Tuesday, 21 April 2026

Discussing Calvinism, Compatibilism, the Holy Spirit, the Afterlife and Penitence with Brett



1:00  Calvinism and its rejection of free will
4:00  Predestination

6:00  Psalm 22, Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34
8:00  Being abandoned by God
11:00  Psalm 22
18:00  People believe what they want to believe.
19:00  Atheists can see the benefits of moral laws. 
20:00  Moses, Noah and the written word
23:00  Memory and poetry
24:00  Adam to Noah and Methuselah
26:00  Sarah conceived when she was 80s.
27:00  General and special/divine revelation
29:00  Ancestral religion
20:00  Muslims accept the prophethood of Jesus and the Virgin Birth.
30:00  Prophets and their prophecies
32:00  Noah and Abraham
33:00  Adam is regarded by Muslims as a prophet of God.
36:00  Jesus was a revolutionary. All the prophets of God had revolutionary ideas. 
38:00  Moral lesson of Jesus
40:00  Paul Vanderklay
41:00  Jesus and God are separate.
The Trinity
43:00  Paul
44:00  Holy Spirit
45:00  Timeline of revelation
46:00  Egalitarian and Monarchical Trinity/Filioque
47:00  Holy Spirit exists in all the Abrahamic religions. 
48:00  The Burning Bush was the Holy Spirit. 
49:00  I solve the Mystery of the Trinity. 
51:00  If there was a Creation, there must have been a Creator. 
52:00  God as a salmon who spawned and then died
53:00  Voltaire's Candide with Dr Pangloss as the eternal optimist was a satire of Leibniz's best of all possible worlds. 
54:00  Hamlet: "Nothing is good or bad, only thinking makes it so."

"How are the mighty fallen."

55:00  Our immortal souls are the vehicles to our next life. 
56:00  Compatibilism
57:00  Optimism comes with faith.
58:00  Predestination
59:00  Edict of Milan 313
Council of Nicaea
1:00:00  The Edict of Thessalonica 380
1:01:00  We believe what we want to believe and we want to believe in perfect justice. 

General belief in God would mean greater obedience and compliance with God's laws producing a high trust society.

1:02:00  The 5 Attributes of God
1:04:00  Everyone has free will but not everyone will use it. 
1:05:00  Hell is the worst place imaginable and heaven the best place imaginable. 
1:06:00  God is the Thought Policeman of our minds. 
1:07:00  Theocracy is horrifying to atheists.
1:08:00  Sermon on the Mount by Emmet Fox
1:12:00  Holding people to their declared  principles

The matriarchy wants us to be unprincipled and therefore easy to threaten and bribe. 

1:13:00  Judaism and Islam are much easier to believe than Christianity. They are also internally consistent. 
1:14:00  Calvinism is so gloomy. 
1:15:00  Catholic absolution
Teshuvah
1:17:00  The problem of recidivism
1:18:00  My faith is like a set of traffic lights. 
1:19:00  Immorality, illegality and criminality
1:20:00  The Abrahamic religions and WW3
1:21:00  We all have free will but not everyone will use it.
1:23:00  It's not what happens, it's how you deal with it. 
1:25:00  Reincarnation
1:26:00  Interview with God in the Afterlife

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