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Let's pretend: "In the beginning, God created Woman. And God blessed the woman and she was good. Then, God's spirit came over the woman and she became pregnant. And man was born from the womb of the woman and mankind entered the world made by God. Then, there was man and woman and they bred mankind onto the earth. And the place where woman gave birth to man was called Eden"

Once a person's IQ picks up that third digit, if it does, it's almost impossible for them to be a Christian.

If only these spirits would stop with the inability to say their name,leave the explaining the past in detail that's random and if the future is on their lipsss maybe share the lottery outcome or actual events .. maybe just stop scamming the living

I don't hate them BECAUSE OF CHRIST i DISLIKE THEM BECAUSE THEY DON'T GO BY HIS TEACHINGS

Me too until I realized they were CRAZY,they TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY TURNED ME AWAY FROM ANY CHRISTIANITY, I'm not atheist, but I'm NOT CHRISTIAN.🙄🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

The New Testament was not written for y'all. Those books were written to win people over to the new religion who lived within decades of when the Crucification allegedly took place. In other words the target audience was people who knew for a fact whether the guy existed.

I found this on Reddit or something like it: "there is no magical entity as god. the only one true god is to be one for all. Jesus was, if real, reported to be the closest thing to god. buddha too. " IMHO this means(and I took considerable time to think on it) The core of Christianity is to be kind and selfless in your pursuit for the enlightenment of all humanity. to be not selfish. all sins are rooted in selfish behaviors. if we all cooperated for the betterment of the future we would be living in a garden paradise, but we are all so focused on our own n̶e̶e̶d̶s̶ wants with our short sighted goals disparaging others. in short do the opposite of :greed, glutony, envy, pride, anger, sloth, lust. at the same time: do not: lie, steal, murder, covet(is envy). honor the past and improve. Take a break once a week to reflect, meditate, and even give 100% of yourself to your community. you should not put anyone else above you on a pedestal, no Idols. do not focus on a being of god other than the one because it will lead to deficits in other areas. if your sole focus is hunting this week or months, then your health or medicine might suffer. in this age of specialization we need the community more than ever, because there is a lack of it, we are all suffering. I would say if every christian were to give selflessly to their community 3 days a week we would be better off; which translates to 1/2 your waking time 6 days a week focused on others needs; with some of that time outside your family unit. My experience with Mormons, as well as their meme image, shows me it is possible for all Christians and that they are probably the closest to christ; or quakers/amish/memenites( because their community appears very selfless focused). also look into the words diety and society. they are one in the same. For Christ sake, take magic out of religion; its only there to cultify the masses for greed.

This seems like pretty good reasoning. Religion does a lot of good things for people, but it's no good basis for telling other people what to do. That has relevance for Separate of Church and State in America today.

What did Jesus tell his followers to pray for? Matthew 6:9,10“You must pray, then, this way: “‘Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified. 10 Let your Kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also on earth. The apostle Paul spoke of these one's at 2 Thesolians 2: 3,4 Let no one lead you astray in any way, because it will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness gets revealed, the son of destruction. 4 He stands in opposition and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits down in the temple of God, publicly showing himself to be a god.

All these people should be arrested

this is insane, did they ever think that maybe God wanted Biden in office instead of Trump 😭

No but the guy 4 Jesus stories back did

What about Tacitus, and Pliny the Younger? These are also Roman sources that say Jesus existed? I think the could have been a real man but not the God he is thought to be.

The fact that you joked of a man tortured and beaten to death as “into extreme bdsm” just shows where your heart is, believer or not. Just a sickened deconstructor of things.

FACT: there is no legitimate historical evidence for the existence of jesus. None.

I stopped 30 minutes in. I love to see respectful discussions but this was such a softball interview (ok so maybe that was Koolaid's style and intent). There was just too much mental gymnastics for me to take UP seriously. If the stories are mythical or used as vehicles to teach moral lessons, then how do you distinguish the truth from fiction? God is all powerful so literally none of his alleged actions in the Bible are beyond him. What lost me is when he started talking about how the gospel writers tried to connect the life of Jesus with events in the old testament. Do you not see the problems with that? You have possible mythical old testament stories (and stories you believe to be myths) but these myths form the basis of your faith which is grounded in the new testament and hinged on a new testament figure but the writers had to redcon back to the old testament? I mean come on... in the very least, you need to be agnostic or skeptical. You can't have such a nuanced view of rhe bible and still be a Christian.

I like how the disciples all had good Aramaic names like Paul, John, Mark ,etc. Names you still find in the Middle East today!! Seriously WTF.

But are laws of physics really constant? For example when (I forgot the name of scientist) proposed the atomic model with electrons spinning forever around nucleus without losing energy, that broke the physics laws at the time, or at least made people invent new field of physics with new concepts and corrections.

Praise the Lord for these healings ! Do not be a blasphemer...

Do not judge badly a miracle, lest it be true and you be a blasphemer.

ThybountyHunter, hello :)

Constantine did not make "Christianity the official religion" of Rome. He simply made Christianity "legal" and on the same level as all the other pagan religions. He was the first Roman emperor to promote religious tolerance! "Religious freedom" is a Christian ideal, so please stop spreading misinformation

History back then was told primarily by word of mouth more often than not. Shoot, the earliest documented mention of Alexander the Great was made 300 years after his death yet people find those documents reliable. Paul had a version of the Gospel 2 decades after Jesus rose from the dead Can nonbelievers let me know a couple of things: 1. Where did all these "fake names and cultures" throughout the Old and New Testament come from 2. Why would these people make these stories up?

2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, both the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The fact that someone actually responded to one of those comments in the beginning with “amen” just infuriates me.

I'd like to know when John 14:6 was first used to brow beat non-christians to adopt the religion. Because somehow I feel this was a later development.

