As an indigenous person I love love love this. Many proclaimed to be Christian and tormented my people… I hope to open some eyes in my lifetime that what happened was not Gods will. Thank you for your work!!
I found this video as a top result of searching "apologetics." Since this is a subject of the video and this is a "top" comment I'd like to summarize a lot of the evidence for Christ's resurrection here if it's okay. *CHRIST RESURRECTION SOUND SUPPORT* The following logic boils down to that the specific details of Christianity made it virtually impossible for it to spread, yet it overwhelmed the west rapidly. This evidence is largely drawn from JP Holding's work and that of sources he cites. What it works out to is that the whole of the Christianized West actually is overwhelming evidence that Christ had to rise from the dead. (Don't confuse this for "popular = true"; you have to follow the specifics of this logic:)
> The gospels report details that if true would be public and require that Jesus really did die, and 1 Corinthians, a letter from Paul that even informed skeptics admit is genuine and early, says 500+ witnesses saw him alive. The relevance of these will be more obvious after you read further down this list. For now the point is that if these documents are early, it would have been easy to debunk these claims, and everybody involved had strong motive to test them and debunk if false, yet if these claims are true, they logically require resurrection (all other attempted copouts for 2000 years since have been debunked). So, skeptics have retreated to insisting the gospels are actually late works. The details below show some of why that doesn't work. > Jesus in the gospels also predicted accurately the fall of the Jerusalem temple in 70 AD. This is another reason skeptics have to assume the gospels were late. > All early libraries put the same titles for the 4 gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John). With documents where the author was unknown (kept that way by the author intentionally or otherwise) typically each library would make up its own title. > Ancients were also good at spotting documents that would use false names. This had been a practice by some well before the NT so they knew what to watch out for to catch it. Especially simply that it would make no sense that these men (Matthew and John as original members of the 12 top disciples, Luke and Mark as major figures in the Acts time) could have written documents without anybody knowing it. Late sudden works "by them" would have been rejected immediately. And most people couldn't read and ancient societies were socially collectivist which basically meant they were constantly all talking to each other (even those who could read). Modern individualism and relative social isolationism didn't develop until more modern tech made survival much easier so people had much more leisure time. Especially post-Industrial Revolution, and even more so in the last 30 or so years. Usually a wisdom teacher would focus on teaching his top students (Jesus teaching the disciples) who would then go out and teach verbally in front of many crowds, refining it to the most memorable word choices, repeating it over and over. Then their top students would be the ones to later write the teachings down -- so the wisdom teacher had better be effective at teaching his students. Jesus adopted this role to be more effective for the culture at the time, and it also removes any room for a false version of events as the actual written gospels would have simply been the same content taught many times publicly before that, plus those students' eyewitness accounts of events surrounding the original teacher's ministry. Matthew, as a tax collector who would be well-educated and already work with paper records, also fits the pattern of an official scribe for a prophet like Baruch for Jeremiah so he may also have been writing live notes. These would later be compiled into his gospel, and all his teachings and accounts would be known by heart by all of his top students.
So a late gospel introducing major new details wouldn't have been added to the canon. The same process would continue reliably for several centuries. So there's no point in which a gospel not written by Matthew could ever become part of the Bible, whether it was titled as if it was or not (note that titles were tags attached to scrolls; they weren't part of the document itself except for letters (as with the epistles -- so this in combination with the above evidence like the universal titles in early libraries is why the gospels aren't anonymous as some claim). This practice of public teaching and memorization of common wordings is also why things like the Synoptic gospel similar word choices happen, and why skeptic accusations of problems based on that fail. That doesn't mean the authors just copied from each other; it's natural genuine authors would have had these common memorized wordings, right from the start (though they're also often paraphrased). > We also have tons of manuscript evidence for the whole NT. We can deduce what it said despite copyist errors with near 100% certainty since copies were sent out to so many geographical regions. An error in one area wouldn't be copied in the other, so by comparing the major copy families we can deduce what was in the original. Even skeptics admit that we know what the originals said, and we know which things in some later copies are errors. Also some charges of intentional changes have been leveled but we know what that looks like and it leaves a historical trail of evidence as it either requires a single individual who travels all over the place and somehow obtains tons of paper to replace all copies (not gonna happen) or requires help which makes the secret of it impossible to keep.
Such an editing campaign and destroying of undesired early versions was done for the Quran and left a historical trail. Today many modern Muslims have tried to make an apologetic argument based on supposed perfect preservation, so there's every motive to hide this record, but it still exists despite this. The same would have been true to a much greater extent had such an alteration campaign been done to the Bible, and likely it still would have failed as some manuscripts could get buried only to be rediscovered later. So in short neither accidental nor intentional changes could have happened that wouldn't be detected. The only "hope" for major changes would have been before the original copies went out, and only by the original authors themselves. (OT preservation is more complicated, though confirmed by the Dead Sea Scrolls and by the confirmation of the NT since Jesus affirmed the OT of his time.)
> The gospels and Acts get every obscure local detail right, unlikely that a late fraudulent author would guess right. Skeptics actually know about this and have tried to make accusations of inaccuracies along these lines (like the recent denying Nazareth existed, which failed) but have been debunked where currently testable.
I have a bachelor's degree in math, and that actually strengthened my belief in God. When you're dealing with a huge mess of equations that look like they are going nowhere, and all of a sudden order arises out of it, it's a beautiful and unexpected thing. Clear evidence of God in my opinion. And I'm not the only one. Kurt Godel, Bernhard Riemann, Isaac Newton, and John Lennox are all mathematicians that believed in God. John Lennox is still very active in apologetics. Most militant atheists rely on Christian ignorance of these facts to win apologetic arguments. But study a bit of science and you'd be surprised how much order and beauty lie within our broken world, and there's no way there isn't some kind of intent possessed by nature that's behind it all.
Brillant stated, my dad was a math teacher and I loved to see how the mess of equations worked out. At 9 years of age I gave my heart and life to Jesus listening to. Billy Graham crusade 60.years ago. I enjoy apologetics, but never place anything above the Creator, Savior and Ancient of days. Great dividends are paid in Solomon's admonition to worship the Creator in the day of yout youth...and fear the Lord and keep his commandments. Keep growing in The grace and knowlege of Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit is the wonderful counselor and teacher 💘
Actually, most atheists rely on the 99.9% of of the world's PHD accredited scientists for supplying the overwhelming weight of evidence for the lack of a god, not just the ignorance of Christians!
@@jobloggs8021 There was also overwhelming evidence for the lack of an aether as a medium for light to travel through, but that sure didn't keep most of the PHDs in the scientific community from believing in it for decades. It wasn't until the Michelson-Morley experiment that the scientific community renounced their belief in an aether. No scientists believe in aether now, because of the lack of evidence for it, but at one time they sure did.
@@theboombody. That is so funny. When did science ever claim it knows everything about everything? The scientific method is always in a perpetual state of motion. Always revisiting it's theories as more science gives us the tools to discover ever better theories. It's not unusual for old scientific theories to be rejected in favour of better ones. That's exactly what science is. (Can't believe I even have to explain this🤭) Have you ever noticed 100% of the time that it takes other scientist's using more science to debunk old and out of date science? Never Christians or other religious fanatics, just other scientist's 🤣 Next time you consider criticizing scientists for not knowing everything, what has religion ever discovered or invented? Mobile phones? Electricity? Radio waves? Automobile's? Has religion ever put a man in space? Did Michelson and Morley use more science to carry out their experiments? Or did they use the Bible to figure it all out ? 🤣 Challenge: Can you give me one single example of your God giving man any scientific knowledge whatever, that he didn't already know?
