The Case for Christ explained in 16 minutes

[@tdachel1]

Where's the rest? It just cut off...

[@MaybeGodPodcast]

Here ya go! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWa5pmOeaNCffpY

[@tdachel1]

@@MaybeGodPodcast Thank you, God† bless.

[@Spade976]

Jesus was trying to spare you

[@valinorean4816]

@@MaybeGodPodcast Hi! As someone from a Soviet culture (now an immigrant in the USA) I believe that the resurrection was staged by the Romans, as explained in a popular book where I'm from - "The Gospel of Afranius"; like many others, I read it in childhood and never thought about this question again - until coming to the USA and noticing a stark contrast in the discussion of this question. What's wrong with that explanation?? I'm confused, what am I missing here?.. (This work was praised in "Nature", skeptical biblical scholar Carlos Colombetti called it "a worthy addition to the set of naturalistic hypotheses that have been proposed", and apologist Lydia McGrew grudgingly acknowledged that it is "consistent with the evidence".)

[@blseitz1]

@@valinorean4816 I don’t understand how someone who died nearly 50 years before Christ was born, can claim that the resurrection of Christ was staged by the Romans.

[@l456tatertot3]

I read Lee’s book and found it very informative and helpful. I was raised as a Conservative Jew and I believe my people got it wrong, Yeshua is the messiah, I’m so thankful the Holy Spirit lead me to that conclusion

[@cvent8454]

Welcome and thank you for your testimony. Jesus is Lord, sing His praises and He will change your life if people would only seek Him. God bless you 🙏🙏

[@Thruevangelisteyes]

Wow ! What a testimony you must have. And now it’s our turn to make a statement. 🙏🏼🎶 So , are you ready to tell someone else about Jesus ?

[@loufonz8679]

@@Thruevangelisteyesgetting ready, but need to learn more. 😊

[@Thruevangelisteyes]

@@loufonz8679 Lou , praise God. Psalm 145:19 What an honor we have been given. 🎶🙏🏼

[@CyrusYehudah3000]

I am glad you saw this truth I am very glad. If you knew how much I desire that the house of Isra'el gets to know the truth of their saviour, that it was Yehoshua whom they had crucified with their own hands. If indeed they know this truth, and accept it, the blood of the saviour which indeed they claimed to be upon them, will really be upon them, but this time not unto judgement/condemnation, but unto salvation and redemption; which indeed Yehoshua came for. I imagined most of the time as the Apostle Paul wrote, that if the downfall of the Jews brought about the salvation of the Gentiles, how much more will their rising be? Indeed it will be even as potent as the resurrection of the dead. I long for the days of the rising and the recognition of the house of Isra'el unto their saviour and our saviour Yehoshua ha Mashiyach. Shalom. 🤍

[@lawrencebernstein317]

I was raised a conservative Jew as well. Years ago through Scripture, The Ruach Ha Kodesh opened up my eyes to see Jesus is the Messiah, the King of the Jews and Saviour of all ethnic groups in the world. Oh happy day ...!!!

[@pvmoore1154]

What is the Ruach Ha Kodesh? Thank you.

[@amandanordin7228]

Wow that is so amazing!! Praise God!! I'm so happy that you found Christ as a jew!!

[@jeffreymilitante4597]

​@@pvmoore1154 it means "The Holy Spirit"

[@pvmoore1154]

@@jeffreymilitante4597 Thank you kindly. I had looked it up and made the connection. God bless

[@Matzah1982]

I’m Jewish as well with modern orthodox leanings and I find it to be interesting that in Torah in Devarim (Deuteronomy) 24:16 it teaches that a man may not be put to death for the sin of another man so how can Mashiach be a human sacrifice sin offering dying for sinful humanity? Not only that but repeatedly in the servant songs in Yeshayahu (Isaiah) chapters 41 to 55 HaShem calls Israel his servant so how can Isaiah 53 be about Mashiach when Israel is the servant of HaShem and it’s about the suffering servant? In the Hebrew it even says in Isaiah 53 ‘’nega lamo’’ meaning ‘’a blow to us’’

[@777Witness]

Brothers and sisters. Please pray for me. For about 15 years I have been struggling with debilitating sickness that's made my life unberable. I am in my mid 30s and would love to still have strength to serve my Savior and Lord. Jesus is my Healer. Thank you all 🙏🏻 Please also pray that God grants me strength to go through this valley with humility and thankfulness.

[@TanyaPollard-MemoryStones]

Praying for you! Praying God shows you why He allowed this (He has a good reason), that He changes your thinking in whatever way He needs to so you can receive the healing, and that all of your sickness and symptoms are gone in the name of Jesus. By His stripes you are healed. (Isa 53:5)

[@kamrynrainntree695]

I'm also praying for you too. Jesus is everything. He is faithful and he is good. Believe him because according to your faith you are healed.

[@mtambov2351]

Ahhh, why doesn't he just grant your wishes? I guess he enjoys your suffering. And since he caused the problem in the first place, he really is winner of a god.

[@mosesolaniran3957]

The power of God touches you now!!!! As you read this, God's life surges through your body and brings you perfect healing! Jesus brings you healing! Now! Now! Now!!! Try the things you couldn't do before. I say you are healed!!!!

[@jimhoolagan9449]

Like Jesus said to the disciple little James, the belief in him (Christ) without having been healed by him would be more impactful on his movement then if he did. I believe God has bountiful rewards for people who are dealt bad hands in life and yet still believe in him as we know this life is temporary. Jesus is king and know this life is but a trial for our true grand adventure. Stay strong in your faith and believe one day you will be healed of all ailments and filled with so much joy you can’t help but dance and worship. God bless you

[@joesim121212]

When I was younger I was involved in hallucinogenic drugs. I am now saved but I can verify that two or 100 individuals do not experience the same hallucinations. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ for saving my soul. ✝️

[@mattr.1887]

What?

[@RonSavage01]

​@@mattr.1887 I think they were on the hallucination drugs when they wrote that.

[@radioblaststudio]

​​@@RonSavage01sure YOU are not ''allucinated'' now? Blessings❤.

[@RonSavage01]

@@radioblaststudio I don't even understand what you're trying to say or imply. You obviously didn't watch the video.

[@karoblee]

@@RonSavage01 I believe what this person is referencing in the video is how he talked about atheists saying that the disciples didn't actually see Jesus, they all just hallucinated. So they're saying that they wouldn't all have hallucinated the same thing, everyone has different hallucinations when they are hallucinating. Hope that helps.

[@pepethunder]

The part I find very interesting was the suffering of the witnesses. Today we have people wondering why God would allow suffering in the world if He is so loving, and yet if these people didnt suffer for God we would not have this solid historic foundation for Jesus resurrection. God works through pain, and not all pain is bad. This is hard to understand for those who think only pleasure can be good. Pain can make us grow strong and in God’s hand it can be a blessing. It’s not all about us personally, we must think of how our trials can benefit others. Love God above all else and our neighbor as ourselves.

[@shwanjalal8709]

You say not all pain is bad. And that god works through pain. Nobody thank god for cancer otherwise we wouldnt have cancer research. Nobody says thank god for racism otherwise we wouldnt have had MLK. Nobody says thank god for hitler otherwise we wouldn’t know totalitarian governments dont work well. Nobody says thank god for all the hundreds of millions of people who have died because of war, mostly in the name of god ofc, otherwise we wouldn’t have peace. Nobody says thank god for illness, disease, and sickness otherwise we wouldn’t have doctors. Nobody says thank god for depression otherwise we wouldn’t have therapy. Nobody says thank god for rapists, murderers, and thieves otherwise we wouldn’t have prisons. Nobody says thank god for the killing of thousands of native Americans through manifest destiny otherwise we wouldn’t have 50 states in the US. Im not saying these things to bash you, Im sure you have good intentions. However if you were in Palestine right now and your kids died because of war due to human greed, you would have a very different opinion about god buddy. Your god allows so much suffering in this world for no reason, and its up to us, as good humans to clean up after the suffering that the so called “all loving and all powerful god” allows to happen in this world.

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

Go tell that to the children suffering on a cancer ward, who will spend their short time being alive in pain then die. You obviously haven't thought about your words enough

[@shwanjalal8709]

And there it is. The most obvious point of them all. We fear death and would love the idea that it is not the end. No I would never do such thing, infact, if i was at a childrens cancer ward i would tell them that they will go to heaven and be happy in paradise. Because i would rather lie and have them be happy in their last moments than be sad. But Im telling yall this because I would hope, presumably that yall are adults, that you can take a hit of reality better than a 6 year old child with cancer. So I have chosen my words not only carefully, but also towards an appropriate audience. And I say all of this with nothing but love in my heart for people, because we all deserve truth and we deserve to truly appreciate every living moment that we have.

