Bear Grylls Talks About Alpha's Impact On His Life and Faith
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- čas přidán 19. 07. 2009
- Started in London in 1979 as a brush-up course for rusty churchgoers, the Alpha Course has become a worldwide phenomenon and is now held in 163 countries. It is estimated that more than 13 million people worldwide have attended an Alpha Course.
The Alpha Course comprises 15 sessions held over 10 weeks and is free and open to everyone. No question is out of bounds, and participants are free to say as much or as little as they wish as they make up their own minds about the teachings of Jesus. Spirited discussions often ensue on topics ranging from Who is God? and Why am I here? to Why is there suffering? and Is God a delusion?
To learn more about Alpha or to find an Alpha course near you, visit www.alpha.org.
MAY Jesus Christ bless you I'm an ex Muslim arab and Jesus changed my life Halleluyah i have seen many miracles with my own eyes
Awesome! Great to find out Bear is a Christian. It gives me another good way to talk to my 9 year old son, who is a HUGE Man vs. Wild fan, about God.
Well said Bear.
Most people on here mock it because they don't want to understand it
Yes they fear it will cost them their freedom. Little do they realise by rejecting Christ they forfeit the total freedom that is on offer. The bible is beyond their understanding because it's written for those who seek the truth, which I'm afraid they are not seeking truth, but controversy. "Ask and it will be given you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you. Matt 7
He talks about his strong faith and yet talks about being lucky? Those of us who believe in the sovereign God don't believe in luck.
He went all across the globe,and explored the world and creatures 🌍,,which made his life to say, IF THERE IS A CREATION THERE MUST BE A CREATOR (GOD)
God Bless You Bro..and be with you...We love you..
Hi, thank you for asking me to inspect my faith. But it's too late. I was just like you before that day but now I have no way coming back simply because this is the God I desperately needed. I wish you find the God that fulfills your hunger of faith in your life. May God inspire you.
It is the greatest thing you will ever do and you will never ever regret it. Those who haven't experienced it are missing out on so much - they're missing out on life itself. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.
Bear I love you so much! God bless!
So good to hear people talking about this
Psalm 121! The first thing i ever learnt. This guy is a legend
God bless you 😊😊😊
I'm sure Bear respects Jesus' survival skills, too. ;-)
Its best for all people to have somethings to believe on- somethings that can keep them up in difficult situations, where the only thing they can lean on, is the power they believe on.
i was offended by churchs and christians once
i hated church and the people who went to it
but i still knew i believed in God
i knew i believed in Jesus mainly because of the personal relationship i had with him
so much i couldn't deny him
as so many can testify the intimacy
they have with him
God drew them closer and holds them
in his hand until the end of this world
I'm a confirmed atheist, but I love this guy. He has a quiet faith that sustains him when life gets hard. Who can argue with that?
Not really a quiet faith when he is using his celebrity platform to push this bronze age nonsense.
@Paulo I agree with you that it's all delusional bollocks. However, as far as I can see, he doesn't over proselytise, at least, not when talking to his guests.
Ex 21, SAS, he climbed Everest at age 21,eighteen months after breaking his spine in 3 places. There's much to admire.
@@tcrown3333 Some good points you raised there, thanks for bringing balance.
@@paulread7113 Cheers, mate.👍Keep fighting the good fight. Can't have the religious getting hold of the power. 😉
@@tcrown3333fighting the good fight? Lol
i couldnt explain faith any better than bear does..its personal,its between you and God...you dont need any structures..you carry it everywhere you go.....and yes it does take a real man to say it sometimes..i know because i havnt been man enough on a few occasions.
@HappyJackProduction1 Alpha is a course that teaches people about Jesus. It's non-denominational, Catholics, Protestants, and basically any Christian can attend to learn more. I live in Canada, and there are courses everywhere. I don't know where you live, but if you went into any Christian church and asked them about it, they could tell you where you could attend.
Your the man Bear Grylls
praise god!!
Bear Grylls you rock!!
@mirrodin68 Actually in another video where he is at Tomoka Prison, he tells the inmates about his faith. He tells about a prayer in which he desperately asks God to be his friend again, having that same faith and relationship with Him he used to have when being a child.
