Atheist lawyer Nico Tarquinio converts because of the evidence for Christianity 

Fantastic testimony, thank you. I can relate. I was a lukewarm churchgoer when I was introduced to a brilliant man, a Bible believing medical doctor who was an atheist before. He spent the last 20 years studying Scripture and guided me along a path which led me to the true Christ. God sends people on our path, through His grace and mercy.

Thank you so much for sharing this testimony. I cried at God's goodness as he told the story of his wife waking him at 4 am. I love listening to apologetics and hearing people debate but a testimony of how God has changed lives never fails to inspire, encourage, and compel me to praise His name. God bless and Merry Christmas!

Justin, thanks again for the opportunity to battle tech issues and talk about my journey! It’s an honor to be on Unbelievable? and to hopefully get people thinking, even if the thing they end up thinking is that people like myself are full of baloney! (That's totally valid, and there was a time in my life I would've thought the same way). This is an amazing show, and I'm so blessed to be part of this community, where skeptics and believers alike can learn from each other and deepen the never-ending debate about religion in today's society.

Retired Cold Case Homicide Detective, J. Warner Wallace, is an amazing "case maker" for the truth...the fact of...the life, death and genuine resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Wow! God bless you Nico and your family, and thank you for sharing your story.

Wow, Nico, I am from Boston too, and an Italian Catholic family! No great coincidence because there are lots of us, but I left Boston in 1986, to live first in California, and then in 1988 in Australia. Your description of sitting through mass so you could go home and have Nonna's meatballs really took me back! God bless you and keep you.😊

“So I was in an emotionally vulnerable time in my life so I began to seek confirmation of my budding spirituality. And lo, I found it. Amazing”

This is such an amazing testimony! God bless you and your family brother!

This channel blocks almost all rebuttals of religion. Comments are rigged, in other words. Don't waste your time on this channel.

The description of being an east coast American Catholic is bang on. I was raised the same way, and I'm from about 45 minutes' drive south of Boston. My mom tried, but i think that for American Catholics there is a generation who had the Roman church rammed down their throats and they rebelled against it. My dad was that way. It took me from college until my mid 40s to return to Christianity. That was after living for about 12 years as a Muslim.

Wow I love God’s favors, blessings, miracles, graces, mercy and most of all his Love. God bless and thank you for sharing your story. Never feel afraid to talk about God’s miracle and remember miracles are unbelievable events that only God can create. Glory to God.

Ive been following this channel now for about a year and love it! Thank you Justin. This story is amazing and had me emotional.God is amazing.Thank you for sharing

A person that spends all his time, everyday lying to make the law work in his favor for money, says he found Jesus............ ok

This was amazing. Thank you so much. God bless this man

WOWSERS! - that was an UNBELIEVABLE unrehearsed, raw, and holy spirit-bathed story that at times (MANY TIMES) I felt unworthy to be listening to such personal insight - thanks, Justin, keep 'em coming!!!

Thirty-seven minutes. Sorry. No evidence, and I'm out. Good luck with the "lawyering", though.

Inspiring,encouraging story. Thank you!

It's so strange but also so beautiful that most Christians have that complete conviction in such a variety of ways... Yet the end result is all the same... God is real and God is good, and it's impossible for you to deny it.

Merry Christmas to you two that's an incredible story. God bless you all

Thank you for sharing your testimony - an amazing process of transformation for you and your wife.

What a sad attempt at scamming people into religion. Thousands of babies are born every day in the world. Doesn't matter whether the parents believe an imaginary friend caused the pregnancy or not. Can't believe one has to even explain this to followers of this RU-vid page.

i got very dissappointed by this..Lovely person and an interesting story. I was hoping for good reasons ot even good evidence but was served the opposite. But seemed like an awesome person.

Read "Evidence that Demands a Verdict" by Josh McDowell, and Reason for the hope Within (brilliant book, multiple Christian philosophers), Scaling the Secular City, The Fingerprint of God, by Ross,, and books/debates by William Lane Craig, it is a wonderful intellectual journey, and it takes you to God!!! pretty much a win win, eternal life in heaven

I loved this video, and his story! Ah, we serve an amazing God✝️💙

Really powerful and great story. I can relate to alot of it and Literally hundreds of millions if not billions of christians throughout history have had similar supernatural experiences and prayers answered that can only be that God has heard them.

