From Atheist Scientist To Follower of Jesus | Testimony of Dr. Rosalind Picard
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I rather be a fool for Christ than wise in this world
Amen! Noah is the best example of your sentiment. Upon the start of the flood, he could have said to his mockers “Who’s the fool now!?”
@@chriskourliourod1651 ❤️❤️
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha .... I hope you get your wish! @@chriskourliourod1651
Glory to God in the name of Jesus Christ.
Sorry mate.
Logic says he’s dead.
@@canbest7668 You will be sorry at his 2nd coming and he aint coming on a donkey this time.
@johnnynotenglish9751 Haven't drank nor took drugs since I became born again 28 years ago thanks be to the living Jesus Christ.
( 2 PETER 3:3 FIRST OF ALL, TOU MUST UNDERSTAND THAT IN THE LAST DAYS SCOFFERS WILL COME, SCOFFING AND FOLLOWING THEIR OWN EVIL DESIRES. THEY WILL SAY, " WHERE IS THIS ' COMING ' HE PROMISED? EVER SINCE OUR FATHER'S DIED EVERYTHING GOES ON AS IT HAS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF CREATION. " BUT THEY DELIBERATELY FORGET THAT LONG AGO BY GOD'S WORD THE HEAVENS EXISTED AND AND THE EARTH WAS FORMED OUT OF WATER AND BY WATER. )
THEY DELIBERATELY FORGET!!!!!!!
THAT'S SCOFFERS LIKE YOU.
@@canbest7668 It must really annoy you atheists and scoffers when an atheist comes to a knowledge of the truth and escapes from the trap of the devil who had taken them captive to do his will until the resurrected living Jesus Christ gives life to all who repent wholeheartedly for their own personal sins.
The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devils work.
Hallelujah, Glory to God for all the scoffers- atheists who are now witnessing for the way and the truth and the life- Jesus Christ the living messiah.
@@jamesmcallister9645 he ain’t coming at all!
Dr Rosalind became Christian not because she was smart, but being a receptive person.
She accepted the challenge to read the book of Proverb with open heart, mind, humility and respect.
Atheists especially trollers always lack of these characters.
It's astonishing the amount of atheist who flock to these videos. I find it difficult to find time to comment and engage on vidoes I like and agree with; I can't imagine making time to binge watch content that I believe holds no value to my life whatsoever, and then commenting on said content.
It's simple really: curiosity. As an atheist, it's pretty normal to accept that billions of people are religious simply because that's how they were raised, essentially their particular context. But when you start with someone that is educated, a scientist, and an atheist, and then they convert to any religion? That makes me very curious. For the simple reason that I find it incomprehensible for somebody to do that. Unfortunately, watching this sheds no light on what actually convinced her (thankfully it was short). In contrast, the description of the conversion of Francis Collins is much more interesting.
@@hongotedesco8931check out the side b podcast. There are plenty of intellectuals that went from atheist to believer in Jesus
you find it difficult to comment and engage on videos you like and agree with? lol. What is difficult about it precisely. If you have less free time than most people that's okay, maybe others just have more free time, and they not only get to watch the videos they like but also videos that challenge them. Its not terribly complicated and I'm not sure they're "binge watching" this content either.
@@hongotedesco8931 If you watch the full video she goes into a little bit of detail, not much. She talks about how the resurrection of jesus seemed persuasive. But somehow that wasn't the main point of her commentary, almost like she wasn't convinced by it alone. She spent the bulk of her time discussing how accessible Christianity was and the gift of jesus. Frankly it seems she was never an atheist, more like someone searching for reasons to believe and when she read the bible her brain relented and said finally I can believe in something beside a random universe.
In other words I think it was just pure feelings based; she derived comfort from religion. I don't think there was any intellectual content at all, which is sad because it seems her intelligence is compartmentalized solely in terms of creating useful engineering applications.
