Benjamin Franklin existed, and invented electricity. Atheist argument: Benjamin Franklin never existed. Unless you show me Benjamin Franklin, I will never believe he existed. 🤦🏾♂️
Has anyone everthought that time is irrelevant to god? Man created the notion of time. We put a stamp and date because we age and die. God never dies. Why would he apply to the laws of man?
Hi @Mick Q, I'm getting the impression that belief to you means blind faith. It's not true that there is no evidence of any version of any particular god is real. One version of one particular god may be real. Check it out.
If you enjoyed 'I don't have enough faith to be an atheist', you might also enjoy these other titles from the same author: 'I don't have enough hair to be bald' I don't smoke enough to be a non-smoker' 'I don't have enough food to starve' 'I'm not gullible enough to have faith' and 'I'm too smart not to see the new clothes' Don't think about it, just keep buying the merch.
Look at the he faith required to arrive at your belief, but actually be honest. Don't start from presupposition and cling to statements of atheists, view, study, consider evidence. It's difficult when others already installed a block in your thinking. When you experience more life, marriage, children, and community, ask the questions of yourself again. Do it for yourself, not for other people or their opinion. Not for the experts who age, and later, you learn they have relented and accepted Christ.
@@Ozzyman200 it takes faith to disbelieve. Atheists have to compare themselves to God's moral standards to hold their heads up. Then, oddly, they want to show you their car or their plaques or certificates. It's like what the person thinks of them is all important, but intellectual honesty flies out their window.
To compare a brave soldier who put his life in jeopardy for his comrades to Jesus is crazy. Jesus didn't put his life on the line because he resurrected himself.
Actually, life on other planets WOULD effect the Christian worldview. Bible says ALL OF CREATION, that's the entire universe, suffered when man fell. Bible says Jesus died for the son's of Adam, other words Adam's off spring, the human race on EARTH. If like existed on another planet then who paid for their sin? Is Jesus planet hopping? Bible teaches God made man on THIS earth, nowhere else. I like Frank but he does have a couple cooky ideas.
The title is making the point that no matter what position you may hold, theist or atheist, there is faith required for any of them. He wants people to understand that being an atheist requires even more faith than is required for theism. That is the basic argument of his presentation.
J Ovesen absolutely I do. To believe that this earth is the result of random unguided processes with no design I think requires more faith than believing in God.
J Ovesen Yes I do believe that. I believe that all of the creation we see around us is the result of a designer and that designer is God. Frank agrees with this view as well.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning (time, how much time? Only God knows) God (energy) created the heavens (space) and the Earth (Matter)Evidence for an old Earth is quite strong - Where you do get billions of years is the time it takes for the light from stars to reach Earth - We know the speed of light and can calculate it. However either God created the light already reaching Earth (Remember God created an adult man not a baby) or it really did take billions of years - No one knows no-one was there only God.
Benita Almond That leaves us with the following options.. 1. The god created the earth 6000 years ago, and science is wrong about everything. 2. The god created the earth to look 4.5 billion years old, but 6000 years ago, and nothing would make any sense, as the dating of cave paintings and dinosaurs would be correct... 3. Genesis is not a historical account...
Hello. I was wondering why you still choose to be Christian even though there are contradictions in the Bible. There are so many of them, and yet it only takes one to disprove the entire Bible. I know many can be explained away, but others simply cannot. The biggest contradiction, in my opinion, deals with the very core of Christianity. God’s love. Some verses says that he loves everyone, earnestly wishing that everyone would be saved. Others however, says that he does not and the Bible goes so far as to say that he only loves the elect (which is the few) and that the vast majority of people he predestined to go to hell. Verses that prove God DOESN’T love everyone: John 15:16, Acts 15:17-18, Romans 9:11, 1 Thessalonians 1:4, Proverbs 16:9, Romans 9:15-23, Acts 13:48, Romans 9:21-23 Verses that prove God DOES love everyone: John 3:16, 2 Peter 3:9, 1 John 4:8, Romans 11:32, 1 John 2:2 And if somehow you have an answer, then my next question is, if God loves everyone (in any way, shape or form) then why did he create people he KNEW would end up in hell. Is he an evil god that loves to watch people burn? Thank you for taking the time to read my question.
