Ever heard the phrase "free will is not in the Bible?" This is a misleading assertion made by many, as if only a certain specificity of statement can communicate an idea. But I do not accept the Trinity because it is explicitly declared in Scripture, but rather that it is in inevitable deduction from the stated data. Thus there is no shame or wrong in any idea not being stated as clearly as it could possibly be stated, when it can be clearly deduced. Hence, the philosophical notion of libertarian freedom is under the same umbrella, for just as the Trinity is deduced from Scripture logically, and not explicitly stated, so libertarian free will can also be conclusively deduced from Scripture. First let's talk a little about what libertarian free will is not- 1. It's not the ability to do absolutely anything. 2. It's not the guarantee of no influencing forces (as long as not completely coercive). 3. It's not the ability to produce self-righteousness (falls under a specific instance of #1). 4. It is not randomness (this straw man caricature would mean choice is not under control of an agent). Free will is the limited ability to select between certain limited options as ordained and circumscribed by God's created order. Just as the Trinity can be deduced from whatever passages you want to cite, so true autonomous decision can be from this passage (as well as hundreds of others, but one passage is sufficient and a good example). So let's take a fairly mundane seeming passage and extrapolate the ideas it contains. 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, "Indeed you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife." 4 But Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, "Lord, will You slay a righteous nation also? 5 "Did he not say to me,`She is my sister '? And she, even she herself said,`He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands I have done this." 6 And God said to him in a dream, "Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart. For I also withheld you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her. 7 "Now therefore, restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours." (Gen 20:3-7 NKJ) We have to set this up so bear with me. At first God says to Abimelech that he is a dead man because he has sinned. Abimelech answers and implies that this is too harsh a judgment in the light of his current limitations of understanding the situation. Abimelech then declares he is innocent. In verse 6, God does not say Abimelech is wrong, but rather affirms that Abimelech is actually correct on this issue. He has done this "in the integrity" of his heart. Then God says he has somehow kept Abimelech from sinning so far as an act of mercy because of ignorance. But now Abimelech is no longer considered ignorant, as he has been warned, so we end with verse 7 in which God lays out two different outcomes that are both indicated to be a real possibility and determined by the choice Abimelech makes. Honesty is an attribute of God, and honesty in communication is necessary if you want to be understood in the way you intend to say something. "God is not a man that he should lie," says the Divine. That is, in general, if you wish to convey information and not mislead someone, you actually have to mean what you say. We cannot claim Abimelech would understand this passage in any deterministic way, and if determinism were true it would not be beyond the capacity of God to phrase this in a deterministic way, or even to explain that Abimelech actually has no libertarian choice in the matter and there are not two real, viable outcomes as God indicated, where Abimelech either "surely dies" or he will in fact "live." Although he was declared dead already, this indicates he had a pending "death sentence," or ban, on him. Now the truth about determinism is a sneaky one, because no matter how you phrase something to sound like autonomy, you can always just claim it only sounds that way as some kind of illusion. But the default position of any text should not to be take the plain meaning as an illusion, but to take it as meaning what it says, unless we have strong overriding context. With proponents of determinism, a small percentage of Bible verses that could possibly be interpreted as deterministic are used as an overriding lens to reinterpret a much, much larger majority percentage of thousands of passages that are made to sound deliberately as if choice were two or more actual outcomes decided by the individual, instead of pre-decided by God. And this overriding presupposition becomes so second nature to the Calvinist, that, in my interaction with determinists anyway, they almost always seem to think it's the natural way to interpret choices in Scripture as necessarily deterministic, when that's actually not the default way to understand them. If God wanted to convey a deterministic meaning of any kind to Abimelech it would have been easy, simple and clear to simply phrase what God says to Abimelech in a deterministic way, "I have chosen you to sin," or "you will go on and do what I have decided for you to do," or "you must fulfill your destiny and this is what it will be." God does not choose any of those easy options which would be honest and clear, to phrase something deliberately in a way that sounds non-deterministic, and this is not by any definition the honest way of communicating. Abimelech, if Calvinism were true, would have been misled by God. So although we have verses where Jesus says "the only true God" in reference to his Father, we take the higher percentage of verses and reinterpret the lower percentage of verses, to justify our interpretation that Jesus himself is the only true God as well. In the same way Scripture actually ends up directly supporting the idea of libertarian freedom, instead of directly opposing the idea of libertarian freedom, as many Calvinists contend. So by using the exact same "hermeneutics" we would use to come to a deduction of the Trinity, we come with this consistent and predominantly used method of interpreting the Bible, to describing choices as multiple potential outcomes determined by the agent. A Calvinist cannot "walk through the text" when reading from "the original Hebrew" and stay a consistent exhaustive divine determinist in Genesis chapter 20.
@JSUrbanAdventures6 сағат бұрын
Tldr: he disagrees
@SICK22106 сағат бұрын
Cool story bro
@Dizerner6 сағат бұрын
@@JSUrbanAdventures tldr: Bible. Hee-hee.
@Dizerner6 сағат бұрын
@@SICK2210 I really missed that meme. Thank you for single-handedly bringing it back. <3
@mayhemstudios823 сағат бұрын
No one wants to read a 13 paragraph manifesto. Remember KISS= Keep It Simple Stupid
@DeanMeilkenКүн бұрын
I get the same issue with my beets just like your onions, they never seem to get grocery store size, idk either.
@pooddescrewch8718Күн бұрын
Prune the excess leafage of your onions .
