 I went to a progressive Christian university and honestly I don't regret it. That might surprise you especially if you've been watching the channel for a long time you know that my theological leanings tend to be more conservative so why Isaac would you say that the progressive Christian university was a good experience? Well it might not be why you think but let me just explain a little bit. To be honest when I first went to the university I wasn't totally sure where they stood theologically. I know it was a little bit more liberal I didn't really comprehend how theologically progressive they were until I got into the bowels of the university. What I began to experience was a pretty much complete disregard for the authority of scripture, the complete acceptance of every LGBTQ plus lifestyle, the fact that evolution was just true and it didn't need to really be discussed at all. Most people it seemed were also pro-choice and believe that climate change was a very significant issue that needed to be addressed by us. Now these concepts probably don't surprise you they're hallmarks of progressivism or wokeism and so this was the environment that I was stressed into after being homeschooled my whole life. Now maybe you're thinking oh Isaac that must have been a real shock for you being homeschooled and sheltered and all that and actually no this is one of the reasons I love homeschooling because I was involved in and exposed to a lot of different worldviews early on in my life. Progressive worldviews I understood what they believed. A big factor that was YouTube a big factor that was watching people like you know Todd Freel with Wretched Radio or Ray Comfort Living Waters or Jeff Durbin with Apologia Studios Apologia Church folks like that were my inspiration and they helped me learn okay this is what these other folks are believing but this unique environment actually pushed me in a way that I wasn't expecting it pushed me to get serious about what I believed really really quickly thankfully the training of homeschooling really prepared me for that but I had to take this next step of saying okay my Christian faith is constantly under attack pretty much everything that I've taken for granted up until this point is now seen as you know fair a fairy tale as false or as at least not authoritative we'll get back to the video in a second but first I want to share something with you VPNs can be very useful and I recommend the one that I use private internet access they're sponsoring this video a VPN encrypts your web 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and he was talking on this particular day about over a population and we're like okay interesting over a population me you know my home schooled self I already know this is a math like there's no way over a population of this thing these people have not been to you know outside of their big city obviously but that's fine you know okay but he said you know if it was me you know and I was your guys age I probably wouldn't have kids meanwhile his son is in the back row and he's like mm-hmm yep yep it's true I already know this I'm like bro your dad wouldn't have had you like that's kind of messed up and it just goes to show what kind of these lies due to people's brains where they're like yeah I wish I didn't have my son because it's overpopulation it's hurts hurting the earth bro what do you value the earth of your son like what is going on it's what happens when you untether yourself from the truth of scripture but one of the overarching themes that I saw and it broke my heart is that progressive theology it puts a burden on people this is what people don't understand they think progressive Christianity it's this kind of light freeing thing it gets you out of the bondage of this kind of structured you know constraining conservative perspective of and literal reading of the Bible like as long as you can be more whimsical with it and it's just kind of all poetry and some stuff we we take in and some stuff is just kind of culturally not relevant anymore and we believe some things but other things just like hey we're gonna take some and we're gonna leave some it's such a more freeing approach to the Bible that's what people think but to be honest after witnessing what was going on at the university and honestly the last few years it's not it's burdensome and the reason is is salvation in woke culture or in progressive culture is to adhere to the tenets of progressivism or wokeism to hold to the beliefs to the okay climate change is real that lgbtq aip but people are you know taking advantage of when you stand up for them and that's actually even better than heteronormativity and also that there's marginalized groups out there that and we're the oppressors of them even if you're not you know personally an oppressor as long as you're born a certain skin color then all of a sudden this means that you have a certain status and and and you got to believe every single piece of intersectionality if all of a sudden you're not keeping up with this woke ideology right as if all of a sudden you're you kind of slip up a little bit you are seen as evil as behind as backwards there's no forgiveness in this worldview because it's all work it's all about just trying to do more trying to appease the powers that be or the the mob mentality of this is what you need to believe the scary thing is is their morality is changing all the time so how do these people keep up the truth is they can't they can't and that's why it is so burdensome and I wanted to be like hey friend hey um you don't have to be this way it doesn't have to be this way you don't have to just conform to whatever they tell you to believe or whatever you think is the cool trendy woke thing to believe actually we have a firm foundation a firm morality in the bible that we can trust that we can hold to that's not backwards at all but no it is just and when we look at what biblical theology actually teaches it is freeing jesus said that he is the truth and the truth will set you free so we need to believe in jesus and the true jesus not the hippie jesus not the woke jesus not the jesus who simply went around affirming everyone because that jesus didn't exist people like to paint jesus that way but to be honest he never did that to anybody think about the woman that was caught in daltry everyone's going to stone her and he said hey if you any of you have sin you haven't sinned cast a first stone everybody leaves right and so everyone's like oh yeah okay jesus you know accepts and affirms everybody's lifestyle but then he says hey go and sin no more they can they can't condemn you and neither do i condemn you but go and sin no more and so this is a culture repentance this is a this is a different kind of jesus that progressive christians don't like to talk about in these academic woke progressive environments uncertainty is seen as a virtue and even when it comes to christianity you talk to progressive christians and you say are you certain of this or do you you know you're really sure about this and they say well yeah for the most part i am but i guess i could be wrong they see that as a humble stance but ultimately what they're doing is they're valuing their own intellect their own beliefs over what god has said over what he has already revealed and declared it says you know god i recognize that you've revealed yourself to me in a bible that is consistent that has been preserved over thousands of years that has been verified by eyewitness claims of supernatural events it's like okay i i get that god but at the same time uh it could be wrong yeah it might be it might be and i you know what i'm probably the perfect person to make that evaluation you see how it's not pommel at all it's actually kind of prideful okay before i leave you i want to tell you a little bit of a funny story but it's not even funny it's kind of more traumatic if anything you guys know how they have uh like dog petting or some sort of activity at the university doing exams to i don't even know what it is like to come the students maybe you've never seen this maybe maybe this is just a canadian thing i don't think so but they had like a dog petting circle it brought all these puppies and everyone's petting these you know these dogs and it's so nice okay exam season you calm your anxiety and they also were like hey we're gonna have booster juice for everybody i don't i don't think booster juice is just a canadian thing but oh they actually don't it's a canadian thing anyway they juice a bunch of stuff and make drinks for you anyway so they have all these booster juices that are waiting for people as soon as they get out of class and i'm just like so excited i'm so thirsty like okay booster juice it's time i've never had one so i'm walking out of the you know through the crowd and it's just a mob everyone's trying to grab them and i'm like okay this is great me and my my friend we're trying to reach at them and all of a sudden i'm looking there and the supply is dwindling and we're not we're not close to the booster juices we should be so now i'm getting a little bit antsy i'm trying to maneuver my way through the crowd pushing and shoving a little bit in good christian love of course but then all of a sudden i'm reaching and i'm like there's no booster juice we didn't even get a booster juice and i'm like wow my tuition what was it for if i missed out on the booster juices this is so sad but overall like i said hey i didn't regret my one year at progressive christian university would i recommend that you go hey you got to make that determination for yourself honestly i learned a lot more of what i don't believe than what i do believe and it was the time i spent outside of class that i really honed into what i truly believe it depends what you want to do for what i'm doing now it equipped me amazingly because i was ready to come determine you know come against what the world is teaching and what the distortions to christianity are maybe if you want to get a little bit more rigorous theological education or just education in general you don't have to be constantly fighting against things that are just stupid and dumb and a waste of time then you probably want to go for something a little bit different okay guys thanks for watching this video if you enjoyed it subscribe because i'm putting out new videos like this all the time i love each and every one of you who watches my videos on a weekly basis it's such an amazing blessing to be able to 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