BLAISE PASCAL BY WILLIAM WOOD

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@ruedigersens9888 3 жыл бұрын

I am a 67-year-old scientist and born-again Christian. Have virtually devoured the Pensee of Blaise Pascal for the sole reason that it completely coincides with my experiences as a Christian, natural scientist, and not least as a psychologist. Apart from him, there was also Sören Kierkegaard, who was separated from Blaise by about 190 years, who formulated similarly profound thoughts about the contaminations of our intellect and our will and thus, together with Blaise Pascal, can be regarded as the actual founders of the modern neurosis theory. Unfortunately, the depth of one's own misery with respect to will and intellect is not acknowledged as consistently as Blaise Pascal did by many so-called analytic philosophers of the Christian evangelical right in the United States. Being German, for example, one is then quickly insulted as a left-wing radical or insulted in some other form if one calls their attention to it. By the way, does anybody know who the speaker is?

@kamilziemian995 3 ай бұрын

What you mean by misery of will and intellect?

@ruedigersens9888 3 ай бұрын

Will and pure intellect are very subtly interdependent. One person who recognized this very early on was S. Kierkegaard (unjustly denounced by evangelical hardliners as an unbelieving existentialist). Our own often unconscious aversions to uncomfortable truths often trap us in our own echo chamber of "truths" that we want to hold on to for whatever reason. @@kamilziemian995

@appalachiahiker853 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing scientist, a good Christian, a rational mind. His miracle experience is a geniune experience. Thanks for this and Please do continue Upload more videos!

@1Skeptik1 5 жыл бұрын

Is it possible to be rational and pass off religious dogma as history? iMHO: Only if your goal is to turn a profit at the expense of the gullible.

@appalachiahiker853 5 жыл бұрын

1Skeptik1 you must be a special kind of idiot

@iniohos2 4 жыл бұрын

a genius servant of God

@deuscaritasest7778 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for a great channel

@deuscaritasest7778 3 жыл бұрын

You, sir, are a blessing, and very smart , and genuinely wise

@pascalswager9100 3 жыл бұрын

He has a lot of the physical characteristics of marfans syndrome, I have marfan's its speculated that Abraham Lincoln more than likely had Marfans also.

@josephbelisle5792 3 ай бұрын

The amount of points to correct in this video is massive. It would take a thesis to cover it all. Least to say, most of this is horrific.

@ubergenie6041 5 жыл бұрын

Extremely well-researched and argued! At 16:50 we get the crux of the Pensees problem. Why write a rhetorical appeal to become Christian if your base premise was that raiders had n free will to respond to such a writing. Those here who have studied Van Til's presuppositional apologetics will recognize that this type of apology is meaningless given the predetermined nature of man's soteriological state. Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Luther and Calvin give us arguments for why we do t have free will that are every bit as incoherent as married bachelors and round squares!

@kamilziemian995 3 ай бұрын

I have a serious doubts about religious value of Pascal thought.

@bradwalton3977 Жыл бұрын

When you describe Jansenism you seem to be describing Calvinism.

@pascalswager9100 3 жыл бұрын

Proud to be related to Blaise.

@pascalswager9100 3 жыл бұрын

@@thangvictor1184 I gotta know, how old is Your Son?

@pascalswager9100 3 жыл бұрын

@@thangvictor1184 "All Your Children will be taught by the Lord and great will be their peace" - Isiah 54:13

@deuscaritasest7778 3 жыл бұрын

So , we could say that the Jansenist were Calvinist ?

@khoalam888 2 жыл бұрын

If what the presenter says about jansenism is true then it does sound like Calvinism. Of course there are various flavors and degrees within Calvinism also. The Catholic Church recognizes the importance of both faith and reason, God grace and human freedom to choose the good (God, being the ultimate good), thus it rejects Calvinism and jansenism.

@bayreuth79 6 жыл бұрын

Jansenism is, like Calvinism, mistaken as to its interpretation of scripture. Predestination (as understood by Augustine) and original sin (as inherited guilt) are based on Latin mistranslations of Greek NT texts.

@ubergenie6041 5 жыл бұрын

Michael Lee. Justin Martyr, Theophilus of Antioch, Iranaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Athanasius, Tertullian, Ambrose,Palageaus all discuss original sin and as far as three hundred years before Augustine and engage the Greek text. The text of Romans is hard to translate in a way that destroys the concept of original sin. What is being argued by Augustine and later Aquinas, Anselm, Luther and Calvin. Their claim was that humans lack free will at a minimum in their ability to seek God. They all go to far it seems in the direction of predetermination as the video author suggest. In fact one can hardly find a page in all of scripture that doesn't assume free will in all of scripture. The catholic theologian and counter reformer who engages the idea of divine determinism the most deeply is Luis de Molina. His views have been sweeping through modern Christian philosophy by Calvinist Alvin Plantinga reintroduced the idea in the 1970s. If we are not free why would God give us any divine revelation as we would have no freedom before or after becoming a Christian, according to Calvin, in which to respond? On Calvinism we are all just marionettes on strings being move by our creator to act out a play. It is an incoherent abomination that makes God author of sin, evil, and suffering.

@iniohos2 4 жыл бұрын

@@ubergenie6041 On YOUR misinterpreted view of Calvinism.

@deuscaritasest7778 3 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing

@a5dr3 6 жыл бұрын

Homeboy clearly doesn't understand Pascal or Augustin or Calvin or Paul on the topic of Gods sovereignty. I generally find that 95 percent of people who disagree with the clear Biblical teachings on the Doctrines of Grace are just in ignorance of it and have never had things explained to them accurately. Sad because it's such a fundamental concept in the Christian worldview. Without it everything collapses.

@johnstewart7025 5 жыл бұрын

From the little I have gathered about Jansenism, it sounds as though it would justify some belief in being Born Again. In other words, someone who hasn't received the grace to believe, eventually falls into some helpless state and then calls out in abject surrender. They then receive the grace to believe. I heard someone on the Moody Bible channel talk about admitting one's sin nature and that without Jesus, he knows he is lost. It seems this speaker was describing a similar relation between a person and God. Also, Jansenism might imply that we can't just "make a leap of faith" as Kierkegaard might say. We are so helpless that even our belief is totally up to God. Coming to Christ is all good and well, but that may just be the beginning of the journey.

@SilverSurfer5150 10 ай бұрын

@@johnstewart7025I would not say that our belief is totally up to God. But we can reach a realisation of the misery of our lives; our human condition - once we take into consideration removing all we have, like being out in a room with nothing but our thoughts - eventually we would come to focus on our existence, and then perhaps a realisation of sin, and a need for redemption. It’s like those moments when we just cry out “Why?!” If we are able to ask the question, then there must an answer. In sorrow then we might call out to ‘someone’, basically we all have a knowledge of there being a supernatural. It’s at that moment we can become aware finally of God’s presence, and then, a conviction of sin; leading to repentance, and thence to rebirth.

@user-qr2gd7me6c 3 жыл бұрын

When you produce your next video, have someone tie your hands behind your back. Your hand movements were terribly distracting. I just minimized the screen and listened to you but couldn't watch.

@Albertanator 9 ай бұрын

Oh brother....talk about missing the forest for the trees.