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Self-confidence is essential to a successful life. In this episode, I share a few Bible passages that compromise the believer’s confidence and leaves them vulnerable. Chapters:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible"],"acf":{"file_name":"aa-ep16-bible-destroys-self-confidence","duration":"20:47","ep_num":16,"file_size":18,"transcript_content":"What's up, good people?\n\nThis is your host, Neil Real, and this is the Apostate Apple broadcast back again, talking about how the Bible attacks your selfconfidence confidence in your ability to think for yourself and reason your intuition and stuff like that.\n\nAll right, let's get right into the bullshit.\n\nProverbs, chapter three, verses five.\n\nIt says, Lean not to your own understanding, but in always acknowledge Him or the Lord.\n\nLean not on to your own understanding.\n\nSo you may have an idea, but you say, don't lean on that.\n\nYou don't know what you're talking about.\n\nSubmit to what God is saying.\n\nOr if something don't make sense when God is talking to you, or the pastor is preaching to you, or the religion is off and it's saying some goofy, don't lean to your own understanding.\n\nHere's what's happening here.\n\nThis is setting you up to where you second guess your own thinking, how you process things.\n\nYou feel like, well, I'm not really good at that because the Bible said I'm lean out to my own understanding.\n\nAnd what this is, this also set you up for is gas lighting.\n\nSomebody may do something to you.\n\nYou say, hey, oh, this is what happened.\n\nAnd you know, don't lean on to your own understanding.\n\nThat didn't happen.\n\nDon't you lean to your own understanding.\n\nOkay?\n\nSo you can be exposed to gas light and end up accepting gas lighting from people because of that.\n\nOverall, they can just trick you and have you do something else that you knew wasn't a good idea.\n\nBut hey, don't lean to your own understanding.\n\nAll right, here's another one here.\n\nThis one is attacking your reasoning and your critical thinking skills.\n\nThis is Hebrews chapter eleven, verses six.\n\nAnd it says, without faith, it is impossible to please God because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek Him.\n\nAnd so most Christians operate on faith.\n\nThat's the whole thing.\n\nNo evidence, basically.\n\nAnd let me explain what faith is because they talk about it earlier in the passage.\n\nIn Hebrews, chapter eleven, verses one, it says, now faith is the confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.\n\nSo faith is the confidence in what we hope for.\n\nSo if I have confidence in something that I'm hoping for, that's faith and assurance about what we do not see.\n\nSo I feel, and I really want this, and I have confidence that somehow I'm going to get it.\n\nThat's what faith is.\n\nOkay?\n\nBut if nothing comes out of that, then what's the use of faith?\n\nBut it says here that if you don't have faith, then you don't please Him.\n\nSo you have to be a person that believes even though you have no evidence of his existence.\n\nAnd if you believe, you'll get rewards from Him in heaven.\n\nThat's what this passage is saying.\n\nThey're basically telling you to suspend critical thinking and logic.\n\nThen it goes on to say that anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those that earnestly seek Him.\n\nWhy you got to earnestly seek Him?\n\nSo now you got to put all this effort into connecting with this God who you're praying and praying and praying.\n\nYou're not hearing back.\n\nNow, the Bible can say, well, you're not earnestly seeking Him.\n\nYou got to keep praying.\n\nYou got to keep believing in something that just doesn't come to past.\n\nYou see how this is set up?\n\nIt's your fault if you don't get what you want through faith.\n\nAnd God is dissolved of any wrongdoing.\n\nI remember I was at a house and some of the people were claiming to have the gift of healing.\n\nI said, I got a headache.\n\nSo this girl, she said, come over here, I'm going to put my hands on you.\n\nI'm going to lay hands and you're going to be healed.\n\nAnd so she lays hands, prays, my headache is still there.\n\nShe looked at me like, well, you just ain't got enough faith and maybe you got sin in your life.\n\nI'm like, B****, you said you got to get the healing.\n\nIt don't matter what the f*** I believed.\n\nI wouldn't have came to you if I didn't believe.\n\nYou had to get the healing and that God's power didn't flow through you.