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Watch the movie then, I mean,
but that makes a lot of sense, you know, as far as, you know,
I'm not saying that Jesus was a man, but they just took elements
of him being immortal and elements of, you know, him already a man
and put it together, and they exited it, they minus all the
elements that make him man, you know, as far as all the sex that
he had with Mary Magdalene. I'm sure he had at least two or three
children, I hear. See, the thing is, You guys want to come closer
just a little bit? Oh, we're recording now? Is it
okay if we wanted to stop? No, I've just been there for
a second. Yeah, if at any time you want me to stop, it's okay.
No. You know, educational. But, you know, like, um, you
know, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, all these religions, you know,
they all, you know, come from the same thing. Because they
all have the same principles. Yeah. The same principles. Same origins.
Same origins. Or similar origins. Exactly,
similar origins. And, you know, it's like, um,
They, in some cases, try to explain, you know, the things that were
going on around them that couldn't be explained at that time, you
know, without science. I mean, how do you explain an exploding
volcano when you don't have no science, no books, no... I mean,
you can't. You know, that must be, you know, some, you know,
power that's ready or not, you know. A biblical disaster. The
sun, the moon, you know, changing. I mean, now we know, but back
then they didn't know anything. Yeah, they're talking about maybe like the
flood from Moses and things like that. Yeah. or the angel of death
taking all the first steps. Yeah, it was like, what, how
long ago that they actually thought the world was flat until... Evidently,
4 out of 10 people still believe that the sun revolves around
the earth. So if you look at progression,
as we know more, as technology improves, science can explain
a lot of that stuff that wasn't you know, that could have been
explained back then. But, you know, so although I
don't necessarily agree with religion as far as like, you
know, some of the radicals, the more, you know, Christian radicals,
the Islamic radicals, you know, I do agree that they do have
some group principles, you know, to live by. Okay, real quick, if I could
ask you even, because you mentioned the distinction between radicals
or the essence of Christianity, what would you guys say is the,
what is Jesus' main message? We're not talking about like,
you know, Christian fundamentalism today, but just... If we look at what Jesus did
and what the Bible did are just two different things. Jesus was
all about love and peace and wonderfulness, whereas the Bible
When Peter stuck it together, or really when he started the
religion, he was a pretty angry person. I mean, he even said,
I don't know Jesus so he could live. I mean, who's going to
do that and have problems? And even though at the end when
he found the light, that was still part of him. It wasn't
that he just became like, he morphed into a... this saint
of a person. He still has the negative parts
about him. So what is the message of Jesus?
Jesus is about love. The Bible is not about love.
The Bible is about control. About the control of the people.
Yeah, the Bible is about control. Especially, you know, because
back then the churches had the power. Catholicism, you know,
Christianity back then, I mean, churches were big. When you say
back then, what's my period? Any time between now and when
the Bible was written? When was the Bible written? The Bible that I've been able
to uncover. Because the stories happen. You've got the Old Testament,
you've got the New Testament, things like that. when was it
actually put into a book? I believe it was 200 years after
the life of the event, the life of Jesus and the apostles. But
it was a piece by piece, too. But as far as the KGB, the one
that's the most popular now, the English translation, I mean,
that was... 500,000 years ago around there. No, no. That was like 1600. That was
1600. English, yeah. If we're at 21 subtract 5, what
would that be? But that's... We're going back
to the math class. That's the Bible that everybody uses. But
no, the Bible is different from what Jesus taught and preached. Jesus was about passion, love,
compassion, and all that stuff. So was Gandhi, so was MLK, so
was Luther, so was... A lot of people, you know, they
were about passion. The Bible is creative. It's stories, just like mythology.
A lot of creative stories, you know. The flood, you know, if
you want to entertain your kid, you can read the flood. And the
Bible is very controlling. Especially when she gets the
New Testament, when she gets the different churches and the
letters that went out, all this other stuff. Very controlling. I mean, it's almost like, you
know, how government controls now. You know, you get people
to believe certain things. You can make them break that
bread. Let's go back on to what I'm hearing a lot is the distinction
between the Bible and Jesus. I get that from messengers. So
Jesus is, I guess, the essence of the Bible? No, Jesus. The
main essence message is God. That's what I've been hearing
from both of you. The essence of the religion is Jesus. and
Jehovah, things like that, but that's not what really the Bible
teaches. Yeah, I'm saying like, of Jesus himself. No, I don't
think they intertwine quite exactly. No, I'm saying about Jesus himself,
like, is he about love? Give that love understanding.
