David Wood - Acts 17 Apologetics Origin Story and Online Evangelism Strategy
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- André Dantzler talks with Dr. David Wood, UA-camr and President of Acts 17 Apologetics which has over 240k subscribers. He shares his philosophy on online evangelism, valuable insights into how to maximize digital media, and how he began using UA-cam as his main channel of online communication and ministry.
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David Wood and his apologetics kept me in my Christian Faith when I was considering converting to Islam. Now I study apologetics for myself and even have 2 apologetics study Bibles
That’s amazing!
uau! that's amazing.... keep up the good work... we need people like you...
I would STRONGLY SUGGEST
Always ready by Dr Greg Bahnsen!
Look at Tovia Singer. a Jewish perspective on christianity. this made me say away from christianity.
@@dannyyo7948 I have looked into Singer and found him taking verses wildly out of context to make a distorted point. I did not find him credible.
I am an ex Muslim and I seek to reach Muslims . I often direct them to David's Chanel. David has a unique style that is unconventional and addictive. His videos are all master pieces
@Keksi and what fraud are you referring? i'm curious...
Keksi people don’t need to expose or hear any exposing about islam criticism, it always proves the truth, no one needs to hear any objection. it’s too clear that islam is false, especially with someone like David Wood is speaking
@Keksi hahhaha false prophet muhammad is fraud and not David Wood. I am an Arab and know the lies of islam first-hand
@ar How would being an Arab make you more likely to know islam?
@Keksi a little seed for you to ponder, Tawheed means unification. One cannot unify something if it's only one of its kind, the Quran it's self clearly indicates of God, having more than one in person. 1) Spirit of Allah, 2) eternal word of Allah, 3) Allah himself, 4) plus the God that Allah prays too. Oh look four God's in Islam. Christ is Life John 3:16.
David Wood n Nabeel Qureshe are my favorite heros.
Keksi and this comment was 100% nonsense
so God made Jesus suffer and get humiliated on the cross too?
Also nabeel is ded. Also david is a attempted murderer and criminal. Such a hero. Lol. Makes sense since your god jesus is dead too. And you a doc?
@Kaly you guys got your Christian religion stories all messed up. Jesus was not a god nor he ever will become one. Your pope got you guys on to hell path.
@@dannyyo7948 Who do you think Jesus was?
David Woods has really blessed me more than any other teacher. He speaks so clearly the truths that we all need to hear. I pray all blessings on David and his family and ministry in Jesus name and I pray the protection of the blood of Jesus over him in Jesus name.
Keksi David has debated in public on many occasions and is still available for debates. He is a great teacher of the Koran and many Muslims are learning what nobody else tells them. . One of his favorite videos is The white prophet who traded black slaves. Christian Prince is also a great teacher.He studied the Koran for years. Most Muslims don’t know Arabic.. The Muslims don’t have a savior and Muhammed ask God for forgiveness and can’t offer salvation to anyone. There is no use walking around a pagan Kaaba that won’t get you to Paradise but dizzy. Jesus is god’s provision for all mankind as the only virgin birthed blameless sinless messiah or savior Sura19:19. Muhammed even had sex with a slave girl even though he had 13 wives. Jesus is the only one coming back to Judge and rule in Jerusalem?Where is your prophet???
Great interview. Dr Wood is something. I too was in jail in 1992. Found my Lord and savior Jesus Christ. Went to college in philosophy and political science. Suggested by my pastor to examine being a Christian appologist. But I had zero support in my family. My wife at the time discouraged my studies. So went to another field. I guess the story I am telling is. Follow your dream despite what people say. David is a perfect example of that. God bless.
It's never too late, Brother.
God has a plan for you and this exact role in Apologetics may not be it.
David has been such an opener for me, and I'm sure for others and Muslims, about Islam.
I'm from india your good job God bless you brother keep do
I like David's approach. I ought to show my Muslim mom one of his videos sometime. LOL
Jo Reven yes that’s a great idea as he has a great selection. David ha great love for the Muslims and speaks in love and honesty.
