I would rather follow Him than any human 'teacher', philosopher or intellectual. Mere intellect has not solved the 'problem' so far!!

Genesis 1 claims that plants that require the Sun's warmth, and photosynthetic causing full spectrum sunlight, were somehow created on day 3 before the Sun was created on day 4 Somehow, each of the first 4 days had " evenings and mornings " which require sunrises and sunsets, yet the Sun wasn't created until day 4. This is what happens when other people tell you what the bible author's writings say, versus reading the bible by yourself.

Shadowlands is quite a fitting description for the Bible. Why doesn't the imagined god do the good we know he should ? The screw you letters is quite an apt term too. Selfish christianity, as long as i'm saved the rest be damned.

Sharon Preves's book, "Intersex and identity: the contested self", is great. It was the second book I managed to find to help me understand who I am - the first being Suzanne Kessler's "Lessons from the intersexed". So is "Fixing sex" from Katrina Karkazis - which I read just after I finished Intersex and Identity. Since then, many good books have been published, now by intersex people - this video is historical now! Thank you for this interview.

Beautiful presentation 🎉

To faithfully believe that OBJECTIVE morality, meaning, purpose, justice, value and/or goodness can even remotely exist without God (the personification of value and goodness etc), is a fanciful superstition. It’s akin to thinking we can create a new primary colour or Re-write the laws of mathematics or logic. Hence any faithful atheist who foolishly (e.g pridefully) thinks that he/she can create objectively true meaning is vainly deluding THEMSELVES. May God grant them the wisdom to submit to His ways.

Zero out of 10 for the sound "engineer "- I did not hear one question from the audience!!! Not good enough!.

It's been demonstrated that Monkeys also have a 'moral code' in that they have a sense of fairness. So the idea of an inbuilt moral behaviour is an evolutionary process. Even a dog will look guilty when he trashes the house... As a lapsed Christian I read Mere Christianity and whilst I appreciate his unmatched literary abilities, I came away unconvinced.

watched all of it

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Christians have Bible others have their Koran, some have the vedas or the sutras or the text of shito

This is an old video but it's just as valid today. I've been vegan for about 14 years and am still alive and well. Normally I don't even buy fake meats anymore. I generally put a bunch of food in the crockpot and create a good meal to last all week.

For any refuse hearing the Word, the alternative is looking at the choice of life's at foothills, Why some prefer to hiding from truth like darks to lights, still other neglecting it unlike all rest, else ignore until late in life searching lest Love's lost will be found in self's.