Matt Slick Live

The following program is recorded content created by the Truth Network. It's Matt Slick Live. Matt is the founder and president of the Christian Apologetics Research Ministry, found online at Carm.org. When you have questions about Bible doctrines, turn to Matt Slick Live for answers, taking your calls and responding to your questions at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick.

Hey everybody, welcome to the show. It's me, Matt Slick. You're listening to Matt Slick Live. Hope you're all going to have a good time listening today. Oh, man, busy, busy, busy.

And I said, I'll have to tell you some good news.

So there's that. I talked about uh different things about the website. I'll tell you a little bit more about that. Also, if you want to give me a call, the number is 8772. 072276.

I want to hear from you. Give me a call. We can blab. And we can just talk. All right, all right.

So, I think that's all there is there with that. Looking for the clubhouse stuff, but I don't see it, so no big deal. All right.

So we have an official I think I mentioned it last week, we have an official release date for the Carm website, and it's going to be October twenty fifth, which is the thirty year anniversary of the website. And If uh One of the things that we want to do is have a radio show. I don't know what the week not is, actually. Um Let's see, October 25th is a Thursday, so that'd be good. And oh that's interesting.

Okay, good luck. Couple things on that day.

So. That'll be the release date of the new site.

Now, we've been playing with the new site, it is exceedingly fast. It has a lot of really good features that are under the hood that you probably won't ever come in contact with because you won't know that they're there. But there's gonna be a uh just a lot of a lot of stuff. And I've been keeping notes because I want to put together We put together a uh I'm gonna do a newsletter today and tomorrow, uh get stuff together. It's it's a very simple design and It's going to maybe.

We're talking about having either. By the time it's released, or sometime afterwards, have the ability that it can remember what. articles you've been to on Carm and produce quizzes for you on the material you've read. We're going to be trying to get a tiered system in so that if you sign up, You can then transfer all your information to other machines like your laptop, your phones, your desktops, whatever, with a login. We're talking about maybe having some favorites and some other stuff.

We don't know what's going to be released. We're still working on some details, but that's it. I'm going to try and get some new forums going as well. We're going to have dedicated video conferencing abilities, we're going to have all kinds of stuff.

So, uh the the features that are behind the scene is a fast initial human verification system. Most people don't even know what that is, but it is the latest technology and it helps secure your information, your system, so nothing on Carm will get onto your system. It's really kind of interesting how it's done. It's very good. Uh So your data security is there, sophisticated AI search integrated into every page, your data protected from AI scrapers, new AI integrated search things can be super fast.

Oh man, it is fast. It really is.

So, the search results will have a progress bar for articles that you've read. It'll give you estimates of how long it takes to read an article. We're going to have a lot of stuff. That's just some of the things that we're talking about. And things change, but we are looking at that kind of thing.

So, if you have, this is really important. If you have any suggestions that you'd like to see on the new CARM site, What you could do is just email them to info at carm.org, info at carm.org. If there's something you'd like, To see.

Now, sometimes things are pretty easy to implement, and sometimes they're not. You know, it's just the nature of some things sometimes, and that's okay. But if you're interested in a feature or an ability or something, send it to us because we're in the planning and executing stages.

Now, the great majority of the work is already done on the site. But we want to implement as many new ideas and concepts and user-friendly this and that as we can. It's going to be heavily based on the search engine. That is going to be it. There's so many articles there, there's over 5,000, that's that's well.

Search engine. And we're also going to open it up to other writers. We're going to go through and have people um Uh Well, just Is right, but we're going to vet them thoroughly. We're going to have different experts in different areas start writing things. I can't keep up with everything.

I produced a great base, and we're planning on it continuing after the Lord takes me home, whenever that is. You know, hopefully, there'll be a lot more years to go, but you never know. We're just trying to get everything done right. I've also been going through. Just uh for the donors.

I have been going through Major. Meticulously. And I mean meticulously. pennies uh where everything is going. And I've reduced costs on CARM by close to $1,000 a month.

From going through and just finding little things and just going over and over, calling up companies and saying, We have this going with you, you know, like a phone system. You know, can you reduce it this way? We can remove these features and things like that. And that's what we're doing. We're honing and we're pruning, and we're trying to use the Lord's money as efficiently as possible.

