Three Reasons to Believe Christianity Is True
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
- This week we dive into the big question of God’s existence and the truth of Christianity. James presents three arguments that provide evidence for the God of the Bible: something from nothing, order from chaos, and life from death.
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You know, I always find it interesting how often Apologists claim that Christianity is 'loving' despite the fact that the loudest voices pushing back against things like LGBTQ and women's rights are Christian and use that faith to justify their position.
That aside, your 'arguments' in favor of this rely on the dishonest tactic of redefining terminology to make your position seem credible while trying to discredit ones you clearly haven't taken the time to understand. That doesn't inspire confidence, at least not in people who don't already assume you're correct.
I am very excited to watch this, I have really been struggling with my faith lately and I've been looking for something that will help!
Same!
If you really are then you should watch, cross examined. Apologetics is the main thing on that UA-cam channel.
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If age is what impresses you, the creation myths of the Sumerians date from about 3,600 years ago. More seriously, neither scientists nor philosophers take Lane Craig's Kalaam argument on the origin of the universe seriously. We have never observed, or found evidence that there ever could exist, a state of absolute nothingness. Nor that a god must be involved. The hypotheses advanced by scientists involve real, material causes (for example, Krauss' "quantum fields", and various cyclic models).
your friend might have an educated bet
You know what we call something timeless and immaterial? Nonexistent. Or at least, something that can't make change or interact with the physical realm. It's as powerful as a idea without a vessel.
SPIT IT OUT ? What your getting at.
"If you're looking at the evidence, philosophically and scientifically. We can conclude that the universe, which consists of all of space, time and matter. All of space, time and mater is apart of the universe. And so before the universe began to exist there was no space, no time, and no matter. So whatever the cause of the universe was it must be something outside of the universe. So that means whatever caused the universe to begin has to be spaceless, timeless, and immaterial. So it has to be spaceless, so infinite. It has to be timeless, so eternal. Immaterial, it's not gonna be something physical. The best way I've heard it described is it has to be some type of Spirit. Also, it's gotta be really really powerful to create everything we know in the universe. So, what is it that we call this thing that is spaceless, timeless, immaterial and immensely powerful? Well, us Christians, we call that thing God." -James Meehan
Why does it have to be some type of spirit? Where did that conclusion come from?
Timeless means it does not interact with time. Spaceless means it does not take up any position in spacetime. If it's immaterial, it cannot interact with the material.
Know what we call that? Imaginary.
God is really working I have been having doubts but still seeking him and this showed up on my recommended 🙏🏾😭
I repeated after the prayer and I felt goosebumps all over my body. It felt like a wave of mercy and love from God. Thank you so much💖
I just got the same goosebumps over my body when I read this!
God has mercy, in letting you have a little taste of the Holy Ghost, but there comes a time in where you must receive him, just like the apostles, when they were with Jesus, they did not have the Holy Ghost, but with Jesus there, they were able to taste of him. When Jesus had gone back to heaven, the apostles were promised to be given the Holy Ghost, and on the day of pentecost, the Holy Ghost fell on all of them in the building, and they spoke with tongues and magnified God, as the spirit of God gave them utterance, and so it happened with me, after having read the scriptures, and knowing how I saw the baptism of the Holy Ghost in the bible, I know I had to go ahead and receive it, and I started to pray, and for the first 4 days, I was in prayer, constantly, I was going to keep in prayer until God counted me worthy to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and after those 4 days, I started asking in a youtube comment, if people could pray for me, that I would receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and I think I had 3 people pray for me, and 1 of them commented and asked me, why I wanted to receive this baptism, And I told them that I want to follow what God has commanded his people to do, and that I wanted to walk in power, as the apostles and Jesus did, that my words may be justified by the spirit in me, and he told me that my reasoning was wonderful, and with such boldness he prophesied over me, and told me that I would receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost before january 1st (2020), and at december 31st, 10pm, 2 days after I had asked for prayer, the Holy Ghost fell upon me, and I began to speak in tongues as he gave utterance, and I magnified God, and I had fallen asleep after that happened, and when I woke up, I could feel the Holy Ghost inside me, as if he had taken form inside of my body, and It was the most wonderful thing ever, and from then I have been equipped, with the same spirit Jesus had, and the same spirit the apostles had, so that I may carry out the kingdom of God, and the will of God, justifying my words, with by the spirit in me. Amen
This was an awesome message! I love how Pastor James is scientific & spiritual
Oh my gosh. This helped me immensely. Thank you so extremely much. 🙏💕
Wait till you hear about god stopping the sun in the sky.
