Archaeological Evidence that the Bible is True

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  • @MilwaukeeAtheists
    @MilwaukeeAtheists 2 месяца назад +267

    Thank you for having me Aron

    • @uriituw
      @uriituw 2 месяца назад +9

      🤘

    • @harmonicamanrandy
      @harmonicamanrandy 2 месяца назад +10

      Good job

    • @theatheistpaladin
      @theatheistpaladin 2 месяца назад +17

      No, thank you for showing up.

    • @user-ki3je4oe6d
      @user-ki3je4oe6d 2 месяца назад +6

      Thank you for being had.

    • @courtneyriley185
      @courtneyriley185 2 месяца назад +6

      I know that red and black symbol anywhere!
      the real Mark of the Beast ! I fking love Milwaukee atheists! Im an proud A.S.S.hole! 😂

  • @Mark73
    @Mark73 2 месяца назад +11

    When the _Discovery Institute_ thinks you're a scammer, you're definitely a scammer.

  • @ernestoamador2481
    @ernestoamador2481 2 месяца назад +37

    A global flood would have destroyed not only the vegetation, but the fresh water fish ,unless Noah brought fish tanks into the ark.

    • @Akira625
      @Akira625 2 месяца назад +14

      It also would have turned the Earth into a permanent water world as there is nowhere for the excess water to drain to.

    • @CharlesPayet
      @CharlesPayet 2 месяца назад

      Also, if every inch of arable land on earth were salted, literally NOTHING EDIBLE FOR HUMANS could grow again.

    • @kellydalstok8900
      @kellydalstok8900 2 месяца назад +3

      @@Akira625 Didn’t god just pull the plug?

    • @SecularFelinist
      @SecularFelinist Месяц назад +8

      A global flood as described in the holey booble would have boiled away the oceans and melted the Earth's crust. The heat problem proves the flood never happened and could not have happened.

    • @qwadratix
      @qwadratix 14 дней назад

      Well, there you go. Another miracle!

  • @chiefreficul9774
    @chiefreficul9774 2 месяца назад +59

    archeological evidence for the bible was a large part of what further convinced me the book was fiction. 😂

  • @RegebroRepairs
    @RegebroRepairs 2 месяца назад +86

    Oh Lard, the list starts with "Noah's ark". 😂😂😂

    • @davidsmith-uw2ci
      @davidsmith-uw2ci 2 месяца назад +13

      Ikr if it starts with that you know it's going to be downhill after that

    • @EmilyKveldulv
      @EmilyKveldulv 2 месяца назад +9

      ​@@davidsmith-uw2ci yeah, they really started with the best one.
      Not that its good in quality, its just so fucking funny that they think its real...

    • @morgothfromangband6082
      @morgothfromangband6082 2 месяца назад +2

      Noah: "What for does god need a spaceshi... ähmm, ark..?"

    • @kellydalstok8900
      @kellydalstok8900 2 месяца назад

      @@morgothfromangband6082 Have you read Douglas Adam’s The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, part of the Hitchhiker’s series? The main characters end up on a spaceship, the Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B, a starship designed to relocate the (largely redundant) useless part of the population from the planet Golgafrincham. Maybe that was god’s plan for Noah’s family too.

    • @morgothfromangband6082
      @morgothfromangband6082 2 месяца назад +1

      @@kellydalstok8900 I have actually watched this scene on thursday with my dad. Did Noah also have a whirlpool in his office? 😆

  • @harmonicamanrandy
    @harmonicamanrandy 2 месяца назад +38

    Definition of Paul: ambitious conman.

    • @tabularasa0606
      @tabularasa0606 2 месяца назад +9

      C'mon Paul(ogia) is a nice guy.

    • @ricksimon9867
      @ricksimon9867 2 месяца назад +2

      Now you make the classic mistake of applying today's notions on the past. The concept of "conmen" is of course universal, but not this kind of long con.
      Paul believed what he wrote.
      He was no Joseph Smith or L. Ron Hubbard.
      Just delusional.
      _

    • @keypey8256
      @keypey8256 2 месяца назад +2

      ​@@ricksimon9867 well, it's impossible to verify at this point whether he believed it or not

  • @WBWhiting
    @WBWhiting 2 месяца назад +67

    A christian acquaintance told me about his personal experience of observing an 'Exorcism' and couldn't answer basic follow-up questions like 'how did you rule out seizures as the cause instead of demons?', 'how did you rule out that the 'witch-doctor' relative didn't poison or drug the suffering person?'.
    I cannot trust people I personally know and trust in other areas to honestly and competently relate 'supernatural' experiences, so how can I trust ancient strangers to honestly and competently describe their various contradictory 'supernatural' experiences?

    • @EdwardHowton
      @EdwardHowton 2 месяца назад

      "How did you rule out that the 'exorcee' wasn't just acting in a manner perfectly suited for getting attention and care from everybody instead of demons?"
      "How did you rule out that the victim of that abuse wasn't just acting in the exact manner expected of them by their fellow cultists, the exact same way simpletons fling themselves backwards every time a charlatan -faith- fake healer shoves them painfully in the forehead on a stage as part of a money-making scam show?"
      "If I hold an ice cube in my hand until it melts and then tell you that a demon melted the ice by demon-magic, are you dumb enough to believe that too?"

    • @davidsmith-uw2ci
      @davidsmith-uw2ci 2 месяца назад +10

      Exactly I tell ppl the same thing I wouldn't trust your word for it so why the hell would I do it for someone 2000+ yrs ago

    • @Peekaboo-Kitty
      @Peekaboo-Kitty Месяц назад

      In a real Demonic Possession, the person will speak in another voice or multiple voices, and speak an Ancient language, unknown to the person.

    • @WBWhiting
      @WBWhiting Месяц назад +1

      @@Peekaboo-Kitty Voice actors with any amount of talent can easily speak with different voices, I've only seen recordings of 'demon-possessed' people doing this one out of the signs you mentioned. I'm terrible at voice acting and even I can imitate this at least as well as the 'demon-possessed' person I saw recorded.
      Multiple voices coming out of one person's throat (like a one-person choir) would be interesting, are there any recordings of this occurring?
      People can learn or overhear or pickup fragments of other languages. Non t'incazzare ragazzo. Hey look, I evidently can fake speaking in languages I know nothing of.

    • @Peekaboo-Kitty
      @Peekaboo-Kitty Месяц назад

      @@WBWhiting
      Watch "The Fourth Kind." Real recordings of someone speaking Ancient Sumerian.

