What's up YouTube Chris Boyer here
Welcome back to my channel and welcome to a brand new video today
I just I had a very important question to ask
Probably the single most important question that anybody could ever ask themselves and that is
Who
Was Jesus of Nazareth now? Hold on before you before you click out of this video?
Just just just hear me out for just a second. I'm not gonna take up too much of your time, but I just I
Want to talk directly to the skeptic to be honest
Directly to the skeptic the person that for whatever reason has not accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior
Perhaps maybe hasn't thought about it or
Maybe has thought about it, but has looked into the evidence is not convinced for whatever reason doesn't find it compelling
What have you?
Or maybe the agnostic who is open-minded to it, but still yet to be convinced
But I do want you to be aware of something
you know everybody has
Presuppositions and I want you to be aware of your own presuppositions
prior to me becoming a Christian I
Believed that God it was possible that God existed
I believed very early on. I know I accepted Jesus Christ
But I started to doubt that belief in my early 20s and
Started questioning the truth of Christianity
Because it claimed exclusivity and it was the only way and
so on and so forth and
I started
seriously asking myself very
What I believe to be pretty important questions at the time the meaning of life the purpose of life
You know, why am I here?
Where did I come from? Where am I going?
those sorts of things and
For some reason I kept getting drawn back to this Christian faith that I that I embraced as a child
But I
Needed to know that it was more than just
Something that I accepted on on faith and
If he accepted on faith that's perfectly fine. There's nothing wrong with that
But to me, I needed a little bit more than that. I needed some reasons. I needed some arguments
I needed some evidence. I needed some some some
Some some truth
To the Christian claims and I started looking into that and I got into apologetics and that sort of thing so
For me it was going into it
Obviously I believed it could be true but I wanted to
Test whether it actually was true or not
so my
Presuppositions were pretty open-minded, you know, my mind wasn't made up obviously prior to looking at the evidence
So I
Guess for an unbeliever, that would be more of an agnostic position
But I want to know for the skeptic listening right now. I want to know
Why have you not accepted Christ as Lord and Savior
and
If you haven't I want to know
If you're aware of your presuppositions, or do you already have your mind made up prior to?
Looking at the evidence and the arguments because I have evidence. I had there are good reasons. There's plenty of evidence
arguments and
and good reasons to believe that the Christ was who he claimed to be but what I want to know is
Why you?
Don't accept
The claims of Christ why you don't accept the truth of Christianity
I'm curious
That's that's that's really all I wanted to know
um
You know
I pray and I hope that you're aware of these presuppositions because if you already do have your mind made up
I've heard some people tell me that there is nothing that I could do. There's no evidence that
That would be good enough to convince them that the Christ was was God incarnate
And you know that to me that's a very
unreasonable
untenable position I
Think it's not rational whatsoever
You know an atheist generally they want to be beacons of reason and rationality and that sort of thing
But how is that reasonable? How is that rational?
So I want to know you know, what are your reasons now? Are you looking for reasons to not believe?
Because I think that that could be a presupposition as well. You've already had your mind made up prior to looking at the evidence
Do you already have your mind made up that Christ isn't who he claimed to be?
Or God doesn't exist because that's going to determine where you end up
It's not facts
Gregg Bahnson said this this best.i. They facts don't determine what people will believe
They don't if that were the case and everybody would be believed the same thing
people's presuppositions determine where they end up
If facts determine what we believed there would be no flat earthers
There would be other religions the
Point is that facts do not determine what we believe
Faith and
presuppositions
determine what we will believe so I'm curious to know if
You know what? Your presuppositions are
That's what I want to know, do you already have your mind made up
because if so, I
Mean, I feel sorry for you. There's really nothing that anybody can do for you. There's there's no evidence
There's no reasons God could come down
You know and appear in your in your bedroom and that it's not gonna be
good enough to convince you that God exists and
It's a very untenable and irrational position. I think
um
Hopefully you're not in that boat I
Hope you're not if you do if you are open-minded if you do want reasons and evidence and arguments, I'm telling you right now
There is plenty of that on the Christian side of the table plenty of that
If you want that I can give that to you
If you don't want that, well, then you find yourself in the same position as Thomas Nagel who said and I'm paraphrasing
Let me paraphrase please before somebody says something dumb in the comments seriously
these internet warriors
internet warrior infidels
Who get all brave and Brody in the comment section on YouTube videos, you're a joke, you're a clown seriously
Identify yourself below please do that
Cuz you're a joke
but let me just please just paraphrase Thomas Nagel and he said
that
What what bothered him was that there was very intelligent people who were Christians who were believers and
That bothered him because they were intelligent people
But he couldn't bring himself to accept that because he didn't want to accept it
he didn't want to live in a universe like that where God exists is that you I
Really want to know do you find yourself?
Hoping or wanting there not to be a God
As if that's the case
That's a presupposition that is going to determine where you end up
There's no reasons. There's no evidence. There's nothing that is going to be good enough to convince you otherwise
because of that strongly held
presupposition
Faith and presuppositions is the basis for how we reason
So
However if you are open minded
to evidence and
arguments I
Suggest you look at the claims of Christ and you ask yourself if you think it's possible that God could exist
I think it's only fair that you ask yourself
Could this God?
Be manifest and the person of Jesus Christ
Could Jesus Christ Jesus of Nazareth be who he claimed to be God? Incarnate come to inaugurate God's kingdom on earth
died for sins
Will come again create a new heavens and new earth and right all wrong in
the eternal state
Could that be the case?
If it could be the case
Then I with an open heart and open mind. I I just suggest that you look into the evidence
The single most important question that anybody can ever ask themselves is who was Jesus of Nazareth?
and
I pray that your presuppositions do not hinder you from answering that question, honestly
Because the consequences are profound they are eternal the implications are profound
So
If you are on the fence if you are open-minded
Just ask yourself
the most important question that anybody ought to ask themselves and that is
Who was Jesus of Nazareth?
and the
Answer to that question is the only difference between
You and me
That's it nothing more nothing less I simply believe as a Christian that Christ was who he claimed to be
You can caricature Christians. However you want
You can make up whatever you want
but I simply and
Wholeheartedly believe that Christ was who he claimed to be that's it. That's it and
I have good reasons to believe that
Maybe they're not convincing to you. That's fine. I want to know why leave them in the comments below and
perhaps it's because you have presuppositions that are precluding you from following the evidence where it leads and
If you don't have that issue
Because I don't know that anything can help you with that
Obviously God changing your heart
which is
possible and
Granted he's done that
on several occasions
But for the person that is is open-minded and is on the fence if you haven't already
Look into the evidence and ask yourself. Is it possible to God exists and
If you can even if you cannot say a hundred percent that it is impossible that he does not exist
Then it's possible it's certainly possible that he's revealed himself in history
it's certainly possible that he has revealed himself in the person of Jesus Christ and
The way that you answer that question
Will determine if you're a Christian or not, it's gonna determine your destiny
And I
Hope that if you look into it with a sincere open and honest heart
That you will follow the evidence where it leads and I'm convinced that
You will have great reasons to believe that indeed. He was who he claims to be
And
I'll rejoice right next to you as a fellow brother and sister in Christ. And if not,
Please let me know in the comments below
That's really all I had for this video. I love you guys. I'll see you in the next one. God bless
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