Dope Tech Episode 2

<<@CrossExamined says : FREE Download of sermon I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist!: 👉📱https://cutt.ly/cInI1eo>> <<@wanderingstranger8944 says : This video kinda misses a point here. I'll give an example. Your childhood friend is starting an ice-cream shop and is supper excited to serve you ice-cream. But they haven't found the ability to bump into you. They remember from when you guys where kids what ice-cream you enjoyed so they have it on hand. The shop has all there flavors of ice-cream displayed but no other flavor are in stock other than they one you would have picked first. You didn't get to know that the other flavors are out of stock because it's never relevant to tell you that the ice-cream you did not order isn't in stock. Do you have a choice in ice-cream? This hypothetical plays with the idea of real choice vs perceived choices. If the person dose have choice then choice and free will is subjective rather than objective actions. This is valid but there is a note. If there is a creator this person would make your perspectives and inputs. Making free will falce. The other interpretation is having the acting and true ability to pick something else may be seen as free will. This also has a problem. The environment is made in a way where God can impact and interact with the world. Making every flat tire. Every thorn and every environment action an act of God. And these actions can change free will by giving physical action to act upon. For the analogy the ice-cream being out would be a way that free will is taken away even though the user believes they have the choice. Perhaps there's another option but I would have a hard time seeing one.>> <<@mathewalden9277 says : Pastor I hate to tell you this but Dr. Norman Geisler's view on things is not gospel.>> <<@joeblowjo says : Gods power ends when our free will begins?>> <<@duketta says : If that's true then God certainly can put things in the way of people to keep them from moving away from salvation in order to save everybody.>> <<@Maitreya_22 says : Maybe we are fucked up cause we don't help others enough>> <<@Jose-kv4uh says : it's okay for God not to stop rape????????? Ur very dishonest 😢😢😢>> <<@RetroGoosen says : If you’ve read the Bible like the entire thing and you’re somewhat smart you’ll realize this guy doesn’t make sense when he’s talking. He doesn’t have any of the answers you are looking for. I don’t even have to argue this, I could argue it and win easily but I just don’t even want to waste my time just know that what’s coming out of his mouth is limited and unfinished thoughts and everybody’s going along with it because he’s the one standing on the podium controlling the conversation and even how long the clips are.>> <<@reynaldoperez7285 says : FREEWILL ALLOWS A CREATED BEING TO SAY, NOT YOUR WILL BUT MINE, WHICH IS EVIL 😈. GOD NEVER PUT THAT IN ANYONE'S DESIRES OR HEART. BEINGS ARE CREATURES, THERE IS ONLY 1 GOD. ONLY GOD IS PERFECT. WE WERE CREATED PERFECT, BUT GOD KNEW THAT WE WOULD NOT REMAIN PERFECT, BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY 1 THAT IS TRULY PERFECT, AND ETERNALLY PERFECT WITHOUT FLAW. THERE IS NO FREEWILL APART FROM GOD, JUST SLAVERY TO ONE'S OWN DESIRES. ANGELIC BEINGS AND MANKIND USED THEIR LIMITED FREEWILL TO REJECT GOD, AND GET ENSLAVED BY SIN. YOU WOULD HAVE TO BE A GOD IN ORDER TO TRULY HAVE FREEWILL, BUT YOUR NOT. ALL BEINGS ARE LIMITED IN THEIR FREEWILL, THEY WERE GIVEN JUST ENOUGH TO REJECT GOD OR ACCEPT HIM. GOD GIVES US A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME TO COME TO OUR SENSES, AND REALIZE OUR STATE OF BEING, OUR POSITION, AND REALITY ,HE WANTS US TO COME TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE TRUTH OF WHO HE IS, AND WHO HIS SON IS AND WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR US. OUR LIMITED FREEWILL WILL IS WHAT TAKES US OUT OF THE ROBOT 🤖 CATEGORY. NOW WE CAN FREELY AND TRULY WORSHIP GOD, AND TRULY BECOME CHILDREN OF GOD, BY BELIEVING THE PROMISE OF GOD, WHICH IS JOHN 3:16. THERE IS NO PREDESTINATION HERE. IF PREDESTINATION WAS TRUE, IT WOULD ALSO BE TRUE THAT GOD