@@radscorpion8 I find it difficult to find time to engage and comment of content I do enjoy and agree with, yes. Time is one of our most precious resources, and often spent unwisely by many. So for me, I certainly don't have (or make) time to engage on content I don't find value in, when there are countless other things I can spend time doing that add value to my life. Perhaps for them, engaging on videos they dislike and devalue somehow *adds* value to their lives, I suppose. And to your point, it is one thing to watch a video that challenges you, it's another thing entirely to spend time belittling and devaluing the experience of the person in said video. Let's make that distinction clear. It is more than evident when someone is exploring and challenging a POV, and when someone is spending their time belittling and devaluing a POV.
she really inspires me
God bless Dr Rosalind Picard!
I used to follow the company she started. Affectiva. I didn't know she was a christian. This is pleasantly surprising. God bless you, Rosalind Picard. ❤❤
The God haters love trolling Christian content like this on youtube.
We cannot hate a God in whom we do not believe. It is not trolling, for heavens sake! It is merely to engage in some interesting dialogue and perhaps some enlightenment.
@@bisbeekid If that were the case, I would applaud you. But the vast majority of comments by unbelievers on Christian channels like this are mean spirited, condescending, patronizing, disdainful, etc. which at the core, is reflective of a hatred of God and everything he stands for.
@@SavedbyGraceAlone1962 That's interesting. I will pay more attention to the tone my fellow atheists are using. Most of the ones' I listen to or read, are those like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Carl Sagan, Christopher Hitchens, H.L., Mencken, Brian Greene, Dan Barker, Robert Ingersoll, etc., etc., and they are very respectful and effective with their views on theology. Well, perhaps with the exception of Christopher Hitchens, but he died over 11 years ago and its only his books and videos left to offend believers.
@@bisbeekidthose are not the folks commenting on these videos.
@johnnynotenglish9751
Not brainwashed.
But the Truth ❤
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Sources outside of the Bible supports Jesus and the Bible ❤
Sources outside of the Bible:
Josephus
Clement of Rome
Ignatius
Polycarp
Tacitus
Justin Martyr
Aristides of Athens
Lucian
Melito of Sardis
The Talmud
Mara Bar-serapion
(Some of this are in the 1st Century to 3rd Century)
It takes 0ne second for anyone to become a believer
The second they die
This very convincingly shows that it is never to late to stray from the right path.
Pray that you find it, forever is a long long time.
Or it’s never too late to become lost in the ridiculousness that is religion.
What a waste of a brain.
Beautiful testimony. Religion expands our hearts and minds in ways that are incomprehensible to a dogmatic atheist.
Absolutely. Glory to God.
Beautiful.
Truth… will set you free.
AND WHAT IS THE TRUTH?
Jesus is the truth and will set you free✝️
As we all know, Adam was designed and manufactured by God.
He must have been very handsome and very intelligent.
And an excellent gardener. In fact, perfect.
Adam became a farmer later, but the rest is true because it was revealed to Moses by God, and that on top of the oral and whatever recorded history and traditions.
@@chriskourliourod1651
God made all the animals out of the ground and brought them to Adam.
Adam named all the animals, but none of them were of any help.
I wonder why Adam needed help (Genesis 2:20).
@@chriskourliourod1651
So what did Adam do in the garden ?
He didn't just sit, reading the paper and drinking cocktails.
And remember, he needed help with the work !
@@chriskourliourod1651
And why would a woman be any good as a "help meet" ?
Surely a rotavator or even a tractor would be better.
Or a big strong bloke with a wheelbarrow.
❤❤❤❤❤
Pleas understand. The wisdom of all other religions is borrowed from from God since the creation of the world. All non-Christion religions are to be considered cults because their borrowed wisdom is man searching for God. Man made religion. Christianity through the teachings of Jesus is a loving God reaching out to His people. We learn to love God because He loves us first and will respond to our love in return. Pray to our loving God and see what doors He will open for you. God bless.
Please, all religions can be considered cults. It's so odd that you'd pick one out of the lot, especially christianity which is so incoherent. At least something like Buddhism makes more sense.
