I find it ridiculous to assume that someone being unconvinced by crappy evidence means that person is resistant... I personally think these 2 are just upset other people aren't as gullible as they are themselves. I don't see gullibility as a positive thing.
As always, you deliver a clear and insightful rebuttal to theistic arguments. Hopefully your videos will continue finding minds open to honest evaluation of their beliefs.
Well if you left I believe, unfortunately, that it shows you were not apart of God. God would never leave nor forsake His children and a Christian is a new person who can't continue to sin deliberately, knowingly and habitually.
That is just BS, typical BS of someone who regreted to have abandoned God for the nothing atheist gives to his life. Can anyone really respect you? I am afraid no
@@Mar-dk3mp Jesus loves atheists and they were probably given a fake cultural powerless Christianity we must show them the true Christianity one where Christians can't continue to sin deliberately, knowingly and habitually although we must try not to fall for temptation and a Christianity where Christians are doing the works God called us to.
The simple defeater to this argument is the Christian doctrine that everyone is a sinner. If your sin doesn't stop you from experiencing God, then why would my sin stop me? Is your God too weak to cut through the "static?" Or is it just playing favorites?
If you sin You must ask God to forgive you to cleanse you of all unrighteousness. Yet, God won't leave or forsake a Christian and a Christian is guaranteed paradise and a Christian can't continue to sin deliberately, knowingly and habitually.
@@HolySpiritIsSatanOfSinDethHell Okay but the question was about experiencing God and whether sin prevents you from experiencing him in the first place... Why would anyone ever ask for forgiveness from someone they haven't even been convinced exists yet (like, by experiencing it)? Before you can even get to the point of asking for forgiveness you need to establish the existence of the forgiver first.
@@mattROKX I was thinking more of someone who already believed in God please pardon my error. Sin doesn't keep us from experiencing God as God can reveal Himself to you even if you were sinning most likely not in a good way. But, as for me, He revealed Himself to me even though I was sinning yet, I did have faith in Him even though I didn't know anything about a God, Christianity or other religions. I believed even though I didn't see any miracles I just had dreams where I would call on God but would immediately forget them when I woke up and I remember them years later when I became Christian. That said you don't need an experience to believe in God you just need to have a mustard seed of faith in God. Christians are evidence of Christianity so just watch my life perhaps God might use me so you can have just a little faith to believe in the gospel. God loves you my friend!
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I am at a loss by this line of logic. God won't reveal himself to unbelievers, until they align themselves with what the God who hasn't even shown himself, wants them to do? If people could align themselves in that fashion, wouldn't that bypass a lot of Christianity? Why bother praying or going to church, if we could be aligned with God without even believing in his existence? Also, this seems to put us into a position, of being required to follow someone's bidding, without any convincing evidence of that person's existence. Usually when someone wants me to do something, they introduce themselves first.
Atheist-Why does God let people die of hunger if he is supposed to be Good? Apologist- Ah, but us humans cannot know God's ways, he is so far beyond our understanding. Dr. Baker- You have to know what God wants. I have heard him, correctly, right? God is unknowable, but must be known if one is to be saved. I don't know why, but I find this a really uncompelling argument by the doc.
You atheist have left God for the nothing atheism gives to your life that why you are the worst people, and when you both with your empty atheism will be gone none will regret it
@@HolySpiritIsSatanOfSinDethHell So all the people who God killed in the flood because they were wicked went to heaven? Apart from which you didn't read all of my comment or if you did you didn't understand it and/or simply repeated the part where I stated the typical response. Well done
@wilhelmschmidt7240 - Like Douglas' rain god who had no idea that he _was_ a god. He was a delivery truck driver who thought that he had very bad weather luck. ^_^
As a polytheist, this is often a frustration I have, so often it's treated like there are only 2 options or at least only two categories of options either some flavor of Abrahamic spiritually or some flavor of non belief and I so often I'm left screaming " those aren't the only options or the only type of deity worth discussing" it's nice to see things like polytheistm and Animism being discussed at least a little bit.
20:47 Matthew 28:17 says that of the eleven apostles remaining after Judas’ death, after witnessing no less than the resurrected Jesus, some (i.e, at least two of the eleven) still doubted. This is the very thing that we are asked to believe based on eyewitness _testimony_, and at least 18% of the eyewitnesses didn’t believe their own eyes. 28:46 doesn’t Romans 9 answer the question of where this resistance (a hardened heart) comes from?
Hi GG, I found something interesting the other day, re: inherited sin saved by? Deuteronomy 24:16 "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin."
@@GodlessGranny another content provider, Brandon of Mindshift? stated that the "Bible is written in such a way, and can be interpreted as Judas was the good guy". For you, it was Divine Hideness. For me, trying to take the clergy path in 2 different denominations, it was the contrary writings that made it clear that preachers were just cherry 🍒 picking whatever they liked and is what I was being taught to do. The irony of that is, it was the preacher that told me to be accurate in what I preached and gave me the tool to start my deconversion, the "Strong's Concordance". Of course that was all before Net access.
Deuteronomy 5:9 “Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,”
@@rexnemo I’m an ex Bible thumper. GG mentioned above that there were other verses that say the opposite. This one came to mind. You make a good point as to the jealousy of this god and no I do not agree that it is right.😎
@@JimmyTuxTv You know, with how much darker the series got over time, there is a case to be made that getting expelled from wizarding school might in fact result in a fate worse than death. After all, how do they stop magic school drop-outs from blowing the whistle to the muggles? Maybe Hermione is just aware of an inconvenient truth the rest of the students are not...?😱
@@JimmyTuxTv i tried to read the books to my son when he was "bedtime story" age but the first page was so badly written i stopped right there. the films are, er, okay, but i work in special effects so i spend my time looking for bits of leaking green screen :)
According to God's own words, He scattered his people to the four corners of the world and made them speak different languages. Those who were fortunate to stay in the Levant and speak Hebrew got special treatment. To hell with the rest and the devil take the hindmost. I'd say it's more than a tad racist to condemn all but a small percentage of humanity to eternal torture because they weren't the sons of Abraham. Thank God for St Paul who busted that wide open and saved the gentiles too. Hoping people are getting a hint of sarcasm.