Well, I think ultimately he's about love. I mean, but ultimately
Martin Luther King was about peace and equality. But again,
he was an adulterer as well. I'm surprised you know that.
I'm surprised you know that. Let's put that in context. Jesus
was about love and peace. And McCabe was about peace and
equality. and you know and I'm sure Gandhi was about peace you
know so yeah they were about peace but they were also man
let's not forget that. There was more to them than just
the one message that they gave. They were multifaceted like most
people. They were men. Because you know what Jesus probably
did not like the Jewish people the Jewish He probably had problems with
them. He didn't hate them. He probably had differences with
people. He did not like the Romans. Because I don't think anyone
did at that point. The Romans liked the Romans. Yeah, the Romans
liked the Romans. That's basically the way people
live in themselves. Going back on that, do you guys believe
there's a God out there? How do you believe in a God?
I believe that there is a point. Now, people call that force God,
people call that force Allah, people call that force the universe.
Frieza from Dragon Ball Z, they do call that force. But the point
is, I believe there is a relevant, significant, more powerful something
out there. I'm not going to say being, because
it might not be a being, you know? It could be a thorough
energy, I don't know. But it's something. Consciousness
or something? Yeah, it's something. Do you think that force or that
God created the world in this course? I think there was definitely
some Well, based on our understanding of it, that's sort of like the
aim. We just talked about that. No,
no, no, no. We agree that there was something
that triggered something. Now, you know, what some of the
Jews believe, they do believe in their God, but they don't
believe their God, you know, interferes with their daily lives
at all. Whether some Christians believe every single thing that
happens is God's will. Some Jews, I think most Jews
don't believe that at all. They believe in God, but this
is the world, they do their thing, and you know. I tend to stray
towards that belief, that there is something out there, but he
has no effect on me. And if it does, then I don't
know about it. I don't like to think of it in
that kind of way. The interesting thing you guys
mentioned is, even in the beginning, I know there's a lot of humor,
LCB. But with that, also as well,
what I hear is actually a lot of objections towards the Bible.
the Bible. And actually a lot of the objection
is moral objection. Where do you guys, where do you
think right or wrong comes from? Who determines right or wrong?
I know what you're going to do, you're probably going to try
to tie that back into the Bible because mom was trying to do it to me
last night. Oh well, this is true. The thing is, before all
that was written, No, I guess if I could just say what I'm
trying to go through. Let me just illustrate one thing to you about what my
objection is. The reason why I brought that
up is because, you know, we've been hearing you out for a few
minutes about the various objections of Christianity. By the way,
have you met Caleb before? No, I haven't. He's an angel.
Let me answer one thing before we go too far. What my first
objection is, I will do as I say, not as I do. Look at the crusades. Look at
the inquisition. Look at the Salem witch trials. That's on a smaller level, I
know. Let's go back on Elisa. I don't
want to defend all of what people have ever done in America. Let's talk about what the Pope
did. This is the guy at the top that has his backbone to Jesus
himself. What should I do? Don't forget
about Hitler. Let's just stick back to the
Bible. The reason why I don't subscribe to the Pope, because
when we do that, that's illogical to call an ad hominem. That's
actually a strong man. It's, you know, I don't believe
in the Pope. I'm not Catholic. I'm not old school Puritans, or I'm
not even the Spanish Inquisition in the 1400s. I think the best
thing is to stick with the Bible. Yeah, go ask your brother some
questions. Yeah, so I guess my question, what I was trying to do when
I asked the question is, I heard a lot of objection against Christianity
because of moral problems. The more dilemmas you guys brought
up for the last ten whatever minutes, I mean, even before
we recorded. What is the basis of right and
wrong? The reason why I ask that is because I think when we measure
right and wrong, we always bring a standard of rule of loyalty. We always treat it like that.
And obviously our morals probably contradict. Or not contradict,
but we have different standards of rule of loyalty. But I want
to go actually, because sometimes I feel whenever I sit on campus,
Christian conversations, non-Christian, you see debates about homosexuality.
One side is yelling Prop 8, the other side is yelling Prop 8
and stuff like that. I think a more fruitful discussion to
add more light is actually ask, what is the foundation for even
our morality? And even say, what is the basis?