@@hongotedesco8931 Okay here goes. All religions are defined a religious cults, because they are created by men. Men who are dead and have been dead for centuries They have been immortalized in rocks and shrines with nothing, not even a picture of these mortal dead man. So what are the dead men going to do for you. You might as well pray to your wrist watch or some gold or silver statue and see if anyone responds. Guarantee to you you will get zip. Follow their wise words and you will be just as dead as them.
Now, as for Christianity, it is not man made, it is God made, the One who created the whole universe and everything in it. Christianity is not complicated. Just get down on your knees and ask Jesus to come into your life and he will, because He is alive. You are going to say B.S. and prove it. To this I respond, disprove it. Get on you knees and if noting happens, you have not a thing to lose. Do it where no one can see you or hear you, just like it says in the Bible. God responds to what is said in secret to preserve you integrity while you learn to come aboard with Jesus. Please, prove me wrong.
@@user-ry6ln7od3q See, when you say "christianity, it is not man made, it is god made..", that's just completely made up. It was men that created christianity, just like men created all other religions. For centuries after jesus they'd have these ecumenical councils where they would "decide" what/who jesus really was. There were multiple factions arguing different things, and one faction won out. That's what we have today. But of course, not really, since now we have a multitude of schisms and different variations on the same theme.
And no, jesus doesn't come into my life, I have asked, especially in very dire circumstances, and I hear....................................nothing.
And yes, it's all BS. Now, I don't have to prove it's BS, you're the one that has to prove that your extraordinarily fantastic assertion is true. And note, if god/jesus really wanted to get to know me at a personal level he could easily do that right? He hasn't. And it's because..........it's all BS.
@@hongotedesco8931
I'm sorry to hear that, but Jesus warned us that we will suffer because the world is against Christ. However, we can still have Faith and Trust in him, knowing that he will come back ❤
John 14:2-6 ASV
[2] In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. [3] And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. [4] And whither I go, ye know the way. [5] Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; how know we the way? [6] Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.
@@hongotedesco8931 Okay, you win. I am sure you will revisit this moment some later time.
Exodus 21:20-21
“Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.
Yes as Christopher Hitchens stated, "religion poisons everything". Humans as property that will do it!
JESUS wants us to live by two commandments. Matthew 22:37-39 - love the lord your GOD with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is love your neighbor as yourself. Sounds like he solved the answer to world peace a little over 2 thousand years ago. PRAISE JESUS
The Holy Spirit is a filthy cunt
y'all need to watch InspiringPhilosophy
For what? He holds heretical views.
Being honest wise intelligent and reading the scriptures completing every thing ? But then people are the best way because they are the ones who can convince practically everything.
It is personal. She found it
I found Jesus too. He owed me twenty dollars, but he paid up.
@@bisbeekid You owe Him your life. Have you paid up?
@@lawrence1318 I owe no one anything. Pay all my bills on time.
@@bisbeekid Hopefully you'll have paid the bill for your sin before you stand before God. Good luck. You'll need it.
@@bisbeekid well said.
Imagine believing a man actually rose from the dead.
No wonder this ridiculous religion is dying in the west!
With so many different religions all believing by faith in a God or Gods that they all think is/are real, yet teaching different doctrines at the same time, the question then begs, "What can anybody not believe by faith, and does this belief make anything true?". This, l'd really love to know. In the absence of evidence truth is uncertain. Therefore, judgement or any decision making must be suspended. For this is the most honest thing a person can ever do. Anything more than this are merely presumptuous speculations that the religious world call faith. No wonder knowledge is the greatest enermy of faith and religion!
Do you really want to know, out of learning or are you trying to make a statement?
There is evidence for Jesus
Sources outside of the Bible:
Josephus
Clement of Rome
Ignatius
Polycarp
Tacitus
Justin Martyr
Aristides of Athens
Lucian
Melito of Sardis
The Talmud
Mara Bar-serapion
(Some of this are in the 1st Century to 3rd Century)
Your critique applies to your own argument, so you're admitting you're an arrogant fool.
According to Matthew 14:30, Peter began to sink.
Now anything that begins to sink must have a cause,
And we call that God, therefore God exists !
