"[Shane Harper singing "Hold You Up"]" "When it's coming apart, you had it all" "It wasn't enough" "No, it's not enough" "They tell you it's not worth the price" "So just let it go" "But you know you can't" "You know you won't" "It's not easy, no, finding the words to say" "When you're feeling lost, you'll find your way" "The world is so broken and sometimes it leaves you cold" "At nighttimes you can't feel the fire to guide you home" "The demons will harm you and try to steal what you know" "But the angels, they brought you" "And they're gonna hold you up" "They're gonna hold you up" "They see the fear in your eyes" "Heart sinks like a stone" "'Cause when you're afraid, it weighs on your soul" "When the timing is right, somehow you'll know" "When nobody stands, stand on your own" "It's not easy, no, finding the words to say" "When you're feeling lost, you'll find your way" "The world is so broken and sometimes it leaves you cold" "At nighttimes you can't feel the fire to guide you home" "The demons will harm you and try to steal what you know" "But the angels, they brought you" "And they're gonna hold you up" "They're gonna hold you up" "They're gonna hold you up" "They're gonna hold you up" "They're gonna hold you up" " Name?" " Wheaton." "Josh Wheaton." "You got your pre-registration sheet?" "(Josh) Yeah." "All core requirements are here." "What is your humanities elective?" "." "Philosophy 1 50." "Radisson, 1 1 :00 on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday." "You might want to think about a different instructor." "Because?" "Let's just say you're wandering into the snake pit." "I'd recommend Patel or maybe Mueller." "Come on, man." "It can't be that bad." "Think Roman Colosseum, lions, people cheering for your death." "(Josh) Yeah, but I'd have to rearrange my whole schedule." "I don't think I can really" "It's your funeral." "Last drop date is the 22nd." "You might want to keep that in mind." "You're done." " Thanks." " Yeah, have a good semester." " Hi." " Martin Yip." "What does P.R.C. stand for?" "." "People's Republic of China." "Oh." "Seriously?" "." "(Martin) Oh yes, always serious." "(registrar) Okay." "[cell phone ringing]" "You've gotta be kidding me!" "." "(receptionist) White  Wolfe, how can I help you?" "." "Yes, please hold." "White  Wolfe." "Mm-hmm, I will let 'em know you called." "Thank you, bye-bye." "(businessman) Buy as much Tochigi Heavy Industries as you can on-margin." "We've gotten wind of a merger and the Japanese could care less about insider trading." "You're gonna thank me for this one, I guarantee it." "You're on with Marc." "Hey, I need you to give me directions." "You're kidding, right?" "." "No, somebody stole my GPS and my phone has decided that it is spinning propeller time." "(Marc) Can't do it." "The Nikkei just opened and there's a massive sell-off going on." "Oh, and by the way, I made reservations for us Friday at La Rive Gauche." "Wait, you'll take me to La Rive Gauche but you won't take the time to give me directions?" "." "What's in it for me?" "." "(female) You're kidding, right?" "." "You're serious." "Okay, well, I'm on my way to an ambush interview of Duck Commander Willie Robertson, and I am going to crash that party and hold his feet to the fire." "And yesterday's discrete web hits were over 32,000, which means I am on pace for over a million views this month and my-- [together] --own advertisers." "That's my girl!" "Not just another pretty face." "(female2) Miss Shelley, I've got something special for you today." "Think you're gonna like it." "Oh my, chicken!" "I don't know when was the last time I had chicken." "(female2) That would be yesterday, for lunch and dinner." "Are you serious?" "." "I don't think that she should have the same thing every" "You think of anything else gonna make her that happy?" "." "Is it okay if I help?" "." "Oh, alright, alright." "You're new here, aren't you?" "." "It's me, Mom." "Mina, your daughter." "[chuckling]" "I'm sorry, I don't" "It's okay, it's okay." "I don't see a ring." "It's complicated." "I am Professor Radisson and this is Philosophy 1 50," "Introduction to Philosophical Thought." "If either of those facts is news to you, then now would be your turn to leave." "I understand some of you are here to satisfy your Liberal Arts elective requirements." "If you're looking for an easy grade without much work, well, then now would be your turn to leave." "See, you've now enrolled at a university." "You'll be expected to produce university-level work." "Pfft, I'm out." "There's always one." "Michel Foucault, Bertrand Russel," "Ludwig Feuerbach, Bertolt Brecht," "Friedrich Nietzsche, Ayn Rand, George Santayana," "Democritus, Denis Diderot, David Hume," "John Stuart Mill, Albert Camus, Richard Dawkins," "Sigmund Freud, Noam Chomsky." "The list goes on." "Philosophers, poets, scientists, authors, towering intellects, all of them." "But what do they all have in common?" "." "Yes?" "." "They're all dead." "(Professor Radisson) Well, that would be incorrect." "Mr. Dawkins and Mr. Chomsky are still very much alive, Mister" "G-dog Gerard Trigga." "G-dog." "Anyone else?" "." "No one?" "." "Well, they are, or were...atheists." "Based on the 1 6th-century French "athe'isme,"" "from the Greek "theos," meaning "God,"" "and from the prefix "a,"" "meaning, as it always does in Greek, "without."" "In short, each of the thinkers I named took the strong position that there is no God, as opposed to the weak position of agnosticism." ""Gnostic," from the Greek "gnosos," to know, and again, with the prefix "a" meaning to not know, or more accurately, to doubt the existence of a supreme being." "This semester, I propose that we refuse to waste our limited time together debating the existence of the big man in the sky, the myth of a benevolent, all-powerful, supernatural being." " Hey!" "." " How was your flight?" "." " Wonderful." " Wonderful?" "." "It's like a 30-hour flight." "Thirty-six." "Great to see you." "Nice to see you." "Dakar to Zurich, Zurich to Frankfurt, an 8-hour layover, and direct to Carter lnternational." "Ugh, how does that translate as wonderful?" "." "I'm happy, I'm safe, and now I'm here because God is good." "All the time." "And all the time?" "." "God is good." "(Professor Radisson) God is dead." "This is, of course, a metaphor, but an illustrative one meaning not that God has somehow died, but rather that he never existed in the first place, other than in the depths of our forebears' imaginations." "He was a useful fairy tale in ages gone by, when his fiery anger was used to explain away plagues and crop failures, diseases and disasters, which we now ascribe to bacteria and viruses, chromosomal disorders, and plate tectonics." "In short, science and reason have supplanted superstition, and we are all the better for it." "And with your permission," "I would like to bypass this senseless debate all together and jump to the conclusion of which every sophomore is already aware of:" "there is no God." "All that I require from each of you is that you fill in the papers I've just given you with three little words:" ""God is dead,"" "along with your signature." "The sooner we reach a unanimous consensus, which I expect we will," "I will be spared the tedious duty of slogging through dry and dusty arguments, and you will bypass the section of the course in which students have traditionally received their lowest grades of the semester." "And when you finish, please pass your papers to the right." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Oh, a lower case "g."" "Maybe this one ought to get extra credit." "Thank you." "Excuse me, Mister" "Wheaton." "Josh Wheaton." "Mr. Wheaton, is something wrong?" "." "Yeah, I can't." "I can't do what you want." "I'm a Christian." "Oh, don't worry." "You can still go back to your dorm room and sink to your knees and pray to your bedside if you'd like." "What you do in your personal life is your business, but what you do in this class is mine." "I can't." "Alright, Mr. Wheaton." "Allow me to explain the alternative." "If you cannot bring yourself to admit that God is dead for the purposes of this class, then you will need to defend the antithesis that God is not dead." "And you'll need to do it in front of this class from the podium." "And if you fail, as you shall, you will fail this section and lose 30% of your final grade right off the bat." "Are you ready to accept that?" "." "Well, who would decide whether I won or lost the argument?" "." "Well, I would." "It's my class, my rules." "Grading's my prerogative." "No disrespect, but I'm not sure you can be objective." "What would you propose?" "." "Well, what about them?" "." "Well, that's interesting, but why would I want to empower them?" "." "Well, you've already won them over." "I mean, I'd have to unconvince them, get them to admit they were wrong." "Alright, Mr. Wheaton." "You'll get 3 sessions, the last 20 minutes of each of the next 3 classes, to make your case." "I promise to keep my interruptions to a minimum." "You may take whatever questions you'd like from the class, but I will not increase your allotted time." "Of course, you'll be responsible for all the other class assignments." "But, you know, you could change your mind and bring in your signed statement at our next class, and we'll go forward as though none of this ever happened." "The rest of us, having dispensed with primitive superstition, will turn our focus to the issue of being in reality." "For our next class, please have read David Hume's "The Problems of induction"" "and Renee Descartes' "Discourse on Method,"" "to which you may add Bertrand Russell's" ""Why I Am Not a Christian"" "in preparation for Mr. Wheaton's lecture and in thanks for his failure to help us reach a unanimous consensus." "You don't want to deny your faith, I get it." "So, the answer's simple:" "drop the class." "Yeah, but I'm not sure I can do that." "I feel like God wants someone to defend him." "Don't be ridiculous." "I don't know, I just keep thinking of that C.S. Lewis line," ""Only a real risk can test the reality of a belief."" "So, you're gonna risk our future over your yearbook quote?" "." "Josh, why am I here?" "." "Hello, earth to Josh." "Why am I, Salutatorian of our graduating class, here at my third-choice school?" "." "I'm sorry for having the next 50 years of our life planned out." "That's just who I am." "I don't know, Kara, it's just" "(Josh's girlfriend) Josh, I love you, but I absolutely forbid you to go up against this professor in his own classroom." "We have too much at stake." "The whole thing's rigged to make you look like an idiot, and if you want to get into law school, you can't afford to flunk this class." "Even a "C" could be disastrous." "I don't know why you wear those heels." "What's wrong with 'em?" "." "You're too tall." "You're taller than me." "You're man enough to handle it." "I'm just saying, I don't want to be the short guy at the prom." "Mr. Robertson!" "Hi, or should I call you Willie?" "." "You can call me Willie." "Amy Ryan, I blog "The New Left."" "Can I ask you a few questions?" "." "Yeah, sure, fire away." "This is my wife" "(Amy) Korie, I know." "I'm actually surprised to see you here." "I thought you'd be home, barefoot and pregnant." "I haven't been barefoot and pregnant in a really long time." "I do kinda miss those days, huh?" "." "Yeah, you want to start again?" "." "We can try." "No." "(Amy) You've made a fortune selling devices that are designed to lure water fowl to their deaths." "Oh, I guess when you say "you,"" "you're referring to the whole group of my family, which would be "y'all."" "You can just change it to "y'all."" "That'd be an easier expression, that way it'll get everybody in there." "So, y'all have made a fortune, isn't that right?" "." "We're doing alright." "We can certainly buy bigger tires on our trucks and four-wheelers to get out in the mud with, so life is good." "What makes you think you have the moral right to go around maiming and killing innocent animals?" "." "Hey, look, let's just get one thing straight." "I ain't maiming nothing." "Whatever I see and I aim at, I shoot." "When I shoot it, I kill it and then I eat it." "So, you do kill those ducks?" "." "(Willie) Of course I do." "What am I gonna do, cook 'em while they're still moving around?" "." "That would be cruel." "(Korie) That'd be bad." "So, this isn't an act?" "." "You're actually proud of what you do?" "." "Of course I am." "Why would I do it if I'm not proud of it?" "." "And you go along with everything he says?" "." "We've been married for 20 years." "I don't go along with everything he says, but on the things that matter, yeah," "I agree wholeheartedly." "So, what do you say to people who are offended by your show, not just because of the hunting, but because you openly pray to Jesus in every episode?" "." "Hey, we're not trying to offend anybody, alright?" "." "If they don't want to watch the show, they can turn the channel." "As far as my praying to Jesus, my life and my whole eternity belongs to God." "All this stuff is temporary:" "the money, fame, success." "T emporary." "Even life is temporary." "Jesus, that's eternal." "Jesus said this:" ""Whoever acknowledges me before men,"" "he will acknowledge before the Father in heaven." ""Whoever disowns me, I'll disown him to the Father."" "Now, those words are written in red so they're important." "And that's it?" "." "That's it." "That's what we're going with." "Pretty simple, isn't it?" "." "Thanks for your time." "Come on, let's go do some acknowledging." "You're welcome to join us." "(Amy) No thanks, I'm good." "You're good?" "." "Alright." "Who was that lady?" "." "##" "You're beautiful." "I wish you didn't have to do that." "It's for my father." "He's very traditional." "[horn honking]" "[speaking foreign language]" "Who were you talking to?" "." "No one." "Ayisha, I know it's hard living in their world and being apart from it, a world you can see but can't touch." "I know they seem happy, but know that when you look around at all those people, there is no one who worships God, not the way he deserves and demands to be worshipped." "We must never forget who and what we are." "That is the most important thing." "Yes, Baba." "I only insist on this because I love you." "You know that, don't you?" "." "That I love you?" "." "Of course, Baba." "Can I help you?" "." "You waiting for someone?" "." "Yeah, you could say that." "It looks like he's out at the moment." "(reverend) Well, maybe that's why he sent me." "[Stellar Kart singing "Ones and Zeros"]" "We are the ones and zeros" "The beautiful incomplete [cell phone ringing]" "We are the future heroes" "A colorful symphony" "We are the ones" "(Josh) I could drop the class, run away, pretend like it never happened, which is what my girlfriend wants." "I could sign the paper saying something I don't believe." "Or I commit academic suicide in front of a live audience by trying to prove that God exists." "How many people in that class?" "." "Eighty maybe." "And how many of them do you think would ever step foot in here, or any other church for that matter?" "." "Well, none probably." "So, your acceptance of this challenge, if you decide to accept it, may be the only meaningful exposure to God and Jesus they'll ever have." "Yeah." "Yeah, I suppose so." "Check out Matthew 1 0:32-33." "What, that's it?" "." "That's all?" "." "Yeah." "Just a Scriptural citation?" "." "If you're still undecided after that one," "look at Luke 1 2:48." "It can't be that simple." "(reverend) Sure it can." "You're here because that still small voice inside you isn't happy with the choices everyone else wants you to make." "Personally, I think it's the Holy Spirit talking to you." "That's how he interacts with us if we allow him to." "All you have to do is decide whether or not you're willing to listen." "It's not easy, but it's simple." ""So everyone who acknowledges me before men," ""l also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven," ""but whoever denies me before