And that's one thing.

Now, I don't know if we have any calls because. Because one of the things I did today was spend some time on the phone system, the phone numbers. And so hopefully, everything is still going to work fine. And if you were to call the number 8772072276, Hopefully, uh, it'll work, and maybe uh, Laura or could just or Charlie, one of you, could just call that number and just test it to make sure it works. And if it doesn't, then uh, we have an alternate number you can call uh to get in to to uh to talk to me.

And I'm trying to find what that alternate number is. I have so many windows and so many things going on, it's like, where did I put that?

So, uh. There's that, there's that. And uh now I can't find it. Anyway, I'll have Keith write it out in the text there and I'll put it in another place. Oh, I found it.

There it is. I found it.

So um Anyway, give me a call. Let's test if the new phone arrangement. Everything should be the same. It's just uh uh we did some trimming. and trying to make sure that everything's working fine.

So we're just trying to, you know, do.

So we got a call coming in. And uh we'll find out if it's working. I'm gonna drink a coffee. Hold on. Oh yes.

Oh. You know, I love coffee. love it as in marriage. Kind of love. Coffee is so good.

So there you go. And like I said, if you are interested in some new features, some interesting features on Carm, potential features, please consider letting us know. You can just send an email at info at carm.org.

So, Keith, did it work? Did someone call? I saw a line coming in, and maybe he's just, you know, we're verifying. I don't know.

Alright, and they can let me know in uh No private chat there. Phoneland works. Good! Phone light works. All right, good.

Thanks. Hey, I didn't mess it up. And I'm trying not to. I'm trying to do everything right. If you want, you can also email me.

That is easy to do. Just go to carm.org. And um Excuse me, go to your email. I've got so many things in my head here. Just go to email.

Email is at info at carm.org. Info at C-A-R-M dot O-R-G forward slash, or I mean, not forward slash. Man, I got too many things going on. Just put a subject line, radio comment, or radio question. Info at karm.org.

Alright, I was noticing a caller was coming in. Hopefully, everything's going to be fine.

So I had to go pick somebody up.

Now, generally, yesterday, that is, and generally, I don't do any ministry work. On Sundays, I just relax. Watch TV, run an errand for the wife, or you know, whatever, and just kind of relax as a day, go to church. And a good time at church yesterday. A friend and I went, and my wife went too.

That's good. And.

So sometimes when I am driving someplace to pick someone up, and I did that, I picked someone up to run an errand and stuff like that.

Sometimes during the drive I'll get online and just find a chat room and I did. And I went into this Discord room called Faith Breakers. Their goal is to destroy the faith of people. And I said, well, good. I like that.

I like faith breakers. That means I can break your guys' faith in your atheism. And let's just say. Let's just say they didn't like my attitude. that I turned the tables on them.

And after a while, they muted me because they couldn't handle my arguments. And one guy. He just uh he says, Matt, you're not being polite. Because I said it's easy to destroy your atheist arguments. And of course, that was somehow an insult.

He says, You're not being polite. You don't take into arguments. I said, Me? I've asked you several questions, and you just don't even ask the questions. And It was good.

It was a good discussion. And uh then this guy said And he said there's a logical problem with the Trinity that everybody knows about. Yeah. It's called LPT for short, LPT, logical problem of the Trinity. And I said, well, send it to me.

seen several. And I've answered them. It's easy, it's not a problem. Usually what happens is they confuse the is of identity and is of predication, and they don't understand the doctrine of the Trinity properly. And then when they do with it problem with the dexicals, and then they misunderstand how they're related in the pericritic relationship.

But I'm saying, just to show me. Show it to me. Write it the best you can and send it to me, and I'll respond to it. He goes, I don't have to. I don't want to.

He goes, I don't care to bother with you. And I said, You would have brought it up. Why don't you do it? Why don't you um You know, show it to me and I'll respond to it. And he says, I'm not going to waste my time with you.

I said, that's because you can't. You don't know it. And they didn't like that.

So, you know, with the issue of atheism, the faith that they have, and I showed how they have faith. Because they said, we don't have any faith. I go, yes, you do. You don't prove everything. You don't use logic and evidence to verify everything you do.

