How to Defeat a Christian – 8 Impossible Questions for Christians to Answer

While a graduate student at MIT, physicist and logician Andrew Knight, J.D., attended several meetings of the MIT Christian club. With their feedback, he created a list of 8 of the most difficult questions for Christians to answer.

The video helps atheists, agnostics, and non-Christians effectively defend themselves against pushy and aggressive Christians. It also helps Christians to understand some of the philosophical difficulties that scientists and intellectuals have with the fundamental tenets of Christianity.

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0:00 Introduction
2:47 Q1: What does it mean to pray for something to happen?
3:42 Q2: How do you know that faith brought you to the correct religion?
4:42 Q3: Does Jesus’ blood atone for the sins of non-Christians?
7:05 Q4: Why did God create skeptics?
10:17 Q5: Is Mahatma Gandhi in hell?
11:17 Q6: What is heaven?
11:57 Q7: Is the Bible truly a source of morality?
13:50 Q8: Is it possible you’re wrong?
14:23 Pascal’s Wager

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[ronaldgouda]

Very well put! Would be interested to see a video about why you believe in a God.

[DeconvertedMan]

I thought you were going to not do the looking back and forth to look at a non-real audience deal.
Having said that this is MUCH better then the atheist one - WAY better. Your not attacking strawmen arguments! Yay!
Rather you are asking questions to understand the other. That's a much better way to approach this.

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8:55 *What evidence did god give you? What god are you talking about?*
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Anyone can construct questions that are loaded and thus can not be answered. Debate in my view is not about "defeating" anyone - its about exposing a bad argument in effort to get to the best argument possible. However in other's view points it might indeed be about "defeating" someone. Rather we must attack the ideas - not the person.

Q1: Depends on who you ask.
Some would say that prayers are answered however god wills it, yes/no/wait. So that its not about granting your hearts desires.
Some would say that prayer is not about asking for anything rather its about worship and thanking god for the good you have.
Some would point to the lords supper prayer as how to construct a proper prayer.
3:17 because God doesn't want to be tested. I've asked this question plenty of times to theists - the typical answer is that god is simply untestable, also it knows when it is being tested. So if you ask for (X) because its a test, it will not be granted.
Why pray? - Because the holy book instructs you to do so.

Q2: Does it work is somewhat a bit clunky here. Asking what faith is - is a great question to ask.
As far as I can tell faith is belief without any evidence, tests or sound argument.
When you have evidence, you do not need faith.

Q3: Yes, belief is required to be saved... depending on who you ask.
It might not be enough to JUST believe. (more requirements)
The people who never heard about Jesus get some generic idea about god (none are without excuse) and as long as they believe in that they are fine. (whataboutisem: you present Jesus to the people they reject Jesus and are no longer saved... to bad god wanted you to tell them, to bad for them) so you have a possible people who would have been saved had they not been told about Jesus now going to hell because they were told about Jesus because the book tells you to do this. Perfectly logical system hahhahahahahaha. -_-;
Why tell them? Because you are told to tell them.
A Calvinist would say that people are either pre-saved or not. You have to do what god commands - telling people about Jesus is part of that - if those people were going to be saved they will believe and if not they will not. Its already all pre-decided. Thus this question just doesn't matter for the Calvinist.

Q4: Freewill.
Gods hiddenness.
Trust god's plan/appeal to mystery of god.
Calvinist: because that person is doomed to hell because god picked them to be sent to hell. Because.

Q5: Depends on who you ask.
Doesn't matter if it seems "fair" to us.
I suspect many would assert that Mahatma Gandhi is in hell and be quite happy to say so. His deeds on earth do not matter because he still had sin. Yadadada.

Q6: Depends on who you ask.
Its being with god always/worship always.

Q7: Depends on who you ask.
I found 613 things that I disagree with give or take (the laws) I read and responded to all that on my channel.
The new testament isn't much better and perhaps is worse. Jesus also says not to worry about washing hands.
Jesus was proslavery. I'll say it. Screw Jesus! And not in a good way that he might like.

Q8: Nah. They will never admit they could even possibly be wrong.
But again, depends on who you ask.

MUCH better then before!
I have questions about your beliefs still and would love to talk to you. Let me know!