Love frank but not quite sure how slightly changing the length of a day would fail to make is exist, our faux are already slightly out of balance which is why we have feb.29 every 4th year, seems like something is kinda funny there
Well, apparently Frank is unaware that it takes zero faith to be an atheist. Atheism is a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods, not a belief that you can have faith in. Atheism is usually based on the failure of theists to meet the burden of proof. Just like it takes zero faith to lack belief in the existence of Krishna or Thor, since there is no evidence for them, it takes zero faith to lack belief in the existence of Yahweh.
>"zero faith to be an atheist. Atheism is a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods" -- False; faith means trust as exhibited in the book of Job, which you did not read.
How do you know that? I am not asking if you believe it. Obviously you believe it is true or you would not have taken the time to comment, but why? What is the argument the reason behind your belief or is it merely an opinion based on nothing at all?
In fact I would agree with you; nothing cannot exist....My position would be that if nothing was possible we would still be in that state. Clearly we are here, the universe is here so it makes no sense to say at any point there was nothing. However we do know that the universe cannot be eternal. Science states that as a testable provable fact.... That's why and where we get the laws of thermal dynamics. They are not arrived at by faith or experiences they stand on solid scientific ground..... We also know by observation that the universe at one point did not exist. If you're having difficulty with that you're not alone it was a hotly contested view not very long ago but beliefs and opinions while they may feel very real and important to the person holding them are not grounds for holding a position. It is certain that at one time in the past the material universe came into being... One could argue expansion and contraction repeatedly, though again I would ask based on what? There is simply no reasonable argument to support that hypothesis, however even were it true at some point in the past you get to a beginning. There you find logically based on the science that nothing physical exists. So we have your original position that there is no such thing as nothing and science concluding if it’s honest about the observations, there was a material beginning. A thing according to the laws of thermal dynamics that cannot be explained by material means and what are you left with? That is one of the reasons people conclude God must be. There is also the fact that information always and only comes from mind, and it is information that formed the universe. That is apparent everywhere you look. There are the witnesses that gave their lives to be witnesses, some of them actually hostile toward the positions they eventfully gave their lives defending. Why? Sure we have martyrs today, radicals that hold a belief they are willing to kill and die for. Where did they come by this belief? Were they witnesses, or converts? That's why I asked you how why you made the statement you made...people can believe a thing quite powerfully but how they came to it is what matters. The witnesses were not acting based on something they had been taught but something they claimed to have seen...Was I there for the beginning of the universe ...no were you ...no. We are not witnesses but these men claimed to be. Why don't you believe them? Again is it merely an opinion? Yours or someone else's? There are the fulfilled prophecies recorded well before the events; even within your own life time or that of your parents, that we know were recorded thousands of years before or the discoveries in science that were again recorded thousands of years ahead of the knowledge being gained through science. One is that God stretched out the heavens, an expanding universe we only realized in the last century. There are many others noted. Now the quran in contrast some would say the holy quran states that the sun sets in a warm muddy pool of water..... That would be an example of what men come up with as an explanation left to their own devices... Mohammad directed that if a fly lands in your food you should dip it completely as one wing holds the disease and the other the cure....We also have great men of science such as Hawking who said where we have the law of gravity the universe can and will create itself. This as the quran was hailed as wondrous revelation by the masses... I wish I could have asked him where the law without the gravity came from and by what means a law could create or cause creation? Sam Harris also greatly celebrated claims something quite intricate having to do with the multiverse an unobserved untestable belief unexplained in terms of its being except that it will allow a material beginning as an explanation. So if you have nothing over here and you want something take something from over there...wait where did you get that stop interrupting......what does this prove? It proves Sam believes the material universe we experience came into being.....not that he has a clue how, but that he is convinced it did. There are also the experiences of millions around the world though sure many of those are suspect. Many are testified to by extremely intelligent highly respected persons...people who never gain a thing and often risk even their life, who in the end are to a degree making your very point....according to their experience this is the truth and you would certainly feel I think it was fair to ask them to examine that belief and defend it. Which if there is a cost I think they must have....even so all men live by the beliefs they hold. Is it reasonable to suggest based on opinion yours are the truth? I would say no....every man is bound by honor and reason to seek truth. Do you agree? there is no such thing as nothing how do you know that?