PREDESTINED THE FALL. NO! GOD CREATED MANKIND WITH LIMITED FREEWILL, AND HE CREATED US PERFECT, BY OUR OWN LIMITED FREE WILL WE REJECTED HIM JUST LIKE THE DEVIL DID WHEN HE WAS AN ANGELIC BEING. INSTEAD OF OBEYING GOD, WE FOLLOWED OUR OWN DESIRES, AND OUR TRUE FREEWILL WAS CURRUPTED. ADAM AND EVE'S LIMITED FREEWILL BEFORE THEY SINNED WAS DIFFERENT THAN OURS, THEY WERE ACTUALLY ABLE TO DO ALL THAT IS GOOD, SIN HAD NO POWER OVER THEM. GOD IS HOLY AND RIGHTEOUS, New International Version JAMES 1:13 WHEN TEMPTED, NO ONE SHOULD SAY, “GOD IS TEMPTING ME.” FOR GOD CANNOT BE TEMPTED BY EVIL, NOR DOES HE TEMPT ANYONE; GOD DOES NOT TEMPT PEOPLE WITH EVIL, NOR SHOULD ONE SAY HE DOES. FREEWILL IS A DELUSION, YES IT TRULY DOES GIVE US THE ABILITY TO MAKE A TRUE DECISION OF BELIEVING GOD OR REJECTING HIM, BUT THAT DECISION DOES NOT GIVE FREEDOM , IT PUTS YOU IN SLAVERY, PRISON, CHAINS, DARKNESS, A STATE OF GODLESSNESS AUTOMATICALLY. YOU CALL THAT FREEWILL. THE WORLDS VEIW ON FREEWILL IS TWISTED. YOUR ONLY FREE TO BE CONDEMNED, BY YOUR OWN FREEWILL CHOICE OF DOING YOUR OWN WILL. THERE IS NO WILL, LIKE GODS WILL. THATS THE ONLY PLACE WHERE ONE WILL TRULY BE FREE. ONE OF MY ELDERS TOLD ME, FREEDOM IS TO BE ABLE TO DO ALL THAT IS GOOD. WHEN WE ARE IN GODS WILL, WE ARE FREE TO DO ALL THAT IS GOOD. APART FROM GODS WILL, NONE OF THE GOOD THAT YOU DO, IS ACCEPTABLE IN HIS EYES. BEREAN LITERAL BIBLE JAMES 3:16 FOR WHERE JEALOUSY AND SELF-INTEREST EXIST, THERE WILL BE DISORDER AND EVERY EVIL THING THE DEVIL COVETED GOD'S GLORY. Berean Standard Bible EZEKIEL 28:15 FROM THE DAY YOU WERE CREATED YOU WERE BLAMELESS IN YOUR WAYS — UNTIL WICKEDNESS WAS FOUND IN YOU. THATS WHERE EVIL COMES FROM. New International Version ISAIAH 14:13 YOU SAID IN YOUR HEART, “I will ASCEND TO THE HEAVENS; I WILL RAISE MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD; I WILL SIT ENTHRONED ON (THE MOUNT OF ASSEMBLY), ON THE UTMOST HEIGHTS OF MOUNT ZAPHON. EVERY MAN HAS A LIMITED FREEWILL TO BE ABLE TO CHOOSE WHOM THEY WILL SERVE THIS DAY. NO RELIGION REQUIRED. THE PRICE HAS BEEN PAID. THE SIN OFFERING HAS BEEN OFFERED UP ON YOUR BEHALF. WILL YOU BELIEVE AND BE SAVED. GOD IS NOT A LIAR, HE KEEPS HIS PROMISES. IF YOU ARE NOT IN THE WILL OF GOD, WHAT ARE YOU IN ? ANSWER. New International Version john 3:18 WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM IS NOT CONDEMNED, BUT WHOEVER DOES NOT BELIEVE STANDS CONDEMNED ALREADY (BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT BELIEVED IN THE NAME OF GOD'S ONE AND ONLY SON New International Version ROMANS 6:19 I AM USING AN EXAMPLE FROM EVERYDAY LIFE BECAUSE OF YOUR HUMAN LIMITATIONS. JUST AS YOU USED TO OFFER YOURSELVES AS SLAVES TO IMPURITY AND TO EVER-INCREASING WICKEDNESS, SO NOW offer yourselves as slaves TO RIGHTEOUSNESS LEADING TO HOLINESS.>> <<@Tom-j4v7f says : Read Daniel 4:33, then ask yourself whether that was a case of God acting coercively or merely persuasively. To give the boastful king a mental disposition causing him to act like an ox obviously wouldn't be something he agreed with. That sounds like a working definition of god violating the king's freewill.>> <<@markshard says : All knowing God does not negate free will but sometimes God will influence/intervene>> <<@BadLarryXXL says : I've am a devout Christian and fighting with my faith lately. Thank you, Mr. Turek.>> <<@BENDERZ-x7y says : The problem is that God has a "plan". If he persuades you to do something and you don't? So his plan fails? Can you escape God's plan? But, God don't persuade, he doesn't sweet talk to you or anything he sorta conditions the person. Kills a relative so you go to him or something. Anyways, if God does intervene and save someone's life for instance it wouldn't be affecting this person's free will, but it would be directly affecting his "life" and "future". Literally. Aside from that, there are tons of people being kidnapped, r@ped, murdered, starving to death, housewives being beaten by their husbands, people suffering for years at the edge of commiting suicide... The fact that God decides to save one but let the others die would raise more questions than answers. Favoritism? No right? Then why?