Joe Average (Way of the Master)

Caught in a Lie is the title of the third episode from season 3 of Way of the Master featuring Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron.

Episode walkthrough

Introduction

(00:00 - 00:18)

Opens with the are you a good person? opening.

(00:19 - 02:17) The scene takes place at a beach side house. Cut to a man in a bath robe walking down the stairs into the kitchen to make breakfast. Ray stands there in the kitchen, ignored by the man like Ray is not there. Ray is talking to the camera man, he says the man is Joe Average. Joe walks out to the padio, where Kirk (again ignored by Joe) is in the yard talking to the camera.

Kirk says the man breathes the air, drinks his milk, looks at his rose garden, listens to the birds cherp, and smiles when he notices rain is on the way so he wont have to water his garden. Kirk says, "Joe is a typical man. he doesn't think about the creation that surrounds him, or the creator that made him. Even though God had given him life itself, if you asked Joe what God had ever done for him, he probably couldn't think of one thing. Its just another average day for Joe Average."

Ray joins in with Kirk in the yard and says, "Not quite. There's nothing average about Joe or what he has done this morning. He is actually a miracle machine that no man-made mechanism can ever begin to imitate." They walk away and cut scene.

(02:18 - 04:01) Cut to a recording of Ray talking to a random person on the street on the 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica. The man is David, and Ray asks David "what has God done for you?" David replies, "ugh, I don't know. probably nothing if God does not exist right?" Ray says "so you don't think God has done anything for you?" David shakes his head. Cut to a scene of Kirk interviewing two people on the Hollywood Bowl by the Kodak Theater. Kirk asks the same question, and they cannot think of anything. Next, same place, Kirk asks a guy the same thing, and he replies "Yes, because I pray before a Final and I always pass it. I dunno." Several scenes go on, with different results. One time Ray interviews a guy in Huntington Beach, who says God had not done anything for him. When Ray replies that God gave him life, a brain, and eyes, the guy replies with "if you believe that."

(04:02 - 05:22) Kirk says "In 2007, Japanese scientists created an amazing robot. It was so amazing because it looked so much like a human and could move like a human. There were a few obvious differences from homo sapiens though, like it wasn't alive (obviously) and it couldn't think, see, hear, touch, taste, or smell. Despite this, it was a marvel of human technology. It was the very best that science could do at that moment in history."

Ray says "a few other things that the robot could not do: it couldn't run or even walk as humans do because the scientists found that human feet is far too complex and designed to imitate." A narrator voice and a virtual visual of the human foot appears on screen. The voice shows several key elements in the human foot. "The human ankel serves as foundation, shock absorber, and proportional engine. The foot can sustain enormous pressure, several tons over the course of a one mile run, and provides flexibility and resilience. The foot and the ankel contain 26 bones, 33 joints, more than 100 muscles, tendons, and ligaments. And a network of blood vessels, serves, skin and soft tissue. These components work together to provide the body with support, balance and mobility.

(05:23 - 09:05) Cut scene to Joe Average walking barefoot through his yard and composing several stretch positions.  Ray says "Joe had no problem stanging upright and walking, because his extraordinary feet were designed and created by God."

Kirk says "Nor was the milk and toast that he made wasn't ordinary either. it came from bread, that the bread came from wheat, which came from the soil. God created the soil and the soil contained nutrients that fed the wheat seed, and that formed itself into the wheat plant that then produced more wheat seeds. Whent he seeds were harvested, they were grounded into flour, mixed with yeast and water, to make bread so that Joe can have something to eat that would satisfy his God-given appitite so he could have energy for that day. And the butter that joe spread on his toast came from milk, that came from a cow that chewed grass, that came from the soil nutrients that God created." Ray says "the honey came from an insect God created to collect nectar from flowers that grew from the soil He had made. The composition of honey consists proportions of fructose, Glucose, water, oil, and special enzymes produced by bees. With their tongues, they suck out the nectar, then store it in sacs inside their bodies. After filling these sacs witht heir juices, they fly back to their bee hive and regurgitate the stored nectar for the house bees. The house bees are assigned the job of adding enzymes from their bodies to the nectar. The enzymes cause chemical reactions to rippen their nectar and evaporate its water. Lastly the nectar is stored in a cell of the honey comb. Over time the nectar rippens and becomes honey."

Kirk says "As Joe gazed at his garden, he took a deep breath. He breathed in life-giving oxygen that have been breathed out by trees God had made. Trees are our breathing partners. You may not live in a forest, but you and I need trees in order to live. People and animals depend on trees and plants for oxygen. As you breathe in, your body produces oxygen. As you breathe out, it releases carbon dioxde. And trees do just the opposite; they take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen, which also helps to clean the air. We use trees to make paper for books, but there is also more than 5,000 different made things from trees: like baseball bats, shoe polish, even tooth paste comes from the extracts that come from trees. joe then breathed out carbon dioxide so that the trees would have something to breathe in."