[@ken-my5io]

We are the reason for suffering, not God. Maybe you should read the Bible, or just read with an open heart and stop looking for negative replies to post? Better yet, ask God to help you understand.

[@shwanjalal8709]

Thats the thing, I have read the bible. And i have asked god with all my heart to show me a sign which religion is true.

[@jeromedavid7944]

"Blessed are those who have seen and believed. But how much more blessed are those who have never seen yet they still believe?!?!"

[@SPL0869]

That’s weird considering he supposedly made it so that Paul and Thomas could see and believe but the rest of us have to “take it on faith”.

[@flamingbeaver9414]

What can I look for? Will I hear voices in my head? Will he grant my wishes? Help me out.

[@jeromedavid7944]

"Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in God so assured that a person would die a thousand deaths for His sake."- Martin Luther "Some have received this gift, others may have it borned in them and sadly some never ever know the joy and hope of faith."-Me "When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh."-Dietrich Banhoff "Woe to the spirit that relies on the flesh and woe to the flesh that relies on the spirit."

[@SPL0869]

@@jeromedavid7944 hi. I have a question that I hope you’ll answer. Can I place my faith in something that I don’t know is wrong yet have just as much confidence that I’m right as you or any of those that you mentioned possesses?

[@jeromedavid7944]

@SPL0869 "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." Hebrews 11:1 You've already stated you have a concept of the difference between right and wrong. May I ask where you acquired it? Could it have been your Judeo-Christian upbringing that familiarized you with the Ten Commandents or the final two divine Commandements of Yeshua, "to love God above all else and your neighbor as yourself." One can not keep these two commandments without obeying the first ten. "Train up a child in the ways he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it."-Proverbs 22:6 If this is the case maybe like me the Lord will bless you with the years to outgrow your faithlessness. Or He may have hardened you heart that you will never seek His grace, forgiveness and salvation. That is not for me to say but between you and your Lord. I pray that if this is the case, He softens your spirit and brings you back to the fold through His Immaculate Heart and the redemption of His grace. That my friend is all the earthly or heavenly power I can offer you. May peace, prosperity and salvation find you in this New Year. God Bless you and yours!

[@JacksonCaesar]

Many doubters refuse to investigate themselves. There have been many times I took it up on myself to "fact check" others. I'm glad to hear that this is where it has led him, based on his research and factual findings.

[@SPL0869]

Let me ask you something. According to the Bible, Jesus made some fairly testable claims. “Ask seek and knock and get what you ask for”(Matt 7), “Ask anything in my name and I’ll do it(John 14:14), “lay hands on the sick and they’ll recover”(Mark 16:18). If I were to ask you to demonstrate the authenticity of these verses in a real time real life situation, could you do it? Could you walk into a children’s cancer ward or a place like St.Judes where there are amputees and verifiably heal every child inside using those verses?

[@voicegea3995]

@@SPL0869ah let me combine verses out of context from different books to make words that I want and then ask a question that barely in context of the verses that I brought up. This is what a strawman is, it’s stupid and doesn’t solve any problem. Dude, Get a life.

[@SPL0869]

@@voicegea3995 Eff off. I didn’t take anything out of context. There’s probably not one church on earth that doesn’t end every prayer with “in Jesus name”. And WHY do even they say that they do so? It’s so that Jesus will “move” on their behalf. Your Christian claims come down to can you demonstrate the supernatural. Every time I ask for a demonstration(using your own verses), I get excuses about “context” much like what you’re trying to give right now. Until such time as you can demonstrate supernatural causation, any claims you make for Christianity being true are about as valid as claims of Muhammad splitting the moon.

[@SPL0869]

@@voicegea3995 I’m going to bottom line this so that even a delusional moron like yourself can understand it. You want to silence your critics? Leave all of us doubters speechless? Set Christianity apart from all other deity myths? Then demonstrate the supernatural. Or in other words, show your work.

[@JacksonCaesar]

@@SPL0869 Hello, and thanks for your reply. Why would you ask me to do it? The actual miracle works come from God. In the bible, there are examples of God giving man access to those abilities. But the ownership of those comes from God. Miracles are still happening in the world. However, they're not making mainstream news. Therefore, if God gives you or me the ability (calls us to do it), yes, we would be able to walk in there and do it. God has a divine order. Although He can do any and everything, there has to be a process and a purpose. Everything God created or that's involved with God's divine nature and order, has a process and a purpose. This means that some things will happen or not happen. Miracles are interjected within the process and or for the purpose of... The Bible teaches various types of miracles. Some received immediate miracles, others suffered many years before receiving their miracles, and for some, Jesus said, "Don't tell anyone." You can ask God for those abilities. Just know that it will be for a purpose and you'll go through a process. Luke 12:47-48, "...much is given, much is required..."

[@dugmun]

God bless all those who are searching, and may he be a GREAT blessing up all of you that are searching and struggling!

[@gknight4719]

Tell me why do we have to search for god? if it loves us, tell it to turn up for a chat, please.

[@danielvolk5653]

⁠@@gknight4719oh He did. Everything that exists around you is proof. There’s lots of proof that Jesus is Lord, just watch the video

[@dugmun]

My good man, it is to KNOW him. You want to know about something, you research it, The same with Christ, read research and know ... @@gknight4719

[@rogomerlinthegamer8305]

Exactly. If he is so powerful, why did it create me with a brain to reject it based on my moral scruples which derived morality from it whose morals I find abominable trash?

[@dugmun]

@@gknight4719 It is a hunger! Something is missing no matter what area of life you're in Poor or rich there is a hunger in your hearts and the only cure is Jesus! Trust me, and give it the 2-week challenge... Ask Jesus to prove himself but first, you need to believe that it will happen...Got 2 weeks to try it... If I am wrong never listen to me again, but if right! :)

[@lianeblair6181]

I went yesterday to buy this book Case for Christ for my loved one and I ended up buying another book first but still have plans to get this book and now this video has popped up on my KZbin feed. I will take this as a sign from God to get this book. My dad was a skeptic many years ago and my sister said he read this book and it convinced him and now he is up in heaven with our Lord God Almighty. Another reason to get this book. Thank You God.

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

You should also read the book "The case against the case for christ" to get a more balanced perspective and hear from both sides.

[@lianeblair6181]

@@crazyprayingmantis5596 yes I plan on reading it first for sure. Ta.

[@torreyintahoe]

You wasted your money. You should have picked up a copy of the god delusion.

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

@@torreyintahoe ☺️

[@pvmoore1154]

It is easy enough to find "experts" and "scholars" that will agree with nearly ANY narrative, at present. That said,... how does one account for the "common hallucinations", visions, etc,... that seem to be profoundly more prevalent with "born-again" Christians? @@crazyprayingmantis5596

[@ruthselden8637]

If you haven’t already, ask Him to come live in your heart today and you won’t be sorry

[@speggeri90]

Repent and trust our Christ.

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

You should ask Zorg to come live in your heart, I used to steal from own grandmother until I asked Zorg into my heart, now I help old ladies cross the road. Praise Zorg 🤞

[@torreyintahoe]

There is no Him.

[@katemoon1430]

Be one in communion with Him ❤

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

@@k1_w3 Yeah God is apparently non material, some sort of mind or spirit (whatever that is) yet somehow it's also of the male variety. A mind with a penis? 😄

[@pgsibilo]

AMEN ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ May God Bless Lee Stroble for his conversion 🙏🙏🙏

[@mcake1234]

You spelled delusion wrong.

[@pgsibilo]

@@mcake1234 Bruh, your jealousy and unprovoked anger are diseases, get some help.

[@nellneathery]

I was given this book today...thanks for sharing the video!

[@michaelbrickley2443]

@nelineathery, read and also watch the documentary and the theatrical movie. All have elements to bolster your faith. I read the book and was led to an Odd Lot store and found the documentary for $5. It’s on KZbin. Probably the greatest evidence for Lee’s faith is the fact he quit his job. Became a Pastor. Shalom

[@gknight4719]

If you have an IQ of 50, you can do this in 5 minutes!

[@michaelbrickley2443]

@@gknight4719 smh

[@levybanda8452]

What's the title

[@gknight4719]

@@levybanda8452I think it is called "Indoctrinated in 16 minutes" or was it a Fool's handbook?

[@justin10292000]

If unbelievers could just experience Holy Spirit's Power and the Love of the Father and the Son, the Joy & Peace & Lack of Guilt & Removal of the Fear of Death, for one moment, THEN they would understand what we true Christians are talking about, and their lives would be forever changed for the better.

[@BubbaF0wpend]

Muslims tell me exactly the same thing, swapping the characters you list for allah. Personal experience is no more proof of your god's existence as it is of any other god's.

[@pj3062]

We are not saved or confirmed to be saved by an experience. We are saved by trusting In the blood stained gospel alone.

