Atheist Debates - Biblical Resurrections
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- In addition to Jesus, the Bible mentions several other individuals and groups that were raised from the dead - though it's no completely clear on a couple of them.
Should we believe these claims? How significant should a resurrection claim be, if it's literally only 2 sentences?
The debate will be live, Friday, the 29th here:
• Examine The Resurrecti...
"The bible is a little confusing." What an understatement Matt!!!
One should open the bible and read the living word of God because when one does so with the right motive (seeking the truth) they will come to know the one and only true living God/Jesus Christ/Holy Spirit. One must be born again to know Jesus Christ (the Living Word). Those who reject the truth (Jesus Christ) have a proud and arrogant mind set to disbelieve the fact that they are a sinner in need of God's Grace and mercy. If a man says he has never done wrong/sinned he is a liar, and the truth is not in him. There is only one who walk the face of the earth and never sinned; God/Jesus Christ himself, the God/man, the Son of God, the Lamb of God, the Prince of Peace, the Lord of Lords, the King of Kings, the Redeemer, Savior of souls.
@@paulgemme6056 If I say I have a unicorn in my basement then you would ask for a picture or some kind of proof.
But who are you to ask for proof? Look at yourself! You fall short of the unicorns glory. Blessed are those who can fully believe that the unicorns does exist in my basement with 0 evidence, they will be granted access to the afterlife in Unicornia. And those who want to investigate this extraordinary claim are arrogant and liars and deceivers and they are the worst of the worst and bad people.
Ad hominems are fallacious.
" Bring out your dead!" "Bring out your dead!"... "I'm not dead!" "Ere, he says he's not dead!" "Well, he will be very soon!" "I can't take him like that, it's against regulations!" (Monty Python and The Holy Grail)
“It’s just a flesh wound! Have at thee!!”
@@Ichabod_Jericho "Look you stupid bastard, your arms off!" "No, it isn't!" "Look, I'll have your leg!" SWISH "Right, I'll do you for that!" "What you gonna do, bleed on me!!" An all-time classic film that I could quote all day and night!!
"I think I'll go for a walk..."
"You're not fooling anyone, you know"
"I fell fine, I feel happy, I FEEL HAPPY..."
Why do pdf file atheists believe the claim of atheist religion that men can give birth, whiule then at the same time, they reject the claim of islame that women can be pregnant for ten years?
There's zero evidence for either claim. Bioth claims are blatant lies. So why do they choose one lie over another lie?
Is it because atheist means dishonest? corrupt? deceiver? taqqyya?
The Bible is the ultimate "trust me bro" resource
No it’s not. Who use the word “bro”??
Mental matt is a.fool! Wake up matt followers! The Bible warned us about people like matt in the endtimes! Stop drop and roll won't work in hell mental matt! Jesus saves!
@@lifeinthe80sjust a current translation
Poor jesus was born without a father, apparently he is a moffie.
@@lgree4627 One should open the bible and read the living word of God because when one does so with the right motive (seeking the truth) they will come to know the one and only true living God/Jesus Christ/Holy Spirit. One must be born again to know Jesus Christ (the Living Word). Those who reject the truth (Jesus Christ) have a proud and arrogant mind set to disbelieve the fact that they are a sinner in need of God's Grace and mercy. If a man says he has never done wrong/sinned he is a liar, and the truth is not in him. There is only one who walk the face of the earth and never sinned; God/Jesus Christ himself, the God/man, the Son of God, the Lamb of God, the Prince of Peace, the Lord of Lords, the King of Kings, the Redeemer, Savior of souls.
Tasteless, “blasphemous” joke incoming:
Little Johnny is doing poorly in school, especially in mathematics. Eventually, his parents transfer him to a private Catholic school. His grades quickly improve.
Surprised, his mom asks him what changed.
Billy responds: “Well, on the first day, I walked in, and saw they had a statue of a guy nailed to a plus sign, so I knew they weren’t F’in around”.
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My favorite is Jesus walks into a motel, puts three nails on the counter and says 'Can you put me up for the night?'.
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😅 looks a clever variation on a joke I heard from the late Dave Allen, great Irish comedian. If you don’t him search UA-cam for his jokes on religion. It’s worth it.