So happy that this community cares about apologetic! Thanks Switch and James
It really shouldn't, since Apologetics at this point is just another way of saying 'lying for God.'
@@palladin1337 Right JOB sure got the fact.
Wow im an ex-Muslim and after watching switch youth i started believing in Jesus Christ in god in Christianity. Specially this guy help me out a lottttttt
Let it be known
This is so hard because my non believer friends would do anything to try and say that he is wrong and the world came from the “Big Bang “ …it’s hard being a believer….
Praying for you! Continue being a light in the way that you love them
Just ask them where the "Big Bang" came from. That usually works
Except the world didn't come from the big bang and no one who understands a little cosmology would make that mistake. Continue to look into what cosmology does say and you will see it has nothing to say against religious ideas. Unless you're being overly dogmatic about it like the guy in the video is. Good luck!
@@thoushalnot Nobody knows what caused the Big Bang. Literally nobody knows. But know what they don't propose in cosmology? A god.
@@HuxtableKNo one knows what caused the Big Bang because it never happened 😂 NOTHING cannot create anything. The teaching of the Big Bang is AGAINST science. It is impossible that an explosion appeared from NOTHING, and then created everything. That is just pure madness if you believe that. But, you are willing to believe ANYTHING as long as it is not the Creator. In order to be a creation there must be a Creator!
So helpful to build my faith . Thank u
The timelessness of your first cause is "not present at any time", not "present at all times" which is what eternal means. It is also not a requirement, just one means of meeting the requirement. It only needs to be present at the instance of the beginning, it certainly does not need to exist after causing the beginning.
The spacelessness of your first cause is "not present at any place", not "present in all places". This is also not a requirement, just one means of meeting the requirement of being present at the beginning point.
What the above supposed requirements are attempting to describe is that there must be some other thing like the existence we understand, some other mode of existence than that of our space-time container and its energy content.
"Not made from energy" means it does not exist by the definition of existence used to get us to a first cause.
This argument is vacuous as well as invalid. The first two premises use 'exist' in different ways, so you can't combine them to the conclusion of a first cause.
Shall we go on? "Spirit" is proposed as one means of not being made from energy. 'Spirit' is synonymous with 'breath' in both the Biblical language of the oldest renditions of this story and in Latin, the language giving us that set of letters for that concept. Breathing is a flow of matter related to certain chemical reactions. So is spirit, when spirit leaves a person at death we note this by the stopping of chemical reactions in the brain. Electricity in biological systems is generated by chemical reactions. As such the thing that was called Spirit before we understood biology and electricity is actually a property of matter.
If we free ourselves from the etymological origin of the word (and therefore from the statements about it in the Bible or other such work) we get something that we can show via brain damage experiments is an emergent property of the arrangement and attributes of neurons. If something can be altered by simple physical means then it is made of physical material.
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Is the spark that ignites the air-fuel mixture in a car engine more powerful than the explosion produced? Nope. So the claim that the causer of the universe had to be immensely powerful has no basis in any fact of the world that we know. Also 'powerful' has a scientific meaning while the pastor here is using the human hierarchical sense of the word. This is ripe for equivocation and indeed such equivocation yields many of the contradictions noted in the Bible.
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Showing that a putative being as described by some text could hypothetically match the first cause is not proof that they exist and are that first cause.
Being one of a large number, potentially infinite, of candidates for the first cause is not proof that it is, you must provide direct proof of that being's existence plus proof that they and not some other cause was the actual trigger for the actual start of the universe.
You can wait on that until you have a sound demonstration that the universe is in the set of things that the 1st premise lists, the universe is not made of matter and energy it is the container for such, and what we know statistically is true for the content of the universe is zero evidence that it is also true for the container (have you ever heard of an experiment that generated space and time?)
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This is not a proof, it has the textual form of a proof but it also has structural errors and lacks the facts that are necessary for an actual proof of anything outside of mathematical equivalencies (equivalencies of mathematical constructs).
