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Did the Resurrection Really Happen? | Guest: Jeremiah Johnston | Ep 784
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- Today we're joined by Dr. Jeremiah Johnston, president of the Christian Thinkers Society, pastor of apologetics and cultural engagement at Prestonwood Baptist Church, and author of "Body of Proof: The 7 Best Reasons to Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus-and Why it Matters Today," to discuss Jesus' resurrection and apologetics as a whole. We touch both on how to raise Christian thinkers and how to become Christian thinkers ourselves, citing how Jesus asks us to love God with our hearts and minds. We discuss the legacy of the Christian faith and the many wonderful things Christian thinking has brought to societies. Then we look specifically at the resurrection and why it's so fundamental to not just our beliefs as Christians but to the world overall. We cover some of the facts that prove it really happened and answer the question of why it matters for us now.
#apologetics #religion #christian
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Timecodes:
(00:00) Intro
(01:11) Interview with Jeremiah begins
(02:49) Raising Christian thinkers
(06:40) How to start being a Christian thinker
(11:44) Apologetics
(15:46) Christianity makes sense
(21:00) Christian ideas & legacy of faith
(27:20) How do we deal with criticism of Christianity
(34:54) Body of Proof
(38:49) Facts / reasons bodily resurrection is essential
(42:32) What does this mean for us?
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Did the Resurrection Really Happen? | Guest: Jeremiah Johnston | Ep 784
FYI Allie, not all of your listeners are women. I am a married man with a son and I find your podcast extremely informative.
I often hear her reference her “relata-bros”, so I think she knows you’re there and I imagine she appreciates you guys. But of course, I’m not her spokesperson; just making an observation.
I am a married man with an adult daughter and I also find Allie connects with me a great deal.
16 year old guy here. I listen a lot too
Married man with 3 daughters and 1 son here and I listen to Allie Beth Stuckey almost every day! My wife absolutely loved her book "You're Not Enough And That's Okay"
Yepp same here, 27 year old guy and i listen to every episode
Outstanding. Raise your hand if you think Jeremiah needs his own podcast 🙋🏻♀️
And you can send him your money too.
I love this episode! Thank you, Allie and Jeremiah!! Allie, I’d love to hear more apologetics stuff on your show. Maybe you could invite Jeremiah back for a “part 2”??
Yes please!
Third vote for a part 2.
YES, YES, YES! For anyone who would like to hear more, he also was interviewed recently by apologist Alisa Childers.
Where does the bible say you need "apologetics"??
Jesus Christ said I am the resurrection and the life he that believeth In me though he were dead yet shall he live praise God praying for everyone everyday God bless you all 🙏
Amen
Praise Jesus, speak brother. I said the same thing within days of my daughters still birth at 37 weeks. Without the resurrection of Christ I have no hope but because of Jesus Christ’s death and life I know I will see her again. God could have saved her life but He chose not to, and I don’t hate him because of that. His goodness is not contingent on what He does or doesn’t do. He is good, because it’s His very nature. Thank you for sharing.
Jesus Christ died for our Sins According to the scriptures and that he was Buried and that he Rose again the third day praying for everyone everyday God bless you all 🙏🙌🙏
Amen
We need more fearless men, leading their families and spreading the good news of the gospel.
I've been interested in who Jeremiah Johnston is ever since I walked into the local Christian bookstore and noticed there were dozens of books with his name on them. This podcast was really interesting and I am truly grateful that you had him on the podcast, Allie. 😊
Great show, Allie! Right on the money. If we listen to it "with ears to hear", "we shall know the truth, and the truth shall set us free." (Mark 7:16; John 8:32)
Apologetics is so so important for church and modern day christianity. I have been studying apologetics teachers and this field has opened up my mind to understand and strengthen my faith. Also to bring the gospel to those who dont believe.
That is hilarious, because I actually think that the existence of apologetics completely undermines the idea that there’s an all powerful, all knowing, all present God who actively _wants_ to have a personal relationship with all of humanity. There’s no reason, in principle, why a tri-omni deity can’t simply demonstrate his own existence to everyone, or discuss his thoughts on his own behalf. If God _wants_ to have a relationship with me, for example, and I can deny him that which he wants, then it stands to reason that God is not all powerful. If God doesn’t know how to establish a relationship with me, then he isn’t all knowing. And if he simply doesn’t _want_ to have a relationship with me, then that’s his prerogative and he bears responsibility for the ramifications of that decision. Why would an all powerful, infallible God set up a system in which mortal, fallible people try with less than perfect success to “spread God’s word”, when he can presumably achieve perfect results all on his own by spreading his own word himself? Do you imagine that human beings would be more effective than a tri-omni God at literally any imaginable task? So why does God have imperfect, fallible people doing his work for him? People doing “God’s work” looks identical to what you’d expect from a completely manmade religion.
