This is why so many are losing their faith. "I believe." What exactly? Do you believe in evolution, creation science, Islam, God, the universe, alien space demons, empathy? What exactly do you believe in?

I see so many Christian artists lose their faith, because they hadn't a deep knowledge of the LORD. It may not be entirely their fault, either, because I've seen a lot of Christians lose faith over Evolution because someone taught them God wasn't omnipotent. That He had to play by the rules of our cosmos. I've seen Christians lose their faith over LGBTQ---because they had no foundation of understanding right from wrong.

Unfortunately, this is the world we live in. Where not many have the Gospel preached to them in power, but rather church is a fun place we go, and hop up and down, go to the tattoo parlor down the street, get Jesus' name scribbled on our arm, then go to the coffee shop and Christian book store, and draw up enneagrams and anoint ourselves with magic waters. Get taught how to feel good about ourselves, and how to succeed in this vain life.

The fire of the LORD is about quenched in our youths, as they didn't learn the Gospel truth. Which is repentance from sin.

"And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected."

"Fox" was a curse word in Roman times. While I agree with everything you're saying--and notice He's not preaching a sermon here, or in congregation and communion with God--sometimes you need to use harsh language to get the point across. Like, a Christian can kill in war, can he not? I think in some contexts---and most serious Christian authors have used foul language in literature---it's necessary to speak harsh words. Just saying...

I'm not saying Ray should start cussing in his videos--by all means--but sometimes a vulgarism is needed to add emphasis, especially when dealing with a sin. Like, again when sin is called a "Filthy Rag" we don't have an equivalent in English, but it'd be the same as calling sin "Shit".

And I'm certainly not telling anyone to make a habit out of it. Simply, though, to express disgust at a sin, sometimes you need to use words that can accurately describe it. But, Ray, don't start doing that in your video. I'm just speaking, as someone who writes literature, I do that because I'm not expressly calling what I write "Holy". It's just literature. But you should never blaspheme. That's something you ought not do. Or use filthy language. It's used in this context, to address a man who was pure evil, and it cut for that reason. There's a season to use swear words, and a season not to.

If you think it comforts me that anyone goes to hell, you’re wrong. The issue is, without Christ’s righteousness, where will you go? You’ll go somewhere.

Sin is why there’s suffering. It’s why you suffer, it’s why the world suffers. And, if you are capable of sinning, you aren’t capable of being in heaven. Instead, you’ll go to a place where everyone, that’s all they have is sin, and no more love, joy, peace, or any of God’s Spirit or power to make you right. But, all you have to do, to have that righteousness, is to ask Jesus to give it to you, and start being empowered by His Spirit while on Earth, until the process is complete.

Ah, Epicurus was a genius. He’s one of my favorites. But this little quibble doesn’t matter. I’d just retort—with all the suffering in this world, there’d better be a better one.

I mean, the great philosophers have all agreed life’s pretty pointless, and some philosophers actually encourage bad behavior for its expedience.

Certainly, there’s an objective Ethics, which Epicurus is famous for quantifying the rational means to getting there, but then there’s people who don’t care about the collective, and only themselves, and there’s people who do care about the collective, but do all sorts of harm. It’s the fact that people are sinful, this world is cursed, but our hope should be to reach a better one through God’s power. As could heaven be heaven, if man had his original nature? That’s why we need Christ.

This is literally everything I hate about church. Like, just this superficial authority, that sits there clothed in flannel, and shames someone for having an outburst of authentic emotions about something for all intents and purposes, we all should be a little worked up about. Israel and Iran are at war, America is getting ready to persecute the Saints. She wasn't demonically possessed. Or a lunatic. She's probably sick by heartbreak, and a Pastor's job is to balm the sick, not cast them out of their church. Literally, have you seen the world today? She's crying out about how evil the world is. Does a demon shout, "Every knee shall bow," obviously speaking about Jesus? Honestly, she's probably a woman who sees the state of the world, and this was her reaction. Just good old fashioned emotions getting the better of someone. Not Satan. If this pastor were mature, he wouldn't broadcast it to the whole world, he wouldn't try to say she's a demoniac because she's obviously not. He'd preach a sermon on the state of the world, and how we have to be vigilant for Christ, and accept that trials and persecutions may come in our lifetimes, and to be prepared for martyrdom, even if it doesn't happen.

Literally, we need more wailing and crying for the sins of these people, not to sit around and gossip about a woman who's distraught over the state of the world, and we ought not do that weird thing Christians do, that I hate. This is Pharisaicalism, not Christianity. You need to be worked up about this. Those at ease in Zion are sinning. Perhaps the LORD will repent, and show mercy to this generation.