men," "I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven."" ""Everyone to whom much was given," ""of him much will be required," ""and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more."" "[text message alert tone]" "(Amy) Sorry I'm late." "I had to move a ton of stuff around just to get here." "That's alright." "Please, go and have a seat Ms. Ryan." "[text message alert tone]" "Oh, excuse me a second." "We've gotten your results back from your test the last week." "[text message alert tone]" "Okay, as I was saying-- [cell phone ringing]" "I'm so sorry." "I have got to take this call." "Amy." "Your results came back positive." "You have cancer." "I don't have time for cancer." "I'm too busy." "(doctor) Listen, it's already grown into the surrounding tissue." "Your lymph nodes are involved and your blood markers indicate evidence of distant metastasis." "Now, I've already scheduled you for an mri." "We need to determine the extent of it." "I know you're very important and the world can't get along without you, but it's my job to let you know that it may be preparing to do exactly that, and it certainly will unless you begin immediate treatment." "Do you understand?" "." "Hey babe." "Babe, where've you been?" "." "Did you turn your phone off?" "." "More like I forgot to turn my phone on." "Do you know what day it is?" "." "Thursday?" "." "Anything else?" "." "The 1 3th?" "." "Happy anniversary." "Six years ago, your youth group collided with mine." "You remembered." "Mm-hmm, and we're gonna celebrate." "You remember how we met?" "." "The Newsboys." "They're gonna be in town next Friday." "(Kara) You are amazing, which is why I love you." "Look, I know I came off probably way too strong yesterday." "You know, I just" "I get concerned when outside things start coming between us." "You get that, can't you?" "." " Sure." " Forgive me?" "." " Always." "Come on." "I just need" "Whoa!" "Well, that can't all be Statistics." "Josh, please tell me you haven't been spending all your time on that philosophy thing." "Not all of it." "Okay, most of it." "Josh, that's not funny." "Okay, it's really not." "Look, this is something I want to do, okay?" "." "I don't understand how it comes between us." "Josh, everything you do is about us." "Okay, we're a team." "I mean, we're what, 6 years going on forever, right?" "." "That means your grades, your whole future," "I'm a part of that." "I don't see how this is contributing to our future." "(Josh) Yeah, well, neither do my parents or anyone else in my life." "What should that tell you if every single person that loves you is saying the exact same thing?" "." "Josh, I'm letting you know now for your own good, this experiment is over." "You need to prioritize and decide who's the most important person in your life, me or Professor Radisson?" "." "What if it's God?" "." "God wants you with me, so it's the same answer." "Return the books to the library, sign the stupid paper, and move on." "A year from now, we'll look back on this and laugh." "We're not in high school anymore." "The decisions you make now can have real consequences." "Josh!" "Josh, this is serious." "I know." "You know." "(Reverend Dave) I can't believe I'm making a 1 2-hour drive to Florida to do things that seemed corny when I was 1 2." "(out-of-town pastor) David, I promised my mother a picture of me in mouse ears standing in front of the fairy tale castle." "The mouse ears are for me, picture is for her." "T o you, it's old-hat, but to me, it's a lifelong dream come true." "Can you not understand that?" "." "Then we'll go for the undersea submarine ride." "(Reverend Dave) Actually, I think they closed that ride like 20 years ago." "And then we'll ride the world's biggest roller coaster." "Sixteenth biggest." "In my mind, when I'm screaming as we descend, it will be the world's biggest and I'll be glad that it's not taller than it is." "[engine sputtering]" "That doesn't sound good." "[engine sputtering]" "Maybe the battery-- [engine sputtering]" "Or the starter." "Either way, we're not going anywhere right now." "I'll call and arrange for a rental car." "But how will we get to the rental car?" "." "They'll deliver it to us." "Are you serious?" "." "Yeah, absolutely." "They'll deliver us the car we are to drive?" "." "Yeah." "Hello?" "." "Amazing." "(Professor Radisson) But there are some flat-earthers out there who still consider the existence of a supreme deity to be either necessary, or self-evident, or both." "And with that, as previously announced," "I will be turning the podium over to Mr. Wheaton, who will be presenting his case in favor of a supreme celestial dictator, otherwise known as God." "Mr. Wheaton, are you ready?" "." "Podium is yours." "Atheists say that no one can prove the existence of God, and well, they're right." "But I say no one can disprove that God exists." "But the only way to debate this issue is to look at the available evidence, and that's what we're going to do." "We're going to put God on trial, with Professor Radisson as the prosecutor, and me as the defense attorney, and you as the jury." "Most cosmologists now agree that the universe began some 1 3.7 billion years ago in an event known as the Big Bang." "So, let's look at theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg's description of what the Big Bang would have looked like." "And since he's an atheist, we can be sure there isn't any believer-bias in his description." "In the beginning, there was an explosion, and in 3 minutes, 98% of the matter there is or ever will be, was produced." "We had a universe." "For 2,500 years, most scientists agreed with Aristotle on the idea of a steady-state universe, that the universe has always existed with no beginning and no end, but the Bible disagreed." "In the 1 920s, Belgian astronomer Georges Lematre, a theist, who was actually also" "(female student) What's a theist?" "." "(Josh) A theist is someone who believes in the existence of God." "He said that the entire universe jumping into existence in a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, out of nothingness, in an unimaginably intense flash of light is how he would expect the universe to respond if God were to actually utter the command in Genesis 1 :3," ""Let there be light."" "In other words, the origin of the universe unfolded exactly how one would expect after reading Genesis, and for 2,500 years, the Bible had it right and science had it wrong." "(Reverend Dave) So, the earliest you can get here is 5?" "." "Okay, we'll be waiting." "Wait, it has air conditioning, right?" "." "Okay, thanks." "Well, looks like we won't get there 'til late tonight." "Sorry, I think you're gonna miss an entire day at the park." "It's okay, David." "I'm sure we can make good use of our time here today." "Sure." "We can meet the choir director, talk about song choices for the upcoming concert." "Or we could meet the women's club about the details for the next craft bazaar." "Lots of important stuff." "(secretary) And since you're not leaving, you'll have time to meet Mina for lunch." "Right, I can meet Mina for lunch." "(out-of-town pastor) Sounds like you need this vacation more than I do." "(Reverend Dave) No, I just need to do some meaningful work so that I can have something to take a vacation from." "(out-of-town pastor) You know, some of the most important work that we do may seem meaningless to us." "This coming from the missionary who literally is in the trenches, winning hearts for the Lord on a daily basis." "David, God has you exactly where he wants you." "He who is faithful in a very little thing is also faithful in much." "God knows you're doing the work." "It's all part of his grand design." "(Josh) All of which points to a God that created it." "You see, in the real world, we never see things jumping into existence out of nothingness, but atheists want to make one small exception to this rule, namely, the universe and everything in it." "(female student2) But in his book, "The God Delusion,"" "Richard Dawkins