You have belief that things are going to work out. You can't verify everything. And they just refuse to admit that's a form of faith. They just don't like that because they're so arrogant. You know, these guys I met last night, they're so arrogant.

We don't have any faith. Oh, give me a break. And I said, Look, science is has presuppositions that you assume on faith are universally true. And there was this pause in the room. And they said, that's not true.

I said, yeah, it is. I said, for example, you believe, but you can't prove, but you believe that the laws of logic are universally applicable. You can't prove that they are without presupposing their validity.

So you have faith that they're true everywhere, but you can't prove that they are. That's what the scientific method presupposes. Also the presupposition within the scientific method is called uniformitarianism, which is the basic idea or materialistic uh consistency. The idea is that the universe operates the same way everywhere. And it always has.

Well, it's just you can't prove that's the case, it's an assumption. A third assumption that you have is that the um Scientists who are supposedly presenting their information will do it. Accurately. And I said so. Science is a philosophical assumption based a philosophical approach to learning about the material world based upon assumptions that you can't prove are true.

That's faith.

Well, let me just say that it didn't go over well with them. you you could hear the crashing, you know, o of Of their smooth atheist engine, you know, cranking and belts slipping and wheels rattling in the background. That's not true.

Well, yes, it is. Yes, it is. And uh there's one guy Yeah. One guy proposed fallibilism, which I can get to in a bit. What he said, fallibilism is true, and I'll talk about that in a little bit.

But oh, I've got a break coming up.

So we'll we'll do that after we get to the collar. and maybe talk about this error of fallibilism. that they this guy was holding to. Let's get we'll get to Steve from South Carolina. After the break, please stay tuned.

The number is 877-207-2276. Right there. It's Matt Slick Live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick. Alrighty and welcome back to the show.

If you want to give me a call, all you have to do is dial 8772 07. 2276, and you can leave a message. If you want On email. Do that by sending an email to info at Carm.org and put the subject line, radio comment, or radio question. Let's get to Steve from North Carolina.

Steve, welcome you on the air. Hi, man. I was calling about First Corinthians fifteen, verse twenty-six. I just wanted to get your understanding of that. Last enemy that will be abolished.

Okay, this is I know you probably have to get some context in there, but it just seems too simple of a sentence for me to take it just the way it's stay stated. Explain it to me at all. Yes, it's prophetic because it's dealing with the order of resurrection in the context of 1 Corinthians 15, which begins with the nature, extent of the gospel, the death, and resurrection of Jesus. And since Christ has been raised from the dead, it's the proof that His sacrifice was perfect, His sacrifice was sufficient and acceptable to God the Father.

So therefore, we are all going to be resurrected, those who put their faith and trust in Christ. And so when he goes on and he's talking about this, he says, Christ is the first fruits after those who are Christ at his coming. Then the end comes when he hands over the kingdom of God to the Father, when he has abolished all rule, all authority, and all power. And this is all the wicked places and the wicked things are all taken care of. And in that wickedness is the result of all sin.

He must reign until he's put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is death. Death is the separation of man and God. That's what the spiritual manifestation is. That's Isaiah 59, too.

That will hand that has guaranteed to be removed by the death and resurrection of Christ. Yeah. So that's guaranteed.

Okay.

So Sorry, go ahead. How you wear? I sc Yeah, I was just gonna say. Uh it it seemed more like that, like it This has to do with We are no Yeah. From God in eternity because we're saved now.

We don't have that death. We have. We have a new life. Not only here, but beyond here. Um and and that's what you're saying, is that correct?

That's right, that's it. And he's going to remove all of that. Associated with death is gone.

So we're going to be forever with them. Forever. It seems yeah, I know and and it's like when when you can just Accept that for what that what that says, you know, that we are going to be with him forever. Mm-hmm. When we when we pass On from here.

it really is a passing on. Yeah, our bodies die. But we we we go on and and I don't understand a lot of times why So many Christians are so like they're so afraid of death. Uh like uh my brothers and sisters are just like They're so afraid of it. They don't want to die.

