Student Asks TOUGH Questions About The Bible

Pastor Cliffe visits a university campus and gets asked some tough questions from an Atheist student about the reliability of the Bible.

I highly recommend watching the full video, Ethan (the student) ends up raising some deep questions about why God allows evil and Satan on earth.

[davidogden]

So happy to have you in the faith young man..Thank you for the video and the commentary look forward to seeing more

[doug]

This is the key point, the student doesn’t WANT the Bible to be true because if it is true, he has to change his life!

[justinlackey]

I'm only just now finding your channel and your comment about being a Christian for only 10 months really stuck out to me. I've been a Christian for longer than I can remember, and seeing someone so young in faith going so far as to create a youtube channel surrounding apologetics is amazing to me. I don't think I can say I've ever seen this before. God is doing great work in your life bud! Keep it up! I pray I get to see where he takes you on your journey and that others our age can see the work done here and start to follow Christ too. I pray God will continue to bless you and work through you!

[Damian-hoyb]

10 months. You are doing great. Love the clips and commentary. Stay humble and keep on moving towards our Saviour. God bless you!

[stanleybouman]

Wonderful work bro keeping u in my prayers

[jamieking]

Thank you for covering this. You are impressive. God bless you and yours.

[jasminap.]

Great commentary! Love that you did your research.

[donnacrimmins]

Jaiden, I enjoyed your two videos I just watched. I also enjoyed your testimony. Thank you for your work.

[jackjumper]

6:45 One problem is atheist miss understand faith. They think faith is believing in something that cannot be proven, but this is not how the Bible describes faith, faith is putting confidence in what God has proven to be true, God said in relation to us, trusting him with our physical wealth, in regard to our tides and offerings, try me in this, and see if I will not be faithful to what I have said, Faith is us responding to God’s faithfulness

[NOOKnookCROOK]

Very articulate arguments and keep your energy.

[Abel-srbs]

One of my new favorite Content creators 💪🏻

[nenemens]

When Cliff said popularity played a part it was actually a really good point. The early church that began in the time of the apostles knew which books came from the apostles or their followers. They knew which books came out of "nowhere". They knew which books were in line with the apostles teachings who were alive in their time. Over time the books they all knew were genuine will become popular among the Christian community such that the false gospels will be used by a few cults following a perveted form of Christianity. And the false gospels had no early historical mentions and contained historical inaccuracies. As an example: a book which claims to be written in 1950 which mentions the moon landing is obviously a fake bcos the timeline doesn't add up. The false gospels containing such inaccuracies and have no early historical mentions or manuscripts backing them up.

[FishBoneCh]

One fascinating point that got addressed was the literary style. Legends, mythics, and tales were not invented as a literary style of writing until about the 9th century. (Which coincidentally coincides with the birth of Islam and latin legend stories) the early church counsels were truly blessed with good judgment when it came to determining the New Testament canon.

[terraxcvii]

Realistically, we all deserve hell.
But God loved us enough to be born as human and die on the cross in our place and pay for those sins.

[shawnstatzer]

I would have asked questioned about the contradictions, errors, and what many people consider atrocities in the bible.

[TheHelleri]

The worst argument made was the implication that just because someone didn't write their own story, it means that the person didn't exist. Socrates was well known for actually being opposed to writing things down. He thought that not having to memorize things dulled the mind. It was largely his students that recorded his dialogues. But at the same time Socrates was likely used as a character to make Plato's points (with things Socrates likely never actually said or meant quite the way Plato put them). It's known that they had substantial differences in opinion. But it does seem that in The Republic, Socrates is used as a vehicle for Plato to get where he wants to go. I think Paul's letters are probably equivalent to this regarding the teachings of Jesus. Which would be unfortunate for the bulk of Christians as Jesus not interpreted through the Pauline lens is very explicit about his message not being for anyone other than the Israelites.

The overarching problem with the discussion is arguing the historicity to begin with. A guy named Jesus who goes around preaching and attracts a following then gets killed and some people think he might have been the messiah...It's a fairly unremarkable claim for the time and place. Jesus was one of quite a few characters like that which we already know of. Traveling religious/military revolutionary was a surprisingly common career path at the time. Just like extraordinary claims requires extraordinary evidence. Mundane claims require mundane evidence.

Now the miracles are another matter. Because firstly prestidigitation is nothing new. The Magician Dedi had an act going on in Egypt in over 2, 500 years before Jesus' time. Secondly, even if the outline of a story is correct. It doesn't mean that in order to make their guy 'the guy' they didn't exaggerate or even make up some things. What stands in the way of me believing that Jesus performed actual miracles is the same thing that stands in the way of me believing anyone else has. There are simply always easier explanations than real magic. It comes down to Occam's Razor. Which is basically that the simpler an explanation is, the more likely it is to be correct. That's because simpler things have less standing in the way of them happening. So, they tend to happen first and in doing so preclude more complex alternatives.

To get to 'Jesus did miracles' you have to start with miracles even being a possible and actual thing. To get to that you have to demonstrate that he is the immaculate son of a demiurge. More than that. The specific one you believe in. Not any of the other ones plenty of other people believe in. And to prove he is that thing's kid. You have to prove that it's even possible for such a creature to exist, and that it is more likely than not, and that it is actual as opposed to theoretical. And that all the things you believe about it are the unadulterated truth... Vs... Some con men do street magic tricks and sometimes a lot of people believe things that aren't true. A related set of claims that are practically self-evident. Given they can be demonstrated to be things, time and again, on video, in book written about them, as resolved by courts of law in dozens of cases over just this last century.

... And that's just one of many, many contentions I have with theistic belief (the reasoning aplicable in this case to Christianity is equally applicable to other forms of theism).

[Fearlss]

Also, Cliff sort of dimissed the O.T. as not being historically written. Rememeber all those boring (😂) chapters in the first two books of genealogies and laws? It really was an account of people and civilizations, used today by archeologicalist.

[Abbyyena]

I just discovered you! Great video featured and wonderful analysis. Keep it up 😊. Keep close to our Father and Jesus. I’m so glad you are within the body of Christ. ❤

[abcmaya]

Why did Jesus not write anything? The answer is in John 18:21

when the high priest questioned him about his teaching.
Jesus answered...."Ask those who heard me. Surely they know what I said.”

[carlablizard]

The fact that every book was written by hand, no printers, and each one by different people, and they are all personal accounts of jesus, and they all mesh well, it is amazing they all match.