The Food for Thought Faithcast with Be Rob

One Path, Many Questions

Be Rob Season 4 Episode 44

What if everything turns on a single question: is Jesus credible? We open with the bold claim that truth is narrow if the resurrection happened, and we follow that conviction into the places where faith meets pain, policy, and personal choices. Rather than tossing slogans, we weigh exclusivity against history, then ask what that means for how we live, love, and lead.

The conversation moves from theology to a story that stops the room: a mother who chose life after incest and now calls her son Jonah a miracle. Her courage reframes debates about abortion, purpose, and personhood. From Genesis and creation to the daily practice of guarding your peace against rumor and misrepresentation, we share practical wisdom for staying steady when people prefer narratives over facts. The thread is dignity—every life carries weight, and your calling isn’t for you alone.

We don’t dodge the hard cultural stuff. We tackle rising distrust in institutions, security warnings around political figures, and a heated exchange on immigration where moral universals meet human desperation. Then we turn to technology, exploring the mark of the beast, digital identity, and whether access to commerce and speech could hinge on systems that punish conscience. Expect a grounded call to spiritual discernment and resilient community, with nods to AI’s uncanny edges and the builders who may create new “catacombs” when pressure mounts.

For a breath and a spark, we hit the GOAT debate—Jordan vs LeBron—and a biblical hierarchy of loyalties: wife, daughter, mom. A simple parable reminds us that fruit isn’t for the tree; your gift exists to feed others. The episode closes with a testimony of a reported resurrection after hours, returning to the opening question: if Jesus is credible, speak to the mountain and live like promises are real. If this conversation challenges or strengthens you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a friend who’s ready to think deeply and live boldly.

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SPEAKER_05:

This is powerful. I don't know if I'm allowed to ask this question. You're allowed to ask whatever you want, bro.

SPEAKER_06:

It's your podcast.

SPEAKER_05:

The internet's gonna think, but you know how you stand on the Lord Jesus Christ, right? Yep. What about Allah? Minister Farrakhan is standing on Islam the same way you standing on Christianity. There's somebody standing on Buddhism the same way that when they say Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, they say Allah. Is that just one person?

SPEAKER_06:

When Jesus was alive on the earth, he said a statement that to this day is very controversial. Jesus said, This is my disclaimer, bro. Yeah. Not Philip Anthony Mitchell said. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No human being can come to God but through me. That Jesus said something that was very exclusive, that the only pathway to God was through him. Jesus also told us that there is only one God who is Yahweh, and that there is no other God. And that any other God is an idol and is not a true God. Now Jesus taught that, not Philip Anthony Mitchell. So the whole issue about is Allah God and whose God is all depends on was Jesus telling the truth or was Jesus a liar. If Jesus is credible, then there is only one God, and the scriptures gave us his name. He is Yahweh, Jehovah. If Jesus is credible, there is no other God but Yahweh. If Jesus is credible, there are no multiple pathways to God except through him. If Jesus is credible, then the pathway to God is small, narrow, and exclusive. If Jesus is credible. If Jesus is not credible, then there are multiple gods. If Jesus is not credible, then multiple pathways to God. If Jesus is not credible, then Allah, Yahweh the same person. If Jesus is not credible, the decision we gotta make is is Jesus credible? Now if a man can be crucified and buried and put in a tomb and was supernaturally raised from the dead and seen alive in history by over 400 eyewitnesses. I think that man is pretty credible because Muhammad was a great leader, but he did not resurrect from the dead. Joseph Smith was a great leader, but he was not raised from the dead. Confucius was a leader, but he didn't all these men were leaders, but they were not raised from the dead. But there is a man in history who is the progenitor of a major world faith who was raised from the dead and seen alive. So now we gotta determine was that man credible? I believe that that man was credible. And because I believe he's credible, I have to believe what he says. It's not about my personal opinion, is do I believe Jesus was credible? So let me repeat this. If Jesus is credible, not Philip Anthony Mitchell, people are gonna meet me to death. If Jesus is credible, Nehemiah, then there is only one God who has a name, Jehovah, who has a name Yahweh, who has a name Elohim, who has a name Lord, who has revealed himself in the pages of Scripture, and that the only way to get to him is through his son. If Jesus is credible.