I would say that apologetics often has the opposite effect.
Most Christians never seriously studied the evidence for Christianity and when they listen to the best arguments that Apologists have to offer many Christians realize that the evidence is much worse than they thought which then causes a lot of doubt.
Exactly! Early Christians didn't spread the Gospel through "blind" faith, they offered a rational and evidentiary belief. Too many Christians have fallen for the skeptics lie that Christians only believe in a worldview they were indoctrinated into rather than one they have reason to believe. Faith is trust, trust built through evidence and personal experience.
@@cherylm8017
At best the disciples and the earliest followers had evidence… but everyone who came after them converted based on no verifiable evidence whatsoever.
@@cherylm8017 - Did Jesus’s followers directly observe the supposed “resurrection” of Jesus, or did they more “trust” and/or have an “evidentiary based faith” that Jesus was resurrected? Why would a God who supposedly wants everyone to know that he exists, and that he sacrificed Jesus for our “sins”, play favorites by only allowing a tiny handful of people to directly witness this extremely important “miracle” with their own two eyes?
Yes, Christians are all called to be thinkers.
"Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature."
(1 Cor 14:20)
Good thinking!
Our nation has been waiting for "the adults in the room," but they never notice the hard-working Christians who ARE putting Christ's words into practice in loving their neighbors. It is only our number that lacks. We need MORE Christians to mature in the faith, get off the "milk" and onto the "meat". (1 Cor 3:2; Heb 5:12)
Don't just warm a pew, roll up your sleeves and help your brethren serve those in need!
That is an ESSENTIAL part of our being in Christ, "who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, ZEALOUS FOR GOOD DEEDS."
(Titus 2:14)
If all Christians do this, there WILL be enough adults in the room to save America from collapse!
This is SO good! What a wonderful interview!!
O.M. Bakke. "When Children Became People". In ancient Greece and Rome, children were considered nonpersons.
Love You Allie! What a blessing it is to be listening to this episode on Good Friday!!!♥️
I think we need a return visit and a five hour episode with this guest! Very inspiring!
That was so good -- I'm listening to it for a second time!
Excellent episode! Yes, yes! We need apologetics! Thank you!
Absolutely loved, loved, loved this episode!
this is an INCREDIBLE podcast!!!! such a wonderful listen on Easter!!❤
A great conversation! Appreciate you both and your candid conversation so much.
This is so great! Could listen to hours more of this!
Best podcast I’ve heard in a while, thank you to you both
What a great episode!!
this was beautiful. thank you for this.
this was such a beautiful listen- ill be following more of Dr. Jeremiah
I just bought Dr Jeremiah’s book and cant wait to read it
YAHOSHEA BLESS Sister. יהושע ברכה אחות
Such a good episode!!!
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A great interview!!!
AMEN and AMEN 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Please have this dude on again!!
Amen and amen.
#onthethirdday - love that! Great episode!
As an atheist I studied this very closely. I'm now a Christian because of that research. My "belief" is Jesus was born between 3-2 BC (The 4 BC death of Herod is wrong, see the new research saying he died closer to 1 BC) and died 4/3/33 AD.
Sorry but I'm calling bs on your "I studied this very closely". Wtf is the relevance of the birth and death of an apocalyptic preacher who wandered around the Levant to the unevidenced biblical claim that 37.2 trillion dead and rotting eucaryotic cells magically came back to life?
Lying for Jesus just isn't a good look.
Gary Habermas has written many books on the resurrection of Jesus.
Personally, I think the gospel of John is one of the best apologetic works available to us. The book is filled with testimonies of people proclaiming that Jesus is the Christ. If John had been lying, He could have been sniffed out
He wrote it in 90 CE when all the people around Jesus were conveniently DEAD since the average life span was 30-35.
LOL
Life span was always 70 -80. Children in the past would die due to many reasons diseases mostly. The average 30 - 35 takes into account the children age when they died. Once children past into the 20s a normal person would live into their 70s.