Just FYI, the vast majority of Earth's oxygen does not come from trees. It actually comes from Plankton in the oceans.

Ray "the reason he drank the milk is because God had created him with a re-occuring thirst to hydrate his body. That caused him to want to drink the liquid, that came from the cow, that chewed the grass, that came from the dirt that God had made." The voice narrtor comes back and explains the process of how a cow digests grass and produces milk.

(09:06 - 11:25) Roe walks around looking at his yard. Kirk says "Joe looks around at his yard with his God-given eyes, with their millions of light sensitive cells, and incredible self-focusing muscles, which sent the image to his brain. There he saw his garden filled with colorful flowers, waiting for the bees to come to collect nectar to make honey for his toast. With his astoundingly made ears, he listened to the variety of cherping birds as they welcomed a brand new day and sang praises to the one who created all things. As the rain began to drop, he did not think of the fact that each drop was being miraculously held together by its own skin. Water surface tension is characterized by an elastic tight sheet on the edges of the liquid. In physics, this phenomenon is known as water skin, and that layer allows certain insects and other miniscule things to seemingly walk on water." Ray says "as it drops through the heavens, the sun shines through the transparent liquid and displays out the seven colors of the rainbow. As the sun's rays hits the water, it is traveling at 186,000 miles per second, in a perfectly straight line, till they are reflected in several directions by that tiny fast moving water drop. When the little drop hits the vast ocean, it sends out tiny waves in a perfect circle as the energy from it is absorbed into the great ocean."

Kirk says "the sea looks flat to Joe's unthinking eyes, but over the horizon, the seemingly flat ocean curves to his left as well as his right and curves in front of him, and on the other side of the Earth, it turns upside down. yet it doesn't spill into space, because fo the same law of gravity that God created that pulled that drop of water from the great cloud to Mr. Average's garden. And this is all happening as Joe stands on this huge ball of dirt we call Earth, which is spinning around as well as moving through space at 67,000 miles an hour. The Bible so rightly observes the wonders of God's creation when says 'these are just the beginning of all that He does, merely a whisper of His power' (Job 26:14a)."

(11:26 - 14:52) Ray and Kirk stand by a man painting a canvas in Joe's yard (the canvas is turned away from the camer). Ray says "imagine you are standing in awe of what you think is the most beautiful painting ever painted. It's breathtaking beyong words. As you gaze at its incredible majesty, its an amazing wonder you are told that the actual painter is standing right beside you. What are you going to do? Do you ignore him? Of course not, you can't help yourself, words spill from your excited lips and you say 'Did you paint that? It's absolutely magnificent. You are a wonderful artist. You give him the apporpriate honor, you give him the appropriate praise, anything less than that would be a sin."

Kirk then says "now think about it: God painted every breath-taking sunrise, every massive snow-capped mountain, he made the deep blue seas teaming with life, and the magificent clouds that pour their water down upon the thirst Earth. God painted creation with vibrant colors, he filled the canvas of life with amazing animals and gorgeous flowers with brightly colored birds and tall green oxygen-exhaling trees."

Ray says "The Bible uses personification when speaking about God, saying that the trees of the field clap their hands, the hills sing, the stones cry out in praise of Him because of who he is and what he has done. The trees lift their branches in worship, the flowers blossom to his glory, and the birds sing to him with wonderful praises, and he is there standing right beside you."

Kirk says "Imagine now that you are back looking at that incredible painting, and there is a man beside you is raving about just as much as you did. But when he finds out who the person next to him is the actual painter, he spits on him, he cusses him out and for some unknown reason he adamately denies that the painting ever had a painter. Then he says the unthinkable, he says it happened by accident." Cut to a scene of a interview with two young men in the 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monice. The evangelist says "when you look at a building, you know there was a builder. When you look at a painting you know there was a painter, but when you look at creation, you don't know if there was a creator." One of them says "right" and the scene cuts right there back to Kirk in the yard. "That is what much of this world does. The creator is right beside them and the blaspheme his name, the refuse to give him due praise for who his is and what he has done or to give him thanks for the gift of life. And then some of them do the unthinkable: they deny his existence and say that the entire miracle of creation was just an accident."