Yes, he does quote the bible, but there's nothing wrong with that. In fact I think that's great. Especially the quoting of 'I can do everything with Christ'. And that's exactly the point. Watch the Tomoka Prison video.
hi I just become a believer and therefore I surely know there is no use of argument or proof. Since I was push to make a prayer. Before I was totally fine, and after I burst into incredible tears for no reason. I experienced this God in the bible. That's how I believed.
There are "support"s for Christianity, but certainly other "support"s for atheism or other religion. But experience is the most powerful. I now that experience is not just emotional 'cause I am not a person that usually cry
this is not actually about Bear's experience in the alpha course. it's about his faith in God generally and especially climbing Mount Everest.
Only god uses proof he loves me his actions speak!
He knows actions speak more than words he is me!!!
great to know that he is a christian :)
salvationisfromthejews.com Shalom
Faith is simply psyching up the mental attributes. Trust which is a spiritual grace of abandonment of self into the care of another.
Faith is something people work up within themselves, trust is not human it is of the Lord and in Him.
...Why would a god kill 3 climbers on the way up the mountain? And how does that make any statement about how he's a loving god?
He works in mysterious ways pal. 😂
Four lost on Everest with Bear Grylls? Wow. That's a costly expedition!
@snbeings Amen.
People find it difficult to talk about 'faith' because they have no experiance of it and because of this they can't explain how it affects their life. It's specific, but not ''personal'' Paul, Peter, John had no problem speaking about the faith they possessed.
Point out the bit where I told you not to talk about god
For a fantastic and impartial review of the Alpha Course try Stephen Butterfield's website. Google "Butterfield Alpha Review". It's a real eye-opener!
You are an eternal soul and will last forever. There can be no creation without a creator and the creation testifies to the attrributes of the one that created it. God created you for a purpose to serve and glorify Him. He is love and His greatest demonstration of love was when He died for your sins and rose victorious over death and Hell in your behalf even though you rebel against Him. 2009 A.D. means the number of years since Jesus was born into this world.
talmud written 200 years after christ period, tacticus 100 years after, pliny wrote 100 years after, josephus wrote 80-100 years after, all hearsay not witnessed, not solid evidence in any way shape or form. the arguement was about whether sweating blood was medically possible (which it's not). not whether bleeding capilaries looks like you are sweating blood.
Original sin is the most vile of doctrines. To be damned for crimes you committed before you were born is unjust. To be damned in a matter where no innocence is possible violates free will. It's a mockery of justice, morality and reason in one concept.
But then that is the nature of fundamentalism.
@mirrodin68 Also, yesterday I read a specific chapter in Bears book 'Living Wild' which is in fact the whole gospel in a nutshell. Quotes: "When we turn to Jesus, simply and honestly and ask for forgiveness, we are made clean. (...) It is a gift for you, bought by Jesus at a great price. He died on a cross tortured to death, in our place, so that we could be forgiven and set free. (...) Pray and ask for Jesus to come into your life and stand beside you." Complete testimony on webbook, page 246
Why doesn't he talk about why he does yoga every day?
So what if he does yoga. Like it's some kind of crime?
Glorgyboundkev..even if you dissagree with others what about exhibiting a bit of Christian love? If you want to promote your faith be an example of compassion and respect..remember the bit about turning the other cheek?
@bbrs89 you are wrong
1. What indication is there that the universe is 'fine tuned'?
2. The complexity of organisms is fully explained by the Theory of Evolution. (I smell an argument coming!)
3. What evidence is there for the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth? Fuck that, even if we knew for certain that he had risen from the dead (which we avowedly don't) that would only demonstrate that resurrection is possible, not that the universe was created by a God.
4. The Bronze Age man to whom I referred is Jesus.
Lol jesus wasnt even bronze age
@heygeno1951 he just said his "Christian faith"...
and he's a Christian. research it yourself :P
christ died for us...jesus paid for us...Gods kingdom is coming...
i thought bear grill was a buddhist?
I was a Christian but I am no longer convinced and so am unable to believe in the supernatural.