[@93Current]

Many unbelievers were once believers. I was one of them, although never a fervent evangelical. If you dig down through all of the hyperbole of Strobel here, there is not much that really stands up to proper investigation. The thing that never ceases to amaze me are the huge doctrinal and theological differences between various Christians, many extremely contradictory. It's sometimes difficult to define exactly what Christians actually believe. The one thing they all have in common is that they all think that they are right and the others are wrong. Interesting that Strobel states that there is no such thing as a mass hallucination. Why has he never heard of the Miracle of Fatima from 1917, and a number of other examples. Whatever, your opinion on what these groups of people actually saw, it certainly does not support Strobel's assertions. Interesting that the psychologist that he consulted about group hallucinations, first gives a supposedly professional opinion, and in the next breath is preaching about Paul's claim that 500 saw the risen Jesus. The odour of a rodent doth tickle mine nostrils, methinks.

[@spiritsplice]

Stop LARPing.

[@MrBBaron]

One person claimed 500 witnesses for Jesus resurrection while one other can claim there were one thousand people that never witnessed anything. It is a made up myth. Such as in one large camping group one saw a Bigfoot while all the others saw nothing

[@ericlewis4783]

I ask for prayer for my son. He is in prison and has come to stronly believe Buddhism as the way. When we talk on the phone, he talks of the buddha, and I talk of Jesus. Thanks for the prayers for Joel.

[@yoyoitsjadon443]

We gotchu bro

[@ericlewis4783]

​@yoyoitsjadon443 Thank you for the prayers brother in Jesus. May God bless you. I know he has already blessed any and all by making a way to be reconciled through Jesus. Take care

[@GenXfrom75]

🙏

[@slickx45]

🙏

[@ericlewis4783]

​@@GenXfrom75 Thank you. God bless you.

[@phyllislovelace8151]

Thank you gentlemen & may God bless this ministry.

[@jeffh5388]

Outstanding work by Lee. It takes a unique, open mind to only deal with facts and continue seeking facts while being skeptical. Many kudos to Lee for absorbing the detailed information he found while processing it in a way that laymen can easily understand. That is the fundamental challenging aspect of what Lee did. He gathered indisputable facts and could defend what he found with extreme accuracy. Some say it all comes down to simply believing. But only a fool ignores the facts or tries to misrepresent them. Thank you, Lee, for bringing this information to the surface. Jesus died in a horrible way to save so many souls. Mine is one of them.

[@marcialaguinaldo1071]

I have an unshakable faith, despite of all the educational courses I took in physics, chemistry, genetics and embryology in college, as no scientific assessments nor experiments can explain (in this modern times) that a man sacrifice his life for the salvation of all. We simply need to believe and embrace that our Lord Jesus is the only way and truth to one's salvation.

[@tonymercer7759]

by faith you are saved, not by works , so no one can boast.

[@darkflarexl]

​@@tonymercer7759 amen 🙏

[@respekmaauthoritah9089]

Why do you say despite your educational courses? Are you saying that uneducated people are more likely to believe? Also how or why would science be able to explain why or how a person would sacrifice his life for salvation of all? This is the dumbest argument ever. It's not the duty of science to explain wild assertions that you make. Science simply is a body of the most plausible explanations of phenomena backed up by evidence. What is scientific today may not be so tomorrow when we have better evidence. Only way to prove the existence of your god is through supernatural acts not unlike the ones Jesus did specific so that the people would believe

[@glenteavictor7822]

Those studies should get a person closer to a Supreme being.

[@david-waynesmith6006]

Congrats you admitted to being stupid.

[@crystalclearwindowcleaning3458]

An honest look at the facts forces one to accept the resurrection as an historical event. This requires one to accept Jesus as God in flesh and His death as sacrifice for one's sins.

[@JosephSmith-ph4xr]

: Absolutely not. ! One can - and the early Christians did - believe in the resurrection without believing that Jesus is God in the flesh. Indeed, the first Cristians believed, not that Jesus was God incarnate, but that he was the promised messiah, the Christ, the Son of God. (Mat 16:16). Jesus and his disciples worshipped he God of israel, the God of the Bible. Jesus himself tells us that he has a God. The resurrected Jesus has a God. (JOhn 20 :17). The glorified Jesus in heaven itself, still has a God. (Re 3 :12). Hundreds of times in the NT Jesus is differentiated from God. . He is resurrected from the dead by God. (Acts 2 :24, 32). He is made both Lord and Christ by God. (Acts 2 : 36). He is given or granted all autority by God. (John 5 :27) The Son did not always p;ossess life in imself but it was gramted to him (John 5 :26) The evidence is overwhelming : The claim of the gospels is : Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. This claim makes him one other than God.

[@danielfortonforton223]

Yes, you established that Jesus is the second of the Trinity, and He is the Son Of God , but the Bible also He WAS God . This is one of the core tenets of Christianity ( I’m not sure if you were aware of that) Jesus’disciples asked Him to show them the Father. He declared “ Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father “ - John 14:9 on another occasion Jesus said “ I and the Father are ONE “-John 10:30 . Yes, Jesus was both Full God and

[@danielfortonforton223]

And Fully Man( continued from previous post) , because of this He alone has the authority to be our Savior and to forgive our sins. Now go to the Gospel of John. . Chapter one verse one “ In the Beginning was the WORD, and the Word was with God, and the WORD WAS God . But who WAS the Word? Look at verse 14 of chapter one. Jesus was the WORD. (14) The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us . Verse one clearly tells us that the Word was God. We’ve established that Jesus was the Word so we can therefore correctly say “ Jesus IS God “ Now look at Joh 10:30 again “ I and my Father are one “ (verse 31) Then the Jews took stones again to stone Him.(32) and Jesus answered them ; “ I have shown you many great works and miracles from the Father, for which of these do you stone me .(33) we are not stoning you for any of these replied the Jews, But for Blasphemy, because you, a mere man , claim to be God “ did you get that? Let me ask you a question. What was the official charge against Jesus? Why did they want to kill him ? It was Blasphemy- claiming to be God , that was not only a serious sin( one of the worst if not THE worst sin for a Jew) and a crime punishable by death.. so yes Jesus did claim to be God . There are a lot of other verses that say Jesus referred to himself as God but for the sake of time I will have to post them later because I have to go now . Take care and God bless you .

[@JosephSmith-ph4xr]

@@danielfortonforton223 : The Trinity is a post-apostolic teaching that did not take its final form for hundreds of years. Many standard reference works freely admit this. The gospels claim that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. This actually makes him one other than God. Jesus is differentiated from God hundreds of times in the NT. John 14 :9 shoukld be understood in the context of the NT. Jesus claimed to be the Son of God. and is desribed as 'the image of God (Col 1 :15; Heb 1 :3). However, being the image of God or a reflection of God does not make him God, rather a representation. He is certainly NOT the Father in Trinitarian understanding. Likewise, he is 'One' with the father in exactly the same way as the disciples are (John 17 :21-23)

[@markdomar4944]

No, you are wrong. An honest person would realize these are not facts, they are claims. And extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Evidence you and Lee Strobel have failed to produce.

[@juliederocco8815]

I haven't read The Case for Christ yet. I just bought it. I am moving out of state, so when I get settled I will read it. I did see the movie. But the book is probably even better. ❤

[@burntgod7165]

Read The Case Against The Case For Christ by an actual NT scholar, Robert Price, that rips apart the fallacious tract by Strobel. I've read both.

[@ramalama9030]

If you want to believe, you simply have to ask the Lord and be prepared with a humble heart………if you cannot humble yourself to your creator, why should he answer your question?

[@mattr.1887]

Why would God sacrifice himself for you, and then refuse to answer any questions?

[@ichsehsanders]

You really haven't bothered to think yourself through this nonsensical statement? Believe can't be a part of the equasion and simultaneously the product of the equasion Start thinking for yourself

[@pvmoore1154]

@@mattr.1887 Why would you willingly, happily and sacrificially DIE for your child,... EVEN if your child refused to believe you love them??? Right.

[@morbidclash]

Unconditional love

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

What evidence do you have to confirm that we or the universe was created?

[@codascheuer8426]

It is so important to challenge your own beliefs. As an atheist, I constantly question what I think all the time. It’s so important for me to question what I think I know in order to arrive at the truth. I watched this video, and I was unconvinced. I’m still an atheist, but I gave this video and its ideas a shot. Great video!

