Rev. Prof. Keith Ward Interview - Christianity

In this video I interview Rev. Prof. Keith Ward about Christianity, Anglicanism and Idealism.

[ShawnMicheldeMontaigne]

I have many of Ward's books, and have read many half a dozen times or more. So ... Professor ... some people _do_ read your books! He has been nothing short of a mentor to me and my spiritual journey. He's an amazing man and thinker, and I am deeply blessed to have the opportunity to read his work.

[je]

Just now learning of Ward and am already a huge fan! A great mind and intriguing spirit!

[trevorlunn]

I am prepared to say that the Rev. Professor has altered my metaphysical experience enough to transcend doubt about the existence of the vat my brain is in.

[cloudstclass]

I really, really like Keith Ward. He just seems so chill and down to earth. An academic who you could enjoy a beer with.

[dimisahn]

Thanks Nate and Keith for an enlightening talk!

[PaulQuantumWales]

Did Keith hit the sherry a bit before the broadcast?

[HarryNicNicholas]

lol, another one "if i play for time and talk lot god might actually show up one day" had he been drinking?

24:20 a few days after i'd been told "you'll probably spend eternity in limbo" limbo was abolished, i assume to make way for a ballroom, i like how mr ward has decided which god he prefers.

37:00 surely the point is not that god "got it all wrong" but that he didn't say what should be blatantly obvious, if it took a billion years why not just say "it took a billion years", why say "it took 25 minutes at regulo 4" if hydrogen had to come first, why not just say "some hydrogennny thingy (insert aramaic word) was made on day one".

if satan rejected god and i reject god, then surely satan wants to burn christians believers in hell, not me, me and old nick are like brothers. hell is heaven, but better.

[maniac]

Over the centuries reason has pushed back boundaries of religious belief. Now the CoE is more of a social relic, which continues to reinterpret its ancient religious writings in the light of the discoveries of reason, and so becomes less and less significant in the real world.

[richardreddick]

age of universe as best we know. 13.8 billions years.
age sun around 4.57 billion years.
age earth around 4.5 billion years.
humans around 6 million years as a primitive form.
human civilization around 6000 years.
awful lot time with out any mind around huh!

[briendoyle]

The Bible 'book' = a compendium of fire side tales and fables,

recounted orally,
for generations by goat herders and primitive tribes from the stone age,
until writing was invented,

and then, many different sources, transliterations, and versions were copied and written down..

''The Bible was created during a time where stories were verbally passed down over hundreds of years.
Stories constantly morphed and changed over time, and the Bible is a collection of these.

This is why it has the nearly identical flood story from Gilgamesh, and why Jesus has the same characteristics as Dionysus, Osiris, Horus, Mithra, and Krishna.
The contradictions and immorality in the stories are not evidence that God is flawed or evil,
but rather that humans invented him, just like the thousands of other gods that we used to, but no longer believe in.''

..and to answer the questions of the many fears and mysteries of our universe, like 'thunder' and earthquakes, since there was no science yet.

That was the old Testament....

The new Testes is also hearsay since these letters, 'gospels' and stories were written by the loyal faithful, the camp followers,
not by objective historians at that particular time,
or by any contemporary writers,
and these tales were written many years after the supposed events of this mythical Jesus.

There is essentially very little evidence of a Jesus in real documented history.
A couple of spurious Roman reports, and all the rest anecdotal.
...but more importantly ...a jesus' existence is not an issue!

A jesus is irrelevant without a god !

Then, many of these stories, but not all, as many were not chosen,
[ There are more than just four Gospels but only these four were agreed on ],
were compiled for one self-absorbed converted Roman Emperor in his Nicean Council,
for his expressed purpose of conquest
and
control of the people of Europe for his Holy Roman Empire.
He recognised that this was the perfect religion/mythology for the future domination of the populaces.

Half of the stories were ignored by the Nicean Bishops and none have been proven to be based on fact.

This 'Bable' book is backed up by absolutely no facts and no evidence.
It is not proof for any god(s) ....(or of any jesus as a god...)

The fables are intertwined within historical places and people...
eg Egypt and the Pharaohs existed,
whereas Moses and the Exodus did not happen...!

It is a historical novel
.... ie A book of fiction....
Only!

The Bible book is proof of a book ... ONLY (certainly not evidence of any gods...)

PROVE a god!