@Jonathan Billings Doubt is a great thing. Just ask yourself in what god(s) you would believe now if you had been born in a different culture and raised in a different religion?! What does that tell you about the truth behind all the about 5000 different religions worldwide?
@@hitman5782 Roman Catholicism built the West after the fall of Rome. It invented universities, hospitals and the scientific method. There's some truth for ya.
Brian, I still find myself coming back to your channel in times of struggle and turmoil. One day, I'll shake your hand and say: "I'm the Catholic Spaniard from your videos". You've helped me tremendously. Thank you. God bless, brother.
If you can't manage your own problems alone. You have a problem and you aren't ok yet. Religion will never put something in you, you don't work it on. Put effort, technique, science, reason, and will to get through your problems. Faith is for lazy ones. Don't try to control what it's not supposed to be in anybodies control. First try to control what a normal human being should or could do. Peace
@@eliuluisdelaguiladelacolin5489 Creo que sé bastante bien lo que tengo que hacer, pero te agradezco tus comentarios. Los problemas de los que estaba hablando eran dudas y crisis de fe, no problemas específicos naturales. Un saludo
@@tonybamber1137 David Wood (Acts 17 Apologetics) made that his entire forte, and he manages to make it hilarious: ruclips.net/p/PLsYCe6PgQNj25eC_L0mwWH_1w_kccBKqT
@Jason Aldrich ...the vast majority of Christian leaders do not talk shit about Islam. In this day and age of PC bullshit, such people would be readily crucified.
@@rinzler9171 Lmao everyone on the internet is talking shit about everything stop it with the anti SJW bullshit. I'm mad, you're mad, we're all mad at something.
@@rinzler9171 every christian leader talk shxt about Islam by lying and deceiving the people. You will only know you being lied of you verified the info you being given. Even this guy in the video. Once you verified you know hes just a other lier and deceiver
My journey towards Christ began because of "Mere Christianity." I had graduated from college with a degree in English and someone asked me if I had ever read the Bible. I hadn't and was somewhat ashamed of that fact. To just start reading the Bible for the first time can be a bit overwhelming, so I began with an English professor, CS Lewis., whom I trusted. Lewis first pointed out the truth of God to me. And that was almost thirty years ago!
Great video! I believe and confess that Jesus Christ is both human and divine. He is the Son of God and risen from the dead. The Incarnation happened. The death and Resurrection of Jesus happened and he founded his Church on Peter and the Apostles which continues to this day. He promised that he will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and make all things new. History and truth is on our side as followers of Christ.
@@ElizaLL0621 “to the Jew first, then the gentile” It’s part of the answer. I’d often wondered why so many groups like to blame “the Jews” as a scapegoat for so long. When I read my Bible, I realized that the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (later Jesse and David as well) were promised to bless the whole world. With the first advent of Jesus, the firstfruits began to surface and propagate that blessing all over the world, as promised: the knowledge of Yeshua, that salvation is of God and is His son. Now it seems less curious that the world would want to stamp out the Jews. The Jews are the roots by which our salvation has grown. We’d have no Jesus without Israel, we’d have no Israel without God and His sovereign plan to redeem us. If we are freed and blessed by the LORD himself, we are a threat to the principalities of the world. They’ll do everything they can to destroy our faith. Not gonna happen, God is greatest of all. I could ruminate on this all day, so I’ll stop myself here. Just wanted to appreciate your recognition of the Jewish people, you don’t see it very much. I’m not even a Jew, I’m thoroughly gentile by blood, but I love the people by whom God showed himself to the whole world. Thank you, God bless you in the name of Yeshua our Lord :)
This is going in my “help me Jesus” playlist. Thanks a ton! Was experiencing doubts at mass today and got frustrated, but this helps me rebuke doubts. God Bless🙏🏼💙🤝
Islam The Beautiful Religion ( Be Just ) Quran 5:8 '' O you who believe! stand out firmly for God, as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the > HATRED OF OTHERS TO YOU < make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to piety: and fear God. For God is well-acquainted with all that ye do. '' Quran 4:58 '' Indeed, God commands you to render trusts to whom they are due and when you judge between people to judge with justice. Excellent is that which God instructs you. Indeed, God is ever Hearing and Seeing.'' ( God's The Rules Of War ) Quran 2:190 '' Fight in the way of God > THOSE WHO FIGHT YOU < but do not transgress. Indeed. God does not like transgressors. '' Quran 2 :193 '' And fight them on until there is no more oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in God; but if they cease, Let there be no hostility except to those who practice oppression. '' Quran 4:90 ''.........So if they withdraw from you and cease their hostility and offer you peace, in that case Allah has not granted you permission to fight against them.'' Quran 8:61 ''And if they seek peace, then you also seek it, and put your trust in God. He is the Hearer, the Knowledgeable.'' ( Stand Up For Justice ) Quran 4 :135 '' Ye who believe! stand out firmly for justice, as witnesses to God, even as against > YOURSELVES < or your parents, or your kin, and whether it be (against) rich or poor: for God can best protect both. Follow not the lusts (of your hearts), lest ye swerve, and if ye distort (justice) or decline to do justice, verily God is well-acquainted with all that ye do.'' ( Who Are The Good Human Beings? ) Quran 2.177 '' Righteousness is "NOT" that you turn your faces ( In Worship ) toward the east or the west but [true] righteousness is [in] one who believes in God, the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the prophets and gives wealth,> IN SPITE OF LOVE FOR IT,< to relatives, orphans, the needy, the traveler, those who ask [for help], and for > freeing slaves < [and who] establishes prayer and gives charity; [those who] fulfill their promise when they promise; and [those who] are patient in poverty and hardship and during battle. Those are the ones who have been true, and it is those who are the righteous. '' ( Freedom To Believe And To Reject ) Quran 2:256 '' Let there be no compulsion in religion. Truth stands out clear from error '' Quran 10:99 '' And had your Lord willed, those on earth would have believed > all of them entirely < Then would you compel the people in order that they become believers? '' ( Tolerance For Other Religions ) Quran 109: 1- 6 Say,"O disbelievers, I do not worship what you worship. Nor are you worshipers of what I worship. Nor will I be a worshiper of what you worship. Nor will you be worshipers of what I worship. For you is your religion, and for me is my religion." ( Protection for Idol Worshiper ) Quran 9:6 "And if any one of the polytheists seeks your protection, then grant him protection so that he may hear the words of Allah. Then deliver him to his place of safety. That is because they are people who do not know. " Quran16:125 “Call people to the way of your Lord with wisdom and good teaching, and argue with them in the most courteous way” Quran7:199 “Be tolerant....” ( Friendship With Non Muslims ) Quran 60:8 '' God does not forbid you from those who do not fight you because of religion and do not expel you from your homes - from being righteous toward them and acting justly toward them. Indeed, God loves those who act justly. '' ( Do Christians And Jews and "OTHER" non-Muslims go to Heaven? ) Quran 2:62 '' Those who believe (in the Qur'an), and those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Christians and the Sabians,-> ANY { On Judgement Day } ( According to the Quran Christians and Jews worship TRUE God ) (Quran 3:113-114) '' Not all of them are alike: Of the People of the Book ( Christians and Jews ) are a portion that stand (For the right): They rehearse the Signs of God all night long, and they prostrate themselves in adoration. They believe in God and the Last Day; they enjoin what is right, and forbid what is wrong; and they hasten (in emulation) in (all) good works: They are in the ranks of the righteous.'' Note: According to the Quran that Jesus is not God nevertheless Christians still worship one '' TRUE '' God. ( > Allah < Is The Protector Of Monasteries, Churches, Synagogues And The Mosques ) Quran 22:40 [They are] those who have been evicted from their homes without right - only because they say, "Our Lord is Allah ." And were it not that Allah checks the people, some by means of others, there would have been demolished monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques in which the name of Allah is much mentioned. And Allah will surely support those who support Him. Indeed, Allah is Powerful and Exalted in Might. ( Why Are There So Many Different Religions In The World ? ) Quran 5 48 ''...... If God wanted He could have made all of you a > single nation < But He willed otherwise in order to test you in what He has given you;(scriptures) therefore try to excel one another in good deeds. Ultimately you all shall return to God; then He will show you the truth of those matters in which you > DISPUTE submission < to God), never will it be accepted of him; and in the Hereafter He will be in the ranks of those who have lost (Salvation)'' My explanation of above verse Islam mean > submission < to God ( The above verse saying is that God will not accept a religion from the > MUSLIM < and the Non-Muslims but total > submission < to God.) Question: How Can Muslim And the Non-Muslim > submit < to the God? Answer: Be kind to other human beings and Do not lie, Do not steal, Do not cheat, Do not hurt others, Do not be prideful and Do the charity work. ( God Allow Muslims To Marry And Eat Food From the Christian And Jew And Vice Versa ) Quran 5;5 ''This day [all] good foods have been made lawful, and the food of those who were given the Scripture ( Christian and Jew) is lawful for you and your food is lawful for them. And [lawful in marriage are] chaste women from among the believers and chaste women from among those who were given the Scripture ( Christian and Jew) before you, when you have given them their due compensation, desiring chastity, not unlawful sexual intercourse or taking [secret] lovers. And whoever denies the faith - his work has become worthless, and he, in the Hereafter, will be among the losers.'' ( Kindness Toward Atheists / > APOSTATE < ) Quran 60:8 '' As for such [ of the unbelievers ( atheist) ] as do not fight against you on account of [your] faith, and neither drive you forth from your homelands, > Allah < does not forbid you to show them > kindness < and to behave towards them with full equity: for, verily, Allah loves those who act equitably. '' ( All The Terrorists / Killers Will Enter Hell Fire ) Quran 5:32 "......Whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land - it is as if he had slain mankind entirely......" ( Turned Your Enemies Into Your Best Friends ) Quran 41:34 "The good deed and the evil deed are not alike. Repel the evil deed with one which is better, then lo! he, between whom and thee there was enmity (will become) as though he was a bosom friend." ( The Husband and The Wife Are > Protecting Friends < One Of Another ) Quran 9:71 ''And the believers, men and women, are > Protecting Friends < one of another; they enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, and they