@@jobloggs8021 Look up "34 Great Scientists Famous Scientists" Here it lists off Boyle, Euler, Michael Faraday, James Maxwell, Arthur Compton (inventer of the photon), Reiman (gave Foundation to Einstens General Relativity), Issac Newton a protestant who spent more time on Bible study than math and physics, John Dalton and Carl Gauss among many more.
@justin10292000 there are no objective standards. People generally live by the social consequences of their actions. Murder doesn't help a society so it is generally seen as awful. God murders lots of people so he is a dick.
Christianity is a theology that sets the Christian up for failure. You are told by the church all are sinners, and it is impossible to be without sin. Our Messiah says: Joh 8:11 And she said, “No one, Master.” And יהושע said to her, “Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.” The church says, nobody is perfect, but our Messiah says: Mat 5:48 “Therefore, be perfect, as your Father in the heavens is perfect. The church says it is impossible to obey the commandments, and our Messiah says: Joh 14:15 “If you love Me, you shall guard My commands. One of the two is lying. It it our Messiah? OR the church. I believe Scripture to be the Word of our Father, and He can not lie: Tit 1:2 in expectation of everlasting life which Elohim, who does not lie, promised before times of old, The Christian theology is a lie and against Scripture. It contradicts what our Messiah Yahusha tells us. By changing the Scriptures, they took away the Father and Son’s Hebrew Sacred Names. It is not “Lord”, “God” nor “Jesus”. They make you rest on the day of the sun worshipper, Sunday and not the 7th day Sabbath of Scripture. It makes you obey pagan traditions like celebrating Christmas and Easter instead of the Scriptural feasts of Lev 23. Christianity is a hybrid religion mixed with the original faith of our Messiah Yahusha and paganism. The best lie is the lie closest to the truth. Wake up seeker of truth. Don’t be led away into the darkness of false teaching. Obey the commands, this is the only way you will receive authority to enter into the kingdom of our Heavenly Father Yahuah. Rev 22:14 “Blessed are those doing His commands, so that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of life, and to enter through the gates into the city.
Apologetics seems like arguing the gospel instead of sharing its simple truth and leaving the rest to God.. plenty of people witnessed the miracles Jesus performed and they still refuse to believe, I can't imagine our best arguments making the slightest difference to someone who doesn't accept truth
I get that but there’s so much noise/ misinformation about the Bible’s reliability that stops people from even picking up the book to read the gospel or sitting through a conversation long enough to hear the gospel.
@@johnzuma4688 well she was lying about slavery. i mean, they do it well, they make really plausible (to other theists that is) reason why god "isn;t really condoning slavery" but admit it, if you're lying to save the face of an imaginary sky pixie, that's not rational at all.
Regarding the question of slavery: I recently read through the Pentateuch again. Something that jumped out to me was the repeated statement from God to remember that they had been slaves in Egypt, implying that they should treat their slaves, acquired by the normal means of that time, humanely.
This video is so well-researched. I love that the answers are well thought out and that you provided references. I can only recommend the video for anyone who is struggling to provide explanations!
It's unnecessary, there's really only 1 question in the video that matters, did Jesus rise from the dead. But that isn't a question that needs to be explained to unbelievers that is a question that needs to be settled in the hearts of believers. Just because you explain something to someone doesn't mean that they will accept your explanation. What is useful for turning the minds and the hearts of unbelievers to Christ is the preaching of the gospel [Romans 1:16; 1 Corinthians 1:18], the word which God gives to those tuned to the Holy Spirit to speak to those who come to them seeking God [Matthew 10:19], and showing the power of God to people [Mark 16:20].
Ms. Childers... Why would a loving God allow His followers to preach in His name for centuries that my ancestors should be victimized and murdered because Exodus 21 says so? Aren't I living proof that God simply couldn't or wouldn't prevent Christianity from accepting slavery?
That sounds like the numbers argument. Not always that reliable, apparently, not that long ago, the majority believed the world was flat and then.........science. HTH.
Christianity is a theology that sets the Christian up for failure. You are told by the church all are sinners, and it is impossible to be without sin. Our Messiah says: Joh 8:11 And she said, “No one, Master.” And יהושע said to her, “Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.” The church says, nobody is perfect, but our Messiah says: Mat 5:48 “Therefore, be perfect, as your Father in the heavens is perfect. The church says it is impossible to obey the commandments, and our Messiah says: Joh 14:15 “If you love Me, you shall guard My commands. One of the two is lying. It it our Messiah? OR the church. I believe Scripture to be the Word of our Father, and He can not lie: Tit 1:2 in expectation of everlasting life which Elohim, who does not lie, promised before times of old, The Christian theology is a lie and against Scripture. It contradicts what our Messiah Yahusha tells us. By changing the Scriptures, they took away the Father and Son’s Hebrew Sacred Names. It is not “Lord”, “God” nor “Jesus”. They make you rest on the day of the sun worshipper, Sunday and not the 7th day Sabbath of Scripture. It makes you obey pagan traditions like celebrating Christmas and Easter instead of the Scriptural feasts of Lev 23. Christianity is a hybrid religion mixed with the original faith of our Messiah Yahusha and paganism. The best lie is the lie closest to the truth. Wake up seeker of truth. Don’t be led away into the darkness of false teaching. Obey the commands, this is the only way you will receive authority to enter into the kingdom of our Heavenly Father Yahuah. Rev 22:14 “Blessed are those doing His commands, so that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of life, and to enter through the gates into the city.
VERY well-done Video! Concise and you gave "for more info" for each question. Excellent. And along that line, I offer this: More and more people seem to be "DE-constructing". Why? Because they go to college and and dont have comebacks for Philosophy and Theology professors or they read an Atheist book and can't disprove it, so...they give up their faith.And so--- What NEEDS to happen, and ISN'T happening is this: Back in the 70s, Josh McDowell writes "Evidence that Demands a Verdict". Then, Jeffrey Jay Lowder writes a skeptical Critique of McDowell--but--- Nnooooobody (that I am aware of) has written ANYTHING to then immediately counter, or disprove, Lowder, or Dan Barker, or Sam Harris or Bart Ehrman. So...people think that Lowder or other skeptics "won", and more folks fall away. The Christians DON'T make a comeback-book to disprove the skeptic. They (almost only) try to make a new "positive" book, simply re-stating how its all true again. But they don't engage or disprove the skeptic. And more people decide they "just don't believe it anymore." WHO WILL WRITE "the Comeback" to Dan Barker's "Losing Faith in Faith"?? and-- WHO WILL WRITE the counter-arguments book to Robert M. Price's book: The Case Against The Case for Christ"? Who will show that Bart Ehrman is wrong? Christians need to counter those books and "convince the gainsayer". Fix that, if it can be done honestly.
Dappler: Yes, you make a good point. So far I have come across only one book refuting Bart ehrman,s Misqoating Jesus. "Misqoating truth" by Timothy Paul Jones.
@@vishaldive3777 Thank you for that! But its not just Ehrman. Who will write a comeback-rebuttal book to: Bertrand Russell Robert M. Price (especially those 2 , and their books mentioned above) but also: Dan Barker's "Losing Faith in Faith" Sean McDowell mentioned that he saw some things from The Secular Web that criticized his dad's writings -but- i haven't heard anything from him on RU-vid about what convinced him (Sean) that Christianity is true despite the criticisms. This would be good info for many to have! What un-did his doubts? As far as I can tell, he hasn't said and we dont know. The skeptics keep getting ignored. They need to be dealt with and confronted head-on and counter-argued point-by-point to disprove their books. Otherwise more people give up and lose their Faith. Can it be done?
I'm sorry to burst your collective bubbles but there are no "comeback" books bc our knowledge has increased so much in this area as well as all the answers r right at our fingertips which make any "COME BACKS" futile.