Jo Reven, please update us when you do!
@Islam Safari lol CP is debunked he is as a fool as woody
did your mom give you a slap in the face? lol
@@dannyyo7948typical muslim attitudes, but Jruss still loves you though
I love you David wood , true man of God !!!
David Wood is one of those guys that's hard not to listen to. Absolute legend in my eyes, brutally honest which i think is the key. LEGEND!!!.
Lots of bleasings and love for you, my brother in Christ Dr. David Wood.
Keep on fighting against the most evil deceptive plan of the king of darkness.
I agree with David's approach. I think one of the things that you have to do-and of course, it's not universally applicable-is destroy the strongholds and idols in the minds of Muslims. Before you even tackle the real Jesus, you need to dismantle their false notions of the character of God.
-Job
-Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, particularly chapter 4.
-Luke 13
-John 9
-Genesis 12-22
*Gerard Perry* I agree. I think the stronghold of Islam needs to be destroyed, and THEN present the Gospel. Muslims "know" the Bible is corrupted, so expose the stupidity, depravity, and lunacy of Allah. Once that's done - and you need to know the Quran to do that - then compare the filth of Muhammad to the beauty of the perfect, holy Christ.
God bless you and your family, Dr. Wood. Well what can I say, everything has its own right time and the right time came to your doorstep in 2020. Please keep exposing Islam and its Evil. Next step should be making movies and dramas about this topic.
David might seems to be defeated in a debate...but he would never lie...to win a debate
There’s also sarcasm in the Old Testament (drawing from memory, sorry): when a Jewish prophet sees pagans praying to their statue gods and he’s like: maybe if you pray louder, maybe your Rock god can’t hear very well... 😂
Dr D Wood’s channel is my most favorite Christian UA-cam channel.
God bless Dr D Wood.
Thanks again David and host, brothers in Jesus
The human body has thousands of members, all belonging to the one cause, all doing distinct tasks, all working together as one collective, yet each member is dependent on all the others.. And all have the very same life source.
That's how it is with the Body of Christ on earth.
We are all unique, and that's how our Lord Jesus likes it.
Be yourself. Depend on Him, His Word Jis power, and His guidance. And above all be humble before Him and one another.
Nice video. Helps to know where it comes from.
God's amazing goodness upon you!
David Wood, Yeehaa!!
Great Video, Dwood is compelling. Sorry other guy, I’ll go see who you are now that I’ve watched.
Really amazing story.
Let’s tear down Islam for future generations! 😀
hahaha... good luck boi. Islam will be the largest religion soon :)
@@dannyyo7948
Even if that were true, it doesn't prove Islam to be true.
Allah does not exist.
@@JohnO318 you really mean jesus is no god
Super David
David Wood is awesome! :)
David Wood: "I was made for this"
Now 385k subscribers....👍
390k right now
Ex Christian in future inshallah ☝️
Ex Evangelical and Muslim ALHUMDULILLAH ☝️
LA ILAHA IL ALLAH MUHAMMAD UR RASUL ALLAH ❤️
Jesus loves you. Don't refuse the gift He is giving to you. You worth it, Jesus is waiting. We all are sinners, that's our nature. Accept the free gift of God and you will the magnificient, good, merciful God. God bless you in Jesus name
In India there are many following population....
DAVID WOOD IS THE BEST !!!!!
Any kin to the Dantzlers in Fredericksburg, Texas?
Sir I request to you please get it translated into urdu or Hindi so that could understand to all
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I love that the very platform that brought porn & sin to the masses (internet) is the same platform that undermines false gods. I absolutely love the fact that God uses an otherwise hated condition (David is a self admitted psychopath) and his advantage in pressing his point. When he gets threats, they are water off a duck’s back. People like David are a modern day St Paul, & I wish I had 1/4 of his spine coz I am weak at such challenges.