@Becka0408Күн бұрын
onions are hard to grow smh
@Becka0408Күн бұрын
oooo nice
@bibby424 күн бұрын
*AMEN* 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
@bibby424 күн бұрын
More Candace shorts! Lets effin gooo 😂🥳🎉
@bibby424 күн бұрын
Whoa, that is crazy!
@Spooky_5155 күн бұрын
Good to hear you made it. Hope you’re still doing well
@erichvonmolder93105 күн бұрын
He might be true soon about the first black female President
@DakotaMambaPrescott2444 күн бұрын
GOD! I hope not!
@londoncalling30097 күн бұрын
Your jobless as well 😢😢😢
@tygetb77859 күн бұрын
Because he doesn't want to go to jail and wants to fleece you suckers.😅
@jangorh9 күн бұрын
Because otherwise he goes to jail….
@Finhogwash9 күн бұрын
💯
@user-oy8jj5qn9b9 күн бұрын
That's a Lie
@claireoconor79869 күн бұрын
WISDOMFUL,❤❤ POWERFUL SPEECH, DANA WHITE!!!! THANK YOU!!! MUCH RESPECT TO YOU!!!!❤🎉❤🎉🎉🎉❤
@robertmonokian92699 күн бұрын
Powerful speech. Can’t understand why it has not been played more
@stevenwalker79289 күн бұрын
Absolutely
@ALex-yv8xw10 күн бұрын
Who can afford to even go vote ? Seriously im just working for food and gas money to go to work .....all you greedy people should be ashamed of yourselves..... remember purple party people
@perlago2110 күн бұрын
The crazy stare jajajjaja
@americoa652310 күн бұрын
Trump wants to further his ego.... no one needs his rederick...
@darkreyule10 күн бұрын
But you definitely need autocorrect
@JSUrbanAdventures10 күн бұрын
Rhetoric?
@Linda-Kelly67710 күн бұрын
Cause he hate tha jail.
@PeterDeLorey10 күн бұрын
You said it all Dana American dream all.rhe way baby😊
@yekobee10 күн бұрын
Traitor!!!
@privateuser380310 күн бұрын
Thanks Mr. Dana White
@runnerupcsal824110 күн бұрын
God bless Trump💪🏻🩷
@Gary-zv7bq10 күн бұрын
Thank you!
@peterplus200110 күн бұрын
He needs a position in the Trump administration, sounds like a military general giving a power speech.
@jimmyperkins170610 күн бұрын
Amen... God Bless DJT, and America.
@SICK221011 күн бұрын
Trump 2024!!!
@maureenparker618511 күн бұрын
She is lying. I taught sex education at my children's school. We talked about the anatomy of men and women . It want to sexualize our children but to teach them about their bodies and understand what's going on in their bodies.
@JSUrbanAdventures11 күн бұрын
She isn't lying, you are just biased towards sexualizing children. We put condoms on bananas 20 years ago and it is much worse now.
@maureenparker618511 күн бұрын
Trump is a jerk. He serves the Deceiver ... Lies and lies
@maureenparker618511 күн бұрын
Clearly President Biden has no rhythm... Not all white people do 😂
@maureenparker618511 күн бұрын
Fentanyl comes through Americans not immigrants
@JSUrbanAdventures9 күн бұрын
80% of opiates come across the border through illegal immigrants, and the fentanyl precursor comes from China. You are wrong...like in every other comment.
@maureenparker618511 күн бұрын
Trump worships the church of the Deceiver...and this guy is the demonic!!
@maureenparker618511 күн бұрын
Deer walk through cities
@maureenparker618511 күн бұрын
Kanye. ...is a racist prick
@maureenparker618511 күн бұрын
In other words ... Trump Cheated to win.
@JSUrbanAdventures9 күн бұрын
Get off My channel psycho
@maureenparker618511 күн бұрын
I love this President and respect him The Democrat party needs to shut up and let this man lead
@JSUrbanAdventures11 күн бұрын
Thank you for all the views and interactions...but you are a mess😂
@maureenparker618511 күн бұрын
So SO funny;!!
@FukU2Uspwn11 күн бұрын
Brooo comedy GOLD 😂😂😂
@user-er8sd2yo5t12 күн бұрын
SO ACCURATE 😂
@mikemcelveen12 күн бұрын
Where was this four years ago? Why all of a sudden is it open game? Dude has been a potato since 2020.
@SportsUniqueFootage8 күн бұрын
but clearly not. he actually spoke well in the 2020 debates
@mikemcelveen7 күн бұрын
@@SportsUniqueFootage Yeah, bc he was juiced up on some cocktail. There were TONS of clips with him being a potato from that era.
@SportsUniqueFootage7 күн бұрын
@@mikemcelveen true but his decline in 2024 is nothing compared to 2020. In 2024, even juice isn't helping him. In 2020, it helped him enough to effectively beat Trump in the debates. He shouldn't have been running though
@sidorakenley586012 күн бұрын
I DONE WATCH THIS SOOO MANY TIMES I FEEL SICK AND WEAK FROM CRACKIN UP LAUGHING 😂😂😂😂
@RuralRascal12 күн бұрын
smile and wave boys 🐧
@Craig_Narramoore12 күн бұрын
I thought that was Ric Flair at the start.
@ElementAtreyu12 күн бұрын
You're not alone!
@grimmako487912 күн бұрын
That smirk got me at the end 💀
@robertfoster281112 күн бұрын
It’s been getting me all week in meetings at work with dinosaurs 😭