Too Good to be False? (Tom Gilson response)

Are you skeptical that anyone could present fresh insights about Jesus after two thousand years? Tom Gilson thinks he has done just that in his new book Too Good to Be False: How Jesus' Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality. Tom attempts this by highlighting what Jesus didn’t say and do, which he thinks is almost as shocking as what Jesus did say and do. Tom joined Frank Turek to reveal these new insights about Jesus.

Too Good to be False with Tom Gilson

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[TomGilson]

Wow. What a train wreck. You should read the book next time. The points you rebutted had some superficial resemblance to my arguments, but only superficial. I think if you'd listened to my interviews more carefully you could have done a better job of understanding what I was saying. The fact is, though, you spent the whole video rebutting arguments I don't make. In one case you strongly supported a key premise of one of my arguments, even as you thought you were delivering a knock-out blow against it.

I'll prepare a real response for you elsewhere. I do not intend to follow comments here, since I know from experience how quickly they pile up after I make a comment like this on an atheist page, and I have other work to do. For now, just know that you really should have read the book so you would have at least had some clue what you were talking about. I mean, I don't care if you buy the book. I'm just thinking that for your sake, if you'd wanted to do a video rebutting me, you might have found it at least somewhat in your own self-interest to know what you were talking about.

[kevincrady]

[Sings]: "Noooo oooone's slick as Gaston
No one's quick as Gaston
No one's neck's as incredibly thick as Gaston's
For there's no man in town half as manly
Perfect, a pure paragon!..."

Therefore, Gaston is the Son of God! It's all true!

[dawnmcauley]

"You can't write a Character like Jesus!" Messianic Archetype. A literary trope that dates back to (and is named by) the Torah!

[Talenel]

Of course Tolkien never met a hobbit or a wizard. He just found and translated the Red Book of Westmarch, which contained Bilbo and Frodo's writings about their time with the One Ring, along with some other texts.

[suppotato]

“If the Bible said 2+2=5, I wouldn’t doubt it. I’d just try my best to make sense of it.” He does know that the 2+2=5 thing is from 1984 right?

[henriquesousa]

Gospels? More like "The Four *Gossips*". And that is the genre they are written as: gossip.

[Vadjong]

The Dune saga addresses precisely all these points.

[GalapagosPete]

The sermon on the mount was brilliant! Otherwise, how would we know that “cheese makers” is not meant to be taken literally but refers to any manufacturers of dairy products?

[SanjeevSharma-vkyo]

all those terrible consumer protection people saying "if it sounds too good to be true ....".
How can Christians fight against that? same way software companies do, just proclaim
"it's not a bug IT'S A FEATURE

[VisiblyPinkUnicorn]

Christians: "No one can write a character like Jesus!"
Japanese anime/manga industry: "AM I A JOKE TO YOU?"

[Grabovsky]

I dont see any vampires around, clearly Lincoln killed them all.

[KLanio-lryv]

So was Lincoln a vampire hunter or not, ... Now I am unsecure

[MuttFitness]

Jesus isn't a mary sue. He's a gary stu.

[frmrchristian]

Great video, Paul! You do more research for your videos than most on YouTube. You're quickly becoming one of my favorites of all atheist video artists (and I do think this is an art)

[tompaine]

Paulogia videos: Seldom expected, always appreciated.

[ianmcmullen]

Your content is very high quality and Im surprised you havent gained more subs over the past few months, keep up the great work!

[peejay]

I'm not a major skeptic. I am a lieutenant skeptic.

[kevincrady]

@28:20 - "When I have a problem with what the Bible says..." Wait, I thought you were just making the argument that Jesus has to be real and divine because there *aren't* any problems with his story!

[cullenjohnson]

No author could possibly have written a character as pure and good as Valentine Michael Smith.

[mackeymintle]

Thank you for all the work you do to show how ridiculous the apologetic communities “scholarship” is, and how oblivious they seem to how their own arguments clearly show how flawed their logic is, and how obliviously they attempt to make points that invalidate their entire belief set.