Who Did This？ Genesis 1 — Shane Idleman

The Holy Spirit and the Triune Nature of God

But it works, and I know you need the Holy Spirit's power, the Holy Spirit's fire, quenching the Spirit, grieving the Spirit, surrendering to the Spirit, being led of the Spirit. So we look at the triune nature of God.

God is one, but He reveals Himself as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And so we're not over-emphasizing that doctrine per se, but we recognize that that is our only hope. God has to fill His church with the Spirit and bring a spiritual awakening.

If you're wondering, what is it going to take to get America back on track? And that's what it's going to take. And I'm not necessarily convinced that, you know, we will get back on track. It could just be a spiritual battle from here on out.

When God is working, so is the enemy. But I'm very encouraged when God is working because He's in control. The enemy is not in control. So I am excited to start the very first message in this series going through the entire Bible.

Now, what that looks like is anyone's guess. Because I'm not doing verse by verse by verse. Even though I could, it would take about eight years to ten years to do it that way. And that's, I'm just being honest, that's about what it takes.

I'm going to, sometimes in Genesis, yes, and other chapters, verse by verse for sure. But when you get to Proverbs, that's a little difficult. You know, he's all over the place. And when you get to the minor prophets, sometimes here's what Hosea said.

Here's what he spoke to. And you can, key verses, you don't have to necessarily go through every single verse. So I'm going to be open to what God wants to do. But here's a few key reminders. And I might remind you about this from time to time.

Discerning Who Is Thinking for Us

We need to always ask, who is thinking for me? Because you're not necessarily thinking for yourself. It's okay, you can check your phones now, make sure they don't vibrate. You're not always, we think, oh, I'm thinking for myself.

You're either being influenced by God and his word and his principles, or you're being influenced by the pull of the world and the world system. We're not neutral. We're led one way or the other. So listen to Wednesday's message that I just gave.

I'm not sure how much longer it's going to be on YouTube. I will just tell you that right now. They have been warned from a few people that that's probably coming down. And so listen to Wednesday's message that's on YouTube on who thinks for you.

And the reason it's so important because there is a civil war of ideas being fought. Right now, the civil war in our nation that is being fought is a war of ideas. How world views, how people think. And I like what, I don't know who it is necessarily, but I saw on Facebook, Christy Johnston.

I don't know if she goes here, the name sounds familiar. May it never be said of me that I was silent in the face of fear, and in doing so, I passed the battle on to my children. And so it's a key reminder, and I know it's difficult.

I'm in the fight like you are. Not everyone likes what I do. I know it's hard to believe, but there is quite a bit of criticism, quite a bit of demonic attack, quite a bit, especially when you get political.

You know, you hit hot button issues. Boy, oh boy, this is a loaded gun. We live in this world that everything, what you say seems to be like a loaded gun all the time. And then also, we need to keep this in mind.

Who you are speaks so loud that what you say can't always be heard. So remember, it's about who we are, our character. Our character, who we are, how we act. Not about quoting scriptures all the time, but living out the scriptures.

And then when we speak them, it gives it a lot more weight. And then as we're in Genesis especially, questioning science is science. Never forget that. Questioning science is science. And one of the issues out there, you know, if you know me, I like to speak on what's going on.

And I don't have all the answers. Christians have a good pulse on things, but we don't have a perfect pulse. We've been wrong before, and that's why I'm a lot more careful now to just kind of, let's pray about certain things.

Let's make sure that news story's correct, amen. And, but science, so it's going on with the vaccines or masks and different things. It's good to, it demands questions. And when they want to silence questions, it makes you really wonder what is going on.

Questioning Scientific Claims and Trusting God

And so science, questioning science, it always has over the years. It always, especially I remember it was 150 AD, I believe it was. One scientist, I think it was, I don't remember his name, I think I've ever written down.

He recorded, and they taught, and they believe they're exactly 1 ,022 stars. But what happened, something was invented called the telescope, and we learned a lot more. They used to practice, I think George Washington, our first president, used this remedy.

It was called blood letting, where they would drain your blood to get rid of the disease. I mean, we can talk about DDT on your skin for mosquitoes, right? Little kids, and lead-based paint, and it's okay for pregnant women to smoke.

And something called, cocaine was in Coca-Cola. And you know, we're not perfect. Scientists make mistakes. God doesn't. And so it's okay to question things. And I want to encourage you, it's fine to question God's word, as long as it comes from a right heart.