Pastor James is not scientific, he does not correctly present the actual work of actual scientists (they do not have a consensus that the universe had a beginning) nor is his work mathematically sound (full of equivocation and non-sequiturs).
Viced Rhino brought me here.
Let's accept that there was a creator of our universe. Who says it was the Christian god? Why not any other god? Maybe the creator has sacrificed itself to create this universe, how could we know?
Every time i feel like i'm slipping from my faith this just brings ne right on track
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That's really sad. You almost got away from this nonsense.
If you replace Jesus with Allah, and Christianity with Islam, this video is applicable why Islam is true religion LOL.
Or Jesus with Thor and Christianity with Asatro/Asetro/Ásatrúarfélagið (the name in Nordic language of old Norse religion).
Well, the Kalaam was originally a Muslim argument for God. Craig just massaged it a bit.
All religions do the same thing, they just change the name of the god in charge and say "nuh huh" to all the others. It's hilarious and a little bit sad.
Indeed, many contemporary Christians do not know that many of their contemporary beliefs, laws and rites are not based on the Bible and Jesus' teachings ncluding the Old Testament and the New Testament but is based on the epistles of Paul and others
Yes, Paul invented Christianity, not the alleged Jesus Christ.
@@jraelien5798
Yes sir you are right, paul was not even one of the 12 disciples.. he assumed command by usurping the true disciples and then he hijacked so The doctrine of Christianity has been infiltrated and modified by paul so The Christianity nowadays is more of Paul's Christianity rather then Jesus's Christianity,. . .
@@rahimerayane4298 Only if your ignorance left out the fact its APOSTOL PAUL. But still i herd Constantine was all time pegan . twisting scripture twisters say became Christian put still a living bottom Feminist and the bottom Man but frustrated his fallowers for being both Empire and the 800 years Gap of PARANOID KING JAMES INVENTING THE CHRISTAN . They believe became christian or hanged called a witch.
@@rahimerayane4298 Jesus loved Paul and they knew each other as paul might had a relationship. Contantine was a feminist EMPIRE i heard frustrating his fallower because a bottom Man is like a woman and not sopossed to be Empire but a rug bug.
Please pray for me my parents and my family become Christians too. They are not unfortunately.
Praying with you that your faith and love is inspiring to them!
Hallelujah 🙏🙏👏🙌
I am confused, i don't know if i believe can, someone pray for me
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nope......................
one would think, after centuries of practice, , apologists would be better at this
They got lies, misunderstanding of science and science denial.
the ones that got better stopped being apologists.
Smashed it 👊 Such a helpful message which I will share with the youth group at our Church - thanks!
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So powerful thanks!!!🤎🙌🏾
just a treasure, not just a video💓 i wish more people could see it
Hi God’s Daughter! My name is Lexi!
First off, I love your name! Second, I completely agree with you! The best thing you can do to help other see the video is share share share!!
@@lexitoth3505 what if we chat a bit? how did you find your own way to god? im just interested in talking to people who know Him and who cherish the truth of Christ
@@lexitoth3505 my name is Anastasia btw
@@anastasiapaniaeva4951 that name is very beautiful! I love it Anastasia!
@@lexitoth3505 thanks a lottt!
The Bible is the word of God because the Bible says so.
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Jesus loves me yes i know cause the bible tells me soo? is this the way it go's. burnt in to my brain as child up like a torch on a rock but torching the brainy.
The biggest argument that someone could make would be: why is earth the only perfect planet with life, why havent we already dicover any new species on other planets? What's the point of having multiple planets? If you say its trial and error then why multiple universes?
Because Earth happened to have the necessary conditions for life. That's it. A better question would be, why would a god create a whole universe and make humans able to live on a tiny spec of dust? And even here on Earth, there are a lot of places where humans cannot live comfortably. Why did god not make humans aquatic? There's a lot more space covered with water, compared to dry land.
That's your best argument? It's an argument from ignorance. The "We don't know what other planets have life, we haven't seen any, therefore God is real and made Earth specially".
It doesn't work.
This really helped me thank you mr dude
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What a great SERMON to the the POINT WITH GOOD PUNCH GOD BLESS YOU BROTHER
Except that it's built entirely on lies.
Not convincing.
That’s a totally fair response. If you’re interested in learning more about the arguments for the existence of God, you should check out drcraigvideos and capturingchristianity here on UA-cam! Those are two great channels!
