Bible & Dead Sea Scholar Kipp Davis EXPOSES Problems With Christian Apologetics

Bible & Dead Sea Scholar Kipp Davis EXPOSES Problems With Christian Apologetics

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[fentonmulley]

I always liked how Kipp is a scholar first, and his passion for his work makes him an excellent communicator. You can tell by his phrasing and careful detail contextualizing, how he does his work.

[hank_says_things]

"Unbridled confidence" is exactly what a good apologist needs. And this is why I call apologists used-god salesmen. Their purpose is to sell belief to those who already believe, not convert others - except other Christians. It's about retention & encouraging brand switching. I won't call the whole field a scam, but it's more sales than science.

[indivisible]

I have had the pleasure of watching Derek's journey of continuous growth as a person, learning and growing my own understanding as I followed along behind him. You sir, are a small light in a dark sky. What you do matters. Thank you from the UK.

[karlu]

I know many scholars feel engaging with or even acknowledging apologists is beneath them. And I get that academically and professionally-speaking, it is. But it's such a public service when scholars take the time to explain in clear, plain language the problems with apologetics generally, or why certain popular apologetic arguments aren't taken seriously within academia, specifically. Thanks Dr. Kipp, and thanks Derek for connecting scholars and their work, with the public

[goanywhere]

An excellent summary of the weakness of the entire Christian apologetics "industry". Circular reasoning and confirmation bias forms the "academic" foundation for the supposed vigorous critical research that they claim supports the Biblical narrative. That was certainly my approach as a budding apologeticist many years ago. But all it took to begin having my "walls of Jerico" moment was to conduct some serious research into the critical scholarly approach to the actual historicity of Biblical claims.

[danbreeden]

Skepticism is an important part of a beginning of science as an investigation

[timothymulholland]

Is a dead sea scholar a deceased oceanographer?

[martifingers]

The Habermas reference is important. My recollection is that Habermas promised to produce his list of just such sceptics-turned-believers. This never happened as far as I know. I do wonder why.

[rainbowkrampus]

I always wonder about how much of apologetics is lies, as in falsehoods intended to deceive, versus how much is people with a bad epistemological framework being easily convinced by stories to the point that the truth of a matter becomes defined by how emotionally engaging the story attached to it is.

[therongjr]

I'm so happy that the Ancient Canaanite religion course will be available for a while; i really want to watch it, but I just suffered a temporary financial set-back.

[geneshifter]

As a scientist, Lee Strobel just seems like a dishonest person to me. When I watched a show where he was supposedly going to give historical evidence of the resurrection, it was all the same old apologist nonsense. All of this just boils down to this: faith is convincing yourself of something with little or no evidence and as soon as you start to really investigate the claim it becomes very difficult to maintain that faith. They'll say it all the time, just depends on your heart lol. Well, I'm sorry, that's not damn good enough when you have thousands of gods competing for my allegiance.

[beegee]

My brother is a retired pastor who always admired Willow Creek and visited several times. He modeled his church on it in many ways. Obviously he isn’t very happy that I have left religion behind but, once I had that moment of clarity I could never go back.

[paulnolan]

Bit late but CONGRATULATIONS Derek on a thoroughly deserved 100 thousand subs man ^^

[pRODIGAL_sKEPTIC]

I just saw Dr Davis on Paulogia! Good stuff

[spirituallevelofbeing]

I love listening to and discussing the many forms of ancient Christianity. My favourite is the Nag hammadi

[davidsmith-uwci]

Best way to make money is say i used to be a atheist i used to be a skeptic and now im a believer and write books about it and whatever else they do

[GorgeousRoddyChrome]

Most excellent! This is 16 minutes that every deliver needs to see. Well done.

[Dr_Wrong]

True confidence lacks the need to demonstrate confidence.

[Dee.Murphy]

Such a great show guys !! Bryan and I are on the edge of our seats !