Cut to Ray interviewing David from earlier. Ray points out to David that the brain and eyes are much more sophisticated than any super computer or camera that has ever been made. Ray asks David if he [David] thinks his brain happened by accident. David says "no it didn't happen by accident. Years and years of successive evolution --(Ray cuts him off, asking David's age)-- ...I'm 23." Ray asks did evolution take place in 23 years? David responds "No not in 23 years." Ray cuts him off with another question, "what happened before you were born that determines what sort of brain that you get?" David answers "my genetic DNA from my parents." Ray jumps in with another question, "which goes back to who?" David answers "to their parents, and their parents, and theirs..." ray cuts him off and says "right back to Adam?" David says "I mean, whether or not Adam existed or not, that is a different story, but yeah I'll give you that---" Ray cuts him off with another question, "goes back to him?" David goes on, "Adam, ya know, whatever Adam (quote-on-quote with his fingers) is, ya know, quote on quote, Adam and Eve--" the scene cuts back to Kirk in the yard.

Kirk says "know why would they do that? Well, the Bible tells us that it is specifically because of his moral government. God demands moral responsibility, and that is especially flies in the face of this sinful world."

The dismissal of the belief in god(s) has nothing to do with morality. As the actual statistics and facts hows, atheists are more peaceful than theists. The difference between the two is that atheists tend to be good, and when we are we are good for goodness sake. We do, or what we do that needs to be done, because it should be, not because of any threat or any reward either. So why do Christians think that belief in God has anything to do at all with being good? The popular notion is that whenever anyone dies, they are judged based on the tally of the good or evil things they have done in their lives. This idea is much older than the Bible. It dates back to the Zoroastrian religion – which scholars say contributed significantly to the formation of Judaism, of which Christianity emerged. Way back then, they believed that the souls of men ascend to the kingdom of Justice and Truth; and the souls of evil men descend into the Kingdom of the Lie ruled by Aroman. Shadows of this can be found in modern Judaism. This is what it says in the sevestas of Zarathrustra, but it does not say that in the Bible and that is not what Christianity teaches. In the Christian religion, nearly all sins can be forgiven if you believe in Jesus and simply because you believe in Jesus. No matter how absurd the stories are, all you have to do is swallow whatever the priests serve or selling...and that's it! You're saved! So if you love sin, claim Jesus as your Savior. Yes there are passages in the Bible that say works are important too, but only in addition to faith. And those passages could be paraphrased as “believe what we tell you, so you will do as we say.” Submissive obedience and subservience to the priests is repeated throughout, but there are also passages (Conficians 2:8) that you are saved ONLY through your faith, not of yourselves. Meaning there is nothing you can actually do about it. Because as if says in Isiah 54:6, your good works are like filthy rags in the eyes of God. It does not matter how good or bad you are, you are not going to be held accountable for your sins. That is not what you are going to be judged on. There is only one criteria: all that matters is that you believe, and that you believe on faith (meaning that you have complete conviction without evidence). Remember, Jesus said “blessed he that has not seen and yet believed.” So morality IS NOT the issue. All that matters is whether you can believe the most outrageous claims imaginable, even from the least credible people possible, and believe it completely even when there is no good reason to believe it at all as you should. The saintly skeptic is cursed simply for being rational while the most naïve sinners can still be saved. You can break the Ten Commandments as many times as you want to, you won't go to Hell for that. In fact, God lists hundreds of Commandments, but he won't give a damn if you break them: disbelief.

So believers can be as vile as they wish – it doesn't matter. Atheists can be the most moral people ever – it doesn't matter. Morality doesn't matter. Gullibility is the only criteria required for redemption. So if you love sin, and you don't want to get killed for it, just say that you believe in Jesus and the Holy Ghost. Because the only real way to piss God off is not to believe in him.

The Way of the Master
Season One Episodes: 1. The Firefighter   2. The Mirror of the Ten Commandments   3. The Motive of the Sinner   4. The Summary of Salvation   5. Practice What You Preach   6. Idolatry—The Darling Sin of Humanity   7. The Beauty of a Broken Spirit—Atheism   8. WDJD?   9. Blasphemy, Sabbath, Parents   10. Murder   11. Adultery   12. Theft   13. Lie and Covet
Season Two Episodes: 1. God's Wonderful Plan   2. Conscience   3. Alcatraz, Al Capone, Alcohol   4. True and False Conversion   5. When Things Go Wrong   6. The Satanic Influence   7. How to Witness to Someone Who's Homosexual/Gay   8. Evolution   9. How to Witness to a Loved One   10. The Fear of God   11. Ice Breakers—Gospel Tracts   12. The Greatest Gamble  13. How to Get on Fire for God
Season Three Episodes: 1. Battle for the Lost   2. Where Has the Passion Gone?   3. Joe Average   4. Caught in a Lie   5. The Divine Butler   6. Why Christianity?   7. Jehovah's Witness   8. Mormonism   9. Are You A Genius?   10. Last Words of the Rich and Famous   11. How to Find God's Will   12. What Scares You   13. Hollywood Be Thy Name
Cast
Ray Comfort — Kirk Cameron