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Send us Fan Mail What is God? More precisely, what is the nature of the divine, the nature of faith?  In today's video, Warren and I discuss these questions and try to figure out what is the true nature of faith and belief.  I hope you find this discussion helpful or insightful. For more similar content, feel free to check out my YouTube channel Apologetics for All, you may find it quite fun!...

Send us Fan Mail To leave one's home and to enter into the world is often the highest and most difficult stage in one's life.  One has to leave behind the familiar, trade it with the unknown. This is a stage of turmoil and difficulty, but why do we often hear God commanding us to do just that, to leave our comfort and enter the world? To me and Warren, the world is a field in which one c...

Send us Fan Mail Genesis 12-13 is a greatly interesting section in the Bible.  In this video, I am joined by Warren Zhu to discuss all the merits in this section and how we can apply these lessons to our lives. Ranging from the importance of promises to the need to enter the World, we aim to provide a comprehensive view of this section.  I hope you enjoy. Support the show -------------------------...

Send us Fan Mail What is the ethical to Dostoevsky? What is the greatest good? In this video, we examine Dostoevsky's ethics, illustrated most clearly in his masterpiece The Idiot, zooming in on Dostoevsky's Christ, Prince Myshkin.  Here we talk about Dostoevsky and his thought, how it relates to other moral and literary giants to come up with the most complete but also a succinct summar...

Send us Fan Mail Why didn't God allow man to become like God? Why did he forbid man to eat from the tree of life? In this video, I discuss Genesis 11 with Warren, especially the content surrounding the nature of God and tree of life. I hope you enjoy this discussion. Stay safe. -------------------------- To check out more about my content feel free to go to my YouTube Channel Apologetics for...

Send us Fan Mail What are miracles? What are their relationship to us?  In this video, we discuss the relationship between miracles, God and humans, exploring this theme through the works of Dostoevsky. I hope you enjoy this discussion and find it fruitful.  If you have any thoughts or ideas, feel free to let me know in the comments below.  Support the show -------------------------- If you would...

Send us Fan Mail Language is a gift, it can also seen as divine. In Genesis 11, we see man, using language, to unify and build a tower towards the sky. In response to this, God disrupts the language of man, hence separating them to different corners of the world.  I hope you enjoy this discussion and find it greatly insightful.  -------------------------- To check out more about my content feel fr...

Send us Fan Mail What is Dostoevsky's biggest work? What is his theology? How do you read him?  In this video, we discuss the writings of Dostoevsky with Warren Zhu, going through some of his biggest queries about the Russian writers. I deeply enjoyed this discussion and found it greatly thought-provoking and helped me understand further about Dostoevsky and his relationship to other thinkers...

Send us Fan Mail Silence is always utilised in literature and discourse to great effect. In the works of Camus and Pascal, silence is seen as a key facet of existential angst. To Dostoevsky, however, silence is that which deeps one's understanding and walk with the divine and the world.  In this video, we discuss the nature of this silence and how it impacts our understanding of the world.  S...

Send us Fan Mail The Bible, Josephus, Tacitus, Justin Martyr... These are some of the many sources which discuss the facts relating to the Resurrection. As someone who loves a bit of history, what are their roles, how can we use them, how should we use them?  In this video, I am joined by Zac from Adherent Apologetics to discuss this topic! (find full video on his channel) ------------------------...

Send us Fan Mail Being a teenager is difficult, especially when Uni Apps arrive.  In this video, I am joined by my dear friend Warren Zhu to discuss everything ranging from sex to college applications, and our thoughts about society.  I hope you enjoy this crazy discussion and have fun! Support the show -------------------------- If you would want to support the channel and what I am doing, please...

Send us Fan Mail The Tower of Babel is one of the most interesting parts of Genesis and is an account told to most Christians from a young age.  What is the truth, the psychological profundity, and the lessons which stem from this piece? In this video we discuss a wide range of different concepts found in the texts, the importance of language, the nature of God, and the potential of man.  --------...

