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  2. Lol too "biased"??? Duh! Of COURSE they were biased! Matthew and Luke LITERALLY copied Mark verbatim, as well as redacted and embellished/extrapolated upon Mark… and, MARK LITERALLY USED PAUL's writings AND Paul literally said he got HIS Gospel from NO MAN, but via revelation and scripture (aka, old testament extrapolations!!). So… the Gospel writers LITERALLY had an agenda and were EXTREMELY biased and trying to fit a mythical Jesus into a historical setting. They were biased AND fulfilling an agenda!!!

  4. The priests who wrote the new testament found it so boring, and obviously influenced by other religions, tried to make it interesting by adding deception and intrigue , thats just basic literature!
    That doesn't make it true , or you could argue that the works of Shakespeare were all true.
    Don't be so delusional!

  7. Atheism goal is to bypass our human minds flaws such as bias, fallacies and beliefs. We personally can be biased, but that's just human and ideally we should attempt to bypass that.
    Richard's Dawkins goal wasn't to talk people out of their faith. He's trying to get people to see past their beliefs to what is true. Science removes our inherent brain problems that prevent us from seeing and ultimately accepting what is true.
    Gospel writers may have written embarrassing situations into the stories, but that still doesn't produce any gods or make any of their claims true. Does an embarrassing story make claims like a dust man and his rib wife screwed the entire human race by listening to actalking snake? Or how about Hebrew speaking donkeys, sticks turning to snakes, angels having sex with humans to make giants, Elijah riding a fiery chariot in the sky, Joshua stopping the sun, magic dirt water tests for women's fidelity, languages came about because people built a tall tower, a ghost sex conceived, born of an engaged teen virgin, mythical half god half man who died for less than 3 days is coming back riding on a cloud to take believers to their mansions on gold paved streets up in the sky. These are ridiculous ideas that no one could refute. But we can refute them now. All of the natural sciences and the Earth itself points away from any gods.
    Time to throw the current gods we're wasting our time on onto the scrap heap of dead gods of history and elevate our thinking from the late bronze age.

  10. Looking at most of these comments are really discouraging and heartbreaking for me as a Christian, anti-christians are adament to falsify the Bible, despite all the "evidences" we have which is why i believe that this "apologetics" movement doesn't work, it has failed, if these historical reliability tests were so effective how come there are people who still reject the Bible and don't believe in Christianity? how come they have such good and rational arguments against the Gospels? i personally love Christianity and believe Christ died and rose from the dead because of what he has done in my life, my life has changed because of Christ, i have experienced his goodness and his power in my life, but sadly i cannot prove to others that Christianity is true, and that the Gospels are historically reliable so i don't try anyway, because if it were possible to prove it people shouldn't be able to falsify me, but it happens 😔

  12. But the disciples are fictional characters too.

    You know how luke skywalker is the main character and yet in the story c3po still spoke.

    The bible is just like that.

    Humans who wrote fiction made them and their words up.

  14. The criterion of embarassment is touted by apologists but it fails under close evaluation. First, the premise behind this criterion is that the gospel author(s) is/are the person or persons in the story , because who (it is presumed) would embarrass themselves or their friends. We know that the gospel authors are not the characters in the story! So another author has no reason to not tell a story in which a character displays some flaw.

    In the example Sean gives is a good example. Peter did not write any gospel (and indeed the apostles are called illiterate in the very Bible Sean is using.)

  15. Sorry Sean, but self deprecation is extremely common in Judaism. By making themselves seem foolish the Jesus character is elevated.

    This is common in Christians today, telling us about how awful they were before they turned to Christ. If they were loving and decent people before giving themselves to Jesus who would come to their lectures?

  17. While they were sleeping & jesus was praying at getsemane, they manage to write what's going on around them . Wtf no lawyer would write a narrative so self incriminating as this 😁🤣🤣 god failed to find a good editor when making up stories . 😁🤣🤣🤣

  18. There's a big difference between being biased & subjecting your bias to methods that would eliminate this variable. Have you ever tried subjecting your way of reasoning to the painful but liberating way of discerning facts from fiction, Sean? . Dawkins is credible, unlike you, Sean, who uses feeling based method, an unreliable pathway to objectivity .
    You must sleeping inside your class during your school days when they were teaching you how to think logically. 😁🤣🤣🤣

  23. @SeanMcDowell
    The Gospels are about convincing people of Jesus, not his followers This is like in comic books where the sidekick is always clumsy and gets in trouble all the time, but the hero is perfect at everything
    So, of course, Jesus's sidekicks always make mistakes, but Jesus is always a step ahead of everyone

  24. I think that metaphysical faith commitments/preferences (including negations) need to be confessed & listed at the outset of ANY publication or discourse across most settings. In a non-military/police-state free market type of ethos. THEN let the reporting, discourse, discussions, persuasions, debates commence. There is no blank slate human. And we are all developing. And nobody is TRULY the same from one day to the next – or one decade to the next. (So those 'lists' or 'ratings' or 'tags' that I discussed? They would need to be updated regularly.) BUT: the key is to learn RESPECT for God, Humanity, Beliefs and Discourse – and the process of learning. Without love & respect? It won't work.

    (Look at ESG/CBDC Ai-Augmented Reality matrix ideas that I believe they want to install over all the worlds regions. Problem with that is: it isn't freedom. It's tied to military and police state and the top-down things. It isn't enough about YOUR OWN CHOSEN WORLDVIEW and FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION and FREEDOM TO PATRONIZE AS YOU WILL and freedom to OPERATE YOUR OWN MONEY & PROPERTY as you will.)

    We need to go back to the USA of the early 1950's approximately – but do it better. Coolidge, Mises, Rand Paul. And our better angels. Such as Sean McDowell and CBN, O'Keefe, and even Tim Pool and Jeremy "The Quartering", K-Love resources, Angel studios & Dallas Jenkins, etc.

  27. A logical, common sense approach to Christianity. Just like your father Josh did but just as a breeder of thoroughbreds accomplishes while improving his stock, you are bringing in an even deeper worldview of Christianity. Thank you!

  28. The problem is they didn't acknowledge their bias, nor did they cite their sources or use critical examination of evidence. Additionally, they didn't use double-spaced, 12-point, Times New Roman font. How can we trust an ancient document that doesn't adhere to fundamental basics of scholarship? 😅