Virgins cannot give birth, people do not walk on water, you cannot feed 5,000 people with two fish and four loaves of bread, and one cannot die and get up three days later and walk around. Miracles are highly overrated - actually, they never happen and are pure fantasy.
Proving something isn't true is one of the aims of scientists.
That's why they spend so much time testing theories.
But oddly, some scientists are religious ! (Matthew 17:20).
You are wrong. Scientists do not waste their time proving things to be wrong. They test hypotheses to see if they are right. To see if the facts support the data. When a hypothesis can not be demonstrated to be correct, it is rejected. This is called the null hypothesis. Can you even imagine how much time would be wasted if science had to go about proving every inane assertion wrong? What a waste of brain power. The burden of proof is on the person making the positive claim. If you make a claim you must support that claim with facts and evidence. That is how science works. If you lack facts and evidence for your claim, it can be rejected.
So Professor Picard,
Are you a 'Christian' Exclusivist ('Jesus' is the ONLY Way? for EveryOne?)
Or simply
a 'Christian' Supremicist? (Your Way, 'Jesus', happens to be the BEST Way, but NOT Only Way?)
🙏
Well Jesus said that His way is the only way, so I'd recommend at least incorporating as much of His teaching as possible.
My favourite rule in the Bible is in Leviticus 20:18
"If a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness and shall uncover her nakedness, he hath discovered her fountain and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood and both of them shall be cut off from among their people".
God clearly doesn't like it, so don't do it, ok ?
Whereas if only they had had your ethic that we should treat other people as we would like to be treated, how morally superior they would be?
@@stylembonkers1094
A lot.
@@tedgrant2
And in the history of ideas, you got that ethic from where?
@@stylembonkers1094
Obviously, I didn't make it up. It would never occur to me.
I suppose, for atheists, there are no morals.
So they can do whatsoever they like.
I've noticed that God is very interested in blood, which is a bit weird.
You must not eat blood (Leviticus 17:12)
You must drink the blood of Jesus (John 6:53)
And it's ok to sprinkle blood on the people (Exodus 24:8)
Merely reading the Bible without understanding it makes you a negative critic
You have to know the context, the background and to whom it is written..
@@walterdaoilen4140
Obviously, we can't literally drink the blood of Jesus.
So I have a suggestion. The human body contains about 5 litres of blood.
So buy that amount of cheap red wine and pretend it is the blood of Jesus.
@@walterdaoilen4140
My father was a butcher and he used to make black pudding.
As you probably know, the main ingredient is pigs blood.
For breakfast, we often had a couple of slices, fried.
@@walterdaoilen4140
I once visited a church that had a notice in the doorway.
The notice read, "Sprinkling at three o'clock today".
I found out it was water, symbolically converted to blood.
The evidence behind Christianity is the NT, however Christianity is divorced from its roots in the Torah of Abraham. I have a Ytube video series 'Myths in so-called Christianity '.
The evidence behind Christianity is Arrius Calpernius Piso (Flavius Josephus).
@@bisbeekid If you like.
At least Josephus did not distort the NT, he may add to it, but took nothing away.
@@simonskinner1450 There is good reason to believe that Arrius Piso using the pen name of Josephus wrote the entire gospels, with help from his two sons and possibly Pliny the Younger and Seneca. So no, Josephus would not have distorted the NT. They accomplished this to create a new religion for the Roman Empire, under Emperor Vespasian at the time. Constantine later made Christianity the official religion of the Empire. "By the way, it is quite a big question whether Jesus Christ ever lived." Napoleon Bonaparte
@@bisbeekid Talking reason.
I reason that because there is no religion to my knowledge consistent with the NT, that the Roman Church like the others is based on false teaching, not the NT.
Why did Rome not follow its own writings if they made it up?
The NT frees everyone that believes from Rome, or any tyranny that must control your conscience, setting us free to live by standards understandable by a child, equal to all others that believe.
I think you are barking up the wrong tree.