  • @gary_stavropoulos
    @gary_stavropoulos 2 месяца назад +14

    You can’t have a Loch Ness monster without a Loch Ness. Loch Ness is a real place. That is evidence for the Loch Ness monster.

    • @louseveryann2181
      @louseveryann2181 2 месяца назад +6

      There is a forest, therefor Obelix fell into a cauldron of power elixir made by the druid....................

  • @Angel-nl1hp
    @Angel-nl1hp 2 месяца назад +17

    New York exists, therefor Ghostbusters is a true story!
    This composition fallacy is so common with apologists. When I ask for evidence that Jesus performed miracles, I invariably get at least one "He was a historical character!" reply. As if a person existing automatically proves every single wild claim about that person.

    • @mathiasrryba
      @mathiasrryba 2 месяца назад +3

      Alexander the Great was a real guy. Therefore Zeus is real.

    • @tobias4411
      @tobias4411 2 месяца назад +2

      Or Spider-Man in New York...

    • @kellydalstok8900
      @kellydalstok8900 2 месяца назад

      Harry Potter and Kings Cross Station.

  • @Vadjong
    @Vadjong 2 месяца назад +127

    The bible IS true! I saw one myself when I was staying in a hotel in Rome. It was right there in a drawer! True story, I kid you not!

    • @gowdsake7103
      @gowdsake7103 2 месяца назад +11

      Good one !

    • @wyldink1
      @wyldink1 2 месяца назад +16

      ZOMG, I had the same experience! Independently verifiable evidence the Bible exists.
      There you go, folks.

    • @geraldmeehan8942
      @geraldmeehan8942 2 месяца назад +17

      Mine belonged to some guy named Gideon

    • @badnewsBH
      @badnewsBH 2 месяца назад

      @@geraldmeehan8942 He seems to get around a lot. Every hotel, I swear...

    • @kaudsiz
      @kaudsiz 2 месяца назад

      That was a Catholic Bible. According to Evangelicals, Catholics are not Christians

  • @tropicaussie4572
    @tropicaussie4572 2 месяца назад +67

    World War Two was a REAL historical event : Ergo - Captain America is REAL : 😂( the Religious believer's understanding of "evidence").

    • @mindcraftyD13
      @mindcraftyD13 2 месяца назад +18

      Tokyo is real; therefore Godzilla is real. Aron should have used that one seeing as he is a big Godzilla fan.

    • @davidkeller6156
      @davidkeller6156 2 месяца назад

      And World War One was real, hence Wonder Woman was real.

    • @eugeneoisten9409
      @eugeneoisten9409 2 месяца назад +7

      I can 1-up you both !!!
      Forrest Gump was actually a documentary on the life and times of Forrest Gump, complete with actual footage of him meeting President LB Johnson 😳
      Also, I do own a Bubba Gump Shrimp Company Hat form a real Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Restaurant !!!
      Checkmate atheist....................😂

    • @Nocturnalux
      @Nocturnalux 2 месяца назад

      @@mindcraftyD13And Godzilla destroys other Japanese cities, that are also real. Osaka immediately comes to mind.

    • @tranquilthoughts7233
      @tranquilthoughts7233 Месяц назад +1

      I always found that this argument is way more effectivly countered by:
      Muhamed was a historical person. Therefore he rode up into the sky on a flying horse with the face of a human.

  • @rynther
    @rynther 2 месяца назад +43

    It's all very weird, they take the time and trouble to learn to read, and then stop at one book, and gloss over a large bit of that.

    • @clukinvar
      @clukinvar 2 месяца назад +10

      They aren't reading it, they are just listening to the guy at the front of the church and parroting what he says.

    • @christophercuston
      @christophercuston 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@@clukinvarExactly!

    • @Duchess_Van_Hoof
      @Duchess_Van_Hoof 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@@clukinvar Exactly, the point of the priest is telling them what to believe, so that they don't have to figure it out themselves.

  • @DesGardius-me7gf
    @DesGardius-me7gf 2 месяца назад +85

    The claim that the Bible is supported by archaeological evidence requires a tone of disclaimers. Not only is it _a_ misleading argument from Christian apologists, but it’s _the most_ misleading of them.

    • @RegebroRepairs
      @RegebroRepairs 2 месяца назад +11

      (There are a few sentences in) The Bible (who each out of context) is supported by archeological evidence (, but even taken in context they are historically disproven).

    • @CelestialVenerableValinor
      @CelestialVenerableValinor 2 месяца назад

      It's not misleading, it's plainly a lie. Just cause we know of inaccuracies of history and archeology in the text. Various people in the Bible, either authors or characters believed in the literal Noah's flood, then bc they are wrong, it's incorrect to say the bible is supported by archeology.

    • @user-gl5dq2dg1j
      @user-gl5dq2dg1j 2 месяца назад +9

      There is better evidence that Homer proves Troy.

    • @kellydalstok8900
      @kellydalstok8900 2 месяца назад +4

      These people think that finding a name chiseled in a piece of stone means a whole story is true. The fact that Pilate and Herod were real people doesn’t make the Jesus yarn true, especially since they got the characters of both men wrong, reversed. Putting existing places and people in fiction is very common, it helps to make the stories feel more real.

    • @user-gl5dq2dg1j
      @user-gl5dq2dg1j 2 месяца назад

      @@kellydalstok8900 Are you going to tell me that Peter Parker isn't real and that Stan Lee lied to me all these years?

  • @ctwentysevenj6531
    @ctwentysevenj6531 2 месяца назад +28

    Archaeological evidence of fairytales?? Yes only in fairytale books.

  • @davidkeller6156
    @davidkeller6156 2 месяца назад +11

    I li’e the story about the news outlets adding things to the story and being biased. I can picture this guy Jesus running across some guy that badly cut his leg. Jesus stops to help, washes the wound, and bandages it. News story: Miracle man heals cripple. Life long cripple healed by touching Jesus robe.

  • @ftg3183
    @ftg3183 2 месяца назад +76

    Bro lost when when he said Noah's Ark

    • @philojudaeusofalexandria9556
      @philojudaeusofalexandria9556 2 месяца назад +4

      He lost when the music started.

    • @user-vm3dd4yd2l
      @user-vm3dd4yd2l 2 месяца назад +4

      I think his mom was lost when he was born

    • @harveywabbit9541
      @harveywabbit9541 2 месяца назад +4

      We now know where all the flood waters went. The Southern fish, Picis Austrinus, gulped it down. This same fish had a coin in its mouth (Formalhaut) but Jesus used it to pay taxes.