@@keswes266 the problem is-- even if the answers are "right at our finger-tips" as you say, skeptics counter them and then the Christian does not respond to the objection/s. They don't disprove the criticism, they ignore it. Then, the public thinks the skeptics have won . . . and more people leave churches. For example: Lee Strobel writes The Case for Christ. Then, Robert M. Price writes "the Case AGAINST the Case for Christ". But Strobel doesn't engage Price or write anything to refute him. What happens next is that the public hears about some "new" apologist (J. Warner Wallace? Frank Turek?) who writes another new book sayinghow its-all-true, all over again....but they don't disprove Price, or whoever the previous skeptic was. The public is still waiting for an answer to the previous skeptic, doesn't get one, and concludes the skeptics won the argument and they lose Faith and quit the church. Avoidance isn't an "answer". DISPROVE the skeptic. The Churches are dying. Using some different author to write a new book and simply re-state the beliefs isn't working. Still more people keep leaving.
4:27 Regarding the book God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? by John Lennox, it might be helpful to know that Lennox significantly revised and updated God's Undertaker and re-titled it Cosmic Chemistry: Do Science and God Mix?. Cosmic Chemistry is a much expanded book and even better than God's Undertaker (which I already loved). I'd highly recommend Cosmic Chemistry for an excellent introduction to the so-called science vs. religion debate. 😊
Christians need to realize that Christianity does not have to fear intelligent discussion or debate. If Christianity is true, then logical reasoning SHOULD result in its verification. God bless!
Here is one Biblical claim no Christian has tried to defend: According to most Christian sources, Joshua and the Hebrews entered and conquered Canaan any time from 1500 BCE to 1200 BCE (I'm being very generous with the timeline). Yet according to historians and archeologists for most of that period Canaan was part of Egypt. That means Joshua either did not conquer dozens of micronations as described in the Bible but took the land from Egypt from whom they had just escaped slavery or the Egyptians conquered the Promised Land AFTER the Israelites had settled in the land. Why does the Bible omit this VERY IMPORTANT bit of information? Or is it true that the Exodus never happened?
There is a book by Timothy P. Mahoney called Patterns of Evidence Exodus where he explains the timeline of the Exodus. He traveled around the world to find proof that the Exodus actually happened and he found tons of proof that it occurred. He also has a movie about it. As far as the Bible omitting certain things, you have to keep in mind that the Bible is an ancient document. People back then did not record history the way we do today.
@@saltandlight316 That does not answer my question. Did the Bible ignore a second time the Israelites were dominated by Egypt OR did the Bible provide factually inaccurate information and Joshua took land from the Egyptians, and not the dozens of kings listed in Joshua?
@@OrangeLibrary Are you sure? Did you look up Patterns of Evidence to make sure? (By the way there's a documentary movie series. I don't know about the book.) IIRC that's mentioned but either way your original comment here seems to be assuming the uncorrected timeline from the historians and archeaologists.
@@logicianbones If you know better than the sources I looked up (I'll have to get back to you with a list in the future), I suggest you either confront the sources that contradict the Book of Joshua directly, or point me to specific evidence that overrides conventional secular claims. I can look up that book referenced, but you will forgive me if I say it probably won't make me a Christian.
@@OrangeLibrary Forgiven. But to clarify: 1) I don't know better as this isn't a main subject of mine but my question was if you were assuming the uncorrected timeline. Or saying that the alleged "contradictions" remain even if PatOfEv's timeline is correct. The latter seems unlikely. 2) You should be looking at more foundational lines of sound support to test whether to be a Christian. This is more peripheral as it can never "debunk" the Bible (that would be Hittite fallacy). There are much more testable categories. I went over some in some of the other "top" comments here if you're interested.
"Have the NT docs been corrupted? Considering you don't have the originals, you have no idea. Many of the scholars who make the claim that the text is accurate are required to by the terms of their employment.
There is no getting away from the fact that Leviticus 25:39-46 mandates chattel slavery - the owning of people for life. If a destitute Israelites wishes to sell himself into indentured labout, he must be treated as a hired worker, and realeased in the year of jubilee. However, "foreigners" - and their children -can be enslaved as chattels (permanent property). One could even say that the whole point of these verses is to point out that to be a chattel slave is so grievous that no Israelite should be subject to chattel slavery. Only "foreigners" could be treated as property. This is similar to other legal codes prevalent in the Ancient Near East.
I'm learning so much from you I'm going to study apologetics Ive wanted to do it in my twenties I'm now 36 I'm taking consistent action this time asap x
Pro tip: Look at both sides of the arguments and look at science. Apologetics = garbage arguments completely made up to make people less insecure of their faith. They actually prove zlich.
If you have to lie to defend your religion then your religion isn't worth defending. If I was on the fence about doubting my faith then this is all the evidence I need. Thank you so much
@@itninvestigate basically the whole video. I left Christianity for largely the lies, judgemental hypocrisy and the holier than thou attitude. In this video let's start at the beginning about Apologetics. Lying by exclusion by not stating Apologetics is also used to try and reconcile contradictions, errors and mistakes in the bible
Christianity is a theology that sets the Christian up for failure. You are told by the church all are sinners, and it is impossible to be without sin. Our Messiah says: Joh 8:11 And she said, “No one, Master.” And יהושע said to her, “Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.” The church says, nobody is perfect, but our Messiah says: Mat 5:48 “Therefore, be perfect, as your Father in the heavens is perfect. The church says it is impossible to obey the commandments, and our Messiah says: Joh 14:15 “If you love Me, you shall guard My commands. One of the two is lying. It it our Messiah? OR the church. I believe Scripture to be the Word of our Father, and He can not lie: Tit 1:2 in expectation of everlasting life which Elohim, who does not lie, promised before times of old, The Christian theology is a lie and against Scripture. It contradicts what our Messiah Yahusha tells us. By changing the Scriptures, they took away the Father and Son’s Hebrew Sacred Names. It is not “Lord”, “God” nor “Jesus”. They make you rest on the day of the sun worshipper, Sunday and not the 7th day Sabbath of Scripture. It makes you obey pagan traditions like celebrating Christmas and Easter instead of the Scriptural feasts of Lev 23. Christianity is a hybrid religion mixed with the original faith of our Messiah Yahusha and paganism. The best lie is the lie closest to the truth. Wake up seeker of truth. Don’t be led away into the darkness of false teaching. Obey the commands, this is the only way you will receive authority to enter into the kingdom of our Heavenly Father Yahuah. Rev 22:14 “Blessed are those doing His commands, so that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of life, and to enter through the gates into the city.
Yet theres absolutely no evidence of jesus outside the bible that wasn't a forgery -_- Hey whats your excuse for why the god of the bible allowed slavery as one of his many 625+ laws in the old testament and never once condones it even in the new testament paul the founder of Christianity says that slaves should obey their masters especially the cruel ones? The bible says you must buy your slaves from the heathens that surround you that you can trick your fellow Yahweh believer into being your slave for LIFe by getting them in single and giving them a wife before the 50th year of jubilee is up. That you're allowed to BEAT THEM and break all their bones and the slave owner wont get in trouble if the slave survives for a day or two. What is wrong with Christians not reading their bible and or cherry picking the verses they like when the whole thing states every word is inspired by God himself... Yet he's unable to say don't own slaves, instead he says you can own people as property, beat them within an inch of their life and rape the slave women and that's moral... Christians reading this: I want you to look at your bible and the verses where god or jesus says slavery is wrong and anyone who owns a slave will not enter into the kingdom of god and i can bet you $10000 you wont be able to.
The answer to slavery in this video is ridiculous. Foreign slaves were legal to hold forever according to Leviticus 25:44-46 and passed down to children as an “inheritance” of “property”. Look it up.
@Lead by Jesus 14 Ok, what has Jesus revealed about the issue of buying and inheriting gentile slaves? And in which passage? Where is there any love, mercy or forgiveness in owning slaves and in treating them unequal?
