Charlie Kirk on Why Progressive Christianity Contradicts the Bible and How Truth Equals Love

[00:00] [Applause]

[00:03] hey charlie i'm a senior at the

[00:05] university of oregon and i was wondering

[00:08] what your opinion was on progressive

[00:10] christianity as well as how do we show

[00:13] let's say a progressive christian the

[00:15] truth of the bible and christ out of

[00:17] love

[00:18] it's a wonderful question um yeah i

[00:20] don't think you can be a true bible

[00:22] believing progressive christian um just

[00:24] based on the term

[00:26] progressive christianity is this is this

[00:28] belief you actually go like where the

[00:30] actual greek of the word progressive

[00:31] comes it means constantly changing the

[00:34] word of god is not constantly changing

[00:36] and so just based on its core idea it's

[00:39] inherently at odds of what i believe is

[00:42] bible you know bible-based christianity

[00:44] so how do we do that this is an

[00:45] interesting question of the question of

[00:47] love right so what is love and

[00:50] so a lot of actually people in this room

[00:52] have probably never heard this before i

[00:53] can't stand the english language okay

[00:55] the english language is a sloppy filler

[00:58] for the greek actually when it came to

[01:00] love so the greeks had many terms for

[01:01] love the four for love that are the most

[01:03] famous are storge fellaio eros and agape

[01:05] right so storge is a father or as a

[01:08] mother and um child love a love that you

[01:11] see between a bond of parents right eros

[01:14] is a romantic love like a love that i

[01:15] have for my wife right where's agap

[01:18] we'll get to agape in a second but

[01:19] fellaio is a brotherly love so city of

[01:22] brotherly love philadelphia so it's a

[01:23] love that you have for a really close

[01:25] friend or for a sibling but agape is

[01:27] something completely and totally

[01:29] different as it says in the scriptures

[01:30] for god so agape the world he sent his

[01:33] one and only son that he may die for you

[01:35] so you can you can have eternal life and

[01:37] basically it's an idea of

[01:38] self-sacrificial love that i'm willing

[01:40] to give down my life my status for you

[01:43] but also we must understand how jesus is

[01:45] described in the scriptures right and so

[01:47] one of my favorite scriptures is the two

[01:49] creation stories genesis 1 and god and

[01:52] john 1 which is in the beginning god

[01:53] created the heavens and the earth and

[01:54] then john 1 in the beginning um in the

[01:57] beginning was the word and the word was

[01:58] god and the word was with god but that

[01:59] word is logos which means rational

[02:01] speech otherwise known as truth now i

[02:04] don't know about you but the people that

[02:05] love me the most are people that are

[02:07] willing to tell me the truth

[02:09] the people that actually don't love me

[02:11] the most they're always trying to be

[02:13] vanilla and trying to kind of be false

[02:16] in the middle i'll give you an example

[02:18] when i go see a doctor

[02:20] i do not want to hear some sort of

[02:22] watered-down version of the truth if i

[02:24] have something wrong with me like i had

[02:25] to get my four wisdom teeth removed

[02:27] which was one of the most awful

[02:29] experiences i've had she actually did an

[02:31] amazing job i have to say but i just i

[02:32] can't stand dentist i don't know about

[02:33] you not a fan but i go in there she's

[02:36] like yeah you know this infection you

[02:37] have in your tooth could go to your

[02:38] brain in the next couple weeks i didn't

[02:40] want to hear that

[02:43] i thought that was mean

[02:45] callous insensitive

[02:48] triggering but it was the most loving

[02:51] thing i heard from a dentist or a doctor

[02:54] because she loved me so much she said

[02:55] charlie i want you to keep on speaking

[02:57] and traveling the country and i love you

[02:58] so much to tell you that if you go don't

[03:00] go do something you don't want to do and

[03:02] get this removed from your body you're

[03:03] not gonna be able to do what you want to

[03:04] do that was loving

[03:06] and our society has conflated nice with

[03:08] lovin

[03:10] or soft with loving progressive

[03:11] christianity i believe needs to better

[03:14] understand that that sometimes we need

[03:15] to be the ambassadors with grace right

[03:18] with a magnanimous way of saying it not

[03:21] trying to offend not having a heart to

[03:23] offend not trying to uh make people feel

[03:27] less than or small but if all of a

[03:29] sudden says charlie you know what do you

[03:30] believe on this certain thing i'm

[03:32] willing to tell you the truth and the

[03:33] truth will set you free and freedom from

[03:36] sin freedom from bondage or freedom from

[03:37] a certain pattern of behavior thank you

[03:39] for asking appreciate it this will be

[03:40] the last question

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