Matt, thank you so much. I am 54 yrs. old. I grew up so afraid and cnfused in a fundamentalist sect of Christianity. I freed myself at 20 and became atheist. Your content and all you do. YOU ARE MAKING A GREAT IMPACTS. Love ya, brother!!!
I did my own critical thinking after 4yrs of Lutheran Catechism and I’m 10% richer and free thinking. 🤔
It was Lutheran Confirmation for me, it was ninth or tenth grade iirc. I am now also in my mid-late 50's
We all had to make a short speech in front of the congregation on the topic "What God means to me." when we were confirmed. I lied, I spewed the typical personal relationship nonsense that everyone else did, yet there was nothing there. Ultimately, I felt more gross for lying about how I really feel than I did a part of a Lutheran congregation.
I feel regret to this day that I didnt have the courage to tell the truth about my skepticism. Religion made me lie in front of many people and it pissed me off... it still pisses me off if I think about it too much.
I havent been back to a church since. I told my parents that I was done, I dont care, I wont go any more, I'm not one of them. They didnt push back very hard on my decision, thankfully.
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Totally agreed.
You had a bad experience with a sect. Don’t let that stop you from believing
@@lifeinthe80s there is no reason to believe baseless assertions of antiquated tribal nomadic woo-woo.
none.
at all.
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This is how I love Matt the most. Dissecting
that storybook to the last word.
That’s right…and at the same time saying a man can be a woman….that’s not contradictory at all 😂
Mental matt is a.fool! Time to wake up my friend! Mental matt forget to tell you only the name of Jesus christ of Nazareth sets people free of demonic possession ! Dean odles biblical flat earth presentation destroys mental matts nonsense he spits out!
The "no harm principle" of atheist religion is completely made up by pdf file atheists to fit their agenda. It's so nice for an atheist, to both make the laws by defining what the words mean that he uses, and also be the judge and the jury.
The definition of harm can be strected to the liking of the atheist any way he wants. For example, atheist religion uses this principle to instead say that it is _liberating_ for a child to be boned by grown up atheist men.
You see how these men do _no harm_ to children, they're actually helping them?
Yeah , same way a preacher preaches dogma ... but you dont have a problem with that.
How can it be, that pdf file atheists believe that men can give birth, which is the claim of atheist religion, but then at the same time, they reject the claim of islame that women can be pregnant for ten years?
There's zero evidence for either claims. Both are blatant lies.
So why choose one lie over another lie? Atheist religion is hypocrasy? Deceit? Dishonesty?
Jesus didn't resurrect. He just waited 3 days in the lobby before respawn.
Respawn after dying at level 30 to become king and general of god's army and having god mode and invisibility.
If that's sacrifice, I'll have one please. I got up a minute ago and I walked to the door to let the cat in. I'll never get that time back. I think I sacrificed more for my cat in the last ten minutes than god ever could. I'm better than god, and I'm just an average joe. All organisms, living and dead, have sacrificed infinitely more than a god ever can and will. We're all better than god. Even my cat is better, and he thinks that if it's raining behind one door you can just open another door for better weather. And honestly, if there was a god, I'd be very disappointed if that wasn't true.
Jesus should have been thrown off the server for using cheat codes.
Secular humanism is a lie based on nothing. And faced with true challenge, Matt will storm out of the room, because he can’t win. Debate Andrew Wilson, and next time he a man and don’t run away like a girl.
DAILY FUN FACTS #3
Atheist religion differs from islame in the sense that, while cannibalism is allowed in both religions, in islame it is not allowed to cook human meat before eating, an infidel must be eaten raw, while in atheist religion, there is no such decree, it is perfectly fine for a pdf file atheist to cook the human meat before éating.
@@AtheistReligionIsCancer you sound literally insane.
Can't wait to see you at the debate.
I know he's talked about it before and I somehow missed it 🫠 mad at myself, I'd love to see him in person!
These stories/claims about resurrections in the bible reminds me of some of the stories/claims I heard when I was living on the border of the Leuser Nationalpark in North Sumatra almost two decades ago.