David Wood also help me to leave islam by simple being harsh and force me to actually see what i'm realy beliving in because nothing really he talks about islam is news to me but because of i born as muslim and learn it like that i was just accepted stuff and never actually stop and say what the fuck i'm thinking.
For example i know Muhammed married with 9 years old when i was 8 years old too but i wasnt know what is sex back then XD
your priest are fucking boys!!!
Ex Christian and Muslim Alhamdulillah ❤
LA ILAHA IL ALLAH MUHAMMAD UR RASUL ALLAH
Would you consider yourself to be a good person - good enough to go to heaven?
Try the test: How many lies have you told, and what do you call someone who lies? Have you ever stolen something (even when you were small. Even from your parents. Even a sweet), and what do you call someone who steals? Have you ever taken God’s name in vain (very serious; in Old Testament times, the Jews wouldn’t even say the name of God for fear of blasphemy) - even ‘OMG’? Jesus said whoever looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery in his heart; have you ever looked with lust? One more: Ever disrespected your parents?
Well I’m not judging you - but if you’ve done these things then you’re a liar, thief, blasphemer, adulterer-at-heart and rebel, so you're not good enough to go to heaven; that’s how seriously God takes sin. He is Holy (perfectly good/righteous and separate from sin) which means that He is perfect in justice; that means that just like a just judge sentences criminals to pay for the wrong they caused, so does God sentence the payment of all sins. If a judge was in front of a guilty criminal and just said "I forgive you. Your crimes don't need to be paid for" that judge would be considered unjust. Justice means all wrong is punished - and if God were to judge you by the moral law (we’ve already looked at 5 commandments) would you be innocent or guilty? Heaven or Hell? The answer is hell - the wrath of God upon you for your sin. Is that concerning?
But fortunately, God’s will is not that you perish. He wants all men everywhere to be saved. But all sin must be paid for, because he us just. So do you know what He did for us guilty sinners? In self-giving mercy, He sent His Son Jesus Christ to take the punishment for our sins (and here is why - - ->). He lived the perfect life that we should have lived - tempted at all points and yet He NEVER sinned. Through His life, being in very nature God, He revealed God to men; but we in our hatred condemned Him to death. On that cross as Jesus suffered, He took on the sin of the world and was judged in our place; receiving God’s wrath. You and I broke God’s law, but Jesus paid the fine. God can justly forgive us.
On that cross He died, then He was buried, but 3 days later He was raised from the dead - conquering death and Hell and ushering in The Kingdom of God. He then ascended to the right hand of God the Father (where He came from) now Lord of the living and the dead. God has fixed a date when He will judge the world in righteousness. What you need to do is repent (In humility, acknowledge your sin before God and turn to a relationship with Him) and trust ALONE in Jesus Christ and His work on the cross; and God will grant you the gift of the Holy Spirit. Then be baptised. Jesus' perfect righteousness will be accredited to you and you can stand in a relationship with the God of the Universe, a Father. If you repent and believe the gospel.
ROMANS 10:9 - If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved
YAHSHUA 100%
Very noice.
at the time of this comment david wood leads RZIM by 7k subs at 419k vs 412K
1 Corinthians 14/8 to 11
Muslims say that you should pray to One God as One God. Christians say Jesus and the Holy spirit are considered god too on the basis of what is known to be the churches later additions. If you argue against this position it generally boils down to something like "well god COULD turn into a man if he wanted to (no matter how little evidence for this exists or how many contradictions it presents )". God could then turn into a chicken then as well or anything else- should I start worshiping idols as Hindus do- because they claim the exact same thing about their gods/idols. To most people Divine and mortal have different essences. God puts souls into us and gives us human life. No one that needs sleep and food and who fasts and prays and who is tempted by satan in the garden is God. The scriptures before Christianity that Christians DO believe in testify God is ONE God and you shall worship no gods besides him constantly as if it is very important for some reason to repeat this over and over again. The corrupted Scriptures that Christians DONT believe in have idols and people who are worshiped as god just like theirs like Hindu texts. The scriptures after Christianity (the Quran) says There is nothing worthy of worship except the One God Allah over and over again with great emphasis as well because it is crucial to understand the difference between your Creator Almighty and created things even if they are angels, great people or stars and planets.