SPEAKER_04:

This is my world, and Jesus is definitely credible here. So you guys enjoy the show. I'm having a great Thursday, October the 23rd. It's about 8:30 p.m. And I drove around uh Lake Ocone today to spread the gospel, and it was amazing. There's some beautiful houses there. Stopped in and saw my friends at Amichi's, which I play at about four times, five times a year. And I love that. I love those people. It's an amazing thing. God bless you, and I hope you guys enjoy the show.

SPEAKER_10:

Thank you.

SPEAKER_15:

They won't, because they'll lose, and they know.

SPEAKER_11:

Yes. So I wasn't going to come up here, but I heard someone talking about how abortions are important because it takes rape babies out of the population. And I just wanted to say that by saying that, they are wanting to take out very important people. Four years ago, I was raped by my father, and I chose not to have an abortion, and this is what came out of it.

SPEAKER_15:

I'm very sorry that happened to you. That is incest and rape. And tell us your uh your your little one's name.

SPEAKER_11:

This is Jonah.

SPEAKER_15:

And Jonah's a miracle from God.

SPEAKER_11:

He is.

SPEAKER_15:

But it was a terrible thing that happened to you. What is your message to people that say babies conceived in rape are not human beings?

SPEAKER_11:

They are absolutely human beings. They are made individually by God and they can do some very important things. I believe that he'll grow up and he'll help people, and based on all of our experiences, we can try and keep them from doing the same thing that their parents did.

SPEAKER_15:

Praise God. Jonah is alive because of your courage. And you turned something evil into something good. So God bless you, and thank you so much. Hi, Jonah. You want a hat, Jonah? Yes, please. God bless you. Thank you. Genesis 1-1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. That verse means that your creation matters, there's a purpose to your existence. We're not here by accident, and that there is a God and you are not him.

SPEAKER_00:

If they never asked for your side of the story, then the side they heard is exactly how they feel about you, and that tells you everything you need to know. People who truly care will seek the truth. They'll come to you, ask questions, and try to understand. But those who jump to conclusions, who accept rumors as facts, were never really on your side to begin with, never explain yourself to people who are already dedicated to misunderstanding you. Some people don't want the truth. They just want to believe what fits their version of you, what fits their narrative. No matter how clearly you speak, they'll only hear what they want. So stop exhausting yourself trying to be understood by those who choose not to listen. You owe no explanations to those who never gave you the benefit of the doubt. Protect your peace, guard your energy. The ones who truly matter won't need convincing. They'll see your heart, your intentions, and your truth without you having to defend it. So let them talk, let them believe what they want. You just keep walking in your truth. Because at the end of the day, the people who are meant for you will always make the effort to know the real you.

SPEAKER_08:

Listen to me. Trump is being hunted. And because I hate these people. And the problem is the people in charge of the secret service right now are not serious people. The people that are too busy trying to cover up their own role and their security plan for President Trump. Nothing is gonna change. We are in real trouble. I'm not trying to scare anyone. I'm not trying to panic anyone. I'm trying to tell you this isn't over. You thought it was over after the first one, we had the second one. You thought it was over after the second one, folks. There's more. He is being hunted right now.

SPEAKER_15:

You wanna come up here and talk? Come on, not a tough guy. Come on.

SPEAKER_03:

Sorry, man.

SPEAKER_15:

I was just uh return people that break into your country back home.

SPEAKER_03:

Because like mass deportation really just is like cleansing the land.

SPEAKER_15:

No, it's not, it's restoring the law.

SPEAKER_03:

This is greater than greater than money. Greater than God.

SPEAKER_15:

This is not greater than God. What are you talking about? Okay, let me ask you a question. If someone breaks into your country, what should the punishment be?

SPEAKER_03:

I was gonna give you a different question.