Okay, let me frame that up here. If you don't have questions, I'd like to talk to you afterwards. If you understand Genesis to Revelation, especially Revelation, no questions whatsoever, you got it down, love to talk to you.

It's okay to say, Lord, I don't understand that. I don't. I love you. I appreciate, I just don't understand this. But you're an errant, you're wise, you're all-knowing, you're sovereign. I trust this.

That's actually what happened. Many of you know, but some don't know that Billy Graham had just a, almost a real, walked away from his faith. Probably when he's around 30 years old. Someone by the name of Chuck Templeton was much, they said, smarter, better preacher than Billy Graham.

But he got educated. Went to university and began to doubt the Bible. Began to doubt things that were in it. Began to challenge Billy. How do you know this? Look at this. Science proves this. Science says, look at, and then he had a, he had a, just a struggle with his faith.

He couldn't preach anymore. He was, he was considering going to that same university. And one day he went up to the mountains out by Palm Springs and laid his Bible on the, on the stump of the tree. And he said, Lord, I don't understand everything, but by faith, I'm believing that this is your word.

And from that day forward, he never had to, had that challenge again. So faith does play a role. We don't check our brains at the door. But we also have faith in who God is and in his word. It doesn't, it doesn't contradict itself as people think.

Tolerance, Sin, and the Unity of Scripture

And then also another thing to remember, again, I'm just giving you this, these key reminders for this series. It's so important. We must be tolerant, but not tolerate sin. And that is the challenge. You hear that?

You're not intolerant. You're intolerable. No, we're, we're very tolerable and we're tolerant. We understand people struggling. We're, we're, we're tolerant of that, but we can't be tolerant of sin. We can't just, you know, throw things under the rug, not talk about it, just tolerate everything.

And that's a, that's a hard balancing act too, because some things cannot be tolerated by what is happening in our nation, what we're seeing. But other things, people struggling with sin, we have to be tolerant of that and love them through it and help them through it.

So it is a hard balance to find. I'm going to seek to find that balance. And then number five, one more, the Old Testament is like a dimly lit room. And the New Testament shines a light on it. So we're going to be using, I'm going to be using both the old and the new talking, not talking to each other, but, but shedding this light onto each other.

It's all one word. It's all God's word. And if you want to know, how do we get our Bible? How is it trustworthy? How, how did it, why do you say this is God's word? And you need to go to our website and look at the message, how we got our Bible, what translation is best.

That's what it's called. How we got our Bible, what translation is best. And I talked about it for an hour on how we actually got the word of God and why we believe it is an Aaron inspired word of God.

And as we go through it, I'm going to talk about each week, probably some of the controversy or some of the things in question, or some of the questions out there that some of our teens sent in and some of you have sent in.

And then finally, I love this one. Spurgeon said it. No authority is more powerful than Scripture. For it is not only true, but it has the force to support it. So the word of God, as we're looking at it, and I have, man, I don't know how much to share with you or not because, you know, you get in trouble sometimes.

Scripture, Cultural Context, and Moral Authority

But there's, I have pastor friends who actually make, or at least I know that, I wouldn't say they're friends. They say, they make statements like, well, we, we can't really trust some of Paul's writings.

You're already going down, buddy. You're, you're already, you just jumped on the slippery slope and you're heading down. Well, that was back then, Shane. That was the culture of their day. And so now there are some things that are cultural.

That's why you have to look at the historical context of Scripture, the complete context, the overall context, the historical ramifications. Well, for example, one of the things on this, on the issue of you'll read in the Bible, head coverings.

I personally, that women must wear head coverings. I personally believe that that was a cultural thing in the Middle East that signified a submission to her husband. Like you see now, they're covered up in the Middle East.

If I were to say, Morgan, I just read the Scripture. Get on that head covering every Sunday. Don't, it's not, it wouldn't send the right message. You missed the message. The message is submission. I submit to Christ and die to Christ, love my family.

And then the headship that we'll get into in a little bit too as we go through Genesis. So see, that was a cultural thing. It sends a certain message. So some things I do believe were cultural, but not moral implications, not the moral laws of God's Word never change.

They are still the same and they're still consistent. If God said, thou shalt not, he's not saying thou shalt now. He doesn't, he doesn't change in that area. And so the title of the message is, who did this?