  • @MgtowRubicon
    @MgtowRubicon 2 месяца назад +26

    I debated many times with a Young Earth Creationist (a "Ken Ham" type). He claimed that if I could show only one flaw in the Bible, then he would discard all of it. I was able to refute all of his logical fallacies and he AGREED with me that he was relying on logical fallacies, flawed arguments, mostly circular reasoning, to support his belief in the 100% literal Bible, and God and Jesus. He then said that in matters concerning God, logical fallacies are valid for supporting belief in God and Jesus.
    When one doesn't value logic, then no logic will persuade. When one doesn't value independently verifiable empirical evidence, then no evidence will persuade. If *nothing in reality* with alter your belief, then your belief is based on *nothing in reality.*

    • @theflyingdutchguy9870
      @theflyingdutchguy9870 2 месяца назад +7

      its even crazier when you realise they must think they can either trick God into thinking they believe. or they act like they believe and use these fallacy's to convince others that they believe.

    • @tobias4411
      @tobias4411 2 месяца назад +6

      "You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe'".
      /Carl Sagan

    • @aymerick_
      @aymerick_ Месяц назад

      What ? He said that logical fallacies are valid for supporting belief in god and jesus ? That’s so confusing 🤣

    • @aymerick_
      @aymerick_ Месяц назад

      @@theflyingdutchguy9870 Exactly lol 😂. He can presumably read their mind but they think they can fool him 🤣.

  • @anthonycraig274
    @anthonycraig274 2 месяца назад +22

    Most people believe what they believe because someone told them, and they never really gave that information a second thought.

    • @mimszanadunstedt441
      @mimszanadunstedt441 2 месяца назад +4

      then they forgot someone told them, then think its intuition and true rather than a memory flaw, which is basically how most philosophers are these days

    • @MrsBridgette2012
      @MrsBridgette2012 2 месяца назад

      Oh I gave it a lot of thought, but I was warned, “ Beware questioning the word of God”.🔥😬🔥

  • @willy480able
    @willy480able 2 месяца назад +48

    "...some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth."

    • @AshElle81
      @AshElle81 2 месяца назад +8

      Lord of the Rings
      Rox!

    • @jonatanjakobsson5821
      @jonatanjakobsson5821 2 месяца назад +2

      Brilliant! 😂

    • @c.guydubois8270
      @c.guydubois8270 2 месяца назад +3

      And the mythical musings mesmerized the masses...
      Giggles ...

    • @AshElle81
      @AshElle81 2 месяца назад

      @@c.guydubois8270
      You must be a cop in your hometown.
      To such is the sardonic mocker of someone who is, against all odds, against this ever darkening world here to share light, love & compassion.
      I will give when it doesn’t make sense,
      I will uplift broken hearts in need.
      Whether it’s need of a friend or
      a hot meal and roof for the night.
      Also I will provide a way for those who reside i this shelter a respectable and lucrative way to spend the day.
      I will vehemently push aside those seeking to spread a scourge of witchcraft, malign or self serving intent, separation and hate.
      I can understand everyone’s frustration at this critical moment in time.
      I’m angry to.
      The world has repeatedly bludgeon and discarded me without one morning eye. Not the mother and father who raise me, not by the man who I gave of myself to but was met with shameless betrayal and humiliation.
      I have had LITERALLY nobody.
      He (The Most High) had revealed Himself to me in an undeniable way. Yet I did not embrace Him then.
      When the reality of my life came crashing down on me, no one cared or offered a shoulder to lean on much less a way out.
      Darkened hearts will say you probably caused them to shun you. However it is not the evolution of my heart that caused such a disparaging rift, it is the hardening of our needed earthly adapter.
      When our hearts are properly and lovingly developed it serves as an empathic adapter.
      Empathy & spiritually are directly and divinely connected.
      Off topic, I would like to address a comment that has stuck with me. It was mentioned that I claimed greater value than those around me. am no more special or desired in the Kingdom of Heaven than the one mocking me. He our loving Creator wants all of us with Him in eternal nirvana.
      This would be an excellent time to acknowledge we are a very young species with a grossly limited scope of understanding.
      To think we are the only or most intelligent species is absolute absurdity.
      Acknowledge we aren’t even scratching the surface of existence. Think of all the Star Trek, Star Wars…their warp drives and light speed travel.
      If all these things are possible somewhere in the multiverse why can’t an ancient planet elliptically orbit into our solar system once every however many thousands of years?
      Why can’t ancient beings ascend to a level of existence we cannot currently comprehend. Throw that mystery into the vast millions of other questions we cannot currently answer.
      My Refuge, my Safeguard against this soul stealing world is going to bless me so immensely that I have to have places for it to go. He told me as long as I am using it to help those in need the incoming flow will never cease.
      So I ask you, friend, just wait a bit and you will feel completely different about nearly everything.
      Let not your doubt hinder your growth.
      Wait and see
      (if you can’t muster a seed of faith)

    • @monsterinhead214
      @monsterinhead214 2 месяца назад +3

      nine rings were given to men, who, above all else, desire power.

  • @charlestownsend9280
    @charlestownsend9280 2 месяца назад +18

    I've yet to see any archaeological evidence for the bible that alsp wouldn't prove that the iliad is real. Cause all they seem to have as evidence is this place or historical person who was mentioned was mentioned, therefore the supernatural stiff alsp happened.

  • @Matrix_Mechanic
    @Matrix_Mechanic 2 месяца назад +57

    I wish people could stop lying in order to support what they want and just be honest.

    • @britaom3299
      @britaom3299 2 месяца назад +14

      All that matters is that eternal jackpot Christians think they're WINNING by believing all their biblical BS. It's all greed and selfishness at the end of the day and they will do whatever it takes to defend their selfish egos.

    • @Julian0101
      @Julian0101 2 месяца назад +6

      @@Toxicpoolofreekingmascul-lj4yd Nice example of christan projection. That also happens when they cant just be honest.

    • @spidermonkey7280
      @spidermonkey7280 2 месяца назад

      @@Toxicpoolofreekingmascul-lj4ydso then what are you?

    • @0Anubi0
      @0Anubi0 2 месяца назад +5

      @@Toxicpoolofreekingmascul-lj4yd Where did Aron or 'this guy' lie? Even if your name already tells me you're a troll (a bad one), so I don't think you'll be able to say anything of value.

    • @mimszanadunstedt441
      @mimszanadunstedt441 2 месяца назад +3

      They cant because they are dissociating to prevent thinking they might go to hell for being a blasphemer, so they have to think its good enough. Any % chance = it is true, to them.