\n\nSo how the f*** you going to tell me I ain't got faith and I got sin in my life?\n\nBecause the b**** ain't have no d*** power and it don't work that way.\n\nThere's no God healing nobody.\n\nThis is bullshit.\n\nBut for people who have had their minds hijacked by the parasite religion called Christianity, they are wrapped up in this thing called faith, just accepting things and saying, well, if I don't accept it, then I won't please them.\n\nSo I got to just spend all logic and critical thinking skills, I got to let go of all of that and just accept it.\n\nBecause if I don't, he's not going to be pleased.\n\nThat's kind of convenient, isn't it?\n\nIf you don't believe me, well, you're wrong.\n\nAnd I'm not going to bless you because you don't believe me.\n\nThat don't make sense when anybody else is telling us that.\n\nBut when God, who you never met, who has no evidence of his existence, tells you that you believe it.\n\nYou see, this is something taught to people.\n\nAnd this hijacks your mind and this affects your critical thinking skills and logic, not only when it comes to religion and what they have you to do, but everything else in life.\n\nAnother one, jeremiah, chapter 17, verses nine.\n\nIt says, the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it?\n\nAnd so there have been sayings that, hey, go follow your heart.\n\nThis don't come from Christianity, it comes from other places.\n\nHey, follow your heart.\n\nThe heart is your intuition.\n\nIt's kind of giving you information, and you say, Just do this.\n\nYou know this is the way.\n\nAnd you may not have any evidence or anything, but you just know that's coming from you, all right?\n\nAnd this is telling you that your heart is deceitful and above all things and desperately wicked.\n\nSo you can't listen to your intuition.\n\nThis is what this is doing.\n\nIt's cutting off your intuition.\n\nYou might have a desire to start a business.\n\nYou might feel like, you know, I can do this, but the ministry is keeping you bound to it.\n\nAnd so now you may share that with somebody, and they say, well, you got that from your heart.\n\nYou're saying that in your heart, you feel like you should do this.\n\nWell, that ain't of God.\n\nThat ain't of God.\n\nSo I don't know what are you talking about.\n\nYou need to let go of that.\n\nI've had intuition many times in church where I say, I need to leave this place, or these people ain't right, or they bought to do this to me.\n\nAnd I let it go because I said that's my heart talking.\n\nIt's wicked.\n\nLeaving this fellowship is wrong.\n\nThere's a Bible passage that talks about don't forsake the fellowship of the brethren, s*** like that, and I end up getting hurt.\n\nMy intuition was speaking, but I stopped listening, and now I listen to it, and now it's always right for the most part.\n\nSo it's important to listen to your intuition.\n\nBut, of course, an oppressive religion, a parasite religion, does not want you to listen to your intuition, because your intuition will tell you, hey, get out of that religion.\n\nRight?\n\nHere's another one that destroys your self confidence.\n\nIt says, you can do nothing without Christ.\n\nWe talked about this.\n\nThis is in Matthew, chapter five, verses 15.\n\nHere's another one.\n\nJeremiah, chapter 17, verses five.\n\nIt says, this is what the Lord says.\n\nCurse is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the Lord.\n\nThis is one that was used for me to keep me away from self protection and owning weapons and practicing martial arts.\n\nOkay, so you're cursed if you put your trust in yourself or say somebody's putting trust in somebody else because they got the weapons.\n\nThey got the guns.\n\nJust say, for instance, your wife, and you putting your trust in your husband to protect you instead of God.\n\nYou see?\n\nYou're cursed for that.\n\nThat's what the scripture says.\n\nAnd it says, Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh.\n\nSo when you draw strength from yourself, which is self confidence, and say, I can do this, you're evil.\n\nIt says, whose heart turns away from the Lord, you got to give all glory to God.\n\nYou must say all your energy and strength, and you're trusted in God, not yourself.\n\nOnce again, you're taking away your personal self confidence and leaving it up in the air to God.\n\nYou see, this is f***** up.\n\nAnd I was a person that way.\n\nI felt like, well, God got me.\n\nHe going to take care of me.\n\nNow.\n\nI own a weapon.\n\nI got a little bit of fighting skills because I'm not putting my faith in a guy that don't exist.