Paul Decides to Try Try Again (Acts 14:1-7) | TMBH Acts #61
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Man, making churches is hard. Seems like you're always getting flogged or something. Am I right?!
In Acts 14, Paul and Barnabas are off to the next stop on their missionary journey, and they're hoping things go better in Iconium than they did in Pisidian Antioch.
They keep doing the same thing, and refuse to give up. Is that brave or the definition of insanity?
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Okay, we both agree that people come with a very long list of innate cognitive biases (confirmation bias, backfire effect, essentialism, hindsight bias etc. etc.) . Now tell me, what kind of perfect being creates other beings that come equipped with programming that will lead them the wrong way? You also go into why people were not convinced by purported miracles. Isn't that much easier to explain by saying that's because it never happened rather than claiming based on stories that miracles happened back then but not today because ... reasons? Also, and I know I keep repeating myself, but your claim that Yahweh is a being that back then sometimes intervened to "tilt the whole thing in [the] favour [of Paul and Barnabas]" makes him sound really provincial: You mean a perfect, timeless being set up a perfect system (which it must be by definition, right?) and then has to come in and tinker with it to make it go the way it hadn't foreseen?
3:42 If they are going to the synagogue why would some Gentiles be believing as well as Jews? Would there be Gentiles at the synagogue, or would they have preached at gentile places too and the passage just doesn't tell us about it?
10:55 Are you talking about actually forcing somebody to believe something, or is this a libertarian way of talking about, say, government-funded Alpha courses?
1) I can only assume we're talking about Jews and God-fearing Gentiles who would have been at or around the synagogue. There was a whole protocol for how Gentiles/Greeks could embrace Judaism and participate in the synagogue to a degree. That was probably the case here.
2) I'm talking about effectively forcing others to believe or act as though they believe what the powerful insist upon through the force of law on social issues. We see this the most historically when religions and states crawl into bed together.
@@MattWhitmanTMBH God could easily force us to do anything he would want, but he doesn't. So why would we try to use force to make people believe what we believe? I think only evil or sinful entities try to force beliefs on us?
With God and the word of His truth there isn't no guessing!... You are mixing scriptures!... Please do more research and study..2 Tim.2:15... Yep, you are religious and that's the problem!... First, get the correct bible...not modern versions...research and find out why!...Rom. 3:4..Tit. 1:2...