Is it intelligible and rational to begin with? So what is right
or wrong, basically? What do you think right or wrong
comes from God? I think right or wrong comes
from God. Okay, well, we're not for the law. The thing we talked
about, he made a very valuable point about A lot of people believe,
especially in the Catholic and Christian community, that everything
is brought by God. God gave us this shiny day. God
gave us our shoes. God made me have that conversation
with that woman. I thought it was crazy. God,
we have willpower. Question you real quick. You're
the second guy here. And you too. You too. Both of
you. If we have willpower, then everything doesn't come down
from God. Everything is our decision. I
walk this way not because God let me, but because I wanted
to. And I think that's one of the problems I have is that Again,
the Bible is do as I say, not as I do. They say a lot of these
things are all wonderful by God, but it's not about... What is
right and wrong based upon? I guess that's where my question
is. That's where they get the crux of the issue. I know, I
know, but there is no answer to that. That's like the chicken
and the egg. Because, I mean, you know, you and my mother and
my uncle say, oh yeah, the Bible, God is truth, and that's it.
That's where the bat stops. That's your exit. You don't need
to go anywhere else. I would actually say, I'm going further than your mom and
dad is going, is I'm actually going even further to say, what
is the foundation for both of us to make that conversation
rational? But see, that's the thing. I mean, who knows? At the beginning,
you know, when, you know, when humans, you know, started, you
know, evolving from, you know, eggs or whatever, you know, and
all of a sudden, you know, they became a little bit more intelligent,
and all of a sudden, killing that guy became wrong. I don't
know. That's the foundation for something. You know, but just
to say, oh, this is the foundation because something up there said
that's that's almost like Mormonism you know Joseph Smith you know
when he when he found you know I think even if we could by the
way if you guys want email can email you guys this too I'll
just load it on online for later just so that you know Even if
we go back, I don't think I've ever said, just even in our conversation
thus far, that thou shalt believe the Bible as a standard or else.
I don't think my question was that. I think my question was
more like, if not the Bible, then I think it is a fruitful
conversation to say, what is the basis? We can't answer that
because there's not enough, I mean, you have to go back really far.
Gabriel, you have to go back really far. Honestly, I don't know. I mean,
that's like me saying, well, I don't know what's out there,
but I know it's out there. I don't know where morality came into. Christianity,
that's a very great foundation. I mean, I grew up in a Christian
home. America, you know, was founded in Christianity. So we
know where our morals come from. But there's other religions,
you know, that have the same compassion, you know, principles,
you know, that could bring up a good person. Who knows where
all of it actually started from? I mean, was there a single point
where all of a sudden morals and all that stuff came from?
Maybe. Was it Christianity? Definitely
not. I can tell you that. That's the
thing, I find it so interesting because I guess if we were to
talk about this in logic, we would call this undercutting
the heater, self-heating, because what it is is that we're saying
Actually, what I'm trying to say is that you have no foundation
to even say that the standard is wrong. There's no rational
definition to it. Unless you want to be arbitrary.
If we want to have a psychologist conversation, then you have to
have the foundation. I'm not going psychological.
I think it's the rational thing. Assuming we're trying to have
a rational conversation, right? Unless you say no, then that
defeats the whole point. Again, what he was portraying
in his argument was There isn't really an answer to it because
what he believes is right or wrong. That's one thing. What
I'm trying to get to is that if we If we say we don't know what
the foundation is, if we say that, if we really mean we don't
know the foundation, then we can't say definitely it's not
the Bible, like what we just said earlier. Do you see that?