  • @johnh.1057
    @johnh.1057 2 месяца назад +12

    As kent hovind once said : "that's not evidence! That's just of bunch of paper"

    • @Satori_kun
      @Satori_kun 2 месяца назад +3

      "A bunch of lines drawn on paper, that's not evidence". Kinda ironic that this applies to the bible itself too

    • @johnh.1057
      @johnh.1057 Месяц назад

      Yeah hahah

  • @jakewhite8625
    @jakewhite8625 2 месяца назад +29

    Give it a couple of hundred years and the legends of Chuck Norris may have a religious following.

    • @timtheskeptic1147
      @timtheskeptic1147 2 месяца назад +2

      While valiant though thwarted in his fight against Bruce Lee (whom none could vanquish) he was triumphant and righteous in Invasion USA.

    • @timtheskeptic1147
      @timtheskeptic1147 2 месяца назад

      @@mimszanadunstedt441 oh, you just had to go there...
      Bruce Lee's favorite drink?
      WAATTAH!

    • @theflyingdutchguy9870
      @theflyingdutchguy9870 2 месяца назад

      kinda happened with elvis

    • @seanh4841
      @seanh4841 2 месяца назад

      ​@@theflyingdutchguy9870Elvis ate too much and did drugs, so he wasn't too different from ordinary folk

    • @camotobe
      @camotobe 2 месяца назад

      Chuck will lead them to Jesus. As i know he is christian.

  • @louseveryann2181
    @louseveryann2181 2 месяца назад +29

    I think that, ever since TikTok was invented, "gods-believers" think that their infantile behaviour is evidence of their personally preferred imaginary friend.

    • @davidsmith-uw2ci
      @davidsmith-uw2ci 2 месяца назад +1

      With tiktok trying to be banned I wonder where they are going to go next

    • @jpstardom3375
      @jpstardom3375 2 месяца назад

      ​@@davidsmith-uw2ciyoutube shorts

    • @fuzzspanden
      @fuzzspanden 2 месяца назад +1

      you think that started with tiktok??? lol

  • @EdwardHowton
    @EdwardHowton 2 месяца назад +30

    Let's go through it. I'm feeling vindictive and I have no problem punching down when someone like that is my target.
    "Noah's Ark" that's a mound of dirt, Cletus. A boat is not a mound of dirt. Try sailing a mound of dirt yourself if you can't tell them apart.
    "Sodom and Gomorrah" that's a map with weird geological phenomena, Cletus. Those are not statues of women who look at the home they're forced to abandon. Also, brimstone is not salt, it's sulfur. You're welcome to put sulfur on your food if you like instead of salt, though, if you can't tell them apart.
    "A pool". That's a pool, Cletus. I know you think washing yourself is magic, but you're welcome to look up the difficulties of maintaining hygiene before indoor plumbing if you can't tell modernity apart.
    "A scribbly rock". That's a rock with scribbles on it, Cletus. People put red paint on it. Whupdeedoo. That's not magic, that's _decorating._ I urge you to wash and try going to a furniture store if you can't tell them apart.
    "Employment Record Plaque". That's a rock with different scribbles on it, Cletus. It does say Pontius Pilate, but the _dates_ don't match the bible fairytale. You're welcome to go to a bank and try to claim it's the year 44,024 and claim all the compound interest in your bank account if you can't tell how _time_ works.
    "Another plaque". I'm really tired of doing this, Cletus, but that's a _plaque,_ not a magically resurrected zombie horde walking through the streets of Jerusalem to say hi to talking donkeys and snakes that peddle magic fruit. You're welcome to go play in traffic if you can't tell those apart.
    "More scribblerock". I'm not doing this, Cletus. You've shown so many utterly irrelevant rocks with scribbles on them that even I'm starting to not be able to tell them apart.
    "Some torn papyrus". That's a fragment of a single page, Cletus, not a certificate of authenticity for primitive fairytales that were only written down after centuries of people struggling to keep telling the stories correctly from memory. You're welcome to smash your face into a piece of paper towel and then try it with a full, complete, hardcover bible if you can't tell them apart.
    "A scribblerock again and also a piece of bone." What the actual fucking goddamn, Cletus. Can you not even tell evidence apart from just random trash you found lying on the ground?
    "Some worthless pieces of paper with real good PR" That's an early copy of Harry Potter, Cletus, not tangible proof that wizards fly around in cheap european cars.
    With a list like that, if Cletus were sentient enough to feel shame he'd go live under a "boat" for the rest of his life.

    • @kellydalstok8900
      @kellydalstok8900 2 месяца назад

      Thanks for the laugh, Edward. Have you considered a career as a writer?

    • @EdwardHowton
      @EdwardHowton 2 месяца назад

      @@kellydalstok8900 As a matter of fact I have, but I suck at dialogue. I am curious which bit was your favorite, though!

    • @mookibois9784
      @mookibois9784 Месяц назад

      Youre so hateful, brother.

    • @EdwardHowton
      @EdwardHowton Месяц назад

      @@mookibois9784 I'm not your brother, and people like you make the world worse than I ever could live with.

  • @nagranoth_
    @nagranoth_ 2 месяца назад +36

    it starts out with a mountain top, not shaped like a boat, let alone an ark, and calling it Noah's ark... I can't understand why you'd want to be religious to begin with, but the need to publically embarrass themselves is what really baffles me.

  • @markcostello5120
    @markcostello5120 2 месяца назад +7

    The only thing archeological evidence proves is that there was once people a very long time ago that believed some stupid shit and carved it into stone.

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 2 месяца назад +1

      It's not that long ago, Less than 2000 years, We have Archeology way older than that.

    • @WokeandProud
      @WokeandProud 2 месяца назад

      I mean that a pretty cynical take on human history these beliefs were humanities first attempts to explain the world around them.
      I always find them extremely interesting these were people no different then you or me but separated by vast oceans of time. With thier own beliefs, philosophies, politics, hopes and dreams culture and ideas about the world history is very interesting.
      I know bad actors today take religion way to seriously but it doesn't mean the history of it all has to be bad because of them.

  • @JohnnyBfromPeoria
    @JohnnyBfromPeoria 2 месяца назад +19

    You got the shirt! You lived. Man, I'm sure you lived a lot for the next many hours...

  • @mobiusd9885
    @mobiusd9885 2 месяца назад +13

    My favorite example: Gone with the Wind depicts the burning of Atlanta and the burning of Atlanta actually occurred. Thus, Gone with the Wind really happened?

    • @kellydalstok8900
      @kellydalstok8900 2 месяца назад

      A couple of years ago I traveled home from St. Pancras station in London on September 1st. There were a lot of young people trying to get into Kings Cross station, which is right next door from St. Pancras. It was only shortly before my train entered the Channel tunnel that I realised those must have been young wizards returning to Hogwards, because in the books the Hogwards Express leaves at 11am on September 1st.