Actually most of the known universe could be represented as your understanding of "nothing" because only 4% of the universe is comprised of normal matter. Space itself is expanding at an accelerating rate, so not only is there nothing from nothing interacting with something but nothing is expanding as well! 😂
@@voiceoftruth2646 it's actually funny when people say "space and time are something!" Space and time are dimensions, they dont actually exist. For example I am 5' 11", 5' 11" describes the height of my body, 5' 11" does not actually exist, it just describes my body in the vertical dimension, dimensions are abstract not concrete.
Title doesn't make sense. No matter the claim if you have no proof other then your book and or faith then I don't believe you, there is no faith needed......and no a theistic gud would be a gud that believes in other guds that's it.
@@NThTwS no.....justice is only a nicer word for revenge. I believe in forgiveness or just letting things go. I dont condone violence of any sort other than fantasy because I love me some 40k. But justice..nah
@@lohkie2__3 then we need to close all courts and all juries that put people in jail, release them from their duties and the criminals to be released. Either this crime is violent or non violent such as thiefs.
@@lohkie2__3 And by the way my friend, revenge is when you take "justice" on your own hands without an authorisation of the law you abide in. So revenge is the product of justice, and not equal to it, because most of the times revenge is violent, justice can sometimes be done with love. Would you like an example?
Historical evidence for the Ressurection is what causes many to convert. I refer you to David Woods Testimony. A man who studied the Ressurection in an attempt to DISprove Christianity but instead was lead to the answer that Christ did indeed rise
@@Ksmskns I saw David Woods testimony and I don't understand why you refer me to a known sociopath that hit his own dad on the head with a hammer and left him for dead. How can a crazy person bring anyone to a sensible rational thought. In his pathology he could be fulfilling his need of grandeur just by standing up in the pulpit to lie and manipulate a crowd of people. I wouldn't trust a word he says. This is a guy that once thought he could control the weather.
Faith united with the testimony of many people over a span of 100 years. Any historical event requires some faith in believing the truth of it. I can either believe that George Washington was a real person or totally made up based upon the sources that are used to argue the proof of his existence. The resurrection is not just a myth, but it has been tested and verified by many intellectual people over the centuries and has been concluded to be a rational belief. The best claim against it is to find the remains or the body of Christ. The tomb was reported as empty by both the followers of Christ as well as His enemies. This is why they fought so hard to cover up the truth for so long and continued to threaten the Apostles. Despite those threats, the Apostles were forever changed after seeing the risen Christ and they were willing to face death to claim the truth of the event. Many people will die for what they feel is true, but not as many are willing to die for something that is a total fabrication. To have over 10 men, who ran away when Jesus was arrested, die for their faith without any recanting and to see Jesus' younger brother James, who began as a skeptic, come to faith after seeing the risen Christ shows very strong evidence of the proof for such a claim.