Many people claimed that they had witnessed all kinds of unbelievable things... and it was as if they competed who could come up with the wildest claims.
One guy I was working with told me (and another person I worked with), that his uncle was a sorcerer (penyihir) and was able to perform crazy sh!t black magic (ilmu hitam).
One of the things his uncle was able to do was, that he could jump to the top of a 5 story building in a split second and had the ability to not be penetrated by a knife, if someone tried to stab him.
Imagine having to translate that to the other person I worked with.
Often stories like these had changed to "the crazier" next time they were told.
Of course... never able to bring forth any proof of the claims - except for the "I saw it myself".
Great work as always, Matt!
I've been watching you since 2013. The full beard is definitely the better look. My partner makes Jesus cry by saying she also lusts after your beard.
Why does your wife want a beard?
@@JewelEzra Funny af 😂
@user-sx9rx5of1c Because she's allowed to want anything she likes.
"Has there ever been one single atheist who did not bone kids?"
No.
@@AtheismPoisonsEverything Do you have any evidence for that stupid claim?
Wasn’t much of a sacrifice if Jesus came back from the dead.
When you really look at it, Jesus was a god, spent some time as a mortal (which could not be the preferred form) and then goes home again. It's the classic slumming it vacation. So I agree. How is shedding a vastly inferior mortal form for an immortal god form a sacrifice? It's like saying I sacrificed being poor to become a billionaire. It makes no sense.
@@littlebitofhope1489That is a good point.
There are people who come back after years in coma. Why don't we worship them?
laughably factual statement that has never occurred to me! well said!
@@littlebitofhope1489Exactly.
How much of a "sacrifice" is it for an allegedly timeless, all powerful being to role play as a meatsack for a few years, then play dead for a couple of days.
At every single point, if such a being does exist, they would have been in full control of the situation as well. Could god not simply pretend to be in pain while in fact they chose not to feel it?
I love that Gandalf is doing atheist content now
ayo 😂
Gandalf has long hair tho...
Thanos?
@@ΘάνατοςΧορτοφάγος Thanos didn't have a beard. He's Kratos.
@@ΘάνατοςΧορτοφάγοςBruh the thumbnail on Paulogia's recent vid haha
I just trimmed my Gandalf. That's not one. Give him 3 more years before it gets close.
Great video Matt, one of your best i think
17:45 The author reporting things that only eyewitnesses could know, but the supposed eyewitnesses never told anybody, is very common in the bible. Jesus' temptation and the women at the tomb in Mark's gospel come to mind.
I live in the Tampa Bay area, and I hope you enjoy your visit. Great video!
Correct me here, but I recall Hitchens referring to biblical resurrections as "a bit of a banality".
How did he die? Do you want to die like that?
@@wolframhuttermann7519Do you think Christians just never die from cancer? Oops.
Excellent content Matt. Thank you for the laughter I experienced today watching this video
Thank you Matt.
Good stuff as always Matt. Thank you for this and everything you do.
If they ever do a new new testament, i think they should add the one where indiana jones saves his dad with the holy grail. Best resurrection story by far.
Awesomeness!😂
On this Good Friday and heretofore, let us come together in one accord and henceforward replace the word apologists with the word disinformationalists.
LOL, Matt, this was great. And none of these people talked about their seeing loved ones, heaven, hell, nothing! No NDE at all. Hmmm? 👍💙💙💙🥰✌
Is there a way I can contact you directly? I've been working on a book about the illusion of intelligent design. The purpose of this book is showing that intelligent design isn't even something we can take credibly when referring to an intelligent designer of the universe, but I've hit a few blocks where theists have come up with some apologetics to refute my argument.
Apologists can come out with an argument to refute the fact that blood is red. They are literally experts in making excuses.
@exaucemayunga22 Oh I know that. But some excuses are more difficult to deal with than others.
This is so much more useful, just you talking and making a logical series of points. The people who call in to challenge you are unprepared, disorganized in thought and yet supremely confident that they can utterly defeat you. They commit the worst of sins, they're boring.
It helps that all the believers have flawed reasoning for their beliefs.
Thank you Matt! ❤
All these resurrected characters should start a band called "Ungrateful Dead" 😂🤘🏼
Nice video, Matt!