They don't want it they don't want their kids to you know, no one wants their kids to die, but It's like, yeah. I I I said once to my brother A, you know, wouldn't it be great if Price came tonight and And we all, you know, He takes us to heaven if if that were to happen when he came. Um Like, oh man, he's like, I don't know. And then I wouldn't, my daughter wouldn't get to experience growing up. I was like, are you?

kidding me? Yeah. Well, people think in humanist terms, humanistic terms. And when they do that, because they don't really understand who God really is, and they end up with things like. You'll have marriage in heaven and 72 virgins in heaven and things like this, you know, where human sexuality and human comforts are the standard of what is good, as though.

Their standard is that it's just that they haven't encountered the true God. You know, so I'm not sure. Yep. All right, well thanks, Matt. Appreciate your help.

Hey brother, no problem, man. God bless.

Alright, good blood. You too. All right, now let's get to Jermaine. Hey, Jermaine, Walker Brother, you're on the air. Hey, Radio, I want to ask you about.

Yeah, I wanted to ask you about Psalm 1 21, verse 7 and 8, where it talks about God going. Yeah. A lot of people have been bringing up Charlie Kirk and whether or not he prayed before he went to a vocation and maybe that was why something happened and I think that's a little crisp. I'm just bringing it up, but Isn't it possible that you can still pray to go to your destination and something could still still happen to you, but it doesn't mean God's not with you. Right, of course.

People in the Old Testament all over the place were persecuted. People in the New Testament. were persecuted. Stephen was stoned to death. In Acts chapter 7.

So we know that varying forms of persecution are going to come to us. Charlie Kirk was an evangelical Christian, he's with the Lord right now. And we can't look at, for example, Psalm 121:7, the Lord will protect you from all evil, he'll keep your soul. We can't look at it as, this is a hard fact. fast rule.

All kinds of bad things don't happen to you. No, it's not true. And because Jesus says, you know, blessed are you when they speak evil of you. Because this is an evil that God allows to occur.

So, different contexts of different things mean different things in different contexts.

So, God will protect us from all evil. If he desires to, and if he wants to, he will do that to varying degrees. And I'm sure he's done that in ways that we don't even comprehend. But then there's times when persecution. Is something that will glorify him and help the individual and help other individuals.

And so I think that's the case with Charlie Kirk because. I mean, the Democratic Party now is bleeding members. The true The character of their filth in so many areas on the left is coming out when they're rejoicing in the murder of a guy because they don't like his ideas. They want to kill him for his ideas, which is reprehensible. And uh You know, plus There have been rallies all across the world in different countries.

for him.

Something's happening.

So we w would this have happened if he hadn't been uh murdered? No. Probably not.

So, God has his plans. He lets things happen to us for a greater reason, and we need to submit all things and all scriptures to the sovereignty of God to understand. Right.

Okay, it makes sense to me, and I do see a spiritual movement. that seems to be taking place.

So it seems like And you know, I'm not saying I agree with every single part of his theology, but I do believe he's a believer in. what happened was just ridiculously uncalled for.

So You know, I I think that a lot more People are going to be inspired to do what he did. And maybe take it to even greater lengths because we do need to have discussions with people. That used to be America, where you can sit down. with somebody you disagree with. Talk it out.

And whether you like it or not, you know, it's just you you have a conversation. Yet now the intolerant people on the left don't want that free conversation. They want to punish you for the freedom and expression of ideas, unless it agrees with them. This is why everybody should read the novel nineteen eighty four. written by an atheist, but it is brilliant.

And in there, the thought police Are present, you're not allowed. you're uh your opinions publicly. You have to follow the status quo. That's exactly what the Democratic Party wants. promote empathy and then attack you.

uh without empathy. They promote peace, but they They say peace, but they actually promote violence. And there's all kinds of clips coming up from all kinds of stupid, neurotic political leaders on the left. You don't want him to hurt Trump. persecute him.

destroy, shoot, maim, you know, him and other Christians. It's bad. Yeah, it it's the hypocrisy is huge. and people are seeing it all over the place. Anyway, okay?

All right.

Thank you, Matt. All right, buddy. God bless.

That was Jermaine. We have wide open lines. Why don't you give me a call? 8772. 0722.