The Alpha course did not help me at all as all the way through is just the assumption is 'of course there is a god' which is the of course just an assumption.
actually, i will be rejoicing that I'm in Heaven forever with Jesus and all the other people that have accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior. There won't be anymore sin to deal with and there won't be any more pain or sorrow as a result. I won't even remember this world or anyone that rejected Jesus. ( =
faith is a stretcher You can't even limp into Heaven wthout Jesus Christ.
No cross, no repentance, no salvation. Still dead in sin. Yes, it's offensive, but such is the nature of the Gospel. "For I am not ashamed of the gospel,because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed-a righteousness that is by faith from first to last,[a]just as it is written 'The righteous will live by faith' Romans 1:16
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone
Only one judge
So sorry JR (below) feels that way. There hundreds of thosands of highly inteligent and everyday folk like me who have found Alpha and faith in Jesus is the answer for life and indeed death. Go on a course and make your own judgement about God and people.
Guess the bear grylls mean changes from "better drink your own piss" to "better pray"
The fact that B G is an evangelical born againer seems somewhat paradoxical. On the one hand I am not sure that many of the things they teach in the SAS are compatible with the New Testament .Jesus was not an expert in close combat and explosives. One the other hand the Manichean vision of the world and the dialectic between 'good' and 'evil' that informs military strategies in our era is a reflection of moral and often religious self-righteosuness. I do have great respect for his courage though
I don't think anyone can really criticise a man who admits to an inner life of relationship with a God personality, even if that God's existence cannot be proven. It's benign, in that he has an inner strength based on this belief, and he attributes it to a God that he prays to and uses the bible to inspire him. As he said, its personal. That's the whole point here. It's personal, as personal as the person who says that they reject belief in a God as part of their inner life. If the man isn't ramming it down people's throats like some rabid preacher then I don't see what harm he's doing. By all means mock the man for his belief if you feel the need to. Or be mature and accept that it isn't doing him any harm. If he comes to a point in his life where his belief ends then that will be his choice. People living and dying on the mountain doesn't invalidate his belief. He said he felt gratitude for coming away from the mountain with his life. He wasn't saying that because of his faith that God saved him and let the others die. He was expressing gratitude for life.
Ok pay attention people to what I'm about to say. The world is overrun with people who think a faith in God is for the weak minded. If you have these thoughts please tell us what you have accomplished in your life WITHOUT God? Now compare those things to what Bear has accomplished WITH God. This man is stronger than 99% of the people in this world and the core of his strength is his faith.
Read Matthew 19:26
Amen brother!
There's plenty of people who have acheived great things in their lives and have had no religious faith. There's plenty of people who have acheived great things in their lives and have faith in a completly different god to yours. Human acheivement is not soley bound to the worship of the Judeo-Christian god. Your bias towards your particular deity has blinkered you.
JESUS IS KING!!!
sorry to offend you...i didnt think i was teaching anything. just making a opinion. I dont think i tried to convince you or tried to push my belief upon you. but eh..take it as you will. the second part of my statement was just from personal experience. sorry again.
YHWH?
What's alpha?
alpha? Browse towardsovietamerica.com and “School of darkness” by communists William Z.Foster and Dr. Bella V. Dodd for truth and answers.
Alpha is Nicky Gumbel's ego trip. He is a preacher of a false gospel and is happily leading people to Hell. Do not get fooled by this agent of Satan.
But does Bear know The Lord as his own personal saviour.
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Or are you trying to explain away death because you are afraid of it?
@westyman262 Haters gonna hate...
when people die for what they believe then i don't thinks its a cowardly thing
if you deny your claim to be a christian you'll live
if you don't you'll be stoned to death is that cowardly erm no
jesus faced death was given a choice but did he back down did he do a cowardly thing
nope he was so stressed about it he sweated blood... and still he went ahead and paid for us all...even though some won't accept him..
John 3:18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.
Jesus said you need to repent of your sins to be saved and you must accept Him as Lord and Savior. His sacrifice for sins was useless if eternity in Heaven could be gained any other wayy. It does you no good to make up your own religion. You must repent and accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior or be eternally condemned
Good come back!