@@jaredsmeltzer9098 George Washington requires no faith to believe that he existed the evidence is pretty strong and he didn't do miracles he didn't change water into wine, cure leprosy the blind and he didn't walk on water so I don't need more evidence than what is available in documents signed by Washington and the history in the museum and archives. And all the people that write about Washington were contemporary to him unlike Jesus. So don't make it seem like Jesus and Washington have the same amount of evidence. Now if your Jesus had half of the evidence outside of the bible than I would bend the knee to him but he doesn't you need faith and I do nothing on faith and have utter hatred for faith because it is synonyms with gullibility
This has always been a silly apologist argument. Having faith to be an atheist? Being an atheist means lack of faith. Having faith to be an atheist is akin to describing not playing football as a sport.
>"Being an atheist means lack of faith." -- Nope; the Greek word for knowledge was gnosis, so an agnostic is one who does not believe. the Greek word for one who believes in God is theist (derived from the Greek theos or theoi meaning "god" or "gods"), so an atheist is one who doesn't believe in God.
Benjamin Franklin existed, and invented electricity.
Atheist argument: Benjamin Franklin never existed. Unless you show me Benjamin Franklin, I will never believe he existed. 🤦🏾♂️
So how does having too much faith lead away from God?
Where is part 2??
An effective message if it can get this many of the lost to watch and respond. Good job, Frank. And God Bless.
Has anyone everthought that time is irrelevant to god? Man created the notion of time. We put a stamp and date because we age and die. God never dies. Why would he apply to the laws of man?
HI Nick, time is irrelevant to God but He created time. He is eternal and we will live for eternity too, either with Him or without Him.
@@GustAdlph exactly.
Hello @Mick Q, maybe God planted the notion of gods in our heads to show us He exists.
Hi@Mick Q, you are correct, but thousands of gods can't be real , or they wouldn't be god.
Hi @Mick Q, I'm getting the impression that belief to you means blind faith. It's not true that there is no evidence of any version of any particular god is real. One version of one particular god may be real. Check it out.
Oh my Lord! Thank you Frank! And more importantly thanks you Christ and that soilder who gave his life.
If you enjoyed 'I don't have enough faith to be an atheist', you might also enjoy these other titles from the same author:
'I don't have enough hair to be bald'
I don't smoke enough to be a non-smoker'
'I don't have enough food to starve'
'I'm not gullible enough to have faith'
and 'I'm too smart not to see the new clothes'
Don't think about it, just keep buying the merch.
I appreciate it mr. Crocoduck, my sense of sanity has been partly restored.
@@ferb8944 Thanks man. He's counting on the unthinking to sell his books.
Look at the he faith required to arrive at your belief, but actually be honest.
Don't start from presupposition and cling to statements of atheists, view, study, consider evidence.
It's difficult when others already installed a block in your thinking. When you experience more life, marriage, children, and community, ask the questions of yourself again. Do it for yourself, not for other people or their opinion.
Not for the experts who age, and later, you learn they have relented and accepted Christ.
@@dannylinc6247 I am an atheist, I don't do faith. If you can honestly do all those things you describe, you will be one too. Good luck.
@@Ozzyman200 it takes faith to disbelieve.
Atheists have to compare themselves to God's moral standards to hold their heads up.
Then, oddly, they want to show you their car or their plaques or certificates.
It's like what the person thinks of them is all important, but intellectual honesty flies out their window.
Camera guy fall asleep?? I wanted to see the planets
And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Genesis:3:20 life on other planets? Nah
To compare a brave soldier who put his life in jeopardy for his comrades to Jesus is crazy. Jesus didn't put his life on the line because he resurrected himself.
I did at one time
Actually, life on other planets WOULD effect the Christian worldview. Bible says ALL OF CREATION, that's the entire universe, suffered when man fell. Bible says Jesus died for the son's of Adam, other words Adam's off spring, the human race on EARTH. If like existed on another planet then who paid for their sin? Is Jesus planet hopping? Bible teaches God made man on THIS earth, nowhere else. I like Frank but he does have a couple cooky ideas.
The bible is not a literally true book.
@@daniel1fullerton Opinions are like assholes.
I don’t get it... Does the title imply that Christians could have _more_ faith in their god, making this a “meta-critique” of themselves?