7-6, we'll be right back. It's Matt Slick Live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick. Everybody, welcome back to the show. If you want to give me a call, you can.

877-207-2276.

So what I wanted to talk about Fallibilism. was my conversation with an atheist uh who said he was a fallibilist.

Now, this is an interesting position. I'm going to go into it a little bit and teach you a little bit of philosophy, just a little bit. Fallibilism Fallout A term, it's a position. And he says he's a fallibilist. Oh, what is that?

Oh, it's the view. that absolute knowledge and certainty are not possible. and that all beliefs are subject to error. Everything he believes could be wrong.

So it's an attitude where you try and not be too sure about anything. It's a kind of like it's like similar to skepticism.

Okay.

So All right.

So then I asked him: well, if fallibilism is true, you can't know things for certainty. Then, how do you know your fallibilist position is the right one? See if I'm undermines itself. It has a logical problem of its own testability. How then could you justify the position of fallibilism as being the right position to hold if you can't know if it's true?

It just, to me, it was like shooting fish in a barrel. This is why I said to the guy, I said, It's so easy to defeat these atheist arguments. And they didn't like that.

Atheists do not like it when you easily Confound them and easily refute them. They're the ones who like beating up on Christians. And I know what that particular room was and where it was located on the internet, and I go in there occasionally. And then they all gang up on me, try and destroy my faith, and they don't, they can't succeed. And uh I say, well, how about if I ask you guys questions?

And when on the rare occasions when they agree to that, you know, I just paint them into a corner. And they don't want to accept the idea that their positions are often faith-based, that are not based on truth. Uh but on her faith. and they can't justify Even the axioms of uh Of what they assume. And that's one of the things I said was everybody has a starting point that you can't prove is the right starting point, but you assume it.

Everybody does that. It's called you have to make certain assumptions. And you have faith that your assumptions are the proper Starting place. And he said, no, it's not true. I said, no, it is, it is true.

You have faith that the idea of the law of identity, that something is what it is and is not what it is not. Is always true everywhere, but you can't prove that.

So you believe that it is true. And if they make the mistake of saying, well, it's based on how the property of the universe works, I can say, yeah, you know how the properties of the universe work. among other things. It's like shooting fish on a barrel. Anyway, let's uh Let's get to Lisa from Virginia.

Lisa, welcome. You're on the air. Yes, I'm very interested in the watchman on the law. Can you talk to me about that? Uh They are sentinels, they're guards upon the walls and various cities to keep watch.

and sound the alarm. That's what it is for. Have we not given the duty of the watchman on the wall, to people that do not believe in God.

Well, it depends. It depends on what we mean by that. If we are talking about the government. That's why I was asking you, what do you meant? Mm-hmm.

If we're talking about the government as watching against nuclear attack, you know, and it's a watchman for that, well then, yeah, because no individual Christian can do that.

So there's different degrees of what we might say is it, but uh. Biblically, it's a representation of vigilance and responsibility, and that we are to not let our guard down. We are all to be watchmen on the wall, one form or another.

Well, don't you think the church is supposed to be doing that? And they have given this up to people who are not. not godly. And this has really been bothering me because I feel like that's one of the first things that God really started talking to me about. And he just sort of talks more and more about it and We're looking at the culture and we're seeing this happen.

And I just can't understand why There's not more talk about repentance because Uh it's just like you get saved and everything's fine and you're forgiven. And um Because we have not really been taught a whole lot on repentance and that is such this is so terribly important. Um Yes. Yes. It and I just don't think things are going to change.

unless we're taught more about these things.

Well Do you agree? Yeah. Uh you are you're you're you're tooting my horn. Um Sometimes I've been known to complain about the status of the Christian church as a whole. That's not teaching ethical things.

Oh, no, I can't believe that. You're such a nice person. I talk about this all the time and and I think people just roll their eyes and You know, to me, the church is responsible.

Someone once said, um that the front page of the newspaper was the report card of the church. I find that very uh interesting.

Well, yeah, there's a degree to that. The report card of the church should be the scriptures themselves. How are we compared to that? Are we doing well? Or Luke 9:23, are we picking up our crosses daily and following after Christ?

