Go Down Moses - Sullivan's Travels (1941)

Jess Lee Brooks performing the classic spiritual. From the 1941 Preston Sturges movie "Sullivan's Travels", starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake.

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[jorgecurioso]

You questioned the authority of the Bible, not its inspiration. I responded that archeology has in every case proven that the Bible has spoken authoritatively in every case where it speaks to a Biblical piece of data. Every case.

Please don't curse on my page. This is your warning.

As for "getting real", how are you dealing with the sin in your life? How are you dealing with the meaning of your short life here on earth? How are you dealing with what happens after you die?

[Kbkvothe]

@jorgecurioso LOL! I'm not going to say there isn't merit in this kind of thinking, but regardless of your religious beliefs it is best to not deal with statements of absolutes(ie. every, always, or never). As soon as you start to do that, your mouth starts writing checks that no "man" can ever cash.

When it comes to religion, people can't "know", they can believe, It is best I find to not worry your little head off about things you can't change.

[jorgecurioso]

@Kbkvothe Interesting that you use absolutes to deny them. If you hold to a relativist point of view, you really take yourself out of any discussion about what is true or not.

The point remains that the authority of the Bible is unchallenged by historical data. Absolutely.

[Kbkvothe]

@jorgecurioso Towards the commentary on relativism, I think you might have grasped part of my point. Whatever you, me, or just people in general believe and attempt to prove is simply conjecture upon the subject. Religion is by nature a spiritual and deeply emotional thing, this video is a testament to that, and likewise it isn't easily quantified by logical reasons.

[jorgecurioso]

@Kbkvothe Religion, generally speaking, yes. Christianity is founded on the objective truths contained in the Bible. That was the point of the responses to the fellow in regard to Biblical authority. These things happened.

[NECHOII]

WOW !!! Isn't the speaking voice and the singing voice of Jesse Lee Brooks JUST HEAVENLY to listen to ? Jesse makes the PERFECT Minister for BOTH Black and White folk. And I'm male  white. I think it absolutely outrageous that he is not even credited in the film !!! And to think that just three years after acting in this film, Jesse Lee Brooks died : only 54 years old. Far too young ! A film or at least a A&E Biography on this wonderful actor IS LONG OVERDUE !

[Xirbtt]

Hollywood didn't know what to lable this movie at all. Eventually they stuck it with a "comedy" sticker, but it can be that but it's so much more.

Having hints of action, comedy, drama, prision film, documentary, ect all these things into one film truly defies description.

An experience like no other.

[Kbkvothe]

@Kbkvothe The point is, whether there is a divine being or not, you can't know until you know independently, and for that you must be dead. As for my usage of absolutes, these things are based in opinion, not "Fact". I don't pretend to know what is the truth about a "God", or religion for that matter, and it is my belief that no human can know such things, what we think we do know is only a hypothesis. That's the great allure to religion, it is an attempt to define the unknowable.

[jorgecurioso]

@philipgregorydebate What has the Bible been wrong about? Name one thing.

Authority and inspiration are not necessarily related. Many things are authoritative without being inspired by God.

As for people not caring about how the walls of Jericho collapsed, that's a post-facto equivocation. You're trying to tap dance around facts that undermine your point. There was intense interest by the sceptics until the archeology showed that the walls fell exactly as the Bible said.

[jorgecurioso]

@philipgregorydebate Show me one failure. Just one. Everything points toward a designer. Darwin himself, admitted that his theory was just that, a theory that had no supporting evidence. And none has come forth. As for the age of the earth, rather than the ever-changing estimates of some scientists, may I point you to the consistent and constant research and writing of groups like the Institute for Creation Research? Finally, search your heart, and ask God to speak to you.

[jorgecurioso]

@philipgregorydebate You're arguing past my point. Archeology has proven every verifiable claim in the bible (that can be verified archelogically). Sceptics have pinned their hopes on historical claims in the Bible that seemed improbably, and, yet, whenever any find, from Jericho's walls to King David, has spoken to a Biblical claim, it has supported it. Which is why you don't hear anything about archeological findings and the Bible. There's nothing there for the scoffers.

[philipgregorydebate]

@jorgecurioso Also, your response is an argument for design, or the cosmological argument. Every single one of those fail and are only believed by those who do not assess them for their validity.