I’ll never forget that moment from one of the John Ferrer debates when Matt farted, and one of the mics were hot and you can hear John laughingly say “that’s one way to win a debate,” and then kind of fan his nose while both laughed briefly lol. Classic moment
Preachers TODAY do this exact same thing. They will tell miracle stories with the same complete lack of any amazement and surprise. Jim Bakker will have a panel of guests and one person will say deadpan, I saw a dead man raised by the power of Jesus' name. And the other guests will be completely unfazed, as if this is a very common thing to happen. They'll ask zero questions. And often will then respond their own miracle stories which are met with the same nonplussed attitude. It's all tall tales, and every one of them knows it, which is why none of them are ever surprised nor interested in asking a single question, and it always has been.
I live in Tampa. Can the debate be attended locally? Thanks and keep up the great work!
I just found it where it is. One mile from my house at a church that of course, I've never been to...Next door is ABC Pizza-excellent old school pizza joint...Try the Gyro pizza..
Crosswinds church
Thank you!
Immortal gods cannot resurrect if they cannot die.
Since Christian and Catholic theologians have never been able to resolve this, it remains a mystery.
I think that's why they invented the concept of the Trinity?
I remember a friend of mine, huge believer, that one of his argument is that Jesus was the one and only to come back from the dead. And when I would mentionned the many other gods that also came back from the dead, his answer would be that those resurrections were obviously myth and thus not real.
All stories are myths, except the special ones they believe in.
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This is Every Single Theist I've come across on the internet
@@FoursWithin everyone believes in something, do they not?
For example, let’s say male 1 has a wife and said wife goes on holiday with her friends for 2 weeks. Male 1 doesn’t know whether she will have sex with other men, but because he loves her and she says she won’t, he believes her and has faith that she won’t.
All you guys act as if having faith or believing in something is wrong or weird or insane, yet everyone’s life is literally dependant on faith.
Example 2: let’s say you have a car and you have work tomorrow and you drive your car to get to work. You may be sitting in bed at night thinking “oh I really don’t want to see such and such at work tomorrow, he/she is so annoying” but those thoughts are literally assuming you and the person you want to avoid will even make it to work in the first place, so you have faith in
1) your car to work in the first place
2) other drivers while on your journey to not crash in to you
3) and that the person you’re trying to avoid will make it there as well
There’s even MORE things that you have faith in to even have that thought, because you don’t know, yet you assume, but you believe it will happen based on nothing but faith alone.
Point is: the world runs on faith, so I don’t get why atheists shame it so much.
@@donniehardest875
The faith of religion is not the same faith that one has in another person or anything else tangible in the world.
Religion, specifically faith based religions like the abrahamics are asking it's followers to believe in thing that they will never see taste touch or encounter outside of conceptual ideas in their particular book of traditions.
At the same time you comment doesn't respond to what my comment is addressing. Which is that believers believe wholeheartedly in the narratives they are familiar with while denying all the ones that are "foreign" and not part of their culture. All while they're all categorically just more narratives a group considers valid & sacred.
Few test this validity. Most just cave to peer pressure and defer to the "experts" of their particular theology.
@@FoursWithin well, the only thing they ask people to believe in is God essentially. One can argue God is everything, so therefore based on that belief they can taste, see and smell God. And there’s nothing wrong with them believing God is everything, like I said, we all believe in things we can’t prove.
Also, about the second part, whether you’re theist or not, everyone believes in something they’re familiar with and discards things they’re not in some way shape or form. That’s literally normal. That’s what we all do. Atheist, Buddhist, Jewish, doesn’t matter..
You may have a particular opinion that I don’t agree with, and that opinion is something you’re rooted in and will not move from, and I might have the opposite view, and we disagree with eachother.. and that’s fine lol.. that’s what makes life interesting and makes us not robotic.
@@donniehardest875
You seem to be tying things together that no one here put together. And also misinterpreting the language being used.
I don't think most people here care what others believe either except when it comes to claims of a supernatural nature that are tied to regulating the thoughts and actions of everyone else.
Most could care less about Hinduism or taoism or shamanism or the line because no one is attempting to force them into doing what those religions believe in.