You would have a point if the books of the NT revealed Roman Catholicism, buy it does not to me, it reveals a covenant based on all those of the OT of the Jew.
What is likely is that Rome perverted so-called Christianity to suit its pagan agenda. And the true religion of the Born Again Jews did exist for a century or so, then factions seeking control made there own interpretations for the poorly educated masses.
You need to read the New Testament instead of listening to videos/.
She didn't mention that Jesus was her Savior,that He died for her sins, only that she had a relationship with Him. What kind of relationship?
To have a relationship with Jesus is to have accepted him as your Lord and Savior. To accept him as your Lord and Savior, you acknowledge that he died for your sins.
@@GambitXM
Amen 🙏🏻❤
Proverbs 28:9 says that if you do not obey God's laws, your prayers will be an abomination to God. Dr. Picard is not obeying God's laws.
The Holy Spirit is s disgusting cunt
@@thomasadams696you are done.
The Bible does say you must drink the Blood of Jesus.
However, that's not meant to be taken literally.
Rather, you must drink red wine and pretend it is the blood of Jesus.
Don’t make the mistake of calling anything of God child’s play. ☦️
@@chriskourliourod1651
How could I make a mistake ?
I was designed by God.
And you were born after the fall. And you’re also free to make your own decisions.
@@chriskourliourod1651
What an interesting idea.
Did you make it up or did somebody tell you ?
I don’t play mind games. Have a good day! ☦️☦️☦️😁
She literally gave no reasons at all. Wisdom in the bible? Ok, there is wisdom in thousands of books. She said there is evidence but never gave one piece of it. Thanks, now I know not to ever listen to her again.
True! Also, the way she described it, she sounded like she was already leaning towards Christianity before college and converted in college, long before she became an MIT professor. This does not sound like a recent conversion; I think it's pretty dishonest of Christians to be using these clickbait titles about her.
Your being critical of another person's journey without a deep understanding of what's in her heart, suggests insecurity and smallness on your part. You seem to be looking for validation, but not finding it, you take your poke.
As we all know, we must confess our sins.
But first, we have to sin.
I can do that
Aethism is a belief system, like any other religion. It requires that, with no definitive proof, you declare God an impossibility.
So... you are agnostic or you are a liar. Take your pick.
You are the liar, & you can't even spell correctly.
atheism is not a " belief" You say there is a god, and I ask where is your proof?
you tell me to use "faith", basically lying to yourself. it's just not accepting your
imaginary "sky Daddy"! it's like you do not accept such things as "square circles"!
until I show you one.
You're mistaken. Atheism is a lack of belief in any god and it is totally unlike religion. Atheism most certainly does not require non-believers to declare god an impossibility. Atheism merely says that there is zero proof or evidence for the existence of supernatural entities.
@@bisbeekidRead the Bible.
@@bisbeekid If you think there is zero evidence for God then you aren't well read. No professional philosopher would make such a claim.
I would agree that there is nothing about atheism that requires them to declare God an impossibility. He went to far there.
That being said, it is a belief system. At the core of any atheist is, "I am not convinced by the evidence that God exists and so I don't believe He does. Give me more convincing evidence and I might some day." So at the core, an atheist doesn't believe God exists. How many times have you or other atheists use the quip, "You only believe in 1 more God then me. You are atheists towards all the others."
You prove this point. You claim atheism is not a belief and then say, "Its just not accepting your imaginary "sky daddy." Calling my sky daddy "imaginary" is a positive claim. You believe that my sky daddy is imaginary, therefore your atheism is in fact a belief. So can you prove that my sky daddy is imaginary or are you holding to that belief in blind faith?
This is a foundational element of any worldview. For instance it effects your view of morality. If your an atheist that there is no reason to believe God exists and so you don't believe God exists then your morality is a horizontal relationship. As soon as you believe a God likely exists then your morality becomes a vertical relationship. If you don't believe that God exists which is just another way of saying you believe God doesn't exist, then you are forced to believing everything has a evolutionary development. So for you, all religions will be explained in relationship to each other so similarities between religion become obvious evidence for borrowing from one to another over time.