says that, "lf you tell me God created the universe, then I have the right to ask you who created God."" "Dawkins' question only makes sense in terms of a God who has been created." "It doesn't make sense in terms of an uncreated God, which is the kind of God that Christians believe in." "And even leaving God out of the equation," "I then have a right to turn Mr. Dawkins's own question back around on him and ask," ""lf the universe created you, then who created the universe?" ". "" "You see, both the theist and the atheist are both burdened with answering this same question of how did things start." "What I'm hoping you'll pick up from all this is that you don't have to commit intellectual suicide to believe in a Creator behind the creation." "And to the extent that you don't allow for God, you'd be pretty hard-pressed to find an incredible alternative explanation for how things came to be." "(Professor Radisson) Well, I imagine you're quite pleased with yourself." "I see you've carefully avoided the fact that Stephen Hawking, the world's most famous scientist, and who is not a theist, has recently come out in favor of a self-designing universe." "I haven't avoided it, I just didn't" "You just didn't know about it." "Alright, well let's see what Professor Hawking," "Lucasian Professor of physics at Cambridge, who occupies a teaching chair once held by Sir Isaac Newton, has to say about the origin of the universe." "And I quote, "Because there's a law such as gravity," ""the universe can and will create itself from nothing." ""Spontaneous creation is the reason" ""there is something instead of nothing." ""It's why the universe exists, why we exist." ""lt is not necessary to invoke God to set the universe in motion."" "End of quote." "So, you may have never come across his comment, but his point remains." "How do you answer?" "." "I don't know." "(Professor Radisson) You don't know?" "." "I prick the balloon of your entire argument with a single pin, and you don't know?" "." "Huh." "Well, I mean, I'd like to tell you I have the perfect answer, but it doesn't shake my underlying faith." "(Professor Radisson) Okay, so the greatest scientific mind in all of history says that God is not necessary, but a first-semester freshman says," ""Oh, yes he is."" "Wow, you know, that's gonna be a really tough choice." "Well, I look forward to next week's lecture." "Class is dismissed." "Do you think you're smarter than me, Wheaton?" "." "Do you think there's any argument you can make that I won't have an answer for?" "." "I never said I was smarter." "That's the first intelligent thing you've said." "Now, I want to make this clear." "In that classroom, there is a god, and yep, I'm him." "I'm also a jealous god, so do not try to humiliate me in front of my students." "You know, I also checked up on your declared major." "Pre-law?" "." "What exactly is pre-law?" "." "We don't award degrees in that." "Don't bother answering, but know this, if you truly feel a need to continue with the charade," "I will make it my personal mission to destroy any hope of a law degree in your future." "Have a nice day." " You did it, didn't you?" "." " What?" "." "You know what I'm talking about." "You went and did your argument, didn't you?" "." "Yeah, yeah I did." "What were you trying to prove?" "." "I'm not even sure there are words to describe what I'm feeling right now." "I'm sorry Josh, but it's over between us." "That's it?" "." "It's just--it's over?" "." "(Kara) It's over, Josh." "If you're going to do something this stupid and selfish after I already told you what would happen" "Yeah, but that's sort of the point, isn't it?" "." "This is something that's important to me, right, but since it's not important to you, you made it a make-it- or-break-it-thing for us." "You didn't ask me, you told me." "It wasn't a decision that we made, it was a decision that you made for the both of us." "Well, somebody had to." "Okay." "That's it?" ". "Okay"?" "." "(Josh) It's not what I want." "Honestly, I'm still hoping you'll change your mind, right, but I have to do this thing." "I feel like it's something that God wants me to do." "I can't just turn away from it, especially not now, now that I've started." "My mother was so right about you." "I just wish I'd had the sense to listen." "[Manic Drive singing "Save a Life"]" "Oh picture it, a little girl, just a beautiful 8-year-old" "Trying to live through this life in a crazy world" "Hey, Fahid." "She finds herself as a teen and her life in ruins-- [video game beeping]" "Showed that girl she had meaning and a purpose to life" "Maybe avoid that downward slide" "Would you tell her the truth or let her live in a lie?" "." "It all just seems to change" "When you see it as a life to save" "(preaching) 1 Corinthians says you're saved, and Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures." "If you believe this in your heart, if you accept this by faith, you see, God will forgive you, he'll cleanse you, and he'll set you free." "[video game beeping]" "[video game powers off]" "Give me that!" "Give me that!" "You must never tell Baba." "Swear to me you will never say anything." "Swear it!" "(Marc) Bottle of Cristal, my table." "Yes, Mr. Shelley." "I have some news." "Me too." "Okay, but me first." "I've just been named partner." "I think I have cancer." "Did you hear me?" "." "Did you hear what I just said?" "." "I have cancer." "This couldn't wait until tomorrow?" "." "What?" "." "How can you say that to me?" "." "I thought you loved me." "I do, but you're changing our agreement, you're breaking our deal." "You make it sound like a contract negotiation." "Well, what did you think this was?" "." "I thought it was love." "Grow up, Amy." "Love is the most overused word in the English language." "It's what we say when we want something, when we need something, and you're as guilty of it as anybody." "We had fun." "You were my hot, young girlfriend with the chic job." "I was your upwardly mobile, charming, successful boyfriend." "And we were together because we each got something out of the relationship that we wanted, and it was good." "It was-- actually, it was great." "But now it's over." "How did I not see this in you?" "." "Because you saw what you wanted." "You understand that I might die?" "." "And I'm sorry about that." "Hey, you're in my philosophy class." "Martin, right?" "." "Correct, and you're Mr. Josh." "Yeah." "Yeah, that's me, Mr. Josh." "Hey, is that on our reading list?" "." "No." "Can I ask you a question?" "." "Yeah, sure." "Why are you doing what you are doing?" "." "Everyone else thinks I'm crazy." "My girlfriend-- ex-girlfriend left me over it." "My parents don't want me to risk it." "At the end of it all," "I'm gonna have to work like a dog for the rest of the semester just to catch up on my other classes." "You have described your difficulties, but you haven't answered my question of why." "I don't know." "I just--I think of Jesus as my friend." "(Martin) So, you think Jesus is God?" "." "Yeah, and the Son of God." "I don't want to disappoint him, even if everyone thinks I should." "See, to me, he's not dead." "He's alive." "I don't want anyone to get talked out of believing in him just because some professor thinks they should." "See you around, Martin." "Bye." "Hiya, Tom Blanchard, Metro City Auto." "Here's your keys." " Thank you." " Satisfaction is guaranteed." "Do I need to sign something?" "." "Absolutely." "I'm giving you a car." "Sign here, and then one more right there, and one more there." "And if you could just initial there, there, and there." "Thank you." "Call us when you're back." "You have it for the weekend." "We'll come pick you up." "Thanks." "[engine sputtering]" "You're kidding." "[engine sputtering]" "What did you do?" "." "Did you break it?" "." "What?" "." "Check and see if it's still in gear." "No, it's in park." "I don't understand." "It worked 5 minutes ago." "Alright, well, now it's not." "How soon can you get us another car?" "." "(Tom) Well, not tonight." "It's