establish worship and they pay the poor-due, and they obey God and His messenger. As for these, God will have mercy on them. Lo! God is Mighty, Wise.'' Quran16:97 “To whoever, male or female, does good deeds and has faith, We shall give a good life and reward them according to the best of their actions. Quran 30:21 “And of His signs is that He created for you from yourselves mates that you may find tranquility in them; and He placed between you > affection and mercy { Love } The Prophet Muhammad said, “The best among you is the best to his wife” ( Human Are One family ) Quran 49:13 " O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). Verily the most honored of you in the sight of God is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And God has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things)." ( All The Racist People Will Enter Hellfire ) Quran 30:22 "And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your languages and your colors. Indeed in that are signs for those of knowledge." My comment: The > BASIC < message of God to the human is that '' YOU '' believe in God and be kind to other human beings / > animals < and in the > RETURNED < God will > REWARD < you with a new life in Paradise. * The Quran ONLY guides you how to become a good human being "Nothing Else". * You are a good human being or a bad human being that is YOUR choice. * No one can force you to become a good human being. * You MUST work HARD to become a good human being. * Why should ''YOU'' do good deeds and avoid bad deeds? * Do Good - it's for You. Do Bad - It's against you. * '' YOUR'' life is a TEST from God that you will choose to do either Good or Bad. * Find the excuse to help others and forgive others NOT the other way around. * '' YOUR '' final destination is either Hell or Heaven. * So work HARD toward choice of YOUR destination. Quran 17:7 '' If you do good, you will do so for your own good. And if you do evil, it will be to your own loss.'' ,.,
@@Syed_12 doesn't this prove his point? most of these verses are from Makka now take a look at verses from Madina (remember The Christians and Jews of Medina also considered unbelievers) 9:123 You, you those who believed, fright/kill those who follow/near you evilly from the disbelievers, and they should find in you strength/coarseness , and know that God (is) with the fearing and obeying. 47: 4 When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks, then, when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds; then set them free, either by grace or ransom, till the war lays down its loads. So it shall be; and if God had willed, He would have avenged Himself upon them; but that He may try some of you by means of others. And those who are slain in the way of God, He will not send their works astray. 8: 38 And fight/kill them until (there) be no misguidance/betrayal , and the religion, all of it be to God, so if they ended/stopped , so that God (is) seeing/knowing with what they make/do . 33:61 cursed they shalt be, and wheresoever they are come upon they shall be seized and slaughtered all - 5:33 This is the recompense of those who fight against God and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth, to do corruption there: they shall be slaughtered, or crucified, or their hands and feet shall alternately be struck off; or they shall be banished from the land. That is a degradation for them in this world; and in the world to come awaits them a mighty chastisement, 9:29 Fight/kill those who do not believe with God and nor the Day the Last/Resurrection Day, and do not forbid/prohibit what God and His messenger forbid/prohibited, and do not take/adopt a religion the correct/right religion from those who were given/brought The Book (Jews and Christians) , until they give/hand over the fee paid by non-Moslems living in a Moslem society from a hand, and (while) they are subservient/humiliated . 4:89 They wish that you should disbelieve as they disbelieve, and then you would be equal; therefore take not to yourselves friends of them, until they emigrate in the way of God; then, if they turn their backs, take them, and slay them wherever you find them; take not to yourselves any one of them as friend or helper 8:12 When thy Lord was revealing to the angels, ‹I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast into the unbelievers› hearts terror; so smite above the necks, and smite every finger of them!› 9:5 Then when the Sacred Months (the Ist, th, th, and th months of the Islamic calendar) have passed, then kill the Mushrikoon (see V.:) (referring to Christians) wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and prepare for them each and every ambush. But if they repent and perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat), and give Zakat, then leave their way free. Verily, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. It was not all, I hope it was useful
@@Metarig 9:123 O ye who believe! fight the unbelievers who gird you about, and let them find firmness in you: and know that Allah is with those who fear Him.
@@Syed_12 I sent you the literal translation it has both the meaning of fighting and killing. it's funny that you ignore the other verses that are clearly a call for killing and just focused on this verse but this verse is also a call for killing. regarding that other verses are a call for killing without a shadow of a doubt which you confirm it's logical to conclude this verse is also a call for killing also they fight To plunder their property, kill men and boys, force them to convert to I --- slam, take beautiful women and girls and sell them as s --- ex slaves in the bazaar of Medina, executing old or ugly women, and separate the most beautiful women for M --- uhammad. According to his own law, the most beautiful women are his share. Just as they always did, and as they did in the case of the Jewish tribes, including the Bani Q---urayzah, where about 900 people were beheaded by A---li in Medina on M---uhammad's orders, and as I---SIL did when it attacked the Yazidi tribes, exactly according to the teachings of Islam. I sent it several times but apparently, youtube deleted it so I changed some of the words hopefully the AI won't recognize what it is about
@@ninodjuras hahaha..upravo tako..nisam na prvu shvatio što hoćeš reći onda mi je sinulo..je..u pravu si..sviđa mi se tvoj način razmišljanja..dobar uvid
@@bernardokrolo2275 A kad je tako, treba biti fakat brz u glavi za vodit uspjesne debate i branit Vjeru. Brian, Trent Horn, Ravi Zacharias i Frank Turek su vrh u tome 👌
Christianity is a very difficult religion to follow as well as to understand fully. If it had been crafted by men only to attract followers, it would certainly be simpler to understand (no such things as the Trinity etc) and less demanding in terms of selflessness.
@@davidus9702 in fact Christianity destroyed itself when people of authority decided to edit the word of God, They Placed symbols in their churches and statues to worship and then they put mother Mary and Angels in their churches and they worship them , Didn't jesus say don't worship any statues or idols or symbols ? Even of him, isn't it considered that as direct deviation from God???! and then instead of worshipping The God, Christians worship Jesus for mercy and salvation, isn't it considered that as direct violation to first and seconde commandments of the God???
Great reasoning and will present it to those who dismiss Jesus as the son of God. Even when I share my story with them, they still do not believe in Him. My story: After a near death accident and a Traumatic Brain Injury, my brain was in the state like that of a new born baby. I did not know what I was, who I was, how to talk, walk or anything about life, BUT, I knew that there was a God. In my mind I told God that He had made a mistake and should have taken me. On more than one occasion I sent out the same thought to God. I was in terrible pain and could and could not open my eyes to share my sadness, or move any part of my body. In the hospital, I was known as the miracle patient because none of the surgeons thought I would survive. After one of my cries to God, Jesus came to me, took my pain from all the broken and crushed bones and titanium implants and told me three things that helped me navigate through all the hurdles of recovery. It has been 7 years since that beautiful time with Jesus and I would experience everything again to get another second with Him. My time with Jesus gave me a thirst that this life with never quench and I am so grateful for this second chance at life and try to share my story with others. We are all children of our Lord Jesus Christ, the son of God and He want us all with Him. If I can bring only one person into the kingdom of heaven then I have lived well. God Bless everyone and know that you are all deeply loved by our Heavenly Father, His son Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit. 🙏🏼
When I had doubt, I learned about science, psychology, hypnosis, propaganda, and our emotional connection to concepts or things. Took me two years and I can now say unequivocally I no longer have doubt. I was lied to.
@@BrianHoldsworth I read recently that Lewis was actually restating an ancient argument, rather than constructing it. Just something cool! :) thank you for your videos
Lewis, Chesterton, and Tolkien are often my go-to authors when it comes to evangelizing, be it with "nones", Muslims, etc. I do wonder if our prelates have ever quoted them.
The thing that I feel is a strong argument is the fact that the all of the Apostles, in an instant, went from men cowering in a room out of sight to such an emboldened, vocal group when they saw the resurrected Jesus and then were willing to die to further the Church.
These are the things I I meditate upon when I pray the third glorious mystery of the Rosary. I'm thinking: wow, that fire which Jesus sent from Heaven made the apostles do all of these things and evangelise the whole world and they're the reason I am Catholic today!
A very steady and footsure march through the essential facts. You present the Gospel with simplicity and strength. God bless your evangelism and ministry, young sir.
This is one of the most compelling apologetics that I have ever heard in my life! The evidence that Jesus is who He claims to be is absolutely overwhelming!
Anyone here speak fluent Chinese? (mandarin/cantonese). Could you check and see if the simplified Chinese subtitles (auto generated) are somewhat on point and not too bad? Love this video and would like to share with in-married relatives.
This video and your meditation on the “Nativity” scene at the Vatican are just wonderful gifts for these hopeless, locker down times. Merry Christmas Mr. Holdsworth, and thank you!
Modern people look down on history as it was some sort of calcified museum. Of course, if you just look for facts, you will never find any meaning. To find Christ, one must assume that history is alive, and engage personally with it through imagination. If you just read the Bible with your magnifying glass, and try to scrutinize everything with your analytical mind, it won't reveal any magic. Once you start engaging with the stories, Jesus comes to you. Hence you become a Christian, someone who has bonded personally with Jesus. Now, whether he was who he said he was, let's leave that up to God, eh? The Bible talks about the fall as a consequence of overthinking and intellectual pride, basically. Yet that's all modern people do. How about an act of humility and submission? Praise be Jesus Christ!
Didn't Jesus say to Thomas, who doubted him, put his finger through his wounds and exclaimed, "My Lord, and my God!": "You now see, and believe. Blessed are those who do not see, and believe" (Off memory, paraphrased). If Jesus is the Door, the Gateway, you simply must believe HE is who he said he was.