Creation, Order, and the Question of Origins

Who put all this together? Who created all of this? And do you know there's millions of people, even in America, they teach it in our universities that it all just happened. It all just happened. That's like me saying, they're all going to put themselves in order.

A nice straight line. Okay, it's going to go back to, let's see. Anyone want to see? It's going to make a nice, straight, orderly line. All right, let's do this. Let's pick it up and keep trying until it does.

Anyone want to stick around? Why? Order cannot come from chaos. There has to be a, I need those back guys. So that's the point. Who did this? Who created all? It just did not come from nothing. Something comes from nothing.

Order comes from chaos. Let's just use our mind. And when you talk to people who, like you've watched videos with Hitchens or Hawkins or these famous atheists, they are just mad at God. But there's no God.

So what are you mad at? So it's an issue of the heart. It's not really an issue of facts. It's an issue of the heart. I don't want there to be a God. Because this is absolutely, I mean, that's why I told Pastor Abram this week, this is the most exhausting sermon series I've ever done.

Because you could just camp out at Genesis 1 for three weeks. When I start to look at just the, you can Google all this. Make sure you find the right page though. But the probability of life on earth, what has to happen with the nitrogen level and the oxygen level and the atmospheric pressure?

It just boggles your, all these perfect little things that have to happen to support life. If it's even off balance at 1%, there's no life. And so all that, come on, come on. Who's really foolish here?

They think Christians are foolish. You check your brains at the door. You don't use intellect. No, you don't. You think all this just happened. You have greater faith actually. You have greater faith than I do.

So who did this? Hebrews 11. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. So see, there is an element of faith in there. I don't hide away from that. Of course, you take wisdom, common sense, look at what God has given us.

Creation screams creator. And then you place a faith in what God has done and is doing. Science and faith, what I have found, confirm each other. They don't disagree. Why are there seashells on the top of mountains?

The Flood, Fossils, and Evidence for Creation

Global flood? Oh no, that could have never happened. Was the earth ever connected? Do you notice how the connection? And then great cataclysmic event and the deeps were open and mountains were formed.

And I mean, I have no other explanation. Even one of the top atheists, when he was pressured. It was either Hawking's or Hitchens. I don't remember. Somebody was pressing him. It's pressing him. Well, where did it come from?

And he finally just said, well, maybe we came on the back of crystals from aliens. Okay, who made the aliens? But they hate God. They hate the concept of God. They hate morality. They hate anything to do with God because the darkness has bound them and they hate the light.

It's a battle. It's a battle. Even Darwinism, if you've researched that. And most scientists even now are saying, how could this be possible? They can't. There's no, what they call the missing link, right?

You don't see species changing from, you don't catch that in the fossil record. You catch nothing. You see what you see in the fossil record. I talked to atheists about this before and they agree. You see a mass, mass extinction in the fossil record.

Just billions of animals laid out. Okay, where did that happen? How did that, maybe a flood? And so there is the science and faith. Granted, there are some things that don't line up. I mean, don't line up.

I shouldn't say that. We just don't quite understand. But there's so much there that where faith and science agree. And so we're not reckless in this belief. There is evidence. I just saw this on Facebook, a quote.

When scientists cannot accurately predict the weather in their local community, how can they tell us with assurance what happened in another galaxy 4 billion years away? And now, so I don't come across too critical.

We love scientists. We need scientists. I think there's some scientists that come here. Maybe a rocket scientist once came. And so we love it. We appreciate it. But you have to understand that they're infallible.

I'm sorry, they're fallible. God is infallible. They are with error. We make mistakes. If you look at what heart surgeons or what they used to do with hearts and different things 100 years ago and what they recommend now, and you see that we're progressing.

We're learning certain things. And with even Einstein, what is that? E equals mc squared energy equals mass something times, you know, you guys know. The smart ones know out there. But even that, you know, he was challenged by certain people.

And we don't, we're still learning. That's all I'm saying. And so some of there's been carbon dating testing where they said this is like a billion years old. And they come to find out it was formed by a volcano about 300 years ago.

It's just, and so we, my point is we cannot trust in science. We can glean from it. We can learn from it. But I put it into the filter of God's word, not the other way around. And to me, God's word makes complete sense in light of science.