Sure Matt has the saying about not wanting to believe in any un-true thing.
However as great as that sounds that's really what most people even theists want. Theists are far from a unified group, Christianity is far from a unified theology, and atheists are no different in this manner.
Plenty of atheists never come to these channels or think about what theists are up to at all.
And in that sense although I've interacted with maybe a few thousand atheists over the years most of them are quite unique in a ruon behavior and thought. I don't get the impression of any of them not wanting diversity of thought and culture. ( That's my experience at least )
And I definitely get the impression from many theists ((fundamentalist))
that everyone should think and behave like them or the world will go to rubbish, society will collapse, and we'll all burn in the bad place.
Forever and ever....
This is part of the context that must be kept in mind.
But if you're a theist, especially of the abrahamics sort, this may be an impossible perspective for you to comprehend.
I'm off to bed for now. 😊
Thank you for not being overly enthusiastic and constantly saying "as it were"
The coolest part about these stories is that you don’t have to disprove them. You can use them against themselves since those accounts contradict their own prophesy and voids the other miracles since they said Jesus was the only one able to raise the dead and Jesus resurrection is what confirmed he was god… yet others were raised as well.
I love Matt's Bible studies
Death is irreversible. No resurrection is possible. It is unpleasant for many to accept this
How do you know? I don’t believe because I fear the unpleasant. I believe because it’s true
The proof of afterlife is when we actually die. You and I have no idea until we die
@richardkamanitz176 so no proof then got you
@@lifeinthe80s
You believe something to be true, even though you won't find out if it's true until you die?
@@lifeinthe80s Congratulations, you just debunked it!
The "source of power" is the mind of the scribe who invented the story. And a "double portion of power" that Elisha wanted reminds me of the mathematical computations in the classic children's book, "Half Magic". In their story, they are given only half of the power, and resort to doubling every magical request they make in order to get 100% of what they really wanted.
Jesus sacrificed himself to himself to protect us from, you guessed it...himself lol
Exactly. Makes zero sense.
Or god sent himself to sacrifice himself to himself to save mankind from the sins he created.
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It’s called the Trinity. Read the Bible. You don’t understand Christian doctrine
@@lifeinthe80s I've read the Bible plenty of times....
This is why Christopher Hitchens referred to Jesus' resurrection as a "banality" at the time because there were so many resurrections lol.
No there wasn’t.. Dr. Ronald Nash smashed that out of the water over 50 years ago. Including the other biblical resurrections (not eternal resurrection like Jesus). The Christian testimony stands unique and alone in history.
@boughtbyblood1 so if a story is unique, it has a higher likelihood of being true?
@@edrueter9 the story of Jesus is one of the truest stories that have ever existed. Even if it didn’t happen or did happen, because who knows? The actual meanings and messages behind it are so true that it lasted 2000 years..
@donniehardest875 I'm not being facetious, what is the lasting message of the Jesus story? Because vicarious redemption is immoral, so I hope that isn't it...
@@edrueter9 explain please I’m intrigued by what you mean by vicarious redemption. And why 1) that’s immoral and 2) Jesus story can be interpreted that way.
Genuinely asking a question I love discussion and learning peoples view points lol
Looks like resurrections were as common as modern day alien abductions. And very probably the public felt the same way about them.
Great video, Matt. Elijah riding a chariot of fire into a whirlwind up into heaven was one of the few awesome stories. Jeebus could be metal af someimes 🤘
If Christianity could make one truthful claim it could be that without the Bible there would be no metal.
Many apologists in pointing to these stories seem to think that pointing to the stories is the same as presenting the actual supposed event and the actual supposed people there before our eyes, but they're just pointing to stories. It's mistaking the map for the (made-up) territory and pretending a map of Mordor is the same as taking you on a guided tour through Mordor.
"They were all pointing to Jesus"😂
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence . . ."
@santanoschsantosch3016 ". . is a tool used by intelligent humans to cut the bullshit out other humans 'extraordinary claims' "
Quoting the great Carl Pagan.
@santanoschsantosch3016
To reality.