\n\nI love myself enough to take care of myself and anybody that's in my vicinity under my protection.\n\nI'm not cursed for putting trust in my abilities.\n\nThere ain't nobody else that's going to do it.\n\nI draw strength from myself because that's where this power is going to come.\n\nWhen they come to put hands on somebody that need to get their a** kicked.\n\nI draw strength from my ability to bust my gun at the enemy who would invade my space.\n\nF*** this scripture.\n\nBut what is he doing is tearing you down.\n\nI remember when I was a Bible teacher, and this is what I used to suggest, that people don't carry firearms or practice martial arts.\n\nI taught that and I made it convincing.\n\nNow, used the script, I said, this is what the Bible says.\n\nSo people who carry guns and practice martial arts, they're putting their faith in themselves and not in the Lord.\n\nSo Christians shouldn't carry guns, christians shouldn't practice martial arts.\n\nThat's what I essentially taught.\n\nBut I said, if you have it already, if you already have a gun, and if you already know how to fight, you should use it to protect other people.\n\nAnd then I said, you need to put your faith in your ability to shoot in God, not yourself.\n\nSo when you aim, you got to be thinking about the Lord helping you aim.\n\nAnd when you start to kick somebody a**, you got to put your faith in his abilities through you somehow, some way to you see the goofy s*** that I'm all wrapped up into, it's absolutely ludicrous.\n\nThis is foolishness.\n\nAnother one here about trusting God rather than yourself, destroying your self confidence.\n\nHere Psalms 118, verses eight.\n\nIt is better to take refuge in the Lord than a trust in man, which is yourself.\n\nRight.\n\nThere ain't no God that's going to take care of you.\n\nHe's not there.\n\nYou just believe in something and hoping that it's going to work out.\n\nAnd if it does work out, you'll say, the Lord took care of me.\n\nThat was just a happenstance.\n\nThat just happened that way.\n\nWhat about the times when it all f***** up and burned down?\n\nWhere was God then?\n\nWell, that was God's will for my house to burn down.\n\nIt was God's will for me to get robbed at gunpoint and get my a** kicked.\n\nIt was God's will for that.\n\nBut I thought he was going to protect you.\n\nI thought you put your faith in the Lord, didn't you?\n\nYeah, I put my faith in the Lord, then why didn't he and protect you?\n\nWhere is he?\n\nWhere was God's will?\n\nIt's always your fault or his will.\n\nIt ain't that God don't exist.\n\nYou see, this Bible always covers God, but it's your fault.\n\nYou on the faith.\n\nIf something didn't happen that you wanted to happen, or if something s***** happens to you, it's just the will of God for it to happen.\n\nHe's putting you through a trial so that you can learn something.\n\nGet the f*** out of here.\n\nAll right, here's a few more scriptures to be going to end this.\n\nHere's one that promotes impoverished mindsets.\n\nAll right, so here's the first one.\n\nThe love of money is the root of all evil.\n\nOne timothy 610.\n\nNow, these are religious based because you can clearly see the passage is not saying that money is the root of evil.\n\nIt says the love of money is the root of all evil.\n\nBut religion will omit certain things when it teaches it and cause people to think something negative about money and riches.\n\nAnother passage is the story of the rich young ruler, matthew, chapter 19, verses 16 to 24.\n\nI'm not going to read the whole thing, you could read it yourself.\n\nBut it essentially says that this man who was rich came to Jesus and said, how can I get into the kingdom to heaven?\n\nAnd Jesus said, did you do this, did you do that?\n\nHe said yeah.\n\nHe said, well, why don't you say all your stuff and give it to the poor and follow me?\n\nAnd he didn't do it.\n\nHe said he went away sad because he had so many riches.\n\nHe said it's hard for a rich man to get into heaven.\n\nSo a lot of people take that to mean that rich people or riches in pursuing riches are evil.\n\nAnd so you just kind of stay away from having so much money.\n\nKind of like the link to the passage where I talked about pleasure and how God wanted you to be a lover of Him rather than a lover of pleasure.\n\nIt's just don't have so much, don't be so, don't have so much pleasure, don't have so much fun.\n\nWhat this does to people is it leads them to have a low, impoverished mindset.\n\nThey're poor and they think that's noble living like that.