SPEAKER_15:

You said we're not in America, so tell me if someone breaks into the United States, what should the punishment be?

SPEAKER_03:

I wouldn't say you should be breaking in most of the time. No, I don't say I wouldn't say like I mean, other countries are economically bad and they're coming here. Like they want to come here.

SPEAKER_15:

It doesn't matter because if someone goes and robs a 7-Eleven, they don't you don't get like a lesser penalty if you're broke. What is wrong is wrong regardless of your socioeconomic status.

SPEAKER_03:

I get you, man. No, I get you, but like law is not a universal thing.

SPEAKER_15:

No, they are. No, that's not correct. We believe, as Christians and in the West, in an axiological truth, which that every human being has written on their heart some form of right or wrong. It is inherently wrong to steal other people's stuff. It's inherently wrong to walk into people's homes uninvited. It's inherently wrong to go after somebody and harass them or whatever. So it's it's a universal law that you don't get to go places where you aren't invited.

SPEAKER_12:

In the specific case of the mark of the beast described in Revelation, it's a mark without which you cannot conduct commerce. So basically everyone's compelled to receive the mark, but those who receive the mark make a big mistake in receiving it. Right. And um, they are punished for it in a big way. So if we get to a place in the next couple of years where you can't participate digitally in commerce or in communications without the mark of the beast, without the permanent mark on the blockchain, like what's your option?

SPEAKER_09:

I mean, your option is just not to conduct business and do those things. I mean, God will find a way for those people, even if it's the end of their lives. That's just the way that's gonna shake down. What'll probably happen too is we will have people in tech, and I know they exist, who are alarmed by this, who will intentionally devise ways around this for people. Similar to people creating catacombs for the persecuted Christians in the early days of the Roman Empire, you will have people who will find ways around this to hack it. I've had a friend Tucker who he's become a Christian in recent years, and he works for some of the big, big companies, and he said he goes, Some of the stuff that you see cannot be explained through normal math material stuff, some of the stuff that's coming through. Coming through from AI. Yeah.

SPEAKER_15:

I want to know if you still think MJ's the goal or if your stance has changed. Do you think it's easier to score points in 2025 or in 1995 in the NBA?

SPEAKER_09:

I think it's easy to score points now, most definitely now.

SPEAKER_15:

Okay. So therefore, when we look at point totals of LeBron, we gotta take that with an asterisk, right? When was the NBA more popular? 90s or today?

SPEAKER_09:

I think the NBA is more popular today.

SPEAKER_15:

No, it's not even close. NBA's gone down. It's a joke. The last 10 years, who's been the face of the NBA? LeBron. In the 90s, who was the face of the NBA?

SPEAKER_05:

Jordan.

SPEAKER_15:

Wait, so Jordan made the NBA more popular and LeBron made the NBA a joke.

SPEAKER_05:

No.

unknown:

No, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_15:

The NBA is on verge of collapse. No one wants to watch it. Crowd attendance is down. They got to give away free food, they got to give away free beer. The cable channels are like basically no one wants to watch it. It's like a three-point contest, no one plays defense. So the League of LeBron is going into a place of irrelevance. Jordan left the league at the highest ratings ever with a cultural phenomenon the way we've never seen before. When you go to the inner city, you go to Chicago, you go to Atlanta, do you say, hey man, are you wearing Jordan's? Or do you say, hey, are you wearing LeBron's? And I'll close with this. You know how you are the goat? You're the goat when you don't have to keep on playing to your 40 and get your kid some sort of you know special job just because you're a billionaire. That's how you know you're the goat. You're the goat where you're like, I just won six. Thanks so much. I'm retiring. Thanks for playing. The goat knows he's the greatest and he doesn't have to keep on playing to prove it.

SPEAKER_01:

This was such an insightful video, and I stand by that preacher's reaction 1000%. Watch this.

SPEAKER_14:

Who comes first?

SPEAKER_06:

Your mom, your daughter, or your wife?

