Christian Skit | "My Father, the Pastor" | A Truth Debate on the Bible (English Dubbed)

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Following God's footsteps, we're set free,
liberated, and live in peace.
God reveals all mysteries,
supplies us with the truth and grants us life.
I wanna bear testimony to my mom and dad,
but my father, the pastor, won't listen.
But today I have a plan to fellowship with compassion and patience.
Oh, my mom is calling. Hang on a minute.
Mom. Hi, I'm almost home.
My daughter has got a big moon face.
It's just like her father's!
Lao Chi, what are you looking at that again for?
She'll be home in just a minute!
It was dusty, so I was just wiping it.
Don't pretend! (Huh?)
What about that duck dish that she likes?
It's already done!
Ah, what are we going to do with her?
She listens to me with everything.
But with her belief in God, she doesn't listen to me at all!
Don't get annoyed with her when she comes.
Just advise her. You hear me?
Yes, yes, I know.
Dad, Mom, I've come back!
Oh, here she is now. (Go greet her.)
Give that to me. Why don't you sit down? (Mom.)
Dad, are you reading the Bible?
Yes.
Dad, I wanna talk to you about something.
Xinming, why don't you get me a glass of water?
Okay.
Go on.
Hey, I'll try to advise her in a moment.
We two have to speak in one voice!
Good luck!
Yeah, okay!
Dad, here's your water.
Xinming, your mom has something to say to you.
Oh? (Off you go.)
Xinming, let me talk to you.
You really must listen to your dad about your belief in God.
You say you've now accepted Almighty God,
and have read The Word Appears in the Flesh.
But doesn't this deviate from the Bible?
Mom, Almighty God is the return of the Lord Jesus.
The Word Appears in the Flesh is God's own utterances.
Almighty God has revealed the mystery of God's six-thousand-year management plan.
He has told man what true faith in God is,
what salvation is,
and all about the ends and destinations of all the different kinds of people.
Really?
But you still must listen to what your father has to say on this.
Your father is a pastor, after all of that!
It's precisely because Dad is a pastor,
there's a greater responsibility to actively lead brothers and sisters
to welcome the coming of the Lord!
Hey, she is—(You see,)
Almighty God expresses the truth
and does His work of judgment beginning with God's house.
This is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
Dad, you must take a conscientious approach to the coming of the Lord.
Xinming, can't you understand where I'm coming from?
If this really was the Lord returning,
then I would be the first to accept it.
That's right.
But the words of Almighty God go beyond the Bible.
Do you remember the words I used to say to you?
Our belief in the Lord
must not deviate from the Bible,
and the Lord's words are all within the Bible. (Hey, see?)
To believe in God is to believe in the Bible.
She has got you down pat!
Always the same stuff!
Xinming, your father and I have believed in God most of our lives.
We've never seen any believer in God deviate from the Bible! (That's very true!)
You went of your own accord to The Church of Almighty God,
aren't you being a bit careless?
Mom!
Your mother is right!
What's more, I may be a pastor but I'm also your father.
Other people can do whatever they like,
but I am responsible for your life.
Your father only wishes the best for you!
Mom, I know that,
but we must base our belief in God on God's words and on the truth.
So if you don't seek and you don't knock,
how can you welcome the coming of the Lord?
You—(Welcoming the Lord is very important!)
We really must seek and investigate.
One voice!
Well, now, Xinming.
Hold to the Bible and you absolutely cannot go wrong.
The Bible is the canon of the Christian faith!
The Bible has absolute authority.
No one can believe in God
without basing their belief on the Bible. (That's right.)
The Bible represents the Lord, our God,
and a belief in the Lord is a belief in the Bible.
How can one believe in the Lord
by deviating from the Bible? (Your father is correct.)
That isn't a real belief!
Dad, your point of view is untenable!
I now suggest that we discuss this view of yours by having a debate.
A debate?
What? I've been a believer for decades
and I read the Bible at least four times a year.
You think I can't beat an upstart like you in a debate?
Come on then! Let's have a debate!
No time like the present!
Look. That's good. (Look.)
Here I go. (Okay.)
Come.
I'll be the referee.
I promise to stand on the side of truth!
Who will be the proposition and who the opposition?
Well, whichever I am, I'm not afraid of her!