Apologists: "No no, you don't get it, those Canaanite babies DESERVED to be murdered! They worshipped the wrong deities! They sacrificed their babies to Baal and Moloch rather than Yahweh! And the little Canaanite girls LIKED being taken as war brides!" Lol they will claim the Canaanites were evil because they practiced human sacrifice, ignoring that Yahweh ordered the Israelites to sacrifice their first born to him, which he later admits was one of the "laws that were not good" and "statutes by which you (Israelites) could not live" that he gave them previously and then recanted and regretted. I could find the verses for you if you want. Yahweh even refuses to stop this guy named Jephthah from sacrificing Jephthah's daughter to him, indicating that Yahweh does indeed accept human sacrifices, so the story of Isaac is the exception, not the rule. We're lucky most modern Christians don't actually get their values from the Bible, because if they did, we'd have a much more barbaric society with no religious freedom and people would be getting stoned with actual stones (for washing their car on Sunday or backtalking their mom or whatever) instead of chilling and getting the munchies. A lot more of Western morality comes from Anglo-Saxon common law and Roman civil law than the Bible. In other words, Western morality is more or less Pagan at heart, sharing more in common with the system of morals promoted in the Dharmic religions (such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism) than anything promoted in the Bible. If we had followed the Old Testament, we never would have progressed past barbarism, I mean there aren't any actual ethics espoused in it, it is literally just "Yahweh is all-powerful, worship him or else!" and "Israelites are allowed to enslave gentiles but gentiles aren't allowed to fight back!" And if we had based our system of ethics on the New Testament, we wouldn't even have a justice system or military! The New Testament says "Resist not evil" (don't fight back against people trying to enslave or murder you and your loved ones), "If a man steals your coat, offer him your tunic too", "Turn the other cheek" and "Love thy enemy", so any group of people that truly internalized Christian ethics at any point in history for any significant length of time would quickly be purged from the face of the Earth by foreign invaders or rivalling religious sects or whatever. I would say that Western morality owes a lot more of its origins to Plato and Aristotle and other pre-Christian Hellenistic philosophers. The philosophy/religion that was the most instrumental in creating modern Western morality would probably be Neo-Platonism. Even our ideas about God are much more based on the Neo-Platonic and Gnostic concept of the Monad than any Hebrew myths.
The obvious conclusion of this definition of sin, is god is the ultimate priority. So if you don’t tithe in order to feed your children you are a sinner. Your identity must revolve around god, your choices must revolve around god. Your hobbies, likes, dislikes, your very personality must revolve around god. So anyone who sins less is exactly the type of person that annoys me the most: those whose whole identity is summed up as one word “Christian”.
Quickly, (for the sake of a comment): I don't believe/think/feel/reckon that there are any gods, therefore I reject ALL arguments for the existence of god(s). To all apologists; 'proof or STFU'. They are as tired and lacking utility as flat Earthers. (I once listened to a coworker detailing his obsession with 'feet'. I don't care about his or anyone else's obsessions.)
I find it incredibly sad that indoctrination causes some people to devote their time and intellect to shore up that indoctrination rather than something that could benefit both themselves and others.
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The god these people believe in, if he/she exists, knows exactly what would convince me of their existence. And yet, such evidence is not apparent to me. Therefore, I conclude that he/she either doesn't exist, or doesn't want me to believe. In either case, I should not believe.
Jesus supposedly appeared to St. Paul on the road to Damascus. Apparently St. Paul’s various sins were not a problem. So how is it that my sins somehow get in the way of God communicating with me?
I would be convinced if this god repositioned stars in the sky to make a message to me and everyone on Earth all the scientists could read this message and verify it. For the stars to move in the first place would be something no one has ever seen or would know why or how it could happen much less for them to move light years and light years upon my years to make a message that said anything
Hardly surprising that converts reinterpret the past favorably towards their faith, liberally applying confirmation bias and other fallacious lenses to turn good fortunes into "miracles" and bad fortunes into "greater good" nudges towards "finding God", much as ongoing adherents do. How about all the deconverts that think back in embarrassment at all the times they purportedly "spoke in tongues", jubilated at purported "faith healings", swallowed whole utter tripe Biblical hagiography/authorship/archaeology/authenticity/reliquary claims, and were certain that "God" was guiding them through job ads or such?
Why call their views racist? They're struggling to explain geographical differences in human beliefs. Many people of different races live in the same area and follow similar beliefs so it's the location that's important.
Strangely enough, I don't hold God's racism against him. He started out as a tribal storm deity in constant conflict with his siblings and their chosen peoples. Racism was a survival mechanism back then.
If god actually existed I think it would be unreasonable to accuse him of racism. What he IS guilty of is hating everyone who isn't one of the chosen tribes (and if you're not Jewish then that excludes YOU). Why these gullible people rush to hand over money to some self professed pal of an invisible, undetectable, needy superbeing every saturday or sunday is frankly a mystery to me.
Evidence of God (here & in my first 11 replies). (In the first sections of this post, I mention some Bible quotations. This is not an attempt to use the Bible to prove the Bible. It's only meant to clarify a couple things.) Matthew 22.14: "For many are called, but few are chosen." Jesus made this statement in his teaching. It explains why God seems absent in most parts of the world. That said, he's actively involved in extraordinary personal relationships with those chosen few. However, God will soon reveal himself to all the world. In the meantime, we must do our best in our search for the truth. Matthew 11.25: "God has hidden the knowledge of the secrets of heaven from the wise and learned, and given it to simple men." That's how I'd know something a smart man like Dawkins or Bill Craig wouldn't. What Jesus meant by "hidden" was that this kind of knowledge can only be gained by God choosing to give it to a person as a gift. It can't be found in the same way as secular knowledge, which is gained through studies, research, experimentation, meditation, etc. And by "this kind of knowledge", I mean knowledge of the supernatural, the highest form of which is found in Christianity. I will give you evidence of God. I only ask that you approach this with an open mind. My evidence has two parts. The first part is made up of the next six posts. The second part occurs in the four posts after. I'd advise you thoroughly read both parts before raising other points, since said points are likely addressed in the latter parts of the evidence, if not nullified altogether. (You may need to change the comment settings on the video to "Newest" in order to see all the posts in the evidence.) Thanks a lot!
first off, in my part of the world, Africa (especially Black Africa), demonic encounters are so common that almost everyone is well aware of the supernatural. Here active Christians are constantly overpowering evil spirits in Jesus's name in various personal spiritual or supernatural experiences. These experiences are very common and well known. Additionally, pastors are constantly casting out demons in Jesus's name at church. Hence almost every Christian has sure knowledge of the truth of the Bible and the supernatural. Non-Christians too, as indicated before, experience the supernatural in their own way, mainly in the form of demonic encounters. Thus, hardly anyone bothers with debates about Jesus. You cannot deny the existence of someone in whose name you're frequently fighting off demons. Demons in other parts of the world, especially the West, have obviously gone about things differently, causing you to lose all sense of and contact with the supernatural. Which is why you're always engaged in intellectual debates about Jesus.