The only thing that corrupts the text is leaving the original Greek and substituting it with modern day language that changes the meaning of the original Greek text. Youngs Literal Translation is helpful.
This video should be retitled to read: "Every Christian should learn how to sacrifice their humanity and rationality on the alter of Jesus/Yahweh, so they can answer these 5 apologetic questions". It is so sad to see what religion can do to an otherwise good person.
3. No. God's hard to prove. Disproving would be even harder. 4. Nope. Neither slave nor free. Free them all every seven years referred to indentured servitude. Be slaves to Christ is figurative. Make your thoughts slave to your goal & one man cannot serve two masters speaks to self-control. 5. Yes. There's a bunch of letters.
3. It is not hard to prove or present yourself. 4. Free is to be through. Not half way through. We are on earth, the largest womb. From earth through the Son is full way through. With LIFE (the Son) in the womb will be with LIFE out of the womb. 5. Whatever be the number of letters, get through, you can answer.
Through is, we are on earth, from father through mother to earth. But every human is from the Father in heaven. Will have to be through Jesus "to" the Holyspirit. It is hard to believe Jesus. Jhon the Baptist himself asked Jesus, are you the person to come or we'll have to wait for someone else? So we should have morden approach to tell people the gospel. Gospel is: we are sent & required as children. Become a child immediately because at any time we'll have to leave.
Taking for granted for the moment that you are in fact both reasonable and neurotypical, let me ask you this: Do you believe your emotions demonstrate the existence, validity or truth of reality, or are you rational and rely on facts instead?
Apologetics is trying to explain God to man, in other words you are doing the will of man. When there is only two ways to show Jesus existed. One is through our actions of the two commandments' Jesus left us with. Two is the changing of the heart by the Holy Spirit. Books are no more than theories (with the exception of the Bible) There is a big difference in a young Christian asking questions in wanting to learn, than a person saying prove it...! Apologetics is only confusing the Word of God to those who do not know it. I enjoy listening to Voddie and Frank. they are both wonderful speakers. And yet they, as we all do, make mistakes. It is like talking to a woman who say she is a Christian and yet does not know the meaning of what the Bible says about having her head covered...! Being a Christian is not something you do halfway, You do or do not...! Revelation 3:15 I set here today making my own mistakes, But I can no longer turn my head away from those who look but do not see..! May the Truth of Jesus be with us all... God Bless
'The Ballad of the Judas Tree' In Hell there grew a Judas Tree, Where Judas hanged and died; Because he could not bear to see His master crucified. Our Lord descended into Hell And found his Judas there, Forever hanging on the tree Grown from his own despair. So Jesus cut his Judas down And took him in his arms. "It was for this I came," he said, "And not to do you harm. My Father gave me twelve good men And all of them I kept, Though one betrayed and one denied Some fled and others slept. In three days' time I must return To make the others glad, But first I had to come to Hell And share the death you had. My tree will grow in place of yours, Its roots lie here as well: There is no final victory Without this soul from Hell." So when we all condemn him As of every traitor worst-- Remember that of all his men, Our Lord forgave him first.
It always saddens me, to see a seemingly good person, defending slavery in the bible. One of the many atrocities that only religion can achieve(not slavery, but defending immoral things that appear on the bible). And even if you say that slavery back then was different than slavery in the USA, the bible was definitely used to defend that slavery. I have no problem with people practicing any religion, but I do when this people try and defend slavery. Slavery is slavery, what you are doing is a fallacy of relative privation. The existence of a worse kind of slavery, does not make the slavery in the bible good. It is like saying that one murder is not wrong, because serial killers exist. Make this thought experiment, if Hebrews had "indenture servitude", even if it was "not as bad". But it was not condoned ion the bible... Would you be defending it? You all know that even if we grant the apologetic, that it wasn't that bad, it was still bad. Problem, is, even the apologetic is wrong and it was bad, real bad. I will prove it with the bible itself. What you define as indenture servitude only applies to the specific kind of slavery that was applied to Hebrews. The bible explicitly differentiates between how you should treat Hebrew slaves and gentile slaves. Gentile slaves were slaves for live, and the bible both allows you to buy and sell them and or they were taken captive from war. Leviticus 25:44-46 44 “‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. 45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. 46 You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly." See the specific, differentiation between Israelite slaves and gentile slaves, gentile slaves are property and are for life. God himself commands several times, to take sex slaves from conquest. Imagine seeing everyone you know and love die in front of you, and then you are taken captive to live the rest of your life as a sex slave.... Numbers 31 17:18 "17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, 18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man." God condones physical abuse of the slaves, as long as you do not kill them. Exodus 21:20-21 20 “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, 21 but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property. There are plenty of verses, condoning actual slavery, not indenture servitude. Indenture servitude was exclusive for Hebrews, for everyone else it was slavery. And sveral times it explicitly say that slaves are their property, I could quote more and more bible verses condoning slavery... but you cannot quote one single verse that abolishes slavery. Slavery in the bible, is only wrong if it is done to Israelites.
The Bible has literally laid the foundation for the most disgusting and inhumane racism throughout all of history. Now speciesism And ecocide. The Bible is such an obviously written by a territorial, aggressive, sexually possessive, tribalistic primate forgery. It reifies humanities most ugly tendencies
The levitius verse simply says you can buy foreign slaves. it says it right there, its volountary. Furthermore, it does not say to treat them poorly just because they are foreginers. Thats anti-thetical to the Mosaic law. Remember, the Israelites were once foreginers in Egypt and were enslaved for 400 years The numbers verse simply says that women were spared. These women would become wives, not sexual slaves. Any kind of sexual prostitution or debauchery is anti-thetical to the Mosaic law. Sexual relations are for within the confines of marriage The exodus verse simply says what would be the punishment in the event that someone beat their slaves, not a command to beat your slaves. Its like a jugde saying "In the event that someone slaps you, they will not be sent to jail. However, if they break a bone or something else, they will go to jail" The latter sentence is a reference to the following verse you ommited to cite Lastly, given your strong "slavery is immoral" stance, what should be the ideal punishment for someone who wanted to sell himself into slavery? Should he recieve the capital punishment? Should he be sent to prison for life? Should he be fined? If salvery is an absolute evil, then those who want to sell themselves as slaves into that system must be wicked and evil people right?
@@apracity7672 you can’t explain your way around the fact that it says you can beat a slave as hard as you want as long as they don’t die and recover in a day or two. Translation, whipping black slaves was condoned by biblical law. I do agree that the type of slavery the Bible was taking about was different in that they were released and subsidized by their owner after seven years. Seems like a pretty good deal during that time but people will never see it that way because slavery is simply wrong. Just like genocide is wrong, but the Bible condones it. The problem with the Bible is that there will always be another verse that contradicts any moral point you try to make. God did not make it easy on us to understand what he wants. Even Paul made the beautiful teaching of Jesus much much more complicated.
@@Moriningland beating a slave was for when he did something wrong. If the slave deserves a beating, he deserves a beating. Furthermore, the Bible does not condone genocide thats ridiculous. God killing the canaanites does not mean « Christian and Jews » no kill africans and go kill asians and take over the world
This video is a prime example of Christian apologists getting desperate with the seepage from the faith. The loudest noises are made by those who make a living from peddling religion of one sort or another...they have the most to lose. The rapid decline of Evangelicalism in the US ....has many parallels with an exploding supernova. Contracting under its own weight, to suddenly explode in a noisy big bang of hot gases
I've got one. If every generation of believers was taught they were living in the final dsys because of a prophesy made by Jesus, did Jesus make a false prophesy? Or are Christians taught to make false prophesies of their own? I always hear people say they see signs or that God shows them the truth but isn't history itself evidence that saying your living in the final generation a "prophesy for the purpose of directing human activities" and not an actual event. If so, isn't that basic fear mongering? If it's written that nobody shall know the final hour and that's the word of God then why is it also the source of so much blasphemy in his name?
