Lol I do this all the time when talking religion. I'd like to meet someone who does the same thing
@eamonnmurphy5385
5 жыл бұрын
The most important thing in deciding to promote and defend your faith is to determine whether it is all true. Too many Christians are eager to spread their message but are not ready to look for the whole truth of Christianity. Tell me which is worse, to believe a lie or to believe a lie and spread it without fully authenticating it. Surely, if there are 30,000 churches all with different beliefs, a large percentage of these will have false teaching. It is up to the individual to test his faith: 2 Corinthians 13:5 "Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you--unless, of course, you fail the test"
@rg8814
5 жыл бұрын
Obviously touched a nerve with many of you, maybe it made you feel uncomfortable. Is it because you have many opinions that you can't back up?
@nier-ke3pf
5 жыл бұрын
no, it's for the same reasoning listening to flat earthers saying they can't see the curve proves the flat earth is frustrating to listen to. There's this perpetual frustration of listening to people be so violently wrong about something so obvious that you feel like they're a 5 minute conversation away from getting it. Except they're completely psychologically incapable of understanding it. It's endlessly fascinating to me which is what keeps me coming back. I want to get in their heads and understand their motive for denying reality in favor of fancy unfounded rhetoric that's proven wrong with a simple google search.
@tawidwidkasit-an6930
5 жыл бұрын
My take on this matter:..Faith is only in your mind. we cannot see it, feel or touch, taste ,hear , nor smell ,no tangible evidence...How are you going to depend Faith?..However Your Faith in Jesus that we have not seen for 2000 years(no signs shall be given)..lead us to the Teachings of Jesus..the 8 beatitudes..These teaching is a way of life with four rewards from God...The 8 beatitudes is a way of life that anybody can achieve: The 8 blessedness that do not make any conflict to any secular policies if there are..the answers are there in the 8 Beatitudes.
@daddada2984
4 жыл бұрын
Nice ideas.. God bless us..
@coppervann9881
8 жыл бұрын
To summarize, Alan is saying that believers should do everything possible to avoid having to answer any questions of the nonbeliever. Message to nonbelievers, the Columbo tactic works both ways.
@autisticphaglosophy7128
8 жыл бұрын
straw man.
@coppervann9881
8 жыл бұрын
+Greater Epistemology Can you summarize what Alan was saying?
@autisticphaglosophy7128
8 жыл бұрын
Copper Vann He was simply teaching tactics on how to approach people to get a better understanding.
@coppervann9881
8 жыл бұрын
Greater Epistemology Putting the burden of proof on the skeptic to talk about things they know very little about, like evolution and the origin of the universe, does not provide evidence for the Bible or Jesus. It simply provides Alan a way out of having to answer tough questions about his own beliefs. You seriously can't see this is Alan's goal?
@autisticphaglosophy7128
8 жыл бұрын
Copper Vann When did he say that it those things would provide evidence for the other things you laid out? How is asking tough questions about your own beliefs bad?
@Thormp1
5 жыл бұрын
God seems to reflect the believer who uses that God as the justification for their evil actions against their fellow humans. That the values of God coincidentally align with the prejudices of the believer. I see that all too often...and in good, kind religious people, God takes on a nebulous form that has nothing in common with the retributive monster found in the Old and New Testaments. People choose the God that best suits their purposes. I choose no god or gods at all. As Tim Minchin said, "Isn't this enough? This world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap man-made myths and monsters?"
@danielgonzales4931
5 жыл бұрын
Great opinion...
@ddhardial
4 жыл бұрын
What do you mean by evil?
@ddhardial
4 жыл бұрын
Where does it say that God is evil? Is it your opinion that God is evil? If God is evil should we change God with a crime and put God in jail?
@lancesteinke3732
4 жыл бұрын
Retribution is just. Do you not believe in justice? What makes the retribution of God monstrous? The bible says that God's justice is part of His character, and He cannot ignore it. Justice must be done and sin must be punished. The bad news is that we have all sinned. The good news is that God made a way for us to be forgiven ALL our many, many sins by sending Jesus to take our punishment for us, so that we can live forever with God as His beloved children. That's not monstrous. That's a holy, just, loving, merciful God that I consider myself lucky and eternally grateful to know. I think you have misunderstood who God really is, and I invite you to reconsider your view of this awesome God that actually loves you and just wants you to repent and put your faith in Jesus Christ.