[Personal experience is the only source of experiential knowledge, which is the highest form of knowledge. Thus, personal experience is of great intellectual importance. To condemn personal experience is like saying marriage is illegitimate as a social institution, for the reason that not every marriage works. Or, that friendship is useless because not every friendship works. And yet we all know how deeply essential to life friendship is. And so when it comes to personal experience, it's best to consider it on a case-by-case basis rather than lumping them all together and throwing them out. Also, if God is a person, instead of just a theory, then we've got to experience him.] (here's a personal experience to show the reality of the supernatural and the truth and power of the Bible. Due to the topic of the video under which I originally posted this piece, it also explains a bit about sin and the sacrificial death of Christ.) you know, Dawkins downplays the effect of sin in this video. A little over a decade ago (I was 20 at the time), my parents and I went to rent an apartment. It was on a walled compound that contained other apartments as well. In our first meeting with the landlord (a lively old man of about 70) to discuss the rate, he told us that he evicted those whom we were to replace in our preferred apartment. He said that there was a young woman who lived there with her senior sister and the senior sister's husband. And this young woman was to help care for their newborn baby. According to the landlord, the young woman was terribly rude to everyone. And she was so lazy she did nothing to contribute to the cleanliness of the house. Worst of all, there was a young man whose apartment she was always at for sex. Sometimes this young woman would leave the kitchen in the middle of cooking and go be with the young man, so that her meal kept burning until there was a big reek all over the compound. He said that despite numerous warnings and meetings to address this issue with the young woman, she continued her bad behaviour. And that'd explain why he evicted them. About two weeks after settling down at the house, I had a dream around 2am. In this dream, I was following the landlord to his apartment which stood across from ours. I carried with me my Bible and a small bottle of holy oil (which we use at my church). When we got to his apartment, the landlord asked me to drop the Bible and the holy oil into the water closet so he could flush them down. Expectedly, I refused. He tried to persuade me. But when that didn't work, he tried to force me. And so I ran outside. He gave chase. He had in his hands a lasso. In the attempt to catch me, he threw it repeatedly but kept failing. And so he asked, "Are you a virgin?!" I answered, "Yes! The Lord, by his grace, has kept me that way up to this time!" He blew toward me from his mouth a puff of wind. I responded by pouring some of the holy oil into my mouth and blowing it out in a spray toward him. (That's one way it's used at my church.) We kept up this fierce exchange until I overpowered him and he scuttled away, bringing the battle to an end. This was when I got to know he was responsible for the young woman's misconduct, in particular her unusual sexual misconduct. As a demon, this landlord was able to subdue and destroy the young woman because she wasn't a virgin, but also probably because she wasn't prayerful enough. This inference would be easy to make, even for a non-spiritual person. Especially given when we arrived at the house, a different young woman lived in the apartment which used to be occupied by the other young man. Clearly this new young woman and I were to be his next victims. In other parts of the world, demons allow people to succeed in life without God, so they can ignore Him. Which ultimately means those people belong to the devil (because whoever isn't connected to Jesus is under Satan's authority). So sin does have a serious effect on us. Sin, especially sexual sin, gives the devil great power over us. The sacrificial death of Christ was meant to solve that problem (and not just for one person or even one nation, but for all humanity and for all time). But of course, someone who lacks spiritual knowledge doesn't understand this. Because it's all spiritual. And since justice is a foundational pillar of God, he couldn't "have just forgiven." Because even in dealing with his enemy, God has to ensure fairness. This would be one reason at least. And oh, that encounter with the landlord was only the precursor ... take care (I hope this account gives you some insight into supernatural causes. Ofc someone who can't access the supernatural could never know or experience anything like this. Such a person would only find natural causes, which could be valid but secondary to the supernatural.) [I share this dream because of how clearly it demonstrates the relationship between the supernatural and the natural. Actually most of my supernatural experiences involve visits to the supernatural world to battle demons face-to-face. Ordinarily, this would be better proof of the supernatural. But I use this dream instead, due to the above-stated reason. Speaking of visits to the supernatural world, the sequel to this dream is such a one. If you need to hear that too, I can share it. Maybe you'll want more tangible proof of the supernatural as it relates to this particular event. But I'd suggest we do that after you've read all the evidence, since that would likely remove any need for that sequel.]
(This piece explains God's fail-safe for dealing with the confusion that can arise between God-sent visions, dreams etc and mere mental experiences like delusions, hallucinations etc.) For centuries there's been much talk about heaven. At age 17 during a church service, God literally drove my spirit into heaven to see him and spend time with him and his angels at his throne. Yes, I saw and experienced this incredible joy! This was in the year 2008. As a result of this experience, "Lord of angels" is how I call upon God during battles with demons in the supernatural world. Because God wanted to make sure that I didn't think I was having delusions, he confirmed the reality of that heaven event by telling my pastor, who in turn told me. This account is similar to that of Paul in the Bible, where God involved a third party, the prophet Ananias, to ensure that Paul didn't think he was deluded after seeing Jesus in a vision on his way to Damascus. God's work among humans continues, but it is only experienced by the "chosen few" Jesus talked about. Keeping an open mind and a reasonably receptive heart is necessary to learning the truth. Without these, no amount of evidence will suffice for you. This was why in Jesus's day, many rejected him although he performed countless miracles to prove his Godship. Getting good evidence of God can be easy. You just have to meet the right kind of person. Someone who's genuinely called of God, someone who's truly willing to help, someone who understands your position fairly well. God is coming back into this world to give proof of his existence through supernatural events, just as he did 2,000 years ago. But it's going to be far more glorious this time. However genuine seekers can get to know God and begin a relationship with him well before that time arrives. For now, the best I can do to help is share this brief evidence with others. (God has used this fail-safe throughout history to ensure clarity for his servants. The Bible contains many examples of it.)
here's how Christianity is different from other religions. Throughout history, various people have claimed to be God our creator. Some are mythical, others historical. Jesus happens to be one of the historical ones, and he performed countless miracles to prove his Godship. About Jesus's historicity, it's firmly established and widely accepted by secular historians. In fact, more is now known about him than Julius Caesar. This goes for his miracles too, especially his resurrection. The resurrection is the best evidence for proof of Godship, since it's the ultimate show of total power over the laws of nature. Historians and New Testament theologians have now firmly established four facts concerning Jesus's death, including the empty tomb and the post-mortem appearances. And they calculate that these facts or events are best explained by the resurrection. The calculation is based on several factors, among them explanatory scope and explanatory power. Expectedly, the materialists among these experts stop just short of that conclusion, as a matter of principle. Also by historicity, I mean he walked this earth as a mortal and hence entered recorded history. There is still some disagreement among historians about certain details of Jesus's life, but that's just the nature of learning. If we humans have a creator, especially a loving one who wants us to know him, we'd expect him to reveal himself to us, personally and directly. And he did, through Jesus. Additionally, the Bible isn't the only place where evidence of Jesus's historicity is found. Secular historians from his era mention him in their works. Josephus, Tacitus, and others. Just google. There are even 10min vids-reliable ones-right here on UA-cam that give such information. (When I say "religions", I'm usually referring to the three main monotheistic religions, which are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. As you may know, these are the religions often being debated by our leading thinkers. But there's also a strong intellectual reason for this, and it's largely based on science. The impressive coherence or unity that exists among the laws of nature clearly suggests that the universe came from a single, infinitely powerful source, possibly the mind of a supernatural being. Additionally, if a god has to co-rule the cosmos with others, then he isn't really "God". For these reasons, monotheistic religions are far more plausible than polytheistic religions. Also as regards that single, powerful source, the supernatural being that best fits that description is the Abrahamic God of the three major monotheistic religions, who's sovereign and all-powerful. Despite the huge emphasis laid here on polytheistic religions, I must say that the original argument would hold against any kinds of religions at all.)