already after 5:30." "Everyone's gone home and I'm already kind of late for an audition." "An audition?" "." "Yeah, the gang and I are doing "Death of a Salesman"" "and it's kind of a dinner theatre thing." "What happened to satisfaction guaranteed?" "." "It's alright, David." "We can leave tomorrow." "You want to make this drive and miss half the day?" "." "Perhaps it's gonna rain anyway." "Forecast for tomorrow is 82 and sunny at 9 a.m." "Sometimes you don't make any sense." "Sometimes you make too much." "Just remember, God is good." "All the time." "And all the time?" "." "God is good." "Will you sign this saying you reject the car?" "." "[phone ringing]" "You're on with Marc." "It's me, dork, your sister." "(Mina) Oh, and this is about?" "." "You really should go see Mom." "She's not doing well." "She hasn't been doing well for years." "That's why they call it dementia." "(Mina) Still, you should go see her." "Claire said you haven't been there in awhile." "(Marc) Like it matters?" "." "Besides, I just bought her a new TV." "Look, I'll make you a deal." "You go and you ask her what 3 + 3 equals." "If she gives you the right answer, I'll visit." "That's not fair." "(Marc) Life's not fair." "I gotta go." "Say hi to Amy." "(Marc) No, that's over." "What'd you do?" "." "Unresolved personal issues." "She's got some stuff she's gotta work through." "I'm sorry to hear that." "Well, that's the way it goes." "Okay, ready to get this started?" "." "[scoffing]" "Seriously, you have got to get a life." "Y eah, tell me about it." "Hey honey." "Oh, sorry, the door was open." "I just let myself in." " Hi." " Hi." "Oh hey, did you pick up the bottle of wine I wanted?" "." "I did." "I left it in the car." "It's in the car." "Don't worry about it." "You have a lot on your plate." "So, you know, just-- thank you for helping set up our dinner party." "Well, unless I'm wrong, all the guests are from the philosophy department?" "." "That's not true." "Vivian's a sociologist." "You're proving my point." "Look, I can't help it." "See, my intellectual rigor falls to pieces the instant I get around you." "Really?" "." "You could have fooled me." "The first time I walked into your classroom, you were all blood and thunder." "That was a performance, staged largely for your benefit." "In the mean time, I kept trying to keep my eyes off you and hoping that there was a brain inside that pretty head." "(Mina) Why?" "." "Well, because if there wasn't, then, you know, there's no way I could have made myself go out with you." "Look, as it was, I waited until you aced the midterm." "It was an A-minus." "Close enough." "Come on, where is she?" "." "Huh?" "." "Who?" "." "That carefree, free-spirited girl who forced me to almost risk my career by dating her." "You know, the one who quoted Emily Dickinson, and Shelley, and Spongebob Squarepants with equal self-confidence." "I mean, what ever happened to the old Mina?" "." "'Cause I miss her." "She has got a mom who's failing, she's sensing time is passing by, and she's starting to wonder if she's unequally yoked." "Alright, you've been reading again, haven't you?" "." "Reading, listening, thinking." "You can hardly call this thinking." "As a matter of fact, it's the opposite of thinking." "You know I'm a Christian." "You knew that when you first started seeing me." "Yes, and you know that I'm not." "Yeah, I know, and I know there's a lot of things you don't want to talk about, so we don't talk about them." "Yeah, except the not talking is starting to get louder and louder, and soon it will be deafening, and I don't know if I can put up with that." " I know." " Do you?" "." " Yeah." "Because we need to be clear on this." "There's only room in this relationship for two, which means I don't get a mistress and you don't get to drag a 2,000-year-old dead carpenter turned itinerant rabbi into our lives." "Look, I'm gonna go freshen up." "Is this the same car?" "." "Oh, no sir." "No, sir." "Same model, different color." "The other one was a cabernet." "This is more of a merlot." "(Reverend Dave) You know, lying's not good." "Lying to an ordained minister is flat-out bad." "You know that, right?" "." "(Tom) Sir, I assure you this is a different automobile." "Here, try it out." "How'd your audition go?" "." "Oh, pretty good." "I'm up for the role of Biff, so--thanks for asking." "[engine sputtering]" "You guys going somewhere?" "." "How's it look for you with the department chair position?" "." "I'm up for review mid-semester." "Dean Powell assures me it's a slam dunk." "(female colleague) Well, congratulations Jeffrey." "Anything else on your plate?" "." "Not really." "(female colleague2) Feel like sharing?" "." "I've got this student in my introductory class this semester who's--well, he's taken a challenge to prove the existence of God." "In your classroom?" "." " Yes." " Silly boy." " Freshman?" "." " Oh yeah." "Doesn't seem quite fair to me." "Well, how's that?" "." "(Mina) He's inexperienced in front of a room, and you're expecting him to compete with you in your own field of expertise." "(Professor Radisson) Come on, Mina." "This is fun for me." "I can't help it if a boy wants to make a fool of himself and commit academic suicide." "Look, I tried to stop him." "I gave him an out, but no, no, no, he wants to prove that God isn't dead." "[colleagues chuckling]" "Look, I know I am in the minority here, but I actually believe in God." "Yes, yes, well, she is-- she's a work in progress." "[colleagues laughing]" "So, darling, I think it's best we just change the subject." "(Mina) But I'm just saying" "Mina, I've asked politely, okay?" "." "Okay." "The coq au vin is almost done." "(Professor Radisson) Excellent." "T o the dining room." "(Professor Radisson) Nothing like a nice merlot to take the edge off." "Cheers, everyone." "Mina, this wine is awful." "It's been cooked." "It tastes like it was sunning in a moldy basement." "Talk about your "Grapes of Wrath."" "[colleagues laughing]" "I bought it before I went shopping the other day." "I locked it in the trunk and when I got home I forgot about it." "Well, I think this dinner serves as a valuable lesson." "As Socrates put it over 2,000 years ago," ""Gnothi seauton."" "Looks like it's Greek to her." "(Professor Radisson) Oh, it's "Know thyself," darling, know thyself." "Which I suggest means knowing your own limitations." "You know, if you'll all excuse me, it's time for the help to depart." "Sweetheart" "(female lab technician) No pacemaker?" "." "No other piercings, right?" "." "No." "(female lab technician) I know it sounds crazy, but I have to ask." "If there's any ferrous metal anywhere inside your body, the magnetic field will put it out, and forcibly." "(Josh) In our last class, I was asked a question that I couldn't answer." "As Professor Radisson pointed out," "Stephen Hawking is an atheist." "He also wrote a book called "The Grand Design"" "in which he says the following:" ""Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing."" "And to be honest, I didn't know how to refute that." "I mean, after all, Hawking is clearly a genius." "But, Professor John Lennox, who teaches mathematics and philosophy has demonstrated that there are not one, even two, but three errors of logic contained in that one simple sentence, and it all boils down to circular reasoning." "Hawking is basically saying that the universe exists because the universe needed to exist, and because the universe needed to exist, it therefore created itself." "It's like this." "If I say to you that I can prove that Spam is the best-tasting food that's ever existed because in all of history, no food has ever tasted better, you'd probably look at me strange and say I haven't proven anything." "And you'd be right, all I've done is restate my original claim." "But when Hawking claims that the universe created itself because it needed to create itself, and then offers that as an explanation as to how and why it was created, we don't immediately recognize that he's doing the same thing." "But