Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP) - The Bible (2023)

Introduction

Explore the intriguing world of the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP) in this captivating video series. Delve into the origins, principles, and teachings of this influential organization that has touched the lives of countless individuals. Join us as we uncover the vision and mission behind IBLP, its founder Bill Gothard, and the profound impact it has had on personal development and spiritual growth. From its early beginnings to its current influence, we navigate the core teachings, practices, and controversies surrounding IBLP, shedding light on its unique approach to life and relationships. Whether you're seeking insight or simply curious about this influential movement, this series offers a thought-provoking journey through the rich history and teachings of the Institute in Basic Life Principles. Tune in and join the conversation.

PLAYLIST:
www.youtube.com/playlist

ABOUT OUR CHANNEL
Bryan and Matt have been friends for 10+ years, and every time they get together they’ve always found themselves discussing some religious topic or another. This podcast came out of lengthy discussions on our previous podcast Let’s Talk Church about how much we want to dig into more nitty-gritty details. So at lunch one day "Faith, Frauds and Falsehoods" was born.

This channel is entirely dedicated to examining and talking about various cults and religions. Our primary focus is on cults, both those no longer around and the ones still in existence. We want to look at just what it is that makes a cult, a cult. And we want to try to understand what it is about these phenomena that draws in other people so dramatically as to lead to events like Waco or Jonestown. We’re excited to see where this goes, and we hope that you’ll follow along!

FIND OUR MORE:
faithfraudsfalsehoods.com

GET IN TOUCH
info@faithfraudsfalsehoods.com

Bryan's Coffee:
nurturedgrounds.com

#ShinyHappyPeople #Duggars #BillGothard #MeToo

Video

Welcome back to Faith, frauds and faucets where we explore the various Cults and religions of the world tonight we're, continuing our discussion about the iblp The Institute in basic life principles, don't, forget to like comment and subscribe to help others find us.

Awesome, yeah, Matt.

So like always right, we have to remind everyone.

These are our opinions, not necessarily those of the people that we work for the churches that we attend so Matt shall we talk about? Uh, the iblp, yes.

So we are talking about their teachings tonight and we're going to do our second part in their teachings we're going to talk about the writing and scriptures.

Yeah.

So this will be a much shorter episode because we did talk a little bit about, um about this in the previous episode, but the iblp maintains, the the fundamentalist right.

The early 20th century fundamentalist idea of scripture and so it's, a very strict very literalistic view of the scriptures that the scripture is the only truth that you need.

It contains everything that matters about history about science about laws about everything right, um their their website.

Currently right we can we can see this as uh.

It says, we believe the Bible is the verbally inspired word of God and is the sole infallible rule of faith and practice so coming back to that verbal inspiration from the fundamentalists that we talked about last time.

So you wind up with that literalistic view, um Gothard taught at the time and seems to still be teaching right if it it's it's.

This is so weird if the invisible University's still in place we're, not sure if the embassy University is still in place and it's him, um, then he is teaching this this rote memorization of scripture, uh as being the key to success.

His website talks about it, uh.

But both of those are fairly old school, looking websites, um, whereas some of the new iblp stuff is updated.

So I don't really know how much of it is still truly active.

Um, his Twitter seems to indicate that he's still active, um, but that's that's, how that goes, but he definitely taught at the time.

This idea of wrote memorization, right? You just memorize the words right and that's the key to unlocking success.

Um, he he reported, um on one of the websites I I have found so many websites that are linked to the iblp it's, it's unreal, um, one of the websites right? He was talking about the importance of memorizing.

Scripture, this was from archive.

So it was an older website and he's talking about this.

This man named Bill who, uh, no, I.

Guess, it was this bill right? Same bill he's talking about himself, uh, for some reason I thought, his name was Bob, um.

And how when he was in school was struggling not doing so well, but then decided that he wanted to start memorizing and meditating on scriptures.

And suddenly his grades started improving to the point that he graduated from high school as a member of the National Honor Society from going from D's and F's to a straight A student, all because he started memorizing scriptures, um, like I said, Embassy, University, which we did find, um wasn't.

There isn't a post, resignation creation of Gothard right? We suggested before he resigned.

It appears that he still runs him as a university and it's, no longer part of ivlp right? Awesome.

We we said that it came up after he left iblp because we saw no evidence at the time, but as we started digging through some of the archive pages, right? The the way back machine is so helpful, um, we found that it was linked from the iblp page and iblp still runs Embassy media and Embassy it's, an Embassy Institute.

So not Embassy University, but Embassy Institute, it's, something else, um.

So I, don't really know, I, don't want to speculate on if there's still actively a part of Embassy University, well and let's let's go on with Ryan's description because we're going to do a separate video just on that part where we'll know, okay, we'll we'll, tell everybody what we've learned about Embassy University are just just digging in and discovering an investigation into Embassy University.

Okay, like over in the social episodes.

Now what we'll do a separate video on Embassy? University I think people will be interested in seeing what we found there.

Okay, because there's definitely some Lincoln's there.

We should we should bring out the light.

Yeah, um.

Okay.

So carrying on.

So again, with this, uh, fundamentalist view of scriptures, uh, the ATI course, right we talked about originally was developed using The Sermon on the Mount from Matthew chapter, five through seven as the basis for its curriculum.

And that curriculum covered K-12 right K through 12, and it covered everything from Linguistics law, history, science and medicine.

Now they used other scripture in that.

Yeah, but but on the sermon of the mount was the races, and they took some big leaps to do.

So I've I've looked at a couple different versions of this where it's kind of changed over the years and there's some crazy things in there we'll go over in later videos.

But they've also kind of edited out some of the crazy.

I mean, some people say this curriculum has been very helpful to Children.

Some parents have used this as their only curriculum some have used it as supplemental curriculum for their homeschooling.

Um I I could see it being supplemental, but we have we have people who have, you know used this curriculum.

And then later went on and went to other colleges, besides Embassy, University and work in the state department work in Congress, yep, um work at the White House and things like that.

So it's something that's completely deficient education.

However, for some people, it was a deficient education because that was all that was used, yeah.

And it was kind of advertised as being everything right, um.

So there was definitely some problems with that.

Some people who are pretty anti-scriptural like well, why would you just use scripture to base that? But I do want to point out that you.

Scripture is the basis, but not everything.

And there were some crazy things on here.

I'm, not completely defending it.

Either, yeah, guys, I'm really crazy.

Stuff really I can't, even see how you back up a scripture before they stretch to do.

So right, yeah, I looked at one of the workbooks and I was just like I, I.

Okay, I don't know how you got there, but I, guess if somebody learned something it's probably reasonable, and you know, like anything where I'm now everybody here knows I'm, very, you know, libertarian leaning and questioning of the government in any sort of authority, really not just the government and anytime whenever you go through your whole education, it all comes from a single Source like that there's room for propaganda manipulation.

And this is just wipe with it first or yep, you know and and blatant about it we're wanting to lead your kids, a certain way on purpose.

So you as parents should do this, yep and I think anytime you go in that where you don't give children a multitude of sources, and you know, I'm not a fan of these liberal universities.

This push a very liberal agenda, I think a good University should have some very liberal people there and some very conservative people there.

And we gotta we gotta have multiple viewpoints and multiple sources of information.

Yeah.

The truth of the thing is often somewhere in the in the middle grade right.

So part of that is is the problem, um, what I enjoy is that you know, there was and I enjoy.

But what the positive of it is the the intention I think was probably right, but like a lot of things the implementation turned out quite quite right, very poor, all right? Well that gets us, uh through their their writings and scriptures.

So join us.

Next time we talk about their hierarchy and Leadership all right.