The title is making the point that no matter what position you may hold, theist or atheist, there is faith required for any of them. He wants people to understand that being an atheist requires even more faith than is required for theism. That is the basic argument of his presentation.
@@jaredsmeltzer9098
Aha.. Do you agree with that?
J Ovesen absolutely I do. To believe that this earth is the result of random unguided processes with no design I think requires more faith than believing in God.
@@jaredsmeltzer7900
Mmm.. Have you ever belived that, do you think Dr. Turek has?
J Ovesen Yes I do believe that. I believe that all of the creation we see around us is the result of a designer and that designer is God. Frank agrees with this view as well.
i would pray that frank would believe in a 6 day creation-instead of millions of years
@GBF freeloader its a good question to ask GOD why would his word matter. maybe your finding the answer would be better 4 u than my attempt
Does it really matter - Who is more important than when!
It doesn't matter if it is young or old. At end of the day God is above all
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning (time, how much time? Only God knows) God (energy) created the heavens (space) and the Earth (Matter)Evidence for an old Earth is quite strong - Where you do get billions of years is the time it takes for the light from stars to reach Earth - We know the speed of light and can calculate it. However either God created the light already reaching Earth (Remember God created an adult man not a baby) or it really did take billions of years - No one knows no-one was there only God.
Benita Almond
That leaves us with the following options..
1. The god created the earth 6000 years ago, and science is wrong about everything.
2. The god created the earth to look 4.5 billion years old, but 6000 years ago, and nothing would make any sense, as the dating of cave paintings and dinosaurs would be correct...
3. Genesis is not a historical account...
Hello. I was wondering why you still choose to be Christian even though there are contradictions in the Bible. There are so many of them, and yet it only takes one to disprove the entire Bible. I know many can be explained away, but others simply cannot. The biggest contradiction, in my opinion, deals with the very core of Christianity. God’s love. Some verses says that he loves everyone, earnestly wishing that everyone would be saved. Others however, says that he does not and the Bible goes so far as to say that he only loves the elect (which is the few) and that the vast majority of people he predestined to go to hell.
Verses that prove God DOESN’T love everyone:
John 15:16, Acts 15:17-18, Romans 9:11,
1 Thessalonians 1:4, Proverbs 16:9,
Romans 9:15-23, Acts 13:48, Romans 9:21-23
Verses that prove God DOES love everyone:
John 3:16, 2 Peter 3:9, 1 John 4:8,
Romans 11:32, 1 John 2:2
And if somehow you have an answer, then my next question is, if God loves everyone (in any way, shape or form) then why did he create people he KNEW would end up in hell. Is he an evil god that loves to watch people burn?
Thank you for taking the time to read my question.
Wrong, there is no contradiction in scripture. People give contradiction because they don't know the actual meaning. Sad reality
Jember Almojuela Ok, could you then please explain to me how exactly these verses do not contradict with one another?
The Word of God is Truth and Power.... you have to open your heart and you will find peace and eternal life
EN BUSCA DE RESPUESTAS I have opened my heart and found a different God. He is the one true God, not Yahweh.
@@jennifercarrico681 you r confusing me, you mean the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?
Love frank but not quite sure how slightly changing the length of a day would fail to make is exist, our faux are already slightly out of balance which is why we have feb.29 every 4th year, seems like something is kinda funny there
So much wisdom in title 🤔🤔
Well, apparently Frank is unaware that it takes zero faith to be an atheist. Atheism is a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods, not a belief that you can have faith in. Atheism is usually based on the failure of theists to meet the burden of proof. Just like it takes zero faith to lack belief in the existence of Krishna or Thor, since there is no evidence for them, it takes zero faith to lack belief in the existence of Yahweh.
>"zero faith to be an atheist. Atheism is a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods" -- False; faith means trust as exhibited in the book of Job, which you did not read.
space-time - there is no such thing as nothing
Yes there is. Space itself came into existence.
