Dope Tech Episode 2

<<@mattg6262 says : 5 point Calvinism really doesn't make God the author of evil. It certainly is paradoxical that God could work through all things to accomplish exactly what he wants, even when some of those secondary causes are evil acts, but the answer is beyond the vanishing point of the finite understanding we have if the infinite. It doesn't mean that the Bible contradicts itself. There are several issues like this where the finiteness of our knowledge and experience bumps up against the infiniteness of a God who wants to communicate and relate to is. As believers we are constrained by what the Bible says about these things. It is clear that God is absolutely sovereign, and he is not guilty of sin. Those who sin are held accountable in appropriate ways, or Jesus bears their punishment. The concern reformed theologians have is usually that God's sovereignty and glory is slighted by exalting man's free will in a way that's unbiblical or unbalanced. In any case, I thank and praise God for Dr. Turek's ministry and pray he will be blessed and the ministry will be a blessing!>> <<@Coles-bootleg-vids says : My youth pastor that recommended me this seminar, said something very closely related to what is discussed @ 35:45 he said: "In sports, there's an on season and an off season right? With Christianity and Trust *In* God, we can't do that, you either need to believe in God all the time, or none of the time." Thank you Pastor Ryan for the wisdom.>> <<@Georgios1821 says : Thank you Frank>> <<@78LedHead says : God steers all, even bad stuff, to His holy will. Foreknowledge also doesn't necessitate predestination. David at the city of Keilah is a prime example. "Lord, will Saul and his men come and surround the city?" YEP. "Lord, will the men of Keilah give me up to him?" YEP. Neither thing happened. David rounded up his mighty men and left.>> <<@101basics4 says : 1:45:00>> <<@Dreamprism says : 1:12:00 Well, that's a lot of grandstanding about low probability events... but it would've been a lot more useful if you had focused on well-founded reasons that the probability is what you claim it is. How exactly did you calculate the probability? A bunch of unjustified assumptions. That's how. You didn't actually have a justified distribution of probabilities of various qualities of possible universes.>> <<@Dreamprism says : 53:36 The problem is in the TITLE of the slide. By already saying it had a beginner (or by saying it was created or by calling it a creation), you are assuming something created it. There is no point in posing a dichotomy after you've already assumed the second option of your dichotomy. Things that have a beginning WITHIN the universe are things that we saw did not exist at one point in time but then did exist at another point in time. But if we consider time to be an aspect of the universe (or of whatever multiverse one may wish to say was created instead of saying the universe was directly created), then it doesn't make sense to talk about a time when the universe didn't exist, and so the universe's "beginning" isn't really the same as the beginning of something within the universe. Hence, we are not justified in jumping to the same conclusion that there was some cause of that beginning.>> <<@Dreamprism says : A cousin gifted me Turek & Geisler's book, suggesting we read through it together & discuss it. And so I read the first several chapters. I wasn't impressed with the book, and I explained the faults I found in the book's arguments in its first few chapters, but my cousin ultimately didn't come up with much of a response & decided not to continue talking with me about it. That's what I typically experience. I put in the effort, but the Christian gives up on it after a bit.>> <<@Thumbtin says : I love that the astronaut that farted was wearing the Mexican flag on his shoulder.>> <<@mandatrev2992 says : Thanks Frank. Like Jesus says 'The truth shall set you free.'>> <<@Matthew_Holton says : Atheism is defined by non-belief. If you ask someone 'do you believe in a god or gods?' and they answer 'no' - then they are an atheist. Its that simple. hence to say 'I don't have enough faith to be an atheist' makes no sense at all. It would be like saying 'I don't have enough gullibility to be skeptical', or 'I'm not ignorant enough to be knowledgeable'>> <<@Amos_Huclkeberry says : I see someone in the audience wearing a regular cloth mask. Those things don't even work! What's wrong with people?>> <<@TheGuiltsOfUs says : We are all God!>> <<@Amos_Huclkeberry says : In the atheist world any physical wrongdoing of one person against another is simply just stardust colliding with stardust.>> <<@BuAnthony says : i tried reading his book,,,n jus deleted it. hes too biased>> <<@kevinwesterville2115 says : It doesn’t require faith to be an atheist. Does it require faith to not believe in Bigfoot?>> <<@zeddicuszorrander3599 says : 1:16:44 Turek is playing a dangerous game with legislating morality. Furthermore, if he stones an LGBT+ person to death, he can't say, "Don't get mad at me. It's not my morality. It's God's morality. You don't have a problem with me. You have a problem with God." No, I have a problem with you. You're the one who just took someone's life, not God.>> <<@frankcardano4142 says : Why doesn’t Frank have enough faith to be an atheist?>> <<@williambradley6429 says : Love me some Turek!>> <<@terminat1 says : The Bible is clear that God elected a people for Himself. No person, in of themselves, wants God on God's terms (Romans 3:10-18). The notion that Frank espouses that people of their own free choice can reach out to God to become saved is unbiblical. No man can come to Christ unless the Father draws him (John 6:44).>> <<@terminat1 says : Five-point Calvinism does not teach that God predestined people to commit evil. I don't know where Frank is getting that from. Regardless, it's irrelevant. What is important is what the Bible teaches. And the Bible teaches that man commits sin of his free choice. It also teaches that God elected people to salvation. He does determine who is to be saved. The Bible is clear about this.>> <<@rep10Y-o9r says : Awesome, thanks>> <<@trustenbaker8766 says : amen..........................amen...................................AMEN, AMEN, AMEN, AMEN, AMENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN>> <<@clotildadsouza9941 says : Frank is an apostle of Christ>> <<@skhemsawian1361 says : Praise God for the wonderful message and God bless you Frank>> <<@grandcatsmama3421 says : He needs to read the first line of the Bible, In the beginning, God said "Let there be light, and there was light. Where did this light come from? God himself, because he is the light of the world. That's your answer. If you reject him, your rejecting his love. I don't know about anyone else, but I want his love. That man is arguing against God, Love, Mind, Spirit, Soul, Truth, Principal.>> <<@jeffphelps1355 says : Thanks for the the rational explanation of our faith>> <<@StruckDownNotDestroyed says : I do not have enough evidence to believe in an unintelligent, purposeless, meaningless, super duper luckiest, random chance and happenstance accidental creation.>> <<@kevinclint7588 says : GOD IS THE TRUTH,……..THE WAY,………AND THE LIFE,………AND JESUS IS HIS NAME,…………AMEN>> <<@kdbricks06 says : Life is complicated.>>