@@andrewdragh9593 1st century Palestinian goat herders and fishermen adults had the same life expectancy as 21st century American adults ??!!
YOU also believe in dirt into man, rib into woman, talking snakes, talking donkeys, teenager getting pregnant without sex, water into wine, man bodily rising to the sky, Right ??
LOL
@@sanjeevgig8918 but doesn’t mentioned the temple being destroyed… one of the biggest and devastating things to happen to the Jews. No mention. Nothing. That happened 70 ad. Scholars believe the gospels were well within 10-20 years of Jesus resurrection.
@@SaraSmilesandCreates "Scholars believe the gospels were well within 10-20 years of Jesus resurrection."
NOPE.
You are a good cherry picker.
LOL
I love you, Jeremiah--please keep studying. The 7th day Sabbath was ordained by God long before the existence of the Jews, and early Christians kept the 7th day sabbath sacred. It was changed to Sunday by a prominent entity. Is man greater than God? This requires a massive study, but its importance comes into play in end times.
Amen! Are you SDA?
I’m a 30 year old young adult and This episode sparked a fire in my soul! I feel so encouraged and motivated to be part of an apologetics ministry !!!!!
Ok, let's start you off with an easy question.
Why do you believe in the truth of 1 Corinthians 15: 14, when no Christian apologist has ever come remotely close to providing even a mustard seed's worth of empirical evidence to support the biblical resurrection claim?
@@downenout8705 That's a very dumb claim to make. There are plenty of atheist and agnostic scholars who'd admit that there's some evidence for the Resurrection, Christianity, and God. Even if they don't find the evidence convincing enough, most wouldn't deny that it exists. This is just a stale internet atheist cliche that most serious atheist philosophers would reject.
@@Jimmy-iy9pl Instead of the strawman where you ignore the word "empirical", just refute my assertion with a single sentence containing that precious mustard seed's worth of empirical evidence to support the biblical resurrection claim.
I am however, as confident as I am that the sun will rise tomorrow that this you will never do, because there is no empirical evidence.
All you have is a few hundred words contained in a collection of stories written by anonymous authors decades after the supposed events and a few sentences in some letters from a man named Paul. That isn't, and never will be, empirical evidence.
This, at best, hearsay testimony isn't, and never will be, sufficient pseudo evidence to convince me that 37.2 trillion dead and rotting eucaryotic cells magically came back to life in the Levant some two thousand years ago.
I suggest in future that you read what is written more carefully if you want to avoid your comments being " very dumb".
That was a weird ad for Constitution Wealth. "Where your money is, there your heart will be also"? No -- where your *treasure* is there your heart will be also and our treasure as Christians is definitely not money. CW should probably rethink that copy.
who are the contemporary eyewitness of the resurrection ?
Great episode! Jeremiah looks like Adam Conover from Adam Ruins Everything, don't you think?
😊
A lot of Protestants never had an allergy to the word "catechize." We've been doing it for 500 years.
Ah man so close
Wait we can speak of loved ones who have died in the Lord in the present tense but we can't ask them for prayers?
Just because the Gospels contain stories of Jesus predicting his death and resurrection, does not mean Jesus actually rose from the dead. . Much more likely the authors were biased theologians exaggerating their new faith and making some money. Acts 5 and 1 Corinthians 9.
How can I watch Nefarious?
I’m sorry this is off topic but have you been following the baby Halo story?
Isn’t Prestonwood Baptist the church that has the awful Christmas extravaganza with Santa flying in?
41:43 _"if Jesus hadn't said Lazarus' name, everyone would have rose from the dead"_
(rose for risen?)
It was the _singular_ imperative, right?
But excellent point that Jesus as miracle worker made sure to speak to whatever should be different. Now apply that to Joshua 10, I am not saying verse 13, I am saying verse 12.
I’d love to hear what children’s ministry curriculum he uses at his church! Ours uses Answers in Genesis but the new children’s director is changing it 😕 I’m really conflicted that he doesn’t realize what our generation of kids is facing.
Just curious, What curriculum are they changing to and was a reason given by the Pastor to the congregation families?? Was he involved in the curriculum decision, or was that left to the children's ministry director? Were parents involved in discussions? The only reason I ask is: it seems fewer and fewer Pastors are involved in the "ancillary" ministries of their church, nor parents, and I believe it's one way "woke agenda" often creeps into the church (via worship music, sunday school/youth groups, etc).