For example if a Hindu claimed , as their sacred texts state, that an individuals soul reincarnates time and time again, over and over into another lifetime. A new body for each new life.. One time a man, one time a woman, one time a cow , next time who knows what..
Would you just accept that ?
Or would you say well that's an extraordinary claim , I'm going to need some equally extraordinary evidence to show it's more than just STORIES of your religious narratives.
Some people may just say I don't believe it because I believe in my own religious narratives.
But
then the Hindu might say well you'll need to show me why you believe yours instead of mine.
Which goes back to again showing some extraordinary evidence.
Is anyone capable
of producing it ?
@santanoschsantosch3016
Yes. Extraordinary claims as compared to the reality of the everyday person.
But nde & obe are highly personal .
The most common ground among people having them is that they typically experience realms that align with their own cultural beliefs.
Similar to people taking psychedelics.
Many of whom claim it shows them the spiritual realm.
However so far the reality is that regardless of the hype we only only know that something goes on, not what.
Since the narrative is clearly filtered by the person's past. Making them so far at least, highly questionable and interesting but not evidence for much .
@santanoschsantosch3016a toddler needs extraordinary evidence to play pookaboo. Where'd your face go? Oh it's behind my hands. Solid empirical evidence.
" 'e's not dead 'e's just resting! "
If Jesus is alive right now why don't they try to prove that? Seems like a much easier task than running back 2,000 years and trying to prove an event happened then.
Jesus is alive and the proof will be when you receive him and repent. If that doesn’t work, you can tell me I’m wrong. Contempt prior to investigation
@@lifeinthe80s😂😂
Good points, but have you looked at the trees 😤 🤣 😂
Very nicely and easy to understand explained.
It seems to me that, when even Paul can raise a dead, it becomes a dime a dozen art.
I hope whomever your opponent is sees this and caters their argument accordingly.
Man, that beard is looking spectacular!!!
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Hey Matt did you get my list of presents?
🤣 I see what you did there!
I love the wording of "Taken up dead", as if it were a hobby lmao
Thank you sir
This channel is way better than church.
Why am I just hearing of Matt debating where I live? Ugh it's already closed. I would love to be able to see Matt in this debate.
" convictions happen independent of the truth "
It’s easy to imagine someone falling, hitting their head, getting knocked out and then when they regain consciousness it’s attributed to being raised from the dead. With the lack of medical understanding. It would be easy for people to say they were “raised from the dead”.
The infamous "Elisha and the Two Bears" story occurs almost right after Elijah's chariot of fire ride. No mass resurrections for a bunch of naughty kids who dared to call a prophet of God "Baldy"! Elisha: "Sorry ma'am! I don't do resurrection for a bratty kid who's now bear chow!" Typical excessive Bible punishment.
Always wondered, “How’s Lazarus doing?”
I wonder he didn't die again from stinch of his body and clothes. Ever smelled a decomposing body.😮
Poor bastard had to physically die twice! Perhaps he is a better sacrifice for all sins 🤣
The Elisha one always bothered me as a child. . There is a war party coming. So they throw the poor blokes body into the (still open) grave of the prophet and run. Then the poor man bloke is alive. Then what? Does he stand up in the grave and look over his shoulder to see the invaders? Does this being brought back to life thing only last 2 minutes until the war party reach him?
Sweet beard brother...from one to another...! #lookingood 😀👌🏼👍🏻
Where have all the magic and miracles of biblical proclamations gone? Seems like it would be easier to bring an abrupt halt to butchery in Gaza, than it would be to part the Red Sea, no?
It is truly incomprehensible in this space time…stories like these zombies getting out of their graves, and start walking towards cities, can find believers in millions.
What I would like to know is where did, in Christian view, Lazarus spend those 4 days that he was dead? (I know that Jews, and probably the author of the story, thought he was in Sheol) Because if he went to Hell, he doesn't deserve to be brought back to life. And if he went to heaven, was it just to bring him back, not only denying him his reward, but also giving him a chance to commit a sin and ultimately end in hell?
The Jerusalem zombie and the Elisha grave resurrection tales are beyond ridiculous. I used to teach kids to write fiction. One rule they were given was not to make their stories so far- fetched, they'd become laughable. Whoever came up with these two tall stories obviously weren't aware of this simple rule.