I like Kreeft too. And Warner Wallace, Lane Craig, and C.S. Lewis. 🙏

Tarquinio, here's a request for you to prayerfully consider including the emails, questions and answers you talked about with Kreeft, in a book. We'd love to be so influenced-it sounds like it was theological gold. Thank you for sharing some deeply personal points of your story. I'll come check out your channel. Thank you, both, for this talk.

Made it through to the end. I did not find anything in this story that was even slightly convincing. This is all about elevating the hits and downplaying the misses. Let's consider some examples: A) A terminally ill child is in a hospital and is prayed for and survives. God did it! B) A terminally ill child is in a hospital and is prayed for and dies. God had other plans. C) A terminally ill child is in a hospital and no one prays for the child. Does god do nothing because no one prays? Does he step in even though no one prayed? No matter what happens it's god's will - so they say. Beyond ridiculous.

Well let’s hope their next meeting Nico will recognize the heresies in the Catholic Church and will come to faith knowing Redemption and Salvation only in the works of Christ! The Catholic doctrine of purgatory, Mary, confession to a priest, the pope, etc.. these are all doctrines leading people to hell. This is a good story but when it only goes as far as saying I’m on God’s team or Good I will serve Him… then you do good things. That is all shallow! The next step is trusting ALONE in the works of Christ for the forgiveness of sin! Most Catholics I know when they start reading the Bible ultimately leave the Catholic Church and end up in a good Bible believing Christ serving church’

The discussion of how secular "America" is and was when the only point of reference is Boston is quite amusing. Grow up in rural Alabama next time and see how things go.

Fantastic discussion! Thank you

Private catholic kinder garden, private catholic college, cross above the bed.. I mean, if you are looking for an atheist convert, I can't think of a better background! 😂

Ah yes, the Archbishop Rowan Atkinson 😄

Wow. Not one piece of evidence presented. That was very disappointing. As a deconvert, I would love to have my faith restored. Clearly I came to the wrong place.

Nico has a near opposite journey as me. I think that's pretty neat in itself. I'd love to chat with him sometime!

Catholic isn’t Christian

No faith without evidence. As Jesus said, the truth will set you free.

This is a good example of why appeal to authority is fallacious. I was expecting that because Nico is a lawyer he would understand evidence and burden and standard of proof. Most evidence is circumstantial, however it has to meet certain standards. The claim is not the evidence. For example the claim that the disciples did not recant in the face of torture and death, is the claim. The person making the claim will have to show that the disciples were asked to recant of specific claims and refused to do so. Yes, some of the disciples died horrific deaths but there is little evidence to support the claim it’s because they refused to recant. We do not know the circumstances of many of the disciples death. As a lawyer Nico would also understand the limitations of hearsay evidence. Most of the stories in the bible are hearsay upon hearsay upon hearsay and would not be admissible in most courts anywhere in the world. Nico’s conversion had little to do with him being a lawyer assessing evidence.

