The NXR Podcast - October 23, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - What Sigmund Freud Missed About Christianity


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6 minutes

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951

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48

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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.

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00:00:23.480 five-star review on your favorite podcast platform thanks a brief word about sigmund freud
00:00:30.920 who is in hell to the praise of god's glorious justice a wicked man a terrible man and a man
00:00:43.180 along with darwin and others who sought to disprove god these individuals carl marx would
00:00:49.780 be another. They recognized that the greatest strength and fabric of society was Christianity.
00:00:58.620 That had to be taken out if they were going to be able to control society. Sigmund Freud, 0.99
00:01:05.460 one of his arguments for atheism, one of his arguments against Christianity and against any
00:01:10.980 religion for that matter, was this. He said that believing in a deity, a God, was just a result of
00:01:19.360 primitive people that couldn't understand, but not just that they couldn't understand. It's not
00:01:24.920 just in regards to their knowledge, but primitive people who were powerless. And so what do you do 0.96
00:01:30.840 if there's a threat, right? Pestilence, a disease, a plague, or a storm, and you're powerless,
00:01:40.820 and you don't have the technology that we have today, right? You're living in the kind of house
00:01:45.400 that can just be blown over, right?
00:01:47.600 These kinds of natural disasters,
00:01:49.180 when they occur, you don't have modern medicine.
00:01:52.120 You don't have all this different technology
00:01:55.600 that would work as a bulwark
00:01:57.300 to protect you from the disaster.
00:01:59.780 And whenever a disaster does take place,
00:02:02.380 your life is threatened.
00:02:04.740 You've seen disasters in the past
00:02:06.220 and many people that you love have been casualties.
00:02:09.520 Well, what do you do in a time period like that
00:02:11.920 where you have few defenses against nature, natural disasters. Well, if the threat that
00:02:20.520 you're experiencing is a person, a person can be appeased. Not always. The person can be cruel.
00:02:28.480 They could be someone who refuses to engage in dialogue and diplomatic attempts. But an army
00:02:36.280 has a general. You can speak to him. There can be conditions for surrender, right? Even an
00:02:42.140 individual person, you know, who's trying to mug you in a back alley, God forbid, you can still
00:02:46.960 say, please don't hurt me. I'll give you what, whatever you want. You can, you can appeal to
00:02:54.780 some kind of, as wicked as they might be, some kind of human nature underneath. You can reach
00:03:01.160 for some level of compassion, but how do you plead with a storm? How do you plead with the bubonic
00:03:10.320 plague? Well, you don't. You can't. And so what people did in manufacturing religion
00:03:21.780 out of nothing, according to Sigmund Freud, was they tried to take nature's greatest disasters
00:03:29.680 and personify them by placing within them a deity, right?
00:03:35.820 Especially when it comes to Norse mythology or Roman Greco mythology,
00:03:41.220 these kinds of things.
00:03:41.800 You have different gods for different, you know, the ocean, Poseidon, you know,
00:03:48.580 or a god of this storm over here, Thor, with lightning.
00:03:54.100 And now we have a god.
00:03:55.760 now the storm, just like an army or a mugger, we can cry out to someone. We're not stronger than
00:04:03.080 the storm, but maybe we can satiate the personified storm, the deity within the storm. We can make
00:04:09.840 some kind of sacrifice, some kind of plea bargain so that the storm would relent and not destroy
00:04:16.420 us. Now, the reason why Sigmund Freud fails in this argumentation is because it does not account
00:04:24.700 for the triune God. And the reason it doesn't account for the one God who truly exists is
00:04:31.540 because what we see throughout scripture time and time again, is that when people encounter
00:04:37.240 some kind of judgment of the Lord, like a storm, and then realize that Yahweh is the God behind it,
00:04:44.700 they don't go from being afraid to being calmed, but from being afraid to being even more afraid.
00:04:51.940 see if that was the psychology if that was the goal was put a god within the storm so that we
00:05:00.360 don't have to be as afraid of the storm well then what you would want to do is put a god within the
00:05:06.060 storm that's not scary but the christian god is the lord is to be feared and even jesus says do
00:05:16.760 not fear those who can harm the body, kill, destroy the body, but after doing so can do nothing more,
00:05:22.220 but rather fear God in heaven, who after destroying the body also has the power
00:05:27.500 to condemn your soul to hell. He is a fearful God. He is the living God, terrible in his judgments.
00:05:39.580 And this is precisely what the Phoenician sailors experienced. It's indicative, it relates to what
00:05:45.200 the disciples with Jesus experienced. Jonah is sleeping on the bottom of the ship. Jesus, likewise,
00:05:50.740 is asleep on the boat. The disciples wake him up and say, do you not care that we are perishing?
00:05:55.600 They are afraid. But in that gospel narrative, when Jesus speaks and stills the storm,
00:06:01.980 even with the disciples, the same concept is there. It says that the disciples go from being
00:06:07.060 afraid of the storm to being exceedingly afraid of the one who has authority over the wind and waves.
00:06:15.080 Jesus scares them more than the storm does. 0.99
00:06:18.700 So too, Yahweh scares these Phoenician sailors 1.00
00:06:21.780 more than the storm does. 0.90
00:06:24.440 So it's a common or classic L for Sigmund Freud.
00:06:29.000 That shouldn't come as a surprise.
00:06:44.200 You