    • @noracola5285
      @noracola5285 2 месяца назад

      But nothing supernatural happened in Gone with the Wind so frankly, my dear,

  • @pencilpauli9442
    @pencilpauli9442 2 месяца назад +15

    Aron: I can't remember his name. Isn't that embarrassing!
    Me: Welcome to my world. Only for me not remembering names is the default setting 😭😭

  • @capt.bart.roberts4975
    @capt.bart.roberts4975 2 месяца назад +6

    The Tower of Babel, a biblical multigenerational infrastructure project. Hit cost overuns so hard, it was left incomplete twice, hundreds of years apart.

    • @user-lk7wk3cd8e
      @user-lk7wk3cd8e 2 месяца назад +1

      There was no way that a tower that reached to the heavens could have been built with the materials available at that time. There’s a reason the Egyptians and Mayans built pyramids.

  • @IshanDeston
    @IshanDeston 2 месяца назад +21

    I never understand why nobody ever mentions Dr Irving Finkel's reproduction of the Ark based on the cuneiform tablet description of the flood which contains the building instructions.

  • @nickcharles1284
    @nickcharles1284 2 месяца назад +6

    Attempting to proved that the Bible is evidentially true is an admission of lack of faith. Faith excludes proof, or the desire for proof.

  • @joeely6817
    @joeely6817 2 месяца назад +8

    I now have to know where I cannot legally throw fish on the freeway.

    • @Bakers_Doesnt
      @Bakers_Doesnt Месяц назад

      I'm guessing it's a fairly common generic 'No dumping' sign because the road drains into a river/lake/sea with a fish icon that can be misconstrued as 'No dumping fish", but I can't say I'd be surprised if it was literal, somewhere. Common sense is a foreign country to some people.

  • @timothymulholland7905
    @timothymulholland7905 2 месяца назад +8

    The authors of Genesis knew of the flat area in the region. Flooding the "world" meant a flood of the known (to them) world. The Globe was discovered hundreds of years late.

  • @UberNoodle
    @UberNoodle 2 месяца назад +3

    Let's say that archaeologists 2,000 years from now uncover the remnants of 21st Century London. It still won't mean the Harry Potter books really happened.

  • @maxsignori316
    @maxsignori316 2 месяца назад +6

    Sounds like the psychological test we had to go through when we still had an enforced conscription in Italy: "Do you hear voices only you can hear?" and "Do you think you can see things the others can't?"

    • @thomasmalacky7864
      @thomasmalacky7864 2 месяца назад

      Projecting much

    • @jklinders
      @jklinders 2 месяца назад

      @@thomasmalacky7864 Not really. Not everyone assumes their imagination is real life.

  • @daviydviljoen9318
    @daviydviljoen9318 2 месяца назад +19

    What's the difference between the bible and the Iliad? Nothing, but are mythology possibly set in some historical events. People just don't try to prove the Iliad is true.

    • @daviydviljoen9318
      @daviydviljoen9318 2 месяца назад

      46:01 Nebukadnesar.

    • @nonbinarypickle
      @nonbinarypickle 2 месяца назад +5

      To be fair, the city of Troy was found based upon descriptions in the Iliad, but that's still just proof that a city from the story historically existed. Not that the entire mythological story is true

    • @daviydviljoen9318
      @daviydviljoen9318 2 месяца назад

      @@nonbinarypickle Yes, exactly. That's what I meant.

    • @normanchristiansen1864
      @normanchristiansen1864 2 месяца назад +1

      thank all the gods, the odyssey is true !!!!!

    • @backinblack03
      @backinblack03 2 месяца назад +2

      The Iliad is waaay more plausible

  • @MicheleGardini
    @MicheleGardini 2 месяца назад +12

    I usually find the "reasoning" of believers so bad that it makes me question whether it's just trolling. Using the Benny Hill Show theme really makes it worse. Except, you know, Poe's law is a thing. And you can't dodge Poe's law.

    • @CelestialVenerableValinor
      @CelestialVenerableValinor 2 месяца назад

      I wouldn't be surprised if the TikTokers making money lying for Jesus are aware is not close to true the whole religion and the Jesus mythical tales. The more confident in the bullshit they say, my suspicion is, they aren't believers at all.

  • @hopelessnerd6677
    @hopelessnerd6677 2 месяца назад +6

    London exists, therefore Harry Potter is true. Simple as that. Now, why can't I buy a Nimbus 2000?

    • @CharlesPayet
      @CharlesPayet 2 месяца назад +2

      Duh. Just because Harry Potter is true doesn’t mean yer a wizard, @hopelessnerd6677 . You’re obviously a Muggle.
      Besides, the Nimbus 2000 is WAY out of date. I traded mine in years ago for a Mark 3476 model. (Why they stopped using nice, even numbers, I have no idea.)

    • @Bakers_Doesnt
      @Bakers_Doesnt Месяц назад

      Amazon, ASIN B07WPS562S

  • @billskelley6895
    @billskelley6895 2 месяца назад +4

    Aron is wearing his Hot Challenge shirt from yesterday. Awesome. He earned that thing.

  • @fepeerreview3150
    @fepeerreview3150 2 месяца назад +8

    41:30 "We know that people like Alexander and Caesar existed. That's not really in dispute. Now I think we can say the same thing for a historical Jesus."
    I offer a pointed but polite challenge to Lorence. It's all about establishing a _consistent_ standard of evidence. We have a substantial amount of physical, archeological evidence, contemporaneous with the lives of both Alexander and Caesar, indisputably establishing their existence. We have Caesar's own writings. We have coins minted _during_ Alexander's reign, bearing his image. We have multiple Babylonian clay tablets recording the events as Alexander passed through and conquered the region. We even have one that is a sort of obituary, announcing his death. This tablet has been dated as being produced within one year of his death.
    We have NO comparable body of evidence to support the hypothesis of a historical Jesus. If we apply the same standard of evidence to Jesus, we cannot affirm his existence with the same degree of certainty. That's simply a fact. People can argue, quite rightly, that Jesus was a relatively unknown person during his lifetime and that such evidence would not have accumulated. That is true. But that doesn't change the reality that we still don't have the evidence. We don't have evidence that George Jeronimo was a baker in Bethlehem in year 30 CE either. Nor would we expect to. We can certainly assert that there were bakers in Bethlehem, and itinerant preachers as well. But we do NOT have the evidence that Jesus, or even any particular individual resembling him, who might have inspired these stories, ever existed.
    Lorence, please revisit your conviction that a historical Jesus existed and ask yourself whether you can maintain that stance when you use a _consistent_ standard of evidence for him, as you would for any other historical figure. Just because people have taken it on faith for the last 1900 years that he did exist does not mean that he did.