(18:14) _J. Rufus Fears: Not until the dawn of the bible did the idea of universal freedom take hold_
(25:48) Ephesians 2: _And you were dead in the trespasses and sins_
[Notes]
(18:41) Judges 2: _After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel_
(21:17) The idea of a human right is a Christian idea
(22:18) What changed infanticide in the Roman Empire. Jesus and his movement
(26:31) It's a lot easier to enslave people if there's no Christianity. Moral Relativism, humanity dehumanized, no individual freedom, law of the Jungle.
(29:49) Science of modern nursing was the creation the innovation of a Christian whose parents turned their back on her, she turned her back on wealth, and her love for Christ compelled her to want to care for those that were sick and hurting
(30:25) For a 1,000 years Christianity stamped out racism. A lot of people don't realize that the same literature that gave us democracy gave us racism
- Plato keeping the precious metal of Greece pure
- Eugenics that's a Greek term eugenesis that comes out of Greek thought
(30:47) For a 1,000 years there was no racist writer or thinker after Christianity. There wasn't a prominent thinker that espoused racialideas until the enlightenment
- The Enlightenment thinkers had no problem with the transatlantic slave trade. Nietzsche, Feuerbach, Marx, Darwin
(32:06) _The people who identify in the activist class of these groups claim to be fighting for justice yet they are only ever fighting for their own interests. Conversely, if you look at Christians we are always fighting for other people-someone having an abortion over here doesn't personally affect me. The only reason we fight for unborn children, or fight for those who are enslaved, or for the poor is because the love of Christ compels us to do so_
(36:25) _There were 28 different Messiahs in Judaism in the 1st century. They all came to naught with the death of the proposed messiah. Only 1 had a movement that said he rose again from the dead and that was of course Jesus of Nazareth_
(36:45) There are 300 passages in the New Testament speak to the resurrection
(36:51) John 14: _Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live_
(39:02) *Reasons why we know Jesus Resurrected*
- 1. Jesus called it. Compare the prophecy of Hosea 6:2-3 to his own life Mark 8:31-34 and John 2:19
- 2. Jesus refers to himself as Son of Man. Which is a reference to the prophecy of Daniel 7
- 3. Jesus demonstrated resurrection. He showed his power over death by raising up Jairus daughter from the dead (Luke 8), the widow's son in Nain (Luke 7), and Lazarus (John 11)
- 4. None of Jesus's disciples expected the Messiah to die by Roman crucifixion, let alone rise from the dead. They were all looking for a conquering Messiah. (Mathew 16) There was no motivation to make up a resurrection narrative
- 5. Resurrection is the only way we can ultimately make sense of the suffering in the world. (Romans 8)
(41:00) Daniel 7: _I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a Son of Man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed
(45:17) We grieve but we do not grieve as the heathen. We grieve with hope because we know we will be reunited with our loved ones. There might be people watching this program who have experienced a deep loss in their life. The resurrection is what will make sense of that loss.
(45:40) 1 Thessalonians 4: But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, the Lord will bring with him those who have fallen asleep
(45:43) 1 Peter 1: _Praise be to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, 5 who through faith are shielded by the Lord’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith-of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire-may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
The women were with Jesus very early in his earthly ministry and thus not only heard his alleged resurrection predictions, but also witnessed many of his alleged miracles...and yet they still go to the tomb on the third day expecting Jesus to be dead. I guess those prior miracles and resurrection predictions were not very convincing.
What does that word mean that he says at 49:30?
Catechize. Catholics teach their children their doctrine by memorizing answers to questions. They call this "catechism." He means we need to teach our children doctrine: what we believe.
@@AbbaJoy1 Lutherans also use Catechism to teach our older children, 7th and 8th grade, before they are confirmed in the Lutheran faith. There is Luther’s Small and Large Catechism. It takes piece by piece in a question and answer format backed by Scripture the Ten Commandments, the Creeds, the Lord’s Prayer, Communion, Baptism and the Office of the Keys and Confession.
I think for Lutherans, at least the conservative synods, it is a very good intellectual practice so you know why you are professing that faith.
It's the verb form of catechism, which is a systematic theology that uses questions and answers to teach theology.
Nope. If you guys want me to believe that a dead man’s decomposing corpse suddenly sprang back to life, started talking to people again, and eventually flew off into the sky, somewhere in ancient Palestine a couple of thousand years ago, it’s going to take a lot more than some personal anecdotes to convince me that it happened.