@@aldosigmann419 If you read the bible cover to cover numerous times, then you already know that she's lying about what it says... so why thank her for that?
Is faith a reliable path to truth? If not, then of what use is faith, and how can it be claimed as a virtue? The concept of God is often set up to be unfalsifiable. The impossibility of disproving God does not suggest He exists, rather it suggests the very concept of God is poorly defined. As far as slavery, it is as simple as this: is it moral to own a human being as property? If your answer is anything but no, you are in immoral territory. There should be no qualifications, ifs, ands, or buts. These are the hard questions I'd like to hear answered. So far, any answers I've heard are quite unsatisfying.
First thing first, overwhelm is a word you used prominently in the beginning of your vdo. I would politely beg to gently differ but firmly as it is not in my Christianity to be overwhelm by non believers and whatever argument they may have against my Christian faith. Mainly that is because I believe in God who can do anything. My God is so big, so strong and so mighty There's nothing my God cannot do I like to apply that plus God is love in my everyday Christian life. I wonder if that might work for those who might be overwhelmed.
There is a lot to say here but the things that stuck out to me were the reasons to think jesus was resurrected and the part about slavery in the old testament. All of the reasons given are only proof that people belive that he resurrected, not that he actually resurrected. As for slavery, sure the slave could not be killed however they could be beaten within a inch of their life. Also be taken from your home as a servant because of war is still atrocious. Also female servants could be forced to marry their masters against their will. Just because old testament slavery is not the same as antebellum slavery, does not mean it was moral on anyway
I wish Christians would focus on the moral teachings of Jesus instead of trying to prove their faith to everybody in a futile manner with apologetic nonsense. IMO, that's one of the main reasons it is declining in the US. There's a reason why apologetic claims are not held to high standards in academia or science. They are complete speculation, and I don't understand why it's so hard to admit you use faith. The goal of apologetics is simple. Create more Christians, thus create more money. It's been that way for a while. Like I said, let your good deeds do the talking instead of flawed arguments and programming people to blindly defend it. Yeah, sorry what you said about the high level of accuracy is completely false. Bible scholar Bart Ehrman has been over it. There are so many discrepancies in the translations, it's impossible to know for sure what the original texts (or oral traditions) stated. We're talking thousands of of them. #2 is really stretching. There is evidence that Jesus was a person and had a cult following, but there is no actual evidence for any resurrection. That was clearly added in as fantasy after the fact because the disciples were extremely disappointed. They thought the kingdom of god was coming to Jerusalem, and then as soon as they got there Jesus was arrested and executed. Seems obvious that they deified him after the fact or possibly told story to others that were exaggerated during the 20+ years of orally passing down the stories before actually being written. That's another problem for bible accuracy because you can't have original copies of oral stories, or even a source. It's also IMPOSSIBLE to state whether the disciples actually believed what they claimed about seeing Jesus, there is no source within 20 years of the crucifixion itself. This is like blindly believing somebody who's been in a UFO cult their entire life saying that they witnessed alien abductions. You put faith in man. Also nobody knows that any of these people actually suffered and died for their beliefs, it's based on a story and nothing more, plus all religions have martyrs, so that doesn't hold weight at all, even if true. Paul's writings cannot be verified, and many are suspected forgeries. There are stories about people witnessing aliens, bigfoot, loch ness monster, fairies, etc. Plus people lie. He was trying to spread a religion. No requirement of the claims to be true for that to happen. James being a skeptic and doubter also cannot be verified outside of the bible stories. The empty tomb is a joke of an argument. Romans generally put their crucifixion victims in mass graves, not individual tombs. There is literally no evidence that Jesus was ever put in a tomb, let alone that tomb being found empty. You have to blindly believe old stories again for that one. No credible historian claims empty tomb is fact, it's a plot device in a story and nothing more. Sorry but those "minimal" facts are not good enough to say a man actually rose from the dead. Humans have been writing fiction and telling tall tales for thousands of years, no surprise they would do it here, especially considering they valued his TEACHINGS, so the origin stories didn't matter, they were just used to attract followers. When you say you have the keys to heaven, you will trick people into believing the fantasy, whether it's true or not. It's comforting and appealing. And of course, you recommend an apologist book. Like I said, it's all about the money. If not, this Jesus research would be readily available in academia and would be considered factual. It's not, though. The vast majority of historians do not consider the bible historical in any sense other than it referring to the few odd real events here and there. 3. I agree that science hasn't disproved god, hardly anybody actually argues this. While logic can rule out the idea of omnipotence + free will + love being compatible based on the bible, there isn't anyway to refute a god, because the concept is unfalsifiable, meaning there is no way to even test it or confirm it in the first place, so trying to disprove something hypothetical is incoherent. "God is not material" - 100% speculation. Nobody can actually demonstrate what God is made up or that even immaterial ANYTHING can exist without material sources. Until that can be demonstrated, it's not a good argument. There is no evidence that anything exists or can exist outside of the material realm, so you can't blame materialists for suggesting the only thing that exists is what we see and know exists, rather than some speculative immaterial realm that just happens to be there with a god in it. Frank Turek is a joke. He's a hate monger and not a credible source. Try again. No, the existence of Henry Ford is verifiable with evidence. God is not. False comparison. You can't prove unfalsifiable things wrong, it's incoherent because there is no starting point to investigate and prove it wrong. Logically, if something has no evidence, it is reasonable to not believe it.
Great video. Please include timestamps next time so that we can move back and forth between questions. Wanted to go back to some particular questions but they were hard to find.
@Alisa Childers. I disagree with your approach to answer Question No. 5 that requires extra biblical evidence to support the existence of Jesus. While this evidence does exist (and you have spoken about it), I think that as Christians we should emphasize the authority of the Bible over and above any other source of authority. We shouldn't let Tacitus be the judge over the Bible to prove its veracity, rather, in our apologetic we should put Tacitus subject to the word of God. If we don't stand on the Word of God as our foundation for our apologetic methodology as described in 1 Pet 3:15, I don't see us standing on anything worthwhile. Having said that, I really appreciate you putting out a video like this to encourage our Christian brothers and sisters to begin this journey.... Love from India.
Question: why did the Christian Councils decide to create and use the word "Trinity" rather than the biblical term "Godhead" to describe the nature / character of "God"? Just curious.
"The sheer existence of apologists is reason alone to raise suspicion. Their dishonesty is blatant when you simply double check what they say. In the end, historians and scientists are not just one big conspiracy against Jesus, the Bible is simply wrong about most things." -Joseph R. Hanson
No credible apologist will say history and science are anti Christian. Saying something like that is anti-intelectual and contradicting to Scripture because scripture itself tells us to use science and history to see how God exists.
@@itninvestigate. The holy bible chronicle's the lineage from Adam and Eve right up to Moses and we know when in history the Egyptians ruled. Just have to work your way back from there. Almost every single Christian apologist are young earth creationists and most Christians believe in a young earth too. Before you argue about what the Bible says with me.... Square it off with them first.
I don't like number 3. It is like saying that there is a planet with talking dogs in a galaxy 20 million light-years away and that science can't disprove that.
For openers James was a cousin not a brother. You obviously haven't read the Bible. For another the disciples died not for what they believed but what they had SEEN!
1. Yes 2. No 3. Stupid question. Can you disprove that flying pink unicorns exist? No? Yes? SEE! 4. Yes 5. Maybe. But if even yes, it doesn't matter because their is no proof that he was the son of god or godly or whatever.
In reality God exists only as a Spirit, He is not here, NOBODY is here. Actually God is either 1. allowed to make decisions or 2. knows the future. They are mutually exclusive, it's impossible that both are true at the same time. God in Person is in a different temporal dimension, He is able to make decisions, this means from his point of view the future is not set yet.