The key is not the existence of whether a person called Jesus walked the earth - it is the existence of the father or God for which there is no proof - hence the need for faith and faith alone
If Jesus existed, then so did God❤
There is no such thing as a "Judeo-Christian culture". The phrase is a tool of political rhetoric that appeals to a search for identity and has nothing to do with either Jewish or Christian traditions. The cultures of Jews and Christians are different, and both change over time. Good luck pinpointing what attributes during which time period correctly describe the true Jewish culture or the true Christian culture, and how other cultures do not share those attributes. For example, non-Christians can see from an outside perspective that Islamic values are more like Judaism than Christian values.
Apparently there's an ax to grind here, or else you had a bee fly up an orifice....as ou're wrong on so many levels. In the context of religious beliefs, interpretations of Old Testament Scripture, and practices, there was a time, especially in the first century where Jews and Christians were confluent (Jesus being a Jew) nearly indistinguishable in some respects, and both under Roman oppression, living in the same part of the world, with similar modes of travel, livelihoods, communication, diet, attire, and so deep cultural similarities from early on.
In the modern context of Jews in America and Christians in America, you are incorrect as well, as both share similar nuclear family models, work ethic, loyalty to country, and adherence to their faith, whether they practiced it outwardly or not.
The Bible itself, was THE instrument for reading and education in the world of word and story for Jews and Christians. For many, it was their only book in their homes.
Izlam comprises over a billion followers, with a significant proportion intent on destruction of the West. This is not conjecture--it is expressly stated belief.
@@commanderthorkilj.amundsen3426 You failed to explain what Judeo-Christian culture is and how it's unique from the cultures of other people nearby from the same time periods. You just listed some non-specific things that Jews and Christians don't even have in common as well as some things that make them just like other cultures living at the same time and place. I'll focus on the thing I'm most surprised you mentioned. Nuclear family models have nothing to do with Judaism or Christianity. Christians and Muslims are more akin to each other in the sense that they believe they are commanded by God to pump out as many offspring as possible and spread their religion by exponential birth-rate as well as conversion. Nuclear families date back to at least 4,600 years ago, long before the founding of Judaism, and are practiced by thousands of different cultures all over the world, from atheists to pantheists and everything in between.
@@EatHoneyBeeHappy Thomas Sowell, and in a different contextual frame, Jordan Peterson, and historians of the early Catholic Church, as well as Eastern Orthodox scholars, all offer documented explanations of the effects of cultural commonalities arising from Judeo-Christian beliefs on current society. The effects on Western Culture have also been described by numerous secular historians-so I’m not going to repeat my earlier comments.
It’s a waste of my time exchanging with folks who don’t comprehend the foundations of Western Civilization. .
Buzz off…..
@@commanderthorkilj.amundsen3426 Talk about someone with motivated reasoning, lol. Nobody is saying, certainly I'm not saying that Judaism and Christianity and Islam and other religions had no effect on the cultures in North and South America, the point is they are different cultures and making up a word to equate them is inaccurate, exclusive, and frankly lazy. You're wasting your own time trusting people like Jordan Peterson who have no expertise in religion or history, but you've got to have your heroes, I suppose. I understand the desire for Christians to try and pretend like they are allies of Judaism after their history of violence and anti-Semitism, and after they disobeyed God's commandments to worship a man. But Jews and atheists see right through the bologna.
There's something I don't understand about Christianity.
I've done everything required to get to Heaven.
But I'm still here !
You don't get to God by the things you do. Jesus did that already. Embrace his gift of life, turn from your sins, and follow Him. That's it. Jesus did it all. Now walk in His footsteps.
Read Galatians!
@@amkaenAmen
@@amkaen
Actually, you got me thinking, maybe I should read the advice of Jesus.
So I've started doing that, but almost immediately I've got a problem.
I sometimes work on Saturday (Matthew 5:19)
@@normmaclean375
I have read Galatians, but I find it confusing.
It seems to contradict some of the advice given by Jesus.
Now I don't know who I should follow.
