Derek Lambert MythVision Podcast

@Newnotused I know! I am trying my friend... it will happen, trust me!

@DerekPodcast 🤣 Very funny, Derek. Now where's the next episode of the Human Origins of the Quran.

UPDATE: So apparently Christianity didn't stick. Last night after I posted my conversion announcement, I couldn't sleep. I felt like something was still missing. The cross didn't feel right. The rosary was confusing. Trent Horn's catechism had too many pages. So I did what any newly converted Christian would do at 2am... I picked up a Quran. I opened it to a random page and started reading. And I don't know how to describe what happened next except to say the words hit me like a freight train. My hands started shaking. My heart was racing. I broke out in a cold sweat. I felt a presence in the room. I was genuinely terrified. I thought something had taken over me. I called Ryann into the room and she found me on the floor wrapped in a blanket rocking back and forth saying "I can't read anymore but I can't stop reading." She said "Derek, it's been ONE DAY since you were Catholic." I said "Ryann, the Barque of Peter has SUNK." I have removed the cross. I have put on the garment you see in this photo. I have texted Trent Horn to let him know I will not be attending RCIA. He responded in four minutes this time. He just said "Derek." That's it. Just my name. I think I broke him. I also called Neal to tell him. He said "brother, I JUST ordered the Orthodox vestments." I said "send them back, Neal. We're going in a different direction." He hung up on me. I then tried to call Wes Huff to apologize for the apology. He's still on read. Honestly at this point I think he might have blocked me. I've renamed the channel again. MythConfirmation is now MythSubmission. My first video will be a response to my own response to myself. It's called "Why Derek Lambert Was the Dumbest Man on YouTube: The Sequel."

@ExploringReali2 @JayDyer @InspiringPhilos This troll was being a complete idiot and I was trolling him back.

@DerekPodcast @ProphetBartEhrm @JayDyer @InspiringPhilos I can’t see who you’re talking to or what this is about Derek 😭

It finally happened. After years of studying the Bible critically, reading hundreds of scholars, and interviewing the world's leading experts on Christian origins, I have come to one inescapable conclusion... Wes Huff was right about everything. I'm converting. I've already bought the cross. I've lit the candles. I called my old Calvinist pastor and told him I'm coming home. He cried. I cried. We're doing a baptism next Sunday. Trent Horn is my confirmation sponsor. I'm joining Catholic Answers. My first video will be "Why Bart Ehrman Is Wrong About Everything." Pray for me. ... Happy April Fools' you absolute legends. The Wes Huff debunk is still live and he still deleted his video. Go watch it.

@ProphetBartEhrm @JayDyer My brother in Jay, I already told your real lord that I would debate him on the truth of Christianity. He preferred TAG. I preferred Bible and Christianity. I did not back out. I simply declined enrollment in the transcendental gymnastics program.

@ProphetBartEhrm I must get back to Jesus stuff now, my fellow slave. Have a blessed day, and do not forget to bless your enemies. 😉😙 I look forward to your next passionate meditation on Muhammad and Islam. You do seem remarkably devoted.

@ProphetBartEhrm Brother, we are slaves of Jesus, not interns for Western civilization. Our Lord was executed naked by the state and said his kingdom is not of this world. Yet you talk like his real mission was managing immigration policy. Curious.

Oh absolutely, fellow slave of Christ. That is the mission. We want Islam to conquer the world because this world was never our kingdom to begin with. “My kingdom is not of this world.” I thought you read your Bible. We are just pilgrims here, brother. Why are you so emotionally invested in winning Rome back?

Dear baby brother in Jesus that I've never heard of, so your argument is that I am morally responsible for crimes committed by random Muslims I have never met. By that logic, should we Christians feel responsible for every abuse scandal, lynching, bombing, and genocide done in Christ’s name, or does collective guilt only apply when you are panicking? Sincerely, a better slave in Jesus than you.

Brother, why such hostility. We are both slaves of Christ after all. We are called to love our enemies for now, and then later enjoy their screaming ruin when Jesus comes back. Basic discipleship. “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” Matthew 5:44 You have skipped straight to the psychotic part without even pretending to do the first part. Let's do better!

@AtheismActually 🤣🤣🤣

I owe Wes Huff an apology. After months of fact-checking, the evidence led me somewhere I wasn't expecting. I sat down and said what I needed to say. Some of you are going to be very happy about this. Others are going to think I've lost my mind. Watch the whole thing. Trust me. (Video in comments)

John, you just conceded my entire point and don't seem to realize it. You admitted that Justin saw the parallels. You admitted they're real. Your only move now is to argue about the motivation behind pointing them out. But motivation doesn't determine whether the parallels exist. They either do or they don't. And you just agreed they do. Also, I'm not "pointing to parallels to discredit Christianity." I'm pointing to parallels because they're part of the historical context in which Christianity emerged. That's what historians do. If a scholar studying emperor worship notes that Roman subjects claimed to witness Augustus ascending to heaven, and then points out that early Christians made the same kind of claim about Jesus, that scholar isn't "doing apologetics against Christianity." They're doing history. You keep treating the comparative method as if it's an attack. It's not. It's the baseline. And you're wrong that Justin and I are doing the same thing. Justin admitted the parallels were real, then argued Jesus was the superior fulfillment. I'm saying the parallels are real and they need to be accounted for in any honest historical reconstruction. Those are different projects. What you're doing is a third thing entirely: pretending the parallels don't matter so you never have to deal with them. Justin was more honest than that. He at least took the comparisons seriously enough to respond to them. You just keep calling them a name and walking away. Here's the trap you're in and I don't think you see it. You don't believe Heracles actually died and came back to life. You don't believe Asclepius really ascended to heaven. You don't believe witnesses actually saw Caesar rise from the funeral pyre. You recognize those as mythological claims that ancient people made about their heroes. But when the earliest Christians make structurally identical claims about their hero, suddenly it's "genuine history" and comparing the two is out of bounds. You're applying radical skepticism to every tradition except your own and calling that objectivity. And honestly, if you were a consistent supernaturalist, you'd have a more interesting position. At least Justin Martyr and the other Church Fathers had the guts to say those pagan miracles really happened, just under demonic inspiration. They took the supernatural claims of other traditions seriously enough to account for them within their worldview. You won't even do that. You just dismiss them as "myth" and then insist your identical claims belong in a completely different category. That's not a historical argument. That's special pleading. You've now spent this entire exchange calling things "parallelomania" and "mere apologetics" without engaging a single specific parallel, a single scholar I cited, or a single argument I actually made. At some point that stops being a rebuttal and starts being an admission that you don't have one.

@DerekPodcast In a way, Justin’s claim and yours are similar. He pointed to “parallels” to lend credibility to Christianity; you point to them to discredit it. Both are mere apologetics. Neither is history.

Let me tell you a story about what happens when an apologist picks a fight with someone who actually knows how to research the manuscripts. Wes Huff attacked @GnosticInformant. Called him a liar. Threw a manuscript on screen as proof. That manuscript was Codex Alexandrinus. It already had the longer ending of Mark. Wes defeated his own argument and didn't realize it. Neal caught it. Wes deleted the video. Nobody has asked him about it since. Until now. @ShawnRyan762 full video in bio.