I am a middle eastern Christian (Catholic) who has been watching your videos for a while and I like your approach and respect the work and effort you put to profoundly research your topics and generate these videos. Despite the fact that throughout history we have suffered a lot from Muslims and specially the Turks, this is without talking about the civil wars and the suffering caused and regardless of whether what you say about the Islamic prophet is true or not I don't think you need to take him as an example to prove that Jesus is the son of God since your point has already been proven till before you made the comparison. The approach is inflammatory and this would only alienate Muslims who may have even otherwise even a slight chance see the light and convert to Christianity. I read some reports since some time of Jesus and Mary miraculously appearing to some Muslims (who later converted) so who are we to judge to them (I readily admit it is not very easy for me personally to forget and forgive what I have personally witnessed)? Even though Muslims believe that Jesus is only a prophet they respect Mary the mother of our Lord Jesus the son and some of them even pray for her to heal them. Now this doesn't mean in any way that we should let our guard down but to be fair the main attack on Christianity and Christian values these days does not truly come from Muslims (Isis did not truly see widespread support from them and is probably only a political/military tool created and nurtured by some intelligence agency) but the real danger comes from the atheist and brainwashed people and those behind them and financing their ideology which is even infiltrating Eastern Christian societies and recently even Muslim society. The laws being passed and the media and movies that dishonor our faith and make it very difficult for faithful parents to raise their children according to Christian values specially in the west are not being created, passed, planned, or financed by Muslims. When the Muslims were at the peak of their power they were defeated in France, Spain, the crusades, and in Austria in front of Vienna as well as other places. Eastern Christians (7th to 19th century) were not as lucky but despite suffering humiliation the Muslims allowed them to practice their faith while having to pay taxes and enduring harassments from time to time but nothing compared to the scale endured by the Christians in Ukraine under the communists. Even the vicious Turks did not become as murderess until the last two decades of the 19th century (extermination of Armenians, Syriac, and a third of the Christians in Mount Lebanon during ww1) which raises certain questions that I will not get into now. So to give examples of how some people idolized by those who follow their ideology are not extraordinary people but are nothing but greedy and vicious people easily corrupted by power and become very evil and despotic when they are able, it would have been enough in my humble opinion to give only those examples unrelated to Muslims that you gave. I tend to fear those who corrupt the soul more than those who would threaten to or actually cause only physical harm through violence, war, and unrest. With love and respect.
Hey, I'm really respect your view in fact I don't want to answer about the political topic that you mentioned because I don't well in politics and I'm just want to start any arguments because I respect your faith anyway I'm just want to show that Islam which exposes the true teachings of Jesus Christ. Islam is an embodiment of the complete, final and universal form of the message which Jesus had prophesied, muslims respect and venerate Jesus Christ they consider him to be one of God’s greatest messengers to humankind. and his mother Mary is regarded as one of the most pure and exalted women of all creation, Three chapters of the Quran feature the life of Jesus, his mother Mary and their family,there is a chapter in the Quran named Mary and she is mentioned 34 times in the Quran, She is honored greatly in Islam,each reveals details not found in the Bible, Jesus (pbuh) is mentioned in the Quran by name five times more than the number of times the prophet of Islam is mentioned in the Book of God,in islame one cannot be a Muslim without believing in Jesus, The Holy Quran, the holy scripture of Islam, is the intact and pure word of God, in which we can trust with full confidence. By enjoining belief in all prophets, Islam invites the world to a common platform of unity, love, brotherhood and peace. Islam stands for the true honour of Jesus. Through lslam alone will be
Here is a way more logical fourth option: He is a legend. Most likely a real person called Jesus existed, and he was a very charismatic human, and like it always is with such people, after his death people imagined stories about him, and the more time passed these stories became more and more supernatural.
You seem to have missed the point: the point being that the first followers of Jesus were witnessing, ie. sharing eye witness accounts, their own lives experiences, and were prepared to endure terrible torture and persecution becuase of their conviction. No one does that for a lie or a legend.
@@m.forrestal5893 Dude, i hate to ruin your favorite fairytale but no, the authors of the gospels have not been eyewitnesses, and not even Christian scholars make this claim. All the stories about him have been written at least decades after his supposed death. They wrote down stories people told at the fire in the evenings, like people did with Hercules or Achilles, probably all based on real humans. And that Christians are willing to die for their crazy religion is nothing to be proud of. there has literally never been a reason dumb enough that not countless people would have been willing to die for it. Take Islam for example, way more Muslims are willing to die for their faith than Christians, does that make Allah 1% more real? There have been sects where over 80% of all members committed suicide for their gods, does that make their gods any more real? No? Good, your point?
Thank you for these videos, I grew up in Jesus, but I have also been on a quest to prove All religions, if indeed they benefit their followers, and bear "Fruit" as the Bible states. I have study, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Baha'i, New Age, and other Sects, to actually see if worshipping "Many Gods", or Worshipping Buddha, Mohammed, etc., has brought their followers peace and prosperity, if their home lands are thriving, If their families are thriving, I am also searching to see if Christians actually bear fruit and have been blessed by their beliefs in Jesus, as the Bible states Continue to Seek the Truth and that is what we All should do.
That final argument is what gets me. A lot of his followers were, for the standards of the time, quite middle class (like Peter who was a tradesman and specifically a fisherman) or even uper class (like Paul who was a roman citizen and the modern equivalent of a lawyer and prosecutor). Furthermore, those followers werent spiritual seekers in the eastern sense and judaism was at the time a very materialistic and even martial religion. They werent the kind of meditative new age people that would find a guru interesting. And yet, they lost everything and were tortured just to affirm the divinity and ressurection of some dead (supposedly) jewish prisioner. Frankly, this is an attitude someone would expect from the spartans, who were willing to die just for honor, or the supremely stupid. You can call Peter anything, but not brave. You can call Paul anything, but not stupid.
The fact that it is social acceptable to believe in positive or negative powers does not equate that we should believe in jesus.. it means that we should investigate the validity of both
Except people are predisposed in their I investigations in discounting anything that points to Christ's divinity. "People do not come back from the dead, therefore there must be another reason" is not exactly unbiased reasoning.
Catholicsm has the most coherent doctrine. The fact that these backwood bunches could come up with the most coherent religion proved the truth of Christianity.
When I was having a crisis of faith, this is the kind of flawed reasoning and lack of self-awareness that pushed me over the edge into atheism, thank you Brian keep up the good work!
@@dalaicavalcanti8106 Great question! Many things were flawed, I'd have to re-watch to remember all of them as I've not seen this in a month, but the most glaring flaw I remember is that Brian thinks the Old Testament points to Jesus as the Messiah, but the Jews are correct in their arguments that it most certainly does NOT point to Jesus. If Christians misunderstand the Old Testament this bad, it raises some red flags as to their ability to critically analyze their own holy scripture in the New Testament.
I don't want to be a pain, but I really want to know. I remember you've mention a few times what you would like in terms of the design of a chapel (Hogwarts Hall-like, I remember you saying). I'd love to know how you would design a chapel, what specific music you would like, liturgy, art, architecture and so on. You clearly have great insights on art & design, so I think your perspective would be really interesting
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By seeing how the majority of people now believe everything said on the news, I actually can see how it would be possible for people to be convinced of Jesus existing if He were actually not to exist. The other thing, as has been mentioned in the video, is it would be illogical for the perpetuators of the Jesus conspiracy because there was no materialistic gain. So that selflessness alone is enough for me to see that Jesus did touch their hearts.
Yeah, it’s one thing for a follower to die for his belief in Christ because he trusts what John said he saw. It’s entirely different for John to die for what John saw.
0:20 Trilemma somewhat misquoted. CSL said "a man _saying those things_ either is etc." Meaning, he was conscious some disputed Christ existed, he was conscious some considered Him misquoted, and he was just not dealing with that at the moment. Also, if Christ was God, anyone else (barring Father and Holy Spirit who do not incarnate) claiming to be so would be either a liar or a lunatic.
1:42 Fourth position is not part of the trilemma nor needing to be, and CSL had already spoken out for exact historicity of Gospels as first hand accounts. On literary grounds.
One of two, or it is the most transcendental, ironic, and beautiful "lie" in history or it is true, and Christ was divine. that's where faith comes in, I had a terrible period of doubts, but the sacrifice of the apostles is the only thing that keeps me believing.
Brian, I live in a Muslim republic and would love to show your video to my Muslim friends, but I know their response uniformly would be anger and resentment. They would see it as a challenge to their faith. Yet when my best Muslim friend (my landlord, actually) and I were lightly discussing our religious differences, he asked me point blank, 'Do you really believe God has a Son?' I replied instantly, 'Yes!' and smiled.
Hey Brother 😃 don't be resented from some muslims answers, I'm Muslim so we can open an peaceful conversation and talking about this topic with respect of each other, you can ask me anything you want
@@rahimerayane4298 Thank you, my friend, for your open-heartedness. My way is not to question others or challenge anyone's beliefs, only to try to live my own life in accordance with my Christianity. I often think, however, that all faiths, Muslim included, are welcome into all Christian churches and yet I, as a Christian, am debarred from entering mosques. That would be my only question for you: Why is this? And by the way, I am a sister, not a brother!
@@yukyukyuk1335 ohh I'm really sorry I thought you are man, my apologies sister, anyway as a Muslim i love everybody and their beliefs despite our differences im really respect your view ,and i appreciate what you said ,we may disagree about our faith and about what we believe but we agree that we are humans , so i respect everyone as humans although i don't know them and I had never met them, in fact you can enter any mosque you want and you are welcome anytime you want 😃
The next question is : how reliable the bible is ? How did it start, authors , date. I have no doubt the are very good answer to all this. I have order a book about this specific topic but I would love an introduction with you :D
I already walked that path, and believe me, it's very hard, and you can end up losing your faith, you will find many mysteries, strange origins, theories, people who not having all the answers they "wanted" stopped believing, or because what they were taught as children of the bible or what some doctrines affirm are not quite true, either with nuances, or not exactly what they expected, a long pile of questions, that you don't expect to find answers once my personal research ended in a single fact "the resurrection" believe me, you can put the whole bible in doubt, but it all comes back to the resurrection of Christ, there is the great paradigm. it was thanks to a friend who studies with the same people in charge of scriptures of the dead sea and he is a friend of great agnostic theologians and also believers, that I was able to go ahead believing, he helped me with a lot of difficult points, and taught me how to continue, for me he was a lifesaver after a long period of doubt and search, many of my pillars of faith fell down in the process and I had to rebuild some and others, but in the end, only one thing remained, Christ, resurrected or not. that's the miracle! i decided to believe in that great fact! i believe the apostles told the truth . i believe it, and i follow Jesus, if you want to make that journey, get ready and hold on to your faith because you will need it.
@@BUILDINGFUTUREX thanks for your testimony , I found myself wanting to believe. Being raise as atheist, I found that our culture lead us to addiction and false premises. Everything is about right now, responding to feeling, falling to consider other, without teaching us about consequences or a better outcome. The Catholic faith seems to want us to flourish, to pretect us from what ever the culture sell as healthy ( but drive us to addiction, selfishness and loosing important value and teaching). For all this I want to believe is true and be part of the community.
