Cincinnati Reds national scout. Former professional baseball player. Baseball lifer.U of Maryland basketball.U of Oklahoma football.Romans10:9-10 Isaiah40:28-31
@shegone03 He needs to keep coming up with this type of nonsense to make money. Plain and simple. There will be more of this from him in the future. “Bank” on it.
Hey @grok, what is the only law that Ilhan Omar ever got passed while a member of Congress (actual non-symbolic policy)?
Which community exploited this law?
List all her ties to those fraudsters.
If you feel unprepared to defend Jesus or Christianity when challenged, you don't need any clever arguments or advanced training. There are simple, clear and biblically grounded ways to answer a few of the most common objections...
• If they say: "Jesus never existed."
You say: Even non-Christian historians like Tacitus, Josephus and Pliny the Younger mention Him. No serious historian doubts that a man named Jesus of Nazareth existed and was crucified under Pontius Pilate.
• If they say: "The Bible has been manipulated and changed too many times, it can't be trusted."
You say: Ask them, How precisely do you know what the Bible originally said in order to make such a claim? We have over 5,800 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. Scholars compare them carefully, and the core text remains about 99.5% consistent. No other ancient document comes close to that level of preservation. The message is cohesive throughout, there is a unity of thought and none of the real variations change any core teaching or big idea within it.
• If they say: "The disciples just stole the body of Christ."
You say: People will die for what they sincerely believe is true. They do not willingly get tortured and executed for something they know is a lie. Most of the disciples, except John who died of old age, were persecuted and martyred for claiming they had seen the risen Jesus and none of them recanted to save themselves.
• If they say: "Jesus was just a good moral teacher."
You say: A good moral teacher does not claim to forgive sins, accept worship, or call Himself equal with God. Those claims force a choice: He was either lying, insane, or telling The Truth. The Gospels present Him as the last of these. [see John 10:30, Mark 2:5–12 & John 20:28]
• If they say: "A good God wouldn't allow suffering."
You say: Christianity is the only worldview in which even God Himself entered human suffering. He did not merely watch from a distance, He was tortured and killed on a cross for sinners and the only one to defeat death. No other religion has a God with physical scars. [Isaiah 53; Philippians 2:5–8; Revelation 5:6]
These short replies are easy to understand, historically grounded and rooted in the biblical picture of who Jesus is and what He did. I hope they can help you to earnestly contend for the faith. :)