I was distributing Bible tracts in my native city while a minister from the Free Church of Scotland preached in the busy street. People were surprised to learn that we were Scottish Christians, not Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons. The motto of my city is *Lord, let Glasgow flourish through the preaching of Thy Word and the praising of Thy Name.*
is glasgow flourishing? cos there appears to be a lot of poverty, starvation, homelessness and general horrors going on despite your god, and your constant reminders you want his help.
@@HarryNicNicholas there also seems to be a lot of charities and people helping no? Or are we going to ignore that because we always focus on the bad instead of helping?
I grew up in a town where Scots were influential, here in South Africa 🇿🇦. Dr Andrew Murray and the Great Revival of 1860 happened in our church. Google 'NG Kerk Worcester' for photos
I am sharing this video today with a young man (13) who is torn between his mother's faith in Jesus and his father's agnostic cynicism. Thank you for doing this video.
But she's lying about pretty much everything she said there are more differences in our manuscripts of the new testament than there are words in the new restaurant. Stop learning about the Bible from people whose job it is to convince you it's real and actually learn about what it actually says
Direct this young man to Mike Winger’s RU-vid channel “Bible Thinker”. He has hours and hours and hours of videos that will probably answer just about any question or concern he might have. It’s an excellent resource and he’s a great teacher. He had been a youth pastor for many years, which is why I think his teaching style is very easy to follow.
@@darkeen42 Why are you trying to prove that something doesn’t exist if it doesn’t exist? How can you prove something doesn’t exist if there’s no proof to say whether it does or doesn’t exist? Why does it matter, who are we to you, how can you help us and why do you care to help us? What should we believe in? What is the truth and how can you be sure? what evidence do you have and who are you to be trusted? Why do you want to convince us, who are we to you and what great deed have you done for us if we all die and there’s nothing? Thanks for taking away all hope and purpose, you won’t be remembered and neither will we if there’s no God. Everything around us shows there’s a creator. How are all these people on a rock in the middle of nowhere in space not floating away and full of war and anger? You seem to know the truth, what is the truth? Is there such thing as absolute truth?
So...the Bible absolutely condones slavery. Both chattel slavery and debt slavery. Both of which are immoral, both of which are explicitly accepted and condoned by the Bible. I don't get why you claim it isn't.
It could be so simple: “owning other people is not cool”, instead you are given instructions on selecting the stick to beat the people that are your property with.
Proverbs 3:5-6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight"
@@HarryNicNicholas It's the other way around from having interviewed thousands of skeptics. Our worldview teaches "test everything" and so forth and we tend to be smarter, more logical, etc. than skeptics. Prov. 3:5-6 isn't saying don't think; read the rest of Proverbs! It's saying when a subject is beyond what finite brains can handle (or what you might need at a particular time), having the support of (and trust in) the all-knowing perfect God IS a logical route to knowing he has acted justly.
This is my favorite scripture. All of my life I have found that waiting on God in situations that are out of my control is never a waste of time. God never disappoints.
Lady, so you thought the video was great? Does the Bible support slavery? Let us see why Alisa Childers did not use the following Bible verses to support her claims, for the good christian lady would have contradicted herself if she did use these verses. But the Bible does not lie as humans sometimes do. Leviticus 25:44-46 44 “‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. 45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. 46 You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly. Exodus 21:20-21 20 “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, 21 but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property. Numbers 31:17-18 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. 18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. In verse 31:17, Moses instructs the soldiers to kill every male child and every woman who is not a virgin. They can keep the virgin women as sex slaves (Numbers 31:18). Assume nothing. Question all things. But most of all, learn to think critically.
@@mariobethell3731 > The video is INTRODUCTORY (pardon caps for emphasis that will survive in my .txt backups). Plenty of others HAVE already covered all of these passages. > Lev 25:44-46 You need to make an argument based on the passage, not just assume it means something bad. Because I can guess based on what I've seen past skeptics arguing but you might accuse me of strawmanning you.
Thank you for this, only became a Christian recently and have been plagued with so many apologetic questions both from myself and others around me. I have so many books too read. I'm thankful to God for opening a thirst for knowledge within me, and most importantly saving my soul from damnation.
Hello Sushi...Best counsel to a new believer is to make Bible reading and study primary! God's word equips believers in every way: All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works (2 Timothy 3:16-17). Your own Bible reading and study will equip you to test everything as believers are instructed in 1 Thessalonians 5:21, Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Generally speaking, too many believers read books about the Bible instead of reading the Bible. Being grounded in the scriptures is necessary in order to avoid being led astray by error that can be found in many popular books circulating in Christian circles today.
Yes studying the Bible. You will see that it promotes slavery, protects the stoning of adulterers and unruly children and presents a god that committed Mass genocide by drowning every single baby, unborn child and infant in a worldwide flood... You don't have to read but a few chapters to see how disgusting the book is. You want answers go directly to the book in question and read it yourself. Most people are intelligent enough to understand a simple book and don't need anyone else telling them bullshit about that book. You want answers, do the work my friend.
The Bible is the truth, but christianity is not. Before you get brainwashed, i suggest you seek the truth. Here is some idea why the christian faith is not the truth. Christianity is a theology that sets the Christian up for failure. You are told by the church all are sinners, and it is impossible to be without sin. Our Messiah says: Joh 8:11 And she said, “No one, Master.” And יהושע said to her, “Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.” The church says, nobody is perfect, but our Messiah says: Mat 5:48 “Therefore, be perfect, as your Father in the heavens is perfect. The church says it is impossible to obey the commandments, and our Messiah says: Joh 14:15 “If you love Me, you shall guard My commands. One of the two is lying. It it our Messiah? OR the church. I believe Scripture to be the Word of our Father, and He can not lie: Tit 1:2 in expectation of everlasting life which Elohim, who does not lie, promised before times of old, The Christian theology is a lie and against Scripture. It contradicts what our Messiah Yahusha tells us. By changing the Scriptures, they took away the Father and Son’s Hebrew Sacred Names. It is not “Lord”, “God” nor “Jesus”. They make you rest on the day of the sun worshipper, Sunday and not the 7th day Sabbath of Scripture. It makes you obey pagan traditions like celebrating Christmas and Easter instead of the Scriptural feasts of Lev 23. Christianity is a hybrid religion mixed with the original faith of our Messiah Yahusha and paganism. The best lie is the lie closest to the truth. Wake up seeker of truth. Don’t be led away into the darkness of false teaching. Obey the commands, this is the only way you will receive authority to enter into the kingdom of our Heavenly Father Yahuah. Rev 22:14 “Blessed are those doing His commands, so that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of life, and to enter through the gates into the city.
@@jacobtack2258 The best commentary on the Bible is the Bible. It is the study of the whole counsel of God (Acts 20:27-30, 2 Timothy 2:15) that equips believers to discern truth from error and to detect the wresting of the scriptures (of which Peter warned in 2 Peter 3:15-17) which can lead people astray. The scriptures bear consistent witness: The only hope of sinful men is to be reconciled to God through the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:19, 1 Timothy 2:3-6). Eternal life is freely offered to all (Romans 6:23, Isaiah 45:22) and is received by faith (Romans 5:1) based upon the work of Jesus Christ in his suffering and death for our sins, and his burial and resurrection, which were according to the scriptures (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). Apart from Christ, men perish (John 3:16). A person who has been saved by God’s grace has been quickened (i.e. made spiritually alive) (Ephesians 2:1-5). Such persons are called to many things which include to 1) walk in newness of life (Romans 6:4), 2) grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord (2 Peter 3:18), and 3) walk in the Spirit (thus not fulfilling the lust of the flesh) (Galatians 5:16-18). Scripture speaks of believers as made spiritually alive, but yet having flesh and thus a conflict (Romans 7). Believers are called to obedience, but the scripture both acknowledges our sins and cites the provision that has been made for them (1 John 1:9-10, 1 John 2:1-2). Believers have redemption in Christ: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins (Colossians 1:14). Believers have been counted righteous by their faith in Christ: But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness (Romans 4:5). Believers look to the day when they will live in a promised glorified state with Christ (1 Corinthians 15:35-58). In the meantime, they are to know and heed the word of God (John 17:17, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Matthew 28:19-20), while preaching the gospel of Christ to all: For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek (Romans 1:16).