He's even lying about her. She's not demonic. She said, and I quote, "Every knee shall bow. Liar." Because Jordan is allied with Israel. We need to be preparing ourselves for hard times, not waiting to go up in a blaze. The rapture may actually happen, but we need to be vigilant, and understand Christians can get persecuted. That's a fact. And Jordan is doing the right thing, but we need to understand, that if trials come, we need not have our roots in the rocky soil. We should be reading and preparing ourselves by studying the martyrs. Not blindly living on, eating and drinking, [marrying and giving into marriage] like nothing is going to happen to us at all. It may not turn out that way. Many in that church may fall. Maybe they won't. We need to repent, and not shame someone for crying out in anguish at the world we live in today. Because she may be trying to tell you, that hard times are a coming. Maybe they aren't, but she's worked up, that much is for sure. And a pastor's job is not to shame the woman for crying out for her LORD. Maybe she's overzealous? Maybe not? But this is not the way to handle this.

Is someone who's demon possessed, shout, "Every knee shall bow." She sounds like she's hurting over the world, and all its pain. I don't know if she's demon possessed, but probably someone who doesn't believe in a pre-tribulation rapture. You shouldn't go casting demons out of people, where there aren't any. Like honestly, I wish more people were this distraught over the current world. She's not demon possessed at all, just wailing over the evil in the world, and probably believes she's living through the tribulation. Is she? I don't think it's that time yet, but she's angry at the pastor's ease, when we shouldn't have such ease about us. We should be vigilant and prepared. And equally disturbed in our own way, about the current sin in the world.

and the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!

All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

One of my favorite quotes from Men in Black is when he quotes an alien saying, "Some across in the other galaxies, find human language to be a disease." I feel that way when I listen to philosophy. It just turns my head in so many different directions, and I'm just like---none of that is why I believe in God. Although Soren Kierkegaard probably gave the best philosophical answer, that's still not why I believe. But it's getting closer.

I think Frank Herbert's Dune is why I believe. But it's an entirely different world of philosophy that people never encountered before. The Universal of the Ethics--which people know, don't kid yourself--seems to need substantiated on something. As without it, it becomes supplanted by the Moral Necessity, and that leads to suffering, chaos and malaise. And only Jesus seemed to teach an Ethics that parallels what actually describes human flourishing. I find Jesus--being a homeless poor carpenter, who never had an education---remarkable, that he could shut up men who were severely more educated than even our finest scholars today. These Pharisees knew a cross discipline of probably 12 different fields, ranging from the sciences, to language arts and the liberal arts, both Roman and Hebraic law, and Jesus would shut them up in a few phrases. Not only that, He was a master story teller. I see that as divine intelligence. And it's evidence for me He is truly the Son of God. Because we know He existed, and the Gospels are accurate accounts of His life and ministry. We have surviving records of who wrote them. It's just a matter of coming to reckon with Jesus, and that's the whole of why I believe. And no other reason.

Like, His philosophy is universally sound, and has strong echoes in Stoicism, Confucianism, Epicureanism, Pythagoreanism, Mozism, Daoism, Platonism, Aristotelianism, even American philosophies made by the Natives, Jesus seemed to have found parallels and universal truths. It's just the dynamic nature of His teachings, and the universality of it, and He by no wise was educated. He was very poor, and could barely have a place to rest his head. He probably slept on the floor of his little house there in Galilee. They've unearthed homes there, they were the size of a small living room. And He was quite a thinker, for not ever being educated. There's no way they could have afforded it back then, and He was also so isolated.

Even with a materialistic world, you can derive concrete values and morality. That's the scary part.

God's not this ultimate being, that gives everything definition, that without we cannot have it. 

It's like, you either know Him or you don't. Obviously, God exists because there is Good. Like, you can say "Good" doesn't exist apart from God. But, that's not to say that you can't qualify "Good" as "Beneficial" as in something that supplies emotional and physical needs. And when science does quantify that, it's going to be dangerous. Because obviously, what produces the most sound and beneficial society is the Old Testament. It's going to be confronted with the absolute depravity of man, and then possibly go one of two directions, or maybe both. It's going to understand that humans are depraved, and cannot sustain that perfect system, therefore it will make lawlessness. Or it will take it upon itself to force us into that Law. Which, either would be catastrophic, and probably hellish to live in.

Morality is very real. You can justify it with science. Because obviously love hormones create better looking and stronger people, and what creates love hormones is general piety and conservative values. That's just a fact, you can see it as plainly in Horace as you can Confucius. It's the fact that the argument is so stupid, that it's left Atheists dazzled by it, and Christians seem like they only know right from wrong because God tells them so.

Which, man has a conscience, and inherently understands God's law innately. That's what separates us from the beast. And if God exists, that conscience ought to be satisfied by evidence in the real world. And when they find that evidence, that's going to be a game changer, and it's going to create havoc. Because man won't know what to do with it, apart from God.