@@ravaeric6458 As a researcher historian I have found All Bible versions are false Because according to the christians scholars, they have agreed that the Gospel writers were anonymous.. we don't know who wrote it, whether they were really eyewitness or not,. and by the way who are those who the Christians refer so confidently like Luke, Mark, Mathew, John etc, who were they? they took the Gospels together and just wrote the stories down didn't they?? so who were they? what were their real names? what do you know about their histories and where are the biographies of them? by internal evidence in The Bible that that neither Matthew, Mark, Luke or John were eyewitnesses to the life and teaching of Jesus,and the Gospels of Luke and Mark were not written by Companions Of Jesus. hence their testimony, and therefore The New Testament, is unreliable. the Gospel writers cannot be regarded as reliable as they were not eyewitnesses to Jesus’ life and teachinngs On the other hand paul was not even one of the 12 disciples.. he assumed command by usurping the true disciples and then he hijacked so The doctrine of Christianity has been infiltrated and modified by paul so The Christianity nowadays is more of Paul's Christianity rather then Jesus's Christianity,
"Some say that Jesus was a great moral teacher but not son of god" goes the argument, but since Jesus claimed the he was divine, he surely must have been, otherwise he would not be a great moral teacher. Bullshit. After hearing this argument I lost appetite to watch the rest of the "argumentation". What if some thought that he was neither divine nor a great moral teacher?
@@Herghun And if you lie you are not good. What is more probable, that he lied or that he was the son of god? How many liars have we seen during our life or throughout he course of history, and how many sons of god?
@@jonlang2781 Yes thats the point of the video. Jesus is not a mear liar. His teaching is perfect, it bears good fruit. His life is examplary. I have no difficulty beliving he is God. My goal on this earth is to be happy, and it's when I follow his exapmles that I am the most happy. Sometimes it doesn't feel good at all but it still manages to bring happiness. I must addmit, by experience I am forced to say; he is just the best, he is flawless his teaching is truth and is living. He is truth. Never something brought so much life in me than his simple words.
Do you mean like Alexander the Great or Genghis Khan? Because they both possessed empires which were fought over when they died. Jesus had nothing like this which could be fought over
@@phillipbrandel7932 How many followed Christ during his ministry, 12, 100, 1000s? In terms of religion perhaps the early disputes amongst Mohammad's followers would be a good example.
Exactly. Look at Joan of Arc. To most of us she was just of extreme faith who was deluded. It’s perfectly possible in a time of , in today’s perspective, zealous religious communities for someone kind and visionary to believe themselves to be the son of god but not be it and not be mad. There were others before Jesus who believed themselves to be the messiah. We aLso have the fact that other legendary figures were claimed to be of virgin birth etc. If you really believe Mohammed was deluded yet managed to persuade others and and convince others of miracles etc it isn’t impossible for other religions to be based on essentially falsehood yet the people involved believing passionately and wanting to do gods will I personally don’t think it inconceivable that Jesus was of divine origin but more question , as Muslims do, the whole god split into three trinity and also the idea of god wanting or needing to make himself incarnate and then sacrificing himself. It must be nice to have faith. I clearly don’t
I would love for you to address the OT prophesies regarding the Messiah that Jesus did not fulfill. The Jewish arguments I've heard state that the Messiah cannot fulfill only some of the prophesies.
What do you think about the fact that Gehenna is not actually a metaphysical hell but a valley near Jerusalem where dead corpses were laid to burn? (the fire was perpetual so that is the eternal fire of Gehenna)
Dear sir, if you would write a book containing all the argumentation of your latest videos (and more, it's just that I remember those the best), I would definitely consider buying it.
what I am saying is that in general, people believe all sorts of things all the time, and die for those those believes and many times those believes are crazy
There is a big difference from someone blowing themselves up for 72 virgins who hasn't seen any evidence their book is true, and 11 disciples getting tortured to death for refusing to recant their claims that they saw something miraculous with their own eyes.
There are more than 3 choices. He may not have existed at all, he may have existed but the stories were exaggerated by people who truly believed. He may have been a written compilation of more than one person. He may have simply been a continuation of previous deities stories. Shall we go on?
@@paulbolton4929 "He may have been a space alien" So might've been Tiberius Caesar, or your grandma "he may have been a glizt in the matrix" So might've been the monkeys that may've crawled out of your asshole "he may have been Satan deceiving us" Wait - so you'd believe in Satan, but Jesus' deity is simply off-limits? Figures 😂
@@rinzler9171 Your the ones who believe what he was borders on the impossible. I think he was a teacher/Rabbi who was written into a god. Not the first time that's happened, and most probable.
Great video. Sadly, many who resist to believe are not critical thinkers, but sluggish, mocking people who don't need to come out of their 'comfort zone'
For clarity - be clear that the canonical gospels were written anonymously. It was iraneus who stated who the authors were. This was to give more credence to the validity of the stories. Matthew and John were illiterate Aramaic speakers who could not possibly compose writings in Greek.
Lol, no worries Brian, my older sister (who converted from Catholic to agnostic, and more or less two years ago decided to call herself atheist) will still claim that there was no Jesus, and that Christianity actually started way later than what we claim, like in II or even III century, so yeah :)
I realize that this is off topic but I'd like to know your thoughts. Catholics do not believe in euthanasia but are we allowed to refuse treatment that could prolong life artificially. I'm thinking of signing a Living Will which in my country states that I may not be put on life-sport machines. I also want to include that l do not want to be intubated if I get Covid 19. I'm old, diabetic and my heart beats too fast, a prime candidate for this disease.
Pray for all religions who believe they have the one and only prophet/son of god as if god manifested on earth and sign an exclusivity contract like a pop star with only one person/book/church. God is within all teachings and father to all of us, no distinction.
What is faulty with the Lewis’s argument is that it presents far too few options. There are more possibilities than lunatic, evil liar or God. He could simply be wrong or deluded. You don’t need to be a liar in order to be wrong, and you also don’t really need to be a lunatic in order to be deluded.
@@BrianHoldsworth so you would send a perfectly sane person who eats, drinks and works into an asylum for claiming to be God? Man, that’s not good. There are so many more options. He could’ve been a pantheist, or he could in this way present his ecstatic union with God which happens quite a lot. There was a sufi mystic, Mansur al-Hallaj, who was killed by his fellow Muslims for saying “I am the Truth”. He wasn’t mad, perhaps a little bit eccentric, as any ascetic mystic would be, but he only expressed his union with God in this way. Would you condemn this person for a lifelong sentence in a sanatorium? My guess is that you would just say that he was wrong or deluded. Sure, there is a possibility he made it up, but that’s highly unlikely since he praised God even in the moment of his greatest torment I am not arguing against Jesus’s divinity (although I would admit Hallaj the same ontological status as Jesus), I am against Lewis’s argument, which is in my eyes half baked.
@@thedisintegrador I've had conversations with people who have experienced psychotic breaks. One was verging into messianic territory. He was not functioning in a normal way, at all. He was a danger to himself and to others. That's the point - a person who is so deluded as to think such audacious self-aggrandizement would not also be functioning in normal ways with respect to the rest of their life. In other words those two qualities are incoherent and incompatible - you would not find them present in one individual which is why it's an irrational conclusion to make about Jesus.
This is one of the main reasons I kept my faith when going through a period of doubt
@Jonathan Billings Doubt is a great thing. Just ask yourself in what god(s) you would believe now if you had been born in a different culture and raised in a different religion?! What does that tell you about the truth behind all the about 5000 different religions worldwide?
@@hitman5782 There is some truth in all of them, to a greater or lesser degree.
@@Catholic-Redpilled-Spaniard Really? Can you name any truth in your religion?
Let us praise Jesus without running down other religious leaders..
@@hitman5782 Roman Catholicism built the West after the fall of Rome. It invented universities, hospitals and the scientific method. There's some truth for ya.
Brian, I still find myself coming back to your channel in times of struggle and turmoil. One day, I'll shake your hand and say: "I'm the Catholic Spaniard from your videos". You've helped me tremendously. Thank you.
God bless, brother.
You castillan teached us filipinos Christianity and I thank you for that.
@@vsthewrld6061 Muchas gracias, amigo.
Filipinas fue civilizada por España. Saludos
If you can't manage your own problems alone. You have a problem and you aren't ok yet. Religion will never put something in you, you don't work it on. Put effort, technique, science, reason, and will to get through your problems. Faith is for lazy ones. Don't try to control what it's not supposed to be in anybodies control. First try to control what a normal human being should or could do.
Peace
@@eliuluisdelaguiladelacolin5489 Creo que sé bastante bien lo que tengo que hacer, pero te agradezco tus comentarios. Los problemas de los que estaba hablando eran dudas y crisis de fe, no problemas específicos naturales. Un saludo
Hello from one Catholic Spaniard to another 🫂
This took guts..Thank you
I agree. How many Christian leaders would publicly criticise Islam?
@@tonybamber1137 David Wood (Acts 17 Apologetics) made that his entire forte, and he manages to make it hilarious:
ruclips.net/p/PLsYCe6PgQNj25eC_L0mwWH_1w_kccBKqT
@Jason Aldrich ...the vast majority of Christian leaders do not talk shit about Islam. In this day and age of PC bullshit, such people would be readily crucified.
@@rinzler9171 Lmao everyone on the internet is talking shit about everything stop it with the anti SJW bullshit. I'm mad, you're mad, we're all mad at something.
@@rinzler9171 every christian leader talk shxt about Islam by lying and deceiving the people. You will only know you being lied of you verified the info you being given. Even this guy in the video. Once you verified you know hes just a other lier and deceiver
My journey towards Christ began because of "Mere Christianity." I had graduated from college with a degree in English and someone asked me if I had ever read the Bible. I hadn't and was somewhat ashamed of that fact. To just start reading the Bible for the first time can be a bit overwhelming, so I began with an English professor, CS Lewis., whom I trusted. Lewis first pointed out the truth of God to me. And that was almost thirty years ago!
Thats a pretty awesome experience to be witnessed to by CS Lewis!
God bless everyone who watches this,Amen!
Great video! I believe and confess that Jesus Christ is both human and divine. He is the Son of God and risen from the dead. The Incarnation happened. The death and Resurrection of Jesus happened and he founded his Church on Peter and the Apostles which continues to this day. He promised that he will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and make all things new. History and truth is on our side as followers of Christ.
Lord and king. King of israel.king of kings.