I grew up jehovahs witness and our interpretations of this stuff was wild, still blows my mind how we tried to make sense of this nonsense. And according to us Elijah didn't go to heaven, he just got transported somewhere else because he showed up again somewhere else.
Isn't there a limited number of people that can get into heaven?
@@ericwilliams1659Yes, into Heaven only 12.000 of each of the 12 tribes of Judea will ascend and rule. The rest of the believers will be on the new Earth. Basically, the best players from the last server gets together to start a private discord chat and open a new server for other's to play in which they have admin rights to.
@@Whydoyoureadme the guys from Dan and one of the other ones got left out in Revelation though
@@cygnustsp Yeah. And then there are lunatics out there that, for some reason, thinks the tribe of Dan migrated to... Denmark (Danmark in danish) and I am danish lol that is just a conspiracy some people throw around, I have heard it two or three times.
Regardles, weird system of governance to only pick from those twelve tribes yet expecting everyone to join.
@@Whydoyoureadme id never heard of that, that's pretty cool. The JW version is it's an exact number and started in 33ce and picked up again in the late 1800s and the number technically was full by 1935 but there are still some 20000 JWs claiming to be of that class, the rest of them expect to never see heaven, it's a very strange understanding of salvation
I started to read the bible on my own at the age of 51. I was shocked to find that that Jesus was not the only or the first biblical person to return from the dead! I didn’t go far before my attempt to be closer to God actually made me doubt Christianity instead. You only hear select parts from the bible in church. I’m now an agnostic atheist. I thank you Matt and others who have led me to think for myself and come to more logical conclusions. Education is the best “blessing” we can hand down to our children.
We resurrect folks all of the time in Emergency Room daily all over the world. It’s just another day.
Probably not after 3-5 days in a stage of advanced decomposition though, right?
@@Timeren2010 no reason to believe that’s ever happened. We document our resurrections extensively nowadays.
Absolutely love the beard
This could be a full lecture topic.
When I was a kid in Bible quizzing we always used to laugh at Dorkus. 🤣🤣
Them: "The bible is a historically accurate document and and every part is true"
Me: "Even the part about a hoarde of the undead rising from their graves and walking the streets?"
Them: "......yes"
You can't reason with these people.
The best argument for the Bible is gullibility
"She's not dead, she's just resting."
*Wasn't it Darth Vader who was raised from the dead?*
*A long time ago in a galaxy far far away.*
*Thanks Matt, you're doing a great job.*
Thge fact that there are those, even in this day and age, that believe these stories to be true is totally mind boggling!
Yes, all of these resurrections are unbelievable and common. I'd love to see a video done showing a lot of christian mythology and at the end have the actor identify itself as someone from a different religion. So that christians will follow it thinking yes, this is truth and find out at the end its what was stolen from another myth so they can better understand the reality of what the bible is.
Lots of stories of dying and resurrecting in our small town. When there is resurrection, the "faith healer" starts a "fan club" and heals everyone only asking for "voluntary alms" (abuloy). After maybe some weeks or months, another "faith healer" comes to town bringing a "bigger resurrection event". The stories go on. Many believed (conned), we (skeptics) just wait till another story comes up. And yet, to date, many are still waiting for a "miracle". Funny and depressing.
11:41 what is crazy is that this is what I use when I say that Jesus predicted that the dead will rise within his lifetime. That is the revelation that is hell on earth. Anyone left is in hell… that’s us literally
It's like the light saber kill when the torso is pierced. When people come back from the dead, the saber is way weaker.
Given the historical evidence of premature burial, people thought to be dead even in this century that turned out not the most probable reason is in a deep coma/ level of unconsciousness but recovered, it is not miraculous, it is mundane.
Wow. After word got out about the bones of Elisha, there must have been a line miles long outside the tomb, with countless people bringing the corpses of their loved ones.
Any mention of this obvious consequence?
The older i get, the sacrifice of jesus makes less sense.
Jesus died for everyones sins. Yet hell still exists?
How? Why? Shouldn't hell have been closed if jesus took the sins of everyone and paid for them with his sacrifice?