    • @Sicthewolf
      @Sicthewolf 2 месяца назад +2

      this!

    • @ThatDudeLarzFoo-ah
      @ThatDudeLarzFoo-ah 2 месяца назад +2

      I can get behind a call for a more stringent set of standards for criteria, evidentiary claims etc..
      That being said I don't think you are demanding that coins minted and dated to the time of Jesus, with The Christ on the face of the coin and Nazareth on the back, would need to be provided for consistency of standards to be measured. Let Caesar have that which is Caesar's, as Jesus allegedly told those inquiring minds of those day's.
      Since were definitely not going to find Jesus coinage, is there a different specific category of evidence that would be comparable as an analog to serve as suitable for the higher standard we would like to see?

    • @fepeerreview3150
      @fepeerreview3150 2 месяца назад +1

      @@ThatDudeLarzFoo-ah That last question of yours is the key. That is where the discussion should _start_ and it should not move past that point until that question has been answered. Until that time, the only rational position is to remain _undecided_ on the issue of Jesus' existence.
      Personally, I'm not prepared to answer the question. I don't have the expertise. It should be the question that historians answer. BUT, it's not just a matter of historians answering it to their _individual_ satisfaction, so that they can then use their personal conclusion to support their favorite hypothesis. The answer needs to be a "universal" standard, one that applies to all figures in ancient history. And it needs to be a standard that is broadly accepted across the field. Otherwise we're back to pure subjectivity and confirmation bias again.
      When it comes down to it we have NO contemporary evidence. The earliest evidence we have are some vague statements by Paul, probably from 2-4 decades later. And then no less than a few decades beyond that, and perhaps many more than a few decades, we have the writers of the gospels. NONE of this material is first hand accounts. It seems none of it even comes from first hand sources. At best we are looking at 2nd or 3rd hand sources.
      So we need to start by acknowledging that the gospels are not first hand evidence. Then we need to start going through them with a fine tooth comb to see how reliable they are as historical documents, based on what we _do_ know from established facts, from things like archeological evidence.
      So, first task, historians need to establish a universally acceptable standard of evidence, which, hopefully, would include whatever evidence there might be of Jesus if he actually did exist. We need to keep in mind that it's possible that even if he did exist there may be no conclusive evidence.
      Second task, having established the standard, and assuming that in some way it includes the gospels, historians need to do a objectively detailed analysis as to how reliable those documents are in historical terms.
      My personal view on the gospels is that in their key details about Jesus' life, they are entirely _unreliable_ but this comment is already too long. So I won't go into that. I'm not a historian anyway. I've tried to get my reasoning in front of a few of them, so that they could show me where I'm wrong. But I've had no luck getting responses.

    • @marcusreading3783
      @marcusreading3783 21 день назад

      The thing is, even if we accept that, it doesnt actually help him. Accepting that Jesus existed does not mean we have to accept the supernatural claims attached to him. We dont accept that Alexander the Great was a child of Zeus after all.

  • @HystericalSej
    @HystericalSej 2 месяца назад +5

    20:25 I've been in the kitchen rustling up some noms and... what was that? A pool proves the Bible? What the !@#$? I need to rewind.

  • @tomboughan2718
    @tomboughan2718 2 месяца назад +4

    The Pool of Siloam was also dedicated to Asclepius, god of healing and medicine.

  • @lloydmeadors
    @lloydmeadors 2 месяца назад +9

    I was waiting for this since you put on your Facebook that you were considering doing it. Thanks for doing it, I always love watching you take down bad "science" from creationists

  • @meridianheights6255
    @meridianheights6255 2 месяца назад +1

    Great conversation. You guys are awesome. Thanks for the time and effort you put in to this.

  • @DrMegaMetal
    @DrMegaMetal 2 месяца назад +9

    First! also thank you Aron Ra for bringing logic to this illogical world

  • @mmeis2389
    @mmeis2389 2 месяца назад +6

    Our brains crave understanding. This leads to arguments that must be controlled. Up till this time we relied on magic and multi-gods or pagan dances or might..etc. The ability of writing it down and to remember these writings gave them power to control. Education reignited that craving, hence education "knowledge" became bad. Women lost there godlyness that previous cultures worshipped them. The biblical Eve was too curious "or was seduced" then using adams love for her into disobeying gods warning of knowledge, and then it can re-explain everything in christian dogma. Men good women bad, ugh.
    Searching for knowledge for survival is our purpose in life as is every cell or life force symbiotic type. Entropy over enthalpy or ...
    TY Aron and Lorence and all the intelligent guests, you have increased life value by your spreading knowledge. Do not stop.

  • @UnapologeticallyKrissi
    @UnapologeticallyKrissi 2 месяца назад +2

    Aron and Lorence always equals a phenomenal time!

  • @CharlesDriver-hj4xp
    @CharlesDriver-hj4xp 2 месяца назад +32

    Love it when you pock the bear. It brings out all the gullible people who have a slim grasp of reality. " tictoc is really real man like my jebus" 😂

  • @TheTom5150
    @TheTom5150 2 месяца назад +2

    The story of Paul’s conversion as told in Acts is nothing more than a rewrite of two different stories…The conversion of Heliodorus as told in 2nd Macabees, and King Pentheus in Euripides Bacchae. It’s a completely fictional narrative and it’s really not even close

  • @KorraTransPhoenix
    @KorraTransPhoenix Месяц назад

    "Do not throw fish on the freeway" I just completely lost my shit! I'm driving and I hit every pothole in my building's driveway. 💀💀

  • @HoodedMale
    @HoodedMale 2 месяца назад +12

    Aron you’re an inspiration to us all, your keen insights are to be admired.

    • @mookibois9784
      @mookibois9784 Месяц назад

      Dont admire hate, brother. Alot of his arguments just state the proof and puts it in a bad light that makes it look stupid. Thats fueled by hate man. Be one with love.

  • @elainejohnson6955
    @elainejohnson6955 2 месяца назад +4

    I spit out my drink laughing while I was watching a video of Aron Ra explaining that since Noah's Ark only had one window for the three levels, the 8 people on it would have almost immediately died from methane gas poisoning from the animals farting and pooping!
    I can't hear anything about Noah's Ark without thinking about that.