Salvation by the Jews is key
@@ElizaLL0621 “to the Jew first, then the gentile”
It’s part of the answer. I’d often wondered why so many groups like to blame “the Jews” as a scapegoat for so long. When I read my Bible, I realized that the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (later Jesse and David as well) were promised to bless the whole world. With the first advent of Jesus, the firstfruits began to surface and propagate that blessing all over the world, as promised: the knowledge of Yeshua, that salvation is of God and is His son.
Now it seems less curious that the world would want to stamp out the Jews. The Jews are the roots by which our salvation has grown. We’d have no Jesus without Israel, we’d have no Israel without God and His sovereign plan to redeem us. If we are freed and blessed by the LORD himself, we are a threat to the principalities of the world. They’ll do everything they can to destroy our faith. Not gonna happen, God is greatest of all.
I could ruminate on this all day, so I’ll stop myself here. Just wanted to appreciate your recognition of the Jewish people, you don’t see it very much. I’m not even a Jew, I’m thoroughly gentile by blood, but I love the people by whom God showed himself to the whole world.
Thank you, God bless you in the name of Yeshua our Lord :)
And here is how he will return www.twinlogoi.com/post/the-science-of-immortality
And you confessing something does make ridiculous fairytales from the dark age any more true, because...?
This is going in my “help me Jesus” playlist. Thanks a ton! Was experiencing doubts at mass today and got frustrated, but this helps me rebuke doubts. God Bless🙏🏼💙🤝
These videos are so refreshing
Thanks for the courage on Islam Brian
Check out Christian Prince on RUclips bro.
David Wood (Acts 17 Apologetics) made that his entire forte, and he manages to make it hilarious:
ruclips.net/p/PLsYCe6PgQNj25eC_L0mwWH_1w_kccBKqT
Right! Good for him. That took guts!
Hate between religious people taking guts? I really never understand why religious people are so hellbent on divisiveness
@@w.8424 Debating is not divisisive... but Islam will murder you for speaking the truth.
I'm so glad that finally you spoke about Islam with your convincing logic and eloquence.
Great argument.
Islam The Beautiful Religion
( Be Just )
Quran 5:8
'' O you who believe! stand out firmly for God, as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the > HATRED OF OTHERS TO YOU < make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to piety: and fear God. For God is well-acquainted with all that ye do. ''
Quran 4:58
'' Indeed, God commands you to render trusts to whom they are due and when you judge between people to judge with justice. Excellent is that which God instructs you. Indeed, God is ever Hearing and Seeing.''
( God's The Rules Of War )
Quran 2:190
'' Fight in the way of God > THOSE WHO FIGHT YOU < but do not transgress. Indeed. God does not like transgressors. ''
Quran 2 :193
'' And fight them on until there is no more oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in God; but if they cease, Let there be no hostility except to those who practice oppression. ''
Quran 4:90
''.........So if they withdraw from you and cease their hostility and offer you peace, in that case Allah has not granted you permission to fight against them.''
Quran 8:61
''And if they seek peace, then you also seek it, and put your trust in God. He is the Hearer, the Knowledgeable.''
( Stand Up For Justice )
Quran 4 :135
'' Ye who believe! stand out firmly for justice, as witnesses to God, even as against > YOURSELVES < or your parents, or your kin, and whether it be (against) rich or poor: for God can best protect both. Follow not the lusts (of your hearts), lest ye swerve, and if ye distort (justice) or decline to do justice, verily God is well-acquainted with all that ye do.''
( Who Are The Good Human Beings? )
Quran 2.177
'' Righteousness is "NOT" that you turn your faces ( In Worship ) toward the east or the west but [true] righteousness is [in] one who believes in God, the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the prophets and gives wealth,> IN SPITE OF LOVE FOR IT,< to relatives, orphans, the needy, the traveler, those who ask [for help], and for > freeing slaves < [and who] establishes prayer and gives charity; [those who] fulfill their promise when they promise; and [those who] are patient in poverty and hardship and during battle. Those are the ones who have been true, and it is those who are the righteous. ''
( Freedom To Believe And To Reject )
Quran 2:256
'' Let there be no compulsion in religion. Truth stands out clear from error ''
Quran 10:99
'' And had your Lord willed, those on earth would have believed > all of them entirely < Then would you compel the people in order that they become believers? ''
( Tolerance For Other Religions )
Quran 109: 1- 6
Say,"O disbelievers,
I do not worship what you worship.
Nor are you worshipers of what I worship.
Nor will I be a worshiper of what you worship.
Nor will you be worshipers of what I worship.
For you is your religion, and for me is my religion."
( Protection for Idol Worshiper )
Quran 9:6
"And if any one of the polytheists seeks your protection, then grant him protection so that he may hear the words of Allah. Then deliver him to his place of safety. That is because they are people who do not know. "
Quran16:125
“Call people to the way of your Lord with wisdom and good teaching, and argue with them in the most courteous way”
Quran7:199 “Be tolerant....”
( Friendship With Non Muslims )
Quran 60:8
'' God does not forbid you from those who do not fight you because of religion and do not expel you from your homes - from being righteous toward them and acting justly toward them. Indeed, God loves those who act justly. ''
( Do Christians And Jews and "OTHER" non-Muslims go to Heaven? )
Quran 2:62
'' Those who believe (in the Qur'an), and those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Christians and the Sabians,-> ANY { On Judgement Day }
( According to the Quran Christians and Jews worship TRUE God )
(Quran 3:113-114)
'' Not all of them are alike: Of the People of the Book ( Christians and Jews ) are a portion that stand (For the right): They rehearse the Signs of God all night long, and they prostrate themselves in adoration. They believe in God and the Last Day; they enjoin what is right, and forbid what is wrong; and they hasten (in emulation) in (all) good works: They are in the ranks of the righteous.''
Note: According to the Quran that Jesus is not God nevertheless Christians still worship one '' TRUE '' God.
( > Allah < Is The Protector Of Monasteries, Churches, Synagogues And The Mosques )
Quran 22:40
[They are] those who have been evicted from their homes without right - only because they say, "Our Lord is Allah ." And were it not that Allah checks the people, some by means of others, there would have been demolished monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques in which the name of Allah is much mentioned. And Allah will surely support those who support Him. Indeed, Allah is Powerful and Exalted in Might.
( Why Are There So Many Different Religions In The World ? )
Quran 5 48
''...... If God wanted He could have made all of you a > single nation < But He willed otherwise in order to test you in what He has given you;(scriptures) therefore try to excel one another in good deeds. Ultimately you all shall return to God; then He will show you the truth of those matters in which you > DISPUTE submission < to God), never will it be accepted of him; and in the Hereafter He will be in the ranks of those who have lost (Salvation)''
My explanation of above verse
Islam mean > submission < to God
( The above verse saying is that God will not accept a religion from the > MUSLIM < and the Non-Muslims but total > submission < to God.)
Question: How Can Muslim And the Non-Muslim > submit < to the God?
Answer: Be kind to other human beings and Do not lie, Do not steal, Do not cheat, Do not hurt others, Do not be prideful and Do the charity work.
( God Allow Muslims To Marry And Eat Food From the Christian And Jew And Vice Versa )
Quran 5;5
''This day [all] good foods have been made lawful, and the food of those who were given the Scripture ( Christian and Jew) is lawful for you and your food is lawful for them. And [lawful in marriage are] chaste women from among the believers and chaste women from among those who were given the Scripture ( Christian and Jew) before you, when you have given them their due compensation, desiring chastity, not unlawful sexual intercourse or taking [secret] lovers. And whoever denies the faith - his work has become worthless, and he, in the Hereafter, will be among the losers.''
( Kindness Toward Atheists / > APOSTATE < )
Quran 60:8
'' As for such [ of the unbelievers ( atheist) ] as do not fight against you on account of [your] faith, and neither drive you forth from your homelands, > Allah < does not forbid you to show them > kindness < and to behave towards them with full equity: for, verily, Allah loves those who act equitably. ''
( All The Terrorists / Killers Will Enter Hell Fire )
Quran 5:32
"......Whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land - it is as if he had slain mankind entirely......"
( Turned Your Enemies Into Your Best Friends )
Quran 41:34
"The good deed and the evil deed are not alike. Repel the evil deed with one which is better, then lo! he, between whom and thee there was enmity (will become) as though he was a bosom friend."
( The Husband and The Wife Are > Protecting Friends < One Of Another )
Quran 9:71
''And the believers, men and women, are > Protecting Friends < one of another; they enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, and they establish worship and they pay the poor-due, and they obey God and His messenger. As for these, God will have mercy on them. Lo! God is Mighty, Wise.''
Quran16:97
“To whoever, male or female, does good deeds and has faith, We shall give a good life and reward them according to the best of their actions.
Quran 30:21
“And of His signs is that He created for you from yourselves mates that you may find tranquility in them; and He placed between you > affection and mercy { Love }
The Prophet Muhammad said, “The best among you is the best to his wife”
( Human Are One family )
Quran 49:13
" O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). Verily the most honored of you in the sight of God is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And God has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things)."
( All The Racist People Will Enter Hellfire )
Quran 30:22
"And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your languages and your colors. Indeed in that are signs for those of knowledge."
My comment:
The > BASIC < message of God to the human is that '' YOU '' believe in God and be kind to other human beings / > animals < and in the > RETURNED < God will > REWARD < you with a new life in Paradise.
* The Quran ONLY guides you how to become a good human being "Nothing Else".
* You are a good human being or a bad human being that is YOUR choice.
* No one can force you to become a good human being.
* You MUST work HARD to become a good human being.
* Why should ''YOU'' do good deeds and avoid bad deeds?
* Do Good - it's for You. Do Bad - It's against you.
* '' YOUR'' life is a TEST from God that you will choose to do either Good or Bad.
* Find the excuse to help others and forgive others NOT the other way around.
* '' YOUR '' final destination is either Hell or Heaven.
* So work HARD toward choice of YOUR destination.
Quran 17:7
'' If you do good, you will do so for your own good. And if you do evil, it will be to your own loss.''
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@@Syed_12 doesn't this prove his point? most of these verses are from Makka now take a look at verses from Madina
(remember The Christians and Jews of Medina also considered unbelievers)
9:123
You, you those who believed, fright/kill those who follow/near you evilly from the disbelievers, and they should find in you strength/coarseness , and know that God (is) with the fearing and obeying.