[@tonyfrantz9942]

Fellow atheist, I agree none of this is compelling

[@797zero]

Same here

[@Ceepremeteam]

Nothing compelling at all. Just emotional fluctuations of words and BELIEFS. This is all beliefs. You say with such certainty that 500 or so people witnessed the resurrected Jesus. Oh yeah? Well how many were present during the crucifixion since we have these numbers. The disciples claiming to have witnessed the resurrected Jesus and then lived a miserable life because of it is their problem. If they were so willing to suffer they should’ve done more to protect him in the first place.. I know it’s all stories but based on the story that’s just my little two cents. To each his own. It’s just scary watching adults try to connect dots that don’t actually connect

[@Girlsforever1982]

Loved it. Jesus is the only way. May he bless you all!! 🙏❤️

[@mcake1234]

Never existed.

[@buckteethboi6072]

​@mcake1234 I'm sorry but 97% of historical philosophers disagree. Even the biggest atheist know he once existed

[@mcake1234]

@@buckteethboi6072 Philosophers? What are you havinga stroke? Contemporary historical supportive evidence is all that counts. Every historian ever could agree he existed, but general consensus is not evidence. There is none. Can you cite just one contemporary eye witness testimony to Jesus's ministry? No. There is none. Wear it.

[@spiritfilled2589]

The four E’s of the Resurrection The execution The early accounts The empty tomb The eyewitnesses Praise God who makes no mistakes😃🙏🙏💕💕👏🏻👏🏻👍👍

[@slik00silk84]

Your empty skull !

[@pauls7803]

This proves there was a story about a reserrection. That is all. The earliest copies of Mark did not mention a reserrection at the end either.

[@slik00silk84]

@@pauls7803 It has been claimed that the author of MARK got his information from Peter, Jesus' disciple. If so, was Peter not making any claims about a risen Jesus on Earth. . . or did MARK's author not believe them? Another point to ponder: If the author of LUKE was a traveling companion and associate of Paul . . . why does he claim so much information about Jesus and his life, while Paul seems largely ignorant about Jesus' doings??? Travel was slow in those times so they should have talked a great deal !!!!!

[@valinorean4816]

Hi! As someone from a Soviet culture (now an immigrant in the USA) I believe that the resurrection was staged by the Romans, as explained in a popular book where I'm from - "The Gospel of Afranius"; like many others, I read it in childhood and never thought about this question again - until coming to the USA and noticing a stark contrast in the discussion of this question. What's wrong with that explanation?? I'm confused, what am I missing here?.. (This work was praised in "Nature", skeptical biblical scholar Carlos Colombetti called it "a worthy addition to the set of naturalistic hypotheses that have been proposed", and apologist Lydia McGrew grudgingly acknowledged that it is "consistent with the evidence".)

[@Thruevangelisteyes]

Praise God for brothers like Lee S. Now let’s be among those who will be called , Laborers. Let’s go tell someone the Good News. 🙏🏼🎶

[@sinjinbritt3371]

So, you're praising god for liars? Interesting. You did, of course. know LS is a fraud, right?

[@lindabeauchamp4596]

Why are non-believers so angry at Christians about God and Jesus? We're not angry that they don't believe. We're just sad that they are missing out.

[@amymargaretabigail]

i think it’s because they know in their hearts that they are “not ok”.. and that God will ask things of them, and it’s painful to let go of attachment to sin.

[@erinmack8918]

@@amymargaretabigailwell said. I agree. I was reading a comment of another person on another video who claimed that they used to believe they were an Atheist. They were sure of it. Then one evening they underwent a particularly awful encounter with something evil during an episode of sleep paralysis. They said that they were so incredibly afraid and they couldn’t breathe and felt as though they were being crushed to death and they began to call of our Lord Jesus for aid until they were finally able to exclaim it aloud verbally and it ended in a snap. Point being that they went around boldly claiming to be an Atheist but when the chips were down they called on Jesus for help and that made them realize they had never stopped truly believing what they knew was true in their soul.

[@pvmoore1154]

Pride. Even born-again Christians struggle with it,... BUT,... we have the Holy Spirit to rely on, in our weakness and iniquity. They love the darkness. Christ and His followers are the light. They hate the light.

[@2ndPigeon]

@@amymargaretabigail It's actually because the US is a secular nation and Christians are imposing their beliefs on others through policies. All this tax money going to towards Israel because some zionists in the goverment think it will trigger the end of days is one example. Or exploiting churches being tax exempt. Surely you don't think all those rich mega pastors are a good thing right?

[@2ndPigeon]

@@erinmack8918 If that story is true, then that person was very gullible to take a dream seriously. Would you become a Hindu of you also had sleep paralysis and shouted Lord Ram save me and it worked? I doubt it.

[@glennrodriguez1376]

Lee Strobel is heroic. Thank you for having done the work that so many atheists needed for them to become Christians.

[@Sense2024]

Thank you!

[@ken-my5io]

I always thought how ironic it was for Hawklings to say, "God is for people who are afraid of the dark." Yes, we are afraid of the dark.

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

I don't think you quite understand what he means by that, but it's hilarious that you admit it

[@ken-my5io]

I guess you can read my mind? How intelligent must you be. Perhaps you missed the meaning "The Dark Night of the Soul." it's not so hilarious!

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

@@ken-my5io Yeah it's still hilarious

[@2ndPigeon]

@@ken-my5io By the dark he means the unknown. That why people say: "god did it" instead of saying: "I don't know". Because not knowing something is scary.

[@deendrew36]

@@crazyprayingmantis5596are you not afraid of bad things? You could have a very rare syndrome called Urbach-Wiethe. That is interesting!

[@SamuelLovesJesus]

Jesus is so beautiful!❤

[@adamc1966]

Gross🤣

[@2ndPigeon]

That's gay

[@TestTheSpiritsIfTheyAreOfYAH]

Amen beyond All there is He’s Awesome 🙌🏼 Holy Holy Holy Worthy Worthy Worthy.

[@2ndPigeon]

@@TestTheSpiritsIfTheyAreOfYAH Are you in a cult?

[@shanepeterson6640]

Is his treatment of of the Canaanite woman in Matthew 15:21 beautiful? Calling her a dog who doesn’t deserve the children’s bread since he only can for Israel and not Canaan? How bout in Revelation when Jesus says he will throw her on a bed and men rape her then kill her babies? Gross

[@tonymercer7759]

From a hard-nosed journo to an articulate believer in Christ. Praise God ! read his book. it's worth it

[@slik00silk84]

Sure is when you are a fool wanting to believe the crap of religion !

[@tonymercer7759]

@@slik00silk84 May God open your heart and mind to the truth and salvation of Jesus

[@slik00silk84]

@@tonymercer7759 lol Haven't you been programmed like a good puppet! It seems your god is powerless to do that!

[@burntgod7165]

I was a journalist for 30 years, and if Strobel had presented his fallacious, one-sided garbage at any paper in the UK I've ever worked for, he would have been given a verbal savaging. This guy was a very bad journalist from the evidence he himself provides.

[@slik00silk84]

@@burntgod7165 Thank you . . . Yes! That's the UK for you. In the USA there's way too many brain-washed journalists for that to happen.

[@glowmentor]

My uncle was Ambassador to China, fluent in seven languages, an Oxford graduate, an unbeliever. I was 16, school boy, a believer. We were chatting in the Lake District and he was trying to get me to doubt the Christian Biblical narrative. I was sticking to my guns but failing a little, until… I mentioned the conviction of the disciples and their martyrdom for Christ. At that point, he hesitated, tried to speak, and then said, ‘I don’t want to talk about this any more.’ The faithfulness and conviction of our early brothers is a powerful witness to the glory of Christ.

[@UrbanKizBeast]

Brilliant analysis. Thank you sir!

[@danielkannan6246]

For those who believe in Jesus Christ, no explanation is needed… For those who do not believe in Jesus Christ, no explanation is possible … 😍✝️😍

[@Rambo-iz4yw]

I dont think so, why should people not come to christ through such videos?

[@aubreyleonae4108]

Used car salesman

[@justin10292000]

@@aubreyleonae4108 I totally agree that atheism is silly, toddler-tantrumish nonsense and that it takes "used car salesman" tactics to get people to embrace such an absurd and hopeless worldview.

[@raymoss706]

It's not an explanation that's needed; it is evidence that's needed. And the Bible isn't evidence of Jesus anymore than the Mahabharata is evidence of Krishna.

[@flpete]

Your right, there isnt an explanation for non- believers, nor evidence. Its a book of stories. If you can give me real world evidence, than il listen.

[@yvonneedwards5789]

Living the life of an actual Aposal. I don't know if I could be that fearless. May GOD bless you and keep. May he shine his face upon you in the mighty name of Christ Jesus 🙏

[@aenigmatica8]

Great video!

[@Thruevangelisteyes]

Victoria, amen. Now may I ask you a question ? Will this video compel you to proclaim the Gospel ? 🙏🏼🎶 Sincerely your brother in Christ.

[@aenigmatica8]

The Truth will always be on my lips. God bless you.