"Oh Lord Save Me From Your People"
bear needs to stop the killing lol
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I have faith in Jesus and I have no fear of Hell. I have the assurance of eternity in Heaven. You sound like you are trying to explain Hell away because you are afraid of it. When you tell the police officer that the red light doesn't exist, do you really expect him to believe you?
Dear 'brethern and sistern'...lets all exchange our views in a spirit of mutual respect. otherwise what is the point?s and g look at it as a challenge you are at opposite ends of the spectrum but if you can have a constructive conversation then something will have been gained. .again g.try to be consistent with the principles of your professed faith.the 'trick 'is to understand that almost every person sincerely believes their perspective is contributing something positive...s what a pseudo!
shame on you for being a hypocrite in trying to silence me from speaking the truth.
in what do you place your faith? what do you faithfully expect to happen? and what do you believe this faith gives you? what do you have faith god will do for you? or anyone? or do at all?
@Freethinking2010
Just stick to the new testament. The teachings are timeless so time+space mean nothing. The purpose of the Bible is to kill off the ego, the carnal mind, the Adamic mind. That ego blocks an experience w/ God and true inner morals. Until Ego dies (born again) you will be stuck operating from an animalistic sense of pleasing lower passions which are empty and unsatiable. You just have to dig out the truth and have direct Spiritual experiences of God. That is the Only way!!!
I suppose they could crush what bear is saying with harsh legalistic, and religious antagonizations.
No, you say that people can have eternal life, which would seem to negate death somewhat...
Put simply:
1. There is no reason at all to postulate an afterlife, never mind a specific Hell.
2. Nothing about this world suggests the existence of any God.
3. As a right-thinking person, I am not especially inclined to prostrate myself before a dead, Bronze Age man.
I invite you to respond and, until such time as you do, I hold you without doubt to be denier of reality.
djshades
why are you teaching your religion to others when you believe that no one should do that? That's called hypocrisy.
i stand corrected, hematidrsis is actually the mixing of blood and sweat coming from sweat glands so i guess it is sort of sweating blood i am under the impression only sweat is produced by sweat glands but this mix appears as sweating blood so you are right in one respect but sweat glands only produce sweat
That's called an opinion. He's not teaching religion, he's saying that religion should be personal and not a tool used for other means. I would rather people did that than join fundamentalist churches. Shame on you for trying to use your religious outrage to silence him. So what if you're offended?
no problem. if you have the truth, then speak it out. If you care about people, then tell them the truth. If Jesus Christ is the way , the truth, and the life, then tell people. Personally, I believe religion is man's way of trying to look good without repenting of sins. Faith in Jesus Christ is not religion because you are admitting your own sinfulness and need for God's forgiveness. I've heard that alpha is another man made religion.
Whatever!
Only dual seed Christian Identity follows scripture.
The whole boyscout christianity lets-praise-the-lord-and-sing-quire thing is something i have a hard time respecting (im not an atheist though) but Bears way of belief seems pretty benign to me
The bible is very clear. Jesus said that His sheep heard his voice and they would NOT follow strangers. His sheep do NOT follow false teachers and wolves like Rick Warrn , Joyce Meyer and Steven Furtick to name just 3 of the worst. All of whom warm to and cosy up to Mr Gumdell. Your known by the company you keep. Isn't that so? Don't be deceived. Compare what Gumbel teaches with the bible. Ten look at who he has on he platform. Come on folks. Surely your not that blind are you?
sweetsweatyfeet
actually, you don't get it. God's Word in the Bible is true and the prophecies made thousands of years ago are happening right now. Repent and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior before it's too late.
i did the alpha course and the life worth living course and it just affirmed that i have a better understanding of the nature of god than the bible
Neither your questions nor your statements make any sense. Stick to something you know about.
the bible says that everyone has sinned and is condemned and needs to repent of sins and accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. I admitted that I sinned, i repented, and I trust Jesus Chrst as my Lord and Savior. What is your problem you self righteous hypocrite?
this god in the bible is flawed in ways a true deity could not possibly be i appreciate your experience must have been strong and life changeing but i urge you to look more closely at that which you think is god and re evaluate before you are trapped into a self destructive and very limiting way of thinking, i am not saying god does not exist, just that he is much more than the bible or christian church understand or choose to teach, if you want more clarification i welcome questions.
you are living in denial of reality. did i say that people don't die? It's the second death that you need to avoid and that is the eternal lake of fire. There is only one way to escape eternal judgment and that is to repent, come back to God, and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Try it.
