The NXR Podcast - October 23, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - What Sigmund Freud Missed About Christianity

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Sigmund Freud Jesus Christ Karl Marx Poseidon Jonah Thor
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6 minutes

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140.47

Word count

951

Sentence count

57

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Hate speech

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Summary

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In this episode, Pastor Ken relates the story of Sigmund Freud and his attempt to prove that God is not real to the modern world, and how we should be afraid of a God who has the power to do just that.

Transcript

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00:00:23 five-star review on your favorite podcast platform thanks a brief word about sigmund freud
00:00:30 who is in hell to the praise of god's glorious justice a wicked man a terrible man and a man
00:00:43 along with darwin and others who sought to disprove god these individuals carl marx would
00:00:49 be another. They recognized that the greatest strength and fabric of society was Christianity.
00:00:58 That had to be taken out if they were going to be able to control society. Sigmund Freud, 0.99
00:01:05 one of his arguments for atheism, one of his arguments against Christianity and against any
00:01:10 religion for that matter, was this. He said that believing in a deity, a God, was just a result of
00:01:19 primitive people that couldn't understand, but not just that they couldn't understand. It's not
00:01:24 just in regards to their knowledge, but primitive people who were powerless. And so what do you do 0.96
00:01:30 if there's a threat, right? Pestilence, a disease, a plague, or a storm, and you're powerless,
00:01:40 and you don't have the technology that we have today, right? You're living in the kind of house
00:01:45 that can just be blown over, right?
00:01:47 These kinds of natural disasters,
00:01:49 when they occur, you don't have modern medicine.
00:01:52 You don't have all this different technology
00:01:55 that would work as a bulwark
00:01:57 to protect you from the disaster.
00:01:59 And whenever a disaster does take place,
00:02:02 your life is threatened.
00:02:04 You've seen disasters in the past
00:02:06 and many people that you love have been casualties.
00:02:09 Well, what do you do in a time period like that
00:02:11 where you have few defenses against nature, natural disasters. Well, if the threat that
00:02:20 you're experiencing is a person, a person can be appeased. Not always. The person can be cruel.
00:02:28 They could be someone who refuses to engage in dialogue and diplomatic attempts. But an army
00:02:36 has a general. You can speak to him. There can be conditions for surrender, right? Even an
00:02:42 individual person, you know, who's trying to mug you in a back alley, God forbid, you can still
00:02:46 say, please don't hurt me. I'll give you what, whatever you want. You can, you can appeal to
00:02:54 some kind of, as wicked as they might be, some kind of human nature underneath. You can reach
00:03:01 for some level of compassion, but how do you plead with a storm? How do you plead with the bubonic
00:03:10 plague? Well, you don't. You can't. And so what people did in manufacturing religion
00:03:21 out of nothing, according to Sigmund Freud, was they tried to take nature's greatest disasters
00:03:29 and personify them by placing within them a deity, right?
00:03:35 Especially when it comes to Norse mythology or Roman Greco mythology,
00:03:41 these kinds of things.
00:03:41 You have different gods for different, you know, the ocean, Poseidon, you know,
00:03:48 or a god of this storm over here, Thor, with lightning.
00:03:54 And now we have a god.
00:03:55 now the storm, just like an army or a mugger, we can cry out to someone. We're not stronger than
00:04:03 the storm, but maybe we can satiate the personified storm, the deity within the storm. We can make
00:04:09 some kind of sacrifice, some kind of plea bargain so that the storm would relent and not destroy
00:04:16 us. Now, the reason why Sigmund Freud fails in this argumentation is because it does not account
00:04:24 for the triune God. And the reason it doesn't account for the one God who truly exists is
00:04:31 because what we see throughout scripture time and time again, is that when people encounter
00:04:37 some kind of judgment of the Lord, like a storm, and then realize that Yahweh is the God behind it,
00:04:44 they don't go from being afraid to being calmed, but from being afraid to being even more afraid.
00:04:51 see if that was the psychology if that was the goal was put a god within the storm so that we
00:05:00 don't have to be as afraid of the storm well then what you would want to do is put a god within the
00:05:06 storm that's not scary but the christian god is the lord is to be feared and even jesus says do
00:05:16 not fear those who can harm the body, kill, destroy the body, but after doing so can do nothing more,
00:05:22 but rather fear God in heaven, who after destroying the body also has the power
00:05:27 to condemn your soul to hell. He is a fearful God. He is the living God, terrible in his judgments.
00:05:39 And this is precisely what the Phoenician sailors experienced. It's indicative, it relates to what
00:05:45 the disciples with Jesus experienced. Jonah is sleeping on the bottom of the ship. Jesus, likewise,
00:05:50 is asleep on the boat. The disciples wake him up and say, do you not care that we are perishing?
00:05:55 They are afraid. But in that gospel narrative, when Jesus speaks and stills the storm,
00:06:01 even with the disciples, the same concept is there. It says that the disciples go from being
00:06:07 afraid of the storm to being exceedingly afraid of the one who has authority over the wind and waves.
00:06:15 Jesus scares them more than the storm does. 0.99
00:06:18 So too, Yahweh scares these Phoenician sailors 1.00
00:06:21 more than the storm does. 0.90
00:06:24 So it's a common or classic L for Sigmund Freud.
00:06:29 That shouldn't come as a surprise.
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