I was very disappointed in this episode, because the title gave me expectations which were not met. I watched specifically because I wanted to know how Nico defined atheism and how he determined that label fit him. I wanted to know what justification he had for calling himself atheist. I wanted to know what caused his acceptance of Christianity. I wanted to know what evidence he had found that was convincing to him and how it managed to overcome the justification he previously had for atheism. I wanted to know what other options he considered. I found none of this in the video. While he claims he was atheist, he makes several comments about praying to God, going to Mass, looking for answers in Christian/Catholic culture and traditions, which is not something someone would do if they believed God did not exist. He may not have had an active belief in God (and that may be how he is defining "atheist"), but he certainly had tendencies to consider the existence of God. This is not how I usually define "atheist", but there are multiple commonly used definitions. On this point, he also says at one point that he found himself on the opposite side [of Christianity] and was "somewhat disrespectful". There is nothing about atheism that in any way dictates the level of respect or disrespect someone has toward Christianity. Disrespect comes from people who are disrespectful, not people who believe there are no gods. However, I have found this is a common theme in conversion stories, that someone characterizes their prior "atheist period" as disrespectful, rebellious, hateful, selfish, etc., even though most atheists do not display these qualities. It appears he had little religious education as a child. He was neither equipped with the tools to defend Christianity, nor atheism, nor any other position. He talks about rock and metal music influencing him. He talks about knowing no Christians and being surrounded by people who scoffed at the idea of God. When you are ill-equipped to evaluate claims about gods, you are open to indoctrination from any position. Unlike many people who are indoctrinated to believe Christianity, it appears he was indoctrinated to dismiss God by his peers and other environmental influences. This seems to have provided him with a rather shallow position of not being an active believer, but not equipped him to justify the position he found himself in. When he talks about the beginning of his transition to Christianity, he talks of seeking out Christian podcasts, but he doesn't explain why he sought those out specifically. Why did he not search for atheist podcasts, Hindu podcasts, Islamic podcasts? It seems he had a predisposition to thinking Christianity had answers and was true. This could indicate a latent Christianity seeded from early childhood indoctrination or cultural immersion. When he talks about the things he heard in these podcasts, he does not mention how he tried to verify the claims (if at all). He says things like "it made sense to me", which many ideas can if they are presented in isolation from competing ideas. He does not elaborate on how anything made sense or what alternatives (if any) he contrasted them to. He talks about evidence very little, but quotes Peter Kreeft talking about "circumstantial evidence". He is certainly correct in stating there is circumstantial evidence for God, even though there is no objective direct evidence for God. However, as a lawyer, he should know that circumstantial evidence is often wrong, often contradicts direct evidence, and needs to be evaluated against alternative explanations for the evidence in order to ensure the inference being made is the most likely. He doesn't expound on any of this, nor describe any specific circumstantial evidence which was key to his acceptance of Christianity. He specifically mentions the motives of the apostles, but seems to have simply accepted it as true that the apostles did and said what was claimed of them. The consensus of Biblical historians is that none of the authors of the Gospels were eye witnesses to the accounts they provided. All the information we have about the apostles comes from third party accounts, written many decades after the events they describe. He makes no attempt to explain what convinced him the accounts of the apostles were true, what research (if any) he did to confirm the claims. He doesn't seem to consider obvious alternatives (like how people can be motivated by beliefs which are genuine beliefs, but false ones). We know, for example how, in cases like Jonestown and the Waco Branch Davidians, that people can be motivated by strong belief to take extreme action without their beliefs necessarily being correct. It feels like he simply latched on to what he was told without any critical analysis. He also paraphrases Kreeft as saying "If Christianity can't answer any of your questions, then you shouldn't believe in it". I don't agree with this in a literal sense. I don't think any religion, philosophy, or ideology should have to have answers to everything you can question. However, where it claims to have answers, those answers should be consistent with reality, should provide meaningful explanations (which add understanding), and should have supporting evidence and/or reasoning. Again, he did not expound on the specific questions he had, how Christianity addressed those questions, or why he found the answers convincing. He mentions the "problem of evil" making more sense with God, yet he seems to miss the point of the problem. He says (and I'm paraphrasing here) that God wants human suffering in this life as part of his plan for a better afterlife. This would indeed explain why we have suffering, but the point it misses is it does not explain why an omnibenevolent god would want suffering or use suffering as a device in this life. Omnibenevolence means "all loving", which contradicts suffering. This is the essence of the problem of evil. The idea that the suffering is necessary for any speculative reason is undermined by the idea that the god is also supposedly all powerful and all knowledgeable. With these two qualities, there should be means the god can establish to achieve the same goals without the suffering. The final point I want to make is the talk of his wife having a dream about being a mother before waking up and testing for pregnancy. This appears to be an example of how we naturally take personal experiences as special. We are the heroes of our own stories, so when something like this happens to us we see significance where it often does not exist. If this experience is taken in a broader context, it is easier to see how it is not special. I know this because I too had difficulties with my first wife having children. I know how emotional a time it is. I know that it is the number one thing on your mind the entire time. You will dream about it, because that's what you're thinking of. In my case, we both dreamed of being parents and it never happened. This is not uncommon. I know many other people who have tried and succeeded and many who have tried any failed. Some Christian, some atheist, some other religions. The significance of the dream was high to Nico and his wife, but in the context of all the people who have such dreams and the variety of outcomes, the significance is low.