@TestMeatDollSteak
Your argument sounds exactly the same as the Pharisees' and Saul's at the time.
@@dragonhold4 - I didn’t present an argument, I made an observation.
@@TestMeatDollSteak
The remaining disciples didn't have an easy time.
Many were jailed or executed on these same arguments.
An interesting depiction of the period: _A.D. The Bible Continues_
@@dragonhold4 - Again, I didn’t make an argument. Evidently, you don’t even understand what an argument is, because you can’t even correctly identify whether you are looking at one or not. I made an observation about my own inability to accept the claim that a “miracle” has occurred, without seeing it with my own two eyes. That’s not an argument; it’s just a statement about the burden of proof as it relates to so-called miracle claims.
There is precisely zero extra-biblical evidence that any of the disciples were executed specifically for their refusal to renounce their divinity claims about Jesus, but even if they were tortured or put to death specifically for that refusal, so what? People willingly suffer dire consequences for dubious, yet apparently deeply held beliefs all the time. Why would the 9/11 hijackers “die for a lie”? Why would the Heaven’s Gate members have all “died for a lie”? So on and so forth.
Here’s a better question: Why did your supposedly omnipotent, omniscient deity decide to demonstrate his magical God-powers in a lonely tomb in the Middle East two thousand years ago, when no one was around to directly witness this “resurrection” actually happening, and no video cameras or other recording devices existed, and then leave it up to a handful of illiterate locals to spread tales of the supposed event by word-of-mouth for several decades, before said stories were eventually written down by anonymous Greeks, who weren’t eyewitness to the events described and who lived in a completely different country and spoke a completely different language from the original tale-tellers?
Rabbi Tovia Singer: 'Paul invented Christinity!'
If Christians knew how to interpret scripture in the way it would have been interpreted at the time it was written. When talking to others have sweet Jesus and sugar water does not convince anyone and teaches nobody.
"Studied in Oxford"....but not AT Oxford hmmmmm.....
Doesn’t matter. It’s about the man’s leadership, courage and teaching than miracles that may or may not have happened. Obviously he was just born out of wedlock, for example.
The Birth of Jesus Christ
Matthew 1:18-25
18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 19 And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. 20 But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” 22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:
23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall call his name Immanuel”
(which means, God with us). 24 When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife, 25 but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.
"Question. -- What is the meaning of Christ's resurrection after three days?
Answer. -- The resurrections of the Divine Manifestations are not of the body. All Their states, Their conditions, Their acts, the things They have established, Their teachings, Their expressions, Their parables and Their instructions have a spiritual and divine signification, and have no connection with material things. For example, there is the subject of Christ's coming from heaven: it is clearly stated in many places in the Gospel that the Son of man came from heaven, He is in heaven, and He will go to heaven. So in chapter 6, verse 38, of the Gospel of John it is written: "For I came down from heaven"; and also in verse 42 we find: "And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?" Also in John, chapter 3, verse 13: "And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but He that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven."
Observe that it is said, "The Son of man is in heaven," while at that time Christ was on earth. Notice also that it is said that Christ came from heaven, though He came from the womb of Mary, and His body was born of Mary. It is clear, then, that when it is said that the Son of man is come from heaven, this has not an outward but an inward signification; it is a spiritual, not a material, fact. The meaning is that though, apparently, Christ was born from the womb of Mary, in reality He came from heaven, from the center of the Sun of Reality, from the Divine World, and the Spiritual Kingdom. And as it has become evident that Christ came from the spiritual heaven of the Divine Kingdom, therefore, His disappearance under the earth for three days has an inner signification and is not an outward fact. In the same way, His resurrection from the interior of the earth is also symbolical; it is a spiritual and divine fact, and not material; and likewise His ascension to heaven is a spiritual and not material ascension.
Beside these explanations, it has been established and proved by science that the visible heaven is a limitless area, void and empty, where innumerable stars and planets revolve.
Therefore, we say that the meaning of Christ's resurrection is as follows: the disciples were troubled and agitated after the martyrdom of Christ. The Reality of Christ, which signifies His teachings, His bounties, His perfections and His spiritual power, was hidden and concealed for two or three days after His martyrdom, and was not resplendent and manifest. No, rather it was lost, for the believers were few in number and were troubled and agitated. The Cause of Christ was like a lifeless body; and when after three days the disciples became assured and steadfast, and began to serve the Cause of Christ, and resolved to spread the divine teachings, putting His counsels into practice, and arising to serve Him, the Reality of Christ became resplendent and His bounty appeared; His religion found life; His teachings and His admonitions became evident and visible. In other words, the Cause of Christ was like a lifeless body until the life and the bounty of the Holy Spirit surrounded it.