This piece addresses several vital issues that confront unbelievers. As a result of these issues, they find Christianity difficult to grasp and hence accept. I'll share them in the next two posts. ● Misconception about god. The Christian God isn't a "god of the gaps". Which is to say "I don't understand, therefore god did it." That'd be the ancient greek gods of thunder etc, which were likely invented to explain natural events. The Christian God is the God of the whole show. The creator of the entire cosmos, both the bits we do understand and the bits we don't. ● Misconception about faith. Faith is from the Latin word fidēs meaning trust or fidelity. Faith is a useful and normal idea in everyday life. For eg, faith that the bus would get you safely to work. Faith in the original meaning of the word is evidence-based. Faith that's not evidence-based is blind faith, which isn't what Christianity is. Even Einstein acknowledged the necessity of faith when he said that "I can't imagine any serious scientist who doesn't have faith." And by that he meant faith in the rational intelligibility of the universe. So you see, even scientists need faith. ● The false debate between science and God. Between 1901 and 2000, about 65% of physics Nobel laureates were Christian. This research was done and published by the Jewish scholar Baruch Shalev. The percentages are comparably high for other fields. This clearly shows the debate isn't between science and God. Rather it's a competition of worldviews, namely theism versus atheism. Additionally, the scientific method is only suited to the natural world. Religions, broadly speaking, deal with God. And God is a supernatural being who lives in the supernatural world. The supernatural is utterly different from the natural. It's also far superior to it. The supernatural world is well above and beyond the "revered" scientific methods of the natural world with its peer reviews. Think of the fact, for example, that supernatural beings aren't affected by physical quantities such as gravity, time, and space. The supernatural can only be accessed and assessed by supernatural means. I explain further in the second part of my evidence. ● Levels of explanation. I shall illustrate by example. "Why is the water boiling?" It's boiling because heat energy is conducted to the copper kettle and then transferred to the water molecules which gain kinetic energy and so move faster and faster and so forth. Or, it's boiling because I want a cup of tea. The first explanation is the mechanistic explanation provided by science. The second is the agent explanation provided by the person who set the kettle on the stove in the first place. The two kinds of explanation are different, but they're both correct. They don't compete, they complement. This is self-evident. On the larger scale of how the cosmos came into existence, science (through evolution, astronomy etc) gives the mechanistic explanation, whereas the Bible (through God) gives the agent explanation. As seen from the earlier illustration, the two explanations don't compete, they complement. However since they're fundamentally different, it's only natural for discrepancies to arise between them sometimes. And this is what tricks many people into thinking they conflict, when in fact they don't. Science and God are definitely compatible. ● The false idea that reason equates to truth. A very common mistake by atheists is the belief that something has to make sense in order to be true. It doesn't make sense that Hitler killed 6M+ of his fellow humans and yet it's true he did. And so for any given case, the right thing to do is to find evidence and not simply reject it because it sounds senseless or implausible. Thus the virgin birth, the sacrifice of Christ, heaven and hell, and other Christian beliefs don't have to make sense in order to be true. But of course, many theologians have long since provided lucid explanations for all these. Among them NT Wright and William Craig, both from this era.
41:15 I don't know about God, but Jesus is definitely racist. Mark 7:25-27 25"In fact, as soon as she heard about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an impure spirit came and fell at his feet. 26 The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter. 27 “First let the children eat all they want,” he told her, “for it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
You need to learn some basic theology and know the difference between God from the gods like Zeus. The gods are created beings who had a beginning and many met their doom.
"...the difference between God from the gods like Zeus. The gods are created beings who had a beginning..." You seem unaware that people have petitioned, prayed to & made sacrifices to all sorts of gods. Their status as created or creators is irrelevant to the fact that believers worship them.
..but dont be so angry with God of the bible..because according to Jesus : God is Our Father....as a granny.. do you have a Favorite Grandchild?..like wise it is the same with our Father!
haha inded true !..God is pro Siamites or Abrahamic..cuz the Bible was written by Shemites/Shem/A-Siamites or Asians....Europeans have their Zeus(God) & Valhalla/Olympus...in fact Jesus Gospel of Salvation is totally only for the 12 Tribes of Israel..and Jesus said in Mathew 7:6..6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you...Dogs & Swines who are they..Atheists?, the Romans, The Greeks?, or those outside The 12 Tribes of Israel?.
It is hilarious that a Christian apologist uses the same mental gymnastics he accuses the Muslims of using. What the Quran says can be explained away in both ways, easily. Anyone can do it. And calling Islam untrue doesn't make Christianity true, even more hilarious.
You are a natural public speaker. When you have a guest it's hit or miss, depending on guest. Your reaction vids always hit.
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Thank you!
I find it ridiculous to assume that someone being unconvinced by crappy evidence means that person is resistant... I personally think these 2 are just upset other people aren't as gullible as they are themselves. I don't see gullibility as a positive thing.
As always, you deliver a clear and insightful rebuttal to theistic arguments.
Hopefully your videos will continue finding minds open to honest evaluation of their beliefs.
I kind of think that we didn't abandon faith, faith abandoned us.
Well if you left I believe, unfortunately, that it shows you were not apart of God. God would never leave nor forsake His children and a Christian is a new person who can't continue to sin deliberately, knowingly and habitually.
That is just BS, typical BS of someone who regreted to have abandoned God for the nothing atheist gives to his life. Can anyone really respect you? I am afraid no
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Jesus loves atheists and they were probably given a fake cultural powerless Christianity we must show them the true Christianity one where Christians can't continue to sin deliberately, knowingly and habitually although we must try not to fall for temptation and a Christianity where Christians are doing the works God called us to.
Lol prove it@@Mar-dk3mp
@@Mar-dk3mplol. Also. God openly abandons ppl in the Bible and uses lies as well. Get over it.
I wonder if the thought ever crosses Dr. Max Baker-Hytch's mind, "I went through all that theology education and this is the best I've got?"
An excellent question!
In fact, I'm putting this in next week's script.
Enjoy Jes❤us energy wash starts now. Those that taste the power an Rebuke. Will be consumed with negative energy
The simple defeater to this argument is the Christian doctrine that everyone is a sinner. If your sin doesn't stop you from experiencing God, then why would my sin stop me? Is your God too weak to cut through the "static?" Or is it just playing favorites?