I PRAISE JESUS! Even as I’m struggling providing for my children. I will keep faith. I get harassed and called names simply for sharing my testimony and asking for prayers. But prayers are all I WANT. I fell on hard times because I was fired from my job as a social worker at Forsyth Hospital because I declined the vaccine. I was denied my medical/religious exemption. I declined because of my pre existing health condition lupus and heart disease. I wish I could go back to the hospital but unfortunately the mandate is still in place all hospitals workers must be vaccinated against covid 19 for hospitals that participate in Medicare and Medicaid. I’m waitressing AND I’m SO THANKFUL, but I’m not making nearly as much as I use too. My husband and my parents died years ago. I’m all alone, no family to lean on. As a single mother with two autistic children things are so overwhelming on me because my boys require a lot from me. Every month is a struggle to pay bills and to put food on the table. BUT our Heavenly Father gives me courage to not give up because I want to. I’m so discouraged but even as I face homelessness almost every month and even as I get put down and mocked because of my situation and choice. I will keep faith in God! Please pray for me and my boys. God bless. Merry Christmas.

18:00 minutes in and still not one piece of evidence.

Simply awesome.

Wonderful story - the slightest crack in our resistance to God’s Word and it will trickle through then gush until the dam finally breaks and we are swimming in His Love and Mercy!

And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power. 1 Corinthians 2

I also was raised Christian, became an atheist, and became a Christian again. I'm also a lawyer and also got married young. Fun to see so many similarities here haha. My testimony is on my channel.

Sixteen minutes in and still just testimony, a.k.a. NO EVIDENCE. I'll keep watching, though.

I need someone to help, my life was destroyed, my christmas is pain and suffering, my family wrecked my life, I am punished tortured and abused, I don't want to end my life so I beg God to help, but he says 'people should care' but even God can't get someone to help, so he gave me a gift that I show off to people

Emery is awesome saw them many times live. Very cool guys. Good job brother proud of you! Jesus is the only way

what a sweetheart! So glad Nico now in the family of Yeshua!

I am concerned. Great interview, and it seems this man is saved, but Catholics believe in a works salvation, which is not scriptural. Salvation is by grace through faith alone, not of works lest any man should boast. Ephesians 2:8-9

Praise God 💕

Any lawyer should know that an argument is not evidence. 22.5 minutes - still no evidence.

Thanks for an inspiring interview.

Makes me laugh the Christians who offer to pray for me, light a candke for me but would never offer me one 6 min ride to a supermarket or to n from church even in the winter to help reduce my severe arthritic pain. Hypocrites.

NO REAL Evidence presented. "Circumstantial Evidence" and ALL the Apologetic crap accepted as the Truth. Saved you 41 minutes. LOL

Just because you listened to atheist podcasts in the past you aren’t an atheist or an agnostic, maybe you are just in a limbo defining your position. Otherwise I’d have been previously a Christian ….

Snore! I only lasted a couple of minutes, listening to nonsense gossip. Boriiinnnggg! Completely unconvinced. Bye!

Acceptance of suffering doesnt relieve it or produce miracles. Im proof of that.

And he God commanded them to multiply but Sarah couldnt and Elizabeth couldnt. Mary didnt need a man. Lol

The number of people who believe on a coincidence is stupid. Akin to reading messages into horoscopes and dreams

Ecumenical.. that is a problem! Jesus said, Follow me!

Weve jordan peterson banging on about his wifes rosaries curing her cancer but ignoring all those who did same and died.

Really enjoyable stuff.

Where was the evidence of your god?

Obvious grifter. Wants to be another Lee Strobel / J Warner Wallace.

The only successful operation i ever had was the one i had as an atheist. Answer that!!

God Bless you for doing this show for people like me

I read all of C S Lewis. Was convincing for awhile.

Jesus appeared and gave him lots of money.

It is so sad that most people have lost the true meaning of "evidence" and "proof".

He didn’t look very deeply. The Bible has many contradictions, archeological and historical inaccuracies, and logical and scientific fallacies. These are not difficult to discover.

He mentioned rock, so . . . does he listen to skillet?

Not convinced by the Moral Argument less by Historical one and Desire One. The Kalam one is nearest but still lacks.

What was the evidence

A lovely man. So, he converted from atheism to Catholicism? We must now pray that he converts to Christianity. There is no mention of the gospel or salvation from sin - which is sad.

Hey Justin, could you do a series on the Eastern Orthodox faith since they are the 3rd largest denomination (after Catholicism and Protestants) in Christianity and maybe explain their beliefs and why they aren't correct on some aspects of the faith with relation to the Bible

I am encouraged.

