okay Lisa go ahead with your question you are live on the air hi ra I have hi can you hear me yes we can go right ahead okay um so I was lied to by Christianity for a very long time and because of that I'm an atheist um and my question is my deal is the truth I don't want to believe in he lies that's not my thing so how do I know what truth is and how do I trust any religion after being lied to for 40 years I want you to know Lisa the
god that you don't believe in I don't believe in either but it does a lot of damage when after so many years you become very cognizant that the information that you've been scouring and studying is completely mendacious illogical irrational and convoluted and how do you trust anyone that's what you said and the key of the Tyra is that Hashem wants a personal relationship with you without any Jesus now in the Christian Bible people are encouraged to pray in the name of Jesus in fact in the Christian Bible openly says that there is no way to
God except through Jesus Jesus is the way the truth and life you can come to the father except through Jesus and that's what goes on Church like right now as we're speaking there are Church sures all over the United States there's tens of millions of people in churches right now and what are they doing in churches I'll tell you they're praying to Jesus the G if you would stand in a church with a counter a clicker and every time you hear the name Jesus you clicked by the time you left that service whether it's a
southern baptist service or it's an Assemblies of God service which is a little different or a Roman Catholic service or an Orthodox Christian service it's just Jesus from the minute you walk in to the minute you walk out this show is viewed by many people who are or were Christians and know that I'm not mischaracterizing this is Jesus from beginning to end and that Jesus that God you really should want nothing to do with the T however is very unique it's Unique in a very striking way in that it is predicated on a national experience
not taking someone's word for it in other religions you've got to take somebody's word for it but really the Tyro is a my family album It's a record of a nation that had a direct encounter with God now just if you think about this for a moment this is not some odd idea that I have if you explore this for a moment you'll realize that the vast majority of the world on the vast majority of people on this planet believe in God the in the higher power the numbers could be in like 95% something like
that the majority of the people on this planet believe that the Torah is a holy book majority in fact the tah predicts this in Deuteronomy 4y 4 tells us just look at the first dozen verses it says that the Nations will be stunned by your TI and will be stunned by the Jews and say what a wise people it has such a wise Tire what nation is this so the Torah predicts this Torah tells us this now use your head a little bit you know what aam's razor is it's a it's a basic premise that
an explanation for any phenomenon that has the fewest hypotheses is most likely to be the case you understand and any accretion any hypothesis on top of the original belief is just less likely to be true right how do I I'll just use very simple terms the Church of Jesus Christ the Latter Day Saints the Mormon the LDS church is a a spinoff of protestant Christianity okay it's a 19th century religion that began in the first half of the 19th century in the in the early 1800s all right just just so you understand so Mormonism is
another lay on top of Christianity right so therefore it is just logical logical as an I'm using something that everyone's going to be able to get is therefore make sense that it is whatever you would assign to the likehood that Christianity is true it's just less likely that Mormon is true because it requires another hypothesis that you have to believe that this character Joseph Smith in the 1820s encounter the angel Moroni gold plates which he translated it just is a later it's another hypothesis it's more of a deser on top of what more craziness on
top of craziness I apologize for using I don't mean to be that in the same way you know you have whatever uh trinitarian Christianity is in a on top of an earlier iteration of Christianity and it's a later development so that whatever is a development requires another hypothesis it's just less likely to be true and therefore you know where I'm going with all this it obviously makes sense to begin with what is the original statement what is the original source which that the whole world doesn't just when I say the world I mean people who
are of the Abraham that the t is from Hashem what now does the majority of the world believe the Torah is a holy book because they're so crazy about Jews no does the majority of the world appreciate the Hebrew Bible which the Christians call the Old Testament because the Jews are such a big hit no there are certain features in in the Hebrew Bible specifically in the Torah that are completely unique there was nothing like it before nothing like it after and the Torah actually says that never will be anything before or after and that
is the national Revelation at Mount Si number one that means that when God revealed himself at Mount Si the whole nation was there and they heard God speak they heard it themselves and the text literally says you heard it yourself in fact the Torah itself says that you should keep these Commandments and these laws and be loyal to Hashem because you yourself heard the voice of God you were there now I want to just think think this through Stay With Me Go tight with me on this somebody wrote that Torah and someone who somebody intelligent
wrote it whe whatever you believe somebody wrote it right okay and then whoever wrote it is is saying that I'm God right and he's saying to the reader you heard the voice of God you saw no image all Deuteronomy 4 this is going to be a Deuteronomy 4:9 who is reading this for the first time just ask a logical question the writer is saying that you heard this with your own ears you saw the smoke there was no image you and therefore based on what you saw be careful so who's reading it for the first