Such is the meaning of the resurrection of Christ, and this was a true resurrection. But as the clergy have neither understood the meaning of the Gospels nor comprehended the symbols, therefore, it has been said that religion is in contradiction to science, and science in opposition to religion, as, for example, this subject of the ascension of Christ with an elemental body to the visible heaven is contrary to the science of mathematics. But when the truth of this subject becomes clear, and the symbol is explained, science in no way contradicts it; but, on the contrary, science and the intelligence affirm it. 24"
‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Some Answered Questions (p.104)
Why does Jeremiah Johnston keep on mentioning that he studied at Oxford and got his Ph.D. while at Oxford when he really didn't get his degree from Oxford University? He is being deceptive of his credentials.
Trying to understand, why does he and many others believe the Sabbath day of Rest has changed? God blessed the 7th day and made the 7th day a Holy day. I heard him say this is why we worship on Sunday since Jesus rose on Sunday, he did raise on Sunday. But like he said, he worships on Sunday not Saturday like the Jews did… Jesus was a Jew, he was in the temple every Sabbath, Saturdays. So did this change in the Bible or after the Bible was written? To my understanding, it was after the Bible was written and a decision made by a man, not God. This is the one thing I tend to struggle with is finding great podcasts and channels like this but this one thing is bothersome because I hear over and over is this Biblical…? But on this very crucial commandment, I see people have changed… I’m not a Seventh Day Adventist. I am a Christian and that is all I identify as. I keep the Sabbath as the Bible tells me to, so I attend church on Sabbath, Saturdays. And also keep it Holy and find rest in it. So this is a topic I’d like her her to touch on. Is changing the Sabbath day, Biblical?
The only witness is Paul and he saw in in a revelation, the gospels were written by unknown authors and decades after the event. There is no evidence of Jesus resurrection accept a dream.
All of your “evidence” of the resurrection relies on the assumption that the gospels are accurate. But the question is how you know that the gospels are true.
Makes no sense that because Jesus resurrected on Sunday, you worship on Sunday... like what???
😂😂😂😂
Dig the specs! 👏
Wait...is the evidence he's citing for the resurrection nothing more than quotes from the bible itself? Because the bible also mentions talking snakes and 960 year-old men.
I love this episode and of course I know Jesus was God and rose from the dead but just to play the devil's advocate (pun intended) if I'm an atheist or even as a believer, I didn't technically hear or see "PROOF" of His resurrection. I know all of those scriptures and I know they're true but one still has to ultimately put their faith in Christ's resurrection. We don't have irrefutable, scientific proof of the resurrection. Just saying...
We have a great deal of evidence that points to that and it's certainly enough for me but..
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@@e.t.h.559 I was just referring to what I had previously stated. If I'm an atheist watching this, I didn't technically hear or see irrefutable proof of the resurrection.
I am not an atheist and I do believe Jesus was a Manifestation of God, but I do not believe he was resurrected from the dead. I don’t take the concept literally. You’re right that this video mentioned nothing to convince me otherwise.
@@MissRegionRat I'm not sure how you could even arrive at such a conclusion about Jesus Christ lol
However, I do encourage you to continue your search for the truth about Him. And I'm absolutely, positively certain that if you speak to Him as you would speak to anyone else and ask Him to make it clearer to you and even plead if you feel the need, dig in and continue studying and listening to discussions on the matter and he will absolutely reveal it to you. He actually promised it.
@@MissRegionRat do you think Jesus was lying when he said he would raise from the dead after the third day? Or that the disciples were lying when they wrote about him raising others from the dead? And if he could actually raise others from the dead then why couldn't he raise himself? And if he can't raise himself from the dead then he's not God which would also mean he was a liar and so were the disciples.
Do you have any physical evidence of the alleged resurrection of a physical JC?
I wonder if these two nitwits know about the Acts stories of both Peter and Paul also resurrecting people from the dead?