[@Thruevangelisteyes]

@@aenigmatica8 Victoria, 🎶 Proverbs 4:18. 🔔

[@aenigmatica8]

@@Thruevangelisteyes 🙏🏻 ❤️‍🔥

[@justtalking6242]

E - Execution (perfected by Romans) E - Empty tomb (admitted by Jews) E - Eye witnesses (attested by Women) E - Experiences (witnessed by 500+ people) E - Extraordinary (converted hostile Paul, James) E - Explosion (growth in the early Church)

[@richardlawson6787]

And not one word written home from any witnesses..only stories are in bible.. zero evidence for a jesus

[@HumblyServingGod]

@@richardlawson6787 do you know very few could read or write at that time? No letters home. Josephus did write quite a bit about it, he had talked directly to eye witnesses. Pontius Pilate wrote about it as well. Jesus’s own brother didn’t believe until he saw his brother risen. He became James the just and died for his conviction in his certainty.

[@baddgoat85]

​@@richardlawson6787there's always hope for you. I hope you choose to one day open your heart. We believe in a lot of things we can't see or have direct evidence of. I bet you believe we came from Apes. Well, guess what? There's zero evidence for that too. It's pure theory.

[@listeningministry]

​@@richardlawson6787I pray over you and dedicate you to Jesus. That he may release you from the bondage of your ignorance in a powerful way! And that for every scoff and grievance you inflict upon your Lord and Savior be a humbling and beautiful return to your creator before the sin in your life takes you to an ubtimely death. In Jesus name I pray Amen!

[@mattr.1887]

All well and good. But none of that proves a resurrection.

[@leecheong4986]

For those who don’t believe no matter how much research being done on Jesus and those who write about Jesus, it’s useless. You will never believe what you research. When a person believe, it’s not the work of man. What is from man will never recognise his own total depravity and that he need God. Such, there will be no regeneration from God for man to recognise this depravity and realise the need to be saved. There is no point arguing.

[@Success1-xc4by]

Jesus commanded His disciples to preach the good news all over the world and make disciples of Him. He was testing the faith of the cannanite's woman when she asked Jesus to heal her daughter. You have not understood the context of the scriptures@perfectblindguy

[@ichsehsanders]

Imagine Beeing so full of yourself to pretend to know the minds of an entire group of people Arrogance is bliss I guess

[@cindy-bw6jw]

God in the scriptures said to seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened for you! And, that all scriptures can be used by all mankind

[@virtuallyeternal]

False. Lee Strobel is quite literally evidence to the contrary.

[@deendrew36]

@perfectblindguyyou can read Romans 3:29 “Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too”. Jesus may have been the Jewish Messiah, but He offers salvation to everyone. The Messiah was a “light for the Gentiles”. (Isaiah 42:6). It also says in Acts “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

[@yolandagutierrez7465]

Preserve! Thank you! 💜🙏💜

[@senghkumnhkum5207]

My believe is stronger now, thank you.

[@cileford]

I read this too but it’s so powerful to hear the original wrds. This generation is go’n to need audible wrds. This was guod💋⚔️🎯🕊

[@jackiescott6862]

Execution, Early accounts, Empty tomb, Eye witneses. EXCELLENT!

[@slik00silk84]

Early accounts?? more than 30 years after the fact??? Empty tomb???? Also 30 years after the fact! Eye witnesses ???? Who? Where are their statements?? 500 saw the risen Jesus??? And yet we actually have zero reports from any of them !!!!!!! Stupid !!!!!

[@ironheade22]

Missing the most important E. Evidence.

[@slik00silk84]

@@ironheade22 No, there is evidence. Crappy shit evidence !!!!!! LOL!

[@cameroonkendrick6312]

Children, this is all evidence

[@Johnny-mz9ot]

@@ironheade22 You're obviously ruling out historical evidence and data. Adopting your same tact, I can: deny the Great Depression ever happened, that Julius Caesar ever existed, and so on...

[@MarilynElizabethHaughton]

And what about the Roman soldiers that were on guard outside the tomb a group of them. If they fell down on the job they were crucified too. They couldn't explain where Christ's body had gone. In the event of someone coming to take the body the soldiers had been placed there for that too.

[@111-p2o5x]

A thousand years from now we'll probably still be making this argument... and waiting

[@mckenziejenkins2194]

Yes we will

[@danstrauss3338]

This really helps to solidify my faith. Thank you for doing this.

[@jaanbartley5766]

I love his movie, The Case for Christ. I watch it over and over from time to time. One instance I get a chuckle about is when Leslie asks Lee where he's going and Lee tells her he's going to file a missing persons report. It's amazing the lengths Lee went to so he could prove Leslie wrong. I highly recommend everyone to watch the movie.

[@GhostMonkey772]

I started drinking when I was 16. I would drink at parties, but I also started drinking alone because I was unhappy, and I was in a lot of emotional pain all the time. My mom was very aggressive when I was younger, and my brother hated her and so did I. He started hanging out with shady people, he started failing all his classes, he was never home, and my parents fought all the time. I also ran away several times. I was always trying to figure out a reason as to why I was here or what the purpose of life was. So, I started looking at different philosophies, religions, and beliefs. When I was 18 after I was hungover, I got on my knees and I prayed for the first time. I asked if God was real that he would show me he was real because I couldn’t take it anymore. I was crying when I prayed for this. At that moment I felt a presence come over me like a wind. It was barely noticeable, but it was unlike anything in my life I had experienced up until that point. I was surprised when I felt it and I remember saying “what was that?” after that experience I pretty much forgot what happened and kept partying, until my senior year when I got arrested. After my arrest, my parents lost all their trust in me and I was expelled from high school. I was told never to come back. At that time, I felt afraid and hopeless. That’s when I started looking for God, and I prayed that he would reveal himself in my life and that he would give me signs. My prayers began getting answered so consistently that I couldn’t deny that God was doing something. It was mysterious and compelling. I ended up in Church and started reading the bible hours a day. I stopped hanging out with all my other friends because they were continually getting arrested. I was able to forgive my family and myself and to ask to be forgiven. I noticed how at Church people were judgmental and how they formed cliques but were afraid to be around anyone else different from them. It increased my faith because I realized Jesus was not like that and ever since I was young, I saw people as people regardless of who they were. After a while, it’s like I could see God's presence was in my life and then it felt like he wasn’t, and then he was, and then he wasn’t. One day I woke up and felt more depressed than I ever have in my entire life. I felt like I was dying on the inside. That night I prayed, and I said, God, I don’t see my life five years from now I'm going to die Jesus save me Lord, please save me. I was weeping when I said it and when I asked him to save me, I felt a presence inside of me like a heartbeat, and I felt it once like a pulse, and I said Lord please save me and I felt it again even stronger. It was like radiance. When I woke up the next morning, I had transformed everything felt brand new like I was a kid again. All my fears and all my racing thoughts everything was gone. I looked at my hands, and I said this can’t be real it’s impossible. When I looked at myself in the mirror, I saw a different person. I started praying, and the holy spirit became entirely real to me it was washing over me and inside of me. It was total love and peace, and I heard a voice but not an audible one, it was an inner voice. It said I am with you; I love you, I will never leave you, it’s done it’s finished. That was May 3rd, 2009, and ever since then I’ve followed God, I have seen many things change and many things I know wouldn’t have changed without faith and belief. I know what it’s like to be lost to feel you have no hope. Don’t ever think you’re stuck, or life can’t change because it can. My mom is a Christian now, Its night and day. Some of the things that went away during that period were severe anxiety and my addiction to alcohol. I’ve seen and experienced so many things that are miraculous and seen how God has worked in my life. When we ask God to forgive us for what we’ve done and turn away from our sins and wrongdoings and we believe in Christ's sacrifice everything changes. His word says if we confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that he died and rose again we will have eternal life but not just life after death but abundant life in the present. Our sins are erased not only past, present, and future but our burdens and fears are lifted also. Our thoughts, our minds, our hearts, our souls are transformed and united with God and we know his spirit lives in us. If you seek, pray, and knock you will know JESUS IS KING!!! HE LIVES!

[@MrBlick76]

Beautiful testimony. God bless you. You literally described what my surrender was like. But I truly saw Him looking at me and I begged Him to save me. He changed my heart. I too had a long rough upbringing. Love always eluded me. But this is a love u like any I've ever known on earth. Jesus Christ is love that can only be of heaven above

[@mysteriesmadeknown2874]

Matthew 28:12 When they had assembled with the elders and consulted together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers, :13 saying, “Tell them, ‘His disciples came at night and stole Him away while we slept.’ :14 And if this comes to the governor’s ears, we will appease him and make you secure.” :15 So they took the money and did as they were instructed; and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.