How do you know that? I am not asking if you believe it. Obviously you believe it is true or you would not have taken the time to comment, but why? What is the argument the reason behind your belief or is it merely an opinion based on nothing at all?
In fact I would agree with you; nothing cannot exist....My position would be that if nothing was possible we would still be in that state. Clearly we are here, the universe is here so it makes no sense to say at any point there was nothing. However we do know that the universe cannot be eternal. Science states that as a testable provable fact.... That's why and where we get the laws of thermal dynamics. They are not arrived at by faith or experiences they stand on solid scientific ground.....
We also know by observation that the universe at one point did not exist. If you're having difficulty with that you're not alone it was a hotly contested view not very long ago but beliefs and opinions while they may feel very real and important to the person holding them are not grounds for holding a position.
It is certain that at one time in the past the material universe came into being...
One could argue expansion and contraction repeatedly, though again I would ask based on what? There is simply no reasonable argument to support that hypothesis, however even were it true at some point in the past you get to a beginning. There you find logically based on the science that nothing physical exists.
So we have your original position that there is no such thing as nothing and science concluding if it’s honest about the observations, there was a material beginning. A thing according to the laws of thermal dynamics that cannot be explained by material means and what are you left with?
That is one of the reasons people conclude God must be. There is also the fact that information always and only comes from mind, and it is information that formed the universe. That is apparent everywhere you look.
There are the witnesses that gave their lives to be witnesses, some of them actually hostile toward the positions they eventfully gave their lives defending. Why? Sure we have martyrs today, radicals that hold a belief they are willing to kill and die for. Where did they come by this belief? Were they witnesses, or converts? That's why I asked you how why you made the statement you made...people can believe a thing quite powerfully but how they came to it is what matters. The witnesses were not acting based on something they had been taught but something they claimed to have seen...Was I there for the beginning of the universe ...no were you ...no. We are not witnesses but these men claimed to be. Why don't you believe them? Again is it merely an opinion? Yours or someone else's?
There are the fulfilled prophecies recorded well before the events; even within your own life time or that of your parents, that we know were recorded thousands of years before or the discoveries in science that were again recorded thousands of years ahead of the knowledge being gained through science. One is that God stretched out the heavens, an expanding universe we only realized in the last century. There are many others noted. Now the quran in contrast some would say the holy quran states that the sun sets in a warm muddy pool of water..... That would be an example of what men come up with as an explanation left to their own devices... Mohammad directed that if a fly lands in your food you should dip it completely as one wing holds the disease and the other the cure....We also have great men of science such as Hawking who said where we have the law of gravity the universe can and will create itself. This as the quran was hailed as wondrous revelation by the masses... I wish I could have asked him where the law without the gravity came from and by what means a law could create or cause creation? Sam Harris also greatly celebrated claims something quite intricate having to do with the multiverse an unobserved untestable belief unexplained in terms of its being except that it will allow a material beginning as an explanation. So if you have nothing over here and you want something take something from over there...wait where did you get that stop interrupting......what does this prove? It proves Sam believes the material universe we experience came into being.....not that he has a clue how, but that he is convinced it did.
There are also the experiences of millions around the world though sure many of those are suspect. Many are testified to by extremely intelligent highly respected persons...people who never gain a thing and often risk even their life, who in the end are to a degree making your very point....according to their experience this is the truth and you would certainly feel I think it was fair to ask them to examine that belief and defend it. Which if there is a cost I think they must have....even so all men live by the beliefs they hold. Is it reasonable to suggest based on opinion yours are the truth? I would say no....every man is bound by honor and reason to seek truth.
Do you agree?
there is no such thing as nothing
how do you know that?