If you sin You must ask God to forgive you to cleanse you of all unrighteousness. Yet, God won't leave or forsake a Christian and a Christian is guaranteed paradise and a Christian can't continue to sin deliberately, knowingly and habitually.
@@HolySpiritIsSatanOfSinDethHell Okay but the question was about experiencing God and whether sin prevents you from experiencing him in the first place...
Why would anyone ever ask for forgiveness from someone they haven't even been convinced exists yet (like, by experiencing it)? Before you can even get to the point of asking for forgiveness you need to establish the existence of the forgiver first.
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I was thinking more of someone who already believed in God please pardon my error. Sin doesn't keep us from experiencing God as God can reveal Himself to you even if you were sinning most likely not in a good way. But, as for me, He revealed Himself to me even though I was sinning yet, I did have faith in Him even though I didn't know anything about a God, Christianity or other religions. I believed even though I didn't see any miracles I just had dreams where I would call on God but would immediately forget them when I woke up and I remember them years later when I became Christian. That said you don't need an experience to believe in God you just need to have a mustard seed of faith in God. Christians are evidence of Christianity so just watch my life perhaps God might use me so you can have just a little faith to believe in the gospel. God loves you my friend!
Blessed are those who read my "Evidence of God", for they shall obtain proof of God. Find my "Evidence of God" in the comments. To make that easier, change the comment settings on the video to "Newest" and then scroll down gently. Take care!💫📚✍️
Very entertaining and educational, as usual ❤
I am at a loss by this line of logic.
God won't reveal himself to unbelievers, until they align themselves with what the God who hasn't even shown himself, wants them to do?
If people could align themselves in that fashion, wouldn't that bypass a lot of Christianity? Why bother praying or going to church, if we could be aligned with God without even believing in his existence?
Also, this seems to put us into a position, of being required to follow someone's bidding, without any convincing evidence of that person's existence.
Usually when someone wants me to do something, they introduce themselves first.
Atheist-Why does God let people die of hunger if he is supposed to be Good?
Apologist- Ah, but us humans cannot know God's ways, he is so far beyond our understanding.
Dr. Baker- You have to know what God wants.
I have heard him, correctly, right?
God is unknowable, but must be known if one is to be saved.
I don't know why, but I find this a really uncompelling argument by the doc.
God let's people die of hunger for some unknowable reason but if they died in Jesus they will be in paradise.
You atheist have left God for the nothing atheism gives to your life that why you are the worst people, and when you both with your empty atheism will be gone none will regret it
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So all the people who God killed in the flood because they were wicked went to heaven?
Apart from which you didn't read all of my comment or if you did you didn't understand it and/or simply repeated the part where I stated the typical response.
Well done
"How does one know when one had found a god?" Is a great question, and in my head has very strong Douglas Adams/Terry Pratchett vibes.
@wilhelmschmidt7240 - Like Douglas' rain god who had no idea that he _was_ a god. He was a delivery truck driver who thought that he had very bad weather luck. ^_^
As a polytheist, this is often a frustration I have, so often it's treated like there are only 2 options or at least only two categories of options either some flavor of Abrahamic spiritually or some flavor of non belief and I so often I'm left screaming " those aren't the only options or the only type of deity worth discussing" it's nice to see things like polytheistm and Animism being discussed at least a little bit.
You have a very well thought out and presented video here. I hope the algorithm is kind.
Wow, Granny's at 10k subs 👏👏👏. I'm glad more people get exposed to these discussions.
20:47 Matthew 28:17 says that of the eleven apostles remaining after Judas’ death, after witnessing no less than the resurrected Jesus, some (i.e, at least two of the eleven) still doubted. This is the very thing that we are asked to believe based on eyewitness _testimony_, and at least 18% of the eyewitnesses didn’t believe their own eyes.
28:46 doesn’t Romans 9 answer the question of where this resistance (a hardened heart) comes from?
12:59 damn, that almost killed me. I wasn't watching the video, just listening to it so it caught me off guard
Excellent video ❤️
Thank you very much!
Hi GG, I found something interesting the other day, re: inherited sin saved by? Deuteronomy 24:16 "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin."
Yes, I've seen that. Yet the Bible also says the opposite.
@@GodlessGranny another content provider, Brandon of Mindshift? stated that the "Bible is written in such a way, and can be interpreted as Judas was the good guy". For you, it was Divine Hideness. For me, trying to take the clergy path in 2 different denominations, it was the contrary writings that made it clear that preachers were just cherry 🍒 picking whatever they liked and is what I was being taught to do. The irony of that is, it was the preacher that told me to be accurate in what I preached and gave me the tool to start my deconversion, the "Strong's Concordance". Of course that was all before Net access.
Deuteronomy 5:9
“Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,”
@@chasson321 So it's okay for a deity to be jealous , but isn't jealousy a sin as in "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's ox " ?🤔
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I’m an ex Bible thumper. GG mentioned above that there were other verses that say the opposite. This one came to mind.
You make a good point as to the jealousy of this god and no I do not agree that it is right.😎
I don’t believe for a simple reason…. A lack of evidence.
Expulsion is worse than killed, that checks
@@JimmyTuxTv You know, with how much darker the series got over time, there is a case to be made that getting expelled from wizarding school might in fact result in a fate worse than death. After all, how do they stop magic school drop-outs from blowing the whistle to the muggles?
Maybe Hermione is just aware of an inconvenient truth the rest of the students are not...?😱
@@chameleonx9253 to burst some bubbles I never read or watched the films.
@@JimmyTuxTv i tried to read the books to my son when he was "bedtime story" age but the first page was so badly written i stopped right there. the films are, er, okay, but i work in special effects so i spend my time looking for bits of leaking green screen :)
Divine hiddeness? How do you tell the God that is hard to find from the God that doesn't exist?🤔
According to God's own words, He scattered his people to the four corners of the world and made them speak different languages.
Those who were fortunate to stay in the Levant and speak Hebrew got special treatment. To hell with the rest and the devil take the hindmost.
I'd say it's more than a tad racist to condemn all but a small percentage of humanity to eternal torture because they weren't the sons of Abraham.
Thank God for St Paul who busted that wide open and saved the gentiles too.
Hoping people are getting a hint of sarcasm.
Just shut up. You know you are the worst generation into a sick cult called atheism. Just shut up. You got no God and no dignity
I just find it amazing that modern people believe in any of these fallacies.