>> <<@redg5609 says : Nope, god controls everything, from the beginning to the end he planned it all. Can't deny with the scripture says, you worship so hard. Read your own bible.>> <<@allegory7638 says : God, within His sovereignty, created humans with free will. Don't know what is so hard to understand about this.>> <<@notabovebutequal says : Weak god, not the God of the Old Testament who controlled every single detail.>> <<@HellRehab7732 says : god's not coercive? Tell that to the billions of souls suffering in hell because they adopted the"wrong" religion.>> <<@id744 says : What?! "That doesn't mean he's taken away all our free will." If he's taken away any of your will that it is not "free." Correct me if I'm wrong but we are either a slave to sin or a slave to Christ. Where is all this freedom people believe they have?>> <<@edgarmorales4476 says : Even though God is behind creation, that does not mean that God is behind everything that happens within creation. Since we have been given "free will," we are capable of being creators in our own right - including creating suffering for ourselves and others. This particular delusionary belief, that God is causing our suffering and perhaps punishing us, is one of the most dangerous delusionary belief promoted by religious teachers - for how can we become free from suffering if we do not realize what's causing it? As long as we believe that delusion, we will blame God or others, or our circumstances for our suffering and not see that we are responsible for our suffering. Our mistaken thinking, and the negative emotions and negative actions that flow from our thoughts, causes our suffering. Depending on what we choose to believe, and how we choose to respond to life - we create more Love in the world or the opposite. When we choose to express the opposite of Love or cause harm, it is not God that is at fault. God gifted us with the freedom to choose and to create, and we eventually learn from our choices to be better creators - to create happiness instead of suffering, and it is suffering that teaches us this - suffering points us away from what is anti-life, anti-Love. Our own personal suffering is the so-called "punishment" we receive when we make choices that are not aligned with Love - that is the only "punishment" meted out by God. We are designed to suffer whenever we miss the mark, which is the meaning of sin. The mark, the target or goal, is Love - we suffer whenever we fall out of alignment with Love. Suffering and joy are part of the guidance system we have been given - the homing device, which when followed, will bring us back home to Love. Suffering tells us that we are believing a delusion or taking a wrong direction - while joy tells us the opposite. If we do not want to suffer, then we must stop believing or doing what causes us and others suffering - and start believing and doing what brings peace, Love and joy.>> <<@96tolife says : God doesn't control everything. He controls what He wants to control. He knows what He wants to know.>> <<@rc.... says : Thank you Frank>> <<@YourLocalRealist says : Dead men can bring themselves to life>> <<@gingercake0907 says : God doesn’t coheres but persuades. I like that. God persuades but we make the choice, we decide.>> <<@nickma71 says : This is close to a strawman, if we go by what God writes in the Bible about himself. You have the freedom to sin against him. He doesn't want you to, but lets you choose. Welcome to the Open View.>> <<@NoLongerNeedThis says : The very first book in all of scripture, Genesis, makes it perfectly clear that God is in control of everything, yet even at the same time, people make their own choices. Those two are not mutually exclusive.