Dr. Jeremiah Johnston, please, explain the story of Job. You dismissed your daughter when she asked (after saying you talk about Christianity all day, every day), and you did not even bring the topic back up. But yet you try to explain it away that Christian's don't know everything...it's a very simple story, and somebody who claims to be a "doctor" in the subject should have absolutely no problem in explaining it. Your 5 year old daughter tried to be a "Christian thinker" and "ask questions" and have a "healthy dialogue" and "not shy away from the truth", but then you sent her to bed?
Here’s the problem that no Christian can be honest about. With all the talk with all the theatrics with all the claims. You have over 20 billion people that I’ve ever lived on the planet, and the Christian claim is only one person out of that number ever rose from the dead, and it just happens to be the person who is the figure for the religion we believe in. Forget the fact that they were many Egyptian Mesopotamian and many other God to make the same claims exactly the same Dionysus I’m in the list goes on and on.. even Julius Caesar.
And those beliefs were based on claims and stories that were passed on exactly the same as Christianity literally zero difference, but somehow this is the story that is true of all those now the others are just this one. The evidence is the testimony of people that lived over 2000 years ago, written testimony, decades, or more after it happened. You got to be desperate for something to be true highly disingenuous to say that they should not be questioned much more than it is.
@martin harrison
Those false religions didn't have an Israelite people reenacting the Messiah's sacrifice for centuries until he came. (Leviticus 1:3-9)
Well according to the complete lack of evidence provided. The answer is the resurrection never happened.
"Teaching Christians to be thinkers?" That's an oxymoron if I've ever heard one. Fundamentalist Christianity is the antithesis of one single original thought coming from the mind of a true believer.
Jesus said that He is the resurrection and the life, so why question it. It happened, is real and is over. Next topic.
Just because a book says it's so, doesn't defacto make it so. It didn't happen, it isn't real and it's over. Next topic.
Read the Book of Enoch and Babylonian Codes and your religion will fall like the House of Cards it is
He had interesting things to offer. But to convince some people, who are nonbelievers, you cannot proof things with a book, they don´t believe in. They can easiely claim, that it is a conspirithy.
In my eyes, the really compelling proof is in the Shroud of Turin. It exists, compares to the crucifiction and to the resurrection, is the only tissue in this way on the whole earth, has many astonashing mysterys in it. It is hard for atheists, to get over it with science.
As an atheist I can say that the shroud of Turin is totally unconvincing.
There is no unbroken chain of custody back to the body of the Jesus character.
There is no carbon dating that places the shroud in the early first century.
Perhaps most importantly of all there is no DNA evidence consistent with an immaculately conceived human male.
In the absence of this evidence there is no good reason to believe that the shroud is anything other than a very clever medieval fake.
"you cannot prove things with a book they don´t believe in"
> The same could be said about all history books
@@dragonhold4 You clearly have no clue how any historical document is evaluated.
@@dragonhold4 Yes.
The reason Christ was explaining way these certain people didn't have enough faith to experience the called Christ tried to make happen so your versions of outside christ was a pattern in you not one person outside of man is dust and Paul called his outside efforts called Saul was DUNG so all your looking outside even galaxies is a dust and dung. It is not what you think ONE person was christ its actually ONE in you your MIND same ONE Christ Jesus SAME ONE that plays ALL I AM, Paul HINTED Philip 2:5Let this MIND be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: NO ONE LOST.
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If Jeremiah Johnston is willing to risk becoming a Catholic in the process, he is free to contact me.
He didn't give out his email, so I cannot contact him, immediately.
The #2 reason in the Book:
#2 Jesus Called It
HA HA HA HA HA HA
This is The-bible-is-true-because-the-bible-says-the-bible-is-true circular logic.
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Hey again Sanjeev! I think that was actually reason #1, and if you want to try predicting your own death...and resurrection...
and WHEN it's going to happen, please do leave a comment.
If you make good on that, maybe you can change the world?
@@edamame-hime I have written some notes. They'll write another book 40 - 100 YEARS AFTER my death and match it up.
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Just glad ure listening. Hope u start listening a little more carefully! cheers!
@@edamame-hime Circular reasoning loves me, this I know; because circular reasoning tells me so.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Are you ok, man? Nobody loves circular reasoning except--oh wait! --evolutionists who date fossils by the rock layer they are found in because of the fossils that are found in them...
and let's not get started on how logical hinduism is, shall we?
Anyway, like you, presumably, I value logic and reason, but I won't give any more time to one who is only here to mock and doesnt bother listening to the whole explanation carefully. Good day to you.