Oh, I was mentioning his name is Claudius, who recorded 1022 stars in 1850. And that was the standard. That's what they, because what did they do? They saw. Blessed, do not trust in your own understanding.

Do not trust in your own understanding. Lean not on your own understanding, but in all your ways, acknowledge God. And because we, here's the thing with faith. Faith is the evidence of things not seen.

So this, see, I see something. How many of us are saying right now, this is not going to work out well, Lord. I see. Not too, I'm not too hopeful on September 14th. If you can, if you can rig a national election, you can probably, you know, you can probably play some games with the state election too.

Sorry, I won't go there. But you can see things I don't see. I don't, I don't see. There's not a lot of hope. I don't see things aren't going good and, or your kids aren't walking with the Lord. I don't see.

See, we look at how we see and what we think is going to happen. God sees the big picture. That's why he says, trust in me, have faith. Faith is the evidence of things not seen. Lord, I can't see it, but you can.

So I trust in you, not in our economy, not in the military, not in the news. I trust in you and you alone. I have faith in you. And then you walk out that faith. And by walking out that faith, you respond to things you don't react.

You don't live like the world lives. You don't live in fear. You look to God and his word. And then before I start Genesis 1, the last scripture that is so important, and I love reading the scriptures because a lot of people are really, they don't know the scripture, so when they see it, really the light comes on.

Creation Reveals God's Nature

But Romans 1 .20 is huge. I did choose the English Standard Version. I've memorized before the New King James and the King James, the invisible attributes are clearly seen. And this one, though, really speaks to the issue as well.

For his invisible attributes, God's attributes, who he is, namely his eternal power, meaning what is his eternal power? Creation, his ability to create, and his divine nature have been vaguely perceived.

They have been clearly perceived. Ever since the creation of the world and the things that have been made, so that people are without excuse. So here's your answer when people say, what about that poor little boy in the jungles of Africa who've never heard about Jesus?

God's invisible attributes are clearly seen. God will reveal himself no matter where a person is. They're without excuse. That's why a person is without excuse. Because God, it's clear. People with a thinking mind can see, I'm not God.

I'm a speck of dirt on this planet. I need to know who you are. And that's why God gives visions and dreams to many in the Muslim countries, or those in Africa or the jungle. They'll see, they don't know exactly Jesus' name, but they see, or God will reveal himself to those who are truly seeking.

They're without excuse. But Romans goes on to say, but they suppress the truth in all ungodliness. It's like pushing a ball underwater. Have you ever done that in the pool? And that boy got nailed a couple times right in the chin with a basketball.

And so suppressing the truth, the more you begin to suppress the truth, God says, I will give them up to a depraved and corrupted mind. I began to compare what was on the media 30 years ago to now, and it's demonic and perverted.

It's unbelievable. Think about how far. I mean, let's go 40 years. I love Lucy. Leave it to Beaver. Bathing suits, one piece from neck to ankle. Right? The women wearing an ankle and their little umbrellas.

But then they slowly, and now you got Lil Nas X on YouTube saying he's pregnant and putting his blood into his shoes, and Billie Eilish, or whatever her name, these videos, or Weekend, whatever. And I watched 10 seconds.

I'm like, how do they want? This is glorified, perverted, illicit sex in a demonic, satanic atmosphere. And we're worshiping it, and we're welcoming. People say, why are we so depraved in America? Let me tell you why.

God gives them up to a debased and corrupted mind unless they turn back to him. And so that's the foundation. 20 minutes to get to the Genesis 1. And on Genesis, I think it's important to read a lot of the scriptures.

We're going to put them up on the screen. There's a daunting process putting this together because I just want to throw something together. I want to be prayed up. Lord, what do you want to speak to us?

And probably 15, 20 hours this week, just pouring into this, and verse by verse in this consent. But then I also have ellipses. Do you know what that is? Those three periods. And that's where maybe I'll take out a couple portions of scripture because it's kind of repetitive.

It's just saying the same thing. And so we get to the point a little bit quicker. But Genesis 1 opens with this. Genesis 1 .1. In the beginning, who? God created the heavens and the earth. So see, it has to start there.

That's where most people get off track or on track. If you're off track in the very first verse of the Bible, the rest is going to fall apart. Well, I don't know about that, Shane. I can't quite buy into that.