You know, our own crosses, not somebody else's, but our own on a regular basis on daily. Are we doing that? Are the p pastors, for example, preaching politics from the pulpit? They should be. They absolutely should be.

So they do. Right.

Well, I'll ask the church about ten years ago because I could not support what they weren't doing. That's interesting.

Well, that's a wide open statement, has logical issues with it. You mean they were not, what they were doing was ignoring certain things in Scripture. That's what you mean. Exactly. And that's why we are where we are, as far as I'm concerned.

My background is. I don't. is uh social work and, you know, and being interested in the culture and everything and And um I find it very interesting that the church has not really gone where people are. and they're talking about Charlie. Uh Kirk.

going where the people are. And I find that very, very interesting. Yeah. He went to where the drunkards were and the gluttons, and they called him the drunkard and said, You associate with them.

Well, that's because he went where the sinners were. You know, I have a resume for Jesus on my website. I put a resume up for him as he's trying to get a job at a local church. And the conversation. I think I've heard that or something like that.

Yeah. And the woman pastor and the guy don't want him on. Because they're reading to his resume and what he says and how biblical he is, and they don't want anything to do with it. You know, it's just a commentary, a humorous commentary on how things are in America. But the Christian church needs to really double down and start teaching biblical theology.

Theology is like a bad word. I've heard so many people say, We don't need seminaries, they call them cemeteries. We don't need advanced theology, we just need Jesus. And that is dumb. It's just ignorance.

Yeah, it is. But I can understand they're saying that when um This seminaries have really turned and gone woke a lot of them. That's true. Yeah, I know. But that doesn't mean that all of them are are bad.

And so then they'll it can be what's called a fallacy of composition. The the car is blue, therefore everything in the car is blue. the one part represents the whole. And so they'll say you have these bad seminaries over there, so therefore all seminaries are bad. And it's just logically fallacious to talk like that, and they're not even educated enough to know that they don't not even educated enough.

But when Christians aren't helped to develop their discernment. They're really uh Set up. For They're just thinking, how do I know? Just like in the very beginning. Uh I just don't think a lot of Christians realize that Adam and Eve got the knowledge of good and evil, but they just couldn't tell which was which.

That was not It's very good thing to get. Because they weren't tied into God who knew everything. Yes, and there's theological reasons why we could speculate about why that is the case. But uh you know, it's almost as though the Christian's church is being set up for failure. because it's not it doesn't seem to be.

equipping the Christians for the work of ministry. And this is a this is a a very serious thing.

So that's what ministers have not done. They have not. Uh pig. certain people and train them and need to train others. like the Montessori school, I think.

You educate the kids and then they help other kids learn and it works with the teacher. And this is a such a failing. that people have not been discipled. And you know, I'm sorry, I just go after the ministers, but Um You know, a lot of them haven't been taught either. I was listening to.

Uh gentlemen. But it said he was um And he's on the Truth Channel. And um he said You know, I was a minister for twenty five years before I accepted Christ. Yeah, that's a case where some people, yeah. Yeah, and I mean, that's honest.

I love honesty. Yeah. Well, you know, different people are different conversion stories and different ways of expressing them. But uh there's a break so well, yeah, we could talk about that. Maybe we'll talk about it some more after the break, but we gotta go.

Okay, Lisa?

Alright. Thanks for calling. Thank you.

Alright. Uh-huh. Thank you.

Bye-bye. Folks alright. Lax, have been the last segment of the hour coming up. If you want to call me, 877. 207.

2276. Direct back. It's Matt Slick Live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick. Alright and welcome back to the show.

I'm a little bit torn between between discussing the issue of the Christian church being set up for failure. In some areas, and/or the idea of going over some of the failures of the secular realm in philosophical endeavors. Maybe I'll do the last one because I think it might be a little bit more interesting, because it might be new to people when they don't understand certain things, new ideas. Um So I've got a list of on my notes and on my philosophy page, which is 109 pages, And I have Let's see, a hundred. Wow, look at that.

A hundred and why is that jump to that? A hundred and ninety-nine uh things. Literally 199 topics. Uh like ethical subjectivism, uh substance, stance, independence, you know, this stuff. And um What I did was I got into a discussion with some people.

a while back and it triggered a a research project on my part. And the research project's way too many. That's why I'm going to start that over. That's why it's so high. Do this restart at one.