Good work granny 👍
Loved your lawyer analogy. Lol
Hmm, how could the regional god of a bronze age tribe possibly turn out to be barbarically racist? 😹😹😹
Apologists: "No no, you don't get it, those Canaanite babies DESERVED to be murdered! They worshipped the wrong deities! They sacrificed their babies to Baal and Moloch rather than Yahweh! And the little Canaanite girls LIKED being taken as war brides!" Lol they will claim the Canaanites were evil because they practiced human sacrifice, ignoring that Yahweh ordered the Israelites to sacrifice their first born to him, which he later admits was one of the "laws that were not good" and "statutes by which you (Israelites) could not live" that he gave them previously and then recanted and regretted. I could find the verses for you if you want. Yahweh even refuses to stop this guy named Jephthah from sacrificing Jephthah's daughter to him, indicating that Yahweh does indeed accept human sacrifices, so the story of Isaac is the exception, not the rule. We're lucky most modern Christians don't actually get their values from the Bible, because if they did, we'd have a much more barbaric society with no religious freedom and people would be getting stoned with actual stones (for washing their car on Sunday or backtalking their mom or whatever) instead of chilling and getting the munchies. A lot more of Western morality comes from Anglo-Saxon common law and Roman civil law than the Bible. In other words, Western morality is more or less Pagan at heart, sharing more in common with the system of morals promoted in the Dharmic religions (such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism) than anything promoted in the Bible. If we had followed the Old Testament, we never would have progressed past barbarism, I mean there aren't any actual ethics espoused in it, it is literally just "Yahweh is all-powerful, worship him or else!" and "Israelites are allowed to enslave gentiles but gentiles aren't allowed to fight back!" And if we had based our system of ethics on the New Testament, we wouldn't even have a justice system or military! The New Testament says "Resist not evil" (don't fight back against people trying to enslave or murder you and your loved ones), "If a man steals your coat, offer him your tunic too", "Turn the other cheek" and "Love thy enemy", so any group of people that truly internalized Christian ethics at any point in history for any significant length of time would quickly be purged from the face of the Earth by foreign invaders or rivalling religious sects or whatever. I would say that Western morality owes a lot more of its origins to Plato and Aristotle and other pre-Christian Hellenistic philosophers. The philosophy/religion that was the most instrumental in creating modern Western morality would probably be Neo-Platonism. Even our ideas about God are much more based on the Neo-Platonic and Gnostic concept of the Monad than any Hebrew myths.
Ohh what a cliffhanger ❤
Cosmic Skeptic vs Max Baker-Hytch if you weren't aware.
Thank you. I was wondering but hadn't yet done a search for this.
@@GodlessGranny here's a channel that just popped up in my feed, christians hating on other christians: Enemies Within the Church
You got no God and no Dignity
The obvious conclusion of this definition of sin, is god is the ultimate priority. So if you don’t tithe in order to feed your children you are a sinner.
Your identity must revolve around god, your choices must revolve around god. Your hobbies, likes, dislikes, your very personality must revolve around god.
So anyone who sins less is exactly the type of person that annoys me the most: those whose whole identity is summed up as one word “Christian”.
I believe in the Great Pumpkin 🎃. 😳
Revelation says heaven will have people from every nation, tribe, and language.
Brilliant as always, Godless Granny. Cheers 🥂to you and all the Best.
What video does Paulogia go over the four types of people?
Um. Do they... ever... listen to themselves?
Quickly, (for the sake of a comment): I don't believe/think/feel/reckon that there are any gods, therefore I reject ALL arguments for the existence of god(s). To all apologists; 'proof or STFU'. They are as tired and lacking utility as flat Earthers. (I once listened to a coworker detailing his obsession with 'feet'. I don't care about his or anyone else's obsessions.)
I find it incredibly sad that indoctrination causes some people to devote their time and intellect to shore up that indoctrination rather than something that could benefit both themselves and others.
Blessed are those who read my "Evidence of God", for they shall obtain proof of God. Find my "Evidence of God" in the comments. To make that easier, change the comment settings on the video to "Newest" and then scroll down gently. Take care!💫📚✍️
The god these people believe in, if he/she exists, knows exactly what would convince me of their existence. And yet, such evidence is not apparent to me. Therefore, I conclude that he/she either doesn't exist, or doesn't want me to believe. In either case, I should not believe.
Of course he thinks Hermione is a sinner. She's literally a witch. 😂😂😂
"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" and all that...
First ..unless the rest is doing the divine hiddenness thing ;)
It's so obviously a fictional cultural construct, i don't know whether to pity them, or deplore them for the implicit racism?
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lol "PRIME MOVER"
Jesus supposedly appeared to St. Paul on the road to Damascus. Apparently St. Paul’s various sins were not a problem. So how is it that my sins somehow get in the way of God communicating with me?
I am unconvinced that anyone comes to a belief in any god because of any philosophical argument. 😅
Philosophy is the most over-rated thing humans have ever created.
I recently became a theist...I now follow the seven gods of South Korea...aka....BTS :P
I would be convinced if this god repositioned stars in the sky to make a message to me and everyone on Earth all the scientists could read this message and verify it. For the stars to move in the first place would be something no one has ever seen or would know why or how it could happen much less for them to move light years and light years upon my years to make a message that said anything
Hardly surprising that converts reinterpret the past favorably towards their faith, liberally applying confirmation bias and other fallacious lenses to turn good fortunes into "miracles" and bad fortunes into "greater good" nudges towards "finding God", much as ongoing adherents do.
How about all the deconverts that think back in embarrassment at all the times they purportedly "spoke in tongues", jubilated at purported "faith healings", swallowed whole utter tripe Biblical hagiography/authorship/archaeology/authenticity/reliquary claims, and were certain that "God" was guiding them through job ads or such?
Why call their views racist? They're struggling to explain geographical differences in human beliefs. Many people of different races live in the same area and follow similar beliefs so it's the location that's important.
Strangely enough, I don't hold God's racism against him. He started out as a tribal storm deity in constant conflict with his siblings and their chosen peoples. Racism was a survival mechanism back then.
He does.
If god actually existed I think it would be unreasonable to accuse him of racism. What he IS guilty of is hating everyone who isn't one of the chosen tribes (and if you're not Jewish then that excludes YOU).
Why these gullible people rush to hand over money to some self professed pal of an invisible, undetectable, needy superbeing every saturday or sunday is frankly a mystery to me.
I call them culture Gods.
They are the ones rationalizing their God, if their God is racist, I wonder what that might mean. 🙃
Evidence of God (here & in my first 11 replies).
(In the first sections of this post, I mention some Bible quotations. This is not an attempt to use the Bible to prove the Bible. It's only meant to clarify a couple things.)
Matthew 22.14: "For many are called, but few are chosen." Jesus made this statement in his teaching. It explains why God seems absent in most parts of the world. That said, he's actively involved in extraordinary personal relationships with those chosen few. However, God will soon reveal himself to all the world. In the meantime, we must do our best in our search for the truth.
Matthew 11.25: "God has hidden the knowledge of the secrets of heaven from the wise and learned, and given it to simple men." That's how I'd know something a smart man like Dawkins or Bill Craig wouldn't. What Jesus meant by "hidden" was that this kind of knowledge can only be gained by God choosing to give it to a person as a gift. It can't be found in the same way as secular knowledge, which is gained through studies, research, experimentation, meditation, etc. And by "this kind of knowledge", I mean knowledge of the supernatural, the highest form of which is found in Christianity.
