Your opinion on this apologetic youtube video

Started by CrossoverManiac, September 03, 2011, 10:16:32 PM

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CrossoverManiac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPD5Jni_YFk&feature=channel_video_title

I have my opinion on this video and the flaws in his arguments, but I would like to hear from you.

jabcat

Sorry bro, I didn't have the patience to get through it.  After a few more people weigh in, plz share your thoughts. 
The oldest known manuscripts agree with each other 99% of the time.  The scriptures, accurately translated, Spirit revealed - reliable.   Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith.  Heb. 12:2

micah7:9

Quote from: jabcat on September 04, 2011, 07:00:25 AM
Sorry bro, I didn't have the patience to get through it.  After a few more people weigh in, plz share your thoughts.


Ill second that :bigGrin:

jabcat

My attention span is SOOOOOOOOO short.   :mblush:
The oldest known manuscripts agree with each other 99% of the time.  The scriptures, accurately translated, Spirit revealed - reliable.   Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith.  Heb. 12:2

CrossoverManiac

Since no one wants to watch it, I'll give you an overview.

1). The video parodies a clip from the pro-atheist movie "Zeitgeist" in which a man attacks theism.

2). The producers of the apologetic video redefines the term supernatural to include natural phemonon that can not be detected by the five natural senses.

3). He concludes that God is the four fundamental forces of nature: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force.

My problem with the apologetic video is that it borders on pantheism.

WhiteWings

Depends a little on how you look at things.
Those 4 fundamental forces (that are represented by the four horsemen according to some) are the foundation of this universe.

John 1 [ACV]
3 All things came to be through him, and apart from him not even one thing came to be that has come to be.

That includes those 4 forces. Of course God having created those 4 forces doesn't exactly make Him those forces. But sometimes that line between things is very thin. Take for example "God is love". Is God truely love or is love a true and integral part of His personality/being? I think the last. But because it can't be seperated it's in a way also the first.
The universe isn't God. God isn't the universe. But the universe can't be seperated from God, because without God the universe/4 forcees simply wouldn't exist. And makes me think about the "God is love" verse. I think it's correct to say God is the 4 forces if you also look beyond that.
All love isn't God but God is love. The 4 forces aren't God but God is the 4 forces. :dontknow:
If you are interested in this sort of stuff I can dig up an article showing how the "Big Bang" is a pattern of the tribes/OT.

All a bit vague  :dontknow:
:2c:
1 Timothy 2:3-4  ...God our Savior;  Who will have all men to be saved...
John 12:47  And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
Romans 4:5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous ...

CrossoverManiac

Quote from: WhiteWings on September 04, 2011, 11:28:31 PM
Depends a little on how you look at things.
Those 4 fundamental forces (that are represented by the four horsemen according to some) are the foundation of this universe.

John 1 [ACV]
3 All things came to be through him, and apart from him not even one thing came to be that has come to be.

That includes those 4 forces. Of course God having created those 4 forces doesn't exactly make Him those forces. But sometimes that line between things is very thin. Take for example "God is love". Is God truely love or is love a true and integral part of His personality/being? I think the last. But because it can't be seperated it's in a way also the first.
The universe isn't God. God isn't the universe. But the universe can't be seperated from God, because without God the universe/4 forcees simply wouldn't exist. And makes me think about the "God is love" verse. I think it's correct to say God is the 4 forces if you also look beyond that.
All love isn't God but God is love. The 4 forces aren't God but God is the 4 forces. :dontknow:

As a writer, I'm tempted to write a sci-fi story in which the four forces are considered to be God by a fictional extraterrestrial society.

QuoteIf you are interested in this sort of stuff I can dig up an article showing how the "Big Bang" is a pattern of the tribes/OT.

All a bit vague  :dontknow:
:2c:

Sure, give us the link.

redhotmagma

I must say the more i contemplate those very things WW the more i lean toward pantheism, but not fully. The line is much more blurry now

WhiteWings

1 Timothy 2:3-4  ...God our Savior;  Who will have all men to be saved...
John 12:47  And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
Romans 4:5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous ...

WhiteWings

Quote from: redhotmagma on September 05, 2011, 12:44:11 AM
I must say the more i contemplate those very things WW the more i lean toward pantheism, but not fully. The line is much more blurry now
Pantheism is totally unbiblical. As I wrote I can see God is those 4 forces. But God also has to be more because for example those 4 forces don't interact with mankind like we see in the Bible. Neither do they write/inspire a Bible.
Pantheism has several flavors but basicly means God=Universe
Panentheism: The universe is inside of God.
That last view isn't unBiblical I think. 3:22am here. Time for deep sleep instead of deep thoughts. Nite :lazy:
1 Timothy 2:3-4  ...God our Savior;  Who will have all men to be saved...
John 12:47  And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
Romans 4:5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous ...

jabcat

Quote from: WhiteWings on September 05, 2011, 04:24:58 AM
Quote from: redhotmagma on September 05, 2011, 12:44:11 AM
I must say the more i contemplate those very things WW the more i lean toward pantheism, but not fully. The line is much more blurry now
Pantheism is totally unbiblical. As I wrote I can see God is those 4 forces. But God also has to be more because for example those 4 forces don't interact with mankind like we see in the Bible. Neither do they write/inspire a Bible.
Pantheism has several flavors but basicly means God=Universe
Panentheism: The universe is inside of God.
That last view isn't unBiblical I think. 3:22am here. Time for deep sleep instead of deep thoughts. Nite :lazy:

You guys are talking over my head a little bit, but I like this.   :thumbsup:
The oldest known manuscripts agree with each other 99% of the time.  The scriptures, accurately translated, Spirit revealed - reliable.   Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith.  Heb. 12:2

redhotmagma

Yes panentheism is the more correct term I guess.  Like I said the lines are blurry, He is not the creation but everything is because of Him, and upheld, and glued together.

Molly

Quote from: CrossoverManiac on September 04, 2011, 10:36:49 PM
Since no one wants to watch it, I'll give you an overview.

1). The video parodies a clip from the pro-atheist movie "Zeitgeist" in which a man attacks theism.

2). The producers of the apologetic video redefines the term supernatural to include natural phemonon that can not be detected by the five natural senses.

3). He concludes that God is the four fundamental forces of nature: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force.

My problem with the apologetic video is that it borders on pantheism.
I agree.  He misses the point as much as the maker of the original video did.