Nature killed the climber, just like people kill each other all the time. I hope you look for the truth with all your heart and diligently look into the bible and Jesus. Because if it's true then most of the world is screwed and responsible to God, and need a savior from sin. If you seek God with all your heart you will find him. God's love doesn't undermine His justice, His love was expressed in Jesus' death on the cross for sinners.
@Freethinking2010
The teachings are timeless. If I was to say 2 + 2 = 4, that would be timeless. It was true then, true now, and true in a trillion years. U dont understand, the mind is the ego, the mind is carnal, the mind itself needs to be controlled. It is like a spoiled child. The NT leads you to experience Divine realities and transcendence. Without those you are operating from the limited mind. Enlightenment exists and is the highest state. Everything else is mindless flim flam!
2 Kings 8:12 -- (The people of Samaria) ...will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.
The scriptures are filled with far too many examples of like this all commanded by this "moral" god.
Also for god's kill count check out... watch?v=IABptlAhyJw
It's all there in scripture in full glory for you to read. Rationalize it or ignore it if you wish. I shall do neither.
Just a personal opinion here... not meant to offend anyone...but...I think religion should not be organized nor do i think that anyone should try to teach religion to another. People need to stop living their lives preparing for a afterlife that no one has proof of and start making heaven right here in front of you. Stop looking up for answers and start looking inside for them. ps. I did take this alpha coarse and relized it was nothing but attempting to shove jesus down my throat. waste of time
Lol
i don't pass judgment on you. God says in the bible that you are condemned because of sin. Jesus paid your penalty on the cross because that is the only way for you to be saved. You must repent of your sins and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior or spend eternity in Hell acdcording to God. I'm only the messenger. If you don't agree with His giving you a chance through Jesus, take it to Him, not me.
you have it the wrong way round i was like you untill i had a moment of clarity and realised god was much bigger than the christian teachings they only serve to control you and keep you in fear, if god is divine then how can he subject his creations to hell? how can he give free will with one hand and punish choices with the other? if god loves you then what more do you need? however each to their own if it works for you it does not matter either way. mine's not the right way, just another way.
sorry but that doesn't really answer any of the above questions, plus your definition of trust seems more like relinquishing your identity of self than reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing, i know what faith is i'm just asking you on what is it founded,
the bible is God's eternal word. It contains His moral standards. the lie of satan was that you can set yours own standards and you don[t need God. Yes, God sees and knows what happens everywhere and He createdand sustains everything. But He dwells in Heaven and those who reject Him are separated from His joy, peace, love, presence, guidance, etc. You do not have the true God in you unless you repent of your own ways and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
I rest my case,
if you wont remember this world how will you know who jesus even is or that its heaven you are in or that its even called heaven or that you had a family or that you tried oh so hard to be good to get to the place you cant remember the name of thats full of people who cant remember where they have been or what their names are, that will be awsome sat around all confused and disorientated forever with jesus oh yeah dont forget him whatever you do, best get a tattoo or somethin!!
satan is a fallen angel
how can a historical fact be a fairy tale?
any credible historian wouldn't claim what
happened to jesus to be a fariy tale?
people claiming the devil telling people isn't cowardly act
a person sweating blood is a sign of stress
medical fact
all these things happened fact
just because you've been offended in some way by either christians or religion
it seems you beieved and now don't
and the scars run deep
you would have a point if it were that there was only one denomination of chritianity as it is there are 38000 different church's all singing different songs from the same book saying opposing things so which one is right and why are the other 37999 making up their own religion. jesus did not say i must believe in him john did aparently which is hearsay not fact
....yet the bottom line evangelical Christianity teaches is that unless you accept Christ as Lord you will suffer in Hell for eternity. Best keep that quiet eh?