I will give you evidence of God. I only ask that you approach this with an open mind. My evidence has two parts. The first part is made up of the next six posts. The second part occurs in the four posts after. I'd advise you thoroughly read both parts before raising other points, since said points are likely addressed in the latter parts of the evidence, if not nullified altogether.
(You may need to change the comment settings on the video to "Newest" in order to see all the posts in the evidence.)
Thanks a lot!
first off, in my part of the world, Africa (especially Black Africa), demonic encounters are so common that almost everyone is well aware of the supernatural.
Here active Christians are constantly overpowering evil spirits in Jesus's name in various personal spiritual or supernatural experiences. These experiences are very common and well known. Additionally, pastors are constantly casting out demons in Jesus's name at church. Hence almost every Christian has sure knowledge of the truth of the Bible and the supernatural.
Non-Christians too, as indicated before, experience the supernatural in their own way, mainly in the form of demonic encounters. Thus, hardly anyone bothers with debates about Jesus. You cannot deny the existence of someone in whose name you're frequently fighting off demons.
Demons in other parts of the world, especially the West, have obviously gone about things differently, causing you to lose all sense of and contact with the supernatural. Which is why you're always engaged in intellectual debates about Jesus.
[Personal experience is the only source of experiential knowledge, which is the highest form of knowledge. Thus, personal experience is of great intellectual importance. To condemn personal experience is like saying marriage is illegitimate as a social institution, for the reason that not every marriage works. Or, that friendship is useless because not every friendship works. And yet we all know how deeply essential to life friendship is. And so when it comes to personal experience, it's best to consider it on a case-by-case basis rather than lumping them all together and throwing them out. Also, if God is a person, instead of just a theory, then we've got to experience him.]
(here's a personal experience to show the reality of the supernatural and the truth and power of the Bible. Due to the topic of the video under which I originally posted this piece, it also explains a bit about sin and the sacrificial death of Christ.)
you know, Dawkins downplays the effect of sin in this video.
A little over a decade ago (I was 20 at the time), my parents and I went to rent an apartment. It was on a walled compound that contained other apartments as well. In our first meeting with the landlord (a lively old man of about 70) to discuss the rate, he told us that he evicted those whom we were to replace in our preferred apartment. He said that there was a young woman who lived there with her senior sister and the senior sister's husband. And this young woman was to help care for their newborn baby.
According to the landlord, the young woman was terribly rude to everyone. And she was so lazy she did nothing to contribute to the cleanliness of the house. Worst of all, there was a young man whose apartment she was always at for sex. Sometimes this young woman would leave the kitchen in the middle of cooking and go be with the young man, so that her meal kept burning until there was a big reek all over the compound. He said that despite numerous warnings and meetings to address this issue with the young woman, she continued her bad behaviour. And that'd explain why he evicted them.
About two weeks after settling down at the house, I had a dream around 2am. In this dream, I was following the landlord to his apartment which stood across from ours. I carried with me my Bible and a small bottle of holy oil (which we use at my church). When we got to his apartment, the landlord asked me to drop the Bible and the holy oil into the water closet so he could flush them down. Expectedly, I refused. He tried to persuade me. But when that didn't work, he tried to force me. And so I ran outside. He gave chase. He had in his hands a lasso. In the attempt to catch me, he threw it repeatedly but kept failing. And so he asked, "Are you a virgin?!" I answered, "Yes! The Lord, by his grace, has kept me that way up to this time!" He blew toward me from his mouth a puff of wind. I responded by pouring some of the holy oil into my mouth and blowing it out in a spray toward him. (That's one way it's used at my church.) We kept up this fierce exchange until I overpowered him and he scuttled away, bringing the battle to an end.
This was when I got to know he was responsible for the young woman's misconduct, in particular her unusual sexual misconduct. As a demon, this landlord was able to subdue and destroy the young woman because she wasn't a virgin, but also probably because she wasn't prayerful enough. This inference would be easy to make, even for a non-spiritual person. Especially given when we arrived at the house, a different young woman lived in the apartment which used to be occupied by the other young man. Clearly this new young woman and I were to be his next victims.
In other parts of the world, demons allow people to succeed in life without God, so they can ignore Him. Which ultimately means those people belong to the devil (because whoever isn't connected to Jesus is under Satan's authority). So sin does have a serious effect on us. Sin, especially sexual sin, gives the devil great power over us. The sacrificial death of Christ was meant to solve that problem (and not just for one person or even one nation, but for all humanity and for all time). But of course, someone who lacks spiritual knowledge doesn't understand this. Because it's all spiritual. And since justice is a foundational pillar of God, he couldn't "have just forgiven." Because even in dealing with his enemy, God has to ensure fairness. This would be one reason at least.
And oh, that encounter with the landlord was only the precursor ... take care
(I hope this account gives you some insight into supernatural causes. Ofc someone who can't access the supernatural could never know or experience anything like this. Such a person would only find natural causes, which could be valid but secondary to the supernatural.)
[I share this dream because of how clearly it demonstrates the relationship between the supernatural and the natural. Actually most of my supernatural experiences involve visits to the supernatural world to battle demons face-to-face. Ordinarily, this would be better proof of the supernatural. But I use this dream instead, due to the above-stated reason.
Speaking of visits to the supernatural world, the sequel to this dream is such a one. If you need to hear that too, I can share it. Maybe you'll want more tangible proof of the supernatural as it relates to this particular event. But I'd suggest we do that after you've read all the evidence, since that would likely remove any need for that sequel.]
(This piece explains God's fail-safe for dealing with the confusion that can arise between God-sent visions, dreams etc and mere mental experiences like delusions, hallucinations etc.)
For centuries there's been much talk about heaven. At age 17 during a church service, God literally drove my spirit into heaven to see him and spend time with him and his angels at his throne. Yes, I saw and experienced this incredible joy! This was in the year 2008. As a result of this experience, "Lord of angels" is how I call upon God during battles with demons in the supernatural world.
Because God wanted to make sure that I didn't think I was having delusions, he confirmed the reality of that heaven event by telling my pastor, who in turn told me. This account is similar to that of Paul in the Bible, where God involved a third party, the prophet Ananias, to ensure that Paul didn't think he was deluded after seeing Jesus in a vision on his way to Damascus. God's work among humans continues, but it is only experienced by the "chosen few" Jesus talked about.
Keeping an open mind and a reasonably receptive heart is necessary to learning the truth. Without these, no amount of evidence will suffice for you. This was why in Jesus's day, many rejected him although he performed countless miracles to prove his Godship. Getting good evidence of God can be easy. You just have to meet the right kind of person. Someone who's genuinely called of God, someone who's truly willing to help, someone who understands your position fairly well.
