"Am I going to hell? Yes. But here's the thing, everybody is going to hell. And it's not because they don't believe in God. And look, I'm a historian and a theologian. So, I study ancient biblical manu..."

">> Wesley, I have this fascinating uh graph in front of me here. And it shows several things that I find to be really really interesting. One of them is that as of 2024, the decline of religion has st..."

"the Bible. And a lot of people kind of attempted to divorce the religious aspect from the societies, and societies became less and less overtly religious in those natures. And then a lot of people saw..."

"it's increased it. Yeah, and especially celebrity worship, social media, building a following of your own. Totally. >> of low-key narcissism. Yeah. Has made us more and more and more and more importan..."

"this is one of the things I discovered when I went through that new atheist phase was that really everybody kind of agrees that there was a guy called Jesus from Nazareth and that he was a real histor..."

"is that the Jewish people don't have kind of an innumerable number of religious texts like the Greeks do. They have a specific number and he uses this terminology that they were laid up in the temple...."

"they suffered persecution. So the story in the Bible is that he was killed uh on the cross, murdered on the cross, and then he was put into a tomb. And then who saw him come out of the tomb? So nobody..."

"believe in something supernatural. Yeah. So, what's the probability you'd assign to it? I I >> it was like likely, unlikely, very likely. They're all likely because I think that what the gospel author..."

"on, the disciples believe something happened." Yeah, I think they saw something. Of course. >> And so, the I just think that the explanations of the alternatives of them actually happening are insuffi..."

"I've had so many founders speak to me and say, why didn't this particular ad that I ran on this platform work for me? Maybe the copy wasn't good, the creative wasn't strong, but usually the problem is..."

"new earth and that's the promise of Christianity. So, that's the point. >> Yes. The point of this life, according to the Bible, is that I get to go to this place called heaven. No. So, it's it's a bot..."

"98% the same DNA as me? Yeah. Do they have the same intrinsic meaning? You know, even my dog, I'm like, does my dog have that same intrinsic meaning? And is my dog going to go to heaven? I think scrip..."

"to be, and still desires to have that relationship. And if we do sin, Mhm. if I sin in my life, do I go to hell? You You don't I mean, the answer that is yes and no, but the Am I going to hell? Are yo..."

"there's a conflict of interest there. But I I want to follow what's true because even if it's a convenient lie, it's still a lie and I don't want to live my life for a lie. New Year always has a stran..."

"again. And you can get yours at the diary.com. And if you want the link, the link is in the description below. On that point, one of the things that really convinced me when I was a when I was going t..."

"his intercession. Okay. But it's [clears throat] not about believing or not believing. Yeah, which you explained earlier. Yeah. >> Which is which is useful for me cuz that that gave me a new understan..."

"new and amazing and advancing in our understanding and knowledge. This is kind of sets people up for this whole simulation theory argument where they say that if you imagine any rate of improvement on..."

"that properly kind of fulfills what I think we mean when we say God is love. There is a a deep crisis of meaning in the world, especially in, you know, the Western world. Three in five American adults..."

"Christianity can provide something that is an antidote [clears throat] to that feeling? I think not only can it provide an antidote, it can provide the antidote. What would you say to anyone that's li..."

"no less than that, but he's also so much more than that. And in discovering who he is in relation to who you are, that's going to change your life. Are you noticing that people are asking you certain ..."

"will figure things out. I just I just don't know if that will be before all of you know, it hits the fan. What was the first domino that fell for you that made you go on this this journey of becoming ..."

"Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett. Not in any type of crisis faith crisis way, but I was I was investigating. So, you believe in the supernatural? Mhm. Do you believe that we can speak to th..."