So Dad, you're the opposition.
You see this kid!
Whatever you say, I'll still beat you!
For the pastor father and the daughter,
we now let the truth debate commence!
Firstly, let the opposition state their view.
We—(The opposition may stand for their statement!)
OK!
The Bible is the basis of our belief in the Lord.
All who believe in the Lord do so based on the Bible.
A belief in the Lord is a belief in the Bible,
and a belief in the Bible is a belief in the Lord.
Therefore, the Bible represents the Lord!
I ask the opposition:
Is it in keeping with the truth to equate the Bible and the Lord?
Is that the Lord's will?
Of course it is!
Then I ask, what does the Gospel of John, chapter 5, verses 39 to 40 say?
Lao Chi?
Listen up!
Oh thank you, it was nothing!
The Lord was very clear.
For us believers to gain truth and life,
we must come to God.
The Lord also said,
Only God can express the truth.
Only God can grant us eternal life; the Bible cannot.
This is true!
Therefore, the Bible is merely God's testimony.
It is just a book that recorded His previous work,
and God is the Lord of creation,
He is who He is, both almighty and wise.
How can the Bible be placed on the same level as God?
God creates all things and He reigns over all things.
Can the Bible do this?
Oh, no.
God can lead mankind and save mankind,
and He reigns over mankind's destiny. Can the Bible do this?
Oh, no! (Hey!)
Therefore, the Bible cannot represent God!
That's my girl. Everything she says is right and reasonable!
Hey! One voice!
Although the Bible cannot represent the Lord,
yet the Bible is indeed the Lord's testimony.
The Bible records the Lord's teachings and His work.
For two thousand years,
who has not based their belief in God on the Bible?
Therefore, belief in God must hold to the Bible.
To deviate from the Bible means it's not a real belief!
I would like to ask the opposition a few questions:
Did the Bible come first, or did God come first?
God came first, of course.
Right! First came God's words and work,
and then afterward came the record of the Bible.
Was the Bible around at the time of Noah and Abraham?
Of course not.
So did the Lord Jesus' disciples choose to follow Him
based solely on the Bible? (Of course …)
Not!
Right! The answer is clear!
They all followed the Lord, our God, because they heard His voice.
They didn't believe in God just because of the Bible.
Oh, Lao Chi, Xinming is actually right.
What do you …
Referee!
Please continue the proposition!
Before God had done His new work,
people based their belief in God on the Bible, and they were right to do so.
For example, they based their belief in God on the Old Testament during the Age of Law.
This was right too.
But when the Lord Jesus came and did His new work,
if people still held to the Old Testament
and did not hurry to follow the Lamb's footsteps,
then they were no longer believing in God, but instead defying God.
And likewise, the Lord has returned in the last days,
and if people still cling to the letter of the Bible
and do not accept God's words and work of the last days,
then they are just the same as the Pharisees.
They want the Bible, not God,
and in the end God will condemn them.
Oh no! Wasn't this the same mistake that the Pharisees made?
This is a lesson paid for in blood!
So, in summary,
the opposition's belief that "One's belief must be based on the Bible,
and to deviate from the Bible is not a real belief"
is untenable!
I have now closed my argument, thank you.
The opposition wants some water.
Please may the proposition pour him some?
Well, you really broke our one voice to pieces, didn't you?
But Xinming is correct!
Never mind right or wrong, didn't we say you'd take my side?
Just let me speak first next time!
OK, OK!
Dad, here's your water!
The opposition may make their statement.
The world has changed,
and the Lord's salvation has extended across the world.
All of God's words and work are in the Bible,
and there can be no words or work of God outside the Bible.
I object!
Objection overruled! (Objection sustained.)
You may continue.
The opposition's view is made up of conceptions and imagination,
and simply doesn't accord with the facts.
As we see in John 21:25,
Hey, Lao Chi, the Lord Jesus worked for three and a half years.
And not all of His words and work are recorded in the Bible.
Well, I—(That's right!)
Moreover, some of the writings of the prophets in the Age of Law
are not recorded in the Bible either,
and this is a commonly-known fact.
Therefore,
the view that "All of God's words and work are in the Bible"
simply does not accord with the facts.
The opposition has 30 seconds to respond.
Please begin your statement within the next five seconds.
