The Discernable Interviews
Ps Braam Botha - The End of the World: Ethics, Ego and Conflict
1hr 32min
31 October 2023
With so much of our world in seeming flux, decay and upheaval, it is becoming popular to ask if we are witnessing the death of the world we always knew.
Why do our cultures and institutions pursue relentless ‘change’ with such zeal? Why are we redefining language and logic to support subjective views?
Are we destined for a societal train wreck?
Senior Pastor of Berwick Church of Christ, Braam Botha, discusses ethics, homosexuality, egoism, utilitarianism, government, conflict and morality in this 90 min interview.
This episode is for you if you’re interested in a perspective that takes aim at the aggrandisement of ‘SELF’ and calls for a radical departure from the momentum of popular culture.
Topics discussed:
- The plague of ‘Ethical Egoism’
- The cult of Self-Actualisation
- Redefining culture on the search for purpose
- The perverse elite who want to control the narrative
- Ethics are often limited to the temporal, not the eternal
- What is morality?
- What about ‘Love is Love’?
- The Woke definition of Love
- Homosexual marriage
- Generational love and transcending lifetimes
- When standing against culture paint a target on your back
- True ethics found in transformational experiences
- Laws that conflict with morality
- Utilitarianism is not ethical
- Affirming gay marriage and non-traditional lifestyles
- Disobeying the government
- Covid oppression of the church
- Political activism by Christians
- Experimental vaccines that divided the church
- Fighting for your own rights
- Why are Christians so docile?
- Die by the sword or die by the cross?
- The war That ends humanity will not be physical
- Elites will only keep alive the ‘useful’ who share their beliefs
- Christianity is a ‘Weak’ religion