47: 4
When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks, then, when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds; then set them free, either by grace or ransom, till the war lays down its loads. So it shall be; and if God had willed, He would have avenged Himself upon them; but that He may try some of you by means of others. And those who are slain in the way of God, He will not send their works astray.
8: 38
And fight/kill them until (there) be no misguidance/betrayal , and the religion, all of it be to God, so if they ended/stopped , so that God (is) seeing/knowing with what they make/do .
33:61
cursed they shalt be, and wheresoever they are come upon they shall be seized and slaughtered all -
5:33
This is the recompense of those who fight against God and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth, to do corruption there: they shall be slaughtered, or crucified, or their hands and feet shall alternately be struck off; or they shall be banished from the land. That is a degradation for them in this world; and in the world to come awaits them a mighty chastisement,
9:29
Fight/kill those who do not believe with God and nor the Day the Last/Resurrection Day, and do not forbid/prohibit what God and His messenger forbid/prohibited, and do not take/adopt a religion the correct/right religion from those who were given/brought The Book (Jews and Christians) , until they give/hand over the fee paid by non-Moslems living in a Moslem society from a hand, and (while) they are subservient/humiliated .
4:89
They wish that you should disbelieve as they disbelieve, and then you would be equal; therefore take not to yourselves friends of them, until they emigrate in the way of God; then, if they turn their backs, take them, and slay them wherever you find them; take not to yourselves any one of them as friend or helper
8:12
When thy Lord was revealing to the angels, ‹I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast into the unbelievers› hearts terror; so smite above the necks, and smite every finger of them!›
9:5
Then when the Sacred Months (the Ist, th, th, and th months of the Islamic calendar) have passed, then kill the Mushrikoon (see V.:) (referring to Christians) wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and prepare for them each and every ambush. But if they repent and perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat), and give Zakat, then leave their way free. Verily, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.
It was not all, I hope it was useful
@@Metarig 9:123 O ye who believe! fight the unbelievers who gird you about, and let them find firmness in you: and know that Allah is with those who fear Him.
@@Syed_12 I sent you the literal translation it has both the meaning of fighting and killing. it's funny that you ignore the other verses that are clearly a call for killing and just focused on this verse but this verse is also a call for killing. regarding that other verses are a call for killing without a shadow of a doubt which you confirm it's logical to conclude this verse is also a call for killing also they fight To plunder their property, kill men and boys, force them to convert to I --- slam, take beautiful women and girls and sell them as s --- ex slaves in the bazaar of Medina, executing old or ugly women, and separate the most beautiful women for M --- uhammad. According to his own law, the most beautiful women are his share. Just as they always did, and as they did in the case of the Jewish tribes, including the Bani Q---urayzah, where about 900 people were beheaded by A---li in Medina on M---uhammad's orders, and as I---SIL did when it attacked the Yazidi tribes, exactly according to the teachings of Islam.
I sent it several times but apparently, youtube deleted it so I changed some of the words hopefully the AI won't recognize what it is about
Again one brilliant video Brian..greetings from Croatia.
Ima nas, bas lijepo vidjet 🙏🏻
@@ninodjuras ima ima brate..Brian je odličan jel da?
@@bernardokrolo2275 Taman rece sve sto mi mislimo dok smo pod tusem i slazemo debate 😂👌
@@ninodjuras hahaha..upravo tako..nisam na prvu shvatio što hoćeš reći onda mi je sinulo..je..u pravu si..sviđa mi se tvoj način razmišljanja..dobar uvid
@@bernardokrolo2275 A kad je tako, treba biti fakat brz u glavi za vodit uspjesne debate i branit Vjeru. Brian, Trent Horn, Ravi Zacharias i Frank Turek su vrh u tome 👌
Christianity is a very difficult religion to follow as well as to understand fully. If it had been crafted by men only to attract followers, it would certainly be simpler to understand (no such things as the Trinity etc) and less demanding in terms of selflessness.
So many Europeans are searching for truth nowadays, but they fail to realize that it is in front of their noses.
Yes :/
@@davidus9702 exactly
Precisely. Thank you for stating this
@@davidus9702 in fact Christianity destroyed itself when people of authority decided to edit the word of God,
They Placed symbols in their churches and statues to worship and then they put mother Mary and Angels in their churches and they worship them , Didn't jesus say don't worship any statues or idols or symbols ? Even of him, isn't it considered that as direct deviation from God???! and then instead of worshipping The God, Christians worship Jesus for mercy and salvation, isn't it considered that as direct violation to first and seconde commandments of the God???
Great reasoning and will present it to those who dismiss Jesus as the son of God. Even when I share my story with them, they still do not believe in Him.
My story: After a near death accident and a Traumatic Brain Injury, my brain was in the state like that of a new born baby. I did not know what I was, who I was, how to talk, walk or anything about life, BUT, I knew that there was a God. In my mind I told God that He had made a mistake and should have taken me. On more than one occasion I sent out the same thought to God. I was in terrible pain and could and could not open my eyes to share my sadness, or move any part of my body. In the hospital, I was known as the miracle patient because none of the surgeons thought I would survive.
After one of my cries to God, Jesus came to me, took my pain from all the broken and crushed bones and titanium implants and told me three things that helped me navigate through all the hurdles of recovery. It has been 7 years since that beautiful time with Jesus and I would experience everything again to get another second with Him.
My time with Jesus gave me a thirst that this life with never quench and I am so grateful for this second chance at life and try to share my story with others. We are all children of our Lord Jesus Christ, the son of God and He want us all with Him. If I can bring only one person into the kingdom of heaven then I have lived well.
God Bless everyone and know that you are all deeply loved by our Heavenly Father, His son Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit. 🙏🏼
When I had doubt, I learned about science, psychology, hypnosis, propaganda, and our emotional connection to concepts or things. Took me two years and I can now say unequivocally I no longer have doubt. I was lied to.
Brian have you been reading CS Lewis Mere Christianity?
Lots of things you say are in the book, i highly recommend
It played a key role in his conversion, I believe. A lot of his content seems to come from there.
read belloc
Not lately, but that's where the trilemma argument I mentioned at the beginning comes from.
@@BrianHoldsworth I read recently that Lewis was actually restating an ancient argument, rather than constructing it. Just something cool! :) thank you for your videos
Lewis, Chesterton, and Tolkien are often my go-to authors when it comes to evangelizing, be it with "nones", Muslims, etc. I do wonder if our prelates have ever quoted them.
The thing that I feel is a strong argument is the fact that the all of the Apostles, in an instant, went from men cowering in a room out of sight to such an emboldened, vocal group when they saw the resurrected Jesus and then were willing to die to further the Church.
These are the things I I meditate upon when I pray the third glorious mystery of the Rosary. I'm thinking: wow, that fire which Jesus sent from Heaven made the apostles do all of these things and evangelise the whole world and they're the reason I am Catholic today!
Prophet = truth teller. Brian = prophet.
A very steady and footsure march through the essential facts. You present the Gospel with simplicity and strength. God bless your evangelism and ministry, young sir.
This is one of the most compelling apologetics that I have ever heard in my life! The evidence that Jesus is who He claims to be is absolutely overwhelming!
Anyone here speak fluent Chinese? (mandarin/cantonese). Could you check and see if the simplified Chinese subtitles (auto generated) are somewhat on point and not too bad? Love this video and would like to share with in-married relatives.
For future reference, I now have on good authority that the chinese auto-generated subtitles are good and makes sense.
Well I'm convinced.
Very well presented. Clear and simple for any and all Christian denominations. The very basis on which the Christian faith stands. Thanks.
This video and your meditation on the “Nativity” scene at the Vatican are just wonderful gifts for these hopeless, locker down times. Merry Christmas Mr. Holdsworth, and thank you!
You put this together really well. I can share this to evangelize non believers. May Jesus✝ bring peace to your life as he has mine.
Modern people look down on history as it was some sort of calcified museum. Of course, if you just look for facts, you will never find any meaning. To find Christ, one must assume that history is alive, and engage personally with it through imagination. If you just read the Bible with your magnifying glass, and try to scrutinize everything with your analytical mind, it won't reveal any magic. Once you start engaging with the stories, Jesus comes to you. Hence you become a Christian, someone who has bonded personally with Jesus. Now, whether he was who he said he was, let's leave that up to God, eh? The Bible talks about the fall as a consequence of overthinking and intellectual pride, basically. Yet that's all modern people do. How about an act of humility and submission?
Praise be Jesus Christ!
Didn't Jesus say to Thomas, who doubted him, put his finger through his wounds and exclaimed, "My Lord, and my God!":
"You now see, and believe.
Blessed are those who do not see, and believe" (Off memory, paraphrased).
If Jesus is the Door, the Gateway, you simply must believe HE is who he said he was.
I am a middle eastern Christian (Catholic) who has been watching your videos for a while and I like your approach and respect the work and effort you put to profoundly research your topics and generate these videos.
Despite the fact that throughout history we have suffered a lot from Muslims and specially the Turks, this is without talking about the civil wars and the suffering caused and regardless of whether what you say about the Islamic prophet is true or not I don't think you need to take him as an example to prove that Jesus is the son of God since your point has already been proven till before you made the comparison. The approach is inflammatory and this would only alienate Muslims who may have even otherwise even a slight chance see the light and convert to Christianity. I read some reports since some time of Jesus and Mary miraculously appearing to some Muslims (who later converted) so who are we to judge to them (I readily admit it is not very easy for me personally to forget and forgive what I have personally witnessed)? Even though Muslims believe that Jesus is only a prophet they respect Mary the mother of our Lord Jesus the son and some of them even pray for her to heal them. Now this doesn't mean in any way that we should let our guard down but to be fair the main attack on Christianity and Christian values these days does not truly come from Muslims (Isis did not truly see widespread support from them and is probably only a political/military tool created and nurtured by some intelligence agency) but the real danger comes from the atheist and brainwashed people and those behind them and financing their ideology which is even infiltrating Eastern Christian societies and recently even Muslim society. The laws being passed and the media and movies that dishonor our faith and make it very difficult for faithful parents to raise their children according to Christian values specially in the west are not being created, passed, planned, or financed by Muslims. When the Muslims were at the peak of their power they were defeated in France, Spain, the crusades, and in Austria in front of Vienna as well as other places. Eastern Christians (7th to 19th century) were not as lucky but despite suffering humiliation the Muslims allowed them to practice their faith while having to pay taxes and enduring harassments from time to time but nothing compared to the scale endured by the Christians in Ukraine under the communists. Even the vicious Turks did not become as murderess until the last two decades of the 19th century (extermination of Armenians, Syriac, and a third of the Christians in Mount Lebanon during ww1) which raises certain questions that I will not get into now. So to give examples of how some people idolized by those who follow their ideology are not extraordinary people but are nothing but greedy and vicious people easily corrupted by power and become very evil and despotic when they are able, it would have been enough in my humble opinion to give only those examples unrelated to Muslims that you gave. I tend to fear those who corrupt the soul more than those who would threaten to or actually cause only physical harm through violence, war, and unrest.