Jesus I choose to follow you forever
AMEN
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HAHAHAHAHAHAAA the same old nonsense yet again. And none of the "arguments" - if you can call them that at all - even get you to a specific god if they weren't nonsense...
It's amazing an adult could believe this stuff.
Why do you think that?
@@velvet_moon. The argument they try to pass is that we should believe the Christian God because it is supposed to be an historical fact, while other religions are not. This is not only very toxic, but it is complete nonsense.
The argument they push is the so called "6 minimal facts", that can be summarized as the historicity of _at least_ this part "Jesus was a real person that was killed on a cross. Just after his death, there were at least a dozen people that were convinced to have witnessed a miracle, the resurrection, so much so that they were willing to die about it". Is this quoted part historically undisputable? I would not say so, but it does not matter. Even if we considered it completely trustworthy, even if we had video interviews with Peter and Paul recorded in DVD, even if we had a medical doctor autopsy, we would not believe the resurrection without irrational faith. These six facts, if true, would prove the existence of Christians just after the death of Christ, not the fact that Christ was the Son of God .
There are dozens of similar situations today, that are sure facts , with much more historical certainty, and we do not consider them for a second. We know for a fact that people of the Order of Solar Temple believed in the miracles done by their Holy Leader, so much so that they killed themselves by the dozens during the equinox "to be transferred to Sirius". How sure we are that this happened? Very sure! We have reports from the police of at least four countries describing 74 suicides. We have video interviews with them, narrating the miracles that they observed. We have autopsies. We have videos of their prophet speaking. We have bank transfers of the donations and the wills of the members giving everything to the Order. If we were to write 6 facts for the Order of Solar Temple, there would be no one disputing them.
Still, we are not even considering the hypothesis that those lunatics that killed themselves are actually on Sirius orbit right now. And it is not an exception: there are at least 20 cults _today_ lead by a prophet claiming to be God, full of people claiming to be eyewitnesses of miracles, full of people willing to die for this certainty. For all of these we have certainty in 6-facts-like truth: we have interviews with them, we can go to speak with them today. But none of these are even considered for a second as true.
However, for some reasons, since there is _some_ historical evidence that there were people convinced of Jesus resurrection in 33AD, would be enough to say not only that Jesus maybe actually resurrected , but that it would require a huge faith not to believe so.
You believe in Christ because of faith, not because of some irrational analysis of evidences. There is nothing wrong about it, and if this belief helps you in being a better person, good for you! But it is important not to fool oneself in believing that you are objectively right and someone believing in a different miracle is objectively wrong because of hard evidence, because this becomes toxic very fast.
I too want to know why! Please reply.
@@Missdoubletrouble541 I replied two times already, with sources and counter arguments to the three arguments presented in the video. However, whoever is behind Switch Youth hides my answers instead of replying to them, to make people think that I have not replied. This _after_ asking me to express my reasons.
I guess he is following the most regressive form of Christianity stating that questioning your faith is sinful and cheating people to believe in Christ is a good thing. I hope that, _if a God exists,_ this God believes that searching the truth with the tools he gave us is a positive thing.
@@SwitchYouth Hi, what has happened to babon123's replies please? Babon123 says you have you removed them. Why is this? I would like to read them! Thanks.
I'm still not convinced :'(
Are you open to the idea of Christianity? The goal of this single message wasn't to convince you all at once, but to simply show that there are good reasons to believe Christianity is true based on the historical, philosophical, and scientific evidence we have available to us. If you'd like to learn more, I would recommend looking into some of the videos from these channels:
Dr Craig Videos: ua-cam.com/users/drcraigvideosvideos
Red Pen Logic: ua-cam.com/channels/mIwZDSKSeNboqWKtgX7UrA.html
Unbelievable?: ua-cam.com/users/PremierUnbelievable
@@SwitchYouth I am open to the idea of my mind being changed. But the way you put it, Christianity will never get there.
It is so reprehensible that there are people like this in the world. People willing to trick and deceive impressionable youth.
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Hi Elizabeth Duncan! My name is Lexi! I am a Switch Online host! Welcome to our channel!
I am not buying it..
Getting old the brains had enough.
No spoilers at switch? What about the santa reveal? This dude lies...hes going to hell
What the F are you saying ??????????????
What CRAPOLOGY are you proclaiming? Cheers.