[@michaelbrickley2443]

The interesting thing is the fact that there were any stories at all. We have only the Bible but all the gospels and epistles were in circulation 30-40 years after the resurrection. If there was no resurrection the story alone wouldn’t have been enough to get the faith growing as it did. Shalom

[@lightningrt434]

@@michaelbrickley2443complete nonsense. Who could validate folklore with fact. All sorts of supernatural rubbish became fact because people couldn’t prove it wrong. Have you never heard a rumour that turned out to be completely false but was believed because the originator had kudos?

[@spiritsplice]

That is a story invented a century later. Matthew is using Mark to write a story he prefers. Mark was unaware of this event because it hadn't been invented yet. Who was there to see this supposed bribe? It's laughably fake. And there is no jewish claim that the body was stolen either.

[@spiritsplice]

@@michaelbrickley2443 the gospels were not in circulation 40 years after the claimed resurrection. they weren't even written until the 2nd/3rd centuries. Your comment about the resurrection is also false. The growth of christianity tracks all cults. Mormonism is a modern example (Islam before that). No real jesus or event is needed.

[@mysteriesmadeknown2874]

@spiritsplice So says you, but not the eyes and ears witnesses.

[@brandonrobinson1603]

This is A+

[@trevorbates8972]

Another way to prove the veracity of Jesus Christ's life, death, and resurrection, is to follow his teaching. Anyone who prays righteously, in his name, is sure to feel the enormous weight of gravity lifting gently off their broken health in a repairing way...enough to make us keep praying, and hoping and worshiping him, and what he stands for.

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

Prayer has been studied many times and the results are that it works at the same statistical rate as pure chance. But don't just take my word for it go do some research on the statistics of prayer yourself. If you pray to the half empty milk carton in your fridge it remarkably answers prayers at the same statistical rate as God. Try it, test it yourself. Sometimes the milk carton appears to have answered your prayer Sometimes it's unclear And sometimes it doesn't. Half empty milk cartons work in mysterious ways, but if you have faith that the carton always knows what's best even though sometimes it doesn't seem like it at the time, you'll be just fine. We may not always agree with the milk carton answer but it has its reasons and you just can't see its master plan with your tiny human limited brain. Keep the faith in that carton, it'll all make sense, it'll all be explained one day. (when you're dead and brain no longer functions 😂)

[@trevorbates8972]

@@k1_w3 If gravity wasn't a problem 2000 years ago then we wouldn't need the same cure today. Spiritual forces can lift us above the threshold that is required if we follow Jesus Christ accurately.

[@respekmaauthoritah9089]

My parents are devout Christians who believe in healing and yet my dad suffers for a degenerative neurological disease. They spend many hours daily praying and are active church members. Why would God not heal my dad? Forget about healing it would be fantastic if he could atleast send an angel to say hi to my dad and that this is someting that he must go through for whatever grand plan God has for him. Moreover this disease is known to be passed In many cases to children and I am now seeing symptoms in my body. I pray a bunch even though I am an agnostic which so much anxiety and desperation regarding my future since I am still young. I don't even want healing a simple hello from God or his numerous angels would do just fine. But instead all I get is resounding silence from this God and more exhortations to have faith from blind believers not unlike yourself

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

@@respekmaauthoritah9089 If god exists he surely doesn't give a rats ass about humans.

[@respekmaauthoritah9089]

@@crazyprayingmantis5596 honestly that is a possibility.

[@ForestAOrmes]

Blessings, Bishop Barron. Thank you.

[@D-777i]

I want to believe, fully and wholly, but I struggle so much from day to day. One day Christianity makes perfect sense, the next day in a more rational state of mind it seems like nonsense and I think of numerous reasons not to believe, but I just can't let my love for Christ go. Lord Jesus Christ Son of God, have mercy on me.

[@SandyCheeks1896]

I’ve struggled in the same way

[@morganzinnecker]

Mark 9:24 “I do believe, help me overcome my unbelief!” (NIV). A man said this to Jesus the same way we can make this prayer. Ask the Lord to reveal himself to you in new ways that help your unbelief. There’s no request that is aimed at knowing and understanding him more fully that he doesn’t want you to have.

[@sandrahayes9578]

God wants us to depend on Him from minute to minute. Ask him to draw you nearer. These struggles are why I attend church. We all struggle and at my church we talk with one another and pray for one another. Church family is so good for me. I will pray for you.

[@wcolin441]

This has a Big Amen from me. Thank You Jesus.

[@slik00silk84]

And we see you are a Big Fool !

[@drchrisfiorentino1936]

May Jesus Bless you Lee for writing The Case for Christ.

[@colinmatts]

Strobel is a CONMAN

[@joelmendoza783]

Hallelujah for all you've done LORD!❤

[@BiblicalMysteryOfficial]

*🙌 In the name of our loving Creator, I pray for His favor upon those who view this video and come across this comment. May you be granted abundant life and the resources to pay off any outstanding debts.*

[@AnitaBarneycastle]

Thank you ✝️

[@WilliamMartinez-lm1sk]

Hello, Thank you Heavenly Father, thank you Jesus, God bless us all in 2023, Amen. 🌰🍄🌶🌽🍆🍎🍏🍐🍑🍒🍓🍅🍍🍌🍋🍊🍉🍈🍇.

[@Slow_PEV]

This is always interesting. The most debated topic in history. You wonder why it is so debated but come on.. people were willing to die for it with zero reward.

[@lucyferos205]

Just like the Heaven's Gate group. Or Jonestown.

[@maylingng4107]

Lee Strobel in 2000, he became pastor at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. In 2004, he left his post as pastor to host the Christian apologetics show Faith Under Fire. In 2014, he became a teaching pastor at Woodlands Church in The Woodlands, Texas, and a professor of Christian thought at Houston Baptist University. Previously, he was a journalist and a lawyer with no science education.

[@afit5341]

Chris Distefano Talked about reading your book on Joe Rogan!! I yelled out Yes! When he brought you up.

[@mashah1085]

What is the earliest report of Jesus rising from the dead? What year were these accounts written?

[@SadieLYNN-ne9po]

PAUL starteded writing about the glory of Christ and the resurrection as early as 45 AD..

[@mashah1085]

@@SadieLYNN-ne9po What is the earliest copy we have of what Paul said?

[@SadieLYNN-ne9po]

@@mashah1085 they have copies of his writings that date to around 49 AD BUT it is apparent that he was teaching this in Antioch 46 AD. It is noted that is the church of Antioch was teaching about the birth. Life, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ then. It is also where most biblical scholars believe the term Christians come from. HAVE A BLESSED DAY. Feel free to ask more questions as i use it to further educate my apologistic knowledge on the history of Christianity.

[@mashah1085]

@@SadieLYNN-ne9po What is the earliest text we have of Paul's writings?

[@mashah1085]

@@SadieLYNN-ne9po Where are these copies?

[@dariz2u31]

Amen. This just dawned on me. I’m so glad he wasn’t buried 6 feet under. I can imagine people surrounding an empty hole on the ground. 😅

[@bradcrowe668]

​@perfectblindguy a tomb was given to Jesus....it's in scripture. Spread your lies elsewhere please.

[@johnwinner8511]

There's very small possibility he survived. 😂

[@lightningrt434]

@@bradcrowe668a convenient departure from reality.

[@AndMakrid]

@@bradcrowe668 If Jesus posed a real threadtfor the Romans, he wouldn't be given a tomb. A tomb means a place of gathering and inspiration of elements hostile to the established order. Hitler for instance, was not given a tomb. Now, if he didn't pose a threat...

[@karlyost3572]

​@@lightningrt434❤😊 let's all talk about his resurrection he's coming again❤

[@viper2148]

Clearly, Strobel has been on the debate circuit.

[@pvmoore1154]

No,... Mr Strobel was a Yale educated attorney and atheist that got very, very, very angry when his wife began attending church and became born-again. He was determined to prove to her that her belief in a "sky daddy" was a huge and absurd lie,... and his heavily biased research led him to an encounter with Almighty God through His Son, Jesus Christ! It's not really "debating",... when you just escaped a burning building and look back and see others are still trapped. You simply stop everything else and do everything you can do,... to show them how to escape the horrible fate that you were facing! That's not "debating",... that is "love".

[@nyshoefly]

Great video thank you

[@JustAsaph]

came here from Joe Rogan Experience #2144 - Chris Distefano episode. amazing conversation. gotta check out the film now.

[@DrayDray78]

Amen 🙏 brothers 0:10

[@Del-Scent]

Napoleon was correct when he said, "Man will believe almost anything as long as it's not in the bible."

[@mattr.1887]

Is the reverse ever true?

[@oyveydetoymeny]

Legends always embellish, distort or otherwise subdue a factual basis. In this case however, to whom does Jesus appear first ? Maria Magdalena was the least likely and certainly would not have been a storyteller’s choice : You can’t make this stuff up.