  • @Notalloldpeople
    @Notalloldpeople 2 месяца назад +4

    Thank you guys. Hoping you eventually get some cut through on the mass delusion but I’m not that hopeful.

  • @TravelBreakthrough
    @TravelBreakthrough 2 месяца назад +1

    Hey ra !! Long time no see brother been watching you since 2011

  • @HisZotness
    @HisZotness Месяц назад +1

    Hallelujah! We found The Ark!
    It's in Kentucky.

  • @rebeccazegstroo6786
    @rebeccazegstroo6786 2 месяца назад +2

    The Ark Before Noah by Irving Finkel is a charming book. I listened to the audio version read by the author. He is adorably nerdily in love with cuneiform. Atrahasis is the maker of the Babylonian boat, which Finkel shows is likely a gigantic coracle. Atrahasis wisely took his family plus all manner of skilled makers.

  • @MAJMAJESTIC
    @MAJMAJESTIC 2 месяца назад +3

    Knowing the roots of the myth and the colloquial regional flavorings of the writer clears the misconception about the veracity of the claimed divinity. The Bible is reduced to a "colored ",glorified ,poorly described, blended version of events and fiction.

    • @aymerick_
      @aymerick_ Месяц назад

      Hey ! Do you have articles where I can learn about the Bible ? I want to have a clearer understanding of what this book really, is all the way up to the authors and the veracity of the stories. Thank you and have a great day !

  • @crazyviking24
    @crazyviking24 Месяц назад

    In the case of Isaiah, the King of Judah was being threatened by the kings of Samaria and Damascus and Isaiah and the prophecy was that the child would eat honey and curds and before he reached the age of accountability the alliance against Judah would be defeated. This did happen though it was because the king of Judah sent a tribute to Assyria and asked for rescue (archaeology confirms this part). The part about everyone being captured and the city being destroyed is likely referring to Babylon.

  • @Wes4T2D
    @Wes4T2D Месяц назад

    Thank you Aron for all your content!!

  • @crazyviking24
    @crazyviking24 2 месяца назад

    I grew up in a baptist church and I don't remember any mention of a place for the blowing of trumpets in the temple.

  • @VikVaughnMISC
    @VikVaughnMISC 2 месяца назад +2

    Clicked on this video to laugh at the uploader in the comments, until I saw it was an Aron Ra video.
    Blood pressure is gradually decreasing, now.

  • @stevenbolin7688
    @stevenbolin7688 Месяц назад

    Love your opening statement 😁

  • @Iamtheskidoostig
    @Iamtheskidoostig 2 месяца назад

    The fact that the music overlay in the tictok, is the theme song from Benny Hill says it all.

  • @BrianS1981
    @BrianS1981 2 месяца назад +1

    The Fatima story illustrates how unreliable witness accounts are, we have reports of people seeing the sun dancing in the sky* and other reports saying nothing happened. There is one thing which differentiates the two types of reports though, those who saw the sun dancing either didn't know the dangers of looking directly into the sun or were religously motivated to not heed the warnings. And seeing the sun "dance" is one of the symptoms of ocular damage from staring into the sun.
    *Interestingly, we don't have two descriptions that concur on the sun's alleged movements that day (other than those who said it "moved" as normal), another blow in the veracity of the Fatima visitation.

  • @kevinfletcher1999
    @kevinfletcher1999 2 месяца назад +12

    Myths have arisen among very recent people, Mao and North Korean leaders.

    • @angrydoggy9170
      @angrydoggy9170 2 месяца назад +12

      North Korea is an excellent example for how fast a narrative can get accepted. Scientology is another great example.

    • @jameswright...
      @jameswright... 2 месяца назад +6

      ​@@angrydoggy9170
      The cargo cults are a great example too.
      The prince Philip movement is cool!

    • @andyrihn1
      @andyrihn1 2 месяца назад +4

      Haillie Salassi (spelling?), the last king of Ethiopia denied the stories Rastafarians told about him and yet the religion formed with him as their Messiah in his own lifetime

    • @LoisoPondohva
      @LoisoPondohva 2 месяца назад

      ​@@andyrihn1 Rastilgar: As written

  • @jeuandavidjones
    @jeuandavidjones Месяц назад

    The music to the list clip is instantly recognisable to Brits of a certain vintage, being the theme music to the Benny Hill Show, a well-known, lewd slapstick comedy show. It's quite a fitting accompaniment to the BS of the list!

  • @mdug7224
    @mdug7224 2 месяца назад

    I love this kind of evidence.
    I have visited Whitby Abbey a couple of times. There's also a Dracula museum in the town. I still didn't feel compelled to sharpen a stake and drape garlic around my windows.

  • @polycera8570
    @polycera8570 2 месяца назад +1

    I was thinking the same thing last night and then found this video waiting for me this morning.

  • @jps101574
    @jps101574 Месяц назад

    I like the cross on the wall of Aron's chosen backdrop.

  • @louseveryann2181
    @louseveryann2181 2 месяца назад +2

    So cute how "gods-believers" keep using things, like they know what for.

  • @Meridianbat
    @Meridianbat 2 месяца назад +1

    Match-cut that with Dapper Dinosaur's yodeling fossil record! Lol

  • @ccreel64
    @ccreel64 2 месяца назад +1

    My take on this subject: The OT contains mainly the cultural interpretive heritage of a Bronze Age people, who christians call “Israelites”. The NT contains the cultural interpretive heritage of the same people during the Roman era. Legend in other words, a mix of myths and history. It fascinates me how those religious belief systems are taken literally by those who hold them.

  • @SiqueScarface
    @SiqueScarface Месяц назад

    If I remember how many people misrepresented the measures taken during CoViD-19, I can easily imagine how the measures for a headcount were blown out of proportion by the people, who were told that they should stay at home on a certain day or in a certain week, or at least have someone answering the door and giving a count of the residents at that house.

  • @joematte4269
    @joematte4269 2 месяца назад

    Only complaint is to short! lol Couldve listened to u guys talk about this way more

  • @user-ce8lr3ff6v
    @user-ce8lr3ff6v 2 месяца назад +1

    And the wings are asking "How ya like me now".

  • @mookibois9784
    @mookibois9784 Месяц назад +1

    Man i thought you actually turned to jesus when i saw the title... we love you man and jesus does too.
    You cant get the truth of this world if youre already biased against it.

  • @Chemosh418
    @Chemosh418 Месяц назад

    Regarding Isaiah 7:14 it’s one kid whose name is written on a scroll but the mom is to call him Emmanuel.

  • @omarvasquez6851
    @omarvasquez6851 Месяц назад

    Here in El Salvador people keep thanking god over and over for normal things that god had nothing to do with.