@Maksie0
5 жыл бұрын
Why defend faith? Why not seek out evidence-based beliefs instead of faith-based ones?
@kaycorea8229
4 жыл бұрын
Maksie0 what do you mean by that? Lol
@jacobb7628
4 жыл бұрын
I agree. Stop having faith in evolution with no real science to back it up.
@DavM310
4 жыл бұрын
Biblical Faith is an evidence based belief. It comes from the Greek word pistis which means to trust based on inductive knowledge from evidence
@Maksie0
4 жыл бұрын
@@DavM310 So what's the evidence?
@LindeeLove
3 жыл бұрын
@@Maksie0 That is the purpose of tactics. To reverse the burden of proof and therefore not have to defend a position and provide evidence.
@pwnUgood
5 жыл бұрын
No one is attacking your faith, you only pretend your faith is "under attack" in order to rally gullible followers to support your own agenda. You are really just trying to distract yourself from your own doubts-- the battle is all in your own mind.
@swarlly
5 жыл бұрын
Why do you believe in that?
@nier-ke3pf
5 жыл бұрын
The claim they're "under attack" isn't completely untrue, but it's a situation of varying degrees. Everyone's position is under attack. That's how debate and a society of different views works. The problem is when it crosses into violence. Which for 99.9% of them it hasn't hit this point, so they really should cool it. But they're being intentionally divisive with this kind of speech because they're trying to create a "we need to rally because we're under attack" mindset You should always question when someone starts projecting an "us vs them" mentality. It's usually because they're taking advantage of you, consciously or unconsciously. But at a minimum it's a sign of weak reasoning ability or pure appeal to emotion.
@ianholcombe18
3 жыл бұрын
Atheist trolls trying to create a toxic quarrel in the comments section on this video: Everyone who watched this video:
@coppervann9881
8 жыл бұрын
So this is what I have learned. If a nonbeliever comes up to Alan and asks him to provide evidence that Christianity is true, Alan says to turn it around and ask the nonbeliever how he came to the conclusion that Christianity is not true. Amazing!.....NOT!
@micjolly4623
5 жыл бұрын
No, he said to explain after asking questions. How do you know objections if you don't ask questions. If you want to know answers, then look for them. Any objection you have, Christian's have probably already answered.
@Thormp1
5 жыл бұрын
If the god of the bible had been portrayed as a king instead of a God , he would be remembered as the most evil, mass murdering, tyrannical dictator of all time! Christians give the bible god a free pass because, they say, he is god the creator. I don't see the difference whether man or god. If his actions were evil or immoral, as the bible states, then he'd be just as guilty of being evil as any human committing the same deeds.
@DavM310
4 жыл бұрын
By what moral standard are you calling God evil?
@kethib52154
6 ай бұрын
@@DavM310excellent question
@TMPreRaff
5 жыл бұрын
"Tactics"... Sounds desperate, doesn't it.
@andy2069
6 жыл бұрын
there is no morality. Only choices. I choose to act in empathic and compassionate ways. Because if I help other humans as much as I can then maybe they might help me. If I care for them maybe they will care for me. If I value their experiences maybe they will value mine. I don't think any of it matters or will last. But I do know I can experience. So I should. I know I don't want the time I can experience to shorten so I don't hinder others lives. I know that I want positive and enjoyable experiences more than pain and sorrow, so I try to only act in love and joy to others and not hate and malice. Logic is goid enough. We don't need god to be "moral"
@gberndt4music
6 жыл бұрын
Andy Burns that's what Hitler and Stalin thought. They believed their choices were right.
@gberndt4music
6 жыл бұрын
And by choosing to act in empathic and compassionate ways, you chose the moral high ground.
@micjolly4623
5 жыл бұрын
So your existence is basically pointless.
@Minetic
5 жыл бұрын
So by your definition what Hitler and Stalin did was fine and ok. It helped their cause.
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