[@nofairytales5604]

Yes, you can. Quite easily.

[@saltMagic]

@@nofairytales5604 They made it up... then willfully died "from being skinned alive, being crucified, and used as torches...all for the lie. That's dedication

[@nofairytales5604]

Yes you can. There's no factual evidence for any of the miraculous tales in the Bible. The four gospels are not eyewitness accounts. Is it more likely that these stories were based on the common myths of virgin births and dying and rising gods that were common in these days, and many anteceded Christianity (ancient Egypt being an example)? That would make a lot more common sense. Of course common sense has nothing to do with religious belief.

[@The-Real-L3X]

Thank you for sharing.

[@johnbrown4568]

Thx for posting

[@rubblestork8547]

About 3:10 Lee Stroble "Some of these folks are still around..go talk to them yourselves!" refering to the 500 witnesses or the people of the 1st century church? Either way - that, if true is a miracle that would be really really good to confirm I would think.

[@spiritsplice]

It's pure fiction.

[@grylille]

No, no, listen more closely to what he is saying. It says in a parantheses in the Creed, written some months after the crucifixion of Jesus, that many of the eye witnesses are still around if you want to talk to them yourself. Those people are obviously not still around today. 🧐

[@spiritsplice]

@@grylille " written some months after the crucifixion of Jesus" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@grylille]

Was that funny..? "Now, this creed has been dated back by scholars to within months of the death of Jesus."

[@spiritsplice]

@@grylille uh, yeah, its an absurd lie based on zero evidence.

[@mstina7346]

To all the commenters here who are unbelievers, I’m sorry. If you have not had the experience of being filled with the Holy Spirit, then how would you know it is a real thing, to be born again as spoken of in John 3? When truly born again, you are completely changed. Perhaps it’s as Yeshua says also in John, that some souls were given to him by his Father in Heaven. But not all.

[@isiahromero1353]

Fat chance

[@MicStowe]

Yeah, I like to say God can be 100=percent proven, But only to oneself. God bless!

[@danielfortonforton223]

Watch the video “ using evidence to prove the existence of God” by J. Warner Wallace - cold case homicide detective from Los Angeles, he was an atheist for the first 35 years of his life , as was his father. He used the same methods and techniques that he would use to solve a cold case murder where there was very few clues and no living witnesses and used them to investigate Christianity, the Bible and Jesus. Very interesting.

[@SubmissionGrappler83]

I was "born again". Now I know it was all a deception. The Holy Spirit tells people different things. It's a very inconsistent ghost!

[@marywallace6383]

@@andis5289 Very well said and very respectable response.

[@samanthahernandez-gc5by]

Amen ❤😊😊❤

[@Thruevangelisteyes]

Samantha, what facts we have on our side. Now may I ask you a question ? 🙏🏼🎶 Are you ready to tell someone else about Jesus ?

[@SamanthaKrupp]

Can someone explain the external biblical sources for me? I researched the ones he mentioned and found them to be born after the crucifixion so clearly not the eye witnesses that he claims

[@burntgod7165]

Yes, there are no eyewitness accounts, nor are there any contemparenous accounts of Jesus. Apologists are just being disingenuous or ignorant. The earliest Christian document known to us is Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians, from around 50AD. He makes no reference to the details of the resurrection (tomb etc). Paul makes that spurious "500 witnesses" claim found nowhere else, and he doesn't say who any of these people were, or where they allegedly saw Jesus. But apologists misunderstand scripture. They think it deals with historical facts. It doesn't, especially the gospels and Paul's letters. They are preaching tools for early Christians. They deal with meaning more than fact. In fact, apologists belittle these works by literalising them, and alleging they are factual; the authors would not have meant them to be. It's not how ancient writers worked.

[@mloclamgnidyr161]

You are correct I think lucien was writing around 200 ad. Strobel has nothing from under 60 ad. like other apologists uses this to convince the convinced to buy his books and videos.

[@fero___3005]

Great explanation 🎉

[@tarjan68]

Reading all those sceptical comments here, I think it’s funny how these people all spout out their own made-up “truth”, while dismissing what was written in the Gospels as fantasy. They all know it soooo much better than the ones who wrote the books of the NT many centuries ago.😂

[@lucyferos205]

Yeah, they do, thanks to modern scholarship and developments in the historical method.

[@tarjan68]

@@lucyferos205 Not convinced.

[@lucyferos205]

​@@tarjan68...do you believe that people in the Bronze Age had a better understanding of the Mesozoic era because they were closer in time to it, too? If not, maybe look into why that is?

[@tarjan68]

@@lucyferos205 The Gospels were probably written before the year 70. There is a book called 'Jesus and the eyewitnesses" by Richard Bauckham that dives deep into the issue of oral transmission from direct eye witnesses of Jesus. It's an academic piece of work. Nothing to do with Bronze Age argument.

[@merlyndamianose5795]

Thank you for confirming truths that only mad men can deny.

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

I didn't see any evidence I only heard claims

[@seekerhonest]

@@crazyprayingmantis5596 exactly

[@seekerhonest]

The bible is a man made book with man made wisdom (Kain and Abel) and man made fallacies : + light wasn't there before the sun + the earth wasn't there before the sun + Adam and Eve didn't exist + insects have six legs not four legs + the value of Pi isn't 3 + homosexuality is not a seduction by a satan, but a natural born healthy sexual orientation with an evolutionary sense + the "firmament" is not a solid "roof" over the world + the moon doesn't produce visible light + etc etc If the bible would be inspired by god it would be without fallacies, but it isn't. As easy as that.

[@mandamehr]

I seen Jesus in my home when I was around 14. I was drying my hair and I felt like someone was watching me and I looked toward the laundry room. I dropped the hairdryer because I know it was Jesus. I closed my eyes and opened them again and watched Him disappear with an extremely white robe. I proceeded to tell everyone on my school bus , and at my school. I told my parents. I can still see this and a lot of people think I wanted to see Him so bad, that my mind made me see Him. Nope, I will still say I seen Him. 🙏

[@slik00silk84]

LOL Sounds like you were thoroughly brainwashed as a child. And apparently you have not got any smarter! Such a shame really when a child fails to grow up!

[@dianem365]

I believe you! ❤❤

[@slik00silk84]

Damn rude of him of him to be watching you get out of the shower and start drying your hair . . . then never saying a word to you!

[@GMurph2336]

Wow! I need to read this book.

[@christopherjohnwilliams9505]

I have been saved since 2002 when i got baptised yet im in a battle but one night i fell asleep and started to dreem there was a mass demonstration all was against me yet i walked up the dteps to a temple next thing i onow i was sitting at the the feet of Our Lord Christ Jesus then suddenly i woke up since then things are a lot better for me all i can say is PRAISE OUR LORD CHRIST JESUS 🙏

[@andruid5054]

Tascitus wasn't even born until 20 years after the supposed resurrection, so how did he know?, someone who's dad knew someone who was there?, No one mentioned Jesus at all until after his death, the Gospels were written at least 25 years after the event by authors unknown. Nothing he says proves at all that Jesus was the son of God. Believe what you like, don't push it as truth

[@gavin_almeida]

Josephus wrote about Jesus

[@gavin_almeida]

The gospels writings are early compared to other historical facts. Having writings as early as 20 years after an incident is very valuable in historical context.

[@andruid5054]

@@gavin_almeida Josephus wasn't even borm until 37CE,so yet again he was writing about something he was told and didn't experience it.

[@andruid5054]

@@gavin_almeida only if it us backed up with writings from the time,no one mentioned Jesus during his lifetime,why is that?,for someone so important to not be written about during his lifetime is a bit dodgy. You're entire belief system is based on hearsay and stories,feel free to prove me wrong,maybe evidence from people who were there instead of what,t they were told 30 years sfter he died would help.

[@willw1991]

What are you even talking about? o.0 Tacitus never made the claim that Jesus was the son of God. Tacitus was a sceptic. But what he wrote about does corroborate that Jesus was executed by the Romans in the first century during the rule of Tiberius by order of Pontius Pilate.

[@coryhenson5059]

The cloth of Turin also proves the resurrection.

[@nofairytales5604]

No!

[@tracylowe9994]

Proves nothing

[@miksurankaviita]

This is a perfect summary of the historical data surrounding the Resurrection!

[@jerrylanglois7892]

Nothing '' historical '' about it.

[@andruid5054]

Nothing historically accurate when it's written35 years after the event by unknown people who either weren't born or weren't there.

[@mysteriesmadeknown2874]

Isaiah 6:9 And He said, “Go, and say to this people: “‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’ Matthew 13:13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. 14 And in them "the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled," which says: ‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive; 15 For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.’ Mark 4:12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. Acts 28:26&:27 “‘Go to this people, and say, “You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.” For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’

[@andruid5054]

@@mysteriesmadeknown2874 lol,and?,the Bible can say what the f**k it likes,just as the Quran does. It means nothing to me,so don't waste my time with irrelevant shit

[@jerrylanglois7892]

@@mysteriesmadeknown2874 That's right, use the bible to prove the bible...