he is, prompting Lennox to further comment," ""Nonsense remains nonsense," ""even when spoken by famous scientists" ""even though the general public assumes they are statements of science."" "This is the height of hubris." "Are you telling me that you, a freshman, are saying that Stephen Hawking is wrong?" "." "No, what I'm saying is that John Lennox, a professor of mathematics and philosophy, has found Professor Hawking's reasoning to be faulty, and I agree with his logic." "But if you can't bear to disagree with Hawking's thinking, then I suggest that you turn to page five of his book, where he insists philosophy is dead." "And if you're so sure of Professor Hawking's infallibility, and philosophy really is dead, then well, there's really no need for this class." "(Mina) It's like I'm a convenience to him, except for when my faith comes up, then he becomes verbally abusive." "I'm guessing he's bright." "Brilliant." "Handsome." "Yes." "And his attention makes you feel special, gives you a sense of completeness." "Have you been reading my diary?" "." "Psychologists call it the Cinderella complex." "It's not my name for it, so don't get upset with me." "Guys are capable of the same thing." "It's just they don't have a name for it." "But in essence, you're looking for his approval to give you a sense of self-worth instead of generating it internally." "Don't most people do that?" "." "Y eah, a lot of people do, sure." "But, using romance to shore up self-image is an unstable foundation." "Do you believe God's capable of error, bias, or bad judgment?" "." "No." "So, if he's incapable of mistakes, and he made you in his likeness and image, then it follows that he cares about you, right?" "." "Right." "To the point where God's only Son would willingly be crucified again for you, just you, if that's what was necessary." "Well, if he loves you that much, who cares what your boyfriend thinks?" "." "T o the wrong person, you'll never have any worth." "But to the right person, you'll mean everything." "(Josh) Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, for the last 1 50 years, Darwinists have been saying that God is unnecessary to explain man's existence and that evolution replaces God, but evolution only tells you what happens" "once you have life." "So, where did that something that's alive come from?" "." "Well, Darwin never really addressed it." "He assumed maybe some lightning hit a stagnant pool full of the right kind of chemicals and bingo, a living something." "But it's just not that simple." "You see, Darwin claimed that the ancestry of all living things came from that one single, simple organism which reproduced and was slowly modified over time into the complex life forms we view today." "Which is why, after contemplating his own theory," "Darwin uttered his famous statement," ""Natura non facit saltum,"" "meaning, "Nature does not jump."" "Well, as noted author Lee Strobel pointed out, that if you can picture the entire 3.8 billion years that scientists say life has been around as one 24-hour day, in the space of just about 90 seconds," "most major animal groups suddenly appear in the forms in which they currently hold." "Not slowly and steadily as Darein predicted, but in evolutionary terms, almost instantly." "So, "nature does not jump" becomes" ""nature makes a giant leap."" "So, how do theists explain this sudden outburst of new biological information?" "." ""And God said, 'Let the water teem with living creatures" ""'and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.'" ""So God created the great creatures of the sea" ""and every living and moving thing" ""with which the water teems," ""according to its kind." "And God saw that it was good," Genesis 1 :20." "In other words, creation happened because God said it should happen." "And even what looks, to our eyes, to be a blind, unguided process could really be divinely controlled from start to finish." "Isn't there anyone you'd like to have here with you for this?" "." "No, there's nobody." "[slow clapping]" "Lies, lies, and more lies." "It's easy to dismiss what you don't understand or what you don't want to understand." "(Professor Radisson) There it is, the default setting of the Bible-thumper." ""lf only you would open the Scripture and read, then you would understand."" "So says the brave young freshman." ""For thou art wise, and with thou, all wisdom shall die,"" "Job 1 2, verse 2." "What else does Job tell us?" "." ""For man who is born of woman is few of days," ""and full of trouble." ""He comes forth like a shadow and does not continue." ""So man lies down, and does not rise 'til the heavens are no more."" "Well, at least he got that part right." "What happened to you?" "." "When a 1 2-year-old watches his mother dying of cancer, it's only natural to beg God for her life." "He'll promise anything to his make-believe grandfather in the sky, including to love and worship him forever, if only he will spare her." "Sometimes the answer is no." "Tell that to me the day you lose someone you love." "She died believing a lie." "She died believing that someone out there loved her even while he was strangling her to death." "A God who would allow that is not worth believing in." "That is why, Wheaton, you will find the most committed atheists were once Christians, but we took the blinders off." "We saw the world for what it truly is." "You see, Shakespeare had it right." "Life is really a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing." "Ayisha!" ""He's the one god who has not begotten."" "Say it!" "I command you to say it!" "No, Baba." "Jesus is my Lord and Savior and he died to save me from my sins." "No!" "Carry on, carry on" "What I know is you, my God, are real" "No matter how I feel, you've never let me go" "And what I know is there will never be a day" "You aren't just a breath away" "And through it all I've gotta hold to what I know" "Gonna hold to what I know" "What I know" "What I know" "(Amy) Sorry for the delay in posting my interview." "It's been a rough week." "When I finally caught up to-- [crying]" "New post." "I have cancer." "Amy is going to die." "[sobbing]" "No!" "[sobbing]" "Jeffrey, I need to talk to you." "You know how I feel about that." "On campus, I'm Professor Radisson, okay?" "." "So, then he claims that Dawkins is the one who was in error, as if Dawkins thought" "Jeffrey, I'm leaving you." "Excuse me." "What?" "." "What are you saying?" "." "I'm leaving you." "You can't do that." "I won't accept it." "I'm sorry." "(Professor Radisson) I said I don't accept that." "I won't allow it." "I know, I heard you, but it's not your choice." "Good bye, Jeffrey." "How long has she been hiding her faith?" "." "About a year." "I can't even imagine what she must be feeling." "You asked to be in the trenches, David." "What have I done, Pastor Dave?" "." "I've lost everything." "What if I made a mistake?" "." "Ayisha, you've displayed an amazing amount of courage by standing up for your faith." "God knows the risks you've taken and he will honor that." "I don't think I can do this." "We're here for you, Ayisha." "(Reverend Dave) Are you--have you read of the Apostle Paul?" "." "He said, "l know what it is to have little," ""and I know what it is to have plenty." ""ln any and all circumstances," ""l have learned the secret of being well-fed" ""and of being hungry," ""of having plenty and of being in need." "I can do all things--"" ""Through Christ who strengthens me."" "Right." "You're not alone, Ayisha." "You're gonna be okay." "I made a mistake with you," "letting you speak in front of my classroom and spew your propaganda." "But today, we're gonna change things up a bit." "(Josh) Evil." "Now, it's been said that evil is atheism's most potent weapon against the Christian faith, and it is." "After all, the very existence of evil begs the question," ""lf God is all-good and God is all-powerful, why does he allow evil to exist?" ". "" "The answer at its core is remarkably simple: free will." "God allows evil to exist because