Well, it's a fair question. Take it to God and let him reveal himself to you. But in the beginning, that tells me there was a beginning, meaning when time started. It wasn't the beginning of God. My daughters like to ask, can kids ask the best questions ever?

They stump me more time. Well, let me get back to you on that one. A while back, they said, well, who created God then, Dad? Well, no one. Well, how no one? How did he come? You know, there's a level of faith there.

God was always existed. He actually exists outside of time. He's not a timetable. He's not winding down. He's not going to fade away. He lives outside of time. So when he created, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

The time clock started. How do I know that? Because they talk about in the end. So with a beginning, you have to have the end. So in the beginning period, whenever that was, God created the heavens and the earth.

And then verse two, the earth was without form and void. And I did a Hebrew word study on those. Basically means without shape, without character, without any type of, like we couldn't live on it. That's for sure.

It was just this blob of darkness and mass of planets and different things. And so it was without form. It was void. And darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God. We just sang about the Spirit of God.

The Spirit of God in Creation

It's in the second verse here. The Spirit of God is so important. Don't be afraid of the Holy Spirit. So many people say, I don't want to get weird. No, you don't want to get weird, but you want to get filled.

You want to get filled with the Spirit of God. That's biblical. Paul said, be filled with God's Spirit. Can you imagine the Spirit of God controlling you in these dire times? When you can walk into government officials and stand your ground and say things in love and know that persecution is coming.

Know that the times are getting difficult. But because I'm filled with the Spirit of God, the pressure on the outside is not greater than the strength on the inside. I'm able to hold back the tide of darkness because the Spirit of God is residing in those who love Him and are filled with Him.

That's how you change the nation. That's how you change the church. You're filled with God's Spirit. And this Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Now you're ready to get controversial?

The Age of the Earth and the Meaning of Creation Days

How old is the earth? Every time I talk about this, people send me books. Either from Ken Ham or Hugh Ross. We've talked about this before. So they're both on fully different sides of the spectrum. The age of the earth.

And actually, believe it or not, a lot of it has to do with what we just read. There's something called the gap theory. The gap theory. Meaning, is there a gap? Because God lives outside of time. So in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

He created. So could it have kept like that for millions of years? Because He lives outside of time. Could it? I mean, you know? You want to know my thoughts? Don't worry, I'm getting there. I'm a little opinionated.

Now, well, I'll just sum it up. How's that? It goes back to the question. Nobody has perfect theology. I mean, the best theologians in the world are divided. Could it be a long period of time in this first verse?

I guess it could, sure. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. But once God starts His creative order, I see literal days. Because on the sixth day, God. Seventh day, God rested. And He gives us a seventh day to rest.

The evening and the morning were the first day. And so just the reading. I've looked at the Hebrew word yom. Could mean decades. Could be a period of time. But I also look at the language, the sentence structure, the order of things.

But then you get to part where Adam named all the animals and couldn't find to help me. It's like, well, do you name all the animals in one day like that? I mean, you think. There's some thinking that goes on.

But in my opinion, okay, sure. There could be a long, long, long period of time here. Do I personally think so? No, I don't personally think so. I think God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form and darkness.

And then God began His creative order. However, it's not a hill to die on. And some people have got really mad at me. I'm saying, if you think that, then you're encouraging evolution. No, I'm not. I'm not saying people evolved.

I'm just saying, let Scripture speak for itself. And people say, but look at how old the earth looks. Well, how old did Adam look when he was one second old? Let me grab the dust of the earth, breathe in him, became a living being.

How old does he look? 30? He doesn't look nine months. Come on, guys. So God created Adam like that. So he looks 30. So if you see him, go, no, he's got to be 30 years old. So I'm not buying that, how it looks.

Of course, God creates something. It's not going to look fresh and new, necessarily. It's going to look like his point of creation. So my point is, those who believe in a gap theory, or the earth could be millions or billions of years old, it's not necessarily a hill to die on.

Now, if they use it to promote evolution, yeah, that's not good. And that's where Ken Ham always goes. He always thinks that these guys are promoting evolution. And I don't think that. But then I read Hugh Ross, and he gets a little out there on some weird stuff.

I don't quite understand where he's coming from on a lot of things. And so we have to realize both men are fallible. God's Word is not. I just take it to mean, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

He knows how. Who, I mean, what does it got to do with, why do we want to argue about it? The earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the earth, and the Spirit of God is hovering over the face of the waters.