You're agnostic towards it, and then you made a claim of knowledge
that it is not that. But when you do that, you pretty
much just tell the other religions, Essentially, that's exactly what's
happening. What I'm doing in philosophy
is called internal critique. I'm just assuming, stepping into
your world, assuming everything is true in your belief, your
own belief is internally incoherent. But you're saying we don't know
the cause of it, but then you make a truth claim, a knowledge
claim, that it's definitely not Christianity as the foundation
of morals. Again, I'm not right now even defending Christianity,
or even making the claim I'm stepping towards that. Actually,
I would not say no, because I've let you talk. I didn't say I
suggested you there. But you suggested right or wrong
is an individual thing. Is that what it is? I think it
is. I think right and wrong is an individual thing. We sit there
and it's like, why don't you say that? There's a larger morality
to it. I think we're going to get to
that point where, I was with Joseph, where he basically said, that's
the promise and I'm going to take that over. You know, those
people made that city, those people lived in that city, those
people, you know, had their everyday lives and Joseph comes up and
says, you know what? That's the promised land. God told me we're
going to burn some ground and we're going to take that place
for us. That's what the Bible teaches us. It really is doing
the thing not as I do. I mean, you could say there's
no basis for what I believe. I mean, just by me going to church
for the many years I did as a child, just by me reading the book,
just by me really going into what the history of it was, it's
tough for me to sit there and say that there's anything really
moral about the Bible. Outside that, it's a good way
to maybe live a life on the small terms, but on the higher terms,
there's a big problem. This is where I do feel, even
in logic, even as you guys are taking classes here, Red herring
or complex questions is a fallacy one. For instance, someone asked,
when's the last time you guys beat your wife? Yeah, I know, I know.
When's the last time I had a wife? Never? Yeah, exactly. You go
back to the pre-deposition. I would actually say the Bible
never taught Joseph Goh to kill everyone in the Promised Land
and therefore we have to go do that. I don't think that's ever...
But he did rape all the women. I would actually say, if that's
the case, I would happily provide you the Bible. What about David
and Bathsheba? What about David and Bathsheba? Where he's seeing
her, taking her to her, oh, I want her. He's going to front lines
so he can die. Yeah, if you read the scripture,
the scripture actually, written by them, actually condemns him.
Actually, as a matter of fact, Israel split in two because of
that sin. I mean, I think the Bible captures sin as it is.
It condemns him, but he was still, you know, the chosen one. I mean,
in all sense of... the chosen one is, you know,
yeah, well the kingdom split, but it's not like he was condemned
to leprosy or, you know, it's not like, you know, he was turned
to a pillar of salt like Lot's wife, you know? What about the
bears? Let's go back to even with the
morality thing, and that's what it comes down to, is you said
the problem is that morality must be subjective, right? Otherwise,
we have this absolute archaic and tyrannical force that is,
you know, now if right or wrong is subjective, that is its own
individual opinion, then you actually have no basis to even...
you pulled your rug on yourself. Any of you guys know martial
arts or anything like that? No, I don't. I joined the Marines,
you know, there are a lot of guys that, you know, there's
very few Asians in the Marines, and they always say, oh, you're
Chino, you're Chinese, you must do, like, the hee-haw thing,
right? No, I don't. Anyone can beat me up. I think
it's funny, if, you know, if you guys were to do the whole
hee-haw martial arts thing, I would have to say, in an argument against
me, what ends up happening is you're pulling your own rug on
yourself. Let me say one thing before you go farther. Let's
talk about bears. Let's talk about children. Let's
talk about bald heads. So if we talk about morality
issues and some kids come up to this bald man and say, ah,
you're bald. And what does God do? Bears to kill all the kids?
Then don't talk about bald people. Let's have bears kill little
kids. They don't get to learn their
lessons. They get to become mulch at this point. They're a snack
to a bear. That's some of the things that I see in the Bible.
I mean, is the Bible totally just this immoral thing about
let's control stupid people? I don't think it is. I think
there are many facets to it, but I think the overall thing
is that there are two different gods. Okay, let's actually live
this out. You know, none of us are bald and all, so let's just
live this out. Could I borrow your backpack just for a purpose
of demonstration? Now, as a Christian, I believe
stealing this is wrong because the Bible says thou shalt not
kill. And by the way, you guys can run over and beat me up any
day if I were to steal. Let's just say I took this and I like
it a lot. I'm going to keep this and steal. That's cultural relativism.
then morals become relative to the culture, by the way. So,
but your friend here believes right and wrong as an individual
opinion, yes? Sure. Yeah, well, my opinion shouldn't... But my
opinion, as a, you know, Jibrel, let's just say I'm a kleptomaniac,
right? You know what's a kleptomaniac? I believe this is appealing to
life. It's my desire. I get joy from
it. I don't think I'd like to impose
a road you're going down. Yeah, no, actually, you don't have
to vote. I mean, you're throwing in so many different variables.