There we go.

Now it's not 199, it should be about 150. Yeah, that's right. There we go.

160, actually.

Alright, so. What I did was I started this document. And I like things quick and slick. I like things that are brief. Because if I'm going to be doing debates, research, things like this, I want to know.

Something quickly. what the issue is. Whether good or bad. And so I have uh Well, over 150 terms that have been introduced to me by varying atheists and agnostics over the years. who have How do I see this?

Brought up different ideas in order to. to replace Christianity, to destroy the faith in God. And not every discussion is res is due to that, but and not every topic is that. But there are subtopics within broader topics. And so sometimes some of the things that I have, for example, is uh abstract object.

Which is an abstract object, is an object that does not exist in any particular time or place, but rather is a type of thing. And so some call them axioms and things like this. They're possible and actual patterns that are grounded in arrangement of particles. They get into all this stuff. And so what I've been doing is, for example, I'll find I'll just go research what are the problems with abstract objects.

They do not have direct empirical correlation. They are, by definition, non-physical. And it goes on. And I have stuff on aesthetic realism, altruism, analytic constructivism. Where I've actually gone in, and this is all alphabetized, gone in.

and tried to Just analyze. I think this would be good to produce on the Carm site as a single page. Of course it would be humongous. Uh but um I have a way of producing things like that that make it easier to use. You know, aesthetic idealism, for example, which states that there is no God, no supernatural, and that reality is comprised of mental functions.

Therefore, reality is made up of ideas. There are people Who argue this?

Someone might come to me and say, Matt, I'm an atheistic idealist.

Well, I don't have 150 of these things all memorized.

So I go to my notes, look it up, because there are not too many new ones that are coming out anymore. After a while, you hear everything. And then say, okay, so Then I get this straight. And I'd say I'm going to my notes. And so you're saying that there is no God, no supernatural, that reality is comprised of mental functions, right?

And they say, yes, okay. And I say, well, there's problems with that. And I said, How do you av avoid solipsism? Which is the idea that Um Everything exists in your mind, and your mind It may be the only mind that exists and all other things you're thinking exist outside of you don't really. It's called solipsism.

or syllopsism.

So, you know, I go through that. Or there's anti-realism. It challenges the idea that objective reality does not exist independently of human understanding. It teaches that reality is a product of human thought and perception. That reality exists independently of human knowledge and experience is unknowable.

So, in other words, you can't really know anything about the real world. That's just your ideas. And then there's got this. There's different types of anti-realism, excuse me. Um Idealism, constructivism, nominalism, relativism, nothing else.

And so the thing is that. They do this. And last night, This guy He one of the guys brought up this idea of axioms as as uh Just try. Truths that exist. And an axiom is a statement or proposition which is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true.

And And so I ask questions. Why are axioms just accepted as being true? True without requiring proof. That's an issue of faith. If they say they're self-evidently true, then they are saying that they exist within the realm, their validation is within the realm of logic.

what must be the case in order for the laws of logic to have their universality and their effect upon the validation of axiomatic truths. And I'll ask these guys these questions. And we get these really good discussions. This is what I do. Believe it or not, sometimes.

for entertainment. I tell my wife about this, and then she gives me this weird look. I've only seen it on my wife, I've not seen it on other wives, you know, because I don't. Live with them. but my wife occasionally will give me an expression That uh you know, it's like an onion trying to figure out a galaxy.

you know, and she's staring at me, which it looks like Along with that, she's thinking I have issues. That's kind of a combo look I get from her sometimes. And then I just point behind her. When she turns around, I just leave because there's no, you know, that's it. Let's get to Tony from Charlotte, North Carolina.

Tony, welcome. You're on the air. Hey man, how are you doing? Oh, I'm doing alright, just blabbing. All right.

Hey, listen.

So I have a good one for you.

Okay.

A Christian. Yeah. Christian, does that derive From Price. Christ light. Does that mean Christ light?

Yes, it means a Christ follower. Uh-huh. Okay, so Christian is a Christ, a Christ, he's a Christ follower. Correct.