Harry Potter was a global “best seller”. But that doesn’t make Harry Potter “true”. The “wisdom” in the Bible was understood long before the written history. Organized human social groups understood that certain behavior was best in order to maintain social order and civility. In fact Zoroastrianism is thought by many historians to have preceded Christianity and it taught many of the same principles that are in the Bible. It’s just a social phenomenon that Christianity eventually ended up replacing Zoroastrianism which is still practiced in pockets in the Middle East regions.
Great reply, christianity and its bible doctrine (I use lower case c for a reason) is a churn and mash up of much learning and written word that had gone before. It's usefulness in the development and advancement of the Human Race needs challenging on every front! We don't move forward as a species and we dont come together as a species until we can knock on the head the notion of a sky god having control of us.
@@neilfletcher1841what has Christianity reused?
You don’t have a bunch of secular historians who claim that Harry Potter was a real historical person, who started a real movement at a specific time and place in history, like they do of Jesus and the movement of Christianity. Even though they of course don’t make the supernatural historical inferences that Christians make. No this is just a popular layperson’s argument.
@@JoeBuck-uc3bl No one has claimed the historical Jesus was a real person. There is no empirical evidence to support the contention there was a miracle worker named Jesus in ancient Palestine. It was big news a few years back when archeologists unearthed a burial box containing some bones and there was an inscription on the side that read "James, the brother of Jesus" and many religious people claimed that was evidence of the biblical Jesus. Given the fact that Jesus was a fairly common name in ancient Palestine, the fact is it could've been ANYone named Jesus who had a brother named James. So it isn't "proof" of any evidence of the biblical Jesus. Even the Jewish historian Josephus who lived in Rome at the time mentioned a religious sect leader named Jesus and some myths if his miracles. But Josephus Never met the biblical Jesus and everything he wrote was what Josephus had been told by others third-hand, world of mouth. Unfortunately word of mouth testimony is not all that reliable. And when one considers the likelihood of ANYONE performing supernatural miracles the story of Jesus becomes very similar to the Harry Potter epics. Make-believe. I may be a "layperson" but I've done my research over the past few decades on religious studies with an objective mindset.
@@msmd3295
The Source outside the Bible support Jesus and the Bible ❤
Sources outside of the Bible:
Josephus
Clement of Rome
Ignatius
Polycarp
Tacitus
Justin Martyr
Aristides of Athens
Lucian
Melito of Sardis
The Talmud
Mara Bar-serapion
(Some of this are in the 1st Century to 3rd Century)
Jesus also appeared to 500 people after his Resurrection ❤
Princeton, 3. 1. 1954
Dear Mr Gutkind,
Inspired by Brouwer’s repeated suggestion, I read a great deal in your book, and thank you very much for lending it to me. What struck me was this: with regard to the factual attitude to life and to the human community we have a great deal in common. Your personal ideal with its striving for freedom from ego-oriented desires, for making life beautiful and noble, with an emphasis on the purely human element. This unites us as having an “unAmerican attitude.”
Still, without Brouwer’s suggestion I would never have gotten myself to engage intensively with your book because it is written in a language inaccessible to me. The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can change this for me. For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstition. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong, and whose thinking I have a deep affinity for, have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything “chosen” about them.
In general I find it painful that you claim a privileged position and try to defend it by two walls of pride, an external one as a man and an internal one as a Jew. As a man you claim, so to speak, a dispensation from causality otherwise accepted, as a Jew the privilege of monotheism. But a limited causality is no longer a causality at all, as our wonderful Spinoza recognized with all incision, probably as the first one. And the animistic interpretations of the religions of nature are in principle not annulled by monopolization. With such walls we can only attain a certain self-deception, but our moral efforts are not furthered by them. On the contrary.
Now that I have quite openly stated our differences in intellectual convictions it is still clear to me that we are quite close to each other in essential things, i.e; in our evaluations of human behavior. What separates us are only intellectual “props” and “rationalization” in Freud’s language. Therefore I think that we would understand each other quite well if we talked about concrete things.