I mean, in the beginning, we were talking about Christianity, morals,
I mean, you're throwing in kleptomania, you know? We're probably going
to go back to, you know, cannibalism. That's cultural relativism. You
reject cultural relativism? I do not. You do not. But you're
protesting again. I'm not. No, no, no. I didn't
say it was bad. In different aspects, okay? I
mean, nobody's perfect. You're going down a road and
you're going to try to spin it. And I know what you're trying
to do. And, you know, I'm afraid I'm not that intelligent to put
you down. Let me just say what he's doing. What he's doing,
he's saying that he's... You're spinning. No, no, I know what
he's saying. But what you're doing, you're
trying to spin it. You're spinning. I'm not talking
about what he said. I'm just saying what he's doing.
I know, I know. He's spinning. If I can be clear,
I'll be very public about what I'm trying to do. What I'm trying
to do is demonstrate I think this is a real one, because I
think we have to talk about the rationality of You're trying to make us dig
our own graves and make us jump in it. That's what you're trying
to do. Yeah, I'm doing that. The way
you're arguing, there's no way to stop it, and there's no way
to avoid it, but just say goodbye. You don't have to do that. You
don't have to justify what you're saying. You can say bye, and
next time we say hi. No, but you know what I mean?
But continue, continue. If right or wrong is subjective,
it's based upon individual feelings, then you have no basis to condemn
that person as a bald guy or God. I do based on what I believe.
Because like I said, if it's subjective, that means I look
at something as that being wrong. A Republican might come back
and say, you know what, that's right. Yeah, then you have no basis
to say he's wrong. But the basis is my personal basis. I'm not
going to answer that because I know what you're going to say.
I know the question. But you know, I'll humor you. Vanilla.
I like vanilla too. Oh no, I was not humoring. I like Häagen-Dazs
ice cream. I like Häagen-Dazs ice cream.
And you happen to like whatever, okay? This is a brand though,
not a flavor. I just said what's your favorite
ice cream. Now, if right or wrong is individual
opinion, then we basically would collapse into nothing more than...
But that's the thing. I'm not saying you're wrong.
I'm just saying that I would not choose that notion. Because
if you're saying that there's a right and wrong, the answer
is a yes and a no. The problem is, everything is
in the middle. So would you say then that the
prophet and the kids that lost their life is not wrong? I think
it is wrong. You see a contradiction to that? I think it is, but...
You say my opinion is not wrong. Because the children are... Based
on what everyone says is that we have real bad luck. I love
that when you said that. What do you say is the trap?
The trap is because the kids were being yelled at by the little
kids. No, you're onto something, Gabriel. You're onto something.
Listen, you know... I think you've captured it. When
you were reacting, I think you've captured it. You know, Gabriel,
you've captured it beautifully. I think what you're reacting
to is that right or wrong cannot be an individual opinion. Because
if it is, then it's nothing more than when you say you like peanut
butter ice cream and I like hot ganache or whatever else. That's
your opinion. But it's not a right or wrong answer. Yeah, there's
no right or wrong answer. Which means that you undercut yourself.
You're undercutting Defeater. You have no basis to say that
the guy... You have no basis to say it's wrong. Again, the
basis is my personal opinion. My personal opinion is for the
sake of the conversation. As a social mania, it's okay
to fail. Yeah, and that may be right for
you. The right answer for me at that point was run after you
and jump you. That's the right answer for me. See, the thing
is, I don't think there are no any... You want to go with the
business. There are no wrong answers. There's just regret
at the end. I mean, we can take that too. And at the end of the
day, there is no right, there is no wrong, there is just grace.
Gabriel, you heard what he said earlier, like he'll just jump you up.
And I know it's for a conversation, but anytime you want me to have
this back, I'll give it back to you. Because I believe there's
a good God. Even though if you don't see
it, I should never steal from you. That's my basis. You can
make fun of it, but I believe there's a good God. Now, going
to God, if you kind of appeal to a might makes right, like,
oh, okay, this individual thing, the way we resolve it is, if
I were to walk away, then you'd jump me and beat me up pretty
badly, and I'd probably lose. Now, do you think the basis in
right or wrong is always might makes right, Gabriel? Do you
believe that? Just strength alone makes it right. I don't believe
that. You don't believe that's the
case? Might make sense. I'm just trying to see if there's some
underlying question there. You're talking about definite
answers versus situational answers. Now, definite is, this is a piece
of wood, that's definite, right? It doesn't fly. See, there is
no definite answer. It's me feeling this bag ever
wrong, in this case. That's who I am as a guy that,
you know... Because even if you can justify it to yourself, if
another person sees it as... So, let me get this straight.
