Why I Accept Miracle Claims in Christianity vs Other Religions #apologetics #jesus #shorts
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Why only stop at miracle claims of Islam and Mormonism? There are a lot more religions out there with miracle claims. If Sean accepts that miracle are possible, did he evaluate the thousands upon thousands of miracle claims from other religions as well?
I looked at the evidence for 'miracles' in Islam and in Mormonism, and there isn't good evidence for it. It is very different then the evidence for miracles in the Christian religion.
Sean and his dad are hucksters. Sean seems so squeaky clean. Makes his job that much easier for him.
Basically he beieves because he cannot think for himself. There is not a single eyewitness account in the bible, who wrote the gospels?
Christianity has early evidence and islam doesnt.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Claims in a book are not evidence.
The accounts we have can't agree on what actually happened without heavy massaging. The manuscripts didn't become consistent until around the 300s. Before that, we basically just have fragments, and none of them match the latter manuscripts. They weren't even written by eyewitnesses but by people who had heard stories. We can do through the gospels one by one. This has been done by Paulogia, Ehrman, and others. Claiming otherwise is motivated reasoning. I've successfully presented a steel man argument for the attribution of Matthew and invited Christians in various groups to point out what I missed or was wrong about. No one has added, corrected, or tried to give a rebuttal yet. I think one of my top reasons I don't believe it was written by an eyewitness is the author copied from Mark. This is a great indicator that the author didn't have an original account of his own. It's certainly not independent attestation.
The grand narrative that the miracles of Jesus are well attested requires multiple lines of evidence, none of which hold up to scrutiny.
Also I can explain miracles done by false religions as the result of demonic interference. So I don't have to deny that they happen entirely, I just don't accept that they are done by God
Well, we do have miraculous appearances of Jesus to Hindus and Muslims during NDE’s and then the person has turned to Christ as Savior. I realize that’s different than what Sean is expressing.
Jesus Christ died once and for all, to redeem mankind back to God. Come to Him as you are, just believe that He came from Heaven to Earth, in a humble form of a baby and then was humble enough to be crucified for the sins of mankind and you will saved. He will dwell in your heart and guide you all the days of your life.
Fails to know they are just claims , not actual evidence.
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Demons, exorcisms, water to wine thing, Zoombies, vampires, ghosts, stolen elections, black helicopters, Bill Gates messing with your DNA, earth made in 6 or is it 1 day …what is the big deal with also believing in miracles
What ever rocks your boat
Do these guys ever make compelling arguments? I mean a 9 year old could easily pull this apart
This is a surprisingly bold hand-waving away of the role of, you know, evidence to support any individual claim lol.
Both NASA and the crackhead down the street can make the same claim: we found broccoli on mars. NASA has images and even video from their rover, while the crackhead just has "trust me bro."
You really just gonna say "I'm so confused! How can both of these obviously true claims coexist!"??? Come on now lol.
Whatttttttt ? How can he say this with a straight face ? I am not even going to even argue for a different religion, but the Bible in itself is a contradiction the Bible is full of errors and you take it seriously. Wow just wow. Bible is the only book that is believed in while reading the contradictions in it. Everything else in your life is questioned with such errors, but Bible is overlooked.
It's all lies on all ends. Y'all insane for following old texts.
How many times is it attested that Jesus claimed to be god, explicitly?
I am 100% certain you make special exceptions for Christianity.
Miracles make for a bad reasoning for faith. Say you see a miracle and decide okay that means God is real. 30 years later you haven't seen another or any proof of God since so you doubt you saw what you saw. How many times does God need to prove himself? He proved himself on the cross, what more do we require of him?
What audacity it is to even think the King of all the universe needs to prove ANYTHING to us.
On the contrary, we need to prove something to him, our love and commitment to him, and thats why he requires child like faith from us. My child does not believe something I say because I did something, they believe it because I said it because im their father and they are still young and impressionable with child like faith in their father to lead them right.
Miracles are also not a great sign to follow because Revelation tells us the beast's prophet will perform miracles in his name in the end.
I have a personal relationship with God. He moves in my life and has changed my very being, im not the person I was before I focused on him, he softened my heart, he made me love strangers. That is my sign, the undeniable changes he made in me.
I mean… I'm not sure how a secular source describing Jesus as being someone "who was said to have done miracles," is evidence that miracles actually occurred.
Quran and Mormonism affirms the bible which Galatians 1:8 condemns them both as false
Facts
But when have you investigated the miracle claims of other religions? What miracle claims do they make?
You meant Joshua. You are speaking English, not Greek
There is a huge difference from Mormon apologetics, trying to use our language and Christian apologetics.
We reference only the Bible. An ancient historical document.
They only have a new decree whenever it suits their fancy.
This is only an example, I love my Mormon friends, but here we are.
Great now provide evidence that a miracle actually happened rather than “this weird thing happened and we have no other way to explain it”
Horrors ! You mean to tell me you don't accept the miracle of a flying donkey that could take you into outer space without the need of you being in a space suit ?
Infidel !
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