\n\nAnd I remember seeing people in my third church, that was the evangelical church, where there was a couple that was very active in the church.\n\nBut they would get mad at people when they would buy new things for themselves.\n\nThey would judge people and say, you could have spent that on food for the homeless or something.\n\nAnd they always felt like you should live below your just live low like humbly.\n\nDon't get you a new car because you want one.\n\nDon't buy you a new outfit because you want one.\n\nThis poor mindset give all your money to somewhere else so that you don't have all this access bullshit.\n\nIf you got the money, spend it.\n\nIf you got the money, if you want to look right and you want to buy a new outfit, you want to get you a new car, buy that s*** the f*** out of here with that.\n\nBut people end up having this low, impoverished mindset.\n\nAnd then of course, they create a reality around that through their subconscious.\n\nAnd now money don't come to them.\n\nThey struggling all the time.\n\nAnd it's because they don't love money.\n\nYou got to love money to get a lot of money, else you won't get it.\n\nSo they say the love of money is the root of all evil.\n\nNot necessarily true.\n\nYeah, a lot of stuff.\n\nIf you look deep down, you'll find somebody who was trying to get this money.\n\nThey did something foul to get it.\n\nBut that's not always the case.\n\nLoving money leads you to get it so that you can live a comfortable life.\n\nYou should want a comfortable life.\n\nBut if you're a Christian, you'll think that comfortable living or really extravagant living is somehow wrong, it's not.\n\nThere's nothing wrong with that.\n\nWhat's wrong is if you did it through evil.\n\nMeans if you stepped on somebody, you tore somebody down to get it.\n\nBut ain't nothing wrong with getting this money.\n\nBut the Bible has these few passages here.\n\nThere's another one that's been often misused to give everything.\n\nAnd even if your rent wasn't paid, give it.\n\nAnd this older woman gave all she had, and she gave more than those rich people who gave out of their surplus.\n\nAnd she's better and she's more faithful because she gave.\n\nAnd her old a** should have kept that money because she needed for to pay her bills.\n\nCome on, man.\n\nBut they want you in this poor mindset.\n\nSo you ain't got no money.\n\nYou got low confidence.\n\nYou got low self esteem.\n\nYour autonomy is being taken away from you.\n\nJust a following drone sheep with low self esteem.\n\nYou don't think better of yourself.\n\nThis is what the Bible was trying to turn you into.\n\nAnd they turned me into that.\n\nOkay, here's a few more passages to be going in this just one here.\n\nThis is one that is designed to suppress your emotions, particularly anger, because you're going to get angry when you start to see how things are f***** up.\n\nSo in Ephesians, chapter four, verses 26, it says, be angry and sin.\n\nNot that's clearly saying that anger is not a sin, but religion.\n\nYou will hear them say that anger is a sin.\n\nIf you're angry and you show that emotion, they say you're a sinner, you're a bad person.\n\nWhat are you doing?\n\nYou need to calm down.\n\nAnger is a natural emotion that arises when there's a violation of something, when there's an offense of some kind, and when you need to use, when you need fuel to change something.\n\nFor the better.\n\nYou get angry.\n\nThat's a natural emotion.\n\nThere's nothing sinful about emotion.\n\nIt's nothing sinful about anger.\n\nAnd so it just says here in the past, be angry, but don't sin.\n\nYou can be angry, but don't sin.\n\nBut here, even in religion, they'll read his passage and misinterpret it and say that anger is a sin.\n\nAll right?\n\nSo what this does is it pressure emotions, especially when you're angry with your pastor for his abuse.\n\nYou're angry with being taught from out of scripture.\n\nYou're angry with God in some cases.\n\nYou're angry with other people in the church, family members, et cetera.\n\nReligion will tell you to suppress that, and that's not good.\n\nAnd so anger is necessary.\n\nIt tells you what's going on and something needs to be addressed.\n\nBut no, let's suppress that.\n\nThat's all I got for you today.\n\nThank you for listening to the End Rates subscribe share this Broadcast with people email me at neil@neilreal.com and once again, there was nothing good in religion.\n\nAnything that good in religion was followed from humanity.\n\nAll right, have a good 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