If you pray to someone - they are your god. Christians say you can pray to Jesus, Mary, God, the Holy spirit and get down on their hands and knees before their images and sculptures . What is this other than idol worship? Why lie?
Muslim logic
*Jesus is the word of God, the first Begotten Son of God, He is Divine, but still created (Reveletion of John 3:14 Proverbs 8:30) by the Almighty Lord JEHOVAH. Everything else created by JESUS That is why Jesus said to him who saw me,He saw the Father. And the Holy Spirit is the active force of the Lord GOD.*
*Be wise* The Trinity is a false teaching. WAKE UP! i was a victim for almost 54 years. JEHOVAH is only true God and His Word is *JESUS CHRIST* i pray to open Your eyes in *JESUS* name` *AMEN!*
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No ... Thatz THE SOFTEST DAVID WOOD ACTUALLY.. ! HE IS TRYING TO BE SOFT MAN LOL
Aloto Awomi ???
This guy has so much hate about Islam
Evangelical strategy (ANY religious strategy) : fear and eternal punishment
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Have you ever considered the evidence for Jesus Christ
@@Xtremedarkjoy I was an agnostic for most of my life. When I was 17, I started searching for the truth regarding God and whether or not he existed. I researched the claims of Atheism, Christianity, and Islam as well as learning of a few others for about 6 months. By the end the conclusion was clear: Jesus Christ is the only truth. I only ask that as you read the remainder of this comment, please have an open mind and allow me to share with you a piece of evidence:
In my view the strongest piece of evidence is Jesus' resurrection.
Jesus' existence is a historically established fact. Even non-Christian scholars agree on this. We actually have 12 distinct extra-biblical sources from the time period of Christianity's earliest days to confirm this, both Roman and Jewish (one of which I’ll quote at the end of this reply). They were against Christianity, yet their sources give credence to the existence of its central figure. As such, the Christ-Myth theory is complete rubbish and no serious historical scholar takes it seriously. The historical consensus is that Jesus did indeed exist.
The proof of The Christian God hinges mainly on the resurrection. In order to prove this we need to establish a) Jesus was indeed dead and b) he was alive again later. One of the gospel writers was also one of Jesus' 12 apostles, John. He was present at the crucifixion. He describes the stabbing of Jesus lung as a sudden outflow of blood and then water - this is exactly how an uneducated laymen would describe the rupturing of the pericardial sac, giving credence that his death was authentic. The Romans too were very thorough in their executions, which is why they stabbed Jesus to make sure he was dead. Jesus could not have faked it. Non-Christian scholars agree that he indeed died on the cross. To quote a JEWISH scholar - Pinchas Lapide: ''Jesus' death by crucifixion is historically certain.'' The MUSLIM Scholar Reza Aslan said: “Islam doesn’t believe that Jesus was crucified. Jesus was most definitely crucified.” The ATHEIST scholar Gerd Ludemann: “Jesus’ death as a consequence of crucifixion is indisputable.” Another JEW, Paula Fredriksen says: “The single most solid fact about Jesus’ life is his death”. Even Bart Ehrman, arguably the most well-known ATHEIST critic of the scriptures says: “One of the most CERTAIN FACTS OF HISTORY is that Jesus was crucified on orders of the Roman prefect of Judea, Pontius Pilate.”
Historians agree that the tomb was indeed empty, for various reasons. The belief in Christ's resurrection is dated soon after his death. To quote James DG Dunn, speaking on the resurrection: "This tradition we can be entirely confident was formulated within months of Jesus' death." If the tomb wasn't empty then the Jews and Romans, noticing the fast spread of early Christianity, would have either removed the body and hung it at the city gates (in the case of the Romans) or encouraged the early Christians and the Jews around them to take a look at the body in the tomb. But this didn't happen, because the tomb did not have Jesus in it.