God is coming back into this world to give proof of his existence through supernatural events, just as he did 2,000 years ago. But it's going to be far more glorious this time. However genuine seekers can get to know God and begin a relationship with him well before that time arrives. For now, the best I can do to help is share this brief evidence with others.
(God has used this fail-safe throughout history to ensure clarity for his servants. The Bible contains many examples of it.)
here's how Christianity is different from other religions. Throughout history, various people have claimed to be God our creator. Some are mythical, others historical. Jesus happens to be one of the historical ones, and he performed countless miracles to prove his Godship.
About Jesus's historicity, it's firmly established and widely accepted by secular historians. In fact, more is now known about him than Julius Caesar. This goes for his miracles too, especially his resurrection. The resurrection is the best evidence for proof of Godship, since it's the ultimate show of total power over the laws of nature.
Historians and New Testament theologians have now firmly established four facts concerning Jesus's death, including the empty tomb and the post-mortem appearances. And they calculate that these facts or events are best explained by the resurrection. The calculation is based on several factors, among them explanatory scope and explanatory power. Expectedly, the materialists among these experts stop just short of that conclusion, as a matter of principle.
Also by historicity, I mean he walked this earth as a mortal and hence entered recorded history. There is still some disagreement among historians about certain details of Jesus's life, but that's just the nature of learning. If we humans have a creator, especially a loving one who wants us to know him, we'd expect him to reveal himself to us, personally and directly. And he did, through Jesus.
Additionally, the Bible isn't the only place where evidence of Jesus's historicity is found. Secular historians from his era mention him in their works. Josephus, Tacitus, and others. Just google. There are even 10min vids-reliable ones-right here on UA-cam that give such information.
(When I say "religions", I'm usually referring to the three main monotheistic religions, which are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. As you may know, these are the religions often being debated by our leading thinkers. But there's also a strong intellectual reason for this, and it's largely based on science.
The impressive coherence or unity that exists among the laws of nature clearly suggests that the universe came from a single, infinitely powerful source, possibly the mind of a supernatural being. Additionally, if a god has to co-rule the cosmos with others, then he isn't really "God".
For these reasons, monotheistic religions are far more plausible than polytheistic religions. Also as regards that single, powerful source, the supernatural being that best fits that description is the Abrahamic God of the three major monotheistic religions, who's sovereign and all-powerful.
Despite the huge emphasis laid here on polytheistic religions, I must say that the original argument would hold against any kinds of religions at all.)
This piece addresses several vital issues that confront unbelievers. As a result of these issues, they find Christianity difficult to grasp and hence accept. I'll share them in the next two posts.
● Misconception about god. The Christian God isn't a "god of the gaps". Which is to say "I don't understand, therefore god did it." That'd be the ancient greek gods of thunder etc, which were likely invented to explain natural events. The Christian God is the God of the whole show. The creator of the entire cosmos, both the bits we do understand and the bits we don't.
● Misconception about faith. Faith is from the Latin word fidēs meaning trust or fidelity. Faith is a useful and normal idea in everyday life. For eg, faith that the bus would get you safely to work. Faith in the original meaning of the word is evidence-based. Faith that's not evidence-based is blind faith, which isn't what Christianity is. Even Einstein acknowledged the necessity of faith when he said that "I can't imagine any serious scientist who doesn't have faith." And by that he meant faith in the rational intelligibility of the universe. So you see, even scientists need faith.
● The false debate between science and God. Between 1901 and 2000, about 65% of physics Nobel laureates were Christian. This research was done and published by the Jewish scholar Baruch Shalev. The percentages are comparably high for other fields. This clearly shows the debate isn't between science and God. Rather it's a competition of worldviews, namely theism versus atheism.
Additionally, the scientific method is only suited to the natural world. Religions, broadly speaking, deal with God. And God is a supernatural being who lives in the supernatural world. The supernatural is utterly different from the natural. It's also far superior to it. The supernatural world is well above and beyond the "revered" scientific methods of the natural world with its peer reviews. Think of the fact, for example, that supernatural beings aren't affected by physical quantities such as gravity, time, and space. The supernatural can only be accessed and assessed by supernatural means. I explain further in the second part of my evidence.
● Levels of explanation. I shall illustrate by example. "Why is the water boiling?" It's boiling because heat energy is conducted to the copper kettle and then transferred to the water molecules which gain kinetic energy and so move faster and faster and so forth. Or, it's boiling because I want a cup of tea. The first explanation is the mechanistic explanation provided by science. The second is the agent explanation provided by the person who set the kettle on the stove in the first place. The two kinds of explanation are different, but they're both correct. They don't compete, they complement. This is self-evident.
On the larger scale of how the cosmos came into existence, science (through evolution, astronomy etc) gives the mechanistic explanation, whereas the Bible (through God) gives the agent explanation. As seen from the earlier illustration, the two explanations don't compete, they complement. However since they're fundamentally different, it's only natural for discrepancies to arise between them sometimes. And this is what tricks many people into thinking they conflict, when in fact they don't. Science and God are definitely compatible.
● The false idea that reason equates to truth. A very common mistake by atheists is the belief that something has to make sense in order to be true. It doesn't make sense that Hitler killed 6M+ of his fellow humans and yet it's true he did. And so for any given case, the right thing to do is to find evidence and not simply reject it because it sounds senseless or implausible. Thus the virgin birth, the sacrifice of Christ, heaven and hell, and other Christian beliefs don't have to make sense in order to be true. But of course, many theologians have long since provided lucid explanations for all these. Among them NT Wright and William Craig, both from this era.
41:15 I don't know about God, but Jesus is definitely racist.
Mark 7:25-27
25"In fact, as soon as she heard about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an impure spirit came and fell at his feet. 26 The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.
27 “First let the children eat all they want,” he told her, “for it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
You need to learn some basic theology and know the difference between God from the gods like Zeus. The gods are created beings who had a beginning and many met their doom.
"...the difference between God from the gods like Zeus. The gods are created beings who had a beginning..." You seem unaware that people have petitioned, prayed to & made sacrifices to all sorts of gods. Their status as created or creators is irrelevant to the fact that believers worship them.
..but dont be so angry with God of the bible..because according to Jesus : God is Our Father....as a granny.. do you have a Favorite Grandchild?..like wise it is the same with our Father!
haha inded true !..God is pro Siamites or Abrahamic..cuz the Bible was written by Shemites/Shem/A-Siamites or Asians....Europeans have their Zeus(God) & Valhalla/Olympus...in fact Jesus Gospel of Salvation is totally only for the 12 Tribes of Israel..and Jesus said in Mathew 7:6..6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you...Dogs & Swines who are they..Atheists?, the Romans, The Greeks?, or those outside The 12 Tribes of Israel?.
It is hilarious that a Christian apologist uses the same mental gymnastics he accuses the Muslims of using. What the Quran says can be explained away in both ways, easily. Anyone can do it. And calling Islam untrue doesn't make Christianity true, even more hilarious.