You think there is no such thing as definite knowledge? No. That's
the same thing as the moralities. Now I'm going to come down to
morality. If that's the case, then you have no basis to definitely argue
rationally to get this back. Do you realize? Because this
belongs to me. And even though you may hold
it, you do not belong to me. I know I am, but see, the problem
I'm having in this conversation now... Is it true that your backpack
really belongs to you? Yeah, why would you even dispute
that? Now my personal opinion is this is now mine. That's a
kleptomaniac, not a Jimmy Lee. I bet you I can say my name's
in there somewhere. Is your name in there somewhere? Can we move
on from this? Is it true that the name in there
is your name? What you're trying to do is you're
trying to say definite versus not definite. Now, Gabriel, I
want to move on from the conversation. The reason why is because this
is the irrationality of just subjectivism. I'm happy to. Tonight, if you don't say you're
a Christian, I'm okay with that. I just want to put at least rocks
in our shoes to think about. I think if you want to convert
people, then you cannot have a straight, this is what it is. Because unless you've seen him,
which no one has, that look hasn't even seen him. There is no way
to know. Do you believe that the only
way to know God is to see him? What you believe is not facts.
Now we're going to get to the reality. Belief is never fact. Belief is I think it is, therefore
it is so. The sky is blue because I believe
it is. The ground is hard because it is. But I can tell you right
now, this ground is not hard. It's not falling. What is fact? Back to something that can be
proven scientifically. What is the criteria? By testing
it. By saying this is something that
is, this is something that is, this is something that is true.
That's how you do it. The scientific method is two steps. is, one, it's empirical. That
is, you know, you verify it by your five senses, and also you
repeat it, it's demonstratable again and again. So by that definition,
I would actually say, is that true? Let's just say, what are
you really trying to do here other than to confuse the situation
and... Fell into the trap, man, see?
That's why I stopped talking, because he pulled you into the
trap. You know, I don't have no hidden agenda. The reason,
what I'm trying to do, don't you, But the Bible, what does
the Bible teach you? Isn't that the hidden agenda? No, my agenda is straight up
clean. I want people at least to think
about the basis for why they rule away Christianity. That's
what it is. I think oftentimes, Christianity, one time a friend
of mine, who's a non-believer, Christianity to him is just so
annoying. It's like a mosquito. And, you know, we all want to
kill the mosquito. It's annoying, whatever else. But I submit that the way most
people try to get rid of Christianity is like a crazy guy with a shotgun.
He shoots the mosquito, but ends up destroying a lot more things
that are precious than actually what it is. What I'm trying to
do is just at least put some rocks in your shoes, or point out the
rocks in your shoes and realize, hey, there's some things that
are tension, rational tension, what you believe. Now, if tonight
you don't believe you can convert, that's okay. I'm fine with that.
But, you know, That's my agenda. That's my agenda. I think what
I see here, I think you're right and I think we're right. And
I think what you're trying to do is you're trying to make me
doubt what... He did. He made me run around
in circles. No, because I've had this conversation
with dozens and dozens of people. If you take like a... class or
like a rhetoric class. But you guys believe opposite
things. My background is philosophy.
Just FYI a little bit. I'm actually a pastor of a church.
So I did spend a long time in the language. But you know how
to talk and you know how to argue with people. I would actually
say the reason, it's philosophy, it's secular philosophy or UCLA. That's where my undergrad was
at before that. You did a very good job. By the way, if I could
say one thing, Gabriel, to me, I don't want to say it's my loss.
I actually think there's objective truth here. I don't want this
to say, okay, just because... Listen, you guys are pretty bright.
You, Gabriel, are retracting the argument pretty bright. I
don't doubt you guys here are bright. I don't doubt that at
all. But I think the issue is the fact of what you guys believe.
Actually, I think you guys are bright. The reason why I think
that is because you guys have some pre-set vision, and you guys are trying
to take it to the logical conclusion. And I'm just trying to say, you
guys are pulling your own rug. You guys are self-declaring yourself.