Okay. And then isn't it interesting, Isaiah 40, 22 said, the circle of the earth, the circle of the earth. I don't know if I want to touch on this one. Should I touch on this one? You guys know where I'm going, don't you?

The Shape of the Earth and the Vastness of the Universe

If I get another flat earth pamphlet mailed to me, my friends work at NASA. NASA's not of the devil. Astronauts have taken pictures. You see current pictures now from Google Earth. You can see it's a Spirit's round.

Do I even need to go any further? Okay. As long as you know where I stand. Please do not start watching everything on the YouTube. Earth is flat. George W. Bush planned the Twin Towers. I mean, come on.

Give me a break. Job 26, 7, God hangs the earth on nothing. Isaiah 40, 22, God stretches out the heavens like a curtain. And they still think the universe is expanding. Isn't it interesting? The size of the universe.

And see, I could have spent another two sermons here. It's just so hard to find out where. Do you know how long it takes light to travel to the moon? 1 ,001, 1 ,002. Two seconds. I think it's like 156 ,000 miles per second.

But to get to the end of the universe, I don't remember. I'm not going to say it because it's a crazy number, like 400 million years. Don't quote me, please. I'm just, you know, trying to go off. But how, the moon's right there.

And then how the expansion of the universe, it's just incredible. And so I'm not going to have some scientist who is with air tell me he knows how to measure the speed of light across the entire universe and gauge how old it is.

I'm not quite trusting that. I'm going to trust God and say, Lord, whatever it is, I don't know how old it is exactly. Looking at your word, I would assume that these are literal days. When God said, let there be light, verse 3, there was light.

And God saw the light and it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light day. And the darkness he called night. So the evening and the morning were, see, I can't put that in a million years.

There's just no way I can do that personally. So the evening and the morning were the first day. And again, I already talked to you about this. God gave his example of resting on the seventh day and our example to rest on the Sabbath.

So many other things. I mean, I could have spent probably another 15 minutes on the age of the earth. But I don't think it's where we need to spend our time right now. Then verse 6, then God said, let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters.

And God called the firmament the heavens. So the evening and morning were the second day. So this, nobody's clear either. But it appears that there was some type of canopy, some type of expansion of the sky.

There was something different because even Noah's in the flood, the great deeps, the great deep opened up. There's a cataclysmic type of event that happened. And then God said, let the waters under the heavens, so the waters, be gathered together into one place.

And then let the dry land appear. So it appears that the waters were one place and the land was one place. Look at a globe. What does it look like? The land was created. So you can't see, and when you take tectonic plates and those plates move on a massive scale, God opens the deep and these plates move.

What do they do? They push against each other and form something called mountains, folded mountains or box mountains or different volcanic mountains can form as well. So you see, all this is consistent with creation.

That's why, I mean, God's, it's just, it's just amazing. For example, let's just take an example. You take the Book of Mormon, you can't find one single location mentioned in the Book of Mormon. Not a piece of weaponry, not a city, nothing.

It's almost like it's a fable. And please hear my heart. People get upset. That might upset somebody. Why do you mean to people? That's not mean. That's telling the truth. You better get your definition correct, because we are living in times right now where the line of demarcation is being drawn in the sand, and we've got to speak the truth in love.

That's actually, I believe it's cowardly not to say anything. If you say it with the right heart, with the right motive, with the right tone, of course you're going to be poking and making fun, and that might have came across a little too making fun.

But my point is, there's nothing to substantiate that. Zero. And they put the Book of Mormon above the Bible, yet there's nothing in it. And when you go into the teaching, the secret ceremonies of the wedding, that you'll be a god someday, like God, and rule a planet and have celestial sex and have spirit children.

That's apostate. That's unbiblical. And so we should speak the truth in love. I want to shock somebody so much they shock them out of that religion, because they test it and they check it. Jesus did it.

Christ as the Only Way to the Father

Shane, when? I am the only way. I am the only truth. I am the only life. Nobody, nobody, nobody comes to the Father except through me. Not Buddha, not Muhammad, not Harry Krishna, not Joseph Smith, not Brigham Young.

Nobody comes to the Father except through me. Not the papacy, not the Roman Catholic Church. You want me to keep going? I am the only way, right there. That's the line of demarcation in the sand. If God would fire you up with the Holy Spirit, you'd be bold as well, because you have to.