If you still need to confess a belief in jesus/god in order to be saved and forgiven, then the sacrifice was literally pointless.
He just had one lousy week end.
When did Jesus say He would return and don’t say He didn’t say when, HE BLOODY DID?
OK, Matt, you convinced me. Nobody ever came back from the dead.
The Elisha story may *sound* implausible… but have you tried selling chicken and goat bones as the miraculous bones of saints with NO magical properties?? C’mon man, respect the grift!
I love traiding Holy Prepuces in Crusader Kings II with my friends.
Matt, one thing I have not seen you do is the following:
1. Say to the audience: how many agree that there are only two options: either no Gods exist or some god or gods exist. (Most will agree)
2. How many of you want the answer to that question to be yes?
3. Then say, I pose it to you that many of you will engage in confirmation bias by giving more weight to arguments supporting what you wish to believe.
4. Say: if you wish to be intellectualy honest, you ought to follow the arguments to wherever it may lead.
Hopefully, people will then learn to see that they are close-minded.
Everyone has a confirmation bias but pointing that out to people who are already using that as the basis of their reasoning is rarely ever useful. They’ll just claim that even atheists secretly know there’s a God but we just want to sin lol
What would be an argument against the first question ?
How could anyone disagree with that statement?
Elisha stayed with a childless woman and her husband, then predicted she will conceive...
Were I a Bible believer, I wouldn't be surprised if Elisha had a GREAT time during his stay with them. 😂
I suppose the difference is as far as the other resurrections are concerned they still died some time later while Jesus was the only one who became 100% fully immortal, though he was to begin with being part of the Trinity of three and whatnot.
People are afraid of being buried alive bc medicine wasn't all that great at telling who is alive and dead and ppl really think someone is fully dead and revived
Service personnel that went to fight for life and family sacrificed themselves for the benefit of family, country, and a way of life.
Jesus had a bad weekend then moved in with dad. No comparison, Jesus’s sacrifice wasn’t a sacrifice it was a hangover. 😇
Back then, they most likely did not know the difference between sleeping, unconsiousness and death. The guy who fell from 3 stories is a perfect example. Paul immedietly saw he was not dead. In the "Daughter" story, she is said to be sleeping, and yet "her soul is not in her." or something. Maybe it is just a misunderstanding about what sonstitutes "life." Perhaps "sleep" was seen as a time your soul left you-- obviously you are not animated, and the "anima" is nearly synonomous with soul. I wonder.
Matt, glad to hear about your future trip down here to Tampa, please stop on by Ruth Chriss steak house or possibly Harold Seltzers steak house! Stay off of Dale Mabry highway, it’s gridlocked most of the day. Stop on by the Lowry Park zoo and most of all…….ENJOY my friend
I'm surprised you left out the story of the resurrections of "many saints" after Jesus was resurrected and they went wandering around Jerusalem.
He mentions it at 1:49. (Although he uses zombies instead of saints)
My favorite. Zombie saints.
God was so hands on with the Isrealites before recorded history. He was talking to them, directing them, visiting them, even wrestling with them. These stories qere mostly oral and eventually written down.
What happened? God has (holy) ghosted us.
Jesus on the cross calls for Mary, Mary makes her way through the crowd, 'Mary, Mary ! 'Jesus calls . . ' I'm here, I'm here Jesus, what is it ? ' . . . . .Jesus lifts his head and looks into the distance . . . ' Look Mary, . . you can see our house from here ' . . .
Epic beard man is Epic Beard Matt. Hohoho!
The author of Matthew may have been aware of legends of dead coming out of the tombs in Rome when Julius Caesar was interred. Shakespeare refers to this legend in Hamlet when Horatio says, “In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.”
If Matthew had this legend in mind, what did he mean by including it in his crucifixion/resurrection story? And did Matthew believe in the literal truth of this, or did he add this detail parabolically? And even if Matthew believed it, it does not mean it was actually historic. ˇ
The capacity of large groups of people today who fall for conspiracy theories regardless of lack of evidence makes Matthew believing his own wild account credible.
Bodies make all kinds of noises as they decompose. Especially in the days before embalming, and refrigeration.