Bryce Carver
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357 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Bryce Carver’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I can't fully prove to you that Jesus is real, and I can't fully prove to you that he's God, but I feel like out of everything across the board on religion, there's more evidence that Christianity is the most reliable than anything across the board. That's why I decided to put my faith and trust in Jesus. Aside from what I feel the reliability,
I mean, it's just totally different than everything we kind of talked about, like Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism. Like I have friends in all these religions, but they're working for everything. They're working to enlightenment. My Muslim friends are working to please Allah.
And every time I talk to them, they have no idea where they're going, even though they're some of the most respectable in the sense of they give alms to the poor. They pray five times a day. They pray more more than most Christians do. They believe more about Jesus than most Christians do. They give more alms to the poor and help poor people more than Christians do.
So I can respect that aspect of Islam. But even them, they don't know where they're going. And all of these things, you got to work, work, work, work, work. And my story is I was going to take my life when I was 17 years old because I had a broken heart, depression, and anxiety. And a bunch of people told me, you need religious structure in your life, Bryce, to fix your life.
And so I looked into everything because I went to a private Christian school, but I kind of hated God. And I had a bad taste in my mouth with... because these pastors would tell me what to do with my life. But then I would see them doing the total opposite of what they were telling me to do. And like people were cheating on their wives and it was like super hypocritical.
And I looked into it and none of this stuff helped me because all of them, you had to work to perfection. And I was so broken inside. I thought if I'm this broken and I can't even fix in this wicked world to fix my broken heart, how could I ever work to perfection? Seemed impossible. I want to take my life.
But that's the other reason why I love about Jesus, because out of every labeled religion, Jesus Christ is the only God that humbles himself and comes down and meets the broken people where they're at, whether it's instead of a broken person working to get his approval. God looks down and says, I love these people so much.
I'm going to humble myself and become a human, a God that exists outside of time, outside of space, intervenes into time and space, takes on flesh. He lives this perfect life. So now the moral code of the Bible is achievable because I watched someone show me how to do it instead of just telling me how to do it and expect me to do it without showing me. And then...
Because it's like the justice system. You murder someone, you go to jail. My sin and wickedness, my sinful nature, I deserve death and separation. But Jesus goes, I'm actually going to die for you. I'm going to take the punishment for you. I'm going to cancel the debt. And that's the forgiveness aspect.
If you punch me, instead of repaying evil and I forgive you, I'm canceling the debt of what you just did to me. In the same way, Jesus is like, everything you've ever done wrong in your life, I'm canceling the debt right now by dying for it. And then I'm defeating the very thing that separates you from me.
And so instead of like, yes, like sure religion, I think yes, like I understand what you mean by a safety blanket, but to me it's deeper than that. Like out of all these religions, it's so evident that Jesus wants like friendship with me and you.
Like even though he's God and he's created every human being and there's a bunch of people that he's gotta tend to, he still like somehow wants to be so intentional and intimate with me the same way he like views you. And I even thought for myself, like, I think every human being has done wrong, maybe wrong in their own ways. I've never murdered anyone. I've never stolen from a bank.
I've never, you know, whatever. So my wrong may be different from your wrong or whatever that may be. And I always thought that I couldn't, I thought that I always couldn't, like, work. I thought that God never wanted me because that was my perception. We live in this world like where if you don't scratch my back, then I'm not going to scratch yours. Everything's transactional.
And then Jesus brings this idea of unconditional love. Despite how you feel about me, Jesus says, I'm going to love you despite how you feel about me. And so I just thought that like I had to kind of clean myself up before I came to God. But I didn't experience God's love for the first time until I was at my most broken state. That's just my big appeal to it.
And I, and I can't deny, like I have my doubts. I think everyone has doubts. Like one of the most famous Christian, like theologian people ever, he got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. I don't know if you know anything about that, but there's pretty much nothing you can do about pancreatic cancer. Like it's like just the clock's taken basically. And at that moment he was like,
all right, I got a lot of doubts right now. This famous Christian guy, he was like, I just have to make sure that Jesus really raised from the dead. Because if Jesus really did raise from the dead, then he's the truth. And then he died confidently like this really is the truth. And so anyways, I just say all that to say like, you know, I don't think that
I don't know exactly how Christianity has been presented to you all across the board. Like I know I've seen clips of people trying to talk to you here, here and there. And you know, that's, that's great. But, but like, I, I think it's just so interesting how Christianity keeps being a topic of conversation to you in some way, shape or form.
Like, yes, it's a labeled religion, but outside of that, you like, you look at Jesus and all the religious people, he's like, okay, you've got the wrong idea about why I'm here. Like,
they're trying to get him to follow the law, but then, you know, the moral code, we could go back to the moral code, but then Jesus summarizes the entire moral code under this one truth of love the Lord your God with your whole heart, soul, mind, and strength. He basically just says, you're going to live a morally sound life according to God, according to the moral standard, if you just love me.
That's it. Like, it's mind-blowing.
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