of free will." "From the Christian standpoint, God tolerates evil in this world on a temporary basis so that one day, those who choose to love him freely will dwell with him in heaven, free from the influence of evil," "but with their free will in tact." "In other words, God's intention concerning evil is to one day destroy it." "(Professor Radisson) Well, how convenient." ""One day, I will get rid of all the evil in the world." ""But until then, you just have to deal with all the wars," ""and Holocausts, tsunamis, poverty, starvation, and aids." "Have a nice life."" "Next, he'll be lecturing us on moral absolutes." "But why not?" "." "Professor Radisson, who's clearly an atheist, doesn't believe in moral absolutes, but his core syllabus says he plans to give us an exam during finals week." "Now, I'm betting that if I manage to get an "A"" "on the exam by cheating, he'll suddenly start sounding like a Christian, insisting it's wrong to cheat, that I should have known that." "And yet, what basis does he have?" "." "If my actions are calculated to help me succeed, then why shouldn't I perform them?" "." "For Christians, the fixed point of morality, what constitutes right and wrong, is a straight line that leads directly back to God." "(Professor Radisson) Oh, so you're saying that we need a God to be moral, that a moral atheist is an impossibility." "(Josh) No, but with no God, there's no real reason to be moral." "I mean, there's not even a standard of what moral behavior is." "For Christians, lying, cheating, stealing-- in my example, stealing a grade I didn't earn-- are forbidden." "It's a form of theft." "But if God does not exist, as Dostoyevsky famously pointed out," ""lf God does not exist, then everything is permissible."" "And not only permissible, but pointless." "If Professor Radisson is right, then all of this, all of our struggle, our debate, whatever we decide here is meaningless." "I mean, our lives and ultimately our deaths have no more consequence than that of a goldfish." "This is ridiculous." "So, after all your talk, you're saying that it all comes down to choice:" "believe or don't believe." "That's right, that's all there is." "That's all there's ever been." "The only difference between your position and my position is that you take away their choice." "You demand that they choose the box marked, "l don't believe."" "(Professor Radisson) Y es, because I want to free them." "Because religion is like a-- it's like a mind virus that parents have passed on down to their children, and Christianity is the worst virus of all." "It slowly creeps into our lives when we're weak or sick or helpless." "So, religion is like a disease?" "." "(Professor Radisson) Yes." "Yes, it infects everything." "It's the enemy of reason." "Reason?" "." "Professor, you left reason a long time ago." "What you're teaching here isn't philosophy." "It's not even atheism anymore." "What you're teaching is antitheism." "It's not enough that you don't believe." "You need all of us to not believe with you." "(Professor Radisson) Why don't you admit the truth?" "." "You just want to ensnare them in your primitive superstition." "What I want is for them to make their own choice." "That's what God wants." "You have no idea how much I'm gonna enjoy failing you." "Yeah, but who are you really looking to fail, Professor?" "." "Me or God?" "." "Do you hate God?" "." "That's not even a question." "Okay, why do you hate God?" "." "This is ridiculous." "Why do you hate God?" "." "Answer the question." "You've seen the science and the arguments." "Science supports his existence." "You know the truth." "So, why do you hate him?" "." "Why?" ".!" "It's a very simple question, Professor." "Why do you hate God?" "." "Because he took everything away from me." "Yes, I hate God." "All I have for him is hate." "How can you hate someone if they don't exist?" "." "You've proven nothing." "Maybe not." "They get to choose." "Is God dead?" "." "God is not dead." "God's not dead." "God's not dead." "God's not dead." "God's not dead." "God's not dead." "God's not dead." "God's not dead." "God's not dead." "God's not dead." "[students agreeing in unison]" "(Martin) Josh!" "." "Josh." "Josh!" "Your decision to prove God is not dead has affected me greatly." "I'm glad." "Yes, and it has changed everything." "I've decided to follow Jesus." "That's great, Martin." "Hey, you know what?" "." "You've gotta check this out." " Okay." " Come on." "(Reverend Dave) Why did I have to bring my suitcase?" "." "Not bringing it would show a lack of faith." "Oh merciful Father, please allow this car to start." "Amen." "That's it?" "." "Why, do you have a better "Lord, please make my car run"" "blessing that you know?" "." "No." "So then, let's give it a try." "Okay." "No, no, no, no." "Put our bags in the trunk first." "David, we spend our entire lives talking about faith." "Now I'm asking you to show faith." "Okay." "[engine starting]" " Unbelievable." " No." "Faith." " God is good." " All the time." " And all the time?" "." " God is good." "I don't even know what I'm doing here." "I mean, it's not like you even know who I am." "You prayed and believed your whole life, never done anything wrong, and here you are." "You're the nicest person I know, I am the meanest." "You have dementia, my life is perfect." "Explain that to me." "Sometimes the devil allows people to live a life free of trouble 'cause he doesn't want them turning to God." "Your sin is like a jail cell, except it's all nice and comfy, and there doesn't seem to be any need to leave." "The door's wide open 'til one day, time runs out," "and the cell door slams shut and suddenly..." "it's too late." "Who did you say you were?" "." "I can't believe this." "The car actually starts and now we're being done-in by believers." "I think it's beautiful." "Please, no more words of wisdom." "But I'm just happy to see all these people going to sing about Jesus." "[horn blaring] Move!" "." "Hello, gentlemen." "Can I help you?" "." "I'm Amy Ryan." "I write "The New Left."" "Michael Tait." "How are you?" "." "Did we schedule this?" "." "No, I actually find that the best interviews are unscripted." "So, in a few minutes, you guys are gonna go out there and you're gonna sing about God and Jesus as if they're as real as you and me." "How can you do that?" "." "Well, to us, they are as real." "As a matter of fact, even more so." "I mean, we exist in the here and now." "They've existed forever." "Think about that." "Y eah, you know, in the beginning was the Word." "The Word was with God and the Word was God." "[Amy chuckling]" "So, I see." "So when you're pressed, you quote a bunch of ancient scribblings and say," ""Don't worry, it's all in there."" "Well, they may be ancient, but they're not scribblings." "I mean, we believe God gave us an instruction manual, and it's where we draw our strength and it's where we find our hope." "So, where do you find your hope?" "." "I'm dying." "(Duncan Phillips) Hey Amy, you're not here to trash us, are you?" "." "I think that's what you might have done, but I think you're here kinda wondering, kinda hoping that this stuff is for real, aren't you?" "." "How do you know that?" "." "(Duncan Phillips) I just felt that that's what God was saying, and he just wanted you to know it." "That's--I can't" "(Jody Davis) Y eah, and he's just the drummer." "[Safe Haven singing "Chasing the Sun"]" "And we never really did what we're told" "And we'll say we were dumb and all alone" "But we're still chasing the sun" "We'll say we were young and full of hope" "And we never really did what we're told" "And we'll say we were dumb and all alone" "But we're still chasing the sun" "One day, we'll fade but we'll never forget" "(female voiceover) "My dearest son," ""words cannot express the love I have for you" ""or the sorrow in my heart" ""knowing that I will never be able to see you grow up" ""and fulfill God's plan for your life." ""My heart is broken at the thought of leaving you." ""l know God is in control." ""His