Posted on 01/28/2011 4:19:26 AM PST by grassboots.org
Over the last several months I have been responding to a series of YouTube videos produced by unevangelist, Chris Redford, a former Assembly of God youth group member turned atheist. Most of his videos are professionally made, and His soft-spoken manner and “Christian” music do not fit the stereotypical view of an angry atheist. Nevertheless, his viewpoint in the latest videos I watched can be summed up this way: “I don’t like the God of the Bible. I am smarter than Him, and I have better moral standards.” Few of his arguments in Deconversion 2.3 and 2.4 discuss the existence of God, and though he directly attacks the Bible as the Word of God, the videos mostly reveal his personal dissatisfaction with the God of the Bible. For the better part of thirty minutes, he makes no appeal outside his own experience and feelings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70SYwkoH_yc
At one point, Redford describes his failed attempt to read the Bible through for the first time, cover to cover, at about age 22. He eventually sets large portions of it aside as a waste of time. His actual knowledge of the whole Bible was so thin it is not surprising that he finds himself relying on “the spirit’s leading” rather than the actual text of the Book that the Holy Spirit wrote. The Bible warns against putting experience above Scripture:
II Peter 1:16-21: For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory,
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He just had his Titanic moment (Even God can’t sink this ship).
Of course, that's also like someone going around declaring that 2+2=5 in their own personal mathematics. Why should anyone else be compelled to accept their private fantasy standard?
A person who accepts the objective existence of a moral law is necessarily going to be forced to accept the existence of a personal, transcendant being (lawgiver) who is the source of the moral law, if they think it through consistently. The (former) atheist C.S. Lewis discovered this after railing against the injustice of the universe, as described in Mere Christianity.
I was alive at the time, and that’s not how I remember it.
Listen to the words of John Lennon’s “Imagine”.
He was an atheist.
I can not say at the time the quote was made that he was a Christian. He was however pro Christ at that time. It was the followers of Christ that ruined it for him (see the page I linked).
And since much of the church abandoned Christianity in those days seeking to be more "relevant" I can see how he came to that opinion. (Or perhaps more accurately they compromised with the 60s subculture and lost all moral authority)
This guy is just trying to say the most outrageous things he can think of to gin up hits on his you tube site. The same way the “bad guy” pro wrestlers mouth off to the cameras in order to gin up interest in the upcoming (staged) match. Same thing. The dude is an attention whore and best ignored.
Yup. Attention whore.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Incorrect Answer!
Most likely see you in hell, but thanks for playing anyway.
Blessings to you. I hope you find something!
He read some unspecified portion of the bible and you expect him to actually do all this?
He makes them up.
May God bless you, your family and your loved ones.
I am writing not for him, but to help those who are being seduced by his nonsense. He has hundreds of thousands of hits, this little article won’t do much for him, but hopefully a little for those who have doubts.
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