How can Christians reasonably approach the seemingly unreasonable things in the Bible? Check out these helpful tips from our friend and CrossExamined Apologetics Team (CAT) member, Dr. Bobby Conway!
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@gi169 Says:
Thank you CE
@Thundawich Says:
So.... when God sent the murder bears that was just him being an extreme furry? Is that the message I was supposed to get out of this?
Because I'm having a hard time trying to understand which of the points you mentioned actually account for the murder bears. None of them seem to be relevant at all.
@brianmatthews4323 Says:
This is a VERY BAD take. Nothing God says or does is absurd or unreasonable. It only SEEMS that way to finite and sinful mankind, as the Apostle Paul said:
1Co 2:14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1Co 2:15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. (NKJV)
You were wrong to equate the Christian worldview with false worldviews the way you did.
@SaneNoMore Says:
This is not a very good video for apologetics. I say this as a Christian.
@mirandahotspring4019 Says:
Start with the nonsensical claims of Genesis and work your way to the nonsense in Revelations and you'll find the absurd on every page!
@unc1589 Says:
Sense is a tricky word.
If it means that things don’t appeal to our 5 senses then there’s that.
Dive deeper and you realize that our five senses don’t make sense.
Spinning planets, don’t make sense.
The origin of the universe doesn’t make sense.
@theeternalsbeliever1779 Says:
For the love of all that's good, can "Christian" apologists stop referring to them as "bible stories" and "bible characters" already? They are inadvertently validating accusations about the Bible being fiction and defeating their own arguments.
@monkkeygawd Says:
9. Accept reality by being intellectually honest to yourself and admit they are more than likely MADE UP STORIES.
@williamrice3052 Says:
How about believing non-living matter will accidentally become alive if one waits long enough?
@ryanrockstarsessom768 Says:
Thank you
@jme1mm Says:
I do not trust an apologist who calls the biblical stories absurd and nonsensical.
@SUPRIzEi Says:
I cant believe he just referenced furries
@2l84me8 Says:
If you feel the need to produce videos like this, then it’s fair to say your religion was nonsensical and absurd to begin with.
@Mike-sd9we Says:
I've always found the best response is that it comes down to 10 words. "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." If that is true, tell what is contained in the Bible that is impossible?
@thomasharp3246 Says:
God chose the stories that are in the Bible. There's precise prophecy. There's these events. It aggravates the unbelievers while enriching us who believe. Study scripture for faith. It's all there.
@karlwhite2733 Says:
The bible is fictional garbage 🗑️
@karlwhite2733 Says:
Simple. Apologist is being a professional liar
@FlaminCat Says:
have you heard about the furries? 💀
@morneterblanche3459 Says:
Faith is what others can not explain, but exist .
What can be explain , does not need faith .
Religion is doctrines of scripture . If you believe in a doctrine , you need faith to stop believing and find a way to know its true .
So study the bible with all your mind , heart and soul to know how to stop believe , and start to live what is talled with a God that is real .
Always pray , even if it is with tears , and start learning as God shall teach you things you never knew .
God is not a God of confusion, when he presance is felt , you will know 100%
May God bless
@kurtgundy Says:
Have you considered the absurdities of our own culture? Did you see hear the myth, sorry i meant reality, that men can become women, and vice versa? 😂
@somethingtothinkabout167 Says:
It all depends on how you define reason. Certainly there is reason based on our own experience of things, and then there is another reason based on other's experiences. Then again God would have His own reasons. The reasoning of men would perhaps reason anything is possible given there are many things we don't know and are yet to experience. Perhaps true reasoning would be less about the denial of all things simply because they do not synch or mesh with our admittedly limited understanding, but more about trying to expand our knowledge. A truely honest and perfectly reasoning person should be able to answer their own questions and predict perfectly another's responses before they give them. Simpy mocking another's beliefs seems then less about reason.
@howdythere3121 Says:
The talking donkey is not on your list?!
@basildestiny Says:
I worry about someone who mocks the Scripture as being bizarre. This sounds like some kind of nonsense I would have heard in some of these apostate “churches.”
@BillPinkNye Says:
The one and only obvious way to make sense of all stories in the bible. It's fiction. Just saved everyone from wasting 4:32. You're welcome.
@Christianos_Theophile Says:
Everything you mentioned is completely reasonable and makes obvious sense. I don’t see what you find “ridiculous” about any of it
@MoopersYT Says:
the reference to furries was great
@StringPlunker Says:
Should we just go ahead and use whichever one of these 8 ways that suits our personal desires?
@zerosteel0123 Says:
How absurd is something when there is a God who is able to do anything?
@jeffphelps1355 Says:
Should Christians trust the honesty of the apologist or the bigotry of the atheist
@entrepreneurshipworld1 Says:
Elisha and the bears killing the boys - “boys” may mean 20ies but even if you get when they touched a prophet of this level they exposed themselves to danger. If God allows it to happen then bears would kill them.
Sarah could give birth because it was a miracle. Nowadays women in late 60ies give birth with FTreatment we read. So God can make it happen easily for Him.
A prophet laying on his side - he might have been sick
@cnault3244 Says:
"8 Ways to Make Sense of Bizarre Bible Stories"
You only need one way: just remember that the stories are ancient myths and fables.
@mr1spamification Says:
Was kinda hoping you'd actually provide some scriptural context and explanations for the bizarre or absurd instances in the bible that you mentioned, but you really just gave 8 generically applicable guidelines without actually applying them to the things you were talking about at the beginning of the video.