Secondly, Jesus' tomb was first discovered empty by women. Women were viewed very lowly in first-century Palestine (First-century Jewish scholar Josephus wrote that the testimony of a woman could not be trusted, the predominant attitude among the Palestinian men at the time under the false guise that they were naturally mentally inferior). Yet the gospels, and in particular the gospel of Luke (whom archaeologist Sir William Ramsay said: "should be placed along with the very greatest of historians'') attributes a woman as the first witnesses. If Christ's resurrection were false and the early Christians wanted the people of their day to believe he was risen, they would have attributed the initial witness of Christ's resurrection to a man. The reason they didn't is because they wanted to record as accurately as possible the events that occurred - the true resurrection of Jesus.
Historically, the Jews circulated the story that Jesus' disciples had stolen the body. This was not only addressed in the gospel of Matthew, but in the second century Justin Martyr recorded that it was still being circulated in his day! There would be no need had the tomb not been empty.
But the disciples could not possibly have stolen the body. Pontius Pilate sent out a detachment of Roman soldiers who took shifts day and night guarding the tomb, so as to prevent anyone from stealing the body. A Roman guard was a group consisting of 10 to 30 soldiers. They took shifts day and night, so there was never a time in the days before Jesus' resurrection that the tomb was never being watched - they would have seen the disciples approach. Even if they were asleep the stone, weighing about 3 or 4 thousand pounds would have needed to be pushed by multiple of Jesus' followers to have a chance of being moved; so they would have been seen, heard struggling and the heavy stone heard moving, arrested and killed. This did not happen. This leaves us with the fact that the disappearance of Jesus' body from the tomb could not have happened from an outside source coming in. It had to have happened on the inside, where only the dead Jesus lay. Hence, we can conclude he was resurrected.
Giving further credence to this is that 10 of the 11 remaining (after Judas' betrayal) disciples were executed because of their Christian faith, as attested confidently by historical sources. To quote Sean McDowell of Peter: ''The early, consistent and unanimous testimony is that Peter died as a martyr;" and of the martyrdom of the disciples as a whole: "It shows the depth of the apostles’ convictions. They were not liars. They truly believed Jesus rose from the grave and they were willing to give their lives for it." They needed only to deny their faith to be saved, but did not. Would you seriously die for something that you know wasn't true? These men died fully believing in their contact with the risen Christ.
Some have theorised that they merely had hallucinations, but this isn't true for 4 reasons:
1) The theory does not explain the empty tomb
2) Multiple people shared in group-visions of Jesus
3) They had group-conversations with the risen Christ
4) They touched Jesus and ate with him, which is impossible with a hallucination. The gospel of John speaks of Thomas physically touching Jesus' wounds to prove to himself he was real!
Another evidence was Paul's conversion. Luke (as said, a first-rate historian) records in the Book of Acts that Paul persecuted the early church before being converted after seeing and talking with the risen Jesus on the road to Damascus. This was also confirmed by Paul in his own letters, in which he also expresses his deep remorse at persecuting God's church, saying he doesn't even consider himself worthy as an apostle after the way he persecuted early Christians (see 1 Corinthians 15:9). He hated them, then he became arguably their most influential apostle. Historians report that he too was martyred for his faith. This would not have happened had he not encountered the risen Jesus.
In one of Paul's letters to the church in the early days of Christianity, First Corinthians (Chapter 15 for reference), he speaks of Christ's post-resurrection appearances to people (over 500 in total), even encouraging the Corinthian church, if they don't take his word for it, to speak to the people who saw the risen Jesus if they don't believe - that they may have mental assurance of his resurrection. If the resurrection was something he and the other apostles made up he would not encourage believers to speak to people who could discredit the apostle's claims.
And consider this, that the someone did not just sit down and write the bible. 4 independently written narrative sources (the gospels) and even more letters from different authors such as Paul and Peter, are consistent on this fact of Jesus' resurrection - with secular sources testifying of the earliest Christians' convictions of the resurrection as a fact - to the point they died for their beliefs.