Actually most of the known universe could be represented as your understanding of "nothing" because only 4% of the universe is comprised of normal matter. Space itself is expanding at an accelerating rate, so not only is there nothing from nothing interacting with something but nothing is expanding as well! 😂
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@@voiceoftruth2646 it's actually funny when people say "space and time are something!" Space and time are dimensions, they dont actually exist. For example I am 5' 11", 5' 11" describes the height of my body, 5' 11" does not actually exist, it just describes my body in the vertical dimension, dimensions are abstract not concrete.
Title doesn't make sense. No matter the claim if you have no proof other then your book and or faith then I don't believe you, there is no faith needed......and no a theistic gud would be a gud that believes in other guds that's it.
So you don't believe justice exists?
@@NThTwS no.....justice is only a nicer word for revenge. I believe in forgiveness or just letting things go. I dont condone violence of any sort other than fantasy because I love me some 40k. But justice..nah
@@lohkie2__3 then we need to close all courts and all juries that put people in jail, release them from their duties and the criminals to be released. Either this crime is violent or non violent such as thiefs.
@@lohkie2__3 And by the way my friend, revenge is when you take "justice" on your own hands without an authorisation of the law you abide in. So revenge is the product of justice, and not equal to it, because most of the times revenge is violent, justice can sometimes be done with love. Would you like an example?
But you have enough faith to believe a man can be dead for 3 days and wake up and fly to a heaven hmmmmm
Historical evidence for the Ressurection is what causes many to convert. I refer you to David Woods Testimony. A man who studied the Ressurection in an attempt to DISprove Christianity but instead was lead to the answer that Christ did indeed rise
@@Ksmskns I never heard that one before. Thanks mr shit
@@Ksmskns I saw David Woods testimony and I don't understand why you refer me to a known sociopath that hit his own dad on the head with a hammer and left him for dead. How can a crazy person bring anyone to a sensible rational thought. In his pathology he could be fulfilling his need of grandeur just by standing up in the pulpit to lie and manipulate a crowd of people. I wouldn't trust a word he says. This is a guy that once thought he could control the weather.
Faith united with the testimony of many people over a span of 100 years. Any historical event requires some faith in believing the truth of it. I can either believe that George Washington was a real person or totally made up based upon the sources that are used to argue the proof of his existence. The resurrection is not just a myth, but it has been tested and verified by many intellectual people over the centuries and has been concluded to be a rational belief. The best claim against it is to find the remains or the body of Christ. The tomb was reported as empty by both the followers of Christ as well as His enemies. This is why they fought so hard to cover up the truth for so long and continued to threaten the Apostles. Despite those threats, the Apostles were forever changed after seeing the risen Christ and they were willing to face death to claim the truth of the event. Many people will die for what they feel is true, but not as many are willing to die for something that is a total fabrication. To have over 10 men, who ran away when Jesus was arrested, die for their faith without any recanting and to see Jesus' younger brother James, who began as a skeptic, come to faith after seeing the risen Christ shows very strong evidence of the proof for such a claim.
@@jaredsmeltzer9098 George Washington requires no faith to believe that he existed the evidence is pretty strong and he didn't do miracles he didn't change water into wine, cure leprosy the blind and he didn't walk on water so I don't need more evidence than what is available in documents signed by Washington and the history in the museum and archives. And all the people that write about Washington were contemporary to him unlike Jesus. So don't make it seem like Jesus and Washington have the same amount of evidence. Now if your Jesus had half of the evidence outside of the bible than I would bend the knee to him but he doesn't you need faith and I do nothing on faith and have utter hatred for faith because it is synonyms with gullibility
This has always been a silly apologist argument. Having faith to be an atheist? Being an atheist means lack of faith. Having faith to be an atheist is akin to describing not playing football as a sport.
>"Being an atheist means lack of faith." -- Nope; the Greek word for knowledge was gnosis, so an agnostic is one who does not believe. the Greek word for one who believes in God is theist (derived from the Greek theos or theoi meaning "god" or "gods"), so an atheist is one who doesn't believe in God.