Now being like Christ Is You shouldn't have Ah, how can I put it? You shouldn't be. meaning or you shouldn't have Bad taste in your mouth against certain people, or you should be Christ-like. But Christ was good, right? Everything was good about him, right?

But Jesus was upset with the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and he called them names. He called them names. Yeah, you whitewash sepulchres. You're your father the devil. Yeah.

So if we're gonna be Christ-like That's Christ-like, isn't it? Yeah. It Hehehehe Today, uh, speaking of now times, um We shouldn't Dislike. or even hate people? Uh I don't know.

If if we're go if we're planning on Uh uh you know If we believe in Heaven, and we want to reach that higher place. And once we leave this place, then then we should be of good and not hate and dislike. Right?

Well, yes. But Psalm 5.5, Psalm 11.5, God hates all who do iniquity.

So You know, okay, and Jesus is God in flesh, and he obviously did not approve of and was very negative towards a lot of people.

Okay.

So, you know, did Jesus say negative things? You know, uh. Yes he did. Yeah, he did. And um So Well I'm using my uh the new site right now, which has not been released.

Wow, is it fast.

So he call he's call he calls people hypocrites, uh blind guides, you foolish and blind men, uh, let's see, whitewashed tombs. Hypocrites, lawless, serpents, brood of vipers. etcetera he goes on.

So Okay.

Okay.

Go ahead.

Okay.

So the reason why I'm asking and and I I'm talking about Christ like is because I I I like I try to like, and I like everyone because I want to be Christ-like, okay? Good, good. Be to love my enemies, be patient and kind. Yeah. Yeah, that's right.

Yes, so my I I'm getting I have a problem And and it's like, okay, so Pitch. you're confusing me because You you talk about I do that to people. I listen to you just about every day when I get off right. But here's the problem.

So I'm saying to myself, why does he dislike And you even one day call them demonic. Why does he dislike Democrats. Oh, because the Democratic Party is the pro-slavery party, the pro-Kill the Baby in the Womb party, the pro-LGBTQ party, which is ungodly.

Well, we should condemn. The ungodly. We should point out and condemn ungodliness and call it out for what it is.

So these things are wrong and no true Christian should be a member of the Democratic Party.

Okay, period. They shouldn't have to be yet.

Okay, now, does that mean we hate Democrats? No. Does it mean we want to see them injured? Not at all. We want to see them come to faith.

It doesn't mean the Republican Party is perfect. I'm not a Republican either. But the Democrats are they're the party of Jim Crow laws, slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, abortion, homosexuality, brainwashing, soap socialism. It's horrible. No Christian should belong to the organization.

Right, okay. And like you said, the Republicans aren't perfect, but you know, they could, they, they, you know what? We should just love one another. That's right. If we fight without what I, you know, and try our best not to put it in.

I'm not sure if you're a non-Democrats. And the socialists and the leftists and the communists and the Marxists. But we gotta be Christ-like. Yeah, just like Jesus says, you wipedwash sepulchres, you hypocrites, you're your father, the devil. They pointed out what was wrong.

When they go against God, we need to point it out as Christians.

Now, you know, for example, here's something, though. We had a uh long story short, because we don't like it less than a minute. A transsexual person was a friend of one of uh my daughter's. And my daughter said, Can this person come over for Christmas? I said, Sure.

Come on over. And we wrapped up a rewrapped a gift for this person. And I didn't accost that person. And only two or three months later did I mention the issue of our faith and Christianity. We loved that person, but we don't approve.

of that uh kind of business. Correct.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Well, Matt, I I just wanted to Yeah. Yeah, but the Democratic Party is just evil. Yeah.

It's it's Two. It, Matt. Jesus. Just talk good about them. No, I can't.

It's an evil party that needs to be dying. No, no, you need to dynamine. The Democratic Party needs to go by the way of home. horse buggies. Let it go away.

Hey, Matt, it was good talking to you. All right.

All right.

I like talking about you too. All right.

All right, brother. All right.

Hey folks, well there you go. I said it and that's what I believe and at least.

Well I'm alive to say it still. Hey, we'll be back tomorrow by God's grace. Uh stay tuned tomorrow, okay? See you, bye. Another program powered by the Truth Network.