SPEAKER_14:

Give me mom, mom, daughter, wife, daughter, wife, wife replaceable. Okay. Oh wow, replaceable. Okay. So this is like hypothetical when I'm like later in life in my 30s when I have all three of those. Okay. So I would say at that point I'd probably pick like daughter, then wife, then mom. But I love my mom a lot. I love my mom. Respect, respect. What about she? How you feeling? Uh daughter, if I'm on good terms with my wife, then wife, and then mom. But if not, then mom in the middle.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, God bless these guys. But oh for three. The biblical answer is wife, daughter, mom for two controversial but very clear reasons. Number one, your wife comes before your daughter because the Bible never says that you are one flesh with your daughter, even though your daughter literally came from your flesh. But it does say that a man becomes one flesh with his wife. Ironically, putting your daughter before your wife actually hurts your daughter because the best way to be a good parent is to be a good spouse with a great marriage to raise them under. Number two, your wife comes before your mom because the Bible says when a man gets married, he shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife. So, like when my kids get married, they are leaving my family, starting a new family, and then I become extended family. If you don't leave, you can't really cleave. Moms are priceless, daughters are treasures, but godly men go wife, daughter, mom. Right.

SPEAKER_07:

A plum tree don't eat plums. Listen to this. A pear tree don't eat pears. All they get is water. Because the fruit ain't for the tree. The fruit is for people who pass by. Your gift ain't for you. With this wine, you can be depressed at home and be on the phone giving other people a word that'll flip their life. Have you ever hung up the phone like I should have told myself that? It's because your gift, Michael, ain't for you. Watch this wisdom is.

SPEAKER_13:

I said, What happened? And he told me what happened, and I said, Don't you let anybody touch him until we get there. And so Jamie and I had to get up. We had to get dressed. It was an hour drive into Colorado Springs, and we didn't have cell phones. This was March the 4th, 2001. And so we uh got ready and praised God for the Word. We knew that death and life is in the power of the words, and so we refused to speak any of our doubts. We spoke and agreed and said the first report is not the last report. That's the first thing that popped into my mind. So as we were driving in, I was beginning to feel grief and sorrow and anything that anybody would feel, and uh I just didn't like it. We have love, joy, and peace. I can choose how I feel, and I don't like grief, and I didn't like sorrow, and so uh I just started resisting it, and out of nothing but faith, I just was saying, in the name of Jesus, I refused to grieve. I started just praising God in an effort to counter all of the negative stuff that I was feeling, and as soon as I did, you know, when you start praising God, the Bible says that strength to steal the enemy and the avenger. I just started praising God, and when I did, prophecies started coming back to my remembrance. And there were two instances where people who never knew me came up to me and said, You got two boys, and the younger is going to turn to the Lord before the older one does. And these were people that didn't even know me. I knew it was ordained of God, and they prophesied exactly what I needed to hear, and those prophecies hadn't come to pass. And it just finally dawned on my lightning fast mind that if those prophecies were really from God, then he had to live. All of a sudden, I saw it. Those prophecies helped me to focus, and I started laughing, and I told Jamie, I said, This is gonna be the greatest miracle we've ever seen. I'm not sure what Jamie thought about me. I know she was standing in agreement, but I saw it. And I said, It's gonna be awesome. And when we finally got into Colorado Springs, my oldest son came out and he said, I don't know what happened, but five or ten minutes after we called you, Peter just sat up and started talking. When my oldest son called, he had been dead over four hours. He was already stripped naked. He was a white boy, he turned black, and he had a tote tag on stripped naked on a cooler in a moor. And he had already been uh pronounced dead and put in a moor, and he just sat up and started talking between four and five hours with no oxygen to the brain, and he came back with no brain damage. Jesus said that when you are facing a problem, you speak to the mountain. Don't talk to God about your mountain. Don't tell God that the doctor says I'm dying. Would you do something? He told you to speak to your mountain. You speak to cancer, you speak to whatever. You take your authority. And somebody says, But I'm not the source. I can't heal anybody. Absolutely. But you've got the source living on the inside of you, and it's at your disposal.

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