@@sm8johnthreesixteen Hi Shirley, thank you for your reply. It sure took a lot of effort and I can see your passion for your belief. I hope we will be able to speak a few times, to clear some theological errors. I agree with some of your words, because it is the word of our Father. But disagree on much of your interpretation. I understand where you come from, I was a Christian for over 40 years. But then Yahuah called, and showed me His Way. But the problem is that the church have changed His Word and now are the savage wolfs leading Yahuah’s flock astray by their false theology and traditions. They teach falsehood, preaching the pagan names of Lord and Jesus instead of His Sacred Hebrew Name YHWH pronounced Yahuah. Act 20:29 “For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves shall come in among you, not sparing the flock. Act 20:30 “Also from among yourselves men shall arise, speaking distorted teachings, to draw away the taught ones after themselves. Yes the church teaches the traditions, but not the traditions the disciples learnt from our Messiah Yahusha, but the lies of the church, with Christmas, Easter, Lent, Ash Wednesday, Halloween etc. 2Th 2:15 So, then, brothers, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or by our letter. I do take issue with your grace teaching. And this is the very serious error of the Christian faith. Of course all these verses you quoted are correct. But you are looking through tainted glasses. Grace is not a license to sin. You use Yahuah’s word to ok sin. You refer to the teaching of Yahusha Messiah pointing to the fact that He came to take away our sins. That is correct, BUT even more importantly, it is not for us to remain in Sin. Freedom from sin is "the gift". But the Christian is taught they are all sinners. That too is correct. But they are sinners BECAUSE they follow the theology of the church. By calling the Father and Son by pagan names. You break the 1st three commands. Keeping the Sunday instead of the 7th day Sabbath, you break the 4th command. And because of these and more errors in the Christian theology you will always remain in sin. You say that eternal life is free to all, is a blatant lie and false teaching. Eternal life is free, BUT is also conditional. It is free for ONLY those who walk in His Torah/Law. And the condition is obedience. See what Yahusha said to the rich young man who enquired about eternal life. Mat 19:16 And see, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good shall I do to have everlasting life?” Mat 19:17 And He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except One - Elohim. But if you wish to enter into life, guard the commands.” Scripture warns us about teachers twisting the Word for their own agenda’s. Tickling the ears of those unstable min the faith. 2Pe 3:16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them concerning these matters, in which some are hard to understand, which those who are untaught and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do also the other Scriptures. 2Pe 3:17 You, then, beloved ones, being forewarned, watch, lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the delusion of the lawless, Key word in the above passage, is the last sentence. Being led away with the delusion of the lawless. You see we are required to be pure and clean. Just like Yahuah freed Yisrael from the bondage of slavery to Egypt, so are we to be free from the bondage of slavery to sin. When Yisrael was freed from Egypt, were they still slaves? NO! Today we are being set free from the bondage of slavery to sin and death. But you want to remain a sinner. Yahuah does not hear the sinner: Joh 9:31 “And we know that Elohim does not hear sinners. But if anyone fears Elohim and does His desire, He hears him. But He hears those who do His desire. And what is His desire? Joh 14:15 “If you love Me, you shall guard My commands. And this is the problem with the church and its followers. They do not keep the commandments. Your disobedience to His Word is an abomination to Him: Pro 28:9 He who turns away his ear from hearing the Torah, Even his prayer is an abomination. Yes our Messiah did come to save us, but saving means to be free from sin. Rom 6:1 What, then, shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, to let favour increase? Rom 6:2 Let it not be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Sin is what separates man from Yahuah: Isa 59:2 But your crookednesses have separated you from your Elohim. And your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing. What is sin? Sin is disobedience to the Law/Torah of Yahuah: 1Jn 3:4 Everyone doing sin also does lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. And this is how our Messiah Yahusha feels about the lawless one: Mat 7:23 “And then I shall declare to them, ‘I never knew you, depart from Me, you who work lawlessness!’ These are not words you want to hear! The following are very dangerous words to say. You said, quote “ Believers are called to obedience, but the scripture both acknowledges our sins and cites the provision that has been made for them (1 John 1:9-10, 1 John 2:1-2). Believers have redemption in Christ: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins (Colossians 1:14). Believers have been counted righteous by their faith in Christ:” The truth is that believers are called to obedience, BUT then very quickly you add “BUT” Scripture acknowledges our sin. That is utter lies, and false security. Yahuah does not accept sin! He says, those who are in sin, are of the devil: 1Jn 3:8 The one doing sin is of the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of Elohim was manifested: to destroy the works of the devil. Yahusha has come to DESTROY the works of the devil. And now we must live free from sin. Because we are born in Him. 1Jn 3:9 Everyone having been born of Elohim does not sin, because His seed stays in him, and he is powerless to sin, because he has been born of Elohim. Man can not receive the Set Apart Spirit of Yahuah being sinners or in disobedience! We receive His Spirit through our obedience: Act 5:32 “And we are His witnesses to these matters, and so also is the Set-apart Spirit whom Elohim has given to those who obey Him.” Yahusha will cause us to be saved by our obedience: Heb 5:9 And having been perfected, He became the Causer of everlasting deliverance to all those obeying Him, We are not counted righteous living in Sin. We are counted righteous, living with Yahusha in us WHICH EMPOWERS US TO OVERCOME SIN! He can not dwell in darkness, and Yahuah sent His Son to restore the relationship, so that He and His Son, through our love and obedience to Him, can receive both the Spirit of Yahuah and Yahusha: Joh 14:23 יהושע answered him, “If anyone loves Me, he shall guard My Word. And My Father shall love him, and We shall come to him and make Our stay with him. Salvation comes through our obedience to His Commandments, and that gives us the authority to enter into His Kingdom: Rev 22:14 “Blessed are those doing His commands, so that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of life, and to enter through the gates into the city. Man will not enter through the gates as sinners. Only Yisrael will be able to enter into His Kingdom. Who is Yisrael? It is a spiritual nation, living in obedience to the Father. Yisrael means to overcome with EL(Elohim). That is Yahusha in us. Engrafted into Him - Rom 11. No gates for the Christian: Rev 21:12 and having a great and high wall, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve messengers, and names written on them, which are those of the twelve tribes of the children of Yisra’ěl: The conclusion of the entire matter is: Ecc 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the entire matter: Fear Elohim and guard His commands, for this applies to all mankind! I will send a separate reply on the requirements to be saved. Shalom
Remember the woman at the well and what an impact she had. Just be yourself and communicate whatever God puts in your heart... you don't need a formula. That is not to say these tools are not helpful but don't forget to pray before & after witnessing.
I have ran into this issue too. What I have found to be most helpful to me, is reviewing the information over and over. Studying the topics, and revisiting it again a few months later. For example, re-read the book, re-watch the RU-vid video, and review my notes on scriptures every few months. Each time I revisit the information, I am able to remember more of it, and also understand it better. I hope this helps you too!
Yeah, Nick. Agreed. Ms. Williams, please forgive me if I'm presuming about your heritage, but I think God is using *us* far more than He is using this White-American. She is basically saying that God was perfectly happy to allow His European-American believers to... misinterpret(?) His Word for 400 years so that our ancestors could be murdered, violated, and abused into creating our lineage. She's literally saying that we should be OK with the fact that God just didn't get around to awaken enough White people from the 1600s to the 1840s so they can understand that the abolitionists were right and the church leaders were wrong about slavery being permitted. If there was a loving God, why did He allow me to be created from a dozen of generations of unnecessary misery and bloodshed?