And I see that you guys are bright because you guys are trying to
live that out. And I'm just trying to say that
this is actually, I think this is the problem. It's in the end
of rejection, in the end of acceptance. But you know what? I'll let you
guys have the last say. I know we've been moving away a little bit. I'll
let you guys have the last say. I don't want to... I have a preacher's
mouth. I could go on forever. I think the problem with this
conversation is that they're saying that there is. And what
I'm going to always say is that there's always a maybe or an
if, which is the gray area. Because, like I said, unless
you've seen him, I don't think you have. If you did, then...
You can't prove there is. You can only say, I believe he
is. I have faith he is. And that's one of the problems
I have with the religion is not only is it some invisible force
we're supposed to subscribe to and say this is when there is
no proof around it. I mean, all of this stuff can
be scientifically proven based on everything else. The one thing
that can't be proven is God. They can say, well, it's proven.
this way, this way, but it's all just subjective. I mean,
I've seen, I've seen, you know, I've seen sermons on it, I've
seen, I mean, I've been, I was a practicing Catholic for almost
15 years of my life, and I just realized the book is not exactly
what it is. I mean, not only are there only
five or so of Jesus' lieutenants that, that wrote it, there are
12, I mean, not even, you know, Thomas the Doubter is in it.
I mean, I mean, you have freaking, I mean, in my opinion, there
are problems with it. You can always say your opinion
is based on psychology, and we can go around, around, around
in a circle, and there's never going to be an answer, because you're
not proving anything to me. The only thing you're doing is you're
reacting to my situation, which is why we're spinning around.
I mean, I don't really know what you're trying to prove. You're
not trying to make me... We're not Catholic. You're saying
we're Catholic, Christian, whatever, Jesus Christ, what does it matter?
I mean, the 50 million things that there are. I mean, it doesn't
matter. You're just trying to say you're wrong and this is
why you're wrong because I'm using your words in a twisted
manner that are not really what I said, but you're saying it
in a very cool and disciplined way. And that's the problem. You know, first of all, I just
want to say, you know, I thought it was great how you kind of, you know, obeyed
it and then, you know, and then we kind of went off on a tangent
with our passions instead of being totally logical. And all
of a sudden, yeah, you had to chase ourselves there for a minute.
That was great. You know, Religion... I mean, ultimately, I guess,
I mean, Christianity, I mean, it could be a great guide as
far as morals, you know, adoption of Kale, still. Got it. You know,
nobody's gonna argue that. I mean, those are the morals
that America was based on. You know, but... I mean, you
see the way, you know, things are progressing, you know. I'm
not Christian. I don't have an issue with homosexuality.
But the Bible does. And implicitly, in Leviticus,
it says, Thou shalt not lie with another. It says that, you know,
so nobody can say, oh, well, the Bible doesn't say it. Or the Bible
is vague about it. No, the Bible does say. Oh, because
of the Romans. And Leviticus, the Bible does
say that. But I don't really put that much faith in the Bible.
But the thing is, it's like, I mean, I think eventually it
comes down to who knows. I mean, we know that there is
some moral truth out there. you know, depend on where you
go. I mean, if you go to any of the,
you know, modernized countries, America, England, you know, Japan,
even Russia, there is some universal truth, you know, basic things
that are right, basic things that are wrong, that everybody
accepts. But then you go to places like, I don't know, you know,
some place in Afghanistan, you know, some places in, you know,
South America, Africa, where they don't necessarily believe
the same things. I simply believe that as humanity progresses, as humanity progresses and we
become more integrated with each other, then there is going to
be a single universal truth. Now, I know it's going to be
down the road that there will be a universal truth, but as
far as where it came from, I don't know. And you pulled us in that
way. Arguments did become a rationale
at one point, because we were trying to justify this. I don't
know. He doesn't know. I mean, we accept
that we don't know, but you believe in your God and then, you know,
you believe you do know. So that's, I guess what it is.
I mean, agree to disagree. Okay. That's why you should never
argue philosophy. Okay. I'll just end it here.
Apologetics Dialogue 1: Gabriel and friend
During our evangelism two individuals in a college campus in Southern California was certain that they can deconstruct the Christian faith without being irrational or self-refuting. Can they succeed without tearing down their own worldview?
| Sermon ID | 58141550426 |
| Duration | 33:30 |
| Date | |
| Category | Debate |
| Language | English |
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