5, 4, 3, 2—
So, not all of God's previous words and work are recorded in the Bible.
This is normal.
But the truth within the Bible is wholly perfect.
It is okay that we believe in God based on the truth in the Bible.
God cannot have any new words or work that go beyond the Bible!
But you are forgetting,
1 Peter 4:17,
Also, Revelation 2:17,
Right. What do these verses show us?
They show that the Lord comes to speak,
and He will also do His work of judgment.
These words and work are simply not recorded in the Bible.
So does that mean that they are not God's words and work?
God is an ever-new God,
and His work only ever forges onward.
If we limit God's words and work into one book, Holy Bible,
then this is judging and delimiting God,
and even more it denies the work of the Lord's return.
Now that you say this, I've just thought
that the Lord Jesus' words and work are not recorded in the Old Testament.
So didn't the Lord Jesus speak and work beyond the Bible?
That's right!
Therefore, the view that
"God cannot have any new words or work that go beyond the Bible" is a fallacy.
It just doesn't hold up!
Hey, Lao Chi,
Xinming recently accepted the Eastern Lightning,
and what she is saying is so insightful
and accords with the truth.
I think it's possible this way has arisen from the Holy Spirit.
If so, shouldn't we seek this way?
One voice!
I don't mean to criticize …
Xinming, get me a glass of water.
You still have some here!
Go!
OK, I'm going, I'm going!
Hey! Come here!
Exactly whose side are you on?
Well, I'm on the Lord's side, of course!
Hey, didn't we agree that you would be on my side?
I'm on whichever side has the truth and has the work of the Holy Spirit!
Deviating from the Bible means forsaking the Lord.
It's absolutely right to hold to the Bible!
This won't do. You have to be on my side!
No, I won't do that!
Your belief in God is like being blind with your eyes open.
It's fruitless to believe like that!
Your interpretation of the Bible is obsolete,
it has none of the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.
Why would I be on your side?
But, but—(What are you two doing?)
Your father wants us to speak with one voice.
Well, the voice has crumbled.
Your mother has succeeded in going over to your side now.
Huh. But whatever the case,
I won't forsake the Bible and I will not forsake the Lord!
Oh come on, Chi Shou, Chi Shou!
Your father was so clever to choose that name for you!
Oh! Your name means to "hold to,"
and you're certainly living perfectly up to it!
I think it's a great name!
My father meant for me to hold to the Bible
and to hold to the Lord's way!
Dad, you treat the Bible as though it were the Lord,
and this really is forsaking God!
I don't think you're a servant of the Lord,
but rather you're a slave to the Bible.
This kid—(Hey!)
What did you … (Yes, you tell her!)
After believing in the Lord for decades,
we've now turned into someone who believes in the Bible.
Isn't this forsaking the Lord?
Hey! (This isn't just forsaking the Lord.)
Treating the Bible as if it were God
is more like a blasphemy against God!
The Pharisees held to the Bible,
and used the words of the Bible to condemn the Lord's coming.
Consequently, they crucified the Lord, and were cursed for it.
We must not follow in the Pharisees' footsteps!
What a joke!
What the Pharisees held to was the Old Testament,
and that is why they crucified the Lord.
What I read is the New and Old Testament,
so how can that defy or forsake the Lord?
Xinming speaks so clearly.
Why can't you understand her?
The Pharisees held to the Old Testament and defied the Lord,
and you hold to the New and Old Testament and defy the Lord's return.
Aren't they one and the same?
Why can't you seem to get your head around this?
I am a pastor.
I study the Bible and preach the Bible.
I've held to the Bible for decades.
How could it be wrong?
Dad! We believe in God, not the Bible!
Dad, let me read you some passages from God's words.
Mom, why don't you read the next passage?
OK.
Lao Chi, these words are so right!
If the Bible takes over God's place in our hearts,
then we are no longer believers in God,
and how then can we come before God?
That's right, Dad.
Each word of Almighty God pricks my heart.
They are indeed the truth and they speak about reality!
It's just …
How could I keep being a pastor if I deviated from the Bible?
Who would see me as a pastor if I didn't preach the Bible?
No way!
My belief in the Lord is a complete belief in the Bible.
The Bible is my Lord!
Dad! (Lao Chi!)