If we take all of these together it becomes clear that Jesus rose from the dead, which would be impossible unless it was a miracle of God. Please consider this, and may The Lord show you the way my friend. Amen.
SOURCE: Reporting on Emperor Nero's decision to blame the Christians for the fire that had destroyed Rome in A.D. 64, the Roman historian Tacitus wrote:
“Nero fastened the guilt ... on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of ... Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome”
What can we learn from this ancient reference to Jesus and the early Christians? Notice, first, that Tacitus reports Christians derived their name from a historical person called Christus (from the Latin), or Christ. He is said to have "suffered the extreme penalty," obviously alluding to the Roman method of execution known as crucifixion. This is said to have occurred during the reign of Tiberius and by the sentence of Pontius Pilatus. This confirms much of what the Gospels tell us about the death of Jesus.
@@Xtremedarkjoy Are you and I good enough to meet God’s standard of righteousness required? Do we qualify for heaven? He shows us whether or not we do.
Would you consider yourself to be a good person?
How many lies have you told, and what do you call someone who lies? Have you ever stolen something, no matter how small, and what do you call someone who steals? Have you ever taken God's name in vain/blasphemed, even ‘OMG’? That’s taking the name of the God who gave you life and using it in the place of a cuss word - would you do that with your mother’s name? Have you ever dishonoured your parents? Jesus said whoever looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery in his heart. Have you ever looked with lust? Most people probably have broken all 5 of these commandments. I myself have. I’m not judging you but if you have done these things then you’re a lying, thieving, blasphemous, rebellious adulterer-at-heart by your own admission. That's only 5 of the 10 commandments. God is fully just so he must and will punish every and all sin (which is departure from/rebellion towards God and the conscience) when he judges us. He cannot simply cancel our debt and let us go, or else he would be unjust. If you went into the courtroom and said: ‘Yes Judge, I’ve done these things but I also give money to the Red Cross and volunteer at an old-age home. I try my best to love people’ the judge is not going to take that into consideration. You’ve broken the law; the good you’ve done won’t help at all on the day of judgement.
If he judges you by the moral law will you be innocent or guilty? Heaven or Hell? The answer is Hell. Doesn’t that concern you? But, fortunately, that is not God’s will. He is so loving and merciful, he made a way for you to be forgiven. The Son of God came down as a man, Jesus Christ, and lived a perfect, sinless life, so was the perfect sacrifice. He excruciatingly suffered and died on the cross to pay the FULL debt we owe because of sin; justice is fully done. You and I broke God's law and Jesus paid the fine in his life's blood, being resurrected again 3 days later. That’s why he said “It is finished” on the cross - in other words the debt has been paid. God has the payment ready to go for you. What you need to do is repent (recognising you are a sinner deserving God's punishment, turn to Him) and trust ALONE in Jesus for the forgiveness of your sins. Our works can do nothing as by the standard of God’s moral law we fail, but faith in him is enough to save us from all sin - past, present and future! Then though you have grievously offended God, he will forgive you and you will inherit eternal life being reborn in the Holy Spirit when you put your trust in the Lord and saviour. Too, you enter a covenant relationship with God - sonship, and truly I tell you your life will change in his presence. So repent and trust (i.e. Biblical faith), receive the free gift of grace.
He redeemed me. God, The King of The Universe, came down as a man. He lived the first 30 years of his life as a poor carpenter then spent the next 3 preaching, healing and saving souls - all the while being persecuted, insulted and hated by his own people - and took the punishment to save our lives. It’s the most amazing love that anyone ever displayed. Christianity’s not just a religion. It's a pure, sweet relationship with God. Because of Jesus, I am now a son of God. He is my dad, and you can be his child too. God loves you. Will you let him come?
@@Xtremedarkjoy Check out the evidnece I put forward.
Nothing matters more than God and eternity