Thank you Alisa, for covering so much ground in such a short time. Thanks also for the recommendations of literature that offers the opportunity to explore more deeply into each question. God bless you and keep you strong in every way.
Alisa, so much thanksgiving offered here. You are so well focused on Christian apologetics and are a great pillar in my recovery to a period of deconstructive period in my life. I salute you for your coherent and professional approach to these questions. An excellent thing to hear as a reminder that we all question and have need to consider the overwhelming research and documentation that continues to enlighten us in these troubling days of the 21st century.
1 Timothy 2:11-13 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. Please remember this is a platform on which you now wrongfully teaching men things of the spirit. If you have no comprehension or conviction of this scripture, I would pray on it and seek the Lord, I'm sure you have been admonished on it before, and have probably found your own platform on which to teach admonishment free, to ease your sinful feelings of breaking God's commandment. It is not too late to have a repentitive heart and also to redirect your teachings to younger, less spiritually mature women who need to hear this message to apologize to other women. Titus 2:3-5 3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Jesus' ministry is even easier on women, those list of standards is much shorter than the ones he holds men of the ministry to. Jesus just asks that you repent of your original sin of usurping the man and leading him into sin by no longer having leadership capabilities, but being humble and following the man while he follows God. He allows women to teach to disciple upon one another and even kept women disciples and followers. Jesus loves and blesses anyone who seeks to follow his father's will, and living in unrepentant sin is not his will.
Slavery is easy to argue against if you ignore all the parts about women being permanent slaves, and the process used to emotionally manipulative male slaves into "willingly" agreeing to being slaves for life by having their families remain hostages of their master, and that whole "get slaves from the countries around you" thing, and the whole "unless you in some way disfigure or beat them to death, you can beat your slaves without punishment" thing and that other thing which says you can pass slaves to your family members as inheritance, specifically saying they are your property. It's easy to adress incredibly amoral things if you just pretend they don't exist !
Thank you so much Alisa as Christians we are being attacked in so many ways it is great that you and other who are educating the flock as we are not all Scholars and Thank you to Pastors Priests and Teachers who are teaching us all God Bless us all
@@kiabvaj5656 I hate your actions. Hate the sin not the sinner. 1 John 3:15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. Luke 6:27-36 “But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either. Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back. And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them. ...
Every Christian needs to be able to give a reason for the hope that lies within them. In other words, every Christian needs to be able to give there testimony. There are Christians whose calling is Apologetics, but that is not every Christians calling. Even if I could win an argument with the skeptic, that does not mean they will now have faith. If they choose not to believe, no amount of Apologetics is going to get them to repent. But showing how Jesus changed me, they can't argue that.
" but showing how Jesus changed me, they can't argue that". Really? I became a better understanding and loving human being when I became an atheist after being a Christian 15 years. Yes, you can easily argue against it. I just did. You don't have to believe in a God to change your life for the betterment of you yourself and the betterment of our species and world...
@@kyleisaacson4852 I hate tonsay that you might not have been a Christian. A lot of people who call themselves a Christian are not following Jesus. I believe its an epidemic in the US. Im unsure about the rest if the world.
@@Diniecita so under your definition who is a Christian and who is not? I was a Lutheran that followed everything a Christian is supposed to follow to get to heaven. I once believed that Jesus was born died and raised from the dead to save me for my sins. That's Christianity 101. So who gets to be the arbiter that decides who's a Christian and who's not? You?
@@kyleisaacson4852 Why would chosing not to believe in God any longer cause you to become a "better understanding and loving person"? Being a Christian didnt teach you to hate or dispise anyone. You might be confusing Christians unwillingness to condon sin like abortion, permarital sex, gay marriage, etc etc (regular 10 commandments stuff) with not loving those who commit those so called sins. The truth is that Christiantiy does not teach you to hate anyone . In fact, your arguement that Christianity taught you to be a less understanding and loving human being is no different than what Christians teach against so called sinners. Both can be done with understanding and love.
@@outsideview9052 " I would choosing not to believe in God any longer cause you to become a "better understanding and loving" person?" Your question is worded only. I never chose to not believe in a God or gods. I simply stop listening to what I was being told and started critically thinking on what people were telling me. I looked at the "evidence" for what I believed in in the further that I dug the more I found out there's no good evidence or rather extraordinary evidence to believe these extraordinary claims. Now a better question would be " "why do you think you became a more caring and understanding person when you became an atheist" Well I stopped letting people tell me what I should and should not believe . I started reading the Bible for myself and discovered that it's kind of a disgusting book that should not be followed. It's very clearly condones slavery in the murdering of children. Let alone that it says homosexuality is an abomination and that homosexuals should be killed and as their fault that they get murdered. I started looking at people in a new light instead of looking at them through The eyes of one book. Why is homosexuality bad and why does my holy book say that I should kill them? Why does my holy book say that I can beat and own somebody because they're my property? Don't you get me started on the genocidal Maniac that is the biblical God.
😂😂😂 I don't have enough faith to be a atheist 🤷 atheism is like the complete opposite to faith, how can somebody who does not have faith need more faith to be atheist?
@@johnzuma4688 if I have no faith in the Bible, you know the book that inspired by God or is the actual word of God, then why would I need to read a book written and inspired by man? If God can't convince me himself 🤷
We are sent & required as children. Many have gone as devotees & many are ready to go as devotees. For want of children more & more are sent, the population increases. PMs & presidents of the nations should send their people as children because they got them so. Religions philosophies concepts make people as devotees. Devotees are not children, heirs.
It's funny how in the United States where there is so much knowledge generally about Christianity, it's so hard to talk to people because there is so much built in resistance. So many incorrect built in assumptions.
@@pfistor built-in resistance and incorrect assumptions in US because of so much incoming population with strange backgrounds including Islam. Beliefs too are inbuilt. Time is far spent, we have no time to entertain beliefs. Belief is no longer a belief if it is real or true. Beliefs beguile. No cheating without belief. So, human are sent & required as children. By religions philosophies & ideologies people are devotees. People are going as devotees. Devotees are not heirs. By Jesus the Son alone people can go as children.
@@pfistor in New Zealand there seems to be a wide spectrum of different Christian doctrines, but most adhere to the basic fundamentals. However, I am starting to see a number of Buddhist, pagan, and new age views saturating communities; where tolerance is preached above truth. Orthodox religion is almost viewed as a human right rather than as a belief, except of course when it comes to Christian street evangelism. My wife told me that a group of street evangelist friends were told by NZ Police that they would need to be aware of new hate speech legislation that is being formulated in our parliament... apparently implying what will be expected in the future. I don't think it will be long before the gospel will be seen as offensive when preached publicly on the street.
@@KermitNZ This calls for wisdom, and we are warned to be as wise as serpants and yet harmless as doves. The only problem being, many politicians may also find themselves in the same boat.
1) 1:42 and 2:05 and 2:20 - Textual Criticism: “Have the New Testament documents been corrupted? … The New Testament documents have more manuscripts and earlier manuscripts to support their accuracy than any work of ancient classical literature. In fact, most scholars agree that the New Testament has been copied with an unprecedented, high level of accuracy. There’s really just a very small percentage of variations between the manuscripts that affect the meaning of the texts. And among those, there isn’t one that calls into question any cardinal Christian doctrine.” 2) 3:00 and 3:20 - Resurrection: “Is there any evidence that the Resurrection of Jesus actually happened? 3) 4:26 - “Has science disproved God?” 4) 5:20 - “Does the Bible condone slavery?” 5) 7:25 - “Is there any evidence outside the Bible that Jesus actually existed?”