ways are higher than our ways" ""and his thoughts are higher than our thoughts." ""Live life to the fullest and remain in the joy of the Lord." ""You will forever be in my heart." "I love you." "Mom."" "[phone dialing]" "(Mina) Hey, it's Mina." "Sorry I missed your call." "Leave a message." "Mina, it's Jeffrey." "Please call me." "(male) Hey guys, we're a-go for the show." "Hey Steve, give us a minute, buddy." "This is kinda important." " Thanks guys." " Thanks." "Can we pray for you real quick?" "." "Do you mind?" "." "Cool." "Dear God, we don't know your plan for Amy, Lord, but we're asking you would save her tonight, Lord." "Change her, cleanse her, give her a fresh start, Lord." "Let her know that she's loved, and more importantly, that she is loved by you, the Master of the universe." "Give her strength for the journey ahead, Lord, and let her know in her heart, God, speak to her, that you're gonna be with her every step of the way." "We pray this, Jesus, in your holy name." "Amen." "Yeah." "(Duncan Phillips) Hey guys, we gotta roll." "Cool, you gonna be okay, Amy?" "." "You good?" "." "Make a way for" "Make a way for" "Make a way for the King" "The King is coming" "Empty hearts are filling up" "Wicked ways are coming undone" "Every eye is looking out for you" "City lights are burning out" "Freedom's song is ringing loud" "Dead men waking up to the sound of you" "And all our hearts can sing" "All our hearts can sing" "Make a way for" "Make a way for" "Make a way for the King" "The King is coming" "So, make a way for" "Make a way for" "Make a way for the King [thunder rumbling]" "Oh, that's perfect." "So much for sunny and clear skies." "[tires screeching]" "Call an ambulance!" "Call an ambulance!" "Don't move." "His ribs are crushed." "His lungs are filling with blood." "He doesn't have long." "Are you sure?" "." "Yeah." "Don't move." "I can't die." "I'm not ready." "Do you know Jesus?" "." "I'm an atheist." "I believe it's God's mercy that brought me here right now." "I'm dying." "How can you call that mercy?" "." "Because that car could have killed you instantly." "And I'm sure right now you probably wish that it did, but I'm here to tell you that it's a gift 'cause the God that you don't believe in has given you another chance, another chance to change your final answer." "I don't want to die, but I'm so scared." "(Reverend Dave) If it's any consolation, so was Jesus." "He was so scared, he sweat blood." "He asked the Father if it could be removed from him, but the answer was no." "He says no a lot." "(Reverend Dave) He gives us the answers we'd ask for if we knew what he knows." ""'For as the heavens are higher than the earth," ""so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts,' says the Lord."" "Exactly." "So, the question is-- stay with me." "Stay with me." "Are you willing to put your faith in Jesus Christ?" "." "Are you willing to take that chance?" "." "Y es." "God is willing to forgive you of your sins, all of them, if you accept his Son and ask him into your life." "That's all you have to do is just accept his Son." "Accept his love and receive his forgiveness right now." "Do you accept him as Lord and Savior?" "." "Yes, I accept." "(Reverend Dave) It's alright." "In a few minutes, you're gonna know more about God than I do, or anybody else here does." "It's okay, it's okay." "(Michael Tait) If you check out the screens behind me, we have a very special message from a very good friend." "(Willie) Hey, I'm Willie Robertson, speaking on behalf of the Robertson family." "Me and the gang wanted to let you know we've heard in the news that there's been a bit of a squabble down there on campus." "One of your professors insisted that God is dead." "Well, I'm happy to announce that the reports of God's death were greatly exaggerated." "Now, let me ask you a question." "Have you got your cell phones on you?" "." "Good." "Alright, now while this next song is playing," "I want everyone to go to their contacts and click on everybody you know and text them three simple words:" ""God's not dead."" "And there's 1 0,000 of you out there, and everyone knows about 1 00 people." "That's a million messages right there." "A million times we're gonna tell Jesus that we love him in the next 3 minutes." "And for the young man who took up the gauntlet to defend God's honor, and you know who you are," "I can only imagine the smile you put on God's face." "This one goes out to you." "It was you, wasn't it?" "." "The one who defended God?" "." "Yeah." "How did you know?" "." "I heard you talking in the cafeteria." "Only a real risk tests the quality of a belief, right?" "." "Let love explode and bring the dead to life" "A love so bold to see a revolution somehow" "Let love explode and bring the dead to life" "A love so bold to see a revolution somehow" "Now I'm lost in your freedom" "And this world I'll overcome" "My God's not dead, he's surely alive" "He's living on the inside, roaring like a lion" "My God's not dead, he's surely alive" "He's living on the inside, roaring like a lion" "Roaring, he's roaring, roaring like a lion" "Let hope arise and make the darkness hide" "My faith is dead" "I need a resurrection somehow" "Now I'm lost in your freedom" "And this world I'll overcome" "My God's not dead, he's surely alive" "He's living on the inside, roaring like a lion" "My God's not dead, he's surely alive" "He's living on the inside, roaring like a lion" "Roaring, he's roaring, roaring like a lion" "He's roaring, he's roaring" "Let heaven roar and fire fall" "Come shake the ground with the sound of revival" "Let Heaven roar and fire fall" "Come shake the ground with the sound of revival" "What happened here tonight is a cause for celebration." "Pain, yes, for just a few moments, but now, think about the joy in heaven." "My God's not dead, he's surely alive" "He's living on the inside, roaring like a lion" "My God's not dead, he's surely alive" "He's living on the inside, roaring like a lion" "God's not dead, he's surely alive" "He's living on the inside, roaring like a lion" "God's not dead, he's surely alive" "He's living on the inside, roaring like a lion" "Roaring, he's roaring, roaring like a lion" "He's roaring, he's roaring, roaring like a lion" "Roaring like a lion" "Our God is alive" "[Superchick singing "This is the Time"]" "This is a story of your life, a movie starring you" "What's the next scene have for you to do?" "." "Leave the dishes in the sink, leave your fear there too" "Live the story you would write for you" "Say, hey, hey, wake your heart" "And break, break, break apart" "The walls that keep you from being you" "And walk, walk towards the light" "And don't stop 'til you live your life" "Like someone died for you" "This is the time to try" "Just step out, your life is waiting" "And as you fall, you'll find that you can fly" "This is the time to try" "Just step out, your life is waiting" "And as you fall, you'll find that you can fly" "You can find a million words to build a wall of fear" "Safe behind that wall, imprisoned here" "Take that someday step today to who you're meant to be" "And turn your dreams to plans so you can breathe" "Say, hey, hey, wake your heart" "And break, break, break apart" "The walls that keep you from being you" "And walk, walk towards the light" "And don't stop 'til you live your life" "Like someone died for you" "This is the time to try" "Just step out, your life is waiting" "And as you fall, you'll find that you can fly" "Ask anyone whose time is up" "What they'd give for what you've got" "And how they'd live your life" "Live like your life's worth dying for" "You just walked out that prison door" "And you'll know how to live your life" "This is the time to try" "Just step out, your life is waiting" "And as you fall, you'll find that you can fly" "This is the time to try" "Just step out, your life is waiting" "And as you fall, you'll find that you can fly" "This is the time to try" "Just step out, your life is waiting" "And as you fall, you'll find that you can fly"