>> <<@objectivereality1392 says : For a Christian to come to the conclusion that we have any free will whatsoever means that they haven't read what scripture has to say about this topic, which is that God is sovereign over everything. There is not a single event, large or small, good or bad, that God isn't the author of. Remember, in the case of Job, God allowed Satan to curse Job-- To kill his family, to debilitate him with disease, to destroy his livelihood. God was the author of this, and Job, as scripture says, "did not sin" by proclaiming this fact. But, at the same time, scripture tells us that while God is sovereign over evil (remember, Satan can't lift a finger unless God allows it, which means it fits into God's plan) he is not CULPABLE for evil. This may not make sense to our minds-- For how can one be the author of an act, but not culpable for it? Yet this is what scripture says about God-- That he is all sovereign, yet all good at the same time. We have to wrestle with this as believers.>> <<@joymahiko says : Free from CONDEMNATION - Free from ABSOLUTE POWER OF SIN - free from Satan's LIES - Free to LOVE CHRUST. YES I am FREE INDEED!>> <<@MosesfromEgypt3 says : Everyone who sins is a slave of sin. Only someone who is righteous has the choice to either sin or not but doesn’t because their righteousness prevents them. If you’re imperfect the only option is death even if you something nice it still is sin because it leads to death, but someone righteous has the potential choice to sin but doesn’t maintaining their perfect righteousness.>> <<@SojournerDidimus says : Did Paul on the road to Damascus experience persuasion or coercion? How about Ananias and Saphira? Did Judas have a true choice not to betray Jesus? Was Mary truly free to choose to be overshadowed by the Holy Spirit? I disagree with you that the ultimate choice is ours, as that would make us mighty to save, not God.>> <<@davidmccarroll8274 says : At the end of the day where would we be without god.we would never have been born>> <<@mtl98-n9g says : Simply put we have free will in the horizontal plane in our day to day but in the vertical we are not free. Our will is enslaved to sin unless God regenerates us first we would never choose Him. Beyond that probably not best to try to peel back the curtain to God’s unrevealed will.>> <<@barrettcarl3009 says : What about Saul's (Paul's) "free will" on the road to Damascus? 🤔>> <<@thisistheway7529 says : Sometimes God mix in somthing and most of the time not, HE is letting us exemine our liberty and freedom, and yes, we get sacrifised for that free will of others and others get sacrifised for our free will to.>> <<@DavidRamirez-ww5kv says : There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Prov. 14:12 KJV God wants to keep us out of trouble, and when we do not follow him, we pay the consequences. This verse is included TWICE in the Bible. Think about this verse people. Follow God and live. Go on your own and you will pay the consequence. You WANT God to be leading you through life. God is sovereign for this purpose. I really don’t seek to do my will but seek to do the will of God. Blessings people.>> <<@DigbyOdel-et3xx says : Tiny micro example. You have free will. You wake up, have breakfast and decide to watch your favorite morning tv show. All of this is free will. But outside your ability or awareness a cable vision line man causes an interruption in your cable TV watching. His action is outside yours, but it will affect your choices after the interruption occurs causing you to make alternative free choices. God has, can and will intercede in the world on any motive he has. It may cause you to make alternative free will choices but it did not prevent you from making free will choices.🤔>> <<@drumrnva says : Note the incredibly predictable Turek tactic. He answers as if someone has said God should intervene in every destructive act. The real question is: why does life on earth really, really look like a state of affairs in which NO INTERVENTION HAS EVER HAPPENED?>> <<@dragonsigner says : Key words he said. "God doesn't take away all our free will. " That implies that he can take some and sometimes all.