Don't just give little bulletin points that you think will help people not give up on scrutinizing scripture when it gets difficult, actually *use* those bulletin points to scrutinize scripture yourself and present what you found to be most logical according to your 8 guidelines.
I dunno man, maybe something about your creepy smile or mannerisms when you speak, but it all just seems disingenuous somehow, like you're putting on a face you want people to trust and saying wholesome and happy biblical things that the lost or searching would latch on to, but you aren't doing what Frank Turek does where he actually defends the faith by digging into specifics or exact arguments and their outlined logical structures.
@Gek1177 Says:
The best way to explain the weird stories is to remember that the Bible isn't meant to be taken as a literal recounting of events.
@nonprogrediestregredi1711 Says:
So, let me get this straight; he tried to draw an equivalence between furries and the stories of the Christian bibles/canons? Gee, that's not fallacious, I say sarcastically. When do furries, as a community, invoke the supernatural?
@hambam7533 Says:
eveyone of those stories is to teach lessons only those who seek will find
@gorillaz_jbi Says:
There are a few key issues we must understand in regards to this account of the youths cursing Elisha. The text reads, “From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. ‘Go on up, you baldhead!’ they said. ‘Go on up, you baldhead!’ He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.” It seems unbelievable that God would cause two bears to maul a group of children for making fun of a man for being bald.
First, the King James Version has done us a disservice by translated the term as “children.” The Hebrew word can refer to children, but rather more specifically means "young men." The NIV, quoted here, uses the word “youths.”
Second, the fact that the bears mauled 42 of the youths indicates that there were more than 42 youths involved. This was not a small group of children making fun of a bald man. Rather, it was a large demonstration of young men who assembled for the purpose of mocking a prophet of God.
Third, the mocking of “go on up, you baldhead,” is more than making fun of baldness.
The baldness of Elisha referred to here may be: 1) natural loss of hair; 2) a shaved head denoting his separation to the prophetic office; or more likely, 3) an epithet of scorn and contempt, Elisha not being literally bald.
The phrase “go up” likely was a reference to Elijah, Elisha’s mentor, being taken up to Heaven earlier in 2 Kings chapter 2:11-12. These youths were sarcastically taunting and insulting the Lord’s prophet by telling him to repeat Elijah’s translation.
In summary, 2 Kings 2:23-24 is not an account of God mauling young children for making fun of a bald man. Rather, it is a record of an insulting demonstration against God’s prophet by a large group of young men. Because these young people of about 20 years of age or older (the same term is used of Solomon in 1 Kings 3:7) so despised the prophet of the Lord, Elisha called upon the Lord to deal with the rebels as He saw fit. The Lord’s punishment was the mauling of 42 of them by two female bears. The penalty was clearly justified, for to ridicule Elisha was to ridicule the Lord Himself. The seriousness of the crime was indicated by the seriousness of the punishment. The appalling judgment was God’s warning to all who would scorn the prophets of the Lord.
@Psalm1188 Says:
With God all things are possible…
God can do whatever He wants, regardless of how fantastical it may sounds to men or women who claim to be intelligent.
Proverbs 26:12, Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
@JesseDriftwood Says:
Why didn’t you actually give an account for the bears mauling children because they made fun of Elisha being bald?
@JesseDriftwood Says:
If living in a time so far away from these stories skews are ability to understand scripture, why would an omniscient god choose to embed his word in a book as the primary access point to gods story for all people in all times?
Seems like a pretty bad idea, considering god could have actually implanted his word on our hearts, instead of in books.
We are born knowing how to breath, why not also be born with a knowledge of god?
@trinityjcbranch737 Says:
100%🙏
@cisuminocisumino3250 Says:
God is a supernatural being whose wisdom and power exceeds our levels of understanding, so expect some miracles and events/ occurrences to be unexplained. reasonable faith doesn't mean understanding everything God does, its more predicated on the evidential understanding that Gods word and power is true to bring about salvation and healing, even when we don't understand how he does it.
@sukruoosten Says:
fair ore not it is THE LORD who decides who gets saved in THE END
the ONLY ONE who is above good en evil is YAH/YHWH
all we can do is beg for mercy en praise him till we perish
also trust in his sons sacred blood on the cross AMEN !!! john 17.3
@inukithesavage828 Says:
I might have heard of the furries. Lol but these things DO all have senseable explanations.
@adamfleder2175 Says:
Voltaire: “Those that can get you to believe absurdities can command you to commit atrocities”
Ok, I paraphrased.
@marktravis5162 Says:
Anything in the Bible can be bizarre and not make sense to those who don’t actually study it
@WarAble Says:
Arminians try to make God look God by twisting the Bible. Calvinists accept God for who He is in His Word.
@GSpotter63 Says:
In my experience the vast majority of those bizarre biblical stories turn out to be quite explainable when you've done enough research....
@darkeyeze Says:
My favorite is Ezekiel 4, god telling Ezekial to bake his bread on a pile of §hit in front of his face while bound up with ropes, lying on the floor.
@simplyseculardave Says:
Why do you need to make sense of the absurdities in a Poorly Written Ancient Book of Fables? The are just stories, written by men, probably intended to influence the behavior of the majority of the population at the time. If the bible was a logical, reasonable book, influenced by a supernatural deity, it would never require apologists to defend it.
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