time somebody reads it for the first time someone Encounters this text after it is written you could be the biggest atheist in the world but at some point someone writes Deuteronomy chapter 4 and and it's given to an audience and what what are they going to if it never happened what would they ask they say I never saw I never heard anything moreover the text says listen carefully if you have any questions about what happened ask your elders ask your father your elders they'll tell you about it ask your father'll tell you and they will
reinforce it so the text is saying that the testimony that demonstrates the veracity of this is not the text but your elders go to the T in fact the tah says repeatedly when speaking as an example about a false prophet or a person who is casting forth blandishments to seduce you into following a false god so he it says there if the false prophet tells you to worship gods that your fathers didn't know do not listen to their Prophet or Damen dreams I ah he did Miracles is par a ah he was able to foretell
the it doesn't matter why would God allow false religions to do Miracles I'm only testing you to see if you love me so the core reason for believing in the t is because it's a national Revelation and the text I beg you I beg you there why this will be a Deuteronomy 4 show the T says the following in Deuteronomy 4 it says no please ask yourself from one end of the world to the other from the he one end of the Heavens to the other has any other nation made such a claim the Torah
is saying that no one else will make such a claim only you and live now if you figured out how to pull up a national Revelation see the reason why National Revelation is credible is because you're there like why do we all believe that 9/11 was a historical event cuz we were there I on that horrible Tuesday had a flight I had a flight from Newark to Los Angeles on that day it was in the afternoon with Continental Airlines I had a flight I was going to be in a film in a documentary I I
don't remember what time it was but I had a flight that afternoon and I received a phone call and those days you picked up a telephone I picked up the phone and it was my travel agent those days use the travel agent the travel agent call me and says you're not going to be flying anywhere I said what are you talking about and she said she said go turn on the on the television and I turned on and you know the rest of what happened and I I she called me be when only the first
to was hit then was I saw the second tower hit live as it was happening and then every all of was to the so it was event at the that day one of my sisters I knew was in the area of the World Trade Centers I knew it and I was petrified and I tried calling her there were there were cell phones at the time I tried calling her and I there was no answer and I was shaking and the whole family was trying to get a hold of her and because what were happening that
day was whatever the cell phone service in that area was it was overloaded for whatever reason it was a big problem to get through the people on the cell phone I I I for that area where the as it turns out she was not thank God she was not in the buildings she was in that area of Manhattan and she of course is fine so it was a national event that happened to the entire now do people have a mistaken spin about it and crazy ideas about it and convoluted Notions that the Jews were behind
it and Israel was behind it the Mad was behind it or that George W bush arranged himself and the tower 7even was actually blown up by the Americans I remember I was I worked for channel 7 that time and I spoke to people who were convinced that the Pentagon was completely there was no plane that flew in so it is true that people have all kinds of weird ODed theories about it but it's a national event we because of Technology we all able to observe that horrific day that forever changed the world right so you
can't reproduce that I could tell you that I am here in Jerusalem because I flew here from the Goan Heights by helicopter maybe you'll believe me you'll find the maybe you'll believe right but I I can't convince you that you too flew by helicopter in Israel why cuz you know you didn't so the national Revelation is unique it's the most credible claim to make and no one else made such a claim and we couldn't if we wanted to go out now and start telling people that God revealed himself to all of us no one's going
to believe say you're a crazy person I'm watching Seinfeld and nothing happened so the national Revelation now there's a special relationship between the Jews and and the Tyra in that the role of the Jew is to be a witness to the to the world so we are a witness to the Tyra because it happened to us and the Tyra is a witness to the Jewish people how do you know that the Jews are assigned to be a witness people it says so Isaiah 43:10 the my Witnesses the LA my servant so they no believe in
un I he and before me there was no God formed and and after me there W be and besides me there is no savior Isaiah 43:1 let them hear that in the Vatican and repent let them hear the D Theological Seminary and do chuo let them let those words echo in the HS of full Theological Seminary and they should Mish do Chua today so the foundation of the Jewish faith the reason it's Unique in the world even though when the world is not crazy about Jews is because of the ntion of all the events that
happened it's nothing of the trust that happened there the whole nation was there and our job is to be to Bear witness to the T and conversely the T the holy t bears witness to the Jewish people and we are one in that relationship now are there is there a senator from Vermont who doesn't want to Bear witness to that there is he doesn't want any part of that is there a Hollywood producer on the west coast who wants nothing to do with for sure there were plenty of producers in Hollywood in the early 20th
century they were very successful you know where the grandchildren are now they're gone why because they didn't want to Bear witness to the message of their all their grandchildren some of them did repented some of them did or they're all assimilated today because they lost the Covenant why because you can't belong to the club no because if you don't want to be bear witness to the ter there's no reason for you to remain part of an eternal Nation Deuteronomy 7:9 thank you so much for your thoughtful question if you enjoyed this program please like And
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