When Bad Things Happen To Good People

My response to Tattooskin72 and WineIsYourFriend who have both recently made videos on this topic.This is my attempt to enlighten them on my beliefs and why it's easy to put my faith in them. Also, I answer one of the questions I am most often asked "What would it take to make you change your belief in God?"

And.. a special thanks to Youtube. In the comment section on my last video, I took an hour and a half responding to every person who posted on it. When I refreshed the page, none of my responses had posted. Since I didn't have another hour and a half to retype it all, let me now say thanks to everyone who took the time to tell me your thoughts on that video (the one about VFX). If you haven't seen it yet, Shawn has made a sincere apology video that can be found on DPRjones channel. I pray that Shawn is sincere and that he does take away plenty of good with the bad from youtube. I pray for his healing and I pray that the entire youtube community is willing to give him another chance in a years time.

Finally, I owe a response video to thatoneguyluke. That will be my next video. Luke'sresponse to my video 'Where Science Fails God Prevails' can be found on his channel linked below:

http://www.youtube.com/thatoneguyluke

P.S. - Look for a debate between myself and UnoriginalAlias sometime befor the end of February. We are still working out the details and the time, but let me know if it's something you are interested in seeing. Perhaps I can convince hi that we should do it through blogtv as I am becoming very fond of that format.

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• Thereprieve
• tattooskin72
• WineIsYour
• Friend
• badthings
• goodpeople
• innocent
• victims
• children
• love
• faith
• God
• Christianity
• atheism
• sexuality

[ticobassie]

Hope you don't mind me saying but it looks like you had too many thoughts going on in your mind at the time; three minutes in and you've started and abandonned multiple lines of thought without making a point.

[thereprieve]

I don't mind at all. In fact, I welcome constructive criticism. I admit that I do tend to be all over the place sometimes. I am working on fixing that, but I also don't want to script my videos too much. It's kind of a rock and a hard place for me right now, but I'm trying.

Thanks man.

[Psycnosis]

there is no scientific evidence for if you are hetero or homosexual. Because they simply dont exist... we are all bisexual with variable parameters that are diffrent from each person but we have both the treats in all of us.

[thereprieve]

Did you mean "traits" instead of "treats"? I found it funny to read the word "treats". =)

So you're saying that everyone has the traits in them to become either sexuality, then does everyone have the traits in them to believe in God?

[PerfectionZinc]

wow.....so much ignorance :O

[thereprieve]

Go ahead... help me to learn. I am always open to a good discussion and I actually like when I am proven wrong. So please, have at it.

Peace to you amigo.

[PingeMusic]

The problem as I see is that we always speak about two things when we speak about God. one is the actual belief in God the other is the belief in that the Bible (or what ever "books") we claim have the right interpretation of God, really have that. I really respect your personal belief in God, but you can't make me think that the bible (probably not any book) have the right interpretation of what God is if he/she exits. Regards and have a skilful life. pinge

[jokidder]

9:42 "I would believe in god even if there was no Bible".

I was a christian and it was actually my belief in the validity (maybe not exactly the right word) of the Bible that failed first and lead to me losing my heartfelt belief in god.

So, I am interested in how you connect you experience of god with the Bible. Could it not have been a signal from the creator or other supernatural force without justifying belief in the Bible?

[kmonster420]

How can you believe in Adam and Eve and evolution? How does that work?

[zarkoff45]

"why is he virtually imperceptible to the rest of us, that haven't experienced a religious epiphany?"

Because you haven't taken your LSD as God commands.

[Resurrected06]

If you contend that God is perceived by an individual in a very personal way and, as we all know, each individual's thoughts and perceptions of the world both internal and external (mentally and physically) are different; haven't you, in essence, disproved the "God of the bible"? In other words: if God is different things to different people, is it plausible to believe in one true God? If not: why is he virtually imperceptible to the rest of us, that haven't experienced a religious epiphany?

[JeffCarr]

You are right, there are many things that we accept about ourselves as truths without objective evidence. That helps me to better understand how the faith that religious people have. Thank you.

[CapnnOrdinary]

interesting theory at 8:50 man. good vid brah.

[zarkoff45]

To answer why some people do not have religious experiences:

watch?v=Y_-txbHNyOY