With love and respect.
Hey, I'm really respect your view in fact I don't want to answer about the political topic that you mentioned because I don't well in politics and I'm just want to start any arguments because I respect your faith anyway I'm just want to show that Islam which exposes the true teachings of Jesus Christ. Islam is an embodiment of the complete, final and universal form of the message which Jesus had prophesied,
muslims respect and venerate Jesus Christ they consider him to be one of God’s greatest messengers to humankind. and his mother Mary is regarded as one of the most pure and exalted women of all creation, Three chapters of the Quran feature the life of Jesus, his mother Mary and their family,there is a chapter in the Quran named Mary and she is mentioned 34 times in the Quran, She is honored greatly in Islam,each reveals details not found in the Bible, Jesus (pbuh) is mentioned in the Quran by name five times more than the number of times the prophet of Islam is mentioned in the Book of God,in islame one cannot be a Muslim without believing in Jesus, The Holy Quran, the holy scripture of Islam, is the intact and pure word of God, in which we can trust with full confidence. By enjoining belief in all prophets, Islam invites the world to a common platform of unity, love, brotherhood and peace. Islam stands for the true honour of Jesus. Through lslam alone will be
Here is a way more logical fourth option: He is a legend.
Most likely a real person called Jesus existed, and he was a very charismatic human, and like it always is with such people, after his death people imagined stories about him, and the more time passed these stories became more and more supernatural.
You seem to have missed the point: the point being that the first followers of Jesus were witnessing, ie. sharing eye witness accounts, their own lives experiences, and were prepared to endure terrible torture and persecution becuase of their conviction. No one does that for a lie or a legend.
@@m.forrestal5893 Dude, i hate to ruin your favorite fairytale but no, the authors of the gospels have not been eyewitnesses, and not even Christian scholars make this claim. All the stories about him have been written at least decades after his supposed death.
They wrote down stories people told at the fire in the evenings, like people did with Hercules or Achilles, probably all based on real humans.
And that Christians are willing to die for their crazy religion is nothing to be proud of. there has literally never been a reason dumb enough that not countless people would have been willing to die for it. Take Islam for example, way more Muslims are willing to die for their faith than Christians, does that make Allah 1% more real? There have been sects where over 80% of all members committed suicide for their gods, does that make their gods any more real? No? Good, your point?
Thank you for these videos, I grew up in Jesus, but I have also been on a quest to prove All religions, if indeed they benefit their followers, and bear "Fruit" as the Bible states. I have study, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Baha'i, New Age, and other Sects, to actually see if worshipping "Many Gods", or Worshipping Buddha, Mohammed, etc., has brought their followers peace and prosperity, if their home lands are thriving, If their families are thriving, I am also searching to see if Christians actually bear fruit and have been blessed by their beliefs in Jesus, as the Bible states Continue to Seek the Truth and that is what we All should do.
Hey 😃 I'm a Muslim and I really appreciate your quest to find out for the truth and your seeking to knowing about other different religions
"I only came for the lost sheep of the house of Israel." ~Jesus Christ in Mathew 15:24
That final argument is what gets me. A lot of his followers were, for the standards of the time, quite middle class (like Peter who was a tradesman and specifically a fisherman) or even uper class (like Paul who was a roman citizen and the modern equivalent of a lawyer and prosecutor). Furthermore, those followers werent spiritual seekers in the eastern sense and judaism was at the time a very materialistic and even martial religion. They werent the kind of meditative new age people that would find a guru interesting. And yet, they lost everything and were tortured just to affirm the divinity and ressurection of some dead (supposedly) jewish prisioner. Frankly, this is an attitude someone would expect from the spartans, who were willing to die just for honor, or the supremely stupid. You can call Peter anything, but not brave. You can call Paul anything, but not stupid.
Brian, your videos are awesome, but this is one of your best !!! Will attempt to share it with some of my atheist family and friends!!
This was one of the best apologetic breakdowns of the resurrection I've ever heard
Wow! I stumbled onto this video by mistake. Fantastic video Brian! Thanks!
The fact that it is social acceptable to believe in positive or negative powers does not equate that we should believe in jesus.. it means that we should investigate the validity of both
Except people are predisposed in their I investigations in discounting anything that points to Christ's divinity.
"People do not come back from the dead, therefore there must be another reason" is not exactly unbiased reasoning.
Excellent! -mr Burns
Reason! And faith! I believe.
"No photo available." Love it!!
Brian - your channel is gonna explode in 2021
Brian's episodes are shown on KTO Catholic channel in France regularly en VF.
One of your best videos yet Brian!
Amazing... Glory to Jesus christ our Lord God...
Very good presentation!
"no photo available" LOL. I spit my beer out my nose, thanks!
I laughed at that too 😂
Catholicsm has the most coherent doctrine. The fact that these backwood bunches could come up with the most coherent religion proved the truth of Christianity.
Hey Brian, have you seen David woods testimony video? It's on his channel, Acts17apoligetics
He should totally see it. I loved it!!!
I see no problem with Mohammad as a man of great achievement.
Thank you Brian.
This was so good, thank you for this and all you do! God bless!!
I'd refrain from attacking other religions' prophets
He was both and. He was both the son of God AND a great moral teacher.
When I was having a crisis of faith, this is the kind of flawed reasoning and lack of self-awareness that pushed me over the edge into atheism, thank you Brian keep up the good work!
What is flawed here?
@@dalaicavalcanti8106 Great question! Many things were flawed, I'd have to re-watch to remember all of them as I've not seen this in a month, but the most glaring flaw I remember is that Brian thinks the Old Testament points to Jesus as the Messiah, but the Jews are correct in their arguments that it most certainly does NOT point to Jesus. If Christians misunderstand the Old Testament this bad, it raises some red flags as to their ability to critically analyze their own holy scripture in the New Testament.
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First video I’ve found from you and I’m already hooked
I don't want to be a pain, but I really want to know.
I remember you've mention a few times what you would like in terms of the design of a chapel (Hogwarts Hall-like, I remember you saying).
I'd love to know how you would design a chapel, what specific music you would like, liturgy, art, architecture and so on.
You clearly have great insights on art & design, so I think your perspective would be really interesting
Wow this was amazing, I had a uh-hu moment during, realized my loooong journey to find faith and God, he was right there
Unable to share this video on Facebook....it doesn't properly link no matter whether I just try and share or copy and paste, etc. Anyone else having this problem?
I wonder why it is happening?!
By seeing how the majority of people now believe everything said on the news,
I actually can see how it would be possible for people to be convinced of Jesus existing if He were actually not to exist. The other thing, as has been mentioned in the video, is it would be illogical for the perpetuators of the Jesus conspiracy because there was no materialistic gain. So that selflessness alone is enough for me to see that Jesus did touch their hearts.
Yeah, it’s one thing for a follower to die for his belief in Christ because he trusts what John said he saw.
It’s entirely different for John to die for what John saw.
It was also said that he would be called Emanuel.
The first Christians literally experience the most gruesome death imagine able. How can our faith be any less than theirs?
Just found your channel and I'm so glad I did! You are amazing!
Excellent
0:20 Trilemma somewhat misquoted.
CSL said "a man _saying those things_ either is etc."
Meaning, he was conscious some disputed Christ existed, he was conscious some considered Him misquoted, and he was just not dealing with that at the moment.
Also, if Christ was God, anyone else (barring Father and Holy Spirit who do not incarnate) claiming to be so would be either a liar or a lunatic.
1:42 Fourth position is not part of the trilemma nor needing to be, and CSL had already spoken out for exact historicity of Gospels as first hand accounts.
On literary grounds.
People are easily deceived. Many still believe that Francis is Catholic and Pope.
Long live Jesus Christ 🙏🏻. Muslims need to learn about the truth. May lord Jesus Christ bless them and guide them to the real path.
One of two, or it is the most transcendental, ironic, and beautiful "lie" in history or it is true, and Christ was divine. that's where faith comes in, I had a terrible period of doubts, but the sacrifice of the apostles is the only thing that keeps me believing.
This was great! I’m a Christian but if I wasn’t this might have convinced me!
Brian, I live in a Muslim republic and would love to show your video to my Muslim friends, but I know their response uniformly would be anger and resentment. They would see it as a challenge to their faith. Yet when my best Muslim friend (my landlord, actually) and I were lightly discussing our religious differences, he asked me point blank, 'Do you really believe God has a Son?' I replied instantly, 'Yes!' and smiled.
Hey Brother 😃 don't be resented from some muslims answers, I'm Muslim so we can open an peaceful conversation and talking about this topic with respect of each other, you can ask me anything you want
@@rahimerayane4298 Thank you, my friend, for your open-heartedness. My way is not to question others or challenge anyone's beliefs, only to try to live my own life in accordance with my Christianity. I often think, however, that all faiths, Muslim included, are welcome into all Christian churches and yet I, as a Christian, am debarred from entering mosques. That would be my only question for you: Why is this? And by the way, I am a sister, not a brother!