With friendly thanks and best wishes,
Yours,
A. Einstein
Sad. Even scientists may fall victim to delusional psychopathologies, particularly after a big scare.
Apparently, you can fool yourself into believing in god. but you do not do anything unless
there is something in it for you, love to know, what she needed?
One day you may look back at your haughty comment and wonder who was that person.
Wow…you can be smart AND stupid at the same time…
Unfortunately you cannot be kind and hateful
@@Obi-Juan124 truth doesn’t care about your feelings!
@@Obi-Juan124 believing in a resurrection is ridiculous
Intelligence, and susceptibility to being propagandized (no matter what it is) are distinct attributes of a person. Actually, high IQ people are no less susceptible to propaganda and tribal groupthink than low IQ people are. Hell some people even think that high IQ people are more prone to it.
@@JoeBuck-uc3bl I was being facetious but thanks for your post!
By starting in Proverbs? LOL. Start at the beginning. It's nonsense.
Yes, the first three books of the bible did it for me! the god of the bible
is a PYCHOPATH.
Read the New Testament. At present you are biblically illiterate, going on hearsay.
Oh Bullshit. How did you make it that far into it? lol.@@gknight4719
@hairyreasoner what books do you read?
That's a good question, and in the hope that it is sincerely asked, I'll answer honestly. I don't read many books these days. I try, but fall asleep not long into them. When I was younger, I read constantly. Fiction, non fiction. I tried to read the classics. For a while, I read a lot of Hemingway, and perhaps I left nothing of his unread. For a long while, I read so-called "True Crime" because I was fascinated by how hate, at least at the hands of individuals, came about, and how it could be eliminated. I think I read everything that Farley Mowat published, being a Canadian myself. In that vein, there was a time when I couldn't put down Robertson Davies, or W.O. Mitchell. There was John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut, of course, and Timothy Findley, and to return to the Canadian theme, Pierre Burton. But there was also F. Scott Fitzgerald and J.D. Salinger. I read "The Catcher in the Rye" annually, usually at Christmas, just after reading "The Old Man and the Sea." @@memyselfeyetallent7149
Jesus was arrested, tried and executed.
That's the good news.
The good news is that you are saved by his sacrifice in your stead.
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I don't know what you mean by "his sacrifice".
Do you mean like animals were sacrificed in the Temple ?
But there was no priest. No washing. No consecrated altar. No burning.
And no "sweet savour" (See Leviticus for sacrificial procedures).
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Plus, the Romans were, of course, not authorised to perform sacrifices.
(Not in the Hebrew religion). So the death of Jesus was definitely not a sacrifice.
In any case, he clearly did not want to die !
He begged God to save him (Matthew 26:39).
"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ?"
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And somehow, you need to connect his death with me, 2000 years later.
I don't see how you can do it, nor how anyone could think it.
In addition, I am a gentile. He didn't like gentiles (dogs) !
The word god is nothing but the expression and product of human weakness. - Albert Einstein.
Yep, right up until you need a miracle, and He grants it.
Btw, don’t ignore him at that point. If you do, you are begging for things to get terribly worse. Explore what happened and take Him seriously. Much better that way.
Good quote, will have to write it down. "For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying or reassuring." Carl Sagan
Einstein's Relativity is a scam, being based on a contradiction. So he's the last person you should listen to.
@@lawrence1318 Please explain the claimed contradiction and be precise. The Theory is scientifically solid and has held for over 100 years. How is it a scam? You shouldn't say or pretend to know things you couldn't possibly know, you only embarrass yourself.
@@bisbeekid The theory is not based on solid science at all, which is why he didn't receive the Nobel Prize for it, but the panel said they reserved judgement on it.
Now, you obviously don't know how SR is 'derived' (via a contradiction). So I'm not going to explain it to you here. You'll have to study how it is derived and you will then see it is based solely on a contradiction. A trigonometric contradiction. That is its whole basis. It couldn't exist without the contradiction. The contradiction is its whole substance. So if you don't know this, you haven't studied its supposed derivation.