  • @fred_derf
    @fred_derf 2 месяца назад +1

    In other news, the existence of New York is evidence that Spiderman is real and London is evidence that Harry Potter is a real Wizard.

  • @pr0ject_nihilist
    @pr0ject_nihilist 2 месяца назад +4

    I have a video on my channel where Ron’s wife put Jesus’s blood; found on the ark of the covenant under a vibrating microscope and you can see the midichlorians. Ron says Jesus’s blood is still alive and he got 23 chromosomes from his mom and 1 from his farther.
    It’s ridiculously hilarious. No joke there’s an animation of Jesus being crucified above the buried Ark and the blood dropping down and seeping into the ground. Of course a couple people said I was dumb for not believing Ron

    • @enlacostaizquierda
      @enlacostaizquierda 2 месяца назад +2

      Wait.. midichlorians? Like from Star Wars and "the force"? Not mitochondrial? Wow.. the delusions are strong with them.

    • @jklinders
      @jklinders 2 месяца назад

      @@enlacostaizquierda Even if it was mitochondrial, those are passed down from the mother so there shouldn't be any male chromosomes. There are Vibration microscopes but they are primarily used to calibrate tuning forks. Yet another case of the wrong tool for the job.
      That aside, where did they get Jesus juice from. The Catholics don't give the Spear of Longinus to just anyone...assuming it exists and is real.

  • @DeconvertedMan
    @DeconvertedMan 2 месяца назад

    Good times! :) I can't wait! :D

  • @capt.bart.roberts4975
    @capt.bart.roberts4975 2 месяца назад

    The night we first harnessed fire, we told stories to one another in that small spark of light, in a very dark and dangerous world.

  • @the_banshee6708
    @the_banshee6708 2 месяца назад +1

    Yes Aron at 3 in the morning

  • @henrystickminfishfarm8231
    @henrystickminfishfarm8231 2 месяца назад +1

    Why is it when people talk about the "The Empty Tomb" do they never talk about the real thing of people being buried alive. Not that long ago it was really hard to tell if some one was actually dead. Yes after 3 days he got up and walked a way. I am not dead.

  • @fuffy442
    @fuffy442 2 месяца назад

    I really would love to see AronRa have a discussion (or a series!!) with Francesca Stavrakopoulou. C'mon folks, back me up on this one. 🙂

  • @user-sd5go4rr4i
    @user-sd5go4rr4i 2 месяца назад +2

    Sticks exist so does Harry Potter

  • @uriituw
    @uriituw 2 месяца назад +12

    Why can’t theists present evidence for their theistic claims?

    • @Soapy-chan
      @Soapy-chan 2 месяца назад +6

      because if there was evidence, there wouldn't be believers and non believers anymore, we all just would know.

    • @uriituw
      @uriituw 2 месяца назад +3

      @@Soapy-chanBut the believers claim to have evidence.

    • @AndrewJens
      @AndrewJens 2 месяца назад +4

      Because there is none.

    • @uriituw
      @uriituw 2 месяца назад +1

      I’m shocked.

    • @gowdsake7103
      @gowdsake7103 2 месяца назад +3

      @@uriituw Yet they refuse to show any

  • @FentonMulley-cz8pv
    @FentonMulley-cz8pv 2 месяца назад +2

    He survived the hot wings!

  • @laurastent4462
    @laurastent4462 2 месяца назад

    Yes! They're finally telling me when you upload again!!!!! ❤❤❤

  • @leons1434
    @leons1434 2 месяца назад +4

    one thing the fact is accurate : god cannot write the book by himself, ever.
    he never know how the pen works
    he never know how the paper been made
    he never know how to print the words to paper
    he totally depend to human to make his bible exist
    if he could create everything from the empty, why he never create the great bible in one complete book, with the paper and ink from heaven that dirt proof, superstrong cannot be break, give from the very beginning human exist and for million years generation we always can see and touch it.
    god disagree with this statement ? let him reply to me by himself. he know how to use the keyboard and click comment icon, right ?

    • @louseveryann2181
      @louseveryann2181 2 месяца назад +1

      Of course it's all a bunch of wishful thinking nonsense.

  • @kellydalstok8900
    @kellydalstok8900 2 месяца назад

    A couple of decades ago I watched an archeological documentary about the find of ancient ruins with scorch marks of a town somewhere in the Middle East. The lead archeologist said that that fire in the ancient past might have been the basis of the Sodom and Gomorrah story; nomadic tribes could have seen it as a demonstration that urban life is bad and their nomadic lifestyle was superior. Just like hillbillies today may regard cities as depraved and dangerous.
    Regarding the flood myth: everyone who hasn’t seen the videos, check out British Museum curator Irving Finkel’s videos on the flood before Noah. They’re not only informative, but he’s a great storyteller, and very funny too. He’s also written a book about it.

  • @SiqueScarface
    @SiqueScarface Месяц назад

    The ziggurah of Babylon (which was called Etemetanki) was built several times. Sanherib, king of Assyria, for instance, claims to have destroyed Etementanki in 689 BCE. We know from the Enuma Eliš that there was a ziggurah in Babylon at least in the 9th century BCE, as the oldest remaining tablets of the he Enuma Eliš date back to that time. Alexander the Great was trying to first repair and failing that, to rebuilt the Etementanki around 331 BCE.

  • @elainejohnson6955
    @elainejohnson6955 2 месяца назад

    The claim I have heard about the crucified person's bone being nailed to the wood is it is supposed to refute some people saying crucified people were not usually allowed to be buried. The point of crucifying the person was to be as painful and humiliating as possible.
    So, theists claim since one crucified guy was found buried, the story of Joseph of Aramathea(sp?) being allowed to bury Jesus happened.

  • @jacketrussell
    @jacketrussell 2 месяца назад

    55:19 That made my ears prick up.

  • @djfrank68
    @djfrank68 2 месяца назад +1

    The author of Luke/Acts knew of, and used the works of Josephus to try and make his stories more historically accurate. But he got some things wrong.

  • @howardpalys6929
    @howardpalys6929 2 месяца назад

    A debate between Aron Ra and Hugh Ross would be good.

  • @goldenalt3166
    @goldenalt3166 2 месяца назад

    Both of the contradictory accounts of Paul's conversion are in Acts. One of them is claimed to be Paul telling it. Paul's letters don't give any details.

  • @BossDrSample
    @BossDrSample 2 месяца назад

    Ive stopped looking at holy books in terms of whether its "acurate" or "correct" and more about what significance or symbolism does this book or teaching have for the human experience