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Can you prove that?

@@maxxam3590 not to other people. Can you prove we're not living in a matrix? :)

@@brianw.5230 You had to jump straight to hard solipsism when asked whether or not you can prove a claim? The fact that you were aked whether or not you can prove X, and your reply is to question whether or not we can prove anything or even if we can know whether reality is real shows that you already know how weak X is as a claim. No, I don't think we live in a simulation, but even if we do, it would be a consistently working simulation with rules that appply universally. And so, can you prove what you claimed before? Can you at least explain why you believe it to be the case?

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Josh Patterson You are correct that God wants genuine faith and love from us. But he seems open to an initial step taken out of self interest. Just look at the parable of the prodigal son. I answer your objection in my video linked below, Objection 3. Check it out. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d7Jko5Z7zNq4aYU.html

Pascal's wager is faulty because it's two choices aren't necessarily the only two choices. There are also other deities to consider or other non-deity related possibilities.

Skyfox I respond to that objection in my video linked above. Check it out. It is at the 21 minute mark. Let me know if you think I adequately answer it or not.

Silver Snacker you put things in quotation marks that I didn’t even say, which is bearing false witness against me. That is wrong. I never said there is a reasonable hope all men might be saved. I do believe in hell as eternal punishment (Matt 25:46). I said someone that didn’t commit to God would have a lower chance of eternal life because they may eventually become a Christian, perhaps at the end of their life, but every time they choose to turn away from God they close themselves off more to his work in them to bring them to repentance, making it less and less likely they will repent and be saved. I affirm the apostles creed, but I am not catholic myself. I am a Protestant. But as I said in video #3, I affirm mere Christianity, and I am happy to focus on our similarities, not our differences.

@Silver Snacker >very milktoast

He was, but he subscribed to Spinoza's god

"The more I study science the more I believe in God"-Albert Einstein

@@alpacamaster5992 * Spinoza's God (i.e., pantheism)... finish the quote.

"I view atheism in the same light (perhaps again my own bias); that the whole while they make arguments against God; they have a sense of fighting against reality itself." That is a dogmatic statement demonstrating colossal ignorance. Belief is not a choice. You cannot force yourself, after years of studying a subject, to believe something in spite of mountains of counter evidence. If you disagree, try it for a week. Try to earnestly believe something for a week that you know is not true. Choose a political viewpoint that utterly disgusts you and play devil's advocate for a week trying to convince yourself it is true.

@@TheRealShrike Already went through my atheist period and was schooled in science; never taught by religious; and yet this was my experience. Just a no-nonsense, common-sense view of reality, clear of the BS on both sides, still leaves me having a sense of belief than non-belief.

yea. the old guy is so good in presenting his arguments, so calm, so eloquent in his talk, if you are not familiar with those logical fallacies, you just might say he is sooo right. But as you said his talk is soo full of them that you need hour long video to explain and refute them all.