[@JaneSmith-x4x]

Thank you

[@VOLKHVORONOVICH]

"And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man." [Acts 9:7] “And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.” [Acts 22:9] And both these passages were written by Luke. the question is, did they hear a voice, as it says in chapter 9, or did they not hear a voice, as it says in chapter 22?

[@Nixo-qz8jr]

Inspiring Philosophy made a video in that apparent discrepancy

[@LuciferAlmighty]

How about some evidence for the resurrection

[@Dopio-io7bf]

He already stated those

[@LuciferAlmighty]

@@Dopio-io7bf where?

[@കാഫിർമമ്മുകാരയ്ക്ക]

The shroud is enough..Then ask the question:how did a bunch of low flung fishermen and other riff raff who went into hiding when their leader a carpenter's son turned cult leader was executed in the most humiliating manner ,suddenly appear ine crowded city during a major festival shouting out that "He is risen !" and would pay down their lives willingly to hold on to that belief ,travel at great risk troubles,, imprisonment torture exile and violent deaths over an improbable thing? Do sensible people do that? This Jesus has been proclaimed and propagated all through the world these 21centuries by millions of such people. How long can a lie triumph like that if it's lie?

[@LuciferAlmighty]

@@കാഫിർമമ്മുകാരയ്ക്ക the shroud dates to the 1300's. So no evidence.

[@LuciferAlmighty]

@Dopio-io7bf what evidence?

[@Tommy-es4hp]

No one CAN come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day. John 6:44

[@timothybierl2746]

Keep reading, ‭‭John‬ ‭12:32‬ ‭NIV‬‬ [32] And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

[@maylingng4107]

Can you name a single secular eyewitness who mentions Jesus in his writing?

[@jigsaw1063]

Paul used to be Saul like he mentioned before he converted.

[@maylingng4107]

@@jigsaw1063 Paul never met anyone called Jesus. He claimed that the story came to him in a vision on the road to Damascus. Of course, he lied, because he needed an excuse to invent Christianity, which he did do.

[@jigsaw1063]

@@maylingng4107 if you feel that you are strong to discuss theology discuss it with Sam Shamoun and let´s see how confident you are. No one has ever in the history willingly gone into not only their own death but their own torture execution and immense pain for something that was merely a lie they made up they coud have just admitted the lie and rejected Jesus and avoided all that terrible pain but they didn´t because they knew it was true.

[@ramigilneas9274]

@@jigsaw1063 There is exactly zero evidence that any of the disciples willingly died for the belief in the resurrection. For all we know they begged for their lives and admitted that they made it all up but were executed anyway.

[@jigsaw1063]

@@ramigilneas9274 Why would they proclaim the thruth of Jesus to begin with when they knew that that could be the outcome???

[@jimmybell9571]

Excellent.

[@gileslandry845]

Amen, well done. The Son of God, the man Christ Jesus. God can not die, Jesus did.

[@NateBennion13]

Death is actually just an illusion... 😋 So, yeah, God can't die but Jesus was God so he did die, but also he didn't cuz death isn't really real. And it's that way for all life, because life itself is Eternal, and God, so good news! We didn't need Jesus for eternal life, by being life we already get it....yay!!! 🙌

[@robertlight5227]

Do you have any physical evidence for your physical claim of a JC?

[@calebe4266]

Like what? A photo? A skeleton? You know that at the end of the story Jesus was still alive and went to heaven right? So a skeleton of jesus would actually be a nail on the christian coffin or at leadt what christian believed on the oqdt 2000 years

[@robertlight5227]

If the Christian cannot even prove JC was a real living man what are we to think of the]r further claim that JC was divine. There is the failure of faith.@@calebe4266

[@jerrylanglois7892]

No evidence for jesus...physical or otherwise.

[@robertlight5227]

Yeh, it's why I bring it up with Christians. It is a very easy win.@@jerrylanglois7892

[@willw1991]

@@jerrylanglois7892 And I just suppose that every biblical scholar in the world, and I'm talking about the atheists here, are all wrong? There are numerous writings outside the bible that talk about Jesus. The writings of Tacitus corroborate that Jesus was executed by the Romans in the first century during the rule of Tiberius by order of Pontius Pilate.

[@Junto7o]

Where the evidence????

[@Johnny-mz9ot]

Research the historicity of Jesus' Resurrection. You'll find your evidence there

[@crispinswainstonharrison9042]

The unexplainable thing is that Jesus hasn’t and won’t come back to earth again. It should be so easy for him.

[@Draegoron]

And we believe he will. You believe he won't. Easy doesn't mean he's gonna do it on your or my timeline.

[@hestillworks]

What?

[@ProfessorFrank1]

He will come again to judge the living and the dead. Please friend come to Jesus.

[@brettlarkin1992]

On my most recent attempt, I’ve been trying to find faith for 2 years, and the responses to this comment, remind me why I haven’t. 🐑

[@SealegsSam]

​@brettlarkin1992 what? Noone has said anything mean or hateful or anything. It took me many years of trying to find faith and at one point I was certain it wasn't for me and that it was all nonsense then I had a real personal experience with Jesus Christ and it flipped my life upside down. Don't give up hope. Everything happens on his time.

[@nickwardmusic]

It’s amazing that an all powerful and all knowledgeable god expects us to believe on heresay

[@csec8740]

Ha, I was just reading his book last night. Nicely done, Lee

[@MrEdflynn]

Jerry. Nothing would convince you because like it said in the book and movie “ you don’t want to see”.

[@beemer2869]

I agree. It is so sad to see those who have no faith but who comment negatively against our Saviour. They are clearly blinded to the faith but must be searching, otherwise why even bother commenting. I pray for all the lost that they may come to know God's glory.

[@MrEdflynn]

To beemer: I agree . People are searching. Look at continuous line of super hero movie.

[@SubmissionGrappler83]

Nothing convinces atheists because there is no convincing evidence. I know. I set out to find it as a doubting Christian, and what I found led me to abandon the religion.

[@MrEdflynn]

@@SubmissionGrappler83 do you believe in Jesus? Do you believe in resurrection ? If yes then hold on to that . Nothing else is required . Choosing God or not too both take an equal leap of faith . It cost you nothing to believe.

[@SubmissionGrappler83]

@@MrEdflynn I believe in a god of some sort. I no longer believe in Jesus' resurrection, nor his divinity. If there is indeed a god, it's not concerned with our personal beliefs.

[@Jaytee.]

So the resurrection of Christ actually happened? The four Gospels each record the event of finding the empty tomb. Why do none of them match? They don't agree on who was there, what happened there and what followed next. Also, if Jesus really did come back. Why did he not show Himself to the Romans, or the Jewish Priests at the temple? That would have made more sense.

[@tatie7604]

They would have dismissed His appearance as a ghost or a reincarnation. Not so with the disciples who truly knew Him.

[@Jaytee.]

@tatie7604, But if Jesus could only convince his followers, what was the point? How could they be expected to convince people, if Jesus couldn't do it himself?

[@webbraham2768]

I love having my biases confirmed!

[@KevinY5]

Ever looked in a mirror?

[@Dopio-io7bf]

How does this invalidate everything he said, he is speaking historical irrefutable facts

[@genome616]

You need educating, nothing he said adds any weight to whether the bible is true, he ultimately has to use the bible to prove the bible which in any court would fail as it is a logical fallacy, simply saying or even demonstrating you cannot survive crucifixion and scientifically backing it up does not prove a dead person rose again, you will not find any historical irrefutable evidence nor will you find any modern demonstrable evidence to show you can return from the true death and this is the whole context you miss, your ideology has given you confirmation bias and you have lost your logical reasoning.

[@UHPhilipA]

Wasn’t it Thomas that was the skeptic that had to put his hands in Jesus’ crucifixion wounds to believe? And when he did he was no longer a skeptic? That there shows me it wasn’t a vision nor a hallucination. Especially when others were around to witness this interaction.

[@slik00silk84]

If that happened . . . why is it that none of the 3 earlier gospels mention it? They don't even mention a spear thrust in the side. Very remarkable that Luke, supposedly a physician, didn't say something about it!!!!! What it looks like was that there were a lot of skeptics about Jesus dying on the cross. They knew that crucifixion victims usually took days to die . . . and Jesus dies after only some 6 hours??? A fishy story indeed ! ! ! So . . . one of the writers of JOHN invented the story to try and quiet the doubters.

[@Patti-iz6yn]

Much love for Lee! I attended Willow Creek in the Lee/Bill/John days. Thank you for your faith and work.