The legalist who cried Wolf

I'm going to assume that everybody watching this already knows the allegorical fable of the boy who cried wolf. So, I'm not going to read it all, but if you don't know what it is, I do suggest that you look it up briefly before watching this. It essentially warns about the dangers of raising a false alarm. And there is a Christian equivalent of this as it pertains to [clears throat] legalism and work salvation and loss of salvation and actually many other areas. In the documentary I'm working on, Christ's Implacable Hand, >> [snorts] >> I have prepared a talking point to describe a strange phenomenon where legalists take a passage that was actually meant to be a comforting passage to lift our spirits and to help us through difficult times and somehow turn it into a dire warning to crush us and drag us through the mud into difficult times rather than through them. You must enjoy. You must suffer. If And if you hate it and you can't bear it, it must be good for you. Why did some of you go to church? >> [laughter] [gasps and snorts] >> Take the passage for example in Matthew 24 where Jesus said, "He who endures to the end shall be saved." This is supposed to be a comfort to the disciples or to whoever experiences the events that Jesus is describing, the the great tribulation that's going on there because >> [gasps and sighs] >> this generation the the generations experiences the things that Jesus is describing >> [sighs and gasps] >> will not pass until all things be fulfilled as in this will all happen in a in a very short amount of time. The generation that witnesses the abomination of desolation will be the same generation that also sees the gathering of the elect. They won't have to wait decades or centuries. Christ will gather his elect. He will rescue his people. Do not be troubled by the wars and the the rumors of wars. So, you see how Christ is coming for you. He's going to rescue you. But, Christians have somehow managed to turn this passage into a dire warning where if you are not being dragged through the pits of hell, metaphorically, and you don't struggle to the very bitter end, you will not make it into heaven, literally. Another example, Jesus says to his disciples, "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. These things have I spoken unto you that your joy might be full. Whatsoever you ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you." This is a clear warning in scripture that if you're not fighting the good fight and doing all of the works and trying as hard as I am, you might be cast into an ever everlasting agonizing fire. There are many other examples I could give, but I'm sure you're starting to get the point. Hebrews chapter 3:1-6 meant to be an encouragement. Christians have turned it into a dire warning. 1 John 1, encouragement, turned into a dire warning. Many Christians are afraid of their own shadow. Christianity, most of it anyway, is driven by irrational and overzealous fear, but not according to knowledge. Now, as you may know, a few months ago I made a video condemning these visions and visitations of demons torturing people in hell. Some of them giving the most graphic descriptions imaginable. None of which is ever described in Bible of course and I said this is nonsense this is unbiblical it's work salvation garbage it's propaganda it's manipulation it's based on apocryphal lies and I got some criticism from a handful of individuals in the comments section >> [sighs and gasps] >> none of whom even attempted to refute anything I said of course or prove from the Bible that demons torture people in hell it was all emotional manipulation it was appeals to emotion because while many Christians won't admit it of course their entire religious beliefs are driven by anecdotal feelings and one of my accusers initially started a comment saying about Jesus warning about hell and hinted that I am denying hell which I never denied hell in the video I was denying this Arminianist Evangelical propaganda that exaggerates and embellishes how the Bible actually describes hell when I pushed back against this he said you are downplaying hell and the testimony of people based on nothing but your opinion you're instilling complacency which is ironic because I spent two hours explaining why these visions are unbiblical we only have his opinion that these testimonies are in any way credible but saying I'm I'm downplaying hell is really begging the question because the burden was on him to prove that demons rule and reign in hell and the best he could give was some parable which says no such thing of course and that's because he couldn't find any better proof anyway because it isn't there instilling complacency isn't an argument because otherwise you can only assume what is true based on how scary it sounds and as I pointed out in the video Buddhism and Hinduism and Islam are in many ways far more graphic about their descriptions of hell than the Bible is. So, are we being complacent by being Christian instead of one of those religions? I it it's absurd that the reasoning behind it Well, there is no reasoning behind it. It's It's an appeal to emotion. Now, I have discovered the secret art of reverse translating the emotionally manipulative things that Christians often say. One of which, when you confront them about their ridiculous pagan beliefs that they incorporated into Christian Christianity, >> [gasps] >> they accuse you of being filled with hate or seething with hate and anger. Why are you so hateful? Why are you so angry? Well, how does he know I was angry? Was he filming my facial expressions when I wrote that comment towards him? He has no idea. And it's not like I called him a disgusting oxygen-thieving, hell-bound reprobate. I didn't use that kind of terminology against him. But, this is how they twist the narrative. You are filled with hate or anger. It's It's the religious equivalent of being called a racist or a homophobe or a a Nazi in the political world. Because what he really means by this, of course, is "Why aren't my emotional manipulation games working on you? Stop resisting my emotional manipulation." That's the subconscious translation of what he's really saying. But, of course, when you discover that the boy who cried wolf sounded a false alarm, you know from the fable, of course, that he sounded a false alarm a second time. So, what does this guy go on to do? Well, he said, "Good luck on your mission to downplay hell and instill complacency." Again, I decrypted the sentence. If you only use the Bible to describe hell, people won't be convinced because it doesn't sound scary enough. We need to dress it up and emotionally manipulate people into being scared of not becoming a Christian to make them a Christian. People won't be manipulated into Christianity if we're being too honest about what the Bible actually says. I've recently started this practice of reverse translating Christian sentences because it helps me to reply to these very irritating opponents without being too nasty or vindictive in my replies, without going into war mode and calling them names and so on. But it still