@@yukyukyuk1335 ohh I'm really sorry I thought you are man, my apologies sister, anyway as a Muslim i love everybody and their beliefs despite our differences im really respect your view ,and i appreciate what you said ,we may disagree about our faith and about what we believe but we agree that we are humans , so i respect everyone as humans although i don't know them and I had never met them, in fact you can enter any mosque you want and you are welcome anytime you want 😃
The next question is : how reliable the bible is ? How did it start, authors , date. I have no doubt the are very good answer to all this. I have order a book about this specific topic but I would love an introduction with you :D
I already walked that path, and believe me, it's very hard, and you can end up losing your faith, you will find many mysteries, strange origins, theories, people who not having all the answers they "wanted" stopped believing, or because what they were taught as children of the bible or what some doctrines affirm are not quite true, either with nuances, or not exactly what they expected, a long pile of questions, that you don't expect to find answers once my personal research ended in a single fact "the resurrection" believe me, you can put the whole bible in doubt, but it all comes back to the resurrection of Christ, there is the great paradigm.
it was thanks to a friend who studies with the same people in charge of
scriptures of the dead sea and he is a friend of great agnostic theologians and also believers, that I was able to go ahead believing, he helped me with a lot of difficult points, and taught me how to continue, for me he was a lifesaver after a long period of doubt and search, many of my pillars of faith fell down in the process and I had to rebuild some and others, but in the end, only one thing remained, Christ, resurrected or not. that's the miracle! i decided to believe in that great fact! i believe the apostles told the truth . i believe it, and i follow Jesus, if you want to make that journey, get ready and hold on to your faith because you will need it.
@@BUILDINGFUTUREX thanks for your testimony , I found myself wanting to believe. Being raise as atheist, I found that our culture lead us to addiction and false premises. Everything is about right now, responding to feeling, falling to consider other, without teaching us about consequences or a better outcome. The Catholic faith seems to want us to flourish, to pretect us from what ever the culture sell as healthy ( but drive us to addiction, selfishness and loosing important value and teaching). For all this I want to believe is true and be part of the community.
@@ravaeric6458
As a researcher historian I have found All Bible versions are false
Because according to the christians scholars, they have agreed that the Gospel writers were anonymous.. we don't know who wrote it, whether they were really eyewitness or not,. and by the way who are those who the Christians refer so confidently like Luke, Mark, Mathew, John etc, who were they? they took the Gospels together and just wrote the stories down didn't they?? so who were they? what were their real names? what do you know about their histories and where are the biographies of them? by internal evidence in The Bible that that neither Matthew, Mark, Luke or John were eyewitnesses to the life and teaching of Jesus,and the Gospels of Luke and Mark were not written by Companions Of Jesus. hence their testimony, and therefore The New Testament, is unreliable. the Gospel writers cannot be regarded as reliable as they were not eyewitnesses to Jesus’ life and teachinngs
On the other hand paul was not even one of the 12 disciples.. he assumed command by usurping the true disciples and then he hijacked so The doctrine of Christianity has been infiltrated and modified by paul so The Christianity nowadays is more of Paul's Christianity rather then Jesus's Christianity,
This was a really solid video. Well presented arguments.
"Some say that Jesus was a great moral teacher but not son of god" goes the argument, but since Jesus claimed the he was divine, he surely must have been, otherwise he would not be a great moral teacher. Bullshit. After hearing this argument I lost appetite to watch the rest of the "argumentation". What if some thought that he was neither divine nor a great moral teacher?
If you are good you don't lie.
@@Herghun And if you lie you are not good. What is more probable, that he lied or that he was the son of god? How many liars have we seen during our life or throughout he course of history, and how many sons of god?
@@jonlang2781 Yes thats the point of the video. Jesus is not a mear liar. His teaching is perfect, it bears good fruit. His life is examplary.
I have no difficulty beliving he is God. My goal on this earth is to be happy, and it's when I follow his exapmles that I am the most happy. Sometimes it doesn't feel good at all but it still manages to bring happiness. I must addmit, by experience I am forced to say; he is just the best, he is flawless his teaching is truth and is living. He is truth. Never something brought so much life in me than his simple words.
I’ve just found your channel. May ask a question? What religion do you follow? Thanks 🇬🇧
I think christianity
@Sophia G. sorry but I thought christianity and Catholic are similars
Catholicism is one of the many types of Christianity.
God bless you
History shows us that once a great leader dies there is always a lot of infighting for control. This did not happen with Christ's followers.
Do you mean like Alexander the Great or Genghis Khan? Because they both possessed empires which were fought over when they died. Jesus had nothing like this which could be fought over
@@phillipbrandel7932 How many followed Christ during his ministry, 12, 100, 1000s? In terms of religion perhaps the early disputes amongst Mohammad's followers would be a good example.
An atheist friend of mine wonders if Jesus was just mistaken about himself. That would not make him a lunatic.
I think it's pretty hard to just be mistaken about whether or not you're God... I think that would fall into the lunatic category.
Kinda hard to be mistaken about yourself and
Raise people from the dead.
@@PInk77W1 Obviously an atheist is going to reject miracle claims.
@@barry.anderberg
Wonders is not the same as
Reject
Claims
Miracles
Wonders implies open to or speculates
Exactly. Look at Joan of Arc. To most of us she was just of extreme faith who was deluded. It’s perfectly possible in a time of , in today’s perspective, zealous religious communities for someone kind and visionary to believe themselves to be the son of god but not be it and not be mad. There were others before Jesus who believed themselves to be the messiah. We aLso have the fact that other legendary figures were claimed to be of virgin birth etc.
If you really believe Mohammed was deluded yet managed to persuade others and and convince others of miracles etc it isn’t impossible for other religions to be based on essentially falsehood yet the people involved believing passionately and wanting to do gods will
I personally don’t think it inconceivable that Jesus was of divine origin but more question , as Muslims do, the whole god split into three trinity and also the idea of god wanting or needing to make himself incarnate and then sacrificing himself. It must be nice to have faith. I clearly don’t
Very well said.
I would love for you to address the OT prophesies regarding the Messiah that Jesus did not fulfill. The Jewish arguments I've heard state that the Messiah cannot fulfill only some of the prophesies.
What do you think about the fact that Gehenna is not actually a metaphysical hell but a valley near Jerusalem where dead corpses were laid to burn? (the fire was perpetual so that is the eternal fire of Gehenna)
Wow. Best explanation I’ve seen
Really? Just came out of a coma?
Dear sir, if you would write a book containing all the argumentation of your latest videos (and more, it's just that I remember those the best), I would definitely consider buying it.
The title says it all, a book by Lee Strobel The case for Christ.
what I am saying is that in general, people believe all sorts of things all the time, and die for those those believes and many times those believes are crazy
There is a big difference from someone blowing themselves up for 72 virgins who hasn't seen any evidence their book is true, and 11 disciples getting tortured to death for refusing to recant their claims that they saw something miraculous with their own eyes.
Great video!
There are more than 3 choices. He may not have existed at all, he may have existed but the stories were exaggerated by people who truly believed. He may have been a written compilation of more than one person. He may have simply been a continuation of previous deities stories. Shall we go on?
No need, smart guy; all that falls under the "legend" heading, already
@@thstroyur He may have been a space alien, he may have been a glizt in the matrix, he may have been Satan deceiving us....
@@paulbolton4929 "He may have been a space alien" So might've been Tiberius Caesar, or your grandma
"he may have been a glizt in the matrix" So might've been the monkeys that may've crawled out of your asshole
"he may have been Satan deceiving us" Wait - so you'd believe in Satan, but Jesus' deity is simply off-limits? Figures 😂
@@paulbolton4929 anything is possible except Christ being exactly what he said he was?
That's rich.
@@rinzler9171 Your the ones who believe what he was borders on the impossible. I think he was a teacher/Rabbi who was written into a god. Not the first time that's happened, and most probable.
Brilliant exposition.
where did you find that Jesu claimed to be divine, just curious.
Great video. Sadly, many who resist to believe are not critical thinkers, but sluggish, mocking people who don't need to come out of their 'comfort zone'
For clarity - be clear that the canonical gospels were written anonymously. It was iraneus who stated who the authors were. This was to give more credence to the validity of the stories. Matthew and John were illiterate Aramaic speakers who could not possibly compose writings in Greek.
interesting
Lol, no worries Brian, my older sister (who converted from Catholic to agnostic, and more or less two years ago decided to call herself atheist) will still claim that there was no Jesus, and that Christianity actually started way later than what we claim, like in II or even III century, so yeah :)
Amazing brother praise God!
I realize that this is off topic but I'd like to know your thoughts. Catholics do not believe in euthanasia but are we allowed to refuse treatment that could prolong life artificially. I'm thinking of signing a Living Will which in my country states that I may not be put on life-sport machines. I also want to include that l do not want to be intubated if I get Covid 19. I'm old, diabetic and my heart beats too fast, a prime candidate for this disease.
Fabulous!! Well done!!
I'd like to see a response to all of my points and questions please
lol
Very well said Brian. Thanks for this video!
I loved this.
This is brilliant... the truth...
Pray for all religions who believe they have the one and only prophet/son of god as if god manifested on earth and sign an exclusivity contract like a pop star with only one person/book/church. God is within all teachings and father to all of us, no distinction.
Great video essay.
What is faulty with the Lewis’s argument is that it presents far too few options. There are more possibilities than lunatic, evil liar or God. He could simply be wrong or deluded. You don’t need to be a liar in order to be wrong, and you also don’t really need to be a lunatic in order to be deluded.
Being wrong about being God incarnate isn't an honest mistake. It's a psychotic delusion. IOW - Lunatic.
@@BrianHoldsworth so you would send a perfectly sane person who eats, drinks and works into an asylum for claiming to be God? Man, that’s not good.
There are so many more options. He could’ve been a pantheist, or he could in this way present his ecstatic union with God which happens quite a lot. There was a sufi mystic, Mansur al-Hallaj, who was killed by his fellow Muslims for saying “I am the Truth”. He wasn’t mad, perhaps a little bit eccentric, as any ascetic mystic would be, but he only expressed his union with God in this way. Would you condemn this person for a lifelong sentence in a sanatorium? My guess is that you would just say that he was wrong or deluded. Sure, there is a possibility he made it up, but that’s highly unlikely since he praised God even in the moment of his greatest torment
I am not arguing against Jesus’s divinity (although I would admit Hallaj the same ontological status as Jesus), I am against Lewis’s argument, which is in my eyes half baked.
@@thedisintegrador I've had conversations with people who have experienced psychotic breaks. One was verging into messianic territory. He was not functioning in a normal way, at all. He was a danger to himself and to others. That's the point - a person who is so deluded as to think such audacious self-aggrandizement would not also be functioning in normal ways with respect to the rest of their life. In other words those two qualities are incoherent and incompatible - you would not find them present in one individual which is why it's an irrational conclusion to make about Jesus.