Bryce Carver
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you mentioned earlier, you were talking about morality, how you felt like that you could live a good moral life outside of Christianity when you were talking to your buddy, and that's how it unfolded. So where do you think people get their standard of morality from?
Yeah, so I think you and I could agree that there is a, from what you're saying, that there is a standard of truth. But I guess, you know, I would get my standard of truth from the God of Christianity. Where do you get your standard of truth from? That's what I'm asking.
Yeah. Yeah, I see what you're saying. I feel like everyone has like a nature built inside of them. But I think that that nature comes from God. And then aside from like the moral system that's built into us, I think that the sinful nature we're just born into, according to Christianity, everyone's born with a sinful nature. How like when I was four years old, Right.
I remember I was on a trampoline with my buddy and I had like a plastic Pirates of the Caribbean sword and I just smacked him in the face with it. Right. Like hit him. No one taught me to do that. I just did it. And like, you know what I mean? I just heard him without like no one teaching me that. And so that was in me. And I recognize that, but also the standard.
And so I guess like even from an extreme thing, because we can talk about like the the female genital mutilation. We can talk about, you know, underage prostitution in foreign countries. We can talk about all this grand stuff. But even if you go down to a T of like, like if you punch me in the face and I punch you back in the face, Jesus would say, don't do that.
But literally last night we're playing basketball and two of my friends are chirping at each other. And this random guy that was playing was, was like, yo, you better catch a fade with him. So even he was like, well, this is how we settle things. You guys just fight it out. And so even that is embedded in culture, whereas Jesus would say, like, actually, don't do that.
And, you know, even that was the challenge at the time that this is in like Matthew chapter six, where Jesus is given like one of his most famous sermons. And he says, you know, society says an eye for an eye. Like, if you hit me, I hit you harder back. But he says, if.
someone hits you on the cheek turn and give them the other cheek basically presenting this idea of not repaying evil with evil which is so hard in today's society like i can get so heated and things like that and i bet you can't too because we're all human like i do that but but having that ideology challenge me i don't know i guess when i took on the moral standard of the bible it it made me live a fuller richer life it wasn't like god being a cosmic buzzkill in my opinion
Yeah.
Yeah, no, I understand exactly what you're saying. We've definitely adapted in society to where we can understand things a little bit more, not over-hyperspiritualize things, I guess you could say. There's a verse in Proverbs, I don't know the exact quotation, but... he basically King Solomon supposed to be like the wisest guy ever.
He said, there's a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. And I can relate to that in a sense where I feel like whenever Bryce tries to handle things in Bryce's way, I ended up doing more damage than actual good. Or when I try to like white knuckle, I call it white knuckling or like muscle on my way through things like,
If I've got a problem in my life, I try to fix it myself or out of my own knowledge and own strength. And what you just said about recoding your brain is literally what the Bible tells us. There's a verse in Romans 12 where he says, do not be conformed to this world. But Paul writes Romans. He says, don't do exactly what everyone else is doing. But he says, be transformed by renewing your mind.
You literally have to change the way that you think. Like literally that's what he's doing. So like, yes, there's a sense that the Bible and like what Jesus teaches and his morality, this morality that the Bible presents is something you do have to recode. Cause then now it's not like after reading the Bible, I go, dang, I shouldn't just go hit my friend in the face with a sword.
Even though I'm 21 years old, I shouldn't do that. Or last night at basketball. Oh, this kid's chirping at me. I shouldn't go catch a fade with this kid. I should just take a second, think, and calm down. It's just a basketball game. You know what I mean?
So I really clinged on to that because I feel like when I reflect on my own life, I feel like I do more damage than good when I try to fix things out of my own strength. Don't get me wrong. I think there is some good to people. I've definitely done good things out of my own strength, in quotation marks.
Yeah, I mean, with this actually comes from like a sincere place in my heart, like with all respect, like, I feel like I feel like as as I get older, I have more of a motivation to believe in something. I love Jesus. I've been a Christian since I was 17.
But the more I get older, I love the fact that I believe in something for you, you label yourself as an atheist, you're like, I don't really believe in anything. I don't care to believe in anything. I mean, I mean, Like, do you, I don't know, I kind of asked you earlier, but like, do you want to? Like, you know, I feel like as I get older, I love that I have faith in something and it motivates me.
I mean, like right now, as you get older, God forbid something happens, timer ends tonight. What do you think happens?
Yeah, I respect... I have other atheist friends as well, and I respect them. To me, I feel like it takes more faith for me to be an atheist than it does for me to be a Christian, in my perspective. I feel like, at least for me, trying not... I guess, well, maybe you're not trying because this is genuinely how you feel.
But for me, I feel like if I was trying to be an atheist, it would take more of me to try to not believe in anything than for me to search out what what evidence is the most reliable. I don't know if I told you this last time we talked, but like, I can't fully prove to you that God is real.
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