Is Hell Forever? Universalism and Creation - David Bentley Hart The Convergent Christian 2015-07-13 | ...
Nobody Taught You This About Christianity The Convergent Christian 2026-04-02 | 0:00 Introduction2:03 What Christianity Is Not4:34 The Invisible Weight of Things6:47 Why God Is Not An Arbitrary Add-On9:01 Sin As Rupture13:20 Why The Incarnation Is Fitting15:30 Why Resurrection Matters18:51 Why This Changed The Moral Imagination22:10 ClosingMost people think Christianity is a political identity, a moral code, or a coping mechanism for people afraid of dying.Secular materialism is the position that requires a leap of faith, and that Christianity offers the most coherent account of consciousness, moral obligation, and the structure of reality that I've found.We cover: why the unseen is not weightless, the hard problem of consciousness, the Logos, sin as rupture, why instruction cannot save us, the Incarnation as logical necessity, the Resurrection, and how Christianity built the moral imagination of the modern world without getting the credit.
Scientists Found a Purpose Built Into Biology. Nobody Wants to Talk About It. The Convergent Christian 2026-03-20 | For 400 years, the dominant picture of reality has been mechanistic physical cause, physical effect, all the way down. No purpose or meaning just atoms bumping in the dark. Cutting-edge biology is slowly dismantling that worldview, and in this video I walk through the placebo effect, Michael Levin's extraordinary developmental biology research, Aristotle's four causes, and the ancient concept of the Logos to argue that the universe is not a billiard table.
Consciousness Proves God? The Argument You Haven’t Heard The Convergent Christian 2026-03-01 | In this video, we examine the irreducibility of first-person experience and why no purely physical description seems capable of explaining it. Neural activity can modulate experience, but does modulation equal identity? Can the movement of electrons ever capture what it feels like to think, to love, to suffer?We explore:• The difference between correlation and ontological identity• Why intentionality implies openness beyond mechanism• Why truth requires self-limitation• How consciousness might be the primitive layer of reality• And whether this points toward Logos — a rational ground of being
Origen: God as Mind | On First Principles (Preface & Ch. 1) The Convergent Christian 2026-02-15 | A close reading of the Preface and Chapter 1 of On First Principles, where Origen of Alexandria lays out the foundations of Christian theology and begins talking about the Nature of God as Mind.
This Theory Reconciles Genesis and Evolution The Convergent Christian 2025-12-05 | Death, extinction, and predation didn’t start with Adam, but with Satan’s rebellion BEFORE the creation of the world.For 150 years, Christians have been told to choose: Genesis OR evolution. The Bible OR science. One of them has to be wrong.We go deep:• Why Day 2 of Genesis is the only day God never calls “good” • The real meaning of the firmament and the first cycle of morning and evening• How Isaiah 14 and Jesus’ own words point to a pre-Eden catastrophe • The two creation accounts in Genesis and what actually happened in Eden • Why the Nephilim passage suddenly makes perfect sense • How Augustine’s “divided will” echoes this division• And why the Cross is the only event that can heal both falls at once.Watch before you decide what you believe.#evolution #bible #theology #christianity #scienceandfaith #genesis #satan #creation
Jordan Peterson should convert to Christianity The Convergent Christian 2025-05-30 | Dr. Peterson is almost there...he's just missing one thingarsanious.substack.com/p/a-plea-to-jordan-p
Why Did God Become Man? The Answer That Changes Everything, according to St. Athanasius The Convergent Christian 2025-03-21 | An Orthodox answer to the world's most important question, drawn from On the Incarnation by the Alexandrian St. Athanasius
AI and God The Convergent Christian 2025-03-15 | Reflections on the intersection of technology and Christianity
How Modern art proves we need religion. The Convergent Christian 2023-04-12 | In this Video Essay, I explore how a trend in the art world that's been intensifying in the last 100 years sheds light on our deep need for transcendence in general and religion in particular. I talk about how this human need is baked into the very foundations of logic and all our institutions, yet when neglected - as it is with the metaphysical baloney that is reductive materialism or naturalism - it leaves us in a crisis of meaning. I discuss ideas touched upon by Pageau, Jordan Peterson, John Vervaeke, Walter Benjamin, Nietzsche, Kurt Godel, Donald Hoffman, and of course, Jesus Christ.
The Big Lie of Atheism The Convergent Christian 2023-03-19 | A personal journey on how I went from fundamentalism to slowly being indoctrinated into Reductive Materialism - a dangerous assumption that undergirds 'rationality.' If God is Dead, it wasn't science that killed him, but scientism, coming from RM. A mishmash of other topics on allegory,