Loved his testimony!

"Wouldn't have metal without the book of revelations." Is this satire?

Perhaps some one would like to help me out and provide the time stamp where the "evidence" for the truth of 1 Corinthians 15: 14 is presented. All I got was the fact he read a lot of apologetics but made very little effort to research with the same vigor the counter arguments. He just seemed desperate to find reasons to believe that Christianity is true, with very little concern as to the veracity of those reasons.

I definitely enjoyed this look into Nico Tarquinio's life story. Though, there are a few things said that was a bit confusing or simply incorrect. Maybe it was simply said in error. 22:39 When he talks about circumstantial evidence is actually the strongest and most common form of evidence you have." While I would agree it's the most common form of evidence you may have, it's absolutely not the strongest evidence. By definition, circumstantial evidence is indirect evidence. This is often used to try and push a case towards or against "beyond a reasonable doubt" in a courtroom. But in any case, direct evidence is still the best evidence in court. Also, very few people who've been investigating the claims of Christianity will say that there's "no" evidence for Jesus or the Bible. Nor have I really seen many atheists claim that there are no answers to a number of questions that might arise (as suggested around 26:25). For most of us, we find the answers largely unconvincing or rather poor evidence for many of the claims within. Also, that definition that the "new atheists" use is found within the Bible... Unless you're now saying that particular passage is somehow being misinterpreted? That's usually the response I hear, anyway. Faith is indeed an important part of most any religion. 32:30 Wishful thinking doesn't make more sense than reality. But it's understandable how someone gets there. No one 'wants' to suffer. By thinking what we will get something better after can help us through that suffering. But again, that's merely wishful thinking. It's a common way religious folks justify their faith, but in my opinion, it's not useful for determining if it's actually true or not. 36:54 I did chuckle a bit here. While the concept of what is or isn't indoctrination, teaching a system of beliefs is a fair bit different than teaching mathematics. All in all though, I don't want to belittle Nico at all. I appreciate people's personal stories. We're all shaped by our experiences. And everyone has their own story. I do enjoy hearing them even if it doesn't really do anything to change my own particular viewpoint on the subject of religion. I love listening to the Unbelievable podcast because it does an amazing job of getting Christians and non-Christians together for an interesting discussion and/or debate about various topics. I haven't been listening to the show as long as Nico, but I have been listening for a few years now. I will certainly continue to do so in the future! :)

Rowan Atkinson ha ha 😂

15:51...Archbishop 🎭"Rowan Atkinson"....🙄

And just what is your conception of the deity you refer to as the god? The very idea that one can prove the existence of your deity undermines the role of "faith" in the religious formulation.

This is terrible

Thankful for these kinds of videos to help us. Seeking prayer partners or prayer groups on whatsapp.

Looks like UK prince just with more hairs:).Wonderful testimony,thanks

Heartwarming 😊 as well as a fascinating glimpse of modern life intersecting with ancient faith through Millennial eyes. God is so amazing.

Have not listened all, but Sounds like this fits Pinecreek theory of being a Christian?

28:40 what's wrong with that? Sounds like a good church

A lawyer just said circumstantial evidence is the strongest form of evidence. Even the Gospel accounts would be considered hearsay at best. Now I understand why he likes WLC, because he can just lower his epistemic standard.

Isn't God so wonderful. Why would he listen to our prayers

I watch that red line that measures the progress of these messages and I get sad as it gets near the end! I don’t want it to end…

Im gona start a podcast called “Get to the damn point “

His wife had a night-time dream - she wakes up and performs a pregnancy test which happens to positive! Great I am really pleased. Did she not know beforehand that she might be pregnant? Had she not missed a period or had the periods been erratic? I suspect the dream was a projection from the deep psyche telling her that 'nature knows best'. Please forgive my scepticism with regard to these stories invoking 'divine assistance '. Dr Richard.

what a beautiful story ...tears...

"If it can't answer your questions, why would you believe it?" Maybe some questions we don't yet know the answers to. Religions you don't believe are true still have answers to life's biggest questions. Does having answers to questions really make it true?

The SDA church is the correct church.

Very interesting, thanks.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “Invite the people to Islam in the best manner and give the glad tidings and do not cause others to hate you. Make things easy and not difficult and be accomodating and don’t be quarrelsome.”💌💌💌💌