Send us Fan Mail There's contradictions in multiple historical texts, is this a problem? In this short clip, Zac and I discuss the issue of historical sources being inconsistent. While this is more focused on the resurrection, as the question was raised during a discussion about the resurrection, I felt it was greatly apropos to broader historical questions as well.  Tying in knowledge from t...

Send us Fan Mail Responsibility is a theme found throughout history from existentialism to religion to Spiderman.  In this video, we discuss the importance of responsibility and its implications in all of our lives. Through this discussion, I hope it would shed a new perspective on responsibility and its implications in how we act with others. Support the show -------------------------- If you wou...

Send us Fan Mail An Eye for an Eye always feels like a weird part of the Bible. It is meant to be the book of love, but does this part represent hate? In this video, we discuss this phrase and talk about the themes of revenge and retribution.  I hope you enjoy. -------------------------- To check out more about my content feel free to go to my YouTube Channel Apologetics for All to access clips an...

Send us Fan Mail Should we get rid of the male and female distinction or should we view them as useful parts of our language. In this video, Warren and I discuss the utility of gender categories and whether they are beneficial as a whole or whether they are harmful. I hope you enjoy. -------------------------- To check out more about my content feel free to go to my YouTube Channel Apologetics for...

Send us Fan Mail The story of Noah is deeply profound. In this video, we continue our discussion about Noah and try to discover the message behind Genesis 9-10. From the nature of God to responsibility, there is so much that we discuss and find out. Support the show -------------------------- If you would want to support the channel and what I am doing, please follow me on Patreon: www.patreon.com...

Send us Fan Mail Is gender a part of nature or is it a subjective feeling? In this video, we discuss the relationship of gender and science seeing how they are meant to be measured against each other. What are the implications of using science to support the gender phenomenon? What are the implications of viewing gender as purely subjective? Support the show -------------------------- If you would...

Send us Fan Mail If there is no God, everything is permitted. Who said it? Dostoevsky? Sartre? Where did it come from?  Did Sartre understand Dostoevsky at all, or did he completely miss Dostoevsky's point. In this video, we talk about a wide range of different themes from the Brothers Karamazov to freedom to atheism.  I hope you enjoy. -------------------------- To check out more about my co...

Send us Fan Mail "Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it" —Lacan What does this mean? What can we learn from it?  In this video, I am joined by Warren, a close friend of mine who is quite knowledgeable about Lacan to talk about his psychological theories. -------------------------- To check out more about my content feel free to go to my YouTube...

Send us Fan Mail Was Noah's account literal? Was it a global or local flood? What can we learn from these chapters? In this video, I review the Genesis account of Noah's Flood with Warren and see what we can learn from these texts. I hope you enjoy.  -------------------------- To check out more about my content feel free to go to my YouTube Channel Apologetics for All to access clips and...

Send us Fan Mail Christians strive towards a union with God. What does it mean to walk with Him? In this video, we examine the significance of walking with God, looking at these phrases in the Genesis account, Warren and I discuss the possible psychoanalytical understanding of this account and also what it means. Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyYGOkGOAu0 -------------------------- To...

Send us Fan Mail Hell is other people or is other people heaven? In this video, I am joined by Warren to discuss the idea of hell from the lens of Sartre and Dostoevsky. I find these two quotes fascinating and very telling about existentialism and Christianity. I hope you enjoy this video. -------------------------- To check out more about my content feel free to go to my YouTube Channel Apologeti...

Send us Fan Mail A lot of people like to point out the fact that Adam and Eve and many other characters in Genesis live for hundreds of years. Is this a writer's oversight, mere stupidity, or is there something more profound? In this video, I am joined by Warren to discuss the nature of long lives in the Bible, turning towards possible interpretations of the texts. For the entire discussion o...

Send us Fan Mail Ressentiment can be seen as a Nietzschean, but I would like to say it is first condemned in Christianity since the beginning. In this video, I am joined by my dear friend Warren to discuss the concept of ressentiment and how Christianity recognises the dangers of this tendency since the beginning. i hope you enjoy this discussion.  For the full discussion: https://www.youtube.com/...