A powerful argument against Christianity.

This is a delicate issue because the terms of the discussion push an evaluation of the person who is failing to find God. I hope that listeners can hear that I am not trying to offer any personal attacks on individuals, but am trying to offer an analysis of how a claim like "I'm trying to find God and I am not finding Him" can actually involve a situation more complicated than a simple, sincere, two-dimensional search. Without labeling people with specific explanations for their particular situation, I can acknowledge several layers to this issue which undercut this argument's power as evidence that God does not exist.

My honest hope and prayer for those who feel they are seeking God and failing to find Him is that they would continue seeking as sincerely as they can and wait on God to open their eyes to Him.

[dariabrowczenko]

I was once an aggressive atheist, and then I met a true christian who took everything very seriously and applied it all to their life. That is a whole different story, but by the end of our discussions (which lasted several months), all that was keeping me from God is the fact that I just didn't know He existed. I never encountered Him at that moment, so even if I saw something in Christianity, I wouldn't be able to actually believe because, for me, God simply wasn't there. However, once I took a hard decision to actually try (I'w been thinking about it for some time at that moment, but never too serious to take action), God revealed Himself to me almost immediately. I started talking to the (for me, at the time) a non-existent Person, and what a blessing it was when a couple of days after I got an actual response which could have never been mistaken with something else. At that moment I realised that God is alive, and since that moment nothing can change my mind 😅. I used to base all my life on science and proof, however this is the strongest proof I ever got in my life. So yes, if you seek Him sincerely, He does reveal Himself. And then you don't just know He's there watching you, you have a relationship. My journey from my first prayer to repentance took 8 days, praise God! Several weeks after, I got to a church for the first time in my life and got baptised very soon.

[fatthor]

I wasn't looking for God, he called out to me. Twelve years later, I'm now nine years sober, and have a real relationship with Him

[wellsd]

When I asked for deliverance, it was very profound the way God answered me. I felt it in my heart, mind and soul. And, the dreams he sent me at the same time were also very profound. I'm a 63 year old man and I cried for a week in repentance and shame of my past and knowing that he has accepted and forgiven a wretch like me. When you truly feel his presence, you will know. Yes, God is alive and well..let there be no doubt.

[calebdrage]

I really like the shorter clips of you answering one question at a time. I will be able to watch more shorter videos this way! Keep up the good work!!

[marshalkrieg]

I have been semi-atheist or agnostic part of my life, generally skeptical of Christianity, but due to your influence I am much more leaning towards belief- I find your arguments well reasoned and compelling, I am now Christian sympathetic or more and I actually feel better emotionally since.... I have not quite made the full leap but could do so in the foreseeable future, so letting you know that your online ministry is important, as is this YouTube platform, otherwise I never would have heard of you and your discussions. Thank you for all your effort and please keep it up.

[letstrytouserealscienceoka]

It is incredibly arrogant to assume that a 'sincere non-believer' would be searching for "God". Why would I be searching for a deity? I don't even know what one is or what I would use one for. I sincerely do not believe that any deities, or anything 'supernatural', can even exist in objective reality, the reality that we all share.

[tabularasa]

If god wants to be found, he should be obvious. If he cannot be found by somebody that is not even looking god is insincere about wanting to be found.

[cygnusustus]

So...your strategy for people who sincerely sought God but did not find him is....to deny they exist.
Wow. Iron-clad.

[seamonster]

Well it really isn’t my fault I can’t perceive an entity made up 3500 years ago.

[Hunter-lmfe]

Ex-Christian here. After over 30 years of believing realized over a 2 year period of educating myself on opposing views It's all make believe. Just an accident of geography and cultural indoctrination. The internet definitely killed my faith.

[Typhoon]

Why do you fail to find Lord Krishna? I tell you why: Because you didn't look for him sincere enough. It's all your fault that you will be reincanated as snail instead of a human.

[noneofyourbusiness]

Apologists and their "infinite" intellectual honesty always seem very, very eager to forget how many of the most devout believers lose their friends, family, job, their entire personal life when losing their faith...

[martinleon]

I "tried" to get saved five months by doing everything like reading the Bible... Stop "sinning" saying the lord's prayer...it wasn't until i was in my piano teachers studio Tuesday night, january the 16th, 1990.. when he was playing a song...im depressed... Hopeless...i finally in my mind said "I've done everything...i give up... Would you just save me? Please"?..? And that moment i felt a thousand tons of pressure fall off of me and a joy that rushed in me where i couldn't stop laughing and crying at the same time...i got in my father's car and inside was bubbling..my pops asked me what's wrong... And i screamed out "im saved"!!!! And the joy inside kept coming out my mouth of me screaming "im saved..im saved!!!!

[looksliketroll]

I was a passive Christian for 19 years. I sinned, I didn't care. One day I watched a Christian video. Since then I investigated in Christianity. God filled me with hunger for his wisdom and saved me in the process. Now I feel terrible when I sin against the Lord. I'm so thankfull that Jesus saved me.
May the Lord help us sinners❤✝️

[SonoftheLivingGod]

I was a militant atheist for 24 years and I saw Jesus in a vision right after I called out to him during a demonic attack. Jesus is real, He is alive and He is King.

[Jennifrita]

"And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart." Jeremiah 29:13

[ZombieXee]

As a child my parents never impressed on me anything about God. When I was 9 I was molested by a male friend of the family. When I told my parents about what happened they did nothing and ignored it. I was confused, scared and it would take 7 years to finally begin to heal.
When I was 10 my next door neighbor would start telling me about Jesus over several summer nights. All I needed to do was say a little prayer and the holy spirit would come into me and change my life in a good and holy way.
One night, before bed, I got on my knees and prayed that little prayer. Then nothing happened. I went to bed thinking that I would feel the holy spirit in the morning. Morning came and nothing happened. No holy spirit, no change, nothing.
Next night, I thought maybe I did it wrong. Prayed again. Please Jesus be my savior. I must have said that prayer a hundred times and the holy spirit never showed up.
Why would God ignore a sincere broken little boy? To this day the holy spirit has never shown. Tell me Christians, if your god exists why would he ignore a 10 year old boy?

[flyingcrocs]

If you ask God to reveal himself honestly seeking him, he will reveal himself. He speaks but not in the way that some people want.

[nejah]

In my story of redemption it was quite the opposite, as Paul wrote “There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;" And God reveals himself to people: “I am inquired of by them that asked not (for me); I am found of them that sought me not”

[sigiligus]

The questioning the sincerity thing is basically saying "if you REALLY tried then you'd believe." Basically a sort of no true Scotsman - anyone who tries to find God and doesn't wasn't REALLY trying, because anyone who REALLY tries does.