I totally understand how you came to your conclusion. I too side with you. However, please know God himself told you there'll be those who will perverted his messages to humanity. Your distain against these currupt behaviors is understood, but I would caution you to not keep your eyes on them but on God. We all fall short bro, we need to forgive others short commings as God requires. He who is without sin should cast the first stone.

your question. ALLAH swt just forgives no innocene murder

Well, lets not forget much of Christianity being stolen from earlier religions

The percentage of the Bible that is true is the same as the percentage of Coyote/Roadrunner cartoons that is.

He DID exist, he just wasn't the son of god!

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What if that 19th century Chinese guy really was Jesus's brother?

The saddest part is that this is still happening, Benny Hinn and a plethora of others are doing the exact same despicable sham

Also calling the oral tradition a game of telephone is very misleading, young Jewish boys were required to memorize the scriptures

I think Paul himself is pretty good evidence, he was a Pharisee who persecuted followers of Jesus. He would have lived a rather comfortable life for the times had he just continued but he gave all that up to become a believer

1. Ancient Egypt’s capital during the time of the Exodus would’ve been Thebes, which is in Upper Egypt to the south. I can understand if Moses and Aaron traveled the Nile from Goshen to talk to him, but the Exodus account as written would’ve then taken at least three long journeys (since Moses and Aaron would’ve had to have gone back to Goshen to instruct the Israelites for Passover). That is, of course, unless the Pharaoh was currently holding court in another capital city at the time such as Memphis, but I’m not so sure. 2. The use of “Semitic” to describe slaves wouldn’t support the Exodus as written, BUT it would support a theory that the Exodus is allegorical for Egypt’s control over Canaan and enslavement of many Canaanite people. By the reign of Thutmose III, the Egyptians tightened their grip and inter-city and rebellious conflicts from the Amorites and Canaanites was minimized. The Habiru/Apiru (who seemed to mostly be Hurrian), who were rootless, would later cause a lot of political instability in the region (likely the origin of the conquest narrative). Even Joseph being given a priest’s daughter for a wife would hearken to Canaanites assimilating into Egyptian culture. 3. Regarding the Merneptah Stele, I would place its events more in the era of the Book of Judges when Israel is said to be forced to serve or oppressed by several different peoples throughout their time in Canaan. Merneptah was likely one of these if indeed Egypt ruled over them in Judges at any point and destroyed their seed. Theologians that try to compromise and say the Exodus took place in the Ramesses Period (the 13th and 12th centuries BCE) are already going against what the Bible says because it clearly says that the Exodus took place in the Thutmose Era (the 16th and 15th centuries BCE). 4. The problem with thinking oral traditions are reliable is problematic. Granted, many cultures do have a concept of professional orators whose job is to remember and pass things along, but depending on how much they’re trying to remember, there’s still the risk that the experts will get details wrong. On top of that, human nature hasn’t changed in four millennia: How do we know that those oral traditions from the beginning aren’t already propaganda? We can’t 100% take what Caesar and other Romans wrote about the druids, for instance, as fact because- like with anti-Semitic writings that portray Jews as worshipping an ass head- they could’ve been making stuff up to portray the Celts as more barbaric than they actually were. This was why writing became so important, especially for cultures like those that practiced the Vedic religions so that they could remember their religious texts. Let’s also not forget that war, famine and plague could also kill those who are remembering the correct or only existing details of a tradition as well, making written data all the more critical. One thing I will give credit for is David Stern (maker of the CJB) who points out that some Biblical traditions were originally recorded in cuneiform.

Why do you sound like q troon bro 😂

I remember when they used to say David doesn't exist. Then came the Tel Dan inscription. Whoops!

10:45 That’s the thing! There’s actually ministries and believers who are starting to see evidence in the Biblical text that Mount Sinai is actually not on the Sinai Peninsula, but rather it and the land of Midian were on the Arabian peninsula. As for the route of going around, that’s essentially what they did according to the text. By the time Deuteronomy needs, they’re near where the Kingdom of Moab was on the other side of the Jordan River.

I had to interrupt this video repeatedly so I could take notes. I am still a Christian, but I have to often explain to Biblical literalists how unreliable the Bible is. Then they want to call me a heretic and burn me at the steak in Mississippi and Alabama where I currently live. Luckily they have burn ban here, but I still need to dodge the stones they throw, and I live close to a rock quarry. Lord have mercy!!

There were no slaves in Egypt. Please someone proof me wrong!

christians when they learn that all monkeys are apes BUT not all apes are monkeys 😮

Fascinating video.

For me and probably rest of christians we choose Jesus Christ because of our relationship with him and his love that we can feel and experience many other things. Also there are prophecies in Bible that are hapenning right now or have alredy hapenned. And why the christianity is always the relligion that people mock?

You could chalk the sun standing still to a miracle, which science can’t be explained, but even then this seems like one miracle that couldn’t even happen AT ALL without destroying the world a second time.

In elementary school, they had a miniature globe of the Earth in the classrooms. But in the principal office, there was a map of the Earth on the wall. The answer was there all along! /s

i like to think most of the old testament stories like this one and the flood are mythologized versions of stories from previous cultures going back a looooong time. but ofc is changed and added to as time goes on until they get to an actual “traceable” lineage, then they add their longer lineage onto the previous books and so on and so forth until they combine yahweh with el and then baal and then finally kick out the mother leading to what we know today as the times of the “lost tribes of israel” ofc not so lost anymore we actually know a few groups that are ethnically traceable to semitic roots interestingly enough

If you need a god to tell you that murder is bad, then you lack empathy and decency, not religion. Why should we follow not our reason and empathy but instead the subjective opinion of an unproven god that kills all the time anyway?