In this monologue, the speaker argues that many churches and pastors have distorted the biblical portrayal of God, using his name to justify abuse, fraud, cultural theft, and oppression. The speaker urges believers to confront these issues directly, to have honest, difficult conversations, and to hold religious leaders accountable without sweeping wrongdoing under the carpet. By separating the fallacies of human actions from the truth of God's justice, the speaker calls for a faith that embraces boldness, character, and transparency. The talk also highlights how unanswered questions about historical injustices, cultural loss, and the suffering of believers drive many away from Christianity, emphasizing the need for the church to address these doubts rather than dismissing or condemning seekers.
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Could it be that we have not properly taught the nature of the God of the Bible? And some over time in history have come to represent him to a people and have stolen their heritage, stolen their culture, stolen their stories, stolen their wealth and all that. We have to come to a time where these are conversations we are not afraid to have. We engage in those conversations. We have those conversations. We look at them right in the eyes and explain those conversations. We go back and teach it. We understand that the God of the Bible is a God of justice, but over time people have used him. Pastors have used his name to sleep with people and to defraud people and all that. We separate the person, whoever, and that doesn't mean there are no good people. We learn to separate the fallacies from the truth. And what that means is that we become a faith that takes accountability, that we are not afraid to say, yes, in his name someone did this, but that still doesn't change who he is. I'm saying that the last day church must learn to have difficult conversations, not sweeping everything under the carpet. I see a very big similarity between an abusive home and the religious mind of an average minister in the last day church. And the idea is that let's sweep everything under the carpet. Oh, you, you are falling from faith, get out and just burn. And the rabbi said some of you are going to fall off from faith and all that. We don't have the love, we don't have the patience, we don't have the heart, we don't have the boldness. You know when we have boldness? When we fight ourselves. You, I dare you to have the boldness to engage these people and then Sometimes you think you have the boldness, but you lack the character. We've come to the point where you cannot engage without insulting and all. So I, I, I, I, I'm shining light somewhere. You have data. What is the question that can take someone who was once a Christian, who— what are the questions in their mind that were unanswered that can take them into the world, that can make them become what they are now, begin to doubt the idea of the God of the Bible? Do you understand what that journey is? And do you also know those who are on that, on their way to that journey in your shining beautiful churches with the loud music, who are questioning their faith and questioning the justice system and questioning the reality of God and looking at history that can be denied and looking at the things and asking questions. If God is God, why did this happen? Well, you are not supposed to leave those questions unanswered and say, you go die and burn in hell. That's the approach of a religious mind, that there is a reality we are trying to escape from. And if we don't understand that, to every one person you see in the public stage that is falling off these things, there are millions around just listening to you and are questioning everything. Many Christians, in their deception of not knowing what is going on around the world, lock themselves in church walls and believe that everything going on there is all there is and that's as far as God wants us to go. You lie.
