Michael DEBUNKS Blasphemous TikTok Atheist
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Summary
God almost certainly does not exist, but if it does, and it is all-knowing, meaning it knows everything that ever was, is, and ever will be, then it is responsible for all of the evil in the universe.
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We have no guest. We have no explanations. We're on the brink of Armageddon, according to some
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people. We've got red heifers in Israel. We've got comets and no comets, I guess, eclipses and
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a bunch of Nineveh towns. Nevertheless, all we have for Theology Thursday is some video. Take
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it away. God almost certainly does not exist. But if it does, and it is all knowing, meaning it
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knows everything that ever was. Put a pause here. These libs insist that I respect everybody's
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preferred pronouns. Even the biggest, hairiest, hulking dude, even if he's wearing men's clothing,
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he doesn't even need to be wearing a dress. If he says, I'm a woman. Excuse me, it's ma'am. It is ma'am.
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These libs tell me I am obligated to call him she and her. And yet, when God very clearly
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describes his preferred pronouns, he and him, this guy refuses to accept them, and he
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depersonalizes God and refers to God disrespectfully as it. Keep going.
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Meaning it knows everything that ever was, is, and ever will be, then it is responsible for
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all of the evil in the universe. Don't worry. I'll explain. No. So if you believe God exists,
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that means that you believe in a time where humans did not exist because God had not yet created us.
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At that point in time, an all-knowing God would know for a fact that if it did create humans,
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they would be evil. Evil in air quotes because morality is actually subjective, but it knew that
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they would be awful to their planet, awful to other species. Put a pause here. Wow, I love it.
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The clearest example of human evil is littering. Oh, D.D. Oh, what did he do? Oh.
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It's pollution. He doesn't say, you know, the murder and the genocide and the cruelty and the
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betrayal. No, no, no. It's the littering that's the bad thing. You want to know why I pulled you
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over? Littering. I'm freaking out, man. He obviously has some confused premises here. Even to begin,
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think about the epistemological pride that one must have to think, huh, I, some guy in the year,
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the year of our Lord, 2024. I've just discovered the flaw with religion, which is that bad things
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happen to good people. I've just discovered the flaw with religion, which is that there is such
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a thing as evil in the world. Oh, wow. Wow, man, that never occurred to me. That never occurred to
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any of the theologians for all of history, for all of the men who actually dedicated their lives to
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studying this and who were deeply faithful and shaped the faith. This never occurred to the author
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of the book of Job, for instance, or the author of the book of Genesis, for that matter. It's never
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occurred to anybody, right? If I'm this guy and it occurs, I say, oh, you know, God is supposedly all
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good and all powerful and all knowing, and yet there is evil in the world. What does that mean?
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Statistically, all the intelligent people ever have believed in God. And I, so is it possible that I
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am wrong, that I am missing something? No, no, it is the children who are out of touch. Prove me wrong,
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kids. Awful to other species on their planet, awful to their own species, and arguably most
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importantly, awful to God, because they would break its precious little nonsensical rules.
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But God still... Put a pause here. Nonsensical rules. That's interesting.
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Thou shalt not commit murder. Would you say that's a nonsensical rule? Probably not. Probably. If this
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guy's saying there's all this evil, there are all these bad things that we do. Well, then you're
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acknowledging there are rules and that the rules are sensible, that the rules are logical. So all
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of a sudden, the God that you're demeaning or attempting to demean as nonsensical and illogical,
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you're acknowledging is logical. It has quite a lot of sense. Infinite sense. So, which is it?
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Here's an example to consider. If you knew, not guessed, not hypothesized, not assumed, but you knew
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undoubtedly, assuredly, 100% for a fact that if you had a child, that child would grow up to be a
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mass unaliver, and you still decided to have that child, you would be a terrible person.
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You wouldn't be. I mean, he's confusing so many things. Even going back further,
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he says that humans are, you know, sort of uniformly evil. That's not true.
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You disgust me. How can you live with yourself? You sit on a throne of lies.
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Human beings are not begotten by God. We are made. We are creatures made in the image and
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likeness of God. So that's a difference. Kind of like I can have a child. Well, I can't have a
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child, but my wife can have a child, and I can make a leftist-tears tumbler. In a sense, those are both
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products that I have something to do with, but one is of me, and the other is an artifact made by me.
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Now, he then says, if you knew somehow in advance that your baby were going to grow up to be a mass
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murderer, you would be a bad person if you didn't murder your baby. That's taking a lot of assumptions,
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and that's assuming a consequentialist kind of ethics, a utilitarian style ethics, which I think
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would be unfounded because you'd be committing murder, which I think this guy already admitted
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implicitly or explicitly is wrong, right? At least implicitly, he's admitting that murder is wrong,
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so you would be a very bad person if you did murder your baby. Lots of ethical confusion here
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So, since God knew it was bringing evil into the universe, and it decided to do it anyway,
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God is evil. Oh, and if you think the free will excuse gets God out of this one,
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you're wrong, because free will is incompatible with an all-knowing God. If God is omniscient,
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then it knows how we're going. Put a pause here. It's just, the only thing that's really astounding
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about this video is the pride. I guess it's, I don't peruse Reddit nearly enough, because this
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type of Reddit-tier atheism, I sort of forgot existed. It's one thing to be an atheist. You
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just can't get yourself to believe in God. I think that speaks to an intellectual and certainly a
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spiritual defect. To offer these kinds of arguments, what that reveals is not just that
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you don't believe in God. It reveals that you've never even really taken the question seriously,
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because you've never read any of the people who can explain these answers to you. You're making
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arguments that are so dumb at a very elemental level that even the prominent atheists wouldn't
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make them. What this man is expressing here is not, you know, I don't believe in God. I've
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grappled with the question, and I don't believe in God. He's saying, I haven't even cracked the spine
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of a book to begin investigating this. Keep going. If God is omniscient, then it knows how we're going
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to act in advance. Everything that we do has to align with God's foreknowledge, meaning that our
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free will is actually just an illusion. Either God is all-knowing or we have free will. Both cannot
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simultaneously be true, and this argument supposes the former over the latter. So, put a pause here.
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God is outside of time and space, except when he enters into time and space. And so, God being
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outside of time and space and being all-knowing would not contradict man, who is within time and
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space, having free will. Because God does not, you know, see the future exactly. He sees all at once.
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So, there's no contradiction here. The only way that the free will excuse actually works here is if
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God is not all-knowing. So, if you're willing to admit that your God is not as powerful as you
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ascribed it to be, then, and only then, will the free will excuse be applicable. But again,
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this video was about a God that is all-knowing. On that note, I'm going to be over here being good
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without God, and I hope that you have an absolutely fantastic day. None is good without God, and none
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is good but God, actually, to quote God. Can I get any man up in this? The point that he makes on God
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creating mankind, even knowing that man would fall, is the nearest thing to an interesting point that he
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makes. So, what does that mean? It can mean one of two things. It can mean that God made a mistake,
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which is not possible, or it can mean that a world of incarnation and atonement is actually better
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than the world without the fall. It can mean, as Christians sing on Easter,
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that the fall was actually a happy fault, a happy fault that won for us so great,
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so glorious, a Redeemer. That's our show. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
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