>> <<@rolysantos says : The only Free Will man has is to do what he WANTS to do, which is exactly what he does, all the time! What man does not do and cannot do, is change his NATURE to "Want" to seek and to serve God! "Can an Ethiopian change his skin or a leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil." Jeremiah 13:23 A rattlesnake cant change its nature to become like a gentle kitten, and a person in Adam, cannot change his nature to become one who seeks God! It's impossible! (see 1 Corinthians 2:14) BUT, GOD IS sovereign, even over the evil that men do. HE uses their evil to fulfill HIs purpose, then He punishes them for their evil! God literally calls wicked men in order to fulfill His purpose (Isaiah 46:8-11) Just as Joseph's brothers, THEY meant it for evil but GOD meant it for good "to same many alive" during the famine. THEY did evil and were guilty! But by the SAME evil actions, God accomplished good and is HOLY! The best example of this is the King of Assyria in Isaiah 10. Read it until you understand 1. Man DOES have free will to do what he WANTS to do, which is evil continually 2. God is sovereign over man's evil and uses it for HIs purpose. 3. Man is guilty of his evil and justly punished by God AFTER God uses the evil to fulfill His purpose.>> <<@juanitamartinez279 says : 🤔😳 WITH OUT A DOUBT. DOGMAS. RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. POLITICS OF MEN. COULD BE THE REASON FOR WORLD WAR 3. 😳🤔>> <<@Mrs.CatherinePagan says : I liked this video because of my anger not towards God, The Lord Jesus. God Ordained me to be angry.>> <<@randallsimmons391 says : The distinction, as I see it, is: God is in control of all things but does not control. Essentially meaning His will is sovereign and He allows things but does not act as a puppeteer.>> <<@NewCreationInChrist896 says : Repent! Believe in Jesus Christ for eternal life. Romans 10:9🙏>> <<@c4binF3v3r says : I love me a robust moral system where the free will of the murderer is permitted, while the free will of the victim is violated. Perfect morality. Congratulations 👏>> <<@UnderHiswings97 says : The answer is YES, but it's complicated.>> <<@gregjones2217 says : Really do wish there was proof instead of hearsay and anecdotal nonsense.>> <<@FuzzyMuzzl says : The concept of the phrase "God wants..." that Frank is SO fond of using is a contradiction when citing a "perfect" being. A perfect being would not, by definition, WANT anything!>> <<@amac9044 says : Preventing bad things from happening does not equate to taking away free will. I, as a mere human, can prevent bad things under certain circumstances without affecting anyone's "will"... So why can't God? Turek's answer is monumentally unsatisfying on this topic.... 🤷🏽‍♂️>> <<@ronniebozeman5059 says : Thank you for your wisdom Mr Frank>> <<@giannimartinez5015 says : No one is truly free. We act according to our greatest inclination. Until one is born again, then is he truly free, not a slave to sin anymore.>> <<@KirwanSmith says : I'm surprised that Geisler, who was an acquaintance of R. C. Sproul (both of whom signed the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy) would claim that the Calvinistic interpretation of divine sovereignty has God operating "coercively". With all due respect, this is quite simply a misrepresentation of Calvinism. Christian theologians who hold to theological compatibilism understand a difference between "providential" intervention (where God, in perfect righeousness and justice, ordains that something shall or shall not take place) and salvific intervention (where God brings sinners who are spiritually dead to life, by His grace, to His glory). The Scriptures clearly teach that "no one can come to [Jesus] unless the Father ... draws him" (John 6:44 ESV; Jesus uses the word "granted" instead of "draws" shortly afterwards in v. 65). Faithful biblical scholars on both sides have respectfully debated what exactly Jesus means by saying that the Father "draws" (Greek helkysē). The root definition of this Greek word (contextually translated as "dragged" in Acts 16:19) infers more "force", so to speak, than merely "wooing". A biblical scholar once suggested in a debate with Sproul that the same Greek word has been used in classical Greek literature to describe "drawing" water from a well—you don't drag water from a well. This totally threw Sproul in the moment, but he replied that in this case it would be a double standard to suggest that one could "woo" water from a well.>>