Bryce Carver
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Yeah, I mean, I think, I mean, you know, it's like the heaven and hell thing. Like, why is that a thing? You know, why does God send people to hell? God does not send people to hell. People send people to hell. And what I mean by that is hell is both a justice system and a choice in the sense that you mentioned earlier, like,
if there is no God, Mother Teresa and Hitler are both in the same place.
Well, it's like a little, like yes and no. Like I can kind of explain that. But if there is no God, we have to understand that Hitler and Mother Teresa are in the same place. And to me, it's like, okay, well then, you know, Hitler needs to be held accountable for the mass genocide and all these other people, you know, the Jeffrey Dahmers, all these people. So,
Anyways, so that's hell's a justice system, right? You murder someone, you go on trial, you deserve the punishment. Great, and that's what I was mentioning about Jesus earlier, is Jesus's death on the cross, there has to be blood, there has to be a payment for the wrongdoing that's done. But because Jesus is God and he's perfect, he can pay for everything.
But the Bible is very clear that you have to put faith and trust that he paid the price. So in the sense that it's a justice system, we're held accountable for our sins. God makes the payment. But it's also a choice in the sense that, I mean, you could say, well, God hasn't revealed himself to us. Well, Jesus Christ did 2000 years ago, claimed to be God very clearly, I believe. And
There was one week where these people were literally putting palm leaves on the ground. It's a historical event they call Palm Sunday. They're praising Jesus as he's riding a donkey, calling him the Messiah, the savior of the world. A week later, those same people are nailing him to a cross, asking for him to be crucified.
And they're asking for a rapist, a murderer and a rebel to be released from prison. The same people that were just praising him. So we could go on the argument of like, there's even a point in the Bible where these people were like, Jesus, give us a sign, give us a sign. And he looks at them. He's like, you wicked generation. Like I've given you plenty of signs.
He's like, the sign I give you is the sign of Jonah. And he says, just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days, so will the son of man be in the belly of the earth for three days and come again. He was literally in fancy terms, metaphorical terms saying, I'm going to die for three days and then I'm going to defeat death.
So he was telling him, that's going to be your sign when I raise from the dead, that I really am who I say I am.
Well, this is why I believe that he did raise from the dead. When he rose from the dead, there was a 40-day period where Jesus appeared to over 500 people. It's not like a spiritual being raised from dead. Like in his physical fleshly body, he's raised from the dead. 500 people saw this guy over a 40-day time period in the flesh. And then he ascended into heaven in front of a group of people.
Some people were like, oh, these people are drunk and hallucinating. It was super early in the morning when they did that. And back in Jewish culture, that was just not a thing that occurred. So we can wipe that out of the thing. Number two, mass hallucination does not happen. That is like a very rare thing. If not, does not happen. No one was on drugs when this happened.
And a buttload of people saw this guy ascend into heaven. Okay, so we're looking at that. And then my third thing is all of these apostles and followers of Christ died for the fact that he raised from the dead. Hmm. They didn't die for the fact that, oh, he lived and died. There's more evidence that Jesus Christ was a real dude than Alexander the Great.
There was the same amount of evidence that Jesus Christ was a real guy back in that time period for that culture, that Caesar was a real guy. Caesar was a popular figure in the Roman government. There was just as much evidence for Jesus as there was for Caesar. So we can't deny that he wasn't a real person. It's just, was he God? Did he really raise from the dead? And I believe that.
I mean, if you got guys dying for this stuff, I feel like if you weren't as confident in the fact that he rose from the dead, the guys that claim to have seen him face to face, if they weren't as confident, they wouldn't have died for it. And I mean, the upside down cross on your face. Peter was like, crucify me upside down because I'm not worthy to be crucified standing up. He was willing to die.
for the fact that Jesus raised from the dead. That blows my mind. So, like, yes, I mean, we need to understand these truths, but I also feel like the same way that the church appealed to your mom in her time of crisis when your dad was in jail and your family was going through it, and she said, well, this is why, you know, like, I understand.
That's not just the sole reason why someone should just believe in a religion, but it also doesn't shock me that that was appealing to your mom. Because... There's so much transactional things. And you have to understand in that position, that vulnerable position for your mom, there's really nothing that your mom in that position can give to them.
They're just constantly overflowing her with love and comfort and things. And like, sure, you can find that in a bowling lane, like to an extent. But like this idea of no strings attached, unconditional love, I'm just going to serve you whether you never speak to me again or not. That's just something that the Bible teaches that I just don't see displayed through any other religion or people group.
And the Bible, there's this one verse in Romans where it says, the goodness of God brings man to repentance. That's why I also have an issue with these street preachers that hold up signs with pitchforks. It's like, you're going to burn in hell if you're this, this, or that. It's like, sure, there is biblical truth to that, but no one's going to turn from their ways.
I've noticed me, it took time for me to slowly start giving things up that the Bible was in opposition to the way I was living. And, and people that I, that I've walked with, it's like when I tell them, Hey, stop doing this thing. They don't really understand why to do it. That's why I like feel for you when all these Christians get mad at you on how you live your life.
I'm not mad because you don't believe in Jesus. So what he says about stuff really doesn't, you don't care about. So it's like, I, I'm not, I don't understand why these people get mad at you. You know what I mean?
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