really winds them up. People don't like having their sentences translated in this way because they hate it when you shine the light on the darkness of what they're trying to do. And that's precisely what it is. They are crying wolf. They are sounding a false alarm. There are no demons going around torturing people in hell having a party down there. That is a false alarm. If you want to warn people about hell, well, you really have to use the biblical description of hell. >> [sighs and gasps] >> But if you look at most of the Bible's warnings about hell, they aren't even necessarily used in an evangelistic context. It is said to the disciples or maybe the Pharisees or it is said to people who are already turning up to listen to the preaching. So, our modern equivalent would be in like a church sermon setting. Talking about hell in great detail was not used as an evangelistic tool. So, for example, in Acts chapter 2 or John chapter 3, it was really more of a side note than a fundamental part of the evangelism. But the problem is, as we know, most of Christianity is driven by fear and emotions. They have to cry wolf in order to them manipulate the emotions and drive the fear. See? Because this same commentator said repent. Now, most of my subscribers know what this means when we study the Bible to see how it was used and we apply it correctly. But obviously we know what he meant. He meant turn from your sins, cry some tears, and basically shut up and agree with my religion was the the fundamental principle of what he meant by saying that. That's essentially how Christianity uses the word repent. >> [sighs and gasps] >> Now, you may have heard legalists compare the repent of sins for salvation message like warning somebody who is in a burning building. You should tell them to get out of the building. However, turning from your sins, which is a rather ironic instruction when he was lying about demons torturing people in hell, but of course they deflect when you expose their hypocrisy. It's giving the wrong instructions for the emergency. Because if there is a hurricane or a storm, then leaving your house is generally not a good idea. You should reinforce your windows, barricade them, and stay in a safe location in the house. If there is an aerial bomb threat, you should go to an underground shelter. >> [sighs] >> So, telling people to repent of their sins and be scared of demons torturing people in an attempt to get them saved is essentially crying wolf. It's the wrong instructions. It's a false alarm. It's not suitable for the emergency or the proper problem at hand. It's like a monkey holding a fish above the water saying, "Hey, let me save you from drowning." But I'm a fish. I can breathe in water. I can't breathe in the air. I will die up here. You really should put me back into the water. "No," said the monkey. "You are being complacent. You are downplaying the dangers of drowning. You must let me save you from drowning. Good luck trying to survive underwater." It sounds ridiculous, of course, but this is how ridiculous most of Christianity sounds when you become enlightened to the truth and you really see through their lies and their manipulation. Now, I'm not saying this to make you get angry or spiteful towards those people because a lot of their manipulation is subconscious. They may not have a full awareness of what they're really doing and it is really standard human behavior. It's not specifically reserved for Christians or people who are not saved. However, it's important that you recognize what they are doing so that you don't allow yourself to be manipulated by them. And if you don't allow them to manipulate you, you don't need to be angry towards them. You don't need to hate them. Instead, you can be indifferent towards them and this empowers you because you are telling them that they have no power over you anymore. You don't need to be afraid of them anymore. You don't need to be afraid that there might be demons torturing people in hell if you don't repent of all of your sins. Just like the fish can swim away and doesn't need to be afraid of the monkey, the monkey, of course, will get angry about that for the fish not allowing him to save him from drowning. And the monkey can call the fish hateful and angry and full of demons, but the fish doesn't really need to care because he can't drown in the water. Now, if the monkey wants to swim after him and force him into a rescue, we can guarantee that the monkey is the one who's going to drown first. And so, in the same way, we cannot be so easily manipulated by man-made fear or Christian crocodile tears Because we are already permanently saved and sealed, passed from death on to life, and nothing can stand in the way between us and the love of Christ Jesus. But for the other Christians, this is not so. And once we realize this, that the legalist has no power over us anymore. Remember how that in that fable, the boy who cried wolf the third time, the villagers did not decide to chase him with pitchforks and drive him out of town, nor did they cut his tongue out so that he couldn't cry wolf again. They just simply ignored him. They didn't respond to his call. And so the man who tells us that you can lose your salvation because of a passage he can quote that has absolutely nothing to do with eternal salvation, we don't even have to care what he says, because we know he is a fake. He calls a false alarm. The man who told me that I'm downplaying hell by denying that demons torture people down there, he said I was full of anger, but really I was indifferent towards him because I know that he is a fake. He has no power over me anymore. The man who tells us that not of works only means a specific list of pet works from the Mosaic Law that is discerned from a passage in Hebrews that has absolutely nothing to do with making a distinction between justifying works and non-justifying works. We don't have to lose sleep over whether God is allowing him to breathe anymore or not, because we shouldn't care less. We know he is a fake. The man who tells us that believe doesn't really mean believe, we don't have to justify why some fat on the internet doesn't know Greek better than centuries of dozens of committees of translators. We already know he is a fake. This isn't exclusively reserved for the domain of work salvation, because there are people who loudly profess grace who dedicate a large portion of their ministry to lying and spreading misinformation about other believers. And after a certain number of times you really ought to recognize that this is all they are ever going to do. It's in their nature to behave that way. And in a way they do it because they enjoy doing it. Just like the fable tells us that the boy who cried wolf enjoyed the anger of the villagers who fell for his trick. Now, why do you think Paul says a man that is heretic after the first and second admonition reject? Just like the fable, the first admonition, the first false alarm, the second admonition, the second false alarm, and after that, the rejection, ignoring the alarm regardless. Do not be deceived by the Christian who repeatedly cries wolf.